"Brother just mentioned the matter of the throne, but what rumors did you hear when you entered the palace today?" Outside the door, Shen Yichi asked Zhong Huaining.

Fang Cai was full of thoughts on Zhong Ling, and now that he was empty, he remembered that Yu Ying had said that all the officials had been summoned to the palace today, and Shen Yichi realized that the situation was not right.

Zhong Huaining sighed depressedly: "Yes, Your Majesty has only been dead for less than half an hour, and I and other civil and military officials have been summoned to the palace. ”

"Oh? Isn't it?"

If it is said that it is a hundred officials to mourn, it should also wait for the emperor's coffin to be placed properly, how can he be so anxious and choose to ask someone to disturb his peace when Lu Chaoge's body is still cold?

Zhong Huaining shook his head: "Where is it, Yuyun has subdued Mobei this time but there is no monarch, all forces covet the throne, and this time the summoning of hundreds of officials is the accession of Emperor Zhang Luoxin." ”

Hearing this, Shen Yichi was stunned for a moment: "The new emperor ascends the throne?" If he is not mistaken, the only bloodline left by Lu Chaoge is still in Concubine Min's belly, how to choose the new emperor?

"That's what the Queen Mother said, as for this candidate, there are a lot of criticisms in the DPRK and China, and I really can't find a reason."

Speaking of the successor candidate, Shen Yichi couldn't help but think of one person, but at the moment, it was not known whether that person was an enemy or a friend, so it was inconvenient for him to mention it in front of Zhong Huaining.

"Okay, it's not early, I'll go back first, you can appease Ah Ling, she must be uncomfortable now." After instructing Shen Yichi, Zhong Huaining immediately turned around and left.

At this moment, the faint candle flame was still flickering in the room behind him, and Shen Yichi hesitated for a while, but finally did not push the door open.

In this way, he kept Zhong Ling outside all night, and it was not until dawn that Shen Yichi gently pushed the door in.

thought that Zhong Ling must have fallen asleep, but Shen Yichi specially relaxed his steps, but he never thought that as soon as he entered the door, he saw her curled up at the foot of the bed with a lifeless appearance.

A dark cloud suddenly rose on Shen Yichi's forehead, his ink-like sword eyebrows frowned, and he hurriedly quickened his pace and walked to her side.

"Ling'er, Ling'er!"

Zhong Ling seemed to have lost her soul, and Shen Yichi shouted several times in succession before she finally came back to her senses and looked at him.

"You haven't slept all night?" Shen Yichi asked, what the truth was, he probably already had a conclusion in his heart.

Zhong Ling didn't answer, his face was haggard like a walking corpse, Shen Yichi suddenly became anxious: "Ling'er, I know that Lu Chaoge is sad that you are dead, but how good is your current condition?" How can you spoil yourself like this? ”

Suddenly, Lu Chaoge's three words seemed to wake up Zhong Ling heavily, and the tears that had been swirling in her eyes for a whole day finally surged.

"Why, why didn't I stay by Ah Man's side in the first place, he is obviously a simple-hearted child, why didn't I protect him well, why did I let him make a big mistake? It's all my fault, I hurt him......"

Zhong Ling muttered to himself, his emotional tone became more and more intense, and Shen Yichi's eyes were full of distress.

In the past, on the battlefield, even if the cold sword pierced her shoulder blade, she never shed a single tear, but now she cried into tears for the sake of this person she had been talking about all day long, how to hate her.

Shen Yichi took Zhong Ling into his arms, stretched out his hand and patted her back gently: "Cry, just cry." ”

Amnesty Palace.

The Empress Dowager temporarily came to the court on behalf of the first emperor and convened the ministers to discuss the new emperor's accession to the throne.

"The first emperor died young, the mourning family was grief-stricken, but I forgive the clouds now internal and external troubles, I really can't tolerate the silence of the mourning family, the country can't be without a king for a day, Your Majesty has no children under your knees, I don't know who Aiqing thinks this throne should be handed over?"

The Queen Mother asked hypocritically, in fact, she just wanted to sit on the throne first, which was really Sima Zhao's heart - everyone knew it, so the ministers only dared to look at each other.

It took a long time to see someone stand up: "The Empress Dowager, the old minister thinks that the child in Concubine Min's womb is the only bloodline of His Majesty, and he should succeed to the throne." Naturally, it was Concubine Min's father, Cao Xiangong, who spoke.

Lu Chaoge was bent on getting rid of this old fox before he died, but the child in Concubine Min's womb had not been disposed of, but he himself took the lead.

Now that the throne is vacant, I am afraid that no one in the Manchu Dynasty has more say than the Cao family, who holds the dragon vein.

However, letting an unborn child come to court through his mother's belly, Cao Xiangong's words are really ridiculous, and they soon attracted rebuttals.

"Cao County Gong Mo is not confused, Concubine Min Niangniang is indeed pregnant with the dragon vein, but now it is only when it is first revealed, there are still a few months left before the dragon vein is born, how to succeed to the throne?"

