Han Changdui was still calm, and he was not overjoyed after being rewarded and praised by the saint, but leaned over and said: "It is the duty of a courtier to be loyal and worry about the king, and the ministers dare not take credit." ”

Emperor Yongan smiled with satisfaction, slapped the armrest hard, and stood up.

Seeing this, Gao Fuguo hurriedly walked up to support Emperor Yong'an.

Emperor Yong'an slowly walked in front of Han Changdu, looked at Han Changdui with burning eyes, happy and jealous, and his expression was a little dark: "Jiuchao, you have been in Beijing for almost a year, I have taken a special fancy to you, and you have indeed not disappointed me," he raised his hand, patted Han Changdu's shoulder twice, and said seriously: "You are not the only son in the Han family's mansion, you are not the only one who can fight well in the Han family's army, and you are not the only one who can be a general, and the king of Han does not have to rely on you." ”

The sunlight poured in through the light blue glass window, and coldly fell on the face of Emperor Yong'an, the expression on his face was extraordinarily profound, and the words he said also had a deep meaning: "Jiuchao, you do a good job, you and I are in harmony with the monarch and the minister, and I rely on you." ”

Han Changwan was a little surprised, Emperor Yong'an's words were particularly strange, he actually heard the good intentions from those words, and saw in Emperor Yong'an's profound face that he was kind.

He suddenly felt weird, and shuddered inexplicably.

Emperor Yong'an is ruthless, ruthless, decisive, and scheming, but he will definitely not have it, kind.

He cheered up and responded: "Weichen understands." ”

Emperor Yong'an glanced at Han Changwan deeply: "Do you understand? Really? ”

Han Changwan stubbornly spoke: "Yes, Weichen understands His Majesty's painstaking efforts, and he will definitely live up to His Majesty's attention, and he will definitely put the court affairs first." ”

Emperor Yong'an shook his head with a wry smile helplessly, and simply made his words clear, and no longer went around in circles with Han Changdui: "No, you don't understand, it is my hard work to the courtiers to put the court affairs first, but it is my right to confess to my affairs," he paused with great difficulty before continuing: "It is my painstaking work for my sons and nephews. ”

Han Changdui suddenly realized on his face, in fact, he chuckled disdainfully in his heart, no wonder, no wonder Emperor Yong'an, such an iron-blooded and ruthless person, suddenly started to treat him with Huairou, as the prince of Han Wang, he has a heavy army, and his merits are high, and there is naturally a gap between him and Emperor Yong'an, and he has nothing to do with the monarch and ministers at all.

He thought like this, but there was a look of gratitude on his face: "Wechen understands, Your Majesty trusts him so much, Wechen is terrified and grateful." ”

Emperor Yong'an sighed, and said: "You have done a good job in the affairs of the palace of Annan County, and this matter will be handed over to you, and I will definitely find out." ”

Han Changdui calmly responded, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, knowing very well that this matter had passed without danger.

At this time, it was already noon, Emperor Yongan gave Han Changdui two food boxes, one box was a snack and the other was a meal, Gao Fuguo sent two small chamberlains to carry the food boxes and send Han Changdui out of the palace.

Under the clear sun, the side hall was even brighter, Gao Fuguo lit a stick of incense, light smoke curled, scattered with sweet aroma, he looked at Emperor Yong'an slightly closed his eyes, as if he was a little distressed, stunned for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, it's time to eat." ”

Emperor Yong'an closed his eyes and let out a "hmm".

Gao Fuguo withdrew from the palace gate, lowered his voice and said a few words outside.

After a while, a team of maidservants came in with red lacquered square trays, and gently rested the plates on the dining table.

Xu knew that Emperor Yong'an was in a bad mood, and the movements of these people were extremely light, and even the sound of breathing was faint.

Gao Fuguo carefully opened the white porcelain lid, pinched the silver needle and tried it on the plate one by one, and the aroma of the food suddenly rushed out, and even the sweet aroma of Fang Cai could not cover it.

"Your Majesty, it's time for dinner." Gao Fuguo said softly.

