The one hundred and ninety-sixth round
No matter how smart Cai Wei was, she couldn't guess this question, so she had to shake her head.
"This master and servant have the most beloved thing - Ah Duwu! Because both of them were extremely poor in their families when they were young, once they were in high positions, what they cared about most was how to accumulate all kinds of gold and silver treasures so that they could hide them in their private vaults and let them sleep with gold and silver every night! ”
In order to accumulate wealth, Empress Dowager Sun not only ordered An Chengxu to build a trading house, which operated and sold various goods in various places, operated salt and iron mines, and competed with the country for profits, but also bought officials and corrupted the dynasty. Do you know how much silver the Empress Dowager can earn every year with her trades? In the past, when the years were good, she could earn millions of taels of silver a year, but in the past few years, the people have not made a living, so that she has lost a lot of silver, but An Chengxu can also scavenge 700,000 or 800,000 taels for her every year, I can't imagine that this old woman is still not satisfied! ”
Cai Wei said: "So An Chengxu, in order to collect money for the Empress Dowager Sun, also thought of taking the sea to make huge profits, but he thought of going with us!" ”
"Otherwise, how could this king say that this An Chengxu is capable! There are no weak soldiers under the strong generals, and the eunuch I caught is not simple, it took the king a month of hard work to pry something out of his mouth, I don't want to be robbed as soon as he arrived in Quanzhou, although the eunuch has been drugged by me and can't live long, but in the end it still leaked some of the situation on our side. ”
As for who the person who kidnapped him was, it was naturally An Chengxu's black-clothed guard.
Qin Fei narrowed his eyes slightly, "This An Chengxu is not only cautious, but also extremely suspicious, not only did I never show my true face in front of the eunuch, but even my voice deliberately changed, but I didn't want to be suspicious of the surname An, so I deliberately arranged for someone to compete with me with a sword, wanting to test whether this king was injured, so as to determine whether that person was this king." ”
He paused for a moment when he said this, and looked at Cai Wei's expression suddenly became a little strange. Although this girl deliberately threw herself like this, which made him feel very angry, if it weren't for her somewhat stupid behavior that interrupted the sword competition, I am afraid that it will not be long before he will reveal his flaws and be recognized by An Chengxu.
Although he knew it in his heart, he didn't want to tell her anyway, so as not to make this girl more and more satisfied, and he didn't know what to do with his own ideas in the future.
He suddenly remembered something, "What are you doing just now standing in front of that cabinet, but you are rummaging through the king's things?" ”
Cai Wei blinked and said with a smile: "It's easy for me to enter His Highness's study for the first time, so naturally I can't help but want to see what good treasures His Highness has hidden!" ”
Qin Fei's heart moved, and he asked quietly, "What treasures can the princess turn out?" ”
"Nothing but bandages and gold sore medicine!" Cai Wei spread her hands and sighed.
In fact, she really turned out a treasure, but before she sorted out her heart, it was not the time to take it out to confront Qin Fei.
A month has passed, and Cai Wei pretended to be sick for more than 20 days after pretending to be unconscious for three days.
The two of them were originally worried that if An Chengxu's suspicions were not dispelled, would they think of some other way to test it, and they didn't want to wait until Qin Fei's chest injury was healed, and there was no movement in the palace and the black-clothed guards, except that Empress Dowager Sun sent the imperial doctor to see Princess Linchuan every day.
On this day, the two of them were chatting, guessing whether An Chengxu's side would dispel their suspicions, or whether they would deliberately do nothing for this month, so that when they relaxed their vigilance, they would suddenly use some tricks by surprise. Suddenly, Wang Gonggong, who was beside Emperor Lin De, came to the palace to pass on the holy edict, asking them to go to the family banquet in the palace on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival.
