After wearing a sick and weak cannon fodder as a prince

"But...there are so many people here..." Before Xiao Yu could finish speaking, the young man continued to say, "Uncle Wu, I heard that you have become a high-ranking official here, can you take me to your room to have a look?" ?”

After hearing what he said, Xiao Yu suddenly frowned: "Ah Xun, who did you listen to?"

"Is not it?"

Xiao Yu turned his head and glanced at Xiao Rong, Xiao Rong said: "Maybe you two, uncle and nephew, haven't met each other. Xun'er has improved a lot in these years, and your elder brother is smart, but he just followed you. He has a brute force like yours."

After hearing what he said, Xiao Yu had no choice but to agree: "Yes."

The person who was holding Xiao Yu and acting like a baby just now was the son of Xiao Rong's eldest son, and also Xiao Rong's only eldest grandson.And Xiao Yu is his uncle, said to be an uncle, in fact, there is only a nine-year difference between them, but now they look like brothers.

Xiao Xun liked to hang around Xiao Yu very much when he was young, and now he still likes to be with Xiao Yu when he grows up, because Xiao Yu would take him to ride horses and hunt together.Xiao Xun's father died young, so he has been close to his uncle since he was a child.

Just five years ago, Xiao Yu was suddenly sent to Fengdu by Xiao Rong. Xiao Xun cried for several days because of this incident. His eldest brother only had such a son, so Xiao Rong loved his eldest grandson very much. Later, he became cold It took half a year for my grandfather to gradually forget the fact that Xiao Yu had left.

Xiao Xun may be the most outstanding child of the next generation of their Xiao family. Compared with Xiao Yu, he hated martial arts and hardship since he was a child, and hated everything his father wanted him to do, but this child Xiao Xun liked these. Wuji also said that when he grows up, he will go to war in the world.

At that time Xiao Yu really wanted to tell him that only the emperor could have this qualification, and their Xiao family could only obey the emperor's orders.

***

Back in the room, Xiao Yu touched Xiao Xun's head: "Ah Xun has grown taller and stronger."

Xiao Xun smiled at him, showing a canine tooth at the corner of his mouth: "Of course, we haven't seen each other for five years, Uncle Wu, and you seem to have grown a lot taller, but I still grow faster. You don't know When I went hunting in the snow field last year, I hunted a big bear, and the bear skin was worn by my grandfather as a cape."

Xiao Yu smiled after hearing this: "That's great! When Uncle Wu was still your age, he was not as good as you at all."

After hearing his praise, Xiao Xun crossed his hips. After all, he was still a child with a temper, and he couldn't help being proud when he heard an adult's praise.

Xiao Xun was born in Linjiang, his father left shortly after he was born, and his mother failed to stay.Later Xiao Rong went to guard the gate, so he was ordered to take him and Xiao Yu along.

Logically speaking, Xiao Yu took care of him the longest, so he should be regarded as half-father.It's just that in this way, the seniority will be messed up, so when Xiao Yu was a child, he half-jokingly wanted Xiao Xun to call him father, but Xiao Xun was so confused at that time that he didn't understand anything.So he called out.

After Xiao Rong found out about this, he took a stick and chased Xiao Yu for half a block. Xiao Yu learned a lesson from this incident, and never dared to say that again.

After all, at that time, he was just a naughty child.

It was the first time for Xiao Xun to come to the most prosperous capital city of Dachu. He saw that Xiao Yu's room and corridors were very luxuriously furnished, so he exclaimed: "Uncle Wu, your decoration here is so beautiful, much better than ours. A tent with nothing is better."

Xiao Yu smiled again: "This is the imperial city, the bitter cold at the border is naturally not as good as here, but sometimes I also envy you, after all you can go anywhere on horseback anytime, anywhere."

Xiao Xun frowned slightly after hearing what he said: "Can't Uncle Wu? Or are those people not letting you go out?"

"It's not... People always have a lot of helplessness in the world, and they can't do whatever they want."

