When Yinzhen arrived at Xian'an Palace, the second elder brother Fujin was already waiting in the front hall, her clothes were no longer as gorgeous and grand as when she was the crown princess, but she was simple and noble, everything in Xian'an Palace was in order, if you don't say it, I'm afraid that no one can see that this is a place where people are imprisoned.

"Last night, the second elder brother said that he wanted to sleep alone, and I and Fang Fujin were not around, and when I got up in the morning, I found that he was gone, and I had searched all over the Xian'an Palace, probably out." Er Fujin said very calmly, glanced at Yinzhen lightly, and said, "If you can get the prince back, can the fourth elder brother open the net and don't tell the emperor for the time being?" Now there are so many things in and out of the palace, and if there are any more branches, the prince will be frightened and scared, and he won't have any trouble when he goes out, I think he is just stuffy. ”

Yin Zhen said in a deep voice: "If there is nothing to do, naturally I will not disturb Huang Ama to recuperate, in case there is anything ......"

"Four Baylors." Before Yinzhen's words fell, a guard outside hurriedly came, and when he saw Er Fujin in front of him, he stopped his voice for a while, and whispered in Sibeile's ear. The more Yin Zhen listened, the tighter his eyebrows wrinkled, and then he didn't know what to say to the guard, so he retreated.

"Did you find it?" Erfujin asked.

"The second brother is in Cining Palace." Yinzhen's face was dark, "My Eniang is also in Cining Palace, and today I was going to worship Cining Palace." ”

Er Fujin was obviously a little surprised, she was the one who knew how deep Yinren's resentment was towards Concubine De, I don't know what state Yinren was in at the moment, I don't know if he would do anything disrespectful to Concubine De? I was anxious, but I heard Yinzhen say: "If the second brother does something that shouldn't be done, the second sister-in-law, you can't blame me for being ruthless." ”

"It's ...... Natural. Erfujin swallowed heavily, his heart was cold, Yinren really wanted to die, and she couldn't stop it.

Yin Zhen hurriedly rushed to Cining Palace, there were already guards here, but they wanted to go in and take away the second elder brother, but Huanchun stopped in front of the palace gate and said to them: "Niang Niang ordered you to wait here, and when the second elder brother worships the queen mother, he will naturally go back to Xian'an Palace with you, nothing important, no need to make a fuss." ”

Seeing that the fourth elder brother came, Huanchun also said the same thing, Yinzhen was full of anxiety, and he didn't worry about leaving his mother and the second elder brother alone, Huanchun persuaded him: "You don't believe in others, don't you believe in Niangniang?" ”

Compared with the restless atmosphere outside the gate of Cining Palace, the palace is quiet, Yinren knelt in front of the incense case, knelt three times and knocked nine times, got up and took a bunch of incense from Concubine De's hand and offered it in the incense burner, turned around to see that Concubine De had sat back on the futon, he also sat back, learned the appearance of Concubine De and prayed, silently reciting scriptures.

Lan Qi heard the second elder brother reciting the scriptures, opened his eyes and smiled: "The second elder brother can also recite the scriptures?" ”

Yinren bowed his head and smiled bitterly: "In the past, these were all façade skills, Concubine De probably didn't know, when I was still the prince, the most thing I did every year was to worship everywhere for the emperor Ama." But every time I just deal with the scene, and when I look back and think about what I want to do, I don't know anything, I just respond to the scene. I have never realized the Tao, and I have never put the words of Buddhism in my heart. ”

Lan Qi said with a smile: "Buddhism pays attention to a fateful word, it comes naturally, the second elder brother doesn't have to be too forceful, even if you start to understand it from now on, it's too late." ”

Yinren shook his head and chuckled: "In the future, I do have a lot of time, but I don't know if I have this heart, let alone if I will have time to understand it in my lifetime." ”

Lan Qi said: "Zen Buddhism is so deep, famous teachers may not understand it throughout their lives, the second elder brother is not a monk, why should he be obsessed with it?" ”

Yinren asked, "What is the Buddha doing here?" ”

Lan Qi turned the Buddha beads in his hand and responded: "Persuade people to be kind." ”

The hall was quiet for a while, and she could hear the friction sound of the Buddha beads rotating in Lan Qi's hands, she gradually closed her eyes, silently reciting the scriptures, I don't know how long it took, and suddenly heard the second elder brother say: "It's almost there." ”

Lanqi opened her eyes and asked him, "What is it?" ”

Yinren said: "It's almost the birthday of the fourth elder brother, every year on his birthday, I will be tormented by demons, like being gnawed by thousands of insects, this year is much better than before." ”

The two futons are staggered back and forth, Lan Qi sits behind Yinren, she can be regarded as watching the prince grow up, the little guy back then, he is already a big man with a generous back, he is thirty-five years old, once in Lan Qi's eyes out of reach, but now he wants to go back to how good it should be back then, but the prince is afraid that in this life, he doesn't even want to think about this year.

Lan Qi couldn't remember what she was doing when she was thirty-five years old, but she clearly remembered that on Yinzhen's birthday twenty-one years ago, the prince assisted Suo Etu to release the crazy Concubine Wen, and the empress dowager was frightened and couldn't afford to be sick since then, and it was also from that time that the bond between Xuan Ye and the prince was formed, when the prince was only a teenager, a teenager, and did such a ruthless thing.

