"Eighth prince, the queen asked me to serve the crown prince, and I had to follow, but fortunately, I can help you find out the news of the crown prince to you."

The eighth prince's mother, Concubine Lan, was originally the palace maid next to the queen, and she was a tool for the queen to fix her favor, because she gave birth to a prince, and the emperor gave her the title of concubine for the sake of the queen's face, but the concubines were all from powerful families, and they were also talented and good-looking, which was very valued by the emperor.

Only Concubine Lan has no power to rely on behind her, and she has no appearance but no big characters, and she is rarely favored after giving birth to the Eighth Prince, so her identity is very embarrassing in the harem.

But the eighth prince and Concubine Lan were actually originally the queen's people, and the eighth prince naturally often went in and out of the queen's Fengqi Palace, so he got acquainted with Jingqiu very early, and Jingqiu was interested in him and often helped him.

In the correspondence between the two, Jingqiu knew the ambition of the eighth prince, the eighth prince knew that his status was humble since he was a child, so he studied hard and practiced all kinds of skills, whether it was learning or dealing with the world, or intelligence and strategic calculations were stronger than the prince, in Jingqiu's heart, the position of the prince should belong to him, and he was willing to help him realize his ambitions and wishes.

When Jingqiu arrived at the prince's side, he said that he wanted to help him find out the news, which was exactly what the eighth prince wanted, so he said: "It's dangerous to do this, you must be careful, it's a small matter to find out the news, and it's more important to protect yourself and preserve your strength." ”

"Jingqiu knows." Hearing that the Eighth Prince was concerned about his own safety, Jingqiu was very moved, and was even more willing to die towards him.

The eighth prince went to Fengqi Palace to greet the queen, and the queen looked at his thin and long figure, as well as the handsome and somewhat gloomy face, only to suddenly find that he had grown up, asked him about his recent situation, and asked him how he was learning, and the eighth prince answered cautiously.

The queen was very satisfied with him, and recently found out about the prince's movements, she knew that the eighth prince did not participate in the formation of a party for personal gain, and she was still very relieved of him, so she said to him: "You have to remember that everything you and your mother have today is given by this palace, you have to be worthy of this palace, the prince is the hope of this palace, he will ascend the throne in the future, and you and your mother can also have a good life." ”

"Look at your imperial uncle, how good it is to live a leisurely and leisurely rich life, don't you want to be like that? If you want to, you can assist the prince well, become his help, and put him in that position steadily. Otherwise, this palace will let it go, you and your mother are nothing in this harem, do you understand? ”

The eighth prince hurriedly said: "Don't worry, the queen mother, the heart of the sons and daughters must be towards His Royal Highness the prince and you, the sons are willing to assist His Royal Highness the prince, and ask the queen mother to take more care of the sons and daughters." ”

"Very good, your mother's palace will naturally take good care of it." The queen said with a point.

Her so-called care is naturally not in the general sense, she is holding Concubine Lan's life and death in her hands, once the eighth prince has a different heart, she will hurt Concubine Lan, the prince who grew up in this harem full of dangers, the eighth prince naturally understands what she means.

The queen secretly found out that the other princes united, and used the power of the concubine's family behind them to dig a pit for the prince, so as to overthrow the prince's power in one fell swoop, she was very angry, and asked the prince to enter the palace to discuss, and finally decided to give the other princes a little color, so that they knew the difficulties and retreated, so they hired killers in the rivers and lakes, but they did not dare to hurt their lives, only planned to stab them, so that they felt threatened.

When Jingqiu learned of this, he met with the Eighth Prince at night and told him about the queen's plan, and the Eighth Prince secretly bribed the assassins to kill one of the princes, so as to add fuel to the fire and make the matter bigger.

The assassin really killed the prince, the prince's mother concubine is a very favored concubine, and the family power behind it is also very strong, she is a famous family in the capital, her father is the young master of the head of the three orphans, and many of her brothers are officials in the court.

This is also the reason why the Eighth Prince chose to let the assassin assassinate this prince, he was waiting for the current situation.

Concubine Xian went to Zongren's Mansion to see her son's body, and when she learned that he had been assassinated and died, she was heartbroken and immediately went to the emperor to ask for the real culprit.

The emperor was also shocked that the prince of his Great Heavenly Empire was secretly killed, and he was furious, feeling that this was a provocation to his imperial power and not taking him as an emperor in his eyes.

Early in the morning, he said about the matter, angrily reprimanded, and ordered the criminal department Shangshu to find out the matter, and the criminal department Shangshu thought that the fact that the prince was assassinated was too important, and it should be handed over to the emperor's subordinate black armor guard to investigate.

The Emperor felt that it made sense, but the commander of the Black Armor Guard said that they were also heavy on affairs, and they had no time or manpower to do it.

Qin Qingfeng saw that everyone was passing the buck to each other, and they didn't want to take this heavy responsibility, for fear that if things didn't go well, they would cause a commotion, so he stood up and said that he voluntarily took the order to investigate the matter.

Although he didn't like him anymore, the emperor was still very relieved about his affairs, so he called him to find out the real murderer.

