In the temple.

Xiong Huai sat on the throne, and his eyes kept falling on the crown prince below.

And the crown prince sat in the middle of the hall, his head slightly drooping, his eyebrows lowered.

However, when he felt his father's heavy pressure gaze fall on him, he was not only secretly surprised, but he didn't know how he had made his father angry.

Xiong Huai stared at the prince for a long time before he said in a deep voice: "Prince, you have done such a great thing, which really surprised the widow. ”

When the prince heard this, he looked at Xiong Huai inexplicably: "Father, I don't know what my father meant?" ”

"I wonder what the widow is talking about? You haven't paid attention to such a big thing, haven't you paid attention to it? When Xiong Huai heard this, he looked at the innocent face of the prince, remembered Ziqing's tragic situation, and suddenly became very angry, and then picked up the wooden box on the king's case and slammed it towards the prince.

Seeing this, the crown prince immediately frowned.

However, this time he didn't use his head to catch it without dodging, but raised his hands and caught the wooden box firmly before it hit him.

Although Prince Heng caught the wooden box, what he didn't expect was that the wooden box was not closed tightly, and at the same time as he caught the wooden box, a pitch-black object flew out of the wooden box with a little liquid.

Before Prince Heng could react, several drops of liquid fell on his face, and the pitch-black object also touched his chest, and then rolled to the ground.

The prince looked at it horizontally, but saw that the pitch-black object turned out to be a human head.

Then, the prince quickly wiped the liquid on his face with his hand, and then opened his hand to see that there was a trace of blood on his hand.

Seeing this, the crown prince immediately looked at Xiong Huai angrily: "Father, what do you mean?" ”

"What does the widow mean, this question should be asked by the widow." As he spoke, Xiong Huai pointed to the head of the person on the ground and said coldly: "Take a good look, who is this person?" Take a closer look at the good things you've done. ”

The prince looked down at the human head on the ground, then frowned, and responded: "Father, the son has never seen this person, and the person was not killed by me, and it has nothing to do with this person."

This... This must be a villain who slandered his son in front of his father, please ask his father to investigate it carefully. ”

"You don't know him." Xiong Huai sneered: "The widow can remind you that this person's name is Jiang Biao, and he is the disciple of your third disciple Qing. A few months ago, this person went to Handan, the state of Zhao, and then broke away from Huaiyin Jun and returned to his hometown.

More than a month ago, the widow found him in his hometown and searched his home for dozens of gold. Moreover, the widow also learned from him that a few months ago he had been asked to do something and had given him a hundred gold.

Now the prince remembers? ”

When the prince heard this, he knew that his father knew about his murder of Ziqing.

At the same time, as soon as he heard that this person had been found more than a month ago, he had been killed at this time.

The prince was stunned and looked at Xiong Huai hesitantly: "Father, is Ziqing in trouble?" ”

"It's a shame that you still remember Ziqing who was far away in Zhao Kingdom, but the widow would rather you never think of him." Xiong Huai sneered, and then showed sadness: "Thanks to the prince, he participated in the rebellion of the prince of Zhao not long ago, and was defeated and fled, and was captured, with a broken arm, and was imprisoned by Zhao State. ”

"This..." The prince was stunned again, at this moment, his heart was quite complicated.

He didn't expect Ziqing to participate in the rebellion in Zhao State.

His plan at that time was just to take advantage of Ziqing's confusion and take the opportunity to force Ziqing to death. If Ziqing hadn't died at that time, he could also separate the relationship between Ziqing and the Jianghan nobles, so that they would break off from then on.

Other than that, he didn't do anything, Ziqing participated in the rebellion, and he didn't know about it.

However, at this time, he already knew why his father had finished telling him in such a tone.

The father and the king counted all the experiences of Ziqing being captured and breaking his arm on his head.

But...

The crown prince thought about it, and it seemed that his father had miscalculated.

Ziqing's recent series of tragic encounters, in the final analysis, are all due to him.

