Outside the Tianqing Pavilion of Weiyang Palace, a man wearing a black four-clawed golden dragon robe and a golden crown kneeling outside the pavilion, the man looks like he is only twenty-seven or eighteen years old, his body is relatively thin, his face is clear and handsome, his eyebrows are bent, his eyes are big, his nose is very good-looking, and he looks five points similar to Tuoba Hong, this person is the second son of Emperor Wei Ding, King Tuoba of Qi.

At this moment, King Qi cried so much that his eyes were red, and he knelt on the ground and begged bitterly.

"Father, I have a deep relationship with Wan'er, how can I divorce my wife, and Brother Ye is too young to be separated from his mother, and my son can't bear to abolish his wife for the crown prince's throne! This is to trap the unrighteous sons and daughters, and put Brother Ye in unfilial piety, this unrighteous and unfilial piety is contrary to the teachings of the father and the king master to the sons, and the sons dare not accept the orders of the father, and ask the father to take back the order, and the other is the prince candidate. ”

"Please have mercy on your sons, have mercy on Brother Ye, and take back your life!"

After King Qi finished speaking, he knocked on the ground, and there was already blood on his forehead.

Emperor Ding sat in the study, the pen raised was writing the holy decree of the King of Qi to divorce his wife, at this moment the pen did not fall for a long time, suddenly Emperor Ding slapped the pen on the table, raised his hand to pick up a incense box on the desk and yelled at the King of Qi and smashed it.

"Get out!!"

Seeing this, Zhang Lu on the side shouted: "Your Majesty! ”

Zhang Lufei was about to take the incense box, but the incense box had already flown out of the door, and it happened to fall on the head of King Qi, and the white incense ash was scattered, sprinkling the white dust on King Qi's hair and prince's clothes, King Qi's hair bun was smashed messy, and a blood stain was left along his cheek, King Qi closed his eyes and kowtowed sadly: "Father, have mercy, don't let your sons divorce their wives!" The son begged his father for mercy! ”

The cuckoo crying of the King of Qi, Zhang Lu on the side persuaded Emperor Ding: "Your Majesty, do you want His Royal Highness the King of Qi to go back to the house first?" ”

Emperor Ding took down the Son of Heaven sword from the sword rack on the side and asked the sky, Zhang Lu on the side was shocked: "Your Majesty, no!" ”

Emperor Ding didn't speak, and walked to King Qi who knelt down with the Heavenly Sword, King Qi didn't dare to raise his head, but just lowered his head and begged: "Father, no, no, son-in-law can't do it!" ”

"Can't do it! You told me you couldn't do it! ”

Emperor Ding was furious, and struck the back of King Qi three times with the scabbard of the Heavenly Sword, each time heavier than the other, King Qi was slapped and spit out two mouthfuls of blood one after another, and the whole person lay on the ground, trembling all over.

Emperor Ding said angrily: "The Son of Heaven has no worldly love, do you know, the Son of Heaven loves the people alone, do you know, you read the books of sages and sages and read stupidly!" Talk about filial piety with me, be a minister, don't follow the king's orders, you dare to say loyalty! For the sake of the son, do not listen to the father, you dare to say filial piety! Ignoring the people, abandoning the world as if walking, you dare to say righteousness! ”

Zhang Lu hurriedly knelt down on the side to take the scabbard, blocked King Qi with his body, and pleaded: "Your Majesty, Your Highness has been kneeling outside the palace for a day, and his body can't bear it!" Your Majesty is angry! ”

Emperor Ding pulled out his sword, threw his sword on the ground, and said to King Qi: "Second brother, I believe in Buddhism and don't want to kill, but for the sake of the rivers and mountains of Wei, you don't want to force your father to kill Dou Wan'er!" ”

King Qi looked at the Wentian Sword beside him, the sword pierced his heart, King Qi was in a hurry, and passed out.

Zhang Lu stepped forward and hugged King Qi and shouted: "Your Highness, Your Highness, quickly, quickly pass on the imperial doctor!" ”

When Emperor Ding saw that King Qi was unconscious, he immediately stepped forward quickly, squatted down and stroked King Qi's cheek with his hand, his love was overflowing, and he looked up to the sky and sighed: "Lu'er, this is the fate of the heavenly family, why don't you understand the hardships of being a father!" ”

Emperor Ding got up and instructed Zhang Lu: "Zhang Lu, after the imperial doctor treats him, he will order Jin Yuwei to escort King Qi back to the palace, and he will not leave the palace without his will." ”

