On the seventh day of Xiao Mingche's departure from Beijing, the Honglu Temple of Qi received a message from the spies from Luodu of Wei that Wei had established a new prince.

This news was insignificant to the situation of the Qi Dynasty, so it did not cause the slightest ripple in Yongjing City.

But no one outside will know that in the study of the princess's small courtyard in the Huai Wangfu, this news has stirred up turbulent waves.

"You repeat, who is the successor prince?!" Li Fengming clenched the teacup tightly, with no smile on his face.

Zhan Kaiyang was shocked in his heart, deeply exhaled a few mouthfuls of turbidity, and repeated, "The successor prince of Wei is Princess Taoyang, His Royal Highness Li Yao." ”

"Okay, I got it. Thank you," Li Fengming lowered his eyes to hide the surging emotions in his eyes, "You can go on your own business." ”

Regarding Li Fengming's reaction, Zhan Kaiyang was very incomprehensible.

As everyone knows, Empress Wei has given birth to a total of two children.

One is the late former prince Li Ying, and the other is Li Yao, the princess of Taoyang, who is the ninth among the heirs of the Wei emperor.

If Xiao Mingche's earlier speculation about Li Fengming's identity was correct, then Li Yao should be the sister of her mother's compatriots.

Zhan Kaiyang originally thought that after Li Fengming learned the news that "Taoyang Princess Li Yao was appointed as the new prince", even if he was not overjoyed, at least he could be relieved.

The succession of the prince of Wei is not Li Yun, the second prince born by the imperial concubine, it shouldn't be a bad thing for Li Fengming, right?

But instead of being happy, she was faintly angry. Maybe there are other emotions.

Zhan Kaiyang couldn't see through it, so he could only look at Chun Yudai on the side.

Chun Yudai made a "please" gesture and led him out of the study.

Only Xin Wei and Li Fengming were left in the study.

Xin Wei looked at her with a wrong look, and hurriedly approached the "Your Highness......"

Li Fengming gritted his teeth and clenched her hand tightly, like a drowning man climbing on driftwood. "Xin Wei, in this game, Her Majesty the Queen lost."

Xin Wei is not Chun Yudai, she doesn't dare to answer indiscriminately in this kind of matter.

Especially at this time, Li Fengming's heart fluctuated greatly, if her words were not right, she was afraid that she would cause more anger.

So she didn't dare to breathe, and closely watched Li Fengming's every move.

Li Fengming slowly let go of her, held her forehead with one hand, and closed her eyes in contemplation.

After a long and suffocating silence, she suddenly grabbed the cup on the table and threw it the ground.

The cup shattered. Fragmented porcelain shards and tea and tea leaves splashed everywhere.

Li Fengming rarely gets out of control so far, Xin Wei is at a loss.

At this time, Chun Yudai, who saw off Zhan Kaiyang, pushed the door and entered, and went around the treasure shelves to see the mess all over the ground.

Li Fengming looked at Chun Yudai, and his eyes were faintly red, "A-Ning is only fifteen!" Father...... He deliberately pushed A-Ning out as a target! ”

This is no longer the case.

At the time when the former prince Li Ying "passed away", the two parties of the emperor and queen were already openly torn their faces.

So the current position of the prince of Wei is a red-hot iron bench.

Now that Li Yao has been established as a prince, she not only has to stand between the imperial party and the rear party as a buffer, but also has to rack her brains to subdue, take over, and integrate the scattered forces left by the former prince Li Ying.

He also had to face a strong attack from the second prince Li Yun.

The situation of Li Yao, the princess of Taoyang, is very different from Li Ying at the beginning.

She is the ninth among the heirs of Emperor Wei, and she was born with her father, queen mother and eldest sister on her head, and she is a carefree little princess who grew up.

In the past, no one expected her to take on heavy responsibilities, and no one was willing to let her go through trials and setbacks.

At present, she is still an adult, the eldest sister "passed away", the queen mother's power was weakened, and she was suddenly pushed to the forefront by her father.

"Today's Wei State Reserve is far more difficult to sit on than I did then. Pushing A-Ning up is simply to let Xiao'er carry his daughter through the city. 'He' really doesn't care about A-Ning's life or death? ”

"Since His Majesty the Emperor has made this decision, I think he wants to use His Royal Highness Feng Ning to consume and clamp down on all parties." Chun Yudai's calmness also hides fire.

The most tricky thing at the moment is that when Li Yao was used as a puppet prince by Emperor Qi to contain and consume all parties, the second prince Li Yun hid outside the storm.

