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tea house.
Liao Qiubai was sitting on the opposite side of Rong Ting, looking at his face, he was obviously suffocating, "There is obviously someone more suitable than His Royal Highness, so I can't find anyone, that bald man Xi Zimo, he insisted on naming you? The emperor even agreed ?”
"The emperor's decree is really strange. He agreed to Xi Zimo's proposal without discussing it with the courtiers. If it is said that the war in Huaizhou is urgent and waiting for his approval, it seems that it is not the same thing. If he How much you rely on Xi Zimo, the Holy Majesty is very suspicious, with seven points of military power, I am afraid that it will all fall into the hands of one person to raise tigers, and Xi Zimo has the fewest soldiers in his hand, which also does not show how much the Holy Majesty relies on him."
Liao Qiubai frowned and said, "It's weird."
Rong Ting was unhurried, fingers rubbed the white porcelain teacup with lotus flowers on the background, his face was indifferent, "Father doesn't care whether I live or die, he just wants to know whether Xi Zimo will affect his country or society?" .I am his son and his pawn."
Liao Qiubai: "Do you doubt Xi Zimo?"
Rong Ting: "It was General Xi and the people behind him who were impatient and showed their feet."
Liao Qiubai was a little confused.
Rong Ting said: "Yesterday, my father called me into the palace, and told me to go to Huaizhou to fight the epidemic and chaos. At the same time, I will find out which officials Xi Zimo has contact with in Beijing."
Liao Qiubai was so excited that he almost couldn't sit still, "Isn't this the moment His Highness is waiting for?"
This time it was Emperor Zhaowu who sent him to investigate, which was different from taking the initiative to impeach.
If it is impeachment, in the eyes of outsiders, Rong Ting will bite back after being raised by Jiahe Queen so hard. Even if he can finally find Jiahe Queen's handle, it will be regarded as righteous killing relatives, and he will be charged with unfilial piety.
But if Emperor Zhaowu asked him to investigate it himself, it would be very different.
Rong Ting looked very cold.
It was so cold that Liao Qiubai immediately remembered what kind of place Huaizhou is today.
If you go this trip, you may not be able to come back. How about timing
His face turned pale, "His Royal Highness must go?"
"Go." Rong Ting put down the teacup, "If I go to Huaizhou, you are in Beijing, help me with these things."
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Rong Ting raised his hand to signal Wu Que to hand over a letter to Liao Qiubai.
Liao Qiubai took the letter and saw that he had already arranged everything, but finally he didn't say the unlucky sentence "what if I don't come back".
How can you get tiger cubs if you don't enter the tiger's lair
He glanced at Rong Ting's leg, "How long are you going to hide your leg injury?"
"General Ruoxi is really Xu Guozhang's henchman. If you go to Huaizhou, you will be exposed sooner or later." Liao Qiubai was a little worried.
"Exposed is exposed."
"Since the day I borrowed your horse, I never thought about how long I could hide it."
Jiang Rao already knew that his leg injury was healed, and he could no longer use this defect to show pity in front of her.
Pretending that the leg injury is not healed, just to let the opponent relax his vigilance and steal a few moments of breathing.
But now the noise he made in the sixth film... Even if he pretends to be, it's useless.
Before leaving the teahouse, Liao Qiubai frowned and asked one last time, "This trip to Huaizhou, how sure is Your Highness coming back?"
Rong Ting didn't give him a clear answer, his eyes were as dark as ink, full of hostility, "The queen won't kill me so easily."
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The night wind blew away the fallen leaves on the plane tree, the dusk was getting darker, and Jiang Rao hadn't seen her return from the Shuxiang Palace of Concubine Yun, Jiang Qin looked out of the window frequently, and asked frowningly, "Why don't you come back every year?" return?"
Jiang Xingzhou seemed to have expected it a long time ago, and lightly placed his hand on Jiang Qinshi's shoulder and patted twice, "I know where Nian Nian has gone, let's have dinner first, and don't have to wait for her."
He knew where his daughter had gone.
After all, it is the child raised by herself who knows her fundamental temperament best.
Jiang Qinshi looked back at her husband's sinking expression, and asked, "You mean, have you been looking for His Highness the Ninth Prince every year?"
"Yeah." Jiang Xingzhou moved his chopsticks first, "Before she entered the palace, I told her servant girl that if Nian Nian was unhappy when she found out that Rong Ting was going to Huaizhou, I would take her to see him. "
Jiang Qinshi was a little surprised.
When Mingming heard that his daughter was going to see Rong Ting, he was so angry that he jumped, how could it be...
"Three months before marriage, meeting in private...will be criticized by others."
"His Royal Highness is going to Huaizhou, so the wedding will definitely be postponed." Jiang Xingzhou raised his eyelids, glanced at Jiang Qinshi, and said with a cold face, "It's okay to be criticized, anyone who dares to criticize me will shut their mouths, I can't change my sacred destiny, and I don't understand the tricks of strange powers and gods, but I still have the ability to deal with some people who talk badly. Children and grandchildren have their own blessings, and this is what you often tell me."
Jiang Qinshi watched him block her with what she often said, completely different from his previous attitude, and finally asked the doubts in his heart, "I went to find His Highness Ninth Prince every year, this time, why are you not angry?"
"I still get annoyed when I see him." Jiang Xingzhou refused to admit it, "But I can tell the difference between big and small."
Jiang Xingzhou looked worried, "I stopped her this time, if something really happened to that kid in Huaizhou, I don't know how much she resents me."
"Don't say such unlucky words." Jiang Qinshi frowned angrily, "Good things take time, His Highness Ninth Prince will be fine in the end."
"I'm not talking about unlucky things, I'm terribly worried too." Jiang Xingzhou rubbed his brows, "I hope it's okay."
