King Shangguan Hongye of Qin took a sip of the tea she poured and suddenly smiled.
"Lan Ruo, you have to have a plan when you lie. Qiantose, the palm print of Dongchang, will never let you get involved in Dongchang's affairs even if he loves you."
Ming Lanruo paused because she was negligent. Although Shangguan Hongye didn't understand the true relationship between Cang Qiao and her.
But he knew the emperor very well, and Cang Qiao, as Dongchang, must be thorough - the "lone minister" would never be involved with any force.
How could an "outsider" like her who was not involved in the matter be allowed to intervene in Dongchang affairs?
"I heard that Master Qiansui has gone into seclusion to refine elixirs for his father. Today, you came to Que'er Hutong alone?" King Qin looked at her with a smile.
But there was a strong murderous intention hidden in that hearty smile.
For a moment, a chilling silence filled the air.
She squeezed the cup slightly, her mind spinning rapidly.
She came alone, which was just convenient for him to kill her. No one knew that King Qin was Tan Zhi, the piano master. As long as her body was destroyed and her traces were wiped out, not even Dongchang could do anything to him.
The restaurant seemed empty, with the drinkers and girls sleeping in the room.
But she knows better than anyone that this place is full of secret rooms and secret passages extending in all directions, all of which hide dead warriors holding sharp blades.
If she answers a wrong word next time, she will be cut into pieces.
Ming Lanruo narrowed her eyes, as if helpless: "Your Highness is indeed smart. I just overheard the information received by my uncle, but if I don't use the name of Dongchang, how can I join forces with you to deal with the prince?"
King Qin was startled, raised his eyebrows and laughed: "Hahaha, I remember clearly that he and you cooperated tacitly in Chunming Palace, which caused my mother to lose the right to command the Sixth Palace, and made this palace become a person with no real power.
Idle people.”
He suddenly approached Ming Lanruo and held her chin: "Now, you said you want to deal with him?"
Ming Lanruo's chin was pinched so hard that it hurt, and he did not hide the cold murderous look in his eyes.
She looked directly into his red phoenix eyes: "Yes, because I can't bear to see my father being deceived by a hypocrite like the prince."
King Qin was stunned and narrowed his eyes: "Tell me."
Ming Lanruo said: "The prince plans to take advantage of my father's disaster relief work to frame him, and then he will take action to turn the tide in exchange for my father's complete support for him."
To the King of Qin, who is a cunning and ruthless power wielder, he must tell nine percent truth and one percent lie.
In fact, the prince had no intention of taking action to turn the tide, and only asked the bandits to spare the life of his crippled father.
But she couldn't tell the whole truth.
Shangguan Hongye naturally knew that although Ming Guogong married his daughter to the prince, the group of civil servants led by him did not side with the prince unconditionally.
Therefore, Ming Lanruo's words are very convincing.
but……
"Why don't you ask Jiu Qiansui to take action?" Shangguan Hongye asked suspiciously.
Ming Lanruo sighed: "Because my father hates nine thousand years old the most. If my uncle takes action, my father might directly join the prince's camp!"
"Your Highness doesn't want to see my father completely defecting to the prince, right?" Ming Lanruo threw out the bait.
Shangguan Hongye narrowed his eyes: "The whole capital knows that you have been expelled from the Ming family. Are you trying to take the opportunity to return to the Ming family after deposing your second sister, the Crown Princess?"
Ming Lanruo nodded: "Yes, for you, showing your face in front of my father can also make the prince fail. For me, I can use the opportunity of saving my father's errand to return to the Ming family."
People like Shangguan Hongye will only trust people who are as ambitious or have ulterior motives as him.
So, she might as well give him a reason to trust her.
Shangguan Hongye stared at her for a long time before letting go of his hand holding her chin: "What are you going to do?"
If Ming Lanruo knew, it was because Shangguan Hongye believed her.
"His Royal Highness the King of Qin has taken off his errands anyway and is idle. Why not send someone to the northeast to mess with His Highness the Crown Prince's wishful thinking?" Ming Lanruo smiled and suddenly held his hand.
