"His Royal Highness said it so thoroughly, it's boring."
Listening to Li Rong's words, Cui Yulang didn't feel embarrassed. Shi Shiran stepped back, sat on the bench, leaned against the railing, opened and closed the fan in his hand, and said with a smile, "But your Highness said That's right, I really want to depend on Your Highness, so this case was given to Your Highness by Your Highness."
"Send me?" Li Rong chuckled, "How do you say it?"
"I know that Your Highness intends to concubine Rou." Cui Yulang covered half of his face with a fan and lowered his voice, "This Xiao Pingzhang, who robbed the scholar, is a relative of Concubine Rou."
There are one or two relatives who do evil, and it is normal. It is not surprising that Concubine Rou gained power from the palace maid, and her relatives are doing well in the countryside.
Just pulling the tree and loosening the soil first, if Concubine Rou has no foundation, then this one thing is enough to break her. But if Concubine Rou is being favored, not only will this matter come to an end, but the person investigating the case will be punished secretly by Li Ming.
Li Rong believed that Cui Yulang knew this, she sat next to Cui Yulang, and Cui Yulang was separated by the pillar of the pavilion, and said leisurely: "Master Cui is joking, what does the matter of Concubine Rou have to do with this palace?"
Cui Yulang turned his head with a half-smile but glanced at Li Rong.
Pei Wenxuan looked at it from a distance and couldn't help breaking the branch again.
Being so close, Cui Yulang's eyes were wrong. Why are these two people looking at each other when they talk about business
Li Rong got Cui Yulang's eyes and knew that Cui Yulang knew it. She looked at the sky and knew that the two of them didn't have much time to fight, so she simply said, "Why do you want to help me?"
"This, Your Highness doesn't have to worry about it."
Cui Yulang lowered his head and touched the folding fan in his hand: "Your Highness only needs to know that Cui is willing to surrender to His Highness, even if he makes some sacrifices."
"If you don't make it clear, how dare I accept your kindness?"
"Then I say, because His Royal Highness looks better," Cui Yulang looked up at Li Rong and waved his fan, "Is this reason enough?"
"what do you mean?"
Li Rong was a little puzzled, and Cui Yulang said with emotion: "His Royal Highness thinks, my father is just a master, and he was admitted to the top spot only because I came to Huajing, and my poetry was outstanding and appreciated by nobles. I have no money, and No amazing intelligence, the only capital, isn't it this face?"
Cui Yulang said, and smiled confidently: "I am dissatisfied with what Your Highness said, when I just won the first prize, the Deyang Princess has already handed over a branch to the next, but Cui was blessed and did not dare to accept this great love, so he rejected it. Then he was placed in the Ministry of Rites and kept doing trivial things."
Li Rong nodded. The eldest Princess Deyang was her aunt, and she was nearly fifty now. Cui Yulang was almost catching up with her grandchildren, so it was normal to refuse.
"I heard that Your Highness loves Juncai, but I never dared to confirm it. A few days ago, the concubine was talking about it, and the princess was squeezed out of the crowd. Later, His Highness secretly traveled the flower boat, so I wanted to try it now."
"That's a pity." Li Rong looked at the golden fan in Momo's hands, and knowing that he wasn't telling the truth, she casually said, "I'm not interested in this matter."
"That's really a pity." Cui Yulang sighed, "His Royal Highness invited me here, I thought His Highness agreed."
Li Rong waved her hand and stood up: "Since you don't tell the truth, that's all."
After she said that, she planned to go out. Cui Yulang listened to her words and paused. Hearing that Li Rong was about to walk out of the pavilion, he suddenly said: "Your Highness, Wei Chen is not as incompetent as His Highness imagined, His Highness will not consider it anymore. For a moment?"
"I don't doubt your ability." Li Rong's expression was calm. Although Cui Yulang resigned early and left in the previous life, he had experienced several struggles. Shuntan, although he didn't make any achievements in the officialdom, he had a good death in his last life.
"I just can't think of the reason for your loyalty. I don't believe your reason. If your reason is serious, I wouldn't dare to use it for someone like you, and there's no need to use it."
After Li Rong was about to leave, Cui Yulang finally stopped her: "I can say it, but I'm afraid that if I say it, Your Highness will not believe it."
