Chapter Ninety-Nine: Prince Heng and Princess Heng
The other cuckoo nodded, "It's terrible for a man to talk to himself to the bird, strangling the thrush with one hand and saying, 'I'm going down to accompany you'!" ”
Ming Lanying calmed the two cuckoos, and curiously went to Ye Jielu, "Why is Prince Heng so obsessed with thrushes?" Do you want a thrush by your side every day? ”
Ye Jielu was stunned, "What do you know?" ”
Ming Lanying saw his reaction and guessed that it was really related to the thrush, and told him the words of the cuckoo, Ye Jielu scratched his head, he didn't know much about it, but he had heard about it.
"In the past, Prince Heng and Princess Heng loved thrushes, but later Prince Heng did not survive when she gave birth, and she had two lives, and Prince Heng has been raising thrushes to send acacia."
Ming Lanying was surprised, "The former Prince and Princess Heng? Then he should still love his princess? ”
Ye Jielu nodded, "Childhood sweethearts are happy with each other, but it's a pity that Prince Heng and Princess Heng later had two lives, and the queen knew more about the events of the year." ”
In the early years, he only knew a rough idea, and more attention was paid to dealing with the jackals, tigers and leopards of the previous dynasty to protect the emperor and assist the emperor to pave the way for him.
The gossip of old things, Ming Lanying's interest came, and she took Ye Jielu and Ning Er into the palace to find the queen, Hebai has recently been thinking about strengthening martial arts, and whenever she is free, she goes to learn from Tai Yuan, and she often doesn't see anyone, so Ming Lanying didn't take her.
When Hebai came back in a hurry and found that there was no one in the house, the king steward told her that they all carried her into the palace to play, and Hebai could only scold and sulk.
Although Ye Juelu accompanied her into the palace to play, she also had something to do for the emperor, so she sent the two of her to the official road, and watched the little palace maid lead the people away, before turning around and going to the imperial study.
The rebellion of the Ming family and Prince Heng failed, and there were still many messes to be cleaned up in the previous dynasty, and the rebels in the capital were exiled and beheaded one by one, and the mess was made up one by one, and the emperor was so busy that he didn't even have time to drink saliva.
The emperor just mentioned his baby son, but he didn't enter the harem for a month, and he was about to die of depression.
When the emperor saw Ye Jielu coming, he rushed over with tears in his eyes, "Good brother! Just waiting for you! I'll go see Zitong and Cong'er first, Defu will stay to help you, and you will go first. ”
After the emperor finished speaking, he didn't wait for Ye Jielu to reply, poured a sip of tea and got on the sedan chair, leaving only Ye Jielu and Defu with big eyes and small eyes.
Defu smiled helplessly, and respectfully polished the ink and handed over the pen, "Commander Ye, please, the Lord of the Ministry of Shangshu and the adults of Dali Siqing are still waiting." ”
Ye Juelu: "......"
As soon as Ming Lanying sat down, she heard that the emperor's honor guard had arrived, and the queen's eyes lit up, "The matter of the previous dynasty stumbled the emperor and he didn't come to the harem for a month, but fortunately, Alu was there, and he could rest for a while every three or five days, and it was rare to have time to run here today." ”
Ming Lanying took Ning Er and the queen to greet the emperor together, looked at the emperor who hurriedly got off the sedan chair and trotted over, and laughed quietly: "The emperor only has such an acute side in his mother. ”
In the eyes of outsiders, the emperor is a good emperor who stands up to the sky, and his majesty makes people feel awe, but in the queen, he is a good husband who is busy with a lot of things.
The queen smiled with her eyebrows, "I have been a childhood sweetheart for many years, if it weren't for him, I wouldn't have married." ”
The emperor came in a hurry just to see the queen and the little prince, and Ming Lanying took Ning Er to the side hall to wait.
Nearly sixty beasts were sent in before, after that night's chaotic battle, many were damaged, thirty-nine died, and most of the rest were seriously injured, the emperor let people cure most of them, and wanted to keep these smart fierce guys in the palace, there is a special Linghan Hall for raising birds and beasts in the palace, and there can also be a place for raising wild beasts.
But the beasts didn't want to stay in the human place for long after completing the task, and they wanted to go back to the mountains and forests, shouting that they wanted the Minglan warbler to support their offspring, of course, others couldn't understand this sentence.
The beasts are not very restless in the Changle Palace every day, the emperor had to let people send them back, and the battle sent back was seen by the people, the harem was on fire, the queen was assassinated, and the rebellion of Prince Heng They gossiped in the rumors to make up a process, and some people knelt down and shouted piously "Thank you for the blessing of the gods!" ”
The emperor directly asked people to secretly sit on this matter, and the gods blessed the queen and the little prince, that is, the sky was auspicious in the world, and the queen's reputation was not lower than that of the emperor.
