"Princess, come here, I have something to tell you." After Yan Shi finished speaking to Hua Ling, she opened the door and entered the room.
Hua Ling said: "Dumb mother, go down and get busy first, I'll talk to my brother for a while, and I'll see you later."
Hua Ling also entered the room immediately: "Brother, what do you want to say to me?"
Before Hua Ling came in, Yan Yi had already quickly scanned the entire room. When he left this morning, he specifically ordered the room not to be cleaned up, in order to find out how he got tricked last night.
But like what he saw yesterday, he found nothing, and he still had to start with Hua Ling.
"Princess, please sit down." Yan Shi sat on the chair and motioned Hua Ling to sit on the chair next to her.
"Brother, don't call me Princess," Hua Ling glanced at the messy bed just now, and thought of what happened yesterday, her face blushed suspiciously, now she lowered her head and spoke in a low voice .
Yan Shi followed him: "Does the princess have words?"
"No," Hua Ling raised her chin slightly and glanced at Yan Shi, "I was in a hurry to get married just after I became an adult, and I haven't had time to get it yet. Brother, why don't you get one for me?"
Yan Shi did not refuse, but thought for a while and said, "Why don't you call Ming Ting, what do you think?"
"Okay, then my character is called Ming Ting. My brother is so powerful, he chose such a beautiful character for me, and I finally have a character." Hua Ling said happily, "Brother, you will be named Mingting in the future." Call me Linger."
Yan Shi was quite speechless, so why did he choose words just now
Yan Yan opened his mouth, but the word "Ling'er" never came out of his mouth, and the words kept rolling in his mouth, and he still shouted: "Ming Ting, did your mother give you anything before getting married, such as what Healthy tonics or something?"
Yan did not find any clues in the house, so he could only coax Hua Ling to see if he could get any useful clues from him.
Hua Ling tilted her head and thought about it, and finally said with certainty: "My mother never gave me such a thing."
Yan Shi thought about it too, if Yang gave Hua Ling the poison as a tonic, Hua Ling's temperament might reveal his secrets, so the poison must have been placed in a place that Hua Ling didn't even know. So Yan asked again: "Then what did your mother give you before you married here?"
"Ah! My mother gave me a peace talisman," Hua Ling slapped her forehead, "She said she went to the temple to ask for it for me, and bless my brother and I to be so loving until we grow old."
"Where's the peace talisman?" Even though Yan Shi couldn't move last night, he noticed all of Hua Ling's actions. It stands to reason that things like the peace talisman should be carried with him, but Yan Shi only saw Hua Ling holding a flute. At that time, Yan Na wondered why he carried a flute with him, so he asked in the morning, and Hua Ling said that his mother played the flute before she was alive, so she always carried it with her.
Because of the weird poisoning incident last night, Yan Shi was a little confused, so she brought the flute to have a closer look. It was a flute made of white jade, the quality of the jade was top grade, there was nothing suspicious about it.
"The peace talisman is in the hijab," Hua Ling said, then went to the inner room, picked up the hijab from the ground and sat down on the chair again, "Brother, do you want to see it?"
"Take it out and show me." Yan Shi suddenly realized how he was poisoned. If he guessed correctly, this so-called safe talisman must have been mixed with drugs.
Now that the matter has come to this point, he has already guessed the real purpose of Kangle State Duke's mansion drugging him and marrying Hua Ling to him. One, to win him over. It doesn't mean him and King Zhao who want to win the throne, besides him, there are two other princes who are eyeing this position.
It has to be said that Emperor Chongjin was very good at decentralizing checks and balances. Although the successor has incomparable glory, the power of his mother clan cannot cover the sky with one hand in the court. Although the entire household department and the punishment department belong to King Zhao, King Zhao has no military power. Hands are tied.
The Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Rites are in the hands of the third prince, King Ding, and the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War are in the hands of the fourth prince, King Mu. The six parts have all fallen into the hands of these three princes, checking and balancing each other, entanglement with each other, and it has been a stalemate for many years.
Although Yan Shi is the eldest son, the power of his mother's family has declined after his death, and he is isolated and helpless in the court. Compared with the three princes, he has no possibility of achieving great things.
But the reason why King Zhao wins him over is because of the declining matriarchal power behind him. Yan Shi's mother clan used to control more than half of the military power in the court. After the Yuan Dynasty passed away, Emperor Chongjin had an excuse to regain part of the military power. He also asked Yan Shi's grandfather's family to station in the southern border, but has not returned yet.
Although in the past ten years, the military power in the hands of Yan Shi's grandfather has been continuously weakened, which is not a good thing in the eyes of others, but it is still much better than King Zhao who has no military power at all.
Therefore, for that little military power, King Zhao also wanted to win him over. Although there is hatred between them, there are only eternal interests in this world, and there are no eternal enemies.
