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It turned out that what Song Langsheng had guessed that day was not wrong.
The more I trembled, the more severe I became, "What is it that originally belonged to him? He, if he wanted to be emperor, he shouldn't have left for a woman, but he left like that, walking so unrestrainedly, but The burden of the seriously ill father and the country is all on our shoulders! What happened later? His woman died, and he was hesitant and hopeless, so he coveted the imperial power and wealth that he once disdained?!"
Jing Yan held down my trembling hand, it was obviously a very light force, but it seemed to have a heavy force, "Imperial sister... don't be angry, don't despair... From the moment we learned the truth, he It's not our big brother anymore..."
I was stunned.
Jing Yan stared at me and repeated word by word, "He, he was not our imperial brother."
I lowered my head slightly, trying my best to control my thoughts, "You are right, he was not our emperor's brother...but we have no evidence, how can we convince the civil and military officials that Jing Lan is not the son of the emperor at all "..." When I thought of this, I suddenly thought of someone, "Yes, the Queen Mother knows that she and her father have exchanged babies, it is impossible not to leave any clues! Only the words of the Queen Mother are the most convincing..."
Jing Yan said: "Sister Huang, that queen mother is no longer the queen mother we know... Originally, the queen mother strongly opposed my making Jing Lan the prince, but one day she would not object, and she also cared very much for Jing Lan. Youjia... I had doubts in my heart, so I sent someone to investigate secretly, but suddenly became seriously ill, and only later did I learn that this queen mother is a fake..."
I seem to have heard the most absurd thing in the world, "Is the queen mother fake? How, how is it possible? No matter how powerful Jing Lan is, how can she find someone to replace the queen mother?"
"The facts are in front of me, I have to believe..."
If Jing Lan can even replace the Queen Mother in the palace at any time, it is unimaginable that his hidden power has reached an immeasurable level. I looked at Jingyan and said, "Before I came today, I thought that you can't move or speak, brother, but at this moment, although you are inconvenient to move, you can still make a sound. In this case, why don't you do it when you went to court? Telling the truth in front of the ministers and convicting Jing Lan? No matter how Jing Lan tries to win over important officials in the court, he is only a prince after all, and you are the emperor! It's also you, brother, what are you afraid of, and you haven't acted for a long time?"
Jing Yan froze for a moment, his lips turned up subconsciously, he coughed twice, and said slowly, "Sister Huang... Since I used my last strength to let Cheng Tiezhong go to Guangling to find you, until today you appeared in So, during this period... I... have been unable to move, unable to speak, and even... I can't even open my eyes... The poison of cartilage has already spread all over my limbs and bones..."
"Then, how can you now..."
"I have prepared a medicine, and when I take this medicine, whether it is a highly poisonous person or someone who is terminally ill, they can recover their sanity in a short time..." He paused, "It's just that when the time comes... ... and the deadline will come..."
I felt that my whole body was a little sluggish, I held onto the corners, and it took a long time to speak, "You can't move, how...how did you take this medicine?"
"Mingjian Division." Jing Yan smiled slightly, "My father said that he gave Mingjian Division to the emperor's sister, but...ahem, but the world belongs to me, how could Tao Yuan at the foot of the emperor refuse the emperor's order... "
The tent was lifted by the wind, I looked at him in disbelief, the mist in my eyes spread out again, "Who allowed you to die? Who allowed you to wake up in this way? Xiao Jingyan...how can you not Just give up your life like this...how can you do that..."
"I can't last long, I can't sit still and do nothing..."
I held his arms tightly, "But I don't want you to die. You are the last bloodline of the father and emperor. If you die, what will I do to fight Jing Lan? Even if I win the fight, who will inherit this piece? Fertile soil?"
Jingyan said softly, "Yes..."
"Do you mean your baby son?" I bit my lip, "In this world, when has a baby been enthroned as emperor? Not to mention Xiao Jinglan, no one in the civil and military world would be convinced. Do you understand about that child?"
He raised his eyes and looked at me like a cold star in the sky: "Imperial sister... I'm referring to... not my child, but my father's...
I was stunned, "What do you mean by this? Not all of our royal brothers..."
He said, "It's the eldest brother..."
I was confused, "Xiao Jinglan was clearly not born by his father..."
He pondered for a moment, "The mother did give birth to a baby that day, didn't she?"
"But didn't the baby lose weight as soon as he was born, and the imperial physicians said he would not survive for three days?"
"No...that baby didn't die." Jing Yan said word by word: "They...all thought that the baby was going to die, and after replacing it with Huang Auntie's child, that child... survived."
I was dumbfounded: "If the baby is still alive, why should the royal father let Lai Jinglan replace him?"
