Chapter VII

Empress Xiaoping mourns her deceased husband (1)

In the Jiaofang Hall of the Chang'an Imperial Palace, Wang Yan, the widow of Emperor Xiaoping, was teaching herself a famous boy to babble, and several eunuchs and palace maids bowed their heads and served. That Wang Yan was in the prime of her life, but she was only dressed in plain clothes, Chu Chuxing's eyes were sad and moving, and the child she taught was named Liu Ying, who was the crown prince when Wang Mang ascended the throne. The boy was seven or eight years old, but he still couldn't speak, and he was an idiot.

Wang Yan shook the rattle in one hand and the dim sum in the other, and said with a forced smile: "Liu Ying is the most well-behaved and smartest, as long as you call me aunt, I will give you this delicious food, and then take you out to breathe." Liu Ying bit her fingers and didn't speak. Wang Yan looked at this situation, sighed at the moment, and said, "Good Liu Ying, aunt begs you······" Wang Yan was stunned, and someone outside the hall shouted: "The emperor has arrived!"

The eunuch palace maid hurriedly bowed and greeted: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live······" Before the words fell, Wang Mang personally led the chief eunuch and many soldiers into the Jiaofang Palace, and then glanced at the people in the hall, only snorted lightly, and then sat down without speaking.

Those palace people who knelt down were all worried, Wang Yan walked in front of Wang Mang with Liu Ying, and said lukewarmly: "The Queen of the Han Dynasty has seen Duke An Han. Wang Mang said coldly: "I am the saint of today, and I am your father, how can I be called like this." Later, I took care of myself and tasted the tea slowly. Wang Yan looked at her father's pale temples and a little old, and couldn't help but feel soft in her heart, and then changed her mind again, and said: "You should only be a minister of the Han family, not a rebellious minister and a thief." ”

The rest of the people were silent, but Wang Mang seemed to be deaf, and now he held the teacup, glanced at everyone, and asked: "Where is the eunuch palace maid who takes care of the crown prince Liu Ying?" As soon as the words fell, an old eunuch replied in a trembling voice: "Return to the emperor······ It was ······ both of us." Wang Mang put the teacup back in front of the case, accompanied by a clattering sound, and then said: "Drag it out, cut it." As soon as the words fell, several soldiers responded in unison, and immediately dragged the two palace people towards the outside of the hall.

The two eunuchs and palace maids had no master, and they only kowtowed vigorously to beg for mercy, weeping and shouting: "The emperor spares his life!" Wang Mang said gloomily: "When I canonized Liu Ying as the crown prince, I said in advance that in order to protect his safety, no one was allowed to disturb the East Palace. But you didn't take good care of him, and you took him to the palace of the former emperor and empress, how can I pardon him?"

At this moment, Wang Yan drank the soldiers who were dragging the palace people, and turned to Wang Mang and said: "The crown prince Liu Ying was personally picked up by me, and my father wants to kill them, so I will behead my daughter together." The expression was as cold as ice, like a stranger, and there was no sense of father and daughter. Wang Mang pondered for a moment and said, "You will take the prince to wait outside the palace, there is no will, and no one will be allowed to enter." When the people in the palace heard this, they hurriedly made a sound and withdrew from the hall.

Wang Mang was both merciful and reproachful, looked at Wang Yan for a moment, and then said: "In order to cultivate the crown prince Liu Ying, my father does not allow anyone to meet him, let alone talk to him, why don't you listen to your father's words, it seems that you have really grown up." Later, he shook his head and sighed, and continued: "Besides, Liu Ying is the child of Liu Xian, the Marquis of Guangwei, and he is not born to you and my son-in-law, what do you want to see him do?"

Wang Yan snorted lightly, and said mockingly: "Father is a good cultivator, I want to ask you, if this is the case, why is Liu Ying an idiot?" Wang Mang was silent, and Wang Yan continued sadly: "When you named Liu Ying the crown prince, he was still so young, and he was the age when he should learn to speak, but you ordered people to only provide him with food, but no one was allowed to talk to him, let alone anyone to see him or accompany him······ The child was about to leave his biological mother as soon as he was born, and he was alone in the house, how could he not become an idiot?"

