On the night of the Shangyuan Festival, the killings in the Civil and Military Palace of the Imperial Palace had not yet dissipated. By the second day, martial law had begun everywhere in the city. Although the court had won a battle in the north, the news was not a jubilant scene. Some people realized that a battle for power in Luoyang had begun. ∈♀ From the Eastern King Han Jian leading troops into the palace, to the imperial civil and military ministers being surveilled and lived in the city, it seemed like a step, and the Eastern King's Mansion was to take power. That would mean that a ceremony of abdication seemed to be near.

Han Jian went to the military office early in the morning and was deserted all the way, which was in sharp contrast to the hustle and bustle of the Shangyuan Festival in the city yesterday.

The military meeting lasted for two hours, discussing the issue of withdrawal from the north and the issue of leaving the army, as well as the allocation of troops and the dispatch of food and grass. After the military meeting ended, Han Jian did not want to go to the palace to see Yang Rui, but he had to check Yang Rui's reaction. From yesterday to now, he has not been inquiring about Yang Rui's affairs, but he knows that this matter once again puts him and Yang Rui on the opposite side.

But the first person he saw after entering the palace was Yang Xi.

Yang Xi, who was originally nestled in the East Palace as a turtle, stood nervously in the shadow of the corner of the corridor in the palace, as if she was afraid of being seen. When she saw Han Jian, she ran over from afar and was still paying attention to whether anyone saw him. Han Jian frowned when he saw Yang Xi. If she had to say that Yang Xi looked like something big happened, but it was just about Yang Xi. After Yang Xi returned from Southern Qi, her worldview seemed to be no longer the same as that of ordinary people.

"Brother Han, you... are here. I've been waiting for you all morning." Yang Xi ran over and said breathlessly, "I know you're going to find my sister and you're going to pass by here. Ahem, I...I have something to look for you."

Han Jian shook his head helplessly. A young man was a proton for two years. When he came back, he not only lost his spirit, but also his health was so bad.

"Tell me if you have anything to do." Han Jian was not in a hurry to find Yang Rui. Anyway, he was just going to get into trouble, and it was good to talk to Yang Xi. In his heart, he was still a little guilty about Yang Xi's trip to the Southern Dynasty. He once said in front of Yang Rui that this was an experience of Yang Xi. But who knew that Yang Xi, who had experienced it, seemed to have no other progress except from becoming a sunny boy, became more cowardly.

Yang Xi calmed down his breath and said nervously: "My sister... I sent many palace maids to my place yesterday. It's so terrible. I... I didn't dare to spend the night in the palace last night."

Han Jian frowned. Yesterday was when he led his troops into the palace. After Yang Rui returned, he was angry and tried to take revenge but gave the woman to Yang Xi. However, the list of the second batch of beautiful girls had been submitted. However, the holiday was delayed. Yang Rui didn't think he was perfunctory, so he just wanted to find some palace maids in the palace to send to Yang Xi?

"Why don't you tell your sister in person?"

"...I'm afraid." Yang Xi replied very "shy", and seemed to have some fear in his heart.

Han Jian sighed: "The prince is not young this year, so why not have more women around him? But I haven't found the one I like?"

"No...no, I didn't want to marry a concubine. I said it to my sister when she went to see me last time, but she couldn't listen to it. She insisted on sending the woman over no matter what she said. Now, Brother Han, you have different relationships with my sister in the past, so you can say it. My sister will definitely listen." Yang Xi looked at Han Jian pitifully, as if begging.

Han Jianxin said that it might be effective if someone else said it, but he told Yang Rui that it would be like adding fuel to the fire. Yang Rui didn't send a few palace maids, and even asked those palace maids to force Yang Xi to do that.

"After all, your sister wants you to cheer up earlier. As long as you can cheer up again, then your sister will change her mind." Han Jian said.

Yang Xi blinked and asked inexplicably: "How to cheer up?"

"It's very simple. Don't stay in the palace every day. You have to come out to help your sister share the worries. Even if you can't do too many things, you can learn slowly. As long as you come out, your sister will see your progress. Whenever you say it, your sister will not object to anything you say." After Han Jian finished speaking, he found that what he said seemed a bit evil, as if he was leading someone to commit a crime.

"Then... I'll listen to you. Go and say to your sister, I'm cheering up and let her take back the palace maids, okay?" Yang Xi looked at Han Jian with a begging again.

