After resigning, I switched to fortune-telling

Chapter 1

The old emperor died in June.

It's the hot summer season, the whole country is green, and the crying concubine in the harem can even flood the capital.

The concubine cried in front of the emperor's coffin, and the courtiers of the previous dynasty cried in their own homes—especially those courtiers who had no ability but were favored by the late emperor because they were good at flattering.

The old emperor is dead, no matter who succeeds him, it is very difficult for people like them to please.If the new emperor wants to make some meritorious service, he might be the first to use them.

Xie Tangru was saddened by the death of the old emperor for a long time, and then he remembered that he was also one of these unlucky courtiers who were about to be operated on.

So he was even more sad.

Having been a playboy for nearly 20 years, Xie Tangru has no skills, but has a good-looking face and has been liked since childhood.

It also attracted the eyes of the old emperor.

Forcibly, he was promoted to the position of Tanhua, a waste material who obtained the qualification for the imperial examination under the cover of his ancestors and who was named Luosunshan.

This also shows that the old emperor's rule was not very clear, and the old emperor himself was not a wise monarch.

But now, I'm afraid that the next emperor will be too wise, and without them, people who don't rely on real talents to get to the top can barely survive.

Xie Tangru lamented for a long while, and picked up the few princes left behind by the old emperor one by one, ready to find a way out for himself.

Before the death of the first emperor, there was no crown prince, the East Palace was vacant, and the several princes were evenly matched. Now, for a while, no one is arguing about who should be the next emperor.Everyone wanted this supreme position, and no one would give up this opportunity easily, and the factions of several princes in the court were even more fiercely fighting.

After the pawing, Xie Tangru felt that he could continue to cry.

——Every prince's wings have been completed, and there is no place for him under his command.Besides, it is difficult to produce good shoots from bad bamboos. The first emperor was like that, and his sons didn't look like capable people.

The eldest prince is rich, the third prince is lustful, and the fourth prince is far away in the fiefdom of the northern border. Xie Tangru has never seen it before, so he doesn't know his character, but he heard that his temper is not very good.The fifth and sixth princes all died young, and the younger ones were too young and still babbling.And the second prince, the only son of the old emperor, was abandoned early because of the witchcraft case, and was imprisoned in the mansion for more than ten years, and he got the title of "abandoned prince".

After all, none of them fit Xie Tangru's wishes.

He sighed, and fell asleep groggyly before midnight.

As a result, that night, he had a dream.

In the dream, he picked and picked, and in the end he reluctantly chose the deposed prince.

The deposed prince has been imprisoned for more than ten years. He has no chance to see the world and no teacher to teach him. He is indecisive and easy to be controlled by others.

It's just that the deposed prince was too easy to control, not only being fooled by Xie Tangru, but also by other subordinates and spies who didn't know where they came from.

Xie Tangru has been holding back.After dragging her feet, she wiped tears at Xie Tangru, saying that it was all her fault, that she shouldn't listen to villains, and turned her head to listen again.

Originally, the abolished prince was the only legitimate son. Did he personally participate in the witchcraft case that caused the queen's family to be wiped out? According to the patriarchal clan, he still has certain advantages, and it is naturally easy to win the support of the royalists in terms of legal principles.

But he himself is really an idiot who cannot be supported.

It was not easy for Xie Tangru to kill the eldest prince and the third prince with great effort. As a result, the deposed prince in the rear foolishly got into the trap of the fourth prince, and foolishly admitted the identity of the fourth prince as the "new emperor".

Xie Tang was like a bloody storm in the court hall, and the deposed prince was defeated in the rear.

Xie Tangru used the name of the abolished prince to fight for the throne. Now that the abolished prince recognizes the status of the fourth prince, he has no room to object as a minister.Can only find another way out.

The struggle for power in the court failed, and there was no escape from death. Xie Tangru decided to retreat and rebel.

But the abolished prince is really not an ordinary person. He ran to the new emperor's eyes alone to save his sweetheart. , the new emperor took the opportunity to hit Xie Tangru by surprise, and the rebellion also failed.

So Xie Tangru was directly arrested by the new emperor's men.

Rebels have never had a good end since ancient times, and Xie Tangru is no exception, especially since the new emperor is not a magnanimous and good person at all.

When fighting for the throne, Xie Tangru cheated the new emperor many times, and almost killed the new emperor several times, now it's the new emperor's turn to take revenge.

So the new emperor, who was not magnanimous at all, imprisoned Xie Tangru, persecuted and humiliated him in various ways.These scenes in the dream only flashed in a messy manner, but it did not prevent Xie Tangru from conjecturing that it must be the punishment of torture.

The new emperor took Xie Tangru very seriously, so that Xie Tangru could not even find a chance to commit suicide.Although in the eyes of outsiders, he is already a dead person.

Xie Tangru was depressed when he was imprisoned, unable to escape the eyes of the new emperor, lost his freedom, had the will to die, and became thinner day by day.

