In the palace, the emperor had already moved out of the original bedroom because he wanted to "recover his illness", and moved to the Yangning Palace in the northeast of the palace. All the people who served the emperor in the past, except for Mr. Lei, were replaced by new people.
The emperor's condition has indeed eased a bit, and the swelling in his body has disappeared a lot, but his mind has become more and more blurred, his memory is extremely poor, and sometimes even Lei Gonggong can't recognize him.
It took nearly a year for the emperor's poison to be cured. In order to suppress the poison and save his life, Kansui used a lot of strong medicines. As a result, the emperor showed various symptoms of senile dementia in advance, and even so, it was only three or five years longer That's all.
If the emperor had known the result earlier, perhaps he would not have agreed to Yang Heng's conditions so easily.
It has to be said that Yang Heng is very satisfied with this situation deep in his heart. An old man who is delirious and weak can no longer play tricks in secret, but when he saw the majestic father in the past, sitting alone in Yangning Under the big locust tree in the small garden of the palace, a faint sadness rose in his heart.
He is different from Gan Sui. In his dusty memory, there are still the happy imprints of his father, mother and concubine together, and the beautiful picture of his father hugging him and laughing when he was a child. It was replaced by indifference and resentment.
The father allowed the queen to kill his mother and concubine, and now he has received retribution. All the grievances and unhappiness have been wiped away, and all that is left is loneliness and depression.
He won the throne, and the revenge of his mother and concubine has been avenged, but the short-lived happiness in this empty palace can't come back. lonely.
However, such depression is just a flash and then left behind. For Yang Heng, now is just the beginning. He has too many things to worry about, and it is too early to hurt the spring and autumn.
After briefly asking Emperor Lei about his physical condition, Yang Heng ordered a few words to take care of him, and got up to leave.
The emperor suddenly muttered to himself: "Painting, painting, where are my paintings?"
Both Eunuch Lei and Yang Heng guessed that the painting in his mouth referred to the portrait that was once hung in the small building behind his bedroom, Eunuch Lei said with a wry smile: "Yes, yes, this old slave will go and find the painting for you, Your Majesty." come out."
Yang Heng looked at him, not knowing whether he was really thinking about people or whether he was still thinking about detoxification, he thought for a while and sighed slightly: "I will send the portrait later."
Eunuch Lei's heart moved, didn't the painting already burnt? However, no matter how many questions he had in his mind, he didn't dare to ask them out, so he nodded quickly in response.
Those two paintings belonged to the mothers of Yang Heng and Gan Sui. Of course, it was impossible to actually burn them. The next day, Yang Heng took the portrait of his mother and concubine and sent it to him. When the emperor saw the portrait, he smiled like a child. , but after being happy for a moment, he frowned again and said, "There is one more picture!"
Kansui happened to come to take the emperor's pulse today, and he frowned impatiently when he heard this, and said, "Insatiable greed, only this picture!"
The emperor was taken aback by his drinking, but he didn't give up, and murmured: "There is one more... and..."
Yang Heng looked at Gan Sui and said: "He is already like this, so what if you give him the portrait, anyway, you have two of those paintings."
Gan Sui snorted disdainfully, "He deserves it too?!"
Yang Heng said calmly: "If he didn't have feelings for his aunt, how could he be poisoned so easily? The past is over, he is already like this... He is our father after all."
Gan Sui didn't want to pay attention to it, but when he thought of the portrait of his mother, he thought of Bai Fuling. One of the two portraits had already been given to Bai Fuling as a betrothal gift.
The little girl was forced to reluctantly accept the dowry, but she is still angry with him now. Even though he climbed over the wall and sneaked into her room every night, she still refused to forgive him. I feel a little sympathy for my father who has always looked down on me.
Forget it, it’s just a painting!
Gan Sui felt the emperor's obviously frivolous pulse, frowned, and nodded reluctantly: "I'll send someone to send the painting later."
The two brothers were talking when Princess Antai came.
During these days when the emperor was seriously ill, she was in the palace to take care of various matters in the harem, and to take care of the emperor, especially when Yang Heng was preparing to ascend the throne, she got a lot of help.
When Princess Antai saw Yang Heng and Gan Sui sitting beside the emperor's bed, she suddenly had a sore nose and couldn't tell what she was feeling. She knew about Gan Sui's life experience. She had dealings with Concubine Yue and Gan Qinglan back then, and she admired these two outstanding women even more when she was a girl. She didn't know the cause of the emperor's strange disease, so the scene before her It looks very warm.
