The fingers in the box were cut off by Qi Gen, and they were covered in blood, and there were four of them, the index finger and the middle finger.

Emperor Tianhe looked at these four fingers, and almost immediately recognized that they belonged to his third son, his heart instantly churned, and his eyes were tightly closed.

The people standing in the hall of Qingming Palace, seeing the emperor like this, opened their mouths lightly and said: "The specific situation in the palace of King Ping cannot be detected by his subordinates, and the poisonous barrier of Princess Tianci is very domineering, and the meridians are blocked as soon as the subordinates enter, and they can't use their internal strength, and it is very difficult to even walk." The subordinates had to heal their wounds outside, and it was not until three hours later that they recovered. It is said that the fourth lady of the Bai family brought her younger brother into with a kitchen knife in advance, presumably the third highness was going to suffer some hardships in the hands of the two of them. ”

The old emperor sighed, "That's it, endure some hardships, take his four fingers, and it can be regarded as mercy on the part of the Bai family." I'm just a little uncomfortable......" he gestured to the box on the table, "after all, this is my son, and no matter how big a mistake he makes, it's also my son, so how can I not feel distressed." It's just that when he grows up, he has to bear the responsibility and price for what he has done, and if he doesn't have the ability to do it, he can only bear the consequences after the things are exposed. It is said that the royal survival of the fittest, indeed, the royal family needs the best children to sit on this throne, and it is impossible for such clumsy means as the third child to have any success. ”

After he finished speaking, he looked at the man in the hall and asked, "Tell me, what have you found?" ”

"Yes." The man bowed, "News from the palace, on the night that the Golden Cave of Famen Temple was destroyed, the people of the Fourth Highness and the Tianci Princess were the deployment of the Third Highness, intending to snatch the money and wipe out the Fourth Highness and the Tianci Princess. ”

The two eyebrows of the Heavenly and Emperor furrowed tightly, "The third person? Are you saying that his original intention that night was to want the lives of the fourth child and Ah Ran? Not just Aran? ”

"Exactly. According to the analysis of the subordinates, because the four highnesses have always been close to the ninety-two highnesses, if they want to weaken the power of the ninety-two highnesses, the four highnesses must be eliminated. But that night, the Fourth Highness went to help again, so he fell into an ambush with the Third Highness. As for Princess Tianci, she should have fallen into the eyes of the Third Highness from the moment she discovered Famen Temple, and became a sharp thorn that must be pulled out. But he must not have expected that the combat power of the princess of Tianci would be so strong, and under the precise deployment, she actually failed to capture people, but instead lost her troops and finally fled. ”

Emperor Tianhe snorted when he heard this, "I can't do it!" didn't even weigh half a pound or eight taels of his own, so he learned that others sent troops to encircle and suppress, and it was his own brother who was suppressed. This kind of wolf-hearted thing, it's okay to cut it. ”

He pulled it casually, and the box in front of him fell to the ground, and his four fingers were scattered on the ground, which looked a little shocking.

But the old emperor didn't want to look at that finger anymore at this time, and the third son had done one thing after another that had already made him feel cold, especially when he heard that he was going to ambush and kill the fourth child, which made him feel even more sad.

The last thing he wanted was for the princes to kill each other, so he didn't make a prince until this age. Although it has been rumored that his favorite heir is Lao Shi over the years, he has never admitted it himself. Although he did think so in his heart, for the safety of the old ten, he did not dare to cultivate the old ten as vigorously as he cultivated a successor.

Everyone says that the royal family is ruthless, and everyone says that the royal family only has monarchs and ministers, no father and son, only a country, and no home.

But he never wanted to be like this, he always wanted to feel like a real home in the harem. So he would rather Empress Chen have a bad temper, he is also willing to go to Zhaoren Palace, even if it is a quarrel every day, he is willing to accompany Empress Chen to quarrel.

Because he thinks that it can best make noise of the folk fireworks, and it is most like the daily stumbling of ordinary couples. Of course, there's nothing wrong with that, except that the smashed things are a little more expensive.

This is also the idea that Emperor Tianhe changed his temperament after he got old, if he goes back twenty years, he is not as good as he is now, he will still linger in the harem and pet the concubine, or will pick and choose among the flowers.

He always thought that maybe it was after the death of Lao Jiu Lao Shi's biological mother that he had a change, and later met Jiang Yue's mother, which made him sink his heart. In fact, he didn't have much affection for Jiang Yue's mother, just because the woman and his sweetheart were sisters, and the two not only had close blood, but also had a face that seemed to be more than seventy percent.

So he subconsciously put his thoughts and debts to the late favorite concubine on Jiang Yue's mother.

The old emperor has always believed that he is emotional, whether it is for the concubine or the son, no matter what happens, he tries his best to think about the problem from the perspective of the family. The first thing he thought about was how to keep his son, and how to keep his so-called family from being broken or broken.

So at the beginning, the fifth child plotted against Bai Heran, he opened his old face to intercede for the fifth child, and now the third child attacked Bai Heran's own brother, he still let out his old face to intercede for the third child, and let Bai Heran spare the third child's life.

