Ten days later.

Although the Northern Ya and the Third Division were silent about the poisoning of the Ten Princes and the violent death of Emperor Xiaode, they were very secretive.

But in the capital, the rumors that King Rui and the Marquis of Yiyang secretly colluded to kill the prince were very loud and discussed.

It is said that the mother concubine of King Rui was born in a family of the previous dynasty, and it is reasonable for the Marquis of Yiyang, as a person who surrendered to the former dynasty, colluded with the old master to try to subvert the Great Zhou regime.

It is also said that according to legend, the mother of Rui, Liu Shufei, was killed by the late Zhao Huang Guifei when she was in the harem, and Rui Wang had a grudge against the imperial concubine, and the imperial concubine was the mother of today.

Just as these rumors were intensifying, the Tai Hospital suddenly spread that the ten princes who were poisoned in the tent on the day of the Shangshi Festival suddenly deteriorated and fell unconscious, and there were rumors that Zhu Lianxi, the chief eunuch beside the emperor, had personally gone to the Ministry of Rites to pass on the emperor's message, so that the Ministry of Rites began to prepare for the aftermath of the ten princes.

There are all kinds of indications that the ten princes are dying soon.

As a result, the "curse of the emperor", which had not been mentioned for a long time, began to spread in the streets and alleys of the capital again.

"Before he died, Emperor Er cursed the Chu royal family to cut off his children and grandchildren, no matter who killed these ten princes, can they also be counted in this curse?"

"How can it not be counted? The curse of Emperor Er before he died, and he didn't say that he must have been killed by witches to be considered dead, but if I want to say, death from illness, drowning, and falling to death, as long as it is death, in the final analysis, it is all killed by this curse. ”

"Speaking of which, this prince is really hard-hitting, not to mention death, even if he is injured, he has never had ......"

"How come you haven't been hurt? He was the first to die in the Battle of the Dragon Slope, and maybe it will be his turn to finish the first lap of this round......

Originally, these rumors were spread by the people of the capital behind closed doors and by word of mouth in private.

It wasn't until the East Palace posted a notice that a heavy reward for a landscape embroidery map pushed these rumors to an unprecedented high point of public opinion.

"It seems that even His Royal Highness the Crown Prince with a cold face is afraid of death, I heard that the embroidered picture was specially ordered by the late queen of Yunguo to embroider, hiding a way to unlock the curse of the emperor, the day Emperor Xiaode died violently, this embroidered picture disappeared. Now that the prince is offering a reward for this embroidered picture, eighty percent is afraid that it will be his turn in the end...... So undo the curse in advance. ”

"Isn't it rumored in Yunjiang, this princess is the reincarnation of the little princess, the prince first married the spirit of the little princess, and now he is married to this one, maybe it is also to save his life......"

In the study room of the East Palace, Chu Yan and Shen Lingxi sat at the table near the window, eating tea, listening to the rumors outside Chunjun and reporting to them one by one.

Shen Lingxi was still calculating in his heart, how to add another fire to these rumors and burn out the "yellow sparrow".

But Chu Yan showed a little displeasure on his face because of his last words.

"The last one, you also released it?" He raised his eyes to look at Chunjun.

Chunjun: "Back to Your Highness, only this one is not, this is all speculation by the people......"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Chu Yan, "You mean, alone in the hearts of the people, it is such a mercenary person who can even calculate his own relatives?" ”

Pure choke.

That's a bit of an overinterpretation.

Moreover, His Royal Highness, when did he become so vain in his name?

No matter how puzzled he was in his heart, Chunjun also understood what Chu Yan meant, and hurriedly said: "My subordinates will deal with it, and never let such false rumors continue to spread." ”

Chu Yan's voice responded very lightly.

As soon as he turned his eyes, he saw that Shen Lingxi had put down the tea cup in his hand at some point, and looked at him with a pair of apricot eyes, "Your Highness is in a bad mood today?" She asked tentatively.

Chu Yan's eyebrows raised slightly, "Why do you think so?" ”

"When His Royal Highness told me that he wanted to marry me, he didn't want the emperor to urge him to marry again...... It can only be said that it was done as a last resort, and it can't be regarded as mercenary and calculating......" Shen Lingxi said in a deep groan.

Chu Yan: ......

Shen Lingxi saw that he was silent, and suggested again: "I just think that this kind of inconsequential rumor doesn't need to be cleared up...... Confusing those rumors makes it easier to convince the other party of the information we want him to believe. ”

Chunjun also nodded in agreement.

Rumors, true and false, false and true, mixed together, it is good to fish in troubled waters.

Chu Yan glanced at the two of them, his eyes drooped slightly, and his slender finger bones lightly grinded the rim of the cup.

"It makes sense, since that's the case, it's better to add a little more."

