Chapter 369

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After the emperor returned from Huan Yuexuan, he asked his confidants to investigate what Lin Zhaoyan said.

He was not stupid. He had calmed down on the way back to the study room and also noticed the clues in Lin Zhao's words.

However, he decided to investigate clearly in everything first. Anyway, they were all imprisoned, so what if they were left for a few more days?

When the empress dowager heard his careful explanation of what his subordinates had done, she couldn't help but ask coldly: "So what if you find out? Could you kill them all?"

The emperor leaned on the back of the chair, rubbed his eyebrows, and said exhaustedly: "My mother, I know you are soft-hearted, but some things cannot be solved by soft-heartedness."

"Do you have to kill them all? People often say that you have done good deeds and accumulated virtues. Are you willing to defeat all the virtues accumulated by our ancestors of the Xiao family?" The empress dowager stared at the emperor, with pain, dissatisfaction and self-blame in her eyes.

It was all her fault. It was her blind indulgence and compromise that she developed the emperor's current character, and it was too late to teach now.

What she wished was that he could lose a little sin so that he would not lose his good deeds and would take all of this to his descendants.

The third child's personality is exactly the same as the emperor. He is really able to do something to rebel!

Why doesn't the emperor understand?

"Mother!" The emperor opened his eyes, his eyes shining sharply, with deep resentment and unwillingness hidden inside, "You have never looked down on me! If Xiao Yan hadn't been willing to fall into depravity and had a life of drunkenness and dreams, and was really embarrassed by the great task, how could you have made every effort to protect me from the throne? In your mind, he has always been the only son!"

"You!" The Empress Dowager was so angry that she trembled all over her body, "Do you still have a conscience to say this? I have not followed your wishes over the years! You have done so many consciences and I just followed you to clean up! But Heng'er, everything in the world cannot escape a cycle of retribution. If you are stubborn, there will always be times when you regret it in the future!"

"Then let's talk about it in the future!" The emperor threw down this sentence without caring. When he met the Empress Dowager's sad and disappointed look, he couldn't help but sneer, "The Queen Mother is just because she has no choice. If that happened back then, I am afraid that Yan'er, you are your most precious Yan'er in this position. How can I ask my mother to teach me personally! Anyway, since I was a child, my mother has never taught me, and I have spent more time with my wet nurse than my mother!"

"Heng'er!" The Empress Dowager looked at him incredibly, never expecting that the resentment in his heart was so strong. "Why do you think so? You and Yan'er are both born to the mother, how can the mother treat you differently? When she was a child, it was just because Yan'er was weak and sick, so the mother would take care of her more. You have always been strong and brave. The mother just wanted you to learn to be alone..."

"So when I was about to die of a high fever, you went to watch a big show with Xiao Yan! So when Xiao Yan and I fell in love with a girl at the same time, you asked Xiao Yan to marry Xiao Yan without asking! Haha, be alone? Since this is the case, when the father wanted to become a crown prince, why did you recommend the so-called weak and sickly Xiao Yan!" The hatred in the emperor's eyes became stronger and stronger, and he remembered the past. It was like a boiling hot oil poured on his heart, and then soaked in the cold water, which made him almost numb.

"If I didn't fight for all kinds of things in this world, when my mother thinks of me, I'm afraid I've already turned into ashes!"

The Empress Dowager widened her eyes and was still incredible, "You...you have never told her mother about these things, it turns out that Huijun..."

"My Mother!" The emperor cut off her words and obviously rejected the name. "It's already a thing of the past. Why do you still mention it? The Queen Mother doesn't know? The Queen Mother doesn't know that there are so many things about me! Because you only have the fifth brother in your eyes, how could you notice me?"

The Queen Mother opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but found that she couldn't say a word.

She doesn't know, she really doesn't know...

Could it be Huijun's death...

The Queen Mother couldn't help but shivered when she looked at the emperor with a sinister face.

