The prince knelt down and cried bitterly, unable to move forward.
When the emperor saw this, he was furious and kicked him to the ground. He also grabbed the stick held by one of the guards and beat him fiercely.
The prince didn't resist, he just cried and called him: "Dad, Daddy!"
"Don't call me daddy, I don't have a son like you!"
The anger on the emperor's face was not gone, but he stopped beating with the stick, and threw away the stick in his hand as if he was panting. Just when everyone was frightened, he suddenly turned his eyes to the King of Zhou who was closest to him. .
Princess Zhou was holding her husband's sleeve tightly, but she immediately felt the arms of the person next to her begin to tremble, and she was already crying uncontrollably.
The emperor raised the arm holding the sword, with the sword tips half a foot apart, pointed it in front of King Zhou, and said with a ferocious smile: "You also want to imitate your elder brother and disobey me?!"
King Zhou knelt down with a plop, and his knees hit the gold bricks covered with a heavy carpet, making a muffled sound.
He almost burst into tears and said: "Father, my son dare not..."
The emperor shouted loudly: "Then come over and stab this beast! If not, I will kill you, this unfilial son, immediately!"
The King of Zhou was not a prince, and he did not have the father-son relationship that the eldest brother had with his father for a long time. He was not the prince of the dynasty. He had no support, which meant that he did not dare or have the confidence to disobey his father like the prince.
Not to mention that when the emperor was talking to the prince earlier, although he was angry, he was not as full as now. After the prince received a severe beating, the emperor was so angry that he threw away the stick in his hand - at this time the old man What’s in his hand is a knife!
King Zhou raised his head tremblingly, and briefly looked at his father's expression out of the corner of his eye. Then he got up from the ground, took the knife from the guard, closed his eyes, and stabbed King Qin cruelly. on the legs.
The sound of the blade penetrating flesh was particularly clear in the silent hall.
King Zhou's tears fell instantly, his nose and throat were sore, and he did not dare to cry like the prince!
The emperor especially felt that it was not enough, and stared at him with cold eyes: "When your mother was in the boudoir, she had a reputation for exquisite poems and books. She died early, and you were raised under the queen's knees, but she still carried it in her womb. Things cannot be changed. Among you brothers, you are the best at reciting poems and composing poems. In the past, Cao Zhi composed a poem in seven steps. Can you also compose one today for me to listen to?"
King Zhou finally couldn't help but sob. After thinking for a short time, he composed a seven-character poem with a trembling voice.
The emperor nodded slightly and turned to ask King Yan: "How is your fifth brother doing with this poem?"
King Yan has always been bold and bold, but today he is also a little shy. He dare not look directly at his father. He lowered his eyelids and said respectfully: "Very good."
The emperor motioned to King Qin to show him.
King Yan secretly gritted his teeth, stepped forward, snatched the bleeding knife from King Zhou's tight palm, and then stabbed it into King Qin's body.
The emperor looked on coldly, but said nothing to him. Instead, he turned to look at King Jin and said, "Third brother!"
Princess Jin shivered suddenly, and using her sleeves to cover it up, she pinched Prince Jin's waist as a reminder.
King Jin knelt down in panic and said, "My son is here."
The emperor pointed at King Qin with his sword.
Prince Jin stayed on the spot and didn't respond for a while.
Princess Jin couldn't help but shed tears, but she didn't dare to remind her at this time. Fortunately, although the emperor was violent at this time, he didn't make a sound to urge her.
The whole palace waited for King Jin to stay for a long time before hearing him say in a panic: "Second brother is already making a big mistake by forcing Gong E in the palace. He actually dares to collude with the chief chamberlain in private. How brave he is. …”
Princess Jin is almost dying of anxiety - that happened in the Year of the Monkey, how come it's still brand new with you?
This idiot!
Unexpectedly, the emperor looked at King Jin for a while, and somehow he laughed.
He shook his head, not knowing what he was thinking of: "Get up, it's none of your business."
King Jin was confused for a moment.
Seeing that the emperor seemed to be tolerant of her family, Princess Jin's heart dropped slightly while she was hanging in the air. She had the courage to pull up her unresponsive husband who was still kneeling on the ground.
The emperor over there has already turned his attention to the other princes.
The hall was filled with darkness, and the thousands of bright and warm lights in the past were now slightly swaying in the evening breeze, and seemed to have become gloomy and ghostly.
The emperor forced several princes to go and stab the King of Qin. After that, they all had different questions.
Princess Jin only felt that her hands and feet were cold. She couldn't tell whether she was shaking uncontrollably, and even the muscles on her face could not help but tremble.
Next to him, Prince Jin suddenly grabbed her hand.
Princess Jin almost screamed on the spot, but she held it back, with tears in her eyes, and looked at her husband uneasily.
She heard Prince Jin lower his voice again and again, and asked with some fear in her ear: "Did your father ask me to stab my second brother..."
Princess Jin: "..."
Although her heart was still beating uncontrollably and she was still in such a dangerous atmosphere, Princess Jin almost laughed out loud with tears in her eyes.
Her body seemed to suddenly gain strength, and her hands and feet were under control again. Covered by the wide sleeves, she held her husband's hand and whispered: "It's okay, it's over."