Han Jian stopped talking nonsense, but instead pulled Yang Xi's collar and said, "Didn't you say you were cheering up? Let's go and see your sister with me and prove this in front of her."

"Ah... you let go, I... I'll go, don't do this, I... it's not that I don't want to see my sister, it's because she's so fierce. You'll ask me... to go back and prepare to see her again."

Yang Xi seemed like a coward, and she felt like she could not grow up. Han Jian thought it was no wonder that Yang Rui forced Yang Xi to do something. How could he be worried about being a sister and a mother?

Han Jian still didn't let go and said, "Listen, if you don't go together, I'll ask your sister to send you a few more people over. Then press you on the head of the bed and let a bunch of people ravage you, you can do it yourself."

"Then... then you let go, hold on like this... I can't even leave."

Han Jian let go of his hand, but Yang Xi followed behind with a sad face, as if his father had died.

When he arrived at the yard of Ye'an Pavilion, the eunuch waiting outside was still a little surprised when he saw Han Jian and Yang Xi coming together. Now the people in the palace also knew about Han Jian's troops leading into the palace yesterday, and they were afraid that Han Jian would come to force the palace this time, but Han Jian brought not many people this time, and he was still walking with the prince Yang Xi, and it seemed that he did not mean to force the palace.

"Your Majesty is inside?" Han Jian asked directly without saying a word.

"Go back to Your Highness, Your Majesty has not yet come out of the bedroom."

Han Jian looked at the sky and it was already noon. Yang Rui had already come to Ye'an Pavilion at this time. Yang Rui was the kind of person who was very dedicated.

But then he thought about it, now that the court has been taken down by him, and all the court officials have been ordered not to come out at home, or even communicate with others. Yang Rui knew that he had nothing to do when he arrived at Ye'an Pavilion and had no government affairs to deal with, so why would he come over?

"Go to tell Your Majesty that I will come with the prince to pay my respects and discuss important matters." Han Jian said.

The little eunuch dared not disobey and hurried into the bedroom to pass the message.

Han Jian asked Yang Xi to wait outside together, but Yang Xi looked around and seemed to be afraid of the place and was ready to leave at any time.

"Brother Han... I... I'm anxious to pee, I want to be respectful." Yang Xi not only had his legs trembling, but his body was trembling. Occasionally, strange palace maids and eunuchs passed by, and he didn't even dare to raise his head, as if he was guilty.

Han Jian sneered: "Do you want to escape, go back to face those women, or stay and talk to your sister so that your sister can feel that you have made progress and no longer imposes control on you?"

Yang Xi thought about it, but finally said discouragedly: "I... don't want to be kept in charge by my sister anymore."

"That's good, wait honestly, your sister is coming soon."

Sure enough, not long after Han Jian finished speaking, Yang Rui hurried out. Not only did he feel a little angry when he was in a hurry, but he came over and shouted, "What are you doing? Why are you embarrassed with Xi'er? You also brought him here. Are you going to kidnap Xi'er?"

Han Jianxin said that Yang Rui's anger in his heart must have been the one who forced Yang Xi to come over.

"Sister... you misunderstood Brother Han, but in fact... it's me that's wrong." Yang Xi said with a bitter face.

When Yang Rui saw Yang Xi standing there all the time, he seemed to have not been forced or abused, he breathed a sigh of relief and his complexion improved a little, but he also looked at Han Jian and said, "Why don't you go in and wait?"

Han Jian said indifferently: "It's very winter, it's great to come out and bask in the sun."

Yang Rui glared at Han Jian and walked to Ye'an Pavilion first. Han Jian then walked in. Seeing Yang Xi standing there without moving, he also pulled him, and then he entered inside one after another.

"I said there is something important, what else is it important?" Yang Rui did not sit down, but stood in front of the desk and looked at Han Jian and asked.

But Han Jian pushed Yang Xi and said, "Let the prince do it."

"I...I said...what should I say? Brother Han, didn't you say..." Yang Xi looked anxious, and his whole body began to tremble, with an unnatural look on his face.

"I forgot how I told you just now?" Han Jian glanced at him.

Yang Xi thought about it and on the way he came, Han Jian did explain to him, asking him to say something to Yang Rui to make Yang Rui feel at ease so that he could not be subject to too much control.

