Brother Donggong

I quickly hid to the side.

I know, this is the rule.

My mother's status is there, her blood is not noble enough, she is not a queen, not my father's wife, so even though I clearly crawled out of my mother's belly, my mother in name is still not her , but the queen who wanted to strangle me to death.

How ridiculous!

It's as ridiculous as the prince saying he likes me!

However, rules are rules, and favors are favors.

I have never felt that I was born by a queen, and my mother is my mother, even if it is not written in the patriarchal jade plate, or in the history books of descendants (without her name, when writing my life, maybe only Write the last sentence—the biological mother is unknown), she is also my mother.

I grabbed my mother's sleeve, walked up to my father and asked, "Dad, what's the matter?"

My father knocked on the desk next to him with a long ivory pipe, and said softly, "From now on, you are not allowed to call me father, you must call me Emperor Father."

Hearing these words, I couldn't help but took two steps back. Suddenly, there was an illusion that Mount Tai was collapsing, and a big stone flew from the eighteen plates and smashed my father into a daze.

Me, "Dad...?"

My dad looked at me, and I suddenly felt a little sad.Maybe it's an illness, maybe it's an injury, my father is getting older, even his temples are turning gray.Although his complexion was not that bad, it was definitely not good either. He was too pale, like those treacherous ministers on the stage who had their faces covered in powder.

He looked at me, sighed suddenly, pointed to the chessboard next to the recliner with the cigarette stick, and said, "Sit here and play a game of chess with me. Li Fang, let the prince come in too, don't stand outside .It is the twelfth lunar month of winter, and I have been standing in the yard for a long time, so be careful of the wind and cold."

Only then did I see that Li Fang was making tea beside her.

It was only then that I found out that the prince had been standing outside the Shouchun Palace.

I said, "It's still dad..."

My father took a look at me, and I quickly changed my words, "Father is still very good at seeing and hearing. I just came from the East Palace, and I didn't know that the crown prince is here too. How did you know that Father didn't look outside?"

My father gave me a sideways look and scoffed, "Aside from eating, what else do you know?"

I hastily opened the small basket containing the chess pieces, handed the black pieces to my father, and then doggy said, "Of course I know how to play chess with my father."

"Huh. Your two moves are also called playing chess?" My father didn't think so, "When you were young, you hired a master of the black national hand solution to teach you hand talk, but you are fine. I ran to the imperial dining room to steal food again and again. I didn’t learn one move in chess, but I created a new chess method of "five pieces in a row". No matter whether it is horizontal or vertical, as long as there are five chess pieces in a row If you form a straight line, you win the game.”

I said, "Father, I must be smart."

My father despises me, "Huh! Smart? Wen Zhan learned your chess record within a day after it was created. You won sixteen games in a row, and you were so angry that you ruined a good chessboard. It was a relic of Prince He Su. Very precious."

I said, "Isn't it just a chessboard, you can't eat or drink, smash it..."

I just said it casually, and then I remembered that my father and his old man said just now, "... Hey, you look like your son, and you can't see anything good except eating.Even if a priceless treasure is placed in front of him, it is not as good as a roast chicken and two meat buns...', suddenly felt that in this world, there is no better friend than a father.

But suddenly I felt a kind of fear of my father's insight.

I was afraid that he would suddenly ask me—"You came so late, what did you do in the East Palace?"

How can I answer this?

I have a headache.

While I was having a headache, I caught the white pieces and followed my father to play the game.

Although it is said that I made this "five sons in a row", my stinky chess basket has not changed into a bright chess basket because of it, it is still very stinky.My dad is dismissive of learning this 'five sons lianju', but he is still better than me, and I need to concentrate on playing seven or eight rounds under his hands.

The prince seemed to come in, but he didn't speak, and my mother greeted him with a new etiquette that I don't know where.

His status is more valuable, he can even ignore my mother, because he is the crown prince, and my mother is just my father's concubine, so the status is naturally very different.If the prince is happy, he even has the right to order my mother to be buried immediately after my father returns to the sea.

Maybe the prince was also a bit of a monk by my mother's new rules, I heard him return the gift in a low voice, Li Fang was holding tea, and he sat aside.

I just lost my mind for a while, and my father blocked the chess path. His finger pointed at the chessboard. I saw this chess game. There are already three lines in the front, back, left, and right to form five pieces. It's a mess.

I scratched my hair and said with a crying face, "Father, if you have anything to send your son to, just tell me. You clearly know that your son can't play chess, but you still hold him to play chess with you. I haven't eaten yet, and I'm hungry. It's on."

My dad just said, "Then bear with it."

My face was covered immediately.

Twisted is more bitter than bitter melon.

At this time, my mother came over with a bowl of ginseng soup carefully, and I quickly stood up to bring it to her, but my father said again, "Come here, take a closer look, from which step did you lose? "

I lost all the chess, anyway, I can't beat him in this life, so what's the point of calculating how many moves I've reached and there's no room for change?

However, my old man was very stubborn. He glanced at me again and asked me, "What step?"

I lowered my head, looked at the chessboard carefully, and carefully recalled every move we made. My mother brought the ginseng soup and put it aside. After I counted the chess pieces carefully, I It's still not clear where I started to make a bad move, and I lost everything.

My dad pointed his finger on the board, "Here, the seventh move. Hey..."

I know I let him down, so I feel a little down.

I racked my brains thinking, what should I say to make him not so disappointed.

Actually, I'm not as smart as Wen Zhan, I don't like reading very much, and I really want to be a idle prince who travels around mountains and rivers. I'm a very good person, but my father obviously doesn't think his son is a simple good person , is something that can be worth satisfying.

But when my father said casually, "You entered the palace last night, why didn't you come here until now? It's getting dark outside, what are you doing in the East Palace for such a whole day?"

I felt like a sledgehammer smashed my Tianling Cap!

My heart tightened, and my eyes became dazed.

He didn't hold the chess basket in his hand, and the white agate chess piece fell to the ground with a crackling sound.

I stammered, "Eastern Palace... I'm in the Eastern Palace..."

——I can say that because of Laba, I drank too much. I was afraid that my father would blame me, so I slept in the East Palace all night...

Others can refute: Since you drank too much, why don't you go back to your Yuxi Palace?

——I can also say that I haven't seen the prince for many days and want to chat with him.

Others can retort: ​​What is it, more important than the emperor's summoning?One is the crown prince and the other is the king of Qin. The two of you openly resist the order. Are you plotting something?

—I might even say, . . .

I feel so guilty that I have nothing to say.

A thought suddenly popped up in my mind,... If, if I tell my father everything, can everything be over?

I opened my mouth, "Father, I..."