Xu Rui stopped answering, turned around and left.

The crown prince and the crown princess sat down slowly.

Let's say that in the cotton hall, the six princes sat cross-legged alone, knocking on the wooden fish with their hands, and there was a sound, and the female guard Xu Yan stood on one side with a sword.

There was a black hole outside the window, and Xu Yan said, "Sixth master, do you want to light a lamp." ”

The Sixth Prince: "My heart is bright, I don't need to light the lamp." ”

Xu Yan lowered her head and pursed her lips silently, "The sixth master can't sleep these days." ”

Xu Yan said in a low voice again: "The master has not been able to sleep recently, is it because the prince has returned?" The lord was worried that the prince would find out the mastermind behind the murder of the Seventh Prince back then. ”

The sixth prince bowed his head: "Where there is a cause, there is an effect." Back then, in order to prove that I had enough ability, I planned with the third brother and the fifth brother to frame Chaoyunguan, I just wanted to make the old seven seriously ill, and I didn't want him to die. Who knows, the third brother's people have too many drugs. The seventh brother lost his life alive. All the people of Chaoyunguan were also exiled. I just wanted to make Lao Qi sick and make the prince suffer because of it, but I didn't expect this. But now that Lao Qi is dead, what can the prince do? The prince can wipe out the fifth brother, the third brother and my sixth brother, and it can be regarded as repaying the lives of the seventh brother and Chaoyunguan who died on the border. ”

Xu Yan lowered her head: "Don't you want to fight?" If the master tried his best to assist the three princes, maybe the three princes would ascend the throne, and no one would dare to investigate the matter of the seventh prince. ”

The sixth prince smiled: "If others don't track it down, the conscience of this prince will also be traced." I often hear the cry of my seventh brother in the middle of the night. Xu Yan, master, I don't fight for the country, I only fight for my conscience. ”

Xu Yan lowered his head: "Why do you want to trap yourself here?" It's better to go out and breathe. The master recites the scriptures every day, and the slave feels uncomfortable when he listens to it. ”

Xu Yan said again: "Master, the slave thinks that the Buddha has forgiven the master." Ye never really harmed the Seven Princes back then. ”

The sixth prince shook his head: "But the seventh is still dead." What if the Buddha forgave him. The master himself can't forgive the master, and the seventh child won't forgive the master. ”

Xu Yan only felt that her eyes were moist, hazy like mist, and she stretched out her hand to wipe her tears, "Then don't be cheap." When the master is alive, please make His Majesty happy, and the queen of Qi is happy, if the seventh master has hatred in his heart, after he dies, Xu Yan and the master go underground to confront the seventh master. The third prince and the fifth prince are not guilty, so why should the master be guilty, it was the third prince who pleaded with the master to plan to harm the seventh master. ”

The sixth prince shook his head: "They are famous and sharp, and they can't see their sins clearly." How can he compare with them? ”

Xu Yan got up with a sword, walked to the door, and opened the door, but saw a young man with a green lotus crown standing outside the door, and behind the young man stood two lanterns serving the eunuchs.

The young man's slender arms were behind him, and his awe-inspiring gaze was on Xu Yan, quite proud.

"Who is this?"

Xu Yan looked the young man's slender figure up and down, and saw that he was wearing red python boots embroidered with thick green cotton satin, and a robe with a round neck and gold trim and red background embroidered python robe.

Xu Yan couldn't think of any prince and young master in the palace who was so magnanimous, so he couldn't help asking: "Please forgive the slave and maid for being clumsy, who is the nobleman?" ”

"Wen Tingyu, the prince and sister-in-law of the East Palace." The little eunuch standing behind him said in a loud voice.

The young man raised his head slightly, raised his sword eyebrows heroically, and Qing Lingling's eyes swept Xu Yan for a moment, but he still said a word in a proud attitude. Still under the bright yellow night light, the eyes are clear, and the expression is as cold as water jade.

