Qi Huang

If it is said that on the day of the family banquet in the palace, Xie Xuan acted like an ambitious young eagle, unaware of the heights of the sky and the vastness of the sea, and recklessly pecked Li Jin's face with his beak.But today's Xie Xuan has turned into a full-fledged adult vulture, quietly lurking on the tree trunk, retracting its cold-glowing claws.

The two different attitudes showed Xie Xuan's intentions.

They are all performed for others to see, the former needs to be a blockbuster, while the latter... Xie Xuan looked at the Queen Mother on the high seat.

I wonder if his imperial grandmother is satisfied with his performance?

The gathering of the four aristocratic families ended in two cups of tea.Everyone bowed and saluted, and watched the Queen Mother leave the palace.

Li Jin came in a hurry and left in a hurry.Among the remaining three, Du Yuzhi and Ye Wenxu bid farewell to Xie Xuan and the ten princes as if nothing had happened. Although Ye Wenxu's body was getting old, his spirit was hale and hearty, and his voice was like a bell.

He laughed while stroking his long beard on his chest.

"Your Majesty, the younger generation is formidable. Today, the old minister drank the tea to his heart's content."

That is of course joyful.

Being half coerced and half threatened by Li Jin, he was taken to the Palace of Qinzheng, and he was an enemy of the Queen Mother who was still in power... Regardless of their position, they would have some opinions in their hearts.It's not easy to confront Li Jin head-on, and watching him have fun is much more enjoyable than swallowing his anger.

"I don't know what your Highness said? Looking at Mr. Li's fiery posture, it seems that the house at home is on fire."

Xie Xuan glanced at Qin Ting: "Then Master Ye is asking the wrong person, Master Qin knows more than me."

Master Qin, who was present with the old god, spread his hands, his face full of innocence: "Huh? What have you got to do with the lower officials? The lower officials are just nameless businessmen with no rights, and it is a great honor to be able to enter the Palace of Qinzheng."

Xie Xuan: Oh.

His upbringing told him to observe etiquette and resist the urge to roll his eyes.Qin Ting made an inch of it, closed the folding fan with a "snap", and pointed towards Xie Xuan's direction from a distance.

The end is elegant and romantic, and it is alluring.

Xie Xuan: "... See you, my lords."

Qin Ting chuckled silently.

After finally breaking up the meeting, the two discussed going out of the palace to drink with great interest.Xie Xuan watched them leave, and from the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw a gaze cast on him - it was Du Yuzhi.

There was no malice in this gaze, but rather a bit of probing curiosity. Du Yuzhi thought he was covering it up well, but unexpectedly met Xie Xuan's gaze in the blink of an eye.

"..." Du Yuzhi laughed awkwardly, "Your Highness."

Xie Xuan didn't: "Master Du, do you have something to say?"

"No, no." Du Yuzhi waved his hands again and again, "Since there is nothing to do, I will leave first, and I will have a drink and tea with His Highness some other day."

He flicked up his robe, stepped over the high threshold, and followed the backs of Ye and Qin.

Xie Xuan thought about it for a while, but couldn't find anything about Du Yuzhi in his memory, so he simply let it go.But when he turned his head, he found that the tenth prince was squatting on the ground, fiddled with the cup of tea that had already cooled down in his hand with his fingers.

Seeing Xie Xuan looking over, the tenth prince said distressedly: "Why doesn't he drink my tea?"

Xie Xuan: "It's not good."

"You are perfunctory!" The tenth prince slammed the table, "How come the same tea doesn't taste good in my cup?"

"That's natural. For the same tea, the person who pours the tea, the place of origin, and the boiling time are all related to whether the tea tastes good or not." Xie Xuan said indiscriminately.

The tenth prince thought about it, nodded, and then burst into a smile: "It doesn't matter, anyway, the emperor's grandmother said that she wanted to make me the crown prince, and you will follow me from now on. I won't treat you badly, and no matter how bad it is, I can make you a prince." !"