It turned out that she had watched her grown-up son since she was a child, and she had become so paranoid and terrible before she could even notice it.

Is it because I was too much love when I was a child that I couldn’t get it, so when I became an emperor, I had to grab everything I like and destroy everything I had threatened?

"I'm tired! Please come back with my mother!" Thinking of the unhappy past when I was too young, the emperor was so depressed that he was too lazy to pretend to be respectful on the surface, so he directly issued an order to expel the guest.

The empress dowager smiled bitterly, knowing that no matter how much she said, it would be useless. She could not change the emperor unless she had her life again.

But, is it possible?

After the empress dowager left, the emperor not only did not calm down, but became more and more irritable and depressed. The face he had deliberately forgotten for almost twenty years always appeared in his mind.

Her beautiful and elegant facial features, quiet and gentle temperament, and affectionate eyes.

After she was given a marriage, he was depressed for three months. Later, he accidentally heard that his father was considering the appointment of a crown prince, and his mother said good things about Xiao Yan for granting him, so he was forced to cheer up.

He knew that he could no longer be decadent, and he had to reach a high position so that he would not ask people to steal his things again and again.

So, he took advantage of her and said he wanted to elope with her, and then...

Xiao Heng remembered that the first time he had hurt his heart was the woman he loved deeply.

He knew that there was nothing in this world that he could not get.

The support of the mother, the support of the court officials, the lofty throne, the gentle and virtuous queen, and the queen | The palace and the three thousand beauties...

He finally got everything.

But why is it always a big hole in my heart when I dreamed of midnight?

He must have lost something, something very important.

Until... he met Jingru.

His calm and clean temperament, Mingyan's warm smile, and his heart seemed to be filled all of a sudden.

There was only one thought in my mind at that time.

He must get her and treat her wholeheartedly.

must.

When Xiao Heng thought of this, a bitter smile appeared on his lips.

It turns out that the so-called love at first sight, the so-called deep love without regrets, is that.

Xiao Heng smiled and a tear fell from the corner of his eyes.

At this time, a eunuch held the jade butterfly into the house, "Your Majesty, it's time to flip the cards."

Xiao Heng immediately calmed down and said coldly: "No need, I will rest in the study today."

The eunuch secretly glanced at the emperor and saw that his expression was still calm, he couldn't help but pluck up the courage to speak, "Your Majesty, I heard that Concubine Jing had learned a colorful dance recently and said that she would offer it to the emperor!"

"I said I'm going to rest in the study today. Are you deaf?!" Xiao Heng was furious, "Don't take out your tricks that are not allowed to be on the table!"

The eunuch was so scared that he immediately knelt down and begged for mercy, "The emperor forgives his crimes, the emperor forgives his crimes!"

He was complaining in his heart, all of which were caused by greed for money. If he hadn't taken a jade bracelet of the little palace maid next to Concubine Jing today, and thought about collecting money to eliminate disasters for others, how could he touch the dragon's beard?

It would be worth it if you really lost your life because of that little money!

"Get out!" Xiao Heng said three words coldly, but he didn't care about him.

The eunuch was overjoyed and kowtowed repeatedly to express his gratitude, thinking that he would never accept bribes again next time.

But when he just walked to the door, he heard the emperor shouting: "Wait!"

He felt nervous and turned around with a wry smile, "What else does the emperor have to give?"

"What did Concubine Jing learn just now?"

"Nichang Dance."

"Ni Shangwu?" Xiao Heng narrowed his eyes and repeated words one by one.

Nichang dance...

He used to call Wanru, but she refused to please him, and said that it was an actor who danced. Because of this, he punished her for the first time and had a cold war with her for several days.

Unexpectedly, it has been so long since the incident has passed, and Concubine Jing has learned it.

Do you just want to compete for favor?

Xiao Heng sneered in his heart, "Then go and have a look!"

No matter what Concubine Jing’s purpose is, in short, he hasn’t seen anyone jump over the Nishang dance for a long time.

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Chapter completed!