The third prince understood in his heart that what he wanted to say was that as the younger brother of the crown prince, he should abide by his duty, but he smiled gently, "The general guards one side and benefits the people, and of course the general can afford this gift." ”

General Xue is an iron-blooded man, and he also has his own arrogance, and when he heard him say this, he didn't speak anymore, but just said directly, "I don't know what happened when the prince came to the door?" Xue Mou has always had little contact with the Middle Palace. ”

"Presumably, the generals also guessed that they came here not for anything else, but for Ake."

General Xue saw that he called intimately, and his heart was a little pantothenic, "The little girl is very ignorant, I don't know how to get into the eyes of the prince?" ”

Seeing that he was suspicious, the third prince smiled and said, "The general is the god of war in the Western Regions, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince regards the general as a teacher, and the relationship between the general and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is understandable." Ah Ke and I are in love with each other, and we don't have any other meanings, and we don't mix in any court affairs, and I ask the general to be clear. ”

The young man's temperament, so disdainful of worldly obstacles, and so confident in each other's feelings, both pure and stubborn, General Xue sighed secretly in his heart.

"The little girl is not sensible, the prince is not an ignorant person, how can she say such a thing?"

"It's the general's plan for Ah Ke, why not leave a way back for her?" The eyes of the third prince were full of cunning, "The prince will have unlimited scenery in the future, can't he keep Ake with the general's military exploits and affection?" What if, the prince is not satisfied? ”

"You!" General Xue didn't expect him to be so bold.

"General, I'm sincere to Ah Ke." The third prince looked at General Xue with undisguised sincerity in his eyes.

He lifted his robe, turned around and knelt on one knee, and swore an oath, "I swear as a royal family that I will never live up to Ah Ke in this life!" ”

General Xue looked at the three princes in front of him, and he was also quite moved. Xue Ke stood at the door, his heart was sweet.

Since that day, although General Xue has not let go, he has only lifted Xue Ke's grounding, and has blocked Xue Ke from sneaking out of the door three or five times, and will occasionally turn a blind eye at a time.

It was a young and frivolous day, and it was also Xue Ke's most wanton and happiest day.

Perhaps all the gifts of fate have been marked with a price, and the previous happiness has become the most painful blade in the last days, stabbing at Xue Ke, who is already in purgatory.

Reliving a life, Xue Ke has thought about countless endings, how many times she stabbed King Qin with a sword in her sleep, and in her dreams, she could really feel the gradually cooling temperature of his chest and the wet feeling of blood flowing through his fingers.

It's just that she never thought that he would die like this. Lost on the battlefield in eastern Zhejiang, no one alive, no body dead, just swept away by the waves, maybe lying somewhere deep at the bottom of the sea, sinking full in the cold waters.

In the dream, she was soaking wet, dragging heavy clothes and staggering on the shore to look for him, bloody and bloody, she couldn't find him.

The prince's face sank like a dark cloud in the sky. After he worked hard to overcome the knot in the post station and reconciled with Xue Ke, for a while he even thought that they could really be happy like this, so he was so ecstatic when he knew that Xue Ke was pregnant.

The reality told him that everything was just an illusion.

Xue Ke was lying on the bed, and the high fever had not gone away for three days. And a month ago, she told him with a smile that she had never had a child.

Ah Liu stopped him from letting him in. In fact, you don't have to come in, standing at the door, you can hear Xue Ke's unconscious murmuring, "Ah Que, Ah Que, where are you?" ”

Now the funeral of King Qin has been set, and it will be held on the seventh day of the first month of next month, and the Ministry of Rites is in full swing planning. This is the emperor's favorite son, so he should also be extremely honored.

The emperor was obviously deeply affected, he was seriously ill, and he had not been to the court for many days, and I heard that he had not seen anyone except Concubine Li. And the queen has not been a director for many days, and she has not been out of the Kunning Palace.

Donggong's attitude at this time was probably the most subtle. The momentum of the King of Qin and the crown prince to seize the heir can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye. Now that King Qin is dead, the crown prince's position in the East Palace is as stable as Mount Tai, and there is no other prince who can compete with him slightly. Therefore, up and down the East Palace, if you want to say that you are not relieved at all, you probably don't believe it yourself. Of course, at such a critical juncture, on face, there is no joy in the East Palace.

But the prince was in a bad mood, and everyone in the East Palace could see that he was really, very badly, with the anger that no one should approach.

After the seventh master reported the matter, he thought that the rumors in the East Palace during this period were indeed true, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince attached great importance to the birth of the Puyuan, and he has been haunted by it until now. But it's normal to think about it, His Royal Highness is nearly thirty years old, and if he were someone else, he would have been at the age when his children were around his knees, but he had been empty under his knees, and it was easy to move, but he had an inexplicable miscarriage, no wonder His Highness was angry and sad.

