Coffin!

Back then, I gave birth to a wonderful word on the carriage that escaped from Jixiang Village, and in that small and closed space, on the way to escape, a life was born, which was originally very joyful.

However, I clearly remember that at that time, Queen Yin looked at me with very frightened eyes, and then, she said these three words-

Coffin!

At that time, I didn't understand what she meant by these three words at all, thinking that she was just talking nonsense because she was crazy and frightened too much, but at this moment, I heard Pei Ji say the past decades ago, the scorched ruins, the lonely coffin, and the life and death in the coffin, and suddenly understood the meaning of those three words.

Coffin, in the palace a few decades ago, there was such a coffin!

That was the deepest fear left in Queen Yin's heart, so even after she went crazy, she still didn't forget it, so she would say it at that time.

I held my breath and said tremblingly, "Is that the child that Empress Zhaolie gave birth to after her death?"

"Yes," Pei Ji's voice was strangely hoarse, and he said slowly: "That's lonely, the eldest son of the emperor." ”

I took a deep breath.

Coffin, the eldest son of the emperor - God knows what kind of situation it was. Empress Zhaolie, in the words of Mama Qian, was trapped in the burning Gui Palace, suffocated to death by smoke. Even the mother died like this, and the child in her womb, anyone can conclude that it must be stillborn, and there is absolutely no possibility of survival.

But the miracle happened at the most unlikely time, the child survived after the death of his mother and was born in a coffin!

At this moment, no matter how many treacherous conspiracies I have experienced, and how many earth-shaking changes I have seen, I still can't help but praise the most beautiful thing in heaven and earth - the power of life!

I sighed lightly: "Probably no one would have thought that Pei Yuanchen, the eldest son of the emperor, would be born like this." ”

Pei Ji nodded lightly: "Yes, no one would have thought of it." ”

"And what about him now?" I looked into his eyes, and without waiting for him to react, I continued to ask: "What does this have to do with the Queen Mother? Why has the Queen Mother been cultivating in the Linshui Pagoda for so many years? What does her escape have to do with this child?"

Pei Ji slowly raised his head and looked at me.

He said, "Actually, you already know what is going on. ”

“……”

"Someone must have already sued you, so you will ask about Gu back then. ”

“……”

"You want justice for her. ”

I looked at his eyes tightly: "This justice, will the emperor give it or not?"

The Emperor Taishang was silent for a long time, and said slowly: "Lonely, it is impossible to tell the world, Lonely." But Lone can indeed sue you, it is Lonely, who has lost her. ”

“……”

"That child, who is lonely, has been replaced by her side. ”

“……！”

He finally confessed.

He changed the child of the Queen Mother.

Although I did know about this a long time ago, when I really heard him admit it, it was like a sense that the facts were in front of me and the dust had settled.

He replaced the child that Empress Zhaolie gave birth to after her death, the coffin, with the child originally born to the Queen Mother.

Because of this, the evil cause that has been entangled for decades has been planted.

I originally wanted to ask him why he did this, it was all his own children, and it made no difference except for breaking the heart of a woman and a mother, but when I looked back and thought about what he had said before, I suddenly understood.

He wanted to prevent the further spread of Katsukyo's power in the imperial court.

If that day really comes, when Shengjing's forces promote this child to the position of the crown prince or even the emperor, he will still have a move as a last resort.

When I said this, there was not the slightest joy on his face, and he was obviously not happy with his arrangement, but only nodded faintly.

"You, sure enough, are Huaiyin's daughter, and you can see things better than others. ”

I asked, "Well, why didn't you canonize him as crown prince?"

“……”

"Even, I remember that he was not crowned king. ”

“……”

"Before he took the throne, he was just a prince. ”

He nodded slightly: "Yes, Gu did not canonize him as the crown prince, and did not give him any title." ”

“……”

"It's because of the coffin ......"

I frowned slightly: "Because of this birth of him?"

He nodded, "Yes." ”

“……”

"The anger on his body is too heavy, he has to be pressed!"

“……”

This time, I didn't say anything.

Indeed, even from the perspective of ordinary people like us, the life of the child who crawled out of the coffin is not ordinarily hard, such a child is commonly known as "severe punishment", and his relatives are thin, Pei Ji "treated" him like this, obviously he was also affected by this view.

And at this moment, I finally understood.

