Taking advantage of the fact that it was not yet dark, Tianziqi led his guards to set off from Shanglin Yuan and embarked on the return journey back to Chang'an.

——Freshly dressed and angry horses, hugging each other in front and back, galloping towards Chang'an City!

At the same time, in an unknown beast circle in Shanglin Yuan, there were dozens of bones that had been torn apart.

——The beast in the beast circle tore off the truth of what happened in Shanglin Yuan today, and swallowed it into its stomach.

The few remaining 'insiders' also have their own destinations.

The Son of Heaven returned to Chang'an;

Zhi Du accompanied the Son of Heaven;

The emperor's eldest son, Liu Rong, and Liu Rong's mother, Li Ji, were imprisoned on the spot in the remote palace, where a good show had just been staged, and were strictly guarded by a team of guards.

Even several old doctors who cooperated with the performance of the Son of Heaven were also escorted by the sergeant and returned to Chang'an's imperial physician Ling's subordinate ya.

Oh, right;

Cheng Ji, Tang Ji, and Mrs. Jia, who were forgotten by the Son of Heaven, as well as the eight princes except Liu Rong, also embarked on the return journey back to Chang'an.

It's just that on the way, Liu De, the second son of the emperor, and Liu Si, the third son of the emperor, were quietly taken away by a team of jailers, and they didn't know where to go.

That night, too many things happened in Chang'an City······

···

"I heard that Your Majesty, it seems that when you were hunting in Shanglinyuan, you ······ from horseback"

"—they're all gone!"

"-I'm still alive!"

Outside the Weiyang Palace, the Son of Heaven arrived on horseback, and let out a loud shout, which restored Chang'an City, which had been under martial law, to its former normal······

···

"Phoenix Palace!"

"-How did you get sealed?!"

In the Weiyang Palace, the three ladies and six sons who had returned from the dust had just walked into the palace from Sima Gate, and they saw the Phoenix Hall at a glance, and they were already surrounded by the guards.

But even before, it had been found that Liu De and Liu Si were 'missing', and after seeing the situation in the Phoenix Palace, none of the nine mothers and sons spoke again, mentioning Liu De and Liu Si······

···

"It's fine that the emperor is fine~"

"It's okay······"

"—The retainers are all right"

"—It's just a matter of ordaining a prince······"

"Didn't you say okay, give me a little more time, and think about it?!"

"-Queen Mother~"

"-Let Erchen finish talking first······"

In Changle Palace, Tianzi Qi and Empress Dowager Dou retreated left and right, and talked all night······

···

Finally;

It's dawn.

Chang'an City, holding its breath and watching the development of the situation, finally waited for the moment when the sun rose from the East Mountain.

cautiously walked into the streets, but did not find that there were lines of soldiers of the Northern Army under martial law on the streets;

They got together in twos and threes, wanting to exchange information with each other, but found that the more they talked, the more they felt that everything that happened yesterday was not worth making a fuss about.

"I heard that His Majesty was hunting in Shanglin Yuan, and ······ from horseback"

"-Impossible~"

"——I got up last night, and through the window, I saw His Majesty return to the city!"

"—and the gate of the city on horseback, with the northern army's guards!"

"——Before entering the palace, it seems that there was a howl, and the soldiers outside the palace retreated······"

After a simple exchange, several people have reached an agreement: Yesterday, Chang'an City was suddenly under martial law, not because of any accident caused by the Son of Heaven.

"Since Your Majesty is fine, why is Chang'an under martial law?"

"At that time, there were still more than two hours before the curfew?"

"-I guess what's going on in Chang'an."

"-You think, Your Majesty just went to Shanglin Yuan in the morning, and came back that night;"

"-I'm in such a hurry to come back, isn't there something urgent and I want to go back to Chang'an to deal with it?"

There was another conversation, and the few people who didn't know why finally dispersed their beliefs and doubts.

As for yesterday, the abnormal situation that occurred in Chang'an City was quickly forgotten by these farmers.

——Autumn is high in July, and the autumn harvest is imminent.

At present, for the farmers in Chang'an City, the most important thing is the autumn harvest that is really related to the food and clothing of the wife and children at home, and even the survival of life and death.

As for martial law in Chang'an?

Hi~

It's just a gossip, a conversation before and after tea, and an occasional spice in a boring life.

