His little apprentice has a soft and charming waist

Chapter 122

In the creek, there are dense cobwebs, and it can be seen that no one has lived in it for many years. The yard is overgrown with grass and gravel, and no one cleans it up.But inside, there are carved beams and painted buildings, lake stones erected, and a few springs, so you can see the meaning of prosperity.

The decay after the prosperity made this courtyard look like a building that was about to collapse.Every time Ning Shuo took a step, he felt cold in his heart.But he came today with intentions, no matter how cold his heart was, he couldn't show it. Instead, he had to look at these ruins with a kind of interest.

When the prince followed, he saw Ning Shuo looking up at a room in the backlight.

His heart tightened, he glanced at the east wing without any trace, and then shouted, "Ah Shuo, what are you looking at?"

Ning Shuo said softly, "Your Highness, I'm looking for Que'er."

The prince looked around, "Why didn't Gu see it?"

Ning Shuo: "Yes, I didn't see it either. I clearly saw it coming in... It's so strange. I saw it last time, but I couldn't find it either."

His eyes swept across the room.

The prince's heart raised his throat. He never thought that Ning Shuo would be so bold. Not only did he want to enter the courtyard, he also wanted to enter the house. You are too presumptuous."

But he was afraid that he would get angry, so he could only lower his voice and say: "Your family has always been cautious, just because you are afraid that you will be... caught."

Ning Shuo looked at the prince and smiled.

Having been with the prince for more than ten years, Ning Shuo actually understands the prince's little expressions and movements very well.For example, now, he looks calm, but he is actually very flustered.He raised his head, looked at several wing rooms, narrowed his eyes and looked at the spring pool not far away.

This other courtyard was given to my father by His Majesty.Back then, my father was still a courtier whom His Majesty appreciated and trusted and entrusted with important tasks, so he was willing to give everything well.Father did not dare to delay, but he did not dare to use it either.He once said with a smile: "Lan Shi, you also need to know in the future that your majesty is a king, and your highness is also a king. We can be good friends with you, but we can only be loyal to you, and we cannot lose our duty as courtiers."

So Xiaoxishan never came again.

But in the 18th year of Jingtai, the courtyard was leased to people.To whom?Ning Shuo didn't know, his father didn't tell, and he didn't ask.At that time, he didn't regard this matter as a major event, and was still immersed in the matter of suppressing King Jin for the prince and consolidating the position of the crown prince, without caring about it at all.But then the tall building with his family collapsed in an instant, which reminded Ning Shuo of this incident.

If there are no accidents, this should be a very critical piece of evidence.Because no matter whether it was in the prison at the beginning or when he asked Bu Yuchuan later, he concealed this obviously important evidence.

Therefore, he still doesn't know who lives in it.

Ning Shuo looked at the prince, he thought, maybe the prince knows.But what the prince did just now was also a cover-up.He was afraid that someone would find out.

What did you find out?
Have you found out who lives here?
Ning Shuo recalled the crimes the court had condemned his father.It said that my father went to the south of the Yangtze River for disaster relief in Jingtai 11 years, but kept the official bank privately.The disaster relief silver totaled 500 million taels, but my father kept a million taels privately in the Xiaoxishan courtyard in the middle of Beijing. He used stones instead of official silver and shipped it to Jiangnan. , causing the common people to disregard life and death, so the crime deserves ten thousand deaths.

Ning Shuo, who was in prison at the time, felt that the conviction file was extremely wrong.But it was only because Bu Yuchuan belonged to King Jin, and His Majesty pushed the boat along with the flow, that's why he single-handedly caused this grievance.He has always regarded this as a tacit injustice, so many things have not been carefully considered.But now Bu Yuchuan is not a member of King Jin, and he seems to have a basis for everything, so why did he submit such a simple case file?
He had long been suspicious.Because there is a big gap: even if there are Jiangnan officials who point out his father and his corruption, according to Bu Yuchuan's prudence, he cannot be convicted.Furthermore, my father never lived in Xiaoxi Zhuang. Xiaoxi Zhuang has been renting to people since Jingtai 18 years ago. Jingtai found criminal evidence in 23 years, so why can’t it be Jingtai 18 years to Jingtai 23 years? Silver sent to Xiaoxi Zhuang?
No one doubts.Some people say that this silver was sent by Jingtai in 11 years, and it has nothing to do with Jingtai's 18 years.But why is this matter not mentioned in the file?
Something must have been hidden.