It was as if he was going to marry someone's girl.

Xie Xuan shook his head, lifted his legs and walked out.

He didn't know whether to say that Xie Duan was innocent at heart, unwilling to speculate about the people who raised him with sinister intentions, or that Xie Duan was too dull.They who are in the center of the vortex of imperial power are not allowed to be dull.

So Xie Duan's innocence, so why isn't it a precious thing?

This kind of thing, Xie Xuan himself has long since lost.

Some people live in the dark quagmire and cannot sink, and some people are born from the light.People are different after all.

The spring outside the Palace of Qinzheng was already long, Xie Xuan walked a certain distance, and the tenth prince trot to catch up panting, chattering endlessly: "When do you think the imperial grandmother will issue an edict? I think tomorrow will be the most, and go outside the Palace of Yuhua You can receive the imperial decree."

Xie Xuan said perfunctorily: "Yes, yes, Brother Ten, go back and wait. Brother will come to congratulate you soon."

The tenth prince hummed twice, which was very helpful.

They didn't go far, when they saw a palace maid hurriedly walking towards the archway outside the palace courtyard not far away.Judging by the posture, it was aimed at the two of them.

Xie Xuan knew the face of the palace lady, she was a palace attendant who served the Queen Mother all the year round, and occasionally there were orders from the Queen Mother, which were passed down from person to person.

Xie Xuan's gaze paused, and the smile on his face that was teasing the Tenth Prince also completely subsided.

This subtle change also affected the Tenth Prince.He raised his head, and saw the Dagong attendant next to the Queen Mother bowing gracefully in front of them.

"Your Highness Thirteen, please follow your servants into Jinluan Palace."

Before Xie Xuan could speak, the tenth prince asked first: "Didn't we just bid farewell to the imperial grandmother? Why are you going to the imperial grandmother's bedroom again?"

The attendant of the palace glanced at him, as if he didn't want to answer him, but finally said one more sentence reluctantly: "Of course there is something important, the tenth highness should go back to the Yuhua Palace quickly, and the slaves will not be sent away."

Her attitude represents the attitude of the Queen Mother herself.Perhaps it was because the expression on the servant's face was too cold, even the tenth prince could sense that it was definitely not a good thing for the Queen Mother to pass Xie Xuan into Jinluan Palace at this time.

"Why did I go back!" The tenth prince immediately dissatisfied, and skillfully displayed his skill of throwing and rolling, "I want to go too!"

Omiya servant smiled coldly: "Please go ahead."

She turned around, without any further concealment, and said unceremoniously to Xie Xuan: "His Thirteenth Highness, are you still leaving?"

"Let's go." Xie Xuan spoke slowly, and there seemed to be dark welling in his eyes, "Lead the way."

The premonition of the Tenth Prince was correct, there was really trouble waiting for Xie Xuan when he entered Jinluan Palace this time.

The Jinluan Palace was in order, and the attendant of the palace led the two of them into the main hall all the way, and no one dared to peek all the way.In the hall, the Queen Mother has already changed into a regular dress. The green shirt is white and exquisite, which is lighter than the dress she wore in the Qinzheng Hall just now, but it is also cold.

She was lying on a bench, playing with a moon-white jade pendant in her hand.

"Your Majesty, His Highness the Thirteenth Prince has arrived."

"Yeah." The Queen Mother didn't lift her eyes, "Go down."

Da Gong followed orders, and after closing the door and going out, there were only three of them left in the hall.The frosty atmosphere was extremely depressing. The tenth prince had the guts to exchange a few words, but before he could say a word, the person on the bench suddenly frowned and waved his hand violently to throw the jade pendant.

This movement is fast and violent, and there is no chance for people to react.Xie Xuan was close, watching the jade pendant coming towards her head, but she insisted on straightening her body and not moving, allowing the hard thing to smash him to the ground.

