The eldest brother was sentenced to exile, pampered since he was a child, clothed and fed, and there were a group of people waiting everywhere, and now he is alone on the road, because he is weak, he can't stand the bitter cold in the northwest, and he dies of illness on the road.

Losing two sons in succession, the father was sad and mournful, and decided not to set up the prince for the time being.

The father and emperor were resolute and stalemate with the hundred officials, but in the end they each gave in and decided to select a suitable heir from him and his fourth brother for a period of three years.

"The emperor is brilliant, and he has great plans and strategies, and the emperor must have chosen you." Yu Qing said in a relaxed tone.

Seeing that the emperor was frowning, and the story was also very difficult, she stretched out her hand to hold it, wanting to give a little comfort, but found that the other party's palm was cold, and her heart was a little throbbing.

"I was not as good as my eldest brother and second brother in terms of academics, but I was able to do calligraphy."

The woman beside her had bright eyes, looking at her eyes shining, and the warmth from her palm gradually calmed the emperor's surging emotions.

When he was young, he was very happy, he never had the idea of seizing the heir, and even the deliberate cultivation of his father and queen, he often didn't care, thinking that the two of them were the same emperors.

On the contrary, the fourth brother is smart and studious, and he even once thought that the fourth brother could govern a country better than him until ......

The bachelors in the study are rigorous in teaching, and they are never allowed to neglect their studies, and if there is a crime, even if it is a prince, they will be punished.

The fourth brother didn't come that day, and only after asking the university scholar did he know that the fourth brother was sick, so he specially asked for a day off.

He was so worried that he couldn't concentrate on the lecture, so he tried to ask the scholar for a leave of absence for half a day, wanting to see the fourth brother, but he was ready to be punished, but he was unexpectedly allowed.

At that time, the fourth brother and his biological mother Concubine Chen lived in Chuxiu Palace, and he walked all the way, but he heard the fourth brother talking to people at the rockery in the imperial garden.

How do you go out when you're sick? He walked over directly, and when he got closer, the conversation between the two gradually became clear, which made him clench his fists.

"Only one mother-in-law has seen it, and it has been dealt with, you can rest assured, the Zongren Mansion has already been finalized and filed, and the death of the prince will not be found on you."

The person who spoke was dressed in the internal prison uniform, and his behavior was not like a eunuch in the palace, let alone a guard, but his words were very rebellious, and he was complicit in rebellion!

"If you are so careless, you can find out with the next medicine, and this person is overwhelmed and dealt with together."

This person's appearance is the same as his fourth brother, but his expression and bearing are very different, he has lost the sunny and hearty immature temperament of the past, and has become gloomy and ruthless, and his exit is to take people's lives.

His back was cold, and he hoped that someone had put on the skin of the fourth brother, and the inside had been replaced.

"How is Feng Junhuan over there?" The fourth prince asked.

Feng Junhuan, the name of their second brother, in the past, the fourth brother was the second brother and the second brother called him diligently, but behind his back, he disregarded ethics and called his name.

I remember that when the second brother was first crowned the prince, the fourth brother once expressed his intention in person, and he was willing to follow the second brother, be a famous and virtuous minister, and resonate with the dynasty.

Hearing this, the uneasiness in his heart became stronger and stronger, as if there was an answer coming out, and he didn't want to believe it, he must hear it with his own ears.

"Back to the fourth prince, the two soldiers who were escorted, one was addicted to gambling and owed huge gambling debts, and he was beaten to death by the thugs who begged for money in the gambling house two days ago." The man looked up, and there was flattery and cunning in his eyes.

After seeing too many methods of open and secret fighting, he knew that this was a method of killing people with a knife.

"Killed in the street? Don't make any trouble. The fourth prince frowned.

"No, because it was the officers and soldiers who died, the local government seized the gambling house, took in the thugs, and waited for the execution after the autumn, and the subordinates have already taken care of it."

The seizure is for people to see, and it will reopen in a few days, and as for the thugs, this kind of livelihood is spent with their heads pinned to the waistband of their pants every day, and they have already given their families a lot of money to appease them, and it is not a pity to kill people.

"Well, what about the other one?" The fourth prince asked.

"The other died on the belly of the prostitute in Willow Lane, Flower Street." The man laughed obscenely.

"Well done." The four princes nodded with satisfaction, this way of dealing with it is the most reasonable, and it is not easy to find out the clues.

"Thanks to the thoughtfulness of the fourth prince, no one knows the real cause of death of the crown prince and the eldest prince." The man complimented.

Don't look at the young age of the fourth prince, after these things, he found out that when the real scheming is very heavy, the city is very deep.

One means to remove two stumbling blocks, killing two birds with one stone, he was shocked when he saw it, and sighed that he was good to follow the right master.

"Hmph, what this palace wants, no one can stop it, and this matter is not allowed to be mentioned again in the future!" The fourth prince said sharply.

"My subordinates understand!" The gloomy eyes of the fourth prince made the man excited, and he even claimed yes and retreated.

Not only that person, but he was also trembling all over now, not afraid of the fourth brother's eyes, but shocked, angry, and couldn't believe it.

After the man left completely, the fourth prince turned around and walked out of the rockery, and within two steps, he saw him standing not far from the entrance.

