"Someone from the palace reported that the Queen Mother had a sudden illness and had fainted, and I am afraid that it is only in the morning and evening. I tell you to hurry back to the palace," Ning Chunan replied cautiously.

"What? How so? Dugu Yanxiang wanted to feel incredulous.

A second ago, his mood was like rippling in heaven, but now the sudden situation instantly sent him into hell. He felt cold and shivered.

It was a difficult decision for him, and he reluctantly glanced at the attic, and tears welled up in his eyes. Finally, he closed his eyes and said with difficulty: "Go back to the palace." ”

Then he instructed Ning Chun'an: "If you stay here, you must tell Beishang, I will go back when I go, so that she will wait for me." ”

Ning Chunan replied respectfully: "Yes!" ”

Dugu Yanxiang returned to the palace in a hurry, hurriedly walked into the Fukang Palace, and shouted: "Queen Mother, what's wrong with you?" Queen mother. ”

But in the Fukang Palace, everything seems extraordinarily quiet. When he arrived at the Queen Mother's dormitory, only the Queen Mother's old slave Aunt Xu was standing there, and he did not see the Queen Mother. He couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart.

At this time, Aunt Xu spoke: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother invites you to the Buddha Hall." ”

Dugu Yanxiang seemed to understand something and wanted to turn around and leave.

But Aunt Xu said again: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother said that if you don't go to see her today, she will cut her hair in the Buddha Hall and break off the mother-son relationship with you." ”

Dugu Yanxiang was very angry in his heart, glared at Aunt Xu angrily, and said, "How can she be like this, Queen Mother? ”

Aunt Xu stepped forward and saluted him: "Your Majesty, no matter what, the old slave still has to persuade you, go and meet the Queen Mother!" ”

Dugu Yanxiang was angry, snorted coldly, and threw his sleeves into the Buddhist hall.

In the Buddhist hall, the Queen Mother knelt on the futon reverently, clasped her hands together, and prayed.

Dugu Yanxiang stepped forward, picked up three incense sticks and lit them, inserted them into the incense burner of the Guanyin statue, and bowed.

"Here you are, Emperor." The Queen Mother said and still knelt on the futon and did not move.

"The Queen Mother." Dugu called.

"What did the emperor do when he left the palace today?" The Queen Mother asked again.

"I guess the people sent by the Queen Mother to follow you also told you, right?" Dugu Yanxiang asked directly with some impatience.

"Since the emperor knows, the mourning family advises the emperor that this matter should not be done." The Queen Mother slowly stood up.

"It seems that the queen mother has found out the identity of Beitang. Then I will also tell the queen mother that this matter is settled. Tomorrow, I will draw up a decree, abolish the queen, and set up Beishang as the queen. Dugu Yanxiang looked at his mother firmly.

The Queen Mother was already trembling with anger at the moment, and she held back her emotions and said, "Emperor, you are confused! As the emperor of a country, how can you ignore the etiquette and laws of the people of the world. ”

"Do you know that Beishang is now the king of Beixuan of my Great Jiang Kingdom, if you make his identity public, what kind of noise will it cause, and how should the people of the world talk about you? The northward army on the border must be unstable. If the enemy country takes advantage of the situation to invade again, it will definitely be another fierce battle! ”

"After all, it is my Dajiang's Li people who suffer, as a king, the first thing you think of should not be yourself, but the thousands of Li people in this world." The Queen Mother persuaded bitterly.

"Besides, you should also take care of the dignity of my Jiang country, if the world knew that the king of Jiang Guo was actually a woman, what a ridiculous joke it would be."

"There are so many women in the world who are military generals, Hua Mulan, Women's Hao, Mu Guiying, etc., why shouldn't Beishang's identity be known to the world?" Dugu Yanxiang argued.

"There are countless women in the world who are military generals, but only the identity of Beishang cannot be exposed, the position of the king of Beishang is determined by your father, and the military power of the Beixuan army is also handed over to him by your father."

"If you tell the world that the king of Beixuan is a woman now, it means that the emperor has looked away, then Beishang is undoubtedly guilty of defrauding the king, how many people in the court covet the military power in the hands of the king of Beixuan, and they will make a big fuss about this matter if they can't keep it, when the time comes, can you still save Beishang's life?" The Queen Mother stared at Dugu Yanxiang and said.

"Queen Mother, if I am the emperor and I can't even get the person I like, then what do I want to do with the position of emperor?" Dugu Yanxiang was also angry, he asked rhetorically, and wanted to turn around and leave.

"Emperor, if you dare to leave this room today, the mourning family will die in front of this Buddha statue." The Queen Mother stretched out her hand and pointed at the Buddha statue and shouted angrily.

Dugu Yanxiang was stunned, he looked at the Queen Mother in a daze, sat down on the ground decadently, and said, "Queen Mother, why are you so forced?" ”

The Queen Mother looked at her son distressedly, withdrew her arm and walked to the emperor's side, bowed down and gently touched Dugu Yanxiang's cheek, and said softly: "Son, the queen mother also knows your suffering, and the queen mother also likes Beishang very much." ”

"In the past, you and I were not favored by your father, and in this deep palace, we were humiliated by others in every way. I know that if it weren't for the eldest princess to protect me, you and I wouldn't be where we are today. ”

The Queen Mother straightened up and said slowly: "The eldest princess and I are gracious, no matter what aspect you say, if Beishang can become your wife, the queen mother will naturally be very happy, but child, now you are the emperor, he is the prince, and the two of you have no chance after all!" ”

"Son, the queen mother knows that you are very competitive, and you and I have such a difficult life as mother and son, but you can not give up hope and sit on the throne of the supreme king in this world. The Queen Mother is proud of you. ”

"But, child, since he has become the emperor of the world, he has no freedom, and it is difficult to enjoy the blessings of ordinary people." The Queen Mother shook her head and persuaded her.

