Lingcheng, Ningwangfu.

In the main hall, Aunt Hanlu changed a new cup of tea and respectfully offered it to His Royal Highness the King of Chu.

Xiao Di held the teacup in his hand for a while, and he didn't drink it in a sip, so he could put it aside.

"Auntie should know—" He laughed slowly, "This king is not here to be greedy for a cup of tea from Uncle Wang's mansion. ”

"It's been three days, Uncle Wang can entertain the little nephew with good food and drink, can't he appreciate his face and meet the little nephew?"

Aunt Hanlu stood in front of him, bowed her head and said unhurriedly: "Your Highness should also know that the prince's words have already been heard, and the slave and maid can't persuade them." She said: "You are busy in Beijing, so you should listen to the slave maid and go back early." ”

Xiao Di smiled.

"Why does my aunt think that her master can't persuade her, but she can persuade the king?"

Aunt Hanlu choked.

He glanced at the sky, thought for a while, and said, "Aunt Lao told Uncle Wang that if he is determined not to see me before sunset today, then I will leave." ”

Aunt Hanlu didn't have time to be happy, and listened to him again: "-I will go south to meet someone who is sure to meet me." ”

"Your Highness!" She was taken aback, calmed down, and compromised: "Please wait, let the slave and maid go and pass the word." ”

Not long after, Aunt Hanlu came back again, her face was not very good, but what she said was what Xiao Di loved to hear.

In King Ning's bedroom, Xiao Di had not yet entered the door, and he heard a few coughs first.

I haven't seen him for a long time, and Xiao Jingchi's body seems to be bad again.

When he entered the courtesy, he was still respectful, Xiao Jingchi told him to get up and sit down, and when he came up, he sighed: "You kid, why bother?" ”

Xiao Di smiled bitterly: "You told me what I was going to ask, but what did you want me to say?" ”

Xiao Jingchi also laughed.

After a while, he said, "Child, listen to Uncle Wang's words and go back." ”

He said, "I know why you came, but for many things, it is enough to know the 'effect', and if you force yourself to explore that 'cause', in the end, the truth ...... It may not be something you can afford. ”

Xiao Di asked: "So as long as you remember that you are a rebel, but you are unwilling to tell me why you are like this?" ”

Xiao Jingchi looked at him and didn't speak.

"That's fine." After a moment, Xiao Di nodded and smiled lonely: "I understand what Uncle Wang means." It's just that...... There are some things you may not know much about me. ”

A little doubt flashed in Xiao Jingchi's eyes, and he asked again: "Since Uncle Wang doesn't want to give me the answer I want, why don't you listen to me tell you a story first?" ”

He shook his head heartily, but after thinking about it, he still told him to say it.

So, Xiao Di told him all the ins and outs of the 'prince's repentance of marriage' back then.

“…… When I grew up to be eighteen years old, I boasted that I had seen countless calculations and betrayals in the pile of gold dust, but twenty years ago, I never knew that these four words could be so cruel - devouring bones and hearts, incomparable. ”

He put down the cold tea, looked at Xiao Jingchi calmly, and asked, "Uncle Wang still thinks that the 'cause' that made you do now is unbearable for the little nephew?" ”

Xiao Jingchi didn't speak for a long time.

He was stunned at first, and then, as if something emotion had been broken in his eyes, and then spliced it together little by little—and finally, it turned into a sudden light.

“…… Oh, I see. ”

"I see......"

Xiao Di was confused by his reaction.

Uncle Wang, this is ...... Got what?

He was secretly guessing, when he suddenly saw Xiao Jingchi raise his head and sigh, and said three times in pain: "First Emperor...... Brother Royal...... Bishan ——! ”

"'Bishan'?"

Xiao Di was stunned for a moment, and said tentatively: "Lord Bishan? ”

Xiao Jingchi smiled and smiled, closed his eyes tiredly, and in an instant, he seemed to be more than ten years old.

Xiao Di was a little scared.

"Uncle Wang......"

Xiao Jingchi raised his hand to stop his words, and after a while, he looked at him and asked, "You want to know, what made me who I am today?" …… What makes you who you are today? ”

Xiao Di didn't know the bottom in his heart, but he still nodded firmly.

King Ning just smiled.

"It's Xiao Jingze.

It's Xiao Bangzheng. ”

He said, "Yes...... Zhao Xian. ”

The first emperor Xiao Jingze, the lord of Bishan County, Xiao Bangzheng, and ...... Lingqiu Marquis Zhao Xian?

What can these three names be put together?

Xiao Di's mind was in chaos, and after thinking about it, he still said, "I...... Don't understand. ”

yes, I don't understand. Before Xiao Di's words today, Xiao Jingchi still didn't understand a lot.

But by now, he understood it all.

He praised abruptly: "The first emperor made a good move, Bishan lived up to Brother Pei's praise of 'the lady of the girl', these two people really took great pains for the Xiao family...... One gave up his son, and the other gave up his own daughter......"

He felt sorry for himself and said to Xiao Di: "Come, Uncle Wang will tell you where this game started." ”

He thought, really calculated, the cause of the incident should be in Wuyao ten years.

"Back then, the matter between Lingqiu Marquis Zhao and the daughter of the Shen family, just because Pei Xi, the Duke of Huaiguo, praised the 'true temperament' of his brother-in-law, the Xiang family could only swallow his anger and hand over the set daughter-in-law to others......

I've been thinking about it all these years, and most of it was this incident that gave the first emperor a wake-up call, so that he began to be afraid of heroes. ”

- With fear, there is calculation.

