According to the rules of Xichu, if there is a suitable family for the daughter before the marriage, you can decide on the marriage first, and after the marriage, you can negotiate with the family to marry.

But Mei Yuanniang's luck is really not very good, she went out of the national funeral before she died.

The old queen mother went.

The old queen mother has gone through three dynasties, from the crown princess to the queen, and then to support her son to become the queen mother.

Although there are not too many emperors' favors in his life, his luck is really good.

And now, it is the end of his life.

It's a pity that although she died, because of her death, many girls were delayed from getting married.

Without him, because of the emperor's decree, the people were not allowed to see joy for three years.

The Mei family was a little worried because of this, but Mei Yuanniang didn't care at all.

She felt that she was still young, so she didn't want to get married.

Because of this, she is more diligent in running the palace.

When the three-year period expired, seeing that their daughters had become eighteen-year-old girls, the Mei family was finally a little anxious, and hurriedly entered the palace to find Concubine Hui, wanting to ask her to help her daughter find a young talent.

When Shangguan Zhuo went to ask for peace, he learned about it, and he lasted until Mrs. Mei left, then he waved off the palace people, and begged Concubine Hui with a straight face: "Mother, the son likes Yuan Niang." ”

Rao is Concubine Hui had some vague guesses before, but when she heard his words, she couldn't help but be a little surprised: "You, what do you mean by this?" ”

Shangguan Zhuo knelt down with a hem and said sincerely: "Erchen wants to marry Yuan Niang as the princess, mother, please fulfill it." ”

Concubine Hui looked at him fixedly for a while, and did not help him up, but only said softly: "Reasoning, Yuan Niang is my niece and nephew, and you are my son, I should be the most happy about this family affair." Ke Shao'er, you know the family history of the Mei family. ”

If it is in Anling, the Mei family may still have some status. But this is Shangjing, even with the support of her, the Hui concubine, the Mei family is only a medium-sized family in Shangjing.

She knew that as Mei Yuanniang, she was given the position of a side concubine, and she was elevating the Mei family.

Concubine Hui had thought about this earlier, and the reason why she didn't ask Shangguan Zhuo's opinion was that she didn't agree.

It's nice to say, it's a side concubine, but it's also a concubine.

She has already risen and fallen in the palace, and she doesn't want her niece and nephew to suffer this anger again.

So she had thought about it before, if Shangguan Zhuo asked to marry Mei Yuanniang, as long as she mentioned the side concubine, she would have a reason to refuse.

But she didn't expect that as soon as Shangguan Zhuo opened his mouth, he would be the concubine.

This time, it was Concubine Hui's turn to be entangled.

Shangguan Zhuo didn't understand the meaning of her words, so he nodded immediately and said, "Mother, I understand." ”

"Since you understand, you should know that if you marry her, it won't help you much in the future, so that's it, are you willing?"

There are no outsiders now, and Concubine Hui also knows that her future reliance will be on Shangguan Zhuo, so she simply said everything at this time.

"Since ancient times, our Xichu has been a long-standing heir, there is no one in the middle palace, you are the eldest son, and the biological mother is one of the four concubines, and the mother concubine is now also a concubine, speaking of which, there is no problem. However, your younger brothers are not bad, especially Concubine De, who is now in the emperor's heart, and her position is extremely important. ”

Concubine Hui said that, but Shangguan Zhuo smiled lightly and said, "The words of the concubine are all understood. ”

Mo said that he was just an eldest son, that is, a son-in-law, whether he could get that position or not was in the emperor's words.

His only advantage is that he has a long advantage.

But that's all.

"Mother, what should be mine, others can't take it away, and if it shouldn't be mine, you can't take it away."

Hearing what he said, Concubine Hui didn't know what she thought, she was speechless for a long time, and at the end she just sighed and said, "You and Sister Shufei really have the same temper. ”

She sighed lightly and said, "That's it, the autumn hunt is coming, and after the autumn hunt, I will discuss it with the Mei family." Now that the state funeral has just passed, it is inevitable that the emperor will think a lot about it. ”

If it's a folk, it's just that, but in the royal family, it seems that they can't wait.

After hearing Concubine Hui's words, Shangguan Zhuo looked overjoyed, and thanked him with a straight face: "Thank you, concubine!" ”

Seeing him like this, Concubine Hui sighed in her heart, he is a rare infatuation, but it's a pity...... Can the royal infatuation really go far?

