Queen of the Lin family in the Red Chamber

That night, the deposed prince was placed in the side hall of the Hall of Mental Cultivation. After seeing the imperial doctor, he took a bath and slept comfortably on the big bed that belonged to the emperor.

The morning court was once every three days, and the next day happened to be free time, so the emperor spent the whole day venting his anger on the deposed prince.In view of the fact that the prince has always had something to do by himself, the emperor has not tasted this kind of taste for a long time, but this day, it is quite good.

Unlike the deposed prince's sleepless night, the emperor suffered from insomnia last night.As soon as the emperor closed his eyes, the dilapidated Yuqing Palace dangled in front of his eyes, as well as his son, who was wearing ill-fitting clothes that hadn't been washed, and looked thinner and thinner.

It has only been more than half a year, and he has been trampled like this. The emperor can't help but think of Lin Ruhai who he saw a few days ago. He also has a position as an editor of the Imperial Academy. The son who is held in the palm of his hand and on the tip of his tongue doesn't know what crime he has committed.

The emperor subconsciously took out the decree he had made from here, and all his anger was directed at the three concubines who were in charge of the palace affairs, as well as the House of Internal Affairs.No wonder, no wonder the queen thought I wanted to...

The emperor tossed and turned on the dragon bed all night, and got up the next day with two swollen eyes.After washing, he followed a row of eunuchs and maids to the side hall to see his son.

The waiter was still standing in the hall with his things in his hands. The deposed prince must not have woken up yet, and the emperor didn't care. His son had suffered so much, so he managed to get a good night's sleep and sleep more.

But the emperor never had the idea of ​​acting lightly, so after he asked a few words, the voice of the abolished prince came out from the inner hall, "Father is here."

The emperor laughed twice and headed into the inner hall.But once he entered, his face froze again.

The clothes worn by the prince himself!Comb your own hair!

The emperor was so sad that he wanted to cry, and he barely held back, but the expression on his face was a little distorted.

Putting on clothes and combing hair, in an ordinary family, even if you pamper them a little, a five-year-old child can almost do it, but that is the prince. Rui Yong, who was named the prince just after he knew how to call him father, should dress him. The palace ladies are all selected by the Ministry of Internal Affairs after going through five trials and defeating six generals.

The emperor couldn't restrain himself, the deposed prince looked a little frightened, shivered, lowered his head and dared not speak.

The emperor's anger was beyond the limit, and he ordered the eunuch to come over and wait for the deposed prince to wash his face. He angrily made the first decree of the day: to repair Yuqing Palace.By the way, the two eunuchs and court ladies serving in Yuqing Palace will each be hit with [-] slaps and thrown out of the palace!

To say that these two people are a disaster for no reason, the two of them are the only ones serving in Yuqing Palace, and there is a shortage of manpower anyway, and the thick and simple palace people in the palace are not the same as those who wait and groom. It's not for this.

When the officials of the Punishment Department received the order, they could only sigh that the lives of these two people were bad.Fifty big boards, this is basically a half-dead stage, but adding the last half of the sentence "throw out of the palace", it means that the emperor will let them both die outside the palace.

There are also unspoken rules in the palace. Ten boards are small punishments, and the beating is meant for a purpose. It will not hurt the body, but it will lose face.Only the [-]th board can be regarded as a muscle injury, and it can be cultivated for more than half a month.Thirty to fifty boards belong to the stage of death or immortality. The weak die, and the strong live. The main thing is to look at the second half of the sentence handed down with the reward board. This depends on the officials of the Punishment Department. We figured it out.

As for more than [-] big boards, especially [-] big boards, that is to kill a chicken and show it to monkeys, and the person with [-] big boards will die, so what is the use of the remaining fifty boards, except to beat the lower body Turning into meat, scaring the palace people who were ordered to watch have nightmares again and again, there is no other use.

The deposed prince stayed at home in the side hall of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, pretending to be timid and in a daze, and the emperor was looking for someone to vent his anger.

The original prince was arrogant and domineering, whoever dared to be wronged by him, now he really can ride on his head no matter what kind of cat or dog.He even put on his own clothes, just kidding, he has always just raised his arms and legs, and the maids and eunuchs will take care of the rest.

The emperor was furious, and shouted: "Go and find me the three bitches Wu, Chen, and Yu!" The emperor was so angry that he lazyly added the word concubine.

The eunuch who went to deliver the decree sweated a lot. The three of them gathered together outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and still had to reveal a little bit. Those three all had sons, and if they really contradicted the emperor without knowing anything, The three of them might have to suffer as well.

