"What do you mean by that?" Miyahata's trembling voice was as cold as his eyes, "They forced my mother to death, don't I even have the right to fight back?" ”

"I—" I choked in my throat, "I didn't mean that." ”

"And what do you mean?"

Gong Wan didn't wait for me to answer, so he once again slashed his cold sword-like gaze at Gong Hao and slowly moved up. The latter froze, his eyebrows jumped slightly, but he did not retreat.

"I came to visit my two brothers in the ghost prison today, and I had something to ask. But he didn't want the fourth brother to have already prepared this car, so he didn't wait for the younger brother to ask, so he poured himself clean. ”

Gong Hao looked directly at the slowly approaching palace flag, and smiled calmly: "Now that there is only one son left under the knee of my father, it is only a matter of time before you ascend the throne." The future new emperor with the future princess... No, it should be the queen. You are here today in the lowly land, and the people should know everything to show respect. ”

"The fourth brother has been honored for half his life, and now this voice is a good one. You can be at peace with what happens, and my brother is really comforted in his heart. It's just that I don't know ...... big brother."

As he spoke, he turned sideways to the palace and slowly walked towards him. Walking in front of the palace man, he slowly squatted down, and the palace man didn't recognize him when he saw his younger brother, but only stared at the face of the person in front of him with a confused and slightly vigilant gaze, without the slightest look of joy and anger.

"Big brother?"

Miyahata's tone was soft and glutinous, like the younger brother of an ordinary family who was coquettish with his brother. However, even so, the palace was still unmoved, and his eyes were still stunned, just staring at the palace flag in front of him like a stranger.

"Big brother, I'm a banner."

Gong Wei's eyebrows were slightly furrowed, and for the first time, a puzzled look appeared on his sluggish face: "...... Man'er"

"yes, don't you recognize me? You don't recognize me, so what about her-" Miyahata's tone was still soft, and he suddenly turned to point at me, "She's your crown princess, Lian Gui Hotaru!" ”

The palace man's gaze slowly moved along the palace flag's fingers to my face, and perhaps by illusion, I seemed to see some crystal tears in his dry eyes.

"Even... Return to Hotaru? ”

"Yes, you held her in the palm of your hand and loved her, and you can't forget it?"

"-Enough of Miyahata!"

Before my words fell, the palace man suddenly twitched violently, his eyes were still staring at me, his eyes stubbornly refused to blink, and two lines of muddy tears were forced to fall.

"Big brother, you still love her, don't you?" Miyahata's gentle voice sounded like an ice edge at this moment, "Even if you know that she betrayed you... In fact, you already knew, you already knew that she betrayed you, betrayed you, the high-minded prince with infinite scenery, and chose me, the insignificant fifth prince, right? ”

Miyaba's tears became more and more turbulent, and no matter what Miyahata said, he stared at my face and refused to take his eyes off, his mouth was hoarse and slurred, difficult, and he read my name over and over again.

"Return to Hotaru...... Join... Return to Hotaru. ”

"Yes, Hotaru. It's just a pity that now she's my woman. ”

Gong Wei finally stopped the murmuring in his mouth, and slowly glared at Gong Hao, his eyes contained endless resentment, tears were still surging, and the lower lip that was bitten hard was already dripping with bright red blood.

"You've lost her now, never again."

Miyahata looked back at Miyahata and smiled as if it was pity and mockery, "But eldest brother, among the younger brothers, the third brother despises me, and the fourth brother is hypocritical and indifferent to me, only you still treat me as a brother." The younger brother is somewhat powerful now, and he can repay the eldest brother's former affection. ”

As he spoke, he took out a dagger from his sleeve and handed the handle to the court. Gong Yu hesitated slightly, but finally reached out and grabbed the handle of the knife with a trembling hand, and with a flash of cold light, he pulled out the blade.

"What are you doing, Gonghao, the palace is already in prison, why do you-"

With a wave of his hand, my voice froze in my throat. But when he saw him staring at the dagger in a daze, a strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Use this knife to kill the fourth brother." As he spoke, he raised his head and pointed at Miyahata. "Kill him, and I'll let you out."

The moment the palace curtain's gaze climbed up to the face of the palace with the palace banner pointing, the latter finally couldn't suppress the anger and fear in his heart: "Old Five, the soldier can be killed but not humiliated!" If you become a king or lose a villain, my palace is willing to ambush you! Do you have to humiliate your two brothers in such a despicable way! ”

Gong Wan only waited for Gong Hao to finish speaking with interest, and still turned his head to Gong Yu and said softly: "Don't forget their calculations for you over the years, big brother. If you kill him today, I will redeem you from prison, and when I ascend to the throne in the future, I can also give you a fiefdom, and grant you the title of prince, although it is not as luxurious as it was in the past, but it can also ensure that you will be rich and worry-free for a lifetime. ”

"Don't do this, Miyahata, you-"

"-Kill him!"

Miyahata's furious roar reverberated in this oppressive space, and when the echo gradually subsided, a weak sneer suddenly came from nowhere and nowhere in the corner.

Everyone was amazed by the laughter, and Miyahata stood up, frowning and listening carefully to the direction of the laughter, and after a long time, he suddenly raised his head and looked straight to a corner of the sixteenth layer of the ghost prison.

