Chapter 331 Replacement

early morning.

Princess Mansion.

Song Yiren was practicing swordplay in the courtyard, but her sword moves were unorganized.

Although half an hour had passed, she still felt a little hot.

It has become her habit to kiss him secretly in the morning, and it goes well every time. She didn't expect that he would wake up today.

Fortunately, he seemed to think it was just a dream, and he thought she was Song Jiaren in the dream.

After only half of the kiss, he fell asleep again.

Song Yiren pursed her lips. This was her first time...

Li Nuo walked out of the room, stretched his body, said hello to Yi Ren, and said, "Good morning, Yi Ren."

Song Yiren's hand holding the sword shook, and she said in a panic: "Morning..."

The speed of her sword dance suddenly increased to hide her mood at the moment.

Li Nuo also practiced Qigong with her in the yard for a while. While eating breakfast, he mentioned by the way: "I dreamed of a beautiful woman last night..."

Song Yiren, who was drinking porridge, choked, wiped her mouth hastily, and immersed herself in eating.

Zhao Zhiyi looked at Li Nuo and then at Song Yiren.

At first, she thought they were brother-in-law and sister-in-law.

But they are also called husband and wife.

Just when she thought they were in a relationship between a man and a woman, their daily behavior was not as close as a couple.

They said they were not husband and wife, but they lived in the same room and slept in the same bed.

She was also a little confused by them.

At this time, a maid came in and said, "Princess, His Royal Highness is here."

Zhao Zhiyi was a little surprised. What did the emperor have to do with her so early in the morning?

After a while, she walked out of the small courtyard and walked into a large hall. King Sheng looked at her and smiled: "Zhiyi, have you had breakfast?"

Zhao Zhiyi nodded and said, "After eating, why does the emperor want to see me so early?"

Prince Sheng rubbed his hands and said, "There's nothing wrong. It's just that these days we have been giving out porridge, taking in beggars, and doing free clinics. The palace's treasury is already empty. In a few days, we won't even have the money to give out porridge." Well, haven't you raised hundreds of thousands of taels of silver here? I want to transfer some from you..."

Zhao Zhiyi frowned slightly and said, "Didn't I tell Brother Huang last time that the money raised by the medical school can only be used for the medical school?"

Prince Sheng said helplessly: "I have no choice. If I stop giving porridge now, it will definitely cause greater dissatisfaction among the people, and all the efforts we have done before will be wasted. You also know that the family fortune of Prince Sheng's Mansion, They are far less rich than a few of them, and we can’t beat them with our financial resources..."

Zhao Zhiyi's brows softened slightly. She knew that what the emperor said was true.

Seeing this, King Sheng immediately struck while the iron was hot and said: "Don't worry, I didn't ask for this money for nothing. After I ascend the throne, I will pay you double, no, triple the amount of money you lend me..."

Zhao Zhiyi thought for a while and said: "If we just maintain soup giving and free clinics, we won't need much money at all. Didn't the emperor collect a lot of treasures? If he selects some and sells them, the money he earns should be enough to last for several months. "

King Sheng frowned slightly.

He collected many treasures, including gold and jade articles, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, but it took a lot of effort to collect them. Every item was his favorite, and he was asked to use it to exchange money and give porridge to the people. How could he give up.

Besides, he didn't ask for money just to give out porridge.

No matter what the common people are, it is the officials in the court who can ultimately affect the ownership of the throne.

At present, his reputation among the people has far exceeded that of the other three, and there is no need to continue to waste money on them.

Zhao Zhiyi took off his earrings and the gold hairpin on his head and said, "I can't move even a penny from the medical school money. The princess's mansion can still scrape together several thousand taels of silver, plus some jewelry passed down to me by my mother-in-law." , leave it all to the imperial brother, and if you sell some treasures, you should be able to survive these few months..."

King Sheng said nothing more, nodded and said, "Okay..."

His face looked a little ugly and he left without saying a word.

Zhao Zhiyi looked at his leaving figure and sighed helplessly.

Early in the morning, the two siblings separated on bad terms.

She knew in her heart that the emperor's brother was greedy for the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver raised by the medical school.

