Qi Huang

Singing and dancing promotes peace and harmony.At the banquet, everyone was at ease and happy, except for the tenth prince who had a donkey's face, and the lump under his buttocks seemed to have thorns, which made him feel like he was sitting on pins and needles.

After this time, the only thought in his mind was to stay away from Xie Xuan, wondering if he couldn't hide from me if he couldn't offend me.

But Xie Xuan seemed to like to see such an interesting reaction from him. The tenth prince moved an inch to the side, and Xie Xuan followed quietly, moved an inch, followed, and so on.Seeing this, the Tenth Prince could bear it no longer, and slapped his hand on the table with a "snap".

The emperor who was sitting on a high place suddenly stood up.

The tenth prince trembled in shock, and was about to get up to plead guilty when Xie Xuan held him down: "It's not you."

Tenth Prince: "?"

The wine was drunk well, and the dishes in the dining room hadn't been served yet, so the emperor suddenly stood up, wasn't it because he disturbed Sheng Jia?

While regretting his recklessness, he gave Xie Xuan a hard look and slapped his hand away.

"Look." Xie Xuan raised his chin, pointing to the empress dowager who was sitting firmly on the high position, and the emperor whose chest was constantly rising and falling.

They were far away, and the expressions of the two could not be distinguished clearly, but the emperor's emotions were clearly revealed.Anger, surrender, and the hatred that has accumulated for many years and does not know where to vent it.And the object of his hatred is sitting dignifiedly at this time, slowly turning around and picking a chopsticks into the emperor's bowl.

"Grandmother and father quarreled?" The tenth prince looked at it for a long time, and then choked out a sentence, "Isn't it a common thing? What's so interesting."

He breathed a sigh of relief: "Every home banquet is terrible, and I will never come again next time."

Xie Xuan glanced at the Tenth Prince, his dislike was very obvious.He picked up the wine glass and moved aside, worried that if he stayed with the Tenth Prince for a long time, he would easily contract the same brain disease.

The tenth prince was not happy: "What kind of eyes do you have!"

"The emperor's grandmother and father often quarrel?" Xie Xuan asked.

"That's right." The tenth prince snorted twice, showing off his posture, "You don't often stay by the imperial grandmother's side, so naturally you don't know. It was the imperial grandmother who told me that my father has been ill for many years. There are several medicinal ingredients in the medicine that are incompatible with each other, which will affect the mood, so I occasionally get angry for no reason. Every time the emperor's grandmother will be very tolerant of the father, just like now."

This is now.

When an emperor gets angry in public, none of his courtiers, descendants, and palace servants respond, just like every ordinary day.The emperor's burst of anger was like a punch punched out of thin air, unable to arouse even a drop of water.

This reminded Xie Xuan of himself when he first ascended the throne.

Xie Xuan lowered his eyes and took a sip of wine: "Brother Ten, how old are you now?"

The tenth prince was puzzled: "What are you doing?"

"You were raised under the imperial grandmother's lap since you were a child, and you have been loved and loved... I remember that the imperial grandmother's palace didn't have a large lake."

"?"

"Then where does the water in your brain come from?"

Tenth Prince: "..."

He stretched out a finger to point at Xie Xuan, "you you you" for a while, and realized that he was not Xie Xuan's opponent in eloquence at all, so he had no choice but to rage and slapped the table angrily.

Xie Xuan turned his head and ignored him.

He quietly set his eyes on the emperor in the distance. The emperor stood for a long time, and finally walked away in a silent silence.Xie Xuan followed his back, but from the beginning to the end, the emperor never looked back.

This scene was seen by the tenth prince, and he rushed to Xie Xuan's side, gloating: "Don't look at it, don't think that the father brought you out of the cold palace just because he likes you, you see, the father doesn't even care who you are." forget."

He seemed to have finally found something that would make Xie Xuan unhappy, and immediately rolled up his sleeves with great interest: "I live in the imperial grandmother's palace, and I have more chances to see my father than you. I have a solid understanding of "Thousand Characters"."

Xie Xuan turned around: "Father likes you very much?"

The Tenth Prince looked a little guilty, but still nodded.

"Do you think it's a good thing?" Xie Xuan looked at him as if he was looking at a dead person, and he didn't show any affection in his mouth, "Forget it if you're stupid."

In the last life, the emperor secretly sighed that Xie Xuan was smart.

But the prince who is bound in a cage is not allowed to be smart.So in the eyes of outsiders, he pretended to be as naive as the current Tenth Prince.

He thinks that he can protect himself, eat enough and wear warm clothes every day, and not fight for the throne, so that he can become a prince when he is an adult, and spend his life doing nothing after leaving the palace.

