Chapter 33: The Fisherman's Profit
Two days later, in the middle of the night, the dark and damp inner prison welcomed a rare guest.
The man was slender and muscular, wrapped in a black cloak and scarf, revealing only a pair of eyes as sharp as an eagle, which shone in the dark night.
The servant behind him slightly touched the jailer who was keeping vigil, and the jailer shook the silver in his hand, as if he was disgusted. It was inconvenient for the visitor to show his face, so he gave the servant a look, and the servant understood, and handed the jailer a large ingot of silver, and the jailer reluctantly led the way for him.
At that time, King Chang was locked in a separate room, resting, and a dim oil lamp emitted a faint glow of fireflies, which became more and more dark and boundless.
The man waved away the jailer and the servant, and looked around by this faint light, and saw that the tables, stools, and beds were simple but complete, and a jug of sake was halfway on the table, and the jug and the cup were in pairs, but he did not feel lonely. It seems that the prince of the Great Jin Dynasty was not treated harshly, but his freedom was restricted. But just like that, for King Chang, who has always been arrogant and conceited, it is tantamount to inflicting all kinds of torture tools on him.
Thinking of this, the man smiled silently, and saw that there were only him and King Chang around, and there was no one else, so Fang took off the cloak and hat and face towel on his head, sat at the table at will, and slowly poured himself the wine, as if he was not in a hurry to wake up King Chang.
The sound of pouring wine sounded very crisp in the dark night, but it was not very loud, but the person on the bed sat up as if he had been stung by a bee suddenly, and when he saw the face of the person who came, he quickly stabilized his mind, put on his coat, and slowly walked to sit down opposite the person, looked at the person coldly, and did not say a word.
The man looked at King Chang opposite, first looked at King Chang carefully, and then suddenly laughed a few times, put down the wine jug, and said softly: "Just now I saw that the second brother was sleeping so deeply, and I thought that the second brother had already figured out how to get out. But...... In this big inner prison, who is the second brother pretending to be? Don't...... The second brother is afraid that the third brother's meticulous work is being monitored here? ”
King Chang snorted coldly when he heard this: "The third child has spies in the inner prison, isn't there no spies scattered around you in places that others don't know?" Lao Jiu (King Qi) fell, Ming Li is the hand of the third child, what about secretly, I think you know better than anyone else! ”
King Yu didn't care about King Chang's ridicule, he leisurely drank all the wine in the cup, and said while playing with the wine cup in his hand: "The second brother is really smart, he can see everything clearly, the third brother is only to blame for being too cunning, otherwise why would the second brother fall into this field?" ”
Regarding the fall of King Qi, King Chang is just speculation, but now that King Yu admits it so bluntly, King Chang thinks that King Yu's city is immeasurable, and he doesn't know how many things he has been calculated by the younger brother in front of him who pretends to be independent. So, even though King Chang was a little annoyed, he said impatiently: "If you have nothing to do, you will come at night, don't you just want to avoid the eyes and ears of the third child?" It's all nonsense, let's say it directly, it's all on this, do you think it's selling in front of your father? ”
King Yu seemed to be very patient: "Actually, I came here to make a deal with the second brother, I don't know what the second brother thinks?" ”
King Chang looked at him coldly and waited for the following.
Seeing this, King Yu put down the wine cup and said quietly: "Now that the queen has formed a party with King Gong, if the second brother wants to get out, he is afraid that it will be a blind man to light the lamp in vain by relying on a few ministers to intercede, not to mention, now these courtiers who intercede for the second brother are blocked by their father from the imperial study, and it is useless for anyone to intercede!" This shape is a big disadvantage for the second brother! So, the second brother might as well cooperate with me! As...... Just use Qiao Yun's whereabouts in exchange for the second brother's freedom, second brother, do you think this deal is very cost-effective? ”
King Chang was furious when he heard this, he narrowed his eyes slightly, and said with a few wisps of danger: "You dare to threaten me?!" ”
"Definitely!" King Yu naturally sniffed out the "danger" contained in King Chang's words, but it was only a tiger with a tooth extracted that could exert its might, and it was not really dangerous, so he still calmly replied according to the original plan, "The third brother has the support of the queen and the power is strong, and I can only fight against it by joining forces with the second brother!" ”
Hearing this, King Chang, who was originally full of anger, immediately turned cloudy and clear: "Do you have any good strategy for dealing with the third child?" ”
The fish has already taken the bait, and King Yu's lips unconsciously evoked an ambiguous smile: "If you want to deal with the third brother, you have to grab his handle, but the third brother's handle is more than one or two?" For example, the matter of the sixth brother (King Zhao) can make the third brother turn the tables! ”
At the mention of King Zhao, King Chang's complexion immediately changed greatly, and in an instant, the bottom of his eyes was like a letter hiding a poisonous snake, and he spat it out, as if he could swallow the qiē he encountered at any time. He stared straight at King Yu, got up across the table and approached him, trying his best to suppress the faint tremor in his voice: "You mean, you have evidence that the third child killed the sixth child?" Where is it? ”
