Candles are flickering, long lights are dark.
The hall, which should have been peaceful and silent, shone brightly from layer to layer, and the palace curtains hung quietly without wind, but they couldn't cover the deep cold.
The Emperor of Heaven pressed the already cold teacup on the dragon table with his hands, and looked at the few people kneeling on the ground with a gloomy expression.
The first person, dressed in plain clothes, was the prince who brought the beauty out of the palace privately tonight, and almost caused disputes between the Gyeonggi Guards and the inner court army. King Ling and King Qing knelt by the side, and Li Chengyu, the commander of the inner court army, was behind him. Needles could be heard in the quiet room, and the calm and oppressive heart palpitations of the approaching wind and rain.
"My good son." The Heavenly Emperor said in a painful and angry voice, and finally said every word.
The prince kowtowed slowly and fell silent.
The Emperor of Heaven suddenly picked up the teacup in his hand, threw his head at the prince, pointed at him and said angrily, "You...you tell me, what do you want to do?!"
The prince knelt quietly and did not hide, a cup of tea splashed over his face, sprinkled all over his body, and the ice-patterned jade porcelain cup cracked all over the ground.
Seeing that the crown prince kept silent, the Emperor turned to Li Chengyu angrily, and said, "Li Chengyu, you are so courageous, are the inner court guards going to rebel? If I entrust the safety of the forbidden palace to you, wouldn't it mean that my life is in the hands of others?"
These few words were so serious that Li Chengyu broke out in a cold sweat, kowtowed his head a few times, and said in a trembling voice: "I am guilty, but I failed to make an appointment to ban my subordinates. The guilt is unforgivable. The inner court guards have always been dispatched by His Royal Highness , Your Majesty, for the sake of their loyal protection of the lord..."
Before the words fell to the ground, Ye Tianling frowned, and as expected, the Emperor of Heaven shouted: "Bastard! Who is your master!"
Li Chengyu was stunned for a moment, but the mistake had already been made. He deeply regretted his stupidity, and tremblingly said: "The emperor... the emperor forgives the sin..."
The Emperor of Heaven snorted coldly, and turned to the prince: "I have worked hard to cultivate you for more than 20 years, but in exchange for you saying 'stupid and dull, not enough to inherit the great rule'. The foundation of the ancestors of Jiangshan Sheji is not as good as a woman in your heart! Luanfei Well, where did Luan Fei go?"
The prince closed his eyes, deeply suppressed the pain, and couldn't even reply for a while. Ye Tianling glanced at him and said, "Going back to Emperor Father, Luan Fei committed suicide by killing himself, Princess Qingping is helping."
"Rescue me!" The Emperor of Heaven paced back and forth angrily: "If you have the courage to die, you have the courage to come to see me. I want to ask her what method she used to confuse the prince and do such a thing!"
The prince heard the words and kowtowed twice on the ground: "Everything is the fault of my son, please forgive Luan Fei..."
This remark did not intend to add fuel to the flames, before he finished speaking, he heard the Emperor of Heaven slam the case with his hand: "You don't even have me as the emperor in your eyes! If you still don't repent now, why should I keep you!" I was angry in my heart At the extreme, he pulled out the Nine Dragons Swallowing Gold Sword in front of the hall with his backhand, and swung his hand at the Prince's body.
Everyone was shocked, Ye Tianling and Ye Tianqing rushed forward, Ye Tianqing hugged the Emperor of Heaven: "Father, calm down, take care of yourself!" The prince looked sympathetic, allowing Ye Tianling to block him behind him.
Ye Tianling said in a deep voice: "Brother, don't annoy Father anymore." He lowered his voice and quickly whispered in his ear: "I've harmed Luan Fei."
The prince's eyes were clear, and when he looked up, he saw that the Emperor of Heaven was so angry that his face was ashen, he was stopped by Ye Tianqing, and his body trembled slightly. Thinking of the great kindness of my father for more than 20 years, deeply regretting and blaming myself, I kowtowed heavily and said in pain: "My son deserves to die, please take care of my father..."
The Heavenly Emperor hated that iron could not be made into steel, pointed at him with the sword in his hand, and said, "You want to piss me off!"
Everyone dared not speak nonsense and could only persuade from the sidelines. Suddenly, outside the silent hall, a servant's voice came from a panicked voice: "See the queen mother!" With Qing Chen's support, the queen mother stepped into the hall tremblingly: "Whoever wants to hurt the prince, Ask the Ai family first."
Qing Chen looked towards the front of the hall, and saw that Qingshi was cold, and the prince, Ye Tianling, and Ye Tianqing were all kneeling in front of the Emperor in embarrassment. The three-foot sword peak in the Emperor's hand pointed at the prince brightly. His normally majestic face was full of anger at this moment, but he looked much older.
There are broken porcelain everywhere, making a mess.
Seeing that the Empress Dowager was alarmed, the Emperor of Heaven was even more annoyed: "Mother, it's cold in the night, why did you bother to come here?"
The queen mother looked at the prince and said: "If Ai's family doesn't come, the emperor will not want his life?"
The Emperor of Heaven said angrily: "The wicked thing, the queen mother must not protect him."
The queen mother let go of Qing Chen's hand, held the Emperor of Heaven, and said slowly: "Qing Chen, together with Ling'er, send the crown prince to Yanxi Palace so that he can take care of him. Everyone else should go back and take care of their subordinates, so don't let the emperor worry about it anymore." The Ai family has something to say to the emperor."
Although they got orders from the Queen Mother, none of them dared to move under the wrath of the Emperor of Heaven.