Besides, Yan Shi is still the eldest son after all, if Emperor Chongjin really changes King Li Zhao to be the crown prince in the future. It is not certain that there will be a few stubborn veterans in the court who will jump out and say that it is not in line with the etiquette. Now that he has won over Yan Shi, it is equivalent to winning over those stubborn veterans. It's also for others to see. Everyone in the court knows the grievances between the two. Now that he puts down his posture and takes the initiative to seek peace, won't he also gain a good reputation
Therefore, no matter what aspect you consider, it is not a loss for him to win over Yan Shi. Thus, there was this gift of marriage.
King Zhao is naturally not a fool, and of course he knows that even if he is given a wedding banquet, he will not easily become his man. Presumably, she also expected that Yan Shi was determined not to touch Hua Ling, so she gave her a push.
This couple in name is better than a couple in name, isn't it
Yan Shi narrowed his eyes and pulled away from the thoughts just now. Hua Ling's red hijab is double-layered. At this moment, he has cut the side of the red hijab along the line with scissors, and reached out to feel inside to find the amulet.
"Brother, here you are," Hualing said after delivering the peace talisman to Yan Shi's hand, "When my mother gave it to me, she said that this talisman is not an ordinary talisman. It cannot be worn on the body, it can only be put In the red hijab. Just for this talisman, I made this hijab specially."
No wonder he wore a red hijab yesterday.
Yan Shi held the safety talisman in his hand, it was just an ordinary talisman paper, he had taken precautions before, he held his breath before he got the safety talisman, after roughly looking at it, he put down the safety talisman. Turning around and going out the door, he called Qingji and asked him to take the peace talisman away.
This peace talisman must be weird, but Hua Ling and Qingji are fine when they touch this talisman. Could it be that—Yan Yan thinks about it, the medicine in this talisman should only be effective for those with internal strength. It was a good strategy. He may not touch Hua Ling, but he has to lift his hijab. As long as he gets close to the hijab and smells the medicine on it, he will be tricked.
After he lost his strength, wouldn't he just let Hua Ling do whatever he wanted
"You rest in the room first, I still have important things to do." Yan Shi didn't want to stay with Hua Ling again, even if the room was consummated, nothing would change.
Not long after, the dumb mother came in with a plate of fruit.
"Your ability to pretend to be cunning makes you more and more proficient." An old voice sounded in the room, the voice was not loud, but it was enough for Hua Ling to hear clearly.
Looking at the dumb nanny again, although she was still thin and lean, her back was straight and straight, and she didn't look like a hunchback at all.
Hua Ling took a grape and stuffed it into his mouth: "Isn't this better taught by the mother." Hua Ling's voice was not too loud, and they both lowered their voices for fear of being heard by others.
The dumb mother said, "What do you want to do next?"
"I haven't made up my mind yet, but I'm not in a hurry. Anyway, I just got married, let me stay comfortably in front of my brother for a while before we talk about it. But—" Speaking of this, my eyes were still full of The gentle Hua Ling's eyes changed, revealing a bloodthirsty light, "That old eunuch in the palace lived too long."
The dumb mother naturally knew that he was talking about Eunuch Lian: "But keeping him will be useful in the future."
"No," even the voice became extremely cold, "He bullied my brother, he deserves to die!"
The dumb mother nodded: "Then you don't need to do it yourself."
Just as Hua Ling was about to speak, the dumb mother continued: "Those people raised in the palace are not just for free. If you want to be discovered by the prince earlier, just do your best."
Hua Ling was persuaded by the dumb mother's words later, and for the sake of her brother, she could only compromise. It's just where did my brother go, and he didn't even mention taking me with him. It seems that the road is long and long.
At this time, Yan Shi was at Dali Temple with Jiang Qingyue looking at the corpse that was fished out of the pond in the west of the city in the morning.
"Wu Zuo has experienced it, and it is confirmed that he died of drowning." Jiang Qingyue said aside, "There is no trace of fighting on the shore, and we also found his clothes and shoes on the shore."
Yan Shi carefully inspected the clothes and shoes, and then took a closer look at the man's body: "This man looks familiar."
Jiang Qingyue said: "This person is not the two people who disappeared before, but a Jianghu man. He was nicknamed 'The Killing Star'. He took thirteen lives on his body. He is a wanted criminal by the government."
"Qingyue," Yan Shi stood up from the ground, "what do you think?"
Jiang Qingyue replied: "According to the traces left at the scene, it was a suicide. But I always feel that this matter is not so simple. He was wearing night clothes, which means that he must have something important to do last night. If he There are wounds, it can be explained that he failed what he did last night and was killed by his enemies. But there is no wound on his body, and his clothes are not torn, so it can be seen that what he did last night should be It was a success. If so, why is it suddenly so hard to think of committing suicide?"
"Check," Yan said as he walked, "when he arrived in the imperial city, where he lived, who he was in contact with, who he met and did on the day of his death, we must find out one by one."