The daily routine of the ancient imperial examination

With a plan in mind, the eldest prince no longer hesitated to act, and began to dispatch troops.

After being a prince for so many years, who doesn't have a private soldier behind his back?What's more, his mother left him a lot of people.

The other party thoroughly counted the number of people under their hands, and calculated that there was about half the chance of success.

If this is the case, the news must be kept secret, so that the people on the side of the second prince cannot detect it, otherwise it will be hard to say whether the victory or defeat will come if they come and intervene.

The time, place and people are harmonious, and if others can draw with the opponent, the geographical advantage is not considered an advantage. You can only choose a good time, and then come by surprise, and this kind of opportunity only happens once a year.

That is the annual Shangyuan Lantern Festival.

There is a curfew in the capital at night, and there are guards patrolling it every day. On the Lantern Festival, not only all officials will have a three-day vacation, but the night curfew will also be cancelled, and the lantern festival will be carnival all night.

Except that on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, the old emperor and the empress went out of the city to have fun with the people and set off lanterns. If they really want to force the palace, the sixteenth day of the first lunar month is the most suitable day.

After the plan is made, the next step is to arrange the manpower, sneak into the palace secretly, without fanfare, then the old chief assistant and the others can't go with him, and the rest of the people will control the Qianqing Palace with him first, and force the old emperor to write down the imperial edict.

New year and new weather, even though the eldest prince secretly plans to change the age, the atmosphere of the people in the capital is still not affected in the slightest.

The Shangyuan Lantern Festival is approaching, and the artisans in the capital are making full use of their expertise to make various colorful lanterns to welcome the festival.

Lu Xiuyuan and the others didn't know the eldest prince's plan this time. On the Lantern Festival, they went out with Yun Chen at this time to have a carnival all night.

In the first year of the Lantern Festival, the two officially met because of falling into the water, but I didn't feel too special about their relationship at the time, I just felt purely responsible.

Later, the relationship gradually deepened, but in the second year of the Lantern Festival, he had to prepare for the upcoming exam, and the two of them didn't have time to hang out together.

Although Shi Yunchen has time to go out to play, but Lu Xiuyuan is not there, what's the point of playing alone?

So in the third year of this year, they are finally free, and their family business is stable, so they can relax and play during the festival.

The two walked hand in hand on the streets of the capital, and were dazzled by the overwhelming array of lanterns in front of them. In addition to the colorful lanterns hung by vendors on both sides of the road, there were also giant koi and giant fortune pigs in the open space.

Lu Xiuyuan took the bunny lantern he made by himself in the other party's hand and looked at it: "Compared with the lanterns outside, it seems a bit inconspicuous..."

Shi Yunchen gave him a sideways glance, and grabbed the rabbit lamp back.

"Who was so confident before making it, why is it timid now?"

"Damn!" Lu Xiuyuan touched his head unnaturally, "Let's not talk about this, let's go for a stroll."

In addition to all kinds of lanterns, there are also open-air opera performances, acrobatics, and magic performances on the Lantern Festival. There are so many tricks that make people dazzled.

They stopped in front of the stage where the magic was performed, and the disappearance of living people was being demonstrated on it. A large iron cage entered a strong adult man, and he put a black cloak on top of the cage to block everyone's sight.

Then the performer began to stab the iron cage with his sword. Amidst the sound of gasping for air from the onlookers, he stabbed six swords in a row before stopping. The children beside him closed their eyes tightly and dared not look any more.

In the end, under the eyes of everyone, the performer lifted the big black cloth, and there was no one in the iron cage.

There was an uproar in the audience!

The performers bowed and saluted, everyone clapped and applauded, and the money was thrown away. The scene was so lively that even Shi Yunchen had a smile on his lips, and directly threw a tael of silver as a reward.

There were fireworks in the distance, and the two held hands and walked to the next place. Lu Xiuyuan saw that the other party seemed to like this kind of performance, so he simply took out a copper coin from his body.

"Achen, I'll do a trick for you too."

Um?After hearing this, Yun Chen looked at him in surprise: "Erlang, you can do this too?"

"What's so hard about this?"

He pinched the copper coin with his right thumb and index finger and shook it reluctantly: "Look carefully, this copper coin..."

After speaking, turn your right hand up and down, shake your left hand, and spread your palm again.

