Chapter 459, self-request for demotion
After thinking about it again, Lu Ruxue had already thought of what to say. During the banquet, she didn't look at Mu Xuanyang directly.
Because she remembered the past, she couldn't let go of it more and more. But the crown prince and the emperor are always in such a stalemate, and it is not a long-term plan after all.
After waiting for the tea and retreating, Lu Ruxue looked up at it, and Mu Xuanyang felt his wife's gaze, and his heart sank.
"Xuanyang, according to my father's wishes, demoted my position, and punished me to guard the tomb of Empress Xiaoci!"
Mu Xuanyang raised his head violently and looked at his wife with a hurt face. In order to keep his wife's position, he was willing to take a big risk and fight with his father. His wife didn't say that she supported herself, but even persuaded him to give up.
Although he knew in his heart that his wife was thinking about him. But when the two of them made a private decision for life, he said that they would advance and retreat together and share weal and woe. Could it be that my wife can't remember any of this because of amnesia.
"Nope! I promised back then, although I don't remember Ruxue, but I never dare to forget, I promise you a lifetime, the sky collapses, and this situation remains the same. ”
Looking at Mu Xuanyang's expression, from sadness to firmness, Lu Ruxue covered her chest and nodded reassuringly, "Even if you know that you have me in your heart, even if you can't keep my face privately, I can spend the day safely." ”
"This world is still the emperor's world after all, although Xuanyang succeeded to the crown prince, he can't be willful after all. I will wait for you at the Imperial Mausoleum, waiting for you to bring Feng Yuan to pick me up. ”
Lu Ruxue's hint is obvious enough, she will keep Mu Xuanyang's promise and wait. Until he succeeded to the throne and gave her the position of queen to welcome her back to the palace.
"We have been married for many years, you know my temperament best, you don't like to fight, and the inner palace is competing for favor, which is not very suitable for me in the end. Although the imperial tomb is bitter, it is far away from the court, and there is less fighting, and I can also recuperate with peace of mind. ”
said a thousand words and ten thousand, these are just words of comfort to Mu Xuanyang. He also knew that his wife's idea was the best, and his wife's decision was the greatest trust in him.
"I only ask you for one thing, don't let Ting'er get hurt, don't let him be bullied." Leaving the palace, she was reluctant, but she was more worried about her son.
Mu Xuanyang took his wife's hand, gently imprinted it on his lips, shook and rubbed from side to side, and nodded heavily, "Wait for me, promise your life, I will realize it for you." ”
The corners of Lu Ruxue's mouth were slightly raised, and her eyes were full of tears, "Hmm! I'll wait for you! ”
That night, the two of them hardly slept, just hugged each other and talked about the past.
This is really a long story, until the sky is white, and the morning is approaching, Mu Xuanyang kissed his wife's cherry lips and told him to pick cotton and wait.
On the same day, the prince took the initiative to ask for a decree, demoted the princess to a side concubine, moved the palace to the tomb of filial piety, guarded the tomb for the filial piety queen Gao, and acted on behalf of the prince to be filial piety.
Although the emperor has always insisted on deposing the crown princess, he was a little hesitant when the prince really asked for an order. thought that the crown prince wanted to retreat as advance, until it was confirmed that Lu Taifu and other ministers who supported the crown princess no longer wrote against it, and the emperor was willing to believe it.
Although it is not deposed, being demoted to guard the tomb is no different from being punished to the cold palace. finally calmed the emperor's dissatisfaction these days.
The queen's edict saw the degraded concubine on the side of the land, "This is so good, how can the prince punish you to guard the mausoleum." There is a lot of yin and qi, how can your body withstand it? ”
"Thank you for your mother's sympathy, these days, because of her daughter-in-law's affairs, the queen mother's heart is broken. The daughter-in-law is a doctor herself, and her body is not tight. ”
"It is a blessing for my daughter-in-law to be able to guard the tomb for Empress Xiaoci, and others can't ask for it."
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law said a lot of considerate words, women often sympathize with the weak, looking at the crown princess who was forced to abdicate, the queen remembered Lu Ruxue's good children in the past.
secretly rewarded a lot of things for Concubine Lu, and made an edict that Concubine Lu was guarding the tomb for the prince, and no one was allowed to slack off during this period.
With the queen's will, even if Lu Ruxue went to Xiaoling, no one would dare to take her lightly.
Mu Xuanyang privately gave his wife a decree and promised her the identity of the queen to calm her heart. and ordered Zang Feng to bring the secret guards he trained by himself and follow his wife to Xiaoling to protect her safety.
Before leaving the palace, he also specially picked up Lu Chengyao and the Yun family into the palace.
"Greetings to my father and mother!"
"My daughter is not filial, and my parents are worried about my daughter."
Looking at her father who was emaciated due to illness and her mother who was not in good spirits, Lu Ruxue blamed herself incomparably.
But it is clear in her family letter that her grandfather will always persuade her father. As for the mother, she can only rely on her brother.
"You kid, you can't think more about what you do." When Yun said this, he just held his daughter's hand and cried.
"Your eldest uncle let Father tell you that there is no need to worry about the family. The prince has also sent someone to the palace to spread the word, and Xiaoling has been properly arranged. It's just that this mausoleum, the life is simple and vegetarian, and the Buddha is just worried about your body. ”
Lu Chengyao endured the tears in his heart, unwilling to let his daughter see him, which added to the sadness.
"Father forgot, grandmother said that the daughter is the reincarnation of the medicine boy in the sky, even if she fasts as a vegetarian, she will not lose her body."
"When the dust settles, my daughter will be beautiful, enter the imperial city again, and guard the Lu Mansion for a hundred years."
"Good, good. Proud of you as a Father. ”
"Father must take care of his body and take medicine according to the prescription. Tell my brother not to let my mother get angry again. ”
Yun's body is already weak, and he has been frightened and sick for a long time over the years, and now his body has long been overwhelmed, and he can't stand the slightest stimulation.
Lu Ruxue didn't tell her father these things before, but this time, the imperial doctor came to the house for treatment, but he mentioned a few words to Lu Chengyao.
Lu Chengyao can also feel that his wife is afraid that she will not have a few years to live. Seeing her daughter's repeated advice, I knew that she was not at ease.
After talking for a while, it was time to leave the palace. Lu Ruxue kept sending her father and mother out of the East Palace, watching the figures of the two go away, and then returned to the palace to see her son.
These days, on the grounds of recuperation, the crown prince ordered the feet of the emperor's eldest grandson to be banned. So the son still doesn't know that his mother has been demoted and will leave the palace tomorrow.
"Ting'er, from tomorrow, the mother concubine will go to your great-grandmother's tomb to enter filial piety, maybe there will be a long time, and you can't come to see Ting'er."
Lu Ruxue touched her son's head, looked at the round little face, and felt reluctant.
"Is it the same as last time? As long as the child obediently stays with the imperial grandmother, the mother concubine will always come back? Ting'er flashed a pair of big eyes and looked at her mother firmly.
"Yes, as long as Ting'er obediently listens to your father and grandmother, the mother will promise you that she will definitely come back."
Lu Ruxue kissed her son's little face. In fact, she decided to leave, not all for the prince, but more for her son.