I heard you want to let me down

As night fell, Gu Ruzhuo and Rong Jin finished watching the flowers, went back to the room hand in hand, then huddled together on a couch, talked around a quilt, no longer mentioned those disputes and unhappiness, only talked about light and happy things , talk about their past companionship, and also talk about their future relationship.The years in their small home were quiet and peaceful, but it was obviously not so peaceful outside.

Even the air seemed to be filled with a tense atmosphere tonight. All the doors on the street were closed, and there were no people on the street. Occasionally, the sound of horses' hooves would sound from the road outside the gate.

At this moment, in the tall and magnificent palace city, a seemingly appalling coup took place, but in this place, it was quite ordinary.

The prince sat behind the curtain, followed by two confidantes, listening to the love between the two outside.Nothing more than disbelief, cursing and questioning, and justification, resentment and complacency.

He originally thought that on this day and this moment that he had been waiting for, he would feel very happy, that his revenge had been avenged, and that he would feel relieved, but in fact he didn't. He just thought it was funny as he sat here and listened.

He didn't look down on the two people outside. In fact, the two of them, one of them sat on the throne in the bloody storm, and they were tough and stable emperors for decades; An embarrassing and painful opponent for 20 years.But at this time, their behavior was so ordinary, it was no different from all selfish and despicable people who turned against each other in the end.He thought to himself, if I was in that position, would it be just like this.

He was really bored and bored by these, so he stopped listening and walked out from behind the curtain slowly.

The faint resentment and pride on the eldest prince's face slowly froze after he appeared: "Why are you here?"

The prince smiled: "Could it be that he came to save you? Naturally, he came to be the oriole that was behind."

The emperor who was leaning on the bed looked at him resentfully and angrily: "Son! Damn!"

"Of course I am a rebellious son." The prince walked slowly, "Even your most beloved and proudest son, who intends to entrust Jiangshan to the world, wants you to die. I am the son you despise and have sent out killing moves many times to put him to death. , is it possible that you will be filial to the world?"

The First Prince reflexively looked out.

"You don't need to look. Of course the outside is also my people." There was a mocking smile in the prince's eyes, "It's from the Lu family."

The eldest prince still couldn't believe it: "It's someone from the Lu family, how could it be possible to come into the palace without a sound?!"

"In this world, there are people who know the current affairs."

The wooden sign that Rong Jin left for Li Chang at the beginning finally worked.Li Chang opened the city gate and let the Lu family members in.

"Brother, I originally thought that you worked so hard and worked hard to support so many people, and you planned to force the palace directly. I didn't expect that after many calculations, you still planned to take the road of silence. It's really embarrassing." I know what to say." The prince said with emotion, "I have been asking me to prepare for so long in vain. But all the preparations have been made. Although it seems that they will not be needed tonight, they are still called."

The eldest prince stood on the spot, his expression changing, and finally turned crazy and distorted: "You can really bear it! My good brother, I thought that you were useless after being immersed in Lu Jiansu's death all these years. "

The prince turned his head, and the formal smile on his face slowly disappeared. He looked at this man firmly, and said softly: "Brother, I have never looked down on you, but sometimes, I really admire you." Your courage. How dare you mention his name in front of me."

"How dare you mention my elder brother's name in front of me!"

"Brother? What kind of brother is he?" The eldest prince sneered, but he didn't provoke the prince any more. "I would like to admit defeat tonight, but I have a question to ask you. My father and I have always suspected Lu My family kept a hand back then, and they have always been on guard. But you can’t hold back for a full 20 years, no matter how deep your defenses and doubts are, you have to relax and let go. I really don’t understand, since you have such a card in your hand, why bother After holding back for so long, you actually want to follow me to take advantage of this?"

"Because in the beginning, this card wasn't as big as it is now. Later, when the cards became thicker, my uncles and grandfathers often advised me to endure it for so many years, so why bother. If you can hold a clean hand, it is naturally the best of."

The prince walked to a large cabinet and took out a white jade bottle from a hidden compartment there.

