"Go back to the other courtyard and prepare some wine and food to entertain the young prince Chu!" Shangguan Zhou leaned on the soft pillow and ordered with a smile.
In addition to having an army of 300,000 men, Chu Yuanbai himself was also a powerful and useful figure.
If we can win that kid over, we can make up for our own losses in Northeast Xinjiang!
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This Chu Yuanbai had a feast with Shangguan Hongye at Feihe Tower. Before leaving, the shopkeeper and chef of Feihe Tower personally delivered three roasted fat koi.
Shangguan Hongye watched Chu Yuanbai happily carrying three wrapped fishes into the carriage.
He awkwardly waved his hands to the people in Feihe Tower who were speechless: "Okay, I'm going to embarrass you today."
The chef and the shopkeeper laughed together: "Serve the prince, that's what you should do."
I don’t know where the country bumpkin came from. He just roasted the good koi fish and lost it. What a sin!
Shangguan Hongye looked at Chu Yuanbai and asked expressionlessly: "Little prince, are you going back to the inn now?"
While admiring the grilled fish, Chu Yuanbai said with a smile: "No, I will go to His Royal Highness the Prince's villa, and he will invite me to dinner tonight."
Shangguan Hongye's face was slightly cold, and he looked at Chu Yuanbai calmly: "The young prince and His Highness the Crown Prince have a good relationship?"
His father told him to receive Chu Yuanbai, so Chu Yuanbai followed him around, but this young prince actually took the initiative to go to the prince's place for dinner and told him without hesitation?
Chu Yuanbai smelled the grilled fish and said casually: "It's not bad. He asked me for two bottles of courtship elixir, so he invited me to dinner."
Shangguan Hongye narrowed his phoenix eyes, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind: "Want for the elixir of love? That one you said you would sell for one tael of gold a bottle?"
When did his elder brother become interested in such nonsense? Isn't he the most self-respecting prince and disgusted with such witchcraft and evil talk?
Chu Yuanbai smiled and winked at him: "That's right, it's the secret medicine that you rejected, Brother Qin. It's very difficult to refine."
Shangguan Hongye looked at Chu Yuanbai and suddenly stopped talking. He just looked at him sharply.
Interestingly, this King of Xiao Jingnan is not at all as "simple" and "outspoken" as he appears on the surface. It is impossible for him not to know that he and the prince are mortal enemies.
But Chu Yuanbai dared to tell these 'little secrets' between him and the prince in front of him. Is he betraying his favor?
Is this person on the side of the prince or on his side, or... is he a speculator, planning to bet on both sides?
But with the 300,000 troops in the southwest alone, this guy is indeed qualified to be a fence-sitter.
Chu Yuanbai turned a blind eye to Shangguan Hongye's probing gaze. He just smiled and handed the roasted koi to Shangguan Hongye: "Brother Qin Wangye, do you want to try it? The roasted fish in the Central Plains also smells very fragrant!"
Shangguan Hongye said calmly: "No need."
Chu Yuanbai didn't take it seriously. When he arrived at the gate of the Prince's Courtyard, he happily jumped out of the car holding the roasted fish wrapped in paper: "Let's go, Brother Qin Wang!"
After saying that, he walked briskly into the Prince's Courtyard.
Ling Bo held the sword and asked Shangguan Hongye in a low voice: "Your Highness, this Xiao Jingnan King..."
"Find someone to keep an eye on Chu Yuanbai. This man is not simple. Find out what he wants to do when he comes to Beijing." Shangguan Hongye said coldly.
"Yes!" Ling Bo said.
…
The prince was about to take a lunch break when he suddenly heard King Xiao Jingnan coming, sent by Shangguan Hongye. He couldn't help but frown, but then he put on his clothes and went out to welcome him.
"My young prince, you are here early."
"Why, the prince didn't want me to come so early?" Chu Yuanbai smiled and threw the fish in his hand to the attendant beside the prince——
"Keep it well for me. I will take it to my sister to eat in the evening."
The prince was stunned, then ordered someone to serve tea in the living room, and said with a smile: "What are you talking about? I invite you, the savior, to come today. Firstly, I want to thank you for helping me get rid of the poison, and secondly, I want to thank you for the elixir.
"
Chu Yuanbai sat down with his legs crossed: "It seems that His Highness the Crown Prince tried the poison, does it work?"
The prince nodded and smiled: "It is indeed effective, but I wonder if this medicine will be found out?"
Chu Yuanbai yawned unceremoniously: "This kind of love poison is my specialty. As long as it hasn't happened yet, even the Holy Maiden of the Miao Territory who possesses the God of Gu won't be able to detect it."
The prince suddenly laughed: "The young prince is really amazing!"
"But..." Chu Yuanbai held his chin and said lazily: "Once an attack occurs, if someone knows about Gu, they may be discovered."
The prince's expression changed instantly: "What! That means, it is still possible for someone to find out!"
Chu Yuanbai spread his hands with an innocent face: "What you have done in this world will leave traces, doesn't the prince know?"
Seeing the prince's uncertain expression, Chu Yuanbai smiled again and said: "But your highness, you don't have to worry too much. Miao Jiang Gu masters should be very rare in the capital, so it can't be such a coincidence."
He took a sip of tea and continued slowly: "Besides, if someone can find out that you have cast a love charm on someone, then the person who discovered it will most likely be the murderer who cast the itch charm on you. You can just take this love charm away."
