The prince asked:

"How is King De?"

Lan Ziyi was confused for a moment when he heard this, so he had to deal with it and said:

"It's okay, it's okay."

德王 says:

"Wei Hou doesn't want to tell me more about King De's situation?"

Lan Ziyi was embarrassed and said:

"Ziyi didn't dare, but I didn't know what the prince wanted to ask."

The prince let out a long breath, looked at the scenery outside the car window and said:

"Actually, I don't know what I want to ask, I just want to know if my brother has been taught and whether he has learned how to be a good person."

Lan Ziyi was silent, but his heart had already changed one thought after another like a marquee, it stands to reason that it is obvious that King De came out to compete for the throne, and the prince will not know, since the prince knows very well why he is showing such a concerned look here? Although Lan Ziyi wanted to interpret the prince's approach as a temptation or a gesture, Lan Ziyi believed from the bottom of his heart that the prince's feelings were sincere, not only because of the prince's handling of his collision with the team just now, but also because of a feeling, very mysterious, in fact, he also had the same feelings about King De, but King De was just unhappy with him, and the prince was indeed sincere and sincere from the heart.

Seeing that Lan Ziyi did not speak, the prince then said to himself:

"Wei Hou may think that I am pretending, indeed, everyone will think so, after all, I am currently the crown prince, and the news that King De wants to replace me as the prince is not groundless, I know, my father has always done things like this. At that time, I was the youngest of five imperial brothers, but now I am the only one left. ”

As he spoke, the prince sighed, his face full of sorrow. The prince said:

"I had five brothers back then, the fourth brother and my mother, the other brothers were born to several other concubines in the palace, although this is the case, but everyone is like brothers, although you are a royal family but we are already brothers, the eldest brother is the eldest son, the righteous prince, we have no covetousness, my mother has always asked me and the fourth brother to the eldest brother not to lose the courtier's etiquette, but in private our six brothers are always together, the time when we were children is the best, when we can always avoid the surveillance of the personal eunuch, Wander freely in the palace. But I don't know why the emperor just didn't make the eldest brother the crown prince, but set him up as the prince when the second brother was sixteen years old, in my opinion, the difference between the two elder brothers is not big, no one is smarter or more likable than the other, and according to the inheritance ethics of the national treasure, the eldest brother must be the prince undoubtedly. For this reason, the ministers of the DPRK and China gathered in front of the Gongji Gate to ask for their lives, and the final result was that the eldest brother and the queen were given death by their father, and the first auxiliary scholar of the Military Aircraft Department was beheaded for the crime of treason, and several other university scholars were sent to the frontier after the cane, and the ministers of the DPRK and China were baptized in blood. ”

The prince said these things that he didn't want to mention again, and the pain was overflowing,

Seeing this, Lan Ziyi said:

"If the prince doesn't want to say it, forget it, the ban in the palace is not something Ziyi should snoop on."

The prince shook his head and said:

"Don't you want to hear it? It's hard for me to find anyone to talk about these things, and I want King Tokumi to know about these things, and if he does become a prince one day, he should understand these things. ”

Lan Ziyi stopped talking when he heard the prince say this,

The prince went on to say:

"The second brother has lived in the East Palace for a few years, my third brother is also old, his mother and the eldest brother's mother are sisters, he hates the second brother for taking away the position of the eldest brother, he also wants to be the prince, but in fact, the second brother was just chosen by his father and did nothing. The third brother enlisted some ministers in the court to support him, and at this time, the father and emperor had a lot of complaints about the second brother, and the East Palace and the court were unpredictable for a while. But he thought about the problem simply, his father did not support him, and finally gave the third brother to death after Taichengwei found out that the third brother wrote to the Nanfang Zhen Army, and the Nanzhen soldiers were gradually reduced in the next few years. At the same time, the father thought that the second brother, as the crown prince, could not promote the harmony of the brothers, but instead set up various parties to attack each other, and was not suitable for the prince anymore, so he also died. At that time, almost none of the ministers who supported the second and third brothers in the DPRK and China were spared, and the officials in the capital were almost purged for a while. After the second brother was deposed, his father bypassed the fourth brother and set up the fifth brother, who was fourteen years old that year. No one knows what my father thinks, only that in the end, my father wanted to kill the fourth brother and my mother in order to prevent the fourth brother from doing anything, and I was also imprisoned in the cold palace for two years. ”

Speaking of this, two lines of tears crossed the corners of the prince's eyes, and Lan Ziyi could feel the pain and confusion in the prince's heart, as well as a deep fear.

The prince raised his sleeve to wipe away his tears and said:

"In those two years, I was trapped alone in the cold palace and no one cared about it, only two cold meals a day, my clothes and bedding were washed by myself, and in the summer I was able to dig some well water and drench myself, and in the winter I could only wrap the quilt and shrink at the foot of the bed every day, and my face and hands and feet were all frozen with sores. It was a precarious time. Later, I heard that during those two years, my fifth brother was also careful in the East Palace, did not dare to say wrong things or do wrong things, worshiped his father and emperor like a god, kept a distance from the ministers, and studied hard in the study all day long, not even close to women. But even so, two years later, when I was fifteen years old, my inexplicable father appointed me as the crown prince, and this time there was no reason, and the fifth brother was abolished. I only remember that I was sent into the East Palace by the Imperial Forest Army, and I saw the fifth brother burning incense and praying, saying, 'I only hope that I will not be born in the emperor's family in the next life!' Then he died on the medicine. ”

When the prince finally finished saying this, he leaned back on the table with some weakness and relief.

