Chapter Seventy-Three: Negotiation
Under Dongfang Haoqiong's arrangement, I was invited to the Fenglin Inn in the afternoon and went with Li Hou to meet the second prince. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
From the outside, you can't tell that there is a prince living in the Maple Grove Inn, but when you get here, you will find that everything is different.
This Maple Forest Inn has completely fallen into the control of the Second Prince, because there is no more guests in the Maple Forest Inn except for the Second Prince!
"Who are you?"
As we entered through the gate, a man in black jumped down from his head and landed in front of us, questioning.
As soon as I saw this person, I had a feeling in my heart that this person was very powerful, and he was definitely a master who had cultivated sword qi and inner breath, but I didn't know what realm it was.
Li Hou immediately arched his hand at the man in black and said with a smile: "Commander Zhichong, this is the person His Royal Highness the Second Prince wants to see, this is the token of the Eastern Governor." ā
As he spoke, Li Hou took out a token from his arms and handed it to the man in black, exactly the same as the one Dongfang Haoqiong gave me before.
"Brother Longchen, this is the fifth rank of the imperial court, and he has always been responsible for the safety of the second prince. ā
After talking to Captain Zhichong, Li Hou turned around and explained his identity to me.
When I heard that Zheng Wupin was defeating the captain, I was a little surprised, a Zheng Wupin would be sent to a prince as a guard, which is a bit too big and useless!
Also, who is this Captain of the Folding?
Is he a cronie secretly cultivated by the second prince, or is it Emperor Yu or the crown prince who is placed next to the second prince Shen Cheng and is responsible for monitoring the movements of the second prince......
I don't know why, but I have a familiar feeling about twilight.
I had never seen him before, and this familiarity was a familiarity with his temperament, as if there was someone I knew who had a very similar temperament to him.
After checking that the token was correct, Twilight nodded, got out of the way for us, and let us in.
"His Royal Highness the Second Prince is resting inside, let's go by yourself!"
"Thank you, thank you!"
Then, I followed Li Hou and continued to walk towards the Maple Forest Inn. The more I walked inside, the more I felt that there were a lot of vague aura fluctuations in this inn.
Although I didn't see this thing directly, I couldn't be wrong with that vague feeling!
When I arrived at the lobby of the inn, I saw a man sitting in the lobby drinking alcohol.
For some reason, this man was dressed in a military uniform, wearing gold chain mail, wearing a Haoyue helmet, and during the action of raising a glass and drinking, something similar to a soft inner armor under the armor was exposed.
I saw Li Hou step forward and bow to the man who was drinking, and said in a respectful voice: "Your Royal Highness the Second Prince, you are going to see someone coming!"
"Oh, so fast!"
There was a hint of surprise in his words, and the second prince slowly turned around with his wine glass, and I saw his face at this time.
Although it is not handsome and chic, it is at least dignified and majestic, with the appearance of an emperor.
As I looked at him, he was looking at me, so neither of us spoke for a moment. Li Hou stood aside in silence, he couldn't leave without the order of the second prince.
"You are Li Longchen!"
I only said that my name was revealed by Dongfang Haoqiong to the second prince, so I nodded and affirmed his statement.
Seeing me nodding, the second prince smiled inexplicably and said, "I don't know what the Sword Emperor has to say when he comes to the Humble House." ā
I am not surprised that the second prince knows my identity, after all, after the trouble in Yudu, there are not a few people who know that Li Longchen is a disciple of the Sword Emperor.
However, Li Hou on the side had a calm face, and when I looked at him, he smiled at me, as if he had long known that I was a disciple of the Sword Emperor.
Although I never told him and Dongfang Haoqiong, they never asked, it turned out that they might have known about it a long time ago, but they just didn't break it.
Thinking of this, I feel a little ashamed that I haven't told myself my true identity about these two cheap big brothers.
Pulling my thoughts back, I arched my hand to the second prince and said with a smile: "Your Royal Highness, I can't talk about seeing the religion, I just have one important matter to come today, and I want to discuss it with His Royal Highness the Second Prince!"
"Something important?"
should be aroused by my words, the second prince's eyes showed a look of thought, and then said: "Li Hou, if there is nothing to do, you can step back for the time being!"
"Whoa!"
Li Hou agreed, bowed and was about to retreat, I was about to say that Brother Li Hou is not an outsider, so he doesn't need to go, but Li Hou gave me a temporary look and asked me not to do this.
If you think about it, I also know Li Hou's intentions. In front of the second prince, I need to negotiate with him as independently as possible, otherwise I will be easily subject to the second prince.
When Li Hou left, the second prince casually picked up the wine jug on the table, filled it with a glass of wine and handed it to me, and said with a smile: "Come, have a drink first, and then talk about it after you have something to drink!"
Seeing him do this, I think he is very much like a person, who is like this, and always wants me to drink.
I had no choice but to pick up the wine glass and drink with him.
After a glass of wine, I suddenly felt a strange feeling appear, and I was a little uncomfortable. At this point I realized that I was running out of energy, and in this case, I really didn't have a lot of alcohol to go anywhere......
Putting down the wine glass, I looked at the second prince and said, "Your Highness, the wine has also been drunk, now we have to talk about business!"