At this time, Concubine Hui didn't know that she had become a prophecy.

……

After that, when Mei Yuanniang entered the palace again, she felt that Shangguan Zhuo's eyes were always a little wrong when he looked at her.

This person's eyes were like glue, and they were almost glued to her.

It's not annoying, but it makes her a little ashamed for some reason.

Mei Yuanniang, who didn't know what it meant to be ashamed, was very unaccustomed to it, and asked with her cheeks puffed: "What does Brother Shao keep watching me do?" ”

The next moment, her cheeks, which looked like a squirrel, were poked, and Shangguan Zhuo fed the peeled walnuts to her mouth seriously, while saying, "You have something on your face." ”

Mei Yuanniang didn't know that there was a fraud, so she hurriedly wiped it when she heard the words, and said suspiciously: "No." ”

Shangguan Zhuo coughed lightly, only to feel that the girl in front of him was cute and cute, and his face became more and more serious: "Well, no." ”

As soon as he interrupted like this, Mei Yuanniang forgot the strange feeling in her heart before.

After she finally had eaten and drunk enough, she quietly asked, "Brother Shao, do you have something on your mind?" ”

She could see that he was hiding something these days.

Shangguan Zhuo originally wanted to fool her, but seeing her expression, he felt that it was not good to fool her, so he sighed and said softly: "Yuan Niang, do you like the palace?" ”

Mei Yuanniang shook her head at first, and then nodded again.

Seeing her like this, Shangguan Zhuo became interested, chuckled and asked, "Do you like it or not?" ”

"Hmm......"

Mei Yuanniang pondered for a while and said seriously: "I don't like the palace, but I like my aunt and you." ”

Because they're there, she can love it.

These words instantly burned his heart.

Shangguan Zhuo felt that his heart was filled, and after a while, he said in a dumb voice: "But I don't like it here." ”

His biological mother has been gone since he was a child, and he was later raised by Concubine Hui, but there are some things he doesn't dare to say.

For example, he didn't like the position.

Compared with being an emperor, he wants to be an idle and carefree person, with a beloved, a couple, three meals and four seasons, wind and snow, and fireworks in the world.

When he said this, his eyebrows frowned unconsciously.

Mei Yuanniang only felt that her heart was hurting.

It was clear that she was carefree, but when she saw Shangguan Zhuo uncomfortable, her heart seemed to be being tugged at.

Mei Yuanniang stretched out her hand, smoothed her eyebrows for him, and said, "Brother Shao doesn't like it here, so let's not be here." ”

The little girl's words are so natural that she doesn't know how ridiculous they are.

Shangguan Qing chuckled lightly and asked, "Do you want to take me away?" ”

"Yes!"

Mei Yuanniang nodded heavily and said, "Brother Shao will wait for me again, and when I finish practicing martial arts, I will take you out, let's be a pair of chivalrous warriors, do chivalrous deeds, punish evil and promote good!" ”

Her eyebrows and eyes were full of innocence, Shangguan Zhuo looked at her eyebrows, and felt in a trance that she could really see such a day.

There was light in her eyes, and in his eyes, there was only her.

After a long time, I could hear Shangguan Zhuo respond softly: "Okay." ”

She was too naïve, but innocence reached his heart.

……

The night is as cold as water, and it is cold to people's hearts.

Shangguan Zhuo had a dream, dreaming that Yuan Niang was hunting, and hunted a rabbit, and excitedly carried it to show off to him: "Brother Shao, look, rabbit!" ”

The ends of her hair were messed up, and it was blown by the wind.

He connivedly pulled the ends of his hair back behind her ears, and saw that her eyebrows and eyes were full of greed: "The emperor is going to hold a bonfire banquet again in the evening, it's too boring to watch those people compete and be jealous, let's sneak out and roast rabbits, I want to eat your roasted rabbit meat......"

It's just that the little girl didn't finish a word, so she suddenly threw the rabbit and took him back to hide: "Be careful! ”

The sharp arrow broke through the air, and someone was hunting and shot it by mistake.

Shangguan Zhuocai escaped the catastrophe, so he keenly felt that something was wrong, and decisively took Yuan Niang on the horse, and said in a deep voice: "Drive-"

The air in the dream was twisted and torn, and the two of them rode a horse, while behind him was the mad king of beasts.

