Emperor Cheng finally persuaded the ministers to abolish the burial system of living people, Emperor Cheng suddenly felt a lot more relaxed and suddenly felt sleepy, returned to his dormitory and wanted to take a nap, he didn't want the Queen Mother to come, he had to get up to welcome the Queen Mother into the palace.

After the Queen Mother sat down, she didn't speak, but shook her head frequently while looking around at Emperor Cheng's slightly humble bedroom, and Emperor Cheng immediately guessed the Queen Mother's intention this time.

"The emperor's bedroom is too simple and deserted, so I'll buy some more things tomorrow." The Queen Mother looked at Emperor Cheng and smiled.

Emperor Cheng hurriedly bowed down and thanked: "Thank your mother for mercy."

The Queen Mother changed her words and continued: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother can help you add and replace this object, but the emperor has to solve it himself." “

Emperor Cheng knew that this was the true intention of the Queen Mother, and it was also where his headache was, so he had no good plan at the moment and had to pretend to be deaf and dumb to get through, Emperor Cheng laughed: "Erchen doesn't feel that this Yunxi Palace is deserted, Erchen doesn't like many people to serve, and one person in May is enough." “

The Queen Mother said angrily: "Does the emperor really not understand or is he pretending to be confused?" You know that what the queen mother said is not this, the emperor is not young, the first emperor is the emperor, always want to find a woman for the emperor who has both ability and political integrity, and is stunning, but he doesn't want to delay it, and now the emperor is in danger, and he met the martyrdom when he first ascended the throne, and finally this matter has been properly resolved. “

Emperor Cheng hesitated for a long time, glanced at the Queen Mother, and said half-swallowing: "Erchen wants to include Princess Yu in the palace as the queen, so ......."

The Queen Mother was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and immediately objected: "This matter must not be!" According to the ancestral system, the emperor can accept Princess Yu into the palace to accompany the king, but he must not be in the middle palace! “

"Why can't you preside over the Middle Palace? Queen Mother, since the funeral system can be abolished, why can't Princess Yu be the queen?! Emperor Cheng looked directly at the Queen Mother, he knew that this matter would have to be faced sooner or later, since it was said at the moment, it was better to convince the Queen Mother.

"If I say no, I can't do it, Lan Xue will never enter the Middle Palace if she remarries!" The Queen Mother's attitude was resolute.

Emperor Cheng remembered the past of the enthronement ceremony and asked: "I still remember that in the enthronement hall, King Jing once proposed to make Lan Xueyi my queen, and the queen mother agreed at that time, why is she so opposed now?!" “

The Queen Mother smiled bitterly and shook her head: "Your Majesty, at that time, it was a last resort, but at this time, the emperor insisted on going his own way, and the palace also knew that Lan Xue was beautiful and intelligent, and she was a rare couple, and the king of Chongqing was crippled, and she was still white and flawless as a princess, but she was a remarried person after all, and she was just an accessory of the Chongqing Palace, and she only complained that her life was not good." “

Emperor Cheng saw that the Queen Mother was resolute, and there seemed to be no room for negotiation at all, such a Queen Mother and the gentle and demure Queen Mother in the past, the empathetic Queen Mother judged the two, it seems that there must be something that cannot be said about the difficulties, Emperor Cheng thought of this and blurted out: "Since the Queen Mother knows that Lan Xueyi is a rare couple, and also knows that she, the princess, is just a false name, why is she so opposed?" Could it be that there is something unspeakable about the queen mother, so she is so opposed to Zhen Naxue as the queen? “

The Queen Mother stared at Emperor Cheng and sighed: "Don't hide it from the emperor, do you know why the emperor obviously likes King Yu but refuses to pass on the throne to him?" “

Emperor Cheng's heart skipped a beat, he suppressed his curiosity, and shook his head calmly.

"When the first emperor was alive, he mentioned the princes to the palace more than once, and his favorite was the emperor and the king of Chongqing, but the king of Chongqing was too resentful, and the emperor was worried that the throne would harm him, and the most important thing was that he married Lan Xueyi as his concubine! The emperor still remembers that the first emperor once intended to pass on the throne to King Tianbao, but later he did not mention this matter again, does the emperor know why? The Queen Mother stared at Emperor Cheng.

Emperor Cheng shook his head again.

The Queen Mother stood up, walked to the portrait of the first emperor, stroked the face of the first emperor with her hand, and muttered to herself: "You still hate him after all, don't you?" ”

Emperor Cheng's eyes showed hesitation, stood behind the Queen Mother, stared at her instantly lonely expression and asked, "What did the Queen Mother say?" Who hates whom? ”

The Queen Mother suddenly felt as if she was in a dream, she didn't turn her face to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes, shook her head and said: "No one hates anyone, only the first emperor is not at ease, not worried about Prime Minister Lan Guang, the reason why the first emperor no longer passed the throne to King Yu and King Tianbao is that they married Lan Guang's daughter as a concubine!" The first emperor once said more than once that the daughter of the Lan family must not be the daughter-in-law of the Xiao family! ”

Emperor Cheng was shocked, he always thought that his father was partial and suspicious, but he didn't want the throne to be reversed several times, but there was such a reason, he could see that the first emperor was jealous of Lan Guang, but he didn't understand the reason and reason, the first emperor was the king, the king called the minister to die, and the minister had to die, why was the first emperor so jealous of Lan Guang and even a little afraid of him? It all seems so unreasonable! Staring at the face of the Queen Mother, Emperor Cheng suddenly remembered that when Madame Butterfly had an affair with the guards, the Queen Mother had already entered the palace, maybe she knew some truth!

