Looking at the mountains and rivers

Seeing that their atmosphere was tense, Lu Yushi felt that he should act like an elder, so he stepped forward and said, "Young Master Dai, the reason for His Royal Highness King Mu's accident, I'm afraid there is still no conclusion yet," he coughed lightly, "With all due respect, the most important thing right now is for the prince to recover as soon as possible. After all, there is no place in the imperial family that does not rely on the prince. Besides, the matter of this son must be discussed with the prince and me."

"Oh?" Yang Dai turned his face, squinted his eyes, and said dangerously, "Master Lu, do you want to come to discuss the matter of establishing a son in Prince Mu's Palace?"

The meaning of this beating was obvious, Lu Yushi showed a little embarrassment, but he puffed up his chest and said: "I came here on the order of my father, and what I want to bring to the prince is also the intention of Lu family in Chuzhong."

"Lu family in Chuzhong?" Yang Dai lowered his head and slowly chewed these four words, then raised his head with a hint of sarcasm on his lips, "What qualifications does Lu family in Chuzhong have to manage the affairs of Prince Mu's mansion?"

Lu Yushi's expression changed. Before he could speak, Yang Jue said angrily, "The Lu family in Chuzhong is a 'purple-robed family' personally conferred by Emperor Taizong. Why do you look down on a bastard with Donghu blood!"

"Mr. Tai," Lu Yushi knew that he could not lose his momentum at this time, and also took a step forward, "Our Lu family has been related to the clan for generations, and it is considered very important in the court. Whether it is a state matter or a family matter, the affairs of King Mu's son Your lord needs to listen to our opinions."

Yang Dai suddenly smiled: "Lord Lu insists on seeing my father?"

Lu Yushi faintly sensed the danger from his smile, he was stunned, but Yang Jue who was behind him had already said: "We have to meet King Father today, if you are sensible, get out of the way!"

Yang Dai's face was half angry and half smiling, he dragged his shouting younger brother with one hand, and pushed him aside with a flick of his hand, the follower named Qi Lianyang behind him immediately grabbed Yang Jue's arm firmly.Then, Yang Dai slowly approached Lu Yushi amidst his younger brother's yelling, and he slowly shook his head: "Master Lu, logically speaking, I should also call you uncle, but you shouldn't have come to Jian'an at all."

Lu Yushi saw him walking towards him. He was obviously a young junior, but he was inexplicably terrified. He said in a deep voice, "Yang Dai, I, I am the prince's brother-in-law. How dare you..."

Yang Dai obviously didn't care about what he said at all, he pulled out the long sword from Zuo Xiaowei's waist without paying attention, and suddenly sent it forward, stabbing the unsuspecting Lu Yushi right through.

When the blood was bursting under the steps, Yang Jue opened his mouth wide as if he had just woken up from a dream. He let out a few low howls from his throat, but he didn't even know what he was howling.

Yang Dai withdrew his sword, handed it to the soldiers beside him, and said coldly: "Inform the Jingzhao Mansion, and say that Yu Shi Lu Li trespassed into King Mu's inner room with wrong intentions, and was beheaded by Zuo Xiaowei in the court."

"You're crazy! That's my uncle!" Yang Jue finally found his voice, he shouted, struggling towards the direction of the inner room, "Father, Yang Dai...he killed someone!"

Yang Dai looked at him coldly, and was about to walk towards him, when the door was suddenly opened from the inside, and Yang Yan walked out with tears all over his face, his hand holding the door frame was trembling: "Brother, third brother , stop arguing, my father...he is about to die!"

The two brothers finally changed their faces together, Yang Dai strode into the inner room first, and then Yang Jue also broke free from the shackles of the attendant and ran into the inner room.

As soon as he entered the room, Yang Jue rushed to the side of King Mu's bed first, crying, "Father save me, that Donghu bastard is going to kill me."

King Mu on the sickbed was dying, he was shaken by his son and slowly opened his eyes, and asked in a low voice, "Is it Jue'er?"

