Chapter 040: Assassination
This question can be said to be caught off guard, Xiao Tongzheng picked up the teacup and suddenly paused, he looked at the "young man" standing in the bow of the boat facing the wind, the slender figure is more slender than Luo Yi, but the posture is straight, but it gives people a kind of stubbornness and shock that even if the jade mountain is about to collapse, but will never bow to anyone.
Her gaze was pure, clear, with a little deception, a little speculation, but definitely not shy.
For some reason, Xiao Tong felt that he couldn't answer this question, and even many years later, he would often think of this scene, and he would smile unconsciously and bury it in his heart forever.
Xiao Tong chose to be silent, Xie Ling naturally would not be embarrassed, and arched his hand: "Apologize, it was Ling Tang who was abrupt." Then he turned and left.
At this time, he replied: "Not for the time being, but there may be in the future." ”
Xie Ling turned his head, looked at him, smiled, and nodded.
"Thank you, Your Royal Highness the Prince, for telling me calmly!" She saluted, remembered something, and continued, "Actually, there is something else in the tomb that I want to remind His Royal Highness the Prince, I wonder if His Highness would like to hear it?" ”
"Please!"
"Please Your Highness must be careful with the people around you, there is a so-called knowing people and making good use of them, and don't let your kindness become a sword for others to hurt you. Especially Bao Miaozhi, if you can, you can't do it. ”
Xiao Tong's expression changed, and he just wanted to ask why, but he heard her add: "There is also His Royal Highness's sixth uncle, Xiao Hong, King of Linchuan, I was in Xiangshan Temple that day, and I heard that he wanted Princess Yongxing to design to assassinate His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and now Princess Yongxing has a grudge against His Majesty, and she will not wait too long if she wants to come to this day." ”
After saying these two sentences, Xie Lingwan smiled, said "farewell" again, jumped up from the bow of the boat, jumped to the shore, and walked away.
Seeing Xie Ling leaving, Xiao Tong walked out of the cabin, and couldn't help sighing: "It's really not like a thirteen-year-old Xiaolang, what he says and does makes people feel like they have gone through vicissitudes, and I don't know if that story was deliberately made up by him to deceive the orphan, or is it really true?" ”
Chen Qingzhi continued: "The minister thinks that what this Xiaolang said can be taken seriously, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has experienced the suffering of the people, but he has not personally experienced the battlefield, so he can't feel what choice people will make when they are in a desperate situation, Dong Zhuo in the Han Dynasty will be the emperor to Chang'an, burning, killing and plundering, all evil, Wang Cang once wrote "Seven Mourning Poems", there is a write, 'Go out and see nothing, white bones cover the plain. There are hungry women on the road, holding their children and abandoning the grass. ’
In the midst of war, it is common to abandon wives and children, have no food to eat, and exchange babies for cooking and eating. ”
When Chen Qingzhi said this, Xiao Tong couldn't help but show pity: "So if you want the people to stop suffering from hunger and want peace in the world, you have to calm the war, and the way to quell the war has been since ancient times, and it seems that the only way to stop the war is to stop the war." ”
"Great good is great evil, great mercy is great compassion, governing the country with Buddha, will excessive kindness really lead to a big mistake after all?"
"What does the prince mean by this?" Chen Qingzhi heard him mutter, as if he was puzzled.
Xiao Tong shook his head again, and suddenly sighed: "It's okay, I just suddenly thought: If the teacher is alive, how relieved it would be to see such a son, but unfortunately the teacher can't see it anymore......"
"Your Highness, please mourn, since Xie Jingxiang died because of His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness can only find out the real murderer in order to give Xie Shi justice."
Xiao Tong's expression immediately became solemn.
"And Bao Miaozhi mentioned by Xiaolang, what does His Highness plan to do?"
……
Bao Miaozhi is just a eunuch beside Xiao Tong, but the reason why Xiao Tong was suspicious of Emperor Liang because of the "wax moth" incident in his previous life, and finally ended up in a depressed end, was all due to this eunuch.
