After the banquet in the palace, the courtiers went home for the winter festival. Xiao Zhige and An Changqing moved to the Qianzheng Palace to continue the family dinner. The population in the palace is not large, and the only blood relatives on Xiao Zhige's side are the eldest princess. Today, the eldest princess and the concubine have both entered the palace, plus Yu and An Xianyu, there are only eight people in total. Shang Shan Si was rectified before, and he did not dare to prepare a family banquet too extravagantly. Instead, he ingeniously used sweet potatoes and noodles, wrapped dumplings with various fillings, and gave them a taste.
When the family banquet was finished, the eldest princess went to Cai's house with her consort, while An Changqing personally sent Yu and An Xianyu back to the palace. By the time everything was set up, it was already dusk. It was dark early in the winter, and the sunset was no longer there, only the obscurity of the sky remained.
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An Changqing changed into homely clothes and prepared to go back to the palace. Today's winter festival, Xiao Zhige and two children are in the palace, if An Changqing does not go back, tomorrow Xiao Zhige will definitely come to him again to "seek an explanation".
As soon as he rode his horse out, he saw a low-key and inconspicuous carriage parked in the open space in front of the door. The groom who drove the car had a face, but it was no one else who was waiting at the door at this time. He got off the horse and went straight to lift the curtain of the carriage, and there was indeed Xiao Zhige sitting inside.
Those ubiquitous Praetorian Guards did not know where they were hiding, and they were nowhere to be seen. Xiao Zhige was dressed in a very ordinary black outfit, and his black hair was tied up with a crown. When he saw An Changqing, his eyebrows twitched, and he became a little bit arrogant.
"Why did you leave the palace? Where are the Imperial Guards?" An Changqing got into the carriage and lowered the curtain of the carriage.
"I have nothing to do today, I would like to invite King Yan to travel to Yejing with me." Xiao Zhige smiled, pulled the man over and hugged him, buried his head in his neck and took a deep breath.
Xiao Zhige likes to hold him very much now, but An Changqing let him hold him, still a little worried, he lifted the curtain of the car and looked out: "I'm afraid it's not safe not to bring the Praetorian Guards. You can't go to the street anymore. Show up."
"Everyone is following in the dark, and nothing can go wrong." Xiao Zhige put down the curtain, turned his face back to face him, and said, "We haven't traveled together for a long time."
It is not good to be the emperor, and he can no longer take him on a horseback trip all over Yejing like before, and buy him his favorite cakes and pine nut candies in person. Occasionally, the Guards were not brought in, and those courtiers still had to persuade them to say "the son of a thousand gold should not sit in the hall", for fear that he might make a mistake. Xiao Zhige heard calluses on his ears, so he could only bring enough hands when he went out.
An Changqing pinched his fingers and laughed, "Then I'll accompany Your Majesty for one more trip today. Where does His Majesty want to go first?"
"Go to Sanweizhai first." Xiao Zhige instructed the driver to drive to Sanweizhai, and said to him, "I haven't bought you cakes for a long time. Although Shang Shansi has good craftsmanship, it always doesn't taste as good as outside."
An Changqing is fond of sweets and loves the pastries of Sanweizhai and the pine nut candies from a sugar shop on weekdays. In the past, Xiao Zhige would buy it back when he went to court. Now that he has moved into the palace, every day is full of delicacies from the mountains and seas, but An Changqing eats less. Although he didn't say it, Xiao Zhige knew that he must prefer the ones he often eat.
Since he left the palace today, he took him to buy it.
Even in the winter festival, Sanweizhai is still open today, and many people will buy some cakes that they usually don’t want to eat today.
The shopkeeper who was in the shop today was the shopkeeper who used to receive Xiao Zhige. Hearing the driver call out a string of familiar dim sum names, his heart skipped a beat, then he stretched his neck and looked out, only to see an inconspicuous carriage. . He thought to himself that King Bei Zhan was now an emperor, so he shouldn't have to eat these small snacks, so he shook his head and happily added a few pieces of fresh snacks to add to it.
The driver brought the wrapped dim sum over, and Xiao Zhige turned to buy pine nut candy. The candy shop that buys pine nuts is run by an old couple. When they used to go, the candy shop was not open. They thought they were going home for the festival.
