Unlike the Zhenguo Palace where heirs were once prosperous, the Wuding Marquis Palace has always been a single generation, with only one boy in each generation. Their family looked forward to the stars and the moon, hoping for a girl, but they could not get their wish.
It is precisely because of this that the Xue family attaches great importance to friendship and values the brothers around them.
"So?" Hongye crossed his arms and looked at Xue Ruitian in confusion, then at the notes on the desk, "These were all recorded by the old Marquis when he was young?"
"My father has a habit of writing essays and notes. I know this. However, I don't know why. Father, mother, Uncle Shen, and Aunt Shen don't talk much about the past when they were young. Mother and Aunt Shen can I understand, one is a noble lady, and the other is the sister of the late emperor. Her mother rarely leaves the palace. Although Aunt Shen, like other princes of the same age, leaves the palace and builds a palace when she grows up, she doesn't often walk around outside the palace, so there is nothing interesting about it. It can be mentioned. But my father and Uncle Shen are different. As the late emperor's companions, they should have been young men wearing bright clothes and angry horses when they were young. They must have had many interesting experiences, rather than just hastily mentioning them in a few sentences. "
"It's true what you said." Hongye thought for a moment and nodded slightly, "In my impression, the old Marquis and the old Duke didn't seem to talk much about what happened when they were the late emperor's companions, even if they had to. When I mentioned it, I gave a dry explanation or two, and then..." She shrugged, "No more. What happened during the time when they were so avoidant? Is it related to the strong brotherhood of the Xue family?"
"Yes!" Xue Ruitian nodded and pointed to the notebooks, "The story is exciting, but also very sad."
"Tell me more about it." Hongye approached Xue Ruitian and looked at him with interest, "I know, you also want to find someone to talk to."
"You are the best!" Xue Ruitian stretched out his hand and flicked Hongye's forehead, "We all know that the late emperor, father, and Uncle Shen grew up together and were truly brothers who sympathized with each other. But in fact, when they were young, At that time, there were two brothers who got along very well and played well together. These two were the late emperor's cousins, the former crown prince Song Yuesui of Prince Liang and Prince Song Junran of Prince Su."
"Prince Liang? Prince Su?" Hongye frowned slightly, "Weren't these two princes deposed in the third year after the late emperor ascended the throne? The reason for deposing them was that they bullied others, bullied men and women, and robbed people's land? "
"These are all charges of deceiving people. In fact, the real charge is forming a clique for personal gain."
"Ha!" Hongye sneered, "You are forming a clique for personal gain, are you seeking power and usurping the throne? Moreover, those two princes may have suffered for others. The real ulterior motives are probably these two princes. The old Marquis and the old Duke. The reason why I refuse to mention the past when I was young is because I was betrayed and stabbed in the back by my brother."
"Yes, not entirely right."
Xue Ruitian stood up, moved his legs and feet, put the notebooks on the desk back to their original positions, closed the doors and windows of the room, walked out and waved to the red leaves jumping down from the window sill, and the two of them strolled around. Da walked towards the dining room.
"Explain, where did I go wrong?"
"I'm not saying that you are wrong, but that you are not rigorous and inaccurate." Xue Ruitian stretched his waist, "Actually, the two princes had an ulterior motive from the very beginning when they approached them, and they went for that chair. "
"Ah?" Hongye was confused when he heard Xue Ruitian's words, "How old were they at that time? Did they know they were going to grab the throne?"
"So, what you said just now is not rigorous. The reason why they knew how to seize the throne at such a young age is because they heard too much at home. Their father did not have the ability to seize the throne from the emperor's grandfather. Every day Just complain at home. If you talk too much, the children will listen too much, so they will naturally take it to heart." Uncle hates them and calls them brothers."
"This... is too disgusting, isn't it?" Hongye looked disgusted, "If you really have the ability, just come and rob and seize it openly. Doing this..." She shook her head gently, "It's too insidious and too insidious. You are a villain, even if you get the throne, you will not become the master of the Ming Dynasty."
"So, you can imagine how the late emperor, father and Uncle Shen felt when they knew their true identities."
Hongye saw that the dining room was not far away. She patted Xue Ruitian's arm and asked him to wait for her. She quickly ran into the dining room and came out after a while carrying two large food boxes. .
"Let's go!"
Xue Ruitian took a food box from Hongye, and the two of them turned around and went to the nearby flower hall. A servant had already helped tidy up the flower hall and prepared tea and refreshments for them. Seeing the two people coming in, the servants bowed and left silently.
Hongye opened both food boxes. One box contained a bowl of rice, a bowl of roast pork and a plate of fried vegetables. The other box contained two plates of cut honeydew. Hongye took one of the plates of honeydew. Put it on his desk, and put the others in front of Xue Ruitian.
"But..." Hongye took a piece of honeydew melon and put it in his mouth, chewed it twice, and said vaguely, "Didn't the late emperor and the others notice it at all? I think no matter how rigorous they are, flaws will still be exposed. , after all, they are very young, so they won’t have such a meticulous layout, right?”
"It's true, according to what my father recorded in the notebook, they also discovered something was wrong with these two people." Xue Ruitian took two sips of the soup and began to move his chopsticks towards the roast meat. "If you say it is a coincidence once or twice, if it is more than three times, it is intentional. What's more, the late emperor, father and uncle were also very shrewd. After being tricked by them twice, they already became suspicious." He ate a piece of meat and drank two mouthfuls of soup. "According to my father, it's not suspicion. I’m sure there’s something wrong with the two of them.”
"Is it confirmed so quickly?" Hongye stole a piece of roast pork from Xue Ruitian's bowl, "Is it too obvious?"
"Father didn't write anything specific. Judging from the lines, it seems that the matter is not trivial. The resentment on the paper is overwhelming." Xue Ruitian saw that Hongye had already eaten the second piece of meat and found it funny, "Are you hungry again? You’ve eaten a lot these days, aren’t you afraid of becoming fat?”
"I've been on night watch for the past few days. The more you eat, the longer you can last." Hongye waved his hand nonchalantly, "But if you discovered this, what does it mean? Do you think they are behind this? ? But I remember that Prince Liang and Prince Su were all sent to the southwest mountains?"
"This is the weird point I mentioned." Xue Ruitian stopped the chopsticks in his hand, with a very serious expression on his face, "There is a missing part of my father's notebooks when he was young, from the third year of the late emperor's accession to the throne to the tenth year. In 2007, I couldn’t find the manuscripts of the past seven years. The records about King Liang, King Su and the two princes only limited to confirming their crimes. As for their whereabouts, whether they really went to the mountains in the southwest, there was no record. Not even a single word."
