Seeing the master walking in the direction of the small pavilion, a maid hurriedly walked around, brushed off the dust on the stone table and stone bench, took a wolfskin cushion and laid it out, and put the hot soup that had been prepared for a long time also on the table.

Cui Wei helped Yao Yanyu to sit down, and she also sat down opposite.

Knowing that Yao Yanyu repeatedly mentioned the eldest princess of Ninghua because she was worried that the emperor would lose trust in the Zhenguo Mansion, Cuiwei served soup to Yao Yanyu and persuaded in a low voice: "Madame, don't worry, the eldest princess Ninghua has a deep brotherhood with the emperor, and the emperor is wise and wise, so she naturally knows it in her heart." ”

Yao Yanyu nodded and said, "This year's New Year's gift to the Eldest Princess's Mansion should be specially prepared, and in addition, I want to send the New Year's gift in person." ”

"Doesn't that make some people think too much?" Cui Wei asked hesitantly.

"What is there to think about? I have a deep relationship with Princess Ninghua, and who can say anything if I visit her in the past after the Chinese New Year? I'm not afraid even if someone chews on it. It's just a New Year's gift. ”

Cui Wei responded: "What Madam said is, then I'll do it earlier." ”

"Hmm." Yao Yanyu nodded.

Entering the wax moon, the plum blossoms of all generations in Yundu City are blooming. The streets and alleys of the entire Cloud Capital City are filled with a faint fragrance of plums.

The snow is flying, indicating that the year is coming to an end, and it also heralds the beginning of a new year.

All the ministries and yamen sealed the big seals and prepared to go home for the New Year. The palace is also a busy scene.

Since the return of the sixth prince, Yun Ying, the emperor's condition seems to have improved a lot. The imperial physician who served in front of him had been allowed to take turns on duty, and Zhang Zhiling's father and son were naturally secretly relieved.

On this day, Yun Ying personally went to the imperial garden to pick two red plum bottles and sent them to the Zichen Palace to enjoy with the emperor, the red plum is flourishing, fragrant and pleasant, the emperor likes it very much, and hurriedly asked Huaien to help himself sit up.

Yun Ying put the cushion behind the emperor's back before Huai'en, and said with a smile: "Father's complexion is so good today. ”

"With the joy of your plum blossoms, I feel much refreshed." The emperor also smiled.

"My father, like my aunt, likes plum blossoms." Yun Ying naturally mentioned the eldest princess of Ninghua.

The emperor shook his head with a smile and said, "Well, I just like to watch it, but your aunt is different, she raises plum blossoms as a daughter." Serving all day long, I not only like to look at the flowers, but also like the wine concocted by the green plums. ”

Yun Ying stood in front of the dragon couch, holding a small pair of silver scissors in her hand to build the flourishing branches of plum blossoms, and sighed softly: "The fifty hundred-year-old plums in my aunt's house don't know how the road is blooming this year. ”

"Why did you suddenly mention that your aunt is here today? Is there something to say? "The emperor has been ill for a long time, but his thinking habits have not changed over the years, and he still treats problems so sharply.

"My father is wise, and my son heard yesterday that my aunt was suffering from a cold and passed on to the imperial doctor." Yun Ying hurriedly put down the small silver scissors in her hand, turned around and bowed to the emperor.

"Your aunt has loved you since she was a child, and I am very pleased that you can remember her body." The emperor looked at the plum blossoms on the small kang table in front of him and thought thoughtfully.

"Father, ......" Yun Ying wanted to speak and stopped.

The emperor glanced at him and said lightly: "If you have something to say, you can say it directly." ”

"Father, there is something that the sons and daughters don't understand, and I ask my father not to be angry when I say it."

"Say it. If you don't understand, just ask, this is what I gave you since I was a child. ”

"Yes." Yun Ying bowed again and said, "Erchen doesn't understand why my father and emperor have alienated my seventh uncle and aunt. Both of them are the emperor's closest siblings. King Jin colluded with the fourth child to rebel, but it can't be said that the seventh uncle is the same as them. There is also the Zhenguo Mansion ......"

The emperor chuckled and shook his head, and sighed, "I'm paving the way for you." You still complain that I don't care about brotherhood. ”

Yun Ying was stunned, and hurriedly lifted the corner of her robe and knelt on the ground: "Erchen doesn't dare." ”

"Get up." The emperor sighed and waved his hand at Wynne.

Huai En bowed and retreated with the eunuchs and palace maids in the hall.

Only the father and son were left in the hall, the hall was extremely quiet, the fragrance of plum blossoms was like a substance entwined between the snorts, Yun Ying knelt on the ground and did not dare to raise her head, the hand hidden in the sleeve was tightly clenched into a fist, and the palm of the hand was already wet with sweat.

"Mrs. Xiao once told me that my princes are dragons and phoenixes among people, each with their own strengths, if they are in the homes of ordinary people, everyone is a good son who stands up to the sky." After the emperor finished speaking, he sighed slowly, and continued: "It's just a pity that you were all born in the emperor's family, and there is only one dragon chair, and a country cannot have two monarchs. ”

Yun Ying knelt on the ground, bowed his head and listened, not daring to say a word, at this time, he had nothing to say.

