Wen Chan looked at him with some surprise.
It was abnormal for him to take the initiative to strike up a conversation before, but now he deliberately blocked the way, Wen Chan couldn't guess his mind for a while.
Liang Yanbei looked at Wen Yue, but said nothing.
Xie Zhaoxue was the only one who knew etiquette, and she bowed slightly, "I have met His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."
Wen Yue nodded, and in response, her gaze remained on Wen Chan, waiting for his answer.
On the other hand, Zhong Wenjin was so anxious that he almost scratched his head, thinking that since you are brothers, wouldn't it be the same if you go back to the palace and talk again? Why pick a meal to get in the way
Fortunately, Wen Chan was considerate, and turned to Liang Yanbei and the three of them, "Go first, I'll go later."
Zhong Wenjin looked happy, and pretended to be serious, "Your Highness, hurry up, I'm not in the mood to eat without you here."
Said that his feet were extremely slippery, he pulled Xie Zhaoxue to go, and when he passed Liang Yanbei, he also wanted to stretch out his hand, but he didn't know what he thought of, so he stopped his hand in the middle of the road abruptly, and took it back.
Liang Yanbei still didn't speak, and before leaving, he still took a look at Wen Yue, turned and left.
Seeing that all three of them were leaving, Wen Chan got into Wen Yue's carriage without haste, and sat down in a nearby seat.
The decorations in the carriage are very simple, but they can also highlight the extravagance. Only Wen Yue is in it, making it look very spacious.
It was the first time for Wen Yue to talk to Wen Chan alone like this, his expression was a little unnatural, he coughed twice to drive away the feeling, thinking about how to speak.
"Brother Huang, what do you want from me?" Wen Chan started talking.
At this time, the carriage slowly began to move forward.
Wen Yue leaned most of her body on the cushion, her posture was a little slack, she thought for a while and said, "Did you find out the identity of the assassin who hurt you a few days ago?"
Unexpectedly, he would ask this suddenly, Wen Chan froze for a moment, "No, I haven't started the investigation yet."
Wen Yue frowned, "Someone almost killed you, but you didn't investigate, you don't want to kill yourself?"
Wen Chan said helplessly, "I can't do anything even if I want to check."
I have been trying my best to play the role of a waste prince who has neither favor nor influence. This is the only image Wen Chan can maintain. Although it is widely spread outside, let him really harass other ladies in the boudoir on the street, and be a wretched and dissolute person. Man, he really can't do it.
After hearing Wen Chan's words, Wen Yue's expression paused, her brows frowned even tighter, as if she was hesitating for something.
Wen Chan is very smart, seeing his face, he knew that Wen Yue originally wanted to tell him something, but after he showed that he had no power, Wen Yue hesitated.
Could it be that Wen Yue wanted to use him for something? But the current him, on the surface, seems useless.
Just as she was thinking, Wen Yue said, "There are some things, I don't know if I should tell you."
He spoke very bluntly, as if he had no intention of hiding what he had just thought.
This kind tone really made Wen Chan uncomfortable, so he didn't answer.
"However, you are close to Liang Yanbei and Xie Zhaoxue. If you think about Liang's family and Xie's family, you should have some security." Wen Yue said again, feeling a little talking to herself.
Wen Chan watched him speak out his inner activities, feeling baffled.
"What I'm going to say next, you promise me first, you must never tell others." Wen Yue said very solemnly.
No matter what, just answer first and then talk, Wen Yue made it clear that he had a big secret, Wen Chan nodded.
Taking a deep breath, Wen Yue said slowly, "I suspect that your assassination a few days ago was related to that concubine from Xuexia Palace."
He twitched his eyebrows, he didn't expect that Wen Yue's opening would actually hit the point. These days, he had already confirmed that the assassin of that day had a great relationship with Concubine Mei of Xuexia Palace.