After hesitating for a long time, the seventh master thought about Nangong's repeated advice, looked at the prince's slightly blue eyes, and persuaded him, "Your Highness still has to take care of your body!" The matter of children, the fate of heaven is destined, as the saying goes, the willows and flowers are bright and another village, His Royal Highness is deeply blessed, and everything will come naturally. ”

The prince was buried in the scroll, and when he heard what he said strangely, he couldn't help but raise his head and take a look. Lao Qi has been with him for many years, he understands Lao Qi's temperament, and he will never say some empty words of comfort. Now that I look at it, I find that Lao Qi is a little uncomfortable.

"What? Seventh, do you have something to hide from me? "Lao Qi is in charge of the torture hall, his mind is not complicated, and he is also one of his hardcore henchmen, he doesn't believe that Lao Qi will hide anything from him.

But the Seventh Master obviously vomited.

The prince was strange, stood up and walked to the seventh master's side, and his expression became serious, "Old Seven! What the hell is going on? Will you hide it from Lonely? ”

The Seventh Master's face changed, and he knelt down on one knee and said, "Your Highness forgives your sins!" ”

"Say!" There was an irresistible majesty in the prince's voice.

"Yes!" The seventh master first responded categorically, and then his tone slowly weakened, and he regretted it in his heart, in case the prince was angry and wanted to kill Su Qiuniang, wouldn't he even break this bit of incense? Isn't he a sinner in the East Palace?

However, the prince's eyes looked directly at him, and he stubbornly said, "It's about Su Qiuniang." ”

"Su Qiuniang?" The crown prince repeated, and it took a long time to remember that it was the female assassin in Shanxi, "The queen, that feather guard?" Didn't you say that there was no supply? She's not dead yet? ”

The prince looked at the seventh master with some suspicion, as far as he knew, the seventh master was not a person who pitied the fragrance and cherished the jade, shouldn't Su Qiuniang have been frustrated and scattered a long time ago?

"Of course Su Qiuniang should be damned!" Dare to assassinate the crown prince, the seventh master thought about it and felt that she should try the methods of his torture hall "But she is pregnant with His Royal Highness's child, for the sake of the child__"

"She's pregnant with an orphaned child?" The prince was angry and happy, "Who said that?" ”

The seventh master was silent for a moment, but his instinctive loyalty still made him say it.

Since Nangong said that Su Qiuniang was still useful, he suspended the punishment of Su Qiuniang. According to his eyesight, of course, he quickly discovered Su Qiuniang's strange appearance. So he found Nangong.

"Do you know about Su Qiuniang's situation?"

Nangong's smile looked a little strange and helpless, "This is natural, did the seventh master also find out that Su Qiuniang is pregnant?" ”

The seventh master let out an "um" and looked at him with suspicious eyes.

"Hehe, of course I didn't mean to hide this from the Seventh Master, and I definitely can't hide it, right?" Nangong wanted to pat him on the shoulder, looked at his expression, and retracted his hand, "Actually, the key is in this kid!"

"Whose child is it?" The Seventh Master asked coldly.

"Seventh Master, guess whose child this kid is?" Nangong's eyes have always been cunning, "Think about it, she is a feather guard, she has been in the palace before, how can she be pregnant?" If you think about it again, His Royal Highness is heavily defended, how can she be able to stab her hands alone? ”

The specific process of Su Qiuniang's assassination Seventh Master just listened to a synopsis, and he looked at Nangong suspiciously, "You mean, the child is His Highness?" ”

Nangong hurriedly shook his hand, "I didn't say anything!" ”

Nangong leaned over again and whispered, "This is His Highness's hatred!" So no one knows! Don't mention it! The person in the Baopu Yuan is still angry with His Highness about this! ”

The Seventh Master frowned, he had also heard about His Highness's favor of Pu Yuan, but that person may not be too spoiled and coquettish, and he dared to be angry with His Highness? What's more, it also involves the heir, and His Royal Highness actually relies on her like this!

Nangong looked at his expression and said with a busy smile: "Isn't this Your Highness not knowing that Su Qiuniang is pregnant?" And the one in the hug Pu Yuan is pregnant with a child right now, let's not touch this mold! According to me, Seventh Master, you will let it go for a while, and wait for Su Qiuniang's child to be born. ”

The seventh master thought about it carefully and felt that it made some sense. Su Qiuniang must have used some means, after His Royal Highness the Crown Prince learned the truth, of course the man would be angry. However, the heir is important, and after the child is born, His Highness may change his mind. What's more, His Highness has no heirs yet! The movement of the Hupu Courtyard is quite big, who knows if it is a man or a woman!

