"What do you explain about birthmarks?" Li Chun asked.

"That's not a birthmark, it's a squeeze of the birth canal!" The Queen Mother anxiously explained, "His skin was squeezed and bruised, so that a blue mark would be left!" Once upon a time you stumbled, and your wounds were blue! You haven't given birth to a child, you don't know, you ask the concubine! Children will be born with that blue mark, and it will disappear on its own in two or three years! The Queen Mother looked at Guo Guifei as she spoke, and urged her like crazy, "You say, you say it quickly!" ”

Guo Guifei hesitated for a moment, and before she could speak, Li Chun had already retorted: "Queen Mother, Erchen has already become a father!" You say that this is the case that your grandchildren have never had! ”

"Then you go and ask the Imperial Doctor's Department!" The Queen Mother said in a panic, "The Imperial Doctor's Department knows!" They know! ”

"But the person who delivered you back then, the dead died, and the one who gave birth to the Shi. Now no one in the Tai Medical Department dares to assert whether the piece on the forehead of the sixteenth brother was a birthmark or a squeeze of the birth canal! ”

"Even if it's really a squeeze of the birth canal, you yourself said that other children will recover in two or three years." Li Chunli asked rhetorically, "From the beginning to the end of the 'Jingyuan Mutiny', it took less than a year before and after, and the sixteenth brother was only eight months old when he returned to Chang'an, why did he get better so quickly?" ”

"Emperor!" Now the Queen Mother finally came to her senses and pointed at him in disbelief, "Are you really going to put him to death?" Don't leave your brother a way to live? ”

"Erchen doesn't doubt him just for this point!" Li Chun paced back and forth irritably, but the inside story was too long and complicated, and he couldn't explain it clearly to the Queen Mother. In the end, he could only say again, "I only believe in my memory, which is a birthmark, and it is inexplicably gone!" ”

Hearing this, the Queen Mother staggered, her eyes gradually became distracted, and she shouted weakly: "Son, son! You have no humanity, no humanity! ”

"You can't blame me for this," Li Chun also held back his anger, the green tendons on his forehead were exposed, and he raised his hand and pointed at Xilingyue and Guo Guifei, "You all go out!" ”

Before the matter was over, where was Xilingyue willing to go, but Guo Guifei knew the temperament of the Son of Heaven and hurriedly dragged her out.

However, the anger of the Son of Heaven was too strong, and his voice was too intense, even through a temple door, it could clearly reach the ears of the two of them. Fang Cai's retreat was just a gesture to save face for the Son of Heaven.

Xilingyue and Guo Guifei were relatively speechless, only listening to Li Chun's dissatisfaction in the hall one after another: "I and my sixteenth brother have come to this point, and the queen mother has the greatest responsibility!" If it weren't for you spoiling him and wanting to support him as the crown prince, why would I have a dislike for him! I am also your son, the eldest son of my father! But what do you and my father do to me? Li Chun couldn't restrain himself anymore and was furious, "From childhood to adulthood, only my grandfather loved me, only he hugged me on his lap, and you all only hugged my sixteenth brother!" ”

"No, it's not." The Queen Mother seemed to be crying

came out, choked up and explained, "Because you are the eldest grandson of the emperor, your father doesn't want to spoil you too much and develop your weak and arrogant temperament!" We treat you harshly and expect a lot from you! ”

"High hopes?" Li Chun sneered, "Then why didn't my father make me the crown prince?" When my grandfather was alive, he repeatedly mentioned that he wanted to make me the emperor's grandson, but my father refused! ”

"Because Datang has never had this precedent!" The Queen Mother said weakly, "The rules passed down by the ancestors, fathers and sons, children and grandchildren, never cross the generation." Once the rules are broken, in the future, the princes will not only compete for the prince, but also for the grandson, when will there be peace? The Queen Mother said hesitantly, "I know that you respect your grandfather, and he loves you the most. But you know in your heart that your grandfather is not a wise man, and he has no foresight in doing things! He proposed to appoint you as the emperor's grandson just out of selfishness, but your father is thinking about the foundation of the country, and he doesn't want to kill each other from generation to generation! ”

Li Chun seemed to believe the Queen Mother's words, and Li Chun's voice did not come from the palace for a long time.

I only heard the Queen Mother's cry getting louder and louder, and finally almost begged: "Emperor, Chun'er, this is all the fault of the Queen Mother!" The queen mother admits that she is partial! As long as you let go of your brother and let him go this time, the queen mother promised you that you would never care about him again and never interfere in your brother's affairs again! Just this once, okay? ”

However, what answered her was a longer silence, so long that even Guo Guifei couldn't wait any longer, before she heard the words of the Son of Heaven sound. He seemed to struggle for a long time, and he also considered it for a long time, and finally he only said: "I am the king of a country first, and then your son and his brother. ”

"Concubine." He immediately called out in a loud voice.

Guo Guifei didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly ran into the hall, and Xilingyue took the opportunity to follow in.

I saw the Queen Mother sitting on the cold floor tiles, her face was gray, and her eyes were blank. The tears on her face were not dry, and the placket and sleeves of her clothes were wet, and there was no reaction.

"You send your mother back to Xingqing Palace." Li Chun instructed Guo Guifei, "Let Qin Se take care of him and report the situation to me every three days." ”

Guo Guifei claimed to be so, walked over to help the Queen Mother up, and carefully helped her out of the door.

The Queen Mother didn't react much, but only glanced back deeply before stepping out of the palace, and that glance fell on Xilingyue.

The latter would understand, but he didn't know what else he could say or do. She always thought that it was the Son of Heaven who was suspicious and had a knot in her heart for Li Chengxuan, but when she heard those words outside the door, she only felt sad.

The fragility, fear, suspicion, and pride of this young emperor all come from his insecurity, from the shadow of his childhood, and from his desire for imperial power.

"Yue'er," Li Chun asked her at this time, "Now that the matter has come to this, do you think that I am targeting the sixteenth brother like the queen mother?" ”

Xiling Yue couldn't answer. She asked herself, these evidences are all true, although there are loopholes, but from the position of the emperor, it is enough to suspect a person. In particular, the other party is still his own brother who has always had a knot in his heart and threatens his throne.

It was just a moment of dumbness, and Li Chun had already seen through her. The young Son of Heaven seemed to have been drained of all his strength, and instantly slumped in front of the bookcase, waving his hand regardless of manners and said, "Since you have nothing to say, just retreat, I'm tired." Xilingyue wanted to say something more, but Li Chun said lightly to her again, "There are some things that I don't want to provoke, you have to make an inch, don't blame me for being ruthless." ”

When he came out of the Zichen Palace, Xiling Yue handed over the phoenix seal in his hand. Li Chun was afraid that she would have another incident, so he ordered Qiu Shiliang to personally send her out of the palace.

Xilingyue was reluctant to take the shoulder, and Qiu Shiliang didn't dare to force it, so he had to accompany her to the direction of the palace gate. She straightened out her train of thought as she walked, sorted out the existing unfavorable evidence against Li Chengxuan one by one, and began to look for a breakthrough.

(End of chapter)