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Chapter Thirty

Zhao Run was stunned for a moment. He didn't dare to recognize each other for a moment and asked, "Second...Second brother?"

Zhao Zhun walked towards him with a smile, hugged him, patted him on the shoulder, then let go of him, and said, "Let me see you well, well, as expected, I'm almost unrecognizable when I grow up."

However, Zhao Zhun didn't change much, almost the same as when he saw him last time, but he was more lean and stronger.

"Why, I'm so stupid?" Zhao Zhun asked.

"Second brother, you can't arrive the day after tomorrow?"

"I'm afraid that the road is unsafe, so my mother and I secretly came back in vain before the main army. Let's go, I'll take you to see the mother."

Zhao Run was still stunned and asked, "Where are you living now?"

"Hongmei Hotel." Zhao Zhun said and pulled his hand: "Let's go, my mother has long wanted to see you."

"Second brother, how did you come in?"

"I have lived in Ziwei Palace at the beginning, and it's not easy to come in." Zhao Zhun said and looked at Zhao Run: "Why, you are not happy to see me?"

"I was so surprised." Zhao Run said: "Wait, I'll call Yunying, let's go to pay my respects to my mother."

Zhao Zhun grabbed him: "Our family talks, what do you tell her to do?"

"She said my wife."

"My mother and I don't recognize her. She is just a chess piece that Zhao Jin puts next to you. Today is the first time we brothers have met. Let's not talk about her anymore, let's go."

Zhao Zhun and Yao Yuanying don’t like Lin Yunying, and it’s not the first time Zhao Run knows. In their eyes, Lin Yunying is a political marriage arranged by Zhao Jin. The mother and son do not like Zhao Jin, so naturally they will not like any of the marriages he arranged, and they don’t like Lin Yunying either.

Zhao Run followed Zhao Zhun outside and met the guards of Ziwei Palace on the way. They all looked at them in surprise. "Second brother wait here for a while, I'll go change some clothes."

"What kind of clothes to change, I think this one on you is very good."

"It's too easy to be recognized when dressing up like this, so wait for a moment."

Zhao Run said that, and went back to the bedroom to change clothes. Lin Yunying had not yet slept. When she saw him coming back, she asked, "Why did your highness come back so long... Do you still have to go out?"

"If you have something to go out, don't wait for me, go to bed first." Zhao Run said and kissed her forehead and said, "Didn't you say last time that your father-in-law said that if we need it, can we ask Zongmao to come to our Ziwei Palace to help us? Now that it's so messy outside, please call Zongmao and let him come here to live for a while. I'm quite busy during this period, and I'm not at ease when you live here alone."

Lin Yunying was stunned for a moment: "Okay. Your Highness should be careful when going out and ask a few more people to follow."

Zhao Run nodded, then changed into a dress and wore his black casual outfit.

Every time he wears this outfit at night, there is something important. Lin Yunying is worried, but she doesn't ask too much.

Zhao Run called a car and went to the Hongmei Hotel with Zhao Zhun. Zhao Run was afraid that people would recognize him, so she even wore a mask.

He hadn't seen Empress Dowager Yao for many years. He remembered that Empress Dowager Yao was still a beautiful and young woman. However, this time when he saw Empress Dowager Yao, he saw that her hair was gray and she was only as demeanor as the queen of the country, and she was very noble.

"My son." Empress Dowager Yao's eyes were filled with tears.

Zhao Run knelt in front of her and kowtowed. Zhao Zhun said from the side: "It's a happy event for the three of us to reunite. What's going on with you two crying?"

Empress Dowager Yao helped Zhao Run up after hearing this. The mother and son chatted for a while. Zhao Run found that Empress Dowager Yao looked very pale and always coughed.

"I was rushed on the road, and my mother's health has been in bad health, so I am sick. But don't worry, I have already seen a doctor." Zhao Zhun said.

"The ermalita taro is bitter and cold, and the mother should have returned to Beijing to celebrate her old age," said Zhao Run.

"Don't worry, this time when I come back, my mother will not leave here again. This is our place." Zhao Zhun said.

Zhao Run was stunned for a moment and nodded.

Empress Dowager Yao said: "We heard that the emperor has been unconscious for many days?"

Zhao Run's lips moved, then looked at Zhao Zhun and Empress Dowager Yao, and said, "The emperor was poisoned."

After he said that, he carefully observed the expressions on Empress Dowager Yao and Zhao Zhun's face. Zhao Zhun had no expression on his face. Instead, Empress Dowager Yao said "Oh" and said, "It seems that the people in the world who hate him are not the only ones who hate him in this world."

She held Zhao Run's hand: "The emperor may not be able to hold on for long now. Your brother has been in Jerusalem artichoke for a long time, and his connections and power in this capital are not as good as you. You must help your second brother. Don't let treacherous officials like Yu Huaiyong take advantage of the loopholes and seize the Zhao family's territory."

Zhao Run said: "My mother may not know yet. Just during the day, at a prayer and blessing conference for the emperor, someone assassinated Yu Huaiyong. Now he is still lying on the hospital bed, life and death are uncertain."

When Empress Dowager Yao heard this, she was indeed stunned. She turned her head and looked at Zhao Zhun. Zhao Zhun said, "Yu Huaiyong is arrogant and domineering. There are not a hundred or a thousand people who want to kill people. Sooner or later he will have this day."

"As a result, your second brother will have no rivals after he ascended the throne, right?"

Zhao Zhun smiled and said, "Why aren't there? There's still a fourth brother."

Zhao Run's face turned pale and said, "I never thought of inheriting the throne. I have been away from politics over the years, and my second brother knows it."

