The emperor's summons was like a spell, driving countless people inside and outside the palace to follow suit.

The celebrant and the eunuch Meng Chong stayed at the emperor's side, while the five eunuchs Feng Bao, Chen Hong, Huang Mengyu, Zhang Hong, and Chen Ju each went all the way to invite the harem concubines, the crown prince and the cabinet ministers to meet him.

Feng Bao originally considered that the situation was urgent and wanted to take over the errand of the cabinet to invite the three auxiliary ministers, but after thinking about it, the cabinet was headed by Gao Gong, and he was afraid that he would not be able to talk to Zhang Juzheng when he went, so what difference did it make if he didn't go? So he simply put on the first pen and said to the other four: "It's urgent, let's ask for someone to take the lead, I, Feng, is carried by the concubine, so let's go to the concubine." ”

The four of them had no opinion, and Chen Hong said: "In this case, I will go to the cabinet." ”

Huang Mengyu turned his head and asked Zhang Hong: "Where is Zhang Gong?" ”

Zhang Hong said: "You decide first." ”

Huang Mengyu shook his head and said, "You have been in the palace longer than me, you first." ”

Zhang Hongben was also a person from the side of the crown prince Zhu Yijun, and when he heard this, he was secretly happy in his heart, but thinking that Chen Ju was also a person who got up from the prince's side, he couldn't help but hesitate a little, and said: "I plan to go to Zhongcui Palace, but I don't know ......."

Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju glanced at each other, grabbed the conversation and said, "Very good, since this is the case, I will invite the queen." ”

Chen Ju looked up at the sky, and then said: "Recently, the prince likes to discuss history with Gao Yude, and now I don't know whether he has returned to Zhongcui Palace or is still in Wenhua Palace. ”

Zhang Hong didn't expect that these two upstarts in the inner court were so easy to talk to, not only was he a little surprised, but he secretly thought in his heart: The emperor is critically ill, and the prince is about to become the emperor. The queen has been out of favor for two years, and the emperor didn't even mention her just now, even if she did, it was just the word "wait" for "concubine, prince, etc.", which showed no weight.

As for His Royal Highness the Prince, although he does love to discuss history with Gao Yude recently, but at this moment, it is the time when His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has had lunch and goes to the concubine Niangniang to report on today's studies and then returns to the palace to rest, how can he be in the Wenhua Palace? That place is only in Gao Yude's lunch break right now, and there's a fart to go there!

Of course, Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju wanted to be stupid, but Zhang Hong didn't care, but put his mind at ease and said a little politely: "That's good, that's good, the two of you are driving." ”

The five eunuchs who wrote the pen each went to one side, and naturally there was a distinction between far and near, which had to be said from near and far.

The two closest places to the Qianqing Palace are none other than Concubine Li's Yongning Palace and the Prince's Zhongcui Palace, and Feng Bao was the first to set off and naturally the first to arrive.

When Feng Bao arrived at Yongning Palace, Concubine Li had just coaxed the three princesses to sleep, and these three princesses were her three daughters: Zhu Yao'e, Zhu Yaoyuan, and Zhu Yaoyuan.

Longqing had a total of seven daughters, but the eldest daughter and the second daughter unfortunately died, leaving five living daughters, and the three of them were the third princess, the fourth princess and the fifth princess, all born to Concubine Li.

This also shows that Li Guifei is favored and able to give birth - Zhu Yijun, Zhu Yao'e, Zhu Yaoyuan, Zhu Yihua, Zhu Yaoyuan, in just seven years, Li Guifei gave birth to five children! What's even worse is that in this era of extremely high probability of early death, all five of her children survived in good health, which is a miracle.

Of course, with such a "miracle", it is not difficult to understand why Concubine Li Guifei is so grateful and guilty to her younger brother Li Wenjin, who entered the inner court from the palace to serve her.

As for the reason why these three princesses do not have names yet, it is because the princesses of the Ming Dynasty generally do not receive canonization until they reach adulthood (no wind note: but they can be posthumously sealed if they die early), so they can only be commensurate with their rankings now.

