Concubine Xu slowly woke up, she sat in the empty Zhaoxiang Palace, and many memories emerged in her mind. In childhood, when he was young, he was named a concubine by His Majesty and lived in Zhaoxiang Palace.
Many memories have become dim and fuzzy, only the moment when the palace dress is put on, the pink skirt is gorgeous and dazzling.
She paid so much and endured so many years in order to be the mother of the emperor one day. But all this has come to nothing today.
The afterglow of the setting sun elongated the shadow of the window. Concubine Xu looked at the light and shadow on her body and laughed a few times, then the laughter stopped abruptly.
Someone walked in, and Concubine Xu raised her head and glanced at him.
"Concubine Xu, in accordance with His Majesty's holy order, I will deprive you of your title and abolish your throne of Zhaoxiang Palace." Liu Zhongbao bowed to her: "I'm sorry for you to go with this old slave first."
Concubine Xu sneered and asked, "Does this palace have the right to refuse?"
Liu Zhongbao smiled without saying a word.
He turned his head and looked out the door. The Empress and Princess Chen were standing there, the afterglow of the sunset shone on them with a golden light at night.
"Concubine Xu is forbearing and resourceful, the elder brother has a straight personality, and the temperament of the mother and son is really different."
"The opposite is true..."
Jiuzhu suddenly remembered the letter that Concubine Zhao left her, and had an absurd guess in her heart.
"Su Meidai, I didn't expect that you, the merchant girl, would win in the end." Concubine Xu walked out of the palace with hatred in her eyes: "You hurt me so far today, and Liuan will definitely remember today for me and report today. Vengeance!"
When this statement came out, everyone was stunned.
Concubine Xu's words are clearly telling the Queen, I'm not going to do it, you have to kill my son, or he will trouble you.
What a "kind" mother, she doesn't forget to take her son with her when she is unlucky.
Jiu Zhu, who consciously knew something about the people of the capital, was stunned again by Concubine Xu's behavior.
Beijing is indeed a complicated place.
This is a real mother, and she quite "loves" her son.
Only after Wang Huai woke up did he know what happened to Zhaoxiang Palace.
"You said that concubine mother, in front of the queen, said that I would take revenge for her?" King Huai laughed more ugly than crying. Does concubine mother think that his current situation is too good, or does he think his son is unnecessary
"What did she do again?" King Huai wiped his face with cold water and calmed down.
"The concubine sent someone to Dali Temple to inquire about the secret case, and she was going to spread rumors in the palace, sow the relationship between the fifth brother and the five younger siblings, and divide the Ming family and the royal family." Princess Huai looked at King Huai with pity: "Now the concubine is imprisoned. When you arrived at Hulongwei prison, your father did not order you to visit."
"She's crazy!" King Huai could hardly believe that his mother and concubine would do such a thing: "The Ming family is full of loyal and good people, and it has brought countless blessings to the people of the world, and it has made them dislike the royal family. It is the people of the world who suffer!"
The fifth younger brother and the fifth younger sibling only came to rescue him yesterday, but he turned his mother and concubine even if he planned the fifth younger brother and the fifth younger sibling, and wanted to make the husband and wife feel bad about it. How could he face them
"Take care of yourself." Princess Huai shoved the gift list into Wang Huai's hands: "Now go and apologize to the fifth brother and the fifth younger sister."
"Thank you, Princess Huai, for taking care of me." Wang Huai saw the items listed on the gift list, as well as Princess Huai's dowry. Thinking of the years when the princess married her, she was virtuous and filial in front of her mother, but her mother was always picky about her, and she was always dissatisfied.
"These are all things you like, keep them all and fill them with others." King Huai removed Princess Huai's dowry and planned to replace it with other things.
"His Royal Highness has spent a lot of money to support advisors and disciples over the years. After we moved into the palace, the original filial piety was broken, and your salary was suspended again. Other items are not as sincere as these." The pitiful husband who was ruthless and dejected, softened his heart a bit: "If your lord is sorry, after we move back to the palace, give me a few more good things."
