For the emperor

"But your eldest brother not only came back, but he also came back with the cheers of the people twenty miles away. It was cold and windy, and your second brother waited at the gate of the city for two hours to welcome him in. It was so beautiful, four years Who could have imagined it before? After winning more than a hundred battles, he will no longer be favored, and he will still be crowned prince, with the same limelight." Concubine Yi couldn't help sighing as she spoke.When Cang Tiansu was driven to Yulan, he was not much older than his son is now.

"Big brother is five years older than our little brothers after all." Cang Tianxuan's eyes flashed a strange brilliance, "Mother, my son is still young." Don't always think that I am not as good as him, your son will one day live up to you of.

Concubine Yi was even more worried. What she was afraid of now was not that her son was incompetent, but that her son, who was a bit talented, had too much heart.In fact, when she didn't meet the real Cang Tiansu, her heart was also very big. After a lifetime, she became the second in the harem. The son himself is also capable. According to the Cang family's consistent tradition of survival of the fittest, if you don't fight, you will die. There is a glimmer of life, she can't not care about it.

——But what happened at the celebration banquet a few days ago extinguished that flame.Four years ago, the younger brother of the Patriarch of the Liu family disappeared inexplicably in the palace. The Liu family went crazy. The queen searched the harem thoroughly. But it also has its own sources.

Cang Tiansu didn't do this matter confidentially, or he didn't want to cover it up at all, so he almost pointed at the queen's nose and told her that your brother is my fault, what's the matter, I want to say that I killed your brother, first Find out where your brother's body is and play peek-a-boo with you.

The Liu family had their own faults, so they could only knock out their teeth and swallow their blood, and the concubines also saw the matter clearly—but Concubine Yi never expected that the younger brother of the Liu family would die in such a way.

Being stabbed to death and being divided into nine pieces after being killed are really two completely different concepts. Concubine Yi looked at the baby son under Cheng Huan's knees and thought to herself, not to mention breaking people along the texture, but giving Even asking him to kill a chicken with a knife would make his legs weak in fright.

What shocked her the most was Cang Tiansu's subsequent treatment. When everyone knew that he was the murderer, he drugged himself. As long as the imperial physician proved that the eldest prince was poisoned four years ago, time That's right, all the big crimes were handed over to a guard of Zhaori Palace.It was only natural for a spy to kill the emperor's relatives. Cang Tiansu not only let himself out lightly, but also slapped the whole Liu family with a slap in the face.

Concubine Yi couldn't help but ask, he lived with a crazy woman since he was a child, and outsiders had never seen many of them. He could have such a scheming at that time, so what about now after four years of training in the army?

Not only Concubine Yi, Prime Minister Zuo didn't take this matter lightly, because the guards of Zhaori Palace were mentioned in the dispute, and he went back to investigate Jingtian's affairs, but was terrified by the investigation results.Zuo Xiang's wife handed over the sign and entered the palace, and tremblingly whispered to her daughter, this faction was completely honest.

In the general opinion of these people, Li Mi's matter had nothing to do with Jing Tian, ​​so naturally they couldn't guess the point.

Concubine Yi clutched her heart, Prime Minister Zuo clutched her teeth, both of them were thinking - this is not a deep hatred, it really counts that he has served you for so many years, no credit but hard work, this eldest prince can get this Such a ruthless hand, if his son and grandson really had an enmity with him for fighting for the throne, wouldn't they have to live and be crushed into mud to get relief with their eyes closed?

Now the situation is obvious, among the sons of Emperor Jing, there is no one-on-one enemy of the eldest prince at all, and the second prince who was taught by Emperor Jing, the most holy family, was defeated in the first round. Concubine Yi really has no confidence that her son can do it How strong is it?

In the situation where there is no chance of winning the battle, beheading with a knife can always give people a happy feeling!The road ahead is slim, the road behind is vast, and there is no way out on either side. Concubine Yi cried for a long time by herself, and immediately decided to make offerings to this great Buddha. He made a gesture of favor with the eldest princess.

