When Hua Xiyan returned to Qifeng Palace, he rubbed his cheeks that were about to stiffen with laughter, and sat at the table drinking a large pot of tea.

I really don't know if Princess Roujia is tired with a domineering appearance with a neck raised and a pair of eyes slanted all day long?

"Really, you can't stand it after just pretending for a while?" Yun Qi suddenly appeared outside the window, and asked Hua Xiyan, who was adjusting his facial features in the mirror, with a smile.

Hua Xiyan put down the bronze mirror in his hand and said expressionlessly: "I finally know why Yun Wei and Shen Jia have cold faces. ”

"Why?"

"Save your energy." Hua Xiyan gave a very pertinent answer, and nodded very affirmatively to confirm his statement, "It seems that I am also suitable for facial paralysis." ”

Yun Qi pushed his right hand slightly and rolled in from the window, sat opposite Hua Xiyan and poured himself a cup of tea, and said to himself: "I thought you would be very happy to go to Li Hou to set up music today." ”

Hua Xiyan rolled his eyes helplessly: "Do you think I'm idle and bored?" Didn't she have two cognitions? ”

"First, you and I are against each other. Second, you and Wen Xia are opposed. ”

"Clever." Hua Xiyan smiled and patted Yun Qi's hand.

"There are a lot of people who send them to the enemy's camp, but it's the first time I've seen you so blatantly, and it's still your own big girl." Yun Qi shook his head and sighed, unable to hear whether it was helplessness or praise.

"How shrewd Empress Li's people are, she has always arranged for others to do their part, where can other people's people enter the Luohuang Palace?" Hua Xiyan said very self-awarely, "Besides, I don't expect to ask Xia Neng to gain any trust from her, as long as she plays a small role at a critical moment." ”

"For example, throw that stone to the Falling Phoenix Palace." Yun Qi said, "But I don't understand a little, ask Xia how he got close to that place?" ”

"Of course I can't get close to Ask Xia." Hua Xiyan shook his head, and suddenly felt a little proud, "I smeared some cod liver oil on that piece of jade, and sprinkled some luminous powder, and asked Wen Xia to casually throw that stone near Luohuang Palace." The wild cat asked, the smell must have picked up the piece of jade and ran around, maybe it would fall somewhere in the Luohuang Palace. When evening comes, my men will go over again, find the location of the stone with the glow-in-the-dark powder, and fight in that place. ”

"So much trouble? It's better to have your secret guard bring a stone over and throw it on the spot when the time comes. ”

"The Wang family's secret guard is not as good as your Yun family's secret guard." Hua Xiyan rolled her eyes helplessly, "Do you think Empress Li's people are vegetarians?" Drop something on the spot, so many of them can't find it? ”

"Who asked you to send all the secret guards of the Marquis Wenxuan Mansion out." Yun Qi was a little gloating.

"I entered Beijing to protect the safety of the Xie family." Hua Xi said a little sullenly, "Otherwise, it may be solved at some point." ”

"I didn't know that you were so kind to protect the people of the Xie family." Yun Qi said sarcastically.

"I'm here to protect Sheaky." Hua Xiyan immediately retorted, "The person who secretly killed me so many times, I always want to meet him, right?" ”

After that, he added: "This is the morality of the rivers and lakes!" ”

Yun Qi hooked his lips and smiled, thinking, "I really know how to play"!

"Before, I thought that Empress Li might not make a move against the Xie family, but now, it may not be."

"You brought back that bad memory for her." Yun Qi said, with a little more sympathy for Empress Li in his words.

"There have been too many things these days, Emperor Tianlong's large-scale search, the Li family is also trembling, although Empress Li is also anxious in the palace, she has to forget about Li Shuzhen. When she saw that stone today, she naturally thought that she had found out that the person who chased and killed Li Shouzhen was also such a stone, so it would sound that the person who killed Li Shouzhen was from the Xie family. ”

"The mutual protection of the family is already vulnerable, and Li Shouzhen's matter is even more shaky. According to Empress Li's thoughts, she must feel that the Xie family has already had two hearts for the Li family, plus something happened this time, in case the Xie family finally confessed to the Li family, I am afraid that she will attack the group of people in the Xie family first. Hua Xiyan's shining eyes looked at Yun Qi quietly, and said slowly, "After all, there is nothing more important than saving one's own life." ”

Yun Qi was noncommittal, and then asked, "So you sent Xia over this time to inquire about the relationship between the Li family and the Xie family at any time?" ”

Hua Xiyan nodded: "Also, I want to know why the Xie family spares no effort to help the Li family, even at the expense of privately casting weapons, if it is discovered, this will be a tragedy - for example, now." ”

"There are too many doubts right now." Yun Qi Ruyu's hand rested on the table, as if in contemplation, "The relationship between the big families is really confusing. ”

Hua Xiyan felt that he was becoming more and more incomprehensible, especially the relationship between the Xie and Li families.

