Xiao Boxu still couldn't understand why Xiao Yuan was so obsessed with the Queen's death, just like he didn't understand what he did wrong that caused today's situation of brothers killing each other.

He stared at the seemingly familiar but very strange son in front of him, stepped back silently, pointed at Xiao Yuan and cursed:

"It's you who want to rebel, it's you who want the position in the East Palace, Xiao Yuan, in order to compete for the position in the East Palace, you don't hesitate to kill your brother to force the palace, you... really let me down, how could you become like this! I, Xiao Clan You've lost all of your face!"

Xiao Yuan's expression was calm, and he did not have any emotional fluctuations in response to Xiao Boxu's words.

Gu Junci suddenly smiled and said: "Your Majesty, I have followed you for ten years, why, why have you never trusted A Yuan? Today's situation is clearly the result of your partiality, why should you blame A Yuan?" On Yuan Yuan, Your Majesty, he is also your son, you hugged and kissed him when you were young, why are you so partial?"

Xiao Boxu looked directly at Gu Junci, and suddenly laughed maniacally: "It's you! It's you who bewitched my son! Just like when you bewitched our family to rebel, now you're bewitching A Yuan to seek rebellion, right?"

"Royal Father." Xiao Yuan called out, "but if elder brother loves his younger siblings and has the ability to govern the country, then I have the heart to be a prince, but I am rebellious and do not know good and evil. But elder brother is narrow-minded and does it for himself Abandoning the city regardless of safety and danger, causing my own sister to die in battle, making things difficult for me everywhere in the court, and setting up an ambush at Minghua Gate today, if my subordinates and others were not loyal to protect the lord, dare to ask my father, if today the crown prince is standing Here, will you reprimand the prince for me?"

Xiao Boxu suppressed his crazy smile, looked straight at Xiao Yuan in front of him, secretly clenched his hands, his eyes were red: "He is also my son."

"Am I not?" Xiao Yuan asked.

Xiao Boxu was silent.

In the entire courtyard, there is nothing else except the rustling sound of the leaves being blown by the wind.

Suddenly, there was commotion outside the hall, Xiao Yuan turned his head, seeing the servants outside the palace gate being stopped outside the hall by the forbidden army in a panic, Xiao Yuan quickly let them in.

The servant hurried in and knelt down in front of Xiao Boxu and kowtowed: "Your Majesty, congratulations, the beauty Li in the harem gave birth to a prince for your majesty, it's just... but this beauty Li... went because of dystocia... .”

Xiao Boxu suddenly felt a suffocation in his chest, and he didn't know whether it was joy or anger, so he fell down straight.

Gu Junci and Yu Shiyao hurriedly supported Xiao Boxu back to the Ganlu Hall, but Xiao Yuan stared at the eunuch who sent the message for a long while, and then said in a low voice:

"Where is the child?"

The servant cautiously raised his head to look at the solemn Xiao Yuan, and said in a trembling voice: "Return, if you return to His Highness, it will be... outside the hall."

"Hold in." Xiao Yuan said.

The servant saluted tremblingly, then got up and walked to the palace gate, called the nurse who was holding the baby into the courtyard, looked at Xiao Yuan, hugged the child tightly in his hands and saluted:

"Second Highness."

Xiao Yuan stepped forward, lifted a corner of the swaddling baby, looked at the crumpled and red baby in the swaddling baby, and quickly stretched out his hand to hug the baby into his arms.

Because of being just born, the child closed his eyes tightly, and his thin lips moved intentionally or unintentionally.

"Cut it off, I will personally hold this child and show it to my father." Xiao Yuan's tone was cold, he turned around and carried the child into the Ganlu Palace.

When Xiao Yuan came in, Xiao Boxu had already woken up, looked at the baby in his arms, and hurriedly struggled to get up to fight for it.

Xiao Yuan stood quietly in the hall, looked at Xiao Boxu and said, "Father, I really like this child."

Xiao Boxu was a little frightened, he said: "He is your half-brother, what do you want to do!"

Seeing Xiao Yuan holding the child, Gu Junci was also a little surprised, and even a little disappointed.

Xiao Yuan pondered for a while before he said: "Just now I named this child, called... Tai, Tai, a peaceful country and peaceful people, what do you think? As for his biological mother, it was given by the woman I brought back from Youzhou. Because of the humble status of his biological mother, he has never been granted a title in the palace."

Gu Junci looked at him in surprise: "A Yuan, what are you going to do?"

Xiao Boxu also looked at him in disbelief: "You...what do you want to do!"

Xiao Yuan looked at the child in his arms, with a smile on his lips: "Of course I brought the grandson of my father to pay my respects to my father. My father, the crown prince of the East Palace lost his virtue and was ambushed at the Minghua gate. Younger brother, if you act like this, it is natural that the crown prince should be changed, the emperor is not in good health due to the accident, and the state affairs will be handled by the new crown prince, father, you understand the meaning of the son."

Xiao Yuan coaxed the child in his arms, and after saluting slightly to Xiao Boxu, he took a meaningful look at Gu Junci, turned around and walked out of Ganlu Hall.

Gu Junci looked at Xiao Yuan's leaving back, and after looking at Yu Shiyao, the imperial physician summoned by Xiao Yuan came to Ganlu Hall to ask for Xiao Boxu's pulse.

And after this blow, Xiao Boxu was indeed in a hurry and needed to recuperate.

As for the battle at Minghua Gate, everyone knew that Xiao Yan joined forces with the Forbidden Army to ambush Minghua Gate, trying to get rid of King Qing Xiao Yuan, but who would have thought that Lord Huguo would lead troops to help him in the end and solve King Qing's embarrassment. He even got rid of the prince who wanted to rebel, and Xiao Jue who had been demoted to a commoner.

