In a blink of an eye, it was the second day of the second month of the first year of Taikang, and according to the customs of the palace, this was naturally an extremely grand festival, and it was necessary to celebrate it in a big way. The queen announced early in the morning that Yingshu and several other internal and external wives asked a few people to prepare in advance, saying that on the second day of the second month of February, the emperor and queen would take a few concubines to Xishan to go to the west mountain to pray for blessings, so they wanted a few people to accompany them.

In previous years, when Empress Taishang was there, she naturally had this tradition, but at that time, Yingshu's status was not high, so she naturally did not go to accompany her. When his eldest sister Ying Huan became the queen, Shen Bin did not inherit the title of marquis, and his natural identity was still a little worse, and he never had the opportunity to go.

This is the first time I have had the opportunity to participate in the worship on the second day of February.

"Now that your belly is getting bigger, is that okay? It's tiring to climb. When Shen Bin heard that Yingshu was summoned by the queen to climb the mountain, he was very worried.

"Oops, nothing. The queen also said that the whole process was in the sedan chair. It's just that you need to casually climb a few times and pretend, what's all the fuss. Ying Shu was not worried, but told Shen Bin not to worry too much.

"Well, I'm not worried about you, then? It's not tired to sit in a sedan chair, but now the weather in the capital, one day at a time, who knows what it will be like? If you go, you'll go, but you need to wear more clothes. ”

Ying Shu was very resistant, "This ...... The weather is pretty nice these days, so why wear so much? I think it's okay to wear it casually, otherwise it's too much to wear, and it's really hot. After that, Ying Shu squeezed her eyebrows at Shen Bin, just coquettish.

"No way!" The man was very determined, not impressed by his coquettishness, and still insisted on wearing more clothes, "Put on the windy vertical collar flat gold silk robe, don't freeze and catch a cold." ”

"Hmm!" Ying Shu rolled her eyes, muttered something in her mouth, and turned to the inner hall to lie down.

When it came to the day of climbing the mountain to pray for blessings, Ying Shu realized that Shen Bin was really a prescient person.

The weather in Pingjing, like a woman with complex emotions, is changing, and it was supposed to be warm for a few days in a row, but on the day of the actual outing, I found that the temperature plummeted, and it was cold again for a while.

Fortunately, I listened to Shen Bin's words and wore a thick robe, so that I didn't shiver in the cold wind in the mountains.

When she returned home, Ying Shu gave Shen Bin a smile very interestingly, and said flatteringly: "Master Hou, I am really an unpredictable prophet, so that I will not suffer ordinary crimes!" ”

Shen Bin looked at Ying Shu's pretentious appearance coldly, and only said, "It's good to know." ”

But other people may not have the same good luck as Yingshu.

For example, the queen Hang and the crown prince Li Ji.

The queen and the prince are naturally not wearing less, but the weather in Pingjing City is changeable, and they can't prevent anything, especially the prince Li Ji is weak, and he will inevitably catch a cold and suffer from the wind chill for a while.

Children are already weak, and when they are sick, they dare not use medicine at will like adults. In this way, all the imperial doctors were helpless, even though everyone was the holy hand of Xinglin, but in the face of a tricky patient, how could they not know what to do for a while.

If the medicine is too light, the prince's illness will not be cured; If the medication is too heavy, the child is afraid that he will not be able to bear it. In the end, several people thought about it and decided to give the medicine to the nurse to drink, turn it into **, and then feed it to the prince, so that it may be of some use.

The prince is sick, but it affects the hearts of the whole court, after all, this is not a modern era with developed medicine, or ordinary adults will die if they catch a cold, not to mention that it is just a child. Moreover, this little child is not an outsider, it is a major event related to the government and the stability of the country, once the prince's life is in danger, it will be related to everyone.

Ying Shu is also very concerned about the prince's illness at home, but sometimes she will inevitably feel that if there is no birth of the prince Li Ji, then Li Yuan should still be in power even if the crown prince's position is shaky.

It shouldn't be the way it is now.

"Now that the crown prince and the queen are sick, they should have entered the palace to serve the sick, but now that I am pregnant, I don't need to." Ying Shu sighed, in fact, she really wanted to go into the palace to see the situation and see how the prince and queen were doing, otherwise she would always be a little worried if she couldn't see it.

Although I don't like the queen, I always enter the palace these days and often see the queen, even if I don't have feelings, I will inevitably care a little more. If you are sick and suffer from illness all the time, it is also a very uncomfortable thing.

"I went to the palace to ask Your Majesty, Your Majesty has been looking very anxious recently, looking at the prince's illness, it should be bad."

In this way, it will be half a month.

The queen's body is gradually getting better, but the crown prince Li Ji's body has not been reported to be improving. It is said that the imperial doctor in the hospital is also very helpless, even if the medicine is turned into *** for the prince to drink through the prince's nurse, it is useless.

