Two hundred and ninetieth nine chapters with sorrow
The princes all left, and the hall was silent.
Although the emperor always liked silence, the silence at this moment seemed more eerie and terrifying than before.
When Eunuch Jinzhong walked in, he was also a little nervous.
"Is everything done?" the emperor's voice came from the front.
With a hollow voice that seemed real and illusory, Eunuch Jinzhong lowered his head and said: "The fifth prince and everyone in the queen's palace have been dealt with. The fifth prince has been escorted out of the palace, and the queen has also entered the cold palace. The servant has also seen the concubine Xian, please ask her
I will temporarily take over as the master of the harem, and I will accept it."
The emperor hummed.
Eunuch Jinzhong took a step forward and continued: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has not returned. He is sitting on duty in the outer hall."
It was undoubtedly a huge shock to the prince that his biological brothers and biological mother had done such a thing and received such a punishment.
The emperor's voice was very calm, not as pitiful as before, he just said: "It's better to calm down."
Eunuch Jinzhong said again: "Zhou Xuan didn't go back either. He went to kneel outside the third prince's door."
The emperor's voice smiled: "In my life, this is the first time I've seen him take the initiative to plead guilty. He really looks like a courtier."
Eunuch Jinzhong took another step forward and sighed: "This time the matter is too big. Lord Zhou was also frightened."
In fact, the princes are not that friendly, everyone knows it in their hearts, but it has reached the point where they are fighting each other to the death, which is really shocking.
"This is all my fault." The emperor said in a low voice, "I was too good to them."
Eunuch Jinzhong knelt down, raised his sleeves and covered his face and cried: "Your Majesty, don't say that. You care for every child wholeheartedly. This is all connived by the queen. No, this is all the fault of the princes and kings. If not,
They were in chaos at that time, the late emperor died early, and the mother and concubine were weak. Your Majesty, you, a teenager, could only choose a queen in a hurry - "
At this point, Eunuch Jinzhong couldn't talk any more and burst into tears.
The emperor cried and laughed at him: "Okay, okay, don't go so far."
Eunuch Jinzhong fell to the ground and sobbed.
The emperor let out a long and faint breath: "I am also tired. Let's go and have a rest first. We can talk about everything after we have rested."
Eunuch Jinzhong got up and went to help the emperor with a sob. The two left the hall, and the hall fell into silence again.
In the guard room in the outer palace, the prince sat alone like a wood carving or stone sculpture.
The eunuch from Fuqing stumbled in, holding a bowl of soup in his hand. When he came in, he knelt down and cried: "Your Highness, please eat something."
The prince understood that eating was not the key. He looked at Fuqing and asked, "What's going on?"
Fu Qing choked in a low voice: "I didn't expect the defense on the third prince's side to be so tight."
The prince said: "We have known for a long time that the defense is tight. Aren't they experts?"
Masters also make mistakes sometimes. Fu Qing did not dare to argue, lowered his head and sobbed: "Your Highness, those real masters haven't had time to get close. According to the last news they sent, the defense outside the camp is also very tight, and there seems to be an ambush by thousands of troops.
, Fortunately, General Iron Mask’s reinforcements arrived, and they had a chance to disperse while taking advantage of the chaos, otherwise they would have been caught.”
The prince understood what he meant. If these people were also caught, the matter would not end with the fifth prince being banned, and he would also be exposed.
Maybe, maybe, he has been exposed.
The prince couldn't help but think of what the emperor had just said in the palace, "Once something is done, it will leave traces. No one can escape!", and he always felt that besides scolding the fifth prince, there was something more intentional.
"Let's stop this time." The prince whispered, his face turned pale, this time it was really a heavy loss.
The fifth prince was imprisoned, the queen was banished to the cold palace, and his hidden men fled and could not appear again for a short time.
The seedling of the Third Prince grew into a strong tree without even realizing it. The poison did not kill him, the bandits did not kill him, and he recovered and gained prestige. So who can do anything to him next?
"Your Highness." The Fuqing eunuch knelt down and hugged his legs, wailing urgently, "Leave Qingshan here, you are the prince, and as long as you are the prince, you will be the emperor in the future. No one can threaten you, Your Highness, it seems that now
The third prince is very powerful, but the fifth prince and the queen are punished. You are the most pitiful person, and His Majesty will pity you even more. This is your greatest opportunity."
