kill Qin Sheng

When the prince was healthy in his early years, he held the Eastern Palace completely in his hands, but now he is tired and unable to do what he wants.In just one day, two troublesome incidents popped up under his nose, both vaguely related to his younger brother Kang Wang.

Today coincides with the fifth day, so before dawn, Ren Xingluo got up in the morning to greet the prince, and the two had tea and chatted.Quickly got to the point.

The prince persuaded: "Don't get angry with the Qin family."

Ren Xingluo shook his head, "I haven't been angry with anyone recently."

The prince was helpless, and said: "Last night, the princess said that the East Palace was invaded by thieves, making it a mess. Did you hear that?"

Ren Xingluo remained calm, observing the Prince's expression, as if nothing had happened.Then he said, "What thief?"

"Say it's a lost agate vase."

"I'm afraid it was just the maid who smashed it, and lied about being stolen." Ren Xingluo pretended not to care, "What's wrong with stealing, what is the value of an agate flower? Or is there something inside?"

The prince sighed, "I think so too."

At this time, the maid said outside the door: "Your Highness, the time has come."

Ren Xingluo stood up and said: "Then I'll go back to the palace first, if something happens, brother will send someone to call me." After finishing speaking, he wrote the word "Qianshi" on the back of the prince's hand.Lips said: "I heard that they are dissatisfied with the Qin family."

The prince's face turned pale immediately, startled and frightened.He endured it again, pretended nothing had happened, and said, "then you go back." Then he ordered the maid to send King Kang out of the East Palace.

Ren Xingluo did not tell about Qin Sheng's appearance in the East Palace. He can be regarded as holding Qin Sheng's handle now, so his wealth and life are in danger, but he also got the opportunity to communicate with Qin Sheng. How could he let it go?

What's more, listening to the crown prince about this matter will not change anything, but it will only deepen the conflict between the Qin and Ren families.The Qin and Qian families had turned against each other, and the Qin family had monopolized so much power that the royal family had to make concessions. Everyone knew that there was no shortage of such things.

When the time came, the crown prince had to get ready for the morning court, but Ren Xingluo was an idle prince, and he didn't have a formal official position in the court. The early court had nothing to do with him, and he only heard second-hand news about all important affairs of the court after he woke up.It was the Prince's wish that he kept a low profile. On the one hand, he was in poor health, and on the other hand, he was afraid that the Qin family's anxiety would burn on Ren Xingluo.The emperor had only two sons and one daughter, and Ren Xingluo was the second, which was an embarrassing ranking.In recent years, the prince has been seriously ill several times, and the concubines have nothing to do. Many people have paid attention to Kang Wang Ren Xingluo in advance. got the abacus.Ren Xingluo scoffed at this, he just pretended that he didn't know what to do, and stayed in the palace day after day complaining of illness.

There is no order in the palace to forbid riding horses, Ren Xingluo has suffered this loss, now he has no choice but to walk honestly from the East Palace to the Donghua Gate, on the way he inevitably meets many officials who came to the early court.Eunuch Huang Liang said: "It happens to be the morning court time. It's rare for Your Highness to see so many civil and military officials coming on foot in one breath. They can't even handle the etiquette."

While bowing to the oncoming officials, Ren Xingluo mocked, "It's as if you don't have to salute."

The two of them were slowed down by the back-and-forth etiquette, and they moved slowly to the front of Donghua Gate, and were about to go out, when a small sedan chair for four people happened to be carried in outside the gate.The four bearers immediately stopped their sedan chairs to salute when they saw that the person was wearing royal clothes.The curtain of the copper-colored sedan chair was immediately lifted from the inside, and it was Qin Sheng who was ruthless last night and covered his face with palm marks.Ren Xingluo caught him off guard, was surprised and delighted at the same time, was about to open his mouth to call him Qin Sheng, but felt inappropriate.

Qin Sheng got down from the sedan chair, and he saw Kang Wangzhu in red clothes standing in front of the sedan chair. He glanced at Ren Xingluo's half-opened red lips and hesitant face.

He bowed and saluted expressionlessly: "Good morning, Your Highness."

Ren Xingluo bowed politely and said, "Morning, captain."

