Drunken Amtang

After the Zuihuaju incident, Fuliu returned to the country angrily, and the marriage was terminated. King Chen was very dissatisfied with Wu Guo.The person who poisoned him could not be found, so King Wu had no choice but to comfort King Chen with the death row in prison.It was not good for the second prince to lead the army, Wu Wang called him back to the capital, and ordered the third prince to set off to take over the military power immediately.

Unexpectedly, a few days later, it was reported that the second prince suddenly contracted a serious illness on the way back, and lost his life before returning to the country.

King Wu was in great grief, the whole country was covered with white gauze, and there were even more mournful voices in the second prince's mansion.

When the news came, the fourth prince was playing chess with An Yao in Zuihuaju, and his attendants came in to report the news of the second prince's death.

The Fourth Prince asked him to go out and continue playing chess.An Yao dropped the sunspot in his hand,

"Your Majesty, it's a good idea."

"Sir, don't talk nonsense, no matter how ridiculous I am, I will never do such a thing."

An Yao looked at the fourth prince who was pretending to be surprised and said in his heart, aren't you the one who can do such things?

"I'm talking about the chess skills of the prince, what does the prince think I'm talking about?"

After the Third Prince took over the military power, there was obviously less news about the military camp. The Third Prince was strict with the military, and the informants in the camp did not pass on news as frequently as before.

Su Tang and An Yao's note also gradually turned into a letter between the two from the military newspaper.Su Tang chattered with An Yao about the trivial matters in the camp, An Yao carefully watched every word, and occasionally replied to his message saying that everything was fine, even if An Yao only replied to him with a few words, it did not dampen Su Tang. Tang's enthusiasm.

An Yao looked at the thicker and thicker paper and smiled helplessly.

The fourth prince hasn't come to Zuihuaju for a few days. After the third prince left, he began to enter the palace frequently. He dedicated all the rare things he got to King Wu. He said that the third brother told him to take good care of his father before he left. King Wu thought he was I am finally sensible, very happy.

If the fourth prince doesn't come, it doesn't delay his delivery of things. An Yao's room has recently been filled with coral bonsai pens, ink, paper and inkstones and various things that he sent.

The originally empty room was now fully furnished, and An Yao did not refuse, anyway, he was too free on weekdays, so he just fiddled with these things to pass the time.

Today, after the fourth prince chatted with King Wu, he went out of the palace to see the sky. He wanted to go to Zuihuaju to meet An Yao, and after thinking about it, he took out a wooden box from the mezzanine of the carriage and handed it to the attendants.

"You send this to Mr. Antang first, let him take it."

The entourage rides the horse first according to the words.

Xiao Shisan took the box and gave it to An Yao. An Yao lifted the lid and saw a small pill inside the box.An Yao put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed it carefully to make sure it was non-toxic, then ate it.

After a while, the fourth prince arrived at Zuihuaju. According to their contract, Zuihuaju is now An Yao's property, but both of them tacitly didn't mention it. The fourth prince did not want to lose his reason to see that person.

When he pushed the door open, he saw that the open box on the table beside An Yao was already empty, so he walked in with confidence.

An Yao keenly sensed that the fourth prince had a fragrance that he had never smelled before,

"Have you taken the pill yet?"

An Yao played with the box,

"What kind of pill is this?"

The fourth prince walked across the table and sat down,

"It's the antidote to the strange medicine I got from the Western Regions."

An Yao squinted his eyes to understand the source of that fragrance,

"That's why the prince has the medicine from the Western Regions on him now."

The Fourth Prince poured himself a glass of wine,

"This medicine will not affect people who have already taken the antidote. People who have been in close contact with it for a long time will be chronically poisoned, and gradually there is no cure. I just came out of the palace and haven't washed off the medicine. I'm afraid it will hurt me. The son's body."

"My lord, is this going to start?"

"Father is old, and it's time to step aside."

That's right, at this time the second prince has passed away, and the third prince is far away from the border. This is the best chance for the fourth prince to seize power.

An Yao held his chin and looked at the Fourth Prince who was drinking on the opposite side,

"The king's family is really ruthless. I admire how calmly you can kill your brother and father."

The fourth prince sighed and put down the wine glass in his hand,

"Do you know how my elder brother died"

"Fourth Prince is willing to say, I will naturally listen."

"My eldest brother and I were born to the same mother. I was born thin and weak, and my eldest brother never left my side. He was clearly a child, and he tried to protect me in everything. The queen mother is weak, but because my eldest brother is a direct descendant. The crown prince was established as an example, and since then the elder brother has become the target of all palaces."

"My father doesn't like my mother either, and it's hard to see each other for a few years. My elder brother is like my father to me, but my third elder brother's biological mother, Concubine Jing, is so charming that my father loves her. The two of them plan to seize power. My elder brother is 16 years old. That year I went to the hunting ground with my father to hunt, but in the end there was an accident and I injured my leg and could no longer walk. Although it was an accident, I know that this matter has something to do with Concubine Jing, mother and son."

"Since then, my eldest brother can only stay in bed, but they still don't want to let him go, so they poisoned his soup, bought the eunuchs around me, and tricked me, who was only eight years old at the time, into sending the bowl of medicine to me with my own hands. big brother's mouth!"

For the first time, the fourth prince showed a fragile expression in front of An Yao, as if tears would flow in the next second,

"After the death of my eldest brother, my mother and I had nothing to rely on, so I began to act like I was ignorant, incompetent, and self-motivated, because only in this way can they rest assured, and only in this way can the lives of my mother and I be preserved. After so many years Now, now I finally have a chance to take revenge, if you say I killed my brother and my father, I really don't regret it."

An Yao lifted the jug and poured a glass of wine for the Fourth Prince and himself,

"Antang wishes the Fourth Prince to fulfill his wish as soon as possible."

The Fourth Prince obviously didn't expect him to have such a reaction, he laughed a few times at random, picked up the wine glass and drank it down in one gulp.

It’s winter, and the capital has been snowing for the past few days. An Yao thought that the military camp was close to the snow-capped mountains, so he specially wrote a letter asking Su Tang to wear more clothes. At this time, King Wu was suffering from a serious disease, and the imperial physicians in the palace took turns to diagnose and treat him, but they didn't know the cause of the disease.

The fourth prince was lying on the side of the hospital bed all day long, serving King Wu with his clothes untidy, and earned the reputation of a dutiful son.