Those Years In Quest Of Honor Mine

Prince Yu Yu Mucheng entered the inner room of the Nuan Pavilion, looked at Xuan Qiong who was still lying on the bed, put down the bed curtain for him, and walked out.

Outside, Concubine Yu didn't apply makeup, her eyes were red, seeing Yu Mucheng came out, tears were still on the verge of falling, "Brother..."

"Keep your voice down, His Highness the Fifth Prince is asleep." Yu Mucheng sat down, "I just asked the imperial physician and he said it's all right. If that's the case, when he wakes up, you can go with him to His Highness the Third Prince's..."

"Don't go!" Concubine Yu was stunned, "What are you going to do? When I met Yu She, should I pretend I didn't see it, or did I pretend that he never pushed Qiong'er into the water?!"

Yu Mucheng frowned: "Didn't you already make it clear? The two of them were watching the water by the lake, and His Royal Highness didn't check for a while..."

Concubine Yu was furious: "What the emperor used to deceive others, are you now fooling me? You heard it too, Yu She himself admitted that he was the one who pushed Qiong'er into the water!"

"So what?" Yu Mucheng's voice was still very soft, "If your empress refuses to accept, do you want to make another scene in front of the emperor? Let Ziyou learn those idiot words His Highness Fifth said again?"

Concubine Yu bit her lip and stopped talking.

"If you haven't remembered clearly, then I'll tell you again." Yu Mucheng looked at his own sister and said in a low voice, "Don't tell His Highness the Fifth Highness what you heard from hearsay, and don't pretend to be smart, delusional, Those superfluous things... Your Majesty hates people mentioning those invisible things the most. Why do you just like to mention them? It’s fine to say it yourself, but you still have to tell His Highness the Fifth Highness. His Highness has grown up, and he is like a gossip. , Say those words behind your back! What does it look like?"

Concubine Yu's face turned pale with anger: "You say I'm a gossip? Well, I don't know it, so tell me clearly today, is Yu She your son? The eldest princess was pregnant in June that year. I only brought the baby back in July of the Chinese New Year. I insisted that it was a few months old. Didn’t I give birth myself? It’s obviously a baby that just landed! You..."

"Ziyou was born early by the princess, so he was naturally weaker than other children in his infancy." Yu Mucheng said helplessly, "I have told you this many times, what do you really want to hear from me?"

"I want to hear the truth!" Concubine Yu sullenly said, "I want to know if Qiong'er and I have been making wedding dresses for others all these years!"

Yu Mucheng said, "Then let me say it again, no."

"Okay, if he is really your son, let him come here now, kneel here and kowtow to make amends!" Concubine Yu sneered, "He must listen to what my father says, right? Go and call him!"

Yu Mucheng laughed: "Aren't you making trouble out of nothing? The emperor has already said that it's His Highness the fifth prince who doesn't care about it for a while..."

"Don't use the emperor to prevaricate me!" Concubine Yu's face turned pale angrily, "I didn't care about your business, anyway, you have recognized it yourself, and you have to pass on the throne that your grandfather saved so hard to pass on to him. I’m a married woman, I don’t say anything about her natal family! But what about the emperor? I can bear how much I like him, and I can bear to let Yu She put everything on Qionger’s head. Now? You have already moved to kill Qiong'er, and you are still protecting him! Then the mountain will collapse in the future! Yu She wants our mother and son to be buried, are you in a hurry to send Bai Ling for him?!"

Yu Mucheng frowned: "What are you talking about? Let others hear... is it absurd?"

"Is there anything more absurd than Yu She?" Concubine Yu said coldly, "Brother... I am completely disappointed this time, you want to raise a son for someone else, don't pull me, I am just a child like Qiong'er, If he can't be crown prince, I will hang here to avoid being humiliated by Yu She in the future!"

"Shut up!" Yu Mucheng was furious, "You don't think Qiong'er has been hurt enough, do you?"

Concubine Yu shed tears angrily: "You...you..."

Yu Mucheng took a deep breath, and suppressed the fire, "There is no precedent in my dynasty for the burial of concubines, so don't speculate out of thin air and make His Highness the Fifth Highness uneasy."

"No?" Concubine Yu sneered, "How did the big and small concubines of the previous dynasty die?"

Yu Mucheng's eyes moved suddenly.After a while, he said: "After the late emperor left, the concubines Zhong and Concubine were overwhelmed with grief and died without medical treatment."

Concubine Yu sneered, "Really? What a coincidence."

Yu Mucheng lowered his head to drink tea, and after a while he said: "Okay, if you want to hear this, I'll tell you something... Concubine Zhong Guifei had a son in the former court, who is King Ning, you must know about it?"

Concubine Yu didn't understand how Yu Mucheng said this, she frowned: "Naturally."

"Prince Ning was young and intelligent, with extraordinary talents, and his appearance resembled that of the late emperor. He was very fond of the late emperor, but it's a pity..." Yu Mucheng put down the tea cup, and said softly, "He is the youngest son of the late emperor when he was only 50 years old."

Concubine Yu nodded: "I, I know."