They were blinded by the stable years in front of them, but they didn't know that the wings protecting them were already riddled with holes.There are no eggs under the overturned nest, the fate of the emperor is the fate of the next favored prince.

The fact that the emperor left midway did not cause waves at the banquet.

The sick and weak emperor worked hard to support him in order to govern the Qingming country. Such a dedicated and hard-working emperor is a blessing to their descendants.

The Queen Mother said so.

She took the place of the emperor and talked freely in the high position. The courtiers and princes echoed, sighed, and finally smiled at each other.Xie Xuan looked at it, then laughed along with the crowd, but his eyes were cold.

The banquet soon came to an end.The Queen Mother didn't drink much wine. Alcohol can make people intoxicated. It can make people who are pious on weekdays take off their disguise, peel off their human skin, and turn them into hideous beasts. She doesn't like this.

So she just sat there silently, overlooking her surroundings, her delicacy and beauty remained the same.

Outside the hall, a loud laugh suddenly broke the silence.

"The empress dowager made atonement, the minister was a step late, and couldn't catch up with such a lively family banquet!"

The visitor was dressed in a civilian-style robe, and the ring around his waist swayed slowly with his steps. Even with such large movements, he walked in a smooth and dignified manner.

He walked all the way to the center of the hall, neither saluting nor apologizing for his abrupt arrival.As an uninvited guest, after disturbing the interest of the people in the banquet, he smiled and looked directly at the queen dowager on the high seat and the hall.

The Queen Mother is used to it, her expression remains unchanged: "Li Qing."

The person called Li Qing seemed to remember his impoliteness at this moment, but under the eyes of everyone, he only nodded his head: "My minister, Li Jin, sees the empress dowager."

Li Jin.

Xie Xuan raised his eyes suddenly.

This person seems to have just passed the age of destiny, but he does not look old, and he is younger than the emperor who just stood up.It was only because he was too thin that the tree-like folds on his arms and palms revealed his true age.

Xie Xuan will never forget these hands.

The hands that once pushed him to the throne.

"Hey!" The Tenth Prince suddenly exclaimed in his ear, "Xie Xuan, I warn you not to go too far!"

A wine stain crossed Xie Xuan's fingertips, and fell to the ground with a tick.

The wine cup in Xie Xuan's hand was already full of wine, but he was still pouring wine into it unknowingly.As a result, the crystal clear wine overflowed and flowed onto the table, into the porcelain plate, and into the arms of the unlucky Tenth Prince.

With the lessons learned from the previous few times, this time the tenth prince was poured with wine, although he was full of anger, he deliberately suppressed his voice.

But Li Jin's sharp eyes still looked at this side.

To be precise, what he was looking at was not the tenth prince who suddenly exclaimed, but Xie Xuan.Xie Xuan was aroused by this icy sight, and her memory was pulled back to that winter in an instant, that... the winter of ice and snow——

"I don't understand. Father is seriously ill, and I am neither the crown prince nor the eldest son of the emperor. Why am I succeeding?"

"Because His Royal Highness is the most suitable to be in charge of the country."

"I still have those imperial brothers, they are more suitable than me."

"Your imperial brothers..." He heard Li Jin say, "They are going to die too, so, only you are the most suitable."

Reality and illusory memories intersect, and Li Jin's two faces overlap and keep approaching Xie Xuan.The surroundings of the banquet were so silent, Li Jin's eyes were like a poisonous snake hunting, silently, making Xie Xuan's back sweat a little.

Hate is more painful than fear.

Li Jin said something, as if he was asking Xie Xuan some questions, but Xie Xuan didn't hear clearly, so naturally he ignored it.

The Empress Dowager spoke at the right time with a bit of reproach: "Xing Lan, Mr. Li is talking to you, have you forgotten the etiquette that Mr. taught you?"

Li Jin just smiled and said nothing, but his hands crossed in front of him showed his displeasure.After a while, he opened his mouth and said: "It's just a casual chat, your highness is honorable, and I still need to salute to your highness."

Regardless of the presence of many princes and retainers, trespassing on the family banquet in the palace, laughing loudly in the hall, and not kneeling in salute... The four words "unscrupulous" almost hit the royal family in the face.

It turned out that Li Jin had turned his back on him so early.

Xie Xuan stood up slowly and walked slowly to the seat.He put his hands together and bowed to Li Jin first, then he straightened up and asked, "What did Master Li just say?"

Li Jin smiled: "It's not a big deal. The old minister just wanted to ask His Royal Highness, but he still remembers his mother and concubine. A few days ago, the old minister's servant saw it on the streets of Bianliang..."

Xie Xuan interrupted him suddenly: "It's not this sentence."

Li Jin narrowed his smile: "Oh?"

"Lord Li said just now... I have a noble status, you still need to salute to me." Xie Xuan looked at him coldly, "My lord, please."