An Changqing picked up a piece of cake, took a bite, and said with a smile, "Everyone else is rushing home to celebrate the festival, but His Majesty ran out in a hurry."
Xiao Zhige ate the remaining half of the cake with his hand, and then said, "If King Yan doesn't go home, won't I have to chase him out?"
An Changqing hummed softly, without arguing with him, rolled his eyes, and asked the driver to go to Shantang.
Yejing is a prosperous place, and now it is the winter festival. Every household lights up the lights. Although the streets are quite deserted, the windows of the houses on both sides are full of warm light, which does not look depressed.
The carriage drove across the long street and turned into another alleyway, and saw the shantangs built side by side.
Shantang requisitioned the abandoned mansion for expansion, and in front of the mansion was built a straw hut. There were two large stoves in front of the straw hut. There was a large pot on the stove. fragrance.
At this time, it was getting late, and there were people who were covering themselves at home to reunite with their families at this time. Only a few homeless people gathered near the stove in the shantang, warming up and eating sweet potatoes carefully. , with a satisfied smile on his face.
Their carriage was parked at the entrance of the alley, and they looked in the direction of Shantang from a distance. An Changqing sighed: "I don't know if the people in other places can have a good festival like this."
Although the decrees have been delivered to the locality, it is inevitable that the local officials will not act according to the orders.
Xiao Zhige patted him on the shoulder and said in a low voice: "This year is not yet known, but give me another two or three years, and the people will surely be well-fed and clothed."
The two turned around the shantangs in and outside the city, and only returned to the palace at Xu Shi.
In the palace, Xiao Anheng and Xiao Anzhu were making a fuss and didn't sleep. The brothers and sisters were still there before they fell asleep, but when they woke up, they didn't see anyone. No matter how hard they tried, it was useless, so they cried. Wang Yu and Han Zhang saw them as if they had seen the savior, they hugged the prince and Princess Sui Zhu one by one, and said with a bitter face: "The prince and the princess woke up and were looking for your majesty and the prince, how can the servants coax you? Can't be coaxed."
An Changqing raised her eyebrows and leaned over to take a look. She saw that the two brothers and sisters were both in thunder and no rain, and there were no tears in their eyes. As soon as Xiao Anzhu saw him, she stopped crying, stretched out her small arms and said tenderly, "Dad, Daddy, hug."
Xiao Anheng slowed down, but stopped crying, and said, "Hug."
An Changqing was about to reach out to pick it up, but Xiao Zhige hugged him one by one with his arms upside down, and said to Xiao Anheng quite dissatisfiedly: "You can just cry, my sister, you dignified prince, why are you crying?"
Xiao Anheng looked at him blankly, his mouth shriveled. Xiao Anzhu is a big kid, and regardless of whether he understands it or not, he babbles and coaxes on the side.
Xiao Zhige was eccentric and blatant. The more he looked at his little daughter, the more cute Yuxue felt, and he couldn't help kissing her little cheek. Xiao Anheng probably finally realized that he was being left out, twisted his body unhappily, stretched his small arm towards An Changqing, and kept calling "Dad, Daddy".
"You will bully your son." An Changqing took over Xiao Anheng, who was so wronged, and said angrily.
"Why is this bullying him? The dignified crown prince, naturally you have to be more stable, how can you compete with your sister for favor?" Xiao Zhige put his daughter on his shoulders and let her ride a big horse.
An Changqing rolled his eyes at him unceremoniously, and before he could speak, he saw Xiao Zhige's body froze, and then said, "An Zhu, did you pee?"
Xiao Anzhu: "Drive! Drive!"
The nurse who was waiting next to her hurriedly stepped forward to check, her face turned pale, and she said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty forgives your sins, this... Her Royal Highness really urinated, and the servant will change her clothes..."
The first time Xiao Anzhu rode a big horse, she urinated on her father's neck.
"Yeah." An Changqing hugged Xiao Anheng and smiled rudely, and asked the nurse to take Xiao Anzhu to change diapers and clothes.
Xiao Zhige coughed, pinched his daughter's face, and deliberately asked with a straight face, "Little rascal, dare to pee on your father, will you dare next time?"
Xiao Anzhu's eyes widened, and she kicked her feet hard: "Drive!"
