"It's finally ......"

When these four words came out of the two mouths almost at the same time, the two people who spoke were in different moods.

The twelfth princess only thought about her father's kindness to her in the past. Although she is no longer the pampered and willful golden branches and jade leaves of the past, she can realize that her father just spoils her or the eldest princess like a puppy and a kitten, but no matter what, compared with other brothers and sisters who are indifferent to her father, she has experienced the warmth of her father since she was a child, and naturally still thinks about that father-daughter relationship.

Therefore, when the third prince was still in a daze, she had come back to her senses when she looked at the Bazhou City not far away, and said: "Let's go, go to Bazhou City first, meet with the King of Lanling County and the King of Jin, and then take back the coffin of my father." ”

The third prince didn't notice at all that the twelve princesses had changed their usual title to Xiao Changhui, and the close elder brother of Changhui had become the current official king of Lanling County. Anyway, he was in chaos, and the six princes had exhausted the soldiers and horses in Nanjing City, and his father didn't know that the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses pulled out from there had also been defeated, and the stragglers even plagued the township, and he, the prince, now has no manpower to use than when he fled from Beijing, so his ambition when he returned to the country has long been gone.

What's more, the reason why he and the twelve princesses came to Bazhou was not just to welcome back their father's coffin, but because without the presence of Xiao Changheng, the king of Lanling County, and Xiao Rong, the king of Jin, and the rumors of his father's funeral spread all over the world, he couldn't control the huge Nanjing City without any manpower.

If he doesn't leave, he, the prince who has experienced canonization, will be treated as a strange commodity by Haoqiang, who covets Nanjing City!

The third prince couldn't help but be dazed, the twelfth princess talked to him, he agreed to a sentence or two casually, and the whole person was still in a trance, after all, he couldn't believe the news sent back to Nanjing. Father is dead? Before being hit by a mortal poisonous arrow, he successfully turned the corner, and even pulled out a large group of people, how could his father die!

Isn't his father always strong, immortal? Otherwise, how could he stage a Return of the Jedi at a time when he didn't expect it at all? At that time, when his father secretly set out from Nanjing, the army that gathered from all directions once made him stunned, thinking that the chaos in Dayan could be quelled in a blink of an eye. But overnight, the heavens and the earth changed dramatically again.

And when this pair of brothers and sisters who only brought hundreds of entourages and horses entered Bazhou City with their identities, and a team of Wu soldiers who were rushed to say that they were escorted, but in fact they were escorted to the Taishou Mansion in the city, but they did not see the prince of Southern Wu who inspected the northern Xinjiang for the first time, and then had been nesting in Bazhou without moving, nor did he see anyone else, but followed the guide and gradually deviated from the central axis of the Taishou Mansion.

Seeing that the more he walked in the place, the third prince gradually felt a little hairy, but thinking of the current situation, he didn't dare to say anything, but the twelfth princess was not so polite. She immediately stopped, and asked in a fierce voice: "In order to welcome back his father's coffin, Prince Dayan personally went to Bazhou, but you Nanwu didn't even have a reciprocal reception, and now where is this leading us?" ”

"Princess, forgive me, after all, no one thought that Emperor Beiyan, who was seriously injured in the assassination, would suddenly attack Bazhou at night. Moreover, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the adults did not expect that His Royal Highness the Prince, as the prince of Beiyan, would go from Nanjing to Bazhou so quickly after getting the news, and there was no one who was even notified in advance, so they naturally didn't care about greeting them, because they were now going to preside over the burial ceremony of the fallen soldiers. ”

The young official in charge of the reception was neither humble nor arrogant, and even the angry gaze of the Twelfth Princess did not make his face change the slightest color. And his next explanation was to make the faces of the three princes and the twelve princesses change greatly.

"As for the place where Xia Guan is leading the two now, it is where the coffin of Emperor Beiyan is located. The king of Lanling County and the king of Jin in Northern Yan took his subordinates to protect the coffin, and in order to show respect, my Da Wu temporarily allocated that place to them. But this is the Taishou Mansion, and the two of them must understand that it is naturally impossible to allocate the most central place for my Bazhou to deal with government affairs, and remoteness is inevitable. ”

This is a reason that is at least reasonable, the third prince did not intend to fall out with others when the situation is stronger than people now, so he couldn't help but quietly tug on the sleeve of the twelfth princess. And the twelve princesses took a deep breath, and finally put up with it for the time being. You must know that when she first entered the Taishou Mansion, all the entourage guards brought by her and the third prince were stopped.

