King Nanzhao did not say anything, and motioned for Zhao Jingyu to look for himself.
Zhao Jingyu opened the letter and when he saw the words "Jingyu my son", he took a deep breath, straightened his back instantly, and looked at King Nanzhao in disbelief.
"Yes." King Nanzhao smiled and nodded without waiting for him to ask.
Zhao Jingyu's hands were shaking slightly as he read the letter quickly. He seemed not to believe his eyes and read it again carefully. After reading it, he handed the letter to Xie Nanjia: "Take a look!"
Xie Nanjia took the letter and hesitated for a moment: "This is written for you, I don't think it's appropriate, right?"
"It's also written for you." said Zhao Jingyu.
"Write to me? Why?" Xie Nanjia asked in surprise.
Zhao Jingyu spread his hands and smiled unconvincedly: "You said you are smarter than me, so I want to entrust me to you."
"..." Xie Nanjia blinked, then blinked again, and couldn't help laughing, "Your father has good taste!"
Zhao Jingyu: “…”
She is not modest.
Xie Nanjia read the letter in detail and was as shocked as Zhao Jingyu.
It turned out that the emperor was not sick at all. He had known from the beginning that the prince had poisoned his incense. The reason why he had not touched the prince all these years was entirely out of pity. He felt that it was pitiful for the prince to be kept in the dark. In addition, he had watched him grow up with his own eyes and had invested a lot of affection in him, so he could not bear to let him know this cruel truth.
However, he did not expect that the prince would be so cruel as to kill him. This behavior of using any means to achieve his goal, even sacrificing blood ties, made him completely let go of his compassion. After careful consideration, he decided to take this opportunity to wipe out the prince, queen, prime minister and the ambitious King of Wei, and at the same time make the truth public to clear the name of his real son.
He said that Marquis Dingyuan and General Wu'an were in charge of the capital, so Zhao Jingyu should not worry about him and should go to Nanzhao with King Nanzhao to play for a few days. When things in the capital were settled, they would send someone to pick him up, officially enthrone him as the crown prince, and hold a grand wedding for him and Xie Nanjia.
However, considering that Zhao Jingyu was too free and easy, the emperor ordered him to obey Xie Nanjia's control while he was away, and to follow Xie Nanjia's opinions on all matters, no matter big or small.
"Your father was afraid that you would not accept it, so he asked me to bring a token to Miss Xiu'er. If you don't listen to her, she can teach you a lesson at any time." Prince Nanzhao took out a golden token from his arms and held it in front of Xie Nanjia with both hands, saying solemnly, "Please take it, Miss Xiu'er."
"..." Xie Nanjia was a little confused and poked Zhao Jingyu with her finger, "Should I kneel down to receive it?"
"..." Zhao Jingyu rolled his eyes in frustration, "Can't you just not answer it?"
"That won't work. It's such a big piece of gold!" Xie Nanjia smiled in a money-loving way, and her pair of phoenix eyes curved into crescents.
"I think you just want to control me." Zhao Jingyu said with a gloomy face.
When he went to Xishan, Marquis Dingyuan gave Xiu'er a badge and asked Xiu'er to take care of him. Now the emperor has given Xiu'er another badge and asked Xiu'er to take care of him as well. What's wrong with these two fathers? Can't they give him some dignity as a man
So infuriating!
The King of Nanzhao was amused by the two of them and said to Zhao Jingyu while twisting his beard, "Your father is doing this for your own good. Miss Xiu'er is very smart. You will be right if you listen to her."
What else could Zhao Jingyu say? Looking at Xie Nanjia who was smiling like a flower, he had to accept his fate.
The King of Nanzhao said again, "I think it will be inconvenient if we go together, so I decided to let you go first. The coachman is my confidant, he will take you directly to the Nanzhao Palace. You have a good relationship with Song Huai, so you can stay at his place first, and we can talk about the rest after you settle down, okay?"
Zhao Jingyu wanted to say that he and Song Huai did not have a good relationship, but Xie Nanjia had already agreed. He glanced at the small gold medal in Xie Nanjia's hand and shut up tactfully.
After King Nanzhao had arranged all matters, he got off the carriage and said goodbye to them. The coachman started the carriage and galloped south along the official road.
Capital city.
There was a sudden noise in the Prince of Wei's Mansion under the night sky.
The King of Wei was startled awake and asked what the commotion was about. The guards reported that a thief had been caught and the chief steward had taken him away for interrogation.
"What kind of thief is so bold that he dares to steal even the palace?" King Wei frowned in thought, feeling that something was fishy, so he ordered, "Light the lights and change clothes, I want to go and take a look myself."
The guard came in, helped him put on his clothes, and went to the steward's office with a lantern.
