"Is there no difference between being alive and dead?" Cheng Yong stared at a pair of eyes, praying to hear an answer from Rong Zhan's mouth: "What does the emperor mean by this?"

"Lan Yu insisted on marrying you back then, which disobeyed her father's will. So Lan Chengjie was annoyed and pushed hard, Lan Yu slammed his head on the corner of the table, was seriously injured, and became a paralyzed person. Later, in order to protect himself, Lan Chengjie sent Lan Yu to the mansion of King Lijun, but after the Lan Mansion was raided, King Lijun immediately ordered someone to poison Lan Yu and throw him into the moat with the intention of killing people and destroying his mouth. It was the palace gate guards who fished her up, and later it was Yuan Xi who took her back to the mansion to take care of her. The doctor said that her voice can still be restored, but she can never move, she can only lie motionless on the bed, you say, what is the difference between living like this and dying?"

"Impossible, impossible!" Cheng Yong pounced, grabbed the hem of Rong Zhan's clothes, and shook his head resolutely: "This is impossible, absolutely not." Your Majesty, are you scaring Cheng Yong, aren't you?"

"Scaring you?" Rong Zhan was cold and almost without any feelings: "Why should I scare you? It was I who personally sent Lan Yu out of the capital, and it was I who sent people to take care of Lan Yu along the road, so that Lan Yu could settle down in Guiyun Prefecture safely." If you don't believe it, you can ask Qin Shun, or go back and ask your father, grandmother, or the maid in the house, or even the street vendor who leads the car and sells pulp. ”

"Your Majesty...... What does the emperor mean?" Cheng Yong pursed his lips, his head was in chaos, and he couldn't organize his thoughts at all.

"Everyone in the capital knows, but you alone don't know. I heard Prince Bao mention that in the days when I was not in the capital, one night, the Prince's Mansion sent someone to Prince Bao's Mansion to ask for help, saying that Lord Jing Zhaoyin had sent troops to surround the Wei Mansion and capture their eldest son. Wei Chengyong, is there such a thing?"

"Yes. Cheng Yong's heart throbbed, as if this heart would stop beating at any time.

"That was the day Lan Yu had an accident. Lan Chengjie sent someone to arrest you, but he was worried that his daughter was seriously injured and would not survive that night, and wanted you, the so-called sweetheart, to accompany her. It's just that Lan Chengjie didn't expose his intentions, so it caused your father to misunderstand, and also caused the sixth master to misunderstand. ”

Cheng Yong sat on the ground, tears fell on the placket like beads with broken threads, and his whole body was trembling, like sifting chaff.

"Why? Why is that? Why!" the freshly bandaged hand slammed into the front of the heart, and the wound cracked, and the white cloth that bandaged the wound was red.

Rong Zhan still looked at him coldly: "What's more, on the day Lan Yu left Beijing, she personally asked me that she would never see you again in her life, Wei Chengyong." ”

"What about the agreement of the chess game, doesn't it count?" Cheng Yong looked at Rong Zhan with teary eyes.

Rong Zhan shrugged, he didn't know what kind of chess game was agreed, and he didn't want to know. He just walked slowly in the hall with his hands behind his back: "Originally, all this was hidden from you, your father ordered that no one in the mansion should mention the Lan family to you, let alone what happened to Lan Yu." It's all about protecting you, because you're about to marry a princess, and they're afraid you'll be stimulated to do something drastic. ”

"Yes? Then they got their wish, and the students didn't do anything drastic. But the student's heart has been thinking about Lan Yu, thinking about her and thinking about withering. Cheng Yong pressed his heart tightly, and the pain there was as if someone had stabbed him violently.

"Everyone is hiding it from you. But do you know why, I want to tell you about this today?" Rong Zhan glanced at him indifferently.

"Why?"

Rong Zhan sneered and stared down at him: "How do you feel now? Is it painful? Is there a feeling that you can't live in pain and can't die?"

Cheng Yong didn't speak, but his expression and trembling body already spoke for themselves.

"When you tell Chenxiang that you love Lanyu deeply, her heart will never be lighter than your pain. Rong Zhan stretched out his foot and stepped on the saber lightly and heavily, and the sword bounced with a bang. Rong Zhan lifted it up with the instep of his foot again, and the hilt of the sword was delivered to his hand.

The cold blade slapped on Cheng Yong's face, and the taste was as cold as the cold in his heart.

"I have said that Chenxiang is my most beloved sister. I also tell you today that as long as I live, no one can bully Miyaka. The sword in Rong Zhan's palm kept slapping Cheng Yong's cheek with the same force: "Don't think that if Chen Xiang loves you, you can be unscrupulous to her." You have to remember that she is not a little girl who is bullied by you, she also has an elder brother who is the emperor, the Son of Heaven is angry, and the blood is flowing, not just casually. From now on, if you dare to let Chenxiang suffer a point, I will pay you back ten, if you dare to let Chenxiang hurt an inch, I will disembowel you, so that you will not be able to turn over for eternity. Remember!"

Cheng Yong lowered his head and only said one softly: "Yes." ”

Qin Shun held down his saber and hurriedly ran into the main hall and said, "Your Majesty, it's not good, that Hou Xiao ran away!"

