Mei Yuexue was brought into the East Palace.

Everything in the East Palace has long since changed, and the palace people have also changed a batch, only an old eunuch in the courtyard who helped take care of the flowers and trees recognized him.

"This ...... This ......" He stared at Mei Yuexue for a long time, and Mu Changhan said: "Weisheren, you also look at this young man like His Royal Highness Sui Han."

When the Weishe people heard this, they reacted for a long time before sighing: "It's all because the old slave is dizzy, and I thought that His Royal Highness Sui Han had been resurrected...... He has been dead for many years, but he didn't expect that there could be someone in this world who looks so similar to him, it is exactly the same, the old slave forgot the truth for a while, and abruptly surprised the young man, and hoped that the young man would not be surprised. ”

Mei Yuexue choked up for a moment before she said in a deep voice: "It's not strange. Father-in-law Wei mentioned that His Royal Highness Sui Han was full of sadness, it seemed that he missed him very much, and the next outsider looked very moved. ”

Mu Changhan said: "Okay, the young man has come from a long journey, so let's hurry up and rest."

After saying that, he led him on.

Mei Yuexue followed behind Mu Changhan, looking at his back, there were thousands of things to say in his heart, but at this moment he couldn't tell his true identity, once he admitted that he was Mu Suihan, maybe he would bring death to himself, and it would also bring another bloody storm to the court of Mu State.

It wasn't until he arrived at a side hall in the East Palace that Mu Changhan said, "Shaoxia will rest here tonight."

Mei Yuexue stared at him, gritted her teeth secretly, and said, "Your Highness, I have something I want to ask you."

Mu Changhan nodded and said, "Okay, let's go into the house and talk." He said it lightly, as if he didn't take all this to heart, and looked right. Mei Yuexue thought that anyone who was a thief must have a weak heart, and when he asked him like this, he would definitely feel afraid, but he didn't expect him to be so indifferent.

The two of them entered the hall, making the people around them retreat for the time being, only when the two of them were in the hall, Mu Changhan said: "Sui Han, don't come unharmed!"

Mei Yuexue looked surprised: "You know that I am really cold, and my father also knows, but why don't you two admit it?"

Mu Changhan said: "Sui Han, we don't admit that we have our reasons, I know that we have wronged you, but at this juncture, if you tell the world that the original Prince Sui Han is not dead, and he is alive again, then there will definitely be more branches." First of all, should the position of prince be yours or mine? In the past, they may have thought that this position should be yours, because your father likes you, and the ministers like you. At the beginning, it was because of you that I had no way to show my ability, but now it is different, I assisted my father to capture Prime Minister Luan and stop the queen, I want to have means, I have to be ruthless, I have to have a plan, I want to have a plan, I want to be stable for the country, even my mother does not hesitate to detain it, this alone is enough for me to compete with you. I won't let you this time, because I'm confident that I'm better than you are to run the country. ”

Mei Yuexue closed her eyes and let out a long sigh of relief: "How do you know that you can manage this country better than me?" You paid for this country, didn't I have it? In the past three years, I have been incognito, wandering the rivers and lakes, recruiting troops, and finding out how much news for the Mu country, so that this war can be under our control, Brother Huang, you used to be a person who had no quarrel with the world. ”

"That's what I faked." Mu Changhan said lightly: "I have never been without quarrel with the world, and now you accept your fate, or if you don't accept your fate, you can't fight me."

"Brother Huang, has my father been coerced by you?" Mei Yuexue was still a little unwilling in her heart, he thought that as soon as he came back, the position of the crown prince would be his, and the days would be the same as before, and he would be able to return to his father, but one of them said "looks alike", which ruined all his hopes. A person who is still alive in Yin Yin was said to be dead by an open mouth like this. He also knew that no matter whether the emperor was really coerced or not, he couldn't get a result from Mu Changhan, but he was unwilling after all.

"It was my father who told me that he didn't want you to be trapped in this deep palace for the rest of your life. He said that although he and Queen Mei have always wanted you to be the prince, he knows that your temperament does not like to be trapped, or the rivers and lakes are far away, and thousands of miles of rivers and mountains are more suitable for you, and he doesn't want you to have too many regrets in your life. Sui Han, you don't have to be unwilling in your heart, think about it yourself, are you really willing to be the emperor? Is it better to be the emperor or go back to the Tibetan Dragon Village? Although you have not been in the palace for the past three years, you have no fine clothes and food, and you have been respected by thousands of people, but are you unhappy in the rivers and lakes? ”

After hearing these words, although Mei Yuexue agreed, she still felt a sense of being deceived.

"Whether I'm happy or not, what does it have to do with whether or not I fight for this throne? I also know that being an emperor is not happy, but ...... But I'm willing to pay, why are you driving me away. ”

"I didn't chase you, I was trying to persuade you to go, and this is a good result for both of us." He poured himself a cup of tea, drank it very indifferently, and then said lightly: "Father is old, don't let him worry anymore, he still loves you more in his heart, he only wants you to live well, and never wants to put extra pressure on you." There is a truth that you probably don't know yet, in fact, the best prince in my father's heart has always been me, not you. ”

"Don't try to lie to me! I'm kind of white, you're too vicious! ”

"I can take you to your father at once and see if he says so. In fact, my father has always been secretly teaching me the way of the emperor, I became like this because he trained me, he taught me to keep it hidden, he elected you as the prince, and he just wanted to catch the big fish behind him, he couldn't let the person he really liked take this risk, so ......"

