"King Ning..."
Emperor Yunqing opened his mouth like a fish jumping out of the water, fearful and helpless.
"Father, why did you forget that my son is no longer a prince, but a county king?" Jiang Luo put his sword on Emperor Yunqing's neck, but as a son of a man, he led troops into the palace in an attempt to kill his father. This kind of thing that would have been smeared for thousands of years, Jiang Luo did not have any psychological pressure, and even had a crazy smile on his face.
"You bastard, do you want to kill your father?" Emperor Yunqing gasped in anger. He stared at this crazy son with wide eyes, "Are you crazy?"
"I've been crazy a long time ago. When you were partial to the prince and gave him all the good things, I was already crazy," Jiang Luo's distorted smile turned into endless resentment, "The son and the prince are brothers. , What good things did you have since you were a child, the prince will always be in the first place. Have you ever thought that I am your son too?!"
Emperor Yunqing looked at Jiang Luo like this and did not dare to speak.
"It was only when I was a child. Later, the prince got married. You asked him to marry the Shi family, who is famous and virtuous in his mother's family. What about me?" Jiang Luo roared with hatred, "The Xie family is something that can't be seen on the table, you let me marry. , I got married even if I didn't want to. But why did you let Xie Dalang's job cut short before I was about to get married? You can't wait for the whole world to know that your second son is just a Joke, has no place in your heart?"
Emperor Yunqing did not expect that his second son would have so many complaints. Over the years, he had intentionally cultivated only the crown prince and alienated the concubine, just to let the other sons rest from their thoughts of seizing the throne, so as not to go down the same path as him and the previous emperor. He thought that this would avoid the sadness that happened to him and his ancestors, but who would have known such a big hidden danger.
"If you retire now, the royal father will not hold you accountable."
"Don't pursue it? Ha!" Jiang Luo sarcastically laughed, "You think I'm still a kid from ten years ago, and I'll believe everything you say?!"
He liked the gadgets that the neighboring countries paid tribute, and the emperor promised to give him away, but because the prince did his homework well, he looked at the gadgets more, and the things became the prince's.
Later, the prince found out that he liked it, and let someone send it over as a show off. He was so angry that he smashed it, and as a result, he got a reprimand from the father. There were so many things like this that he didn't want to recall them at all.
"Don't talk nonsense, I want you to write the edict of Zen." Jiang Luo's sword was pressed down, and a long blood-red wound appeared on Emperor Yunqing's neck. When Jiang Luo saw the wound, not only did he have no regrets, but his eyes brightened, "It doesn't matter if you don't want to write, anyway, the prince is in my hands now, if I get impatient, let the prince go down and ask first. You pave the way, and you won't be lonely when you walk together."
"Jiang Luo, I am your father, and the prince is your elder brother!" Emperor Yunqing did not dare to move, he saw that what Jiang Luo said was not a lie, he really wanted them to die.
"With power, what's the use of father and brother coming?" Jiang Luo sneered, "I admired you when I was a child, why did you ever think of me? Now you use these useless blood relations to talk nonsense with me, I have already I don't like to hear it."
"Don't talk nonsense," Jiang Luo dragged Emperor Yunqing off the bed and asked two little eunuchs to help him to the imperial case, "write."
"Beast!" Emperor Yunqing was only wearing a single shirt, and was shivering from the cold at the moment. He glanced at the two little eunuchs, and the two little eunuchs knelt down in fright.
"Father, how long is it, you are still playing prestige to the two eunuchs?" Jiang Luo shoved the imperial pen into Emperor Yunqing's hand, "Hurry up and write, if you don't start writing after a stick of incense, I will let him People chop off the prince's finger."
"Jiang Luo, I don't need to write the imperial decree of the Zen throne, but I will also present the ministers and the six ministers at the same time, and finally announce it to the world," Emperor Yunqing looked at Jiang Luo, "What do you want me to write now? use?"
"I have the final say, not you," Jiang Luo couldn't help sneering when he saw Emperor Yunqing's reluctance to write, "It seems that the prince has no status in your heart. What you love most is not the prince, but your throne."
Emperor Yunqing glared at Jiang Luo: "Shut up for me."
