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Dongfang Wo told Ling Wenze that the crown prince ordered General Liang and Hong Sheng to stay in the frontier, and he and Ling Wenze returned to the capital immediately.After all, Emperor Yong was seriously injured, Ling Wenze always had to rush back as the prince.

When the two got on the horse, Dongfang Wo approached him with a sudden smile: "His Royal Highness, tell me what happened to the stone under King Cheng's bed, and I will tell you another news, how about it?"

Dongfang Wo was very curious about this matter, and King Cheng actually died after falling ill as Ling Wenze said.

Ling Wenze felt that there was nothing to hide, so he roughly told him about the radioactive ore.

Only then did Dongfang Wo marvel, and then told Ling Wenze "another piece of news".

"Ten days ago, Chen Ziye died of horse wind. Bai Shilang secretly told the humble officer that he felt... this matter had something to do with Princess Ze."

Ling Wenze's heart trembled, and Dongfang Wo said with a smile: "Your Highness, don't worry, His Majesty suppressed the matter at that time, and no one said on the surface that this matter was related to the princess. Everything is just Bai Shilang's guess."

Ling Wenze looked at him viciously: "Bai Shilang has a very good relationship with you!"

Dongfang Wo smiled happily: "The humble job has always been popular in the court."

Ling Wenze himself couldn't figure out how Chen Ziye's sudden death from the wind had something to do with Zhi Yuan. He could only return to Beijing as soon as possible. Only when he saw Zhi Yuan in person could he really feel at ease.

Riding the horse and raising the whip, Ling Wenze said loudly: "Let's go back to Beijing!"

Thirteen days later, Ling Wenze and Dongfang Wo finally returned to the capital.

Ling Wenze really wanted to go back to his Prince Ze's Mansion, but Dongfang Wo dragged him straight to the palace.

Ling Wenjin was already the crown prince, and Ling Wenze felt a little unfamiliar with his attire and demeanor.The two met only to say hello, and Ling Wenjin immediately took him to meet Emperor Yong.

Emperor Yong was lying on the hospital bed, dying, a generation of emperors looked like this, it was really miserable.

Seeing Ling Wenze come back, Emperor Yong made some incoherent sounds in his throat.

Ling Wenjin stroked Emperor Yong's chest and said, "Father, don't worry, third brother is fine."

Ling Wenze didn't speak the whole time. When he came out of Emperor Yong's palace, he looked up at the sun in the sky, and then at Ling Wenjin beside him.

Ling Wenjin met his gaze, and suddenly smiled: "Third Brother, come to my East Palace and sit down."

After dismissing the servants, Ling Wenjin poured a cup of tea for Ling Wenze himself, and then said in a deep voice, "Father was seriously injured by Concubine Shu, and the imperial doctor said that it took just two days."

Ling Wenze nodded, just as he picked up the teacup, Ling Wenjin looked at him and said, "Will third brother be afraid of me?"

Ling Wenze took a sip of tea calmly, looked at him and asked, "Why should I be afraid of you?"

Ling Wenjin blinked: "I suddenly became a prince."

Ling Wenze smiled: "Even if you become the emperor, I won't be surprised."

Ling Wenjin looked at him and finally smiled: "Third brother, no matter where I am, you will always be my third brother."

Ling Wenze reached out and patted his head like before: "Okay, tell me carefully, what's going on. Listen to Dongfang Wo, I also helped you a lot?"

Ling Wenjin finally resumed his usual way of getting along with him, and told him everything after he left Beijing.

Emperor Yong originally planned to establish King Cheng as the prince, so he sent an edict.Ling Wenjin's side is also ready to force the palace, and it is estimated that King Jia's side is also the same, who knows that King Cheng suddenly became ill at this time.

The queen seized this opportunity and brought King Jia to kneel in front of Emperor Yong and cried out the grievances of these years.When Emperor Yong was still the prince, he promised the empress that they would be a couple forever, but he forgot this oath after becoming the emperor.Now that King Cheng was dying, and the queen cried out sincerely, Emperor Yong promised the queen to make King Jia the crown prince, and even wrote an imperial edict on the spot.

Concubine Shu rushed in suddenly with the traitorous inner guards, killed the queen and King Jia, and injured Emperor Yong.

After the mantis stalking the cicada and the oriole, Ling Wenjin's power has been paying attention, so Ling Wenjin quelled the rebellion, beheaded Concubine Shu and the chief of the inner guard Zhan Shufeng, and was made the crown prince by Emperor Yong of course.

Hearing this, Ling Wenze asked: "How did Concubine Shu collude with Zhan Shufeng?"

Ling Wenjin took a sip of tea and said quietly, "Because of love."

Ling Wenze: "..." Good guy, it turns out that Emperor Yong still has a green hat on his head.

On the way, Ling Wenze heard from Dongfang Wo that Emperor Yong refused to listen to Concubine Shu's begging to take him back to the palace after King Cheng became seriously ill.In fact, the day before Concubine Shu's rebellion, King Cheng died in his residence. Concubine Shu concealed the news and wanted to kill Emperor Yong and the three of them.The Empress and King Jia became souls under the sword, and Emperor Yong lost his life, but time is running out.

King Jia was dead, and Princess Jia Lin Zhaoxiang was taken back to the Prime Minister's Mansion by Prime Minister Lin.Lin Zhaosheng and Lin Zhaonuo didn't know about these things, it was Prime Minister Lin's request, and they kept it from them.

After hearing this, Ling Wenze sighed softly, and patted Ling Wenjin on the shoulder: "Xiao Wu, this is a lesson learned from the past. In the future, you must take good care of your harem! Don't have so many children, and less good ones. Bring them up well, the emperor's family, too many births will be a disaster in the future."

