In Ruijingxuan, after the fourth elder brother left at night, Lan Qi took the medicine and fell asleep, because it became worse and worse to sleep lying down every day, and the hospital prescribed a calming decoction, and he could sleep very deeply after taking it. At this time, I was awakened from my sleep, thinking that it was time to take back medicine again, and I wanted to be lazy and eat less, but I saw Huanchun standing in front of her empty-handed, she was wearing a bed coat, and she only wore a windbreaker and came over, only to remember that Huanchun was not on duty tonight and went to rest very early, and couldn't help but wonder: "What's wrong?" ”

Huanchun seemed to be frozen and nervous, and said with trembling lips and teeth: "Niangniang, the prince and the fourth elder brother fell into the lake." ”

"In the lake?" Lan Qi was shocked, and unconsciously wanted to raise her body, and suddenly pulled her back injury, although it was not as serious as a few days ago, but this time she would have to collapse all over her body, after all, she was a person who had given birth six times, and she couldn't withstand such a toss.

"Don't worry, Niangniang, the fourth elder brother is fine, it's just frozen, there are some abrasions on his body, and he has eaten a few more sips of cold water......" Huanchun blamed himself for not saying it clearly, but his voice was weak as he spoke, Lan Qi looked at her nervously, "Could it be the prince?" ”

Huanchun was stunned for a moment, hurriedly waved his hand and said no, and hurriedly said: "It's the emperor, the emperor punished the prince and the fourth elder brother to kneel in the warm pavilion of Qingxi Study, saying that they would kneel for a night, and there would be many hours in the night at this time, and if they kneel until dawn, their knees will be rotten." ”

Lan Qi looked at Huanchun inexplicably, anxious and distressed, seeing that Huanchun's words did not reach his meaning, he couldn't help but blame: "You should make your words clear." ”

Huanchun was also woken up by his subordinates in his sleep, and he was confused and scared when he heard it, and it was rare that he couldn't speak clearly, so he could only call the messenger in again, and listened carefully to the things by the lake through a screen.

It turned out that after Xiao Hezi brought people to rescue the fourth elder brother and the prince, the emperor was immediately alarmed, and personally went to the Taoyuan Library, I heard that the fourth elder brother and the prince wanted to go to the lake to fish at night, but they fell into the water, so they directly took the brothers back to the Qingxi Library, and let them kneel in the warm pavilion to think, poor the prince and the fourth elder brother were shivering from the cold, so they changed their clothes and poured down two bowls of ginger soup, and they were taken by their father to punish them for kneeling.

"They're going fishing?" In this case, Lan Qi didn't believe it at all, besides, when did the fourth elder brother play with the prince? After entering the park, the princes and the prince still don't study together, and even the brothers study in their own courtyards, and the fourth elder brother has been with the third elder brother, how can he go fishing with the prince. For such an unconvincing reason, Xuan Ye was in no hurry and dragged them to play the board, which was already polite.

"Niangniang, I'm not in a hurry about what happened now, you know the emperor's temper, this is really going to kneel for one night, and the prince and the fourth elder brother can't bear it." Huanchun was very anxious, "The prince doesn't know, but the temper of the fourth elder brother, if he refuses to admit his mistake and give in, he would rather kneel for one night." ”

"Well deserved." Lan Qi was angry, but she didn't even have the strength to lose her temper now, if she was good, maybe she would have to teach Yinzhen a lesson with her own hands, but she couldn't even sit up, even if there was a disturbance in Qingxi Study, she couldn't go.

"Niangniang, you are angry, the fourth elder brother and the prince are really kneeling out, and the long live lord is not at ease." Huanchun persuaded hard, and the fourth elder brother was very distressed, so he sent himself to Qingxi Book House to kneel and beg.

Lan Qi's heart sank, one was her son and the other was the prince, she didn't necessarily have to ask the other concubines to come forward, only one person could beg, for fear of annoying Xuan Ye.

"Mother?"

"Go to Ningchun Hall." Lan Qi was annoyed, now the two children were fished out of the icy lake, how could they withstand the punishment and kneeling, the emperor's anger is one thing, in case any child really makes a mistake, but he can't make up for it, "You go and ask the Queen Mother to come forward, just say it's my plea, beg the Queen Mother to go to Qingxi Book House to bring the children out, and I will definitely kowtow to thank you in the future." ”

Huan Chun was ordered to quickly put on his clothes, and ran to Ning Chun Hall with a lantern, and Ning Chun Tang had already been alarmed, and the Queen Mother had been waiting for the news from the Qingxi Book House, and when she saw that Huan Chun came to beg her master to go for herself, she immediately agreed.

At this moment, in the Qingxi study house, the emperor is sitting in his study, he has always had to review or read books until late every night, and today he will not sleep for a while and a half, the two boys in the warm pavilion are kneeling, his heart is messy, I don't know how to be good.

Here Yinren and Yinzhen knelt stiffly on the floor tiles, the room was warm like spring, cold was not cold, but they were shocked and ate a lot of cold water, the teenage child's body bones were not so strong, and he already felt very painful, and he had to kneel straight, kneeling for less than an hour, and he couldn't hold it anymore.

There was no third person in the house, the emperor asked them to reflect on themselves, and the two of them didn't speak after entering the door, and the fourth elder brother couldn't kneel at this time, and secretly looked back to see if there was anyone, and wanted to sit down and rest for a while, before the prince said, "Why do you bother?" Why don't you tell Huang Ama that I committed suicide by throwing myself into a lake? ”

Yin Zhen covered the prince's mouth suddenly, and saw that there was really no figure in front of the door, so he let go of his hand and said softly: "Second brother, you can't say such a thing, and you must not tell Huang Ama about this." The parents who suffer from the body do not dare to destroy it, and the beginning of filial piety is also. If the emperor Ama knows the truth, he should be sad, and he must not say it. ”

The prince glanced at him lightly and smiled bitterly: "You said that we went fishing, and Huang Ama would believe it." ”

"That can't be said either."

