How can I bow my head and serve the powerful officials?

"Your Highnesses, the tea is ready."

The palace maid then brought tea, placed teacups in front of Xie Chengze and others, and poured the freshly brewed tea into them.

The aroma of tea was fragrant. It should be the new tea that Emperor Jian had just awarded a few days ago. Just as Xie Shoujun was about to drink it, he heard Xie Chengze urging him, "Ah, I won! The loser clears the table. Brother, you should clean up quickly! Let's play another round!"

Xie Shoujun had no choice but to put down his tea and start picking up the chess pieces on the board.

The palace maid continued to pour tea for Xie Chengze with an unchanged expression, then put the teapot aside, bowed and left the hall.

"My two royal brothers, I am a little tired from reviewing memorials. I will go out for some fresh air and will be back in a moment." Xie Jinyu stood up and said to the two people playing chess.

"Well, go ahead." Xie Shoujun picked up the chess pieces carefully and nodded.

Xie Chengze stared at Xie Jinyu as he left, then he called out, "No trace."

A person quietly fell behind him. Xie Chengze pointed to Xie Shoujun's teacup. Wu Ji picked up the teacup and took out the silver needle to try.

After initially judging it to be non-toxic, Wuji sniffed it again, poured some medicinal powder into the tea, and finally confirmed, "The tea is clean, not poisoned."

Xie Shoujun looked up at the scene and then realized, "Is there something wrong with that palace maid?"

"Royal brother has not been in the capital for a long time, so he may not know that when the prince organizes a party, the palace maids always know to avoid taboos, so as not to hear things they should not hear and be implicated and punished. This palace maid looks quite old and has been in the palace for many years. She must know the taboos, but she stayed in the palace for a long time under the pretext of making tea. It is obvious that she had other intentions." Xie Chengze answered patiently.

"She wanted to eavesdrop on our conversation." Xie Shoujun frowned, "Someone arranged by His Majesty?"

"Well, we'll know when Jinyu comes back." Xie Chengze laughed and raised his hand to help him pick up the scattered chess pieces on the chessboard.

Jin Yu? He actually called her so intimately in private.

Xie Shoujun's eyes flashed and he pondered in his heart.

Sure enough, although the second prince seemed to have some grudges with the prince on the surface, he cared about him very much in his heart, otherwise he would not have pretended to be distracted at the door of the Wude Hall and did not refuse the prince's request to visit the Wude Hall.

Are you hard on the outside but soft on the inside?

When he returned to the court this time, he heard from the ministers that the relationship between the second prince and the prince was not good before, and it was also average later, and now it is even more tense.

But it was hard for him to imagine that this soft yet strong child would have a bad relationship with anyone.

After a while, Xie Jinyu came back, sat back at the desk and said with a faint smile, "Brother, there are too few palace servants in the Wude Hall, so it is not cleaned very well."

If Xie Chengze hadn't been there, Xie Shoujun would probably have easily understood that Xie Jinyu really disliked the uncleanness of the Wude Hall, but at this moment he understood Xie Jinyu's real meaning.

Although there are few palace servants in the Wude Hall, they are all unclean.

With a group of elite troops at his disposal, one can imagine how many people in the Jian'an Dynasty, where the military power was not well developed, were coveting them and wanted to secretly gather information.

"I'm sorry to make you laugh." Xie Shoujun shook his head helplessly, "Let's keep these people for now, lest we replace them with another batch that's still not clean."

Xie Jinyu said nothing. After all, this was a matter of the Wude Hall and it was not his turn to make the decision. So he lifted the teacup next to him and brought it to his mouth.

Xie Chengze took a glance and for some reason his eyelids suddenly twitched.

He always felt that he had missed something, but he couldn't remember it for a moment. Xie Jinyu only took a moment to drink the tea. After Xie Jinyu swallowed the tea, he suddenly covered his abdomen and spit out blood with a painful expression. Only then did Xie Chengze stand up in panic, his whole body cold.

He remembered.

There was such a plot in the original book.

The three princes were sitting in the eldest prince's palace. Sheng Shihuai sent someone to instigate the second prince to win over the eldest prince. The crown prince came after hearing the news. The three of them drank a pot of tea together, but only the crown prince was poisoned.

