Chapter 197: Enemy, Not Friend
Zhao Shen's slender fingertips stroked a white jade chess piece, and his fingers were even more translucent and lustrous than the white jade.
"No matter who it's directed at, it's not a bad thing for us."
For him, as long as he could find out the truth about his mother's death, it would be enough.
Whether it's the Qin or Yao family, don't even think about escaping.
He didn't mind someone using him to deal with Zhao Heng.
Ji Yunshu thought the same. She held her chin with her hands and said with a smile, "I was very straightforward today. Even Second Aunt asked about it. If there really is a relationship between them, then she should have taken some action."
Zhao Shen shook his head: "She's so smart, she must be able to guess our intentions. She knows we have no evidence and won't act rashly."
"I know we don't have any evidence, but if someone suddenly says something like that, wouldn't she be wondering who's trying to get her? And what's more, that person is trying to get Zhao Heng? With that in mind, how could she still sit still?"
Yao is powerful, but she has a very obvious weakness, Zhao Heng.
Being able to know things that happened so long ago and also know Zhao Heng's life experience, that person obviously knows everything about the Yao family.
Being targeted by such a person, can the Yao family still remain calm and sleep peacefully?
Ji Yunshu was also a little confused: "We've been fine for so many years. Even if Zhao Heng is the son of Prince Yong, he's just an illegitimate child. At the moment, he doesn't pose any threat at all. Why did he suddenly..."
Zhao Shen's lips curled up into a smile, but his voice was cold: "Perhaps some people, as long as they are alive, make people feel disgusted."
Ji Yunshu: “…”
She had never heard Zhao Shen say such words before.
But think about it, it was Yao who used Zhao Heng in her belly to frighten Zhao Shen's mother and cause her to have a difficult delivery.
Ji Yunshu felt that this was exactly what he said.
Her heart moved, and she finally couldn't help but say what she had guessed in her heart for a long time: "Is it Xiao Kun?"
How could the prince of Yong's mansion, who was sent to the capital as a hostage since childhood, like his father's illegitimate son?
And there were those things that happened before, someone used snow sunflower to remind her about the spices, and they were led to Suzhou and eliminated the forces in Prince Yong's Mansion.
To be more precise, those are the forces controlled by Xiao Xun, the illegitimate son of Prince Yong.
"Lanting is Xiao Kun's man, right? You guys have been hooking up with him for a long time?"
After they returned from Suzhou, there was actually quite a bit of commotion inside and outside the palace.
No matter how incompetent the emperor is, he should not be unable to control the capital and allow Lu Ningshuang to run around freely.
Now it seems that Lu Ningshuang is just a cover for Xiao Kun.
Zhao Shen just took a sip of tea and almost choked when he heard her words: "What do you mean by hooking up..."
Ji Yunshu's occasional nonsense was simply too much for him to describe.
Ji Yunshu frowned: "That's not the point. Is it Xiao Kun or not? Does he not support Prince Yong?"
Zhao Shen took a deep breath and said, "It's hard to explain him in a few words. Although he deliberately revealed a lot of information to us, but..."
He paused, then continued, "An enemy, not a friend."
Ji Yunshu found his words a bit strange: "He is the son of Prince Yong. Even if he helped us secretly, he was just using us to eliminate dissidents. Otherwise, even if Prince Yong ascended to the throne, he would not necessarily benefit. How can we be friends with him?"
They were clearly enemies from the very beginning.
Zhao Shen nodded and smiled: "You are right."
Ji Yunshu thought seriously about Xiao Kun's matter. Although the book did not describe it in detail, it mentioned that Yao was the white moonlight in Prince Yong's heart. After Prince Yong ascended the throne, the two were still in contact.
Xiao Kun's biological mother, Princess Yong, was of no use and died in her fiefdom.
Xiao Kun grew up in the capital and had no father-son relationship with Prince Yong. However, after Prince Yong ascended the throne, he made Xiao Kun the crown prince.