Yu Mucheng said slowly: "When the late emperor was in his old age, he touched Liyou's heart. Many old officials knew it, so there was no need to hide anything. Let's not mention this. You know that the first person who wanted to kill the late emperor was the one who wanted to kill him. Who is it?"

Concubine Yu was startled, and subconsciously asked, "Who?"

Yu Mucheng said: "Concubine Zhong Gui."

Concubine Yu's complexion changed drastically.

Yu Mucheng looked at her, and asked softly: "Do you think the late emperor wanted to move today?"

Concubine Yu was sweating coldly on her forehead, she didn't dare to nod or shake her head.

"How is it possible, the emperor will only be partial and will not have murderous intentions, because those are his own sons... But the concubines are different." Yu Mucheng continued, "The concubine Zhong Gui just turned [-] that day, and she is in good health. Saying that there are still decades to live, compared to the present emperor who may threaten the throne, the late emperor is more worried about the young concubine, afraid that she will support his relatives, fear that she will manipulate the young emperor, and fear that she will interfere in the government!"

"Emperors are cruel. Concubine Zhong Guifei escaped that day. It was because of the sudden departure of the late emperor. It was her fate. If not...she will go down and wait before the late emperor dies." Yu Mucheng looked at Yu Mucheng. Concubine, "The emperor will be soft-hearted and selfish towards his son, but not towards his concubine. If the emperor feels that you have interfered too much with His Royal Highness's affairs..."

Concubine Yu fell on the soft cushion of the chair, sweat streaming down her forehead.

Yu Mucheng smiled: "Of course, if the emperor has no intention of making His Highness the fifth prince, he won't be afraid of your petty actions, but this is something you don't like... So sister, do you understand?"

Concubine Yu completely lost her arrogance just now, wiped off her sweat, and said in a hoarse voice: "Understood."

"Of course, you are different from Concubine Zhong." Yu Mucheng got up and said in a low voice, "You are the daughter of our Prince Yu's mansion, as long as you don't do anything foolish, the emperor will not touch you, and will always treat His Royal Highness differently." treat."

Concubine Yu panicked: "Are you really lying to me? Your Majesty...will you really value Qiong'er more?"

"Yes." Yu Mucheng reassured, "His natal family is our palace, and if I don't fall, he will always be more likely than others. As long as he doesn't violate the emperor's taboo again, Madam, it's okay to advise Fifth Highness to calm down. Just do the errands assigned to him by the emperor, and that's it."

Concubine Yu was still not reconciled: "But, but... in case the emperor gets confused in the future, he insists on standing up for Yu..."

"Your Majesty." Yu Mucheng interrupted Concubine Yu, "I repeat, Ziyou's surname is Yu, he is my son, so it is impossible for him to succeed, understand?"

Concubine Yu thought for a while, and finally understood, she said anxiously: "I, shouldn't I mention this? I..."

"I shouldn't mention it." Yu Mucheng tried his best to be patient, "I have never understood why you all like to stir up these things, are you anxious to prove something for him?"

"I'm afraid that the emperor has other thoughts!" Concubine Yu wept, "And... I think Yu She knows more than I do. Can you guarantee that he doesn't have such thoughts?"

Yu Mucheng lowered his head: "I promise, he didn't."

On the third prince's residence.

Zhong Wan also changed into mourning clothes, and led the bewildered Xuan Yu into the mansion. The two separated immediately. Someone took Xuan Yu to burn incense for Xuan Jin. Kneel for a while.

Zhong Wan has seen Xuan Jin at least twice, but Xiao Xuanyu has never seen her once. Even though she is her own cousin, she can't cry, she can only think about her elder brother shed a few tears, and after a while Inside, Xuan Jin's concubine sent someone to persuade her, and several unknown people helped Xuan Yu up, and led Xuan Yu to a coffin shed, where they offered incense and kowtowed again.

Zhong Wan always looked at him from a distance.

After kowtowing this time, Xuan Yu turned her head to look at Zhong Wan. Zhong Wan waved her hand lightly, asking him to follow the others. Xuan Yu put her hands around her mouth and whispered to Zhong Wan, "Find a place to sit!"

Zhong Wan wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, she lowered her head and pretended not to see it, but when she looked up again, Xuan Yu had already been led into the coffin and knelt down with other clan members.

Xuan Yu was the youngest, kneeling among a group of people in filial piety, looking pitiful.

Outside the coffin, there are many people like Zhong Wan. They don't need to kneel down, but they can't wait in the outer courtyard like servants.

Zhong Wanqiong was extremely bored, he made fun of himself, wondering if Yu She would come today.

Emperor Chong'an didn't go into the matter of falling into the water, but put Yu She under house arrest. If it was someone else, he would have to be trembling when he was under house arrest.

Being left by Emperor Chong'an for questioning, when Xuan Qiong didn't know if he was alive or dead, he could be distracted and have someone abduct him. Such a person... house arrest may not be able to hold him.

Sure enough, in less than half an hour, it was announced that Young Master Yu had arrived.

Yu She's ostentation was no less than Prince Yu's. As soon as he came, many people stood up, and the virtuous concubine inside specially sent someone out to follow him, but Yu She didn't enter the inner courtyard, and went directly to the coffin.

