incomprehensible

Maybe it was really a flashback, Ye Xueji didn't know where the strength came from, after roaring such a long string, she couldn't make a human voice anymore, her throat was like a broken flute pipe leaking air, and with difficult breathing Let out a groaning sound.

Chen Qian hurriedly helped him to lie down on the bed, and anxiously persuaded: "Your Majesty, don't talk anymore, the dragon's body is important..."

He said so, but he knew in his heart that the emperor was going to die, and he himself knew too many secrets. To tell the truth or not, the end was extremely miserable.He also thought that he had followed the emperor since he was a child, and saw him step by step from an inconspicuous prince to the throne of God. While working hard to maintain the country and the people, he also had to fight against the powerful officials and fight for the imperial power and prestige. But in the end, he ended up like this. None of his queens and princes understood and supported him. When he was seriously injured and dying, he had to come over one by one to scoff at him and sneer at him. Tears freely.

Ye Xuehuan let out a breath slowly, suppressing the dryness in his heart, and said lightly: "The emperor said that the son has never left the protection of the queen mother, and the son can't refute it. He said that Lan'er is the mother's pawn, and the son can only do it." I admit it. But I want to ask my father to clarify one thing."

"My minister doesn't want the throne, not because of Lan'er."

He took a few steps forward, stood in front of the dragon couch, and looked down at Ye Xueji condescendingly, "I know that there must be many helplessness in the throne, and many things are beyond my control. Talking nonsense about father's way of being a king, let alone affirming that he can do better than father, so I am willing to retreat in the face of difficulties, so as not to be forced to make any regrets in the future, and I can only comfort myself This is right, it is for the sake of great justice, and for the sake of the common people in the world."

He glanced at Nangong Yayu pointingly, and the corner of his mouth curled up sharply, "I just don't want... to become a scum like father."

Nangong Yayu laughed softly, Ye Xueji glared at him with widened cloudy eyes, trembling all over, but she didn't have the strength to reprimand him for being rude.

Chen Qian shouted sharply: "Third Highness, please be careful with your words!"

"Father just said that there is no half truth in the son's mouth, so the minister will tell father what is in his heart."

Ye Xuehuan ignored the old eunuch, and said sonorously: "My minister has been guarding the border in the northwest for more than nine years, and has never let the border man step into the border; since he took over the command seal, he has been strict in military discipline and severely punished corruption. Never abuse power to bully the people, never be arrogant and extravagant. My son and minister are worthy of the legacy of our ancestors and the common people below. The only obsession is to stay with Laner forever. Dare to ask the father, what is the world like in this world? , who has the right to say no to me?!"

"My son can destroy the emperor's plan, but he is also not afraid of the queen's situation!" He narrowed his sharp phoenix eyes slightly, and his tone was not passionate, but every word and sentence pierced people's hearts like sharp arrows, "No one You can touch my Lan'er, even the queen mother can't!"

Ye Xueji grinned silently and sneered at him.

"What's the point of Your Majesty mentioning Sister Chu now?" Nangong Yayu took a sip of tea leisurely, her elegant voice seemed very abrupt in this tense atmosphere, "Your Majesty only chose to do so because she felt ashamed of Sister Chu." With this promise to her, why say it as if you are giving Rongcai a great favor."

"Rong Cai has something in his heart, but he also has something to disdain, so he dares to fight, gamble, rob and fight. Where's Your Majesty?" She raised her eyes to look at the emperor, and smiled slowly, "Rong Cai dares to say that he is worthy of heaven and earth, Does Your Majesty dare?"

The emperor's face changed slightly, and he stared at her resentfully, like a white fish dying out of water, opening and closing its mouth with great effort, but still unable to make a sound.

"Your Majesty certainly wouldn't dare." Nangong Yayu's smile grew stronger, "After all, back then, Wen..."

"Shut up!"

