When the news came out, many people were shocked.
There is no other, because in the past dynasties, it rarely happened that the emperor was still alive and gave the throne to his son.
To put it bluntly, any emperor would die on the Dragon Throne before he was willing to pass on the throne. In particular, Emperor Hongjing's performance in his later years was clearly a dictatorship and unwillingness to decentralize power.
But regardless of whether Emperor Hongjing really wanted to be in Zen, or he was just pretending, since such a thing happened, he should be persuaded as a courtier. Those who can enter the palace to face the saint, all enter the palace to face the saint. Those who couldn't enter the palace to face the saints were also persuaded by the scriptures.
For a while, all the people in the court were busy with this matter.
Not only the courtiers are persuaded, but also those who are in the Zen position should be persuaded to refuse, and the strength must be strong. If you don’t succeed twice, if you don’t succeed twice, you must behave righteously and awe-inspiringly, with a look of sincerity and fear. appearance.
King Jin has already entered the palace to persuade him to refuse several times, even to avoid suspicion, he even let go of the matter of supervising the country, and closed the door in the mansion, neither going out nor seeing anyone.
Yaoniang has been watching with cold eyes, so she doesn't know which show she has been performing in the past few days. It's really strange to be a father, it's also strange to be a son, and those ministers are even more strange.
Today, she couldn't bear it any longer, so she asked King Jin about it.
After hearing Yaoniang's question, King Jin had a strange expression on his face. Later, seeing that she was really thirsty for knowledge, I told her the meaning of the word "persuade" and the story behind it.
It turns out that in the past dynasties, the new emperor often had to push back and resign several times. Only after repeated persuasion from the ministers did he reluctantly agree to ascend the throne. If some emperors usurp the throne, or if they are not upright, they will even order their confidant ministers to join courtiers to persuade them to enter the table, and they will pretend to be condescending.
What is taken is nothing more than the meaning of being logical, conforming to the times, and justifiable.
The performance is modest and honest, calm and unhurried demeanor.
After listening to it, Yaoniang turned into a strange face. Isn't this hypocrisy? Obviously thinking about it in his heart, but pretending not to care.
King Jin knew that she was thinking wrong again, so he told her about the accession of Emperor Han Wen in the history books.
In fact, it is not so much a hypocrisy as it is a way of probing, showing weakness, and expressing one's own attitude. Just like King Jin's current situation, Emperor Hongjing said that he wants Zen to sit on him, but no one knows what Emperor Hongjing thinks in his heart. After all, the emperor's mind is unfathomable. , and if the king of Jin doesn't know the fun, it's not a big taboo.
Yaoniang couldn't get back to her senses for a while, she couldn't help but glanced at King Jin, and said: "Father and son are the most intimate relationship in the world, I don't want to make it so complicated."
King Jin was silent for a while, and then said: "There is no father and son in the Tian family, that's what you said."
She leaned forward: "Then what do you plan to do if the father is sincerely Zen? By then, you will become the emperor?" She couldn't help shaking her head: "If you become the emperor, Why do I feel weird."
"What's wrong?"
Yaoniang stepped back and looked at him carefully several times: "In short, it just feels weird."
King Jin laughed, and pulled her over: "Don't think about it, let nature take its course."
Having said that, Yaoniang still thought about it for a while, but she couldn't think of any reason, and finally she said, "If you really become the emperor, someday you and Xiaobao and Erbao will become like the father. , I’m sure to die of grief.”
King Jin stroked her hand on her back, paused in the air, and then covered her again: "I told you not to think about it."
At this time, there was a sound outside the door, but it was Xiaobao who walked in.
Xiaobao came to the main room too often, so frequently and casually that the girls below never reported. Seeing her son walking in, Yao Niang hurriedly sat up from King Jin's arms and said, "I'm back, why is it so early today?" She deliberately looked out the window at the sky, Xiaobao didn't leave school so early.
"There is Kung Fu class in the afternoon, so my son came back early."
Now Xiaobao has entered the upper study room, studying with his older brothers. Emperor Hongjing attached great importance to the cultivation of princes and grandchildren, not only cultural classes, but also martial arts classes. However, Xiao Bao is still young, so he can't get into it for the time being, and he will only be exposed to those things after he is five years old.
Yaoniang was shallow-minded, and didn't think much about things like her son eavesdropping, but seeing Xiaobao's strange expression, King Jin couldn't help thinking about whether he had heard something just now. But he wasn't sure, the thought just flashed through his mind.