On the night when the assassin came to Xiyang Palace, Concubine Mei "coincidentally" borrowed the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, how can there be such a coincidence? Although Wen Chan couldn't figure out how Concubine Mei cleared her suspicions from the Holy One, but on his side, Concubine Mei had already confirmed her identity as an accomplice.
Wen Chan pretended to be shocked, "What? What does it have to do with Concubine Mei?"
"Stop pretending, I can see that you are not surprised at all." Wen Yue exposed it mercilessly, "Concubine Mei has tampered with your palace. If you are not a fool, you will definitely suspect it."
The acting skills were seen through, Wen Chan did not continue to pretend, his expression changed quite quickly, "Indeed, I suspect that she did it on purpose."
Wen Yue said, "She can only be regarded as an in-law in the palace, there is someone else who really wants to kill you." He suddenly lowered his voice and said mysteriously, "It may be the Zhong family."
Wen Chan's eyelids twitched, "Do you have evidence?"
"Not yet, but I saw Concubine Mei and Zhong's eldest son having a private meeting outside the palace." He said.
This news is like a piece of flat ground. Wen Chan was really shocked now. He knew that Wen Yue might know some secrets, but he didn't expect to know so much. Before that, Wen Chan only suspected Concubine Mei It's just a relationship with the Zhong family.
Seeing him surprised, Wen Yue said, "A few days ago when I was out of the palace, I happened to see a person who looked like Concubine Mei. Although that person was masked, I saw her the most times among the concubines in the harem, so I wouldn't admit it. In order to confirm, after I went back, I specially sent someone to check the entry and exit records of the palace gate, and found that Concubine Mei's personal maid went out with a young maid, so I was sure."
The words went through Wen Chan's mind very quickly, and he subconsciously looked for flaws.
However, there were no flaws. Just imagine that a favored concubine like Concubine Mei must have a high status in the harem as a personal maid. What can she do by going out of the palace in person? Ten to ten percent of the little maid beside her is Concubine Mei herself.
The guards in the outer palace seldom have seen the palace people in the inner palace, let alone the concubines in the harem, so even if Concubine Mei can't change her appearance, she only needs to avoid the people in the inner palace, change her clothes, and take another person brand, you can swagger out of the palace.
What Wen Yue wanted to express was that he saw Concubine Mei having a relationship with Zhong Wenting, and he suspected that Concubine Mei was an accomplice of the murderer who sent the assassin behind the scenes, so he put two hats on Concubine Mei at once.
One is to murder the emperor's heir, and the other is to betray the emperor.
Any one is enough to punish the nine clans.
In fact, Wen Chan also suspected the connection between Concubine Mei and the Zhong family, but he couldn't reach into the harem, so he didn't find any direct evidence and basis, and he couldn't confirm it by feeling. He originally planned that the Majesty would not be in the palace today, so he took the risk to try it out. Try Concubine Mei's tone.
But Wen Yue was lucky, he ran into Concubine Mei and Zhong Wenting directly, and then came to tell him, which saved him a lot of trouble.
Seeing that Wen Chan believed it without any doubts, Wen Yue felt a sense of satisfaction in her heart, "Don't be in a hurry to find out about Concubine Mei, otherwise you will only get angry."
Wen Chan came back to his senses, and nodded in a daze.
Seeing his expression, Wen Yue thought he was a fool, and sighed slightly, "Old Jiu, you don't have to be afraid, they didn't succeed in this assassination, so they must not dare to act rashly again, and on Mei Fei's side, I will Find a way to get the queen mother to restrain her, so that she can't take care of herself, you should take good care of her injuries and strengthen the guard."
"I only have one question." Wen Chan pondered for a long time, and then asked, "Why did you suddenly help me?"
Although the weasel gave the chicken New Year's greetings—uneasy and kind, but Wen Chan thinks that he is miserable no matter how he looks at it now: he has no mother clan power, he was injured and almost died just now, and civil and military are useless materials that even the emperor would give up. Not profitable and not threatening.