The prince looked down at him and smiled: "You are right, Gu, you will cheer up."
Fuqing raised his head and looked at him, tears streaming down his face.
"Okay, get up." The prince said, pointing to the side, "Bring the soup. I want my father to pity me, but I can't let him worry. I want to eat well and make atonement for my brothers and mother."
Fuqing cried and nodded, stood up with the soup and put it on the table. The prince sat down, lifted up the spoon with one hand and ate it in big mouthfuls.
A eunuch outside reported, "Zhou Xuan is here and he has knelt down outside."
The prince's hand holding the spoon paused.
Fu Qing asked in a low voice: "See you? He just met the third prince."
The prince said: "This is his wish. If the third prince doesn't want it, we won't want it."
Zhou Xuan refused the emperor's offer of marriage because he was determined not to give up military power. General Iron Face was old after all. When General Iron Face resigned, military power would definitely be in Zhou Xuan's hands. Fu Qing nodded and said: "Slave
Go and invite him in."
The prince waved his hand and continued to eat with a spoon. Not long after, Zhou Xuan walked in with the sound of footsteps.
"Brother Jinrong." He didn't call the prince, but called the prince's name.
The prince held the spoon without stopping: "Why don't you call your highness? Aren't you a minister now?"
Precisely because he claimed to be a minister and regarded the prince as his king, so the fifth prince asked him to take him there, so he obeyed the emperor's orders and ignored them - and that's how we are today.
Zhou Xuan came over in a few steps and knelt down on one knee in front of him: "Brother Jinrong, it's all my fault. My connivance caused you to lose a younger brother, Jinrong, so I will compensate you for myself -"
He shed tears as he spoke.
The prince still didn't look at him, and put the spoon into his mouth. His mouth was already full, but he didn't seem to notice, and he kept feeding himself, with tears streaming down his face.
Looking at the lost prince, Zhou Xuan grabbed his arm and cried, "Brother, don't be sad, brother, don't be sad -"
The spoon in the prince's hand clattered down, and he stretched out his hand to hug Zhou Xuan, sobbing and crying: "I don't deserve to be a brother, I don't deserve it, it's all my fault, I didn't discipline him well——"
The two people in the palace held each other's hands and cried. The Fuqing eunuch standing at the door wiped his tears with his sleeves and said to the eunuchs standing next to him, "Don't disturb them."
The eunuchs nodded hurriedly and backed away gently.
Xiaoqu looked inside the palace and saw the third prince sitting alone. He hesitated and walked in, asking in a low voice: "Master Zhou is gone?"
The third prince hummed.
There was silence in the palace again. This silence was a bit suffocating. Xiaoqu couldn't help but wanted to break it, but a man appeared. He blurted out and asked: "Didn't His Highness say he was going to see Miss Danzhu?"
Hearing this name, the third prince, who was sitting alone, raised his head and looked outside the palace. The sunlight was slanting and elongated, and there seemed to be colorful clouds shining brightly on the horizon.
"I'm not going today." He said, "Let's wait a little longer."
As Xiao Qu bowed his head in response, there were thin footsteps coming outside the hall, and a delicate and thin figure looked over.
"Ningning." Xiaoqu turned around helplessly and asked, "What's the matter?"
The female voice was soft and timid: "The imperial kitchen brought snacks, but His Highness didn't even eat breakfast or lunch."
Xiaoqu looked at the third prince again. The third prince was silent, so he said to the outside world: "Send him in."
Ning Ning responded, and the eunuchs on both sides hurriedly whispered to her: "Ning Ning is really amazing." "Ning Ning, just come." After saying this, he handed her the food box.
Ning Ning took it and walked in with unsteady steps.
The Iron-faced General walked out of the palace door slowly. The opened palace door closed again, and layers of guards surrounded the palace door.
"General, do you want to go back to the military camp?" Fenglin drove over and asked.
The Iron-faced General looked at the direction of the military camp, then looked in another direction, and said: "Let's take a walk first."
