After the beginning of spring, it no longer snows in Shuojing City, and the drizzle turns to fall, and it is dense and endless.

In the palace, there was no joy and vitality for the new year. Emperor Wenxuan became more and more serious. The people in the palace looked deeper and the spring rain also showed a layer of depression.

The door of the bedroom was opened, and the fourth prince Guangshuo walked out of it.

These days, he came here very hard. Emperor Wenxuan had already favored this son, and the eunuchs were not surprised. Although he did not dare to discuss it openly, the palace people secretly thought in their hearts that although Guangyan is now the crown prince, it is hard to say who will fall in the future.

In the bedroom, Emperor Wenxuan lay on the collapse, looking at the bright yellow curtain on the dragon collapsed.

In recent days, he told Concubine Lan not to run to this end every day. It was nothing else, but he was afraid that it would fall into the eyes of outsiders and spread some rumors. People's hearts were unpredictable. If it was not in the past, it was just that he had difficulty even going to court. I am afraid that he would not be able to protect Concubine Lan and his son as before.

Thinking of Guangshuo, Emperor Wenxuan sighed again.

Guangshuo was very good, both virtuous and capable, and filial. Putting aside other things, if there was more decisiveness and coldness, he would be a rare wise emperor in the Wei Dynasty. However, it was precisely because of his kindness and soft-heartedness that Emperor Wenxuan treated him differently - because Guangshuo was like his son.

Unfortunately, even so, Emperor Wenxuan could not change the crown prince at this moment and hand the throne to Guangshuo. Once he did this, the court would inevitably be in chaos. According to Guangyan's personality, he would be afraid that the royal family would immediately fight against each other and blood would splatter the hall.

If he was in his prime, he could still suppress all this, but he was already old. Over the years, the court officials followed Guangshuo and Guangshuo's follow Guangshuo, and Guangshuo's follow Guangyan. Everyone has their own minds. He can no longer control so much and cannot control it at all.

But...it will still have to be a result after all.

The door outside made a slight noise. Emperor Wenxuan was stunned and thought it was a palace servant. Then, Guangyan's voice sounded, "Did your father... fall asleep?"

The person who came was Guangyan.

He was carrying a mahogany basket in his hand. When he saw Emperor Wenxuan lying on the collapse, he acted as if he was about to get up. He hurriedly stepped forward, helped Emperor Wenxuan get up, leaned against the head of the bed, and called "Father".

"...Why are you here?" Emperor Wenxuan asked. As soon as he spoke, he realized that his voice was surprisingly hoarse.

"I heard that my father was sick, and my son was frightened..." Guangyan seemed a little nervous, "After thinking about it, would you dare to come to the palace to see my father? Is the father's dragon body healthy?"

Guangyan was arrogant and arrogant, and this was the first time he showed such a panic-helpless expression. Emperor Wenxuan looked at him and suddenly sighed.

Since the accident between Xu Jingfu, Guangyan has not come to the palace much. Of course, Emperor Wenxuan knew that Guangyan was close to Xu Jingfu in the past because he was afraid that he would be implicated by Xu Jingfu and deliberately avoided the limelight. Emperor Wenxuan was also angry with Guangyan, and indeed because of Xu Jingfu's relationship, he felt particularly disgusted.

However, Guangyan is his son after all, and he doesn't have many sons.

So this is why Guangyan is still safe and sound until now. That is because the people from Dali Temple received the oral order from Emperor Wenxuan, and all the cases related to Xu Jingfu were bypassed by Prince Guangyan.

Seeing that Emperor Wenxuan was staring at him and didn't know what he was thinking, Guangyan was a little uneasy, and subconsciously opened the mahogany basket and brought out a small bowl of soup from it.

"Father, this is the ginseng soup that my son went to the imperial kitchen to make." Guangyan said nervously, "Father, drink some."

Emperor Wenxuan looked at him for some reason, suddenly remembered that when Guangyan was young, Guangshuo was not born yet. He had only one eldest son, Guangyan, who had truly loved him. At that time, Guangyan was only four years old, and he was not as cruel and ruthless as he is now. He was still a child with only a little height.

Empress Zhang gave Guangyan a bowl of sweet soup, and Guangyan couldn't bear to eat it. She ran from Kunning Palace with the bowl in her arms to the imperial study room. The wet nurse who was chasing behind her knelt in panic and begged for mercy. Emperor Wenxuan hugged Guangyan on his knees and asked with a smile, "What are you doing with this bowl?"

"Father," the child couldn't even say clearly, and he was a little vague, so he raised the bowl to his mouth with great effort, "This is delicious, let's drink a little!"

Emperor Wenxuan laughed happily when he heard this, "It's hard for you to be young, but you still think about me in everything. It's not in vain to love you, a kid!"

What does that bowl of sweet soup taste like? Emperor Wenxuan has forgotten it. The laughter seems to be yesterday, but in a blink of an eye, Guangyan has grown so big, and there is no similarity with the child who used to hold the bowl and lie on his lap and act coquettishly. He is also confused. What did he do wrong for so many years that caused the situation today?

