His little apprentice has a soft and charming waist

Duke Zhen's words made the emperor fall silent again.Yes, he regretted it.

He was even thinking, if everything could happen again, would he still treat the birthday guest like this?

He murmured: "You don't know, Shou Ke is lying in my arms like that, cold. I want to warm him up, so I rub his hands, but no matter how I rub them, his hands are still cold. .”

"Before he died, he was still talking about his master... He didn't call me..."

"Shou Ke, he hates me."

The Duke of Zhen sighed: "His Royal Highness the Prince was a lively and honest child a long time ago. Although he was not smart, he never thought he was smart. Boying taught him and taught him very well. However, no matter how hard he taught, he was criticized by so many of us. , I still suppressed my spine."

Then he paused and asked: "Shou Ke is dead now, and Your Majesty regrets it. If King Jin dies, will Your Majesty continue to regret it?"

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The emperor nodded, slightly lost in thought: "You are your own son, how could you not regret it? However, even if you regret it, some things and some roads have reached this point, so you have to continue on."

He smiled as if he was mocking himself, "Prince Jin is about to rebel. Do you think I shouldn't kill him?"

Duke Zhenguo: "It deserves to be killed. Therefore, I have been on His Majesty's side from the beginning to the end. Only I can understand His Majesty's thoughts."

This is the confidence that the two have grown up together since childhood.

The emperor narrowed his eyes, "If that's the case, then why do you still betray me?"

"You can guess my thoughts accurately, and I can also guess your thoughts accurately - but I believe in you. I initially thought that you would never betray me."

Betraying Sui Boying and betraying him are completely different things.

The emperor didn't understand, "I am so partial to you and protect you, even ignoring my friendship with Boying. How can you treat me like this?"

But the Duke of Zhenguo smiled: "Your Majesty's guess is actually right. I never thought about taking your Majesty's life. I just think it's time for Your Majesty to give up the throne."

He said firmly: "Over the years, Your Majesty has asked the King of Jin to fight with the Crown Prince. He will reward one today and the other tomorrow. If King Jin is better, you will suppress King Jin. If the Crown Prince is better, you will immediately kill the Prince from beginning to end." Scold him once. In days like this, the prince has become what he is today, and Prince Jin has also suffered greatly from it. He is no longer the child who just wanted a little love from you."

"They became trembling under your control, walking on thin ice, and I feel tired when I see them. It's just that neither the crown prince nor the King of Jin is someone I care about. I don't care what happens to them."

"Seeing that His Majesty is cruel, he is about to kill the Crown Prince - if the Crown Prince dies, and Prince Jin dies, who will come after him? The grandson of the Crown Prince and the son of Prince Jin?"

The emperor's face turned pale.The Duke of Zhenguo's words seemed to have touched his back, and he stood up suddenly, "You are so presumptuous!"

The Duke of Zhenguo poured himself a cup of tea unhurriedly, "Presumptuous? I am about to die. After decades of being a monarch, why is Your Majesty so angry? Is it possible that before you die, I no longer have the qualifications to be presumptuous?" ?”

He smiled and said, "When you were young, you told me that I was your brother. You don't have any brothers. I have been with you since you were a child, and you are your brother. I also took this sentence seriously. For many years to come. , Your Majesty, pat your conscience and ask, have you ever done anything to make me feel sorry for you? What kind of thing is it that I did not try my best to plan and work for you?" The emperor threw down his sleeves bitterly and sat down again, "Then I can be regarded as worthy of you. I didn’t even think about hiding Boying’s death from you. Although I said I wanted you to help Ah Li and be the first prosecutor in Jiangnan, I can do these things if someone else does it. .”

"Tell me, am I not treating you well?"

Duke Zhen Guo did not reply, but said: "Sometimes, when I look at Shou Ke and Lan, I will think of us."

"I used to be jealous of the brotherhood between Lan Shi and Shouke. When I look at them, I think of you and your majesty. If your majesty hadn't been as smart as Shouke, I and your majesty wouldn't have reached this point. .”

Then he thought about it and laughed like a self-mockery, "That's not right. Lan Shi and Shouke both died one by one. But your Majesty and I have lived for such a long time. Your Majesty, I am so great." It’s clear to you…”

His voice was slightly higher and became more precise, and he said: "I know your Majesty very well! So I know that the prince's death is his own fault, and you will not regret it too much at all. If you regret it today, you should be happy tomorrow The death of King Jin was an attempted rebellion, and you have no guilt, but you will pretend to only kill King Jin, put the queen under house arrest in the cold palace, and treat his wife and children well. So, you feel that you have done your best Therefore, you think the emperor's grandson and the son of King Jin can face it calmly."

"But how can their two fathers die like this? How can they live in harmony? In the next few decades, they will continue to fight. Even if you make peace with each other, they will not be harmonious. They will still be Just like the prince and the king of Jin, they fight back and forth."

The Duke of Zheng sneered, "Your Majesty, you don't feel sorry for them. You are used to it, and I don't feel sorry for the son of King Jin either. But I am the grandfather of the emperor's grandson and the father of Ying Niang, so I still feel sorry for them. I just want to Ah... I might as well let you come down and let the prince go up."

"The prince is easy to control, and the emperor's grandson has nothing to worry about. This is much better than when His Majesty was in power and had to guess your thoughts."

He looked at the emperor, "Is it wrong for me to think so?"

The emperor sneered, and then said: "But you didn't expect that the birthday guest would commit suicide."

Duke Zhenguo was silent for a moment and nodded, "Yes. I really didn't expect this."

"Until now, I haven't thought about why he committed suicide. He has obviously gone to chase Zhaozhao."

Emperor: "The human heart is the most difficult to predict. I miscalculated him, and so did you."

The Duke of Zhen Guo sighed, "Now, it's too late to say anything. I just ask Your Majesty to look at the hard work of the ministers for so many years and let the people in the Duke of Zhen Guo's house go."

Then he poured the tea into the cup again, "Your Majesty, I'm drinking cup after cup, and I don't know how much time is left... I want to see Ying Niang, is that okay?"

The emperor nodded, "I knew you would say that, so I went to ask for Ying Niang to come over."

He patted the Duke of Zhen on the shoulder and said, "Tell me, what are we fighting for in this life? In the end, the old people, the children, all left us one by one."

Duke Zhenguo smiled bitterly, "Who knows? Sometimes I think it would be better to be born in a rich family without so many messy things. Then am I enjoying the happiness of family now?"

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