Thirty-four: The Crown Princess

The door of the hall of the immortal hall opened, the palace people held the copper basin towel in and out of the footsteps clear and messy, after a while, the sound of stomping in the Changle Palace sounded, the emperor Luan drove out of the immortal hall, straight to the front hall of Changle.

Empress Lu got up and ordered, "Let's go over too!" The voice was calm and proud.

Empress Lu was dressed in a solemn queen's black life dress, combed a solemn big bun, and stepped into the front hall of Changle in the flowing palace salute.

He Guan bent down and bowed in surprise, "Her Royal Highness the Queen." ”

"You go down," Empress Lu nodded and said lightly, "I'll listen to it in the East Chamber." ”

He Guan hesitated for a moment, and finally lowered his head and replied gently, "No." ”

Empress Lu walked into the east chamber, and across the wall, the emperor's lofty voice came clearly, "...... Uncle and grandson, you taught the prince for me, I don't know how the prince's homework is? ”

Uncle Sun Tong said, "Your Highness is diligent and studious, and in time, you will become a great tool." ”

Liu Bang instructed, "Take the prince's homework." ”

Xiao Huangmen replied, "No." Liu Bang flipped through it for a moment, his brows furrowed deeply, he pushed the bamboo slips to the ground of the main hall, and reprimanded loudly, "As the crown prince of the Han Dynasty, you are so level, how can I rest assured that the Han Dynasty will be in your hands in the future, and if you don't retreat, go back to the East Palace to reflect." ”

Empress Lu took a step forward suddenly, clasped his hands tightly, watched Liu Ying walk out of the hall with a blank face, bowed to Liu Bang, and withdrew from the front hall with a white face.

On the throne, Liu Bang sat down again as if nothing had happened, and said with a smile, "The prince is not virtuous, and I want to abolish and establish King Zhao, what do you think?" ”

The courtiers in the palace were in an uproar for a while, and they all knelt on the ground and exhorted in unison, "Your Majesty, this trip is not allowed!" ”

Xiangguo Xiao He Yue said, "The inheritance of the world is based on the elder first. The Zhou Dynasty followed the elder system, and the national weapons were passed down for more than 700 years; The first emperor unified the world, but he loved his youngest son Hu Hai, and once he died, Hu Hai forced his eldest brother to help Su abuse power, and Daqin soon perished. These two things should be a lesson for Your Majesty! ”

Zhang Liang, the marquis, has always been sick and has not been in the court for a long time, and at this time he also said, "The crown prince has not lost his morality, if it is easy to save, the ministers are afraid that the subjects of the world will be afraid." ”

Chenghou Dong Wei said loudly, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is gentle and kind, there is nothing wrong with the country and the family, Your Majesty decides state affairs with private feelings, and the ministers and others think it is impossible." ”

The courtiers of the Manchu court then knelt down, and said one after another, "The ministers all think it's impossible!" ”

Liu Bang looked at the black pressure in the hall and the courtiers who were kneeling, and suddenly rose a monstrous anger, this Han world is my world, you all kneel down, do you want to threaten me? "Presumptuous," he stood up, his left hand behind him, and hurried on the Danqi, pointing to the courtiers kneeling in the hall, "You are all speaking in unison, speaking for the prince like this, is this world my world, or the crown prince's world?" Do you want to rebel? ”

The Son of Heaven suddenly had such a big temper, the courtiers were intimidated by his momentum, and they didn't dare to speak, and the hall was silent for a while, and the imperial historian Zhou Chang straightened up in silence, and said loudly with a wat board, "Your Majesty, the minister and the prince are not related, and the minister insists on doing it, this matter, this matter must not be ...... Not feasible. ”

Zhou Chang is the younger brother of Zhou Chang, the late imperial historian of the Han Dynasty, in the fourth year of the Han Dynasty, the Chu army besieged the King of Han in Xingyang, the King of Han fled, and ordered Zhou to guard Xingyang City. Xingyang City was broken, Xiang Yu wanted to surrender Zhou Ke, Zhou Ke scolded, "You better surrender to the King of Han quickly, otherwise you will become a prisoner of the Han family in the future!" Xiang Yu was furious and ordered Zhou Cao to be cooked to death. Zhou Chang succeeded his brother Yu Shi Dafu as an official, he was upright by nature, not good at words, and his speech was slurred when he was excited. Although His Majesty wants to abolish the crown prince, he will not be edicted during the ministerial period. ”

All the ministers in the palace were awakened by Zhou Chang's words, and shouted loudly, "Your Majesty think twice!" ”

Liu Bang looked at the opposition of all the ministers, and suddenly felt powerless in his heart, knowing that the will of the people could not be violated, he sighed and laughed, "You Aiqing don't have to be excited, I'm just joking." Let's talk about the spring drought in Guanzhong......"

