Chapter 41: The East Palace of Life and Death

Sima Shu quickly accepted a concubine, and the concubine was a maid in the East Palace, named Jiang Jun. This maid is good-looking and has a pungent personality, she was rewarded to Sima Shu by Jia Nanfeng in her early years, and she has also served in this East Palace for two years, although she is not outstanding, but she is also familiar in front of Sima Shu.

Jia Nanfeng wants to choose a side concubine for Sima Shu, where is he afraid of Sima Shu's rejection, it is clear that Wang Huifeng has stood on the side of the prince in recent years and is not used by her. Wang Yan has persuaded his daughter to see the situation clearly more than once, and he sent her to the East Palace to please the queen. Of course, Jia Nanfeng, who was resentful, wanted to take advantage of Wang Huifeng's loss of a son to ask Sima Shu to marry her.

Sima Shu understood Jia Nanfeng's thoughts, and simply didn't do two things to be fortunate to Jiang Jun, and on the second day, he played the emperor and named her a beauty, this Jiang Jun was also extremely competitive, only three months later, she was pregnant with a child, and immediately invited merit and reward, and took a bunch of people to Wang Huifeng who was still on the sickbed.

Wang Huifeng was so angry that she trembled, she was still the crown princess that Sima Shu was marrying, and now she has not lost her power, where can she be so presumptuous, so she immediately ordered her to step forward and arrest the person back, and before she could ask for the guilt, Jiang Jun fell to the ground holding her stomach, humming and shouting pain, which made Wang Huifeng feel at a loss for a while.

The farce soon reached the ears of Sima Shu, who had just caught two crickets from the garden at this time, and was fighting happily with Zhong Sui, and when he heard this, he was so angry that he threw the cricket jar on the spot, and walked to Wang Huifeng's dormitory.

"Oh, my Highness," Zhong Sui grabbed Sima Shu, "Why are you so angry?" The beauty is pregnant, and you have such a big tantrum and let her have fetal gas. ”

Sima Shu stopped, looked at Zhong Sui angrily, stomped his foot and pointed at him, "It's better for you eunuchs, the six roots are pure." After calming his anger, he walked to the princess's bedroom.

Wang Huifeng and Jiang Jun were still deadlocked, one fell to the ground to wipe her tears, no one could pull her, and the other was lying on the bed with her eyes closed and her face stiff, no matter who persuaded her, she didn't want to accept this softness. Sima Shu came in and saw this situation, and without saying a word, he pulled up Jiang Jun first, but his tone was soft: "The ground is cold, you have to think about the child." ”

After that, he glanced at Wang Huifeng again, her face was still sickly, and at this time, her face was even more unsightly because of anger, and she didn't want to look at Sima Shu.

Sima Shu sighed, and then instructed his subordinates: "You take the beauty down first, and ask the imperial doctor to take a look at her." Then he comforted Jiang Jun and said, "You go first, I'll see you later." ”

Jiang Jun was not satisfied with Sima Shu's treatment, she wanted to watch him scold the crown princess with her own eyes, but Sima Shu's face was not good-looking, and she didn't dare to make trouble anymore, so she obediently followed someone back to her room. Sima Shu walked to Wang Huifeng's bed and sat down, and didn't know what to say, so he took her hand.

"You go and accompany her." Wang Huifeng said softly, his voice full of grievances, but he forced himself to hold back his tears.

"It's been three months, how can you let go? You tell me that I will do whatever I want. Sima Shu said sincerely, and he said this more than once, but after so much time, it still didn't make Wang Huifeng happy, he felt frustrated and helpless.

At first, Sima Shu stayed in Wang Huifeng's room day and night, and rarely went to Jiang Jun's place, but Wang Huifeng's depression made Sima Shu upset, and he was difficult enough to see such a face again. On the contrary, as soon as Jiang Jun saw him, he didn't say anything with a smile on his face, and he was very good at doing what he liked, knowing that Sima Shu liked to sell meat, and he also practiced with a piece of meat all day long, and also took out the large and small objects she hid to set up a stall, and he changed into a boy's dress, wearing a coarse cloth short coat, and selling hard, which really made Sima Shu happy, and it was also from that day on, he would hide in Jiang Jun's room when he felt bored, and he went to visit Wang Huifeng less and less.

"Your Highness, do you know that if the child were still alive, it would have been born in two days." Wang Huifeng said and hid his face and cried bitterly.

Sima Shu suddenly became irritable: "What's the use of you saying this?" He's dead, and he can't live, are you going to force me to die? ”

Wang Huifeng was stunned for a moment, looked at the irritable Sima Shu, and took a deep breath: "Your Highness will have other children, but I have no chance to be a mother, and I am not allowed to grieve for this child?" ”

Sima Shu kicked over the low table next to the bed, and the cups and cups on the low table spilled on the ground, and both of them were silent. After a while, Wang Huifeng, who stabilized his emotions, spoke first: "You know that Jiang Jun was sent by the queen. ”

"So what?" Sima Shu choked: "Aren't you also sent by the queen?" ”

These words hurt Wang Huifeng greatly, she did not deny that her father was the queen's person, but she had not moved any intention of hurting her husband since the first day she entered the palace, and in recent years, she has done her best to assist him, solve problems for him, understand him as much as possible, and tolerate him.

