"The spring breeze peach and plum blossoms bloom, and the autumn rain when the sycamore leaves fall. There are many autumn grasses in the south of the West Palace, and the fallen leaves are full of red and do not sweep. ”

The transition season of summer and autumn is always inevitable with continuous rainy days, not too small raindrops on the decayed leaves in the Yu Imperial Palace, which have not yet had time to be cleaned, and the cicadas hide among the branches that have not many leaves left, and let out bursts of wails, adding some gloomy feelings to the palace that does not have much human touch, and making people feel chilled.

"Niangniang, it's really not appropriate to stay here for a long time, let's go back to the palace, Your Majesty should be in a hurry."

The deep jujube pavilion is hidden in the rain curtain, making it difficult to see who is standing in it, but the gorgeous red robe is fully displayed in this autumn scene through the raindrop curtain.

Gently dropping the damp sunspot in her hand, the woman took the embroidered handkerchief handed over by the palace maid and wiped her hands, no longer looking at the scattered chess game, and got up and left the pavilion.

The palace maid named Dongmei skillfully unfolded an oil-paper umbrella with a phoenix pattern painted in vermilion, and walked beside the queen of the Dayu Dynasty.

The queen mother frowned, she knew that the mother was very depressed at this time.

The Seven Princes refused the summons of His Majesty and Niangniang again and again, either lying sick in bed or going out to travel, unless the holy decree mandated not to enter the palace.

Today is the fifth day of the new year, and Niangniang got up early in the morning to wait for the seven princes who should have come to ask for peace, but I saw that from early morning to afternoon, the continuous autumn rain has changed several waves, and the seven princes still did not appear.

"Don't be angry, the Seventh Prince may have something delayed."

Empress Rongqi's steps did not stop, but she tilted her head slightly to Dongmei's side. The golden luan phoenix on his head shook and made a crisp and pleasant sound.

"Needless to say, I know it all." Empress Rongqi's voice was soft and dignified, and it was like a gurgling spring in people's hearts.

Dongmei didn't say much when she heard this, just sighed, and quietly held an oil-paper umbrella for the queen.

As the direct executor of the incident of exchanging concubines for concubines that year, she personally took away the crying six princes from the arms of the Lin family, and personally took away the seven princes in the reluctant eyes of the twenty-two-year-old queen mother.

When the prince was five years old, he was picked by a poisonous woman and broke his hamstrings, but in this year, the queen mother was pregnant with a dragon fetus.

But how scared she was, she saw the eldest queen mother since she was a child, she was a cowardly and fearful person, although gentle but too kind, the prince was blatantly harmed by the concubine and became a waste, but the queen mother just cried every day in the Cheng'an Palace to seek His Majesty's protection.

If you can't protect the prince now, you won't be able to protect the little prince in the future.

So on that moonless night, she entered the imperial study alone and asked the emperor for "the tanuki for the prince".

To her surprise, the emperor only thought about it for less than a cup of tea, and then wrote down the secret decree in his own hand.

The emperor was actually a very good husband, and when he was the prince of King Yu, he only married a young lady.

But that was before he ascended the throne.

As the emperor, he has more things to weigh, he can't favor the queen, he needs to take a concubine to level the previous dynasty.

After a long time, although the queen mother has not fallen out of favor, it is not as good as before. She knows, the emperor knows, and the empress knows.

The queen mother was accused of being a bad mother because the prince was injured and became a waste, if she couldn't protect the little prince, then the queen mother was caught by someone, and it was very likely that she would be pulled down.

She wouldn't allow it.

Even if the queen mother hated her because of this, she did not regret it.

So at the age of twenty-two, the queen Qi Buruo, who had just given birth to a little prince, watched her personal palace maid take away her child, and took out a secret decree to tell her that this was the will of the saint.

What followed was the emperor's decree to canonize her as Empress Rongqi.

The Dayu Dynasty continued the tradition of the Li Dynasty, and the harem women did not have titles, and if the empress and the empress dowager were valued by the emperor, they would add the word "Rong" to the original surname, indicating the infinite glory and supreme glory of being a royal family.

It's not that it doesn't have the slightest effect, the queen who doesn't have the title is a product in the harem, and the queen who gets the title is a product in the court, and the grade, salary, and identity are all different.

That day, she watched the queen mother kneeling at the feet of the eunuch who announced the decree and crying regardless of her image, and she refused to give up until the emperor came in person.

What everyone didn't expect was that Queen Rongqi only cried on the night of her birth, and never mentioned this matter again, happily amusing her six princes every day, and doing her best to play a qualified queen mother.

But Dongmei has always known that Queen Rongqi has hated all of them in her heart all these years, hated her husband who took away her child regardless of her feelings, and hated her who sent away her child privately.

Over the years, in order to get more news about the Seven Princes, the queen mother has become closer and closer to the emperor. She listened to him tell about the Seven Princes' strength and self-reliance, and she frowned distressedly when she practiced martial arts; tells the story of the seven princes who shrugged helplessly when they knelt in the center of the palace banquet to ask for seals; tells the story of the Seven Princes and Xiao Anxi of the Prime Minister's Mansion, when they became friends, they smiled with relief.

On the night of the loss of the crown prince, the expressionless Empress Rongqi and the emperor sat behind the tulle screen of Cheng'an Palace, and watched calmly as the Seventh Prince kowtowed and fainted on the main hall of Cheng'an Palace.

Since then, Empress Rongqi has never asked about the Seventh Prince, nor has she ever seen the Emperor again.

It wasn't until the emperor observed for a few years that he offered to make the seventh prince the crown prince, and Niangniang met the emperor.

The queen mother has never really laughed since she was twenty-two years old, Dongmei knows.

But she doesn't regret it, and if she starts again, she will choose to keep the concubine of the Qi family and keep Qi Buruo's posterior.

"No, he ........"

As soon as he heard the eunuch's rumor, Yu Zhe, who came out of the Cheng'an Palace, found that Qi Buruo was not followed by a young man, so he swallowed back the second half of the words, and his gloomy and uncertain expression was exactly the same as Yu Yi'an.

"From now on, don't leave this kind of front-war to me." Qi Buru sat on the emperor's soft stool dignifiedly, "It's a day to sit in that broken pavilion, and it's very tiring." ”

Seeing this, the emperor did not criticize much, but strolled forward and pinched his wife's shoulder.

Suddenly, in the main hall of the huge Cheng'an Palace, only the rustling sound of palms and clothes could be heard.

Dongmei held her breath and looked at the big eunuch beside the emperor in disbelief, only to find that the other party also looked like a ghost.

The two men looked at each other and smiled, bowed in unison and withdrew.

"Alright, don't press it anymore." Seeing the person leave, Qi Buruo's shoulders shook and impatiently shook off Yu Zhe's hand.

Da Yu Chao Emperor's hand shook, and he hovered in mid-air awkwardly with a string of red agate beads.