The fourth prince clenched his fists nervously, and he didn't want to show half of his timidity in front of Su Mingbo, the old fox. Although this person is just a eunuch, he has followed his father for so many years, and he already has his own connections behind him, and he is like a roundworm in his father's stomach, as if he can guess what the emperor wants, and he is the most in line with the emperor's intentions, and the ability to seek good fortune and avoid evil is something that others do not have, so he has maintained his identity for many years.

Showing cowardice in front of such a lowly but capable person, once he is disliked by the emperor, the first person to figure out the holy will to suppress him is probably Su Mingbo.

Even if he loses, he doesn't want to be too embarrassed to lose.

The fourth prince pushed the door into the house and said in a low voice, "Father." ”

Su Mingbo closed the door outside the door, and stood far away with the little attendants, so that he would not be able to hear the conversation in the house, and he would not miss the emperor's orders too far away.

Squinting at the window lattice paper, the light projected a figure on the window edge, and Su Mingbo opened his eyes coldly. Although he is a eunuch, he can't say that he is a well-known person, but he attaches great importance to family affection. The most despised is this kind of person who inserts a brother's knife for fame and fortune.

Su Mingbo is now just waiting to see how the emperor's side will fall.

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Inside the house, the emperor looked at the four princes who were kneeling and saluting for a long time, and said lightly: "Come on, sit down." ”

The fourth prince stood up tremblingly when he heard this, and found a vacant seat on the lower head to sit down, but he didn't dare to sit down with confidence, and only dared to lean on the side of the chair.

Seeing that the four princes were unprecedentedly "well-behaved", the emperor smiled faintly and stopped talking.

The fourth prince has been in that posture, which is okay for a while, but after a long time, he gets tired, and after half an hour, he has always maintained that posture of sitting in a vacant position, not to mention the thighs and buttocks that are struggling to support his body, even his back is sore, and the sweat all over his body can't help but fall, and the restlessness in his heart is expanding more and more.

Is it just a time to call people in and not say what to do, just to meditate?

The fourth prince's narrow eyes were a little bored, and he tried his best to control his tone, breaking the silence in the room: "Father, the emperor ......"

The Emperor raised his eyes to look at him, his eyes cold as if he were already looking at a dead man.

The four princes were so shaken by the look that they almost couldn't hold their bodies and were about to fall to their knees.

He forced himself to laugh and said, "Father, you called your sons, do you have any orders?"

The emperor said in a calm voice: "Why, you can't hold your breath so soon?"

"Father...... You, what do you mean. ”

The emperor stood up, moved his muscles and bones that had stiffened from sitting for a long time, and said lightly: "I think that since you have the courage to do such a big thing, you should always have the courage to bear the consequences after the incident, and you also have the courage to face me. ”

"Father!" the four princes slumped off their chairs and sat down on the cold marble tiles.

The fourth prince has urinated since he was a child, and the third prince is different. The third prince is reckless, and loves to show off, always doing something stupid that will be laughed at at a glance, he is calm, and much smarter, it is rare to have such a gaffe. Now that he is showing such an ugly appearance in front of the person who should please the most, the four princes only feel that what flows in their veins is no longer blood, but magma.

Anger, shame, resentment and other emotions swept in one after another, burning his whole body and his face was hot.

Why did he get to such a point.

Do you have to face the emperor like this, and you can't defend yourself at all?

Could it be that my father didn't believe in himself like this?

Why didn't he doubt others, why should he doubt him?

Is it in the father's mind that the second prince is good at everything, but he is nothing? If not, why does the father only doubt him and not the second prince?

Although the horseshoe was indeed the one he ordered to do......

Trembling and falling to his knees, out of anger and out of fear. He knew who his father was, and naturally he knew that such things were equivalent to touching the emperor's scales. The emperor loved father, son, filial piety, brother and brother. His actions are equivalent to completely overturning all the false illusions and shattering the emperor's dreams.

Will his father let him go so easily?

At this moment, many thoughts and pictures quickly rolled through the minds of the four princes, and finally froze the daunting face in front of them.

Does he want to admit it? Does he want to bow his head?

The emperor had been standing not far away, and the dim light shone on the faces of the four princes, illuminating his fear clearly and clearly in front of him.

What the hell went wrong. How can a good son be raised crookedly?

The emperor himself has gone through all the way to get to where he is today. The last thing he wants is for his own son.

But why did it backfire, why did it have to be like this? Can't the children of the heavenly family have true feelings?

The emperor pursed his lips, and for a moment his heart was stunned, and no matter how much anger he had, it turned into bitterness. Is it his own son, can he really kill him?

