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"How? But someone saw the emperor? The eldest princess held a small pair of scissors in her hand and gestured towards a pot of verdant plants in front of her, as if looking for a way to prune it more beautifully. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The man behind shook his head.

The eldest princess's brows suddenly furrowed, and the scissors in her hand made a 'click' sound, but this did not make her feel the slightest happiness, but her brows became tighter and tighter, because the scissors did not cut in the right place, and a good pot of plants was completely ruined by this knife.

The eldest princess put down the scissors, as if she didn't like this potted plant so much anymore, so she didn't look at it, but turned to another potted plant, and said while looking at it: "Prepare a car for the palace, and the palace will enter the palace." ”

At this time, the ministers of the previous dynasty gathered together in several people, and the problem they talked about was nothing more than the problem of the emperor being seriously ill and not coming to court, and no one was there, so he turned everyone away. No one thought that things would suddenly come to this point, and now, the crown prince is in charge of the country, but the person who can really get close to the emperor and take care of the emperor is not the prince, but the second prince who has just entered the palace.

I don't know what kind of medicine he prescribed, except for him and the second princess, the emperor didn't see anyone, even if the prince and the princess asked to see him, they were turned away.

The emperor disappeared in front of the world as if out of thin air.

Some people suspect that the second prince did something, and in the final analysis, it is very problematic to prevent all the ministers from meeting with the emperor.

However, it is the crown prince who is in charge of the country, and some of the contents of the report, even if some sensitive matters are involved, the prince handles them very smoothly, and no one makes the prince the slightest trouble.

But this smoothness always has a feeling of panic. At least that's what the prince himself thinks.

At this time, although the crown prince had already left the court, he did not leave, but gathered with all the ministers to discuss the reason why the emperor suddenly fell seriously ill.

Only the second prince and the second princess can get close to the emperor, this kind of thing is very unusual, not only the ministers have suspicions, but even the crown prince has suspicions.

But they couldn't do anything about it.

Because they weren't sure whether the emperor was under house arrest by the second prince, or if it was really the emperor's own idea. He didn't want to see them because he had other plans? Or are you terminally ill?

In the past few days, the wind direction in Beijing has been a little strange, and some sensitive people have vaguely noticed some reasons. However, the affairs of the court are extremely simple and smooth, if it is said that the second prince has placed the emperor under house arrest, what other purpose does it have, I am afraid it is only for the throne, right?

But since it is for the throne, then the second prince should try his best to embarrass the prince, instead of letting the prince handle state affairs so smoothly. In this case, the prestige of the crown prince in the court will only get higher and higher, what benefits can the second prince have?

So, at this time, there was another rumor. said that the second prince actually supported the crown prince's accession to the throne, and the two of them united early in the morning. One is responsible for placing the emperor under house arrest, and the other is responsible for enhancing his influence in the central government, so that when something happens to the emperor, the crown prince's accession to the throne is justified, and no one can say anything.

But there are also those who scoff at this rumor. They believe that since the crown prince is already the crown prince and the successor set by the emperor early on, why do they make so many moves to push themselves to the cusp?

As long as the emperor is a hundred years later, the crown prince can successfully ascend the throne without doing anything, and there is no need to have no silver here. What's the point of pouring a bowl of dirty water on yourself?

No matter what kind of rumors have supporters, it is a fact that the emperor has not seen anyone behind closed doors. Many ministers wanted to hear some truth from the mouth of the second prince, but they were always fooled by the second prince's Tai Chi.

In fact, long before the second prince entered the palace, the emperor was sick. At that time, it was not so serious, but the emperor was often mentally ill, yawning in the court, with obvious dark circles in his eyes, and seemed to be a little forgetful, sometimes a courtier just finished saying something, and the emperor forgot it when he turned his head, and asked the courtier again.

Everyone was worried, and many courtiers went to the Tai Hospital to inquire, but the conclusion was that the emperor was really sick from hard work, as long as he recuperated with peace of mind and took more supplements to replenish the lost spirit and vitality, so everyone didn't take it seriously.

What kind of tonic is not in the palace? Thinking that the imperial doctor knew the emperor's condition, he would naturally spare no effort to treat the emperor.

