Ningshou Palace.
The youngest building complex in the palace has been in use for less than ten years, but its owner is the most powerful elder in the palace.
It's nearly three.
Inside the main hall of Ningshou Palace, it was still brightly lit. More than a dozen servants were distributed inside and outside the hall gate. All of them looked at their hearts and noses, like clay sculptures and wood sculptures, and did not dare to make any sound.
The only exception was Xia Shouzhong, the eunuch of the Six Palaces.
He stood in the hall closest to the imperial case, sometimes looking at the Emperor Taishang sitting on the dragon chair, and sometimes looking out of the hall. Although his feet were as motionless as the roots of an old tree, he was as restless as ants on a hot pot. disturbed.
More than ten years!
Xia Shouzhong has been around for more than ten years, and he has never seen the Emperor Taishang close his eyes and ponder on the dragon chair.
However, before his abdication, whenever the Emperor Taishang encountered a major event that was difficult to decide, he would think about it quietly.
But today, the Emperor Taishang has been sitting withered for half a day!
This person is almost eighty, no matter how well-maintained it is on weekdays, how can it withstand such a toss? !
Xia Shouzhong tried to persuade him a few words, but he didn't dare to go beyond his duty.
Xia Shouzhong was overjoyed immediately. It was a quiet night. Even if Emperor Guangde came, he would make people go through it first. Now, it is natural that only the Empress Dowager Niu is the one who drives straight in without going through it.
as predicted.
After a while, I saw an old woman leaning on a cane, walking slowly into the hall.
"Ouch~!"
Xia Shouzhong exclaimed while pressing his throat, and hurried forward to meet him, while scolding bitterly: "How come these blind dogs don't know how to serve the Queen Mother?!"
This old woman was naturally the Empress Dowager Niu, but she shook her head at Xia Shouzhong, indicating that he didn't need to step forward to help him, and then stepped onto the imperial steps on his own.
Although this imperial step was only on the third floor, it still made her breathing a little heavy. After a short rest, she finally came to the imperial case.
However, she did not disturb the Emperor Taishang who closed her eyes and pondered, but leaned the cane lightly on the imperial case, poured the cold tea on the ground, picked up the purple clay pot, and filled a cup with trembling. .
click~
When the purple clay teapot was put back into the tray, I accidentally knocked it, and after all, it still alarmed the Emperor Taishang. I saw him slowly lift his eyelids and stare at the steaming tea cup. Finally, he stretched out his dry palm.
Just drink tea!
Seeing this, Xia Shouzhong breathed a sigh of relief, and he secretly praised that the Queen Mother really had a lot of face.
Unexpectedly, the action of the Emperor Taishang suddenly accelerated, he swung his sleeves and flicked hard, and then swept the tea cup and the tray below it to the ground!
Dang bang~
As the tea cup smashed to the ground, all the waiters inside and outside the Ningshou Palace seemed to be hit by an arrow at the same time, and then they all fell short!
Only Xia Shouzhong rushed up the imperial steps and said with concern, "Your Majesty, are you okay..."
"roll!"
However, his concern was blocked by a hoarse roar before he could completely get out of his throat.
Xia Shouzhong paused and looked at the Empress Dowager Niu hesitantly.
The Empress Dowager Niu was calm and tight, she only used her chin to point out, and indifferently instructed: "You all go down."
Only then did Xia Shouzhong lead the servants and exit the main hall of Ningshou Palace like a tide.
When only the husband and wife were left in the hall, the Empress Dowager Niu supported the imperial case, walked around to the Emperor Taishang, sat next to him on the dragon chair, and persuaded in a calm tone: "If there is anything unpleasant, Your Majesty , even if it is venting, why bother venting your anger with your own body?"
"Ha ha… "
On the old wrinkled face of the Taishanghuang, a mocking smile appeared, and he whispered: "'The white head is as new as the old one'.
As he said that, he patted the armrest of the dragon chair with his dry palm again, and said with a sneer, "You are seventy-six this year, right? Although it's nine times later than that Wu Zhao, it's still too late. Fight for a fight!"
Wu Zetian ascended the throne at the age of sixty-seven, and the words of the Taishanghuang were clearly accusing the Empress Niu of wanting to learn from Wu Zetian to usurp the throne and establish himself as emperor.
Faced with such accusations, the Empress Dowager Niu just frowned slightly and sighed: "It turns out that Your Majesty is suspecting that the assassination of the prince is related to the concubine."
"Although the widow is old, he is still not blind and deaf!"
The Emperor Taishang's tone suddenly rose a few degrees, and he gritted his few teeth a few times, and said angrily: "If you really change the prince this time, your precious nephew will no longer have to spend the whole day in fear and sincerity. It's time to test the third child's mind!"
"You Niu clan, it is even more able to protect wealth and nationalism for a long time!"
