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Xue Poye was standing by the door, watching Eunuch Zhou take two steps forward, he seemed to be very respectful to this man, and said cautiously: "Your Highness, the Holy One ordered the servants to come and deliver meals!"

"Your Highness?" Xue Poye's heart was shocked, could this person be a prince, could it be...

The person sitting on the ground said indifferently: "So he is still thinking about me." He stood up slowly, turned his head, and seemed a little surprised to see Xue Poye, but only for a moment, a strange look appeared on his face: " Master Xue, so you are here too."

This person is of course Prince Yin.

Xue Poye only felt chills for a while, the dignified nobleman, a generation of princes, was actually imprisoned in such a place at this time.

Looking at Prince Yin's face again, this face was seen yesterday, but today, it is completely different. It was like a dead man's face, and his eye sockets were sunken, making his whole person look decadent and listless. Even the neatly combed bun yesterday was now like a pile of messy grass, randomly intertwined on the top of his head.

"Your Highness... Your Highness...!" Xue Poye is not a person who is easy to soften his heart. For this prince, he never thought that he would soften his heart for him, but seeing the current situation, Xue Poye felt that he There was a burst of soreness in his heart, and this sourness was revealed from his heart to his face, and all of this was also seen by Prince Yin.

"I don't need your pity." Prince Yin said indifferently: "I am a prince and a nobleman, and I will only show mercy to others."

Xue Poye didn't speak, just stood there quietly.

Eunuch Zhou said again: "Your Highness, can the meals be brought in?"

Prince Yin didn't answer right away, but just looked at Eunuch Zhou with a very strange look, which made Eunuch Zhou feel uneasy, and even the smile on his face was extremely stiff.

"Are you Duke Zhou?" Prince Yin asked suddenly.

Eunuch Zhou hurriedly said: "Slave Zhou Bing!"

"Zhou Bing, I need to freshen up and change my clothes, only after washing and wearing clean clothes can I eat." Prince Yin said slowly: "Can you prepare a clear soup and wooden comb for me? "

Eunuch Zhou glanced at Xue Poye behind him, and said with some embarrassment: "Your Highness, this...!" Seeing that Prince Yin's eyes, which were not very bright at first, suddenly became sharp, he could only continue: "Clear soup and wooden comb are prepared by the slave, just clean clothes...!"

Prince Yin said indifferently: "I have already prepared the clothes, so I don't need to bother you."

Eunuch Zhou pondered for a while, and finally retreated. Xue Poye didn't look at him when he saw Prince Yin, and he didn't intend to speak. Liu was here, which only added to the embarrassment, so he had to go out.

The courtyard was silent, the icicles under the eaves were shining brightly, and the chill in the air became more chilly with the cold wind blowing.

Eunuch Zhou ordered a few guards to prepare clear soup and wooden combs. This clear soup, to put it bluntly, is bath water. It was not a difficult task. Not long after, the guards carried the wooden bucket into the house and poured hot water into the big wooden bucket. , prepared the vanilla rust towel for bathing, and then closed the door.

Xue Poye, Eunuch Zhou, and two eunuchs carrying lunch boxes were waiting outside the door, but they didn't speak, and the atmosphere seemed very stiff.

I don't know how long it took, when Xue Poye felt cold all over, Prince Yin finally finished his bath, and the guards cleaned up the house again, and then retreated.

Eunuch Zhou immediately ordered the two eunuchs to bring the food, wine and vegetables into the house. When Xue Poye followed up, he saw that Prince Yin had already put on a brand new make-up. His white clothes were like snow, and he was noble. Feeling refreshed, but his head is still a little messy, and he is sitting on the ground, holding a bronze mirror in his hand.

"Lord Xue, can you comb your hair for me?" Prince Yin asked calmly without turning his head.

Xue Poye was startled, and wanted to say that he didn't know how to comb, but seeing Prince Yin's appearance, he couldn't bear to refuse, nodded, walked behind Prince Yin, picked up the wooden comb, and combed for Prince Yin.

Xue Poye knows how to comb his hair. After coming to this era, his hair has been left long ago, and he needs to comb it every day.

Seeing that food, wine and food were set up on the small case, Eunuch Zhou waved his hands to make the two eunuchs retreat, and then respectfully said: "Your Highness, the meal has been settled, please eat it earlier, so as not to get cold."