The competition for the position of the crown prince is surging, but the palace is quiet, Su Wanyan has always remembered that Duanmu Rui wants to accept Xiang's sachet, she remembered that she has been married into the palace for so long, and she has not done any needlework for Duanmu Rui, so on a whim, she also wants to make a sachet for Duanmu Rui, so as to give Duanmu Rui a surprise.

She asked the maids for advice on embroidery skills, and Lingxiu couldn't count on it, so she sat with the other maids all day long and started to learn from the most superficial kung fu.

At this time, she regretted that she had not paid attention to this before, even if she had the memory of the original owner, but after such a long time, her hands had already been born, and the stitches embroidered were crooked, which was very ugly, and the maids made fun of her and persuaded her to practice more.

Duanmu Rui came over and found that Su Wanyan and the maids were talking and laughing in the house, so he came in and asked them what they were talking about, and Su Wanyan hid the flowers he embroidered behind him.

The maids couldn't help laughing, Su Wanyan didn't speak, and they didn't dare to answer.

Duanmu Rui saw that Su Wanyan was actually shy, and seemed to be hiding something, which aroused his curiosity even more, he waved his hand to let the maids withdraw, Su Wanyan wanted to stop Lingxiu to help her speak, Lingxiu walked up to her with a smile and whispered: "Don't be afraid, princess, the prince will not dislike your craft." ”

Su Wanyan was even more embarrassed when she saw her giggling and running out.

"What the hell is going on?" Duanmu Rui walked up to her and looked behind her condescendingly with his height advantage.

Seeing that she was holding a lump in her hand and didn't know what it was, she reached out to grab it, and Su Wanyan deftly avoided it.

"Don't be curious, it's nothing, it's really nothing."

"I don't believe it, what are you holding in your hand?" Duanmu Rui approached her again.

"It's nothing, don't ask."

As her words fell, Duanmu Rui grabbed her shoulders with one hand, pulled her into his arms, hugged her, and turned against the wall.

The two leaned against each other, surrounded by the aura on Duanmu Rui's body, and Su Wanyan found that she didn't have the strength to resist at all.

Duanmu Rui raised her hands above her head again, she was still clutching the sachet, Duanmu Rui smiled and said, "Don't let it go?" ”

Su Wanyan shook her head, "Lord Wang, please, there's really nothing to see." ”

Duanmu Rui pulled away her fingers little by little, and took out the sachet that had been glued with sweat and embroidered indecently from her palm.

"Lord Wang, don't look at it." Su Wanyan was going to grab it again, with coquettishness in her voice, it was too embarrassing for Duanmu Rui to see such an ugly thing, and this was the first time she sent needlework to Duanmu Rui, she was very embarrassed.

Duanmu Rui saw that it was a sachet, and it didn't look like it was used by a woman, so he wanted to open it and take a closer look, so Su Wanyan pretended to hold his head and said, "My head is so dizzy, it's not good, it's so dizzy." ”

Seeing her crying dizziness, Duanmu Rui thought that she had lost too much blood because of refining pills, so he threw down the sachet to help her.

"Are you alright?" He asked worriedly, to help someone into the bedroom.

"It's okay, it's fine, you don't have to lie down, just sit down." Su Wanyan walked to the chair and sat down, stepping on the sachet with one foot.

"Don't scare me, are you really okay? Then don't refine the pill anymore, even if I beg you, will it be done? Duanmu Rui half-crouched down in front of her.

"Oh, it's not because of alchemy, it's that I feel a little hot, you take me, take me ......"

She wanted to say that Duanmu Rui hugged her, but she couldn't say it, so she glared at Duanmu Rui, Duanmu Rui then understood, and sat down a little embarrassed to sit down on the side, and said with relief: "I thought you were dizzy because of ischemia." ”

Looking at Su Wanyan's shy appearance, he completely forgot what happened just now, and after eating, he remembered that it was already after returning to his residence, and couldn't help but laugh in his heart Su Wanyan was cunning.

Su Sui was still fighting with the Xiongnu at the border pass, and he hadn't rested late that night, and was studying tactics with the lamp lit.

Suddenly, he saw the guards next to him walk in, holding a box in his hand, so he looked up and asked him, "Is there anything else to do at such a late hour?" ”

The guard put the box on the table and reported to him: "General, this box contains a thousand taels of silver tickets, which are given to the villain by Jiang Tongzhi, and let the villain report the general's secret affairs." ”

His so-called Jiang Tongzhi is Jiang Duyan's father, and now he has been promoted to the third rank and is considered a very important official in the army.

Su Sui opened the box and took a look, and said to the guard: "You go down, Ben will know it in his heart." ”

Early the next morning, during the training of the sergeants, Su Sui asked the adjutant Han Hao to arrest Jiang Duyan's father on the spot, tied him up and threw him in front of everyone, and the soldiers all blew up, not knowing what happened.

He took out the box sent by the guards last night, took out the silver ticket inside and said: "Soldiers, don't panic, this silver ticket of one thousand taels is the evidence that Jiang Tongzhi bought the general's personal guard Xia She, he actually wanted to find out the secret affairs of the general, and some soldiers reported that Jiang Tongzhi deducted everyone's food and military salary, resulting in some soldiers not having enough to eat, and he had to deduct a part of the court money for taking so much, and the general had already been verified, therefore, from today on, Jiang Tongzhi was demoted to an ordinary soldier and deprived him of all his power in the army. ”