The Royal Merchant of the Red Chamber

The Qiankun Palace, which cost several million taels of silver to build, is still as luxurious and beautiful as before.In the hot weather of July, the scorching sun in the afternoon reflected the excess light on this colorful ancient building, and the bright yellow glazed tiles reflected a multicolored halo.Against the backdrop of this palace more and more resplendent.

However, gold and jade are piled up, and the fat is added to the excess, and the majesty and solemnity that the superior should have is gradually lost.Therefore, although this Qiankun Palace is exquisite and extravagant, it is comfortable everywhere, and it is full of singing and dancing at night, and the lights are bright.In the end, it also lost the thick and heavy of Qianqing Palace, and gradually showed a hint of exaggeration.

Tu Zhen is dressed in an exquisite and complicated dragon robe, with twelve crowns hanging down from his head.Under the refraction of the sun, colorful halos emanated, blurring his increasingly refined and majestic face.

This is the first time he entered Qiankun Palace wearing a dragon robe.

Walking on the bright floor tiles with hands behind their backs, the diadem in front of him swayed slightly with the movement of the figure, and there was a slight crackling sound when the beads collided.

The aged father was sitting on the dragon chair in front of the main hall, looking at the young emperor walking slowly, his expression was in a daze.

Walking ten steps away from the emperor, Li Deyu quietly stepped forward to stop Tu Zhen, who was walking silently, and said softly, "It's time for the old saint to be greeted by the sage."

Tu Zhen was silent, his calm and gentle gaze fixed on Li Deyu's face through the gently shaking crown.Li Deyu blinked, and took a half step back obediently, trying to get rid of the burning feeling on his face.The lowered head was fixed on the ground, and Tu Zhen's calm but solemn gaze could still be seen in a trance.

Tu Zhen just paused for a few breaths, then continued to move forward.The thin figure used to look so weak and frail, but when he came here wearing a dragon robe today, everyone suddenly realized that not long ago, this young and simple prince had grown into a qualified emperor.His methods even deceived the old emperor who lingered and had fun all day long but never forgot to monopolize power.

He used four years of time, four years of forbearance, four years of calmness, and four years of showing his weakness to paralyze the old saint who has been wise for a long time.So the situation changed overnight, and the country changed hands.Those who retreat will eventually disappear in front of people.And those in the upper ranks finally got rid of all constraints, and began to plan their own new chapter with great ambition.

The emperor sighed slightly, looked at Tu Zhen who stopped three steps away from him, and sighed inexplicably: "Zhen'er has grown up."

Tu Zhen hooked the corners of his mouth unobservably, and the regal temperament around him disappeared in an instant, leaving only a young man who admired his elders and said to his elderly father: "Zhen'er knows that the father loves Zhen'er, so he always loves Zhen'er." It's because I don't want Zhen'er to grow up. However, as time goes by, Zhen'er will eventually grow up."

When the emperor heard the words, he sighed in displeasure, and repeated Tu Zhen's words: "Yes, there have been no young people in the Tian family since ancient times. In this position, after all, they have to grow up-it is better to have the opportunity to grow up than Never grow up well."

Tu Zhen looked at the emperor who was sitting upright on his head without realizing it.Although he tried his best to conceal the exhaustion and burnout between his brows, the slightly gray temples exposed outside the coronet still exposed the one thing the old sage was most unwilling to admit.

So Tu Zhen tilted his head, and sighed with an inexplicable pity and even a little pity voice: "Zhen'er has grown up, but father is old."

A faint sentence, with a soft voice and a pure timbre, but it was like the cold wind blowing in the severe winter of March [-], freezing the emperor who was pretending to be graceful.

So for the first time, the emperor put aside the cloak of kindness and generosity, looked at Tu Zhen with indifferent eyes, and insisted inexplicably: "Father will never grow old, father will never grow old."

"Everyone is going to get old." Tu Zhen chuckled disapprovingly: "Father has been old for a long time, but no one around you dared to tell the truth. That's why Father deceived himself into thinking that Father would never will grow old."

After a pause, Tu Zhen waved his hand casually.The emperor was horrified to see the maids and eunuchs in front of the Qiankun Palace exiting the hall like flowing water. Even the most trusted Li Deyu hesitated for a moment, sighed slightly, and retreated stooped.In an instant, only herself and Tu Zhen were left in the huge Qiankun Palace.

