"Your Highness Prince Xiang, it's getting late. We can't stay here any longer." Fang Zilan felt calm and firm when she heard her own voice. She stood up slowly, her face as calm as water. Prince Xiang was stunned for a moment. From the emotional breakdown just now to the calm and indifferent attitude now, he seemed to be two completely different people.
"Shangguanyun will send someone to look for His Highness soon. The roads in the mountains are dangerous and densely forested. It will be an excellent opportunity for him." Fang Zilan turned around, pursed the corners of his mouth slightly, and looked a little more serious in his eyes.
King Xiang smiled slightly. He naturally knew what opportunity Fang Zilan was talking about. Shangguan Yun used his excuse to send troops into the mountain. It was difficult to distinguish people in the mountain. When the enemy was indistinguishable from us, it was understandable that he would kill by mistake.
Seeing Prince Xiang smiling, Fang Zilan was a little puzzled, "Why is His Highness Prince Xiang smiling?" "You are not an ordinary soldier." Fang Zilan was startled for a moment by the faint words, but soon she raised the corner of her mouth and said, "If I were just Ordinary soldiers are afraid that His Highness King Xiang is no longer here just now."
"Let's go." King Xiang didn't say much and walked straight towards a certain direction in the mountains. Fang Zilan followed closely behind him, but there were more and more doubts in his heart.
She originally thought that Prince Xiang would get to the bottom of it, but he didn't ask any more questions. Moreover, his steps were firm and strong without any hesitation, which meant that he had prepared for where they were going. Since you have already prepared, why should you cooperate with Shangguan Yun in a play?
Prince Xiang suddenly stopped, and Fang Zilan stopped not far behind him. He looked at the surroundings carefully and said calmly, "It seems that His Highness Prince Xiang has been prepared for it, but I was overly worried."
The place where King Xiang took her to stop seemed to be an ordinary corner of the mountain, but in fact there was a cave. Behind the vegetation and gravel, there was a cave.
Wenyan King Xiang didn't say anything, he just took out a fire stick and lit it, and walked in first. Fang Zilan followed him into the cave, and then covered the entrance of the cave. When she turned around, she realized that although the cave was simple, it was fully equipped with household items and was clean and tidy. It seemed like it was cleaned frequently.
"I asked my subordinates to pack this out for emergencies." King Xiang explained simply, and Fang Zilan nodded slightly, "Now we just need to wait for your subordinate to find us, right? "Not bad." King Xiang responded, and then waved for Fang Zilan to come and sit down.
Fang Zilan sat opposite King Xiang, watching King Xiang boil water and make tea. She looked elegant and content, not like a person who had just experienced life and death.
"Your Highness is so kind." Fang Zilan picked up the tea in front of him, and the fragrance of the tea filled his nose, "West Sea Biluochun." "You are not bad either." King Xiang glanced at the person in front of him approvingly and took a sip of tea, "It's still early , how about we talk to relieve our fatigue?"
"What does Your Highness want to say?" Fang Zilan put down the tea cup in her hand and looked at the person in front of her intently. The candlelight in the cave was dim, and she could not clearly see the expression in Prince Xiang's eyes.
"I have some questions I would like to ask." Prince Xiang went straight to the point without any politeness, "Of course I also know that there are some questions you won't answer me."
"Your Highness already knows that I won't answer, so why bother to ask more questions?" Fang Zilan responded while thinking in her heart about what Prince Xiang wanted to know.
"I won't embarrass you, so you just need to listen." Prince Xiang's lips curled up slightly, "If I'm right, you don't have to speak. If I'm wrong, you just need to say no." .”
Fang Zilan sighed secretly. Prince Xiang had already reached this point, so he couldn't tolerate her rejection, so he nodded subconsciously. Seeing her agreement, King Xiang said leisurely, "Are you from the Zhuge family?"
"No." Fang Zilan denied it simply and neatly, which made Prince Xiang stunned for a moment and did not speak for a long time.
For a long time, just when Fang Zilan thought he didn't want to ask anymore, she heard him speak again, "Are you a girl?" This time it was Fang Zilan's turn to be silent. She thought she had concealed it well, but how did Prince Xiang see it? of?
"You're seriously injured. You're safe here but you didn't take off your clothes and apply medicine. If you don't have marks on your body for fear of me recognizing it, it can only mean that you are a woman." Prince Xiang explained unhurriedly, " It seems I guessed it right this time."
Fang Zilan didn't answer, but she was more appreciative of Prince Xiang in her heart, "His Royal Highness, if you have any other guesses, you might as well tell them all."
"When I was assassinated in Beijing at the beginning of this year, someone came to rescue me. In March, when I was ambushed on the way to Qingzhou for inspection, there were also people who secretly protected me. These people are from the same family as you, right?" King Xiang said this very well. Slowly, every word seemed to have been carefully considered over and over again, but Fang Zilan could only continue to remain silent.
The two of them were speechless for a while, with only the sound of the tea-making fire sizzling around them. Prince Xiang slowly poured more tea for the two of them and said calmly: "My question has been answered, now it's your turn."
"His Highness has been prepared for a long time, but he still wants to cooperate with Shangguan Yun in a play. He just wants to see what they are planning. Shangguan Yun only brought a few thousand reinforcements, which means that the Huangfu family can no longer trust him, right?" Fang Zilan After blurting out these words, when he reacted, he heard the voice of King Xiang, "What if Shangguan Yun brings a large number of reinforcements?"