However, when they finally arrived at a corner in the northwest of the Taishou Mansion and saw a courtyard gate heavily guarded, with a few familiar guards among them, the Twelve Princesses couldn't hold back any longer. Dressed in a riding costume, she rushed over like a gust of wind, and before she could ask, she saw a few people silently get out of the way, and she felt sad in her heart, and immediately bit her lip and walked quickly inside.

When she entered the courtyard, she saw a man sitting on the steps in front of the room in the center, with a grass branch in his mouth. Even if she didn't hide the footsteps at all, the other party still didn't raise his head and didn't move, only the grass branches were still trembling slightly. Seeing this, she took three steps and two steps forward, and pulled out the dog's tail grass from the man's mouth and threw it on the ground.

After stepping on two feet, the twelfth princess asked angrily: "You obviously followed, how could you let your father die!" ”

Yue Xiaosi was not very happy in his heart, and at this time, he was yelled at by the twelve princesses, he jumped up, stared at the little girl in front of him who was flushed with anger, and said word by word: "First, your father only believes in himself, but can't trust me and Ah Rong, and he and I are just guarding the cell heads of Yue Qianqiu and Xiao Jingxian!" ”

"Second, Xiao Jingxian fabricated that Ah Rong and I rebelled and rebelled, which caused chaos in the army's heart! Moreover, he didn't know how to use to envelop Tanma, so that the defense line of the army was like a colander, and several armies of Southern Wu were directly released! ”

"Third," Yue Xiaosi didn't care how pale the face of the twelfth princess was, and directly bent down the third finger, "How do I know what kind of nerves your father and emperor have, he is killing himself at a critical moment, and he has to fight hard with others!" He is the king of a country after all, and he is more useful when he is alive than when he is dead! But Dai Jinglan on Wu Jun's side also went crazy and wanted his life, I can't stop it even if I have three heads and six arms! ”

Speaking of this, Yue Xiao Quartet said stiffly: "I brought you out from Shangjing, and it was almost nine deaths." That night, I went all the way to your father's side, and although it was too late to save him, I did my best. All the diligence in my life has been used up these days, so since you and the prince have come, then I will leave it to you, and I will not wait! ”

As soon as the third prince entered the courtyard gate, he saw the scene of the only person he could rely on now, the king of Lanling County, picking a son, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. Immediately after, he hurriedly rushed forward, spreading his arms to block Yue Xiaosi.

"The king of the county, Xiao Twelve is not sensible, don't ...... it"

Thinking of his initial relative silence when he met his father, and thinking of his troublesome situation, Yue Xiaosi stared at the third prince for a long time, until he heard the footsteps of the twelve princesses rushing towards the main room behind him, and then he said unhurriedly: "Does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince know what your current situation is?" Your father left an inexplicable edict on his deathbed, and he passed the throne to Little Twelve! ”

His voice was neither loud nor small, just enough for the twelve princesses and the three princes to hear. The third prince was quickly relieved after the initial shock, and his face even showed a little relief. The Twelfth Princess, who had already pushed the door with one hand, stumbled and almost fell, and then turned around sharply, her eyes full of anger.

"What nonsense are you talking about!"

"First, I didn't hear it alone, there were a lot of people here. Second, it's not empty words, it's your father's bloody edict. Yue Xiaosi suddenly felt that the first and second reasons for listing themselves in this way were justified and able to express their grievances, so they didn't care about the expression of the twelve princesses at all, "Third, I just reminded you in advance, what are you yelling at me?" ”

The twelfth princess only felt a cold breath pouring from her head to her feet, and her whole body was almost frozen. When she came to her senses, she raised the last bit of courage and shouted word by word: "Xiao Changhui, you have been a mouthful of your father emperor since the beginning, what does this mean?" Could it be that you want to abandon Dayan and switch to Southern Wu? ”

"Didn't you hear what I just said? Lao Tzu said, from now on, Lao Tzu will not serve! The world is big, isn't there a place for Lao Tzu to live a good life? ”

After Yue Xiaosi said this, seeing that the third prince was still blocking in front of him and refusing to give way, he said with a pleasant face, "His Royal Highness the Prince, I am not talking to Xiao Twelve, no one knows her temper better than me." Just because Nan Wu was worried about the fact that Ah Rong used to be a disciple of Qingcheng, I was already anxious, and I was not interested in serving a new monarch, let alone caring which of your brothers and sisters was the emperor! ”

"King of Lanling County!" The third prince dodged and stopped Yue Xiaosi who was about to leave again, and said with a sincere face, "If my father is still here, I, the prince, can barely sit in the East Palace, but now that my father is gone, Nanwu has shown his true colors, I didn't have the luxury of being able to ascend the throne as the emperor!" Since my father left an edict, he naturally followed the edict......"

