Nine-Tailed Fox

His eyes suddenly lit up, he stretched out his hand to grab Xuanyuan Bei's shoulder, and asked in a raised voice: "You said, is it because of this reason that Xiao Huo didn't come to see me? In fact, he also has difficulties? Didn't he You don’t have me in your heart? Do you?”

"Brother Huang!" Seeing Xuanyuan Jin straighten his back suddenly, with strange brilliance in his eyes, Xuanyuan Bei was startled and had a bad premonition.

"I got it, I got it! It's not that Xiaohuo doesn't want to come to me, he's afraid to let me know he's a demon!" Xuanyuan Jin excitedly lifted the quilt and shouted outside: "Little bird, change clothes for me !"

"Brother Huang, where are you going?" Xuanyuan Bei stopped Xuanyuan Jin with a puzzled expression.

"Of course I went to find Xiao Huo! I want to tell him, I want to take him into the palace, no matter whether he is a human or a demon, I will make him my queen!"

"Yun Xiaohuo is dead!" Xuanyuan Bei emphasized, pointing to the fox skin next to him, "That fox skin is Yun Xiaohuo, brother, have you forgotten?"

"Little Huo? You lied to me! How could it be Xiao Huo? My little Huo is still waiting for me at the foot of Phoenix Mountain! I'm going to pick him up, I'm going to pick him up now!" Xuanyuan Jin pushed Xuanyuan Bei away, vainly He rushed out the door, "Where's Xiaohuo? Where's my little Huo?"

"Your Majesty, why did you go down to the ground with bare feet?" Little Quezi, who came in response, saw Xuanyuan Jin with bare feet and disheveled hair, and his heart stopped in shock.

"If you go any further, I'm afraid you'll lose your mind and go crazy!" Xuanyuan Bei raised his elbow without hesitation with a straight face, and slashed hard at Xuanyuan Jin's neck.

"My lord!" Seeing Xuanyuan Jin fainted, Little Quezi hurriedly kept quiet and looked at Xuanyuan Bei.

"From now on, the emperor is not allowed to leave the Qianqing Palace. If the emperor has any abnormalities, he must report to the king!" Xuanyuan Bei carried Xuanyuan Jin back to the bed, thought for a while, and then ordered: "Let Jin Yiwei send people to go south Look for the second prince, if you can't find it within three months, let them bring their heads to see this prince!"

The little sparrow trembled all over, and quickly replied: "Yes!"

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Jialong's 14th year, spring.

Xuanyuanbei has been in Beijing for nearly three years, and his mansion is in a quiet place in the south of the city.

Seven years ago, his concubine died due to dystocia, and he was stationed outside all year round, so he simply dismissed all the slaves in the palace, leaving only a few old servants to guard, and the little prince was kept in the palace until he was five years old. Two years ago, he was ordered to send him to Shaolin Temple as a lay disciple.

After returning to Beijing, for the sake of convenience, he often lived in the palace. It was the palace he lived in before he was crowned king.

In the evening of that day, Xuanyuanbei came to Qianqing Palace as usual after approving the memorial. As soon as he entered, he heard from the eunuch in the palace that the emperor had gone to Kunning Palace.

Xuanyuan Bei sighed, and headed straight for Kunning Palace with his personal eunuch.As soon as he entered the door, he saw Xiaoquezi waiting outside the corridor on one side, and Xuanyuan Jin was squatting in the flowerbed beside the corridor.

"Brother Huang, what are you doing?" Xuanyuan Bei looked at Xuanyuan Jin whose hands were covered with mud, and walked towards him.

"Bury the wine." Xuanyuan Jin raised his arms and casually wiped his sweaty cheeks.

"Fruity wine again?" Xuanyuan Bei glanced at the wine jars behind him.

"En! I want to bring Xiao Huo a few jars of fruit wine brewed by myself on the anniversary of Xiao Huo's death every year, so that he can drink his fill underground."

"Brother Huang, the national teacher said that he had already lost his soul." Xuanyuan Bei looked at Xuanyuan Jin's body that was getting weaker and weaker every year, and felt very uncomfortable. "He can't drink your wine at all."

The movement of Xuanyuan Jin's hands froze, and he smiled and said, "Maybe smelling the aroma of wine, his soul can be retrieved strand by strand."

"Idiot!" Xuanyuan Bei shook his head, "Today, another minister handed over a statement about the establishment of the crown prince. Brother Huang, what are you thinking?"

"If Li Fei'er is the crown prince now, and they will collectively play for me to make Concubine Shu the queen, why don't I annoy them to death?"

"Brother Huang avoids people in the name of recovering from his illness. They are here to annoy you if they want to annoy you." Xuanyuan Bei lifted up his clothes, tied them around his waist, and squatted next to Xuanyuan Jin, "You have been sick for three years, why? It didn't get any better, and I saw that it was getting thinner day by day."

"It's fine if you're not crazy or dead." Xuanyuan Jin measured the size of the mud pit dug out, then lowered his head again and continued to dig deep.

"Then I really want to ask you, when is the emperor going to return to court?"

"What? Are you in such a hurry to go back to the frontier?"

"Brother, you know my temper. I have caused complaints from many ministers during my three years in power."

"You are the iron-faced general, they know it well." Xuanyuan Jin turned his face to look at the youngest brother beside him.

Xuanyuan Bei is 27 years old this year, with deep facial features engraved on his stern face, a faint knife mark at the corner of his eyebrows, dark skin, broad and thick shoulders, the thick and powerful lines of his arms can be vaguely seen even through the material of his clothes.

