It is a day in the first half of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. Although it was the end of summer, the weather was still as hot as a scorching heat, and even the summer cicadas on the big trees outside the house were a little listless due to the heat.

Although it was a scorching summer day outside, Yang Ruoning felt a cold air spread rapidly throughout her body at this moment, instantly making the blood in her whole body coagulate. Her eyes widened in horror, staring at the sudden appearance of Aono, and her mind went blank for a moment.

I saw Aono wiping off the brains on the long sword with a silk handkerchief, and said, "If you wish, I will let you die a happy death." ”

He polished the knife, and after putting the knife into the sheath, he glanced at Yang Ruoning, who was shrinking in the corner, "Why did you suddenly come here?" ”

"Who are you?" Yang Ruoning's voice trembled, staring at him with wary eyes.

"I'm Aono, your nephew." Qing Ye looked puzzled, "Don't listen to Jiang Qi's nonsense, a dying person can tell any lie." Hey, why are you sweating so much......" As he spoke, he pulled out a silk handkerchief and raised his hand to wipe the beads of sweat from her forehead.

Yang Ruoning took a step back in fear, and Qing Ye saw the hostility in her eyes, and his hand holding the silk handkerchief paused in the air.

"Who are you?" Yang Ruoning asked again. "Why did you do this to him?"

Aono withdrew his hand, he casually tucked the handkerchief into his sleeve, and said, "You're tired today, I'll let someone send you to rest." ”

"Who the fuck are you?!" Yang Ruoning was annoyed by his coy demeanor, and she yelled a little hysterically, "Don't pretend anymore, I know you're not him!" Tell me where he is? You mothe

f**ke

!”

Qing Ye was also angry, and he yelled at Yang Ruoning, "Why?!" Why can't you just pretend you don't know anything?! Why do you have to say it!! You want to know why I killed him, do you want to know?! Yang Ruoning, do you want to know?! Good! I'll tell you! ”

Aono grabbed her arm roughly, and dragged her all the way to the main hall. It is the tallest and grandest building in the entire imperial palace, a place where the emperor and his ministers discuss politics every day, and a symbol of supreme imperial power.

It was already past four o'clock in the afternoon, and the hall was empty.

Aono dragged her all the way to the throne, and then pushed her down on the throne.

The throne was made of pure gold, with intricate dragon patterns carved on it, and although the throne was padded, it was still extremely hard. When Yang Ruoning was rudely pushed onto the throne by Qing Ye, her back slammed against the dragon pattern protruding from her back, and she felt a sharp pain.

Yang Ruoning hung her head and sat sideways on the throne, her hands barely supporting her trembling body, tears welling up in her eyes. She thought of her own future in the wormhole, which she couldn't reverse, and she realized that maybe today was her own death. Death was approaching, and she was not angry, she just wanted to know the truth. "This throne is yours, and no one will snatch it from you now...... Others, please don't hurt them......"

Aono turned his back to her, facing the empty and uninhabited hall, and the late summer sun outside the hall was dazzlingly bright. He said to himself, "What Jiang Qi said is that I am a lowly prostitute, and even she doesn't know who my biological father is. I should have been strangled to death at birth, but that day I was carried into the palace by accident and became the supreme emperor. It's Jiang Qi, it's me who made that pig and dog inferior, sitting on this golden throne, I should be grateful to him, shouldn't I? Hmph," Aono glanced back at the throne contemptuously, "Right here, right in the chair you're sitting on, he put his hand into my clothes for the first time...... I was only six years old at the time, I panicked, I shouted loudly, but no one paid attention...... Since then, I have understood that as long as he is there, I will always be his plaything and puppet, and I will never be able to become the real emperor. Since then, I have sworn that I will kill him and that I will become the true emperor of Da Song. ”

"Where is he?" Yang Ruoning had no interest in his background, she just wanted to know the whereabouts of that child.

