Kunning Palace.

The queen sat on the soft couch, a maid half knelt on her knee and held a beauty mallet for her to beat her legs gently, she sometimes smiled, sometimes frowned, between gestures, all of them were elegant and noble, she was very well maintained, at first glance, it was only twenty-six or seventeen years old, but in fact, the queen was more than thirty.

There is a low table in the soft couch, and there is an endgame on the low table, the queen is pinching the white child, slowly dropping the chess pieces with a smile, raising her eyes to look at the person opposite, and the other side of the low table is sitting on the other side of the short table, which is the crown prince Song Chengyin.

Song Chengyin was dressed in a bright yellow prince's court dress, seven feet tall, his face was like a crown of jade, and the golden crown with black hair was inlaid with two identical symmetrical and round southern pearls, which exuded a faint brilliance in the faint candlelight.

"Even if the words of the Taoist priest are really credible, but after all, it is a daughter's body, and there are many ways to destroy a woman!"

Song Chengyin pinched the hand of the black chess and paused, his eyes were cold, and then he only heard him: "The queen mother is right, it is the sons and daughters who are disturbing themselves!" ”

The queen was also very happy that Song Chengyin could take care of the overall situation, and she understood it thoroughly, and then said: "There is finally someone around you to serve you, and the queen mother is relieved, your father is still young, and there are some things in your hands, just take a little bit of it, don't wait until you can't take it to remember, it's too late then!" ”

Song Chengyin bowed his head, but he didn't forget to twist the chess pieces in his hand, and took advantage of the queen's speech to find an entry point, and took out five chess pieces at once.

Before the queen could react, she had already suffered a heavy loss, but she was not angry, but very pleased.

"Son, remember!" Song Chengyin suddenly shook his hand, his eyebrows twisted slightly, looked at the chessboard and said: "What the queen mother said, I have a sense of proportion, but my uncle is ......."

When the queen heard Song Chengyin mention Chu Jungui, her eyebrows were also troubled, and she was thinking about what to say, but she never thought that Song Chengyin fell with a black chess piece again, and she had lost everything.

The queen waved her hand and called the maid who beat her legs down, took a sip of hot tea, and then continued: "You don't care about your uncle's affairs, focus on the canonization ceremony in two days!" ”

Song Chengyin nodded, the queen here just wanted to pick up the teacup, and suddenly thought of something, and asked suspiciously: "The emperor has newly canonized a concubine, named Qin Yue, who is the eldest daughter of Zhongyi Bofu, and a side concubine next to you, and she is a cousin of her relatives?" ”

Song Chengyin stiffened his face and didn't speak.

The queen threw the teacup on the table and snorted coldly, and the maids who were waiting on the side were so frightened that they held their breath, and the hall was suddenly silent.

"Concubine Xian, a slut, is used to doing such tricks!"

"The queen mother is angry!" Song Chengyin's tone became cold, "It's just a woman, the queen mother doesn't have to worry!" ”

"A woman? Yin'er, you are still too young, some things, just one woman, is enough to ruin everything you have! The queen was a little excited, and held the teacup in her hand, as if she was about to crush it.

Song Chengyin's eyes gradually showed murderous intent, "Didn't the queen mother teach her sons and ministers to destroy a woman, is there a way?" ”

The queen gradually calmed down, and her beautiful eyes turned, "Yin'er, you remember, everyone envies the brocade clothes and jade food within the palace walls, but in fact, this is the most pickled and filthy place!" ”

"Yes, Erchen understands!"

……

The draft that caused panic in the whole of Kyoto finally came to an end, and it can be said that a few families are happy and a few are sad.

As soon as the palace door was locked, Yuan Yan was invited to King Cheng's mansion.

The Chengwang Mansion at night is like a sleeping beast, full of majesty and vigilance.

As soon as he entered the second gate, he only heard the sound of horses' hooves gradually stopping, Yun Ling, the general of Yun, turned over and dismounted, threw the reins to the little man's hand, and the person strode up, putting one hand on Yuan Yan's shoulder.

"The prince's marriage has finally been decided, and your kid is really fast enough, now I'm the only one left!" Yun Ling walked and walked, and when he saw that Yuan Yan suddenly didn't leave, he simply put his whole hand on his shoulder and grabbed him.

I was about to ask him what the situation was, but I heard him say coldly: "Put it down!" ”

In the faint moonlight, Yuan Yan's expression was unusually cold, Yun Ling shuddered for a moment, then took his hand down, and snorted indifferently, "I don't owe you any money for this virtue!" ”

Yuan Yan ignored him, and walked straight to King Cheng's study, Yun Ling only felt an indescribable suffocation in his heart, and when he saw Yuan Yan walking away, he was busy and chased after him.

The big dye vat of the palace has been muddyed a little bit by the draft, and King Wu of Cheng sat in the study, looking at the folds piled up as high as a mountain, his face was like frost.

The little servant told Yuan Yan and Yun Ling to ask to meet, and King Cheng asked them to come in in a deep voice, and Yuan Yan and Yun Ling greeted each other at the same time.

"Congratulations to the prince!" Yun Ling has a straightforward temperament, and he has been in the army all the year round, and he is simply different from Yuan Yan, "I heard that the new princess is Zheng Jinxuan, the eldest daughter of the Marquis of Dingyuan, the prince is really a blessing!" ”

King Cheng excused himself, he sat down very casually as if he was in his own home, picked up the new tea next to him and took a big sip.

King Cheng shook his head with a smile, and Yuan Yan was also seated here.

