Chapter 123: Friend or Foe
Although Zhongnan Mountain is cool, there are inevitably many mosquitoes.
Early in the morning, Li Niang appeared in the window because of an ant, and drank the palace maid endlessly.
Yang Wei couldn't sleep after being woken up, so he had to sit up and listen to her chatter.
He drank with a few concubines and grandchildren until midnight last night, and at this time his face was still tired, his eyes were empty, and he let the ugly maid at home change his clothes for him.
"Crying? Let such a terrible worm enter the house of this princess, and scare me to death, and it is not enough to cut off your head...... Pony, tell me about her, pony?! ”
"What?"
Yang Xun was suddenly shouted, and he had to come back to his senses.
Sure enough, Li Niang still came at him.
"Colt, you're out of the woods."
"Hey, how can you let the worms into the house?"
"Sigh?" Li Niang's voice was raised, and she shouted: "What are you sighing for?!" Why did you teach a handmaid that you have no energy?! ”
"I mean, I won't be able to come to Zongsheng Palace once in a few years, forget it. Last night we were talking about the fact that the sage is now expanding the Huaqing Palace and will also build the Ten Princes' Mansions and the Hundred Sun Courtyards in Lishan. ”
Li Niang said: "Then we will also live in the annex next time we go to Lishan, does the annex have a hot spring?" ”
"We're saying that the sage doesn't worry about the prince when he arrives in Lishan, and he keeps a ...... watch."
"Why are you sighing?"
“……”
"Yang Xun! You are so weak all day long, so that the ghost surnamed Xue scares me, you know? You didn't strangle him at the time! ”
The louder and louder the shouting, the more Yang Wei had a headache.
But even when Xue Bai was mentioned, he still took the opportunity to appease his wife a few words.
"I'm already dealing with that kid, he's temporarily favored, it's hard to do it, and I'm ready to take action to thwart his career. After a long time, the sage and Aunt Yang got tired of him, except that it was ......"
At this time, someone from the palace came to say: "Princess, the seventeenth lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion asks to see you." ”
Yang Wei breathed a long sigh of relief and said busily: "Princess, go and meet the guests." ”
"Concubine, Seventeen Niang brought a guest here, and I want to see the princess and the concubine."
"Outsiders?"
The couple didn't know which other outsiders in this Zhongnan Mountain were going to meet early in the morning, so they went outside the hall together.
In the hall, Li Tengkong was holding the dust in his arms, sitting calmly, next to him was a young man, and when he heard the footsteps, he turned his head and nodded, it was Xue Bai.
In the blue sky and white day, the faint smile fell in Li Niang's eyes, but she was still frightened, and her face stiffened, and she grabbed Yang Wei tightly. If you see a terrible bug, you can't wait to call someone to kill it.
Yang Wei was suddenly pinched, and there was a pain in his arm, and he endured it.
He is much calmer, and as long as he is not a ghost, he is not afraid.
"You, what are you going to do?"
Li Niang was the most scared, so she wanted to speak first, and after drinking a word, her teeth chattered a little.
"I've seen princesses and horses." Xue Bai was not in a hurry, and said, "I have been looking for memories recently, so I have visited a few elders for this purpose, so I came to see the princess today." ”
"What?" Li Niang was stunned.
Yang Xun patted her hand, sat down, and said, "I wonder what Xue Langzhi's memory has to do with my husband and wife?" ”
Xue Bai said with a smile: "Since the princess said that I am the son of the traitor Xue Rust and the remnant of the abolished prince, whether that is or not, I should confirm it clearly." ”
His tone was very calm, as if he was talking about an ordinary family thing.
Yang Wei and Li Niang didn't expect him to be so direct and reveal each other's contradictions face to face.
"You!"
Li Niang couldn't sit still at all, stood up and said, "You admit it!" Xue Pingzhao, do you dare to say that you are not ill-intentioned? ”
"The princess blamed me first, I can't pretend not to know and take the initiative to explore clearly, how can it be called 'ill-intentioned'?" Xue Bai said: "Even in front of the saint, I have this attitude. ”
Li Niang listened to the stagnation of breathing, only to feel that the scheming under the good skin of this young man was terrifyingly gloomy.
She would rather see him angry and tear his face than to see such a smiling face.
What annoyed her even more was that Li Xiaoxian sat there and seemed to think that Xue Bai was very personable, and the stupid daughter born by her brother was really fascinated by ghosts.
