Hongdi

The emperor took Canke, who was in a state of embarrassment, sitting upright in the palace.Yu Xun knelt on the ground, turning his head constantly, thinking of countermeasures.The emperor also gave him enough time to think.

In the end, it was Yu Xun who broke the silence in the room, "Please tell me what your father has ordered."

The emperor glanced at Can Ke, and said calmly, "This child, the young master who claims to be Li Family Manor, do you know him?"

Yu Xun looked at his younger brother covered in mud and blood, thinking that if he refused to admit it, the emperor would probably not let Canke go, and said, "I think he looks a lot like the sixth younger brother, but the sixth younger brother has lived in the deep palace for a long time. She often shows up, so my ministers don't dare to make a rash decision."

"Hehe, you'll talk later." The emperor took a sip of tea, looked at his two sons kneeling on the ground with ease, and said coldly: "I came to ask you about the theft in the palace yesterday, and you said you didn't know what was lost. I will tell you today that your sixth brother, Canke, is lost."

Yu Xun shook reflexively, pretending to be panic-stricken, and hurriedly said: "Father, calm down, I really don't know about the disappearance of my sixth brother. My son and my sixth brother only met once at the dinner party, so for a while It’s also hard to tell.”

"Huh? Only met once? Yuxun, you should remember things back then. We tacitly understood your relationship with Can Ke, so why tell such a lie?"

Yu Xun bit his lips, and said for a long while: "Father, what do you want my son to do, just ask me to do it."

"You are refreshing. Well, let me ask you, who is this child?"

Yu Xun looked up at Can Ke.

Canke shook her head aggrieved.Although he only stayed outside for one day, the outside world gave him so many surprises and warmth that he never wanted to go back to that cold and lonely big cage.Even if he angered the emperor today, even if his chance of success is slim, he still wants to fight again and escape outside!

Anbu in the hands of the emperor is naturally not a vegetarian. Although Canke successfully connected with the person arranged by Yu Xun, she was caught in the face when she was about to evacuate Youcheng.Yu Xun once saved the lives of the owner and family of Lijiazhuang, and they also desperately protected Can Ke.But in the end, he was still unable to defeat the emperor's crowd tactics, and died regretfully, and Can Ke was also taken back to the palace.

Yu Xun looked at his younger brother's eyes of denial, and couldn't bear it, so he took a chance and replied, "Father, my son thinks that there are many similar-looking people in this world. Maybe we should look for it again."

The emperor smiled, very strangely, the instantly increasing wrinkles on his face were like a terrifying vortex, as if to pull everyone into the darkness.

Yu Xun glanced at him, quickly lowered his head, and his hair stood up unnaturally. "Father, my son is just guessing. Maybe you can ask the people around this child, and there may be results."

"I'm asking you! Besides, those people are already dead, so why don't you ask?"

Although Yu Xun had expected that the people in Lijiazhuang had little chance of surviving, when he actually heard that they had been killed, he still felt a heartache. "Father, you should be more familiar with the sixth younger brother than Erchen. If you say yes, then yes."

"Crack!" The emperor directly threw the tea cup in his hand towards Yu Xun, but Yu Xun didn't dare to move, and the cup opened a hole in his forehead, and dark red blood flowed down his temple.

"Father, please calm down. The children and ministers will obey the father's wishes in everything, and please express the father's instructions."

The smile on the corner of the emperor's mouth continued unabated. He looked at Yu Xun's blood-stained white hair and was suddenly very happy, "Yu Xun, aren't you very calculating? I want to see how you settle this matter this time." !"

"I just asked you, is this child your sixth brother?"

Yu Xun rolled his eyes wide, and tears welled up, "Father, stop embarrassing me, I can't tell the difference."

The emperor was taken aback, and the jadeite wrench lightly tapped the marble table once, twice...

Can Ke ran away all the way, already very tired, and now he knelt on the ground for a long time, and he couldn't hold on anymore. He barely supported his body, and suddenly interrupted: "Your Majesty, the grass people are the young master of Li Family Village, Li Liang. .It's not His Royal Highness the Sixth Prince, please ask the emperor to check it out."

The corner of the emperor's mouth twitched, and he said angrily: "Did I let you speak again? Li Gui, slap your mouth!"

Li Gui responded with a loud slap, "crackling, crackling" and started hitting.

Canke gritted her teeth and endured silently.

Yu Xun felt distressed, he knelt and climbed a few steps, kowtowed repeatedly, "Father, he is a child after all, he doesn't know etiquette, please forgive him."

"Hehe," the emperor raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "Why, do you feel distressed?"

Yu Xun pursed his lips and continued to kowtow, "My son just thinks he is young, so... please forgive me, Father."

"Alright, Li Gui, stop now."

Li Gui responded and retreated respectfully to the emperor's side, as if nothing had happened.But Canke's red and swollen cheeks and bloody lips and teeth disturbed Yuxun's heartache, and he wished he could hold her in his arms immediately and call for a doctor to treat her.

The emperor looked at Yu Xun, without missing the slight undetectable fluctuation in his eyes, and said with a sneer, "Yu Xun, who is this child?"

"Ah?" Yu Xun was taken aback for a moment, and then said: "Going back to my father, I'm not sure. But if my father says he is the sixth brother, he is the sixth brother!"

Impatiently, the emperor overturned the tea that was served again to the ground, and said to Canke: "Since you said that you are not the prince, well, Li Gui, go and give me his hand!"

Yu Xun looked at Li Gui walking towards Canke in horror, and stopped in the middle, "What's your father's intention? He's just a child, and he hasn't made any serious mistakes. Why do you treat him like this?"