Emperor Yong'an suddenly opened his eyes, the essence of light flashed in the bottom of his eyes, holding Gao Fuguo's hand, and walked slowly but calmly to the dining table and sat down.

After taking a bite of Gao Fuguobu's dish, he said slowly: "You say, how credible is what Jiu Chao said?" ”

How dare Gao Fuguo say this casually, he thought about it again and again, and wondered: "This, Lord Han is a young talent, and the old slave is a straw bag, where can I guess Lord Han's thoughts." ”

One sentence made Emperor Yongan laugh, he snorted, a mouthful of soup squirted out, pointed at Gao Fuguo, and laughed: "You old thing, yes, yes, you are a straw bale." He slowly ate a few bites of roasted meat, he has always liked meat, every meal is meatless, but this season is a little hot, eating too much meat is inevitably hot, he put aside the bamboo chopsticks, shook his head: "It's hot, make a cold Tao at night." ”

Gao Fuguo hesitated, before the time was at its hottest, Emperor Yong'an was old again, and he ate cold food at night, afraid of gastrointestinal discord, but he didn't dare to persuade Emperor Yong'an to change his mind, so he thought of a compromise.

Emperor Yong'an rinsed his mouth, took the fragrant tea made by Gao Fuguo, took a shallow sip, and thought: "There is still a lot to keep an eye on in the palace of Annan County." ”

Gao Fuguo responded, he knew that no matter how conclusive Han Changwei was, he could not completely dispel Emperor Yong'an's suspicions.

This may be the way to be a king.

The carriage faced the bright warm sun at noon, ran over the bluestone road, and squeaked towards the Sixteen Princes' Mansion.

The person driving the car was Jin Yu, he waved the whip, threw out two soft sounds, the horse galloped forward suddenly, the horse's hooves fell heavily on the bluestone slab, and the horse's hooves made a loud noise.

"Shizi, the people behind have withdrawn." Jin Yu didn't look back, and said in a suppressed voice.

Through the curtain of the car, Han Changdui closed his eyes and said "um", this time the matter is particularly strange, he usually goes in and out of the palace, and no one will follow him, but this time it is different, he just got into the carriage outside the Changle Gate, and he noticed that someone was following behind the car, the carriage was slow, the carriage was slow, the carriage was fast, the tracking method was not clever, and he did not even deliberately hide his figure, as if he intended to let him know that someone was following.

Although the person who followed him didn't know who he was obeying, he couldn't escape from the people he knew.

He repeatedly scrutinized today's performance in front of Emperor Yong'an, and determined that there was no loophole, as for Emperor Yong'an's belief or disbelief, he didn't care, as long as he did it without loopholes, even if he doubted it, there was no evidence.

Trust is a very mysterious thing, sometimes it is not available, and sometimes it is easy to get.

Hard-earned trust is ultimately unstrong.

The carriage swayed through the streets and alleys, the curtains of the cars fell together, the sun flickered on and off, the high and low shouts along the street were endless, and the thick red dust and smoke made people feel warm.

Just as the carriage turned around the alley and was about to enter the gate of the Sixteen Princes' Mansion, Han Changdui suddenly opened his eyes, and a look of surprise flashed in his eyes.

He always thought that Emperor Yong'an didn't know about Gu Yanyan's existence, let alone that Gu Yanyan gave birth to a son and a daughter, and he didn't know that Xie Liangyan was actually born to Gu Yanyan, but now, he hesitated.

For Emperor Ming's relics, Emperor Yong'an seems to have always had the certainty of victory, in the past, Han Changdui couldn't figure out where he came from, but now, he seems to understand a little.

Emperor Yong'an has always been very tolerant of Xie Liangmao, generally speaking, as long as the emperor is abolished, there is no one who can live in peace, but Xie Liangmao just did it, in the past, he hid his head and tail, Emperor Yong'an couldn't touch his traces, and let him make trouble, but now he is blatantly stirring up the situation in Chang'an City, provoking right and wrong, Emperor Yong'an obviously mastered his whereabouts, but he tolerated him again and again and let him go, which may be related to his bloodline.

