"Father-in-law Li is exempt, Father-in-law Li, you are here today, I don't know what is going on?"

Li Ying glanced at Zhao Kuo, and replied to Concubine Rong with a smile: "Where is this Niangniang, it is really annoying to the old slave, seeing Niangniang and her children gathered together and sharing the joy of family, the old slave is also happy for Niangniang, but the emperor sent the old slave to Xuan Fourth Prince His Royal Highness to the imperial study to meet him, so the old slave had to come to disturb the interest of the mother, and asked the mother to forgive the sin."

"Since the emperor announced it, what is the crime of Gonggong Li, now that Kuo'er has returned safely, our mother and son will have the old days in the future, and we are not in a hurry for this time and a half" Concubine Rong finished speaking to Li Ying, and said to Zhao Kuo: "Kuo'er, since your father announced you, you should go with Gonggong Li, don't let your father wait for a long time."

In this harem, Concubine Rong is not too favored by Emperor Zhao, but fortunately, she gave birth to a son for Emperor Zhao, so the days in this palace have passed, and the eunuchs and palace maids still take her seriously, and now the most favored by Emperor Zhao in the future is the mother of the third prince Zhao Wu, Lan Guifei, Lan Guifei is not only good-looking, poetry and songs, the most important thing is that she is still the sister of the emperor of Chu today, so she has always been valued by Emperor Zhao, which is also one of the capitals that the three princes can compete for the position of the prince. And the eldest prince Zhao Wen is the son-in-law, and his mother is the queen of the dynasty, so although the eldest prince himself is not outstanding, there are still many ministers in the court who support him. This has also caused the situation where the eldest prince of Zhao and the third prince are competing for the crown prince.

"The sons obeyed the order, the sons and daughters will retire first, and come back another day to greet the queen mother, and ask Gonggong Li to lead the way" Zhao Kuo saluted Concubine Rong and said goodbye, and was ready to follow Li Xuan to meet Emperor Zhao.

"Brother Huang, when will you take me out of the palace to play?" Zhao Qing'er saw that Zhao Kuo was leaving, so she hurriedly ran to him and asked him.

After Concubine Rong saw it, she pulled Zhao Qing'er aside and reprimanded: "Qing'er, you are too rude, your father wants to summon your imperial brother, what are you hindering?"

Li Ying still said with a smile on her face: "Concubine Rong, the old slave retired first."

"Grandpa Li walks slowly"

Zhao Kuo followed Li Ying to the study room, he didn't know what Emperor Zhao had summoned him for, and he didn't ask Li Ying, knowing that he would ask in vain. I know that the eunuchs around the emperor are not ordinary people.

After following Li Ying around for a long time before arriving at the study room where Emperor Zhao was located, Zhao Kuo thought to himself that if no one took him with him, he would have to get lost.

Arriving at the door, Zhao Kuo stopped and waited outside the door, Li Ying entered first and said in front of Emperor Zhao: "Your Majesty, the Fourth Highness has arrived."

"Let him in," Zhao Huang said without raising his head while looking at the fold.

After Zhao Kuo heard this, he walked in directly, and when he saw Emperor Zhao, he saluted and said, "Sons and daughters visit their father."

As if he hadn't heard it, Emperor Zhao still didn't raise his head to look at the fold in his hand.

After Zhao Kuo saw this, he was very puzzled, what does this mean? To be cold and violent against him? Where did you offend him? So he raised his voice a little and shouted: "The son of the emperor to meet his father"

Zhao Huang still looked unaware and didn't react, Zhao Kuo looked at Li Ying who was standing beside Zhao Huang again, and his eyelids were also drooping, looking like he couldn't hear or see anything.

"Son-in-law Zhao Kuo to see his father" Zhao Kuo raised his voice again and shouted for the third time, but still no one paid attention to him. Zhao Kuo didn't care, he walked directly to the chair on the side and sat down, yes, since you don't want to deal with me now, then I'll sit here and wait for you to take care of me, I don't believe that you can still punish me for this.

In this way, Zhao Huang was there as Zhao Kuo did not take care of himself and reviewed the folds, Li Ying stood beside him expressionlessly, Zhao Kuo recalled in his mind what happened when he crossed over, about half an hour later, Zhao Huang was finally willing to raise his noble head, glanced at Zhao Kuo who was sitting there and meditated with his eyes closed, coughed a few times deliberately, and then said: "Zhao Kuo, this return, I see that you have changed a lot, presumably because you have experienced a lot along the way, and you have gained a lot, huh?" ”

Zhao Kuo saw that Emperor Zhao had already taken the initiative to ask, and he didn't dare to continue to sit anymore, so he stood up and saluted Emperor Zhao and replied: "Father and Emperor are too worried, except for falling from the carriage and injuring his head, causing amnesia, forgetting all the things before, and there is no other gain except being chased and killed all the way to escape."

After hearing this, Emperor Zhao's face changed instantly, and he asked tightly: "Hurt your head and forget all the things before?" You call this amnesia? Where did you get the word amnesia? You tell me"

Zhao Kuo was a little stunned when he heard Emperor Zhao ask, what does this mean? Isn't it called amnesia in this world? Knowing his son Mo Ruo's father, could it be that Emperor Zhao found out that the person standing in front of him now was no longer his son?

