10. The crown prince's question
The crown prince Liu Zheng is the eldest son of the present grandson. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info he was born less than 100 days ago, and now he suddenly became a nobleman from a commoner, and entered the Weiyang Palace with Emperor Wu's orthodoxy, and in the same year he set his mother Xu Pingjun as the queen, and he became the eldest son of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty.
It is the system of the Han Dynasty to pre-establish the prince, and it is also a tradition for the eldest son to be the prince, but Xu Pingjun has a thin life, and he only has a short three-year queen's life. In the first month of the first three years, the eldest princess she gave birth to was not yet full of moon, but she herself died suddenly. The following year, Huo Chengjun entered the palace and became the queen in March. Liu Zheng's future is also unpredictable.
The Empress Dowager Shangguan also lost her mother at a young age, and she knew the difficulty of being motherless, so she took special pity on her brothers and sisters. Although Liu Zheng is young and ignorant, he can still feel the care of the Empress Dowager Shangguan, and he is naturally very close to her.
As soon as he entered the car and saw the location of the Empress Dowager Shangguan, Liu Zheng ran to her side, half saluting, half coquettishly pulling her sleeve: "Is the eldest mother okay?" β
"Alright!" The Empress Dowager Shangguan stretched out her hand to take him into her arms, and her mood was extremely happy, "How is the prince doing?" β
Liu Zheng leaned on the Queen Mother and nodded obediently: "The minister is well." Taifu has already started teaching. Then he said, "The eldest mother came to see my sister?" The corners of his mouth drooped as he spoke, and his expression was gloomy: "My sister is greedy for cold, she has eaten ice, and she has been taking medicine for the past two days...... The minister coaxed her yesterday, and when she recovered, he would invite her to Changle Palace with her! β
"Please?" Hearing such a serious word coming out of the mouth of a child, and it was a coaxing word, the Empress Dowager Shangguan couldn't help but be slightly stunned, "Does the crown prince know what the court invitation means?" β
"I don't know." Liu Zheng replied honestly, which made the Empress Dowager Shangguan's smile deeper, and even Yihua was stunned.
Seeing that both of them were smiling happily, Liu Zheng also smiled, and after a while, he remembered something, pulled the cuffs of the Empress Dowager Shangguan, raised her little face, and asked in confusion: "Auntie, what is poison?" β
The smiles of the Empress Dowager Shangguan and Yihua froze immediately, and after a while, the Empress Dowager Shangguan heard her stiff voice: "Who did the prince listen to when he talked about poison?" β
Liu Zheng didn't notice the queen mother's abnormality, and replied very seriously: "Your Majesty has made a lot of anger for my sister's indiscriminate eating, and I heard Your Majesty reprimand my sister's nanny when he said that if the ice is poisonous, she and her relatives of the three clans will die a hundred times and it will be difficult to atone for their sins." β
The Empress Dowager Shangguan's heart tightened when she heard this, but she subconsciously responded lightly: "...... Is it? β
Liu Zheng took it seriously, and nodded very seriously and affirmatively again: "Yes!" Then he grabbed the neck of the Empress Dowager Shangguan and asked in her ear: "Eldest mother, I heard many people say that the imperial concubine was killed by Mrs. Xuancheng......
When the Empress Dowager Shangguan heard this, she didn't feel the slightest surprise, but couldn't help laughing, gently rubbing the child's back, as if casually saying, "What does the prince think?" β
Liu Zheng was stunned for a moment, blinked, tilted his head to look at the Empress Dowager Shangguan, and asked puzzledly, "What do I think, eldest mother?" β
"Do you think what you're hearing is true?" Empress Dowager Shangguan smiled and gently straightened out the hair that was scattered behind his back.
Liu Zheng frowned and thought for a while, then shook his head in distress: "I don't know!" Then he shook the arm of the Empress Dowager Shangguan and said affectionately: "Eldest mother, do you think that will be true?" β
Liu Zheng's rhetorical question made Yihua's face change suddenly.