"He? Aono, the real owner of the name? Ho, he's a monster," Aono deliberately folded his body into a strange position, imitating the appearance of a disabled person, "The person you're looking for is a monster." He bends his body like this all day long...... He was born without hands and feet, and was as stupid as a dog, and he would howl like this when he saw a living person," Qingye let out a strange beast-like cry. At this moment, Yang Ruoning's eyes were already red with anger, and she felt that the person in front of her could no longer be called a human, he was an ugly-looking monster!

“…… I had to put chains around his neck so that he wouldn't crawl around the palace and come out scared...... You must know that the concubine gave birth to such a monster after the death of the first emperor, which is an ominous sign, and she should have been killed when she was born as usual, but Jiang Qi was afraid that your brother would come back again, so he reluctantly spared his life, otherwise he would have died a long time ago. ”

Originally, she thought that the child might not be able to survive in this ancient society where medicine was underdeveloped because of genetic defects, so Jiang Qi hired Qingye as a puppet for the throne, but when she heard Qingye say this, a glimmer of hope ignited in her heart, "You mean, that child is still alive?" ”

"Ah, by the way, you've seen him."

Yang Ruoning looked at Qing Ye in despair, "I've seen him?!" I don't remember when I saw ......"

"Ah......h Aono patted his head, "I remember, it was the day of the first snow, when you first entered the palace, I asked you to meet." Do you remember that day you said that the wishes you made during the first snow could come true, but you were right, the first snow day can indeed make some wishes come true. ”

"When?!" Yang Ruoning roared almost hoarsely.

"Oh my God, you're really uninteresting, you must know that I'm already very kind to you, Yang Ruoning, I let you meet him for the last time!"

"Last ......" Yang Ruoning muttered and repeated, her mind quickly recalling what happened when she entered the palace on the day of the first snow. Suddenly, she remembered the group of eunuchs they had met that day when they had come out of the Imperial Garden. They carried a dead man covered with a white cloth, and the group of eunuchs said that it was a young eunuch who committed suicide by throwing himself into a well. Don't......? Thinking of this, Yang Ruoning felt a sharp pain in her heart, as if she had been pierced through her heart by an invisible sword, and the pain made her hook up and cover her heart.

"Kindness? This is what you call mercy?! You told me that it was a little eunuch and I didn't know he was my relative!! ”

"Please, Yang Ruoning, do you call that kind of monster that is not even as good as a dog a relative? He can't even tell if he's a human or a dog! ”

"Shut up! He's not a monster! The real monster is you!! Yang Ruoning rose up and grabbed Qingye's collar. How did he die? Is that you? So you took his hair and then killed him?!! ”

"You misunderstand me, I've never killed anyone. Oh no, I just killed Jiang Qi. Anyway, you can't rely on me for his death, I didn't kill him, Jiang Qi asked me to kill him very early. You have to thank me, it's me, it's me who kept him alive like a dog for so long, otherwise he would have been gone a long time ago. ”

"So Jiang Qi killed him?"

"Yes, he knew that you were going to enter the palace, in order for you to betray Luo Yuan and help me keep the throne, in order for you to recognize me, and in order to cover up the truth and not let you find out, he killed that monster. When I saw you come to the feast from the Imperial Garden alone, I knew that you had taken the bait, that you had read the letter. ”

"So even that letter was deliberately placed there by you......"

"Yang Ruoning, how can there be so many coincidences in this world. Yes, the letter was placed in the library by Jiang Qi, and he asked the eunuch to make sure that you could get it 'accidentally'. He also expected that you would not easily believe that I was the child based on just a letter from your brother, so he also changed the hair of the emperor in the ancestral hall and asked me to give the purse to Xiao Guizi. Ah, you don't know how urgent it was at that time, but fortunately the monster corpse hadn't been transported out of the palace at that time, otherwise everything would have been in vain......"

Yang Ruoning looked at him in disbelief, "You also changed the hair of the former emperor?" Na Luo Yuan ......"

"We don't know if Luo Yuan is the bloodline of the first emperor, but we must make sure that everyone, including you, believes that he is just a wild seed born to Concubine Jin and men outside the palace, and he is not qualified to inherit the throne, so that he can give up ...... more easily"