Chapter Eighty-Five: The Will of the Palace

Since the last trip to Xuanwu Lake, the relationship between Shen Qiwu and Qin Ya has eased a lot. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 Although info won't become a friend of V, it won't be competing in secret.

Probably thanks to the grape wine offered in the Western Regions, once people drink too much wine, they will naturally be much more free and easy, plus Qin Ya's own talent is very high, and there will naturally be no shortage of topics with Shen Qiwu.

Now Qin Ya will come to the Prince's Mansion to report at the end of three days, naturally not to get close to Zhao Mu, but to play chess with Shen Qiwu.

"Your chess skills are really getting stinky day by day!" Shen Qiwu pinched the chess pieces and said funny.

Qin Ya, who was sitting opposite, couldn't help but scratch her ears and cheeks, she was helpless about this, she was proficient in poetry and songs, but she was very clumsy in playing chess. This is already a ridicule that Shen Qiwu doesn't know how many times, but Qin Ya doesn't care about it, because she really stinks when she plays chess.

"Lost, lost, lost, lost." Qin Ya smiled distressedly, she didn't know how to play chess, so she naturally couldn't play Shen Qiwu, so she could only sigh and let Shen Qiwu mock her.

"By the way, what about Your Highness?" Leaving to play chess, Qin Ya seemed much more confident, and a calm smile appeared on her face.

Shen Qiwu waved his hand and said, "He's painting." ā€

Only after seeing Shen Qiwu's sketches, Zhao Mu practiced every day, and his white hands were blackened by charcoal pens, like hard labor digging coal mines.

"Really?" Qin Ya glanced at Shen Qiwu, "Your Highness really likes to paint. ā€

Shen Qiwu looked at Qin Ya's eyes, and suddenly said seriously: "Are you really not interested in Zhao Mu?" ā€

Qin Ya was stunned, she didn't expect Shen Qiwu to ask this question, and replied indifferently: "Your Highness is a good person, but ....." She looked at Shen Qiwu and continued hesitantly: "But he already has you." ā€

With a woman like Shen Qiwu, Qin Ya didn't dare to guarantee that Zhao Mu would not be tempted. No woman would want to share her husband equally with others, Qin Ya had a good sense of Zhao Mu, but Shen Qiwu was between them.

Qin Ya was not confident and hesitant, because she felt that she was not as good as Shen Qiwu.

Shen Qiwu pinched the chess pieces in his hand and said casually: "What if I don't care? ā€

When she said this, Qiu'er, who was waiting on the side, had already withdrawn, and as a girl, she knew what to listen to and what not to listen to.

What the master is going to say next, naturally he can't listen to it.

Qin Ya thought for a while and said seriously, "Then what if His Highness doesn't agree?" ā€

Shen Qiwu pursed his lips and said with a cold smile: "He has always been a royal man, and there are some things that can't be blamed on him." ā€

"I'm weird." Qin Ya looked at Shen Qiwu, wanting to find out something from her face, "Why do you think it's me?" ā€

"Because you're real!" Shen Qiwu thought for a while, saw Qin Ya's puzzled expression, and then said, "Although it is said that it is a little scheming, it is harmless. Because you are sincere and not hypocritical. ā€

Qin Ya smiled, this could be regarded as Shen Qiwu's compliment to her. She nodded and continued, "My father thinks so, and I probably have a little bit of that. Instead of marrying someone else, it's better to find someone you don't hate. ā€

"Besides, I don't hate you." Qin Ya looked at Shen Qiwu and smiled happily.

"Really?" Shen Qiwu blinked, and the two looked at each other tacitly and laughed.

While he was talking, Zhao Mu walked in.

"The palace has come to the will."

Zhao Mu nodded at Qin Ya and looked at Shen Qiwu with a calm face.

The eunuch who announced the decree was an old man in the palace, but it was indeed someone from the imperial concubine Jiang's side, so he still slowed down his tone intentionally or unintentionally when he read the decree.

What the holy decree said above was nothing more than to praise Zhao Mu's actions in Dangtu County, and by the way, he also ordered Zhao Mu not to be too playful, to study diligently, and not to forget state affairs.

"Your Highness, the old slave will take his leave first."

Since he was from the imperial concubine's side, Zhao Mu was not polite and let the old eunuch leave on his own.

After the people who announced the decree were all gone, Zhao Mu retreated left and right, and came to the garden alone with Shen Qiwu.

"There is nothing wrong with His Majesty's will, why are you calm?" Shen Qiwu saw that Zhao Mu's face was not very good, and asked suspiciously.

Zhao Mu hesitated for a while, looked at Shen Qiwu and said, "That incident in Dongyang was successful, it is said that the king of Tiannan was furious and had already excluded 100,000 elite soldiers to help Da Zhou." ā€

Hearing this news, Shen Qiwu couldn't help but be overjoyed, and according to her plan, let the dumb uncle pretend to be a person from the Jin Kingdom to kidnap the married Dongyang princess, so as to make the King of Tiannan think that the Jin Kingdom was deliberately sabotage, so that no one would suspect that they did it, and even transferred the anger of the King of Tiannan to the Jin Kingdom.

But this is a good thing, why does Zhao Mu have a calm face?

In the letter from the queen mother, she said that her father's health was getting worse day by day, and with the incident of Dongyang, he was already sick in bed. The Jiang family was about to move, afraid that the palace was about to start to change. Zhao Mu said worriedly.

He knows the character of the queen mother, and he will definitely not be targeted for no reason. Now that he is far away in the south of the Yangtze River, he can't stay by the queen's side to protect his mother, and he is inevitably a little worried.

Shen Qiwu nodded and said with concern: "Don't worry too much, the Queen Mother is still in Cining Palace now, and the Jiang family can't turn the sky even if she wants to." ā€

"That's what I'm worried about." Zhao Mu sighed, "After all, the Queen Mother is a woman, how can she influence the changes in the court." Now I'm far away in Jiangnan, and if something happens, it's beyond my reach. ā€

What Zhao Mu said is not unreasonable, since the emperor is seriously ill, and the prince is not in the capital. Some small people will inevitably not have thoughts, and Jiang's ambitions are quite big and have to be guarded against.

Shen Qiwu frowned, it was difficult to come up with a good countermeasure for a while.

Without the emperor's will, Zhao Mu could not return to Beijing without permission. Jiangnan is a few days away from the capital, and it is difficult to know the news at the first time, so it is in a dilemma at the moment.

When the two were distressed, Huan'er ran over and said, "Master, Miss Qin said that since you have something to do, don't bother for now." She said that she would remember what her master had said. ā€

"Hmm." Shen Qiwu nodded, and a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared.

"There it is! I have a great idea! Shen Qiwu looked at Zhao Mu and smiled mysteriously.

"What's a good idea?"

"If we don't have news, we're like a fly without a head, but we can find allies!"

Zhao Mu was stunned, "Allies? ā€

Shen Qiwu nodded and said: "Although we are far away in Jiangnan now, but you are the crown prince after all, and there are not a few ministers in the court who support you, the top priority at the moment is not to rush back to the capital, but to know the news in the palace as soon as possible." ā€

"We may not have the ability, but there is one person who can do it!"

Zhao Mu was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "Who is it?" (To be continued.) )