Chapter Ninety-Seven: Incense
"We came together for the same purpose, you know in your heart how much I have to pay for this, don't let me down in you."
Su Wanyan reminded Jiang Duyan to clear her mind, not to have other thoughts, and not to betray her.
"I know it, so don't worry, I won't do anything to be sorry for you. Although I am full of calculations, I still have at least a conscience. ”
"That's good."
When Su Wanyan went back, she wrote a letter to the prince and asked him to meet him in a restaurant, and the prince thought she had figured it out, so he went to the appointment impatiently.
Seeing Su Wanyan's beautiful and peerless face, the prince couldn't hide his liking, but he knew that it was useless to be Su Wanyan, so he didn't dare to cross the distance again.
Su Wanyan took Lingxiu with her, Lingxiu stood beside her, and the prince didn't dare to let Lingxiu retreat in order to be alone with Su Wanyan.
Coming to meet the prince today, Su Wanyan really mustered up the courage, in addition to bringing Lingxiu, she also brought two guards from the Surprise Hall to hide in the dark.
The prince actually apologized to her, as he spoke, Su Wanyan observed his expression, and saw that there was no look in his eyes, and he didn't focus much on things, his face was a little too ruddy, and his steps were a little vain when he entered the door just now.
She asked the prince, "How is Your Highness doing lately?" ”
The prince thought that she cared about herself, and she felt flattered, and her smile was extraordinarily bright, but when she thought of it, she somehow felt that Su Yuxian had made him particularly pleasing recently, and she was indeed a little too indulgent.
His expression flickered a little, "Thank you for your concern, there's nothing wrong with being lonely." ”
Su Wanyan already had a guess in her heart, but she was not very sure, so she said: "The concubine knows a little bit of medical skills, and she is improving recently, so it is better to let the concubine take your pulse and see how the concubine's medical skills are." ”
The prince thought that she was deliberately approaching her, so he hurriedly stretched out his hand, "Okay, okay, I'll bother you." ”
Su Wanyan smiled reservedly, put two fingers on his wrist, and the prince saw her two slender white fingers next to his skin, and his heart rippled even more, and there was an unusually bright light in his eyes.
After diagnosing the pulse, Su Wanyan was sure that he had some kind of hallucinogenic addiction drug in his body, and he didn't have to think about it to know that this was the reason why Su Yuxian was able to hook him.
She smiled and said, "Your Highness is all right, but you need to pay attention to your body recently, and remember to indulge in hurting your body." ”
The prince's face was a little unbearable, and he smiled very awkwardly.
"I'm sorry, the doctor's parents' hearts, the concubine didn't intend to expose His Royal Highness......" Su Wanyan looked panicked.
The prince hurriedly said: "Don't think about it, Lone knows your kindness and won't blame you." ”
Su Wanyan deliberately found a topic, and asked about Xihe's current situation, the prince has always been going to Su Yuxian recently, he naturally knows, so he said a few words.
Seeing that the atmosphere was relaxed, the prince confessed to Su Wanyan: "You should know Lone's heart for you, and I regret it very much when I broke the marriage contract with you." Approaching you again and again, I can't help it, I just hate that I didn't insist on marrying you as a concubine with my mother, and then you also got married, and I want to forget you, which is good for everyone, but I still can't let go of you when I think of you, so I did something that can't stop you last time. ”
He looked at Su Wanyan, saw a smile on the corner of her mouth, and her eyes were melancholy, although she didn't say anything, she was listening carefully, so she continued: "It won't be in the future, Gu will respect you, I just hope you can also respond to Gu's affection." ”
Su Wanyan pretended to be moved by him, wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, and said sadly: "I know you are affectionate to me, but it is impossible for us anymore." Thinking about the grievances I have suffered, but I still have to stick to the woman's way and can't be with people who are good to me, I feel like a knife. ”
"You have been wronged, what have you been wronged?" The prince immediately captured the key information, and wondered if Duanmu Rui was actually not good to her?
"Naturally, I was wronged in the palace, the emperor recently sent a concubine to the palace, because I have no heirs so far, and the prince is with the concubine, if I don't find out that the concubine wants to harm the prince, I don't have a place in the palace now."
Su Wanyan said half-truths and half-truths, and the prince naturally inquired about the emperor sending a concubine to Duanmu Rui, so he was convinced of what Su Wanyan said.
The crown prince pretended to comfort Su Wanyan and said: "Uncle Huang is not such a person, you may think too much, he will understand your importance when he sees the true face of that concubine." ”
Su Wanyan said angrily: "The prince thinks I'm making a big fuss? I didn't have an heir for him, he was actually dissatisfied with me in his heart, we were very affectionate on the surface, but in fact, I didn't talk much when I went back to the house, I had enough of this kind of life, but unfortunately it was impossible to get rid of him, he would never let go of me for the sake of face, His Royal Highness must help me. ”
Her expression was real, her performance was vivid, and she held the prince tightly with both hands, as if she had grasped a life-saving straw.
The prince was so distressed that he immediately said: "Don't worry, Lone will definitely find a way to let you leave him, and then Lone will come to hurt you." ”
The crown prince wanted to grab Su Wanyan's hand, but she immediately avoided it without leaving a trace, and said worriedly: "But I heard him say that His Highness was severely injured by him some time ago. ”
"What's there, that's just a small part of Lone's strength, Lone still has a backup move waiting for him."
