Chapter 248: The decision has been made

"The Queen Mother also feels sorry for you!"

"I know, so I'll give you back what I took from you."

"Seventh brother, don't say that the ancestral system has no brother and final brother, even I can't promise you. Huang Tian Bodhisattva finally cured the pox, I will help you, in a few years we will be older, we should be cleared, take your time little by little, and you will always be handy. ”

"Sixth brother, don't persuade me anymore, if you persuade again, my younger brother can only hang himself in Zichen Hall with a white silk."

The flood in Prince Rong's heart rushed to the heart embankment and poured for thousands of miles.

"Your Majesty, with you, the Queen Mother and I can rest assured, although the Queen Mother did something sorry for your mother, but she didn't feel sorry for the Emperor, for more than ten years, the Queen Mother has treated you as her own son."

When the emperor heard Prince Rong mention the Queen Mother, he also burst into tears in his heart, "Sixth brother, I know all this, although my aunt has provoked me for more than ten years, I have grown up in the past few years, and I can also see who is really good to me, and I really flatter me and use me." ”

"Do you still remember about your mother, Mrs. Baohua?"

"My younger brother is worried about his mother, and it has nothing to do with the Queen Mother, when my mother surrounded and suppressed the Queen Mother, I saw a lot even though I was young, the Queen Mother has been benevolent to my mother, compared to my mother's cruel methods, the Queen Mother These are nothing! If it weren't for my mother asking me to compete for the crown prince, I wouldn't have made my father suspicious, and my mother did too much and attracted my father's taboo. ”

"The Queen Mother has been afraid of you all these years, so there are some things that I want to say sorry to you, but I don't know how to speak."

"Brother, the Queen Mother is not wrong! If the Queen Mother didn't unite with Concubine Dong'an, my mother would definitely poison the Queen Mother, it was her own greed that killed my mother, and it was my father who executed my mother, and she didn't complain about the Queen Mother! ”

"Why don't you say this to the Queen Mother? The Queen Mother didn't know how happy she should be when she heard this. ”

"I miss my mother, I hate my mother, I want to be close to the Queen Mother, but I know that I am not the Queen Mother's own son."

"Seventh Brother...... Why didn't you say this earlier, the Queen Mother and I can solve it for you. ”

"Brother, I am the emperor and a lonely person, how can I say these words? I hate my mother for letting me compete for the crown prince, which not only killed herself, but also made me lonely for half my life; But I miss her again, she is my mother, a mother I can coquettishly play. ”

"Seventh brother, don't say it, I understand your heart, and the Queen Mother also understands it."

"I know that the Queen Mother has done her best to make up for me, in fact, I am also grateful to the Queen Mother in my heart, for so many years, my mother's title is only Mrs. Baohua! Brother, why didn't I posthumously seal my biological mother? Have you thought about it? I want to repay the Queen Mother for her nurturing grace. ”

"Seventh brother, these queen mothers know. The Queen Mother once taught me to let me assist you well for a lifetime, and if I have two hearts, the Queen Mother will not let me go. ”

"These words have been pressed in your hearts for more than ten years, and they have also been pressed in my hearts for more than ten years, and everyone is happier when they say it."

"Since it has been made clear, the emperor is still the emperor, I am still my lord, I assist the emperor, we are not better than the Tang Dynasty and Song ancestors to strive for great achievements, just a hundred years later, worthy of the ancestors."

The emperor shook his head in amazement, and looked at Prince Rong blankly, "Brother, I've done enough!" ”

"Your Majesty, without you, the sky of the Great Zhou Dynasty will fall!"

"Brother, this emperor, I have already done enough, I was not born to be an emperor, I have been an emperor for ten years, I feel like I am about to die, in order to learn how to be an emperor, I studied the four books and five classics, studied the emperor's mind hard, in order not to embarrass my ancestors, I dare not relax in riding and shooting, sixteen-year-old marriage and pro-government, the queen mother let me review the folds alone, I sat in front of the desk, looking at the stacks of folds as high as a mountain in front of me, I corrected them night and night until the early hours of the morning. I couldn't sleep for even an hour, and I started to go to the morning court again. ”

"Your Majesty, I know what you said."

