East Palace.

Seeing Li Jingyao's depressed expression after losing more than ten games in a row, Li Wuji couldn't help but pursed his lips and smiled, deliberately showing a flaw.

"Why?!"

With sharp eyes, Li Jingyao suddenly discovered the gap, quickly made a move, and took advantage!

Four players connected, only one step away from victory!

"I lost."

Li Wuji shook his head and sighed, then threw the chess pieces in his hand into the chess jar, looking frustrated.

"You did it on purpose, right?!"

Li Jingyao was secretly happy because she finally won a game, but then her mind turned around and she looked up at Li Wuji and asked sadly.

"Your Highness won this game with your strength, and I am convinced that I lost."

Li Wuji smiled, cupped his hands, and said slowly.

"Humph, that's all."

"If you lose, you lose. Don't think I can't see it!"

"It's boring. No matter how you plot, I'm no match for you."

Li Jingyao shook her head, depressedly stretched out her hand to confuse the chess game, waved her hands and said.

"The outcome has not yet been decided, and the chess game has been ruined. Let's just call this game a draw."

Li Wuji smiled and comforted.

After hearing Li Wuji's words, Li Jingyao turned her head and glanced at Li Wuji, and laughed angrily.

"Young master, you really racked your brains just to make me smile. Well, even if it's a draw, if word gets out in the future, I'll at least save some face."

Li Jingyao said with a smile.

Li Wuji smiled, said nothing, and filled the wine glass for Li Jingyao himself.

"By the way, I heard that you opened another Zibo Ju in the capital? Selling barbecue?"

Li Jingyao shook her head, took a sip from her wine glass, and naturally changed the subject.

The news about Ziboju spread in the capital early in the morning, and of course the news also spread to the palace. After all, many people were "concerned" about the news about Prince Wuji.

"Yes, it just opened today."

Li Wuji nodded and said.

“What is barbecue?”

Li Jingyao asked curiously.

"It's nothing special. It's just roasting something on the fire. Your Highness should have eaten it in the palace, but I've divided it into many types and ways of eating."

"It's not a novelty, but it is suitable for people to have a toothpaste in their spare time. If it is paired with the beer I developed myself, it would be even better."

Li Wuji explained with a smile.

"Beer?! What is that?"

Li Jingyao's eyes lit up and she continued to ask.

"Actually, to put it bluntly, it is sweet wine. It is brewed by adding malt and honey on the basis of the original wine pulp. It has a sweet taste and is not easy to get drunk."

Li Wuji answered slowly.

In fact, brewing beer is not that easy, but in this era, no one has ever seen such a thing. Li Wuji will do whatever he says, and the main focus is on surprise.

"You just said that you grew up in the mountains. Where do all these messy ideas come from?"

Li Jingyao asked with a smile.

"Maybe because I'm smart."

Li Wuji hesitated for a moment and reluctantly made a prevarication.

After hearing Li Wuji's answer, Li Jingyao couldn't help laughing, and the branches of the flower trembled wildly and were about to fall.

However, Li Jingyao did not continue to ask questions about Li Wuji's seemingly perfunctory answer. Perhaps she knew that even if she did ask, she might not be able to ask anything.

"Okay, then when I am free one day, I must go to your Zibo residence to have a taste."

Li Jingyao smiled and picked up the wine glass, looked straight at Li Wuji, and spoke slowly, her voice soft, as if she was drunk and her eyes were blurred.

Li Wuji smiled and raised his glass, then raised his head and drank it all.

After chatting for a while, Li Wuji saw that the time was almost up, so he stood up to say goodbye and left the East Palace.

After watching Li Wuji walk out of the hall, Li Jingyao poured herself another glass of wine thoughtfully, with a trace of solemnity between her eyebrows.

"Your Highness, what Marquis Li'an mentioned just now is Xue Chi?"

Tongzhuo was silent for a long time, and finally couldn't help but asked softly.

"Nineteen eighty-nine."

Li Jingyao nodded slightly and said thoughtfully.

"Does your Majesty want to kill him?"

Tongzhuo asked in confusion.

"Perhaps, Your Majesty still suspects that he is Li Wuji."

Li Jingyao narrowed her eyes, looked at the place where Li Wuji was sitting just now, and said slowly.

"I'm afraid he is the first person in more than ten years to survive from Xue Chi's hands."

Tongzhuo couldn't help but frown, and said with a serious expression.

"He does hide too many secrets."

Li Jingyao sighed, muttered helplessly to herself, and then drank the wine in the glass again.

...

Ministry of War Shangshu Mansion.

Backyard side hall.

As soon as Lu Zhengping entered the door, he saw his son sitting on a chair with a gloomy face and fierce eyes. There were several smashed cups on the ground.

"What's going on? Who provoked you again?"

Lu Zhengping asked in a deep voice while loosening his official uniform.

"Dad, you came back just in time. Do you know who I met in the East Palace today?"

When Lu Qingshu heard this, he looked up and saw that Lu Zhengping was back. He stood up and said loudly.

"Who?"

Lu Zhengping asked as he sat on the chair.

"Marquis Liyang! That boy looks like he is terminally ill, but he is so favored by His Highness that he is allowed not to kneel down and worship!"

"My son even said a few words to him about this, but I didn't expect that this kid didn't take me seriously at all and didn't give you face at all! He made me lose all face in front of Tai Qing!"

Lu Qingshu gritted his teeth and said unwillingly.

"Marquis Liyang?!"

"This person is not simple, please stop causing trouble for me!"

After hearing his son's words, Lu Zhengping's expression changed and he said in a deep voice.

"It's not that I want to cause trouble, it's that he doesn't take you seriously at all. Your Highness has already mentioned my identity and you, but that kid doesn't care at all."

"I really can't swallow this breath! You have to get it back for me!"

"Besides, looking at Taiqing's attitude towards him, it seems that he has decided to include him in the East Palace. If he gets there first, and he is a stumbling block, even if I enter the East Palace, I will still be overwhelmed by him! How can I get ahead? day?!"

"What's more, after the mission, even His Majesty now admires him quite a lot. If this continues, our attempt to use Taiqing's influence to strengthen my family, the Lu family, will be in vain!"

Lu Qingshu looked at his father with an awe-inspiring expression and analyzed the current situation in a clear-headed manner.

After listening to his son's words, Lu Zhengping fell into deep thought, his brows gradually furrowed, and he weighed the pros and cons.

What the son said is right. If the Lu family wants to rely on the big tree of Taiqing to make the Lu family a powerful family after the empress has passed a hundred years later, then no one can disrupt the situation. The son must become the most dazzling one among the male favorites in the East Palace. one!

"father?!"

Lu Qingshu on the side looked at Lu Zhengping who had been silent for a long time and shouted anxiously.

"Okay, father knows, I have my own countermeasures, so don't interfere, let alone provoke Young Master Wuji easily!"

Lu Zhengping glared at his son and said in a deep voice.

Seeing that his father was about to get angry, Lu Qingshu could only grit his teeth and say no more.

Lu Zhengping frowned, thinking about how to reverse the situation, and gradually fell into deep thought.
To be continued...