Chapter 912: Shadow puppetry
On the day of the queen's funeral, it rained heavily in the capital.
The heavy rain brought a long-lost coolness, dispelling the heat in the capital since the beginning of summer.
"God, please bless the queen's aunt to live a free life."
Xiao Fuyuan stood at the gate of Chonghua Palace with his hands folded and prayed for the queen who left the palace.
After the queen's "funeral", the emperor has been immersed in sadness, and often sits alone in Chonghua Palace to "remember" the queen.
even pushed the government to the young prince.
When the queen went, the queen mother was not in a good mood, so Zhen took Xiao Fuyuan into the palace every day to accompany the queen mother and relieve the queen mother's boredom.
One day, Xiao Fuyuan and the prince passed by Chonghua Palace and saw a swing surrounded by flowers and trees through the palace gate.
When Xiao Fuyuan went to Chonghua Palace for the first time, the queen ordered the palace people to tie it for her.
It was a light day, and she sat on the swing, and the queen smiled softly.
The swing swings high, and the queen looks out of the wall with her eyes on her swinging skirt.
The first time he saw the queen, Xiao Fuyuan knew that the queen was unhappy, and this high wall imprisoned her.
Now that the queen is out, Xiao Fuyuan is happy for her from the bottom of his heart.
"Little Yuanbao, come to me."
The emperor appeared next to the swing rack, and because the emperor took off a bright yellow dress and wore ordinary home-style clothes, Xiao Fuyuan didn't recognize it for a while.
"Father."
"Uncle Cousin."
The crown prince and Xiao Fuyuan came to the emperor's side.
The emperor hugged Xiao Fuyuan to the swing frame and pushed her to shake slowly.
"If my little princess is still alive, she must be as cute as Little Yuanbao." The emperor muttered.
Xiao Fuyuan knew that the reason why the emperor favored her was because of the little princess who went early.
"If the little princess is still alive, maybe the queen won't beg to go......"
The emperor's voice was full of sadness.
Xiao Fuyuan didn't know how to comfort the emperor's cousin.
"Xiao Yuanbao, you said that if I was born in an ordinary family, would my little princess be able to grow up safely, and she would always be with the queen and be harmonious." The emperor asked.
Xiao Fuyuan felt that the topic of the emperor of the Ninety-Five Emperor was a bit silly.
"Uncle Emperor, you don't know what ordinary people's lives are like? In the past, ordinary people in our village could not eat, so they sold their daughters to large families as slaves, and my grandmother said that in the famine years, eating tree roots and Guanyin soil, children could not raise adults. Xiao Fuyuan said to the emperor's cousin.
"Ordinary people don't have a good time." Xiao Fuyuan emphasized.
The emperor's cousin only saw the helplessness of being an emperor, but he didn't know that ordinary people also had the misfortune of ordinary people.
The emperor rubbed Xiao Fuyuan's little brain melon and fell into deep thought.
Xiao Fuyuan and the crown prince accompanied the emperor to stay in the Chonghua palace until the evening, and the emperor took the two children to swing, eat, and fly kites like a loving father in an ordinary family......
The next day, the emperor resumed his reign.
He is still the emperor of the Ninety-Five.
Of course, it is the Queen Mother who is pleased with this.
Beijing, Shen Mansion.
The queen Meng Zhiyan, who has "passed away", and Lin Ran, Xiao Fuyuan's mother-in-law, sit and play chess against each other.
"I heard that the emperor is heartbroken." Lin Ran said.
"The emperor has been in charge for a long time, so he naturally has some acting skills." Meng Zhiyan's face was full of ridicule.
Lin Ran shook his head and said, "You can't say that." The two of you are also childhood sweethearts, and he also has true feelings for you. ”
Meng Zhiyan put away the ridicule on her face.
That's been a long time.
They grew up together in Ningcheng and came to the capital together, because she underestimated the last resort between the emperor and the queen, and at the same time overestimated the love of childhood sweethearts.