"It's me, father, that bastard Yang Dai is crazy, he killed my uncle!" Yang Jue shouted in his ear, "He is going to rebel, he is going to take your throne."

Mu Wang was quiet, and turned to Yang Jue. Yang Jue suddenly noticed that the muscles on his father's face twitched slightly. It was an expression of extreme anger, and he withdrew his voice with some fear: "Father King..."

There was a crisp "slap", it was Mu Wang who slapped him hard on the face, that was simply not the strength a dying person would have, Yang Jue was rolled aside by this slap, he was almost dumbfounded .

"Bastard, he's your brother!" King Mu roared in a low voice, which seemed to be reprimanding him for his rude words, but also seemed to be accusing him of something else.

"Father...he killed uncle..." Yang Jue covered his face, and seemed to want to say something, but saw that his father had already sat up with his sick body.

"Did you kill the members of the Lu family?" King Mu asked the eldest son sullenly.

Yang Dai knelt in front of the couch: "Yes, my son killed Sir Yushi Lu."

"Okay... Dai'er, you are really my good son," King Mu said out of breath, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the eldest son's wrist, "Well done, foreign ministers bullied you into the inner room of the palace, you deserve to be killed! "

He fumbled from the pillow and took out a finger-long red gold token, and pressed it in Yang Dai's hand: "Take it, I will leave everything to you, the throne, the military power..." He squeezed the eldest son's hand hard. "Dai'er, don't forget what you promised your father."

When holding the token in his hand, Yang Dai's chest throbbed violently. He looked at his old father and nodded: "Father, don't worry, my son will definitely do it."

After he said this, he felt a lightness in his hand, and his father's hand slipped down weakly. He fell on the bed until he died, his eyes were still looking straight up, looking at the top of the blue bed curtain.

Until he walked out of the dark inner room, Yang Jue didn't understand what happened. He lost everything in one day, his father, uncle, and the long-coveted position of son.

"Young master." Someone secretly pulled his sleeve, Yang Jue turned his face, and was stunned before he recognized that it was He Yan he sent out.

"I went to Dongfang just now, but I heard from the neighbors that Mr. Han has already packed up and left, and he only left a note for you."

Yang Jue unfolded the narrow note in a daze, and it only read: If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, make a decision before acting, it's important, it's important.

Yang Yan stood in the corner for a long time. He hadn't been near his father's bed since his elder brothers came in. He could only hear the constant noise in his ears, sometimes it was the sound of chaotic footsteps, and sometimes it was the crying of the female relatives. I understand that my father probably died.

Suddenly the door was closed to block the noise outside the courtyard. Yang Yan heard the elder brother's voice suddenly sounded in the empty room: "Fourth brother, why were you in father's room just now?"

This is a very common question, and Yang Dai's tone is also very normal, calm and breezy.

Yang Yan raised his face, turned towards his elder brother, and said softly, "Father called me here."

"Oh, that's right." Yang Dai responded, and then fell silent.

Although Yang Yan couldn't see it, he also knew that his elder brother was watching him all the time.

Yang Dai took a step closer to him, the sharpness in his eyes almost pierced the young brother, but the young brother's eyes were as empty as before, he could not capture any panic, panic, or even panic from his expression. Even sadness is light.

"You go." Yang Dai finally turned his face away slightly, he listened to the sound of the cloud board outside, and slowly clenched the token in his hand that was about to burn him.

After the sound of the cloud board sounded, Wei Changxuan hurried back to the courtyard in the northwest corner, but was surprised to find that Yang Yan was not in the courtyard. Not only was he not there, but Luo Lan was also missing.He was a little panicked, always feeling that something was going to happen at this time, there was an indistinct message from the front yard that the third son's uncle had been beheaded in front of King Mu's steps.Wei Changxuan thought anxiously, Yang Yan couldn't see anything by himself, how scared he must be if someone was suddenly killed in front of him.

He couldn't enter the inner courtyard, so he could only wander around in every corner of the outer courtyard, and finally saw Yang Yan's figure at the corner of a corridor.

Yang Yan sat on the ground, hugged her knees, kept her head buried, not knowing what she was thinking.