But begging and begging, his third son was still calculating his fourth son, and went to ambush and kill his fourth son with his own private soldiers. Isn't that a slap in the face? Isn't this ruining his home?

"How many private soldiers are there in the third child?" He asked the people in the temple, "How much have you mastered in these years?" ”

The man replied, "The Third Highness has 60,000 private soldiers, the nearest private battalion to the upper capital has 30,000 soldiers, and the remaining 30,000 are on the border of Dezhen and Gebu respectively. After the investigation of the palace, the three highnesses have been very close to Gebu in recent years, and we have intercepted a flying eagle transmission from the Ping Wangfu to the monarch of Gebu, although it does not involve substance, but it has to be guarded against. ”

Emperor Tianhe was furious, "Bastard thing! I should have poisoned this obstacle to death, and let Zhen Zhen hack to death this thing that eats inside and out! Killing his siblings and colluding with foreign enemies, what else can't he do? I am afraid that the time when he ambushed the fourth child was also to rob the hidden gold of Famen Temple in order to strengthen his private army. Private soldiers and private soldiers, all these years of tolerance and trust, in exchange for them one by one to raise private soldiers outside, what is this for? This is a rebellion! ”

"The emperor is angry." The man in the hall said again: "Actually, not only the private soldiers of the Third Highness attacked that night, but also the people and horses on the Queen Mother's side also participated. It's just that they didn't join forces with the three highnesses, but went their separate ways, and they all attacked the four highnesses and the princess of Tianci. That night was indeed full of dangers, if it weren't for the arrival of the last ten highnesses, I'm afraid it would be ......"

"I'm afraid that the fourth child and Ah Ran will have to fold there." The old emperor said this tiredly, and then his heart swelled with fear.

He can't be afraid, needless to say, the relationship between the fourth child and the ninth and tenth children, Ah Ran is the fiancée recognized by the old ten, if these two are folded in the hands of the third child, he doesn't dare to imagine what will happen.

The tenth will kill the third, this is certain, but what about after killing? Lao Shi will not seize the throne and will not rebel, because this throne will be his, and the world will be his.

So he was not afraid of the old ten rebelling, but he was afraid that the old ten would follow the path of the fourth, and he was afraid that the old ten would become like the fourth after the white crane died. It looks alive, it can talk, it can laugh, but in fact it is dead, the heart is dead, the soul is also destroyed, and all that is left is a walking corpse.

"Does Hades know the news?" The old emperor asked, "The real culprit of Famen Temple, has the Hades Palace found out?" ”

The man in the hall nodded, "The Hades Hall found out one step ahead of us, but he didn't do anything, he just held the evidence in his hand. ”

"Why didn't you do it sooner?" The old emperor frowned, "With the actions of the Hades Palace, once you have the evidence, you will definitely take people." Hoarding private soldiers is a capital offense, why did he let go of this opportunity to execute the third child? ”

A wry smile appeared on the man's face, "Your Majesty, according to the analysis of his subordinates, the Hades Palace doesn't want to tear his face, after all, it is the third brother of His Royal Highness the Nine, so His Royal Highness the Ninth just sealed the private barracks, so that the entire battalion is no longer capable of action." As for the third highness's side, maybe the ninety-two highnesses also want to give their third brother a chance! Didn't expect ......"

"I didn't expect that the third child was embarrassed, not only did he not repent, but he intensified it." The old emperor sighed, "I'm afraid that after Rin'er found out about this, the hoarding of private soldiers suppressed by the Hades Palace will no longer be able to suppress it!" ”

In the end, he still wants to kill this son, he can let out his old face and plead with Bai Heran, but when this son hoards private soldiers and is always preparing for rebellion and usurpation, he can't stay anymore.

He can only think of himself as a father, he also has to think of himself as an emperor. Before the family and the country, there are kings and ministers, and then there are fathers and sons, and before he wants to defend his family, he must first defend the country, and any forces that endanger the monarch's land must be removed.

His eyes looked at the four fingers on the ground again, and the person in the hall knew his intentions, silently stepped forward to pick up the fingers, put them back in the box, and sent them to the old emperor's table.

The old emperor stretched out his hand and gently groped back and forth on the four fingers, and his mind flashed over and over again the appearance of the third son when he was young. I thought of him personally teaching him to draw a bow and shoot arrows, of personally helping him to a foal, of holding the child's little hand and teaching him to write stroke by stroke, of the fact that when the child was sick and helpless, he sat down in front of the sickbed and wiped his forehead over and over again.

It's a pity that all he can think about is what that child looked like and what things he looked like when he was a child, and he rarely even remembered it when he was a teenager. The best memories are kept when you were young, but what about when you grow up?

The old emperor's face was filled with deep bitterness, he really wanted to be a good father, and he was trying his best to be a good father, but what did his son give back to him?

It was the hoarding of private soldiers, plotting to seize his throne, trying to oust him from the emperor's throne, or even kill him.

The old emperor was frightened and shuddered.

"There you go!" His voice was tired, and his whole person suddenly aged a lot, "Do it neatly, don't let him be too painful......"