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The little prince lay on the lap of the woman in palace attire, wanting to cry.

"Ma'am, can I not memorize "Book of Rites"? Taifu Zhou will test me on "The Doctrine of the Mean" tomorrow, but I really can't memorize it."

The woman smiled. "Then if you don't recite it tomorrow, will you be able to recite it the next day?"

The little prince shook his head and said, "I can't recite it either."

"What about ten days later? Can you recite it?"

The little prince thought for a while, nodded and said: "This should be fine."

The expression of the woman in the palace costume suddenly became solemn and awe-inspiring, and she said lightly: "In this case, today you will spend all your free time for eating, playing, sleeping, etc. The queen mother believes that as long as you pay ten times If you work hard, you can shorten the ten-day gap. As long as you repay your efforts with a hundred times and a thousand times of confidence and enthusiasm, you will always fulfill Zhou Taifu's expectations of you."

The little prince pursed his mouth when he heard the words, a little unhappy. "Ma'am, you are obviously the mother who has benefited. Why are you always so strict with my son? The little lady said that she would intercede with the Taifu for my son."

The woman in palace costume straightened the little prince and smiled softly. "Silly boy, just because I am your mother, I can't pamper you even more. Unprincipled pampering will only harm you and ruin your life. If you are the son of ordinary people, it would be better for your mother to pamper you." It doesn't matter. But you were born in the royal family, and in the future you will inherit the great rule and become the emperor above ten thousand people. If you make a mistake, it will not be a family that will be destroyed, but tens of thousands of Li people in the Song Dynasty. Benefit , do you understand?"

The little prince tilted his head slightly, half understanding.The woman saw him, touched his little head, and said: "It's okay if you don't understand now, when you grow up, you will naturally understand."

A drop of clear tears slowly slipped down.

Yes, he is an adult, and he has already understood the responsibility of being an emperor to work hard.However, although the truth was clear, he forgot his mother's original intention.Just a small instigation by the rebellious minister has shaken the decades-old mother-child relationship, and indifferent to a mother's wholehearted devotion.

Did you make a mistake?

It's just this small step, and it's a thousand miles away.What he lost was beyond imagination, beyond the limit of what he could bear, and his body and mind were riddled with holes, and he was ravaged to the point of bruising.

Is he wrong?

The hopeless love he had hoped for, not only failed to see a glimmer of hope, but instead buried the most precious family relationship in the abyss together.

Was he... really wrong?

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty?! Your Majesty seems to be waking up. Doctor Dong, hurry up!"

Pulse diagnosis.For a moment.

"Reporting to Empress Empress, Your Majesty is fine, you just need to take care of yourself."

"But I clearly saw that His Majesty also vomited blood earlier, no matter how hard you look, could it be that Your Majesty is also like the Queen Mother..."

"Don't worry, your majesty, what your majesty spits out is stagnant qi and blood formed in the heart, the color is bright red, and there is absolutely no sign of poisoning."

"That's fine, that's fine."

Opening his eyes slowly, he thought he would see the queen Guo Qingwu and other concubines in the harem, but who would have thought that the most affectionate face was so close at hand.Breathing slightly stagnated, he fixed his gaze on the man firmly in his eyes for an instant.

It was this person in front of him that changed everything.However, he couldn't complain about him at all.Because the other party has never changed from beginning to end.It became him, it was he who became suspicious, became hideous, pretended to be clever and played tricks, and began to count his closest relatives.So in a cycle of cause and effect, God took back all the family affection he had valued the most, didn't he?Heh, it really is his own fault and responsibility.

Tears fell down again, but they were cold through the bottom of my heart, mixed with sorrow and pain.

"Everyone go out, I want to be alone." Turning his back to everyone, his order was cold and withdrawn.After a moment of silence, there were successive footsteps exiting the hall in disorder.Just when he thought everyone was gone, the man's soft whisper suddenly sounded in his ear.

"Your Majesty, are you alright?"

Zhao Zhen sat up suddenly, a kind of outraged anger made him roar: "I told everyone to go out, why don't you go?!"

The red-clothed guard didn't say a word, but his eyebrows were lowered and his expression slightly embarrassed.Only then did the emperor realize that following his embarrassing gaze, he was actually holding the other's wrist tightly all the time, and the wrist and neck were almost red and bruised.I think he has been holding on tightly like this since he was in a coma, and that's why he left such a clear mark on such a strong fighter as the opponent.

Desolately smiled.

It turned out that it wasn't that the man didn't want to leave, but that he subconsciously refused to let him go.Ridiculous, he was actually more cowardly and pitiful than he imagined.After losing his mother, can he find solace and redeem himself only from him?

