The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 423 Counterattack (two more)

The man watched her tightly grabbing her hand, and sneered: "What? You want to slap me again? Then you'd better try harder this time, and don't leave a slap mark like last time."

...

The prince came out of the imperial study with a pale face, he didn't look at the road very much, and almost bumped into someone walking by.

He was about to have an attack, but found that the person who came was Ning Wang.

He couldn't tell what mood he was in, so he greeted sullenly: "Brother."

King Ning smiled and said, "What's the matter? You seem unhappy, is it the father who reprimanded you or Xiao Qi?"

The prince resentfully said: "Father said that I didn't discipline Xiao Qi well! What's the matter with me? Who knows where that little fat man has the guts to run around the palace?"

King Ning laughed, patted him on the shoulder, and said: "You are the prince, you are the elder brother, and you are the example of all the princes. It is inevitable that the father has higher expectations for you. Don't worry, the father is just talking about it." Say, I won't really blame you. As for Xiao Qi, he is a mischievous age, and it's normal for him to cause trouble, and it's too late for his father to hurt him. I won't really blame him."

It was quite comforting to hear these words.

The crown prince would not be jealous of Qin Chuyu taking away his father's favor. After all, he is his own younger brother, and after all, there is such a age difference. Besides, what King Ning said was right, the reason why his father scolded him was because he had higher expectations for him than other princes.

He sighed: "Even... Father still wants to punish Xiaoqi, it's useless for me to plead."

King Ning smiled and patted the prince on the shoulder: "You go back to the East Palace first, I will talk to my father."

The prince opened his mouth. To be honest, he and King Ning are not in the same camp. King Ning is the biggest threat to his emperor's road, not only because King Ning is smarter and capable than him, but also because his father loves King Ning very much.

King Ning, the elder brother, is often hated by people.

His eyes are warm, sunny, and honest. He strives to be a good son of his father and a good brother of the princes. He is motivated enough, but he doesn't see too much ambition.

In particular, he didn't have any unspeakable thoughts about Lin Lang.

Don't think you don't know, the third, fourth, and even Concubine Shu's fifth have all secretly admired Linlang.

Only the eldest brother is aboveboard and a gentleman.

Thinking about it this way, the prince looked more pleasing to King Ning: "That's all right, I'll leave Xiaoqi's matter to the elder brother. Lin Lang is injured, and I have to go back to take care of her as soon as possible."

He had just walked a few steps when King Ning suddenly called him: "Second brother."

The prince turned around: "Brother, is there anything else?"

Ning Wangdao: "Father is very worried about the assessment of the Six Departments recently.

The cabinet is also arguing endlessly about this. I am planning to go to the cabinet. Do you want my second brother to come together? "

"This..." The prince hesitated.

As the prince of a country, he naturally knows that it is a rare good thing to properly participate in government affairs to relieve his father's worries, but he is really worried about Lin Lang's injury.

King Ning smiled: "Then why don't I tell my father that I will go alone."

If the emperor knows about this, will he be happy?

The prince muttered: "Father didn't mention this just now."

King Ning laughed and said, "That's because I haven't reported it yet."

Well, there is no escape.

The prince sighed: "Then I will go to the cabinet with my elder brother."

King Ning smiled: "Okay."

Seeing the two brothers getting into the carriage intimately, the eyes of Gu Jiao and Yuan Tang behind the big tree were straight.

Yuan Tang: "Isn't it? There's no fight yet? The prince thinks he's not green enough?"

Yuan Tang has already found out who the man who met the princess privately was.

Not only because he recognized the other person's voice, but also because the other person turned around when he left and accidentally made him see the face clearly.

His mood at that moment can only be described as how surprised and astonished.

Gu Jiao groaned, she was really surprised.

Yuan Tang said coldly: "I want to wash away my grievances!"

Gu Jiao refused straight away: "No."

"Why?" Yuan Tang asked.

"Princess Rui will die." Gu Jiao said, "She is the only person who can 'see' your private meeting with the princess, she is an important witness, once you are exonerated, King Ning will not keep her .”

A person like King He Ning cannot speak morally, so don't expect him to care about brotherhood.

Yuan Tang snorted coldly, "Am I going to carry this scapegoat for the rest of my life?"

Gu Jiao rolled her eyes: "How about...you go and kill him?"

The corner of Yuantang's mouth twitched fiercely.

Is he a watermelon? I say kill it!

Also, this is the territory of your Zhao Kingdom! I'm going to assassinate the eldest son of your Zhao Kingdom, how many heads can I chop off?

As if seeing his complaint, Gu Jiao spread her hands: "Didn't you even assassinate the emperor?"