"Beilin Zhao - Zhao Shu, the prince of the first Jingguo, is a cautious person, after the incident of Zhao Xuan, he felt that the Zhao family tree was a big move, so he retreated bravely and gradually faded out of the government and the opposition, so as to preserve the wealth. But shake Fang Pei's family, and he won't be so lucky. ”

"In the eighteenth year of Wu Yao, before your marriage with Yao, Xu Guogong Pan Yan said that he would marry his sister Pan Yan to this king as his step-concubine - at first I didn't think much about it, and when I married into the door, I looked at it and stayed good, but then I ......"

Speaking of this, a flash of pain flashed in his eyes, and he took a deep breath and continued: "It wasn't until two years later, after Gongsun Xun died and his son was seriously injured, that I knew that this princess of this king was specially married by Bishan from the beginning to spy on this king. ”

When Pei Gong's class returned to the court, King Ning was worried about his illness, and because he knew that Pan Jie's secret mobilized his subordinates to go south, he was afraid that it would be unfavorable to Pei Gong, so he sent his subordinate general Gongsun Xun and his only son Xiao Yu to welcome Pei Gong back to Beijing.

Unexpectedly, Princess Pan knew about this matter, secretly informed her brother Pan Jie, and revealed the route of the two to the south. Pan Jie sent people to intercept and kill, which eventually caused Gongsun Xun to die, Xiao was seriously injured, and he was cut off from the road to Rong.

Hearing this, Xiao Di's eyes widened slightly, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.

"It's not that Ah Yu and General Gongsun were on the way back to Beijing and encountered a mob rebellion, so they ......"

Xiao Jingchi shook his head and smiled.

"Who said that?" He said: "It was said by the first emperor. ”

Xiao Di was stunned for a moment, thought for a moment, and his face suddenly appeared.

"At the beginning, General Gongsun died, and Ah Yu was seriously injured and dying, so he was sent back to the imperial palace by the first emperor, and carefully raised it for a long time before sending it back to King Ning's mansion."

Xiao Jingchi nodded, "Yes, the first emperor held Yu'er's life in his hands, naturally whatever he said was what he said, I can't refute it." ”

Especially at that time, Pan's assassin was successful, and Pei Gong was also killed, even if he wanted to care, he didn't have any help.

Speaking of this, he looked at Xiao Di, and there was a vague distress in his eyes: "I thought that it was you who first repented of your marriage, and the first emperor was angry, and he started to think about power, so he took advantage of the situation to attack the Pei family."

But now it seems that ......"

He shook his head, laughing at himself for being stupid: "What to give a marriage, what to regret a marriage, everything, at the root, is his calculation of both fame and power." ”

In the end, the Pei family fell, and the Pan family, who was pushed to the front to make a knife, was also eliminated, and the first emperor's Jiaming Qing Discussion reached its peak when Pei Yao was on the throne of Changqiu.

And his game, until today, ten years after his death, has been painstakingly spelled out a rough idea.

In the eyes of the world, Emperor Cheng valued love and righteousness, and governed the country well, and all the disasters in his later years were the reasons for the disloyalty of his subordinates and the unfilial piety of his parents.

Come to think of it, if it weren't for Xiao Zhu, the emperor, who was not qualified, then Xiao Jingze's plot would really be exquisite.

There was silence in the temple for a long time.

Xiao Di's body warmed up a little bit, and asked in a dumb voice: "...... the county lord of Bishan?"

And what is her role in this?

The sarcasm on Xiao Jingchi's face faded.

After a while, he said: "Marrying Pan Yan to me is what she wanted." ”

After Xiao was seriously injured, he ordered his henchmen to strictly investigate how the two of them went south to leak, and in the end, they found Pan Yan.

Xiao Jingchi still remembers that when he learned the truth that day, he was furious and found Pan Yan, and when he entered the palace gate, he saw that Pan Yan, who had received the news, had already taken off his hairpin and was barefoot, kneeling there to wait for the sin.

At that point, the fear of being abandoned made her have nothing to hide, and when she burst into tears, she confided everything to Xiao Jingchi.

She said that she first admired King Ning, and after the death of Princess Pei, she begged the county lord of Bishan several times to ask him for help to fulfill her desire to marry King Ning.

The county lord of Bishan was noncommittal at first, but then suddenly agreed to her, saying that he would try his best for her. She only thought that she was sincere, and she moved the county lord, and when Pan Jie's cousin married her sister, and the first emperor agreed, she was even more overjoyed, and carefully prepared for the marriage - later I thought about it, that time to be married became the happiest period of her life.

On the eve of the wedding, Pan Jie came to see her, and after three or two sentences, he revealed his true colors - coercion and temptation, so that after she got married, she would monitor King Ning's every move for herself.

It was not until this time that Pan Yan realized that his marriage was not a dream come true, but belonged to Pan Jie-from then on, Xu Guogong justifiably sent the fine work to King Ning's mansion and to the closest position next to King Ning.

"I thought that Bishan was just conspiring for Pan Tian, and I thought that such a behavior was inconsistent with her temperament, but I heard you talk about Pan Tian...... Xiao Jingchi sighed: "Di'er, do you understand now?" In the first emperor's dynasty, the people who contributed to him for thousands of years were not the princes of the previous dynasty, nor the beauties of the harem, but her. ”

"For the Xiao family, the county lord of Bishan, who gave up his husband and children, Xiao Bangzheng."