Chapter 367 The Fifth Prince Comes to Baijia Village
The Fifth Prince tightened his black crane cloak with auspicious clouds on it, and a barely perceptible smile appeared on his face, which did not resemble the late emperor.
He walked quickly towards the foot of the mountain.
Fu Xuanheng had already received news that the Fifth Prince was coming, so he and Shen Yunyue came together to greet him.
Shihanzhou is also very cold in winter.
The wind blows on my face and it hurts.
Fu Xuanheng wore a royal blue and black crane cloak with a rising step-by-step floral pattern, while Shen Yunyue wore a bright red feather gauze crane cloak with white fox fur.
The two of them look so well-matched.
Scarface Peng was amused when he saw that Shen Yunyue had grown much taller than before.
The two sides met on the road between the He family and the Lu family.
Fu Xuanheng bowed first and said in a deep voice:
"Fifth Uncle."
Shen Yunyue bowed and said, "Thank you for your care, Uncle Fifth."
She was talking about the care that Scarface Peng took care of her on the road to exile.
There was a hint of joy in the eyes of the Fifth Prince.
"I've already called you Uncle Wu, so why should I be so polite? Where's the knife?"
He had been thinking about Feng Xiaodao for a long time.
That was his sister's only bloodline, and the Fifth Prince had a particularly good relationship with his sister, who was born to the same mother.
But fate plays tricks on us.
Shen Yunyue smiled when she heard this, "He's in Yunheng Palace. I'll send someone to pick him up."
"No."
The Fifth Prince shook his head and said, "I'll go find him tomorrow."
Following behind them were the Fifth Prince’s personal guards.
Before they left south.
The tightly closed door of the He family opened a crack, and a pair of cloudy eyes stared at the direction they left.
"Others have opportunities, why don't my He family have them?"
“It’s so unfair.”
"My He family was only interested in self-interest, so why did it end up like this?"
He opened the door silently.
He gathered his thick clothes and walked towards the back mountain.
There are several more graves there.
He wanted to go and cry.
The Lu family soon learned about the Fifth Prince's arrival.
The head of the Lu family did not have much contact with the Fifth Prince.
In the past, the Fifth Prince was like a nobody. Among the officials in the capital, he was not valued by the aristocratic families or the upright.
They will automatically put him aside as a supporter.
Such people grew up to be the ones who rebelled today.
They really didn't expect it.
Old Master Lu is now considered the closest person to the head of the Lu family. When he heard that the Fifth Prince was coming, he went to inquire about him.
Only then did they learn that Scarface Peng was actually the Fifth Prince's personal guard.
He hurriedly told the head of the Lu family what he had found out.
"Master, it seems that the Fifth Prince and the Young Prince are together. I wonder who will walk in front in the end?" Old Master Lu stroked his long beard, his wise eyes full of brilliance.
Following the Fu family, their lives became better and better.
However, they also understood that Fu Xuanheng and Shen Yunyue could not accept betrayal and would not show any mercy.
Just look at the He family today and you will know.
I thought it was Fu Xuanheng's maternal grandparents' home.
Even if there was such a quarrel on the road to exile, it was just that someone bowed their head and someone gave way.
Who would have thought that the He family would bow their heads.
Fu Xuanheng and his wife refused to give in.
"Master, who do you think will ultimately confront the one from the capital?"
The head of the Lu family sat on the couch in front of the window, reading a travel book in his hand.
He put down the book in his hand after hearing this.
After thinking carefully for a while, he said, "I don't know either. Anyway, no matter who it is, we will choose Fu Xuanheng and his wife."
Mr. Lu breathed a sigh of relief.
"The Patriarch is right."
Knowing that the Fifth Prince was coming, the Shen family fell into silence.
No one thought of coming over to say hello, and no one wanted to discuss who was in charge. Anyway, for them, they had to follow Shen Yunyue's footsteps.
Arrived at the Fu family.
Snowflakes were floating in the sky, falling one by one.
Fu Xuanheng held Shen Yunyue's hand the whole time, and they all went to the bamboo house to receive guests.
There are glazed windows around the bamboo house, and other places also use pepper mud and thatch for heating, sandwiched between the bamboo and in the gaps.
The best silver charcoal was lit in the room.
A piece of incense was placed inside, and a faint fragrance wafted out.
"Fifth Uncle, please sit down." Fu Xuanheng let go of Shen Yunyue's hand and made a gesture of invitation.
Mu Ya took the crane cloak from Shen Yunyue and handed her the small hand warmer that had been prepared long ago.
"Young Madam, soak the snow-capped emerald green."
"Yes. Pick out some exquisite snacks and send them over, and arrange a place for the personal guards following Fifth Uncle to rest. Prepare all the necessary food and tea. Use diamond charcoal in the room, and do not use black charcoal that produces a lot of smoke." Shen Yunyue gave a few instructions.