Has the murderer been caught?”
The prince's eyes were unpredictable, but he had to admit that Chu Yuanbai's words made sense.
Gu masters are wizard-level figures even in Miao territory and are not common, let alone in the capital city that is far away from Miao territory!
Whoever can discover that Xu Xiuyi is bewitched will most likely be the murderer who bewitched him!
If the murderer who bewitched him is caught, he can make good use of it and make a big fuss!
"Your Highness, wealth is gained through danger, and catching a thief requires risk. If you can catch the thief who bewitched you, you might be able to take this opportunity to frame the King of Qin for practicing witchcraft on you, and get rid of the King of Qin, killing two birds with one stone.
"Chu Yuanbai said with a smile.
The prince's face changed slightly. His thoughts and plans were revealed, which made him feel very uncomfortable for a moment.
"The young prince is joking. Gu and his fifth brother are of the same mind, how could they frame his own brother?" The prince drank tea to cover up the gloomy expression on his face.
Chu Yuanbai smiled incredulously and changed the topic: "Ah, Your Highness, is there a place to sleep here? I'm so sleepy!"
The prince put down the tea cup and told Eunuch Tang beside him: "Take the young prince to the best tavern to rest."
"Yes!" Eunuch Tang said immediately.
Seeing that Chu Yuanbai was about to leave with Eunuch Tang, the prince suddenly asked casually: "By the way, young prince, what should I do if someone wants to bewitch King Qin or my father and want to control them?"
Chu Yuanbai paused and said calmly: "To be able to control these big people with Gu, you must first be a Gu Miao wizard-level figure, and you must be prepared to die. Even if the poison is successful, there will be backlash.
It will also make Master Gu’s life worse than death!”
It is even more difficult to control people than to kill people, otherwise the Miao Kingdom would have dominated the Central Plains.
A look of disappointment suddenly appeared on the prince's face: "Is that so...then those love poisons you planted didn't have backlash?"
It seems that Chu Yuanbai cannot be allowed to control his father and the others.
Chu Yuanbai raised his eyebrows and said: "Who said there is no backlash? I don't give love poison easily. I have already suffered the backlash myself."
He paused and sighed: "But who made me fall in love with His Highness the Crown Prince at first sight and fall in love with him again? I can accept this pain myself!"
love at first sight?!
The prince's expression changed. Could it be that Chu Yuanbai had a habit of cutting off his sleeves?!
The prince's expression was ugly, but Chu Yuanbai smiled casually and said: "Business is not good, look at my mouth, I made a mistake, we just fell in love at first sight!"
After saying that, he glanced at the prince's face slyly and followed Eunuch Tang away with a smile.
When he arrived at the wing, Chu Yuanbai kicked off his shoes comfortably and fell lazily on the bed: "Ah, it's comfortable!"
Atai, his confidant who served him, sent Eunuch Tang away. When he came back, he couldn't help but ask worriedly -
"My young prince, why did you give those precious Love Gu to the Crown Prince and the King of Qin? If they use it once, you will be bitten and vomit blood!"
I actually sold one tael of gold to the King of Qin, but the King of Qin didn’t want it because he didn’t know the goods!
Chu Yuanbai was lying on the bed with his legs crossed and his head resting on his arm. His handsome face was calm: "Because the prince and the women of King Qin, one is Ming Yueying and the other is Ming Lanruo. They are the closest to the Xiao family."
people."
All the Xiao family members died more than 20 years ago, but Saint Aguna did not leave the capital and remained hidden in the capital for so many years.
That means there must be someone in the capital she cares about!
If Ming Lan is the legitimate granddaughter of the Xiao family, Ming Yueying, although not related by blood, can be considered half of the granddaughter of the Xiao family. Neither of them is over thirty years old.
Moreover, these two women are related to Saint Aguna and the Xiao family. The Gu God is not on these two women, but also on the people related to them.
News came to him - six months ago, a wealthy family in the suburbs of Beijing was suddenly invaded by insects.
The horrific case of the people inside being eaten up by bugs sounds like a method of controlling poison to kill people.
He made a special trip to that house to check it out, and sure enough he saw a lot of insect corpses. The most important thing was that he found out that the family's surname was Tan——
He is the biological brother of Qin, the wife of the Duke of Ming Dynasty.
Haha, this murder is related to the Ming family again.
There was also the itch poison on the prince... When he was tracking down the poison, he even encountered a counterattack from the opponent.
All these signs indicate that there must be a poison master lurking in the capital!
If you want to say that this master of poison has nothing to do with the Ming family or Saint Aguna, no one would believe it!
But whether it is Ming Yueying, the crown prince, or Ming Lanruo, the concubine Ming, they are both high-ranking princes and concubines.
He had no way to directly capture them and torture them to extract confessions like Aguna was tried.
Therefore, whether it is the Gu insects that are probing them, or luring the King of Qin and the Crown Prince to use the Love Gu, it is all to test Ming Lanruo and Ming Yueying in all aspects, and to find out the whereabouts of the Gu God!
"Love Gu is not a poison that can kill people. It's just an injury caused by the backlash. I can still bear it..." Chu Yuanbai paused.
He closed his eyes and smiled lazily: "And Ming Lanruo - Concubine Ming is a very interesting person. I like all interesting people in the world, hehe."
The blue pattern on his handsome face made his smile look even more mysterious.