At this point, Mrs. Lu and Mrs. Lu have completely lost power at home. Li can finally take care of everything at home without being constrained.

The letters sent back by Lu Bingxi every half a month made everyone in the Lu family feel at ease, and everything at home was slowly on the right track. Li suddenly realized that he had not received a letter from his son for almost a month.

Li sensed a little dangerous information from it, but her son was thousands of miles away with the mission, and she could only comfort herself desperately, because of the long distance and inconvenient communication.

But the bad premonition was verified.

On this day, Lu Qi stepped into the door of the Lu family with an anxious face. This time, it was rare that he did not go directly to the main courtyard to see his wife first, but hurried straight to the Yuanshan Hall.

"Father, did you arrange this?" Lu Qi refers to the fact that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's personal expedition was robbed and killed by the King of Beidi in the middle of the road, and he is now fighting in a stalemate, causing shocks in the government and the public.

Lu Zhi was not in a hurry, and even teased the two parrots under the eaves, "Why did Qi'er say this?" His tone was calm, and he didn't seem to think that there was anything wrong with instructing his grandson to rob and kill the prince of the dynasty.

Even, Lu Zhi still followed the temptation, "This is not very good." Let the king of Beidi have a justifiable reason, meet the prince of the dynasty, and then be impressed by him, and then be willing to submit to my Ji dynasty. What could make His Royal Highness the Crown Prince more famous than this matter. ”

"Father, is this to build momentum for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"

Lu Zhi smiled, "Otherwise? The Wen family's old man Wen, for the sake of His Royal Highness the Prince's future, even took out the connections at the bottom of the family's box. If I don't contribute to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, I'm afraid that when the Prince ascends the throne, only the Prince's mother's family will prosper at that time, and there will be no Prince's wife. ”

Thinking of His Royal Highness King Yu's arrogant and wanton face, Lu Zhi was a little disgusted. He never disliked the viciousness of his allies, but he hated Gu Guifei's mother and son for being so stupid. Not long ago, in the middle of the city, the ugly thing of hurting people was exposed, and His Royal Highness King Yu pushed Rongde County Jun into the water almost brightly on the Leyou Yuan of the Dragon Boat Festival.

This Rongde County Jun is also the daughter of the eldest princess of Ruyang, and he is his cousin, and he is not like His Royal Highness the Prince, who will really hinder the way of His Royal Highness King Yu, but he wants to climb His Royal Highness King Yu and go to Baojing Tower to ask for peace.

As a result, His Royal Highness King Yu directly pushed people into the pool and almost killed her. The directness of the action and the flamboyance of the momentum are simply telling everyone that he did it. Even this point can't be tolerated, if one day His Royal Highness King Yu becomes the emperor, wouldn't it be that the Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces will not be able to admonish.

At present, the powerful families in the capital all looked at His Royal Highness King Yu so arrogant that they secretly shook their heads, and warned their juniors not to have anything to do with His Royal Highness King Yu. These two idiots are still swaggering through the market in Beijing unknowingly.

That is, the popularity of the eldest princess of Ruyang in Beijing is really bad to the point of anger and resentment, so no one told her the truth about the fall of Jun in Rongde County. Otherwise, with the temperament of the eldest princess of Ruyang to protect her calves, she had to enter the palace to cry to His Majesty.

At that time, His Royal Highness King Yu will be reprimanded, coupled with the things that have not yet passed in the downtown area, His Royal Highness King Yu's reputation will come to an end.

"However, if you don't grasp the proportions well, I'm afraid that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will really have a grudge against the mother and son of the King of Beidi. Whether it is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who injured the King of Beidi, or King Beidi who injured His Royal Highness the Prince, this is not a good thing for our Fan Yang Lu family. Lu Qi was a little worried.

"This matter is dangerous, and of course my father knows it. But the change of power between the emperors of the two dynasties is the most dangerous thing in this world. Our Fan Yang Lu family has already boarded this boat, if we dare to retreat, none of the forces of His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness King Yu, His Majesty and even Queen Wen will let us go, and they will only regard us as traitors.

Qi'er, you are familiar with history books, and you should know the fate of the three family slaves. Now that our Fan Yang Lu family is dedicated to building momentum for the crown prince, do you still think that our Fan Yang Lu family has other choices? “

In the end, Lu Zhi's tone was cold and sarcastic, as if he was laughing at his son's innocence.

Lu Qi sat down in his seat and thought, "When did my father start planning all this?" Is there news from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's personal expedition? Or is it from the time when her daughter A Rui was given to marry as the future crown princess? Or did my father see His Majesty's decay and begin to plan all this secretly?

How many of them are pawns he manipulates? ”

He has always known that his daughter A Rui's willingness to marry into the East Palace is somewhat coaxed by her grandfather, this is in this big drama of competing for the dragon's merits, is it His Royal Highness the Prince, Queen Wen's family, and even His Majesty today, are all puppets in his hands wantonly?

Looking at the familiar father in front of him, Lu Qi felt very strange. He can't help but think about any change around him now, is this also his father's handiwork?

After Lu Qi retreated in a hurry, he returned to the main courtyard silently.

The Li family had long known from the rumors in the streets and alleys that His Royal Highness the Prince's personal expedition was intercepted and killed by the King of Beidi. The husband and wife were silent, and they were most worried about their daughter.