The emperor, who had been silent all this time, felt his blood churning when he saw this scene. He was even more angry than when he saw the prince before. He pointed at the prince and was speechless for a while: "You, you!"

"As long as you take this pill for a year or two, father will naturally get his wish and rise to the top." The prince laughed softly, "I almost thought that father's life was really so good, but I didn't expect you, brother, to die after all." It didn't disappoint me."

"Father, it is too cheap for a person like you to die peacefully at night with the dream of attaining Taoism and ascension." The prince looked at the gray-faced and immobile old man on the dragon bed, "I have been We are all waiting for this day, looking forward to this day. I hope you can be betrayed by the person you trust the most, and I hope you can know that for a person like you, no one in this world is happy that you are alive!"

Listening to the slow resentment in his words, the old man suddenly lost the anger on his face, and changed into a daze: "You, you hate me so much?"

Perhaps people are always easy to miss old love when they are weak.He suddenly remembered that a long time ago, this son was once his pride, he also obeyed him, and he had eyes full of admiration for him.

"Father, my eldest brother asked me a question just now, and I have always wanted to ask you a question." The prince sat beside his bed, "Father, I have thought about it all these years, and I feel something is wrong. It's quite beautiful and powerful, but smuggling a crane in from outside the palace city and letting it fly past the hall safely, I always feel that this matter is not that simple. Father, can you help your son? Do you want to clarify?"

"That's God's will!"

"I have lived in this palace city for 20 years, and I don't believe in natural disasters, only man-made disasters!"

The regret on the emperor's face disappeared in an instant, and turned livid and ferocious: "You hate me so much because of Lu Jiansu?! You haven't let go of Lu Jiansu's matter all these years? Sure enough, you don't know how to repent!"

The prince sternly said: "I can't let it go. But tonight, I can finally avenge him. No matter who set that crane free, you two will pay for his life tonight!"

The prince looked at this man with malice and revenge: "Father, do you know? That child, that one, I knelt in front of the hall for three days, and I passed out. You won't let me go. Brother’s posthumous son. He didn’t die. I found him. He has lived a very good life these years. He has a father and master who loves him; he has a loyal servant who has followed him for many years and served his two daughters; Now I have the most desirable and happy couple. He will live a better life in the future, he will be well-clothed and well-fed, and he will be superior."

"I will give him what the child lost back then, what you owe him, what I owe him, and give him ten times and a hundred times!"

"My dear brother, how could it be us who killed Lu Jiansu?" The eldest prince suddenly laughed, "Wasn't you the one who killed him? Didn't he die because of you?" ?”

The prince looked at Wen Run's face, and his expression was almost ferocious at the moment: "Obviously you killed him!"

But the eldest prince is not afraid of him. Now that the victory is decided and he is powerless, he doesn't mind stabbing his enemies with a few knives: "You have found Lu Jiansu's son, then how do you explain to him that he is the son of Lu Jiansu?" Father's dead? Huh?"

"How did you explain to him, why did my young and talented brother, who is wise and powerful, be so obsessed with asking a little Taoist priest to come and go in and out of his bedroom at will? Who did the little Taoist priest look like? Did you tell him?"

The prince sternly said, "Shut up!"

"You think you are hiding it well. To be honest, who doesn't know? Maybe Lu Jiansu doesn't know, but it's not necessarily true." The eldest prince raised his eyebrows, "If Lu Jiansu wasn't there, would you still Then listen to the Lu family, and get so close to the Lu family? Who knows if Lu Jiansu is deliberately hanging and hooking you for the sake of the Lu family? "

The prince couldn't bear it anymore, he strode over and punched the eldest prince on the corner of the eye, the two of them fought into a ball.

The two confidantes did not dare to intervene in this kind of matter, but they still separated the two when the scene was about to get out of control.The prince stared at him fiercely: "How dare you insult him like that! Brother and I are innocent!"