"Good calculation, really good calculation!"
"But didn't that precious nephew of yours ever think about it? The crown prince is also my grandson, my blood and blood! If you cut off his descendants, you also cut off a bloodline of me - why should I still protect you? The cattle family is full?!"
As he said that, he clenched his fists tightly and his hair and beard opened, and glared at the Empress Dowager Niu beside him!
Empress Dowager Niu still looked at him calmly, without the slightest fear or retreat: "If Your Majesty can prove that the case of the prince is indeed my Niu family's work, you might as well smash my Niu family's entire family. Complaint."
"If there is no evidence, it is still believed that my Niu family did it. Please, Your Majesty, kill the entire family of the Niu family together with the concubines, and the concubines will never complain."
"you!"
Hearing these words, the Emperor Taishang became more and more annoyed, staring at the wrinkled old face of the Empress Dowager Niu.
Sixty-one years, more than a year of togetherness!
From the twenty-eighth girl to the seventy-year-old rare; from guarding the frontier to the south of the Yangtze River; from the incompetent feudal king and concubine, to the great empress dowager of the mother world...
During this period, how many shared weal and woe, life and death depended on each other
I'm afraid it's the same as the wrinkles on this old face, and I can't count them!
And how can these fetters be easily broken away
What's more, after abdicating for 11 years, the Taishanghuang has long since lost the decisiveness of the killing.
"Ah~!"
With a long sigh, the Supreme Emperor slumped down on the soft cushion behind him, and said faintly: "The third one has always been a man of means, otherwise I would not have passed on the throne to him, and now that someone has cut off his heir, how can he be willing to give up? "
The Empress Dowager Niu smiled slightly, and leaned her body on the shoulder of the Emperor Taishang, and said indifferently: "Didn't the concubine say that, if it can really prove that it was my Niu family, he will kill the entire family of the Niu family, and the concubine will also Never stop it."
The Emperor Taishang sighed faintly again, then he and the Empress Dowager Niu were silent, cuddling each other on the dragon chair, and gradually became tired.
He was wandering between sleep and not sleep, but suddenly heard footsteps outside.
At this time, who dares to come in and disturb
The Emperor Taishang sat up angrily, but he saw Xia Shouzhong stepped forward to report with a strange expression: "Report to the Emperor Taishang, the Qianqing Palace has someone to spread the word, saying that Lord Long Live is coming to announce the good news to you."
Announcement
The Emperor Taishang frowned unconsciously. At this juncture, what other happy events could be reported
Looking back at the Empress Niu subconsciously, she saw that she was also full of surprise.
The Emperor Taishang hesitated for a moment, and then said: "The left and right are still not asleep, let the emperor come over."
Xia Shouzhong ordered to bow down and retreat.
The Emperor Taishang was very suspicious, and he wanted to discuss a few words with the Empress Dowager Niu, but after thinking of the suspicion of the Niu family, he still had grudges, so he pondered silently by himself.
"Father, father!"
About a quarter of an hour later, there were a few passionate shouts outside the hall, and then I saw Emperor Guangde staggering and rushing in, took a few steps forward, fell to the ground with a thud, and cried out in tears: "God bless you. I’m a big week, God bless my royal family! That unfilial son… actually planted an heir!”
"what?!"
After hearing this, the Emperor Taishang was stunned for a while, and then showed a helpless smile, but immediately turned into a surprise, and said anxiously: "Is there such a thing?! Hurry, hurry up and tell the widow, what happened? thing!"
After speaking, he raised his voice and commanded: "What are you doing? Don't you bring a chair for the emperor!"
The two little eunuchs hurriedly lifted a chair and placed it on the left of the imperial case.
Emperor Guangde thanked him and wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief. This time, he sat on the chair beaming again. Liu Luanwei, the prime minister of Zhan Shifu, accidentally discovered that the prisoner Li Shi was suspected of being pregnant, so five imperial doctors Together with Wang Kun, the experience of the consultation was explained in its entirety.
The Emperor Taishang could not help but sigh, shook his head and said, "I can't imagine that the woman has ruined the prince's heir, but she is pregnant with the prince's body.
"It seems that although God doesn't resent the prince's loss of morality, he still left room for me, Da Zhou, so it seems that this child must be a grandson!"
As he spoke, his face sank again, and he said solemnly, "Actually, it's not just that the prince has lost his morals. I have heard that among the relatives and children of this sect, there are many unworthy people, some who bully men and bully women. There are those who favor concubines and destroy their wives, those who support prostitutes, and those who set up separate houses!"
"I heard that there are still some people who are fornicating with women outside, and they dare not be included in the roster of the clan when they give birth to evil children. It is really annoying and hateful!"
"This kind of unseemly behavior, the emperor should take good care of it!"
