Crown Princess

For so many years, the emperor has used the method of fighting poison with poison ruthlessly, but now he is middle-aged and has already attacked his heart with poison. It is just like the final common diagnosis of all the national doctors, I am afraid it will be a big success.

Wei Mingzhen entered the main hall with Bai Luo, and the first thing he saw was Concubine Wei Shu, with her gorgeous skirt and hairpin messed up, her bun unkempt, lying at the foot of the golden dragon steps crying, with a woman beside her. The concubine and the palace servants went to pull them away, but she swung them away vigorously. The choked up crying was heart-piercing.

It's not that Bai Luo has never seen a dead person, on the contrary, she may have seen more than everyone present, but when she followed Wei Mingzhen's footsteps, she paused, looking at the Dragon Palace where she had visited several times, the dreary air It also exudes a highly poisonous herbal smell.

"Let's go."

She turned her head to look at Wei Mingzhen's expression, but found that there was not much sadness, and she could even be said to be as cold and noble as usual, walking through the crowd with her head held high, she was so dazzling and intimidating.

Bailuo saw the emperor for the last time, when she was still in the summer palace. Although she was in a coma, it was not as miserable as it is today. Through the veil of the bright yellow flying dragon, she could clearly see the thin body. Under the sharp cheekbones is loose skin, covered with suspicious large black spots, it looks terrible at first glance, the deep-set eye sockets, and the unconsciously trembling lips are still purple.

Obviously, this is a sign that the poison is about to die.

Wei Mingzhen let go of Bai Luo's hand, waved his sleeves to signal the doctors beside the dragon couch to disperse, and approached with his skirts closed, looking at the half-conscious emperor, he showed an intriguing smile Come.

"Father is dying soon?"

Her voice was not loud, except for Bai Luo who was nearby who heard it, the rest of the people standing in the hall seemed to know nothing about it, and the emperor who was lying down seemed surprised by Wei Mingzhen's indifference, and suddenly opened his eyes wide and muddy With dull eyes, at that moment, Bai Luo knew what it meant to be unbelievable.

Wei Mingzhen lifted the veil and got close to the emperor. Bai Luo, who was already full of doubts in her heart, moved her feet and took a step closer silently. With a smile, he looked at the dying old emperor with the most indifferent eyes, as if he was considering whether to send him for the last time.

"Father, it's time to go down. After all, mother and concubine have been waiting for you for too long. By the way, that woman is also there. If you go, you won't be lonely, will you?"

The emperor was irritated by Wei Mingzhen's words, he half-raised his extremely withered arm, and pointed at Wei Mingzhen with an angry expression, wriggling his lips for a long time before trembling out a few words.

"you you……"

Bai Luo didn't know the rhythm of the scene in front of her. Before she knew the other emperor her mother was talking about, she always thought that this man who always called his youngest daughter "Zhenzhen" was the only daughter who loved him from the bottom of his heart. But now that the person is about to die, Bai Luo hesitates, she can see Wei Mingzhen's indifference and hatred, so that is probably another story.

For example, about her concubine, Tongzhou Mei.

The emperor's cyan and purple thin lips were slightly parted, with black dirty blood gurgling out. A pair of eagle eyes, which had long since lost their former sanity, stared fixedly at Wei Mingzhen who was taking something from under his dragon pillow.

Wei Mingzhen was facing the emperor and her back was facing the crowd below, her movements were still so graceful through a layer of veil, if she hadn't looked over from Bailuo, she would have put the things under the pillow into her arms, I'm afraid she thought she was wiping blood for her father.

"Your Highness..."

Before this, Bailuo actually had a little resentment toward the emperor who designed her to enter the circle, but she didn't have the deep hatred her mother had. Now that the man is about to die, Wei Mingzhen's behavior just calls her He frowned and hesitated.

When she called softly, Wei Mingzhen turned slightly sideways, smiled, turned his back to everyone, raised his index finger to Bai Luo and put it on his lips, made a booing motion, and leaned over to the emperor's ear. He said a word that was neither too long nor too short.