"Then why did you save me?" The prince suddenly asked, his eyes lifeless, "How did you see me?" ”

"I didn't expect it to be the second brother at the time, but the more I thought about it later, the more familiar I felt, and I was uneasy and wanted to run out to take a look, but I saw ......" didn't say anything later, Yinzhen really knelt down, sat down, rubbed his knees and said, "Second brother, you can't do this anymore." ”

The prince snorted softly, still kneeling upright, Yinzhen saw him like this, gritted his teeth and knelt up again, the two were silent for a while, and then the prince said again: "There are so many words in the garden these days, haven't you heard half a sentence?" Didn't they say, I raised a wolf and let it bite your mother, your mother was injured like that, and you still want to save me? ”

"Those are rumors, what is going on, Huang Ama will find out, and Eniang didn't say these words to me." The fourth elder brother responded seriously, turned his head to look at his brother and asked, "Second brother, are you just for this?" But the emperor didn't say anything. ”

The prince smiled bitterly and shook his head to ignore it.

Yin Zhen asked again: "Why did you run out of Wuyizhai, didn't the people of Wuyizhai find out?" ”

"They watch me like a prisoner every day, and as the days go by, I have already figured out the door, and whether I want to come out or not is not in their hands, it's just my own business." The prince said coldly, "If it weren't for your commotion here, they would probably think I was still sleeping." ”

Yin Zhen sighed: "Xiao Hezi is miserable, I'm afraid the people around you are also miserable, second brother." ”

"Why the hell did you save me?" The prince asked again.

"Because you're my second brother." The fourth elder brother replied without thinking about it, and looked at him sincerely, "But I still don't understand, why do you want to do such a thing." ”

"Of course you won't understand." The prince's smile was very bitter, so bitter that Yinzhen looked at it like he had eaten a mouthful of coptis in his mouth, and the prince sighed and said, "The emperor's mother died just to save me, if she is still there, it must be different." ”

"You mean Emperor Xiaozhao's mother?" The fourth elder brother has no impression of Empress Xiaozhao, he was still in his mother's womb at that time, but the prince is only a three or four-year-old child, and more than ten years have passed, and it seems that he shouldn't remember those things.

The prince really can't remember, don't talk about the past, even the appearance of Queen Xiaozhao only remembers the appearance on the portrait, almost all the "memories" are told to him by the people around him, telling him how much Empress Xiaozhao once loved the prince, so he felt that he was also a child who had been cared for by his mother, and gradually couldn't distinguish between true and false, so he took these words as memories and believed that he had also been cared for and loved.

Yinren didn't answer his brother's words, but continued to ask him: "Yinzuo died for me, and you don't hate it?" ”

Yin Zhen was stunned for a moment and shook his head: "It's not your fault. ”

"If I had died, nothing would have happened."

"Second brother?"

Before the brothers finished speaking, the door behind them was suddenly opened, and a cold wind poured in, and a little eunuch knelt on the ground and said: "The prince, the fourth elder brother, the queen mother has arrived, and she is talking to the long-lived lord in the study, and the long-lived lord invites the prince and the fourth elder brother to come over." ”

"I guess I don't have to kneel." The prince smiled coldly, stood up with difficulty, saw Yinzhen staggering, reached out to help, and said softly, "I promise you, no one will say anything about tonight." ”

Yin Zhen stiffened his face and nodded: "I won't say it either." ”

The brothers came to their father's side, the Queen Mother sat on one side, Xuan Ye stood beside her, and when she saw the two children entering the door, the Queen Mother smiled and sighed: "You two little guys, you don't pick the time to clean up, toss me in the middle of the night, come back to Ningchun Hall with me." Without waiting for the prince and the fourth elder brother to salute the emperor, he said to Xuan Ye, "The emperor has been busy with court affairs day and night these days, I have been worried about your body, leave the children's affairs to me, the emperor will rest early, tomorrow I will ask them clearly, I should beat and scold without favoritism, there are so many younger brothers and sisters, it is also appropriate to be an example, but you can't be greedy." ”

Xuan Ye lowered his head and agreed, without saying anything, the two sons lowered their heads and didn't dare to look at him, he said something good for himself, and asked the Queen Mother to take a pair of grandchildren away.

The Queen Mother has never been careful, Xuan Ye knew that she must not have thought of herself when she came in the middle of the night, and sure enough, Liang's father-in-law sent the Queen Mother back and told the emperor that Concubine De Niangniang sent someone to beg the Queen Mother, for fear that the emperor would misunderstand Concubine De, and helped explain: "The slave thinks, Niangniang must be afraid that the prince and the fourth elder brother will have a good time, and you will be sad when you look back at the emperor." ”

Xuan Ye glared at him and sneered: "Are they going fishing?" Do you believe it or not? ”

Liang Gonggong knelt on the ground and said, "The slave has something to say." Seeing that the emperor was silent, he trembled and said, "The servant went around there and saw a few stones on the shore, and the turf under the stones was fresh, as if it had been moved from somewhere else, and the eunuch who changed the prince's clothes told the servant that there was a bruise on the prince's waist." ”

Xuan Ye had a chill on his back, and his knuckles rattled because his fists were too tight, and he asked coldly, "What is he going to do?" ”

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