Chapter 136: The Art of Checks and Balances

"How's the inquiry?"

Zhou Yubai supported his chin with one hand, lazily listening to Shan Yun and Zhang Jiucheng give him a return. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

"As Lang Jun guessed, the eldest princess went to King Su's Mansion yesterday, and she probably made an agreement with His Royal Highness King Su. Shan Yun said, "I will send spies to keep an eye at any time, His Royal Highness King Su does seem to intend to send people around Liulangjun's mansion, I am afraid that it will be done in the next two days." ”

It's just that in his opinion, the level of those assassins is not enough.

"That merchant's wife, He Shi, is in the Sixth Brother's Mansion?"

Shan Yun said: "Yes, after the person was taken away by Liulangjun that day, he was not placed outside the mansion. ”

Zhou Yubai hooked his lips and smiled, "He was ready for a long time." ”

Zhang Jiucheng nodded beside him and said, "Liulangjun is afraid that he is waiting for His Royal Highness King Su to make a move." ”

Zhou Yubai lowered his head and wrote down a few places on the paper and handed them to Shan Yun: "These places are the private residences of the sixth brother Suri, send someone to look for them carefully, and be sure to find the jade seal of the country." ”

The jade seal is outside the house, but the people are inside the house.

Zhou Yuchen has long been ready to wait for the rabbit.

King Su was so stupid that Zhou Yubai had to help him himself.

He instructed Shan Yun: "This time you act alone, you must kill the He family before the people of the Su Wangfu, lest they startle the snake and fall into the trap of the sixth brother." ”

Shan Yun solemnly received the order, "The subordinates will live up to Lang Jun's entrustment." ”

Shan Yun's martial arts are very high, and he usually doesn't shoot easily, but no one in Zhou Yuchen's mansion has such skills as him.

Zhang Jiucheng said: "Lang Jun didn't catch him alive? Then the He family may have been arranged by someone." ”

Zhou Yubai said: "Naturally, it is arranged, and the person who laid it out is thoughtful." He first used the rumors of the jade seal and the clan to lure the eldest brother to make a move, and then led the people of the Wu Yue Qian clan to surround and suppress the eldest brother's people, and it may have been an accident that the thing fell into the thief cave, but he quickly adjusted the layout and let the He family steal the thing and disappear into the rivers and lakes. Then he sent someone to assassinate me during the Shangyuan Festival, set fire to Fanfang, and led me to find out about the Persian merchants, and I took the initiative to lead my eldest brother to visit the jade seal of the country in private. ”

Later, Lang Jun didn't get the trick, so he released the He family again, which showed his feet and made Lang Jun more sure of his layout. Zhang Jiu continued: "In this way, Liulangjun has taken over this job, and he has become a rival with His Royal Highness King Su." ”

Zhou Yubai said leisurely: "This person has too many plans, thinking that he has the chance to win, and at the same time calculating several people, we can't let him get his way." People like He, even if they get their hands on it, they can't find out anything, they kill them cleanly, and there is no proof of death. ”

Zhang Jiucheng nodded: "Lang Jun is indeed wise. ”

What kind of strategy King Su will make, whether it is Zhou Yuchen or himself, he already knows it.

King Su's idea is calculated, and Zhou Yuchen and Zhou Yubai are more than enough to deal with.

Zhou Yubai wants to balance their forces, and in the end does not hurt the fundamentals, and now he can only help a group of Su Wang.

Otherwise, the ending will either be that Qi Zhaoruo will come to the whole game as soon as he dies, and the eldest princess will still be neutral, and the two forces will suffer great losses; or Zhang Shufei and Zhou Yuchen will win a big victory, and King Su will be greatly injured from then on, but then it will inevitably be the revenge of Xu Defei and the Xu family.

He didn't want to see any kind of scene.

It's not yet time for you to die between brothers.

King Su's power must be abolished little by little, starting with the Empress Dowager Xu, Concubine Xu, and the Xu family above, rather than cutting off the possibility of his succession now.

Zhou Yuchen still does things a little disregarding the future.

Zhou Yubai sighed, he thought far more and farther than the two elder brothers.

If he could, he would never have thought of taking his brothers' lives.

"The eldest brother has always been sloppy in his work, and if he wants to do a bitter trick, he will inevitably not be able to do it, and he will leave clues for the sixth brother to catch if he does it himself. Here we have to help him again, do it cleanly, it doesn't have to hurt his heart, but we must make him unable to get out of bed for two or three months, so that Xu Defei really hurts in her heart. ”

Zhang Jiucheng nodded, "Lang Jun is hardworking, this is the best way, the mastermind behind this scene has not appeared for a day, and the balance between the princes cannot be broken." ”

Whichever side is unbalanced, it is one step into the way of that person one step earlier.

Zhou Yubai has gradually changed his position, and on the basis of guarding, he weighed the scheming struggle between the imperial brothers.

Zhou Yubai frowned, "I hope it will go well this time." ”

Inevitably. Zhang Jiucheng is more determined than him.

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The Fu family finally ushered in a visit from Mrs. Xi who went north.

The weather was just right on this day, and Mrs. Xi only rested at Cui's house for one day, and came to Fu's house early the next morning.

Fu Kun also rested at home this day, just in time to greet his old aunt who he hadn't seen for many years.

Mrs. Xi is not in a big position, but she is very decent, she is wearing a blue blue Ruijin pattern collared spring shirt, combed a double bun, her face is round and kind, she looks in good spirits, not like an elderly person at all.

Fu Kun was also very happy to see her, and had already asked Yao to prepare a banquet for her a few days ago.

Old Madam Xi was very generous, and she prepared a heavy reward for every child of the Fu family, especially for Fu Nianjun.

Just the box of Dongzhu and Nanzhu shook to the ground, and she couldn't open her eyes.

This really regards her as a granddaughter-in-law.

Mrs. Xi looked at Fu Nianjun's demeanor and smiled very happily: "I haven't seen you for many years, when your father returned to Beijing to take up his post, he met in a hurry when he passed through Jinling, second sister, come over and let my aunt and grandmother take a closer look." ”

Fu Nianjun is not very accustomed to such enthusiasm.

"This time, your aunt and grandmother are specially here to be your guests, second sister, you are so blessed. ”

Yao said coolly beside him.

Fu Nianjun smiled slightly, as if he was very embarrassed.

Old Madam Xi secretly wondered, wouldn't it? Fu Erniang is really so unbearable as rumors?

Everything looks like it's all in order.

She looked at her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Jiang, but when Mrs. Jiang came to the Fu family again, she was terribly scared, and she couldn't receive her mother-in-law's eyes at all.

Old Madam Xi secretly scolded a useless thing, and then kindly talked with the Fu family about eating, what to eat in the north, what to eat in the south, and what words tasted as soon as she said it.

She went north this time, and brought a lot of fresh goods from the south of the Yangtze River, and she also invited the daughters of the Fu family to go to Cui's mansion for a banquet and taste the craftsmanship of the cook she specially brought.

"I'm old, but I should be careful in what I eat, and I don't covet anything personal, and don't laugh at me. ”

Mrs. Xi is very good at talking, and even Yao feels that talking to her is like a spring breeze, and responds to her sentence after sentence.

Fu Nianjun paid attention to this old lady Xi, and she was really a powerful person.

With bright eyes and bright hearts, there is no foolish word, with a smile at any time, and there is no thickness when talking to a few children, if you ask Fu Lihua, you will also ask Fu Yunhua, and you have excellent patience.