After entering the city, Xiao Mingche should enter the palace to face the saint, and Li Fengming returned to the Huai Palace.

Although no one knows what happened the afternoon before yesterday at the moment, normal people should understand that Emperor Qi urgently summoned Xiao Mingche into the palace today, and it was absolutely impossible for him to really listen to his work.

But Xiao Mingche didn't seem to be in a hurry, no matter how Lian Zhen and others reminded and urged, he always took it calmly and slowly, and rode his horse to accompany Li Fengming's carriage.

Li Fengming thought that he had something to say to himself, so he poked his head out of the car window.

But he didn't say a word the whole time, only looked at her from time to time, as if to make sure she didn't disappear out of thin air.

The atmosphere was eerie.

Zhan Kaiyang came to the palace early in the morning to catch up with the three of them, was it a coincidence, or was it Xiao Mingche's instructions?

Regarding this issue, Li Fengming has never been able to see the clue from Xiao Mingche's face.

In the end, she is weak-hearted, for fear of saying too much and making mistakes, even if Xiao Mingche doesn't speak, she won't start talking casually.

The two froze so strangely, and when they reached the fork in the road where they had to part ways, Xiao Mingche tapped the wall of the car with a horsewhip.

After the carriage stopped, Xiao Mingche looked straight into Li Fengming's eyes. "There is a stack of message paper in the study room in your courtyard, which I asked Zhan Kaiyang to put in. I'll talk about it in the evening. ”

"Good. Is it about what happened the day before? Li Fengming frowned slightly.

"Perhaps." Xiao Mingche gave an ambiguous answer.

Looking at the back of him beating the horse away, Li Fengming was thoughtful.

In fact, she was not curious at all about what happened between the crown prince and King Heng, and what Emperor Qi would entrust when he urgently summoned Xiao Mingche into the palace today.

At this moment, she was not only annoyed that her escape plan would die after 500 steps, but also nervously suspected that Xiao Mingche suspected that she had guessed her escape attempt.

She seems to be relaxed, but in fact, the three souls and seven spirits are as if they are spread out in a pan of oil, suffering and fidgeting, how can she have the leisure to care what the hell that those people surnamed Xiao are doing?

But Xiao Mingche gave her a really weird feeling today, and she had to cheer up and carefully figure out what kind of medicine this guy was selling in his gourd.

After ordering Xin Wei to rush to Shuanghuaidu in a low-key manner to inform Yufang and Tuwu of the suspension of the operation, Li Fengming returned to the small courtyard after a half-year absence, and studied the stack of news papers in the study with Chun Yudai.

According to the usual practice, Chun Yudai had to go through the news roughly, filter out the useless information, and then rearrange it according to the connection between the events before submitting it to Li Fengming for reading.

While waiting for Chun Yudai to browse those things, Li Fengming held his left hand on his cheek, and his right hand was weakly attached to the teacup, muttering absentmindedly.

"Xiao Mingche is really strange. Did he know I wanted to run? ”

Chun Yudai, who was flipping through the news paper, was stunned for a moment, and raised her eyes to look at her, "King Huai knows that you want to run, what's so strange about this?" The fact that you will eventually leave the Qi Kingdom, he knew it from the beginning. ”

Li Fengming was shocked, and the cup in his hand shook.

The hot tea poured into her tiger's mouth, and immediately burned her white skin into a red mark.

She held her hand that was burned to the point of pain, and her eyes quickly misted.

Seeing this, Chun Yudai immediately got up anxiously and went to call someone to get the scald ointment.

Li Fengming didn't care about his little burn, but choked back tears of pain and called her in shock.

"You wait! How would he know I wanted to leave?! And you know it from the beginning?! ”

Chun Yudai stopped and turned around, and looked at her helplessly, "Your Highness's memory is getting worse and worse." On the night of last year's wedding, you said to King Huai that mutual benefit and symbiosis do not interfere with each other, as long as there is a suitable opportunity, you will try to get out. ”

Li Fengming's memory is the memory of an ordinary person, after a long time, there are many things, and it is common to forget the east and the west.