"Well, the copper coins are gone."

Shi Yunchen looked at it strangely, and after checking his hands and found that there were no copper coins, he said, "You must have lost it just now while I wasn't paying attention."

Lu Xiuyuan smiled when he heard the words: "Then, Achen, you have to be optimistic about it."

He stretched out his hands again, with his left hand in front, and his right hand swung around behind his left hand. When he stopped again, the copper coin from before lay on his palm again.

"Aren't you coming back after this?"

"Hey, you're really back! Erlang, where did you hide just now?"

The other party blinked his eyes, his expression full of curiosity.

Lu Xiuyuan held the person in his hand, with a smug smile on the corner of his mouth: "I'll tell you when I return to my room after visiting the Lantern Festival."

The other party obviously thought of some unharmonious things, but now they are on the street, shameless!He simply reached out and pinched him.

"It's outside now, pay attention to me."

His waist was pinched, Lu Xiuyuan let out an exclamation and leaned on Shi Yunchen's shoulder.

"It's over, it's over, Shi Daxia has great martial arts skills, I, Lu, am so painful that I can't walk at all, you have to carry me..."

The two relied on fighting and fighting, and the atmosphere was relaxed.

The situation in the palace not far away was turbulent.

The corpses of the imperial guards near the Qianqing Palace were lying on the ground, and the positions that had been standing guard were now replaced by the First Prince's private soldiers.

In the palace, tea cup vases were broken everywhere, the ground was in a mess, and the old emperor, who was supposed to rest on the bed, was forced into a corner by his own son pointing at him with a sword.

"Yan'er, what are you doing?!"

The old emperor pulled the cloth curtain of the corner door frame to block in front of him, staring at the eldest prince in front of him with an anxious and angry expression, but after all he was at a disadvantage, behind the questioning tone, his body trembled uncontrollably.

As if hearing a very funny joke, the eldest prince tilted his head and laughed out loud.

"Father, can't you even see this?"

Hearing this, the old emperor pulled the curtain harder with his right hand: "Why? Didn't I treat you badly? Why did you do this?"

"A joke! This is the funniest joke I've heard this year!" The eldest prince laughed with his left hand on his belly.

"You treat me well? In the eyes of my father, I am just a little thing that comes and goes when you call it. Would you be so kind to me?"

"How can Yan'er say that? You have always been my father's favorite Yan'er!" Seeing that the other party seemed to be unclear about his position in his heart, the old emperor kept explaining and coaxing.

But after all the previous incidents, the First Prince has long since lost his sense of these words.

"Love me? Father! I'm over 30 years old! Your grandson, Jun'er, is going to be fourteen! You make me ground my feet and reflect on myself every now and then. If you punish me like this, do you think I'm still a teenager? "

"Obviously, our relationship between father and son was so harmonious before the Mid-Autumn Festival, but it turned out that it was only a few months, and it was as cold as ice, so why don't we just come and go as soon as we are called?"

The old emperor opened his mouth to explain, but he didn't know how to speak.

"What? Nothing to say?"

The old emperor struggled a bit, and finally expressed his thoughts.

"Yan'er, among these children, you are the one my father likes the most..."

"Hehe, ridiculous, like me? If you like me, why did you let me be a prince for decades? Or do you think I'm too stupid to be a prince?"

Sure enough, it was because of this kind of thing.

The old emperor took a deep breath and explained: "Yan'er, you don't know something. Originally, when your mother was still there, the emperor planned to make you the crown prince. It was your mother who disagreed. She said that if the crown prince was established, it would be easy to cause accidents." , those people who canonized the crown prince early in history all ended up miserable, that's why I..."

"Heh!" The eldest prince laughed mockingly.

"I'm not smart, father, you fool around casually, you think you're right, but if you had established the crown prince early, our brothers wouldn't have had such a thing!"

Speaking of the latter, the First Prince excitedly took two steps forward.

"Even if you set up the second child! I will give up! Is it interesting for you to pet us brothers back and forth like this? Isn't this deliberately causing me to fight with the second child? Now our brothers are immortal, are you satisfied?" ?”

Seeing that the eldest prince's face was flushed, the old emperor said in a complicated mood: "I'm just using my second child as a whetstone to train your mentality. I never thought of letting that fake son be the son of the future Qing Dynasty." Owner……"

"It's ridiculous! You still use such words to fool people!"