"Brother, you don't know. Being an emperor is really the first-class drudgery in the world! Sometimes I sit in the court and fall asleep as soon as I close my eyes, but I don't dare, I tell myself to be a good emperor. I can't be lazy in front of the Manchu civil and military forces. ”

"You say this, I stand closest to you, and I can see it. When do you feel happy? When is your heart unhappy? I can see it all clearly. ”

"Brother, it's too tiring to be the emperor! It's so lonely! I talk to everyone, everyone is like a belly, although the companion is like a tiger, but I am not a tiger after all, why is no one willing to sit down and talk to me? ”

"The emperor stands on the top of Ziwei, everyone can only look up, no one can sit on an equal footing with the emperor, this is a big disrespect."

"Alone, alone, I only know what a lonely person is when I become this emperor."

"The emperor has the queen mother, me, and the ladies of the harem, the emperor enjoys the blessings of trillions of people in the world, how can he be alone?"

"Harem wives? Ha ha...... It's all a bunch of blood-sucking ghosts. When I saw them, I was afraid. Do they really love me? Or do you love the crown on my head? I know it in my heart. Everyone just takes what they need and puts some true feelings to cover up. ”

"Your Majesty, all dynasties have come over like this, why should the emperor be persistent?"

The emperor shook his head like a dead heart, "Once upon a time, I also wanted to do it well, for the queen mother, for the dead mother, for your brother, for the women around you, for the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, and for the ancestors of the country...... I really tried. But I am a human being, I am not a god, I find that the more I try, the more painful the people around me become, the more I want to make all the people around me happy, but no one is satisfied! I'm tired, I'm so tired that I just want to die. ”

"Your Majesty, take a break when you're tired, the Queen Mother and I will be by your side, and the ladies of the harem will also accompany you."

"Brother, I want to go. The emperor is a shackle, a shackle, and a ......hell from which I will never recover."

Prince Rong grabbed the emperor's shoulders and said, "Your Majesty, if you don't become the emperor, where are you going?" ”

"I don't know, anyway, I don't want to stay in the palace anymore. I think a bird locked in a golden cage, I'm going to fly out. I don't want to stay in a cage. ”

"Your Majesty, are you sick and confused?"

"I'm not confused, brother, I got the acne on purpose. I wanted to die, I thought about it for years. If I commit suicide, the government and the opposition will be shocked, and they all say that the Queen Mother is restraining me, in case someone says that the Queen Mother forced me to death, how can I be worthy of the Queen Mother's nurturing grace? That's the only way I'm going to die. It's good for everyone! ”

Prince Rong can no longer calm down, the emperor in front of him is the king of a country, and he is his younger brother, in the past few years, he just feels that this younger brother is a little bohemian, and he never thought that he would be so desperate that he wanted to commit suicide.

"Seventh brother of the emperor, how can you not take care of your body like this? If there is anything in your heart that you don't have to go to in the past, you can tell me or the Queen Mother. ”

The emperor sneered sadly, looked at Prince Rong in despair, and said faintly: "Brother, within tomorrow night, Concubine Dong'an will definitely lead someone to force the palace again, she has coveted this son for ten years, and I won't give it to her." ”

"The Queen Mother and I won't let her hurt you."

"Brother, you and the Queen Mother only have a 30% chance of winning now, plus the 30% in my hand, you and the Queen Mother have a 60% chance of winning. I'm not afraid of her, I don't want to be an emperor anymore. ”

"I don't want to be an emperor, I want you to be a good monarch."

The emperor shook his head indifferently and continued to say what he had not finished: "Originally, I wrote a secret edict to the Western Expeditionary Army in Western Xinjiang to return to the dynasty, but it is estimated that it has been detained by them. ”

"The Longmen Station on the outskirts of Beijing is their old nest, and I only recently learned about it."