"Innocent, what an innocence!" The eldest prince sat on the ground awkwardly, coughing and laughing, and said in a low voice, "You have never seen the way you looked at him at that time. Tsk tsk, in your dream , do you call him brother too?"

"Don't you want to know about that crane?" Seeing that the prince was about to lose control again, the eldest prince got to the point in time, "I'll tell you."

"That's right, my father made it. I found that little Taoist priest, and I ordered him to put the things in. But originally, I just wanted that dead useless alchemist to slander my father." Who would have thought that a crane would descend from the sky three days later?"

The conjecture was confirmed, and the prince closed his eyes fiercely: "Why? Father, why on earth? I asked myself at that time, it was not a matter of morality and disobedience!"

"Yes, why? At that time, even though the father was afraid of the Lu family, he still regarded you as a value, and never thought of abolishing you. Why, he made a sudden move and caught you and the Lu family by surprise?" The eldest prince Straight past the emperor, he interjected, "It's because you listened too much to Lu Jiansu's words."

"Father has warned you many times to stay away from the Lu family, but you are reluctant to part with Lu Jiansu. Your obsession with Lu Jiansu is almost to the point of being insane. Who doesn't know the origin of your princess? Even except for her, all the women in your palace admired Lu Jiansu. But at that time, there were too many people who admired Lu Jiansu, so it was just inconspicuous."

At that time, the old lady of the chief assistant fell in love with Lu Jiansu at first sight at the banquet, and she insisted on arguing to be Lu Jiansu's flat wife, and hanged herself three times at home because of this.Lu Jiansu and his wife are deeply in love with each other, so of course they don't want to, but the chief minister has always spoiled this daughter to the point of lawlessness, and even came to propose marriage several times.If Lu Jiansu refuses to agree, the two families will turn against each other.

At this time, the unmarried prince personally asked the emperor to marry him, and carried this noble, dying girl into the East Palace to be the princess.This matter finally disappeared.

"My good brother, the husband and wife are deeply in love. You are too pitiful to raise a rival in love to yourself in order to make the husband and wife happy?" The eldest prince looked at the prince mockingly, "Father did this because he was afraid When you sit on the throne, Jiangshan takes the surname Lu without a single soldier. Do you understand? From the beginning to the end, it is your friendship, your carefully hidden but not well hidden friendship, which kills you Lu Jiansu!"

The prince seemed to have been hit hard by someone, he staggered two steps, and even supported the bed frame, so he didn't fall down.

"What he said is true?" The prince looked incredulously at the old man on the bed with a tacit expression, "But I, I just thought about it. I never thought about what I would do, never thought about showing it! I Just thinking about it secretly in my heart!"

The emperor sneered: "Lu Jiansu is such an evildoer, death is not a pity."

The prince was not angry. He seemed to be stunned by the news. After a while, he said softly: "He is like a mountain, majestic and self-sufficient. He only wants a gentle river to surround him, but there are hornets, waves and butterflies, flowers and grasses." , desperately trying to get close to him. What's the matter with him?"

What I have always wanted to know, I finally have the answer.He didn't want to waste any more time with these two.

"Big brother, please go down." He said softly to his confidant, "Don't spare me those instruments of torture. The imperial medicine and herbs are also prepared, so make sure he can live a long and long life."

The eldest prince showed no fear, and only looked at him with a sneer.

"By the way." The crown prince stopped the two of them suddenly, "I remember, there is a girl named Xiyu who rarely shows up in Baihualou, she should have been invited here. My elder brother likes her so much, in order to protect her, He did not hesitate to hide her in the Baihua Building, and secretly gave birth to two sons with her. The whole family pays attention to reunion, so I sent her to be with my eldest brother."

"Mu Qingyuan!" The eldest prince's expression finally changed, "It's worse than wives, daughters and children!"

The prince just laughed: "You killed my most beloved person, but now you come to tell me that your wife, daughter and children are not as bad as you?"