But those three were not as ill-informed as the eunuch thought.

If you want to say how many people the prince offended when he was proud, that is, except for the two giants in the palace, everyone is not in his eyes.Especially his younger brothers, the fifth prince and the seventh prince have the opportunity to compete with him for the throne. As for the eighth prince, although he is not yet old, he is competing with him for his father's favor. It must be a strong competition in the future opponent.

Therefore, after taking over the palace affairs, the mothers and concubines of these princes, either overtly or secretly, alone or together, also caused a lot of stumbling blocks for the deposed prince.

Last night when the emperor went to see the deposed prince, the palace gates were all locked, and he couldn't get out or in, but these three were in charge of the palace affairs, so it was normal for a few eunuchs to come and go at night.So in the middle of the night, all three of them knew that the deposed prince had been released.

Like the emperor, Concubine Wu, Concubine Chen and Concubine Yu suffered from insomnia.

Now that I have been summoned by the emperor, although I am a little scared, but considering that the crown prince has been abolished, it is still such a heinous crime, so there must be no problem...

As for Concubine Yu, her son was grounded by the emperor two days ago because of a conflict with the two concubine sons of the abolished prince.

But no matter how urgent, no matter how much you want to delay, the palace is so big, and the emperor's furious summons, dare not delay at all, within a quarter of an hour, the three of them entered the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Before they could salute and say hello, a cup was thrown in front of them.Then came the emperor's stern voice: "You three are out of order! I told you to come so slowly!"

The three people's legs trembled, and they hurriedly knelt on the ground, "I dare not!"

"Why don't you dare!" The emperor's voice became louder, "It's just taking care of the palace affairs, and it didn't take long for you to become overwhelmed! If you dare to stretch your hands on my eldest son, don't forget your identities!" Yu The Qing Palace was dilapidated, the flowers and trees in the courtyard were all withered, the emperor couldn't believe that the three of them hadn't touched anything!

"I taught my son, what are you messing with!"

If the empress is still in charge of palace affairs...the empress is the prince's biological mother, how could the prince suffer so much.

The emperor looked at the three people kneeling down and became more and more displeased. These three people died, and the prince, as the eldest son, did not need to be filial, but he did not expect that these three people stretched their hands so long, pushing their noses on their faces, and the empress When I was here, I never treated my concubine harshly. After all, these three are still concubines, and they dare to treat my concubine harshly.

The emperor was dizzy from the anger, sat down with his hands on the table, rested his head on his hands, and didn't speak for a while.

The three concubines who were kneeling were so frightened that they were sweating coldly, they gritted their teeth tightly and dared not speak out.

At this moment, Eunuch Zhang, who was sent by the emperor to supervise the renovation of Yuqing Palace in the morning, returned, holding a cloth bag in his hand, with an ugly expression on his face, as if he was about to pass out in a second.

Eunuch Zhang is the emperor's confidant. He has been with the emperor for many years. Many times, as long as the emperor says a word, he can take care of the rest. Eunuch Zhang did it all.

Eunuch Zhang was also the one who accompanied the emperor to Yuqing Palace last night. Although he did not follow the emperor to Jide Hall, he could clearly see the emperor holding the crown prince's hand when he came out, so what does the renovation mean? , It is a complete re-doing of the whole thing, which is even newer than the new one.

The first step is to clear the furniture in the house. This was cleared once when the prince was deposed, but it is easy to handle. Another thing is to clear all the dead trees and weeds in the yard. When you're done, plant a new one.

But when the hoe went down, he dug out from under the tree the waste prince who had just buried it, and wrote two small parcels of underwear.

The little eunuch didn't dare to look at this kind of thing, so he lowered his head and handed it to Eunuch Zhang.Eunuch Zhang opened it calmly and looked at two lines, his face changed, and his heartbeat almost jumped out of his throat.

When eunuchs first entered the palace, they were illiterate. Later, according to the degree of personal effort, the degree of importance of the master, etc., they began to learn how to assign different tasks. Like Zhang Gonggong, he became the head of the palace and the No. 1. Not to mention knowing how to read characters, he is exposed to it every day, even at the sutra banquet, he can make a few nonsense.

The things in this little cloth bag were written by the prince at first glance, and it looks a bit like a suicide note, and it was written with blood. Eunuch Zhang was so excited that he hurriedly took the things to see the emperor.

The emperor took a look and almost fainted.