And Chun Yudai has an amazing memory since she was a child, and the things she has seen and heard, even if it is just a few words, even if it is several years later, will remain in her mind like a knife and an axe.

This is also one of the reasons why she was selected to become Li Fengming's right-hand man that year.

Li Fengming's facial features were wrinkled together, "Look at my broken memory." No wonder as soon as he arrived in the south half a year ago, he wrote to me asking for ...... Oh, that's still not right! ”

She raised her hazy teary eyes again, and looked at Chun Yudai in disbelief, "He should only know that I will leave sooner or later, and he won't know that I just plan to leave today, right?" ”

I don't know about this Chun Yudai.

Exactly knew that Li Fengming planned to escape today, except for herself, there were only Chun Yudai, Xin Wei, Yufang and Tuwu.

These four people were not ordinary small characters before, and they would not easily leak out, let alone betray Li Fengming.

Puzzled, Li Fengming had to put this matter aside for the time being.

After Chun Yudai wrapped Li Fengming with scald medicine, the two continued to read the news.

These are all the large and small movements in Yongjing City that have been collected and recorded by Kaiyang in the past six months, some of which are relatively trivial and do not seem to matter at first glance, so Cen Jiashu did not inform Li Fengming when he went to the palace before.

When Chun Yudai flipped through one of them, his hand paused, "Your Highness, look, the prince was ordered to lead officials to Shennong Altar to worship the day before yesterday." Maybe something happened on the way? ”

Li Fengming's lack of interest: "What else can happen?" Most of the time, King Heng sent people to assassinate them on the road. ”

As far as she has learned since she was a child, the power struggle in the whole world is almost the same, and when the surface is pulled into a stalemate, there are always people who can't hold their breath and make a bad move.

And the final three-board axe of the yin move, the left is just framing, assassination or rebellion, and it is difficult to bring forth the new.

Chun Yudai thought about it, and this is also the reason, "Now that two or three days have passed, Jin Wuwei is only controlling Jingzhong and blocking the news, and the Hengwang Mansion has not been raided, so it has not yet reached the point of rebellion." ”

"Heng Wang Bacheng didn't leave any definite handles, otherwise he would have had dinner in the prison at this moment," Li Fengming burst into tears as he blew his scalded hands, muttering heartlessly, "For now, it depends on whether the prince is seriously injured." ”

If the prince is seriously injured, even if he is not dead, Xiao Mingche will be able to make a profit.

While the prince was recuperating from his injuries, many things would definitely not be able to be done. After all, there are only five princes under Emperor Qi's knee who have opened a mansion as adults, and there are two county kings among them.

In addition to the crown prince, the princes who have enough weight to take on major matters are only King Heng and Xiao Mingche.

And the crown prince was assassinated, and King Heng was the most suspicious.

Even if there is no evidence, Emperor Qi will be cold and wary of King Heng in the short term, so that part of the power in the hands of the prince can only be temporarily placed in the hands of Xiao Mingche.

After looking at it for a while, Chun Yudai showed a look of crying and laughing, and helplessly turned her head lightly, and pushed the pile of things in front of Li Fengming as they were.

"I see. His Highness's doubts have been answered. ”

This box of news not only has the palace gate, but also the movements of the various prefectures in Beijing and important figures in the court, and even the relevant information of the palace and the incense line.

In the past, when Zhan Kaiyang presented this kind of news to Xiao Mingche, there was basically no rules, and he would show him what he got something.

A large number of useful and useless messages are mixed in, which makes it easy for Xiao Mingche to miss the connection between some scattered details.

Later, Zhan Kaiyang was taught by Chun Yudai and supplemented by Li Fengming, and learned to study and judge first, classify and then present Xiao Mingche.

In this way, many things can be easily glimpsed at a glance -

The incense bank deposited a large amount of cash into the silver number in the name of a Xia merchant in Yongjing.

Xin Wei repeatedly asked the head of the palace guard for the details of the patrol.

Chun Yudai got a sketch map of the palace topography from Mama Hua.

Li Fengming took Xin Wei and Chun Yudai and went to the back mountain of the palace more than ten times.