In the east chamber, Empress Lu breathed a sigh of relief, only to feel that the cold sweat was trickling down his back, and his coat had been soaked. Knowing that Liu Ying's storage position would be fine for the time being, he quietly retreated.

At the end of the dynasty, Zhou Chang came out of the front hall with a wat board, and Empress Lu also came out of the east chamber and thanked Zhou Chang, "The concubine is like Zhou Jun to thank you." "If Zhou Chang hadn't spoken up at a critical juncture, Liu Ying's position as crown prince would have almost been abolished by His Majesty."

Zhou Chang didn't expect Empress Lu to be like this, and hurriedly replied, "Her Royal Highness the Queen is serious, this is the duty of the minister!" ”

"Her Royal Highness the Queen!" The people of the East Palace bowed their knees, and Empress Lu hurriedly came in from outside the hall and asked, "How is the prince now?" ”

"When His Highness returned from the front hall, he shut himself up in the library and refused to come out." Han Changliu replied, with a worried expression on his face, "Her Royal Highness the Queen, you go in and unravel Your Highness!" ”

"Ying'er!"

Liu Ying sat on the couch in the pavilion, raised her head, and saw her mother who came to her, and smiled reluctantly, "Queen Mother, am I really so dissatisfied with my father?" "My eyes were empty.

Empress Lu looked at such a decadent son, only to feel that her heart was twisted very painfully, and hugged Liu Ying, "Ying'er, don't be sad, your father is just eccentric." My Ying'er is very good, where can Liu Ruyi's child be compared? ”

"Then why did my father ......?"

Always want to abolish me?

Empress Lu straightened up, and a cold meaning flashed in her eyes, "Ying'er, your mother is the Empress of the Han Dynasty, and she once served the Emperor Taishang in the Chu camp; Your uncle's family was born and died for the sake of the Han Dynasty, and with enough credit for the king, he was condescended to the marquis. You are the son-in-law of me and your father, and only you are qualified to inherit this Han world. The queen mother taught you a truth: if you want something, you have to work hard to get it. If someone wants to rob you of something," her eyes suddenly flashed with a hint of evil,

"Kill him!"

Liu Ying's hand trembled slightly.

He has a deep brotherly relationship with Ruyi, and there is no discord. But just now I listened to Liu Bang's ruthless and cold words in the main hall, and I finally felt a trace of resentment towards this younger brother in my heart.

"But," he murmured, "Ruyi, Ruyi, he's my brother!" ”

"What kind of brother is he?" Empress Lu's voice suddenly raised, "He really wants to treat you as a brother, and will covet your storage position?" ”

"Ying'er," she called to her son softly, soothing his cheek, "the queen mother is for your good, and the queen mother will not harm you." Don't you like the eldest lady of the Hou family, the queen mother will make decisions for you, hire her to be your crown princess, stay until you become a faint, and in the coming year, give birth to a big fat grandson for the queen mother, our family is happy, isn't it? ”

"Hu'er?" Liu Ying was stunned, and a hint of warmth flashed in her eyes, "Thank you Queen Mother." ”

"Between our mother and son, what else do you say thank you or not?" Empress Lu didn't care, "That's okay, Chenghou is a Han minister, you marry his daughter, he will naturally support you in the future." ”

"Queen Mother," Liu Ying raised her voice slightly, disapproving, "If I marry Dong Hu, it's just because I want to marry her." ”

"What's the difference?" Lu Pheasant said disapprerovitically, "Aren't they all married to the same woman?" ”

In the spring and March, Zong Zheng Liu Yuan hired the daughter of the Dong family as his wife.

Nacai, Najib, Najib, ......, and the content of the big wedding items are carried out in an orderly manner.

On the twentieth day of the fifth month of the summer calendar, the prince went to the Chenghou Mansion to welcome the bride.

