Mu Huaichen stood neatly beside the bed, his face a little pale.
Mu Jingche glanced at Mu Huaichen and smiled. "You have all grown up..."
Mu Huaichen was stunned for a moment, lowered his head and said nothing.
In his memory, his father did not smile.
In his memory, his father was a man who put the emperor's orders first and didn't care about anyone's life or death.
"Are you still blaming your father?" Mu Jingche's voice was a little weak.
Mu Huaichen said nothing.
"My whole life as a father... I have been loyal to the emperor and patriotic, and I have never had any second thoughts towards His Majesty. I am worthy of heaven and earth, worthy of the emperor's life, and worthy of my ancestors... but I can only be sorry for you."
Mu Huaicheng was the eldest son, strong and strong, and quite similar to Mu Jingyan's demeanor, so he was raised as the heir to the Mu family.
Sooner or later, Mu Huaicheng will become a god of war like his uncle Mu Jingyan, powerful in all directions.
But Mu Huaichen, as the second son, was delicate and frail. He had been suffering from natural diseases since the day he was born. The doctor once threatened that he would not live to be twenty-seven years old.
It is inevitable that Mu Jingche is biased in his heart and pays more attention to Mu Huaicheng.
Back then, the Mu family reached its peak because of Mu Jingyan, but unfortunately... the late emperor was jealous and could not let the Mu family become the second eldest grandson's family.
The Mu family lives in fear and uneasiness.
Shen Qingzhou was smart enough. After his wife died, he did not marry again. He only had one daughter and few heirs, which was enough for the late emperor to let down his guard.
But the Mu family is different. The Mu family is prosperous and has many heirs. There are also 100,000 Mu family soldiers left behind by Mu Jingyan. Only Mu Jingyan's orders follow.
It is inevitable that the Mu family will become a thorn in the side of the late emperor.
After Mu Jingyan disappeared, the prince entered the East Palace. The late emperor intended to let the Mu family send people into the palace as hostages in order to contain the Mu family's strength.
Mu Jingche was eager to show his loyalty and was reluctant to send Mu Huaicheng into the palace, so he had to force Mu Huaichen into the palace.
Everyone knows that as the prince's companion, you are hanging your life by your waistband. If you are not careful, you will slip off a cliff and be doomed.
If the prince is ill, he will be punished; if the prince makes a mistake, he will be punished.
He ate and slept with the prince, and he had to take the first bite of all meals.
If it is poisonous, he will die first.
During those years in the palace, Mu Huaichen could only survive because of Xiao Junze's care.
Mu Huaichen is always glad that his prince is Xiao Junze...
If the prince inherited the late emperor's jealousy and violence, he might not survive more than a year in the palace.
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The year he was forcibly sent to the palace, Mu Huaichen cried, made trouble, knelt down and knelt and begged, but Mu Jingche still ruthlessly sent him to the palace in order to express his loyalty.
He is like an abandoned puppy, with no family except Qi Feng and Xiao Junze.
Mu Huaicheng naturally knew what his brother had sacrificed. He wanted to enter the palace, but his father refused.
So he worked hard to become stronger and worked hard to gain experience in the military camp, just to one day protect his younger brother and make up for everything.
"Father is the head of the Mu family, everything you do is for the Mu family, Huaichen understands in his heart." Mu Huaichen lowered his head to reassure Mu Jingche.
"But... I still have complaints in my heart." Mu Jingche could see that Mu Huaichen still had complaints.
Otherwise, how could you choose not to get married or have children, and live a lonely life?
He was protesting silently, protesting against the life of a powerful minister.
A powerful minister enjoys the treatment that one person is inferior to that of ten thousand people, but he also has the sorrow of accompanying the emperor like a tiger.
It’s not that Xiao Junze cannot be trusted, but that power cannot be trusted.
"My son...is now the prime minister." One person is inferior to others, and he is superior to ten thousand people.
This was something Mu Jingche never thought of in his wildest dreams.
The son he least expected could be so successful.
