Queen of the Lin family in the Red Chamber

The emperor and the empress have been husband and wife for more than 40 years. Although the emperor angered the empress for abolishing the crown prince, but...

It is often said that couples who come less often come to accompany each other, and the empress is the only person who can accompany the emperor into the imperial mausoleum. It is a bit ridiculous to talk about love with a man who is an emperor, but he has accumulated a lot of family affection with the empress over the years.

But the emperor didn't really want to see the empress now, after all, he just sent the two grandsons to her palace to recuperate. The two children were injured so badly, and he knew what the empress wanted to say.Rui Le has already been punished, and there is also a concubine Yu. The emperor hasn't figured out how to punish her, but the empress hasn't been out of Kunning Palace for a long time after all. The emperor sighed and announced her.

As soon as the queen came in, she knelt on the ground, weeping miserably, one after another, before she could say a word or two, she was interrupted by sobs.

Seeing her like this, the emperor was annoyed, distressed, and a little embarrassed. He stretched out his hand to pull the queen up and was afraid that she would make some unreasonable demands, but if he didn't pull her, the emperor would feel very sad.

With great difficulty, the Queen's cries subsided, and she said, "Your Majesty, this concubine would like to see Rui Yong."

"No!" The emperor subconsciously refused, "I personally ordered him to be imprisoned, you..."

The queen cried loudly again, "Your Majesty, the concubine has only one son and one daughter, and the daughter died early, leaving Ruiyong alone." The queen fell to the ground and cried bitterly, "You don't know that the concubine saw those two concubines today. My child... Chenqie's heart aches, Chenqie is worried about Ruiyong."

"Your Majesty, the concubine can go there in the dead of night and change into the maid's clothes. I just ask Your Majesty to let the concubine see Ruiyong." The queen knelt on the ground, her forehead pressed against the ground, her whole body trembling as she sobbed. The emperor immediately softened his heart.

"Oh... you wait for my arrangement."

The queen knelt down to thank the emperor, turned around and left the Hall of Mental Cultivation with her head lowered.

Just after Haishi, the empress changed into a nun's service, and quietly went to Yuqing Palace, which had been sealed off for more than half a year.

The emperor sat in the Hall of Mental Cultivation and listened to his servants' rewards one by one.

The empress was crying, the eldest prince was crying, and the eldest princess was crying.

The empress held on to the eldest prince's hand, and the eldest prince and concubine went to make tea.

The empress and the eldest prince cried together.

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After half an hour passed, the queen stood up, wiped her tears and left.

The emperor didn't make a sound for a long time. God knows how much he wanted to rush in when he heard the mother and son crying in each other's arms. One was the queen he had married since the year he was in the bun, and the other was the prince he had raised for many years. The sum of all the people is not as good as those two crying bitterly in Yuqing Palace.

The emperor's original intention to release the deposed prince became more and more determined.

The night passed, and the emperor just got up when he heard the report from the eunuch of Kunning Palace, saying that the empress fainted after returning home last night, and this morning she was light-headed and bedridden, and the imperial physician has been invited for diagnosis and treatment, please don't read it.

The emperor was anxious again, and went to see the empress in the Kunning Palace in person, and learned that the imperial doctor said it was not a big deal, and heard Cui Zhu say in a calm tone that the empress had taken the medicine and fell asleep, so don't worry, go back to nourish your heart Dian wondered how to release his son.

It has been closed for more than half a year, and he must have learned enough lessons.The emperor sighed, and he admitted that his heart had softened, especially those two children, Kang Yang was crying bitterly at the gate of Yuqing Palace, and Kant had his teeth knocked out in the upper study... This time, the release made Rui Forever out of the palace, as for the future crown prince, the emperor thought about it, and there are only fifth and seventh.These two are not good candidates, and they are far behind Rui Yong in handling government affairs, but it's a pity...

The emperor lost sleep.

It was already dark, and apart from the abolished prince and princess, there was only one court lady and one eunuch left in Yuqing Palace.Ever since the two of them were locked up here, there were only these two people around to serve them.Not to mention going to night, even things like serving tea, washing and dressing have to be done by themselves.Now, the two waiters had gone to sleep, the deposed prince sat alone in the room, took one of his underwear under the dim light, bit his finger, and wrote something on it.

The deposed prince stayed up for two nights, wrote the two inner garments densely, took another piece of clothing, wrapped the two inner garments with words written on them, and dug a shallow hole under the big tree at the door with a small porcelain bowl , buried things in it.

On the third night, the waste prince still didn't sleep, he dubiously took out the small bottle that Kang Yang handed in last time.

The mouth of the bottle was plugged with a cork, and the waste prince pulled it out and saw that there was a black liquid inside, with a layer of pink powder floating on it, and the smell was extremely strange.In the usual way, the abolished prince would not pay attention to this kind of thing, but this thing was sent by his son, and his mother came to give it to him three days ago, and now he has no choice but to bite the bullet up.