The Empress Dowager looked solemnly, looking deeply at the Emperor of Heaven, and there was a gleam in her old eyes that was not commensurate with her age, as if the wisdom that had gone through the years was extremely calm, but powerful enough to penetrate people's hearts.
The Emperor of Heaven couldn't disobey his mother, and said to the people who were kneeling on the ground: "Get out of here! Whoever dares to spread half of what happened tonight, I will definitely not forgive you lightly!"
Qing Chen and Ye Tianling helped the crown prince to exit Zhiyuan Hall, Ye Tianling told the inner court guards behind him, "You don't have to follow." The guards looked at each other, seeming uneasy, but they finally retreated .
The few people walked forward for a while, Ye Tianling looked at the prince with dark eyes, and said, "Big brother seems to have not thought about this matter."
The prince's commoner gown was blown fluttering by the cold wind, and after a sad smile, his expression was completely dead silent, and he only asked: "Luan Fei...how is she?"
With a worried expression on his face, Qing Chen murmured: "I can only save her life, but she fell asleep."
The prince said in pain, "When will I wake up?"
Qing Chen was silent for a moment: "I don't know, I don't know if I can wake up."
"What?" The prince's voice tightened suddenly, but then he said compassionately, "That's fine."
The moon is in the middle of the sky, casting a deep shadow between the palaces, reflecting the prince's handsome face like jade, with an unreal paleness, and his figure standing in the wind seems to be a touch of moonlight, which should not belong to this biting beast. The deep palace, at this moment, looks distant but dark.
Even if Luan Fei wakes up, he will not escape the severe punishment of the Emperor of Heaven. Qing Chen thought silently, and asked the prince, "How does Your Highness know that Luan Fei is wearing Hedinghong?"
The prince said: "She and I knew that there would be a day sooner or later when we left the palace, so I prepared two bottles of this Crane Crown Red and kept one of each, but I didn't expect it to be used so soon."
"Then there is also a bottle here, Your Highness?" Qing Chen asked immediately.
The prince smiled lightly, and nodded, with a desolate smile, deeply filled with dejected pain.
Qing Chen said: "Can you show me? If you know the properties of the medicine, it may be helpful to Luan Fei."
The prince stood silent for a moment, and took out the same sapphire porcelain bottle from his bosom. Qing Chen took it and uncorked the bottle carefully to distinguish it. She didn't dare to hand over the crown prince, so she flipped through and threw them all among the flowers and plants in the palace garden: "The poison is very ominous, Your Highness, don't keep it on your body."
The prince didn't stop her, as if all thoughts were lost, no matter what happened, it didn't matter.
Ye Tianling frowned and said, "Why did Big Brother and Luan Fei act like this? This time, Father is really angry."
The crown prince remained silent, but Qing Chen said in a low voice, "Luan Fei is nearly two months pregnant."
Ye Tianling's eyes moved, and the prince looked at Qing Chen awe-inspiringly. Qing Chen shook his head: "Don't worry, I didn't sue anyone."
The prince sighed deeply, and the sigh drifted away, scattered far into the moonlight, his gaze passed through the high wall of glazed gold tiles: "Luan Fei likes quiet and simple days, picking chrysanthemums in the east fence, and sailing on five lakes , I don’t want the child to be born again in the emperor’s house in this red-walled forbidden palace.”
Qing Chen asked back: "Luan Fei? Is it really for Luan Fei, Your Highness?"
The prince smiled: "Maybe it's also for myself. I have been with my father since I was a child, learning the ways of sages and etiquette, and learning how to govern the country with latitude and longitude. I have long been tired of plotting and slaughtering in the palace, even if it wasn't for Luan Fei to leave, I don't want to be this prince anymore."
The two people around him didn't want him to say such a thing. After a long while, Ye Tianling said slowly: "Being born in the royal family, since you have the glory beyond the reach of ordinary people, you must exchange it for other things. In fact, the elder brother also understands in his heart. .Instead of resenting and struggling, it is better to follow the way out and go straight up, maybe you can reach the top by turning around."
The prince looked at the same dim moonlight, but carved a sternness and determination on Ye Tianling's side face. The fourth younger brother in front of him had the ambition to expand the territory and rise to the clouds since he was a child. He started fighting in Sihe at the age of fifteen and led the army for only ten years. , Three out of ten of the expansion of the territory of the Celestial Dynasty. The personnel of the Ministry of War are overstaffed and overstaffed, but he dares to make a large number of deletions and rectify them until they are strong and powerful; the Ministry of Households has always been corrupt and deficient, and he is the only one who dares to write to the Emperor of Heaven to request a thorough investigation. Or only such people are suitable for the career of emperors through the ages, not themselves.
He smiled deeply towards the Qinghui under the moon, and said to Ye Tianling with a noble and noble style: "Fourth brother, your heart is in Anbang to rule the country and the world, but my heart is only in the manuscripts of literature and history. You may not be born." The great achievements last forever, but I only want the culture to last forever. So in this emperor's house, you can advance and retreat freely, but I can only struggle in pain, this is my life."
Ye Tianling's face was like a deep lake, so people couldn't see the expression in his calm eyes, but he said calmly: "Although fate is determined by God, it depends on who is better, you or God. "Although the voice was soft, it was powerful, and it seemed to carry an irresistible force.
The prince said: "It doesn't matter whether it is heaven or fate now, I just want to see Luan Fei."
Qing Chen looked at Ye Tianling, and Ye Tianling said nonchalantly, "I'll go to see the imperial grandmother's bedroom." He turned and left, leaving the two of them in place.