Sure enough, being a thief is weak, and now you don't even have to try dishes. Rong Zhan neatly put away the sword and said, "Tell the six palaces, the palace is mixed with assassins, and each palace must strengthen its vigilance." Tell the ladies of the palace not to come and go at will, lest they be pulled by the assassins as shields. Search for me, even if the entire Chu Palace is turned upside down, I must arrest this Hou Xiao out!"

Qin Shunyi arched his hand and said: Yes, the last general will do it.

As soon as Qin Shun left, Rong Zhan's gaze turned to Cheng Yong: "Righteous gentleman, get up." ”

Cheng Yong's legs were already numb from his knees, and Lanyu's matter was really a big blow to him. He had fantasized about the moon countless times, fantasizing that Lanyu could return to him. Even if you can only be a foreign house? As long as you can be with each other every day, your life will not be in vain.

He braced himself up, but found that his legs were not strong at all, and he stood up in front of him and fell to the ground like a newborn foal.

"Waste. Rong Zhan scolded and walked out of the hall quickly.

As soon as Rong Zhan left, the little palace maids in the North Palace entered the main hall like flowing clouds, each doing their own thing, cleaning the cups, plates and bowls on the table in the hall, and lifting the tables to the side hall one by one to put them away. When he came back with the broom, Cheng Yong was still sitting there paralyzed.

The little palace maids were a little curious and asked, "Son of the Wei family, aren't you going out of the palace yet?" This is the queen mother's north palace, the banquet has been dispersed, according to the rules, you can't stay here for a long time. ”

Cheng Yong supported himself hard, but he still couldn't stand up.

"Yo, you see, the son of the Wei family can't stand up. A little palace maid held the broom and covered her mouth and laughed.

Even if he can't stand up, he can't be allowed to sit here all the time, it's not in order. In the end, the little palace maid went to call the two inner eunuchs, took his two arms, and carried him out one on the left and one on the right.

The two eunuchs put him in the cloister of the palace and sat for a while, and then brought him a bowl of water. Only then did Cheng Yong ease his spirits, thinking back to what Rong Zhan had said just now, it was like a dream. He didn't dare to think about it, as long as he thought of what happened to Lan Yu, his tears couldn't stop flowing.

Cheng Yong sat for a while, feeling as if his two legs could barely walk. He leaned on the pillar and slowly stood up. He wants to quickly escape from this area of concentration of absolute power, he has to quickly escape from the emperor's sight, this is not a palace, this is a prison, this is a prison that kills people without blinking.

Cheng Yong staggered and ran, and the two inner supervisors behind him hurriedly called him: "Master Wei, what are you running?"

"Stop!"

Cheng Yong's body leaned over and almost fell to the ground. He propped himself up, turned around, and saw that it was Won-hee calling him.

Yuan Xi waved his hand and motioned for the two inner prisoners to step back first. Asked, "Where is Big Brother going?"

"When I go home, where else can I go?"

Yuan Xi frowned slightly: "Does the eldest brother think that the water he spilled out has been taken back without a drop? When he sees his father, what does the eldest brother want to say? If the father asks, how will the eldest brother explain?"

"Explain? I never wanted to explain. Cheng Yong lowered his head and muttered.

Wei Yuanxi took a deep breath and said, "Is this how the eldest brother behaves in the world? A Lan Yu makes the eldest brother fascinated and makes the eldest brother forget what gentleman's morality is. attacked an innocent and weak woman, and then feared the emperor's power, so he chose to submit, and now he is running around like a deserter. Big brother is like this, what is the difference between Wei Chengzhen and Aunt You in the past!?"

Cheng Yong bit his lip, swallowed his saliva, leaned forward slightly, and pressed his still numb legs with both hands: "Has my sister finished speaking?"

"No, does the eldest brother want to leave like this? Lanyu's matter is not the princess's fault. ”

It's her father's fault! Cheng Yong glared at Yuan Xi, but he didn't dare to shout this sentence out loud.

"The eldest brother glared at me, did he think that what his sister said was wrong? Lan Chengjie formed a party for personal gain, corrupted and bent the law, and caused Li Er to die in vain, could it be that the emperor punished the Lan Mansion, what is the fault?"

"He's not wrong, it's me wrong? Is Lan Yu wrong? What's wrong with me and Lan Yu in love, why should Lan Yu be responsible for Lan Chengjie's crimes?

Yuan Xi was taken aback, he never expected him to say the words of resentment against the first emperor so bluntly, no wonder Princess Fang Cai was so angry, maybe how many bastard words she heard.

"Shut up! You don't use the laws of the Great Chu to fool me, the Great Chu Zhu clan does not involve women and children, but the women and children of the criminal ministers are to be freely bought and sold or even exiled to the border and enslaved by the people in armor. In any case, Lanyu's fate is not good. Yuan Xi stared at Cheng Yong coldly and said: "Big brother, what a person with clear grievances and grievances you used to have, how can you be an orchid jade, let you not know good and evil, right and wrong? How can you be a man like this, your father, grandmother and Aunt Yu, how can you count on you when they are old in the future? You are so old, do you still want to cause disaster to the family? If it wasn't for the emperor to prevaricate for you just now, the Wei family would have ...... long ago"

"Enough is enough!" Cheng Yong covered his head and roared angrily.