Rainy mornings came a little later than usual.

Outside the gate of Fengyi Palace, plain clothes and white flags cover up the luxury of the past. The atmosphere was busy and depressing, and the expressions on everyone's faces were extremely sad, but when they looked closely, they were not at all like that.

After all, it was just a concubine who died, and she was beheaded by order of the emperor.

No one knows why the emperor suddenly ordered a big funeral after beheading the concubine. But it doesn't matter, after all, the emperor usually has a gust of wind and rain, so everyone just needs to follow the order and pretend to cry bitterly.

So Chu Guifei's mourning hall was quickly erected. A group of concubines and princesses knelt in the courtyard in the rain, crying loudly.

The emperor sat at the offering table in the mourning hall and drank a small wine, his eyes swept over one by one, and the more he looked, the more satisfied he became.

The fat powder on Concubine Liu Xian's face was washed away by the rain, and the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes were almost as deep as the ditches in the wasteland, which was interesting; The velvet flowers on Lin Zhaoyi's head were pasted into a ball, like a mess of wet mud that had been trampled by a horse's hooves, not bad; Ye Jieyu's thin body was swayed by the wind and rain, as if she was going to breathe in the next moment, which was fun.

As for the little cubs—

The emperor suddenly blew his beard, looked back at the sink-nosed eunuch and asked, "Why is there one missing?" Didn't you say yesterday that I had seventeen children? ”

"It's time to come!" The eunuch hurriedly smiled, "His Royal Highness has never been involved in these things, and it is estimated that no one will call him." ”

"Fart!" The emperor was immediately displeased, "Why don't you get involved in these things?" Isn't he my son? Not to mention that Chu Guifei was killed by him, shouldn't he come to kowtow? Go! Call him! Tell him to wear linen and filial piety to carry the coffin with the third child! ”

The eunuch bowed down again and again to agree, and hurriedly ran to give orders, and drove a few guards to the deserted garden to find someone.

The emperor pulled his beard angrily, stood up, and shouted outside the mourning hall: "None of them have eaten? Cry louder! ”

The concubines who were about to be drenched by the rain hurriedly opened their throats and howled for a while, and the phoenix sons and grandsons behind cried even louder - this time they really cried.

The first to hold on was the young little princess, and then the thin Ye Jieyu. The two collapsed to the ground one after the other, miserable.

Lin Zhaoyi jumped up desperately and rushed to the back, hugging the little princess and crying breathlessly. Ye Jieyu didn't care there, her plain white dress was smashed to the ground by raindrops, and the whole person was like a piece of battered catkins.

The emperor looked at it and laughed: "One! Two! Haha, the girls are really useless, and they poured two in just a while! Xiao Changzi, go! Tell me to go down, and say that the nineteenth princess is good, and I will reward her with a mansion, and in the future, she will be the same as the prince! Ye Jieyu is not bad, I have made her a concubine! Lin Zhaoyi is a conscienceless, degraded to a talented person, and she is not allowed to live with the nineteenth princess! ”

The oracles came out one after another, and the concubines and princes kneeling in the rain finally had an epiphany. So in the next hour, there was a lot of crying in front of the mourning hall, which was spectacular.

The four princes never came.

The guards who ran to look for people came back several times, but the news they brought was the same: they didn't find the Fourth Highness!

"Bastard, bastard!" The emperor was furious, "This unfilial son! Find it for me! Send more people to find it! Don't ask anything when you find him, beat him half to death before you talk back! ”

So the palace guards once again went out like moving ants, and succeeded in bringing back the four princes and an unconscious little eunuch after an hour.

It's just that this board doesn't seem to dare to fight.

The eunuchs looked at the blood on Shen Yuli's shoulder and the blue face in the white, hesitated for a while, and finally had the courage to send the person to the emperor completely.

The emperor's first words were: "Did you fight?" ”

The eunuchs did not dare to tell the truth, let alone lie, and they couldn't help but get up for a while.

It was still Shen Yuli who calmly replied: "I've beaten it." ”

All the eunuchs breathed a sigh of relief, and said in their hearts, This is the Fourth Highness, you are bullying the monarch yourself, and it has nothing to do with us.

Fortunately, the emperor was not suspicious, he just got angry, and glared at Shen Yuli as if he was glaring at the enemy who killed his father: "Do you know why I beat you?" ”

Shen Yuli glanced back, lowered his head and said, "He was stunned." ”

He? Who?

The Emperor was stunned for a moment. The guards hurriedly carried Huanlin over and threw it at Shen Yuli's feet.

It turned out to be the little eunuch, the emperor understood.

But he was even more angry, slammed the table, and shook the sky: "You are a damn slave, and you even delayed your mother's funeral?" I see that you are unrighteous and unfilial, heartless and liverless! You go to Lao Tzu and kowtow to the spirit! Knock a hundred! And, that minion, kill! Feed the dog! ”

Shen Yuli glanced down at Huan Lin again, did not beg for mercy or intercede, pressed his shoulders and honestly bowed his head and answered "yes".

In his right hand, he held a slender iron bar, and at an angle that others could not see, he stabbed it fiercely at the heart of Huan Lin.