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 truly a dragon among men. No matter what, your courage is admirable."
"Fourth Prince, you are too polite. I still don't know how you recognized me," Long Chen said.
He really wanted to know where he had betrayed himself, and he believed that his disguise technique was absolutely infallible.
"As the saying goes, a wise man will always make mistakes. To be honest, I really didn't recognize Brother Long. But the ring on your hand reminded me of you. Plus your eyes, I finally recognized him.
"The fourth prince pointed at Long Chen's hand.
Long Chen suddenly realized that the space ring he was wearing was engraved with the unique pattern of the Alchemist Guild, and he had actually forgotten 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 not believe it when I say it. In fact, I hate Xia Changfeng. Anyway, Chu Yao is also my sister. Although in the palace, family affection is a luxury, but in my heart, there is still some
Some.
In fact, I can't bear Chu Yao marrying someone she doesn't like, but you also know that the royal family is like this, only interests and no emotions. This is the helplessness of being born in the royal family.
I have made suggestions to the Queen Mother several times, hoping that she could take back her life, but unfortunately to no avail. In the end, I offended the Queen Mother and was kicked out of the Palace of Supreme Harmony.
Today I recognized Brother Long and came to visit Chu Yao. I can see that you are sincere to Chu Yao, but my ability is limited and I can only help you so much." The fourth prince sighed.
"The fourth prince is too polite. Long Chen will remember what happened today." Long Chen said, no matter what, he owed the fourth prince a favor today.
"In addition, I have also investigated the matter of your Long family's salary being withheld, but I couldn't continue the investigation halfway through, so I can't do anything about your Long family's affairs," the fourth prince said.
Long Chen frowned and asked, "Can the Fourth Prince give some advice to Mr. Long?"
"This, after all, is an internal matter within the royal family. It is like a pool of muddy water. There is also intrigue among the siblings. I really can't do anything about it." The fourth prince shook his head and said.
Long Chen's eyes lit up slightly. Although the fourth prince did not answer directly, he deliberately mentioned the relationship between siblings, which was somewhat interesting.
There are seven princes in total. In addition to the fourth prince, there are six others. The seventh prince can also be excluded directly.
Then only the eldest, second, third, fifth and sixth princes were left. On the day of the Fengming Lantern Festival, Long Chen was in the audience and looked at these people carefully. Except for the eldest prince, none of them looked like shrewd masters.
Then the suspicion pointed directly at the eldest prince, and that day at Huayun Auction House, Long Chen recognized the murderer who killed Li Hao, and all the evidence pointed the way.
"Thank you very much" Long Chen said with a fist in his hand.
"Haha, I didn't say anything. I don't dare to accept your thanks," the fourth prince said with a smile.
The fourth prince sighed again and said: "Sometimes, I envy you princes, who can be free and easy, unlike us who are often unable to help ourselves and have to cater to people we clearly don't like.
No, Xia Changfeng returned to the Daxia Empire ten days later to prepare for marrying Chu Yao. Although I wanted to beat him up, I had to send him off with a smile. This is the sadness of being born into the royal family."
"He will leave in ten days?" Long Chen asked calmly, but there was a fierce look in his eyes, which he quickly suppressed.
The fourth prince seemed not to notice the change in Long Chen's eyes. He took a sip of tea and said to himself: "Yes, he will take a shortcut back to Daxia via Nanguan. 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 came to his mind. If he succeeded, Chu Yao's matter would be solved.
The fourth prince chatted with Long Chen for a while, and then politely sent Long Chen away. When the fourth prince returned again, there was an additional woman in the room.
The woman looked to be in her thirties, with a slender figure and a luxurious aura, giving people an awe-inspiring and inviolable feeling.
"You are doing something very dangerous," the woman said.
The fourth prince smiled slightly, picked up the tea cup and took a sip and said: "Danger is risk, and high risk means high reward. I think it is worth it.
If Long Chen fails, then he will become a corpse, which is beneficial to us. If he succeeds, I can make the next plan. Mom, you don’t have to worry."
That woman was the mother of the fourth prince, the Empress of the West Palace of the Fengming Empire. She shook her head and said, "I hope you know what you are doing? The reason why I married Fengming is with a mission. I and I
You need to remember”
"Hmph, you were originally the princess of Daxia, and you came to Fengming for this purpose, and what about me? I was born as a chess piece?
They want to seize Fengming Jiangshan, want Xia Changfeng to rule this country, and then monopolize that treasure land. Then all the credit will be theirs, can we, mother and son, just become their tools? Why? "
The fourth prince suddenly turned livid and roared, now he was like a stimulated monster, ready to bite people at any time.
