Hongzhi's sleep seemed to have consumed a lot of energy, and he fell into a deep sleep until the afternoon of the next day.

When he woke up, Hong Yan was sitting next to him quietly. He felt movement on the bed and quickly put down a book in his hand.

"Fourth brother!"

Hong Zhi nodded with some difficulty and started to stand up, but Hong Yan quickly helped him up.

"Fourth brother, are you hungry?"

Hongzhi shook his head: "I'm not hungry, I'm just afraid that I won't be able to get up after sleeping. I have too many things to say to you."

Hong Yan smiled tenderly and put a pillow behind Hong Zhi.

"Fourth brother's health will get better. Wait for a while, and when I enter Beijing, I will send someone to bring fourth brother back so that he can receive medical treatment and recuperate."

Hongzhi coughed and stretched out his hand to hold Hongyan's hand: "I will never go back to that place after I leave. Xiaoyan, while I'm still fine now, there are many things that I hid from you before.

I will tell you all."

"Fourth brother, please eat some food first."

Hong Yan said and was about to get up, but Hong Zhi stopped him.

"Xiaoyan, I'm not hungry. Listen to me. I don't have much time. I also know that you can't afford it. You must listen to me while I wake up. Xiaoyan, there is actually one thing. I

Always wanted to tell you."

"Fourth brother, please tell me."

"That woman Feng Hongluan! Cough cough, cough cough!" Although that person once thought of hating her and hating her, when he mentioned that name that haunted him, his heart felt pain again and again.

"Fourth brother, what's wrong with Hongluan?"

"Child, the child may not be yours."

Hong Yan was startled, and then his face became a little unhappy.

"Why did Fourth Brother say this?"

"I heard it with my own ears, so if Jiang Nanzi hadn't drugged my family that day, I wouldn't have given the snow lotus pistils to Feng Hongluan."

Snow lotus pistil, someone lured him out that night, and when he came back, Feng Hongluan already had the last medicine in his hand, was it all delivered by him personally?

After he went out, the fourth brother broke into his and Hongluan's room.

In fact, he had known for a long time that the fourth brother liked Hongluan, and he happened to hear it clearly when the fourth brother and the fourth sister-in-law quarreled about Hongluan.

He just didn't expect that the fourth brother would actually suspect that the little dumpling was not his.

"Fourth brother, you don't have to worry about this."

The whole world does not believe in Feng Hongluan and doubts Feng Hongluan, but Hongyan also absolutely believes that Feng Hongluan belongs to him alone, from body to heart.

Although he didn't know what made Hongzhi misunderstand Feng Hongluan's disloyalty and uncleanness, but even if the person in front of him was Hongzhi, he would not allow Hongzhi to slander Feng Hongluan.

Looking at his face, Hongzhi knew that he must not believe it and was not happy to hear him say that.

In the end, he couldn't waste any more energy on this matter.

In fact, he shouldn't have said it at all, right?

Wouldn't it be nice to let this matter rot in your stomach like this?

However, it was just his last selfish wish, something he would never get, but he didn't want Hong Yan to get it either.

He knew how despicable his desire to give up was, but it was he who was so despicable that he loved that woman for so many years. Even now, when he dreamed back at midnight, he still had a taste of that night many years ago before his eyes.

The starry sky was bright, she was sitting in the carriage, saying that daddy bought me candied haws, and I didn't cry at all.

If, if time could go back, if he could let go of everything, would it be possible for her to become his?

A wry smile spread from the corners of his mouth.

Because he knew clearly that even if time went back and everyone's fate had been decided, he would still accept the arrangement of the late emperor and marry Murong An'er, he would still collude with the emperor to harm every brother, and he would still not be able to have that

A woman as beautiful as a flower.

"Okay, since you're not happy, I won't talk about it either. I have something urgent to tell you, Jiang Nanzi. It's my second brother. You should have known it before me, right?"

Hong Yan nodded.

Yes, a long, long time ago, while hiding in the dark, he saw several brothers pour poisonous water into the second brother's mouth, and the second brother twitched and then became silent.

He was hiding in the dark and saw with his own eyes that when several brothers went to invite his father, the second brother got up from the ground, looked out the window with a bitter smile, then opened the cabinet and didn't know what he ate. When his father came,

, the second brother was covered in bruises and lay in the same place as if he had lost his breath.

