The Love of Passerby A

Chapter 784 The best friend of the reborn daughter of the Duke's Mansion (55)

After watching Yin Chengye leave the study, Xue Lian immediately changed her expression, changing the slightly aggrieved expression on her face just now. She picked up the brush at hand and continued to paint. While painting, she said to Qin Niangzi: "A fake is also a good one! As long as I can make Yelang happy, I am happy with it."

"You!" Madam Qin had never thought that Xue Lian could have such a side to her, but she was unwilling to show weakness, "You take care of yourself!"

Xue Lian didn't say anything, but just continued to paint. Not long after, she heard faint footsteps, and then the person walked farther and farther away.

"My fish is so beautiful!" After saying this, she had almost finished painting the koi.

After taking a look at the tiger talisman that Yin Chengye had just "casually" put aside, she left the calligraphy without even moving, and of course the painting with the ink not yet dry was left there as well.

Not long after Xue Lian left, Yin Chengye appeared in the study again. He walked silently to the desk, picked up the tiger talisman that had been placed casually before, looked at it carefully, and put it away carefully after confirming that it was correct.

Yin Chengye stood there in deep thought for a moment, his eyes falling on the wet painting on the table. The koi fish on it looked lifelike, as if it would jump out of the paper at any time.

The corners of his mouth lifted slightly, revealing an imperceptible smile. He listened to his subordinates' reports and was sure that Xue Lian should be fine, but she might just be a little bit temperamental.

"Well! After so many years, it's rare to find a woman who suits my taste. If there really is a problem, I don't know if I'd be willing to hand her over to you for interrogation!" Yin Chengye's hand brushed across the scroll, "Go find someone to send her some koi."

Suddenly, he felt a dampness on his fingertips. Yin Chengye raised his hand and saw that it was the ink that had not yet dried. He frowned and wiped his hands with a cloth beside him. After the others left, he picked up the tiger talisman hidden at his waist and said, "This is the greatest reliance of the Xingguogong Mansion."

Grand Prince's Palace

"Master, the Crown Prince has been resorting to various methods recently. Are we just going to endure this?" The subordinates of the eldest prince Zhao Jiayang said unwillingly, "The most insidious thing is that he actually tried to sow discord between you and the third prince."

"It's not an instigation!" Zhao Jiayang did not deny it. "My mother did have a hand in the title issue, but without my father's approval, it would not have been accomplished!"

"What about the Third Prince?" the man said worriedly, "I'm afraid he will..."

"What will he do?" Zhao Jiayang really laughed, "Will he hate me forever, punch my chest with his little fist, or hide in his house and drink while scolding me?

He had no power in the previous dynasty, his mother's family was not strong, and his father the emperor did not like him. From a third-rank prince, has there ever been a prince of such a low rank since the founding of our dynasty?

The key point is that as long as he has a fiefdom, even if he cannot be enfeoffed, there will be resources supplied to him. But now, let alone a fiefdom, he doesn't even have an imperial estate in the suburbs. Such a prince only has a title and an identity.

It is necessary to find someone to keep an eye on him, but there is no need to do anything else. The most important thing now is to have someone speed up the process and steal the secret tiger talisman of Duke Xing for me."

Seeing the other party's hesitant expression, the eldest prince Zhao Jiayang asked: "What's wrong with you? Is it difficult?"

"That's not the case. It's just that, is a tiger talisman really useful?" The subordinate was still a little skeptical.

Zhao Jiayang didn't say anything, but just asked him to hurry up.

In fact, Yin Chengye’s tiger talisman is divided into a clear tiger talisman and a dark tiger talisman.

There would be little use in stealing the Minghu Tally, as the soldiers displayed in public always belonged to his father, Emperor Mingchen.

But the Dark Tiger Talisman is different.

This dark tiger talisman is a secret guard trained by the late emperor. These people are not only in the army, but also among the civil servants in the court, the small vendors on the street, and the farmers in the fields.

These people would not go out without an imperial decree, they did not know each other's identities, and everything was signed with the tiger talisman.

As for how to control them! It is also very simple. They have to take an "antidote" every once in a while, otherwise they will die of poison.

This force belonged to the royalist party, but unfortunately, when the previous emperor passed away, there was no time to say more, so that when Emperor Mingchen knew about this, he did not know how to activate this force.

The eldest prince Zhao Jiayang knew about this matter because he was the eldest grandson. He was very cute when he was young and was very much loved by the late emperor. He heard about this matter when he accompanied the emperor for a period of time.

At that time, the late emperor thought he was asleep, so he didn't guard against him. Therefore, Zhao Jiayang knew at that time that the leader of the secret guard was Yin Chengye's father, the old Duke of Xing.

Unfortunately, the crown prince was born later. In order to show that the legitimate and illegitimate sons should not be confused, the late emperor no longer allowed him to "accompany the emperor".

In fact, the late emperor just wanted to amuse the child, so he asked someone to bring Zhao Jiayang over.

Why not let the prince accompany you?

The late emperor: Although he is my own grandson, I still like to be pleasing to the eye.

In fact, the person who obtained this Dark Tiger Talisman in the previous life was none other than the third prince Zhao Jiaheng. It was Yin Yufei who helped him steal it. It was not what Yin Caiwei had thought at all: to cultivate his own power in the fiefdom.