The sun is warm in the farmhouse, but because of the arrival of the cavalry and the emperor wearing light armor, the originally peaceful and vibrant fields suddenly have a bit of solemnity.
Before the emperor arrived, there was a yellow gate expressing horse that ordered the prince to wait in the diverticulture. Therefore, when the emperor passed through the fields and went to the lounge, the prince stood at the door and saluted the emperor.
The emperor nodded and entered the diverticulture. Except for the prince, all the followers, including the tall companions who had been inseparable from him, retreated like a tide. The ten acres of fields were quiet, and you could hear the sound of closing the museum door from afar.
The breeze came gently, passing through the window frame and blew the warm water vapor rising from the teacup.
The emperor looked at the emerald green tea leaves standing up in the teacup like sparrow tongues, and looked at the twisting heat, but he didn't look at the face of the prince sitting opposite him.
He said slowly, "It is a taboo for military strategists to be unable to calm down."
The prince did not look at the emperor's face. He looked at the small stove with charcoal fire, as he was as reserved as before. He first said respectfully, "Thank you for your teachings."
Then he continued, "Why do Father doubt me?"
The emperor did not answer immediately. He still looked at the twisting heat. His gaze became blurred. There seemed to be countless twisted images in the heat, echoing in his ears with some aggrieved voices, which seemed so familiar. But when he raised his head and looked at his son, he felt strange again.
He smiled with emotion and said, "I underestimated you."
The prince lowered his head slightly and said, "I remember everything my father taught me every day. My father kept telling me that we, Li, must rely on evidence, not on preferences, and cannot rely on guessing any judgment."
The emperor said calmly, "I encountered an accident in the Zongsheng Palace, and then came to see you directly. You thought I was suspicious of you. Isn't this based on guessing?"
The prince shook his head and said, "If it were just an ordinary conversation between father and son, the father would not abandon his left and right. Even the tall companions left this farmhouse, and there was no need to close the door and let the armoured cavalry guard the guards."
"You know me, so you make sure that I doubt you, so you think that your judgment is based on evidence, not speculation." The emperor looked at him and said sarcastically, "I know it is you, and not speculation."
The prince's expression did not change at all, and he said calmly, "Although I am concerned about the movements of the Tiantian Grand Ceremony, there will definitely be no evidence to prove that I am involved."
The emperor shook his head and said, "No, it's only you. In this world, those who know that my method will produce such true energy and demonic appearance are only the Lord of Fallen Temple, Master Xuanqing, Gao Dajia, and Lin Fu. The Lord of Fallen Temple is dead. Master Xuanqing will never tell others this secret, and even more so, the Lord of Fallen Temple will not. As for Lin Fu, he died immediately after discovering this secret. Apart from these people, the only person in this world who has the most contact with me and knows me the most. The only person who is likely to discover my secret is you."
The prince fell silent and said, "The father blamed me wrongly. This inference cannot be used as evidence even in the confidentiality of Li's family."
"So I said from the beginning that I underestimated you." The emperor looked at the prince and said, "You are not afraid that I think so. You are just sure that Li's confidentiality will not regard this as evidence. They will not allow me to depose you, the prince."
The prince said seriously, "Please don't think so."
The emperor looked at the prince who was extremely confident in his calmness and couldn't help but smile, "You might think that Li's confidentiality is between an emperor who may have great problems and an impeccable prince in all aspects, and will definitely choose to stand on your side. You don't need to have any substantial impact on me at all. You just need to let Li's confidentiality discover my problem, but you don't know that many years ago, Li's confidentiality has made a choice for such a problem."
The expression on the prince's face still did not change at all, but the heat in the teacup in front of him moved a little more violently, which showed that his breathing was already a little heavy and a little disordered.
The emperor said calmly, "At this point, you should also understand that I have a choice in my heart. You are not afraid of what I think. You just seized me and couldn't come up with any evidence to cure you, so that Li's confidentiality department would help you. However, you are too young and don't know what happened before, so you won't know what Li's confidentiality department thinks. You know that those people in the confidentiality department of Li are smart people. Although they pay attention to evidence in their work, they will not stop suspicion of a person because they have no evidence. Just sacrificing Li's saint-like manner to gain personal gain has already violated the taboo of Li's secret. Li's confidentiality department will not stand on your side. If they have to make a choice, their behavior will definitely be to choose another prince."
The expression on the prince's face finally changed a little.
His face seemed a little stiff, and his eyelashes kept trembling slightly.
