Chapter 837 Siblings Clash, Brothers Fight
Just then, a loud voice suddenly rang out from the Thousand-Step Corridor—
"Waaah!"
The two people in the pavilion immediately fell silent and looked warily in this direction. Eunuch Yu and the other eunuchs standing outside the pavilion also turned their heads. Shang Ruyi also looked down in surprise at the little brat in her arms, who was squinting his eyes, clenching his fists, and grinning.
That sound just now was from him.
Shang Ruyi wasn't particularly scared. After all, everyone could come to the Thousand Steps Corridor, and she was quite a distance away. No matter how she calculated it, she couldn't have known that he was eavesdropping. She just thought the child was too rude and gently patted him through the swaddling clothes.
The child was jolted and startled at first, then began to whimper.
Yuwen Yuan, on the other side, had already seen her. Although they had just been talking about their troubles, a smile immediately appeared on his cold and hard face. He said, "Ruyi is here. Come quickly."
Eunuch Yu hurriedly ran forward to greet Princess Qin and led her into the pavilion. Shang Ruyi didn't dare to say anything and stepped forward to bow. Yuwen Yuan quickly raised his hand to indicate that she should get rid of the formalities, and then said, "Your health has not recovered, so you don't need to be so polite when you see me."
"Thank you for your grace, Father Emperor."
"By the way, why did you come out? I heard from the imperial physician that you must not overwork yourself or catch a cold these days."
"Yes, but I thought the weather was nice today, and there wasn't much wind, so I thought I'd take the children out for a walk."
As she spoke, she looked up at Yuwen Yuan and, seeing that he seemed to want to say something, immediately said, "Although the child is not yet a month old, I think that he is, after all, the eldest grandson of the Emperor, and should not be spoiled too much; moreover, he is under the protection of the Emperor's might in this palace."
Upon hearing this, Yuwen Yuan immediately smiled.
He stretched out his hand and said, "Come, let me hold my eldest grandson."
Shang Ruyi hurriedly stepped forward, handed him the swaddled baby in her arms, and continued, "Moreover, this child is strange. He hasn't made a sound for the past two days, neither laughing nor fussing. But just now when I brought him here, he probably knew that his royal grandfather was here, and he suddenly started making a fuss."
"oh?"
Hearing her say that, Yuwen Yuan hurriedly took the swaddling clothes and looked down. His fair-skinned imperial grandson first opened his big, dark eyes and stared outside. After a while, his gaze seemed to finally focus on his face. He stared at him blankly for a while—or perhaps he didn't see him clearly at all, but just sensed something, and then let out a loud "woo-wah" laugh at him.
Yuwen Yuan immediately beamed and said to the toddler, "This kid has a really loud voice!"
Shang Ruyi hurriedly said, "It's probably because the sounds from the past few days have been building up until now. There was no sound for the past few days, and I was worried about the child's health."
As she spoke, she lowered her head and smiled, "So, you've come to be close to Grandpa Emperor."
These words greatly pleased Yuwen Yuan, and even the slight displeasure that had been weighing on his mind vanished. In addition, the milky fragrance emanating from the baby in his arms and the direct intimacy and joy he felt, almost like that of a small animal, made him extremely happy. Since ascending the throne, he had hardly had a good night's sleep and could not relax his mind even for a moment.
He seemed to sigh, and said, "This child is good."
"..."
"He is much less of a worry for me than my three sons."
Upon hearing this, Shang Ruyi's heart skipped a beat. She subconsciously wanted to turn her head to look at Yuwen Cheng, who had taken a step back as soon as she entered and was now exuding a strong gloomy aura. But before she could raise her head, she heard him say with a cold laugh, "Father, I know that I am unfilial and have troubled you."
Yuwen Yuan raised his head and gave him a complicated look.
At this moment, Shang Ruyi turned around and said to him, "Third brother, you—"
Before she could finish speaking, her throat tightened!
Standing opposite her, Yuwen Cheng, who was holding the thin gauze that had just been removed and had a lazy smile on his face, had a cold gaze that made her feel a chill inexplicably. Especially when she saw the wound on his forehead, Shang Ruyi's eyes widened in surprise!
Yuwen Cheng's face was still as young and handsome as ever, yet it also exuded a gloomy and cunning air that made people very uncomfortable. But these were all too familiar to Shang Ruyi.
There was only one thing that was completely unfamiliar to her and that shocked her.
Yuwen Cheng's eyebrow tail was missing a section!
A scar, neither too big nor too small, only about half an inch long, was slanted across the tail of his left eyebrow, cutting off his eyebrow!
Although Yuwen Yuan never spoiled his sons, apart from Yuwen Qian who left home early to travel and cultivate, Yuwen Ye and Yuwen Cheng, who stayed by his side, never lived a life of luxury. Yuwen Ye had been training in the army since childhood, and Yuwen Cheng, though young, had already shouldered the heavy responsibility of guarding the place where the dragon rose. Therefore, he had not been unaware of the possibility that these people would fight on the battlefield, get injured, or even lose limbs, and he was not unable to accept it.
Even Shang Ruyi had long been accustomed to the life of the Yuwen family men, filled with sword fights and constant crises.
However, this small scar deeply shook her to her core!
It's important to know that the eyebrows govern the sibling palace!
In their view, damaged eyebrows are a sign of discord among siblings, or even internal strife!
When Yuwen Cheng first returned to Chang'an and appeared at Dong Bizheng's mourning hall, they found his injuries strange. His forehead was wrapped in layers, seemingly indicating an injury on his forehead, but strangely, it also covered one eyebrow. It turned out that the real injury was here!
No wonder. They had previously said that if the Crown Prince wanted to retaliate against them, he would do two things—injure people and seize power. But Yuwen Ye said that was not necessarily the case, because Yuwen Cheng had already returned. Moreover, he specifically asked her if she could see where Yuwen Cheng was injured.
At that time, he seemed to have already anticipated it.
Yuwen Cheng injured his eyebrow!
This wasn't a serious, bone-breaking injury, but it was the kind of wound that Yuwen Yuan, as a father and emperor, found most heartbreaking. No matter how much he longed for his eldest son, doted on his youngest, relied on his second son, or harbored many grievances, what he least wanted to see was an uncontrollable situation between his brothers.
But this wound seemed to have struck his weak spot, and it also revealed something he absolutely did not want to see!
Inside the pavilion, a suffocatingly oppressive atmosphere suddenly descended.
After a long pause, Yuwen Chengxian finally spoke, still smiling, "Is this injury very frightening?"
"..."
"Father, rest assured, this injury doesn't hurt or itch, and it won't affect my ability to lead troops into battle."
As he spoke, he casually turned to look at Shang Ruyi and sneered, "Second sister-in-law, don't you think so?"
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