After the court was dismissed, the prince returned to the East Palace.

As he looked at the strange stone sent by Prince Wei, the anger that Zhou Jin had brought to the prince gradually disappeared.

"There really is a map of the country in the stone." The prince played with it lovingly.

Prince Wei looked at the Crown Prince's expression and said with joy: "Your Highness looks much better."

The prince now likes to hear that he is in good health the most. He smiled and said, "It is much better than before."

"Being in good health is the real health." Prince Wei bowed with a smile.

The prince lowered his eyebrows and looked at the strange stone for a while, and couldn't help but lecture Wei Shizi: "You married my second sister, you should treat her well. Why do you keep so many male favorites? Don't make her sad."

Prince Wei's face froze and he kept silent.

The prince sighed earnestly, "My second sister and I grew up together, so I can't help but favor her. But you and I also grew up together, and you are my study partner."

"I sincerely hope that you and your spouse will live in harmony."

Prince Wei looked ashamed: "I feel ashamed of you, Your Highness."

"Forget it," the prince waved his hand, ordered everyone in the hall to leave, and then looked at Prince Wei seriously.

"What happened to the Huai River?"

The prince suddenly asked this question, and Wei Shizi was startled and said quickly: "Nothing happened."

"Today, the chief steward of the grain transport mentioned the grain transport in the palace. Your Majesty must have become suspicious."

When the prince said this, he suddenly called his brother-in-law: "Brother-in-law, my second sister often gave me money. I am very grateful to her, but when I think of what I did without telling her, I feel a little ashamed."

The Crown Prince of Wei looked ashamed and bowed deeply: "I deserve to die."

"What's the matter with life and death? You and I grew up together." The prince reached out and patted Prince Wei's shoulder.

"You are different from Prince Xu! He is a rigid and upright person, and we only have the relationship of monarch and subject. You and I are different..." The prince reached out and held Prince Wei's hand.

"Handle the Huaihe River issue properly."

Prince Wei bowed again and said, "I will definitely take care of it."

The prince suddenly thought of Wei Yan: "Have you seen Wei Yan these days?"

Prince Wei was stunned: "Wei Yan? But he is the servant of the Eastern Palace? I haven't seen him in these days, what's wrong?"

Never mind if you haven't seen it.

The prince waved his hand: "You can go down, I still have things to do."

Seeing that the prince did not want to talk anymore, Prince Wei bowed and left.

As he walked out of the hall, Prince Wei couldn't help but turn his head and look back.

Then he lowered his eyelids, stared at the stone bricks under his feet, and walked forward step by step.

After leaving the imperial city, Prince Wei got on the carriage.

He asked the people around him, "Did Prince Pei's Mansion take that young eunuch home?"

"Take him home!" the person next to him replied.

"Has Wei Yan been driven to Nanli County?"

The people around him replied: "He has been taken in by Mr. Gu who teaches the villagers."

"Then kill those people who are looking for Wei Yan. Put the body in a more conspicuous place so that it will be easier for people to find it."

Prince Wei closed his eyes and rubbed his temples.

The carriage moved forward slowly.

On the roadside, a cicada crawled out from the ground. When it was about to climb up the tree trunk, a praying mantis suddenly jumped out and caught the cicada.

The mantis was celebrating, waving its huge claws as a yellow bird flew low over the sky.

In the blink of an eye, there was no trace of the mantis or cicada on the ground.

Princess Zheng stood on the high platform and watched the Crown Prince of Wei's carriage slowly drive into the Duke of Wei's Mansion.

She held up two fingers and shook them slightly.

The sound is pleasant.

"play music!"

……

Taixuan Temple.

Prince Jin stood under the grape trellis, looking up in a trance.

The eunuch asked curiously, "My Lord, what are you looking at?"

King Jin smiled and said, "I'm looking at the grapes. They are still not ripe."

"His Majesty has urged you to return to Beijing several times," said the eunuch.

"When the grapes are ripe, I will return to the capital." Prince Jin put his hands behind his back and smiled brightly.

"The season has not come yet, and the fruit is not ripe yet."

……

Black Iron Army camp.

The deputy general whispered to Xu Jingchen about things happening in the capital.

"Zhou Jin and the Crown Prince had an argument in front of the palace, and the Crown Prince retreated an arrow's distance away."

"The Prince of Wei met the Crown Prince and presented him with a strange stone with a map of the whole country."

"Prince Zhao stayed indoors and beat his eldest son Hong Qing yesterday."

"Prince Jin has been at Taixuan Temple and has not come out yet."

"There is a servant in charge of the accounts in the East Palace who has been missing for several days. His name is Wei Yan."

Xu Jingchen frowned, thinking of the envelope Zheng Guo had asked him to read when he met him last year.

The things inside involved the lives of hundreds of people in the Duke of Wei's mansion.

He thought of Prince Jin again.

King Jin is hiding!

When the King of Jin went into hiding, something big usually happened.

The prince of Zhao was involved in a salt permit issue, and the princess risked her life to save the prince and settle the salt permit case.

