General

"What do you think the emperor called me into the palace for?"

After receiving the order, Lan Jing rushed to the outside of Longxiao Hall overnight, stood under the stone steps of the white marble, and pursed her lips with a smile to Li Xuan beside her.

"Probably related to the Prince Regent's case." Seeing that he was only raising his head to talk to himself, but the hat on the cloak slipped behind his head, Li Xuan quickly raised his hand to pull him forward.

"I guess so." Li Xuan's movements were not gentle, even a little clumsy, but Lan Jing still felt warm in his heart, and reproached with distressed eyes, "Why do you insist on following, in case the emperor brother just Seeing me alone, it's so cold at night, wouldn't you be freezing outside?"

"I'm used to the night wind in the northwest desert, so what are these?" Li Xuan shook his head with a smile, cupped his red face with both hands, and covered it warmly, "It's so late, how dare I let him You enter the palace alone."

Lan Jing also smiled sweetly, put her hand on the back of Li Xuan's hand, closed her eyes, tilted her head, and quietly felt the temperature between his fingers with her cheek.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty said that it was cold at night, and asked General Li to enter the palace to answer." The sound of hurried footsteps came from far to near, and a young eunuch hurried down the steps, saluting respectfully in front of the two of them.

"Thank you, Brother Huang, for your compassion." Lan Jing clasped her fists in the direction of the palace gate, and then pulled Li Xuan into the Longxiao Palace with big strides.

"There are no outsiders here, so you don't need to be polite, just sit down and talk."

As soon as Fang entered the palace gate, he saw Lan Xuan standing at the door waiting for them. Before the two of them were allowed to pay their respects, Lan Xuan grabbed Lan Jing's hand and led the two of them to the gilded wooden table in the inner hall. sat down.

"Brother Huang announced that I came here late at night, probably because of Uncle Huang's business?" Lan Jing asked Lan Xuan straightforwardly without beating around the bush.

Lan Xuan's fingers holding the teapot froze, she raised her eyes to look at him in surprise, her thin lips moved slightly, and she gave a low "hmm".

"The emperor's uncle is already a death sentence. As a royal bloodline, he can't be implicated..." Lan Jing frowned, and speculated with doubts in her eyes, "Doesn't the emperor think...that his family property should be stolen...to fill the national treasury?"

Lan Xuan was dumbfounded, and shook his head lightly. He didn't expect that in Lan Jing's heart, should he hate the emperor's uncle so much?

"On the contrary..." Lan Xuan's expression seemed a little embarrassed, but at this point, she had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue, "Actually... I want to save him..."

"Save him??" Lan Jing gasped in shock, stared at Lan Xuan in astonishment, and confirmed, "You mean, you want to save Uncle Huang?"

"I know he has committed a heinous crime...so...as long as he can be saved..." Lan Xuan lowered her eyes, not daring to look into Lan Jing's eyes, but bit her lower lip and said in a low voice, "I I don't want him to die..."

"How did he treat you these years?!" Lan Jing clenched his wrist in confusion, and said in a cold voice, "Now that you have finally brought him down, you actually want me to let him go? "

"Lan Jing..." Lan Xuan shook his head mockingly, put his other hand on the back of his hand, and patted it lightly, "Some things may not be what you see. Now I just ask you , would you like to help me?"

"But...the judgment has already been announced to the world, so how can it be changed?" Lan Jing looked at Li Xuan with some embarrassment, not knowing what to do.

But Li Xuan was serious at the moment, sitting alone at the side without any expression.

"There is only one way." Lan Xuan leaned forward slightly, and whispered in Lan Jing's ear, "The new emperor ascends the throne, and the world will be amnesty."

"You want to exchange your own life for his??" Lan Jing asked back in disbelief, for some reason, now he even doubted whether the person in front of him was a fake Lan Xuan!

Longxiao Kingdom has never had a precedent of succession by a living person. If the imperial power is to change hands, unless the previous king dies, Lan Xuan will not know this.

"It's a deceitful abdication." Lan Xuan shook her head lightly, and corrected in a low voice, "It's not just because of Uncle Emperor, Lan Jing, you know that I don't like this throne, not at all..."

Lan Xuan looked out of the window, and for a moment, it seemed that he could see the unreachable distance through the gorgeous carved window: "Because of it, I was treated severely by my father since I was a child, and my father is such a gentle person. He never smiled at me. He asked me not to have likes and dislikes, not to be partial, and to be diligent every day without slack. But he only forgot that I was just a child at that time, and I also wanted to eat delicious food. It's fun, and I want to be loved and act like a baby in the arms of my parents!"

"Brother Huang..." Lan Jing muttered in a low voice, but suddenly she didn't know what to say.He was not with Lan Xuan since he was a child, and he only vaguely remembered that he was very busy. When he and Lan Jin were laughing, playing and doing mischief, he was often locked up in the Prince's Palace and punished.

"Only Uncle Huang... gave me the only warmth in my whole childhood..." Lan Xuan lowered her eyes and smiled slightly, her slender eyelashes cast a beautiful shadow on her cheeks, "Lan Jing...you don't understand."

Looking at Lan Xuan's current state, Lan Jing's heart suddenly felt sore, he turned his head to look at Li Xuan, who had been silent all this time, and then slightly frowned and said: "Then the emperor...whether do you want my younger brother? help you with what……"