After Yi Xiangxiang returned to her painting boat, she went to the shore without stopping for a moment. Her hurried appearance made Zhao Ziqian, who was still on the royal painting boat, look very angry, but she was helpless.

She went to the pier to pick up Moxi, and then took her to the paradise for a hot pot. Sweating in the summer, how cool it is to be.

Moxi also felt that it was very rare, he was always a shopkeeper on weekdays, how could he be so embarrassed.

"People like us who don't exercise much, we should eat hot pot and sweat in summer." Yi Xiangxiang said this sweatingly.

"I don't care, but you're a young lady, can you pay attention to your image? After a while, you don't care about the smell of sweat at all! Moxi felt that Yi Xiangxiang was becoming more and more casual!

Yi Xiangxiang touched her bulging belly and said, "Eating hot pot already smells of hot pot, but are you afraid of the smell of sweat?" Inexistent! Besides, I'll go back to Yongle Ju later, and no one will have a chance to smell me! ”

"Look at what you can! But you're so arrogant with me, aren't you afraid of attracting criticism? Moxi picked up the fan on the side and fanned the wind.

"What's wrong with that? You have come to Paradise to learn the scriptures, and it is only natural that I will entertain you as the host! Yi Xiangxiang saw that Moxi was fanning, so she asked people to add a few buckets of ice to come in, and the room gradually began to feel a little cool.

Moxi knocked Yi Xiangxiang with a fan: "You know that's not what I'm talking about!" ”

What she means is, after all, she is the shopkeeper of Mei Huanyuan on the surface, and she is the old bustard to put it mildly. Yi Xiangxiang is a big girl with a yellow flower and deals with her openly, isn't that criticizing!

"It's okay, if you are worried about this and that scared, you will die of worry in the future!" Yi Xiangxiang said indifferently.

She and Luo Baohua's so-called squirting is good, doesn't it also make people chew the root of their tongues? Otherwise, Kang Ling would not have ridiculed it directly today. It's a pity that she and Luo Baohua don't care about these gossips, if others want to say it, let it go!

Moxi saw that Yi Xiangxiang had her own ideas and considerations, so she didn't persuade again.

Until Yi Xiangxiang settled down in Moxi, it was already Chenshi when she returned to Yongleju. In the summer, the days are long and the nights are short, and it is not long after dark.

She first went back to her room to bathe, and then changed into civilian clothes and went to the study to meet the fox fairy and the yaksha.

After getting off the royal painting boat, she pondered Luo Baohua's words and felt that he was right, Zhao Ziqian and Zhao Zixiu swimming in the lake together did reveal weirdness. When she went to the dock from West Lake to pick up Moxi, she had already asked Qingxuan to arrange for Fox Fairy and Yasha to investigate.

Now in the Kyoto whirlpool, she had to be cautious.

The Yongle Ju study is lit with incense, and the copper cloisonné enamel gilt incense burner is decorated with chrysanthemum patterns, and the furnace body is very exquisite.

"Do you know why the prince suddenly went to the lake?" Yi Xiangxiang brewed tea with a small pot with a butterfly pattern, and then poured a cup each for Qingxuan, the fox fairy, and the yaksha.

The fox fairy took the lead in taking a sip of the small flower butterfly cup, and then replied: "The specific reason is not clear, but the rhetoric on the surface is the intention of the concubine Kang. Today is her birthday, and she went to beg Concubine Rong to say that she wanted to go out of the palace for her birthday. Concubine Rong loved her niece, so she asked the prince to gather a group of people to swim in the lake. ”

Yi Xiangxiang was a little suspicious, Zhao Ziqian is not such a leisurely person!

"Then why did Luo Baohua leave early? Is it really because the Huaihai Mansion has something for him to deal with? Yi Xiangxiang asked as she knocked on the table.

It stands to reason that since Luo Baohua has put on a squishy appearance, the King of Huaihai shouldn't call him back so directly.1 After all, what can you handle? Isn't it three hundred taels of silver here!