He never dared to admit that he loved him, and carefully hid his dirty and hopeless thoughts, whether it was during his lifetime or after his death.Hidden too deeply, too afraid to face it, sometimes, even he himself felt that he just always admired the person he called brother.But at this time, facing this enemy who knew him well and knew him best, he finally whispered the secret that he had been hiding in his heart all along.

"Wait! Don't you want to avenge Lu Jiansu? There is another enemy!" The eldest prince had already been dragged away by those two people, and he suddenly shouted, "Don't you want to know?!"

The prince waved his hand to let the two stay, his expression condensed: "Who?"

"I know I'm doomed, but Ayu, she's just a very simple girl. She has never been involved in these things." The eldest prince finally showed a submissive look, "I tell you, you let her go .”

"it is good."

"Brother, haven't you thought about it? Why is it that the East Palace is so big, but Lu Jiansu is so smooth, and even found the letter before the alchemist who had prepared it? He entered your bedroom directly. He Why are you so sure that the letter is in your bedroom?"

The prince's face paled instantly: "What do you mean?"

"Your concubine, who looks innocent and pungent, is really a powerful character," the eldest prince sighed, "Even if it's for my brother, I have to say one thing, she is really cruel and merciless, I admire you."

The eldest prince was taken away, the prince stood there for a long time, finally regained his senses, he called two more people in.Then he slowly approached the dragon bed, and took out a stack of papers: "Help Gu hold him down."

The emperor looked at the stack of papers, his pupils constricted, and he couldn't believe it: "You dare to kill your father yourself?!"

"Why don't I dare?" The prince said slowly, "No matter who is called to do this kind of thing, it will inevitably be suspected in the future. I really don't want to fold in another confidant for you. Just did it."

Although it had been expected, at this moment, the emperor, who had been stained with countless blood and done countless dark things, still felt fear from the bottom of his heart.He didn't want to lose his last dignity, and forced himself to be calm: "Why did you choose this time?"

"Didn't my son say that? My eldest brother wants to make a move, and I have no choice but to drive the duck to the shelves."

"It wasn't you who finally waited for him to make a move, but you who lured him." Although the emperor was old and at the end of his life, his mind was still very clear, "You have waited for so many years just to ascend the throne cleanly. If you come out like this, after you ascend the throne, no matter what, there will still be doubts and stains!"

The prince smiled: "Am I afraid of this?"

"If you weren't afraid, you wouldn't have endured it for so many years." The emperor understood, "You did it for that brat. You found him, and he's in the capital now. You're afraid that I'll find out and kill him, so you decided to go ahead and kill him." Be strong."

"For a child born to Lu Jiansu and someone else, you actually want to kill the father yourself! Why do I have such a rebellious, rebellious son!"

"Yes. I just want to protect him. I couldn't protect my sister-in-law back then, but now I must protect him. "

The old man dodged, but was held down by the person called by the prince, unable to move.A piece of yellow paper was stained with water and stuck to his face.The old man kept struggling, but he couldn't get away.

"I begged you so much at the beginning, but you refused to let Sister-in-law go. I am very proud to kill you with the palm of your hand and decide life and death with your own will. Now you are also being decided by others, how does it feel?"

"I know what it's like to have a loved one die tragically. When I think about how painful it would be for my beloved to be suffocated to death, if my elder brother knows under the nine springs, I feel that I can't let you go."

"It was the same when sister-in-law died. Did she beg you and struggle too? Why didn't you let her go?!"

He struggled less and less, and finally fell silent.

The prince sat by the bed, his expression unclear: "Go out and stay alone for a while."

The two did not dare to speak, and retreated silently.The moment the door was closed, the prince gently peeled off the yellow paper on the emperor.The man's eyes were wide open, his face was pale, but he could no longer speak or breathe.This person who was once so powerful, so powerful that he could destroy whoever he wanted, finally died.

The Lu family, A Jin, A Tang, himself, all of them are safe.

He arranged the hair and clothes for this man, and preserved the last dignity of the emperor for him.

Sitting by the bed, Mu Qingyuan suddenly burst into tears: "Brother."

"I'm sorry for you. He was right, I killed you."