"Twenty-one years." Yinren turned his back to Lan Qi, and the voice came as if he was crying, it turned out that he also remembered that day clearly, Lan Qi saw his shoulders trembling, and after a while, he continued, "Why didn't Huang Ama punish me back then, why didn't he abolish me back then...... Why put me in pain for twenty-one years? ”

Lan Qi asked in a cold voice: "Could it be that the emperor's father's love for you has become wrong?" ”

Yinren fell to the ground and sobbed: "Did he deliberately torture me?" ”

Lan Qi closed her eyes heavily, and after settling her mind, she asked Yinren first: "You have been sending things to Qixiang Palace, haven't you?" ”

"Qixiang Palace?" He was stunned for a moment, straightened up, looked at Lan Qi inexplicably, and sure enough, his face was full of tears, he wiped it away indiscriminately, opened his eyes wide to see the person behind him clearly, and asked Lan Qi, "How do you know?" ”

"Naturally, it was the concubine who said it." Lan Qi smiled faintly, "Although you can't send her anything in the future, maybe one day, the emperor will give you back your freedom?" But if you are free, don't send her any more things, she has nothing to do with you, the existence of the concubine is just to fulfill your emperor Ama? ”

Yinren frowned, Concubine De's words were so winding, he couldn't understand it, so he asked, "Can Niangniang make her words clearer?" ”

Lan Qi bowed her head and slowly told him about the Wang family being strangled to death by Yinren, telling him that the concubine was just the official woman back then, in order to cover up the fact that the prince killed people, in order to prevent the prince from bearing the sin of being a murderer, the emperor and her had concubines, and together they let the dead people "reborn", but unfortunately after hiding it for so many years, the prince is no longer the prince.

"Speaking of it, I always feel that the concubine's hard work for so many years has been in vain, but now that the emperor has let her meet people casually, she is her, and no one will mention that paragraph again, it is finally compensation for her."

Lan Qi said, sighed lightly, got up and offered another bunch of incense on the incense table, turned to look down at Yinren who was sitting on the futon and said: "Telling you at this moment, I just want the second elder brother to know that the emperor never thought of torturing you for twenty years, but has been bothering to love you and protect you." Although he now regrets not letting you be punished as he deserved back then, and letting you go further and further down the wrong path, the second elder brother, the emperor never instigated you to do evil, nor did he force you to fall. You have done something wrong, not because your emperor Ama does not love you, whether you do good or evil is in your own heart, and in the past 20 years, it is not your emperor Ama who is torturing you. ”

Yinren looked at Lan Qi stupidly, a thirty-five-year-old man, tears slid down his cheeks like rain, his throat was blocked, and it was very difficult to speak, Lan Qi could vaguely hear him saying: "No one has ever said such things to me, never." ”

Lan Qi's heart softened, thinking of the melted snow rabbit in Queen Niu Hulu's bedroom back then, thinking of the short and beautiful mother-son relationship, and the queen's letter that was not sent to Xuan Ye, and she was sad for a while.

Empress Niu Hulu is an excellent woman, she loves Xuan Ye, she loves Xuan Ye's children, if she is still alive, the prince will definitely get a good upbringing, at least he will not become a pain in Xuan Ye's heart. It is the sorrow of the prince without a mother, and it is the sorrow of Xuan Ye.

"That year, I've been waiting, I've been waiting for Huang Ama to interrogate me......" Yinren fell to the ground crying in despair, Lan Qi took pity on him and wanted to reach out to help, but a figure suddenly broke in in front of the door and shouted urgently, "Eniang." ”

Yinzhen outside the door really couldn't wait, after all, he rushed in despite Huanchun's obstruction, and waited for so long and didn't see any movement, God knows what happened inside, if his mother made a mistake, he would kill Yinren. But the scene in front of him surprised him to the extreme, his mother stood by the incense case unharmed, but the second elder brother fell on the ground and cried, Yinzhen was stunned for a while, and he didn't know what to do.

Lan Qi walked up to her son, smiled slightly with him, and said softly: "E-Niang is fine, you send the second elder brother back to Xian'an Palace, E-Niang will go to Changchun Garden in the afternoon, I will tell the emperor about this, you send E-Niang to Changchun Garden, you don't have to go in." The second elder brother was tired and froze here for half a night, so he went back and asked the imperial doctor to take a look at him. ”

"E-Niang is really okay?" Yinzhen looked her mother up and down.

"It's fine." Lan Qi looked at his son with comfort, the child who was almost strangled to death by the nobles of Nala in Yuquan Mountain, and who was saved by Empress Xiaoyi during the earthquake with her weak body blocking the flower pot, has now grown into a towering tree.

Yinzhen went over to help the second elder brother up, and there were guards outside to follow up, seeing that the second elder brother was extremely weak, he helped him out with one left and one right, Yinzhen was careful, and ordered: "Use a sedan chair to send the second elder brother back to Xian'an Palace, walk back like this, what does it look like." ”

Huan Chun came in and accompanied Lan Qi to sweep the rest of the palace again, and then cleaned up the incense case, the master and servant stopped everything quietly and peacefully, and when they were about to walk out of Cining Palace, Lan Qi turned around and looked at it again, and said with tears in her eyes: "It seems that I can still hear the Empress Dowager calling me Lan Qi." ”

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