Wang Mang said: "When my father called the emperor was really helpless, if it wasn't for the filial piety of the emperor who had no heirs, the filial piety emperor who succeeded him did not give birth to a son and a half daughter, and caught up with your husband Emperor Xiaoping to inherit the unification, but he also died young, still has no heirs, how can I ascend the throne, I was the emperor for the emperor of the Han family, and I am really obedient to the mandate of heaven, and the ministers support it." Rao is like this, his father still canonized the Liu clan as the crown prince, which can be regarded as benevolence and righteousness. is the so-called deep love, protection, I will not allow others to approach the prince, now that he has become an idiot, it is really God's blessing, how can it be blamed on his father. As he spoke, his tone became stern, with a hint of rebuke.

Wang Yan asked rhetorically: "Since my father was loyal to the Han family back then, why didn't he support the Liu clan, who had both ability and integrity, but set up a baby as the crown prince?

Wang Mang was speechless, and the corners of his lips trembled slightly when he heard it, and hurriedly shouted: "Presumptuous, how can you talk like a father." Later, he sighed lightly and continued: "But this can't be blamed entirely on you, when Yan'er married Emperor Xiaoping, she was just a nine-year-old child, and she had only been married to the first emperor for five years, so she had to leave the name of the queen and stay widowed in this Jiaofang Palace for six years." In this way, it is very easy to behave in a biased manner. Tomorrow I will choose a colt for you, so that you can move out of this hall and live a happy life. At this point, I thought to myself: "Then you won't be embarrassed by your father, and you don't have to be this queen." ”

Wang Mang was making wishful thinking, but Wang Yan said with a straight face: "How can a woman serve two husbands, not to mention that I and the first emperor are extremely affectionate." Wang Mang disagreed, and then said: "Emperor Xiaoping is a dignified son of heaven, with three palaces and six courts, he may not take you to heart, and the good girl is too infatuated." ”

Wang Yan shook her head sadly and said, "What is true love, you will never understand it." While speaking, he actually reminisced about the past, and continued leisurely: "When his daughter danced, he often stroked the piano and played the flute, and he made peace with each other. You happen to be sitting here today, so let your daughter sing a new song for my husband's soul in front of you. ”

Wang Mang was full of reluctance, Wang Yan actually danced gloomily, and sang eloquently: "The quiet woman accompanies the monarch, and the white clouds reflect the red." The magpies will connect the bridges, and tears often accompany dreams. There is always Wei in the pipe, and it is difficult to resolve the lovesickness. The love is deep and strong, and the wind is constantly sheared. Its leaves are lonely and open, and the beauty is picturesque and sorrowful. The wind and rain are always love, and life and death depend on each other. The two love are unswerving, life and death cannot be separated, and the white dew is accompanied by the white dew. The leaves are pale and pale. ”

Wang Yan's singing comes from famous poems and folklore, singing about the unswerving love of life and death. The so-called "Tong Guan always has Wei" is taken from the "Tong Guan Youwei" in "The Quiet Girl", which refers to the bright red Tong tube is shiny, so as to compare the love of men and women. And the king frowned and closed her eyes, prompting people to move, her posture was pitiful, and she danced in vain.

Wang Mang was sitting precariously, watching Wang Yan's infatuation, and said secretly in his heart: "Yan'er is a martyr, I really don't know what kind of ecstasy soup Emperor Ping poured on her." Alas, it is also strange that in order to monopolize power, I married my concubine to the little emperor, so I provoked these things and asked her to hold a grudge. Now that I think about it, if I don't rely on this marriage, why can't I eradicate dissidents and ascend the throne as emperor······" In the dark, Wang Yan slowly opened her eyes, mistakenly regarded her father as Emperor Xiaoping, and was so stupid that she turned into gloom, bowed down to Wang Mang, and asked in a trembling voice: "There are no outsiders now, if you still recognize my daughter, please tell the truth, my husband is in the end······ How did you die······" When Wang Mang heard this, he immediately shook his head and sighed, and said: "My father doesn't want to mention this matter, before Emperor Xiaoping died, you served by your side, why do you bother to ask now?"