In this way, he had the power to do anything to Li Yao, to the empress, and even to Li Fengming, who was far away in the Qi Kingdom, at the same time.

Li Fengming almost ground it into powder with a mouthful of shell teeth, "His Majesty the Emperor doesn't want to think about it, even if all the obstacles are cleared in the end, with Li Yun's mediocre qualifications, can he really bear the responsibility of stabilizing the country?!" ”

"Maybe it's not entirely for His Royal Highness," Chun Yudai said, "Fang Cai Zhan Kaiyang said, if Concubine Guifei and Concubine Hui were pregnant one after another in the first half of the year, His Majesty the Emperor also granted an amnesty in order to accumulate blessings for the heirs in their wombs. ”

"No wonder the sword suddenly went off the rails. It turned out that it was a big luck, and the heirs were going to prosper. ”

Li Fengming was so angry that the white light and golden flowers in front of him were rushing together, and then he coughed violently.

"Queen Mother...... Her Majesty the Queen will fight to the death for the sake of Bao Aning. ”

If you change to someone else, you may not be able to understand how helpless Li Fengming is at the moment. But Chun Yudai and Xin Wei are like mirrors in their hearts.

Xin Wei clenched her fists, and Chun Yudai looked at Li Fengming even more distressedly, with tears in her eyes.

Before Li Fengming was able to live a peaceful married life in Yongjing, a big reason was that Empress Wei was still trying her best to play, so that the people who wanted to get rid of Li Fengming completely in Luodu couldn't get away.

In the past few years, the party of Wei Guohou has been at a disadvantage, and if Li Fengming can be protected until now, the queen has done her best.

"Now she has to protect Aning, and she has no strength left to protect me."

Li Fengming doesn't blame anyone, in such a situation, if she stands in the position of Empress Wei, she will also choose to make a desperate bet and protect Li Yao to the death.

The reason is clear, she is just sad-

Once again, he became the one who had to be abandoned.

Playing small, diligent and self-disciplined, he learned to suppress his nature very early, and tried not to indulge in the ordinary pleasures that most of his peers have at their fingertips.

Because she was born with the pride of heaven in the eyes of everyone, she was told in the first seventeen years of her life that you shoulder heavy responsibilities, and you are indispensable to your family and country.

She had been convinced of this.

But after "that incident" happened three years ago, she realized that she just caught up with the God-given opportunity of her parents' affection to fade, and became a life-saving straw for them.

Catching up with the Wei State for two generations without an empress, the long-dormant conservative forces are ready to move, and the overall situation needs a princess to become a prince to stabilize the wind.

So much for.

Whether she is Li Ying or Li Fengming, she is just one of the ordinary beings.

What's indispensable?

Since learning the news of the arrival of the successor prince of Wei, Li Fengming has become even more convinced that he can no longer cherish everything in Yongjing.

She began to take stock of her savings.

The incense shop has jade and tuwu in charge, and the operation is very effective.

In addition, Li Fengming is good at seizing business opportunities, not only taking advantage of Xia Wang's gambling to make a lot of money, but also opening up another source, transcribing the news of the palace gate by category, and selling it at a high price through the incense shop.

All kinds of means were put into battle, and in just a few months, excluding costs, there was a surplus of nearly 7,000 gold.

For a small fat powder shop, this is undoubtedly a big profit. But for Li Fengming, it's almost meaningless.

Fortunately, she was expected to leave around the beginning of spring next year, and there was still half a year to go, so she was not in a hurry.

Right now, she was more worried that she would be assassinated by the Wei State.

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, and at the same time in order to leave unobtrusively in the future, Li Fengming took the initiative to go to the palace to accompany the empress dowager when he entered the palace in early September to receive the queen's teaching.

Although the days of the palace were boring, the security was meticulous, and the Assassins had no chance to attack.

And after going to the palace, no matter what happens in Yongjing City, it can't be pulled on her head.

In this way, it will not drag Xiao Mingche back, and it can be regarded as a contribution that she can make for Xiao Mingche in the end.

As for how to say to the queen, Li Fengming has been prepared for a long time-

Even though those foreign male retainers in the palace are all in the front mansion, and she is often in the backyard, she also avoids suspicion and walks around the side door when she enters and exits, but when she goes to the palace to live for half a year, it is really called avoiding suspicion completely.

Now that the prince and King Heng are biting each other hard, the queen, as the prince's mother, of course, must help everywhere. is just when he is so busy, where can he take care of Li Fengming a lot?

Hearing that Li Fengming was going to invite herself to the palace, the queen was of course happy.