Xue Bai turned his head and whispered to Li Tengkong, "Can you wait for me in the courtyard for a while?" ”
Li Tengkong nodded, got up and walked out of the hall, and went to the corridor to watch the clouds.
When she turned her back, she flattened her mouth, and complained a little that he didn't let herself listen and didn't treat her as his own.
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In the hall, Xue Bai glanced at Li Niang and suddenly thought of the dream of fishing.
In his dream he caught a mermaid and now decides to release her.
After two power dumps in a row, King Shou's family suffered the biggest loss, because all parties knew that King Shou had no hope, and deliberately used them and bullied them, including Xue Bai who also stepped on them and climbed a step.
However, the relationship in the power field is impermanent, and it is more important to join the weak and resist the strong than to have grievances.
Xue Bai then spoke: "You treat me as the son of Xue Rust, and it is useless for me to explain this matter more. But today we might as well just talk about it, is it really necessary for us to be enemies? ”
He knew that the couple was a little confused, so he had to always take the initiative.
"Back then, the concubine offered a plan to Concubine Wu Hui and concocted the case of the three concubines, so that Xue Rust died in Lantian Station, so the concubine thought that he was Xue Pingzhao's lifelong enemy. IMHO...... The colt thinks too highly of himself. ”
"What?"
Yang Wei stood up, and after his face changed, he forcibly held back the surprise in his heart, and said, "I don't understand what you're saying." ”
Xue Bai said: "To put it simply, there is a head for injustice and a debt for the owner, even if I am Xue Pingzhao, I will not count these grudges on the head of the horse." A colt is used as a sword without knowing it, but I don't do that. ”
Yang Xun's eyes rolled, and he didn't get angry because of Xue Bai's derogatory words against him.
Li Niang couldn't understand the joints, closed her mouth, and sat there in a daze, so that she had the appearance of a beauty.
"What do you mean?"
"Concubine Wu Hui, like Xue Rust and others, is a victim of the Sanshu case." Xue Bai said: "Just imagine, before the Sanshuren case, how favored by the saints was Wu Hui? Why did it plummet? ”
Li Niang raised her head and opened her mouth, thinking that this was really the case.
Since she was a child, she has regarded herself as a royal concubine, and has occupied all the favor of the saint among her sisters. On the contrary, after the big case, A-Niang was gone, and my brother was in a slump.
Looking at the concubine Yang Xun again, she found out at this time that he was really stupid, she thought she was smart, and arranged a trick to trick Li Ying into the palace to capture the thief, and she was proud afterwards.
Xue Bai didn't speak again for a long time, giving them time to digest slowly.
The hall was quiet for a while, and Yang Wei seemed to have a wry smile, probably he vaguely understood the reason, but now he was thoroughly pointed.
It's just that as a colt, what else can I do?
"You say ......"
Li Niang looked left and right, a little cautiously, tried to start a conversation with Xue Bai, and said slowly: "You said that we were used as swordsmen?" By whom? ”
Xue Bai said: "Who benefits the most?" ”
"Him?"
Li Niang's eyes widened, and she said, "But, but he's just a wreck, lucky and born early." A-Niang and the colt worked hard, but he picked up the benefits......"
Yang Wei gently pulled his wife and signaled that she was talking too much.
"It doesn't matter." Xue Bai saw what Yang Wei meant, and said: "There is no one else in the hall, I am not here to deceive the princess, Concubine Wu Hui has been guilty of concocting the case of the three concubines for many years, even if we don't talk about it, can we block the mouths of the people?" ”
He seemed to be still crying out for Concubine Wu Hui.
Li Niang couldn't help but think so.
"What do you think? Is Lee Hyung really a wreck? ”
Yang Wei groaned and shook his head slowly.
Xue Bai said: "During the Liu Tao case, I kindly helped Li Heng, and he asked people to bury me alive, but the princess said that he was a wreck? ”
"That's enough." Yang Wei shouted: "You come to puff out your lips and shake your tongue, uneasy and kind." ”
"I'm just a white body, offering some gadgets, playing cards with the saint, just asking for self-protection, what's the threat to the princess's horse?" Xue Bai said: "The prince seems to be cowardly, but he really can kill us." ”
"When I didn't know you harbored evil intentions?"
"I'm here to turn enemies into friends with the princess."
