Xiao Heng's clothes are not very expensive fabrics, but wearing a plain shirt on him is still a jade tree facing the wind and magnificent.
The house is quiet.
I don't know if it was because he looked crazy, or because the monarch's reaction made everyone dare not breathe.
Or both.
The crown prince summoned up his courage and called out, "Father, royal father?"
The king didn't hear it, or he heard it and ignored him.
From the door to the bed, just over ten steps away, the monarch walked for a long time.
He has passed the age where he will be excited and excited because of something, and his thousands of emotions are hidden in those weather-beaten eyes.
He came to the child.
The last time the two met face to face, the eldest grandson of the emperor was only a five-year-old child, and he returned to Shengdu with Shangguan Yan when he was less than two years old.
At the age of three, the Xuanyuan family rebelled.
At the age of four, the Xuanyuan family was destroyed.
At the age of five, he was imprisoned in the imperial mausoleum with his wife.
Since then, the monarch has been able to see him from a distance in the National Teacher Hall almost every two years.
But every time the monarch will ask the national teacher to draw his portrait, so he recognizes the child, no matter how far or near.
The monarch paused and looked at Xiao Heng fixedly: "... Qing'er."
A trace of surprise flashed across Xiao Heng's eyes: "Your Majesty?"
Everyone was stunned.
The king said in amazement, "Do you still remember me?"
Xiao Heng: Wait, shouldn't "I" remember you? "I" return to Sheng once every two years. Haven't you met your grandparents
Such a small situation would naturally not be difficult for Xiao Heng.
Xiao Heng glanced at the prince who had not recovered from his shock at the door, and said without changing his face, "That person calls you your royal father, I think, except your majesty, no one in Yan country can afford this title. "
The king returned to his senses: "It turned out to be only recognized. No wonder you walked so neatly in the carriage last time."
Xiao Heng paused for a while before realizing what the carriage was, what happened last time.
Not really.
Is that bald old man you
This was the night he was chased and killed by Han Ye. The dead man who came to rescue him threw him into a carriage. The carriage was split open, and he only recognized Zhang Dequan.
The king asked: "Since you have come to Shengdu, why haven't you shown up? Why didn't you go back to the palace to find me?"
Xiao Heng lowered his eyes and said sadly, "Because someone was chasing me, my mother told me to hide and not come out, but I heard the news that my mother was injured, and I really couldn't continue to hide."
The king's face sank.
The prince is a little out of shape.
First of all, he didn't recognize Xiao Heng, and when he saw the other party's first glance, he really thought it was Shangguan Qing coming back.
It was not until he heard this chase that he woke up like a dream.
He didn't send anyone to hunt down Shangguan Qing, and he only dealt with Xiao Liulang from beginning to end.
The boy's original name was Xiao Heng, and his father was Xiao Ji, the Marquis of Xuanping of Zhao State. At the age of fourteen, he sent someone to assassinate Xiao Heng, but Xiao Heng escaped in fake death and survived as Xiao Liulang.
The prince sometimes used to call him Xiao Liulang.
But that's not right, hasn't the tear mole under Xiao Heng's right eye been removed
So is this Shangguan Qing or Xiao Heng
He felt that Xiao Heng was more likely. After all, Xiao Heng was in Shengdu, but Shangguan Qing had not heard from him for a long time.
But isn't Xiao Heng not aware of his own background
How could he come to pretend to be Shangguan Qing
The prince's mind was a mess, and there was no way to sort out his thoughts in this situation.
On the contrary, the little princess on the side jumped in.
The monarch introduced: "Xiaoxue, he is Shangguan Qing... According to the seniority, I have to call you a little aunt."
Going to Lingbo Academy to go to school a lot, always getting along with Xiao Qingkong of the same age, the little princess almost forgot that he was a little elder.
She hurriedly straightened her back, with a serious face, looked up at Xiao Heng and said, "I'm Shangguan Xue..."
Ya Ya Ya!
This guy looks great!
I really want to grab my little face and scream!
The little princess actually met Xiao Heng when he went to Lingbo Academy on the first day for class, but at that time Xiao Heng was wearing the uniform of Canglan Women's Academy, with a veil on his face, making it impossible to see his appearance.