"So, Seventh Master! Even if His Highness blames him in the future, he will not hesitate to do so! I don't know if the Seventh Master is willing to take on the role? ”

The Seventh Master nodded with a serious face.

"This is no small matter! The Seventh Master must keep it a secret! ”

The seventh master glanced at Nangong, the gossip in the entire East Palace was him, and he was embarrassed to tell himself.

The prince listened to Lao Qi's words expressionlessly, and instead of being angry, he laughed, "Nangong, right?" Very good! ”

raised his voice a little, and shouted to the door, "Xing'er, go and let the guards Zhang go to the Nangong Mansion and invite him over to me!" ”

Nangong actually just came back from the Linglong Pavilion in the East Palace. Xue Ke hadn't been to Linglong Pavilion for many days, and the prince's mood was like a silent volcano, so the subordinates of the East Palace had reached a consensus in the past few days, so as not to accidentally trigger the volcano.

And Nangong subconsciously avoided the prince during this time. Since the prince knew that Xue Ke was pretending to be pregnant, Nangong took sick leave for a while. After that, although the prince reprimanded a few words, in the end, he was too angry, and he escaped a catastrophe.

But Nangong's eyelids have been jumping so hard these days. So as soon as he returned home, he went to his third aunt's yard. This third aunt is the daughter of a master in Wuxi, although she has passed the freshness of the new marriage that year, but she has always been quite favored, because this aunt has learned from her father since she was a child to tell the good skills of fortune-telling. Therefore, every time Nangong is restless, he loves to go to her for a divination.

The third aunt looked carefully at the hexagram on the table, frowned and said, "Ye Mo is going to beep alive, that Tang lady has a bright forehead, but I am afraid that Ye is not very well-informed recently!" ”

"How can you not be well-informed? I haven't had anything going on lately! ”

Before he could finish speaking, he heard movement in the courtyard. Nangong just wanted to ask what was wrong, when he saw Guard Zhang striding in.

"What's wrong? Commander Zhang? What happened? Nangong was in a hurry, thinking that something big had happened in the East Palace.

"Your Highness is looking for you!" Guard Zhang turned sideways and avoided the female dependents as much as possible.

"Your Highness looking for me?" Nangong muttered, "What's going on today?" Commander Zhang, we are all on an errand in the East Palace, you can reveal it to your brother! ”

Zhang Weiwei sighed in his heart, and asked expressionlessly, "My lord, think about what you have done recently?" ”

"I didn't do anything!" Nangong Fox thought suspiciously, "I am loyal to His Royal Highness, I have done my best, and the sky can learn from it!" ”

Guard Zhang couldn't help but wake up: "The seventh master is here!" ”

Nangong suddenly stopped talking, and said for a while, "Commander Zhang, you help my brother, just say that my brother has committed another headache and is recuperating at home!" ”

Guard Zhang glanced at him sympathetically and said, "Brother, there is no way, Your Highness commanded, carry you over." ”

Nangong looked back at the hexagram on the table again, gritted his teeth, and followed Guard Zhang with a look of a strong man who would never return.

When Nangong came in, he was baptized by the eyes of the Seventh Master.

Nangong has always admired how the prince dug up the Seventh Master. How can a very delicate and clean person have a natural interest and talent for torture? When he looks at you, you can feel that he is interested in the blood vessels under your skin, and he imagines your convulsions when you are in pain, which makes people shudder involuntarily.

Now the seventh master's expression is like this, looking at himself gently and interestedly.

Nangong wanted to avoid his eyes, but the seventh master's gaze always looked at him unhurriedly. Nangong forced himself to calm down and asked, "Is there something wrong with His Highness summoning Weichen in a hurry?" ”

The prince looked at him, and he didn't bother to go around in circles, "Nangong, tell me, how did Su Qiuniang get pregnant with an orphaned child?" ”

"Huh? Su Qiuniang is pregnant with His Royal Highness's child? This, Weichen doesn't know! But congratulations! Your Royal Highness, although Su Qiuniang spoke humblely, but __"

Nangong still wanted to continue to rip it off, but a book of folds smashed over his head and face, and Nangong knelt down with a "snap", which could be avoided.

"Your Highness! Wechen is guilty! Wechen is really helpless! ”

"Oh? Who dares to coerce us, Lord Nangong? The prince was so angry that he didn't want to speak.

Nangong put on a bitter face, "Naturally, it's Tang Niangzi!" ”

"Sugar candy? What does this have to do with her? The prince thought for a while, and then looked at Nangong, "Does she know about Su Qiuniang's pregnancy?" ”

Nangong nodded.

"So, she wants to keep this child?" After a little thought, the prince guessed that this was Lu Xin's child.

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