"Father. The fourth prince's voice was hoarse, and there was begging in his voice, "Erchen, Erchen doesn't know why his father is so angry, if his son-in-law does something wrong, ask his father to give him guidance and make it clear." ”

He didn't dare to admit it at all, he didn't dare to admit it!

Even if he wanted the emperor to leave him a way to live, the father and son had to tacitly cover up the matter.

"Explicit?" The emperor was furious for a moment, and walked to the fourth prince in three or two steps, and pulled him up by the placket of his clothes: "What you are doing, I don't know at all? Or have you made up your mind at all, thinking that I will definitely let you go?"

"Father, son, I don't know what you're talking about. The fourth prince's voice trembled, and he resolutely refused to let go of this matter.

The emperor pursed his lips and sneered: "You don't know? You dare to say that you don't know? Since I can summon you today, it means that I already have a heart in mind." didn't hand you over directly to the Zongren Mansion, it was for the sake of your youth. Do you really dare not deal with you?"

The fourth prince was held by the emperor like this, his body was raised at a half-height angle, and his legs trembled because of the struggle.

Where would he feel that the emperor would not dare?

What he gambled on was the emperor's unbearability as a father.

"Father, the sons have never thought like this, of course you can dispose of the sons, but now, the third brother still doesn't know what to do, you ......" After the words, the fourth prince didn't have the courage to say it when he came to his mouth.

He wanted to say: Isn't the father afraid that he will abolish a son and take a ride with himself, and he will not have a choice when he chooses an heir in the future?

But to say such things is equivalent to telling the emperor that future heirs are destined to be thin. Where did he dare to make such a "curse"?

To say this is to add to the sin.

But just because you don't say it doesn't mean you can't hint at it.

When the emperor heard this, he immediately turned red with anger and threw the person to the ground. tremblingly, he pointed at the four princes and scolded loudly:

"Evil Barrier!"

The emperor is such a smart person, can't he hear the meaning of the four princes?

Pity him, a father, who will be questioned and threatened by his son with a thin heir!

"Do you really think that I won't dare to touch you? Just like this, even if I really dispose of you, you deserve it! Even if it really falls to the point that there is no successor in the future, do you really think that I will really hand over the country of the Great Zhou Dynasty to the incompetent and immoral?"

Incompetent, ...... virtuous?

This is what a father says about his son?

The four princes felt that their hearts were cold, and their own approach might be really right.

The four princes were on their sides on the ground, their trembling hands supporting the ground, trembling in fear, both aggrieved and disappointed.

It seems that in the mind of his father, no matter who he is, he is not as important as Jiangshan Sheji, and he is not as important as the second prince. His father loves Wan Guifei, so he also loves Wan Guifei's son, and what is he? His biological mother's position is not high, just a concubine, he has no powerful foreign family, and he does not have a maternal family to support him, and now even his father's heart has fallen on the third and second princes, so what is he?

He is doing everything, but he just wants to win the love of his father!

The fourth prince was aggrieved like a child, and tears fell like that.

When the emperor saw that the four princes were in tears, he felt a little surprised.

Crying like this?

What hasn't he done yet!

The emperor now looked at the four princes, no matter how he looked at it, he said in a low voice: "This matter will not be so simple, I want to see the situation of the third child before making a decision, you can continue to make mistakes like this, or you can get by like this, I will watch! If the three of you really have something, you just wait to go to the funeral!"

"Father, it's not fair for you to do this!"

"Fair? You dare to tell me about fairness when you are a scheming brother and brother behind your back? It seems that you have learned all the things you have learned in the study over the years! You go down, now that you are outside, I will not deal with you, but you don't want to forget it! Get out of here!"

Tears and snot smeared on his face, the fourth prince sobbed and got up, staggered out, but when he stood in front of the door, he still did not open the door immediately and left, but wiped his face with his sleeve, convinced that there was nothing too abnormal about him, so he pushed the door out.

He's also a prince anyway, where can he let the group of eunuchs outside see the jokes?

After the fourth prince went out, Su Mingbo saw him from a distance and tears were still flashing in the corners of his eyes. Even if you don't hear any noise in the house, you know that the situation must not be optimistic.

Su Mingbo lowered his head, as if he didn't see the abnormality of the four princes, and quickly walked up the steps into the house to serve.

The fourth prince left the main courtyard and did not go back to his courtyard, but instructed the little chamberlain who served him to inquire about the news: "Go and see, how is the third prince, is he really going to die?"

When the little chamberlain heard this, he was trembling. Where can words like "die or die" be put on the lips?

His Royal Highness, this is not to kill him!