The crown prince is the only one who is still awake in Yuqing Palace, and he didn't dare to light a lamp. With the light of the moon, he brought out a bucket of water from the water tank in the courtyard, and mixed the strange liquid into the bottle. Go in, and then sprinkle it on the place where the trees and grass grow in the yard.The waste prince didn't know how to work, even though he had done a lot by himself in the past six months, but in order not to be discovered by others, he couldn't make a sound. After doing this again, he was exhausted.

An hour passed, and the waste prince finally watered all the flowers, plants and trees in the yard.What the queen mother told him was almost done, and the abandoned prince returned to the house, and finally slept with peace of mind for the first good night since he was imprisoned.

Under the diagnosis and treatment of the imperial physician, the queen drank bitter medicine soup for three days before going to the ground.Upon hearing the news that the queen had recovered from her illness, the emperor rushed over immediately, and before he could say that he wanted to release his son, the queen knelt down again with a plop.

"Your Majesty." The empress's crying this time was very different from the last time. Last time she cried so anxiously that she couldn't speak, but this time she just sobbed softly, as if she was hesitating, and she didn't speak for a long time.

The emperor understood that the empress was getting old, and she had just recovered from her illness and was weak. Before the empress knelt for a long time, she helped her up herself.It's just that the queen raised her head and didn't raise her head. The emperor felt a resentment from inside.

Why did you go to see your son and see what happened? The emperor was a little annoyed, and said: "The empress just say what she wants to say, why bother to beat around the bush."

The queen was very surprised, she looked up at the emperor quickly, tears came down again, and she murmured: "I am just such a son." Repeated twice, the queen seemed to have made up her mind suddenly, even the tears and sobbing stopped, He said firmly: "Your Majesty punishes the courtiers and concubines. I beg Your Majesty to save my son's life. Even if he is expelled from the clan and his name is changed, I just ask His Majesty to keep him alive."

After finishing speaking, the queen began to kowtow, her forehead became red within two strokes, and bloodshot eyes appeared after two strokes.

"What are you doing!" The emperor was very irritable, and the empress's words seemed like a tiger's poison, which made him extremely unhappy.

The queen didn't speak, but kowtowed and kowtowed. The emperor flicked his sleeves and returned to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

It's just that the emperor's heart became more and more impatient, and he wondered if this was the queen's plan, or if she had something behind her, but after so many years, the emperor is very familiar with the queen's methods, and the palace is strictly controlled. She has never been in charge of palace affairs, and the prince she relied on has been abolished again. The emperor can't guess at all.

Could it be that there is something wrong with Ruiyong!The emperor stood up abruptly, when Rui Yong was just locked in, he had someone send news to him once every three days.But since it was confined, there was nothing in Yuqing Palace, except eating and sleeping, there was nothing else to do, no books, no ink, nothing.Even the servants, the emperor chose only two loyal and honest palace servants, who were too old to be able to make any tricks.

The news once every three days also said the same things, and then it became once every five days, and after that, it seemed that Ruiyong hadn't heard from Ruiyong for more than a month.

In the end, the emperor still put the deposed prince first in his heart. Hearing the empress's vague responsibilities, the emperor endured it all afternoon. After all, he was the same as the queen last time. After dark, he secretly went to see the deposed prince.

As soon as the door of Yuqing Palace was opened, the emperor felt something was wrong. The grass by the wall, the trees in the yard, and the roses and peonies in the flower beds were all withered.

The emperor's heart tightened, this was not a good omen, his feet became more and more anxious, that day he ordered the crown prince to be imprisoned in Yuqing Palace, and his position as crown prince was abolished, so the main hall would naturally not be able to live.

The two palace servants lived in the first class room, and the abandoned prince and his wife lived in the Jide Hall at the back, but this place was also closed half by the emperor, and only three rooms were left for them.

The emperor regrets it very much now.

In just half a year, the things in Yuqing Palace are already old and out of shape, the paint on the windows has peeled off, the window screens have also changed color, and the ground is full of fallen leaves. In the original July sky, Yuqing Palace was full of This dilapidation dragged on until late autumn.

When did his prince suffer this kind of grievance.

The prince used to live in the best place for snacks since he was a child. The prince's 40-member serving team was raised to 80 people when he arrived at the prince's place.The cloth, tea, jade, and porcelain that are improved every year are picked by the emperor first, but now...

The emperor pushed open the door of Jide Hall.

A solitary lamp, the abandoned prince sat in front of the lamp, his eyes were blank, he didn't know what he was thinking.

As if he heard a human voice, the prince sneered, "You two are just slaves, do you still want to..." The voice stopped abruptly, and the prince knelt on the ground in a panic, "I don't know if the emperor is here, son... son..." Before he finished speaking, the waste prince was already sobbing.

The emperor's eyes were hot, and he strode up to the deposed prince, wanting to stretch out his hand to pull him, but for some reason, he sat down and didn't speak for a while.

The only sound in the room was the weeping of the waste prince.

"The two of them are so angry with you!" The emperor was furious when he remembered what the prince said when he entered the door. A long sigh.

The deposed prince seemed to calm down suddenly, and stopped crying, but his voice was very nasal, "My son is waiting for a crime, and this palace is like this again, please, father...please leave quickly .”

The emperor had never seen a deposed prince like this, even if he broke his younger brother's head, even if he knelt in the palace and was deposed as a prince last time, the prince never cried or showed weakness.