Ye Xue stared angrily, spat out a mouthful of purple-black gore, and finally roared.Chen Xi hurriedly wiped the blood on him with a veil, and was so anxious that he was at a loss what to do, so he ran out to call for the imperial physician.

Nangong Yayu didn't stop him, and said softly: "The concubine doesn't want to bring up these old things to make His Majesty sad, but just to teach His Majesty that even if it is a rabbit, if its tail hurts, it will bite people. .”

She seemed to be talking about Ye Xuehuan, but in fact she was talking about herself—the emperor even wanted to kill her only son, so there would be no love between them.

"You... you... all get lost!"

Nangong Yayu got up when she heard the words, and before she left, she wanted to add insult to injury: "In the eyes of my concubine, Your Majesty's princes are all good children, and the Yexue family's country will surely be stable and prosperous. So...Your Majesty, let's go on the road with peace of mind."

Ye Xueji had already exhaled more air than inhaled, lying on her back on the bed, she seemed to have passed out again.Chen Qian led a group of imperial physicians to rush in, and immediately surrounded the dragon couch; Nangong Yayu didn't even look at it, and walked out of the hall indifferently.

Ye Xuehuan followed behind her, and took a last look at the emperor from between the crowded heads of several imperial physicians—there were traces of tears hidden between the cobweb-like wrinkles at the corners of the eyes.

In fact, he could vaguely understand what Nangong Yayu's unfinished word "wen" refers to.

Among all the empresses and concubines, only five gave birth to imperial heirs, and four of them came from the families of powerful officials. Only Ye Xuequan's mother and concubine, Wen Shi, was just a low-status imperial physician.If Ye Xueji's purpose was to use the princes to attack their respective mother's families in order to weaken their relatives and consolidate the imperial power, then Concubine Wen would be like other low-ranking concubines, unable to have children.

When Concubine Wen passed away, Ye Xuehuan was not even born yet, and Ye Xuequan grew up with him at Empress Chu's lap since she was a child.The old eunuchs and maids in the palace seldom mentioned Concubine Wen. When Ye Xuequan was young, she would ask Empress Chu to ask, but when she got older, she never mentioned it again, as if this person had never existed.

Nangong Yayu's ability to use Concubine Wen to stimulate Ye Xueji shows that Concubine Wen is indeed a special existence to him, and it is an eternal pain in his heart. Otherwise, Concubine Wen would not become a forbidden word, and Ye Xuequan would not have this honor Raised by the queen.

It is very likely that there is a deep palace secret in it, but no one will know it now.

Ye Xuequan's participation this time is probably not without reason; the emperor's fall into such a situation is very likely to be due to him.

The majestic emperor, all the princes under his knees hate him, how sad.

When Nangong Yayu left the inner hall, Ye Xuexun immediately stepped forward to support her, and then blinked at Ye Xuehuan who was behind her.

Ye Xuehuan turned a blind eye to it, thinking that he would have to arrest this boy and ask him what kind of rebellious remarks he had made with the emperor, so that he and Ye Xueyuan could be set off as "great dutiful sons".

"Your Majesty has just woken up and needs to rest. Don't disturb him to rest." Nangong Yayu stroked the center of his brows. The emperor's posture of vomiting blood from the anger of the few words just now disappeared, and he looked completely weak and weak. I'm tired, let's leave today."

The little eunuch at the side went out to pass on the message for her, and the concubines outside the door all said that they had retreated, only the little concubine Chu was so angry that her teeth itch.She was the one who took care of the emperor during his coma, and when he finally woke up, he was stunned again. Her fifth prince couldn't even meet him face to face.

Ye Xuejing was the one who was so frightened. He was still young, and he was not very close to the emperor or the four emperor brothers above. The dangers and filth in the court and harem had not been revealed to him, so he naively thought that The palace is the safest place in the world.Suddenly, there was a change in the palace, and there were many casualties in the palace. When the emperor was dying, his brothers did not have any worries. When Ye Xuehuan went in, it was replaced by the emperor yelling inside, there was no father-son affection at all.