Zhao Zhun smiled and patted his shoulder: "I'm just joking with you, I'm scared to you. Of course I know you. We brothers are brothers of a mother and a compatriot, so there's no need to say much."

Empress Dowager Yao also laughed, coughed twice, and said, "I have been withered for so long, and finally got through this day. I just hope that you two will be kind and respectful in the future, so that our family can be reunited for a long time and not separated."

When Zhao Run heard her say this, her eyes turned red, and she lowered her head and didn't say anything.

"I heard you have already married?" Empress Dowager Yao asked again.

Zhao Run nodded: "Her name is Lin Yunying."

"The Lin family in Mudanzhou?"

Zhao Run said "Hmm" and said, "I will bring her to see her mother in a few days."

Empress Dowager Yao was not so repulsive of Lin Yunying, and only said: "Mudanzhou is a prominent family. The wife the emperor chose for you is pretty good."

"The emperor has always taken good care of me. Since... since my mother went to Jerusalem artichoke, the emperor has been..."

"He is false benevolence and righteousness," Empress Dowager Yao sneered: "How good can you be to me and your second brother, and you are just deliberately alienating the relationship between us mother and son. I don't know that boy yet. He is very cunning at such a young age and knows the truth of killing people the most!"

She was probably a little excited, and coughed violently twice again, covering her handkerchief, her face flushed. Zhao Zhun stroked her back and said, "My mother, don't think about these things anymore. No matter how capable he is, he is still a dying person."

Empress Dowager Yao was a little breathless, and Zhao Run was frightened by the sight of him. Zhao Zhun called the doctor and arranged for someone to help Empress Dowager Yao on the bed. The two brothers came out of her room and went to the living room outside. Zhao Zhun said: "My mother has always had the problem of asthma. She has suffered from Jerusalem artichoke these years, so the disease is even worse."

"I will ask the doctor to come to see my mother tomorrow." Zhao Run said.

Zhao Zhun smiled when he heard this, looked at him and said, "I remember when I left the capital, you were still a child who knew nothing. You only knew how to hold my clothes and cry. Now, looking at you, you are really grown up."

"I'm all about being a father, how can I not grow up?"

Zhao Zhun was stunned for a moment, frowned, and then loosened up again, saying, "Fourth brother, you won't fight with me, are you?"

Zhao Run raised his head and looked at Zhao Zhun.

Zhao Zhun looked like another Yu Huaiyong, with a very similar body and temperament. However, Zhao Zhun was born in the royal family and had a kind of noble arrogance, a handsome face, but a kind of majesty of being arrogant without anger. He moved his heart and said, "What am I fighting for you? You have millions of soldiers, I am just a leisurely prince without power."

"I know, the emperor doesn't like me, and that old man Yu Rong won't like me any more, even the dirty things crawled out of Yu Huaiyong's brothel. They all want you to be the emperor, but I can give you anything, but the throne will not give up. This should be mine. When I come back this time, I will sit in that seat. You are my brother. I will give you endless glory and let you continue to be your wealthy and idle person."

"I want to ask my second brother a word," Zhao Run looked at Zhao Zhun and asked, "Is this assassination done by yourselves?"

"Yes, not all." Zhao Zhun poured him a cup of tea, sat down and said, "Before my people were shooting, someone fired the gun first. I just took advantage of a loophole."

"Who do you want to kill the second brother? Just shoot him directly. Why bother so many innocent people? Do you know how many civilians were killed in this riot?"

"You are really too soft-hearted," Zhao Zhun said: "If you care about this and that, how can you do big things? If the emperor was not useless, it led to Yu Huaiyong's power being too great. If he honestly passed the throne to me according to the principle of brothers and brothers, how could this country be so turbulent? After all, it was the emperor who was incompetent and wanted to use you to restrain me. It was really despicable. But it seems that his goal was to achieve it, and you and my brothers were still separated."

"You want to kill Yu Huaiyong or someone else, just shoot him directly. Do you know that your people are shooting at the crowd, and I am also inside?"

"If it weren't for your life, I would have been in a slaughter. The most hateful thing was that Yu Huaiyong, the dog guy, escaped, and was shot first before my man shot, so that he could escape by chance."

Zhao Run pursed her lips tightly and said, "No matter what, you shouldn't kill innocent people. The injured royal family members also had Zhao's blood flowing."

"Today is the first time you and I have seen each other in so many years. I don't want to discuss this with you." Zhao Zhun had a violent anger between his eyebrows and looked at Zhao Run: "Fourth brother, you have really changed."

"How could I remain unchanged? When you and the queen left here, I had just grown up. I didn't know anything and could not do anything." Zhao Run's eyes were a little wet. His temperament was weak, and he looked even more pity. Zhao Zhun felt soft and said, "The pain of separation between our brothers and mothers is all thanks to the emperor. You should always remember this."

When Zhao Run left Hongmei Hotel in a car, Zhao Zhun stood at the window of the hotel and looked out, and said to Empress Dowager Yao who was lying on the bed: "Fourth brother, he may not be the fourth brother of the past. He was weak and compassionate by the emperor."

"That's good," said Empress Dowager Yao: "You brothers don't fight, so I'm relieved."

"But I am not a merciful person. We are not the same person. How can we get together? Besides, we are weak and are more likely to be controlled by others. If one day he becomes a knife in someone else's hand and stabs me, mother, what should I do?"

Empress Dowager Yao said: "The knife is innocent, and the hateful one is the person holding the knife. No matter what, don't kill your brother. Except for him, you can do whatever you want."

"But I'm a little sad," Zhao Zhun sneered, fiddling with the plum blossoms on the windowsill: "I still miss the fourth brother who was so silly and secretly handed me a candle."

Zhao Run sat in the car and closed her eyes in a slight shaking.
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