"That's right." Hua Xiyan saw a letterhead on the desk under the window, and suddenly thought of what happened just now, "Princess Shushen said that she wanted to marry you, what's going on?" ”

Hua Xiyan felt that she was really drunk, since she and Yun Qi returned to Beijing, there had been constant turmoil, and this family affair was remembered one by one. First, a group of people proposed to her, and then a group of people rushed to marry Yunqi. Although it seemed that the situation was good, Hua Xiyan was still a little unhappy, because she could obviously see that Yun Yang Wenqing, who wanted to marry her, had no feelings for her, and it was all for some purpose. But the group of people who want to marry Yun Qi will have love in their eyes at any time!

"She said today that she was going to marry me, and then I said that if that happens, Princess Mingyue is afraid that she will be fine. She proposed that she could take out the marriage paper and give it to me for safekeeping, so that Princess Mingyue would be more likely to accept her. Yun Qi said quietly, and suddenly hurriedly promised, "This is what she said, but I didn't agree!" ”

"It's a good idea!" Hua Xiyan nodded, "Although it is a little despicable, it is simple and rude." ”

Yun Qi looked at Hua Xiyan silently, thinking that what he said was not despicable as the method you used to deal with He Lanyue.

The two were gossiping, and the voice of Ziyi came from outside.

Yun Qi tilted his head slightly, and with a serious look, it was not difficult to see that the two of them were transmitting the sound into the secret.

After a moment, Yun Qi came back to his senses, saw Hua Xiyan looking at him motionlessly, and asked seriously, "Have you heard that there is a second prince in the Holy Heaven?" ”

Hua Xiyan nodded: "The crown prince is the eldest son of the emperor, followed by the fifth prince Ning Xi, the ninth prince Ning Yu, and the remaining one who survived is the second prince Ning Hui, but I heard that these two princes have not been in the palace since he was a child, so there are not many records of him among the people...... Why did you suddenly think of this? ”

"Ning Hui's mother made a mistake, so she was given to die, and then Ning Hui was affected and was freed in Yangzhou, never being cared for."

Hua Xiyan knows how much the royal family attaches importance to blood, especially the prince, how can a good prince be kept out and not remembered?

"So what crime did his mother commit?"

"Ning Hui's mother was originally a servant girl beside Empress Li, and was later taken by Emperor Tianlong, and after giving birth to Ning Hui, she was named Concubine Li. Later, I heard that it was poisoned in your mother's diet, and she was found and executed. ”

"Poisoning?" Hua Xiyan frowned, "To my mother?" ”

She thought it was incredible, because she had always heard that her mother had a very good reputation in the palace, and no one ever grudged, and a person born as a palace maid poisoned the queen, was it a little too bold?

"So you were born in poor health, it should be because Queen Lixin was poisoned at that time." Yun Qi further analyzed.

"This concubine either carried the black pot for others, or was instructed by others." Hua Xiyan said, in an affirmative tone.

Yun Qi bowed: "Yes, and I suspect that this matter may have something to do with what happened to my eldest brother back then." ”

Hua Xiyan remembered that Yun Qi had said that his eldest brother had an accident after returning home from a banquet in the palace, and he almost suffered a similar hardship, but fortunately he was rescued.

"These old things, if you check it, I'm afraid it's not easy."

"No matter how hard it is, you have to find out." Yun Qi said, his tone firm and unmatched.

That was his eldest brother, the elder brother of a fellow mother, and if he couldn't even find out the truth about his death, he would really be a brother in vain.

"So what's wrong with Ning Hui now?" Hua Xiyan felt that it should be impossible for Yun Qi to say this for no reason.

"Ning Hui is missing."

Since Hua Xiyan and Ning Hui didn't know each other, these words didn't cause her much shock, she just listened to Yun Qi quietly: "After I became sensible, I once went to see Ning Hui, and later sent someone to protect him, and only then did Ziyi tell me that Ning Hui was missing, and it has been a while." ”

"How long is a period of time?"

Yun Qi shook his head: "The people I sent over only occasionally went to take a look, after all, they are grandiose, I can't keep an eye on them, but it is conservatively estimated that there will be more than two or three months." ”

Hua Xiyan knew that Ning Hui was one of the few people who had a connection with the events of the year, so the significance to Yun Qi was extraordinary, and Yun Qi naturally couldn't watch him have an accident, so he said: "Send someone to find it first, the situation may not be so bad." ”

"I've found him." Yun Qi suddenly said something that didn't match the preface, which made Hua Xiyan completely blind.

"It's been many years since I saw him before, so I don't really remember him, the last time I saw him I was just a little skeptical, but now, I'm almost sure it's him."

Not sure why. A strange feeling suddenly rose in Hua Xiyan's heart, I don't know if it was because of the worry about this half-brother or something else.

I heard her suddenly lower her voice and ask cautiously, "I...... Have you seen him? ”

Yun Qi looked at Hua Xiyan, met her expectant gaze, and finally nodded slowly.

Hua Xiyan only felt a sudden chill in his heart, and there was an inexplicable feeling, which seemed to be excited, and seemed to be weird, in short, there were mixed tastes.