Through the palace of the king of subjugation

Xiaoyao and Cuizhu made the young boy named Li Yu have friends for the first time.

Unlike Xiaobai, Xiaoyao and Cuizhu are real people, they can talk to young Li Yu, help him push the swing behind him, they can laugh and make trouble, they are different playmates, bright and bright.

Xiaoyao is young, timid, introverted, and looks more reserved; on the other hand, Cuizhu, who is two years older, is lively and laughs, can play and make trouble, and can play with the young Li Yu even more.

"The emperor has always been a kind child." Speaking of the child she brought up, Madam Su looked relieved, "He is very kind to the servants and elders around him."

It was Zhou Zheling who took Li Yu out of Yongxiang, saw the world outside, promised him rich clothes and fine food, and perhaps the "freedom" he thought at the time.

The young Li Yu was grateful in his heart.

So even though Zhou Zheling was a very strict elder, the young Li Yu was also close to her, and would pounce on her from afar, calling sweetly, "Grandmother."

"Until one day a few months after the emperor ascended the throne, every afternoon, the empress dowager came to Guangming Palace to check the emperor's homework as usual after handling the urgent documents in the morning papers." Su Momo said with a sinking voice, "the emperor that day It's still the same as usual, and it flew all the way to the empress dowager's legs."

Madam Su came from a poor background and entered the palace at the age of 14. She was an illiterate palace maid, so Li Yu hadn't studied in Yongxiang for seven years; it wasn't until he was picked up by Zhou Zheling that he invited his master to enlighten him.

Those who can choose to accompany the emperor are all children of aristocratic families. All of them were enlightened much earlier than Li Yu. The pampered children are also arrogant. They respect the emperor on the surface, but they are not so easy to get along with in private.

Li Yu stayed among a group of children and always felt that he was the worst one; for fear of disappointing Zhou Zheling, he worked extra hard from then on.

"At noon that day, the emperor insisted on finishing the homework left by Mr. before going to sleep." Su Momo continued: "He took a late nap and woke up late."

At that time, Nanny Su was still the nanny in charge of the imperial court, but the emperor was young, so she was still taking care of the young emperor's food and daily life just like in Yongxiang.

"At that time, the emperor woke up from a nap and asked the old slave, if the empress dowager came to check his homework this afternoon, would he be happy if he saw that he had finished all his homework. Hey—" Su Momo sighed: "The emperor at that time , is really a very simple and good boy, what he thinks about every day is that he wants the empress dowager to praise him..."

"The old slave couldn't bear it, so he comforted the emperor, it will happen."

With a childish heart, no matter how well-behaved and sensible, there are always some thoughts that cannot be hidden.

Especially a child who has been alone for too long.

He can't wait for sharing and companionship.

The young Li Yu was comforted by Madam Su, and danced with joy. He just had a friend and playmate, and he wanted everyone to know about it.

As soon as Xiaoyao and Cuizhu were passed into the bedroom, Zhou Zheling followed.

Naturally, Li Yu didn't get the affirmation he expected, but he never expected that on that day, he would get a nightmare that would haunt him for the rest of his life.

Zhou Zheling was serious and harsh as always, Li Yu was disappointed, but still obediently stood aside and listened to the lecture.

Xiaoyao and Cuizhu also knelt beside them, not daring to move.

"Until the Empress Dowager finished her training and left, everyone stood up and sent them off respectfully..."

Su Momo stopped here for a long time.

"When she passed by Cui Zhu, she suddenly turned around and stopped."

Around Cuizhu's waist was a jade butterfly pendant, which was given to her by Li Yu.

It doesn't have any special meaning either, the string of jade butterflies is also hung with jade beads, and when the steps are a little bigger, it can make a "jingling" green sound; every time Li Yu takes it out to play, the jade beads are so happy clap your hands.

The royal family of Shangning was extravagant and extravagant, so the emperor naturally had countless good things around him, and Li Yu, a girly accessory like the Jade Butterfly, didn't need it, so he gave Cuizhu as a gift.

