Later, I became the prince of the group

If it is said that Liu Qi was still a little bit drunk at first, after such a fuss, there was no trace of drunkenness at all.

Emperor Chengxing only summoned Chu Yan, and when he heard that Liu Qi had also come to greet the queen, he asked him to come in and say a few words.

Liu Qi blushed quickly after drinking, and it disappeared quickly. After changing clothes and rinsing his mouth, he couldn't even smell the wine.

Emperor Chengxing and Chu Yan explained the etiquette and process of the grand ceremony. These could have been taught by the people in the Ministry of Rites, but Emperor Chengxing finally established a prince for more than ten years. Yan said something.

After talking about this matter, he looked at the person who was in a daze beside him: "Liu Qi."

Liu Qi came back to his senses: "Royal Father."

"Since you're here, that's just right. The East Palace hasn't been lived in for more than ten years. I'm thinking of finding someone to renovate the East Palace. I'll leave this matter to you. I'll leave the House of Internal Affairs as soon as the expenses are paid."

"Yes." Liu Qi nodded.

Emperor Chengxing: "What's going on, are you absent-minded?"

Liu Qi subconsciously supported his waist and glanced at Chu Yan.

This small gesture is too obvious to ignore.

Emperor Chengxing was silent, waved his hand and said: "Forget it, forget it, you are not in good spirits, then rest for a while, the things in the East Palace are not in a hurry."

That night, Emperor Chengxing allocated half of the papers to Chu Yan, with a message: more batches of memorials, less covetousness in bed.

Chu Yan: "..."

This made His Royal Highness An melancholy, but Liu Qi was very happy. He felt that since Chu Yan knew the taste, he had never had a rest at night, and it was very cool to be able to enjoy the quilt for a few days by himself.

As a result, no one gave him a pillow when he fell asleep for three consecutive days, so he was not very happy.

Liu Qi lay on the bed tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep, so he got up and went to the study.

Sure enough, candles were burning in the study, a silhouette was reflected, Liu Qi made a "shh" to Xin Qing who was guarding the door, and gently opened the door to enter.

Chu Yan thought it was Xinqing who came in to deliver soup and food, so he ignored it until someone knelt and sat behind him.

Chu Yan stopped writing, and the next moment the person behind him hugged him and put his head on his back.

"I won't disturb you, so I'll stay with you, okay?" Liu Qi asked softly.

So Chu Yan continued to pick up the ink pen to write the memorial, looking as stable as Mount Tai, but in fact his heart was already in a mess.

Unexpectedly, Liu Qi really remained silent, and did not take the initiative to cling to others as Chu Yan imagined.

After such a cup of tea, Chu Yan folded the memorial and turned around.

Liu Qi blinked suspiciously.

Chu Yan gently raised his chin: "I want to kiss you."

Liu Qi endured it, couldn't help it, and laughed: "Then kiss, why do you still ask me?"

Chu Yan tasted it bluntly, and then asked, "What if I want you?"

Liu Qi muttered: "You didn't ask me if I agree with you before."

"Then do you agree?" After Chu Yan asked, he immediately coaxed him, "Say something nice."

Liu Qi tilted his head: "I said nicely, what benefits do you give me?"

"I don't know the benefits, but I know, if you don't say something nice, I'll just..." Chu Yan paused, and said what he thought was the most serious threat, "I'll spank your ass."

Liu Qi said "Oh", lazily hanging himself on Chu Yan, not wanting to resist at all: "Then you hit."

Chu Yan could not laugh or cry and touched his ass, seeing Liu Qi's appearance, not only did not feel ashamed, but seemed to enjoy it.

"What happened to you today?" Chu Yan was a little surprised.

Just now I thought Liu Qi was not clingy today, but in the end he became clingier.

"I just miss you." Liu Qi muttered, "If I had known this was so uncomfortable, I might as well be killed by you."

The second half of the sentence was so vague that Chu Yan couldn't hear clearly: "What?"

But Liu Qi refused to say it again, so he hugged him and did not let go.

Just at this time, there was a movement around him. It turned out that Lang Xiaoba squeezed open the door and got in. He slipped to the side of the two of them, and turned over to expose his belly.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, he anxiously rubbed against Chu Yan again, grabbed his hands, and then exposed his belly again.

Properly look like a "dog like a dog" begging for love.

Liu Qi stared at Xiao Ba with wide eyes, always feeling that this operation seemed familiar.

It was Chu Yan who saw through everything first: "Actually, you two have an unknown blood relationship?"

Liu Qi: "..."

Chu Yan wanted to lick the wolf a few times, Xiao Ba spread his paws and let out a happy "ow", but he couldn't wait for the big master to lick his belly for him, but waited for the stingy princess to push him away.

It watched Liu Qi turn his head and occupy the master, with no emotion on his face: "Aww, now I'm a wolf too, it's useless, let it go."

Chu Yan: "..."

It's not a real person, but you are a real dog.

He asked Xinqing to take Xiao Ba away, and picked up Xiao Qi instead.

Satisfied, Liu Qi rested his chin on his shoulder, really looking like a big wolfdog.

The big wolf dog didn't want to just be so silent, so he casually brought up a topic: "Why isn't your fourth brother making any movement at all?"

"If he is smart, there should be no movement. Now that he is full of people, he has only a handful of people. It is better to keep a low profile than to act now. After all, the history books have never said that he can succeed smoothly when he becomes the prince. "

"Then why is he bothering me?"

"It should be out of anger, and you want to add some trouble to me." Chu Yan said, "It may also be repeating the old trick. As long as there is a gap between the two of us, he will have a chance to take advantage of it."

Liu Qi sighed: "You brothers are really troublesome."

