In the afternoon of this day, in the imperial study of the Qianyang Palace, Emperor Hongsheng was furious at the row of sons kneeling below.

"You have such great skills, I'm not dead yet, you are playing fratricide! I thought that if I killed the crown prince, I would be able to make you emperor? ”

"Father, please calm your anger." Tu Yuanhui hurriedly stepped forward and said, "This matter may not be ......"

"Not necessarily? Do I eat rice? Emperor Hongsheng threw down a secret fold.

"Prince, read it to your brothers!"

The princes under the seat all looked nervous, but only the fourth prince Tu Yuanye was calm.

Tu Yuanhui picked up the fold and looked at it, looked up and thought about it for a while, but put the fold together, and knelt in front of the book case of Emperor Hongsheng, "Father, the minister does not believe this matter, and even if it is true, it is the son's fault first, if the father insists on punishing it, it is better to punish the son!" ”

Everyone didn't expect Tu Yuanhui to react like this, and even Tu Yuanye was taken aback.

"You still want to shield them?" Emperor Hongsheng said calmly.

"After this incident, Erchen was indeed frightened, but fortunately, there was no danger." Tu Yuanhui lowered his head and said, "After the fright, Erchen was extremely happy. ”

"My father didn't know that when Tianque Temple was assassinated, Erchen was listening to Dade say, 'Life is like a white horse passing through a gap, and it is all of a sudden', and he was hit by an arrow in a blink of an eye." Tu Yuanhui said that he actually smiled here.

"When Erchen woke up, he couldn't help but panic, thinking that if he lost his life at that time, Erchen would really be lackluster in this life, and he would be ashamed of his ancestors and ancestors."

"I don't understand what you're talking about?" Emperor Hongsheng snorted.

"The sons were trained by their fathers in person, and when they grew up, the masters looked at their fathers and emperors, and praised their sons, and everyone took the sons as the princes, and the sons were not good, and it was inevitable that they would be arrogant, and they developed the problem of no one in their eyes, but they didn't expect that arrow, but let the sons see themselves clearly."

Everyone looked at Tu Yuanhui, wanting to hear what he would say later.

"In fact, compared with the brothers, the sons are not outstanding, only because they are the sons-in-law, they have been in the position of the prince for 18 years, and so far they have neither made any merits, nor have they been able to treat their brothers well, and they have indulged in their relatives to do illegal things. And as a prince, since he should know the law, he is already in his body, and his son is actually immoral and incompetent, and he is really unworthy of being a prince. ”

The room was suddenly quiet, and a few princes even looked at him with eyes that didn't even know Tu Yuanhui.

But Emperor Hongsheng slapped the table and said: "Yuan Hui, this prince is what you want to be, and if you don't want to be, you can't be!" "It's called Yuan Hui, so you can see that you are not angry at all.

Tu Yuanhui bowed to the ground with his head and did not make a sound.

"Yuan Hui, you get up." Emperor Hongsheng finally sighed and said, "You all go down!" ”

The princes bowed their heads and saluted, looked at each other one after another, and then knelt down and walked out.

Tu Yuanhui was the last to come out, and Tu Yuanting outside the door was still waiting for him, as soon as he saw Tu Yuanhui appear, Tu Yuanting stepped forward and said: "Second brother, you should still be the prince, I think you are better than those brothers!" ”

Tu Yuanhui touched Tu Yuanting's head: "What do you know?" ”

"My father said that only a virtuous person can be a king," Tu Yuanting pulled Tu Yuanhui's sleeve, "What the second brother just said, isn't it a virtuous word?" ”

Tu Yuanhui saw that the other adult brothers were all stiff, and after Tu Yuanting finished speaking, the other fifteen, seventeen, eighteen and other little princes all nodded, Tu Yuanhui smiled and glanced at Tu Yuanting, but he didn't expect that Xiao Sixteen, who had died early, still had such connections.

He also took advantage of the situation to act like a brother gently, and said: "It sounds so good, don't want to go to the East Palace to play again!" ”

"Hmm!" Tu Yuan nodded honestly.

"Then go with Lonely!" Tu Yuanhui took Tu Yuanting's hand, and several little princes suddenly had a different look at Tu Yuanhui, in fact, those who suffered from Tu Yuanhui have basically grown up now, and the young prince has occasionally heard it, but he really hasn't seen it.

"Prince, please stay." Emperor Hongsheng's personal inner supervisor, Lao Anzi, called from behind.

"The emperor announced that you should go back."

Tu Yuanhui thought about it for a while, and then said, "You go to the East Palace to play." ”

Tu Yuanting completely understood.

