Chen Youcong said: "Doctor Zhang Daoyi really said that it is not a soul conjuring technique. And there were no visions of a cloudy wind or a dimming of the candlelight. "But I don't know why. When he said this, Chen Youcong's attitude was a little hesitant.

"Even if it's not spiritualism, could it be some other anomaly? If it weren't for the strange arts, these little palace maids and eunuchs would have never seen those people who had been dead for many years, why did they say things that were completely like their voices? ”

"Zhang Daoyi said that it is the trajectory of everyone's life, which will leave a mark in the way of heaven. As long as the celestial and human senses are achieved, these imprints can be presented in this ceremony. ”

The Queen Mother thought for a while and said, "Isn't this just a strange art?" Do you think, if you don't have a magic technique, how can you do the induction of heaven and man? ”

"But, Imperial Grandmother," Chen Youcong analyzed, "In the old years, you also took your grandson to Lingji Palace and Chaotian Palace in Xiyuan to see Sun Zhenren and Wuzhen doing things. When these real people do things, they must be neatly draped, cymbals sound in unison, burn incense and paper, chant mantras and prayers, and the rituals are very complicated. However, Zhang Daoyi's ritual was very simple, there were no magic weapons, and there was no chanting and chanting. It's just that everyone forgets their dignity and humility and conforms to the natural way of heaven. I really can't see how she uses magic magic. ”

"You read the Tao Te Ching to me, and there is a sentence in a trance that there is nothing like an elephant?" The Queen Mother frowned and thought.

"It's a big voice, and the elephant is invisible. Grandmother has a good memory. Chen Youcong smiled. Do you want to say that the Tao of Wisdom does not require complicated rituals and weapons, right? ”

"That's right! Right! That's it. Empress Dowager Liu nodded. Then he complained: "This girl." Other people have three points of supernatural powers, just like exaggerating into ten. She obviously has supernatural powers, but she wants to say that she doesn't. There must be something she is hiding from me, huh! ”

When Chen Youcong listened to Zhang Weizhao's explanation of the "family system arrangement", he already believed that this did not involve any magic and ghosts, but was just a method of Taoist medicine. But now that I hear the Queen Mother say this, I also feel that it makes sense. But he thinks that Zhang Weizhao doesn't need to dig into whether he has magical powers:

"Imperial grandmother, she should have a reason for saying this. One thing is true anyway. She never harmlessly cared. ”

"Yes. She acts directly, and her temper seems to be gentle, but in fact she is stubborn. But when he entered the palace, he really helped a lot of people, but he fell into a good popularity. This is very similar to your mother, Concubine Shu. ”

Because Concubine Shu died young and early and the cause of death was suspicious, the Queen Mother did not mention Concubine Shu's matter to Chen Youcong every day. When Chen Youcong was young, he also asked about his mother, but every time the Queen Mother either talked about him left and right, or sent him away with a short sentence or two, he gradually understood that talking about these would make his grandmother embarrassed, so he pressed these things in his heart. Today, the Queen Mother took the initiative to mention Concubine Ji Shu, which caused a lot of turmoil in Chen Youcong's heart. Chen Youcong asked softly:

"Concubine Niangniang, is she very popular?"

"Yes. If it weren't for that, you wouldn't be alive today. The Queen Mother said with a long sigh. Now, she doesn't shy away from Chen Youcong about what happened back then.

"Shufei is smart and alert, and she is kind to others. She is the daughter of Tusi, she has been literate since she was a child, especially good at mathematics, and after coming to the palace, she was assigned to your father's private treasury to be responsible for taking inventory of the treasury. At first, she was just an ordinary palace maid, and later she became the key. Several other palace maids and eunuchs in the inner library got along well with her. That's why after she was privately favored by your father and secretly pregnant, the people around her not only did not tell her to Concubine Jin Guifei to invite credit, but covered her up everywhere. ”

"But Concubine Shu has you in her belly, and you grow up day by day, there will always be times when you can't cover it. The Jin family knew that there was a palace maid in the inner treasury with a big belly, so he ordered an old person beside her, who seemed to be called ......" The Queen Mother thought for a while, "The one called Tian Ying will go and dispose of the concubine." Who knew that Tian Ying went to see your mother, but instead of disposing of her, she went back and told the Kim family that your mother was not pregnant, but had a lump in her stomach and was very sick. The Kim family trusted Tian Ying and didn't ask about it again. Your mother gave birth to you quietly in Anle Hall. ”

It was the first time Chen Youcong heard the name Tian Ying, he read it silently, and then asked: "Tian Ying......, where is it now?" He had a rough idea of what the outcome would look like, but he wanted to ask again.

"Dead."

"When? How did he die? Chen Youcong clenched his fists.

"Not long after your mother was gone. Grandmother doesn't know how she died, only that she has nothing to do with the Kim family. Empress Dowager Liu looked at Chen Youcong with an apologetic look: "At that time, you just lost your mother, and you have a high fever that doesn't go away, and your grandmother only cares about you, so you can't take care of them." ”

"Grandmother! Although I unfortunately lost my mother early, how fortunate I was to have a grandmother! Chen Youcong's words came from the bottom of his heart.

"Grandmother only wants you to live a healthy and safe life, and that you will have a good wife and children in the future. That way, even if Grandmother is gone, you won't be alone. "There are so many people living in the huge Forbidden City, but how many people are really not alone?

