The flat round wooden planks painted with black paint flashed a few lights in the not very bright hall, and the white stinging made people's eyes ache and cold.

The wooden plank was held high, carrying the hustle and bustle of the whirring wind, sandwiched by the emperor's deliberately indulgent rage, and fell fiercely on Yuan Sui's body. Yuan Sui couldn't stand it, there was a spasm on his body, and the cry of pain rushed out of his throat and resounded through the hall.

The momentary blankness of his mind because of the pain made Yuan Sui a little overwhelmed, he always thought that even if he was afraid of pain, his willpower would not be too bad, but now he found that this was not the case at all, he had known it earlier, so he brought "protective measures"......

Without the slightest hesitation, the board was lifted and fell, and the relentless blow came down, again and again. The pain in each plate was intense, seeping down the skin at the top, as if a sharp blade was slowly cutting through the thin body. And every time the pain of the previous board disappeared, it was about to spread to the limbs, and another board fell.

There was no way not to stack the scars, and when the board fell again, the painful scars that had only dispersed were dissipated by the expected hard crushing, and his eyes were black for a while, and he leaned back uncontrollably, and in a blur of consciousness, he heard the screams of his chest. His fingers clutched the torture bench, and he silently prayed in his heart that his father would quickly dissipate his anger, and also hoped that he would soon lose consciousness.

Yun Jiu'er is a little eunuch, he went castrated and entered the palace when he was very young, and he was beaten as usual as eating from childhood to adulthood, and he "taught experience" to Yuan Sui, one is to shout, which can not only reduce the difficulty of the pain, but also show people that he has been taught, and the punishment will pass sooner.

The rules in the palace are that the palace maid must not make a sound when she is beaten, and the eunuch must beg for mercy loudly when she is beaten. In everyone's opinion, the eunuch is a faceless slave, so for this "experience", Yuan Sui is very disdainful, he thinks, he is a dignified prince, a dignified gentleman, even if he is beaten, he must also be heroic! Even if the pain is extremely painful and the face is covered with sweat, it must be pitiful, not a roar.

And now, let alone doing what he envisioned, he couldn't even think about it.

Suddenly, a blow to the board fell through the air, heavier than any other, and he almost lost half his life. Yuan Sui screamed and looked back, it turned out that the emperor had taken the board and went into battle in person. Even if they are all powerful in practicing martial arts, but his father has never been trained, and it is completely brute force to fight people, and the Xianbei people and the Great Wei Emperor who have won the world on horseback have really a lot of strength, and they have no rules and regulations, and they don't know skills. The trained guards are all painful and not very painful, or they are painful and the surface of the muscles and bones is not very visible, but his father is out of the horse......

It really hurt too much, Yuan Sui couldn't stop roaring, hugging the torture bench tightly and crying. The pain covered for a while, and the fine and dense beads of sweat on the forehead became more and more, and then mixed together, combined into a bean-sized grain, which slid silently along the curvature of the cheeks, leaving only the slightest itch, but it was quickly swallowed by the endless pain on the body, and it was no longer felt.

Finally, the heavy board on his body gradually floated lightly, but because of the injury on the other, no matter how he lived, he didn't alleviate any pain. He knew that the emperor was tired, and finally heard a voice: "Yuanxi!" You help me! Give me this rebel again! Hit hard! ”

Yuan Xi, who had taken the torture staff, sighed, and Yuan Sui, who was lying on the torture bench, breathed a sigh of relief.

The board that was obviously lightened, so that Yuan Sui, who had been tortured for dozens of years, finally pulled back a trace of reason from the pain, even if the scars were superimposed, it was still very painful, sweating like rain, but finally regained some sanity. He has always cherished face, so he quickly gritted his teeth and forcibly blocked the surging pain in his throat, turning into a muffled snort.

The emperor was obviously not satisfied with this, he continued to let his anger go, in order to achieve the goal of beating the prince and killing chickens and monkeys, he roared angrily and let Yuanxi kill him, "He deserves to be killed!" ”

Yuan Xi replied yes, but the board was not much heavier, but the fight was not light in the end, but Yuan Xi gritted his teeth from beginning to end, and his pampered body couldn't stand it, so he bit his lip fiercely. The blood on his lips immediately gushed out, and the broken place accumulated into beads of blood, and when a new plate came down, Yuan Sui trembled, and the blood beads were either scattered and dripped to the ground and disappeared, or permeated into the throat and mouth, and waved away vaguely in the groggy buzzing of Yuan Sui's mind.