Compared with these farmers who have no news channels and can only chase after the wind and blindly speculate, the princes in Shangguan obviously know more.

——As soon as the sky was bright, Shang Guanli rushed out of hundreds of figures one after another, rushing straight to Changle Palace!

Then, these hundreds of figures pretended to be passing by, walking back and forth along Zhangtai Street, but their eyes never left the closed palace gate of Changle Palace on the side of Zhangtai Street.

It seems that before dawn, the entire Shang Guanli already knew: Last night, Tianzi Qi, who rode back to Chang'an from Shanglin Yuan, had been staying in Changle Palace;

It seems that there is a foreknowledge for a long time: today, in the Changle Palace, there will definitely be some important news.

The eyeliners sent by the princes to investigate the news outside the Changle Palace did not wander around Zhangtai Street for too long;

——Before nine o'clock (nine o'clock), in the Changle Palace, there were two canonization decrees one after another.

Liu De, the second son of the emperor, is the king of the river!

Liu Si, the third son of the emperor, is the king of Changshan!

The two Dao looked ordinary at first glance, and there was no special edict, but in the crown of this day, they caused ripples.

"King of the River, King Changshan?"

"——The two half-brothers of the emperor's eldest son, but they didn't have the title of King Zhao?"

The same doubts sprung up in the hearts of the vast majority of princes;

Before the princes in Shangguan could figure it out, it was another blockbuster canonization decree, which came out of the Changle Palace.

Liu Rong, the eldest son of the emperor, is the king of Linjiang!

Liu Rong, the eldest son of the emperor, was the king of Linjiang!!

Liu Rong, the eldest son of the emperor, was the king of Linjiang!!!!!

When the news came out, it can be said that one stone stirred up a thousand waves!

The sudden variables made the entire Shangguanli, and even most of the Chang'an court, fall into a burst of horror!

"Your Majesty!"

"——To establish the ?!! of King Liang"

The worries that subconsciously came to my heart were soon denied by these people who had lived in the center of the court for a long time and had seen all the ways in the world.

"Your Majesty, I won't be the king of Liang~"

"Your Majesty should~ just don't want to make the eldest son of the emperor and become the crown prince."

"But in the end, Your Majesty will still make a crown prince;"

"Instead of setting up a 'brother' ······"

Realizing this, the court and the outside finally came back to their senses and shifted their attention from Changle Palace to the other sons.

"The eldest son, the second son, and the third son of the emperor were all crowned kings~"

"Then it's not the Phoenix Palace······"

"-Could it be the Xuanming Palace?"

As soon as this speculation sprung up in the hearts of some people, in the Changle Palace, there were four edicts in succession.

Liu Yu, the fourth son of the emperor, was the king of Lu;

Liu Fei, the fifth son of the emperor, was the king of Jiangdu;

Liu Fa, the sixth son of the emperor, was the king of Changsha;

Liu Duan, the eighth son of the emperor, was the king of Jiaoxi······

"It's not Xuanming Palace~"

"Then, it's Guangming Palace, right?"

"—not necessarily;"

"-Qilan Palace, there is also a prince ······"

I don't know if there is any listening facility placed in the sky above Shangguanli, always listening to the conversations of the princes, and even listening to the hearts of the princes;

Soon, the last edict came out of the Changle Palace, neither early nor late, at the right time;

The content of the edict finally made the eyes of the government and the opposition focus on Mrs. Jia, as well as the Guangming Hall where the seventh son of the emperor Liu Pengzu and the ninth son of the emperor Liu Sheng were located.

——Liu Yu, the tenth son of the emperor, is the king of Jiaodong·········

At this point, Changle Palace was like a machine gun, and the edicts issued by the princes of the clan one after another finally came to an end.

Inside and outside the government and the opposition, in the hearts of the ministers and officials, the final ownership of the position of the prince seems to have surfaced.

"In this way, it should be the seventh son of the emperor, Gongzi Peng Zu, as the prince;"

"Gongzi Peng Zu's half-brother and the ninth son of the emperor - Gongzi is the king of Zhao?"

With such speculation, inside and outside the government and the opposition, they once again focused their attention on Changle Palace.

When he learned that Mrs. Jia of Guangming Palace, Liu Pengzu, the seventh son of the emperor, and Empress Bo of Jiaofang Palace, were summoned to Changle Palace at the same time, and the princes and officials who paid close attention to the development of the situation were more sure of their guesses.