The eldest prince fixed his eyes on the other party: "I know that I am stupid and useless. If you decide the candidate early, Father, I can still be an idle prince and live comfortably for the rest of my life. But because of your hesitation, I am now with the old man." The second will never stop dying, although I can't compare with the second in terms of tricks, but I don't want to die..."

"so……"

The point of the sword touched the opponent's neck, and the eldest prince threatened fiercely: "You write an edict to pass the throne now, immediately!"

The old emperor's neck was scratched lightly, and a bloodstain appeared instantly.

"Rebel!!"

The other party screamed, took a step back and pressed against the wall, and this time there was no way to retreat.

"My dear father..." The eldest prince held the sword in his right hand and passed it to the other party's neck, "When the New Year's Eve banquet ordered me to be grounded, have you ever thought about the current scene?"

He clicked his tongue: "I must have never thought of that, after all, I used to listen to my father's words so much and never thought of resisting, so everything today is the evil result of your own creation!"

When the words fell to the ground, the old emperor's eyelids twitched heavily.

wrong!

"Yan'er! What kind of confinement at the New Year's Eve banquet? I don't know about it at all?!"

what? !

The eldest prince's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, and the tip of his sword moved forward again.

"What do you mean? You didn't order me to be grounded for a month?"

The old emperor is as smart as a human being, and he immediately sorted out the ins and outs.

"Yan'er, you drank too much at the New Year's Eve banquet. I was afraid that you would catch a cold, so I asked the palace servants to send you to the Nuan Pavilion to rest. The emperor cared about you before it was too late, so how could he ground you?"

Someone must have falsely passed on the word of mouth to deceive his eldest son!And the only person who can do this must be his second son!

Before the old emperor could think about it, the sword was already tightly attached to his neck, and the cold blade made the old emperor forget to think for a while.

The first prince's head was also in a state of confusion, and only then did he realize that the previous confinement was fake, and the news must have come from the second prince, why did the other party say that?Are you just waiting for this step?

He panicked uncontrollably in his heart, and wanted to find someone to give him an idea, but the old chief assistant and the others were afraid that the other party would leak the news, so they directly concealed the matter, and now there is no one who can help him make a choice.

In desperation, he could only continue according to his own thoughts, and the blade pressed against the old emperor's neck.

"I don't care if you are grounded or not. Now that you have written the imperial edict, you can still comfortably be the Supreme Emperor and spend your extremely comfortable old age."

How can people who are used to power willingly surrender to others?

Especially the old emperor who holds the power of life and death in his hands. If the other party is not greedy for power, then the crown prince will not be delayed until now.

Now seeing that his once favorite son was going to fight him with a sword, the other party quickly used his trump card.

"Why did the once loving family become like this? Yuzhi! Will you be sad to see this scene of father and son killing each other in Heaven?"

"Shut up! You are not allowed to mention your mother's name!" The eldest prince was so excited that he wanted to pounce on the old emperor and tear him apart.

The old emperor didn't panic at all about the situation in front of him. These were all small scenes. A trace of nostalgia flashed across the other party's expression, and he slowly told the family's memories in a gentle tone.

"Our family used to be really happy. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, under the nervous eyes of the eunuchs and maids, we climbed up to the roof to enjoy the moon, and made moon cakes together to feel the people's livelihood..."

……

As memories were thrown out one by one, the eldest prince's eye sockets gradually became moist.

The queen who was happy and boastful when he finished his homework, the queen who hugged him softly after he fell down, the queen who taught him seriously after he committed a crime...

As the memory goes back, the old emperor's heart is also covered with a layer of gloom. When the other party sees the eldest prince's tears falling to the ground, there is a flash of unbearable in his heart. After all, he is also a child who has truly loved him before.

"Shut up, Yan'er. Father doesn't blame you. Let's pretend that this didn't happen today. Later, Father will make a moon rabbit lantern for you. Let's sneak out of the palace to watch the lantern festival together, okay?"

Hearing the old emperor's words, the eldest prince seemed to wake up suddenly, he was almost deceived by the other party!

"What do you mean pretending it didn't happen?" He curled his lips mockingly: "If I let go now, you will definitely change hands and kill me!"