The tenth prince closed his mouth in fright, and bit the root of his tongue in a panic.But he didn't dare to exclaim, and he didn't dare to say anything.

He knelt down neatly, buried his head in his sleeves, and covered the fear in his eyes.

Xie Xuan still didn't move.

Long before entering the palace, he knew what was coming.The moon-white jade pendant belonged to Xie Xuan himself, and was tied around his waist by him, and later he gave it to a young eunuch in order to inquire about the news.

Now, this jade pendant has fallen into the hands of the Queen Mother.

In the silence, the Queen Mother said, "Why don't you kneel?"

Xie Xuan blinked.

The jade pendant made a gash on his forehead, and blood flowed down the arch of his eyebrows, covering his sight.

The Queen Mother walked down the steps slowly.

——She seems to have been standing on a high place overlooking all living beings.People in the world often say that women are not as good as men, that men are respected as officials, officials, and people in the world, and women are vassals and the weak.But she is an exception, she is like a steep mountain, lying in front of every ambitious person, controlling the fate of everyone.

"The Ai family asks you why you don't kneel."

"Why do you kneel?" Xie Xuan chuckled, "Since the imperial grandmother discovered my transgression, she naturally found an opportunity to punish me. What is the difference between kneeling and not kneeling? Will you forgive me?"

"That's true." The Queen Mother actually imitated Xie Xuan's appearance and smiled lightly at this time, but her eyes were cold and emotionless, "You bought the eunuchs in the palace to be spies, and went to Lizhou without Aijia's order. Mansion, do you take me, the emperor's grandmother, seriously?"

Xie Xuan said neither humble nor overbearing: "I have ten points hidden in my heart, and the emperor's grandmother must have taken five points."

"What about the other five points?"

"The imperial grandmother naturally knows." Xie Xuan raised his head, the blood continued to flow down the lower eyelids, drawing a bloodstain on his face.But because of such a strong visual contrast, Xie Xuan's appearance became more and more beautiful, and his eyes were astonishingly bright.

He never concealed his desire for power.

He became a puppet emperor in his previous life. If there is a record in the history books and biographies, maybe he will add a word after his name: Originally pure and good, but the world is impermanent.From the perspective of outsiders, he was forced to embark on this road of no return, and was forced to transform from a prince whose personnel is unknown and only knew to eat and die, to a cruel and bloodthirsty tyrant.

But only Xie Xuan knows how far he is from Chizi.

The two eunuchs who died in the cold palace that year are proof.

They didn't die quickly. Among the ninety-nine and eighty-one kinds of severe punishments, only a thousand cuts to death is the most vicious.Xie Xuan put sleeping pills in their meals, and then killed them with one knife when they were awake.

If you don't have a sharp knife in your hand, you can only be fish on someone else's chopping board.

The other five points are his innate evil, and his obsession with wanting to control his own destiny.

The Queen Mother turned around with a flick of her sleeves, and sat down on the bench again.

"In that case, you go and receive the punishment. The stick punishment is too embarrassing and hurts the royal family's face, and you are young, I am afraid you can't bear it. Then I will send you to the imperial shrine and let you suffer ten times in front of the ancestors of the Xie family. Remember the caning. Let them see how your unworthy descendants act recklessly."

"Grandmother!" The tenth prince stood up suddenly, "Grandmother, I am the one who is going to take the thirteenth brother to Li's residence, and it is also me..."

"Are you going to be punished too?" The Queen Mother said coldly, "Your delicate body can't withstand three whips, Xie Duan, think clearly."

"me……"

The Queen Mother supported her head, closed her eyes and waved her hands, she no longer wanted to see them: "If you think about it, get out, don't come in my eyes."

Xie Xuan raised his hand and slowly wiped away the blood from his pupils, and then carefully wiped the blood from his fingertips with his big sleeve, before saying, "Thank you, Grandmother."