Chapter Twenty-Three: The Ace (1st Update)
Chu Yan smiled.
He also believes that as long as An Huajin is here, he will be able to have no worries.
Her beliefs are inherited from the An family, but different from the An family, her ambition is to live and work in peace and contentment for tens of millions of people in Dachu, but not blindly loyal to the monarch, her temperament will not be easily controlled, otherwise, she will not kill Hua Ruyu in anger on the day of the palace banquet.
Her resistance is dignified, clear, and clear.
"In a few days, let Huai'an come to the house and see someone for you." Although the relationship is short, the old Nanyang King still believes in the character of his grandson, after all, he has half of the blood of the An family.
Chu Yan was curious, "Who did my grandfather let me see?" ”
Old Nanyang Wang smiled, "I won't tell you for the time being, in short, you will be happy." ”
Chu Yan smiled.
He felt that the old man of the old Nanyang King was really a treasure old man, and it was comfortable for people to get along with him, no wonder he could cultivate a temperament like An Huajin.
"Since my grandfather won't say it, then I'll wait." Chu Yan guessed who he would be happy to agree with, especially if Gu Qingyan brought it, he couldn't think of it for a while.
The grandparents and grandchildren got along happily, and one day, two days, and three days passed in a hurry.
In three days, the old Nanyang King was familiar with the Seven Princes' Mansion on the first morning, took a nap at noon, stayed in the study with Chu Yan in the afternoon, and discussed the mountains and rivers of Da Chu for an afternoon, on the second day, the old Nanyang King got up on time, Chu Yan had come early to wait for him, the two went to the backyard martial arts training ground together, Chu Yan's kung fu is good, but it is limited to light swordsmanship and martial arts, not the real battlefield kung fu that the old Nanyang King learned in the army, swords, guns, swords, halberds, axes, hooks and forks, eighteen classes of martial arts, which one the old Nanyang King picked up, are all in full swing, which has benefited Chu Yan a lot.
For three days, the emperor said without saying a word that he would let the old king of Nanyang enter Beijing to meet him, and seemed to have forgotten him.
And the old king of Nanyang seems to have forgotten what he came to Beijing for, staying in the Seven Princes' Mansion safely, enjoying the cultivation of feelings with his grandson and guiding the battlefield kung fu, and can also talk to him about the mountains and rivers, the land, the country's major affairs, when the interest arises, Chu Yan asked him about the small battles he has fought over the years, and he also told him endlessly, how to withdraw the army, how to defeat the enemy, how to arrange the army, how to make the enemy lose troops and so on.
The smile on Chu Yan's face was much more obvious.
What I felt the most was the people in the Seven Princes' Mansion, what did their Royal Highness look like before? Lonely and lonely, dull and boring, silent, concise and to the point, without saying a word of superfluous words, what does His Highness look like today? From time to time, he often laughs and talks with the old prince, and he is also seen smiling, and the whole person is more than before, as if he has faded away from a layer of coldness and indifference on his body, with a thin layer of warm color that is not obvious but is still easy to find by the people waiting around him.
Even the staff felt that it was a good thing for the old Nanyang King to come to Beijing, and even their hearts were stable.
In his memory, for the understanding of the old Nanyang King, the old Nanyang King is an urgent son, since he has come to Beijing, he should not be a person who can sit still, but he did not expect that for three days in a row, he remained immovable, staying in the Seven Princes' Mansion, and did not even show his face.
What made him even more angry was that he found that he couldn't even hear any news from the Seven Princes' Mansion.
Although he let the Praetorian Guards surround the Seven Princes' Mansion and did not allow him to enter or leave, he could not detect the movements inside the Seven Princes' Mansion, and the people he buried in the Seven Princes' Mansion could not send any news back at some point.
At this time, he suddenly felt that his son was really out of his control. Even if he let him think about it behind closed doors is equivalent to imprisoning him, he can't really control it.
He angrily threw a teacup.
