"Oh, I don't know if it's a treasure, let's hear about it." Xu Zhilan became curious, and also wanted to see what treasures Alice had.

Alice took a string of jade beads from Hao's wrist and put it on the coffee table, slowly pushed Xu Zhilan's side away, and asked, "I wonder how much His Royal Highness the Crown Prince thinks this string of jade beads is worth?" ”

Xu Zhilan picked it up and looked at it seriously, he couldn't tell whether the jade was good or bad, but he didn't think that this string of jade beads could be priceless, smiled awkwardly, and said, "I'm sorry, this king can't estimate the value." Presumably, a few hundred taels of silver should be worth it. ”

Alice stood up as she spoke, and said, "When my father came to Jinling to play, he did spend 300 taels of silver. Give it to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, farewell! She stood up as she spoke, and this time before Xu Zhilan could come to her senses, she had already reached the second floor down the stairs.

Xu Zhilan was about to greet Xiao Wei's father-in-law to send off the guest, but he saw Alice smile back and said: "This bead is only worth 300 taels of silver in your hand, and if you drop it on the ground, it will be worth a fortune." ”

When Xu Zhilan wanted to ask more details, Alice had already walked downstairs quickly.

After leaving the palace, Alice immediately took the people back to the Western Regions quickly, and she said this obscure thing to Xu Zhilan, hoping that Xu Zhilan would take time to figure it out by herself, and she would have time to find Luo Yuzhu during this time.

When Mo Wentian was wandering outside, he heard that Princess Alice of the Western Regions Kingdom had come to Jinling, and he was about to find an opportunity to cooperate with the Western Regions.

Xu Zhilan took the bead and observed it carefully for a long time, and walked out of Xu's study and took the bead to the sun, wanting to see if there was any secret hidden inside the bead? It seems that everything is normal, just an ordinary string of beads, but Alice sends beads all the way, it is impossible to make a joke, right? Xu Zhilan continued to observe carefully, trying not to miss any clues.

Xiao Wei's father-in-law looked at Xu Zhilan with confused eyes and came up with some suggestions, but Xu Zhilan didn't have any hints.

After the time of the small half-pillar incense, Xu Zhilan rubbed his eyes that were stinged by the sun's rays, handed the jade beads to Xiao Wei's father-in-law, and said, "Father-in-law Wei, you can see for this king, what is so strange about this string of jade beads?" ”

Xiao Wei Gonggong took it and repeated Xu Zhilan's observation method, the sun made Xiao Wei's father-in-law burst into tears, and he didn't see anything special about this string of jade beads, he rubbed his eyes, and he was able to do it, and said: "The slave is clumsy, and he can't see what treasure it is." Presumably, the jade craftsman in the palace should be able to see the mystery. ”

Xu Zhilan patted his head and subconsciously said: "Why didn't this king think of it, hurry, quickly ask the jade master in the palace to take a good look for this king." ”

The jade master hurriedly came over and looked at this string of jade beads for a long time, but he accurately said the variety and origin of the jade, but it was of no help to Xu Zhilan.

"Break one and see what's inside?"

Xu Zhilan gave an order, Xiao Wei's father-in-law found a tool, dismantled the entire string of jade beads, and smashed one first, the jade master picked up the fragments and studied them carefully for a long time, but still didn't find anything special.

2nd, 3rd ...... When only the last one remained, Xu Zhilan tried very carefully to slowly break the jade bead, but there was still nothing.

"Yellow-haired girl, you dare to entertain this king!" Xu Zhilan smiled, clapped his hands and left.

Back in the East Palace, Xu Zhilan saw that there seemed to be some contradictions between Liu Mei'er and Xiang'er, he pulled the two over, and called Chu Yan softly, first said that the Orchid Clan was wiped out by King Gui's troops, and then said that he was deceived by Alice into playing with beads for half a day, and at first he thought it was a treasure, but it turned out to be nothing.

