Yao Guangqi smiled and said, "Why did you cry when you saw me?" Did anyone embarrass you while I was away? ”

"Nope." Xi Yan wiped the tears on his face, "But, I came to serve you, you are always away, who am I serving, let alone ......" Xi Yan immediately blushed and looked outside.

Yao Guangqi followed the gaze of Xi Yan and looked out, opposite was Linglong and Zhu Neng's house, Linglong's room was dark, but Zhu Neng's room was lit, could it be that Zhu Neng was still there? Yao Guangqi didn't know why, so he turned his head and asked Xi Yan: "It's nothing special, let alone what?" ”

Xi Yan covered his face and said embarrassedly: "I, I, people can't say it, you can go and see it yourself." ”

Yao Guangqi quietly came to Zhu Neng's window, the window was closed, but the voice came faintly, it was a woman's moan, Yao Guangqi understood, it must be Zhu Neng who was doing that with the maid, Yao Guangqi was a little funny, this Zhu Neng, don't pick a time to do that, how good it is to sneak around in the dead of night, at this time others haven't slept yet, you even know your own maid, what is it like.

Yao Guangqi returned to his room in a daze, and was a little embarrassed, and said to Xi Yan hesitantly: "I remember you said that the girl who served Zhu Neng is called Peony, right, or did her mother give a gift to the housekeeper's wife, so she won the first place, when did they get better?" ”

Xi Yan was still blushing, glanced at Zhu Neng's house, and quickly turned his head, lowered his head and spat disdainfully, and then said: "Peony's little wave hoof has a scheming. Saying that, he glanced up at Yao Guangqi, and then lowered his head and said: "I entered this courtyard by giving gifts, and hooked up with a nobleman, and now I am angry outside, and I am good with Zhu Nenggongzi, even his father and mother are trembling, and everyone will say that in the future, Peony will at least be an aunt, and it is possible to be a wife." ”

Yao Guangqi smiled: "That's it." Then he turned and walked out.

"Hey, Childe!" Xi Yan suddenly grabbed Yao Guangqi's sleeve, and then muttered in a very low voice: "Are you coming back tonight?" ”

"Not necessarily." Yao Guangqi pulled back his sleeves with a smile, then looked at Zhu Neng's room again, and said to Xi Yan with a smile: "After a while, they are done, you go and tell Zhu Neng that I went to King Yan, let him go over as soon as possible." ”

When he came to the door of Zhu Di's study courtyard and looked at the red lantern hanging above the courtyard gate, Yao Guangqi knew that Zhu Di was in the courtyard at the moment. I don't know when there is a small plaque on the door, the plaque has four words "Wen'an Xiaozhu", it seems that this small courtyard is the same as the Beiping Palace, and it has also been renamed Wen'an Xiaozhu, standing outside the door, seeing the familiar scene, Yao Guangqi felt a lot of emotion in his heart, if it wasn't for Zhu Di to take him in, his life may be completely different, maybe there will be no such opportunities at all. Thinking of this, an inexplicable feeling came to my heart.

When Yao Guangqi was stunned, someone behind him suddenly patted him on the shoulder, Yao Guangqi turned around and saw that it was Zhu Neng, although it was very dark, but by the light of the moonlight and lanterns on his head, Yao Guangqi could see that Zhu Neng's complexion was very good, but there was a slight sweat on his forehead, thinking about the scene just now, Yao Guangqi blinked mischievously, and joked with a smile: "It's over?" ”

Zhu Neng's face was flushed, he touched the back of his head, and replied with a very embarrassed expression: "That girl is clingy...... This, that prince and Linglong are inside, come in. ”

The two pushed the door in, and happened to see Zhu Di and Linglong whispering in the pavilion, and saw that the person who came in was Yao Guangqi, both of them were stunned, and then Zhu Di jumped up with a smile, trotted in front of Yao Guangqi, and took Yao Guangqi's hand, "Just talking about you, you are back, there are so many things, I am in a hurry now." ”

Yao Guangqi was also not restrained, and said with a smile: "I came back for the past few days, and some things must be explained clearly tonight." ”

Linglong stood behind Zhu Di, looked at Yao Guangqi with a serious expression, and said coldly: "How did you get it, your subordinates are making such a big move in the capital, and the Jinyi Guard is already eyeing you." ”

"They might find some clues, but they don't care about me, and they have bigger trouble now." Yao Guangqi replied to Linglong in one sentence, then turned his head to Zhu Di and said, "Have you ever thought about King Yan, why are you in trouble with King Qin at the same time?" ”

Zhu Di replied without hesitation: "Naturally, because of the crown prince, he was worried that me and King Qin would shake his throne, so he was impatient to make a move, his idea was nothing more than to defeat me and King Qin, first, to stabilize himself, and secondly, to set an example for other vassal kings." ”

Yao Guangqi shook his head and said solemnly: "Then have you ever thought that since the prince has already attacked King Qin on the charge of colluding with the party, why did he still make a case of a housekeeper killing people in the street?" Isn't that a complication? What's more, the butler's murder, whether it is manslaughter or intentional homicide, is at most a sin of negligence in discipline for King Qin, and it will never have any essential impact on such a major event as the ownership of the storage position. ”

"What do you mean?" Zhu Di nodded, he really felt that the prince was doing this too much.

