The emperor looked down at the queen, and the husband and wife faced each other with tears in their eyes. Seeing the tears in the queen's eyes, the emperor nodded and said with a choked voice, "He is our son, so naturally he listens to Zitong."
The queen breathed a sigh of relief, hugged the emperor and cried.
The couple hugged each other and cried for a while, feeling that the two sons were really not going well anywhere, and after much deliberation it was better for the daughter.
So after the emperor wiped away his tears, he asked Gu Zhong to pick out a lot of things from the storeroom and send them to the princesses of Mingda Changyu.
The queen was also in a bad mood after crying, so she lay down and ignored him. Anyway, these things will be given to the children in the future, so just give them if they are given.
The emperor gave a lot of things, but felt that he was still unhappy, he took a look outside and saw that the setting sun was about to set, so he simply took Gu Zhong for a walk in the garden.
Walking to the Empress Dowager's Palace, he couldn't help but stop, seeing that the palace was quiet, he asked, "What is the Empress Dowager doing?"
Gu Zhong immediately bowed to find the aunt in charge in the Queen Mother's Palace.
The emperor did not go to see the queen mother, but stood in a daze under the porch.
A grey-haired female official followed Gu Zhong. She was Aunt Chen who served the empress dowager. She was a few years older than the emperor. She played with them when the emperor was young.
Later, she married the steward of the mansion, and died in the battle with the former emperor in the Southern and Northern Wars. The child she gave birth to also died of illness. The queen mother took pity on her, and specially called her into the palace as a female official. She only needs to accompany the queen mother at ordinary times. Talking about it, there are maids waiting by my side, so I don't need to do anything special.
But the emperor remembered that the queen mother preferred to be served by smart and beautiful court ladies two years ago, so Aunt Chen seldom went to the queen mother.
At this time, Gu Zhong went to call for someone, and since the one who called was Aunt Chen, it meant that now she was favored by the Queen Mother again.
Aunt Chen saluted the emperor respectfully.
The emperor asked: "Why is the queen mother's palace so quiet?"
Aunt Chen lowered her head and said, "The Empress Dowager is not in good spirits, so she doesn't like to be lively, and she is resting in the room at this time."
The emperor asked about the Queen Mother's daily life. The Queen Mother's health has not been very good since the death of Yizhou King last year. The past six months have been ups and downs, but her spirit has indeed deteriorated a lot.
She came to Daming Palace to escape the summer heat. Usually, apart from the queen and the two princesses, only the crown prince would visit her occasionally.
The emperor lingered at the entrance of the empress dowager's main hall, but did not go in, but turned and left.
The emperor wandered around the Daming Palace aimlessly, and at some point he reached the foot of Longshouyuan Mountain, so he simply went up the mountain.
Gu Zhong hesitated to speak, thinking about what happened today, he didn't dare to stop him, he just turned around and winked, and immediately followed the emperor up the mountain.
Yin Li happened to be in the imperial guards. Hearing this, he immediately dispatched a team of people and personally led them up the mountain to protect the emperor. At this time, the emperor was standing on a protruding platform halfway up the mountain, looking down at his face. Daming Palace, his palace city, even, his capital city and his world...
The emperor watched all this with tears in his eyes, his chest rose and fell sharply...
The emperor stood and thought a lot. When he came back to his senses, there was only an orange sunset in the sky, and the sun had completely set.
It’s just that the sky is still very bright, it seems that because the weather is too clear, the place where the sun sets is rolling orange-red clouds, large and large, the colors are entangled together, slowly changing into various shapes with the wind.
The thoughts that had been suppressed by the emperor started rolling again. He turned his head, only to find that Yin Li was standing behind him with his guards at some point.
Seeing him turn his head, Yin Li also withdrew his gaze from looking at the sky, bowed his hands and saluted, "See Your Majesty."
The emperor waved his hand and said, "Go up and have a look, you can see the whole palace city and Daming Palace from here."
Yin Li stepped forward, stood one step behind the emperor, and raised his eyes to see everything at the foot of the mountain. His gaze fell directly on the East Palace.
The emperor was also looking at the East Palace.
He said: "I remember, when I was named the crown prince, Wei Zhi once scolded me for breaking the calendar of my ancestors, and I seized the throne with a mutiny. In the future, I am afraid that there will be no crown prince who can successfully ascend the throne in the Jin Dynasty. They are biological brothers, and they will kill each other for the throne."
Yin Li listened silently, and then he heard the always confident emperor murmuring, "Shoujie, do you think I'm wrong?"
Yin Li knelt down on one knee, lowered his head and said loudly, "Your Majesty is right!"
He raised his head slightly and said: "Your Majesty, Wei Zhi who once said this is now His Majesty's good minister!"
The emperor was silent for a while and said: "I never thought he was right, but seeing Sanlang today, I feel that what Wei Zhi said is not entirely wrong."
Although Prince Gong didn't say what the servant told him, the emperor still guessed it.
He was imitating him, so the emperor was not only sad and disappointed, but also a little remorseful, but he didn't feel that he was wrong back then, maybe, he shouldn't have killed the third child
If you don't kill, how can this world be stable
The emperor felt a tightness in his chest and couldn't help coughing violently.
Yin Li got up immediately, and together with Gu Zhong worriedly stepped forward to support him, the emperor waved his hand, and supported Yin Li's hand and sat down on the stone beside him.
Seeing that the emperor was not in a good mood, although Yin Li didn't know what happened, he knew from the sound that it must have something to do with the princes.
Otherwise, the emperor wouldn't have said something like "Even biological brothers would kill each other." You know, when the emperor asked him to transfer troops to Yizhou last year, he didn't say that he would save the life of the king of Yizhou.
It's best not to get involved in such matters, so Yin Li remained silent.
The emperor was in a really bad mood today. Seeing that no one could answer him, he sat on a rock in a daze.
Seeing that Gu Zhong was very worried, he could only keep winking at Yin Li.
Yin Li didn't answer, and continued to stand with his head bowed.
Seeing that the emperor didn't speak for a long time, he couldn't help but look up, and saw His Majesty's face was in a daze, with tears in his eyes.
Yin Li couldn't help but feel uncomfortable, he was younger than the emperor, he started to join the army to fight behind the emperor when he was sixteen years old.
Because he was younger than everyone else, whether it was charging forward or making suggestions, he was ranked behind.
However, he was the only one who had been with the emperor all the time, no matter how many times the army was divided, he never left.
Back then when the emperor was driven to a dead end and sneaked thousands of miles back to Beijing to kill the former three princes, he was also by his side. That's how he became the youngest marquis in the capital after the emperor ascended the throne.
Yin Li suddenly felt a little sad, and knelt down in front of the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, among the princes of the late emperor, no one can compare to you in terms of ability and love for the people. Being an emperor is what the people want. , not to mention, half of the country was brought down by you, so why can't you sit still?"