In the long-lost Mingde Palace, Xiangxiang stood in front of the door, feeling a little trance, but Qi Hui held her hand and walked side by side, and every step after that was very steady. Now the court meeting is no longer held here, the door of the Mingde Hall will hardly be opened, I don't know if the palace people are lazy, or too deserted, the former prosperous and rich palace has fallen a little desolate.

In front of the dormitory, several eunuchs knelt down to greet each other and took the initiative to talk about the emperor's recent situation, and at this moment he had just taken medicine and was leaning on the recliner to cool off. It's hot, and I've been in bed for too long and I'm covered with prickly heat, so I put ice cubes stored under the cellar in the house early in the winter, and now there are fewer and fewer people in the palace, and the ice hidden in the past is afraid that I can't use it up this year.

They chattered a lot, Qi Hui was impatient to listen, and told them to bring a chair for Xiangxiang to sit under the window, Xiangxiang stubbornly shook his head: "I'll just stand." ”

Qi Hui bowed his head, and the people who left him to stay by Xiangxiang's side, and strode into the door. The door of the hall was ajar, and he could smell the choking breath, the smell of various herbs was mixed, or eaten or wiped, Xiang Xiang remembered the words of the inner servants, and knew that although the emperor was terminally ill, he cared for his life very much, and in the end, he wanted to live harder than before.

Qi Hui quickly got used to this smell, and in the past few months, the barracks have also been like this everywhere, but the soldiers are throwing blood for the people of the country, and the person on the recliner has just broken his hands and feet in vain. He approached the emperor and bowed slightly: "See the emperor." ”

Qi Xu was closing his eyes to recuperate, and when he heard the footsteps, he thought it was a eunuch, no one had come to this Mingde Hall for a long time, even if he had people waiting in his heart, he didn't dare to think that Qi Hui would really come. After all, the army had been back in Beijing for a few days, and he was supposed to come to the Mingde Hall at the first time, but he didn't come.

"I thought you wouldn't come back." The emperor slowly opened his eyes, turned his head with difficulty, and said, "Can you stand up somewhat, it's hard for me to twist my neck." ”

Qi Hui stood under the window, the sun shone on his side, half of his body and face were in shadow, but the other half of the sun seemed to be extremely clear. Although Qi Hui was hit by the bow and crossbow and returned from recuperating all the way, he also looked stronger than before, and the people of Twenty Lang Dang grew taller again, becoming more and more long and mighty, and his slightly rough skin was dyed wheat by the wind and sand and scorching sun, which was the mark left by the battlefield, and the bright eyes seemed to be able to see through the whole world.

On the other hand, the man on the recliner has a pale complexion and delicate skin, his eyes are confused and empty, and his body is as paralyzed as cotton silk. But it was not Qi Hui's fault for deliberately hurting him, and when his limbs were sound, there was not much difference from now.

"Since the emperor wants to see his courtiers, why doesn't he send someone to announce the decree?" Qi Hui asked.

"I'm announcing you, will you come?" The emperor sneered, but stared straight at Qi Hui, and said, "You have changed, I heard that you were seriously injured, and I thought I would see you who are emaciated." Looking at it now, he is a man who can really stand up to the sky. ”

Qi Hui said: "After returning to Beijing for a few days, I have cultivated my spirit, thank you for the emperor's concern." ”

The emperor took a long breath and said with difficulty: "Why drag it out, you take this throne, anyway, it is not interesting for an emperor like me to do it, I just ask you to let me die with some dignity." ”

"The emperor is the Son of Heaven, how can he die without dignity?" Qi Hui's face was expressionless, "The emperor left a name in history, and his ministers will also let the historian write it down, and he will do his best for the country and the people." ”

The emperor looked at Qi Hui incredulously, and Qi Hui said indifferently: "Like Pang Jun, if you want to get the world, you must first get the hearts of the people, but unfortunately Pang Jun has calculated all his life, he has no ambition and no courage, and he also wants to take advantage of the momentum of foreign enemies. If the younger brother of the minister is Pang Jun, twenty years earlier, he would have subverted the dynasty. ”

"But in the end, you beat him." The Emperor gasped and said with difficulty, "Perhaps, you are more vicious than him. ”

Outside the window, Xiangxiang heard this sentence, and his heart tightened. She remembered that Qi Hui had mentioned several times that in the past, he had the intention of killing the king and killing his father, but Shifeng kept blocking him, hoping that he would not take that step. The emperor's words didn't seem to be casual nonsense, and at this moment, Qi Hao's voice came from the window.

"Unfair circumstances, depressed days, facing a blind mother who can't protect him all day long, giving birth to a bit of a fierce heart, just to make himself look less weak."

