The fourth prince looked at Long Chen, gently picked up the tea cup in front of him, poured a cup of tea for Long Chen, and chuckled:
"Brother Long is really a dragon among people. No matter what, your courage is admirable."
"Fourth Prince, you are so polite. I still don't know how you recognized me," Long Chen said.
He really wanted to know where he showed his flaws. He thought that his disguise would never go wrong.
"The so-called wise man will make mistakes. To be honest, I really didn't recognize Brother Long, but the ring on your hand reminded me of you. With your eyes, I recognized it." The fourth prince pointed at Long Chen's hand and said.
Then Long Chen suddenly realized that the space ring he was wearing was engraved with the unique patterns of the Alchemist Guild. He actually forgot such a big loophole.
"The Fourth Prince is really observant and admirable, but I really want to know why the Fourth Prince wants to help me?" Long Chen said.
"Haha, Brother Long may be a little unbelievable. Actually, I hate Xia Changfeng very much. No matter what, Chu Yao is also my sister. Although family affection is a luxury in the palace, there are still some in my heart.
Actually, I can't bear to marry Chu Yao to someone she doesn't like, but you also know that the royal family is like this, with only interests but no emotions. This is the helplessness born in the royal family.
I have advised the Empress Dowager several times, hoping that she could take back her life, but unfortunately there was no result. In the end, she angered the Empress Dowager and was driven out of the Palace of Supreme Harmony.
Today I recognized Brother Long to visit Chu Yao. I can see that you are sincere to Chu Yao, but my ability is limited, so there are only so many people who can help you," the fourth prince sighed.
"The Fourth Prince is polite. Long Chen remembers what happened today." Long Chen said. No matter what, he owed the Fourth Prince a favor today.
"In addition, I have also investigated the deduction of your Long family's salary, but after half of it, I can't continue to investigate, so I can't do anything about your Long family's affairs," said the fourth prince.
Long Chen frowned and asked, "Can the Fourth Prince mention Long?"
"This is a matter within the royal family after all, it is like a pool of muddy water, and there is also a scheming between my brothers and feet. I am really powerless," the fourth prince shook his head and said.
Long Chen's eyes lit up slightly. Although the Fourth Prince did not give a positive answer, it would be interesting to him deliberately mention the brothers and feet.
There are seven princes in total. In addition to the fourth prince, there are six people, and the seventh prince can also be directly excluded.
Then there are only the big, two, three, five, and sixth princes left. On the day of the Fengming Lantern Festival, Long Chen looked at these people carefully. Except for the eldest prince, they all looked like shrewd masters.
Then the suspicion pointed directly at the eldest prince. And at Huayun Auction that day, Long Chen recognized the murderer who killed Li Hao and silenced him, and all the evidence pointed out the direction.
"Thank you," Long Chen clasped his fists.
"Haha, I didn't say anything. I dare not be apologize for thanking me." The fourth prince smiled.
The fourth prince sighed again and said, "Sometimes, I envy you princes who are free and easy. Unlike us who are often involuntarily, we have to cater to people we don't like.
Now, Xia Changfeng returns to the Great Xia Empire ten days later to prepare for the marriage of Chu Yao. Although I wish I could beat him up, I had to send him a smile. This is the sorrow of being born in the royal family.”
"He will leave in ten days?" Long Chen asked calmly, but a harshness appeared in his eyes and was quickly suppressed by him.
The fourth prince seemed not to see the change in Long Chen's eyes, and he sipped his tea and said to himself: "Yes, he will go to Nanguan and take a shortcut to return to Daxia. After all, there are many things to prepare for the prince's wedding."
Long Chen nodded and secretly wrote down the matter. At the same time, a bold idea emerged in his mind. If he succeeded, Chu Yao's affairs would be solved.
The fourth prince chatted with Long Chen for a while before he politely sent Long Chen away. When the fourth prince returned again, there was an extra woman in the room.
The woman looked in her thirties, with a slender figure, full of luxurious atmosphere, giving people a sense of inviolability.
"You are doing something very dangerous," the woman said.
The fourth prince smiled slightly, picked up the teacup and took a sip and said, "Danger is risk, and high risk represents high reward. I think this is worth it.
If Long Chen fails, then he will become a corpse, which is beneficial to us. If it succeeds, I can make the next plan. Mom, you don’t have to worry.”
The woman was the mother of the fourth prince, the Queen of the Xigong of Fengming Empire. At this time, she shook her head and said, "I hope you know what you are doing? The reason why I married Fengming was with a mission. You and I need to remember it."
"Hmph, you were originally the Princess of Daxia. For this purpose, what about me? I was born as a chess piece?
They want to seize Fengming's country, want Xia Changfeng to rule the country, and then monopolize the treasure land. At that time, the credit will be theirs. Will we, mother and son, only become their tools? Why?"
The fourth prince suddenly roared with a pale face. Now he is like an exciting monster, and he will eat people at any time.