Now it seems that the prince is also aware of this hidden matter.He looked at the prince, intending to deceive him, but suddenly he looked up and saw the white hair on his head.

After Ning Shuo paused, the words in his mouth were a little speechless.But the prince, seeing him looking at his head, asked with some doubts, "What's wrong?"

Ning Shuo turned his head away, and said in a low voice, "I only saw the white hair on His Highness's head."

The prince laughed, "It's nothing, these years, her hair has always been gray. The princess is about to be pulled out by Gu, but Mr. Gu is unwilling and wants to wait for it to take off by itself."

After he finished speaking, he realized that the words were a bit sad, so he said to Ning Shuo, "Did you see Que'er? If you didn't, let's go out. Although it has nothing to do with entering Suifu, it's still inappropriate." Stay longer."

Ning Shuo found out today that the crown prince knew about Xiaoxi's make-up, so he took advantage of it and didn't keep much, so as not to arouse suspicion.He nodded, "Yes, I would like to follow His Highness's wishes."

As soon as he said this, the prince felt a little familiar again.

Because of the incident in the morning, the Ningguo Palace held a banquet in the evening, and the prince also went.Mrs. Li was very respectful, the prince smiled and said: "It's lonely to be alone in the other courtyard, so it's just right to come here."

He was still sitting beside King Shun, looking gentle.At this time, he never looked at Sheng Yanling, and he never even asked a question, as if he wasn't the one who was interested in her yesterday.

Li Shi quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and her sense of the crown prince became better—at least not too much.She did her best to do her duty. The prince chatted with King Shun about carving, and then he pulled Ning Shuo to talk, and then pointed to Ning Shuo and said, "Fourth brother, I like him very much. He, I thought of us when we were this age."

King Shun was also very satisfied with Ning Shuo, and boasted: "I used to be a dull gourd, but fortunately, I figured it out later, and became cheerful. Now it seems that I am a good material for studying."

The prince said: "I see it too."

After drinking a few more glasses of wine, he pulled Ning Shuo and said, "From now on, you don't need to call me Your Highness in private, just call me brother. We see each other as old friends. Although we can't call it a year-end friendship, we are still very understanding."

Ning Shuo naturally wouldn't agree, so he quickly said he didn't dare.The prince didn't force it either, he just expressed his attitude, then laughed and wrote poems.King Shun's poems are not good, so he wrote a few casually, but the crown prince figured out the feeling of "what time is this evening, when is tomorrow", and then, as if he was drunk, he stroked his hair after a while and said, "I At my age, my hair started to grow wildly gray...Father named me Shou Ke, and I don’t know how long I can live.”

As soon as these words came out, Ning Shuo and the others naturally wanted to kneel down. Wang Shun disturbed the crown prince's banquet, but he was also infected with a trace of sadness by his words, and persuaded him kindly, "His Royal Highness is just the best age. It's just a few gray hairs from working on state affairs, don't worry about it, the small words given to you by the emperor are the best, and you will definitely live a long life in the future."

The prince stood up crookedly, "I'm not right today, I drank a few more cups and started talking drunk."

He smiled and said, "Gu will go back to rest now, you guys continue."

He walked slowly with Yu Ping's support, and when he walked past Yan Yanling who had been pretending to be dumb tonight, he kept walking, but it could be seen from her tightly clenched hands that she heard from Lan Shi. The name of the birthday guest.

She said yesterday that Shouke had never said a word about him to her, and he believed it.How did she know Shouke's name?

The prince thought of the book Twelve Flower Gods.

That book was given to him by Lan Shi.In it, he joked that he was nervous about marrying the princess.At that time, because he was going to get married soon, he was very shy, and hit half of the East Palace while chasing Lan.Later, when Lan Shi was going to be sent to Lingnan, he didn't know what to give or what to say, so he took out this book and put it on the carriage.

At that time, he just wanted to use this book to tell Lan Shi.

——Wish you a long life.

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