Sima Shu also realized that this sentence was too much, but he was upset, and he was even more unwilling to bow his head and admit his mistakes, Wang Huifeng had grievances in his heart, and even more sadness for losing his child, the two did not give in, and they were deadlocked again.

Zhong Sui entered the house in a ghostly manner, looked at this, looked at that, and finally walked to Sima Shu's side, hung up his face full of sadness, and said, "Your Highness, Xie An, go." ”

That Xie An was trampled under the feet of a horse in order to save Wang Huifeng, and the person was not very good at that time, after returning to the palace, Sima Shu begged the imperial doctor to diagnose and treat him, but let his condition improve day by day, and slowly even came down and walked a few steps, who knew that the situation was better for a few days, but he suddenly fell down, and when he woke up after being in a coma for a few days, he was confused.

In this situation, he could no longer live in the East Palace, according to the custom, he was sent to a small courtyard on the west side of the palace, where it had always been a place for seriously ill eunuchs to wait for death, Sima Shu refused to give up, and still asked the imperial doctor to diagnose and treat on time, and sent someone to take care of him day and night, but Xie An's situation was getting worse day by day, and he did not survive after all.

Sima Shudeng's eyes were dilated, and he grabbed Zhong Sui and asked, "What did you say?" ”

"Xie, Xie An......" Zhong Sui was obviously frightened by Sima Sui, and he stammered again: "Dead." ”

Sima Shu pulled his legs and walked out, but was stopped by Zhong Sui again: "Can't go, can't go," he tried his best to stop Sima Shu, while shouting: "Then what is Xie An's identity?" Do you deserve to be given to him by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince? Besides, if the inner prisoner dies, he will be sent out immediately, and if he can't stay in the palace for a long time, he will be taken away by the people when you go over now. ”

Sima Shu listened to the persuasion and stopped struggling, his eyes were red, and his green tendons exploded, and suddenly, he pointed at Wang Huifeng viciously and scolded: "Everyone is gone because you are gone, how long will you make trouble?" ”

Wang Huifeng finally shed tears, Xie An is a good person, she was also taken care of by him after entering the palace, although the child was finally gone, but she still couldn't forget that Xie An blocked the fierce horse for her with her flesh and blood, so she buried her head in the crook of her arm and cried bitterly.

Sima Shu gave Zhong Sui two silver taels, asked him to ask someone to bury Xie An's good life, and then locked himself in the house, asked for a few jugs of wine, sat on the ground and drank sullenly, and when he was drunk to seven minutes, Zhong Sui walked in, sat opposite Sima Sui, and told him that Xie An's matter was done.

Sima Shu didn't say anything, handed Zhong Sui a pot of wine, and drank the wine in his hand with his face up.

"Your Highness," Zhong Sui put the wine on the ground and sighed: "The old slave has been with you for a few years, I don't know if you can get a few tears of Your Highness when you leave in the future?" ”

"Heh," Sima Shu sneered: "You are the queen's mother, you have made a great contribution to me, and the reward in the future is enough for several generations of your family to spend, even if you die, you will not die in front of me." I should ask you, if I die one day, will you shed a few tears for me for the sake of following me for so long? ”

"Your Highness is a good person," Zhong Sui helped the already drunk Sima Shu to lean on himself, and said: "Over the years, I have often been awakened by nightmares, it was the first emperor who pointed at my nose and scolded me for ruining a generation of Ming Jun, I am a sinner through the ages." ”

"The first emperor ......" the first emperor seems to have existed a long, long time ago, Sima Shu can no longer remember the appearance of this person, Sima Shu trembled and got up, staggered to the house, looked up and saw the sky full of stars: "He lied to me, he said that he would bless me in heaven, he lied to me." As he spoke, Sima Shu burst into tears and yelled at the sky: "Lie to me!" ”

Zhong Sui hurriedly pulled Sima Shu back into the house, and said in a good way: "It's still time, you're still young, everything is in time." ”

Sima Shu shook his head: "It's too late." After speaking, he fell on Zhong Sui's body, still muttering over and over again: "It's too late......"

Zhong then placed Sima Shu on the bed, and saw that he was still frowning in his sleep, and couldn't help but feel sad. Back then, he was sent to the East Palace by the queen to complain, he had just gained a foothold in the Xianyang Palace, and he also recognized Dong Meng as his godfather, and the future was good. But the queen let him come to the East Palace with a word, although he gave him money and let his brother be a petty official at home, but he was still unwilling, he was in the Xianyang Palace for more than ten years, he knew too well Jia Nanfeng's temperament, and he was absolutely unwilling to let Sima Shu ascend the throne, even if he was forced to let Sima Shu become the emperor, she would not let go of power, and she would also firmly hold Sima Shu in her hands, in other words, in the East Palace, he had no future at all.

But after that, Sima Shu treated him well, although he knew that he was sent by the queen to spy on him, he never treated him well, when the two played together, the prince's childlike nature would still be exposed, naughty but heartwarming, his nature was indeed not what it is now. On the other hand, in the Xianyang Palace, Jia Nanfeng has a tyrannical personality, and several people who served the queen at the same time as him are now either exiled outside the palace or lost their lives, but he, who is blessed by misfortune, should be grateful to the prince.

Zhong Sui sighed, gently covered Sima Shu with a quilt, and silently withdrew from the dormitory.