Chapter 232: Ye Xici with a smile on his face
Ye Xici held the piece of paper he had taken from Fang Xiaoyu's hand in his hand, with a gentle smile on his face, but he let the little fifth son who took him to see the prince shrink his neck in fright.
Ye Xici was obviously happy, but in the eyes of Xiao Wuzi, he was angry.
He hadn't seen Ye Xici a lot. As the most powerful internal supervisor around the prince, he has always known a lot about important figures like Ye Xici, who can be regarded as the right-hand man of His Royal Highness the Prince.
King An's son and his person, probably because of his own identity and bumpy experience, in addition to seeing the prince and the seventh princess, he can also see a smiling face, when facing other people, he always has a cold face, and he doesn't even bother to give alms to others. I heard that even if he met the emperor, his face was serious, when was he like now, with a smile all the way?
For Xiao Wuzi, he had heard such a saying that if a person who loves to laugh has a gloomy face, it is most likely angry. But if someone who doesn't like to laugh laughs and is already cold, he must be angry.
Although Wang Shizi An has just gotten married, it is nothing to be happy, but this smile is too gentle, and Xiao Wuzi is instinctively a little afraid.
He even made up for the possibility that the princess made the prince unhappy, and the prince might be angry with others, so along the way, he was 10,000 careful and didn't dare to say a word.
finally led Ye Xici into the house, and his task was completed.
Not to mention that Xiao Wuzi was frightened all the way, after entering the house, the prince's face was also a little strange.
"You kid just got married, can you use this virtue?" The prince was almost grinning when he saw Ye Xi's resignation. Crying and laughing, he pointed to the seat next to him and motioned for him to sit down, but he was thinking in his heart. What kind of ecstasy soup did Fang Xiaoyu pour into him, it actually made him change his previous love and ignore it, and he smiled so gently.
"I'm afraid that the only one who can make the prince laugh like this is that girl." Qiu sat on the side for a long time, but he knew very well in his heart that she was a strange woman, and she knew that she would be able to do it in the future, let alone tame a stone.
"Why are you here?" Ye Xici glanced at Qiu Changchang. This is the first time that Qiu has appeared openly in the Prince's East Palace in the true sense of the word. Qiu Guogong has always been neutral on the surface, although he also likes his grandson's heart towards the prince, but he does not let him openly participate in the activities of the prince's faction. Like now, he appeared in the East Palace and sat in the hall. Without Qiu Guogong's consent, Qiu would not dare to make his own decisions for a long time.
"I was originally in favor of the crown prince, but I couldn't show it too much because of my grandfather's position. Now my grandfather doesn't have the heart to continue to hide, what happened before. He thought that his thoughts had long been hidden. So my grandfather went to the emperor and got the emperor's consent, and from today on, I am a real prince. Qiu smiled for a long time, and he had already made up his mind to hug Fang Xiaoyu's thigh. It was his grandmother's idea. Grandmother said that being good friends with Ye Xiyu means being good friends with Fang Xiaoyu, and being good friends with Fang Xiaoyu. The benefits of the future are not imaginable now.
He already had a good impression of the other party's laughter. Although I have always felt that Ye Xici's ice cube face is a little annoying, I am not very disgusted, but I am somewhat sympathetic to his experience.
"Hmm." Ye Xici didn't say a word, and he didn't want to say more than half a word, but his expression was not repulsive, and he reluctantly gave Qiu Changchang a smile.
But it scared Qiu half to death for a long time.
He was finally able to understand Xiao Wuzi's frightened mood.
In the past, when I saw this guy, I always had a cold face. It's not the kind of indifference that rejects people thousands of miles away, but it just makes people feel that they don't want to get close.
He'd seen him countless times, but never saw a smile. Unexpectedly, today he would also be able to see Ye Xici smiling one day, and it was really the first time that the iron tree had blossomed.
"What's the matter with me?" Ye Xici may have realized it, and hurriedly put away his smiling face and said expressionlessly.