"Xia'er, I know you are not convinced. With your talent, you are not inferior to anyone, but this is fate." The Queen Mother of the West sighed helplessly.
"What life? Life is changed by people. My life must be controlled by myself. I don't want to be a puppet anymore. I want to become the emperor of this country." The fourth prince snorted coldly.
"This is impossible," said the Empress Xigong.
"Don't worry, I've planned it long ago. By the way, what's wrong with the Empress Dowager?" asked the fourth prince.
"She was hit by my soul-catching technique and could basically control it completely, but in case of prevention, she still adds 'material' every day." The Queen Mother said lightly.
"That's good. Now wait for good news from Long Chen. I hope he won't let me down." A smile appeared on the Fourth Prince's face, and he picked up the teacup in his hand and drank it all.
...
When Long Chen returned home, he saw several carriages parked at the door and was stunned. As soon as he entered the door, the butler told Long Chen that guests were coming to his house.
Long Chen was stunned. It seemed that no one had visited the Long family for several years. When did the guests appear?
Go straight to my mother's residence, and I saw my mother from afar and talked with a few people. When I saw Long Chen coming, I hurriedly said, "Chen'er, come here, I've seen your two concubines."
Among the few, there were two women, who looked a little older than their mother, so Long Chen had to call him Auntie.
"Haha, good boy, I've grown up so much in a flash. Hurry up, you guys have met your cousin quickly," a woman shouted to the people behind her.
Those people, three men and two women, looked a little older than Long Chen. A man said awkwardly: "Cousin, I have been missing for many years."
Long Chen nodded. He had an impression of this person. When he was a child, he was forced to shoot his toy and was bitten by Long Chen and cried and shouted.
Although he felt a little abrupt about the arrival of his mother's family, Long Chen didn't have much to say when he saw the smile on his mother's face, so he had to barely deal with it.
After those people had finished speaking, they stood up and said goodbye, Long Chen learned from his mother that they were here to apologize to his mother.
"Chen'er, our Long family was in crisis at the beginning, and my mother's family stood by and watched, and she really held a grudge in her heart.
However, this time they came, they told the whole story. In fact, they were also wronged. It was not that they didn’t want to help us, but they didn’t dare to.” Mrs. Long sighed.
"Now things have passed, and now you have become a noble alchemist, and our Long family has risen.
My mother is also open-minded. Let the past go over. I hope you don’t take it to heart, after all, they are my mother’s relatives.”
Long Chen sneered in his heart, "What dare you? The Long family was so depressed that they almost had no money to eat. What did they do?"
Even if you can't help it openly, it's very easy to help money secretly. To put it bluntly, it's hypocritical.
Now that Long Chen is rising, everyone knows the entire imperial capital, and he is also closely related to Master Yunqi. He dares to compete with Yinghou at the auction, which fully demonstrates Long Chen's dominance.
Long Chen used this method to tell everyone that the Long family was no longer the Long family of the past, and that no one could bully it if they wanted to bully it.
It was only then that I came to admit my mistake, which was clearly a villain who was attracted by the enemy. Although Long Chen despised himself, his mother had already forgiven them, and it was not convenient for him to care about anything more.
As long as your mother likes it, let her go. Living in the secular world requires enduring the secular way of dealing with the world.
Seeing that Long Chen was not so disgusted with his mother's family, Mrs. Long felt relieved. After all, no matter how resentful she was, she was her own relative. And after so many years of loneliness, Mrs. Long also longed for family affection.
After chatting with my mother for a while, my mother briefly asked about Long Chen’s recent situation. Long Chen explained vaguely that it was the one that reported good news but not bad news, which made Mrs. Long feel at ease.
After returning from his mother, Long Chen entered seclusion. He had been busy with things during this period and had never truly practiced with peace of mind.
Now he has an idea, which is to keep Xia Changfeng in the Fengming Empire forever, but Xia Changfeng will inevitably bring a lot of guards around him. He must be fully prepared and must kill this bastard this time.
However, since the tenth cyclone was condensed, he became increasingly confused about his path of cultivation, and he did not know how to promote blood coagulation in the Nine Star Body Art.
However, he has no way out now. Without his dantian, practicing the Nine Star Body Rule is his only way out.
Ten cyclones were running with all their might, and crazyly absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, like ten huge bellows, sucking the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the Fengfu Star.
Long Chen found that the efficiency of absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was more than ten times that of the past nine cyclones, which made him feel much more at ease.
Three days later, a loud bang in Long Chen's dantian made a sound. Long Chen looked at the eleventh cyclone condensed from the dantian, his face dull.
Long Chen had the urge to go crazy. When will this end be? If this continues, he will go crazy.
Just as Long Chen was about to go crazy for the Nine Star Body Rule, Baoer's voice came from outside the door.
"Young Master, someone is looking for it"
Chapter completed!