"Old Eighteen, have you been hating me all these years? Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" Xia Qi's eyes looked at Xia Yuanxu, who looked slightly nervous and had complicated eyes, and said abruptly.

"Erchen doesn't dare." Xia Yuanxu's face turned a little pale with fright, a trace of panic and uneasiness flashed in his eyes, and he quickly knelt down and said tremblingly.

"Get me up, the man has gold under his knees, don't kneel still, I'm not dead yet, do you want to kneel to die." A trace of anger flashed in Xia Qi's eyes, the son in front of him was cowardly by nature, and he trembled when he saw me like a mouse seeing a cat, could it be that I was very afraid of people? Or did he inherit his mother's genes?

Thinking of this, Xia Qi gently closed his eyes, and couldn't help but think of a graceful-looking and sweet Jiangnan water town woman, with a long ponytail hanging in her mind, her personality was quiet, not fighting or grabbing, knowing my identity and not clamoring to go back to the palace with me, but I knew that she had my blood and blood and took her back to the palace, but unfortunately she was not used to the life in the palace and gradually became haggard, I also repaired some Jiangnan buildings in her palace in order to make her happy, But the result was that her homesickness was exacerbated and she repeatedly proposed to return to the water town in the south of the Yangtze River.

It was with these small contradictions, coupled with the demagogy of other concubines in the palace, that the mother of the eighteenth finally hated the palace, and it was only then that I clearly knew that these concubines of mine were willing to enter the palace to serve me for the benefit of their family, not out of their feelings for me, so they formed a party in the palace for personal gain, excluded dissidents, and wanted to get greater benefits from me and pretended to be very attached to me.

Over the years, although I have not seen him outside the palace, nor have I summoned him in the palace, I have never stopped caring and loving him in private, but his eyes have always been filled with a hatred, a trace of timidity, a trace of cowardice and a trace of longing, and there is no place on his body like me, if I am not convinced that he is my son, I really suspect that he is not my blood.

"Dare to love and dare to hate is what a big husband does." The pictures in his mind flashed one by one, Xia Qi sighed softly, and a trace of love flashed in his eyes.

"Father, since you gave birth to your son, why don't you do what a father should have as a son, but send your son-in-law outside the palace to be taken care of by your subordinates since he was a child, is the son-in-law really hated and disliked by you so much, if so, why don't you find a crime to execute the son-in-law, or exile the son-in-law to a very wasted place so that you can't see it and don't worry about it." Xia Yuanxu seemed to be stimulated by something at this moment, and as if he could no longer suppress his emotions like a volcano erupted, he completely poured out his hatred for the emperor over the years.

"Erchen never expects his father to let his son occasionally enjoy a moment of family affection like he treats other brothers, Erchen just hopes that his father can look at Erchen squarely, even if it is a glance that makes Erchen feel satisfied. But as a result, Erchen has never enjoyed the treatment that a prince should have, and his father has never looked at Erchen squarely, Erchen has suffered from the bullying of his brothers and the ridicule of his ministers over the years, and Erchen can only break his teeth and swallow it in his stomach, dare not argue, dare not complain, can only lock himself up and cry in a no-man's corner. Xia Yuanxu flashed tears and looked at Xia Qi with red eyes.

"In order to win the father to look at the son, or to create an opportunity for the father to look at the son, the son did not hesitate to give up on himself, and the gentlemen in Jinling City were in the same stream, fighting cocks and walking dogs, and they almost abused, killed and set fire. But as a result, the father only had disgust and hatred in his eyes when he looked at his sons. After Xia Yuanxu finished saying the resentment that had been buried in his heart, he seemed to have collapsed, and the strength in his body seemed to be drained all of a sudden.

"You don't understand." After listening to Xia Yuanxu's complaints, Xia Qi's eyes looked a little dull and empty, as if he had lost all his color at once.

Then the father and son looked at each other, and without finishing speaking, they seemed to be released all at once, and they seemed to understand each other's emotions.

"Wow, this father and son have such complex emotional entanglements, to put it bluntly, there is still no good and effective communication." A trace of inexplicability flashed in Shen Yan's eyes, his head was lowered, his eyes were fixed on his feet, and he was silent in thought.

"Shen Yan." Xia Qi's eyes regained a trace of clarity, a trace of inexplicable look appeared in his eyes, and he shouted softly.

Hearing the emperor shouting himself, Shen Yan knew that he must not answer at this time, otherwise he would definitely make the emperor's face unbearable, and he would also have an inexplicable risk, Shen Yan forced himself to ignore it in his heart, lowered his head and continued to look at his feet, as if his feet were a work of art with great appreciation value.

"Master Shen, the emperor is calling you." Looking at Shen Yan, who was bowing his head, Xu Sanyuan gently tugged his arm from behind Shen Yan and reminded softly.