As he spoke, he put down the teacup, walked to the bookcase, picked up the pen and wrote down a few words, and then read them carefully, with a satisfied look on his face.

Seeing this, Shen Lingxi stood up curiously, and was about to come up to see-

saw that he had already folded the paper in half and handed it to Chunjun, "Just follow what Gu wrote, add a few rumors, and Gu will hear the effect in person at night." ”

Chunjun took it with both hands and ordered to retreat.

After he left, Shen Lingxi asked curiously, "What did you just write?" ”

"Aren't we going to the Drunken Flower Courtyard at night?" Chu Yan looked at her, the corners of his lips hooked slightly, and said meaningfully: "The news of Fireworks Willow Lane has always spread the fastest, rather than telling you now, why don't you listen to it yourself when the time comes?" ”

Shen Lingxi saw that he was selling so far away, so he stopped asking questions and went to the east hall to deal with the affairs of Fu'an Hall.

At the same time, Chunjun went out with the piece of paper, looked at the content on it curiously, and stumbled under his feet in an instant, almost falling into the mud.

He looked back at the study and muttered with a very strange expression, "Your Highness's sacrifice is too great to fish that person out this time......

*

At night, the most lively place in the capital is the flower shop.

On the eaves of the rows of green buildings, red lanterns are hung, and the wide street is filled with the sound of silk and bamboo, and the laughter of flower girls and benefactors.

Shen Lingxi specially changed his appearance, pretended to be a handsome and pleasing man, followed Chu Yan's side, and walked into the most lively green building in the entire street-Drunken Flower Courtyard.

Chu Yan wore a dark robe tonight.

His handsome facial features, which have never been disguised, immediately attracted the attention of many people as soon as he walked into the crowded drunken flower courtyard.

An old bustard who is about forty years old and still charming, with a few flower girls, flung a handkerchief and greeted him, "Oh yo, which son of the house are the two, really good demeanor, my daughters, when they saw the two sons, their faces were red, I don't know what kind of girls the two like, our girls from the drunken flower building, the ring is fat and thin, all of them are very smart......

Chu Yanyuan rarely came to such an occasion, and this time he came with Shen Lingxi, and he felt uncomfortable from the bottom of his heart.

He estimated that in the entire Great Zhou Dynasty and even the previous dynasty, I am afraid that no man would bring his wife to visit the Qinglou.

Chu Yan had a cold face, and his phoenix eyes glanced at the old bustard lightly, and the cold in his eyes that was not angry and arrogant made the smile on the corner of the old bustard's lips immediately freeze on his face.

Seeing this, Shen Lingxi casually took out a silver ingot from his sleeve, smiled and threw it into the arms of the old bustard, "I heard that Mr. Chunshan is going to choose a guest tonight to talk about poetry face-to-face, and the two of us are naturally here for Mr. Chunshan." ”

The old bustard took the silver, smiled again, and said to Shen Lingxi enthusiastically: "The son came at the right time, Mr. Chunshan will come out immediately, please come with me." ”

As she spoke, she turned to look at the flower girl who was following her, and the flower girl nodded lightly, covered her lips and left with a smile.

Seeing this, the old bustard took Shen Lingxi and Chu Yan from the side of the lively lobby and walked up the stairs to the box on the second floor.

The drunken flower building is a tube building surrounded by four sides, the atrium is empty, and there is a circular high platform in the middle, and there are dancing girls dancing on it.

The box on the second floor is also semi-open, facing the direction of the atrium, with only a pale crimson gauze curtain hanging down, which not only makes people see the situation in the box clearly, but also allows guests to watch the singing and dancing downstairs.

Shen Lingxi and Chu Yan didn't come early, they entered the box, looked around, and through those curtains, they saw that each box was already full of people.

It's hard to imagine that in Willow Lane, a flower street where women are fun, Mr. Haruzama, a man, talks poetry with others, and becomes an existence that surpasses the top Oiran.

The ancients had clouds, and the Spring Festival was worth a thousand gold.

But at the moment of this Mr. Chunshan, it is difficult to buy thousands of gold.

The old bustard personally poured tea for Shen Lingxi and Chu Yan, and the maids brought the four-colored fruits, and Shen Lingxi generously threw the reward silver and sent them out.

As soon as the two of them sat down, accompanied by the sound of silk and bamboo downstairs, the sound of the benefactor next door talking clearly came.

"Have you heard, there are rumors in the capital today that the prince married the crown princess at the beginning, not as previously rumored, but to save his life......"

When Shen Lingxi heard this, he glanced at Chu Yan, and immediately pricked up his ears when he thought of the piece of paper he handed over to Chunjun during the day.

"What's that? Hurry up, tell me about it. ”

"I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the princess is not a stranger, love at first sight, and then asked for it, but in desperation, he can only take it by skill, and finally he is sincere, and the gold and stone are open, and finally he holds the beauty."

