Chapter XVII. Each has a ghost
Prince's Mansion!
"Big brother, my father is really blessed this time. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info The day before yesterday, when I went to see my father, my father's body was ....... Fortunately, the country is in trouble to produce loyal ministers, and the countryman of the first auxiliary party, Lord Cheng Li of Honglu Temple gave his father a pill to cure his father's illness! After Zhu Youxiao took the honeycomb coal abrasive to make a honeycomb coal, he turned his head and said to Hou Guoxing, who was also covered with carbon ash.
Hou Guoxing looked at the busy Zhu Youxiao, and his heart was speechless to the extreme, thinking that Wang An was in a hurry to invite him to the prince's mansion because something was urgent, and he was so frightened that he was speculating all the way about whether the emperor died, or what tricks Li Changshi played.
As a result, when I arrived at the Prince's Mansion, I realized that Emperor Taichang seemed to have taken some kind of red pill, and his illness suddenly recovered.
Zhu Youxiao returned to the prince's mansion and saw the honeycomb coal stove made by Hou Guoxing, and was shocked for a while. Let Wang An "invite" Hou Guoxing to the carpentry room and start the endless carpenter mode, and for two days, all the food, clothing, housing and transportation were arranged in the prince's mansion, and he tossed this honeycomb coal. Although Hou Guoxing was unhappy in his heart, he couldn't say it clearly, so he could only speak:
"The emperor is in the prime of life, and the prince doesn't have to worry about a little illness!"
"Big brother, what do you mean by what your father said to me that day?" Zhu Youxiao asked in a low voice.
When Hou Guoxing heard this, he hurriedly looked around, fortunately, the eunuchs and palace maids were far away, and hurriedly spoke:
"The prince said that these words are the emperor's imperial learning taught to the prince, how can they be said to the grass people? You need to know that if the minister is not secret, he will lose, and if the king is not secret, he will lose his minister! ”
It turned out that after Emperor Taichang was seriously ill that day, he thought that his time was running out, so he called Zhu Youxiao over to explain some things, who knew that Zhu Youxiao turned around and said these words to Hou Guoxing, and only scared Hou Guoxing half to death at that time, so he quickly told Zhu Youxiao to shut up.
"Big brother!" Zhu Youxiao said angrily:
"Why is the eldest brother so repulsed by the school, and there are no outsiders here, why can't I say that the eldest brother is talented and intelligent, brother, I just hope that the eldest brother will help me analyze one or two. I grew up with my mother since I was a child, I regard him as my mother, you are my mother's only son, I naturally regard you as a brother, that day when you don't know my identity, you and I talk very happily, I also lead you to myself, but since I know my identity, why are you so cold and perfunctory to me? ”
Hou Guoxing was stunned for a moment, looked at Zhu Youxiao, whose eyes were red, and recalled the past few days with Zhu Youxiao, this young man, as a prince, really regarded Kebaba as his mother and regarded himself as his eldest brother, and he had great respect for himself in his words. And getting along with him is actually a last resort in order to be able to gain a firm foothold in this Ming Dynasty. Thinking of this, Hou Guoxing felt a trace of guilt in his heart and said:
"Brother, it's not that the eldest brother rejects you, it's just that you and I have different identities, and there are some things that shouldn't be known to my brother. But I promise you for my brother, as long as you don't dislike being a brother, I will definitely treat you as a brother in the future. After speaking, he bowed to Zhu Youxiao as an apology.
Feeling the sincerity of Hou Guoxing's words, Zhu Youxiao smiled happily:
"That's right, this bow brother has been accepted, and you and I will be commensurate with each other in the future." Breaking this barrier, the two talked more for a while.
Just as the two were chatting, Kebaba and Wang An hurriedly came!
"Prince, the emperor is critically ill, Li Changzhi asks you to go quickly."
"What!"
Zhu Youxiao was taken aback, and asked again:
"I took the red pill two days ago, didn't my father recover?"
This slave maid didn't know, but Li Chang sent Li Jinzhong from the Qianqing Palace to come, saying that the emperor's illness had suddenly recurred, and now his life was dying, so he asked the prince to go quickly. Wang An replied anxiously
The matter was urgent, Zhu Youxiao said goodbye to Hou Guoxing, and took Kebaba and Wang An to the palace.
Emperor Taichang is critically ill? Hou Guoxing suddenly felt a strong uneasiness in his heart! I always feel that the whole thing reveals a kind of weirdness, but I can't grasp what the problem is. I thought that Emperor Taichang was going to die, but he suddenly got better, but in the blink of an eye, there was news that he was critically ill, what the hell is this? Hou Guoxing only feels a mess in his head now.
Whatever, as long as Zhu Youxiao ascends the throne in the end. Hou Guoxing let out a long sigh and turned around and left the Prince's Mansion. Thinking about the history of his previous life and what he saw and heard in front of him, Hou Guoxing, who hoped to find clues, could only comfort himself in his heart after he had no clue.
Qianqing Palace!
Zhu Youxiao knelt beside the body of Emperor Taichang and cried exhausted, and fell into Kebaba's arms and sobbed quietly.
Li Changshi, who was on the side, walked around anxiously with red eyes, and suddenly felt a burst of fire when he saw Kebaba hugging Zhu Youxiao, who was crying. Xindao This prince was originally designated by the first emperor to be raised by me, and he used to make things difficult for him in every way, and after he ascended the throne, the palace must not be humiliated. It was a lowly wet nurse who made the prince so dependent. Won't you climb to the head of the main palace in the future? remembered Hou Guoxing's obscene appearance of touching his chest that night, and hated Kebaba even more for a while, pointing at Kebaba and saying angrily:
"Come on, drag this out and beat her to death with a stick."