He glanced at the twelve princesses with a blank face, and then continued: "But Little Twelve is a princess after all, and it is difficult to support herself. If the king of the county is willing to help Dayan turn the tide, then you will marry Xiao Twelve, and this Dayan world will be yours! ”

Yue Xiaosi remembered that the third prince was a cowardly prince who was bullied by the eldest princess before he went to Dawu, but after returning from Dawu, he showed something a little bit interesting, but before that ambition could be erected, he was completely extinguished by an assassination to make him the crown prince.

At this time, he found that instead of being furious because of the absurd edict, he also instigated himself to marry the twelve princesses, and he only felt that this world was simply ridiculous. After being stunned for a moment, he refused angrily: "Don't mention this again!" Little Twelve likes Yue Qianqiu, everyone knows about this matter! ”

"Say no more, I don't like him now!" The twelve princesses finally got rid of the state of being like a wandering spirit, but the two fists were clenched tightly, and the grief and anger in their eyes were not ignored by any blind person.

Yue Xiaosi smiled and said, "Do you think that Yue Qianqiu also has a part in killing your father?" You think wrong, although Xiao Jingxian pit your father the most, and Yue Qianqiu is angry with your father and the emperor is also very angry, but in the end, your father was able to leave a testament, but it was thanks to the two of them. ”

He didn't sell it either, he explained the cause and effect of dividing it by two, and when he saw that this pair of brothers and sisters representing the orthodoxy of Beiyan looked at each other, he shrugged his shoulders, strode directly past these two people, and walked away.

Yue Xiaosi left, and the twelve princesses were just like hedgehogs covered with thorns, but at this time, the whole person suddenly lost her vitality. She glanced at the third prince who had just been righteous and awe-inspiring as if he didn't care about the throne in a daze, so she turned around and silently entered the room, and when she saw the coffin on the wooden table in the center, she finally almost collapsed, and she didn't even notice that the room was cold.

The third prince who stumbled and followed was also pale, but he was calmer than the twelfth princess at this time. Before dragging his heavy steps to the coffin, he found that the coffin had not been nailed, and he did not know where the strength came from, but he pushed it away. When he saw the man lying inside, he staggered back three steps in a row, until his back hit the east and west, and then he slid and sat down.

The father is not like the original Empress Wenwu who did not see people alive or dead, but really died!

He closed his eyes in despair, and only whispered for a long time: "Did you hear what the King of Lanling County said just now?" ”

"What if you hear it, and what if you don't hear it?" The voice of the twelfth princess was no longer as sharp as it was at the beginning, but her expression returned to its previous unruliness, "You just wanted to marry me to Xiao Changhui, and now you want me to marry Yue Qianqiu, don't you?" ”

"Don't you think of that yet? The father's sons and daughters-in-law are the only ones left with the two of us and the eldest sister! When you left Nanjing, didn't you hear the news that the sixth brother had been killed by the rebels? plus the ...... that Xiao Qingqing killed in Shangjing There really were just three of us! ”

Seeing that the twelve princesses finally buried their heads lifelessly, the third prince clung to the edge of the coffin and whispered: "There are naturally side branches of the royal family, but what do they have to do with their father and the emperor?" There are ambitious border generals, but who of them will be willing to assist me or you? The left and right phases have a high prestige, but in this time of internal and external troubles, they can't save the overall situation! ”

Speaking of this, he let go of his hand and gradually slid to the ground, and then whispered: "Marry the prince of Nanwu...... If that edict was really left by our father, then this is the last path he pointed us out. ”

The twelfth princess raised her head blankly, and when she saw the third prince reaching out into her arms, she suddenly realized something, and suddenly screamed: "I only have one brother left for you, don't do stupid things!" ”

The third prince, who had always thought that he lacked courage, had already grasped the short dagger for self-defense, but when he heard this shout, he still couldn't help but let go of his hand, and when he finally mustered up the courage to grasp the handle of the knife again, he suddenly felt a hand clasping his wrist, and followed by a voice as cold as ice in his ears.

"The prince doesn't have to kill himself. My Prince Wu and Yue Xiang are back, and they are about to meet the two of them, so what can I say in person. ”