But what no one noticed was that as early as the early morning, before dawn and the curfew was lifted, Tianzi Qi, who had not slept all night, had already returned to Weiyang Palace.

And when Mrs. Jia, Liu Peng's grandmother and son, and Empress Bo were called to Changle Palace by Empress Dowager Dou, Liu Sheng, another son of Guangming Palace, was summoned to Xuanshu Hall alone by the Son of Heaven······

·

"Sit down~"

"-I haven't slept all night, I really don't want to lean my neck anymore······"

"Sit down and finish what you want to say and ask what you want to ask."

"I listen to what you say, and I answer when you ask;"

"After listening, asking, and answering, I'm going back to sleep······"

Outside the Xuanshu Palace, in front of the distant platform.

Tianzi Qi lazily slumped on the recliner, with a pair of dark circles under his eyes, and he was so tired that he didn't even want to lift his head;

He put the back of his head on the back of the chair, tilted his head slightly, and closed his eyes again.

Seeing that Tianzi Qi was so tired, Liu Sheng only stepped forward silently.

He stopped three steps beside Tianzi Qi, sat down on another chaise longue, hesitated for a moment, and then lay down as well.

A moment later, Liu Sheng's incomparably calm tone immediately reached the ears of the Son of Heaven.

"Yesterday's autumn hunting, Erchen, I hunted a pheasant;"

"Sixth brother, I hunted a rabbit;"

"Fourth brother, I brought back a little fox;"

"Big brother, put an injured young deer on his horse, and walked out of the hunting ground with great vigour."

At that time, Erchen was still speculating with his brothers: what kind of prey his father would bring back after he had been gone for so long;"

"Will it be a bird, or a beast?"

"Will it be a jackal, or a tiger and leopard?"

"Marten, bears, wild boars, and the like?"

inexplicably talking to himself, only causing Tianzi Qi to open his eyes irritably, and turn his head a little impatiently;

But on the side, Liu Sheng, who was also paralyzed on the recliner, turned his head sideways with a sneer, and showed a playful and bitter smile to Tianziqi.

"But Erchen wanted to break his head, but he still couldn't guess it······"

"——Erchen, I still couldn't guess that yesterday's autumn hunting, the prey that my father 'caught' would actually be the eldest brother······"

"My father's 'prey' was really as I expected, and it greatly surprised me and everyone······

Listening to Liu Sheng's bitter and helpless tone, the words he said were clearly full of sarcasm, and Tianziqi couldn't help but look a little stunned;

After a while, he turned his head back to himself, put the back of his head on the back of the chair, and said indifferently: "If you have anything to say, just say it; ”

"I don't have the strength to play dumb riddles with you bastard."

didn't see the annoyed and angry look on Tianziqi's face, Liu Sheng only smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Sit up slightly, prop your elbows on the armrests of the recliner, sit sideways to Tianziqi, and ask as if chatting: "Yesterday, didn't Zhi Du say that his father fell from his horse?" ”

Seeing that the Son of Heaven heard this, he raised his head nonchalantly: "Yes; ”

"It's a fallen horse."

"-I'm still in pain!"

"It's not good to walk ······ walking"

As he spoke, Tianzi Qi did not forget to lift one side of his butt slightly and adjust his posture before dropping his butt back on the recliner again.

Seeing that the Son of Heaven was pretending to be stupid, Liu Sheng slightly lowered the smile on his face and said with a slightly worried face: "Father, is it pretending?" ”

"Pretend that you are seriously injured, or even die soon, to test your eldest brother's reaction?"

"As a result, the reaction of the eldest brother ······"

"Oh no;"

"-It should be said that it was Kurihime's reaction that failed to satisfy her father;"

"That's why my father rushed back to Chang'an overnight to discuss with the imperial grandmother all night."

"In the end, the eldest brother will be crowned king, and the plan to let the eldest brother be the prince completely abandoned?"

In just a few words, Liu Sheng basically broke through everything that happened in Shanglin Yuan yesterday;

But on this matter, Tianziqi did not intend to give any explanation to Liu Sheng.

"Yesterday's incident has nothing to do with you."

"—You just need to know that your father, the Emperor, did not fall from his horse and die;"

"Your eldest brother will never become a prince.

"That's enough."