This thought was like a thunderbolt, and it suddenly split Han Changdu's soul to the Qingming.

Yes, that's right, it must be like that!

It must have been Emperor Yong'an who knew that Xie Liangmu was Gu Yanyan's son, and the last mechanism to open the treasure place of Emperor Ming needed the blood of the son and daughter born to Shuangshu of the Ming Palace, so he left Xie Liangmao's life and allowed him to make waves under his nose.

And Emperor Yong'an didn't know that Gu Yanyan also gave birth to a daughter, after all, when she gave birth to that daughter, it was the critical time for the kings to seize the heir, when the wind and rain were shaking, everyone's eyes were staring at the previous dynasty, and no one would notice the matter of a woman in the back house, of course, if the crown princess gave birth, it would still be able to attract the attention of others.

Later, Prince Huaizhang did something bad, and someone deliberately erased the existence of the daughter born to Gu Yanyan, so far no one can confirm whether this daughter is still alive and who it is, even if it is Xie Liangmao and Princess Annan County, it is just a guess made by listening to people's words.

Han Changdui got a glimpse of the truth in the fog, and all kinds of unsolvable chaos in the past were now clear, and he came to a conclusion after peeling back the cocoon, and his heart suddenly relaxed.

The carriage stopped suddenly, Han Changdui retracted his thoughts, tidied up his clothes, jumped out of the carriage, and slowly walked to the door of the Annan County Palace.

The two stone lions have hideous faces, and the two slowly opening vermilion lacquer doors in the middle are new and bright, and the purple gold and copper knockers on the doors shine in the sun.

He crossed the bright road in front of Emperor Yong'an, and when he walked into the palace of Annan County again, he felt relaxed.

Boarding the boat, he stepped on the island in the middle of the lake again, he looked in from the wide open window, and saw that under the sun, Yao Qi was lying on the bookcase, the whole person was serious and cold, holding a somewhat peculiar pen, and put down the pen steadily.

The piece of paper on the bookcase was half filled, except for a little blank space in the lower left corner.

On the back of the four beautiful pictures spread above the bookcase, the marks on the paper have become faint, and it seems that they are about to disappear completely in the blink of an eye.

Han Changdui walked in quietly with bated breath, his steps were extremely light, and when he walked in front of Yao Qi, he saw that her sideburns had been soaked with sweat, and her hands were trembling slightly.

He didn't dare to speak rashly, only carefully looked at the pen in Yao Qi's hand.

The thin barrel of the pen was cut into a hexagonal shape, and there was a carbon lead or something wrapped in it, and the tip of the pen was sharpened so sharply that there was only a thin strip on the paper.

His eyes narrowed, Yao Qi always had some unexpected thoughts, she always pretended to be from the book, he didn't believe that in those years of Yeting and the Beiya Forbidden Army, she would have so much leisure to read books.

"Whew, it's finally done." Yao Qi suddenly exhaled, threw the pen in his hand, clenched his fists and raised his hand, and shouted.

After shouting, she noticed that there was another person next to her, and when she raised her head, she was facing Han Changdu's eyes that seemed to be smiling, and she suddenly felt bad, if it weren't for the fact that she had always maintained a posture to draw, the whole person froze, and she was about to jump up and scream.

She grinded her teeth and squeezed out a sentence from between her teeth: "Interesting to peek? ”

Han Changdui looked innocent: "I didn't peek, I watched it openly." ”

"......" Yao Qi knotted.

Han Changwei hurriedly put the two food boxes rewarded by Emperor Yong'an on the dining table, put the food on the table, and beckoned like a treasure: "Come on, the food and snacks given by the emperor, come and taste them." ”

Yao Qi pursed his lips disdainfully, walked over slowly, sandwiched a bamboo chopstick and ate it, his apricot eyes suddenly lit up, this royal gift is different, radish is better than meat.

Han Changwan looked at Yao Qi with a smile, half joking and half emotional: "This princess of the county is so stingy, she doesn't even care about lunch." ”

Yao Ji stuffed his mouth full of food, couldn't speak clearly, and only nodded in agreement.