In April of the ninth year of Yuanshuo, Xiao Boxu used the grounds that Prince Xiao Yan lost his morality, cited many evidences of his crimes of harming his brothers, and punished all the people who had been serving in the East Palace into the Yeting Palace as slaves.

Later, a decree was issued to appoint Xiao Yuan as the crown prince to supervise the affairs of the state. On the day the decree came, Xiao Yuan moved into the East Palace as a matter of course.

In the main hall of the East Palace, Xiao Yuan looked at the memorials sent by officials from various ministries, as if he didn't even notice anyone coming in.

According to Xiao Yuan's order, the Lord Protector did not need to report when he came to the East Palace. Now Gu Junci naturally came to the main hall in a big way. He found the nearest seat and sat down, looking up at Xiao Yuan who was handling political affairs.

"Why don't you speak?" Xiao Yuan asked.

Gu Junci was stunned for a moment, then saw Xiao Yuan raised his head, and then he smiled and said: "When the soldiers surrounded the East Palace, the Crown Princess and Xiaodian escaped without knowing when, and they haven't been found yet, maybe , They have already escaped from Chang'an."

Xiao Yuan stared at him: "She has a child with her, so she won't escape too far."

Gu Junci loosened the outer waistband in his hand, and said seriously: "Mr. Zheng said that day, many of Xiao Yan's schemes seemed to come from the former princess, and I never believed that she would have such a scheme. But , A Yuan, if you really find them, I hope you..."

Xiao Yuan said: "I know that the King of Linyang is kind to you. He let you take care of the former Crown Princess and King Xian. Naturally, you will do your best. I promise you that if she doesn't think about anything else and just focuses on raising the youngest son, I can let her live in Chang'an City."

Gu Junci nodded: "That's fine."

Xiao Yuan smiled, and continued to deal with the memorial with lowered eyes. Gu Junci looked at him for a while, recalling the rumors he had heard in the past few days. He really wanted to ask, but seeing Xiao Yuan's attitude towards him recently, Gu Junci Jun Ci felt that he couldn't speak.

Xiao Yuan's brush strokes paused, and he looked up at Gu Junci: "Do you have anything to ask me?"

Gu Junci was stunned for a moment, then smiled and shook his head: "No, I just think the tea in your East Palace is delicious, I'm done drinking it now, and I'm going back."

Seeing him getting up to leave, Xiao Yuan said: "I have a favorite candidate for the crown princess, and now I have a child, so who will be the crown princess and the future queen, I will decide by myself."

"Oh." Gu Junci responded, unable to tell whether he was disappointed or uncomfortable, but turned around and smiled at him, "Then you are busy first, I will go first, by the way, Brother Yu and the others always invite you You don't have to look for me when I eat, I don't have time to talk to you, and my third brother will come to Chang'an in two days, so I still have to entertain my third brother, so you can do your own business."

Xiao Yuan responded lightly.

Gu Junci looked back at him, with a smile on his lips, but it disappeared the moment he turned around, and left the East Palace quickly.

However, Gu Junci, who had just left the East Palace, happened to collide with Huo Situ, waiting to see who bumped into him, Huo Situ, who was about to scold him, said:

"Brother Gu, hurry up, hurry up, go to the tower, Princess Qian is in the tower, she wants to see you."

Gu Junci was stunned for a moment, and before he had time to ask further questions, he rode his horse towards the tower with Huo Situ.

On the majestic and towering tower, a woman with a child in her arms faced the soldiers of the brigade, holding a short knife in her hand, and threatened:

"I said, I want to see Gu Jun to resign!"

The onlookers below the city tower blocked the streets. From a distance, Gu Junci was ready to jump off his horse. He pushed aside the crowd, looked at Princess Qian on the tower, and said quickly: "Princess, princess, I Come, come down."

Princess Qian looked at Gu Junci who appeared downstairs, and suddenly smiled: "You are here, you are here, Gu Junci, are you here to save me?"

Gu Junci nodded: "Yes... yes, I'm here to save you, princess, you stand still, I'll come up right away."

While talking, Gu Junci didn't have time to think about it. After leaving Huo Situ far away, he quickly ran up the tower and faced Princess Qian who was standing on the edge of the tower. Her clothes were ragged and her face was covered with dirt. She smiled at Gu Junci and said:

"You are finally here, thank you, thank you for coming to see me off."

Gu Junci hurriedly said: "Princess, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has already promised me that he promised you to bring up the child and that Xiao Yan's crimes will not implicate you. I promised my foster father that I want to protect you, and I cannot let You have something to do, princess, trust me."

The child in Princess Qian's arms suddenly burst into tears at this moment, and she hurriedly coaxed, coaxed and coaxed her to cry too:

"I originally thought, thinking that Xiao Yan would inherit the throne, and my son would also be the emperor in the future. At that time, I would let my son change his surname back to Sima, so that the legacy left by my father would not be broken, but in the end... ...It is still in my hands, I am not reconciled, I am not reconciled... Gu Junci, why didn't you marry me back then."

Gu Jun resigned: "Princess..."

Princess Qian laughed again after crying, "I have nothing left, nothing left, Gu Junci, it's all your fault, it's all your fault!"

She shouted, hugged the child tightly in her arms, flipped out of the top of the wall and fell down. Accompanied by the exclamation and screams of the surrounding people, Gu Junci quickly poked his head out, watching the moment the princess fell from the top of the wall, Yin Hong's blood spread wantonly, as well as her staring eyes, the words before she died were repeatedly engraved in Gu Junci's mind.

"Duke Protector, Duke Protector."

Gu Junci stood there blankly, unmoved by the exclamations of the soldiers around him, just stood there blankly, and then passed out with darkness in front of his eyes.

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