The Fourth Prince left with a green face and annoyed. After the door was closed again, Tang Ning turned around and asked, "Brother, will the Fourth Prince believe our obvious provocation?"
Xiao Yan said: "No."
Tang Ning frowned: "Then why did brother say those things..." Since he knew it wouldn't happen, why did he deliberately try to sow discord between the Queen and the Fourth Prince?
Xiao Yan said: "What I want is for him not to believe it."
Tang Ning was confused by what he said.
Xiao Yan laughed: "He would only enter the palace if he didn't believe it."
Tang Ning tilted his head: "Brother, do you want the Fourth Prince to meet the Queen?"
"No, just let him enter the palace."
Tang Ning's mind became more confused after hearing this. Xiao Yan was only smiling and had no intention of explaining. She could only ask, " Will he agree to investigate the Lu family?"
"meeting."
Tang Ning frowned. Although she cooperated with Xiao Yan to provoke the Fourth Prince, the Fourth Prince was not a fool.
If someone else said this, the Fourth Prince might believe it without a doubt, but Xiao Yan had been in a life-and-death battle with the Lu family for a long time, and she also had a lot of hatred towards the Lu family. If they suddenly came to the Fourth Prince, anyone would suspect that they were using him. How could the Fourth Prince have no doubts?
Besides, that is his maternal family and the Fourth Prince's greatest support in the court. How could he destroy the Lu family with his own hands?
Seeing the little girl thinking with a bitter face, Xiao Yan did not rush to explain to her. He just held the teacup, skimmed off the foam on it, looked at her with a smile and said.
"Would you like to make a bet with me? I bet he will be back within half an hour."
Tang Ning was instantly alert: "No gambling!"
She stared at Xiao Yan, holding the cup in her hand with round eyes: "I'm not stupid to bet with Brother."
Xiao Yan laughed: "So alert?"
Tang Ning glanced at him and thought, what nonsense! The man in front of her was full of holes in his mind. He always looked ten steps ahead before taking one step. The few things she knew were all "stolen" from him. If she tried to show off her skills in front of him, she would only end up hurting herself.
"Brother must have left a backup plan somewhere else, forcing the Fourth Prince to come back to look for you. I'm not that stupid!"
Xiao Yan couldn't help laughing when he heard her mumbling softly, and shook his head and sighed: "Xiao Haitang is not easy to deceive."
Tang Ning rolled his eyes at him.
Xiao Yan teased her: "Do you want to know why the Fourth Prince came back?"
"In no mood!"
Tang Ning took the white jade lotus cake and took a big bite. She would not be fooled. Every time her brother spoke like this, she would be teased by him.
"I think about it myself!"
…
After coming out of Hengting Pavilion, the Fourth Prince had a very ugly look on his face, both because of the Lu family's troubles and because of Xiao Yan.
"Your Highness, will Xiao Yan really help you?" Cheng Ping, the Fourth Prince's personal attendant, asked in a low voice.
"He helped me?" The fourth prince sneered, "Don't you know who Xiao Yan is?"
How could someone who is so cruel and ruthless, and has climbed to a high position by any means necessary, interfere in the affairs between the princes just for the sake of so-called favors?
"Xiao Yan may have really told my mother about the Lu family, but it was not for the so-called favor of Song Tangning, but to let my mother take action to deal with the Lu family so that he can benefit from it. I don't know why my mother didn't take action, so he wanted to borrow my help."
The Fourth Prince was a little impulsive, but he was not a naive young man who grew up in a wealthy family. He couldn't understand why the Queen had concealed the matter of the Lu Family and Prince Chen from him, but he never doubted Queen Lu's love for him.
He is the Queen Mother's only son and all she can rely on. No matter what she thinks, she will never help outsiders to harm him.
"Your Highness just now..."
"If I didn't pretend to have a rift with my mother and let Xiao Yan think that I had succeeded in instigating him, how could I have found out his intention today?"
"Then your Majesty... could it be Xiao Yan as well?"
The fourth prince shook his head: "I think what my father said is true."
Xiao Yan does whatever it takes, but he is extremely loyal to his father. Moreover, it is too easy to expose the false imperial edict, and Xiao Yan will never hand such a handle to him.
The affair between Prince Cheng and the Lu family must be true. Xie Yin is probably also a descendant of the Lu family. His father asked him to investigate this matter. He wanted to make the Lu family suffer the most painful pain and be betrayed by their closest relatives. He also wanted to sever his relationship with the Lu family and cut off his and his mother's greatest reliance in the court...
