Chapter 122 Clever Words
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"Your Highness, my subordinates have to admit that the letter that Twelve Niang entrusted me to send to Luo Yimen, I secretly opened it halfway, and then I knew that it turned out to be ...... It turns out that the Twelve Niangs are the people of His Royal Highness the Prince......"
Li Heng's face was hideous, and he sneered and said, "Okay, good." Your courage is really not small, you dare to read that letter, do you know what the consequences of watching this prince's secret are? ”
Wang Yuan said: "Your Highness, I was already planning to go to the informant at that time, what else did I dare not do." Besides, I don't know that Twelve Niang is His Royal Highness's person. ”
Li Heng sneered and was silent.
"When I knew that Twelve Niang was His Royal Highness's person, I panicked, I didn't expect that this matter would involve the secret of His Royal Highness the Prince, and I didn't expect that the person who chased and killed Twelve Niang was Li Linfu. I'm just a grass farmer, and I was just telling the whistle just to get some benefits for myself, who would have thought that such a big deal would be on the table. For a moment I was scared and didn't have a claim. Wang Yuan said with a dejected face.
Li Heng said coldly: "Do you also know that you are afraid? That's a real rarity. ”
Wang Yuan ignored the sarcasm in his words, and said slowly: "I thought about it a lot, and finally I figured it out, I want to send this letter according to the request of Twelve Niang, because it is related to the safety of the prince, and I can't let Li Linfu's treacherous plan succeed." So not only did I not go to the informant, but also actively asked for medicine for Twelve Niang, helped her heal her injuries, and let her get out safely. ”
Li Heng frowned and said, "Oh? In this way, you gave up a chance to be promoted and make a fortune for the sake of this prince? I don't believe this, this prince has no favor to you, why would you do that? ”
Wang Yuan said softly: "Your Highness, of course I didn't do this on a whim, first of all, my subordinates don't want to get involved in the court battle between the prince and Li Linfu, because in that case, if this grass man under me falls into this, I'm afraid that he will be crushed into powder immediately." If I tell Li Linfu about Twelve Niang and Luo Yimen, will Your Highness spare me? ”
Li Heng smiled and said, "Spare you?" If you flee to the ends of the earth, I will send someone to chop you into meat sauce, chop you up and feed it to the dogs. Maybe the crown prince will lose his position as prince because of this incident, but it will not be easy to kill someone like you. ”
Wang Yuan sighed: "That's it, that's the first reason why I can't tell the truth, I don't want to be cut into meat sauce and fed to dogs by His Royal Highness the Prince." Secondly, I would like to solemnly explain to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince that although I, Wang Yuan, am poor and destitute, although I sometimes have some bad thoughts for the sake of livelihood, I am also a person who has read the books of sages, monarchs, ministers, fathers, sons, and sons, and the most basic ethics are the bottom line in my heart. I wanted to tell the whistle before, because I thought that the twelve mothers were thieves, and the whistleblower was also for the sake of the court. But since this matter involves the matter between His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Li Linfu, I naturally have my position in my heart. ”
Li Heng frowned and said, "How do you say this?" ”
Wang Yuan said: "It's very simple, I am the Tang Dynasty, Your Majesty is the sky, and the subjects are the earth, if someone wants to rebel against the sky and make enemies of Your Majesty, how does Your Highness say to deal with it?" ”
"Needless to say? Naturally, it is to eradicate the traitors and protect His Majesty. ”
"That's it, now Li Linfu is a courtier, but he is fighting with His Royal Highness the Prince, if His Majesty is the sky, His Royal Highness is the son of heaven, the heir of my Tang Sheji in the future, Li Linfu's move is a conspiracy, as a citizen of the Tang Dynasty, how can I help him deal with His Royal Highness the Prince? This is something that must not be done, and it is my Wang Yuan's bottom line. ”
Li Heng rolled his eyes and said, "You really think so?" ”
Wang Yuan said: "Whether His Royal Highness the Crown Prince believes it or not, in fact, did I tell the truth?" Did you do anything to endanger His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the slightest? Even if Luo Yimen killed me in order to keep the secret, I didn't tell the truth. And His Highness can ask Pan Chengfang, we had the opportunity to kill him at that time, but we still didn't kill him, because we didn't want His Highness to misunderstand our loyalty. ”
Li Heng got up and paced slowly, kneading each other with his fingers cramping, and suddenly asked, "What's going on between you and Twelve Niang?" Why did you suddenly get married? What did you do to her? ”
Wang Yuan shook his head and said, "Your Highness, I didn't do anything. After I sent the letter back, Twelve Niang knew that I would definitely be killed by Luo Yimen, I was her savior, but she hurt me, so she felt very guilty. She finally couldn't help but tell me the truth and persuaded me to leave quickly. But I knew that once I escaped, Twelve Niang's injuries would be found and arrested, so I decided to stay, hoping that Luo Yimen would not come to me for trouble. Twelve Niang may have been moved by me, and decided to help me plead with His Royal Highness to spare my life, in order to protect me from being killed, she proposed a way to fake marriage with me, so that she could not only show her face, but also stay by my side to protect me. ”
"So, your marriage is fake?"
