The emperor knelt on the ground and said: "Mother's love for her son is known to all sons, just like I love Chengming and Ah Li."
The queen mother turned her back to him.
The emperor continued to kneel on the ground and said in a low voice: "Mother, do you know what Lao Wu did after returning to Beijing? He provoked Cheng Ming and Ali to fight, Cheng Ming finally had a child..."
The Queen Mother couldn't help but turned around and spat at him, saying: "Your two sons are fighting, and you are blaming my son, if it wasn't for you pulling Ah Li and not letting him go, and pampering him too much How could he think about that position?"
The queen mother couldn't help pointing at his nose and cursing: "I know, you have long disliked your younger brother, otherwise you wouldn't have sent Yin Li out early. When did you move your mind? It was two years ago Was it the time when you quietly went south to Jiannan Road, or earlier?"
The emperor said nothing.
The Empress Dowager wanted to say something more, but thinking of the mother and son of the Ying family who were still locked in the cold palace, she stopped talking and swallowed back the words that might touch the emperor's bottom line.
She held back her tears and waved her hand: "You go, I don't want to see you today."
The emperor did not leave.
The queen mother didn't want to chase him away, so she lay with her back facing him. There were two mother and child, one lying down and the other kneeling, as if they were in one world, and they seemed to be in two worlds.
The Empress Dowager was originally in good health, but she suffered successive blows and got older, so she suddenly collapsed.
In the middle of the night, she had shortness of breath and began to talk in her dreams again. The emperor quickly held her hand, asked the imperial doctor to see it, and gave her medicine again, and she recovered.
The empress dowager's illness continued intermittently, so the emperor handed over the political affairs to the crown prince and several ministers known as Wei Zhi. He concentrated on serving the empress dowager's illness in the palace.
The third prince's attempt to follow the servant was rejected by the emperor, and the queen was not able to approach.
On the contrary, the emperor let go, and let Yizhou Princess bring the little county king to attend to the sickness. The queen mother looked at the little grandson, and the condition was slightly better.
For three days in a row, the emperor stayed in the Empress Dowager's palace. He was quite haggard, and he didn't take care of his beard. This made the ministers who saw it tense. Some officials who wanted to impeach the emperor for being unfilial retracted their papers and remained silent. They planned to talk about the national law when the emperor interceded for King Yizhou.
Princess Yizhou brought the medicine to Xinqing, and whispered to him: "Give it to the emperor's grandmother, be careful."
Xinqing nodded, and carefully handed it to the Queen Mother.
The queen mother took it, drank it in one gulp, then reached out and touched Xinqing's little head, and said in a low voice, "Good boy."
She flinched when she entered Xinqing, then turned her head to look, saw that the emperor came in from the door, she smiled, she handed the medicine bowl to Xinqing, and whispered: "You and your mother go back to rest first."
Xinqing saluted and retreated, kowtowed to the emperor again.
The emperor kindly asked Xinqing to wake up, and Yingshi was also very peaceful, and the mother and son retreated carefully.
After their mother and son had gone far away, the queen mother asked, "Where is the coffin?"
The emperor hurriedly said: "Tomorrow we should arrive in Beijing."
The queen mother closed her eyes and asked, "What are you going to do?"
The emperor lowered his eyes and said, "Bury it with common people's rites."
The Empress Dowager looked at the emperor sharply, and after a while she smiled sadly and said, "You don't delay at all."
The emperor said: "Mother, he committed the crime of treason."
"Three clans are going to be punished for treason, do you want me to be punished as well? Don't forget, you are also in the three clans!" The queen mother never believed in laws and rules, if the world could live in accordance with laws and rules , Why do they still want to be emperors and power after breaking their heads
The queen mother was silent for a while and then said: "The common people's ceremony is the common people's ceremony, but I want him to be buried with him in the mausoleum."
That was the mausoleum of the first emperor, and she would be buried nearby after her death, and the third prince was also buried in Xianling by the late emperor after his death.
