Rong Lan glanced at Xue Rou curiously, and saw that she was just drinking tea quietly, so she couldn't help but tentatively speak. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"The cloud and snow buds are a specialty of the south, but only a little a year, precious and abnormal, at the beginning of this year, Qi sent some tribute into the palace, I didn't even get half a penny when my hand was slow, I didn't expect Miss Xue to be generous, and I sent out half a lamp. Miss Xue has an excellent relationship with this mother-in-law? ”

"The prince misunderstood, this mother-in-law was met by chance after I came to Beijing, her skills in cooking tea are excellent, and this tea house is quiet and undisturbed, and this mother-in-law is a reckless and refreshing person, so Xue Rou will come here from time to time to sit, as for the clouds and snow buds......"

Xue Rou laughed: "Speaking of which, it was still given by Mrs. Xie, saying that she wanted to return the favor of the string of white jade prayer beads, Xue Rou is a layman who can't cook good tea, so she simply borrowed flowers to offer the Buddha to her mother-in-law, a tea lover, and can also exchange it for a few pots of good tea from your mother-in-law." ”

Rong Lan heard Xue Rou mention the Xie family, and his face suddenly sank.

Recently, Xie Chen has been as usual with him on the surface, and compared with before, the Xie family is now more dedicated to helping him, and Xie Yiliu has also given advice to her several times, and even many of them have surprised him, and Xie Chen is running for him in the court, and he is loyal and doing his best, but he knows very well in his heart that after what happened last time, he and the Xie family will never go back to the past.

No matter how the Xie family showed favor to him, the stinger they planted in each other's hearts could no longer be pulled out, not only was he always guarding against Xie Chen, but even Xie Chen was not guarding against him?

Xie Chen seemed to be trying his best to help him, but in fact, he left a back hand, and he never thought that Xie Chen would betray him before, so he never had any suspicions about him, but after he was released from prison this time, when he ordered Ah Yin to send someone to Xie Mansion to spy on him, he knew that the Xie family had already secretly colluded with other princes, and he even saw the little guy around Xie Chen enter and leave King Qing's mansion with his own eyes, and there were secret guards around Xie Yiliu from time to time, although he had not found out whether Xie Yiliu was with King Qing or King Fu, but in this Southern Chu court, Who else can make the Xie family sway from side to side and disobey him, besides the two of them?

Rong Lan thought of these bad things, his body was cold, and he suddenly took a sip of tea with the teacup, and when he put down the teacup, the whole person was a lot gloomy.

Seeing this, Xue Rou stretched out her hand and filled the cup with tea for Rong Lan again.

"It's not a good thing that the prince is so angry." She said lightly.

Rong Lan looked up with a wry smile when he heard this: "You think I don't know that those who have achieved great things need to be forbearant the most, but in front of you, I always feel that there is nothing to hide." ”

Xue Rou seemed to trust Rong Lan, but she just looked faint and hooked the corners of her mouth, Rong Lan said, she listened, who is really stupid if she really puts it in her heart, she just played with the lid of the cup and asked casually: "I heard that the prince has been entering the palace every day in recent days to accompany him and learn the national politics and policies, but is it still smooth?" ”

Rong Lan looked relieved when he heard this, looked at Xue Rou's eyes with a little gratitude and said: "Everything is fine, I took the initiative to admit my mistake to my father as you said, and handed over the ore veins in my hand to the treasury, my father really treated me a lot, and then I showed weakness to King Qing and King Fu several times, my father saw King Qing and King Fu repeatedly suppressed me, and the power of the court was biased, and the Empress Dowager Xiao wanted to promote King Qing everywhere and let him discuss politics with the capital of the prince, and my father really helped me, he deliberately called me into the palace to accompany me, and allowed me to discuss the government with him, In order to let the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty know that I am still the original King Xuan, even if I lose a few points, King Qing and King Fu are still on the same line with me, and if you want to seize the prince, it all depends on the emperor's heart. ”

It is precisely because of this that the courtiers who were originally wavering because of his fall and loss of power and wanted to vote for his lord hurriedly retracted their thoughts and turned around to gather around him, while some people in the court who were already wavering and cruising between him and King Qing and King Fu also switched to his disciples because of Emperor Chu's sudden attention to him, so if he calculated carefully, although he lost about half of his power because of the assassination, he would not fall to the end.

At least for now, he still has the strength to compete with King Qing and King Fu, and King Qing and King Fu can't help him for a while.

Xue Rou smiled lightly when she heard this: "Then I'll congratulate the prince first." ”

"What is there to congratulate?"

Rong Lan looked at Xue Rou with a wry smile and sighed, "Others don't know, don't you and I don't know?" Father, he doesn't really value me at all, he just wants to use me to balance the situation and suppress Empress Dowager Xiao, King Qing, and King Fu. The emperor's heart is as deep as the sea, I was not favored by my father before, so I rarely was by his side, at that time I only felt that his temperament was changeable and difficult to figure out, but now I follow him every day, but I still can't understand his mind. ”

"How can you understand it, and what if you can't understand it? As long as the current situation is good for the prince, who can say clearly what will happen in the future? ”

"That's what I said, but I always feel unsure."

Xue Rou chuckled: "The prince feels unsteady, is he worried that His Majesty actually has a candidate for the prince in his heart, or is he afraid that the person Your Majesty will choose in the future is not you?" ”

Rong Lan didn't speak when he heard this, obviously Xue Rou said what he was thinking.

Xue Rou couldn't help but shake her head amusedly: "Doesn't the prince think it's too early to worry about these now?" If I am the prince, instead of thinking about those illusory things that I can't grasp, it is better to grasp the benefits that I can get in front of me to consolidate myself. Although the prince's affairs are in the emperor's heart, but not all in the emperor's heart, the prince is not to figure out the heart of the Chu Emperor, it is better to grasp the fate in his own hands, if the prince is strong enough, strong enough to be fearless, and even able to grasp the lifeline of Southern Chu, who can the emperor's heart be? ”

Xue Rou put the tea cup in her hand on the table lightly, and her voice was quiet.

"Since ancient times, there have been few prosperous emperors who have ascended the throne without edicts and are emperors in troubled times?"

Rong Lan's heart shook violently, he knocked over the tea cup on the table, and had the heart to angrily reprimand the woman in white in front of him for being rebellious, but when he looked up and saw those eyes that were as cold as a spring but sharp, he couldn't say half a word.

Xue Rou's words pierced his heart, making him feel that the place in his heart that had been covered with a black veil was suddenly lifted, as if a beast had been released, although he was forced to suppress himself, but his eyes bloomed with unprecedented fire, even he didn't notice it.

He shouted wildly in his heart, what the woman in front of him said was right, even if the emperor's heart was not in him, even if the prince of Chu Emperor was not him, as long as he was in power, as long as he could get rid of all threats, even if this Southern Chu was not his, it would be his! (To be continued.) )