In fact, the emperor did have a lot of spirit for a while, and he turned back to the emperor who handled things neatly and neatly in the past, and it seemed that there was no major problem with mental malaise, everyone thought that this matter had passed, but it didn't take long for the emperor's spirit to begin to trance again, and then he suddenly wanted to recognize the son who was transferred, regardless of the opposition of many people, he was determined to take the son of the exile back to the palace, replace Ye Shucheng's second prince, re-crowned the king, and loved it.

In the past few days, the emperor's favor for the second prince has almost made the prince jealous. However, Ye Xici and Fang Xiaoyu were not in the capital, and the prince tried his best to break the situation.

He had a hunch that his new second emperor brother was not good at coming, and the good were not coming.

"The crown princess, please go back, the emperor said, no one will see you." The guard guarding the dormitory was a fresh face, and at this time, he stopped Bai Wan, the crown princess who wanted to see the emperor, who wanted to see the emperor.

Bai Wan gritted her teeth and held a bowl of soup in her hand, but she was never able to step into this room and see her father's state with her own eyes, which made her worried.

Not only worried about the emperor, but also worried about the crown prince.

From childhood to adulthood, the emperor has never snubbed the prince like this, even if Ye Shucheng was very pleasing to the emperor at the beginning, but the emperor has always been very good to the prince, and gave deep expectations, teaching the prince the way of governing the country hand in hand, and will explain the way of the prince to the prince with a kind smile, every time the prince asks to see, the emperor will immediately call the prince in, and listen to the prince's report on anything with a pleasant face.

But this time, no matter how she and the prince asked to meet, the answer they got was always the same one.

Missing.

Bai Wan felt that this was very wrong. Even if his father is sick, he should not refuse to see the crown prince. What's more, now there are all fresh faces guarding outside my father's bedroom, all of whom have been promoted by the second prince these days.

What worried him the most was that she hadn't seen Su Wanfu for a long time.

As the chief eunuch, Su Wanfu has been by his father's side for decades, and it can be said that he is the person who has the most contact with his father and is also the most loyal to his father.

If his father is sick, he should be the most anxious to take care of him before and after, serving tea and water.

However, these days, she often came here to ask to see her father, but she never saw Su Wanfu once.

Not once.

Bai Wan looked at the closed door with a cold expression, thinking to herself, would her father be in that room? Is Su Wanfu also in the house?

She was unwilling to retreat, so she wanted to move forward, but without exception, she was stopped by the guards again. The other party didn't seem to be afraid of her as the crown princess at all, and stopped in front of her expressionlessly, like a sculpture.

Bai Wan finally gritted her teeth and retreated. Although she is unwilling, she will not change anything if she consumes it like this. It's just that she decided that she would continue to come to see her tomorrow, maybe her father would change his mind?

When Bai Wan left towards the East Palace, the eldest princess happened to see her. Seeing that she looked lonely, and there was still a bowl of soup in her hand, which seemed to come out of the emperor's bedroom, she knew that she must have failed to ask to see the emperor's brother and was driven back.

The eldest princess didn't stop Bai Wan and let her leave, and then walked into the emperor's bedroom by herself, and was also stopped by someone unexpectedly.

"Eldest princess, please go back. The emperor has an order, and no one will see him. "The guards were like machines saying the same thing to everyone who came to see the emperor.

"Get out of the way, this palace wants to see the emperor." The eldest princess frowned slightly, and the momentum on her body was not angry and self-threatening.

"Eldest princess, please come back." The guards were unmoved.

"Hongu told you to get out of the way!" The eldest princess shouted angrily.

"Eldest princess, please go back, please don't embarrass your subordinates." The guard finally changed his words, but it seemed to be said in a submissive tone, but the expression on his face did not change in the slightest.

"What if this palace is going to be embarrassed?" The eldest princess raised her eyebrows, obviously already angry.

"Then ask the eldest princess to step over the corpse of her subordinates." The guards still held on, never letting go.

"Don't you dare to stay in this palace?" The eldest princess sneered, and suddenly pulled out the sword on the guard's body, and it was a threat that was not even a threat, and the sword slashed over the guard.

Seeing the blood splashing in front of her, the eldest princess didn't even frown, and regardless of the blood stains on her body, she was about to go forward to open the palace door with her sword.