Before he entered the door, a servant came out in a hurry. Seeing the King of Wei coming, he knelt down and saluted, and reported: "The chief steward was just about to ask me to go and invite the prince, but the thief committed suicide by taking poison."
A thief actually carried poison with him. This is indeed not a simple matter.
The King of Wei called his servants and walked into the hall with his hands behind his back. The chief steward and several guards were squatting beside the thief, examining the body, trying to find some clues from the deceased.
"It's useless. Since this man has made up his mind to die, how could he leave any clues?" said the King of Wei.
Everyone hurried over to pay their respects, and the steward gave a brief account of how the thief was caught.
After hearing this, the King of Wei said nothing. He ordered the body to be carried out and disposed of, and then he took the steward to his study.
"The thief obviously didn't come to steal money, but to steal my life." After the door of the study was closed, the King of Wei sat down in front of the desk with a gloomy face. "Who do you think wants to kill me?"
The chief steward stood by with his hands hanging down, and replied with a slight bow: "Prince Nanzhao and Prince Jin left the capital on time and returned to their fiefdoms, but the prince did not leave. Could it be that the palace is worried and sent someone to spy on us?"
"Then who do you think is the master in the palace?" King Wei asked again.
The chief steward analyzed, "The emperor is still ill and has not yet regained consciousness. It is unlikely that he is the one who caused the accident. The queen is a woman and is an old friend of the prince. I don't think she would be so heartless. The only one left is the prince. He doesn't know his own life experience and has just assumed power. Could he be afraid that the prince might have second thoughts and sent someone to investigate?"
The King of Wei had a gloomy expression, tapping his fingers on the table. After thinking for a long time, he let out a sarcastic laugh: "Have you ever heard of a poem, 'The mouth of a bamboo snake, the sting of a wasp, both are possible, but the most poisonous is the heart of a woman!"
The chief steward was slightly startled, and then his expression suddenly changed: "Your Highness thinks it's the Queen? This, this is unlikely, right?"
The chief steward had been with the King of Wei since he was eight or nine years old. He was the King of Wei's most intimate confidant. He knew the affairs between the Queen and the King of Wei better than anyone else. The Queen loved the King of Wei so much that she was willing to take the risk of exterminating her entire clan to give birth to the King of Wei's heir. In order to ensure that the King of Wei's son could succeed to the throne smoothly, she had never allowed another prince to be added to the palace for many years...
Hiss! Thinking of this, the steward couldn't help but hesitate. According to the way the Queen treated other heirs, she must be said to be really vicious. But, could she do the same to the King of Wei? The steward was a little skeptical, after all, the King of Wei was the biological father of the prince.
Which woman would be so cruel as to attack her son's biological father
Besides, she had no reason to kill the King of Wei. In order to help the Crown Prince, the King of Wei even killed his own nephew. They should be of the same mind!
"She was indeed on the same page with me in the past, but it's different now. Her son is going to take the throne soon, and she's afraid that I will fight with her son for the throne." The King of Wei seemed to see the confusion in the steward's heart, and said self-deprecatingly, "Women, when they don't have children, they regard men as the sky, and when they have children, they become the children's sky. For the sake of their children, they can do anything."
"..." The chief steward looked at the determined expression of the King of Wei and found it hard to accept for a moment. He hesitated and said, "Could it not be the crown prince or the emperor?"
"Your Majesty?" King Wei smacked his lips. "Perhaps he is really ill, or maybe he is playing the role of the fisherman, waiting to see us fighting each other. But the Crown Prince is definitely not a suspect. He has no time to pay attention to me right now. What he cares about most is catching Zhao Jingyu. He will not be at peace until Zhao Jingyu is found."
"Then, if the emperor is really the winner, will Your Highness still fight with the queen?" The steward felt a chill on his back, "Your Highness, why don't we go back to our fiefdom first, and wait for the crown prince and the emperor to decide who is better. Then we can decide the next move based on the situation. In this way, won't you be the winner?"
"Wait a little longer!" said the King of Wei. "Don't tell anyone about the thieves. I will go to the palace to see the Queen Mother tomorrow and find out their true intentions first."
The chief steward always felt that something was wrong and wanted to persuade him again, but the King of Wei did not intend to talk any more and left the study and returned to his bedroom.
The steward had no choice but to silently help him go to sleep. He then looked around with a lantern, ordered the guards to be on high alert, and went back to his room to rest.
The night is deep and everything is quiet.
At this time, in the General Wu'an's Mansion, Madam Xie Sheng Qingluan had no desire to sleep at all.
