This year's winter solstice family banquet, all Gu clan members who could be named were present.

Although it was a family banquet, it was an unprecedented event.

During the banquet, the seat of Prince Ning Yi Gu You was next to Prince Duan Jing Gu Shen.

Gu You has always been a person who has no ambitions and never hides his emotions.After this family banquet, he always told his crooked third brother that his nose was not his nose, his face was not his face.

Gu Shen talked to him, but he turned a deaf ear.

Gu Shen toasted with him, but he also had the right to ignore it.

Even though Concubine Ning was about to tear off his sleeves, he remained indifferent.

After the family banquet, the clan kings thanked each other and returned home.

King Ning Gu You found a reason to send his mother and concubine and his wife away first, and pulled King Gu Xiu to talk about the public case in the evening.

"The third guy is simply unreasonable, he dared to pull Yucheng to talk nonsense. He knew that the child was getting bigger and bigger, and it was the time when his mind was sensitive. Didn't he make it clear..." Gu You got angry and always He will pout unconsciously, no matter how you look at it, it is the same as when he was a teenager: "Anyway, I warned him, if he dares to act recklessly again, I will really find someone to teach him a lesson!"

"Sixth brother." Gu Xiu hesitated to speak.

He knew his little brother who was fearless too well. He still had a vivid memory of Gu You delivering coffins next to the group of old counselors in the remonstrance court when he came to the throne.

But this time it's about Gu Shen, even he can only touch on it.

"Seventh brother, you don't need to remind me, I know that if I touch him, he will embarrass you." Gu You straightened the leather belt inlaid with gold colors around his waist, and sighed: "Tonight, you and Taifu Han have a good time asking each other. Be honest, don't let this child have a rift with you."

After King Ning left, the huge court fell silent.

The two monarchs and ministers left the guard of honor far away, and brought each other back to the warm pavilion where they usually live.

In the small dining room in the Warm Pavilion, on the round table are three bowls of small wontons in chicken soup with clear soup and a plate of fried poached eggs that are crispy, salted and browned. The little prince Yucheng has been sitting obediently by the table waiting for the two of them one.

Because, the palace banquet is usually not enough to eat.

Most of the luxurious dishes used for appearances are just good-looking, and what really fills the stomach depends on Aunt Wu's unpretentious but full-hearted craftsmanship.

"Father! Yafu!" Xiao Yucheng swallowed his saliva and threw himself between the legs of the two of them: "Cheng'er is so hungry!"

Gu Xiu bent down and hugged Yucheng into his arms: "Has Cheng'er been waiting for a long time?"

"Yes!" Xiao Yucheng wrapped his arms around Gu Xiu's neck, with his legs clinging to Gu Xiu's waist: "Aunt Wu has come to ask me twice if I want to eat first!"

Xiao Yucheng will be six years old after the new year, and he has grown to Gu Xiu's waist.Every time Gu Xiu hugged him, he would secretly shake his weight with his arms. He often wondered when he would wait until this little dumpling grew longer than his!When the gun is heavy, he doesn't have to hold him anymore.

"Next time Cheng'er is hungry, I'll eat first." Gu Xiu put the small dumplings between him and Han Mochu, and pushed the small bowl of wontons in front of the child: "It's not good for the stomach to be hungry and wait."

"I don't want it! Cheng'er is going to eat with Father and Yafu." Xiao Yucheng held a small bowl in one hand and chopsticks in the other and put a poached egg in the plates in front of the two fathers: "Well ...Father and Yafu, please have a meal."

"Your Highness has indeed grown up and understands the etiquette of filial piety." Han Mochu raised his hand to caress the child's soft hair: "It seems that he has put his heart into studying."

"Hehehe, Yafu's touch is so itchy." Yu Cheng shrank his neck and smiled like a wrinkled little bun, leaning his small body directly into Han Mochu's arms: "The soup is so hot, Yafu Give me a blow."

