The square sky surrounded by the main hall of the deep palace is like this day and night, and Zhao Xi can't see a flower no matter how much he looks at it, but he still looks at it with relish, as if the night sky can project the entire Qingguo heaven and earth. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In Zhao Xi's opinion, this quadrangular night sky is much more interesting than looking at the topographic map of Qingguo made of brocade cloth in the imperial study, at least the stars in the night sky will occasionally flicker, pull out a long wisdom tail and fly into the distance, and then he can happily imagine who the immortal has fallen, or which emperor has run out of life.

Even Zhao Xi doesn't remember when he started this habit of looking at the sky.

In the past, Zhao Xi was a five-excellent young prince of courtesy, righteousness, benevolence, wisdom and filial piety.

Then Zhao Xi just looked at it, and before he knew it, the starry sky had become a big chessboard.

Zhao Xi began to turn the country into a line on the starry sky and lay it out everywhere.

Gradually, Zhao Xi has become the melancholy prince who is eager to take the throne.

In the process of this change, there have been many people, and Zhao Xi has gone from being at a loss at the beginning, to surprise, admiration, and then to indifference to these people with their own talents.

These people appear with all kinds of thoughts, use their skills, and then disappear again.

Later, Zhao Xi no longer cared about where these people came from and where they went.

These people appeared beside Zhao Xi, either for wealth, or for fame, or for some reasons that Zhao Xi couldn't understand.

The chessboard in the world is so big, there are thousands of chess games, everyone is their own protagonist, and no one will live alone for him, the prince, so it's nothing more than using each other.

Slowly, Zhao Xi became accustomed to it, but a certain belief in his heart became more and more firm as he grew older.

The willingness to achieve something is becoming more and more urgent, and Zhao Xi's actions are becoming more and more targeted, so there will be the first fire under the roots of the imperial city tonight.

"I can't drag it any longer......" Zhao Xi said to himself, this corner of the sky, after all, is still a circled sky, too small.

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North Forest Road.

The same night, the same sky, but the courtyard of Beilin Road is relatively small, so the night sky of the four sides that is separated by the circle is smaller and more depressing.

The second prince, Zhao Yi, couldn't sleep all night tonight, so he took the strategist Li Lang together and took a walk by the stars in this small backyard garden.

This back garden is the only place where he can move freely without being followed by guards.

At this moment, Zhao Yi was in a very bad mood, so he pinched the secret letter in his hand into a small ball and threw it into the fish pond: "Why did Zhao Kuo run back to the Western Desert again?

Li Lang lowered his voice and replied: "It is also a helpless move for the eldest prince to hide back in the Western Desert, now the third princess is missing in Jiangnan, the sixth prince is missing in Tianhe Road, and the second master is imprisoned by the emperor in Beilin Road, and in the eyes of outsiders, it is equivalent to disappearing." ”

"In this case, where would the eldest prince dare to go back to Kyoto for the New Year's Festival. ”

Zhao Yi stared at the small paper ball full of water, and then sank, and his mood sank: "Hey, it's still the New Year's Festival, save it, I think it won't even be possible to do the ceremony of sacrificing to the sky this year, the imperial city was made into such a bird by Zhao Xi, the black smoke is miasma, the people are panicked, and the father and emperor ...... It doesn't matter. ”

Li Lang nodded: "Yes, if the emperor is willing to take care of it a little, it won't be like this, if the emperor is willing to take care of it, at least the third princess will not be taken down by the crown prince." ”

Zhao Yi looked at Li Lang: "Do you still think that the third sister was taken down by the prince?

"My father knows that the third sister is in Jiangnan, will my father confine the third sister somewhere in Jiangnan like he did in a trap for me, and make a trick for the prince to see?"

Li Lang thought about it seriously and shook his head: "It turns out that I thought the same way, but now I feel that we have diverged directions." ”

"How?"

Li Langli thought about it and slowly analyzed: "The third princess disappeared in the battle of the Jiangnan Jungle, and the balls of the Criminal Department disappeared along with them. ”

"From this point of view, the biggest possibility is that the crown prince arranged for the ball to take the third princess somewhere and detain her privately. ”

"Secondly, if the emperor wants the third princess to disappear, there is no need to let the third princess risk being killed by mistake in the dense forest that night. The situation that night was very dangerous, the sword and arrow had no eyes, and the task force and the imperial guard in the dense forest were the prince's people, and it was obvious that they did not know the existence of the third princess, and they were all attacked by death when they were rounded up. ”

After finishing speaking, Li Lang paused for a while, leaving time for Zhao Yi to think.

Zhao Yi immediately retorted: "The arrangements over there in Jiangnan are all in the hands of the third sister, if she has fallen into Zhao Xi's hands, then why is the camp and dark line I left in Jiangnan still as usual?

Li Lang looked at Zhao Yi: "Assuming that the third princess is controlled by the prince, the second master guesses why the prince hasn't done anything to Jiangnan yet?"

"Could it be that the third sister can withstand the forced confession of the ball?" Zhao Yi didn't even believe himself after speaking, shook his head and said: "I can't bear it, a weak woman...... The king can't bear it. ”

"I can't bear it. Li Lang also shook his head.

Zhao Yi thought about it: "Maybe Zhao Xi feels that the time has not yet come, and he doesn't plan to do it for the time being?"

Li Lang smiled: "Second master, do you think the prince can bear it?"

Speaking of this, Zhao Yi became angry namelessly: "Why can't you bear it, that kid put Liu Lao's nail in my dead camp for ten years! I haven't moved for ten years, why can't I bear it?" (Note: Liu Lao is the old housekeeper of the Tianhe Road case, for details, please review Chapter 53 of the shocking news, and Chapter 79 of the second prince Zhao Yi)

Zhao Yi's teeth chattered: "Ten years ago, that kid honestly stayed in the imperial study every day to listen to lectures and be a schoolboy, and he didn't show any ambition at all, and deceived several of our brothers. ”

"Second master, you are right, this is the problem, you can also see it, second master. Li Lang saw that Zhao Yi finally mentioned the point, and chuckled: "This is the direction we want to diverge." ”

"What's wrong?" Zhao Yi couldn't keep up with Li Lang's train of thought for a while.

"Ten years ago, not only the crown prince, but even the second master were just ignorant schoolchildren in the imperial study. ”

"I guess at that time, you were more interested in the Qinglou outside the palace than the dragon chair, right?"

Zhao Yi thought about it and nodded.

Li Lang chuckled and continued to explain: "That's right, it's not the prince who can bear it. ”

"After the Tianhe Road case, I thought about it repeatedly, Liu Lao's nail should not be the prince's handiwork, nor was it the arrangement of the prince's adviser Wen Dou. I checked Wen Dou, and ten years ago, Wen Dou had not yet entered the East Palace. ”

"So I judge that there is someone else who is in this situation. ”

"I haven't found out who Liu Lao nailed for the time being. Li Lang licked his lips and said with some excitement to peek into other people's layouts: "When the prince was still young, the person who started to make this kind of preparation was not helping the prince, I think he had the intention of using the prince." ”

"The person behind such a selfish motive is obviously a person that the prince can't control. “

Zhao Yi thought about it in Li Lang's direction, his face became wonderful, and he swept away the haze in front of him and said, "What do you mean...... , Zhao Xi may have also been used by others as a chess piece?"