But he didn't know that the prince did a lot of things in private.

The Crown Princess died in vain.

Xu Jingchen stood up and said, "Let's go and watch the boys practice."

He only has one chance to unsheathe his sword.

He would not move unless Lu Bozhou and Li Jinglan were in a situation where they were doomed to die.

……

Prince Pei's Mansion.

Aunt Zhao stood up in a panic and bowed to the Queen.

The queen had not expected to meet Li Jinglan's biological mother when she came to see Prince Lu today, so she smiled and said, "Don't be polite, mother-in-law."

Hearing the queen calling her mother-in-law, Aunt Zhao looked ashamed and said, "I don't deserve it."

The queen was displeased. "You are Jinglan's biological mother. How can you be so humiliated?"

Aunt Zhao didn't dare to say anything more.

Li Jinglan tried to smooth things over, "Mom, please help me keep an eye on the kitchen."

Aunt Zhao hurriedly lowered her head and left as if she had been pardoned.

The queen sighed in her heart.

How could such a timid Aunt Zhao raise a daughter like Li Jinglan?

The Queen had no idea that Aunt Zhao broke into Xu Jingchen's room that night.

It only took two sentences to force Xu Jingchen to pay with his life.

The queen just felt a little sorry for Li Jinglan's childhood.

I heard that Mrs. Li Wu was very bullying to Aunt Zhao and Li Jinglan.

Thinking of this, the Queen grabbed Li Jinglan's hand and asked her gently, "Does your waist hurt today?"

Li Jinglan shook her head: "It doesn't hurt."

The Queen leaned over to look at the young Prince Lu in the bed again.

Her grandson was sleeping soundly, his little face was white and chubby.

It's very different from when I was born.

The more the queen looked at him, the more she loved him. "This child looks so good when he sleeps. He looks exactly like Zemei when she was little."

Li Jinglan didn't dare to respond.

Lu Bozhou’s infancy must have been a sore spot in the Queen’s heart.

She couldn't ask.

Just wait in silence.

The Queen talked about Li Jinglan's confinement: "You will be out of confinement in a few days. His Majesty has discussed it with the Ministry of Rites. After you are out of confinement, you will be officially enthroned."

Although the imperial edict had been issued, the official ceremony had not yet begun.

The Queen continued, "Your Majesty told me that when you married Zemei, you held a rooster in your arms. Zemei always said that she owed you a wedding."

The Queen gently stroked Li Jinglan's hair and said, "This enthronement ceremony should be regarded as the wedding that His Majesty and I will hold for you. It's a pity that the three letters and six engagements cannot take place."

"Your Majesty means to compensate you for the honor guard of the Crown Princess."

Li Jinglan was stunned.

Although the emperor was suspicious and even sent Xu Jingchen to kidnap her, when he was truly kind to her, he was sincere and open-hearted.

This is the emperor who possesses supreme power.

He is nice to whoever he wants to be nice to.

If you don’t want to be nice to someone, you don’t have to be nice to them.

I dared not show what I was thinking in my heart, and only showed an expression of shyness and excitement on my face.

The Queen saw Li Jinglan's expression and smiled slightly: "You should take good care of yourself now."

"Wait until next year or the year after, and give us a grandson."

The queen patted Li Jinglan's hand gently.

forecourt.

After resting for a few days, Xia Jifang finally came back.

When I entered the school, I saw all my classmates were there.

He was a little surprised: "Don't you have a holiday?"

Zhou Tuanjin's fiancé Lu Ping buried his head in a book and said, "You are the only one on vacation."

"Ah?" Am I the only one on holiday?

Xia Jifang couldn't help but feel happy.

The Master's treatment of him was indeed special.

Lu Zhongyu walked in from outside and glanced at Xia Jifang.

Xia Jifang wrote seven or eight ways of confessing his sins and asking for death penalty on behalf of the emperor in the eight-legged essay, which really scared the teacher.

As soon as they heard that the emperor was coming, they gave Xia Jifang a holiday overnight, mainly because they were afraid that Xia Jifang would meet the emperor.

Lu Zhongyu took out the question he had guessed and handed it to Xia Jifang.

"Brother-in-law, these questions will most likely appear in this year's provincial exam."

Xia Jifang was stunned for a moment: "How did you know there would be these questions?"

"I have studied the examination questions of previous county governments." Lu Zhongyu answered simply.

Xia Jifang looked at the question for a while and couldn't help asking, "What if you didn't guess it right?"

Lu Zhongyu didn't even raise his eyelids: "I'm not even ten years old yet. If I don't guess right this year, I'll guess next year."

"But can you wait? Why not give it a try and write an eight-legged essay?" Lu Zhongyu said in a faint voice.

The students in the school tried their best to hold back their laughter.

Xia Jifang touched his face.

Ah!

Not hot.

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I will make up for Su Xiaocui's "Xiu'er" on May 5.9th and the rewards given on that day. I would like to thank all the little cuties who gave me rewards during my single update period.

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