In the suburbs of Yucheng, near the flower city, Xia Yan picked colorful wildflowers by the stream, tied them into a bunch, and put them in a flower basket.

Nan Bugui sat beside the water, looking sideways at Xia Yan unrestrained among the flowers, he wished her to be so happy forever.

A stone startled the stream, Nan Bugui got up and looked back, Su Liqing was standing in the forest, she had been pestering him for a long time. Nan Bugui glanced at Xia Yan, and then walked into the forest to meet Su Liqing.

"What the hell do you want?"

"I just want to get my brother back. ”

"I'm not your brother!" Nan Bugui became emotional.

"I think you also know that you and my father, when the Gu Shangshu family was imprisoned and to be executed after the autumn, the person who denounced him was your loyal master. ”

"He's not. ”

"Whether you admit it or not, he is your biological father, and all your family members are now suffering from prison, do you know what it is like in prison? Do you understand the unbearable feeling of being crawling with lice all over your body? Have you ever tasted the torture instruments used to extract confessions in the torture room? They are not parents who have given up on you, but parents who have been forced to lose their son!"

Su Liqing's words were pierced in Nan Bugui's heart, he imagined what she said about his father, mother, and sister, but now he is Xia Huaiyu's person, and he has been obedient to him for more than ten years, based on her words alone, how can he believe it?

"The king of Yuzhou is not a good person, he is ambitious, his goal is the throne, and now the time has come. Fifteen years ago he failed, he took you from his parents, and now he can cut off his arm for fifteen years, proving that he is going to take it personally. But he can't succeed, once he fails, his head falls to the ground, how can his daughter not be connected?" Su Liqing pointed to Xia Yan, who was free and happy among the flowers, she was the final bottom line of Nan Bugui.

Nan Bugui is used to being alone, without parents and relatives, but he can't lose Xia Yan.

Since returning from the imperial capital, Xia Huaiyu's most hidden chess pieces have been broken, and the game is full of ropes. All the industries under Gu Shangshu's name were blocked, and officials from all over the country related to him were also investigated, arrested, and degraded, and everything was determined.

Xia Huaiyu never admit defeat, and after being silent for a long time, he finally heard a piece of news that made him overjoyed.

"In Flower City?"

"Yes, and I heard that Lord Jin is also there. ”

"That seems to be true. Xia Huaiyu's eyes were gloomy, and the corners of his mouth hooked, "Arrest her for this king, and you must do it cleanly." ”

"Yes. ”

After Xia Huaiyu gave the order, Hongtu stepped forward and said, "Lord Wang, the preparations have been completed." ”

Xia Huaiyu rarely dressed neatly once, accompanied by Hongtu, entered the Jade Pavilion, which enshrined the tablets of his mother, Yuhou and others.

The two of them offered incense, Xia Huaiyu's eyes had no light, fifteen years, and his mother had passed away for fifteen years.

"And you, at this time, are accompanying that woman to live happily in Huacheng, I will let you, see with your own eyes how I avenge my mother's concubine, and let you personally go down and kowtow to my mother to apologize. ”

During the reign of Emperor Shengzu, Concubine Yu was a favored concubine in every way, and she was pregnant thanks to the Holy Favor, but the queen at that time had already given birth to a prince.

On the night of the birth of the jade concubine, the sky fell to a foreign land, Qin Tianjian observed the celestial phenomenon is the crape myrtle emperor star Zhaozhang, the jade concubine gave birth to twin sons, and there were rumors in the palace that one of the jade concubines was the choice of the emperor, and the current prince will not last long.

The emperor has ordered that there should be no rumors in the palace, but since childhood, the two brothers Xia Huaijin and Xia Huaiyu have been born in the eyes of the people in the palace, especially the queen, so they have bad intentions towards the jade concubine.

The quarrel between the brothers, Xia Huaiyu did not let the prince push him to the ground, Xia Huaiyu was punished to kneel in the imperial garden, but as the prince, he suffered a lot of white eyes.

Xia Huaijin was so gifted and gifted that he was greatly appreciated by Taifu, so he lost the opportunity to be taught by Taifu with his other brothers.

Concubine Yu was a man with her tail between her legs in front of the queen, but she was still humiliated and treated by her again and again. The emperor once favored the Jade Concubine, but he loved the country even more, and his inheritance of the throne could only be decided by himself.

Although the two brothers are siblings and have imaginary appearances, their personalities are completely different.

Xia Huaijin does not like to chase fame and fortune by nature, worships the luthier in the palace as a teacher, and is obsessed with the instrument.

Xia Huaiyu is different, he asked his mother why he had to endure it, and the answer she gave was that in this world, the emperor is the biggest, and the crown prince is the future emperor, that is, one person is above ten thousand people.

"Mother, the child wants to be the emperor!"

"Don't talk nonsense!"

"Mother, the child wants to be the master of the heavens and the earth, don't they all say that my brother and I were born with a vision in the sky, and the child believes that he must be the one chosen by God, and he will definitely become the greatest in the future. ”

This kind of thing should never be said in front of others. ”

"The child understood. ”

Xia Huaiyu has been determined since he was a child, although he only confessed his ambitions to Concubine Yu, but Xia Huaijin also heard it secretly and remembered it.

Emperor Shengzu died, and the crown prince succeeded to the throne, but Xia Huaiyu secretly deployed everything, Xia Huaijin was like a walking corpse after An Ronghua's incident, and he had no intention of kissing his younger brother's plan.