Jing Yan closed his eyes and said slowly: "Although the baby is about to die... But the father, the emperor and the mother have a glimmer of hope after all... In order to hide people's eyes and ears, they let the nanny beside the mother and the queen sneak out of the palace overnight... I didn't expect that Mammy disappeared as soon as she left the palace, and even the baby disappeared... From then on, the royal father decided that the child had died on the way, and did not go looking for it again... But many years later, I accidentally learned about it again. His presence..."
I listened dumbly.
He took a few breaths, "Father, the emperor did not want the prince who was living in the people to return to the palace. If it wasn't for the deaths of our imperial brothers, the chaos in the court would be difficult to clean up... and my body. The situation...the father has some concerns after all...maybe the father has already expected this situation today...cough cough...for the stability of the Daqing country..." He coughed twice, and I patted His back, "What does your brother mean, the queen father came to find the prince, and has been secretly maintaining some kind of contact with him?"
Jing Yan tried to calm himself down and nodded slightly.
I asked, "Who is he?"
Jing Yan shook his head, "Maybe my father is worried that in order to secure my throne, I will attack that person after ascending the throne... This point, my father did not tell me clearly..."
"Then, will this person take the initiative to stand up and reveal that Jing Lan is not a prince, and replace him?"
Jing Yan shook his head again, "...It seems that it won't happen now... Otherwise, when I re-established Jing Lan as King Qing, why wouldn't he show up..."
Hearing this, no matter how sluggish I am, it is impossible for me not to be able to hear his words. It turned out that on that day, Jing Yan was afraid of the real eldest brother in his heart, and in order to block his way back, he sealed Jing Yan Lan is king.
How could this stupid younger brother handle this matter so foolishly, why didn't he think about it, if this prince who had been left behind by the people really had the heart to covet the throne, he would have recovered his royal status long ago while his father was still alive, how could it be possible The election will move this thought after the father leaves?
If it were in the past, I would definitely disregard the difference between the ruler and the minister and hurt him severely, but now he is leaning in front of me like this, as if he had done something pitiful when he was a child, what should I do? Can you bear to say a word to him?
I said: "Jingyan, my sister promises you... I will do my best to find the prince and guard the Xiao family's country..."
Jing Yan choked his throat, lowered his eyes and held the corner of my shirt and said, "...I know, my elder sister just wanted to find a happy man to live a peaceful life like other princesses... If it wasn't for me, neither would my father. I will push my sister to such a position in my 28th year... Huangjie, what you did for me... I never dare to forget..."
The wind blew lightly, whirling on top of my head, I was afraid that he would freeze, so I closed the velvet robe draped over his shoulders for him, "Don't talk about it...you know what I mean, what about yours? Don't know?"
He held the back of my hand, "But, next, what I said, my sister must firmly remember..."
He took a deep breath, then attached to me and said softly: "Before the emperor's death, he actually set up two inheritance edicts... One is to pass the throne to me, and the other is for us. The unidentified royal brother..."
I looked at Jingyan in shock, "This, how is this possible?"
"This is what my father told me in person..."
"But...two edicts...if they appear at the same time, which one should be the truth?"
Jingyan said: "Take that edict as the first... and the edict that was passed down to the imperial brother was written, if I had an accident or was in poor health, after I died, it would be passed on to him... ... that edict not only pointed out his identity, but also clearly explained the change of the prince to the prince..."
I was startled for a while, then Fang said: "Father's foresight was first and foremost, no one really can surpass it... Since Father is willing to let you know the existence of that edict, there is no reason not to put it and tell you where it is. , otherwise, there is no point in telling you..."
"That's right... I've always known... where is that edict hidden... It's just that I, I've never looked at it..." Seeing my frown, he smiled weakly, "I'm afraid I read it, It will violate the oath I made with the father and emperor, and I can't help but cut down the roots..."
I looked up at Jing Yan, "But you didn't do anything after all, didn't you?"
No wonder Jingyan was so frightened of the unknown imperial brother. If the edict stated that he succeeded to the throne after Jing Yan's death, then if he had a certain intention to kill Jing Yan, he would naturally be able to take his place. From this point of view, is it because the father emperor still trusts the character of this imperial brother very much, or is it the existence of this second imperial edict that even this imperial brother himself does not know about it?
"Since the younger brother has such an edict in his hand, why should he be afraid of Jing Lan? You can secretly pass on the trustworthy ministers in the court and let them read the imperial edict in public, why do you need to wait for me to come back to do this? Comeβ¦β¦"
Jing Yan said: "This is the entrustment of the father and the emperor to me... The second edict... I should read it out in public by the emperor..."
I was surprised, "Why?"
Jingyan's blood faded from the corners of his lips little by little, "I am afraid that the answer to this mystery is for the emperor... to uncover it in person..."
He tried his best to cheer himself up, and slowly he took out a bright-colored satin scroll, "This is the edict written by myself... I wrote down the location of the imperial edict, so that all officials must follow the edict of the previous emperor. After I die, as long as the imperial elder sister takes this scroll of my will to the palace, the world...will not fall into the hands of that Xiao Jinglan..."