Prince Yin said indifferently: "I won't waste the good wine and food bestowed by my father. Eunuch Zhou, you go down first. After half an hour, you can bring someone in to clean up."

Xue Poye only felt that the one-on-one answering between Eunuch Zhou and Prince Yin was a bit weird, but he couldn't figure out why he felt this way.

"Lord Xue, do you know why the emperor sent you here today?" Prince Yin suddenly asked, holding the bronze mirror in both hands, looking at his face all the time, with a weird smile on the corner of his mouth.

Xue Poye carefully combed Prince Yin's bun, and said slowly: "The emperor's order, the humble minister obeys the order, and dare not think too much."

"Haha...!" Prince Yin let out a weird laugh, and said slowly: "You are all afraid of him, everyone in the world is afraid of him, and I have been in awe of him all my life, but after a while, I will be afraid of him." No more fear of him, no more."

Xue Poye's eyelids twitched, this sentence seemed to imply something, he already had a bad feeling.

Prince Yin let Xue Poye comb his hair gently, and said slowly: "He asked you to come here, just to let you see how I am now, and let you see how I am waiting for a while. His purpose, Just to let you understand that in this world, he is the real master, and no one can challenge his authority."

Xue Poye didn't speak, just listened.

"As your grace rises, your power will also increase. I don't know why you are so favored by your father, but I know that the greater your power, the greater your challenge to your father's authority. Therefore, my father wants to warn you with my fate, no matter how powerful you are, no matter whether you are a prince or a powerful minister, it is still your father who decides your fate in the end." Prince Yin's voice was full of contempt: "Or Said, it is that chair that decides fate, the closer you get to that chair, the more careful you have to be."

Xue Poye was the only one who was silent, and finally said: "The humble minister is only loyal to the court and the Holy One. As for challenging the authority of the Holy One, it is a matter of punishing the nine clans. The humble minister dare not even think about it. The humble minister dare not even ask for extravagant power. .”

Prince Yin laughed straight, and suddenly said: "Master Xue, power is not a question of whether you want to be extravagant. Once you set foot, you will not be able to turn back. Even if you are just at the beginning today, there are definitely not a few people who hate you. You As long as the power in your hand is loosened a little bit, that is when you are crushed to pieces. Whether you want it or not, in the future, you can only grasp the power desperately and make yourself strong. Only in this way, you Only then will it be possible to survive in the muddy waters of Kyoto.”

Although Xue Poye didn't want to believe it, he had to believe that Prince Yin's words were correct.

During these days in Kyoto, he has seen the cruelty of human nature and the sinister power struggle. Under the seemingly peaceful surface, there are turbulent undercurrents.

Before the two princes confronted each other, who would have thought that after so many years of management, the princes of the two powerful factions would be completely collapsed by the Holy One in an instant.

"I don't mean anything else when I say these words, I just want you to understand your situation and protect yourself." Prince Yin said lightly: "Because only if you are alive, what you promised me can be done, and the mother and concubine can do it." Be safe."

Xue Poye carefully set his head for Prince Yin, and said softly: "Your Highness, do you think it's okay?"

Prince Yin looked at himself in the mirror, and said with a smile: "If I knew you had this kind of combing skills, I should have asked you to take care of me earlier." Standing up slowly, facing the bronze mirror, he said softly: "This It is Prince Da Chu!"

He stared at it for a while, finally put down the bronze mirror, walked to the side of the small case, picked up the chopsticks, and began to eat without hesitation.

The dishes were really rich, but it seemed that there was no heat left, but Prince Yin still ate with great relish.

After a long time, he took the silver cup, opened the wine bottle, filled it up, paused for a while, and finally drank it all in one gulp. He drank the whole pot of wine in one gulp, threw his chopsticks, stood up and shouted :"happy!"

"When the rivers and lakes get drunk in the years, a glass of fine wine breaks one's heart!"

Prince Yin tidied his clothes, walked slowly to the cold bed, pushed away the moldy quilt with difficulty, and made an empty bed, and then lay down on it with an elegant posture.

"It's a great honor to have you by my side when I'm parting." Prince Yin didn't look at Xue Poye, but closed his eyes and said softly: "Xue Poye, I can do it for myself!"

Xue Poye looked at Prince Yin's strange words and deeds, his hands and feet were suddenly cold, he finally understood something, and turned his eyes to the wine pot that had already been drunk.