Yaksha picked up the small pot with a butterfly pattern and added a cup of tea to himself and said, "The Huaihai Royal Mansion is too tight, and we haven't found out the specific news. However, the secret pile sent a message, and it should not be a big deal. ”

Huanxi Pavilion is in the intelligence business, and it has slowly buried a lot of hidden stakes in Kyoto. However, Huanxi Pavilion also has basic principles, and some news is not sold even if someone else gives money. What can be touched and what can't be touched, Yi Xiangxiang has made an analysis, otherwise they who have mastered the secrets would have been cleaned up a long time ago.

How so? It is the Joy Pavilion that is now standing in the gray area.

The people in this Huaihai Palace's Mansion were inserted behind the Huanxi Pavilion, and they had not yet penetrated into the core, and it was also expected by Yi Xiangxiang that they could not find out the actual news.

"It's strange, my brother didn't notice anything abnormal. But I still believe in Luo Baohua's acumen, and then King Huaihai called him away! The point is that after I got on the boat, I always felt that something was wrong. Yi Xiangxiang shook the ivory silk woven jade hall rich fan in her hand and pondered, and then asked, "There are no clues at all?" ”

She now wondered if she was overly sensitive.

Kitsune and Yaksha looked at each other for a moment, and shook their heads to indicate that there really weren't.

"Then the prince's banquet, why did you call the students of Shenghong Academy?" Yi Xiangxiang thought of a new doubt.

"Lin Zhimeng and Kang Ling were both students of Shenghong Academy's Girls' School, and inviting them was suggested by Lin Zhimeng." Yaksha replied.

This logic makes sense, and it seems that there is really nothing wrong with it.

Yi Xiangxiang brushed things aside again, and after making sure that there was nothing missing, she dispersed. She's cautious, but she's not the one to knock an answer out of the south wall.

Is it really calm in today's unusual? Not really.

As for what happened, this matter has to be pulled back to last year, about Meizhou.

The famine in Meizhou is almost a major drought in five years and a small drought in three years! What about Meizhou last year, there was no harvest in autumn! At that time, it was still around the autumn season, and the people of Meizhou starved to death in winter, and the saint sent a grain transport envoy to transport grain to the north.

At that time, the case of selling officials had been exposed, and the grain transportation envoy who was sent out to supervise was a newcomer who had just been promoted by the household department.

Speaking of which, the problem lies in the history of grain transportation.

Grain was already being mobilized in the summer, because the drought in Meizhou was already predictable. As soon as the harvest was harvested in the autumn, the imperial court collected some grain from all over the country and sent it to Meizhou. But when this food was still on the road, there was news from Kyoto that the second prince Zhao Ziyu was forcing the palace, and everyone's eyes were focused on Kyoto at that time.

Then, the crime began.

Wang Zheng, the grain transportation envoy, was a timid and fat-hearted villain, and when he saw that the city of Kyoto was in chaos, he secretly sold the grain with his subordinates!

What the? Grain can be sold for a few bucks, so why tie your head to the waistband of your pants for this?

Surely! At that time, the drought in Meizhou had become a problem, and grain was more expensive than gold in the northwest!

Wang Zheng secretly sold all the grain to the landlords in the northwest, who first stockpiled the grain and sold it at a high price when winter came. Not to mention, in Meizhou last year, there were many people who sold their sons and daughters to buy grain.

Although Zhao Ziyu's forced palace was something that happened between lightning and flint, he didn't deal with it for only one day! But in Kyoto, where the family is crisscrossed, the relationship between friends and parties is slow, and by the time it is handled, it is already a matter of deep winter.

In the depths of winter, Meizhou was already mourning!

But no one in Kyoto knows about it!

Li Yuan, the Huwei general who was originally stationed on the border of Meizhou, selected 5,000 elite soldiers to enter Beijing for military training exercises in the autumn, and was later demoted by the saint! And the deputy general Zeng Hong was sentenced to the nine clans for participating in the forced palace! So the Huwei army in Meizhou had no specific person in charge for a while, so Wang Zheng bribed the Meizhou officials, deceived the Huwei army and stopped all the people who fled, so that almost all the victims who could not afford to eat food died in Meizhou.