"Now I am the knife, you are the fish, the father and the emperor, you should be gentle with the sons and ministers," Jiang Luo walked to the dragon's bed and took out a sachet from under the pillow, "The embroiderer of Fule County is also worthwhile. Father, you are hiding like a treasure? Fortunately, Pan Hua is your niece, otherwise the minister will suspect that you have ulterior motives."
"You bastard, how can you say anything?" Emperor Yunqing stared at the sachet in Jiang Luo's hand, his face flushed with anger. But he didn't dare to get up, because two soldiers with knives stopped him.
He knew in his heart that Jiang Luo could be so arrogant in the palace at the moment, indicating that the entire harem had been controlled by him.
"Where did Commander Yang and Shi Jin go?" Emperor Yunqing couldn't believe that with these two people around, Jiang Luo could still control the entire harem silently.
"Commander Yang?" Jiang Luo raised his eyebrows, his smile became weird, "You are talking about your lackey, he is probably already waiting for you on Huangquan Road."
"As for Shi Jin..." Jiang Luo snorted, "It's not his duty tonight, why don't you know?"
Emperor Yunqing really didn't know, he looked at Jiang Luo as if he was looking at the biggest mistake in his life.
Jiang Luo didn't care about his eyes at all. When he saw that Emperor Yunqing didn't write, he turned around and said, "Come on, bring the things up."
A guard in iron armor brought a tray covered with a black brocade handkerchief. I don't know what was inside. Jiang Luo lifted the veil in front of Emperor Yunqing, and there were actually three bloody fingers lying inside.
Emperor Yunqing almost vomited out of disgust. He turned his head away, but Jiang Luo didn't want to let him go. "This is the finger of the eunuch chief next to you. Wait for it to be sent by someone else. It's not the eunuch's finger."
"Jiang Luo, what exactly do you want to do?"
"Didn't my son tell you to write the edict of Zen," Jiang Luo said with a sneer, "Why does the royal father ask again?"
Emperor Yunqing's hand holding the pen kept shaking, and soon the blank imperial decree was stained with ink dots.
"Father, don't shake your hands," Jiang Luo took away the blank imperial decree, and put another copy in front of him, "My son has a bad temper, and if the father keeps shaking like this, he doesn't know what he will do. What happened."
Emperor Yunqing looked up at the palace gate, it was dark outside, as quiet as a tomb.
He wrote word by word, and when he reached the third word, his movements suddenly stopped.
"Second child, what is this world in your heart?"
"Of course it is the supreme right." Jiang Luo asked back, "otherwise what do you think it is?"
Emperor Yunqing couldn't write the next word, "Have you ever thought that one day you will regret it?"
"Regret?" Jiang Luo laughed incredulously, "Of course, when you let the secret agent poison the concubine who was suffering from an old illness, did you ever regret it? And Cheng Anbo, why did he die at your hands? inside?"
Emperor Yunqing's complexion changed greatly, and he asked in a hoarse voice, "How do you...how do you know?"
"Because when you ordered the eradication of De Ning's concubine, I hid in the corner of the main hall. As for Cheng Anbo..." He raised his eyebrows, "Isn't Rong Xia your illegitimate son? The cause of Cheng Anbo's death is a mystery. When it comes to the title of honor, when it comes to Rong Xia, he actually does not downgrade to the title, don't you just want to leave the title to Rong Xia?"
"You keep saying that you like Ban Hua all day long, but if she knows that her grandfather was killed by you and the emperor, do you think she will hate you?" Jiang Luo put the purse in his hand and burned it under the candlelight , "I don't know if Eldest Princess De Ning knows the truth of the matter, will she regret giving her life to save you?"
Emperor Yunqing's face was pale, and he couldn't say a word.
"You call me a beast, but in fact I'm just imitating you," Jiang Luo laughed loudly as he saw his purse burn a little bit, "I'm a little beast, you are a big beast, the late emperor is an old beast, we The Jiang family has made all the animals."
"Is it your plan for the affair between the prince and the concubine?"
"Why, you finally remembered to ask about this?" Jiang Luo smiled and looked at Emperor Yunqing, whose hair was disheveled and his face was frozen black. "Do you really not believe in the prince, or do you need to believe in the prince?"
"Although I don't like the prince's temperament like that bitch, but he does things more humanely than you," Jiang Luo smiled proudly, "it's just that people are a bit stupid."
