In the afternoon, the weather was good, but suddenly it became gloomy, and the thick rain clouds were accumulating more and more, and there was a faint roar of thunder, which looked like it was going to rain heavily.

In the palace.

Zhanzhao stood in the courtyard, looking up at the sky.

Zhao Zhen played with the jade ball that he picked up for him from the river, thoughtfully.

Bai Yutang had been studying the drawing, Tianzun was bored and wanted to go around, so Zhao Zhen instructed Gonggong Chen to take Tianzun to the attic of the palace where famous paintings and calligraphy of the past dynasties were collected. Tianzun was quite interested, and Yin Hou had nothing to do, so he also followed him.

Zhan Zhao looked at Xiao Wuhe, who was dozing in the courtyard, and he was standing beside Bai Yutang and looking up at the sky, and felt that the atmosphere was inexplicably a little embarrassing.

At this moment, footsteps were heard outside the courtyard. From the sound of small footsteps, you can hear that it is a child...... Sure enough, Xiao Sizi and Xiao Liang ran in.

Zhan Zhao asked him, "Don't you spend more time with Xiangxiang?" ”

Xiao Sizi smiled and replied, "Xiangxiang took a nap, and Little Fat and Aunt Fat accompanied her." ”

On the side, Zhao Zhen also looked over, obviously ...... He was still a little worried about Xiangxiang.

Bai Yutang was still looking at the drawings.

Zhan Zhao saw that Xiao Sizi came to Zhao Zhen's side, and Xiao Liangzi went to Bai Yutang's side, curious about what he was looking at.

Zhan Zhao knew in his heart, and the little fourth son probably wanted to inquire about something. Don't look at the little fourth son who is usually stupid, but he is very concerned about the affairs of two people, one is his father, and the other is naturally Zhao Pu.

Zhan Zhao felt that Xiao Sizi could indeed ask something from Zhao Zhen, and he and Bai Yutang were not very easy to speak...... No matter how easy-going Zhao Zhen is, he is also the emperor, and he has too many eyes and too strong a sense of defense, and Zhanzhao and Bai Yutang are the nature of Jianghu people, and they always feel a little estranged when they communicate. It's not that Zhao Zhen is not good, and it is difficult to be an emperor, everyone is actually wary of him. Accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, who has not provoked the emperor to play, if you can say less, you can say less, or the fourth child is unscrupulous, Zhao Zhen is also relaxed.

Sure enough, I saw the little fourth son climb onto the chair beside Zhao Zhen.

Zhao Zhen was happy when he saw the little fourth son, put away the beads, then hugged him and put him on his lap, and asked, "Stay with me for a while?" Whatever you want to eat, let the Imperial Dining Room do it. ”

Xiao Sizi nodded, took out the special fruit candy brought from Devil City in his small waist bag, and stuffed one into Zhao Zhen's mouth.

Zhao Zhen tasted it and raised his eyebrows, "Hmm! What kind of candy is this? Haven't eaten it. ”

Xiao Sizi told him about all kinds of rare fruits in the Devil City, and said that Xiao Linzi would bring a lot of them when he came in two days, and then he would send them to Zhao Zhen to eat, as well as the strange folk customs of the Devil City, which coaxed Zhao Zhen to lean forward and back together.

Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand and touched Xiao Wu's head, looked at the communication between Xiao Sizi and Zhao Zhen, and nodded-sure enough, Xiao Sizi was the ultimate killer.

"The Emperor." Xiao Sizi asked Zhao Zhen, "That ghost, do you want to harm Jiujiu?" ”

Zhao Zhen was slightly stunned.

Zhan Zhao silently gave the little fourth son a thumbs up - a burst of blood! No, to be exact, the child directly asked the question he was most concerned about.

Zhao Zhen smiled, touched the head of the little four, and shook his head, "Probably not." ”

Xiao Sizi tilted his head and looked at Zhao Zhen, "Then doesn't she like you?" ”

Zhao Zhen was stunned again, and asked the little fourth son curiously, "Who do you say doesn't like me?" ”

"Hell yes." The little fourth son replied.

At this time, Bai Yutang, who was looking at the drawings, also raised his head.

Zhao Zhen was distracted, and then asked the little fourth son, "Why do you ask this?" ”

"She's so fragrant." Xiao Sizi replied, "The person who harms Xiangxiang must hate you very much." ”

Zhanzhao silently wrote the word "service" to the little four, don't lie to the children, they can see the most true and essential side.

Zhao Zhen suddenly laughed, laughing helplessly, but he seemed to think it was very funny, and poked the cheeks of the little fourth son, "Didn't you listen to them, Qige and I are the best." ”

Xiao Sizi tilted his head, "It's best to do something with you to harm your favorite person?" People who are good with the little fourth son will not hurt their father...... Or are you sorry for the emperor? ”

"Uh......" Zhao Zhen opened his mouth.

