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In this troubled time, Zhao Yan just couldn't relax.He slept for more than ten days, and his energy was as good as hell.Zhao Yan only stayed with Xie Qing in the middle of the night, calmed down and thought about the ins and outs of the matter, and felt that he should go and see Zhao Shichang.

He didn't want to talk about brotherly love, he just felt that even though Zhao Shichang could do something like forcing the palace, it must not be what he wanted.Putting the "deep enmity" between the two brothers aside, whether Zhao Shichang's idiot disposes of it or not will not affect the overall situation.The person who encouraged him behind him and advised him was the one Zhao Yan only really wanted to catch.

That person who knows his real illness may be the one who caused the trouble; he also has a way to get past Qi Guo and Chang Shan, and hide it from all of Gu Shenxing's eyeliners. 500 people outside Guangming Palace...

Thinking about it, Zhao Yan couldn't sit still, and he couldn't care about the dew in the middle of the night. He just recovered from a serious illness, put on a big cloak, brought a few guards, and went to see Zhao Shichang regardless of Wang Chun's dissuasion.

Although Zhao Shichang committed the crime of treason, he has not yet been convicted.He is a dignified prince, a brother of the Son of Heaven, so no one really dared to put him in a filthy place like a prison cell. Instead, he found a room in a dilapidated palace in Yongxiang and locked him in, and sent heavy troops. guard.

Someone even cleaned up the house for him thoughtfully.

There are no kings with different surnames in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and no princes unless they are meritorious. All princes and kings are probably somewhat close to the emperor by blood.Therefore, the emperors of the Great Zhou Dynasty, no matter whether they were sincere or false, always treated the princes and kings very leniently.

Therefore, even though Zhao Yanzhi's grandfather, Emperor Cheng, was mean and suspicious by nature, he had to let Zhao Wangzhi, who had accomplished so much and had some inhumane feuds with him, be the king of wealth and wealth all his life; Several elder brothers who never gave up challenging his bottom line.

Zhao Yan was full of thoughts along the way, and the happiness accumulated by staying with Xie Qing all turned into dissatisfaction.So much so that when he found out that the place where Zhao Shichang was imprisoned was cleaned up pretty well, he felt very childishly indignant.

When the old palace door was pushed open, the moonlight illuminated the flying dust very hazyly, and Zhao Shichang felt that the sound of "squeak" was distinctly ominous.He lazily raised his head and glanced at Zhao Yan who was standing outside the door, then sneered and said, "Yo, Your Majesty."

"Your Majesty" has a slightly higher pitch of the word "Mai", and the tone is full of sarcasm.Judging from Zhao Shichang's meaning, it is obvious that he intends to break the pot.Seeing the emperor, he refused to even get up, let alone salute.But Zhao Yan really didn't care, anyway, the bad debt between the two of them couldn't be changed by just saluting and saying something nice.

Zhao Yan just rolled his eyes, and said condescendingly: "Zhao Shichang, you have been out of your mind since you were a child, I believe this time is what you really want to do, but I don't believe that you are able to do it. Tell me, who is the person behind you?"

Zhao Shichang didn't even bother to look at him.He lowered his eyelids and said casually: "Forcing the palace to treason is a capital crime. If I dare to do such a thing, I dare to admit it. As for other things, I will not tell you a word. Yes, I am If you have an accomplice, my accomplice is by your side. But I won't say, I will die when I die, what should I do to make you feel at ease before the end of the day?"

"Winner and loser? Conspiracy?" Zhao Yan only laughed angrily at him: "Brother, you really think highly of yourself! You treat others as an accomplice, and others use you as a pathfinder. How many people want to harm me? ? Why didn’t the King of Guangling not move? Why didn’t the Marquis of Chengyang not move? Why did you pick you?”

"Zhao Yanzhi, don't provoke my relationship with my grandfather and eldest brother! I will believe you? What a joke!" Zhao Shichang stared at Zhao Yanzhi, unmoved.

"Our eldest brother died in the battle long ago. Are you cursing that King Guangling will not live forever?" Zhao Yan only said coolly, "Is it provoking you to judge yourself? It is far from Jibei to Chang'an, and the Marquis of Chengyang is half a thousand miles away." You can reach Guangming Palace in an hour, why don't you see him coming to force the palace? He didn't even show his face all day!"

Zhao Shichang closed his eyes and remained silent.

"Let me guess, they told you that I'm dead, right? You don't even think about it, I have a son, why didn't a new emperor ascend the throne after I died? The country is stable, why not mourn?" Zhao Yan just wanted to I use hate iron to make steel to describe my mood.

"Children are young, how can they convince the crowd?" Zhao Shichang shouted dissatisfied.

"Uncle and Master are still here, so they will naturally teach my son!"

"Zhao Yanzhi, don't forget that my uncle's surname is also Zhao! Is that why you believe him?"

