Outside the window, the noon sun was shining brightly, but the South Sansuo nave with closed doors and windows was dark and cold. The incense burner with double-eared dragon and lion cover in the center of the main hall had not released smoke for three days.

It was a cold early spring, the underground fire path in the hall was not lit, and there was not even a hand warmer in the hall.

When the eunuch brought in the food, he shivered from the cold, the inside of the hall was actually colder than outside the door.

There was no one in the dark hall. The eunuch opened his eyes wide and adapted to the light. Hearing the sound of "click, click" coming from the side hall, he turned around with the food and walked into the side hall, finally finding the Ninth Prince.

The Ninth Prince was sitting in the armchair with his legs crossed, holding the chess bowl in his left hand, picking up chess pieces with his right hand, and flicking them towards the slightly open window slit opposite.

The eunuch bowed and saluted.

Xie Duo didn't look at him, but said in a low voice, "Leave it alone."

The eunuch walked forward slowly, put the food on the low table beside Xie Duo, stepped back a few steps, nodded and said, "The Empress asked Your Highness whether you have applied the medicine properly today."

"wipe it up."

"The empress told the old slave to see if the injury is better."

"All right."

"Your Majesty ordered..."

"Go out."

The eunuch looked at the Ninth Prince with a look of embarrassment, hesitated for a while, nodded his head to accept the order, and stepped back to leave.

"Wait." Xie Duo paused his fingers, pinched the chess piece he just picked up in his palm, and asked in a low voice: "Did the father come to court early today?"

The eunuch replied in a low voice: "Your Majesty is still in care."

Xie Duo's head drooped, and after a long time, he said "Go".

The door curtain fell again, and the side hall became darker for an instant.

Xie Duo didn't move any more, bowed his head lifelessly, and slumped in the armchair.

Less than ten days after being locked up, he was about to go crazy.

That edict disrupted all his plans. He thought that after another year, he would be able to move out of the palace to be at ease. Unexpectedly, his father planned to imprison him in this huge cage for the rest of his life.

Xie Duo was very angry. He felt that his father was hiding in Xiyuan every day, and he might be thinking about how to make his life with Sixth Brother more difficult.

Now, the father didn't even come to court early.

Thanks to his thinking, Xie Duo felt that he would soon attract worldwide attention for disobeying his father's orders.

But Xie Duo will not admit defeat in this matter.

He doesn't even care much about Sixth Brother's mood at the moment, he only knows that he must not accept his fate.

Xie Duo's grandfather was a man who liked to visit famous mountains and great rivers. He had visited Beijing seven or eight times in private in his life, but was written by the official historian as a tired emperor. Xie Duo reasonably suspected that if he accepted this pot, In the future, among folk storytellers, it will definitely be a notoriety such as "Cuju Emperor".

Never admit defeat.

To pass the time, Xie Duo got up and took out the words book hidden under the bed.

Finally survived another day, but the night became even more difficult.

Xie Duoben was extremely energetic, he sat all day long during the day and couldn't sleep at night, but his father didn't allow him to open the windows or light the lamps, so he couldn't even read at night.

Just keep your eyes open and wait for the sound of clapper knocking outside.

After the second watch's clapper knocked, Xie Duo was still not sleepy, when he suddenly heard the sound of the door hinge turning in the main hall, Xie Duo immediately sat up in surprise.

Soon, a deep voice came from outside the curtain: "Has Your Highness rested?"

The voice was not like the eunuch in his palace, Xie Duo said curiously: "Come in."

A tall figure dressed as an eunuch opened the door curtain, walked into the bedroom, and bowed his head to the Ninth Prince.

In the darkness, Xie Duo recognized the man in front of him by his voice, and said in shock, "Mr. Li Ge? Why are you here?"

"The old minister has important matters to discuss with His Highness."

Xie Duo narrowed his eyes in displeasure: "Father asked you to persuade me?"

"No."

"Then how can you sneak into the South Third Institute in the middle of the night?"