Prince Yin remained motionless, and said in his mouth like a dream: "Father, you are too ruthless... you are too ruthless... people in this world... haha... people in the world... people in the world...!" The voice became more and more The smaller and weaker the mosquitoes and ants finally stopped talking to themselves.

Xue Poye frowned, and called softly: "Your Highness, Your Highness!"

Prince Yin did not agree, Xue Poye approached slowly and listened carefully, but found that he could not even hear Prince Yin's breathing, he was shocked, hesitated for a while, and finally stretched out his hand, gently sighing Prince Yin's breath .

Prince Yin's nose was cold and he couldn't breathe.

"Ah!" Xue Poye's body trembled, his hands and feet were cold.

There was a weird smile on Prince Yin's face, that smile was full of disdain and contempt, but on this face, Xue Poye could feel the pain of Prince Yin's dying moment.

"Father, you are too cruel!"

The words of Prince Yin before his death made Xue Poye already understand that the death of Prince Yin was bestowed by the emperor, and that bottle of fine wine was poison that pierced the intestines.

Eunuch Zhou obviously noticed the movement in the house, gently opened the door, and saw Prince Yin lying quietly on the dilapidated bed, apparently dead, so he knelt down on the ground, bowed three times, and then got up and said : "Master Xue, you can leave now."

Xue Poye stood there blankly, and when he heard Zhou Gonggong shouting, he turned around slowly and said calmly, "Your Highness has returned to heaven."

There was a trace of sigh in the depths of Duke Zhou's eyes, and he said softly: "The Second Highness is suspected of plotting to assassinate the Holy Majesty, and the Holy Majesty gave him poisoned wine to make him commit suicide."

"Did he already know that the jug of wine was poisonous wine?" Xue Poye asked coldly.

Eunuch Zhou nodded and said, "The Second Highness is intelligent and sensitive, so he must know what His Majesty means."

Xue Poye didn't ask any more questions, just glanced at Prince Yin, put his hands behind his back, and slowly left this cold and gloomy little room, a noble prince died in such a place.

Although this place is shabby, but before Prince Yin died, he still maintained his aristocratic demeanor and the dignity of a prince!

Xue Poye was not shocked by Prince Yin's death, but that Emperor Deqing actually ordered a killer to give Prince Yin poisoned wine.

The assassination happened only last night, and it didn't take long, even before the interrogation, His Majesty the Emperor made a quick decision and gave the poisoned wine without hesitation. It seems that Emperor Deqing had long intended to kill Prince Yin.

A father who disregarded his brotherly love and killed as soon as he said it, which made Xue Poye feel cold all over his body. He finally understood what the so-called "accompanying the king is like accompanying a tiger" meant, and even more understood what is meant by "the king's heart is unpredictable" .

Even if there was no assassination incident last night, Xue Poye doubted that Prince Yin would die unexpectedly after being expelled.

"Fortunately or unfortunately for me to enter the court?" Xue Poye looked up at the sky, thinking with emotion in his heart.

When Xue Poye left the house, he encountered many imperial doctors coming to the Zongzheng Temple. These imperial doctors seemed to be orderly, without any sense of urgency to rush over after receiving orders at all.

Xue Poye sneered in his heart, knowing that all of this had been prepared long ago.

At dusk, Xue Poye heard the news of Prince Yin's death began to spread in the palace, but the cause of death was not from drinking poisoned alcohol, but from a heart failure and sudden illness.

Xue Poye understood this point, if the Holy Majesty gave poisoned wine and spread it, it would certainly affect the Holy Majesty's prestige.

A father poisoning his son to death is not a pleasant thing to hear.

Xue Poye can't control who will be sad and who will be happy after the death of Prince Yin, and he doesn't care about the impact. He is just ready to leave for Jiangnan on the second day.

Jiangnan is good, even in winter, Jiangnan is probably beautiful and prosperous?Life in Kyoto is too depressing, Xue Poye feels that he also needs to adjust.

Although he is quite powerful now, the life of freedom seems to be slowly fading away.

Going to the south of the Yangtze River to raise money, Xue Poye still went to the south of the Yangtze River as the servant of the household department, but the guards still selected more than 20 elite people from the Fenghuo camp.

