"Perhaps His Majesty has not found a suitable heir." Su Shi seemed a little hesitant: "After all, with Crown Prince Zhuyu in front of him, your Majesty's other princes seem to have difficulty taking on important responsibilities compared to the Crown Prince."
"Can you convince yourself of this reason?"
"No." Su Shi said dejectedly: "This is what I can't figure out the most. The prince has been dead for ten years, and His Majesty already knew his fate. Why would the prince's position be vacant for ten years?"
Qin Nan said in a voice that only Su Shi could hear: "Now your Majesty knows that Pei Xuan wants to use the hand of fate to bring trouble to Daqian, and the position of supreme is the root cause. It is impossible for your Majesty not to know, and I really can't figure out why your Majesty still wants to stay." This hidden danger?"
Su Shi's expression suddenly changed: "Could it be that His Majesty has already decided on the candidate for the crown prince?"
Qin Nan shook his head: "If His Majesty has already decided on the candidate for the crown prince, the court should have become bloody. But now the court is still calm, and Your Majesty does not seem to have any intention to change."
Su Shi pondered: "This is indeed strange."
At this time, Qin Nan's expression suddenly became a little hesitant. He was about to speak, but seemed to have some concerns and closed his mouth again.
Seeing this, Su Shi hurriedly said: "There are only two of us now, do you have any worries?" Then he said distressedly: "Now my thoughts are in chaos, and it is difficult to calm down. I know you are smart, so Only then will I tell you everything, just hoping you can give me some inspiration."
Seeing that he was sincerely asking for advice, Qin Nan finally said softly: "Could it be that your Majesty has never thought about establishing a prince?"
"Why?" Su Shi looked at her doubtfully: "Your Majesty does not establish a crown prince, and the consequences will be self-evident. It is impossible for him not to know this."
"The prerequisite for causing chaos is that His Majesty dies and the throne becomes vacant. What if none of this happens?"
"Pei Xuan once told the prince how to change his destiny. Will he also propose to His Majesty a way to change his destiny against heaven?"
Su Shi looked at Qin Nan in astonishment and couldn't figure out why she had such strange thoughts.
"If I hadn't exposed the truth about the prince's death, your majesty might still believe Pei Xun, but now that he knows that the prince died due to Pei Xun's life-changing method, your majesty, he wouldn't be so stupid as to be fooled."
Qin Nan couldn't help but roll her eyes at him: "If you continue to speak so openly, I'm afraid your life will be lost on this mouth."
Su Shi didn't care at all: "It's just a matter of urgency."
Then he said solemnly: "But you reminded me that Pei Xun must have told His Majesty the method of changing his fate. Before the truth of the prince's death was revealed, Your Majesty should have no doubt about Pei Xun's method of changing his fate. , that’s why the current situation has emerged.”
Qin Nan gently shook his head again: "But this still cannot explain why His Majesty did not establish a crown prince or even took any action after learning about Pei Xun's conspiracy."
After some discussion, the matter returned to its original point. Su Shi walked around in the study, racking his brain and still had no clue.
As Qin Nan analyzed, Zhou Yi's behavior is indeed incomprehensible and unpredictable.
"Is there a possibility?" Qin Nan said softly at this time.
Su Shi stopped: "What's possible?"
"Is it possible that until now, His Majesty still has no doubts about Pei Xun's method of changing his fate?"
Su Shi shook his head like a rattle: "Impossible. With the prince's past mistakes, even if your majesty believed in Pei Xun's words before, how could he make the same mistake again?"
Qin Nan didn't refute him. She looked out the window with her pretty eyes and murmured to herself: "But I don't know what the life-changing method Pei Xun gave to your majesty is?"
"His Majesty didn't reveal it. He thought it was ridiculous and couldn't say it out loud."
Qin Nan did not continue to struggle with this issue, but she remembered another thing and couldn't help but ask: "Why does Pei Xun think that the prince's death is not that simple?"
Su Shi smiled bitterly: "Why do you have to ask me questions that I can't answer?" He thought for a while and continued: "Before he died, Pei Xun personally admitted that the prince died due to his plot, and he did not shirk the blame. I don’t know why he would say that to the deacon.”
Qin Nan suddenly changed the subject: "I remember you once said that the method designed by Pei Xun to kill Bai Jingchao may not be successful even if it is used ten thousand times."
"Yes." Although Su Shi didn't understand why she mentioned Bai Jingchao, he couldn't help but sigh: "I used to think that God's will is a very vague existence, but after the Bai Jingchao incident, I can't say anything, I can only sigh. God willing."
Qin Nan said quietly: "But without King Qi's visit that day, Bai Jingchao would not have died. In this case, who is the cause of Bai Jingchao's death, Pei Xun? Or King Qi?"
Su Shi was silent for a moment because he realized that Qin Nan seemed to have something in his words. After a long time, he suddenly looked shocked, looked at her in surprise, and said with difficulty: "Do you think the death of the prince is similar to that of Bai Jingchao?"
Qin Nan immediately said: "Pei Xun's plan seems to be perfect, but the prince is deep in the palace, and his actions cannot be under his control."
"So you think the prince's death, like Bai Jingchao's, may have been caused by a series of accidents?"
Qin Nan seemed to have thought of something at this moment, and a hint of fear suddenly appeared in her eyes. However, she kept looking out the window, so Su Shi didn't notice anything unusual in her eyes.
Qin Nan then calmed down, and when she turned her head to look at Su Shi again, her eyes returned to normal.
"Have you ever thought about investigating what happened the night the prince died?" Qin Nan said softly: "I have a hunch that there seems to be some mysterious relationship between the death of the prince ten years ago and the current situation in Daqian. .”
Although Su Shi didn't know why Qin Nan felt this way, a woman's intuition was generally very accurate, especially a smart woman.
"But ten years have passed since the incident, and the person who served the prince at that time was also convicted and accompanied the prince because of this incident. Where else can we find clues?"
"You seem to have forgotten someone?"
"who?"
"The Crown Princess." Qin Nan said: "As the person who sleeps with the Crown Prince, the Crown Princess should know more than others."
Hearing Qin Nan's words, Su Shi was slightly startled. He really had not thought about going to the Crown Princess to find out what happened back then.
Because in his opinion, the affair between Zhou Xuan and Hui Niang should be a past event that the princess did not want to recall, and Su Shi was not willing to expose the scars in front of others.
So he pondered: "Even if it is found out that the prince's death was caused by some accident, it seems to be of little benefit to solving the current problem."
At this time, Qin Nan's eyes showed that deep fear again, and she said slowly: "What if the death of the prince was not caused by an accident?"
