For the emperor

The second prince of Cang Kingdom happily put the treasure in a box, hugged it in his arms, and was about to see his eldest brother who hadn't seen him for five hours and two sticks of incense, when he was stopped at the door.

His wet nurse came over holding a bowl of milky white almond milk, and kept nagging: "Little ancestor, you know how to run around all day long, running around like headless flies, and you are not afraid that the emperor will look at you." Don't worry, I'll give you a reward!"

Cang Tianci rolled his eyes.

He was really fed up with almond milk, since he was seven or eight years old, he drank a bowl every day, his father stared at him, his mother watched him, and the Quandong Palace supervised him from top to bottom, without any interruption.

——It's all the fault of the imperial doctor Lao Shizi, who insisted that he lacks gold in the five elements, and his lungs are gold, so people find drinks that can nourish the lungs and rely on drinking every day.The dumplings were so delicious that he couldn't eat them all at once. Now when he smelled the almond milk, he felt like throwing up when he opened his mouth.

After barely gulping almond milk and suppressing the painful feeling of nausea, he held the small box and ran to Zhaori Temple. Make sweet-scented osmanthus cake for two with someone like Li.

He didn't like it very much himself.Except for Yin Yan Cake, Cang Tiansu has never shown any special preference for any food since childhood.It's not like the second brother of his family, who likes to eat sweets and has a mouth full of cavities because of this, the whole palace knows this clearly.

"Yesterday Xiaorui drew a portrait of me, and I want to bury it under the tree in the cold palace today!" Cang Tianci waved his white and tender arms with unconcealed excitement, and looked at the woman who was facing him expressionlessly with bright eyes. The big brother sprinkled with sweet-scented osmanthus sugar.

The third prince, Cang Tianrui, is six years younger than them. Because of his poor health, he went to the study room a year later than ordinary people. Now he just went to visit his master, and the first thing he did when he came back was to draw a painting for his second brother A simple children's painting that can see the face.

Cang Tianci has always loved this younger brother, and did not alienate him because of the queen, now it is the first time to receive a gift from younger brother, no matter whether it is really good-looking or not, it is really crazy.

"En." Without raising his head, Cang Tiansu used his only clean little finger to hook the pendant jade around his waist, motioning him to bury this piece of jade as well.

Cang Tianci pulled the jade over, put it in front of his eyes, and asked suspiciously: "This is a reward from the emperor, why don't you keep it for yourself?" Cang Jingdi's gift is very precious. It is also the first of all jades, extremely precious, and the seed jade is the essence of a jade mine. There are only two pieces of purple jade seed jade in the entire palace, and the other one is pinned to the old queen who is chanting scriptures every day in the ancient Qingdeng Buddha.

"Bury it up," Cang Tiansu turned his head to the side and raised his eyebrows at him, looked at this frizzy younger brother, thought for a while and asked, "Do you want me to go with you?"

Cang Tianci originally thought, "I am a manly little husband, I still need you to accompany such trivial matters", but when the words came to his lips, his heart moved, and he quickly changed his words: "Okay, it's gloomy in there, and I'm quite scared by myself. of."

He vaguely understood that although he didn't know where Cang Tiansu hid the person, there was indeed a dead person buried in the cold palace, otherwise how could a living person disappear out of thin air.Cang Tianci has enough reverence for life, ghosts, ghosts and gods, he is the most taboo.

Cang Tiansu smiled when he heard the words, then washed his hands, let him drag him and ran quickly towards the cold palace.

Along the way, Cang Tianci racked his brains and failed to pry his elder brother's mouth open, and he was really curious about where the corpse was. On the way back, he was twisting his body and sticking to Cang Tiansu's body, moaning and acting like a baby, but unexpectedly carried him forward The elder brother who was walking suddenly stopped.

Cang Tianci followed his elder brother's gaze suspiciously, and seeing Jing Tian come out of the Zhaori Hall kitchen in a panic, he couldn't help wondering, "What is he doing there?"

Cang Tiansu frowned, did not answer, stood at the same place and waited for the person to walk away before stepping into the kitchen, took out a silver needle from his sleeve, and stabbed it on the semi-finished sweet-scented osmanthus cake.