In the room, Qi Hui stepped forward and stuffed a thin cushion behind the emperor's back. It's just that this time, the emperor felt much more comfortable, and the tall man was in front of him, but it made his whole heart suppress. And Qi Hui continued: "In such a depressing life, I have lost myself several times, but I am luckier than you, I have been making like-minded brothers for twenty years, no blood but heart-to-heart. They are my greatest wealth and luck, in terms of knowledge, you are not worse than me, in terms of martial arts, I am just more able to endure hardships than you, originally there is no difference between us, we can go far on different roads. But you go alone, and I go with them. Even Pang Jun, he gave birth to a son like Pang Shifeng, which was enough to save and support the entire family at the end, and in the past twenty years, he has repeatedly pulled me back from the wrong path. Otherwise, you would have died a long time ago, the first emperor would have died a long time ago, and your mother and Concubine Li would not have lived that long. But after that path, I don't have the person I am now. ”

The emperor said quietly: "We are brothers and sisters, but you did not treat me like they treated you. ”

Qi Hui shook his head: "You are born to the queen and the Pang family guards, I don't have half a blood relationship with you, even if you are friends, people on different paths can't even touch each other, how can you be friends?" ”

When he mentioned his life experience, the emperor's empty eyes suddenly became angry, and he waited viciously for Qi Hui and said: "Why don't you tell the people of the world and let the whole world know that I am a wild seed?" ”

Qi Yan smiled lightly: "Like the emperor, entangled in such a thing is equivalent to making trouble for yourself, you will continue to be the son of the first emperor 'dignified', and I will also train the third prince to become a useful talent." I don't care about blood, but the royal family cares, and the world cares, so there's no need to make a mess and get yourself into trouble. It's the smartest thing you've ever done, and I've learned a lot and benefited a lot. To be an emperor, you have to learn to deceive people, as long as you are for the stability of the world, it is not wrong to deceive people and lie. It's just that your wisdom is all in yourself, and you have never thought about it for the people of this world. ”

The emperor's anger did not dissipate, but became deeper and deeper, and he gritted his teeth and asked, "You came today just to humiliate me?" ”

Qi Hui shook his head: "It's to warn myself that I can't repeat the mistakes of the past." Do you remember that in the past, you went hunting with the emperor and patrolling the river workers, and you said that this place has been flooded for many years, and it is a threat to the imperial city of Gyeonggi, and the capital should be moved. Even if the people of the world starve to death, the capital cannot be chaotic, and the royal family cannot lose half of its dignity. Maybe I thought about helping you, but from that day on, I never had that thought again. ”

Xiangxiang outside the door, listening to the heavy heart, they just came from the imperial garden, last year was also at this time, where I met the prince, such a handsome man in the sun, but today he is paralyzed in bed, and this year, how many sins he has done, he did not hesitate to give the whole country to Pang Jun for his own selfish desires.

The emperor's cold and faint voice came again: "You disdain to walk the same path as me, but we have actually been walking the same road, the bloodline theory, can be denied with your words?" But no matter what, we are all sons of that beast, we have spent twenty years in different places in oppression, our mothers have been tormented by him, we have to deal with Pang Jun, and even we have the same woman. ”

Xiangxiang frowned, is the emperor crazy, what is the same woman, he is not afraid that Qi Hui will kill him?

But in the room, in the face of the indifferent Qi Hui, the emperor was very calm, and explained jokingly: "Song Jingshu and Xiangxiang are as beautiful as fairies, just as lonely, they walked the same way to this palace, Song Jingshu followed me, and Xiangxiang followed you." ”

Qi Hui realized that Xiang Xiang was outside the door, and he wanted to test the emperor to mention Song Jingshu, so that Xiang Xiang could decide whether to convey some words to Jing Shu, he didn't care about Song Jingshu's past actions, since Xiang Xiang treated her as a sister to protect her last days, Qi Hui would definitely let his wife get her wish. Unexpectedly, the emperor actually mentioned Jingshu himself.

The emperor sneered, a little hideous and very desolate, he asked Qi Hui: "But why did they become different women again, you said that if you change it, Xiangxiang follows me, and Song Jingshu follows you, what will it look like?" Could it be that you're the one lying here now? ”

Qi Hui remembered that Xi Niang had said that Xiangxiang and Jingshu were not people on the same path, and Qi Hui and the emperor could never be the same.

But it is undeniable that both he and Xiangxiang have experienced almost the same life as their brothers and sisters. The same road and the same situation, but out of a completely different world, not necessarily how great they are, not necessarily how great they are, but the fact is that the world is cruel.

The prince and Song Jingshu, who seemed to be beautiful in the past, lived in the dark and brutal abuse every day, but Qi Hui and Xiangxiang, who were really dark, used the stars to illuminate the road ahead and warm each other in the dark. On the one hand, they feel that they can get rid of their bad luck by turning themselves into abusers, while on the other hand, they understand that only by truly breaking out of this dark and unjustified world can they be liberated.

"Song Jingshu wanted to suffocate me that day." The emperor snorted, but he didn't know which one to laugh at, and continued, "At the moment when I was about to suffocate to death, I suddenly felt that I could finally be free......