The muscles on the emperor's face pulled out a slight sneer, "There is a policy, and there are countermeasures!" It's no wonder that in the past few years, my secret order has not yet reached the locality, and it has caused an uproar in the capital. I originally thought that there was something wrong with Zichen Palace, but I didn't expect it to be a small post station. Lord Zhang had long suggested a thorough investigation of the post roads, but there were nearly 2,000 large and small post stations in the country, and all of them were thoroughly investigated, and the people were panicked. That's it, let's not talk about that. I thought that it would be safer to give up the throne to you when I had an army in my hand, but now I can only take risks. There is no army, but I am the Son of Heaven, and the order of the Son of Heaven is also the royal road. ”

"Your Majesty, for such a big matter, call the Queen Mother to come over and discuss it, right?"

"Brother, the Queen Mother has long known my thoughts, if you don't agree, I can only die."

"Your Majesty, you are the king of a country, how can you talk about life and death lightly?"

"Brother, this crown weighs me down, I'm going to die." The emperor's voice was filled with desperate grievances.

Prince Rong didn't expect his younger brother to be so tired of the emperor's career, "Your Majesty, since you are the emperor, you have to be able to afford ten thousand catties of the country." ”

The emperor sneered desperately, squeezing out crystal yellow pus from the pus-and-the-abses on his face, "I won't do it, I've done enough!" ”

Prince Rong grabbed the emperor's thin arm and straightened the emperor's body: "You can't escape from the battle." ”

"Why can't I? I'm human, I'm a living person. Why can you take a break when you are tired, and when you don't want to persevere, you can let go when you say let go. Why can't I be the only one? Brother, tell me why? The emperor was a little excited.

"You are like this, what should the Queen Mother do? What about Lord Zhang, who is dedicated to supporting you? What do you do yourself? ”

"The Queen Mother will entrust it to you, Lord Zhang will assist my brother well, as for me, the ends of the earth, I am going to go where I should go."

Prince Rong understands that with his own strength, he can no longer stop the emperor's determination to abdicate, but as an elder brother, he does not want his younger brother. Wandering the world.

"Where are you going?"

"The mountains are high and the waters are far away, and the four seas are home."

"Can you not go?"

"Brother, I can't stay anymore."

"Seventh brother, you don't want to be the emperor, my brother doesn't force you, you do what you want to do in the palace, and the rest of the things Lord Zhang and several first assistants, as well as me and the Queen Mother, will help you deal with it, don't go."

"Brother, I understand. You have to go. Although the palace is big, it can't hold Yuxian's heart, and I have made up my mind. ”

"Seventh brother, what should I do if you leave the Queen Mother? She assists you wholeheartedly, won't your twelve years of hard work be in vain? From the time you became the crown prince, your father handed you over to the Queen Mother, who took care of you with all her might. ”

"That year, my eldest aunt provoked the relationship between me and the Queen Mother, and later instigated me to take longevity hibiscus cream, I know that the blow to the Queen Mother was the biggest."

"Seventh brother, you really shouldn't have sucked that thing. You are the Supreme of the Ninety-Five, the emperor, how many times has the Queen Mother cried about it? The Queen Mother feels sorry for your body, do you know? ”

The emperor smiled bitterly, "Now, taking advantage of this pox, the addiction to longevity hibiscus cream has been quit." The Queen Mother can also rest assured. ”

"Seventh brother, since you have quit smoking, let's stay in the palace!"

The door of the Zichen Hall opened again. The Queen Mother was at the door, abandoned Zhang Xiuting's greetings, and abandoned a group of entourage, and entered the hall alone.

The faint candlelight reflects the mottled heart of the Queen Mother. Prince Rong moved a chair, and the Queen Mother looked at the emperor who was unrecognizable and his flesh and blood were blurred, and couldn't help but cry like rain.

"My son, how did you torture yourself like this?"