[Qing Chuan] Mu Emperor's Grace

Hongli sneered: "Really? I thought that during the Wanshou and Qianqiu festivals, those people who shouted long live laughed at me and the Queen Mother..."

He Shen frowned and said, "Your Majesty...the empress dowager has returned...her old man has reunited with the former emperor..."

Hongli wiped his face with his empty hand, took a deep breath and said, "The queen's mother is gone... reunited with Huang Kao, but left me alone..."

He Shen raised his hand and pressed Hongli's arm: "Hongli...you look at me..."

This address was like a switch, which made Hongli startled suddenly, then turned his head and looked at He Shen in confusion.

Seeing that Hongli turned his head away, He Shen put his arms around his neck, their foreheads touched, and Hongli heard He Shen whispered: "Your Majesty...you are not alone...you still have me..."

The two embraced for a moment, and He Shen felt something fall on his lapel, and when he let go, he found that it was Hongli's tears.

Seeing that Heshen found traces of tears, Hongli just wanted to raise his hand to cover his face, but Heshen held his arm: "If the emperor wants to cry...then cry...I will stay here Your Majesty, no one else has seen..."

Hongli looked at Heshen in astonishment, but the young man just looked at him tenderly. Seeing him looking over, he patted himself on the shoulder: "If the emperor needs it, you can lie on my shoulder and cry, even if your clothes are dirty. I won't blame the emperor either..." He Shen's tone was so natural, as if he was talking about food and clothing, and Hongli forgot to be sad for a while.

Hongli asked suspiciously: "Don't you think... the emperor shouldn't cry?"

He Shen was taken aback when he heard the words, and said with a broken smile: "Of course not. Although the emperor is high, he is just a mortal after all. If the emperor can't cry, wouldn't it mean that he can't even have ordinary desires such as dressing and eating?" ?Since there are seven emotions and six desires, why not cry?"

He Shen's tone was casual, but it set off waves of storms in Hongli's heart.Since Hongli was sensible, both the maid who served him and his biological mother told him that he was the most beloved child of the holy grandfather, and he was very likely to succeed to the throne in the future.He was taught since he was a child that a man does not cry easily.Even if she curled her lips when she accidentally fell, she would be warned by the Queen Mother not to cry.During the years when he became an emperor, no one told him like He Shen that emperors also have emotions and desires, and emperors also have the right to cry.

Hongli slowly leaned on Heshen's shoulder, and suddenly opened his mouth to bite the skin under the clothes. The suppressed crying came into Heshen's ears, and Heshen put his arms around Hongli's body. Imagine how long Hongli's tears have been suppressed. Even when his relatives died, Hongli couldn't cry in front of people, just because he was the emperor who attracted the attention of thousands of people, and he couldn't collapse.

The more concubines, elder brothers, and princesses cry, the more others will praise them for their pure filial piety. Only Hongli, as if everyone has forgotten, he will also be sad, sad, hesitant, and cry.

Tears wet the clothes on Heshen's shoulders, Hongli's mouth was not weak, and Heshen maintained a posture for a long time. Although it was uncomfortable, he knew that no matter what, it would not be more uncomfortable than Hongli now.

There was a stalemate like this for a while, maybe because his teeth were sore, or maybe he was crying too much, Hongli gradually stopped crying, and when he finally let go of his mouth, a piece of shirt on He Shen's shoulders was too wrinkled to see.

Hongli raised his head with a red nose, He Shen didn't say anything, he just raised his sleeves and carefully wiped off the tears on Hongli's face.

Hongli walked to the table, poured a cup of cold tea, and drank it all in one gulp. When he returned to Heshen again, the redness on the tip of his nose had disappeared a little, and his emotions just now were hidden. .

He asked softly: "Did I bite you just now?"

Just as He Shen was about to shake his head, he heard Hongli say, "Don't coax me, just untie your clothes and let me have a look."

He Shen was taken aback. Now there were a group of attendants waiting outside the Qingque Fang. Although they were all waiting outside the door, He Shen would never have imagined that Hongli would let him undress at this moment.

