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As soon as Xia Houzhe returned to the mansion, Jia Er, who was guarding the door, stepped forward and reported: "Emperor Wu came as soon as you left in the morning, and now he is waiting in the flower hall."

Throwing the reins to Twelve casually, Xia Houzhe nodded to indicate that he understood.

Wu Shao was sitting in the flower hall, sipping his tea one after another, thinking about those things that he had set up overnight, he felt quite uncomfortable.

"Is something wrong?"

Wu Shao, who was in a daze, came back to his senses, and when he saw who came in, he habitually wanted to take out his fan.

However, he touched the sleeve pocket and found it was empty, and then remembered that all his fans had been buried in Wen Mingyue's hands last night because of the boudoir.

Pulling the corner of his mouth slightly stiffly, Wu Shao said: "Of course there is something. Azhe, since you have made a decision, as a brother, I must at least let you avoid detours."

Xia Houzhe looked solemn: "Have you gone to ask Auntie?"

Wu Shao smiled wryly: "Don't be angry, don't be angry. I know you don't want me to intervene, but now that what happened back then, even if you want to investigate it, you are powerless. Really, if my mother didn't experience it personally, I wouldn't have thought that there would be something inside if I was beaten to death. There are so many insiders and promoters."

"Wu Shao, if possible, I don't want to involve you." Xia Houzhe said solemnly, "Even if it's already involved, I hope you can get out as soon as possible."

Wu Shao leaned back slightly, with an exaggerated expression: "Azhe, why are you so worried about me? Although you refused to call me brother when you were young, I am really older than you!"

As he said that, he continued without waiting for Xia Houzhe to speak again: "I understand what I'm doing, and I also know what the consequences will be. So, you really don't have to worry so much, I will take care of myself."

Wu Shao leaned forward slightly, squinting his eyes: "Tell me, what do you want to do with the Ninth Prince."

Nowadays, there are quite a lot of children and heirs. Excluding those who died young, there are still seven walking on the surface.These seven are sorted all the way to fifteen, but there is no nine in it.

Wu Shao's voice was very soft: "I just found out that the treasure book of the previous empress has not been destroyed! On the royal plate, there is actually a son of the middle palace hidden."

He was surprised and sighed again: "That's the son of the middle palace! If the sage does not establish a prince for a day, he will be the most legitimate heir! If the sage has an accident that day, who will raise his arms again..."

When Xia Houzhe heard the news, he didn't even move his eyebrows.He pressed Wu Shao's shoulders and pressed him back to his seat: "So."

Wu Shao slumped back down with strength: "So? So what's the point of those princes fighting like black-eyed chickens?"

"Do you think the emperor wants to pass the throne to the Ninth Prince?"

This question made Wu Shao fall into confusion: "I don't know, I feel that I can't understand His Majesty more and more. It is true that he personally bestowed the queen to die back then!

All these years relying on the empress dowager's face, the Ninth Prince survived tremblingly in the cold palace.He wants to pass the throne to his son...how is this possible? "

Xia Houzhe sat on the chair next to him, took a cup, picked up the teapot and poured water into it.

Wu Shao looked at him, hesitantly said: "Could it be that Your Majesty regretted it?"

Xia Houzhe's eyes flashed sarcasm: "I thought so too, someone even told me that although the emperor was ignorant of the Ninth Prince on the surface, in fact he cared and took care of him secretly.

That His Majesty already knew that he did something wrong back then, so his slack in government affairs over the years was also a self-imposed exile. "

"Ah?" Wu Shao was surprised: "Really?"

"Of course it's a lie." Xia Houzhe didn't hesitate: "It's just some rhetoric, just to stabilize me and the Changying Army."

Wu Shao's mind was running fast: "Who told you that, and why did he tell you these things? How did he know that you had doubts about what happened back then?

No, no, did you suspect it first, or was it because of what he said that you became suspicious of that year? "

Hearing so many questions from him, and the intricate cause and effect inside, Xia Houzhe couldn't help thinking of his previous life.