"A grassroots, can't I deal with it? It's a joke! Li Gui, what are you still doing?"

Li Gui quickly said yes, walked around Yu Xun, and grabbed Canke's right hand.Can Ke frowned, stood up abruptly, and pushed towards Li Gui.Li Gui didn't know martial arts, so he couldn't bear the impact of Canke, who had practiced martial arts since childhood, and immediately fell to the ground with his legs upside down.

Can Ke glanced at Yu Xun in panic, and with a sudden heart, she pulled out the jade hairpin on her head, and flew towards the emperor who was watching coldly.

Yu Xun secretly thought it was bad, but he couldn't stop it.Canke's jade hairpin has been pierced in front of the emperor.

The emperor looked at the youngest son he had given high hopes to with a blank face, feeling a little regretful in his heart.He originally planned to let the three brothers, Cui Xiao, Han Qi, and Yu Xun, fight each other, and the last remaining one would be sent to Xi Kingdom as a hostage; but the youngest son, Can Ke, wanted to stay and inherit the throne.Therefore, since he locked Canke in the Huiyao Building, the education for this child is the most special.But he didn't expect that he and the queen had instilled in him so many ideas of "killing the brother and seizing the heir", but after seeing Yu Xun, he put them all aside.With the power of Yu Xun, he successfully escaped from the imperial city and out of his control.Now, it is putting the cart before the horse. Instead of competing with his brother for the crown prince's position, he comes to kill him, his father who raised him for seven years.

The more the emperor thought about it, the more angry he became, and his subordinates showed no mercy.Before Canke's jade hairpin touched his lapel, he shot like lightning, grabbed the slender wrist, and with a little force, there was a "click", the bones broke and tendons snapped, and Canke screamed and fell to the seat. on the ground.

The emperor grabbed his bent wrist and said calmly, "Who are you? How dare you assassinate me?"

"Hmph! I will assassinate you, what can you do?"

"Hehe, what can I do? Of course I can make your life worse than death."

Yu Xun listened, sweating profusely. He knew the emperor's methods very well. If he really made him anxious, Canke would definitely have no fruit to eat.

"Bold boy, how dare you hurt my father, you don't want to die, why don't you hurry up and make amends!"

Canke glanced at her anxious-eyed brother, bit her red and swollen lips, and bowed her head in silence.

The emperor stretched out his hand and shook it, and Canke was thrown to the ground like a broken doll.

"I'll ask you again, who are you?"

Canke stared, barely propped herself up, and insisted: "The young owner of Li Family Village, Li Liang!"

The emperor nodded, "Okay. Yuxun, tell me, who is he?"

Yu Xun sighed softly, kowtowed and saluted, "Father, my son carefully compared him with the sixth younger brother in my memory just now, and I think it is correct, it should be the sixth younger brother."

Can Ke looked at Yu Xun in astonishment, not knowing why he suddenly changed his words, "You are talking nonsense, I am not your brother. I am Li Liang!"

Yu Xun secretly winked at him, seeing the child pouted with aggrieved expression on his face, as if a handful of nails had been rubbed into his heart, causing him pain.

"Li Gui, if I remember correctly, before entering the palace, you worked as a jailer in Yao country for a few days, right?"

Li Gui hurriedly nodded and ran over, "Yes, the servant has been working for a while."

"Well, that's easy to handle. The criminal law of 'peeling' is very common in Yao country, do you know it?"

Everyone present was shocked.

Li Gui hesitated for a while, then replied: "Going back to the emperor, this slave will. Back then, this slave's father died under this kind of punishment, and this slave watched by his side at that time, and he has a panoramic view of all the details."

Yu Xun frowned. He had never heard of this kind of criminal law, let alone thought that Li Gui would have such a terrible experience.

The emperor took a sip of the tea brought by the maid, and said calmly, "Let's listen."

Li Gui bowed his head and said yes, "Back to the emperor, although 'peeling' sounds like a handicraft, it is actually very simple. It can be done with a thin and thin dagger. When peeling, the knife is cut from the spine, and the back is covered with a knife. , The skin of the buttocks is divided into two halves, and then it is like peeling an orange, torn and cut, and finally, like a butterfly spreading its wings, the skin is pulled apart, and a piece of human skin can be obtained."

Yu Xun shivered when he heard it, he stared at the person sitting in the high position in astonishment, and said in a trembling voice: "Father, the sixth younger brother is still young and can't stand being frightened. I hope the father will show mercy and forgive him this time."

The emperor looked at Yu Xun calmly, and said coldly, "You said he was your sixth brother, but he didn't admit it."

"Father, please forgive me. The sixth brother may be talking nonsense because he was given amnesia drugs by the thief. I believe he will remember his identity. Please don't worry, Rong Erchen persuades me."

Can Ke knew that Yu Xun was doing it for her own good, but seeing what the emperor meant, it was just to frighten herself, so she said to Yu Xun angrily, "You don't need to persuade me, I remember very clearly, I am not your brother, I am Li Liang!"

Yu Xun frowned anxiously, and hurriedly said: "Xiao Ke, stop making trouble. Hurry up and admit your mistake to Father!"

Canke pursed her mouth, endured the sharp pain from her wrist, and gritted her teeth without making a sound.

Yu Xun knew that the emperor was definitely not trying to scare people. Since he could let Li Gui say it, he would definitely do it. He had to grab the words, "Father, please forgive me. It's my son who sent the sixth younger brother out of the palace to meet with the Li family. Peaceful. The minister is guilty and willing to be punished.