In Jingyang Palace, the little princess didn't see her mother for a long time and missed her day and night, and finally saw Hongyan, but cowardly hid behind Concubine Yu, Concubine Yu coaxed her: "Good girl, you don't want Eniang every day, now that Eniang is here, why are you hiding?" ”

Buddha seemed to be angry, pulling the hem of Concubine Yu's clothes and refusing to move, until she heard Eniang's voice calling her, until she saw Eniang crying, she cried and ran into Hongyan's arms.

I haven't seen her for two months, the child has grown taller again, Hongyan wanted to pick her up, but she stumbled, and she lost cherry to support her, Concubine Yu said anxiously: "You are haggard like this, and raise it for a few days, the child is growing up fast, you see the clothes on her body, they are a little small, aren't they." ”

Hongyan hugged the Buddha and kissed and kissed, the little girl whimpered and cried, holding Hongyan's neck and refusing to let go, for fear that Eniang would turn around and disappear again, Hongyan coaxed her: "Now everyone in the palace is busy, and the people in the needlework room are too busy. ”

Bai Li brought refreshments, Hongyan sat down with her daughter, broke the dim sum and fed it to her, and Fo'er also took it and stuffed it into Hongyan's mouth, but reminded her of last year's Xiaonian family banquet, when the three children played together, and the seventh elder brother gave his dim sum to his sister and younger brother to eat. Who would have thought that after such a heartwarming scene, God ruthlessly took the child's life, and two months later, the queen also died.

In retrospect, everything that happened in the past few months seems like a nightmare, but this nightmare can never wake up, there is no hope.

"If you cry again, your eyes will cry badly, I have been crying so hard in the past two days that my head is about to crack, and you shed far more tears than me." Concubine Yu persuaded her, "The deceased is gone, we still have to live well, the last thing that Niangniang can't let go of must be Hejing, we, the concubines, can do whatever we can for her." ”

Hongyan hugged the Buddha and nodded, she was exhausted, and now that the emperor sent Empress Zigong to Jingshan, it would take a few days to return, and Hongyan felt a little relieved.

Listening to Concubine Yu say something about the palace, she seemed to hesitate for a long time, and couldn't help but ask: "The people in the palace said that Niangniang committed suicide by jumping into the river because of ......."

But before she finished speaking, Hongyan shook her head, her eyes were serious: "Niangniang, the queen is a recurrence of an old disease." ”

Concubine Yu rescinded her curiosity guiltily and sighed: "Yes, how can I believe those rumors. ”

Hongyan wants to explain, but I don't know where to start, the emperor claims that the queen's old illness has relapsed, Hongyan feels that no matter how much explanation is useless, for irrelevant people, it is the same whether they know the truth or not, as long as the emperor doesn't misunderstand the queen, as long as he respects and doesn't misunderstand his mother, it's enough. And the people who saw it that night, and later listened to the queen's explanation, were only Hongyan, how could she deal with the mouth of the world alone, it was better to spread rumors, and even she herself was firm in the emperor's words.

Concubine Yu is not the one who wants to break the casserole for everything, she has always known that there is still a distance between herself and Hongyan, although it is enough to trust each other, but this distance can make them get along better, everyone is for each other's good, but also for their own good.

She didn't want to explore the cause of the queen's death anymore, so she only said softly: "This time Yongqi escaped, I am grateful to God, but in the days to come, now that there is no concubine, even the middle palace has passed away, and those who are closely staring at the position of the prince are going to make waves again, I really don't want Yongqi to be involved in any disputes." ”

Hongyan said: "I promised Niangniang to protect Yongqi with you, Niangniang and rest assured, we can't do big things, so we will guard the child at home." ”

Concubine Yu's eyes turned red, and she said, "I can take your words to heart." ”

At this time, the fifth elder brother was following the emperor to Jingshan, and the queen also loved Yongqi in front of him, and the little guy learned the rules from Mama Hua in Ningshou Palace before going out. The Empress Zigong first went to the Jingshan Guande Palace, set up the Lingtai incense case here, the emperor was the first to offer incense and wine, and then the princes and princes and ministers.

Empress Daxing's nickname is Xiaoxian, which is determined by the emperor himself. Throughout history, there are only a handful of precedents for kings to name their deceased wives, and the emperor proclaimed: "There is no one who knows his ministers as kings, and no one who knows his sons as his father, and no one who knows his wife as his husband." I gave the queen an elegy yesterday, and there is a sentence of 'Holy Ci deeply remembers filial piety, and the palace is full of virtuous people'. Think about the name of filial piety. It should be the queen's virtue in her life. However, the emperor made an exception for the queen's funeral this time, and no one dared to care about this personal name.

The emperor stayed in Jingshan for three days, inspected the Guande Hall and Jing'an Village, and thought that the scale was too small, so he ordered the expansion one by one, and the princes took turns to guard the queen's spirit every day, which was very hard.