He was only seven years old, how could he know how many things Zhou Zheling had given him, that string of jade butterflies was Zhou Zheling's dowry.

"Just because of a jade butterfly?" Bai Ou asked incredulously, "Cuizhu just..."

died.

He has been in the palace for so long, and he has never heard the name "Cuizhu" anywhere except in Li Yu's nightmare. It is hard not to think that something bad happened to that girl.

Su Momo was noncommittal, but nodded, "You ask this because, like the emperor back then, you don't know our empress dowager."

The fact that Zhou Zheling was able to enter the palace as a queen was indeed because she was the legitimate daughter of the head of the Zhou family of that generation, but the mother of the Zhou family, Zhou Zheling's mother, was not favored.

Although her father would not spoil his concubine and kill his wife, the one he dotes on most is indeed a concubine who is a high-ranking dowry girl in the family.

As the prostitute of the Zhou family, Zhou Zheling's life was not bad when she was young, but it was not too good. Since then, she has disliked these lowly born women, thinking that they are just frivolous women who rely on climbing the bed; Besides——

Then there's Beauty Xiao.

"During the first emperor's time, almost everyone in the palace knew that the first emperor and Xiao Meiren were young acquaintances. In fact, it was probably the relationship between the emperor and Cuizhu." Su Momo shook her head, "Later, the emperor only favored Xiao Meiren. It also allowed Beauty Xiao to become pregnant earlier than the previous empress, you said, how can our empress dowager, the empress dowager at that time, not hate her."

What's even more hateful is that even though Zhou Zheling dealt with Xiao Meiren, in the end the late emperor still left the only seed in the stomach of Su Rui, who came from a humbler background.

"The empress dowager hates these women of low birth, but she has to face the emperor's eyebrows and eyes that are more and more similar to Miss Xiao every day..."

"Heh—" Madam Su sneered, "It's ironic!"

"I want her to see her dowry items on Cui Zhu who is like Lady Xiao."

"So..." Bai Gu felt his voice was trembling slightly, "She executed Cuizhu."

"At that time, she ordered Cuizhu to be beaten to death with sticks—" Su Momo gritted her teeth, "It's just outside the gate of Guangming Palace, the emperor's bedroom."

At that time, Xiao Yao was dragged out of the door to watch with his own eyes, but Zhou Zheling told Li Yu that it was for his own good.

"Yu'er, you have to remember to Aijia that you are no longer a child from that dirty place in Yongxiang. You have to forget everything before, and only remember that you are already the emperor of the Shangning Dynasty."

The entire hall was filled with the mournful cries of Cui Zhu on the verge of dying.

At that time, Li Yu was only seven years old, and he couldn't even fully understand what was happening in front of him; he huddled in a corner and hugged his arms tightly, and couldn't quite hear what Zhou Zheling was saying.

He only remembered that Cuizhu's voice was clear and crisp like jade beads colliding, but now it broke out hoarsely, like a desperate cry from hell, almost tore his eardrums apart.

Until Zhou Zheling walked in front of him, the voice mixed with Cuizhu's cries, falling into his ears word by word—

"It doesn't matter if you can't remember—"

"You are the emperor, and the emperor will never make mistakes. If the emperor does make a mistake, someone else will take care of it for you."

At the age of seven, Zhou Zheling's emotionless words and Cuizhu's crying were engraved into Li Yu's mind, and finally became entangled into a long-term nightmare——

It can no longer be erased.

"Yu'er, he... At that time..." Bai Ou felt a throbbing pain in his chest and choked up several times. After several attempts, he finally asked, "Did you see anything?" Su Momo shook her head, "At that time, even the old slave In the hall, I never saw Xiao Yao being taken out to learn the rules, but after a while, he also fainted from fright."

"After that time, Xiao Yao was seriously ill. After waking up, he told the old slave that he couldn't remember the scene at that time. He only remembered that before he fainted, his eyes were all red."