Shangguan Hongye looked at the beautiful woman in front of him with very clear features, and held his hand with a smile on his red lips.
His eyes moved slightly and he looked affectionate: "Lan Ruo, I knew you couldn't forget me...ah!!"
The next moment, he couldn't help but jerked his wrist back and screamed in pain.
Ming Lanruo slowly wiped off the tiny bits of skin and blood on her nails with a handkerchief: "Why do you men always like to pinch people's chins? It hurts, do you know?"
"You...!" Shangguan Hongye looked at the scarlet bloodstains on the back of his hand that were severely dug by nails, murderous intent flashed in his eyes.
But he still suppressed his anger and gestured to the killers who were about to rush out to retreat.
Ming Lanruo stood up and said calmly: "King Qin will think about it carefully. At the latest, you will send someone out tomorrow."
Shangguan Hongye sneered unwillingly: "Aren't you afraid that I, the king, will kill your father as well?"
Ming Lanruo looked at Shangguan Hongye as if he were a fool: "Do you think that after my father is dead, your people or you will be able to get the support of the civilian officials in North Korea and China?"
Why did the prince just cut off his father's legs but not kill him?
It's because even if his father is dead, no one can be as responsive as his father in the civil service, so he still needs his father to be alive for the time being.
It's not that Shangguan Hongye didn't know this truth, but he was momentarily angry at Ming Lanruo's threat to him and blurted out the harsh words.
At this moment, being ridiculed by Ming Lanruo, his face became even more ugly: "Ming Lanruo..."
Ming Lanruo smiled slightly: "You don't have to be angry. My father is alive and will not harm you at all. If you think about it, send someone to mourn the prince's palace tonight."
After saying that, she gave King Qin a blessing and said, "Farewell."
Looking at Ming Lanruo's retreating figure, Shangguan Hongye narrowed his eyes dangerously.
"Your Highness King Qin, what the eldest lady of the Ming family said makes sense." A middle-aged male voice sounded slightly dry and hoarse.
Shangguan Hongye sat down, his handsome face calmed down: "Mr. Bai, sit down."
A man who looked like a middle-aged scholar walked in from the next room, sat down and started making tea——
"Ming Guogong is the head of the Hanlin Academy. If he is alive, the prince will not be able to gain support from the civil servants beyond him. If he dies, the civil servants will each look for their own master. This will give the prince an opportunity to cultivate his own power."
Shangguan Hongye sneered: "Both my mother's family and I were born as military commanders, so they are not as popular among civil servants as my hypocritical and literary eldest brother."
But my father was suspicious. After he stopped fighting, he had already lost his military power.
And those civil servants were sharp-tongued and very influential. He couldn't let them completely defect to Shangguan Zhou!
But asking him to listen to that dead girl Ming Lan Ruo made him so unhappy that he wanted to kill someone.
Mr. Bai looked at his lord's gloomy expression and suddenly touched the beard at the corner of his lips and said quietly: "Actually, your people can completely expose that it was His Highness the Crown Prince who sent people to attack the Duke. In that case, you are not only the benefactor who saved him
,and……"
"Moreover, from now on, Duke Ming will be afraid of and even hate the prince! Mr. Bai is worthy of being the number one counselor around me, hahaha!" Shangguan Hongye's eyes flashed with light, and he patted Mr. Bai on the shoulder and laughed.
Mr. Bai asked with a smile: "Your Highness has made a decision in his heart, so do you need to send a message to the eldest lady of the Ming family tonight for you?"
"Let's do it. We will select the best from the government to go to the Northeast tonight. We can't let Duke Ming fall into anyone's hands and protect him!" Shangguan Hongye looked at the boiling purple clay teapot and felt much better.
"Yes!" Mr. Bai bowed.
Shangguan Hongye suddenly asked again: "Can the hard life of being married to a dead man, giving birth alone, and being imprisoned for four years make a stupid woman become scheming?"
When did Ming Lanruo, a woman who was full of love and love and focused on herself, become like this?
Mr. Bai was stunned and realized that he was referring to the eldest lady of the Ming family, the current Princess Mourning.
