Solitary pet

Chapter 259

After returning to the East Palace, the princess presented a letter written by the queen.The prince took it apart and read it word by word dozens of times.

The candlestick shook, and the figures of the two were reflected on the ground.After a long time, the prince tore up the letter and looked up angrily, "I don't believe it. The queen mother would never write such a letter."

The princess knelt down, carefully picked up the torn paper bit by bit, held it in the palm of her hand, took a burning plate, put it on the burning plate, and then raised her head and said, "We have only this way to go."

The prince looked at her bitterly, and suddenly laughed loudly: "Don't you just look forward to being your queen? If I ascend the throne, the queen may be who. If you are so confident, I will definitely make you queen?"

The princess looked at him quietly, her eyes were sincere and warm, there was love in her eyes, the lingering affection she had always wanted to tell him.

She shook her head, "It doesn't matter, I just hope you can survive. Live to be the emperor."

The prince suddenly pouted her chin, and looked fiercely: "Don't do this with me, I will never forget about Xuan'er in my life."

The crown princess raised the corners of her mouth and smiled, and when she smiled, tears came out.

"I did not do it on purpose."

The prince pushed her away, not wanting to hear her explanation at all, so he threw up his sleeves and walked away.

The princess collapsed on the ground, covering her face and weeping.

That was Xuan'er's fate, and he couldn't blame her.When she was crying weakly, she suddenly remembered the words that the queen said in the palace this afternoon, "There is no hurdle that cannot be overcome".

That's right, as long as he can overcome the current difficulties, nothing will matter, they will reconcile as before, and one day he will be moved by her infatuation.

The princess cried even more sadly.

The prince took Chen An and sat under the grape arbor for the whole night.

This night, the starry sky was bright, and they were silent in the wind.Summer mornings always come very early. When the first rays of morning light break through from behind the clouds, the cicadas on the trees also begin to sing.

Chen An's legs were numb from sitting, but he still didn't dare to move.The crown prince lay on his arms, and asked suddenly: "An'er, do you know why my father hates me?"

Chen An originally wanted to say a few words of comfort, but found that any words were powerless in the face of the father-son relationship between the prince and the sage.

So he asked, "Why?"

The prince replied: "He hates me for being mediocre, hates me for being born to a queen mother, hates me for being a prince, hates me for being his son."

Chen An raised his hand, subconsciously wanting to touch his forehead, but realized that this gesture was too intimate and seemed to be overreaching.Just as he was about to put his hand down, the prince grabbed his hand. His eyes were serious and focused. He looked at him and said, "An'er, my father said that I like men, and he hates me for liking men, but An'er , I really don't like men, I just like you."

Chen An smiled, he knew what the prince was about to do at the banquet today, so he didn't say anything, just continued the action just now, and put his hand on his forehead and stroked it gently.

The prince closed his eyes.

Chen An sang a little tune from his hometown.Different from Wangjing, where the first concubine lived, his distant relative was just a poor boy living in a corner of Wangjiang in the south of the Yangtze River.

Before coming to Wangjing, he learned to sing opera.His family was in decline, and in order to support his parents, he had no choice but to work as an actor for a while.Later, when I came to Wangjing, I inadvertently learned that there were relatives with high morals in my family, so I went to beat the autumn wind with a cheeky face, and was kicked out with a stick.

He will never forget that winter.He collapsed in the snow with poor clothes and starvation. A man came from the east, looked up, and saw a man in fine clothes riding on a tall horse, looking at him in shock, as if he was reunited with an old friend.Without the usual arrogant arrogance of Wangjing nobles, the man was very kind and stretched out his hand to him. It was white and slender. He had never seen such a beautiful hand.

"From now on, your name is Chen An, and you are my Shen Moan."

At that time, Chen An didn't understand what this sentence meant to him, he just vaguely knew that maybe, his life in the future would be different.

The graceful and long Jiangnan tune slowly spread along the morning mist, one after another.The prince praised: "An'er, you sing really well."

Chen An didn't stop.

The sun rose from the east and hung high in the sky. The prince couldn't stay any longer. According to the time, he had to go to the palace quickly.

This was the first banquet the sage allowed him to attend after he was claustrophobic.During the banquet, the East Palace party wanted to take advantage of the time when everyone was drunk to plot rebellion.

They asked him to deliver the poisoned wine to the saint himself.Only he can do this, no one else can.

The prince trembled a little, he was still afraid after all.It's not that he's afraid of handing the poisoned wine to his father, but he's afraid of something else.

Chen An had no choice but to stop, and comforted softly: "Your Highness, no matter what, I will follow you to the death."

The prince looked at him and asked mockingly, "Do you know what I'm going to do?"

Chen An nodded, "I know."

The prince continued: "No, you don't know." They all thought that he would plot rebellion and pass the glass of wine to the emperor.

Chen An shook his head, and took out a pack of medicinal powder from his sleeve, "If even I don't know what His Highness is thinking, wouldn't His Highness be too lonely living in this world?"

After finishing speaking, he poured the medicinal powder into the cup in front of the prince, drank it in one breath, and said with a smile: "For the king and the son, murdering the father and usurping the throne is for disloyalty and unfilial piety. Your highness is pure-hearted, and you will never do such a thing." As a lord, the courtiers will do their best to follow each other to the death, if they do not respond, it is an act of injustice. His Highness would rather sacrifice himself than disappoint others for such disloyalty, filial piety and unrighteousness."

The prince was pleased: "The one who knows me is Mo Ruo'an."

Chen An looked a bit in pain, perhaps it was because of the bowl of tea just now. "Your Majesty, I don't want to use the white silk you ordered to prepare. My tongue fell out. It is said that I will become dumb in my next life. If there is a next life, I still want to sing. It is better to use arsenic."

There was shock, pain, and guilt in the prince's eyes.It turned out that he had expected everything.

When the poison entered, Chen An couldn't support himself, and fell into the prince's arms, raised his head and asked him: "Your Highness, is Your Highness planning to use arsenic too?"

The prince burst into tears.He nodded, "Yes, I plan to use the same one as Ann's."

Chen An felt that the breath in his whole body had been taken away, and there was only one breath left in his chest. With this last breath, he said slowly, "Your Highness, I will go ahead."

From then on, there will be no more Chen An in the world, no more Prince No. 1.

He can no longer listen to his music.

The prince hugged Chen An and cried loudly.

Near noon, the banquet started, and the silk and bamboo were joyous, full of excitement and joy.

(End of this chapter)