Those few charms were covered by the eldest brother, and the prince pinched them in his hands, recalling everything just now.

He was happily preparing to entertain his father and brothers, but the eldest brother came to say that he wanted to help him get rid of the eighth brother again, since the emperor had been deployed everywhere and could no longer do it casually and directly, he could only punish him.

Of course he wouldn't agree to this sudden incident, but the eldest brother made a killing gesture at him and said, "The next time the musket gun will not miss, and the next time it passes through your head, who will save you?" They can't compare to our hesitation and timidity, you see, they are all ruthless. ”

The crown prince was stunned by him, and now the power in his hands has been withdrawn by the emperor little by little, and the officials released from the prince's hands have been dismissed and deposed, and the civil and military forces in the capital dare not approach the prince, and they have long found another way to support their respective forces, and the Hesheri family has not even left anyone who can speak. The prince is helpless, whoever comes to help him, he will grasp it as a life-saving straw, step by step, and now, he is also broken and broken.

Without further ado, the emperor would soon come, so the two reconciled their words, dispersed the people waiting outside the door, and waited for the curtain in front of the door to stir up the wind, and saw the figure of his father through the screen, and began the conversation just now, every word was in the calculations of the brothers. Yu Xu once said to the eldest brother that the emperor abolished the prince only needs to go down one step, but no matter who goes to pave this step, it will not end well, he might as well wait for others to be anxious, and have time to borrow the prince's hand to get rid of the people who threaten his status.

Water can carry a boat and capsize a boat, the eighth elder brother has a fatal weakness, except for those ministers who hold him up to the sky every day, there is no one in the royal family who can really support him, compared to the fourth elder brother, relying on the adoptive mother and biological mother left and right, what is the matter with him, probably even the queen mother will ask to go to the Qianqing Palace, but if there is anything to the eighth elder brother, just with the face of the concubine, it can't be done at all. Therefore, it is much easier to deal with him than to deal with the fourth elder brother.

Now that the eldest brother and the crown prince have spread things out in a few words, the well-known Babeile is already the "son of destiny", but there are only two, the emperor is happy or unhappy, and at the moment, the old man is absolutely not happy.

Two days after that, except for a few Mongolian princes, the emperor did not see anyone, and the team was supposed to continue to advance towards the Mulan paddock, but on that day, they received an urgent 800-mile rush from the capital, saying that the life of the eighteenth elder brother was hanging by a thread.

In the Forbidden City, there are imperial doctors in and out of Qixiang Palace all day long, but in the end they failed to save the lives of young children, the children's breath is getting weaker and weaker, and the imperial doctors have already pleaded guilty, and they have no way to do it. In the eyes of outsiders, fifteen or sixteen elder brothers are all sons of secret concubines, and it is painful to lose one, but there are other children who can support them. Only Lan Qi knew that the eighteenth elder brother was the only son of the concubine, and the daughter she gave birth to could not be recognized, for the sake of the prince and for Xuanye, the concubine sacrificed her freedom for a lifetime.

On the stormy night, Xiao Eighteen swallowed his last breath, Lan Qi and the concubine were by the child's side, and the concubine finally covered the child with a quilt in despair, without too much entanglement, and let the people from the Internal Affairs Office handle the funeral, Lan Qi looked at her with tears in her eyes, and couldn't say half a word, but the concubine said: "The concubine will find the child and will take care of him for the concubine......"

Lan Qi felt deeply guilty: "I have a thought that will make you work hard all your life." ”

The concubine said with tears in her eyes: "If it weren't for this kind of encounter, the concubine would probably have been silent in that corner for a lifetime." Now that she has lost her freedom, the concubines have gained more, please don't blame herself, the fifteenth elder brother and the sixteenth elder brother are also the children of the concubines. ”

On the side of the holy driver, he had not yet arrived at the Mulan enclosure, and after receiving the news that the eighteenth elder brother was critically ill, the emperor had been hesitating whether to continue to move forward or return to Luan to visit his youngest son.

Everyone knelt down to ask the emperor to mourn, and when they knelt up, the charm in the prince's arms fell to the ground, which frightened the prince unconsciously, and then thought about moving to that position and stepping on it with his feet first, for fear of being seen by anyone. Although this is a spell to bless himself, the magic of witchcraft has always been feared by people, so he is afraid that he will not be able to explain it clearly.

The emperor was talking above, and the prince's mind was on the spell, and he easily stepped on it and breathed a sigh of relief just now, when he was suddenly called by his father, he suddenly raised his head, but he heard the emperor Ama ask him: "Yinren, what did I just say?" ”

The prince's head was blank, he didn't listen at all, and he dealt with his father hesitantly, Xuan Ye was finally angry, and said, "Your own brother is gone, aren't you sad at all?" Isn't it because I feel sorry for a few young princes, and you can't tolerate them in your heart for a long time? Yinren, it's your own brother who is gone. ”

The prince was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt on the ground, stammering to defend himself, no one in the ministers dared to come up to relieve the siege, and Xuan Ye didn't want to hear anything, raised his hand and said: "The eldest brother and the prince, stay where you are with the large army, I want to go back to the palace in a light car to send off the eighteenth elder brother." ”

In this way, escorted by the thirteenth and fourteenth elder brothers, the emperor rushed back to the capital with the fifteenth sixteenth and seventeenth elder brothers, just in time for the funeral of the little eighteenth. Originally, the people in the palace had little contact with the concubines, and they were disgusted with the emperor's liking of the younger sons, and the matter of Qixiang Palace was just a response to the scene, but now when the emperor hurried back, he had to rush to the knot, hoping to settle down in front of the emperor.

