These are things that she learned about a long time later, At that time, Xie Yuwan was already in power, and the Xie family was no longer nothing. Even if she had asked a secret question or two, he had only lowered his eyes and made it lightly.

She followed Mo Huai to a restaurant on the side, Mo Huai didn't say anything, and first ordered some dishes with Xiao Er. After negotiating with Xiao Er, he said with no expression on his face.

"It's past noon, so let's eat first."

Jiang Wu looked at Mo Huai and answered softly.

After noon, there were not many people in the restaurant. Xiao Er quickly brought the dishes up, and Jiang Wu looked at the dishes on the table, all of which were sweet.

She took a piece of squirrel mandarin fish with her chopsticks, put it in her mouth, and lowered her eyes.

There was no taste in eating, She was stunned for a moment, put down her chopsticks, and looked at Mo Huai opposite: "What's going on with the Prime Minister's Mansion?" ”

Mo Huai lowered his eyes, and after a long time, he said, "As Miss saw." Yesterday, the elders hurried over, saying that since something had happened to the prince, the palace needed them to preside over the affairs. ”

Jiang Wu frowned: "It will take at least two days for the news to reach Shangyang from Chang'an." It will take at least two days for the elders to travel from Shangyang to Chang'an. It's just that in this way, it will take four days for the elders to arrive in Chang'an from the time they know the news. Now that it has only been two days since Xie Yuwan was imprisoned, how did the elders learn the news and go to Chang'an? ”

Mo Huai shook his head and said honestly: "I don't know." ”

Jiang Wu's eyebrows frowned slightly, squeezed the teacup in her hand, and scolded softly after a long time: "It's too much to deceive." ”

No matter what she thinks, this matter can only be the handiwork of the Son of Heaven.

*

Inside the Royal Palace.

Xu Shenli knelt in the main hall and looked at the Son of Heaven on the throne.

"Father." With just one sound, an inkstone smashed directly over.

"How can you break your leg at the feast, it's your own brother?" The Son of Heaven coughed and scolded angrily. It's just that because the voice is weak, it doesn't have much deterrent effect to listen to.

The prince did not avoid it, and let the inkstone fall on his head.

But the force used by the Son of Heaven was not heavy, and the inkstone fell down in front of the prince. Xu Shenli raised his eyes and looked at the Son of Heaven: "Father, the banquet ruined our plans. ”

"Then you must not break his legs, he is the prince, and it is your mother who is pregnant for ten months-"

Xu Shenli interrupted this sentence directly: "Father, it is because of his mother that he will die!" ”

The Son of Heaven wanted to say something, but he lost his strength again: "He is the prince, he is not married, you broke his leg, how will he face those gossips in the future." ”

Seeing that the Son of Heaven was so weak, Xu Shenli knew that he had finally gained a little advantage in this battle with his father.

He looked at his father and said almost cruelly: "He is just a prince, and he has also been crowned a king, father, you give him a fief, and then a marriage, and drive him out of the capital." As for the broken leg, it was said that it was because the hunt fell into a trap and was caught by the trap and broke the leg. ”

The tone seemed to be dealing with a livestock, not his own brother.

The Son of Heaven looked at the crown prince in front of him in silence.

This is his first child with Rouyi, and they named him Xu Shenli, hoping that he will be calm, gentle and polite throughout his life.

He is a soft childhood sweetheart, and he has a very close relationship, and they naturally love their first child, who is still the eldest son.

When he was still in the East Palace, he and Rouyi were thinking that in the future, they would hand over the beaten world to Shen Li's hands.

At that time, the emperor did not treat him well, and even as the crown prince, he would be detained and targeted by many places. When Rou Yi gave birth to a bow, it coincided with the time when his father listened to the slander of others and was taboo about him, and their life in the palace was not easy.

Rouyi broke her body because of this, and later when she was born, she unfortunately died in childbirth.

At that time, Shen Li didn't remember things, so he didn't talk about these things with Shen Li. According to Shen Li's temperament, if he knew that Rou Yi had three points of responsibility, Shen Li would definitely be trapped by self-blame.

As for the feast, it is true that Rouyi died during the feast. Even if he told himself that the child was innocent, when he saw the feast, he would think of the painful eyes when Rouyi died.

Therefore, he had no way to go to the □□ like Ai Shenli, and he gave the banquet to the nurse who was gentle in the past to raise, but he forgot that people's hearts will change.

The nurse was cruel to the feast, and by the time he knew it, he had grown up.

Fortunately, there was no dissatisfaction in his eyes during the banquet.

......

When did things start to change?

It was probably that Shen Li was really rude that day, and he said to Shen Li when he was angry: "Xu Shen Li, not to mention that I can have a successor, even if it is a son-in-law, there is still a banquet." If you continue to be so unlearned—"

He didn't finish his words that day, because Xu Shenli, who had always contradicted him, knelt down directly and admitted his mistake.

"Father, I was wrong......"

Shen Li, who has always been stubborn, actually cried directly.

He sighed, but he didn't see the look in the child's eyes.

Since then, Shen Li's targeting of the banquet has begun to be overwhelming. He said it a few times, but to no avail. Gradually, he discovered that as long as there was a feast, Shen Li would work hard in many things.

And he indulged......

Being able to become the whetstone of the next Son of Heaven is also a blessing at the banquet. Shen Li has always been very measured, but this time it was too much.

The Son of Heaven was silent for a moment, frowned and said, "Shen Li, that's your own brother, not your enemy." ”

Xu Shenli didn't speak, but his expression was still a little dissatisfied.

The Son of Heaven sighed, the matter at the banquet was not the most important thing at this time. He looked at Xu Shenli below, and most of the original anger on his face had faded.