Xiao Xun seemed to understand it now, but he didn't seem to understand it completely. He stroked his chin and said, "Grandfather seems to have said this before..."

As soon as the words fell, Xiao Xun suddenly smiled and looked at him again: "Uncle Wu, I heard that there are many interesting things in Fengdu City, can you take me there?"

Xiao Yu bent down and said to him at this moment: "No, the emperor passed away not long ago, and the imperial city is in chaos now. Before the new emperor ascends the throne, you will stay here obediently, and you are not allowed to go anywhere. Do you hear me?"

Xiao Xun nodded when he heard his words: "Well, Ah Xun understands. Is it okay for Ah Xun to go to the palace with my uncle? After all, I have never been to the palace before when I grow up."

Xiao Yu just said that he is not allowed to go anywhere, but if he refuses him at this moment, this kid will feel uncomfortable here and will definitely be angry again.At this moment, he sighed helplessly afterwards: "Okay... I will take you to the imperial palace on the day the emperor's Zigong is moved to the imperial mausoleum. But you have to remember that when the emperor ascended the throne and passed away, the two One thing is the most important thing, you can't laugh, no matter how boring you are, no matter how much you want to laugh, you can't show any expression. Because this is related to our Xiao family, do you hear me?"

After hearing his words, Xiao Xun nodded fiercely: "Uncle, I don't need you to tell me. Grandpa has already told me several times when I came here."

"You brat! I'm not afraid that you will cause trouble here."

"No way!" Xiao Xun laughed again.

***

Three days later, the emperor's Zi Palace was moved to the imperial mausoleum, which was commonly known as funeral in ancient times.As the crown prince, Qin Xuechuan discussed with the Ministry of Rites to hold a proper funeral for the late emperor.

It's just that there is one more thing that surprised Qin Xuechuan—that Xue Yong, who looked silly with a fat head and was once caught by him three years ago, managed to lose weight and become a fairly handsome young man, and he As if suddenly awakened, he picked up the poems and books again and worked hard.

As the saying goes, don't wait for three days to look at each other with admiration.But Qin Xuechuan didn't see Xue Yong for three years, Xue Yong was like reincarnated.

Xue Zhengwu is not young anymore, so he feels powerless in some matters. Since Xue Yong "reformed from evil and returned to righteousness", he will hand over some matters that are not very important to the court to Xue Yong.

Qin Xuechuan could see the purpose of Xue Zhengwu's move. He wanted to promote his son to continue to be the Minister of Rites when he retired and returned to his hometown.But in this way, wouldn't the family still be in power?

Qin Xuechuan will never allow this kind of thing to happen, he can no longer distribute power to the family.But he doesn't want to kill the family, at least it's impossible when he is alive, and now he just needs to let the family listen to him.

Three days after the emperor's funeral, the loyal ministers discussed the etiquette and date of Qin Xuechuan's ascension to the throne in the Taiji Hall of the previous dynasty.Da Chu's most important thing is etiquette and auspiciousness, and the coronation ceremony of Qin Xuechuan, who was recognized by the national teacher as the emperor, naturally cannot be rushed.

Although Qin Xuechuan has not officially held the enthronement ceremony, he is sitting high on the chair symbolizing the highest power in the Tai Chi Hall, and all the officials are discussing the etiquette related to his enthronement below.

Qin Xuechuan heard that those people were arguing about etiquette, but they still wanted to hear Wu Lin's opinion.After all, Wu Lin is the most capable Wu Zhu in the entire Great Chu.

Wu Lin originally wanted to help Qin Xuechuan, so the enthronement ceremony should be as soon as possible, so as not to have long nights and dreams.So he directly said that the auspicious day is half a month away.The Ministry of Rites also notified the Ministry of Industry to prepare the things used in the enthronement hall.After all, half a month is a bit long, and I'm afraid it's too late to rush to the new phoenix robe.

