What a wonderful use of the words Xu Ying!
He came earlier with Tao Zhu today because he had to apologize to Xu Ying. He really didn't know how to face Xu Ying a few days ago. He himself had never caused his friends around him to suffer such hardship.
But as Meng Yue said, Xu Ying doesn't blame him.
Xu Ying's original words are: You can't just take advantage of him as the number one scholar. You have to shoulder the difficulties together. There is no good thing in the world that only takes advantage of him and does not pay for it.
Xu Ying's words really made him feel a lot better.
This is a true friend.
A group of people drank at Shen Hua and Xu Ying's house from morning to afternoon before returning home happily.
Meng Yue followed Li Qiao back to Li's house, and after entering Li Qiao's study, he told Li Qiao what the seventh prince had said yesterday.
After hearing this, Li Qiao's first reaction was to ask: "He himself is not interested in that position, but he wants us to help him. Is he helping others to seize the throne?"
Meng Yue nodded with a heavy face: "I thought about it carefully last night, and there is no other possibility except this. Unless he lies."
"...You shouldn't be lying, right?"
Li Qiao blinked his eyes.
After all, Meng Yue was the Seventh Prince's pillow.
Moreover, it makes sense that the seventh prince is of the wrong gender and does not have that ambition.
"Then who is he helping to plan? He and his brothers are not close."
Meng Yue still had a heavy look on her face.
Originally, the Seventh Prince was very busy with the Ministry of Punishments every day, but who knew that the Seventh Prince was still secretly trying to seize the throne for others!
Why doesn't this make him feel distressed?
He felt so distressed. The Seventh Prince's weak shoulders were carrying too many heavy burdens!
"Exclude the eldest prince first."
Li Qiao couldn't help but analyze.
"The eldest prince is in poor health. He stays in the mansion all year round and lives in seclusion. I still don't know what the eldest prince looks like."
"How can such a eldest prince become an emperor? He simply cannot handle so many government affairs and take care of everything on a day-to-day basis."
Meng Yue nodded, he thought so too.
He hasn't met the eldest prince either.
“Next is the fifth prince.
Li Qiao ruled out the second prince.
In the Taiji Palace, the seventh prince did not spare any respect for the fifth prince. This could not be an act.
What kind of reward would it take for the fifth prince to choose the role of a clown and accompany him in such a play?
Therefore, the fifth prince must be excluded.
"The remaining second prince, third prince, fourth prince, sixth prince..." Li Qiao frowned: "With the temperament of the seventh prince, he will definitely not understand the behavior of the third prince, and he will not support the third prince."
"Yes, the third prince is not worthy."
Meng Yue nodded fiercely.
The performance of the third prince when he went south to provide disaster relief was enough to kick him out. The third prince was busy wooing local officials and letting the seventh prince, a weak little brother, run around the disaster area.
The third prince is not worthy!
"The second prince is not capable enough. The seventh prince will not assist an elder brother who is not as good as him, right?"
Li Qiao said again.
"It's not that bad." Meng Yue nodded again.
The seventh prince is actually very proud, so the second prince is not worthy of the seventh prince's careful planning.
"Then only the fourth prince and the sixth prince are left. Are the seventh prince and these two princes close?" Li Qiao looked at Meng Yue.
"Hmm..." Meng Yue thought about it carefully and shook her head: "I never heard him mention the fourth prince and the sixth prince."
"However, in terms of ability, I feel that the seventh prince is stronger. The fourth prince is in the Ministry of War, and the sixth prince is in the Ministry of Industry. These two princes have not heard of any particularly powerful deeds, but how good the seventh prince is in trying cases, I saw it with my own eyes.”
Li Qiao: "..."
Meng Yue's filter for the Seventh Prince is really thick.
But this cannot be wrong. He has been paying attention to the fourth prince and the sixth prince for a while. There is no useless deeds in these two princes. If they are not useless, they will definitely be qualified to handle the affairs of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry. This shows that they handle affairs. The basic ability is enough.
But the two princes have not yet demonstrated their more outstanding abilities.
There was no war in Da Sheng, so the fourth prince naturally couldn't do much in the Ministry of War.
As for the Ministry of Industry, the recent Grand Canal issue is considered the biggest issue of the Ministry of Industry. However, the Grand Canal has not yet been built. The Sixth Prince who previously determined the best route has not been out of Beijing for on-site inspections. Therefore, the Sixth Prince has not shown any outstanding achievements. ability.
So the question is, which prince is the seventh prince helping to plan?
Moreover, who was responsible for the seventh prince’s injury last time?
With the status of the seventh prince, the person opposite must have a high status.
And the night between the Seventh Prince and Meng Yue, the Seventh Prince was probably drugged, so the Seventh Prince was plotted against again.