But it was precisely because of the preparations for the establishment of the medical school that those doctors were willing to donate money.

These hundreds of thousands of taels are not enough. If the money is not used to promote medical reform, it will be difficult to raise more taels in the future, and all their previous efforts will be in vain.

If it fails this time, I'm afraid no one will do it again in the future.

Brother Huang just wants to see the results after four months.

And for what they have to do, forty years may not be enough.

At this moment, she began to have doubts about what she was doing.

Is it really a good thing for Zhao to let the emperor's brother be the emperor of Zhao?

Regardless of status, speaking honestly, she felt that any of the eldest prince, second prince, and third prince would be more suitable for this position than the imperial brother.

But is Master Gongsun’s calculation of the secret that he sacrificed his life wrong?

She clearly said that the future of Zhao country depends on the next emperor.

She also said that the next emperor of Zhao State has a deep relationship with her...

…

The fourth prince's reputation among the people is unparalleled, and his political achievements are more than the other three princes combined. With the prophecy made by the fifth-level Yin-Yang family at the risk of his life, if nothing unexpected happens, the fourth prince should be stable.

No one has ever told Li Nuo what he should do.

So in the past two days, he has nothing else to do except compiling books.

When he went to bed at night, Li Nuo looked at the only quilt on the bed and said nothing.

Sometimes, it's good to be a little confused.

Song Yiren looked at the quilt and didn't say anything either.

Both of them tacitly didn't mention the other quilt, and each went to bed and covered with the same quilt.

The bed was very wide, and there was still a distance between them.

But the next morning, when Song Yiren opened her eyes, she found that the distance between the two had disappeared.

I don't know when, Li Nuo had slept beside her, resting his head on her pillow, and his arms were also on her body.

The distance between the two was so close that their noses were about to touch each other.

What happened yesterday morning was still vivid in her mind. She didn't dare to kiss him secretly again, but she suddenly had a whim and gently touched Li Nuo's nose with her nose tip, and she enjoyed it.

Like yesterday, Li Nuo had woken up long ago.

She was waiting for Yiren to kiss her secretly, and then she would repeat the same trick, but she didn't expect that she would actually play.

Li Nuo frowned slightly, and she immediately retracted her neck.

Seeing that Li Nuo didn't wake up, she moved boldly again.

Li Nuo suddenly stretched out his arms and hugged her tightly in his arms, and said vaguely in a half-asleep voice: "My wife, don't make trouble..."

Song Yiren was startled by this sudden action, and she was held in his arms, not daring to move.

But soon, her mood returned to calm, and a smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

This time, it was not her initiative.

She was held by Li Nuo at ease, closed her eyes, and planned to sleep for a while.

A full quarter of an hour had passed. If Li Nuo didn't get up, the Sixth Princess would come and knock on the door.

Li Nuo had no choice but to open his eyes first, pretending that he didn't know Yiren was pretending to sleep, gently removed his arm from her body, and quietly got out of bed.

Song Yiren didn't move from beginning to end, pretending that she hadn't woken up yet.

But after leaving Li Nuo's arms, she felt a sense of loss in her heart.

At this moment, she suddenly noticed Li Nuo approaching.

Then, a soft touch came on her face.

The footsteps beside the bed gradually faded away, and soon there was the sound of the door opening.

She slowly opened her eyes and touched her face, her eyes full of shyness and surprise...

In addition to shyness and surprise, she felt a little funny. She was a peak warrior in the fourth realm, and her perception was not comparable to his. Did he think that she would not know if he kissed her secretly?

At this moment, she had made a decision in her heart.

She will get up late in the future...

After washing up, Li Nuo did some morning exercises in the yard, and Yiren yawned and walked out of the room.

He looked back at Yiren and asked, "Why did you get up so late today?"

Song Yiren thought for a while and said, "Anyway, I have encountered a bottleneck now. Breaking through depends on opportunities. It is useless to practice more. It is better to sleep a little longer in the morning..."

Li Nuo was pretending to be confused, and he also knew that Yiren was pretending to be confused. This was the tacit understanding between them.

