Chapter 104: Entering the Palace
The screams in the back garden resounded through half of the imperial city.
Especially the one who was standing next to the third prince to toast, he just said that the moon was big and round tonight, and before he could say the second half of the sentence, he watched the third prince being opened.
As a man of letters.
Seeing such a terrifying scene, even the screams made were different from the others.
If it's a bunch of rough guys, you'll be like, 'Oh, my mom scared you to death, daddy and me'
But these literati didn't have a dirty mouth except for the screams of ahhhhhh
It's just that a few people are less courageous, and when they saw this scene, they directly pulled over.
The news that the third prince was killed in the middle of the night had already spread throughout the imperial city when it was just dawn.
The old emperor, who has stopped for so long and has not shown his face, is rarely in the court, but the current appearance of the old emperor has made everyone startled.
It was just aging before, but now it looks more like it is decaying, and its face is haggard as if it is going to die at any moment.
Seeing the old emperor sitting crookedly on that supreme chair, he completely lost the domineering style of the world a few months ago.
Seeing the old emperor like this all the way, I understood it in my heart.
The next emperor will soon come out.
This time the ministers all met with the emperor, but at this juncture, no one dared to write to let the emperor handle state affairs.
Although the emperor is old, his power is still there.
It is not wise to anger a tiger that will bite when it is dying.
It stands to reason that several princes should also be in the main hall now.
However, it seems that the old emperor specially ordered them not to come.
The ministers stood quietly in the main hall until the bodies of the three princes were carried into the palace.
Regardless of the rules, the coffin should not be parked outside the main hall.
But the old emperor didn't care about this, and when the coffin of the third prince was parked in front of everyone, the old emperor shook his body and slowly stood up, stumbling forward in front of everyone.
That aging look really made everyone wonder that if the old emperor fell, he might never be able to get up.
The old emperor walked through the middle of the ministers, and when he crossed the threshold of the main hall, he almost tripped over, that is, the old eunuch behind him quickly helped him, and then he kept helping the old emperor to the coffin.
Look at the coffin in front of you.
The old emperor burst into tears of sadness.
"I haven't prepared ...... yet"
"I haven't even thought of !!"
"The third child, the third child, why did you die like this!"
"What can I do!"
The old emperor was sad and cried directly on the coffin, and the ministers behind him knelt down and shouted to ask Your Majesty to mourn and change.
The old emperor kept holding the coffin and crying, and the tears of crying were almost gone, so he left here with the support of the old eunuch.
This time the early dynasty is over.
The ministers were still sighing on the way back, but they didn't expect the emperor to be very affectionate to the three princes.
I don't usually see it.
As soon as the third prince died, the state of the old emperor was really sad to listen to, and those who heard it wept.
I just don't know which madman it is, and he attacked the prince one after another, so that the old emperor's originally okay mental state can no longer hold on.
It can be expected that the battle for the throne is nearing its end.
Now there is only one second prince with a good reputation and a relatively low-key sixth prince, and the two are vying for the throne.
However, the second prince is now burdened with a new layer of suspicion, after all, the killer can kill the eldest prince and the third prince, but he will not appear again after being attacked by the second prince once.
I always feel that the second prince is a little suspicious, and people can't help but wonder if the second prince is a little impatient, and deliberately found a strange person in the rivers and lakes to do such a thing, and also cleared his suspicion by being attacked.
The suspicion is well-founded.
The second prince was directly smashed by this big black cauldron!
The night he was attacked, he didn't sleep well all night.
Now, when it gets dark, the dozens of guards standing outside the door feel uneasy to sleep.
I'm in this state now, and there are still people who suspect that I did it!
It's really rumor-mongering, opening your mouth, refuting rumors and breaking your legs!
Just when the ministers were discussing whether to mix with the second prince now, or with the sixth prince who has always been low-key, but quite talented.
There was a decree in the palace.
All the princes enter the palace.
The prince is not allowed to bring any cronies and family members with him!
When the decree came out, the carriage had already arrived at the door of the four princes, which meant that these princes would leave now!
Such a move made many people wonder if the old emperor was afraid that his remaining children would also be suddenly attacked, so they were kept away from everyone and lived directly in the palace.
There are also speculations that the old emperor is the heir who is ready to announce the throne today?
But now it doesn't feel like announcing the heir, after all, the three princes haven't been buried yet, even if the old emperor can't wait, he should wait for two days to be buried before announcing the candidates.
The speculation of a group of people obviously did not prevent the princes from getting into the carriage.
The four and fifth prince's carriages drove directly into the palace and drove towards the depths of the palace.
The second prince went around and around to the mysterious emperor's back garden.
Then he never saw the second prince come out again.
There are only six princes.
The emperor arranged a room in the palace for him, and directly let the six princes live here temporarily.
There was no talk of meeting or anything to do.
It feels like confinement of the Six Princes in the palace.
The six princes now have no cronies around to help, and the places where the palace lives are all guarded by the emperor's Praetorian Guards, it is impossible to extract information from them.
Even if the sixth prince has all the abilities now, he can only suffocate himself in the hut and quietly wait for the arrangements that will follow.
All the princes entered the palace.
Three days passed in a row.
Logically speaking, today should be the day for the burial of the three princes.
But the coffin of the three princes has always been parked in the palace, even if the family members of the three princes have asked the eunuchs in the palace, the reply has always been:
The emperor was heartbroken, and only wanted to accompany the three princes for a while, and only waited for the emperor to give an order, and he would immediately bury the three princes. ’
Under such an answer, even the family members of the third prince no matter how much they urged, it was meaningless.
A group of people could only wear white cloths, hoping that the coffin of the third prince would come back as soon as possible.
It was on the fourth day of the death of the third prince.
The six princes, who had been trapped in the courtyard, were suddenly invited out by the eunuchs.
"Six Princes, please"
"The Emperor wants to see you and say something heart-wrenching."
(End of chapter)