Imperial City, South China Sea, Yingtai.

The former Princess Ying, and now Mrs. Zhang, a family member of a rebellious sinner, is drinking a bowl of bitter medicine. After drinking, she didn't even want to use the candied fruit handed over by the maid, and directly waved her hand to send the person away, and leaned softly on the pillow, only to feel that this sick body was really burdensome, causing her to suffer for half her life.

Gao Ju, the prince of Qianying Wang, respectfully offered a bowl of tea: "Mother, are you coughing?" It won't be so bitter when you cough. ”

Mrs. Zhang smiled at her son gently, took the tea and coughed according to the words, Gao Ju hurriedly served the spittoon, and when he put down the spittoon, he took back the tea bowl, got up and walked behind his mother, and pinched her shoulders for her.

Their mother and son have been in Yingtai for more than a year, getting along all day long, mother and son are filial, and Gao Ju has countless opportunities to fulfill his filial piety. Hengzhu has nothing else to do here, isn't he familiar with the work of serving his mother's illness?

Mrs. Zhang enjoyed her son's filial piety, and only felt peace and tranquility in her heart, but she didn't forget to remind him: "You forgot again, why do you still call me my mother?" It should be called the mother. ”

The movements on Gao Ju's hand slowed down and he was silent.

Mrs. Zhang naturally understood what her son was thinking, and sighed: "I don't care anymore, what are you wronging for me?" There's nothing wrong with calling your mother, but it's more affectionate. ”

Gao Ju lowered his head: "This is the decency you should have." The emperor has never decreed to take away your princess's life, why can't I call you your mother? ”

Mrs. Zhang smiled bitterly: "My title of princess, as well as your title as a son, are all from your father." He has been deposed for sin and is no longer King Ying, so where is Princess Ying and King Ying in the world? The emperor is benevolent, but our mother and son should not be ignorant of advance and retreat. ”

Gao Ju said with hatred: "In the past, when he was beautiful, we never touched the light, and we had to be frightened every day, for fear that we would be secretly harmed by that slut and her son!" Even if he did sit in that chair, it wouldn't do us much good. But if he does something bad, we will be affected by it. What is this called?! ”

Mrs. Zhang sighed: "You are his son, inherited from his bloodline, if he is bad, he will naturally be implicated." This is a matter of course, my son, and you should stop complaining. Today's life is not bad, although we can't get out, but we don't have to worry about being afraid, and we don't have to worry about anyone coming to plot against us. Now I only hope that when you are better, I will go to the emperor and ask for a grace to find you a daughter-in-law. I don't ask for any famous ladies, as long as I come from a clean white family, have a good appearance, have a healthy body, understand things, and can give you children and spread the branches, I will be satisfied. ”

Gao Ju's eyes were slightly red and he lowered his head. Her mother has been sick and weak for many years, and she rarely went out in the palace in the past, so the life trapped in Yingtai was not difficult for her. But he is different, no matter how weak he is, he is also a man, and he is the descendant of Emperor Taizu! In the past, when he was in good health, he used to ride his horse in the wilderness, he used to play with his peers, and he saw how wide the outside world was. Yingtai is such a small island, he is going to be trapped here for the rest of his life, and he will go crazy when he thinks about this kind of day, just looking forward to when he can get out.

But he knew that he couldn't get out. Just because of the father who never loved and cared for him, and only treated him coldly and disgusted, he could only be trapped on Yingtai in this life. How is this called how willing he is?!

He hated so much, but he didn't know who to hate. Hate a rebellious father? He's dead. Hate the mother who accepted his fate and told him to accept his fate? His mother was the only one in the world who cared for him. Hate the emperor who imprisoned him? But the emperor let him live, which was the biggest surprise of his life. He didn't know who else he could hate.

Yingtai's life is so long and lonely, if he doesn't have hatred to support him, he doesn't know if he can hold on. He is only 18 years old this year, and his life has just begun. But his life was over.

Gao Ju's eyes were blank, like a wandering spirit, and he walked to the waterfront. The sun was shining, and the flowers and plants on the island were particularly green and vivid, but there was no beautiful scenery in his eyes, he just looked forward blankly, looking at the other side of the water, which represented the free land.

There was a commotion in the distance, but he didn't move. He knew that if it was a decree from the palace, someone would always come to him. But no one looked for him, and the noise soon subsided.

He stood on the shore until his feet were cold, and then he returned to his yard as a wanderer.