"This is a big matter. I hope His Highness Rong Chen will explain it later."

"If you want to persuade me to obey the edict, just save yourself."

Mr. Li Ge didn't speak. He walked quickly to the corner of the bedroom, lit the lamp, and then turned around and walked back. King Yan, this old man also has no power to recover."

Xie Duo snorted and laughed: "Sir, don't bully me, I wish I could change Sixth Brother as the reserve right away."

Li Ge frowned, as if he had made up his mind, and said coldly: "Have you ever thought about why the emperor went to such lengths to appoint you as the heir?"

Xie Duo took a farewell: "Of course it's because Sixth Brother and Father have different political views."

Old Li Ge said in a deep voice: "You and King Yan grew up beside the emperor. Haven't you ever thought about who instilled King Yan's ideas into him? Who is subtly guiding his concept of right and wrong?"

Xie Duo looked slightly surprised: "What do you want to say?"

Li Ge looked at the handsome young man in front of him, and sighed in a low voice: "You and King Yan are two completely different people, not just in terms of temperament." Has looks."

Xie Duo frowned and stared at him displeasedly: "Sixth brother looks like my mother, I look like my father, there are some differences, but my views are not at odds with sixth brother's, so you don't need to challenge them."

Old Li Ge shook his head slowly, and said in a low voice: "The king of Yan looks like the empress, and you look like your mother."

Xie Duo smiled and said: "Everyone knows that I am more like the father, and the sixth brother is like the mother..." Halfway through speaking, Xie Duo's eyes froze, and he looked at Li Gelao with a surprised expression: "What do you say? meaning?"

Elder Li Ge didn't answer, but just stared at Xie Duo, and murmured to himself: "It's so similar, the emperor's mind, the old minister didn't understand it in advance, maybe it was as early as when His Majesty named you Duo. , its ambition has already been made clear.”

Xie Duo was young and full of vigor, he couldn't hide the shock and anger in his eyes, he pointed his eyes at Li Ge like a sharp sword, and said in a deep voice: "Go on, explain it clearly, so that the clan's government can convict you of your crime. "

Elder Li Ge showed no fear at all, and continued calmly: "Your Highness, your biological mother is Yang Chuyan, the granddaughter of Ning Guogong Yang Ningzhong. Yang Shi would have been your father's concubine, she is your father's favorite woman."

"Do you know what you're talking about?" Xie Duo's eyes were murderous, "If it wasn't for your painstaking care of Brother Seven, I would have taken your life right now."

There was no panic in Li Ge's eyes, he took out a roll of drawing paper from his sleeve, walked to the side under the light, and said warmly: "Your Highness, please take a look."

Xie Duo felt that the old fox was really crazy.

Brother Qi must have expressed his intention to give up fighting for reserves, which forced the old fox to come up with such a strange move.

But why did he say such ridiculous things?

You have to listen to his speech before you can judge his purpose.

Xie Duo suppressed his anger, and looked down at the scroll that was slowly unfolding in Li Ge's hands.

The beauty on the picture scroll sat under the peach blossom tree and smiled slightly, with lifelike facial features and expressions, Xie Duo clenched his fists in shock for an instant.

Elder Li Ge also pointed to the inscription and seal, and explained: "This is the authentic work of Mr. Zhang Dongshan. Mr. Zhang has passed away for more than ten years, so it cannot be forged. The person in the painting is Mrs. Yang."

Seeing the face of the woman in the painting that was extremely similar to himself, the Ninth Prince's annoyed eyes gradually became astonished, and he bent down in a panic, staring at the inscription and seal, carefully distinguishing the authenticity.

Elder Li Ge was not in a hurry to explain, just quietly watching the paler face of the Ninth Prince.

Suddenly, Mr. Li only felt a figure flicker in front of him, and before he could react, he was already being strangled by someone, and he was suddenly pushed against the wall!

The Ninth Prince's skill is so fast that not only surpasses the reaction power of ordinary people, but even his eyesight is hard to distinguish.

