Xue Bawang's daily life

In the early autumn of the 20th year of the Showa era, the emperor, who had just seen the cool weather and had a cough when he opened the spring, finally did not survive the hurdle of being ten years old, and passed away peacefully in his sleep.

When hearing the death bell ringing for the emperor's death, Xue Pan was still in a dream, so asleep that he didn't know what night it was.

These days, due to the emperor's illness, all the princes went to the palace to attend to the illness, and Heizi naturally stayed in the palace all the time.Xue Pan woke up from his sleep, but he didn't see Heizi, so he didn't feel any difference.

It was just dawn, and the sound of death knells sounded one after another in various temples in Beijing.According to the regulations of this dynasty, the number of death bells to be tolled in the palace of the emperor before his death, and the number of death bells to be rung in the monasteries near the capital must be ringed [-] times.

Yuan Bao had asked his servants to hang up white flags all over the house, and the servants also changed into plain clothes, with white cloth hanging around their waists.As a Lieutenant Enqi with a small title on his body, Xue Pan naturally put on the prescribed mourning clothes and entered the palace to express his condolences.His title was conferred and did not affect Xue's mother. Xue's mother has no rank, so she doesn't need to order wives to enter the palace.In this way, except for Heizi, only Xue Pan and Xue Bian need to go to the palace to watch the funeral, and the others only need to stay at home.

I don't know if it's because of the continuous sound of the death knell, but Xue Pan's heart has been uneasy since he woke up in the morning.Because the men at home were not around, before Xue Pan left, he arranged for powerful rough envoys to guard the doors everywhere.Then he called the guards who stayed at Heizi's house, gave them careful instructions, and then left in a hurry with Xue Biao.

Lin Jue was not at home at this time, and Mother Xue was worried about Daiyu going back, so they all stayed in Mother Xue's yard together.

Although it is not the emperor's grand move, if it involves the change of the throne, it will definitely lead to some chaos. The emperor has ignored the government for many years, and the emperor's throne is stable. At this time, it is reasonable that there will be no major disturbances.It's just messy everywhere, and it doesn't hurt to be cautious.

When Xue Pan entered the court, the palace had issued an imperial decree, ordering martial law in the nine gates, and the people were not allowed to go to the streets for no reason.There is also a decree: all officials inside and outside the lord will be removed from service for [-] days, and they will not be allowed to marry or have fun, banquets and music within one year.Soldiers and civilians are required to wear plain clothes for sixteen days, they are not allowed to have fun for a hundred days, and they are not allowed to marry for one month.

Xue Pan only had a title the size of a grain of rice, so he only got a place to stay far away, and followed the people in front of him, ups and downs, bowing nine times to the sound of funeral music.

Fortunately, it was not completely inhumane, and I didn't know how many times I prayed. After Xue Pan felt that his head had started to feel dizzy, this wave of prayers ended.After resting for about half an hour, the next wave started.After repeating this several times, Xue Pan's heavy dress was already soaked by his sweat.

Xue Pan had a very headache, but fortunately he only needed to come to the sky, for example, his own sunspots had to guard for hundreds of days, which is simply not human.

Before he could recover, a new round of kneeling began again.Xue Pan staggered to his feet and barely fell down. Fortunately, there was a nobleman who was as big as a grain of rice beside him to support him, "Brother Xue, be careful."

Xue Pan hurriedly stood up, was about to smile and thank him, but thought of the current situation in a trance, quickly suppressed his smile, and thanked him in a low voice.

Xue Pan was dizzy, the man's voice seemed familiar, but they both kept their voices down, and on such occasions, after getting up, they knelt down again and forgot about it.I just want to ask Heizi after I go back, find this person, and send a thank you gift as a reward for the kindness of support.

It's hard to hope that this day will come to an end, and the people who came to express their condolences will leave in twos.I have to go back to have a rest, but there are still two days of suffering to endure.

Xue Pan also wiped the sweat stains on his forehead, thinking that the clothes on his body might be squeezed out of water.

Before he left the palace gate, he saw a small eunuch standing guard on one side. Seeing him coming, he rushed up to greet him and said: "Master Xue, take a step, Your Majesty is calling you over." After finishing speaking, he lowered his voice and said something , "The Ninth Prince is also inside."

Xue Pan didn't think too much, and followed the little inner prisoner.

The little eunuch followed behind Xue Pan, quietly turned around and looked around, seeing that no one noticed them, he left with Xue Pan.

Although Xue Pan has been in the palace several times, the palace is huge, and it is not like his own house where he can walk around at will, so he is not familiar with the roads.Being led by the inner prisoner for a while, Xue Pan was drenched in sweat again, and couldn't help asking, "Why haven't you arrived yet?"

The little eunuch was thinking about something in his mind, when Xue Pan asked him a question, he was startled, and he stumbled back, "It's... it's here... it's in front."

Xue Pan looked at the eunuch suspiciously, "Which eunuch are you from? Why haven't I seen you?" Actually, Xue Pan didn't know many eunuchs seriously, but he just felt that something was wrong, so what the hell? Just a small prisoner.

