Ganlin Palace.

Zhu Yunxuan sat on the couch and glanced at the western clock in the corner from time to time, feeling uneasy and restless.

Until the voice of Gao An outside the hall came: "Master Guo, please come this way."

Zhu Yunxuan stood up abruptly, his heartbeat suddenly rose to his throat, Gao An had led Zhu Yunjing around a screen and appeared in front of him.

Zhu Yunxuan looked at Zhu Yunjing, who was slowly approaching with a smile, with his eyes wide open, as if he had been stopped. Zhu Yunjing walked up to him, raised his hand, and patted his shoulder: "A Xuan has grown up."

His younger brother, who was a head lower than him when he left Beijing, is now as tall as him.

Zhu Yunxuan's eyes instantly turned red, and he said, "Brother..."

Zhu Yunjing sighed helplessly: "I've already become an emperor, why do I still cry so much, I told people outside to see it, but there is no majesty."

Zhu Yunxuan finally came back to his senses, rushed up, hugged Zhu Yunjing hard, and choked up: "Brother, you're finally back..."

A quarter of an hour later, the tea and snacks came. Gao An led all the palace staff to retreat. The two brothers sat on the couch and looked at each other. They wanted to say something, but they didn't know where to start. .

After a brief silence, Zhu Yunjing spoke first: "I also brought my two children, who had been outside the city for the first two days, and only came to Beijing after the chaos in Beijing had been captured. I sent them to He Huailing's mansion to settle down, and I will bring them into the palace in a few days to show them to His Majesty."

He said with a bit of regret: "I also want to help Your Majesty to destroy the chaotic party, but unfortunately the child is too young to lose it. It's not good for me to show my face in front of people, but it will cause you trouble."

"I know..." Zhu Yunxuan nodded, "Brother, how have you been all these years?"

Zhu Yunjing's demeanor is much calmer than before, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, which is very different from the appearance in Zhu Yunxuan's memory: "It's very good, only when I go outside can I really know how big this world is, and I can see it with my own eyes. It’s a blessing to look at it, not to mention that I now have a title and children, so I don’t have to worry about everything, I do business at sea, and I can go to sea to see when I’m happy, and I’m very happy.”

Seeing his ruddy complexion, looking forward to Shenfei while talking and laughing, Zhu Yunxuan knew that what he said was not a lie, and that his brother had been living well these years, that was enough.

After a few jokes, the estrangement that they had not seen for many years was swept away. They were the closest brothers, and they would not become estranged due to the barriers of time and distance.

Zhu Yunjing took a bite of the fruit on the dim sum tray and said with emotion: "It's really been a long time since the dim sum fruit in the palace. Yuanbao hasn't tasted it yet, so the greedy cat must like it."

Zhu Yunxuan smiled lightly: "You can bring some to him later, or just bring him into the palace tomorrow and let me meet?"

Zhu Yunjing responded with a smile, and asked casually, "It's been two years since you ascended the throne. Why haven't you gotten married yet? This matter can't be delayed until someone succeeds to the throne."

Zhu Yunxuan's smile froze for a moment, and he wrote lightly, "It's not urgent...it's not time yet."

Zhu Yunjing frowned slightly and stared into his eyes: "A Xuan, have you encountered any difficulty?"

When he first arrived in Beijing yesterday, he first met Shu and the eldest princess. The two aunts and nephews chatted for a long time. The eldest princess mentioned Zhu Yunxuan and sighed all the time, saying that he had had a hard time all these years, and he had not relaxed after he ascended the throne, and his temperament had changed a lot. , I want him to enlighten his younger brother more. Zhu Yunjing was originally dubious, but when he saw someone today, he really understood what the eldest princess meant by saying that she had changed a lot.

In the past, his younger brother was always clever, careless and even heartless. He was the most carefree and innocent person in the palace. How could he be like this now? Although he tried his best to hide it, his brows were entangled with lingering emotions. But he was full of worries and melancholy. If it was said that he was tired from political affairs, but now that the traitor in the DPRK has been eliminated and the power is in hand, he still seems to be unhappy.

"...No, the chaos has been pacified, so what else can be difficult."

Zhu Yunxuan's eyes are erratic, and his words are full of hesitation. Where can Zhu Yunjing believe: "Axuan, since childhood, when have you successfully lied in front of me?"

Zhu Yunxuan pursed his lips lightly, speechless, Zhu Yunjing looked at him quietly, and suddenly asked after a while, "That King Zhao, what are you going to do with him?"

Zhu Yunxuan's eyes flickered: "He is in control of power and government, and he will handle it according to the law."

Zhu Yunjing drank his tea and said slowly, "In my opinion, he dared to put the emperor under house arrest and plotted to do something wrong. It would be cheaper for him to behead the capital, so he deserves to be divided into five horses and executed at a long time."

Zhu Yunxuan was slightly startled: "He didn't put me under house arrest, it was just a play I did, not to mention that he was considered to have meritorious service at the beginning..."

"In the eyes of the world's subjects, he was trying to put His Majesty under house arrest for a rebellion and failed. Even if he had great credit, he would not have died."

