Chapter 147 Jealousy
Prince An already had an accurate answer to Xiaoruo's question, but he still hesitated.

Seeing his finger rubbing the cover of the book written by Su Liangkun, his brows are slightly raised, and Xiaoruo only knows that the balance in his heart is swinging from side to side.

As long as the stakes are increased a little, the balance will be completely tilted.

"You don't need to be suspicious, you don't need to be suspicious, my lord, trust is mutual. Since the Holy Majesty asked us to investigate the case together, we have already shared all our family fortunes with you, my lord. Should you also show some sincerity?"

These words hit Prince An's psychological defense. The last person who dared to bargain with him was Su Liangkun.

With mixed feelings in his heart for a moment, he looked at the woman who looked like his old friend with a complicated face, and said, "You... guessed it too, right?"

Sighing, he turned his head to face the memorial tablet, quietly recounting the past events that had been hidden in his heart for more than 20 years.

That was when he was still a prince, his birth mother died young, so he was raised by Xianci and the Empress Dowager, who is the birth mother of the current Holy Majesty, when he was young.

Therefore, although he lost his mother at a young age, he was not favored by the former emperor, and he grew up safely and healthily.

During his time, the former Empress Dowager, who was Concubine Hui at that time, asked the emperor for the grace of opening a mansion abroad, so that he could have his own world.

However, his mind was never on the power position, and he never opened his mouth to take the initiative to discuss matters when he was in court, so he was happy to be an idle king.

Unintentional about political affairs, he only cares about wind, flowers, snow and moon every day. He spends a lot of time admiring flowers and swimming in the lake in spring, and cooking snow and tea in winter.

The friends I made also avoided the descendants of officials in the DPRK and China, and they were all the children of rich families in Yingzhou, or literati.

Once, in order to appreciate the beautiful scenery of weeping willows swaying in the setting sun on the western mountain, he waited alone in the cold spring for the setting sun to set.

Unexpectedly, there is someone on the remote West Mountain who is willing to waste time like him, just to look at a weeping willow, and that person is the young Sui Yingtai.

From then on, the two became close friends, and Sui Yingtai would go to Prince An's mansion to have a drink and chat with him every now and then.

But with the passage of time, Sui Yingtai's stubborn and extreme character became more and more obvious, and revealed a strong possessive desire.

He glared at all those who were close to Prince An, sarcastically, and gradually turned into playing tricks on people behind their backs.

When Prince An found out that something was wrong, Sui Yingtai had caused the two of them to be sacked on the way home, and the three of them were frightened while riding their horses. Fortunately, none of them were seriously injured.

Under his severe questioning, Sui Yingtai's eyes were full of tears, and he said that he just didn't have any friends and didn't want him to be robbed, and he promised again and again that he would never do it again, so Prince An gave up.

However, Sui Yingtai didn't restrain himself after that, but his methods of dealing with people became more subtle and ruthless.

The people who finally caused Prince An and Sui Yingtai to almost break off the relationship were the parents of the Xiao family.

Su Liangkun stopped the carriage of Prince An's Mansion in the street, won the respect of Prince An with his sharp analysis and vast knowledge, and was accepted into the mansion as a guest.

At that time, the atmosphere of the struggle for the throne in the court was already very strong, and the first emperor was old and he had not established a crown prince for a long time.

The second prince, the most beloved fourth prince, and the most capable eighth prince Zang Lu are all popular candidates for the crown prince.

As the eighth prince and his biological mother, Prince An naturally hoped that his elder brother Lu would get his wish. On the surface, he was still a idler and a wild crane, not caring about worldly affairs, but in private he was thirsty for talents, and walked around with all the great scholars just to build momentum for Zang Lu.

After Su Liangkun entered the mansion, he gave suggestions on political affairs, and the Eighth Prince was repeatedly praised by the late emperor in court debates. Prince An also often had to talk with him at night by candlelight.

Therefore, in Sui Yingtai's eyes, Su Liangkun was like a thorn in his flesh, and he wished to get rid of it quickly.

One day 20 years ago, Sui Yingtai got a jar of century-old wine and came to Prince An's mansion to drink and chat with Prince An.