Pei Yuanhao, he is not the third child, nor is he a prince without power, he has been placed on special high hopes since he was born, and even said that he is the real eldest son of the emperor who has carried the mission, otherwise, as an ordinary prince, how could he have such a strong force in the court, and finally be able to force the then prince Pei Yuanxiu to leave the capital!

It's no wonder that when Pei Ji was in a coma of poisoning, he would say that sentence to me-

Frost fell all the time.

It was this sentence that led me to find the holy decree and jade seal he hidden, because in his impression, I was "the palace maid beside the third child";

This was probably the last bit of effort he could make before he was in a poisoning coma.

However, he didn't expect that Pei Yuanhao was more ruthless than he thought, and he didn't even wait for the identity of "Pei Yuanchen" to be in broad daylight, so he directly besieged the imperial city, burned Pei Yuanchen to death, forced Pei Yuanxiu away, and took the throne.

But no matter what, things are more or less developing in the direction that Pei Ji hopes.

It's just that when I think about it like this, I feel chills all over my body.

I looked at him and said softly in a difficult voice: "The Emperor Taishang did this because he was very thoughtful about the overall situation, and many people will be grateful to you." But aren't you—don't you be sad and regretful, or have you never thought about the Queen Mother?"

Pei Ji glanced at me blankly, this glance made him look a lot haggard, and he said softly: "Lonely, how can you not regret it?"

“……”

"After changing these two children, or rather, since the replacement of these two children, Lone has been regretting it. ”

“……”

Every moment passes, Lone's heart regrets it even more. ”

“……”

"I regret that I did this, I regret that I failed her, I regret that I let these two children suffer a fate that they should not have endured, and I regret even more that I was born in the royal family. ”

“……”

When I heard him say this, I didn't know what to say.

Reprimanding him?

No one has this qualification, after all, everything he has done is for the overall situation, and even I believe that his pain is no less than the pain of the Queen Mother over the years.

It's just that the Queen Mother can hide in the Linshui Pagoda and retreat from the world, but he can't hide.

And poisoning and coma for more than ten years are probably already a gift from God, but unfortunately, after opening his eyes, he has to face the battles that have become commonplace in the imperial city - from him, to his son, to his grandson.

I took a deep breath and said, "In other words, the child next to the Queen Mother, the current Emperor Xià, is the child born in the coffin, your eldest son. ”

He nodded, "It's him." ”

As he spoke, he looked at me again, with a little unconcealable throbbing in his eyes: "Lone never thought that the world is like chess, and he would actually ...... with you, Huaiyin's daughter."

I lowered my eyes lightly and didn't answer this, and at this moment, I really wasn't in the mood to say this.

I said, "Emperor Taishang, what about the other child?"

He was suddenly stunned.

I looked into his eyes and continued to ask unabashedly: "You exchanged him for the child of the Queen Mother, and now he has sat in the position of the Ninety-Five Supreme, but what about the child you replaced? Where did he go?"

He seemed to have been stabbed without warning, and his face instantly turned pale.

After a moment of silence, he breathed a sigh of relief: "You-"

I said calmly and firmly: "I asked about this, and naturally there is a reason for me to ask. ”

He suddenly looked at me and opened his eyes slightly: "You know, do you know his whereabouts?"

"I want to know what happened. ”

“……”

His pale lips were trembling slightly, compared to talking about the fire in Guigong and Pei Yuanhao's life experience just now, his mood was obviously more difficult to calm down at this moment, even his breathing was messed up, and his voice was trembling when he spoke: "At that time, after Gu changed these two children, he was actually in conflict, and even wanted to change them back, because Gu didn't know how to treat her children." ”

I squinted slightly at him.

In fact, in all dynasties, such things are not rare.

Many emperors had their own way of dealing with it, giving it to others to be fed, sent to the royal monasteries, and even worse, a small life disappeared silently.

But he couldn't.

Pei Ji said: "Just when Lone hesitated, this child suddenly disappeared......"

"Suddenly gone?"

"Yes, there was another person who was missing with him. ”

"Who?"

“…… The elder brother of Empress Zhaolie. ”

“……”

My heart skipped a beat—even though some of the facts were already in front of me, and I could guess what had happened, when I actually heard it, there were still countless doubts in my mind.

Yao Lao, he really lived in the palace.

I asked, "Why is he in the palace?"

I thought this question was easy to answer, but Pei Ji suddenly glanced at me vigilantly.