If Wen Yue is really uneasy and kind, there is no need to spend so much trouble.
After hearing the question, his expression froze, and then he said a little awkwardly, "How can I say... We are also brothers. Although you are usually lazy and stupid and don't look like us at all, you are also surnamed Wen after all. For the prince…”
Speaking of this, he paused for a while and continued, "If you can't even protect your brothers, how can you protect the entire people of Xiliang in the future?"
Wen Chan's black eyes moved, a faint light flashed, and he looked at Wen Yue's expression carefully, and he could confirm that he was not lying.
He is an old bone who has lived his whole life. He has been honed extremely hard after becoming the emperor in his previous life. Sometimes, with the faint expression of an official in the court, he can guess what memorial that official will participate in next.
And looking at Wen Yue's expression, it was natural and pure, and there was no falsehood to be found.
After saying goodbye to Wen Yue, he got out of the carriage, and found himself in the place where he got into the carriage before, with music, chess, calligraphy and painting still waiting there.
He habitually looked up at the sun, the golden light shone everywhere, and the clouds in the entire sky were dyed with light.
Maybe Wen Yue is more suitable to be emperor, at least than him, Wen Chan thought silently.
Afraid that Liang Yanbei would be in a hurry, and he was too hungry, Wen Chan rushed to Heyue Tower without stopping. The carriage stopped in an open place as usual, and he walked to the gate of the building on foot.
Before he got close, he found a large group of people gathered at the door, pointing at the inside of the building, looking like watching the excitement, Wen Chan suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart, and his pace quickened a little.
He squeezed away from the crowd anxiously.
The person who was standing was suddenly pushed away like this, he couldn't help cursing, but when he saw that it was Wen Chan, he immediately swallowed the half-spoken words, backed up several steps in a row, alarming many people.
During Zhong Wenjin's disturbance earlier, many people in the Heyue Tower area had seen the face of His Highness Ninth Prince's real face, and seeing it again now, they naturally avoided as far as possible.
The people around moved away a lot, and it was easy for Wen Chan to stand at the door of Heyue Building. When he looked inside, the first thing he saw was the mess on the ground, with soup and food on the ground.
Liang Yanbei and Xie Zhaoxue stood aside, with indifferent expressions on their faces, but Zhong Wenjin was different. He blushed with anger, his whole face was contorted, and he was shockingly ugly.
Then I heard him scold, "The head of Zhushan, even if you are a pig essence and pig fairy, I will kill you today!"
Wen Chan turned his gaze again, and saw a fat man standing opposite him with a fierce look on his face.
He thought to himself that although this person does look fat and big-eared, but your ugliness doesn't have to be any less than others, how can you call someone a pig spirit
Sure enough, the pig spirit immediately scolded back, "What are you, with eyes like sesame seeds, a nose like garlic, and two separate eyebrows, how dare you come out and walk in the street?"
This description... is a bit appropriate, it seems that he is a cultured pig spirit.
Zhong Wenjin exploded as soon as he heard it, thinking how can I say that Laozi was also a flower in the capital back then, if it wasn't forced by the situation, how could it be your turn to ridicule like a pig
Just as he was about to continue scolding, Xie Zhaoxue suddenly grabbed his wrist and squeezed it lightly. This subtle hint immediately made him shut up.
Pig Jing thought he had the upper hand, and smiled triumphantly. At this moment, Wen Chan decided not to continue watching the show, so he stepped up the steps and entered the building.
"What are you arguing about?"
Several people turned their heads to look at it at the same time. Among them, Liang Yanbei's eyes lit up, and he set off immediately, and said with some grievances in his words, "Your Highness Ninth Prince, you can count yourself here, a wild boar spirit ran into this building from nowhere. , It was so fierce that it overturned all our dishes."
Wen Chan immediately understood that Liang Yanbei wanted to use his status as prince to back him up.