The next day happened to be the court debate once a month, so Prince An asked Sui Yingtai to go back. He needed to discuss with Su Liangkun about tomorrow's debate topic.

Sui Yingtai had been rejected several times by Prince An because of Su Liangkun, but this time he finally exploded.

His eyes were red, and he scolded Su Liangkun for having ulterior motives, so he recommended himself, probably because he wanted to recommend himself to Prince An.

Su Liangkun didn't even reply when he pointed at his nose and scolded him, he just frowned as if he was watching a one-man show.

"Enough! If you continue to mess around, don't come to my Prince An's Mansion!" Prince An was deeply afraid that Su Liangkun would not be insulted and would stop helping him and Zang Lu, so he couldn't help shouting angrily at Sui Yingtai.

This yelling was tantamount to adding fuel to the flames. Sui Yingtai, who was dazed by anger, used all the most vicious obscenities and language learned from Hualou Restaurant on Su Liangkun, scolding him for wanting to be a rabbit son. Hanlu doesn't look at his own virtue.

The more scolding became more and more excessive, until Su Liangkun's new wife Ruo was involved, Sui Yingtai jumped up and scolded them for wanting to seduce King An together, and what they coveted was the glory and wealth of Prince An's mansion.

His beloved wife was humiliated, Su Liangkun finally couldn't bear it, and punched Sui Yingtai on the nose, instantly two lines of nosebleeds bloomed like flowers.

When the situation deteriorated to this point, Prince An immediately ordered the guards in the mansion to take Sui Yingtai to the hospital for treatment by force, and separate the two first.

Although Prince An apologized to Su Liangkun afterwards, Sui Yingtai and Su Liangkun's Liang Zi ended up like this.

Sui Yingtai repeatedly wanted to kill Su Liangkun and his wife when they were alone, but Prince An valued Su Liangkun and equipped him with several guards, so Sui Yingtai had no chance to do anything.

If you can't do it directly, you might as well borrow a knife to kill someone.

The first emperor hated witchcraft the most, Sui Yingtai bribed the maidservant of Prince An's mansion, and hid the paper figure with the eighth prince's name in the residence of Su Liangkun and Ruo in advance, and then revealed the news to the children of other aristocratic families.

The son of that aristocratic family was eager to seek merit, and immediately reported the matter to his uncle who was an official in the court, and his uncle immediately wrote a memorial to sue Wang An's disciples for illegally practicing witchcraft, intending to murder the Eighth Prince.

Fortunately, the Eighth Prince Zang Lu had already been trusted by the late emperor to handle some unimportant memorials on his behalf.

Zang Lu withheld the memorial and sent someone to report to Prince An's Mansion.

He could keep it a secret for a while but not for a lifetime, this memorial will still fall into the hands of the late emperor sooner or later, and no one will be able to keep Su Liangkun at that time.

When Prince An got the news, he immediately arranged for Su Liangkun and Ruo Ruo to leave Yingzhou quietly, hoping that the sky would be high and the road far away, so that the two could survive the disaster incognito.

Although this matter was done by others, Sui Yingtai himself did not do it himself, but the interrogation methods of Prince An's Mansion were not vegetarian, and the bribed maid quickly identified him.

After losing his beloved general, Prince An was very angry and disappointed with Sui Yingtai, and he closed the door to see him for a long time.

Even if Sui Yingtai forcibly stopped the carriage of Prince An's Mansion on the road and wanted to apologize to him, Prince An would not pay any attention to it.

Until later, Sui Yingtai also began to recruit diners, make friends with literati and celebrities from various prefectures, and even invested in the largest teahouse in Yingzhou - Manyanlou to set up poetry gatherings for literati and celebrities, such as New Year celebrations and flower viewing banquets.

Under his instruction, those literati who had friendship with Sui Yingtai tried their best to make suggestions for the Eighth Prince's seizure of the throne, and some of the strategies were really effective.

Gradually, Prince An also calmed down, and after Zang Lu succeeded in succeeding to the throne, the two resumed contact.

(End of this chapter)

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