In front of the gate of Prince Huai's Mansion, the carriage coming from the palace and the concierge were in a stalemate.
In the palace, Qinzheng Hall.
Fang Xu walked into the palace quickly and said, "Your Majesty, Prince Huai is here in a hurry."
The emperor was stunned, stroking his beard and smiling, "He is here to thank you, right? It was my negligence. If I had sent it to him earlier, he would not have been bewitched by Wen Jin for so long..."
Before he finished speaking, Xiao Yuchen arrived outside the hall.
"Announce him to come in."
When Xiao Yuchen entered the palace, his face was red and his neck was thick, and he immediately wanted to make a noise.
But he still suppressed his anger and saluted, "Greetings to my father! Long live my emperor!"
The emperor smiled, "You have received the gift, are you satisfied? I asked people to carefully select this..."
Xiao Yuchen said in a deep voice, "My son, I don't want it! I beg my father to take back this reward."
The palace suddenly became quiet.
The emperor looked at his youngest son in disbelief.
"What did you say?"
Xiao Yuchen slowed down his speech and said word by word, "Son, I don't want the reward! Please take it back!"
boom!
The emperor slapped the imperial court angrily, "How dare you say that again?!"
"son……"
"Insolent! Shut up!"
The emperor was breathing heavily. He had not been so angry in many years.
His old face was red with anger.
"I pamper you so much that you don't know how high the sky is! You have to take what I give you! Why, are you still picky?"
Xiao Yuchen also pinched his neck, "I'm not picky, I don't want it! I don't want any of them! No matter how good I am, I don't want it! I already have pearls, how can I see the 'fish eyes' in my eyes?!"
The emperor was so angry that he was speechless.
He raised his hand and pointed at Xiao Yuchen's nose, "You, you..."
After saying "you" for a while, the emperor fell into the dragon chair and said, "You were blinded by a woman, the hero is short of breath, and you fell into that female lover!"
The emperor sighed and shook his head, looking very disappointed.
Xiao Yuchen stared at his father for a moment and sneered, "My father said this about my son, but what oversights and mistakes did my son make in his official duties?"
The emperor frowned and raised his head, "You dare to refuse my reward. Isn't that wrong enough?! You are totally wrong!"
Xiao Yuchen sneered, "It is wrong to be greedy for beauty, and it is also wrong to wait for your wife wholeheartedly. What is right? What is wrong? Following the father's will is right, and going against the father's will is wrong!"
"What my father wants is not a loyal minister, but a villain who blindly pleases and flatters!"
Xiao Yuchen was also angry. What he said made the emperor so angry that his face turned red and he covered his heart.
Seeing this, Fang Xu hurriedly advised, "Prince Huai, please stop saying a few words! The emperor is your king and your father. Isn't everything he does done for your own good?"
Xiao Yuchen said, "For my own good? Send ten beauties to my house quietly?"
"What do you mean it's for my own good? Is it because my inner courtyard is too peaceful and I'm afraid there won't be a fire in my backyard?"
The emperor pointed at him, "Just because of Wen Jin, you contradict me like this?"
Xiao Yuchen's face sank, "Let's just talk about the matter, what is your father trying to do with her?"
"Oh, it's not for her. Why can't you bear ten beauties? Twenty beauties are not too many for you!"
"Could it be that in the eyes of the father, my son is such a dissolute prince who is greedy for beauty and doesn't know how to cultivate his moral character?"
The father and son were tit for tat, and even Fang Xu didn't dare to speak.
Seeing that his son could not be persuaded, the emperor angrily slapped the imperial court.
"I gave it to you. If you don't accept it, you are resisting the decree! Xiao Yuchen, all the honors and favors you have today are given to you by me. Do you want to resist the decree?!"
Xiao Yuchen looked at his father...
He didn't understand that his father, who was once a sensible, righteous, open-minded and tolerant man... why did he become what he is today?
He said solemnly, "Father, there are things a man should do and things he should not do."
"You are my king and my father. If anything goes against you, my son will risk everything, including his life."
"But the current situation is that you have 'good intentions' and if you don't accept your son, it will not harm you. If you accept him, it will be harmful to the rest of your son's family."
"You are also someone else's husband and father. You want to give your wife someone to rely on, and you want to set an example for Yu'er."
"Let Yu'er know from a young age that a true man should stand upright and protect his family in the backyard."
"Instead of letting the backyard be full of wind and rain because of your own desires."
The palace became quiet again.
The emperor looked at Xiao Yuchen angrily.
Now, no matter how beautiful Xiao Yuchen's words are... they are just excuses to disobey him!
For a woman! How could he disobey his father to this extent!
The emperor said solemnly, "Have you thought about it? Do you understand the price you have to pay for this?"
Xiao Yuchen handed over his hand and said, "I am willing to bear all the consequences."
"Okay! Very good!" The emperor nodded slowly. The anger in his eyes burned everything to ashes and turned to death. "Since you don't want the reward I gave you, then hand over everything I gave you!"
"Your title, your military power, your fiefdom, food, and mansion... are all given to you by me!"
Xiao Yuchen was startled when he heard this, and slowly raised his head to look at the emperor.
The emperor sneered, "Have you changed your mind? Can you afford the consequences?"
Xiao Yuchen pursed his lips, then suddenly took off his waistband and took out the military talisman of the Beiya Army.
The emperor's pupils trembled, he really dared!
Just when the emperor was about to take action, depose Prince Xiao Yuchen and demote him to a commoner...
"Your Majesty, Meiji has been sent to Prince Huai's Mansion..."
Before the eunuch finished speaking, Xiao Yuchen stared at him fiercely.
Isn't this the eunuch who went to his house to see Mei Ji off?
"How dare you?!" Xiao Yuchen immediately wanted to strangle his neck.
The emperor was furious, "Xiao Yuchen! Do you still think of me as your father?!"
The eunuch hurriedly said, "Princess Huai accepted it personally! If the princess hadn't spoken, she wouldn't have been able to get through the gatekeeper!"
Xiao Yuchen's face was startled, "Jin'er?"
The emperor sneered, "You are an infatuated man. Did you know that Wen Jin has no tolerance for others?"
"If you don't let Mei Ji into the house, others won't think that you don't love beauty. They will only think that the princess is jealous!"
"Wen Jin knows how to cherish his reputation, he has more power than you!"
Xiao Yuchen didn't care to argue with his emperor father, he had to return home quickly.
He knows better than his father what Wen Jin's temperament is. Does she care about reputation? Of course I care! But she is by no means so pedantic that she would wrong herself for the sake of fame!
Her view on relationships is that of being together for a lifetime!
Even Yu'er knows this very well. Otherwise, how could a child express such a view?
He said to himself, "I'm afraid she's angry...could she mistakenly think it's what I want?"
Xiao Yuchen ran all the way out of the palace. There were rules in the palace and he was not allowed to run. He was irritable and had no manners, and violated the rules.
But he doesn't even care about kingship or military power. Why does he still care about these palace rules?
After leaving the palace, he jumped on his horse and galloped all the way to Prince Huai's Mansion.
as expected……
After Xiao Yuchen entered the mansion, the first thing he felt was that all the servants looked at him differently.
Some are smiling secretly, others are envious...
But the eyes of those women were mostly contemptuous and disdainful.
Xiao Yuchen shouted in his heart, "It's unfair!"
I just hope Jin'er won't misunderstand him!