The emperors of the Great Chu Dynasty believed in the phoenix, and Qin Xuechuan happened to have a set of ceremonial robes that participated in the phoenix sacrifice that was similar to the phoenix robes worn by the emperor, and he only needed to change that set of clothes.

Naturally, the Ministry of Rites didn't have any problems after hearing what he said.

Just when Qin Xuechuan wanted someone to go to his palace to pick up his clothes, he suddenly remembered something that made him a little embarrassed...

Because the clothes were not in his hands, that night...Xiao Yu took him captive to his own mansion, where they...so the clothes fell to Xiao Yu's side.

It has been a long time since this incident, Xiao Yu originally said that he would wash the clothes and send them to the East Palace himself, but he didn't know what happened to this person, since then it seemed that there was no such thing.

Apart from this dress, Qin Xuechuan seemed to vaguely recall that he gave Xiao Yu a handkerchief five years ago, and Xiao Yu never returned anything he lent to Xiao Yu.

This dress can only be taken by him himself, if other people know that his phoenix robe is left in Xiao Yu's mansion, there will definitely be rumors at this critical juncture.

Qin Xuechuan has come to this point, he will soon ascend the throne of God, at this juncture he will never allow anything to happen.

So when the Ministry of Rites was discussing the costumes when they ascended the throne, Qin Xuechuan said that tomorrow he would personally send someone to the Ministry of Rites to make changes.

The matter finally came to an end, and at this moment, he was twirling the Moyu wrench on his thumb a little restlessly.

At this time, he was indeed a little annoyed, so he ordered all the ministers to retreat, and each of the six departments discussed their own affairs, and then reported to him together tomorrow.

Everyone retreated after hearing this.Qin Xuechuan finally breathed a sigh of relief at this moment. He sat on the chair in the main hall for a long time, but at this moment he suddenly raised his head and looked at the empty court hall below. The whole Dachu is his.

Qin Xuechuan never dreamed that such a day would come to him, he never thought that he, the prince who was about to die as soon as he passed through, would live until now, and he never thought that the throne that originally belonged to Qin Luochuan would be easily taken by him.

Regarding his accession to the throne, the courtiers and the family did not show any dissatisfaction.There was nothing unusual about Qin Luochuan and the other princes and princesses, as if it was destined, as the prince, he should have become the emperor in the first place.

***

Qin Xuechuan sat quietly for a while, then he walked to the late emperor's bedroom next to him.

Just the day before the late emperor's funeral, Pei Xing came to tell him that he had found out what the poison the late emperor was poisoned by - he said that the poison was called Caisui powder.

This poison is different from other poisons. This poison is indeed a slow poison as he said.Ordinary poisons will enter the bone marrow from the body, but this poison directly enters the bone marrow, making people haggard day by day, but the imperial physician can't diagnose anything.

Because it is a slow poison, the toxicity slowly accumulates in the bone marrow, and no one will know when he is finally poisoned and dies.Moreover, this kind of poison will spread from the bone marrow to the whole body only after a person dies. He never thought that Qin Xuechuan's suspicion at that moment would catch up to such a big secret.

Sure enough, the palace is not as simple as he thought.

Qin Yuan had been suspicious all his life, but in the end he was tricked by the people around him.

He walked to the dragon bed, then opened the moon-yellow gauze curtain, and the portrait of Xiang Muling appeared in front of him.In fact...Qin Yuan treasured many portraits of Xiang Muling, but this one is the most similar.

Before the lid of Qin Yuan's coffin was closed, Wang Ping, the personal eunuch who had served him since childhood until his death, put a portrait of Xiang Muling in his coffin.

Qin Xuechuan thought that this was probably what Qin Yuan meant before he was alive, because the king had been by Qin Yuan's side for decades, and he was the only one who understood the emperor's thoughts best.This also made Qin Xuechuan understand one thing - Qin Yuan's favorite woman was indeed Xiang Muling, otherwise he wouldn't miss her so much until his death.

