Chapter 1311: The Mermaid in the Mansion
At this moment, Su Sheng was not as proud as outsiders thought.
Sitting in a carriage behind the prince, his expression was always serious. From time to time, he raised his head with a gloomy face and glanced at the carriage moving in front.
I always have a premonition that my plans will be disrupted by the prince.
Before he left, he had assured the emperor that as long as he had the mermaid's exquisite heart as a medicine, the disease would be cured and the emperor would regain his health.
At this time, Wen Ren Ding happened to have bought the mermaid whose fate was tied to his. He thought that with the help of fate, he could kill two birds with one stone, using the prescription to gain greater power while putting Wen Ren Ding to death.
However, the prince followed him and became the biggest variable in the plan.
Now that the mermaid is in his hands, the prince insists on watching her in person, using filial piety as an excuse, leaving the other party no room to refute.
In fact, things have developed as smoothly as he had imagined before, but for some reason, he feels vaguely uneasy in his heart.
He learned a lot of strange skills, but unfortunately they were not useful to him.
The prince was able to become the prince, and to thrive under the foolish emperor for so many years, and to do many good things for the people. Naturally, his skills and intelligence are not comparable to ordinary people.
When Su Sheng presented the miraculous recipe to the emperor and claimed that it required the mermaid's delicate heart as a medicine, he sensed something was wrong.
As the crown prince, he had read a lot of books since he was a child in the East Palace, and had read many introductions about mermaids. Mermaid pearls and mermaid silk were well known to everyone, but it was the first time he heard that mermaids had exquisite hearts that could save lives.
The prince was skeptical, but the emperor was so tortured by illness that he would never listen to him. As long as he saw a glimmer of hope for life, he would seize it firmly and immediately grant Su Sheng supreme power, asking him to find the mermaid for him.
The prince weighed the pros and cons and left a group of his trusted aides in the imperial capital to help him manage the situation, while he personally kept an eye on Su Sheng.
Now, I have seen the legendary mermaid with my own eyes.
"I heard that mermaids can shed tears that turn into pearls. Miss, can you open my eyes to me?" At this time, the prince and Shi Li were already a little familiar with each other, so he said this.
Shi Li was stunned, rubbed his eyes awkwardly, and muttered softly, "Prince, wait a moment, I need to think about it."
Prince:......
"You've been in the Wenren family for so long, have you never condensed any pearls?" He thought that the Wenren family was doing business and had already made a lot of money by using the mermaid pearls circulated by mermaids.
Shi Li, who originally thought that the prince was a good person, put down her hand, looked at him resentfully, and lowered her voice, "He just couldn't bear to see me cry."
After saying this, the grievance and panic that she had been suppressing in her heart finally came up. There was no need to hold it in any longer, and tears flowed out one by one, falling to the ground like beads.
Looking at the mermaid pearls, which were more translucent than the pearls of the East China Sea, rolling to the ground, the prince didn't know what to say for a moment.
He leaned over and picked up the mermaid pearls one by one. Seeing Shi Li still wiping her tears, he said with a headache, "Alright, alright, I've already said that I will let you go back in the future. Don't cry."
Shi Li's behavior reminded him of the little girl he raised in the East Palace, who also cried like this when she was wronged, so he felt inexplicably guilty.
After all, the other party was the prince, so Shi Li immediately held back her tears. But when she thought about how Wen Ren Ding had always protected her since she came to this world, without her shedding a single tear, she still felt sad.
But she also knew that the prince was already a very good person, and that there would be no better result if she continued to make trouble.
After struggling for a while, he finally said carefully: "Your Highness, Wenren Ding...his past experience is very complicated. If I have offended Your Highness, please forgive me."
"You trust him so much, do you know that he has the ability to rush to me?" The prince held the mermaid pearl and looked at Shi Li in surprise. The more he looked at her, the more he felt that she was exactly like the little girl he raised, and his heart gradually grew a little more pity for her.
Shi Li thought to herself, "Prince, you don't know how crazy the people in the Wen family are." But she couldn't say that, so she could only smile shyly, "I'm just preparing for a rainy day, Your Highness, please don't blame me."
"Okay, for your sake, I won't bother with the Wen family." The prince agreed happily, and at this time he still felt that Shi Li's idea was naive.
No matter how powerful Wen Ren is, he is just a businessman and it is impossible for him to make any big waves.
They traveled day and night and finally returned to the imperial capital before the city gates closed in the evening.
Although he was getting closer and closer to success, Su Sheng felt a growing uneasy feeling in his heart.
In the end, for some unknown reason, he jumped up and stopped the prince's carriage.
"Please forgive me, Your Majesty. I am really worried about Your Majesty. Please allow me to bring the mermaid into the palace immediately." Su Sheng lowered his head, and his expression could not be seen clearly in the night.
After a while, the prince slowly raised the car window.
"Mr. Su, do you think that I am disloyal and unfilial?"
The prince spoke in a gentle voice, but his words were very serious, "I am more worried about my father than anyone else... I must go to the palace immediately to see that my father is in good health."
Su Sheng didn't dare to look up, but he felt the invisible pressure on his shoulders became heavier.