He declined and said: "Your Majesty... the empress dowager's bones are not yet cold, I'm afraid this move is inappropriate, and it may collide with the empress dowager's phoenix body."

Hongli frowned, took Heshen's hand, led him to the outer room separated from the inner room by a screen, and closed all the portholes around. After confirming that it was correct, he said: "Take it off..."

Seeing that Hongli was determined to do this, He Shen had no choice but to bite the bullet and take off the mandarin jacket, revealing the regular robes inside.

Hongli raised his eyebrows and said, "Willow green?"

He Shen nodded, and then unbuttoned the uniform robe, revealing his thin waist and abdomen. He Shen glanced at Hongli a little cautiously, saw that he was only staring at his shoulder, and put down a hanging heart.

Unexpectedly, the next second, Hongli's hand caressed the skin on the shoulder. Perhaps it had just been bitten, and that piece of skin reacted so strongly to a slight touch that it felt numb.

Just as He Shen was about to speak, he felt that Hongli was slowly stroking his shoulder with his fingertips. There were anxiously waiting people outside. , giving him a strange sense of excitement.

Fortunately, the young man has not completely forgotten where he is, and just as he was about to move, he heard Hongli say: "Don't move... I saw a row of tooth marks on it, fortunately there is no bleeding..." Hongli said Li suddenly leaned over to He Shen's ear, and said softly, "I will bite lightly next time."

He Shen blushed, he couldn't figure out how Hongli could express such an upright sentence with the boundless charm of romance.

The young man nodded, and quickly buttoned the button. He picked up the teacup on the table, drank the tea in the cup, and then suddenly remembered that it was the cup used by Hongli.The heat on his face, instead of showing signs of relieving, seemed to be getting worse.

This episode made both of them seem to forget that there are still a lot of things outside waiting for them to deal with.After Heshen put on his clothes, Hongli's complexion returned to his initial solemnity. He walked to the inner room and knelt down towards the empress dowager's body.He Shen only heard three beeps, and when he looked outside the screen, he realized that it was the Empress Dowager Hongli who kowtowed three times.Then Hongli stepped forward, laid the empress dowager's already stiff body flat, and smoothed out her silver hair one by one. Her cautious movements seemed to be afraid of waking up a sleeping person.

After Hongli finished all this, he slowly turned to He Shen, held his head high, and asked with his arms slightly outstretched, "Does I look okay?"

He Shen stepped forward, carefully adjusted Hongli's cuffs, and immediately responded: "The emperor's celestial appearance..."

The smile on Hongli's lips was fleeting, and He Shen followed him out of the cabin. The accompanying concubines, elder brothers, and princesses were all standing on the pier. Seeing Hongli coming out, the ten princesses hurried forward and asked : "Huang Ama... where is the emperor's grandmother?"

Hongli's eyes were a little frozen, his eyes swept over the delicate face of the tenth princess, and he couldn't bear to look directly at her expectant expression.There was originally a smile on Princess Ten's face, but when faced with Hongli's gloomy expression, that smile gradually froze.

She heard Hongli say with difficulty: "The Empress Dowager... passed away..."

In just five words, Hongli's voice was not loud, but it was like knocking a sap on the forehead of the tenth princess, which made her brain ache.

"How...how..." she murmured in disbelief, she took two steps back, stared at Hongli with her bright eyes, and laughed to herself after a while: "I see...Huang Ama is joking with her daughter again It's already..." The girl returned to her charming and charming appearance.

"Do I look so easy to deceive?" Ten Princess said, and she was about to pass Hongli into the cabin, but Hongli stretched out her long arm and held her firmly in her arms.

Hongli straightened the bangs on her forehead that had been blown by the wind, and said in a hoarse voice: "Shi Ge'er, go back to the shore and tidy up with everyone, and then come to see your imperial grandmother for the last time."