It was this eunuch named Bao Miaozhi who, during Emperor Liang's illness, specially complained to Emperor Liang about Xiao Tong burying wax moths in the tomb of his mother Ding Guifei, and slandered the prince for cursing Emperor Liang's early death with "disgust with victory" and plotting to usurp the throne.
Xie Ling didn't know if there would be changes in this life, but since she chose the crown prince, it was to bind their Xie family to the East Palace, so she must not let go of any opportunity to change the fate of her previous life.
And this Bao Miaozhi is the first person she wants to get rid of.
Just as she was thinking about this, suddenly a figure stopped in front of her, she looked up and saw that the person standing in front of her was Xiao Xu, the king of Luling.
"Xie Wulang-kun, don't come unharmed."
"How is His Royal Highness King Luling?"
"Today is empty, I heard that there is a folk music shop on the west bank of the Qinhuai River, during which the wine is sweet and sweet, the beauty is graceful, it is a fairyland on earth, I don't know if Xie Wulangjun is willing to go together?"
Xie Ling smiled and refused: "Thank you His Royal Highness King Luling for your kind invitation, I won't be able to do it today, I still have something to do today, and I want to return to the mansion as soon as possible to take care of my sister." ”
Xiao Xu sneered: "Your Xie family has thousands of servants, when will it be your turn to take care of people, and you will also do the things that your subordinates do?" Or is it that Xie Wulangjun looks down on my King Luling, and only wants to have a boat with the prince to drink? ”
Xie Ling's heart jumped: It turns out that this King of Luling is actually following me? Is he spying on the Prince's whereabouts, or is he spying on mine?
Xiao Xu's temperament was very strange, Xie Ling suddenly thought of Xiangshan Temple, and his sudden appearance seemed to reveal some kind of unusualness.
After thinking for a while, she smiled and said: "Of course not, I have something important to tell the prince today, not to mention that my eldest sister is unwell, I am worried, so I naturally want to accompany me more." ”
"Oh, it turns out that it's a sister and brother relationship! Okay, then Lone is not difficult to force others, another day will be empty, Lone will make an appointment with you again. ”
After saying this, the young man stepped on the cow and horse again, and walked away very chicly, but he didn't remember it privately, and Xie Ling continued to walk forward.
After crossing the Suzaku Bridge, she could soon reach Wuyi Lane, but when she just entered the alley, she felt that someone seemed to be following behind her, so Xie Ling deliberately turned a sharp corner, and when the man quickly followed, he suddenly pulled out a short sword and slammed it across the man's neck.
The man who came looked to be no more than thirty or forty years old, and his face was still covered with a cloth, Xie Ling ripped the cloth off his face, but it was an extremely ordinary face, and asked, "Who are you?" Who sent you? ”
The man didn't answer, and Xie Ling asked tentatively: "Is it Xiao Xu, the king of Luling?" Or Linhe Wang Xiao Zhengde? Or is it Xiao Hong, the king of Linchuan? ”
The man still didn't answer, but when Xie Ling mentioned Xiao Zhengde and Xiao Hong, his expression changed significantly and panicked.
And at this time, there seemed to be someone behind her, and listening to the footsteps, there were quite a few people.
"You're in a group?"
Xie Ling asked, as soon as her words fell, she felt a sword light coming towards her, so she turned sideways and dodged to the side, but before she could hear the sound of "porphyry", the sword actually pierced into the middle-aged man's chest.
"Xie Xiaolangjun, come with us! Our master wants to see you! ”
It was a young man who spoke, for Xie Ling, this face was very faceless, but there was a frivolous meaning in his eyes, Xie Ling knew at first sight that this was a man who had stayed in Fengyue's gentle countryside for a long time.
"Who is your master?"
"Who is it? Didn't you already guess that? ”
"Is it Xiao Zhengde?" Xie Ling asked again.