——So, a woman's heart, a sea needle, and Cang Tiansu are smart and transparent, but they can't resist someone being stupid.

Withdrawing thousands of thoughts, Concubine Yi took her son's cold hand, and said something buried deep in her heart that she had never said to anyone: "Xu'er, you have grown up, and there are some things that the mother and concubine will not keep from you." Yes. The concubine mother has felt from a long time ago that the affairs of Concubine Yong Guifei back then were full of strange things."

Cang Tianxuan blinked her watery eyes, and her voice became soft and glutinous, revealing a little flattering taste: "Mother and concubine tell her son, what's so weird about it? Don't they all say that the witnesses and evidences are convincing?"

Concubine Yi took a deep breath: "Since Yan Ji entered the palace, less than half a year later, she became a noble concubine, and the emperor stayed with her for more than half of a month. He was extremely honored and favored, and there was no one who could compare with her. Because the two The parties are at odds, and the Empress of the Central Palace has not been favored for many years, which is useless."

To this day, more than ten years have passed in the middle. Recalling Yanji's glamor back then, Concubine Yi still failed to show her emotions at all, "Even after she was diagnosed as pregnant, the emperor promised in public, If he can win a man in one fell swoop, he will definitely make her the most honorable woman in the world!"

Cang Tianxuan subconsciously took a breath of cold air, then held back the breath and leaned forward to look eagerly at his mother and concubine: "Didn't father slap the queen in the face in public?"

Concubine Yi seemed to have never heard of it, and stared at the imperial concubine's couch she was lying on just now, with distant eyes: "But after this day, the development of things became strange. According to the counting of days, your second brother should be the eldest son of the emperor." However, Yan Ji was inexplicably premature when she was only seven months pregnant, and she gave birth to a baby boy. The seven-month-old baby has just formed a human form, and she doesn't even cry much. It's like a cat meowing. Well, this boy didn't even need to be touched by others, and he didn't look like he could live a long time. In the first month of his birth, he narrowly escaped death several times and lost his breath several times. The imperial doctors tried their best to save him. Things didn't get better until the third month."

She paused, and when she spoke again, her voice was more stern: "——It so happened that at this time, Yan Ji had an affair with the guards and was caught by the emperor!"

She couldn't help but turned her head and hugged her son fearfully. If it wasn't for her ability to protect her child and just in time for the queen's delivery date, it would be hard to say whether this son would be born: "The most important thing for a woman , It’s nothing more than your husband and children. Xu’er, mother concubine asks you, if you are Yan Ji, when your husband loves you deeply with all your heart, and your three-month-old son is still struggling on the line of life and death At that time, wouldn't you be so bold as to get involved with a guard?"

Needless to say the answer, Cang Tianxuan lowered his head and thought for a long time, his voice was thin and weak: "Couldn't the father have thought of this?"

"This is the strangest thing. How could it be such a coincidence that day? The emperor looked down a little bit, and all the witnesses and evidences came out! At the beginning, our concubines didn't say anything, but we thought it was the queen. Such a stupid move... such an obvious means of setting the blame, the emperor's holy candle, how could you believe it?" Concubine Yi paused, and then said, "However, not only did the emperor believe it immediately, even Concubine Yong herself did not defend herself. She just hugged the eldest prince who was still crying with both hands, kowtowed until blood flowed down her face, knelt on the ground and begged the emperor to spare the eldest prince's life."

Concubine Yi now looks back at the situation back then, the past is vivid in her mind, it was so clear and profound that it made her tremble with fear: "This incident was strange at the beginning, but the more I thought about it, the more wrong it became, what kind of person is your father, if there is indeed an affair This matter, especially when it involves the woman he once loved, even if the eldest prince is really his flesh and blood, how could he endure such a big stain and humiliation—how could he just put him in the cold palace, how could he Let him grow up safely, how could he let him be in charge of a hundred thousand tigers and wolves!"

Cang Tianxuan was dumbfounded, staring straight at his mother and concubine, as if sitting in front of him was a monster with teeth and claws.