His Majesty's face was blue. An Changqing couldn't help laughing and urged him to take a shower and change his clothes.
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Three days after the winter festival, Xiao Zhige was rarely free, so he took care of the children in Qianzheng Palace.
He didn't know where to start to hear the Dharma. He wanted to catch the baby from an early age, so he would wrap the prince in his arms and read the outline of the basic governance of the country for him. It is said that he has to be immersed in his eyes and ears from a young age, and when he is old, he can become a Mingjun and take over his burden.
Xiao Anheng leaned against his father's arms, his big eyes blinked pitifully, and he fell asleep. An Changqing didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he was the only one left.
The two were coaxing the child when they saw Han Zhang hurried in from the outside, withdrew from the waiter, and reported in a low voice: "Your Majesty, King Yan, there is news from Zhuangzi, saying that people are dying soon, and probably can't hold on today. Night."
He said it obscurely, but the only one who can call him that is the waste prince Xiao Qi'an.
After failing to force the palace to rebel, Xiao Qi'an was captured by Xiao Zhige's lock. Later, when Xiao Zhige ascended the throne, he declared to the public that the prince murdered his father and killed the emperor. But in fact, he was secretly imprisoned in a village outside the city, and the person who took the initiative to ask to take care of him was Jiang Xiaoqing, the former defunct prince concubine who had been sent to the temple to lead him to practice.
Xiao Zhige once said that Xiao Qi'an would not be easily killed. A beast like him who takes pleasure in abusing others should taste the pain himself.
He didn't know what kind of grievances Jiang Xiaoqing and Xiao Qi'an had, but he knew that Jiang Xiaoqing hated Xiao Qi'an to the bone, and what he did was to comply with Jiang Xiaoqing's request and keep them both in Zhuangzi outside the city. There were guards on Zhuangzi, and there were also a few rough servants to serve the daily life, but those servants only listened to Jiang Xiaoqing's dispatch.
After throwing the person over, Xiao Zhige stopped paying attention to the news over there. Unexpectedly, after two or three months, Xiao Qi'an couldn't hold it anymore.
"What happened? Madam Jiang?" Xiao Zhige asked.
Everything on Zhuangzi was left to Han Zhang to handle, he said: "I heard that yesterday was the winter festival, Mrs. Jiang missed her child, so she started a little harder, and moved the whip... People froze outside for another night, it's daylight today. There was a fever in the house, and the doctor saw it and said that the loss was too great to be saved. Mrs. Jiang was doing everything as usual, but she only sent a message to ask Your Majesty if you want to go and have a look. A fire burned."
Otherwise, the ancients said that the most poisonous woman's heart, for Xiao Qian, Jiang Xiaoqing really wanted to eat his flesh. There were so many ways of torturing people that even his eunuch felt terrified.
Xiao Zhige pondered for a moment, then said, "Get ready to drive, I'll go take a look. Don't disturb others."
Han Zhang understood what he meant, and stepped back to prepare.
"I'll go with you." An Changqing said.
Xiao Zhige paused for a while, and finally nodded, and went with him to Zhuangzi outside the city.
Zhuangzi's boundary is on the side, and from a distance there is a look of depression. The carriage entered Zhuangzi in a low-key manner, and he saw Jiang Xiaoqing was already waiting in the hall. She was dressed in plain clothes, Jing Chai and no makeup, and her expression was much colder than before. She didn't pretend to be dignified and generous and had a perfect smile. Seeing Xiao Zhige and An Changqing, she was blessed, and she only said: "People are in the side room. ."
The two nodded and were led to the side room by the servants.
The side room was empty and dark, with only a bed and a table, and the stove was not even heated. Xiao Qian, who was seriously ill, was lying on the bed, with his limbs tied to the bedpost, his eyes wide open and panting unwillingly—the doctor did not get it. order, and did not heal him.
Xiao Zhige stood two steps away and looked at him. Xiao Qi'an has lost shape, and there are fresh welts and old bruises on the exposed arms and ankles. Suddenly seeing Xiao Zhige and An Changqing, he tried his best to widen his eyes, struggling to say, "That bitch is going to kill me! Didn't you say you wouldn't let me die? I don't want to die yet... You, you give it to me. Come to the doctor, I don't want to die..."
