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Princess Xiang held her son's hand tightly, looked at her son and shook her head imperceptibly.
At this moment, Xiang Yunqi, who was interrupted by his mother, also came back to his senses. He was irritated by Xiang Yunjin's constant use of the word "concubine" and almost lost his mind.
Seeing Xiang Yunjin's pitiful look, Xiang Yunqi walked in front of his father, lifted his skirt and knelt on the ground.
"Father, it's my fault. I was eager to protect my mother and lost the rules for a while. Please punish me, father, but I didn't say anything wrong just now. Mother is the princess appointed by your father, not a concubine. Big brother, do you want to apologize to us too?" Xiang Yunqi looked at Xiang Yunjin angrily.
"Apologize?" Xiang Yunjin chuckled, then turned to look at Prince Xiang with a dark look, "Father, your most beloved youngest son asked me to apologize to his mother. Do you think I should apologize?"
"No, no...Jin'er is still young, and there should be no malice." Princess Xiang said sensibly, but her eyes were red.
"Mother..." Xiang Yunqi looked at Princess Xiang with heartache.
"Okay, stop talking," Prince Xiang shouted, and then looked at Xiang Yunqi.
"Qi'er, you did break the rules just now. You were disrespectful to your elder brother, so you should be punished by the family law with ten sticks. But considering that you are eager to protect your mother, it is understandable, so you should be punished with five sticks."
"I am willing to accept the punishment, but shouldn't my father apologize to my mother? Although my elder brother is the legitimate son, if it is spread that he is disrespectful to the legitimate mother in the mansion, how will others view the rules of the mansion..." Xiang Yunqi still did not give up.
"Okay, I will decide your elder brother's affairs, go down."
"Father..."
"Go down, is your father's words useless?" Prince Xiang finally frowned and looked at his beloved son.
Xiang Yunqi: "..."
He tried his best to control his impulse to kill, looked at Prince Xiang with grievance, said "yes" and obediently retreated, but the moment he turned around, the murderous intent in his gloomy eyes boiled.
"Xiang Yunqi, don't forget to receive the punishment," Xiang Yunjin reminded Xiang Yunqi with a smile on his face.
Xiang Yunqi paused and then walked away quickly. As
expected of his adopted brother, he was as tolerant as his mother.
... It was a pity that Xiang Yunjin did not hide his disgust for this adopted brother.
"Jin'er, stop it," Prince Xiang scolded in a low voice, and was very angry.
He knew that the two brothers could not be as friendly and respectful as real brothers, and with the assassination, it was even more impossible.
Now he has no patience for him as a father, let alone others.
In the end, it was the assassination that completely angered the eldest son, which led to such a drastic change in his temperament, and even dared to threaten him as a father.
"Dad, you are right that we should stop it, but I know that we should stop it, but I don't know if others know it."
Xiang Yunjin smiled ironically at the corner of his mouth, and said without hesitation, looking at Princess Xiang coldly.
Princess Xiang: "..."
Her nails dug deep into her palms. In order to hold back the rage in her chest, Princess Xiang smiled at Xiang Yunjin in a flattering way as if she had lost her sense of pain, but in her heart she wished she could chop the person who humiliated her into pieces and feed them to the dogs.
"Jin'er, stop it." Prince Xiang scolded unhappily.
"Ha... OK, stop it." Xiang Yunjin sneered, looked away with disdain, and said, "Father, I have something to discuss with you."
Prince Xiang guessed that his son would not step into his courtyard unless he had something to do, and immediately looked at the princess.
"My lord, I'll take my leave." Princess Xiang said immediately and then took all her strength to let herself walk out naturally.
"Tell me, what's the matter?" Prince Xiang didn't speak until the princess disappeared and the door curtain closed tightly.
"Father, have you been staying in the room since lunch and not going out?"
"Does this have anything to do with what you want to say?"
"Father, please follow me and have a look for yourself." Xiang Yunjin lifted the heavy door curtain while speaking.
A cold wind carrying snowflakes rushed into the main hall, causing Prince Xiang, who had been staying beside the charcoal basin, to tremble. He quickly put on the squirrel fur cloak on the soft couch to block the invasion of the cold.
He watched his son lift the door curtain and finally walked towards the door.
What he saw made Prince Xiang's eyes widen in shock.
The overwhelming wind and snow fell to the ground in large flakes. Even though the servants kept sweeping the snow on the road, they still couldn't keep up with the speed of the falling snow, and soon there was another thick layer.
As for other places that were not cleaned in time, it goes without saying that they were definitely not lower than the knees.
Prince Xiang clearly remembered that before lunch, although the wind and snow were not small, it was definitely not so outrageous.
Xiang Yunjin: "Father, the situation outside is worse than in the mansion. This heavy snow has lasted for almost an hour, and there is no trend of getting smaller. I came here to remind you to make plans early."
Prince Xiang did not speak, but just looked at the large flakes of snow falling from the sky. No, it should not be called snowflakes, but snow flakes, with his eyes locked.
In just a moment, he was already covered with a thick layer of snow. The snow was indeed too heavy.
It's not that I don't understand what the eldest son means. If it goes on like this, it will be easy to get into trouble, but this is all speculation. What if the snow stops in a while? Prince Xiang hesitated.
"Father, I have said what I want to say. I
will take my leave." "Well," Prince Xiang nodded, his eyes still in the flying snowflakes, solemn and tangled.
After a moment, Prince Xiang's eyes suddenly firmed, "Come here..."
With such heavy snow, Prince Xiang still didn't dare to gamble.
At this moment, Xiang Yunjin had returned to Yunyuan.
"Don't worry, my son, drink some hot tea to warm yourself up." Gao Xing handed the brewed tea forward.
Xiang Yunjin nodded, took the hot tea and sipped it slowly.
He also believed that his father could make the most correct choice. He was the king of Yunzhou. If even the people of Yunzhou didn't care, who would support him?
Sometimes his father's mind was not very clear, but he could still see clearly in such things.
Even if the heavy snow stopped soon, it would only waste some manpower and would not have much impact.
If it was really ignored and caused a serious snowstorm, the manpower and financial resources consumed by the rescue and disaster relief alone would be a huge number, which was not what his father wanted to see.
Sure enough, soon a guard came to report that Prince Xiang had sent people out.
Hearing this, Xiang Yunjin's eyes were truly relaxed.
This was very good, so he didn't have to use his own people.
He was not afraid that his father would be afraid of him. The entire Yuling Army listened to him, and it was normal for him to have people under him. His father knew it in his heart.
He just didn't want to contribute, and he was unwilling to do so. After all, no matter what he did as the prince of Yunzhou, he represented the king of Yunzhou in the outside world, wasn't he?
Soon, a large number of soldiers and government officials appeared in various places in Yunzhou City. A large part of them rode out of the city at high speed, heading for farther places.
Western suburbs, Lijia Village.
Since noon, the heavy snow turned into a blizzard. It was difficult to see people outside Lijia Village. Everyone hid in their homes.
Although they thought the snow was a bit too heavy, as people from Lijia Village who came from Linzhou in the central part of the country, they didn't think too much about it and thought that the snow would soon subside.