It's just that what Jing Yuan wants to see in those eyes, even he himself doesn't know.

He heard Xiao Jining say: "I don't need to think twice, because I never had that thought."

These words are expressing his indifference to the throne.

After Jingyuan heard Xiao Jining's words, which seemed to be expected, but also unexpected, he looked at the young man with firm and clean eyes under the vast moonlight, and thousands of thoughts suddenly surged in his heart.

It has been 25 years since he was born, and Jingyuan only knows that their Jing family has a family motto that cannot be violated, which is to always obey the emperor's orders and never have a second heart.

It was this loyalty that brought the Jing family's power and wealth—and the emperor's absolute trust.

At a young age, he was in the second rank of the official position, and his position was close to that of a prince. The father and son jointly controlled nearly half of the military power in the entire Great Xiao, but they would not arouse the emperor's suspicion. The emperor ascended the throne and his position was stable, and their father and son were the elders and ministers. What kind of glory is this?

But since ancient times, accompanying the emperor is like accompanying a tiger, which emperor is not suspicious?How easy is it to get the emperor's letter?And for this glory, for this trust, how much price does he have to pay?

"Then, can Your Highness answer another question from Weichen?" Jing Yuan pursed the corners of his lips lightly, and asked Xiao Jining with a faint smile, "There are only Your Highness and me here, so Weichen will just say it straight."

He asked Xiao Jining: "There is no one in the world who does not want to be on the throne, why does His Highness not want to be on the throne?"

"General Jing, you are wrong. Being an emperor may not be the best thing in the world, and not everyone wants to do it." After Xiao Jining finished speaking, he asked Jing Yuan, "Then if being an emperor is really so happy, General Jing I definitely want to be emperor too, so General Jing—do you want to?"

Xiao Jining's question was a bit risky.

But Xiao Jining had no other choice, what he said was the truth in his heart, but he knew that Jing Yuan might not believe it, so he might as well throw this question back to Jing Yuan and let Jing Yuan understand that even if he wanted to do it, this position might not be his turn. Get him to do it, he's pretty self-aware, so just give it up.

And Jing Yuan listened to Xiao Jining's question, and lowered his eyelashes to ask himself in his heart.

Does he want to?

He thought, because for him, being an emperor is the most fortunate thing in the world.

Apart from this incident, nothing in this world could make him truly smile.

Jing Yuan put down the wine glass, slid his arms to his side, stroked the jade pendant around his waist from the jade body to the end of the fringe, and did not answer Xiao Jining directly, but asked him: "Then I help His Highness in this way, what will His Highness do in the future? Woolen cloth?"

"I'm willing to agree to General Jing's request." Xiao Jining pursed his lips to suppress the excitement in his heart, he knew that he had won the bet, and even if Jing Yuan still didn't believe that he had no intention of taking the throne, he already understood his interest.

Xiao Jining took a deep breath, and continued: "As long as it is something I can do, I will definitely do it."

Jing Yuan looked at him and smiled, raised his glass and drank the fruit wine he poured for him, and promised him: "Okay."

"General Jing seems to like this fruit wine very much too? Then I'll give you a jar." Ning saw Jingyuan drink one cup after another, and cut love and asked his servants to put a jar on Jingyuan's carriage when he returned.

There is no way, if you want people to save your own life and a better life in the future, you still have to continue to be nice to them.

Jing Yuan bowed his head and said: "Thank you, Your Highness, the night is heavy with dew, Your Highness, hurry back and rest."

The young man took off his cloak and returned it to him: "So does General Jing."

On the way back, Jing Yuan looked at the sealed fruit wine at his feet, and suddenly rolled his lips and sneered—in fact, even if Xiao Jining didn't beg him tonight, he wouldn't do anything to him before Xiao Jining took the initiative to show that he was an enemy of.

Now this little thing is afraid of himself, and foolishly came up to give him some benefits, he has no reason not to accept it, isn't there?

