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Hearing Qiao Mingyu's voice, the drowsy emperor moved his fingertips slightly, apparently still conscious.
The third prince stepped aside a little bit, allowing Qiao Mingyu to come to the bed.
Gu Lian's identity is embarrassed, but standing here is a little overwhelmed. Fortunately, she had no reverence for imperial power, so she quietly found a corner to stay.
The third prince nodded at her, pointed to the table and chair, and signaled that she could sit when she was tired.
Gu Lian glanced at the three princes standing at the head of the bed, Qiao Mingyu who was half-kneeling in front of the bed, and the little princes who were kneeling on the ground. After thinking about it, he sat down.
She is not the emperor's daughter, so why should she stand with her.
The old emperor is an emperor who loves his daughter, but he is also a qualified emperor. These days, Lingsu, who has awakened the system, likes to chat with Gu Lian and share a lot of secret information. For example, back then, the queen's mother's family was powerful, so the emperor allowed his concubine to kill the queen to suppress the descendants.
By the way, that concubine is the mother concubine of the sixth prince, and the sixth prince...
Gu Lian looked down at the patterns on the tea cups on the table.
The first time I went to stay in the princess' mansion, the reason was that a man in black appeared in the mansion, trying to kidnap her. The man left a token with the word "Qi" written on it. At the beginning, Su Dan said that someone might have put the blame on King Qi, the fourth prince, and Gu Lian thought so too. Later, the man in black was brought for interrogation, and with the help of Gu Lian's Gu worm, he failed to commit suicide, and he couldn't bear the torture and recruited everything.
The mastermind behind the scenes is this sixth prince.
Now, in addition to the third prince, the ministers support the fourth prince and the eldest prince. However, the eldest prince is a big old man, and he is of noble birth but doesn't care about the throne. His mother-in-law was a deceased imperial concubine, but her mother's family had long since been confiscated and sent to the frontier because of a crime. The eldest prince is also impatient with these struggles for power and profit. If his wife and clan were not reconciled, they kept wooing courtiers, in fact, the throne had nothing to do with him.
The fourth prince is the only son of the noble concubine. Because of the prosperous mother family and the high status of the mother concubine, she has always been pretentious. It is normal for him to want to participate in the battle for the throne, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that this man has no talent for governing the country. The only few big errands he has done are either smashed or nothing, and the emperor didn't take him to heart at all. If it weren't for the fact that the fourth prince was crowned king but the third prince was not, I'm afraid not so many ministers would respond to the fourth prince.
And the Sixth Prince is hidden deeper. Before everyone noticed, the sixth prince became more and more powerful, and he was almost able to compete with the eldest prince and the fourth prince. However, it was of no use. A failed kidnapping plan exposed him. The third prince and the second prince joined forces to deal with him in the court, pulling out a lot of his nails.
The status of the sixth prince and mother concubine is actually very low, and she was originally just a palace maid. In order to climb up, anything can be done. At the beginning, the emperor spoiled her just to use her name to suppress those concubines of noble birth. It is a pity that the sixth prince did not know that the black hand behind him was the emperor, and only believed that his mother and concubine was killed by the third prince, so he had to work hard to grab the throne and trample the third prince under his feet.
Gu Lian took care of the folds on the dress slowly, and the two should come too. I listened carefully, and sure enough there was a conversation outside.
Before anyone came in, Gu Lian got up and hid behind the big vase.
She didn't want to salute those two people, so she should avoid it for the time being, presumably they "worried about the father" and didn't have time to look around.
Soon, the remaining princes came in.
Four, five, six, seven and four princes entered the door. The fifth prince was honest and honest, and the seventh prince was timid. The two looked at the emperor lying on the bed with worry. The Seventh Prince moved back quietly, for fear that a fight between several brothers who had seized the throne would affect him, an innocent person. The fifth prince is very sad, he is afraid that he is the only prince here who regards the emperor as his father.
"Imperial Father." Without waiting for the fourth prince to say anything, the fifth prince let out a howl, rushed up to squeeze the eldest brother and the second brother away, grabbed the emperor's hand and started crying.
"..." The third prince turned his head away silently without looking at it.
The worried expression on the fourth prince's face froze, he almost failed, and the whole popularity was about to smoke.
The eldest prince and the second prince didn't care, gave him a seat and stood beside him.
"Old Seven." The eldest prince, Zhuang Dynasty, beckoned to the seventh prince, "Come and see the father and talk to the father."
The eldest son of the seventh prince moved over reluctantly, intending to say a few words to the emperor, to the effect that he would get better soon, and the sons firmly believed that he was the real dragon and the emperor would be fine. I didn't believe what I said, and everyone didn't take it to heart.
After he finished speaking, King Zhuang dragged him to the side, away from the place of right and wrong.