The laughter became louder and louder, but there was no joy in the echo in the hall, only the endless sorrow and sorrow.Just when he thought that this sad smile could no longer be restrained, the usually reserved guard in red suddenly took the initiative to hug him.

"Your Majesty, if you want to cry, just cry."

There is no trace of skill, not even consolation, but such a sentence made him uncontrollably burst into tears again.It's just that this time it's no longer cold, but with a touch of warmth, just like that person's embrace.The cry of collapse was hidden in the warm embrace, until the red clothes were completely wet, but they always guarded silently and never left.

The empty hall blocked the probing eyes of others.Empress Guo Qingwu frowned and looked at the closed palace door, somewhat uncomfortable in her heart.Thinking that she was the empress of a country who was turned away by her husband, although the emperor had always been lukewarm to her, but in such an extraordinary period, it should be her, his first wife, who was by his side.Why did a little guard take her place and stay in the emperor's bedroom, how embarrassing was this for her?

Looking at Concubine Yu, who was also silent at the side, the queen finally regained some confidence and felt much more at ease—at least she didn't let Li Yuzhen, who had always been favored by the king, accompany the king.It's just that while feeling relieved, there is still some uncontrollable sourness, the queen said: "Your Majesty's guards are really extraordinary, Concubine Yu, what do you think?"

Concubine Yu calmly said: "Your Majesty has always valued Guard Zhan and relied on him very much. Maybe we concubines can't comfort His Majesty's pain of losing a loved one because such a big event happened this time, maybe someone like Guard Zhan that His Majesty trusts absolutely People are the most suitable candidates, right? Do you think so, Princess Deyi?"

Originally, Zhao Ying's eyes were filled with tears that could not be wiped away after losing her mother, but when Concubine Yu asked her, she was suddenly shocked, looked at the bedroom of Funing Hall in horror, and ran to the door in twos and threes. He wanted to raise his hand to knock on the door, but finally held back.Then she hurried away without looking back.The empress and concubine Yu looked at each other in dismay, not knowing what happened.

Xue Liang, who was out of the palace looking for someone, rushed back to the palace immediately after hearing the news. When he came to the Palace of Compassion and Ning, he saw that the mourning hall had been set up above the main hall. Zhao Zhen was holding the coffin and looking at the queen mother who was lying peacefully inside. The corpse was in a daze.The main hall was surprisingly quiet, apart from the emperor, there was only one Zhou Tong who was carefully waiting on his side.

"What happened? How did this happen?"

Seeing that Zhao Zhen was unaware of his arrival, Xue Liang could only ask Zhou Tong in a low voice.Unexpectedly, Zhou Tong suddenly fell to his knees with a "plop", and said loudly: "Your Majesty, please give this slave to death."

Zhao Zhen's eyelids twitched suddenly, as if he had a reaction.He looked at Zhou Tong lightly and asked, "Why?"

"It was the servant who killed the Queen Mother. If the servant hadn't been nervous and took the dragon cup by mistake, such a thing would never have happened. The death of the servant is inevitable, and I just hope that your majesty will stop blaming yourself." Zhou Tong kowtowed to Zhao Zhen again and again. , with a resolute look on his face, as if he was ready to die.

Zhao Zhen laughed at himself, shook his head, and said, "Forget it, what does it have to do with you? The worst thing is me, the poison was done by me. If not, how could the queen mother die?" Then he turned his eyes and looked sad. looking into the coffin.

Xue Liang was shocked when he heard the words, and hurriedly asked Zhou Tong, but Zhou Tong knew nothing about it, so he told Xue Liang everything that happened that day.Xue Liang was dumbfounded and terrified when he heard it, never expecting such a reason for the Queen Mother's death, but even though he was shocked, he couldn't help but secretly heaved a sigh of relief.Because he knew that if the Empress Dowager Taodai Li Zhuang hadn't been hit by seeing blood to seal his throat this time, Zhao Zhen would be the one who was poisoned. Although he had taken the best detoxification pill in advance, the effect is still unknown.Xue Liang thinks that he is quite a generous person, but growing up with Zhao Zhen, his inner feelings for Zhao Zhen have already surpassed that of ordinary masters and servants. If his Majesty is to take such a big risk on the front line of life and death, he would rather think selfishly. It is the best result for the queen mother to block this disaster for her majesty - after all, this matter was originally caused by the queen mother's killing intent.Only through this matter, he once again confirmed the important and irreplaceable position that Zhan Zhao has reached in Zhao Zhen's mind.