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When returning to the mansion, the hidden guard arranged by Rong Ting beside Jiang Rao reported to him about Jiang Rao's entry into the palace today. for what.
Let her know about his going to Huaizhou.
My heart became heavy.
Once back to the mansion, Rong Ting stopped by the gatekeeper, "If Miss Si comes over, stop her."
When she came, she would probably persuade him not to go to Huaizhou, but he would not agree.
He just wanted her to feel that he was obedient to her, and he didn't want her to remember his badness.
When returning to Beishen Courtyard, Rong Ting stopped in the corridor.
Looking at the palace lanterns in the corridor.
The glazed horn lamp illuminated the green autumn trees in the bonsai placed in the courtyard, and also illuminated the shadows. He looked down, and his gloomy eyes became peaceful.
After Jiang Rao asked someone to bring in the palace lantern, he never changed it again.
From now on, the whole yard will become bright and warm when the lights are turned on. This summer, the bonsai are lush and lush, and the camellias are blooming beautifully. The yard is not as lifeless as any place he has lived in before.
There was a commotion behind him.
"Girl, don't force yourself in."
"His Royal Highness Ninth really can't meet guests today, you can come back another day."
"I won't be able to see him when I come back another day."
Rong Ting turned around.
Jiang Rao stood at the hanging flower gate with a lamp in his hand. There was only one person, a petite figure, standing under the hanging flower gate, in the twilight lit by the lantern. His expression looked a little annoyed, his forehead was covered with sweat, flushed.
He strode towards her.
Jiang Rao raised her head, her eyes seemed to be covered with mist, she came in a hurry, her hair was disheveled by the wind, she didn't ask him about finding someone to stop her, she asked directly, "Huaizhou, what are you doing?" Is it necessary to go?"
She wanted to find a way to take revenge on the queen, but the top priority was to prevent him from going to Huaizhou first.
Rong Ting fell silent.
He wanted to keep this news from her.
"Father has already issued an order."
"Do you have to go?" Jiang Rao swept the wheelchair behind him, clearly in the eyes of others, he is a person who can never stand up, why let him go to such a far and chaotic place in Huaizhou.
Rong Ting fell silent again.
The trip to Huaizhou is not a dead end.
Just not much life.
The abyss is in front, and the wolves are behind.
The epidemic is spreading from person to person; Xi Zimo is a dog of the Xu family, and he still has hundreds of thousands of soldiers in his hands.
He himself didn't know how dangerous the road ahead would be, but he was used to such a life, and he even forgot the feeling of fear.
From a few years old, if he made a wrong step, it would be a dead end. Since he can live up to now, he can continue to live.
It's just that today she has more weaknesses than before, not afraid of death, afraid of never seeing her again.
He took Jiang Rao to the study room, and did not go in after closing the door. He stood by the door and looked at her calmly, "If this trip can calm down the epidemic and take away the military power in Xi Zimo's hands, I will not agree with you." Now he is shackled by the queen everywhere."
He knew what she wanted, and she valued the rise and fall of Ning'anbo Mansion, just as he valued whether she belonged to him alone.
"Your father's being framed will never happen again." He stretched out his slender fingers and straightened her messy temple hair. There was no trace of panic on his face. He blinked slowly, that face was so beautiful that it was confusing People's hearts, the tone is ear-piercing gentleness, "You wait for me to come back."
Jiang Rao looked at him in a panic.
She obviously had been looking forward to him becoming her golden thigh.
But she wasn't happy at all, not at all.
"But you may die." She panicked even more, tightly clutching his sleeve, "Go and tell the emperor that your leg injury is not healed, so you can't go that far."
The circles of her eyes were red, and the teardrops were hanging in the sockets, and they were rolling around, "Change to someone else, okay?"
Rong Ting sighed.
Huaizhou and his party, he has what he wants, and he is bound to make this trip.
"Switching to someone else is also sending you to death."
He knew her weakness, and said slowly: "In the epidemic in Huaizhou, most of the people who get sick are young children. If they get sick and die within three days, they will be unable to recover. In addition, bandits and barbarians..."
If the wild cats and dogs on the road died in front of her eyes, she would feel sad, let alone human beings.
His voice and face turned cold, "The streets are littered with corpses, there are no other sounds except crying and screaming."
The little hand that was holding onto his sleeve loosened, and Rong Ting pursed his lips, "If you heard the news first about the war and epidemic in Huaizhou, you must hope that the imperial court will send people there as soon as possible, right? "
"But the first thing you heard was that I was going there, so you didn't want to." He smiled lightly, looking at her with deep eyes, bitter and lingering.
Looking at her like this, he knew that she had him in her heart.
I just don't know how much weight it holds in her heart.
If he really couldn't come back, would she shed more tears for him than the wild cats and dogs on the side of the road
It would be nice to have more.
"The trip to Huaizhou is inevitable." Rong Ting looked at her and gasped a few times as if she had been poked into a soft spot. The sound of her breathing sounded like she was crying, but the tears were still in her eyes, as if she was about to be pinched. With heavy sadness bursting out of her eyes, she hurriedly stretched out her hand to hold her face, resting her calloused fingertips on the corners of her eyes, coaxing her earnestly, "What you worry about will not happen."
"But, what if..." Jiang Rao's chest heaved and he choked up.
Rong Ting gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and continued her words in a calm voice, "If there is no such thing, I will not die."
"Even if I die..."
He looked at her reddened eye sockets, his eyes sank, his eyes focused so cruelly, his fingers moved towards her wrist and clenched, and he couldn't help leaving a red mark on her white and greasy skin, "Even if I If you die, you will also marry my tablet. You can't, you can't marry someone else."