It was silent over there.

Xiao Minyuan squinted slightly, holding the white jade porcelain bottle in his hand, his eyes filled with murderous intent.

"This king knows that you are there, and if you don't come out again, don't blame this king for being unkind. ”

After Xiao Minyuan finished speaking coldly, he just waited for no movement over there to do it directly.

The bush shook slightly for a moment, and then a man stepped out of it.

The man was lame on his legs and feet, and he was covered in a black robe, which was caged from head to toe.

His head and face drooped slightly, although he couldn't see his appearance clearly, but just looking at the outfit looked out of place in such a festive palace today, and he didn't look like a person in the palace.

"Who are you?" Xiao Minyuan said coldly, "What are you sneaking here?"

"The night breeze is cool on this royal lake, and if King Xiang can come here to relax, I can naturally do it, as for who I say......" The man paused, "It's just that like you, I don't want to be left on the throne." ”

The man's voice was hoarse, as if he had been rubbed by sand and stones, and it was extremely unpleasant.

When walking, the back is slightly hunched, and the whole person looks rickety.

Xiao Minyuan's eyes flashed with coldness, only thinking that the person in front of him was sent by Xiao Jinyu, he looked at her with a cold look in his eyes and said: "The ninth brother is the crown prince personally chosen by my father, and he is the heir to the throne that my father personally recognized in front of all the courtiers. His ascension to the throne is the most justifiable thing, how can he say that the throne is next to the throne. ”

"It's you, who made this costume and sneakily appeared here to say these words to this king, do you want to provoke our brotherhood, or do you want to trick this king into what you are used for?"

"This king tells you that if you have this kind of thought, take a break as soon as possible, and this king doesn't want to be a rebel and thief. ”

The man chuckled, and the laughter was piercing.

"If you don't want to be a rebel and a thief, do you have to bow down to someone who is inferior to you everywhere?"

"King Xiang is an ambitious man, so why should he deceive himself. If you are really dead set on the throne, how can you continue to secretly plot and solicit the courtiers of the old department, if you are really happy for your ninth brother, why should you be full of resentment and drinking here alone?"

"The hall is full of friends, everyone compliments that yellow-haired boy, but who still remembers that when you were in power, you almost reached the top?"

"Xiao Minyuan, in terms of scheming and strategy, in terms of means and city, you are far better than Xiao Jinyu, if it weren't for Feng Qizhou and Liao Chuxiu and others who got in the way, repeatedly calculated against you, and borrowed you to cover up for Xiao Jinyu and step on you to send him to the throne, how could this emperor's turn to be Xiao Jinyu?"

"You shouldn't be such a person who gives up so easily, let alone such an easy to compromise seed, are you willing to give up the throne to others, and willing to let a person who is inferior to you everywhere, or even have no achievements, climb on your head, and bow to him from now on, meet and bow to him?"

"When you see him in the future, you will do the courtier's courtesy, and your life and death are in the hands of the person who was once trampled under your feet and can be manipulated at will?"

Xiao Minyuan's face suddenly changed when he heard the man's words.

He is indeed unwilling to be Xiao Jinyu the emperor, and he is even more unwilling to let the throne fall into his hands like this, so he looks tame on the surface, but in fact, he has been secretly contacting the old ministry before, and he has also accumulated a lot of contacts during this time.

The Li family was in turmoil because of the fight between Li Fengqian and Lu Fengsheng, and Xiao Yanxu couldn't hold his head up because he was not inferior.

He secretly joined forces with Xiao Yanxu, and even gathered those who disobeyed the new emperor in the court.

Now that Xiao Jinyu has Liao Chuxiu and others in his hands, it is difficult to deal with, but he may not be able to hold them in his hands forever in the future.

Once there is a dislike between them, when they turn against each other, it is when they make a move.

Xiao Minyuan has always acted cautiously, although he has thousands of thoughts in his heart, he is silent on his face.

What he did was extremely secretive, for fear that Xiao Jinyu and the others would find out about cutting the grass and eradicating the roots of him, but he didn't expect that the person in front of him actually knew it clearly.

Xiao Minyuan's face was cold, and he said with murderous intent in his eyes: "Who are you?"

"Enemy owl. ”

The man chuckled and continued, "Perhaps, you can also call me Third Aunt." ”

Xiao Minyuan was stunned, the word Qiu Owl, he had heard it before, in Liu Zheng's mouth, he had said that this person had dealings with Liu Xiangcheng, but then disappeared, he never thought that he would see this person here, let alone that she would appear in the palace.

Just an aunt......

What is this called?

The only aunt he knew was the former eldest princess An Yue.

Wait a minute...

Third aunt?

Xiao Minyuan suddenly remembered something a long time ago, at that time, Feng Qiao had not yet married Liao Chuxiu, and even Emperor Yongzhen was still sitting on the throne, Liu Xi had mentioned to him that there was a third princess under the knee of the first emperor.

That person is the daughter of the first concubine, very much loved by the first emperor, and has a very good relationship with the Yongzhen Emperor, when the Yongzhen Emperor ascended the throne, all the things related to the first emperor in the palace were destroyed, except for the three princesses' favorite acacia trees outside the Yulong Terrace were retained.

At that time, Xiao Minyuan only felt strange, because not only did no one know about the third princess in the palace, but she didn't even mention it much on the royal family, just a simple sentence "died of illness before the new emperor ascended the throne", and nothing else.

At this time, hearing the person on the other side say that he should call her the third aunt, Xiao Min looked at her fiercely and said in a deep voice: "You are the third princess who died of illness back then?!"

"Sick and dead?"

Xiao Yuanqing sneered, "It turns out that Xiao Shu told others that?"

Xiao Minyuan frowned tightly: "What do you mean?"

Xiao Yuanqing laughed out loud when she heard this, "What do you mean?" Her laughter was hoarse, and she suddenly took two steps forward and suddenly lifted the robe on her head, and when the robe fell, a ruined face that was unrecognizable suddenly appeared in front of Xiao Minyuan's eyes.

Her hair was thinning, there were large burnt marks on her forehead, and the right side of her face and neck were scarred, and hideous scars spread down her neck to under the collar, and even her hands were shriveled and indelible after burns.

Xiao Yuanqing could still see half of her face, and her eyes were still fine, but her suddenly revealed appearance still frightened Xiao Minyuan to take two steps back.

"See, this is what your father left me, and Feng Qizhou left it to me. ”

Xiao Minyuan's face was shocked, he could recognize how those scars were left.

He suddenly remembered the fire that he had learned about by chance when he was investigating the affairs in the palace before, and said that after the fire, Emperor Yongzhen's temperament changed greatly, and he even killed many people.

Xiao Minyuan's eyes fell on Xiao Yuanqing's half of the face that could distinguish his past appearance, and he actually felt a little familiar.

He stared at half of her face, and suddenly remembered something from a long time ago.