C244 The victor is king

"If you were to stand in this king's position and tell this king, would you let the Ye family go? If the Ye Family was given a breather, it would be equivalent to releasing the tiger back into the mountains. You can understand this logic. "

After Ye Jiaze heard this, he pursed his lips and rushed over from the Prime Minister's Estate in a hurry. He thought that he had prepared all sorts of excuses, wanting to make Xuanyuan Chen and Xie Qingrong angry.

He had put himself in such an awkward situation and didn't want to do what he usually did. As expected, he was worried.

He somewhat dejectedly turned around, but the next moment, he heard Xuanyuan Chen's indifferent voice come from behind him.

"Ye Jiaze, there is something this king wants to tell you, but this king will not tell you everything."

Ye Jiaze turned his body, he had some suspicions, but he suppressed the arrogance that he had out of nowhere, and reverted back to the gentleman's jade-like look, and said respectfully: "Your Highness, please speak your mind."

Xuanyuan Chen actually admired Ye Jiaze, but unfortunately, because he was born in the Ye Family, he was destined to be buried.

He blandly said, "You can go back and ask your father what Imperial Consort Ye did to my royal brother that year. You will know why this king is targeting the Ye family."

Ye Jiaze walked out of the Gourmet with a belly full of suspicions. Looking at the sun high up in the sky, whose warm rays shone on his body, he felt a bone-piercing chill.

Returning to the Ye family home in a daze, the words that Xie Qingrong and Xuanyuan Chen had just said continued to repeat in her mind.

In the study room, he saw his father was writing messy words. It was hard to tell what he looked like, but there was something beautiful and messy about it.

Whenever his father felt irritated, he would come to the study to write. The anger in his calligraphy affected him, and whenever he was confused, he would want to draw a painting to express the emotions in his heart.

After a long period of silence, seeing that his father had stopped writing, he heard his father's concern. "Jiaoze, you're back."

"Yes." Ye Jiaze responded faintly before finally asking the question that was on his mind, "Father, what did you and Imperial Consort Ye do to the previous crown prince back then?"

Ye Wenfu had just finished inscribing his name, and upon hearing his son's question, his brush instantly turned heavily to the left.

This word could no longer be used.

Throwing the pen aside, he looked at his son with obscure probing eyes, seeing the fear and confusion that flashed in his eyes.

Twisting his finger, he probed, "What do you know?"

Not many people knew about what had happened that year, and of everyone who knew about it, except for himself, the only one who knew was the Imperial Consort Ye.

Although the Emperor Xuanyuan knew the truth, he had no proof. He could do nothing about it, but unexpectedly, Xuanyuan Chen started his revenge.

From the demotion of the Snow to the demise of the entire Fourth Prince's bloodline.

Right now, if Xuanyuan Chen wanted to take care of him, it would probably be as easy as crushing an ant to death. However, in the end, he still had the mentality to tease him, wanting him to not be able to stand up and watch him struggle bitterly.

Ye Jiaze looked at his father, who was deep in thought. He caught a glimpse of pain and helplessness in his eyes.

"Father, is the death of the previous crown prince related to you? Is it a conspiracy between you and the Imperial Consort Ye to force him into the abyss?"

Ye Wenfu was awakened by Ye Jiaze's words and recovered from his deep thought. A sharp light flashed past his eyes, but he did not answer Ye Jiaze's question. Instead, he moved the paper on the desk away and replaced it with what felt like a pure white piece of paper.

While writing, he said: "The cause of death of the previous crown prince is indeed related to me. When Xuanyuan Rui was born, he was bestowed the title of crown prince.

Ye Jiaze was shocked by his father's boldness. His fingers trembled as he tried to remain calm: "So, what did you and my aunt do to His Highness the crown prince?"

Ye Wenfu didn't even look at his own son, as if he didn't know how much of a shock his words were to his own son.

He said lightly: "If no one removed the parasite poison from Xuanyuan Rui, he would at most live past one year. It was a pity that Shang Huaiyue was able to remove the parasite. Split the poison into two, the Emperor Xuanyuan lured the mother Gu, and left a child Gu on Xuanyuan Rui's body. "

"But even so, Xuanyuan Rui still won't be able to live for long. At the age of twenty, Xuanyuan Rui had a sickness and was suppressed by the imperial physician. At twenty-two, he fell off the cliff."

Speaking to here, Ye Wenfu laughed lightly, "It can't be considered to be falling off the cliff. At that time, Xuanyuan Chen was also among them and the people that my father sent to kill the two of them in one fell swoop had actually not expected Xuanyuan Rui to block an arrow for Xuanyuan Chen and accidentally fall off the cliff. When we found Xuanyuan Rui, all that was left were some torn clothes that formed a memorial grave. "

"Thus, Xuanyuan Chen hated the Ye Family." Ye Jiaze said.

So this was the truth back then?

Ye Wenfu shot a glance at his own son, and saw clear shock and grief in his eyes. He smiled and said, "That year, all the evidence pointed towards the Snow and the Fourth Prince's clan, proving that they were the culprits. However, Xuanyuan Chen knows that the real culprit is the Ye Family."

"But he had no proof, so he could only use the Fourth Prince and the Snow to vent his anger and slaughter the entire Duanmu Clan. He burned the entire Duanmu Residence to ashes for an entire night. However, back then Snow did indeed secretly place the mother Gu on Queen Zhangsun's body. "

Duanmu Xue's heart was completely focused on Emperor Xuanyuan. When she had entered the palace, he had been doted upon by the Emperor Xuanyuan and thought himself to be his true love.

But, who knew, the only person who was ranked at the top of Emperor Xuanyuan was his childhood sweetheart, Zhangsun Linglong.

Duanmu Xue, whose eyes were blinded by jealousy, was the easiest to be bewitched by the outside world. His sister Ye Shaomin had used this opportunity to give her mother's Gu to Duanmu Xue.

Furthermore, after the incident had occurred, they had used the Duanmu Clan to threaten Duanmu Xue and could not reveal Ye Shaoming.

Only, who would have known that Xuanyuan Chen would massacre the entire Duanmu Family and burn the Duanmu Residence to ashes overnight.

That's right, Xuanyuan Chen back then was not as calm and steady as he was now. He hid everything in his heart and did not reveal his emotions. At that time, Xuanyuan Chen was still just a hot-blooded Third Prince who had just walked out of the battlefield.

"Father, if you hadn't done this back then, the Ye Clan wouldn't be in such a situation today." Ye Jiaze felt a little heartache.

Ye Jiaze had not seen it clearly even until now. Even if he did not infect the Queen Zhangsun with the Gu, even if he did not assassinate Xuanyuan Rui later on, the Ye Family would have definitely been destroyed by Xuanyuan Rui.

In a game between two imperial powers, the victor was the king and the loser was the bandit.

If Xuanyuan Chen won the game, the King Jing and all the powers behind him would be uprooted, which was something that was unavoidable for generations.