life in a hurry

Chen Feiqing was about to reply when he heard King Ning say: "When people go outside, they also need food, clothing, housing and transportation. People in the palace also have clothing, food, housing and transportation. In the palace, a small palace eunuch also has a room and a bed. Outside, A beggar doesn't even have a shed to cover his head."

Chen Feiqing shook her head and said: "Uncle said that, it seems that everyone is a beggar when they go out."

King Ning tapped his hand with a fan angrily: "You, the older you get, the less fun you get. When you were young, it was much more fun. Why are you getting more and more dumbfounded now?"

Chen Feiqing made a grimace: "You have to ask my father, he taught it."

King Ning said: "Your father always thinks that this king taught you badly. His son blames this king for not teaching you well, and he can say such things."

Chen Feiqing observed his words and asked, "Why did you and my father quarrel again?"

"Is this king a quarrelsome person? Can you quarrel with your father?" Ning Wang was still a little annoyed.

Chen Feiqing thought to herself that the two of you are really not quarreling, and when two people disagree, one sneered and disdain to argue, while the other said that blood should be spattered three feet to prove his loyalty.

Fortunately, Chen Feiqing knew that the two of them had no selfish intentions, otherwise it would have been easy to believe what the government and the opposition said that they were both fighting for power and planning to rebel.

However, the two of them seemed to believe that the other party had this idea. Several times, King Ning hinted that "this king is alone, without a wife or children", while Chen Feiqing's father said "so there is no relationship." No need to worry about failure.”

Fortunately, the quarrel was closed behind closed doors. There were only four people at the scene, two of them were arguing there, and Chen Feiqing and the emperor were on the sidelines to persuade them to fight. Those who persuaded each other would always have to go down the stairs, so the final fault was always on Chen Feiqing.

Chen Feiqing didn't know which god she had offended, so she could only endure the humiliation and admit that it was her own fault for being inexplicable.

Alas, the underprivileged.

The emperor said: "There is no me."

Oh, vulnerable individuals.

Chen Feiqing was extremely wronged.

Thinking of the past now, Chen Feiqing couldn't help laughing.

The two had already arrived at the duty room, the little eunuch lit the candle, served tea, and then retreated respectfully.

Occasionally, the emperor would talk with his courtiers late at night, and it was inconvenient for the courtiers to go home, so they rested here.It happened that no one was here today, so King Ning and Chen Feiqing came.

Chen Feiqing held the tea in his arms to warm his hands, and heard King Ning continue: "Speaking of what I just said, do you think it's better outside?"

Chen Feiqing thought for a while, and said: "Let's go outside. There is indeed wealth in the palace, but there is also outside. I think wealth and honor are those things, houses, power, women, jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings. It's almost enough, and there are too many." Means nothing."

King Ning smiled and said, "It would be fine if everyone thought like you. But I hope you don't continue to think like this."

Chen Feiqing looked at him in surprise: "Why?"

King Ning said: "If one day, when the country comes and needs you to give up the freedom outside and have to give you the wealth and honor of the palace, I hope you will not reject it."

Chen Feiqing was stunned, looking at him through the candlelight, only felt that the candlelight was very flickering.

After a moment, he came back to his senses and hurriedly looked out the window.

King Ning calmly said: "You don't need to look, I dare to tell you here, no one will hear it except you."

Chen Feiqing looked at him in shock: "Uncle—do you know what you are talking about?"

King Ning took a sip of tea and said, "I know what I'm talking about, but do you know what I'm talking about?"

Of course you know, you are instigating me to rebel? !

Chen Feiqing didn't know what to say for a moment.

Seeing his expression, King Ning sighed, and said, "I didn't ask you to start a rebellion."

Chen Feiqing asked: "Then what do you mean? I haven't been good at reading since I was a child, so don't play tricks on me."

King Ning sighed again, and said: "The emperor has no son, but there is not much time left. Even if he has a young son at this time, he must not be able to stand, otherwise the world will become the queen mother's world. Fei Qing, this king came from Jiangnan. Hurry back, Jiangnan has always been a rich place, and five out of ten of the tax money deposited in the treasury every year comes from several cities in the south of the Yangtze River. , just took three or two, Feiqing, who do you think would dare to do this?"

