Hearing this, Xie Zichen nodded: "May my son be as you said."
"When a gentleman says something, it's hard to follow a horse. Although Lan is not a gentleman, she still yearns for what a gentleman will do."
While speaking, Wei Lan had already straightened Xie Zichen, kept a distance in an orderly manner, and put on a gesture of respect. Xie Zichen nodded, and finally said: "Your Majesty has issued an order to call Chang Xinhou back to Shengjing. On the tenth day of next month, your second and third uncles will be ambushed on the cliff."
"How do you know?!" Wei Lan's expression turned cold. Even her spies didn't find out about such news. Xie Zichen, a bastard, could actually find out into the palace
However, soon, she remembered what happened today. It was not impossible for him to know about the assassination of the prince and her father in advance.
But the strange thing is, if Xie Zichen is so capable, why does he need her help to get Xie Jie done
— This can only prove one thing, Xie Zichen's intelligence network is extremely developed, but there are too few people in his hands who can be used to kill people.
Wei Lan quickly figured out Xie Zichen's situation, and said directly: "In the future, my subordinates can be used by you, but your information must be shared with me."
"Okay." Xie Zichen responded decisively: "Then, are you and I considered allies?"
"Of course." Wei Lan said seriously, "I offended you before."
After saying this, Wei Lan couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.
It's hard to see a beauty who is beautiful, smart, and easy to handle (by mistake), but I just want to let go. She couldn't help but sighed, looked at Xie Zichen leisurely and said, "Sincere Xie, can the love between you and me stop here?"
Returning to the hunting ground at this time, Xie Zichen pushed her away, staggered and got off his horse, and said indifferently: "My lord, I have nothing to do with you."
After finishing speaking, a eunuch happened to come up to meet him, supported Xie Zichen, and said in a thin voice: "Hey, fourth son Xie, what's wrong with you? His Royal Highness is looking for you like crazy!"
Xie Zichen let the eunuch support him, and said weakly, "Please trouble me, my lord."
"Don't talk about it now," the eunuch helped Xie Zichen walk in, and said anxiously: "The imperial physician! Come here! Call the imperial physician!"
After the eunuch supported Xie Zichen to leave, Ran Mo handed the horse to the boy, walked behind Wei Lan who was staring blankly at Xie Zichen's back with his hands folded in his wide sleeves, and said leisurely, "Master, is it good-looking?"
"It's beautiful," Wei Lan admired obsessively: "The beauty of a beauty is deeply rooted in the heart. No matter how delicate and flamboyant, she can be beautiful with a unique flavor. To marry a husband is to marry Xie Zichen. Unfortunately, this king's ambition is everywhere. How can I bear to keep him in the inner house? What a pity...”
"Master," Ran Mo looked at the black cloak on Wei Lan's back that was bleeding, staring at the blood bead, and said leisurely, "Stop worrying about regrets, does the wound hurt?"
Hearing this, Wei Lan's face froze, and then she turned pale instantly. She fell towards Ran Mo, who immediately supported her, and heard her weakly say: "Ran Mo, the wound has opened again..."
Dye Mo: "I know."
She is not blind, normal people know, the wound is open.
Xie Zichen was helped into the tent by the eunuch. They probably had prepared it long ago. As soon as they entered the tent, the imperial doctor rushed in. Xie Zichen anxiously said: "My injury is nothing serious, please inform the Xie Mansion quickly, sixth brother..."
"You don't have to worry." The prince's voice came from outside, and he rushed in with Wang Xi and Xie Yulan. The prince held down Xie Zichen who was about to get up, and said gently: "I have already known about the matter of the prince. It's a pity that Gu's guards arrived a bit late, and let the sixth son be taken away by the thieves!"
"Your Highness, don't worry," Wang Xi smiled, "Young Master Xie Liu was kidnapped by the people from Heifeng Village. Those people always want some money. If you send the money over, it should be fine."
"At the foot of the Son of Heaven, there are such rampant bandits!" Xie Yulan was a little annoyed. The fact that the first son of the Xie family was robbed by a group of bandits in the cottage is too shameful, and it happened at the very moment when he was selected as a companion to the palace. He couldn't help feeling that it was Xie Zichen's relationship. When he said this angrily, he gave Xie Zichen a meaningful look, and respectfully said to the prince, "Your Highness, Yulan will go back and report this matter to her family. My fourth brother..."
"It's okay, after the spring hunting is over, I will personally send the Fourth Young Master back," Wang Xi took Xie Yulan's words, Xie Yulan breathed a sigh of relief, expressed her gratitude, and then turned to leave.
The crown prince and Wang Xi sat aside, quietly waiting for the imperial doctor to administer the medicine to Xie Zichen. After finishing, Wang Xi gave the eunuch a wink, and the eunuch led everyone away quietly. There were only three people left in the tent.