"Oh, you called me?" Shen Yan seemed to have just woken up from a big dream, a trace of mist flashed in his eyes, and he asked with a little doubt, and he didn't look at the honorific title in his words.

"I thought you were a honest and honest young man, but I didn't expect you to be so cunning." A hint of appreciation flashed in Xia Qi's eyes, this kid was obviously giving me a step, but the traces of his performance were too thick, and I saw through it at once, and his tone was slightly reproachful, "You didn't listen to the conversation between me and Lao Eighteen just now?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister is wronged, and the minister is a sincere and loyal person." A sincere smile appeared on Shen Yan's face, and he looked at Xia Qi with an aggrieved look, "Your Majesty, you don't know, last night the minister and the eighteenth prince first discussed with each other the limit of their body's ability to withstand beatings, and then they got drunk again, and now their bodies are still sore and sleepy. ”

"You're so sleek, kid." A smile appeared at the corner of Xia Qi's mouth, knowing that the other party was talking nonsense when he opened his eyes, he didn't expose it, and his eyes showed a trace of appreciation without hesitation, "Shen Yan, what do you think of the current court pattern?" ”

"Ah, the minister doesn't know the layout of the court, and he doesn't know how to answer, so he can't talk nonsense, wouldn't that be a crime of deception." Shen Yan's mouth opened wide, the emperor would definitely ask himself some questions about the court when he summoned himself to the palace this time, but he really didn't expect it to be such a huge pattern, and no matter how this question is answered, it is a matter of offending people, and he can't answer rashly, so he can hide and hide, and if he can't dodge, he will find a way to cheat.

"Shen Yan, as a courtier, how can you not know the court pattern of Great Xia, you don't want to cheat." Xia Qi looked at Shen Yan with an insightful look, and an inexplicable smile flashed in his eyes.

"Ah, how dare you." Shen Yan glanced at the emperor with a look that you could have guessed.

"Say, it's wrong, I don't blame, by the way, I may have a reward." Xia Qi's eyes showed a hint of inexplicability, with a hint of cunning, as if he had found some shadows of his youth.

"Your Majesty, this is what you asked me to say, what I said is not right, don't punish me." Shen Yan's eyes flashed a trace of helplessness, and a trace of cunning eyes flashed quietly, "According to conventional reasoning, the emperor has a golden mouth, saying that if he is not punished, he will not be punished, but there is another sentence that does not say that the companion is like a tiger, what kind of person the emperor is, it is really entangled." ”

"Your Majesty, the development of Great Xia to this point is like a twilight old man, politically it has begun to decline, and its external strategy is also slightly conservative." Shen Yan pondered for a moment, integrated the various rumors he had heard during these years, plus his own understanding, and spoke.

"This Shen Yan doesn't look like a stunned young man, why doesn't he show mercy to the emperor at all? Isn't this obviously taking the initiative to send it to the door for the emperor to dispose of. Hearing Shen Yan's abrupt point of view, Xu Sanyuan on the side was startled, and a trace of suspicion appeared in his eyes, and he quickly lowered his head and was silent.

"This kid looks very shrewd, but the difficulty is just in vain? If it were me, I wouldn't have said this if I was killed, wouldn't this be a slap in the face of my father. Xia Yuanxu was also frightened, lowered his head, and a trace of surprise appeared in his eyes.

"Well, bold." Hearing Shen Yan's words, a trace of anger flashed in Xia Qi's eyes, and he stared at Shen Yan fiercely, as if he was a hungry tiger staring fiercely at his prey.

"Your Majesty, you asked me to say it, but after I said it, you got angry, then forget it, I won't say it." Shen Yan played a scoundrel and said with a look of grievance.

"Go on." Xia Qi looked at Shen Yan coldly with a straight face like a playing card.

"Minister... The minister didn't dare to say it. Shen Yan deliberately pretended to be very scared, looked at Xia Qi aggrievedly, and saw a smile of encouragement on the other party's face, Shen Yan felt a little proud in his heart, and then said, "The emperor is the emperor of the world." ”

"I don't need you to pick up nice things to say." Xia Qi's brows furrowed slightly, and some gloom appeared on his face.

"Your Majesty, after you listen to the ministers, a good listener must be patient." Shen Yan's mouth curled slightly, with a naughty look, "The emperor ascended the throne at the age of twelve, and at that time, the queen mother was in politics, relatives were in power, and eunuchs were in power. ”

"Seeing that the monarch is young, those gate lords also seem to want to win over the powerful and ready to move, so it can be said that the emperor's dominance is in jeopardy." When Shen Yan talked about the eunuch's power, his eyes secretly glanced at Xu Sanyuan, and saw that the other party had no reaction, and then said, "Fortunately, the emperor is blessed with all the heavens, and there will always be loyal ministers who come forward in times of crisis. ”

"Shen Yan, what do you think?" Xia Qi's brows were tightly locked, and he didn't seem to be satisfied with Shen Yan's statement.