Afterwards, Bai Luo witnessed with her own eyes how a generation of emperors twitched all over their bodies, and their pupils began to slacken and slowly lose their breath. Before losing their breath, the emperor's right hand was holding Wei Mingzhen's left hand. At that time, he tried his best to pull off the floating flower jade bracelet from Wei Mingzhen's wrist, holding the bracelet tightly with his thin hands, and suddenly fell back on the couch, completely silent.

"Father is dead."

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"

When the golden bell of Yuhua Palace rang, the entire palace was full of crying, some were crying loudly, some were beating their chests and feet, some were quietly wiping their tears, and there were also those who bowed their heads and smiled, and of course there were people like Wei Mingzhen and Bai Luo So neither crying nor laughing.

When Concubine Wei Shu rushed up, she seemed determined to fight Wei Mingzhen, but at a critical moment, she collided with Bai Luo, and both of them fell from the dragon platform on the tenth step. Going down, the crying in the first hall stopped immediately, and everyone looked at the noble concubines and the crown prince who were chaotic in the hall.

In terms of fighting, Bailuo has only lost to a few people. Although her internal strength is blocked, she still has the upper hand when fighting against the confused concubine Wei Shu. She is strong in hand-to-hand combat, so Wei Mingzhen will come over after a few quick hits Before pulling her, he twisted Concubine Wei Shu's hands and pressed her on the marble floor tiles.

"Cousin has been fooled by those two sluts all his life, Wei Mingzhen, you and your dead mother, you deserve to die! You deserve to die!"

When Fenyang King and Princess rushed over upon hearing the news, Wei Mingzhen had already sneered and ordered the guards to take down Concubine Wei Shu, and gave the order without even looking at the pregnant uncle who had wrapped around Bai Xiao's waist early.

"Father just now said that he was lonely going alone, so let's bother Concubine Shu to prepare for her death."

The clear female voice instantly frightened the turbulent people in the hall. As soon as the word "sacrifice" came out, Concubine Wei Shu screamed and fainted. Afterwards, Concubine Xu Gui, who was freed from the confinement, brought all the concubines together again. Obediently kneel in the hall, no one dares to say a word.

"Your Highness, you can't!"

Immediately afterwards, Princess Fenyang also howled in pain and passed out.

In the 19th year of Emperor David Yin, on the sixth day of September, it was early autumn.Emperor Yin's grand tour, the emperor's will ordered the eighth princess Wei Mingzhen to succeed to the throne, the new emperor has a decree, the whole country mourns for a period of one year, and the enthronement ceremony will be held after the state funeral.

Emperor Yin had been ill for many years, and until the beginning of the year, he invited the Minister of Rites to issue an oral order, "I foreknowledge that I will not survive for a long time, and you can prepare for a big event in private." I'm afraid that this year has long been expected, so that now After his death, the Ministry of Rites prepared without any urgency, and arranged the Fengtian Hall.

The 660 eight monks of Huguo Temple have been chanting scriptures together for three hours, and Bailuo has led all the concubines to kneel in the hall for a long time. The servant read the supreme life of Emperor Yin and the imperial edict of the new emperor.

"Your Highness, my concubine does not want to die."

Bai Luo, who was kneeling on the brocade mat, suddenly opened her eyes. She is now the leader of all the concubines in the harem. Even Concubine Xu Gui, who had been in charge of Fengyin for many years, could only kneel at her lower head, but the distance between the two was so close. Everyone else was close, so the trembling pleading came out in a low voice, and she turned her head to look at Concubine Xu Gui.

I haven't seen her for a long time, this imperial concubine of the West Palace who has been in power for several years is no longer as domineering as she was before, her beautiful eyebrows are full of exhaustion and frustration, and her eyes looking at Bai Luo are no longer calculating and jealous , leaving only a strong hope of survival.

In fact, Concubine Xu was not the only one like this. After Concubine Wei Shu's body was sent to the side hall for coffin, all the concubines were panicked, but no one dared to show it boldly.