On the first inner coat, there are officials who usually brag and flatter around him, people who ask him to do things, and who in Yuqing Palace seem to be sent by others, etc., the whole is a big list.

The emperor was shocked when he saw it. These people were similar to those he found after the incident, so he was more convinced of the prince's carefully deliberated explanation last night, which was full of loopholes.

The writing on the second inner jacket is more like a memoir, it describes the love of his father when he was a child, for example, his father did not scold him when he smashed the porcelain that made him motivated, etc., and he was ashamed of his father's teaching, And told the sons to be filial to the emperor's grandfather and so on.

The emperor looked at ten lines at a glance, took the two clothes and went to the side hall.

"What do you mean!" The emperor directly threw the thing in front of the prince.

Sadness and helplessness flashed across the prince's face, and the pain finally turned into a faint smile: "Father, the trees in the yard are all dead, and my son must not last long. This thing was originally waiting for my son..."

"Shut up! Doctor Xuan!"

When the imperial doctor came, he couldn't find anything, including the soil in Yuqing Palace, which was normal and no different from that in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and those flowers and trees that died for no reason, looked like they were old and dead. It just so happened that they all died of old age one day.

The emperor was so sad that he couldn't speak when he heard the imperial physician hesitantly say that the prince was weak and needed to be taken care of. "Don't worry, father will definitely let you down."

In the other room of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, the three concubines were still kneeling on the ground. After half an hour, it was not the emperor who was waiting, but Eunuch Zhang. He said: "Wu, Chen and Yu are not welcome. Women's virtue, downgraded to a nobleman."

"Ah!" With a cry of surprise, Mrs. Yu collapsed to the ground and said loudly, "Your Majesty, my concubine is innocent!"

"Masters, please."

Palace affairs naturally returned to the Queen's hands. She took a sip of the extra sweet tea, looked at the two grandchildren lying in the middle, and then thought about the fact that she had lived in the side hall of the Hall of Mental Cultivation for several days. The son, and the three opponents who could only live in the side hall because they were reduced to nobles, sighed: "She is really capable."

The news in the palace was spread quickly or slowly, like the three concubines being demoted because they had to hand over the family tree of the royal family to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. When I heard about the matter of staying in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, I had to pretend not to hear it for the time being.

The decree has not yet been invented, and whoever proposed it before the emperor would be spying on the emperor's trace. This crime, it is also the kind of felony that can be beheaded if you say it.So in these two early dynasties, everyone was ready to go, waiting for the emperor to speak.A few censors were ready to crash and die at Qianqing Gate, some were ready to make a fortune, and many more planned to keep silent for the time being.

As for Lin Ruhai, he can't go to court at his current level, and he is still waiting to watch the fun.

"I plan to offer sacrifices to the Taimiao on the ninth day of next month and restore Ruiyong's position as the crown prince." The emperor made a big move as soon as he came up, without probing or discussing, he even set the date.

"Your Majesty! Absolutely not!" It was a censor who said this.

The emperor stared fiercely, "Ruiyong sacrificed a lot when I cleaned up the court this time. Now that this matter is over, why should my son be burdened with injustice!"

What!Not only the censor, but most of the courtiers feel that there is something wrong with their ears. Co-authoring this is a play played by you father and son. Are we all being fooled?

No, the third prince and the fourth prince are both dead, and the mass grave outside the city is filled with blood, could it be...

Before the censor turned the corner, the emperor said again: "As the censor, you can't find out the truth, but go with the flow, and the censor will be fined for half a year!"

So the three censors who bumped into death in front of them made themselves laugh?Also implicated the entire Yushitai not being able to receive wages?

The emperor looked at the stunned courtiers in the audience, and was extremely satisfied, and said: "Officer Lin Ruhai has been reinstated and promoted to Marquis of Huaining." After speaking, the emperor winked at the eunuch standing beside him.

"Retreat~"

This time, the courtiers didn't even have room for discussion, and no one expected the emperor's hand. From the time he came out of the Qianqing Gate to when he got in his own carriage, everyone was carefully reminiscing about the events of the past six months. Once again, it's not like...

At the gate of the Lin family, Lin Ruhai hasn't come back yet, but the Marquis of Huaining's sect has been sent over, and it's still Eunuch Li who came back to pick up the plaque last time.

Wanyu smiled slightly, took Daiyu with one hand, and Lin Ping with the other, stood at the door of her house, looked at the golden plaque of red sandalwood, and sighed: "If you waste such a big effort, you will have a smoother future." .”