For the sweet-scented osmanthus cake he made by himself, Cang Tianci never tried poison and was not willing to let the eunuchs taste it first. Cang Tiansu usually didn't care much about it. Now that I think about it, I am really afraid that someone with a heart will do something about it.

After all, he was young, and no matter how meticulous his mind was, he couldn't cover everything. Seeing that the silver needle hadn't changed color after being pricked a few times in different places, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and was looking around to see if there were any other suspicious items. , I heard the sound of someone knocking lightly on the door.

Cang Tiansu and Cang Tianci Qiqi looked back, and Jing Tian stood at the door with a face of panic, looking like he was on the verge of crying: "Eldest Prince and Second Prince, you two hurry up, the Emperor will die before the incense burns." Someone called two of you!"

The purpose of entering the kitchen was to find someone, and the panic was because no one was found. Jing Tian had a reasonable explanation for what he did just now, and Cang Tiansu didn't think deeply about it, so he quietly put the silver needle into his sleeve again, and followed behind Cang Tianci out of the kitchen.

He paused at the door, skipped Jing Tian, ​​called Xiao Si directly and said: "In the future, when there is no one in the small kitchen, someone will guard the door, and no one is allowed to enter except the second prince and the nanny."

The place where Cang Tiansu made sweet-scented osmanthus cake was specially set up, it was far away from the big kitchen where the palace people usually cook, and most of the time there was no one there.

Xiaosi was stunned for a moment, then squinted at the tall and burly head guard of Zhaori Temple, and nodded in agreement.Jing Tian was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly knelt down to plead guilty, blaming himself for getting angry just now, it was too reckless and rude.

Cang Tiansu signaled him to get up with a smile, and softly comforted him for a while, and then let Cang Tianci who had been waiting impatiently drag him away.

After going to the Panglong Palace, the two soybeans realized how wrong they thought it was the daily beating of Emperor Cang Jing.

The inside was densely packed with people, including the three princesses and several princes.Even the fifth prince, who was born less than a month old, was hugged by the nanny and stood at the end of the hall.

The man in military uniform standing in the middle heard the eunuch's singing, turned his head and looked at the two people who just came in and made him wait, his eyes lit up, and he laughed loudly: "Phoenix son and dragon grandson, as expected unusual!"

The two who were praised as "unusual" looked at each other, and finally remembered the news they heard some time ago.Recently, Liu Guangliang got into such troubles, and the important matter of General Zhenbei's return to Beijing was long forgotten by the two of them.

The powerful Zhenbei General Da Cang Jinglan followed him loyally when he was still a half-grown boy, and provided full military support in the struggle for the throne.When Emperor Cang Jing succeeded to the throne, he willingly led [-] recruits to the bitterly cold northwest region at the border of Cang State and Qi State, and stationed at the frontier for ten years.

The general of Zhenbei was named Duan De, he was more than ten years older than Emperor Cang Jing, plus he fought in the battlefield all the year round, ate and slept in the open, although he looked heroic, after all he was a bit old, his temples were already gray.

He also brought his only son, Duan Yu, who just turned 16, on this trip.

Cang Tiansu was not very interested in this father and son pair at first, he thought to follow the rules, go up and have a few conversations, and it would be fine for Emperor Cang Jing's face.

Unexpectedly, when he walked over, he just smiled and before he could say a word, the tall and burly Duan Yu grabbed his hand excitedly: "Father, you must marry me a girlfriend." His beautiful daughter-in-law!"

Amidst the low roar of laughter in the hall, Cang Tiansu's unformed smile froze.

Cang Tianci, with a dark face, pounced on Duan Yu's claws, slapped Duan Yu's claws away, and said viciously, "How could you do this to my elder brother!"

Duan Yu was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that it was really inappropriate to say this in the hall, and he let go of his hand embarrassingly, blushing and scratching his head and said: "I'm sorry, I'm so excited...I I have never seen such a beautiful person in my life..."

He raised his hand and gestured at Cang Tiansu: "Really, the slimmest woman I've seen in the northwest, her thighs are as thick as your waist!"