It's not stingy, I want the horses to run and the horses don't eat grass, the capitalists are not so ruthless.

After finishing the meal, Yao Ji changed another pen, lowered his head, and traced again along the thin line he had just drawn.

Han Changdui was surprised, leaned over and looked: "Why do you have to describe it again." ”

Yao didn't raise his head: "The imprint just painted is easy to fade, and if you draw it again, the color will be firmer." ”

Han Changdui took a closer look at the pen that Yao Ji had changed, saying that it was a pen, but it was actually a snow-white goose feather, the hardest one on the white goose wings, the root of the goose feather was sharpened, and the two strokes were dipped in the ink of the inkstone, and the lines drawn were also slender, but they were tougher than those of Fang Cai, and they had the character of iron painting silver hooks.

He knocked on the book: "What about the princess of Annan County?" ”

Yao Qi drew carefully and didn't look up: "I've gone to the front yard." ”

Han Changwan let out an "oh", looked left and right, slowly rolled up the four beauties that had been restored to a blank canvas, and said to Yao Qi: "You draw first, I'll go to see the princess of Annan County." ”

Yao Qi was noncommittal, looking at Han Changdu's expression, everything should have gone smoothly when he entered the palace just now, so how to deal with the follow-up things, how to completely dispel Emperor Yong'an's suspicions, he still has to discuss it with the princess of Annan County.

The 10,000-year-old fox has become a spirit and is not aggressive, and if it is not good, it will become a chatter.

Han Changdui walked to the door and glanced back, the sun fell on Yao Qi's body, her body was shrouded in a faint layer of gold, and her damp sideburns became darker and darker in the sun.

He felt at peace, turned and walked out, called the boatman, and sent him to the lake, all the way to the antechamber.

A huge Annan County Palace, in addition to the two serious masters of the princess of Annan County and the prince of Annan County, there are also a group of concubines and concubines left by the king of Annan County who are kept in the inner house.

The princess of Annan County finished taking care of the important matters in the house, sat down and drank a cup of tea, breathed a sigh of relief, and when she raised her eyes, she saw Han Changdui walking in, and the breath she had just relieved came up again, staring at Han Changdui eagerly: "How is it, he, is he suspicious?" ”

Han Changdui took his robe and sat down, did not speak, only took a sip of the tea offered by the maidservant.

Seeing this, the princess of Annan County knew that what Han Changdui was going to say must be something extremely important, so she retreated left and right, replaced the person brought by Han Changdui to guard the outside, looked at the four beautiful pictures in his hand, and then asked in a low voice: "What should I do with this picture?" To pay or not to pay? ”

Han Changdui bent his fingers and tapped the carved small table in his hand, and made two "tuk-tuk" soft sounds, and said openly and fairly: "If you want to completely end this matter, the princess of the county must know everything about the official, and she will say everything." ”

The princess of Annan County hesitated for a moment: "This is natural, Han Shizi asked, this concubine must have nothing to hide." ”

Han Changwan asked lightly, "How did Xia Yuanji and Shi Chun die?" Does the princess know their identities? ”

Princess Annan County bit her lower lip lightly, and said with difficulty: "Yes, I ordered An Qi to do it, Xia Yuanji, I thought he was his person, but now it doesn't look like it, Shi Chun, it's Xie Liangji's person." ”

Han Changwei nodded: "Xia Yuanji is indeed not very similar, but more like Xie Liangji's person." He paused slightly, and continued: "The painting must be handed over, but how to hand it over is to pay attention to some means. ”

When the princess of Annan County was a girl, she was very well protected by Emperor Ming, and after becoming the princess of the county, she was better protected by the king of Annan County.

When she heard Han Changdui say this, there was only one thought that flashed through her mind, handing it over is handing it over, and what means do you pay attention to, no matter how many means, she still gave in and admitted defeat and handed over the painting.