Emperor Cheng asked tentatively: "I don't know what kind of hatred there is between the first emperor and Lan Guang?" In this case, why didn't the first emperor issue an order to dismiss Lan Guang from the post of prime minister? ”

When the Queen Mother heard Emperor Cheng ask this, her face suddenly changed color, her phoenix eyes drooped, and her jade face was pale, as if she had fallen into a very painful memory.

Emperor Cheng approached step by step, stared at the panicked Queen Mother and asked: "In the case of Madame Butterfly back then, the Queen Mother must also know the inside story, so please have pity on me and tell me the reason for this case!" ”

Emperor Cheng knelt down on his knees in front of the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother stared at Emperor Cheng's longing eyes, suddenly turned around, and said in a hurry: "The palace is a little tired, come to visit the emperor another day." ”

The Queen Mother fled, Emperor Cheng looked at her back and slowly stood up, and the fifth father-in-law held the tea cup and looked at the back of the Queen Mother in confusion: "Why did the Queen Mother leave in such a hurry?" ”

Emperor Cheng thoughtfully: "I should have seen the portrait of the first emperor and felt a little sad." ”

For the next two days, Emperor Cheng never saw the Queen Mother again, and went to ask for peace at night and was rejected by the Queen Mother claiming that he was unhappy, Emperor Cheng knew that the Queen Mother avoided seeing it because he was worried that he would mention Lixue Yi as the latter again, and he was not in a hurry, the first emperor buried the Yongkang Mausoleum for two busy days, plus the King of Yu to bury the Yongkang Mausoleum, although the prince's guard of honor prepared a little hastily, but the Emperor Cheng must bow to himself, it was very thoughtful, as long as there is time for the Emperor Cheng to stay in the palace of the King of Yu these two days, Xue Yi saw with his own eyes that he did his best to bury the King of Chongqing, It is no longer as cold as it was a while ago.

The days passed calmly, Emperor Cheng was in the imperial study all day long to read the folds, Emperor Cheng ascended the throne, a series of three holy decrees, tax exemption and rest, although temporarily suspended from service, but ten households for a first, each of the void has ten strong men, farming when the farm is busy, when the farmer is slack to practice martial arts, in case of emergency, abolish the funeral system into the emperor's grace and power, the courtiers are convinced, and now it is the monarch and the ministers are single-minded, and will invite the moon country to govern in an orderly manner.

In his spare time, Emperor Cheng went out of the palace to visit Xue Yi in the palace of Yuwangfu.

Time flies by like a white horse, and a month has passed in a blink of an eye, but Xue Yi is still the same, lazy and lazy to talk all day long, Emperor Cheng can't make her laugh when he tries to make her laugh, so he can only watch her get thinner and thinner.

On this day, Xue leaned on the railing of the garden pavilion in a daze, and Liu Nong draped a lotus-colored dark flower behind her, and said angrily: "The princess is already delicate, and she is still sitting in this tuyere, and she will be sick again in two days." ”

Xue Yi raised her lips lightly and said with a smile: "Look at what you said, you actually made me a paper man." ”

"Go back to the house, Mama is crazy." Liu Nong helped Xue Yi to go back, since Xiao Yichen went, Xue Yi has been living in Xiao Yichen's yard, and never returned to her Jinghui Garden, passing by occasionally today, I heard someone talking inside, and I couldn't help but walk over curiously.

"Liu Nong, is there still anyone living in this courtyard?" Xue Yi curiously pushed open the courtyard door.

Suddenly the courtyard is full of flowers, like peonies and peonies, the magnolia flowers in the yard are in full bloom, and the flower stands on both sides are verdant and green like spring, Xue Yi walked into the yard with a long mouth, and the scene in the yard was exactly the same as when she and Xiao Yichen got married, Xue Yi suddenly wanted to cry, and her intuition was dry, and there were no tears.

"Slave and maid see the princess." Eight maids dressed in palace costumes came from the courtyard, and when they saw Xue Yi, they knelt on the cold ground, Xue Yi hurriedly ordered everyone to get up, she looked at these beautiful girls in surprise and asked, "Where are you from?" ”

The first palace maid with her head in her hands curtled her knees and replied: "If you go back to the mother, the slave maid is taking care of the princess at the behest of the prince. ”

"Lord Wang? Which prince? What prince? Xue Yi was even more surprised.

"The prince ordered to give the mother a surprise, not to let the slaves and maids talk too much, and I hope that the mother will feel sorry for the slaves and maids."

The little maid couldn't say why, but Xue Yi guessed the ** point, she held Liu Nong's hand coyly: "Liu Nong, help me go back, I'm also tired, I don't have the spirit to accompany the emperor to guess dumb riddles here." ”

Xue Yi stepped forward to leave, not wanting the palace maid to kneel in front of Xue Yi, blocking her way, kowtowing vigorously.

Xue Yi said curiously: "Why are you kneeling here and not talking and just kowtowing?" ”

Another palace maid came over and knelt beside the palace maid and replied: "The prince said, if we can't invite the princess into the house, it means that we are all stupid, and stupid people have the use of stupid materials, and they will pull us all out and sell them to people.

The two palace maids kowtowed to Xue Yi together, and Xue Yi hurriedly put her hands together and nodded.