This is the first time in his life that he has come into contact with the so-called warmth and coldness of human relationships, but he doesn't understand the cause and effect and right and wrong, he just feels extremely scared; when Nangong Yayu said that he can leave, he immediately dragged his mother and concubine to want to After leaving, he didn't even dare to see his father.Concubine Chu really hated that iron could not be made into steel, but she had no other choice. After saluting Nangong Yayu, she reluctantly took Ye Xuejing back.

Nangong Yayu called Ye Xueyuan and Ye Xuehuan to her Qingxuan Palace for lunch, roughly explained to them the previous judgment of the imperial physician, and told them that there were four copies of the edict, one in her hand, Ye Xueyuan and Ye Xuehuan has one copy each, and the other one is with the emperor himself, which is to be read in front of all the officials.

He didn't trust anyone, and he knew he wasn't trusted, so he made four copies to reassure everyone.

Ye Xuehuan knew it well, Nangong Yayu had been watching coldly inside, she knew exactly what the princes and the emperor had said; especially the details in the imperial study that day, she should have already guessed a lot.It's just that she still needs to save some face for the emperor. She will not say anything about some things, and both of them are tactful and don't ask questions, let alone they are not interested.

Now that the emperor has left an imperial edict, the next thing will be easy to handle.After lunch, Ye Xueyuan left first, Ye Xuehuan called Ye Xuexun aside and asked him what he had said to the emperor.

Ye Xuexun shrugged and said, "What else can I say. I wish him a speedy recovery, but if he insists on saying that I'm cursing him to die early, then I can only wish him a good journey."

Ye Xuehuan: "..."

He really deserves to be the legitimate son born by Nangong Yayu.

Back in the Yinghuang Hall, I saw Lan Qi sitting by the desk, holding the medicine bowl in his hand, although he put it close to his mouth, he was obviously distracted, and he didn't take a sip for a long time.Ye Xuehuan deliberately stepped lightly, dismissed the servant silently, and approached a little bit, but Lan Qi didn't notice it.

"What are you thinking about?"

A deep, slightly teasing voice sounded out of nowhere, and Lan Qi suddenly came back to his senses, almost knocking over the medicine bowl, but it was Ye Xuehuan who held his hand from behind.

Lan Qi looked back at him, his eyes full of inquiries.

Of course Ye Xuehuan knew what he was thinking about just now, and also knew what he wanted to ask, but he just didn't want to answer.Glancing at the little medicine soup left in the bowl, he pretended to be displeased and said, "It's so bad to drink medicine. Do you have to wait for me to come back to feed you?"

Before Lan Qi had time to defend himself, Ye Xuehuan swallowed the medicinal soup in one gulp, squeezed his chin, and fed it mouth to mouth.

He was a little surprised, he was by Ye Xuehuan's side for so long, he was either sick or tonic, in fact, he never stopped taking medicine, but Ye Xuehuan had never given him medicine like this—at least not when he was awake.He behaved differently just after he came back from the Taiwei Palace, he must be in a bad mood; Lan Qi didn't want to ask any more, and obediently swallowed the medicinal soup, then stretched out the tip of his tongue full of bitterness, allowing him to lick, bite and suck gently.

Ye Xuehuan felt his initiative, but instead let him go, pretending to frown and complain: "It's too bitter."

Lan Qi's cheeks were slightly red, he took a piece of candy from the small plate on the desk, put it in his mouth, and pouted his mouth to signal him to kiss.Ye Xuehuan smiled and gnawed on the tip of his nose, then sucked his lips, stuck the tip of her tongue in, licked and stirred, rolled the sugar into her mouth from time to time, and then fed it to him again.

A piece of sugar passed between their lips and teeth, and gradually melted into a sweet and greasy syrup, dyeing the four lips wet and shiny, sticking together sticky, covering up the remaining bitterness , and also calmed Ye Xuehuan's anxiety.