Xie Zichen's face was calm, and he said first: "I have some injuries, so it's inconvenient to salute to Your Highness, I hope His Highness will not blame you."
The crown prince smiled, shook his head and said, "I don't care about these little things. I just need to rest well."
Xie Zichen nodded and didn't answer. The crown prince took a sip of tea and glanced at Wang Xi. Wang Xi broke the deadlock and took the lead in saying, "If you are in danger today, if you don't thank the fourth son to separate and save you, His Highness and Xi may not be able to sit comfortably at this moment. Come, one is to thank Fourth Young Master Xie, and the other is to plead guilty to Fourth Young Master Xie."
"His Royal Highness is willing to give the minister a chance, but it's too late for the minister to be grateful, so how can I apologize?"
Xie Zichen directly picked up the topic, and raised his head to look into the eyes of the prince: "The prince came here in private, isn't it just to say something that should not be known to others. Your Highness can say it clearly, and the prince understands."
"Do you know that my bodyguard is here?" Hearing this, the prince couldn't help being stunned, Xie Zichen nodded, and said calmly: "His Royal Highness wants to accept his subordinates under his command, but when he is being chased and killed, His Highness I was also worried that Zichen wanted to take advantage of His Highness, or that he was planning a cruel trick in front of His Highness, so he stood still, just to see if these killers really wanted to kill Zichen."
Hearing Xie Zichen say these words so bluntly, the expressions of the prince and Wang Xi turned cold. After a while, the prince smiled: "Since all the ministers know so clearly, why can they be so indifferent and not angry at Gu?"
"Your Highness is in a high position, if you can trust someone rashly, how dare your ministers trust you with your life?"
Both the crown prince and Wang Xi stopped talking, and after a while, the crown prince said: "Did you know in advance what happened today?"
"Yes." Xie Zichen responded directly, and the prince showed annoyed expression: "Since you knew it in advance, why didn't you inform Yu Gu in advance?"
"First, as the concubine son of the Xie family, I have no chance to get close to the prince. As for the others, I don't know which one is your Highness's confidant and which one is not. Therefore, I dare not notify rashly, for fear of scaring the snake. Second, today's matter, It's just that the minister deduced that if His Highness was notified but nothing happened, the minister would not dare to take the responsibility. Therefore, the minister could only smear the poisoned dagger and follow the prince closely. If something happened, he would protect him with his life. .”
Xie Zichen spoke indifferently, and the crown prince curled his lips: "Thirdly, Fourth Young Master Xie wants to join Gu's command. If he can make meritorious service with this, Gu will definitely remember it in his heart, right?"
"Your Highness will thank Si, it's a bit stupid to think about it." Xie Zichen raised his eyelids, and said calmly: "What I think is that if this happens, Your Highness will understand the usefulness of you."
The crown prince didn't speak, Xie Zichen said directly: "Your Highness's intelligence network may be of great use to Your Highness. But your Highness has no intentions at all. Your Highness has selfishness towards your Highness, so you don't want to save him. Your Highness understands that." "The minister has selfish intentions towards His Highness, he is afraid of taking responsibility, and wants to show off, so he did not inform in advance, His Highness knows. In the future, the minister will be loyal to His Highness, and the same will be true. He is frank and frank, and His Highness does not need to be too scruples."
The crown prince still didn't speak, Xie Zichen continued: "Your Highness, I have something to say, I want to talk to you privately."
Hearing this, Wang Xi immediately stood up sensible and backed out.
After Wang Xi left, the prince frowned and said, "What's the matter with you that Xi can't listen to?"
"Your Highness," Xie Zichen looked up at him, and said earnestly, "When your Highness employs people with integrity, most of the people in his hands are sons of noble families who are dignified and respected like Mr. Wang, and who have been influenced by the way of a gentleman. When employing people?"
Hearing this, the prince couldn't help frowning even deeper.
Xie Zichen's words were exactly what he was worried about.
He is an honest gentleman, and most of the people around him are like this. Even if they are not like this in their hearts, they are still alert and unwilling to do things that will damage their reputation too much. In this era, reputation is too important, especially for the sons of aristocratic families.
Xie Zichen stared at the prince, and said seriously: "I would like to be Your Highness's sword, in the dark, and cut through thorns and thorns for His Highness."
"What do you mean by overcoming thorns and thorns?" The prince was obviously shaken, his eyes were lowered, Xie Zichen observed his expression, and continued: "Zhang Yushi, Yushitai, does your highness want to move or not?"
Hearing this, the prince suddenly raised his head.
Zhang Yushi is a man of integrity and a clean official. His family has been loyal and good for generations, and he is a model in the court. However, due to the discord between him and the Prince's grandfather, Lord Zhen Guo, he has not been very optimistic about the Prince, and has been participating in the Prince all the year round.
Does the prince want to move such a person? Of course I want to!
