(a)

After listening to Xie Shuangcheng's story, my heart was heavy. As a mother who has experienced the Changping Hou incident, I can understand his feelings as a father too well.

I said, "Do you have any news about this?" The other day I was recuperating from a sick bed, and I didn't know anything about it, and no one came to tell me. I only know that Your Majesty has recently purged a lot of officials, but I don't know that among them, there is even your son. ”

Xie Shuangcheng hurriedly said: "Yes, yes. ”

He took out the newspaper from his bosom and presented it to me respectfully.

I opened the newspaper, read it carefully for a while, learned the general ins and outs of the matter, and was greatly surprised by the depth of his son's involvement, the seriousness of the case, the huge amount of embezzlement, and the number of officials involved.

I put down the newspaper, looked at Xie Shuangcheng sadly, and asked, "Your son has done such a big thing, after several years, you, as a father, really don't know anything beforehand?" ”

Xie Shuangcheng said: "Wechen really doesn't know. He is very hard-working and motivated, and the minister trusts him very much, and because his mother has died, and his brother unfortunately died early, he is the only son of the minister, and the minister also cherishes him too much, and there are many loose and lax disciplines on weekdays. Since he entered the Hanlin Academy, the ministers have watched him go out early and return late every day, wearing the stars and the moon, and his colleagues and bosses have also praised him, and they thought that he was busy day and night, and it was all the affairs of the monarchy, who knew that he was so scheming that he had done so many unsightly things. When the minister heard the case, he was also as surprised as others, and even after learning the amount of money he had been corrupt and bribed, he suddenly thundered like five thunderbolts, and his eyes turned black, and he never imagined that the son he raised was such a character and intention! ”

Xie Shuangcheng said: "The queen watched Weichen come all the way, Weichen will not lie in his life, and he has been taught by the general for many years, so he does not dare to use the relationship with the queen to excuse the dog." Queen Mingjian, what Weichen said, every sentence is true, Weichen really didn't know anything in advance. If Weichen could have known that he would never be allowed to act so recklessly, he would have been bound up and escorted to the palace to ask His Majesty for his guilt! ”

I also believe that Xie Shuangcheng was only negligent in discipline and did not know about it in advance, let alone an accomplice, and it was impossible for him to participate in the matter with his son.

I sighed and said, "If it's too small, it's fine." Now that your son has committed such a heinous crime, even if I want to help you, how can I open this mouth to Your Majesty in front of the whole world. ”

I said, "Although he is your only son, and I know the sorrow of your heart, I cannot go and intercede with Your Majesty so that He will not die." Even if I have the cheekiness to go, Your Majesty will not allow me to do so. ”

I said, "Xie Shuangcheng, you have followed my brother and sister for so many years, you should understand me, if I can help you, I will definitely agree to you." If I say no, then I really can't. ”

I said, "I can talk to Your Majesty, in your Xie clan, choose another good son who is filial and kind, as the heir, and cultivate more grace on him, and your Majesty should be sympathetic and allowed." ”

I said, "It's too late to regret it, and that's all I can do for you." ”

(b)

Xie Shuangcheng kowtowed in gratitude, and wept: "The sinner deeply thanks the queen for her grace!" However, Weichen came to the palace not to ask the queen to intercede and ask His Majesty to pardon the dog's capital crime. ”

I was surprised, "So, what are you asking for?" ”

Xie Shuangcheng said: "The dog violated the laws of the country and did such a dirty deed, he deserved it, and he died unjustly at all." The ministers did not dare to use the law of love to open the source of disasters for the world. The ministers are here to implore Your Majesty to seriously question the ministers together! ”

I said, "Why do you bother?" Youji has found out, and you yourself have just said that you did not know about what your son did, and you did not participate in it, and you are not guilty of favoritism. I have strict laws, but I can't sin against the innocent. ”

Xie Shuangcheng said: "The minister is not innocent. The minister knows that he is guilty. The minister lived up to the hard work of the late general, and after his death, he had no face to meet the late general under Jiuquan! The minister is full of guilt and blames himself! ”

So, that day, Xie Shuangcheng knelt in front of me in his old age, shed tears, and told me a lot of old stories about you.

He started from my wedding night, how you endured the severe heartache and headache, rode the moonlight and ran all night until you lost consciousness, told me about fasting with me the day before the Battle of Dru Lake, told you about your rebuke to Wu Shun, Guan Wenliang and his staff in public, how you treated Guan Wenliang's divination, how you took Guiling grass to ensure the success of the operation, how you learned from Wu Shun Beji, how to choose the death squad to follow your actions, how you dragged Xie Shuangcheng out of the queue before leaving, and how you said to Xie Shuangcheng: "Live, Be a good father to us. ”

Xie Shuangcheng burst into tears when he spoke, choking up several times. I also heard that my liver and gall were broken, and my heart was like a knife.

After Xie Shuangcheng finished speaking, he fell to the ground and sobbed silently.

After a long time, he said: "The minister, like Guan Wenliang, set off with the general to protect him until the last moment." However, when the general saw that the minister was about to become the father of the people, he specially left the ministers behind, so that the ministers could raise the next generation for the era of peace in the country, so that the next generation of the ministers could also become loyal ministers for the country, and after their deaths, they would continue to protect the happiness and tranquility of the people in the world. However, the minister failed to live up to the general's ardent hopes before his death! The minister did not raise his son well, did not train him to be a person who contributed to the country, but became a criminal of the country! Chen is really not a good father. The minister did not complete the last entrustment of the general! The minister is ashamed and shameless, and the minister deserves death! Ministers are not qualified to live in the world. ”

He said: "Ever since the dog was detained, the minister has dreamed of the old general every night, and he dreamed of the old general and the three hundred dead brothers, all of whom were looking at the minister wordlessly, and the minister woke up from the dream, sweating profusely, and his heart was tormented. For dozens of days, the ministers opened their eyes and closed their eyes to see the scene of them fighting to the end and dying in the wilderness. It's hard to sleep and eat! ”

He said: "Although it is the son who commits the crime, the father is to blame for the apostasy." The ministers did not dare to ask His Majesty and the Empress to destroy the laws of the country and forgive the courtiers from death. The minister begged His Majesty and the queen to investigate the minister's dereliction of responsibility, and Xu Chen accompanied his son to death together, giving a warning to the parents of the world who did not raise their sons well! also give an explanation to the siblings who died on the battlefield! I implore Your Majesty and Empress to be gracious and let the guilty ministers be punished together! (To be continued.) )