Liang Gonggong trembled and said: "The slave intends to solve all the people involved, and the slave will never mention the matter of the stone to the second person other than the Lord of Long Live ...... the prince."

"You go back to the palace overnight." The emperor opened his mouth to interrupt Liang Gonggong's words, his clenched fist unconsciously loosened, staring at the winter hat on Liang Gonggong's head, and the words were murderous, "You go back to the palace secretly, solve a person for me first, and pry out everything that can be known from the living mouth, and then what to do, you understand." ”

Liang Gonggong was excited, and asked the saint on his back: "Long live the master, who does the slave do?" ”

In the middle of the night, Gonggong Liang ordered his most powerful subordinates to serve the emperor, so he took the waist card and secretly left Changchun Garden under the cover of the emperor's cronies and guards. This time he was going to kill when he returned to the Forbidden City, he knew that the emperor was in a hurry, and he didn't want to wait for him or others to peel off the cocoon, there has always been the fastest way to know a lot of things, but there are too many people and things to take into account when throwing a mouse bogey, but now that the prince is forced to commit suicide, the emperor can't wait.

God knows how much shame it will be for the court and the royal family if the crown prince dies in the lake tonight, and this shame will be passed down from generation to generation, even if the emperor does his best to create a legacy for all generations, it will become a stain that he cannot erase.

In Ningchun Hall, after the prince and the fourth elder brother were brought back, the queen mother arranged a room for each of them to sleep, the queen mother and the prince were not very close, after a few polite words of concern, they came to the fourth elder brother's room, and the little eunuch was rubbing the medicine and wine on the fourth elder brother's knees, and the queen mother said angrily: "You have always been the most well-behaved child among the brothers, look at this toss." ”

Yin Zhen hurriedly apologized: "Imperial grandmother, my grandson is wrong." ”

The Queen Mother smiled: "Where is the grandson who made a mistake in my grandmother's eyes, I am reluctant to blame you, I feel sorry for you, and I feel sorry for your mother." Her back injury is like that and she can't move, and she is worried that you will kneel in the Qingxi Study House, so she can only send Huanchun to beg me to take you out, your mother must not be asleep at this time, so I will worry about you. ”

Yin Zhen lowered his head and whispered, "It's the grandson who is not good." ”

"Think about it yourself, when Ming'er sees your mother, give her an explanation, and other people will be fine." The Queen Mother meant something, and seemed to be aware that it was not so simple to involve the prince in this matter, knowing that Lan Qi would definitely teach her son, she didn't have to bother much, and she had to go to rest after a few words of appeasement.

Sending away the imperial grandmother, the fourth elder brother cleaned up and wrapped himself in the quilt and lay down, closing his eyes and thinking that the prince was still throwing himself into the lake, but because it was dark at that time, he just saw a figure jumping down, but the original vague memory was subjectively portrayed clearly by him when he recalled the words of the prince in the warm pavilion of the Qingxi Library. Because of this, he suddenly felt that everything was too unreal, and even the feelings he felt at that moment were all imagined by himself, only the prince's desperate words made him worry, his brother was forced into such a desperate situation? What does it mean to be a prince?

This night is destined to be uneasy, Lan Qi can't sleep after taking the calming decoction, and his body can't move, so he woke up for a night, but the next morning because he was too tired and fell asleep, when the fourth elder brother came to ask for peace in the morning, his mother had just fallen asleep, so he could only return to Taoyuan Bookstore to study, the third elder brother asked him what happened, he only mentioned the words in front of his father as usual, but even the third elder brother patted his head and said: "What kind of fish do you catch in the dark?" ”

Sure enough, no one believed this excuse, but Yinzhen and the prince said that they would only say this excuse when they were killed, but he didn't expect that Eniang would really beat him.

After the morning's schoolwork, he went to the next room to see Xiao Hezi, Xiao Hezi and several other eunuchs who served the fourth elder brother were dragged to play the board last night, one person thirty boards, knocked out half of his life, and he was still dying at this time, and the strong smell of ointment in the room made the fourth elder brother almost suffocate.

When he said some words of comfort and promise and left Xiao Hezi, someone from Rui Jingxuan came and asked him to see his mother. When I entered the door of Rui Jingxuan, I felt that the atmosphere inside and outside the house was gloomy, and when I entered my mother's bedroom, I saw Huan Chun standing on the side with a pale face holding a rattan in his hand.

Yinzhen's heart jumped suddenly, his mother raised her body and half lay on the couch, he stood in front of the door and didn't dare to go in, but he heard his mother ask: "Why don't you come in, you broke your knee last night, can't you walk?" ”

From childhood to adulthood, I have only seen the slaves in the Chengqian Palace being beaten, only seen Xiao Hezi being beaten for him in the study, the adoptive mother has barely moved a finger of him, even if he makes a mistake, he will be scolded or punished at most, and after a while, it must be the adoptive mother who can't hold back to coax him, he has never been afraid of punishment, but today he saw the rattan in Huanchun's hand, and saw the mother who was injured on the bed but was imposing, and he couldn't even move his legs.

The hideous rattan streak across the air, and the muffled sound of whipping on the flesh made everyone creepy, and the green beads waited outside the door to try to enter at any time to dissuade them, but they only heard the beating sound and didn't hear the crying, but they didn't know what to do, Ziyu asked timidly: "Fourth elder brother refuses to admit his mistake?" ”

At this moment, in the Qingxi Book House, a eunuch rushed to tell him in a panic, saying that the prince was unwell in the morning and was left in Ningchun Hall by the Queen Mother to continue to rest, and now he has a high fever and is a little burnt, and the Queen Mother asked the emperor to go over and take a look.

