The emperor and Rong Zhan looked at each other, and the huge palace was quiet, as if a needle could be heard when it fell, except for the emperor's henchman and eunuch.

After a long while, the emperor finally spoke: "I did have an affair with your mother at the beginning. ”

Rong Zhan closed his eyes.

However, I heard the emperor continue: "But we were all calculated at the beginning, and we didn't really mean to do so. ”

Rong Zhan looked at the emperor incredulously, and the emperor said seriously: "I have no reason to lie to you. Now that it has been admitted, no amount of explanation is useless. And your birth, it's really hard to say. ”

Rong Zhan stared at the emperor, and his heart was unspeakably complicated.

The emperor said seriously: "Maybe you don't believe it, but there are some things that I still have to make clear to you." I was betrothed to your mother, but your mother and your father fell in love at first sight. So she repented of marrying and remarrying. But even so, I didn't do anything, whether it was because of true love or because of a better identity, I can understand that everyone's pursuit is different. We don't have much contact, and we don't even talk much when we meet in private, so we know that we want to avoid walking and avoiding suspicion. ”

Rong Zhan listened quietly to these old things, if it weren't for the fact that they had investigated this step now, the emperor would definitely not have said this.

But now that I have said it, it is like opening a box that can release the devil at once, and the faces of many people have become clear and a little hateful.

The emperor seemed to be caught in distant memories, and it seemed as if he was really thinking about the old past.

"There are about two years of such days. For the past two years, I have not had any contact with your mother. Don't talk about meeting in private. But in the autumn of that year, there was a ground movement in Yaocheng. Since ancient times, it has been the case, but whenever the ground moves, the emperor must go to the Buddhist temple to fast for a month, eat fast and recite the Buddha, and pray for the royal family. According to custom, the prince does it for him. The crown prince went to the national temple to eat fasting and pray Buddha instead of his father, but your mother did not go. Coincidentally, it was the last few days of those days, my mother's birthday, and your mother, as a daughter-in-law, naturally had to be there, because she was not loved by my mother when she was married to me. It just so happened that the prince was not there, but she also suffered a lot of ridicule. She is used to being like this, and when she is wronged, she only endures it and never refutes it. ”

Speaking of this, the emperor had a little tenderness on his face, but Rong Zhan sneered: "Don't you say anything about being wronged?" I don't see her like this now. ”

The emperor shook his head and said, "Who knows! It's just that at the time, she was. She went back to her room early to rest, and I talked with a few brothers, when my mother was already in charge of the harem, so several princes were there. Speaking of which, I don't know who drugged myself, and I haven't found out one or two so far. I didn't find out at the beginning, but now these old things are like old sesame seeds and rotten grain, and they can no longer be found. Anyway, I was drugged and put in the same room as her. And she was also hit with aphrodisiac ~ medicine. That's why we did that perverse thing without knowing anything about each other. ”

Speaking of this, the emperor looked at Rong Zhan sincerely: "Two months later, she was diagnosed with joy, and I also asked her about you at that time." At that time, she insisted that she had nothing to do with me, and was the son of the prince. After all, after that incident, the imperial brother returned on the sixth day, so I can't say anything. But you were born prematurely. It is not known whether it was a real premature birth or a false premature birth. ”

Rong Zhan raised his eyebrows: "The people who calculate you just want you to sleep?" ”

Speaking of which, there is a bit of sarcasm.

The emperor shook his head: "Of course not, we did that unreasonable thing at that time, and after we woke up, we regretted it very much. But I also knew in my heart that someone must have calculated, and we made an agreement to discuss the matter later. I still want to leave immediately, but soon I heard the voice of the Queen Mother and many concubines and princesses coming to this side, and I wanted to escape through the back window, but I found that the back window was fixed, except for this main entrance, there was no side exit. If I don't understand that, then it's stupid. ”

Rong Zhan: "Then how did you escape?" ”

The emperor said, "At that time, I couldn't leave, and finally hid in her bathtub, because it was sprinkled with flower petals."

When Rong Zhan heard this, he fell silent, not knowing how to speak.

"Later, I deliberately asked the queen mother why she would pass, you know that your imperial grandmother is very smart, so I was extra careful, around the circle, only then did I know that it was Concubine Hui's proposal, think carefully about that day, Concubine Hui is indeed a little strange, she also deliberately dropped something, lowered her head to pick it up, and then checked whether there was someone hidden under the bed. But Concubine Hui has no son, and she has no entanglement with the prince, so she can't do it at all. Just as I was about to secretly hold Concubine Hui to ask, she fell into the water and died. At that time, I didn't have so much power in the palace, and it was inconvenient to investigate many things, so in the end, the matter was closed. When I came back, no one said anything, so I was relieved. ”

Rong Zhan frowned, didn't say a word about these words, and didn't react extraordinarily.