The tenth princess looked at Hongli intently, trying to find traces of a joke on her face, but the emperor's eyes, which were always smiling in front of her, were now filled with gloom, and the black pupils were like a pool of stagnant water.

The tenth princess finally realized that things might not be as simple as she imagined. She stared at the emperor with wet eyes, inexplicably reminding Hongli of the Shih Tzu dogs kept in the palace.

"Huang Ama, you lied to me... right?" The tenth princess gritted her teeth and asked, an ominous intuition surged all over the girl. Her father, just staring at her in silence, almost made her cry speak up.

"Huang Ama, talk to me...you tell me...the emperor's grandmother is still sitting in the boat, I go in to say hello, and Aunt Baomao will set out a pile of food. If I use more, the emperor The happier grandma is..." The tenth princess couldn't continue, her bright eyes were filled with tears, as if they would roll down in a blink of an eye.

She begged so sadly, but Hongli didn't say anything, he just wrapped him in his arms, and supported his daughter with his solid arms, preventing her from falling to the ground when her legs softened.

The tenth princess knew that she would never get an answer from Hongli, so she slowly turned her gaze to Heshen behind Hongli, and asked softly, "Heshen, tell me the truth..."

She was looking forward to hearing a different answer from Heshen, but Heshen just looked up at her, and then replied, "My condolences..."

The tenth princess couldn't accept it no matter what. The imperial grandmother who was accompanied by herself on the boat at noon had already fallen into a long sleep. She shook her head in a panic: "No...it won't..."

When she blinked, tears rolled down like beads, and she couldn't even make a coherent cry, but just opened her mouth, and let out hysterical wails one after another as if she had exhausted all her strength.

Gradually, she didn't even have the strength to hang on Hongli's body, so Hongli could only squat down with her strength.He heard the tenth princess trembling and said in a trembling voice: "Huang Ama...the emperor's grandmother is lying...she said that she wants to watch me grow up, watch me get married, choose a good forehead for me, and do it for me with her own hands." Insert the hairpin...she lied..."

Hongli caressed the back of the tenth princess, and said softly: "Shigeer, the empress mother-in-law has confessed to me, and asked me to find someone for you. She didn't lie to you, she has always... looking at you..."

The tenth princess cried even more fiercely when she heard the words, she said stubbornly: "I will not marry anyone... I want to stay with the emperor's grandmother..."

Everyone on the shore paid attention to the movement here. Concubine Dun was anxious when she saw her daughter suddenly fall down, but she didn't dare to act in front of Concubine Ling, so she could only stand on tiptoe and look at the boat.

Finally, Concubine Ling couldn't hold back anymore, and led Concubine Dun and the two elder brothers forward. Concubine Dun panicked when she saw Shi Gege's appearance at first glance: "Ten Ge'er... what's wrong..."

Shigege naturally had no time to answer her, and Hongli just hugged Shigeer, and didn't intend to open his mouth.Concubine Dun was humiliated, so she could only stand aside embarrassingly, but Concubine Ling said, "Heshen... you say..."

He Shen saluted according to the rules, frowned and said sadly: "The Empress Dowager... Yu just passed away..."

Concubine Dun opened her mouth wide in surprise, and then suddenly remembered, she hurriedly covered it with a handkerchief, she slowed down for a moment, and finally couldn't help crying, because the Queen Mother loves Shi Gege, she is very tolerant and loving to her biological mother .Concubine Dun cried together, and the noble concubine couldn't help crying. She didn't make a sound when she cried, but the tears fell down in big drops, but the sad expression on her face was more noticeable than Concubine Dun's crying.

Yong Yan supported her behind him, thinking of the loving emperor's grandmother, he couldn't help blushing.The sad atmosphere began to spread in an instant, and Yong Xin was probably the only one who did not shed tears. He just stood there silently, feeling that everything around him was like a dream. When he woke up from the dream, he was still in Shoukang Palace. Sitting beside the Empress Dowager, Baomao peeled sugar-fried chestnuts for him. When the Empress Dowager greeted the Empress Dowager, she still had long black and straight hair, sitting on the embroidered pier, carefully asking him about his homework, and then generously greeted him. praise him.