There was silence for a while, the prince leaned on the table and was sad, while Lan Ziyi waited quietly. The car was quiet, only the sound of wheels rolling over the royal road.

After a while, the prince eased his spirits. According to Lan Ziyi, he barely squeezed out a smile:

"Is Wei Hou listening to trouble?"

Lan Ziyi shook his head and said:

"The prince can just say it casually, Ziyi listens."

The prince sighed and said:

"I once told Ming Yue about these things, at that time Ming Yue said that I was too cowardly, since ancient times, the emperor has been competing for the throne just like this, and the cold palace for two years is also the heaven will descend to the Si people, I should have some experience. I talked to Wei Hou today, and I feel a lot more relaxed. ”

When the prince mentioned Zhang Mingyue, Lan Ziyi recalled in his mind the brilliant mirror image of the golden light and jade water by the lake that day, as well as Zhang Zhongtang's majestic and heroic atmosphere. Thinking about it, Zhang Mingyue's character will definitely not listen to the prince's chatter here.

Lan Ziyi casually returned:

"Your Highness wants me to convey these words to King De?"

太子 says:

"At first I thought I was thinking so, but now that I think about it, I'm just going to talk to someone. Wei Hou, please find a chance to tell King De, my father has not deposed me yet, just because he is old, and I haven't seen my father for ten years, I don't know what happened to him. If he wants to abolish me, he should let me die as a monarch. I don't covet this position, I won't do anything if the emperor decrees it, after all, I don't have the ability to do it. ”

As he spoke, the prince lowered his head, revealing a tired posture.

Lan Ziyi looked at the prince, thinking that the prince was indeed in a docile mood, but he was really a little cowardly, and it seemed that the events when he was a child hit him too hard.

兰子义 says:

"The prince plans to do so, can the Manchu ministers agree?"

The prince sighed and said:

"It's because of Mingyue that they stopped me, so I didn't go to the top of the table."

At this time, the convoy drove to the outside of the arch gate, and was about to turn right to the East Palace, when the guard outside the car asked by the window:

"Your Highness, the convoy is going to the East Palace."

The prince nodded and said to Lan Ziyi:

"If Wei Hou wants to go back to the Dewang Mansion, it will be time to break up here."

Lan Ziyi said:

"Thank you, Your Highness, Ziyi has taken his leave."

Lan Ziyi was just about to get out of the car, and the prince said:

"Wei Hou rest assured, today's matter will not be spread, I have always felt that the ministers have gone too far a few days ago when Wei Hou rode on the bridge."

Lan Ziyi listened to the pause, turned around and said:

"Thank you, Your Highness." Then I got out of the car.

After getting off the chariot, the guards on the side brought Lan Ziyi's horses.

After turning over the horse, Lan Ziyi arched his hand at the step:

"The prince walked slowly, Ziyi said goodbye."

A voice came out of the car:

"Be careful on the way."

Then Lan Ziyi drove his horse to the west and parted ways with the prince's convoy. Along the way, Lan Ziyi was recalling the conversation with the prince in the car just now, and thought to himself

"It would be nice if I was serving the prince."

Then he shook his head, since he had already served King De, he should naturally be loyal to his duties and not think about these things.

Lan Ziyi returned to the palace of King De, handed over the horses to the servant at the door, and saw a few inner guards standing in front of the door, so he asked the servant:

"Who's in the house?"

The servant on the side replied:

"If you go back to Wei Hou, Gong Long in the palace has come to the mansion and is looking for Wei Hou you."

When Lan Ziyi heard this, he hurriedly asked someone to lead the way to the front of the hall.

As soon as I entered, I saw Gonggong Long sitting on the main seat, King De standing next to Gonggong Long, and the others sitting in order.

After Lan Ziyi entered, he hurriedly saluted and said:

"Ziyi didn't know that Father-in-law Long was coming, and asked Father-in-law to forgive him."

Grandpa Long played with the bone wrench on his right hand, and said with a smile:

"Wei Hou is outside, please take a seat."

Lan Ziyi sat down after hearing this, thinking that the first two times he saw Grandpa Long, he was also playing with this wrench.

After seeing Lan Ziyi sit down, Father-in-law Long said:

"Wei Hou came just in time, and he rushed to the palace to tell me about today's events. It is true that King De did not do well today, but the matter of Jitian cannot be ruined by the hundreds of officials in the court and the central government like this. “

Qi Rongxun asked on the side:

"The recital of the household department will be presented to the emperor tomorrow, and it is estimated that the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty will stand on the side of the prince at that time, even if they can be suppressed at that time, I am afraid that things will not be easy to handle in the future."

Wu Yousi says:

"Not only that, but there is also news from the Ministry of Rites that the honor guard of King De's trip is not in accordance with the rules, and he also plans to play the chapter. Even if your father-in-law can stop you in the celebrant supervisor, you won't be able to stand up to the ministers in turn in the long run. “

Grandpa Long smiled and said:

"That's why I'm here to come to the palace. Since you can't afford it, then don't consume it anymore, you are all close ministers of King De, you need to start preparing now, the emperor has issued a decree to advance the home field, and it will be carried out tomorrow. “