There was silence in the room.

Zhu Yinzhou looked at the paper and the book with a normal expression.

This was written by him before he got married and given to Shen Hanshuang on the night of the wedding.

The marriage between the Shen family and the Pingnan Mansion was more of a discussion between the elders of the family, and the two of them had not gotten along before they got married.

That night, Zhu Yinzhou told Shen Hanshuang that if she wanted to leave one day, he would not force her to stay.

Zhu Yinzhou still remembers that at that time, Shen Hanshuang accepted this letter of harmony, and then said shyly but seriously that she was willing to be his wife.

After three years of marriage, Zhu Yinzhou has forgotten the existence of this piece of paper.

Until it suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.

Zhu Yinzhou turned to look at the sachet.

The sachet was broken with a sharp weapon, and the person who did it should have twisted it with scissors three or four times to leave so many holes.

Glancing at the wooden boxes on the side, Zhu Yinzhou also quickly found that there was nothing left where the objects that Shen Hanshuang gave him, and all the things belonging to Shen Hanshuang in the house were gone, except for the birthday gift he gave her.

Suddenly, I remembered that day in the forbidden military camp, he had heard others talk about it, Shen Hanshuang ordered people to send a lot of things from the mansion to sell, and also used all the money in exchange to help the people implicated by the rebels.

Zhu Yinzhou didn't care too much about it at that time, and she didn't expect that the palace was not short of money, so why did she have to sell her things to help the people?

Not for money.

It's supposed to be for the things they've sent each other.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yinzhou turned around and went to the study, and only returned to the bedroom after confirming that the birthday gift that Shen Hanshuang gave him was still in the secret compartment of the study.

He walked through the corridor with a face as usual, and no one could see anything.

Zhu Yinzhou stood silently at the table, holding the unformed sachet in his hand, and lowered his eyes to look at the book and the birthday gift she had joyfully and expectantly received from him.

Zhu Yinzhou's expression flashed with emptiness and incomprehension, and quickly dissipated.

Standing quietly for a while, Zhu Yinzhou put the few things back in their places and restored them to the appearance before he came back, before turning around and walking to the inner room, lying alone on the bed and clothes.

He hadn't rested well for nearly half a month, and he went home tonight just to change into clean clothes. But he has always been haunted by the light floral fragrance that Shen Hanshuang likes, and he unconsciously feels tired.

I don't know how long it took, Zhu Yinzhou was sober and walked to the Songhe Courtyard in the palace.

In the courtyard there was a boy of four or five years old, pruning flowers with his mother. Zhu Yinzhou didn't know this child, but he had seen his mother.

His hands are too weak to hold the usual scissors, so he has a small pair of scissors made for him to use.

In fact, he didn't know which branches should be kept and which should be cut, but he just loved to be by his mother's side all day long.

He will follow what his mother does, naughty and lively, always coquettish and funny, innocent and carefree, and often has a smile on his little face that can easily make people soft.

When he woke up the next morning and saw his mother for the first time, he threw himself into her arms and said, "I haven't seen my mother all night, I miss you very, very much!" ”

Before Daddy went out, the four or five-year-old baby man took his mother and father and said, "Daddy, my mother and I like you very much today, so you must go home early, don't forget!" ”

For several days, Zhu Yinzhou watched this little doll follow his mother's side.

Zhu Yinzhou can see that he likes to see his mother smile the most, gentle and gentle, which makes people trust and attach to him in every way. He also likes to lie in his mother's arms, listen to her read poems and books to him, and tell those interesting stories.

This is a very happy family of three.

Until one day, at the palace banquet, because the child did not want the emperor to hold him, the man who claimed to be his imperial grandfather reprimanded him for clinging to his mother, weak and cowardly, and unmanly.

He was frightened and hid in his mother's arms and cried quietly for a long time. After being carried home from the palace by his father, he was already crying tired and asleep, but there were still crystal tears on his face, which made people feel distressed.

The child is simple-minded, and the next day he forgets about the night before and continues to be attached to his mother like a little tail. It's just that when he sees the imperial grandfather again, he can't help but avoid his frightening eyes.

One day later, seeing that he was reluctant to get close to him several times, his imperial grandfather sent someone to bring him and his mother into the palace.

On the way there, he asked his mother why his father was not with them. The mother just smiled and told him that his father had gone to the barracks outside the city to pick a foal for him, and that he would see it when he got home.

But as soon as he entered the palace, he was pressed on the chair by his father's brother covering his mouth.

Unable to let go, he cried so much, but he could only watch the imperial grandfather reprimand his mother-in-law, and forced his mother-in-law to accept something in a small porcelain bottle.

Zhu Yinzhou, who had been watching in silence, suddenly remembered that this child who was powerless to resist was himself.

The mother looked at him for the last time, holding back tears, still smiling.

Gentle, beautiful, and peaceful.

When the mother was lying on the ground with blood on the corner of her lips, Zhu Yinzhou was still struggling, but the tears on her face had stopped.

He couldn't cry.

The Emperor stepped over the corpse and walked towards him, smiling and telling him that it was his dependence on his mother that had killed her.