Saint Zhao Zheng naturally didn't know about this, and when he came to it, he thought that the food had been delivered and the people had been relieved. Second, he was seriously ill due to the loss of his son at that time, and the government was handed over to Zhao Ziqian to take care of.

And the reason why Yi Xiangxiang didn't know about this at all was because Yi Xihu was named the secretary of the ministry. The Yi family was also busy packing up and going to Kyoto at that time, and Huanxi Pavilion was also busy with relocation, so they didn't know anything about Meizhou.

But then the dust settled in Kyoto, so why was it still suppressed? Naturally, it is Zhao Ziqian's handwriting. He sent someone to accept the Huwei Army, and naturally he knew about the sins committed by Wang Zheng!

But why did he suppress it?

Speaking of which, it's Kangrui's pot again! Because this Wang Zheng is the person he has enveloped.

There is no need to say much about the reasons for the acquaintance of the two, in short, Kang Rui met Wang Zheng by chance, and he included him under the command of Zhao Ziqian, who was still the Seventh Prince at the time.

As for Wang Zheng, he was actually secretly arranged by Kang Rui into the household department, and on the surface, he had nothing to do with the Seven Princes' Mansion. But the problem is that he sold grain in the northwest and played the banner of doing things for the seventh prince Zhao Ziqian, deceived the Huwei army and showed the entry and exit cards of the prince's mansion! It is because of this that so many officers are willing to go along with it!

Zhao Ziqian later learned about this, so he naturally stopped all kinds of news, and by the way, he sent someone to secretly catch Wang Zheng by the sea. But because it had to be carried out secretly, Wang Zheng has never been caught.

Now the question arises, so why is this cruise ship related to this today?

Because Zhao Zixiu knew about it!

Originally, Zhao Zixiu was also in Tongzhou last year, but he didn't get the news, and he didn't pay attention to the complicated things when he returned to Beijing! So why does he know it now? This is also thanks to the head of the household department Shangshu Pei Zhao.

In this year's Rite Dynasty, even Kyoto is hot like this, and the Holy Lord Zhao Zheng naturally sent someone to check the situation in Meizhou! Pei Zhao is the secretary of the household department, so he must also send people from the household department to check the situation together, so as to prepare the food for disaster relief this year in advance.

This official of the household department who was sent to him was extremely conscientious. After he arrived in Tongzhou, he felt that it was not right, so he secretly checked the population number, and this check found that Meizhou had nearly one-third fewer people than the actual population record! There are only two families left in many families, but there are actually three people in the record book! So he secretly reported this phenomenon to his superior, the head of the household department Pei Zhao.

Who is Pei Zhao?

He is not only the leader of the household department, but also the father of Pei Yuyan, the concubine of the fourth prince Zhao Zixiu! He felt that something was wrong, so he secretly reported it to Zhao Zixiu.

So, Zhao Zixiu secretly sent someone to investigate the matter, and he had even collected a series of evidence, planning to present it to the Holy Emperor tomorrow morning. Moreover, he also secretly arranged for some refugees who starved to death of their wives and sons due to the drought last year to go to Beijing, preparing to sue Zhao Ziqian.

After Zhao Ziqian got the news, he sent someone to stop the refugees. invited to visit the lake again, and detained Zhao Zixiu on the West Lake!

He originally wanted to use this boat to let Zhao Zixiu drown on the bright side. The reason why so many people were recruited was to make things out of control, so that Zhao Zixiu could die silently.

Yi Xiangxiang was on the first floor of the royal painting boat where she was staying at the time, and if she entered the inner room, she would find that it was full of barrels filled with tung oil.

These tung oils are specially made, and water can extinguish them, but they are not so easy to extinguish. Zhao Ziqian prepared people who couldn't make the boat water, and couldn't wait for the water marquis to save them, and all of them were buried with Zhao Zixiu.

In fact, Yi Xiangxiang is right, Zhao Ziqian is indeed more ruthless than Zhao Zixiu!