Chu Lan happened to bump into the emperor and lost his temper, to say that he was in a hurry, anything, he could happen to bump into it, he saw that the emperor was angry, guessed the reason, and his heart was happy all of a sudden, but his face was full of filial piety, "Father, what are you doing...... Who provoked you? ”
The emperor's face was ugly, "Who else could there be?" ”
Chu Lan also said angrily, "It turns out that my father is because of the old King Nanyang, and he really doesn't look at his father in his eyes as his son said." ”
The emperor was furious, "And Chu Yan." ”
Chu Lan looked at the emperor, "It turned out to be the seventh brother." ”
The emperor's face turned blue with anger, "In his eyes, there is no longer my father, what are you calling Seventh Brother?" ”
Chu Lan was overjoyed in his heart, thinking about Seventh Brother, Seventh Brother, it turns out that in the heart of your father, are you no longer his son? He suppressed the joy in his heart and suggested to the emperor, "Father, this is the capital, you are the emperor, on the old king of Nanyang, you are the king, he is the minister, on the seventh brother, you are the father, he is the son, you are so angry, you are only angry with your own dragon body, why don't you take people as a fight?" ”
The Emperor looked at him, "Who am I going to do with it?" ”
"Queen." Chu Yan resorted to trickery, "Father, think about it, if you dispose of the queen, will the old Nanyang King and the seventh brother still be able to sit still?" That's bound to be unsitting. ”
When the emperor heard this, he felt very reasonable, "The queen has been closed for more than 70 days and has not been out of the palace, she is very honest, how can I attack her?" ”
"You are the emperor, if the queen doesn't leave the Fengqi Palace, you can't go in? As long as you enter Fengqi Palace, why worry about not being able to find a queen with hair? As long as you have a seizure, if the old Nanyang King and the seventh brother can still sit still, then they are not people. ”
The Emperor nodded, and his anger dissipated a little, "Well, you're right. ”
Chu Lan naturally couldn't get used to seeing the old Nanyang King go to the Seven Princes' Mansion after entering Beijing, the emperor couldn't find out the news, and he naturally couldn't find out, even if he bought off the Praetorian Guards who guarded the door of the Seven Princes' Mansion, he couldn't get the inside information in the Seven Princes' Mansion. He was also depressed in his heart, feeling that he was afraid that he was underestimating the power that Chu Yan had cultivated over the years, but now he had no other way but to start with the queen, taking advantage of An Huajin's killing flowers and jade to find the emperor's killing intent, and taking advantage of the old Nanyang King's courage to come to Beijing, how could he seize this opportunity to bring down Chu Yan and the queen.
Chu Lan thought of King Zhenbei and Su Han, and said, "Father, why don't you see Su Shizi?" ”
"Su Han, he was sent to the prison of the Criminal Department by me." The Emperor said.
Chu Lan was stunned, "Why did my father send him to the prison of the Criminal Department?" ”
"I heard that Zhang Zaifu is sick, this old thing, can't let him die easily, I sent Su Han to take the imperial doctor to see him, I can let him live and suffer, and I can't let him die like this." The emperor really hated Zhang Zaifu, when he was the prince, he trusted him very much, but he didn't expect that the person he had been close to for twenty or thirty years turned out to be a traitor planted by the enemy country in Dachu, how could he not hate?
He was fooled as a dignified emperor, and whenever he thought of being fooled by Zhang Zaifu over the years, he wanted to break Zhang Zaifu's corpse into ten thousand pieces, but it was too cheap for him to let him be tortured alive.
At the same time, he also has an idea, as long as Zhang Zaifu is allowed to suffer alive, then the people who fled to Nanqi and Nanliang at home may come back to save Zhang Zaifu, and then, he is waiting to wipe out the Zhang family. He didn't believe it, the Zhang family could endure it for a few months, and it could endure it for a year or even three years. He waited.
Chu Lan nodded, and took advantage of Su Han's absence, and just suggested to the emperor, "Father, can you put Su Han next to your son?" ”
"Huh? What do you want Su Han to do? The Emperor looked at him.
Chu Lan immediately lowered his voice and said, "I don't hide it from my father, I want him to control the Zhenbei Palace, the Zhenbei Mansion doesn't look at the sons and daughters, obviously the mother concubine was born in the Zhenbei Palace, but the Zhenbei Mansion looks down on the sons, he doesn't look down on the sons, and the sons and daughters just let the Zhenbei Wangfu obey the sons." ”
The emperor understood, looked at Chu Lan and did not speak.
Chu Lan saw that the emperor did not express his position, and showed an aggrieved expression, "Father, you can help your son, you promised your son, there are so many brothers in your son, and only your son is angry with his father." Father, if you can't talk and don't count, the ministers will die of sadness. ”
If you want to say that Chu Lan is a person, he still has a lot of advantages, he can coax people, he can be coquettish, he will use his advantages to plan for himself, and he also pretends to be weak and pitiful and wronged, and he uses the scheming of the city government to be perfect.
Unfortunately, the only thing he is bad at is that from childhood to adulthood, no one taught him how to walk upright and sit upright.
After all, Concubine Liang was not really born in Zhenbei Wangfu, she did not receive the orthodox education of Zhenbei Wangfu since she was a child, but she was selected by Zhenbei King to give it to the emperor as a tool to please her.
After the queen closed the door, she assisted in the power of the six palaces, and her son was valued by the prince, and she has now become the only concubine in the harem.
But it is precisely because of her background, because of her years of caution, that she taught Chu Lan, which was very limited, and handed it to Chu Lan how to please the emperor, but did not teach Chu Lan how to be upright, which also led to Su Han, the future heir of the prince of Zhenbei Wangfu sent to Beijing by the king of Zhenbei, who looked down on Chu Lan, and indirectly, the king of Zhenbei naturally looked down on Chu Lan.
But he is not afraid, he has the trump card of the emperor, and he must grasp the Zhenbei Wangfu in his hands.