"Father, the imperial grandfather called you into the palace."
King Jin glanced at him.
Xiaobao said again: "Before my son returned to the mansion, he went to Qianqing Palace. It was the emperor's grandfather who said it."
"What did you say?"
Xiaobao shook his head.
King Jin stood up and said to Yao Niang: "Then the king will come to the palace, you are at home."
"Come back early, we are waiting for you for dinner."
King Jin didn't say much, just nodded and left.
It's cold now, Xiaobao came back from outside and dressed thickly, after warming up in the house for a while, he asked someone to help him take off the thick clothes outside.
After taking off a big coat lined with black fox fur, he became lighter. He also changed the fur-lined boots on his feet and changed them to the ones he wears at home.
When Yaoniang took his clothes, she found that a cloth button on the top was loose, so she took out a sewing dustpan from under the kang table, and sewed it up.
She sewed it very carefully. The cloth buttons that are set on the outside are the most difficult to sew. They have to be sewed from the inside to the outside, so that they cannot be seen from the outside. After changing his clothes, Xiaobao came to stand beside Yaoniang's legs to watch her sewing. Yaoniang thought he was bored, so she told him that the second treasure was in the East Chamber.
Xiaobao still stood still: "I'll go see him later."
Yaoniang looked at Xiaobao and smiled, stretched out her hand to hold him in her arms, and asked softly: "What's wrong? Now that I've grown up, I don't talk to my mother anymore."
In fact, Yaoniang has said this countless times in her heart. As Xiaobao grows up, she has more and more playmates, and she goes out to see more and more people in the market, and she gradually becomes estranged from her mother.
This is an unavoidable situation. Once Xiaobao first went to study in the study, Yaoniang was very unaccustomed to it for a while, and she felt a sense of loss when she thought about it. Fortunately, Erbao is a rambunctious person, so this kind of emotion is only occasional. Once it appears, it will not spread.
"My son has nothing to worry about."
This kind of intimate gesture made Xiaobao blush, but he didn't struggle, and let his mother hold him in his arms, watching her sewing the clothes stitch by stitch. When he was young, he always looked at it like this, but now that there are fewer opportunities, he looks very greedy.
In fact, it's not so much that he likes to watch his mother sew clothes for him, it's better to say that he likes the atmosphere. Thinking of what Cai's mother and father said just now, Xiao Bao secretly swore in his heart that he would never let this happen in the future, nor would he make his mother sad.
It's just that during this period of time, many things have been experienced, and after witnessing the tragedy of taking over the throne, as well as the turbulence of the emperor's father, son and brother, Xiaobao is now a little dazed and not very confident. After all, there is too much difference between this life and the previous life. In this life, both parents and children are safe. It is conceivable that he will have many younger brothers and sisters in the future. People's hearts are unpredictable, and who dares to say what the future will be.
When faced with the imminent changes in fate, Yaoniang is not the only one who feels uneasy and complicated. Even Xiaobao, who has lived two lives, is not immune.
"Okay, okay, mother will sew it up soon, later mother will take you to see Huahua, you don't know that Huahuasheng's kittens are different every day, you didn't mean to give one every month, Let's pick together later."
"En." Xiao Bao nodded.
After that, the mother and son asked the girl to bring the cloak, and they went to the West Chamber together.
A room was specially set up for Huahua in the west wing, and the ground dragon was burning in the room, and as soon as he walked in, he felt warm and harmonious.
There is a cat nest near the corner of the room, Huahua is lying there, and there are a few small things hidden under her belly. It doesn't look obvious at first glance, but you can see a few kittens on closer inspection.
Erbao was also there, squatting in front of the cat's nest. This kid was always impatient, but when facing Huahua, he was able to restrain his temper.
He squatted there, moving his little hands little by little, chanting words, as if he was counting something.
Walking closer, Erbao was indeed counting kittens.
"Have you figured it out?"
"There are four in total, Mom, do you think I counted them right?" Er Bao turned around and saw Xiao Bao too, excitedly said: "Brother, you are back!"
Little Treasure nodded, stepped forward and squatted down with Er Treasure, counting the words in his mouth: "Sure enough, there are four."
"Yes, yes, it's four. I counted them several times. Brother, you came back so early today. Why did you come back so early? I thought it would take a long time for you to come back."
Er Bao spoke in a childlike manner, but that 'long time' has already exposed his thoughts.