"Then the Huangfu family is still trustworthy, but His Highness will not cooperate with Shangguan Yun in this drama, but will go directly into the mountains." Fang Zilan answered matter-of-factly while quickly sorting out the relationships in her memory.
The Huangfu family is also one of the nine great princes, and is located in the northern border. Earlier, there were rumors in the capital that the Huangfu family had been trying to protect King Xiang, but King Xiang was trapped in the Wind River Valley but refused to send troops to rescue him. Instead, he colluded with Shangguan Yun and sent only a few thousand troops, which shows that his heart is not with King Xiang. .
Speaking of this, Fang Zilan frowned slightly. When the troops were ordered before, the two generals on the high platform were Shangguan Yun and Huangfulin. This name appeared in her mind without any warning, but it was unmistakable. .
King Xiang looked at the people in front of him who were thinking about something with great interest, and spoke again, "If there are a large number of reinforcements, it means that the Huangfu family is trustworthy, why should I go directly into the mountain instead of going back with Shangguan Yun?"
"Because the leader is not General Huangfu, but Shangguan Yun. He has a lot of troops, but His Highness doesn't have many people available. He can always find an opportunity to kill His Highness." Fang Zilan felt a little thirsty as she said it, and took it casually. He drank the tea cup in front of him in one gulp, "Among all the civil and military officials in this dynasty, the one whom Your Highness cannot trust the most, besides Prime Minister Fang Chongzheng, is the Shangguan family, right?"
"The Huangfu family is not completely untrustworthy, but they are just hesitant." King Xiang said, adding another cup of tea for Fang Zilan, "As for Fang Chongzheng and the Shangguan family, I really can't trust them."
"Princess Xiang's surname is Fang." Fang Zilan suddenly interrupted, but Prince Xiang chuckled, "So what?"
Prince Xiang spoke calmly, as if he was talking about an unrelated person. Fang Zilan couldn't help being stunned when she saw this. Princess Xiang was Fang Ziqin, the eldest daughter of Prime Minister Fang Chongzheng, who was also her sister.
Although according to the original memory of this body, the entire Fang family was very alienated from her, she could not completely ignore it. However, King Xiang was very cold-hearted when talking about his princess. The saying that the Tian family is ruthless is indeed true.
Fang Zilan sighed lightly, "His Royal Highness Prince Xiang is indeed the future Lord of the World. The word "lonely person" suits His Highness very well."
"You said this, are you not afraid that I will punish you?" Although Prince Xiang said this, there was no displeasure on his face, but Fang Zilan's expression darkened, "For Your Highness, I still have Take advantage of it, Your Highness will not do anything to me."
"You are quite transparent." There was no emotion in Prince Xiang's tone, but Fang Zilan felt sour in her heart. It seemed that she was not transparent, but just didn't care.
No matter how everyone in the world has nothing to do with her, her heart is only connected to one person. But who is that person in this heart? Fang Zilan thought silently, but couldn't figure out any clue.
King Xiang saw her frowning and keeping silent, so he couldn't help but asked: "What are you thinking about?" "It's nothing, just some old things." Fang Zilan passed it by casually, but King Xiang was thoughtful, " Is it related to the Fang family?"
"I really can't hide anything from Your Highness." There was a hint of helplessness in Fang Zilan's voice, but more of it was calm, "I'm just curious about what grudges there are between His Highness and the Fang family, so that His Highness married the Fang family. My daughter, but you still can’t believe it?”
King Xiang was surprised when he heard this, "Everyone in the world knows it, but you don't know it?" Everyone in the world knows it? Fang Zilan knew she had made a mistake, but after searching in her mind for a long time, she couldn't find the reason, so she had to nod her head obediently.
"Then do you know Yuning King Ji Ningtian?" Prince Xiang frowned slightly. Fang Zilan was stunned and did not respond. The words Ji Ningtian were like a needle piercing her heart, making her breathless in pain. .
"My father, the orphan of the previous dynasty when the late emperor conquered the world, is King Yuning Ji Ningtian. My father also let him keep his old surname, still Ji..." "So King Yuning He is the only prince with a foreign surname in this dynasty." Fang Zilan muttered to himself, interrupting Prince Xiang's words, "And Fang Chongzheng is not only the founding hero who brought the late emperor to Beijing, but also an old minister of the previous dynasty."
"So although the late emperor promised Fang Chongzheng the position of prime minister, he did not use it seriously." Prince Xiang did not mind Fang Zilan's interruption and continued following her words, "Such a person cannot be trusted at all."
"What's more, in order to show his loyalty, he even broke King Yuning's legs with his own hands. Such a cruel and ruthless person cannot be trusted." Fang Zilan's voice became lower and lower, "His Highness will marry Fang Ziqin, it is just a matter of expediency. This is just a plan to make the Queen Mother and the other princes feel at ease, right?"
"It doesn't matter who I marry, it's just..." Prince Xiang paused as he spoke, then a smile escaped from his lips, "This world will eventually be mine."
Fang Zilan stared blankly at the person in front of him. The confidence in his eyes was almost arrogant, but he was so fierce that it was irresistible and made people admire him. Perhaps that's what it means to dominate the world. Fang Zilan sighed secretly, it was just a pity.
What's a pity? At that time, Fang Zilan was still not sure what the emotions that occasionally surged into her heart meant. It wasn't until she found out later that she realized that everything had already been decided. She realized it too late.