Zhan Zhao sighed silently on the side - no one would ask so directly, children are really omnipotent!

Xiao Sizi squinted his eyes and whispered, "Zheng Zheng said that there is only one reason why women hate men, and they will abandon it from beginning to end. ”

"Ahem......" Bai Yutang, who was drinking water, was choked by the tea.

Zhan Zhao touched his chin - the little four sons have a kind!

On the side, Nangong tried to raise his face as much as possible, so as not to let Zhao Zhen see him laughing.

Zhao Zhen couldn't cry or laugh, "Which levy?" Ouyang Shaozheng? ”

The little fourth son nodded.

Zhao Zhen made the little fourth son angry, "I want Uncle Nine to beat him when I have time." ”

The little fourth son was puzzled, "Didn't you start the chaos and give up?" ”

Zhao Zhen suddenly asked the little fourth son with great interest, "Do you know the meaning of the beginning of chaos and the end of abandonment?" ”

The little fourth son nodded.

Zhan Zhao was puzzled - who taught him?

Bai Yutang is not very optimistic - the little fourth son is misled, and Gongsun will teach him to be weird.

"Then tell me, what does it mean to abandon the chaos from the beginning to the end?" Xiao Sizi touched his chin and said very seriously, "Because it's very messy, give up!" ”

Zhao Zhen was stunned, looked up and thought, "Hmm...... I can't say it's wrong, this chaos has been abandoned to me and Qige them, but it's just right. ”

Xiao Sizi's eyes widened, "Really? ”

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang both looked at Zhao Zhen - the situation did not seem to be simple.

Zhao Zhen sighed and asked the little fourth son, "Do you have a very good friend, do you have friends who are almost the same age?" ”

Xiao Sizi nodded, pointed to Xiao Liangzi, and then broke his fingers to tell Zhao Zhen a few good classmates who studied together in the Kaifeng ancestral hall.

Zhao Zhen was surprised, "There are still a lot of friends." ”

"That's it." Xiao Sizi nodded, "I don't even count the people who know each other in Sky Island, Black Wind City, and Devil City." ”

Zhao Zhen smiled and said enviously, "It's so good...... You can meet new people everywhere, but I'm different, you weren't allowed to have friends when you were a kid. ”

Xiao Sizi was surprised, "Don't have friends?" ”

"My former queen mother......" Zhao Zhen looked at the little fourth son, thinking about whether to explain to him about the tanuki changing the prince.

The fourth son was surprised, "The former queen mother? Emperor, are you also adopted like the fourth son? ”

Zhao Zhen was happy, and said in his heart that he was serious and easy to communicate, so he shook his head and said, "I am the opposite of you, the Queen Mother was first killed, I was adopted by the enemy, and I have been raised until I am very large, Bao Qing and they helped me find my mother back, which is the current Queen Mother." ”

Xiao Sizi opened his mouth wide and looked at Zhao Zhen in surprise.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at each other - speaking of which, the most miserable person was actually Zhao Zhen.

Xiao Sizi patted Zhao Zhen's shoulder sympathetically and asked, "Then the emperor, is your stepmother not good to you?" ”

Zhao Zhen thought about it very seriously, and then shook his head, "No...... She is very good to me, and without her training, I would not be the emperor. ”

Xiao Sizi tilted his head, "Then won't she let you make friends?" ”

Zhao Zhen nodded.

Xiao Sizi seemed confused, "Is that good or bad?" ”

Zhao Zhen thought for a while and said, "Let's put it this way, my mother is not like other children's mothers, she will care about whether the child is full, cold, unhappy, whether he has a sweetheart, and whether he will have a craft that can make a living." ”

The little fourth son was even more confused, "Mother isn't worried about this, what's worried?" That's all my dad cared about. ”

Zhao Zhen nodded, "But isn't it, but what my mother cares about is whether the things the child eats are poisonous, whether they can bear it, whether they are unhappy or not, whether they are seen on their faces, whether their sweetheart is useful for fighting for the throne in the future, whether friends can be used, can't be too close because feelings will delay things, etc......."

The little fourth son looked at Zhao Zhen stupidly, then sighed, shook his head and patted Zhao Zhen's shoulder, "It has nothing to do with whether you are biological or not." ”

Zhao Zhen raised his eyebrows.

The little fourth son said, "She doesn't hurt you!" She just wants to cultivate an emperor, but the queen mother is not like this! Jiujiu's mother is not purple. The little fourth son is not born to his father, and his father is not purple. ”

Zhao Zhen stared at the little fourth son and asked, "Are you sure she doesn't hurt me?" ”

The little fourth son nodded.

"But...... Mothers and children ......"