The hall finally burst into laughter, the third prince Cang Tianrui was already begging for his mother to rub his stomach.

The corners of Cang Tiansu's eyes twitched almost imperceptibly.

That night, Emperor Cang Jing held a banquet, and did not invite all his ministers. Instead, he simply played around with his sons, and only set up three or four tables, and the layout was similar to a family banquet.At the banquet, Cang Jinglan naturally sat side by side with Duan De, which shows the depth of his friendship with General Zhenbei.

The defense of men and women in Cang Kingdom is no better than that of Yue Kingdom, which focuses on Confucianism, and it is relatively loose among the four kingdoms of Wuji.Duan Yu didn't have the slightest sense of being unpopular, and happily crowded the table with the princes and princesses.During this period, one pair of eyes did not look at the food, but stared straight at Cang Tiansu, and drool "slurping" while putting the rice in his mouth.

He has a thick head and thick head, thick limbs, big eyes and thick eyebrows, and a healthy wheat-colored complexion, unlike most of the princes and brothers in the palace who have not seen the sun all year round and are sickly white. At first glance, people think "this kid has solid eyes", and then Feel good about it.

Cang Tianci felt like sitting on pins and needles, raised his eyes frequently with a sense of crisis, and stared at Duan Yu fiercely, but the other party was concentrating on admiring the beauty, and he couldn't bear to glance at him from the corner of his eyes.

It was the fifth time that Cang Tiansu put his hand on the purse on his waist calmly.

Since the Liu Guangliang incident, he has asked Yi Hao to find a pack of powerful itching powder, put it in his purse, and pulled the silk thread with the wind to open a hole, which is sure to cause a disaster.

——If God didn't cooperate tonight, and the wind always blows towards a group of delicate princesses, Cang Tian couldn't bear to hurt the innocent, Duan Yu's life would be in danger by now.

Cang Tianci winked left and right for a long time, but still no one paid him any attention. In the end, the corners of his eyes cramped, his whole face ached, and his mouth almost cried out.It’s fine for Duan Yu to ignore himself, even his own elder brother just keeps staring at the porridge in front of him in a daze (in fact, he is looking at the ripples to visually measure the wind direction), he is really wronged now.

Make me anxious, let's see who will serve you Yanyan Cake stupidly in the future...

The second prince of Cang Kingdom picked up a small round cookie with a lot of resentment, and bit it down. Before he had time to chew, he felt a "buzz" in his head, rolled his eyes, and fell straight backwards.

At Haishi, Li Mi was drooling in bed, and vaguely felt the noise outside as if someone was arguing.She turned over and lazily murmured to herself, "Cang Tiansu, why haven't you come back?" She was about to go back to sleep when the door was kicked open.

The third head of the palace guard stood still at the door with a sneer. He had long been annoyed at seeing this woman who often teased him and wanted him to go to the cold palace to search the ground again in vain.

Xiaosi rushed over with tears in her eyes, pulled Li Mi up from the bed, and cried, "It's not good, it's not good, the second prince got a chronic poison, and he had an attack at the banquet—they said Cong Zhao Poisoned bean paste was found in the kitchen of the Sun Palace, and now the emperor calls the whole palace to go..."

This was a fatal mistake made by Cang Tiansu. The sweet-scented osmanthus cake was half done. He inspected the semi-finished and finished products on the table to prove their edibility, but he didn't pay attention to the red bean paste in the pot as a raw material.

Li Mi shuddered, sat up straight suddenly, and the drowsy bug ran away in no time.She stared at Xiaosi's crying face, and after being in a daze for a while, she suddenly smiled: "It seems that the ones who should come still can't escape, what are you afraid of, just go with them."

Li Mi put on his coat in front of a group of elders without much concern, first stood at the head of the bed and stretched his waist, then waved and said, "Let's go, what are you doing?"

After hearing Xiaosi's words just now, for a moment, she was indeed chilled from head to sole.But after that moment, Li Mi suddenly woke up.

As early as when Cang Tiansu and Cang Tianci were on good terms, Li Mi had expected this day to come.She was born lacking in intrigue and conspiracy, but after more than ten years of working in the palace, she still has the most basic intuition in politics.

