The New Year's bell rang in the Yongcheng Palace, and the entire Gui Kingdom was filled with a festive atmosphere. Chi Chaan looked at Yong City at his feet from the mountain, feeling unhappy. Everything was so prosperous, but he was one step closer to death.
Chi Chaan took out the medicine bottle from his arms, poured out a dark pill and drank it. The burning sensation in my body subsided a little.
I am sixteen years old this year, and I have two years left. The effect of this elixir is getting smaller and smaller. Chi Chaan said in his heart, I want to find the old pharmacist as soon as possible and find a way to cure myself.
Early in the morning on the first day of the first lunar month, Chi Chaan got off the sword tower. Walking on the streets of Yongcheng, I was surrounded by red firecrackers and confetti that had not yet been swept away. Children dressed in new clothes went from house to house to pay New Year greetings, holding uneaten candies and candied haws in their hands.
"Boss, here are ten bunches of candied haws on a stick." Chi Chaan handed the boss a tael of silver, and then picked ten bunches of ruby-like candied haws on the grass gang.
Chi Chaan was eating and walking when a naive little girl who wished him New Year's greetings ran up and stood in front of him. Maybe it was because he looked like a rich boy in his plain white and clean clothes.
Chi Chuan handed her a bunch of candied haws, and then pinched her red face.
"Brother has no money, so I'll treat you to a bunch of candied haws."
"Thank you, brother." The little girl happily licked the candied haws.
The little girl got a bunch of candied haws, which immediately attracted the attention of the other children. They all gathered around Chi Chuan. The remaining eight candied haws were quickly distributed, and the children who didn't grab them left dejectedly.
After Chi Chaan finished eating the last candied haws, he also walked to his destination - a place he could call home - Yufangzhai.
Yufangzhai is closed seven days before and fifteen days after the new year.
Chi Chaan walked into this familiar place, and when the old manager who had been chatting with him saw him, he was so frightened that his hands loosened, the wine jar fell down, and the wine spilled on the floor.
"Young Master Fourteenth! Are you okay?" the old manager said in horror.
"Should I say he's not dead? Don't talk about such insignificant things. Where have all the family gone?" Chi Chao acted as if nothing happened.
"I set off back to Xiguo on New Year's Eve. The people who stayed in the house were all old people with limited mobility." The old supervisor replied.
"No wonder it happened that day." Chi Chaan went upstairs, "The leader of the assassins is from Gui. You can check whether there are any similar lurkers in Momen."
"Old slave, I would like to thank you for informing me." The old supervisor thanked me.
"Stop talking so much, send the summary of information about Guiguo compiled by Yue Momen to my room. I want to see who killed me and why."
"yes!"
Chi Chao flipped through the piles of papers on the table. The sum of the three or three pieces of information in the past month revealed the truth behind the assassination.
Prime Minister Zi Gui'an's Mansion and Nanling Prince's Mansion had a falling out.
At first Chitang didn't care about having another woman, but Prime Minister An decided to break off the engagement between Prince Ningling and Prince Nanling first, and only after An Ruoran and Chitang got married did he declare the divorce agreement invalid again. Therefore, An Ruoran is Chitang's legitimate wife, and Princess Shangqiu of Ningling Palace is her concubine. This made Guiqiu, the king of Ningling, unwilling, and Chi Tang was also unwilling. For this reason, they complained to the emperor and asked Emperor Gui to make a decision.
Emperor Gui was also unable to decide, and was afraid of causing disagreement between the two parties, so he postponed the discussion for a few days.
An Ruoran gave birth to a baby boy last month. If An Xiang gets the support of Emperor Gui, then the baby boy will be Chitang's eldest son and can inherit the title in the future. King Ningling was extremely angry and frantically ran to the Nanling Palace to do Chitang's ideological work. On the other hand, An Ruoran was born prematurely, which forced King Ningling to send someone to find out the truth about her premature birth.
Since marrying An Ruoran in the month after the soul enlightenment, Chitang has a lovely, innocent and emotional feeling for him. An Ruoran did a good job in fulfilling everything a wife should do, but Chitang knew that a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl knew that this would be too fake.