***

Seeing Tu Yuanting running in happily, Feng Yu'er smiled and beckoned, "I just made a snack, and the Sixteenth Master also came over to taste it?" ”

Tu Yuanting stepped forward unceremoniously, and was about to get a snack on the table, but was grabbed by Xingyue and insisted that he clean his hands.

Feng Yu'er was in a panic at this time, so she took a guqin to test the sound, and the sound of "ding ding dong dong" sounded in the room for a while, and Tu Yuanting couldn't understand it, so he just sat aside and nibbled on snacks.

After eating and drinking, Tu Yuanting spoke: "Yu'er, something big happened in the imperial study!" ”

Feng Yu'er immediately stopped.

"The second brother told his father in front of everyone that he didn't want to be the prince anymore!" Tu Yuanting frowned and said, "What can I do about this?" ”

"What did the emperor say?" Feng Yuer asked with a smile.

"Naturally, no." Tu Yuanting squeezed into Feng Yu'er's piano bench and sat down.

"My father made a big fuss today, saying that it had been found out, and the assassination of the second brother in Jinling was done by his own brother's disciples across seven or eight doors."

Feng Yu'er was also shocked, these princes were so uncomposed?

The prince is not that old, is he?

"How so?" She asked.

"The father asked the second brother to read the results on the spot, but the second brother not only didn't say anything, but also knelt in front of his father, saying that he was immoral and incompetent, and he was not the prince."

Tu Yuanhui is not the prince, this is a move to retreat as advance.

Feng Yu'er said on her face: "If it's not right, it's not right, it's good if people are good!" ”

When Tu Yuanting heard this, his heart was hot, how good it would be if Yu'er was his!

***

At the same time, Tu Yuanhui was helping Emperor Hongsheng to approve the folds in the imperial study, looking at his favorite son concentrating on a bookcase or meditating or lifting a pen and writing, Emperor Hongsheng nodded, and walked to the courtyard outside with his hands behind his back.

Sitting on a stone bench, Lao Anzi hurriedly brought tea.

Emperor Hongsheng took a sip and asked, "Recently, Xiao Sixteen and the prince have been quite close?" ”

"Yes, when the prince came to the emperor to ask for sin, the sixteenth master specially asked the old slave to inquire about the news, but I was worried about it, and the eunuch of the East Fifth Institute also said that the sixteenth master likes to go to the East Palace now that he has nothing to do, and he stays for several hours."

"Little Sixteen has lost his mother since he was a child, and he doesn't see any dealings with other brothers on weekdays, but I didn't expect to talk to the prince, okay! Being a brother is like this, Yuan Hui is becoming more and more like a brother. ”

Lao Anzi fully understood the emperor's thoughts, he was expressing his satisfaction with the prince, and said with a smile: "The prince taught by the emperor himself, where can he be sent!" ”

"I only hate Lao Qi, and I don't know why I lost my mind, and I actually wanted to poison my brother, thinking that if I killed the prince, he would be able to be the prince, what a hindrance!"

"Your Majesty, don't be angry!" Lao Anzi hurriedly comforted: "The dragon body is important, but for the sake of the prince who can't be hard-hearted to deal with his own brother, you can let go of the seventh master and the horse!" ”

Emperor Hongsheng said lightly: "You old thing, you actually intercede for that unfilial son? ”

Lao Anzi hurriedly knelt on the ground, which was clearly the emperor's own thoughts.

"The old slave doesn't dare, it's just that the old slave is also thinking about the prince, you really want to kill the seventh master this time, although it can deter one or two, but in the future, the prince and his brothers, I'm afraid it will be more difficult to get along."

"Yes, Lao Qi is so brainless, if no one is behind him, he may not be able to do this." Emperor Hongsheng sighed, "Have you heard what Fang Cai Yuanhui said in front of his brothers, he is immoral and incompetent?" I'm afraid he's already discouraged. ”

Lao Anzi sighed in his heart, no, the emperor still wants to spare the seventh master. Of course, the emperor values the crown prince the most, but the prince is fine now, the emperor still has other sons, and of course he doesn't want to execute his own son according to the law.

"Your Majesty, you're too worried!"

"This child is very thoughtful, how can I not know the things that the Qian family has done, so openly and secretly protective, it is nothing more than to let him have a reliance in the future, I didn't expect this child to be too high, he has to cut himself off, and without the help of his mother's family in the future, there is always a lack of help."

Lao Anzi smiled and said, "Your Majesty, some time ago, didn't you say that you were going to find the crown princess for the crown prince?" ”

Emperor Hongsheng smiled and said, "It's time too!" ”