On the day of Qin Yuan's funeral, Wang Ping committed suicide by taking poison and died as a martyr.

Qin Xuechuan thought he was loyal, so he ordered someone to give him a lavish burial.He thought that Wang Ping had probably completed the task that he had first handed over to him, so he followed the late emperor without regret. In fact, thinking about a person's loyalty is also quite moving.

It's just that Qin Xuechuan didn't quite understand one thing—why Wang Ping put an ordinary painting in the emperor's coffin instead of this most similar painting beside Qin Yuan.Since everyone is dead, shouldn't the one that looks the most like it be kept?

Also, Wang Ping only released a portrait of Concubine Xiang in the Xiandi Palace, which was not touched until the end.He heard that Qin Yuan once gave an order that anyone who dared to touch this painting would be beheaded.

In addition, Wang Ping burned all the remaining paintings of Xiang Muling on the day he committed suicide.Therefore, the painting hanging in the Hall of the First Emperor is actually the last painting of Xiang Mu Ling in this world.

***

Qin Xuechuan touched the painting and said to himself: "Concubine Xiang...Xiang Muling, what's the secret about you? Whose son am I?"

And when he was touching Xiang Muling's portrait, his hand accidentally stuck to it. It was because he suddenly felt something uneven behind the painting.

Qin Xuechuan's eyes widened suddenly after feeling this abnormality, and then he quickly stretched out his hands to touch the drawing paper.He touched the drawing paper from the top to the bottom against the wall, and then he seemed to have found something extraordinary...

The moment he took the painting down, something with a bronze handle suddenly appeared behind the wall, and Qin Xuechuan quickly turned the thing around when he saw it.Then he heard a sound that seemed to be rubbing and moving stones.

Qin Xuechuan quickly raised his head and looked around at the moment, just when he was looking for something unusual, he found that the wall with a whole picture of a phoenix in the side hall behind the dormitory suddenly opened.

When Qin Xuechuan saw this secret room, he was shocked... He didn't expect it to be like this.

No wonder Qin Yuan didn't let anyone take this painting away, no wonder he didn't let anyone get close to it... It turned out that he wasn't madly in love with Xiang Mu Ling, but because there was such a secret hidden here.

Qin Xuechuan froze for a moment, then he walked cautiously into the secret room.To his surprise... the secret room didn't seem so dark, because oil lamps were lit all around the stone walls of the secret room, and it could be seen that no one came in to fill these oil lamps for some days.

I'm afraid that after a while here, all these lights will go out.

Qin Xuechuan remembered that Wang Ping committed suicide three days ago, so he had been adding oil to the oil lamp here before entering again.Moreover, the oil lamp can burn for such a long time, so it must be very valuable, so this secret room was built by the emperor, and Wang Ping knew this secret until his death.

In order to keep this secret, he chose to follow the late emperor.

Seeing that the lights in the secret room were about to go out soon, Qin Xuechuan quickened his pace and walked forward.

***

After walking for a while, he came to the end of the secret room, where there seemed to be a shining night pearl.This bead illuminates the entire front area, and beside the Ye Mingzhu is a box carved in gold, which is very delicately carved.

Seeing this, Qin Xuechuan hurried forward, and then reached out to see the keyhole on the box.He remembered that he also found a key in Xiang Muling's mausoleum, maybe it was on it.

But just when he was about to open it, he discovered that the lid on the box was loose——

This really surprised him, because no one locked such an important box?Qin Xuechuan slowly opened the box, and what appeared in front of his eyes was the soldier talisman that held hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the Great Chu! !

And there was a golden key next to the soldier talisman. Qin Xuechuan picked up the key and tried it out. He was sure that the key was the same as the box.

This is the other half of the soldier talisman, and the remaining half is in the hands of Xiao Rong who is guarding the border.Although he is popular in the army, but without all the military symbols, not all the soldiers of Da Chu would listen to him, and it would not be easy for him to rebel.