Liu Mei'er didn't think that Alice would be full and had nothing to do to run to entertain Xu Zhilan, she kept repeating in her mouth, "A string of jade beads becomes valuable when it falls to the ground?" ”

Reading and reading, Liu Mei'er suddenly realized, and happily said to Xu Zhilan: "If the jade bead falls to the ground, that is Luo Yuzhu." Princess Alice is hinting to the prince that Luo Yuzhu is in her hands! She planned to use Luo Yuzhu to negotiate conditions with the prince, but she deliberately did not explain it, probably because she was afraid that the prince would take her as a hostage. ”

Xi'er was still in Xu Zhao's hands, Xu Zhilan was shocked, and immediately ordered someone to invite Alice to pass through the East Palace, and a pillar of incense came back after a time, saying that Alice had been gone for a long time! Xu Zhilan knew in his heart that if Alice returned to China and then went to the Western Regions to negotiate, the conditions proposed by the Western Regions would definitely be very harsh.

Time is running out, Xu Zhilan passed an order, be sure to stop Princess Alice, please go back to Jinling.

Princess Ziyang herself did not send a message, which does not mean that the people who Xu Zhao planted next to Princess Ziyang cannot spread the news. After receiving the letter, Xu Zhao thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't make up his mind.

Gonggong Liu hesitated for a while, and said, "Your Majesty, the crown prince is worthy of a great responsibility regardless of his character and talent, and he doesn't need to be sharpened anymore." Otherwise, I'm afraid it will backfire! If you really force the prince to be anxious, and do something wrong with Princess Ziyang, it will be too late to regret it! ”

"Okay, Gonggong Liu, you go back to Jinling quickly and inform Yangtao." Xu Zhao was silent for a long time before speaking.

"Servant Honor! It's just that even if the slave is revealed, the prince may not believe it! ”

Xu Zhao understood what Gonggong Liu meant, and said: "Yang Tao has always thought that I am using him, even if I boldly say that he is the crown prince, I am afraid he will not believe it." I've always wanted to find the right time to say it...... Ay! ”

With his hands behind his back, he walked back and forth in the room a few times, Xu Zhao glanced in the direction of Jinling a few times, and said in a complicated tone: "I am old, and I should also enjoy Qingfu." Gonggong Liu, take pen and ink, I want to pass on the throne to Yangtao! ”

Gonggong Liu was stunned for two seconds, wanted to say something, and finally gave up, turned around and went to fetch the four treasures of the study for Xu Zhao.

On the third day of the fifth month, when Xu Zhilan got up from Liu Meier's boudoir, he asked casually, but there was still no news from Alice. After washing, Xu Zhilan took Xiao Wei's father-in-law to the court.

The listless Xu Zhilan hadn't even entered the Jinluan Palace, when he heard Xiao Wei's father-in-law shout: "Father-in-law Liu!" ”

Xu Zhilan walked a few steps quickly, and saw Gonggong Liu looking at him with a tired face and a smile in his eyes.

"The slave has seen His Royal Highness the Prince!" Gonggong Liu came over and gave a heavy salute.

"Father-in-law Liu, hurry up!" Xu Zhilan slowed down for a second before asking Liu Gong to be fair.

"His Royal Highness Prince Xie!" After Liu Gongping was fair, he said to Xu Zhilan: "His Royal Highness the Prince, the emperor has a decree to pass on to His Royal Highness the Prince. ”

Xu Zhilan was afraid that after kneeling down, the Liu Gong Guild would attack him, he took a few steps back, swept away Prime Minister Jian and the others and the generals standing on both sides, and after making sure that it was safe, he knelt down and shouted three long live, ready to receive the order.

Hearing that Xu Zhao passed the throne to Xu Zhilan, not only Xu Zhilan was stunned, but even Prime Minister Jian and the others were stunned, and they couldn't figure out what the situation was for a while?

"Am I really the prince?" Xu Zhilan couldn't help but have such doubts in his heart, until he took the jade seal handed to him by Gonggong Liu, he was not very clear.