Then Emperor Zhao continued to ask: "No matter what country it is, forgetting the past is called soul loss, and I have never heard anyone call it amnesia, who taught you the word amnesia?" Tell me about it."

Sure enough, there is no word amnesia here, "Back to my father, the amnesia that Erchen said is soul loss, as for the word amnesia, it was told by Erchen after he was exiled to Yinhao County in Qi State, and a wanderer Langzhong showed Erchen to Erchen, so Erchen couldn't help but say it just now, but it is true that Erchen forgot all the things before, and now he even forgot his martial arts, and he will never dare to have half a period of time for his father."

"Wandering Langzhong?" Emperor Zhao was obviously very disbelieving, but he didn't continue to ask, but asked again: "When you returned from this trip, you seem to have become interested in the affairs of the court?" In the past, you only knew how to have fun, and you were always indifferent to the affairs of the court, but now you also have thoughts about the position of the prince? Want to fight with your brothers? ”

After Zhao Kuo heard this, his heart trembled, and he thought to himself, where did you see that I was interested in the position of the crown prince, this Nima? I don't want to be that bullshit prince at all, right? Is it because I said a few words in the court before? As for that? Thinking in his heart, he replied: "The son is self-aware, and he has no idea of competing for the position of the crown prince."

"Oh? Didn't you? I came to ask you, you told me truthfully, did you call that daughter of Emperor Yan on this trip, what is your name? As he spoke, he turned his head to Li Ying and asked.

"Back to the emperor, Emperor Yan's daughter is named Yan Ning."

Damn, Li Ying, the dead eunuch, was finally willing to speak, Zhao Kuo scolded in his heart, you thought you were asleep when you stood there before.

"Oh, yes, it's called Yan Ning, have you reached any agreement with Yan Ning's girl? For example, on behalf of Yan, she supported you in your bid for the crown prince, and you promised Zhao to send troops to help them defend against the Xiongnu invasion? ”

As soon as Emperor Zhao's words fell, Zhao Kuo hurriedly knelt on the ground and said: "Father Emperor is clear, there is no such thing, sending troops to aid Yan State, it is a matter that Father Emperor you have already discussed with Emperor Yan, how can your son do this?" Besides, the sons have always been lazy and unambitious, so how could they not compete with the two imperial brothers for the crown prince? ”

Not to mention that Zhao Kuo has no interest in the position of the prince, even if he wants to seize the throne, he must not show it now, according to the current form, the only candidates for the crown prince in Emperor Zhao's heart are the eldest prince and the third prince, Zhao Kuo currently has no power and no power, and no one in the court supports him, so he will not be stupid enough to offend the eldest prince and the third prince at the same time, and compete with them for the ethereal prince.

After Zhao Huang heard Zhao Kuo say this, his tone became slightly gentler and said: "Kuo'er, you are also my son, I am not unwilling to give you a chance, the main thing is that you usually do nothing, and do things as you like, you are not as good as you Zhao Wen, you are not even a tenth of Zhao Wu in terms of power and strategy, even in terms of buying people's hearts, you are not as good as Zhao Cheng and Zhao De, who is younger than you, so it is best if you don't have this idea, if you have, I advise you to dispel it as soon as possible, Zhao Guo is in my hands, although it has not made it strong, but it has not let it decline, I still want it to continue, you, forget it" said and said in a tone that suddenly aggravated: "Also, you have to remember me, in this Zhao country, what I say is what it is, this is my Zhao country, who will be the prince in the future, who will be the next king of this Zhao country, only I say it, let alone Yan State, even Chu State has no right to interfere, do you remember?" ”

"Erchen remember the teachings of his father" Zhao Kuo returned honestly, sister, there is no way, who made the family the emperor? What's even more tragic is that who let himself pass through the son of an adult's family?

"Get up, go to meet Emperor Yan's daughter this time, although the soldiers who went there were almost wiped out, at least you still brought Emperor Yan's daughter back, you can be regarded as a meritorious service, say, what reward do you want"

More than 10,000 soldiers sacrificed on this trip, and as a result, Emperor Zhao passed so lightly, sure enough, emperors have been ruthless since ancient times.

"These are what Erchen should do, almost all the soldiers on this trip were killed, sacrificing their lives for the country, Erchen felt ashamed and didn't dare to invite rewards" Zhao Kuo originally wanted to ask Emperor Zhao to compensate for the soldiers who died in battle, but after thinking about it, I was afraid that Emperor Zhao would mistakenly think that he was trying to buy people's hearts and peep into the position of the prince, think about it, forget it, those soldiers who died in battle are all soldiers under Lian Po, and Lian Po will also compensate their families.

At this time, a eunuch trotted in quickly and said, "Your Majesty, the princess of Yan Kingdom has asked for an audience."

Zhao Huang squinted at Zhao Kuo, and then said, "Xuan her come in."

Zhao Kuo is really depressed, others come to see you, what do you think I am doing? Why are you so unkind in those eyes?

But what Zhao Kuo didn't expect was to be able to see Yan Ning here again, when he separated from her yesterday, Zhao Kuo thought that the next time the two met would not know when it would be, but he never thought that it would be one night later, and the two would meet again.