"Three times," Li Rong didn't want to talk nonsense with him, "Three, two..."
"Because Your Highness has handled the Qin family's case." Cui Yulang finally spoke up, and Li Rong turned around in confusion, seeing Cui Yulang turn his head and look at Xiaohe next to him, and said slowly, "I think Your Highness is a good person."
Li Rong didn't speak, Cui Yulang smiled mockingly: "Look, I said, His Highness won't believe it."
"I believe."
Li Rong spoke calmly, Cui Yulang raised her head in surprise, and Li Rong said calmly, "I understand what you mean, so I'll just say it straight, I don't want to accept you directly."
Cui Yulang didn't speak, he waited for Li Rong, Li Rong stepped forward and said softly, "But I can arrange for you to go to Concubine Rou's place."
Cui Yulang looked at Li Rong unexpectedly. After a while, he wanted to understand: "Your Highness wants me to be your informant?"
"You just have to do it."
"Since Your Highness has spoken, it is natural."
"Then in order to reassure me, you need to eat this." Li Rong took out the medicine bottle she had prepared earlier, squatted down, and handed it to Cui Yulang, "In the future, on this day of the month, you come to me, and I will give it to you. The antidote for the delay. When I save Concubine Rou, I will give you the antidote completely. Of course, I will also give you the corresponding benefits. If you have the ability, no matter what your background is, you will be in the same position as the Ping Zhangshi. Enough is enough."
Cui Yulang listened to Li Rong's words, and after thinking for a while, he chuckled lightly, grabbed the bottle, poured the pills into his mouth, and then threw the bottle into the lake, sighing with emotion: "Woman, Really suspicious."
Li Rong straightened up with a smile: "If there is an urgent matter in the future, you can come to the mansion and contact me directly. Now you can go back first."
"Where's His Highness's bodyguard?" Cui Yulang asked unexpectedly, Li Rong paused, then remembered that she came here alone, she thought about it, and speculated: "The carriage is not easy to come in, they should It should be near the official road not far away."
"It's inappropriate for Your Highness to stay alone," Cui Yulang shook his head, "Send Your Highness back."
Li Rong didn't refuse, she nodded, then turned around and said, "Let's go."
When Cui Yulang heard the words, he stepped forward, broke a branch from the side, and walked in front to clear the way for Li Rong.
In advance, he used a branch to press over the thorns that were protruding from the side, so that Li Rong could walk.
As he walked, he talked to Li Rong. He spoke witty and complimented him. He put aside the business, but only a few words made Li Rong laugh.
The two chatted and laughed and walked away. Pei Wenxuan finally stood up from the haystack. He patted his numb leg and threw the last branch in his hand. After a while, Tong Ye finally found it. Come over, seeing Pei Wenxuan standing at the door of the long pavilion, Tong Ye hurried up and said cautiously, "Master, what are you looking at here?"
Pei Wenxuan didn't speak, and when the last bit of numbness on his leg disappeared, he turned his head and said slowly, "Where's Your Highness?"
"His Royal Highness Fang Cai and Cui Yulang walked over, and they should find their carriage soon." Tong Ye answered very carefully. He knew his son's temperament too well. understood.
"How did Cui Yulang come here?"
Pei Wenxuan listened to Tong Ye's words, turned around and followed Tong Ye to the direction of the official road, and Tong Ye hurriedly said: "Rent a carriage, just stopped by the road, I also heard the driver say that he looks like a man. In this way, we hired a carriage to haggle with them for almost half an hour. Don't tell me, this Master Cui is really close to the people."
"That's because of poverty."
Pei Wenxuan had a deep understanding, he thought for a while, and then ordered: "Wait a while, let someone keep two taels of silver on the carriage, and then find a way to divert the driver away and steal the wheel."
"Steal... Steal wheels?"
Tong Ye was a little shocked, Pei Wenxuan frowned: "What's your opinion?"
"No, no." Tong Ye stammered, how could he dare to have an opinion? He was just a little shocked.
In order not to let Pei Wenxuan's anger hit him, he quickly said, "The servant will do it now."