"Grandmother will live a long life! Only with the presence of grandmothers can grandchildren not be alone. ”

"Good, good!" The Queen Mother felt very ironed in her heart. Chen Youcong grew up day by day and had his own ideas, but instead of having a relationship with the grandmother who raised him, he respected and became closer to the Queen Mother, making the Queen Mother feel that the hard work of the second half of her life was not in vain.

Chen Youcong got up and took a brocade mattress and put it on the knee of the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother worked too much in Nangong in her early years, and her knee joints were most afraid of cold. Then he sat back in his seat and continued the conversation.

"Grandmother, do you remember who Amin is?"

"Amin? Amin...... It should be Zhang Min. He asked you to call him Amin? ”

"Yes."

"He is the person next to your father, who is in charge of grooming and clothing. Back then, you were quite trusted by your father and the emperor, and he was also respected in the palace. ”

"I remember when I was a kid, he always brought me food and played with me......"

"He broke his leg in a fall and went to the Comfort Hall to recuperate, so he got to know your mother. If it weren't for him and Li Qi, your mother wouldn't have been able to give birth to you safely and hide you so well. ”

"Li Qi?"

"At that time, he was the head of the Ann Le Hall."

"He always secretly asked me to call him Uncle Qi at that time......"

"This man is very heroic. Although he became a eunuch, he was still a manly person. ”

"And Ah Zhen and Ah Su, does grandmother know about them?"

"In a trance, it seems that there are a few palace maids in Anle Hall, and they often help the concubine, so it should be them. I haven't seen it. ”

"These people, they are all ......?"

"All dead. Zhang Min committed suicide by swallowing gold. Li Qi hanged himself, but some people say that he was strangled before hanging up. The whereabouts of several other people are unknown, and it is believed that they are long gone. ”

"So back then, the only person who helped my mother raise me back then was Cui's?" Although he had known that this was the result, hearing this, Chen Youcong's voice still trembled.

"Hmm. Your mother died suddenly, I guess it was Jin Ling'er's handiwork, I was afraid that she would be unfavorable to you, and if she committed murder again, I would fight hard to bury her with the nine clans, so she just stopped, and she didn't have time to calculate the Cui family. And I think that she may not want Cui's to die so easily, she hates Cui's humiliation and looks down on her back then, so she wants Cui's to stay alive and watch her infinitely beautiful, jealous and remorseful. ”

Jin Ling'er did it. Cui's has been claustrophobic in Qianxi, looking at the Jin family for so many years, although she is old, she still has the heaviest weight in the emperor's heart, and she is still the most beautiful concubine in the Forbidden City, she feels that she may not have the possibility of getting out of the Qianxi deserted house again in her life, and now she is already half-crazy.

"They're all gone, they're gone, and the rest are crazy......" Chen Youcong's voice was full of pathos, which shouldn't have been for a teenager of this age.

Chen Youcong clenched his fists: "However, one day I will correct their name." They can't just die without knowing anything and without a word! ”

Chen Youcong said "one day" which day, the Queen Mother knows. It's just that the arrival of this "day" certainly means the liberation of the grandson, but it also means the death of the son. The Queen Mother had mixed feelings in her heart and sighed:

"Take your time. It's just that for now, you have to hold your breath. In any case, now is not the time to go head-to-head with the Kim family. Not only can there be no conflict, but she can't even see the slightest clue. You're older, and you've seen a year older. Grandmother believes you can do well. ”

"Grandmother rest assured." Chen Youcong straightened his back, and his face showed determination.

He is different today than he was in the past. He received blessings from his mother, Amin, Uncle Qi, Ah Zhen and Ah Su. He had long wanted to die in their place. Now he wants to live well for them, to continue their life and hope.

In Anxi Palace, Concubine Jin sat at the table.

At the bottom of the table, Ye Tongying stood. Ye Tongying was holding a box in her hand, and she was shaking the handle while looking in the sight glass.

This box is the "Wanshi Mirror" "invented" by Zhang Weizhao. But what Ye Tongying was holding in her hand was not the one made by Zhang Weizhao. Instead, Empress Yu ordered someone to imitate one, and asked Yu Miaoqing to hand-draw a scroll of fishing songs and sing them, and put them in a box to honor the emperor.

In the picture scroll, the mountains and rivers are elegant, sparkling, and a small boat is coming freely.

In order to paint realistically, Yu Miaoqing also specially asked Zhang Weizhao for Western techniques, especially the principle of perspective.

Ye Tongying looked at it and put the box back on the table.

"Isn't it just a landscape painting that moves? What's so good? Yu Miaoqing only learned a few strokes, so he swaggered around. She pouted.

"The emperor thinks it's good, and the prince thinks it's good." Jin Guifei sneered and said, "The emperor still thinks it's a rare thing, so he sent it to me." ”

"That's the emperor thinking about Niangniang wholeheartedly."

Hearing this flattery, Jin Guifei didn't even have a hint of a smile, and still had a cold face: "Now they are all fighting the prince's idea one by one." Even Queen Yu, who couldn't make a sound with an awl, also got a niece to put in the palace and flatter the Queen Mother from time to time. Now the queen mother and the emperor both praise Yu Miaoqing for being virtuous and sensible. ”