Chapter 308: Will
The thing that happened during the spring hunt can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye.
Nan Anhou's two sons are just scapegoats that have been found, Nan'an Houfu is not eye-catching in the imperial capital full of powerful people, and Nan Anhou's two sons are not very old.
With Emperor Chu's temperament, an accident during the spring hunt did not cause much bad consequences, and Emperor Chu would not severely punish him for the sake of the same clan in Nan'anhou Mansion.
Although Emperor Chu was safe and sound, Xiao Xuan really suffered a lot.
It's just that Xiao Xuan already had a rough idea in his heart at that time, and he wouldn't come out to do anything to the Nan'an Hou Mansion.
"Sixth brother, you better write down the instructions of the eldest brother." Xiao Xuan sighed and said to Xiao Jun.
"Hey, I see." Xiao Jun rarely saw Xiao Xuan look so serious, so she had to honestly agree.
"There are not many heirs of the emperor, and what happened to the emperor's grandfather's generation, the sixth brother should also know." As Emperor Chu's favorite princess, Xiao Xuan boasted that she still knew Emperor Chu very well. "The father is kind-hearted, and he doesn't want his son to really get into fratricide because of a throne. Although the second brother did some things that could not be put on the table, he didn't really lose his sense of proportion, so even if his father knew about it, he still turned a blind eye. The father's hard work, the eldest brother is also willing to fulfill it, and the sixth brother should not let them down. ”
After eating, Duan Shaolan got up and sent Xiao Jun away.
After Duan Shaolan sent someone back, Xiao Xuan still walked around the room with Brother Min in his arms.
"Give me Brother Min'er." Seeing that Xiao Xuan was a little struggling, Duan Shaolan stepped forward and took Brother Min over. "Don't worry too much about the two highnesses."
In fact, before Xiao Jun came over, Xiao Yu had already sent someone over to send a letter to Xiao Xuan, informing Xiao Xuan that Emperor Chu had summoned him, Xiao Jin, and Xiao Jun three days later.
When Xiao Xuan knew about this, he was naturally worried.
"I'm fine." Xiao Xuan looked at Brother Min'er's very well-behaved appearance in Duan Shaolan's arms, and couldn't help but smile and said to him. "Since my father knows everything, he won't really sit idly by."
Three days later, Xiao Yu, Xiao Jun, and Xiao Jin gathered in Lingyun Palace.
By this time, Xiao Jin already knew that all the eyeliner he had placed in King Qin's Mansion and King Yi's Mansion had been completely damaged. He naturally had to suspect that Xiao Yu and Xiao Jun had planted other eyeliners in their mansions, except for the spring night that quietly disappeared into the palace of the king of Jinjun, there must be hidden traces.
But he searched all over the people in the house, and he didn't find any suspicious candidates.
He suspected the people in the Hu family's courtyard, and ordered his guards to bring the most useful Xiangdong around the Hu family to ask, but it was only half an hour after the people brought their front yard to the Hu family, and the Hu family made a fuss and snatched Xiangdong back.
Hu said that Xiangdong's family served her meritoriously, and last year she rewarded Xiangdong's family with the deed, and now Xiangdong and his wife are serving by her side as good citizens.
Xiao Jin wanted to kill a few maids who had sold their bodies to cover up, but if he wanted to dispose of Xiangdong, who was already a good citizen, don't blame her for killing her relatives in righteousness.
The Hu family swaggered and took the people away, and Xiao Jin was very angry.
He has not rested well in the past few days, and today he was summoned to the palace to meet Emperor Chu, and came to Lingyun Hall in the early morning to wait for Emperor Chu's reception. Seeing the refreshed Xiao Yu and Xiao Jun coming, they were naturally very unhappy in their hearts.
"The second brother came early." Xiao Jun took the initiative to say hello to Xiao Jin. "I heard that the second brother's mansion has been very lively these days?"
"It was only natural that my father summoned me earlier." Xiao Jin gritted his teeth and looked at Xiao Jun and said. "When did the sixth brother pay so much attention to the affairs of my house?"
"The second brother is my brother, and I should naturally pay attention to the affairs of your house." Xiao Jun's mouth said meaningfully. "Isn't the second brother also paying attention to the affairs of my house all the time? Not long ago, a few restless maids were found in my house, and they kept saying that the second brother sent them into my house. ”
"Don't accuse." Xiao Jin said sharply.
"Whether I am indiscriminately accusing or not, the second brother knows it in his heart." Xiao Jun said with a smile. "Today, my father specially recruited the three of us, and my eldest brother and I have a clear conscience, but the situation of the second brother can't help but make people a little worried."
"Sixth brother." Xiao Yu saw that Xiao Jin's eyes were red, and raised his hand to stop Xiao Jun's words.
"Has the eldest brother forgotten the promise he made that day?" Xiao Jin looked at Xiao Yu and asked.
"What I promised that day was just that I and my sixth brother would never be the first to report this matter, but if my father asked the pennant guard to find out something and ask, I still have something to say." Xiao Yu caught Xiao Jin's words and replied to him. "My father is my father and my king, I hope my second brother can be clear about this."