"You'd better laugh. I've seen enough of you like this. The prince smiled and said, "I know that you have just gotten married, and I don't want to disturb you, so that you can get along with your Fang girl more." It's just that I received a report from the bottom that in the past two days since you got married, my second brother didn't seem to be idle, and he had a lot of trouble with a group of people. The two parties have been in contact many times, clashed many times, and the group of people who clashed with him, your lady is very familiar. ”
"Leave them alone, just send someone to keep an eye on them. That Ye Shucheng had an intention on Xiaoyu, and he openly threatened at the palace banquet, which angered Xiaoyu, which is why he has these bad things. Although the laughter of that group of people was familiar, they were not all the way with her. That is the bloodline of King Meng of the Great Zhou, what is the mind of Da Chengda, you are the prince, you should understand the catty. Ye Xici's face was gloomy. As soon as Ye Shucheng was mentioned, he couldn't wait to kill this bastard alive.
Not only did he dare to threaten Xiaoyu with his secret, but he even dared to set fire to her in Xiaoyu's dream, even if it was just a dream, even if everything had changed now, his killing intent had not diminished at all, but it burned more and more.
"I have heard my father mention it, saying that the Great Zhou is ambitious, King Yun and King Meng are competing for the throne, the old emperor sits on the dragon chair to watch the play, the two are also heroes, and even the blood relatives can be sent into the enemy country to wait for the opportunity to hide in ambush, my Dacheng has been infiltrated, and the crisis has appeared. Hearing about this, Fang Xiaoyu went to the northwest to find out inadvertently, but he still didn't know where their people were hiding and what their identities were. The crown prince instantly remembered that his father had mentioned this matter to him, and warned him that even if he ascended the throne as emperor in the future, he would be polite to the other party, saying that although this woman was a little evil, there were some things that would rather be believed than not. Treat Fang Xiaoyu and Ye Xici well, it may bring a good change to Dacheng, if it is not treason, you can't cross the river and tear down the bridge.
The crown prince didn't know that the reason why the emperor said such a thing was not only because Fang Xiaoyu acted well, but also because of Master Xuyun's great achievements.
Don't look at Xuyun as a monk, but such a thing as a monk not talking is like a joke to him. Not only did he laugh at this teammate several times, but he also made up myths and stories to coax the emperor.
Whenever the emperor laughed at each other and didn't know whether to trust it, he would always call Xuyun into the palace. And although Xuyun always sells his teammates in small things, he is extremely powerful at critical times, and a complete set of myths and stories are made up. The emperor was stunned. The emperor now trusts the other party so much, I have to say that Xuyun accounts for most of the credit.
These things, let alone the prince, even Fang Xiaoyu doesn't know. Monk Xuyun has made up his mind to be a master of the world who is meritorious, not greedy, and silently pays.
"I only heard about it later when I came back from Hayashu Province." Ye Xici nodded and said, "She went to the northwest to help me find out the cause of my mother's death, but she didn't want to be involved in the fact that you were wrongfully embezzled military salaries." So I found a treehouse in the jungle at the junction, and heard a lot of news from there. ”
"If it's as you say. The conflict with the second brother is the first line of King Meng, whether it shows the movement of King Meng's first line. You already know everything about it? The prince's eyes lit up.
"King Meng's lineage has also been lurking in the capital for many years, and how many forces there are, even if it is me and Xiaoyu, I have not thoroughly investigated. It's just that that person is the blood of King Meng's lineage. It's good to be the leader of these lurking spies. Since Ye Shucheng is unwilling to settle down. Xiaoyu found him something to do. You might as well ask him to have some conflicts with the king of Nameng, and in the end, no matter who is dead or crippled, our fishermen will benefit, so that they can fight hard. Kill one is one. Ye Xici sneered. It's not a good thing anyway, in a sense, it's also a nest fight, and he doesn't feel sorry for anyone who dies.
"Over the years, for my sake, it has become more and more difficult for you and Ye Shucheng to coexist peacefully." The prince sighed. As soon as the two met, the smell of gunpowder filled the sky. The tense atmosphere can be felt from hundreds of miles away.
"Not just for you. At the beginning, Zhou Guifei and my mother were not compatible, which is the reason why we both don't like each other. What's more, now he still dares to laugh at the idea. How can I live in peace with him? Ye Xi snorted coldly, and said in his heart that even if he put everything aside, just because Ye Shucheng was one of his mother-killing enemies, he would never let him go!
"You married Fang Xiaoyu, but for me it is the most profitable. General Fang has almost already expressed his position with me. Although he is a faction of my father, as long as my father's heart for me is still there, he will support me for a day. I don't have any other thoughts about my father, and now it is equivalent to General Fang's 500,000 Zhenyuan army has become my backing. The prince couldn't help but be happy. He is the crown prince and cannot make friends with ministers at will. Most of his current staff members are because his father agreed, so he can discuss matters with them openly. But the only thing is military power, which he can never touch.