His voice also became hoarse, as if his throat had been injured.
Xiao Zhige looked at him with a cold eye as he was struggling: "The way you are now matches your virtue."
In the past, the waste prince was carrying the breeze and the moon, and the elegant son. It is to publicize the evil things he has done. When everyone looks at his gentle face, they may have questions. Are these evil things really what he did
The human-faced beast's heart is nothing more than that.
Now that he is thin and out of shape, his eyes are sunken, his cheekbones are high and towering, and his limbs are slender, which suits him better than before.
Xiao Qi'an choked for a while, and suddenly became mad without warning. He roared like a beast: "Where do you think you are better than me?! You left me to torture me to that bitch! She is a lunatic. How are you better than me? Huh?"
He roared and cried again: "She's a bitch! Crazy! How dare she treat me like that! I won't let her go!"
His legs kept kicking and kicking, the thin quilt covering him was kicked away, and the wet trousers under the quilt showed a clear fall. An Changqing glanced at it, then frowned and moved away. The same man, he naturally saw the difference of Xiao Qi'an - he was castrated.
No wonder he is so crazy. But An Changqing didn't sympathize with him at all. He should have thought of retribution when he tortured and murdered women for fun for a while.
Xiao Qi'an's end was more tragic than he could have imagined. Xiao Zhige was slightly satisfied, and with some disgust, he withdrew his gaze and prepared to leave together with An Changqing. Behind him, Xiao Qi'an cried, "Don't go! You kill me, I don't want to be tortured by that bitch anymore, kill me..."
Neither of them looked back. When they stepped out of the threshold, someone closed the door. Only Xiao Qi'an's crazy voice still came out. He didn't want to die anymore, and begged Xiao Zhige to find him a doctor...
Jiang Xiaoqing was waiting outside. The Jiang family rebelled with Xiao Qi'an, and the male was exiled by beheading the female relatives. Today, the only one left in Yejing is Jiang Xiaoqing, who was abandoned and sent to the temple for secret execution. Now she is called Mrs. Jiang by the servants of Zhuangzi.
Xiao Zhige didn't plan to stay any longer, but now that Xiao Qi'an is about to die, Jiang Xiaoqing should also have a place to go. Jiang Xiaoqing is actually not completely innocent, but she provided Xiao Zhige with a lot of information in order to retaliate against the prince, so Xiao Zhige reciprocated to save her life. If she wanted to, she could go away incognito and live the life of an ordinary person.
"Xiao Qi'an's body will also be handed over to you. After that, you will remain anonymous and leave Yejing." Xiao Zhige told her.
Jiang Xiaoqing shook her head: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your generosity, but I have a lot of blood on my hands. To this day, it's all my retribution. Xiao Qi'an's blood debt has been paid, but mine is still unfinished throughout his life. If Your Majesty doesn't mind it, allow me to become a monk in the nun temple and pray for the rest of my life to pray for those who died in vain. If Your Majesty does not allow it, I will be cut off from this village."
Her expression was neither sad nor happy, and her eyes were like dry wells.
Xiao Zhige didn't want to make trouble with her. Said: "You choose it yourself."
Afterwards, he took An Changqing and left together. On the way back, the atmosphere was a little dull. Xiao Zhige wasn't unhappy, but he didn't know what to say for a while. Seeing his sullen face, An Changqing thought he was unhappy about the past, took his hand and said, "Tomorrow, let's take An Heng and An Zhu to pay homage to our mother."
After Xiao Zhige ascended the throne, Li Concubine was posthumously named Empress Dowager. Another person picked a good time to move the coffin, and moved Li Concubine's coffin into the back tomb to enjoy the incense of future generations. During the winter solstice, ordinary people have to worship their ancestors, Xiao Zhige is the emperor, but on the winter solstice, they are busy making sacrifices to the ancestral temples of heaven and earth, and have not had time to worship their biological mother.
"Alright." Xiao Zhige sighed and said, "Tell the mother to see An Heng and An Zhu as well. Seeing that we are doing well, she can rest assured."
An Changqing gave a "hmm", squeezed beside him, and put his hands inside his jacket to cover it: "I'll go tomorrow."
Xiao Zhige warmed his hands for him, his slightly frowned eyebrows stretched out, and tender thoughts filled his eyes.
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