After hearing this, Xuanyuan Hao's face darkened. He ordered Wang Daxixi to go to the torture chamber for questioning, and he went to the Queen Mother's palace without saying a word. All the palace servants left the palace, and the mother and son had a big quarrel.
The Queen Mother said that the two pots of marigolds were ordinary and there was nothing hidden. It was Xuanyuan Hao who suspected his younger brother, which caused his own brother to send two pots of flowers in secret.
Xuanyuan Hao looked at his mother coldly. Regardless of whether the two pots of flowers were truly worthless, it was a serious crime for a prince from a fiefdom to secretly pass messages and items to the palace. His mother, who had entered the palace as a teenager, couldn't have been unaware of this.
When Xuanyuan Hao returned to the palace, he saw Wang Daxixi directing people to move some flowers and trees, including the pot of peony, so he asked what was going on.
Wang Daxi hesitated for a while, then knelt down and said that he had gone to the torture room to interrogate the eunuch. He confessed that in addition to sending two pots of marigolds to the Queen Mother, Prince Guanghuai also sent some flowers with "special meanings" to Xuanyuan Hao.
For example, Epiphyllum, which means Xuanyuan Hao, is a short-lived flower that cannot grow long and can only bloom at night and cannot stand the light.
For example, this peony is not bright red, which shows that it is not orthodox. Peony is the king of flowers and can live for thirty to sixty years. Some can still bloom at the age of a hundred years. But the peony in this pot that was given to me can only live for two or three years at most.
Good, very good.
Xuanyuan Hao said: "Bring the person up."
Wang was overjoyed and said, "After questioning, he took the poison. Everyone rushed forward, digging and slapping him, and urgently asked the imperial physician to induce vomiting and detoxify him. The man's life was saved, but the imperial hospital said that when he woke up from his coma, he would be a fool."
Wang Daxixi was a reliable person. The imperial physicians from the Imperial Medical Bureau and the eunuch who had taken poison and was unconscious were carried outside and were waiting.
After consulting the imperial physician, Xuanyuan Hao ordered the eunuch to be beaten to death, regardless of whether he was unconscious or awake.
I just sat there in a daze.
He is the second prince. Above him is his father's eldest son, below him is the third son who is the legitimate son, and the fourth is his younger brother, Prince Guanghuai. The younger brothers below him are much younger in age and are still young.
Since he was young, he felt that he was not loved by his father, and his mother also liked his younger brother more.
Apart from Zhang Ru, whom he had fought for himself, and the current Concubine De, the daughter of a third-rank historian, who admired him and took the initiative to ask for marriage, the women his father had arranged for him were simply slaps in his face: a daughter of a minor seventh-rank official, a daughter of a merchant, and a notoriously sickly child. It felt like he was about to lose his temper at any moment.
Although these people are all outstanding in appearance, they all come from poor families and have poor health. Does the emperor want to earn a reputation for Xuanyuan Hao as a lustful person?
The emperor had arranged all the marriages for the three brothers, from the principal wife to the concubines. They were all ladies from high-ranking families, both beautiful and virtuous.
Isn’t he sad? From childhood to adulthood, every step he took was extremely difficult. Every time he did his best, he still couldn’t get his parents’ smiles.
But that was his father, the emperor, both a father and a king. The next day, Xuanyuan Hao forced himself to behave properly in front of others.
Three months before his father's death, he summoned him to the palace and told him that he was his chosen heir to the throne and that only he could maintain his position in this turbulent time. He also told him that he had been wronged over the years.
Just this one sentence, this one sentence was unfair to him. He promised his father that he would never touch his brothers unless they were guilty of treason.
That night, when he returned home, his mood was as bright as the moon, sweeping away years of gloom. His father valued him, valued him the most!
All these years he had given more to his other brothers and treated him with indifference, simply because one day he would be the king and they would be his subjects. A king should have a different mental fortitude.
The next day, the Emperor announced his decree in front of all the civil and military officials at court, appointing him Crown Prince and acting Regent. His Prince's Residence was to be the Crown Prince's Residence, and all memorials and military reports were to be copied to the Residence. All government orders were to be issued from the Regent's Residence, unless there was a major issue, and then he would consult his father.
But the three brothers made a fuss in the court, saying that their father was forced into it, and that more than half of the court were now in Xuanyuan Hao's hands, and their father had no choice but to make Xuanyuan Hao the crown prince in order to protect the three brothers. However, the three of them did not want their father to make such concessions for them and asked Xuanyuan Hao to return power to their father.
After hearing this, Xuanyuan Hao became a disloyal, unfilial, disrespectful and unbrotherly person.
At that moment, his old habit resurfaced. He refused to kneel or refuse, but stubbornly stood there, looking at old man Xuanyuan, his father, the emperor. He simply asked, "Is it true? Because I am powerful, and because your father wants to protect the three of them, you are forced to pass the throne to me?"
So the praise and warmth he received after entering the palace last night were fake? It was all for another son after all...
Old Man Xuanyuan looked at his son. For so many years, he had broken his wings and chopped off his wings in order to maintain balance and protect all his sons. He had thought that he could finally let his son let go, but he was afraid that it was no longer possible...
Old man Xuanyuan took another look at his three sons. Well, since that's the case, he might as well give up on them completely. If they are too stupid, they will not be able to be saved. So he will let this son fight for his own clean, unfettered and bright world.
Old Man Xuanyuan looked at Xuanyuan Hao who was still looking straight at him and nodded: "Yes."
Xuanyuan Hao felt cold all over. After a moment, he knelt down and kowtowed to the old man. Without saying a word, he turned around and left the palace.
Half a month later, the eldest prince died.
A month later, the third prince died.
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