Qin Fei originally wanted to use the excuse that Cai Wei was seriously injured and had just recovered, so it was better to stay in the mansion to recuperate, and block the trouble of entering the palace for her, but he didn't want Gonggong Wang to say with a smile on his face: "The saint has asked the imperial doctor repeatedly before he gave this message, and he said that the princess's injuries have all healed, and it is beneficial to go out and walk around, and it is just to go to the palace to receive the banquet and watch the dragon boat race, and the saint has also specially given His Royal Highness and the princess a shoulder to ride, and the princess will not be tired at all." Moreover, the Holy Lord specially invited His Royal Highness and the princess to the palace to receive the banquet this time, also in order to give the princess justice, so that the person who injured the princess could apologize to the princess. ”
When Qin Fei heard this, he agreed after a little hesitation, and the palace all said it to this point, if they still insisted on resigning, I was afraid that it would make people feel too much. It's just that entering the palace this time is afraid that it is a little more dangerous than the last time, not only to guard against An Chengxu, but also to be careful that the woman will also be unfavorable to Cai Wei.
The woman's jealousy was so strong that he had learned it when he first brought Cai Wei into the palace to thank him, although he thought of a remedy later, he deliberately moved Cai Wei out of the palace so that the woman mistakenly thought that he didn't pay attention to Cai Wei at all, and resolved her jealousy.
Ke Caiwei's eagerness when he fell and was injured at Emperor Linde's birthday banquet, as well as his behavior of taking care of his wife in person behind closed doors for a month, have made all kinds of people in the capital start to gossip about the prince of Linchuan This time he is a hero and sad to pass the beauty pass, as soon as he met the princess of Linchuan, Bailian Steel also turned into a finger twister, and he couldn't imagine that such a number one demon king in the capital was subdued by an orphan girl.
Now almost everyone thinks that Qin Fei, the king of Linchuan, is really fond of his princess Zhou, that is, it is not an exaggeration to say that the love between husband and wife is deep. He could imagine that if the woman thought the same way, he was afraid that he would come to make some trouble for the couple again.
Emperor Lin De must ask the couple to enter the palace to receive the Dragon Luncheon, could it be this woman behind her back? Since he can't dodge, he can only deal with it calmly, and when the time comes, as long as he doesn't leave Cai Wei's left and right, he won't have any chance to start.
But he still overestimated his ability, and also underestimated the woman's means, and when he obeyed Emperor Linde's order, he also went to row a dragon boat, changed his clothes, and returned to the banquet, and found that his daughter-in-law was gone, and the seat of Emperor Sun Guifei was also empty.
Xiangcheng, who was left by Cai Wei, saw that the prince was back, and hurriedly stepped forward to reply, Qin Fei had already asked anxiously, "What about the princess?" But was taken away by the imperial concubine? ”
Before he went to the dragon boat, he repeatedly told her that he must not leave the cool hall where the banquet was held at will when he was not at the banquet, could it be that Sun Xuemei used some kind of ghost method to take her away?
Xiangcheng was stunned for a moment before saying: "Back to Your Highness, the princess is with Concubine Yingchuan, and she went to change clothes together, and ordered the slave and maid to return to you." ”
As soon as she heard that she was with Concubine Yingchuan, Qin Fei first breathed a sigh of relief, and then it was extremely unpleasant, no wonder this girl didn't listen to her own words, it turned out that she was summoned away by her cousin who was almost her mother-in-law.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt panicked, and he sat restlessly for half a cup of tea in the banquet, and when he saw that Cai Wei and his mother-in-law had not returned, he couldn't bear it any longer, so he simply got up and slipped out to find his daughter-in-law under the pretext of changing clothes.
In order to see a group of kings' grandchildren racing dragon boats in the Daming Pond, the banquet was set up in the Liangdian on the Mingtai by the Daming Pond, and the so-called Liangdian was just a huge four-corner pavilion built on the Mingtai, and there was no place to change clothes.
If you want to change clothes, the men's changing place is located in Wangqingxuan in the east of Mingtai, and the women's changing place is in the Taoyao Pavilion in the peach blossom forest in the west.
Qin Fei was walking briskly in the peach forest, turning left and right, when he suddenly saw a blue corner of his clothes emerging from the green leaves of a tree on the left side of the road.