Wang Quanquan walked all the way down the street, and then turned around three times and two times, and soon arrived at the alley he remembered last night, and after tidying up his clothes, he stepped forward and knocked on the door.

"Who?" A middle-aged man's voice came from inside the room.

Immediately, the door was opened, and it was the middle-aged man Wang Quanquan saw last night who opened the door.

"What does my father-in-law do?"

Wang Quanquan pinched his throat and replied, "The miscellaneous family came on the orders of the second prince. ”

The middle-aged man looked the king's authority up and down, "Why didn't the father-in-law come before?" ”

"Oh, that father-in-law has a cold, I'm afraid I'll infect my husband." The kingship began to make up nonsense.

The middle-aged man didn't suspect it, and opened the courtyard door to invite the king inside.

As soon as he entered the door, Wang Quanquan smelled a strong smell of traditional Chinese medicine, the yard was not big, and there were a few chickens and ducks, Wang Quanquan cautiously followed the middle-aged man, and did not ask for extra words.

Under the leadership of the middle-aged man, Wang Quanquan entered the house through the courtyard, the light in the house was dim, and the smell of medicine was much heavier.

On either side of the door is a stove, on which a stove is placed, and the casserole on the stove is gurgling white smoke, and the smell of medicine comes from here.

"Father-in-law, please come with me."

Following the guidance of the middle-aged man, Wang Quanquan entered a back room, which was old-fashioned, and an old man was lying on the bed, coughing from time to time.

"Lang Zhong came once today, called the pulse, and said that his condition was temporarily stable." The middle-aged man spoke to himself.

Wang Quanquan still hadn't figured it out, guessing that the second prince probably came to visit the old man.

"Well, that's good, the second prince is worried."

Wang Quanquan continued to speak, and sure enough, the middle-aged man who heard this did not doubt it and nodded.

"Let the second prince rest assured that the villain should take care of the old lady."

Wang Quanquan nodded, "In this case, I will go back and tell you first." ”

"Slow ......"

The old man, who had been bedridden, turned his head and caused a series of coughs as he spoke.

Only then did Wang Quanquan see the old man's appearance, he should have been over sixty years old, his hair was gray and wrinkled, and his cloudy eyes were not very bright, and he thought that time was running out.

Seeing that the old man was about to get up, the middle-aged man hurriedly stepped forward to help him and put a pillow on the old man's back.

"Fu Ning, you go down first, I have something I want to say to this father-in-law."

The middle-aged man nodded and retreated, closing the door as he left.

The old man looked at Wang Quanquan with cloudy eyes, and Wang Quanquan smiled back, and after a while, the old man finally spoke:

"You're not the father-in-law in the palace."

The old man opened his mouth and broke through the disguise of the king's authority, but the king's authority did not deny it, and still looked at the old man with a smile.

Seeing that he didn't react, the old man continued: "If the old man is not mistaken, you should be the prince in the palace, and according to your age, it should be the eighth prince." ”

The old man said the first sentence, Wang Quanquan did not feel strange, first of all, the nonsense he made up was too rough, and a little thought will reveal the flaws in his words, and besides, this old man is very likely to be that kind of think tank in the eyes of Wang Quanquan, so it is not difficult to see through that he is pretending to be a eunuch.

But the other party directly guessed his true identity, which made Wang Quanquan secretly frightened, where is this old man sacred?

Seeing that Wang Quanquan looked incredulous, the old man who was seriously ill in bed smiled.

"Your Highness doesn't need to be overly nervous, the old man is just a common person, and he can guess His Highness's identity, just because he has lived a few more years and has seen more."

Seeing that his identity was revealed, the king's authority no longer disguised, and bent down to give a salute.

"Old man, I came here this time to solve my doubts."

The old man stroked his beard and smiled, "I'm afraid Your Highness's confusion can't be solved, I don't know if Your Highness is willing to listen to me tell a story." ”

Tale? Wang Quanquan was a little puzzled, but nodded anyway.

"I remember that it was more than 20 years ago, the second year after the dynasty was just established, and His Majesty had not yet ascended the throne at that time, and the Pingnan general Hou Dachang plotted to rebel. As the second son of the old emperor, he was ordered to lead troops to suppress it, and this battle was half a year. After this battle, fed up with the sage who was fighting for power and deceit, he began to walk the rivers and lakes under the pseudonym Zhao Zhiyi, and became a chivalrous man who hoeed the strong and helped the weak. ”

Wang Quanquan nodded, he had heard all these things from his father, the emperor.

"The saint walked the rivers and lakes for more than three years, and did not settle down until he reached the border, where he met a woman surnamed Li, and the two fell in love at first sight.

A year later, Miss Li gave birth to a son for His Majesty. Originally, this was a thing worth celebrating, but unfortunately, the Hu people came to attack and slaughtered the entire village, and the saint sacrificed his life to save Miss Li and the child. ”

When Wang Quanquan heard this, he finally understood, and it turned out that what the emperor really experienced that day was much more tragic than what he said.

Later, the saint took Miss Li's mother and son back to Beijing to compete with the other two princes for the throne. He knew the methods of the other two brothers, and was afraid that the power struggle would implicate the safety of Miss Li's mother and son, so he entrusted them to the old man.

He himself entered the center of the power struggle alone. At that time, the three parties fought extremely fiercely, and His Majesty did not dare to recognize Miss Li's mother and son, but he didn't think that this fight would be three years.

In the end, the saint stabbed the two brothers and ascended to the throne. It's a pity that the battle at the border still left a hidden danger for Miss Li after all, she was frightened during the confinement period, and then traveled a long distance to be displaced, and her body has fallen into the root of the disease. Miss Li, who was exhausted, couldn't wait for His Majesty's return after all, and left. Before leaving, he left behind a three-year-old child.

On that day, De'er saw her father for the first time in her life, and they stood together in front of Miss Li's grave for an afternoon. ”

The old man was already in tears at this time, and the royal authority couldn't help sighing, his father's experience was a hundred times more painful than he told it himself.

"So, is the second prince the child at the beginning?"

The old man nodded.

"That kid has always remembered me, a bad old man who took care of his mother, and came to see me every holiday, although the old man I don't know any big truths, but I believe that De'er is not a bad person."

"Why did the old gentleman tell me about this, so that he was not afraid that I would deal with the Second Highness with this?"

The old man smiled and shook his head.

"Your Highness won't, although I'm so old that my eyes are almost blind, but the older I get, the more thorough my eyes are, in the old man's opinion, you are very similar!"

"Like?"

The king's authority is incomprehensible, where is it like? The second child has a cloudy face all day long, just like who owes him money, and he is so sunny and handsome.

"You all look like Your Majesty."

The king's authority scratched his head even more, to be reasonable, he was not the emperor's cub.

……

The king who walked out of the courtyard gate was not worried about what the old man would say to the second prince, since the other party said so much to himself, it showed that he believed in himself.

The king's authority stretched. Seeing that it was not too early, I thought it was better to go back to the palace early. It seems that there is no need to stare at the second prince, so let's focus on other people.

As soon as Wang Quanquan walked to the door of his small courtyard, he was instantly petrified, and he saw the second prince sitting on the stone bench in the courtyard, looking at him.

This...... I guess I'm waiting for myself......

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