Xu Yan felt a little admiration in his heart, because he knew that the sixth prince had deep guilt for the seventh master and the prince's family, and was afraid that the prince would be stimulated by seeing the little prince of Yu, and he couldn't sleep at night, so he bowed his head and bowed his knees, and said solemnly: "Wait a minute, our sixth master is reading the scriptures, wait for a while." ”

The eunuch behind the prince of Xiaojun let out a cold snort disdainfully, Wen Tingyu tilted his head slightly, and glanced coldly at the silver-faced little eunuch behind him.

The little eunuch buried his head when he boarded, Xu Yan saw this, felt a little respect, and smiled at the little princess: "The slave and maid will go to report it." ”

The door closed leisurely, and the night breeze carried the gentle water vapor of the lotus ponds on both sides through the corners of the red robe, Wen Tingyu felt a little cold, but still waited respectfully.

After a long time, the lights inside the door were bright, the door was pushed open, and Xu Yan welcomed Wen Tingyu in.

The six princes sat by the window, with an oil lamp on the windowsill and Xu Yan serving hot tea.

Wen Tingyu walked in, and as soon as he entered the room, he saw the sixth uncle in a robe sitting by the window, with a wooden fish in front of him.

The six princes' faces were pale, and there was a faint glimmer of grace between his eyebrows, and he was still the scholar who gave people a bookish feeling many years ago.

Wen Tingyu lifted his robe with his small hand, knelt in front of him, picked up the tea cup and took a sip, the tea was fragrant and quiet, and the entrance was cool, "Sixth uncle, your tea here is still very delicious." ”

"Or?" The Sixth Prince smiled, "You remember the taste of tea here before." ”

Wen Tingyu nodded: "Since I went to Xiangshang City, my nephew has always missed the things in the palace, especially the fragrance of tea here from the sixth uncle. It's not that the coarse taste of floating tea in Xiangshang City can be compared. ”

The sixth prince laughed lightly: "Does the eldest nephew still hold a grudge against the sixth uncle?" ”

"Naturally not. Although his father was demoted to the deputy city lord of Xiangshang City, he still had some eyes and ears in the palace. We all know how Uncle Six Emperors have copied scriptures and repented in the palace over the years. Wen Tingyu paused, "Actually, my nephew admires the sixth uncle very much." If the sixth uncle had gone one step further, he would have been able to follow the third uncle to suppress our prince and his family to the point that they had no power to fight back. But the sixth uncle didn't do this, but reined in the precipice and repented in the deep palace. Today, the third uncle has a group of wives and concubines, a noble status, and a pair of children, but the sixth uncle is still alone, and there is only Xu Yan by his side. The nephew also felt sorry for the sixth uncle. ”

The six princes had long thought that they had put aside these people's lusts, so they took a cup in their hands and took a sip: "It's okay if you feel distressed." It's just self-inflicted. If he hadn't followed the third child to do those things back then, killing the seven-year-old seventh, it is estimated that Chaoyunguan would not have to kill too many people. I have sins in my body, my hands are bloody, I am often reversed day and night, I repent and convict myself, and my heart is tormented. Now I just want to be pure and have few desires, and be a false name prince who knocks on wooden fish. No one needs to be distressed. ”

Wen Tingyu lowered his head: "Hasn't the imperial grandfather been curious, why did the sixth uncle insist on cultivating as soon as the people of Chaoyunguan died?" ”

"My father didn't suspect it, because I was pretending to pray for the sick Empress Dowager in the temple at that time."

Wen Tingyu smiled: "The Empress Dowager is really sick in time. ”

"The Empress Dowager is old, she can't bear to see blood, and when she learns that her seventh brother is dead, she can vaguely guess the inside story of the sibling rivalry, so she is angry. The sixth uncle is ashamed of the emperor's grandmother, the seventh brother, the external is ashamed of the subjects of Chaoyunguan, and the internal is also ashamed of Xu Yan. ”

Wen Tingyu nodded, but he admired the straightforwardness of this sixth uncle: "That sixth uncle never thought that he would personally tell the story of Chaoyunguan's planting, and then return Chaoyunguan to an innocent person?" ”