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Chapter 42 The Fifth Prince with a Problem
Chapter 42 The Fifth Prince with a Problem
The people who come to this birthday banquet are all nobles, so be extra careful when eating and drinking. The tableware, chopsticks and teapots are all made of silver, so you are afraid of any accidents.
In the end, what was supposed to come out came out. The second son of the Han family, Han Tianyong, the younger brother of Han Shuang, died suddenly in the west yard, with a knife wound on his throat and dripping blood.
When Situ Feng, who was with him, asked three questions, he said that he was sleepy. After a sleep, there was a corpse next to him when he woke up. No one would believe this rhetoric, Mrs. Han cried, and people in the villa were panicked.
Zhou Heshuo was furious, waved someone to suppress it beforehand, and sent the Han family away from the birthday banquet.
Originally, how could the banquet prepared for the Fifth Prince be stopped because of this sudden accident?
But the Han family didn't think so. His Royal Highness had a quarrel with the eldest princess, and the Han family members who were closest to the eldest princess suddenly died by the side of the prince's servants, which was clearly intentional murder.
So, within an hour of the Han family leaving, the villa was surrounded by the Imperial Forest Army.
Hua Yue hid in the backyard with them, surrounded by anxious ladies and gentlemen.
"What's going on here?" Chao Feng frowned, "You dare to surround the place set up by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, don't you die?"
Ming Shujiu had already woken up. She stood on tiptoe and watched the movement outside, and said in a low voice, "If other people come to surround her, it will be fatal, but this time, it is not certain who is looking for trouble."
Hua Yue stood between them with an innocent face, holding half a handful of melon seeds in her hands.
Chaofeng asked her in confusion, "Aren't you nervous?"
She gave a blank "ah" and asked her, "What happened?"
Chaofeng and Mingshu glanced at each other, shook their heads in unison, and put her behind him and said, "You eat slowly, we'll keep watch. Even if the Imperial Forest Army comes here, it won't disturb you eating melon seeds."
It's really gentle, Huayue thought about it, and she was so kind to them. If Xu Changyi and Liu Chenghe go to Qifenglou again in the future, she will also send them a message.
In the distance, there was a heart-piercing howl for no reason. It sounded a little intimidating, and she flinched at Feng Se, Ming Shu protected her behind her, and softly comforted: "Don't be afraid, they should wait a while. will come."
Although a few men usually don't live in the local area, they are also people who protect their shortcomings. The villa is not peaceful, and it's definitely useless for a few women to hug each other. It is best to be around them.
Sure enough, not long after Chao Feng's words were spoken, Xu Changyi and Liu Chenghe hurried over, and the two of them took the three of them out of the crowd with a sigh of relief.
"You guys go by car first." Xu Changyi said, "You can still go out through the back door."
Liu Chenghe glanced at him disapprovingly, and before he had time to refute, Mingshu spoke first: "This is the fifth prince's birthday banquet, and quitting without resignation is disrespectful to the fifth prince and the prince, even if it is safe for a while, In the future, it will inevitably fall into the limelight.”
Xu Changyi was slightly annoyed: "You have so many ideas, why did you still tremble with fear?"
Ming Shu smiled lightly: "That's because I haven't seen you. If I see you, I won't be afraid. We can discuss it in the long run."
Seeing the trust in her eyes, he felt relieved, Xu Changyi coughed and pressed his fist to the corner of his mouth: "It's fine if you don't want to go, just follow me, the boss is here, no one will dare to offend."
Liu Chenghe nodded: "That's what I meant, you bring Mingshu, I bring Chaofeng, let's go to the vicinity of the main court and borrow a handful of the crown prince's Long Yin, this mess will not fall on our heads."
The four of them reached an agreement, and then turned their heads to look at Yin Huayue in unison.
Hua Yue held a melon seed, slightly embarrassed.
Li Jingyun didn't come, because of his status with Zhou Heshuo, he would definitely not care about her for a while.
Chaofeng also realized this problem, opened his mouth and said, "Hua Yue, why don't you just follow..."