He looked at the emperor, took several breaths, and said, "When you were seven years old, you were seriously ill. After you were sick, you were very strange. You didn't even know the palace maids who served you, and even your preference for eating changed. The year when Shen Qiqi assassinated the fallen Guanguan master and fled Chang'an, you were seriously ill again, and since then you have not been close to many people. You seem to like lively and watch singing and dancing all night long, but in fact you only contact those singers, dancers and musicians who are not familiar with practice. You are completely in your daily life.
Avoid those practitioners who practice spiritual supernatural powers. You went to Baiyun Temple several times to practice, and I have checked the books you have read over the years. What you have most contact with on weekdays is the things that kill evil and drive away evil spirits. You have already had contact with the previous Uighur goddess. Many things you have done over the years and many clues are always combined. I came to a conclusion that you must have some problems. You are afraid of mental problems, and you seem to be afraid of yourself becoming an evil person and becoming a madman."
The emperor seemed very satisfied with the prince's performance at this time. He smiled and said, "If you secretly colluded with Lin Fu over the years, you might have reached these conclusions faster, but you are very patient. When you look at these, I didn't notice anything, which is very worthy of praise."
The prince's breathing quickly became calm. He looked at the emperor and said calmly, "The more he contacted his father, the more he understood his father, the more he knew how terrible his father was. For more than ten years, even countless court officials have not understood that what you usually see is just the face you deliberately pretended to be. The reason why the son ministers can stand their own nature is because of fear."
The emperor said lightly: "Why can't I stand it all the time at this time?"
The prince said, "It's still because of fear."
The emperor frowned slightly.
The prince looked at him and said, "On the day Lin Fu lost, I could see your path of cultivation, and I became more and more afraid. In the eyes of outsiders, I might just wait patiently and wait for you to abdicate, and I could naturally become the next Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. But after that night, I often woke up from my dreams. I dreamed that we princes were walking corpses, just like the food you stored."
After a pause, the prince slowly continued, "What scares me the most is that I can't guess what you will become. It would be fine if you were an ordinary person. You are the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, the earth is at your feet, and the country is in your hands. For my people of the Tang Dynasty, I have to take a try."
The emperor has always listened very seriously.
However, when he heard this, he couldn't help laughing, "You are my son, but you are very similar to my old rival. On the contrary, the son of that old rival is somewhat similar to when I was young."
The prince was a little puzzled, but he heard some hatred from the laughter, and more uneasy felt in his heart.
The emperor stood up and left.
His voice came into the prince's ears.
"The bottom line that Li's confidentiality is not mine. I actually don't care about you fighting with me. If my son doesn't even have the courage to fight with me, how can he become the heroic lord in the Tang Dynasty? But if a person cannot even face himself and thinks what he does is wrong, but instead he has to put a gold on his face and find a high-sounding excuse for himself, then this person is a bit disgusting."
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It was already evening when the Sixth Prince woke up.
He heard the sound of water rinsing, then felt a little hot all over, and then he saw clearly that he was soaking in a hot spring pool.
The water in the hot spring pool is purple-red, with pungent medicine, but the body feels comfortable, and the feeling of tearing in the entire forehead is gone.
The emperor is opposite him.
Also soaking in the pool.
The emperor glanced at him and did not speak first, but raised his eyebrows and signaled that he could ask questions.
The sixth prince asked, "Are you prepared? Did you choose me specifically?"
The emperor shook his head, "I am not Xuanqing, I can't foresee so many possibilities. I just guessed that someone would deal with Gu Shiwu and me at the Public Heaven Ceremony, but I didn't know that Dou's people started with my practice."
The sixth prince fell silent.
He has not seen much with the emperor over the years and is a little unfamiliar. After asking in one sentence, he felt a little better, but he didn't know what to say in the second sentence.
The emperor took the initiative to speak out, "Actually, if I want to choose, I will choose you."
The sixth prince said, "Why?"
The emperor said, "From the relationship with Gu Liubai, it is best to be Xiaowu, but he has no fighting spirit since childhood. Even if I really want his life, he might sigh and say, "It's useful to you, then take it, I can't escape anyway. But you are different, you won't admit defeat so easily. In fact, including all your brothers and sisters, I can't be sure whether you are the most suitable for being the emperor, but you must be among these people, the most suitable for being the general who is the commander of the army."
The Sixth Prince looked into his eyes and said, "I can't completely believe you now."
The emperor smiled and said, "Sooner or later you will believe it."
The Sixth Prince thought of the giant green arm that stopped in front of him, he lowered his head and asked softly, "Gu Shiwu's entanglement of the real dragon thought is like weeds that cannot be cut. Is it true?"
"It's true." The emperor smiled faintly, "But I will never become evil."
The Sixth Prince thought of a possibility, and his lips moved, but he didn't make a sound.
Chapter completed!