He looked at Yiren and said, "Go out and buy some vegetables. Cook for yourself at noon."

After a while, the two left the princess's mansion together.

Since Zhao State also promulgated the health management regulations, the streets are much cleaner than before.

All the masters of Zhao State's martial arts have been arrested, and Li Nuo asked the Sixth Princess to make changes to the regulations.

In the future, if this regulation is violated again, only a fine will be imposed, and no one will be arrested. In this way, the people will be more accepting of it.

The two of them are like an ordinary couple, walking hand in hand in the nearby vegetable market, picking and choosing.

The vegetable market was crowded with people. Li Nuo noticed that at some key locations in the market, some people's eyes were constantly scanning the crowd.

They should be people from the Zhao State Anti-Theft Department.

Since the thief turned good, the number of thefts in the capital of Zhao State has dropped sharply, which is also counted as the political achievement of the Fourth Prince.

In just two months, the Fourth Prince has completely turned over. As the person who facilitated all this behind the scenes, Li Nuo has not yet obtained the power of the Zongheng Family.

However, he is not in a hurry.

For the Zongheng Family, the result is more important than the process.

From the beginning, he aimed to help the Fourth Prince win the throne. Only by achieving this goal can he enter the Zongheng Family, and entering the family is a high level.

Recently, the Fourth Prince is undoubtedly the focus of people's discussion.

Even the people who buy vegetables and the vegetable farmers who sell vegetables will mention him.

"I really didn't realize that the Fourth Prince was so capable before."

"Yes, the streets were full of thieves before, but now they are nowhere to be seen."

"I heard that the government will build many clinics for the people in the future, and you can see a doctor for just a few cents. If this is true, it would be great..."

When the two vegetable farmers were discussing, someone suddenly poured cold water on them.

"Come on, this kind of thing, just dream about it, do you really think that seeing a doctor will be so cheap in the future?"

"What do you mean by this?"

"You guys are so easy to fool. Every time they compete for the throne, the princes talk better than they sing, but after they really take the throne, how many of them can fulfill their promises?"

"Just wait and see. Four months later, let alone seeing a doctor, there won't even be a shed for free porridge. The beggars will also be driven out of the shelter. This is not the first time this has happened."

"Besides, don't you know who the Fourth Prince is? In order to collect treasures, he used to force buying and selling, plundering, and even caused many deaths. How many people were killed? He caused the family to be destroyed..."

"His brother-in-law raped a decent woman in front of her husband. The couple later committed suicide. The matter was suppressed by the power of the Fourth Prince..."

"If the Fourth Prince becomes the emperor, will you still have a good life?"

"What?"

"Is this true?"

"Is it true?"

Many people heard about these things for the first time. After asking each other, some people remembered that there seemed to be such rumors at the time, but they had never been confirmed, and gradually no one mentioned them.

In the past two months, the Fourth Prince has been doing things that benefit the country and the people, and few people would associate these things with him.

Yiren, who was personally selecting ingredients, did not notice people's discussions, but Li Nuo heard them clearly.

This was certainly not an ordinary discussion.

It is very obvious that someone is deliberately guiding public opinion behind the scenes.

And there is no need to guess, you know the identity of the person behind the scenes.

They must be one of the three princes, or more.

The Fourth Prince has been in the spotlight these days, which is very unfavorable to the other three princes. They must take measures to fight back.

However, Li Nuo has no way to judge whether they are smearing and fabricating or attacking based on facts.

All along, he has been dealing with the Sixth Princess.

He trusts the character of the Sixth Princess, but he doesn't know what kind of person the Fourth Prince is...

When the two returned to the Princess's Mansion, Li Nuo found the Sixth Princess sitting in the courtyard with a frown on her face.

He asked Yiren to put the vegetables in the kitchen, walked to her side and asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhao Zhiyi stood up and said, "There are some unfavorable rumors about my brother outside. They should be spread by the other three brothers."

Li Nuo said, "I also heard it when I was buying vegetables with Yiren just now."

Zhao Zhiyi didn't know how to deal with this kind of thing.

It is definitely not okay to leave it alone.