After hearing this, Emperor Guangde's eyes flickered slightly, but on the surface he stood up and responded solemnly, saying that he would let people secretly investigate the words and deeds of the children of the clan, and punish those who choose not to be worthy.
"The widow heard that the prince was assassinated, and the day and night have not been stable, so must the emperor." The emperor said again: "Now that this good news has come out, you should rest earlier, so as not to overwork yourself and hurt your body."
But when he said this, he suddenly remembered something again, and hurriedly asked: "By the way, in the case of the prince's assassination, have you ever found out who was behind the scenes?"
Emperor Guangde said hesitantly: "A lot of evidence now points to the second brother..."
"It won't be him!"
The Emperor Taishang said firmly without hesitation: "This is of no benefit to him - if his cronies really had such skills, they should have rescued him long ago!"
When Emperor Guangde saw this scene, he knew that it was impossible to kill Prince Yizhong.
So he nodded his head and said, "My son thinks so too, and has ordered Xu Furen to continue to investigate the culprit behind the scenes."
"Well, we must find out the truth about this matter, and smash that traitor all over the place!"
After the father and son said a few more words, Emperor Guangde got up and retire.
After watching Emperor Guangde leave, the Empress Dowager Niu, who had been silent by the side, suddenly said quietly: "Even if it is from the descendants of the clan, it is not your blood and blood after all."
"Then what do you want me to do?!"
The Emperor Taishang stood up abruptly, looked down at the Empress Dowager Niu condescendingly, and asked fiercely: "Break out this lame lie, completely drive him to the corner, and then meet his son in battle! Change the wonderful drama, so as to leave an infamy in the history books and become the joke of those sour literati?!"
After saying this in one breath, the Emperor Taishang's chest heaved up and down rapidly, and he stretched out his hand to support the imperial case, so that he did not fall down on the dragon chair.
The Empress Dowager Niu remained silent for a long while, then suddenly slowly put her palms together, and recited the Buddha's name with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes: "Amitabha, God bless the emperor to find out the real murderer as soon as possible, and don't let my Niu family suffer unjust injustice."
The words are divided into two parts.
However, it was said that Emperor Guangde had just arrived outside the palace wall of Qianqing Palace, and collided with King Zhongshun head-on.
"Go, go, go down!"
King Zhongshun chased away the flies and drove away all the accompanying servants. He raised a lantern and walked side by side with Emperor Guangde. He lowered his voice and said, "Did the old man see any flaws?"
"flaw?"
Emperor Guangde sneered with a sullen face: "My father has never seen anything in his life, how can such a trick be able to hide from him?"
"Then he..."
"Listen to what he says, you should acquiesce."
Emperor Guangde sneered and said, "But I have secretly set a boundary for me. This seed of Li Dai Tao Zang must be found from the royal family."
Seeing that there were two eunuchs standing in front of him, King Zhongshun stopped talking temporarily, and only after entering the bedroom did he nod his head and say, "I should have found it from the clan, but this time the old man is quite reasonable."
"Reasonable?"
Emperor Guangde sneered and said, "It's just that I consciously made a mistake, and I don't want to punish the old goddess, and I don't want to fall into the infamy of father and son cannibalism, so I just compromised for a while!"
As he said that, he gritted his teeth and punched the pillar, and said bitterly: "One day, I will kill that Niu family and destroy the nine clans!"
Following what he meant, King Zhongshun also scolded the Niu family for a few words, but he changed the subject and praised: "I never imagined that Erlang of the Sun family would have such courage and knowledge at such a young age, if he hadn't figured it out in time. This time, we will be more passive after this matter spreads in a few days."
After speaking, he hesitated: "But this kid is so bold, and he is famous all over the capital at a young age. If he really stands firm in the court in the future, I am afraid it will not be a blessing for the court."
Emperor Guangde shook his head and said, "Since ancient times, I have only heard that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers. When the children and grandchildren grow up when they settle down and buy a property, the edges and corners will be almost polished. Besides, children and grandchildren will have their own children and grandchildren..."
He originally wanted to say 'children and grandchildren will have their own children and grandchildren', but thinking of the prince's current situation, he couldn't help feeling sad.
At this time, King Zhongshun suddenly took out a booklet from his sleeve and offered it with respectful hands: "Please also look at this thing, Your Majesty!"
Emperor Guangde took the booklet with some doubts, and flipped through it, only to see that all the records above were all examples of children over fifty years old, and there were even two special cases that were rare in the seventies.
"His Majesty has been struggling since he was a child, how can he still not compare to these common people?" King Zhongshun added in a timely manner: "It's just that Your Majesty and his wife are deeply in love, and he rarely favors other concubines on weekdays. The meticulous cultivation of fertility, may not be able to give birth to another prince!"
Although Emperor Guangde did not respond, he repeatedly rubbed the booklet, but he was obviously moved.
Thanks to the book friend 'Dongfang Tuo' for the reward.