Shangguan Ziqi personally went to "welcome" his third uncle, the traitorous Third Master of the Rong Palace.

As for the diplomatic envoys, the Ministry of Rites sent a fifth-rank official to pick them up and arrange for them to stay in the embassy.

I didn’t expect that the team leader was an old acquaintance.

Zhu Mingchen, the Prince of Beiming, who had been on a diplomatic mission to Southern Shu.

But this time he came with his tail between his legs, no longer as proud and complacent as he had been when Nan Shu first saw him.

In addition to several officials, there were also two women and a young man.

The two women were the current emperor’s eldest princess Zhu Jingwen, fifteen years old, and the daughter of the deceased prince Zhu Jingqi, sixteen years old. The boy was the current emperor’s eldest prince Zhu Xuyang, who was only twelve years old.

However, on the surface, Zhu Jingqi's identity was not registered in this way. She was registered as the daughter of the current Emperor Canglan.

Shangguan Ziqi looked at Shangguan Hongzhe in the prison car.

His limbs were tightly bound with thick iron chains, and each link was deeply embedded in the flesh, as if to lock up his soul as well.

His face no longer has the elegance and grace of the past.

His untidy beard, like weeds, obscured his once handsome features.

The eyes that once sparkled with wisdom were now filled with fatigue and despair, as if all the light had been extinguished, leaving only endless darkness and emptiness.

His clothes were tattered, covered with stains and blood, and he looked exactly like a prisoner.

There were complex emotions intertwined in Shangguan Ziqi's eyes, including pain, anger, hatred, and an indescribable sadness.

When he was a child, his third uncle was his idol.

He has a gentle personality, studies hard, and is thoughtful in his work. He is many times better than his second uncle.

He would never have dreamed that they, mother and son, were spies of the enemy country.

Because his mother couldn't have children, she replaced his second brother with his father's, which caused him to fall into a coma.

Chunlei entered the mansion disguised as a miracle doctor, but was assassinated and almost died.

On the night his wife gave birth, his family and Princess Jing almost died at his hands.

He also arranged sister Ru's tragic life.

How could Shangguan Ziqi not hate every little thing?

Without his wife, the fate of their family would be unimaginable.

Shangguan Ziqi blinked several times fiercely to hold back his tears.

"Shangguan Hongzhe." Shangguan Ziqi really couldn't call him Third Uncle, so he just called him by his name.

Shangguan Hongzhe slowly raised his head when he heard his voice.

But there was no emotion in his eyes, only dead silence.

He had no hope left, and he knew that he was doomed.

The final purpose was to be sent to Wei to relieve the hatred of Prince Rong's Mansion.

He was held captive and couldn't even commit suicide.

At this moment, a little girl in plain clothes with tears streaming down her face rushed over, threw herself in front of the prison van, and grabbed the iron bars tightly.

"Dad." It was Shangguan Hongzhe's youngest daughter, Shangguan Yan.

She is already sixteen years old, but she doesn't have the innocence that is expected of her age.

Not long after her father died, he was arrested by officials and thrown into jail.

Then her mother died by banging her head against the wall in the prison.

Later, she and her brother were released to deal with their mother's funeral, and then her brother abandoned her and went to the border.

But within a few months, news came that his brother had died in battle.

From then on, she had no relatives in this world, and she lived alone in the yard where they later moved.

The servants also changed their ways according to the situation and refused to obey the rules.

She didn't know what to do.

Her last name was Shangguan, and her clan members took care of her, so she was never bullied by outsiders.

She had to live her life behind closed doors.

Only when she heard that the envoy Canglan had come to the capital and brought her father here did she muster up the courage to come and see him.

She wanted to ask her father why he abandoned her and her son.

"Dad... wuwu, why did you abandon us, why?"

Shangguan Yan saw her father locked in a prison van. Instead of caring about him, she asked him why he abandoned them.

It can be seen that in order to be a spy, Shangguan Hongzhe did not care much about his children, which led to his youngest daughter's shallow feelings for him and even hatred for him.

Shangguan Hongzhe then looked up at his daughter.