Xiao Heng pretended that it was the first time he saw the little princess, squatted down on one knee, looked at Xiaodouding, smiled and said, "Hello, Aunt Xiaoxue."
Countless pink bubbles appeared on the top of the little princess' head.
This nephew is so cute!
Not like that nasty ghost of Ming Junwang!
From today, she will cover him!
The little princess's eyes were so bright that they could sparkle, but she tried to be reserved and calmly said, "Well, hello little nephew."
Shangguan Qing takes his mother's surname, which is somewhat similar to a child born by a woman recruiting her son-in-law, so he is not the grandson of the monarch, not the grandfather of the monarch, but the grandfather of the emperor.
It's just that Xiao Heng will not easily call out this "grandfather".
Based on the monarch's attitude towards himself, Xiao Heng had a preliminary judgment on the status of the eldest grandson in the mind of the monarch - the monarch cared about this eldest grandson, even a little higher than he thought.
Xiao Heng's decision was actually very risky. If the monarch didn't want to see Shangguan Qing at all, then he would be exposed in vain.
There were two people lying on the two beds in the room, one was Shangguan Yan, who was in a drowsy state just after the operation, and the other was Gu Jiao, who was so tired that he fell asleep.
The monarch's eyes swept over the two of them, and finally fell on Shangguan Yan's body, and asked, "Did the doctor say how is your mother's condition?"
Xiao Heng glanced at Gu Jiao, who was sleeping soundly, and squeezed his fingers, saying, "I heard from the doctor surnamed Xiao that my mother broke two spines. In order to save my mother's life, my mother was punched in the back. eight nails."
Nail into the bone!
The monarch's aura instantly cooled, and the murderous aura instantly filled the entire room.
The little princess, who was not afraid of him, jumped to Xiao Heng's feet subconsciously, and while turning to look at the monarch, he hugged Xiao Heng's thigh and made his little nephew's leg pendant.
Xiao Heng didn't move, so he let her hang.
The monarch was very angry at the fact that the princess was injured so badly, whether it was because of the remaining father-daughter relationship, or because the prestige of the monarch of a country was provoked, it is unknown.
Xiao Heng secretly planned in his heart what to say next.
"I heard that my mother fell off the hill by herself."
The king looked at him.
"My mother was abolished from martial arts before she went to the imperial mausoleum." This matter is well known to everyone, it is not a secret, Xiao Heng has heard of it long ago, but the next few sentences have to rely on Xiao Heng based on Shangguan Yan's performance in Tianxiang Pavilion Hu pinched, "But in order to exercise my physique these years, my mother would accompany me to practice martial arts together.
To directly say that Shangguan Yan is practicing martial arts again will appear to be her ill-intentioned, but if she is to teach Shangguan Qing, this frail and sickly, there is no doubt about it.
The monarch recalled how Shangguan Yan climbed over the wall from the cold palace, and it was indeed a bit of a three-legged cat's kung fu.
It shouldn't be too powerful, otherwise it won't go out of the palace through a dog hole.
Nan Shi Niang is also a person who has been abolished in martial arts. Xiao Heng knows the highest level of martial arts practice again, so he does not advocate that Shangguan Yan is really strong in martial arts.
He continued: "My mother is very clever and has a little martial arts. I don't believe she would fall into this by herself."
"That's the palace. Does anyone dare to attack your mother in the palace?" The prince wanted to say this in his heart, but if he really said it, he would appear very suspicious.
The prince strode forward, and first personally moved a stool for the monarch to sit beside the bed.
Oh, filial piety is still his filial piety.
It made the monarch stand for so long.
"Your Majesty." The prince said with a sad face while supporting the monarch to sit down, "My son also thinks there is something strange about this matter. Since you have already banned three... Shangguan Yan's feet, my son believes that she will not run away without authorization. Zhaoyang Hall, maybe they found someone suspicious, so they chased them out."
Good guy, on the surface, he said that Shangguan Yan was injured suspiciously, but in fact he was secretly emphasizing that Shangguan Yan had disobeyed the monarch's foot restraint order.
Who told you to run out of Zhaoyang Hall in the middle of the night
Just listen to the king's words and everything will be fine, right
What is this not self-inflicted
The little princess couldn't understand what they were talking about. She hung motionlessly on her little nephew's lap like a confused little Guoguo.