"It's fine. You are a good boy with a sense of proportion, and now that King Huai is far away in the south, shouldering a heavy responsibility, you can take the initiative to invite him to the palace to accompany the Empress Dowager, and he has no worries. ”

Now that the queen has opened Chrysostom, everyone in the Huai Wangfu cannot object.

But Zhan Kaiyang always felt weird.

There is no saying that "men and women are in great defense", and the normal exchanges between men and women are a matter of falling and being frank.

In the past six months, he has had a lot of contact with Li Fengming, and he has heard Xiao Mingche's speculation about Li Fengming's identity, so he knows very well that this princess is not only different from ordinary Qi women, but even different from most women in the world.

She is a Wei girl, and she was a prince, and in the past, it was impossible for all the ministers and staff in the prince's mansion to be women.

Besides, since she arrived at the Huaiwang Mansion, although she has not been without scruples, she has never been restrained because of the men in the mansion.

Why is it suddenly abnormal now, and take the initiative to avoid suspicion so thoroughly?

The more Zhan Kaiyang thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, and in the afternoon he sent a letter to Xiao Mingche through the military department.

He didn't dare to add fuel to the fire, but only reported that Li Fengming invited himself to the palace to the queen, and did not repeat his uneasy unease for no reason in the letter.

Six days later, the southern border saw the capital of Chunzhen.

Xiao Mingche and Lian Zhen were talking about recruiting female soldiers while walking, and as soon as they entered the gate of the Dusi Mansion, a letter was presented by a small official.

"Your Highness, the Huai Wangfu has sent an urgent letter from Beijing......"

Xiao Mingche saw that the envelope was Zhan Kaiyang's handwriting, and he was shocked, and hurriedly grabbed the letter and opened it.

He was rarely so breathless, Lian Zhen thought that something big had happened in the Huaiwang Mansion, so he also tilted his head and leaned over, and glanced at him worriedly.

Looking at it, Lian Zhen grinned, and then she was so sad and envious that she beat her chest.

"What incense did you burn? At first, it was just a blind marriage and a dumb marriage between the two countries, who would have thought that you would be able to meet such a considerate and affectionate princess! ”

Xiao Mingche squinted at him with complicated eyes.

Lian Zhen said: "Am I not right? She invited herself to accompany the Empress Dowager in the palace, isn't it just to completely avoid suspicion, so that you don't have to worry about a fire in the backyard at all? ”

Moreover, now the East Palace and the Hengwang Mansion are fighting more and more intensely, at this time the Huai King is far away in the south, and the Huai Princess is hiding in the palace, no matter what happens to the East Palace or the Heng Palace, it has nothing to do with the Huai Wangfu.

In the eyes of outsiders, Li Fengming's move of inviting himself to the palace was definitely thinking about Xiao Mingche.

Xiao Mingche disagreed.

As early as before leaving Beijing, he faintly noticed that Li Fengming was not quite right, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.

It wasn't until this moment that he learned that Li Fengming had invited himself to the palace while he was away, and he finally realized that the person who had stood firmly by his side and seemed to never leave him seemed to be quietly and slowly peeling away from him?

Xiao Mingche is not quite sure whether he feels this right, and now he has responsibilities in his body, and he can't rush back to Beijing.

In a hurry, he immediately left his confused Lian Zhen and hurriedly returned to his room to write two letters.

One is for Zhan Kaiyang.

In the letter, he instructed Zhan Kaiyang to do two things.

First of all, pay close attention to the Wei people who have recently entered and exited Yongjing City, and transfer the guards of the Huai Wangfu to the Dicui Mountain Palace to assist in patrolling.

Secondly, every five days, the movements of the DPRK and China and the affairs of the Huai Wangfu were sorted out and summarized, and then handed over to Cen Jiashu to be personally sent to the palace to present Li Fengming in person.

The other letter was addressed to Li Fengming.

He was extremely uneasy in his heart, but he couldn't think of a better way to ask for Li Fengming's promise.

I only remembered that she once taught me to get the results I wanted, not to always be tough, and sometimes I might as well try to pretend to be miserable.

So in his letter, he succinctly asked Li Fengming to pick him up outside the city on the day he returned to Beijing at the end of the year, and if he didn't see her at that time, he would never step into the city gate.

It's naïve, it's pale, it's powerless, he knows it. But he couldn't think of a better way for the time being.

He didn't know what regret was before, but now he regretted it so much that his heart, liver, spleen and lungs spasmed-

On the morning of leaving Beijing, he should have ignored it and packed Li Fengming and took him away.

Even if it would bear her anger by doing so, it would be better than worrying about her stomach like this at the moment, and her heart would go up and down.