This is his child, but now he is no longer worthy of being her father.

Then let the child give up the idea and just pretend that he doesn’t have a father from now on.

He is worthy of his mother, but not of his wife and children.

All his dreams were shattered when the iron box was opened.

"I..., I'm not your father." Shangguan Hongzhe said these words indifferently, but they were the most ruthless words.

"You are not my father?" Shangguan Yan was stunned when she heard these words and forgot to cry.

His eyes were fixed on the people in the prison van.

No matter how he changes, this is still the dad in my memory.

Shangguan Hongzhe looked away and didn't look at the little girl in front of the car.

That look of indifference and callousness was as if he was facing a stranger.

Shangguan Yan suddenly stood up and took two steps back from the prison van.

"Yes, you are not my father, you are the sinner of the Great Wei.

Because of you, Brother Zishu died in battle.

Because of you, Ziling's second brother went to the battlefield and died in battle.

Mother was so sad about the death of her elder brother Zishu that she also ran into a wall and died in the cell.

Now I am the only one left, without father, mother or brother.

You are a sinner, you deserve to die, you have harmed your entire family."

Shangguan Yan complained loudly, not caring about the tears streaming down her face.

After saying this, she never looked at Shangguan Hongzhe again, and ran away in a hurry, crying as she ran, and the maids who followed her could not catch up with her.

When Shangguan Hongzhe heard that his two sons and his wife had died, he was finally moved.

The pain on his face was hard to conceal.

A tear rolled down from the corner of her eye.

After Shangguan Yan ran away, Shangguan Ziqi saw that his eyes were wet, but there was no sympathy at all.

"Shangguan Hongzhe, your grandfather was very pleased with you back then, but now that he is in heaven, he must be very disappointed to see your fate.

You have the blood of Shangguan family but you do things worse than pigs and dogs.

You are no longer worthy of the surname Shangguan.

I almost forgot that your last name is no longer Shangguan, but Zhu. Unfortunately, the Zhu royal family does not protect you. "

Shangguan Ziqi rebuked sarcastically.

But it didn't cause Shangguan Hongzhe to change his mood at all.

He had long been numb.

It's just death anyway.

"Bring the Tianlao."

Seeing that he was like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water, Shangguan Ziqi no longer felt like saying anything.

Several guards escorted the prisoner cart into the city.

That coffin, Shangguan Ziqi brought it to the palace.

They stopped in the yard outside the main hall in the front yard. The prince had already been waiting there.

Several elders of the clan also came, uninvited.

"Father, Aunt Wang has brought her here." Shangguan Ziqi bowed to the prince expressionlessly.

The prince walked forward and looked at the coffin, his eyes slightly narrowed, and it was impossible to tell what he was thinking.

After a few breaths, he slapped the coffin with his palm.

The lid was pushed to the ground.

A cold air suddenly spread out.

Several people gathered around the coffin and looked inside. Sure enough, it was the old concubine Wang who had lived in the palace for decades.

"An Yi, get it out." The prince ordered coldly.

"yes."

An Yi reached out and pulled the corpse out of the coffin and threw it on the ground.

"Butler Li, please follow the family rules." The prince ordered again in a cold voice.

Butler Li immediately went to the inner hall and took out a whip that was ten feet long.

The whole body is glowing with cold light, and there are thin inverted hooks.

This was a device used to punish those who had committed serious mistakes in Prince Rong's Mansion, but it had never been used in all these years.

Because over the years, no son of the Rong Palace has committed a serious mistake that warrants the use of this whip.

A day later, the prince took out the whip.

The prince took it from the butler Li, walked into the main hall, lit three incense sticks, inserted them into the incense burner, and knelt before the ancestor.

"Grandfather, please accept my grandson Shangguan Hongyi's greetings.

I have a special message for you today. The Shangguan family had a blind young man who invited a wolf into the house, causing tens of thousands of Wei men to die on the battlefield and almost destroying the Wei Dynasty.

Today, I, Shangguan Hongyi, will teach my grandfather's son."

After hearing this, several elders were stunned.

The prince wants to teach the old prince a lesson?