Born short-lived

And one day the white crystal spirit will be replaced by black oil, then the Jiang family will be useless to Hua Xu, now helping the prince, I hope he can remember the old favor and leave a note for the Jiang family road.

Jiang Huaibi, as the most powerful priest of the Jiang family in the past 50 years, is about to run out of oil, and the sun is dying.

Thinking about it this way, when he looked up at this person again, he felt that she was too thin and white, as if she was about to disappear in the blink of an eye.

Thinking back to the time when the princes were in war, the Jiang family relied on being one of the two spirits of black and white, and had both sides. If the emperor Taizu was born a few years later, I am afraid that Jiangshan would not have the surname Dong.

Times have changed, the Wuyou River is rolling eastward, killing heroes for thousands of years, the black and white spirits were once the absolute power in this world, the black has the great emperor Dongwen, and the white has the grand master Jiangbei Kun Guoshi Wushuang. One hundred, go forward indomitable?

Where are you now?

Among the four realms, it is not just one or two countries that waste white crystals and are prone to black oil. Huaxu's country is very large, and it can affect the whole body. The people, the treasury, and even the alliances with other countries. After all, most of the exchanges with the southern border countries are based on the white crystal trade.

But even if everyone pretends nothing happened, no one is really a fool—the Bai Ling of the Jiang clan is not as strong as it was hundreds of years ago, and the blood of the Jiang clan is gradually weakening in the marriage. , the white crystal spiritual energy that maintained the national body would disappear.

Back then, Emperor Taizu wanted to use marriage to weaken the Jiang family, and he really succeeded, but he may not have figured out how much Hua Xu would pay for the transition from white crystal to black oil.

Dong Sheng looked at Jiang Huai Bi with a complicated expression, and didn't know what to say. After a long time, he sighed: "You can't pursue it, as the high priest said, you must do your best if you are alone."

Jiang Huaibi still had an indifferent expression on his face, he nodded slightly when he heard the words, and said in a low voice: "Bi is on behalf of the Jiang family, thank you Your Highness."

Dong Sheng said it was okay, and then looked sideways at the dead body lying sideways outside the window, frowned and said: "I am causing trouble to the high priest, and such dirty things will not happen again in your mansion in the future."

Although Dong Sheng couldn't blatantly deploy people in the Jiang Clan's compound, it was more than enough if he wanted to covertly deal with a few corner people.

More than half of the palace guards are Jiang Kun's people, and Duan Hongyan, the general of Huben who is in charge of the inner palace, is Jiang Kun's father's disciple.But Liang Yuan, his guard, was the old prince of Zhou. He had suffered a lot from the guards over the years, so he secretly gathered some of his own people.

So if Dong Sheng's personal soldiers changed into the armor of the garrison army to steal the beam, it shouldn't attract much attention.

"Don't let any one look wrong."

—— These are the original words that Dong Sheng ordered to go on.

About three days later, Jiang Kun, who was almost at ease, finally found out that something was wrong. The hidden piles he sent out had never returned since when. He lost more than a dozen people in three days. Fearing that troubles would arise after a long time, I had to take the rest of the people back.

Privately arranging hidden stakes in the courtier's mansion is something that cannot be brought out in the open. No matter how angry Jiang Kun can be, he can only eat Coptis chinensis in silence.

In the blink of an eye, Dong Sheng had already stayed in the capital for more than a month. He was so busy that he didn't think about it. Recently, he had a little leisure before he suddenly realized that the little girl who used to find all kinds of reasons to cling to her when she came back The princess hadn't come to him since she came back this time.

From Dong Sheng's point of view, those things about the princess party actually have nothing to do with the princess. What does a half-blind little girl know?It's just the group of people behind her who are thinking about it.

So no matter how much he fought, he couldn't get bored with that little girl.Besides, girls in the cardamom age always have a natural charm, as long as they are not too surly, it is difficult for people to raise their guard.

He was in a good mood that day, so he asked the back kitchen to prepare some pastries that girls like to eat, and took a few attendants to visit Liushang Pavilion.

As a result, I didn't look at the official calendar when I went out, and I forgot the date. Tomorrow is the holiday. The princess is different from him, she is still busy at the moment.

I heard that the princess was sent to the cabinet to "study" current affairs shortly after his Northern Expedition. The little princess may not understand the meaning, but it is impossible for Dong Sheng not to understand.

It's just that he didn't expect Jiang Kun to be a wolf with ambition. He only left the court for a few months, and he had the idea of ​​the emperor's daughter assisting the government.

The empress probably agreed to this ridiculous thing because she was afraid that he would be too arrogant, in order to contain him.

"Isn't the princess coming back today?" Dong Sheng looked back at the cakes and sweet soup that were almost cold in the attendant's hands, with a helpless face, "I'm afraid Gu's trip today was not for nothing."

The old servant in charge smiled all over his face, and hurriedly beckoned people to invite the prince inside. His gray hair was combed docilely. At first glance, it looked like the snow that hadn't melted in early spring: "It's okay, Your Highness, come again!" I should be back in an hour or two, His Royal Highness might as well go in and wait."

Dong Sheng looked up at the sun, thought about it or smiled and shook his head, sighed and said: "Forget it, don't bother you, since today is not in time, I will come back another day."

The smile on the old servant's face froze, and the creases on his face that were full of joy just now collapsed, and he said with some regret: "Then... since His Highness is busy, that's fine... It's just that the princess misses you so much these days, I originally wanted to go to you, but I don't know if it was because of shyness or something, so I refused to go anyway."

Dong Sheng was taken aback for a moment, and then he slowly figured it out—there was no shyness, maybe it wasn't because of the embarrassment caused by the fights in the court.

"That's easy to say," Dong Sheng said with a smile, pulling the corners of his mouth, "When the weather gets warmer... Ah, maybe after the beginning of spring, we have time to go for an outing together. These cakes are prepared for the princess alone. I don't know if they suit my appetite. , you take it and warm it first, don’t let it cool down, eating it in this season will hurt your body.”

"Hey." The old slave hurriedly sent someone to take the pastries, and bowed his hands, "Thank you, Your Highness."

Dong Sheng hummed casually, and left with the people.

After watching the prince finally walk away, the old servant finally breathed a sigh of relief, lifted the hem of his skirt, turned around silently and entered the room, and closed the door with a "squeak".

"Is what Brother Cai just said true?" Dong Li came out from behind the curtain, with uncontrollable joy in his cloudy eyes, "About me for a spring outing after the beginning of spring?"

Dong Li hid behind the window and heard the conversations just now clearly.

"That's right." Seeing her coming out, the old slave hurried up to help her, "Your Highness said that if you are free then, you can go out with the princess for a walk."

Dong Li smiled bitterly and said: "I thought he would hold grudges against me because of my uncle's things, but I didn't expect... Brother Huang really treats me well."

"The princess and His Royal Highness are brothers and sisters after all." The old slave smiled and helped her to sit on the couch, "The things the princess said are just government affairs, and the brotherhood of blood and blood cannot be broken."

"That's good..." Dong Li breathed a sigh of relief, then suddenly remembered something, his eyes lit up, "Hurry up and bring those pastries for me to taste."

Dongsheng was idle for a few days, and after the new year's trade list with Southern Xinjiang came out, he became busy again, until the Spring Festival in the eastern suburbs in Lichun.

By the time he finally finished his work, the unintentional appointment in front of the princess hall was almost forgotten.

He looked at the official calendar and counted the days, and suddenly thought that Zhou Zirong's birthday would be in a few days.

[The author has something to say: Heh, man. 】