Chapter 169: Compromise

Ning Xuanli didn't go to the side of the place, he went to the Zhenyu Pavilion opposite Yihong Building, and went directly to the third floor, the little second didn't know this person, and quickly stopped this person: "Hey, I said who are you?" The person wearing it looks like a person, how can you break in casually? ”

The shopkeeper had a small eye, and at this moment, his eyes widened to see Ning Xuanli's face clearly, and he kicked the little er: "This is our big shopkeeper, I don't have any eyesight." ”

After saying this, the small-eyed shopkeeper hurriedly nodded and said: "The third floor has been listening to your orders, and no outsiders have ever entered, this is the key, and the small one will go to open the door for you." ”

Ning Xuanli was in a hurry, and he couldn't wait for the fat shopkeeper to go upstairs slowly, almost snatched the key, and then went up to the third floor, and said while going upstairs: "Go to the opposite side and find the second shopkeeper back." ”

"Yes, the little one will go right away."

There are tools for him to make human skin masks on the third floor, he entered the door and closed the door first, and then began to make human skin masks seriously, he didn't wait in the room for a long time, the fifth brother hurriedly ran over, because he was afraid of delaying Ning Xuanli's call, he didn't even buckle his clothes, Ning Xuanli glanced at him, and teased: "You are romantic." ”

"Master, what did you say, I can't help it. But don't say it, your subordinates really have some gains. The fifth brother buttoned himself and said with a bit of a chicken thief.

"What's the catch? Let's hear it. ”

"Master, this nine-story building that we have been trying to investigate seems to be hidden in this Yihong Building."

Ning Xuanli was carefully rinsing the slurry water to remove the smell of the potion on the human skin, he had already made this human skin mask, and now he just took it out of the potion, rinsed off the smell of the potion, and then it could be used.

When he heard this, he stopped his movements, glanced at the Yihong Mansion opposite curiously, and asked seriously, "What do you say?" ”

"Master, in fact, the subordinates also guessed, because the matter of Miss Yan of the General's Mansion before, his palace Xuanzheng was clearly spread through the Nine-Story Building, otherwise his subordinates would not have imagined that there was any other way to prevent it from having such a great influence, and the matter of Miss Yan was only spread in just half a day. But he Gong Xuanzheng just came to Yihong Mansion for a while, and it was morning, didn't he happen to be touched by me? Later, I felt that something was wrong, and asked Peony in private, and Peony said that she had met Gong Xuanzheng who had been to the top floor of the Yihong Mansion. ”

"The top floor? The top floor of Yihong Mansion is not open to the public, which can only prove that this Yihong Building is Gong Xuanzheng's territory, and the nine-story building, as far as I know, there are a lot of people, a small top floor, how to install it? And how did those people's food, clothing, etc., solve these things? Although it's a secret guard, you still have to eat food, and no matter how big the area of the top floor is, it's impossible. ”

Although the analysis is reasonable, the fifth brother feels that the top floor is weird, and he can't help but say with some chagrin: "Master, I just think that the top floor is weird, otherwise that thing doesn't make sense at all, otherwise how about giving the fourth brother a chance to go and investigate?" ”

"Xiao Si is doing well in the palace, and he is in an important position, so don't bother him with our affairs. At the beginning, there were nine secret guards, except for your boss, two in the palace and six outside the palace, it was not a matter in the palace, don't look for them. By the way, there is an accident in the prince's mansion, the prince will die of illness tonight, after the prince dies of illness, the prince will be arranged by me in Beiyuan, you remember to protect the prince's safety when the time comes......."

Before Ning Xuanli's words were finished, the fifth brother had already grown his mouth, and whispered in disbelief: "Master, what did you say?" How could the prince have died of illness if he is fine? And the prince has already died of illness, why do you want me to protect the prince's safety? Isn't that a contradiction? ”

"Can you hear me?"

"Uh, yes!!"

But this Ning Xuanli stopped talking, and carefully picked up the thin layer of human skin mask with bamboo tweezers from the bleached slurry, and when the fifth brother saw this, he immediately took the transparent box and packed the mask, and then carefully wrapped it, and asked in a low voice: "Master, what do you mean by that?" ”

Ning Xuanli ignored him, just picked up the portrait of the prince on the desk in front of him, walked to the burning candle, and burned the portrait clean, leaving only a place of gray.

"Master, this prince's mask, you have already done it, have you already done it?"

Ning Xuanli didn't answer his words immediately, just put the mask in his arms and put it away, and then whispered: "Of course, the crown prince is not dead, how can the king of Japan ascend the throne." ”

The voice of these words was too small, and the fifth brother didn't hear it clearly, but he seemed to hear the word enthronement.

"You go to Beiyuan now, I have ordered Yujin to secretly send the prince out of the East Palace, you are in Beiyuan, you must ensure that the prince cannot take half a step out of Beiyuan, and no one is allowed to find out that the prince is in our hands, otherwise, I will be the one who will be imprisoned at that time."

Seeing that the master said so seriously, the fifth brother hurriedly nodded solemnly and said, "I will swear to protect the safety of the prince to the death, and I will not let the prince be discovered by anyone." ”

Ning Xuanli saw that he was serious, and knew that although this person was a little greedy, he was still serious and careful in doing things, but this matter was very important, and he was ready to leave, but he still turned around and said: "Yujin is now in Beiyuan, and the two of you are optimistic about the prince together." ”

"Yes, thank you, master."

