An Le called everyone away and quietly followed the eunuch to the emperor's bedroom, watching the princess sneakily walk to the direction of the emperor's palace, Mung Bean had to quickly run to complain.

An Le had already come to the emperor's palace in a flash, the eunuch pulled the door and retreated, An Le saw his father sitting on the ground in plain clothes and reading something, tears couldn't help but flow out, she wiped them gently.

"Father."

The emperor on the ground stopped chanting, put the Buddha beads on the ground and turned to look at An Le, his eyes were already full of tears, "Le'er." ”

An Le ran over and helped him up: "Father." ”

"Le'er, my father has something to tell you, come here, go to my father's secret room."

I saw that the emperor twisted the Buddha statue on the table, and opened a door on the wall next to the bed, An Le never knew that his father was still hiding in this palace.

An Le followed the emperor and walked in.

There was a large bed inside, and there was a coffin made of crystal.

The emperor dragged An Le to the coffin, and An Le saw clearly that the person lying inside was his mother, her eyes widened, and she looked at her father in disbelief: "Father, mother, mother, mother, mother is not already..."

The emperor gently touched the coffin with his hand, and the beauty inside was lying quietly in a gorgeous dress, she was so quiet.

After a while, the emperor pulled An Le to the side of the bed and sat down, "Le'er, you listen to what your father said." ”

An Le was a little scared, she always felt that something was about to happen, but she couldn't say this feeling of fear, no, she wasn't afraid of the queen mother's coffin, not because of this fear.

The Emperor took out a box from under his pillow and opened it, and inside was a bracelet made of fine jade, and the faint light of it could be seen even if the candle was lit in the somewhat gray passage.

The emperor took it out and gently put it on An Le, who stroked the ice jade bracelet, "Father, it's very beautiful." ”

The emperor smiled slightly, hugged An Le to his chest, and told her his love story.

"Didn't you always pull Ping'er when you were a child and ask me how did you meet your mother? Father and your mother, they met at a folk bonfire party, she is just an ordinary prefect lady, but she is very gentle, Ping'er is the same as her, inherited her gentleness. Her father fell in love with her at first sight and never looked away from her. ”

At that time, the emperor was young, and in order to observe the people's feelings, he chose to visit the people in late autumn, and later met an assassin, so he had to temporarily hide in the summer resort to recuperate, and summoned the local prefect to meet him.

When he was recuperating in the villa, he would often stay at night to attend their party in order to show his closeness to the people, called, bonfire party, a group of people sang and danced in front of the fire, it was very lively and happy.

That day he was happy behind his back, the prefect was busy with things and didn't come back, the people in the villa only knew that he was a distinguished guest of the prefect, and they treated him kindly, and insisted on pulling him in and jumping together, the guard almost pulled out a knife to stop him, he stopped the guard's hand, or joined their team like an ordinary person, holding an old uncle in his left hand, but holding a somewhat shy woman in his right hand, that was the later Queen Shen, it was a little dark at that time, he didn't look at her appearance carefully, But there are some different feelings about this woman.

Later, the emperor found that there was always a sound at the door of his room, he quietly leaned on the window and peeked, it turned out that Empress Shen was squatting there to feed the wild cat, she gently stroked the back of the wild cat, and smiled on her mouth, that was the first time the emperor saw the face that made him so excited.

She was well-read, gentle and lovely, and a little shy, he liked her, he liked her the first time he saw her, or rather, it was something he knew the first time he saw her.

"At that time, I wanted to take her back to the palace, but she didn't have a strong background, and as soon as she entered the palace, she was criticized by my mother, and she had to accept the embarrassment and meanness of the seventy-two concubines in the three palaces and six courtyards of the harem, how could she fight them as a simple person?"

That year, Empress Shen accidentally fell into the conspiracy of a nobleman, fell into the water and almost drowned, and it was also the approach of death that made the emperor feel afraid, he braved the scolding of the queen mother and the admonition of the ministers to abolish all the concubines in the harem, drive away those who drove away, punish the cold palace of the cold palace, and finally left Queen Shen alone.