Emperor Yunqing's face turned pale, and turbid tears flowed from his dim eyes.
"It seems that the emperor's spirit is not very good. I will ask someone to help you wake up."
A basin of water soaked in ice was brought in. Jiang Luo pointed to Emperor Yunqing's feet, which were not wearing anything.
Just after the child's time, Emperor Yunqing's miserable cry came from the Dayue Palace.
In the Queen's Palace, the Queen was blocked in the palace by many guards, and she could not pass the news outside, nor did she know what happened outside. Although the soldiers guarding her did not embarrass her, their attitudes were not good. No matter what she said, they would not let her go out.
"Niangniang," the palace maid supported the shaky queen, "you should rest for a while."
The queen shook her head and walked to the window with a tired expression, not knowing whether she was waiting for reinforcements to arrive, or waiting for the bad news she didn't dare to hear.
Time passed little by little, when the sun rose and the main door of the court was opened, what the courtiers saw was not the prince who was in charge of the country, nor his majesty who had recovered from his illness, but King Ning in a dragon robe. The dragon robe on King Ning's body is tailored to fit, obviously, it is tailor-made, I don't know how long it has been specially prepared.
"King Ning, do you want to rebel?" A stubborn minister pointed at King Ning and scolded, "Why don't you get off the dragon chair quickly?"
"Presumptuous, from today onwards, I will be the emperor of the great cause," Jiang Luo raised his chin, "come here, take out the imperial decree of the Emperor Taishang and read it."
"Jiang Luo, the word emperor, has benevolence and righteousness, and has the talent to rule the world..."
After the courtiers listened to this imperial decree in a daze, His Majesty gave a decree to lower King Ning's title, how could it be possible for him to inherit the throne. You Chaochen refused to accept it and wanted to enter the palace to ask to see His Majesty, but the guards in the palace were extremely strict. As soon as they touched the edge of the palace gate, they were chased out by the guards.
But the more this is the case, the more everyone doubts whether there is something wrong in the palace, or why they can't even enter the palace gate. In the past, eunuchs often went out of the palace to do business, but they disappeared for the past two days, as if the whole palace was quiet.
King Ning had the palace under control.
Everyone thought of this, but dared not directly publicize it. In the end, the faction that supported the prince couldn't help but stood up and began to question King Ning. When King Ning was a prince, he was violent, not to mention the emperor now. He immediately had these officials who questioned him put in jail, and for a while, the whole capital fell into a state of panic.
On the fifth day of King Ning's ascension to the throne, he couldn't wait to make the queen queen dowager, and he also awarded several concubines he favored. However, the princess Xie has not yet obtained the title of a queen, and she is neither embarrassed nor embarrassed in the palace. wait. All the officials who followed Jiang Luo were rewarded with large sums of money. Except for these officials in the court, no one else dared to speak up.
After the award was awarded, Jiang Luo began to denounce the imperial edict. The first thing he wanted to reprimand was Rong Xia, but because Rong Xia's position among scholars was too high, Jiang Luo was finally stopped by his cronies. In the end, he could only settle for the next best thing, and ordered three times to demote Ban Huai.
The first is to demote Ban Huai to Hou.
The second is to demote Ban Huai as an earl.
The third way is to cut Ban Huai's title directly, take back the house given to him by the royal family, and start raiding the house.
The Ban family, which had been glorious for hundreds of years in the Great Ye Dynasty, finally collapsed in an instant. However, since Ban's family did not live in Yurou Township, they were not convicted except for raiding their homes. But this change, in the eyes of others, is already a huge blow.
Some people sympathize with Ban's family, while others sympathize with Ban Hua. How can they still raise their heads in the husband's family
However, what everyone didn't expect, the day Ban's family was raided, the Ban family's expression was calm, and it seemed that there was no accident. And the various old people who were raised in the Ban family had already been given money by the Ban family and arranged for them to go elsewhere.
Many people have been raided recently. It is said that anyone who has offended Jiang Luo over the years will either have their homes raided or be demoted again and again. These people were crying, grief-stricken, and the Ban family's calm and indifferent response was simply a clear spring among the victims.