Xiao Mingche's letter to Li Fengming was sent to the palace by Cen Jiashu, along with the movements of the court and China and the affairs of the Huai Wangfu in the past five days.

The moment he saw Cen Jiashu, Li Fengming already felt something.

When she read Xiao Mingche's letter of eagerness to ask for a promise, she was even more sure-

Xiao Mingche probably guessed that she wanted to run away.

In order to keep her, he did not hesitate to arrange for Cen Jiashu to come to the palace every five days, which was really a bloody investment.

This fool, aren't you afraid that she really has any evil thoughts about Cen Jiashu?

Li Fengming wanted to laugh a little, but he was a little sour.

After politely reciprocating with Cen Jiashu, Li Fengming returned to Changfeng Garden and sat at the desk for a long time.

At the beginning of the year, Xiao Mingche was implicated in the matter of Lian Zhen, and as soon as he returned to Beijing, he was sent to the palace to think about it.

At that time, Li Fengming often lived with him here.

Every morning, after the two of them finished their morning martial arts practice, they would come into the study one after the other.

She would sit on the couch by the window and read a book with tea and snacks, and Xiao Mingche also sat quietly at this desk.

At this moment, she sat on the chair where Xiao Mingche had sit, looking at his letter with only one sentence, as if she could feel his temperature.

People are not plants and trees, and she is not indifferent to Xiao Mingche. But she still wanted to go.

Xin Wei, who was standing beside her, saw that she had mixed feelings, and finally carefully asked the puzzle in her heart.

"Looking at the current situation of the Qi Kingdom, it is very likely that the crown prince and King Heng will both lose in the end. Didn't you also say that when King Huai returned to Beijing half a year later, as long as he planned properly, he would wait to reap the benefits of the fisherman? ”

According to common sense, the stronger Xiao Mingche is, the safer Li Fengming will be.

So Xin Wei really doesn't understand, the situation is so good, and his Royal Highness is not completely ruthless to King Huai, why is he still determined to leave the Qi country and give up his protection?

Li Fengming chuckled transparently, "The higher he stands in the future, the more tricky and cumbersome I will be for him." If you think about it, why did the prince of Qi give up the opportunity to marry in person? ”

"Because he already has a concubine, and you can't deign to be a little ......" Xin Wei was stunned for a moment, and froze.

If you want to sit firmly in the position of the prince, all major decisions must be taken one step and three steps.

Xiao Mingxuan, the crown prince of Qi State, is not an innocent teenager, considering the pros and cons of marriage, the first thing to measure must be his own gains and losses.

At the beginning, he gave up his personal marriage and "conceded" this opportunity to Xiao Mingche to help consolidate his prestige, how could he simply consider the matter of "whether the princess of Wei is willing to be a side concubine"?

What he really cares about should be his future.

Looking at the world, no matter which emperor is in the country, the main palace partner will not be a foreigner. Otherwise, the subjects will be uneasy.

Judging from the current trend of the Qi Kingdom, it is not surprising if King Heng is forced to jump over the wall in a hurry, and finally has a fish with the crown prince.

If it really comes to this point, then Xiao Mingche will be lucky.

But if Xiao Mingche becomes the candidate for the successor prince in the eyes of Emperor Qi, or even successfully becomes the successor prince, whether he wants to or not, he must consider how to "choose" Li Fengming next.

The princess of "Huai Wang Xiao Mingche" is a princess from a foreign country, which is not a big deal; But what if he becomes "Prince Xiao Mingche"? This can be a big hindrance.

"The prince is the vice monarch of the country, and the matter of marriage has attracted the attention of the whole country, which is different from ordinary princes. Between 'the chance to reach the top of the supreme position' and 'Li Fengming', I don't know. ”

Li Fengming leaned back in his chair tiredly, and the smile in his voice was a little light, "But Xin Wei, I don't want to gamble on luck." ”

She doesn't want to be chosen by the people she values anymore.

Because her heart is very tired, she really can't bear the end of "being abandoned for the third time, but she can't be resentful".

Xin Wei sighed helplessly, and began to study the ink, "Then what are you going to do with this letter?" ”

"Do you remember when he replied to me with a letter of only one word?" Li Fengming blinked his right eye mischievously.

Xin Wei Yanmo's movements suddenly "You also plan to reply to him with a 'hmm'?" ”

"Who do you look down on? Am I the kind of person who picks people's teeth? Li Fengming tilted his head and stared at Xiao Mingche's letter asking for promises.

Then take the pen and dip it in the ink, and write it down neatly.

One report and one report, Xiao Mingche, let's even.

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