Zhu Yunxuan bit his lip unintentionally, and was speechless, Zhu Yunjing put down the teacup in his hand, and sighed: "Axuan, are you reluctant to bear him?"

"……I do not."

"You have," Zhu Yunjing said firmly, "your eyes tell me that you are reluctant."

Zhu Yunxuan slowly reddened his eyes: "I don't want to..."

Zhu Yunjing's eyebrows furrowed even tighter: "The letters you sent me never mentioned Liang Zhen, but then you suddenly said that he helped you ascend to the throne. I have always been very concerned. Curious, why does he want to help you, his identity..."

"No, he's not, the emperor made a mistake." Zhu Yunxuan told Liang Zhen's life experience with a wry smile. Before Zhu Yunjing came, he hesitated to tell him the truth. His brother knew that their father was actually only Taking him as a stepping stone for a misunderstood illegitimate child must be very uncomfortable, but after thinking about it, he still feels that his brother should know the truth of what happened back then.

After hearing this, Zhu Yunjing was stunned for a moment, but there was no sign of loss on his face: "Actually, I had guessed it earlier, but I didn't expect that it turned out that the late emperor made a mistake in the end, and recognizing the enemy as a parent-child can be regarded as retribution... just In this case, Liang Zhen should not help you, why did he choose to help you in the first place?"

Zhu Yunxuan lowered his head, was silent for a long time, and said hoarsely: "I made a deal with him, he helped me get the throne, and I... be his ban."

Zhu Yunjing's eyes widened in disbelief, and he punched the table: "Are you crazy?!"

"I have no choice. Only he can help me. I can't sit in this position without him..."

Zhu Yunjing stood up abruptly, took two steps back and forth in exasperation, stepped forward and clasped Zhu Yunxuan's shoulders: "Look at me! You tell me why you do this?! I want you To fight for the throne, but I didn't tell you to choose such a method! If you can't do it, you can leave in a fake death, and I can save you as well, why do you have to do this to yourself?!"

"It's useless," Zhu Yunxuan looked at him with tears in his eyes, "Brother, you know that if I don't get the throne, neither of us will survive, and no one can tolerate us, especially you, Dingguo He can't protect you, sir."

"If you want to save me in this way, I'd rather die!" Zhu Yunjing was angry and annoyed, his eyes moved down and landed on Zhu Yunxuan's abdomen, his pupils shrank fiercely.

He didn't pay much attention to it just now, and only now did he realize that Zhu Yunxuan's figure and walking posture were a little weird, and people around him might not be able to see it, but he had two children himself, so how could he not know what that meant? : "Your stomach..."

Zhu Yunxuan looked away, seeing that he had acquiesced, Zhu Yunjing was completely stunned. After a while, he sat down in a slump. He couldn't even get angry, and his eyes were red: "Did he force you?"

Zhu Yunxuan gritted his teeth and didn't answer, Zhu Yunjing raised his hand and slapped his face fiercely: "It was my fault, I knew this earlier, I should have taken you with me in the first place, why did I call you To fight, what have I done?"

He regretted it, he really regretted it, he knew that getting this throne would force Zhu Yunxuan to pay such a price, and he would not agree to anything.

Over the years, Zhu Yunxuan's letters to him are mostly good news and not bad news. He always talks about any difficulties he encounters, or even doesn't mention them. Although he knew that Zhu Yunxuan would have a hard time in Beijing alone, he never thought that he would be so difficult.

"Brother, you don't have to do this," Zhu Yunxuan grabbed Zhu Yunjing's hand in a panic and stopped him from his aggressive actions, "I don't regret it, isn't it good now? I'm the emperor, and all the damn people are dead. , Liang Zhen, he is in prison, and he can't do anything to me anymore."

Zhu Yunjing raised his eyes and stared at him: "Then why are you still reluctant to kill him?!"

Zhu Yunxuan's eyes narrowed slightly, and he murmured in a low voice: "No... I will deal with him."

It was not until dusk that Zhu Yunjing came out of the palace. He Huailing, who had been waiting for him at the gate of the palace for a long time, saw his embarrassed expression and red eyes, so he went up to hold his hand: "What's wrong?"

Zhu Yunjing abruptly pulled out the saber that was pinned to his waist, and stabbed a dozen swords indiscriminately at the palace wall in front of him as if venting.

After he had vented enough, He Huailing hugged his shoulders from behind and pulled the sword from his hand. Zhu Yunjing gritted his teeth: "Where is that beast being held? I'm going to chop him now!"

He Huailing put the saber back in his waist and pulled him into the carriage: "Let's talk while walking."

On the way back to the mansion, no matter what He Huailing asked, Zhu Yunjing just kept cursing Liang Zhen over and over again, He Huailing reluctantly reminded him: "King Zhao has His Majesty's disposal, but in my opinion, His Majesty may not really want him to die. ."

Zhu Yunjing was even more angry when he heard the words: "You stop talking nonsense!"

He Huailing shook his head, recalling the unspeakable look in the emperor's eyes when Liang Zhen was taken down in Ganlin Palace that day, and sighed, "The authorities are just obsessed."