The sky was cloudy, and the clouds gradually converged directly above Kyoto, turning the misty light into a dim darkness. In the chaotic complex at the back of the palace, the resting eunuchs and palace maids were still turning over in their sleep, but some of them had already woken up.

Hong Zhuqiang slapped himself one by one, trying to use such an action to keep himself calm. He wasn't on duty in the East Palace today, so he wasn't killed by those eunuchs and guards, but even if he lived in the courtyard of the Huanyi Fang, he still felt scared and didn't know what he was going to face next.

There was a sudden sound outside the courtyard, although it did not wake up those who were sleeping, but it was so frightened that Hong Zhu rushed to the window at once, and the hand in his sleeve tightly held a poison-feeding dagger that Fan Xian gave him for self-defense, always ready to fight to the death with those who came to kill him.

If you fight, you will naturally be unable to escape the dead end, but if you don't fight, you will be caught, and your father-in-law Xiaohong, who is as stubborn as a scholar in his heart, will not do anything.

His hands were trembling, his ears were on the door, and he listened to the sounds outside the courtyard, and from time to time there were screams and wails, but those voices only rang for a few moments, and then disappeared immediately.

His face was extremely pale, knowing that there were people killing people outside, and the eunuchs and palace maids who lived in this part of Huanyifang were basically the subordinates who served the East Palace and Guangxin Palace, Hong Zhu of course knew what was happening outside, he clenched the dagger and bit his lip nervously, so that he didn't notice that his lips were broken.

I don't know when those people will come and kill themselves.

I don't know if I can fight to the death.

Hong Zhu nervously waited for death to come.

............ However, I don't know how long it took, but still no one came to knock on the door of Hongzhu's courtyard, and gradually the movement in the Huanyi Workshop disappeared, and the outside of the courtyard returned to calm.

Hong Zhu swallowed a mouthful of saliva with a slightly fishy smell, nervously looked out through the crack in the door, and found that there was no one outside. He tried to push the door open and go out to see what was going on, but his body had already stiffened with fear, and he couldn't move for a while.

He squatted down and rubbed his ankles, mustered up all his courage, pushed the door and walked to the street of Huanyifang, looked around with some distraction, and found that the doors of the residences of the little eunuchs and palace maids not far away were closed, and there seemed to be nothing abnormal.

He walked out of a yard and cautiously reached for it.

The door was not latched and opened with a push.

Hong Zhu looked at the courtyard in front of him, the paleness on his face became even thicker, and even his lips began to glow.

He didn't see the corpses all over the courtyard, but he saw a few pools of blood in inconspicuous corners, and the courtyard was empty, and no one was left in the courtyard.

Presumably the same is true in other courtyards, the eunuchs and palace maids in these courtyards have all been killed by His Majesty's order, and even the corpses have been dragged to some secret places and burned under the cover of darkness before the early morning.

His majesty's hand was really bloody.

............ Hong Zhu withdrew from the empty courtyard a little stupidly, and stood in the deserted alley of Huanyifang, he didn't understand why those people didn't come to kill him, a kind of emotion and fear for the rest of his life were intertwined in his heart, making his whole body tremble.

Click!

In the depths of the dark clouds in the sky, a bright light lit up, and in an instant, the thunder rumbled throughout Kyoto and the countryside of Kyoto's Shino, followed by a strong wind, and countless raindrops fell on the ground accompanied by wind and thunder.

Hong Zhu stood in the heavy rain, letting the rain wash his face and wet his thin clothes, and after a long time he came to his senses, holding the dagger like a life-saving straw tightly, and returned to his small courtyard, closing the wooden door tightly, never daring to open it again.

―――――――――――――――――――――――――――Father, why is this!" The crown prince glared at his father with an anger that was rarely seen in ordinary times, and roared loudly, "Why!"

Emperor Qingguo didn't answer his words, just stared at the queen's dejected face, put his hands behind his back, slowly lowered his head, and put his face next to the queen's face.

The queen's body shook for no reason, watching the middle-aged man she was most familiar with, loved and hated the most, approaching her, seeing clearly the black-edged golden dragon robe on his body, seeing the gold lines on the dragon robe clearly, and smelling the smell of the other party, but she couldn't see the expression on the man's face clearly, and she couldn't see the mood hidden under the expression.

Many years have passed, and the empress has never seen the emperor clearly.

Her body trembled again, and it was obvious that the empress was afraid of His Majesty the Emperor from the depths of her bones.

The emperor attached himself to her ear and whispered, "The good son you taught. ”

The queen was stunned for a moment, she didn't know why there was such a terrible thing in the Qing Palace today, at this time, after listening to the emperor, she knew that it was related to the prince, but the prince has been so stable recently, what can he provoke? Especially when she heard what the emperor said, a kind of female love made the queen excited, and shouted in a sharp voice: "My son?

There was a crisp snap in answer to the empress, and the emperor slowly withdrew his palm, looked at the empress who was covering his cheeks in front of him, looked at his empress in disbelief, and said indifferently: "If you don't want to be wasted, don't yell here." ”

Although the words were soft, they carried a chilling coldness.

A flash of despair flashed in the queen's eyes, and she looked at the emperor nervously and cried and laughed: "You beat me...... You've been beating me for more than ten years...... You don't even bother to look at me, and you actually beat me at this time? Am I ...... Should I thank you?"