"As long as I'm not a pig's head, I should guess what I want to do when I see this."

Li Fengming is very sure that Xiao Mingche is not a pig's head.

It seems that Zhan Kaiyang appeared in time this morning, not a blind cat touching a dead mouse. Even if Xiao Mingche didn't know when she was leaving, at least he expected that she would make a move in the near future, and he must have secretly prevented her from running away.

She held her hand burned by the tea, tears welled up in her eyelashes, and sorrow came from it. "One hundred secrets, I taught the apprentice to beat the master!"

Chun Yudai looked at the information papers that had been sorted out into detailed and interlocking messages, covered her face and sighed sadly, "Yes, I taught my apprentice to beat my master." ”

If she had known this, she shouldn't have taught Zhan Kaiyang so dedicatedly. Seeing that Her Royal Highness was stunned, she was about to beat her chest and cry bitterly.

In the news in the box, only a small part of it was related to Li Fengming. But Li Fengming believes that Xiao Mingche should give her this box as a wordless warning I know what you want to do, don't act rashly.

"What does he mean, does he want me to go?" Li Fengming looked at Chun Yudai, "But he is in a good situation now, and the people under him are also powerful, so he doesn't need me anymore." ”

Chun Yudai carefully smeared the scalding ointment on her hand, and didn't raise her head, "It's still needed, right?" You are his wife, not his men. ”

"It's still not right. He should consider changing his wife now, and I took the initiative to leave, didn't I make it difficult for him? Li Fengming blinked tears in his eyes, and his mind was a little messy.

In the past, Xiao Mingche had no choice in marriage, and when she met the person sent by Wei State, she could only accept it. Although the two got along well later and had some affection, they ......

"What's on his head? Those who want to achieve great things, weigh the pros and cons, and should not be emotional. ”

Chun Yudai shook her head with a smile, and said half-truthfully, "You can tell King Huai about this yourself." ”

"I'm not crazy," Li Fengming wrinkled his nose and chirped, "He gave me this box, but he didn't make it clear, he was leaving room for me." If I speak in front of the gong, doesn't that confirm my intention to leave, and take the initiative to give someone a handle? ”

As long as she flatly denied that she wanted to run, all those clues could have another superficially plausible explanation.

After all, their marriage is related to the diplomatic relations between the two countries, and it is best to tacitly understand the matter of escaping but not tell it, otherwise Li Fengming will easily die thoroughly.

"He shouldn't have wanted to push me to a dead end," Li Fengming raised his eyes to the sky, "but I just can't figure it out, why does he have to keep me?" ”

If something really happens to the prince, Xiao Mingche has a foreign princess as the main concubine, and it is destined to be difficult to have a chance to go further.

Did he even figure out this mystery?!

Xiao Mingche didn't return home until dark.

When he came to the small courtyard after bathing and changing clothes in the north courtyard, Li Fengming had been sitting on the bed for a long time.

When Xin Wei came in Tongbing, she came back to her senses in a trance. "Oh, let him in."

Why did Xiao Mingche have to keep her, she didn't figure it out after thinking about it for a day, and she couldn't ask yet.

What will happen to the two of them in the future, she doesn't know.

But now that we can't go for the time being, we have to continue to get along.

She doesn't hate Xiao Mingche from the bottom of her heart, and she can even say that she likes it.

Xiao Mingche didn't have the undisguised jealousy and rejection of her a year ago, and even had a little bit of eager dependence.

It can be regarded as a harmony between the two, as long as there are some things not to be said, then it is good to continue to maintain the symbiotic alliance, and it is good to have a bang when it is prosperous.

After Xiao Mingche came in, he took off his robe and entered the bed tent in a familiar way.

I haven't seen him for half a year, and suddenly I live together intimately, Li Fengming is a little uncomfortable.

Fortunately, Xiao Mingche, as she expected, did not mention whether she could run or not, but just sat side by side with her at the head of the bed, which made her less nervous.

At least you don't have to rack your brains to make excuses, and you don't have to pale and limply say something that both sides know to be false.