In fact, in his previous life, he knew very early that his father died of poison, but at that time he always thought it was the hands of Bei Liang.

Until Showa 24, there was a severe drought in Beiliang, and the grassland could no longer provide them with the materials necessary for survival.

So in order to survive, the three major tribes in Beiliang shook hands and made peace, unanimously decided to stop the civil war, and then unite to go south to plunder Dayuan.

The Mijin Road has fallen, and only the Broken Cloud Pass remains in Dayuan.After crossing the Broken Cloud Pass, there is the endless hinterland of the Central Plains behind.

The flames of war at the border suddenly rose, and urgent military messages came one after another. By the time they arrived in Yecheng, several war horses were exhausted to death.

At that time, outside Dayuan, the second prince led troops to suppress bandits everywhere, and made great achievements in battle, but the bandits were suppressing more and more.

In the end, the land was everywhere, and there was no dispute.There are three or seven princes in the imperial court who formed their own parties to fight for the throne, and the second prince who caused troubles outside from time to time would come back and intervene again.

It was under such a riddled situation that I heard that Beiliang knocked on the pass.Emperor Zhaohe, who was having fun in the deep palace, overtook Li Xici, Marquis of Zhenbei, and directly attracted Xia Houzhe, who had just passed the crown.

Emperor Zhaohe asked a question: "You have some abilities like your father."

Xia Houzhe said without hesitation, "Six points."

Hearing this answer, the disheveled emperor waved his hand: "That's enough."

In this way, the tiger talisman of the Generalissimo of the World's Soldiers and Horses fell into Xia Houzhe's hands.

It has to be said that at that time Xia Houzhe was full of scolding Fang Qiu and high-spirited.

Generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses in his 20s, when his father took this position, he was already in his 30s!

As long as he recalled the impulse to carry Yulong to die as the king, Xia Houzhe would like to strangle himself to death.

His father paid his own life for this trust, but he paid Su Mu's life for it.

The flower hall was very quiet, only the sound of the wind blowing through the bamboo forest outside the window.

Xia Houzhe kept silent, and Wu Shao thought that he had asked too many questions, and he didn't know how to answer them for a while.

So he coughed lightly: "Since it's hard to say, forget it, you just need to answer my last question. Since the Holy One doesn't like the Ninth Prince, who exactly does he like?"

"Who is it? Oh, it's me."

The sound of the wind stopped.

"Crack!" The teacup Wu Shao was holding fell onto the table, and all the green tea in it spilled out.

He opened his mouth wide, his eyes were full of dullness, vividly showing what it means to be stupid.

After a while, he jumped up as if his butt was on fire: "Aren't you Uncle Xiahou's real son? The eldest princess is His Majesty's real sister!"

Xia Houzhe kicked over, his blue eyes full of disgust: "Idiot."

Wu Shao hugged the foot he kicked, with a face full of confusion and confusion: "Why is that? I don't understand! I can't figure it out!"

"If you can't figure it out, it's right. If you figure it out, you'll become a lunatic."

Wu Shao let go of his hand and walked around the room, he slapped his forehead hard: "Let me think about it, Your Majesty has become more and more reclusive these years, and I heard that all important affairs of state are managed by a few cronies around you.

My father sighed there every day, saying that His Majesty was not like this before.No, no, what does that have to do with this.Yes—it's not that he doesn't have a biological son, why would he want you to succeed him..."

Xia Houzhe interrupted him: "You're wrong, it's not succession, he wants me to usurp the throne. I - Xia Houzhe, will usurp him - Gao Tai's throne."

Wu Shao stopped in his tracks, his pair of glittering fox eyes in the past had completely turned into dead fish eyes at this moment.

"Is he sick?"

Xia Houzhe nodded approvingly: "Yes, he is sick. Or to be more precise, he has gone crazy."

The flower hall fell silent, Wu Shao opened his mouth a few times, but gave up just as soon as his mouth formed.

Xia Houzhe still had that calm look, wisps of white mist kept coming out of the teacup in his hand, and after a while, his brows and eyes were clouded.