Thinking about it, the prince couldn't help but bow his head deeply.

Xiong Huai saw that the prince bowed his head and stopped talking, so he continued: "When Ziqing sent Wang Sun Yi back before, the widow knew that there was a problem, and at that time, the widow thought that Ziqing was just worried that the situation in Zhao was very different, so he wanted to take precautions. Later, the widow asked Ziqing to return to China to do business, but Ziqing refused.

At that time, the widow knew that Ziqing's worries were not outside, but inside.

Subsequently, the widow checked, but found such a mess of cutting and untidy. ”

Speaking of this, Xiong Huai pressed his forehead with his left hand, and said with palpitations: "If it weren't for the widow who found out where Ziqing's heart knot was, he immediately decided to send twenty dead soldiers to Ziqing, if it weren't for those dead soldiers who were loyal and brave, and protected each other."

Now, what the widow tells you is Ziqing's death, and it is a tragic death with ten thousand arrows piercing the heart. ”

The crown prince looked at his father's sad and disappointed face, opened his mouth, and then leaned over and bowed: "Son... Father, please punish him. ”

"Reprimand? How to punish you! Xiong Huai's eyes were fixed on the prince: "Now the widow's heart is not thinking about how to punish you, but wanting to know why you insist on killing your younger brother Ziqing, and for this reason, you even resorted to such an insidious and vicious strategy as killing people." ”

When the prince heard his father say that he was insidious and vicious, he wanted to refute it, but when he remembered the murderous plan, he was speechless.

After a pause, he responded: "Father, the so-called knowing son is more than the father, why the son does this, the father knows." ”

"!" When Xiong Huai heard this, he was immediately angry: "Yes, the widow is indeed unscrupulous in foreign policy, and in terms of domestic policy, he is indeed too radical, and the widow is not a good king of Chu." But how can a widow ever act like you, and treat his brother like this..."

Xiong Huai said a long time, and seeing that the prince Heng was always silent, he sighed: "Since King Sheng mourned the king, there has been no such fratricidal thing in my Chu country for nearly a hundred years, and even when the widow was still alive, there has been no rebellion of the nobles for a hundred years.

Since the accession to the throne of the widow, there have been Zilan and the nobles who colluded with the enemy country to rebel and rebel, and then the Jianghuai nobles rebelled, and now there is a cannibalism between your brothers.

The widow has always boasted of benevolence, righteousness and love, but with these three things, from now on, the widow will no longer dare to call himself the king of benevolence and righteousness.

The first king handed over the country to the hands of the widow, who was morally corrupt, hypocritical, and betrayed his relatives. ”

Seeing that his father blamed himself for this, the prince seemed to have been so angry that he was talking nonsense, and immediately bowed and said: "Father is angry, this is all the fault of his son!" ”

"Your fault? No, it's all the fault of the widows! Xiong Huai shook his head with a lonely face and said: "The widow is not virtuous enough, and even his own son is not well educated, so he has the current result." However, it is not a pity for the widow to die, but it has caused the first king to sweep away the ground, and this widow's sin is also. ”

After saying that, Xiong Huai's face turned cold, and he said loudly: "Spread the edict: the widow does not measure virtue and strength, so that the reputation of the country is damaged, and the widow is ashamed of the ancestors and ancestors, and the first king."

The widow wanted to go to the temple to ask for guilt in person, but the widow was old and frail and inconvenient to travel far, so he asked the prince to go to the temple to ask for guilt. ”

When the crown prince heard that his father had taken all the blame on himself and preserved his reputation, he couldn't help but look at Xiong Huai with guilt and emotion: "Father... Erchen..."

"You go~~" Xiong Huai interrupted: "Immediately roll back to Yingdu for me, close it in the temple of the ancestors and ancestors, reflect on yourself in front of the ancestors and ancestors, reflect on yourself in front of the ancestors and kings of the past dynasties, meditate on yourself, and you must not leave the temple for a month." ”

When the prince heard this, he sighed in his heart and left lonely.