Northwest of the state, Pingwangfu.

Pingwang Xiao Lin was alone in the study, standing in front of a huge map hanging on the wall, and had been standing for some time, his back motionless.

This map, which is secretly hidden behind the wall on weekdays, is unfolded when reading. Xiao Lin heard a report from outside the door that Xiao Wenxuan asked to see him, he paused for a moment, pulled the curtain to cover the map, and ordered someone to pass it on.

Xiao Wenxuan was taken into the study, and he was a little stunned in the face of his father, who he hadn't seen for more than ten years, and he was full of emotions and mixed feelings.

Xiao Lin is already over forty years old, but his appearance is still magnificent, and the appearance in Xiao Wenxuan's memory is only a few strands of gray hair with more sideburns.

Xiao Wenxuan knelt down on his knees and gave Xiao Lin a big salute: "Son You'an, meet your father." ”

Xiao Lin looked at Xiao Wenxuan, who was slender, handsome, and a little bit of his childhood, without any emotion on his face.

"Get up."

Xiao Wenxuan got up.

"How is my father doing?"

"Well, it's fine." Xiao Lin pointed to the next chair for him to sit down as he spoke, his eyes sweeping his face inquiringly. "You're coming back this time...... The emperor allows you? ”

"The son was improvised and the imperial uncle didn't know it."

Xiao Wenxuan's imperial uncle stabbed Xiao Lin's ear, only to see him snort coldly and his tone was mocking: "It seems that the emperor has been good to you all these years." ”

Where could Xiao Wenxuan not hear his dissatisfaction? But the tone is not obvious, and it is still respectful as usual.

"Uncle Huang treats me with heart because I am my father's son. Uncle Huang often mentioned in front of me the past of your childhood, and said that he missed your father very much. ”

Xiao Lin was silent when he heard this. After a while, he picked up the teacup and took a sip, glanced at Xiao Wenxuan, and said in a light and vigilant tone: "You have been gone for more than ten years, and you won't come back this time to talk about family life, right?" ”

Finally got to the point. Xiao Wenxuan got up from the chair and waved at Xiao Lin.

"Father, please forgive your son for being unfilial. The son is unclear about something, and he wants to ask his father for guidance. ”

Xiao Lin gave him an intriguing look and put down the teacup.

"Just ask."

Xiao Wenxuan straightened his waist and looked at Xiao Lin with his eyes like a torch. This man, who was once very majestic in his heart, is now like a stranger and he can't feel a trace of warmth. This is his father, a father who left him to fend for himself after his mother's death, a father who tried to kill him behind his back.

"Father, if you were faced with power and affection, which would you choose?"

Xiao Wenxuan appeared in front of his eyes the figure who chased and killed him on the way to escape from the capital two years ago.

Xiao Lin didn't expect Xiao Wenxuan to ask this question, he stared at Xiao Wenxuan, and his eyes changed.

"In the past two years, you have not stopped tracking down this king. Try your best to find the flaws of this king, you have chosen power in the face of power and family affection, why do you still ask this king? ”

Xiao Lin claimed to be the king in his mouth, and he had already rejected Xiao Wenxuan and thousands of miles away, he stared at Xiao Wenxuan, and his eyes were cold.

"Father, I always thought that you were just a little harsher and colder to me than my eldest brother. But I never knew that you didn't like me so much that you wanted to kill me several times. Father, why? What did I do wrong to make you do this to me? ”

As soon as Xiao Wenxuan's words came out, his cheeks were slightly red with excitement, and his body trembled slightly.

Xiao Lin laughed when he heard this. "It seems that the emperor is also a shameless rat who has the courage to do what he doesn't dare to say. Since you know I don't like you and want to get rid of you, why do you want to come here to die? ”

"Father? Are you really? ”

At the beginning, Xiao Wenxuan found out that King Ping wanted to get rid of him, but he was just puzzled and sad, but now King Ping admitted it so lightly, Xiao Wenxuan couldn't accept it for a while. The question had been hidden in his mind for almost three years, and he wanted to know why, and he wanted an answer.

Xiao Lin stood up, his burly figure gloomy face, and his fierce gaze shot at Xiao Wenxuan: "I want to know why?" Then I'll tell you: The reason why I want to get rid of you is because you are not my son at all, you are the illegitimate son of the emperor and Zhen Qiao, and you are an evil obstacle. ”

Xiao Lin's words exploded on Xiao Wenxuan's head like a thunderbolt in the clear sky, his legs were weak, he was unsteady on his feet for a while, took two steps back, and fell on the chair.

