The emperor's scheming: alluring the world

Chapter 184 Prince Kang

At the exit of the garden, Li Meizhen and Wei Jinyang parted ways. Li Meizhen took Yunyu and Qing'er straight to the flower hall where they were resting before, while Wei Jinyang dawdled in the garden for a while before going forecourt.

Although Wu Haolong was bitten by a poisonous snake, but because he discovered it late, the remaining poison on his body was not cleaned up, so he needed to rest, while Wu Miaozi's whole face turned into a pig's head because of Li Mei's slapping her mouth. If they dared to show their faces in front of people again, the matter of entertaining guests had to be left to the children of An Guogong's concubines.

After Li Meiying had a meal at Duke Anguo's mansion, she took Yunyu and Qing'er back to the Princess Mansion, and Wei Jinyang brought his guards back to the palace not long after Li Meiying left.

That night, Prince Kang Wei Haoyou secretly sneaked into Xindu and went straight to the back door of Duke Anguo's mansion. There was already a housekeeper waiting at the back door, and the butler quietly welcomed Prince Kang into the mansion of Duke Anguo.

"The fourth son was bitten by a poisonous snake. He will recuperate in the Cedar Courtyard. The servant will take Prince Kang there." The housekeeper led the way and briefly told Wu Haolong about his injury.

"How can there be poisonous snakes in the mansion in this season?" Prince Kang frowned and asked.

Hearing this, the butler remembered Wu Haolong's explanation, so he shook his head and said, "This slave doesn't know either. Prince Kang will ask after meeting the Fourth Young Master. Presumably the young master is willing to tell Prince Kang."

Hearing this, Prince Kang stopped talking, and the two of them arrived at Xuesong Courtyard in silence all the way. The housekeeper led Prince Kang into Wu Haolong's bedroom, and then retreated.

"My lord..." Seeing Prince Kang, Wu Haolong struggled to stand up and salute, but was stopped by Prince Kang.

"You are injured, so you don't need to be polite, just lie down in peace!" Prince Kang said lightly, then sat down on the chair beside the bed and said again: "How did you get bitten by a poisonous snake? , even if there are poisonous snakes, you can easily avoid them, how could it be so serious?"

Wu Haolong was well aware of Prince Kang's obsession with Li Sister-in-law, so of course he didn't dare to tell the truth. Thinking of his politically-minded and scheming fifth younger brother, a thought flashed through his mind, and he sighed, "How could it be so in this season?" There is a snake, it must be that someone wants to assassinate me, so I let the poisonous snake bite me when I was not prepared."

When Prince Kang heard the words, a dark light flashed in his eyes, and he tentatively said: "You mean someone wants you to die, so they let a poisonous snake bite you when you are not prepared?"

Wu Haolong nodded and said: "Yes, and the person who released the snake must be from the mansion, who outside the mansion would want to harm me, an unofficial person."

After hearing this, Prince Kang's eyes flickered, and he was silent for a while before he said: "Why do people in the mansion want to kill you? As you said, you are a person without official status and will not affect anyone. The future of a person, for a person who is not a threat, who will bother to get rid of you?"

Wu Haolong heard the words, his eyes became sad and he said: "If the first emperor was in power and my father was still alive, I would indeed be a person who would not pose any threat. But now that my father has passed away, the elder cousin is in power. There is an old saying that Yunzi inherits from his father. Ye, I am the only legitimate son in the Duke of Anguo's mansion, and I have the priority to inherit the title. Although I can no longer enter the court as an official, I can still be an idle Duke of the country. This may be the emperor's original intention, but some people yearn for it Power, not willing to let the title fall into the hands of useless people like me, naturally can't wait to get rid of me."

Prince Kang sighed when he heard the words, he lowered his voice and said, "Then tell me, who do you suspect did it, do you have evidence?"

The intention of getting snakes into the mansion was to get rid of Li Sister-in-law to avenge his father and attack Wei Jinyang by the way. He did everything secretly, even the people in the mansion kept it from the truth. Only his mother and sister Miaozi knew about it. I'm afraid it won't be that easy for the fifth child, thinking of this, Wu Haolong shook his head with a sigh: "The incident happened suddenly, even if there is evidence, the evidence will be destroyed by the person behind the scenes as soon as possible, this can only be considered my bad luck .”

When Prince Kang heard this, he frowned, and then comforted him: "Let's put it aside for now, the most important thing is for you to heal your injuries right now. When uncle's funeral is over, the emperor's brother will probably order you to inherit the title. When you become the Duke of An and become the real head of the family, there will be plenty of time and opportunity to find out the person who harmed you."

Wu Haolong heaved a sigh of relief when he heard this, he knew that Prince Kang would not ask him about the snake bite again, and now this hurdle has finally passed.

"What happened to my uncle's death? I don't believe it was an accident?" Thinking of the purpose of this trip, Prince Kang shifted the topic to serious matters.

Hearing this, Wu Haolong sighed and said: "For more than a year, the Duke's Mansion has been attacked repeatedly, and the momentum is not as good as before. In addition, my aunt was only a nominal empress dowager in the harem, and she was greatly wronged. Father's mood is very special. The difference is that the whole family spent the Spring Festival in sorrow. On the night of the 15th Lantern Festival, the palace held a Lantern Festival banquet. All the officials entered the palace to participate in the banquet. Only his father was not invited. He drank a lot of wine and no one was allowed to follow him. His father's attendants did not dare to disobey his father, but followed him from a distance. They saw him enter the study with their own eyes. They guarded outside the study for a long time until they heard their father's snoring from inside. They dared to enter the study, moved their father to the bed in the study lightly, waited for his father to lie down, and then retreated. Then, within an hour, the patrolling guards in the mansion came to report that his father had drowned in the garden. In the pond, after the autopsy, it was found that the father got up because of internal anxiety, but because he drank too much alcohol, he still didn’t wake up, walked out of the study in a daze, stumbled and fell into the pond.”

After hearing Wu Haolong's words, Prince Kang finally sighed and said nothing. He sat quietly for a while and then got up and said, "You can rest at ease, everything will be discussed after I enter Beijing in a legitimate manner."

After he finished speaking, he stepped out of the Cedar Courtyard, and was about to go back to the back door and leave through the back door. Suddenly there was a dispute in front, Prince Kang frowned, and jumped onto a big tree to hide.

It was Wu Miaozi and Wu Jinsong, the fifth son of the Wu family, who came here. Wu Miaozi covered Bai Miao, stared angrily at the man in front of her and said, "Fifth brother, you'd better get out of the way now, I must ask fourth brother to help me with this matter." I'm the ruler."

Wu Jinsong looked at Wu Miaozi in embarrassment, without moving his feet: "Miaozi, the fourth brother is still recovering and needs to rest, it's better not to worry about him."

"Could it be that I was beaten by sister-in-law Li, so let's forget about it?" Wu Miaozi shouted angrily when she heard this.

"She is the princess and is protected by the emperor. Even if you tell the fourth brother, what's the use? With the emperor's protection, no one can do anything to her." Sighing, Wu Jinsong said helplessly .

(End of this chapter)