The capital is different from other places in Xiliang. The Wen surname has absolute authority in the capital. Even if you are a Daluo god who travels from north to south, when you come here, you have to keep your head down when you meet the Wen family.
Even Zhong Wenjin, who had his nose up to the sky, was shocked for a while after threatening Wen Chan and knowing his identity.
What's more, he is also the same as the other emperor's heirs, he is the "Ninth Highness".
Wen Chan grabbed Liang Yanbei's hand, and gave the fat man a fierce look, with the attitude of a superior, "I think you have a lot of fat on your guts, and you dare to do evil in the imperial city. I have been on the scale beam, but I don’t know how many catties I have?”
Liang Yanbei happily hid behind Wen Chan, nodding frequently to what he said, very appreciative.
Originally thought that the fat man was a thorn who was not afraid of death, but he didn't want Wen Chan to say only one harsh word, so he panicked, the fierce expression on his face was loose, and he glanced into the corner of the building uneasily.
Wen Chan looked along without a trace, only to find that there were still a few scattered tables of people sitting in the building, and the fat man was looking in the direction that Zhong Wenting was sitting.
There is no need to think about it further, this fat man is probably arranged by Zhong Wenting, as for the purpose...
Wen Chan glared at the fat man again, "You're dumb, wasn't it loud just now?"
"I... I am the head of Qiyun Zhushan, and I have hundreds of brothers under him, each of them, each of them..." The more the fat man said, the less confident he became.
"The head of Zhushan?" Wen Chan said with a smile, "It's the end of your luck that you met me."
He turned to Qinqi and said, "Tie him up for me, take a shortcut and send him directly to the yamen, and go to his pigskin."
This Zhushan Dazhu was really sluggish, Qin Qi took off his chin and didn't give him a chance to beg for mercy, twisted his arms twice, he screamed and was pushed out of Heyue Building.
Seeing that the shopkeeper was escorted away, he ran over to flatter Wen Chan to beg for forgiveness, shouted to the waiter to clean up the mess, and invited them to the second floor.
After several people entered the private room, they told Wen Chan the ins and outs.
To put it bluntly, the man with the fat head and big ears took the initiative to find trouble. He insisted that he came before Liang Yanbei and others, and stopped him from delivering the food. However, the waiter in the shop refused to follow him, so he overturned the food, causing a commotion. He led the three of Liang Yanbei who were waiting upstairs.
Then there was the scene Wen Chan saw just now.
Wen Chan thought to himself, Zhong Wenting arranged this out-of-the-box thing, and he obviously didn't do it against himself, because Zhong Wenting might not know that he would come to this building for dinner.
He was targeting Zhong Wenjin. He arranged for people to provoke trouble deliberately, just to test whether the person who followed Xie Zhaoxue all day was Zhong Wenjin.
I didn't expect Zhong Wenjin to look so ugly and be suspected by him. I have to say that Zhong Wenting is terribly suspicious.
Wen Chan glanced at Zhong Wenjin, thinking that this matter should be discussed after dinner, so as not to affect his mood for eating.
The food that followed was served quickly, Liang Yanbei arranged the dishes himself, and put Wen Chan's favorite dish, stewed chicken, in front of him.
The aroma of the food immediately permeated the air, and the few people stopped talking nonsense and started eating directly.
It is not an exaggeration for Zhong Wenjin to say that he was going crazy from hunger several times. He almost ate half of the table by himself. Liang Yanbei was very dissatisfied with this. He stopped him with chopsticks several times, but he did not stop him from poking into the stewed chicken plate.
Seeing him like this, Wen Chan couldn't help being amused, and called the waiter to add more food.
While eating, he removed the plate, until Zhong Wenting ate until his stomach was full, and the lunch ended.
Wen Chan said goodbye to the three of them, and returned to the palace in a carriage.
He was humming a little song in a good mood at first, but as soon as he entered the palace gate, he saw Ah Fu greet him with an extremely ugly expression, and said in horror, "Your Highness, something serious happened!"