Seeing the emperor with a terrified expression, Tu Zhen smiled lightly and said, "Although I can't bear it, I have to tell my father that since the day you firmly believed that the prince's brother would really raise troops to force the palace, you You are really old. It is the power that confuses your eyes and your mind, and it is the high dragon chair that makes you old, and you still have a conscience in your heart."

The emperor's indifferent and profound face finally changed color. He looked at Tu Zhen in surprise and asked, "What are you talking about?"

"The elder brother of the prince is wise, wise, kind, filial and benevolent. Although he was bewitched by the villain and once hurt Zhen'er, he is the only person whom the father personally taught and even stayed by his side to cherish and love him. He admires and loves the father so much, Do you really think that he would do something to hurt you just because of that cold chair?" Tu Zhen smiled lightly, and sat down on the armrest next to the Emperor Dragon Chair.Playing with the carved dragon heads on both sides of the armrest with one hand, and embracing the emperor's slightly hunched shoulders with the other, he spoke.

"You—" The emperor only felt a wave of anger welling up in his heart.He recalled ten years ago when Tu Ying was a young man dressed in a bright yellow prince's crown, holding a sharp sword, blood all over his body, shouting at himself in despair, asking why he refused to believe him, why would he do it for that cold broken weapon? The chair doubts him abandoning his scene.I just felt a heart-piercing pain flooding my whole body like a tide.

That was the only son he recognized. Unlike other princes, this son who lost his mother was brought up by him since he was a baby. He taught him how to write, how to read, and how to become a qualified emperor.He ate at the same table with him, slept in the same bed, even bathed him with his own hands and changed his diaper.He gave him the love and affection that a father and an emperor could give him without reservation.But these were not enough. The son he loved and cared for so much finally grew up little by little.Wise and wise, Yushu faces the wind.His benevolence and generosity were praised by the ruling and opposition parties.

He became a qualified crown prince.But when a person grows up, it is inevitable that his thoughts will increase.

Looking at his increasingly mature and stable son, the emperor finally became faintly panicked.He began to worry, afraid that this son would not be willing to wait for his death, and that he could not wait to force the palace to take the throne before he was fully fledged.He failed his trust and love, but he was reluctant to let him die, and was finally imprisoned in the Zhongyi Palace's son under Tu Zhen's begging for mercy.

In the process of remembering, his fists were tightly clenched, and the neatly built crescent-shaped nails sank into his palms, piercing the skin, and traces of bright red blood snaked down the gap between his fingers.The emperor didn't feel the pain at all, he asked a little blankly: "Could it be, you want to tell me that you arranged all of this."

It's just that although it was a question, his tone was full of calm and affirmation, and even vaguely revealed a trace of annoyance.

Tu Zhen took the time to deepen the curvature of his lips, looked a little embarrassed, and said with some pride: "That was the first time I played with these tricks, I didn't expect to succeed so easily, I also find it very puzzling."

After thinking for a while, Tu Zhen added kindly: "Thanks to the father's suspicion and his obsession with the broken chair, Zhen'er succeeded in framing the elder brother of the prince. Now Zhen'er can reach this level." The seat, the Royal Father has contributed a lot."

At the end of the speech, Tu Zhen very lightly explained how he used the spies of the blood drops to confuse the prince who was on a business far away in the south of the Yangtze River, and convinced him that the second prince with great military achievements was not satisfied with fighting desperately but only had the seat of a prince. However, if Tang Taizong Li Shimin wanted to launch a coup d'etat, the father and emperor were now at stake.And how to instigate the holy majesty to make him believe that the prince wants to force the palace, so he secretly mobilized all the hidden guards to protect the harem.But what the emperor didn't know was that the commander of the hidden guards he appointed happened to be an informant bought by Tu Zhen's blood drops with a lot of money, so the following things were logical.

The prince who was on a business trip far away in the south of the Yangtze River was worried about his father's safety, so naturally he hurried back to Beijing with a group of soldiers secretly.He wanted to enter the palace to meet his father, but was stopped by a group of guards with strange faces.After some misleading words and tongues, Prince Tuying took it for granted that the second prince's forces controlled the palace and his father.There was also Tu Zhen secretly instigated and instigated, the prince had no choice but to take the risk and took on the imperial guard named Jinwei who was actually Jinyiwei...