"I can still remember the look on his face vividly." The emperor's eyes were focused, looking into the distance, and his mind was reminiscing.

At that time, the fourth brother looked at him, his face was frightened and flustered for a moment, and he immediately turned into calm, smiled as usual, showed a row of white teeth, and called him loudly: "Third brother!" ”

He still looked at the fourth brother silently, his eyes full of strangeness and distance.

"Third brother, why did you get to the Imperial Garden?" The fourth brother walked slowly towards him, and he couldn't see the weakness of his heart after the matter was revealed.

Yes, he is underestimating the fourth brother, who can strategize thousands of miles away, hide his true self under the skin all the year round, and show others with another face, how can he easily reveal his flaws.

"I heard from the scholar that you are sick, come and take a look."

Walking through the Imperial Garden can get to Chuxiu Palace faster, which is the experience he found many times when he went to the fourth brother.

If it weren't for this experience, he would have walked around the outer corridor like an ordinary palace person, and maybe the two of them would be the same as before.

"The third brother is still the most worried about me, don't worry, I've slept all morning, I'm already well, and I'm going to go to the study to find you in the afternoon."

The fourth brother's tone is natural, and his ability to change his face is better than that of those ladies in his father's palace.

He couldn't listen to anything else, and the questions in his mind were surging like waves, and he asked in a deep voice, "Why are you here?" ”

I don't know why, he didn't say it directly, but wanted to give the fourth brother another chance, just once, as long as the fourth brother was willing to make it clear, he would definitely intercede for the fourth brother in front of his father.

"Oh, this, my mother asked me to come to find Zhu Jiuju, saying that I wanted to make some pastries by myself, I can't find it yet, I just found a palace person to ask, let's go with the third brother."

Look, the excuse can be blurted out without thinking, but this kind of rough work, how can Concubine Chen be willing to let her most precious son do it herself.

The estrangement is like a city wall rising from the ground, and I can't jump over, "It's good to know that you're okay, the university scholar also explained the schoolwork, I'll go back first." ”

The fourth brother smiled and said, "Third brother, go back quickly, I still point to the third brother who can help me make up for today's teaching!" ”

He didn't know what to say, he just nodded, and walked back in a trance, he didn't know what kind of eyes the fourth brother was looking at him behind him.

Since then, he began to concentrate on his studies and learn the way of governing the country, and his talent was not bad.

In fact, at that time, the fourth brother had already confirmed that he had heard all the conversations and knew the truth, but he just tacitly knew it, even if he turned his face, the two tacitly did not make trouble in the open.

The two are still brothers, friends and brothers on the surface, and they are constantly fighting each other in secret, and he doesn't understand the means of strategy, he used to disdain them, but now they are all at his fingertips, and they are at ease.

"But in the end, it wasn't you who got the best of you and got on the throne."

After Yu Qing finished saying this, her lips opened and opened, but she still didn't continue, in fact, she was very curious about how the four princes ended, since the emperor successfully inherited the throne, the four princes must be unable to escape death.

With his ruthless heart, how he was defeated, and seeing the emperor's sad affection, it was all because of her beginning, what dreams she talked about, and led to so much, so she was embarrassed to ask.

The emperor saw Yu Qing's lips move, and looking at her expression, he knew what she wanted to say, and he rarely showed a smile and said, "In front of me, you don't have to be so careful. ”

has already said so much, and in the end, there is nothing to avoid, and the emperor continued to talk in the end.

If you want to win the heir, it is not enough to have knowledge, the two co-opted officials, formed a party, and rose from personal struggle to court dispute.

He solved the tax, the fourth brother dredged the flood, the fourth brother opened a warehouse to release grain to the people who had no harvest for a long time because of the drought, he went down to the river to transport, and successively cracked several cases of reselling illicit salt, which incidentally involved some court officials involved in it.

For more than two years, the two have made remarkable political achievements, and they are on a par, and each party has its own opinion on the matter of establishing the prince, and even the father and emperor feel very headache and difficult to choose.

But at this moment, at a critical moment in the last year, a major event happened that almost changed the situation, and his mother died of illness.

Hearing this, Yu Qing subconsciously clenched the emperor's hand, others didn't know, but she knew that Concubine Shen was still alive, and she was imprisoned by the current Queen Mother.

She never told the emperor, and when she heard the emperor mention his mother, wasn't that Concubine Shen, and she was nervous for a while, and her hand didn't obey the call and used her strength.

Yu Qing's strength couldn't hurt the emperor at all, and the emperor thought that Yu Qing felt sorry for him, so he deliberately used this to comfort him.

Covered the hands of the two with his other hand and patted them lightly to show reassurance, and Yu Qing became even more empty.

The emperor fell into memories and didn't pay attention to Yu Qing's expression.

The news of his mother's death came suddenly, and when he received it, he was on his way back to the court.

There was still a month and a half to go, and he ran and killed seven horses one after another, only to rush back to the palace on the eighteenth day, but what he got was that his mother had been buried seven days after the death of the soul and was placed in the imperial mausoleum.

In this way, when the news reached him, the concubine had already been buried for a while, and he couldn't even catch up with the funeral?