The next day, the crown princess invited Ji Qingchen to the East Palace for a banquet, saying that it was to thank Ji Qingchen for killing Tuobani to avenge the crown prince Ji Chengqian. This is the second time that the crown princess has invited Ji Qingchen to the East Palace.

But the princess's words were a little uncomfortable in Ji Qingchen's ears.

In addition to Beirong and Tuobani, I am afraid there are many murderers who killed their eldest brother! Didn't your Wei family play any dishonorable role in this? Now that you've just killed a small character like Tuobani, you think the revenge has been avenged? Isn't that putting the cart before the horse?

But Ji Qingchen didn't say these words, except for his own guesses now, he is still a prince, he must know how to be proportionate, and learn what to say and what not to say.

When he arrived at the East Palace, Ji Qingchen found that in addition to the crown princess and Wang Ji Zhao of Huaide County, there was also a beautiful Wei Ran at this banquet.

However, even with his sister and concubine and nephew Ji Zhao, Wei Ran's attitude towards Ji Qingchen who went to the banquet was very cold. The last time he was in Caozhou, Wei Ran didn't deal with Ji Qingchen, this is because the Wei family has a request for Ji Qingchen, and Ji Qingchen also wants to blackmail the Wei family, Wei Ran has an opinion on Ji Qingchen, he can understand, and he has already sent a night pearl, which is formally regarded as pleading Wei Ran. But now that he has arrived in King's Landing, Wei Ran still doesn't give him a good look, which makes Ji Qingchen depressed. Lao Tzu didn't mess with you, I didn't owe you steamed buns, you are a little fart girl and Lao Tzu are angry with the birds?

So he didn't taste the meal.

Fortunately, there is also the timely active atmosphere of the crown princess, as well as Ji Zhao's Q&A on the first battle of Caozhou.

didn't embarrass Ji Qingchen too much.

After the banquet, Ji Qingchen was about to leave, and the crown princess stepped forward and said, "Your Highness, can you go to the garden with the concubine?" ”

Ji Qingchen knew that the crown princess had something to say to him, so she nodded and agreed. The two came to the garden of the East Palace one after the other. As the prince's bedroom, although the garden is not as large as the emperor's imperial study, the scale is also very large, which is not comparable to Ji Qingchen's prince's mansion.

The two of them strolled through the garden, neither of them speaking first. In this way, the two of them crossed a bamboo forest, crossed a stone bridge, and arrived at the pavilion by the lake.

found that the tea set had already been placed in the pavilion, and the crown princess asked Ji Qingchen to sit and began to make tea for Ji Qingchen. The crown princess is worthy of being a Wei woman in one of the seven great families, and she is skilled in making tea, and her tea-making skills are first-class. After the tea was cooked, she poured a cup for Ji Qingchen and said, "Your Highness, please!" ”

Ji Qingchen raised his glass and drank it all! She poured another cup for Ji Qingchen. Only then did he put down the small teapot and said, "Little sister Wei Ran doesn't know the etiquette, if there is a place to offend His Highness today, I have to ask His Highness Haihan." ”

"It's nothing, this king is very familiar with her, and he won't blame her." Ji Qingchen said softly.

Because of Ji Zhao framing him, Zhuyu was in front of him, and when he went back to the East Palace this time, he didn't talk to the crown princess as cordially as last time, and there was a lot of rustiness between words.

The crown princess sighed slightly, whether she sighed that Ji Qingchen was unfamiliar with her, or sighed that Ji Zhao's actions offended Ji Qingchen, this Ji Qingchen was not clear, but her sigh was very resentful, coupled with the appearance that her young wife should have, it made Ji Qingchen's heart tremble slightly.

"Do you know that Wei Ran's attitude towards you will become so cold during this period of time?" The crown princess asked. Ji Qingchen shook his head, if he knew the Dao, would he not solve this problem?

"Because you're getting married!" The crown princess said.

"This-" Ji Qingchen asked a little puzzled, "What is the relationship between the two?" ”

"Originally, my father was going to marry Wei Ran to you as his wife, but because this matter involves the interests of the family, I want to ask for the opinions of my ancestors, so my father didn't put forward this idea to my father in time, but I didn't expect to let the Lingnan people take the lead and let His Royal Highness marry Princess Meng." The crown princess said, "Wei Ran is a high-minded and arrogant person, and he is very conceited about his appearance and talents.

"Hehe-" Ji Qingchen laughed a few times, but still held back and didn't speak, just continued to taste tea. The crown princess can say that, but he can't listen to that. Because with the meaning of the crown princess, the reason why Wei Ran did not marry him was because he wanted to ask for the meaning of the Wei family. In fact, based on Ji Qingchen's own guess, it may be that the Wei family wants to continue to observe themselves to see if they have such potential, and it is worth marrying Wei Ran to them, but they didn't expect that before they finished their observation, the people of Lingnan would take the lead.

Ji Qingchen was very annoyed by the Wei family's losing attitude, because there was no loss to Wei Ran in doing so, and the only loss was Wei Ran.

A girl's heart, a girl's love, how many times can it be trampled like this?

"Your Highness doesn't believe it?" Seeing that Ji Qingchen just laughed a few times and continued to drink tea, the crown princess asked.

"Don't you think it's hard for Wei Ran to do this?" Ji Qingchen asked.