As a result, not only was the wind and cold not cured, but the prince did not know when he began to suffer from heart palpitations.

Such a young child has heart palpitations, and has been infected with wind and cold for half a month, Yingshu's first feeling is that this child may not be better.

I didn't know what kind of mentality I should have for a while.

As expected, news came out in the palace that on the third day of the third month of the second year of Taikang, the crown prince Li Ji was sick, but he was only two years old.

It is said that the crown prince Li Ji died in the middle of the night, that night the prince had just drunk the nurse's drugged ***, that is, he kept crying, and finally fell asleep by the nurse, but that night suddenly a thunder sounded in the sky, and suddenly the wind blew down a tree in the courtyard outside the prince's palace, and even the window was opened. Such a loud noise can be imagined.

And the prince already had heart palpitations, so he was immediately frightened into heart palpitations and cried in the palace.

At night, the palace was already depressed, and the prince immediately couldn't breathe when he cried like this, and before the imperial doctor came, the prince was already gone.

The sound of the cloud board slammed into the ground, and the sound of mourning music suddenly broke out in the capital, which was clearly the New Year, and the whole country had to express their condolences again.

The crown prince Li Ji is the only son of Emperor Li Ming, and the grief of losing his child is also conceivable, he was so grief-stricken that he ordered a national funeral, prohibiting entertainment and marrying for a year to express mourning, and if there is an offense, it will be punished more severely. and personally gave a tribute to the prince, "mourning the prince".

Besides, the queen, who was about to be in good health, had already mustered up the spirit to take care of the crown prince Li Ji, but the prince was scared to death when he was not with the prince that night. When the queen heard this, she fainted, and it took two days before she woke up. After waking up, the queen cried and shouted to see the last face of the crown prince Li Ji, but at that time the prince Li Ji had already been buried, and everyone was even more worried that the queen would not dare to let the queen see the tragic situation of her child when she was dying, and even the emperor Li Ming also thought that the queen would not be allowed to go. In this way, the queen immediately became depressed and depressed, and she was sick again, and the town was sad.

This is a very normal behavior of a loving parent after the death of a child, but anything that falls on the royal family will not be so simple.

For example, there have always been rules for the funeral of the crown prince of the royal family, and the crown prince Li Ji died of a minor, so naturally there are original ancestral family laws that stipulate funerals and funeral regulations. The prince has always died young, whether there is a crown prince or not, it can't be done in a big way, just a small golden coffin is carried out of the palace. What's more, even if the adult prince died young, although it is a national funeral, it should not be too grand to have the whole country mourn for a year.

According to the rules of the palace, such a heavy weight is something that the prince Li Ji is so blessed to endure.

Even if some people talk about admonishment and persuade the emperor not to indulge in grief excessively and forget the family law of the ancestors, even if the former lord Rong Ke and even the first emperor died, it is only forbidden for the families of hundreds of officials and nobles to marry and mourn, and there is no reason for the whole country to mourn.

When the emperor heard this, he was furious, and immediately said: "If my son is an adult, naturally there will be a day when he ascends to the throne of God." Why, do you think my son deserves a short life? Since it is to be able to ascend the throne, what if the funeral is not grand? ”

Then the emperor rebuked the officials like crazy, ordered a few people to go home and think about it, and accused them of disrespecting the prince.

But everyone knows why several imperial historians were reprimanded by the emperor.

The dynasty has always had a tradition, and even if the official imperial history is extremist or disagrees with the emperor's thoughts, he cannot be reprimanded, but the emperor has already touched the ancestral family law by doing so.

Worse is yet to come.

It was not enough for those officials to be reprimanded, and in the next few days, they took the initiative to ask the emperor to resign and return to their hometowns.

The story that followed was a violent death, one was killed by the rogue, and a fire broke out in the house in the capital before leaving. Not only the three imperial historians, but also the wives and children of several imperial historians were also implicated, and no one was spared.

It is clear that people will be suspicious when they look at it, but they can't catch any actual evidence, which is exactly what happened to Sanyang Pavilion Elder back then.

Everyone understands that the emperor is getting more and more crazy.

"That's good, only if you keep making trouble, will you be unpopular!" Ying Shu sneered.

Shen Bin only looked at Ying Shu, but couldn't help but quip: "Now Madame, she is becoming more and more like a general." ”

"I can't compare to the talent of the general, I still have to thank Your Majesty I can't sit still. Hmph......" Ying Shu snorted coldly: "Now it seems that between His Majesty and the Emperor, do you still need to choose?" ”

Shen Bin shook his head: "Probably no." ”

"I want to know what to do next." Ying Shu smiled, outlining an innocent smile.

What can be said will not be so innocent and harmless.

"Of course I know. I just need Mrs. to help......" Shen Bin looked at Ying Shu with a smile.