"Why! Li Niangniang, don't want it? Zhu Youxiao got up to protect the guest.
"Putty, you dare to disobey me?"
"Children Don't Dare"
The fear of Li Changshi for many years made Zhu Youxiao hurriedly lower his head in a panic, but his hands tightly protected Kebaba.
The eunuch who was doing it on the side, watching the prince protect Kebaba, didn't dare to do anything, so he could only look at Li Changshou blankly.
"Mother, do it slowly, the slave has something important to say." At this time, Li Jinzhong on the side came over and persuaded.
Li Changshou was able to control the Qianqing Palace thanks to this Li Jinzhong, Emperor Taichang sent the inner treasury silver to reward the border army, and after Wei Chao went to the border with the silver, Li Jinzhong temporarily led the eunuchs of the Qianqing Palace, Emperor Taichang favored Li Changshou when he was alive, and always let him live in the Qianqing Palace.
"I don't know what happened to my father-in-law?" Li Changshou and Li Jinzhong walked to the side hall and asked.
"Niangniang, look at the current situation, the prince is definitely going to ascend the throne as the emperor, he is quite attached to this guest, if you kill the guest Baba now because of the anger of this moment, this will only be deeper estrangement with the prince in the future, what you need to care about now is to plan the queen mother, and the rest, when you become the queen mother in the future, what else can't you do."
Li Changshou was just on fire just now, but now Li Jinzhong pointed out this truth and quickly calmed down. turned around and walked to the main hall, waved his hand to let the eunuch who was pulling the guest to retreat, and said softly to Zhu Youxiao:
"Prince, although you are not my own child, but the first emperor handed you over to me to raise, and you are also a half-mother, you must not forget this kindness."
"How dare the child forget the grace of mother's nurturing." Zhu Youxiao hurriedly said yes, and his hands were still tightly protecting Kebaba.
Seeing Zhu Youxiao defending Kebaba like this, Li Changshi's heart was angry again, he endured it for a long time, sighed, and said again:
"Now that the emperor has died, leaving us orphans and widows, we can only rely on each other in the future. As the crown prince and the eldest son of the emperor, you should immediately ascend the throne as the emperor, and I, as a mother, should also be the justifiable queen mother, right? ”
"This?"
Zhu Youxiao was stunned for a moment, looked at Li Changshi, and then looked at the guest, turned his head to look out the window and said:
"I'm afraid this kid can't be the master, right? This canonization of the Queen Mother also requires the consent of hundreds of officials! ”
"How do you repay me for your nurturing? Come on, pull Kebaba to a side room and lock her up, no one can let her out without my permission! ”
Li Changshou thought that he would persuade him with good words, and Zhu Youxiao would agree to his request, but he didn't expect Zhu Youxiao to dare to perfunctory himself, and he couldn't bear the anger he was full of, so he opened his mouth and let people lock up the guest.
"Niangniang, Niangniang, why is this, what does this have to do with the guest nurse?" Zhu Youxiao pulled the guest and said urgently.
"This palace punishes a splasher, why do you need a reason! Prince, think about it, whether to make me the queen mother, otherwise I will be unhappy tomorrow and beat her to death with a stick! ”
Late at night, Li Jinzhong approached the side room where Kebaba was being held with food, and when he saw the crying Kebaba, he persuaded:
"Don't be afraid, Mrs. Li Changshou may have been angry with Mrs. because the first emperor died and was too sad, and it is estimated that Mrs. will be let out after tonight."
Ke Baba saw that it was the eunuch who had saved him just now who had entered the door, and got up and said to Li Jinzhong:
"The slave and maid thank my father-in-law for saving my life, if it weren't for my father-in-law today, the slave and maid might have died under the stick. In the future, I will have the opportunity to repay my father-in-law's kindness today. ”
"There, there, Madame is polite, here's a chicken, Madame takes it to fill her belly. Over there, Li Changshou estimated that he was still looking for me, so I will leave first, madam, don't worry about waiting for tomorrow, everything will be fine! After Li Jinzhong put down the chicken, he turned around and went out, not wanting to entangle too much with this Li Changzhi's eyes.
"Father-in-law Xie, father-in-law go slowly!" Kebaba gratefully sent Li Jinzhong out.
Outside the door of the side hall, Li Jinzhong pondered, what he did today seems to be ironclad to offend the prince who will ascend the throne as emperor immediately, seeing that the prince seems to have a mother's affection for Mrs. Ke, and today he took the risk of forming this good fate, no matter whether Li Changshi succeeds or not, he can also have a way out in the future.
Late at night, in the capital, in a secluded courtyard!
"My lord, now that the matter has been completed, Li Changshou has trapped the prince in the palace, and Wang An has also visited the homes of the ministers, hoping to rescue the prince. That Li Changzhi was arrogant and domineering, and he didn't take the prince in his eyes at all, and it was estimated that it was not so easy to release the prince. When the emperor was on the throne, Li Changshou begged to be crowned the queen, and now the student is estimated to be not a queen mother who can be dismissed. Tomorrow, the Lord will lead the ministers of my generation to kneel down in the Qianqing Palace to plead for mercy, what conditions can be agreed to first, and the strength will let them and the prince restrain each other in the future. In this way, we will be able to show our generation's ability when the time comes. However, the adults must not force that Li Chang to be too hasty, so as not to give the Shoukang Palace a chance. Wang Wenyan respectfully analyzed the situation in the court with the old man in white beside him. ”
After a long time, the old man in white opened his eyes and said in a deep voice:
Here's the matter, I'm waiting to clean up those traitorous putty in the court. In the future, everyone will work together, and I am hopeful that Ming Zhongxing will be able to. ”
Wang Wenyan bowed to the old man, and his eyes shot a hot light.