"Your Majesty, we're here."

After ten days of traveling, Dongfang Han finally returned to the Chang'an Palace after a fifteen-year absence.

When he left, he was only three years old, and he was held in the arms of Mama Su and boarded the sedan chair.

The little one looked at the green bricks and red tiles of the palace through the pane, and gradually shrunk into a point in her sight, and asked Mama Su, "When will we come back?" ”

Mama Su gently brushed her black hair, with a mist in her eyes: "...... soon"

……

Outside the palace gate, hundreds of civil and military officials and royal children lined up on both sides of the road, waiting to welcome the new emperor.

Dongfang Han got off the sedan chair and went to everyone, only to hear the whispered discussion of the officials.

"The new emperor is actually a sick-looking woman with no energy?"

"I don't know what His Majesty the Emperor Daxing thinks, but she was chosen by having many children!"

"How can this delicate appearance take on the heavy responsibility of the country?"

Dongfang Han looked around, hid his face and coughed, his body swayed, and Nanyin hurriedly supported her.

The crowd sighed...... The empress's weak body, I'm afraid that before the enthronement ceremony is held, she will go west.

"Hundred officials kneel—"

The celebrant shouted in a loud voice.

However, the air seemed to freeze, and none of the ministers on both sides of the road knelt down.

Because, in their eyes, the person in front of them is not the Ninety-Five Supreme, but a weak queen who lingers on the sickbed.

"Hundreds of officials bow down—"

Everyone looked at Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, King Rui, and King Qi standing in the front row of the queue, all standing upright and proud, and they had no intention of kneeling down to worship the new emperor, they naturally wanted to stand with the nobles.

Lu Cichuan crossed Dongfang Han and came to the front of Baiguan.

"Why, don't you know how to bow down when you see the new emperor?"

His tone was unwavering, but somehow, underneath that gloomy and grim countenance, there was a sense of command.

The civil and military officials knelt down on their knees - "See Your Majesty!" ”

Lu Cichuan looked at the eldest princess, King Rui, and King Qi who were still standing, and raised his voice and said, "Salute to the saint!" ”

The three of them still didn't move, and even rolled their eyes at the domineering King Chu.

Seeing this, Dongfang Han immediately stepped forward and said with a smile: "Forget it, the bow will be waived, they are all their own brothers and sisters." ”

Lu Cichuan tilted his head to look at the woman in front of him who was trying to make a smile, and whispered close to her ear: "I hope they also think that Your Majesty, you are their relative." ”

With that, he stepped on his horse and left the palace gate.

Dongfang Han raised his eyes and stared at the eldest sister and brothers standing in front of him, they were also looking at him at this moment, their eyes were as sharp as knives, and they were cold to the bone.

"Sister Han...... Oh, no......"

The eldest princess Lu Ruolan stepped forward, her eyes full of disdain: "It's time to change your name to His Majesty the Emperor." ”

Dongfang Han smiled and said, "Eldest sister." ”

This move amused Lu Ruolan, "How can an emperor salute his subordinates?" ”

Dongfang Han secretly thought: "Then I didn't see you, a courtier, saluting me!" ”

The eldest princess Lu Ruolan is the first child of her mother and Emperor Lu, her status is very noble, she has been pampered for more than 30 years, and she is used to being arrogant and domineering, so she will not take her sick son in her eyes.

What's more, she has always believed that her mother will pass the throne to her.

"The palace is lacking, so I won't go to tonight's family banquet."

Lu Ruolan leisurely threw down a sentence and walked away.

……

At the royal family banquet at night, the eldest princess Lu Ruolan did not come.

In the huge banquet hall, only four people sat looking at each other.

King Rui and King Qi didn't pay attention to the empress Dongfang Han sitting on the throne at all, and the two of them came just to covet a sip of wine in the palace.

Only Princess Huaining, who had a different mother from the three of them, saluted the new emperor with several thoughtful manners, and said respectfully: "Your Majesty returned to the palace, and the little girl wanted to go to greet her, but her status was low, and she was not allowed to leave the palace. ”

Dongfang Han looked at the woman in light green palace dress in front of him, her appearance was beautiful and unassuming, and she didn't look like a noble princess in the palace at all.

Only then did I remember that Princess Lu Wan'er of Huaining, who was the same age as herself, was born to Emperor Lu and Concubine Xiang. 's mother seized the throne from Emperor Lu, and these Lu children who were not born by her naturally lived on thin ice in the palace.

Dongfang Han motioned for her to sit beside him, got up and raised his wine glass and said, "Today, I will return to the credit, and in the future, I will rely on all my brothers and sisters, flesh and blood." ”

King Rui and King Qi looked at each other and smiled, and drank the wine in the cup.

King Rui said: "My sister has really grown up, and the last time we met in the palace was five years ago." ”

Five years ago......

Dongfang Han frowned, clenched the wine glass in his hand, but the corners of his lips were still hooked with a smile.

"Hahahaha, the second brother reminded the king of the interesting thing that happened in the Yuehua Hall of the younger sister five years ago."

King Qi picked up the wine jug and drank it happily, paused, and looked at Dongfang Han: "Where is that palace maid now?" She's such a cute and funny woman. ”

Dongfang Han said lightly: "It's dead...... Sick and died. ”

King Qi pouted and shrugged: "It's really a pity." ”

King Rui said: "I didn't expect that the third brother is still a lover, and a palace maid in the palace can worry about her stomach for five years." Now that our sister is the emperor, she can give you any kind of woman you want. ”

Saying that, King Rui looked at Dongfang Han slyly: "Really? Our Emperor Your Majesty. ”

He pressed the words "His Majesty the Emperor" extremely hard, mixed with seven points of banter and three points of threat.

The smile on Dongfang Han's face never let go for a moment, and she nodded: "That's nature." ”

In my eyes is the picture of two men drinking and laughing, and the time seems to go back to that rainy night five years ago.

While hunting in the palace, the two were having fun outside the palace, returned drunk late, and broke into her Yuehua Hall with a ticket of attendants.

Lu met the maid Xiyue, with the strength of the wine, she actually took off her clothes in the rain, and the two princes and attendants took turns to bully and torture her, and Xiyue's screams and cries resounded throughout the Yuehua Palace.

Dongfang Han in the house wanted to go out to save her, but was stopped by Mama Su.

She said firmly: "Princess, now is not the time! ”

Lightning and thunder, accompanied by the woman's miserable cry, continued all night......

On the second day, after the rain, King Rui and King Qi were long gone, and Xiyue was lying on the wet ground like a puddle of mud, and the blood flowing down her thighs to her ankles had coagulated, leaving dark red and dazzling marks.

Dongfang Han ran to put on clothes for her, his eyes were full of tears, helpless and panicked: "Sister Xiyue, you hold on, I'll find you a doctor!" ”

Xiyue slowly raised her pale hand, held the girl's weak arm, her voice was hoarse, and she said with difficulty: "Master, you must avenge me in the future......"

Before the words fell, he closed his eyes weakly, only the hand holding the girl was still clenched.

Holding Xiyue's corpse, sitting from sunrise to sunset, Dongfang Han finally got up, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, tidied up his messy hair, and said to Mama Su: "Take me to see my mother." ”