The emperor was only silent for a moment before responding.
Only then did the queen mother talk about her most concerned issue, "What about Xinqing and Yunfeng, what do you plan to do with them?"
The emperor immediately said: "Xinqing is still young, and I plan to make him the king of Dizhou. If the queen mother doesn't want to part with him, she can keep him by her side to raise him. It's better to go to Dizhou after she gets married and has children."
The queen mother was in a trance for a while, and asked, "Where is Dizhou?"
The emperor said: "It's near Cangzhou, not far from Bohai Sea. The twelfth brother is in Laizhou, but it's not far away. From now on, uncle and nephew will take care of each other."
Too far…
But the queen mother didn't say anything, she nodded and leaned on the pillow, and said after a while: "Tomorrow, the Ai family will send a nanny to pick it up..."
The emperor breathed a sigh of relief and responded in a low voice.
The empress dowager twitched her mouth. This was a deal between their mother and son. The emperor opened Xinqingwang a bit. The empress dowager would not express her opinion on the Yizhou king's rebellion if she did not come forward.
Otherwise, as long as she said in front of people that the emperor was not in the right position or that the Yizhou king rebelled, the emperor would be drowned in the saliva of the world, and I don't know when it will be remembered by future generations.
The emperor returned to the Tai Chi Hall wearily.
The queen personally helped him take off his outer clothes, and all the palace people in the palace retreated.
She brought him hot water to soak his feet, and the soles of the emperor's feet hurt a little. Only then did he regain his senses. He grabbed the queen's hand and pulled her to sit beside him, "Don't worry, I'll do it myself."
Seeing that his brows were tightly furrowed, the empress asked in a low voice: "Is the empress still unwilling to let go? How about I go..."
The emperor shook his head, "The queen mother has already agreed, and only one nun will be sent to see tomorrow."
He squeezed her hand and said: "She has resentment in her heart, you are not in good health, you should recuperate in the palace for a few days, and let the princess go over there."
The queen gave him a sideways look, "You know you love me, but how do you know that Cheng Ming doesn't love his wife?"
The emperor smiled and said: "You still think you are young, let them do this kind of thing, if Chengming is distressed, you can teach him, let the eldest daughter-in-law bring the third daughter-in-law with her, and share the burden for her." That's it."
The queen laughed.
The husband and wife had a good laugh for a while, then snuggled together, the queen hugged his arm and said, "Erlang, don't pay too much attention to the courtiers' comments, right and wrong depends not only on them, but also on the common people."
The emperor smiled bitterly and said, "After a hundred years, I'm afraid I will become a guilty king."
He coughed lightly and said, "How about asking Tai Shiling to change some records?"
Queen: ...
She laughed and said: "Since the Han Dynasty, historians have loved to use the Spring and Autumn Recording method to conceal the faults of the king, but since they are concealed, there are still traces to follow. Why do you bother to trouble future generations?"
The emperor pouted, but was not persuaded, he still wanted to chat with Tai Shiling.
The queen didn't force him, and continued: "If your majesty is bored, why not go out of the palace for a while, when you came back from Jiannan Road two years ago, didn't you say that what you earned in three years in the palace would not be worth a month out of the palace? "
The emperor was silent, thinking of the joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys he saw along the way when he went south to Jiannan Road two years ago, thinking of those victims of the disaster who were struggling to survive alone, and seeing their perseverance, sadness and wishes...
He pursed his lips, let go of the queen's shoulders and said, "It's only been 24 years since the founding of the Jin Dynasty, but the gentry and wealthy everywhere have already invaded the land. The fifth child was exposed because he raised private soldiers to rebel. We can't see it." I don’t know how many other things like this have happened anywhere.”
He said: "Governing the people is different from fighting a war. You can win a war with brute force, but you can't govern the people. Zitong, I want Chengming to go to Beijing to experience it."