The maid poured him hot tea and brought him hot porridge. He can't use three meals a day on weekdays, so he can only use porridge once every two hours, and it has to be light and peaceful, and he can't stand it at all. If you eat the wrong thing one day, you will be sick for ten days and a half months. Such a dilapidated body has been bothering him since his younger brother born to his father's side concubine Tian was praised and valued by his father, and he has long been used to it.

The maid whispered to him what had just happened: "It seems that someone tried to sneak into the island, but the guards found out and fled immediately." The guards searched everywhere, but there was no sign of them, and they didn't know who it was. ”

Gao Juyuan was a little absent-minded, but after listening to the maid's last words, his heart moved slightly.

The news of someone's attempt to infiltrate Yingtai was soon reported to the palace. But the emperor didn't seem to take it to heart, and just ordered people to strengthen the patrol around Yingtai, neither adding guards, nor giving any instructions to the mother and son who were imprisoned in Yingtai, and even mentioning it to the queen mother, as if this was a trivial matter. Still, word spread. The courtiers heard the news somewhere, and some courtiers who thought they were die-hard in the present sent a letter to the emperor, demanding the execution of the conspiracy sinners, which was actually hinting at Princess Ying and the prince. They felt that whatever the purpose of the infiltrator was, it must have nothing to do with the people who lived on the island. What good can these rebels do? Rather than leaving Princess Ying and the prince as a disaster, it is better to be executed as soon as possible. Anyway, the two of them are indeed the original spouse and eldest son of the King of Sin, and they should have died a long time ago.

The emperor was noncommittal about this, but asked his ministers to focus on the aftermath of the disaster. The courtiers with eyes naturally knew that the emperor didn't want to dwell on this matter, so they didn't mention it, only some of the imperial histories who loved it more seriously, and they still insisted on writing books and asking to eradicate the root cause. Recently, some rumors have been circulating in the market, and officials with a bit of brains in the court and central government know that King Guangping can never be the initiator behind it, and the people who spread the rumors are likely to have the idea of making the emperor's brothers kill each other, so naturally they will not follow suit. But they also understand that if such rumors exist, someone must be secretly plotting against them. In order to prevent someone from taking advantage of the son of King Ying to rebel again, it is very necessary to eradicate the root cause. It's just that the emperor doesn't pay attention to it, and they don't want to push it too hard.

And with the passage of time, these "banes" are gradually no longer limited to Princess Ying and the prince, even the Marquis of Shanyin has been mentioned, and there are some families who have participated in the rebellion but saved their lives, and some families whose descendants have never died...... Finally, it was also mentioned that there would be people peeping at Yingtai, which proves that there are still remnants of the rebel party, and they are still thieves with the intention of endangering the rule of the current emperor. In order to prevent this kind of person from causing trouble again, the imperial historian asked the emperor to re-investigate the two major cases of rebellion and arrest all the fish that slipped through the net!

Fang Yishan was so frightened by this news that he hadn't slept well for several days.

At the beginning, the official position he held was relatively confidential, so his identity was not revealed, but he was secretly waiting for King Ying's dispatch. There are very few people who know that he is in the party of King Ying, but it is not nothing. When the rebels were arrested one after another, he listened to the news every day in fear, for fear that one day, the officers and soldiers would knock on his door. But after all the opponents of the party were killed, exiled, and dismissed, he found that no one had found him. He felt that maybe the person who knew his identity died before he had time to confess, or he was lucky enough to escape. Naturally, it is impossible for the dead to say anything, and the living who have escaped will not come back in order to survive. He is safe, albeit only temporarily. As long as the emperor did not discover his secret, he could live in peace.

After realizing this, he desperately tried his best to climb up, and repeatedly instigated his cousin to marry the royal family again. As long as the Fang family has a lady or a crown princess, even if the emperor suspects his identity, there is room for reversal. It's a pity that the daughters of the Yanzhi are not blessed and fail to become nobles. He recently began to plot to take advantage of the fact that his cousin was rejected by the emperor to seize the position of head of the family. At that time, his identity will be different, and his concubine may not be qualified to cling to nobles. If you can't get the position of the main concubine, can't you get the position of a side concubine?

But at this time, there was news in the imperial city that someone was trying to sneak into Yingtai.