"Follow me." A voice came from the side, clear and clear, and just caught it.
A few people turned around curiously, and saw a young man wearing a moon white brocade robe coming over, smiling and standing beside Hua Yue: "You are all free, I can take care of her when I am free."
The corners of her eyes twitched, and Hua Yue subconsciously covered her stomach that hurt from laughing before, and said cautiously, "Why is it you again?"
Zhou Hemin was very sad, his sword eyebrows drooped down, and he said sadly, "I don't blame you for betraying me and letting me be taken back to sit in silence for an hour. Why don't you like me?"
"It's not that I don't want to see you." She glanced at him strangely, "It's just that they met by chance and never knew each other. Your Excellency is so diligent, either a traitor or a thief."
Zhou Hemin was dumbfounded: "I... thief?"
He seemed to have been hit by a big blow, turned his head and asked Xu Changyi in disbelief: "I look like a bad guy?"
Xu Changyi's face was a little blue, he stared at the two in front of him for a while, hesitatingly said: "That can't be, Your Highness, Long Qiyou, is a man of destiny, how can you be related to bad words."
Liu Chenghe also smiled dryly, gave Huayue a wink, and then cupped his hands: "Our little sister-in-law rarely goes out, and if she doesn't recognize anyone, please ask the fifth prince Haihan to be offended."
Hua Yue looked at them, thinking that these two dandy sons are rare when they are so flustered, it seems that the person beside her has a lot of background.
Then she reacted for a moment, and there were two dazed eyes in her eyes: "What did you just say about the fifth prince?"
Chao Feng was amused by her dull appearance, pinched her arm and reminded in a low voice, "This is the fifth prince of the dynasty, and today is his fifteenth birthday."
After Hua Yue heard this, her face was two points greener than Xu Changyi's. She turned her head and looked over, her eyes twitching even more.
How can this be the fifth prince? Shouldn't the protagonist of the birthday banquet be by the prince's side, or sit in the main court? Why is he still running around and talking to someone like her?
Zhou Hemin's suffocated heart finally found the slightest solace in her panicked expression: "So you don't know me."
How would she know the fifth prince of Daliang? Hua Yue smiled and gritted her teeth. This person didn't have a plaque on his forehead, and he didn't wear dragon-patterned clothes. Did she really want her to greet him with the "dragon spirit" around him?
Heck.
"The little girl is offended." She bowed her knees with sincerity and fear, "I also ask your Highness to forgive me."
The attitude is low enough, and the tone is also sincerely apologetic, and whoever listens will no longer be embarrassed to embarrass her.
However, Zhou and Min were different, he laughed again, stroked his palms and said, "You must be scolding me in your stomach."
Yin Huayue: "..."
Xu Liu and others: "..."
Are you so happy to be scolded?
Hua Yue was very emotional, God is fair after all, if a person has a wealthy background and Zhou Zheng's face, he will definitely give him an abnormal brain.
Zhou Hemin is so rich and so righteous that his mind is extraordinarily abnormal: "Whose concubine are you, you are left here and nobody cares, and don't you go get angry with him?"
Xu Changyi didn't look right, and came up to answer for Huayue: "This is the concubine of the third son of the Li family, gentle and considerate, and definitely won't cause trouble for the third master at this time. Your Highness, don't worry, there are a few of us here to watch. "
Zhou Hemin waved his hand: "I'm not worried, but I just walked around because of the quarrel ahead."
He said, turned his head and whispered to her: "Have you ever seen the prince and the eldest princess quarrel?"
Huayue nodded: "I was fortunate enough to see it once on Guanshan."
"Hey, as you can see, it's not a real quarrel." Zhou Hemin said meaningfully, "They really quarrel, and even a palace servant will not stay within ten feet."
I have never seen someone so keen to gossip about their siblings. Hua Yue despised this brotherly act, and then asked curiously, "Then how do you know what they really quarreled like?"
Looking left and right, Zhou Hemin waved at them, and all five heads came together in an instant.
