The five princes got off the horse in front of the gate of the Jian'an County Palace, raised their heads with their hands behind their backs, and saw the five gilded characters of the Jian'an County Palace from the vermilion gate with a gloomy expression, and their eyes slowly fell again, and they raised their feet and stepped on the bluestone steps and entered the Jian'an County Palace.

In the warm pavilion next to the plum forest in the back garden of Jian'an County, the earth dragon is burning, and the warmth is melting. The four princes sat leisurely on the couch, and through the open flower window, they admired the plum blossoms blooming outside the window. Zhu Mingyan, the princess of Jian'an County, sat cross-legged opposite the four princes, looking at a small red clay stove and ordering tea.

The little maid led the five princes to the warm pavilion ten steps before stopping, bowed and retreated, the five princes walked to the door of the warm pavilion, lifted the curtain with one hand, Zhu Mingyan turned his head to look at the five princes, turned back and said softly with the fourth prince: "The fifth master is here." The fourth prince didn't hear it, and the fifth prince put down the curtain and came in and said with a smile: "The fourth brother's piece of Merlin is really elegant." ”

"Oh." The fourth prince smiled lightly: "If you like it, turn around and let people move to your mansion." Hearing this, the figure of the fifth prince who was about to sit down paused, and the fourth prince looked away from him, looked at Zhu Mingyan and said softly: "I'll talk to the fifth brother." Zhu Mingyan said 'um', lifted the slightly boiling silver kettle to brew the tea soup and pushed it in front of the five princes, got up and went out.

"The prince asked you to come?" The fourth prince took a sip of tea and asked the fifth prince: "Daddy has been waking up from time to time for a while, and now the prince is in charge of everything inside and outside." The fifth prince looked at the four princes with an indifferent expression, and added: "The affairs in the palace are temporarily presided over by Jiang Niangniang, I came to see Ye Niangniang, Niangniang is chanting in the small Buddha hall, which is very good." The fourth prince chuckled: "Chanting the scriptures? She also learned to recite scriptures? She had no choice but to recite the scriptures, and it would be a blessing for her to be able to recite the scriptures for the rest of her life. The fifth prince looked at the fourth prince silently, and the fourth prince waved his hand: "Say it, he asked you to come, and you can say what you want you to say." ”

"Okay." The fifth prince responded obediently, and was silent for a moment, as if thinking about how to say: "Then I will say it directly, what the eldest brother means, I want you to guard the mausoleum for a few years." The fourth prince looked at the fifth prince with sneering eyes, and the fifth prince spread his hands and said: "Just this matter, in fact, it's good to go to the mausoleum for a few years......

"Guarding the mausoleum??" The fourth prince's voice dragged on, revealing a few traces of laughter that could not be hidden: "In the end, he is known for his generosity, this generosity!" Ha! Not bad! What about the Ye family? What about Yao Xiang? Your fourth brother and I are no less prestigious than him in the court, what about those people who once followed me? What is he going to do with it? The fifth prince kept his mouth shut and said nothing, and it was not his business to deal with it.

"I'm not going to guard the mausoleum!" The fourth prince's voice was calm but very decisive: "Me and him are fighting for life and death, either life or death, how can there be a second way?" Guarding the mausoleum? Hmph, the ultimate hypocrisy! ”

"Fourth brother!" The five princes suddenly jumped up: "They are all brothers, how can there be a life-and-death struggle?" Besides, this is Daddy...... It's Daddy......" The five princes stopped shaking their hands, this is their Daddy taking them as Gu and provoking them to fight to the death, which is not what they want.

"I understand!" A hint of warmth flashed in the eyes of the fourth prince, and he waved his hand at the fifth prince, and his voice was much gentler: "So what? Forget it, I had a plan, and I made up my mind on the day I stood up, I will live or die, and I will not survive. Seeing that the fifth prince sat down again, the fourth prince continued: "In this battle, I made a big mistake. The fourth prince suddenly choked, turned his head hard and looked out of the window, and continued through a tone for a long time: "I lost the opportunity, I caused everyone, if I live, how can the prince be relieved?" He has the ability of an emperor, I also have it, not worse than him at all, maybe a star and a half stronger than him, there are many people inside and outside the court who are dedicated to me, if I don't die, the prince is not at ease, they will not die, the prince will definitely cleanse, they will definitely conspire to come out one after another, how many people have to die in the middle, how much blood will be shed? Why bother! ”

The fifth prince was moved when he heard this, his lips moved to persuade him, and the fourth prince raised his hand to stop him and continued: "I'm tired of it," paused, looking tired and silent: "Life is just a walking meat, what can you do if you win the world?" Just as boring. ”

"The fourth brother has to think about it for Ye Niangniang......"