Meng Zhiyan picked up a chess piece and said, "The only thing I am grateful for is that he was finally willing to let me go." ”
Lin Ran smiled: "I always miss the days when we were in Ningcheng when we were young, you, me, the emperor, Shen Junshan, it would be nice if you stayed when you were a child." In this way, you don't have to be trapped in the palace walls, and I won't be disfigured, and the quiet life we talked about when we were young seems to have never lived since we left Ningcheng. ”
Meng Zhiyan said: "I escaped from the palace, and now you are going again." ”
Lin Ran said with a smile: "I'm different from you, you can only get free when you leave the palace, and I can protect what you want to protect when I enter the palace." ”
Meng Zhiyan asked, "What about your daughter?" If you ascend to that high position, your daughter will lose a lot of freedom from now on. ”
Lin Ran thought for a while and said, "Xiao Yuanbao, she is the daughter of heaven and earth, and nothing can imprison her. ”
Lin Ran asked again, "Where are you going next?" ”
Meng Zhiyan said: "Ningcheng is my final destination. But I just want to travel the world now. ”
Lin Ran said: "Why don't you go to the southeast coast, there is my sea ship there, you follow the Bai family's merchant ship to go to sea to have a look, you haven't seen the sea yet, right?" ”
Meng Zhiyan smiled: "It's exactly what I want." ”
"Mother, Daddy."
A crisp child's voice made Lin Ran's lips smile.
"It's Xiao Yuanbao who is here, you go and accompany me, my deceased queen will be gone." Meng Zhiyan put the chess pieces into the chessboard and said.
Lin Ran stood up.
Xiao Fuyuan ran to the porch and plunged into Lin Ran's arms.
"Slow down." Zhen, who accompanied Xiao Fuyuan to the Shen Mansion, shouted from behind.
Lin Ran saw Zhen coming and greeted him.
"It's really hot."
Lin Ran invited Zhen to the place where he was playing chess at the bottom of the corridor, where flowers and trees were surrounded and a living spring was faced.
It's the coolest thing to be.
Zhen sat where Meng Zhiyan had sit.
Lin Ran carefully wiped the sweat from Xiao Fuyuan's forehead with a handkerchief, and ordered someone to bring Xiao Fuyuan an ice bowl of ice mung bean soup.
Xiao Fuyuan drank a bowl of mung bean soup with Lin Ran's hand, wiped his mouth, and saw a familiar figure flashing under the corridor.
She tilted her head and looked at it quietly, then raised her head and smiled at Lin Ran.
"Mother, my mother said that you are going to leave the capital in a few days, let me accompany you for a few days."
Xiao Fuyuan's big eyes showed reluctance.
Lin Ran looked at Zhen with a grateful face, and at the same time his heart was full of guilt.
As Xiao Fuyuan's biological mother, she felt that she had not fulfilled her responsibilities as a biological mother, and now she had to put herself in danger.
But there's no way around it.
Who made her the princess of Xiyue Kingdom?
"Where's Daddy?" Xiao Fuyuan asked Lin Randao.
"Your dad is in the backyard, he has a new shadow puppet show, just waiting to show you."
Lin Ran stood up as he spoke, and walked with Zhen to take Xiao Fuyuan's hand through the long flower corridor towards the backyard.
Coming to the backyard, Shen Junshan was fiddling with the props of the shadow puppet show.
"My sister-in-law and my daughter are here."
Shen Junshan saw Xiao Fuyuan and stretched out his hand to pick her up.
"Dad, I want to play shadow puppetry." Xiao Fuyuan was tired of being in Shen Junshan's arms, and she couldn't wait to rehearse a new shadow puppet show with Shen Junshan.
Shen Junshan put Xiao Fuyuan down, put up the curtain, and performed a shadow puppet show with Xiao Fuyuan.
This shadow puppet show is the story of a princess in exile who sees the cruelty and incompetence of the new king of her mother country, and decides to return to her home country to save the lives of the people.
Xiao Fuyuan played the princess, and Shen Junshan played the courtier who persuaded the princess to return to China.
Zhen and Lin Ran sat on the sidelines and watched, Xiao Fuyuan and Shen Junshan deduced to the emotional place, hooking Zhen's tears.