Yuan Sui was almost unconscious, and the pain in his body was extreme, and his whole mind was in chaos. In a daze, he heard the emperor's roar: "Tuoba Sui! Do you know what's wrong? Yuan Sui didn't answer, he didn't have the strength to speak.

For Yuan Sui's refusal to answer, the emperor was even more furious: "I ask you!" Yuan Xi put down the plank, hurriedly stepped forward, grabbed the angry emperor, and persuaded: "Your Majesty! The prince must have been wrong! It's just that I'm afraid I'm going to pass out now. Forgive the younger brother for talking too much, the prince makes mistakes, you can teach a lesson, it is not appropriate to break the prince. ”

The steps were paved, but the mouth could not be loosened, the emperor nodded, and then angrily pointed at Yuan Sui and said: "He has rough skin and thick flesh and is still afraid of being beaten?" ”

Yuan Xi bowed his head: "Your Majesty, the prince is young and doesn't know anything. ”

"That's it! Come! Come and help the prince! Let him go back to his palace! After thinking about it, he called a few people who had not taken two steps away and were carrying Yuan Sui: "Wait! Throw it to the annex in the west of the city and think about it behind closed doors. ”

The prince's mansion is not allowed to live, this is to abolish the prince! Yuan Xi was taken aback, and hurriedly dissuaded: "Your Majesty! ”

The emperor waved his hand and said, "No need to say more! ”

It was dark, and the stuffy people couldn't breathe. The thunder continued, and the white mangs came down from the sky one by one, followed by a rumbling sound. After a day of shower, the evening rested, and the newly bloomed flowers in the back garden were defeated. The flowers withered and the branches were broken, and the flowers and leaves were blown away from the branches, and they fell into the shallow and clear pond beside them, disturbing the newborn moon in the pond. The ripples rippled, sending the remnants of the flowers to flow into the pond for a long time.

The next morning, there was no bright sunshine, the path was secluded, and the bustling dots spread out on it, and the pink petals were a little decadent and golden, indicating the cruelty of the autumn wind. Su Yi hung the sachet on the branch, and made a wish silently, wishing only that you would be healthy. The sky has no eyes, the world is declining, and people's hearts are sinister. The long road is endless, and I don't know where I can live in peace......

"Seventh Sister is so interested!" Han Yingrui turned out from behind her leisurely: "Oh, I came early in the morning to enjoy the flowers, I'm afraid it's just me and my sister!" It's also fateful to think about it. Hey? Sister, where did you run to get this gray? Oh, too, minions! Seeing that the wind has made the rudder more than that, they don't know what my sister looks like when she is fascinated by the prince, so that he will look at you differently! ”

Ruan shook his head, Han Yingrui was still so breathless. But he didn't stop it, he only stepped forward to straighten Han Yingrui's sideburns: "Rui'er, why bother, so much talk for no reason?" ”

Stroking her newly dyed red nails, Han Yingrui muttered unhappily: "Mother is used to helping outsiders bully Mian'er." ”

This kid can't hear the good words, and he takes it seriously! Ruan Shi was immediately angry and funny: "Rui'er! ”

"Good, good!" Han Yingrui said: "Mother is the best for me!" Teach me all day long to say these things against my heart, and I don't know what to do! ”

A year ago, when she came to the house on the first day, Nguyen was severely punished by her, and then she saw Nguyen again the next day, she stood in front of Nguyen in a trembling voice and called "mother", but she was coldly slanted, she remembered Ruan's words that day: "You are also worthy of calling me 'mother' as you?" I don't care if you call Aunt Cen or not, but don't call me mother, you will only be cheap. But a concubine's daughter, is also embarrassed to be shy and close to us? ”

Su Yi stepped forward slowly: "Third lady, sister Rui." ”

In front of outsiders, her estrangement from Ruan's will not make people think that Ruan's mistreatment of concubines, but will make her leave a rude impression.