The emperor left in a hurry after staying for two quarters of an hour, and the queen hurriedly asked her to come over to talk, and asked Liuyu to take Ning'er to the side hall to see the little prince.
Ming Lanying found out that the emperor and the queen were childhood sweethearts, and Prince Heng and the former Prince Heng and Princess Heng were also childhood sweethearts, and the relationship in them was quite long.
The queen was also stunned when she heard her talk about the late Prince Heng, and then said with nostalgia, "It's also a coincidence, although Prince Heng is the emperor's uncle, but he is about the same age as us, but he is a generation's difference, only two years before us got married, and when the former Prince Heng was in the boudoir, she didn't like to play with us very much, and the relationship with our young ladies was faint, and I only happened to see her smile the most real in front of Prince Heng." ”
Ming Lanying held a bowl of melons and fruits to listen to the gossip, and the queen looked at her with a curious look, shook her head and smiled, and patiently talked about the past.
"Speaking of the former Prince Heng is a wonderful person, her family background is not the most prominent, but she is the most dazzling among the young ladies of the family, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, a song of Luoyan Dance is stunning in all directions, the gentleman is also skilled in the six arts, although the temperament is cold but also straightforward. Whenever I see her, she is a person, always with a thrush by her side, and we often sigh that she really likes thrushes. ”
The queen nodded at her suddenly, "The way she raises thrushes is very similar to the way you did when you were fighting beasts, as if you could understand their words, and her thrushes are also like hers." ”
Ming Lanying shook her head again and again and denied that she knew how to resist beasts, "Niangniang, don't laugh at the courtiers, where can the courtiers know what the beasts are, it's just a cruel means to make them afraid, and the courtiers are just taming beasts at best." ”
There is no one in this world who can control beasts, and there is no such profession as a beast master, and being able to control birds and beasts is witchcraft in the eyes of others, and if it is exposed, it will be burned to death.
It is reasonable to tame beasts, taming beasts by cruel means means is the same as training dogs, and taming beasts and taming beasts are two different things.
"The courtiers think that if she can have a heart and soul with the thrush, she should be a good person."
Ming Lanying thinks that people who like small animals and also like small animals are generally not bad people.
The queen didn't emphasize the matter of the beast anymore, "She is indeed like this, speaking of her and Prince Heng, it is still a line drawn by the thrush, and I am fortunate to meet it." When she was a child, she went up to the tree to save a thrush that had just broken its shell but was crumbling, the tree was not far from the palace at that time, and was caught by Prince Heng at that time when it almost fell, and the two began to know each other at that time, for nine years. ”
Minglan Ying is happy, there is no one in this fateful encounter, "When I was a child, I was a hero to save the beauty!" ”
The queen also smiled and nodded, "That's right, it's a pity that the fate is not good, the first emperor has specially seen it, it is an excellent fetus, but there is still an accident, one corpse and two lives at a young age, alas......"
The queen has no ill will towards the former Prince Heng, proving that the former Prince Heng is not bad, if she is still there, she should not let Prince Heng become like this.
The queen looked at her with a smile on her eyebrows, as if she knew what she was thinking, "If she is still here, Prince Heng should not rebel, even if the rebellion is completed, it will be criticized, Prince Heng will not let her become the target of public criticism...... Having a loved one is like having constraints and concerns. ”
Ming Lanying shook her head with a sigh, "It's a pity." ”
Prince Heng should have tried his best to take care of her, but his beloved still left, and he was disheartened and simply did something big, such as rebellion.
However, the current Prince Heng Princess Ming Lishu is not good, and it cannot be said that she is not proficient in qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, and the most powerful thing is her appearance and ambition, which has no resemblance to the former Prince Heng, and Prince Heng married him completely by using it.
The past will continue to come to mind, although the queen and the former Prince Heng have not had much intersection, but they are both royal daughters-in-law, and they have met once or twice.
"At the palace banquet, I saw her when she was pregnant, she was very tired, and she was very thin, only her belly was unexpectedly big." The queen frowned slightly, "At that time, Liuyu was beside me from a distance, what did she say?" ”
The past was too long, and the queen couldn't remember what Liuyu said at that time, so she asked someone to call Liuyu and asked.
Liuyu has been with her since she was a child, and she is familiar with pharmacology and medical skills, managing the big and small things around her, and her memory is naturally good.