The seventh prince was relieved. It should be the safest to be with the rectal elder brother.
The fifth prince cried out of breath, making Qiao Mingyu helpless. She was the only princess here, so she couldn't run away after she finished speaking, so she silently moved to the side and blocked herself with her brother's body.
Seeing that the fifth prince was about to cry, the fourth prince came over with a stiff expression: "Don't cry, the father will be fine, or do you particularly hope that the father has an accident?"
These words were really heart-wrenching, and the fifth prince's cry was immediately blocked in his throat and could not come out. He angrily turned his head and glared at the fourth prince: "Fourth brother, it's fine if you're not sad, how can you still speak rude words!"
"I..." The fourth prince was slapped upside down, and suddenly fell down with anger.
If he encounters other people, he can still choke back without a smile, but when he encounters the honest fifth, there is nothing he can do. To say it nicely, the fifth is dull and honest, to say it ugly is to be stupid and filial, and to speak without considering whether it will be harmful to oneself or not, what to say.
"Cough cough cough."
When the brothers were arguing, the emperor suddenly coughed violently, for fear of being angry.
He is so sick that these sons still have the heart to bicker. Forget about the fifth, he has always been careless, and the fourth punishes his heart with every sentence, and is absolutely uneasy and kind.
Maybe it was because he was angry, or maybe it was back to the light, the old emperor suddenly opened his eyes and slowly glanced at the dozen or so sons.
The fourth prince turned his eyes away with a guilty conscience, while the sixth prince simply lowered his head.
"I... Really... I have given birth to some good sons! Cough, cough, cough!"
The chief eunuch hurriedly stepped forward to help him: "Your Majesty, drink tea, take a breath, don't get angry."
The old emperor took a deep look at the boss, and King Zhuang looked back at him without showing weakness, his eyes were open and magnanimous, but it made the old emperor a little satisfied, and the anger in his heart also dissipated a lot. Finally, there is a sensible one, fortunately.
"Father, you'll be fine." The emperor's gaze passed the second prince, who had no sense of existence, and came to the third prince. The third prince said lightly what everyone had said thousands of times, with a respectful attitude, but his tone was understated. , apparently unimpressed.
The emperor wanted to be angry for a moment, but suddenly met Qiao Mingyu, who was leaning out from behind the third prince. In those eyes that looked like his wife, he saw the scene when he let his wife be killed for the sake of imperial power in the early years. . At that time, he was lying on the hospital bed one after another, and he would never forget the dying eyes in his life. The woman's eyes that had seen through all the truth forced him to have nowhere to hide and made his conscience uneasy. In the end, he chose to execute the concubine to comfort himself that he had avenged his wife.
But no, the hands-on are dead, and the accomplice is still alive.
Now, the accomplice is dying too.
The emperor suddenly lost all his strength. He closed his eyes and waved his hand: "Take out the imperial edict."
The fourth prince's body was tense in an instant, and the sixth prince almost collapsed.
The emperor wrote the edict to pass the throne, so it must have nothing to do with the sixth prince, who has pretended to be transparent for so long. However, the fourth prince felt that he still had a chance and did not give up.
They wanted to rebel, but when there was an edict, rebelling was not justified, not to mention that all their forces were left outside the imperial city. The third prince took control of the Guards, and apart from their princes, no one else came in. The Fourth Prince's acquisition of the Praetorian Guards never came to fruition. He was a fish to be slaughtered in the palace.
Gu Lian slowly walked out from behind the vase, and walked lightly behind the sixth and fourth princes.
No one pays attention to her at the moment, everyone is staring at the movements of the eunuch chief.
I saw that he took out the brocade box from the dark grid, and in the brocade box, placed a rolled bright yellow imperial decree.
"Read it." The emperor gasped and said these two words.
The princes knelt down and listened to the decree, and the eunuch chief sullenly read the edict slowly. The content is nothing beyond expectations. At the beginning, there is a long paragraph, telling the merits and demerits of his many years in the throne, while reflecting on himself, while expressing his resentment, and finally, praising a certain prince, saying that the throne will be passed on to this prince.
And this prince is naturally the third prince kneeling at the front.
Everyone knelt down for a long time, but never got up. It wasn't until the third prince got up to take over the book, Qiao Mingyu suddenly called out to the emperor in grief, and the others slowly got up.
Just when everyone was paying attention to the emperor on the dragon bed, the sixth prince suddenly burst out and took out a dagger from his arms.
Gu Lian was already kneeling on one knee and got up quickly. She rushed up and kicked the sixth prince's knee, making his knees go weak and suddenly fell to the ground.
Everyone didn't react at all, and when they heard the sound of falling, they turned their heads in horror, only to see a petite girl calmly stepped on the back of the sixth prince's neck, bent down and picked up the dagger on the ground.