"Xia'er, I know you are not convinced. With your talent, you are not inferior to anyone, but this is your fate." Empress Nisigong sighed helplessly.
"What fate? Fates are all changed by people. My fate 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," Nisigong Empress shook her head.
"Don't worry, I have already planned it. By the way, what's going on with the Queen Mother?" the fourth prince asked.
"She has been hit by my soul-obsessing spell and is basically under complete control. However, just to be on the safe side, I still add 'stuff' every day." Empress Nisigong said calmly.
"That's good, now let's wait for the good news from Long Chen. I hope he won't disappoint me." 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 startled. As soon as he entered the door, the housekeeper told Long Chen that there were guests at home.
Long Chen was stunned. It seemed that no one from the Long family had visited for several years. When did the guests appear?
He went straight to his mother's residence. He saw his mother all the way away, talking with a few people. When he saw Long Chen coming, he hurriedly said: "Chen'er, come here, I've seen your two aunts."
Among the few people, there were two women who looked slightly older than their mother, so Long Chen had to call her aunt.
"Haha, good boy, you have grown so big in a flash. Come on, you guys should meet your cousin quickly." A woman hurriedly shouted to a few people behind her.
There were three men and two women among them, and they seemed to be slightly older than Long Chen. One man said with some embarrassment: "Cousin, I haven't seen you for many years."
Long Chen nodded. He had an impression of this person. When they were playing together when they were children, he was the one who raped his toys and was bitten by Long Chen to the point of crying.
Although the arrival of his mother's family was a bit unexpected, seeing the smile on his mother's face, Long Chen couldn't say much and had to deal with it with a few words.
After those people had finished talking and stood up to leave, Long Chen learned from his mother that they were here to apologize to his mother.
"Chen'er, when our Long family was in crisis, my mother-in-law's family just stood by and watched, and she did hold a grudge in her heart.
But this time they came and told the whole story. In fact, they also have grievances. It's not that they don't want to help us, but they don't dare." Mrs. Long sighed.
"Now that things have passed, and now you have become a noble alchemist, our Long family has also risen.
Mom has also thought about it. Let the past things go by. I hope you won’t take it to heart. After all, they are my relatives.”
Long Chen sneered in his heart, why not? The Long family was already in such a state of poverty that they almost had no money to eat. What were they doing?
Even if you can't help openly, it's very easy to secretly help financially. To put it bluntly, it's hypocrisy.
Nowadays, Long Chen has risen, and everyone in the entire imperial capital knows about it. He is also closely related to Master Yunqi, and he dares to compete with the Yinghou at the auction, which fully demonstrates Long Chen's domineering power.
In this way, Long Chen told everyone that his Long Family was no longer the Long Family of the past, and that no one could bully anyone who wanted to.
At this time, they came to the door to admit their mistakes. It was clearly the behavior of a villain who wanted to follow people's influence. Although Long Chen felt disdainful, his mother had already forgiven them and it was not convenient for him to worry about it.
As long as the mother likes it, let her do it. If you live in the world, you need to tolerate the world's way of life.
Seeing that Long Chen was not so disgusted with her mother's family, Mrs. Long was relieved. After all, no matter how resentful she was, they were all her relatives, and after being alone for so many years, Mrs. Long also longed for family affection.
After chatting with his mother for a while, his mother briefly asked about Long Chen's current situation. Long Chen vaguely explained that anyway, it was just a matter of reporting good news but not bad news, which made Mrs. Long feel at ease.
After returning from his mother, Long Chen entered seclusion. During this period, he was busy with things and never really practiced with peace of mind.
Now he has an idea to keep Xia Changfeng in the Fengming Empire forever, but Xia Changfeng will definitely have many guards around him. He must be fully prepared and must kill this bastard this time.
But since he condensed the eleventh cyclone, he has become more and more confused about his path of cultivation. He doesn't know how to advance to the Nine Star Hegemonic Body Technique to advance to coagulation.
But now he has no way out. Without his Dantian, practicing the Nine-Star Hegemonic Body Technique is his only way out.
The eleven cyclones are operating at full strength, frantically absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, like eleven huge bellows, continuously sucking the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into 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 ten cyclones, which made him feel relieved.
Three days later, there was an explosion in Long Chen's dantian, with a dull look on his face. It turned out that it was just a saturated cyclone, and the vibration it sent out did not break through.
Long Chen has an urge to go crazy. When will this happen? If this continues, he will go crazy.
Just when Long Chen was about to go crazy for the Nine-Star Hegemonic Body Technique, Bao'er's voice came from outside the door.