As the birthday banquet of Emperor Chongjin was approaching, Yan Shi was also getting more and more busy. Fortunately, Hua Ling was taking care of him, so that he would not be too tired.
Wei Shuo stayed honestly in the palace for the past few days, only going out to wander around the imperial city occasionally.
There are two more days until Emperor Chongjin's birthday banquet, and Yan Shi went to Dali Temple to handle business after the early morning court, and did not come out from Dali Temple until it was almost noon, planning to go to Honglu Temple. Yan Shi didn't take the carriage, but walked slowly on the road.
Not long after walking, I saw a person appearing in front of me, looking at him with a smile: "My lord, what a coincidence."
"Your Highness, Third Prince." Yan Shi was slightly surprised that he did not expect to meet him here by such a coincidence.
"My lord is going to Honglu Temple?"
"Exactly."
The third prince looked up at the sky, then stretched out a finger to point: "It's already noon now, why don't you have a meal with me before leaving, my lord?"
If it is someone else, Yan Shi may not necessarily give face. But the person in front of him was the third prince, and he always felt that there was an unspeakable little secret between him and Wei Shuo, so he agreed.
There are many restaurants nearby, the two found a restaurant that looked good, walked in and sat down in a quiet private room.
After ordering, Yan Shi suddenly remembered something: "Thank you Yupei."
The third prince waved his hand: "As long as you like it."
The two chatted casually again, and the food was served one after another, Xiao Er closed the door of the private room, isolating a small world.
The third prince took a piece of food and put it in his mouth: "The food from Dayuan is indeed better than ours."
Yan Shi said: "Every place has its own flavor, and there is no distinction between superior and inferior."
The third prince smiled again: "You, don't you want to ask me anything?"
The city of the third prince is really deep and extremely intelligent, but he is open-minded, Yan Shi thought for a while and said, "If I ask the third prince, will he say it?"
"Just ask." The third prince said, "If you know everything, you can say everything."
Yan Shi smiled and said, "Then I'm not going to be impolite. Dare I ask the third prince, what kind of relationship do you have with my uncle?"
"It's what you think." The third prince said, "Ah no, to be precise, I favored him unilaterally."
Yan Shi did not guess wrong, but when his guess was confirmed, he felt heavy in his heart: "Uncle seems to have no intention of treating you."
Unexpectedly, the third prince smiled and said: "Of course he didn't mean nothing to me, I know it all."
As if he knew what Yan Shi wanted to say, he continued: "The first time I saw your uncle, he was only nineteen years old. I heard that there is a new marshal guarding southern borders from Dayuan. This marshal also brought a young general with him. It is said that this young general is so good. I was not convinced, so I led some people to ask for advice. I saw I was attracted by him the first time I saw him, and in the seventeen years since then, I have never seen anyone else in my eyes, and there will never be any in the future."
The third prince poured himself a glass of wine at this point, and then said to Yan Shi: "Come, drink."
Yan Shi naturally didn't know how to drink, so he could only say: "I'm not feeling well recently, I can't drink alcohol, I hope the third prince will be happy."
The third prince looked at him for a while, then looked at his stomach again: "You are pregnant, right?"
Yan Shi: "!" How come both of them know that he is pregnant? He suddenly remembered that Wei Shuo told him that the Yuanyang fruit was given to him by a friend, and now it seems that this friend should be the third prince.
Yan Shi said: "Is the Yuanyang fruit a gift from the third prince?"
"Yes." The third prince continued after drinking a glass of wine, "Do you know why our Wuman Kingdom didn't send the eldest prince or the second prince, but only sent me, the third prince?"
"It is said that the eldest prince and the second prince died more than ten years ago." Yan Shi naturally knew this, and he didn't know any secrets.
"My lord, in fact, the fate of the two of us is really different.
Some similarities, but I'm happier than you. "The third prince continued, "I have a very good relationship with the two brothers, we can be called brothers and sisters. In the royal family, this kind of pure brotherhood is very rare. My father and queen mother also liked us children very much. At that time, I naively thought that this would be the case for the rest of my life. But since my elder brother died, everything has changed. The witch doctor's diagnosis was death, but I knew he was clearly poisoned. Brother Erwang and I checked for a long time before we found some clues. All the evidence points to my Uncle Wang. "
"My Uncle Wang is a very ambitious person. He was unwilling to be overwhelmed by my father and wanted to be the king of the country. So he secretly emptied my father little by little, and then killed my two brothers. We I secretly handed over the evidence of elder brother’s poisoning to my father, but my father didn’t believe me. Later, my second brother and I went further to investigate Uncle Wang’s other crimes. But within two years, my second brother also died, heh, said He was drunk and fell into the pond and drowned."