Xie Zhanting couldn't bear to see her losing her appetite all day because of Xiu'er, so out of pity for her, he secretly told her that Xiu'er and Zhao Jingyu went to Nanzhao Palace together.
Unexpectedly, this did not make her feel relieved at all. Instead, it made her even more worried. Lying in the dark, she complained to her husband, "Xiu'er didn't want to enter the palace at all, so she took the risk of offending the queen and chose Zhao Jingyu. Now, after all the trouble, she still couldn't escape the fate of entering the palace, and Zhao Jingyu even implicated her and made it difficult for her to return home. What's the point?"
"Since she can't escape, that's her fate." Xie Zhanting said, "Didn't Hu Qianshan say that she is the daughter of the Phoenix, destined to be the queen from birth. What can we do? The only way we can help her is to be her backer, pave the way for her, and let her be more comfortable as the queen."
"You also believe what that crazy old Taoist said. What about destiny? It's all nonsense." Sheng Qingluan sighed. "Now that things have come to this, what else can I do? I'm just worried that she's not safe outside. Nanzhao is so far away. What if she encounters something on the way? It is said that the people there are very barbaric. What if someone bullies her? The food there is different from that in the capital. What if she can't get used to it? And that Zhao Jingyu is full of tricks. What if he falls in love with another woman over there?"
Xie Zhanting was so sleepy after being nagging by his wife that he turned over and sat up. "You are not a sentimental person. I never saw you so worried when Nanfeng and I went to the war. What happened today?"
Sheng Qingluan was silent for a long time. After a while, she suddenly sobbed softly: "Xiu'er is back again. I always feel like I'm dreaming. I'm always worried, afraid that I will lose her again..."
"..." Xie Zhanting was silent for a moment, then he lay back and hugged his wife in his arms, "If you are worried, I will let Nanfeng lead a team to Nanzhao to protect her tomorrow, okay?"
"Will it be too conspicuous?" Sheng Qingluan stopped crying and asked.
"No, I'll let him go quietly."
"Then bring more people." Sheng Qingluan thought for a moment and then said, "Qingyun has been crying her heart out these past few days. Do you think I should go and tell her?"
"That won't do. She's too thick-skinned and can't hide anything. Let her continue crying!" Xie Zhanting said.
Sheng Qingluan chuckled and punched him in the chest: "Why are you so annoying!"
"Why are you so annoying!" At the same time, Xie Nanjia was complaining about Zhao Jingyu using the same words.
After dark, they stayed at an inn and asked for three guest rooms. However, Zhao Jingyu said that it was unsafe for Xie Nanjia to sleep alone, and insisted on sleeping on the floor in her room to protect her. When Xie Nanjia disagreed, he refused to leave.
Xie Nanjia couldn't argue with him, so she took out the little gold medal and ordered him around.
Zhao Jingyu had no choice but to leave in disappointment. However, when he reached the door, he shamelessly retreated and said pitifully that it was because Wei Jun was not around and he did not dare to sleep alone. If Xie Nanjia insisted on driving him away, he might have to sit with his eyes open all night.
Seeing that he didn't look like he was lying, Xie Nanjia's heart softened and she agreed. She brought the quilt from his room and spread it on the floor for him to sleep on.
He slept obediently, but not long after he fell asleep, when Xie Nanjia was about to fall asleep, he suddenly climbed onto the bed and said that the floor was too cold and would freeze his delicate body. He begged Xie Nanjia to let him sleep on the bed no matter what. He promised not to move and slept at her feet.
Xie Nanjia was so sleepy that she couldn't open her eyes, so she just let him go. When she opened her eyes in the morning, she found herself lying in his arms!
"What's wrong with you? Are you trying to get more than you can chew?" Xie Nanjia was so angry that she grabbed him by the collar and was about to hit him.
Zhao Jingyu pointed at the head of the bed innocently, then pointed at the foot of the bed: "Look, I'm sleeping well on my side, aren't I? I'm afraid you coveted my beauty and sneaked over here in the middle of the night, right?"
"..." Xie Nanjia was startled, and found that she was indeed at the end of the bed. Two blushes appeared on her face. "Anyway, you must sleep alone tonight. If you dare to make trouble again, I will beat you up. I am the one who holds the token!"
Zhao Jingyu looked at her serious expression and found her cuter and cuter. He couldn't help but turn over and press her down on the bed.
Xie Nanjia was startled and tried to push him with both hands, but accidentally ripped open his shirt, revealing his jade-like collarbone and chest, with his jet-black hair scattered in between, half-covered and half-exposed, looking very vivid and lively.
"..." Xie Nanjia's heart was beating wildly, and she didn't know where the evil spirit came from. She changed from pushing to hugging, and hugged his slender neck and kissed him.
(End of this chapter)