"My Mu family... with two military commanders and one serving as prime minister, I can die in peace. I am worthy of my ancestors..." Mu Jingche actually did not feel any unwillingness.
He has lived enough.
"The only one... I feel guilty about is Empress Changsun... Back then... I took the lead in impeachment and demanded the removal of the queen. I pushed Empress Changsun to a dead end, but before she died... she left a way for the Mu family to survive."
Mu Jingche felt guilty and couldn't sleep for a long time.
Regardless of whether Empress Changsun was paving the way for Xiao Junze or for the foundation of Fengtian, after all...when Mu Jingyan crazily betrayed the late emperor for a woman, Empress Changsun protected the Mu family.
He was worthy of heaven and earth in everything he did, but he was ashamed of his son and the late empress.
"Father, was Empress Changsun really forced to a dead end back then?" Mu Huaichen's heart tightened. Was it really his father... who pushed Xiao Junze's mother to a dead end?
"I walked out of the dead end by myself." Mu Jingche had already started to cough up blood.
In fact, Queen Changsun had many paths she could take, but she chose the most extreme one.
He used his own death to stimulate the late emperor.
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Xiao Yanjin decided to take action against the eldest grandson's family, and the eldest grandson Luo Qi was left out in the cold.
Although she is a queen, any concubine can ride on her head.
Just because that concubine was more favored by the emperor, just because that concubine's maternal clan power could better help Xiao Yanjin.
The eldest grandson Luo Qi has already despaired of Xiao Yanjin, and his love has long been exhausted.
Jingchen never left his eldest grandson Luo Qi and stayed with him day and night. It was never a coincidence that his eldest grandson Luo Qi fell in love with Jing Chen.
"Your Majesty has an edict to declare the Queen to return to the palace, and there must be no mistakes..."
As the empress, Changsun Luoqi lived in the Changsun family for a long time, which naturally made Xiao Yanjin criticized.
An imperial decree trapped the eldest grandson Luo Qi back in the palace.
"Don't be afraid, Fengtian's palace cannot stop me. If you want to leave, I can take you away at any time." Jing Chen is confident enough that he can take away his eldest grandson Luo Qi at any time.
"Wait a minute... Aze is about to have his coming-of-age ceremony." The eldest grandson Luo Qi would not abandon her son for anyone, even though she had a crush on Jing Chen at that time.
Jingchen respected the decision of his eldest grandson Luo Qi. When she returned to the palace, he sneaked into the palace every day and taught Xiao Junze's martial arts at night, as if he was in a deserted place.
Finally, Xiao Yanjin was about to take action against the Changsun family. Before he took action, the entire Kyoto was eerily silent.
He trapped Queen Changsun back to the palace, which also meant that he was going to kill the Changsun family.
"Why is it so quiet tonight?" Luo Qi, the eldest grandson, asked in a low voice with his eyelids twitching violently.
The palace maid shook her head. "I think it's going to rain."
When a storm comes, there is always an eerie silence.
Luo Qi, the eldest grandson, rubbed his eyebrows and felt a little flustered.
Xiao Yanjin promised her that he would not attack the eldest grandson's family for the time being, and she also promised that Xiao Yanjin would persuade the eldest grandson Yunxiao to slowly let go of his power.
The eldest grandson Yunxiao has made great concessions and compromises for Xiao Junze and the eldest grandson Luo Qi, returning business to the government and weakening his power.
But it was precisely this that led to the disaster.
Xiao Yanjin had no intention of letting go of the eldest son's family from the beginning.
From the day he decided to marry his eldest grandson Luo Qi, he had already started plotting against his eldest grandson's family.
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At night, it suddenly started raining heavily.
Luo Qi, the eldest grandson, was a little worried. "Jingchen, please go back to the eldest grandson's house and take a look. I'm a little worried about my brother."
Jing Chen patted his eldest grandson Luo Qi on the back comfortingly. "Don't be afraid, I'll go back and take a look."
Since Xiao Yanjin has promised not to touch the Changsun family for the time being, he shouldn't break his promise, right?