It had only been three years since he came to Shengjing, but the seventh prince had been in danger twice. The seventh prince went to dangerous places in person and fought so hard. Who was this for?
Who deserves this from the Seventh Prince?
After discussing with Meng Yue, Li Qiao could only suppress the matter. The seventh prince asked him not to get close to any prince except himself, and then he withstood the frame-up of the third prince and the fifth prince. In this case, he would follow the instructions The seventh prince did what he said.
This was his daily routine.
He had wanted to get close to the fourth and sixth princes before, but now, since he was not sure who the seventh prince was fighting for, he had better not contact people randomly, so as not to cause trouble to the seventh prince.
After Meng Yue left, it was dark again.
After dinner, Zheng Qianqian shouted to play cards.
This New Year, because of Xu Ying's incident, he had not touched mahjong or playing cards for several days. Now that Xu Ying was promoted, he could finally play.
Taking advantage of the Chinese New Year, the store's business hours are short and there are many people at home, so he wants to have a good time.
Li Qiao also went to the card table this time, and he also played casually to see his luck.
This night, he was lucky. When Zheng Qianqian left with Li Xiaorui and Li Dashan, there was already a small pile of copper coins in front of him.
His family played this game for only one penny per game. The money was small, but he couldn't stop him from winning all the time. Tao Zhu sat at the table, counted the pile of copper coins, and couldn't help laughing: "A total of one hundred and fifty-eight coins."
Li Xia also laughed: "Uncle Qiao won all the money tonight."
"He plays less, but every time he plays he gets lucky."
Tao Zhu said as he pushed the small pile of copper coins in front of Li Xia: "You can take the flowers and buy some food and fun."
"Okay, thank you Uncle Zhu and Uncle Qiao."
Li Xia happily put away these copper plates.
He doesn't want to spend it, he has to save it. It's not easy to settle down in the capital. If he buys a house, he won't have much money in his hand.
He needs to save more.
He guarded the two cubs, waiting for Li Qiao and Tao Zhu to come over after washing, and then left with the copper plates strung together.
Li Qiao took a bath and didn't bother to wipe his wet hair. He stood in front of the kang. He first held the sleeping fat friends Li Changfeng and Li Yunfan in his arms, rubbed them, and then kissed their fat faces. , and then reluctantly put the two of them down.
I focused on playing cards tonight and did not have any parent-child interaction with the two cubs.
After tossing the two children, he went to mess with Tao Zhu. Anyway, he was still on vacation, so he could sleep until midnight tomorrow.
However, he held back his strength tonight and did not torment Tao Zhu too hard. He had something to discuss with Tao Zhu.
He wanted to hear Brother Zhu's opinion.
Tao Zhu lay weakly in Li Qiao's arms. After Li Qiao wiped his body, he didn't want to put on clothes, so he lay in Li Qiao's arms without any clothes on.
Like Li Qiao, he likes this kind of direct skin-to-skin contact. Although it is easy for the gun to misfire, he and Li Qiao will be closer this way, without the obstruction of clothing in between. That kind of temperature, that kind of touch, he They all like it very much.
Unfortunately, since we had two little cubs, this situation rarely happened.
Although the little boy is too young to realize it, when he becomes a father or father, he must pay attention to his propriety in front of his children.
But it was precisely because he liked it but couldn't do it often, so although he was a little helpless at this time, he still touched and pinched Li Qiao's body here and there, while he was distracted to listen to Li Qiao's words.
After listening, he thought for a while and couldn't help but ask: "So, the fourth prince and the sixth prince are the most suspicious now?"
"...It's not a suspicion, it's a possibility."
Li Qiao didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Suspect, these two words are too unpleasant to hear.
"Okay, maybe." Tao Zhu immediately changed his mind: "However, the seventh prince is the younger brother. If he is assisting someone, then the prince should know his true gender, right?"
Li Qiao: "..."
He paused and held Tao Zhu's hand that was touching his heart: "You should know."
"Knowing that a little brother of the Seventh Prince is often in danger, this brother is too unqualified."
Tao Zhu couldn't help but condemn.
The seventh prince is such a good person, but if he hadn't gone out to clear the snow that time, the seventh prince might have really died.
If Da Sheng lost the seventh prince, how many innocent people would be wronged, and he and Li Qiao would have no backers.
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and he couldn't help but added: "This is unfair. The seventh prince fought hard for this brother through thick and thin, but this brother sat in the back and watched the seventh prince for him. Planning, how did this brother become a master?"
"If it were you, if you had a younger brother like the Seventh Prince, would you be willing to let him go?"
"...I don't want to give it up."
Li Qiao said softly.
"So the seventh prince is a bit miserable. He is willing to sacrifice for his elder brother, but this elder brother can't tolerate him."
Tao Zhu said again.
