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Prince Ci'an's palace

"Has there been any movement in Su Qing recently?" Huo Cian called the secret guard and asked.

"Back to the king, there is no news yet. He stays in his palace most of the time. When he goes out, he either goes to see the queen mother or the princes."

"My good sons usually don't stay in the palace for so long. As soon as Su Qing comes, they all wait in the palace and rush to see him."

"Princes also work hard for the country, so there's nothing wrong with knowing about major border issues." The secret guard said flatteringly.

"That's nice to say, but I'm just eyeing the throne of Gu." Huo Cian was a veteran after all, and he was dismissive of their behavior.

After the maid put on Huo Cian's clothes, Huo Cian came out and continued to ask, "What's Su Qing's attitude?"

"Back to the king, Su Qingting... welcomes everyone. Almost everyone agrees, but they don't want to touch anyone."

"You are quite educated for a secret guard." Huo Cian sat down and said calmly: "This Su Qing, who looks like it has nothing to do with her all day long, is actually very smart at heart. She can't fault her behavior. If he makes a mistake, even if he wants to catch him, he will not be able to make a mistake."

"After all, he is a general who has been stationed at the border for ten years without a defeat. If he is caught as soon as he enters the capital, it will not live up to his reputation." The secret guard stepped forward and squeezed Huo Cian's shoulders to relax.

"Su Zian really taught a good son." Huo Cian threw the memorial to the ground and said angrily.

"Your Majesty, calm down." The secret guard picked up the memorials, arranged them and put them on the table.

"Did the Zhou Dynasty agree to Beiming sending protons into the court as a sign of goodwill?"

"Back to the king, I agree."

"Then I will let the sixth prince Huo Zhen enter the Zhou Dynasty as a hostage for two years, and grant marriage to the fifth princess Huo Shu and Su Qing, and marry them into the Su family. After their birthdays, I will draw up a decree to let them go where they should go. .”

"Your Majesty is wise." The secret guard half-knelt on the ground and said flatteringly.

"Continue to observe Su Qing's movements. He will stay in the palace for at least two months. Let's see if I can find out what's wrong with him."

"Yes." The secret guard retreated.

As soon as the secret guard left, Huo Cian threw the memorial to the ground again.

"Su Qing!" Huo Ci'an gritted his teeth and said angrily: "I failed to kill you two years ago. It was the biggest mistake of my life."

Su Qing, who was guiding Huo Shu in martial arts training in Huo Shu's bedroom, suddenly sneezed.

"Who doesn't want to scold me?" Su Qing asked dissatisfied.

"You don't have eyes either. You sneezed in my face." Huo Shu stood up with a look of disgust on his face.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Su Qing quickly took out a handkerchief and handed it to Huo Shu, saying, "Wipe it for you."

"No need." Huo Shu did not take Su Qing's handkerchief, but took out her own and wiped it.

"Okay." Su Qing wiped her face with her handkerchief.

"Your birthday is in two months. Do you have any birthday gifts you want?" Su Qing placed a book on Huo Shu's head and asked.

"No." Huo Shu replied lightly.

"Why do you always say no? If you think about it carefully, although I have difficulty moving in the palace, I can still get you a birthday gift."

"I really don't want anything." Huo Shu said honestly.

Looking up at Su Qing with an expression that said "Don't try again, don't you dare", Huo Shu sighed and said, "I'll think about it."

Huo Shu felt really warm in her heart. This was the first time in her life that someone had prepared a birthday gift for her.

"When is your birthday?" Huo Shu asked.

"Next month's sixteenth, what's wrong?"

"Then are you going to hold a birthday banquet in the palace?"

"I guess so. Your twentieth birthday is considered a coming-of-age party."

"I shouldn't be able to go. I'm worried about being cursed and causing trouble to your birthday party." Huo Shu lowered his eyes, feeling a little unhappy.

Su Qing looked at Huo Shu and said after a while: "It doesn't matter if you don't come. We are not familiar with each other in the eyes of outsiders. It would be strange if you came. Besides, I don't like birthday banquets in Beijing either." There are so many red tapes and there are so many things to please, why don't I go to the border and kill a few sheep and roast them with the border officers, and drink some wine to entertain them."

"If I have the chance, I would also like to visit the border area." Huo Shu said with envy.

"Don't bend your legs." Su Qing interrupted Huo Shu's imagination and said, "You can see it after you marry me. Before that, please stand upright."

Huo Shu instantly lost the idea of ​​continuing to chat with Su Qing.

Jingcheng Free Clinic

"Where are your people in charge?" Huo Zehao and Lu Rou walked in, showed their badges, and asked the boy at the door.