The emperor and the crown prince are murderers, and he is an accomplice.

Things were very chaotic after that, and Zhu Yinzhou only saw clearly at the end that the four or five-year-old child was lying lifeless on the mass grave, accompanying his mother, and being bitten and torn by wild dogs with his mother.

The corners of his mouth were still slightly upturned, with a smile.

*

When Zhu Yinzhou opened his eyes, the sound of bells echoed in Chang'an City-

The emperor died.

Zhu Yinzhou got up from the bed and changed into the white bamboo brocade robe that Shen Hanshuang had bought for him at the beginning of summer.

Before passing past the table and walking out of the bedroom, he did not squint, as if he had never seen anything on the table.

Zhu Yinzhou walked outside the house and asked the maid in the courtyard: "Before the princess left, did you say when she would return to Beijing?" ”

"Back to the world, the princess never mentioned it."

Zhu Yinzhou didn't ask any more, but only commanded lightly: "No one is allowed to enter the bedroom, and the sprinkling and tidying inside are also exempted." ”

In the past, when there was no one in the bedroom, Shen Hanshuang liked to leave the door open for ventilation. But when he came back this time, the door of the bedroom was closed, which should have been ordered by Shen Hanshuang before leaving, so that the things she left behind would not be seen by anyone other than him.

The maid bowed her head, but there were some doubts in her heart.

The princess told them not to enter the bedroom until the prince returned, why did the prince come back now that he said that no one was allowed to enter?

*

As usual for many times, Zhu Yinzhou went straight to the forbidden military camp to deal with official business after leaving the palace.

When the news of the death of the first emperor came out, the palace would begin to organize the funeral of the first emperor and the enthronement ceremony of the new emperor. Those things are handled by officials from various ministries, and Zhu Yinzhou is reluctant to participate.

It wasn't until his father ordered someone to come to the forbidden military camp and said that there was something important to discuss, that Zhu Yinzhou entered the palace.

The country can not be left without an owner for a day, although there has not yet been an enthronement ceremony, but the former king of Pingnan is already the master of this palace city, everyone has changed his name to call him "Your Majesty", and Zhu Yinzhou also changed his name to "Father Emperor".

Seeing that Zhu Yinzhou's expression was cold, and there was no happiness of revenge, the emperor sighed silently in his heart, and then said: "The first emperor has gone, and the burden in your heart can be put down." ”

Zhu Yinzhou was quiet, and did not say good, nor did he say bad.

Seeing this, the emperor started to say something else: "The layout of the East Palace, should it be decided after Hanshuang came back from Luoyang to see it?" ”

Zhu Yinzhou is the only son of the emperor's wife, he was the son of the world before, and he will be the prince in the future, this is an undoubted thing.

The East Palace is where the couple will live in the future, so it should naturally be arranged according to their wishes.

Hearing this, Zhu Yinzhou was stunned in his heart, and the ghost envoy did not mention that Shen Hanshuang wanted to reconcile, but only said: "We don't live in the palace." ”

After taking Shen Hanshuang into the palace to ask for peace that day, Zhu Yinzhou overheard Shen Hanshuang talking to her maid Chunye that the palace was magnificent, but it was also cold, and she felt depressed as soon as she walked in.

On the night when the former prince forced the palace to rebel, there was a river of blood in the palace, and the East Palace was full of corpses. And I wish Yinzhou and Shen Hanshuang both happy and clean, she should not want to live in a place where others have lived.

The emperor didn't interfere much, but said that whether to change the name of the original Pingnan Mansion and continue to live, or find a place to build another mansion, it was up to Zhu Yinzhou and Shen Hanshuang to decide.

At that time, he was temporarily sent to a military camp outside the city by the first emperor, and he failed to protect his mother. The Emperor was indebted, so from then on, the Emperor never forced him to do anything. As long as it is Zhu Yinzhou's decision, he will follow him.

Zhu Yinzhou wanted to throw the body of the first emperor to the mass grave, so he turned a blind eye.

I wish Yinzhou to make public the edict of the sin that he wrote against his will before the death of the first emperor, and he will also cooperate.

The emperor also hated his father, who took the life of the woman he loved so much, and also caused him to lose his son, who was originally carefree and full of attachment to his parents.

Since that day, the child who loved to laugh and love to be coquettish back then seems to have learned not to laugh, and he will no longer cry and be sad. No matter what happened, he was indifferent.

Zhu Yinzhou in front of him is still the son of him and his wife, but he is alienated and cold to everyone, including him. Even if they are married, the two are not close.

The first emperor was a madman who only saw the imperial power. There are some things that he can't do as a son of man.

But if his son wants to do it, he will do what he wants.

"At the enthronement ceremony, I will announce that you will be the crown prince and Hanshuang will be the crown princess." The Emperor brought up another business.

But Hanshuang is not in Chang'an at the moment, and the crown princess's canonization ceremony will be left until she returns. You should go to the Shen Mansion to explain this matter to Shen Xiang in person, so it is not a slack. ”

Zhu Yinzhou's eyes flashed the paper and the book, but he responded as usual.