King Huai stretched out his hand and took Princess Huai's hand, silent for a long time: "I've been sorry for you all these years."
Princess Huai pulled out her hand and smiled sarcastically, "Your Highness is joking again."
Looking at the empty hands, King Huai didn't have the face to say anything to the princess, but he felt even more ashamed.
Kirin Palace.
King Chen sat up with his head covered, Jiuzhu saw him wake up, walked to the edge of the bed and sat down: "Headache?"
"Yeah." He leaned his head against Jiuzhu, lazily not wanting to move.
Jiuzhu's fingers gently pressed the top of his head, which quickly eased his headache: "Concubine Xu was taken away by the Dragon Guard."
"She really has a problem." Chen Wang Qiang, after washing himself up, sat down against Jiuzhu again.
"Your Highness, is the relationship between Concubine Xu and Queen Huai good?"
King Chen shook his head: "In the past, other princes and concubines would send people to bring things to the horseback class. Concubine Xu, because of her poor health, should not be worried and tired, so she rarely sent people to bring things to the eldest brother. After the mother found out, she would use In the name of my father, I send two things to the shooting range every day."
"I seldom see the eldest brother and Concubine Xu alone, and I have never seen Concubine Xu punish the eldest brother, so only they know the relationship between their mother and son." King Chen took Jiuzhu into his arms: "Why? Remember asking this?"
"His Royal Highness, do you think it is possible that the eldest brother is not the child of Concubine Xu?"
"Shh." King Chen stretched out his hand to hold Jiuzhu's mouth, and whispered, "You can't talk nonsense about this, Royal Father doesn't like green hats."
"I didn't say that the eldest brother is not the child of the father, the color of the father's hat is still so bright, don't think about it."
Jiuzhu pulled down King Chen's hand: "Look at the scriptures, isn't there a civet cat for a prince and a daughter for a son?" There is hatred. Her actions like this seem to be waiting for the royal father to become dissatisfied with the elder brother."
If the eldest brother is not Concubine Xu's biological son, then the position of the eldest brother in her heart is to use a tool. When she can't use this tool, she will choose to destroy the tool to take revenge on those who care about the tool.
King Chen originally thought that Jiu Zhu's statement was absurd, but after hearing what Jiu Zhu said when Concubine Xu was taken away, he straightened his back.
"This is really not something my mother can do." He thought for a while: "Would you like to let the Dragon Guard go to check?"
"Check!" Jiuzhu nodded: "What if it really isn't."
If not, it would be a good thing for Big Brother.
If it is his own mother and son, the elder brother is too pitiful.
King Huai came to the Qilin Palace to apologize, and as soon as he sat down, before he had time to speak, he was warmly received by the fifth brother and the fifth younger brother and sister.
King Huai: "..."
It's not quite what he expected.
When he finally left, not only did he not send the apology, but the fifth brother and five younger siblings stuffed a lot of things and took him away.
Could it be that they believed him and knew what the concubine did, and it had nothing to do with him
The more he thought about it, the more guilty he felt. He was sorry for the princess, his fifth brother and five younger siblings, and his father.
It is my son's selfishness to help the mother-in-law to conceal her faking illness. But if he knew that the mother concubine would use the loyal ministers as pawns, he would stop it.
Thinking of his mother-in-law, King Huai wiped his face fiercely, found the commander of Hulongwei, and wanted to see Concubine Xu.
"Your Highness, please come down here." Commander Wang did not reject King Huai, but he was afraid that King Huai would cause trouble when he arrived at Hulongweitian Prison, so he told him what Concubine Xu had committed over the years.
