Two hundred miles outside Yanjing City, there is a small hot spring courtyard, which is different from other hot spring Zhuangzi, the hot spring pool in this courtyard is not built indoors, but a blue brick pool is built outdoors to bring in the hot spring water.

At this time, a young man was sitting bare-chested in the open-air hot spring pool, holding a glass of wine in his hand, half-squinting his eyes, as if he was half-drunk and half-awake.

Suddenly a small blue bird flew in the clear sky, and the fluttering of its wings did not make the lazy young man raise his eyes to look at it.

The blue bird flew around his head and landed on the lap of a man by the pool, who was handsome, light, and bearing, but unfortunately he was sitting under him not an ordinary chair, but a two-wheeled wooden chair.

He unfolded the note on the blue bird's leg, only glanced at it, and said with a smile: "Congratulations, Your Highness, as you wished, it's done!" ”

The lazy young man who was soaking in the pool opened his eyes and said with a smile: "This is all thanks to Mr. Yinlu, if it weren't for your old man writing a letter to the saint to suggest it, where would my second uncle come up with such a clever idea?" ”

Cui Hu smiled and said: "Your Highness, are you praising me or you are praising yourself, if it weren't for Your Highness's connection, how would the Holy Lord know my name as Mr. Yinlu?" ”

"But Your Highness's idea is really wonderful, not only did you earn another 360 hectares of dowry land for the princess, but you also had 15,000 hectares of Yongye land in one go, this transaction is really cost-effective!"

"Hey, hey, hey! Is it okay for you to say the other way around? Qin Fei protested dissatisfiedly: "This king mainly wants my second uncle to give me more land to use, as for the girl of the Zhou family, it is just a hitchhike with the light of this king, this king doesn't think about earning more for her, the dowry she was embezzled, this king hasn't come back yet!" ”

Cui Hu smiled, too lazy to puncture his desire to cover up, his new daughter-in-law was greedy for the dowry, I was afraid that he would have taken it back for her a few years earlier, and who specially reminded him a few days ago to remember to mention the merits of his father-in-law Zhou Zhen in the letter to Emperor Lin De? This highness, as before, likes duplicity the most.

However, his ability to calculate people is really becoming more and more perfect, although the matter of An Yuanbo's calculation of an orphan girl's dowry is indeed not very authentic, but after seeing the methods of King Linchuan, Cui Hu is simply a little sympathetic to them.

Qin Fei, this guy has been eyeing them for a long time, if they treat Miss Zhou better, then there are only benefits and no disadvantages waiting for them, they will die by themselves, and they will offend the most unoffended people, but they will be done by this guy in a bad way, and the benefits will not be reaped at all, and they don't even know that they have been overshadowed.

Moreover, the culprit who yin them didn't even show the fox's tail, and he came up with all the ghost ideas, but all the dirty and tiring work of showing up and quarreling at the door was thrown to his mother. Not only did his daughter-in-law's maternal uncle's family have to be ruthless, but even his own mother and mother had to be pitted together, oh yes, by the way, even his emperor uncle was also pitted. This highness's heart is really getting dirtier and dirtier!

"Your Highness, you have been eating and drinking here for so many days, and now that the big thing is over, it is time for you to go back to the capital to receive the decree and thank you."

"What, this is going to drive people out? Is it okay for this king to stay with you for three days, and it doesn't hinder you from anything, but he is in a hurry to drive people out? I said, is there such a way of hospitality? Qin Fei said dissatisfied.

"With His Royal Highness's foreign man, my lady doesn't dare to walk around in this courtyard on weekdays, hasn't Your Highness disturbed our husband and wife?" Cui Hu said lightly, and the displeasure in his words was clear.

Qin Fei was speechless for a while, and then said depressedly: "Didn't you dislike that Zhao family's eldest lady before?" Why are you two slimy like this now? ”

"The former is the before, and the present is the present. I always thought that marrying a wife and having children was just a task that everyone had to do for the sake of passing on the lineage. But now, I realize that if you find the right person, even if you have to do a task, there is no joy in life. ”

Qin Fei was stunned by the smile in his eyes, and deliberately lamented: "It seems that this king will not be able to experience the so-called joy of life in your life!" ”

"Your Highness thinks you've married the wrong person?" Cui Hu asked him deliberately.

"If it weren't for the favor she owes her father, who would want to marry her back and get himself in a lot of trouble!"

"No matter how big the trouble is in the hands of His Highness, it can turn his hands into clouds, and it will become a help to His Highness!" This is not what he pitted three times or two, and after pit a bunch of relatives, he will have a reward of 15,000 acres of land, which is the reward they need most at this time.

In his letter, he specially built Emperor Yì Linde to give a barren mountain and wild forest in the northeast to the king of Linchuan, on the surface saying that only by giving such wasteland that had little production would it not be hindered by the queen mother, but in fact, it was that it was very close to the Jurchens, so that they could set up some people to watch their movements.

In the past year or two, the Jurchens' ambitions have become bigger and bigger, but the people sent by the court to guard the border either dare not report their defeat to the Jurchens, or take the benefits of the Jurchens, and they have always reported good news and not bad news. So much so that the whole court and the central government were wary of the Jurchen ambitions, Qin Fei came up with such a way, and with the help of these newly acquired granges, he could grasp the situation outside the Northeast Pass.