The affairs of Qixiang Palace have never been related to others, except for Concubine De and concubines, others are not allowed to enter and leave at will, Concubine Hui and Concubine Rong have not seen concubines for many years, but this time, the palace door is wide open.

Although the eighteenth elder brother is underage, under the instruction of the emperor, a decent funeral was held for him, and the concubines saw the "secret concubine" again after many years, although the people who had known her felt that her appearance was a little strange, but in memory Wang Changzai was a beauty, and the concubine was still a beauty now, and her appearance would change somewhat over the years, and people who didn't know what happened back then also acquiesced to her existence, and didn't think much about it at all.

At most, they are as shrewd as Concubine Rong and Concubine Hui, and they will privately muttered that the concubine is a little strange, but after so many years, except that the emperor is not bad to her, there is nothing superfluous in Qixiang Palace, they are just muttering a few words, and no one intends to explore.

This is an extremely unexpected arrangement for the concubines. As soon as the emperor came back, he asked him to open the door of the Xiang Palace, let everyone come to mourn Xiao Eighteen, let the concubines and concubines meet, and no longer care whether she was the Wang family or the concubine, Xuan Ye said to her: "It is the will of heaven that the child is gone, I can't make up for your injury, but I can't let you be a woman who has been wronged for me, and from now on go out generously to meet anyone." ”

And what he didn't say to the concubine was that he didn't want Lan Qi to bear any more responsibility and guilt, he came up with this method to conceal that the prince had strangled Wang Chang to death by mistake, and he had restrained the concubine for so many years, Lan Qi had also felt guilty for so many years, the concubine was pitiful, Lan Qi was innocent, they were not wrong, but they bore the punishment that should have belonged to the prince.

Back then, Xuan Ye still had a trace of extravagant hope for the prince, but now, there is nothing.

Because the large army still stayed in place, waiting for the holy car to return and continue to walk outside, after the funeral of the eighteenth elder brother, Xuan Ye did not stay for too long, and set off again two days later, only resting quietly in Yonghe Palace for two days, except for the matter of the concubine, Xuan Ye didn't say anything, Lan Qi didn't ask anything, and on the day she left again, she sent it to the door, and said the same sentence that day: "You and the children come back safely, it's fine." ”

The emperor came in a hurry and left in a hurry, but in those two days, it was enough to spread the previous events to the capital, and Yinxiang would inevitably tell the fourth brother that the eldest brother and the prince maliciously slandered the eighth elder brother, and Yinyu told his brother and the eighth elder brother about these two things respectively, but they didn't have time to discuss anything with the elder brother, and escorted the holy car out of Beijing again. When Yinzhen was separated from his younger brother, he said that they didn't have to get involved, and what they should do had been done for the emperor, and Yinzhen was bored for a whole day after learning about those things, and when he came back to his senses, Fourteen had already left with the emperor.

The ninth elder brother didn't know these things, and the eighth elder brother didn't come to see him off on the day the holy driver left Beijing, and he waited for the holy driver to come to the Babeile Mansion to ask the reason, only to hear that the boss and the prince teamed up to seriously injure the eighth elder brother. Yin Yu gritted his teeth with hatred and cursed: "The old man will definitely investigate this matter, starling, we can't be unguarded." Do you want me to kill Zhang Mingde first? ”

Yin Yu said: "Zhang Mingde will definitely not be able to keep it, but we can't kill it, otherwise it will become us killing people and destroying our mouths, and there will be no three hundred taels of silver here." It's just a few words, make it clear that there will be no big incident, and the important thing at the moment is that you can't let the prince and the eldest brother join forces, you listen to my arrangement, and it is important to separate them first. ”

The brothers plotted in the study until dark, and the ninth elder brother left with a murderous face.

At this time, Bafujin was wandering in the garden with Hongwang in his arms, and it was already dinner time, and the concubine Mao came on time with her stomach, and she followed Fujin to finish her meal these days.

Mao's was originally a girl in the pantry, and was inadvertently slept all night by Yinxi, and unexpectedly became pregnant, Bafujin felt that God began to take care of this family, even if it was difficult to tolerate the girl below to seduce the master, but with pregnancy, she still took care of it wholeheartedly.

Zhang Gege also came over soon, she has not dared to call herself Hongwang's biological mother in front of people, and she is cautious in front of Fujin, Bafujin sees that she is honest, and she is not embarrassed, anyway, no matter what Yinxi means, Hongwang's child is raised by her, it is a certainty.

The women sat around the table and were waiting for the people below to invite Yinxi, but the people hurried to say: "Lord Belle said that there is no need for dinner, and there is something important to discuss with Fujin." ”

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