Before Xiao Mingche could speak, she pulled out her right hand wrapped in a wound cloth from the quilt, and said with a helpless smile, "I'm injured." ”

So don't think about anything tonight, I'm sorry to accompany you.

Xiao Mingche frowned and grabbed her wrist, "What's the matter?" ”

"Knocked over the hot tea. It's not serious, it'll be fine tomorrow," Li Fengming changed his words, "Your father and the emperor urgently summoned you to the palace today, is it talking about the assassination of the prince?" ”

As for her ability to guess that the crown prince was assassinated, Xiao Mingche did not show a surprised look. "The day before yesterday, the prince was ordered to preside over the sacrifice at the Shennong Altar and encountered twelve assassins. Eight people were killed on the spot, two were injured and committed suicide by biting through the poison sac, and two others escaped. ”

As he spoke, he kept holding Li Fengming's wrist and looked down at the wound cloth wrapped in scalding medicine on her hand.

Li Fengming couldn't help him, and asked casually, "Is the prince injured?" ”

"Minor injuries."

"Oh." She was a little disappointed and even wanted to pout.

To be honest, she didn't care if the prince lived or died, after all, that person had nothing to do with her.

The only thought that floated through her mind at this moment was that since the prince was only slightly injured, Xiao Mingche would not be able to make a big deal for the time being.

Since coming to Qi with his relatives for more than a year, Li Fengming has become more and more accustomed to seeing himself and Xiao Mingche as a community of interests.

This time, Xiao Mingche didn't get a big bargain, he himself seemed to be very calm, but Li Fengming had a feeling of "regretting losing ten thousand gold".

She habitually held regrets in her heart, and casually asked, "Then what did your father say?" ”

"Let me mobilize Jin Wuwei to secretly investigate the mastermind behind the scenes."

"Check it in vain. Everyone knows this kind of thing. Li Fengming sneered and chuckled.

When she was still the prince of Great Wei in the past, it was not that she had not encountered assassination.

In many cases, everyone can guess who is responsible, but those who dare to do so will not easily leave a handle behind.

As long as there is no real mess, it is nothing more than going through the motions to check, and in the end it will be over.

Li Fengming asked again, "The crown prince and King Heng have been fighting for many years, this is not the first time that assassins have been used to assassinate each other, right?" ”

Xiao Mingche still stared at the wounded cloth on her hand, "Maybe." Both of them had been assassinated in the past, but only one or two Assassins had been assassinated at a time, and both of them had died without proof. ”

"Then sending twelve assassins this time is a big battle," Li Fengming thought about it and felt a little interesting, "What has the crown prince done to King Heng recently?" It drove him to the point where he jumped over the wall in such a hurry. ”

Xiao Mingche didn't answer the question, but glared at her.

"What's wrong with you?" Li Fengming was stunned by him, "I can't ask about this?" ”

"No," Xiao Mingche took a deep breath and said seriously with a straight face, "I want to say, can you stop getting hurt in the future?" ”

Li Fengming blinked slowly and a few times, raised his eyebrows slightly, and said with a teasing smile, "What?" Are you distressed? ”

I thought I would be blinded, or get a few angry rebuttals.

But Xiao Mingche was unexpected, very frank and straightforward, "I was so distressed that I was almost out of breath, and my mind was blank." ”

He didn't seem to have any expression as usual, and there was no exaggerated and vain emphasis in his tone. But it is this kind of unpretentious simplicity and straightforwardness that makes it easiest for people to hear the sincerity that cannot be misunderstood.

His words were like a heavy hammer, smashing the earth-shattering movement in Li Fengming's chest.

No way? It's just a marriage, no matter how good you feel, it won't come to the point of such a genuine feeling.

At least, she didn't get to that point.

Li Fengming broke away from his hand, and under his bewildered gaze, he slowly retracted into the quilt and lay down, slowly pulling up the quilt to cover his head and face.

The ears buzzed, a little sweet, a little panicked, a little empty-hearted, a little guilty, a little overwhelmed.

In short, it's a mess.

She hid in the quilt, and her muffled voice was slightly hesitant, "Xiao Mingche, you are like this...... It's not quite suitable. "I look like a scumbag.

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