There are not many children in Prince Jin's Mansion, Xiao Bao goes to the study every day, and brother Yan rarely comes to study, so there are almost no one to play with him on weekdays. He could have some fun by himself, and he also had a little eunuch to play with him, but what he misses the most is "Brother is back".
"Brother leaves school early today, so he came back earlier."
As soon as Er Bao heard about going to school, his face was full of admiration: "When Er Bao grows up, he will also go to the palace to go to school with his elder brother."
"Erbao wants to go, brother will take you there tomorrow."
"But mother said that you can only go there when you grow up."
This is what Yaoniang said to Erbao. For a while, Erbao also wanted to go to school, but it was obvious that he was too young to understand anything. In addition to making trouble in the palace, he had to delay Xiaobao watching he. Coupled with the fact that some time ago it was a troubled time, Yaoniang didn't dare to let Er Bao enter the palace.
Seeing Erbao looking at her with longing eyes, Yaoniang lost her mind for a moment and couldn't help but look at Xiaobao.
Xiaobao said: "Mother, don't worry, there is a son watching. Besides, maybe we will all live in the palace in the future, and going to the study is only a matter of lifting our feet."
Yaoniang's heart skipped a beat, and she couldn't help staring at Xiaobao: "What do you know?"
But Xiaobao didn't answer her, and used Erbao to pull him to say which kitten was fatter, so he bypassed the matter.
Qing Palace
As soon as King Jin walked in, he was hit by an object, and he quickly caught it with sharp eyesight.
It is a decree.
He didn't have time to take a closer look, so he heard Emperor Hongjing scolding in anger: "You boy, stop pretending to be with me, get out with the imperial decree, and get things done before the end of the year. Bao went to Xiao Penglai to recuperate. I have never seen you so unfilial, knowing that your father is seriously ill, and still tossing like this."
King Jin was in a state of mind for a while, and slowly tightened his hand holding the imperial decree.
Li Dequan had already stepped forward to congratulate: "Congratulations, Your Highness, congratulations to Your Highness."
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When the news from the palace came back, Yaoniang was playing with the milky white kitten on the kang with the two children.
Huahua is a calf protector, the kitten is never touched by anyone, and anyone who touches it will show its teeth to everyone, except for Xiaobao. He went to hug the cub, but it just took one look at Xiaobao and crawled back.
The kitten, which is less than a month old, is like a little pink ball, with a soft body, and can already walk around, but it can't go very far.
The kittens in Huahua's litter are also really strange. Although Huahua is a raccoon cat, there is not a single cat in her litter. There is a pure black cat, a creamy white cat, and two Sanhua cats, most of whom have followed the cat father.
Among them, this milky white kitten with light yellow lines on its body is the fattest. It is also the most powerful among the kittens, and it has been the most active since it was born. Other brothers and sisters are still ignorant, but it already knows how to grab milk.
Every time Yaoniang came to see it, she could see it wading through mountains and rivers, over mountains and ridges, overcoming "obstacles" and successfully eating milk. When it is full and tired of eating, it gives the milk to other kittens.
Xiaobao picked it out, intending to give it to Yueyue.
Er Bao was still a little bit reluctant, he couldn't understand the feeling of being an older brother.
"It's not that our family has nothing to eat, so why do we give Xiaobaibai to Sister Yueyue." Xiaobaibai is the name Erbao gave this kitten, the black one is called Xiaoheihei, and the other two Sanhua , one is called Dahua and the other is called Erhua.
"Stingy, your sister Yueyue loves you for nothing, you can't even bear a cat."
Yueyue is a sensible little girl, and every time she comes to Prince Jin's Mansion, she will bring cakes for Erbao, because Erbao likes to eat cakes made by the cook from Jiangnan of Sun's family the most.
When he heard that it was related to his cakes, Erbao hesitated: "Forget it, I'll give it to Sister Yueyue, anyway, I can see it then."
In fact, he was reluctant to part with the cakes, so both Yaoniang and Xiaobao couldn't help laughing.
Just smiling, a servant hurried in from the door, it was Li Dequan's apprentice Xiao Shunzi. The servants who came with him were all smiling, as if they had some great event.
"Congratulations, empress. Congratulations to empress. The Holy Majesty has issued an imperial decree to give the Zen seat to His Highness, and our Highness will soon be the Ninth Five-Year Lord."
This surprise was not unexpected, but it was unexpected that it would come so suddenly, so Yaoniang was stunned.