Qi Yu moved forward, hugged Qi Zhen and buried it in his shoulder and said, "Fourth brother, don't be angry, I'm really fine, it's long gone, aren't I okay now?" ”

Qi Zhen stroked his hair and sighed helplessly, his ninth brother is really coquettish, and he always knows what works best to deal with him.

"The world says that you are the ninth prince Qi Yu is a true hero and a hero, you can slaughter a city by yourself, and the folk women also compare you to the three-headed and six-armed monster who eats people and does not spit out bones to scare the disobedient children, if they see you so coquettish and twisted like a girl, their jaws will drop in shock."

"Hey, fourth brother, it's not right for you to say this, I'm just spoiling you, so can our relationship be the same as everyone else's.

And the rumors in the market are not credible, for example, the fourth brother, you are obviously gentle and friendly and did not marry a wife, and it is rumored that you, the first beautiful man in Beijing, are ruthless and rebellious. ”

"Huh? Have it? I don't know. Qi Zhen laughed out loud: "I haven't been out much in these years, and I really don't know that my name can still appear in the love book." ”

"No, I've heard a lot of it these days." Qi Yu's eyes rolled: "Fourth brother, you are also twenty-two, why don't you marry a wife, do you have a favorite person?" Don't lie to me that I didn't. ”

Qi Zhen smiled: "Then our Xiao Jiu is also crowned, do you have a heart?" ”

"Me, I don't, I like beauties with a cold temperament and white skin, just like the fourth brother, but unfortunately I haven't seen a second one until now."

Qi Zhen was shocked in his heart, looked out the window with a closed expression, and said, "There is indeed someone in the fourth brother's heart. ”

"Really? Why haven't you heard the fourth brother mention it? Qi Yu said curiously.

"That's a noble person I can't climb, why bother talking about it."

"How can you not climb and can't get it, the fourth brother is a prince, and he is famous for his beauty and kindness, how can anyone not like the fourth brother!" Qi Yu almost jumped off the bed: "Is she blind!" ”

Qi Zhen shook his head and stopped talking.

Qi Yu looked at the fourth brother's appearance, and felt a little sad in his heart: "Fourth brother, if you don't fight for it now, what if you miss it like this, are you willing?" ”

"What is unwilling," Qi Yu lowered his head, what if he was unwilling, the dirty blood in his bones made him embarrassed to insult the person he was thinking about.

Qi Yu looked at Qi Zhen, and after a long time, he lay on the bed with his head on his back and pillowed his arm: "Fourth brother, you have been like this since you were a child, your mind is heavy, you have a smile on your face every day, and I will never know what you think in your heart."

Never fight, never grab, no matter how much you like it, you hide it yourself, it used to be the same for the things you like, and now it's the same for the people you like. ”

Qi Yu licked his lips and said, "As for me, it's the exact opposite of you, I must get what I like, and so do the people I like." If I have someone I like, I don't care if he likes me or not, I will arrest him and lock him up in the house, and let him face me day and night.

Whether it's happy or angry, love or hate, I want him to be all mine, even if he ends up angry and beats me and kills me, I'm willing. ”

Qi Zhen listened to his outrageous fallacy and scolded with a smile: "Bandits." He patted him on the arm again: "Pay attention to the wound." ”

Qi Yu turned around and found a comfortable position: "I don't care, I like him, I want to be with him for the rest of my life, I hate being separated so much, the people I care about must not leave me." ”

Qi Zhen didn't answer anymore, took out the medicine jar and basin on the table, and when he came back, Qi Yu was already lying on the bed and asleep.

Qi Zhen covered the quilt for him, stretched out his hand to touch his hair, paused but took it back, quietly looked at his side face and was distracted, and only turned around and left after a long time.

It's night, in the palace of the four princes.

"Seven years ago, Lord Chang and General Su, who strongly recommended the second prince to ascend the throne, were slaughtered, and soon after the first emperor was seriously ill and died, and the queen was martyred.

Before the death of the first emperor, the emperor issued an edict that the eldest prince succeeded to the throne and did not allow Xiao Jiu, who was far away in the border to return to the court to mourn, and at that time, Xiao Jiu in the north of the country was also stabbed and almost died. ”

"The eldest prince succeeds to the throne."

"I still remember that when I last saw the first emperor, his face was full of decay, and his face was not like the ash of a serious illness, but like a poisoned purple.

But even I can see that the cause of death of the first emperor given by the imperial doctor and the emperor afterwards was all due to illness and death, and there was no difference between the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty. ”

Seventeen thought for a while, and suddenly remembered: "Chang's Su family was slaughtered, and his subordinates went to the scene to see it, and the death of Su's corpse was all sealed with a sword, but Chang's family was extremely miserable.

Therefore, slaughtering the former is because of whose way is in the way, while slaughtering the latter is both an enmity and an obstacle. ”

Qi Zhen nodded: "Soon after, the second brother died quietly at home, and the imperial doctor said that he died of heart hangout, but in fact, everyone understands that this is the end of his coveting the throne."

I thought that this matter was everything the emperor had done for the succession to the throne, but from the Turkic invasion three years ago to the present, he recalled Xiao Jiu regardless of the emperor's testament, and forcibly named Xiao Jiu as a hussar general with heavy troops, I guess that something happened in the palace, and there was no credible person around the emperor, so Xiao Jiu was allowed to return to the court to escort. ”

"Lord Wang, could it be the prime minister?"

Qi Zhen put his hands behind his back, frowned and said: "In recent years, Xu Tao has really climbed fast, from the Ministry of Rites to the Shangshu to worship the prime minister, and then to the eldest daughter entering the palace to give birth to the eldest son and being named a concubine.

and his staff members have been promoted one after another, and most of the officials in the DPRK and China have fallen to his camp, and the threat to the emperor now must come from him.

But eight years ago, he was just a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, can he set off a storm that will affect the succession of the new emperor? ”

"Lord Wang, it's been seven years, you weren't interested in getting involved in this matter back then, why are you ...... at this time?"

Qi Zhen said with a smile: "I have neither family nor blood relationship with the first emperor and empress, what does their death have to do with me, besides, I don't seek power or power, I just want to be an idle person to survive, no matter who is the emperor for me, it makes no difference."

But now, the emperor has summoned Xiao Jiu back to Beijing, if there is really an accident in the palace, then I must not sit idly by. ”

Qi Zhen's little finger curled his hair, squinting his eyes to exude his usual tenderness, and a murderous aura diffused through his eyes: "I don't allow anyone to hurt him, no one can!"

Following Su Chang's annihilation, I don't believe that such a big thing will not leave a trace. I really want to clear this fog and take a good look at who led this show. ”

"My subordinates understand, and I'll check it out right away." Seventeen turned and walked into the darkness......