"Tang, listen to my uncle. There must be some clues about An Ruoran's premature birth." Guiqiu wanted to come to Chi Tang to "explain him hard."
Chitang sat calmly in the main seat of the high hall, fiddling with the teacup in his hand: "Are you done? Please leave when you're done."
"Xian son-in-law, what are you..." King Ningling felt very embarrassed.
"Uncle Qiu, don't make the family scandal public. You don't know that. I will think about it myself." Chi Tang sent King Ningling off directly.
King Ningling left disappointed.
Chitang walked into the side room, and An Ruoran gently rocked the hammock bed with his hand, coaxing the pink baby to sleep.
"Your Majesty," the maid waiting at the side greeted. She was a female envoy who had grown up with An Ruoran, so she married into the prince's palace, and Li Baitian agreed that she would stay and take care of the prince's wife.
"You step back first."
"Yes." The maid exited the room and gently closed the door.
An Ruoran stood up happily and said, "Brother Tang, you are here. Our boy just fell asleep. He is very good and fell asleep as soon as he was coaxed."
"Yeah." Chitang nodded.
An Ruoran stepped forward and hugged Chitang, lying on his chest intimately: "Brother Tang, have you decided what our son's name will be?"
"I haven't thought about it, you should have thought about it. Why don't you talk about it first."
"Ran'er hasn't thought about it yet. After all, Brother Tang is the father of the child." An Ruoran said shyly.
"In this case, let my father-in-law come and get it. After all, he is the prime minister of the dynasty, so he must be rich and knowledgeable. I also want him to come and meet his grandson."
"Okay, I'll send someone to notify father now."
Chitang met the kind-faced father-in-law in the living room.
"I heard that the prince asked me to name my grandson. I was very surprised." An Shi happily stroked his beard.
"Zhang Yue, what do you think the child should be named?" Chitang took a sip of tea first.
An Shi thought for a while and said, "It's better to let Chi An live in peace for the rest of his life."
"Are Nanling Prince's Palace and An Xiang's Palace combined into one family?" Chi Tang sneered, "An Xiang has such a good plan, I think it's better to call him An Changchi, and An Xiang's Palace controls my family!"
"What are you talking about, Your Majesty! Why do I, the An family, want to target your Nanling Palace?" An Shi was instantly unhappy.
"The picture is not the current Nanling Prince's Mansion, but the former Nanling Prince's Mansion, the Nanling Prince's Mansion when Chi Chaan replaced me. The Bloody Luo Xiujian is placed in the palace, my father-in-law, would you like to see if this grandson has my bloodline. "Chitang smashed the teacup on the wooden table and stood up suddenly.
"You..." An Shi wanted to explain, "Why did you listen to the rumors outside?"
"It's not just me who wants to know the answer, many people want to know, and I'm afraid His Majesty also wants to know!"
An Shi slumped on the chair, speechless for a moment.
"It seems to be true. If this matter is exposed, your Majesty's house may be raided by everyone in your prime minister's house. Do you want to give it a try?"
"Then, what do you want?" An Shining said weakly.
"The Prime Minister's Mansion sends 50,000 taels of gold every year. That bastard's biological father is killed by An Ruoran himself and the head is brought to me. Also, let her drown that bastard in front of my eyes. This way she still has Chance to stay with me as a concubine. If you don't want to choose this path, I will think of another path for you. I will report this to Emperor Gui. You will be thrown into the prison for deceiving the emperor, and the An family will cease to exist. I also divorced the woman and let her beg on the street."
Anjia compromised and became the laughing stock of Gui Kingdom.
"Haha, is this why you, An Shi, want to kill me?" Chi Chaan said sharply, "It seems that Gui Guo is about to change its prime minister."
Chi Chao was thinking about how to kill Anshi's plan. From his travel trajectory, protectors, hobbies, etc., he planted the seeds of murder step by step.
"There is a big wedding in Nanling Palace. If you go, you will be buried." Chi Chaan inserted daggers on the map of Yong City on the table.
