Su Yao thought for a long time, and finally calmed down. He looked at Su Rong seriously and asked him, "Brother, I know that what happened back then was of great importance to our family, and I also know that it is top secret, but..."
Su Rong raised his eyebrows and looked at his sister. The corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up slightly, revealing a smile.
He raised his hand gently, and seeing Su Yao looking at him calmly, he asked softly, "Do you want to know what happened back then?"
Thinking of what happened back then, when Su Rong thought of these four words, his eyes turned slightly red. Even though he tried his best to restrain himself, for some reason, he finally couldn't help it. He turned his head and held back the sob that was about to come out.
Su Yao had been looking at him seriously, and pursed her lips upon seeing this.
In her previous life, she heard Su An say unconvincedly that even if Su Rong didn't die early, he was just unlucky, otherwise how could he have broken his leg.
The son of the Earl of Yongding was a valiant military commander who had guarded Datong in those days and served as the general of Datong and Xuanfu. It was said that he could stop children from crying at night in the northwest. Su Rong was brought up by him and had followed him to the military camp since he was six years old. He was originally the hope of the next generation of the Su family.
He would have been like Song Heng today, a man of both civil and military talents, a shining pearl among the children of the powerful and wealthy in Shengjing.
But now he can only sit in a wheelchair.
Su Yao could understand his pain and forbearance.
Su Rong recovered quickly. He was a strong-willed man and had been accustomed to carrying everything by himself since he was a child. Even to his grandmother and sister, he rarely said any caring words to them.
The reason is simple: they love him too much and always look at him with pity and regret.
That kind of look always made him feel breathless, as if he was a beautiful jade that had been broken into pieces.
Su Yao's silence and calmness were just right for him. He relaxed unconsciously, and after he recovered, he said calmly, "Father was framed."
The matter of the enclosure had weighed on his mind for many years, but when he spoke of it, he remembered every detail very clearly: "Not long after the Emperor ascended the throne, the Empress passed away. When she was alive, the Crown Prince's position was stable, and he was very close to the Emperor. But after the Empress passed away, the relationship between father and son became alienated for various reasons..."
Since ancient times, being a crown prince has been the most difficult thing.
The emperor himself came to the throne through rebellion, so of course he was most wary of these things.
He is not old yet, but the crown prince is growing up healthily. The East Palace has a very strong team. When the queen was alive, he treated the prince as his own son, so naturally he could not pamper him excessively.
But with the death of the Queen, the bond between them was gone, and there was no one to mediate between them, so naturally the relationship between the monarch and his subjects became more serious.
In addition, other favorite concubines took advantage of the situation to rise to power, and other princes also grew up, so it was inevitable that others would have ideas.
Su Yao could imagine the prince's situation at that time.
"The Crown Princess of the Eastern Palace was already pregnant at that time. Originally, when His Majesty went hunting, someone in the capital was needed to take charge. Normally, the Crown Prince would do such a thing." Su Rong raised the corner of his mouth sarcastically: "But in the end, for some unknown reason, His Majesty only left the First and Second Assistants to take care of things, and brought the Crown Prince with him."
This was a very bad omen. No matter from the perspective of state affairs or family affairs, the crown prince should stay in Beijing to supervise the country. However, Emperor Yuanfeng wanted to take the crown prince with him. This was not because he loved the crown prince, but he clearly had doubts about the crown prince.
Su Yao sighed: "So..."
"Before, it was nothing. My father and Cheng Shouwang, the son of the then Marquis of Changping, were guarding the periphery of the camp. On the tenth day of March, my father received an order saying that a black bear had escaped from the hunting grounds and was very likely to have entered the tents of the women outside. My father took me to catch the black bear. But when my father and I went, we didn't catch any black bears. Instead, we were misunderstood by the guards of the palace army stationed in the women's tents as deserting our posts, so a conflict broke out..." Su Rong couldn't help but bulge the veins on the back of his hand when he talked about that incident: "My father said that he came here on orders. The leader of the palace army guards asked him whose order he was following. My father naturally told the truth that he was following the order of Mr. Tan, the commander of the left army of the Five Military Commandery. But Mr. Tan said that he had never issued such an order..."
Lord Tan? Su Yao frowned: "Did someone forge the military order, or did Lord Tan really give this order?"
"I can't explain it clearly." Su Rong was a little annoyed: "The person who delivered the message to my father couldn't be found, but that night, the prince gave an order in his capacity as the prince and led more than 700 Yulin guards into the mountains."
confusing.
Su Yao quickly sorted out the general situation - someone did it on purpose. The Yongding Marquis' Mansion was related to Madam He by marriage, so they were naturally considered to be members of the prince's party.
Therefore, if someone wanted to plot against the crown prince, they would naturally not let go of the Yongding Marquis's Mansion, which was a useful chess piece.
She asked calmly, "Someone set up a trap to make my uncle make a mistake and lure the prince into leading the troops. This is a big taboo. The reason why His Majesty was angry must be because these two things together were too coincidental, so coincidental that he couldn't believe that the prince didn't have ulterior motives."
Su Rong hummed, a little tired, "Yes, it's a coincidence. The prince heard from his confidant that the emperor encountered an assassin while hunting, so he rushed to the hunting ground with a large number of people. But the information was wrong. The emperor was not hurt at all. Instead, the prince couldn't explain where his information came from. When his confidant was found, he had been killed in the prince's tent. Later, Cheng Shouwang really caught many bandits. According to them, they took money from others, so they sneaked in to prepare for the assassination."
It’s really meticulous.
This situation is really complicated, with truth and falsehood mixed together. I'm afraid even the prince himself is completely confused.
The emperor is even more so.
The son said that someone told him that the emperor was in danger, but that person was killed by bandits. From the emperor's point of view, this was naturally unbelievable. After all, Yongding Bo, a member of the prince's party, also acted without permission that night and led his troops into the camp.
All this looks more like the prince ordered assassins to kill the emperor but was discovered, so he simply took advantage of the situation and deceived the commander of the Yulin Guards to enter the hunting ground and assassinate the emperor.
Su Yao thought about this and looked at Su Rong. "No, the charge against my uncle is at most one of unauthorized action. Why would my uncle..."
Why did the Prince of Yongding die
"What a coincidence! At the same time when His Majesty was returning from the hunting ground with the Crown Prince, a group of unidentified men in armor rushed out from where Cheng Shouwang was stationed. My father and I hurriedly resisted..." Su Rong narrowed his eyes slowly.