As Steward Yu's voice fell, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old woman came in from outside the courtyard, with an average appearance, a convex and backward figure, and her eyes dripping and rolling, looking not very peaceful. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

She walked over and saluted Liu Tongfu, and her voice was coquettish: "Slave Xiao Cui'er, I have seen His Royal Highness the Nine." ”

Liu Tong frowned, and was about to speak, Wei Zi preemptively said: "Although our master is in trouble, he doesn't accept everything, if you think she serves her well, you can take it for your own use." ”

Xiao Cui'er suddenly looked at Liu Tong with tears in her eyes.

Liu Tong's brows furrowed even deeper, and he said loudly: "Steward Yu, bring people back, I don't have enough food here, she wants to insist on staying, but there is no food for her." ”

Wei Zi suddenly smiled smugly.

Steward Yu and Xiao Cui'er obviously gave Liu Tong's answer unexpectedly.

Steward Yu asked tentatively, "......What does His Royal Highness Nine mean?"

"Literally." Liu Tong said lightly: "If she wants to stay here, she will wait to be starved to death." ”

Xiao Cui'er immediately retreated, and looked at the steward with a pair of eyes.

Steward Yu's face was not very good-looking, and his smiling face couldn't be disguised: "Your Highness the Nine, this is ...... This is Concubine Jing's distressed Highness ...... Nine"

"Concubine Xian didn't sympathize with me, Concubine Jing Niangniang came from with any sympathy?" Liu Tong sneered: "I have the impression that I don't have much friendship with Concubine Jing. ”

The smile on Steward Yu's face couldn't hold back any longer, and he put away his smile and said in a weird manner: "Your Highness the Ninth has thought about it, you have Xiao Cui'er here, and we can send you more food in this courtyard every day." Xiao Cui'er should stay here, and as soon as we leave the courtyard door, the lock will fall, and you will have to keep it closed. ”

"You, whatever you want."

Liu Tong replied to him lightly with three words, raised his eyebrows, Hua Ze took over and said: "Hurry up and get out of the nonsense, the lock is also quickly dropped, our master doesn't like eunuchs of unknown origin." ”

Manager Yu changed his face instantly, snorted coldly, shook his face in front of Liu Tong, and said cruelly: "Don't regret it." ”

"Bluffing."

"Fox fake tiger might."

Hua Ze said a word, Wei Zi took it and scolded: "Get out!" ”

Steward Yu and his entourage left, and after dropping the lock, Steward Yu's shrill voice rang out: "Pour the lock with molten iron for our house!" ”

The lock is poured, and the door of this courtyard will not be opened.

Liu Tong sneered, too lazy to listen to the eunuch's play, turned around and helped Chang Runzhi's waist into the back room.

Chang Runzhi frowned and asked, "Is that little Cui'er sent by Concubine Jing to put it next to you, or does the prince mean it?" ”

"I don't know." Liu Tong said: "However, Concubine Jing and the crown prince are always on the side. ”

Liu Tong paused: "I went to do the errand in Yanzhou at the beginning, and the Lu family was destroyed, which has a lot to do with me. Presumably, Concubine Jing was thinking about revenge on me at that time. Now with the platform of the prince, it is not her style not to make a move. ”

Chang Runzhi sighed secretly in his heart, and Liu Tong said again: "Don't worry, fortunately, we have made preparations in advance, and there is no major problem for the time being." Let alone...... This Zhongguan Hutong is not an iron bucket, so Eunuch Yu really thinks that the lock is dead, and I can't contact the outside, which is really ridiculous. ”

"Tong, what are your plans?"

"If we want to help, we can secretly contact Zeng Quande." Liu Tong said softly: "Although he is lukewarm, he has never done anything to harm us, and if it wasn't for him two days ago, we wouldn't have been able to save this food." He should be trustworthy. ”

Chang Runzhi moved his lips: "Ah Tong, have the people of King Nanping contacted you?" ”

Liu Tong looked at Chang Runzhi, hesitated and nodded: "Yes, but it's all in the dead of night, so you don't know." ”

"Will King Nanping help us?"

"Yes." Liu Tong said: "However, if it is not an emergency, his people will not appear." ”

"What is an emergency?" Chang Runzhi asked, "When is it a matter of life and death?" ”

Liu Tong paused and nodded.

Chang Runzhi was not surprised, but was a little silent.

"Ah Tong, we have to plan for the worst." Chang Runzhi looked up at Liu Tong: "We only know that Your Majesty has had a stroke, but we don't know what Your Majesty's physical condition is." With His Majesty here, the prince still has some scruples, and he doesn't dare to do anything to His Majesty. But the human body is not under our control. If Your Majesty...... The situation in the court has an advantage for the prince, and the prince will inevitably ascend the throne at that time, so we ......"

Liu Tong's expression was a little stunned, and after a while, he said: "If the crown prince ascends the throne, the first one to deal with is the fifth brother, and it is more likely that he will use the fifth sister-in-law, the virtuous concubine and me as a threat to force the fifth brother to return to Beijing alone." ”

"What do you think?" Chang Runzhi asked, "When that time comes, what will King Rui do?" ”

"Secretly send someone to rescue us out, and then ......" Liu Tong's eyes darkened, and he suddenly stood up and said: "I remember, the fifth brother once told the prince ......"

"What?"

"The bastard son of the Emperor ......"

Liu Tong hurriedly closed his mouth, and Chang Runzhi opened his mouth wide in surprise: "Bastard? ”

She suddenly remembered that Liu Tong had told her that in the future, the affairs of the Yuwen family would never be mentioned, and the matter that Emperor Yuanwu had a relationship with the Yuwen family, and suddenly exclaimed in a low voice: "The Yuwen family has His Majesty's illegitimate son?!" ”

Liu Tong immediately reached out to cover her mouth, and after a while, he let go awkwardly, and sighed with a smile: "I forgot, no one around us ......"

Chang Runzhi let out a long breath: "I see, it turns out that the Yuwen family has a pearl of His Majesty's relics...... No wonder His Majesty's attitude towards the Yuwen family was so ambiguous when the incident in Yanzhou happened before......"

Liu Tong nodded and said in a low voice: "I didn't want to talk to you about this." ”

"But I already know." Chang Runzhi pursed his lips and asked again, "What's the matter?" Why did you bring this up all of a sudden? ”

Liu Tong thought for a while and said: "The fifth brother told the prince about this, and I have some suspicions that my father's stroke is because of this Yuwen Siyuan." Most likely, Yuwen Siyuan is dead, and this incident must have been done by the prince. ”

Chang Runzhi muttered in a low voice: "This is King Rui...... Borrowing a knife to kill? ”

It's really a way to kill two birds with one stone, one is not only a person who has malice and threats to him, but also gives the prince an indelible evidence of the crime.

"When the fifth brother wants to find a reason to crusade against the prince, he can only work hard from the word 'filial piety', and most of them will involve the fact that his father's serious illness is inseparable from the prince. Once this evidence is confirmed, the crown prince will not be able to take the throne. ”

Chang Runzhi listened silently and nodded silently, but he was still worried: "King Rui can come to the Qingjun side of the capital for this reason now. But he still didn't move. ”

Liu Tong shook his head: "Fifth brother doesn't dare to act rashly, I think he will definitely take action against the defense of the capital now." ”

"Capital City Defense...... Kyung Zhao Yin Falco! ”

"The crown prince controls the government and coerces and lures the courtiers. But the courtiers all have family members, and they control the family members of the courtiers, and the courtiers dare not be disobedient. Liu Tong said softly: "This trick is called drawing salary from the bottom of the kettle." (To be continued.) )