When the sun sets from the West Mountain, Liu Ying went to the front hall of Changle to meet Liu Bang, from the north of the palace, at this time the dusk ceremony is held according to the weekly system, no music, no celebration, in the twilight, when the prince guards the halberd to protect the crown prince's personal ink car through Zhangtai Street, Zhang Yan lit the five Yanzu Palace lamps in the Mingyue Garden.

"Lady, lady," Tu Yu rushed in excitedly from outside the garden, "I heard that the prince's ink car has come out of the west of Changle Palace!" ”

"Oh," Zhang Yan replied with a smile.

It seems that the first time I saw the young man of Changle Palace was still in front of him, and in a blink of an eye, Liu Ying was about to marry a wife. Time flies like a white horse, and it can't catch its tail.

She used candle scissors to dial the five goose-foot palace lamps in the room, and the candlelight was loud for a while, and the boudoir was as bright as day in an instant.

"Lady," asked Timidly, "aren't you happy?" ”

"No, I don't. It's just," Zhang Yan slowly put her hand to her heart, "It feels a little empty here." ”

"Empty?" The little girl couldn't understand it, and asked blankly, "How come?" ”

"Respect the precepts, don't disobey the order at night!" In the temple of the Qu Rebellion Marquis's mansion, Dong Wei taught his daughter who was about to marry with a solemn expression.

"Reluctantly respectful, there is no violation of the palace at night!" Mother Zhang stepped forward to tie Dong Hu's clothes and tie a scarf, and admonished him earnestly.

The new crown princess Dong Hu had red eyes, folded her sleeves with her hands, bowed down, then got up, increased her forehead again, lowered her hand, and solemnly responded, "Respectfully." ”

She came out of the family temple supported by four Fu Mu, and looked at the young man in the dark clothes standing under the court, and lowered her head with a slight blush.

The crown prince Liu Ying took his wife's hand, smiled warmly, and sent her into the ink car, while he turned around and boarded another car in front of him, and the horse raised his hooves and called slowly, and walked slowly towards the East Palace.

Ah Yan, you are such an unlovely child.

In the Mingyue Garden, Zhang Yan was lying on the water mill nanmu sag, covering her face and thinking with a smile,

Do you still want your uncle to be with you for the rest of your life? That young man has his own wife and his own family from now on, and to you he is just an ordinary uncle.

In this world, no one has to accompany another person for a lifetime. Life is always prosperous and ends, and it is gorgeous in an instant.

"Tu Yu," Zhang Yan said suddenly, you can sing that song for me again! ”

"No."

Tu Yu opened her lips and sang softly, looking at Zhang Yan's eyes sad and distant, "The peach tree is gorgeous, shining brightly, the household is not broken, it is floating and straight, and it is sighing and sighing!" ……”

Eighteen bronze palace lamps will shine the dormitory as if day, after the newlyweds have passed the same prison ceremony, the East Palace attendant Yan Hui led the princess brought into the palace maids Xianglian, Vanilla and the East Palace palace people Xianyue and Xianxing retreated from the palace, and only the newlyweds were left in the huge East Palace.

"Hu'er." Liu Ying held his wife's hand, looked at his wife's delicate face, and was full of joy in her heart.

“…… The peach tree has Ying, Ye Ye and its spirit, and now it is not broken, and there is no one to prove it? Tell me to do it! Tu Li's singing voice was soft, rippling in the moonlight of the Xuanping Marquis Mansion, the song fell, Tu Yu got up from the vermilion lacquer Mandarin Duck Brothers' screen, walked to the couch, and called softly, "Lady." ”

No one answered her.

Zhang Yan has fallen asleep!

Dong Hu responded shyly, leaned in her husband's arms, listened quietly to her heartbeat for a while, suddenly raised her head, and asked Liu Ying curiously, "Prince, there are so many daughters of good families in Chang'an City, why did you choose me?" ”

Liu Ying thought for a while and said, "I can't say it clearly." ”

Love is a very precious thing, two people who had nothing to do with each other before, re-established an emotional connection that is stronger than family affection, and from then on, sad for him and happy for her.

Love is a very simple thing, no reason, no conditions, maybe, just at a certain moment when the teenager is cornering, in the right place at the right time, look up, and see the right person, that's it!