Adhere to the gentleman's principles

Chapter 221: Struggle for the Throne: 9 Deaths and 1 Life

In the palace, in the imperial study, Xiao Zhengchu looked at Xiao Zhengshu, "Second brother, you are now leaving the palace without permission without regard for etiquette. Are you ignoring the will of the emperor?"

Xiao Zhengshu smiled and said, "Brother, you are really generous. Now that you are acting as the government, you are naturally generous. You are not even worried about my third brother leaving Pingliang. But don't you want to know the person who really sits on this chair?"

Xiao Zhengchu smiled and touched the chair he was sitting on at the time, "I don't want to know who it is, I only know that I am sitting here now, and I am the owner of this chair."

Xiao Zhengshu laughed out loud, "Then I wish you all the best, but if you want to keep your position, you have to get rid of the people who need to be eliminated."

Xiao Zhengchu looked at Xiao Zhengshu, "Yuanshi and Suinan are no longer able to compete with me, Qi'er is young, and you can't touch Xuantang and Xuanhe. Zhengshu, you should know that we are from the same roots, so why are you so anxious to fight each other?"

Xiao Zhengshu said: "Brother, how can the battle for the throne be bloodless? If they are not completely threatening this position, we should get rid of them. Brother, I am doing this for your own good. We are brothers. My elder sister is willing to protect Qi'er, but she is confused."

Xiao Zhengchu slammed the table and stood up, "Enough, I said, anything is fine, but I can't kill my own brother, so you should put your thoughts aside."

Xiao Zhengshu looked at Xiao Zhengchu in confusion, "Royal brother, didn't you dislike Xiao Xuantang in the beginning? Royal brother, I have a way to suppress Xiao Xuantang. Doesn't he like Yuan Xinghui? Let's get rid of the person he likes."

Xiao Zhengchu slapped Xiao Zhengshu in the face, "Are you crazy? General Yuan has made great contributions to our Great Wei, and you want to kill her daughter. Xiao Zhengshu, I'm telling you now, stay away from Qin Zhuo."

Xiao Zhengshu laughed angrily, "Brother, you used to trust Qin Zhuoyuan the most, but now you tell me to stay away from him."

Xiao Zhengchu took a deep breath. What a reckless man he was. He once pretended to trust Qin Zhuoyuan, but he didn't really believe him.

Xiao Zhengchu said, "No matter what you say, from today on, you stay at home. If you dare to have anything to do with Qin Zhuoyuan again, I will deal with you. Go back to your home."

Xiao Zhengshu didn't expect Xiao Zhengchu to be so serious this time, so he had to swallow his anger and return home.

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In the Qin Mansion, "Young Master, the Crown Prince is no longer under your control." He Jue said.

Qin Zhuoyuan put down a chess piece. "Why worry about a chess piece that can be discarded at any time? Xiao Zhengchu is indeed smart, but his weakness is his soft heart. Since he doesn't choose to be with me, I can't keep him."

After saying this, Qin Zhuoyuan put a black chess piece back into the chess bowl. "The fight for the throne is nothing but a matter of life and death. Wouldn't it be more interesting to kill each other?"

Qin Zhao came over and motioned He Jue to leave. Qin Zhuoyuan looked at Qin Zhao and asked, "Why did father come to my house today?"

"You asked Zhuo Xi to kill all the members of the Zhenxi Marquis's Mansion?" Qin Zhao asked.

Qin Zhuoyuan smiled and said, "Father, you are joking. My son and sister don't think so. Maybe it is a punishment from heaven. After all, they also had a part in my mother's death."

Qin Zhao pointed at Qin Zhuoyuan and then overturned his chessboard. "You are really unreasonable. What does your mother's death have to do with them?"

"If Meng Xiangning hadn't refused to save my mother, she wouldn't have died. If Meng Chongjing hadn't slandered my mother as a spy, my mother wouldn't have died." Qin Zhuoyuan said.

Qin Zhao said: "Who told you it was slander? Qin Zhuoyuan, you should know that one wrong step will lead to many wrong steps."

Qin Zhuoyuan said: "Since I have chosen this path, I will not go wrong."

Qin Zhao looked at the hopeless Qin Zhuoyuan and left with a wave of his sleeves.

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In the Youzhou military camp, Li Yin and Zhao Nian stood outside the tent looking at the windy and sandy desert. "We haven't been to the battlefield for many years," said Zhao Nian.

Li Yin nodded: "Yes, the battlefield is long, and this scene was still twenty-eight years ago."