This incident caused a sensation in the world at the time, and those who were interested in saying that the Emperor of Anping was an infatuated person, but those who were scheming said that the Emperor of Anping was a useless waste, naturally, in the words of the people who liked to talk about homely things and Mr. Hao, who loved to tell stories, their emperor was a love species, which was a good story that could make them sing for thousands of years.

Since ancient times, it has been the norm for men to have three wives and four concubines, especially the emperor, who is high and powerful, as long as he wants, what kind of beauty can't he get.

But like him, the man who should have seventy-two concubines the most, but he deposed all the concubines, leaving only Empress Shen alone, which is something that no one has ever done before.

The Empress Dowager was so angry that she almost sent troops to drive the emperor to the throne, but the emperor at that time already had his own power, so naturally he couldn't do what she wanted, so the Empress Dowager and the emperor discussed taking a step back from each other, and they could make Shen the queen, but they also had to marry her niece Lan as a concubine.

The emperor thought about it, no matter how big the background of the Lan clan was, he didn't dare to move the Shen clan under his nose, so he agreed to the deal.

"But Le'er, you know, my father has always doted on your queen mother, and it was just an accident with the Nalan family, I fell into the queen mother's ecstasy, and I had *** with her, so I gave birth to Fu'er. But I haven't been to her bedroom since, until I and your mother's first child died unexpectedly, and I love your mother even more, and I really want to give her the whole world as long as she loves it. ”

The son born to Concubine Lan was the emperor's first son, named Anfu, which was originally an Anping country under the inheritance system of the eldest son, but the emperor did not make Anfu the crown prince, under the pretext that he was still young and did not need to set up a prince.

The following year, Empress Shen gave birth to a son, but died unexpectedly on the third day after the child was born.

After making sure that it was not his mother or Concubine Lan, another year passed, until Empress Shen gave birth to another son.

As soon as he was born, he was named His Royal Highness the Prince, and the emperor also named him after the country name, that is, the current Prince of Anping, the ministers and the queen mother did not dare to admonish even if they had all kinds of complaints, and the emperor had already ordered that the re-establishment of the prince would not be pardoned and exterminate the nine clans, and this matter would be over.

The ministers would always gather together to talk about the secrets of the palace after they retired from the court: "This is fine, so that we don't have to stand on one side of the court and have their own disputes." "It's very simple, do you think the queen mother is a compromised lord, if that is the case, Lan Niangniang will not be arranged in, I am afraid that this prince still has a chance to ascend to the throne of the crown prince again, the future is undecided, you and I do not know."

Later, a year later, Empress Shen gave birth to the only princess in the entire Anping Kingdom, which was An Le.

"But in the second month of last year, your queen mother suddenly fell ill after lunch, and the next day she said that she would sew a long dress for you to wear in the summer, and she died on the spot."

The imperial doctor's diagnosis said that it was an emergency, and it was urgent, and it was also urgent.

So since then, the emperor has no intention of political affairs, and locks himself in the palace every day to recite Buddhist scriptures, and no one is seen, including Anle and Anping, and the queen mother is forced by a hunger strike, and only in exchange for a sentence "Children are not filial." ”

An Le felt the tears dripping from her father's body, and she raised her head to gently wipe away the tears for her father.

"Le'er, your queen mother is definitely not as simple as an emergency. Either Concubine Lan, or, your grandmother, I've been looking for evidence, but it's too well hidden. ”

The people of Anping know that the current queen mother is actually the emperor's adoptive mother, the emperor's biological mother died suddenly when he was eight years old, and the queen mother had no children under her knees, so she took the emperor over to raise and counsel, and also worked hard in front of the emperor to make him the prince, which gave him the opportunity to ascend the throne and become the emperor.

"My own mother, I'm afraid she also died in vain."

An Le's hand trembled, and the emperor also reached out to wipe away the spilled tears for her.

"This jade bracelet comes from the country of Tianyuan, it is very valuable, and it is the most important thing for you, since you were born, your mother has been keeping it, and one day my father hopes that you will not know its secrets, if you still can't avoid knowing, then you must also remember that your father and mother will always love you the most."