The following things don't need Tu Zhen to talk too much, the emperor knows all about it.When the blood-covered prince entered the palace with a sharp sword in hand, Longyan's furious father took away the prince's position in the name of forcing the palace to rebel, and locked him in Beijing.The second prince, who was also shot while lying down, also suffered from the emperor's suspicion because of the prince's "sophistry", so he had to make a vow not to return to Beijing forever without an edict, which can be regarded as withdrawing from the battle for the succession in disguise.

In an instant, the proud emperor lost his two best sons.Sad and dejected, the long-sleeved and good dancer who is good at winning people's hearts began to try again to seize the crown prince's position. Naturally, he was rejected by the heartbroken emperor.At the same time, Tu Zhen, who had been victimized many times but was still benevolent and filial, easily walked into the sight of the suffering emperor...

Knowing that all the tragedies that happened that year were directed by his shy son with a warm smile in front of him, the emperor's calm mood for a long time finally couldn't help but fluctuate.He stood up tremblingly, grabbed Tu Zhen's skirt, and scolded fiercely: "You vicious villain, they are all your brothers. You actually—"

Tu Zhen waved his hand gently, and carefully pulled down the emperor's arm that was holding onto his lapel, and then said softly: "Although they are my brothers, one of them did not hesitate to harm me in order to consolidate his position, and the other Knowing all the facts but doing nothing, he just stood on the sidelines and even made trouble. And the emperor, in order to keep the reputation and status of the prince brother, ordered me to bear the humiliation again and again, and did not care about it. In the end, in order to clean up the mess for the prince brother, he did not hesitate to seduce the old twelve ( Prince Zhongshun) made an attack on me, causing our own brothers to kill each other, and at the same time made the old twelve a scapegoat for the prince's elder brother...Human nature is so, why should I have too much pity?"

Seeing the grief-stricken look of the emperor, Tu Zhen smiled lightly and said: "The winner is the king and the loser, today I succeed in planning so that I can control the world. If I lose in the future, it will be a piece of loess and I will lose my life. It's just I have suffered so much for my prince brother, I am afraid that until the day he dies, he will not be able to bear his father abandoning him for the throne, so that he is in such a situation. In fact, the father is a fan of the authorities. Although the prince brother was the prince, he was under one person. But in his heart, that broken chair may not be as important as his father." "You—" the emperor felt dizzy with mixed feelings at the moment, he got up and pushed aside the figure in front of Tu Zhen, shaking Shakingly walked outside.He murmured, "I want to see Yinger..."

"Father, do you think the prince's elder brother would want to see you?" Tu Zhen raised his eyebrows amusedly, took out the purse from his waist, played it carelessly in his hands, and brought it to his nose to sniff lightly.He asked slowly: "Does the emperor like the smell of this sachet? This is the spice added by the prince's brother himself."

Hearing this, the emperor stared in disbelief at the beautiful purse in Tu Zhen's hand.He also looked at Tu Zhen's calm, graceful and comfortable appearance.I just felt that my eyes suddenly darkened, and a sense of sadness emerged spontaneously from the bottom of my heart.

"Father, do you feel dizzy, dry mouth, numb limbs, and fainted?"

The emperor shook his head, only feeling in a daze.The scene in front of him became more and more blurred, and even Tu Zhen's voice became more and more distant.He stood unsteadily on the ground for a while, and finally fell to the ground unable to support himself, and closed his eyes gently.It's like falling asleep.

"The spice in this sachet is called soul rosemary. It tastes like sandalwood, and it clears the brain and strengthens the soul like Zen enlightenment. It matches with the strange fragrance of ambergris, which can confuse people's minds and forget the mundane world. The soul does not know where to go... ..."

In the past few years, the love medicine that Yun'er used for the emperor was mixed with dragon saliva powder.Tu Zhen used several years of subtle influence to make everyone believe in his pious belief in worshiping Buddha.For that day to come.In the final analysis, Tu Zhen never believed in illusory gods and Buddhas.From beginning to end, Tu Zhen only believes in himself.

Tu Zhen sighed softly, went down and put the emperor's shoulders on himself, lifted him up and put him in the inner room behind.He took off his coat and covered him with a thin quilt, then straightened up, and said in a distasteful way: "Since ancient times, the Tian family has no family, flesh and blood, father and son quarreling, is this the fate?"

A clear voice suddenly came from behind, and said disdainfully: "The cat cries and the mouse pretends to be merciful. If you really don't want to part with it, why ask Shi'er to develop rosemary for you?"