"In the past few years, Uncle Wang didn't know what kind of ecstasy soup he had given his father, and he obeyed him. Uncle Wang even presented several beauties to his father. His father was even more intoxicated by the gentle countryside, and ignored political affairs. Leave everything to me. Uncle Wang is responsible, and even my son has to stand aside. Uncle Wang has more and more power, but he still doesn’t dare to act rashly, at least he dare not act rashly before I die.”
"After the second brother Wang died, I was afraid that I would be the next one, so I asked people to search for Yuanyang fruit. The Yuanyang fruit that I take is invulnerable to all poisons. If Uncle Wang really poisons me, at least I can save my life. The third prince continued, "At that time, I had just found the Yuanyang fruit, and before I had time to eat it, I heard about your mother. Wei Shuo cried that day, and that was the first and only time I saw you. He cried. I was also very sad when my two brothers died. I know how it feels. When he returned to the imperial city for the funeral, he told me that he was worried about you. There are wolves, tigers and leopards everywhere in the imperial city, and you are still young. , and there was no one to protect him, I was afraid of something unexpected. I gave him the Yuanyang fruit and asked him to take it for you to eat. He was so stupid at the time, I lied to him that the fruit was in our Wuman country It's everywhere, so he believed it." When the third prince said this, he tilted his head slightly and looked out the window with a smile in his eyes, as if recalling the days when he was with Wei Shuo back then.
Yan Shi didn't expect the fruit to come like this. Fortunately, the third prince is fine. If something happened to him, wouldn't he be the murderer who indirectly killed him? Yan Shi only felt that his chest was swollen, his throat was a little sore, and his eyes were slightly swollen. After taking a deep breath, he tried to normalize his emotions before saying: "The great kindness of the third prince, Yan Shi Unforgettable, if you become the ruler of Wuman Kingdom in the future, I will promise that Dayuan and Wuman Kingdom will never meet each other in battle."
The third prince smiled and said, "I will not be the ruler of the country. My life aspirations are not here. When my power is regained in the future, I will help a younger brother to be the leader of the country, and then I will retire and find a quiet place with your uncle." Wouldn’t it be a pleasure to plant fields and enjoy flowers in this land.”
Yan Shi felt sour in his heart: "Uncle, it's probably because of me that he hasn't agreed to be with you so far." The third prince is from Wuman Kingdom after all, and there was a large-scale war between the two countries more than ten years ago. Although there is a truce now, small riots still occur from time to time. If Wei Shuo was with the third prince, some people in the court would make a big fuss about it and implicate Yan Shi.
"What nonsense are you talking about?" The third prince took another sip of his wine and smiled, "This wine is good, full-bodied and not spicy. It's also good for us. He didn't marry a wife and I didn't marry a wife. We all have each other. We only need that sentence, it doesn't matter. By the way, I do have something to tell you today, it is related to your princess."
When Yan Shi heard that Hualing was involved, his heart ached, and he hurriedly asked, "Third Prince, please tell me something."
"Before your grandfather guarded Southern Border, Southern Border was guarded by Marshal Qin, Marshal of Pingchang. You know that. It is said that Marshal Qin led 500 soldiers to fight against our army seventeen years ago, but he disappeared from the world. This matter is not a secret in Dayuan Dynasty." The third prince lowered his voice when he said this, "Do you know what happened to them?"
Yan Shi shook his head, he had already sent someone to investigate this matter, but there was no news so far, it seems that the third prince knows now.
"Actually, I also find it strange, but after all, it has nothing to do with me, so I didn't investigate. A few months ago, your uncle
When you told me about it, I paid attention. "The voice of the third prince couldn't be lowered. It was Yan Shi who sent the news to Wei Shuo and asked him to check it out. "Just a few days before I came to the imperial city, I finally found out. His three sons were actually imprisoned secretly by my uncle Wang, which even my father Wang didn't know about. "
Yan Shi turned around in his heart: "Then is this person okay?"
"Marshal Qin is not very good. After all, he is too old. My Uncle Wang sometimes flogs them for fun." The third prince sighed and continued, "But the three generals are fine."
