"PS: In the last chapter, some book friends said that the dialogue and plot of Princess Yulong's memories were too detailed. In fact, it was for book friends. It was like an interlude in a TV series. It couldn't just be a flash shot, right?
From Princess Yulong’s first perspective, she only saw a man killing a woman, while Emperor Wei and Zhao Hongrun only heard one sentence... We are the only ones with a God’s perspective.”
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"The old man... killed Xiao Shu'ai? But I heard that Xiao Shu'ai committed suicide..."
Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but look back at Princess Yulong, and was shocked by her sudden words.
But when he turned to look at his father's face, he found that his father's face had already darkened.
Tiger poison does not eat seeds, but the way Emperor Wei looked at Princess Yulong at this moment made Zhao Hongrun a little frightened no matter how he looked at her.
"No, I have to leave here as soon as possible. There is something wrong with the old man today..."
After thinking for a moment, Zhao Hongrun cupped his hands and said abruptly: "Father, if nothing happens, I and Yulong will leave first."
However, Emperor Wei ignored Zhao Hongrun, but stared intently at Princess Yulong who was half-hiding behind Zhao Hongrun, and said coldly: "What else do you think of, Yulong?"
"think?"
Zhao Hongrun's face remained calm, but his heart was greatly shocked.
Because doesn’t this sentence mean that Emperor Wei has admitted to killing Xiao Shuai?
At this time, Princess Yulong, who was hiding half of her body behind Zhao Hongrun, looked at Emperor Wei with complicated eyes, with a bit of confusion and a bit of hatred in her eyes. She bit her lip and spoke with a smile.
He asked in a low voice with a bit of resentment: "Why did you kill my mother, father?"
Emperor Wei looked at Princess Yulong coldly. His eyes did not look like he was looking at a daughter, but rather like he was looking at a person who had nothing to do with him.
No, it has something to do with it, because Emperor Wei looked at Princess Yulong with a hint of hatred and murderous intent.
"You go, she stays." Wei Tianzi said coldly.
"Can't stay any longer!"
Zhao Hongrun's heart trembled. Now he has left Princess Yulong behind?
I saw him grabbing Princess Yulong's hand and pulling her behind him, and then said seriously to Emperor Wei: "Father, today Yulong accidentally saw something that his mother had used, and he was excited, so he was not in a good mood.
Ning, speak freely, and allow Erchen to send Yulong back first, and then have another man-to-man conversation with my father."
...This posture clearly shows that he wants to protect Princess Yulong.
No, seeing this scene, Emperor Wei's expression became more sinister, and he whispered: "Hongrun, do you know who you are talking to?"
After hearing this, Zhao Hongrun chuckled and said in a low voice: "In fact, I am also a little confused, and I can't tell whether the person standing in front of me is the old man of my family, or simply the king of Wei...
…”
"..." Upon hearing this, Emperor Wei took a deep look at Zhao Hongrun, and the murderous intent in his eyes dissipated a little: "What do you want to say?"
I saw Zhao Hongrun arching his hand towards Emperor Wei, then deliberately looking around, and said seriously: "I just want to ask my father to calm down, and don't let me regret it again..."
Emperor Wei was slightly shocked when he heard this. Of course he understood what the son in front of him meant.
Involuntarily, Emperor Wei felt a dull pain in his heart.
Yes, a momentary impulse, just a momentary impulse, will make you regret for the rest of your life...
Opening his mouth, Emperor Wei took a long breath, and the anger in his eyes was gradually replaced by heartache and sadness.
Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun understood and grasped Princess Yulong's hand and whispered: "Let's go!"
The two of them walked quickly towards the entrance of the palace, but when they passed by Emperor Wei, they suddenly heard Emperor Wei open his mouth and say: "Stop!"
"..."
Zhao Hongrun felt a chill in his heart, and his scalp was numb. He subconsciously stopped, turned to look at Emperor Wei with an unnatural expression, and whispered: "What else do you have to say, Father?"
However, Emperor Wei didn't say anything else. He just stretched out his right hand with his palm facing up, making a begging gesture.
Zhao Hongrun was stunned for a moment, then suddenly came to his senses and reached out to grab the scroll that Princess Yulong was holding tightly in her arms.
Princess Yulong's eyes were red, and she shook her head desperately while holding the scroll.
"Be good, be obedient." Zhao Hongrun coaxed in a low voice, and finally Princess Yulong let go of her hand with a sad look on her face. She watched helplessly as her mother Xiao Shuai's portrait was taken away by Zhao Hongrun and placed in the palm of Emperor Wei's right hand.
"..." Emperor Wei glanced down at the scroll that had fallen into his hands, then slowly closed his eyes, put his right hand back behind his back, held the scroll, put his hands behind his back, and ignored Zhao Hongrun and Princess Yulong.
The meaning is already very clear.
Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun took Princess Yulong's hand and ran away without saying a word.
He knew very well that there were hundreds of guards outside this ruined palace who were under the orders of his father. If there was any conflict between father and son, the guards alone would not be a match for those guards.
