After being dressed as a scumbag, the fascination was reborn

Concubine Shu's only child was born during this period.

The emperor later installed a new empress. The power behind the new empress was not strong enough to threaten his throne, and the empress was just a beauty before. child.

The emperor simply threw Concubine Shu's son to the new queen and raised him under her name.

The royal family has always paid attention to the distinction between concubine and concubine, and the elder and the younger are put aside. The empress has nothing to do, and Luo Fang, who she raised, is the only son of the concubine. Therefore, when the courtiers elected him as the crown prince, few people objected.

Today's emperor is extravagant and promiscuous, and the prince has a lot of daughters, but Luo Fang can still kill a way to the position of prince from among these brothers, and make most people in the court believe in him. Needless to say, he is indeed very capable.

Master Song shrugged and retorted: "But that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with him having a good relationship with your sister. Concubine Shu is his biological mother, and he has a lot of time to cultivate a relationship with Luo Jiao."

"But I don't think Luo Jiao likes him." Song Shu tapped his fingers on the book cover for a while, then pondered, "Since Luo Jiao is pretending to be stupid, and if Luo Fang is as close to her as the rumors say, it is very likely that she will know Something made her not close enough to Luo Fang—"

Master Song pondered: "... But the first time I saw her, she expressed kindness to me. How do you say that? How does she know that I can be trusted? Are you not afraid that I will expose her?"

Song Shu pushed the teacup back to its original position, and said lightly, "Do you still remember that you said that when my mother gave me to your father, she mentioned a word in the letter?"

Hearing his mention, Master Song took out the letter he had just brought out from his sleeve, unfolded it, glanced roughly, and handed the letter to Song Shu: "What sentence do you want to say?"

Song Shu unfolded the letter paper. Although the letter was written concisely, it was not in a hurry. It can be seen that the imperial concubine was indeed prepared. He read it carefully from beginning to end, spread the letter paper on the stone table, and pressed his index finger under one of the lines. , and read word by word while drawing:

"If I die in a few years and Tzuyu is an adult and able to succeed, my cousin can tell Tzuyu's life experience."

"She told the lord that one day she died, and I was already a magistrate, so I asked the lord to tell me my life experience." Song Shu raised his eyes to look at Master Song, and there was no extra emotion in his eyes when he repeated these things, "Seven years later, she Sure enough, she hanged herself in the cold palace, but besides me, she also has a daughter Luo Jiao, and it is very likely that she has been acting stupid according to her orders."

"She is such a calm and self-controlled person who can plan everything. Even the Holy Majesty can't guess her scheming. She was thrown into the cold palace only because she had no intention of fighting for favor and the Fang family lost. Before she hanged herself, didn't she plan what her daughter would do? ?"

"She can think of telling me the truth when I am an adult, what about Luo Jiao?"

There is no one in the palace who can sincerely deliver. It is impossible for Concubine Fang to tell others the truth about this matter. That person may not even be able to survive until Luo Jiao reaches adulthood.

However, she was thrown into limbo, her daughter was adopted, and she could no longer protect her. The only way was probably... to tell her the truth in advance.

Master Song's spirit lifted.

He understood the meaning of Song Shu. Concubine Fang hoped that her children would be safe and happy, but she was also afraid that they would be kept in the dark for a lifetime. If this matter was exposed one day, she would be charged with unwarranted charges before she even had time to react. She would make such a request to King Jingkang, and the second female who was still in this man-eating palace would only be more frightened.

The biggest possibility is that she told her daughter the truth about her life experience before she died.

If Luo Jiao knew that she had an older brother, and that this older brother was the second son of Prince Jingkang's mansion, then her closeness to Master Song would also be explained.

"That's not right," Master Song paused at this thought, wondering, "Didn't she recognize that I'm not you? Wouldn't she make such a mistake? Know who I am and still be defenseless?"

Song Shu asked back: "Why should we be on guard?"

"I always thought that in the eyes of outsiders, we were incompatible existences—after all, one is the adopted son and the other is the only legitimate son, but... Father has always shown that he loves you more, and has no intention of establishing a son. According to the classics With the direction of the bloody plot, you and I should be at odds, fighting against each other for the position of the son, and hating each other."

Master Song paused a few times in the middle of speaking, regretting why he brought up this matter again, but fortunately, Song Shu didn't seem to care about it, and just smiled lightly: "Then brother, do you want to be the prince?"

Master Song pushed back the letter on the table, not caring: "It doesn't matter... I haven't asked you yet, I discussed with my father on my own, and wanted you to be enthroned - you haven't given a letter of approval, now No one, why don't you tell me, what do you think?"

Song Shixing may not be able to tell whether there are people watching or not on the street with people coming and going, but here he can still tell.

There was no one around, and even if there was, it was far away, and their conversations could never be heard.

"You all know that you have made your own decision, and I still have a chance to object?"

Seeing that Master Song was apologetic, the smile on Song Shu's face dropped a bit, and he turned his eyes and said calmly: "I'm not interested in it, but my mother is right. You have kept me in the mansion for so many years, and your kindness is enough I'm just doing it to repay the favor."

Master Song: "If you don't want to..." There is no need to force it.

