Seeing Huo Qi's extremely serious look, Song Huan relaxed and nodded with a smile.
"Why are you still so stubborn now!"
"Okay, I promise you!"
After receiving Song Huan's affirmative reply, Huo Qi seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.
"By the way, Your Highness, there is something else I want to tell you."
"Actually, this subordinate shouldn't have said anything about it. If he did, it would be equivalent to crossing the line."
"But... after much thought, I still feel that I should tell you!"
Looking at Huo Qi's heavy face, Song Huan had a vague hunch that what he said must have something to do with Emperor Liang.
"I don't want you to cross the line, so you don't have to say it clearly."
"Even if you don't tell me, I won't blame you!"
Huo Qi raised his head and looked at Song Huan with a lot of confusion and shock in his eyes.
Shouldn't a prince with such a high position put his own interests first in everything?
Song Huan's words further strengthened Huo Qi's idea of telling the truth.
"actually……"
"Actually, His Majesty sent his subordinates to you in the first place so that he could monitor your every word and deed and report everything to Your Majesty."
"Including what you do every day, what you ask your subordinates to do..."
These words had been stored in Huo Qi's mind for a long time. Unexpectedly, the moment the truth was revealed, Huo Qi could not help but become nervous.
Although all these were orders from Emperor Liang, he was just following orders.
But he still carefully looked at Song Huan's face, lest Song Huan would be angry with him!
However, what he didn't expect was that Song Huan was much calmer than he imagined.
"Is this what you want to say?"
"This king has already known about this matter."
Huo Qi rarely showed an expression of disbelief on his face. This time when he heard Song Huan's answer, his eyes widened in surprise.
"Your Highness, you already knew this?"
Song Huan looked up at Huo Qi and laughed softly.
"Obviously, isn't it obvious?"
"What kind of existence is the Shadow Guard? He is elusive and omnipotent!"
"Only the emperor deserves to have such a guard!"
"At that time, I was just a low-ranking prince. Because of my dazzling performance, I gained some favor from my father."
"But if you want to truly have the power to dispatch shadow guards at will, I'm afraid I'm still far away!"
"Father, I just want to see if there is an expert behind me to guide me."
Unexpectedly, Song Huan could analyze it so thoroughly, Huo Qi couldn't help but be stunned.
Song Huan paused briefly and continued: "Although I know that my father sent you here to monitor and control."
"But I, Wang Yi, will use you to reassure my father that I am not smart enough to guess his intentions."
"Many of the things I asked you to do before are also tasks within a reasonable range and are not considered excessive!"
"Only in this way can my father completely feel at ease with me."
Saying that, Song Huan raised his head and glanced at Huo Qi.
"It's just that later, when I trusted you more and more, I gradually asked you to do other things."
"I know what kind of person you are, so even if you don't say these things to me, I will not be suspicious of you!"
Huo Qizheng was in shock. After hearing Song Huan's words, he couldn't help but be even more surprised.
But Song Huan's trust in him still made him feel grateful.
"His Majesty has been feeling ill lately, and he has become much more sentimental than before."
"If His Majesty's dragon body continues to be in bad condition, I'm afraid some people will have other ideas!"
Huo Qi rarely mentioned court affairs in front of Song Huan, so if he suddenly mentioned it today, it would definitely not be out of nowhere.
Song Huan naturally understood Huo Qian's intention and nodded: "So during the period when the king is away, the shadow guards are even more needed to protect the safety of the father's dragon body."
"My father cares about the family relationship between father and son, and will no longer be too defensive about the prince from now on."
"But it is inevitable that some people will be ambitious."
"So, we have to guard against it!"
Huo Qi also looked solemn and nodded along with Song Huan.
The two stood side by side and looked out the window. Outside the window, the north wind howled and the biting cold wind blew tirelessly.
It seems like it's getting cold again.
…
When he woke up the next morning, as soon as he opened the door to the dormitory, Song Huan was almost blinded by the white snow on the ground.
It snowed heavily in the second half of the night, and overnight, the sky and the earth were covered in snow and white.
There are several young maids in the palace who are already chattering about having a snowball fight.
But seeing the thick snow on the ground, Song Huan felt a little headache.
I was about to go on a business trip to Anning, why did it suddenly snow so heavily?
Anning Mountain is high and the road is far away. If it snows and the roads are difficult to travel, I don’t know how many days it will take to get there!
At this moment, Song Huan's nostalgia for airplanes and high-speed rail has reached its peak.
Song Huan still changed his clothes and went to court as usual, and the court hall was extremely lively today.
As soon as we arrived outside the Hall of Supreme Harmony, we could hear the endless discussions among the courtiers inside.
"Have you heard? Have you all heard?"
"Sun Shutong is gone!"
"Gone?! Isn't he crazy? Why is it gone?"
"It seems that I accidentally knocked over the candlestick and burned myself alive!"
"It is said that when they were found, they had been burned alive into black coals!"
"Good fellow! The dignified minister actually burned himself to death at home. Isn't this too shocking?"
"Who made his house haunted? I heard that the Sun Mansion was haunted every day some time ago, and many of the servants couldn't bear it and ran away!"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, it's so scary..."
"It snowed so heavily in the middle of the night yesterday, but it couldn't put out the fire in Sun Mansion?"
"The fire in Sun Mansion is burning so fiercely that even if it rains heavily, it may not be able to put it out!"
"Perhaps I did something that was punished by God and ended up like this..."
"I heard, just heard! Back then, a woman died tragically at the gate of Prince Rong's mansion. It seems that he did it to frame Prince Rong!"
"No wonder I'm haunted by female ghosts every night. It turns out that I did such a shameful thing..."
"Anyone who commits unjust acts will be punished by his own death. This is the kind of person he is talking about!"
"Okay, okay, just say a few words less! So as not to be haunted by Sun Shutong's ghost again!"
"Yes, yes! No intention to discuss, the bad luck is gone..."
Song Huan listened to the discussion of these people and found it very funny.
Of those who can stand in the court, how many of them have clean hands and can see the light?
Everyone is just half-measured, making a fool of himself at fifty steps and a hundred steps at a time!