"Invite the two Immortal Lords inside. The butler has already prepared tea and is waiting inside." The young man saw Huo Zehao and Lu Rou's waist badges and quickly saluted and said respectfully.

Huo Zehao and Lu Rou walked in and sat down opposite the butler.

"What's going on in the palace now?" Huo Zehao asked.

"The monarch selected the heir a few days ago, and all princes are eligible to participate. Now there are two princesses and five princes in the Beiming royal family. The most competitive ones are the second prince Huo Jingxuan and the fourth prince Huo Yanshi. The ages of the sixth and seventh princes It's still small and it doesn't have enough power." The chief steward replied seriously.

"Go on, what happened during the fifteen years I was in seclusion?"

"Yes." The eldest steward took a sip of tea and continued: "The eldest prince, your mother gave birth to a pair of twins fifteen years ago, who are now the fifth princess and the sixth prince."

Do I have younger siblings? Huo Zehao was a little surprised.

"But the fifth princess and the sixth prince were calculated by the high priest to be under an ominous curse. King Ci'an was furious and insisted on keeping these two children. Now they have grown up in the palace. In order to prevent the people from being affected by the ominous curse, They were not allowed to leave the palace.”

Huo Zehao and Lu Rou looked at each other, somewhat surprised by this situation.

"Concubine Rong also fell out of favor and was thrown into the cold palace. She died in depression six years later."

The mother-in-law passed away? Huo Zehao only felt that things were different and people were different. Although I did not grow up in the education of my father, queen, mother and concubine, I came back almost every year before the retreat, and every time I could feel the love and love of my father, queen, mother and concubine.

In the past fifteen years, the mother-in-law actually fell out of favor because the priest said that the child she gave birth to was cursed.

Sensing Huo Zehao's emotional changes, Lu Rou quickly held Huo Zehao's hand and whispered, "My condolences."

"I'm fine, keep talking." Huo Zehao said.

"We don't know how the five princesses and the six princes are doing in the palace. They have never left the palace. We don't know what they look like, whether they are well fed or not, and whether they are dressed warmly."

"What about Beiming's situation in the past fifteen years?" Huo Zehao asked.

"Ten years ago, General Su Su Zian's wife died in battle, and General Su removed his armor and returned to his fields. However, there was a serious emergency at the border. Su Zian was too old to go to the battlefield. Su Qing, Su Zian's son, requested an order to join the army. He was only ten years old. When he went to the battlefield with his sword in hand, he thought he would end in failure, but he never expected that Su Qing would become famous in one battle. From then on, he would not lose for ten years, and the border of Beiming would be peaceful for ten years."

"I remember that Jiang Taigong originally wanted to capture Beiming, but Su Qing was so powerful that he defeated Jiang Taigong for the first time." Lu Rou praised.

"It is not a good thing to be too powerful. The king is old and Su Qing is young. Even though he is a veteran who has been fighting on the battlefield for ten years, he is only twenty this year. He also holds 30,000 soldiers and 10,000 Su family soldiers, which makes the emperor jealous. .”

Lu Rou took a breath and said, "Don't Beiming only have fifty thousand soldiers?"

"Including 10,000 Su soldiers, the total is 50,000," the steward said.

"With this strength, if Su Qing rebels, Beiming will be absolutely helpless." Huo Zehao was a little surprised by the military power in Su Qing's hands.

"Yes. Four months ago, Su Qing returned to Beijing and dealt with other ministers in the court. On the surface, he was impeccable, saying good things and flattering him. But the military power in his hands really made the king afraid, not to mention the recent decree. To select the heir, last month Su Qing was put under house arrest by the king on the grounds that he misses the queen mother and spends three months in the palace reminiscing with the queen mother."

"If Su Qing joins the team too early, there will be no need to choose in this selection." Huo Zehao frowned and said: "But he is so smart, he should also know that no matter who is chosen, he will be the first to die when the new king takes the throne. Father. While the king is still on the throne, he will be finished sooner or later.”

"I just don't know which side Su Qing will be on in the end." Lu Rou took a sip of tea and said.

"No matter how you take sides, you will die. I am curious how he will want to escape. Now it seems that there is no other way except rebellion." Huo Zehao said.

"That's what it looks like now."

"Except for my brother and my sister, what's going on with the other princes and princesses?" Huo Zehao took a sip of tea and continued to ask.