"The Marquis of Dingyuan has never participated in the party struggle, and this time he sent his daughter to the palace draft, I think it is the intention of the Queen Mother!"

When Yun Ling heard this, he didn't laugh at the moment, put on a serious face, and said: "The power of the queen and the crown prince is all over the court, since the emperor has the heart to support the prince, this is a great opportunity!" ”

King Cheng nodded silently, did not answer Yun Ling, but turned his head to look at Yuan Yan, who was sitting in danger.

"I heard that you have appointed the second daughter of the third son of the Zhongyi Uncle's house?"

Yuan Yan got up and replied yes, King Cheng nodded and thought about something, Yun Ling smiled slyly and teased: "I thought that you would not have a family if you were at least less than thirty, and I still wanted to take you as an example and prevaricate my father, but who knows, in the blink of an eye, it will be married, which is really beyond the reach of the whip!" ”

Yuan Yan didn't care, he didn't take Yun Ling's ridicule in his eyes at all, he and Yun Ling were the same age, they almost grew up together, and the two were able to make friends because they had similar interests, but this temperament was very different.

"The five girls of the Qin family are not from a high background, firstly, they were set by my father in his early years, and secondly, they are not from a high background, which must not be a bad thing!"

"Ouch, I can't see that you're also an obedient person!" Yun Ling added two more sentences.

Seeing that Yuan Yan was about to get angry, King Cheng coughed lightly, picked up a fold on the table, stepped forward and handed it to Yuan Yan, Yuan Yan got up and took it, only glanced at it twice, and closed it.

"Since the Fengcheng River Dam burst, I have already noticed the movement on the Qingzhou side, Xiangtian is the prince of the party, I have already asked people to stop it, Qingzhou occupies a geographical advantage, rich in materials, not far from Kyoto, if you want to do something, it is too easy, this place, you have to arrange carefully, according to the prince's opinion?"

King Cheng did not answer Yuan Yan directly, but looked at Yun Ling.

Yun Ling, as the prince of Huainan, is young but is already a general who can command 100,000 elite soldiers, and his ability is absolutely not to be underestimated, the prince wants to envelop him for a long time, as long as he is enveloped, it is equivalent to holding 100,000 elite soldiers in his hands, and Yun Ling not only has the talent to lead the troops, but also has a unique eye for employing people.

Yun Ling saw that the Cheng Dynasty looked like him, pretended not to see it, reached out and clenched his fist to cover his lips and coughed lightly twice before diverting his gaze, King Cheng saw some clues, smiled helplessly, reached out and gently patted Yuan Yan's shoulder.

"What did the officials say?"

Seeing that Yuan Yan didn't mean to be soft, Yun Ling didn't mean anything even if he was tense, "The entire ministry belongs to the prince, the prince has made such a big effort to make such a big move, he must have been eyeing Qingzhou for a long time, if you want to make the prince can't reach in at all, it's impossible!" ”

King Cheng's brows couldn't help but tighten a little more, his elbows rested on the table, his finger bones behind his back knocked regularly, and he looked at Yuan Yan in a blink of an eye, "This matter is not in a hurry!" ”

Yuan Yan took over and said: "Now is the canonization ceremony of the crown princess, and the prince hasn't moved so fast, otherwise I will send two people over to explore the way first, and then make arrangements?" ”

"That's fine!" At present, it can only be like this, if you want to hurry, you can't reach it, the emperor is still young, at least for ten years, there will not be much turmoil.

Yun Ling saw that this matter had come to an end, so he talked about the current matter.

"I heard that the crown princess is Xie Danyu, the granddaughter of the British duke?" Yun Ling dusted off his robe and looked at Yuan Yan, "Isn't the British Duke going to be a minister?" Now it's involved again, what do you mean? ”

When Yuan Yan heard this, a rare smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Zhishi is just pretending, even if it is a British real Zhishi, doesn't he have three sons under him!" ”

King Cheng was silent for a while, "After this period of time, let's see how the wind is going, the most important thing at the moment is this year's Spring Season, the prince's side, pull out a thread, it is a large piece, after the Spring Festival, the carrion can be dug up piece by piece, it is best to take the opportunity to bring the Criminal Department over!" ”

King Cheng's appetite has always been not small, and this Yuan Yan and Yun Ling know it.

King Cheng lost his mother since he was a child, although he is the prince, but the emperor's heirs are more than one or two, if he is thrown in the palace and left to fend for himself, I am afraid that it will not take two or three years to die due to 'violent disease'!

Fortunately, the eldest princess was pitied, the eldest princess was a believer in Buddhism, and she had a compassionate heart, no matter who she was, she was always kind, so when she saw the lonely and helpless King Cheng, she aroused her pity.

King Cheng grew up under the knees of the eldest princess since he was a child, until the eldest princess died a few years ago.

Since then, for some reason, the princes have either died early or become violently ill one by one, and only six or seven survived in the end, and their qualifications were mediocre.

After the crown prince was established, there was no one among the princes who could compete with him, and there was a queen behind the prince, a national uncle, and the queen mother and the Taifu Li family, which were not easy to mess with.

Seeing that the crown prince's power gradually increased, the emperor finally realized that he could not let the prince develop like this, otherwise it would endanger his throne sooner or later.

Because of the growth of the crown prince, King Cheng was able to be seen by the emperor, and in order to maintain the balance between the court, King Cheng was able to build a mansion in Kyoto and not send him to a remote domain.

On the one hand, King Cheng is for the sake of the common people, on the other hand, he also does not want to live up to the nurturing grace of the eldest princess, and moreover, as a prince, if you want to live, you must have the ambition to dominate the world.