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Li... But at this moment, under Chongyuan's eyes that seemed to be on fire, he couldn't say a word, he could only utter one sentence: "I...don't dare."

Chong Yuan was silent for a long time, motionless.

For a moment, there was an untimely silence in the room.

After a long time, Chong Yuan seemed to finally be unable to bear it any longer, showing a bit of unusual doubt, and asked, "Don't dare?"

He Houhan opened his mouth, as if suddenly lost his voice.

Chongyuan didn't give him time to pause, and asked closely, "Why don't you dare?"

He Houhan was forced into a panic, his mind was confused, and he stumbled out a sentence: "I dare not... dare not... dare not get close... to the emperor!"

After these words, the fire in Chong Yuan's eyes suddenly went out, as if he woke up suddenly, and it was as if someone had poured a basin of cold water on his head, which instantly cooled his heart.

He suddenly remembered many years ago...not a good memory...at that time he was less than three years old, he hadn't been named a child prodigy at that time, Prince Yu was still called Prince Zhou, at that time he was still Just an ignorant little prince...

13 years ago.

Yanxiang Palace.

The little prince in brocade clothes and jade robes pushed open the chestnut porridge on the table, frowned, and said in a childish voice: "It's too sweet!"

The palace maid who was waiting at the side hurriedly brought it down, and said in a low voice: "Change quickly." The maid moved her mouth again, and just about to say something, she heard someone at the door saying: "Second brother wants to eat, just eat it." Order to go down."

The little prince raised his head. The person who came was dressed in yellow and wore a jade crown. He was very handsome. The little prince hesitated and said: "But the father said that you should not be picky eaters."

Hearing this, the man laughed for a while and said, "You are such a young child, how can you have so many rules?"

The little prince snorted and said, "I want to eat fish porridge."

After a while, a bowl of steaming fish porridge was served from the kitchen below.

The little prince was overjoyed, quickly took a sip with the spoon, and did not forget to say: "Brother is so kind!"

The man smiled without saying a word, and sat on the side.

Up to this point, Chong Yuan's memories are very pleasant, a dedicated palace man, doting on his elder brother, and respecting his father.

However, that night, the little prince suddenly suffered from abdominal pain like a knife, and then vomited continuously. He felt so uncomfortable that he wanted to cry, but he didn't have the energy.

Although the little prince was young, the cautious and calm nature of his nature had begun to show at this time. After a while, he discovered something strange. He didn't make any noise, but crawled out of bed enduring the pain, staggering and holding onto the bed. Walking towards the side door, his little white and tender cheeks were already livid, and his round eyes were terribly distorted by pain. The moonlight shone through the window on his face, making him look like an evil spirit in the middle of the night.

The little prince pushed the side door open a crack, and after a slight squeak, the hall of Yanxiang became very quiet.

He touched the outside of the hall, and walked along the trail for an unknown distance.At this time, he was a little delirious, and when he finally saw the figure of a patrolling guard in front of him, he let out the strength he had been holding on and fell to the ground.

The movement naturally alarmed the guards, and they hurriedly gathered around, seeing that the little figure lying on the ground was actually the most beloved and valued little prince by the Holy Majesty today, they immediately turned pale with fright, some went to report to the emperor, some passed on For the imperial doctor, the lanterns and candles soon turned the quiet palace into chaos in the middle of the night.

When the little prince woke up, he didn't even have the strength to move his fingers. His father was sitting by the bed and looked at him worriedly. When he moved his eyes, he saw his elder brother Chongzhou standing behind his father. .

The emperor asked: "My son, do you know why I have such an emergency?"

The little prince closed his eyes and shook his head slowly.

The emperor was silent for a while, and said: "Chuan Yuan'er's court lady and eunuch." At this moment, the emperor glanced at Chongzhou who was standing aside, and said lightly: "You are eighteen years old this year, ten years older than Yuan'er. , you have to take care of him more."

Chongzhou didn't know if he was a little annoyed at being called up in the middle of the night, or because he was worried about his imperial brother, his face looked a little irritable.But at this time, he still replied calmly: "My son, I would like to follow the teachings of my father."

After a while, several court ladies and eunuchs beside the little prince were ushered in. Their faces were ashen, and they knelt on the ground as soon as they entered, begging for mercy.

The emperor said coldly: "You guys are all served by Yuan'er, but where are you tonight?"

The maid at the head kowtowed like garlic, her voice was full of fear, but her words were coherent and logical, she said: "I was lazy and went to the side hall to take a nap... I don't think the second prince just got a sudden illness... Numaid Knowing that you are guilty of a heinous crime, it is hard to blame, slave... slave is willing to apologise with death...!" With tears all over her face, she stood up abruptly and slammed her head against the bedpost.