King Yu looked at King Chang who reacted so fiercely in front of him, and his heart was secretly surprised and unconsciously excited, so the face on his face became mysterious: "Don't you have it in your hand?" ”
"If I have it in my hand, do I still need to deal with the third child so much?" King Chang seemed to have been stepped on the most painful spot, and the hidden hatred began to break the ice little by little, "Hmph...... The sixth has always been my left arm and right arm, and the third child broke my arm in order to make a comeback, how can I not repay this hatred? If it weren't for the lack of conclusive evidence, would I tolerate the third child in the criminal department and keep shouting to catch the thief? In the past, I really only wanted to take away the military power in the hands of the third child, but the third child was really too deceitful, and now I and the third child are incompatible, so what I want now is to use the life of the third child to pay tribute to the soul of the sixth unjustly killed! ”
King Yu looked at King Chang, who was gradually out of control, and his heart was overjoyed, and he was more smooth than he expected, so he took the opportunity to say: "Since this is the case, why don't we borrow Qiao Yun to play a good show?" This time, be sure to drag King Gong into the water! ”
However, at this moment, King Chang, who was about to get out of control, suddenly became very clear, and King Yu avoided answering the question he asked whether he had evidence that King Gong had killed King Zhao, obviously there was no such evidence, but it was just a rhetoric to find out Qiao Yun's whereabouts from his mouth, so King Chang quickly stabilized his mind and dealt carefully: "Twelve, you just want to find Qiao Yun like this?" Why don't you exchange the life of the third child? ”
"I'm afraid that all I will get by then is a dead body!" Seeing that he was about to succeed, but he fell short, King Yu didn't expect that even at this moment, King Chang was still arrogant and conceited and didn't know how to restrain himself. At this point, his patience had all been exhausted, and he said coldly to King Chang, "Second brother, don't be too greedy!" ”
"Don't be too greedy? Hum...... If you weren't greedy, you wouldn't be sitting here now! King Chang didn't enter the oil and salt, he kept the secret with an iron heart, and said resolutely, "No one can pry Qiao Yun's whereabouts out of this king's mouth, this king is waiting here to see what the third can do to this king!" ”
"You ......" King Yu was very angry, but in order to ask for Qiao Yun's whereabouts, he had to try his best to endure it. Things have developed to this point, and he has to use the last trump card, "The second brother is chic, I wonder if Jin Guifei is also as free as the second brother is now?" Has the second brother secretly investigated the origin of the queen? Could it be that the second brother was perfunctory by his father like a courtier, thinking that she was really the daughter of He Youguang, a school captain? Do you know that the queen's real surname is 'Helian'?! She is a spy sent to Yan by her father sixteen years ago, and she is the love of her father! If it weren't for the secular vision, my father wouldn't have had to spend so much time on matters after the establishment! But not long ago, I heard that the second brother's sister Princess Roujia once offended the queen, and now Jin Guifei is detained in the hands of the queen, second brother, you say, will the father and the emperor finally stand on your mother's side or the queen's side? ”
King Chang's anger disappeared when he heard this, and the words "The queen's surname is 'Helian'" turned back and forth in King Chang's mind a few times, and King Chang came back to his senses. After returning to his senses, King Chang had already believed seven or eight points, but he still reluctantly said: "There is no evidence, why should I believe what you say?" ”
"Then please give me a reason why my father and the emperor braved the disapproval of the world to make He Lanjun the queen!"
"You ......" King Chang was speechless, so he had to grit his silver teeth secretly and look at King Yu coldly.
King Yu is neither humble nor arrogant, meets the gaze of King Chang, and does not back down.
Time seems to be frozen suddenly at this moment, which seems to be particularly long and difficult. The icy smell in the air became more and more quiet, and it became more and more bitterly cold. However, King Chang felt that there were constantly fine beads of sweat running down his back layer by layer, and that feeling was strangely uncomfortable in the extreme heat and cold. After being calculated by Xi Ze and Lan Jun, and then calculated by King Yu, King Chang hated it in his heart, but he had to admit that he had lost the battle, and compromise was a last resort: "Why do I believe that after you get Qiao Yun, you will help me and my mother?" ”
When King Yu heard this, he knew that the purpose of this trip had been achieved, and his heart was immediately much happier, but King Chang, who was so jealous, couldn't help but make him despised, so there was an unconcealed ridicule in his words: "Second brother, have you ever heard of gamblers?" A true gambler is not afraid to lose! Only those who can't afford to lose will keep the status quo for the rest of their lives, so that the sky should not be and the earth is not spiritual! To gamble or not to gamble, this life and death are between the second brother's thoughts! ”
King Chang is indeed very angry with the arrogant and frivolous King Yu at this moment, however, if he gives up this last straw at this moment, then it will be equivalent to pushing King Yu to Xi Ze, and the two of them will join forces to deal with him alone, Helian Xiyan is his example, not to mention, he pretended to be dead and fled back, it is a great crime to bully the king, and his end may not be much better than Helian Xiyan!
At this moment, if you don't gamble, there is only a dead end, and if you gamble, there is still a glimmer of hope, King Chang's tightly clenched fist gurgled, weighed it again and again, and finally told King Yu about Qiao Yun's whereabouts.