Gan Sui didn't have any feelings for this princess aunt, but he knew that the Bai family had a very good relationship with her, so he restrained himself a bit, nodded slightly to her, handed the prescription to Mr. Lei, got up and left.
Princess Antai is not a person who sticks to etiquette, but she is still not used to Kansui's indifference, and her impression of him inevitably diminishes.
She walked to the bedside and looked at her sluggish brother, who was still the same, not showing signs of improvement, holding a scroll and muttering to herself, she couldn't help but asked a little strangely: "What is this?"
Yang Heng held her a cup of tea with his own hands, and replied, "It's a portrait of my concubine."
"No wonder..." Princess Antai smiled when she thought of the soft and pleasant woman like the spring breeze in the past.
The two aunts and nephews talked a lot about the past, and when they saw that the emperor was drowsy, they got up and retreated outside the palace. Yang Heng personally sent Princess Antai for a stroll back to Yilan Palace. The accompanying Eunuch Wen knew that the two of them had something to discuss, so he took the initiative to wink at the eunuch and female officer beside him, and followed him ten steps behind.
"Auntie, did you mention to Ling'er what I asked you last time?" Yang Heng asked in a low voice, holding Princess Antai's arm.
Princess Antai smiled wryly: "You clearly know that Ling'er's ambition is not here, so why bother..."
Yang Heng pursed his lips, and said: "I know she doesn't want to enter the palace as a concubine, I just want her to be closer to me on the day I ascend the throne, and I won't force her or anything."
"She and your elder brother Kansui..." Princess Antai couldn't continue. She grew up watching Yang Heng, so her heart naturally gravitated toward him. Compared with the gentle, courteous, and considerate Crown Prince of Qi State... She really doesn't understand why Bai Fuling would give up Yang Heng in favor of Gansui.
Even if she didn't like the restrained life in the palace and didn't want to serve a husband with other concubines, Yang Heng also expressed his willingness to marry her alone as the queen and not accept other concubines. This kind of sincerity is more than enough.
In the future, she will be the only queen in the palace, so she can decide what matters
However, Princess Antai knew better that matters of affection should not be forced, so her heart ached for her nephew even more.
She thought for a while and said, "Forget it, I'll personally invite their mother and daughter into the palace."
Yang Heng happily said: "Thank you, Auntie!"
"You are as infatuated as your mother and concubine, and you don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing."
As soon as Bai Fuling heard that Princess Antai wanted to invite their mother and daughter to the palace, she knew that the nineteenth was Yang Heng's meaning. She was also very interested in seeing the enthronement ceremony of the ancient emperor, so she readily agreed.
Mu Peilan had to take care of her two sons and was inconvenient to leave, so Princess Antai allowed Bai Guo to enter the palace with Bai Fuling.
Because Yang Heng has been assassinated many times recently, the people in the palace have been thoroughly sorted out by Princess Antai. The emperor's concubines and the eunuchs and maids who serve them have been ordered not to move around at will, and now it is Yang Heng who has the final say, even if someone It is also very difficult to attack Bai Fuling.
As for Yang Heng, even though he was interested in Bai Fuling, he would not commit any deviant behavior towards her in public or private. So the Bai family thought twice and agreed.
That night, when Gan Sui heard the news and touched Bai Fuling's room, his face was as dark as the bottom of a pot. He held her down and asked, "Why did you agree to go to the palace? You know that boy Yang Heng has bad intentions for you, and you Are you sincerely trying to make me angry?"
Bai Fuling unceremoniously rolled her eyes at him: "You think too much, I just went to watch the excitement."
"That's not allowed! Who knows if that boy Yang Heng will take the opportunity... Hmph!"
"You're fine, don't judge others by yourself." Bai Fuling pushed him, this guy didn't know how big he was and how much he weighed on her.
"I judge others by myself? How dare he belittle you in front of me!" Gan Sui became more and more angry as he spoke.
Bai Fuling wasn't in the mood to explain and appease him at all. She already knew how to deal with Kansui. Reasoning is a waste of time, except for what he likes to hear, other reasons are bullshit!
So she didn't say anything, raised her hand to hook his neck and pulled his neck down, bit his lower lip and sucked it hard, and smiled lazily: "But I like to treat you lightly!"
Under the bright moonlight, Kansui's face flushed slightly, and his eyes that were originally full of anger instantly lit up amazingly.
"Do you want to be Haifushi or Gansui?" Bai Fuling asked with a smile, with a provocative expression on her arrogant face.
When Haifushi can kiss Fangze, when Kansui may be thrown out of bed, there is no need to choose.
Gan Sui stared fixedly at Bai Fuling, wanting to bend down to kiss her slightly curved lips as if bewitched.