Cang Tiansu was still too immature, he deduced a reason that "the empress expects the emperor to hate the house and black people", so he chose to let the empress let the first prince of Cangguo and the second prince be friendly.

And Li Mi, from the beginning to the end, knew very well that the empress had watched Cang Tianci run to Zhaori Hall from time to time for several years, not waiting for the emperor to get angry, but waiting for an opportunity to make trouble.

A chance to get rid of the two older brothers who were pressing on her own son in one fell swoop.

Now she's waiting.

Who has the ability to give the second prince chronic poison for several years?Everyone in the palace knew that apart from the East Palace, only people from Zhaori Palace had this ability.Do you think the empress would harm her own child?Of course not, it's clear at a glance who poisoned it.

In order to hold the little prince firmly in her hands, the queen, who thought she would never get pregnant in her lifetime, declared to the outside world that she had always been the second prince but the orthodox son.Since the birth of the third prince, Cang Tianrui, it was precisely this that made him lose his title as the eldest son.

Li Mi was still gloating at his misfortune, but now the situation is reversed, and the mistake that the empress took for granted at the beginning has become the most powerful evidence to rule out the motive of the East Palace.

So what if Emperor Cang Jing knew the truth, after more than ten years of getting along with him, Li Mi knew this man too well, if he still had a bit of humanity, Yan Ji would not have died tragically back then.He will never tell the truth, and stand up for Cang Tiansu's innocence at this critical moment.

After all, Cang Tian never tested the poison before eating osmanthus cake. This matter was specially brought up by the empress, and he was reprimanded several times in public, and many people knew about it.

Now that the ingredients in the small kitchen have been found to be poisonous again, it doesn't matter to everyone whether the pastries were poisonous or not.There are many unjust cases like this in the palace.

Emperor Cang Jing might not be a very face-saving man, but in front of General Zhenbei who hadn't returned to Beijing for ten years, he didn't care about it, and he wouldn't let it go lightly.

And once the emperor chooses to punish severely, in the eyes of the empress, Cang Tiansu's life will be over.And the so-called chronic poison in Cang Tianci's body is definitely not easy to cure.

one stone two bird.When Li Mi was surrounded by a large group of guards to prevent her from slipping away, the corners of her mouth stiffly twitched.

The young couple of the queen and the emperor were promoted to the post at the age of 15, and had been in charge of Fengyin for ten years. Unfortunately, her understanding of her husband was not as good as that of an outsider like herself.

Li Mi believed that Emperor Cang Jing had already prepared a way out for his two sons when the Empress gave the medicine to the sky a few years ago.She doesn't know what the way of retreat given to Cang Tian is, but she is very clear about the way of retreat given to Cang Tiansu.

What should come can't be avoided, it's all life.Li Mi shrank her neck, and after a short shock, she miraculously calmed down, feeling drowsy, and couldn't help yawning moderately.

After a short period of chaos in Panglong Palace, when Li Mi walked in, he had calmed down.She didn't rush to salute, but first stamped her feet, and glanced at Cang Tiansu who was kneeling in the center of the hall.

Although he was kneeling, Young Master Cang's back was straight and his little head was raised slightly, with a clear conscience. It seemed that he didn't feel too much psychological pressure about being framed and poisoned.

In fact, facing the sharp accusations from the East Palace group, Cang Tiansu did not say a word from the beginning to the end. He just knelt straight and waited quietly for the final result.

Li Mi sighed silently.

Cang Tiansu has always been full of unconditional trust in his father, even if the other party is not kind enough to him.In his opinion, even if the emperor doesn't like him any more, he should stick to his principles in this kind of matter and not let the queen turn black and white, so now he is not flustered.

It can be said that the formation of such cognition, Li Mi's transmission and hints from childhood to adulthood, really played a role in fueling the flames.

But—child, if your nanny's bullshit could be believed, how could your mother have died so tragically?

The truth that Li Mi did not tell Cang Tiansu for a long time was that the 16-year-old Cang Jinglan saw the queen's clumsy layout from beginning to end, and then turned a blind eye to the evidence that others had worked so hard to find, and simply waved his hand , watched the guards drag the girl she loved outside the door, beat her to death with sticks, and then turned her head, and put her son under three months into limbo with peace of mind.

