Chapter VII: Changing the Dynasty
Princess Xinrou raised a pair of teary eyes, shook her head and said, "How can I not know that my mother has a deep affection for my father? Once the father is gone, how can the mother concubine be nostalgic for mortal dust? I also know that my mother has always been the same, but she ...... How could she be so ruthless that she would say goodbye and never see me again? ”
Seeing her sad, she couldn't stop crying, and she felt inexplicably sorry in her heart, and hurriedly said slowly: "Princess Xinrou, don't be sad!" It's not that Concubine Yi doesn't want to see you, but she's just afraid that she will hesitate after seeing you, and she will be able to leave the palace again! ”
Princess Xinrou thought in her heart, Prince Jing's words were not reasonable, thinking that the mother concubine was very afraid of being soft-hearted after seeing herself, so she didn't say goodbye, it seemed to be ruthless, but in fact it was caused by loving herself.
Thinking of this, Princess Xinrou barely held back the pain in her heart, gritted her teeth and nodded, "Lord Jing, thank you for your relief." It's just that I still want to see my mother again, kowtow goodbye in person, and do my filial piety, so that I can feel at ease, and I hope that King Jing can fulfill one or two! ”
King Jing was taken aback, and hurriedly looked at her, seeing that her face was pale, her eyes were red and swollen, and her lips were purple by her teeth, but her face was already full of determination. ”
Thinking of this, he felt a faint pain in his heart, gritted his teeth and held on, and shouted to the outside of the palace: "He Yong, why don't you come to meet Princess Xinrou?" ”
When Princess Xinrou heard this, she was immediately overjoyed, only to see He Yong, the leader of the Praetorian Guards who had escorted her mother and daughter all the way here, walking in quickly.
"Chen He Yong has seen Princess Xinrou!"
He Yong knelt on the ground to salute, and was hurriedly helped up by Princess Xinrou.
Prince Jing smiled and looked at the shocked Princess Xinrou, and said softly: "On the way to Beijing in the past two months, I saw that this General He was really loyal and brave, thinking that the palace was full of dangers, in order to ensure the safety of the princess, I thought about letting him come in to protect the princess." The princess wants to go out of the palace to find her mother this time, and it is even safer to take this person to escort her all the way. I just don't know, is the princess satisfied with this person? ”
Princess Xinrou looked at He Yong eagerly looking at herself, her eyes were full of expectation, her heart softened, and she hurriedly nodded and said, "Prince Jing is so thoughtful about Xinrou, I am really grateful. General He has been loyal to his duties all the way and has won my heart. Xinrou has thanked Prince Jing here! ”
After speaking, she bowed to King Jing Yingying, and was so frightened that King Jing hurriedly replied: "Princess Xinrou is the master, I am just a courtier, don't salute and kill Wei Chen." It's just that the princess is out of the palace is unusual, and the princess has to ask for the consent of Emperor Wuzong first, and Weichen will make a little arrangement, so that she can go out with confidence. ”
When Princess Xinrou saw that he agreed to leave the palace, she was grateful in her heart, so she no longer insisted on it, so she had to settle down for the time being and live in the palace steadily.
Prince Jing personally arranged competent people to protect Princess Xinrou's Qinxiang Garden tightly and seamlessly, and ordered Gonggong Hai to select dozens of palace maids to do their best to take care of the princess's diet and daily life.
He Yong, as the princess's personal guard, is even more conscientious, and never leaves Princess Xinrou for half a step.
After King Jing left, Princess Xinrou thought about it, and couldn't sleep all night, so she hurried to the Yuexin Palace, but it was already a person who went to the palace, where could she still find half of the figure of Yi Guifei, after careful inquiry, I knew that Yi Guifei left the palace alone as soon as the sky was bright after the Xuanwu Emperor guarded the spirit, and disappeared.
Although Princess Xinrou knew that this would be the case, she was still heartbroken and returned to Qinxiangyuan listlessly, but since then, things are wrong, and it is difficult to calm down.
On the second day, King Jing presided over the government as the regent, and announced to the public that the Son of Heaven was sick and died, and the queen was martyred, and Yu Taishi committed suicide with the lord.
Chen Guo mourned the whole country, mourned for a month, and at the same time granted amnesty to the world. Emperor Xuanwu was buried in the Huangling Tomb of Qinghua Mountain, and was accompanied by Qingshan and rested here.
On another day, the crown prince Chen Ke successfully ascended the throne and succeeded to the throne as Emperor Wuzong.
Emperor Wuzong named Concubine Mei as Concubine Mei, and the concubines of the first emperor in the harem were posthumously sealed, but they could also live in the palace for a long time and spend the rest of their lives peacefully.
But this Emperor Wuzong was free and sickly, but he also liked beauty, and he was very extravagant.
After succeeding to the throne, he personally took charge of the government for less than half a month, and claimed that he was weak and sick, often lying in the sick palace, and as soon as he did political affairs in the court, he was all pushed to the regent, and the regent had full authority to deal with it, and he stayed in the palace of nourishing his heart, singing and dancing all day long, accompanied by beautiful women, free, and really ** excessive.
Since then, the regent has rightfully stood on the throne next to the dragon chair, and has become the true ruler of the supremacy of power in the Great Chen Kingdom.