Yuan Tang clenched his fists: "That's just a show! How dare I really kill your emperor! Am I going to die!"

Gu Jiao squinted at him: "Is there any difference between colluding with the concubine of the enemy country and courting death?"

Yuan Tang choked.

Thinking of something, Yuan Tang giggled: "Eh? Why don't you tell your queen mother? Doesn't the queen mother trust you very much? She won't believe what you say, right?"

Gu Jiao was silent.

After a while, he said calmly, "Is that why I stabbed her in the heart with a knife because she believed in me?"

Yuan Tang choked again.

He forgot that King Ning's body had the same blood as Queen Mother Zhuang's.

King Ning can be sorry to many people, but he has never failed Empress Dowager Zhuang.

His filial piety to Queen Mother Zhuang came from the heart.

Yuan Tang looked deeply at Gu Jiao: "So... what is your plan? I need to know whether we will be enemies or friends in the future."

It's no wonder Yuan Tang would ask such a question, even Yuan Tang could tell that King Ning would not touch Gu Jiao.

It is impossible for King Ning not to guess that Gu Jiao has already guessed the truth. He never thought of killing Gu Jiao from the beginning, and Yuan Tang thought of several reasons.

One is that Gu Jiao is the heart and soul of Empress Dowager Zhuang, if she touches Gu Jiao, Empress Dowager Zhuang will not let her go.

Second, King Ning also needs Gu Jiao to treat Princess Ning's illness. Of course, this is based on the premise that King Ning has feelings for Princess Ning.

The third point is also very important, Gu Jiao is an outsider, she doesn't care about the prince's dispute at all, even if King Ning turns the prince into a grassland, what does it have to do with Gu Jiao?

Since King Ning will not kill her, then there is no need for her to be an enemy of King Ning, right?

Gu Jiao said lightly: "I only do what I think is necessary."

Yuan Tang was puzzled: "What do you mean? Are you fighting against King Ning?"

Gu Jiao looked at him: "I should actually ask you this."

Yuan Tang was taken aback: "What?"

Gu Jiao said unhurriedly: "If King Ning finds out that it is not easy to assassinate you, so he simply abandons you and turns his head to think of other ways, then do you still want to be his enemy?"

Yuan Tang opened his mouth: "I..."

Gu Jiao said: "It doesn't matter whether I am against him or not. I never need any friends, and I am not afraid of having more opponents."

Killing is nothing but nodding, what this girl said hurts my heart!

So he still didn't understand what this girl meant!

Gu Jiao's prediction was correct, after Ning Wang found out that Yuan Tang was hard to chew, he did not make any further moves towards Yuan Tang for the time being.

Although this incident has not yet started, it is not easy to shut up the mouths of King Rui and his wife. King Ning has two better choices - one is to act in another scene, so that Princess Rui can discover the "real rockery man", This man was left to King Ning's choice, and it would be fine to just push a scapegoat out to top the bag.

However, this requires the cooperation of the Crown Princess. Judging from the relationship between the Crown Princess and King Ning that Gu Jiao observed today, I am afraid that the Crown Princess will not be happy.

Furthermore, even if there is a new scapegoat, what next? Are you really pushing out the princess and the scapegoat? Is Prince Ning willing to ruin the princess' reputation?

The second option is to kill Princess Rui.

Princess Rui was a witness, and so was Gu Jiao, but Gu Jiao didn't care about it, unlike Princess Rui who had a feud with the Crown Princess, she would not easily let go of this opportunity to see the Crown Princess ruined.

"Miss Gu, shall we go back to the clinic?" the third son asked in the carriage.

"Go to Prince Ning's Mansion." Gu Jiao said.

"okay!"

The third son drove the carriage to Prince Ning's mansion.

Concubine Ning met Gu Jiao in her yard, and she asked someone to serve tea: "Dr. Gu is here today for my follow-up visit? I remember the follow-up visit will be three days later."

The implication is that Gu Jiao can go to the Three Treasures Hall without incident.

Gu Jiao didn't hesitate at all, and said straight to the point: "Princess, can I trust you?"

Princess Ning stopped holding the teacup.

...

King Ning and the crown prince were busy in the cabinet until very late, and it was late at night when they returned to the palace.

Princess Ning was sitting in the gazebo drinking tea.

King Ning pressed his brows and walked over. Someone closed the curtain for him, and only then did he realize that Princess Rui was there.

He froze for a moment, but soon his expression returned to normal, and he smiled gently: "Su Xin, I'm back, and my third sibling is here too."

