Chapter 219: The Wreckage
Later, the imperial grandmother suppressed this rebellion with the strength of the Baisha Battalion, and she was ruthless to the rebels who were in trouble. But to your imperial grandfather, she is still reluctant to ......"
Emperor Ming's eyes suddenly turned red.
At this point, Zhu Zhiling naturally understood her mother's thoughts.
I used to think that I was a person who had the same heart and could hold my hands until I was old, even if I betrayed myself one day, it was impossible to cut all my feelings clean overnight. If it were Boundless like this, would I have been able to kill him with my own hands?
"Your imperial grandfather was here in the palace and begged your imperial grandmother bitterly, hoping to save his life by remembering the love between husband and wife in the old days."
Zhu Zhiling knew the result without asking, her mother had told her. When the emperor's grandfather died, he was just a glass of poisoned wine, maybe this was already the love that the emperor's grandmother remembered.
However, Emperor Ming said: "Your imperial grandmother was begged but compassionate, so she agreed." ”
"She agreed? She promised Emperor Rao that his grandfather would not die? Zhu Zhiling was stunned.
"Yes, the former emperor was reluctant to do so, so he told him that the rebellion was hard to recover, and the most he could do now was to let him out, and from then on he would remain incognito, never see each other again, and call him sick and dead to the outside world."
Zhu Zhiling was very surprised that the imperial grandmother would have compassion, in her memory, the imperial grandmother never had the slightest hesitation to kill decisively, and was ruthless, both for her father and aunt.
"If the emperor's grandfather was released from the city, how could he die in this secret room?"
"Your imperial grandmother said that since you want to be sent out of the city, you are always afraid of leaking the news when you go out from Yongjinmen. She told your imperial grandfather that there is a secret hall in this palace that leads directly to the outside of the city. ”
"The imperial grandmother actually told the imperial grandfather about the secret palace?"
"Not bad. This was originally a secret that the empress passed down from generation to generation and must not be revealed. Your imperial grandmother said that when the imperial grandmother passed on these secrets to her, she solemnly told her that she must not violate the ancestral system, otherwise there will be trouble. But we women...... Sometimes I just can't get over that hurdle......"
Emperor Ming sighed to himself, and then said: "When your imperial grandfather heard that there was a secret passage, he was overjoyed and begged him to escape from the secret passage. However, the emperor saw a strange look on his face at that time, and although he couldn't guess what it meant for a while, he always had some doubts in his heart, so she kept an eye on it and decided to test it first. ”
"Keeping an eye on it?"
"I also said outside just now, there are three secret halls like the Luanxiang Palace in the Laiyi Palace, and two of them have secret passages leading to the outside of the city, only the secret passages in this Luanxiang Hall are not passable."
Zhu Zhiling suddenly felt a tingling in her scalp.
Is this secret passage a dead end? The imperial grandmother did not want to spare the imperial grandfather?
"The emperor deliberately guided your imperial grandfather into the Luanxiang Hall and entered this secret passage. Unexpectedly, when he walked around here, your grandfather suddenly pressed the emperor to the ground and wanted to strangle her to death! It was then that she realized that my father, the person on her pillow who was opposite her day and night, had already had such a vicious mind when he heard that there was a secret passage. He must want to kill himself in the secret passage, and then escape from the secret passage, so that he can turn the tide and seize the throne. ”
Zhu Zhiling was shocked when she heard this, she knew that the emperor's grandfather was plotting rebellion, but she didn't know that it was such a vicious man.
"However, Xu is my Zhu Emperor Zuo, this secret room is dim, the first emperor was choked to faint, and there was no breath for a while, your imperial grandfather thought she was dead, so he hurriedly stood up and wanted to escape from the secret passage. Unexpectedly, he had just taken a few steps back before he stepped on the trap and was shot to death here. ”
Zhu Zhiling was shocked, she didn't expect that the place where she was sitting had an organ. When I entered the secret passage, I guessed that there must be a mystery behind this Luanxiang Palace, but I didn't expect it to be so dangerous, and I couldn't help but be shocked.
Emperor Ming seemed to see through her thoughts, and said with relief: "Don't be afraid, as long as you sit honestly, you will be fine." As he spoke, he pointed to the road when he came, and said, "Your imperial grandmother did have the intention of sparing him at first. This secret passage in the Luanxiang Hall is different from the other two, the entrance and exit are in the Luanxiang Palace, but this secret passage can only go forward, not backward. If you go backwards, you will trigger a trap that will cause 10,000 arrows to pierce your heart. When she led my father into this secret passage, she thought to herself that if he really had no dissent, and could follow it out safely, she would send him to the true secret passage outside the city. But my father turned out to be ......"
"But, isn't it also dangerous for the Imperial Grandmother to do this?" Zhu Zhiling couldn't believe that the thoughtful imperial grandmother would make such a risky move.
Emperor Ming nodded and said, "When the first emperor told me these things, I also asked her why she risked her life, and since she had doubts, why did she give it a try. The first emperor said that only she knew the secret of coming to the Yi Palace, and if she wanted to let her father out, she could only lead the way herself, not a dummy. The second ...... She still has a little hope, hoping that her father can sincerely repent and get together and disperse...... If my father really has no bad intentions and just wants to survive, but he is a killer, shouldn't he regret it for the rest of his life? After all, the love between husband and wife will eventually be .........unwilling."
