morning thoughts

Since last night, the crown prince wanted to see Ling Chao, but he was entangled in many trivial matters and had to give up. It was hard to get some free time, and he went to Zhaohui Hall in person, but was told by Yunan that Ling Chao had gone to Concubine Shu Well please.

The crown prince put the teacup that Yun An handed over on the table, made a muffled sound, and asked, "When will Ling Chao go to Concubine Shu's place and come back? Is it possible to make Gu wait like this?"

Yun An lowered his hands and bowed, and said respectfully: "If the prince has something urgent..... the servant will report the truth when His Highness comes back."

"Dog slave!"

The crown prince was upset, but he didn't explode in Chaohui Palace. He scolded Yun'an, and after careful calculation in his heart, according to Ji Yu's character, it had nothing to do with Ji Li's passing in such a calm and breezy way. Besides, Concubine Shu Is there really such a deep mother-child relationship with Ling Chao?

Ben still couldn't wait any longer, thinking that these princes calmed down again, and they didn't go around with Yun An, and said bluntly: "Send someone to Concubine Shu's palace to invite Ling Chao back, and say that I have something important to see him."

Yun An had no choice but to send someone to invite Ling Chao back from Concubine Shu's Palace.

Ling Chao was discussing business with Concubine Shu, and the servants in Zhaohui Palace came to invite him three times and four times. Ling Chao's expression was uneasy, but Concubine Shu didn't dare to force him to stay.

"Since the prince summoned him, there must be something urgent. We can talk between mother and son at any time, and there is no rush at this moment." Concubine Shu persuaded.

Only then did Ling Chao get up and bow to Concubine Shu and said, "Concubine Lao Shu is the one who will deal with my son and minister."

Concubine Shu nodded in response, and Ling Chaocai returned to Zhaohui Palace with the servants who had come to invite people.

Seeing Ling Chao, it was rare for the prince to get angry and not look at him directly, and all of them snorted sarcastically: "The third highness is very hot now, even Gu has to wait."

Ling Chao was not angry when he was ridiculed, and replied with a soft smile: "But I just went to Concubine Shu's place, where is it worth being a prince? Use the words hot and hot. If the prince is angry, just say it. The younger brother will bear it."

Reach out and don't hit smiling people, not to mention that there are many places where the crown prince greets Ji Yu, who has learned Ling Chao's attitude, he can tell at a glance.

After serving the tea and taking a sip, the anger gradually subsided: "You have not learned how clever your son is, but you have learned the tricks of grinding people very well."

This is probably near Zhu Zhechi, Ling Chao answered this sentence in his heart, but only smiled on his face.

The prince chatted lazily with him, sat up straight, and asked tentatively: "Gu heard that the daughter of the Wang family of Annan has come to Beijing, why is the news so tightly covered? But what happened?"

Hearing this, Ling Chao's face changed slightly, panic flashed in his eyes, and then he covered up and said: "My brother also just came back from the camp, so I don't know much about it."

Seeing his reaction, the prince was even more sure that there was something he didn't know about it, but seeing Ling Chao's attitude, he probably couldn't let go easily.

The prince raised his head and looked out the window, his eyes fell on the opposite east hall, he rubbed his fingers along the edge of the cup, and said casually: "When the prince is in the palace, he lives here, right?"

Ling Chao nodded, and followed his gaze.

"It's not difficult to inquire about something alone in Huajing. Why do you ask you? You really don't know?"

Ling Chao didn't make a sound.

The outside of the house was shrouded in hot sunlight, and the ground seemed to be roasted. From a distance, it looked like smoke waves, making people dizzy, and the cicadas on the trees were screaming harder... ...

"The prince went out of Beijing to the camp, and he still came here to seek the will of the orphan. You accompanied the prince to Ling Yu's mansion yesterday, but they broke up in a quarrel." The crown prince lifted the lid of the cup, neither light nor heavy. Knocking down, "Ling Chao, do you think that you can hide the matter between you and Ji Yu in the palace, and you can hide it from others?"

With a crisp clang, the tea lid fell from the cup and hit the table.

Ling Chao breathed a sigh of relief, stared at the prince with frowned eyes, and said, "What does the prince want to ask?"

"Naturally, Ji Li can't hide that matter from Gu, but Gu just wants to know what happened to Ji Yu? Can he still hold back?"

Ling Chao restrained his expression, and catered to him: "It's not that he hasn't moved. The prince doesn't know that even if I join forces with the prince, he may not be able to defeat the general. The prince knows the strength of the general. Besides, the prince is in Huajing and has not yet known the truth. , even if you know it, so what?"

The crown prince asked suspiciously: "You mean that Ling Yu didn't tell the general?"

Ling Chao shook his head, and said rather sadly: "It's not that he didn't mention the great general. In fact, it's the same reason whether he said it or not. If I know this, it's the same as the prince knows." Ling Chao paused, and then Said: "It's just that the prince just wants to find out who robbed Ji Li. If Ling Yu doesn't say it, he will definitely not be able to find out with the ability of the prince."

"Besides, the son seems to be quite afraid of the general."

The crown prince frowned, turned to Ling Chao, and said, "I thought that you would get some benefits from him by getting close to Ji Yu, but after several times, I realized that Ji Yu's city mansion is extremely deep, but that's all. He thinks he has the talents of vertical and horizontal, but he doesn't know that the people who hold the military power in this world can be vertical and horizontal."

"In the future, King Annan's military power may not fall to his son-in-law, right? It's just a seductive appearance, that's all."

Ling Chao's expression changed immediately.

"I never thought that the prince would look down on the son so much."

The prince consciously made a slip of the tongue, got up and walked to Ling Chao, put on a big brother's posture, pressed Ling Chao's shoulder, and said with a smile: "As a prince, what kind of person can't be around, but you need to pay more attention What, you are too soft-tempered Ji Yu and too smart, you have to know how to deal with it."

Ling Chao laughed along with the prince, and said, "My brother understands."

"Okay," the prince nodded, and said with some approval in his tone: "This is the bearing that a prince should have."

Ling Chao watched the prince leave the Zhaohui Palace, and suddenly remembered what Ji Yu had said, "The prince is the same as Ling Yu, but with a little more scheming, but they both have the same eyes above the top. "

Ling Chao looked back, turned and returned to the inner hall, Yun An handed over the note, and said with some concern: "Just now when the crown prince was still there, the carrier pigeon handed it over, I don't know if His Royal Highness saw it or not."

Ling Chao frowned, and said: "It's okay, if the prince saw it, he would have checked it out."

The note stopped halfway in his hand, and after re-rolling it, he stood up and said, "After Ji Jingyang leaves Huajing, all future news will be spread to the Shizi Mansion. The palace is indeed not safe."

"Your Highness," Yun An excitedly followed Ling Chao out, "If this is reported to the Shizi's Mansion, then the Shizi will probably know about it too..."

Ling Chao stopped and said, "I don't want to lie to him, I will tell him sooner or later, just stay in the palace and wait for me to come back."

Yun An stopped in his tracks and looked at Ling Chao's back, not knowing whether to be happy or worried.