Cang Jinglan never cared about right and wrong when he acted. He only chooses to direct things in the direction he is most interested in.

Like last time.

Like this time.

Li Mi knelt down next to Cang Tiansu, stared intently at her delicate and beautiful side face, stretched out her hand, and tightly held Cang Tiansu's cool palm in late autumn.

Cang Tiansu seemed to wake up with a start, and looked away from Cang Jinglan's face, turned to look at the nanny, barely suppressed the uneasiness that had just risen in his heart, and gave her a comforting smile.

Li Mi couldn't help but lowered her head and kissed his pale and stiff face.This child raised by himself may not have had time to see the true face of his father in the past few years of getting along.

But after today, everything will change.

Li Mi caressed his soft hair for the last time.It doesn't matter if he stumbles now, growing up too smoothly is not good for an emperor's son.

"Your Majesty, I have already asked the guards guarding the kitchen. After the eldest prince and the second prince left, no one else went in." After the chief guard saluted, he said the result of his interrogation, "In fact, the original kitchen There are no guards, and today the eldest prince specially ordered someone to guard it."

The imperial physician pulled out the blackened silver needle from the bean paste, twisted it carefully and put it in his mouth, tasted it carefully, and said: "Return to the emperor, the bean paste does contain the frost poison contained in the second prince."

Emperor Cang Jing raised his left index finger and tapped lightly on the armrest of the dragon chair: "The matter is already clear, let's talk, my good son, what's going on?"

When Cang Tiansu heard the words, his face turned pale again.He had told the emperor before that he and Cang Tianci, who was still in a coma, had seen Jing Tian come out of the small kitchen together - as long as Jing Tian was interrogated and the East Palace was searched, it would not be difficult to find out.

However, when the chief guard came back to report, he didn't mention anything about Jing Tian, ​​let alone the East Palace—apparently, the order given to him by Emperor Cang Jing didn't mention the matter of interrogating the number one guard of Zhaori Palace.

He shook his body and managed to calm down.This matter can be big or small, it seems that this couple is going to be on his own head because of their harmony, Emperor Cang Jing probably won't kill him, but in the future, he might be obediently staying in the fiefdom for the rest of his life.

Cang Tiansu opened his mouth, and was about to agree to this matter—it is up to you whether you will take the blame given by the emperor, or if you follow his wishes, you can win a light sentence anyway—unexpectedly, Li Mi was the first He said one step at a time: "Your Majesty, this was done by a servant, and the First Prince didn't know about it."

After speaking, Li Mi stood up, walked to the end of the hall far away from Cang Tiansu, and knelt down again.She was really afraid that Master Cang would jump up and cover her mouth if he got excited.

Sure enough, Cang Tiansu lost all blood on his face, looked at her like a ghost, jumped up from the ground after a moment of surprise, a scream burst out from his throat, and hissed: "No——No!"

Emperor Cang Jing gave Yi Hao a wink, and Yi Hao appeared out of nowhere, with a hand knife stuck on his neck.Cang Tiansu froze, paused for two seconds, and took a hard look at Li Mi who was looking at him with a smile.

Li Mi shook his head slightly at him.

Cang Tiansu's tears welled up all at once.Yi Hao made up again, he finally couldn't hold on anymore, his legs gave way, and he fell into Yi Hao's arms.

"The sweet-scented osmanthus cake was taught to the first prince by the maidservant, and the idea of ​​making the osmanthus cake for the second prince was also given by the maidservant. The ingredients were all prepared by the maidservant." Li Mi sighed that her suspicion was really obvious, and continued to talk nonsense. "Since the imperial doctor said that the second prince's poison was started four years ago, at that time the eldest prince was only an eight-year-old doll, and he hadn't been in the study for a few days, and he couldn't read a few big characters, what could he understand?"

She looked up at the man with a smile on her head, who was also looking down at her.

As the two looked at each other, more than twenty years passed by leisurely.

Li Mi took a deep breath, and finally came to this step.