After Tong Ye finished speaking, he trotted back all the way and told the guards about Pei Wenxuan's order. Everyone discussed it for a while. While Cui Yulang was still sending Li Rong, Tong Ye went straight to the side of the road and threw the copper plate, and began to shout: " Silver? Who lost the silver?"
As soon as he shouted, the coachman who was resting in the teahouse quickly gathered around to watch the fun, and the guard secretly ran to the side of the carriage, pulled the carriage quietly, and walked away.
Pulling the carriage into the woods, one of the guards pulled the horse, and the other two removed the wheels. After a while, the wheels were removed, and they quickly left the scene with the wheels on their backs.
At this time, Cui Yulang had already sent Li Rong to the carriage. The two chatted happily all the way. When they got on the carriage, Cui Yulang joked: "Your Highness, you really don't think about me? Not worse than a concubine, right?"
Li Rong knew that he was joking, she smiled lightly and said, "Don't say that in front of people in the future, or someone will hate you."
"To be jealous for a beauty like the princess, Yulang thinks it's worth it."
"Okay," Li Rong asked to let down the curtain, "Go back."
Cui Yulang smiled and backed away, watching Li Rong's carriage go away.
And Pei Wenxuan stood in the reed field not far away, staring at Cui Yulang who sent Li Rong away.
The guard who came back with the wheel stood behind him, and Tong Ye whispered: "Master, what about this wheel?"
"These coachmen will stay here," Pei Wen said indifferently. "Leave someone here, and the wheels will be put back on the coachmen tomorrow."
"what?"
Tong Ye was a little confused, and then he heard Pei Wen declare: "Leave a tael of silver for the driver as their accommodation fee and compensation."
He just wanted to punish the disciple Cui Yulang, and didn't want to bring disaster to Yuchi.
In this day and age, if you want to go back, you have to go to night, and the driver must be staying here, but Cui Yulang has to go to court tomorrow, so he can only choose to go back.
So after some bargaining with the driver, and after trying to get more tolls to return, Cui Yulang had no other choice but to decide to go back by himself.
In addition, it is not impossible to call a carriage, but it is not worthwhile for him to go back and hitch a ride halfway.
After confirming that Cui Yulang was going to go back, Pei Wenxuan finally felt more relaxed. He led the others back to the carriage, and after getting on the carriage, he led them happily past Cui Yulang.
When the carriage approached Cui Yulang, Pei Wenxuan specially ordered: "Run faster."
The driver was puzzled, but he ran faster as he was instructed. When he passed Cui Yulang, the road was covered with dust, and Cui Yulang's face was covered with ashes.
Cui Yulang stopped in the dust, held his breath, and when the dust dissipated, he looked at the carriage that was running away, and told himself first that the heavens would bring great responsibility to the people...
But he was only halfway through reciting the words. He couldn't help it anymore. There was no one around, and he didn't care about his demeanor.
When Pei Wenxuan heard Cui Yulang scolding people behind him, he finally relaxed, took a sip of tea from the side, and was quite happy.
Tong Ye looked at Pei Wenxuan's expression and couldn't help but ask, "What is your son happy for?"
Pei Wenxuan held the tea, turned his head sideways, and praised: "Good tea."
After Li Rong talked with Cui Yulang, she returned to the Princess Mansion. She sat in the room for a while, thinking about the current situation.
It has been less than two years since Li Ming passed away.
In the last life, Li Ming abolished Li Chuan, and he took three steps respectively.
The first step is to abolish the Yang family, let Xiao Su go to the northwest, become the king of Zhenbei, and get military power in the northwest.
The second step is to let Concubine Rou establish a supervisory division, and with the help of the ability of the supervisory division, let Concubine Rou gain political capital, have Han people as a support, and have her own supporters in the court.
In the third step, the Superintendent began to strictly investigate the people around Li Chuan, and brought out cases of Shangguan family, large and small, while Li Chuan’s harem struggled constantly. He originally tried to use marriage to connect the family relationship, and finally became several concubines. The struggle of the family behind him in the East Palace. A puddle of mud was pulled out, finally giving Li Ming a reason to abolish the prince.
But now things are very different.