"Yes, it's always been fake."
"Even now?"
Wang Yuan thought for a while and said, "Yes, it's been fake until now, it's just a cover for our relationship." How could a woman like Twelve Niang fall in love with someone like me. ”
Li Heng's face showed a smile for the first time, and he said slowly: "That's not necessarily, you are also a celebrity in the capital now, and your reputation is not small, maybe you don't know if you don't like her." It's just that, I didn't expect you to go through so many struggles after that night, but it's hard for you. However, what you said about the general principles of the monarch and the father and son, this prince does not believe it. Everyone in this world talks about this, and how many of them really want to do it? It's all for their own benefit. ”
Wang Yuan hurriedly said: "Your Highness has insight into people's hearts, and the sainthood is incomparable. His subordinates did not dare to say that they were completely loyal. Because his subordinates also want to take this opportunity to work for the prince and have a good future in the future. ”
"Hahaha, I was told by Prince Ben. You're pretty honest, not like some people are secretive. ”
Wang Yuan said: "His Royal Highness is the future master of the Tang Dynasty, no one can stop and destroy, his subordinates only firmly believe in this, and after His Royal Highness ascends the throne in the future, he will definitely reward his subordinates for meritorious deeds." That's what I thought at the time. ”
Li Heng put away his smile and glared at Wang Yuan, and said in a scheming manner: "Your scheming is really deep, this prince admires you a little, you are very shrewd, but people who are too shrewd often end badly." ”
Wang Yuan said quietly: "Your Highness praises falsely, if you talk about shrewdness, no one can compare to His Royal Highness the Prince." The process of Twelve Niang's entry into Li Linfu's mansion is really a well-designed show. The prince is behind the scenes, and he has no last resort, and his subordinates are extremely impressed. The subordinates are not as worried as the prince in case, so the subordinates are not worried about the end. ”
Li Heng was stunned, and then laughed and said, "Okay, good, it's the first time that someone has refuted me in front of this prince, and I'm speechless." I'm curious how you got to where you are today. You can stand in front of me today, did you design it step by step? ”
Wang Yuan shook his head and said: "Your Highness has exalted me too much, since I was targeted by Luo Yimen, my subordinates were very angry, I didn't expect such a result." Later, Twelve Niang said that if you want not to be endlessly chased by Luo Yimen, the only way is to join Luo Yimen. And ordinary people can't join Luo Yimen, so I happened to encounter an opportunity, Li Shizhi asked me to participate in the Pear Blossom Poetry Club, Twelve Niang told me that if I can stay by Li Shizhi's side, maybe Luo Yimen will think that I am useful and will agree to let me join it. I think His Highness knows what happened later. As for winning the championship at the Pear Blossom Poetry Conference, Li Shizhi's hypocrisy, and now Yang Zhao's initiative to come to the door, it is not my expectation, and I don't know why it has come to this point today. Until now, I have been in a dream, and I dare not imagine that I will be personally received by His Highness, nor can I imagine what will happen in the future. I think, I'm a lucky person, since I saved the twelve mothers that night, my luck has been opened, and this is also the luck given by His Royal Highness. ”
Li Heng nodded slightly and said: "You are really a lucky person, but I didn't give it to you, and no one can give it to you, it was you who gave yourself the opportunity." If you hadn't made the right decision to save Twelve Niang, if you hadn't attracted Li Shizhi's attention in Dongshi, if you hadn't won the first prize at the Pear Blossom Poetry Conference, if your poems hadn't been considered by His Majesty to be in line with Li Taibai's poetic style, none of this would have happened. You don't have to thank anyone for what you give. Everyone does not need to thank others for their gifts, it all depends on their own choices and struggles, and no one can rely on them. ”
Wang Yuan looked up at Li Heng, and saw Li Heng's solemn expression, and he didn't know why Li Heng was so emotional.
Wang Yuan didn't know that his narration touched Li Heng's suppressed heart. As the crown prince, he couldn't even rely on his biological father, so he was forced by Li Linfu and other powerful ministers to stand by. forced him to even retire his beloved concubine, and watched his henchmen being killed but couldn't make any expression, what a humiliation it was.
Li Heng has long been grateful in his heart, even if his father gave him the position of prince, Li Heng is not grateful, because he knows that his father does not really want to hand over Jiangshan Sheji to him, or that his father does not really give Jiangshan to any of his sons. He just had to do it, and then he watched indifferently as his son suffered in this position, and did not help in the slightest.
"Today you and I are very frank, I said, this is the last time you will meet before you enter the palace, after you enter the palace, I will never see you again, so we have to explain many things today. Well, there's one thing I want to ask clearly, you must answer me honestly, and don't spoil my good impression of you. Got it? Li Heng said slowly.