The fourth prince walked away with a blue face. When the door was closed again, Tang Ning turned around and asked, "Brother, will the fourth prince believe our obvious provocation?"
Xiao Yan said: "No."
Tang Ning frowned: "Then why did brother say those things..." Since he knew it, why did he deliberately sow discord between the queen and the fourth prince just now?
Xiao Yan said: "What I want is that he doesn't believe it."
Tang Ning was confused by what he said.
Xiao Yan laughed: "Only if you don't believe it, he will enter the palace."
Tang Ning tilted her head: "Brother, do you want the fourth prince to meet the queen?"
"No, just let him enter the palace."
Tang Ning's mind became more and more confused when she heard this. Xiao Yan only smiled and had no intention of explaining. She could only ask: "Then will he agree to investigate the Lu family's affairs?"
"meeting."
Tang Ning frowned. Although she cooperated with Xiao Yan to stimulate the fourth prince, the fourth prince was not an idiot.
If others had said this, the Fourth Prince might have believed it, but Xiao Yan had been fighting with the Lu family for a long time. She also had a grudge against the Lu family. If they suddenly came to the Fourth Prince, everyone would suspect that they were taking advantage of him. How could the prince have no doubts?
Besides, that was his maternal family and the fourth prince's biggest support in the court. How could he destroy the Lu family with his own hands?
Xiao Yan saw the little girl meditating with a grimace, and was not in a hurry to explain to her. He just held the tea cup and skimmed off the foam on it, looked at her with a smile and said.
"Would you like to make a bet with me? I bet that he will be back within half an hour."
Tang Ning was instantly alert: "Don't gamble!"
She stared at Xiao Yan, holding the cup in her hand with round eyes: "Bet with brother, I'm not stupid."
Xiao Yan laughed: "So alert?"
Tang Ning glanced at him. Nonsense. The person in front of her had so many holes in her eyes. She always took one step at a time and looked at ten steps. All the things she knew were "stealed" from him and followed his example. That's going to break your own foot.
"Brother must have a back-up elsewhere, forcing the Fourth Prince to come back to look for you. I'm not that stupid!"
Xiao Yan couldn't help laughing when he heard her muttering in a low voice, shook his head and sighed: "It's hard to fool Xiao Haitang."
Tang Ning rolled her eyes at him.
Xiao Yan teased her: "Do you want to know why the fourth prince came back?"
"In no mood!"
Tang Ning took the white jade hibiscus cake and took a bite. She didn't want to be fooled. Every time her brother spoke like this, she had to be teased by him.
"I think for myself!"
…
After coming out of Hengting Pavilion, the fourth prince's face looked very ugly, not only because of the Lu family's troubles, but also because of Xiao Yan.
"Your Highness, will Xiao Yan really help you?" Cheng Ping, the personal attendant of the Fourth Prince's Mansion, asked in a low voice.
"He helped me?" The fourth prince sneered coldly: "Then you don't know who Xiao Yan is?"
How could a person who was so ruthless and ruthless and used all means to climb to a high position interfere in the affairs between the princes just for the sake of a so-called favor?
"Xiao Yan may have really talked about the Lu family's affairs with his mother, but it was not for the so-called favor of Song Tangning, but because he wanted his mother to take action against the Lu family. He likes to benefit from it, but she doesn't know why. If you do it, he wants to borrow my hand."
The Fourth Prince was a little impulsive, but he was not an innocent young man who grew up in a wealthy family. He couldn't understand why the Queen concealed the affairs of the Lu family and Prince Cheng from him, but he never doubted that Queen Lu was interested in His love.
He is the queen's only son and her only support. No matter what she thinks, she will never help outsiders to harm him.
"Then Your Highness just..."
"If I didn't pretend to have a quarrel with my mother and make Xiao Yan think that the provocation was successful, how could I find out what his purpose was today."
"Then your Majesty... could it be that it's also Xiao Yan?"
The fourth prince shook his head: "Father, it is probably true."
Xiao Yan was unscrupulous in his actions, but he was extremely loyal to his father. Moreover, it was too easy to expose the false transmission of imperial edicts, so Xiao Yan would never let such information into his hands.
The incident between King Cheng and the Lu family should be true. I am afraid that Xie Yin is indeed a member of the Lu family. His father asked him to investigate this matter. He not only wanted to cause the Lu family the pain of being betrayed by their loved ones, but also wanted to end it. His relationship with the Lu family cut off his and his mother's greatest reliance in the court...
