The author has something to say: it rained without warning, and the horse-drawn carriages ran through the rain, running over the streets, and the wheels splashed countless tiny splashes.

The car drove into the palace gate, the captain guarding the door cautiously came to inquire, Dugu Shaoce immediately stepped forward and said a few words, the coachman opened the door, the captain looked at my face respectfully, and then waved his hand and let us in.

From the palace gate to the Zhenguan Palace, the sentry posts visible along the way are more than five times that of weekdays, and whether they are military guards, palace people or internal servants, all of them are dignified, although they are in groups, they dare not talk and laugh as before, all of them are cautious in their words and deeds, as if the palace is full of deaf and dumb people.

Wan'er led me into the inner sanctum.

At a glance, I saw Li Rui standing in front of the bed, with tears on his face.

He was seventeen years old, almost as tall as the prince, nay, the waste prince, and at last a thin layer of beard had grown on his lips, still light in color, and looked as shaggy as a new grass. He did not wear the color of the prince's clothes, only wore a light purple robe, and did not wear a crown on his head, but only used a hairpin to hold it, and when he saw me come in, his face moved, and he was about to call me, but he held back, lowered his head, wiped his tears with his hands, and waited for me to approach, and then nodded to me.

My mother had been sitting on the edge of the bed watching my father, and when I came in, she turned her head to look at it and said lightly, "My son is here."

I knelt down and saluted solemnly, my mother didn't call for support, glanced at Li Rui, and said, "Salute to your brother." ”

Li Rui's body trembled, and let out a small whimper, his mother glanced at him, his voice was suppressed, I turned around, bowed to him, and whispered, "See brother." ”

He moved his hands in a daze, his lips moved twice, and then hurriedly said, "Get up, get up." ”

I looked at my mother, who nodded to me, and then I slowly stood up and approached the edge of the bed to see my father.

If he looked just sick and weak last year, now he looks like a complete old man, in just a few days, a lot of white hair suddenly grew on his head, the whole person lost weight, sunken eyes, when he saw me, the corners of his mouth tugged, and he called weakly: "Son." My hand raised slightly in the air, as if I wanted to grab my hand, I hurriedly reached out to hold him, called "Aya", he pinched me with both hands, and after a while, shouted "pheasant slave".

Li Rui also walked over, his father also held his hand, opened his mouth a few times, didn't say anything, just sighed, and my mother let the three of us stay for a while before saying, "Your Majesty is unwell, you can withdraw first and let Your Majesty rest for a while." ”

I looked at my father, and he closed his eyes and nodded, and the two of us bowed to him again, and withdrew one after the other, waiting for the summons in the side hall.

As soon as he left his mother's sight, Li Rui couldn't hold back any longer, and called in a trembling voice: "Son." ”

I asked him, "What's going on?"

He looked left and right, led me to the side hall to sit down, and said in a low voice: "During the Great Dynasty, the Yushitai played in court, saying that there was a flying book in Beijing to slander me, saying that it was the prince... Erlang said that he colluded with soldiers, bought people's hearts, and intended to plot evil. ”

I frowned and said, "Looking at the sun?"

He nodded: "Everybody's here, that's... In court, hundreds of civil and military officials, all of them, I... Also there. ”

I patted his hand to appease him, and it took him a while to calm down, and then he said, "The Holy One is furious, and thinks that someone has slandered the prince, mother... But she ordered both sides to investigate thoroughly. Afterward... It was found out that King Wu sent someone to Feishu, but what he said was also true, last year, the prince... Erlang he saw that the soldiers under the corridor only elm bark, Pengshi for food, very compassionate, ordered the family to give rice relief, there are hundreds, these families are grateful for his kindness, this year, this year I heard that the sage favored King Wu, and wanted to change the prince, so he and Shiro's soldiers... There was some conflict. And his private relief to the victims has also become a crime of buying people's hearts..."

I said, "And then Shiro made a flying book as a slander?"

Li Rui said: "That's what Qiu Shenyun's recital said. ”

When I heard the name of "Qiu Shenyun", I was silent, Li Rui waited for a moment before he said: "The sage originally wanted to settle the matter, but later... Later, the more I investigated, the more I found. Shiro... Wu thief, he spied on the palace, befriended the ministers, and aided the ministers to write a book, saying that Erlang had hidden his armor privately, and wanted to make a big deal, and listed the names of many people, saying that they were involved, and His Majesty sent Jin Wu to search the East Palace, and found out... Hundreds of white cloth armor. ”

I said, "The white cloth armor is not the iron armor, so for this... Abolish the crown prince?"