She narrowed her eyes like silk, and said blankly: "Handed it over, can there be anything else to say?" ”

Han Changdui said thoughtfully: "Naturally, there is, it is not okay to hide it and hand it over, it is better to hand it over frankly." ”

The princess of Annan County suddenly realized: "Soldiers are not tired of cheating!" ”

Han Changwan raised his lips and smiled, and suddenly thought of the question that made him feel like he was on pins and needles, and after thinking about it, he still couldn't help but ask: "Neither the princess of the county nor Xie Liangmu have seen Gu Yanyan's daughter, how do you find her, just by her looks?" ”

Princess Annan pondered for a moment, and finally sighed: "You can't count what you look like, naturally there is a way to identify it." She was immersed in the past and said slowly: "Although there are thousands of people in this world, there are thousands of people who look alike, but the people of the Ming Palace have the emblem of the Ming Palace to identify." ”

Hearing this, Han Changdui chuckled in his heart, and inexplicably remembered the strangely shaped birthmark on Yao Qi's ankle, his eyes suddenly widened, and his voice trembled: "Then, what kind of emblem is it?" ”

Princess Annan County was a little surprised by Han Changdu's mood change, frowned and asked, "Why does Han Shizi attach so much importance to this matter?" Could it be that Han Shizi has seen someone with an emblem on his body? ”

Her senses were very keen, and she immediately guessed Han Changdu's intentions.

But Han Changdui wouldn't tell her anything, and shook his head: "It's just curious." That's what he said, but he also heard it from the words of the princess of Annan County, they would not judge the kinship from their appearance alone, but would only confirm it from the emblem, no wonder they didn't notice Yao Qi's appearance.

Princess Annan County thought for a moment: "Okay, it's okay to tell Han Shizi, maybe Han Shizi can help us find someone." She unexpectedly rolled up her wide sleeves, pulled them high to her shoulders, revealing the pale pink mark on her shoulder, and smiled: "Han Shizi saw it, this five-petal plum blossom is the emblem of the people of the Ming Palace." ”

"Reincarnation Paradise"

Han Changdu's face changed suddenly, and he desperately concealed the huge shock in his eyes, but he still leaked a little bit.

Princess Annan didn't think about anything else, she just thought that her arrogance scared Han Changdu.

She slowly lowered her sleeves, covered her shoulders, and said abruptly: "When the prince and princess of the Ming Palace were born, they would naturally carry a cyan four-petal plum blossom on their bodies, without stamens, the position of this plum blossom is not fixed, and it will generally appear on the shoulders, back and ankles, which are relatively secret places, and half a month after birth, the color of this plum blossom will fade, and finally melt with the skin, and it will not be seen at all, only when it is soaked in hot water for half a moment, it will reappear," she paused slightly, and simply revealed all the secrets:" After the prince marries his wife, after the princess marries, the plum blossom will turn from cyan to pink, and the color will not fade anymore, and the missing petals and stamens will grow again to make up for the plum blossom. ”

Han Changdui suddenly realized, no wonder, no wonder Yao Ji's identity was not recognized after entering the court, her plum blossom grew on her ankles, it was a very secret place, and others could not see it.

He coughed lightly in disguise: "What I want to find is a girl, and this emblem is hidden on the body, Xie Liangmao is indeed not as convenient as the princess of the county." ”

Princess Annan nodded and said, "What Han Shizi said is extremely true, so Xie Liangmu will tell me the secret that his biological sister is still alive." ”

It was only at this time that Han Changdui confirmed that Emperor Yong'an did not know the existence of Gu Yanyan's daughter, since this was the case, there was no need for him to break this matter, maybe in the future, he would still need this secret.

He raised his head, looked into the eyes of the princess of Annan County, and said lightly: "What the princess of the county said today, this official will never confide in the public, and the princess of the county can rest assured." ”

Princess Annan smiled casually: "Since this concubine told Han Shizi about this, she is naturally relieved of Han Shizi, besides," she sighed in frustration: "Xie Liangmao and his sister are the last two people in the world to have the emblem of the Ming Palace, from now on, even if they each marry and have children, the children born will not have this emblem." ”