"I've been eavesdropping outside the door." He whispered, "They are stupid, they don't even leave a palace servant within ten feet. If someone is eavesdropping outside, no one can find out."
Liu Chenghe bowed his hands to him in admiration: "You are not afraid that the prince will trouble you."
"That can't be done. He expects me to speak for him in front of his father, and wants to abolish the court." Zhou Hemin raised his chin, "He won't embarrass me."
"So, dare to ask Your Highness what's going on ahead?" Xu Changyi couldn't help but said, "It's a good birthday banquet, it's making people panic, and I don't know what the Imperial Forest Army is going to do."
"What else can I do? Today is the banquet hosted by the prince's elder brother. Even the eldest sister was not invited. The eldest sister was very unhappy. She happened to encounter a murder case, so you can't use the topic to play a role or two." Zhou Hemin said happily, " The Imperial Forest Army may fight with the prince's brother's imperial guards later."
... Why is such a terrible thing said in such a joyful tone?
Hua Yue glanced in the direction of the main court and frowned slightly.
"Are you worried about Young Master Li?" Zhou Hemin said honestly and honestly, "He is a good person. As long as the prince's brother is safe, no one can touch him. If you have time to spare, you might as well watch the fun with me."
It was funny to hear that, Hua Yue looked back at him: "Your Highness's birthday banquet is like this, do you still have the heart to watch the fun?"
"It's more fun than a birthday banquet." Zhou Hemin hummed softly, "It's better to bring such a large group of people here to tell me something flattering, it would be better to lock the elder sister and the prince together and let them quarrel for me."
"Sorry for the offense, it's really illegal for you to do this." Hua Yue persuaded righteously.
Then he asked in a low voice, "Where to look?"
Xu Changyi wiped his face, tugged at Liu Chenghe's sleeve next to him, and gave him a look: think about it.
Liu Chenghe is inexplicable: you dare to manage the people of the third master, are you tired of living?
If it doesn't matter, what if the person is kidnapped by the fifth prince? Xu Changyi was very worried. Although the fifth prince was young, he seemed to be very playful, and he might not have any intentions. However, when these two were mixed together, it was inappropriate, right?
Xu Changyi was very melancholy, and before he had time to come up with an idea, the two people in front of him had already walked towards the main court one after the other.
"Hey..." He stretched out his hand.
Ming Shu pulled his hand back and said in a low voice, "The Han family will not deal with Hua Yue. Now that the third master is not here, it is safest for her to follow the fifth prince."
"Yeah, why are you panicking?" Chao Feng said, "That's a sensible girl, she won't cause trouble."
It's not that it's troublesome or not, Xu Changyi looked at Liu Chenghe desperately: "If the third master asks, you can answer."
"Me? I have something to do." Liu Chenghe pulled Chaofeng and turned his head away, "See you later."
Xu Changyi cursed in a low voice.
Hua Yue really wanted to go to the main court to have a look. The fifth prince didn't tell her that serious set of rules, and she was not a good teacher. After a few tricks, she posted it under the wall outside the main court lobby.
Then she understood why the fifth prince said that what they could see was not a real quarrel.
Previously on Guanshan Mountain, the prince and the eldest princess quarreled over something like water, and they just pointed at Sang and scolded Huai in a strange way.
"Do not think that you can poke your finger on my nose by taking two points of credit to sit on the crown prince." Zhou Heji stood on the chair and scolded, "Whoever moves me, you move, you move. If you move one, I will move you ten! Didn't you see that the little girl from the Zhao family wanted to be a good Yuan, I tell you, there is no way, I will chop her up and feed it to the dog tomorrow!"
"I just received the reward from my father, I'm in a good mood, and my voice is not as good as your wicked mother-in-law who was scolded by the middle palace." Zhou Heshuo stood not far away and shot back coldly, "If you have the skill to swear, it's better to go back and watch. The wild man in your palace, who gets a woman outside the palace, is not afraid to bring back a disease of flowers and willows."