"Yes, I'll arrange it right away." Mu Ya turned and left.
Bayan followed outside and when he saw Mu Ya go out, he quickly pulled her aside to ask her some questions.
Shen Yunyue asked someone to call Monkey over and asked him to accompany Peng Scarface.
The Fifth Prince looked at Fu Xuanheng with a stern look in his eyes, "I heard that there are still people alive in the Yun family. I want to meet them."
"Okay, only Uncle Eight is here now."
Fu Xuanheng ordered Yingfeng to call Uncle Yun over, and Yingfeng and others returned from Yaowang Valley at the beginning of winter.
Nowadays, he is still on duty beside Fu Xuanheng.
After Uncle Yun came over.
He saluted the Fifth Prince, who raised his hand slightly.
"Xuanheng. What are your plans for the future?" When the Fifth Prince saw Fu Xuanheng asking Uncle Yun to sit down, he knew that this was his confidant.
The Fifth Prince, who values family the most, was shocked to find that he had always been a lonely man.
Fu Xuanheng took a sip of tea nonchalantly.
He put down his teacup and looked at the Fifth Prince with a firm and powerful gaze. "Fifth Uncle. I want to take back what I lost."
The same goes for the country.
The Fifth Prince understood what Fu Xuanheng meant.
He placed his right hand on the armrest of the chair and tapped it gently. The throne held no appeal to him.
He rebelled out of sheer desperation.
The emperor hated his mother and was disgusted with himself for drinking deer blood and favoring that woman.
Even her children were disgusted.
This is why he had to escape death, while his sister was nominally a princess but in reality lived worse than a peasant woman.
In the end, he was forced to death by the mother of a top scholar.
"What if I want that position too?" The Fifth Prince picked up the teacup and blew away the tea foam before taking a big sip.
The taste is cold with a refreshing fragrance of snow-capped plum blossoms.
"Good tea." He put down the teacup.
Fu Xuanheng calmly twirled the beads in his hand, with a smile on his lips.
"Then it depends on who has the ability."
The Fifth Prince laughed heartily. "You are much more clear-headed than your father. Your father was more merciful than you, but it was this very mercy that killed him."
He laughed wildly several times.
"If we had been as ruthless as you back then, why would we be in such a mess now?"
"Fifth Uncle, you can choose a place and make it your fiefdom. But that place cannot be anywhere in the Great Zhou." Shen Yunyue added.
When the Fifth Prince heard this, he realized that the girl was speaking in a very loud tone.
"Anywhere, not the Great Zhou?" His eyes were filled with a smile. "Xiliang or Nanli?"
"Everyone can choose a state capital."
Fu Xuanheng nodded, "I have big ambitions and a big appetite."
"I will not be satisfied with just the territory of the Great Zhou. I want to unify this continent." As for places outside the open sea, Fu Xuanheng is powerless for the time being.
Under the current conditions, I can't go.
The Fifth Prince expressed great interest in this.
"Something strange has happened to the small tribe in the East China Sea." He was also paying attention to the developments in the East China Sea.
It’s just that the focus is different from what Shen Yunyue and the others had heard before.
"What vision?"
"I heard that a group of injured mermaids appeared in the sea." The Fifth Prince felt a little regretful. When he heard about it that day, he sent people to the East China Sea to hunt a mermaid.
It is said that a drop of shark oil can be made into an oil lamp and burn for several days.
Clothes made from shark skin are worth a fortune. They are not wet by dew and cannot be broken by swords.
"We've only heard of the existence of mermaids, but few people have seen them." Fu Xuanheng frowned and then looked at Shen Yunyue.
Shen Yunyue was shocked.
She and Fu Xuanheng thought of the mysterious people at the same time.
Or the injured mermaid is related to those people.
But those people never appeared again, as if it was just an accident.
The Fifth Prince picked up his teacup, staring into it in a trance. He snorted coldly, "I thought it was just hearsay, but I sent people to the East China Sea and they said there are indeed injured mermaids. They seem to be seeking refuge from the slaughter."
Uncle Yun Ba never spoke.
Listening quietly to the three of them discussing.
He, who always had his own ideas, couldn't get a word in at this moment.
He had no idea about it.
Let’s talk about it later.
The Fifth Prince even suggested that Fu Xuanheng gather some ministers to rebel. He planned to accept Fu Xuanheng's proposal and find a place he liked as his fiefdom.
He had no interest in the throne anyway.
The reason why I helped Fu Xuanheng in the beginning.
He just wanted someone to inherit his position after he rebelled.
Until evening.
He had just been playing chess with Fu Xuanheng, and the rest was probably private conversations between the uncle and nephew.
Shen Yunyue left here under the pretext of going to the kitchen.
Uncle Yun also found an excuse to leave, leaving the Fifth Prince and Fu Xuanheng to play chess and talk.
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