The tiger roar was frightening, but the guards around him were gone, he hugged the girl in his arms, and listened to her ask in a panic: "Brother Shao, what, how can there be a tiger?" ”

He was also panicked, this royal hunting ground had been strictly checked, and the beasts were all in the mountains, but this was the periphery for women to hunt!

But it was useless to say more now, he could only appease Yuan Niang while trying to get closer to the camp.

Once there, it's safe.

But they didn't get there.

The horse suddenly went berserk, and with a long roar, threw the man on horseback down.

Shangguan Zhuo's hands were drenched in blood from the reins, but he didn't dare to relax at all.

But when the horse was mad, he let go of his hand, and the girl in his arms fell off the horse in an instant.

She did it on purpose.

The horse galloped, and she was dizzy from the fall, but she clung to the quiver and shot straight at the tiger behind him. Nuwa Library

The tiger's eyes were bloodshot in an instant, but it also made it even more crazy.

Shangguan Zhuo rode the horse without hesitation, and directly turned off the horse, swinging his sword to cut the tiger.

And the mad horses came at them at this time.

Without waiting for Shangguan Zhuo to react, he was pushed aside by Mei Yuanniang, and then heard the woman's miserable scream: "Ah-"

Shangguan Zhuo suddenly sat up from the bed.

Surrounded by his familiar dormitory, the night wind blew in, and he shivered with cold.

He let out a sigh of relief.

Thankfully, it's a dream.

But when he thought of this, he felt a sharp pain in his leg.

The leg that was immobilized by plaster and other objects, told him clearly.

This is not a dream.

It's a reality that really happens.

Shangguan Zhuo's eyes turned red, and he fell the bed again.

It's been a month.

During the autumn hunt, he took Mei Yuanniang to hunt, but he encountered a crazy tiger, and the horse was also stimulated when he fled.

In order to save him, Yuan Niang had a pair of legs...... Broken bones by being trampled alive!

And he, who killed the tiger and escaped with his life, was bitten by the tiger's last remaining strength when he was saving Yuan Niang.

escaped from the tiger's mouth, but he also became a wasted person.

The doctor said that even if it gets better, this leg will be wasted, and in the future, it can only become a cripple.

He doesn't care what he becomes, but he cares about Yuan Niang.

His mother-in-law, because of her own mistakes, has now become a waste person who can only lie in bed and can't take care of herself!

Shangguan Zhuo hammered his head with hatred, his eyes were red, and the next moment he saw the chamberlain rushing in in a hurry, grabbed his hand, and prayed: "Your Highness, what are you doing here?" ”

"Get out!"

Shangguan Zhuo tried to drive people out, but saw Concubine Hui approaching from outside the door: "You go down, this palace accompanies His Highness." ”

Seeing Concubine Hui coming, Shangguan Zhuo hated to bury himself, he couldn't stand Concubine Hui, who was her own niece and nephew.

And he has always been a disaster, his mother died, he followed Concubine Hui, but now Concubine Hui's relatives are also tired by themselves.

That's his mother......

Seeing Shangguan Zhuo's appearance, Concubine Hui sighed, walked over and hugged him in her arms, and said softly: "Shao'er, the concubine is here." ”

With just one sentence, Shangguan Zhuo immediately hugged her and cried.

He cried silently, only his shoulders were trembling, and Concubine Hui's heart hurt with it.

"Mother, I'm sorry."

When he finally finished crying, his expression became more and more depressed: "Mother, is there any news from the Mei family?" ”

Since Mei Yuanniang went home, the doctors have changed them one by one, but the result is the same.

Even the Imperial Physician went a lot, but ...... None of them gave a good answer.

Shangguan Zhuo was already a little scared, but he couldn't help but want to know.

Sure enough, the next moment, I saw Concubine Hui's eyes red, and then said softly: "This doctor can't succeed, and the concubine will find someone else." Last time, the imperial physician in the palace said that there might be a way, but the concubine had already decided to take Yuan Niang to the palace, and only said that I was unwell, so it was convenient to summon the imperial doctor. It's just that...... Don't get your hopes up too much for her body. ”

Shangguan Zhuo's heart instantly cooled.

After a while, he said softly: "When I am ready, I will give my father a fold." ”

Concubine Hui's heart sank, and she asked tentatively, "What fold?" ”

"Erchen wants to go to Wutai Mountain to live for a while."

He is a disaster, so he should stay away from his relatives, otherwise it will only bring disaster to them!