The little eunuch was a ghost in his heart, and he forced himself to calm down and said: "The little one is under Grandpa Dai. Because the higher-ups made mistakes, Grandpa Dai just promoted the slaves. I'm afraid Mr. Xue has never seen him before." Slave."

"Oh..." Xue Pan responded meaningfully, with some inexplicable doubts in his heart.

Stopped, Xue Pan sat down on the ground, said: "No, my lord can't walk anymore, you go back to the Ninth Prince and ask him to pick me up."

The little eunuch said anxiously: "This... this..."

Xue Pan said: "I was injured a few days ago, His Majesty the Emperor knows about it, you just go and answer, and I will take care of everything else." around.Now I have doubts in my heart, just now I broke out in a cold sweat, after walking for so long, except for the little eunuch leading the way, I didn't even see a maid in the palace.Although the emperor died, the palace was inevitably in a panic, but it's not like there is no one there, right?It's a little too unusual.

Seeing that Xue Pan really sat down and couldn't get up, the little eunuch panicked, looked around, and finally persuaded him: "The Holy One and the Ninth Prince are both guarding the late emperor, and now they are waiting for the Lord." Well, if the lord doesn't go there, I'm afraid the holy order will be delayed, how can the sage forgive me lightly."

However, Xue Pan played tricks, took off his shoes and stayed on the side, then pulled off his sweaty socks, revealing his pink and tender feet, "Look, my feet are all red, how can I walk?"

The little inner eunuch had no choice but to say hello, and immediately several burly men appeared beside Xue Pan.Xue Pan shivered in fright, and hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, I understand, don't you just go, don't touch me, I will go by myself."

The leading man scolded softly, "Hurry up!" If the master hadn't told him not to be rough, he would have been unable to restrain himself, and rushed the boy along the way.

Xue Pan resentfully put the socks back on, they were very sticky and uncomfortable, so he pulled them off again.

The man tightened his grip on the handle of the knife, and shouted: "What are you doing? Don't wear it quickly? Waiting for Grandpa to serve you?"

Xue Pan said: "These socks are wet..." Seeing that the big man was about to drink again, he put on his shoes and put the socks on his belt to dry.Standing up, he limped forward, "Okay, okay, let's go, don't dawdle."

The big man really wanted to give this boy a hard time, so he couldn't disobey the order, so he suppressed his anger and thought to himself: When the big thing is done, the first thing to do is to send this boy to the west.

Xue Pan muttered softly: If you want to be my grandfather, my grandfather died long ago...

Xue Pan stumbled and followed the group of people for a while, and then came to a palace. The little inner eunuch let him go in by himself, and the big man closed the door and locked it.

Xue Pan was imprisoned in the palace, first he couldn't help slapping and shouting, but when he saw that the people outside were unmoved, he calmed down and thought about the current situation secretly.

If he can't do it, the emperor will lock him up. If the emperor did this, it would be good if someone caught him directly. There is really no need to use such a sneaky trick.Thinking about this journey, there is no one in the palace, and this palace is also empty, obviously it does not belong to His Majesty the Emperor.

Could it be that the prince caused the palace change?

This is not impossible.Think about it, today is not rich.The birth mother of the eldest prince was an old man when she went to the Qian mansion today, but her fate was not good. When the second prince was born, it happened that Prince Zhongyi conspired to change. She was a little frightened. She bled profusely during childbirth. She struggled all day and night to give birth to a cat like a cat. The child of the family did not make it through after all, and the child followed him soon after he was born.

Because of her meritorious service in giving birth, she was given the title of imperial concubine after ascending the throne.However, the eldest prince was not favored much, and he was not entrusted to any concubine to raise him, he was only raised in the prince's house.When I got older, I became wiser, and knew that I would not be favored by my father, so I went all out for the emperor.After all, is it his own grandson? The emperor felt bored just after he abdicated, so he raised him like a cat or dog.The concubine liked him very much, so he got close to her.

According to the letter that Heizi faintly revealed to himself, there might be something wrong with the eldest prince's life experience.And that time he was almost starved to death, Yuan found out that he had some problems with the eldest prince, but he never thought that the eldest prince was so stupid, so he let it go, now it seems that it is not easy to say.

The eldest prince is close to the concubine, and the concubine is the mother of Prince Zhongshun. If there is no relationship between these two people, a fool would believe it.Although the eldest prince is not close to Zhongshun on the surface, Zhongshun also looks down on him in every possible way, so who knows how the two of them are doing in private?

Both the second prince and the prince are the sons of Empress Chen. Empress Chen and this young couple are also cousins ​​of the uncle's family, and they have always been close.If Empress Chen is not a fool, her son will definitely be the emperor in hundreds of years, so she really doesn't need to do such petty tricks.Although the second prince and the prince's qualifications are inferior, if there are capable ministers and officials in the court, they can barely be a conservative monarch, but they really don't seem to have the courage to force the palace.

While he was thinking over and over again, he heard the sound of fighting outside.After looking at the crack of the door for a while, the door was too tight, so I didn't see anything.

After waiting quietly for a while, he heard the sound of the copper lock being opened. The door of the temple opened, but there was a familiar face.Xue Pan exclaimed in surprise, "Liu Xianglian!"