The capital of the Great Yao Emperor has reached the coldest time of the year, and the braziers are burning in all the halls of the palace, and the imperial study is no exception, two pots of charcoal are burning, and the high-quality charcoal screams in the firelight and turns into ash smoke, even so, the big and empty imperial study is still very cold.

From the outside in, it chills the heart and lungs.

"The red blood shark pearl is indeed in the hands of the son, it was the eldest brother who was rewarded by his father, doesn't the father think it is unreasonable to take it back." Yi Chenjing stood under the bookcase, his two inky eyes full of coldness that was diametrically opposed to the firelight.

"That bead is the only one in the world, if you don't take it back, you let me find it again." Putting down the Zhu Pi in his hand, Emperor Yao's expression, which was only better than the previous two days, was indifferent, and he raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at Yi Chenjing, "I want to use it to exchange important information with the Rouhu Envoy, and you use it just to restore the appearance of a woman, if you can't weigh it more seriously, I don't think you have to do it anymore." ”

The tone was light and heavy, and Emperor Yao's words were undoubtedly warning Yi Chenjing, either hand over the Red Blood Shark Bead or ...... The crown prince has already been transposed once, and it doesn't matter if he does it again.

The red blood shark bead has only been in hand for three days, Fu Chu ran all over the imperial capital medicine shop in order to find the ingredients for Bai Qige to make a medicine to restore his appearance, and before dawn he went to the mountains outside the city to look for medicinal materials, when Yi Chenjing was full of joy and waited for the long-awaited day to come, Emperor Yao called him into the imperial study and gave him an order that was no less than a thunderbolt on a sunny day.

Return the Red Blood Shark Bead and go to Ruan Yanluo in exchange for detailed information about a newly established state in Monan.

Yi Chenjing didn't allow it, his mouth was dry, and he argued with Emperor Yao for a long time, but Emperor Yao's attitude did not change at all, and he still asked him to return the treasure he had already received, and even compared Jiangshan Sheji with Bai Qige, his intention was obvious.

The exhaustion and disappointment spread through the bones, Yi Chenjing gave up arguing with reason, his eyebrows were calm, and his palms in his sleeves trembled.

Licking his dry lips, a pair of cold eyes looked at Emperor Yao fixedly: "Erchen has something to ask his father." ”

"Say." Emperor Yao continued to annotate the folds without raising his head.

"Qi Ge knows right from wrong and knows the general situation, and she has made great contributions to my Dayao in the Northern Expedition, and her son's life was also saved by her desperately. Why can't such a shrewd and capable woman become the crown princess. What is there about her that makes your father so dissatisfied that you refuse to give her a way to live, do you want to force her to death or force your son to death. ，”

"Presumptuous," Emperor Yao's face changed sharply, he stood up and flipped over the inkstone and teacup on the bookcase, if it weren't for the distance from Yi Chenjing, I am afraid that he would have slapped him hard. Gonggong Tao, who was waiting outside the door, was so frightened by the angry shouts that he stumbled in, and when he saw the fragments of a teacup on the ground, he was weak, and just wanted to step forward to dissuade him, he was glared at by Emperor Yao, and hurriedly withdrew from the house.

Emperor Yao was furious, Yi Chenjing stiffened his neck and refused to give in, and the father and son confronted each other face to face, until Emperor Yao couldn't help but break the deadlock with a series of coughs. Beating his chest, the elderly Emperor Yao inhaled tremblingly: "If you dare to say that you want to die or live at every turn, I will fulfill you, for the sake of a woman, you do not hesitate to go against my will, and even your temperament has changed, how dare you let me give her the position of crown princess, how dare you leave a woman who can shake the world by your side." ”

"She's not that kind of person," hearing Emperor Yao's suspicion of Bai Qige, Yi Chenjing became even more angry, "How much does my father know about her." Do you know that I ruined her face. Do you know that she has done her best to help me? Do you know how much she sacrificed to keep me from dragging me down? , I can't find a second woman in the world who is as understanding as Qige, and I will never marry anyone else,"

Yi Chenjing's stubbornness made Emperor Yao sneer again and again, but there was a bit of desolation hidden in the laughter, and he walked to the bookshelf with his hands in his hands, and his eyes lingered on the scrolls of illustrated chronicles with gloomy or complicated eyes.

Gradually, the anger in his tone became inaudible.

"Jing'er, do you know what I've regretted the most over the years?"

Yi Chenjing sneered at him, mean and sharp: "Didn't you give birth to my son?" ”

"You,," Emperor Yao turned around angrily, saw the stubbornness in Yi Chenjing's eyes and sighed again, and shook his head heavily, "Of all the princes, I love you and Xuan'er alone, how can I regret becoming father and son with you." There are two things that I can't forgive myself the most in this life, one is to fight for power and force my brother to death, and the other is to make Sima Tulan the queen. The wrinkled palm slapped heavily on the bookshelf, and Emperor Yao's unsteady body was half leaning and half leaning, and his chapped lips squeezed out a wry smile: "Back then, I relied on General Sima and Prime Minister Yao Cheng to seize the throne, and later became the emperor as I wished, and in the face of the combination of soft and hard forces of the two of them, I had to give up your mother to set up Sima Tulan as the queen." At that time, I also comforted myself that Sima Tulan was able to write and martial arts, and everything in the harem was the best candidate for the queen. However, in less than half a year, Sima Tulan began to interfere in the political affairs of the previous dynasty regardless of my determination, which once caused panic in the hearts of the people and turmoil in the courtiers, and almost buried the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains that I had fought so hard to build. ”

The old people in the palace of the central court all know how Emperor Yao's throne was obtained, but no one has ever dared to talk about half a word, after all, palace changes, usurpation, and forcing his brother to death are great rebellions, and these words are also the first time that Emperor Yao mentioned them to Yi Chenjing. Yi Chenjing didn't know what Emperor Yao's intentions were when he said this at this time, he was just angry and couldn't remember what to say, so he listened to it while sorting out his thoughts, and it was this casual listening, why Emperor Yao insisted on appointing someone else as the crown princess and suppressing Bai Qige, which finally surfaced.