"Your highness, why does your highness become more pampered?" Han Mochu took the bowl in the child's hand, scooped up a wonton and put it not far from his lips to cool it down slowly: "It's really the same as your father."

Gu Xiu, who just drank two mouthfuls of wonton soup, frowned, put down his spoon and said solemnly: "Zi Ran, can you not always compare yourself to me when you teach your children?"

"Your Majesty is the father of the emperor, and Zi Ran is the father of the minister. The father and son of the emperor and minister, the minister does not need to be compared with your majesty, who should be used for comparison?" Han Mochu said with a warm smile: "Isn't it, Your Highness?"

"Yeah!" Xiaotuanzi nodded heavily, and grinned innocently: "Cheng'er is the child of the father, so of course he will be the same as the father."

The more heartless Yu Cheng is, the more worried Gu Xiu becomes.

The six-year-old child already has his own thoughts and ideas. Although he is his father, he is not a worm living in the child's heart after all.

He didn't know if the child's smile was whitewashing the peace.

Regarding Yucheng's biological father, Gu Yan, Gu Xiu had never concealed it, but he didn't tell the child too much either.It's just that every year when Gu Yansheng sacrificed, he would take Yucheng to worship, and told the child that Gu Yan and Princess Zhang were his biological parents.

Xiaotuanzi is very obedient, and will obediently kowtow before the spirit every time.

For many years, Gu Xiu and Gu You and Gu Jin have always protected Yu Cheng very well.He didn't know what kind of seeds Gu Shen's words today would plant in the child's heart, and what kind of thoughts would be born.

Gu Xiu suddenly remembered a sentence Han Mochu said many years ago: "Your Majesty and Your Highness are father and son, and there is nothing that cannot be said between father and son."

Yes, there is nothing that cannot be said.

The more this kind of thing is covered up, the greater the rift between father and son.

Gu Xiu asked, "Father heard from your sixth uncle that you met the third uncle this evening?"

Xiaotuanzi was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and then pitifully stretched out his small hand to Gu Xiu and spread his palm: "Hmm... Father Huang Yafu, Cheng'er knew it was wrong. Cheng'er didn't intend to offend the third uncle, Yafu Wait, can you hit it a little lighter?"

"Huh? How did you offend Third Uncle?" Gu Xiu asked again.

"Yes... yes... he first spoke ill of Father Huang and Yafu." Xiaotuanzi rubbed his palms, lowered his head, and his voice became softer: "So Cheng'er bit him, but he only took a bite of Liuhuang. Uncle is here."

"Then what did His Royal Highness Duan say bad things about His Majesty and the minister?" Han Mochu wrapped the child's little hand in his palm, and asked gently.

"He said... Cheng'er has no real parents, it's very pitiful... He also said that the emperor father and Yafu treat Cheng'er well because they owe him..." Xiaotuanzi pouted: "Also! He also said that Cheng'er's biological father is my father. The emperor killed him! So Cheng'er bit him..."

"Don't you want to ask my father what Uncle Sanhuang said?"

"What does the father want me to ask?" Xiaotuanzi turned around and looked at the two fathers beside him, blinking a pair of sincere eyes: "Cheng'er is not a fool, Cheng'er knows that he was not born by the father and Yafu." The child is not a child born to my aunt, Cheng'er is the child of the late Prince Xun. That villain is nothing more than trying to make Cheng'er dislike his father and be separated from his father."

"Then, isn't your highness envious of those children who have real parents?" Han Mochu pointed and teased Xiao Tuanzi's chin: "If there were real parents, maybe no one would give Cheng'er a hand?"

Xiao Yucheng seriously shook his head: "My aunt will chase Brother Heng and spank his ass, and my aunt will make Brother Zhuo Sheng behave. Only real parents can discipline their children carefully. Yafu not only knows how to spank Chenger The palm of the hand will also teach Cheng'er to write and teach Cheng'er to paint, and will also make a lot of fun things for Cheng'er to play with. The father will hold Cheng'er to ride a horse, take Cheng'er to swing, help Cheng'er with homework, and help Cheng'er Candied fruit..."