Bai Fuling pushed him away with one hand, took advantage of the opportunity to overthrow him on the bed, took the opportunity to press him on top of him, giggled and said, "If you want to be a pumice stone, just be good to me."
These days, in terms of the intimate relationship between the two, Gan Sui has long been "sexed" by Bai Fuling so that he loses his temper. He falls asleep with his sweetheart in his arms every night, but most of the time he can only slightly satisfy his desires. If he agrees, he will not dare to forcefully ask for sex again.
He is a normal man who has tasted sex, and this feeling of being able to see it but often not eating it is really terrible, but he doesn't want to make Bai Fuling angry again, so he can only try his best to endure it.
It's not that he didn't think that what he couldn't see was pure, but the feeling of falling asleep with his sweetheart in his arms was so good, he only had the terrible feeling of enduring this pain and being happy, tormenting every night.
It was rare that Bai Fuling was willing to take the initiative to get close to him today, how could he be willing to give up such a great opportunity? Immediately forgot all jealousy and jealousy, and worked hard to be molested and frivolous.
After some lingering love, Bai Fuling tidied up the big devil so submissively that the big devil was so relaxed physically and mentally that he completely forgot about asking the teacher for his crime.
For him, Bai Fuling's actions are more convincing than all words - if he didn't like him, how could he take the initiative to make out with him
Three days before Yang Heng ascended the throne, Princess Antai came to pick Bai Fuling into the palace in person, and her two daughters also accompanied her. Although the palace was already under Yang Heng's control, Bai Fuling had accidents in the palace many times. Princess Antai really didn't dare to take it lightly, so she specially called her two daughters to accompany her to make sure nothing would go wrong.
Princess Conglong was married a year ago, and Princess Yingluo was also planning to get married half a month after the enthronement ceremony. The three women reunited after a long absence, and couldn't help but ask about Bai Fuling's marriage. Bai Fuling just smiled and perfunctory. The woman hesitated to speak for several times, but finally endured and did not bring up this topic again.
Yang Heng's enthronement ceremony was held on the morning of the first day of August. The main ceremony was held in the Tianji Hall, the largest palace in the palace. The Tianji Hall was decorated more solemnly and festively. The Jiaofang Division arranged a "Zhonghe Shaoyue" for two hundred people on both sides of Danbi. The whole ceremony was accompanied by music, which was very lively.
Bai Guo used the half-bucket water disguise technique she learned from Bai Shao to carefully modify the appearance of Bai Fuling and the two princesses, and put on court ladies' costumes to watch the excitement in a corner of the hall. Cong Long and Ying Luo would never dare to have such a bold idea. Bai Fuling was invited by Yang Heng to watch the ceremony. With her in the lead, how could the two girls miss the opportunity to watch the world's largest ceremony.
The enthronement ceremony cannot be completed in one day. On the morning of the second day of August, Yang Heng, who had just become the new king, sent four elders of the clan, together with four respected old ministers and more than a hundred officials who were selected to represent the common people. They went to the ancestral temple and several important places of worship outside the capital to pay homage to the ancestors of heaven and earth. Accompanied by the Minister of Rites, Yang Heng knew the Supreme Emperor and bowed to him. The Minister of Rites read the last imperial edict of the former emperor—Zen bit edict.
Although the emperor looked sleepy, the swelling had subsided anyway, and he looked much more refreshed than the pig-headed face that had been soaked in water for a few days a few months ago. Many old officials nodded secretly after seeing it. In order to usurp the throne, the rumor that Yang Heng colluded with wandering doctors in the rivers and lakes to murder the emperor's father suddenly collapsed.
After paying homage to the Supreme Emperor and accepting the edict of the Zen position, Yang Heng put on the most solemn gown and crown, and went out of the Meridian Gate in person to start his journey of worshiping the ancestors of heaven and earth. Waiting for a few onlookers couldn't help but feel tired for Yang Heng—the job of the emperor is still a heavy physical labor!
In the end, he returned to the palace, accepted the worship of all officials, and read out the imperial edict. After a round of ceremony, the ceremony was completed until Jin Wuxi sank.
Bai Fuling stood in the band of the Jiaofang Division, watching Yang Heng, who was dressed in a gorgeous royal crown, slowly stepped off the dragon chair and left the Tianji Hall surrounded by many guards and eunuchs, both happy for him and sad for him.
From today onwards, he is the Supreme Being in the world. From today onwards, the responsibilities he has to shoulder will be extremely heavy.
I hope he can not forget his original intention and overcome all obstacles to fulfill his wish to revitalize the Qi State.