Perhaps it was because he traveled here and there with the army since he was a child, and after going through too many life and death, I don't know when and what month, this kid's younger brother who loved to cry the most when he was a child has suddenly become a serious general, with a straight face all day long. People can't see happiness or anger, only when he goes to battle to kill the enemy, can he see a few traces of excitement in his obsidian eyes, as if he is a bloodthirsty Shura, born to belong to the battlefield.

"Obviously you are younger than Zhen and Hua Yi, but you are the oldest among the three of us. I remember that when the emperor was alive, he always said that you are the most like him, but Hua Yi and I are more like the queen mother."

"Speaking of the second brother, he just sent a letter, and I was going to tell him about it." Xuanyuan Bei took out the letter paper from his bosom, and seeing that Xuanyuan Jin's hands were covered in mud, he had to stuff the letter paper back into his bosom Li, "He said he would come back this month, and he decided to marry Leng Qing as the concubine, and begged the imperial brother to order the marriage."

"Okay! I will fulfill them, and I will issue this imperial decree myself." Xuanyuan Jin sat down with a big smile, grabbed the wine jar on the side and hugged it in his arms, and said to himself: "Little Huo, this time You should feel at ease too."

Seeing Xuanyuan Jin holding the wine jar in a daze, Xuanyuan Bei stood up quietly and stepped aside.

Three years ago, Xuanyuan Jin would occasionally fall into madness because of Yun Xiaohuo's death, and the ups and downs made him worried.A month later, under the pressure of the ministers, Xuanyuan Jin returned to the court, but in the end he coughed up blood in public in the Golden Luan Hall because of a posthumous statement, which frightened a group of ministers to kneel down land.

From then on, Xuanyuan Jin hid in the palace to recuperate, and the full power of the government was handed over to Xuanyuan Bei. The ministers didn't dare to say anything because they saw the emperor coughing up blood.

It was also because of that time that Xuanyuan Jin completely accepted the fact that Yun Xiaohuo was dead.After regaining his sanity, he buried the fox skin in the garden of Kunning Palace, and set up a memorial tablet in the main hall of the palace, on which he carved the words "My Wife Yun Xiaohuo's Tablet Survivor Xuanyuan Jin Li ".

Since then, the young emperors of the current dynasty have never set foot in the Sangong and Sixth Courtyard, and stayed in the Qianqing Palace or Kunning Palace for a long time to live a quiet and repairing life by recuperating from illness. Three years passed in a blink of an eye.

"Brother Huang is not in good health, you remind him to go back to the palace to rest." Xuanyuan Bei whispered to Xiao Quezi.

"Slave understands." Xiao Quezi lowered his head and agreed, hesitated for a while and asked again: "My lord, recently Concubine Shu always brought the eldest prince to the gate of Qianqing Palace to ask for an audience. this……"

"What about Concubine Liang and Lady Su?"

"Before Concubine Liang brought the Eldest Princess, Su Guiren brought the Second Prince and also came here with Concubine Shu a few times, but these days they haven't come much."

"Understood, the king will deal with it."

"Thank you, my lord."

On the second day, the eldest prince Xuanyuanfei, who was only eight years old, was proclaimed king. According to the rules of the palace, he was sent out of the palace to live in another palace. The Chengsu Palace where she lives is only separated by a wall, but it is far away from Changchun Palace, one of the Six West Palaces where Concubine Shu lives.

Concubine Shu cried when she heard the news, and tightly hugged Xuanyuan Fei, who had tears in her eyes, and would not let go.

Xuanyuan Bei watched with a cold face, and when Concubine Shu was only sobbing, he waved his right hand, and saw the guards behind him rushing forward to grab Xuanyuan Fei, hugged him without any explanation, and walked quickly Left Changchun Palace.

Seeing Xuanyuan Fei leave, Xuanyuanbei lifted a round stool with his toes and sat down, facing Concubine Shu who was still covering her face and wiping tears, said sharply, "Concubine Shu, you really think that the emperor and this king don't know Who has been making waves behind the scenes? If it wasn’t for your father to win over other officials to play together in the court, how could this king have received piles of memorials praising you as empress?”

"As the head of the four concubines, I also gave birth to the eldest prince for the Xuanyuan Dynasty, so I should be the queen!"

"Shouldn't it? Doesn't the empress know who's tablet is on display in the Kunning Palace now? In the emperor's heart, the latter has already belonged to that person."

"That man? The third prince really knows how to tell jokes. How can a dead person who has never shown his face become the queen of Xuanyuan Dynasty!"

"You deserve it?" Xuanyuan Bei raised his eyebrows slightly, and glanced at Concubine Shu's pretty oval face with a contemptuous look, "Should I do the math for you? How many judgments have you made in the palace all these years?" Your life? If it weren't for the fact that you are the eldest prince's biological mother, the emperor would have decreed you to be expelled from the palace long ago!"

"Does the third prince have evidence? This palace is also your concubine's wife. If the prince wronged this palace so much, it can be regarded as the next crime!"

"Sister-in-law? This king thinks that Concubine Shu is mistaken! Only the empress of the court can be regarded as my concubine's wife. As for you?" Seeing Concubine Shu's face livid, Xuanyuanbei said disapprovingly, "If you really want to Evidence, this king has personal and material evidence here, but after you have been in the palace for many years, the king of the book does not intend to settle this account with you.