After the initial panic, Elder Li quickly stopped struggling. Even though he could barely breathe, he still managed to raise his head to look at the beast-like young man in front of him, and said in a hoarse voice, "Your Highness, this old minister has kept this secret for 17 years. In the past year, if the situation was not critical, the old minister could have... kept it for the rest of his life."

"Is it because Seventh Brother doesn't want to fight for the reserve anymore, so you came up with such a bad idea and came to seek death in front of me?" Xie Duo suppressed his fury and stared at Mr. Li Ge, and his strength almost broke his neck: "How dare you frame him I am the heir of my father and the daughter of a criminal minister? My mother gave birth to me in October, and there are plenty of witnesses in the palace, how can I allow you to slander me lightly?"

Old Li Ge opened his mouth, but he was speechless, he raised his hand with difficulty to hold the Ninth Prince's wrist, and begged him to let go with his eyes.

Seeing Li Ge's hands slowly falling down, Xie Duo suppressed his anger and let go.

Mr. Li Ge sat paralyzed on the ground along the base of the wall, panting for a long time, finally healed, and hurriedly raised his head and said: "If you really want to investigate, all the old slaves in the empress's palace should know that the empress gave birth in less than nine months of pregnancy. I gave birth to the Ninth Prince, and fell into a coma for nearly half a month due to bleeding. You should also know this. In order to let the queen give birth to the child in the same month as your biological mother, the emperor asked the imperial physician to tamper with it, causing the queen to give birth prematurely. All the attendants around the queen were expelled from the palace because of the crime. Because the premature baby in the swaddle was replaced by a full-term baby, the attendants who have seen it will definitely notice the strangeness."

Xie Duo snorted coldly: "All the attendants have been expelled from the palace? Doesn't that mean you are free to slander and spread rumors?"

Elder Li Ge stood up slowly and with difficulty, and said sadly: "Your Highness, Your Majesty does not allow this old minister to tell you this matter. The old minister has been an official for nearly thirty years and has never disobeyed the orders of the Holy Majesty. Telling the truth is to save your life."

Xie Duo still didn't believe it, and stared at him sideways: "Oh? How could I lose my life?"

Old Li Ge's voice trembled a little: "The empress knows about this."

Xie Duo narrowed his eyes, and said with a sneer, "So, you deceived the queen mother first, and then forced me to turn against Sixth Brother?"

Tears flashed in Li Ge's old eyes, and he knelt down in front of the Ninth Prince with a "Putong", and said in a sad voice: "Your Highness, the emperor has been poisoned! In order to stabilize the court situation, it was said to the outside world that he occasionally suffered from a cold. Eunuch Chen said that the emperor took the medicine early in the morning." After taking the elixir, he suddenly became weak all over. Before he fainted, the emperor secretly informed the veterans. All the alchemists have been arrested, but no toxins were found in the pot of elixir taken by the emperor, and the veterans have sent Long Yinwei..."

Before he could finish speaking, he saw the Ninth Prince suddenly rushing out of the bedroom, Mr. Li Ge hurriedly stood up, and caught up with him to stop him!

"I want to see my father!"

"The emperor is still in a coma. If you force your way in at this time, you will definitely alarm the queen!"

"I want to see my mother!"

"Your Highness!" Li Ge said tremblingly: "If you can't hold your breath at this time, the Queen will attack you at any time!"

There was a dead silence.

With his head down, Xie Duo slowly raised his eyes to look at him: "I won't believe a word of your words."

Elder Li Ge looked at Xie Duo sadly, and said with a sob: "Your Highness, you have no foundation in the court. If you shake the court at this time, the King of Yan will insist that you have hurt Sheng Gong, and then ask the queen to come forward and make a conclusion. It's all over."

The author has something to say: the first time Mianhuajing saw King Yan, he found that the two brothers looked completely alike, but he never doubted the life experience of the boss, nor did he ever think about why the queen suddenly regained the favor after giving birth to Xie Duo

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