When it was ugly, there was a sudden shout outside, the big monk and the third master both stiffened their bodies, what should come will always come, I don't know what kind of mood to face this moment. A moment later, I woke up like a dream, and watched the great monk open the door of the meditation room and walk out with the third master, only to get up and follow behind them.

The father-in-law, who had been sent to summon us, stood outside the courtyard, and when he saw us coming out, he saluted and said, "The abbot and the young lady should hurry up and wash up, and the carriage is already waiting at the gate of the temple." ”

The father-in-law turned his face and saw the third master's scarred appearance again, so he hurriedly asked, "Did the third master have an accident?" ”

The third master replied: "It's okay, but it didn't hurt the vital point." ”

The father-in-law's face softened, "Then the third master will also enter the palace with the carriage." ”

The third master nodded and said, "It's okay." ”

After my father-in-law arranged everything, he said to me and the great monk: "I hope the abbot and the young lady will hurry up, Your Majesty may not be able to wait too long, the slave and the third master will wait in the carriage first." ”

I saw that he looked anxious, and although he deliberately concealed his gestures, he also showed a little panic, and only turned his head to look at the great monk, and responded: "Understood." ”

The carriage drove towards the palace gate, and I asked my father-in-law, "Your Majesty was fine a few days ago, why did you suddenly do it?" ”

The father-in-law looked at the third master, the third master lowered his eyelids, and said, "Say, there are no outsiders here." ”

The father-in-law sighed: "It's not that a few days ago, Your Majesty suddenly said that you want to hunt, on the fourth day of the new year, Your Majesty was riding his favorite Chaoguang and was about to shoot a deer with an arrow, but somehow the horse's hooves were broken, and His Majesty fell off the galloping horse, and he couldn't move at that time." ”

I asked suspiciously, "If it is a royal horse, it must be a good horse, how can it break the horse's hooves in the gallop?" ”

The father-in-law reasoned: "Maybe Chaoguang is old." ”

I shook my head and said to myself, "A good horse is a good horse after all, how could I break a horse's hoof?" ”

As soon as I got out of the carriage, the palace maid who had been waiting for a long time had already greeted me, and I looked around, and in the gray of the day, the majestic palace seemed to be shrouded in a layer of heaviness.

After the father-in-law explained a few words to the palace maid in front of him, he left.

We were led silently and briskly through the corridors, passing countless palaces with our heads bowed, and finally arrived at His Majesty's bedchamber.

The second prince was standing by the bedside, his face was tense, his eyes were lowered, and the moment he turned his head to meet our eyes, his eyes were full of grief and loneliness.

For a while, I was a little unsure in a trance, is this still the second prince I knew before?

His Majesty was lying on the bed, his face was swollen and purple, his breath was like a gossamer, his lips and teeth were tightly closed, the imperial doctor knelt neatly beside the bed, my eyes swept over the third master, and saw him and a person standing at the end of the bed exchanged glances, so he bowed out of the room, and after a while, His Majesty's bedroom was surrounded by heavy soldiers, and no one was allowed to enter or leave without his permission.

The man standing at the end of the bed turned out to be his father-in-law who was close to His Majesty, and it was only at this moment that he walked to the door and instructed the people below: "You take people to guard the surroundings, and no one is allowed to leave without permission, and if anyone breaks in and escapes, they will be killed!" ”

I listened quietly to the orders they gave one after another, obviously with chills in my heart, but the jacket I was wearing was soaked with sweat.

Finally, in the twenty-third year of the Southern Liang Dynasty, at three o'clock on the sixth day of the first month of March, the emperor died at the age of forty-one.

The great monk folded his hands together and hung his head and sang Sanskrit music concentratingly, "Nam no Amitabha Night, Dortagada Night, Dori Night, Amili Dubhavi, Amili Do, Sidhama Vavi, Amitabhi, Vigarandhi, Amitabha, Vigaranda, Gamita, Gagana, Taragali, Sabhaha......"

His Majesty went too hastily, and after a period of silence, all the people in the room fell to their knees crying bitterly, and the second prince was so sad that he fell down and shouted: "Father! Father! ”

The father-in-law who had just instructed everything only cried loudly while facing everyone: "Your Majesty has just finished explaining, and he has already prepared an edict to pass on the throne to the third prince, and he fell into a fainting. ”

After saying that, he couldn't cry again, and the second prince stopped crying after hearing this, and turned around to look at it in shock, only frowning and twitching so much that he couldn't speak.

It didn't take long for the third master to lead the Empress Dowager Zhuang Wen into the dormitory, I couldn't stop trembling at this moment, I was afraid that at this moment there were nine martial law, and the dormitory was surrounded by heavy guards inside and outside the palace, in the case of a complete blockade of news, with the support of the Empress Dowager Zhuang Wen and His Majesty's cronies, the third master completely had the upper hand.

At this time, the second prince's face was pale and white, and his suspicious expression slowly formed a frost on his temples under the body of Empress Dowager Zhuang Wen.

The third master controlled the entire palace and even the entire Jiankang, I watched him walk slowly and firmly to the bed step by step with the morning light on his back, staring straight at His Majesty's body that was gradually getting cold, and was silent for a long time, I don't know whether it was sad or happy.

Empress Dowager Zhuang Wen wiped her tears, sighed and said: "Your Majesty has died, but the country cannot be without a king for a day, Xiao Lizi, you have always been with you, what can Your Majesty explain before leaving?" ”

I raised my eyelids slightly, and then I found that the little plum in the mouth of the Empress Dowager Zhuang Wen was the father-in-law I had been paying attention to, and he sobbed: "Your Majesty's dictation, 'The third son of the emperor has an outstanding character, and he is very sincere, and he will be able to inherit the unification.'" As soon as he finished speaking, he kowtowed to the third master.

The people in the dormitory all stood in place, and the great monk sang in a round, and when he saw this, he only leaned over and said, "Amitabha, see Your Majesty in the dust." ”

Someone took the lead, and the rest of the people immediately followed, lest they fall behind, and the whole dormitory suddenly knelt down one after another, and the sound of kowtowing resounded through the beams of the room.

The eyes of the second prince slowly swept over everyone's faces, and finally looked directly at me, full of desolation in the sorrowful pain, closed his eyes, and shed two lines of tears.

The third master turned around, and after glancing at the great monk, his eyes fell on my body and trembled slightly, so he ordered: "Detain everyone in the palace except for me and the queen mother, and don't let any news be passed on outside." ”

I was taken to a dark room, sitting in the corner against the wall, arms curled up on knees, chin on knees, repeated thinking about a lot of things, I vaguely felt that maybe the third master didn't think about letting us go, he is now on the throne, he is already the king of a country, the world is his, about last night's promise, he fulfills it, it doesn't matter, but it's all in his thoughts, even if he turns his face and doesn't recognize people, I and the great monk have no way.

I just woke up to the fact that no matter who ascends to the throne, there is no difference between me and the great monk, we will always be fish and meat on the sword, and we can only be slaughtered by others.