"Hahaha, the emperor of the world, supreme, hahaha," Dugu Yanxiang sat on the ground and laughed wildly, "Queen Mother, what can the child do if he doesn't become this emperor?" ”

As he spoke, he ripped off the crown above his head and shook it vigorously, and the delicate beaded curtain was green and sprinkled all over the ground.

"Emperor!" The Queen Mother was also stunned by his action and shouted.

Dugu Yanxiang stood up with a swish, tore the dragon robe on his body, and said: "If I lose my Beisheng, what is the use of me wanting this throne?" ”

Seeing these two tears, the Queen Mother stepped forward and knelt silently in front of Dugu Yanxiang.

Dugu Yanxiang was shocked, stopped the tearing in his hand, and couldn't help but take two steps back.

The Queen Mother raised her eyes to look at him and said, "Son, the Queen Mother knows that she is sorry for you, but she will not be miserable in this world, even if the Queen Mother begs you." ”

Dugu Yanxiang was speechless, he stared at the Queen Mother in a daze for a long time.

The Queen Mother said again: "Even if you don't do it for this world, please think about it for the Queen Mother!" I was originally just a small palace maid in the imperial dining room, one day the emperor was drunk, and asked the imperial dining room to cook a bowl of hangover soup, I took the soup into the Kangqian Palace, and the next day I was made Mrs. Yun. ”

"How many years later, the emperor forgot me, and I guarded alone in this deep palace, the world only knew that once the concubine was glorious and rich, but where did I know how many women were locked in this palace, and this is a gorgeous cage."

"Later, it was another time when the emperor was drunk and wandered around the palace alone, but he strayed into my bedroom, and this time, I have you." The Queen Mother muttered.

"I have won the favor of the emperor twice in my life, and the rest of the decades have been spent in loneliness and loneliness, so it's not easy, Prince Yan died early, and you became the emperor. The mourning family became the queen mother. Do you really want to be so cruel and put us in the abyss again? ”

There was silence in the Buddhist hall, and Dugu Yanxiang could only hear his own wheezing and his mother's sobbing. Only the candle flame on the table swayed from side to side in the breeze.

After a long time, he sat down on the ground again, pressed his left leg under his right leg, and said, as if telling someone else's story: "O queen mother! Do you know why the child is the emperor? Do you know why Prince Yan died young? ”

"In the twenty-third year of Rongzong, the Tatar tribute was a bloody horse, and the prince Long Yanlong wanted to surrender to it, but he was thrown off by a fierce horse and kicked again, so he died." The Queen Mother naturally remembered that the historian recorded this.

But soon she realized the reason why Dugu Yanxiang said this, she looked at him incredulously and asked, "Could this matter be related to you?" ”

Dugu Yanxiang didn't look at her, lowered his head and said: "My mother and I have not been favored by our father since we were children, and we have been bullied everywhere in this palace. When I was a child, all the people in the palace didn't play with me. There are only Beishang and Beitang. ”

Dugu Yanxiang fell into a long memory: I remember that it was the sixteenth year of Rongzong, and the eldest princess returned to Beijing to visit the Queen Mother, bringing Beishang and Beitang, who were only seven years old.

He was only eight years old that year.

The crown prince Yan Long had nothing to do in the palace, so he found a way to play him.

Let many little palace maids and little eunuchs sprinkle water on him with watering cans, teasing him like flowers and plants. And Yan Long just sat in the gazebo and watched all this, laughing.

The queen mother passed by the imperial garden, and obviously saw that he was being bullied, but she did not stop her son, but let Yan Long play with him.

His childhood was like a nightmare, and he spent every day in the midst of endless play. Anyone in the public can bully him, palace maids, eunuchs, so that they will not care that he is a prince.

Because everyone knew that her mother was not favored, and if it weren't for his son, the emperor would have almost forgotten her.

As for him, his father has never even hugged him since he was a child, and when he saw him in the palace, he just asked coldly: "Can you read today?" ”

How naïve he was when he was young, he thought that his father cared about him, and said: "Father, the son knows a lot of words now, and the son can also recite Tang poems, is it good for the son to listen to his father?" ”

However, his father's attitude was extremely cold, he didn't even look at him, and said, "I still have a piece to criticize, you go back to the palace and listen to your mother!" ”

But when the young Dugu Yanxiang saw that Fang had just greeted him, he didn't say so, but looked at him patiently, teaching him to read poems sentence by sentence.

But what about him, he obviously memorized those sentences very well, and his father didn't want to listen to him memorize a single sentence.

Also, who would like a child who doesn't even like his own father?

Everyone in the palace naturally regarded him as an object that everyone could bully. Yan Long will naturally let the little palace maids and eunuchs nourish him with water.