Chapter 416: Mystery of Life
The emperor sighed.
"Back then, the deposed crown prince was playful and thought the red poison pills were candy beans, so he put them into the soup bowl of my younger brother, who was born to the same mother as me. As a result, my younger brother was poisoned and died."
"He has a good temper, is well-educated, and is closest to me. If he hadn't married a commoner's daughter, perhaps my throne would have been his."
He coughed a few times and Eunuch Wei quickly handed him tea.
"Your Majesty, you are the Son of Heaven. This is the will of heaven and was decided by the previous emperor. No one can take it away."
The emperor took a sip of tea and sighed, "I also want a brother."
"If he hadn't told me before he died that he had a son, I wouldn't have let Qing Yin wander around for several years."
"Although I cannot allow him to enter the royal jade disc due to his biological mother's status, I will try my best to give him the highest honor and treat him more dearly than my own son. That is why the deposed crown prince misunderstood."
"I guess many officials also think he is my son, right?"
Eunuch Wei bowed his head and said, "That is their petty mind, judging the emperor's gentleman mind."
"I don't care about these things, as long as Qingyin can live well and let my brother rest in peace in the afterlife."
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The clan prison.
Yu Shengsheng stood beside Fu Qingyin, looking at the deposed prince in prison.
The deposed prince tidied his messy hair and straightened his back.
"Fu Qingyin, Yu Shengsheng, you are so brave that you don't even kneel when you see me."
Fu Qingyin said calmly: "I have never knelt before you."
"What are you so proud of? I am the biological son of my father. He was reluctant to kill me even though I made such a big mistake. One day, I will definitely make a comeback."
Fu Qingyin chuckled: "Don't dream, I'm here, forget it."
The deposed prince grabbed the railing and said, "Fu Qingyin, how did I offend you? You always oppose me!"
Yu Shengsheng actually didn't understand. The closer she got to Fu Qingyin, the more she could feel Fu Qingyin's hatred for the deposed prince and his mother.
Fu Qingyin said slowly: "Do you still remember the Prince Yong who was poisoned to death by you?"
The deposed crown prince was stunned and thought for a moment: "Prince Yong, what an old name. Oh, I remember now, he is my father's brother. I heard from my mother that he was the prince who was most likely to compete with my father for the throne."
"So, you killed him?"
The deposed prince gritted his teeth and said, "I didn't mean to do that. I just thought it was candy beans coated with chili peppers and wanted to tease him. I didn't know it was poison."
"But he died in your hands in the end." Fu Qingyin said coldly.
"So what? What does it have to do with you..." The deposed prince was suddenly stunned, "Could it be that you...you are..."
"Are you the son of Prince Yong? I heard that he insisted on marrying a commoner girl, so the late emperor expelled him from the capital and he never came back for several years. That time he entered the palace was also his last time."
"You, you are his son! That's why you hate me. You have been scheming to frame me."
"I didn't hurt you. Everything was done by you and your son!"
Fu Qingyin smiled faintly: "Today is your retribution."
"I'm going to tell Father!"
"The emperor already knew it, why do you need to tell him?" Fu Qingyin sneered, "It's a pity that as a minister, you don't know your king, and as a son, you don't understand your father."
"Someone come!"
Fu Qingyin shouted, and Hei Bai came in carrying an iron bucket and an iron spoon in his hand.
The heat arrives before anyone gets close.
That was a bucket of molten iron.
The abandoned prince's eyes widened with fear: "What are you going to do? What are you going to do! Fu Qingyin, how dare you!"
Fu Qingyin scooped a spoonful of molten iron, and the temperature of the boiling soup warmed up the coldness of his tone.
"The emperor has ordered that you be imprisoned for life, with no possibility of release. If that's the case, why shouldn't I dare?"
With a "dong", the key fell into the molten iron.
Then, a spoonful of molten iron was poured into the lock.
Spoon after spoon, the lock was cast tightly.
The deposed prince wanted to step forward, but was afraid of the hot molten iron.
I could only howl on the spot: "Fu Qingyin, I will kill you!"
"Even if I become a ghost, I won't let you go!"
Fu Qingyin murmured in a low voice: "I have been a ghost for a long time."
After leaving the clan residence, the door slammed shut.
Yu Shengsheng and Fu Qingyin sat in the carriage, holding his hands.
Fu Qingyin smiled: "Do you believe what I just said?"
Yu Shengsheng was startled: "Could it be that...what you just said was false?"
"Of course," Fu Qingyin whispered in her ear, "I'm not Prince Yong's son."
"His son died for me twenty years ago."
Yu Shengsheng's eyes widened in disbelief.
"My grandfather was the late emperor's tutor. We grew up together and followed the late emperor all his life," Fu Qingyin gently held Yu Shengsheng's fingers, his tone as light as snowflakes falling from the sky.
Light and cold.
"When the emperor ascended the throne, a great purge took place. My family was among those killed. I was not able to escape."
"It was Prince Yong who saved me, but he was also in danger at the time. I could only save one of him, me or his son."
"Heng'er has been weak since childhood. He is one year older than me, but he is smaller and thinner than me. He is also smarter than me. He saw the difficulty of Prince Yong, so when he drank the medicine..."
Fu Qingyin's throat choked up, and he paused for a long time: "He died, and I lived, but I didn't live a very good life. I was tempted, frightened, and worried all day long."
"Later, Prince Yong sent someone to take me away, wanting to send me to the South Sea to find the late queen's father. The late queen was kind, and Prince Yong said that she was the best sister-in-law in the world. Everyone thought she died of illness, but they didn't know that she just didn't agree with the emperor's brutal bloodbath, so she hanged herself on the beam with a white silk."
"Obviously, I didn't make it to the South China Sea. Something went wrong along the way. The people who escorted me died, and I lived among the people for a few years."
“It was a bit of a hardship.”
He said it lightly, but Yu Shengsheng was terrified.
"Later, as I just said, Prince Yong went to the palace for the last time and met the brother who was now the emperor. The prince was ignorant and thought the poison was sugar and wanted to play a trick on him."
"He died, and mentioned me to the emperor before he died."
"He died in front of so many people, at the hands of the crown prince. How could the emperor not respond to his request before he died?"
"I know he has been looking for me for several years, but I didn't let him find me. I said I became one of the Red Dragon Guards and stood in front of him with my own abilities. I also found a suitable opportunity for him to discover my identity himself."
"Everything that follows will follow naturally."
Fu Qingyin sighed softly and looked at Yu Shengsheng whose eyes were red.
He smiled and raised his hand to wipe away her tears.
"It's all over. It doesn't matter."
Yu Shengsheng hugged his arms and smelled the cool fragrance on his body, feeling relieved and distressed.
She lowered her eyes to look at his wrist, and every word she said was filled with pain: "So, what about your poison? What's going on?"
This is what she cares about most and what she wants to ask most.
Fu Qingyin's eyes were slightly cold: "Speaking of this, we have one more thing to do."
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