Bai Gu didn't understand until now why Li Yu was so determined to ask him to go at that time——

In this harem, if there is no power, the living people will be cramped to pieces and swallowed alive.

A seven-year-old child who is alone and has no one to rely on, how difficult it must be to get to where he is today in the harem full of thorns.

"How much does Yu'er know about these things?" Bai Gu hesitated, as if afraid of the answer.

"The old slave doesn't know either, but if the old slave's guess is right—" Madam Su sighed, "The emperor didn't know at the time, but later he gradually got a rough idea."

What happened to Cuizhu greatly frightened the young Li Yu. Although he didn't see the execution process outside the bedroom at that time, he always cried and told Mother Su that there was blood outside his palace.

For many days afterwards, he hid in the bedroom with Xiao Bai in his arms, refusing to step out of the hall door.

It wasn't until one day when he woke up that Xiaobai was gone, the little emperor cried and went out to look for him.

But Xiaobai hanged himself under the tree where Baiou first met Li Yu and sent Xiaoyu to him——

Xiaobai was buried there.

"Also..." Bai Ou clenched his fists, "Zhou Zheling did it?"

"This matter... no one knows about it." Su Momo shook her head, "It's just that the old slave accompanied the emperor to bury Xiaobai and returned to the bedroom. There was a beautiful Persian cat with mandarin duck eyes inside."

Zhou Zheling specially sent someone to leave a message, saying that he would give a "pure blood" Persian cat to accompany the emperor.

"At that time, His Majesty was trembling with the big white cat in his arms, and desperately wanted to rush to Yannian Hall..." Su Nanny still shook her head, "Even the old slave couldn't stop it."

"What happened next?" White Gull asked nervously.

"Later, she was stopped by the third lady of the Zhou family outside Yannian Hall." Madam Su replied: "Miss Wednesday was just taken into the palace at that time, and she was hiding under the tree outside Yannian Hall crying for some reason; He has always been a kind child, and he followed the cry and found it."

"The old slave doesn't know what Miss Wednesday said to the emperor at that time, but after the emperor came back, he no longer insisted on going to Yannian Palace; the Persian cat was also given to Miss Wednesday by the emperor, and Miss Wednesday took good care of it. , didn’t die of illness until two years ago.”

In the following years, Xiao Yao grew up slowly, but he did not rise up step by step like the general servants who grew up with the emperor, but was always a low-ranking servant in Guangming Palace.

Su Momo was also transferred from the imperial court, and was demoted step by step to be an old palace servant who turned the bucket down.

"So this old slave guesses that His Majesty probably knows something. Maybe he asked Chen Zhen, maybe he found out by himself." Su Momo continued: "Because in the eyes of the emperor, who is he good to and close to? That person is guilty in Zhou Zheling's eyes."

"When the first emperor passed away and had no sons, this old slave knew that the emperor's day was coming. It was the old slave who spread the rumor that the late emperor had left a child in Yongxiang. It was precisely because of this that the emperor wanted to arrange the old slave in the most inconspicuous place. In the seat, the old slave is considerate."

"Even if it is Xiaotao, the emperor will personally punish her. After all, Xiaotao made a mistake. If the emperor covers her up, she may not be able to save her life when she goes to the empress dowager to receive the punishment."

"However..." Su Momo changed the subject, "The emperor also came to ask this old slave about the story of the late emperor and Xiao Meiren before. I guess he had some guesses, but he didn't know all the details."

After Madam Su finished speaking, she said nothing, Bai Gu also thoughtfully, nodding her head silently.

His thoughts were chaotic, distressed, angry, intolerable, as well as fear and worry about the foreseeable and unforeseen disaster in the future.

He thought he had untied Su Rui's knot for Li Yu, but he never thought that there was a deeper rift in Li Yu's heart.

The night is deep, and needles can be heard in the broken house.

Yinshi's clapper rang, but it was accompanied by a few rustles outside the door.

The author has something to say: Hey, hug my little Yu'er, I did write this chapter and cry myself, so I'll send sugar back to my blood immediately!

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