"Brother!" Princess Rui heard his voice, turned her head to look, stood up, and saluted with a smile, "Sister-in-law said she was bored, I moved here for a few days, so I can stay with sister-in-law, brother, you don't mind?" !"

"Why? With you by my side, I'm too happy to be happy." King Ning said with a smile, and came to the other side of Princess Ning, sat down next to her, and said, "Sorry, the cabinet affairs are too complicated today. Too many, I didn't rush back to watch the show with you."

Concubine Ning poured him a cup of scented tea: "It's okay, the third sibling has watched it with me."

King Ning smiled and glanced at the two: "Which show did you watch? Is it good?"

Princess Rui nodded her head, "It's "The Moon Prayer Pavilion", it's so wonderful, I almost cried!"

King Ning smiled, and looked at Princess Ning dotingly: "Then, did Su Xin cry?"

Princess Ning asked back: "Does Your Highness want me to cry?"

King Ning was stunned for a moment, then took one of her hands and asked, "Why? I promised Su Xin that I would never let you cry in this life."

Princess Ning took her hand out of his palm and pushed the poured scented tea in front of him: "Your Highness, drink tea."

"it is good."

The three of them sat in the pavilion for a while, King Ning said: "It's getting late, I'll send you back to rest."

The three got up and walked out of the pavilion, but the moment they walked down the steps, Princess Rui suddenly screamed and leaned forward.

There was a princess Ning between King Ning and her, and it was too late to make a move, so Princess Ning grabbed Princess Rui, pulled her back, and stabilized her figure.

Princess Ning lost her balance by herself and rolled down the steps.

"Su Xin!"

"Sister-in-law!"

Princess Ning fell badly and dislocated her left arm.

After the doctor reset her, he wrapped her in a cloth and put her in bed to rest.

Princess Rui was so sad that she burst into tears: "I, I don't know what happened, but suddenly my foot slipped..."

Concubine Ning told Concubine Rui not to think too much, and went back to the house to rest.

Ning Wang stayed to feed Ning Wangfei medicine.

Concubine Ning didn't drink the medicine, but looked straight at him: "His Royal Highness, tell me, why are the third siblings slipping? Did they step on something?"

King Ning paused slightly.

Concubine Ning continued: "I obviously asked someone to clean up the pavilion, who put things that shouldn't be put there?"

Her eyes made King Ning frown: "How does this king know?"

After all, realizing that his tone was not good enough, King Ning took a deep breath and said, "If Su Xin wants to know, I'll ask someone to investigate."

Concubine Ning twitched the corners of her lips: "It's best for the prince to find out."

Of course King Ning found out, and this kind of thing can't trouble him.

But the results he found almost didn't make his expression crack on the spot!

"Yes, it's the princess who asked the little ones... to rub some lard on the steps." The servant was trembling and couldn't speak fluently.

God knows why Princess Ning, who has always been gentle and virtuous, suddenly stopped being a human being, and wants to spread lard to harm Princess Rui!

It happened that Princess Rui couldn't do it, and she hurt herself...

King Ning's fists were clenched and rattled: "Get out! Get the board yourself!"

"Yes... yes... yes!" The boy scrambled to the ground, fearing that if he slowed down, the master would change his mind and want his head.

Although Princess Ning was injured, her sleep was not affected.

She slept until dawn, and Princess Rui woke up for a long time.

She went to Princess Ning's house.

King Ning also came over. He had something to say to Princess Ning, but it was difficult for him to speak when Princess Rui was present.

He took a deep look at Princess Ning and went to the cabinet to deal with official duties.

But what he never expected was that before his butt was hot in the cabinet, the housekeeper came to report—Princess Ning was poisoned!

King Ning choked on his throat and almost choked to death!

"Your Highness, for a while..." The cabinet scholar came over, and was about to discuss important matters with King Ning, when King Ning stood up abruptly, went out in a hurry without even looking at him!

Cabinet Bachelor: "..."

When King Ning entered the room, Princess Ning was sitting on the bedside drinking medicine, her face was very pale, but her expression was careless.

King Ning squeezed his fingers expressionlessly: "You all back down."

"Yes!" The servant hurriedly retreated.

King Ning closed his eyes, took a few deep breaths, came to the bed and sat down, looked at her tenderly: "Give it to me."

Princess Ning handed him the medicine bowl.

King Ning tasted it himself first, it was neither cold nor hot, and then took a spoonful to feed her.

"It's aconitum." Princess Ning said after drinking the medicine.

King Ning paused when he went to scoop up the second spoonful of medicine.

Concubine Ning smiled and said: "It was originally a sour apricot for the third younger siblings. I tasted one out of curiosity, but I was poisoned. Your Highness said, who could have poisoned it?"