Prince Jin held her hand tighter with his backhand: "...oh."
After the emperor asked more than a dozen princes in succession, he finally stopped in front of King Wei.
At that time, the half-grown boy was holding a saber, panting and looking panicked.
But the emperor said: "You used to be friendly with your second brother. When he went to Beijing on business, he still remembered to bring you honey and sweet-scented osmanthus. How could you be so cruel as to stab him like this today?"
After hearing this, King Wei almost shed tears on the spot.
On the other hand, the King of Han, who was about the same age as him and was friendly to him, actually had the courage to defend his brother: "Father, although the fifteenth brother has a deep affection for the common people of Qin, he does not dare to disobey your order... …”
The emperor sneered a few times, said nothing, and turned to ask the next person.
Zhu Di looked thoughtful at this scene.
He held the little cousin of Prince Zhou in his arms and asked the little thing to bury his face in his chest. He secretly said to several buddies in the room: "I feel that he is not doing anything for King Qin." Being disobedient, rebellious and angry seems to be sifting people through this.”
Several people in the space exchanged glances with each other, and they all agreed with him: "Not bad!"
"I also have this feeling."
Li Yuanda said: "This matter is actually a bit unreasonable. Generally, when a powerful emperor and father are in power, few of his descendants dare to cause trouble, like the First Emperor..."
He looked over apologetically, gestured with his hands, and continued: "Although there was trouble behind him, it happened after his death. When he was alive, who could imagine that someone would dare to do it? As for Xie'er, it's because the prince was forced into a corner, and it doesn't count."
Liu Che also considered it and said: "Not everything written on the white silk may be true, or in other words, what is written on it is only the superficial truth."
He analyzed: "To say that the King of Qin forced Gong'e, I believe that men are all despicable and greedy for their bodies, but if it is said that he colluded with the emperor's chamberlain with evil intentions... this is a bit unreasonable. .”
"The chamberlain is stupid. The emperor is physically strong and the East Palace is as stable as a mountain. Why do you want to collude with the prince?"
"As for the King of Qin, unless he can kill all the emperors, princes, queens, and kings of Yan, how can he sit on the throne? But can he do this?"
"A person who really has this ability would never do anything like forcing a palace maid in Ouchi!"
"So," Liu Che concluded, "the established facts previously given by the emperor may not be the true facts."
He touched his chin and said: "It's more like giving King Qin a hat that will make him irreversible, and then using him as a reusable prop to test the kings."
Zhu Di frowned and said: "If we just force Gong'e in the palace, my father will kill her no matter how angry he is. He will not be so ruthless as he is now..."
"Unless," before anyone else could say anything, he had his own answer: "Unless the identity of King Qin is in question."
Everyone looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, and instantly remembered the previous question.
If you knew that your children and grandchildren were possessed by children and grandchildren from a parallel world, would you kill them?
Zhu Yuanzhang gave an affirmative answer without hesitation.
meeting!
Zhu Di remembered what Ying Zheng said before and couldn't help but feel numb: "Maybe the First Emperor's guess was right. There are far more visitors from other worlds in this world than I imagined, and King Qin was the first to show his traces. That's why tonight's test using him as the material..."
Thinking of this, he was inevitably frightened.
After he got along with Zhu Yunwen for a short time, he noticed something was different about him. Where were the others?
Even if you don't notice it in a short period of time, after getting along for a long time, you will still know nothing?
Especially when the emperor was wary of this and prepared for it.
Sooner or later, Zhu Yunwen will be exposed.
If, for the sake of a quick moment, he exposes his nakedness to Zhu Yunwen...
Then Zhu Di himself will probably be able to experience the feeling of being chilled to the core and flying in the skin!
"How did he know..."
Zhu Di couldn't understand.
Li Shimin said, "You are only allowed to have white silk, but others are not allowed to have it?"
Ying Zheng changed the subject, slightly nodded his chin, and signaled to the palace: "King Wei is finished."
Zhu Di also had this guess: "The dishes on each table are different."
Obtaining a person's memory and completely pretending to be a person are two completely different things.
Because memory is only "knowing and remembering", but it cannot simultaneously copy the original owner's temperament, temperament, talents and personal habits.
How did the emperor make sure that King Zhou was fine?
He is the most talented prince among the kings - okay, let's use today's events to follow Cao Zhi's old example and compose a poem on the spot!
Can't do it?
kill!
In the ordinary daily life, it is very easy to pretend, but when it comes to sudden changes, it is really difficult.
Another example is King Yan. Even if someone really replaced him, would that person know his reaction after encountering such a sudden change?
But not everyone can obey orders decisively.
Although King Wei has gained the memory of his original self, his personal habits are subtle and difficult to change.
So much so that even though he knew that he liked sweets, at the palace banquet tonight and when he felt relaxed, he still used up most of the salty and spicy dishes on the table without realizing it...
Although the emperor has not expressed his feelings at this time, his future fate is probably already determined.
Zhu Di followed this clue and quickly figured out the whole thing.
The emperor knew that a demon had replaced his children and grandchildren, but there was more than one person. In order to find out where the demon was, he specially arranged this palace banquet.
Who will know the truth?
The queen, and the prince.
