Chapter 172
"You must be weird in your heart." The emperor's voice broke the dullness in the hall: "I have no choice, now Yin'er is my only son, if Yuan'er is still alive, why don't I want to fulfill the two of you." ”
The emperor's distant son is Gu Qinghong's half-brother, after the emperor left Mu Huasheng with his brother and sister, only two of his subordinates were left to take care of them, and in a dark and windy night, Gu Yuan avoided his subordinates to find Mu Huasheng, and fell into the trap set by the hunter, and only found his cold body five days later. By his side.
"So what is the emperor calling the people's daughter here today?" Xiao Xinyi's voice was a little colder, and the softness that had just risen in his heart was instantly shattered.
"Presumably you can also guess the current situation in the DPRK and China, the military generals are all my brothers who are not angry, he doesn't know what he is doing for so many years, the treasury is beyond his means, the powerful form a party for personal gain, the palace and the palace are full of smoke and miasma, in recent years, the queen mother has done her best to help me gradually disintegrate the dissident party, but the snobbery in the court and China still need to be balanced and controlled, Prime Minister Cui Cheng died of illness two years ago, the queen mother was sad and overly bedridden, my maternal snobbery and prestige are not there, what I have to do now is to cultivate my own snobbery, Li Yu has 50,000 troops in his hands, and if she becomes the queen of Yin'er in the future, these 50,000 troops will all return to Yin'er. The emperor's old voice echoed faintly, it was close to dusk at this time, and the golden hall was a little hazy, but no one dared to push the door in and hold a lamp, presumably because of the holy will not to disturb the two.
Xiao Xinyi knelt in front of the hall and bowed his head silently, quietly waiting for the following.
"You also know that more than ten years ago, your father led the martial arts people to attack the imperial city, seven years ago I led the troops to attack the city outside the imperial city, you and Yun Xiangyi assassinated my brother Emperor Deming, you and I both know that you are just avenging your father, but it is precisely because of Emperor Deming's assassination that the ministers are helpless, I can successfully enter the palace, and now you appear in the Tai**, become the prince's concubine, if you are picked up by someone with a heart, my nearly twenty years of forbearance and humiliation will be in vain, The world will think that I assassinated my own brother in order to seize the palace and ascend the throne as emperor. I will also become a hypocritical villain who is cunning in the eyes of the world, after all, people always look at things only by looking at the result and not the process, and for those who have a heart, this is the best excuse to attack our father and son. Now that I am still alive, I can make them a little jealous with the prestige of the past years, Yin'er grew up outside the palace since she was a child, although no one in the court dares to say it, but I can feel their contempt. After I left, this dragon chair was no easier for Yin'er than when I captured the palace. ”
The emperor sighed deeply, Xu was tired, and leaned forward on the armrest of the dragon chair: "Two months later is the day of the draft, and then women of appropriate age will be selected from the court officials to fill the harem. ”
"So the emperor summoned the people to come today to let the people leave the palace." Xiao Xinyi's voice was extremely clear.
"Yin'er won't let you leave, my eldest grandson can't be without the protection of his biological mother, you can stay with Yin'er as an ugly-looking medical girl, you can't take a step out of the harem, and I and Yin'er won't treat you badly."
"Your Majesty, you know that it will be extremely difficult for Ah Yin to ascend the throne, why do you want him to come back."
"Because I don't want him to regret it, I don't want him to go back down the wrong path I took."
There was silence in the hall, it turned out that he regretted it, and it was just an impulse and a mistake to resolutely give up the country for the beauty. At that time, the sea vows and mountains were just young and ignorant. When the passion subsides and the love turns into family affection, the throbbing heart calms down and realizes what the heart desires most.
He is his father, father and son are connected by blood, and he can see the deepest part of his heart.
Therefore, the high-ranking emperor is just standing in the father's point of view, planning the best future for his son, and clearing all potential dangers for his son.
"Is there any other choice for the people's daughter?"
"It's up to you."
"The people don't believe that the emperor will not know Ah Yin's attitude, now the path you choose for him is the most important thing in his heart, as for the position of the wife, it is just a man fulfilling the promise he made to a woman, and the moment he accepted Leng Moyan, I was nothing in his heart. Now I am nothing in the eyes of my former husband and sister. ”
Xiao Xinyi bowed deeply in the direction of the dragon chair in the dark hall, then got up and walked out, and the moment she opened the door of the hall, she heard the voice of the emperor behind her: "Na Leng Moyan is not the meaning of Yin'er..."
The high place was unbearable, and the wind outside the emperor's Yong'an Hall was the strongest, and Xiao Xinyi walked out without looking back.
So what, no matter what the reason, Leng Moyan is already his woman and his concubine. She can accept Li Yu, Gongsun Yulin, and countless show girls two months later, but she can't accept Leng Moyan alone.
The two people she once protected with her life pressed a knife into the softest place in her heart, where there was the family, friendship and love that she carefully guarded.
Qin Youyou was in a hurry to walk around outside the harem, there were two teams of guards with knives outside the palace, but whenever she wanted to take a step out of the harem, there would be guards to stop her.
"Sister, sister." Seeing Xiao Xinyi's white figure, Qin Youyou shouted loudly.