Tu Zhen turned his head and saw a handsome gentleman standing behind his hands behind his hands. His skin was as white as suet jade, and his complexion was as high as ten thousand years of ice.There is an air of nobility and elegance all over her body, and there is a romantic loveliness that cannot be concealed in her gestures.At this moment, he was looking at the emperor who was sleeping on the bed with a mocking face, his eyes were dark and unpredictable.

Tu Zhen sighed, and asked empathetically: "Let me remind you. Although Mr. Shi made this spice himself, but the elder brother put it in the sachet with his own hands. We are both in the same boat, so don't tell anyone else. Who is it. Now...do you want me to go out first and give you some time to whisper? "

The man said with a cold expression: "I haven't seen it for so many years, so what else can I say. What's more, he is unconscious now, and he can't hear what I say."

Tu Zhen hooked the corners of his mouth indifferently, and said, "It's good to tell me something to relieve the depression in my heart."

A flash of light flashed in the man's eyes, he was silent for a long time, and finally sighed: "No matter how hard I begged, he refused to listen to my explanation. Now... there is no need."

Tu Zhen stared at him intently for a while, then said softly: "I was the one who sowed discord back then, so it is reasonable for him not to believe your words."

The man gave Tu Zhen a strange look, and snorted softly, "Are you trying to curry favor with me by doing this?"

Tu Zhen looked at the man calmly and asked, "Do you need it?"

The man snorted coldly, and said: "I will tell Shi'er when I have time, and ask him to return you the antidote to the heart-confusing gu. How can I be controlled by others?"

Tu Zhen shook his head gently when he heard the words, and said, "No need."

As he spoke, he took out a white jade bottle from his bosom and handed it to Tu Ying, and said with a half-smile: "This is the deception he planted on me back then. Now, I return to Zhao completely."

Tu Ying's eyes were fixed, and he looked at the white jade bottle in Tu Zhen's hand with an inexplicable expression.The warm sunlight poured on the body of the bottle, showing the bottle's radiance and cleanliness even more.

Tu Zhen hooked the corners of his mouth slightly, and said, "After being the emperor for three years, the only thing I have learned is that I will never be controlled by others."

Tu Ying sneered, stretched out his hand to take the white jade bottle, and said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for three years, but this king underestimated you."

Tu Zhen stood with his hands behind his back, but smiled and said nothing.No one knew what kind of ordeal he had endured for so many years in order to get this bad thing out of his body.He had to avoid blood drops, and he had to avoid moving too much and awakening the Gu worms in his body. After killing countless people with all his power, he finally found a way to dissect the heart-wrenching Gu.Today, he can finally calm down.

Tu Ying looked at Tu Zhen for a while with a gloomy expression, and finally, he had to sigh in admiration: "No wonder I will be defeated by your hands. In terms of cruel and ruthless methods, I am indeed not as good as you."

After all, what Tuying can do is to be cruel to others.As for Tu Zhen, he doesn't care about human life at all, while being ruthless to others, he is even more ruthless to himself.

Seeing Tu Ying's moved face, Tu Zhen couldn't hide the corners of his mouth smugly, then cast a hesitant glance at the emperor, and said, "Looking at what my father did just now, I might really regret it. After all, you have been with the emperor since childhood. Growing up beside my father, I think love is different from those of us after all.

The man sneered and said with a sneer: "I calmed down and thought about that trick for a long time before I realized it. He has been confused for so many years... Do you really think he has no doubts at all?"

Tu Zhen's expression moved slightly.

Hearing this, Tu Ying looked at Tu Zhen with a sneer on his face, and said with a haggard face: "If it comes to talking about it, at least I know him better than you. I'm afraid he knew I was innocent from the beginning to the end. Afraid. He is afraid that one day, my prestige will surpass him. That's why he let your provocative tricks pretend to be ignorant. That's why I can live unscrupulously under confinement, and even contact some veterans who are loyal to me overtly and secretly. I do things. This can be regarded as a little compensation for making me look bad."

But they didn't know that it was precisely because of this difference in thinking that the unwilling prince finally turned his back on the water.The emperor took all precautions, but was finally defeated by the prince.I don't know how he feels now?

As the man said, he leaned down slightly and approached the emperor's ear and asked, "Father, if I were the emperor today, at least you wouldn't be reduced to the situation where you can't speak or move. In such a situation, Have you ever regretted it?"

The emperor lay on the Babu bed calmly, without any reaction.

A drop of crystal clear water flowed from the man's slender and clear phoenix eyes.