It's a pity that the virtuous wife and eldest lady Ruan have been free for many years by relying on her cleverness, and God gave her a Han Yingrui. According to Han Yingrui's current situation, even if everything is not there, she can marry into the mansion smoothly, even if she is the only daughter in the prince's mansion, even if she is young forever...... The prince won't be interested in her for long. A person's willfulness will one day reach the maximum of the patience of those who respect her and love her. Su Yi smiled: "I don't know what Madame is doing here today?" ”

Ruan Shi helped the step on the bun: "I heard that Aunt Cen is always not in good health, as a housewife, I should come to take a look." ”

Su Yi Fushen: "Mrs. Lao ran this trip, Aunt Su Yi thanked Mrs. ”

Ruan raised his head: "How can I say that Cen and I are also people who serve the third master together, and we should take care of each other carefully, besides, in the future, you and Rui'er will enter the prince's mansion to serve together, so you have to be close to each other, don't you have to help each other?" ”

Han Yingrui was immediately unhappy: "Mother! Who kissed her? Don't pee on yourself and look at what you are! Deserve to be my equal? Besides, the prince is losing power now, and his father went to the court this morning, but he hasn't come back yet, so there must be something important to discuss! Maybe it's the prince......"

Suddenly, there was a knock, and it was Xiao Ai who fell on the stone path. Han Yingrui snorted lightly: "Sure enough, what kind of master and what kind of slave!" It's the same country girl with no rules! ”

Su Yi smiled slightly, and said in her heart, that Xiao Ai's master is your mother!

Xiao Ai hurriedly forgive: "Eighth sister forgive your sins!" Xiao Ai just, just, just scared...... Just got the news! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince...... His Majesty asked the prince to live in the west annex of the city and think about it behind closed doors! ”

Nguyen shouted: "What! After thinking about it, she turned around and left. The good prince said that if he loses power, he loses power! So what about her? This time, even if he and Yuan Sui are a free prince in the future, but after all, they have nothing to do with wealth! The old lady's daughter can sit on the lady's seat, why does her Rui'er pass by her? Could it be that in the future, her baby daughter will marry an abandoned son with no future? In comparison, Su Yi was indifferent, she turned around and went back to the house, and said to Xiao Ai: "Go back to the house to change my clothes for me." ”

Xiao Ai was taken aback: "You...... This, isn't it? ”

Su Yi glanced at her coldly: "Didn't you hear what I said?" ”

Xiao Ai lowered his head: "Yes!" The slave maid went to fetch water and waited for her sister to freshen up. ”

Su Yi said: "You'd better not think crookedly, don't think about telling the third lady to tell your father, you are still my person now!" I won't preach it when I visit me later, you have to go with me, and if my father blames me and punishes me in the end, your share will be indispensable. ”

Xiao Ai nodded hurriedly, and honestly went to get the basin for washing: "Yes!" The slave must obey her sister's arrangement! ”

The prince was dragged into Beppu to live, the high fever did not go away, and the imperial doctors were helpless, but fortunately the prince had fallen out of favor, but they were not implicated in being disposed of. In the dim room, after the medicine was completed, it was in a terrible pain, and he couldn't stop humming. He buried his head deep in the pillow and gasped heavily, taking deep breaths to relieve the pain in his body.

He wanted to see who was coming, but he really didn't have the strength, and he didn't dare to pull the already painful wound anymore, he asked, "Who?" ”

Still silent. Yuan Sui frowned, reached out to touch, but he didn't want to move his arm in such a lying posture and still touch the injury, and gasped with a breath of cool air, he shouted angrily, but because he didn't have any strength, he didn't seem to have the slightest momentum to shout, he said: "Hiss...... Who the hell is it! What a squeak......"

Still silent, for a while, a girl's chuckle finally broke the silence that was only like talking to herself. Yuan Sui sighed: "It turned out to be you." Tell me about you, a girl's family doesn't smoke spices, if you don't make a sound, I can't guess! ”

"Where do I have your gold! I'm not used to getting up and down everywhere, and the aroma is fragrant. Su Yi stretched out his hand and gently touched Yuan Sui's injury, and Yuan Sui twitched in pain: "What are you doing!" ”

"You know it hurts?" Su Yi was not angry: "I don't dare to collide with my father in front of me, that's your father!" Your Majesty, can you be capricious? ”

Suddenly hearing the sound of footsteps outside the door, Su Yi hurriedly turned around, and Minghuang crashed into his field of vision. She hurriedly knelt on the ground: "Courtier, Su Yi, please Your Majesty!" The emperor raised his hand, and a eunuch brought a chair behind him, and the emperor sat next to the Yuan Sui couch, while Su Yi stood respectfully on the side, looking at his nose and nose.