Emperor Wenxuan took a deep breath and asked, "Guangyan, what do you have to say about Xu Jingfu?"

With just this bowl of ginseng soup, he still felt soft-hearted, and he still wanted to give Guangxuan a chance.

Guangyan's heart was thrilled. He didn't know what the meaning of this suddenly asked Emperor Wenxuan, but said, "I didn't expect that Xu Jingfu, as the prime minister, would actually treason... After so many years, his father trusted him very much, and he actually had the intention to rebel. This crime should be punished!"

Emperor Wenxuan saw the dodge in his eyes, sighed invisibly, and shook his head, "When I was young, I was studying, and the book spokesperson was the chief minister. I was like a hunter regulating an eagle, taking his direction and back, and controlling it with hunger. Do not make him full, nor can he make him hunger. If he is hungry, he will not be able to make him hunger. If he is hungry, he will not be able to make him hunger. If he is hungry, he will not be able to fly with others. Old ministers like Xu Jingfu in the court are like full-fried eagles, shameless, and have a simple meal. They are content with wealth and honor. I reward him but do not like him. If he is punished, he will not be afraid. If he is not allowed to move forward for the Great Wei."

Guangyan listened absent-mindedly, his eyes fell on the bowl of ginseng soup, and said, "My son is sure to follow the teachings of his father. Xu Jingfu is really hateful. His sons have been deceived by him, and they are also blamed. If he could discover Xu Jingfu's unjust intentions earlier, those uggers would not have succeeded."

Emperor Wenxuan looked at him deeply, "Guangyan, it is better to be righteous than to blame yourself."

The emperor's originally turbid eyes were, but at this moment, it was extremely clear, as if he could see the soul clearly through his eyes. Guangyan suddenly lowered his head, picked up the bowl of ginseng soup, and sent it to Emperor Wenxuan, and smiled and said, "My father said so much, he must be tired. If he didn't drink ginseng soup, it would be cold. It would be better to finish drinking ginseng soup first."

Seeing that his expression was so earnest, Emperor Wenxuan was not as frivolous as before, and thought that Xu Jingfu's affairs finally allowed Guangyan to make some progress, so he nodded.

Guangyan sat next to Emperor Wenxuan, picked up the bowl, scooped a little with a silver spoon, and put it to Emperor Wenxuan's mouth.

Emperor Wenxuan was stunned, "Don't you try the soup?"

"Try the soup?" Guangyan looked at him.

"Maybe you haven't served me for a long time and don't even know the rules of trying soup." Although Emperor Wenxuan said this, his tone was still tolerant, "The fourth brother came to deliver soup every day, and he had to try it first."

There was a moment of panic on Guangyang.

He had indeed not served Emperor Wenxuan for a long time, so he didn't know that Emperor Wenxuan was so sick now that he still remembered to try the poison. He didn't expect that even the food sent by Guangshuo would not be trusted by Emperor Wenxuan.

But this ginseng soup...

His fingers trembled slightly.

Emperor Wenxuan was just a joke. Although there were many rules in the palace, he would not be able to do everything occasionally. He wanted to forget it, but when he raised his eyes, he saw Guangyan's slightly white face and his white fingers holding the soup bowl.

At some point, people have intuition.

The bowl of ginseng soup was boiled hot. After a while, it was just warm and you could smell a faint fragrance. But the person in front of you looked too nervous.

The emperor's eyes became deep in an instant. He spoke slowly, his tone suddenly became unpredictable, "Guangyan, you take a sip first."

"Father... there is no other silver spoon here..."

"No problem, I can go and invite people to take it again. Now, you try the soup first."

In this case, Guangyan had no choice but to pick up the soup, scoop a spoonful with a silver spoon, and slowly hand it to his mouth, but he was reluctant to touch it for a long time.

As Emperor Wenxuan looked at it, his heart sank.

Although he knew that Guangshuo was tyrannical and unruly, he never dared to do anything to himself. He was his close relatives and turned a blind eye to Guangyan's virtues outside. This time, even if something happened to Xu Jingfu, Emperor Wenxuan still wanted to protect him. Even before handing over this bowl of soup, Emperor Wenxuan was thinking about giving Guangyan a chance. It should not be mentioned easily until the last moment.

But he never expected that Guangyan would actually do something to kill his father and monarch.

"Why don't you drink?" He spoke in a deep voice and looked at his strange son.

Guangyan gritted his teeth and wanted to lower his head to drink the ginseng soup in the spoon, but at the last moment, he suddenly shook the soup bowl in his hand like a soldering iron, and stood up.

The soup bowl fell onto the velvet blanket before the collapse, and splashed the whole side silently. Guangyan suddenly came to his senses and realized how stupid his actions were. He looked at his father who had collapsed.

Emperor Wenxuan looked at him with disappointment, heartache, and a little coldness that he had never felt before.

