Chapter 167: The East Palace Incident (3)
The crown princess sat on the ground and did not speak. It was a long time before she asked something else she cared about.
"-Zhao Meiren, what does it have to do with Lan Shi?"
The prince quickly raised his head, "Yingniang, you are too smart...... How do you think of two people going together? β
The crown princess slowly stood up, stood up straight, and slowly walked to the chair and sat down, "Shouke, don't forget, I'm familiar with you and Lan Shi." I am more familiar with you than I am familiar with Lan Shi, we have grown up together, you know what happened between you and Lan Shi, and I know it too. β
Back then, the jar of wine that the two of them buried under the tree became a masterpiece, and the prince cherished it and would not let outsiders share it at all.
When the prince heard this, he retorted: "But I love Zhao Zhao very muchβI love her, won't I share it with her?" β
The crown princess shook her head, "No." β
"If Lan Shi is here, you might. But Lan Shi died like this, how could you share the wine buried with him? β
She muttered, "So, who will Akimi be?" Why did you let Akimi drink Lanshi's wine...... Shouke, what does she have to do with Lan Shi......"
Then he suddenly looked at him, his eyes were like knives, "And-I don't want to check it either, you tell me honestly, is the Sheng cousin girl from Lingnan in the Ningguo Mansion related to Lan Shi!" β
The crown prince was really surprised this time, he never expected that the crown princess would be able to guess it, and the guess score was exactly right.
He asked, "It's just that you're aware of Zhaozhao's things, how can you still see it...... That little girl's thing. β
Crown Princess: "You're never good at finishing things. Shouke, I'm too familiar with you, you let people sprinkle tea on Miss Sheng, and let her meet Zhao Meiren, I felt that this matter was not simple, so I asked people to check together. β
The matter of the feast bell is actually very easy to find. She came to Kyoto from Lingnan in June this year, and then quit her marriage with Yu Xingzhi, and is now looking for her in-laws.
The crown princess didn't associate her with Lan Shi, but just after knowing that Lan Shi also went to Lingnan and stayed there for four years, she immediately remembered the feast bell.
In fact, she already has the answer in her heart, "- Miss Sheng is ...... Have you ever seen Lan Shi? β
The prince nodded, "Yes, when Lan Shi came to Lingnan back then, he was in the same alley with her. β
"The Sheng family lives in the alley, Lan Shi lives in the alley, the little girl loves to read, and later found that Lan Shishu is very knowledgeable, so she pestered him to be a gentleman......"
The crown princess unconsciously smiled. She said: "-How good it is to be a gentleman, Lan Shi must have agreed." β
Lan Shi is actually a bit of a good teacher, if the little girl is ruthless, even if he is disheartened, he will still teach her a few words.
She said: "Lan Shi's temperament is actually very good, even if he is in a bad situation, he will not blindly grind himself." β
But how could he let himself go?
As soon as she remembered the beginning, her heart was jammed.
She muttered, "Is that little girl good to him?"
"The venerable old man of Buyuchuan first told Suijia that His Majesty, who had always loved him, killed Taifu in such a hurry, and you and I, who are like brothers and sisters, did not go to avenge him-all the people in the family died, and everyone betrayed him-...... Is the little girl of the Sheng family good to him? β
"Have you ever ...... Did it ever make him ...... his love for this world?"
In the end, she burst into tears, and her whole body shrank into a ball, "Shouke, when he died, did he ever complain about me-"
The prince stood up with difficulty, walked over and whispered, "I don't know. β
"Yingniang, you scold me, I don't know anything, I don't dare to ask, I don't dare to ask anything, I only dare to explain to the people who keep him, be kind to him, but don't let him out...... Don't let him come back to Beijing, don't let him be recognized......"
The crown princess closed her eyes, and after a long time, the corners of her lips showed sarcasm, "You saved him and killed him." Shouke, I don't expect anything from you anymore. β
The prince's body trembled and did not speak again.
The crown princess gradually calmed down and only asked, "Who is Zhaomei?" β
The prince was silent for a while, and then said, "She is the one who lives in the creek makeup. β
He said: "She and her mother were old acquaintances of Taifu, and later when her mother fell ill, she came to Kyoto to recuperate, thinking of begging Taifu to find a reliable home for her." As a result, her mother died suddenly, and she wanted to go back to Jiangnan, but the family she begged for was greedy for her beauty and wanted to sell her, and I happened to be investigating the case of the Sui family and happened to save her. β
"I put her outside for a few years, and then she got older...... I fell in love with her, and I ...... He took it back to the East Palace. β
The crown princess listened to it with a tight heart.
The prince was panicking.
Why did he lie -
Zhao Meiren's matter, he should only say half of it, and what is the truth of half of it?
She looked at the prince and sneered, "Until this time, you haven't told me the truth - Shouke, you know, I have a direction now, and if I want to find out, I can find it after all." You're so secretive, but it makes me want to keep tracking. β
When the prince heard this, he began to be a little annoyed, "Yingniang, why don't you leave some way for me to live - I am no longer the cowardly person I was at the beginning, and I also have my own people to protect!" β
The crown princess looked at him quietly, "Who?" Zhaozhao? β
The crown prince nodded, "You should always let me take a breath - Yingniang, it's not easy for me." β
The crown princess scoffed, "Then you let me think I don't know?" Keep going in the muddy? Shouke, my character, I know it myself, and you also know it, I have to distinguish between right and wrong before I can let go. β
Besides, what I can find, others can find. Shouke, as I said, you never know how to deal with the aftermath. β
The prince was stunned for a moment, then sat on the stool and said slowly: "Yingnian, you don't leave me face." β
The crown princess smiled, "You and I are still fish and meat on the chopping board, they are all slaughtered by others, don't talk about shame, you can live to have face." β
The prince closed his eyes, thought and thought for a while, and finally spoke slowly, "Yes-Zhaozhao's identity is not simple. She's not just a guest who lives in Creek Makeup, she's ......"
He opened his mouth with difficulty, and at the end he found that he couldn't speak.
In the end, he said bitterly: "Zhao Zhao is...... is the daughter of Taifu and the younger sister of Lan Shi. β
The crown princess stood up suddenly, "What nonsense are you talking about!" Taifu only has one child, Lan Shi - you, you talk nonsense! β
The prince was weak, and said with a different face: "It's true." β
"When I knew, I was also shocked to sweat......"
The crown princess had a quick brain and quickly recalled, "Zhaomei is from Jiangnan...... When Taifu went to Jiangnan for disaster relief, it was the eleventh year of Jingtai, even if Zhaomei was conceived that year, she had to be born in the twelfth year of Jingtai, and now she is only fifteen years oldββ"
Her fingers trembled, "I remember you said that Zhao Meiren is seventeen years old this year!" β
The prince closed his eyes, "I was afraid that someone would find out about her, so I falsely reported that she was two years old." β
The crown princess slapped the prince on the body, her eyes were like knives, and she said viciously: "If what you say is true-then how dare you-how dare you deceive the daughter of the Taifu, Lan Shi's sister, into going to the East Palace as a concubine when she was so young-Shouke, how dare you-how dare you-"
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