Prince Yu Yu Mucheng entered the room, looked at Xuan Qiong who was still lying on the bed, put down the bed tent for him, and walked out.
Outside, Concubine Yu did not apply any makeup powder, her eyes were red, and when Yu Mucheng came out, her tears were about to fall, "Big brother..."
"Be quiet, the Fifth Highness is asleep." Yu Mucheng sat down, "I just asked the imperial doctor and said that it's all right. In that case, when he wakes up, you can go with him to the Third Highness..."
"Don't go!" Concubine Yu was stunned, "What are you going to do? When I met Yu She, did I think I didn't see it, or did I think he never pushed Qiong'er into the water?!"
Yu Mucheng frowned: "Isn't it all clear? It was the two of them who were watching the water by the lake, and the Fifth Highness himself fell into the water without checking for a while..."
Concubine Yu was furious: "What the emperor used to deceive others, are you fooling me now? You heard it too, Yu She himself admitted that he pushed Qiong'er into the water!"
"So what?" Yu Mucheng's voice was still very soft, "If the maiden doesn't agree, is she going to make a scene in front of the emperor again? Let Ziyou learn those bastard words spoken by the Fifth Highness again?"
Concubine Yu bit her lip and stopped talking.
"If you don't remember clearly, then I'll tell you again." Yu Mucheng looked at his own sister and said in a low voice, "Don't take those hearsays to the Fifth Highness, let alone make yourself smart, have delusions, and do Those superfluous things... The emperor hates others to mention those unremarkable things, why do you like to mention them? You can say it yourself, and you have to tell it to the Fifth Highness. His Highness is already an adult, and she looks like a long-tongued woman. Those words behind your back! What does it look like?"
Concubine Yu's face turned pale with anger: "You said I'm a long-tongued woman? Well, I don't know, so tell me today, is Yu She your son? The princess was pregnant in June that year, and she turned to I only brought the baby back in July of the new year. I insisted that it was a few months old. Have I never given birth myself? It is obviously a baby who has just landed! You…”
"Ziyou was born long ago by the princess, and she is naturally a little weaker than the children next to her." Yu Mucheng said helplessly, "I have told you this many times. What do you want to hear from me?"
"I want to hear the truth!" Concubine Yu was sullen, "I want to know if Qiong'er and I have been making wedding dresses for others all these years!"
Yu Mucheng said, "Then I'll say it again, no."
"Okay, if he is really your son, you ask him to come over now and kneel here to make amends!" Concubine Yu sneered, "He must listen to what my father says? Go and ask him to come!"
Yu Mucheng laughed: "Didn't you make trouble out of nothing? The emperor said it all, it was the Fifth Highness himself who didn't know much..."
"Don't use the emperor to prevaricate me!" Concubine Yu's face turned pale, "I didn't care about you, anyway, you recognized it yourself, and you still have to pass on the throne that your grandfather managed to save to him. I'm a married daughter, I don't say anything about my parents' family! But what about the emperor? I can bear with how much I prefer him, and let Yu She put everything on Qiong'er's head, and I can bear it. Now? You have already murdered Qiong’er, but you still protect him! Then the mountain will collapse! Yu She wants our mother and son to be buried, are you in a hurry to send Bai Ling for him?!”
Yu Mucheng frowned: "What the hell are you talking about? Let others hear... Is it absurd?"
"Is there anything more absurd than Yu She?" Concubine Yu said coldly, "Big brother... I'm completely chilled this time. You want to raise someone else's son, don't drag me, I'm just a child like Qiong'er, he If I can't become a prince, I will hang here to avoid being humiliated by Yu She in the future!"
"Shut up!" Yu Mucheng became angry, "You still think that you didn't hurt Qiong'er bad enough, didn't you?"
Concubine Yu shed tears angrily: "You... you..."
Yu Mucheng took a deep breath and suppressed the fire, "I have no precedent for the burial of concubines and concubines.
"No?" Concubine Yu sneered, "How did Concubine Zhong from the previous dynasty die?"
Yu Mucheng's eyes moved suddenly. After a while, he said, "After the late emperor left, the concubine Zhong was so grieved that she died without medical treatment."
Concubine Yu sneered, "Really? What a coincidence."
Yu Mucheng lowered his head to drink tea, and said after a while, "Okay, if you want to hear this, I'll tell you something... Concubine Zhong Gui had a son in the previous dynasty, Prince Ning, you must know?"
Concubine Yu did not understand how Yu Mucheng said this, and frowned: "Naturally."
"King Ning is young and intelligent, talented, and looks like the late emperor. He was very fond of the late emperor, but it's a pity..." Yu Mucheng put down the tea cup and said softly, "He is the youngest son of the late emperor who was only fifty years old."
Concubine Yu nodded: "I-I know."
Yu Mucheng said slowly: "When the late emperor was in his old age, he was moved by the young man's heart. Many old ministers know it, and there is no need to cover it up. Let's not mention this, you know that after the late emperor had this idea, he was the first person who wanted to kill. Who is it?"