Yuan Sui reluctantly waved his hand: "Father, please forgive your son's rudeness." The emperor nodded: "Lie down." "Yes, Father Xie." The emperor wanted to take a look at Yuan Sui's injury, but unexpectedly, when Fang touched the futon on the top of the injury, he heard Yuan Sui snort, so he quickly let go. When I looked up, I saw Su Yi standing sideways with her eyes closed, and she realized that there was not only herself here, but also a daughter who had not yet left the cabinet.

A little embarrassed, he said, "You all should step back first." Su Yi owed: "The courtiers retired." The emperor thought about it and said, "Wait for me outside the door for a while, I have something to ask you." ”

"She's affectionate, she's the first one you've visited since you were imprisoned, right?"

Yuan Sui pursed his lips: "Erchen is a sinner, how can he ask others to come to visit often." ”

"Whether you have a sin or not, and what sin you have, I know better than you. You are already the crown prince, what else is there not to be satisfied with, to prepare for the seizure of power so early? ”

Yuan Sui was silent.

A scene that had appeared in nightmares countless times flashed through his mind, and the Emperor sighed: "I have seen mother and son kill each other, so I don't want to go to that point with you, I mean to give you a quiet place to stay." Sui'er, do you want her to accompany you? ”

Yuan Sui shook his head: "Erchen is just a sinner, no matter when and where in the future, I am afraid that all he will bring to others is trouble." Therefore, the retainers cannot force others to sacrifice their lives to accompany them. The father was merciful, abolished the son-in-law and gave the son-in-law a place to stay, and the son-in-law was content. ”

The emperor looked at him, and the high-spirited young man who used to talk to him all day long in the main hall had now grown up. As an emperor, he is always not free at times, and he can't make his own decisions about some things, and Yuan Sui is not a good king. After a long time, he said, "You rest, I think again." ”

Su Yi waited outside, saw the emperor come out, and then saluted and greeted. The emperor stood still with his hands in his hands and said, "If Yuan Sui is abolished, will you still treat him like this when the time comes?" ”

But the worst-case scenario. Su Yi lowered her eyes: "The courtiers are fortunate to be cared for by His Royal Highness, since they have been identified, how can they change their hexagrams?" ”

"That's a nice thing to say. Once Yuan Sui is deposed, even if he has a life, he will never be more comfortable, and the same is true for the people who accompany him. So since ancient times, the abolished prince will not live long, and once he falls off the cliff, he will want to resist, but I don't want my father and son to do this. Although I and the crown prince are father and son, they are also kings and ministers. And when a woman marries, it is all for glory at first, and emotion is second, you marry him, only to share the pain and have no happiness, and you are also willing? ”

"Courtiers recognize people, as for identity, maybe a lower status can still give the courtiers the life they want, and the rich and noble often have groups of wives and concubines, and there will be gains and losses."

"Then if Yuan Sui is deposed and moved to a distant place, are you willing to accompany him?"

Su Yi knelt straight: "The courtiers are willing, but there are still requests for each other, and I hope that Your Majesty will answer." The status of the courtier is humble, and the mother is lingering on the sickbed, and I am afraid that it will not be long before it. One of the courtiers' begging is the courtier's two-year-old younger brother, the courtier's daughter is in the house, and she can only protect the slightest bit of care, if the courtier's daughter leaves, she will marry the abolished prince...... The little brother's life must be difficult. Therefore, the courtiers are willing, and they also ask Your Majesty for mercy, but if you give a word to the courtier's father, the father must take it seriously and have scruples. In the two, the courtiers wish that the sister-in-law can dissolve the marriage contract with the prince and marry another family. Three, the courtiers wish His Majesty to agree, if His Royal Highness has no objection, please also protect His Royal Highness, but a safe life, in the crown prince may not be obtained, leaving the throne, can not be obtained. ”

The emperor was silent for a long moment, and nodded: "You go first, Rong Zhen thinks twice." ”

Su Yi stood up and stepped back respectfully. She knew that what the emperor wanted to think twice about was not what she said, but whether he wanted Yuan Sui to get off the horse like this. The second prince Yuan Ke heard that he was a soft temperament, and he did not have a big opinion, if he really ascended the throne once, he was afraid that the country would be unstable. The emperor must also be clear, and Great Wei has no precedent for his brother to succeed him, so it is impossible to choose another heir to ascend the throne. The supreme in the world also has the sorrow of the supreme in the world.