"What's that mountain called?"
Zhan Changfeng's voice was not calm for her age, and even the questions were read as statements, with a bit of power.
She was just bored and asked casually, but the steward next to her kept mumbling, "Your Highness, please put on your cloak quickly. Looking at the snowy scene, if you can tell whether you are good or bad, how can I explain to the emperor and how to explain to the people?" , Oh, let’s see, where did the mountains come from? Our imperial city is located on a plain, Your Highness.”
"You're so presumptuous, you're trying to trick me." She paused slightly, then pressed her brows down, then relaxed them, slightly depressed.
The star-catching platform is a hundred feet high, standing in the imperial city, pointing to the sky. When looking up, one can pick the stars with one hand and see the mountains and rivers thousands of miles away.
The wind up here is also very strong, mixed with snow, and entangled with the flying gauze curtains, it looks like a wild scene.
When the words fell, a row of chamberlains holding heaters and cloaks all knelt down, shaking sieves in panic, and shouted, "Your Highness, calm down."
The manager was lying on the ground, with a few grains of snow floating on the black velvet beaded cloud-toe boots in front of him. He suppressed the urge to wipe away the cold sweat and rolled his eyes away from the white jade railing. He thought to himself that his memory for most of his life was correct. Where do the mountains come from in the Imperial City? Even if there are no mountains within three or four hundred miles outside the Imperial City, there are no mountains.
"Your Highness..." He couldn't figure out what the little ancestor was thinking, so he tried to say, "There are mountains, yes there are mountains. The villain just made a mouthful. Please punish me, Your Highness."
"Don't you think I'm lonely?" The corners of her mouth were slightly raised, but there was no smile, and she was sarcastic and indifferent.
Zhan Changfeng left the manager and looked at the others, "I'll ask you again, what is the name of that mountain?"
"Your Highness, calm down!" None of the people dared to raise their heads, their faces were almost touching the ground, for fear of making her angry.
Zhan Changfeng had no emotions at all, but this time they made them a little angry. She cast her gaze into the distance and saw a towering mountain. It seemed to be integrated with the heaven and earth, but it existed so clearly in this world. , you can feel its majestic momentum with just one glance.
It has always been there, from her babbling to reading poetry and essays, from her Weiyang Palace to the emperor's study, and every moment after she opened her eyes.
It was already a part of her life, as ordinary as the bricks and tiles of this imperial city, so much so that she forgot to ask its name.
Who would have thought that just by casually mentioning it now, she would actually tell her that there are no mountains.
So what was she seeing?
"Zero three!"
"My subordinates are here." The secret guard disappeared, and Yu responded hoarsely.
"Tell Gu what the name of that mountain is."
The wind and snow are getting stronger, the sky and the earth are vast and silent.
The always neat and tidy secret guard was a little hesitant now, "Master, there are no mountains in the Imperial City."
The steward was frightened and glanced at the Crown Prince secretly. Her expression was unpredictable. She was only nine years old, but even he, who had served her since childhood, could not guess what she was thinking.
"There are no mountains...that means there are really no mountains..."
The loneliness between her brows made the manager startled. Could it be that His Highness was really asking if there were any mountains?
Ouch, don’t hit the evil!
The steward hesitated, "Your Highness, what did you see?"
"Gu..." Zhan Changfeng slightly bent the middle finger of his right hand, his face gradually turned cold, and he fluttered his sleeves and robe, "Go back to the palace."
When he returned to the palace, Zhan Changfeng had a fever, which made him anxious both inside and outside the palace.
The old emperor was more anxious than her mother and concubine. When he saw his grandson in coma, he simply moved all the memorials to her Weiyang Palace for review, just to stay by her side and watch her at all times.
"How can you serve the prince? What's the use of you!" The old emperor was so angry that he had an asthma attack. The attendants quickly comforted his chest and stopped the imperial doctor who was about to leave.
The steward was about to cry but had no tears, "Your Majesty is wronged. His Highness's illness came on suddenly and he was fine when he went to sleep."
He thought of something and said in horror, "Your Highness once asked for the name of a mountain, but where did the mountain come from in the Imperial City? Could it be that His Highness has been involved in some evil spirit?"
"When did this happen?"
"Just before the fever," the steward cried while kowtowing, as if the prince was really possessed by evil spirits.
The old emperor was anxious and annoyed when he heard this, "I have issued a decree to summon monks and Taoists to the palace!"
Looking at ancient and modern times, few princes were so favored by the emperor. Even if they were favored, it was because of their talents, because their mothers and concubines were loved by others, or because they were lovable.
It's just that it's a little different coming to Zhan Changfeng. The old emperor completely regards her as his lifeblood.
In the eight hundred years of the Yin Dynasty, the old emperor's father's generation had begun to be turbulent, and it could be said that it was precarious.
The old emperor was good at painting and writing lyrics, but was sloppy in politics and military affairs. In his early years, his biggest expectation was that his son would grow up soon, so that he could give up his career as soon as possible and devote himself to the mountains and rivers.
Perhaps the Yi family's luck was ruined by the previous generations of wandering emperors, and they had few heirs, with only one male for three consecutive generations.
The old emperor finally gave birth to a son, but the son died of illness before he was seventeen, leaving only one son.
This son is Zhan Changfeng.
The old emperor cried loudly in front of the former prince's soul. This was the only heir to the throne of the Yi family. How should he face his ancestors!
The Yi family is going to have no descendants!
After crying, the old emperor stared at the belly of the former princess. There was still hope, there was still hope, his grandson was still there.
What the old emperor didn't know was that he had no descendants because the current prince was a woman.
I have to mention here that Zhan Changfeng’s mother-in-law, Li Yunqiu.
Li Yunqiu was born into a wealthy family, with hidden literary and military skills. However, the palace was crowded and the only thing she could do was love her children. When the former prince was buried, she stroked her tall and round belly and sighed. Whether it was for the country, the country, or herself, this child could only live in love. It's a male.
So Zhan Changfeng was born under such circumstances. Before the first loud cry could be heard, he became the prince and the future emperor of the Yin Dynasty.
The old emperor had hope. He changed his attitude of fishing in troubled waters in the first half of his life and tried to make great efforts. However, the Yin Dynasty's situation was like a sieve, which could not be repaired for a while.
Alas, it doesn't matter if he can't make up for it, he still has a grandson, and he is still his grandson's grandson.
This is very painful. Zhan Changfeng, twelve months old, happily sat in the arms of the old emperor with his fingers in his mouth and drooling, listening to the civil and military nonsense of the court.
He was forced to be literate at the age of three, read history books at the age of four, be surrounded by scholars from the Qing Dynasty at the age of five and study strategies for governing the world, learn the art of emperors at the age of six, help the old emperor approve memorials at the age of seven, and become a prince at the age of eight.
The official sign is that she used conspiracy to behead a traitorous official of the Yin Dynasty.
Warm blood rushed up the golden steps, splashed on her black crown, and was drowned in the shouts of "Your Highness is wise."
The snow was getting heavier and heavier that day, and when she left Taiqing Hall and arrived at the Star-catching Platform, she could only see blank white and mountains.
However, that mountain does not exist.
in nothingness
The two children curled up like babies, facing each other honestly, but one was sleeping peacefully and the other was awake.
"My surname is Yi and my name is Zhan. My grandfather gave me the title Changsheng. However, my mother-in-law said that Changsheng was too arrogant, so I chose the small character Changfeng. You are me, so I gave you half of the name. From now on, you are Zhan Changfeng and I am Yi. Immortality."
Zhan Changfeng caressed the face that was exactly the same as hers, and said in a faint tone, "You don't have to worry about anything..."