"How are you going to do the matter of the Si family and the prime minister?"

Speaking of Xu Yanshi's affairs, Xu Shenli didn't have much emotion, but when he heard this, Xu Shenli's whole eyebrows frowned: "It was Si Li's work that implicated me." It's just that the young lady threw a jade, so why should he want that young lady's life. That young lady saved the prime minister's life again, and she was the prime minister's only student. ”

Speaking of this, Xu Shenli looked at the Son of Heaven: "Father, you know, I don't have any dislike for the prime minister. ”

The Son of Heaven never broke it, but he knew that Shen Li did not have any dislike for Xuezhi. Whether Shen Li ascends the throne or after ascending the throne, he must rely on Xuezhi.

Shen Li's talent is not enough to take care of a country now, but as long as there is snow, all this is not a problem.

Although Xue Zhi has never stood in line, with his relationship with Xue Zhi and his understanding of Xue Zhi, a gentleman like Xue Zhi will definitely assist carefully after Shen Li takes the throne.

With Xuezhi's talent, he was able to win the world for him.

Nowadays, even if it is enough to assist a person with a mental disability. What's more, Shen Li is not a mentally deficient person. As long as Shen Li can take the position, everything will not be too much of a problem.

As long as Shen Li is not so mediocre that the snow cannot tolerate it in the future, he will be able to sit on the throne for the rest of his life.

Even if Shen Li is so mediocre that Xue Zhi can't tolerate it, with Xue Zhi's temperament, he will only find a suitable person from the clan to replace Shen Li.

Xue Zhi would never take the throne of a minister.

The Son of Heaven sighed and looked at Shen Li, who was kneeling below: "Yesterday, Xue Zhi sent a bloody coat and a letter of resignation, Shen Li, your subordinates have punished Xue Zhi." ”

Xu Shenli was stunned for a moment and looked at the Son of Heaven on the dragon throne.

He instructed his subordinates not to be harsh on the prime minister. He hesitated: "Is it the third or fifth person who did it, they want to be the same and I am disgusted-"

Halfway through speaking, Xu Shenli stopped, and he suddenly remembered that since the matter of Si Li, there was already a dislike between him and the prime minister.

He looked at his father on the high seat suspiciously, and said softly: "Father, between the Si family and the prime minister, why did the father choose the Si family?" is the Si family is full of doors, how can he be worthy of the prime minister. ”

The Son of Heaven was stunned for a long time and looked at the splendid palace.

After a long time, Xu Shenli heard the words in his father's dumb voice: "Because Xuezhi is a gentleman." ”

A gentleman like Snow is bound by the etiquette of the world.

Therefore, even if Snow has enough power in his hands to overthrow the throne, he will still be quietly imprisoned. It's like when Xue Zhi gets out of prison and sees that the Prime Minister's Mansion has been occupied by the elders of the Xie Mansion, he will still accept it quietly.

Between the monarch and the minister, between the family, a gentleman like Xue Zhina will only accept.

When Xuezhi's power is eaten away step by step, he will go to talk to Xuezhi in detail at that time.

After all, everything he did was never to suppress Xuezhi. If Xue Zhi can willingly assist Shen Li to ascend to the throne, everything will be easy to say.

But the Si family is different, if he doesn't respond to the request of his subordinate boss Yushi that day, Si Yushi will turn around and go to the mother clan behind the third prince or the fifth prince.

At that time, Shen Li's road to the throne would only become more difficult.

The weak Son of Heaven coughed up a mouthful of blood, looked at the blood stains on the white papa, and left a tear in the golden and brilliant hall.

It's that he can't stop the snow.

*

Inside the prison.

Jiang Wu watched Mo Huai go up to negotiate with the jailers, Mo Huai stuffed a lot of silver taels and said a lot of words, and the jailers nodded at them.

As they walked by, the jailer whispered, "Only outside the cell, half an hour." ”

Mo Huai answered in a low voice, and Jiang Wu glanced at the jailer and found that it was the jailer who guarded the door when Xu Yan brought her in last time. When Xu Yanshi brought her here, the jailer directly and respectfully stuffed the key into Xu Yanshi's hand.

Jiang Wu didn't know what she felt, but her eyes drooped.

Xie Yuwan's prison was in the deepest part, and the three of them walked together for a long time before they arrived. The dim long road, with a smell of blood, has come for the second time, and Jiang Wu is still a little uncomfortable.

When they arrived at the depths of the prison, Chen Lian and Mo Huai stood at the corner, and Jiang Wu stepped forward alone.

She held a candle in her hand, which could only reflect the road in front of her. When she arrived at the door of Xie Yuwan's cell, she looked at Xie Yuwan through the candlelight.

Because the jailer didn't give them the key, this time she could only look through the cell door at Xie Yuwan inside.

His face was still very pale, and there was still some blood on his snowcoat. The blood stains on the snow suit are lighter than last time, presumably a different body.

She lowered her eyes, took out the package from behind her, and handed it the clean clothes inside. The candle flame reflected the slender shadow of the girl, which happened to be within the reach of the youth.

They passed through a wooden door, through which the maiden's hand passed and placed the clean garment beside the young man.

The young man looked at her from beginning to end and said softly, "Why is it here again?" ”

She hung her head, and her voice was soft: "I want to tell you that I have finished what you told me." After speaking, she raised her eyes and looked at the young man opposite.

She opened another package and took out the wild gardenia inside.

The young man looked at her until the wild gardenia was handed to him.

The girl's voice was very soft, and a pair of eyes looked at him seriously: "Thank you for being late, you smell it, isn't it very fragrant?" ”

Chapter Seventy-Eight

Wild gardenias are very white.

It has a rich fragrance and tiny thorns on the untrimmed branches and leaves.