"Greetings to my father!" Ji Bai saluted, then threw himself on his father and shouted: "My father, you are back."
Li Huaide hummed with a dry smile, and glanced at Concubine Jiang guiltily.
Concubine Jiang has always been favored, so she approached affectionately and said angrily, "My lord, no matter how busy you are, you still have to eat."
Usually, Kang Wang would naturally use romantic tactics to make Concubine Jiang happy, then eat together, play with his son after dinner, and then go to have sex.
Can Li Huaide do that? Obviously not!
Li Huaide smiled apologetically, coughed, and said: "I suddenly realized recently that I have to retreat to practice at night, I'm afraid I won't have time to accompany you mother and son."
Concubine Jiang glanced suspiciously at the prince, and said with a light smile: "My lord, are you really going to retreat?"
Of course Li Huaide nodded.
If you don't retreat, you have to have sex, so of course he chooses to retreat.
Besides, he just got Ji Chongde's memory, and he is not familiar with Ming Zhezong's mind and wind spells, so he urgently needs to learn about it.
"My lord, you have to eat before retreating, let's talk after eating!" Concubine Jiang laughed.
Li Huaide couldn't refuse anymore, so he had to go to the Zhenxia Pavilion where Concubine Jiang lived in the backyard.
In Concubine Jiang's eyes, the prince is a husband who has a deep affection with her husband and wife, and he is not an outsider at all, so he is naturally very affectionate to Li Huaide.
You know, in Prince Kang's mansion, Concubine Jiang can settle many matters with one word. Concubine Jiang enjoyed this kind of favor and power very much.
King Kang has been delaying in marrying his concubine, so she naturally cannot help imagining that the prince really loves her and doesn't want to marry a concubine to make herself sad. She tried her best to please the prince, and wanted him to straighten herself up.
Li Huaide couldn't bear to eat this meal, Concubine Jiang was too enthusiastic, he couldn't bear it.
After the meal, Concubine Jiang tried every means to keep her husband overnight.
Li Huaide was forced to flee in embarrassment.
For a month, Li Huaide has been in a semi-closed state. There is no way, Kang Wang's stall is too big, and there is no time for retreat. Li Huaide had to do business during the day and retreat at night.
Day by day, he gradually became familiar with Kang Wang's stalls, and he also mastered the mental methods and spells that Kang Wang knew.
However, there has been no news from his junior sister, which made him very worried.
What annoyed him was that those women didn't have to stop, and whenever they got a chance, they would come up to him and pose in front of him to seduce him.
Fortunately, King Kang ruled his family very strictly, and no woman dared to come to Yongfu Hall where he lived. Of course, except Concubine Jiang and the little prince.
Li Huaide had no choice but to hide in the Yongfu Hall and go to the backyard if he had nothing to do.
A month has passed, Kang Wang's concubine and beautiful maid are all uneasy. It's been so long, and the prince doesn't come to favor me, am I falling out of favor
Leaving them aside, Concubine Jiang felt uneasy.
Usually, in a month, Kang Wang would sleep with her for five or six nights anyway. Now, it is absolutely impossible to come.
If it wasn't for seeing King Kang and not going to other women, Concubine Jiang would cry to death.
Concubine Jiang observed for a month, thinking in her heart, is the prince abstinent? Why don't you want a woman
After thinking about it for a few days, she lost her mind.
Hold the grass, is it possible that the prince is sick there
Concubine Jiang called the royal doctor Zhao of the palace to inquire about the situation.
Doctor Zhao was at a loss, saying that he hadn't heard anything wrong with the prince's health.
Concubine Jiang was worried, so she took him to check the prince's pulse.
Li Huaide knew it well, he decisively refused the pulse diagnosis, and sent the imperial doctor away.
Concubine Jiang quietly asked: "My lord, why haven't you come to my concubine's residence recently?"
Li Huaide understood what she meant, and secretly scolded her for being shameless, blushing and said: "Recently, I have been busy with affairs, and I have practiced to a critical moment, so I have no intention of doing this. If you are fine, take care of Xiaobai more."
What Li Huaide meant was: Brother is so tired, I have no time to talk to you. Don't come if you have nothing to do, take your son there!
Concubine Jiang retreated suspiciously.
After Concubine Jiang left, Yu Zuo came in quietly and said, "My lord, there is news about that matter."
Li Huaide knew in his heart that he was talking about Ji Chongde being poisoned to death that day. He hurriedly asked: "How?"
Yu Zuo said in a low voice, "The two fish releasers are Taoists invited by the second prince from a remote barren state. It is said that the Taoists there are good at poison Gu."
When Li Huaide heard it, he understood.
In fact, what Ji Chongde was hit was not poison, but poison Gu.
I'm afraid that Taoist put Gu in the mandarin fish's brain, controlled the fish to bite Ji Chongde's hook through Gu. Naturally, Ji Chongde would not be on guard against the fish caught in this way, and would not investigate carefully.
It is useless to just focus on the slaughter and cooking process of poisoning in this way, and it is useless to check the fish soup to find out the poison.
Ji Chongde eats fish, and prefers to eat fish brains. When he eats the fish brain, it is equivalent to eating the poisonous Gu.
The opponent took advantage of this loophole and poisoned Ji Chongde to death.
Li Huaide said coldly: "Notify the Eagle Group, kill those two people, I don't want to see them again."
The Eagle Group is the strongest assassin group under Ji Chongde, responsible for assassination. Among them was a master of the Golden Core Realm, and several Foundation Establishment Realm experts.
Yu Zuo nodded and left.
In less than three days, the two Taoists died on the street.
Li Huaide was very annoyed with the second prince, but there was nothing he could do with the nominal second brother for a while. You can only be a little more careful at ordinary times.
If you want to talk about why his second brother would poison such a rich and idle king, it is because the second prince knows that Kang Wang and his fourth brother have ambitions.
The second prince was able to know this secret not because he was smart, but because Ming Zhezong told him.
The second prince is the bargaining chip used by Ming Zhezong to blackmail the prince. If the prince is disobedient, the prince will be replaced by the second prince.
And in the dark, Ji Chongde was used to blackmail the second prince.
After the second prince knew the secret, he wanted to kill Ji Chongde in order to increase his position in Mingzhezong.
The general situation in Zhou State is similar to that of Zhao State, the difference is that it has not only one super sect, but two.
Ming Zhezong and Xinhaizong fought against each other, each leading a group of younger brothers to fight fiercely.
However, they are not completely enemies. When faced with the invasion of other countries, the two sects often cooperate with each other.
The two sects didn't fight directly, but it was their younger brothers who really killed each other.
When people from the two sects meet, they often sit together and talk about the scriptures in a friendly manner.
In Luoyi City, both sects have branches here. Both sects have influence in the royal family and court.
The emperor is a fencer, and the prince is also a fencer. The second prince belongs to Ming Zhezong, and behind the third and fifth princes is Xinhaizong.
It turns out that King Kang is behind Mingzhezong, and now Li Huaide and Xinhaizong are also secretly hooking up.
Li Huaide saw very clearly that if he wanted to be emperor in the Zhou Kingdom, he had to sit on the wall, and only by sitting on the wall could he have room to maneuver and use his strength to fight.
In the current situation, if the emperor really takes refuge in one side, it will destroy the balance, and the state of Zhou will be in chaos instead.
Such an emperor can only die.
Because, the two sects are now balanced in power, and neither side wants this balance to be disrupted. They are not ready to fight to the death.
In the second month, with more and more contacts with Kang Wang's forces, Li Huaide gradually changed his mind.
(end of this chapter)