The Empress Dowager was brutally poisoned at the Mid-Autumn Festival Reunion Banquet and collapsed in front of the imperial court, shocking all the people in the world.The emperor was deeply saddened and ordered a thorough investigation. The first thing he found was Liang Jianzhang, the chief executive of the Palace of Compassionate Ning who disappeared immediately, but he seemed to disappear out of thin air. After the incident, he disappeared completely.

Along with the death of the Empress Dowager, the secret life of the Emperor came to the surface, which caused an uproar in the government and the public, and rumors spread everywhere. Only then did the people of the world know that the Empress Dowager was not the Emperor's biological mother, but the late Concubine Li Chen.Because Li Boren, the censor in the palace, pointed out that the Queen Mother Jiu killed the emperor's biological mother, although the Queen Mother confessed her innocence before her death, many ministers who were dissatisfied with the Queen Mother's monopoly expressed disbelief.To prove the facts, the emperor had to send someone to investigate.He deliberately found Li Yonghe, the younger brother of Concubine Chen, and appointed him as the deputy envoy of the protocol and in charge of the Imperial City Department.Li Qing came back a few days ago, and when the court reported it, it was said that the funeral of Concubine Chen was like that of Mrs. Yipin, and she was dressed in the queen's robes.The emperor immediately lost control of his emotions when he heard the words, and his grief was uncontrollable: "From now on, the life of the eldest lady will be clear."

During the period of national mourning, all the people in the world will take clothes for three days and fast to express their condolences.Although it is said that fasting is required, since ancient times, etiquette and law are nothing more than the foundation of filial piety in governing the world. From flexibility, it has become beyond reproach. From the royal family to the ordinary people, as long as they do not eat or drink in public, they can eat in secret. Eat some cold food.

For the past few days, all the places in the palace were observing filial piety, although Zhan Zhao was also wearing mourning clothes, he was restless and flustered.For some reason, the commander of the forbidden army has neglected to rank him recently, telling him to just stay in this Zhuyixuan with nothing to do.In fact, he was still extremely worried. After the Queen Mother passed away, Zhao Zhen's mood was extremely unstable, but it was different from seeing each other every day in the past. Recently, he was uncharacteristically refused to be summoned.In fact, there is nothing left and right, so I can only think carefully about the details of the Mid-Autumn Festival that day, hoping to find clues and solve it as soon as possible.But no matter what he thinks, he just can't figure it out, who is going to murder the Queen Mother?What means were used to achieve this step?

On the day of the incident, the palace guards immediately sealed off the scene and checked everyone.In particular, none of the Khitan envoys who offered the wine were spared, but they came to the conclusion that the wine was non-toxic.In the end, the investigators only found blood to seal the throat in the queen mother's cup, but everyone could see clearly that the queen mother took the emperor's dragon cup by mistake and died of poisoning. It's not the queen mother who is really going to murder, but the emperor Zhao Zhen?Thinking of this, Zhan Zhao couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and the importance he attached to this case was increasing day by day.For this reason, Zhan Zhao also recommended to Zhao Zhen that he could be investigated by the Kaifeng government. How could he hear remonstrance, Zhao Zhen stared at him with an inexplicable self-deprecating and miserable expression, neither should nor refused, but in the end he silently dismissed him. The case was assigned to the presiding judge of Dali Temple.

Dali Temple set the target of tracking on the disappearing chief executive Liang Jianzhang, but Zhan Zhao didn't know why his intuition was not the same.I always feel that there must be some hidden truth under this thick fog, and he must try his best to dig it out as soon as possible, because it is related to Zhao Zhen's safety, so he can't calm down at all.

I was thinking hard to myself, but saw Princess Deyi Zhao Ying arriving in a panic.When she saw Zhan Zhao, she didn't care about the difference between men and women, so she stepped forward and grabbed him before leaving. "Zhan Huwei, hurry up and follow me. Now it's only you, Brother Huang doesn't listen to people's persuasion at all. If this continues, something may happen."

"What's going on?" Zhan Zhao asked, following along step by step.

"Brother Huang kept the coffin for three days. Because of fasting and keeping rituals, he has not eaten a drop of rice. Now that the three days have passed, everyone persuaded him to eat, but Brother Huang said that observing filial piety is not enough, and he wants to continue fasting. And it has been many days. Not going to the court, not asking about politics, the memorials have piled up in the imperial study. The concubines of the palaces have taken turns to persuade them, and even the little empress has explained it more than once, but the emperor is stubborn and turns a deaf ear. I... I really have no choice I came here to look for you." Zhao Ying couldn't help but shed tears.