He pondered for a while: "This... big change may stimulate people's mental growth."
Shangguan Hongye elegantly picked up the teapot and poured tea for Mr. Bai: "Anyway, this woman looks much more interesting than before. If used properly, she will be a very useful knife."
…
It's night, at the Prince's Mansion.
Ming Lanruo stood under the eaves wearing a rabbit velvet and blue satin cloak, watching the servants hang up the new palace lanterns one by one.
"The Queen Mother asked the people from the Palace Affairs Department to send a lot of new furniture, and the old slaves have registered them all one by one." Grandma Wang stood aside holding the account book respectfully.
She has changed into a new green and brown Fulu fine cotton long coat, and has sterling silver beads on her hair, making her look like a housekeeper.
"That is the grace of the empress. Show it all. I will go to the palace tomorrow to thank you." Ming Lanruo rubbed the gilt hand warmer in his hand and sighed softly.
The emperor didn't like her and wouldn't take care of her even if he knew it. Only the Queen Mother was willing to take care of her.
Grandma Wang hesitated for a while, then muttered: "One more thing, Princess... the envelope of two hundred taels of silver sent by the Palace Affairs Secretary was used to pay the monthly payment that Grandma Zhang owed to the servant. There is not much left.
, but we still need some more manpower."
Ming Lanruo took the two thousand silver notes from her sleeve and gave it to Grandma Wang: "I borrowed this. The expenses of the house will be taken from this silver first, and then some clean servants will be bought. Loyalty is
The most important thing."
There were only seven or eight slaves in Prince Mourning's Mansion. After she asked Yazifa to sell off the old slaves who were with Nanny Zhang, there were only four people left in the huge palace.
Grandma Wang carefully collected the money and said, "Don't worry, I understand."
Ming Lanruo explained again: "By the way, someone will come to the door tonight. No matter who it is, the message must be sent to me as soon as possible."
Grandma Wang immediately nodded: "Old slave, I will go and guard the door right now."
When Ming Lanruo returned to her room, Tingting had already prepared hot water and put in the medicinal ingredients that Ming Lanruo had prepared herself.
The room was filled with the fragrance of herbs. Ming Lanruo sat in the tub, put the towel on her head in a good mood, closed her eyes and leaned against the tub.
As long as Shangguan Hongye still thinks she is valuable, he will definitely agree to her request and must do his best to protect her father.
The warm steam came up, dyeing her delicate and creamy white skin a seductive pink color.
The door suddenly opened with a "squeak" sound.
A bit of cold wind blew in. Ming Lanruo closed her eyes and said lazily: "Tingting, close the door. It won't be good if the medicinal energy dissipates."
The door was then closed properly.
Ming Lanruo's long hair, which was placed outside the barrel, was carefully held up. A green sandalwood comb was dipped in osmanthus oil, and was combed bit by bit starting from her scalp, massaging the acupoints soothingly.
She closed her eyes and raised her hand softly and lazily to gently support the other person's wrist: "It turns out that Tingting also knows acupoint massage."
But the next moment, she suddenly tried her best to drag the other person's hand into the water with her backhand.
"No matter who you are, you'd better not move around. This water and steam contain Miaojiang poison. If you can't get out of this door, you will die!" She opened her eyes coldly.
The moment the other person's fingers touched her scalp, she knew that the person coming was definitely not Tingting!
"Haha... I don't know when my niece became a master of poison." A magnetic but unpredictable laughter sounded behind her ears.
Ming Lanruo's eyes suddenly opened slightly, and his scalp exploded.
Her face flushed, and she instinctively sank into the bathtub, raising her hand to cover the whiteness of her chest with a handkerchief.
But the next moment, Cang Qiao held her wrist back with her backhand, and the veil she was wearing to cover her body fell into his hand.
Ming Lanruo froze and could only hurriedly raise her hands to hug her chest.
He dipped the handkerchief in water, wiped her slender white shoulders gently, and then calmly said: "What are you hiding from? Have we not seen anything on you?"
Ming Lanruo froze, biting her lip in shame and embarrassment: "Don't do this..."
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