The weather in the Great Wei Kyoto, which is almost June, has become a little hot. The cloudless blue sky has become a little distorted due to the scorching sun.

In the seventh prince's mansion, a thick-eyed maid with thick eyebrows and big eyes and stout figure walked out of the seventh prince's bedroom with a basin of water.

After walking a little further, she suddenly sent the sewage from the pot after changing the medicine, and poured it onto a hot stone slab that was roasted by the sun. In an instant, a mist of water rose from the air, colorful in the sun.

The thick maid didn't even look at the mist, but just held the empty basin and twisted her waist and walked away.

When the woman left, he was the only one in the bedroom of the seventh prince Wei Tianming.

Wei Tianming was lying on the bed, his face waving with a sickly pale complexion. He closed his eyes tightly and his brows frowned slightly.

He was awake all the time because he was in so much pain.

Although the wound on the lower abdomen did not hurt the internal organs, it made him feel a piercing pain even with simple breathing.

He wanted to let himself fall asleep or divert his attention to resist the pain, and could close his eyes to make his other senses more sensitive.

He could clearly know that the maid who had just changed his dressings came out of the room and poured dirty water for changing his dressings not far away. He could even hear the sound of the water being burned into water after it was poured onto the ground.

Although Wei Tianming was seriously injured at this moment, he made him more sensitive and sober than usual.

So he could feel the sunset picture of the river tide hanging on the wall behind the bedroom desk was slightly moved. After a while, the entire wall with the sunset picture of the river tide hanging was moving.

Even with his eyes closed, he seemed to be able to feel the dust raised when the wall opened. After a while, a person walked out of the dust raised, and then the wall moved again, which was a slowly closed sound.

After the sound of the bedroom calmed down, someone walked towards his bed step by step and finally stood in front of his bed.

"Why are you taking the risk today?" Wei Tianming endured the pain caused by pulling the wound when he spoke. He opened his eyes and looked at the man in front of him with a smile on his pale face.

"If you came half a quarter of an hour earlier, the maid who served me to change the dressings would not be able to survive today. Where would you ask me to find a maid with quick hands and feet and 'clean' to change the dressings for me?"

"Do you know you almost died?" The man in front of the couch had a suffocating anger.

"Is that so? Fortunately, it's a little bit late, otherwise you should attend my funeral now. Haha... cough... cough cough."

"How are you?" The man in front of the bed was at a loss when he saw that the person on the bed was in a bad condition.

"I'm fine, A Pu, you don't have to worry." Wei Tianming recovered after a while because he pulled the wound, but his face turned pale.

Lu Shiqing looked at the pale and weak person lying on the bed, and didn't know whether to be angry or worried.

His relationship with Wei Tianming is extremely secretive. In order to avoid people's eyes and ears, he basically does not have any private contact. Except for An He, no one knows that he is also an aide to the Seventh Prince of the Great Wei.

Two days ago, he was on duty by the emperor and saw the eunuch stumble and run to report to the emperor that the seventh prince was assassinated and injured, and he was still a little unbelievable.

If Wei Tianming was assassinated at this time, it would be of no benefit to all forces in Kyoto. Even the second prince Wei Tianxun could not take such a risk to attack him under the emperor's nose.

At that time, Lu Shiqing thought that Wei Tianming's assassination might be just a bitter plan directed and acted by him in order to make the emperor suspect the second prince.

It was not until the Imperial Hospital that the Imperial Hospital continued to enter Wei Tianming's mansion one by one, and the Seventh Prince's mansion inexplicably blocked the news, and the news about the assassination of the Seventh Prince's assassination in Kyoto became more and more intense, that he suddenly felt something was wrong.

After striking the emperor indirectly, Lu Shiqing realized that Wei Tianming was really seriously injured, and then he passed by two days with extreme anxiety.

Even though it was very clear that meeting Wei Tianming is not appropriate now, after two days of suffering, Lu Shiqing decided that he had to see Wei Tianming's situation with his own eyes and understand the truth of the matter.

Lu Shiqing waited for Wei Tianming to relieve a little before asking: "Ziyang, do you think this incident was the second prince's move?"

Wei Tianming shook his head slightly when he heard this, "No, someone should have deliberately blamed his second brother for this matter."

Lu Shiqing nodded and said, "I guessed it too. This incident clearly pointed to the second prince, which instead reduced his suspicion to the lowest level."

He paused, and was a little confused, "Who is the mastermind of this time? Is there any other forces in Kyoto targeting you? Or is this matter related to Jiangbei?"