It is said that they are innocent and childlike, but in the nine-fold palace of Weiyang Palace, where will there be naΓ―ve people? Even if there is, it must be a sharp blade in the hands of people with ulterior motives.
Yihua couldn't help but wince, and secretly calculated in his heart who the palace people, eunuchs, and household officials close to the prince were.
"Prince......" Empress Dowager Shangguan stroked the thick black hair on the top of Liu Zheng's head, "Mrs. Xuancheng is the stepmother of the ancestors, and she is not something I can talk about. β
Liu Zheng nodded as if he didn't understand, and then heard the Empress Dowager Shangguan ask himself softly: "Prince, if it's true, what are you going to do?" β
This time, Liu Zheng didn't hesitate at all, his eyes were clear, and he replied to her neatly: "The deer knows how to kneel and breastfeed, the crow feeds back, the emperor gave birth to me and gave birth to me, and his hatred is natural...... Naturally, we don't share the sky! In the end, because he couldn't think of words for a while, he paused for a while, but then he remembered the words to say, and looked at the Empress Dowager Shangguan's dark eyes brighter and brighter.
ββ¦β¦ What the prince said was very true. The Empress Dowager Shangguan was stunned for a moment, and then she bowed her head slightly, showing approval on her face, but her hand couldn't help but touch his eyes.
It is said that the boy Xiao's mother, Liu Zheng is no exception, his appearance is similar to Xu Pingjun, only his eyes are the same as today's, his eyes are pure black, clear and bright but not sharp, like a deep pool of cold springs, as if he can see through people's hearts.
"Big Mother......" Liu Zheng blinked a little confusedly, but did not avoid the hand of the Empress Dowager Shangguan.
The Empress Dowager Shangguan suddenly came back to her senses, couldn't help laughing, her hand slowly stroked his forehead, and rubbed his thick black forehead: "The prince thinks too much...... These things have their own disposal, and you are afraid that you will not have a chance! β
Liu Zheng has always respected his father, full of admiration, and when he heard the Empress Dowager Shangguan say this, he couldn't help but bow his head in disbelief, and then whispered unobtrusively: "Aunt! β
The Empress Dowager Shangguan tightened her arms, hugged him, and then let go of a little, and said with a chuckle: "Prince, it is good that the mother's grace is more important than the sky, but the prince should also remember - without Xuanchenghou's words, he is still a commoner today, let alone the prince?" Besides...... "The Empress Dowager Shangguan could see that although Liu Zheng listened carefully, she couldn't help but show a little dazed - he was only nine years old after all, and some things were really difficult for him to understand, she couldn't help but hesitate, but, after a little thought, she still gently hugged him into her arms and sighed in a low voice: "The power of Xuancheng Hou that day can almost cover the sky with one hand, if he doesn't have the heart to fulfill, how can he mourn the queen today......"
Liu Zheng listened to the indescribable sighs and whispers of the Empress Dowager Shangguan, and couldn't help but feel sad in his heart, and stretched out his hand to hug the waist of the Empress Dowager Shangguan, although he didn't fully understand what she meant, but he still promised very seriously: "The words of the eldest mother, you must remember it." β
"Good ......" made a solemn promise to Liu Zheng, but the Empress Dowager Shangguan didn't take it seriously, and let go of the child with a smile, "The prince is here to meet the county official?" β
"Yes!" Only then did Liu Zheng remember the purpose of his coming to Weiyang Palace, and hurriedly got up and saluted, "Auntie, you have to go to the greenhouse hall!" β
"Let's go!"
After the prince got out of the car, he was immediately surrounded by a group of palace people and rushed to the greenhouse hall. Yi Hua watched the crown prince walk away, then gently closed the car, came to the side of the Empress Dowager Shangguan and asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, do you want to summon Zhan Shi?" β
The Empress Dowager Shangguan snorted and sighed helplessly.
Donβt wait for prosperity to care for the things important to you......
ββHow can she be willing to sit back and wait for herself to kill herself?
"Nagago, it's too extravagant to think about the future......"
ββIn the Changle of Weiyang, only by surviving the current turmoil can we touch the not-so-distant future.