Perhaps it was because Jiang Luo was so unpopular, the Ban family's reaction actually attracted a lot of praise. There are even talented people who wrote two poems specially to praise the Ban family for how defying authority and how cold-hearted he was against the forces of evil. People who saw the poem were eager to applaud, but they forgot that the Ban family was once a member of the powerful.
The enemy of the enemy is the friend, and the Ban family is now the enemy of the enemy.
After Ban's house was raided, he was picked up by servants of the Marquis of Cheng'an. However, the Ban family did not want to implicate Rong Xia, and they were unwilling to live in the Marquis of Cheng'an Mansion. In the end, Rong Xia had no choice but to buy a big mansion in the capital and let the Ban family live in it temporarily.
"Father-in-law, mother-in-law," Rong Xia said with some guilt looking at the villa, "I have wronged you."
"Don't be so polite as a family." Ban Huai happily pulled out a few silver notes from his belt, which he deliberately sewed in. The officers and soldiers who raided the house didn't embarrass him too much, so he wore a quilted suit. Clothes with banknotes came out.
He shoved all the bank notes into Yinshi's hands: "Madam, you will keep these for safekeeping."
Yin Shi took the silver note without hesitation. She looked at Rong Xia and said, "It's not convenient for us to go to Hou's mansion now, so I'll ask you to take care of it."
"Please rest assured mother-in-law, my son-in-law will definitely take care of her," Rong Xia paid the junior salute, and did not neglect her because the Ban family is now down, "Hua has gotten a lot better in recent days, and she can use a small bowl of rice every time. , and some meat."
"This child has been picky since she was a child. I'm afraid it took a lot of effort to coax her these days."
"Hua is very good, it's easy to treat her." Rong Xia smiled.
Seeing him like this, Yin Shi finally let go of his dangling heart.
After settling down the family, Rong Xia hurried back home. Rong Xia didn't know how to tell Ban Hua that Ban's house was raided. He was worried about her still unrecovered body and was stimulated by this incident.
"You're back?" Ban Hua, wearing a thick brocade robe, huddled on the chaise longue to watch folk entertainers play juggling. Seeing Rong Xia coming in, she reached out and beckoned him over. It's just that the brocade robe on her body is a little loose, and when she stretches out her hand, half of her arm is exposed.
Rong Xia walked over and shook her palm, making sure her hand was not cold before asking, "Did you steal some snacks today?"
"I'm the one who can't keep my mouth shut?" Ban Hua turned his face proudly, "I'm not a two or three-year-old child."
"Well, I know you are a seventeen or eighteen-year-old child," Rong Xia smiled and picked her up, the two of them went back to the bedroom, and Rong Xia tucked the person into the quilt, "What do you want to use at noon, I'll ask someone to give it to you. Do."
"I don't have a good appetite today, let the people in the kitchen make something appetizing and refreshing," Ban Ma glanced at Rong Xia suspiciously, "Are you hiding something from me?"
This look of hesitating to speak, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like it's okay.
"Hua..." Rong Xia rubbed her tender cheeks, "Something happened today, don't get too excited when you hear it."
"Oh?" Ban Hua raised her eyebrows, "Is the throne replaced, or did my father offend someone again?"
Cons:…
"Huh?" Ban Hua was even more puzzled, "I won't really say it right?"
Otherwise, why didn't Rongxia speak
"A few days ago, the Emperor Taishang issued a decree for King Ning to succeed him."
Ban Hua's hand holding the quilt stopped, and she looked at Rong Xia with wide eyes: "You said... King Ning?"
Rong Xia nodded silently, but his expression was very calm, as if it was not the prince who had a quarrel with him, but a stranger who had nothing to do with him.
"Where's the prince?"
"No one has seen the prince. Shi Chonghai has been removed from the post of prime minister. He has been appointed to the prefecture elsewhere, and Shi Jin has also been sent to the border."
"Jiang Luo's brain is ill, and at this time, he will let the Shi family who support the prince leave?" Even if Ban Hua admits that he has no political consciousness, he knows that he must not let the Shi family go at this time.
"Probably King Ning thinks this is more able to humiliate the Shi family."
"But this will only humiliate his not-so-smart brain."
"Anything else?"
Rong Xia was silent for a moment: "Within three days of King Ning's ascension to the throne, he issued three imperial decrees to reprimand his father-in-law. Today, Jingting Gongfu was copied..."
