I have flowers, do you have pots?

"If you're talking about those private conversations between the two of you that make people blush, I've never heard of them."

The emperor cleared his throat and answered seriously, but what he said made Mu Xianyu blush even more.He choked himself to the point of coughing a few times, and before he could straighten his back, someone stuffed a cup of warm tea into his hand: "What's there to be embarrassed about? Isn't it just chasing a doll who doesn't understand anything? Telling you to drag it on for so long is really embarrassing to me——When I was with your mother, she was still resentful towards the emperor who cheated her all her life, so she asked me to coax her in a few days It's..."

"Can you blame this son-in-law? Before today, son-in-law hadn't met you a few times, father, and couldn't even remember what you looked like - if it wasn't for your yellow robe, I might not even recognize him if I saw him face to face."

Mu Xianyu sipped his tea and recovered a little bit of strength, then couldn't help but speak back again.I thought that my father, who had a bad temper no matter how you look at it, would have to clean up himself again, and he was already in the stance of avoiding it, but he couldn't wait for that slap to fall on him.After dazed for a moment, he raised his head, and unexpectedly bumped into those overly complicated eyes.

"Father—my son said it casually, don't take it to heart..."

If it was facing his second elder brother, it would be a good time to sell misery and call him soft-hearted, but after all, he was facing the unfamiliar father, Mu Xianyu lost his confidence for a while, and only spoke softly after a moment of silence. Said: "I have never complained to my father——"

"You never complained to me, it's because you don't know what your royal father should look like."

The emperor sighed very lightly, looking at the son's still thin figure, there was a bit of apology and guilt in his eyes: "Although I have difficulties, I didn't have to make everything like this... I really did it at the beginning. It was because of your mother that she didn’t want to see you at all. Later, because of the betrayal of the Gao family, she angered you and your second elder brother and sent you to King Shang. That was the most regretful thing I’ve ever done in my life. You may not remember the matter, the day someone came to take you away from the Prince of Shang’s Mansion, you cried so much that you kept admitting your mistakes, saying that you would be obedient in the future, please don’t want you—— But why did you really miss something? You didn’t do any of these things, but you have to bear all the karma..."

"Father said these things now, obviously to make my son feel uncomfortable, and then obediently listen to you."

Mu Xianyu lowered his head deeply, spoke softly with a wry smile, but there was already a faint glimmer of water in his eyes: "But——I still want to hear...Erchen never dared to tell anyone, even my second brother I never said it, but in fact, in my heart, I have always wanted to hear my father, the emperor, tell my son what happened back then."

"I'm telling you this without any purpose—I just think it's really unfair that I haven't given you an explanation for so many years, and it's been delayed until now."

The emperor got up, gently pressed the son's shoulder, paused for a moment, and then said slowly: "Actually, for a while, I deliberately didn't pay attention to you - because at that time, I couldn't learn from your mother. I was relieved from the departure and the betrayal of the Gao family. There are too many things that people can't figure out, but when they figure it out, the dust has settled and there is no way to recover..."

"Father, was my mother's queen poisoned by my elder brother?"

Mu Xianyu suddenly interrupted his emotion, raised his head and stared at those eyes, the fragility that was fleeting before had disappeared completely, only the frightening light remained: "You tell me the truth—— I want to know, did the elder brother do what happened to the queen mother?"

The emperor's body trembled violently, looking at him incredulously, the fist hanging by his side was slowly clenched and loosened, and he nodded slightly after a long silence: "It's him—but he didn't know that at that time." Wu Xue is extremely poisonous to people with Xuanwu blood, just wanting to prevent you from being born. And at that time, the palace didn’t know anything about Wu Xue, until something happened to your uncle, and the god came to break the secret. Xin, I hastily brought you back from Shang Palace..."

All of this was exactly as Mu Xianyu had expected, and it didn't surprise him at all. He just nodded slightly, but he didn't have the heart to tell his father that the "God" was actually the one who put him on the road just now. The living curse lost half of the kitty's lifespan.He lowered his eyes and pondered for a while, then raised his head again and said slowly: "Can I have the courage to ask—why did the emperor keep the eldest brother, without punishing him, refusing to deal with him, and even indulged him to the point where he is now?"

"The Jin family has always been eyeing my Lin family, and the Gao family has grown up long ago. Now it is extremely uncontrollable. I can stop the prince for a while, but I can't stop him for the rest of my life."

The emperor was still disturbed by his question just now, but he no longer bothered to deal with this son, and simply looked at him frankly and said: "The Jin family and the Gao family are foreign enemies, I can't let them do whatever they want, so I must intervene to check and balance. But in this way, your second brother will not have the opportunity to exercise..."

"So Father deliberately indulged the elder brother and wanted to use him to sharpen the second brother and ask the second brother to accumulate experience?"

