Chapter 297: The heart of the king is unpredictable
"Lei Qianliu is fooling the palace now, hehe...... Thinking about stabilizing the main palace first, let the main palace help them do something, and then the initiative is in their hands, and they can make a choice according to the situation. Whether to continue or not to continue is up to them...... It's okay, let Lei Qianliu think that the palace has agreed to his proposal. ”
"On the surface, the two sides want to cooperate, but behind the scenes, it depends on who has a deep game. If the palace can play well, maybe he can get a lot of money from them for nothing and play a trick on them. If you don't play well in this palace, it doesn't matter, the worst-case scenario, that is, you don't get anything, and you play in vain. In short, they won't be allowed to calculate the palace. ”
Hearing what the prince said, Qin Yingyue finally put her mind at ease.
Fortunately, the prince is still smart.
"Without further ado, this palace will enter the palace. You have to tell your father what Lei Qianliu and Bengong said as soon as possible, but you can't let your father think that Bengong confessed to him after thinking about it all night. The prince said.
"The concubine serves His Highness to change clothes."
"What else to serve, just put on your cloak and leave. Do you still need to dress up carefully? The prince said.
"Yes." Qin Yingyue responded.
The crown prince smiled: "This palace told my father these words truthfully, and my father will let this palace win him over." Lei Qianliu wants to see the two princesses in private, and his father will definitely allow the palace to facilitate it. In this way, those who are good people inside and outside are all in this palace. ”
Qin Yingyue flattered: "Your Highness is wise. ”
The prince smiled, although he didn't say anything more, but the smugness faintly revealed on the corners of his eyes and eyebrows showed that he was quite satisfied with his response.
When he promised Lei Qianliu before, he was already ready to truthfully tell Lei Qianliu's request to his father. That's why he said something close to a guarantee to Lei Qianliu. It's just that at that time, he didn't decide whether to tell his father about Lei Qianliu's wooing.
Now that I have made this decision, I feel relaxed in an instant.
In the end, he is the crown prince of the Wind Country, not to mention that there are so many dangers, but there are no such dangers, and all he gets is benefits, and he can't cooperate with the Thunder Country.
Infighting is infighting, and the arrogance of the country of wind cannot be lost.
"Bring the purple gold bodhisattva to the palace as well." The prince fastened his cloak and commanded.
Qin Yingyue covered the red cloth and handed it to the prince as it was.
The prince himself held this purple gold bodhisattva, went out and handed it to Zhang Fuhai, and told him to hold it and take Zhang Fuhai into the palace.
First, I went to the Qianqing Palace where the emperor lived, and heard the little eunuch say that the emperor stayed in Yilan Palace tonight.
The crown prince frowned, the old woman of the imperial concubine is a lot older, but she is still a fox. I heard that every month, my father is always in Yilan Palace for five or six days. But as for his mother, she has the dignity of a queen, and she can't see her father at all except for the fifteenth day of every month.
Because of his anxiety and panic in order to show his anxiety, even if the prince heard that the emperor was in Yilan Palace, he still took Zhang Fuhai to Yilan Palace to ask for a meeting.
As the crown prince, it is inappropriate to go to the palace of his father and concubine at night to ask for a meeting. But in a hurry, it doesn't matter if you think about it.
When I arrived outside the Yilan Palace, I asked the daughter of the little palace who was sweeping in the courtyard to pass it on. After a while, he was called to the study by the emperor.
Entering the Yilan Palace, there was a large screen in front of the dormitory, and the imperial concubine could not be seen through the situation in the bedroom. The prince naturally did not squint and went directly into the study. He gave a salute to his father and put the Zijin Bodhisattva in his hand on the desk.
"What is this?" The emperor asked.
"Returning to his father, it is a gift from the prince of Lei Guo to his sons. The son didn't dare to accept it in vain, but because he was a bodhisattva, he couldn't refuse to send it back, so he had to take it to the kilometer and ask his father to show him what to do. ”
The emperor tore off the red cloth on the Purple Gold Bodhisattva, looked at the Bodhisattva, and said with a smile: "This piece of purple gold, even in the Land of Thunder, is priceless." Lei Qianliu also made a lot of money. ”
Even if you don't have to wait for the prince's next words, you can guess a few points about Lei Qianliu's intentions.
Otherwise, he would not have given such a big gift to the prince alone, and it would be impossible for the prince to come to Yilan Palace in a hurry at night, regardless of the number of courtesies.
"The son is guilty, please punish your father!" The prince threw himself on his knees and kowtowed heavily.
"Oh? What is my son's sin? ”
Erchen was confused, and at first he didn't know the meaning of Lei Qianliu's visit, so he let him enter the prince's mansion, and heard him say something rebellious. The sons were frightened and came to ask their father for their guilt. ”
"What did he say?" The emperor asked.
In fact, I don't think it's a big deal in my heart. If the prince didn't come and confess his sins, it would be a big deal. But when the prince came and confessed his sins, it didn't matter.
He had already installed the eyeliner of the Pure Dust Division outside the Prince's Mansion and the Chenwang Mansion and the mansions of several important officials in the court, so as to grasp their contacts with the Lei Kingdom during this period of time.