Xiao Yu's words really made Xiao Jin's mouth stop.
Xiao Jun was about to say something, but Xiao Yu swept over with a look, and he had to honestly close his mouth.
After the three of them stood outside the Lingyun Hall and looked at each other for a while, Wu Chuan came out and invited the three of them into the hall.
"Erchen has seen his father." Seeing Emperor Chu sitting upright in the hall, the three of them greeted him in unison.
"Wu Chuan, give them three seats." Before the three of them came in, Emperor Chu was still reviewing the recital. "Then you will go out."
On this day, Xiao Xuan also chose to enter the palace.
"Mother, what did you say that your father had invited his brothers into the palace today?" Xiao Xuan, who said that he was not worried, finally couldn't hold back, and came into the palace in a carriage with the sleepy Brother Min early in the morning.
"What are you doing in such a hurry?" Concubine Liu Huang patted Brother Min to fall asleep, signaled Xiao Xuan to speak quietly, and didn't quarrel with Brother Min. "Tell me about you, you came early in the morning, why did you bring Brother Min in?"
"I didn't want to take him with me, but he slept with me last night, and when I was leaving, he had to hug me, so I had no choice but to bring him over." In today's situation, Xiao Xuan was not going to bring Brother Min into the palace with her, but Brother Min couldn't even open his eyes and held her tightly. "I really can't sit still in the mansion, so I want to enter the palace."
"What if you can't sit still, you don't have to sit and wait here when you enter the palace." Seeing that Brother Min was sleeping soundly, Emperor Liu's concubine asked Brother Min to send Brother Min to her bedroom. "I think your father should have made up his mind."
"Really?" Xiao Xuan asked in surprise. "Has Father really made up his mind?"
"It should be." At this moment, even though Emperor Liu's concubine already had an answer in her heart, the expected ecstasy did not come, and Concubine Liuhuang was unexpectedly calm.
In the Lingyun Palace, the secret conversation between the four of Emperor Chu's father and son finally ended.
Wu Chuan, who was personally guarding outside the palace gate, immediately retreated the closed palace door when he heard Emperor Chu order him to open the palace door.
The first one to come out was Xiao Jin, he walked out with a pale face and lost his soul, and he didn't notice his feet when he raised his feet to cross the threshold, if Wu Chuan hadn't held him in time, he would have had to fall.
"Be careful." Wu Chuan helped him stabilize his body.
"Thank you." Xiao Jin was slow to react, and it took a while to look at Wu Chuan and say two words.
Emperor Chu in the hall silently watched Xiao Jin walk away dejectedly, and then turned his head to look at Xiao Yu and Xiao Jun who were still standing in the hall,
"Since Jun'er has entered the palace, let's go see your mother." Emperor Chu asked Xiao Jun to go to Yihua Palace, leaving Xiao Yu behind.
"My father left his sons alone, is there anything else to tell his sons?"
"You are my most valued son, and after the will of canonizing you as the prince of the East Palace is announced in the four realms, you will be the prince of the Jokhang future." Emperor Chu's eyes were deep, and he looked at Xiao Yu and said meaningfully. "I don't have many heirs, you are my eldest son, their elder brother, you have to take care of your younger siblings in the future."
"Father, don't worry." Xiao Yu said solemnly. "Regardless of whether my father will make that decree or not, I will take good care of them. It's just that if people don't offend me, I won't offend anyone, as long as the second brother is willing to get along well in the future, I won't continue to pursue all the things before. ”
"And the queen, although she did something wrong, she is my wife after all." Emperor Chu said again.
"Don't worry about the father, the queen is still the mother of the son, as a son of man, the filial piety of the son will not be forgotten at all." Xiao Yu said.
Concubine Liu Huang and Xiao Xuan finally waited for Xiao Jun, and after a while, Xiao Yu also returned.
"Big brother, sixth brother, what is my father looking for you to enter the palace today?" Before the two brothers could sit down, Xiao Xuan couldn't help but step forward and ask vigorously. "But did everything that the second brother did happen before?"
"Xuan'er, be quiet." Without waiting for Xiao Yu to speak, Concubine Liu Huang dragged Xiao Xuan back. "Let them sit down and talk about it."
"Mother, my father summoned our brother today, and it was indeed because of the things that the second brother did." After Xiao Yu sat down, Fang Zheng said. "My father said that the will to appoint me as the prince of the East Palace has been prepared, and when the auspicious day is selected, the will will be announced in the four realms. It's just that my father no longer wants me or the sixth brother to pursue what the previous second brother did, and after I officially settle in the East Palace, my father will restore the second brother's prince throne and let him become a vassal immediately. ”
"What?!" Xiao Xuan said in surprise. "Father and Emperor want to restore the second brother's princely throne?! Do you want him to be a vassal immediately? ”
It stands to reason that the princes of Emperor Chu will have their own fiefs after being crowned queens, but generally they will leave the imperial capital and go to the fief after the death of Emperor Chu and the ascension of the new emperor to the throne.