Mu Xianyu asked further, holding the armrests tightly with both hands to prop up his body, his eyes already filled with a bit of disbelief: "But do you know what elder brother did under your indulgence? He has been using Jinfeng Yulu, also known as Wu Xue among the people, came to control the Zhang family, ordered the Zhang family to mix dried oleander flowers in the tea cakes they paid tribute, and stopped giving them the Jinfeng Yulu after the incident was revealed, so that a The whole big family was completely wiped out overnight - he imprisoned Jin Shihong and told him to steal the siege crossbow of the tiger and leopard cavalry in an attempt to kill two birds with one stone. The Gao family..."

"If I had known it would be like this, I would never have indulged him to this point."

The emperor sighed heavily with a wry smile, his eyes were filled with remorse, his straight shoulders suddenly slackened tiredly, and he suddenly showed a bit of oldness and loneliness that cannot be ignored: "It's because I'm too confident—— I even really thought that he was also poisoned by that Wu Xue's Gu poison, so I kept asking the palace to save a share for his life. But when I really realized all this, he was completely uncontrollable. They have even begun to try to control me..."

"Second brother said that there aren't many Wuxues in the palace anymore... So the eldest brother is using that poison to negotiate terms with the father, asking the father to give him the crown prince?"

After hearing his words, Mu Xianyu's last trace of suspicion was finally confirmed. He raised his head and looked at the father in front of him, and asked the question that had been suppressed in his heart for a long time.

There was already a lot of shock before, so that the emperor didn't realize how surprised he was when he asked this sentence, but was inexplicably relieved.Raising his hand and rubbing his forehead, he nodded lightly: "He has indeed embarked on the same old path as King Shang - but he is still too immature and lacking in experience. I don't even think about it carefully. When I was so ambitious, I would rather sacrifice myself to Bi Fang than be coerced by King Shang. Now that I am in my twilight years, life and death are meaningless, how can I be threatened by him?"

"You were not threatened by him, you just used your second brother to threaten your son to deal with him."

Finally figured out the ins and outs of the matter, but Mu Xianyu also sighed heavily, relaxed his body and fell into the chair, shaking his head helplessly: "Father, please forgive me for speaking bluntly—you are really an 'organ'." It's too clever to calculate, but in the end, a son-in-law got into it..."

"If I had known that this would be the result, I would never have come to where I am today."

He just said casually, but a flash of pain suddenly flashed in the emperor's eyes. He looked at the son who was paralyzed in the chair, but he no longer wanted to reprimand him for being more polite. The more he gripped it, the tighter he was: "What the hell have I done? I have wronged you all this time, I have wronged you for so long, I thought I could make up for you in the future, but unexpectedly—someone told me that even with such an opportunity, I am no longer worthy of…”

"Father—in fact, this matter is not that important, and you don't have to take it too seriously."

Mu Xianyu didn't expect his father to directly think of this level, he could not help coughing lightly, touched his nose, and then said slowly: "Actually——actually, my son is Lu Cunxing, who is here in the world." It's true..."

"Of course I know it's true, that senior cat of yours told me so at the time."

The emperor raised his head and looked at him, a faint light of hope suddenly flashed in his eyes: "Could it be that - is there any way for you to return to the throne later? I have heard that if you go back ten and a half days late months, it’s been ten years on this earth, see if you can find a way..."

"No no—Father, Father, this is not what I want to say."

Mu Xianyu was overwhelmed by his father's sudden enthusiasm, quickly shook his head, helped him sit back in the chair, thought for a long time before tentatively whispering: "My son actually means—— I may not be completely your son. My son is Lu Cun Xing, and Lu Cun Xing is the ancestor of our family, that is, Senior Xuan Wu personally enlightened him, and then they said—after all, the seniors said, probably this is the birth of Senior Xuan Wu It's..."

"Are you kidding me? You are clearly my son, born by your empress herself—your empress even lost her life to give birth to you, yet you dare to be someone else's son?!"

The emperor slapped the table, stood up abruptly, and looked at this daring brat in disbelief.Mu Xianyu was so frightened that he couldn't help shaking his spirits. He really didn't dare to explain that he was born not from other people, but from other tortoises. He stood up straight and shook his head honestly: "I don't dare, my son! It was born of the father and the mother's offspring, as if it were fake..."

"You don't need to be so nervous, I actually know that you are Lucun Star—but when you change back to Lucun Star, you really won't be my son anymore."

The emperor looked at him quietly for a while, finally sighed softly, and sat down tiredly at the table: "To me, you are just Lin Yuan, the child who was born with the blood of your queen—when you After this life is over, there will be no relationship between us..."