As for why Dudu is soft-hearted towards him alone, Jing Yuan looked at the cold moon outside the window and thought for a moment, thinking: Maybe it is because Xiao Jining clearly knows that he is full of sharp edges, and getting close to him will only bring skin and bones. Despite the pain and injury, he still wants to ask him for protection—let someone like him who can only bring blood and swords cover the blood and swords for him.

Or maybe it's just because he likes to look at Xiao Jining's eyes looking at him.

So before those eyes stop looking at him, he doesn't mind listening to Xiao Jining's words and doing whatever Xiao Jining wants him to do. Anyway, these insignificant things have no effect on him, they are just boring to him In my life, the same boring thing.

It's just that the corners of Jing Yuan's raised lips stopped slightly when he saw the man waiting for him in the bedroom after arriving at the Major General's Mansion.

But in the next moment, he smiled deeper, raised his hand and untied the cloak on his body, and casually threw it towards the lounge chair by the window: "General Jingyue, what's your business in visiting my mansion late at night?"

Jing Yue smelled the faint smell of alcohol on Jing Yuan's body, and when he saw the wine jar in his hand, he said indifferently: "Are you going to drink?"

"His Royal Highness Jiu invited me to sit in his Prince Shun's mansion, so I drank a few glasses." Jing Yuan put the wine on the table, pulled the only chair beside the round table in his room and sat down, "This wine is fruit wine , very sweet, not your favorite, would you like a drink?"

Jing Yue stood with his hands behind his back, and didn't ask what the Ninth Prince said to him, but just asked him: "Did you find what I asked you to find?"

Jing Yuan poured himself a glass of cold water to dilute the remaining sweetness in his mouth, and said, "I didn't find it."

"Didn't find it?" Jing Yue asked coldly, "It's been a whole month, and you still haven't found it? Jing Yuan, Jing Yuan, what else can you do?"

"It's just that I didn't find it. If you have the ability, go find it." Jing Yuan's expression remained unchanged, and he sneered, "It's not so easy to enter Xiaodi's dark vault, but I even found the jade seal in it. If you want, now You can just kill a few princes, and then write an imperial decree to ascend the throne, why bother?"

Facing Jing Yuan's sarcasm, Jing Yue also sneered with him: "I won't let the Xiao family die so happily."

Jing Yuan raised his eyes and stared at Jingyue. Although he was smiling, his eyes were as cold as ice: "The Xiao family gave you such glory, wealth, and power. How can you say that they are kind to you? You repay me like this, Jingyue!" Jingyue, you are really shameless."

"I don't need to repay them, I have you, a good son, to repay them for me." Jing Yue narrowed his eyes slightly, looking down at Jing Yuan, "You have stayed by the Ninth Prince's side like a dog all these years, listen to him, Isn't this reward enough?"

Jing Yue said: "Besides, I don't need to remind you, which of the two of us needs the antidote more than the other?"

Jing Yuan tapped the cup wall with his fingers, and said in a low voice, "Who knows? Anyway, I'm younger than you, and you died earlier than me."

Looking at Jing Yuan's appearance, Jing Yue may feel that it is meaningless to continue talking with him like this, so he directly said coldly: "After Emperor Xiao is buried, I will support the second prince to ascend the throne when the ministers discuss matters. What should I say then? , what not to say, I don’t need to teach you.”

Jing Yuan laughed and said, "Don't be like this, I'm still the companion of His Highness the Ninth Prince."

Jing Yue sneered: "He can't be emperor for a few days, there are only a few princes, and it will always be your nine masters' turn."

After saying this, Jing Yue turned and left.

Jing Yuan sat quietly in the room for a while, then suddenly raised his hand and slammed the cup against the wall, and the broken porcelain fell to the floor covered with thick carpet without making any sound.

The next day, Xiao Jining entered the palace.

Emperor Xiao's funeral was presided over by Concubine De, the queen mother heard that she had fallen ill, no matter what, Emperor Xiao was always her own son, who would not be sad when his own child passed away?