"Sima Tulan is very similar to Bai Qige, they are both behind the door, they both have excellent minds, and both of them are women who keep everything in their chests and remain silent. When I saw that Sima Tulan was restrained and steady, I was relieved to give her the back seat to sit, but what did I get in exchange. It was her treachery that ignored my majesty, and tried to cover the sky with one hand, "Speaking of the past, Emperor Yunyan Yao was still very excited, wheezing and coughing several times, and paused for a long time before he could barely continue, "Don't think how Bai Qige treats you now, women, heh, especially smart women, once they are contaminated with power, they will become addicted, how can they take into account their status and the love of husband and wife." Playing with power, secretly forming a party for personal gain, they will do any despicable behavior that you can't imagine, and even want to trample you under your feet as an empress......"

Although he knew that the queen was in power and interfered in politics, such a terrifying inside story was unheard of, Yi Chenjing's anger was suppressed a lot by shock, and the eyes that looked at the figure of Emperor Yao were not as cold as before, and his mouth was still defending Bai Qige.

"The queen is the queen, Qige is Qige, I believe she will not become the second Sima Tulan, she has a deep affection for me, she has experienced life and death on the way to escape from the north, and she will never betray me for power."

"The mountain alliance and the sea oath, life and death are ...... together" Emperor Yao laughed a few times to himself, grabbed a scroll from the bookshelf and threw it on the ground in front of Yi Chenjing, "I and Sima Tulan were not like this back then. I'm ashamed to say that Yun'er, I ...... I did have a heart for Sima Tulan, and after making her the queen, I finally had some feelings in it. ”

Yi Chenjing looked down at the scroll on the ground, and according to the parts scattered outside, he could vaguely judge that it was a military formation map, and the pen and ink were extremely delicate and careful. If the more than 100 volumes on the bookshelf were all of this kind of array, the person who depicted them must have spent a lot of energy and effort on them.

Seeing that Yi Chenjing frowned slightly and noticed the contents of the scroll, Emperor Yao's smile became more and more desolate: "She has drawn a formation map for me for three years, and she is so tired that she almost goes blind; She had blocked stray arrows for me, and she still had arrows scarred on her shoulders...... My relationship with Sima Tulan is not inferior to that between you and Bai Qige, and in the end, what is left of this friendship. Over time, even the strongest things will quietly change. I am a person from the past, and what I am doing now is not to force you, but to prevent you from following in my footsteps, and the more you spoil her and love her, the more reason I have to exclude her from power. ”

The long-standing confusion was finally solved, but Yi Chenjing couldn't relax, and learning that the real reason for Bai Qige's exclusion and suppression made him even more tormented and entangled.

Who's to blame. Blame Emperor Yao's eyes are too vicious. Blame Bai Qige for being too clever and arousing suspicion. still blames him for loving the wrong person, blames him for not trying to conspire with the country and wants to hold hands with Bai Qige for the rest of his life. He believed in Bai Qige, and he could scoff at betrayal, but would anyone else believe it. She has the old charge of treason and humiliation to her family, and there are a few who can be as convinced as he is.

The hesitation and annoyance were all under the eyes of the emperor, he was silent for a while, took two steps closer and patted Yi Chenjing on the shoulder: "For the monarch is the most taboo to fall into the world for one person, if you want to be a virtuous king, you must put the society and the people's livelihood above the love of your children, not because she is moody, and does not disturb the people in the world with her words and thoughts." Now there is a new community in Monan that has risen rapidly, and in just two years, hundreds of scattered ethnic groups in Monan and Zhongzhou have been collected, and a large number of exiled thugs have been recruited as troops, which can be described as a great hidden danger. Jing'er, take a long-term view, her Bai Qige is small in appearance, the general trend of the world is important in the future, whether it is worth exchanging a red blood shark pearl for a lot of useful news, I am waiting for you to decide, this can be regarded as the first test for you to become the monarch of Da Yao. ”

Test. In the past 20 years, he has experienced fewer tests. Yi Chenjing sneered silently, stepped on the sharp shards all over the ground and turned to leave.

It is said that the red face is in trouble, and the beauty is in ruins, he wants the world to see, Bai Qige is not the disaster of the country but a generation of virtuous concubines, with her, he may not be a virtuous emperor and benevolent emperor; Without her...... He could never be better than he is now.

Returning to the East Palace with a depressed heart, Yi Chenjing couldn't wait to rush to the bedroom, he wouldn't hand over the red blood shark beads, not to mention whether Rou Hu really had any useful information, Ruan Yanluo couldn't listen to his words just because he was full of calculations, who knew if what she said was true or false, and who would be beneficial to the information given. What's more, this red-blooded shark pearl is very important to Bai Qige.

The second dark compartment in the bedroom was dressed, and the box containing the red blood shark beads was hidden there, Yi Chenjing bent down and stretched out his hand to grope in the space of the black hole, his face changed suddenly, and his heart sank.

The red blood shark bead is gone,