Hearing this, several other old ministers who are usually not used to seeing the Cao family also refuted one after another, probably saying that the child has not yet been born, and it may not be possible to keep it or a girl's family, so he can't act so hastily. 90 look

But the old fox of Cao Xiangong has been able to hold a high position above this deceitful court for so many years, how could he not have any consideration before saying these seemingly fanciful words?

I saw Cao Xiangong smiling flatteringly at the empress dowager in the hall: "The old minister naturally knows that the country cannot be without a king for a day, so before the dragon vein in the womb of Concubine Min Niangniang becomes an adult, he has to ask the empress dowager to supervise the government." ”

Now that Lu Chaoge is dead, the Empress Dowager is the most noble person in the Yuyun Kingdom, and the Duke of Cao County naturally can't wait to slap her, which is really right for her appetite.

I saw a trace of imperceptible snickering on the face of the Empress Dowager, which was inevitably criticized, and soon turned into a hypocritical face.

The Empress Dowager was upright, and sighed with a helpless look: "The mourning family is just a woman's family, and it shouldn't have been involved in the affairs of the court, but God doesn't treat my Lu family kindly, and now looking at the entire pardon cloud, there is really no blood of the Lu family, and the mourning family has no objection to what the Cao County Gong said, but I don't know the ...... of the Aiqing."

"I'm against it!" Before the Empress Dowager could finish speaking, a man's fierce voice suddenly came from outside the hall.

The ministers looked in the direction of the comer, and saw a young man in a bright yellow robe coming over.

Coming closer, the bright yellow robe seemed to be embroidered with some kind of animal pattern—one, two, three, four, five...... Five claws, isn't that...... Robes?

The Empress Dowager's attention was also immediately attracted by the dragon robe on the man's body, and she was immediately furious, and she didn't even bother to see who this person was.

"Dare to disobey the people, dare to wear dragon robes! The following offenders, someone will ......" The Queen Mother said and asked the forbidden army to throw out this hairy boy who didn't know whether he was alive or dead, but he looked very calm.

"Wait! Why, the son has only been out of the palace for a few days, and the queen mother doesn't recognize the son of the minister? ”

This "queen mother" really made the queen mother's jaw drop, she didn't know when she had such a son.

"You...... Hugh is nonsense! The Empress Dowager had just reprimanded the people in the hall, and after a closer look, she always felt that she had seen him somewhere.

The Empress Dowager frowned and thought for a while, and a bright light suddenly flashed in her mind: "You are ...... That perennial stupid little madman in the Snow Courtyard?"

"It turned out to be a madman." The ministers all despised it.

The people in the hall sneered helplessly when they heard this, who said it wasn't, all these years in the palace, a place full of open guns and hidden arrows, he was pretending to be crazy and stupid, everyone was a madman, and sometimes even he couldn't tell whether he was really crazy or not.

After a moment of silence, the man hooked the corners of his lips and raised his eyes to look at the dragon chair under the Empress Dowager that he had coveted for a long time.

Before the Empress Dowager could react, the people in the hall had already walked up to her in front of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, staring at her with two eyes.

"You madman, presumptuous!" The Empress Dowager was so frightened by this person's sudden approach that she suddenly shrank back a few inches, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were dumbfounded.

The man smiled defiantly at the Empress Dowager, then turned back to face the group of people who seemed to be at his feet.

"Let me introduce, I'm not some crazy person in the mouth of the Queen Mother, I have a name, my name is Lu Qiming!"

Lu Qiming said his name word by word, and the audience immediately began to discuss.

"Lu? The surname Lu is the surname of the royal family of Forgiveness, now that Your Majesty is dead, how can there be a person surnamed Lu in the court? It's ......"

Baiguan seems to smell something, and then look at the empress dowager on the dragon chair, look at her embarrassed image of being struck by thunder, I think I should have guessed Lu Qiming's identity.

Seeing that everyone was still suspicious of their identity, Lu Qiming added: "To be more detailed, I am the only bloodline of the Amnesty Cloud Imperial Family now, which is much more real than the unborn child in Lord Cao's mouth. ”

Lu Qiming's targeted, words are clearly a warning to Cao Xiangong not to covet things that do not belong to him.

It is rare for Cao Xiangong to have a big dream of the Spring and Autumn Festival of owning the world, how can he be willing to be cut off halfway by a person of unknown origin? He then walked out of the crowd and pointed at him indignantly.

"Nonsense! I pardon the clouds and the whole country knows that the first emperor is the only bloodline of the Lu family, you yellow-mouthed child who appeared out of thin air, as soon as you come up, you say that you are the royal bloodline, do you really think that we are confused? ”

Lu Qiming had long expected that the road to the throne would not be so smooth, but he had endured humiliation for so many years, and finally climbed to a place one step away from the throne, what was this stumbling in front of him?

"It's true that my biological mother's status is low, and even my genuine prince doesn't even have a name, but the blood of the Lu family flowing in my body is true, what, do you want to verify your identity? The Empress Dowager?"

Lu Qiming turned his head to look at the Empress Dowager, forgiving her for not daring to really pry Lu Chaoge's coffin.

For a while, Lu Qiming's identity became a mystery, and the entire Xuanzheng Hall was talking about him, a sudden royal orphan, but the only surviving insider of this matter was still kept in the dark.