"What did Prince Heng look like when she was pregnant?" Liuyu was surprised that the topic of the two was the former Prince Heng and Princess, "The former Prince Heng participated in the Mid-Autumn Festival Palace Banquet when she was seven months pregnant, and when the mother and the emperor got married, Niangniang was also surprised that the former Prince Heng was much thinner. ”
Liuyu paused for a moment, and thought about it carefully, she heard from the women when she asked for medical advice about Princess Heng's childbirth.
"The slave saw that her pregnant belly was too big, and said to the mother, 'This pregnant belly is too big for the mother is a burden and danger', but a few months later, when the former Prince Heng gave birth, because the fetus was too big and the production was difficult, the slave and the maid heard that Wen Po tried all kinds of ways to give birth to the fetus, and the former Prince Heng and Princess Qi and blood were almost unable to hold on, so they had to protect the adult, but ...... The former Prince Heng did not survive. ”
It sounds like just a few words, but the cruelty in it is not something outsiders can understand.
The only way to protect the fetus is to crush or cut it into pieces in the womb, and then pull it out one by one, even if the doctor who is proficient in medicine prescribes pain relief medicine, it can't withstand the pain in the body, and the former Prince Heng and Princess are bleeding alive and painful to death.
Ming Lanying was stunned, and suddenly felt that it was not unreasonable for Prince Heng to go crazy with the thrush now, the beloved gave birth to a child for himself, but died in childbirth, and there was also a reason for this, the deeper the love, the deeper the self-blame.
When his beloved was gone, he went to rebel and start a business, but the rebellion did not succeed, and he couldn't keep or get anything he wanted.
The queen remembered that she had seen Prince Heng and the former Prince Heng at the palace banquet when they were in love, and compared with Prince Heng, who was now unable to rebel and would be exiled in the future, this feeling of witnessing the rise and fall of a person was very complicated.
The queen turned the jade beads in her hand, "They are all the lives of their own choices, and I can't blame anyone." ”
Ming Lanying listened to the slightly heavy gossip, and also shared the fun about Hebai with the queen, which made the queen hesitate, and the laughter never stopped.
Ye Jielu was still helping the emperor clean up the mess, so Ming Lanying took Ning Er out of the palace first, and was stopped halfway by the Praetorian Guards guarding outside Prince Heng's mansion.
"Prince Heng, Princess Heng, please tell the commander-in-chief."
Ming Lanying didn't expect Ming Lishu to have something to say to her, "Let her say it if she has something." ”
"She cried and cried that she must see Madame, as a sister." The Praetorian Guard hesitated for a moment, "...... Seems a little crazy? ”
Ning Er looked up at Ming Lanying, "Mother, could this be a treacherous scheme?" ”
Ming Lanying rubbed his little head and asked, "How can you go crazy?" ”
"The subordinates can't speak, as if they are grasping a life-saving straw."
Ming Lanying lowered her eyebrows and thought for a moment, "Then let's go and have a look." ”
"Yes."
Ning Er twisted her eyebrows and disagreed, "Mother, I think there is fraud." ”
"Really? Ning'er is so smart, and her mother also feels cheating, but she still wants to see what tricks she can play, and then kill it when she has the ability. ”
However, this time Ming Lishu really didn't want to play tricks, she just wanted to save her life.
A month after the Ming family was executed, Prince Heng ate and slept as usual, and then went to the study for half a day, as if nothing had happened.
But his attitude towards Ming Lishu has changed, and he gradually turns a blind eye.
Ming Lishu was unwilling, so she often went to Prince Heng's side, comforted and persuaded him, and wanted him to regain his strength.
Once someone dug out a jar of wine from under a tree, Ming Lishu took the wine to comfort Prince Heng, but Prince Heng was stunned for a moment after seeing the wine, and slapped Ming Lishu twice with red eyes.
Ming Lishu was stunned, and before she could react, she heard Prince Heng angrily scold her for how dare she touch this jar of wine, and then she went crazy and asked someone to take a soft whip to destroy her face, and she didn't give treatment and let people lock her in the house.
Ming Lishu was stupid, although Prince Heng had never touched her, but he had always respected each other and never murdered her once, this time because he had a big temper because he dug a jar of wine, and his fierce eyes stared at her, as if he was going to skin her alive and cramp!
The pain on her face and the warm blood made her afraid, and she tried her best to even force a Praetorian Guard to invite Ming Lanying to death, no one in the whole capital could save her, only Ming Lanying could.
Now Prince Heng still has the treatment of Prince Heng, and the Praetorian Guards have no choice but to invite people.
Ming Lanying sent Ning Er back by the way first, and then went to Prince Heng's mansion, this time the Praetorian Guards did not dare to let the two be alone, and directly let the two talk in the open tea room, and the two Praetorian Guards stood not far away to protect Ming Lanying's safety.