Cheng Ping's face showed some worry: "Then what will your Highness do now? Are you going to the Lu family?"
"Don't go to the Lu family yet."
For a moment, he was a little unsure about how to treat the Lu family. He couldn't bear to ruin the Lu family, but he didn't dare to lose his holy will from his father.
The fourth prince pondered for a moment before saying, "Go to the palace and see your mother."
He had to ask his mother what her plans were.
Cheng Ping nodded and said nothing more. He just drove the carriage over and drove the fourth prince to the palace.
The closest thing to the palace from Hengting Pavilion was Feng'an Street. The carriage arrived at the busy city. There were more people around, and vendors occupied both sides. Occasionally, pedestrians blocked the road, and the carriage was forced to slow down.
"What's going on?" The fourth prince opened the curtain.
Cheng Ping said in a low voice: "There is a market ahead of us, and today we have another market. There are a lot of people."
"Go another way."
"yes."
The fourth prince looked a little irritable. Just when he was about to lower the car curtain, he suddenly saw two figures from the corner of his eye. He was stunned for a moment and quickly patted the car wall: "Wait a minute!"
"Your Highness?"
Cheng Ping hurriedly grabbed the reins, turned around and was about to ask, when he saw his master looking in the distance with an ugly expression. When he followed the fourth prince's gaze and looked over, he was suddenly shocked.
"The second prince..."
The second prince had a dispute with them before, and Xiao Yan left after being disgraced. He thought he had gone back to his mansion, but he didn't expect to see anyone here.
The second prince is fine, but the person next to him...
Cheng Ping couldn't help but his eyes widened: "Your Highness, how come Lord Feng is with the second prince?"
That was Feng Qiuli, the head of the Feng family.
The aristocratic family has been supporting His Highness the Fourth Prince all these years. Even if the Lu family fell, there are still others. But now the head of the Feng family is with the second prince. Cheng Ping only feels uneasy in his heart. Is it the aristocratic family that betrayed His Highness, or is there someone else in the Feng family? Looking for its owner?
Seeing the second prince and Feng Qiuli entering the Zhenbao Pavilion on the opposite street, Cheng Ping asked in a low voice: "Your Highness, do you want me to go take a look?"
The fourth prince tightened his grip on the car curtain, and when he was about to speak, he saw another familiar figure appearing outside the Treasure Pavilion.
The person was wearing the clothes of an ordinary maidservant. Some of the loose clothes could not hide her exquisite figure. She lowered her head and arrived in front of the Treasure Pavilion. She looked around first and then walked in quickly.
The car curtain in the fourth prince's hand tore open with a "clatter", and veins bulged on the back of his hand.
Cheng Ping opened his mouth wide: "Aunt Bai?!"
This is not a beauty that His Highness has just taken into his room. She is very fond of His Highness because of her gentle temperament and her talent. However, she pretends to be a servant, sneaking around, and even goes with the Second Prince and Feng Qiuli. Entering the Treasure Pavilion...
Cheng Ping's face turned pale.
Aunt Bai didn't stay long after entering the Zhenbao Pavilion. When she came out, she lowered her head and walked around the busy city into the alley. She had a slight smile on her face and a brocade box in her hand. She was obviously in a good mood and just turned around at the end of the alley. Looking up, all the smiles on his face suddenly froze.
After drinking tea, Aunt Bai, who was covered in blood, was carried into the carriage in a coma.
The fourth prince looked at the blood stains dragged out of the car, his expression was extremely cold, and he felt even more ridiculous.
Lu family.
It’s actually the Lu family!
He originally thought that Aunt Bai was the second son's spy and that the Feng family had betrayed him, but he never thought that she was actually from Lu Chongyuan. She was a woman from the Lu family who changed her name and infiltrated into his house. She did not please anyone for surveillance. I just want to get a royal person with the blood of the Lu family.
While Lu Chongyuan contacted the second prince, he wanted to find a way out for the Lu family. At the same time, he had people give him medicine, hoping to leave his bloodline. After giving birth to an heir, he would leave the father and leave the son...
The Lu family has already given up on him! !
The fourth prince felt extremely chilled, and the bright sunshine outside could not dispel the chill in his body.
"Your Highness..." Cheng Ping looked worried.
The fourth prince's eyes were filled with murderous intent: "Go back to Hengting Pavilion and see Xiao Yan!"
He made an appointment with Song Tangning and should not have left yet.