This is also the main reason why he came to see Wei Tianming today. When the assassination occurred, he was not at the scene, and the information he learned was transferred to multiple people. It is unknown whether some of them are true or false, so he urgently needs to understand the truth of the matter before he can judge what to do next.

Wei Tianming, who was lying on the bed, looked down and thought for a while before speaking, "I have been thinking about this problem these days. Since this assassination incident is targeted by me, it should be related to the establishment of the crown prince. In this battle for the establishment of the crown prince, there are only me, the second brother, and the ninth brother who is far away in the Jiangbei fiefdom. The ninth brother was too powerful, which attracted the concern of his father. In order to avoid the fact that he formed a clique in the court, he gave him a fief and a king early. Among the remaining princes in Kyoto, the call for the second brother to be the crown prince is the highest. Therefore, this assassination will inevitably make people think that the second brother does not want me to get the eyes of my father through Yu Nan's disaster relief, so he planned it with his father. Even the father may even suspect his second brother. He eliminated his two opponents in Kyoto, and I can't think of anyone who benefited from it."

That is to believe that the mastermind of this matter is the ninth prince who is far away in Jiangbei, which is consistent with the conclusion Lu Shiqing has reached in the past two days.

Since it has been determined that it was done by the Ninth Prince, then we should think about what to do next after this incident happened. But before that, Lu Shiqing has to solve a question.

"Ziyang, tell me the truth. This assassination has developed to this point, and you have contributed to the fire."

After hearing Lu Shiqing's words, Wei Tianming seemed to have expected them a long time ago, and smiled bitterly and didn't know how to speak.

When Lu Shiqing saw Wei Tianming's expression, there was nothing he didn't understand. Everything was as he had guessed, and anger arose in his heart.

"Ziyang, the reason why I gave up my principles and agreed to be your aide was just because of your heartfelt words. Do you still remember what you said to me?"

Wei Tianming looked at Lu Shiqing with anger and answered, "Of course I remember, you asked me what I wanted in my life. I said that what I wanted in this life was nothing more than talented people and ambitious people who can give their ambitions, the people who have good fortune can enjoy, and the Great Wei will be prosperous and the world will be prosperous. The same is true now, and it has never changed!"

"That's right, it was because of your words that I decided to follow you. Among the many princes of the emperor, the second prince was addicted to power and had no bottom line that a benevolent monarch should have. Although the fourth prince was open-minded, his ambition was not in the court and the country. The ninth prince relied too much on family power. Once he ascended to a high position one day, he would inevitably be able to disrupt the government's government. You are indeed the best choice, but this must be based on your living conditions. If you spare your life, I have no reason to bet on you."

"Apu, I can understand that you are angry with me, but I also have reasons why I have to do this." Wei Tianming said sincerely.

Wei Tianming had indeed noticed that Jiangbei might attack him.

He knew that his father did not want to make a crown prince too early, but his ministers repeatedly advised him on the grounds of stability in the country, so his father could not refuse the requests of the ministers in public.

As the second brother's momentum grew, the father would inevitably support one person to compete with him. The fourth brother only wanted to play the piano and landscape. He was the only choice for the remaining prince in Kyoto.

As for the Ninth Brother, the father never likes that his foreign power is too strong, so if the Ninth Brother wants his father to recover to him, he must first give his father no choice. If this assassination is successful, it will make his father lose his choice in Kyoto, and it will also make his father suspicious of his second brother. Then the Ninth Brother's return to Kyoto will become an inevitable move that the father has no choice.

So he knew that Ninth Brother's action would happen sooner or later, but he just deliberately created an opportunity and pretended to relax his vigilance, making Ninth Brother feel that this is the best time.

Wei Tianming did not mention this matter to Lu Shiqing beforehand, because he knew that if Lu Shiqing learned about it, he would definitely not agree, so it was as expected that Lu Shiqing would be angry when he learned about it.

He did not regret what he did, but Lu Shiqing was his most important ally and he was also unwilling to lose him.

Seeing that Lu Shiqing had not answered for a long time, Wei Tianming continued with some depression: "You know that my mother is not from a noble family. She was originally just a palace maid who serves tea in the palace. She was not liked by her father. She died innocently twelve years ago. When she died, she was just a fifth-rank concubine. So compared to the other princes of my father, if I want to realize my ambition, I have to make more efforts than others. Although the ninth brother also wants my life, there is one thing we coincided with. Although the father does not want to make a crown prince now, according to the current momentum of the second brother, the second brother's weight in the heart of his father is not light. Once the father makes up his mind one day, the second brother will definitely be the best candidate for the crown prince. So I must make my father doubt the second brother before this."

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