But the unlucky new emperor refused to let him die easily, and insisted on asking the imperial doctor to pull him back from the gate of hell.

Xie Tang was so depressed that he wanted to die even more.

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Before seeing how he died in the dream, Xie Tangru suddenly woke up.

The sky is bright outside the window, it is already a new morning.

He got up and rubbed his temples, thinking that this dream was ridiculous, but after thinking about it carefully, there were indeed two possibilities of it happening.

...It's just that the follow-up development is really too outrageous.

Xie Tangru took a sip of last night's cold tea, forcing his mind to clear up.

This dream is too realistic, not like a dream, but like some kind of foreshadowing. ...if this dream is real, then he...

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Be sure to strike first!

Kill the fourth prince who is still far away in the fief, the future new emperor!

The tip of his tongue pressed against his cheeks, and he repeatedly chopped up the damned emperor in his dream, Xie Tangru felt his anger calm down a bit.

It is common sense to be king and loser, but it is too much to humiliate him as a loser!

In the dream, the abolished prince was not as miserable as he was, but at least he saved his life and became a commoner with dignity with his sweetheart whom he desperately saved.

Xie Tangru became even angrier thinking about it.

After he got angry, he thought for a while, drank two more cups of cold tea, restrained himself from hiring murderer now, and asked his attendant to send a letter to the abandoned prince's residence, inviting him to come out and meet.

If the character of the other party is really as indescribable as in the dream, it means that the dream also has a certain degree of credibility.

As for whether the deposed prince will attend his appointment, Xie Tangru is not worried at all.

Compared with the other princes who have many followers, the people around the deposed prince who was imprisoned in the early years walked and died, but now there is not a single reliable person.Besides, given his status, even if he didn't have ambitions, it would be rare for him to die well.

Even if Xie Tangru himself is currently a second-generation ancestor who doesn't have a good reputation, he can't stand him having a fat-meat-like father who everyone wants to bite into.

Now that Xie Tangru handed over this olive branch, the helpless and destitute prince naturally eagerly caught it.

Sure enough, the waste prince replied quickly.

He agreed to meet Xie Tangru.The heir apparent of Duke Wei, who once commanded an army of 20 in the southern border.

The time is three days later.

It can be seen that the abolished prince is still trying very hard to hold his identity and hold back.

Xie Tangru twitched the corners of his mouth when he received the implicit reply letter, which was written with delicate words and meanings.

well.

That dream had a little more believability.

In the dream, the abandoned prince also wrote such a letter to him, with similar words and sentences.

It came to a conclusion that Xie Tangru was not happy about knowing the future, but wanted to kill the fourth prince who hadn't met yet.

This is his future lifelong shame.

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He was thinking about how to kill the fourth prince without leaving any traces, when his father Wei Guogong suddenly sent someone to invite him to the main hall.

This is a rarity.

Since his mother died, Wei Guogong took the initiative to return the military power, and became obsessed with the way of cultivating immortals. The former emperors who went there had a common language, so they just introduced each other as confidants and accompanied them to the underworld.

He raised his eyebrows, unable to think what his father was up to right now, washed his face casually, washed away the complicated thoughts about that inexplicable dream in his mind, and went to the front hall.

Apart from his father, there were two other people sitting in the front hall, an elegant middle-aged man with a long beard and another young man in a brocade robe with a round collar who lowered his head and looked at the pattern on the teacup.

He happened to know both of them.

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Minister of Rites and his unlucky eldest son.

As soon as Xie Tangru looked away, he lazily saluted his father in a nondescript way, and sat down on his father's right side, opposite to the Minister of Rites, without being greeted by anyone.

"what's up?"

"Snapped--"

Wei Guogong put down his teacup heavily, and let out a "hum", "I'm so old that I don't look serious, I don't know how to say hello to Uncle Chen when I see you!"

The Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites is surnamed Chen, and he has nothing to do with Wei Guogong's mansion on weekdays, but Wei Guogong still has to be polite according to the rules when someone comes to his door.

In the end, Xie Tangru's attitude was more polite than his father's, and his tone was so respectful that he couldn't fault it: "It's not that I don't understand etiquette, it's just that I can't salute Chen Shangshu."

His dad was surprised, and said happily, "What's the reason?"

Xie Tangru faced Chen Shangshu and his son, with a smile on his lips, he said slowly: "Master Shangshu may not know that your son recognized me as a father a few days ago."

Chen Shangshu's complexion suddenly changed, and he looked at his unlucky son who was holding a teacup in a hurry to drink tea with a guilty look on his face, pointing at him speechless.

"you you……"

Xie Tangru pretended not to see the faces of Chen Shangshu and his son, and continued to say in a serious manner: "Although I am not your son's biological father, since your son recognizes me as his father, it can be regarded as the same generation as Master Shangshu. How can I call him Shangshu again?" 'Uncle Shi'? Doesn't it mess up principles and ethics?"

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