Zhu Zhiling never expected that the ruthless imperial grandmother would be such an amorous person, but if you think about it, who in this world is born ruthless, and she must be hurt by love, so she will be ruthless.
Emperor Ming looked melancholy and sighed: "It's just that I was too young at that time, and I never understood what that hope meant. Only now did I finally understand ......"
"What does the Mother Queen's understand?" Zhu Zhiling was puzzled.
Emperor Ming ignored her question and continued: "The first emperor woke up after fainting for a long time, and when he saw his father being shot to death, he immediately understood everything that had happened, and he also understood the hypocrisy of the past. Since then, she has never hesitated to make a decision. ”
Zhu Zhiling suddenly came to his senses, if Fang Cai himself had the same mind as the emperor's grandfather back then, then the current fate would be exactly the same as that dry bone!
It turns out that his feet have turned around in the ghost gate, and he still doesn't know!
Emperor Ming looked at her expression and smiled, "You won't." I know you don't want to kill me. But maybe it's your thought that keeps me hesitating...... So when it comes to decision-making, I am still inferior to the previous emperor. ”
Mother turned out to be ...... Even this distraction can be observed.
Yes, no matter what happens, killing the monarch was never in his plan. The mother made a thousand mistakes, but she did not sin to death. What's more, killing kings and mothers is such a despicable means. Even if I, Zhu Zhiling, am forcing the palace to rebel, I must be upright, and I can't tolerate half of it, let alone be criticized by future generations in the annals of history!
"So the Imperial Grandmother let the corpse of the Imperial Grandfather lie here?"
"What else could it be? The secret passage can only be entered by the empress or those who will inherit the throne, and your imperial grandmother is already hated to the bone, and she still has a will, and she is not allowed to enter the funeral. I know that she is not only hateful but also afraid. I am afraid that I will follow in her footsteps, so I want to leave the bones of my father in this Luanxiang Palace, and use the death of the bones as a training for my generation. Who would have known that my father would be lying on the side of my dormitory day and night......"
Zhu Zhiling seemed to suddenly think of something in her heart, and asked tentatively, "When did the imperial grandmother bring her mother into this secret passage?" ”
Emperor Ming thought for a moment and replied, "It's about two months before he died." ”
Zhu Zhiling chuckled in her heart, secretly wondering, sure enough...... My father died a month before the death of the emperor's grandmother, and my mother must have seen the remains of the emperor's grandfather before she made up her mind to kill her father according to the emperor's grandmother's orders!
"Mother brought her daughter to such a secret temple that does not see the light of day today, does she want to take the opportunity to get out and use a mechanism to lock her daughter here and wait for death?" Zhu Zhiling asked unconsciously.
"It turns out that in your eyes, I am such a ruthless person...... Emperor Ming was a little disappointed in his eyes, and sighed: "If I have such a mind, I am afraid that when you enter the Luan Xiang Palace, you will already be in a different place." But I can't bear it, and even now, I still don't want to believe that you would do such a rebellious thing......"
Zhu Zhiling was a little impatient, she waved her hand and stopped: "Mother, my daughter has no other meaning. The daughter just wants to ask her mother to pass on the edict to me so many years earlier, as long as the mother is willing to write the edict, then the two will be happy and happy, so why should the mother continue to entangle? ”
Emperor Ming squinted at her for a while, and then suddenly laughed softly: "Also, what else is there that I can't see?" Since you have made up your mind, then I will depend on you. It's just that there is no pen and paper here, and we have been sitting for a long time, so let's go out first. ”
After saying that, he stood up and continued to walk deeper on his own.
Zhu Zhiling looked at the dark passage behind her, a little scared in her heart, and hurriedly followed. Under the aperture reflected by Bi Ruyi in the hands of Emperor Ming, it finally makes people feel a little relieved.
It was only a few dozen paces away, and it was already at the end of the road. Emperor Ming groped around the wall with the help of pearl light for a while, and with a slight push, the wall had moved to both sides, and what appeared in front of him was a gorgeous scene in the Luanxiang Palace.
It's like a world away.
Emperor Ming led Zhu Zhiling out of the secret passage, and gently swirled a candlestick on the side of the wall, and the secret passage suddenly disappeared seamlessly, leaving behind a stone carved palace wall of hibiscus out of the water and begonias.
She put Bi Ruyi in her hand on the desk, spread out the pen and paper, and began to write.
Zhu Zhiling walked these roads with his waist up, feeling a little tired, so he sat down on a chair next to him. There was something strange in her heart, everything was so smooth, leading the secret way, recounting the past, and writing an edict. Since my mother noticed what she had done, she didn't get angry at all and didn't resist?
Motherhood is definitely not so simple.
While thinking about it, Emperor Ming let out a long breath. She picked up the written edict, read it carefully, and beckoned to Zhu Zhiling: "Ling'er, come and take a look, but what is inappropriately written?" ”