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When Li Ruan saw Jia Lun for the first time, an irrepressible jealousy and disgust subconsciously emerged in his heart, and he couldn't even be polite on the surface.

So, every time Li Ruan met Jia Lun, he simply disguised himself as a taciturn and quiet appearance, and Jia Lun himself was also gloomy and vicious, so every time the two met, the atmosphere was always cold.

At this time, after hearing Jia Lun's inquiry, Li Ruan didn't go around in circles, and replied directly: "Naturally, I succeeded." ”

Jia Lun nodded, there was no joy on his face, and he just asked again, "What did the prince say in that secret letter?" Tell me everything you have in detail, and I will relay it to His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince. ”

Li Ruan shook his head and said, "It's not clear verbally, or I'll write out the content and you will transfer it to His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince." ”

After speaking, Li Ru'an didn't wait for Jia Lun to express his position, he took out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone again, and prepared to write a letter to Zhu Hejian, the seventh prince.

For Li Ruan, the more back roads the better, now Zhao Junchen's views on eunuch interference seem to be loosened, Li Ruan also has more expectations for Zhao Junchen, but he will not bet on Zhao Junchen unreservedly, after all, Zhao Junchen may regret his words in the future, and may collapse and lose power, so Li Ruan will not easily give up Zhu Hejian's line.

It is precisely because of this consideration that Li Ruan insists on contacting Zhu Hejian by writing letters, instead of letting Jia Lun be responsible for relaying the words - if Jia Lun is allowed to control the transmission of information and the exchange of ideas between him and Zhu Hejian, it will be easy to be controlled by others in the future, and if Jia Lun has evil thoughts in the future, it is easy to mislead Zhu Hejian's opinion of Li Ru'an in this case.

But in the later "Dream of Red Mansions", there is a sentence that "the agency is too clever to calculate, and it mistakes Qingqing's life." ”

On the other hand, seeing Li Ru'an's statement, Jia Lun was still noncommittal, as if he didn't see Li Ru'an's careful thoughts at all, just stood quietly on the side and watched Li Ru'an's performance.

However, after all this was ready, Li Ruan was about to write a letter, but Jia Lun stared at the ink on the inkstone that had not dried, obviously it had only been used not long ago, and suddenly asked: "The ink on the inkstone has been ground in advance, and now it is only slightly dry...... Did you just write something else with pen and ink? ”

With Jia Lun's sudden inquiry, Li Ru'an's hand holding the pen couldn't help but shake slightly, and sprinkled a drop of ink on the paper, and a small piece of black was immediately dyed black on the originally white and clean paper.

The residual ink on the inkstone is naturally because Li Ruan has just written a secret letter to Zhao Junchen, and now Jia Lun has seen the flaw, and Li Ruan, who is a double agent, is inevitably a little shocked.

However, Li Ru'an was a bit of a city government after all, and quickly restrained his abnormal performance, quietly crumpled the ink-dyed paper into a ball, threw it aside, and said in a calm voice: "I did a great thing for you today, but I am not very bold, and I am still flustered after returning to the house, so I have been practicing calligraphy and calming my mind before." ”

Jia Lun nodded, and said softly: "Our family has also heard of your deeds, although you are not from the orthodox background of the inner study, but your knowledge and talent are extremely extraordinary, far higher than ordinary palace eunuchs, it must be calligraphy is also outstanding!"

But I don't know, our family took the opportunity of your letter, can we observe your calligraphy handwriting on the sidelines? The Seventh Prince always says that our family's knowledge is too poor, so I can take the opportunity to learn a thing or two from you. ”

Jia Lun's words sounded good, but in fact, he asked Li Ru'an for evidence of his "practice of calligraphy" just now, obviously because he already had suspicions in his heart, suspecting that Li Ru'an was secretly in contact with a force other than Zhu Hejian.

But where will Li Ruan have evidence for him? At this time, it is natural to flatly refuse.

"No way!"

"Why not? It's just a copy of some calligraphy practice calligraphy, so what's so unseemly? ”

Seeing Jia Lun's entanglement, Li Ru'an's voice became cold, and his expression was full of calmness and impatience, and he hummed lightly: "When a person is upset, when practicing calligraphy, he often writes down some inner words that cannot be told to outsiders, only by expressing his heart so directly can he relieve his inner emotions, and I am also in this situation!"

These words in my heart are not necessarily harmful, but they involve the evil and unbearable nature of people's hearts, and they are not something that others should know. ”

Hearing Li Ru'an's explanation, Jia Lun always showed some apologies on his expressionless face, nodded and said: "I see, I was abrupt, Brother Li must not be surprised!" ”

Then, Jia Lun inadvertently changed the topic, and said: "By the way, there are many secrets in the secret box of Your Majesty's imperial study, have you taken the opportunity to peek at other secret contents in the prince's secret box this time?" If there is, I will take this opportunity to inform His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince, these news may be of other use to His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince. ”

Li Ru'an shook his head directly, and said: "As I said, I was timid, and when I peeked at the secret box, I was afraid that I would be discovered, and I didn't dare to offend the delay after peeking at the prince's secret box, so I quickly dealt with all the traces and relocked the secret box, and I didn't read other secret contents...... For people like me, the less you know about many things, the better. ”

"I see, it's really a very cautious approach, for those of us poor people in the inner court, keeping our duty is the smartest way to live."

After speaking, Jia Lun took a step back and watched silently, no longer interfering with Li Ru'an's letter to Zhu Hejian, but his eyes staring at Li Ru'an were like knives, which made Li Ru'an feel uncomfortable.

Zhu Hejian is a master of conspiracy and power, and Jia Lun has been taught a lot by his words and deeds since he was a child...... Li Ru'an's small methods and careful thinking are not clever in Jia Lun's eyes, and they are quite a bit of an axe.

