Chapter 169 You May Have a Brother
The more Emperor Showa thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.
Wang Dequan asked, "Your Majesty, are you mistaken? How could the head of the Tianji Pavilion be His Royal Highness Prince Li?"
Emperor Zhaohe frowned, looked at the man in the sedan chair, and whispered to Wang Dequan, "Have you checked the letter that the Qinglong envoy from the Tianji Pavilion delivered yesterday? Is it really from the Tianji Pavilion?"
Wang Dequan nodded and said, "Your Majesty, I have already had someone verify that it was indeed sent by the Tianji Pavilion. The seal at the end of the letter is undoubtedly from the Tianji Pavilion."
Emperor Showa sighed: "That's good. I hope my guess is wrong."
"Xing asked me for the Fire Lotus a few days ago. Now the Pavilion Master of Tianji Pavilion is asking for the Fire Lotus again. This really makes me suspicious."
"Never mind, it's worth exchanging a fire lotus for the gunpowder formula."
"Have the Ministry of War verify the gunpowder formula. If the formula is correct, have the Minister of War come to see me privately."
Wang Dequan bowed: "Yes, Your Majesty!"
After Huo Xingzhi's sedan chair left Yanjing City, it stopped directly in a remote and deserted place.
Bai Ze looked around.
"Your Highness, we have already left the city."
Huo Xingzhi took off the silver mask when he saw that there was no one around.
"How's Heng'er doing?"
Bai Ze said, "There's news from Suzaku that someone is following the princess. It seems to be the second prince of Qin, Yun Tianhe."
Huo Xingzhi froze slightly, and thought of what he had heard at the envoy's post station.
"Could it be that they really want to take Heng'er back to Qin to meet the Qin Prime Minister Minglang?"
He took off his dark-colored robe and changed into a royal blue one, whispering, "Perhaps the Prime Minister of Qin still thinks Heng'er is his daughter."
"Where is the Second Prince of Qin now?"
Bai Ze said: "He has already fled back to the envoy's post station."
"Your Majesty, the princess's mother is in the hands of Qin's Prime Minister Minglang. Given the princess's personality, she would definitely take this risk."
Huo Xingzhi knew it, but he hoped Su Yuheng would wait for him and go to Qin together when he returned from the border.
It would be better to let her go on the adventure alone.
"Let's go back to Prince Li's Mansion."
Bai Ze nodded: "Yes, Your Majesty."
Huo Xingzhi changed his clothes, tied up his hair with a silver crown, and hurried to Prince Li's mansion with Bai Ze.
Today, because of Yun Tianhe's tracking, Su Yuheng was afraid that the hidden place would be exposed, so he did not go to the house in the suburbs.
After Huo Xingzhi arrived at the inner courtyard of Prince Li's Mansion, he pushed open the door of the wing room and saw Su Yuheng sitting by the window reading a letter in his hand.
"Heng'er, what are you looking at?"
Hearing the voice, Su Yuheng subconsciously turned around and quickly put away the letter in his hand.
"Are you afraid that I'll see it?" Huo Xingzhi raised his eyebrows with a smile.
Su Yuheng smiled and said, "No, it's just that the prince is going to the frontier now, so it's better not to know some things."
"I don't want my own affairs to affect the prince's leading the troops in battle."
Huo Xingzhi's eyes darkened. He reached out to take the letter from Su Yuheng's hand and glanced at it lightly.
The handwriting in the letter was elegant and graceful, and a woman's name was written at the end of the letter.
It is the name of Su Yuheng's mother.
"Who gave it to you?" Huo Xingzhi asked.
Su Yuheng said: "The second prince of Qin, Yun Tianhe."
"Do you believe him? What if this letter is fake?"
Su Yuheng shook his head: "How could I possibly believe him? My mother is now in the hands of the Prime Minister of Qin, and I don't know how she is doing."
"My brother is seriously ill in bed right now. Although my sister is getting better, she is a weak woman and has to worry too much."
