In the palace, the lights were lit all night, and the palace was as bright as day, and Ning Xuanli entered the palace with a tightly wrapped person.

Gong Xuanjing saw that Ning Xuanli had been given a green light all the way from the moment he entered the palace gate, and the two of them entered the palace unimpeded, and they also avoided a lot of eyeliner. From this time on, Gong Xuanjing's heart felt that this Ning Xuanli did not look as simple as it seemed on the surface.

When he was about to arrive at the Palace of Nourishing Hearts, the number of people who patrolled the night suddenly increased, three steps, one sentry, five steps and one post, they hid behind a thick vermilion pillar, Gong Xuanjing saw that he was alert to investigate everywhere, and asked in a low voice: "How is it?" ”

"Nothing, didn't find us. Let's go. ”

In fact, it was not that the deputy commander of the wood did not find it, but the moment he saw Gong Xuanli, he stopped his pace, and then took someone to patrol elsewhere as if nothing happened.

"Why isn't Eunuch Kui here today?"

When he was about to arrive at the Heart Cultivation Palace, Gong Xuanjing felt that he was a little like a thief, and quickly swept around.

"He went to invite the queen mother."

Gong Xuanjing squinted, and while quickly following Ning Xuanli into the Heart Cultivation Palace, he asked, "How do you know?" ”

"His Royal Highness the Prince, from the moment you cheated to death, I knew that one day I would bring you back to see the emperor and the queen, because I had been prepared for a long time."

"Your martial arts, coupled with your meticulous thoughts, will have a bright future in the future, and the scenery will not lose to General Ning."

Ning Xuanli heard the prince's praise, and was modest: "What I am doing is all a matter of stealing the house and killing the head, I have to be careful, as the saying goes, be careful to sail a ship for ten thousand years." ”

While speaking, the two of them had already arrived at the inner hall of the Heart Cultivation Palace, and the emperor seemed to have been waiting for a long time, and when he saw Ning Xuanli coming in with a person, he asked excitedly: "What do you mean when you came to spy in the afternoon and said that Jing'er is still alive?" ”

"Father."

Before Ning Xuanli could reply, Gong Xuanjing took the lead in kneeling down and took the felt hat on his head.

Gong Xuanjing is wearing a dark gray dress at the moment, not like the bright yellow prince python robe that he used to wear, and his dark hair was also pressed down by the felt hat, but that face was indeed Gong Xuanjing.

In just a few days, the emperor was very sad because of the news of the death of the prince before, and the government had no mental meeting.

In the afternoon, Ning Xuanli handed over the letter and entered the palace, asking the emperor to remove all the palace ladies and eunuchs in front of the Yangxin Palace, those people thought that the emperor was sad, so they looked at them annoyed, so they did not make any doubts, and the emperor's order could not accommodate them to insist. And in the letter, it was said that at the moment of time, the eunuch was invited to go to the Quinine Palace and the queen mother to come over.

Ning Xuanli pinched the time very accurately, at this moment the emperor saw that Gong Xuanjing was still kneeling in front of him, and he could still call his father, he felt that this mirror was the rest of his life, he took a deep breath, helped Gong Xuanjing up, and said with feeling: "When I told me in the afternoon, I still didn't believe it, and now I see you well, it's really my palace family's last life to cultivate merit." ”

Gong Xuanjing was also a little deeply touched, glanced at Ning Xuanli, and then said: "Erchen's death is really a last resort, the poison really went down to Erchen's meal, but the person who poisoned him was Jiu Ze, who had been following Erchen's side, and I thank my father for catching the real murderer for Jiu Ze." And Erchen deceived death, he deceived you, deceived the queen mother, and deceived the civil and military officials, this is all a capital crime, and it is all Erchen's own attention, you must not blame Ning Gongzi. ”

Ning Xuanli was actually thinking about whether to avoid it, after all, they were righteous and upright father and son, not like his current exit was so embarrassing.

But now that he heard Gong Xuanjing coldly mention himself, the emperor also looked at him, but he didn't blame Ning Xuanli for hiding this matter from the prince, but said: "But you told me, why did you choose to cheat death?" Do you know that once you cheat to death, all the civil and military officials will think that the prince is dead, and you will have no ......?"

"Erchen knows that there is no hope of ascending the throne again, father, Erchen knows that the position of the crown prince back then was asked for by the queen mother with you, not what I wanted. Fifteen years ago, I was already eleven years old, and all the things my sons and daughters understood, it was the queen mother who was ashamed of the six princes who were far away in the national temple, you don't blame the queen mother for threatening you back then, and the sons and daughters had no intention of being the crown prince, and they would withdraw from the battle for the throne as planned, wouldn't it be better? ”

The prince said earnestly, and when the emperor heard this, he glanced at Ning Xuanli, who didn't pay any attention to it, as if what he said had nothing to do with him.

This was also heard by the queen who had just entered the door, and this familiar voice made the queen even more anxious, and her steps were messy but fast. In the past few days, the queen mother has no intention of grooming, nor has she been concerned about the things around her, and the queen is also a lot haggard, so she broke in in a panic, and saw the palace mirror kneeling on the ground, and quickly pounced.

"Tell the queen mother to take a look, but it's really my mirror back. Tell the queen mother to take a good look. ”

The queen mother hugged the palace Xuanjing in her arms all of a sudden, this is a real sentence of the queen mother, the whole heart of the queen mother who shouted trembled, and then two lines of tears came down.

"It's all the mother's fault, it's the mother's fault, it's my fault."