But there seems to be no way to clarify it.

Once you make a fool of yourself, it will only make things worse.

Regarding rumors, Li Nuo certainly has a solution.

At this time, you can't fall into the trap of self-proof.

People can only prove what they have done, not what they have not done.

Others can make rumors, and they can also make rumors about the three princes, completely muddying the water, so that no one will take advantage, and no one will suffer.

They are still in the lead.

But before that, he has to figure out one thing.

He looked at Zhao Zhiyi and asked, "Are those things really slandering the fourth prince?"

Zhao Zhiyi nodded and said, "When..."

She only said one word, and suddenly remembered that when she was still young and lived in the palace with her mother, her brother seemed to be punished by her mother to kneel for a long time because of something.

She did not tell Li Nuo with certainty, thought about it, and said, "I will ask my brother."

Sheng Wangfu.

In a hall, the angry voice of Sheng Wang came.

"What?"

"They are so bold!"

"Go tell the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple to arrest those who spread the rumors!"

A figure walked in from outside. He looked over and asked, "Sixth sister, why are you here?"

Zhao Zhiyi said, "I heard some rumors that are unfavorable to my brother."

The fourth prince said with a dark face, "It must be done by Prince Shun, Prince An and Prince Xiang. They are no match for me in person and can only use these tricks behind my back. Don't worry, I have asked someone to deal with them..."

Zhao Zhiyi asked, "How to deal with them?"

The fourth prince said, "Whoever dares to talk nonsense again, will be arrested by the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple!"

Zhao Zhiyi shook his head and said, "You can't do this. Not only will it not solve the problem, but it will be counterproductive."

Then, she looked at The fourth prince asked, "Brother, have you really not done these things?"

The fourth prince shook his head and said, "Of course, don't you believe me?"

Zhao Zhiyi looked at him, breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Then I'll go back first, brother, don't worry, I'll find a way to deal with this matter..."

After watching her leave the hall for a long time, the fourth prince frowned and ordered a close follower beside him, "Move those things to another place first. In addition, send someone to warn them that if they dare to talk nonsense and ruin my great cause, I will kill their entire family..."

After the confidant left, his face became even darker and he said, "Damn it, I should have known that I would not leave any trouble at that time!"

No, if he knew that these things would become an obstacle to his fight for the throne, he might not have done it.

At that time, he was not favored by his father, and thought that he would be an idle prince in this life, and of course he didn't have to worry about doing things.

Who would have thought that one day, he would also have the time to fight for the throne.

Just as he was regretting in his heart, a voice suddenly came from outside the palace: "Sixth Princess, you..."

The fourth prince's face changed, and he walked out of the hall. He saw Zhao Zhiyi standing outside the door, looking at him with an unbelievable look.

He moved his lips and whispered: "Zhiyi, why haven't you gone back yet?"

Zhao Zhiyi looked at him in shock and disappointment, and murmured: "So those are not rumors..."

It's just some trivial matters. Knowing his sister's character, he didn't tell her, but he didn't expect that she still knew it.

The fourth prince said helplessly: "Zhiyi, my brother is very busy now, so don't make trouble for me, go back first..."

Zhao Zhiyi left Shengwang Mansion in despair.

She didn't know how she walked back to the princess's mansion. She had always known that her brother had no talent, but she didn't know that he had such bad behavior.

This was the first time she doubted Master Gongsun's words.

Her heart was in a mess. After returning to the mansion, she did not see Li Nuo, but returned to her room.

The moment she opened the door, a gust of wind blew in from outside, and a light sound came to her ears.

It seemed that something fell on the ground.

She walked forward and saw an envelope.

She looked up again and found that the object had fallen from the beam.

How could there be a letter on the beam in her room?

She looked at the envelope, and there was no signature on it.

She opened the envelope and trembled slightly at the first glance.

It was Master Gongsun's handwriting, which she was very familiar with.

Master Gongsun was dead, which meant that this letter was placed here by her when she was alive.

But why didn't she give it to her at that time?

She looked at the content of the letter.

There were only two short lines of words on the letter.

King Sheng is immoral.

Your Highness can take his place.