Yan Shi felt relieved a little: "Does the third prince know how they were imprisoned?"
The third prince shook his head: "The specific reason is not very clear, but I guess, there is a place called Hanshan'ao in our country, where the miasma is lingering all the year round, and the terrain is unpredictable. It is very likely that my Uncle Wang's people introduced them there. Miasma. The corpses of the five hundred soldiers were probably fed to the remnant wolves, tigers and leopards in the mountains long ago, and they were rescued by my Uncle Wang and imprisoned."
Yan Shi suddenly realized that if he disappeared in Wuman Kingdom, it would make sense. Although Emperor Chongjin also sent people to infiltrate Wuman Kingdom to search for it, but it is not as convenient as in his own country.
Yan Shi was terrified when he heard that, for so many years, they didn't know what kind of life they lived there, if Hua Ling found out, she would definitely be heartbroken. Now that he knew where the man was, he had to rescue him as soon as possible.
"If Marshal Qin is being imprisoned now because I married Ming Ting, there will be a reason to blackmail me in the future, but why didn't he just kill him back then? Or simply use Marshal Qin as an excuse to propose conditions to our court, Marshal Qin is full of loyalty and prestige in the court, my father will definitely agree." Yan Shi expressed his doubts.
The third prince replied: "I thought the same as you at the time, and then I sneaked into my Uncle Wang's door, guess what I found?" The third prince said and took out several letters and a token.
Yan Shi took the letter and looked at it first, and immediately frowned: "This is a letter between the Duke of Kangle and the King of Nan! Does this mean that what happened back then has something to do with the Duke of Kangle?" Yan Shi only knew that Hua Qian Cheng is a member of King Zhao, but he never thought that he would be so bold as to have a secret relationship with Wuman Kingdom! Even more frantically, he pushed his father-in-law into the bottomless abyss.
The third prince nodded: "It took me a lot of effort to get this letter out, so you must keep it. There is also this token, which is a token given to my uncle Wang by Duke Kangle. There is also my Uncle Wang's token in the public place, and the two exchange tokens with each other, in order to prevent dogs from biting dogs."
Yan Shi carefully put the letters away and put them in his arms, and suddenly felt that these letters were worth as much as a thousand pieces of gold. Yan Shi solemnly clasped his fists: "Third Prince, thank you for your kindness."
The third prince smiled: "We are all a family, so you don't need to thank me. If you really want to thank me, why don't you ask my aunt to listen."
It didn't matter what he said, but Yan Shi blushed, but he still called his aunt as he wanted, and then thought of something: "You stole such an important thing, and the king of Nan must be aware of it soon , wouldn’t it be even more dangerous for you to return to Wuman Kingdom by then.”
"I, I didn't plan to go back when I came here." The third prince turned his head and looked out of the window, his tone light and light, "I finally left our country, how can my Uncle Wang let go of this great opportunity? , why would he insist on letting me come in person?"
The three princes agreed, and the next night, when Yan Shi was having dinner with Hua Ling and Wei Shuo, Qingji hurriedly walked over: "My lord, someone from Honglu Temple is here."
"Oh?" Yan Shi put down his chopsticks, "Come in, please."
The people of Honglu Temple looked very ugly, and after giving the salute, they said: "My lord, something is wrong, the third prince is dead!"
Wei Shuo's chopsticks fell to the ground suddenly.
Yan Shi and the others hurried to Honglu Temple, and when they arrived at the door of the third prince's room, Honglu Temple Qing was waiting there, his face was pale, and he seemed terrified: "My lord, my lord, you are here! ... This... This person was fine before eating, but after eating... just... "
"Master Qu, go over and have a look." Yan Shi ordered Qu Liushang
Dao, he followed afterward.
On the bed, the third prince's face was as white as a piece of paper, and his lips were as black as mud. A person who was obviously alive and kicking yesterday was lifeless today.
Wei Shuo's eye circles were red, his fists were clenched tightly, his body was shaking, and when he opened his hand again, it was already covered in blood.
Qu Liuzhang examined it and shook his head: "It's hopeless, it was poisoned, and he died immediately."
Yan Shi nodded, tried to calm himself down, looked at Honglu Siqing and asked, "Who else knows about this?"
Honglu Temple Minister said: "No one knows, I sent someone to tell the prince immediately when I found out."
Yan Shi said: "Block the news, if anyone spreads the news, they will be killed without mercy! Bring a group of people up, and this king will personally try it!"