Dali Palace, a corner of the imperial garden, is a continuous rockery of various shapes piled up by strange stones, hiding a notch that can stand for two people, a woman wearing a jade phoenix tail mopping the floor, a woman with a beaded head covering her face, and a middle-aged man wearing an ink-colored official uniform standing next to her.

In this cramped space, the middle-aged man was still half-hunched, trying to stick to the back wall, trying to make room for the woman in gorgeous clothes as much as possible.

"Niangniang, why do you want to let the lower officials give advice to the emperor to promote the third prince as the prince?" The man bowed his head and said, "In this way, isn't the opportunity to marry Shentu Jiaonu to the third prince?" Wouldn't our odds be a few points less? ”

The woman in gorgeous clothes is the most favored concubine of Nangong Lie, the emperor of the Great Li Kingdom, Xia Qiuluan. And the middle-aged man in the official uniform is his cronies in the court, Wen Yuchuan, the head of the Hanlin Academy.

"Stupid-" She embroidered her eyebrows, even if she scolded people, her voice was extremely delicate and tactful: "That Shentu Jingyao is only a five-year-old girl now, even if she is married to Nangong Qing, as long as she is not married, then everything will take a great turn, and-" Xia Qiuluan stretched out her green onion fingers coated with bright red cardamom and looked at it carefully: "If Nangong Qing is established as the crown prince, then everyone's eyes, especially the emperor's eyes, will gather on him, so the oak and Jie'er of the palace can hide in the dark, After accumulating a lot, when the time comes to find the right opportunity, are you still afraid that the throne of Dali will not be hit with one blow? ”

"What Niangniang said is that the lower officials were negligent!" Wen Yuchuan arched his hand and said: "It's just that the court has been rumoring recently, saying that the emperor likes the third prince Nangong Qing——"

"Shut up-" Xia Qiuluan Jiao snorted: "How can you speculate about the emperor's holy will at will?" Besides, the emperor is now in the prime of life, even if he establishes a prince? It's not just a matter of watching! Hmph—"

"Yes--!" Wen Yuchuan said again and again, "The next step is to push the third prince to the throne?" He asked.

Xia Qiuluan's gentle face showed a cruel smile, "The position of the crown prince has never been so easy to bear, let's cheapen him!" As long as more and more court officials support Nangong Qing as the crown prince, even if he becomes the prince, he will be suspicious of the emperor, and the relationship between father and son is really fragile and pitiful in front of the throne-" She hid her mouth and laughed twice, and then walked out, the maid who was in charge of the wind outside hurriedly stepped forward to help her, and the master and servant pretended to continue to visit the garden.

After Xia Guifei left, after waiting for a while, Wen Yuchuan came out of the notch, looked carefully left and right, and made sure that there was no one, and then walked in the direction of Hanlin Courtyard.

Just when the two were talking, Nangong Li, Nangong Yao and Nangong Qing hurriedly returned to Kyoto, entered the imperial city, and were in the imperial study at this time, reporting the situation in Hongmeng Valley to the emperor.

"Let's go to Hongmeng, have the three of you negotiated with the head of the Shentu family?" Nangong Lie, the emperor of the Great Li Kingdom, held Yanghao in his hand, and with a stroke of his pen, a simple word "Yan" fell onto the paper, and the unconcealable domineering spirit poured out.

The three of them looked at each other, and the words they had thought of were speechless, but they couldn't open their mouths when they stood in front of Nangong Lie, as if infinite majesty and oppression were imposed on them, leaving them at a loss.

Nangong Yao, in particular, almost trembled, while Nangong Oak maintained its usual dullness.

So Nangong Qing walked a few steps, came to the desk, moved the ruler of Longshou Town to smooth the rice paper for Nangong Lie, who was writing, and then said: "Father, the eldest brother has sent the invitation, and the meaning of the Queen Mother and you have also been conveyed, but-" He changed his words and looked sideways at the second brother-Nangong Yao has been uneasy since he entered the palace, for fear that he would be told about his insult to Shentu's ancestors.

Nangong Qing paused for a moment, and directly skipped Nangong Yao's matter and said, "It's just that Hongmeng Valley has no intention of being close to the royal family!" ”

As he spoke, Nangong Lie's pen was obviously stagnant, and an ink spot fell coldly on the white paper, and the atmosphere seemed to be tense.

Nangong Li and Nangong Yao hurriedly knelt down and said in a loud voice: "The son's affairs are not good, please ask my father to surrender!" ”

Only Nangong Qing was still standing, he knew his father's intention in his heart, since the Shentu family did not cooperate, it was in line with his father's intentions.

Sure enough, Nangong Lie raised his head, his thick eyebrows drew a cold arc, his face was calm and silent, but he immediately gave birth to several strategies in his heart.

"Stand down!" He waved his hand and told the three brothers to step back first.

When Nangong Yao walked out of the imperial study, he immediately took a long breath and patted his chest, looking like he was living for the rest of his life.

After the eldest brother Nangong Li left, Nangong Yao put his arm around Nangong Qing's shoulders and whispered in his ear: "Brother, it's interesting!" Second brother is following you! ”