"So he chose me as the prince and you as a shield? What about my mother, is he also lying to her? ”

"Queen Mei is the queen he likes the most in his heart, and he only likes Queen Mei alone in his life." He closed his eyes and said coldly, not answering his question directly, Mei Yuexue then asked, "You said that we are all blocking arrows for you?" I don't believe it! ”

"But this is a fact, at that time, my father had no choice. Although my father thinks that you are not a good prince, you are still his good son, so he tried his best to steal the beam and change the pillar to replace your life. My father's heart is the most difficult to guess, when I was young, he asked me to do what I did, until you left I gradually guessed his true purpose, maybe you will hate him, resentful of him, but the emperor should be like this, he can't ignore the stability of the country for the sake of his son. At the beginning, he used the Lin family and Gu Wangye, and he blamed himself for a long time afterwards, he felt that he should not have put his right hand in danger for the sake of your life. ”

"You are talking nonsense, my father did not save my life because he was favoritist, he gave me the task, he asked me to gather the righteous people of the rivers and lakes to unite with the imperial court to attack the Yiren, and to clear the bandits and save the people when the country was in turmoil, my father protected me because my father felt that I was also useful, how could he regret it...... Could it be that in the eyes of my father, I am a son who was spoiled by him and grew up, but was useless? Don't be too self-conscious and try to deceive me with these words. ”

"You are indeed a bit smart and intelligent, and you also have a high internal strength, you are a martial arts wizard, and you are brilliant, but for the king and the emperor, these are not the most important. Sending you to the rivers and lakes is still just a pretense, don't you think that your task is just a false position, and anyone can complete it, and it doesn't have to be you? That's just the reason my father thinks about it to save you. ”

This sentence really poked Mei Yuexue's heart, in the past few years, he has always felt that there is nothing very important to do, more is idle and comfortable, he does gather the righteous people of the rivers and lakes, but they are more on the face of the predecessors of the martial arts, or on the crisis of broken mountains and rivers, in addition to the brothers of the hidden dragon village such as Zhuyun, Yue Lin, the old white and old iron monkey Lu Qiu, in three years, why did he command the entire rivers and lakes without any foundation? Obviously, no.

Ping bandits, rangers can do it, evacuate the people, Ziyunguan can do it, even this important secret letter was found by Xiao Wei, and his merits are not as good as Zhou Wenlian who went deep into the enemy camp.

He didn't do anything big at all.

He was silent.

Mu Changhan continued: "If you were in the previous peaceful and prosperous era, maybe you would be a very suitable prince, but Mu Guo was also devastated after this battle, and those hidden hidden dangers that had not yet been discovered would gradually be revealed, and he didn't choose you because you weren't ruthless enough." I know that you are a person who values affection and righteousness, but at this time, you can't talk about affection and righteousness, and you can talk about national stability. Sui Han, if you are allowed to be the emperor, will you watch your favorite queen die for you, will you be willing to let your most beloved son be driven out of the palace, suffer unjustly, and be exiled to the rivers and lakes? Can you give up your most trusted courtier to die for yourself? ”

Mei Yuexue was silent.

"But I can. I also confessed to my father. Prime Minister Luan is my grandfather, the queen is my biological mother, I am not merciful to the two of them, I have passed the test of my father, there are no brothers and friends in this world, even my future concubine, my queen, as long as they have harmful behaviors against the Mu country, there is no affection to talk about in front of me, maybe they are not at fault, but as long as they stand in the way of the Mu country, I will solve them mercilessly. My father chose me precisely because of this. ”

Mei Yuexue sighed with red eyes: "Can it only be so ruthless and cold-blooded? Isn't the emperor human? Is there no other way? ”

Mu Changhan said: "Emperors throughout the ages have always been like this."

"But my father and the emperor are not such people."

"So the backlog has reached our generation, and there will be people like Prime Minister Luan, such a series of crises."

Mei Yuexue really had no words to refute, she sat down on the chair, in a daze as if she had lost her soul, and muttered, "How can this be?" So that's ......"

"Mei Shaoxia, hurry up and rest! I'm going to interrogate Prime Minister Luan in prison. ”

After he finished speaking, he got up and left, leaving Mei Yuexue alone to sit in the empty side hall.

In the dead of night, the candlelight flickered, the wind blew into the temple, the curtain fluttered, and it was desolate and lonely.

Mei Yuexue shed tears, the more he thought about everything, the more confused he became, the more disappointed he became, and the inner courtyard of this deep palace became colder and colder. This is where he grew up, but he didn't understand it until he left it for many years and came back again.

He thought to himself: "It's just that I can't know if I know the true meaning of my father in the heart of the queen mother."