If she could, she would never come to Zhan Zhao to show her face, because it would only make her imperial brother fall deeper and deeper.She could see that the sudden death of the empress dowager had awakened the emperor's brother, and he had intentionally distanced himself from Zhan Zhao and kept a distance from him.But I don't know why the pain of the death of the emperor's mother is beyond anyone's imagination, it is completely close to mourning and dying.He guarded the mourning hall every step of the way. Although he was not as tearful as the palace maids and concubines who were crying at the funeral, his lifeless appearance was completely haggard from the depths of his heart. This kind of inexplicable stubbornness seems to be the harshest punishment for himself, even his life can be ignored.

Zhan Zhao originally thought that what Zhao Ying said was somewhat exaggerated, but when he came to the mourning hall of the Hall of Compassion and Peace, he was really taken aback by Zhao Zhen's appearance.The handsome young emperor in the past is now curled up in the corner of the mourning hall like a beggar on the street. His head rests against the wooden wall of the coffin, his face is as white as paper, and his hair is messy. There is no trace of the majesty of an emperor.If you insist on what it looks like, it's like an abandoned child abandoned by its mother, at a loss, and can't find the meaning of living at all.

At this moment, Empress Guo Qingwu was kneeling beside Zhao Zhen trying to persuade him to eat, but Zhao Zhen didn't even give her a glint from the corner of his eyes, but when Zhan Zhao walked into the hall, his long-silent eyes flickered slightly.This annoyed the Queen very much.The emperor hit a snag and was about to take the opportunity to find a culprit to vent his anger on, but he saw Concubine Yu standing up suddenly, stopped her and said, "Empress, you are tired after guarding for so many days, why not concubine?" How about helping you to the side hall to rest for a while?" After saying that, he shook his head solemnly at the queen.

The queen secretly glanced at the emperor, knowing that Concubine Yu really meant well.I don't think she is considered a narrow-minded person, she just wanted to have an attack just because she was too angry.So she nodded, and was accompanied by Concubine Yu to leave the mourning hall. Before passing by Zhan Zhao, Concubine Yu suddenly stopped and said in a worried voice, "Please trouble Zhan's guards to release Your Majesty."

Zhan Zhao saluted the two empresses and came to Zhao Zhen's side without hesitation.Zhao Ying was afraid that something would happen between the two of them, so she found an excuse and sent away all the other guarding concubines and palace guards in the hall, so for a while there were only two of them left in the hall that was originally full of crying.

"Your Majesty, what's the matter with you?"

Zhan Zhao tried to grab Zhao Zhen's arm, trying to lift him up, but Zhao Zhen avoided him without a trace.Zhao Zhen avoided the other party's confused gaze, and said gloomily, "I'm fine, Zhanwei, you can step back."

Zhan Zhao can somewhat feel that he is still immersed in the grief of losing his mother and cannot extricate himself.Although I feel that I am a soft-spoken person, but with the style of being loyal to the emperor and admonishing friends, I have to say some things. "The empress dowager passed away suddenly, and I can understand your majesty's unacceptable feelings for a while. It's just that your majesty is not only the son of your empress dowager, but also the father of my Song Dynasty. At this moment, your majesty is determined to be a filial son and ignore those who need your majesty's protection." Did you save the people?"

Hearing this, Zhao Zhen smiled bitterly, and asked back: "Why, in the pain of losing my mother, I can't even hide alone and don't ask about world affairs? So in your eyes, it's dereliction of duty for me to ignore the government for a few days? Zhanwei, you I think too highly of me. I'm not a king, let alone a saint. I'm just a living mortal with flesh and blood. As a human being, I have emotions and desires, and when I'm depressed, I can't bear it. I'm sorry for my mother, but But I don't even have the chance to forgive my sins. At this moment, I just want to temporarily throw everything away and be with her, may I ask if this is not possible?"

There are tears in the eyes, and weep silently in my heart.Looking at Zhao Zhen like this, Zhan Zhao suddenly felt a pain in his heart.

This is His Majesty who he wants to protect at all costs.Although we know that it is impossible for a person to live without worries, many people have used their selfless dedication to protect the official's benevolence in the purest way, which makes people yearn for it infinitely.But the hand of reality fell cruelly, tearing the protective film that had been built up with great difficulty, causing this always pure person to fall into the clouds all at once, completely devastated.Is it the cruelty of God, or the cruelty of man?No matter what it is, he only knows that he can never go back. Once the pure heart loses its wings, it will eventually change slowly.