"To deal with you, the other party only used one trick to collude with the thief, and to deal with the King of Qin, but two handles appeared at the same time, don't you think it's strange?" Yao Guangqi looked at Zhu Neng and then at Linglong.

Linglong's eyes rolled, and she had already reacted: "What do you mean is that in fact, it is actually two different people who are rectifying King Qin, and the murder of King Qin's housekeeper is actually not done by the prince's people at all." ”

Zhu Di also figured out the mystery of this, he frowned and asked, "Then why did this person do this?" If you do this, you may not be able to help the prince. ”

"Blame!" Zhu Neng, who had been silent, suddenly took over the words, he had been thinking about it for the past few days, and he also felt strange about many things, but he had not thought it through, after Yao Guangqi mentioned it, Zhu Neng's thinking became clear in an instant: "This is not only to help the prince, but to put the prince in the situation of making enemies on all sides, they let the prince become the target of the public, and on the other hand, they can set the king of Qin and the king of Yan, who are in the limelight, it is really killing two birds with one stone, in the end, they will profit from it, as long as the prince and the king of Qin and the king of Yan fall, They have a chance. ”

Linglong's expression rarely showed a hideous look: "It's a vicious plan, but this is indeed a clever plan, so who did it?" ”

Zhu Neng sneered: "You don't have to think about it to know, King Jin and King Zhou are all possible, and whoever can profit from it will be suspicious." ”

Yao Guangqi continued: "At the moment, there is no point in investigating who did it, what we have to think about is, what should we do next? Speaking of this, Yao Guangqi looked at Zhu Di and said solemnly: "Or, the most important thing now is, how do you choose, King Yan!" ”

"What do you mean by that?" Zhu Di didn't understand what Yao Guangqi meant.

Zhu Neng explained: "What the fake monk means is that if you fight back at this time, not only will you fall into the trap of others, but we are not sure yet, and we can only make a wedding dress for others in the end, so you must not be in the limelight again, and you must not show the intention of competing for favor or competing for the storage position, in short, you must not be an enemy of the prince on the surface, and you must not fight with other vassal kings secretly." ”

Yao Guangqi nodded: "That's what it means, the current situation is staggered and treacherous, now other vassal kings are eyeing each other, and the emperor's mind is difficult to fathom, the king of Jin and the king of Zhou, in order to be able to catch up, may brew a bigger conspiracy, what they want is to win in the fire, win in chaos, but you must seek stability now, and be stable in response to all changes." ”

Zhu Di understood, but let him do nothing like this, he was really unwilling, such a God-given opportunity is not often there, missed this time, maybe it will be difficult to have such an opportunity, God may only give this chance in his life, Zhu Di really doesn't want to give up this opportunity, "You mean, let me stop fighting?" ”

"At least on the surface, it should look like it's indisputable!" Yao Guangqi was very firm, "On the prince's side, we must show favor to him, show his loyalty appropriately, let him rest assured, and let the emperor also feel that the prince has no intention of competing for the throne." As for the future, look at the situation and then make plans, compared to getting rid of the prince to fight for the storage position, the more realistic choice now is to strive for more trust from the emperor and get more capital, so that in the future, no matter whether the storage position changes hands or not, you will firmly grasp the initiative in your own hands, and you can attack and retreat and defend, even if you can't get the storage position, you won't return empty-handed. ”

Although Zhu Di thought deeply of Yao Guangqi's strategy, he did not express his position immediately, because he was unwilling to do so in his heart, and of course it was okay to show loyalty to the prince and confuse the other party, but if he really gave up fighting for the prince, wouldn't his ambitions be in vain?

Yao Guangqi naturally knew that Zhu Di was unwilling, but he knew better that he must go all out to persuade Zhu Di at this moment, otherwise once Zhu Di repeats, the situation will be difficult to turn around: "You may not know that Jiang Lian, the commander of Jinyiwei, has already taken refuge in the prince, if the prince is in a hurry at this time, the dog jumps over the wall in a hurry, and the prince secretly uses Jinyiwei to suppress us, not only may we not get more benefits, but we will even spit out what we eat in our mouths now." ”

"You don't have to be alarmist here, it's still uncertain whether Jiang Jian really took refuge," Linglong suddenly interjected on the side: "I have already reported this matter to the prince, Jiang Jian did secretly go to the prince's mansion, but no one knows what he talked about." ”

Yao Guangqi immediately retorted: "If Jiang Jian didn't take refuge in the past, why did he stay in the prince's mansion for a whole night?" Did they drink all night? ”

Linglong was speechless, and the Wen'an Society only inquired about Jiang Lian's whereabouts, and didn't know what happened in the prince's mansion.

Yao Guangqi continued: "And according to my opinion, Jiang Jian went to the night there were many suspicions, now no one can tell what is going on, my people have already checked, the assassin who ambushed Jiang Jian outside the gate of the Prince's Mansion that night is not a person from any sect on the rivers and lakes, nor is it a person from the vassal kings, Jiang Jian is not sure why he went to the Prince's Mansion in the first place, but in front of the Prince's Mansion, he is likely to follow the Prince's way." ”