Cui Hu thought about the current situation in the court, and then asked: "If Your Highness doesn't want to get married, why did you bother to let the Seventh Prince go to Hanyuan Hall to make that scene?" Concubine Yingchuan seemed to be a little dissatisfied with His Royal Highness's move, and felt that His Royal Highness was a little too anxious, and before the time was ripe, she revealed the fact that there was no one in the Holy Heaven to inherit the throne, and put King Yingchuan on the fire early. ”

Qin Fei pursed his lips, "My mother-in-law has always only thought about my brother in her heart, and she always has the heart to him endlessly!" Are you willing to marry me? Don't I know what the timing is? But if it weren't for the fact that the current situation is really critical, I wouldn't have made such a move to disturb the turmoil in the capital. ”

"Can you still not know the state of our Great Qin Dynasty now? In the past ten years, the government has been mediocre, traitorous ministers have risen everywhere because of their relatives, all kinds of fish and flesh for the common people at home, wanton expropriation, and only appeasement and adultery outside, and arrogance of the enemy. As a result, there are displaced people inside, and the people are struggling to make a living, and there are strong enemies outside who are looking at Shu and eyeing each other. The current Yanjing City seems to be singing and dancing, but in fact, the entire Great Qin Kingdom has long been in turmoil. If you don't think of some ways to make this pool of stagnant water move, Daqin will not be far from the death of the country. ”

Cui Hu was silent, he didn't know what the King of Linchuan said, and it was precisely to stir up this pool of stagnant water in the capital, so that some forces in the court would no longer be only the Empress Dowager Sun's leader, but could form an alliance with their own side, so as to curb the extremely unreasonable government of the Empress Sun and his party, and try to make the current situation not deteriorate, and hold on for a few more years, as long as it can survive until the new monarch ascends the throne, then Daqin will still have a glimmer of life.

"What did Doctor Hua say?" Cui Hu asked.

"He said that my second uncle's body has been hollowed out, and it won't last for three years at most, and we just use these three years to grow stronger, and our strength is still too weak now. In this way, after my third brother ascends to the throne, he will be able to eliminate all kinds of malpractices, reform the old and start with the new, and turn things around. ”

Cui Hu hesitated for a moment, "Does Your Highness still have to wait for the Holy Lord to die?" ”

Qin Fei looked up at the clouds in the sky, and said lightly, "Otherwise? Is it forced to the palace? If we can have enough strength to lead the troops to rebel and kill in the palace, I am afraid that although my second uncle is a little reluctant to accept this son, he also feels that he has unloaded a heavy burden in his heart! He is different from the old witch of the Empress Dowager Sun, he still has remorse and apology in his heart, otherwise, he would not have tried his best to protect me and the third brother all the time. ”

If it weren't for Emperor Lin De's insistence on protecting him and Qin Min all these years, no matter how capable his mother-in-law was, I am afraid that she would not be able to save the lives of their brothers.

"Although his mother obtained this throne by his mother through despicable and shameless means, I don't want to be like them, using that kind of dirty means of secretly poisoning to take the lives of others, just to get my hands dirty just for a dragon chair."

Cui Hu looked at him, and stopped talking.

Although Qin Fei's eyes didn't look at him, he seemed to know his thoughts, and asked with a smile: "What else do you want to ask, in front of this king, when will you be so spittering and spitting?" ”

"I'm just a little curious, didn't Your Highness think about that seat?"

Cui Hu asked a little apprehensively, but Qin Fei replied very cheerfully, "Of course I thought about it, but the young and the old are orderly, the two of us are concubines, and it is not good for me to cross him." Besides, I have robbed his daughter-in-law, and I can't care if I snatch his throne again. Anyway, with his broken body, even if he sits on the dragon chair, he won't live long, and in the end, this son will get under my ass. ”

Cui Hu shook his head slightly, even though he knew it again and understood people's hearts, he never saw through the confusing relationship between Qin Fei and Qin Min. Everyone in the world thinks that the person Qin Fei hates the most is his own brother Qin Min, but in his opinion, in addition to jealousy, unwillingness, and disgust for his brother, this highness has many other extremely complex and contradictory feelings, which people can't understand for a while.

He has never been able to see through Qin Fei, or Qin Fei six years ago, he can still see more or less clearly, but when this little overlord of the capital suddenly came back after wandering in Beijing for three years, he could no longer understand his thoughts.

He is no longer the king of the county who only knows what to do, beats people and scolds dogs, and uses all kinds of absurd and unreasonable actions to vent his inner pain and confusion. Instead, he became a clan king who clearly knew what he was going to do and how to do it.

He began to play a big game of chess, but not for his own selfish interests, but for the sake of this country, this magnificent mountain and river.

But in just three years, can a person undergo such a radical change? What happened to him during those three years, or did he meet someone?

Cui Hu fell into this conjecture again, and unexpectedly something flew towards his face, and he hurriedly reached out to catch it, but it was a wine glass.

And the person who threw the cup had already got up and put on his robe, and said with a smile: "You're not bad!" Thank you for the wine, this king has finished this bath, and the wine has been drunk, so it's time to go back to business. With that, he strode away without looking back.

He could hide outside for a month and not return to the palace, and not see the woman who also disturbed the stagnant water in his heart, but he couldn't keep hiding like this, he had to face what he should face, and he had to deal with it clearly.