These Habayashi guards are all capable of risking their lives to protect themselves, and all of them are highly capable. In addition, Xue Poye himself is not the former Wuxia Amon. According to his strength, he has already entered the ranks of the four warriors.

This is of course because of the "Ecstasy Heart Method", otherwise Xue Poye may not be able to reach this stage in another ten years.

Gossip less, leaving behind the turmoil in Kyoto, early on the second day, Xue Poye, escorted by more than 20 cavalry Habayashi guards, left Kyoto alone in two cars, and went to Jiangnan to raise money.

He made a car by himself, while the green lady sat with Xiao Shitou, and more than a dozen Habayashi guards rode on horses to protect them on both sides.

As soon as he left the city, Xue Poye felt a burst of relief. The snow outside the city was still thick and stretched as far as the eye could see. Scattered vehicles and crowds came and went. Seeing that Xue Poye was guarded by Habayashi guards, Passers-by knew that there were no ordinary people in the car, so before Xue Poye's car approached, people and cars on the road rushed to the side of the road to make way for Xue Poye.

Xue Poye sat in the car, closed his eyes and rested his mind.

Lady Lv didn't know that Duan Kezhang had died in the palace and his body was fed to the dogs, otherwise she wouldn't have left the capital so smoothly, and Xue Poye didn't know how to tell her.

Duan Kezhang died, and sooner or later the green lady will know about it.

Walking on the familiar road, Xue Poye rubbed his nose and looked outside through the car window. When he came, the scenery outside was still unique and tight, but after a few months, it was already winter, and his eyes were pale. .

When passing by Shanglinyuan, I saw that there were many soldiers riding horses here, but Xue Poye was very puzzled. This Shanglinyuan is a straight road leading to Hangzhou, and it is closed every autumn, because autumn is the time for princes and nobles. When they were hunting, passers-by could only take a long detour, but it was open in winter.

Now that Shanglin Garden is open, there are soldiers gathering, but it is not known which princes and nobles are hunting here.

After walking for a while, the carriage was walking on the snow-covered ground, and saw a group of people and horses pass by in front of them, even raising a flag. Xue Poye could see clearly that the word "dry" was written in red on the flag, and he pondered for a moment. Can't help but startled, thought: "Could it be that Lord Qian is hunting here?"

If that's the case, it's really a coincidence. Before Princess Suichang stepped into the capital, she met Lord Qian at Nanyu Gate. She never thought that she would run into him once she left today.

However, he has been out of Shanglin Garden, and he has never met the Lord Qian, so it seems that this time he has no chance, the car is rattling, and he is slowly moving forward in the ice and snow.

A few riders emerged slowly from the forest, the one in the front with big ears and a handsome appearance was none other than Liu Chengjing, the heir apparent.

"Your Majesty, that seems to be the car of Xue Shitou, the servant of the household department!" A knight named Liu Chengjing looked at the carriage and said, "He is going to the south of the Yangtze River to raise money."

Liu Chengjing smiled faintly, and said: "Jiangnan is an important place in the business world of Great Chu, and there are all powerful characters in the business world there, so I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with."

You Yiqi said with a smile: "I heard that it was the idea of ​​the household servant to raise money from merchants. Now he is going to the south of the Yangtze River to raise money. If he doesn't do well, it will make the world laugh."

"That's not likely." Liu Chengjing said thoughtfully: "The Holy Majesty has a lot of trust in him, I think he still has some abilities, and he must be confident in raising money this time."

One said in a low voice: "My lord, the crown prince's foreign treasury is in the south of the Yangtze River. Does Xue Shilang dare to offend?"

Liu Chengjing smiled faintly, watched the carriage disappear into sight, and said softly: "He has offended the prince's foreign treasury long ago!"

"My lord, look, there is a gray wolf somewhere!" One person shouted loudly.

Liu Chengjing laughed, urged the horse slightly, took the longbow, put on the feathered arrow, and shot an arrow very fast. Hearing another "poof", a gray wolf running like a shooting star was shot in the neck by a feather arrow, and the feather arrow penetrated into it. The gray wolf whimpered, rolled on the ground, twitched all over, and struggled desperately , but can't get up.

Liu Chengjing's arrow was no weaker than Xue Poye's.

Amidst the cheers of all the knights, they had already urged their horses forward to pick up the gray wolf. This wolf skin is a good thing.