After each finished the etiquette, the two had nothing to say, Ren Xingluo walked, Qin Sheng got into the sedan chair, and left without a word.

Huang Liang sighed and said: "It's really a fire for a new official to take office. He just returned to Beijing a few days ago to appoint such an official position, and His Majesty even gave him a sedan chair to go to court... His Highness doesn't even have one."

Huang Liang's words made Ren Xingluo's teeth sore, he scolded: "Don't keep staring at these indifferent things."

"Sili is not something you don't care about, Your Highness."

"I mean the sedan chair."

In fact, what Huang Liang said was not unreasonable, the current emperor was weak and listened to Qin Xi, and he was especially merciful to the Qin clan.Qin Sheng was promoted to Si Li at such a young age, it was like a raging fire.But Ren Xingluo can't say this to anyone, and he still wants to scold Huang Liang for talking nonsense.

It was a bit too fast for Qin Sheng to reach this official position at his young age.This is not an ordinary position. The post of Captain Sili has a special position. He has the power to supervise and arrest all officials and princes in Gyeonggi. It can be said that he is the emperor's envoy.But Qin Sheng was hand-picked by the emperor, and even if his qualifications were a little lesser, others would not be able to intervene. After all, it was the Holy Majesty's will. Strictly speaking, Ren Xingluo is also the target of his surveillance.When he thought of this, his eyelids twitched suddenly—Qin Sheng was lurking in the other hall of the East Palace last night. Could it be that he used the East Palace birthday banquet to personally monitor Qian and the prince?

He also thought that if he broke through Qian's plan, he might mess up Qin Sheng's situation.

After leaving Donghua Gate, Ren Xingluo saw a large number of carriages and sedan chairs parked at the gate.Ren Xingluo's chariot was also left in front of Donghua Gate. At this moment there were only two bearers left. Seeing Ren Xingluo and Huang Liang coming, they greeted them happily: "Your Highness, are we going home?" Went to eat outside the palace.Ren Xingluo didn't say anything, he got into the sedan chair and took a rest.After a while, two other bearers came in a hurry, and the sedan chair shook and was lifted up.Huang Liang shouted: "Your Highness, shall we go back to the residence or go to the city to play?"

Ren Xingluo replied impatiently: "What are you playing, I'm sleepy."

It was quiet outside now, and Ren Xingluo was carried back to the palace unsteadily.It's only [-] o'clock now, so Ren Xing simply went back to sleep for a sleep.Because seeing Qin Sheng, his heart was in his stomach again, and he slept very soundly, as if he fell asleep with Qin Sheng in his arms.What Ren Xingluo feared the most these years was being thousands of miles away from Qin Sheng, looking at each other from a distance, and now the two of them could meet by chance in the morning, and he was very relieved.

When Huang Liang knocked on his door for the second time, Ren Xingluo didn't want to wake up.But I heard Huang Liang shouting at the top of his voice, "The fifth son of the Qin family sent someone to send a gift."Only then did he reluctantly get up, put on his normal clothes and go to the hall to meet the people from the Qin residence.

Ren Xingluo asked Shi Chen, and when he heard that it was Shen Shi, he was surprised and said, "Didn't he just leave the Yamen at this moment?"

Huang Liang shook his head to express his ignorance.He also said: "The fifth son of Qin is courteous for nothing, and he is either a rape or a thief!"

Ren Xingluo thought the same way, but he still defended Qin Sheng with duplicity: "Hey, don't talk nonsense."

The visitor from the Qin residence claimed to be the steward of the Qin residence, Meng He. He was short in stature, unremarkable in appearance, and dressed in dusty clothes. He didn't have the high-profile appearance of his masters in the capital.Ren Xingluo asked him to sit down and drink tea indifferently, but Meng He didn't sit down, but only bowed to Ren Xingluo, and said: "Fifth Young Master asked me to bring a word, he disturbed His Highness, it was an unintentional mistake, Your Highness please Don't blame him." Said the attendant took a box, Ren Xingluo didn't answer, just let Huang Liang open the box.

Ren Xingluo sat on the red sandalwood chair, resting his chin to watch Huang Liang carefully bring out Qin Sheng's apology - a blood-red agate flower vase!There was a flash of light in his heart, and the blood on his face immediately faded away.