Concubine Yu was stunned and asked subconsciously, "Who?"
Yu Mucheng said, "Concubine Zhong Gui."
Yu Fei's face changed greatly.
Yu Mucheng looked at her and asked softly, "Do you think the late emperor wanted to move Jinshang?"
Concubine Yu had a cold sweat on her forehead, and she didn't dare to nod or shake her head.
"How is it possible that the emperor will only be partial and not murderous, because those are his own sons... But the concubines are different." Yu Mucheng continued, "Concubine Zhong just turned 30 that day and is in good health, so don't talk about it. There are still decades to live, compared to Jin Shang, who may threaten the throne, the late emperor is more worried about the young concubines, afraid that she will support the relatives, afraid that she will manipulate the young emperor, and afraid that she will interfere in the government!"
"Emperors are ruthless. Concubine Zhong Gui escaped that day because of the sudden departure of the late emperor, and it was her fate. Otherwise... before the late emperor died, she would have to go down and wait." Yu Mucheng looked at Concubine Yu. , "The emperor will be soft-hearted and partial to his son, but not to his concubines. If the emperor one day thinks that you are interfering too much in the affairs of His Royal Highness..."
Concubine Yu fell on the cushion of the chair, sweat dripping from her forehead.
Yu Mucheng smiled: "Naturally, if the emperor has no intention of making His Royal Highness the crown prince, he will not be afraid of your little actions, but this is something you don't like... So sister, do you understand?"
Concubine Yu completely lost her arrogance, wiped her sweat, and said hoarsely, "Understood."
"Of course, you are not the same as Concubine Zhong Gui." Yu Mucheng stood up and whispered, "You are the daughter of our Prince Yu's mansion, as long as you don't do stupid things, the emperor will not touch you, and he will always treat the Fifth Highness differently. treat."
Concubine Yu panicked: "You're really not lying to me? Your Majesty... would you really value Qiong'er a little more?"
"Yes." Yu Mucheng reassured, "His foreign family is our palace, if I don't fall, he will always be one point more likely than others, as long as he doesn't commit the emperor's taboo again, Niangniang, it's okay to persuade the Fifth Highness to be more quiet, Just do the errand that the emperor sent him."
Concubine Yu was still not reconciled: "But, but... in case the emperor is confused in the future, he has to stand up for Yu... "
"Niangniang." Yu Mucheng interrupted Concubine Yu, "I repeat, Ziyou's surname is Yu, and he is my son, so he cannot succeed to the throne, understand?"
Concubine Yu thought about it for a moment, then she understood it completely, and said anxiously, "I, shouldn't I mention this? I..."
"Should I mention it?" Yu Mucheng tried his best to be patient, "I've never understood why you all like to mess with these things, are you anxious to prove something for him?"
"I'm afraid that the emperor will have other thoughts!" Concubine Yu wept, "And... I think Yu She knows more than I do. Can you guarantee that he doesn't have such thoughts?"
Yu Mucheng bowed his head: "I promise, he didn't."
At the mansion of the three princes.
Zhong Wan also changed into mourning clothes, and led the confused Xuan Yu into the house. The two separated immediately. Someone took Xuan Yu to incense Xuan Jin. Kneel for a while.
Zhong Wan had seen Xuan Jin at least twice, but Xiao Xuanyu had never met. Although he was his own cousin, he couldn't cry. He could only think that his elder brother had shed a few tears, and after a while Inside, Xuan Jin's princess sent someone to persuade her. Several unknown people helped Xuan Yu up, led Xuan Yu to a spiritual shed, offered incense again, and kowtowed.
Zhong Wan always looked at him from a distance.
After kowtowing this time, Xuan Yu looked back at Zhong Wan, Zhong Wan gently waved his hand and asked him to follow others, Xuan Yu put his hands together and whispered to Zhong Wan, "Find a place to sit!"
Zhong Wan wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh. He lowered his head and pretended not to see it. When he looked up again, Xuan Yu had already been led into the spirit shed and knelt with the other clansmen.
Xuan Yu was the youngest, and knelt among a group of people in filial piety. She was pitiful.
Outside the shed, there are many people like Zhong Wan. They don't need to kneel, but they can't wait in the outer courtyard like servants.
Zhong Wan was extremely poor and bored, so he made fun of himself, wondering if Yu She would come today.
Emperor Chong'an did not delve into the matter of falling into the water, but only put Yu She under house arrest.
After being questioned by Emperor Chong'an, when Xuan Qiong didn't know whether he was alive or dead, he could be distracted and abducted by others. Such a person... house arrest may not be able to stop him.
Sure enough, in less than half an hour, it was reported outside that Prince Yu was here.
Yu She's ostentation was no smaller than that of Prince Yu. When he came, many people stood up, and the concubine Xian inside even sent someone out to pick him up, but Yu She didn't enter the inner courtyard, and went directly to the spiritual front.
