Chapter 147 Mission 014

Xiao Yu knelt on one knee in front of the emperor as the original owner remembered, lowering his head and remaining silent.

The emperor didn't mind his rudeness. He stared at him with a very complicated look for a long time and then said: "Get up and give me a seat."

Xiao Yu sat silently on a chair brought by an eunuch, looking at the emperor calmly.

The emperor did not mention the origin of the original owner at first, but asked: "How are you doing with your recent homework?"

Xiao Yu said in a deep voice: "It's all done."

The emperor looked a little satisfied. He had secretly trained his eldest son just in case, but he was not particularly concerned about his studies. Now that his second son is blind and unable to inherit the throne, he certainly values ​​his eldest son more. , after hearing Xiao Yu say that everything was completed, I felt a little satisfied.

Then the emperor carefully tested Xiao Yu's homework problems, just like he did with Su Youhao.

The emperor saw that Xiao Yu's face was still calm and there was no doubt at all. Although he regretted that his son was too cold and had no curiosity, he was also satisfied with his unmoving attitude.

The emperor said: "Do you know why I asked you to come?"

Xiao Yu said formulaically: "Please give me your Majesty's instructions."

The emperor sighed and said: "Actually, you should also call me father." He didn't even say "I", he was obviously playing the emotional card.

Xiao Yu moved slightly and stared at him closely.

The emperor looked at the eldest son's eyes that were exactly the same as the second son's, and felt guilty in his heart. He stood up and walked towards Xiao Yu. Then he stood in front of Xiao Yu, stretched out his hand, and personally took off the mask on his face.

Under the mask was an ordinary face. The emperor put down his hand and ordered his confidant, the eunuch: "Get a basin of water and help His Highness wash up."

The emperor's confidant eunuch was also one of the insiders of that incident, so the other eunuchs and maids were sent away, but he was left by the emperor to wait for orders.

The big eunuch quickly brought a basin of water in, and personally helped Xiao Yu wash himself, especially washing his face with special potion to wash away the disguise medicine on his face.

As the disguise medicine was washed away, Xiao Yu looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar face on the water, feeling a little dazed.

This was the first time he saw his own appearance. He used to wear a mask for a long time. Even if he occasionally took off the mask, there was still a strange face under the mask after disguise.

It is really ironic that a person, after living for more than ten years, knows what he looks like for the first time.

Seeing his son in such a daze, the emperor felt more and more guilty. He held Xiao Yu's arm and said in a choked voice: "My son, I have suffered so much for you these years. But my father had no choice but to follow the ancestral rules. There is nothing my father can do about it, after all, your brother is too weak to bear the pain..."

Xiao Yu sneered in his heart, what's the last resort? In the end, he was just looking for an excuse for his own partiality. After all, he still didn't care about the original owner's son. Otherwise, he was the emperor. How could he not be able to save his two sons if he really wanted to?

However, Xiao Yu was not stupid enough to offend others when he was still at the mercy of others. Instead, he looked at the emperor and asked calmly: "So, father, do I have a name?"

The emperor was stunned.

The fate of the two princes was arranged as soon as they were born, so only the second son who became the crown prince was named. As for the eldest son of the emperor who was trained as the leader of the secret guards, he only had the code name of An Yi. He did not give the eldest son a name at all. Name, now that I am asked this question, I don’t know how to answer it.

Xiao Yu ignored the emperor's stunned look. He calmly looked at his reflection in the basin in front of him and said, "I have a wish that has been hidden in my heart for a long time. Can my father satisfy me?"

The emperor hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, tell me, if my father can do it, I will definitely promise you!"

Xiao Yu reached out and tapped the water surface of the basin gently, watching his own reflection undulating on the rippled water surface, he said softly: "I want a name of my own, is that okay?"

His voice was very soft, even a little cautious, as if he was afraid that the emperor would reject him.

Listening to his son's almost humble request, the emperor suddenly felt a sore nose and his eyes turned red. He choked and said, "Okay! Okay! Father himself will give the emperor a good name, a unique name."

Xiao Yu was finally willing to look away from the basin and rewarded his newly recognized emperor father. He slightly raised his lips and showed a pure and dazzling smile: "Thank you, father."

******

After watching his son's thin and thin figure leave, the emperor sat tiredly on the dragon chair. He covered his eyes with his right hand. There was a deathly silence in the entire imperial study. The eunuch beside him did not even dare to breathe. Voice.