"Please!"
The second prince nodded to me, and then sat down a little carelessly, pouring the wine glass in his hand into his mouth from time to time.
"Last night at the Maple Forest Inn, His Highness captured an unknown person!"
"Huh?"
Hearing me say this, the second prince's face showed a little surprise, and then he said: "You are not right, there is no unknown person, but there is an assassin!"
Looking at him, I felt a little bad in my heart, the second prince deliberately positioned Shen Kuoyun as an assassin, just to set me up.
He knew very well in his heart, I knew that he had arrested Shen Kuoyun and wanted to talk to him, Shen Kuoyun was the bargaining chip in his hand, and he naturally couldn't let me take it away.
"Your Highness, that man shouldn't have been assassinated!"
The second prince shook his head for a while and said with a smile: "He went to the Fenglin Inn to plot against him, this is already an assassination." ā
Seeing that the second prince was biting this point and didn't let go, I simply opened the skylight with him and said something bright.
"Your Highness, I'll tell you straight! The person you arrested is Shen Kuoyun, he is the former city lord of Pingcheng and the son of Shen Xuan, he went to the Fenglin Inn just to find someone, not to assassinate him!"
"Former City Lord...... As far as I know, isn't Shen Xuan the current city lord of Pingcheng?"
It should be doubtful about my statement, and the second prince questioned it.
From his words, I instantly understood one thing, he was completely unaware of the fall of Fire Raid City and Pingcheng successively.
With a sneer, I replied, "Your Royal Highness, Pingcheng has changed hands yesterday, and you shouldn't know anything about it!"
"What did you say!"
Sure enough, as soon as I said this, the calm look on the second prince's face disappeared without a trace in an instant.
I repeated to him sentence by sentence: "Second prince, Pingcheng was captured by an army yesterday, and you still don't know it. ā
I felt that the second prince looked at me with doubts in his eyes, and I just shook my head and smiled.
"Your Royal Highness, you don't believe it, this has nothing to do with what we have to discuss!"
The second prince immediately stood up, stared at me with straight eyes, and said, "This matter is very important, you tell me who captured Pingcheng!"
"What if it's so high?"
Seeing that the second prince was so concerned about this matter, I couldn't help sneering, "You know who did it, you are not a puppet prince who has no power and is at the mercy of others!"
As soon as I finished speaking, I saw the second prince staring at me with a hideous face, as if he couldn't restrain himself from doing something to me.
"Li Longchen, you say it again!"
When I poked him in pain, he immediately turned his face, but it was part of my plan!
The current second prince thinks that he has caught me, and he wants to get some benefits from me, so he keeps emphasizing that Shen Kuoyun is an assassin.
Assassinating the prince, this is a big crime enough to kill the nine clans!
What I have to do now is to bring him back into the negotiating position, otherwise there will be absolutely no negotiation between me and him.
When the second prince turned his face, I felt that there were several unkind breaths in the Fenglin Inn, which fell on me, if the second prince gave an order, these people would definitely take action against me.
"I mean, you're a puppet!"
"You ......"
The second prince in a rage clenched his fists and his face turned red, but this anger did not last long before it turned into a kind of depression.
I saw him raise his hand and wave it, and said, "Alas...... Disperse you!"
Although the gesture seemed odd, I knew what he meant, because after he waved his hand, the aura of hostility towards me slowly receded.
"Brother Longchen, how do you know?"
Hearing the pleading tone of the second prince, I knew that he was beginning to sober up and was about to talk to me face to face.
"Your Royal Highness, you won't know about the changes that happened in Tianxianglou before, right?"
He hesitated for a moment and said, "You mean the execution of the assassin in Tianxiang Tower?"
Seeing that he knew about this, I was a little happy in my heart, and said, "Do you know what the assassins infiltrated Tianxiang Mansion for that night?"
"This ......"
Speaking of which, if he really didn't know, he should have immediately shook his head, but he didn't, and instead hesitated, which meant that he should know something, but he just wouldn't tell me.
He didn't want to tell me, but I knew it from start to finish.
"Second prince, the assassin infiltrated Tianxiang Tower, naturally he was not instructed to assassinate the prince as the outside world said. ā
"Their real purpose is to save a person, and this person was successfully rescued by them, am I right!"
"You!"
There was only surprise left on the second prince's face, it seemed that he really knew some inside stories about this matter.
With a long sigh, he said: "It seems that Brother Longchen really knows about this, then I will not say secret words, just say it!"
The meaning of the second prince's words is obvious, but he has completely compromised with me.
Because I know the inside story from beginning to end, and for him, only someone like me can help him.
"I'll introduce you to someone first! Twilight, come out. ā
At this time, Twilight heard the sound and jumped down from the second floor of the inn, only to see him bow to Shen Cheng and say, "I have seen Your Highness!"
"Get up. ā
After giving Twilight an order, the second prince then said to me: "Brother Longchen, as long as you know what Twilight's identity is, we can completely talk about it!"
When he said this, I couldn't help but have some curiosity about this twilight identity, can the twilight identity really make us let go of all the mustard!
"Brother Longchen, Twilight's true identity is ......"
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To be continued......