But within a few days, Emperor Wuzong suddenly got tired of seeing these beauties around him, and his heart was upset, so he summoned Prince Jing and said politely that he had reached the year of marriage, and this great Chen country should also have a mother of the country.
Listening to his words, King Jing snorted coldly in his heart, and secretly thought to himself: "You want to take the opportunity to draft in the folk for your own lewd pleasure, but you still have to say it so high-sounding!" However, Emperor Wuzong is sixteen years old this year, and it is really the year of marriage! ”
Thinking of this, he nodded and smiled: "The Holy Lord didn't talk about this matter originally, and Weichen also had this intention, just thinking that after a while, he would give the Holy Lord a draft to fill the harem loneliness." Since the saint also has this intention, Weichen should do his best to do this for the saint. ”
On the second day, Emperor Wuzong issued an edict to the whole country to conduct a draft.
This edict went on, but it was too busy for officials from all over the country, and they all wanted to compete for favor in front of this new emperor, so they took the trouble to search for a stunning woman in Chen Guo, which made people panic for a while.
In the midst of this chaos, half a month has passed before I know it.
Since Concubine Yi left, Princess Xinrou had no parents in the blink of an eye, and became a lonely person left in the palace, with no one to talk to, and she wanted to go out of the palace as soon as possible to find her mother, so as to relieve the pain of her thoughts, but left and right, and half a month passed in the blink of an eye, and the prince Jing who had promised herself did not move, and her heart was troubled, but she had to be patient and continue to wait, but she was already weak all day long, and she lost weight during the day.
On this day, when Princess Xinrou was bored, she remembered the young man, and her heart ached, and suddenly she vaguely remembered that her father had issued an edict to arrest the family of the prefect of Youzhou into Beijing, and her heart moved, and she hurriedly called the palace maid and went straight to the Wuzong Heart Palace.
Wu Zongzheng leaned on the soft couch and closed his eyes to recuperate, and heard the eunuch pass the word, saying that Princess Xinrou had something to kneel down to, and he got up curiously and said: "Xuan! ”
Gonggong Hai hurriedly announced that Princess Xinrou entered the palace to meet her.
Wu Zong leaned over and chose the most comfortable position to lie down, raised his eyes to look at the people who came in, and if he didn't look at it, he was startled by Princess Xinrou at a glance, and his body didn't feel straight.
Princess Xinrou lowered her eyebrows at this time, knelt on the ground to say goodbye, and her posture was gentle and lovely.
When Wuzong was still the crown prince, because he was always lingering on the sickbed, although he knew that his father had found a folk sister for him, and he also gave him the title of Princess Xinrou with great fanfare, and at the same time ordered the world to make it an unchangeable fact, but he was not at all interested in this matter, so he never went to see this sister who appeared halfway.
On the day of the canonization ceremony, he was addicted to wine, and he did not show up under the pretext that he was unwell.
Afterwards, the Taishi once came to tell him that the newly sealed Concubine Yi and Princess Xinrou were really charming, and the cholera society was a disaster.
His curiosity was aroused, and he asked his courtiers in private, only to know that his sister was indescribably beautiful.
He couldn't forget how the queen mother was furious when he heard about this incident, and how she gritted her teeth and scolded in front of her, "A pair of fox spirits!" ”
At that time, he really hated this sister who had never met, especially after the death of the queen mother, how did he think, how did he think, it was precisely because of the sudden entry of the mother and daughter into the palace that the queen mother was worried all day long, and he was afraid that his father would be soft-hearted for a while, and he would abolish his name as the prince, which would give rise to the idea of killing the king and usurping the throne.
Now, although he succeeded to the throne as emperor, he was not as free as the ordinary people, and he was really just a puppet of the regent.
In Emperor Wuzong's heart, the hatred for this mother and daughter increased unabated.
However, after all, he is already the monarch of Da Chen, and his father and prince have few heirs, looking left and right, there is only one Princess Ke and this Princess Xinrou, who have the same royal blood as himself.
"That's it, that's it, the regent wolf's ambition is known to the world. Why should I hurt my sister again! ”
Thinking of this, Wu Zong temporarily suppressed his resentment and continued to live a life of extravagance, thinking of a way to make the regent relax his vigilance against him, just to live a safe life.
At this time, Princess Xinrou would take the initiative to come and ask to see her, which she had never imagined.
Thinking of this, Wu Zong raised his eyebrows slightly, looked playfully at Princess Xinrou who was kneeling on the ground, and asked in a relaxed tone as much as possible: "Imperial sister, be flat." Why don't you stay in Qinxiangyuan, why did you come to see me? ”
Princess Xinrou stood up and said in a low voice: "Ten thousand blessings, the courtier's sister rashly came to see the saint today, because she had one thing to ask and another thing to ask for. ”
"Oh...... Tell me about it! Emperor Wuzong heard her voice tactfully, as refreshing as heaven, and immediately raised his eyebrows, and even stared at Princess Xinrou in front of him with great interest, and asked out loud.
"My father once said before his death that he would escort the family of Liu Wenting, the prefect of Youzhou, into Beijing, I wonder if their family is still in prison pending trial?"
Emperor Wuzong was stunned when he heard this, thought for a moment, and asked in a deep voice: "As a princess, you shouldn't be in charge of all the affairs of the court, why are you so concerned about this matter?" Are you related to Liu Wenting's family? ”
Princess Xinrou hurriedly shook her head and denied: "I have nothing to do with his family. ”