Outside the Empress Dowager Zhou's bedroom, the great eunuch Wang Ruhai shook his head silently at the crown prince Zhu Youzhu and Zhang Wan. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Seeing this, Zhu Youzhu had to sigh helplessly. Since the imperial grandmother didn't want to see her, it would be useless for her to wait here.

"Your Royal Highness," Zhang Wan stepped forward, pulled Zhu Youjiao's sleeve, and persuaded in a low voice, "The Queen Mother is tired of coming, why don't you come to Cining Palace tomorrow to say goodbye." ”

When the eyes of Empress Dowager Zhou and Concubine Wan Guifei met today, the guilt that flashed in her eyes was clear to Zhang Wan than anyone present.

In this Forbidden City, there are really a lot of secrets!

Although she still doesn't know what happened back then, but Empress Dowager Zhou obviously doesn't want to see people's thoughts at this time, Zhang Wan can guess one or two.

Zhu Youzhu is not stupid, since the imperial grandmother wants to meditate alone, he naturally will not make trouble.

"Grandpa Wang," he looked up at Wang Ruhai, "Since the imperial grandmother has already rested, then the palace will go back first." On the side of Cining Palace, there is Gonggong Lao. ”

"Your Highness, please rest assured. Wang Ruhai shook off the Buddha dust in his hand, beat a thousand, and whispered, "The Queen Mother is here, and the slaves should serve with all their hearts." ”

After speaking, Wang Ruhai looked up at Zhang Wan on the side again, "Zhang Nushi, the miscellaneous family can't leave here for a while, so I bother you to send His Royal Highness the Crown Prince back to the East Palace for the miscellaneous family." ”

"The father-in-law is serious. Zhang Wan smiled lightly and nodded, and then followed the side of the crown prince Zhu Youjiao, saluted in the direction of the inner hall, and then turned to leave.

In the inner hall, the Empress Dowager Zhou sat sideways on top of the soft collapse alone, crying.

"Niangniang," Wang Ruhai reflexively returned to the inner hall, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he saw this, "It's been so many years, why do you have to think about it anymore?"

He knew that the Empress Dowager Zhou was so sad because of the emperor's attitude in today's affairs, which reminded the Empress Dowager of the events of the past.

Back then...... Wang Ruhai remembered what happened back then, and couldn't help but sigh secretly.

"Wang Ruhai, has Ji'er ever left?" Empress Dowager Zhou picked up the handkerchief in her hand and saved the tears from the corners of her eyes. His own son is not close to himself, but fortunately, this only grandson has always been filial.

"Yes. Wang Ruhai came back to his senses and nodded, "The slave has already invited Miss Zhang to send His Royal Highness the Crown Prince back to the East Palace." ”

"It's fine. Empress Dowager Zhou nodded indifferently, but her eyes were even more miserable and helpless.

Such a look made Wang Ruhai involuntarily think of that night more than 30 years ago......

It was also a rainy night, and when the news that Emperor Yingzong had been captured by the Watt Thorns at Tumubao came back to the palace, everyone in the six palaces was panicked and panicked.

At that time, in order to avoid the suspicion of the lord Shaoguo, Yu Qian and other ministers wrote to the Empress Dowager Sun overnight, and strongly advised Zhu Qiyu, the king of Yu, to be the emperor. Empress Dowager Sun hugged the two-year-old prince, who is now His Majesty, and only groaned for half an hour, then nodded tearfully and agreed.

Now that I think about it, if the Empress Dowager Sun didn't agree, she couldn't do it, the people of the Watt Thorn had even been captured by the emperor, and they were about to hit the Shuntian Mansion, how could they sit firmly in the world of the Ming Dynasty with only a two-year-old young master?

However, before the Empress Dowager Sun issued an edict to establish a new monarch, she asked the servant king Zhu Qiyu to swear in front of hundreds of officials that she would never abolish the position of prince Zhu Jianshen, and after the prince became an adult, he would return to power with the prince Zhu Jianshen.

At that time, due to the situation, Zhu Qiyu, the king of the servant, agreed to this matter very happily, but he never thought that it was because of this oath that he would bury many disasters for the East Palace in the future.

Wang Ruhai still remembers that that night, Zhu Qiyu, the servant king who had just received the canonization edict and had not yet officially ascended the throne, broke into the gate of Yonghe Palace in the heavy rain......

That night, the Empress Dowager Zhou, who lived in Yonghe Palace and was still a noble concubine at that time, looked at the eyes of Zhu Qiyu, the king of servants, in the cold wind, just like tonight, miserable and helpless.

"Wang Ruhai, did you really do something wrong back then?" Empress Dowager Zhou's mournful voice sounded, making Wang Ruhai wake up from his memories in an instant.

"Queen Mother," Wang Ruhai lowered his head, "The things of the year have passed, and now, you are the Queen Mother." ”

Wang Ruhai understands his identity, the rights and wrongs of those emperors' families, how can he be a eunuch who can put his beak!

Is it already in the past? Empress Dowager Zhou lowered her head and smiled.

If it has passed, why has it been so many years that my biological flesh and blood, who were conceived in October and gave birth to through a lot of hard work, have never been close to me?

If it has passed, why do I feel shameless every time I dream back at midnight over the years, and when I see the first emperor?

If it is in the past, why in the mind of his son Zhu Jianshen, his mother, is not as good as a concubine of the Wan family?

Empress Dowager Zhou closed her eyes in pain. She knew that from the night Zhu Qiyu broke into Yonghe Palace, in fact, nothing had passed.

But what could I have done back then? I was just a poor girl from a peasant family, and she didn't read and write much since she was a child. She has no strong relatives to support her, and she has no outstanding scheming, what can she do in the face of Zhu Qiyu, who she once saved and is about to ascend the throne?

What's more, the other party also threatened her own son's life, in addition to committing herself to the other party, in order to beg the other party to let her son go, what else could she do!

In those years, in order to save her son's life and keep her son's position as the crown prince, she gave up all the dignity of a woman, and flattered Zhu Qiyu at all costs.

Back then, if she knew that all her efforts, all the shame and grievances, and everything she got in exchange were just the current mother-son estrangement, would she still do this?

Empress Dowager Zhou opened her eyes, held her chest tightly, and smiled helplessly.

She knew she would, she would.

Just because, it's her son, it's the flesh and blood that fell from her body!

Over the years, she has not thought about explaining the events of the year to her son, but how can she say such humiliation as a woman and a mother?

She watched the gap between herself and her son grow bigger and bigger, but there was nothing she could do.

She tried to make amends, but ......

Twenty years ago, when his son first ascended to the throne and wanted to establish the Wan clan as his queen, he also hesitated and wavered. Thinking that it is just a posterior, if it can be exchanged for the mother-son intimacy of himself and his son, it will not hurt to give it to the Wan family.

But at that time, the queen of money was not allowed, what could she do? The queen of money was the original wife of the first emperor, and she was just a noble concubine; even if the two palaces were established as the queen mother at that time, it was still to respect the other party.

Moreover, with the background of the Wan clan, it is indeed impossible to be in the middle palace if it is so unbearable.

So, under the strength of the queen of money, he retreated, which was against his son's will after all.

Later, Empress Dowager Qian died of illness, and the Wu family was deposed for some reason, and his son once again proposed to establish the Wan family as the queen. But at that time, the Wan family was already arrogant and domineering, how could he hand over his son's harem to such a woman?

This step is wrong, step by step, so that now, the son and himself, on the surface, are mothers and sons, but in fact they are strangers.

Empress Dowager Zhou let go of the hand covering her chest and let her tears wet her placket.