Bai Luo knows that she is not in charge of this matter. She has never met Wei Mingzhen since the emperor lost his temper. According to the secret decree issued by the emperor, after Wei Mingzhen succeeded to the throne, she You can leave the palace, so...

"Young concubine, be careful what you say."

Xu thought she refused, so she immediately went limp, shrugged her shoulders and began to cry, opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but a palace official came in from outside the palace and ran to Bai Luo's side.

"Your Highness, it was Leng Gong Xianfei who..."

After the palace servants finished reporting quietly, Bai Luo, who probably understood the cause and effect, frowned deeply. In fact, after so long, she still couldn't grasp the struggle in the harem, but she couldn't ignore a life. , can only ask the palace people to find another person to go.

"Go to the East Palace and let my senior brother Lang Qi pass."

It wasn't until very late that Wei Mingzhen called someone to send Bai Luo back to the East Palace, and picked a group of people to stay to guard the spirit of the holy driver, and all the officials had almost retired. The color is getting darker.

When Bai Luo returned to the East Palace, she lay down on the couch tired. Today was a day of chaos, and Wei Mingzhen seemed to be left in the Dragon Palace to deal with other matters. Jujube tea handed over by the palace passers-by.

"Your Highness, the House of Internal Affairs just sent the filial piety, would you like to see it?"

Putting down the peony flower teacup in her hand, Bai Luo waved her hand, and only said to send someone to find Lang Qi, while she went to the side hall for dinner with her stomach empty all day.

After a cup of tea, the palace servants came back, but unfortunately they did not find Lang Qi, instead they brought in Gu Jixiang, who was wearing a white mourning bag around his waist, but they didn't know that Bai Luo couldn't ask for anything more, so they sent away a crowd of idlers, so they dragged Gu Jixiang in. Auspicious to a secluded place.

"Brother Jixiang, why haven't you left the palace yet?"

Gu Jixiang was originally a frail scholar. After a busy day, he was tired enough. He was dragged by Bai Luo to sit on the low couch, and said with a smile: "Your Highness invited the cabinet ministers to discuss everything, and I was left behind." gone."

He has outstanding political achievements, and is a rare champion of the third palace. It will be a matter of time before he enters the cabinet and becomes an important minister. Now that Wei Mingzhen recruits the cabinet alone, he can naturally stay.

Bai Luo understood, took a deep breath, and finally said what had been suppressed all day: "When I asked you to investigate the affairs of the harem, did you know that Concubine Mei of Tongzhou? It was Wei Mingzhen's biological mother."

"Concubine Mei?" Gu Jixiang thought for a moment, and then replied: "I have found her. She is the concubine that His Majesty accepted when he was the King of Qi. She comes from the Mei family in Tongzhou. She has a beautiful reputation. It's strange to say that after His Majesty ascended the throne, she was not only a concubine, she was enshrined as Concubine Shu at the beginning."

Concubine Shu?Bai Luo checked the detailed records of the harem, but she couldn't find too many records about the Mei family, and the position of Concubine Shu seems to have always been occupied by Concubine Wei Shu. It seems that many things happened more than ten years ago. Interesting thing.

"If you want to pursue it, I'm afraid it will be difficult. I also found a lot of old people before I found out about the Gao family. Counting the time, when Concubine Mei was thrown into the cold palace, it happened to be after His Majesty returned from Ruan Yang. .”

There is a Liang Yuzi, a Gao Litang, and now there is a Mei Concubine, and even the Xiang concubine Liang Mi who is also from Ruan Yang, Bai Luo intuitively feels that these people can be connected.

"In this case, it must not be exactly what my mother said."

She urgently wanted to know where did Wei Mingzhen's hatred for the emperor come from?Why was Concubine Mei thrown into the cold palace?Why was Wei Mingzhen, a princess, sent to Tongzhou?

"Oh, I feel like I'm running out of brains."

Her wailing made Gu Jixiang unable to laugh. He flicked his finger on her forehead and said in a low voice, "Don't think about what is there. Since Wei Mingzhen is on the throne of God, your father should be We are going to Beijing."