"So they are all fighting, fighting openly and secretly for so many years, and they all want to collapse their opponents regardless of their brotherhood, and even ignore the fathers and sons and people who want to force me to abdicate and make way for Xian, and then ascend to the throne themselves, calling them lonely." After the emperor finished speaking, he smiled self-deprecatingly, and Fang continued: "But what they don't know is that they will lose something in the end by sitting on this dragon chair. ”

After speaking, the emperor paused, Fang looked down at Yun Ying, who was kneeling in front of him, and ordered, "You get up." ”

"Father's Hadith, sons are willing to kneel and listen." At this time, where does Yun Ying dare to get up?

"Well, then you can kneel." The emperor said lightly, "The next words, you have to keep them in your heart." ”

Yun Ying immediately responded: "Yes, the holy precepts of the father, the sons and daughters must always remember it in their hearts and dare not forget it." ”

"You are knowledgeable, broad-minded, tolerant of people, and know how to make good use of them. This is Mrs. Xiao's comment to you, so I thought it would be better to hand over my fortune to you than to hand it over to your brothers who are good at scheming. But your mother was a monk at an early age, and you have not yet married a wife. And your brother is not good, and none of your brothers and sisters are against you, which is your shortcoming. ”

After all, the emperor has been ill for a long time and lacks qi and blood, so he is a little tired after talking for a long time. But he slowed down, and then insisted on saying: "So when you ascend the throne in the future, you will definitely be constrained by the ministers of the DPRK and China." So I have to pave the way for you, drive piles, kick out those who will endanger the country in the future, and temporarily crush those you can use. ”

Yun Ying was suddenly empowered, and suddenly raised his head to look at the emaciated emperor on the dragon couch, and a monstrous torrent surged in his heart, and his nose was sour, and he couldn't stop crying.

The emperor heard Yun Ying's soft sobbing, glanced at him sideways, and said, "Don't cry." As an emperor, the last thing you should have is kindness. ”

"Yes." Yun Ying raised her hand and wiped the tears from her face with her sleeve.

"I know that your seventh uncle and your aunt have a deep brotherhood with me, and no matter what I do to them, they will not complain. But that's just for me. In the future, I will drive the crane to the west, and you will ascend to the great treasure by my will, and they will naturally not embarrass you out of loyalty to me. But it's just not embarrassing. ”

Yun Ying was shocked when he heard this, this was something he had thought about a long time ago, so he would rather secretly join forces with Wei Zhang than have too much contact with the Zhenguo Mansion and the Chengwang Mansion. What he is afraid of is that in the future, these two families will be one literary and one martial, one will control the government and the other will support the army and respect himself, and he will not take his own late-born descendants in his eyes.

"The Zhenguo Mansion is a century-old family, and the Chengwang Mansion is even more powerful. If you don't have the loyalty of these two families, even if you sit on the dragon chair, your foundation will not be strong. You're not me, and I don't have much affection for them. If you want them to be loyal to you, you have to hold them in your hands. But they do everything well, and you can't find their handle at all. If you rely on them in the future, they will inevitably not rely on the old and embarrass you. If you don't rely on them, they will be resentful, and they will turn against you in anger. ”

After the emperor finished speaking, Wu Zi sneered and sighed: "There is no father and son in the heavenly family. I have been with this brother and sister for many years, but I can't guarantee that they will have the same affection for you. So, let's let me be a bad person! Anyway, I have enough infamy on my body, and I don't care about this one. ”

"Father!" Yun Ying fell to the ground and cried.

The emperor didn't say much, but he just used his son to accumulate some strength when he cried, and Fang continued: "As for Wei Zhang...... In the past year or two, I have felt that I can't see through him. But that's nothing. Everyone has a weakness, and the weakness of his Weizhang is Yao Yanyu. As long as you can control Yao Yanyu in the palm of your hand, Wei Zhang will never have two hearts. As long as he doesn't have two hearts, the Yao family is not afraid, then Yao Yuan's father and son can become usable people to help you. ”

Yun Ying whimpered and fell to the ground, wiping her tears and kowtowing: "Father...... The father and the emperor are all devoted to their sons, and the sons and daughters will not be able to repay their father's kindness until they die...... The son begged his father to take care of the dragon's body! ”

"That's it! I'm so tired! Although there are still a thousand words to tell you, after all, I can't do it! I have been in charge of the country for thirty-six years, although I dare not say that it is a prosperous era of Qingping, but I am worthy of the ancestors of my Yun family. ”

"My son is still young, and he still doesn't understand a lot of things. The son only asks his father to take care of the dragon body! Yun Ying was busy and kowtowed.

"There you go. I won't be able to die for a while. I'm just taking advantage of the spirit to say a few more words to you. The emperor waved his hand and said, "Didn't you say that your aunt was sick?" Let's take a look. ”

"Yes, the retainers are retired." Yun Ying kowtowed, slowly got up, stepped forward to help the emperor lie down, covered him with the quilt again, and watched him sleep heavily before wiping away his tears, cleaning up his emotions and leaving the Zichen Palace.

Since this day, the emperor and the six princes have had a secret conversation for more than half an hour, and his spirit has become more and more weak. At most two of the twelve hours of the day are awake, and the rest of the day is mostly sleepy.

Every move in the Zichen Hall involves the hearts of the entire harem and even the imperial court. The secret discussion between the emperor and the six princes naturally blew to all corners with the northeast wind.

A few people are happy and a few people are sad, and everyone's thoughts naturally don't need to be repeated. Anyway, there are many people who have had an unstable life this year.

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Dear drops, in this steamer-like weather, the big beads sweat like rain codewords! Well, don't say anything, if you can still hold the monthly pass, you just don't give it, and I only have to squat in the corner of the wall to draw circles...