In the forty-first year of Wanli, when Li Mianxiang's son Zhu Youmo died young, Jiang Shu had guessed that she might still have the idea of taking a child, and now, in just six years, the crown princess and Wang Cairen, who formed obstacles on her way to become Zhu Youxiao's mother, passed away one after another, and she felt that the death of the two had something to do with her.

However, after all, this is a matter of the prince's mansion, and even Zhu Changluo, who is the prince, did not pursue anything, so she naturally had no position to intervene and ask, and only secretly rejoiced in her heart that she had never been an obstacle to her.

Zhu Changrun learned the truth that Yu Jingrong was killed by Ye Xiyao's design, and it was in late autumn half a year later.

Enraged, he immediately picked up the saber that was placed on the shelf, broke into her room, and stabbed her to death with a single sword, who had been by his side for many years and had become his side concubine.

And after so many years of being at the mercy of the enemy who killed the person he loved, he was the enemy of his brother, and he felt ashamed and had no shame to face him again, so he asked for an order to go to his fiefdom in Jingzhou Mansion and seal it.

These Jiang Shu and Zhu Changxun only learned about it in April of the 48th year of Wanli of the following year, during which they both lived in seclusion in the lonely mountain of West Lake, where the Song Dynasty hermit poet Lin Kui, who was the "plum wife and crane".

A few days after that, when they led the nine-year-old Hua'er to the street to buy pen, ink, paper and inkstone, they heard the shocking news that the current queen had died of illness.

As early as thirty-five years ago, when Zhu Changxun was not born, Zhu Yijun, as the emperor, had the idea of "living and dying together" with Concubine Zheng Guifei. However, only the empress, as well as the biological mother of the future new emperor, were eligible to be buried with the emperor. Therefore, he made a vow with her in the Great Gao Xuan Hall to crown the son born to her as the crown prince. But contrary to expectations, their son Zhu Changxun still failed to become the prince in the end. In order to fulfill his wish to "die in the same cave" with his beloved woman, after the queen was buried in the already repaired tomb, he ordered the celebrant to draft a decree and crown her as the queen.

However, before the decree could be issued, he suddenly fell ill.

It was three months later in the middle of July of the 48th year of Wanli when he received a letter from his mother and concubine sent by Qin Sangzhong from Luoyang, stating that his father was seriously ill.

Knowing that he might not be able to survive, he wanted to see the last face of his father, who had loved and valued him since he was a child, Zhu Changxun asked the person who delivered the letter to send another letter to Qin Sangzhong, asking him to leave Luoyang temporarily and find a place to hide for a few months on the pretext of returning to Beijing to visit his illness, while he took Jiang Shu and Hua'er to the capital as King Fu.

Unexpectedly, more than halfway through the road, the sad news of his death on July 21 came.

When I heard the news, it was already the first day of the eighth month when Zhu Changluo was holding an enthronement ceremony ten days after he ascended the throne in front of the Ling. In order not to miss the burial too late, they hastened their journey.

In this way, when I arrived at Guangping Mansion in Beizhili, which was only a few days away from Beijing, it was already the eighth day of August seven days later.

And at this time, they heard a news that was even more shocking than when they learned that Zhu Yijun had died - Zhu Changluo gave a new name to a eunuch named Li Jinzhong next to the crown prince Zhu Youxiao two days after he ascended the throne, called Wei Zhongxian.

Jiang Shu was very annoyed by this, she never thought that the person she had been looking for for so long and wanted to get rid of would not be far away......