The military power in the northwest, although it was Xiao Su on the surface, she secretly arranged Qin Lin into the team ahead of time, and let Li Chuan come to the battlefield in person, and played the most difficult first half, although because of the Qin case She noticed the relationship between her and the Qin family too early, but because Xiao Su relied on Qin Lin on the battlefield in the early days, and as compensation after the Qin family's case was overturned, the Qin family had a firm position in the northwest.
Although Xiao Su controls the vast majority of the army in the northwest, these people have come from the Yang family's era, and they belong to their own families. . As long as she cuts off the support of Concubine Rou and Li Ming in the court, and Xiao Su cuts off the money and food, those soldiers and horses will be worthless immediately.
Therefore, the move of military power has been offset by half with Qin Lin.
Then, the Inspector Division's move was also grabbed by her in advance.
What Li Ming thought was to let her establish a supervisory department first, and then hand it over to Concubine Rou when the time was right. But only what he spelled out was his own. Back then, the Inspector Division could become Concubine Rou's political capital because everyone in it was the poor family led by her, so the poor family trusted her. But now, the inspector was built by her Li Rong's single-handed selection, and her fame was also created by her. Even if Concubine Rou was directly promoted to be the director of the inspectorate, she could quickly dethrone Concubine Rou.
So this move by the Inspector General is gone.
In the end, it was the disintegration of Li Chuan's popular support and the use of the harem to support Li Chuan's family. Now Li Chuan does not marry so many women, and the Shangguan family is clean after Shangguanya's self-examination. After going to the Northern Supervision Army to fight the most difficult battle, it was almost impossible to move Li Chuan's reputation after that.
Now, as long as they walk steadily, Li Chuan's crown prince will be difficult to shake.
But the problem is that Su Rongqing also came back.
Li Rong wasn't sure when Su Rongqing would come back, but at least he should have come back when she got married.
Since he came back, he couldn't just watch her layout without doing anything.
Other than that, at least Pei Wenxuan wanted to be the chief examiner of the imperial examination, and he stopped him.
If it wasn't for him behind the scenes, Wang Houwen, a good minister, would take the initiative to take care of the imperial examinations
Li Rong was thinking about these chores, and she began to feel a little headache. She suddenly wanted Pei Wenxuan to be there. The two of them chatted together, and maybe they had more ideas.
She looked at the candlelight and didn't speak. Jingmei poured water for her feet. She glanced at Li Rong and pursed her lips and smiled: "Is Your Highness thinking about your concubine?"
When Li Rong heard this, she came back to her senses. She chuckled lightly. For some reason, she felt a little embarrassed subconsciously, and only said, "What do you want to think about, don't you see tomorrow?"
Jingmei smiled and didn't speak, but Li Rong intuitively felt that she was laughing at her, and she couldn't help but say, "What are you laughing at?"
Jingmei lowered her head to wash her feet, and reminded in a low voice, "The concubine asked you to meet today, but you couldn't come, and the servant thought you were worried."
Jingmei didn't say that Li Rong didn't want to, but when Jingmei said it, Li Rong wanted Pei Wenxuan even more.
She didn't show her face, only said: "You worry more than me."
Jingmei smiled and did not speak. Li Rong tried her best to make herself think more about business, so as not to hang on to Pei Wenxuan, she couldn't restrain herself and wanted to see him.
But now that he has just reconciled, it is not rude to take the risk to see him.
How many years have you known husband and wife, where do so many hypocritical things come from
Li Rong washed her feet and lay on the bed herself. She tossed and turned on the bed, thinking about it, and finally decided to come down.
She had to see Pei Wenxuan.
Of course it wasn't to see him, Li Rong comforted herself, she was not such an irrational person, she just wanted to talk to Pei Wenxuan about Cui Yulang.
Cui Yulang is for use, and it takes a little effort to arrange him with Concubine Rou. As for the news brought by Cui Yulang, although it was useless to bring down Concubine Rou, it was useful to trouble Wang Houwen.
Whether it is arranging Cui Yulang or designing Wang Houwen, the letter is not safe. She must have an interview with Pei Wenxuan, even if she takes some risks, she must meet.
Thinking of having to see Pei Wenxuan, Li Rong suddenly felt much better. She hugged the quilt sideways, closed her eyes, and fell asleep happily.