Chen Feiqing has always been traveling between the capital and the frontier, and is not very familiar with the area in the south of the Yangtze River. Now that he heard what King Ning said, he could guess it.

He asked in a low voice, "A member of the Yao family?"

King Ning nodded.

Chen Feiqing remembered the emperor's worries, and sighed: "The emperor must have known about this."

King Ning took another sip of tea and said, "He must know about this kind of thing."

Chen Feiqing thought and thought, and suddenly remembered: "At the beginning of the year, I remembered that some officials in the south seemed to have died, but I didn't think much about it. At that time, I would say that they were killed by Jiangyang robbers when they were patrolling the province—"

Seeing King Ning's silence, he suddenly figured it out: "Uncle——"

King Ning rubbed the edge of the teacup with his thumb, and looked at him: "The Emperor knows about this."

The implication is to acquiesce in this matter.

King Ning said again: "This king has no choice but to do this."

Chen Feiqing nodded, sat next to him, and said, "I know. Didn't the queen mother respond?"

King Ning said with a smile: "Of course there is a reaction, but this king is the brother of the late emperor. She has a Shangfang sword and an iron certificate of the alchemy book at home. She dares to check it, but she dare not find it. She has done a lot of things in private, but This king's life is here, if the dogs she raises can bite this king, just go ahead and bite."

Chen Feiqing sighed again, and said: "No wonder I feel that the emperor is getting more and more worried. You and the queen mother are his few remaining blood relatives. No wonder he. He didn't tell me, maybe he also No one else can say it, they are all holding back in their hearts."

King Ning looked at him deeply for a while, and said, "This is why I said these things to you tonight."

Chen Feiqing was stunned, and immediately waved his hand: "I think you didn't say what I said before, and I haven't heard it, let's stop here. My surname is Chen, and your surname is Liang. What's more, the wild ginseng has also been found now. Your Majesty must be able to maintain a healthy body."

King Ning frowned: "If it can't be cured—"

"Uncle Ning!" Chen Feiqing slowed down and said, "He must be cured well. If wild ginseng doesn't work, we will find other medicine for him, and he will be cured well."

King Ning was silent for a while, and said softly, "Sorry."

Chen Feiqing shook her head: "Now that the external troubles have just disappeared, and the internal troubles have arisen again, no wonder you think too much."

King Ning lowered his head and smiled: "The foreign troubles may disappear."

Perhaps touched by King Ning's words, Chen Feiqing dreamed back to her childhood shortly after falling asleep.

The prince when he was a child was really a well-deserved prince, perhaps he could be regarded as a model for children all over the world. He was as cheerful as Chen Feiqing, but he was more eager to learn than Chen Feiqing. Whether it was poetry or horsemanship, he was among the children of princes and nobles. He is far ahead, and what is even more rare is that he is kind by nature, and he has never been arrogant about it.

It was also because of this kindness that what happened later.

Chen Feiqing remembered that it was winter, and that winter was extremely cold, and the heavy snow did not stop for half a month.In the past half a month, Taifu broke his leg and missed classes. Chen Feiqing was locked at home and read books for half a month. His face was blue, and he thought he might as well go to school. Will serve directly at home.

Half a month later, as soon as the snow stopped, Chen Feiqing finally lifted the ban, and hurried to the palace to play with the prince.

The crown prince is not as suffocated as he is, but he has long wanted to go out to the palace for activities. After all, in the past half month, everyone is afraid that he will step on the snow and break his leg like the prince, so they will not let him go out.

The two of them ran around the palace.

Running around, I wanted to invite a few more people to run together, Qiqi walked towards the womb of the three emperors who were similar in age.

The third prince belonged to a court lady, and that court lady was not favored at all. It was only after the emperor was drunk that he conceived overnight that he became a concubine, and he never took care of him after that.It was the third prince's own hard work in the past two years, and he was repeatedly praised by the tutor in the school, which made the emperor look at him twice, and occasionally went to the third emperor's uterus.

The three princes, mother and son are not favored, usually there are not many servants in the palace to concentrate on guarding, but today it is especially deserted.

