Calmly looked at him from the sidelines, his eyes full of sympathy, but he did nothing.

Because she can't do anything.

Emperor Xiao gasped a few times on his back, slowly eased up, and smiled bitterly: "This is what I should do, isn't it?" ”

Calmly got up, hung his head to the side of the bed, and stared at him with some puzzlement.

Although the needle is in his head, he is not confused, why has he even changed his name for himself?

"Calm down, you say, is it fair to God? Although I was asked to join the royal family and usurp the throne, no matter how I remedied, I still refused to let me go, didn't I? ”

Emperor Xiao said with a sad expression.

"The slave doesn't understand the emperor's words." Calm down.

Emperor Xiao slanted the corners of his mouth, and showed his usual evil smile: "If you can understand, then it is strange, then you are really a god in the sky, who came down to punish my sins." ”

Calmly sucked his nose, feeling a little sad in his heart, maybe the needle in his brain hurt some nerve and made his mind confused?

Why do you say such strange things?

"Your Majesty, let the slave and maid show you again." Take a step forward calmly and check his pulse.

Emperor Xiao let out a long laugh, retracted his hand back, and showed a lazy smile on his face: "Calm down, I'm not stupid, I know what I'm talking about."

I always thought that life was too long, even if I indulged in lust, there would still be a lot of time, and I had many opportunities to tell Sima Nan the truth.

It's a pity that there doesn't seem to be one now. ”

Calm was about to ask him what the truth was, but he saw Ming Gonggong panting and running in, and replied in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, it's not good, the leader of the soldiers and horses guarding the city has come to report, it's the opposite!" There are thieves holding the banner of Kuang Fu Sheji, and leading nearly 10,000 troops to rush into the city from Guangqu Gate in the west! ”

Emperor Xiao slowly sat up straight, and sighed slightly: "The world that Sima Nan managed for me was so vulnerable, was it crushed in an instant?" ”

With his words, Sima Nan walked in quickly, glanced at Gonggong Ming angrily, and arched his hand: "The emperor doesn't need to worry, the traitor has been repulsed, and the people in the city are stable and orderly." ”

Gonggong Ming kowtowed, and the old man burst into tears: "Your Majesty, the general originally didn't allow the old slave to tell the emperor about this, but the imperial city was broken, and the emperor was worried about his life, and the old slave had to tell it for your safety."

Ask the emperor to go up to the gate to avoid it, and wait for the general to completely eliminate the anti-thieves, and the capital is too peaceful, and then come back. ”

"Ming Gongfu, you go out, I won't leave, besides, you don't have to worry, didn't you hear what the general just said, have you already repelled the traitor?"

When Ming Gonggong heard this, he wiped his tears and retreated.

"Who is trying to turn against you?" Emperor Xiao asked Sima Nan with a smile.

Sima Nan frowned slightly: "Your Majesty, what they want to oppose is your world, not me." ”

Emperor Xiao pursed his mouth, waved his hand to retreat, and the smile on the corner of his mouth became weird and bizarre.

"The emperor is recuperating in peace, but they are just a rabble, and they will be defeated with one blow, and in less than three days, they will be able to purge all the traitors, and bring the heads of their leaders to the emperor."

Sima Nan said categorically.

"Who is their leader?" Emperor Xiao asked with a smile.

Sima Nan snorted and shook his head: "It hasn't been found out yet." ”

"Although I have never met any of their traitors, I have a spectrum in my heart, do you know?" Emperor Xiao sneered.

Sima Nan swallowed his saliva: "There is a gap between the spectrum and the real evidence, according to the identity of the minister, I dare not speculate on which the thief is, and I must have conclusive evidence to return." ”

Emperor Xiao pointed to his head and said with a smile: "You say, how long can I hold on to this head?" Can you wait until you get back the real evidence? ”

Sima Nan lowered his eyes, his face sad.

"Sima Nan, in fact, you already knew in your heart who the leader of these people was, and if you hadn't given their mother and son ideas back then, they would have survived safely until now?"

Emperor Xiao smiled.

Sima Nan raised his eyes, but breathed a sigh of relief, and sighed: "It turns out that you know everything. ”

"I don't know everything, you are busy with military affairs every day, and I can only use my brain every day, think about the past, and if I think about it too much, I can guess the truth of three points." Filial piety.

"There is no truth, what the emperor sees is the truth." Sima Nandao.

Emperor Xiao sighed, and his smile was even more indifferent and lazy: "For you, there is really no truth, and you just feel that you have occasionally sent back your kindness and want to leave the blood of the first emperor, but I know the truth, and you are not occasionally kind.

Blood is always thicker than water, and if it was him who seized the throne back then, instead of me, you would never be soft when you killed me. ”

Sima Nan's heart began to cramp again, he took a deep breath, and his face turned cold: "The minister doesn't understand the emperor's words. ”

Emperor Xiao smiled bitterly: "You shouldn't understand, otherwise how can you be loyal to your duties all these years, no matter how I embarrass you, you still listen to Master Liao's words, you have always served me as the king, and managed the affairs of the world for me, and you have never had a different heart." ”

"If the emperor has something to say, please directly order the minister, if you speak like this, the minister can't understand it." Sima Nandao.