"..." Zhao Yan was stunned for a moment before he understood the meaning of Zhao Shichang's words, and he couldn't help laughing: "Zhao Shichang, I didn't expect that even you would learn to sow dissension. You really don't have old hearts."

The malicious sarcasm in his words made Zhao Shichang blush instantly.

Zhao Yan only seemed to be in a good mood, probably because his sense of intellectual superiority was fully satisfied.He didn't want to deal with Zhao Shichang's embarrassment, but explained to him patiently: "Employees don't doubt people. Uncle wants to be emperor? Then why didn't he do it when the power was all over the world? What's more, uncle has no children, even if he does Now that the emperor has become the emperor, who can this position be passed on to? Not yet my son!"

"Do you know why they let you be the first bird? Because they don't have the guts to attack the Empire. They think that if they can use your hands to get rid of uncle and husband, then it will be easy for them to usurp the throne; and you If you fail, you are the one who conspired against them, and they cannot be implicated. The princes and kings break the law and cannot even be brothers, you don’t even know this, do you?”

Zhao Shichang was startled after hearing this.He kept telling himself that he couldn't believe a single word that Zhao Yan said, but there was a voice in his heart that kept telling him that Zhao Yan was just right.He remembered that the person gave him ginseng, saying that he could poison Zhao Yanzhi, but in the end he killed his mother; he remembered that his mother told him before she died, you are not smart, so don't believe anyone; With a stern face, he told him never to return to Chang'an again.He had been carried away by hatred all these years; how could he have forgotten?Even if Zhao Yan is inseparable from his mother's death, why can't he be blamed?

Zhao Shichang lowered his head and did not speak, Zhao Yan only looked at his slightly moved expression, knowing that he could not be forced to go too far, so he said "Think about it yourself", turned around and was about to leave.

"Zhao Yanzhi, do you know why I hate you so much?" Zhao Shichang whispered behind Zhao Yanzhi.

Zhao Yan was startled, and when he turned his head, he saw Zhao Shichang's distorted face due to resentment and despair.He was slightly stunned, only to hear Zhao Shichang continue to say: "I have hated you since I was a child. My father gave you a baby name, he read medical books for you, and in order to make you happy, he made you a king when you were only two years old, and I, He didn't think about it until his mother passed away. No one in Guangming Palace knew that the late Emperor favored younger sons. But I don't care about it."

Zhao Yan just stood there, listening to him quietly.Zhao Shichang sneered, and the resentment in his eyes was fully exposed: "When I was young, I just wanted my father to look at me more. How can I be so much worse than you? I am only three months older than you, but it seems that I have only You are the father's son. I fell from the rockery and broke my leg. My father just glanced at me perfunctorily and left after saying a few words. When you fell in the garden, he was so distressed. It's like gouging out his heart. When I fight with you, he will only hug you. "

"If it weren't for you, he would love me a little bit." Zhao Shichang didn't care that Zhao Yan just didn't talk, and chattered endlessly: "I hate you, so I poisoned your child to death. But it killed me. my mother."

"My father didn't love me because of you; the only mother who loved me died because of you. Zhao Yanzhi, I haven't been looking forward to your death for a day. God pity, I finally have a chance." Probably mentioned the mother , Zhao Shichang's eyes were full of mist: "But if you die, will my mother come back to life? She told me that others will harm me, but I forgot."

After finishing speaking, Zhao Shichang froze like a deflated ball.After a long time, he closed his eyes and only waved to Zhao Yan, saying, "Come here, I'll tell you what you want to know."

Zhao Yan only took two steps forward.

"Recently, I will only tell you one person." Zhao Shichang said impatiently.

Zhao Shichang murmured something only after Zhao Yan came close, Zhao Yan couldn't help but put his ear to Zhao Shichang's mouth just to hear clearly.Only Zhao Shichang said in a low voice: "The person who called me here is my father."

Zhao Yan was taken aback for a moment, and immediately realized that something was wrong, and immediately got up and backed away at the fastest speed.

Maybe it was because he was recovering from a serious illness and his physical strength was weak. Zhao Yan only took a step too late, and the dagger in Zhao Shichang's hand cut his left arm.

This change is only in an instant.The guards who followed Zhao Yanzhi were shocked, and immediately flew forward to protect Zhao Yanzhi behind him, several swords rushed towards Zhao Shichang at the same time.

Zhao Yan only heard Zhao Yan roar: "Leave him alive!" Several swords froze.

Zhao Shichang sneered with a pale face: "Thanks to you, I finally can't continue to lie to myself that there are still people who love me in this world. But I just hate you, and I just don't want you to live a good life. So—"

Zhao Shichang suddenly pointed the dagger at his heart and stabbed it down.

This move was really unexpected, before the guards had time to stop it, the knife was already solid.

Zhao Shichang's blood instantly soaked his chest, and his lips began to lose the color of life rapidly.

Zhao Shichang's last words before he died were: "All of this is my own idea. Zhao Yanzhi, I curse you for the rest of your life, you will have trouble sleeping and eating; you will live a long life and die alone forever."