That's why Jia Changsheng said that he would annex Dachu together with other countries.

Jia Changsheng is dead, and Xiao Rong said those things to him when he came back a few days ago, so Qin Xuechuan still half believes what Jia Changsheng said so far.

Qin Xuechuan carefully put the soldier talisman into the gold box as it was, and then locked it with the key.

He felt that it was safest to stay here with the soldier talisman, and he didn't have to take it away.

After locking the box, he took only the key away, and soon after, all the lights in the secret room went out.

***

Qin Xuechuan thought that he had to go back to the East Palace before he ascended the throne, because there were some things he hadn't resolved... On the way back, Qin Xuechuan looked at the key he was holding in his hand.

It turns out... Wang Ping has been keeping the military talisman for the emperor, and the emperor also knows that once someone succeeds the emperor, it will be a matter of time before he finds the military talisman.

The reason why he didn't entrust the soldier talisman to anyone was to protect Da Chu and the prince beside him.Of course, Qin Xuechuan also had a thought for a moment: Qin Yuan might have done this to protect his crown prince from other people's schemes.

After all, at this time, whoever has a military talisman in his hand will become the target of public criticism, let alone a prince who ascended to the throne of God at a young age.

Right now, his foundation is not stable, and it won't be too late to use this half of the soldier talisman to slowly take back his military power after he has truly gained power.

***

Just as Qin Xuechuan was about to return to the East Palace, he opened the curtain of the carriage and took a look outside.

It's getting late now, if I go back to the East Palace to do some business and then go to Xiao Yu's mansion, I'm afraid it will be too late.Qin Xuechuan has already said that tomorrow he will personally send someone to deliver the phoenix robe to the Ministry of Rites, and this matter must be done.

After hesitating for a while, Qin Xuechuan said to the man driving the carriage: "Turn around and go to Xiaohou's Mansion."

"Yes!"

When it was completely dark, Qin Xuechuan's carriage finally stopped at the back door of Xiao Yu's mansion.Usually, when he came to visit Xiao Yu in an open and aboveboard manner, he chose to go through the back door, and this time was no exception.

Qin Xuechuan gave the person beside him a look, and that person hurried up to knock on the door.

"Boom boom boom——"

"Boom boom boom——"

After the guard knocked on the door a few times, a servant suddenly came out from behind.

And that servant is the one who opened the door for Qin Xuechuan last time.Xiao Yu was afraid that it would be inconvenient for Qin Xuechuan to come here again, so he specially ordered that servant to guard the back door, and when Qin Xuechuan came, he could just take him to his bedroom.

Of course, this famous family member Ding is very good at reading facial expressions. He saw that it was the nobleman who came last time, so he quickly said: "It turns out that you are here, please come inside quickly."

When Qin Xuechuan walked inside, he suddenly had a feeling that entering someone else's house was like entering his own.

Because it's so convenient...

He was wearing a cloak with a hood, which covered half of his face and her figure, and he couldn't see anything in the middle of the night.

After the famous family Ding brought Qin Xuechuan to Xiao Yu's bedroom, he said: "Master, you wait here for a while, the little one will go and pass on our Lord Hou!"

Qin Xuechuan nodded after hearing this: "En."

As soon as the man left, Qin Xuechuan even took off the hat on his head, and at this moment he suddenly heard a slight sound of footsteps behind him.The sound of footsteps was very light, and it was obvious that someone with a bit of kung fu could do it.

Qin Xuechuan was still puzzled at this moment: Didn't that person just leave? Why did Xiao Yu arrive so soon?Or did Xiao Yu want to scare him?

And at this moment, just as he turned around, he saw a boy half a head shorter than himself pointing at him with a short sword: "Say! Who are you? Why are you here?"

Qin Xuechuan frowned when he saw the boy in extraordinary clothes. He should be the one to ask this question, right?

"And why did you appear here? Who are you Xiao Yu?" Qin Xuechuan asked coldly.