The prince's confident and smug appearance shocked Su Wanyan, the purpose of what she said just now was to coax him to reveal his true strength.
She pretended to be happy and looked at the prince with sparkling eyes, "Really? Speak up and let me hear it. ”
The prince said that he had asked people to find a group of masters from the rivers and lakes, and this time they were more powerful than the previous ones, and they would definitely defeat Duanmu Rui.
Finally sent the prince away, Su Wanyan and Lingxiu rushed to the house, Lingxiu smiled and said to her: "If what the princess said is known by the prince, she will be angry enough." ”
"I'm not here to help him find out about the prince's movements." Su Wanyan also felt a little weak-hearted, and told Lingxiu not to talk nonsense.
The prince didn't expect Su Wanyan to have a bad time in the palace, he was so happy in his heart that he wanted to quickly let Su Wanyan change the identity of a married woman so that she could be with him.
He went to the emperor and asked the emperor to come forward to force Duanmu Rui and Su Wanyan to reconcile, the emperor thought about it and felt strange, and asked him: "When did you care about your uncle's family affairs?" ”
The prince said: "The last time I met the little imperial aunt, I saw that she was sad, and the sons said that they were concerned, so she said that she had a bad relationship with the imperial uncle, and felt that she was very wronged in the palace. ”
The emperor thought about it and felt that it was right not to let Duanmu Rui occupy Su Sui's power, but when he thought that Su Sui had suffered two losses, he definitely didn't dare to get too close to Duanmu Rui, and he kept staring at Duanmu Rui, and he didn't see any connection between him and Su Sui, so he was relieved.
He never gave up letting Su Wanyan be his spy in the palace, so he refused the prince.
The prince doesn't care about political affairs, he only knows how to eat, drink and have fun all day long, and his lustful and lewd temperament is becoming more and more unrestrained, and he doesn't know how many jokes he makes about robbing women outside.
He was so unenterprising, he was impeached by the ministers, and was almost deposed as the crown prince, and the other adult princes knew that they also had a chance to inherit the throne, so they wanted to disintegrate the prince's power and finally oust him from the crown prince.
They secretly co-opted the officials who originally supported him behind the prince, and among those princes, the eighth prince was the most scheming, planning to wait for the brothers and the prince to fight first, and after the fight to the death, he would sit back and reap the benefits.
These forces in the palace are surging, but the prince feels that he is his son-in-law, and the queen helps him, and the emperor has always protected him, so he can sit firmly on the throne of the prince, so he is unaware.
The queen is in the harem, but she can see and listen to all directions, she knows the affairs of the previous dynasty clearly, and she has not relaxed her vigilance against the princes.
secretly found out about the small movements of the princes, so he called the prince into the palace, and at first gossiped with him, asking him how the princess and the side concubines were, and he cared about Xihe, and the prince responded absentmindedly.
He knew that the queen had definitely not called him to understand this, so he said to the queen: "Niangniang asked her sons to come and say what she wants to say, what to do in these circles." ”
The queen saw that he didn't know where to use his mind, and his eyes were full of vanity after indulgence, disappointed and heartbroken, knowing that persuasion was useless, she directly gave him a basin of cold water: "The queen mother said a few words to you, you see that you are so impatient, you think that your crown prince is firmly seated, you don't do anything serious all day long, you only know how to spend all day drinking, don't forget, you are not the only adult prince in the palace, although you have the queen mother and the queen mother's family to support you, but if you don't fight yourself, no one can support you in the end." ”
The crown prince was shocked by the queen's words, he always felt that his biggest enemy was Duanmu Rui, and he never thought that other princes with no power would covet his crown prince.
"The queen mother made it clear, what happened to them, what did they do?"
The queen snorted coldly, "You can find out what they have done yourself, so you can find something to do for yourself." ”
The prince was anxious and wanted to get out of the palace quickly, but the queen stopped him again, "Wait, the queen mother has another matter." ”
The queen called the female officials beside her and said to the prince: "Jingqiu has been following the queen mother, and she has also been trained carefully and very capable over the years, you bring her back." ”
Jingqiu is very delicate and beautiful, and the prince has been interested in it for a long time, but because she is the queen, she has not made a move, and he is very happy to see the queen give him the beauty.
But I heard the queen say to Jingqiu again: "This palace sent you to the prince's side, not only to let you serve the prince well, but also to order you to use your own ability to help the prince, but also to be careful at all times, and persuade the prince's behavior, so that he can focus on the right thing and not be unenterprising." ”
After she finished speaking sternly, she glanced at the prince again, and these words were mainly for the prince.
Jingqiu hurriedly responded, and directly followed the prince to the East Palace with his own things. The prince doted on her very much, except for Su Yuxian, he went to the courtyard where she lived.
Late that night, Jingqiu took advantage of the fact that the palace maids were resting, and the prince did not come to her, so she left the courtyard late at night and walked to the depths of the palace.
When she arrived at the Imperial Garden, she saw a tall and long figure, and she hurriedly walked over and shouted, "Eighth Prince." ”
The eighth prince recently learned that she was given to the crown prince by the queen, and tried to ask her to come out to see her.
"You're here." The Eighth Prince's voice was very low and cold.