Cheng Ping showed some worry on his face: "What should His Highness do now? Should he go to the Lu family?"
"Don't go to the Lu family yet."
For a moment, he was unsure about how to treat the Lu family. He was reluctant to destroy the Lu family, but he did not dare to go against his father's wishes.
The fourth prince hesitated for a moment before saying, "Go to the palace first and see our mother."
He had to find out what his mother's plan was.
Cheng Ping nodded and said nothing more. He just drove the carriage over and took the Fourth Prince into the palace.
The nearest street to the palace from Hengting Pavilion is Feng'an Street. The carriage went all the way to the downtown area. There were more people around, and vendors occupied both sides. Occasionally, pedestrians blocked the road, and the carriage was forced to slow down.
"What's going on?" The Fourth Prince lifted the curtain.
Cheng Ping whispered, "There is a market ahead. It is a market today, so there are quite a lot of people."
"Take another route."
"yes."
The Fourth Prince looked a little irritated. Just as he was about to lower the curtain, he suddenly saw two figures from the corner of his eye. He was stunned for a moment and quickly patted the wall of the car: "Wait!"
"Your Highness?"
Cheng Ping hurriedly pulled the reins and was about to turn around to ask, when he saw his master looking at the distance with a very ugly expression. When he followed the Fourth Prince's gaze, he was immediately shocked.
"Second Prince..."
The Second Prince had an argument with them before, and left after being humiliated by Xiao Yan. I thought he had gone back home, but I didn't expect to see him here.
The second prince is fine, but the person beside him...
Cheng Ping couldn't help but widen his eyes: "Your Highness, why is Lord Feng with the Second Prince?"
That's Feng Qiuli, the head of the Feng family.
The aristocratic families have been supporting the Fourth Prince over the years. Even if the Lu family falls, there are still several other families. But now the head of the Feng family is with the Second Prince. Cheng Ping feels uneasy. Did the aristocratic families betray the prince, or did the Feng family find another master?
Seeing the Second Prince and Feng Qiuli entering the Treasure Pavilion on the opposite street, Cheng Ping asked in a low voice: "Your Highness, would you like me to go and take a look?"
The Fourth Prince tightened his grip on the carriage curtain and was about to speak when he saw a familiar figure appear outside the Treasure Pavilion.
The person was wearing ordinary maid's clothes, which were too loose to cover her slender figure. She lowered her head and walked to the treasure pavilion. She first looked around and then walked in quickly.
The curtain in the Fourth Prince's hand was torn apart with a loud "crash", and veins bulged on the back of his hand.
Cheng Ping opened his mouth wide: "Aunt Bai?!"
Isn't this the beauty that His Highness had just taken into his room? Because of her gentle temperament, not liking to fight, and her talent, she has recently been favored by His Highness. However, she disguised herself as a servant, sneaked around, and even entered the Treasure Pavilion with the Second Prince and Feng Qiuli...
Cheng Ping's face turned pale.
Aunt Bai didn't stay in the Treasure Pavilion for long. After she came out, she lowered her head, walked around the busy city and entered the alley. She had a faint smile on her face and a brocade box in her hand. She was obviously in a good mood, but when she turned around the end of the alley and looked up, all the smiles on her face froze instantly.
A cup of tea later, Aunt Bai, covered in blood, was carried unconscious onto the carriage.
The Fourth Prince looked at the bloodstains dragged from the carriage with an extremely gloomy expression, and found it even more ridiculous.
Lu family.
It's actually the Lu family!
He originally thought that Aunt Bai was the Second Brother's spy and that the Feng family had betrayed him, but he never imagined that she was actually Lu Chongyuan's person. She was a woman from the Lu family who changed her name and sneaked into his house. She did not do so to be monitored or to please him, but just wanted to get a royal person with Lu family blood.
While Lu Chongyuan was trying to find a way out for the Lu family by contacting the Second Prince, he also had someone give him medicine in order to preserve his bloodline and, after giving birth to a child, he would be able to pass on his father's legacy to his son...
The Lu family had already given up on him! !
The fourth prince felt extremely chilled, and the bright sunshine outside could not dispel the chill from his body.
"Your Highness..." Cheng Ping's face was full of worry.
The fourth prince's eyes were filled with murderous intent: "Return to Hengting Pavilion and meet Xiao Yan!"
He and Song Tangning have an appointment, so they should not have left yet.