Xiao Xinyi also saw that the guards with knives were blocking Qin Youyou and preventing her from taking another step.
Xiao Xinyi, the leader of the five-grade guard, recognized that it was Duan Chen.
"Duan Daxia, why are you in the palace."
"Mrs. Hui, it is the owner of the village who asked for this position for me." Duan Chen bowed and saluted, not daring to look at her.
It turned out that Zhuge Haochu had long expected that the current emperor would not give up on Gu Qinghong, and would definitely try his best to take him into the palace, so he arranged for Duan Chen to enter the palace, in order to let Gu Qinghong have one more cronie in the palace.
"Sister, they didn't let me go out, Nian'er clamored to find her father-in-law, Hua Rujiang was locked up by them and didn't let us go to see him."
Hu Nian hid behind Qin Youyou and hugged her legs, looking timidly at the person who stopped them, his big eyes full of grievances.
Xiao Xinyi squatted down and took Hu Nian into his arms, and rubbed his red little face distressedly: "Don't be afraid, Nian'er, my father-in-law just can't come over now because of something, so my aunt will take you to find your father-in-law later." ”
"Hmm." Hu Nian nodded obediently, smiling like Hu Guyue.
Xiao Xinyi let go of him and got up and asked Duan Chen, "Where is Hua Rujiang now." ”
"Hua Gongzi is in the prince's Changle Palace, Madame doesn't have to worry, the prince's move is also to protect Hua Gongzi, after all, there are prince's family members in the East Palace, Hua Gongzi is afraid of colliding with nobles when he first enters the palace, and he will let him move freely after the prince takes him to familiarize himself with the route in the palace." Duan Chen bowed and replied, judging the high-spirited young man in Dongyue Mountain a few years ago.
"Where's the prince?"
"Mrs. Hui, I have returned to Changle Palace."
"Take me to him."
"The prince has an order, and the concubine is not allowed to enter the front hall without summoning the concubine."
"I'm not his concubine."
"This..."Duan Chen hesitated: "My subordinates will send someone to Changle Hall to ask His Royal Highness the Prince, if the prince is willing to see his wife, his subordinates will take you over." ”
"There's Lord Laoduan." Xiao Xinyi blessed him.
Now she wants to see him in the face of others, this is the right of ordinary people far out of reach.
Duan Chen whispered a few words to a person beside him, and the person bowed and retreated after hearing this.
"Is Zhuge Villa still there?" Seeing Duan Chen, Xiao Xinyi thought of when he was in Dongyue Mountain.
"Mrs. Hui, after the leader of the alliance left, the little prince was taken back to Gusu by the Zhuge family, and the head of the family expelled the Liu family from the family, and Zhuge Villa has now been merged into the family name."
"Liu? Mrs. Zhuge was expelled from the family. Xiao Xinyi was puzzled.
"Because she is... It was the spy who was inserted into Zhuge Villa back then. ”
Although Duan Chen didn't say who it was, Xiao Xinyi also guessed it. But I don't know if the mission of Liu Fu's secret agent is to monitor the master of the martial arts, or to take care of the little master. Thinking of Zhuge Haochu and Liu Fu being inseparable and guarding everywhere, Xiao Xinyi now understands that Zhuge Haochu is afraid that he has long suspected the identity of the person next to him. In this way, Mu Huasheng's death has nothing to do with catkins. Since he was sent by his master, how could he harm the hostess.
But she overlooked one thing, perhaps she never thought that there was a man in this world who could tolerate the harmony between the woman he loved and the man other than him. It's just that the beauty has passed away, and no one has re-mentioned this matter, and there is no so-called truth, so the woman who has fallen into the city and the country is drowned in the rolling red dust, and I don't know if anyone still remembers it after many years.
Xiao Xinyi's thoughts were interrupted by footsteps in the distance, and someone bowed to Duan Chen and said, "My lord, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said that he was tired today, and no one will see him." ”
Duan Chen didn't seem to expect this result, and looked at Xiao Xinyi for a moment.
"Can I go back?" Xiao Xinyi lowered his head and asked.
Duan Chen couldn't see her expression, and he was glad that he couldn't see her expression: "Madam, please." ”
As Duan Chen's voice fell, the guards who were originally guarding outside the harem gave way.
Xiao Xinyi leaned over and hugged Hu Nian: "Nian'er, I can't see my father-in-law today, is it okay for my aunt to take you to play with your younger brother." ”
Hu Nian reached out and put his arms around her neck, resting his chin on her shoulder, although he was a little unhappy, he still replied, "Okay." ”
Duan Chen watched Xiao Xinyi's figure turn around the corner, and his body, which had been tense, collapsed instantly, as if he had just been exhausted from a vicious battle. He had seen how Zhuge Qinghong was in love with Xiao Xinyi, and he also knew some of the things that the two had experienced. It was precisely because he knew that he had seen it, so he didn't understand why the personality of the son, who grew up with him, had not changed, and why Dudu's attitude towards a woman who had been in love for many years and finally became a family had changed so much.
Is it really in response to the sentence "What you can't get is the best." ”
Duan Chen, who has already married a family, doesn't understand that the person he wants to get shouldn't be more cherished after getting it?