Empress Shen fell ill and died in the two days, An Le was called by the Queen Mother to the royal ancestral hall for various reasons early in the morning and knelt for two days, and the news of Empress Shen's death should have reached her ears, but the door of the ancestral hall was locked and could not be opened.

An Ping was busy taking care of his mother and father while still going to find An Le, some of his doppelgangers lacked skills, he was worried that An Le would go out of the palace and wander around, for fear of some accidents, and specially asked Yang Qi to look for it outside the palace.

It wasn't until the third day that the Queen Mother told him that An Le had been punished by her to kneel in the ancestral hall.

When An Le fainted in the ancestral hall with no food to eat or water, An Ping endured her grief and anger and carried her out.

An Le slowly woke up, and when he got better, he began to drink and eat a lot of water, and scolded and said: "Brother, my grandmother is too much, she even locked me up in the ancestral hall and knelt for two days on the grounds that my writing is ugly, my dancing is ugly, and my studies are too poor, and no one is allowed to send food and drink, no, I have to go to my father to complain, this time I can't indulge her anymore, I can't swallow this breath, it's too much, I don't like the child sent by my father in the war, and I'm angry." ”

An Ping was still thinking about how to tell her the news that the queen mother had died, and An Le asked him with a smile: "Brother, what about the queen mother?" The queen mother loves me the most, in the past, she sent someone to look for me when I was not in the palace for a day, why didn't she look for me this time? And what about the father? I was in the ancestral hall, but every minute I was hoping that she would find out that I was missing. ”

"Le'er Le'er, you listen to my brother, be calm. The queen mother, the queen mother since the day before yesterday after you were taken away, just after lunch is making a skirt for you, and said that I want to go to you to see how your embroidery is practicing, I am afraid that the great grandmother will embarrass you with this again, knot, but just after speaking, I suddenly became ill, yesterday, yesterday has left. ”

An Le fainted again.

"Father knows that what your mother wants to see most on her deathbed is you, and you have hated your great-grandmother for a year, how she made things difficult for you before, you have never been angry and hated her, only when you are a strict teacher and a high apprentice, only when your great-grandmother doesn't like girls, but this time, she has made you more regretful than you can let go of in your life."

"Yes, that's something that Le'er can't forgive in her life."

An Le has never felt so hated anyone, and the great-grandmother is the only exception.

The emperor wiped away his tears and then smiled reluctantly and continued: "Okay, my good friend, things are over, my father is useless, your peace has been decided, my father has prepared an edict, and you will give way to Ping'er after you and your relatives, but my father doesn't really want you to marry into other countries, suffering from lovesickness and unpredictable future, my father and Ping'er have already arranged, and someone will replace you halfway......"

An Le covered the emperor's mouth, "Father, don't." On that day, I overheard my great-grandmother's words, if I can't go to make peace, and there is no big country behind Anping to rely on, I am afraid that several other countries will unite to annex our Anping country at that time, either at that time or in the future, there will always be a day when we will be targeted. ”

The emperor was full of sadness, his own world, his wife, sons and daughters, he didn't seem to be able to protect anything.

He was about to say something, but the eunuch knocked on the door, and his small voice was heard: "Your Majesty, princess, it's not too early." ”

The emperor wiped away his tears, "Le'er, you go out first, I also called your brother over and had something to tell him." ”

An Le stretched out his hand to comb his father's hair, and then looked back at the coffin of the queen mother, "Father, Le'er still wants to see you in the future." ”

"Yes, yes."

When An Ping came in, he met two father and daughter with tears on their faces, and he forcibly endured the discomfort and took An Le out, "Le'er, go back to the palace earlier, the great grandmother already knows that you are here." ”

It wasn't until Anle gradually walked towards his residence that he returned to the secret passage to find his father.

In a flash, it was the day before the kiss, and somehow His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Chu State actually came to Anping Kingdom.

The emperor never showed up, and the queen mother had to order a banquet to be held in the evening for the second day's harmony, and asked someone to go to the princess's palace to call An Le to prepare to perform her dance skills.

"In that case, then please rest assured that Grandma Anle will behave well at night."

After An Le finished speaking to the eunuch who came to deliver the message, he asked Mung Bean to prepare lunch for her, "This princess has to eat enough to have the strength to perform." ”