I don't know if it was Zhonggong or Hualiu who poked the princess' painful foot, her voice suddenly became sharp, and the tip of her hairpin slashed on the ground: "You have a few days to live, Zhou Heshuo, let me tell you, you really thought you were by your side. Everyone is eager to help you, right? To please the fifth emperor, to please Li Jingyun, and to please the ministers in the court, you think you can impeach the court in this way, you are dreaming! Today is Han Tianyong, who will die tomorrow is Li Jingyun, you If you can't protect him, you can't protect yourself!"
Heart tensed, Hua Yue held her breath.
"You are really laughing at me." Zhou Heshuo's voice came out of the room, sarcastically, "Didn't you rob me before? If you can't get it, you'll be cursed to death, and the evil woman who can't get married is indeed He has a vicious heart. But unfortunately, Jing Yun is different from a waste like Han Tianyong, don't underestimate him."
"I don't dare to underestimate him." The eldest princess sneered, "After all, he is the one who can rescue Han Shuang from your wolf's den. He has the ability and strategy, and he can deceive your eyes. How can you save fuel? lamp."
The house was quiet for a moment.
Hua Yue didn't dare to move at all, leaning against the wall, her back felt a chill.
She knew that Li Jingyun had always been on the cusp of the storm, but she didn't know that his situation was so terrifying, life and death were all between the two of them.
Zhou Heshuo was suspicious by nature, and he was fooled before, and he did not pursue the matter of Yuanyang Pei, but now the old thing is brought up again, if he went to see the injury on Li Jingyun's arm, then everything would be over.
She didn't worry about him, but he was also a member of the General's Mansion, and he was both prosperous and damaged. If something happened to Li Jingyun, his wife would not be better off.
A few dots of light flashed in her mind, Hua Yue squinted her eyes and pondered, silently calculating whether she could save him in time if she moved faster.
The two people in the room continued to quarrel after not being quiet for a while. What a slut, what a cheap bastard, two people of noble birth, swearing nonsense is really not inferior to the battle of the folks.
Zhou Hemin listened with relish, and when they couldn't scold any new tricks, they dragged her away without a word.
"Listen and listen, don't take it to your heart." Seeing that the mood of the people around him was wrong, Zhou Hemin smiled at her, "If they quarrel, they say everything, and they may not really do it."
"Thank you, Your Highness." Hua Yue bowed her head and saluted, and continued to wander.
"How about I go to your house to play with you tomorrow?" he asked.
Hua Yue thought it was absurd, and she found two thoughts and said helplessly: "Your Highness, the little girl is already a concubine. No matter how noble you are, you are still a male. How can a male go to the house to find someone to play with a concubine?"
With a regretful sigh, Zhou Hemin asked, "I can't play with the third son?"
"The little girl doesn't care about this..."
on.
Before the last two words were finished, Hua Yue realized something, her pupils shrank, and she quickly turned to look at him.
The young man in front of him was full of energy, like the freest wind in the spring mountains, dashing and unrestrained. He didn't seem to know anything, and he seemed to know everything in his chest. He smiled and lowered his eyebrows and asked her, "Can you do it?"
"You—" He looked back at the main court that had been left behind, then raised his eyes to look at the man, his eyes flickered a little, but he swallowed the words and bowed respectfully to him: "Of course it's okay. "
"That's it." Zhou Hemin fluttered his sleeves and raised the corners of his lips, "That's it."
She was still worried about whether Li Jingyun would really have an accident tomorrow. Now that he said this, Hua Yue felt that there seemed to be nothing to worry about. The fifth prince was present, and whoever had great skills would not be so blatant. kill.
When let go of heart, curiosity began to surge.
She knew some news about the Daliang royal family, that the middle palace and the eldest princess, the prince and Yao Guifei were fighting for power and power for the party, and that the sixth princess and the seventh prince had no competition in the world and did not get involved in the government. But she seldom heard any news from the fifth prince. The prince, who had his back on the prime minister's uncle, seemed to have no ambition, but he was by no means an idle person.
"Do you have something to ask me?" Zhou Hemin raised his eyebrows.