Xiao Heng's eyes became cold, and he said with the spirit and temper of a young man: "How does His Royal Highness know that my mother was lured out, not kidnapped?"
The prince choked: "This..."
Xiao Heng said in a cold voice, "I heard that not long after my mother returned to the palace, His Royal Highness had the guards below injure my mother."
The prince retorted: "I didn't! The guard did it himself! I think it's too late to stop it! It's because your mother pushed me! She pushed me down the steps of the pavilion! Do you know how high the pavilion is?"
Xiao Heng asked back: "So Your Highness held a grudge and let my mother fall down from the high hillside?"
The prince's eyes trembled, and he suddenly raised the volume: "No one!" "
"Enough, stop arguing!" The king said sternly.
The little princess blocked her little ears with her fingers.
The monarch said to Zhang Dequan: "Take the little county master out."
"Yes." Zhang Dequan came over and carried the little princess out.
"What's going on, you'll know when your mother wakes up. How is your body?" the monarch asked Xiao Heng.
Just as Xiao Heng was about to say that he was all right, he remembered that Shangguan Qing was a sick man. He changed his youthful aura and said sullenly, "The old way."
The king said: "Since you are here, let the national teacher show you."
Xiao Heng did not speak.
The king frowned and glanced at him: "What's wrong?"
Xiao Heng lowered his eyes and said in a low voice, "It can't be cured anyway, so there's no need to waste medicinal materials on me."
The monarch looked at the frail and sickly eldest grandson, and then at Shangguan Yan, who was seriously injured and unconscious, and frowned deeply.
The house fell into an eerie silence again.
The prince's heart gradually sank.
The monarch is getting older, although he is still moody and tyrannical, but there is an inch less hard in his heart.
This can be seen from his attitude towards the little princess.
He had never been so tolerant to Shangguan Yan when he was young.
Is it because he prefers the little princess
No, he is not as cruel as he was when he was young.
Shangguan Yan's injury and the illness of the eldest grandson of the emperor all hit the flesh and blood in his heart.
The Xuanyuan family was destroyed at just the right time. If it were now, and Queen Xuanyuan begged, who could guarantee that the monarch would still be able to raise the butcher’s knife at Xuanyuan Manshen, and even the baby in the swaddle would not be spared
The crown prince bowed his hands and said, "Father, please leave this matter to the son to investigate. The son will definitely let the matter from last night get to the bottom and give justice to the third sister."
This time, the monarch did not correct the "third sister" in his mouth.
The prince secretly squeezed his fingertips.
"I have my own opinion on this matter." The king refused.
The prince was not surprised by his father's decision.
He didn't really want to take things over, he just made a statement in front of his father.
The monarch glanced at Shangguan Yan with a complicated look, and said to Xiao Heng, "Good life to take care of your mother... Your dormitory has not moved."
The last sentence is undoubtedly to take the eldest grandson of the emperor back to the palace.
Xiao Heng said almost without thinking: "No, I want to stay in the National Teacher's Hall to accompany my mother to recover."
The king said nothing, stood up and walked out the door.
The prince asked his servants to leave supplements and turned around to keep up.
When crossing the threshold, the monarch paused slightly, as if waiting for something.
However, he did not wait in the end.
Xiao Heng did it on purpose. He knew that the monarch was waiting for the grandfather. In fact, he was only acting at the moment. He could call him a hundred sentences, but he didn't want the monarch to get his wish too soon.
After all, things that are too easy to get are not valued.
Xiao Heng carefully recalled his performance just now and made sure that he did not make a big mistake.
The monarch's affection for Shangguanqing's ancestors and grandsons is an unexpected joy. One of the reasons for the monarch's preference for Shangguanqing should be that Shangguanqing's death is not long.
The monarch is afraid of everyone related to the Xuanyuan family, but a eldest grandson who will not live long poses no threat to his imperial power.
The prince's performance today was very mediocre, impulsive and irritable, exploded at a little bit, and couldn't hold his breath.
But considering what the prince did secretly, he speculated that this was just the prince's disguise.
The purpose is to make people feel that he can't hide things in his heart and can't play yin.
Xiao Heng touched the mole under the right eye that was dotted with ink, and said lightly, "Then let's see, who can pretend better."
(End of this chapter)