East Palace Study.

Zhao Zixiu sat in the red sandalwood carved wreath chair, gently waved the folding fan, and looked at Zhao Ziqian sitting in front of the bookcase.

There was only one palace lamp lit in the study, because neither of them could see each other clearly. Zhao Zixiu also looked at Zhao Ziqian for a while, and then withdrew his gaze.

"I never thought that this king would sit with you in this East Palace study one day." Zhao Zixiu took the lead in breaking the silence, because he had already been crowned king, because he no longer called himself the main hall, but called himself the king.

"Hongu didn't expect it." Zhao Ziqian, as the master of the East Palace, replied, and as he spoke, he gently stroked the bamboo leaf carvings on the circle chair.

Zhao Zixiu knew that if he chose not to speak, the other party would be more silent than him, so he sighed and asked, "Why did the seventh brother give up igniting today?" ”

He knew that Zhao Ziqian had sent people to prepare tung oil, but in fact, if the latter really lit the fire, he might not be able to escape today. Because the threat to him on the boat is not only fire or drowning, but also the killer hiding in the shadows.

In fact, if he hadn't known that there were so many people on the ship at that time, Zhao Zixiu would not have gotten on the boat. Because at first, he didn't think that Zhao Ziqian dared to make such a big move, but later he vaguely smelled the smell of tung oil on the first floor of the painting boat, and he realized that he had been fooled, Zhao Ziqian really used so many people as bait!

When he lived in the palace as a child, he accidentally walked through the water in the dormitory, because he was extremely sensitive to the smell of fuel! He and Yi Xiangxiang were talking on the first floor, although the smell of tung oil was deliberately covered, but he still smelled it!

At that time, Zhao Zixiu asked Yi Xiangxiang why he helped Zhao Ziqian, which was actually a temptation. But then he felt that Yi Xiangxiang must not know, otherwise she would not let the brothers and sisters of the Yi family stay on the boat.

Yi Xiangxiang has a lot of protection, he knows! Even Yi Ruonan instructed him to take care of him secretly, because Yi Xiangxiang would never risk the lives of the Yi family. Zhao Zixiu guessed that Zhao Ziqian must have hidden this matter from everyone, even the Yi family, who were already in his party.

Zhao Zixiu knew at that time that Zhao Ziqian had prepared a big deal, but he didn't know that in fact, Zhao Ziqian didn't plan to sacrifice the Yi family, and each Yi family member arranged for a secret guard to follow, as long as something happened on the ship, they would be rescued as soon as possible.

"Why did the fourth brother give me the evidence?" Zhao Ziqian also raised his own questions.

After the lake swim, the crowd dispersed. After Zhao Zixiu returned to King An's mansion, he locked himself in the study for nearly two hours, and then sent Pang Qi to send all the evidence of Wang Zheng's crimes in Meizhou, as well as the list of accomplices, to the East Palace.

After Zhao Ziqian got that thing, he couldn't calm down for a long time, and then invited Zhao Zixiu to the East Palace.

Neither answered each other's questions, and each fell into deep thought.

Zhao Zixiu didn't understand why he gave up and continued to fight with Zhao Ziqian, in fact, he didn't have no chance. He would not necessarily die on the boat, and as long as he could come out and hand over the evidence to the saint, Zhao Ziqian's position as crown prince would definitely not be guaranteed.

But Zhao Ziqian didn't ignite the fire! When Zhao Zixiu was about to fight hard, Zhao Ziqian let him get off the boat safely.

Yi Xiangxiang said that Zhao Ziqian would not hurt him, and at that time he felt that Yi Xiangxiang was very naïve. However, the result proved that Yi Xiangxiang guessed correctly. He knew that when Yi Xiangxiang left, Tuo Yi Luochuan brought something to Zhao Ziqian and said something, but Zhao Zixiu couldn't be sure if this was the reason why Zhao Ziqian let him go.

Don't care what the other party's reason is, but why did you give up?

Zhao Zixiu remembered what Yi Xiangxiang asked him, what did he want for the people of mountains and rivers and the dragon chair?