Yang Wei said vigilantly: "How can I believe you? ”
"Something to ask the colt." Xue Bai lowered his voice, a little mysterious, and asked, "Ten years ago, Yingwang Li Jian had a secret letter, can the horse know about this?" ”
Yang Xun's face changed, and he asked rhetorically, "How do you know?" ”
Xue Bai didn't mention Li Cong, but made a gesture of "eight".
When Yang Xun saw it, his face was really different, thinking of Princess Li Banniang Ningqin, and then thinking of her brother Li Heng, the crown prince.
There was a deep thought in his eyes.
Li Niang couldn't sit still, her body twisted twice, and she wanted to say something.
Yang Wei gently patted her back, stabilized her, looked at Xue Bai, and said, "How are you doing?" ”
Xue Bai actually wanted to discuss the secret with them again, but knowing that Yang Wei was still vigilant, there was no need to rush for a while.
"I heard that Princess Ning sold me to Princess Xianyi's mansion?"
Li Niang finally couldn't help this sentence, and said in shock: "You mean...... She did it on purpose?! ”
Xue Bai didn't answer.
In fact, he didn't know anything.
I don't know if Li Heng participated in Li Heng's secret performance, nor do I know if Princess Ning deliberately sold him to Princess Xianyi's mansion, a large group of brothers and sisters are fighting for power, it is too normal to have such a few coincidences.
What he did was nothing more than steer things in the direction that was most beneficial to him. Deliberately pulled out a few clues for them to guess.
"Let me think about it."
Li Niang muttered, using her intelligence to outline the ins and outs of things in her mind.
"Banniang has always known that she and Li Heng are doing the game together...... Why did I deliberately sell you to my house again? ”
"I guess there's something going on."
"Secrets?" Li Niang muttered to herself, "Does the East Palace know your power? Want to provoke us to fight? ”
Xue Bai waited for a while, knowing that he couldn't cheat more, before he said, "I lost my memory, and I don't remember what happened in the princess's mansion." I only know that I am not dead, but I don't know why you didn't kill me according to Princess Ningqin's intentions? ”
"Huh?"
Yang Wei and Li Niang glanced at each other, never thinking that things would be interpreted like this.
In this way, could it be that he is still kind to Xue Bai?
After a long time, Yang Xun said lightly: "Are you a good person to kill?" ”
"What was the situation?"
"It's just that they found out that there was a son of a traitor among the newly bought slaves, and drove you out of the house, and that's it."
"I see, it seems that many things were misunderstood." Xue Bai then had a sudden look, "We were originally persecuted by the East Palace. ”
Li Niang was a little dizzy by the words, and when she looked at Xue Bai again, she felt that he was really easy to get along with, and at this time she slightly understood why Li Xiaoxian was confused.
Yang Wei was not as easily persuaded as her, his eyes flashed, and he was still vigilant.
Xue Bai groaned slightly and said something else.
"In order to show sincerity, I would like to inform the princess and the concubine that there is a person under the right minister, named Pei Mian......"
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Li Tengkong turned his head and secretly glanced at the hall, and was surprised to find that the atmosphere was really gradually becoming harmonious.
She couldn't help but feel really strange, he was clearly a motivated ghost who was good at drilling camps, but he was calm and peaceful towards people, and he didn't show any anger, he was actually a realm that a young man could cultivate?
If he can be reconciled like Grandpa...... I'm afraid it won't work, Grandpa's mind is much narrower than Princess Xianyi.
Just as he was thinking about it, Xue Bai had already walked out of the hall, and the strange thing was that Princess Xianyi and his wife were still a little stunned in the hall, and they lost their hospitality a little.
"Let's go."
"How are you talking?"
"I've made friends with them, thank you for the introduction."
"Between friends, why be polite?"
Li Tengkong was already ready to answer, she glanced up at Xue Bai inadvertently, and her mood suddenly brightened because of his relaxed tone.
The two of them went out of the annex, and the ghost made a difference, but she couldn't help it, so she still talked to him.
"Speaking of which, Ji Lanzi likes your words."
"She loves literature." Xue Bai responded casually, and when he said this, his mind returned to the opera, and muttered: "I've been thinking recently, if Cui Yingying is allowed to marry a mediocre person, Zhang Shengzhong will become a high-ranking official and snatch her back...... Only saints would love this play, right? ”
"No, you can't!"