Ling Wenjin didn't expect him to come to such a conclusion after listening for a long time, so he poured tea for him dumbfounded, and then asked: "I heard about the sudden collapse on the battlefield...Third brother, does this have something to do with you? "

Ling Wenze thought that even his own brother can't say anything, so he resolutely denied it: "I don't have such great skills, all my abilities are above ore and smelting."

Ling Wenjin nodded, as if he believed it: "I plan to publicly announce that the Liannu was modified by you, and it can be regarded as creating some momentum for you in the court."

Ling Wenze thought in his heart that he still didn't know if he had a future, and said, "You can arrange these things. I just want to go home and see your sister-in-law."

Ling Wenjin blinked and said, "Third Brother, I didn't believe until now that you really fell in love with him."

After sending Ling Wenze away, a person appeared behind Ling Wenjin.

"Do you really believe what he said, that the land subsidence has nothing to do with him?"

Ling Wenjin turned around and said to the man, "I believe what he said. I know he has many doubts, and maybe there are many things he hasn't confessed to me, but Grandpa, third brother, he has always been sincere to me. of."

Seeing Ling Wenjin's firm expression, Cheng Xiao finally gave up and sighed: "As long as you are willing to trust him, anyway, he has indeed helped us a lot these days."

Ling Wenjin helped Cheng Xiao to sit down, and Cheng Xiao asked him again: "Lin Yaoyou has already mentioned to me that he wants to resign, do you have someone to choose for the new prime minister?"

Emperor Yong didn't have much time left, and Ling Wenjin didn't shy away from appointing and arranging these things.

"Of course it's Dongfang Wo."

Cheng Xiao nodded: "This kid has some skills, and he is a useful talent."

Looking at Ling Wenjin's still immature face, Cheng Xiao was full of emotions. This is only a thirteen or fourteen year old child, but he has to take on the great responsibility of the world.

"Jin'er, do you blame grandpa for pushing you to where you are today?"

Ling Wenjin smiled at him: "Grandpa doesn't know that Jin'er has been ambitious since she was a child?"

Tears welled up in Cheng Xiao's eyes, and he patted Ling Wenjin's head with his old hand: "Good boy... If your uncle is still alive, he will definitely be proud of you."

Ling Wenjin held his hand tightly, and together with him, they thought quietly of Cheng Mo who lost his life at his age.

The guards at the gate of Prince Ze's Mansion were taken aback by Ling Wenze's sudden appearance. Ling Wenze ignored them, asked where Zhiyuan was, and ran towards the study.

Zhi Yuan was holding a book and reading it, suddenly her heart moved, she looked towards the door, and saw the person he was thinking of.

The book in her hand fell on the table, Zhi Yuan got up and ran over a few steps, standing in front of Ling Wenze and looking straight at him.

Ling Wenze stretched out his arms and hugged Zhi Yuan tightly, his throat was choked, but he still said clearly——

"I am back."

It was only at this moment that Zhiyuan realized how much she missed this person, how much she longed to hug him, and heard his words.

Burying her head on Ling Wenze's chest, Zhi Yuan said softly, "I miss you very much."

Ling Wenze smiled lightly: "Me too, I miss you very much. Zhi Yuan, I have something to tell you."

Letting go of Zhi Yuan, Ling Wenze closed the door and inserted it, and brought Zhi Yuan into the laboratory.

Pointing to the line of words on the screen that never disappeared, Ling Wenze read: "Task 39: Completed. Task [-]: To be opened. The countdown is [-] days."

Zhi Yuan looked at the words on the screen, and then at Ling Wenze.

"Since the day I came to this world, X has displayed tasks and countdowns. Task one is an experiment, and task two is to mine ore in the frontier. I have completed both of these. But now there is another one that I don't know what it is Mission three, the countdown is still going on. I don’t know what will happen after the countdown is over, maybe I will die, or maybe the third prince will come back. So I have never dared to respond to you..."

"So you still want to reject me?" Zhi Yuan interrupted him, with obvious anger in her eyes, "Ling Wenze, you are a coward!"

Ling Wenze didn't expect Zhi Yuan to be so excited, the first time he saw Zhi Yuan get angry, he felt frightened: "No...not..."

Ling Wenze's faltering look reminded Zhi Yuan of every rejection he had made before.Looking around the laboratory, Zhi Yuan said word by word: "I will come here with you on the day the countdown ends, at worst it will be destroyed." Staring into Ling Wenze's eyes, he added, "If the third prince comes back, I'll kill him and go with you! Don't even try to get rid of me!"

Ling Wenze swallowed with some difficulty, he really didn't expect that Zhiyuan would react so strongly, so he quickly stretched out both hands and grabbed Zhiyuan's left hand and held it in his palm: "Actually, I wanted to say, so I decided to cherish being with you." Every day we are together, Zhi Yuan, are you willing to walk with me, even if the countdown is over, I will disappear?"

Zhi Yuan: "..."

Seeing Zhi Yuan, who was about to blacken just now, fell into a state of death-like stupor because of his words, Ling Wenze suddenly felt so happy that he wanted to laugh out loud.From the first time we met until now, this person's gentleness, tenacity, and surlyness have all attracted him deeply.The remaining time may not be long, but Ling Wenze will not push Zhiyuan away because of this, on the contrary, he will hold him tighter. After all, for him, meeting Zhiyuan is really two lifetimes. blessings.

So he leaned over, pressed a kiss on Zhi Yuan's lips, and then hugged her in his arms: "Actually, I want to say, Zhi Yuan, I love you."