Chapter 1159 A Secret Letter, a Secret
"Father used the same method to deceive you and let you deceive the world for so many years!"
“…”
Zhu Feng sat at the desk without any reaction.
His two hands were placed on the table, clenched so tightly that his knuckles turned white.
Eunuch Yu was standing nearby, and his face turned pale when he heard these words. He subconsciously wanted to go out to inform He Yi and Xu Miaoyin outside. After all, the emperor had been forced into a violent rage and had to use the "Taishangwangqing" to make him forget all his past. He was following by their side, so he knew everything.
He also understood the seriousness of the matter.
So, they brought that to his attention as well.
If Zhu Feng encounters the same situation again, he must immediately notify the Queen and He Yi and ask them to come in and stop it.
But just as he was about to move, Zhu Feng suddenly said in a deep voice: "You are not allowed to go anywhere!"
Eunuch Yu was startled: "Your Majesty!"
Zhu Feng didn't look at him, nor did he pay any attention to him. He just stared at Zhu Xuan with a gloomy look.
"You said that Father deceived me and the whole world by using this method."
“…”
"What exactly did you cheat on?"
This time, Zhu Xuan fell silent.
A trace of confusion, or perhaps a hint of sadness, actually appeared on his face.
He was already the Prince of Ning, his mind and scheming were unfathomable, he never showed his emotions on his face, and even used his smile to hide his inner thoughts, but at this moment, the expression on his face and the look in his eyes were very real.
Like a lonely child.
Zhu Feng, who caught this moment, frowned and almost thought he had seen it wrong.
After a long silence, Zhu Xuan raised his head and looked at him again, with the same unruly sneer on his face that showed he didn't care about anything.
He said word by word: "The Queen Chen has no children."
Because he was hurt, he didn't say this loudly.
Even his voice was unusually hoarse.
However, there was a deafening feeling, as if the entire imperial study was shaken into turmoil.
Zhu Feng's two hands, which were originally clenched into fists on the table, subconsciously grabbed the edge of the table.
It seems like I can't even sit still.
He looked at Zhu Xuan in disbelief and asked, "What did you say?"
"I say," Zhu Xuan said, "our 'Queen Mother', the late Empress Chen, actually didn't have a single son."
“…”
Zhu Feng looked into his eyes and his breathing became disordered.
No wonder even Zhu Xuan's expression changed when he said this, because this matter was not only related to him, but to all of them.
But--
Zhu Feng frowned and said in a deep voice, "This is impossible!"
Zhu Xuan sneered and said, "I know you won't believe it. Even I didn't believe it at first."
"Who told you that!"
"I don't know either."
"What, you don't know?" Zhu Feng thought it was ridiculous, but at this moment, he couldn't laugh. He just stared at him: "You don't even know who told you that, and you actually believed this nonsense?"
Zhu Xuan said solemnly, "Although I don't know who told me this, the person who recorded this was our father!"
"What!?"
Zhu Xuan said, "Back then, after you captured Old Seven at the border of Yongzhou, I received a secret letter."
"What does the letter say?"
"In fact, the letter didn't say anything. It only included a very old page of records, which were a record of Emperor Gao's daily life at the beginning of his reign."
"What?!"
Zhu Feng was shocked.
It goes without saying that the daily records are specifically for recording the emperor's daily life, words and deeds. In other words, some of the secrets in the palace that cannot be revealed will be recorded in it.
Even if it is not a detailed record, there will be traces left.
Zhu Feng's breathing became tense: "What's written on it?"
Zhu Xuan looked at him, and then at himself, and slowly said, "Our behind-the-scenes figure—the former Empress Chen—was childless and extremely lonely in the harem. Emperor Gao, therefore, seized all the children born to the concubines in the harem and registered them under her name, claiming them as her own children. She also meticulously raised these children."
Zhu Feng just felt his mind was in a mess.
After a long time, he put his hands to cover his head and gritted his teeth, "You too—"
"good."
“…”
"That secret letter clearly states that none of us brothers are born to the Queen."
Zhu Feng gritted his teeth and said word by word, "Aren't you and I the same?"
“…”
"Why do you say that I am not your biological brother?"
Zhu Xuan sneered, "Although we are not the daughters of the late Empress Chen, we all grew up in the palace, so I know very well that I am the son of Emperor Gao. However, our mother may have been forced by some unknown concubine not to recognize us."
“…”
"But, only you!"
"I, what's wrong with me?"
"You didn't grow up in the palace at all."
"What did you say?"
Zhu Xuan said, "You didn't grow up in the palace at all. You suddenly appeared in the palace and were treated as a prince."
Zhu Feng froze.
He was silent for a long time, then suddenly sneered and said, "This, is it written in that so-called 'daily notes'? Is this what deceived you?"
"No," Zhu Xuan said clearly, "That's not what's written in the diary, and no one lied to me."
“…”
"I remember this myself."
"What?"
Zhu Xuan looked at him with a vicious gaze and said, "Royal brother, my good royal brother, we brothers all grew up in the palace and have been together since childhood. But because no one cares about this kind of thing, it passed and I didn't think about it again."
“…”
"But that letter, that page of the diary, reminded me of it."
“…”
"You, you were already ten years old when you appeared in the palace!"
"What?!"
Zhu Feng couldn't believe his ears.
He sat in the chair, and in an instant, he felt dizzy, as if the entire imperial study had turned into a whirlpool, and he, along with the chair, was sucked in at the center of the whirlpool.
In an instant, the sky was dark.
After an unknown amount of time, Zhu Feng finally came back to his senses. However, his mind seemed to have been sucked into the black hole beneath the vortex, leaving nothing behind. He could only rely on his intuition to ask, "I, I appeared in the palace, and I'm already ten years old? How can I-"
"Why don't you remember?"
Zhu Xuan asked, "Do you still need to ask?"
It was precisely because Emperor Gao had used the Supreme Forgetfulness for the first time that he had made him forget all his past, and that he naturally accepted everything he faced after waking up.
However, the people around him did not forget.
Zhu Xuan sneered darkly, "Do you know why I trusted the people on the boat?"
"Why?"
"Because they knew about this, and they told me—"
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