Emperor Xiao rubbed the corners of his forehead and grinned: "The only death through the ages is difficult, don't blame me for being weak, I just knew too late, even if I knew, I couldn't make up my mind." ”

"Your Majesty, you are tired, let's rest first, the minister has made an appointment with a few ministers of the military department to discuss, they should also arrive, and the minister will leave."

Sima Nan didn't seem to want to listen to him, so he took his leave and left.

Emperor Xiao got down from the couch and called out to him: "General, from today onwards, all state affairs will be handled by me personally, including this case of rebellion. ”

"Your Majesty? Calmly said that you should not be too emotional, and it is better to stay in bed and recuperate. Sima Nan blurted out.

Emperor Xiao smiled indifferently: "I know that you are thinking about me and for my good, but my life and death are ultimately decided by me myself."

I have been running away for more than ten years, and I can't run away anymore, things always have to be solved, and everyone should know what the truth is. ”

Sima Nan knelt on the ground, his voice hoarse: "Your Majesty, the minister will say it again, what you see now is the truth, what everyone should know, that is, this is the truth, you don't have to bother yourself, just recuperate with peace of mind, the sky in Daxia can't fall." ”

Emperor Xiao walked to the bronze mirror by himself, dressed in a whole bunch, with a cold smile: "You know everything?" No way, you can't know the truth of what I'm saying, if you do, why am I still good as an emperor? The queen mother is still doing a good job as the queen mother? ”

Sima Nan walked out of the palace door in the muttering of Emperor Xiao.

Emperor Xiao dressed up and led the two eunuchs to the imperial study.

Sima Nan stood in the shadow under the steps and looked at his back, his always cold face showing a faint sadness.

What kind of unspeakable secret he thought the emperor was in the emperor's mouth turned out to be just this so-called truth that he already knew, but he was powerless to resist.

Master Liao had already told him when he died, and asked him to choose the path he wanted to take.

He didn't really have a choice.

If he wants to live, he can only choose to protect Emperor Xiao's ascension to the throne.

When Master Liao asked him to choose, he had already ambushed hundreds of strong martial arts guards at the door, and if he couldn't do what the master said, the master wouldn't let him get out of the inner prison alive.

Emperor Xiao said that the only death is difficult through the ages, and for him Sima Nan, why is it not the case?

If he had chosen a dead end at that time, it would have been a relief.

Over the years, although he has been famous in front of others, he seems to be a general above 10,000 people under one person, but how many people know that he is just controlled by others, and behind him, there are hundreds of Master Liao's henchmen staring at him, if he has a different heart, he will definitely be in a different place.

Master Liao has worked hard for the Xia family.

He also understands the master's intentions, when his wings are stiff, he can gain a firm foothold in the court, he has military power in his hands, and he can control the ministers of the court, not to mention these hundreds of dead soldiers, no matter how many they are, they can't hurt his life.

And at this time, if he wants to seize the throne, the Great Xia will not be too shaken, and he will not be able to cause too much war, but he will be able to survive this catastrophe in peace.

"Child, if you want to move as you like at that time, then let it be, the reason why the teacher got you back is that he doesn't want the heirs of the first emperor to be left behind, and a person with a foreign surname has been ruling the glory that should belong to my Great Xia family."

Before Master Liao died, he held his hand and burst into tears.

In fact, at that time, Sima Nan wanted to tell him that if the master didn't tell him, no one would know this secret. Since the master wants to take care of the face of the first emperor, he should treat this secret not as a secret, but as an existence that does not exist at all.

Nor should there be any effort to get him back from the people.

His mother was just a village girl, but a strange woman who stayed with him on a whim when the emperor went on a trip, and even his mother didn't know who the man who had a spring breeze with her was.

Since the first emperor didn't know that his queen had already given him a green hat, and he had to be appointed as the crown prince despite public opinion, then Quan Dang didn't have this secret, and Quan Dang was the first emperor's own son?

Why did he have to carry this burden that didn't belong to him?

He would rather live alone on the streets, fight with robbers and bandits, win to be the king of the mountain, and lose to see the king of Hades to reincarnate.

Over the years, because of Emperor Xiao's decadence and his own efforts, he may indeed easily seize the throne from Emperor Xiao.

But he kept thinking, what's the use of seizing this throne by himself?

Although he is not the emperor, he has always done what the emperor should do, so what is the use of asking for this throne?

Although he had the blood of the royal family in his veins, he felt that he had nothing to do with the royal family at all.

He didn't know what his father was since he was a child, and he didn't have a day of freedom and care by his father since he was a child, and he didn't feel that he should do anything for this so-called father.

Between them, just strangers.

His father was just a stranger who gave him life.

But his kind of thinking is not recognized by these old diehards who believe in the monarchs and ministers of heaven and earth in this era.

And he, most of the time, forces himself to forget where he came from, or forces himself to identify with these so-called truths, and forces himself to do all this with a mentality that echoes them.

Just when he was slowly numb and used to living like this, he met calmness.