On the second day of the court, Yang Xiangguo came out to ask for guilt, saying that the housekeeper was not strict, Chang's daily flying and domineering, the second lady endured humiliation, and finally couldn't bear the humiliation and killed Chang's by mistake.

The saint was furious and angrily accused the Yang family of ignoring the laws and regulations of the imperial court. Another courtier said that the Yang family's uncle was inevitably guilty and his feelings were pitiful.

In the end, Dali Siqing proposed a rod of fifty, flowing thousands of miles, and was punished with gold, exempted from the rod, and fined three hundred taels of silver.

The Holy One asked the ministers for their opinions, and they all said that it was all right.

Yang Xiangguo naturally made a point and found a proper place for his son. As for Chang San, although the Yang family wanted to trouble him, first, they were afraid that things would make a big deal, and second, the East Palace also sent someone to protect him, and finally the East Palace found a position for the chief soldier of Shanxi and transferred him.

This is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.

This day is the prince's birthday, royal rules, the prince does not have a big birthday. Therefore, most of the court and the central government do not know, and there are very few people in the palace who know the day.

After retiring from the dynasty, there were eunuchs around the emperor who led the prince to kowtow to the queen mother, and the emperor and queen were rewarded everywhere, so there is no need to elaborate.

After leaving the palace, the prince still went to the mausoleum of the first queen to pay respects as in previous years. It was already evening when I rushed back to the East Palace.

Xing'er knew that the prince was in a bad mood, so he only picked some ordinary and happy things and said: "Mama Zhang also told the slave yesterday that she had prepared longevity noodles for the master. Do you want to go to Baopu Temple? ”

The prince nodded.

Sure enough, Mama Zhang prepared a whole table of birthday banquets, and the prince ate some at will, but Xue Ke tasted a few bites of everything.

Mama Zhang told the little maid to clean up the table, and the prince suddenly asked, "Is the girl willing to go?" ”

Xue Ke nodded noncommittally, and Ah Liu came up to put on her robe and tie her cloak. After she cleaned up, the prince waved his hand to them: "You don't have to follow, I'll walk with the girl casually." ”

Xue Ke only followed the prince, in the East Palace, she except for the Suzheng Hall and the Baopu Courtyard, she basically did not set foot in other places, but she did not know that there was a large area of wide water to the east, but there was no trace of carving, because it had just entered the New Year, and the water surface did not have much scenery, and it looked very open. The wind came on the water, and the chill was soaking.

Xue Ke kicked the stone under his feet and said, "Today is His Highness's birthday, and I don't have anything to congratulate." ”

The prince sighed casually, and the two fell silent again.

After a while, the prince suddenly said, "Do you know my queen mother?" ”

"The first queen is virtuous and virtuous, and she is a model for women in the world, of course I know."

"Virtuous and virtuous," the prince muttered, and sneered again: "He thinks it is beautiful." ”

Xue could see that he said something strange, but when he thought about the royal secrets, he didn't bother to ask. The two were silent for a long time, and the prince asked in a low voice, "Do you know how my queen mother died?" ”

Xue Kedao: "It is said that the first queen is peerless, and the saint and his wife are deeply in love, who knows that the love is not long, and he is seriously ill, the emperor is sad about this, the first queen called her sister into the palace to comfort the sacred heart, and said that after the death of the first queen, the emperor missed it, and set up his sister as the successor, and canonized the prince." ”

Xue Ke glanced at the prince, he was canonized at the age of four, and now that he thinks about it, it is not easy to lose his mother at the age of four.

The prince looked at the ripples on the surface of the water, and after looking at it for a long time, his head was a little dizzy, and he couldn't help but sneer: "Yes! People all over the world say this, they are the mother of the country and an example, of course they have to say so. ”

His voice was low, a little hoarse: "The queen mother is just suffering from a cold. At that time, the palace affairs were heavy, and the queen mother did not recuperate well, and dragged it until it became a symptom, so after entering the summer, the queen mother wanted to recuperate for a while, and picked up her sister who was a fellow mother, oh, it was my aunt, the current queen, who entered the palace to help with some palace affairs. ”

The first queen became married when the emperor was still a prince, from the princess to the princess and then to the queen, all the way over, and the emperor is a young husband and wife friendship, the relationship has always been excellent, she has a stable position, the harem only has her eldest son under her knees, and her brother is also thriving, and she really hopes to take care of her body.

That day, she drank the medicine and fell asleep in the Kunning Palace, and she didn't know what time she woke up. Sleepy in the summer afternoon, the maid on the side fell asleep in a daze before the collapse, she was too lazy to wake up, so she put on soft shoes and put on a middle coat and walked out of the room.

There was no one in the inner sanctuary, and I knew that it was chirping happily. Then she heard the woman's delicate voice: "Don't! Brother-in-law! …… No...... Yes...... The emperor ...... "She fell into an ice cellar, but she couldn't help but push open the screen, and two naked people looked at her together, one was the sister-in-law of a mother's compatriot, and the other was her husband who did all her best to help him ascend to the Ninety-Five."

She felt like she was standing outside under the sun, a little bit, a little bit of it just melting.

Her illness is getting worse day by day, she wants to try to live for her four-year-old son, but it is only in vain, people are getting thinner day by day, and finally she can't lie down when she sleeps thin, just clutching her bones and hurting all over her body.

Even her own mother felt that she couldn't stay up anymore, but she dragged it out until winter, like a candle in the wind, and she didn't know which breath would be extinguished.

From that day on, no matter how the emperor coaxed her, apologized, pleaded, and coerced, she never saw the emperor again, nor did she see her sister, she was afraid of scaring the child, but she was lying alone in the Changchun Palace, and only a few people around her could enter.

Finally, her mother took her sister to kneel outside the Changchun Palace, it turned out that her sister was pregnant, and she couldn't hide it when she was older. Her own mother cried loudly outside the palace: "Queen Mother, please leave a way for your sister to live!" ”

The prince said leisurely: "That year, when I had just been enlightened, my father and grandmother found me and asked me to go in with two edicts to see my mother, and they told me that if I read it to my mother word for word, my mother would be fine when she saw that I read well, and she would be fine when she was happy." ”

Xue Ke felt a little unbearable, and gently put his hand on the prince's hand.

"The charcoal fire in the hall was very strong, but there was a cold air, and the queen mother was lying on the bed, covered with a thick quilt, motionless, and I didn't recognize her. Mama carried me to the bed and asked me to call her. I read to her the edict of my father, I was afraid of reading it wrong, I had read it many times in the study, the first edict was to canonize me as the crown prince, and the second was to summon my aunt into the palace and canonize Concubine De. ”

"The queen mother asked Mama Zhang to help her sit up, she was panting very much, she insisted on seeing the edict of canonizing the prince in person, she took my hand, pointed to the edict and read the four words 'never give up' on it, she praised me for reading it well, and then told me that the queen mother is really sorry for you, and the queen mother can only hold on to this."

The prince looked at the distance self-deprecatingly and said: "When I was a child, my memory was really good, and the canonized concubine used the phoenix seal of the queen mother, and I can still memorize it." 'The concubine used to obey the order, as the concubine of the East Palace, and inherited the grace of heaven, and won the posterior position. Fulfill the letter and think smoothly, in order to seek cooperation. The body suffers from uncured diseases, the appointment of the empty white head, the love of the Son of Heaven is heavy, and the cocoon is sad. How can a concubine bear it? Concubine sister Hu, dignified and virtuous, respectful and docile, please be named a concubine, but please be a saint for the people of the world, allow. 'How is it, is this edict written with great style and sincerity? ”