Xuan Ye hurried over, Yinren really burned groggily, his body was as hot as a stove, he was distressed in the end, the prince had a pox rash in the past, and he was by his side day and night, at that time, he held the hot child in his arms, what he thought in his heart was that he must take care of his son, he must train him to be the best prince, the prince is the only thought left to him by his wife, he can't lose the prince.

But why can't he have such a pure mind now, and why has his feelings for his son changed so dramatically now? Did the prince disappoint him again and again, or did he do something to disappoint the prince first? Xuan Ye's hatred in his heart was that the prince would attack the empress dowager, even if there was no conclusive evidence for those things, he couldn't convince himself of the prince's innocence.

"Huang Eniang, Huang Eniang......" The sleeping prince muttered, as if he had seen someone in a dream, Xuan Ye suddenly felt heartache when he heard it, and involuntarily held his son's hand, the prince seemed to feel something, and gradually fell asleep peacefully, and his breathing was much smoother.

The Queen Mother pressed the corner of her eyes with a handkerchief, as if she was pitying this motherless child, and was opening her mouth to persuade Xuan Ye not to blame them too much, and let the prince recuperate well with her, but the grandmother outside the door came in to say goodbye, and said with a sad face: "The Queen Mother, the emperor, the news from Ruijingxuan that Concubine De beat the fourth elder brother very lightly, and I don't know if I will fight at this time." ”

The Queen Mother was anxious, and sighed repeatedly: "I was worried last night, but I guessed correctly, what is Lan Qi doing, the fourth elder brother is so old, how can he still fight?" ”

But Xuan Ye said coldly: "It's less than twelve years old, it's not too big to go, and after I got married, I was beaten by the emperor's grandmother, why can't he beat him?" He is twenty or thirty years old, and as long as he is a son, he can still fight. ”

Seeing the emperor's attitude, the queen mother didn't say anything more after a few words of persuasion, Xuan Ye really asked his mother to take care of the prince who had a fever, and left the prince in Ningchun Hall, she didn't stay too long, and left after the prince slept peacefully. The eunuch who went out and followed him diligently asked the emperor if he would go to Ruijingxuan, but Xuan Ye went straight to Qingxi Study, and instructed: "After the fourth elder brother returns to Taoyuan Study, he will come and ask me if I will go." ”

In Ruijingxuan, the fourth elder brother was put in his younger brother's room to be drugged, the fourteenth elder brother was taken away, and the thirteenth elder brother stood on the side and smoked. He knew that the fourth brother was beaten, and he also heard the sound of rattan whipping, and the frightened child didn't understand what was happening, and at this time, he held the beam pillar and secretly glanced at his brother lying on the bed from time to time, and cried pitifully.

"Brother Thirteen, shall we go out and have fun?" The nurse came to pull Yinxiang away, but the little brother hugged the pillar and refused, choked up and said, "I, I want to accompany the fourth brother." ”

The nurse coaxed gently: "Niangniang is also crying, isn't the thirteenth elder brother going to coax Eniang?" Let's go and coax Eniang to stop crying, okay to accompany the fourth elder brother again? ”

The thirteenth elder brother also loved his mother, so he immediately agreed, followed the nurse, and cried while saying, "Fourth brother, I will come to see you later." ”

Yin Zhen, who was lying on the bed in pain and was weak, heard the thirteenth brother's nurse say that Eniang was crying, her eyes were full of guilt and worry, and she couldn't help biting her lower lip tightly. ”

This is really ridiculous, Yinzhen has long been so painful that he can't speak, how can the medicine not hurt, he doesn't have the strength to care, he didn't say a word on his stomach, and the little eunuch babbled and said: "Fourth brother, you make a little noise, you can't get rid of the hot poison." After a while, he said, "The slave entered the palace later, and he didn't encounter the events of the year, and I heard the masters say that Concubine De Niangniang was still in Zhongcui Palace for a while, in order to help the Lord of Long Live calm down the affairs of the court, she took the initiative to go to Cining Palace to beg the Empress Dowager to beat her, I don't know what to take, and half of my life was gone when I carried it back, but the masters said that it was that beating, and it played out the love between the Empress Dowager and our mother for more than ten years. Fourth brother, don't hate your mother, how can you be a son who won't be beaten by your mother. ”

Yin Zhen was groggy in pain, where could he still listen to what the little eunuch said, in the past, Xiao Hezi was beaten for him and always said with a hippie smile and said that it was okay, it was okay, he had not suffered this hardship, and Xiao Hezi was still alive after recovering from his injury, so he really thought it was okay, and now he knows how much suffering the most loyal to him has suffered for himself.

On the one hand, he was pitiful for Xiao Kazuko, and on the other hand, he was full of guilt for his mother, when he was carried out of Eniang's bedroom, he had already seen her tears, and he knew that compared to heartache, the pain of flesh and skin was really nothing, but he was too weak, and he was beaten so hard for the first time since he was born, and he soon fell asleep.

On this side, the thirteenth elder brother lay beside Lan Qi, stretched out his chubby little hand from time to time to wipe his tears for Eniang, and said in a milky voice that he would be obedient and obedient and not make Eniang angry, her mood had gradually stabilized, but she turned her face and saw Huanchun who was still sitting on the ground and crying, and said angrily: "You are like this, are you doing it for me?" ”

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