Covering her heart subconsciously, Hua Yue asked horribly, "You can read minds?"
"That's not true." He looked at her and smiled playfully. "You are too interesting, and your thoughts are written in your eyes. It's hard for ordinary people to see, but if you look carefully, you can know what you're thinking."
Hua Yue immediately covered her eyes.
"Hahaha." Zhou Hemin laughed, leaning against the vermilion pillar by the corridor and staring at her, "It's useless to block now, let's get straight to the point, I won't blame you."
Hesitantly put down her hand, Hua Yue frowned slightly, looked at him and said, "The five princes are among the dragons and phoenixes, why are you entangled with the servants like the little girl?"
"My servant?" Zhou Hemin was very puzzled, "Why do you look like a servant?"
Inexplicably, she tugged at her concubine-colored dress, and then pointed to her plain dress, Hua Yue asked, "I don't look like a servant in this dress? Compared to the bunch of bejeweled ladies, I'm just a wild girl. ."
"What does dressing up mean?" He waved his hand in disapproval. "A palace maid wearing a phoenix robe is also a palace maid, and a noble person wearing linen is also a noble person."
"..." Would you like to stop being a prince and set up a stall to show people?
This is what she thought in her heart, and Hua Yue didn't dare to say it. At first, she felt that there was something wrong with the fifth prince's head, but now, when she looked at it, she felt that this person seemed to be very interesting.
He didn't have any ill will. He looked at her with pure curiosity and joy. He said these things were not to please or tease her, but to spit out what he knew, simple and direct.
"Then the little girl, change the question." She looked away and asked in a low voice, "You don't go to enjoy the birthday banquet, and you stand here with the little girl, what are you planning?"
Zhou Hemin glanced at her up and down and said with a smile, "I'm a prince, I have endless money, and endless beauties. You are Li Jingyun's side room, a married woman, what can I do?"
After a pause, he explained kindly: "I really think you are interesting, so I want to play with you. People who are wary have strange experiences, and most of them won't be easily tempted, but you are different, you are wary, My heart is soft, I vomited after eating a piece of peanut cake, but I was reluctant to throw it away, like a child who was afraid of being beaten and wanted to reach out for the candy, but was hesitant."
The most interesting thing in the world is contradiction, and what the fifth prince likes to watch is people with contradictions.
His words were not like what a fifteen-year-old could say, and his face was clearly juvenile, but between the lines, Hua Yue had a feeling of being seen through.
Hua Yue is already eighteen years old this year, three years older than the fifth prince, so even if her status is low, being aware of everything by a child still makes her a little embarrassed. She folded her hands, put on her coldest arrogance, and said calmly, "Your Highness should not be too one-sided when looking at people."
Zhou Hemin smiled and said: "I think I see it right, just like now, you don't want to reveal too much to strangers, so you want to leave."
As he spoke, he turned his body to trap her by the vermilion pillar, his eyes lowered, and he looked at her deeply: "Don't worry, I won't betray you."
Why is a fifteen-year-old so much taller than her? Hua Yue wanted to stare at him, but her short stature seemed unimpressive. She pursed her lips and said angrily, "Thank you, Your Highness, but if there is another time, the little girl will still betray His Highness."
Thinking of the tragic appearance of being chased and intercepted by the palace servants, Zhou Hemin finally showed the shame that a young man should have, he let go and hummed: "Then I won't protect your sweetheart, let it be tomorrow. He will die on his own."
Saying that, turn around and leave.
Let's go, who can this childish threat scare, Huayue disdainful, thinking about where she is from her sweetheart.
However, her hand stretched out out of nowhere and grabbed the person.
Zhou Hemin paused, looked back and raised his eyebrows. He was about to tease her when he saw several people approaching the corner of the corridor.
"It's not a big deal, please ask the Third Young Master to say something nice for us."
"Yeah, it's all a family, it's probably a misunderstanding."
A few people walked towards this side talking and laughing. The one at the head was dressed in a blue-white silver-embroidered animal robe. When Qing Jun raised his eyebrows, it happened to meet his line of sight.