It had been raining intermittently for several days, and Yunjing was wet and sticky everywhere, which made people unhappy. A eunuch entered Yonglong Palace through the back door with an elderly man in cloth clothes, their shoes and clothes covered with rain stains.

After turning an unknown number of bends, passing by an unknown number of halls, the eunuch finally stopped in front of a hall, and the "Taichu" was hung above the door of the palace. The eunuch and the palace maid said: "Mr. Li has been invited, go and inform the queen quickly." ”

After a short time, the palace maid came out and led Mr. Li inside.

The people in the dormitory were dressed in silk and satin, with gold and jade, and a few palace eunuchs.

As soon as Mr. Li came in, he knelt on the ground: "Grass man Li Yimiao knocks to see ······"

Before he could finish speaking, Mr. Li was interrupted by the queen wearing a phoenix hairpin and brocade: "Mr. Li doesn't have to be strict about etiquette, come and see Your Majesty!" ”

The emperor was lying on the bed, and there were two imperial doctors kneeling in front of the bed, who were treating the emperor, and when they saw Mr. Li coming, they got up and lined up on both sides.

Mr. Li was so proficient that he checked the patient's complexion, eyes, teeth, and tongue, and already understood in his heart that the patient was terminally ill and had no medicine, so he asked what medicine the two imperial doctors had used for the emperor, and told the palace that it was better to use the medicine prescribed by the imperial doctor, and he was ready to leave.

Listening to Mr. Li's words, the people in the palace understood that the emperor was about to die.

As soon as Mr. Li left the palace, the emperor woke up leisurely, he waved his hands, trying to grab something, and said something indistinctly, the queen hurriedly sat on the edge of the bed, grabbed the emperor's hands, and said with relief: "Your Majesty, the concubine is here!" ”

"Queen, Queen". Only then did the emperor relax and say, "My queen, you are here!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, don't be afraid, the concubine is by your side!"

"It's good to be here, it's good to be here." The emperor held the queen's hand tightly, and kept muttering "It's good to be here", and after a while, he suddenly asked, "Where is the emperor?" What about my crown prince? What about the Prince? ”

The queen replied: "The prince will come over soon." Then he glanced at the little eunuch next to him, and the little eunuch immediately quietly left the Taichu Hall and headed towards the Qing Palace.

At this time, the prince was drinking and having fun in the green palace, and seven or eight beautiful women sat around the prince, unclothed, and dissolute, trying their best to compete for beauty.

As soon as the little eunuch arrived at the entrance of the palace, he heard the music, laughter, and frolicking from the Qing Palace, and smelled the fragrance of flowers, fruits, balsam, and powder, which made him can't help but probe his brain and want to hear more realistically.

"What are you looking at!" The little eunuch who went in to pass the word said sharply.

"The prince said, don't disturb anyone else!" Suddenly he lowered his voice, "Unless it's Your Majesty······" The little eunuch hinted.

"That's it!"

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty······" The little eunuch was amazed.

"Shhhh Not yet! It's just a matter of this moment and a half, King Rui and King Xuan are about to enter the palace. ”

"Got it, you wait."

After a short time, the prince came out and hurried to the Taichu Palace, followed by the little eunuch.

When he arrived at the gate of the Taichu Palace, the prince, who had an impatient face, suddenly howled and cried, shouting "Father, the son is reluctant to father the emperor", and ran all the way into the palace.

Before the emperor saw the prince, he had already heard the prince's cry, and a look of anger appeared on his face, and the queen just wanted to say something to comfort, but the prince had already entered the door and rushed to the bed, crying as if he was beating the ground and crying bitterly.

"I'm not dead yet!" The emperor was furious, "You, you wish I had died sooner, didn't you?" ”

The queen rubbed the emperor's chest to smooth him and persuaded: "The emperor is not angry, not angry." ”

"Brute!" The emperor was still furious, and scolded the beast three times in a row.

The prince did not weep or speak, but sat on his knees in the ground.

The emperor closed his eyes and tried his best to calm his anger, but the thought that his four sons had survived only one of them was sad and unhappy.

The eldest prince was generous, sympathetic to the people, benevolent and filial, but unfortunately contracted the plague when he was dealing with the southeast floods, and died at a young age; The second prince was smart and clever, both civil and military, and had clear rewards and punishments, but he was killed by an arrow while leading people to strictly guard the Black Jade Pass; The third prince was kind, benevolent, talented, and brilliant, but he was congenitally deficient, frail and sickly, and had been hanging with precious medicinal herbs, and he ran out of oil at the age of sixteen or seventeen. There was only one fourth prince left, and the crown prince was smashed on his head like this.

It's just that this one is the most absurd and useless, the art of war, the governance of the country and the country, none of them will know; Seeking pleasure and indulging in wine, but all of them are refined.

The emperor was reluctant to pass on the throne to the four princes, but the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, and after so many years, the harem only bloomed, did not bear fruit, and did not give birth to a dragon son.

In remorse, King Xuan and King Rui have entered the palace.

The emperor waved his hand and motioned for all the others to go down, leaving only King Xuan and King Rui to explain to them what happened after his death.

Outside the palace, the crown prince asked the queen: "Queen Mother, what are my father and the two uncles talking about, why can't I let my sons know?" ”

The queen patted the crown prince on the shoulder and said, "Whatever they say will not affect your throne, don't worry." ”

After a while, the door of the temple opened, and King Xuan and King Rui stood at the door, their faces sad. The queen caught a glimpse of the white cloth covering the bed in the room, and her heart could not help but feel sorry, and she fell to her knees in an instant, and the others also knelt down when they saw this.

A month later, the new emperor ascended the throne.

promulgation of the edict; changed Sheng Yuan to the first year of Tianding; a number of queens and concubines; appointing a group of officials; Amnesty for the world; Worship the shrine and ancestors...... The new emperor is like a marionette being guided to complete one task and etiquette after another, and the person is still on the main hall, and his heart has already flown to the harem.

Yin Meiren pinched the new emperor's legs with her fragrant shoulders half-exposed, and asked, "Is the concubine comfortable pinching, Your Majesty?" ”

"Comfortable!" The emperor squinted slightly, climbed up the fragrant shoulder of Yin Meiren with his left hand and stroked it back and forth, and said with a lewd smile, "Concubine Ai will press me well, and I will take care of you later, and I will make you comfortable!" ”

Yin Meiren's face was ashamed, she turned her head, and no longer looked at the emperor, but she was still honestly pinching the emperor's legs. The emperor looked at the beauty's delicate appearance, his heart was up, and he pulled the beauty into his arms......

Seeing this, the palace maids and eunuchs who were waiting on both sides took off the yellow curtain and closed the door, retreated, and stood at the door.

The weather was strange, the sky was still clear during the day, but when it was just dark, there was a sudden thunderstorm, which frightened the Yin beauty into a ball and hid in the emperor's arms.

Outside the Yonglong Palace, King Xuan and King Rui have not yet had time to return to their fiefdom and temporarily live in the prince's palace specially set up for the prince. Neither of them slept, recalling in their rooms the last words left by the emperor a month earlier.

There was a thunder outside the window, King Xuan and King Rui opened their windows at the same time, took a look, the two princes looked at each other and smiled, without saying a word, and closed the window again.

A hundred miles north from the Prince's Palace, there is the mausoleum of the first emperor. The pouring rain was accompanied by the rumbling of thunder, and the huge mausoleum was eerie in this atmosphere, as if it were unwilling to die.

Let him live again, will he pass the throne to the four princes? Who knows! There was no way he would come back to life.