The little fourth son pouted, "Nonsense." ”

Zhao Zhen smiled, "If it weren't for her, if I changed to a mother who has been shushing and asking for warmth since I was a child, I might be a useless nerd." The Queen Mother also said, fortunately, I was not taken crookedly. ”

Xiao Sizi nodded, "That's because you have a good nature, and Xiao Bazi and Jiujiu are good, if the Queen Mother has been brought from an early age, you may be better." ”

Zhao Zhen was stunned.

"Fortunately, the emperor hasn't changed the same as the queen mother before." Xiao Sizi shook his head, "It's not right to snatch other people's children!" Dad said that no one treated him well when he was a child, and he wouldn't be good to others when he grew up! Therefore, the emperor has so many eyes, and there are not many friends. ”

Zhanzhao's eyelids twitched - the little fourth son...... That's not good......

Bai Yutang looked at Zhao Zhen a little narrowly - the so-called fairy tales are divided into two kinds, one is a child's stupid words, and the other is a child's truth. You can ignore stupid words, but if you want to swallow the truth, you really have to be a little tolerant.

Zhao Zhen was silent for a long time, and suddenly Ha Luha laughed and pinched the nose of the little fourth son, "Good little fourth son, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are not as good as you, Ha Luha." ”

Xiao Sizi stuffed a candy into his mouth again.

Zhao Zhen was happy enough, sighed, and said to the little fourth son, "There is one thing that I have never told others. ”

Nangong on the side also turned his head and looked at Zhao Zhen.

Zhao Zhen said lightly, "That night, Qige asked me to go to Furong Garden, saying that there was an important thing to tell me, and I was in a hurry. ”

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were both a little surprised.

Zhao Zhen frowned slightly, "But I didn't go that day." ”

The little fourth son was puzzled, "I didn't go to 100,000 people in a hurry?" Aren't you good friends? ”

Zhao Zhen nodded, "Yes...... But that day, the Taishi took Concubine Pang into the palace, and Concubine Pang was learning the piano at that time, and I listened to her caressing the qin for a night, and forgot about the matter of Qige, until her body was found. ”

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang realized - is this the reason why the ghost of Qige wants to trouble Xiangxiang? If Zhao Zhen hadn't accompanied Concubine Pang to fall in love that day, but went to meet her, maybe she wouldn't have to die.

"I wasn't like this at the beginning, if it was the earliest me, except for Concubine Pang, I would definitely not marry anyone else, it's a big deal to elope with her, what about carrying the title of a faint monarch who loves beauty and doesn't love the country? Anyway, the Zhao dynasty did not produce a few decent emperors. Zhao Zhen sighed, "But since that time, I have realized for the first time what the Queen Mother meant by the phrase 'amorous misdeeds'." ”

Xiao Sizi continued to pat Zhao Zhen's shoulder as a sign of comfort.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang once again lamented that the emperor was not a human being, but at the same time, the two also found an important clue - Qige looked for Zhao Zhen, what did he want to say? One hundred thousand urgent things? Was this the thing that killed her?

……

"Bang" A flash of lightning, a rumbling thunder, and a strong wind and dark clouds overpowered, and the officials of Kaifeng Mansion who were digging a pit in the grave at the foot of the green mountain felt that their hairs stood on end.

Gongsun stood aside with a calm face.

After the last day, a jar of ashes was finally dug up.

Gongsun stretched out his hand to take the urn handed over by Ochre Ying, and was stunned when he held it in his hand.

Gongsun glanced at the ash jar again, then shook it, weighed it, and frowned.

"What's the problem, sir?" Ziying patted the soil on his body and asked his grandson.

"Qige was quite small when he died, right?" Gongsun was puzzled, "Can the ashes of a little maid be so heavy?" ”

"Could there be any funeral goods in there?" Ochre asked.

Gongsun's brows furrowed a little more, and he reached out to open the lid.

At this moment, there was a sudden flash of lightning in the sky, and another burst of thunder...... With Gongsun's movements, everyone subconsciously swallowed their saliva - why don't we go back and see again? This wilderness is full of lonely graves.

Gongsun opened the lid, looked at it, frowned, reached in and pinched some powder and took it out, spread out his palm and looked at it carefully.

At this time, the raindrops of beans fell down, and Ochre Shadow hurriedly opened the umbrella to protect Gongsun from the rain.

Purple Shadow also said, "Sir, let's go back and see again." ”

Gongsun shook his head, put down the ash jar, and asked, "Are you sure you didn't dig the wrong grave?" ”

The officials pointed to the tombstone to show Gongsun, and they were absolutely not wrong.

"What's wrong?" Ochre realizes that something might not be right.

Gongsun sneered, looked at the ash jar, and said, "This is not a human ash at all, who wrapped the ashes of Qige!" ”