Zhang Lu nodded in response, and quickly ran out of the palace to arrange, several eunuchs carried King Qi away, Zhang Lu called a confidant eunuch, and ordered softly: "Go to the Prime Minister's Mansion quickly, let Dou Xiang go to the Qi Palace." ”

The little eunuch nodded: "It's the old ancestor, the villain will go!" ”

After the little eunuch left, Zhang Lu shook his head, went to the hospital with an anxious and miserable face, and muttered: "How good is this, how is it good." ”

On the top of the main hall, Emperor Ding slowly picked up the Wentian Sword on the ground, the traces of blood spit out by King Qi next to the sword were so dazzling, it made Emperor Ding's eyes hurt, his eyes were blurred, he had to slowly straighten his waist, at that moment he was not like an emperor, just a drooping old man, he turned around and walked towards the dragon chair, the pace was slow, but in this empty Tianqing Pavilion, the footsteps were loud and sound, he remembered that twenty-seven years ago, he entered the palace with the Wentian Sword in his hand, and when he asked his father for the jade seal, the Wentian Sword Sheath was also dripping blood, which was the blood of the eldest brother Prince and the third brother King Liao.

Emperor Ding muttered to himself: "Lu'er, why don't you understand the heart of a father? I can't bear it for my father, I can't bear it for my father! This world is not something that you can protect with such a temperament, if the Son of Heaven does not dare to give up everything, how can he sit in this world! ”

Emperor Ding slowly retracted the Wentian sword from its scabbard, put it on the sword frame again, looked at the dragon chair, couldn't sit down, looked up and sighed, and let the old tears fall.

……

An hour later

Outside the palace of the king of Qi, there were many golden feather guards, a carriage galloped over, stopped at the gate of the palace of the king of Qi, the coachman put down the horses, helped an old man to open the curtain and get out of the car, the eunuch Xu Kuan, the chief eunuch of the palace of the king of Qi, stepped forward and saluted: "Dou Xiangguo." ”

"How is King Qi?"

Dou Xiang asked as he walked inside.

Xu Kuan replied: "Xiangye, the imperial doctor has seen it, His Royal Highness has been angry with his chest for the past few days, and today he spit out blood, so much so that he vomited out the blood stuffed in his chest, and the imperial doctor said that as long as he recuperates and rests, he will be fine."

Dou Xiang walked to the palace of King Qi's mansion, and when he walked to the door, he heard the voice of the woman pleading inside, Steward Xu wanted to go in, but was stopped by Dou Xiang: "Manager Xu, you retreat first!" ”

Xu Kuan nodded, and his eyes motioned for everyone around him to avoid it for the time being.

Dou Xiang heard that this voice was the voice of his daughter Dou Wan'er, and the voice was extremely resolute, which made Dou Yan sad from his heart.

"Wan'er begs His Highness, let Wan'er fall into practice, I hope His Royal Highness will read for the common people, for the world, for the people, you and I have been a husband and wife for several years, and I will not dare to have any more attachments in the future, I hope that the ancient Buddha of the green lantern will spend the rest of his life, and I hope that His Highness will take care of Brother Ye, and in order to calm my heart, I am willing to pray for His Highness and the common people in the world for the rest of my life."

Dou Wan'er knelt on the ground and begged, her eyes weeping, which made people unbearable to look at.

King Qi's face was pale, he walked off the bed, looked sad, walked to Wan'er, knelt down and hugged his beloved wife: "Wan'er, you and I have kissed plum sweethearts since childhood, the two are happy, and the husband and wife love each other after marriage, this king has no two hearts, and we have Brother Ye, I have no intention of taking the throne, I just want to love you for the rest of my life, be a prince of peace, even if it is a common man, why not!" ”

Wan'er pushed away King Qi: "Your Highness, you are Your Majesty's son-in-law, the chief of the kings, in the past two years, Your Majesty has not let you return to the court with a fiefdom, stay in the court, and the government and the opposition regard it as the prince, how can Your Highness be so confused, if Your Highness abandons the world, it will be even more difficult for me and Brother Ye to survive in the future, Your Majesty will not allow me to wait." “

King Qi shook his head, grabbed the princess's hands, and begged: "No, no, my father won't treat me like this, my father and son have a fourth brother, I will go to ask my mother, if the fourth brother succeeds to the throne, he will treat me well, and I can accompany you and Brother Ye." ”

Wan'er cried in despair: "Your Highness, wake up, wake up, the fourth brother has never been liked by His Majesty and the Queen, and he is tyrannical, murderous, and moody, if he ascends the throne, you and I can survive Brother An, have you forgotten about your imperial uncle and the third imperial uncle?" They are all brothers of their father. ”

King Qi sat on the ground, looking dazed, Wan'er looked at the man he loved deeply, tears were falling non-stop, this man was affectionate, benevolent, and even some women's kindness, all this may be fine if it is just placed among the children of ordinary families, but he is the king of Qi, the prince elected by His Majesty, he made a wrong step, it may be a catastrophe, but all this is crushing and destroying his fragile heart.