"There is one more thing I didn't tell you. I thought it was very important when I first came here, but then I didn't think it was important. But now, I don't know whether he is important or not."

Wu Shao seemed to be talking tongue twisters and said to himself: "Do you know that the Ninth Prince in the cold palace is not the real Ninth Prince. He is a baby specially found by the Queen Mother from outside just in case."

Xia Houzhe was surprised: "Auntie even knows this?"

Wu Shao was silent for a while, feeling a little disappointed uncontrollably: "So you know..."

Xia Houzhe understood his subtext, shook his head and said: "You have helped me a lot, really, but maybe you don't know it now. Wu Shao, without you, I might be kept in the dark for the rest of my life. "

Wu Shao's expression was slightly relaxed: "Really? I don't want to drag my brother down."

His fox eyes blinked: "After all, when I grow old, I still want to drag Mingyue to your house for dinner."

Xia Houzhe was amused, and he stretched his eyebrows: "Yes, you and Wen Mingyue will grow old together. At that time, as long as you come, we will definitely entertain you well."

What needs to be said has been finished, Wu Shao and Xia Houzhe said: "I plan to take Mingyue and my father-in-law to serve as the governor of Bingzhou, and I will leave after two days after the official document is issued, not waiting for the end of the New Year. My mother... I don't like Mingyue very much. It's better to avoid it first."

Xia Houzhe agreed: "Bingzhou is near the sea, and the folk customs are strong. As long as you manage it well, it may not be a paradise."

Wu Shao hesitated to speak, and there was some guilt in his eyes.

Xia Houzhe smiled: "I believe in you, and you should also believe in me."

After sending Wu Shao to the door, Xia Houzhe said goodbye to him again.Both of them knew that this farewell, perhaps goodbye, would be after the dust settled.

Seeing the vivid figure of his friend getting farther and farther away, Xia Houzhe stood at the door with his hands behind his back.Wu Shao is his mother's old son, and has three older sisters.

He has been pampered since he was a child, and he can't bear hardships and can't bear crimes.Even if he was taught by his father and released in the name of tempering, he still brought more than a dozen carriages with him when he left.

If he hadn't met Wen Mingyue unexpectedly, he should have been a wealthy idler for the rest of his life.

But because he met Wen Mingyue, he tasted the sweetness of mutual love, but he lost half his life because of it.

When the second prince in the previous life went to Dingzhou, Wen Mingyue left angrily because Wu Shao concealed his identity.

However, just as she didn't know that Wu Shao was a son of a family, Wu Shao also didn't know that she was the daughter of a mountain man.

Therefore, under the tiger charm of the second prince, the servants of the government office in Dingzhou were formed into the vanguard of the bandits.

When Huyue Mountain and the surrounding cottages were bloodbathed, Wu Shao was accompanying the Second Prince in the largest restaurant in Dingzhou.

When Wen Mingyue approached with a smile, Wu Shao was just happy, he didn't know anything.

In the end, the dagger in Wen Mingyue's sleeve was still not exposed.

Then she left without saying goodbye, and disguised herself as a dancer to assassinate the second prince.After the failure, she backhanded the dagger that Wu Shao had given to her as a pledge of love and plunged into her heart.

Before she died, she did not forget to curse, which was both ruthless and fierce.

After her death, Wu Shao couldn't even find her body.Because Wen Mingyue died so badly, the second prince was afraid.

In the end, Wu Shao only found the bloody dagger.During the previous life, Xia Houzhe followed him all the time because his mother was afraid that he would do stupid things.

Wu Shao didn't do anything stupid, he just sent the second prince to hell with his own hands, and then built a shed beside Wen Mingyue's tomb.

From now on, there is no more romantic and unrestrained Wu Shizi in this world, only Wu Shao who is ashamed and guards his wife's grave alone.

When Xia Houshi saw him for the last time, he had not yet stood up, but he was already withered like an old man.

But that was all in the previous life. In this life, he will stay with Wen Mingyue until he grows old, with his children and grandchildren around his knees.