After a long while, the emperor's tired and hoarse voice sounded: "Did I do something wrong at the beginning?" If he had firmed up his mind and made his eldest son the crown prince and sent his second son away... wouldn't he have to face this problem now? The son is disabled and is in a terrible situation of being indebted to the eldest son?

The emperor's confidant eunuch lowered his head deeper. He knew very well that the emperor's words were not asked to him, but to the emperor himself, and no answer was needed from him.

It's just that the eunuch actually sympathized with his highness in his heart. He was obviously the eldest son with a more noble status, and he was in good health and had good qualifications. However, he had been abandoned for so many years and had been living in darkness, without even one of his own. He has no name or identity, and is even more pitiful than a rootless eunuch like him.

The emperor finally put down his right hand that was covering his eyes, but his hand was wet and his eyes were red, so he ordered his trusted eunuch to fetch him a basin of water to wash and clean himself.

After washing, the emperor sat back in front of the imperial desk and began to flip through the book, trying to find a word with a good meaning to name his eldest son.

When he thought that his son had grown up to a teenager under his nose before he remembered to give him a name, the emperor felt very guilty. He flipped through the book a lot faster and checked the book a lot.

If the emperor felt guilty about his eldest son and wanted to make up for it, then the queen who received the news from the emperor resented the eldest son for taking the position of the crown prince from the second son. She really wished that the blind man’s eldest son was not her precious son Su Youhao.

When Xiao Yan was led by the emperor’s confidant to meet the queen, she was directly rejected by the queen.

Xiao Yan felt a little incredible about the queen’s obvious partiality that she had no intention of changing.

They are both biological sons. Just because the original owner was born with a better physique than Su Youhao, does that mean she deserves to be partial to Su Youhao, who has a weaker physique, and wants to strangle the original owner?

Now Su Youhao is blind, and it is impossible for him to inherit the throne. If the queen still has a little brain, she shouldn't treat him like this. Even if she doesn't immediately show concern, she shouldn't be so obviously repulsive. After all, she will still have to act according to the emperor's son's mood when she becomes the queen mother in the future.

But Xiao Yan didn't see that the queen did this thing today with her brain... He was speechless. This queen must have been spoiled by the emperor, and she does things according to her heart.

He didn't believe that if the emperor had dozens of concubines and sons, the queen could still be so hypocritical and partial to the younger son and suppress the older son?

Xiao Yan, who had changed into a luxurious casual dress, stood at the gate of Fengqi Palace, looking at the closed palace door inexplicably, with a calm expression.

However, it was his too calm expression that made the young eunuch who was assigned to him by the emperor feel uneasy. He always felt that the temper of this newly appeared prince was simply unpredictable and much more difficult to serve than His Majesty.

The young eunuch looked at Xiao Yan who was standing outside the gate of Fengqi Palace without moving his feet, and asked tentatively: "Your Highness, how about I go and ask His Majesty for an oral instruction?"

Xiao Yan looked at him with a smile, and said lightly: "No need. Since my mother doesn't want to see me, then I won't see her."

After that, he turned and left. The young eunuch was stunned for a moment and hurriedly followed.

******

Even though the emperor temporarily kept silent for a while, the news of the prince's blindness spread quickly.

When the civil and military ministers were restless about the prince's blindness, the news that a prince who looked exactly like the prince appeared in the palace also spread.

Suddenly, those shrewd ministers understood almost everything. It must be that the queen gave birth to twins that year, but the royal rule was that only one of the twins with the same appearance could be kept. The emperor had few offspring, only two princes born to the queen. It was not surprising that the emperor was reluctant to kill one of his sons and hid his son in secret.

The ministers did not care to accuse the emperor of disregarding the rules of the ancestors. At this time, everyone was glad that the emperor still had a son, a healthy son without any disabilities.

However, after knowing Xiao Yan's health condition, the ministers could not help but wonder if the emperor had lost his mind back then, and actually made the sick second son the crown prince and gave up the healthy eldest son?

In any case, the turmoil caused by Su Youhao's blindness was completely quelled after the emperor announced Xiao Yan's existence to the public. Except for the queen and Su Youhao himself, everyone was very satisfied to have a healthy and long-lived crown prince.

At the grand court meeting held every ten days.

Civil and military officials would look at the handsome young man standing in the position where the crown prince Su Youhao was originally, and they could not help but sigh in their hearts: In addition to looking better than Su Youhao, his appearance and figure are exactly the same. If it weren't for the different temperament, they really doubted whether Su Youhao was standing in front of them after he recovered.