Chapter 11: The Missing Emperor of Yan
On the second day, I just had breakfast.
"His Royal Highness the Second Prince, the Fourth Prince is visiting!" The maid named "Xiao Cui" walked in from outside the palace where Bai Xuan lived, bent down and saluted.
This maid named Xiao Cui was originally Bai Xuan's personal servant, but because Bai Xuan had just come back and there was no servant to take care of her daily life, at the strong request of Bai Xuan's mother, Bai Xuan accepted Xiao Cui as a personal maid.
"Oh, fourth brother? Please come in, Your Highnesses. "The fourth brother in Bai Xuan's mouth is the fourth prince of the Great Yan Dynasty, and he has the same half-mother as Bai Xuan, Bai Xuan's mother is a noble concubine, and the mother of the fourth prince is the same as the eldest prince is the queen of the dynasty. Therefore, Bai Xuan was very surprised by the visit of the four princes.
"Second brother, second brother, why didn't you send someone to inform me when you came back!" The young man was wearing a red gold python robe and a gold crown on his head, about 1.8 meters, with a tall posture and a handsome face. Without waiting for Bai Xuan to answer, he walked in front of Bai Xuan and sat down.
"Oh, the fourth brother means to blame the second brother?" Bai Xuan's tone was calm, but there was a hint of coldness in his words. The fourth brother is uninvited, and he will ask for something.
He understands that his fourth brother is quite ambitious, and there must be deep meaning here.
Bai Xuan didn't think that being ambitious was a bad thing, but if he didn't have the corresponding strength, excessive ambition would only harm himself, and the fourth brother in front of him was exactly like this in Bai Xuan's opinion.
Moreover, Bai Xuan himself didn't want to fall into the whirlpool of the dynasty's succession, after all, what he wanted to have was far more than the big world of Great Yan.
Hearing Bai Xuan's answer, the young man did not leak his anger, but smiled and said: "Second brother, what are you talking about, we are all a family, second brother, you finally returned, isn't it normal for me as a younger brother to come to visit?" ”
"Oh, if you have nothing to do, you can go to the Three Treasures Palace, just say it if you have something!" As the saying goes, don't stretch out your hand and don't hit a smiling person, Bai Xuan doesn't want to entangle with it, it's better to get straight to the point.
"Second brother, I just came to see you, I really don't mean anything else." The four princes said aggrievedly, with an innocent look on their faces.
"Oh, since it's okay, you can see it, Xiaocui is sending off!" Bai Xuan shouted outside the hall.
"Don't, don't, second brother!" The fourth prince waved his hand at Xiao Cui, who entered the hall, and Xiao Cui retreated with interest, after all, she was not qualified to participate in the affairs between the princes.
Seeing that there was no one else in the hall, the fourth prince lowered his voice, leaned in front of Bai Xuan and whispered, "Isn't the second brother's return this time for the position of the crown prince?" ”
Bai Xuan looked puzzled, Emperor Yan was a pure yang true immortal, if there was no accident, there was basically no risk of falling, why should he establish the prince early. Nai Dao: "Prince? What a prince! ”
Seeing that Bai Xuan's tone didn't seem to be fake, the fourth prince suddenly said, "Oh, it turns out that you don't know the second brother." ”
"My father ordered a few days ago that the crown prince would be established within fifty years, and I thought that the second brother was ...... for the crown prince."
"I see!" Only then did Bai Xuan understand why all the way back, whether it was General Bai Yu or Prime Minister Wei, there was a little strange look in his eyes.
If you say who is most likely to be made the crown prince in the Great Yan Dynasty, except for the eldest prince, it is His Royal Highness Bai Xuan, the second prince. After all, it was he who prompted the emergence of the "Imperial Examination Party".
"In that case, then the fourth brother will retire first, and the second brother can go to my mansion for a reunion when he has time!" The fourth prince got the answer he wanted, and seeing that Bai Xuan had no intention of staying as a guest, he got up and said goodbye.