The book does not mention King Yong's other sons, and Zhao Heng was an illegitimate child. From this perspective, it is indeed legitimate to appoint Xiao Kun as the crown prince.
But now she knows all the bad things going on in Prince Yong's mansion. Prince Yong has several women with official status around him, and he has seven or eight sons.
Moreover, they have all been carefully cultivated. Like Xiao Xun, they have been placed in the field to gain experience and manage affairs at an early age.
From this point of view, Xiao Kun has no advantage at all.
So either his appointment as crown prince was a pretext, or he did something that forced King Yong to appoint him as crown prince.
This person seems a little scary.
These thoughts flashed through Ji Yunshu's mind, and she couldn't help but ask, "It's not the first day he knew about Zhao Heng's background. Why didn't he make trouble earlier or later, but now?"
Zhao Shen didn't know what he was thinking about, so he smiled and said, "Maybe he's just bored. You know his temper."
Ji Yunshu then remembered that the original owner and Xiao Kun were friends.
Xiao Kun was sent to the capital when he was a child. Although everyone with a discerning eye knew that he was a hostage, he was still a descendant of the royal family, so naturally he needed a reasonable reason.
The reason why Prince Yong sent someone here was that the Crown Prince was in poor health and the capital was more suitable for recuperation.
So Xiao Kun was raised in the harem, and at that time Ji Yunshu was also raised in the harem by the empress dowager.
When she was little, Ji Yunshu was a very soft-hearted girl.
She once helped Xiao Kun file a complaint and asked the Queen Mother to deal with the palace maids who had treated him badly.
He also protected Xiao Kun when other princes and princesses bullied him.
There was even one time when Xiao Kun was injured for some reason and almost died, and it was she who called the imperial physician to save him.
But at that time, Xiao Kun's temper was really bad, and he always found ways to make Ji Yunshu cry.
Later, Ji Yunshu would avoid him whenever he saw him.
When Xiao Kun grew older, he left the palace and lived in Prince Yong's Mansion in the capital.
The two of them rarely saw each other except for the New Year palace banquets, and Ji Yunshu forgot about these things after he grew up.
"He's grown up now, is he still that annoying person?"
Zhao Shen said, "I can't really describe his personality. I think we'll see him at the New Year's Eve banquet this year."
On New Year’s Eve, all royal relatives and nobles had to go to the palace to attend the banquet.
Today is already the twenty-seventh.
"That's still three days."
Thinking of Lu Ningshuang who was hiding in the dark and plotting something, Ji Yunshu felt that this year's palace banquet would not be peaceful.
Zhao Shen squeezed her hand and asked, "Are you looking forward to seeing him so much?"
Ji Yunshu didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "I couldn't even hide from him. You don't know how much he loved to bully me when he was a kid."
Zhao Shen smiled and said, "Then why did he tell me that he was helping me because you saved his life?"
Ji Yunshu said nonchalantly, "I just called the imperial physician because he was sick. How can that be considered a life-saving favor?"
Zhao Shen's eyes darkened for a moment.
He had been the emperor's tutor for several years and was familiar with the affairs of the palace.
Everyone knew that Ji Yunshu was the Queen Mother's favorite. Wherever she went, she was surrounded by stars and no one dared to neglect her.
But it is not like this for others. The unfavored princes and princesses even have to look at the faces of the palace maids and eunuchs.
Not to mention hostages like Xiao Kun.
Everyone knew that he was a hostage and an abandoned child of King Yong.
No one in the palace cared about his life or death.
But behind Ji Yunshu was the empress dowager. When she helped Xiao Kun invite the imperial physician, she was telling everyone that the empress dowager cared about this person's life and death.
Zhao Shen recalled the day when Xiao Kun casually said something about saving his life. He originally thought it was just a perfunctory remark made by the other party.
Turns out it isn't?
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