Yu She put on the incense, and stood up as soon as his knees touched the ground, and the people from the Ministry of Rites seemed to be completely blind, not even raising their eyelids.
Zhong Wan looked at it from a distance and was amazed. Little Prince Yu was not here for a funeral, he was here to admire his face.
The deceased is the most important, and Yu She doesn't need to be polite. I really don't want to come, so I just don't want to come. Let everyone see him like this... What's so good
Although everyone is used to it.
Zhong Wan tried his best to stand back, not wanting Yu She to see him.
Zhong Wan laughed at himself, Yu She had just kicked himself out of the house two days ago, so he probably didn't want to see him at all.
Before Zhong Wan could find a way to hide, a person in charge came out to greet them in a low voice: "Come here."
There were more and more clansmen, and more and more entourages were crowded, and gradually they became disrespectful. The man in charge of the Third Prince's Mansion finally set up a simple spiritual shed in the outer courtyard to house these entourages.
Zhong Wan glanced in Xuan Yu's direction and saw that he was kneeling honestly, so he was probably fine, so he left with the others.
Zhong Wan lifted the hem of his clothes and knelt down, his mind was not idle. For a while, he calculated where Xuan Rui and Yan Pingshan were now, and for a while guessed how many sips of lake water Xuan Qiong had drank. Suddenly being lifted up, cold wind poured in, Zhong Wan looked up...
Yu She looked inside coldly.
Yu She walked in and sat on the only chair in the shed.
In front of Zhong Wan.
Zhong Wan: "…"
Everyone looked at each other, got up slowly, and withdrew one by one. Zhong Wan wanted to mix with the others, but also got up. A sullen look flashed in Yu She's eyes.
Zhong Wan knelt down again.
Not long after, there were only two people left in the mourning hall.
The clock is like kneeling on needle felt.
Yu She looked at the incense candles and other items on the offering table in a trance, without saying a word.
Half an hour later, Zhong Wan's kneeling leg was numb, he moved his leg a little, couldn't help gasping, and accidentally disturbed Yu She.
Yu She looked at Zhong Wan and frowned slightly.
Zhong Wan was afraid that Yu She was going to misunderstand that he was deliberately attracting his attention, so he hurriedly knelt down.
Zhong Wan knelt down for a while, and heard Yu She suddenly say, "Did you wake up that day..."
Zhong Wan coughed, "No."
Zhong Wan secretly glanced at Yu She, Yu She's expression seemed to worsen after hearing this.
Zhong Wan complained in his heart, what was this lunatic thinking about all day
Yu She scrutinized Zhong Wan for a while, and seemed to be judging whether Zhong Wan was telling the truth or a lie, and then whispered for a while, "Slutty."
Zhong Wan: "…"
Let your mother go.
Yu She ignored Zhong Wan, he sat in the spirit shed, and the people outside didn't dare to neglect, so they brought in a charcoal pot and hand stove, and even changed Yu She a pot of good tea.
The spirit shed instantly warmed up, and Yu She was completely seated.
Zhong Wan secretly complained, is this person still going
Zhong Wan peeked at Yu She from time to time, watched him drink two sips of tea, watched him add charcoal to his hand stove, watched him take out a small book of words from his sleeves...
Does this person take this place as his home and live here? !
Yu She looked down at the script, not in a hurry.
Zhong Wan slandered Yu She, and suddenly heard him say, "Don't keep looking at me... When I finish reading, this book will also be given to you."
Zhong Wan stumbled angrily, his legs were numb and he couldn't do anything, so he staggered and bent down, Yu She frowned, "I'll send it to you, no need to kowtow to thank you."
Zhong Wan gritted his teeth and knelt down, daring not to speak out.
Yu She glanced at it for a while, and said lightly, "It's not very interesting... There is a bridal chamber, which is kind of interesting."
Zhong Wan pretended not to hear.
Yu She wanted to ask him, "Do you want to watch it?"
Zhong Wan endured the humiliation: "I want to."
"Wait for me to finish it." Yu She lowered his head, "But I can read it to you first..."
Zhong Wan laughed dryly: "It's not good..."
As if she didn't hear it, Yu She started to read casually: "I was sitting beside your bed, and you stretched out one hand and grabbed my sleeve..."
Zhong Wan was shocked.
There is a god who raises his head three feet up... Isn't this person afraid that Xuan Jin has a spirit in the sky and knocks on the door in the middle of the night? !
"I was in love for a while, I lowered my head and kissed your brow, whispering to make you sleep well, you raised your head and kissed my lips..."
"I couldn't dodge, I was kissed by you, and I parted at the touch. During my hesitation, you have separated your lips, asking for anything..."
Zhong Wan blushed and said with difficulty, "Yu, Zi, You."
"I just hugged your shoulders, but you already put your arms around my waist. You didn't allow me to go, and you were still mumbling my words in a low voice." Yu She closed the book, "You think I'm reading the script. ? No... It's rare to write such a rude thing about you, what I'm talking about is that night."
Zhong Wan's whole body went numb now.