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As soon as the Empress Dowager came in, her eyes turned to Mu Yuanyong and Kong Jiazi, and then to the sand table: "Why haven't they been confiscated yet?"

She was about to send someone, but the young general stepped forward: "Your Majesty, you don't know, I am telling the Thirteenth Prince about the battle last night."

She gave a soft oh, looked at Mu Yuanyong and suddenly smiled: "I can no longer be called the prince, but the prince..."

She paused for a moment, and said emphatically, "Dayong's Crown Prince."

Mu Yuanyong raised his head to look at her, and his face, which was obviously still relatively young, actually raised a bit of momentum when these words fell, but he disappeared in a flash. If it wasn't for Kong Jiazi who had been staring at her , I thought I was wrong.

Mu Yuanyong returned to his sly look, with a half-smile: "Empress Dowager, you still don't know me, I'm an idiot, what can I do..."

The queen mother didn't take this sentence.

She didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, she threw the gun stick in her hand on the shelf beside her, and interrupted Mu Yuanyong's words with a sound.

Mu Yuanyong: "..." The smile on his face slowly faded, and he only raised his eyes slightly to look at the Queen Mother, without any fear in his eyes.

The young general at the side found that he felt a certain kind of majesty from this prince who seemed to be easy to talk to, the kind of majesty that can only be obtained when he is in a high position all the year round. The real majesty that inexplicably raised a bit of dread.

Quiet.

No one said anything.

Even the maids who were still cleaning up did not move, as if someone had suddenly pressed the still button.

After a while, the queen mother said softly: "Mu Yuanyong."

Mu Yuanyong did not respond.

"You are the second person sent to this position by Aijia."

The Empress Dowager never said this to him in her previous life.

"But Aijia won't have another ten years."

But he could hear a little tiredness from it.

He opened his mouth involuntarily: "Grandmother..."

"He never called me mother." The queen mother sighed, as if she was really tired, and the aura she had forced to squeeze out all night dissipated in an instant. She could only try her best not to hurt her back After playing, just when she swayed as if she was about to fall, a hand reached out to hold her.

She turned her head and saw Kong Jiazi's worried face.

That face suddenly merged with the person in memory.

She couldn't help but feel that the sockets of her eyes were red, but not a single tear came out.

But it felt even more sad than the person who shed tears.

Kong Jiazi realized that the incomparable person in front of her was indeed not made of gold and iron, and all those unbearable blows such as bereavement of sons, husbands, mothers and children had really left traces on her body.

It's just that she is better at covering up than ordinary people.

Thinking of this, the person supported by him put half of his strength on him—she really couldn't stand anymore.

All that was brought to her by the death of the first emperor, in the end only the sentence "he never called me mother" remained.

This is the last of her vulnerability as a woman.

No... the final vulnerability of being a mother.

Mu Yuanyong has never been able to understand this woman in his last life, and he doesn't understand why she has such a powerful and unparalleled power to eliminate all opposing voices, but push him to that position instead of sitting on it herself .

If it is said that she is afraid of the world's criticism, but what she has done is enough for the world to criticize countless people. Up to now, those criticisms can't hurt her in the slightest. She can become Dayong's first female emperor without any worries.

But she didn't.

She seemed to be a flash in the pan, she had been dormant for ten years, and she suddenly showed her sword. Just as everyone was waiting for her next move with bated breath, she quickly withdrew her sword as if she had drawn a sword, and casually handed all the fruits to an unknown prince of the Mu Yuan family. on the head.

Obviously what she has done is enough to be called emperor.

It was not the only one who guessed that Mu Yuanyong was a puppet she helped up.

But Mu Yuanyong himself knew—he really wasn't.

No puppet can have as much power as him. After he took that position, she who has been behind her really doesn't care about anything.

So for a while, he felt that he was so lucky that he couldn't express it in words.

In the fight for the prince earlier, he was in the cold palace, and even if they fought to the death, they couldn't get to his side at all.

The next few princes had almost fought, the winner was already divided, and they were waiting for the emperor to promulgate the crown prince, but in the end, an autumn hunt turned everything into nothing.

On the contrary, he, a guy who was completely ignored by others, survived...

He is also the only prince who survived.

Sometimes he wondered if he was lucky in his previous life. Whoever got this position hadn't gone through a lot of selection, competing with his brothers, fighting with his father, and fighting against the air.

As far as he is concerned, it feels like picking it up for nothing.

When he was the crown prince in the last life, the most elite and best scholars in Dayong surrounded him. He didn't teach general knowledge, the four books and the five classics, what should he teach?