It's not that Zhao Hongrun is afraid. After all, with his current status and power, even his father would not dare to do anything to him easily - if King Hehesu is detained under house arrest, this will cause turmoil in the government and the public.
.
The problem is Princess Yulong.
If Emperor Wei was determined to punish Princess Yulong at this moment, Zhao Hongrun would have no choice.
What's more, the look in Emperor Wei's eyes when he looked at Princess Yulong was far more than just a desire to punish her.
Therefore, it is said that if a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall, it is better to escape as soon as possible.
Seeing Zhao Hongrun and his party escaping from the ruined palace, the eunuch Tong Xian who was standing outside the palace gate sighed slightly, walked across the threshold and walked into the palace, came to the side of Emperor Wei who seemed to be concentrating with his eyes closed, leaned down and said
: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Su has left."
"..." Emperor Wei remained silent.
Seeing this, Tong Xian knelt on the ground and complained: "This matter is only due to the old slave's negligence. Please forgive me."
After a long time, Emperor Wei took a long breath and said calmly: "Get up. I don't blame you, nor Hongrun and...her daughter for this matter. If you want to blame me, I blame myself..."
After that, he suddenly opened his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Burn this palace!"
Tong Xian stood up after thanking him, his eyes widened involuntarily, but in the end, he lowered his head.
"yes!"
After a while, Tong Xian dismissed most of the guards, leaving only a dozen people, and ordered them to bring bundles of firewood from the Palace Food Bureau and pile them outside the main hall.
Immediately, the firewood was lit.
"Stand back." Tong Xian dismissed the twenty-odd guards.
"Yes!" The guards followed the order and retreated outside the garden.
At this time, Emperor Wei was looking at the firewood that was gradually burning, his eyelids twitching.
Suddenly, he seemed to realize something. He lowered his head and looked at the scroll in his hand with a complicated expression. Sometimes he gritted his teeth, sometimes his eyes flashed fiercely, and his emotions were really tangled.
Suddenly, Emperor Wei grabbed the scroll in his hand with one hand, handed it to Tong Xian, and said coldly: "Burn it!"
Tong Xian did not take the scroll. He just lowered his head and said in an incomprehensible tone: "Your Majesty, I don't dare."
"Why don't you dare?" Emperor Wei asked angrily.
"Because this...may be the last...portrait in the palace." Tong Xian said in a low voice.
The "possibility" he said was just a rhetorical statement. In fact, this is indeed the only portrait of Xiao Shuai still preserved in the palace.
Because the scene in this painting is an unforgettable scene from the past for Emperor Wei.
Of course, the same may be true for Zhao Hongrun's Sixth Prince Shuyi Wang Zhao Yuanli.
"..." Emperor Wei's face twitched violently several times. He glanced at the firewood burning slowly outside the palace, then looked at the scroll in his hand, and suddenly said through gritted teeth: "Tong Xian
, Sometimes, I really want to kill you..."
In the past, the great eunuch Tong Xian would have turned pale with fright when he heard such words, but now when he heard these words, he felt a vague sense of pride.
He lowered his head and said softly: "Your Majesty will not do it, because Your Majesty knows that this old slave is loyal to Your Majesty. He is sincere and has no dissent at all."
"..." Emperor Wei was stunned for a moment, and then nodded silently. He gently patted the scroll in his hand on Tong Xian's chest, and said in a tired tone: "Keep it for me... I'm tired."
After that, he turned and left.
"Your Majesty." Tong Xian bowed, and after seeing Emperor Wei out of the garden, he straightened up and shouted sharply: "Come here, come here, put out the fire! Put out the fire!"
The twenty-odd guards rushed in from outside the garden, and while they were busy extinguishing the fire, they cursed in their hearts with hatred: You damn old eunuch, you set fires and put out fires every day.
We are full and have nothing to do? Are you entertaining us like this?
They scolded each other in their hearts, but none of the guards dared to show it. Firstly, Tong Xianfei was Emperor Wei's confidant and had great power in the palace. Secondly, this matter involved Emperor Wei and all the guards.
We are also old people who have been in the palace for a long time, so we naturally know what can and cannot be said.
No, after extinguishing the fire, even though he cursed the old eunuch with hatred in his heart, the captain of the imperial guard still came to Tong Xian with a smile on his face and respectfully reported the result of the loss - in fact, it was a loss
He bought more than a dozen bundles of firewood and blackened the walls outside the temple.
Because Tong Xian knew Emperor Wei too well and knew that he would regret it, he had no real intention to set fire to the palace from the beginning.
"Very good." After listening to the loss results reported by the guard captain, Tong Xian nodded with satisfaction. Then, he squinted his eyes and sneered in a high voice: "You are also an old man in the palace. There are some things that should not be done.
I need some advice from our family..."
"Yes, yes." The guards nodded repeatedly.
When he finally left the ruined palace, Tong Xian couldn't help but look down at the scroll in his hand, and a scene from the past could not help but appear in his mind.
"...Your Majesty summoned the slave...Concubine Xiao? This...Your Majesty? What happened?"
"...This damn bitch betrayed me..."
"...Your Majesty, in order to be on the safe side, we might as well take a two-pronged approach... I have a good candidate here."