Didn't Donggong just lose an agate flower vase and make a big fuss?Qin Sheng sent flowers and said not to blame, Ren Xingluo thought about it, and realized that Qin Sheng used him to beat Qian.

Ren Xingluo thought to himself that Qin Sheng was extremely hateful, his appearance was inconsistent, he seemed to be a stranger when they met in the morning, but now he is using him as a pawn.Ren Xingluo twitched the corner of his mouth, and smiled angrily, "What a Qin Sheng, it's really interesting. Manager Meng, please tell him that I accepted this gift. But since you want to apologize, don't ask others to come. He will take a rest for a few days, and ask him to come and see me in person." He was provoked by Qin Sheng, and suddenly he was a little out of breath, and suddenly coughed sickly.Seeing this, Huang Liang hurriedly patted his chest to ease his breath.

Meng He stared at the sickly King Kang with embarrassment on his face, but he excused the fifth son of his family, "This...Your Highness, the fifth son wanted to come here today to make amends, but he has been really busy these days..."

Ren Xingluo slapped the teacup in his hand on the table, and said with a sneer, "I know what he's busy with. Since Qin Sheng is so busy, why don't you ask the pastry chef in the capital to pinch one of his sugar figurines and send them to the palace. It can be considered that he has been here, and this matter will not be pursued, how about it?"

This meant that Qin Sheng was just a person made out of sugar water, Huang Liang's face shuddered when he heard it, and he didn't dare to think about what would happen if it was spread out.He cast a sideways glance at the furious King Kang, and put on the skin of a peacemaker again, persuading him, "Your Highness, don't be angry. The new lieutenant has only been in office for a few days, so he must be busy." Of course, he didn't say anything Mention the agate flower arrangement thing.

Meng He apologized again and again, "Your Highness, calm down! I will definitely take His Highness's words with me."

"Go," Ren Xingluo drank the new oolong tea served by the maid, "I like sweets, put more sugar, don't make me wait too long."

Meng He took his attendants to plead guilty and left, Huang Liang drove the maid away, and then said: "Your Highness, why bother with the Qin family? It's just an annoyance."

Ren Xingluo said: "He doesn't bother me, so why should I get angry with him? Qin Sheng provoked me with the East Palace matter."

Huang Liang rolled his eyes, and asked in a low voice, "What does Qin Sheng mean by sending this agate flower?"

"On the day I lived in the East Palace, the Prince's residence lost a flower vase, saying that he suspected there was a thief, and then he swallowed the matter. He was probably laughing at me for disturbing Qing Jing." Ren Xingluo said angrily. , but I thought in my heart that everyone knew about the oolong in the East Palace—Kang Kang stayed in the East Palace for only one night, and the princess lost her things and searched them wantonly. Everyone laughed when he said it.Of course, no one suspected that Kang Wang was a thief, but he just mocked the concubine of the Eastern Palace for making a fuss and his uncle and sister-in-law's disagreement.People with broken mouths thought that the princess couldn't tolerate this little uncle, and even threw a vase to embarrass him. How many people actually know the truth?The Crown Princess couldn't tolerate King Kang, but it was because he had heard something he shouldn't have heard.Flower arrangements are no more than a pretext for a search.And Qin Sheng's gift of flower arrangement was to use this as a warning to Qian, saying that he had heard it too—he must have known about Qian's changes in advance when he went to the East Palace that night, and wanted to inquire again, but was caught by Ren Xingluo. disrupted plans.

He wouldn't tell Huang Liang about this kind of secret.His Prince Kang's Mansion has been mixed with a lot of meticulous work, there are air leaks everywhere, and the walls have ears. What Ren Xingluo said today, will be sent to the palace the next day. It can be seen that the Palace is just a sieve, everything can come in, and everything can go out.As time went by, he didn't say anything, just kept it in his heart.

"Oh." Huang Liang sighed meaningfully, "I thought Fifth Young Master Qin was so bold that he stole the flower arrangement..."

Ren Xingluo sneered, "If Qin Sheng has the ability to be such a thief, Sima Qin may not be able to sleep at night."