The next day, the court was unusually noisy.

There are old ministers who call for heaven and earth to grab the land, "Please ask Your Majesty to send additional reinforcements to relieve the siege of Beidi", and there are also the political enemies of His Royal Highness the Prince, "His Royal Highness the Prince's personal expedition is unfavorable, and it is the right to ask for the guilt", of course, there are also courtiers who were bribed by Gu Guifei's mother and son secretly hinted that "the position of the prince should change hands".

His Majesty sat on the golden chair of the dragon, couldn't help but press his eyebrows, and finally threw down the sentence "Let's discuss it later" in the growing quarrel and got up and left the hall, completely ignoring the courtiers behind him.

But when he reached the boundary between the former dynasty and the harem, His Majesty looked at the houses in the harem, thinking that the queen had been almost boring in recent days and praying for His Royal Highness the Prince, and that Gu Guifei had half-concealed and asked him to marry His Royal Highness King Yu, preferably a family that had been married for hundreds of years like His Royal Highness the Prince.

His Majesty only felt extremely bored, and Fu Hai, the chief eunuch beside him, suddenly understood the emperor's intentions, pinched the bribes of the low-ranking concubines in his sleeves, and said, "Your Majesty, the slave heard that the eleventh prince has made progress in his recent studies, and he wants to recite it to you." You might as well fulfill this filial piety and look at him. ”

Thinking of the two young concubines who gave birth to a prince for themselves and were only on the position of nine concubines, His Majesty was also a little moved. "They have always served me very respectfully, and they have also taken care to raise the prince, and they are the biological mothers of the prince, and their status cannot be too low. Spread my will, and all of them will be promoted to Zhaorong. ”

When even if some palace people trotted to the bedroom of the two concubines to congratulate them, the freshly baked Xu Zhaorong and Liu Zhaorong were about to go crazy with joy. No one would have imagined that the two people who gave birth to the prince back then were just Xiu Yuan, who was barely promoted to the end of the nine concubines, and they could still get a great transformation today.

That night, His Majesty rested in Xu Zhaorong's palace. His Majesty finally came once, and of course Xu Zhaorong couldn't just let his son endorse to please His Majesty. She worked hard for a long time, and even took up most of her savings to let Fuhai say this for her in front of His Majesty, how could she not take advantage of the opportunity.

Xu Zhaorong is only in his early twenties this year, which is when his appearance is the most gorgeous. She was not born high, that is, she won the favor of His Majesty by relying on this face, and then had the opportunity to give birth to a prince.

Tonight, Xu Zhaorong diligently served His Majesty to bathe after the meal, and the eyes that wanted to speak and the clothes that were wet with water made His Majesty feel for a moment that he was not a drooping old man, but the beloved lover of the woman in front of him. So, His Majesty reached out and dragged Xu Zhaorong into the bath, which was ridiculous for a long time.

Enjoying the careful flattery of the beauty and the youthful and beautiful figure, His Majesty even felt that he had returned to his youth. He suddenly couldn't understand that he had been spoiling Gu Guifei for many years. No matter how pampered and willful the bright and glamorous beauties are, it is time for the flowering period to wither.

He is the Son of Heaven and the Lord of the world, what kind of woman does not deserve it? Why stick to one Gu Guifei? Especially today's concubine, her appearance is no longer young and beautiful, and her temperament is no longer delicate and cute, but there are more calculations between her eyebrows and eyes, and she only knows how to fight for interests for her son every day.

His Majesty in front of him obviously forgot how he needed Gu Guifei's maiden family as his backing back then, so he loved Gu Guifei in every way, and also forgot the difficult years when the queen supported him when he was young.

This matter seemed to open a floodgate, and in the next half month, His Majesty blessed four low-ranking concubines in one go. And Xu Zhaorong, who was initially favored, even introduced beauties to His Majesty virtuously and diligently, and those beautiful singers knew more about bed than the ladies who were selected into the palace.

Suddenly, Xu Zhaorong was in the limelight in the palace, and this flamboyant and gorgeous beauty could be seen everywhere. But what no one knows is that Xu Zhaorong is actually the queen's mother.

In the middle of the night, Xu Zhaorong was introduced into the palace by the queen's henchman and maid. The queen mother in plain clothes knelt quietly at the top place, and Xu Zhaorong knelt down respectfully to salute, without the slightest appearance of being flamboyant in the palace during the day.

"Concubine Xu, knock on the queen's mother, may the queen's mother be blessed and safe."

"Get up, this palace doesn't like to toss these false gifts."

Xu Zhaorong didn't dare to push back, and the first voice responded, "Yes." ”

"How is Your Majesty's health lately? The palace heard that Gu Guifei offered an elixir to His Majesty, so she received His Majesty's favor. The queen didn't seem to care much about it.

Xu Zhaorong was a little indignant again, "I don't know what tricks she used, recently, His Majesty has been going to her palace every day, but she has been domineering again." The concubine heard that Gu Guifei almost had a singer killed a few days ago. ”

Empress Wen was still calm, and seemed to be used to seeing Gu Guifei's domineering, she just lightly ordered, "The elixir is a good thing, Gu Guifei can use it to stay with Your Majesty, and you can too." ”