Both the prince and Chen Feiqing thought it was the eunuchs and maids who were lazy to take advantage of the cold weather, so they didn't think much about it, they went straight to the back window of the third prince's bedroom, and hid in the grass to meow like a cat.

This is the secret code between them and the third prince, because the third prince's mother is timid and sensitive, forcing the third prince to study all day long, and doesn't like the third prince to go out to play, let alone let the third prince get too close to the prince and Chen Feiqing.

In the palace, apart from the crown prince and Chen Feiqing, the third prince has no other friends or pleasures, and stays in the room all the time to study, so he almost always opens the window to respond when he is called, even if he occasionally meets If his mother is here, he will find an excuse to open the window to give a reminder.

But today, the two meowed several times, but there was no movement from that window.

Chen Feiqing said: "He has something to do, so he is not in the room."

The prince nodded: "Then shall we wait or come here later?"

Chen Feiqing thought for a while: "It's too cold here, let's go back first, I guess if he's not in the room, he won't be able to come back for a while, later you will be freezing and my father will be able to peel my skin. "

The prince pushed him with a smile: "Don't always say your father is so scary, he is doing it for your own good. If I freeze, won't you freeze?"

Chen Feiqing scratched her head: "I was just complaining to you, and I didn't really have any animosity against him. Anyway, let's go play with us first, and come to him later. It's so boring to wait."

The two walked back grinning, and within two steps, they heard the sound of breaking things in the room, followed by a short cry.

The footsteps of the two people paused at the same time, and they glanced at each other.

The prince raised his hand to stop Chen Feiqing from acting rashly, and lowered his voice: "Go quietly, don't make a sound."

Chen Feiqing nodded and followed behind him.

The two tiptoed to the window, and seeing that the window was tightly closed, Chen Feiqing licked his fingers and pressed lightly on the corner of the window paper, and soon a small hole was formed.

The prince took a look at him, followed suit, and pressed a small hole in the same way.

Chen Feiqing smiled shyly at him, and followed him to the cave to have a look.

But before Chen Feiqing could see anything, the prince covered his eyes and mouth.

Chen Feiqing was shocked, but did not resist.

The prince held him and dragged him a few steps aside, and he followed suit.

After walking a little farther, the prince let go of him, untied the robe on his body and stuffed it into his hands, and said eagerly: "Run to the imperial study room quickly, just say that I played hide-and-seek with you, but there is no one there, and only found me next to the cold palace." If you don’t dare to go in because the Leng Palace is haunted by ghosts, let my father send someone to find me. Make the matter bigger and let the whole palace know that I’m missing.”

Seeing him like this, Chen Feiqing asked suspiciously: "What's wrong?"

The Royal Study Room and the Leng Palace are far away from here, what is this for?

The prince whispered: "Listen to me, Fei Qing, go quickly."

The crown prince has always been the leader of everyone, and Chen Feiqing is also used to listening to him. He didn't ask much, turned around and ran away, but was grabbed by the crown prince again.

The prince hesitated for a moment, and said: "Feiqing, remember, you have never been here today, you and I have been playing hide-and-seek since we came out of my palace, you have only been to the Imperial Garden and Lenggong, you have never been here By the way, do you remember? Anyone who asks you, you say that, even if your father threatens to kill you, you insist on saying that."

Chen Feiqing was startled: "What's the matter?"

But the prince pushed him forward and said, "Go!"

Chen Feiqing looked suspiciously at the third prince's window.

The prince pushed him again: "I tell you to go quickly!"

Seeing that his eyes were red with anxiety, Chen Feiqing vaguely sensed something tricky in that room, and said, "What's wrong in the room? I'll stay, you go."

The prince became anxious, punched him in the face, and cursed: "I tell you to hurry up, no one dares to touch me, you are the one who will die!"

Chen Feiqing was even more puzzled, but she gritted her teeth and decided to listen to him, turned around and ran towards the imperial study.

Chen Feiqing didn't see what happened later, he just heard what others said.

He heard that the third prince's mother was caught by Gong'e when she was committing adultery with the guards, and wanted to kill her, but accidentally slipped and was killed by herself.