And the reason why there are only three princesses here by Li Guifei's side is because in addition to Zhu Yijun, as the crown prince, has long lived alone in Zhongcui Palace, Li Guifei's second son Zhu Yihua was also canonized as King Lu by his favorite son Longqing when he was only two years old in the fourth year of Longqing, and he has already lived in a palace, so naturally Li Guifei bothered to coax him to sleep.

When Feng Bao came, Li Guifei had just come out of the three princesses, and was about to take a bath to start a lunch break, when she heard Feng Bao say that the emperor was seriously ill, and urgently summoned her and the prince and others to the Qianqing Palace.

After walking a few steps, he stopped again and asked the prince how it was.

Feng Bao was in a hurry just now, and he didn't know who was going to invite the prince, but he naturally didn't dare to say it directly at this moment, so he said: "Zhong Cui Palace is near, why don't you go with the prince?" ”

As soon as Concubine Li Guifei heard that it was reasonable, she ordered to drive the Zhongcui Palace, and planned to take the prince with her.

As soon as I arrived at the gate of Zhongcui Palace, I saw that the prince's guard of honor was urgently assembled, and the prince was already jumping on the side in a hurry - this is no way, no wonder Zhu Yuanzhang's rules are too rigid, and there are many rules in the harem, and except for some emperors who occasionally dare to make slight changes or expediency, the rest of the people, even if they are princes, have to wait for the prescribed guard of honor to be set up before they can travel.

Concubine Li's guard of honor stepped forward, and the prince hurriedly stepped forward to say goodbye, and then his face turned pale, and he said nervously: "Mother, Zhang Hong said that his father's illness is serious again, did you also go to visit your father?" ”

Seeing that her son's face was frightened, it didn't seem to be a fake, she was happy and sad, she stepped out of the soft sedan chair, stepped forward to hug him, touched his head, and resisted the urge to cry out and comforted: "Xu is those imperial doctors are suspicious and suspicious, it's okay, let's go and see it, your father is blessed with all ...... It's going to be fine. ”

Feng Bao saw Li Guifei hugging the prince, and hurriedly coughed loudly, and glanced at Li Guifei.

The disadvantage of the prosperity of science in the Ming Dynasty is here, even between the biological mother and the ten-year-old little prince, there can be no such too intimate behavior.

Li Guifei was reminded by Feng Baoyi, and immediately came to her senses, and hurriedly let go of the prince, and said: "Jun'er, you are the prince, no matter what happens later, you must ......" She said this, and she was stunned.

She wanted to say "you must be strong", but there is a problem with this, in case the emperor really collapses, is the prince not allowed to cry? The prince must be said by the outside world to be extremely unfilial.

But if the prince is emotionally out of control and cries, he can't do it, one is extremely sad, and there are many things that cry blind in this era; The second is that Concubine Li Guifei is worried that this will make the outer court look down on the prince and think that the new monarch is weak and can be bullied.

At this time, a familiar voice came: "What the noble concubine said is very true, and I hope that the prince will comfort the emperor well, and ask the emperor to calm down and recuperate, and recover as soon as possible." ”

"High pragmatism?" Concubine Li was slightly stunned, then nodded and said, "Well, you're right, that's what this palace means." ”

This voice obviously has a strong sense of childishness, since it is not Zhu Yijun, it can only be the prince's companion to read Gao pragmatic.

Gao Pragmatic was originally helping the prince scold those eunuchs to quickly tidy up the guard of honor, but at this time, the guard of honor was over, and he stepped forward, just in time to find that Concubine Li Guifei had said that he had said a word, so he spoke to help her round up.

When Feng Bao saw Gao Shipra, his heart unconsciously tightened, and he subconsciously asked loudly: "Gao Yude, why are you not in Wenhua Hall at this time?" ”

Gao Pragmatic was just about to answer, but Zhu Yijun took the first step, frowned and said: "Companion, pragmatism is my companion, recently my father owes peace, I feel that I have not fulfilled my filial piety, these days often talk with pragmatism about how the ancient sages practiced filial piety, I hope it can be beneficial." When Zhang Hong came just now, I was discussing the "Book of Filial Piety" with pragmatism...... Are you saying I shouldn't have brought him to the Bell Palace? ”