However, the young man was thinking like this, but suddenly heard a sentence in his ear: "Cold-hearted monster, how could I have a son like you."

Yongzheng suddenly woke up from the dream, and before he looked around in a daze, he saw Hongli staring at him with dissatisfaction in his eyes.He looked around and saw that Concubine Ling and others had already knelt down, and he was the only one standing in a daze in the whole boat, not knowing what he was thinking.

Yong Xing opened his mouth, but he didn't know how to explain it. This was not the first time the emperor commented on him being ruthless. I don't know when, this has almost become an established impression in his father's mind.

During the period when Yongzhen recovered his sanity and thinking, Hongli had been observing him, but what he saw on Yongzhen's face was only indifference and confusion. Standing in place, as if everything around him had nothing to do with him.

Hongli did not give up trying to find a trace of annoyance and moistness in his eyes, but he failed, and Hongli felt that he understood: maybe no one but Ulanara could make Yongzheng feel true love. reveal.

He Shen frowned and watched Yong Xin's actions, and couldn't help but sigh the resemblance between father and son.As the saying goes, the authorities are obsessed, but the bystanders are clear. Hongli himself did not find out at all. Except for Yongzheng, he himself did not shed tears.They are all good at hiding their emotions, showing their strong side, and leaving their softness to those closest to them.

However, to Heshen's surprise, Hongli did not forgive Yongzheng, and Heshen felt that the Yizhi in his sleeve was extremely hot when he heard the reprimand.

"Yongzhen, don't forget, it was you who insisted on my immediate return to Luan. If you hadn't insisted on going your own way, Queen Empress wouldn't have been so tired..."

Hongli repeatedly stimulated Yongzhen with words, hoping that he would have emotional fluctuations, but Yongzhen just lowered his head and accepted all the blame.

The two concubines kneeling in front of him, none of them pleaded for him, but Yongyan quietly took La Yongxin's hand by his side, motioning him to kneel down.Yong Yan glanced at him, seeing that Yong Yan's eyes were red, obviously he had cried.He knelt down obediently, but felt that he was out of place with the kneeling people around him.

Why is it so easy to get red eye sockets? Yong Xin felt his heart was blocked, but his eye sockets were dry, and the tears seemed to have dried up, and they couldn't flow out no matter what.

Looking at it from Hongli's point of view, among the crowd, only Yongzheng had a confused expression and no regrets at all. His heart was so chilled that even his arms around Shi Gege trembled slightly.

Shigege stopped crying as if he felt something, and said to Hongli with red eyes: "Huang Ama...don't blame Brother Twelve, among all elder brothers, Brother Twelve is the closest to the emperor's grandmother. This is not obvious on the surface, but it hurts in the heart."

After Hongli heard the words, his mood eased a little.

He slowly helped Shi Gege up, and then walked over the kneeling crowd to the shore. The local officials kneeling beside the road all bowed their heads, avoiding the emperor's wrath.

The magistrate of Dongchang knelt on the ground, trembling all over, Hongli looked at him like an angry leopard staring at its prey and trying to eat him alive.

"Okay, what a Qingquefang..." Hongli sneered and said, "I see that you intend to murder the Empress Dowager..."

Hearing the words, the magistrate of Dongchang couldn't hold back any longer and fell limp on the ground. The man's nose and tears flowed down his face, and he cried out, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please forgive me...the sinner... I beg the emperor to forgive the sinner for his unintentional mistakes... ..."

"An unintentional mistake?" Hongli pondered those four words carefully, and suddenly shouted: "What an unintentional mistake... Your unintentional mistake today made the Empress Dowager die, and another intentional mistake tomorrow, is it right?" Even take my life?"

Hongli's angry shout made the magistrate unable to get up like a puddle of mud, and he murmured unconsciously: "Sinner...sinner..."

Hongli said: "Drag it on, and be buried with the empress dowager..." He didn't look at the magistrate again, turned and left.