Immediately after the death of the master

Held in the arms of the young lady who had been raised by her, she cried like a lost child.

Concubine Rong gently patted Zhu Qing's back, protecting her sister Qing in her arms.

Concubine Rong, one of the four concubines, is the most favored concubine. She has the most comfortable palace, the emperor's favor, and endless rewards. All the women in the harem are jealous of her appearance, and all the women in the harem covet her. with her position.

But now, Concubine Rong seemed to have everything standing in this magnificent and splendid palace, no different from a trapped beast on the wasteland with no way out.

At this moment, Concubine Rong hated herself for being sober. She understood very clearly that they were not queens, and there was no family behind them that could fight against the imperial power. Their only way out was the prince.For Zhu Qing, as long as she gave birth to an imperial heir, their Zhu family could immediately get rid of the situation of being slaves for generations. If the child was a boy, Zhu Qing would rely on this child to enjoy the glory and wealth for the rest of his life.

Concubine Rong is extremely sober, this sobriety made her climb to this position, this sobriety made her disregard her own heart, and sent her sister Qing to the dragon bed with her own hands.

From then on, the harem lost a Zhu Nushi and gained a Zhaoyi.

After becoming Zhaoyi, Zhu Qing, who had no more mundane affairs, burned incense every day, and worshiped the gods and Buddhas all over the sky one by one, hoping that a certain god would open his eyes mercifully and save her life for her young lady.

She swore that for this wish, she would eat fast all her life and burn incense and worship Buddha every day.

After several months of incense burning, a certain god really opened his eyes, and Concubine Rong successfully gave birth to a full-term boy, and the mother and child were safe.

Since Concubine Rong gave birth to the Eighth Prince Fu Jin.

In the third year, Zhu Qing gave birth to the Ninth Prince Fu Shuo.

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From the day the Ninth Prince remembered, Zhu Qing told him——

You are the shadow of your imperial brother, for whom you were born.

For most princes, practicing martial arts is just icing on the cake, and reading and literacy is the top priority, but Zhu Qing is different, she values ​​the martial arts of the Ninth Prince even more.When the Ninth Prince was very young, he had to practice hard every day, under the care of his mother and master, rain or shine, cold and heat, all year round.

[You have to practice martial arts well and protect the Eighth Prince in the future. 】

Whenever the Ninth Prince was lazy, Zhu Qing would tell him this when he beat the Ninth Prince with a thorn stick.

The eighth prince, Fu Jin, was the nightmare of the ninth prince throughout his childhood. He didn't understand that he and Fu Jin were both the emperor's sons, why the gap between them was so big.

The Ninth Prince was able to bend a bow and hit the bull's-eye at the age of five, but Zhu Qing just cast a faint glance.But Fu Jin was only able to hit the bull's-eye at the age of eight, so the old emperor burst into tears in front of the ministers. He held a night banquet that day. At the banquet, Zhu Qing didn't care about his son who was already able to hunt deer. The Eighth Prince was full of praise.

The unloved Ninth Prince, like the crown prince who lost his mother, was abandoned in the corner of the banquet, and could only look at Fu Shuo, who was loved by everyone, from the crowd—the old emperor hugged him, and Concubine Rong fed him fruit , Zhu Qing and a group of concubines surrounded him, and the maids and eunuchs in the distance were always watching, as long as the little master needed anything, they would immediately rush forward.

As the center of the banquet, Fu Jin is like the high lighthouse, the place closest to him is the brightest, and the place farthest from him can also be illuminated, but his feet are dark.

The lighthouse can only be high up, and the light cannot go down vertically, so the foot of the lighthouse is dark.

As long as there is a lighthouse, the Ninth Prince and the prince can only be the "foot" that cannot be illuminated.

The young Ninth Prince was clearly aware of this, and for this reason he hated Fu Jin very much, even though Fu Jin itself had nothing wrong with it.

When he was young, he was always unwilling to accept his fate. In order to resist the fate Zhu Qing imposed on him, the Ninth Prince refused to continue practicing martial arts.

What is "Your life is not worth mentioning, the Eighth Prince is a body of gold, and the Eighth Prince must not be allowed to make any mistakes."

What about "Even if I get hurt, I can protect the Eighth Prince."

The path Zhu Qing chose has nothing to do with him, Fu Shuo, his fate, only he can decide.

At the age of eight, the Ninth Prince betrayed his humble mother and refused to be Zhu Qing's puppet to curry favor with Concubine Rong. As he grew older, he began to consciously use his identity.

Zhu Qing is Concubine Rong's loyal servant, and Concubine Rong and Concubine Duan are sisters, so the Ninth Prince is naturally counted as a party of the Three Princes. Can touch the secret plan inside the Three Kings Party.

Due to his childhood experience, the Ninth Prince has no sense of belonging to the Three Kings Party, what's more, the Ninth Prince has a deep hatred for Fu Jin and the Zhu family in the Three Kings Party.

