Xiao Cuo's heart jumped inexplicably. If someone else had said it, it would have been nothing. It's just that when the words are spoken today, talking about secrets and other things will inevitably involve secret affairs and some major events in the palace. There are some things that are far safer not to know than to know. Xiao Cuo instinctively wanted to escape.

However, although the emperor's face remained calm and majestic, his eyes revealed a trace of exhaustion, when they looked at each other, the emperor seemed to be able to guess what Xiao Cuo thought, seeing that he seemed to have the intention of evading, he sighed desolately: "Ah Cuo, now even you can't believe the imperial brother?" ”

Xiao Cuo was stunned when he heard this, seeing the emperor's lost look, his heart seemed to be pricked by a needle, after all, he was a brother since he was a child, and his feelings for the emperor were not simply brotherly love, but more like father and son, how could he see the emperor's brother so lost?

"Brother Huang is serious, how can the younger brother not trust Brother Huang? Is there something difficult for the royal brother? If you need your brother to do something, the royal brother just has to say. ”

The emperor couldn't help but smile when he saw Xiao Cuo say these words so seriously, and his expression was the same as before. Said: "As the Son of Heaven, I seem to outsiders to be glamorous and rich on the surface, but in fact, what you are talking about is actually happening every day. ”

Xiao Cuo was silent when he heard this, what the emperor said was not wrong, how much power he has, and at the same time how much responsibility he has, he is like this as a prince, not to mention the king of a country?

The emperor and Xiao Cuo walked forward slowly, and the palace people waited from afar, and after confirming that no one could hear them, the emperor said: "Recently, I have also known that you seem to have some complaints about me in your heart, and this is no wonder of you. ”

Xiao Cuo's complexion has not changed. But my heart was really shaken, "Brother Huang, brother ...... courtier"

"I know for my brother." The emperor shook his head with a smile, stopped and looked up at the gorgeous sunset: "You have such thoughts these days, and I really can't complain about you, but it is actually because of me." On the day of the Battle of the Northern Barbarians, I drove the expedition but fell into a trap by mistake during the first battle of Taicheng, and my whereabouts are unknown after that. These are all things that are known to the whole world, including you, and they are all known only one of them. I don't know the other two. ”

The Emperor's voice was slightly hoarse and dry. It seemed to be a shame to remember that experience, but he still spoke with difficulty: "I fell into the trap of the enemy army that day, and almost lost my life in the Northern Barbarian Land, and it was then that I found out. The trustworthy people I carry with me. They all betrayed me. I was seriously injured. There is no one around who can be trusted, and he is really like a lost dog. Flee from southern Xinjiang back to the land of the Great Zhou, this section of the road. I really feel that I have been gone longer than a lifetime. ”

Xiao Cao mourned: "Brother Huang, you have suffered. ”

"Indeed, it suffered." The emperor said quietly: "I have no silver on me, and I am seriously injured, and I am worried about being chased and killed at any time. Along the way, I have done odd jobs, and I have also done begging, in short, the hardships are simply something I have never thought of in my life, and once again I was rescued by a civilian woman, and in the middle of the night I heard her whispering with her mother at home, and I actually escaped after killing her whole family. I...... At that time, I only thought that they were the finesse of the Northern Barbarians. But they weren't. It was I who was scared and couldn't hear any suspicious movements. ”

Xiao Cuo's distress is incomprehensible, the imperial brother is the Son of Heaven, the emperor who is high! How did he know that when he was pretending to be a protector in Dongsheng Kingdom, his imperial brother was really begging. has been such a noble person since he was a child, but he has been framed so far.

Xiao Cuo pursed his lips, as if he had understood the emperor.

The Emperor sighed, "None of these are the most terrifying. Ah wrong, do you know what is the most terrifying? Even if I was framed so far, I don't know who is behind it. When I returned to Da Zhou and returned to Beijing, I couldn't even believe anyone around me, including you. ”

"Brother Huang, brother I understand." Xiao Cuo blinked, forcing the heat in his eyes to retreat.

The emperor said, "You don't fully understand. You know, it's cold in high places, but you haven't really experienced what it means to be cold in high places. I ask myself to be diligent and right, worthy of the people of the world, but there are so many people who are enemies of me overnight, and you will not understand the strong sense of loss, especially the feeling of not being able to trust others...... I can't trust you, even my queen and prince I can't trust for a while. ”

"A, I couldn't trust you until I said that to you. You may think that I was so cooped that I was killed by someone, and I can't even be sure who did it. No wonder you have a grudge against me, because I didn't trust you first. ”

At this point, the emperor's eyes were already full of tears like Xiao Cuo, and he took Xiao Cuo's hand with both hands, and said: "Although you are my emperor, I treat you as a younger brother and a child. ”

"Brother Huang, the younger brother's heart for you can be seen by the sun and the moon, and the younger brother is unwilling to do such things, besides, after so many years, the imperial brother still doesn't understand the personality of the younger brother?"

"It is because I know you who you are that I choose to trust you now."

said this, in fact, I still don't believe Xiao wrong in my heart.

But this kind of thing can be said openly and honestly in front of him, and Xiao Cuo is also unspeakably moved in his heart.

"Brother Huang, I'm really embarrassed for you these days."

"I'm not afraid to be embarrassed. I just don't want to be alone. The emperor shook his head with a wry smile: "But it backfired, it seems that standing in this position, you are destined to be a loner." Now I choose to trust you and Brother Yi, and I don't know if it's right or wrong. ”

Xiao Cuo pursed his lips. He knows that if a person really can't trust a person, how can he explain that the other party will not believe it.

The emperor patted Xiao Cuo's shoulder with his big hand, blinked the heat in his eyes, and said, "Ah Cuo, if you really did something that made you question, now I apologize to you." ”

Xiao Cuo suddenly raised his eyes to look at the emperor, and his heart was really shocked and moved. Although there is still a trace of suspicion and estrangement, the person in front of him is his own brother who is so good to him after all.

"Brother Huang, don't do this, how can your brother afford it?"

"So, you're not mad?" The emperor smiled and looked at Xiao Cuo.

Xiao Cuo raised the corners of his lips, and the dimples on his cheeks were really pleasing, "What did the imperial brother say, the younger brother He was angry with the imperial brother." Although you are the elder brother of your brother, you are also the king of a country, and your brother has family affection for you, and even more affection for the monarch and minister, so why be angry? ”

The emperor smiled and flicked Xiao Cuo's forehead with his fingers: "Okay, in that case, you can wait for my news tomorrow." ”

"Brother Huang, what the hell is going on?"

"You'll know tomorrow. Let's pass the meal today, I see that you are also worried about the princess. (To be continued......)