The prince came to report in time, and before the people from the Dust Purification Division came, he arrived first. It can be seen that after Lei Qianliu left, he didn't dare to delay for a moment. His caution is very gratifying.
The crown prince told Lei Qianliu and him almost word for word to the emperor. Naturally, he couldn't tell the emperor about his response, lest the emperor think too much.
Instead, he said: "Erchen immediately rejected him sternly." But this Lei Qianliu was a cheeky person, and was rejected by Erchen, but he was embarrassed to say that Erchen should not make up his mind so quickly. What to say, his words came too suddenly, Erchen didn't have time to think about it, he was willing to give Erchen some days to think about it, just refuse, Erchen didn't say it. Erchen immediately issued an eviction order, but he still said cheekily that he asked Erchen to help him facilitate the meeting with the two princesses. In the end, Erchen directly asked the family in the house to 'invite' him out of the Hina Phoenix Courtyard. ”
When the emperor heard this, he smiled and said, "My son is right-hearted, and this reaction is indeed not bad." But I did feel a little anxious. In fact, if you give him a puzzle, there is no need to refuse so harshly. ”
The crown prince lowered his head, as if thinking about the emperor's words, and did not answer immediately.
After a while, he suddenly said, "Erchen is blunt." Speaking of which, I was really frightened by his words. I was busy picking it up for a while, and I lost my sense of proportion. Now that I think about it carefully, if Erchen and him are vain, it will be more beneficial to our Fengguo. In that way, we are in the dark, and he is in the light. Now it's all in the open. Erchen is really reckless and extremely narrow-minded! All he thinks about is to preserve his innocence. I still hope that my father is not strange. ”
The prince's tone was quite self-reproachful, and he hung his head in remorse.
The emperor smiled and said, "It's okay, he won't take your reaction to heart when I think about it." Since he dared to tell you this, he naturally expected that you would agree. ”
"How could the son agree to such a ridiculous offer? If he didn't say this rebellious remark, and Erchen knew that Ning'er was indeed interested in him, out of consideration for the two countries and Ning'er's lifelong happiness, Erchen would help him facilitate this meeting. But with such a proposal, Erchen can never get along with him again! ”
The emperor nodded, with a satisfied look in his expression. After thinking for a while, he said, "Well, when you go back, you send someone to tell him, and say that you are willing to facilitate this meeting for him." ”
The crown prince was very surprised: "Father? In this way, he will inevitably think that Erchen is willing to cooperate with them. ”
"It doesn't hurt for them to think so. Didn't he say that he would give you a large sum of money as a reward, and that he would have the opportunity to earn them a sum of money in the future. As to whether the information given to them is true or not, they cannot make a conclusion. If we don't have this opportunity to knock them off, we should fool them, and we have nothing to lose. ”
The crown prince thought carefully for a while before he said, "Yes, father." Erchen understood. ”
"It's just ......," the prince worried, "Erchen is worried, will he not just want to see Ning'er, will he do something bold?" ”
"In the Prince's Mansion, he doesn't have the guts," the emperor said, "and tell him that you made this happen for him, and I have my own arrangements for the rest of the matter." ”
"Yes, my son obeys." Prince Road.
The emperor covered the red cloth on the purple gold bodhisattva again, and said with a smile: "This purple gold bodhisattva is a good thing, you take it back and put it in a good place, to add some more auspicious air to your prince's mansion." ”
"Yes, my son's father's favor." The prince did not refuse, thanked him happily, and stepped forward to pick up the purple gold bodhisattva. I didn't stay much, so I asked for a retirement.
Out of the room, he handed the Bodhisattva to Zhang Fuhai, but he felt more relaxed.
In fact, he originally planned to tell the emperor the truth about his response, but just added some explanations. But after thinking about it, it is better to let his father feel that he is stupid and has no talent for rapid change, and he must not let his father have the slightest suspicion of him.
If he told his father truthfully, would his father feel that he was indecisive in the first place, so he temporarily responded to Lei Qianliu?
Quite possibly.
So after entering the Yilan Palace, he changed his mind. Sure enough, the bet was right. Instead of accusing him of being stupid, his father was quite satisfied. In this kind of thing, what my father wants to see is that he is very panicked and resolute.
After the crown prince left, the imperial concubine said worriedly: "I didn't expect that this person from the Thunder Country would be so bold and dare to beat the idea of the prince of my Wind Country." ”
"It's still the situation on the Windy Country's side. Even Lei Guo can see that the position of the crown prince of my Wind Country is not stable, let alone these hundred officials of the Wind Country? It's not a good thing to get them to think like that. I was going to get rid of the Zhenguo Mansion, but I ...... to the crown prince."
He has no intention of deposing the crown prince.
As soon as she heard the emperor say this sensitive word, the imperial concubine didn't dare to go next.
The emperor said: "The position of the crown prince must not be moved unless it is a last resort." It seems that I have suppressed the prince too much for a while. You have to reassure him and show his attitude. ”
Hearing what the emperor said, the heart of the imperial concubine has sunk and sunk......