But Queen Duan said: "When did you see it?"
The prince said: "My son is stupid. It wasn't until you made the decision to deal with the concubines in the fifth brother's house that you made some guesses. Looking back on what happened that day, there is nothing you don't understand. of?"
At this point, he choked up and couldn't continue: "That day, my father was angry and attacked the fourth child. You followed the trend, assuming that you knew that my father would not live long, so you urged him and us children to go together. When you are maintaining your health and taking care of yourself, in fact, at that time, you will know that it is you who is really short-lived, right?"
Empress Duan smiled instead: "You child, you live so clearly."
She was smiling, but the prince was heartbroken: "It's funny that I'm so stupid that I didn't realize it. It wasn't until you and dad were angry about the treatment of those people in the fifth brother's house that I reacted. Come on, if you hadn't known that my father would let the palace concubine be buried a hundred years later, how could you have said something like 'if you die in front of me, will you also need a rope to strangle me' in anger!"
Empress Duan burst into tears when she heard this, and said with a wry smile: "Your father is very murderous. It's okay if I didn't know about it in my previous life. Now that I know about it in this life, how can I watch him commit such murderous crimes?"
"After all, I also have selfish motives. I know that the concubines want to fight for a future for their children, so they often make small moves in private. I can actually control them, but I don't."
She shed tears and said: "Since the King of Qin and King Wei, your father has hardly set up eyes and ears in the harem. After all, there are many women in this place, which is inconvenient, and he also believes me. I have never done anything right in my life. The only thing that can't be done about him is this..."
"As Brother Wen said, the royal family has produced too many cruel and lawless clansmen who have killed countless people. But your father, if he knows that King Yin has not been taken away by the demon, he is indeed his biological son. My son, I will keep him no matter what."
""Shang Shu" said: The emperor is the parent of the people and considers him the king of the world. And the queen is not only the spouse of the emperor, but also the mother of the people of the world. How can the people she loves and protects be limited to one family and one surname? ?”
Empress Duan reluctantly sat up straight and asked her son: "Is it a good thing to kill the lawless King Yin and wake up many clans?"
The prince shed tears and nodded: "Yes."
"I just feel sorry for your dad."
Empress Duan lay back heavily, breathing heavily, but her eyes sparkled: "However, I heard that my posthumous title in my previous life was Empress Xiaoci... This should probably be what Empress Xiaoci should do, right? .”
Chapter 180
As a queen, or simply as a person, Empress Duan will not regret the choice she made, but at the same time, she can't help feeling guilty towards her husband.
In particular, she knew that a big factor in her ability to successfully accomplish this was because her husband trusted her enough.
This undoubtedly further deepened the suffering in her heart.
The prince held his mother's hand and persuaded her in a gentle voice: "Mother, why do you torture yourself for something that cannot be changed? What happened to King Yin is out of public motives, not private anger. You really don't need to feel so guilty. Responsible. As for dad..."
He lowered his voice slightly: "To be honest, you are bedridden now, who are you most worried about? Compared to King Yin, dad only hopes that you are safe and sound."
Empress Duan sighed and said: "Of course I know that if I tell him the whole story, he will only express words of relief in order to dispel my worries, just like I know that even if he really does this, he will still feel sad in his heart. It is difficult to have peace of mind. Things in this world are difficult to have both ways. Even though we are in heaven, how can we violate it!"
Zhu Di also understood her thoughts and put it more delicately - this is called too much moral pressure and too high a moral bottom line. Although he knows that what he is doing is good and the right thing, as long as he keeps silent, no one will know. , but she was the only one who couldn't pass her own level.
And thinking about it from another angle, isn't it because the feelings for her husband are too deep?
That's why I feel guilty because of this deception, and even feel sick with worry.
well.
He sighed in his heart: You can't hide your love for someone.
Then there was a "crash" sound, and the curtain he was hiding in was pulled open from the outside, and then the prince picked up the collar and carried him out with one hand.
Zhu Di: "Hey? Daddy, daddy! Put me down quickly!"
Queen Duan coughed and looked this way: "Brother Ying, why are you here?"
Zhu Di smiled awkwardly.
The prince looked at him with a straight face: "What did you hear?"
Zhu Di said: "I heard everything Dad didn't want others to hear."
The prince raised his hand as if to strike, but Zhu Di quickly ran to Queen Duan: "Grandmother, look at him!"
Empress Duan stretched out her arms to protect him: "If you have something to say, why don't you scare him?"
The prince snorted coldly: "You are so sneaky at a young age, sneaking into the palace to eavesdrop on people, you should be beaten!"
Queen Duan said: "Isn't he doing it for your own good?"
At this point, she reacted and said with a wry smile: "Okay, you two, father and son, are of the same mind, come here to attack the son's shield with the son's spear, and use my words to calm my heart!"
Zhu Di chuckled twice, and then said sternly: "Grandma Huang just did what she should do, why should she want to abandon the world? I feel sorry for Grandpa Huang, so I want him to lose his wife who has been with him for many years. ? Is this reasonable? Don’t you think this is a double blow to Grandpa Huang? "
Queen Duan was thoughtful.
The prince brought the medicine bowl over, and Zhu Di took it in his hand and fed it to her diligently.
Queen Duan lowered her head and said a few words, her expression slightly relaxed.