"These past few days, I went to the Shen family to see my grandmother. Her hair is now gray. She held my hand and kept calling my mother's name. She is unconscious and her health is getting worse day by day."
"I'm just afraid she won't live long enough to see her mother return."
Huo Xingzhi pulled the man up from the chair and walked to the bed.
"In a few days, Prince Rui and I will be heading to the border. Do you want to go to Qin alone?"
Su Yuheng was silent.
The duration of the march and the battle is uncertain, ranging from one or two months to several years or even more than ten years.
It was impossible for her to wait for Huo Xingzhi to return from the border before going to Qin.
She could wait, but her grandmother couldn't.
But now that Huo Xingzhi was going to the frontier, in order not to affect his fighting, she had no choice but to say, "That's not what I meant."
"Your Majesty, His Majesty and the court officials have discussed which princess of the royal family should marry the Second Prince of Qin?"
Huo Xingzhi said calmly, "In the entire Great Yan royal family, only Princess Chaoyang remains unmarried."
"However, the results of the deliberations have not yet come out."
"Chaoyang?" Su Yuheng frowned.
In the previous life, Chaoyang married and died in Qin State within half a year.
Now the royal princess has only Chaoyang as her marriage partner, and it is likely that she will marry into the Qin State in this life.
She had to find a way to stop this.
"Chaoyang cannot marry into the Qin Kingdom."
She stood up from the edge of the bed and said, "I'm going to Princess Chaoyang's mansion to discuss something with her."
Huo Xingzhi reached out and grabbed her: "Come back tomorrow. I have something to give you tonight."
As he spoke, Huo Xingzhi took out a blue box and handed it to Su Yuheng.
The box opened, and a fire lotus appeared before Su Yuheng.
"Fire Lotus?"
"My Lord, did you really bring the Fire Lotus?"
Huo Xingzhi smiled and said, "Do you like it? This is for you."
Su Yuheng raised his eyes and met Huo Xingzhi's gaze, his eyes as gentle as water.
She didn't expect that Huo Xingzhi would bring her the Fire Lotus.
Could it be that because Su Yanqiu said she wouldn't live past 18, Huo Xingzhi had come up with a way to get the Fire Lotus?
"Does the prince know that Liu fed me medicine?"
Huo Xingzhi held the person in his arms.
"Um."
"You are my wife. I can't watch you die in vain. I got this fire lotus with great difficulty. You must not tell anyone else."
If Emperor Showa heard of it, he would have leaked it.
Su Yuheng nodded.
"Um."
"Bai Lu." Huo Xingzhi shouted outside the door.
Bai Lu pushed the door open and walked in.
Huo Xingzhi handed the fire lotus to Bai Lu and said, "Boil this fire lotus into a medicinal decoction."
Bai Lu took the fire lotus and said, "Yes, Your Majesty."
Half an hour later, Huo Xingzhi fed the medicine to Su Yuheng.
Su Yuheng just took a sip, and a burning taste instantly filled his entire throat.
"My Lord, it's so hot."
She quickly spat out the medicine from the corner of her mouth, and Huo Xingzhi put down the bowl and spoon with a distressed look on his face.
"Open it, let me see."
Huo Xingzhi reached out and pinched her jaw, causing her lips to open slightly.
Looking inside, Su Yuheng's pink tongue was a little red.
"It's really burned red, it's all my fault."
Su Yuheng: "This is a fire lotus. It can only be eaten after it cools down."
Huo Xingzhi lowered her chin, picked up a spoon, scooped a spoonful of medicine, blew on it gently, and handed it to Su Yuheng's lips.
"It shouldn't be like that now. Try it."
Only after Su Yuheng swallowed the medicine in the spoon did a smile appear on Huo Xingzhi's face.
"Heng'er, there is something I want to tell you."
Su Yuheng was puzzled.
Huo Xingzhi continued: "Actually, maybe you have a younger brother."
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