After sending a plum blossom picture, Ji Fang led two large boxes of rewards back to the East Palace.

Seeing that Qi Changrong didn't mean to open the box to see what was inside, Ji Fang thought for a while and said, "Your Highness, before the slave left the imperial study, the former head of the imperial palace asked His Highness a question. ”

After the bookcase, Qi Changrong was in a good mood and hooked the corners of his lips: "What's the problem?" ”

Ji Fang pondered for a moment and said, "The former head of the palace asked the slave to ask His Highness, why did His Highness send a plum blossom picture in front of His Majesty?" ”

I heard that for this painting, His Majesty hesitated for a long time, and kept thinking about the meaning.

Hearing this, Qi Changrong couldn't hide his surprise on his face, and said distressedly: "Why did Yuan Yi ask this question? ”

Ji Fang had a bitter face and did not answer.

In other words, it was not that Yuan Yi wanted to ask this question, but that Emperor Jin An had doubts.

However, even if he thought so, Ji Fang didn't say anything.

After all, he is not the head of the imperial palace and the roundworm in the stomach of Emperor Jin An, how can he guess what others think?

What's more, trying to speculate on the divine will will never lead to any good results.

"That's it." Qi Changrong paused and said, "If someone comes to ask you, you can tell them that sending this painting alone is really just to show filial piety to your father, and you have no other intentions." ”

In the end, it is an old man who has been immersed in the palace for many years, and her every move will be answered by others as having deep meaning.

However, God is pitiful, this time Qi Changzhong really didn't calculate anything, he just wanted to send such a painting on a whim.

Merely...... It seems that her move seems to have been over-interpreted.

Hearing His Royal Highness's non-joking answer, he couldn't help but feel pity for the Imperial Governor who was worried about this matter.

No matter what they think, I'm afraid they can't imagine that His Highness actually means this.

"Slave understood." Ji Fang responded with kindness, although he was a little pitiful to the Grand Duke of Yuanyi who was played by His Royal Highness the Prince, but at this moment, there was a little schadenfreude in his heart.

After all, in the entire palace, except for His Majesty, there is no one more intelligent than His Highness.

……

February 10.

On the order of Emperor Jin An, the prince of the East Palace led the courtiers personally appointed by Emperor Jin An to travel by water and began to parade south.

On the day of departure, the momentum was huge.

On the edge of the endless river, there stands a magnificent double-decker ship with carved beams and paintings.

Under the attention of cultural relics officials and hundreds of people, Qi Changrong took the lead in boarding the ship and said goodbye to everyone below at the bow of the ship.

With a long, piercing sound, the ship began to sail away.

It wasn't until the cheers that rushed to the sky that the figure that stopped on the shore became farther and farther away, turning into a small black dot, that Qi Changrong withdrew his gaze.

Each of the six departments will appoint a person in charge of the accompanying people.

The military department is Junchen, the household department is Wen Qiyu, the rite department is Wang Zheyan's son Wang Yuanzhao, the official department is Sun Jihang, and the criminal department is ......

In addition to them, there were also accompanying historians, who were responsible for recording what they saw and heard during this trip to the south.

With sufficient reserves, it can be imagined how much Emperor Jin Anhuang fancied this southward cruise.

Looking at the river in front of him, Qi Changrong stared slightly.

Seeing that her face was deep and she didn't know what she was thinking, Jun Chen paused slightly, stood next to her with the cool breeze blowing across the water, and asked, "What is Your Highness thinking?" ”

"I'm thinking that all the chess pieces are already in their place, but I don't know when they will be able to play their role."

"Your Highness is still worried?"

Qi Changrong didn't speak, looking at the wide river, and didn't know how to answer for a while.

She knew very well that everything was going to settle, and it wasn't that good to say she was worried.

At this moment, an old man sat lazily on the roof of the boatshed, and after hearing Qi Changrong's words, he sneered coldly: "I really don't know what you are feeling, now that Shangjing is completely under your control, you also found a fair and honest excuse to lock everyone up in Shangjing City and fight with each other, and you walked away."

Not to mention that you can take this opportunity to visit the good mountains, rivers and scenery, but also to promote the prestige of the prince of your East Palace, so that the enemy thousands of miles away will be terrified, and can calm the civil strife, clean up the internal thieves, so as to deter the frontier, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not satisfied? ”

The person who spoke was Yu Lao, who came out with him, Qi Changrong arranged him in Jun's house at the beginning, and indeed blocked a lot of disasters for Junchen openly and secretly.

After more than a year, the tone of his speech has not changed, and the faint offensive meaning in his words makes outsiders sound terrified.

At this moment, he not only counted Qi Changrong's 'hypocrisy' openly, but also swallowed melon seeds beautifully, and those melon seed shells became powder at his fingertips and scattered into the river with the wind.

A fierce wind swept past his ears, Jun Chen hurriedly stretched out his hand and grabbed it quickly, and when he spread his hand, a bony peanut kernel was quietly staying in the palm of his hand.

Suddenly, Junchen was a little helpless: "Old Yu, you are a little excessive." ”

"Excessively what?" Yu Lao half lay on the roof of the shed, and rolled his eyes lazily: "At most, this little thing will scrape past her ears and splash a small drop of water when it falls into the water, and it can't hurt her." ”

"That being said, you should be careful."