Li Ruan also knew that he accidentally let Jia Lun find a flaw, but he was lucky, thinking that Jia Lun might not have actual action if he was just suspicious, so he kept forcibly calming down, and finally suppressed the emotions in his heart and gradually finished writing the letter.

Because of Zhao Junchen's instructions, Li Ruan did not hide it when he wrote the letter, wrote all the secret contents of the prince Zhu and Yu into the letter, and then sealed the letter and handed it to Jia Lun.

After Jia Lun reached out to take the secret letter, Li Ruan took out the backup key of the secret box from his arms and handed it to Jia Lun, saying: "You can also take this key back, if you let it stay in my hands, I am afraid that I will not sleep well in the future." ”

Li Ru'an's statement was obviously to emphasize his caution and timidity, hoping to reduce Jia Lun's suspicions.

But in fact, Li Ru'an has already used a piece of dough to leave a model of the secret box key, and it will be easy to match another one in the future.

On the other hand, Jia Lun also seemed to appreciate Li Ru'an's due performance, and his always cold expression was also a little kinder, and he reached out to take the key handed over by Li Ru'an, and said: "It's okay to hand over this key back, but you may use it again in the future, you have to be prepared in your heart." ”

With that, Jalen turned and left.

Li Ru'an followed behind Jia Lun, and after Jia Lun left the room, he silently closed the door.

But just as the door was closed, whether it was Li Ru'an in the room or Jia Lun outside the room, the expressions of the two quickly became cold.

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said that after Jia Lun left the room, Li Ruan became more and more uneasy and unstable.

Jia Lun was obviously suspicious, and Li Ruan didn't know whether he should tell Zhao Junchen about the situation.

"It's really a wave of unevenness, I just proved to Zhao Junchen that my position and loyalty, and eased the relationship with him, who would have thought that I was just a little careless, so that Jia Lun found a flaw, and now I have to find a way to resolve the suspicion of the seventh prince...... It's just terrible!

After Jia Lun discovered the flaw, even if he couldn't be sure that I had two hearts, he would definitely tell the Seventh Prince about today's incident...... According to Zhao Junchen, the Seventh Prince has always been a resolute person who cuts grass and eradicates roots, so if I want to resolve his suspicions, I must act quickly!

In such a situation, turning to Zhao Junchen's protection may not be a good choice!

Since passing through the Shaanxi and Gansu battlefields, I can be said to have witnessed the change of his temperament, and now Zhao Junchen is not an exaggeration to say that he is decisive and ruthless, if he receives the news, he thinks that I have become a flaw for him, and maybe he will do it to me before the Seven Princes......"

Between muttering to himself, Li Ru'an couldn't help but turn pale.

After peeking at several copies of the secret contents in the secret box of the imperial study, he was already ambitious and wanted to make a big difference, but unfortunately this state only lasted for a morning, and he once again became suspicious and panicked.

At the end of the day, a tiger is a tiger and a rabbit is a rabbit.

Moreover, with Li Ru'an's scheming, it is really difficult for him to be a qualified double agent between Zhao Junchen and Zhu Hejian, two conspirators.

After thinking about it like this, Li Ruan found that it was difficult to deal with such a situation with his wisdom alone, and he had to find a wise man to advise him.

So, Li Ruan suddenly thought of someone, and that was Liu Ye.

During the Shaanxi and Gansu Wars, a civil unrest suddenly broke out in Tianshui City, and Liu Ye was coerced by the rebels and became the leader of the rebels because of his prestige among the people on weekdays.

However, Liu Ye has some insight, after becoming the leader of the chaotic people, not only did he not lead the people of Tianshui to continue to make trouble, but took the initiative to curb the chaos and maintain civil order, and then after Li Ru'an was ordered to rush to Tianshui City to quell the civil unrest, he took the initiative to surrender and ask for guilt, and then he had a positive attitude to make meritorious contributions, not only to assist Li Ru'an to successfully eliminate several other rebel forces in Tianshui City, but also to help Li Ru'an quickly calm down all kinds of chaos in Tianshui City.

During this period, Liu Ye's shrewdness and methods made Li Ruan deeply valued, and Li Ru'an considered that he was isolated and helpless and lacked staff assistance around him, so he deliberately used some thoughts, risked and pleaded with Zhao Junchen and Emperor Deqing successively, focusing on Liu Ye's compulsion when he participated in the Tianshui civil turmoil, and his outstanding performance when he later made meritorious contributions.

In the end, because of Li Ru'an's strong protection, Liu Ye, as the leader of the chaotic people, not only did not receive heavy punishment from the imperial court, but when Emperor Deqing rewarded the meritorious heroes, he even got a positive nine-grade official position, became the supervisor of Yuanma Temple, and had the qualification to receive the imperial court!

Li Ru'an still has some trust in Liu Ye's wisdom, and he can have today's situation because of Li Ru'an's original protection, so this person is also a little loyal and grateful to Li Ru'an.

In this way, when Li Ruan wanted to find someone to discuss countermeasures, Liu Ye became the best candidate.

Thinking of this, Li Ruan didn't dare to have any delay, quickly left the room, and went out of the palace to look for it.

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And just when Li Ru'an rushed to look for Liu Ye outside the palace, Jia Lun had already returned to the Seven Princes' Mansion and handed over Li Ru'an's secret letter to Zhu Hejian.

Jia Lun understood the priority of the matter, and at the beginning, he did not mention Li Ruan's abnormal performance to Zhu Hejian today, but waited quietly for Zhu Hejian to finish reading the content of Li Ruan's secret letter.

After Li Ru'an read this secret letter, his face suddenly sank, and he quickly got up without the slightest hesitation, and said, "Enter the palace immediately, I want to see my father!" ”

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