Everyone turned their heads in unison with his gaze—an old figure leaning against the iron railing and looking at the people below, the candlelight dimmed, and I could only see his head full of silver threads for a while. Looking closely, the moment he saw the old man's face clearly, the blood seemed to be frozen in the veins, and the whole person froze in place.

"Father?"

My ears were ringing, and I heard the screams of the flags coming from far away.

Under the gaze of everyone, the emperor jumped over the guardrail and jumped to the seventeenth floor of the ground. I never knew that the emperor also knew kung fu, although his footwork was skillful, but his strength was tired by the disease, and when he landed on the ground, he couldn't help but stumble forward a few steps, and his organs were shocked, and he coughed violently.

I heard from the Hou Ye that in his early years, the emperor fought in the south and the north, and he was originally injured, but he relied on his strong foundation and gritted his teeth to survive. Later, the capital was set in Karzhou, and for more than ten years, he did not get close to the color of wine, and maintained it with medicinal tea and medicinal diet, and in the end he also made up for most of the losses when he was young. However, after years of medication, it has hurt the liver and kidneys, and now the cough is depressed and angry, and the intestines are damaged, which is the overlap of the two diseases, which is extremely dangerous.

Now that I have seen it with my own eyes, I know that what the Hou Ye said is not half an exaggeration - I have not seen the emperor for several months, and in just a few months, he has gray hair, his complexion is yellow and haggard, and he looks much older than the Hou Ye in his old age.

"Father..."Gong Wan wanted to step forward to help, but he didn't dare after all, his tone was no longer comfortable before he was calm and proud, "Why are you here?" ”

The emperor finally stopped coughing and wheezing, held his chest and let out a sneer: "If I don't come, how can I know that my youngest son is so capable?" ”

Miyahata's voice instantly became gloomy: "What did you hear?" ”

"I came before you, and I heard everything I should have heard."

"What a loyal Jia Xianyun actually let his father's body enter such a filthy place."

"I don't like it, I listened to your conversation and said it directly. You have been in obscurity for so many years, and now you can be regarded as raising your eyebrows, do you still want to be so twisted and turned? ”

Gong Hao's face instantly became ugly, obviously because the emperor said that he had a hidden matter in his heart. However, the emperor turned a deaf ear to his youngest son's discomfort, and only fixed his eyes on the palace curtain sitting on the ground, and slowly walked over.

Seeing that Gong Wan was stagnant, he twisted his body and smiled: "I thought you had a lot of eyes, and I couldn't see that my father didn't come to you, so why bother." ”

The emperor didn't pay attention to the palace curtain, but only walked in front of the palace curtain and slowly squatted down. The palace was a little uneasy when he saw the living person, and he squirmed and hid back.

As soon as he moved, a disgusting putrid smell emanated from his body, and when Miyahata saw that I was not feeling well, he put his arm around my waist and buried my head in his chest. But the emperor seemed to be unaware of the smell, and actually knelt down and moved to the palace curtain.

Finally, Gong Wei seemed to realize that the person in front of him had no ill intentions towards him, and stopped dodging. The emperor's gaze was tender and distressed, and he raised a hand and poked into the face of the palace curtain.

Xu is the palace maid, who has been tortured these days and lost his mind, is very sensitive to this sudden approach, and with a strange cry of fear, he fanned away the emperor's slowly approaching hand.

Looking at the emperor's back, I saw that his shoulders began to tremble slightly.

He was crying.

Gong Wei obviously also saw the sick old man in front of him crying, and was moved by his tears, and his frightened and vigilant eyes turned into stupid and confused. The emperor trembled again and raised his hand to reach out, and this time, the palace curtain did not resist.

The moment the emperor's fingers touched the filthy face of the palace, his body twitched as if an electric current flowed, and the pain in his stomach could no longer be held back, and tears poured out like a flood bursting the embankment.

"My son... What the hell did they do to you......"

I exchanged a half-shocked look with Miyahata, but I saw that Gonghao's face was also gloomy, and the palace curtain, who was being stroked on the cheek, looked at everyone's strange looks curiously.

"Father..."Gong Hao's voice was a little hoarse, "It turns out that you didn't think about abandoning the big brother from the beginning?" ”

The emperor was still crying bitterly at his eldest son, and I was puzzled, and I looked at the palace banner beside me, but I saw that his pupils shrank sharply under the candlelight, like two silent lightning bolts in the dark black clouds.

"I see."

"Old Five, it's hard for you to fight with the third brother endlessly..."Gong Hao lowered his head like a child who lost the game, and smiled helplessly, "Who is worthy of the Tao, it is really a pity that he is a loser everywhere." ”

"Father." Gong Wan didn't pay attention to Gong Hao, and only looked at the emperor's thin and cold back, "The eldest brother is demented, the third brother is dead, the fourth brother is in prison, you... Don't you want to make me your reserve? ”

When the emperor heard this, his shoulders finally stopped trembling. He turned his head slowly, and in the dim candlelight, his old and sallow face was like a clay sculpture, with sharp edges and clear textures. A cloudy tear poured out from the corner of the wrinkled eye, and the emperor suddenly burst into an extremely grim smile.