When the Queen summons her, she naturally needs to go as soon as possible. Even though Liu Xuan and the current Queen He have no friendship with each other, since they have become members of the royal family, they cannot do anything wrong to avoid causing some noise.

, annoying.

After bathing and changing clothes, Liu Xuan did not take too many people with him and only asked Cao Bao to follow him before heading to the queen's residence.

At this time, there were two palaces in the city, called the South Palace and the North Palace. The emperor and the queen lived in the North Palace, and Liu Xuan also lived here. It didn't take too long to walk, and it took only a moment.

After arriving outside the palace where the queen lived, he asked Cao Bao to go to Tongbing and then stood there waiting.

Anyway, he already knew through the white crane what the Queen wanted to talk to him about, and now he was confident about it, so he was not in a hurry.

While waiting, I saw a young man walking out of the queen's palace. He looked about twelve or thirteen years old. It was his second brother Liu Bian.

Originally, he had nothing to do with this younger brother, and he didn't go out of his way to make friends with him, but he didn't know why this younger brother seemed to be particularly close to him. Liu Bian, who was usually quite taciturn and didn't like to communicate with others, always liked to find him.

say.

When he saw Liu Xuan at this time, he also came up with a happy face. After greeting him, he stood there and started chatting with him.

"Brother, is this where you are?"

"The Empress called me brother to speak, and I am waiting here for the announcement." This was nothing at first, and it was normal to do so according to the rules, but unexpectedly Liu Bian heard it and said directly: "I can just bring the emperor in, why bother here?

Wait?"

I really don't understand why Liu Bian is so close to me. Sometimes Liu Xuan will shamelessly wonder to himself: "Could it be that this guy has noticed something extraordinary about me?"

But he didn't know that when Liu Bian was still young, because the emperor didn't like him, his personality was a bit dull, and he didn't have many friends of the same age in the palace, so he could only play by himself. One day when he was flying a kite, he

The kite was hung on the tree, and when he was at a loss what to do, Liu Xuan passed by, saw this, and kicked the tree trunk, knocking the kite off the tree.

Just like that, it left an indelible mark on the child's heart. Liu Bian admired his brother Liu Xuan very much, and this admiration did not dissipate as he grew older, but became stronger and stronger.

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It's a pity that Liu Xuan doesn't know this. He even forgot that he had done such a 'great thing'. But he has such a personality. If you are affectionate to him, he will be affectionate to him, so brother

The two chatted for a while, and they were quite happy.

They didn't stop talking until someone invited them in.

"Since your royal brother is here, I will stay a little longer!" Liu Bian saw that Liu Xuan was about to chat with his mother, so he wanted to accompany him. However, there was a queen nearby who was close to the palace and knew about today's events, so she tried to persuade him to stop him.

, and then went to his bedroom with a look of reluctance.

Liu Xuan understood in his heart but did not show it on his face. After saying goodbye to Liu Bian, he followed the maid into the queen's palace and greeted Queen He according to the etiquette. After Queen He returned the courtesy and sat down, he knelt down on the seat prepared earlier.

Come down. From beginning to end, there is no omission in etiquette.

At this time, the palace maid brought the food and drinks that had been prepared long ago. After Queen He took the first bite, she sat there and looked at Liu Xuan, her eyes even more provocative, as if she had determined that Liu Xuan would not do it at all.

Dare to touch the food in front of you.

The situation in the palace can be said to be simple or complex.

Empress He's son Liu Bian is the current eldest son. Although he is not the eldest son, the identity of this eldest son is very important. Logically speaking, there is no doubt that her son will inherit the throne.

But the emperor didn't like this son. Later, a younger son was born and the emperor liked him very much. This made Empress He very dissatisfied.

Fortunately, although the youngest son was smart, his body was not strong enough and he would fall ill every now and then. She didn't know if he would survive until adulthood, so she put her thoughts aside for the time being.

But what he didn't expect was that the old emperor would rather leave his eldest son Liu Xuan, whom he didn't like very much, in the palace, and still refused to make Liu Bian the crown prince. Although Queen He was not of a good background, she was not

Fool, she has clearly understood the meaning of this, so she has been thinking of ways to deal with it.

However, she made the emperor furious when Jiu killed Wang Meiren. In recent years, her words have gradually become ineffective. If her brother had not still held the power, it is estimated that the position of the queen would have been long gone.

I thought I would wait for the opportunity slowly, but I didn't want the emperor's health to suddenly deteriorate, and his symptoms to become worse day by day, and he was about to die. If she didn't make a quick plan at this time, I'm afraid the emperor's position would really have nothing to do with her son.

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It is for these reasons that we have this dinner today.

Looking at Liu Xuan sitting there, Queen He was also thinking about everything about this young man.

In her impression, the emperor's eldest son was born a commoner and his mother was mediocre. If the emperor had not been drunk at the time, this kind of thing would not have happened. Therefore, he was not favored by the emperor. In the past few years, he had been in the palace.

His status in the palace was not very high. His mother died of illness two years after he was born, and he had no supporter in the palace. It can be said that almost every family almost ignored the eldest son of the emperor.

However, because of his low-key behavior, he rarely moved around on weekdays and mostly hid in his palace to study. Therefore, Empress He did not think about dealing with him at first. She only thought that he would naturally leave the palace in a short time.