After a moment of silence, the Fourth Prince of Cang Kingdom jumped up from his seat, his face was flushed red, and his voice was so shrill that it almost screamed: "This is impossible! This is impossible!!"

Knowing that it was a false accusation, yet he still wanted to kill his beloved woman and put his eldest son in limbo—how could he believe that the person he respected and respected like a god since he was a child was such a complete lunatic? ? !

Concubine Yi was silent.Even she didn't want to believe the truth revealed by these words in her heart. She never told anyone, even her old father and loving mother. She planned to rot these words in her heart, but seeing her son still didn't see clearly With the butcher's knife hanging around her neck, she had to speak clearly.

——He is a lunatic, don't expect to be favored by him, stay away from him, stay away from that seat!My child, this is the only way, at the last moment, you will not be hurt badly, and you will be in such pain!

"Silly boy, he is so cruel to the woman he loves. How much do you think you have in his heart? In fact, we all got it wrong. The queen is not the most noble woman in the world—on her head, there is An empress dowager! Only a woman who gave birth to the next generation of emperors is the most noble woman in the world!"

"That's why your father drove your elder brother to Yulan—not to put him to death, but to sharpen his mind and cultivate his talents, so that he can make great achievements and lay the foundation for his future succession! Concubine Yi's pretty mouth curled up fiercely, and her whole body immediately felt three-dimensional, "The authorities are fascinated, but the bystanders are clear—let me ask you, who do you think is the most like your father's son?"

The sky murmured.

Concubine Yi opened her mouth before him: "Your second brother? That trash who looks forward and backward, is a woman's benevolence, speaks and does things without the slightest bit of clarity? Or your third brother? That arrogant, arrogant, spoiled idiot? Zhang has a face that resembles your father seventy percent, there is nothing redeeming about it!"

She raised her head high and ruthlessly shattered the last trace of her son's pride: "Your elder brother is the one who most resembles your father. He looks exactly like Yan Ji, but his personality is a copy of your father when he was young." He is cruel and ruthless carved out of the same mold, completely disavowed by his relatives, indifferent and rational without losing a bit-he is even the only blood of your father and his beloved-to deny him is to deny yourself, how could he not? Like him—how could he not like him!"

"My father likes the second brother! Bullshit! It's all bullshit!" Cang Tianxuan yelled back, and the world he built in the first ten years of his life almost collapsed.

When dozens of battle reports from the Northwest were sent to the Panlong Palace, when the Northwest Army's victories made the entire Wuji Continent look sideways, when the big brother who had disappeared for several years appeared in everyone's mouths out of thin air, even when At the New Year's banquet, the father looked at the Babaili urgent battle report, his eyes were burning, and when he patted the table and laughed, "As expected of my son", he habitually lowered his head like every brother, repeating in his mind What echoes are always the words "whore", "prostitute" and "adultery" - it seems that only in this way can the distance between the two parties not be so far away.

Even Cang Tianrui, who has always raised his chin to the sky, has to admit that the only thing he can compare with Cang Tiansu is his background and holy family—even if he mentions the eldest brother every time, he is just full of disdain I hate it, but Heaven knows it, and so do all the other brothers. He said "a son of a whore" that he kept saying, which in itself shows that he cares.

Everyone in the court knows that the eldest prince is talented and capable, but his background is really bad. If he was reborn in the belly of the queen—or in the belly of any woman except Yan Ji, there would be no second choice for that seat. .

But now his mother and concubine tell him that the person that the father really likes is the elder brother, his only pride, his only support is so dilapidated, compared to the elder brother, he is vulnerable and useless, the sky How can you believe it, how can you accept it?

Rao Concubine Yi had been mentally prepared, but was still startled by the words that came out of the mouth of her well-behaved, gentle and polite son. She stayed there for a long time before Fang hesitantly called out: "Xian'er?"

This call became the last straw that broke the camel's camel's back. The fourth prince of the Cang Kingdom trembled, from heels to hair tips, pushed her away, and rushed into the inner room like crazy.