After returning to the palace, Wei Lan went directly to Xie Zichen, Xie Zichen seemed to have expected her to come, the tea set was prepared on the table, and he was waiting for Wei Lan to arrive. As soon as Wei Lan entered the room, she heard the sound of boiling water, couldn't help laughing, stepped into the room with bare feet, and said loudly: "It seems that everything is as expected."
Xie Zichen put the tea into the tea bowl with a calm expression, and poured boiling water into the tea bowl. The water passed through the tea leaves on the filter, bringing out the fragrance of the tea. Xie Zichen said calmly, "Did you see Xia Sanniang?"
"It really is you?" Wei Lan knelt down in front of the desk and watched Xie Zichen wash the tea. Xie Zichen nodded: "I want to send a big gift to His Highness the Third Highness."
Hearing this, Wei Lan couldn't help laughing: "I'm the third highness' accompanist, you told me, I turned around and told the third highness to go down."
"That's exactly what I wish for." Xie Zichen pushed the brewed tea in front of Wei Lan, raised his eyebrows and said, "I'll give Ah Lan a gift too."
Wei Lan didn't speak, she picked up her teacup and listened quietly.
"Fifteen years ago, Zhang Yushi was only the prime minister of Dali Temple, and he had a good relationship with Xia Chengzhi, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry. However, because his superior and Xia Chengzhi had political disagreements, he planned to frame Xia Chengzhi. Xia Chengzhi was arrested. Asked about beheading, both his wife and daughter were registered as prostitutes. At that time, Zhang Huaisheng saw Xia Cheng's wife and daughter were beautiful in prison, so he intended to take the mother and daughter by force. Xia Chengzhi's wife committed suicide to keep her chastity, and Xia Sanniang Defiled. At that time, Xia Sanniang was only fifteen years old."
"My parents died with hatred, and I was sold into prostitution. Xia Sanniang planned to die, but found that she had a child. This child was Xia Tan, who was Xia Sanniang's hope. In order to keep this child, Xia Sanniang I deliberately forgot the hatred and endured the humiliation for many years, but I never thought that just last year, Xia Tan suffered from tuberculosis. Xia Sanniang spent all her family's wealth, but she couldn't cure this child."
"So, you promised her to save Xia Tan, and she promised you to sue Zhang Yushi?"
Wei Lan frowned, Xie Zichen nodded, held the teacup, covered his movement of drinking tea with his wide sleeves, took a sip, lowered his eyebrows and eyes: "Based on what I know about Zhang Yushi, now Xia Sanniang is suing He, he must be afraid, and will kill Xia Sanniang himself. Now I have sent good men to guard Xia Sanniang, just waiting for you to come."
"Wait for me?" Wei Lan couldn't help laughing: "I'm afraid it's not a good job."
"It's done, Ah Lan is the confidant of His Highness the Third Highness."
Xie Zichen chuckled, with a teasing smile in his eyes: "Not only that, Alan may become His Majesty's confidant. With the escort of the third prince and His Majesty, are you afraid that your official luck will not be smooth?"
"Let's talk," Wei Lan put down the tea bowl and said with a smile, "Don't say that there are such great benefits. Even if there are no benefits, I will go through fire and water if my minister asks."
"I would like to ask you to do two things. The first one is to persuade Su Cheng to kill Xia Sanniang, but you can't persuade me. You must not say this from your mouth."
Wei Lan nodded, making it clear. Xie Zichen added tea to her, and continued: "The second thing." He raised his eyes and looked at her: "Lend me some people to protect Xia Sanniang, I'm afraid I don't have enough people."
Hearing this, Wei Lan couldn't help being stunned, and after a while, she laughed: "I thought Xia Sanniang was an abandoned son, and Zichen didn't intend to waste any more time and manpower on her."
"I promised to protect her as much as possible, and I will do what I say."
Xie Zichen took a sip of his tea and turned his head to look out the window. The sun fell on his face, making his skin look extraordinarily fair and transparent. Looking at the lush greenery outside the window, he felt a little emotional: "It's already midsummer, and it's a pity that the peach blossoms are gone."
Wei Lan didn't speak, she looked at him, and subconsciously said: "The beauty is in front, so what does it matter if there are peach blossoms or not?"
Her words were sincere, but after she finished speaking, she couldn't help laughing at herself: "I said that I treat my son as a brother, but I can't help but say such things, it's rude."
Xie Zichen smiled slightly, raised his teacup and said, "Thank you Alan for your compliment."
After drinking tea with Xie Zichen and chatting for a while, Wei Lan was called out by the servant of Su Cheng. Su Cheng would ask her companions to meet up from time to time, and Wei Lan was already used to it, but she was not invited to the most important gatherings, and she also knew that Su Cheng was on guard against her. Asking her to go today must mean something romantic.
But with a mission in mind, Wei Lan naturally wouldn't go as casually as before. She hurriedly thought about Su Cheng's companions in her mind, and at first came up with a general plan.
Persuading Su Cheng to kill Xia Sanniang, she couldn't say it out loud, so naturally let others say it out. Among the companions of the third prince, the one who is most suitable for this matter is Wang Yuan. Not only is Wang Yuan the third son of the Wang family, he can speak well in Su Cheng's face, but he also loves to flirt and play tricks. He loves to show off his wit, and he wants to make Su Cheng look up to him, but he is actually useless in essence. Embroidered pillows.
Wei Lan made up her mind on the candidate, and when she arrived at the meeting place, she glanced over from a distance and saw Wang Yuan coming from a long distance. Wei Lan deliberately chose the only way he had to pass, winked at Ran Mo, hid behind a big tree, and said in a low voice: "Ran Mo, play a play later."
"Okay." Ran Mo nodded with bright eyes.