For this reason, the Ninth Prince, as an important member of the Three Kings' Party, secretly colludes with their mortal enemy, the Princelings. From time to time, he will reveal some confidential information, so that the Princelings can always turn their backs in desperation. Not to be completely wiped out by the Three Kings Party, which has power over the ruling and opposition parties.

Before becoming a coward who loves to cry, the Ninth Prince was a hidden variable in the current situation, betting left and right, hiding it from everyone, thinking that he could become an avenger who could control his own destiny.

And all of this, Fu Jin didn't know.

Fu Jin didn't understand the mind of the Ninth Prince, he simply followed Concubine Rong's instructions, took good care of the Ninth Prince, gave the Ninth Prince delicious and fun, took the Ninth Prince under his wing, and did not allow the naughty Fifth Prince to bully the young younger brother.

Fu Jin felt that he had done a lot, but the Ninth Prince would rather play with dirty puppies and cats than talk to Fu Jin. At certain times, Fu Jin felt deeply frustrated, and he won everyone's love , but cannot get the dependence of the younger brother.

Young Fu Jin and Fu Shuo, one is a young master who was raised in a sugar bowl, and the other is a moth who can't find a candle. If there were no later changes, they should have been superficial brothers for a lifetime. They were not close, but neither were they. alienated.They would be pressured by his mother to look like brothers and sisters, very reluctant in their hearts, and secretly vowed that they would never have anything to do with this guy again; they would be intimate on the surface, but constantly rubbing against each other in private.

Many years later, when their mother passed away long ago, the two princes who had become old men took time to heal their wounds and finally felt relieved.

This should have been the end of the brothers, as long as the story did not turn around, as long as the crown prince or any one of the three princes succeeded in succeeding to the throne.

But it is a pity that when Fu Jin was 14 years old and Fu Shuo was 12 years old, Dayu Kingdom was hit by floods in the north and drought in the south. of.

The old emperor on the dragon chair has always been a hard-hearted monarch. He knows that the granaries in the counties are not sufficient, and the grain in the capital is not enough to support the people outside the city, so he acquiesced in the collusion between the Gu family and Prime Minister You to resell the relief grain. The well-heeled households in the city did not provide for the scrawny refugees who knelt and begged outside the city.

The third prince, as the senior disciple of Prime Minister Ji, could not live in the temple, and turned a blind eye to the starving people outside the city. He and Prime Minister Ji wrote several times to implore the old emperor to open a warehouse to release grain, and severely punish corrupt officials such as Prime Minister You. .

It's a pity that the old emperor turned a deaf ear to such memorials. Once Prime Minister Ji had this memorial, he would have such a headache that he couldn't continue to deal with political affairs.Faced with such an old emperor, Prime Minister Ji was so angry that he blew his beard and stared, and jumped in Ji's mansion to scold the old emperor, but there was nothing he could do.

Different from the old prime minister Ji who dared not act without authorization, the third prince is young after all, and young people are always impulsive, daring to do things that old people dare not do.

The third prince intends to force the palace to rebel.

The third prince was originally the prince who was really cultivated by the old emperor. The crown prince was just to temporarily check and balance his pawns. The ministers of the court and the Beijing and middle families are not blind. Except for the few families that share weal and woe with the crown prince, most of the officials are not the Three Kings Party , that is, the Three Kings disguised as princelings.

If there were no accidents, the third prince would definitely be the last to inherit the throne. He was just advancing the inevitable event.

Before the rebellion, the old prime minister Ji talked with the third prince all night. In the end, the old prime minister acquiesced to his actions. What he said in his words was that once the third prince succeeded in seizing power, he would do his best to stabilize the political situation for the third prince and ensure that he could Sit securely on the dragon chair.

The third prince held one-third of the imperial guards in the capital and a thousand dead men who were raised in private. The third prince was worried that the guards would turn against him when they rebelled, so he had no choice but to lead the guards himself.As for the control over the dead man, the third prince could not trust others, so he handed over the tiger talisman to control the dead man to his younger brother Fu Jin.

Fu Jin understood what this tiger talisman meant, and he took it solemnly, vowing to win the throne for his brother.

On the eve of the rebellion, Fu Jin drank to build his courage, and accidentally revealed the plan of the third prince at the wine table. This should not have been a problem. Tacitly pretended not to hear anything.

Everyone laughed, and the banquet returned to the illusion of being happy and harmonious, but unfortunately, the news of the rebellion was so shocking that everyone forgot——

The presence of the Nine Princes in the corner.

The icing on the cake is never as good as giving charcoal in the snow. The Ninth Prince stroked the fur of the fox in his arms and made a secret decision.

Ever since he could remember, the Ninth Prince knew that the Crown Prince had the same fate as him, while the Third Prince and Fu Jin were of another kind.The former is a chess piece that can be discarded at any time because the father does not love the mother, and the latter is the treasure that everyone holds in the palm of their hand. There is no ups and downs, and they follow their lives smoothly, surrounded by everyone to board the golden palace.

No matter whether people are lonely or widowed, they are also princes. Why is Fu Jin the son of destiny?