After the words fell, Junchen threw the peanut kernel into the sky, completely fell into the water and disappeared.

Hearing the faint dissatisfaction in his words, Yu Lao was suddenly unhappy, his toes fell from a high place lightly, and all the officials went into the cabin to take shelter, no one would say that he was 'rebellious and offended the king', so he crossed his waist and said:

"Am I not right? Now everyone in Shangjing has become a chess piece in the hands of the prince, as a chess player, doesn't the prince control Shangjing? ”

first tried every means to provoke the relationship between Jiang Bowen's father and son, and then forced the twelve princesses to stand up, completely pushing the Jiang family to the cusp, and then clapped his palms and took advantage of the situation, as if he was forced to be helplessly sent out of Beijing to be responsible for the southward cruise.

This kind of behavior even he, a person from a different court, knew that all this was actually deliberately done by the prince of the East Palace.

Qi Changrong pinched his eyebrows, and had a headache: "Old Yu, you overheard the conversation between Gu and the general again." ”

Two days before leaving Beijing, Qi Changrong entered the Jun's Mansion and had a long talk with Junchen all night.

Promising him that she would not hide anything from him in the future, she told him all about her arrangements,

didn't expect that Boss Yu wouldn't sleep at night, but would hide on the roof and eavesdrop.

This kind of behavior is really not gentlemanly at all.

"I didn't eavesdrop, I just heard a sentence or two when I was passing by." Yu Lao said confidently: "As for your little, do you think I am willing to listen, my ears are dirty when I listen too much." ”

The corners of Qi Changrong's mouth twitched: "What you said is by the way...... Did you go to the roof of the house? ”

Inexplicably, it was clear that Qi Changrong did not have any sense of blame between his words, but Yu Lao felt a little weak-hearted, and his speech was not as hard as before: "What's the matter? Doesn't Your Highness know that when you can't sleep at night, you will stay on the rooftops of the royal mansion? ”

"What's more, if it weren't for the loud conversation between His Highness and the general, and the content of the conversation being extremely boring, how could the old man lie on the roof and listen to it for a while?"

Qi Changrong: "...... Didn't you say that you only listened to a sentence or two in passing? ”

Suddenly, Yu Lao was speechless.

He always felt that this prince of the East Palace was digging pits everywhere waiting for him to jump, but he had to wait until he jumped down before he could react, and there might be calculations in it.

After eating a trench and growing wise, Yu Lao wisely closed his mouth and didn't say anything.

Seeing this, Qi Changrong focused his attention on Jun Chen, raised his eyebrows and said, "The general also knows about this?" ”

"Yes." Jun Chen nodded honestly, and there was a rare embarrassment on his face.

He didn't speak out at that time to stop Yu Lao from eavesdropping, firstly, because the two of them really didn't talk about anything, and the conversation process was extremely well-behaved, and secondly, it was ...... I don't want Yu Lao to destroy the atmosphere that he has created with great difficulty, which can make Qi Changrong sleep and rest.

Hearing this, Qi Changrong was even more helpless.

Her only physical kung fu was taught by Yu Lao.

The internal force is not as deep as these two people.

Yes, it is not as clear as their ears and eyes, and naturally they do not know the small movements between them.

Qi Changrong stroked his forehead and said half-jokingly: "It seems that no matter where you go in the future, you have to take Luo with you." ”

"What to take him for?" Jun Chen was dissatisfied, and looked at Qi Changrong fixedly: "It's enough to take me, with me next to His Highness, what is Your Highness worried about?" ”

Qi Changrong laughed at himself: "I'm afraid that the general will deliberately turn a blind eye for his own careful thinking, and then there will be no way to take the general alone, won't he suffer a loss?" ”

Junchen was slightly stunned, he didn't expect her to say such a thing.

However, soon, after a little thought, he realized his shortcomings and admitted his mistake as quickly as possible.

"I didn't do it properly."

He smiled self-deprecatingly: "It's because I forgot how special His Highness's identity is, there will be no next time, if someone dares to eavesdrop on the gentleman next time, I will be the first to pierce his eyes and ears, so that his eyes can't see and hear." ”

When he said this, Jun Chen glanced in the direction of Yu Lao meaningfully, full of warning.

Seeing this, the latter subconsciously covered his ears and unconsciously took two steps back.

After reacting to his gaffe, Yu Lao was furious, pointed at Junchen's nose and scolded: "You are a person who will take revenge, you are simply foolish!" Your monarch family has been in the family for several generations, and you are such a family head who does not recognize your six relatives for the sake of the royal family! ”

Having said that, after the scolding was over, Yu Lao touched his nose stupidly, and continued: "It seems that someone is willing to eavesdrop, I said it was a coincidence......

He was just going out to let off steam, who knew that he would be able to hear the secrets of the East Palace and the General's Mansion so coincidentally?

"Old Yu, whether that time was a coincidence or an intentional ......" Qi Changrong gently knocked on the railing in front of him and gave an ultimatum: "It's better not to show up next time." ”