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, but I'm afraid that what I think in my heart is that if there is a day, I will be the one who was abandoned.

But he didn't know that if that day really came, Xiao Tingsheng would not be in a dilemma.

It's like he didn't know that on the day of parting in the last life, he knelt by his bed and wept all night.

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It was heavy rain again that day, and it became gloomy and rained endlessly. After a group of government soldiers helped unload a batch of sand, they sat together to discuss the repair of the river embankment. Half of these people were farmers from the suburbs of Beijing. For Qi I feel angry about the water.

Emperor Liang didn't recover too quickly after returning to Beijing, so he ordered King Qi to supervise the construction of the Qishui River embankment. More than a dozen officials from the Ministry of Households and Industry gathered in King Qi's mansion to discuss matters. A group of people painstakingly checked the accounts and construction period , no matter what, it cannot be completed before summer.

Listening to the voices of the guards at the gate, one of them finally couldn't bear it and took the case. I waited here and worked hard to calculate thousands of times. I was worried when I saw a rain, and I only hoped that the next moment would be less. But what's the use!In fact, as long as the emperor agrees to mobilize one-third of the defenders, all problems will be solved!

It's only late spring and it's raining so much, and several places are about to break the embankment. Whoever said that the river will not be flooded should move his mansion to Qishui. Let's see if he will say so again then!

This sentence is like igniting a cluster of gunpowder in an atmosphere of oppressive silence.

Another said that even King Xian remained neutral this time, and King Yu had already helped a lot in secret.In fact, the backbone of the opposition was Prince Jing, and Shen Zhui from the household department had been silent all the time. If these two people were missing, the emperor would have no reason to persevere.

That's right, but there are many cases in the court, when will His Highness Prince Jing be missing.

Why miss him?Is it a thunderstorm or a sickness?

Suddenly the door slammed open, bringing a thunderclap in the distance, scaring everyone to stop what they were doing and look towards the door.

Lin Shu stood at the door, his calm and majestic eyes swept over the people in the room with a soldier's unique stern look, and walked in with a stride.

Marshal Chi Yan has no weapons in his hands at the moment, and he is wearing a white short shirt without armor. He is dressed in an ordinary young man's attire, but it makes people feel like he is on the battlefield.

As if in the next moment, he would be killed by this person.

The room was full of civil servants who had only held pens in their lives. Wherever they had seen such a posture, they all fell silent.

This day, King Qi has been gone since he came down to court. Now he walked in with Tong Lin Shu. For some reason, his eyes seemed to be very red, and his expression was different from the usual kind and generous expression. He introduced to everyone in a low voice. Lin Shu was appointed, and he was in charge of escorting all the supplies this time.

Some officials in Jinling didn't know Lin Shu, and when they saw Lin Shu salute, they all returned the salute.

When discussing later, although everyone still had some complaints, no one dared to mention Prince Jing again.

----

During the half month that Jingyan was almost unconscious, something happened.

Xuan Jingsi caught a woman from the Hua tribe in the city. This is not a big deal, but the woman's statement is that she came to Jinling to find relatives.

This is strange.

All the Hua people in Jinling should have been expelled three years ago.

After some torture, the woman confessed that the person she was looking for was in Prince Qi's mansion, saying that when they expelled the Hua people three years ago, they had been in Prince Qi's mansion for a long time, and they were protected by King Qi and never let them out of the mansion. Nothing at all, only when I came to search did I know that these two people were sent out of the mansion overnight by King Qi because of something wrong, and they were nowhere to be found.

King Qi learned from Lin Shu that Jingyan had met the assassin after he came down that day, and now Jingyan is seriously injured.

Therefore, when Emperor Liang sent someone to question, King Qi only said that the two men were caught stealing in the mansion, and they were driven out of the mansion only after they found out that they were from the Hua tribe.

The matter seems to have been dropped after that.

In the next ten days, Xuanjing Si Xia Chun Xia Qiu issued a secret edict to search Prince Qi's mansion at night.

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Tingsheng knew that Lin Chen had given Jingyan a dose of medicine, which could relieve pain and boost his spirits at critical times. He heard that within half a month after Emperor Liang returned to the palace, he only went to court once, on the day after returning to Beijing, and his father actually dragged his seriously injured body to go to court. up.

He didn't know how his father survived, he only knew that after that day, Prince Jing's mansion would close its doors and no longer see visitors.

King Qi wanted to visit Prince Jing's mansion several times after he learned about what happened at the Spring Hunting Paddock from Lin Shu, but he was turned away by the accusation of "no visitor due to illness".

Emperor Liang called King Qi into the palace to inquire about the two women from the Hua tribe, which made him feel that something was wrong. After that, for ten days, a guard seemed to see a figure shaking near the study, and when he went to search, he only found that the study was slightly passive.

Ting Sheng felt that something was different, but he couldn't sort out the fragmented clues, let alone discuss it with him.