However, without saying a word, Song Shu turned his face to him and raised his hand, blocking his line of sight and blocking his next words: "There is no reluctance, I will not go back on my word."

"Of course - if you find a more suitable candidate, I will not object."

Master Song looked at his white and clear profile, and said to himself: If I had a more suitable candidate, I wouldn't talk to you about it.

The two drank a cup of tea each, and then tacitly revealed this tacit topic: "I discussed it with my father, and he said that although there are many branches of the Song family, most of them have nothing to do with the main family, and it is impossible to count on them. Yes. If you think about momentum, you have to start from the beginning.”

Master Song and him looked at each other

"In today's imperial court, there are three parties. One is the emperor, his guards, and concubines. All parties, including the prime minister, belong to the emperor's party."

Master Song didn't have anything else in his hand, so he casually picked up a few stones from the ground, put one down, and continued: "The second is the elder of Chaozhong Pavilion and the third prince Luo Fang, most of the cabinet is from the Queen's mother's family. -"

Speaking of this, Master Song jokingly said with a smile: "When the sage made the current empress the empress, he wanted to let himself have no worries. He probably didn't expect that this bargaining chip would grow into another threat to him in the end. power."

Song Shu asked slowly: "You want to say that San is the Song family?"

Seeing Master Song nodding, Song Shu said: "That's true, or it should be said that other neutral families are basically on our side, but the Song family is now in decline, and no one dares to compete with the other two parties. Fighting for the Front—this is a faction of the family."

"That's right, so in fact, other aristocratic families don't help us much."

Master Song arranged the stones in his hand into a triangular circle, held the other in his hand, and simply drew a circle on the stone table, "Among the six ministries, Yang Yu, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, Huo Jianbing, Shangshu of the Ministry of Household... Feng, all belong to the emperor."

"Naturally, there is no need to say much about the elders of Chaozhong Pavilion. There are only a few people who have been stuffed in by the prime minister Xue Jiong. The chief assistant, Mr. Du, came from a poor family. He was the emperor's tutor in his early years. Now he is full of peaches and plums. He admires the third prince Luo Fang very much." , recommended Luo Fangwen among the princes, but did not participate in the internal struggle between father and son."

"It's too difficult to do it step by step, we need to find a way..."

Master Song was rubbing his chin and thinking, when he suddenly heard Song Shu ask: "Dad asked us to arrange these?"

Master Song glanced at him: "Father said that he has been abolished for so many years, and he doesn't know anything else, so just stay behind and make a way for us to retreat. Let us do other things freely."

Song Shu nodded with a half-smile, turned his gaze down to the few stones placed in front of him, and said quickly, "Actually, there is a way, and it's the best."

Master Song raised his eyebrows: "What?"

"Most of the people who defected to the old emperor were poor children who only wanted to climb up. Luo Fangwen is the heart of the people. He has everything, but he lacks an opportunity and a reason to usurp the throne. And the Song family rejected him again and again. invitation from..."

Master Song answered, "So?"

"So what we have to worry about now is when the emperor's poisonous hand will reach out to the Song family, and we must also prevent Luo Fangwen from ascending to the throne before us. There is not much time left for us."

Song Shumu didn't look sideways, stretched out his hand, bent his slender fingers on one of the triangular stones, and flicked it lightly: "We can—"

He said calmly: "Rise with the wind."

Three days later, the imperial decree was promulgated, and Xinke Tanhua was awarded the title of a bachelor of the fourth rank of the Imperial Academy, and entered the palace to accompany her.

Song Shuben had already guessed that the emperor would not play cards according to common sense, but he was a little surprised when he received the order. Eunuch Chang had completed the task and wanted to leave. He quietly stuffed a piece of silver and said with a light smile, "Eunuch has worked hard."

Chang Zai glanced at Song Shu with his long and narrow eyes, and then showed a satisfied smile: The second young master is much more sensible than the eldest young master.

When the people left, the smile on Song Shu's face fell. Master Song heard the news, and he couldn't believe it: "I'm afraid the old man is crazy? You just entered the officialdom, and he asked you to enter the palace as an attendant. It doesn't matter if you want to help a group of little radish bosses to study, the trouble is that you and others are all admitted by the imperial examination, but in the end you were directly promoted to a fourth-rank official—"

Master Song shook his head, sighed speechlessly and choked up: "He is trying to make you a target to attract the envy of others."

"As expected," Song Shu glanced at the bright yellow imperial decree in his hand again, and then closed it, "...but I didn't expect him to do such a terrific thing. He took me directly into the cusp of the Song family. mouth."

Song Shu has been waiting for the past three days, and he was not surprised when the result came out. He quickly put the imperial decree aside, and thought: "The previous strategy may need to be adjusted... But he , did me a favor."

Master Song had just recalled the content of the imperial decree, but he didn't realize it for a while: "What?"

"I entered the palace as an attendant for the princes and daughters. I can be regarded as half of their teacher. These princes spend four full hours studying academics every day." Song Shu paused, and a corner of the majestic palace in the distance was exposed on the horizon. In his gloomy eyes, "I have enough reasons and time to get to know and contact my..."

"My own sister."