Ming Lishu sat in the circle chair with her back bent, and her face was covered by a double veil, but Ming Lanying still found red and swollen red marks from the place where she didn't cover it.
Ming Lishu raised her eyes and glanced at her, and smiled in a hoarse voice, "You're here." ”
Ming Lanying didn't think about sitting, just stood there with her arms folded and looked at her calmly, "What else do you want to say?" ”
Ming Lishu shook her head slowly, "I thought I would really become his woman one day...... But yesterday, I found out that I was wrong, and I was outrageously wrong! ”
Ming Lanying raised her eyebrows lazily, not interested in listening to her nonsense, and turned around to ask for a while, Ming Lishu suddenly said: "Do you know how the former Prince Heng and Princess died?" ”
Ming Lanying paused, she had just finished asking the queen today, and she was not interested in this question now.
Ming Lishu saw that she was about to leave with her feet raised, so she hurriedly got up and shouted: "She didn't die of dystocia, she was drugged by Ming Zhaofeng!" ”
Ming Lan Ying: "? ”
When Prince Heng and Princess Heng got married, Ming Lishu didn't seem to be in time yet, right?
Ming Lishu saw that she stopped, so she hurriedly explained the matter in a few sentences, "Ming Zhaofeng has long had plans to let me replace Prince Heng and Princess Heng, there are few princes left by the first emperor, only Prince Heng is the most favored by the first emperor and the most suitable." Whether Prince Heng rebels or not, the position of Prince Heng and Princess Heng can also bring a lot of convenience to the Ming family, the former Prince Heng has a cold temperament and is not easy to approach, Ming Zhaofeng simply did not do anything when she was pregnant, and directly gave chronic poison, so that she died of dystocia. ”
Ming Lanying was stunned for a long time and didn't come back to her senses, Ming Lishu just wanted to explain the matter clearly, leaving aside the relationship, she was just a pawn to be used, and wanted Ming Lanying to save her life for the sake of being a chess piece.
"When she gave birth, the doctor prescribed it was not a midwifery and pain relieving medicine, but a medicine that invigorated blood circulation." Because she was too excited, the wound on her face was faintly painful, but Ming Lishu still continued: "I don't want to step on other people's bones, it's all forced by Ming Zhaofeng, I understand it now, I want to reconcile, please beg the emperor to intercede, for the sake of us being sisters, sister, I knelt down and begged you!" ”
After Ming Lishu finished speaking, she knelt down directly towards Ming Lanying, compared to Prince Heng, who is now emotionally unstable, it is an easy thing to kneel down and beg Ming Lanying.
As soon as Ming Lanying turned around and saw that she was half a section shorter, she hurriedly took two steps to the side, she was afraid of losing her life.
Ming Lanying looked at her with a complicated expression, "Do you think it is useful to beg me?" ”
Ming Lishu hurriedly took two steps towards her knee, "It's useful!" You go back and talk to Ye Juelu, just let him say a few words to the emperor, and you can save my sister's life with two words! Sister, we are sisters! ”
"Oops!" Ming Lanying retreated again and again, "You can't talk nonsense, my mother only gave birth to me and was killed by Ming Zhengqing, I have no brothers and sisters." ”
Ming Lishu wanted to speak, but Ming Lanying interrupted directly, "To tell you the truth, it's useless for you to beg me, I'm just a weak waste who can't take care of myself, an outcast who was pushed into the fire pit by you, you are a chess piece, I am an outcast, our identities are still different." ”
"If you don't help me, I'll be beaten to death by him! He's going to skin me and bleed me!" You can't die without help! ”
When Ming Lanying heard this, her eyebrows raised happily, "Aren't you in love with him?" Why are you afraid that he will pick your skin and let you bleed? You love her. ”
Ming Lishu shook her head frantically, the veil on her face shook, Ming Lanying saw the criss-crossing traces under the veil, Ming Lishu's face was really ruined.
"I thought I would be able to ...... as long as I was willing to stay with him all the time"
Ming Lanying laughed casually, "This position was deliberately planned by you, how can you say give up if you give up?" My sister should enjoy the treatment of Prince Heng. ”
After speaking, in Ming Lishu's stunned eyes, she strode out of the palace.
The Praetorian Guards escorted her out, and before leaving, Ming Lanying asked a Praetorian Guard to tell Prince Heng, "Tell him about the cause of death of the former Prince Heng, and as for what he wants, tell you to go to the commander." ”
The leader of the Praetorian Guard.
It's rotten, don't look at it with your brain!