Chapter 38: The Dressing Swap Conspiracy (3)
In the bustling imperial capital, in the large and small teahouses, and in the crowd near and far, they have been secretly discussing a palace secret in recent days.
Liang Xiang lifted the sedan curtain, and always felt that this road that he was used to on weekdays seemed to have a different feeling. He waved to Si'an, the long-term attendant of the sedan chair, and Si'an smiled flatteringly and immediately came up.
"What's the matter? Master. ”
Liang Xiang's narrow eyes scanned the crowd, and then pointed to the lively Kasuga teahouse on the street and said, "Let the sedan chair stop, let's go sit there." ”
Si'an's face suddenly bitter, although Liang Xiang would occasionally sit in the teahouse with three or five friends, but they all went to the top teahouse in the imperial capital, and this small tea stall on the side of the road was really not worthy of the identity of the prime minister of a country.
Liang Xiang saw that his eyes were rolling and knew what he was thinking in his heart, and he didn't want to explain anything to him at this moment, so he forced it down. "Don't go yet!"
"Yes." Si'an saw Liang Xiang getting angry, and immediately trotted all the way to the Spring Teahouse to call a seat.
When Liang Xiang got off the sedan chair slowly, Si'an had already chartered a room for him in the room. Liang Xiang pushed him away and stretched out his hand to help him, and strode into the teahouse by himself.
As soon as he appeared, the originally lively teahouse had a moment of tranquility, it was a slightly larger tea stall, and the guests were all peddlers and pawns, and guests like Liang Xiang were rare in ten years.
Xiao Er reacted first, put on a scarf, and came up with a smile on his face. "This master, what do you want to use?"
Si'an seemed to be separated from Xiao Er's body close to Liang Xiang, and said with his identity: "Come to the pot of good Biluochun." After that, he turned sideways and guided Liang Xiang to the private room.
Liang Xiang stood in the center of the teahouse, stroked his long beard, indifferently glanced around him, and then sat down in the hall with a big grin.
"Sir?" Seeing his behavior, Si'an didn't know what his idea was, but he couldn't disobey the master's wishes, so he had to follow Liang Xiang to stand in the hall and attract everyone's attention.
Fortunately, everyone's eyes did not stay on Liang Xiang and Si'an for long, and after a while, they resumed their warm conversations in the past. Liang Xiang slowly tasted the tea in his hand, but his ears were unusually sensitive to the topics around him.
"You know what? That Qing Concubine is a femme fatale, and she actually changed the prescription of today. ”
"Where is the change, it is obviously directly poisoned!"
"Really? Doesn't the queen know about these things? ”
"The queen is not favored, maybe she can't protect herself now, where can she control the emperor's life or death."
"So, our piece of heaven is going to change?"
"Who will it be replaced? Could it be that one! The person who came drew seven fingers, and the person who listened naturally said clearly that it was Xiao Yuli, the king of Qing, who was ranked seventh.
"But the crown prince is still holding the identity of the prince! Will it be His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ascending the throne? ”
"Prince? Haha, who knows what will happen to him in the future! Besides, the world of the Xiao family is not right, and now there is another brother Ni Wall, and he deserves to kill each other! ”
"Ouch, you can't talk nonsense!"
I don't know who covered the lips of the person who spoke earlier, and the conversation ended dumbly.
Liang Xiang listened to other people's words again, most of them were rumors about Concubine Qing poisoning Jin, originally such a palace secret even in the palace can rarely hear people talking, but now it can be heard in the streets and alleys of the imperial capital, what this means, he can more or less guess clearly.
"Let's go." Seeing Liang Xiang get up, Si An hurriedly took out a piece of broken silver from his sleeve, put it on the table and followed Liang Xiang out.
"Go to the East Palace." When Liang Xianglin entered the sedan chair, he suddenly threw out such a sentence, Si'an touched his nose and thought carefully for a long time, making sure that he had heard correctly, and then beckoned to get up and move forward.
Xiao Feng has been ill since last autumn and has not improved until the New Year. It turned out that the crown prince assisted in handling political affairs, and in the past few months, King Qing has also begun to meddle in the affairs of the court. If this rumor is true, then Concubine Qing and King Qing will definitely have an incident in the near future, and sooner or later there will be a big turmoil in the court. Such a situation can no longer allow him to sit idly by, he must choose his position and whose side to stand on.
In terms of reasonableness, the most suitable one is nothing more than Xiao Yu.
Xiao Yu has been taught by him since he was a child, and he is his nominal apprentice, this relationship is closer than that of King Qing, and his love for Naixin has never been broken, and King Qing has married a concubine and a side concubine, even if Naixin marries a side concubine, how can it be more stable than getting the favor of the future emperor!
But......
Liang Xiang slowly stroked his long beard, he was able to sit firmly in the phase for all these years, relying on this thoughtfulness. Until the situation becomes clearer, his position will be vague and subtle.
When Liang Xiang's name thorn was handed to the East Palace, Xiao Yu was painting a picture of orchid grass, and on the golden Xue Tao paper, a few slender branches and leaves were floating in the air, and the orchids hidden deep in the branches and leaves. After Guo Housheng took the famous thorn from the little chamberlain, he hurriedly handed it to Xiao Yu's eyes.
The old fox finally gave up his hole.
Xiao Yu put down the pen in his hand, took the famous thorn slowly, and stared at it for a while before asking Guo Housheng to send someone to bring water in to clean his hands.
"Your Highness, Liang Xiang came to the door at this time to show his goodwill?"
Guo Housheng personally held the brocade handkerchief that wiped his hands, and asked softly.
"I'm afraid it won't be that simple." Xiao Yu wiped her hands, changed the moon-white regular clothes on her body into a dark robe, and then walked towards the front hall after cleaning up.
The bamboo forest outside the study swayed gently in the wind, like someone whispering softly. Xiao Yu's footsteps suddenly stopped, his gaze looked towards the other side of the bamboo forest, Guo Housheng followed behind him, and followed his gaze, which happened to be the direction of the east wing.
"I heard Ruyu say that she is sick." Guo Housheng rang and added: "I have been sick early the morning after watching the lantern festival that night, and I have not been well." Yuwangfu has also frequently sent a lot of good medicinal materials these days, but that one just doesn't see good. ”
Xiao Yu didn't answer, didn't even mean to ask a word more, his pace was fast, as if he had never stopped here.
In the main hall, Liang Xiang slowly tasted the tea in his hand, in the end, it was the East Palace, which was indeed much better than the Biluochun of the Spring Tea House, from the grade of this tea, from the kung fu of making tea, it was more than a star and a half.