Naturally, there was more than one guard, but the eldest princess's murderous momentum without saying a word and drawing her sword suppressed these people, making them react half a beat slower. When they reacted to what was happening, they wanted to stop the eldest princess, but they were cut two by the eldest princess in a row, and the momentum was incomparable for a while.

However, at the moment when the eldest prince pushed open the door of the hall, when his fingers were only close to the door, a voice suddenly came from behind her.

The voice sounded graceful, and it didn't seem to worry at all about the eldest princess pushing the door open, and he said, "If I were a princess, I wouldn't open that door." ”

Hearing this voice say this, the eldest princess's hand suddenly froze. Then she turned around with a dark face, looked at the appearance of the person who was slowly walking from behind, gritted her teeth and said, "Is it you?" Are you going to stop me? ”

"Princess, you can't do anything, so why force it?" The man smiled, but his eyes did not look at the eldest princess.

The eldest princess let out a long sigh, and she couldn't tell what it was like in her heart, but the hand that wanted to push the door open was retracted. Then he walked down the steps step by step, came to the man, and said, "What do you mean by not doing anything?" Why not? ”

As she spoke, she turned half of her body to the side, looked at the closed door, and said with an indescribable desolate expression: "The person there is my own brother." Is it reasonable for me to be an older sister and not even have the opportunity to visit my brother when he is sick? ”

The person who came didn't think about it and said, "Princess, where is there so much reasonable and unreasonable in this world?" I always thought that the princess should be a smart person, and she should know the truth of avoiding good luck and evil. The princess can certainly push open that door, but can the princess think about the consequences after pushing that door? ”

"The consequences?" The eldest princess sneered: "Visiting my sick brother, there are consequences?" ”

"Why should the princess pretend to be stupid? With the intelligence of the princess, you can't think of it? The man looked at the princess with a hint of love, and soon that kindness was replaced by a smirk.

The eldest princess paused, then closed her eyes and said, "Have you made up your mind to help him?" ”

"Isn't it possible?" When the man raised his eyes, he couldn't tell what kind of emotion it was.

"Because she is Zhou Ling's son? Because he's your grandson? The eldest princess sneered.

"Isn't that enough?" The man was still smiling, but he was a stranger.

The eldest princess glanced at this person deeply, and then smiled bitterly: "Zhou Xiang, you used to be the person who loved me the most besides my father, but maybe in the future, you and I are destined to be enemies." ”

"The princess doesn't have to call me, the old immortal, Zhou Xiang. I've been retired for many years, and the new prime minister has changed. Now I'm just an old immortal. Zhou was indifferent to the eldest princess's words.

"Have you ever heard of Zhou Xiang? To be old and not die is to be a thief. Since Zhou Xiang knew his identity, why did he get involved in this dispute? The eldest princess originally wanted to scold Zhou Xiang, but as she spoke, she remembered Zhou Xiang's many concerns for herself when she was still in the court, and finally couldn't bear it, and her tone softened again.

"The old man owes the boy too much. If I hadn't lost her, why would she have suffered like that? never thought that Ling'er would be enough, and even her children had gone through hardships. Now that Ling'er is gone, she only has such a bone and blood left, and the old man wants to try his best to help him. Zhou Xiang's face showed a look of guilt.

"Even if what he did was wrong? Even if what he does is to lose his head? The eldest princess felt uncomfortable.

"Yes. It doesn't matter if it's right or wrong, just because he's the grandson of the old man. Grandson. "Zhou Xiang was obsessed, and when he mentioned his grandson, he deliberately accentuated the tone of the word 'pro'.

The eldest princess suddenly smiled, but she looked at Zhou Xiang's eyes again, and she no longer had the same feelings as before.

She silently dropped the blood-stained sword in her hand, glanced at Zhou Xiang indifferently, and then did not step forward to push the door again, but went in the direction of leaving.

"Princess." Zhou Xiang stopped her and watched the eldest princess's footsteps pause, but she had nothing to say.

"People always have to pay for their choices, whether they are good or bad." The eldest princess didn't look back, but she didn't take a step to leave, and said, "Zhou Xiang, I just hope that you will be good at yourself, and don't bring everyone in Zhou Xiang's Mansion to destruction for the sake of one person." ”

"Your relatives are not the only one."

After speaking, the eldest princess left without looking back. (To be continued.) )