The sky is getting dark, and there is no sunset at dusk today, just a dark cloud.
After evening, it started raining heavily in Cheng'an County.
In the Zhou family, Aunt Zhuang put away her clothes, went into the house and said to Aunt Zhou, "Madam, if the rain comes in time today, will it get you wet?"
Aunt Zhou put the baby in her hand into the cradle, "What a coincidence, it rained just after we got home."
Aunt Zhuang smiled and said, "That's good."
As she spoke, she pointed to several large boxes in the room and said, "By the way, madam, the caravan coming from the capital today brought some gifts for the Spring Festival."
Aunt Zhou walked to the box and opened it, only to find the children's clothes, shoes and socks inside.
She took out one and said with a smile: "Wan Chun is really thoughtful. Speaking of which, I miss them a little."
Aunt Zhuang smiled and said: "We will go to the capital to see them in the future."
Aunt Zhou stopped laughing and sighed, "I don't know when we can return to the capital." ?.?????.???
Aunt Zhuang replied: "Didn't the Emperor restore the woman's innocence some time ago?"
Aunt Zhou smiled wryly and shook her head: "Even if you return your innocence, you can't go back. The Queen is dead when she dies."
Aunt Zhuang was startled.
Aunt Zhou shook the cradle next to her, looked at the child inside, her eyes softened, "It would be nice not to be a queen. It would be nice if I could stay like this."
Aunt Zhuang softened her expression and said, "Madam is right."
In Aunt Zhou's mind, she was no longer a queen. The queen had already died when she was assassinated.
Or maybe earlier, she was already dead when she was relegated to the cold palace.
It rained for three days in a row.
Three days later, the weather cleared up, and the emperor actually bought a house opposite Zhou's house and lived there.
No one knew who he was, they just thought he was a businessman from other places.
His face was blackened, he wore a fake beard, and he was bent over, looking like an old man who had gone through many vicissitudes of life.
On the contrary, the third prince had a wife and daughter, and he looked in high spirits every day. He looked at them not as brothers, but as father and son.
Within these three days, the emperor investigated everything clearly.
It turns out that Zhou Ruiyuan and Zhou Feng are his sons.
They had been hiding it from him.
As for the third child, he hasn't found out where he is now.
When Zhou Zhao went to the military camp, Zhou Ruiyuan and his uncle specially kept a secret and gave him a new false identity.
Except for some confidants, no one in the military camp knew about his relationship with the Zhou family.
The emperor only thought that he was a brave upstart and did not notice at all that his relationship with Zhou Ruiyuan and Zhou Feng was unusual.
Now the emperor discovered the identity of the Zhou family and happened to exclude Zhou Zhao.
When he knew that Zhou Ruiyuan was the prince he cherished, the emperor was both happy and regretful.
I am happy that I actually have such a good son.
The regret is that he should not have killed the three of them, mother and son. Now that Zhou Ruiyuan has not mentioned his life experience at all in court, he must have not forgiven him yet.
The emperor was not in a hurry. He kept telling himself not to be reckless. He wanted to take them home generously and go back to the days when fathers were kind and sons were filial.
He specially wrote a secret letter to Eunuch Xu. In addition to asking him to continue to conceal his departure from the palace, he also asked him to take good care of Mr. Zhou and kill anyone who was harmful to them.
Eunuch Xu is one of the few people besides Eunuch Zhang who is loyal to the emperor.
He had a deep relationship with Eunuch Zhang. He originally wanted to retire and return home, letting Eunuch Zhang take over. But now that Eunuch Zhang is unconscious, he has to stay in the palace.
After Eunuch Xu received the secret letter, he was very surprised. It took a long time to digest the contents of the letter.
He followed what the emperor said and temporarily left the affairs of the court to the seventh prince to handle on the grounds that the emperor was seriously ill and recuperating.
When the Seventh Emperor received the news, he was flattered by the news and hurried to Zhou's house and found Zhou Ruiyuan.
"Brother, why do you think my father suddenly thinks so highly of me and asks me to supervise the country?"
Zhou Ruiyuan poured him a cup of tea and said slowly: "Looking around him now, you are the only one who can trust him."
The seventh prince touched the back of his head, smiled, and said, "That's right."
Du Wanchun brought the prepared food from the backyard and said, "How long has the emperor been sick?"
The seventh prince picked up a piece of pastry and ate it while replying: "I've been sick for about half a month."
Du Wanchun frowned slightly and said, "There is a problem. If I really have been ill for more than half a month, then there will be no uproar in the Imperial Hospital in the palace, but I don't seem to have heard of anything happening in the Imperial Hospital recently."
The Seventh Prince paused and immediately felt that the pastry in his hand was no longer fragrant.
"Sister-in-law, do you think my father is pretending to be ill?"