It has already come to this point, and the emperor has no reason to cheat him, so he believes that there is no need for the emperor to lie about this matter. But who did this to cause such a result?

He suddenly asked, "Then on the night Concubine Hui died, was my mother in the palace?" ”

The emperor looked at Rong Zhan incredulously and said slowly, "You doubt your mother? Why should you suspect her, she is just a victim. You don't know, you don't know, she once committed suicide because of this incident, if I hadn't found out in time, I'm afraid she would have died at that time. Besides, on the day Concubine Hui died, she was not in the palace. She left the palace on the second day of the accident, and she has been living in the prince's mansion, and she has not entered the palace again at all. ”

Rong Zhan really couldn't help but doubt his mother at all, if the mother in his memory was a gentle and kind woman, then now he was like a poisonous snake.

Jiao Yue sometimes jokes that he is like a snake, he looks at people coldly, and he can break out in a cold sweat in the summer, Rong Zhan didn't care about it, but now that he thinks about it, in fact, his mother doesn't give people such a feeling!

He said seriously: "I don't want to doubt her, but she is a ...... person" Rong Zhan paused, "The reason why I was injured this time, and I was injured so badly, is all due to her." ”

The emperor and Rong Zhan looked at each other like this, and Rong Zhan continued: "Since you are sincere, I am naturally sincere, I entered the palace to see her this time. But she assassinated me. And the knife wound was fed with poison. If it weren't for my fate, I'm afraid I would have died in Xiliang a long time ago, and in a few years, you can go to my separate head to go to my grave for me. ”

Speaking of this, he sneered and said slowly: "Oh yes, I even forgot that this person, the former princess of Daqi, is now the queen of Xiliang." ”

The emperor stood up in astonishment, he stared at Rong Zhan, and said in a lost voice: "What did you say?" ”

Rong Zhan smiled with a touch of bitterness: "What did I say?" That's probably what it means. You see, things are not as simple as you think, and so is she, maybe you think she is gentle, virtuous and innocent, but who can tell me why the gentle woman I remember is like this? If she hadn't lied to me, I wouldn't have been hurt. With that gentle face, she took my mother's name and stabbed me in this way. ”

Speaking of which, Rong Zhan simply felt that this was the funniest thing in the world.

He had never thought of his so-called mother as such a person, but now facts always speak louder than words.

He looked at the emperor and said seriously: "You say, such a woman who can do something to her own son, can I really say that she is good?" Jiaoyue also speculated that she had a hard time, she wanted to avenge my father, but who knows everything about everything? ”

Rong Zhan's whole person was a little lonely, he was uncomfortable, but he didn't know what to say was the best, so he could only say: "There are always many possibilities and impossibilities in life, but who can tell me why my mother is like this." Father unknown, mother is such a vicious woman, I ......"

Rong Zhan didn't wait to finish speaking, he saw a yellow figure come to his side, he stared at the emperor's face, and smiled mockingly: "You don't have to sympathize with me, since I was a child, I have been used to many things." ”

Rong Zhan's appearance really made the emperor feel a little uncomfortable, but no matter how uncomfortable he was, he couldn't resist the guilt he felt.

"It's my fault."

Rong Zhan shook his head, at this time, in fact, no one was wrong.

He said, "Maybe not, it's really wrong, and it's not you." ”

Rong Zhan has always been one yard to one yard, although he has a lot of nostalgia for the emperor, but he is still very sensible.

The emperor said: "Zhan'er, maybe those are really not rumors, maybe you are really my son, after all, you were born prematurely, you ......"

Rong Zhan immediately said: "Please also ask the emperor to be cautious, I want to say this, no matter who it is, it is inappropriate." I said no, it just wasn't. ”

He was calm and firm: "I am the orphan of the first prince, I am Rong Zhan, the prince of honor, with you, it is the relationship between uncle and nephew, as for other relationships, there is no other relationship at all." ”

The emperor frowned: "Why are you ......?"

The rest of the words were not said much, but he sighed faintly and said, "Since you insist on this, I will not stop you." ”

Rong Zhan smiled: "Thank you." ”

The two looked at each other like this, and seemed to have reached a consensus.

In the middle of the ring, the emperor said, "I see that you are also tired, go and see your grandmother, and then go back to rest." Tomorrow, I will take the little girl of the Su family into the palace to have a good life and a good life to accompany your grandmother more, this time she is worried about it. ”