Yuan Dong's temper and anger did not scare Shen Chen away, and did not even have much impact on him. He just leaned back in his chair and watched Yuan Dong get angry. After a long while, when Yuan Dong calmed down and sat back in his chair, he laughed and said, "Didn't you know whether I was talking nonsense and cursing Yuan Hongwen?"
Yuan Dong remained silent.
He stared at Shen Chen suspiciously for a while before asking him, "What exactly are you doing here, and what do you want to say?"
Shen Chen leaned forward, tapped the table with one hand, and said, "You are a smart man, and you know that Hong Wen and I have always been friends. He treats me well, so I will not treat him badly. I think he is on the verge of death, so I came to ask you whether you want to save him or not."
Yuan Dong sneered, "Then you have found the wrong person. Why do you want me to save you? Who am I? I am just a powerless and outdated prince consort. I have no real power. What can I save? You should go find your aunt."
Shen Chen said "oh", sneered, stood up and was about to leave: "It seems that you really don't need this son. You have no affection for him. That's a rude junior. I won't bother you anymore."
He calculated the time in his mind and almost reached the door. When his hand was about to touch the door, he heard Yuan Dong shouting from behind: "Wait!"
After all, there was still affection between father and son. He withdrew his hand and turned to look at Yuan Dong.
Yuan Dong was somewhat helpless. He waved his hand, motioning Shen Chen to sit back down, and poured him another cup of tea. Then he asked, "What do you mean when you said they were dying?"
The foreshadowing was almost complete, so Shen Chen was too lazy to say any more nonsense. He put down his teacup and told him, "Princess Chang'an is very ambitious. She married her daughter to Chu Jingxing. Others may not know why, but I'm sure you know, right?"
Yuan Dong couldn't help but sigh.
Later, he said, "She has always been like this. She has never had a moment of peace. When she was young, she would compete with Changle and Changying for husbands. Later, she would compete for the favor of the emperor. Later, she would compete to see who was richer and more respectable. She has never been satisfied."
Yes, this woman has never been one who lives a good life.
That's why he tried to dissuade her again and again but failed, and finally he was disheartened by what happened between her and his brother.
He asked Shen Chen: "Did she do something again?"
"What do you mean by again?" Shen Chen sneered, "Hasn't she always been like this, bold and reckless, doing whatever she wants?"
Yuan Dong fell silent again. After Shen Chen finished his ridicule, he asked him, "What do you want to tell me this time?"
Shen Chen raised his eyebrows and called out "Han Bo".
Han Bo was waiting outside the door with his ears perked up. When he heard him shout, he immediately responded and came in quickly.
Shen Chen glanced at him and said, "The Prince Consort has been in seclusion for a long time and doesn't know what's going on outside. Pick out a few important things and tell him about them."
Han Bo uttered a confused "ah" and looked at Shen Chen in bewilderment. After thinking for a while, he cleverly told him the story of Princess Chang'an and Lady Xianrong in an exaggerated way.
He has always been good at speaking, and people often joke that he could be a storyteller. Now he tells these stories even more vividly, and people can't help but feel their emotions rise and fall along with his narration.
Yuan Dong's gaze became increasingly deep and gloomy.
Shen Chen stopped when he saw that he was ahead. He gestured to Han Bo to stop and let him go. Then he looked at Yuan Dong and said, "Han Bo only knows a few things. There are many things that are secret and cannot be passed on."
He tapped the table with his finger again, attracting Yuan Dong's attention, and then wrote two words on the table, saying coldly: "Her goal is this, but how can it be so simple? A general's success is the result of the sacrifice of thousands of soldiers, how can she be sure that she is one of those bones?"
Yuan Dong's scalp tingled at what he said, and when he saw the two words "Conglong" written by him, he closed his eyes in a somewhat inappropriate manner.
He was not a fool. Although they had spent little time together over the years, they still lived in the same mansion. He could guess a little about Princess Chang'an's affairs.
But no matter how much he guessed, firstly, the couple were not an ordinary loving couple and he had no right to interfere in her affairs; secondly, Princess Chang'an did not take him, her husband, seriously at all and would not tell him many things.
What he knew was always limited.
Until now, when Shen Chen clearly wrote the two words "Conglong", he sighed a little inappropriately, leaned back in his chair and said nothing for a long time.
This woman's ambition is so great that it is even scary.
Shen Chen did not stop because of his loss of composure. He told him that Princess Chang'an had a close relationship with the King of Chu in the past, and even took over the remnants of the King of Chu's former traitors and used them for my own benefit.
Not only that, Princess Chang'an and Chu Jingxing planned to make Prince Jin rebel, and they deceived each other. He was also told about Princess Chang'an's current abnormal behavior.
Yuan Dong was so shocked that he was speechless. He closed his eyes and opened them again. After a long time, he asked, "Since she is so capable, and you know that I have never been on good terms with her, and she won't even look at me straight in the eye, what's the point of looking for me?"
"It's useful." Shen Chen smiled mysteriously, and asked him confidently: "The princess looked down on the Yuan family. She always felt that the late emperor sent her away in a hurry and gave her to the Yuan family, and she was always dissatisfied. But she didn't know that Old Master Yuan was a brother of the old King of Zhennan. How could such a person be an ordinary person? And you, you have been following Lord Zhang to fight the enemy and defend the country in Jizhou since you were eleven years old. I heard that in just a few years, you have frightened the Tatars and made them flee at the first sign of trouble. You have such ability..."
Shen Chen casually picked up the tea and took a sip, then slowly asked him, "Why are you torturing yourself?"
Yuan Dong couldn't help looking at him with shock in his eyes, and said coldly: "You know a lot."
He only knew that Shen Chen was a playboy, but he didn't know that Shen Chen was such a thoughtful person. He even knew everything about his past. Not only that, he even knew about Old Master Yuan's affairs.
He stared at Shen Chen with complicated eyes, and simply stopped beating around the bush with him, and asked in a deep voice: "What do you want to say? Why not just say it directly?"
All the cards have been seen through, but the purpose has not been revealed yet. It is obviously unfair. Yuan Dong stared at Shen Chen intently.