When the fifth brother heard that Yujin was in Beiyuan, he was already happy in his heart, so he quickly changed his outfit and went to Beiyuan.

When he arrived in Beiyuan, in addition to Yujin, there were some other people near Beiyuan, although they were all pretending to be neighbors, but they were really looking at the prince, the prince had changed his clothes at the moment, he was also a little worried in his heart, looked at Yujin beside him and asked, "Is Ning Xuanli sure that he can do this well?" My queen mother is not easy to fool. ”

"It is precisely because our son knows that the queen mother is not easy to fool, so he sent you out of the East Palace and let that Jiuze act as the dead you, but maybe the queen mother will not be able to accept your sudden death, and will blame the princess very much, and the princess may have to suffer."

"Seventh sister?"

This Yujin was trying to comfort the prince, the prince's heart was unstable, and a light voice broke in, Yujin heard this voice, and knew who was coming, and couldn't help but roll his eyes.

"What are you going to do?"

"Our son said, let me help you."

The fifth brother is quite serious at the moment, when he saw his clothes before, Yujin had never been normal when he saw his clothes, either he was procrastinating, or his belt had not been tied, and he hurriedly ran back from Yihong Mansion many times, and there were lipstick marks on his clothes, when he thought of this, Yujin's face was as ugly as eating a fly.

"Help me? Help me with what? ”

"I want to understand the general situation, since someone wants to poison our prince, if one trick fails, there must be a follow-up move, the prince said that you are afraid that you can't take care of it alone, let me help you."

When the fifth brother said this, he did not shy away from the prince at all, the prince came over, and the fifth brother saluted the prince, and the prince didn't care about these courtesies, and he didn't pay attention to them, and he entered the room by himself, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

After all, the crown princess is a woman, and there is such a big thing at this moment, she has some six gods and no masters, and she kneels in front of the statue of Guanyin who worships incense at this moment, wanting to seek some peace of mind.

"Crown Princess, Ning Gongzi is back."

When the princess heard the words of the personal girl, she immediately got up, Ning Xuanli came in and saluted the princess first, at this moment Jiu Ze had been moved to the prince's bed, changed into the prince's clothes, and even the prince's personal jade pendant and other things were all put on Jiu Ze's body, and there were also a lot of medicine bowls around it, sprinkled with a lot of bloodstains, causing a scene that had just died.

Ning Xuanli sat on the edge of the bed, and the crown princess saw Ning Xuanli take out the human skin mask from her arms, and saw with her own eyes that Jiu Ze, who had been dead for a long time, had become the appearance of the prince because of the human skin mask.

"Crown Princess, come and see, do you look like it?"

The crown princess was a little hesitant, and walked in with the support of the maid, and then opened the eye-catching curtain, and looked at it for a while before nodding and saying, "Like, but not like,"

"Why doesn't it look like it?"

The crown princess looked at it carefully, and only after a while did she say: "If you talk about facial features, it is very similar." Even if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is really standing here, the concubine will have to make a little excuse at a glance, but Ning Gongzi, this person is dead, and his face is not the color of a dead person, you look at that face, although it is a little pale, but it does not look like it is poisoned at all, think about it, how ugly that face was when Jiu Ze died before. ”

Ning Xuanli nodded: "Then the troublesome princess brought your eyebrow powder, the eyebrow powder is gray, and there is a faint cyan color when it is painted, it should be like the hard vegetable green after the dead." ”

When the little girl beside the crown princess heard this, she immediately went over and brought the eyebrow powder, Ning Xuanli asked in a low voice while smearing it: "The princess was unwilling before, why is she no longer obsessed with it now?" ”

The crown princess sighed, seemed to lose her heart and bones all of a sudden, softened her body, found a chair at random and sat down, her tone was very helpless: "He is willing to agree to your plan, thinking of cheating death, that can only show that he is willing to die rather than be at the mercy of her mother, to do such a bloody struggle for power and profit, I know him, the crown prince position when he was a child was originally asked by the queen and the emperor, not what he wanted, so many years, a person does not like that position, why stubbornly have to tie him to that position." , losing his life in vain. ”

"It's rare for the princess to be so transparent and able to understand the prince's choice, but the queen is stubborn, and it is estimated that the princess is going to suffer."

"It's okay for me to suffer, when this fake prince is found out to be poisoned by the third brother, my father will definitely not let go of the third brother's wolf ambition, and when the third brother goes to the Zongren Mansion, the prince will be able to have a peaceful life at that time."

The crown princess is soft-hearted, knowing that the so-called prince fakes his death is simple, but if the prince wants to come back, it is impossible, so she knows what she gave up by making a compromise today, she gave up her position as the mother of the country in the future, but she feels that she is one step closer to the prince, as long as the princess sees the dead Jiuze, how afraid she is that if the person lying here is the prince, what should she do?

She was terrified, she could not want her glory and wealth, but she could not really let him die in front of her.

She stared at Jiu Ze, who had been disguised, in a daze, and didn't dare to imagine what she would be like if the real prince was lying here.