When Wei Changxuan walked in front of him, he seemed to be taken aback and raised his head in a panic.Wei Changxuan couldn't see his pitiful appearance, and hurriedly said, "Yexi, it's me."

Yang Yan moved his lips lightly: "Wei Changxuan..." He said in a low voice, "My father is dead..."

His voice was a little choked in his throat, and it took a while for tears to fall from his eyes.

There was silence in front of him for a while, and then he was suddenly embraced by a force and fell into a warm embrace. He froze for a moment before realizing that Wei Changxuan was hugging him.

"I know." Wei Changxuan gently stroked his head, "If you feel sad, just cry."

Yang Yan bit his lip hard, he remembered his father said to him on the sick bed: Yan'er, you are already 13 years old, and when your father was 13 years old, he was already able to shoot and kill ferocious animals in the hunting ground. You are father's son, don't be too weak.

He felt that he shouldn't shed tears anymore, but when Wei Changxuan hugged him so warmly, endless sadness suddenly surged in his heart, which made him cry uncontrollably.The sadness and pain that could not be shown in front of his brother finally vented at this moment. He cried like a child, even trembling.

Wei Changxuan hugged the weeping young man for a long time, until his knees ached when he was kneeling. He waited until Yang Yan's crying gradually subsided, and then comforted him in a low voice: "It's okay, I'm fine. Xi, you still have me."

The death of King Mu caused quite a shock to the court and even the border. As a prince who was in power for a while, his funeral affairs were naturally handled with great vigor and vigor. It took more than two months from the suspension of the coffin to the funeral.Prince Mu's eldest son, Yang Dai, inherited the throne. The always gloomy eldest son managed many affairs in the palace in an orderly manner. When all the dust settled, it was almost the end of the year.

In the second year of Yong'an, on the third day of November, Yang Dai looked at his brother kneeling in front of him in the silent hall, and said in a calm tone: "Second brother, I have been busy with my father's funeral these days, thanks to your hard work in taking care of it. "

Yang Cong knelt there, not daring to raise his head: "Whatever elder brother says, this is a brother's job."

"When the new year is over, you can lead your family to fief the land." Yang Dai twitched the corner of his mouth, showing a not-so-gentle smile, "I guess you don't want to stay in Jian'an either."

Yang Cong lowered his head: "Here, I will naturally follow the arrangement of the eldest brother," he carefully accompanied with a smile, "The eldest brother is getting married soon, it is not good for the brothers to stay in the palace, I don't know the third and fourth brothers, Where is the eldest brother going to be sent?"

Yang Dai glanced at him with a half-smile: "You don't need to worry about this."

"Yes," Yang Cong lowered his head, hesitantly said, "There is one more thing I want to ask my eldest brother. I want to take my mother to the fief to live up to my filial piety." His mother was just the concubine of King Mu before. The side concubine is not even named, and the mansion is only called Mrs. Feng.

"Second brother, are you worried that Mrs. Feng will not take good care of the people in the mansion?" Yang Dai smiled, "You just go to your fief at ease, I will not treat your mother badly."

Yang Cong's heart sank, he knew that even though he had been obedient and pleasing in every possible way, this big brother would definitely hold other people's weaknesses firmly in his hands.

"If there's nothing else, you can go down." Yang Dai waved his hand lightly.

Yang Cong stood up slowly, took two steps outside, and suddenly turned around and knelt down again: "Brother, the third brother has been imprisoned for so long, and he already knows that he has repented, why don't you give him a fief and send him to go far away?" Alright."

Yang Dai looked at him gloomily for a while, and then said: "I have my own arrangements for the whereabouts of the third child." He snorted and laughed, "Don't worry, I won't kill him."

Not long after Yang Cong withdrew, the door was pushed open again, and the woman outside almost barged in, followed by several servants who dissuaded her, and said repeatedly: "Aunt Luolan, Your Highness is not allowed People can go in at will."

Yang Dai raised his eyes and glanced at them, but he didn't get angry, he just waved to the servants: "Go down first."