In fact, what he was going to answer at that time was that he wanted the dragon chair!

Yi Xiangxiang said that he was merciful, but in fact, he didn't necessarily! He had struggled in the darkness for so long, given so much, that he no longer knew what mercy was.

He has been instilled with the concept of a king since he was a child, and the people around him no longer remind him all the time of what kind of person he wants to be in the future. There was no so-called joy in his childhood, and from the time of the governor, he was confronted with intrigues and intrigues every day. He knows what kind of smile can make people lift the embankment, he knows how to use people's hearts to achieve his own ends, and he knows what kind of people can serve him faithfully......

As Yi Xiangxiang once said, he always wears a mask. Over time, I can't tell whether it's a mask or myself.

To be honest, although the time in Tongzhou was secretly belittled by his father, it was really the happiest time in his life.

So at that moment on the West Lake, she smiled and said that she wanted to go back to Tongzhou for retirement and plant peach blossoms in the garden...... He admits that he does want to let go.

He wanted to get away from all the disturbances and leave behind the mountain that was pressing down on him.

It was after Zhao Ziqian gave up ignition, which made him make a choice.

After more than ten years of fighting, once I put it down, I really feel a little lonely. Zhao Zixiu smiled bitterly.

Zhao Zixiu was pondering, and Zhao Ziqian, who was sitting in front of the bookcase, also stroked the blood jade in his hand, and was also silent.

He also didn't understand why he stopped at a critical moment, because it was really a good opportunity for him to cut the grass and eradicate the roots.

Although he promised Yi Xiangxiang not to touch Zhao Zixiu in Yongleju before, what he said at that time was also in the case of the other party's peace. But now that Zhao Zixiu has the evidence of the crimes committed by the people under him, if he wants to expose him, he will be regarded as a counterattack, which will not violate the promise he made to Yi Xiangxiang.

But in the end he stopped.

Is it because of the sentence "It is born from the same root, why is it too anxious to fry each other"?

He wasn't sure.

The night gradually deepened, and the relatively silent two made the atmosphere in the study even more dull.

After a long time, Zhao Zixiu opened his mouth and said: "You can handle the affairs of Meizhou by yourself, and the portals that should be cleaned up below you should also be cleaned up as soon as possible, so as not to harm the people!" As for us...... You give me a month, and then I will ask my father to resign and relinquish my power. I only hope that you will be kind to those who have been with me in the future, many of them are talented, and I don't want them to be buried because of my relationship. ”

Zhao Zixiu's words show that he is willing to withdraw from the fight.

Perhaps, it's good to be an idle prince! Just like Yi Xiangxiang said, when you are free, you can enjoy the scenery with flowers, and the days are pleasant.

"Fourth brother, don't worry, I will reuse all talented people!" This is Zhao Ziqian's promise.

So far, the two largest forces in the Li Dynasty have shaken hands and made peace.

Zhao Zixiu got up and prepared to leave the East Palace, and after walking halfway out, he turned around and asked, "Is your position as the crown princess reserved for her?" ”

Zhao Ziqian was stunned for a moment, then understood, and replied firmly: "Yes, she once mentioned it to the maid, saying that she would rather marry a flat-headed person than be a concubine." And I want to give her the best! ”

In one sentence, it answered Zhao Zixiu's question and broke his extravagant expectations.

She didn't want to be a concubine, but Zhao Zixiu already had a princess.

After all, it's too late to know! I don't even have a chance to fight for it.

"Actually, I'm still curious, if I hadn't forced her to come over in your name on the West Lake today, would you have lit a fire?"

What he wanted to ask Zhao Ziqian was, did he give up igniting the fire because of what Yi Luochuan said? Or was it because she got on the boat unexpectedly?

What would it be like today without her? He was a little curious.

However, after Zhao Zixiu said this, he strode out of the East Palace without waiting for Zhao Ziqian's answer, because he suddenly didn't want to know the answer so much.

What does it matter? At least what she wanted, he had already given.

Zhao Zixiu left the palace with ease.

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