Li Rui shook his head: "Erlang said that these cloth armors are only worn by the guards when the micro-clothes go out on weekdays, because the dispatch of the armor is very cumbersome, and his micro-clothes are often improvised, so he has an extra set, not deliberately hidden." The saint saw that it was just Bujia, and originally wanted Erlang to go back to the East Palace to think about it, but the queen of heaven... The Queen of Heaven believes that this matter must be severely punished. They argued for a long time, and then the queen of heaven... The Queen of Heaven said, 'Your Majesty remembers how the first emperor saved his son?', and then the Holy One... I agreed. ”

For a long time, we just looked at each other, and didn't speak, and the palace people quietly brought the tea up, and walked down, Li Rui swallowed a big sip of tea in one go, and then looked at me again: "Son, the queen of heaven... Mother she... Don't you like Brother very much?"

I asked, "Why do you think so?"

"Nothing," he said. After a long while, he said softly: "The second sister-in-law gave birth to a son yesterday, and gave him the name Fengjie, and after she was born, the second sister-in-law will... went. ”

His voice began to tremble again, and my hands began to tremble, and after a while, I heard him say again: "I want to accept the festival as a son, two majesty... Don't. ”

I smiled wryly: "Of course they won't allow it." ”

Li Rui sighed, waited for a while, and then said: "Aunt Yan'an's grandmother is also involved, Ah Zhao she... Now it is tied to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. ”

I deliberately asked him, "Don't you dislike her?"

It was a long time before he said, "She's pregnant with my child." ”

After that, until my mother sent us back, no one spoke. (Exclusive)

This night and several days later, Li Rui was left by his mother in the side hall of Zhenguan Palace, and I lived in Lichuntai, where the defense was tighter than before, but the palace people were still the ones I was used to, Song Fuyou and Ah Huan reorganized them again, and it was strictly forbidden to spread the word inside and outside, and chatted privately.

I gradually understood the methods used by my mother, just like when she summoned King Wu to Beijing, these methods seem simple, and everyone can figure it out afterwards, but before the fact, few people can guess my mother's intentions, and even if they do, they may not be able to help the prince break this game.

Summoning the king of Wu to Beijing, pampering his young grandson, reprimanding the prince, practicing the palace people, spreading rumors... All of this is a means to deal with the second brother, but it is not the ultimate means to deal with the second brother. Everything his mother did was just to intimidate the second brother, so that he himself would be frightened and frightened.

As a mother, she knows her son too well. My second brother was made a prince from a young age, and for several years his mother had only one son, and she doted on him very much, and his father chose famous teachers for him, and ordered courtiers to write for him, and he hardly suffered any setbacks since he was a child.

And once his mother began to frustrate him, once, twice, three, four... Even dozens or hundreds of times, it is difficult for him not to suppress despair, and when he begins to suppress despair, it is inevitable that he will make mistakes, and as for how to deal with mistakes after making mistakes, it is all up to his mother.

For example, these hundreds of cloth armor.

I never believed that anyone who rebelled would abandon the iron armor and use the cloth armor. In other words, if the second brother really has the heart to rebel, where can't he use the Donggong guard? Why should he use this cloth armor to arm the sergeants?

My father must have known this, so he didn't want to abolish the prince right away.

But the mother really knows the father too well, and the sentence "protect the beloved son" is really clever. After the dynasty inherited the Sui, the founding of the country was not long, there was the matter of Xuanwu Gate, Taizong when the sons were quarrelling, the father was more than ten years old at the time, the danger was dangerous, naturally saw it clearly, and therefore it was extremely taboo to kill each other, and told us in our spare time, all to friendship and love.

I remember that he wanted the second brother and the sixth brother to hold on to a tug-of-war, but it was stopped because Wei Shuxuan said "you can't start a quarrel with brothers", and now he sees that the king of Wu and the prince have the intention of fighting each other, how can he not be vigilant and guarded?

I very much doubt that the main messenger of this Feishu slander is Shiro or not, not to mention that he has only been in Beijing for a short time, how can he find out such a private matter, only that his mother is still alive, and he is the queen of the government, he only needs to see a little more clearly, and he knows that he should not be involved in these disputes, and he has no hope.

However, this matter was tried by Qiu Shenyun, so it doesn't matter who the main envoy is for a long time, not to mention that if necessary, in addition to "Feishu slander", his mother can also give Shiro an charge of "watching the palace", who taught him to inquire about the palace so thoroughly? A foreign vassal king, who does not honestly retire in the fiefdom, prefers to come to Beijing, and also makes friends with the courtiers and clans everywhere, and even inquires about the situation in the palace so clearly, is it not a plot, what is it?

But if Shiro doesn't come with the edict, his mother will also have a reason to condemn him - you are a son of a man, and your father is not in good health, and he wants to see you, but you can't stay late, and when you come and want to stay with you for a while, and you refrain in every possible way, isn't it unfilial? In the laws and decrees issued by my father in his early years, unfilial piety is the ten heinous sins.

Think about it carefully, if Erlang can be calm and self-controlled, respectfully and humbly, and obey his mother in everything, there may still be a chance, and Shiro has been doomed since he set off from the fiefdom to enter Beijing. This is the crushing of the superior to the inferior.

I should be glad that I am my mother's youngest daughter and that I stood by my mother's side early. 166 Reading Network