At this time, the crown prince saw that his mother was humiliated, and he had already rushed over with a roar, stopped in front of the queen, stared at the emperor angrily and helplessly, and shouted: "Father, enough!"

But although he stopped between the emperor and the empress, the emperor's deep eyes seemed to have no idea the prince at all, and passed directly through his body, staring at the empress who was crying behind him, and said lightly: "Don't lose your dignity, you know? ”

The queen raised her head in fear, glanced at the emperor through the prince's not generous body, bit her lip, and did not speak for a long time.

Seeing that she did not answer, the emperor frowned slightly and took a step forward.

One step further, you will have to crash directly into the prince's body.

The prince's heart was already cold at this time, he knew what a mean and ruthless person his father was, a generation of monarchs, there would never be any kindness of a woman, especially at this moment, his father slapped the queen mother, but at least it proves that he still treats the queen mother as a person.

But the emperor's gaze penetrated directly through himself, as if he did not exist zài, what does this mean? This shows that the emperor no longer regards himself as a human being!

............ The crown prince didn't understand why his father was so angry and so intolerant of himself, and suddenly he thought of something about Tsubaki, and his face became more and more pale, but he still stood in front of the queen, because he wanted to protect his mother.

Although the emperor only took a step forward, the crown prince felt a great eastern mountain coming from the top, and a compelling momentum erupted from the man in the dragon robe in front of him, directly pressing on his body.

The crown prince seemed to be able to hear the creaking of his knees, and he was frightened, and he wanted to retreat, but he couldn't, because he knew that the emperor was in a rage, and he didn't know what the emperor would do to the queen mother in anger.

So he stood between the emperor and the empress without giving a step, trying his best to resist the compelling momentum, his heart was a little trance, thinking, is this the momentum that a generation of overlords have?

"Why?" the prince struggled to support under the strong pressure, and the green tendons on his neck burst out, and he screamed: "Father, why!"

This time, the emperor finally looked at the crown prince squarely, looking at the young man who dared to stop in front of him, his eyes were shining with a faint light, and his voice seemed to be squeezed out of his lips, and he scolded in a low voice: "Disgusting!"

............ The prince understood, the prince proved his guess, the prince collapsed, the prince's legs went limp, and he suddenly fell down in front of the emperor, and began to cry, tears and snot all over his face.

The emperor didn't look at him again, walked up to the empress's side, waved his hand indifferently, and pulled it out with another slap!

The queen screamed miserably, fell to the ground by this slap, and lay on the low couch.

The Emperor lowered his head, attached himself to the Empress's ear, and said in a voice of gnashing teeth: "I handed over this child to you, and you brought him like this?"

............ The emperor raised his body and walked indifferently towards the outside of the east palace, and when he was about to leave the palace gate, he turned his head and glanced at the prince who was sitting on the ground with indifference and disgust, and said disdainfully: "If you dared to stand in front of me all the time, I may still give you some respect." ”

After saying this, the extremely ruthless Emperor Qingguo brushed his sleeves away, his figure seemed so upright, so cold, not at all like a husband or wife, but ...... Just a monarch.

The door of the East Palace was slowly closed, and the smell of blood in the hall still remained, but except for the queen and the crown prince who were crying bitterly, there was no one, and it seemed so lonely.

The prince suddenly stood up slowly, and sat his mother down with some indifference.

With a snap, the queen slapped him. The prince didn't hide, his eyes were full of despair and struggle, he raised his hand and grabbed his mother's wrist for the second time, and said fiercely: "Mother...... If you don't want to die, hurry up and find a way to notify nǎinǎi!"

The queen was stunned.

............ East Palace and Guangxin Palace, inside and outside the palace, inside and outside the Huanyi Fang, in half an hour, any eunuch and palace maid who had served in the two palaces had been killed at this time, except for Hong Zhu, there was not a single living mouth, hundreds of unjust souls, and they were sacrificed for the emperor to cover up the scandal of the royal family.

Perhaps it was only at this time that His Majesty, the emperor of Qingguo, began to gradually reveal his most iron-blooded, ruthless, and powerful side.

This middle-aged man in a dragon robe came to the outside of Guangxin Palace alone.

He was not followed by any eunuch.

When the old eunuch Hong saw him coming, he bowed deeply, and then disappeared like a ghost.

In this entire Guangxin Palace, only the eldest princess in the palace, and the emperor outside the palace, the two of them stood across the thick palace gate, I don't know what each other is thinking, what is next, or memories? Is it more than ten years of acquaintance, or a moment of life and separation? Is it a monarch or a brother and sister?

The wind is blowing.

The dark clouds over Kyoto are getting thicker.

A bolt of lightning struck, and countless rains poured down.

The eldest princess sitting on the low couch slowly raised her head and looked at the palace gate with an indifferent and ridiculous gaze, the palace gate was slowly pushed open in a creak, and a middle-aged man who was soaked and had long hair scattered behind him slowly walked in, and the dragon painted on the dragon robe on his body seemed to be struggling in the wet water, wanting to rush out and tear up the world.

The eldest princess, Li Yunrui, looked at him indifferently and said, "It turns out that you will also be like this." ”

Thunder and lightning thunder and lightning shone in the dark palace in the sky, and in a very short time, everything was illuminated with incomparably brightness.

Especially the figure of the emperor's majesty, that angry and depressed, lonely and domineering figure.