But how can such a well-known person move
Seeing the prince's mood, Xie Zichen said indifferently: "The reputation is good, so set him up and ruin his reputation. But Your Highness, now you will come up with such a strategy in your hands, who can do this, dare to ask how many people are there?" ? Or even say... Is there?"
In his previous life, Xie Zichen assisted the third prince in defeating the prince, so he knew him all too well.
He has excellent morals all his life, and he is surrounded by gentlemen like Wang Xi. Wang Xi's status is noble, long-sleeved and good at dancing, which is not bad, but it was the spring hunt that year, which cost Wang Xi his life. Since then, there have been no such people around the prince, but a group of nerds instead.
When the prince was pushed to a desperate situation in the later period, he hinted several times to the nerds around him that he wanted to use some extraordinary means, but they were all forced back by these nerds with sage principles. Later, the gentleman forced himself to death after living a lifetime.
But is he really a gentleman
Xie Zichen sneered inwardly. He could tell that he was not a gentleman when he tried to do things that failed several times back then, but he was surrounded by a group of moralists.
He has no one to use, no matter how good his reputation is, he can only be driven to a desperate situation step by step.
Hearing Xie Zichen's words, the prince's expression changed a few times. After a long time, he looked at him and said calmly: "Young Master Xie and I are so frank when you talk about this, aren't you afraid?"
"What are you afraid of?" Xie Zichen said indifferently: "If the crown prince is a gentleman, he will naturally not do anything to me. I will turn around and seek refuge with the third prince. If the crown prince is not a gentleman, why not use me?"
The prince didn't speak, and after a while, he slowly laughed.
"Xi," he called Wang Xi's name loudly, Wang Xi rolled up the curtain and walked in, the prince smiled and said, "Give the gift of thanks to the minister."
Hearing this, Wang Xi was stunned, then adjusted her smile, took out a box from her sleeve, and gave the box to Xie Zichen.
"This is the dagger that His Highness personally forged back then."
"This dagger seems to be given to Wei Shizi too?" Xie Zichen thought about the movements he saw in the morning, and Wang Xi smiled: "It's a pair."
Xie Zichen: "..."
Suddenly I don't want to accept it.
However, as a gift from the crown prince to express his intention to solicit, no matter what the reason, naturally he cannot refuse it. So Xie Zichen nodded, cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, Your Highness."
"Take a good rest." The crown prince ordered, and then led Wang Xi out.
After Wang Xi went out, Xie Tong rushed in anxiously, and said to Xie Zichen, "Master, His Highness the Third Highness has gone to Wei Shizi."
Going to Wei Lan at this time is either to solicit or to retaliate. Neither is a good thing. Xie Zichen's expression froze, regardless of his injuries, he got up and walked outside.
When he rushed to the door of Wei Lan's tent, the third prince had already arrived.
Wei Lan changed her clothes and was drinking some painkillers. The painkillers contained some sleeping ingredients, and she fell asleep quietly. Su Cheng asked the guard to touch Ran Mo's acupuncture point, and then walked in quietly.
After entering, she saw Wei Lan lying on the bed. Her hair was loose and her complexion was a little pale. She was lying quietly like this, and she had an unexpectedly weak beauty. Su Cheng waved his fan and sat by the bed, seeing her frowning.
With a flash of his mind, he felt that the sleeping person didn't seem to be so annoying anymore.
Recalling the way she pushed him against the peach blossom tree in the peach forest in the morning, seeing the person in front of him lying quietly on the bed with cherry-colored lips, Su Cheng accidentally remembered the sentence: "She doesn't want to kiss you, so I will do it for you, how can I kiss you?" ?”
He swallowed subconsciously.
He has a flirtatious temperament, and he doesn't care much about men and women. If he sees it and likes it, then that's fine.
So Su Cheng hooked the corner of his mouth, and said in a hoarse voice: "Your Majesty, you can't kiss me, but I can kiss you, your Majesty."
Wei Lan was lying on the bed, already awake, she had noticed Su Cheng coming in, and pretended to be asleep, just to see what he wanted to do. Hearing this, Wei Lan couldn't help but bend the corners of her mouth.
Sure enough, he is still such a coquettish man who is knowledgeable and interesting, and has more tricks.
Her smile was regarded as a response, Su Cheng hooked the corners of his mouth, and lowered his head.
Xie Zichen, who hurried over, was outside and just heard this sentence.
"Your Majesty wants to kiss me, but I can't. I'll kiss your Majesty, that's fine."
His mind exploded, and regardless of what he had done, he kicked away the guards, opened the curtain, and when Su Cheng was about to meet Wei Lan, he rushed in and punched Su Cheng away. , guarding in front of Wei Lan, said angrily: "What do you want to do!"
Wei Lan pretending to be asleep: "..."
It's finally about to be kissed by a beauty, Xie Zichen, who has become a brother, what are you doing rushing in! !