Are you kidding me, he has come this far, how could he give up? !

"Your mother certainly doesn't want to see this scene of our father and son fighting each other. Stop it, Yan'er! How sad she will be when she sees this scene in the sky!" The old emperor said with confidence.

Hearing this, the First Prince felt as if Nilin had been poked, he lost his mind instantly, and his right hand holding the sword couldn't help shaking.

"I don't allow you to mention your mother! You are not worthy of the canonization of Queen Zhao!"

The old emperor was aware of the eldest prince's weakness, so he directed his speech towards it.

"Royal father just misses your mother too much, Zhao Ji's voice is very similar to your mother's, and I was also drunk, so I was confused by her and sealed the queen!"

The eldest prince shook his head again and again: "Father, do you think what you said is credible?"

He should have understood earlier that men are the most fickle, especially emperors. The old emperor's love for him was true before, but that love has gradually dissipated since his mother passed away.

Even if Queen Zhao is a substitute, under the operation of the other party, the life of the second prince is much more comfortable than his own.

After all, it was because his mother was gone.

Although he hated Queen Zhao, when he saw the other party trying his best to help the second prince fight for more opportunities, the first prince was envious and jealous deep in his heart.

It would be nice if his mother was still there.

The eldest prince gritted his teeth and stared at the old emperor bitterly: "If the queen mother was still there, we might not be like this now, it's just..."

嗖

The sound of a sharp weapon breaking through the air sounded.

The eldest prince only felt a pain in his chest, and looked down, the other party saw an arrow piercing through his chest.

In just a moment, his brain was out of breath before he could react, and he could only look at the old emperor opposite him in horror.

"Father, Emperor..."

The old emperor was also taken aback by this sudden situation, but the other party was an old fox after all. Combined with the false oral order before, he instantly thought that this must be the fault of his second son.

Sure enough, the next second the second prince in armor came in outside the hall with a bow and arrow, followed by King Ming covered in blood.

"you……"

The sword in the hands of the first prince had already fallen to the ground, and the other party pointed at the second prince with trembling fingers.

"What the hell are you doing!"

I was deceived. It turned out that the oral order was false, or there were more things that were false, but I hadn't noticed it yet.

The second prince directly bowed to the old emperor next to him and said, "The rebellious traitor has been shot! I hope my father will forgive me for being late to save you!"

It became more and more difficult for the eldest prince to exhale, feeling that his life was gradually disappearing, the other party looked at the old emperor next to him in fear.

"Father, Emperor..."

I don't want to die...

I really don't want to die, I just want to live in the palace tonight...

But at this moment, he no longer had the energy to say these words.

The old emperor saw the despair in his eldest son's eyes before he was dying, and his heart was also turbulent.

"Hurry up and save people!"

At this moment, the old emperor didn't know what he was thinking, "Hurry up and spread the word to the imperial physician!!"

Hearing this, the second prince at the entrance of the main hall laughed loudly and said, "Father, why should you be hypocritical, this is a traitor who wants to rebel, leaving him alone will surely cause endless trouble..."

As he said that, the other party drew an arrow from the back quiver again, "Let Erchen handle it for you."

"No!" The old emperor quickly stretched out his hand to stop him.

"It's good to be imprisoned in the palace forever, but your brother can't kill him!"

But it is still too late, the arrows shot cannot be recovered.

Looking at the eldest prince who fell to the ground and died in peace, the old emperor felt very distressed.

"You were also close when you were young! Why do you want to kill your brother now?!"

"Isn't this exactly what you expected?" The second prince is not as stupid as the first prince.

"You are greedy for power and refuse to let go, and you deliberately provoke our relationship. It is because we keep fighting among ourselves that you can sit more securely on the throne!"

"You! You!" The inner thoughts were punctured, and the old emperor had no way to refute for a while, so he could only keep repeating that killing his brother was a malicious competition. Isn't he afraid of feeling uneasy...

Hearing this, the second prince laughed: "I will not only kill my brother tonight..."

The other party stepped forward, and the smile on his face gradually expanded.

Seeing the scene in front of him, even the experienced old emperor inevitably panicked.

What does this mean?

The other party not only killed his brother, but also wanted to kill his father? ?

The author has something to say: the first prince is offline, will the second prince be far behind?