"Second Prince Huo Jingxuan once followed Su Qing in the army for two years. Su Qing personally taught him the art of war. He is considered a talent in the military and has achieved several military exploits. However, he has a fierce personality and acts a little recklessly. The fourth prince Huo Yan has a gentle personality, is well-read in poems and books, and once solved the problem of drought in Beiming. She is a direct disciple of the powerful minister Jiang Chen, but she is always hesitant in her behavior and cannot be cruel. The sixth prince is also fast this year. He is fifteen years old and is not allowed to come and go freely in the palace. However, recently, some forces in the court are trying to win over him and want an easy-to-control puppet king. The seventh prince Huo Ziyi is only seven years old and is in poor health. He has been staying in the palace with his mother and concubine. He was recovering from illness. Some forces in the court contacted him, but he could not even see him. The reason for rejection was that the seventh prince was young and did not care about court matters. After he was ten years old, he traveled around the world with his mother and concubine to seek medical treatment. And His mother-in-law is a daughter of a foreign clan, and she is favored because of her beauty. Logically speaking, the seventh prince has no chance of inheriting her."

"So that's it. It seems that I should return to the royal family to participate in this muddy water." Huo Zehao became interested in this battle for royal power and said: "Since every prince is qualified to compete, I, the great prince of Beiming, How could you not participate?”

"There is one more thing we need to know." Lu Rou added: "Butler, have you heard about the appearance of blood and bones?"

"Never." The steward said: "Since the appearance of the blood bones and the two immortal kings flying pigeons came here, the old slave has been asking about this matter. However, except for the abnormal celestial phenomena that day, nothing major happened in the palace."

"No?" Huo Zehao was a little confused and said, "Logically speaking, it's impossible? Is it possible that the man of blood and bones is planning something?"

"Even the high priest didn't respond. The old slave guessed that the high priest and the blood-bone cultivator are from the same faction. We can check from the second and fourth princes."

"The high priest didn't take sides either?"

"On the face of it, not yet."

"It seems that I must go back to the Beiming Royal Family this time." Huo Zehao put down his tea cup and said.

"It looks like Beiming is going to be in chaos." Lu Rou said calmly.

"Then you will stay at the free clinic to treat illnesses and save people during this period?" After returning to the room arranged by the housekeeper for the two of them, Huo Zehao hugged Lu Rou and said.

"Yes." Lu Rou rubbed Huo Zehao's chin affectionately and said, "I don't have any martial arts skills, so I won't hold you back. Be careful."

"Okay." Huo Zehao replied gently: "Can we leave in a few days?"

"why?"

"It's too late today, let's take a shower and go to bed first." Huo Zehao's hands moved wildly.

"The sun hasn't even set yet, why are you in a hurry?" Lu Rou smiled, pinched Huo Zehao's ears and walked out, saying, "Come with me for a free clinic."

"I was wrong, madam, I was wrong." Huo Zehao had no choice but to follow Lu Rou out.

The next day

"Your Majesty, the eldest prince has received a letter." Eunuch Yao stepped forward to change Huo Cian's clothes and said.

"Oh?" Huo Cian was a little surprised, "He hasn't come back to see me in fifteen years. Why did he come back at this time?"

"Back to the king, the eldest prince said in the letter that he has successfully overcome the tribulation recently and has ascended to the level of Immortal. He is only one step away from becoming a god. He has not been back for many years, and this time he came out of seclusion to visit. I heard that the king is selecting a successor. I want to come and join in the fun.”

"As a cultivator, he is joining in the fun. Isn't this nonsense?" Huo Ci'an has always regarded Huo Zehao as his proudest son, with a rare doting tone in his tone.

"If the eldest prince wants to join in the fun, let him join in. After all, the eldest prince is a cultivator of immortality. Naturally, he will not value the throne. It can also add pressure to the second and fourth princes."

"That's right. We should put more pressure on the two lonely princes." Huo Cian said.

"Beiming is a small country after all, far less powerful than the Zhou Dynasty." Huo Cian said: "Although Gu has no ambition to annex the Zhou Dynasty, in order for this country to continue to be peaceful and stable, the selection of successors must be a top priority. Rong Don’t make any mistakes.”

"That's what the king said."

"I have worked hard for half of my life and devoted myself to this country. If the heir has no strength, wouldn't my life have been in vain?"

Huo Cian actually thought about a choice that he really had no choice. If the prince was really bad, he could only hand over the country to Su Qing and let Huo Shu and Su Qing's child take the throne.

Hate to hate, if no one really has the ability, Su Qing is indeed the best choice. He has been undefeated for ten years, has everything he can do in the court, and cannot make any mistakes. He holds military power and has the right to speak in the government.

If Huo Shu is the one who bears the curse, and Su Qing is not affected by the curse, this may also prove that Su Qing is Beiming's savior.

If... Su Qing doesn't have the intention to rebel.

Huo Cian thought as he stood outside the palace and looked at the capital with firm eyes.

For this country, I am willing to give everything.