Xiaotuanzi suddenly realized something while talking, and immediately covered his mouth.

Gu Xiu on the side was also silent.

The gentle smile on Han Mochu's face also deepened: "Yunchi, is what Cheng'er said true?"

Gu Xiu couldn't be more familiar with this smiling face.

From childhood to adulthood, every time Han Mochu showed such a smiling face, Gu Xiu's palms would swell for several days.

"Zi Ran, I just wanted to teach him two words, I didn't do much, most of them were done by Cheng'er himself."

Han Mochu's eyes gradually shifted to Xiaotuanzi, Xiaotuanzi immediately hid a pair of small hands behind his back, dodging his eyes with guilt: "Father Ya, I was wrong."

"Forget the candied fruit you have hidden. However, if your highness has faked any homework, you'd better re-do it obediently and show it to me, otherwise tomorrow's Yafu will become a strict father."

"Hmm! Hmm!" Xiaotuanzi nodded heavily as if he was relieved: "Cheng'er is full, so I'll go back to the palace first."

"Your Majesty, be careful on the road." Han Mochu turned around, tilted his head and smiled slightly: "Your Majesty, do you have anything else to say?"

Gu Xiu had nothing to say.

Indeed, nothing to say.

He originally wanted to ask his children if they had any grudges against him, but he was sold out by his children.

***

The night was very dark.

On the dragon bed, a huge brocade quilt engulfed two people who hadn't caught their hair.

In the middle of the winter night, both of them had beads of sweat on their noses.

One can tell at a glance that just now there has been an extremely fierce fight.

Han Mochu lightly rubbed the two red marks on Gu Xiu's palm: "Does it still hurt?"

"pain."

Han Mochu just whipped him twice, and his palm was swollen.

Even if they are not only divided into monarchs and ministers, but also husband and wife.

They are still masters and apprentices.

"Your Majesty never complained of pain in the past."

"It's you who said I resemble Yucheng."

"Your Majesty seems very happy today." Han Mochu pulled the quilt and covered Gu Xiu's exposed shoulders.

"You taught Yucheng well, so I'm naturally happy."

"Your Majesty is happy, is it because you feel guilty towards His Royal Highness?"

"About the matter of King Xi, I really feel guilty." Gu Xiu grabbed Han Mochu's shoulder, pressed it against the crook of his neck, and said in a low voice, "If I hadn't allowed Gu Yan to change, but had sent someone to arrest him The guards are in the palace. At least the fourth elder brother can still live to see Yu Cheng's birth, Princess Xuan will not die in love, and there can be two more people who love Yu Cheng in this world."

"Your Majesty was not the crown prince at the time. What is your identity and what standpoint should you take to keep His Royal Highness King Xie in the mansion? If you want to blame your Majesty, you can only blame the late Emperor's indecision at that time, and blame the unpredictable things. Your Majesty said that it should not be so. Blame yourself."

"You are always like this, no matter what I do, you will feel at ease for me."

"Your Majesty is telling the truth, and I always only tell the truth." Han Mochu put his arms around Gu Xiu, making him fall into his embrace: "Your Majesty is the best father in the world. Your Majesty has never been sorry to anyone."

The winter solstice is the coldest day of the year.

Gu Xiu was in his arms, just like when he was a boy.

Han Mochu closed his eyes and thought to himself.

Gu Shen encountered Gu Xiu's sore spot today, and also set foot on his bottom line.

Must die, must die.

However, he is the royal family.

If you want to die, you can only die in ruin.

***

Yongding six years, three days after the winter solstice family feast.

Duanjing Prince Gu Shen was assassinated in the palace, and was stabbed in the chest.

Fortunately, the guards from the palace arrived in time, King Duan was fine, and the assassin was captured on the spot.

After being interrogated by Dali Temple, the assassin confessed on the spot.

It was Prince Ning Yi who ordered him to assassinate Prince Duan.

Gu You.

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