Step on a branch

Chapter 224 I Was Deceived By Him

As soon as the words fell, the imperial study room was so stuffy that Eunuch Xu could hardly breathe.

He quickly lowered his eyes, not looking at Long Yan.

However, the gloomy atmosphere still made him feel like a light on his back, like a knife hanging above his head, and he didn't know when it would fall.

The only thing that made him rejoice was that the head under the knife was not his.

But even so, he was still very uncomfortable with the atmosphere.

So uncomfortable.

It was even more dreary than the afternoon in June when the thunderstorm did not come down.

After a long silence, the emperor's voice sounded slowly.

"According to what you say, what will the father do?"

Eunuch Xu bit his lower lip.

How did he know what the late emperor had done?
But when he was thinking about it, he was asked by the emperor, so he just said it.

False and real, real and false.

In the past few years, these eight characters have been pursued.

In this way, the emperor will trust him more and be willing to listen to his words.

Regardless of whether it can be found out in the end, it can always be said that it is both true and false.

After all, he is just a big eunuch in charge, not Chiyiwei or Sansi Yamen, how could he know so much?

In the few sentences just now, Eunuch Xu also meant the same thing.

Take a bucket of water to the emperor, pour it out, whether it is dirty or clean, just look at it.

Who knew that the emperor insisted on asking clearly...

If in the past, Eunuch Xu went around in circles and laughed a few times, the emperor would not have gone into it, but today, the dull atmosphere is obviously suffocated.

Unable to help Mr. Xu, he could only think hard.

Think east and west, look east and west.

Eunuch Xu's gaze fell on the Bogu shelf beside him.

On the upper floor, there is an ebony box, which contains several pieces of jade seals from the emperor.

Suddenly, Eunuch Xu had a thought.

"Maybe, maybe it's a seal of the late emperor?" Eunuch Xu said.

The emperor frowned and said, "Impossible."

The late emperor had fifteen seals, large and small, with different uses. Except for the imperial jade seal, which was handed over to the emperor, all others were put away together. After counting, they were buried with the late emperor.

This matter was handled by the emperor himself, and he personally checked the booklet to confirm that it was correct, and there are documents to check.

Lin Fanruo took a seal and said it was left to him by the late emperor, which is too fake.

As for the seal of "occasionally playing with it, but not in the register", it is better not to take it out.

Eunuch Xu didn't stop thinking.

Now that I think of the seal, then...

"Edict," Eunuch Xu almost patted his thigh hard, he was so clever, "What if the late emperor had a will?"

The emperor raised his hand and hammered down the big case.

The teacup was rattled.

It fell into Eunuch Xu's ear, making him shrink his neck involuntarily.

At the same time, another wave of joy rose in my heart.

Who doesn't like to watch the excitement?
Even though he himself was in the midst of the excitement, even if he was out of breath by the emperor's anger just a moment ago, at this moment, he felt the excitement in his heart.

The emperor didn't know what the eunuchs around him were thinking, or in other words, he was absorbed in all his thoughts by the "legacy" and couldn't care about anything else at all.

His thoughts went back to more than 20 years ago, before the death of the late emperor.

At that time, the imperial physicians were helpless to deal with the late emperor's condition.

The first emperor conquered for many years, and stayed away from the battlefield until after the establishment of the dynasty, but he did not rest idle. The great Zhou, which was waiting to be rebuilt, was full of heavy government affairs, which made him toil day and night.

He suffered large and small injuries in the early years of the war, and has "made a comeback" in the past few years.

The first emperor himself knew that his life was not long.

Especially after Zhao Lin's death, the late emperor's condition got worse.

In the last few months, the emperor was taking care of the government affairs, while the first emperor was recuperating.

During this period, the first emperor summoned some of his courtiers, or several people together, or talked alone, and the emperor often participated in it.

The emperor remembered very clearly that the late emperor was looking for the whereabouts of Princess Wu until his last breath.

The first emperor sent a lot of people there, and every time he reported nothing, he would be dissatisfied and angry. In the eyes of the emperor, that kind of eagerness did not look like a feign...

But what if his father lied to him from beginning to end?
The royal father may not know where Fang Yu is, but he believes that Fang Yu is under Lin Xuan's control.

At that time, Lin Fan was not yet born, and in the situation where he was not sure whether he was a boy or a girl, what would the royal father do?
Perhaps, it will really be an imperial edict.

The edict was given to Lin Xuan?

After Lin Xuan's death, in whose hands did the imperial edict fall?
Wending, or Pingyang?
When Lin Xuan died, Qin Yin was by his side. Will he entrust the will to Qin Yin?

All kinds of speculations were tossed and turned in the emperor's mind, trying to piece together all kinds of possibilities, no matter which one, it made his internal organs feel as if they were being scorched by fire.

If the father did that, then what would he, his son, be in the eyes of the father?
In the last half month, the whole half month, his father would call him to his sickbed, ask him his various views on the Great Zhou, the government and the public, and test his strategies for governing the country.

Father Huang never expressed dissatisfaction.

Dissatisfied with his youngest son inheriting the throne, dissatisfied with his ideas of governing the country, not at all!
The emperor accepted his succession, called the auxiliary ministers to his side, and in front of everyone, dictated the letter of succession, which was written by Xu Taifu and sealed with the jade seal.

His succession ceremony was full of rituals and a complete agenda.

The matter that the emperor personally decided, could it be that there is a will hidden behind his back?
What kind of joke is this!
The more the emperor thought about it, the more angry he became.

But after much deliberation, to make Qin Yin's tough bones believe and be willing to contribute to Lin Fan, it must be a death certificate such as a "legacy".

Yes.

The Qin family also has a luan bird!
The fate of the Phoenix, which everyone knows, and Lin Fan, whose identity is not "clear", really "joined forces", and each got what he needed.

Thinking about it in this way, Qin Yin's reluctance had its roots in Concubine Shun's two proposals for marriage.

Qin Yin originally had his eyes on Lin Fan.

Even, those fortune-telling masters were "brought" by Qin Yin himself, in order to add a layer of explanation to Lin Fan's life experience one day?
Qi'er's insistence on canceling the marriage contract, is it in Qin Yin's heart?

Go over in the imperial study?

Nine times out of ten, Qin Yin was very happy at that time!

No, it's not all...

If Qin Yin had made preparations when Qin Luan was born, then he must have known about it earlier, and it was impossible for Lin Xuan to tell him before he died.

Who did Qin Yin listen to?

Did the emperor say it himself?
"Last time..." The emperor gasped.

Qin Yin took the initiative to tell the story of his father's meeting alone before his death, and he believed it sincerely.

But, is Qin Yin telling the truth?
No, Qin Yin must be lying to him!

The emperor was furious, and cursed: "What an upright old man Qin, I was deceived by him!"

Eunuch Xu raised his head, a look of bewilderment flashed in his eyes.

Did he scold Lin Fan and praise Marquis Yongning just now?
Why did the emperor think for a while and scolded Marquis Yongning?

　Thanks to the book friend 20220507212009047 for the reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)