"Sister...I...I want to come out to help you do things...No, sister, you are too worried. My business...I can...I can deal with it myself." Yang Xi paused and repeated several times before he said it in full. After saying that, he lowered his head as if he was doing something wrong.

Even so, Yang Rui was a little surprised. This had improved a lot compared to the devastated younger brother in her mind.

"Xi'er, what you said is true?" Yang Rui said with a little excitement.

"Yes...yes." Yang Xi said, but still looked at Han Jian and wanted to ask Han Jian for his opinion, but Han Jian would definitely not say anything for him at this time.

Yang Rui nodded slightly, but felt a little comforted in his heart, saying, "I came to report yesterday that you didn't go back all night. I thought something had happened to you. Someone asked you to find you all night. Where did you go?"

"I...I'm hiding." Yang Xi said the truth.

Han Jian interrupted: "The prince is hiding for peace and thinking things through."

Yang Rui glared at Han Jian and said, "Have you asked you?"

Han Jian curled his lips, but Yang Xi said: "Sister, Brother Han is right...I...I figured it out. I can help my sister do something, but my sister... wants to take back all the palace maids who sent them. I don't need them to serve. I am used to being alone."

"Okay. My sister will pass the message now and let the palace maids go back. But... it's useless to just say it, it depends on your performance." Yang Rui frowned slightly, as if he also realized that things seemed to have changed too suddenly. How could Yang Xi take the initiative to come over to ask her for instructions? Now he is still with Han Jian, or is it all instigated by Han Jian?

"That sister... I... I want to go back and sleep. Will it be fine tomorrow?" Yang Xi had a bitter face. He had not slept since last night. His eyes were red at this time and his whole body looked like he was about to collapse.

"Okay. I'll ask someone to send you back." Yang Rui said again.

"No...no, I can go back by myself. I recognize the way myself, so I don't have to bother others."

After Yang Xi finished speaking, she couldn't even give a favor. She simply turned around and went out, and ran away from Ye'an Pavilion's yard. She could feel the love you during the winter vacation. Although Yang Xi heard what he should say, she still felt too much fear and resistance in her heart.

Yang Rui was also standing by the window, looking at Yang Xi's back, and couldn't help but sigh. How could she not see what Han Jian could see?

"Did you teach him what he said?" Yang Rui asked without looking back.

"I taught him the words, but he also accepted them in his heart, otherwise it would seem useless to rely on me to say anything." Han Jian said.

"But he is a child after all." Yang Rui sighed.

Han Jian smiled and said, "That's in your eyes. In fact, the prince is already nineteen years old and can come out to be his own side. Because you have always regarded him as a child, he has not even come out of this positioning. Some things can be forced, but they cannot be done too much, otherwise he will only be deeply trapped in his positioning and cannot transcend."

Yang Rui turned around and looked at Han Jian. She thought Han Jian's preaching tone was very strange. After all, Han Jian was about as old as Yang Xi, but his tone was old-fashioned. Even she could not refute some of the words.

"Then what are you going to do... yesterday?"

Han Jian said: "I am here to discuss this matter with you. Just like last time, all those who commit the crime will be investigated, and those who have no evidence will not be investigated."

Yang Rui sneered: "The court has become your court after all. If you say a word, it is better than me, an emperor, to say a hundred words."

"Why do you have to say such an angry thing? I'm doing these things for the Yang family's foundation?"

"Yang's foundation? Humph, I'm afraid that when you unify the country, you will no longer take us Yang people seriously. If you don't need others to instigate you, you will usurp the throne and become the emperor. Then you will recognize us mother and son... siblings?" Yang Rui said, but he couldn't help but wipe his tears.

These words were hidden in her heart, and she felt so wronged. Now that she had Han Jian's flesh and blood, she was treated like Han Jian yesterday. She already felt that Han Jian was not far from the time to truly ascend the throne. Even if she believed that Han Jian did not have this intention now, things in the world were impermanent. When Han Jian really needed to ascend the throne to the throne to stabilize the situation in the world, she believed that with Han Jian's current courage and ambition, she would definitely be able to do it.

"You misunderstood me."

Han Jian walked forward, but hugged Yang Rui's body from behind, but his hand gently stroked her belly.

"It is precisely because I want to help you unify the country, that I cannot be a minister who treasons. In my heart, you are more important than that country. Have you ever heard of someone who doesn't love the country, but loves beauty?" (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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