After Yu She lit the incense, he stood up as soon as his knee touched the ground, but the people in the Ministry of Rituals seemed to be completely blind, and they didn't even lift their eyelids.

Zhong Wan looked at it from a distance, amazed, Little Prince Yu didn't come to the funeral, he came to show face.

The dead are the most important, so there is no need for Yu She not to mention such etiquette, I really don't want to come, I just don't come, let everyone see him like this... What good is there?

Although everyone is used to it.

Zhong Wan tried her best to stand back, not wanting Yu She to see her.

Zhong Wan laughed at himself, Yu She just kicked him out of the mansion two days ago, so he probably didn't want to see him at all.

Before Zhong Wan could find a way to hide, a person in charge came out and greeted them in a low voice: "Come here."

There are more and more clan members, and more and more attendants are crowded together, gradually becoming unsightly. The person in charge of the Third Prince's House finally set up a simple coffin shed in the outer courtyard to house these attendants.

Zhong Wan glanced in Xuan Yu's direction, seeing that he was kneeling obediently, he probably was fine, and left with the others.

Zhong Wan lifted up his clothes and knelt down, not idle in his mind. For a while, he figured out where Xuan Rui and Yan Pingshan had gone, and for a while, he guessed how much water Xuan Qiong drank from the lake. Suddenly it was lifted, and the cold wind came in, Zhong Wan looked up...

Yu She looked inside coldly.

Yu She walked in and sat on the only chair in the coffin.

In front of Zhong Wan.

Zhong Wan: "..."

Everyone looked at each other, got up slowly, and retreated one by one, Zhong Wan wanted to get up with the others, Yu She's eyes flashed a flash of hostility.

Zhong Wan knelt down again.

After a while, there were only two people left in the mourning hall.

The clock is like kneeling on pins and needles.

Yu She stared at the incense candles and other things on the altar table in a daze, without saying a word.

Half an hour later, Zhong Wan's kneeling legs went numb, he moved his legs a little, couldn't help gasping, and accidentally alarmed Yu She.

Yu She looked at Zhong Wan and frowned slightly.

Zhong Wan was afraid that Yu She would misunderstand her again and this was deliberately attracting his attention, so she knelt down obediently.

Zhong Wan knelt down for a while, and heard Yu She suddenly say: "Did you...wake up that day?"

Zhong Wan coughed, "No."

Zhong Wan sneaked a glance at Yu She, and Yu She's complexion seemed to get worse after hearing this.

Zhong Wan groaned inwardly, what was this madman thinking all day long?

Yu She looked at Zhong Wan carefully for a while, as if he was judging whether Zhong Wan was telling the truth or a lie, after a while he whispered: "Debauchery."

Zhong Wan: "..."

Let your mother go.

Yu She didn't pay attention to Zhong Wan any more, he was sitting in the coffin shed, the people outside didn't dare to neglect, they brought in a charcoal basin and hand stove, and even exchanged a pot of good tea for Yu She.

The coffin shed warmed up in an instant, and Yu She sat firmly still.

Zhong Wan secretly groaned, is this person still going away?

Zhong Wan peeked at Yu She from time to time, watched him drink two sips of tea, watched him add charcoal to his hand stove, watched him take out a small notebook from his sleeve...

Does this person take this place as his home and come to live? !

Yu She lowered his head and flipped through the script, taking his time.

Zhong Wan slandered Yu She, and suddenly heard him say: "Don't keep looking at me... When I finish reading, this book will also be given to you."

Zhong Wan staggered in grief and indignation, his legs were so numb that he couldn't use his strength, he staggered and bent down, Yu She frowned: "I will see you off as soon as I see you off, there is no need to kowtow to thank you."

Zhong Wan gritted her teeth and knelt down, not daring to speak out.

Yu She flicked through it for a while, then said lightly, "It's not very interesting... just a bridal chamber, which is interesting."

Zhong Wan pretended not to hear.

Yu She wanted to ask him, "Do you want to watch it?"

Zhong Wan endured the humiliation: "I think so."

"Wait until I finish." Yu She bowed his head, "But I can read it to you first..."

Zhong Wan laughed dryly: "Not good..."

As if he didn't hear, Yu She started to read casually: "I was sitting beside your bed, and you stretched out one hand and grabbed my sleeve..."

Zhong Wan's heart skipped a beat.

There is a god standing three feet above the head... Isn't this person afraid that Xuan Jin has a spirit in the sky and knocks on the door in the middle of the night? !

"I fell in love for a while, I lowered my head and kissed your eyebrows, whispered to make you sleep better, you raised your head, and kissed my lips..."

"I couldn't dodge in time. You kissed me right away, and it fell apart at the first touch. While I was hesitating, you had already parted your lips. You can take whatever you want..."

Zhong Wan blushed and said with great effort: "Yu, Zi, You."

"I just held your shoulders, but you have already put your arms around my waist. You don't allow me to go, and you still mutter my words in a low voice." Yu She closed the book, "You think I'm reading from a story book ? No... It's rare to write about you so badly, I'm talking about that night."

Zhong Wan felt numb all over.