The sun was three poles, the ministers in the court stood and waited for a long time, and did not see the emperor appear, not only exchanged heads and whispers, but after a while, the imperial eunuch Kang Maode came to the court and said to the ministers: "Your Majesty will not go to the court today, you only need to submit the fold, and Your Majesty will approve it when you are empty." This is not the first time that the ministers have been talking about it. Since the new emperor ascended the throne, in less than a month, there have been four or five times that he has not gone to the early court, and today is the second day in a row.

As soon as they heard that the emperor would not come to the court, several ministers wanted to come forward to ask the reason, but Commodore returned to the inner hall after speaking, and the ministers had to withdraw from the court on their own.

The fact that the emperor did not go to court for two days in a row quickly reached the ears of the queen mother.

The Queen Mother called someone to spread the word to the emperor and queen, and the queen arrived at Ruian Palace early.

"Your Majesty hasn't been to court for two days, do you know about this?" The Queen Mother asked.

The queen lowered her head and replied, "Wan'er knows."

"Do you know why you don't admonish?" The queen asked sharply.

The queen knelt on the ground and replied, "Wan'er has been married to Your Majesty for a year, and the number of times she has seen Your Majesty can be counted on one hand, and she is always blocked by Your Majesty, how can she admonish?" ”

The queen mother understood that it was not the queen's fault, and planned to wait for the emperor to come, and then ask the emperor.

But the two waited left and right, but they didn't see the emperor come to Ruian Palace for a long time. The Queen Mother asked someone to invite again, but still did not invite the emperor.

"I've only been the emperor for two days, and I don't take me, the queen mother, in my eyes! The old man wants to see what he wants! ”

The queen mother took the queen, followed by more than a dozen palace maids and eunuchs to the Taichu Palace, and rushed directly into the inner hall without giving the little eunuch time to pass it on.

In the palace, the emperor is playing with the beauty of the dragon bed to play the night pearl from the small country of Liyue, in order to be able to enjoy the brilliance of the night pearl during the day, the emperor specially ordered the bed curtain curtain to be closed.

The Queen Mother pulled the curtain open, and the dazzling light suddenly shone in, which made the emperor and the beauty very unhappy.

"Presumptuous!" The Emperor yelled, "Who is disturbing my Yaxing? ”

"You're presumptuous!" The Queen Mother reprimanded angrily, "Your Majesty thinks that the old body has disturbed you, and you want to cure the old body's sin?" ”

Yin Meiren immediately climbed down from the bed and knelt on the ground, but the emperor carelessly put away the Night Pearl before he began to get out of bed and get dressed.

"Why didn't Your Majesty go to court today?" The Queen Mother sat in the hall and asked.

The emperor's clothes were just too lazy to put on his body, and he sat directly on the chair, eating the fruit in the fruit bowl, and replied: "I am not feeling well today, I don't want to go to court!" ”

"Your Majesty, what's wrong with you?" The Queen Mother asked.

"I'm not feeling well."

The Queen Mother was furious, slammed the table, stood up, snatched the grapes from the emperor's hand, and said: "Your Majesty is uncomfortable, why don't you call the imperial doctor, but play with the concubines, you are obviously fooling me!" ”

The emperor also choked back: "The queen mother is already a widower, so you should keep a good funeral for the first emperor, don't meddle in affairs, the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, and the queen mother is arrogant, right?" ”

"I mourn for the first emperor, eat fasting and worship the Buddha, what about you? During the funeral, you are fishy and close to women, but you accuse the old body? The Queen Mother pointed to the emperor's nose and said.

The emperor removed the empress dowager's finger and said, "I am now the Son of Heaven, not a crown prince born dependent on you, and I have the right to decide what I should and should not do. I see that you are respected as the queen mother in your nurturing grace for more than ten years, and you can stop calling me like before. Then he entered the inner hall and asked someone to send the queen mother back.

The Queen Mother was so angry that her fingers trembled, and she returned to the palace under the persuasion of the queen, and just lay down on the bed, when she suddenly heard a commotion outside, it turned out that the Queen Mother had just left, and the emperor ordered twenty people to guard the Yongshou Palace, claiming to protect the Queen Mother and let the Queen Mother worship the Buddha quietly.

The queen mother understood that she was under house arrest, angrily scolded the emperor as a white-eyed wolf, and cried bitterly that the country of the Great Seal would be cut off at the hands of this faint monarch. But she didn't know that the emperor had long been dissatisfied with her, and even wanted to get rid of her as soon as possible.

More than ten years ago, the first emperor had a period of time to favor Concubine Xian, and the special case was to allow Concubine Xian to go home for two days, that is, these two days, the first emperor and the palace maid around Concubine Xian had a night of dew, and it happened that the palace maid was pregnant with a dragon fetus and was promoted to three levels in a row. In order not to make Concubine Xian angry, the first emperor deliberately concealed the matter, but Concubine Xian still found out about the matter and made trouble with the first emperor. In order to coax Concubine Xian, the first emperor spoiled her for a long time, and it was also at this time that Concubine Xian became pregnant with the dragon species, that is, the current emperor.

Concubine Xian is not a broad-minded person, her maid seduced the emperor, and even got pregnant with the dragon seed earlier than herself, which made her even more annoyed and angry, and made it difficult to murder the maid everywhere, and the maid knew that she couldn't afford to provoke Concubine Xian, so she could only endure humiliation and steal life, and finally gave birth to the three princes safely, but it was a pity that the three princes were devastated in the mother's womb and had a very poor physique.

The third prince was born smoothly, and the emperor rewarded the maid with a lot of money and treasures, but did not give her the grade and treatment she deserved. However, the maid was not a fuel-efficient lamp, and before she died, she fabricated evidence of Concubine Xian's infidelity and disgusted with victory, and pulled Concubine Xian off the horse.

Since then, the third prince and the fourth prince have lost their own mothers, and they were sent directly to the queen and became the queen's adopted son.

After the lives of the three princes were exhausted, the four princes became the only princes. The queen has always disliked and loved the four princes, the main reason is that the four princes are evil and sweet-mouthed, in order to prevent the emperor from passing the throne to his brothers instead of the four princes, the queen mother has not been less business. thought that she could control the four princes by herself, but she couldn't estimate that the most urgent thing an emperor who was addicted to alcohol and extravagant and corrupt was to sweep away all those who dared to oppose him, no matter who that person was.

In the past few days, the queen has come to visit the queen mother every day and accompany her to relax, but the queen mother has never been able to calm her anger, she knows that the emperor is unreliable, so she wants to firmly control him, and when the emperor and grandson are born in the future, she can support the virtuous emperor and grandson, remove the emperor, and she is dead, so as to face the first emperor. But she didn't figure out how the forces and cronies she had worked so hard to cultivate suddenly did nothing, and no one responded to the letters sent out in the past few days.

Suddenly, a scream in the Yongshou Palace alarmed the guards, and the guards came in only to see the Queen Mother hanging half of her body under the bed, her eyes wide, her face was gray, and there was a pool of vomit next to the bed and on the ground, and the queen was so frightened by this scene that she shrank in the corner of the table.

The emperor soon came, cleaned up the body of the queen mother, asked a few words, and threw the queen into the cold palace regardless of it, and the maidservants who interceded for the queen were killed and the other was thrown into the cold palace.