"Actually——I'm still the son-in-law of Qinglong Palace. As long as the royal family continues to believe in the four holy beasts and regard the Xuanwu bloodline as the supreme, the future priests can probably help to say hello to the higher-ups and do more things for our family." of……"

Mu Xianyu boldly added another sentence, the next moment he saw that his father couldn't help but want to roll up his sleeves, he quickly took a step back, corrected his expression wisely and said: "Father, my sons don't mess around Now, tell me what you want, son, listen."

"You have said everything that can be said, what else is there to say?"

The emperor stared at him for a while, but he couldn't help but smiled wryly and helped his forehead, and shook his head helplessly: "Actually, what I originally planned was to ask you to open the way for your second brother, but it was only at this time that I finally understood—— I can't bear to part with you, and I can't let go of my neglect and debt to you these years. You are a good son, but I have never been a good father..."

"Father, it's really useless to say these things now. After all, my son's fate is fixed, and I'm afraid we can't change it back. Let's figure out what else we can do right now, so that son's life is not in vain. one time."

After all, Mu Xianyu couldn't do it so frankly and sadly sighed to his father, pursed his lips for a while, and then changed the topic without hesitation: "Father, my son was actually thinking about—— You see, since the son can only live to be 24 years old, it is better to live the remaining less than a year to the fullest..."

"Where you want to go, what you want to do, I'm up to you."

The emperor replied without any hesitation, and then took out a jade token from his sleeve and pushed it to him: "This is my inner treasury token, take it to the inner treasury, you can use whatever is in it , don’t need to report to me.”

Mu Xianyu wanted to be polite at first, but when she heard her own father's words, she put the jade plaque into her sleeve without hesitation: "I thank you, father——it's just father, you will Aren't you afraid that my son will take the gold, silver and jewels from the inner treasury and secretly go to help the second elder brother?"

The emperor raised his eyebrows in surprise, looked at this son in disbelief for a long while, and then sighed helplessly: "It seems that they really didn't teach you at all... The internal treasury is for the royal family. This inner treasury is your second brother's family property. If you are willing to use your second brother's family property to help your second brother, of course I have no objection..."

"It doesn't matter, anyway, my second brother doesn't know that my money is taken from the internal treasury, so why don't we just sell it for a favor. After all, Erchen is a lucky star, so what's wrong with having some money?"

Mu Xianyu responded calmly, and continued to calculate in a serious manner: "Mo Zhi still wants to open a medicine shop, but now there is no need to worry about the lack of good medicinal materials. Er Chen will take him in to pick and choose, to see if there are any. If it has become a fine medicinal material, it will not stay in the palace and run around..."

"Is there really medicinal herbs running around in the palace?"

The emperor didn't expect this son to really think about how to spend money so hard, and was about to reprimand him for being useless, when he suddenly heard his last sentence, he couldn't help asking: "I heard a report from the guards a while ago, saying Seeing a plant of ginseng running around with an unknown grass, the smell of wine was intoxicating, and it scared them so much. I also reprimanded them, saying that they were silent and confused, and they couldn’t do it. Talking nonsense about such nonsense—is it true?"

"If the emperor is talking about this matter—the son knows it. They should have read it right. At that time, there might indeed be a plant of ginseng pulling the little Baizhi in the son's house to run on the ground..."

Mu Xianyu felt very guilty, coughed lightly and said embarrassingly: "I heard from Mo Zhi that there are a lot of medicinal herbs in this palace, some of which are soaked in wine, and they will come out when it gets dark. Running around. Those auspicious beasts on the top of our palace have to sleep at night, and they are only restrained during the day, so it’s not unusual for the night guards to see these things. The emperor just needs to tell them not to be afraid, Just pretend you didn't see it."

"Hearing what you said, I suddenly don't want to live in this palace."

The emperor couldn't help imagining the scene of the herbs all over the ground running around in the moonlight, so he shivered and shook his head with lingering fear.Mu Xianyu and the little guy have been together for a long time, but they have already developed a habit, and explained skillfully: "Father, don't be afraid, in fact, those herbs will not hurt people, but will be harmful to people." Benefits—the only spirits of the vegetation type in this world are born from the aura of heaven and earth, and my Lin family is also of the wood type, so we have the same root and origin as them, so interdependence and symbiosis can also benefit the Lin family..."

"It's not that they don't hurt people—it's just that, anyway, you can take a little flower demon home, and if I tell you that this thing is scary, you probably won't feel anything."

The emperor shook his head helplessly, smiled wryly and sighed lightly, suddenly felt that he was asked to make such a gag, and the original depression in his chest dissipated a lot.Looking at the son's calm expression, but he couldn't figure out whether he did it on purpose, he just knocked on the table twice, coughed lightly and said: "You decide the matter of the internal treasury yourself, there is no need to worry about it." Everything has to be reported to me—and tell me, is there anything else that I can help you with?"

The author has something to say: You can talk about money! !Talking about money does not hurt feelings! !ヾ(￥▽￥)ノ