The emperor only felt that someone was grabbing his heart and twisting it, which was extremely painful. "Father knows that you have been wronged, you tell father, father..." The emperor's nasal voice was almost as heavy as that of the prince.

But the crown prince kowtowed respectfully, and said: "The son is to blame for all this, but..." The crown prince hesitated for a moment, and said: "The son has never had the intention of treason."

After half a year, the emperor still felt pain when thinking about it, but he was able to calm down and think. Hearing what the prince said, the emperor couldn't help asking, "Then why did you bring troops into the palace?"

"Father!" The crown prince called out sincerely, "My son will never forget the teachings of my father. That afternoon, my son got the news that the third and fourth younger brothers had summoned his guards. In a hurry, the son So I took the prince's seal and sent people to the admiral's mansion to dispatch troops."

The prince kowtowed again, and his tone became calmer, "The incident happened suddenly, without time to think carefully, the son went to the mother's harem again, and asked for her seal to open the Shenwu Gate, so that these people can come in through the Shenwu Gate."

The emperor also knew about this, but after the investigation, it was found that the crown prince had been in contact with the people in the admiral's mansion half a year ago, and the commander-in-chief who led the troops into the palace that day also confirmed that it was the crown prince who promised him the position of general, so he followed the crown prince.The chief soldier has been executed by all the families, and the admiral has also been demoted and returned to his original place. The emperor didn't know who to trust for a while.

"The son has been growing up under the protection of the father. Thinking that he can finally repay the father this time, he took them all the way to the Hall of Mental Cultivation. Fortunately, the two of them haven't arrived yet." The prince's face suddenly twisted, "Who knows, who knows that the general soldier suddenly launched a crisis, and my son was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to do."

The emperor recalled the scene of that night again, it seemed that the prince hadn't said anything since he came in, and it was the chief soldier who asked for the seal and other things.

"My son just realized that his son was impulsive. Father has been emperor for so many years. How could they plan strategies? It's okay, okay, I still feel palpitations when I think about it now." The prince's expression was calm, as if he had It's really like being wronged.

The emperor was suspicious, "Why didn't you explain! Above the hall, you knelt for two days without saying a word. Since you were wronged, why didn't you say it!"

The deposed prince didn't seem to care, and smiled lightly: "Are those people around my son really good people? They usually talk about someone who has been a prince for 40 years, and my son has long been tired of hearing it." It’s over. Why don’t you take this opportunity to clean up those caring people. As long as the father is still there, what’s the matter with the son being the crown prince for the rest of his life!” When he said this, the eyes of the deposed prince were shining brighter than The oil lamp next to it is still on.

The emperor believed half of it, but he always felt that something was wrong.

The waste prince saluted again, "Besides, my son is in his forties this year. The fifth and seventh brothers are much younger than the son. My son..." The waste prince swallowed the last part of the sentence, "The son has been blessed by his father since he was a child." He is already the luckiest of the brothers, following the teachings of the emperor."

"My son admits to other crimes, but the son of treason does not admit it." The voice of the abolished prince dropped again, "Son, no matter what others say, as long as the father knows, the son will die without regret." The abolished prince paused. After a pause, "This place is filthy, I hope my father will leave early." The deposed prince kept kowtowing, knelt there and got up.

The emperor looked around under the dim light. There was nothing in the room. There was a table with two stools. The teacup on the table was made of rough porcelain with a corner missing. The oil lamp was made of brass with green rust on it.

The emperor's eyes fell on his son who was kneeling on the ground again. The destitute prince's hair was tied up in a random way, and his clothes... the collar was torn, the cuffs were dirty, and the shoulders were empty. The clothes were much bigger.

"You look up!" the emperor ordered forcefully.

"My son doesn't dare, my son's face is disgusting, I don't dare to defile the holy eyes." The deposed prince became more and more humble.

The emperor was so angry that he grabbed the tea cup on the table and threw it out.

The waste prince trembled in shock from the loud voice, the emperor stood up, pulled the waste prince by the collar, and picked him up.

The four eyes met, and the emperor's anger suddenly turned into sadness. The precious son he held in the palm of his hand since childhood is now pale, with black and blue eyes, and thin cheekbones protruding high. Seeing tears in his eyes, he hurriedly Head down.

How could such a child conspire against him!

"How dare they! How dare they! I confessed that I can't lose you for food and clothing, and I confessed that I will..." The emperor's chest heaved violently, "I only have a son like you, how dare they!"

The emperor grabbed the abandoned prince's hand, "Follow me to the Hall of Mental Cultivation!"

The abolished prince was still a bit reluctant, but he was afraid that he would hurt his father when he struggled, so he said straightforwardly: "Be careful, father, don't be angry, my son will go with you."

The emperor strode ahead, and the deposed prince was pulled by the wrist, half a body behind him.

The abandoned prince followed the emperor, left Jide Hall, passed Yuqing Palace, passed through Dunben Hall, and finally stepped out of the gate.

There was a slight smile on the lips of the deposed prince, and he thought to himself what his mother whispered in his ear: "Move people with love, move people with love."