Fang Yishan is different from others, as soon as he hears the news, he knows who the other party is. King Ying has a group of people in the dark, and they are also dead soldiers, who are raised in Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing on weekdays, and only obey King Ying's orders, and specialize in doing some unsightly things. Fang Yishan, by coincidence, once stuffed several of them into the army of the border city in eastern Liaodong. He didn't ask what those people did there, but he knew that it would not be a good thing, and it might have something to do with the injury of King Guangping. After King Ying's defeat, these dead soldiers were not caught. Fang Yishan searched for documents, but he didn't see any trace of them. originally thought that these people had fled in secret, but they regarded King Ying as the main thing, so they naturally valued King Ying's bloodline a little bit. Now that King Ying's comrades are dead, exiled and exiled, those who can survive are all shallow, even if they have resentment in their hearts, they will not take the risk of contacting the eldest son of King Ying who is not valued - they rarely had the opportunity to see him in the past, and they have seen more of the second son of Concubine Tian. Then the people who will come into contact with the prince of King Ying are likely to be these dead soldiers.

They knew Fang Yishan, and this was what he was most afraid of now. He was afraid that these people would contact him and ask him to do something rebellious and expose the secrets he had tried so hard to hide. When the time comes, he will have only one way to die!

At this time, the good news came out. Although the emperor was annoyed that Fang Chongshan, the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, had neglected the first emperor Yuanhou, but considering that Fang Chongshan was more active in the disaster relief operation, and made some efforts, the emperor did not punish him heavily, and he was demoted one level lightly, becoming a fourth grade, and demoted to Jining as the prefect.

Although it is a demotion, it is only a downgrade, which is not serious. The most important thing is that the emperor did not mean to punish heavily. Fang Chongshan could finally breathe a sigh of relief. As for being demoted to the prefect of Jining, he was not sad. These days, he has long thought about asking for a foreign official to avoid the tilting of the people in Beijing, but now he is just doing what he wants. Jining is also a big city, not very far from the capital, less than 200 miles away from his hometown, which is even more worthy of his meaning. The head of the Fang family's branch suddenly became busy, preparing for Fang Chongshan's departure from Beijing.

Fang Yishan looked at the busy situation of the Changfang of the Yan Branch, and felt very uncomfortable. Fang Chongshan was only demoted by half a grade, and his official position was still above him, which meant that most of his plans to seek the position of the head of the family would be in vain. At most, when Fang Chongshan was not in the capital, he used the power of some of his clansmen to seek more benefits for himself, but it was difficult to get the support of the whole clan and push one of his daughters to any nobleman. What should he do when someone outside could threaten his life at any moment, but he couldn't find any support for himself?

Within two days, his penalty notice also came down. was also demoted by one level, Fang Chongshan was demoted from the fourth grade to the fourth grade, and from the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple to the prefect of Jining; Fang Yishan was demoted from the fifth rank to the fifth grade, and was demoted from the military department with real power to the foreign secretary of the Ministry of Rites, which has a completely different meaning. Fang Yishan even lost the only real power in his hands. I don't know how many people are in the sixth department of Beijing, but most of them are just a fictitious title. During the first emperor's dynasty, there were people who bought officials, and the highest official position was bought from the five ranks. Going out to socialize with such an identity, few people will really look up to it.

Fang Yishan was worried, but Fang Chongshan was full of spirits. His cousin, Mrs. Shang, came over to congratulate him, but returned Wending's jade pendant to him, expressing his intention to withdraw from the marriage. Fang Chongshan and his wife had already been mentally prepared for this matter, not only did they not accept it, but personally took their wife and youngest daughter to Shang's house, officially exchanged Geng posts, and further decided the marriage. It was only at this time that the Shang family could confirm the sincerity of Fang Chongshan's marriage. Although Fang Renzhu is much younger than Shang Qiong, Shang Qiong doesn't want to mention the marriage again in a short time after Fang Huizhu's ruining of the marriage, and plans to write a book and talk about it seriously, so as to earn a good name for himself, so that outsiders don't despise him because of his appearance, so the marriage was postponed for a few years, just in time for Fang Renzhu to grow up.

The marriage of the two families is formally agreed upon, and the relatives and friends notified of each other. Many people were surprised by the candidates for the marriage between the Fang family and the Shang family, but they didn't show it on their faces, but they inevitably talked about it in private. It just so happened that Fang Chongshan was about to leave Beijing, and relatives and friends came to him to inquire about the news in the name of practice.

Zhao Xiu got Fang Renzhu's handwritten letter, knowing that her marriage was decided, and her father was about to become the prefect of Jining, and she didn't know if her family would accompany her, so she greeted her in advance and went to Fang's house in person to congratulate Fang Renzhu.