As for the other concubines in Emperor Xiao's harem, none of the low-ranking concubines was not sad. Before Emperor Xiao was still alive, they still had some hope that Emperor Xiao would remember them. Now Emperor Xiao After death, this hope is gone. It depends on whether the new emperor has a good heart, whether he wants them to go out of the palace and go to the temple to spend the rest of their lives, or whether they are willing to let them live in the palace to enjoy their old age.

As for those with high status and princes under their knees, they have other more important things to do than be sad.

Within three days after Emperor Xiao's death, all the princes and princesses had to keep watch for him, so Xiao Jining had to wait until the third day when the watch was over before returning to the palace.

In the past three days, Chun Jieyu approached him several times, and during the conversation they were all testing Xiao Jining, asking him what Jingyuan meant and whether he would support his ascension to the throne.

Xiao Jining was so annoyed by Chun Jieyu's harassment, she could only respond in silence, Chun Jieyu was afraid of the occasion and couldn't say too much, so she could only suppress her inner anxiety for the time being, and planned to talk to Xiao Jining in detail after Emperor Xiao's burial.

But Xiao Jining never expected that after the third day's vigil, the Eighth and Seventh Princes would come to him.

He didn't even speak implicitly, and asked him directly: "Ninth younger brother, General Jing and Fu Guogong, will they support your ascension to the throne?"

Xiao Jining opened his eyes wide and asked them: "Brother Huang, what do you mean?"

The Seventh Prince solemnly said: "Ninth Brother, Eighth Brother and I have actually discussed it in private, and the two of us are willing to fully support you."

The eighth prince nodded, and echoed: "Yes, my mother and concubine also know about this, she said that as long as you nod, she will immediately revise the book for Daliao, and try her best to help her father."

"Brother Emperor, you—" Xiao Jining was at a loss for words, he looked around, saw no one and said to the Seventh Prince, "Brother Seventh Brother, Brother Eighth, don't you know who Father Father wants to be the new Emperor?"

The seventh and eighth princes were all silent, and after a while, the seventh prince said: "But General Jing is your companion."

Xiao Jining really wanted to tell the Seventh Prince directly, telling him that the reason why Jingyuan would be his companion was because Emperor Xiao wanted to keep you alive and abolish the old prince to let you ascend the throne in the future, but Xiao Jining knew that what he said would only The Seventh Prince was shocked and blamed himself, and he didn't even want to be the emperor, so he said: "Brother, Jingyuan is my reading companion, but it doesn't mean that he supports me. He and the old General Jing are both loyal to Great Xiao. , not to mention, do you think I am the material to be an emperor?"

The seventh prince originally had a serious expression, but after hearing Xiao Jining's last words, he said helplessly and amusedly: "Ninth brother, why do you belittle yourself like this?"

Xiao Jining waved his hands: "I'll just say it straight, I don't want to be the new emperor, I want you to do it."

The Eighth Prince did the same: "This is the throne, why is the throne like a hot potato in your hands?"

Xiao Jining said: "Isn't it just a hot potato?"

"Ninth brother, it's not that me and your eighth brother wanted to harm you, but if you hadn't ascended the throne, you would have been the second brother—" the seventh prince returned to Nao, and after laughing, he corrected his expression and said seriously to Xiao Jining, "Our three Everyone will surely die in the future.”

The author has something to say: my hand still hurts, I bought iodophor and wiped it first... I read everyone's comments, and there are many people who support killing the prince first before ascending the throne, so let's kill it first.

Also, I think someone asked that Jingyuan killed brother Ningning, which is not good, emmmmmmm I won’t spoil it for now, just wait and see_(:з」∠)_

"Guidelines for Correct Reading of This Article" - Chapter 38

Xiao Kingdom's Throne: A false throne, a hot potato, whoever becomes the emperor will die, is this still the throne?This is the electric chair.Seventh Prince & Eighth Prince: I cannot marry a wife and have children, because my family has the throne to inherit.

Other thrones: the real throne, the sweet pastry, you can have everything when you become an emperor, this is the chair I want most. N princes & some XX: I must marry a wife and have children, because my family has the throne to inherit.

Identifying the real emperor will help you discover that socialism is good as soon as possible!

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