Every mid-March, the emperor would come to Xinghua Villa to watch the apricot blossoms, and he only brought his followers, and his concubines, sons and daughters were not allowed to follow. The emperor himself explained: "I like apricot blossoms since I was a child, mainly because I recall the apricot tree that my mother planted in the palace. I hope to recall the warmth of my mother alone."

A villa was specially built, named Xinghua Villa. The villa was full of apricot trees. Every early March, the apricot blossoms began to bloom. When they bloomed, they were beautiful and beautiful, with colorful flowers, and thousands of rouge spots, occupying the spring breeze. The red clouds were blooming in spring, which was very spectacular and charming.

As the petals stretch, the color gradually fades from thick to light, planted alone by the pool, forming an antique reflection in the water, with endless fun. At the end of April, the apricot flowers are withering, and it is snow-white, really like a night of spring breeze, and frost falls white in the Wanting House Garden.

A pond of spring water surrounds the flowers, and the charming flowers are each occupying spring. Even if the spring breeze blows into snow, it is better than the southern roads to become dust.

However, this year's spring outing is a bit unusual.

Everyone thinks that spring rain is sneaking into the night with the wind, moistening things silently, but this year's spring rain comes particularly fiercely, like a beast rushing out of the cage.

On this day, the emperor was enjoying the flowers in the lake. There was a pavilion at the center of the lake, and the surroundings were full of blooming apricot flowers. In addition, clear water surrounded the apricot trees, the flowers on the shore and the shadows of the flowers in the water showed their fragrance.

But the weather was not good. At the beginning, the weather was clear, with birds singing and flowers blooming. But suddenly, lightning and thunder roaring, and heavy rain followed. Although the pavilion in the middle of the lake could shelter from the rain, the place was too small, and it could not withstand the heavy rain after all, which still infected the emperor with the cold.

It doesn't matter if you get sick, but it won't get better for a long time. If you keep sick, it's abnormal. Because this spring rain seemed to have caused all the other diseases of the emperor, which caught the imperial physician off guard and also greatly changed the atmosphere of the court.

Everyone has their own little thoughts. Shangguan Qian, Shangguan Yu and Shangguan Ling have spies in the palace. When they learned that the emperor was really sick, they also began to plan their own plans, or some things were prepared for a long time, so they waited for this opportunity.

In the palace of Prince Yu

Su Muwan was very surprised when she heard this news. Although she didn't understand the disputes between power, she also knew that this was the time for all forces to compete for each other, and it would depend on luck to kill anyone.

"I hope you are fine." Su Muwan hugged Shangguan Yu, she knew that Shangguan Yu had to be involved in this struggle.

Shangguan Yu saw that Su Muwan's eyes were full of worry, and gently shaved her nose and said dotingly: "Don't worry, I want you to give birth to a few big fat boys for me!"

"I'm so ashamed!" Su Muwan hit Shangguan Yu, but she still couldn't cover the smile at the corners of her eyes.

Seeing that Su Muwan finally smiled, Shangguan Yu was also much happier.

"Wanwan, I still have something to do, so I'll go to the study first. You have to believe in my ability and don't think too much." Shangguan Yu had something to deal with, so he had to leave Su Muwan's room.

With this violent spring rain, the battle in the court was also quietly sounded. The camp was roughly divided into three factions, namely the second prince led by the Empress and Shangguan Ling, the eldest prince led by the Concubine Zhen and Shangguan Qian, and the last one was Shangguan Yu and Shangguan Chen. However, since Shangguan Chen was still young, everyone naturally would not turn their attention to him.

Shangguan Yu arranged for Lan Yu: "We must pay close attention to the movements of Shangguan Qian and Shangguan Ling in recent times, and we must report to me every move."

In fact, Shangguan Yu has been dormant for so many years and is able to compete with them in terms of strength. However, Shangguan Yu has been fighting for many years, which has led to only being familiar with military officers but not understanding the fate of civil servants.

In addition, in the past few years, the conflict between civil servants and military officers gradually became more and more intense. Civil servants believed that military officers could only show off their courage, while military officers believed that civil servants could only talk and had no use at all.

Although Shangguan Yu did not say anything to belittle the civil servants, as a representative of the military general, he was still inevitably compared.

Therefore, if you want to gain a foothold, Shangguan Yu needs more support.

Shangguan Ling also discussed in the Empress's palace how to go ahead, but the two also had some differences.

Shangguan Ling was unwilling to continue using the piece Su Xinai. He began to feel dissatisfied with Su Xinai as early as the cruise ship. Shangguan Ling originally thought that after the queen beat Chen Yun, he had already expressed his decision to give up Su Xinai, but he didn't expect that at this time he still thought about Su Xinai.

"Mother, we can't use the person Su Xin loves anymore. You have already hit Chen Yun. This is undoubtedly for Su Xin love. Su Xin has a deep love affair. If you can't hold a pillow, she is sincere in doing things for us." Shangguan Ling persuaded the queen.

