Emperor Dezhao's heart was pounding, but his face was silent, and he followed Mama Hua into Cining Palace.

Mama Hua led Emperor Dezhao all the way to the warm pavilion in the garden in front of Cining Palace, then stopped and asked Emperor Dezhao to go forward on his own.

Emperor Dezhao secretly exhaled, subconsciously straightened his clothes, made mental preparations, and then slowly stepped in.

In the warm pavilion, the Empress Dowager Hua sat on the main seat, and Ye Qingling stood on one side.

Xuan Ming and Ye Qingcheng accompanied the guest seat, saw Emperor Dezhao, and hurriedly got up to salute.

Emperor Dezhao waved his hand, leaned over and waved at the Empress Dowager Hua, "The son has seen the queen mother."

"Thank you for your mother".

Emperor Dezhao secretly exhaled again, and then got up and looked up at the Empress Dowager Hua on the main seat, and was stunned at this look.

The last time he saw Empress Dowager Hua was a few years ago when Concubine Hua was seriously ill and dying, eight years have passed, and time seems to have stopped on this noble and beautiful woman's face.

She was no different from eight years ago, and she didn't even look like an old woman in her sixties, and her amazing beauty stayed on her as if she were stagnant.

The world was amazed by Hua Shao's beauty, but they didn't know that Hua Shao was less than seven points compared to his grandmother, the kind of beauty that transcended time and overrode everything, after eight years, appeared in front of him again clearly.

Emperor Dezhao almost didn't dare to take a second look, and quickly lowered his eyes.

Empress Dowager Hua looked Emperor Dezhao up and down and said, "You are so old."

Emperor Dezhao, "......"

Sure enough, after many years, the way this beautiful and noble woman spoke would never change in the slightest!

Even if the person she is talking to is the emperor who rules the four seas and nine or five people!

Emperor Dezhao's thoughts suddenly drifted a little, many years ago, he was just an unknown prince, not a long, not a grandson, not a child, not a favor, his biological mother died early, and he was born from a humble background, and he was unknown in the palace more transparent than the favored eunuchs.

Then, one day, he and all the other princes were gathered by his father in the imperial study, and that was the first time he had seen his astonishing queen mother up close.

He heard his father say to her, "O kite, take a closer look, which one you like, and I will make him the crown prince!" ”

As soon as his father's words fell, the entire imperial study seemed to freeze even the air, and he clearly heard the breathing of the brothers around him stop.

Among the brothers, he is not smart, not heroic, not good-looking, not temperamental, not outstanding in anything, he doesn't dare to think about the dragon chair at all, he just thinks that he can grow up in peace and stability, and then go out of Beijing to go to the country and be a free prince, which is enough.

Even if the fiefdom is a little barren, a little remote, or a little smaller, it doesn't matter if he doesn't have much desire for brocade clothes and delicacies, and beautiful maids, as long as he is at ease.

Therefore, when his brothers only heard the second half of the sentence, he only heard the affectionate word "A kite".

A kite, what a nice and soft name, very flattering to her, but I don't know which kite character, is it kite, mandarin duck, or 涴......

Then, he heard his mother, who was about the same age as him, say in a pleasant, elegant but not very happy voice, "Don't call me Ah Kite, I'm afraid I won't remember that my Huaguo Mansion is full of unjust deaths, right?" ”

To this day, he vividly remembers the horror he felt when he heard that sentence.

His father, although he rarely saw him before that, knew very well that he was the most ruthless, even if he looked gentle and gentle on the surface, even if his honorific title Emperor Deren took the word benevolence.

His young queen mother would certainly anger his father when he said such a sentence, and most bystanders like them would also be unlucky.

"When Ah Kite remembers to call himself the main palace, I will change my name to Queen A Kite."

His father was not angry, and smiled as if he was in a good mood.

He didn't let his guard down, his father never got angry, he always looked gentle and smiling, but no one knew whether the next sentence he spit out with a light smile on his lips would make people want to live and not die.

"Kite, look, how about this?"

The father pointed to the youngest, still infant seventh brother and asked, he was slightly surprised, after the Yumen Pass tragedy, the father had promised to marry the newly widowed aunt and grandmother of the Huaguo Mansion as the queen after succeeding to the throne, and after giving birth to a son-in-law, he would be the crown prince.

At that time, he secretly thought that most of the newly widowed aunts and grandmothers of Huaguo would not be able to give birth to a son-in-law.

Sure enough, after the emperor and queen got married, the queen had a cold temperament, was not easy to get along with, and missed her ex-husband, and the rumors of lukewarm to Emperor Naruhito became more and more intense.

The emperor and queen are not harmonious, and the queen can't give birth to a concubine, which is naturally reasonable, so there is today's scene.

If you can't have your own children, it's naturally best to find a young prince to remember in your name, so that you can raise it, and raising it is naturally no different from your own child.

What's more, when the seventh brother was born, his biological mother died of postpartum hemorrhage, and the foreign family was not noble, so it was really the best choice.

Father mentioned the seventh brother, is it sincere, or-

"So small, I'm afraid I won't be able to support him, I want him".

He didn't expect that the big benefits would fall on him at all, and he didn't raise his eyes until he felt the hot gazes that fell on him one after another, and then he reacted and raised his head in a daze.

I didn't want to collide with my father's playful and contemplative gaze, and he felt a chill in his heart, his father wouldn't think that he had used some means, right?

"The queen mother is very loving, and the sons are grateful, but the sons are dull, and they are really unbearable for the prince."

"Well, I also want to know, what does Ah Kite like about the third child?"

"Wisdom is contained, wisdom is foolishness".

"Oh? Are you sure he's wise and stupid, not really stupid? ”

The young queen was silent for a while, and then spoke, "Of all the people here, only he is the least like you."

He keenly felt that his father's gaze fell on him suddenly, and even implied a murderous aura, but it was only for a moment.

The next moment, he heard his father laugh, "Only he is the least like me, smart and inward, wise and foolish?" So what am I? Shrewd, outwardly exposed, foolish? ”

Then he heard his young queen mother wonder, "Isn't the antonym of wisdom and foolishness stupid and treacherous?" ”

At that time, he was still young, and he had never seen strong winds and waves, "......"

Well, he no longer wanted to make any judgments about what the young queen mother said.

This tragic experience, although he was only a bystander, was still worried for many years, and even after he was made the crown prince, he still trembled, for fear that his father would suddenly remember the account of that day one day, and he would be killed if he was unhappy.

Soon after that day, he was recorded in the name of the Empress of the Shogong Palace, became the eldest son, and a year later, he was made the crown prince.

But the young queen did not look at him differently because of this, she still stayed in Kunning Palace all day long, rarely went out, did not accept the invitation of any concubine of her father, did not handle palace affairs, and did not even try to be filial to him, the "eldest son".

He even wondered if she had forgotten about his existence.

Of course, he was more suspicious that all this was just a game set up by his father, who trapped her under the magnificent and beautiful sky.