Shen Lingxi: ??????

Why can't you ask for it? Trickery?

It was love at first sight???

What the hell is this?

She looked at Chu Yan in surprise.

saw Chu Yan pick up the tea cup on the table with a very indifferent expression.

If he didn't look at his already red ears, Shen Lingxi couldn't believe that such rumors were really based on the manuscript he wrote!

"Oh, isn't it the kind written in the book, he chased her and escaped...... Can't escape the wings in the end? Tsk, I didn't expect that His Royal Highness the Prince, who was selfless with an iron face, turned out to be an infatuated species. ”

"I'll just say, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is wise and martial, talented and beautiful, how can he be a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, I heard that on the day of the Shangsi Festival, when the emperor questioned the anger of the crown princess, he also bluntly said that he defended the crown princess, if he is really afraid of death, how dare he contradict the Son of Heaven at that time?"

Chu Yan tightened his jaw.

I secretly scolded Chunjun in my heart that it was really not good to do things, this was too much.

Wouldn't he be embarrassed?

Shen Lingxi's heart at this moment was like thousands of troops galloping by.

What did he chase her and escape? Why don't you write about her ascension to heaven on the spot?

Feeling Shen Lingxi's gaze, Chu Yan coughed, put the tea cup to his lips in disguise, and was about to drink the tea soup in the cup-

Seeing this, Shen Lingxi hurriedly stretched out his hand.

The back of the porcelain-white hand blocked his lips, and with a flip of his wrist, he snatched the teacup from his hand with ease.

She put the tea soup on the tip of her nose and sniffed it, she didn't smell the smell of medicine, and she took a sip uneasily, turned around on the tip of her tongue to confirm that the tea soup was not mixed with anything that should not be mixed, and then she reassured that the tea cup in her hand was handed back to Chu Yan's hand.

Because of the words said next door, it was really embarrassing, Shen Lingxi deliberately avoided Chu Yan's gaze, and just lowered his head and picked up the teacup in front of him to drink tea.

Because of this, she didn't realize that Fang Cai's almost intimate behavior made Chu Yan's eyes as deep as a sea of stars.

And the topic of discussing the two of them next door has not stopped.

“…… I'll just say, how could His Royal Highness the Prince, who has never believed in ghosts and gods, marry a Kun Dao as the crown princess, and vowed to have a couple for the rest of his life. ”

"Why can two people who are not related to each other come together?"

"It's love!"

"It's true love!"

Shen Lingxi took a sip of the tea soup and sprayed it back into the teacup.

"Ahem! Cough! Cough! She coughed with a red face.

Seeing this, Chu Yan hurriedly took the tea cup in her hand, patted her on the back, and took out a Supa, wiping the corners of her lips for her.

"What is the one that makes you react like this?" Chu Yan asked puzzled.

His gaze fell on her crimson cheeks, and a few smiles were stained under his eyes.

Shen Lingxi didn't dare to look into his eyes at all, "Your Highness, everything is too much...... You don't have to let Chunjun spread such outrageous rumors for that person......"

Chu Yan held the handkerchief for a moment, and simply lifted her chin lightly, and her deep eyes firmly locked her sight.

"I admit what they say about me...... Outrageous indeed. But what they say I have about you is not a rumor. ”

Shen Lingxi blinked, he was ...... to her

Love at first sight? Asking for it but not being able to?? Clever and Powerful???

Did he not hear what was being said next door?

This is not a rumor yet??

Shen Lingxi felt that it was very outrageous, but for some reason, his heart was pounding uncontrollably.

"Your Highness, you ......"

Her questioning had just begun—

"Qiang Qiang Qiang ......" can only hear the gong downstairs, which was vigorously sounded.

The discussion next door stopped abruptly, and the noisy lobby was quiet in an instant.

Shen Lingxi swallowed the question on his lips, sat up straight, turned his head in unison with Chu Yan, and looked downstairs.

I saw a man with a long figure, wearing a white coat and a bronze Kunlun slave mask on his face, and slowly walked onto the round platform.

This is what is rumored to be, Mr. Haruzama.

When everyone looked at Mr. Chunshan with great interest, Shen Lingxi's eyes looked at the person's side.

In addition to Yun Chong and Xu Yuanshan, there is also Liu Meiren, who she explained in advance that she came here to keep an eye on her.

Liu Meiren noticed Shen Lingxi's location, floated towards her, and stopped at a distance of one foot from the two of them.

"Same as last time." Liu Meiren said to Shen Lingxi in disappointment: "This person is not Mr. Chunshan himself, or the stand-in from the last time." But today, he specially did this game to lure you into the bait, you should be more careful tonight......"

(End of chapter)