The little prince was fighting back his headache and nausea, when he felt the bed shaking, he turned his head to look hard, and saw the palace lady just crashed to death at his feet, her face was covered in blood, her eyes were tightly closed and she was squeezed together. The face showed an indescribable despair and fear.

Perhaps it was from that moment that Chongyuan felt the existence of life for the first time, but he didn't quite understand it at that time, and he just looked at the maid with good eyes.The woman took care of him since he was a child, and he knew her very well. He even remembered her younger sister, who was a shy girl.

But now that she died in front of him like this, she left all of this forever at that moment, left the palace, left her sister, left this world... and could never come back.

When Chong Yuan was three years old, he was still unable to fully understand the cause and effect of all these events, and could not fully see through the turbulent undercurrents of the invisible people underneath, but he had already shown an extraordinary talent at that time—a keen observation ability, which Let him choose silence.

The death of a court lady in the huge palace is a trivial matter, but it is even more trivial in the face of the second prince's critical illness.Several eunuchs silently dragged the maid's body out and no one paid any attention to it. The emperor continued to investigate one by one, from the imperial physician to every palace worker in Yanxiang Palace, to the imperial dining room, every detail was not overlooked.

The matter finally came to nothing.The little prince was a picky eater and didn't like the chestnut porridge sent over, so he insisted on changing it to fish porridge. It happened that the imperial dining room was cooking the fish that Ubero offered as a tribute. Herbs.Combining Qifang grass with two things can make poison, one is autumn radish, and the other is sweet money leaves, these two things are not ingredients for chestnut porridge, but because the little prince caught a little cold a few days ago, after that, every day All the maids around me mixed the minced autumn radish sent by the Imperial Hospital into the afternoon dessert to nourish the stomach.

Qiuluo from Taiyuan Hospital, Qifangcao from Imperial Dining Room, and Yuboluo’s fish porridge, these things seem to be far apart, but they came together by chance and coincidence.After checking and checking, it turns out that no one can rely on this matter.

The imperial dining room didn’t know what condiments the little prince Fenghan added to the porridge, and the maids around him didn’t know the cause and effect, let alone any dietary taboos, and the hospital was even more innocent. How could they know what the palace eats every day? What to eat.

After all, in the end, it was Chong Yuan who was picky about his food, and then the matter was over. The little prince was saved in time, and another maid in the palace died, which was an excuse.

It's just that it seems to be the case, the emperor naturally knows it in his heart, and the little prince also has some understanding in his heart.

Not long after that, another big event happened.

The eldest son of the emperor, Chongzhou, was dispatched to the far southwest by an imperial edict, and he was not allowed to set foot in the capital ever since.There were rumors in the palace that this was related to the incident of the little prince being poisoned a while ago, but after a few days, the person who spread the rumors disappeared from the palace, and then, the incident was concealed in the silence of the palace people.

Since then, Chong Yuan began to practice the imperial martial arts cheats, and his mind seemed to be enlightened overnight; one year later, his name as a child prodigy began to spread widely; four years later, he sat on the throne .

However, for the three-year-old Chong Yuan, the thing that touched him the most was not the sinister heart, not the betrayal, not the conspiracy, nor the fluke of getting away from hell, but the palace lady who hit her head to death.

Chongyuan didn't understand why she committed suicide.

She didn't even do anything, she just took a nap... and it cost her life.

He had been thinking about it for a long time, and it took him a long time to realize that what caused the maid to slam her head against the bedpost, and what made her choose to die in fear, may be, in fact, the ubiquitous, invisible and colorless right. The supreme imperial power.

Its life and death, its omnipotence makes her afraid, she is afraid of the second prince lying on the bed whose life and death are unknown, she is afraid of the emperor, maybe she is also afraid of the first prince...they are all representatives of it.

Chong Yuan looked at He Houhan, his eyes showed a kind of memory, but all memories always left sentimental in his eyes, which made him look less angry and oppressed... showing a little tiredness.

He calculated so much, used so many methods...but he got such a result.

When he was so young, he knew that having power would make people fearful and surrender... But until now, he suddenly realized that it would also make people... afraid to love.

Chong Yuan said slowly: "Father told me long ago that the most important thing for an emperor is to be reluctant. But I tried in vain..."

He sighed lowly, didn't want to say anything, and felt disheartened for a while.

He Houhan didn't dare to speak, and knelt motionless.

After a long while, Chong Yuan let go of his hand, stood up, and said, "You should rest." As soon as the words fell, the person had already fallen out of the window, as if it was just a gust of wind and grass, and he was gone all at once.