The two waited for Wang Yuan to approach, and Wei Lan suddenly yelled: "What did you say?! The story about Xia Sanniang is all fake?!"
Hearing Wei Lan's words, Wang Yuan, who was joking, immediately stopped and calmed down. After looking at each other, Wang Yuan made a silent movement, and quietly approached the direction where Wei Lan was speaking.
And Wei Lan also knew that these two people were coming, turned her back to them, and said anxiously to Ran Mo: "Impossible, if Xia Sanniang is a fake, how dare the prince order Xia Sanniang to sue Zhang Huaisheng?"
Hearing this, Wang Yuan became a little excited. He just passed by here, but he heard such important news. If the third prince knew this news, it would definitely improve his status in the third prince's heart.
He held his breath and listened to Wei Lan continue: "I understand, so the best way for the prince is to kill Xia Sanniang, and then pretend to be Zhang Yushi to kill people, so that there will be no proof of death, and the matter will be cleared." A simple case of raping a female prisoner immediately turned into a murder case. It's just the prince's character, so I'm afraid he won't do this."
Wei Lan seemed to be lost in thought, while Ran Mo showed a naive expression: "The prince is benevolent, so he will definitely not do such a thing."
Wei Lan smiled, and asked back: "If the prince doesn't want to do it, why don't you do it?"
Hearing this, Wang Yuan's heart beat fast, and he already understood what Wei Lan meant.
Xia Sanniang, who sued Zhang Huaisheng, belonged to the prince and framed Zhang Huaisheng. For the crown prince, the best way to get an official prostitute to deceive everyone is to send someone to kill Xia Sanniang first, and then pretend that Zhang Huaisheng did it, and then use this to participate in Zhang Huaisheng's book.
But the prince has a benevolent personality and is not someone who would attack Xia Sanniang, so...
Wang Yuan already had some calculations in his heart, Wei Lan's words were very obvious, if the prince didn't take action, then he would find someone to help the prince.
If he reports these things to Su Cheng, after the matter is completed, Su Cheng will definitely value him very much. Wei Lan is Su Cheng's companion, since he thought of this method, he will soon tell Su Cheng that he must do this before Wei Lan.
So Wang Yuan quietly left Shulin, Wei Lan pretended not to know anything, and continued to talk to Ran Mo about how to get rid of Xia Sanniang.
When Wang Yuan was far away, Wei Lan relaxed her expression and said happily, "Let's go, the banquet is about to begin."
"My lord, what did you mean just now?" Ran Mo's IQ could no longer keep up with Wei Lan: "Just now you purposely said these words to Wang Yuan, why?"
"I didn't say this for Wang Yuan." Wei Lan twirled the small fan in her hand, with a lot of joy in her eyes: "I said it for His Highness the Third Highness."
At this moment, Wang Yuan must have gone to Su Cheng first because he was afraid of her offering advice.
Wei Lan strode towards the banquet hall. After entering the room, almost everyone except Wang Yuan and Su Cheng had arrived. Wei Lan exchanged cups with a few people, and after playing for a while, Su Cheng came lightly, and Wang Yuan followed behind him with a little excitement on his face.
It seems that he talked to Sioux City and was praised by Sioux City.
Wei Lan saluted along with everyone, thinking silently in her heart.
Su Cheng was obviously a little careless at the banquet, as if he was in a hurry to deal with something. By noon, the banquet was over. Wei Lan guessed Su Cheng's expression in the afternoon and went back to the dormitory, and said to Xie Zichen: "Zichen, hurry up and get ready."
Xie Zichen was reciting a book in the room, and when he heard Wei Lan's words, he raised his head, Wei Lan leaned against the door, and said with a smile: "His Highness Lan Guan just looked hurried, I'm afraid I can't hold it anymore, so I came here to inform you .”
Xie Zichen heard the words, put down the book, replaced the wine with tea and said, "Thank you, Zichen."
As he spoke, Xie Zichen stood up, and at that moment, the eunuch happened to appear in front of the door.
"Thank you, Young Master, Your Highness the Crown Prince welcomes you."
The eunuch spoke respectfully, Xie Zichen lowered his voice, whispered into Wei Lan's ear, "The crown prince will not accept my dissuasion, he must insist on killing Sanniang, you can figure it out."
His inhalation was blown out at the tip of her ear, and for some reason, her heart suddenly surged.
The person concerned had no self-knowledge, and after finishing speaking, Xie Zichen turned around and walked out together with the eunuch. Wei Lan sat in the room and thought for a moment.
In the current situation, Su Cheng wants to kill Xia Sanniang in order to blame the prince;
And the prince really wants to kill Xia Sanniang, in order to blame Zhang Yushi;
As for Zhang Yushi himself, because Xia Sanniang was indeed a stain on his life, he really sent someone to kill Xia Sanniang.
With so many people killing Xia Sanniang, Xie Zichen insisted on saving Xia Sanniang.
The praying mantis catches the cicada and the oriole is behind.
Wei Lan picked up her teacup and took a sip of tea.
This time, Xie Zichen not only wanted to be an oriole, but also gave her a Qingyun ladder, so that she also became an oriole unintentionally.
She couldn't help laughing.
What a gift.
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[small theater]
Mo Shubai: "What kind of experience is it to engage in political struggle with Xie Zichen?"
Wei Lan: "Desperate."
Mo Shubai: "Where do we start?"
Wei Lan: "It's like fighting monsters with a full-level tuba and a trumpet. There is no room for me to display my talents. I am so desperate"
Mo Shubai: "Oh, then you can fight on your own, or turn around and fight this full-level one."
Wei Lan: "Where is life without despair? Let me be in despair."
Prince Su Cheng, Zhang Huaisheng and others who were calculated: "Paralyzed... we are the ones who are really desperate!"