He once suspected that what his second brother had eaten after he got up was not poison, so after he was buried, he secretly guarded the imperial mausoleum for a few days. Sure enough, he saw the diggers who came to dig the second brother's grave. He dug the second brother out and hugged his second brother's mother, Concubine Xiang.

As soon as the second brother came, a group of men in black took the second brother away.

He knew a long time ago that Hong Han was not dead.

And after a long, long time, he did not tell the emperor brother about this.

He would not tell the emperor brother or anyone else, because he knew that if the emperor brother knew that Jiang Nanzi was Hong Han, he would definitely kill them all.

After seeing the cruel scene of fratricide once, he didn't want to see it a second time.

Therefore, even if he knew that the emperor and his fourth brother had been conspiring to suppress him, guard against him, or even deal with him, he did not think about the prince's affairs and took the opportunity to kill Hongzhi. Instead, through Hongwen, he begged the emperor to let Hongzhi go.

"Haha, I was actually shocked at first, but soon I felt very happy. You probably don't know what it feels like to kill your own brother with your own hands."

Yes, he doesn't know, and he doesn't want to know.

"I have always had no reservations about Brother Huang, but that time Jiang Nanzi confessed that he was the second brother, and I did not report it to Brother Huang. I just planned to imprison him on Swan Lake in Bieyuan. This was the only time I betrayed Brother Huang. Yesterday

It's the second time, and today is the third time, you go and open that cabinet."

He pointed to a cabinet not far away. Hong Yan went over and opened it. Inside was something wrapped in yellow brocade. When he opened it, he saw that it was an imperial edict.

This is?

"Father's last edict, the real one."

"Posthumous edict?"

Hongzhi struggled to smile: "In fact, you have a lot of my work in your house. That night, my work witnessed the battle between Feng Hongluan and Xia Rongling. In the end, she took advantage of Feng Hongluan's fainting and put it in the box on her table.

Here, I found this."

Hongyan suddenly heard the sound of Feng Hongluan. After waking up that day, he nervously asked himself if he had seen a box on the table, and then asked if he had seen anything in the box.

It turned out that it was all a legacy edict.

In the end, where did Hong Luan know this and why she never told him.

Hongzhi sat up with difficulty: "I'm sorry, my craftsmanship didn't help Hongluan that day. In order not to make you suspicious, the craftsman I arranged didn't know martial arts. That's why I was able to survive the music of "Jade and Stone Burn Together", so I went in to get it.

Let me report this in detail. That day, the woman who was dragged into the yard and stabbed several times was rescued by a masked man in black. I guess it was Liu Xiang, the maid next to Feng Hongluan."

Hong Yan nodded.

"Liuxiang is still alive."

Hongzhi smiled and said: "My guess is that since he was rescued and his body was not seen, he must have been resuscitated and hidden. But why doesn't he appear again?"

"It's a long story, and Fourth Brother wouldn't be interested in knowing it. Fourth Brother, have you read the content?"

As he spoke, he raised the edict in his hand.

Hongzhi nodded.

"Look, you should open it and take a look. Then you will know why, even though there are no heirs and only your brother succeeds to the throne, he still wants to kill you."

Hong Yan was startled, and his hand holding the edict was a little unsteady.

Is this edict the reason why the imperial brother has been wary of him?

Trying to calm down and unfold the edict.

When you see the sentence: The fourth son has a noble character and is appointed as the crown prince and inherits the throne. The sixth son is noble and knowledgeable and is specially appointed as the regent.

Prince Regent, Prince Regent.

He smiled bitterly, it turned out that was the case.

My father, with great foresight, appointed his fourth brother as the crown prince and also appointed him as the regent.

It seems that the father knew that the fourth brother was weak and might not be able to support the world, so he let him control the world and fill his wings. Once the fourth brother died, he, the regent, could legitimately become the emperor and replace him.

No matter what, my father didn't want his brother to become the emperor.

Even the fourth brother, who was too weak to take on big responsibilities, could become emperor, but he could not fulfill the ambition of the eldest brother.

After reading the edict and then looking at Hongzhi, the only thing he couldn't understand was how the fourth brother could give up.

Hongzhi seemed to have read through his thoughts and coughed twice.

"Do you want to know why I can swallow my anger, stay on the throne, and become the emperor's fang instead?"

Hong Yan remained silent, and Hong Zhi continued.

"Because Xia Hui is the only one who has read the imperial edict. The emperor told me that the title of crown prince has always been written in the imperial edict, and it is you."
To be continued...