"I'm just thinking about her," the fourth prince chuckled: "I die, she can recite this sutra for a long time, I hope she knows what it means to be obedient to the heavens and concentrate on chanting the sutra." The five princes looked at him blankly, all he said was right, cruel and cold righteousness, the five princes felt a burst of sadness in their hearts, when they were fighting with swords and guns, victory or defeat was not distinguished, they looked forward to his defeat countless times, and even looked forward to him dying, but now, how can I only have pathos in my heart?

"Fourth brother!" The fifth prince's voice of 'fourth brother' was full of attachment and pain, and the fourth prince looked at him and chuckled: "There is no need to be like this, our brothers don't have such affection." The fourth prince raised his head slightly, his eyes moved away from the fifth prince, and he looked out the window over him, the fifth prince looked at him silently, lowered his eyes, and was silent for a long time, the fifth prince sighed softly, and the fourth prince turned his eyes back to look at the fifth prince and said, "The Sun family wants to become a monk and practice, and the Zhu family wants to go with me." ”

"What about the eldest sister?" The fifth prince was stunned, and the fourth prince's face was unbearable, and his brows frowned and loosened: "The prince is a generous person, a baby, and a girl, he should take good care of it to win a good reputation of benevolence and compassion...... and her to pick a good home for her. It took a long time for the fifth prince to sigh and nod heavily. The fourth prince lowered his head and played with the cup in his hand, paused and continued: "There is one more thing to please, I wrote a letter, please show it to her, you can rest assured, it is a very ordinary letter, just say goodbye." The fifth prince stalked and nodded with his eyelids down.

The fourth prince raised his voice and called someone to come in to get the letter, handed it to the fifth prince and said, "I won't send it." The fifth prince took the letter and took his leave. Got on the horse out of the gate, first replied to the ban, got on the car in the ban, crooked in the carriage, pinched the letter of the fourth prince in the sleeve of his hand, pinched and pinched until halfway, slowly pulled out the letter, raised it and squinted his eyes for a while, lifted the charcoal basin with one hand, and gently threw the letter in the charcoal basin when his hand fell.

The fourth prince watched the fifth prince walk away, stood in the warm pavilion with his hands behind his back for a long time, turned around and walked out of the warm pavilion, and walked through the garden into Zhu Mingyan's courtyard.

Zhu Mingyan was holding the eldest sister and pointing her the things to show her Bogujia, when she saw the four princes coming in, she hurriedly handed the eldest sister to the nurse, but the four princes reached out to take the eldest sister, held her in his arms and looked at her carefully, bowed his head and kissed her on the face, and then handed her over to the nurse again, and motioned for the nurse to carry her out.

"The prince has spoken?" Zhu Mingyan's voice trembled slightly, and the fourth prince looked at her and replied, "Well, let me go to guard the mausoleum." Zhu Mingyan's eyes flashed, and her eyes widened subconsciously, the fourth prince looked at her, the smile on her face became thicker, and she smiled like a sea of spring flowers: "You are not as good as her." Zhu Mingyan's face turned from red to blue when he laughed, this sentence made her face turn pale in an instant, Zhu Mingyan bit her lip hard and turned her head, tears raining down.

The fourth prince laughed for a while, raised his hand and gently put it on Zhu Mingyan's shoulder, slammed her slightly, pulled the handkerchief in her hand and wiped her tears and said, "I said, you don't have to be like this, it's always good to live." ”

"I'm your wife!" Zhu Mingyan grabbed the sleeve of the fourth prince, and her trembling voice was poignant: "It's your Ming media who is marrying, drinking wine, and getting married!" ”

"Yes," the fourth prince pulled out his sleeves from Zhu Mingyan's hand: "I shouldn't marry you, I lost her, and I'm sorry for you, if there is an afterlife, you have to marry someone who treats you wholeheartedly." If I have an afterlife...... the fourth prince hurriedly said before Zhu Mingyan spoke: "If there is an afterlife, I only hope to be able to fulfill my thoughts in this life, and I can meet her again, I have a fate, and I have a share." Zhu Mingyan took a step back, took another step back, and the fourth prince looked at her and smiled: "Live, after I die, the prince will not make it difficult for you orphans and widows, guard the children, and it is not difficult to live." ”

"No!" Zhu Mingyan clenched her fists and shouted: "There is no one in our Zhu family who is afraid of death!" I said, I want to be with you, live together, die together! The fourth prince looked at her silently for a while before he said softly: "What should be arranged, everything has been arranged, I want to leave tomorrow night." ”

"Good!" Zhu Mingyan burst into tears, and it took a while before she choked up and agreed.