On this day, the emperor went to the back mountain to check, and ordered all the princes to stay in the Guande Hall together, it was almost noon, the elder brothers were hungry, the eldest elder brother was in his early twenties, it was the time when the blood and qi were just right, and he was vegetarian all day long in Jingshan, where could he withstand a breakfast, and the emperor did not return, they didn't know if they could leave, only hungry and dizzy. Hearing that the slave came to report that the holy car was still in the back mountain, Yonghuang got up and said, "I'm going to eat something, will you go?" ”

The third elder brother hurriedly got up and said, "Big brother, I'll go with you." ”

Leaving the fourth elder brother and the fifth elder brother, Yongqi turned his head and said, "I want to stay here to accompany the emperor's mother." ”

The third elder brother cut off disdainfully, called the fourth brother and asked, "Yonghui, are you going?" “

The fourth elder brother licked his lips, frowning and very entangled, the eldest elder brother was impatient, so he walked out of the door alone, and Yongzhang followed.

The fifth elder brother is such a greedy person as the fourth elder brother, he didn't go with him, and glanced at him, the fourth elder brother really rubbed his eyes aggrievedly, as if he was about to cry, after all, he was still a teenager, he whimpered: "E-niang took care of me before going out, told me to just cry, don't do anything else, don't say anything." I will do whatever the emperor tells me to do, even if I starve to death and freeze to death, I can't say anything, but I really want to starve to death......"

The fourth elder brother cried sadly, Yongqi didn't know how to comfort him, he was also hungry, but how could a man shed tears for being hungry, but he didn't know that at this moment, his father came in from outside the door, and it was clear that the eldest brother's servant said that the holy car was still in the back mountain, and his father appeared in front of him as if he had fallen from the sky.

And said that Hongli followed the local officials of Jingshan from the mountain road to here, the guards and eunuchs did stay in the back mountain did not move, presumably they did not know that the emperor had returned to the Guande Palace, he heard the cry before entering the door, but when he came in, he saw the fourth elder brother and the fifth elder brother kneeling, and the eldest son and Yongzhang did not know where they went.

The two children were also frightened when they saw themselves, and Hongli asked the fourth elder brother: "What are you crying about?" ”

No matter how stupid Yonghui was, he didn't dare to say that it was because he was hungry, so he only said timidly: "Erchen, Erchen is sad in my heart." ”

Hongli didn't care whether he believed it or not, because he saw that the eldest brother and the third elder brother were not there, so he asked where he went, Yongqi knew that the brothers had made a mistake by leaving without permission, he didn't want to provoke in front of his father, and was thinking about how to answer properly, but it was the fourth elder brother who said: "Huang Ama, the eldest brother and the third brother went to dinner." ”

The emperor snorted lightly, stepped forward to offer incense to the queen, and ordered the palace people to bring the fourth elder brother and the fifth elder brother to dinner, and asked people to lead the way to the eldest elder brother and the third elder brother.

Let's say that the two brothers sent a slave to the front door to watch, and the holy driver came to report as soon as there was a movement, who knew that their slave was waiting there, and someone here saw the emperor and didn't dare to come to report the news, and when Hongli came to their door, he heard the two sons talking about the queen.

The eldest brother said: "In ancient times, the middle palace was empty, which had a great impact on the court and the country, and now that the emperor has passed away, the emperor Ama will have to succeed sooner or later, and the concubines of the six palaces are the most qualified." Once Niangniang becomes the queen, Yongzhang, you will be the prince and the future prince. ”

Yongzhang said: "I heard the ministers discuss, there is no grandson in ancient times, the prince should be the eldest brother, you are right, as for my mother, ......" The young man sighed a few times, "My mother has long been forgotten by Huang Ama, she is like a resentful woman all day long, how could Huang Ama want someone like her to be the queen." ”

The door was gently pushed open, and the emperor walked in coldly, at that time, the eldest brother was stuffing steamed buns into his mouth, almost choking himself to death, and the brothers knelt on the ground with rolling and crawling, Hongli swept them with cold eyes, and said bitterly: "It's all my fault that I can't raise my godfather." ”

The next day, when the holy driver was still on his way back to Beijing, there was a holy decree that was sent into the Forbidden City quickly, but the queen mother was asked to gather the six palaces in the Ningshou Palace and recite it in front of all the concubines.

The emperor wrote the words of the two elder brothers in the holy decree as they were, and the pure concubine was so heartbroken that she knelt down at that time, the eldest brother's biological mother died early, and the other concubines were not responsible for him, even if so, they were terrified.

The emperor blamed himself for having no way to teach his son, ashamed of his ancestors, ashamed of the queen mother, and even more ashamed of the queen's love for the princes in the past, and said that the eldest brother and the third elder brother lacked education and could not take on the big responsibility, deprived them of the qualification to inherit the unification, and never reconsidered.

In the main hall of Ningshou Palace, the birds were silent, the pure concubine was lying on the ground trembling, Concubine Jia was holding her heart on the side and her face was pale with fright, fortunately, that day Concubine Ling scolded her, Concubine Yu warned her that she was not a smart person, and she took care of her son before going out and followed Huang Ama honestly.

Concubine Jia was afraid that her son would be rejected by the emperor because she would do something bad or be lazy, but she didn't expect that there would be such a thing, if the words of the fourth elder brother were mentioned in the holy decree at this time, she was afraid that she would faint with fright.

The Queen Mother was also furious, she never expected that the two children were so confused, Hongli cared about the decent people the most, and was so angry that she did not hesitate to openly declare that she would deprive her son of inheritance qualifications, she looked at the pure concubine coldly and said: "This is the good son you gave birth to?" ”