Chapter 586: Mixed feelings
The prince's heart seemed to have been hit by something, and his throat seemed to be choked by something, and he didn't even know how to speak for a while.
"Your Highness?" The chamberlain reminded softly.
The prince came back to his senses, gave the spy a look, and then nodded, "Let her in." ”
He coughed lightly twice, and his complexion returned to normal.
Pan Li quickly walked into the study, holding tea and snacks in her hands, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has worked hard, and the concubine will bring you some food to relax." ”
She smiled sweetly, put the tray on the bookcase with her own hands, and the palace maid who followed behind her held the pipa in her arms, ready to play a song for the Tai Dan at any time.
The prince looked at those delicious snacks, his mood was complicated, and he had no appetite at all, "Ah Li has a heart, I still have something to do here, you can go back first." ”
Pan Li asked, "Do you need the concubine to play a tune as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to relieve fatigue?" ”
"No, I'm not tired." The prince prevaricated.
Pan Li felt a little wrong, since she didn't care about her sister's relationship, coupled with her understanding of the prince in the past few years, and after making good use of pipa music to mobilize the prince's feelings for her, the prince really loved her, why was it a little different overnight?
Could it be that Chen Jingyao was angry last night, so she blew the wind in the prince's ears for a while?
Pan Li sneered silently, and liked to watch these shrews talk nonsense because of jealousy, and sooner or later trouble would come out of their mouths.
She exited the study very obediently, and the prince glanced at her with a very complicated look out of the corner of his eye.
After Pan Li left, the prince called the secret agent to come out, "You go to Pingkangfang to check the people around Pan Mo, and also check Pan Li's whereabouts back then, especially who she followed and what she learned." ”
The spy commanded, "Yes, His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”
The chamberlain next to him sensed that something was wrong, "Your Highness, do you want someone to spy on Pan Fengyi secretly?" ”
The prince took a deep breath, although Ah Mo dreamed of that, but from the bottom of his heart he didn't want to make some doubts.
However, he clearly remembered that Pan Li said that she had poisoned Pu Yangxuan.
She said she used a poison called "Xia Cao" to make "Pu Yangxuan poisoned and went crazy and committed suicide."
Now that Amo said that, she became like that back then, could it be caused by "Xia Cao"?
The prince couldn't help clenching his fists, and with a "click", the brush was broken alive.
There was silence in the study, and none of the palace maids dared to say much.
The prince watched the fold for a while, and felt that he couldn't read a word, so he threw it aside irritably, and beckoned his henchman to come to him to speak, "You say, what will Xue Jinyi feel after she knows the news that Xue Fangyi was driven home?" ”
The servant said with a smile: "According to what the slave maid heard, Miss Xue and Second Miss have always been at odds, and they must be very happy to hear this news." ”
When the prince heard this, his heart was happy, "How difficult it is for the prince and the princess to reconcile," although the process is quite simple, "I hope Jinyi can see my determination and heart, and abandon Pu Yangxuan's waste as soon as possible." ”
The chamberlain hurriedly followed his words and said, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is so attentive, Miss Xue should understand." ”
The prince smiled, but quickly frowned again because of his annoyance, "It's just that this plague hasn't killed Pu Yangxuan, and we almost burned ourselves...... I don't know what my mother plans to do next. ”
Yesterday at dinner, he asked his mother, and the reply he received was, "Your uncle is worried about this matter, and you can only help your father in handling important affairs." And until the plague case is closed, there must be no more recklessness."
His mother had said so, what else could he do?
"However, the plague matter, why hasn't the old guy in Liu Shizhong finished investigating it yet?" The prince said strangely: "He has become so wasteful this time, is he old and useless?" ”
"......" the chamberlain was speechless, once Liu Shizhong was decided, it would be Cai's loss, why didn't the prince seem to care at all?
"Forget it, anyway, there is an uncle watching that matter." The prince waved his hand, there were enough annoyances, why should he bother himself with more troubles.
Anyway, the position of the crown princess has been vacated for Xue Jinyi, and he will also clean up the East Palace first, and then Xue Jinyi will be able to enter the East Palace comfortably, wouldn't it be wonderful?
"It's going to be my guy in the end, and I'll have to be patient." The prince clenched his fists and made up his mind.
After Chen Jingyao learned the news, she continued to leisurely lean on the chaise longue and eat fresh fruits, "I hope that the day when the truth comes can catch up with Pan Fengyi's canonization ceremony." ”
At this time, the various forces in Beijing have their own arrangements, and the calm on the surface is still turbulent, just like the rolling Luojiang River outside the city.
Pu Yangxuan half-hung his head, smashed down with a hammer, and smashed it the red-hot iron, sparks flew in all directions, briefly illuminating his dirty face.
According to the confession of the captured strong man, he finally found the entrance to the cave under the rolling river, behind a clump of water weeds, extremely hidden, if it were not for the strong martial arts or people who knew the way, I am afraid that before they could find the entrance to the cave, they had already been entangled in the water weeds and drowned in the river.
Enter the entrance of the cave, swim for a while, suddenly see the fire on the water, find a hidden place, poke out of the water, you can see a heaven and earth, although the gate does not have a copper door, but there are several swordsmen guarding the sand, staring at the water, if there is any abnormal movement, it will shoot poisonous arrows, take people's lives.
This time, he couldn't kill the guards, so he had to hide in the water until they changed shifts.
The gap revealed by the shift change was very short, and he leaped to the top of the cave, and then with the help of his strength, he quietly swept into the cave before the new guards could stand still, standing between the two groups.
The previous guard walked deeper into the cave without looking back.
The new guard at the entrance of the cave looked at the water without blinking, and did not look back.
Pu Yangxuan quietly followed behind the guards and entered the depths, perhaps feeling that the hidden mysteries under the river were difficult for people to discover, or that the manufacturing mechanism was too labor-intensive and difficult, so the defense here was actually much more lax than that of the ancient city of the West Night.
At the end of this dark and narrow passage, a wider world appeared in front of him, and even people would think that the mountains by the river had been hollowed out by these people to build such a wide dungeon.
Compared to the ancient city of the West Night, it is a little shabby, and this is outside the capital, and those people don't dare to make a big battle if they want to come, so Puyang Xuan is not too surprised.
Faint rays of light fell through the cracks in the roof of the cave, there were countless caves on the stone walls, and the ground was used as a school yard and a place for forging weapons, and about two hundred people were busy, and countless things covered with oilcloths were piled up all around, and he casually opened a corner and saw that there was food that was easy to store underneath.
Pu Yangxuan hid in the shadows and observed for a while.
There are no archers on the stone walls here, only people who patrol every once in a while, which makes it much easier for him to do things.
He had a huge question - how would this large group of people leave the cave and launch a surprise attack on the capital?