Until the emperor fell seriously ill and almost returned to heaven, Xia Huaiyu mobilized his forces and elected himself to inherit the throne in the name of heaven's will, otherwise the imperial power would be in danger.

What Xia Huaiyu hated the most was Xia Huaijin's defection, he was originally the brother of his fellow countrymen, but he stood by An Ronghua's side to defend himself.

The death of the Jade Marquis and the death of the Jade Concubine were all caused by this.

Xia Huaiyu didn't believe that the death of his mother was not caused by An Ronghua, in that deep palace, as the queen, An Ronghua would not easily cover the sky with one hand and cut off life and death.

Xia Huaiyu hated An Ronghua, hated her for taking Xia Huaijin's heart, and hated her for hindering her from getting the throne. He wanted to cut her with a thousand knives, and now, it was time.

In the bustling streets of Huacheng, Xia Huaijin accompanied Ma Pianpian through the streets and alleys, without a soul, and An Ronghua should also be instructed to accompany the motor together.

Xia Huaijin noticed a rouge shop, so he took the initiative to take Ma Pianpian in to choose.

"This great lord, ma'am, take your time. The shopkeeper thought he had eyesight, but he was stared at by An Ronghua with an earth-shattering dead eye.

"This color is beautiful, and so is this color. ”

"I'll try it for you. ”

Xia Huaijin took the initiative to surprise An Ronghua, he stained his fingers with rouge, and gently wiped it on Ma Pianpian's face, she didn't reject it?

"I haven't wiped it yet!" An Ronghua was angry.

"What are you messing around?" Ma Pianpian said suddenly.

"The slave is guilty. An Ronghua immediately bowed his head.

"It's just a slave, don't worry about her. Xia Huaijin said.

"Listen to you. Although Ma Pianpian is obedient to Xia Huaijin on the lips, she is stalked in her heart, she is just a slave and maid, and she looks too good.

Ma Pianpian and Xia Huaijin took a break in the street pavilion and told An Ronghua and Ma Ma to buy some snacks and come back.

The two came to the well-known dim sum shop in Huacheng, and there was a long queue.

"You're in line here, I'm going to have a cup of tea. ”

An Ronghua didn't refute, and after a long queue, she casually glanced at the motor sitting on the tea stall, as if she had a quarrel with someone, and ran away in a hurry.

The man walked past the dim sum shop, and An Ronghua stopped him.

Street Pavilion, Xia Huaijin is a little relieved, the fake queen mother should not mess with herself in public.

"Huai Jin, do you think I'm beautiful?" Ma Pianpian held up the newly bought small bronze mirror.

"Beautiful. Xia Huaijin said perfunctorily, he really understands now that he will never fall in love with someone because of a face.

"It's a pity that this face is too old, if I become younger, I will use the rouge gouache you bought for me, and it will be more compatible with you." ”

"How can a person with a face become young?" Xia Huaijin asked as if he retorted.

"How do you know I can't?" Ma Pianpian put down the mirror and stared at Xia Huaijin, "I think that's face is good, what do you think?"

"Looks are not the most important thing. ”

"Huai Jin, you are so serious, for a woman, face is the most important thing, I want a young and beautiful face. Ma Pianpian touched her old and old mask, and Xia Huaijin seemed to see the loneliness in the depths of her eyes.

"When you are young, you are indeed incomparably beautiful, but how can there be a way to rejuvenate in the world?" Xia Huaijin asked.

"How do you know if you don't?" Ma Pianpian smiled confidently at the corner of her mouth.

Two hours later, Ma Pianpian's face exploded as soon as she returned to the room, and she hated her ugly self under the broken mask and smashed the mirror.

"What are you doing here, to attract people?" said the motor, nervous.

"Why only two hours, why this old woman's face?"

"It's you who want to pretend to be the Queen Mother. The motor said.

"If you can have a powerful and inexhaustible property, who wants to pretend to be an old woman like the Queen Mother. ”

"Then what happened to you and that King Jin?"

"If he knew that I was not the Queen Mother, and saw my true appearance, would he still say that appearance is not the most important thing? With a face like his, he will feel that beauty is not important!" Ma Pianpian hated bitterly in his heart.

An Ronghua continued to act as a maid and brought meals to Xia Huaijin.

"What's the matter, have you noticed after being alone with her for so long?"

Her face, except for being a little colder, the king couldn't find anything abnormal, and as for her speech, it was even more watertight. ”

"Can't feel the abnormality, or are you still unsure about touching that face?" An Ronghua asked.

"This king is not old and foolish, and he will not be deceived by appearances. ”

"You've sacrificed hue for nothing, but I've made a big discovery. ”

The person An Ronghua saw today who made Ma run away in a panic was a tourist from Huacheng, who knew Ma Ma and Ma Pianpian, two fathers and daughters, who made a living by performing arts, and their stunt was to change their faces, and they were not ordinary face-changing.

The special material fabricates the human face, and even the facial features can be made, and if the mask fits the face with the human face is high, it is really impossible to distinguish the real from the fake.

"I heard that this Ma Pianpian is only in her twenties, but her face-changing skills are extremely superb, and she has always worn various masks to show people, and her face is really ugly. Therefore, as long as her mask is exposed and her true face is revealed, everyone can know that she is not the real queen mother. ”

Ma Pianpian asked Xia Huaijin to go to the sea of flowers to enjoy the fun, An Ronghua was worried about Xia Huaijin's body, but he agreed to reveal her true face there.