Song Si came home early today.
His heart had been tense ever since he learned of the Third Prince’s death.
“Why are you back so early today?”
Xiao Yao stepped forward to help him take off his official uniform and took his regular clothes to change into.
Song Si sat down wearily and rubbed his aching forehead, “The Household Department is fine, so I came back earlier, where is Yue’er?”
“Just now the Xu family sent someone to say that someone was looking for her, Yue’er went over.”
Looking for Yue’er?
Thinking of something, Song Si’s hand paused, her heart suppressing a wild jump, trying her best to suppress the trembling, “But did it say what kind of person it was?”
“He said he came from the border.”
It was really Gu Yi, Song Si almost didn’t jump up. He held back for dear life, using the act of rubbing his forehead to cover his eyes, hiding the shocking waves in them.
He knew Gu Yi would come, but he didn’t expect him to come at this juncture, and if the emperor
Noticed ……
He took a deep breath, hiding the panic in his heart, and got up after a casual hm, “I’ll go to the study, if Yue’er comes back, let her come over to me.”
“You don’t look too good, rest for a while first.”
“I’m fine, I’m just scared by the death of the Third Prince, I’ll be fine after a few days of rest.”
Song Si went to the study and slowly slumped into his chair. Yue’er had told him about her plans with Gu Yi, but hadn’t said when Gu Yi would return.
Now it seemed that Yue’er had deliberately hidden from him that the death of the Third Prince was not the handiwork of the Second Prince alone, but that Gu Yi was also involved.
The emperor is still in grief, once he has slowed down, he will certainly send someone to investigate. Gu Yi is making such a big show, it is difficult to keep the emperor’s attention, once he suspects ……
Song Si did not dare to think about it.
……
It was not until it would be dark that Song Wan Yue returned, bringing Song Yin back with her, accompanied by Xiao Si, but now both of them had changed their faces, so Xiao Yao naturally did not recognize them, “Yue’er, this is ……”
“His name is Song Yin, he is the man I fell in love with at first sight when I went to the border.”
Xiao Yao was completely unprepared and her eyes glazed over in shock when she heard these words. The teenager in front of her had a handsome face, tall and heroic, and a pair of beautiful eyes that bore a slight resemblance to her cousin.
Similar to his cousin ……
Xiao Yao’s mind shook as she thought of something, she thought Yue’er had forgotten about her cousin, after all, he had been dead for several years, but now it seemed not, she should have taken the teenager in front of her as a stand-in for her cousin.
“Where’s big brother?”
Xiao Yao was thinking of how to persuade Song Wan Yue, telling her that similar eyes did not equal the same person, and asking her to think about it again. Hearing Song Wangyue’s words, she subconsciously replied, “In the study.”
Song Wangyue extended her hand towards Song Yin, “I’ll take you to big brother.”
Song Yin naturally held her hand, as skillfully as if he had done it countless times before.
Xiao Yao’s mind went blank, all the words of persuasion she had just thought of were gone, she felt that the scene before her was familiar, so familiar that she somehow remembered her cousin again.
“Sister-in-law, we’re going over.”
Xiao Yao subconsciously nodded her head and watched the two of them leave holding hands, she closed her eyes and waved away her cousin’s figure in her mind, Yue’er looked happy, she, as a sister-in-law, should make it happen.
The study was dark and unlit.
Dang! Dang! Thud!
There was a soft knock on the door and Song Wangyue’s voice followed, “Big brother.”
Song Si, who was leaning back in his chair, snapped open his eyes, his voice dark, “Come in.”
The door was pushed open and Song Wangyue walked in, accompanied by another figure.
Song Si’s gaze fell fixedly on that figure.
The room was dark, but Song Si saw a pair of eyes exactly the same as she remembered, burning brightly as if they had melted into the moonlight outside.
“Big brother.”
The voice was a little more mature and less childish than before.
Song Si propped himself up on the tabletop and slowly stood up, walking around the table and in front of Song Yin.
He was taller and stronger than before.
Song Si’s throat rolled over, there were a thousand words he wanted to say, but in the end, not a single word came out, and he smashed his fist on Song Yin’s shoulder.
Song Yin didn’t move, a smile spreading across his face as he raised his head and tore the human skin mask off his face, revealing his original appearance.
It was the same familiar face.
Song Wangyue had already lit the lamp.
The light reflected the starlight in Song Si’s eyes. He had thought countless times that the first time he saw Gu Yi he would beat him up, but now that he was right in front of him, he couldn’t do it no matter what. To him, Gu Yi was just another brother, a brother who was not related by blood.
It took a quarter of an hour for Song Si to calm down.
Several people took their seats.
He looked at the two men with a serious expression, “I will not ask you how the Third Prince died, I will only ask you two what you plan to do next?”
After a pause, not waiting for the two to answer, he added, “You had better not hold back any more and tell me everything, or else ……”
He looked at Song Yin and threatened, “I have countless ways to make sure you can’t marry Yue’er.”
Song Yin’s heart trembled, there were some things they did intend to hide from Song Si. The less they knew the safer Song Si would be, but if Song Si really prevented him from marrying Yue’er, he knew that he really couldn’t.
“The third prince is dead, the next step is to let the second prince and the eldest prince fight internally, big brother doesn’t need to do anything, just wait and see what happens.”
……
The palace was deadly quiet.
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“Father ……”
The second prince stood in front of the dragon collapse, “I have sent someone to fetch my third sister and nephew back, so that they can send their mother and son on their last journey.”
The emperor leaned back on the dragon bed and nodded faintly.
The second prince lowered his eyebrows, hiding the pleasure in his eyes; he was also a son, but his father had always favoured the third brother, and in the past he could not compete, who made the third’s mother consort favoured. But now it was different, the third was dead, his father was old, and the throne would soon be his.
“Although Concubine Shu was sent to the cold palace, she was after all the mother of third brother, and now that third brother has died, I dare to beg for Concubine Shu’s mercy and ask Father to let her out of the cold palace and see third brother one last time.”
“No need.”
The emperor vetoed quickly.
The second prince felt strange.
His father had favoured Concubine Shu for many years, so he was naturally in love with her, and the third son was her only son.
But why did the emperor veto it, and so quickly? Could it be that Concubine Shu is not in the Cold Palace at all?
With this thought in his mind, the Second Prince could not stay any longer, and after saying a few more words, he retreated and glanced at one of the eunuchs waiting at the side.
The eunuch looked around, saw that no one was paying attention, and quietly followed him.
The second prince did not even look back, his voice was very low, “Have mother consort send someone over to the Cold Palace to see if Consort Shu is in there?”