In the early morning the next day, Li Rong arrived at the palace according to the usual time. As soon as she got off the carriage, she saw Pei Wenxuan who had just arrived.
Taking advantage of the fact that there were few people, she blinked at Pei Wenxuan in the still-unlighted sky. Pei Wenxuan saw that she was "exciting", but he turned around and walked in as if he didn't see anything.
Li Rong was stunned for a while. She looked around, and after confirming that there was no one, she couldn't help but be a little surprised. Pei Wenxuan's acting was too much, right
And Pei Wenxuan walked forward holding the wat board, feeling a little bored.
For the sake of Cui Yulang, he pushed the matter of seeing him back, and now seeing him like nothing else, I'm afraid there is no burden in my heart.
Li Rong is really heartless.
The two passed the morning without a glance, and when they returned to the Princess Mansion, Li Rong hurriedly asked Zhao Chongjiu to send a publicity letter to Pei Wen and asked him to meet.
After Pei Wenxuan got Li Rong's letter, he knew what Li Rong was going to say. He listened to her and Cui Yulang's words. Although it was intermittent, he was still inseparable. He just wanted to talk to him about recruiting Cui Yulang and Wang Houwen.
He has arranged these things, and it is not a top priority, so he decisively asked people to reply: "Let Your Highness think about what he has done recently, reflect on it, she wants to understand, we will meet again."
Zhao Chongjiu nodded, turned around and left without giving Pei Wenxuan any time to go back.
After Pei Wenxuan finished speaking, he stood in the courtyard for a while, but after a while he still couldn't hold back, he turned to Tongye and said, "Go back to Zhao Chongjiu, and tell him to stop spreading the words just now, and tell him to let His Highness stay in the mansion at night. I'll go find her."
Tong Ye nodded and hurried to chase after Zhao Chongjiu.
Pei Wenxuan stood in the yard and thought, Li Rong couldn't figure it out, he still had to talk to her face to face.
But he didn't have time to pass on this idea. After Tong Ye went out for a while, he turned back and said anxiously: "Master, Master Zhao walked too fast and didn't catch up."
Pei Wenxuan: "..."
For some reason, he was a little scared.
I always felt that those words just now seemed to be a bit tough.
Tong Ye glanced at Pei Wenxuan, and he couldn't help but say, "Well, son, if you're afraid, why don't you ask someone to send a message back?"
Hearing this, Pei Wenxuan glared at Tong Ye coldly: "What should I be afraid of? Forget it, let's see what she thinks."
Pei Wenxuan turned around and said, "Master He is hosting a banquet tonight?"
"Yes."
"Get ready for the banquet tonight."
"Master," Tong Ye said cautiously, "are you really going?"
"Why can't we go?" Pei Wenxuan glanced at the past lightly, and Tong Ye said hesitantly, "Master He, set the location at Chunfenglou."
Pei Wenxuan: "..."
While Pei Wenxuan was still struggling to decide whether to go to the banquet in the evening, Zhao Chongjiu returned to the Princess Mansion.
He returned Pei Wenxuan's words to Li Rong without a word.
Li Rong took a sip of tea and said, "Is that what he said?"
"Yes." Zhao Chongjiu said calmly, "The original words."
Li Rong didn't speak, she put the tea on the table and said to Jingmei, "Go and change to chrysanthemum tea."
Jingmei hurried to change the tea, Li Rong looked up at Zhao Chongjiu: "Do you know where he is going tonight?"
"I asked earlier," Zhao Chongjiu took Li Rong's instructions early, staring at Pei Wenxuan from time to time. He knew Pei Wenxuan's dinner every night, so he replied directly, "He Yan holds a banquet."
"Okay," Li Rong nodded, "I'll wait for him."
After speaking, Li Rong stood up: "Where is the banquet?"
"Spring Breeze Building."
Zhao Chongjiu spoke calmly, and Li Rong suddenly widened his eyes: "Do you say it again?"
Zhao Chongjiu spoke very slowly this time, as if afraid that Li Rong could not hear clearly, he said word by word: "Hua, Jing, Zui, Da, De, Feng, Yue, So-"
"Spring, wind, buildings."