"No, no, I don't allow you to tarnish the reputation of my mother and uncle like this." Xiao Wenxuan's accusation was pale and weak, more like a muttering to appease himself.

Xiao Wenxuan was at a loss, and his stunned appearance made Xiao Lin sneer: "What do you think you are?" The second son of Pingwangfu? The emperor himself named the king of Ningjun? Haven't you thought that when you entered the palace, you were only seven years old, how could you let the emperor eliminate all differences and crown you as king? Just because you're my son? Haha, King Ningjun, wake up. You are just a son born of Princess Ping's affair with the emperor, and your existence itself is invisible. ”

"So...... You want to take revenge on my mother...... Kill me repeatedly? Xiao Wenxuan's face was pale, and he looked at the domineering Xiao Lin with frustrated eyes.

"You are wrong, the reason why I want to kill you is not to take revenge on your mother, but to make the emperor's heart ache."

"I think that when my father chose the crown prince, it was originally intended for me, and during that time, my father kept me by his side to teach me personally. Until one time, I went to Zhen's house for a banquet with the emperor, and I couldn't help falling in love with her for the first time I saw Zhen Qiao, the young lady of the Zhen family.

I couldn't stand the pain of lovesickness day and night, and finally mustered up the courage to confess my heart to Zhen Qiao, but Zhen Qiao refused. At that time, I learned that Zhen Qiao and the emperor had known each other for a long time, and they were in love, and my father was also very optimistic about the Zhen family and was planning to marry them. ”

"I knelt in front of my father and asked him to give Zhen Qiao to me as his wife. My father refused, so I knelt down in front of him, and told my father that she would not marry. This kneeling was three days, and my father was disappointed in me at that time, because the last thing a king of a country should have was to be greedy for affection. In the end, I finally snatched your mother from the emperor and became a relative, but I lost the throne from then on. ”

"After the wedding, I was ordered to leave Beijing and come to the northwest town to guard the border pass, and my father died that year. After the emperor ascended the throne, he did not allow me to return to Beijing until your grandfather was seriously ill that year, and your mother was ordered to return to Beijing to visit. Who knew that your mother stayed in the capital for nearly a year, and she was pregnant when she came back. ”

"Your mother admitted to me that she rekindled her old relationship with the emperor when she was in the capital, and she did something unscrupulous. At that time, I loved your mother to the point of madness, put up with this fact, and accepted your existence. Your mother is alive, I will endure it. Your mother is dead, and I will remove your stinger that has been painful for years. ”

Xiao Lin held the long table in his hand, his nails were white, and he almost broke the corner of the table.

Such a bizarre and bloody plot was beyond Xiao Wenxuan's imagination, his heart beat faster, and the pictures described by Xiao Lin came into his eyes one by one. Xiao Wenxuan closed his eyes in pain, almost collapsing.

"So, after my mother died, you did it on purpose that I was innocently sick?"

"You have been frail since you were a child, I thought you would not live for a few years, but I didn't expect you to be in front of me after your mother died. It's easy to deal with you though, just a few pairs of chronic poisons are enough to kill you. It's just that I didn't calculate that the emperor would snatch you away from me regardless of people's words, and let you live until now. Xiao Lin gritted his teeth and glared at him.

"After I left, you did it when the Zhen family was robbed and killed."

"I did it, the emperor used the excuse of visiting the sick and your mother to get along, it was the Zhen family that connived, and the Zhen family deserved to die." Xiao Lin's eyes were on fire, and he slammed his fist on the table.

"And you ......" Xiao Lin stared at Xiao Wenxuan: "Since God asked you to come back, then stay and see how I can regain everything I have lost." ”

"Someone."

Outside the door, a man with a scar on his face walked in.

"Send King Ning Jun back to the bedroom and take good care of it."

"Yes." The man turned to Xiao Wenxuan.

The information Xiao Wenxuan received before coming was that he found a nitrate mine in the territory under the jurisdiction of King Ping, and with all the evidence collected before, Xiao Wenxuan had confirmed the evidence of King Ping's rebellion.

Xiao Wenxuan's original intention of this trip was to persuade King Ping to stop and stop fighting against the imperial power, bringing disaster to the country and the people, and harming others and himself. But Xiao Lin's revelation made him feel that his existence was a joke, he was an illegitimate child, he was disgraceful, he was not the emperor's nephew, and he was not the prince, what qualifications did he have to accuse King Ping's behavior.

Xiao Wenxuan was arrested and placed under house arrest in the courtyard where he once lived, surrounded by heavy guards.

Within half a day, Wuying and Li Feng were also arrested from the inn and imprisoned in the palace dungeon.