"Xiao Cui, send off!" Bai Xuan didn't want to say much.
Seeing this, the fourth prince waved his sleeves, turned around and walked out.
"Prince?"
"It's a bit unfortunate that the timing of this return is indeed a bit unfortunate!"
Bai Xuan shook his head and sighed.
……
In this way, a few days pass in the blink of an eye,
In the past few days, Bai Xuan has been accompanying his mother and sister for most of the day, and the family has been playing on the Full Moon Lake every day.
Full Moon Lake is where the Queen of Bai Xuan lives, and the whole lake resembles the full moon and gets its name.
There are tens of thousands of koi fish domesticated in the lake, and if the koi are cruising, it is spectacular. Therefore, it also attracts many harem concubines to come here to play.
"Your Highness, Your Highness, it's not good... Something is wrong! ”
"Your Highness, Your Highness...... Your Majesty is missing! A father-in-law came panting and panting.
"What?"
"Your Majesty is missing!"
"Ah......h
Bai Xuan hugged the queen mother, turned his head to Xiao Cui and ordered: "Take the queen mother back to the palace to rest!" ”
Hearing this, Xiao Cui and several maids carried Bai Xuan's queen mother into Kunning Palace.
Bai Xuan followed the father-in-law who had just come to report to the Qiankun Hall of the Great Yan Palace.
The Qiankun Hall is the place where Emperor Yan and his ministers meet.
At this moment, the ministers in the hall were already like boiling water, and the noise could be heard from far away outside the hall, and Bai Xuan also asked the father-in-law who led the way what happened along the way.
According to his father-in-law, Emperor Yan took a team of guards to Heming County in the south to suppress the rebellion, which was a very common trivial matter, but who knew that a month had passed, and Emperor Yan had lost contact with his guards. But the life lamp of Emperor Yan in the ancestral hall is still shining, but the life lamp of several guards in the personal guard team has been extinguished, guessing that Emperor Yan should have encountered a crisis.
"You can't go without a king for a day!"
"Your Majesty is here, what should I do!"
"Yes! Oh, yes! ”
"What's the chaos, what's the chaos, isn't there still me when Your Majesty is not there?" A thick, stern voice silenced the cacophony of the hall.
"His Royal Highness the Second Prince has arrived!" The father-in-law who led the way shouted at the top of his voice.
Suddenly, the voice that had just calmed down suddenly sounded again.
"Second prince, when will he come back?"
"Yes, doesn't it mean that he was accepted as a disciple by Da Neng and has been away for more than ten years?"
……
Bai Xuan slowly walked in from outside the hall along the main path carved with a dragon in the hall.
The expressions of all the people in the temple were different,
Among them, there are many Great Yan Tribal factions of Heavenly Immortals behind a bearded man, which is all a combination of large tribal forces in the Great Yan Dynasty. Treating Bai Xuan's gaze was faintly unkind. This bearded man is the patriarch of the Chiqi clan of Da Yan's family, Chi Bei, and the patriarch of the clan where the eldest prince's mother belongs.
The other part of Bai Xuan's eyes were full of meaning, as if they were also happy to see Bai Xuan's arrival as a threat to the eldest prince.
There are also neutral factions that are in a wait-and-see mode, and finally the "Imperial Examination Party" headed by Wei Qingchen, which accounts for about one-third of the number of people in the Qiankun Palace. Wei Qingchen, who was the leader, nodded at Bai Xuan.
After Bai Xuan gestured to Wei Qingchen with his eyes, he walked towards a young man in a golden python robe on the high platform, and under the young man stood a prince wearing a python robe, of which the four princes were also among them.
When Bai Xuan walked forward,
All the princes in red python robes bent down and saluted; "Meet the second brother!"
Bai Xuan nodded slightly, then smiled at the golden-robed young man at the top, and said kindly: "Big brother, long time no see!" ”