Li Tengkong immediately ignored the tranquil Taoist demeanor and resolutely stopped: "Cui Yingying must not marry someone else." ”
"Really? Do you think the saint doesn't like it? ”
"Cui Yingying only has Zhang Sheng in her heart, so she only marries Zhang Sheng, and she must rather die than marry someone else!"
Xue Bai looked at it and saw a pair of pure and firm eyes, not mixed with the slightest worldly distraction.
He was silent for a moment, then finally let out an "oh".
Li Tengkong was a little stubborn, and made sure again: "You won't change it, right?" ”
"Okay."
This enterprising ghost simply agreed, but Li Tengkong was stunned, and while breathing a sigh of relief, he regretted that he was too excited, but he seemed to care too much...... Wait, is he testing his mind?
He also wants to be good with the female crown? It's too frivolous.
With such thoughts, she didn't know whether this guess was true or false, and the atmosphere was slightly awkward.
The two of them walked all the way through the Zongsheng Temple, but they didn't speak again.
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After Xue Bai and Li vacated the pavilion, Yang Wei looked at their backs and sighed to Li Niang: "You, a good friend, never really regarded you as a friend. ”
"I knew it."
"Brother Nu never really wanted to help Eighteen Lang as a prince."
"What are we going to do?"
Yang Xun groaned: "Don't be in a hurry, don't act rashly and be used by others." ”
"He said that the East Palace has placed people next to the right minister, and Li Heng has such ability?"
"Well, it seems that Gong Xiao is cowardly, but in fact, he never wants to suffer. After fighting for so many years, as soon as he ascends the throne, he will attack us......"
Li Niang was still confused, and a palace person stepped forward and whispered: "Princess, the palace supervisor is here again." ”
"Shall I still see them?" Li Niang looked at Yang Xun.
"It's okay to see you."
Yang Wei got up, went to the backyard alone, and recruited an old eunuch.
"Wu You, you come with me."
"Whoa."
The two walked through the unmanned corridor, Yang Wei stopped and asked, "See clearly?" Is that him? ”
"Yes." Wu You said in a low voice: "It's him." ”
Yang Xun heard that his voice trembled slightly, as if he was a little frightened, frowned, and asked, "Admit it?" Did you not strangle him? ”
"The old slave pinched the ...... with all his might"
"You're still trying to lie to me!" Yang Wei suddenly became angry, grabbed the eunuch's neck, and said, "Did you hear what he said today?" Did you deliberately let him go? But he said, we let him go on purpose! ”
"Pony ...... The horse misunderstood the old slave......"
"Say! Why didn't you strangle him? If you don't dare to say it, I'll kill you! ”
"The old slave really pinched hard...... He, he, he...... Before he died, he asked the old slave that since his surname was Wu, did he know how Queen Zhenshun was born? ”
Yang Xun's face changed, he let go of his hand slightly, and subconsciously asked, "How?" ”
Wu You's eyes showed horror and said, "He said...... He could tell the old slave, but the old slave didn't dare to listen. ”
"He knows?"
Wu You lowered his head and said in a trembling voice: "It seems that he really knows, but when he said it, he deliberately wanted to harm the old slave, this kind of thing is not something that a cheap maid like the old slave can inquire about, the old slave was afraid and desperately strangled him." ”
Yang Wei asked, "You really didn't listen?" ”
Wu You hurriedly knelt down, kowtowed, and said: "The old slave really didn't dare to listen, there were still two maidservants who could testify at that time, and the old slave strangled him without waiting for him to say it, and he didn't hear anything." The old slave can live until now, and this rule is still understood. ”
Yang Wei took a few steps back.
He suddenly realized a problem - Wu You's reaction showed that Concubine Wu Hui's death could not be inquired about.
Thinking back to Li Linfu's fragmented appearance on the Shangyuan Festival, it was clear that he knew the secret and deliberately used him to use this matter.
Li Linfu is really unreliable.
"In other words, you panicked and didn't strangle you?"
"This ......"
Wu You didn't know how to answer.
Yang Xun looked around, no longer inquired about Concubine Wu Hui, his mind returned to Xue Bai, and muttered, "He knows? Is that really amnesia or is it deliberately not to say? ”
At this time, if you think about what Xue Bai said today, your experience is different again.
The second chapter is still written, about twenty minutes ~~ asking for tickets at the beginning of the month ~ ~ asking for tickets at the beginning of the month ~~
(End of chapter)