"I'm telling you all this today so you can tell Xuan'er," the emperor said directly. "For so many years, I've deliberately ignored Xuan'er. Now, with Concubine Tong's death, I don't think there's any chance for Xuan'er and I to have a sincere conversation."
"Intentionally?" Chang'an asked, "What does father mean?"
Chang'an suppressed the excitement in her heart. She had some guesses, but they were just guesses.
"Hmph!" The emperor deliberately showed displeasure on his face. "What else are you talking about? Who allowed your self-righteous father to meddle in other people's business?"
"!!!" Self-righteous? Meddlesome.
The emperor pretended not to see the look of disbelief on Chang'an's face.
"Back then, when Concubine Tong gave birth to Ling'er and Xuan'er, Ling'er's face was purple. At that time, I knew that someone must have poisoned Concubine Tong while she was pregnant.
The imperial physician at the time also confirmed this: all the poison was absorbed by the baby girl, while the baby boy was not poisoned at all.
Chang'an was puzzled, "My mother gave birth to two children at that time. Didn't she know?"
"How could I not know?" the Emperor said, "It's just that I used medicine to make her forget all this. She is the most important person in my heart, and the child she gave birth to is my most beloved. It's a pity that she didn't know how to be grateful and actually had an affair with Prince Yi."
"The Emperor also said that it was someone else's frame-up. In fact, you know the reason very well in your heart, but you are unwilling to admit it. Father, Chang'an can't understand why you care about mother so much, so why do you want to hurt her so badly?
Listening to Chang'an's words, the emperor's eyes were filled with deep doubt.
Chang'an saw it clearly and thought that the emperor would definitely say something. When she saw the heavy doubts gradually disappear, Chang'an realized that there must be a hidden story, but the emperor was unwilling to say it.
"In this palace." The emperor looked directly at Chang'an, "If you want to protect someone, you must either lift her to the top of the world or abandon her to the deserted land."
"Even above the clouds, we still can't defend ourselves against other people's thoughts and calculations." Chang'an felt that recently, he could no longer understand the old man in front of him.
"Yes." The emperor continued, "Then I can only abandon her in a deserted place. In a corner where no one is, I will silently guard her.
After Concubine Tong was placed under house arrest in Anxi Palace, I discovered that Xuan'er had health problems. I thought someone was plotting to harm him, so I took advantage of the situation and suspected that Xuan'er was not my biological son, so I sent him away.
Who knew your father would actually bring Xuan'er back? Tell me, isn't your father self-righteous and meddling in other people's affairs? "
"Even if it's self-righteous? Meddling? That's well-intentioned self-righteousness and meddling.
Besides, my father is not a worm in the emperor's stomach, how could he know what the emperor is thinking? Moreover, if my father had not saved the prince at that time, the prince might have been eaten by a wild wolf.
"...You really are defending him." The emperor continued, "Humph! What wild wolf? That's a divine beast. It's that wolf that will take Xuan'er to find its owner. Only the wolf's owner can cure Xuan'er of the poison.
Because of the wolf your father shot, that old man burned my bedroom and killed my guards."
"What?" Chang'an looked at the emperor with wide eyes.
"Don't look at me like that. You're looking at me like a monster."
"Uh... yes!" Chang An felt that the amount of information he had received today was truly too much to digest. "So, Father, what you're saying is, there's someone who can cure the poison in the prince's body. Where is he?"
“Dead!”
"!!!" Chang'an curled his lips, "Then there's no evidence. In other words, everything you said, Father, is a lie."
"This whole 'death without a cure' thing is just a lie," the Emperor said displeasedly. "I have all the evidence here. If you don't believe me, I'll show it to you."
"..." Chang'an muttered more and more in her heart. When she really saw the letters between the emperor and that person, she believed that every word of the emperor was true. "It turns out that my father is so powerful and has such a powerful friend. It's a pity that he died. I don't know how he died."
"I killed him with my own hands." The emperor's voice was filled with regret. "Here he is."
"Here? The Imperial Study? Why?"
"Where are you coming from? So many questions." The emperor seemed a little impatient. "Is it so that I can't let him die?"
"Yes!" Chang'an said immediately, "But the poison in the prince's body..."
"Isn't there a ghost doctor?" The emperor interrupted Chang'an.
"But wasn't the Ghost Doctor killed by the Emperor's order? Now the only one left in the mansion is the Ghost Doctor's little servant."
“…” The emperor was stunned, but couldn’t say anything. Slowly, slowly, his eyes began to become moist, and then tears fell.
Chang'an was surprised. She slowly and tentatively called out, "...Father...?"
"You... go back." The emperor's face was full of fatigue, "Take these letters back with you.
As for what you requested on behalf of Concubine Tong, I will not agree to it. Concubine Tong is my person in life and my ghost in death. Only in this way, and only in this way, will Xuan'er be able to do what he wants with justification, and what he accomplishes will be reasonable and legitimate. In the future, your and Xuan'er's children will also be upright members of the imperial family, and no one will deliberately use this matter to seriously hurt you, Xuan'er, or my grandson."
"...Um...yes, it's long-winded!" Chang'an said with a smile, "I'm being long-winded with good intentions. Father, you really know how to be sentimental."
The emperor frowned and looked at Chang'an with a helpless smile, "You child, the atmosphere was so good, why did you change it with just one sentence? Go back."
After saying this, the emperor walked towards the inner room and no longer paid attention to Chang'an.
At this moment, Chang'an looked at the emperor Bei Ming and suddenly felt that he was older and lonelier than his grandfather. Did he really become a lonely man when he stood on the top of no one?
If Bei Mingxuan becomes like the emperor in front of him in the future, will he regret sitting on that position?
Chang'an was lost in thought, and only left the imperial study when Eunuch De urged her to do so.
Prince Xuan's Mansion.
After Chang'an returned, the mourning hall had already been set up.
She changed into plain clothes and stayed with Bei Mingxuan in the mourning hall.
Also guarding the mourning hall was Xu Zichu.
At this time, no one from the entire Prince Xuan's Palace came to pay their respects. Even though they knew that Xu Yitong had died, the court had not announced it yet, which meant that he was not dead yet.
"Why did it take so long?" Bei Mingxuan held Chang'an's hand, "I spoke with father for a while, but we asked for mother's request, and he didn't agree, and he couldn't agree."
Bei Mingxuan didn't say anything. All this was within his expectations.
"It's not hard to understand why you don't agree." Xu Zichu, dressed in plain clothes, half leaned on the chair, "What do you mean by that? You can't agree either."
Chang'an thought about it and realized that the emperor today had already overturned the impression she had of him.
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