Then the news that the second prince and the eldest prince were plotting to murder the crown prince spread. Fortunately, Shen Yuan found out that the palace maid was not the second prince's and the eldest prince's man, and that she wanted to sow discord between the crown prince and the eldest prince, so she deliberately poisoned the crown prince in the Grand Palace.

It's just that this part of the plot happened very late, and Sheng Shihuai hadn't revealed his true face at that time. But now a lot of the plots have changed, and Sheng Shihuai has revealed his face in advance, so Xie Chengze didn't remember this part of the plot.

"Wu Ji! Go find the imperial physician quickly!" Xie Chengze shouted in panic, and quickly supported the fallen Xie Jinyu. He tightly grasped the young man's arm with both hands, and his heart became more and more frightened.

Although he knew that Sheng Shihuai would not be cruel, Xie Chengze was still afraid that the plot would change. Sheng Shihuai wanted to simply pin the crime of killing the prince on the eldest prince, and kill Xie Jinyu in order to eliminate two political enemies at once.

"Brother, don't be afraid..." Xie Jinyu fell into Xie Chengze's arms, looking at the panic and regret on his face, raised her hand and gently rubbed his cheek, and smiled weakly, "It's okay... cough cough, it's just poisoning."

"Don't talk!" Xie Chengze's whole body was shaking uncontrollably. He raised his sleeve to wipe the blood from Xie Jinyu's lips, but the more he wiped, the more blood came out. He couldn't help but get red in the eyes, tears welling up in them. "It's all my fault. I was too careless... The doctor will be here soon. Jinyu, hold on a little longer and don't fall asleep."

Xie Jinyu thought that the poison was just ordinary and would not kill people, but seeing that Xie Chengze was so worried about him, he lay obediently in the young man's arms and closed his eyes gently with peace of mind.

It seems that the second brother still cares about him very much - ah!

"Snapped!"

Xie Jinyu opened her eyes, covered her slapped cheek, and looked at Xie Chengze with great grievance, "Second brother...why did you hit me?"

"I told you not to fall asleep!" Xie Chengze growled, very angry, so angry that tears fell, "If you fall asleep, you can't be saved!"

Xie Jinyu: Woo…

Xie Shoujun: “Puff.”

Xie Shoujun couldn't help but turn his head away, his slightly trembling shoulders obviously trying to hold back a laugh.

Xie Jinyu saw this out of the corner of his eye and immediately complained, trying to divert Xie Chengze's anger, "Second brother, the eldest brother laughed at me..."

Xie Chengze immediately glared at Xie Shoujun fiercely.

Xie Shoujun put away his smile: ...

This third brother is really bad.

The imperial physician was brought over by Wu Ji. After examination, he found that although the poison was strong, it would not kill people. Xie Jinyu was a martial artist, so he used his internal energy to seal his tendons and veins in time. The blood he had just vomited had forced out most of the poison.

and so……

Xie Chengze's fist hardened, calling her by her name, and roared, "Xie Jinyu! Were you pretending just now?"

"Cough cough." Xie Jinyu pretended to be weak and coughed twice, "Second brother, I'm in so much pain. I lost a lot of blood and I feel dizzy."

Xie Shoujun, who was standing by, idly sipped his tea and ruthlessly exposed him, "Don't worry, the amount of blood he lost won't cause any harm. I've been at the border for a long time and have been injured and bled so many times, so I still have some good eyesight."

Xie Jinyu glanced at him with dissatisfaction.

Instead, he felt that Xie Shoujun had no tact at all. Couldn't he see that he was trying hard to get closer to his second brother?

Xie Chengze didn't want to pay any attention to these two people, so he turned around and left.

"The little guy is angry." Xie Shoujun smiled helplessly, then glanced at Xie Jinyu, "Why are you scaring him? Are you trying to test whether he dislikes you?"

Xie Jinyu sat up straight, and there was no trace of weakness on his face.

He slowly wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said calmly, "This is none of Big Brother's business."

Xie Shoujun shrugged indifferently, "Then don't sleep with us tonight."

Xie Jinyu: …