As soon as these words came out, Concubine Hui pushed them away, looked directly into his eyes, and said in a deep voice: "You tell this palace again." ”

Shangguan Zhuo repeated it again, and was suddenly slapped by Concubine Hui.

The slap was extraordinarily loud, and after beating him, her hands were numb, and the tears in her eyes fell.

"Shangguan Zhuo."

From the day she raised him, she called him by his nickname, Yongshao.

It was the first time she called him by his full name and the first time she had beaten him.

Shangguan Zhuo even hoped that Concubine Hui could beat herself harder, and at this time she also responded to her in a broken jar: "Mother, I am an ominous person......

When his mother died when he was young, he actually heard rumors that he was unknown, so he killed his mother.

He was seriously ill at that time, and he thought that it would be good to go with his mother like this.

But Concubine Hui pulled him back from the ghost gate.

Although he is an adoptive mother, over the years, he has long regarded Concubine Hui as his second mother-in-law.

One is born, one is raised.

"There are some things that I wanted to tell you when you're better."

Concubine Hui wiped away a handful of tears, stared at Shangguan Zhuo's eyes, and said to herself: "On the day of your accident, I ordered someone to investigate the scene, and the horses and tigers were all manipulated. The mother concubine is incompetent and has not obtained evidence, and your father and queen have come to whitewash the matter. There is a saying that you are right, you should apologize, but not for me. This is for you. ”

Mei Yuanniang was affected by him.

Shangguan Zhuo's eyes widened suddenly, staring at her deadly, and said, "But what the father said ......"

The father said that he had already found out, and that it was an accident, and that the group of guards who were not well guarded had already been dealt with.

Those dozens of lives were lost because of himself, and even though Shangguan Zhuo had resentment in his heart, he couldn't bear it.

But now, the mother concubine told him that it was not an accident, but for herself?

Naturally, the guards would not do this, and the only ones who would do so would be ......

Concubine Hui didn't wait for him to finish, she just gritted her teeth and said, "Who do you think it will be?" ”

As soon as a sentence came out, Shangguan Zhuo's expression changed suddenly.

He is soft-hearted, but he is not a fool.

Born in the royal family, there are some methods he doesn't use, but that doesn't mean he doesn't know.

But he never imagined that one day these methods would be used on himself.

The three younger brothers, who were gradually revealing their ambitions......

He didn't treat any of them badly.

And the father-

"Father, it's really ruthless."

What else would make the full force of an emperor erase the evidence?

He's the eldest son of the emperor!

Unless, that person is the emperor is unwilling to move.

"I'm going to see my father!"

As soon as he said a word, Concubine Hui pushed him to sit in place again, stared straight into his eyes, and asked, "There is no evidence, what are you going to question your father?" ”

"Then I'll find the proof!"

Hearing what he said, Concubine Hui smiled, but tears fell: "And then? Shao'er, since we have talked about it today, the mother concubine will explain everything to you. ”

"Your leg is useless, even if you are good, you are also a cripple. From the time of Xichu to the present, there has never been a precedent for a cripple to sit in that position, so in the eyes of your father, your son is abolished. ”

And a deposed son is not worthy of the emperor's protection.

Even if it's his own son.

Concubine Hui had never spoken anything serious to Shangguan Zhuo in the past, but now that she said this, the other party's expression was still self-controlled, but she felt as if she was being stabbed in the heart with a knife.

She couldn't help it first, and hugged Shangguan Zhuo, her voice full of pain: "Over the years, although you haven't told your mother, why doesn't your mother understand you?" I didn't expect anything from you. is really an idle prince, in the future, you have a fiefdom, take me out, we are more comfortable than now. But now ......"

Not really.

The situation is pressing.

From the time when Shangguan Zhuo and Mei Yuanniang were carried back in a bloody coma, Concubine Hui knew that the peace of the past was gone.

What she wants to live in peace for the rest of her life is simply a fool's dream.

"In this palace, you can live ghosts, demons and monsters, but you can't live people."

Concubine Hui hugged him, her voice full of hatred: "My Shao'er, whether we are for fish and meat or knives in the future, we can only count on you." Do you understand what the concubine means? ”

If you want revenge, you have to leave everything behind, naïve, good, and free.

It's a big shot.

But Shangguan Zhuo sobered up.

His hand was gently raised and placed on Concubine Hui's shoulder, and he said after a long time, "Mother, I understand." ”