The Conspiracy Behind the Conspiracy (Part II)

"How do you know?" Xinjie was surprised.

"So you know, who they are?"

"What do you want to know? To be honest, I'm not sure, and the people I sent out to find out haven't given me any definite information. At first, I thought it was someone sent by my grandfather to dissuade me from returning to the Jade Gate, but after the fight, I found that their martial arts were by no means within the Jade Gate, some were very vicious, and some were extremely fast and powerful. Basically, I met in Jiangnan, and I didn't show up after I joined Xiao Jiu. ”

"I think it's Yiheng's people. And I believe that the people I have placed in Seipei have been exposed. They had many plans, but they only made him aware of this step, and deliberately asked him to pass on the news that Lan Xin was going to be poisoned to me in advance, transfer me back, and send someone to intercept you so that I could arrive before you. ”

The prince didn't say the latter words, but the brothers naturally understood the reason here. If the prince had returned to the capital before him, and had found her suffering from poison, he would not have left her alone. If it is managed, the Tang Gate and the Jade Gate behind Xinjie will never give up. In fact, all the princes are the blood of the old queen mother, but only Yiyi is the descendant of the prince, and the character is upright, benevolent, and knows how to be a corporal of etiquette, the old queen mother especially loves him, after the eldest son Yixiang was abolished, the queen mother in front of the emperor bitterly Chen because of the lack of education of Yixiang's mother, resulting in Yixiang's character is perverse and selfish. But if the crown prince loses the Tang Gate and offends the Yumen, he will also lose most of the military power in the court, the economic resources and support of the northwest, Gyeonggi and Jiangnan, and bring possible instability in these places. In that case, it doesn't matter if you're a descendant or not. Among the remaining princes, only the second prince Yiting and Yiheng have outstanding political achievements, although Yifeng is also good, but for many years he has expressed his intention to take the throne, and he likes to wander outside all the year round, and does not like government affairs. And Yiting's mother is a beauty who pays tribute to Goryeo, if he is established, it is equivalent to finding a foreign queen mother for the harem of the Central Plains, which many ministers in the court must have objections.

If the prince doesn't care, and Xinjie can't come back in time, Xintian and Xinye will never sit idly by. But no matter which one of these brothers is, it may cause infighting among the Tang Sect, or even hostility between the Tang Sect and the Jade Sect. It is possible to weaken the existing support of the crown prince, so that the third-party forces they have cultivated can take advantage of the opportunity to rise. It's just that they didn't calculate that Xiao Jiu would leave the capital to find Xinjie at such a time.

But now that he's back, where are their other traps?

"Yi Heng is a delicate person, he should definitely not only do this move, what will he do next?" Everyone was silent for a long time, and no one spoke.

The prince suddenly turned his head to look at her: "Ning'er, you knew my brothers the best back then, what do you think?" Originally, it was not strange for him to ask her, because when she was in the palace, she was entrusted by the Queen Mother, in order to protect him, she carefully studied each prince, and fought with them many times. It's just that after the prince explained a few things to Xinjie and assured that he had let go of the past Ning'er, he still called her Ning'er, which shows that he is so worried that he can't care about these details. When this crisis came, he had to turn to Ning'er, who he relied on, as he had done in the palace in the past.

"With Yi Heng's personality and habits, I think he will wait for you in the most unexpected places, such as the people closest to you."

"My closest person?"

"There are no isolated people and things, and I think you've taken precautions. ”

"You think my suspicions are also possible?"

"I don't think you're just suspicious."

"Yes, she is said to have been very upset lately, and when I came back early yesterday morning, she was wearing the wrong earrings, although she was calm on the surface. Although Yan'er usually takes care of the affairs in this mansion, but because of her noble status, after entering the mansion, the queen mother has hinted many times that I can straighten her up as the crown princess, but I haven't moved, She has always kept to herself, and she is not even willing to interfere in ordinary housework. She just spends most of her time in her own yard, and she has a posture of not hearing anything outside the window. ”

Lian'er couldn't comment on this except for sighing. I can only ask: "Is there anything unusual over there in the gold bureau?" Maybe her troubles have nothing to do with Yi Heng, just with gold. ”

Several people in the room were not fully able to understand the conversation they were talking to. Not long ago, the prince's side concubine Yuwen Yunya, who had just married into the prince's mansion, was born in the Yuwen family of the Houfu of Zhongping, one of the three meritorious families of the dynasty. Due to Zhou Wanning's return to Beijing, the Lan family was afraid that his son would have more to do with this woman, and decided to marry him another powerful and capable woman as a concubine, but Yiyi objected. said that she was a woman in the boudoir, but she just listened to his family's relay, and outsiders commented, and she didn't know her true temperament, and if she married a concubine with a good reputation and a problematic personality, it would add a lot of trouble to him. It's better to enter the house as a side concubine first, and if it's really suitable, then raise it. Empress Lan thought about it and felt that it made sense.