Ning Xuanli's gaze changed from the emperor who was sitting on the dragon chair over there, and then looked at the queen who was crying with Gong Xuanjing in her arms, and turned around and left expressionlessly.

The emperor naturally saw it, but he didn't say anything.

Ning Xuanli stood on the steps outside the Heart Cultivation Palace, feeling the breeze in the middle of the night, he looked up at the dark sky, there were only a few stars with a glimmer of light, he suddenly missed his Xiao Mo, in this world, he felt that he only had Xiao Mo.

All those people and things who want to break him up and Xiao Mo, he will sweep them away one by one.

The crown prince has no hope of ascending the throne, the third emperor's palace Xuanqing has gone to the Zongren Mansion, and the fourth prince is born weak and sickly, and only one fifth prince remains.

He closed his eyes, he planned to let the prince have no hope of ascending the throne, that was what the queen and the prince owed him back then, he didn't feel that the queen was so sad that there was any sin, when his mother begged the queen to let go, the queen was not soft-hearted,

Thinking of those sad things again, he looked in the direction of the General's Mansion and sighed silently.

Yesterday in the North Island, he knew that she was in a hurry, and it was time to hurry up and come back and get back all the things that belonged to her.

Although Eunuch Kui was surprised how the prince came back to life, the emperor and the queen and the prince wanted to talk, and he, a slave, should not listen, so he closed the door of the palace and came out.

This Kui eunuch has been shrewd all his life, and at this moment, he saw Ning Xuanli standing alone on the stone steps of the Heart Cultivation Palace, the darkness enveloped him, it seemed that he was lonely to the extreme, and at that moment, he forgot the whole world, and only thought of the tenderness and beauty of that person in his mind.

Ning Xuanli waited outside the door for a long time before the eunuch cautiously approached and said, "Young Master Ning, the emperor is invited." ”

Ning Xuanli turned around expressionlessly, and looked at Eunuch Kui lightly, Eunuch Kui happened to also glance at him, his eyes met, and the eunuch actually took half a step back cowardly.

Eunuch Kui respectfully pushed open the door of the Heart Cultivation Hall for him, Ning Xuanli glanced around, the emperor is fine, the queen's eyes are still red, Gong Xuanjing smiled at him reassuringly, as if telling him that the emperor and the queen would not blame him for the crime of bullying the king.

"The scenery of Jiangnan is good, the four seasons are like spring, suitable for Jing'er, I am ready to use Jiangnan as a fief, Jing'er took her family to the fiefdom, what does the queen think?"

In the end, it is the emperor's son, although there is no hope of ascending the throne, the materials in Jiangnan are fertile, and it is the best piece of the fiefdom, and the queen has nothing else to ask for now, it seems that it is best if Gong Xuanjing is still alive, so she is satisfied.

"It's all up to the emperor."

"Okay, the holy decree has been prepared, Jing'er takes the holy decree and sets off to Jiangnan as soon as possible."

The queen was stunned when she heard this: "The holy decree has been prepared, the emperor?" What do you mean by that? ”

The emperor didn't explain, but his eyes signaled the eunuch to take the holy decree to Gong Xuanjing, who took the holy decree and kowtowed to thank him.

The queen snatched the holy decree away, spread it out and looked at it, but found that the holy decree had been prepared a year ago, and asked in disbelief: "Your Majesty, you prepared it a year ago?" You never intended to put Jing'er on the throne, did you? ”

"Queen, have you forgotten how Jing'er's position as crown prince came about? Before Jing'er was eleven years old, I didn't plan to pass on the throne to Jing'er, don't you know? If it weren't for that incident, the one who is on the throne of the prince today would be someone else."

Gong Xuanjing was still kneeling on the ground, Ning Xuanli was standing next to him, and the two of them just watched the emperor and the queen quarrel, in fact, it was not a quarrel, the queen heard this and fell down immediately, the whole person softened, glanced at the holy decree in his hand, and mocked himself: "Then you should tell the concubine as soon as possible, the concubine who is still persecuting Jing'er like that." ”

"Didn't I say that? But think for yourself, have you heard what I said? ”

"A few days ago, you gossiped with your concubines, saying that the third prince was impetuous, the fourth prince was weak and sickly, and the fifth prince was not right.

The emperor snorted coldly, and secretly mocked himself: "Now Jing'er is fine, if something really happens, you can't cry, and you always instigate the child to fight for power and profit, what kind of character the prince has had for so many years, don't you know best?" ”

The queen really didn't want to experience the pain of her child's death, and took a deep breath when she heard this: "Dare to ask the emperor, now the crown prince has been deposed by you, the third prince has entered the Zongren Mansion, and the fourth prince is weak and sick, do you want to pass the throne to the five princes who are not right-hearted?" ”

"Queen, have you forgotten the child who was forced to be sent to the National Temple to be raised?"

Hearing this, the queen's body trembled, and she looked at Ning Xuanli who asked this question in disbelief, and the queen was stunned for a long time, muttering his name: "Xuanli, Ning Xuanli, Gong Xuanli......."

In her mind, she still remembers that back then, the emperor of the year was forced by the queen and the old ministers who supported the queen in the previous dynasty to send the newborn six princes to be raised outside the palace, and the emperor was helpless to the extreme, and only felt that since he wanted to be separated from childhood, he took the name Xuanli.

"Remembered?"

"No, it's impossible, you're not him, you can't be his."

The queen seemed to have seen a ghost, glaring at Ning Xuanli in horror, as if she had seen a demon and a monster, and waved her hands indiscriminately: "No, you are not him, he is not a person at all, he is not a person." ”