"I don't know," the emperor said word by word, "Your purpose of coming today is to want my life."

"No, I didn't-" Guangyan subconsciously denied, "I didn't do that!"

"I just need to find the imperial physician to test it out and you will know immediately if it is." Emperor Wenxuan looked cold and stood up to fall down, shouting "Comeone--"

"Father!" Guangyan rushed over, covered his mouth, and said nervously, "Son Master is not!"

Emperor Wenxuan has been in poor health these days, and he slapped him on his back and lying on the collapsed side. Guangyan rode on the side. He glanced at the collapsed cotton pillow, grabbed it without thinking, covering Emperor Wenxuan's mouth and nose tightly. There was only one thought in his heart that he could not let Emperor Wenxuan say it out!

The people under him were struggling desperately, but how could an elderly sick body be compared to those in the middle of his prime? The more he struggled, the more ferocious Guangyan's expression became. He almost pressed the weight of his entire body on Emperor Wenxuan, pressing the cotton pillow tightly, like a dying fish, and said in a short mouth, "Don't shout, I've told you not to shout!"

The fish thrown from the water storm to the desert swung their bodies desperately to get a glimmer of vitality. The scales were thrown and splashed until the dried fish eyes were roasted in the scorching sun, and they completely became lifeless.

After a while, the struggle under him gradually stopped, Guangyao sweated heavily, suddenly let go of his hand, and suddenly opened the cotton pillow.

Emperor Wenxuan lay on his back, his face was blue and purple, and his pupils were scattered. Under the dark lights of the bedroom, he looked like an evil ghost at first glance.

Guangyan was startled and fell from the collapse to the ground. He couldn't help but take two steps back. After a long time, he came back to his senses and realized that Emperor Wenxuan was really suffocated to death by him this time.

The eunuch outside had been sent away by him long ago. Guangyan came today to poison the emperor. But he didn't expect that the bowl of ginseng soup mixed with poison would be discovered by Emperor Wenxuan. In the end, he was suffocated to death by himself.

The bedroom was empty, and the sound of the wind was like the crying of an evil ghost, which made people's backs feel chill. Guangyan stood up with fear in his heart, walked to Emperor Wenxuan, first picked up the soup bowl on the ground, put it back into the mahogany basket, and then walked to Emperor Wenxuan's dragon collapse, helped Emperor Wenxuan back into the collapse, lie down, smoothed the emperor's wide eyes, and covered him with a quilt.

Unable to see his father's eyes dying with his eyes open, Guangyan became more courageous. A trace of madness flashed in his eyes. He looked at Emperor Wenxuan's body and said in a low voice, "Father, don't blame Erchen. If you want to blame, blame yourself for not giving me the throne. If you didn't force me, I wouldn't do this... The throne is mine, Father... Just watch how Erchen sits in this position... Just watch it like this..."

He slowly clenched his fists, stood up suddenly, took the mahogany basket, and turned away from the bedroom.

...

It started raining again at night.

He Yan was in a daze in his sleep and heard the sound of rain outside. After being woken up, he couldn't sleep. He turned over and hugged the person beside him.

It’s not that she wants to take advantage of Xiao Jue anytime and anywhere, but the weather is cold and she holds someone beside her, so it’s much warmer. Xiao Jue sleeps very quietly and has a good sleeping look, which is particularly different from her tilted and tilted.

She woke Xiao Jue up with this movement. Xiao Jue looked down at the person who got into his arms, clutched him tightly, and asked in a low voice, "Why aren't you sleeping?"

"I was woken up." He Yan said in a silence, "I can't sleep a little."

This is a bit strange. Although her years of life in the army have kept her alert in her sleep, she has been sleeping soundly at night since she arrived at the Xiao family. It is still rare to have such insomnia tonight. For some reason, He Yan always felt a little uneasy, as if something was about to happen.

Xiao Jue noticed her uneasiness. Xiao Jue paused, pressed her chin against her head, and asked, "Do you want to get up and sit on the roof?"

He Yan "..."

She said, "It's raining outside."

Xiao Jue "Just kidding."

He Yan wanted to speak but stopped.

She always felt that after Xu Jingfu's death, the matter was not over, and the battle between Guangyan and the Fourth Prince had just begun. Whether it was Xiao Jue or the Xiao family, the position in it was subtle, I was afraid that it would not be solved so easily. However, this evening, it seemed a bit disappointing to talk about these annoying things.

He Yan was thinking, when a knock on the door suddenly came from outside, and Fei Nu's voice rang out, "Young Master, I have something important to report."

She was stunned. In the middle of the night, Fei Nu was so hurrying, something happened.

This time, I was really sleepy. Xiao Jue got up and stayed up, lit the oil lamp in the room, and He Yan also got up in his clothes. As soon as the door opened, the wind and rain outside came in, and the room suddenly became much colder.

Feinu walked in, her clothes were wet, and her expression was a little solemn.
To be continued...