When the prince walked away, Concubine Li rushed over with people, and the third prince fell not lightly, as if he had broken his leg, and for a long time after that, the cry of the child echoed in the tent. Before nightfall, the emperor sent someone to find the prince, and the person who was serious and cold at checking the map of the hunting ground with his cronies a moment ago regained his usual face, and rushed to the big tent with a promise, and was listening to Concubine Li crying inside: "Your Majesty, the prince has bad intentions. ”

Qi Xu opened the curtain and went in, and saw Concubine Li kneeling on the thick carpet, holding her crying son in her arms, this is her usual trick, in Qi Xu's opinion, it is very similar to the posture of the first queen who ran to the East Palace to wipe her tears and seek death and life.

"Xu'er." The emperor called him to him, since the last time he blocked a sword for him, Qi Xu was no longer a "prince", but a "Xu'er", and every time his father called him like this, his bones would tremble with nausea.

Concubine Li accused the prince of seeing his younger brother in danger, and he didn't help, as an elder brother, he had to teach his younger brother to be, he let the third prince climb on the tree like that, he didn't have a good heart, he must have thought that the third prince had broken, so he left indifferently.

Qi Xu listened silently, and the emperor asked him, "You saw your brother on the tree?" ”

The crown prince shook his head, with a panicked expression: "Erchen didn't see it, please forgive my father." ”

Concubine Li screamed: "The palace maids and eunuchs have all seen you, and your brother also said that he saw you, how dare you deny it?" ”

The prince said in a panic: "But I really didn't see my brother, Concubine Li, I really didn't see him." ”

The emperor saw his son like this, as a prince, he was frightened by a harem concubine with a few words, and sighed heavily: "With his virtue, how can you want to harm the third child, you didn't take good care of your son, and you came here to make trouble." You pointed to your youngest son and scolded, "Why do you always cry, you will cry, and the whole camp is a headache from you." ”

Concubine Li protected her son tightly, the light in her eyes gradually became cold, she didn't understand it anymore, but it was really late, she was no longer the Concubine Li Niangniang who could call the wind and rain, her obscenity was only shaken out in front of those helpless women, in front of the emperor, what she said didn't work. The emperor is so selfish, if he really provokes him one day, he will definitely abandon himself like abandoning the mother and son of Concubine Xian.

A farce broke up unhappily, Concubine Li returned with her son in her arms, the prince looked at them blankly, and his father called him coldly: "Why didn't you bring the princess with you when you left the palace this time?" ”

The prince hurriedly turned around and responded: "Please forgive my father, the crown princess misses her family, she is depressed, and it is not convenient to go out." ”

The emperor let out a long sigh, got up and patted his son on the shoulder: "Don't blame me for being ruthless, you have seen them assassinate me, and the evidence of decades of corruption is also in front of me, and I have to deal with them." ”

"Yes."

The emperor smiled again: "I tell you that you are truly at ease without relatives in the way." You will understand this point when you become an emperor in the future. ”

The crown prince hurriedly knelt down and said tremblingly: "The sons dare not dare, the father and the emperor, the sons dare not be the emperor." ”

"You are the crown prince, if you don't become the emperor in the future, who will do it?" The emperor picked up his son and looked at him like a treasure, even if his heart was full of contempt, he hoped that the prince would follow him well. The prince is in one day, his dragon chair is stable for one day, he wants to enjoy the bliss of the world until the moment he dies, and before he wants to close his eyes, he sees the world being tortured, whether it is his women or innocent people.

"I ask you, have you learned humane things? Did the queen teach you? The emperor's lewd smile made the prince's stomach turn upside down, and after that, countless beauties who accompanied the car were announced into the big tent, and many people who were waiting outside clearly remembered that the prince had not come out yet.

The dark night left a permanent shadow in the prince's heart, and when a scream sounded through the night, finally pulling him out of hell, he rushed out of the tent in rags, only to see the guards quickly surround Concubine Li's tent, the corners of his eyes twitched slightly, waiting for the result he wanted.

But another cry came, the familiar cry of his younger brother sounded in some corner, Qi Xu's eyes showed a look of disappointment, why is he still alive, why is that little beast still alive?

Concubine Li ran out like crazy, regardless of the thin bedclothes on her body, heard her son's cry and looked for him all over the world, and finally found her son shivering from the cold in the tent of the other concubines, the little guy broke his leg, and he couldn't move after being thrown here, at first he couldn't cry when he was half asleep and half awake, but now he was crying loudly, more piercing than Concubine Li's scream, the prince heard that there were beauties in the big tent begging for mercy, and the emperor was furious: "Cut that little beast, cry every day, cry every day." ”

But this time, Concubine Li finally had a position to speak, and the third prince was taken away from the sleeping Concubine Li at some point, and when Concubine Li was awakened, she saw the man in black stabbing the "child" next to her with a knife. The assassin thought that he had killed the third prince, and did not assassinate Concubine Li further, and fled to the cries of Concubine Li, and Concubine Li only found out at this moment that the child had been dropped, and what was assassinated was only a pillow hidden under the quilt. Immediately after everyone saw it, the third prince was thrown outside the tent.