"It's a little bit, but it's nothing to be afraid of. I even count Zhu Ting as a Chu Ze, just play house with him." Chu Yan's tone seemed to be telling a fact, and the madness inside seemed to be just an illusion.

In fact, the struggle for the throne in the past dynasties of the Northern Qi Dynasty has been regarded as peaceful. Since the time of Gaozu, he has always respected his sons and demoted his concubines. Influenced by the influence, what is instilled all day long is the idea of ​​"respecting the brothers and assisting the prince", and the resources are always tilted, so even if the princes have their own thoughts, it will not be too difficult to control.

Just like Chu He has a domineering mother's family, but has never been valued by Emperor Chengxing, just like Chu Ze is a little narrow-minded, but the forces behind him can see the head at a glance.

"By the way, what do you want to do with those two from the Qiu family?" Chu Yan's tone was soft, as if he wasn't asking for human life.

Liu Qi thought for a while and said, "Leave it to me, I will deal with it myself."

Within two days, several scholars gathered at the Confucian Temple in the capital and jointly petitioned the emperor to think twice about establishing the crown prince. They met a fifth-rank official and presented their joint letter and advocacy at the court meeting.

After reading the letter, the emperor was silent for a long time, until the fifth-rank official was almost unable to stand up, and then said: "Where is the evidence?"

The fifth-rank officer hurriedly said: "Those scholars are outside the imperial city with someone who can testify..."

"A nonsense petition, worthy of your report, and bringing people to the foot of the imperial city, waiting to frame the future prince and princess?" Emperor Chengxing raised his voice, and slammed the memorial to the ground, "Are you trying to influence my decision to establish a crown prince? Chu Yan cannot be the crown prince, so who do you want?"

The fifth-rank official quickly knelt down and begged for mercy: "Your Majesty, you have misunderstood. I naturally know that His Highness is not what you said in the letter. I also want to calm down the matter! At that time, I met those people in the Confucian Temple. For the common people who were watching the excitement, I didn’t want to make things worse, so I wanted to keep them safe, so I agreed to help them play. As for these people who are now outside the imperial city, they followed them spontaneously!"

Emperor Chengxing: "So, should I reward you?"

"My minister has no such intentions..."

Emperor Chengxing got up and interrupted him directly: "I said that day, if someone objected to stand up, you didn't make a sound at that time, but now you come out like this. You intend to interfere in the important affairs of Li Chu, and you are planning to do something wrong. Put this rebellious minister in prison, and ask to be executed after autumn."

Only in this way did the admonishers beg for mercy from Emperor Chengxing.

Emperor Chengxing did not intend to be persuaded at all.

The man was about to be dragged out of the house when Chu Yan suddenly said, "Wait, father, I have something to say."

Only then did Emperor Chengxing give a gesture to them to stop.

Chu Yan: "The group of scholars said that my minister is ignorant and incompetent, because they are among the people and do not know the secrets. They said that my minister has a bad temper, but they are echoing others. Relying on the private money earned from Tao Lefang, but the princess who spread the rumors was drunk and went out of the small hall during the day... Here I have to prove my princess's innocence, and I implore my father to pass those scholars into the palace, my son thinks Find out what evidence they have."

Emperor Chengxing thought for a while: "Sure."

There were five scholars in total, and they didn't look like Gongsheng from the Imperial Academy, and they were accompanied by a thin man dressed like a girl, who was obviously the shepherd.

As soon as he stepped into the main hall, the young lady was frightened by the solemn atmosphere and the two rows of soldiers and knelt down on the ground.

The emperor asked him to go forward, and he crawled all the way from the end of the hall to the middle, muttering: "I'm quitting, I'm quitting, holy, holy, it's nothing to do with slaves."

"What's the matter?" Chu Yan asked lightly.

The young man spoke intermittently: "They, a few of them made slaves and slandered Princess An, yes, they are regular customers here, and all the younger brothers and sisters in the hall are in their hands. People are relatives, and so are slaves, who are forced, please forgive me, please forgive me, please save me.”

No one expected it to be like this, even the five scholars were dumbfounded.

It was the first time I saw a witness testify on stage, but the witness was so frightened that he recruited him as soon as he came on stage.

"It seems that there is no need to interrogate." Chu Yan remained calm, "But I still need to confirm, they said they saw the princess entering your room with their own eyes, when and when?"

The young man thought for a long time, then tremblingly said: "They told me that it was half past noon on the eighth day of the eighth day, but on the eighth day, I remembered that day, I picked up other guests, everyone in the restaurant can testify .”

"The eighth day of the lunar new year..." Chu Yan raised his eyebrows, as if thinking about it, "That's a coincidence, my son remembered that he was summoned by his father that day, and he brought Liu Qi into the palace after eating, but Liu Qi was always there Under the nose."

Emperor Chengxing's face was gloomy, and he directly gave the verdict: "Come here, take these scholars into the sky prison, and torture the mastermind behind the scenes. This young man's death penalty can be avoided, and he will be beaten fifty times."

Chu Ze closed his eyes, not knowing that he was being tricked.

He can accept that he can't play with Chu Yan, and he didn't expect to shake Chu Yan's foundation with such a thing, it was just a trick of killing his heart.

But Emperor Chengxing's attitude shocked him the most.

The father didn't even bother to ask about the cause and effect, so he directly labeled a fifth-rank official as a "rebellious minister", and he couldn't help saying that he was "asking and beheading".

He protected Chu Yan to such an extent!

Chu Ze suddenly had a hunch that he was worried that he would never find a chance to compete with Chu Yan, not because of his father's favoritism, but because of Chu Yan's ability to make his father favor him so much.