But I heard the eldest grandson continue: "You also know Grandpa Huang's temper. You and my father are the only ones in the world who can persuade me. If you leave, my father will be alone. What should I do next? You have to eat well." Take good care of your body and strive to stay behind Grandfather Huang, and you have to survive him..."
Queen Duan choked on the soup in her throat.
The prince's brows twitched, and he raised his foot and kicked his son on the butt: "What nonsense are you talking about!"
Zhu Di rubbed his butt and jumped to the side: "We have something to talk about. Dad, please ask yourself, which one, Grandfather Emperor or Grandmother Emperor, will take the first step? Is the remaining one more difficult to deal with?"
Queen Duan: "..."
Prince: "..."
The prince wanted to kick him again.
He gritted his teeth and said, "Are you allowed to say this casually?"
Zhu Di shrugged his shoulders: "The truth is easy to tell, but it doesn't sound right. Dad, Grandmother, you two should think about it carefully!" After saying that, he slipped out briskly.
Queen Duan and the Prince looked at each other with complicated expressions. After a few moments, they both laughed dumbly.
…
What Zhu Di said in the palace was indeed audacious, but it was indeed useful to Queen Duan.
She originally suffered from heart disease. After her worries were gone, she took medicine on time and her body recovered quickly.
The emperor may know where his old wife's illness is, or maybe he doesn't know. Zhu Di didn't pay too much attention to it. Let the couple handle their affairs by themselves!
Prince Yan and his wife went to sea in June of the previous year and wandered for two years. They did not return to Beijing until the autumn of the third year.
Of course they didn't just bring back people, there were countless spices, wood, gems and even all kinds of rare things that were only available abroad. What shocked the emperor the most was that King Yan announced that he had found Qilin overseas!
And I have brought it back!
Emperor: (?⊙ω⊙`)!
Wow!
Qilin ai!
He was very happy. Although he had not received the real thing yet, he was busy talking to the people around him: "The fourth child will be back in a few days. Then you will go too, all of you, to see what the legendary Qilin is like." What does it look like!”
Zhu Di: "..."
Help, my toes are digging into the ground!
The damage in the space is still being exported.
Li Shimin copied his hands and said, "Hey, Qilin, why don't you have a special banquet to celebrate?"
Li Yuanda folded his hands and said, "Hey, Qilin, shouldn't this be announced to the world and let everyone know?"
Liu Che copied his hands and said, "Hey, Qilin... By the way, are you Qilin serious?"
Ying Zheng: “I don’t know if it’s serious or not, but it’s okay to draw it to make future generations laugh.”
Zhu Di: "..."
Help me, help me, someone will save me!
Why is it that others are the ones who got everything wrong, but I am the one who suffers the embarrassment!
The key is that he still can't expose this scam (?) - how does the emperor's grandson know that this is not Qilin?
Zhu Di completed the whole ceremony with a dull face, which made King Yan, who had been drifting on the sea for a long time and had a dark face, a little strange: "What's wrong with Brother Ying? I feel like I haven't spoken much!"
Princess Yan smiled and said: "Didn't you see that the children all like Qilin? They lined up to go and have a look. Brother Ying is the eldest grandson after all, why don't you set an example? And he is getting older. Out of the overall situation, Think about it, I'm afraid it won't make people think that the Emperor's grandson likes these rare things."
Zhu Di was covered with gold.
King Yan was filled with emotion when he heard this: "I was still young when I left, but in a blink of an eye, I turned out to be an adult, very much like my elder brother back then!"
Then he quietly prepared a surprise for his nephew. A few days later, he held it in his hand and handed it over with a mysterious look on his face: "Open it and take a look."
Zhu Di: "?"
WTF?
He unfolded it and took a look——
Why do you want to make a painting of me holding a giraffe? ! !
Liu Che was delighted: "You were so careful. I was afraid that future generations wouldn't recognize it, so I even wrote the name of the great grandson Huangfuying on the bottom!"
Zhu Di: "..."
King Yan proudly patted his nephew on the shoulder: "You're happy, you're welcome! The original has been archived, and this is the copy. Keep it yourself."
After saying that, he didn't even give his nephew a chance to thank him, and left with a strong sense of satisfaction.
Zhu Di: "..."
Li Shimin: "For future generations: The great grandson of the Ming Emperor was fooled!"
Li Yuanda: "For future generations: The Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty mistakenly mistook a giraffe for a unicorn!"
Liu Che: "For future generations: Emperor Ming is so silly and cute!"
Ying Zheng: "Later generations: Emperor Ming and Qilin..."
Zhu Yuanzhang could only raise his hands to cover his face.
Zhu Di was furious: "Shut up, is this what a serious emperor can say?!"
Everyone burst into laughter, and the space was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.
The second year after the King of Yan and his wife returned to the capital, the Zhou people went north and returned, but the King of Yan and his wife did not stay in the capital for too long - the soaring eagle could not adapt to the easy life.
In the spring of the next year, they went south to Fujian again. In the early summer of that year, they set sail.
In this year, the capital did not undergo too drastic changes. However, when future generations study this period of history, they will find that many political strategies that continued the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty were formulated during this period. At that time, these may not have counted. What a stormy sea, but later people took a closer look and found that all these are spring breezes turning into rain, moistening things silently.