Military power is good, but it is also a double-edged sword.
Since ancient times, generals who lead troops are easily suspicious of emperors, because they really hold the power in their hands that makes people tremble and fear. If all these powers are in the hands of the emperor, it will be enough. But if the princes covet it, this mind is worth guessing.
However, it would be false to say that you don't covet it. For example, he has no disrespect for his father, but he has to face Ye Shucheng's repeated persecution. If there is no support from the generals, even if you control the court, you will not be able to feel at ease. If one day, all the civil and official groups fall to him, and he successfully ascends the throne as the emperor, but if Ye Shucheng holds the support of the military generals in his hands, after a hundred years of his father's emperor, he can go out and establish himself as the king.
In this way, not only will his throne not be stable, but the people will also be devastated by the war.
What's more, the support of the generals, even in the choice of the prince, can put some pressure on the father.
And Ye Xi's resignation to marry Fang Xiaoyu is equivalent to pulling Fang Jianzhang into his camp. And the marriage between Ye Xici and Fang Xiaoyu also has elements of his father's own matchmaking, doesn't this mean that the support of General Fang's 500,000 army was actually given to him by his father. How could he not be happy?
Even if there was a fuss about his embezzlement of military salaries, even if there were rumors that he had fornicated with the enemy, his father still trusted him and supported him as before, and he felt very warm in his heart, and he was faintly grateful.
"Your lady is a lonely lucky star." The prince did not call 'I' anymore, but 'Gu' as a title. This represents a solemnity. It can also be regarded as a guarantee for Ye Xici.
He has a very good relationship with Ye Xici on weekdays, and he knows what Ye Xici has done for him, so he has always called himself 'me' instead of 'lonely' in front of Ye Xici, just because he is so cordial and not unfamiliar.
"It's too early for the prince to say this, you might as well read this and talk about it." As he spoke, Ye Xici handed the paper he had been holding to the prince, and looked at the prince's reaction with a smile.
"What is this?" The prince spread out the paper, looked at the vigorous and powerful characters on it, and said, "Xici, you have made progress in this method, and it seems to be different from before?" ”
Ye Xici smiled: "This is not my handwriting. You already know my handwriting, how can it be the same? ”
"Oh? Such a vigorous and powerful pen to walk the words of the dragon and snake, if it weren't for you, wouldn't it be your lady? The prince looked at Ye Xici with a smile, but saw that Ye Xici didn't nod or shake his head, just a look of 'guess', which made the prince stunned for a while, and then looked at the handwriting again, shook his head and said: "I dare not imagine, I thought that even if Fang Xiaoyu's words would have a bit of the killing aura of the Tiger Girl, most of them should still be beautiful and elegant, but I don't want this word to penetrate the back of the paper, there is a momentum that swallows the world, which is like a woman writing?" ”
The prince's eyes were full of appreciation. From a person's words, you can see a person's inner being. This word, even a man may not be able to write such a momentum, it is enough to see that this Fang Xiaoyu is really not an ordinary woman who can only cry and cry.
If Fang Xiaoyu knew the prince's thoughts, he was afraid that he would laugh. Her words have been practiced carefully. Whether it is magnificent, or beautiful and elegant, she has involved all kinds of fonts, and she can write any word, completely unconfined to form. This is the advantage of living a long life, which cannot be imitated by others.
However, the prince's appreciation only lasted a few breaths, and when he looked at the contents of the paper seriously, his face changed instantly.
"This ...... The content on this paper was written by Fang Xiaoyu himself? The prince asked eagerly.
Ye Xici nodded, his expression unchanged.
He had long expected the prince's reaction. Because he knew what the contents of this piece of paper meant to the crown prince.
If it is used properly, the prince's position in the court is almost as stable as Mount Tai.
Especially those literati, when they were young, they studied hard in the cold window, and once the gold list was named the lintel of glory, but most of the scholars were superstitious in their bones, and they had an almost paranoid belief in gods and ghosts and whether they knew the souls of their ancestors.
If there are strange people around the prince who can predict the good fortune and let them avoid trouble, how do you think they will be shocked in their hearts? Will you choose to befriend this strange person and turn to the prince because of the rise and fall of the family?
Even if it is not a complete surrender of three kneels and nine knocks, as long as you can get the favor of these people, it is enough to benefit the prince a lot. (To be continued.) )