It's just that I didn't expect that after this Yuwen concubine entered the mansion, she was extremely responsible, not only did she not fight or rob, but she was even very light to Yiyi. If it weren't for Yiyi's special identity and thoughtfulness, I'm afraid that he would be like an ordinary man now, because of curiosity and imminent departure from the beauty's pomegranate skirt.

Yuwen Yunya's aunt married King Ji back then, so she was Shi Ping's cousin. The elder brother of Concubine Yuwen, Yuwen Chenjian, married the eldest daughter of Prince Zhi, Lord Yici, who not only inherited his father's title of Marquis of Zhongping, but also controlled the gold bureau and was involved in the mining and gold production of gold mines throughout the country. Referring to the gold bureau, Xinjie glanced at his wife unexpectedly and deeply.

"Is there anything else possible?"

"I am the closest, the third brother is the closest, and the person closest to Brother Xintian."

"The closest person to the third brother?!" Xinyuan looked at this with a smile that made several of their brothers tempted, and finally became his third sister-in-law.

Lian'er glanced at Xinjie, Wan'er: "Your third brother is not the closest person to me. Some you already know, some may be coming, like Orchid Girl, I don't know if she will appear again; Your third brother's confidants; Maybe there will be one or more admirers of your third brother that we have not met; Now the four girls sent by the Jade Sect who are as beautiful as flowers in my family. And their arrival should be in preparation for their real hostess, maybe the people of Yumen will arrange a new third sister-in-law for you. ”

Although this topic is not so unexpected, it was brought up by the *, and almost all of the brothers were surprised. Lian'er saw that her husband's face was very gloomy, and knew that now was not the time to joke with him. "Everyone knows that the grandmother is missing, Xinqiang and the second uncle are still looking for them in Gannan Road, and the queen mother's old man received a gold bracelet from her grandmother not long ago, and the other party's request is that the queen mother should not meddle in the affairs of the rivers and lakes. The rivers and lakes are very large, but there don't seem to be so many rivers and lakes related to the Queen Mother. I don't know what they're going to do with Grandma, but the Queen Mother told me that they didn't dare to hurt Grandma yet, so we could only wait quietly until they asked for a price again. Speaking of the grandmother who has not heard from her so far, everyone is very gloomy, Shiye Khan has mobilized people from the Turks to search for the place where the grandmother disappeared to the west, Xinqiang Xinwang and Tang Wei's soldiers went east to search, and there has been no news. But Lian'er and the Tang brothers both believed that their grandmother would definitely come back through the difficulties.

"And Yiting," Lian'er didn't want to stop at grandma and affect everyone, "he is neutral on the surface, but is he really neutral?" We can't confirm that I ever sent someone to follow him, and his life and trajectory are very simple and clear, and he doesn't have any dealings with unrelated people, or even a particular preference for women. This man looks very clean. At the moment, I don't think he's too much of a problem, but Yihe is more suspicious. Although he looks stupid on the surface, he seems to be helping Yi Heng, but he is not greedy or luxurious in life, and he is not like everyone thinks that he is a waste who only knows how to eat, drink and play. In other words, this person knows better than anyone when to pretend to be stupid, on the surface he cares about eating, drinking, and having fun, and does not care about the government, but he is a must-see in every newspaper in the palace, and he is not as lustful as he appears on the surface. Maybe it's just a way for him to survive in the midst of all kinds of struggles. But maybe it's a good cover-up, I still remember when I was in the south study, Mr. Ouyang talked about Jiangnan civil taxation, and he inadvertently objected to the teacher's statement, and his insights were very deep, and then he returned to his stupid appearance. What does an idle prince care about this? And since I was poisoned, isn't it a little surprising that this prince, who is very good on the surface and fears that the world will not be chaotic, has reacted indifferently, without heathing or laughing? ”

"What else?"

"That's all I can think of in the moment."

"Then let's stop here today, everyone has been working hard lately." And when he had said this, the prince raised his voice and called for them to come in, and let them prepare supper, and put it in the inner hall. "It's all my own brothers, let Concubine Yuwen come too." When she said this, the prince glanced at Wan Ning, she knew that it was not that she felt inconvenient to let her see her woman, but that she was asked to take the opportunity to observe her carefully.

"Prince, can you let Yanzi come with you?" Yanzi was the prince's palace maid back then, and they spent many years together in the palace. After Wanning disappeared, the prince took her into the room. Now the two sons of the crown prince were born of the swallow, and the other women were daughters born to him. After Wan Ning returned to the capital, when they met before, she felt that the swallows now were very different from the past, and now there were more Yuwen family Yunya, she just wanted to see when the swallows were present, but it was impossible for her to see more information. Naturally, where there are women, there is fighting, not to mention that this fight is not only for men, but also for the supreme position of the Great Zhou, and for the future and interests of the family.