"Ling'er, but with Su Xinai, things will be very convenient!" The queen told Shangguan Ling that she had already thought about your attention.

"Su Xinai spends time with Shangguan Yu all day long, so we let Su Xinai poison Shangguan Yu's diet. After poisoning Shangguan Yu to death, Concubine Zhen's son will be much easier to deal with."

After hearing his mother's advice, Shangguan Ling frowned and thought for a while and said to the queen: "My mother, your method can indeed eliminate future troubles forever, but you should know that there will be two major problems in this matter."

"What's the problem?" asked the Queen.

"First of all, will Su Xinai obey our arrangements so easily? If you threaten Chen Yun's life, don't forget that Chen Yun is the Prime Minister's wife, and we will still have to flatter you at that time." Shangguan Ling told the queen the first question.

After hearing this, the queen felt that what she said made sense, so she continued to ask what the next question was.

"The second question is that Su Xinai agreed to our request and successfully poisoned Shangguan Yu. How do we face the questioning of all officials? At this time, if Shangguan Qian, Shangguan Yu, and Shangguan Chen have any mistakes, others will definitely be lurking. Don't forget that there is another emperor uncle."

By the way, there is also Shaohuajun. Although he doesn’t ask about the court, he still has a lot of power!

When the Empress thought about this, she still felt that her son was thinking more comprehensively, so she praised Shangguan Ling: "Ling'er, you are thinking more comprehensively. What are you going to do?"

"Since the victory of Shangguan Yumen Pass, he has been loved by the people. In addition, Su Muwan contributed money and efforts to comfort her during the refugee riot, which made Shangguan Yu even more important in the minds of the people." Shangguan Ling analyzed the current situation.

"So now we need some things to break everyone's love for Shangguan Ling, for example, indulging the official wife to bully the side of the family, we will portray Su Xinai as if he is bullied. At that time, more rumors about Su Muwan are circulating. Let's take a look at everyone's reaction. If it is okay, we will shift the topic to Shangguan Yu.

However, I don’t know what to do with Shangguan Qian now.” Shangguan Qian always looks as a humble gentleman, which makes people unable to find any flaws, but Shangguan Ling always feels that Shangguan Qian is definitely not as simple as before. The more calm he looks, the more he seems to be invincible with the world, the deeper the effort behind it.

Shangguan Ling first told his mother about the matter. The important thing now is to go to the ministers' homes to lobby. After all, they still need their support and can only sit firmly on the throne.

Although Shangguan Ling didn't know the gentleman's face under the surface of Shangguan Qian, Shangguan Yu knew it very well.

When Shangguan Yu was young, he had not yet divided his mansion, but just stayed in the palace and lived in his mother's bedroom. Once, at a banquet, when a maid accidentally sprinkled water on him, Shangguan Qian at that time could be said to be a very gentleman.

"The eldest prince spares my life, I didn't mean it." The maid cried and asked Shangguan Qian for his life, kowtowing constantly, bleeding from his forehead.

Shangguan Qian helped the maid up with pity and said in a gentle voice: "This is all a trivial matter, as long as you are fine."

After saying that, Shangguan Qian also gave the maid his handkerchief to the maid to stop the bleeding.

It was also because of this incident that the image of Shangguan Qianqian and gentleman began to spread, but Shangguan Yu saw a different Shangguan Qian.

The next day, Shangguan Yu was playing with Shangguan Chen. Shangguan Chen was trying to play with the kite. Shangguan Yu had to order someone to make a kite. But by chance, the kite fell on a tree next to Shangguan Qian's palace. There was no way, Shangguan Yu could only climb up the tree and take down the kite, but saw the scene that he would never forget.

A woman was hung in Shangguan Qian's room. Shangguan Qian whipped the woman with a whip. Although he couldn't hear what he was saying, Shangguan Yu recognized that this woman was the woman who accidentally stained Shangguan Qian's clothes. After a while, the woman's body was covered with scars and her body was not covered.

Shangguan Qian found a few guards, but those guards did not look like guards in the palace. Shangguan Qian asked these men to take off the girl.

After Shangguan Yu took off the kite, he quickly gave it to Shangguan Chen and asked him to go back to the bedroom quickly, and he followed the guards to leave.

I saw the guards dragging the maid to a place where no one was present and humiliated him in turn. The maid died tragically under them.

Shangguan Yu felt chills around him, so he rushed to turn on. When he came back to the bedroom, he still couldn't calm down for a long time. After a moment, he quickly went to Shangguan Chen and warned him not to get too close to Shangguan Qian.

At that time, Shangguan Chen didn't know what was going on, but just thought that his brother must be right, so he gradually alienated Shangguan Qian.

In the end, several princes who had been friends with Shangguan Qian died in different ways. Shangguan Qian also used his hypocritical face to confuse many people.

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