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When Xia Jiang strode into the water pavilion, Banruo got up and welcomed him in. King Yu stood in the inner hall and bowed to him, "Yesterday, the queen mother said that it has been a day since the father saw Xia Shouzun." I didn't eat, and I didn't see the people in the harem, so I knew the big thing was over."

Xia Jiang nodded calmly, "Then I'm here to congratulate His Royal Highness Yuwang. It's one step closer to the goal."

Yu Wang smiled and poured a cup of tea for Xia Jiang himself, and said tentatively, "Jing Xuan is nothing to worry about, but unfortunately there is still Jingyan, I wonder if Xia Shouzun has a wonderful way."

"I have a word with His Highness first. I will help you bring down King Qi. It has nothing to do with the battle for the throne." Xia Jiang didn't take the tea.

"Jing Huan puts his heart and soul to Xia Shouzun, but he doesn't want Xia Shouzun to still have reservations about me. Does Xia Shouzun really think that King Jing, who grew up under the guidance of King Qi, can keep Xuan Jingsi if he ascends the throne? "

"That's not something I want to consider. When a prince becomes emperor, he will understand that Xuan Jing is something he must rely on." Xia Jiang's expression remained unchanged, "However, His Highness recruits wise men, compared to recent times because of Qi Shui. Prince Jing, whose affairs are getting more and more unpopular, is rising and falling, isn't your popularity getting higher and higher?"

Banruo saw that the expressions of the two men were getting gloomy, and smiled at the side, "Xia Shouzun, let's drink a cup first, this is the tea specially prepared by our Highness to reward Shouzun."

King Yu got up and thanked him again, "Thanks to Xia Shouzun's all-out help this time."

"It's okay, it's His Royal Highness Yu Wang's plan. I'm just sending people and kits to His Majesty."

"One can be said to be a coincidence, but the two of them were expelled from the mansion at the same time. They said that they didn't know their Hua clan identities. I'm afraid His Majesty the Emperor would not believe it. So His Royal Highness Qi Wang answered really well. , simply admitting that they are Hua people, and found a good reason to expel them."

"Since we know they are from the Hua tribe, but we want to keep them alive, judging by King Qi's benevolent temperament, it is not unreasonable."

"The question is how much His Royal Highness Qi knows about the identity of their Hua people." Banruo smiled, "The arrested woman told the nanny's original name - she was the one who served Master and Princess Linglong back then, Your Majesty the Emperor. Although I have never seen it, I can probably remember the name."

"Such a person who knows many secrets has been in Qi Wang's mansion for so long, and did not leave Qi Wang's mansion until three years after most of the Hua people were expelled from Jinling. Is it because of the benefits he gave Qi Wang, after being sent away overnight? Where was it sent?"

"The news of Master's death is still a secret. Although I don't know why Xiao Jingyan has never concealed it from the emperor until now, His Majesty the Emperor really didn't know about it. We can use this to make a fuss. Now that these two people are out of the city again, the Emperor It must be thought that they are going to join the old master—or worse, they are going to contact the old master for the sake of King Qi."

"Of course, the most important thing is that Xia Chun and the others went to Prince Qi's mansion to search for the kit. If the previous words are still unfounded, then this is the real evidence. Princess Linglong wrote a letter to His Royal Highness Prince Yu."

"Prince Qi's mansion found this, and now someone knows the secret that the emperor is most afraid of revealing, and it is his most popular eldest son." King Yu smiled and said, "But the next thing is hard to ask. The world's most Unanswered questions are questions that cannot be asked. What's more, this question is the most untouchable part of the emperor's heart. Since then, the father will be suspicious of Brother Qi, but he can't directly ask him whether he already knows this secret. Therefore, in the future, no matter whether King Qi I'm afraid you will be blamed for what you say or do, but now it only takes one more straw to completely sink this big ship."

Having said that, Xia Jiang got up and said goodbye after drinking three cups of tea.

Seeing him leave, Banruo asked in a low voice, "Just doing this, won't His Highness be involved?"

"It's okay. Since those two people were dealt with until now, King Qi and I haven't met." Prince Yu laughed as if mocking himself, "What's more, Father's suspicion of me didn't start from this moment. I still have the blood of the Hua clan in my body, as long as the name of the Hua clan is still in the world, this kind of suspicion will not stop-he will never consider letting a person with the blood of the Hua clan inherit the throne."

King Yu sneered, and added the second half of the sentence, "As long as he has someone else to choose from."

"Furthermore, since my father likes to guess people's hearts, instead of thinking that Brother Qi withheld this sachet to threaten me in the future, it is better to think that this will be a bargaining chip for Brother Qi to threaten him in the future."

"After all, the kit that my mother wrote to me is real. As long as it is in the world, my father will never have a day of rest."

"It's just a pity this time, we can't plant it on Lin Xie. Since he went to the western region, he seems to have broken off with the people in Jinling.