"You said that the mother concubine colluded with Du Qingke when she was in the hidden residence, and wanted to cooperate with him inside and outside, using the father and emperor as a bargaining chip in exchange for freedom and wealth?" King Huai knew that Hulongwei would not lie to himself, and he stood outside the gate of the Tianjing prison. , looking at the darkness behind the door, suddenly lost the courage to step in.
Behind the dark door, it was like the bloody mouth of a giant beast, swallowing up all his courage.
The moment he stepped into the door, the chill instantly covered his whole body, and he shuddered.
He soon saw Concubine Xu, who was still wearing a complicated palace dress, and even the hairpins on her body did not fade.
Seeing her son appear, Concubine Xu glanced at him lightly, not expecting him to save her.
The mother and son were speechless.
King Huai opened his mouth first: "The concubine was in the hidden residence, did you ever think about taking me with you?"
"Take you away?" Concubine Xu sneered: "You are your father's child. If I take you away, do you know how much trouble will you get? I didn't expect those people to fail and let your father get the great treasure. The things I have gone through have become a burden to me.”
"So, even if you found a way out at that time, you never thought of taking me with you?" King Huai was extremely disappointed. Commander Wang, who was standing behind him, looked at him with a bit of pity in his eyes.
Concubine Xu smiled and said nothing, but the meaning inside was self-evident.
"Sometimes I really doubt whether I am the child of my mother's concubine." King Huai took a step back and said, "It's my son who shouldn't ask."
"Should you ask, this palace sometimes hopes that you are not my son." The smile on Concubine Xu's face disappeared: "You are stupid and do not know how to work around, as long as your brain is easy to use, as the eldest son, you have long been Sitting on the throne of the prince. I planned so much for you, but ended up like this... "
"Are you planning for me?!" King Huai interrupted her, "You are doing it for yourself!"
"You bastard, get out!" Concubine Xu looked at him with disgust: "Even if I raise a pig, it will be better than you. Go and be the pawn of your fifth brother, I don't have a trash son like you in this palace. ."
King Huai's heart was as cold as ice, he endured and endured, lifted his robe and knelt outside the prison door, kowtow to Concubine Xu.
Concubine Xu turned around and stopped looking at him.
one more time.
"The mother concubine bestowed the child's life with flesh and blood, but the child's incompetence makes the mother and concubine disappointed. Please take care of the mother." The nine bangers kowtowed with sincerity and force. My son farewell."
Concubine Xu still didn't look at him.
It wasn't until King Huai walked away that she slowly turned her head and looked at the empty corridor of the cell. Her eyes were so calm that no one could see through her thoughts.
Commander Wang became more and more sympathetic to King Huai. How many eyes did she have when she was born with such a mother and concubine
That night, Concubine Xu died.
Suicide by poison.
She was lying on the stone bed in Tian Prison, her complicated palace dress was clean, her makeup was neat, and she died with dignity and grace.
"King Huai is really pitiful."
"Yeah, I was treated coldly by my mother, and I was scolded bloody."
The person who scolded him committed suicide with peace of mind, only pitied the unfortunate King Huai, was not cared for by his mother, and was also implicated by disgust and disgust.
I am afraid that in this lifetime, I will never be able to relax.
Emperor Longfeng also knew what Concubine Xu said to his eldest son, he sighed a few times, not only rewarded King Huai with a lot of things, but also restored the salaries of several princes.
It's just that there is still no mention of letting them return to the palace.
"Hulongwei has found out that the eldest brother is indeed Concubine Xu's biological child." King Chen put the information investigated by Hulongwei in front of Jiuzhu: "Maybe there are some mothers who don't love their children from birth."
"No." Jiuzhu shook her head. She didn't read these materials, and there were still stars twinkling in her bright eyes: "Maybe I was wrong."
"Maybe she's a mother who loves her children."
Concubine Xu committed suicide, and Emperor Longfeng did not continue to investigate what she had done before, and ordered her to be buried in the mausoleum with concubine courtesy.
Her funeral was not solemn. Two days later, it was the ceremony of canonizing the prince.