King Qi looked dazed and said to himself.

"Why did my father choose me, I am not suitable to be this prince, the third brother, the fourth brother, the fifth brother, their ability is far better than me, I just want to send love to the landscape and study literature, but what, no one!"

King Qi burst into tears at the moment, Dou Wan'er couldn't bear it, hugged her husband tightly, and the two wept and hugged their heads and cried.

Dou Xiang outside the door couldn't help but shed tears, so he wiped the tears off his face, tidied up his clothes, and pushed the door in.

When the king and princess of Qi saw Dou Xiang coming in, they immediately got up and saluted: "Father (teacher)." ”

Dou Xiang turned around and said to Dou Wan'er with a kind face: "Wan'er, you go to see Brother Ye, and wait for your father to return to the Prime Minister's Mansion." ”

Dou Wan'er nodded, glanced at King Qi and was reluctant to leave.

"Princess, don't go!"

King Qi wanted to step forward to stay, but Dou Xiang stopped in the middle, shook his head helplessly, King Qi sighed, wept silently, and lamented.

"Your Highness, Wan'er is right, you should think of the people of the world and the society as your thoughts, and your daughter's personal feelings can't be an obstacle to you!"

Dou Xiang didn't want to say this, but he had to persuade him like this.

Qi Wangsheng asked Dou Xiang without love: "Father, can I, a ruthless and unintentional person, be the prince of Great Wei and become an emperor?" ”

Dou Xiang led King Qi to sit down, and he also sat down next to him, carefully admonishing.

"Your Royal Highness needs to have great love and great benevolence, and should not be limited to the small love of the people, how can the Great Wei Jiangshan Sheji be affected by the honor and disgrace of my Dou family?

Twenty-seven years ago, the minister and the national teacher Zhixin assisted the emperor to ascend the throne, for more than 20 years, His Majesty vigorously new policy, to promote the Xianbei Sinicization, the crown of the Han Dynasty, the court of the Han Dynasty, only to have today's Han and Xianbei co-rule the world of the Great Wei, the Han people in the north began to return to their hearts, as the Great Wei is the right in the world, the national strength is flourishing, and the situation of fighting between the Hu and Han in the north for a hundred years has been changed.

Today, Your Majesty respects Confucianism, establishes a state religion, cares for all the people, strikes the army, and recuperates, which is a sign of great prosperity in the world.

However, there are still three major evils in the Wei State, one is the enclosure of the nobles, the second is the blockage of the officials, and the third is the fiefdom of Xu Mi, these three evils are not eliminated, and the northern land will wither in less than 30 years, and the situation formed by today's Jiangbei War will be ruined!

If you want to innovate and eliminate evil, you can only inherit it by His Highness; The heart of the king of Zhou lies in the restoration of the old rule of Xianbei, once he ascends to the throne, the three major evils can not only not be eliminated, but will become worse, and the north will fall into a chaotic situation for 30 years, at that time there will be a lot of life, wars are raging, the Han people in the north are too bitter, too bitter. ”

After saying that, Dou Xiang sadly stated these facts, and then knelt down and pleaded: "Please Your Highness to the common people in the world, the well-being of the community, and the people of the dawn, let the minister take Wan'er back, His Royal Highness is the crown prince, Kuang Fu Sheji, and the minister will order Wan'er to go to Jingshui Nunnery to marry as a nun, and to honor His Highness." ”

King Qi burst into tears and cried: "Teacher, you also force me!" Why are you all forcing me, just that, just ......"

After speaking, he cried bitterly.

Dou Xiang said goodbye and left, and couldn't help but slap himself when he went out of the door: "Am I still human?" Who else in the world persuades his son-in-law to divorce his wife? ”

In the night of the same day, Dou Xiang took Dou Wan'er out of the palace of the king of Qi, the next day Wan'er fell in the Jingshui Nunnery, in the cry of Brother Ye, the king of Qi took over the holy decree of Zhang Luxuan in the great Changqiu, and the emperor issued an order to relieve the ban of the king of Qi, let the king of Qi enter the province of Shangshu to approve the folds, participate in government affairs, and seal the prince of Qi Tuoba Ye as the grandson of the emperor, in order to comfort the Dou family, the position of the prince of the Northern Dynasty was no longer turbulent for a while, but this matter made a person very dissatisfied in his heart.