* In the big tent, the beauties were curled up in a heap with no clothes, and the vicious gaze of Concubine Li when she entered the door frightened them away. But this time, Concubine Li stopped crying, but just coldly asked the emperor what to do, to find out the stakes, only the prince must be the most suspicious. Concubine Li said that the ministers had long suspected the prince's intentions, and the Mo family's assassination may not have nothing to do with him, and he hoped that the emperor would thoroughly investigate the prince and give her and her son an explanation.

The emperor was frequently disturbed today, Fang Cai was turning clouds and rain with the beauty to a critical moment, and was noisy outside, almost ruining his business, he wished to kill Concubine Li's mother and son alive, where would he be the master for them to track down the murderer, he was so annoyed that he wanted to do Concubine Li, but Concubine Li suddenly said: "Since the assassin can break into the tent of the concubine and kidnap the child, isn't the emperor afraid, the next time the knife will be inserted in your bed?" ”

The old emperor was awakened and glared at Concubine Li in astonishment, didn't he? can come and go freely, can avoid the guards and eunuchs and kidnap the prince, who has such a ability?

He slowly moved his gaze to the prince's body, and just forced the prince and his beauty to do a good thing, the child was so frightened that he almost died, this son stood aside in despair, Concubine Li was aggressive, he didn't dare to argue for himself for half a word, he sneered in his heart: How can such a thing do things against the sky?

But the crown prince is not depressed, he is thinking deeply about what happened, who rescued the third prince, Qi Hui? Who else but him. The killing of the three princes tonight was completely the temporary intention of the crown prince, and he hurriedly arranged and deployed everything before he was called to the big tent by the emperor. Naturally killing the three princes was not the main event, but he wanted to see if Qi Hui was really as indifferent as he had shown before.

Sure enough, even if he didn't take action to save the child who might fall from the tree at any time, as if it had nothing to do with him, under the ruthless indifference, he finally had a good heart and shot at a critical moment, without letting his half-brother be in a different place.

The prince realized that the current tacit understanding was only temporary, and the two brothers were destined to not get along in this life.

Soon after, Concubine Li and the crown prince were driven out, and the emperor left his beauties to continue to have fun, Concubine Li's disappointment was self-evident, and when she walked outside the tent, she said to Qi Xu even more viciously: "Since you have done this job, don't blame me for being ruthless." ”

The prince was indifferent, Concubine Li walked away, he turned around and walked to his camp, all the prince's guards entered the camp to obey orders, and when he withdrew, others were inappropriately aware that there was one less person, and the one missing was Qi Hui, he stood calmly in front of the prince, and listened to him ask: "You went to save the third prince?" ”

Qi Hui shook his head: "I've been staying here." ”

The prince didn't believe it, and looked at Qi Hui suspiciously, he had too many reasons to believe that Qi Hui had rescued the third prince in advance, and he thought that Qi Hui would admit it generously, but now in the face of Qi Hui's denial, the prince was at a loss.

"Who else but you can do that?" The crown prince frowned, and he still had some hope in his heart.

"Your Highness, you can do it for the others, I have been staying here." Qi Hui replied indifferently. The child, naturally, he saved it, but he felt that he couldn't admit it to the prince, and if he did, it was clear that he was against him, and if he didn't admit it, no one could say anything about it.

And the prince really called the other guards in, and those who swore to him also said that Qi Hui was always by his side, and the prince was confused.

Soon, Qi Hui and the other guards withdrew from the camp, standing in the cold wind to protect the prince's safety, the night wind on the hunting ground was cold and biting, making him more sober than ever.

He hesitated to save the three princes, but soon realized that the crown prince and he were destined to never have a tacit understanding, even if there were no three princes, they would one day stand on opposite positions, the prince had ideals and ambitions, but he did not have a heart for the people. Then why sacrifice an innocent life, Concubine Li is hateful, but that six-year-old child doesn't understand anything.

Inside and outside the tent, one hugged the stove, the other blew the cold wind, both of them were thinking about the unknown future, Qi Hui just wanted to borrow the prince's hand to get rid of Pang Jun's control over him, but the prince had some thoughts, hoping that Qi Hui could follow him.

But the more he got to know this indifferent brother, he felt more and more threats and fears, which were the pressures that his father, mother, or concubine had ever felt. The tacit understanding of cooperation again and again made the prince realize that there is another person in this world who is very similar to himself, but more powerful.

Qi Hui once said that after getting rid of the current shackles, he will only face the prince in the future, and the prince heard this at the time, but now that he thinks about it, he can't help but shudder. He began to regret that he had kept the tiger and wolf by his side.