"Your Majesty understands. Since Your Majesty wishes so much, I won't say much, so I will allow you to accompany Your Majesty, okay?" Since you can't do anything and can't talk, why not accompany him silently—this is the only thing he can do for Zhao Zhen up.

"Go back to Zhuyixuan, I don't need you to accompany me."

Although Zhao Zhen had a tough attitude and ruthlessly refused, Zhan Zhao ignored him. Instead, he knelt down, burned incense and chanted scriptures silently.In fact, Zhao Zhen's heart is extremely contradictory. He is eager to see Zhan Zhao, which can relieve his painful heart invisibly; but he is also afraid of seeing him, because the death of the queen mother makes him faceless to face this person.So the emperor simply pretended to be deaf and dumb and ignored him, thinking that anyway, there would be more concubines in the future, and this person would feel embarrassed to leave.Unexpectedly, there were more people, but Zhan Zhao was always kneeling there, no matter what the surroundings were talking about, pointing fingers, or even taking the initiative to step forward to make things difficult, his waist was straight and he did not waver at all.

Zhao Zhen fasted, and Zhan Zhao stopped taking a sip of tea soup.Until the noon of the second day, Qiaoer from Zhuyixuan got the news and found her, bringing her daily decoction.Zhan Zhaowangzhi just shook his head and refused to take the medicine.This made Zhao Zhen anxious, thinking that if he refused to accept, Zhan Zhao's life might be in danger.Seeing that his expression was absolutely serious, as if he wanted to stand up to his stubbornness, Zhao Zhen naturally knew that he was using this method to repay the other person with the same method, and there was inevitably some blunt pain and shallow resentment in his heart, but The inseparable affection for Zhan Zhao finally surpassed everything else.When Zhao Zhen finally agreed to eat, Zhan Zhao only smiled slightly and said to him: "Your Majesty, the days ahead are still long, please treat yourself well for those who cherish you."

Perhaps it was because Zhan Zhao was always silently and tenaciously by his side, the heartache that was filled with regret that had no place to vent gradually began to calm down.Mingming kept telling himself to stop, but the tall and straight figure of that person was right in front of him, and he couldn't help but care about the other person's every move in a trance, so how could he have time to feel sorry for himself?

Two days later, Zhan Zhao seemed to have inadvertently brought up Liang Jianzhang, the head chief of the Compassionate Ning Palace, and asked why Dali Temple was so obvious about him.Zhao Zhen had no choice but to tell what happened to him that day.

Zhan Zhao was very surprised when he heard this. "Your Majesty, you mean that day you found out that the Queen Mother had taken the Dragon Cup by mistake. You wanted to stop the Queen Mother, but your body was inexplicably unable to move, so that you couldn't stop the Queen Mother from being poisoned." Only then did Zhan Zhao understand why Zhao Zhen was so self-punishing. Why does the weird behavior happen.

Zhao Zhen didn't dare to tell Zhan Zhao that he put the poison in the cup himself, and wanted to use a cruel trick to coerce the queen mother to give up the idea of ​​killing people.Who wants to be self-defeating and regret the original.Now that the deal is done, I can only pick up the part that can be said and tell the doubtful points of the day.He said: "I don't think the abnormality of my body is an inexplicable coincidence. Although that state only existed for a short moment, it feels like a trance. But at that moment, if I could move a little at that time, even if I could shout If I said a word, perhaps such a thing would not have happened. At that time, only the Queen, Zhou Tong, and Liang Jianzhang were beside me. When the situation happened, Queen Zhou Tong did not move. May I ask, who could it be if it wasn't his hands and feet?"

Zhan Zhao puzzled, "But why did he do that? The Empress Dowager is his master, so what good does it do him to kill the Empress Dowager?"

Zhao Zhen was stunned for a moment, thinking that yes, the empress dowager can only have a high status if Liang Jianzhang lives. If there is no empress dowager, who would take him, a lost slave, to heart?With such doubts in mind, Zhao Zhen returned to court the next day, and asked Dali Temple to intensify its investigation into the matter, but found nothing.

After the Double Ninth Festival, a floating corpse was salvaged from Longting Lake.Although it was so swollen that it was hard to recognize, it was undoubtedly confirmed by the criminal officer that it was Liang Jianzhang, the chief executive.So far, the fog that had shrouded Zhao Zhen's heart not only did not dissipate, but became thicker, which troubled him day and night.

The author has something to say: the fourth update in August.

This month is really a plug-in, and there are two more updates, please wait for it.

In addition, everyone can guess the murderer again, haha.