Unexpectedly, Liu Xuan lived in the palace year after year, and now he was almost in his prime, but he never left the palace. This situation made Queen He very dissatisfied. At this time, the emperor again

He was seriously ill, and all queens had power inside and outside the palace. If he could drive Liu Xuan out of the palace at this time, his son's chance of succeeding would be improved.

"He's just a young man who has never seen the world. All he needs to do is intimidate him!"

With such thoughts in her mind, Queen He started with some greetings, and finally said: "It is inevitable that you will get sick if you stay in the palace all the time. You should move around more. If you can travel around, you can gain more knowledge!"

When Liu Xuan heard this, he immediately understood the meaning of Queen He's words, and she just wanted him to leave the palace quickly.

But the Queen's words made him curse, and he thought to himself: It was common for this prince to stay in seclusion for a hundred or two hundred years. Don't you know that immortals are all otakus in a certain sense?

He rambled in his mind, but said nothing on his face, just waiting for Queen He to say more.

Sure enough, seeing that he didn't speak, Queen He continued: "It has become more and more chaotic in recent years, and even this palace has not calmed down much!" As she spoke, she was playing with the wine glass in front of her, with a slight sneer at the corner of her mouth, as if

It means something.

Empress He had used a poisoned wine dove to kill Beauty Wang a few years ago. If Emperor Ling hadn't been furious and sent his youngest son Liu Xie to his biological mother, the Empress Dowager Dong, the youngest son might not have escaped death either.

The matter is not a secret in the palace. Almost everyone knows that Empress He is deliberately making such a gesture to remind Liu Xuan that if she continues to be ignorant, she can also offer Liu Xuan a glass of poisonous wine.

Moreover, today is different from then. Back then, the emperor was strong and strong and could deal with Queen He afterwards. Now the emperor is seriously ill and it is hard to say whether he can recover. Even if he was poisoned to death, no one would care. What's more, Liu

Xuan doesn't have many connections in the palace, so who will stand up for him?

Queen He felt that Liu Xuan, who had never seen much of the world, would be frightened to death by saying this, and would probably be anxious to leave the palace when he returned - she had never thought about Liu Xuan's idea of ​​fighting for the throne, because she

I felt that unless Liu Xuan was an idiot, he would not be able to care about the emperor's position which was impossible for him to get.

But in fact, Liu Xuanzhen was thinking about the emperor's position, because the emperor's position was related to the Emperor's Dragon Qi he practiced, and this method was related to whether he could restore his cultivation level and even go further.

, to repay the hatred of being stabbed in the back.

Therefore, Queen He's behavior today can be said to have been in vain. Not only did it not scare Liu Xuan, but it also made Liu Xuan chuckle. Especially the look of indifference on his face made Queen He furious.

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"Since I don't know what is good and what is good, then no wonder I am cruel and ruthless!"

Empress He made a plan in her mind and casually made a move to the palace maid next to her. The palace maid who had been standing by was holding a tray with something covered with white silk in both hands. She brought it to Liu Xuan and then removed the white silk on it.

Lifting it, a wine bottle full of wine was revealed underneath.

Liu Xuan looked at the wine bottles that had been placed in front of him and secretly laughed in his heart: "It's poisonous wine again? Nothing new?"

Little did she know that he had a slight smile on his face at this time, and his appearance of not being frightened or even saying 'it's true' made Queen He even more angry, and she said: "There happens to be a fine wine in the palace, please taste it, the eldest prince."

Ichiban!”

She only thought that Liu Xuan would show fear this time, because she could not think of anyone who was not afraid of death. Maybe he would prostrate himself to the ground in the next moment and beg her to save his life.

"If you beg for mercy, just let him go!" Anyway, as long as Liu Xuan leaves the capital, there will be no threat to her anymore. And she is willing to circumvent Liu Xuan's life, including her son Liu Bian's.

I don't know why, but my son seems to be particularly close to this brother.

She was waiting for Liu Xuan to beg for mercy, but the next moment she saw Liu Xuan raising his hand to raise his glass. He raised his head and drank the poisonous wine cleanly. He even turned the bottle upside down to show that there was no trace left. Queen He

Seeing this scene, I sat there in a daze, eyes wide open, looking like I couldn't believe it.

"Isn't this Liu Xuan a fool?"

She was stunned when she saw Liu Xuanshi standing up, then saluting Queen He: "Thank you, Queen Mother, for giving me this fine wine!" Then he said a simple goodbye to the Queen, turned around and left.

This made Queen He even more frightened. The poison in the wine was the most poisonous thing in the world. Ordinary people would not be able to walk freely after drinking it. They were afraid that they would be dead after just half a drink. Liu Xuan drank the wine completely.

Jing, it seemed like nothing was wrong. This completely unbelievable situation made her completely dumbfounded.

Liu Xuan didn't pay much attention to it, and went directly back to his bedroom. He waited until the screen was gone and no one was around before he took out a jade talisman from his mouth and under his tongue.

I saw that the white jade talisman seemed to be stained with a light ink color, and a strange fragrance overflowed. Liu Xuan checked it for a while and then secretly said: "Although this poison-proof jade talisman has not been completely refined, it can be used to deal with ordinary poisons."

enough!"

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Chapter completed!