"I didn't call you here so that I could listen to my son Xingshi ask me about my sins early in the morning, with the exhaustion of sleepless nights."

It was another indifferent reply, but it made Liu Sheng frown quietly.

"Father, don't you know that people's hearts and human nature are the things that can't stand the test?"

"Why did my father risk his own life to test the eldest brother and Li Ji?"

"-Even if the results of the test fail to satisfy the father, the father shouldn't deny the eldest brother because of this ridiculous test, right?"

"No matter what, the eldest brother has also been cultivated by his father since he was a child, according to the standards of the prince, and has been cultivated as the eldest son for more than ten or nearly twenty years."

"Among the ten of our brothers, only the eldest brother can shoulder the heavy responsibility of the crown prince?"

In this inquiry, Liu Sheng's tone was already a little resentful.

seems to be the eldest brother Liu Rong, who is not angry about losing the position of prince and prince;

It seems that he is angry that the Son of Heaven actually tested his son in such a way.

But Tianziqi's next reply and reaction once again exceeded Liu Sheng's expectations.

"Of course I do······"

Hearing this, Liu Sheng's faintly resentful inquiry, even questioning, finally emerged a little solemnity between the eyebrows of Tianzi Qi.

Then, Tianzi Qi also sat up from the recliner, looked at the front of him with a blank gaze, and let out a short sigh inexplicably.

"Of course I know that people's hearts and human nature are the things that cannot stand the test in this world."

"I also know that such a test should not be used to judge a person."

"—but I did it anyway;"

"-And I am indeed because of what happened in Shanglin Yuan yesterday that I made up my mind to make Rong the vassal king."

"——I, it is indeed because of yesterday, the absurd test, that I have concluded that Rong cannot be the prince of my Han family."

In the end, the tone of the Son of Heaven's still flat tone has gradually become solemn.

The sloppy gaze scattered in front of him also quietly fell on Liu Sheng's face as Tianzi Qi slowly turned his head.

"Do you know why?"

"—for it is human nature that cannot stand the test;"

"As a human being, this is a test of human nature, of course, Rong can't stand it, and it really shouldn't stand it;"

"But as my Han family, as the prince of the prince personally cultivated for my Han family, this absurd test, Rong, must withstand it!"

In the end, Tianzi Qi's low and solemn tone was already with a ruthlessness for no apparent reason!

With this fierce gaze, he stared at Liu Sheng for ten breaths, and the Son of Heaven took a deep breath.

withdrew his gaze from Liu Sheng, and slumped back on the recliner with a lot of thoughts, but his head did not rest on the back of the chair;

Scraping the tip of his nose with only the tip of his index finger, he propped the same elbow on the armrest of the chaise longue.

"Because the prince will become the emperor and the son of heaven in the future."

"If you become an emperor and a son of heaven, you will be honored, and you will no longer be human, and you can no longer be human······"

"—At that time, Rong, will become a god;"

"You must also become a god."

"And God cannot be human······"

"Human nature cannot withstand the test, God, must withstand ······"

"Only by withstanding such a test can a person become a god·········

Tianzi Qi's increasingly erratic tone, as well as some inexplicable chattering words, only caused Liu Sheng to frown for a while;

Roughly understanding the meaning of the words of the Son of Heaven, he raised his head again.

"I don't believe that my eldest brother will not be able to withstand the test of my father."

"Those who have not withstood the test of their father will not be the eldest brother;"

"-It's going to be Kurihime."

"My father said that the eldest brother will become a 'god' in the future, so he must withstand such a test."

"But Kurihime, you don't need to be a god;"

"Kurihime, don't you need to withstand this ridiculous test to prove that you are 'inhuman'?"

But when he saw that the Son of Heaven heard the words, he only turned his head sideways as if he was smiling;

Seeing that Liu Sheng's face was still gloomy, not angry, and even a little bit of 'Xingshi asks guilt', the Son of Heaven was silent, and finally shook his head and smiled.

"You silly boy······"

With a laugh and a mutter, Tianziqi shook his head and smiled bitterly, and stood up from the recliner;

Walked forward, came to the guardrail on the outside of the remote platform, raised his hand, and pointed at the Changle Palace a few miles away.

"There, it's Changle Palace."

"In Changle Palace, my mother lives."

"-I also live in my Han family, the second emperor besides me······"

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