The identity of the third prince was suspected, and it was found that he was not the emperor's biological son. The emperor was furious and wanted to beat him to death with a stick.

But the prince fell into the cold pool for some reason, and he was cured for a month after being fished out.

All these things happened that day.

Chen Feiqing tried her best to enter the palace again to meet the prince, and asked what happened that day.

The prince's face was pale, he held Chen Feiqing's hand and thought for a long time before he spoke: "Remember, this matter has nothing to do with you, you don't know anything."

Chen Feiqing said: "My father beat me for two days, I heard you and didn't say anything, but you have to tell me what happened."

The prince shook his head: "You do one more thing. The third brother was not beaten to death by the emperor. I hid him in my palace. He was wronged, but it is useless to say it at this time. You Go and talk in front of my father and mother, whatever you say, let mother and concubine go out of the palace to pray for me, the longer the better, she is not here, I will have the opportunity to avenge the third emperor's younger brother."

Chen Feiqing's mind became even more chaotic for a while, and said: "What is this all about? Why did Concubine Li—" He suddenly thought of the key point, and asked in shock, "Could it be that day——"

The prince shouted: "Shut up!"

Chen Feiqing stopped talking and looked at him suspiciously.

The prince slowed down, it seemed that he wanted to cry, but he held back not to cry: "I know she did something wrong, but she is my mother."

After saying these words, Chen Feiqing understood everything.

He whispered: "The other day you saw Concubine Li was there, and you wanted to help, but because I was there, you were afraid that I would be hated by Concubine Li, so you asked me to leave."

The prince said: "There is no need to mention this matter again, Fei Qing, Concubine Yang is innocent, and the third brother is also innocent. Concubine Yang has gone, and I have to keep the third brother. It is darkest under the lamp, so I hid him in the But I can't hide him forever, or I have to go to the father to avenge him, or else, I have to send him out of the palace. I'll go to the father first to try, but the mother concubine she Not in the palace."

Chen Feiqing said: "Indeed, if she is in the palace, you will have difficulty moving."

The crown prince shook his head and said, "No, I want her to never return to the palace."

Chen Feiqing was startled: "Do you want to—"

"Of course not!" The crown prince laughed angrily, "She is my mother! But if the emperor thoroughly investigates this matter and pursues her, it is inevitable that she will suffer misfortune. This may be unfair to Concubine Yang, but as a son of man, I I really don't know what to do. After much deliberation, the only option is to let her leave the palace. Of course she won't, so after she leaves the palace to pray for me, I will send a letter to her, in which I It will explain everything, and she will know what she has to do."

Chen Feiqing hesitated to speak.

The prince worriedly warned: "You must remember that you didn't know anything that day, and it was impossible to know. The concubine mother would never kill me anyway. Everything she did was for me, but you are different. "

Chen Feiqing really didn't know what to say, after thinking about it, she could only hold the prince's hand tightly.

However, the third prince still died, he died from the poisoned food.

On the surface, the food was given to the prince, but the prince passed it on to the third prince who was hiding in the palace, but unexpectedly it was poisonous.

The third prince was dead, so it didn't matter to continue to hide it, the matter was made public.

The emperor did not blame the prince, but the matter of poisoning must be thoroughly investigated, and it was found out that it was aimed at the prince.

At the same time, the matter between the third prince and Concubine Yang also had a turning point. It turned out to be the same murderer who poisoned the prince. He blamed Concubine Li for one incident, and poisoned the crown prince, wanting to kill two birds with one stone.

After the incident, the nanny committed suicide in fear of crime.

Concubine Li was so distressed that she stayed in front of the prince's bed for a day and a night. After a day and a night, the prince suddenly became depressed and vomited blood.

Chen Feiqing woke up from the dream, staring at the dark top of the bed in a daze.

At that time, he and the prince were still very young, but now, thinking of this matter, they still don't know what to do.

People are far and near, and things are the same.Do the right thing, and don't do the wrong thing. This sentence is simple to say, but when it comes to tempering things, it is often embarrassing.

Although that incident happened around him, he didn't empathize with him after all. He didn't know how painful the prince was in making such a decision, so naturally he couldn't be sure what he would do if it was him.