"Has his house been raided?" Ban Hua looked at Rong Xia in a trance, and nodded suddenly, "So it turns out that it is so... It is so..."
She always felt that her dreams were disordered and illogical, and it was only at this moment that she realized that the Ban family would have been cut off from the title, but it was not the rebellious new emperor who cut their title, but the Ban family who had been with the Ban family. Jiang Luo who does not deal with it.
"Hua, don't be sad, as long as I'm here, I'll protect Ban's family for a day," Rong Xia saw her smiling and crying, worried that she was too sad, "Trust me, I will not let my father-in-law be wronged. of."
"I'm not sad," Ban Hua looked at Rongxia and smiled, "I believe in you."
Rong Xia could see that Ban Hua was really not sad, her eyes were as bright as stars, and there was a brilliance that he couldn't understand. This kind of shit made him bewildered and addicted, he couldn't help but put him in his arms, "Hey, if you have something to say, you must tell me, don't hold it in your heart."
"Then I want to eat goose paws today, you ask someone to do it."
"Okay." Rong Xia agreed immediately, turned around and went out to instruct the servants who were waiting outside.
Ban Hua got up from the bed, walked to the closet, opened the door carved with double flowers, bent over and took out a wooden box at the bottom.
"Hua," Rong Xia walked over to Ban Hua and helped her put the wooden box on the table, "What's inside?"
"A set of clothes," Ban Hua gently rubbed the lid of the box, "a set of clothes I had someone make for you." After speaking, she opened the lid of the box, and inside was a set of gorgeous black brocade robes. Auspicious clouds are embroidered with dark patterns on the top, and every stitch and every thread shows its low-key luxury.
Rong Xia didn't expect that what was in the box was just a set of clothes, a set of brocade clothes in a golden nanmu box.
"I've never known whether I should try this outfit on for you," Ban Hua turned to look at Rong Xia with a smile, "because you look good in light-colored clothes."
Rong Xia felt that Ban Hua wanted to say more than this.
"But I think I've never seen you in black clothes, so I'm a little regretful." Ban Hua took the black robe out of the box and handed it to Rong Xia with a smile, "Show it to me. "
"Okay." Rong Xia took the robe and turned to go behind the screen.
Ban Hua sat down at the table, she held her cheeks with one hand, and her eyes fell on the vase in the corner, thinking of the man in her dream who praised her as a rare living person in the capital before she died and gave her fox fur.
Her perception of the new emperor in the dream was very complicated. One was to thank him for being willing to take care of her family, and the other was to blame him for depriving the Ban family of the right title.
Her ending should have been that after Shen Yu broke off the marriage, she did not find a suitable son-in-law, and was finally cut off from the title and died by someone's arrow. However, when she woke up from the dream, and the reality and the dream were farther and farther apart, she gradually stopped paying attention to that dream.
No matter whether she is happy or sad, she has lived in this world and enjoyed the glory, wealth and wealth. If she ends up being raided and killed early, it is also her fate. As long as her family is safe, she has nothing to resent.
After an unknown time, Ban Hua heard footsteps behind him. When she looked back, she saw the noble man in black clothes coming towards her, with a white jade crown, a fine white jade with mutton fat, a fair neck, and a chin that was almost unreal.
Just like the man in the dream.
Ban Hua suddenly laughed, and the laughter spread out of the room, making the maid outside thinking that Madam had been stimulated crazy because of an accident at Ban's house.
"Hua, what are you laughing at?"
"I'm laughing at a poem."
"What poem?"
"If you want to plant flowers, the flowers won't bloom, but if you want to plant willows and willows, I read this sentence correctly, right?"
"No," Rongxia sat down beside her, "I just don't understand how you remembered this poem."
"Well, probably because I think you look better in black than light."
"Really?" Rong Xia softly glanced at the clothes on her body, "Since she likes it, then I will wear it for you every day."
"That won't work," Ban Hua shook her head, "I don't want to cheapen other women and let them see your beauty."
"Then I'll wear it at home?"
"it is good."
Ban Hua nodded with a smile.
She reached out and touched Rong Xia's white jade crown, and suddenly said, "Rong Xia."
"Huh?" Rong Xia pinched her other hand in the palm of her hand and played with it.
"I only ask you this question once."
"Are you hiding something from me?"
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