He really couldn't let it go, it seemed that everyone who knew the inside story would tell him that Lan Qi was just a pawn, and the ending had been arranged by the Queen of Chu, and he was powerless to change it; whether it was Su Wei or the emperor, everyone They all viciously asserted that he could not fight against the Queen of Chu and could not protect Lan Qi, but no one told him what the Queen of Chu wanted to do.

There are always some people who don't regard other people's treasures as treasures, think they can see through everything, and try to influence others;

But the most embarrassing thing for him is that he really has no confidence, not sure that he will be able to break the situation of Empress Chu and keep Lan Qi unscathed.If he is sure, he can completely laugh off these swearing and cursing, and be as calm as before, instead of speaking boldly in front of the emperor, and confide those "inner truths" that he never bothered to say.

He was eager to declare and prove to everyone, and he was also eager to comfort and stabilize himself, nipping in the bud any doubts and anxieties that could shake his mind.

"Lan'er..." He cupped Lan Qi's cheeks, "Will you blame me? I can't protect you well, and let you get sick and injured."

"I told you a long time ago that I'm a despicable and selfish person." Lan Qi put his arms around his shoulders and said in a muffled voice, "I'd rather be sick and injured for you, so that you will pamper and love me even more, and then you will love me more." You will be even more unable to let go of me. If one day you don't love me and don't want me anymore, I'd rather die."

He shrank into Ye Xuehuan's arms again, and bit him on the shoulder as if angry, "I died in your arms, so that you will think of me as long as you hug others, and you will have no peace for the rest of your life."

Ye Xuehuan laughed and scolded in a low voice: "Little white-eyed wolf, you are so vicious."

"So I won't blame you." Lan Qi raised his head and kissed his chin, "I will only ask you for more. You have to remember all the suffering I suffered for you and make it up to me. OK."

"You..."

Ye Xuehuan couldn't help but rubbed him into his arms.It seems that no matter what the cause of his confusion, Lan Qi always has a way to comfort him.She won't talk to him without asking for anything in return, and accepts all the luxury and food he offers, knowing how not to burden him.

He said that he wanted to ask for more, but in fact he was just acting coquettishly, and he was very skillful, which made him helpless every time, but he would not be in the slightest embarrassment.

His kitten is so vivid, so smart, so cute, and will resolve crises for him and share with him through thick and thin. He can't figure out why some people don't treat him as a human being, insisting that he is just a pawn , as light and simple as if you can throw it away after use.

——Even if Lan Qi is really just a pawn, he still insists on fighting; if Queen Chu is not willing, then let her come down with a thunderbolt and chop him to death together.

Ye Xuehuan was amused by his sudden childish thoughts, but he also understood that he was so desperate because he really loved her to the core.

At that moment, a deep love... and desire surged up in his heart uncontrollably.

"Is there a good lunch?"

This question was endless, Lan Qi nodded subconsciously, and then realized that his face blushed.

"Since you are full, you will have the strength to do things."

Ye Xuehuan hugged him, pressed him directly on the bed, leaned over and gnawed on his still sweet lips.

He used to be annoyed that Lan Qi tried to fill the emptiness in his heart with physical pleasure, but now he is the same, seeking comfort from Lan Qi in this way.

But he can forgive himself for the occasional indulgence—albeit a little more lately.

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If it wasn't for his pity that he hadn't recovered from the cold, Ye Xuehuan really wanted to do it again.

Lan Qi had already lost his strength, seeing Ye Xuehuan's unsatisfactory expression, he didn't dare to die anymore, and begged softly: "No more..."

Ye Xuehuan laughed, pulled a coat to wrap him up, hugged him in his arms and patted his back lightly, while exhaling hot and humid breath in his ear: "Good boy, I will forgive you today, next time... ..."

Lan Qi hurried forward and blocked his mouth, not letting him speak any more.

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Caught off guard and entered the tunnel again...