Starting from the simplest and most basic literacy... After all, the homework he missed at that time was not one or two lessons, but he had not received any education at all.

Don't mention how embarrassing it was at the time, but it is impossible for the prince to not even know how to read, and the person who taught the prince must be the most powerful bachelor in Dayong, so there is nothing to do, just use it like this.

But at this moment, Mu Yuanyong is much calmer than he was at the beginning, having received the most elite education and MAX's decades of experience in the job.

At this time, he also saw it more clearly.

Perhaps what the queen mother wanted was not that position. If she wanted, she could have sat in that position ten years ago.

What she wants, maybe it's really simple, is nothing more than Dayong, the country is peaceful and the people are safe, and the people have a good life.

And Mu Yuanyong only realized after decades of tenure that the burden of the country is all on his own body, and it is not so easy. Even if he does not sit in that position and tends to be professional, he must worry about the country in his heart. Min, you can't relax for a moment.

Actually think about it.

The location was not as good as expected.

He finally knelt down on one knee and looked up at the queen mother, just like the first and last husband of the short-lived emperor who died back then.

"Grandmother, this kneeling is owed to you by the entire Mu Yuan family." His voice still had the roughness of a young man's voice, but it had begun to take shape that some adults did not take it seriously.

The empress dowager who was still suppressing her own exhaustion had a hard time suffocating. She never thought that one day, she would get such a sentence from the Mu Yuan family, who was still a teenage boy.

The exhausted body actually raised some strength out of thin air. She grabbed Kong Jiazi's hand and said softly: "What do you say if you really understand?"

Mu Yuanyong raised his head, and there was indeed no fear on his face: "The emperor's grandmother, the emperor's grandson understands."

"Didn't you think that I did everything on purpose, just to steal your Mu Yuan clan's country..." She paused, suddenly a little surprised that she would say that, and her eyes fell on this kid's face On: "Are you not afraid of me at all?"

"I don't know why the emperor's grandson is afraid of his emperor's grandmother?"

"After today, the entire Forbidden City, and the entire Dayong are afraid of me, why aren't you afraid?"

"I don't know why the emperor's grandson is afraid of his emperor's grandmother?"

The queen mother was choked again, and then smiled softly: "That guy gave birth to a good son."

She patted Kong Jiazi's hand, suddenly seemed to remember something, and asked Kong Jiazi: "What about you, I could actually save the Kong family when it was destroyed... Now, don't you hate it?"

Confucius said: "I don't know why my nephew hates my aunt?"

"Your father and mother were indirectly harmed by me, don't you hate it?"

Kong Jiazi asked: "Then why don't I hate the officials who killed them, the first emperor who issued the order, but want to beat around the bush and blame Aunt for all the crimes?"

The Queen Mother sighed, with a complicated face: "At that time, even if I was saved, it would be useless."

She didn't say much, any decision was made by herself after deliberation. Up to this point, she has given up too much, so much that now when she thinks back, she doesn't know whether she has made a profit or a loss... In the end, she just There is an endless mess of confused accounts left.

Probably the understanding of the two children made the scarred woman feel much better. She patted Kong Jiazi's hand, and for the first time remembered her duty as an aunt: "These years...it's really hard for you , now that you have entered the palace and become a lowly citizen, it is not difficult for us to want to get rid of it, but it is rare for you..."

The Confucius family knew what the Empress Dowager meant: "My nephew is not asking for anything now, and I am extremely fortunate to be by His Highness's side, and His Highness has never used my nephew as a servant."

The queen mother really didn't expect that, looking at Mu Yuanyong, seeing his calmness, she couldn't help saying: "It really doesn't look like that person's blood." But thinking of Mu Yuanyong's mother, she knew that this could not be faked.

"Just as long as you feel good in your heart." The queen mother is not someone who cares about fame, and she will not force it. The original intention is completely different.

She was clear about everything, so she talked about other things: "Your name is too rough, and now you are getting older. As your elder, I can't just ignore it like this."

Naturally, Kong Jiazi could not refuse this matter.

Because it was out of good intentions, if you want to be strict, it will hurt your friendship and spoil the atmosphere, so he nodded slightly: "I listen to my aunt."

There was one other thing that was on the lips all the time, but he couldn't find a chance to say it. Seeing that the atmosphere was good, Kong Jiazi simply said it.

"Auntie." He glanced at Mu Yuanyong: "Your Highness has ambitions far away, and now that she is getting older, it will only be a few years before she reaches adulthood..."

He hesitated.

Queen Mother: "If you have something to say, just say it."

"The capital is suffocated, can we go out and play for a few years?"

The author has something to say: Mu Yuanyong: You are too straightforward!