"This—" the princess pondered for a moment, and continued, "this, what can we do?" As long as they are men and women born into a big family, when did they have their own marriage and love? Just like Your Royal Highness, as the prince of Dayan, now you are under one person and ten thousand people above ten thousand people, but you are not the same and have no freedom? ”

"This king is different from you." Ji Qingchen said, "The sacrifice made by this king is for the sake of Dayan and the people of Dayan, but your sacrifice is only for the benefit of your own family. ”

"But Dayan's world is your Ji's world, what's the difference?" The crown princess retorted.

"Maybe!" Ji Qingchen said. He didn't want to argue with the crown princess about this.

"Does Your Highness have any opinions about concubines and Zhao'er?" The crown princess asked.

"What?" Ji Qingchen pretended to be stupid. He didn't expect the crown princess to ask so bluntly.

"It's about the foolish things that Zhao'er did to His Highness." The crown princess didn't name her, but it was enough for Ji Qingchen to know what the road was.

"Since ancient times, the dispute between temples and halls has been like this, how can this king blame him!" Ji Qingchen asked, his tone still unchanged. However, he still didn't give the crown princess a chance to speak, and continued, "No, he is not kind to this king, and this king will not be too righteous in the future." ”

Seeing that the crown princess wanted to say something, Ji Qingchen continued, "It's not that this king is taking revenge as you think, and it's not that you think it's cold-blooded and disregarding family affection, but a fair fight." Because Ji Zhao dared to make a move against this king, and he made a dead hand. Then it means that he is ready for this king to turn his face against him. Political struggles have always been cruel, and this king cannot tolerate a little mercy. ”

"Hey! Since His Royal Highness said so, the concubine has nothing to say. The crown princess sighed. Since the two of them have already broken their words, there is naturally no need to hide it anymore, "It's just that His Royal Highness still has to kill Tuobani and avenge the crown prince." ”

The crown princess laughed, killing Tuobani is within the king's responsibility, so how can I thank her? Besides, he avenged the prince, and this king did not dare to agree with this sentence. Ji Qingchen said unhurriedly.

"What? Isn't it? The crown princess asked.

"The eldest brother's enemy is not only Tuobani, but also many others, not to mention this king, I'm afraid even the crown princess herself knows it in her heart!" Ji Qingchen asked.

The crown princess nodded.

Ji Qingchen continued, "So if you only kill one Tuobani at present, this is not a revenge for the eldest brother, the real revenge is to destroy Beirong, and kill the people who participated in the first battle three years ago that led to the defeat of Dayan's army." This is the real revenge, not only for the eldest brother, but also for the 100,000 soldiers of Dayan. ”

When the crown princess heard Ji Qingchen's words, her face changed at first, and she quickly regained her composure, and asked Ji Qingchen, "Your Highness is so sure that you can destroy Beirong?" ”

"What does the princess think?" Ji Qingchen asked rhetorically.

"I'm afraid not." The crown princess replied affirmatively. It was just a momentary change in her face, and her expression was very calm at this time, and she couldn't see any mood swings.

"For what?" Ji Qingchen asked.

"Because Beirong is not as weak as His Highness thinks, and Dayan is not as strong as His Highness thinks." The crown princess said calmly.

"Yes." Ji Qingchen said with a faint smile, but his voice changed, and he said in a very stern tone, "I still clearly remember what my father said back then, he said that when I sent troops to attack the country, I lost 100,000 troops and returned defeated, and in the second year, I sent five times the number of troops, even if I was as tenacious as the Chu State, I had to compromise with Dayan in the end." Similarly, this king also wants to say a word to the crown princess today, this time this time this king can't destroy Beirong without 300,000 troops, next time this king will use 500,000 troops, if not, there will be next time, my 800,000 army will destroy Beirong. This king can't do it, and he can't destroy a small Beirong. ”

At this moment, Ji Qingchen was domineering all over his body, and his eyes were full of murderous intent, indeed like a general who commanded an army of 800,000, he had the momentum of looking down on the world.

The crown princess was stunned when she saw Ji Qingchen's awe-inspiring momentum, and when she woke up, she found that Ji Qingchen had left.

"Mother, Uncle Nine, he is gone." I don't know when Ji Zhao stepped forward and said.

"Hey—" The crown princess sighed and said nothing.

"Mother, what are you sighing for? Do you think that Zhao'er can't deal with Uncle Jiu? Ji Zhao asked.

He already knew that his mother had confessed everything he had done to Uncle Jiu, and he no longer hid his thoughts as before.

"You kid, why are you doing this?" The crown princess looked at Ji Zhao lovingly. Political struggle is bloodshed and human sacrifice is necessary.

"Mother, my father is the crown prince of Dayan, if it weren't for the battle of Yanmen to let him - otherwise this country would have belonged to my father, so why should the ministers give it to them?" When Ji Zhao talked about the position of the prince, his whole person changed, like a bloodthirsty lion, "Erchen doesn't do this, even if Erchen can't get what he can't get, he doesn't want to let them so easily." ”

"Your father has a lot of things, not just this country." The crown princess said.

"But the most precious thing is still this country." Ji Zhao said paranoidly, his eyes did not hide his desire for power.

"Hey, when you grow up, your mother can't control you, but since this is the path you chose, your mother will definitely support you." The crown princess said.

"Thank you, Princess!" Ji Zhao smiled slightly, then helped the crown princess up, and the two began to stroll in the garden, and the figure could not dissipate for a long time.