Crossing the East Palace

Chang'an City, Mingshui Palace.

It has been several months since the late emperor passed away.

Originally, the prince successfully took over the imperial decree and dragon robe from the first emperor at the border, and was promoted to become emperor.The people in Chang'an City should also be promoted.

Needless to say, the Empress Dowager, she was originally arranged by the late emperor to take care of the "family", and now she continues to take care of the family, although she has not received a specific order, but she has also been called the Empress Dowager.

The same is true for all the concubines.

When the first emperor passed away, all the concubines were crying, and after crying, they were all placed in the remote palace where the first emperor's concubines should be.Concubines above the rank of concubine are not bad, each can get a second-entry courtyard, which can be regarded as having their own place; those below the rank of concubine, who are of a slightly higher rank, barely live together with two or three people No matter how low the grade is, at most, they can only live in a place that doesn't even have a yard.

When the first emperor passed away, the most sad thing is these concubines who have to be careful about wearing red and green in the future, for fear of being scolded by others for being unruly.

It's just that among the concubines, there are two people who are very different.

Needless to say, the imperial concubine, the empress dowager knew her identity, so naturally she would not treat her badly, but let her live directly in the side hall of her Ci'an Palace, with the "sixteen princes" who rarely saw outsiders by her side. ".Of course, verbally, the Empress Dowager only said that she asked the Concubine Gui to help with the affairs of the harem.

The rest of the concubines, some of them knew in their hearts that once the emperor and the courtiers were in the court, and the new emperor succeeded to the throne, he still wanted to use those who followed him wholeheartedly before the succession, and neglected some people. It is not bad to be able to spend the rest of my life in peace, not to be buried alive like in the previous dynasties.

Unfortunately, not all concubines think so.However, it's useless for them to be upset, they want to make trouble, but who are they going to make trouble with?The first emperor is gone, and the new emperor is fighting on the border, with hundreds of thousands of troops in his hands, he is filial, and he obeys every order of the empress dowager.Not to mention that they didn't dare to make trouble at all, but they really did... Hehe, how could the new emperor care about their thoughts?

Apart from the noble concubine, what they envied most was naturally the Xian dowager who was serving the empress dowager Ning.

Although the Concubine Xian is not as good as the Concubine Gui, she now holds the power of the first palace and is majestic, but the Concubine Xian is the sister of the Empress Dowager Ning, and she has served the Empress Dowager for so many years, and now she still lives with the Empress Dowager. In the Mingshui Palace, if the Empress Dowager moved to the palace in the future, she would also bring Concubine Xian with her.

The Ning family sisters are so affectionate, those concubines who are no different from being thrown into the cold palace are naturally envious.

It's a pity that those concubines who envy the Ning family's sisters will never know how emaciated the empress dowager is now.

"You, you are so bold!" When Ning saw the leftovers of the cold meal being brought up again, she directly stretched out her bony hand, and knocked the served meal to the ground.

The little maid knelt on the ground, and slowly tidied up without any surprise.

Concubine Xian sat aside, thinking about something.

Seeing this, Ning became even more annoyed, and shouted sharply: "You don't need to clean up! Let that bitch kneel down and clean up things for Ai's family!"

The little maid continued to pack her things in silence.

Ning said angrily: "Even you, a court lady, refuse to listen to Aijia's words? Forget it before, Aijia used to be a queen, the first emperor wanted Aijia to 'recover' here, so Aijia had to 'recover' here, but Now, the Ai family is the Empress Dowager! Don’t you lowly maidservants think that that bastard... Tang Luojin, as a son, can continue to confine the Ai family? Isn’t he afraid that the world will laugh at him from now on? An unfilial person The emperor, he is not afraid, the ministers have written a letter, want to abolish him?"

The little maid who cleaned the floor was stunned, looked up at Ning, then turned back to look at Concubine Xian who was looking at her long nails, a little dazed - what should she do?

"Speak up!" After Ning yelled, she began to cough, coughing, and reprimanded, "Say, do you want to listen to the Ai family, or to her, who is nothing but a concubine?"

The little maid was still in a daze.

Concubine Xian Ning Yue'er just let out a "puchi" laugh, and turned her head to look at Ning Shi.

"Second sister always says that she is not sick and doesn't need to recuperate. But my sister sees that there is no one who is more confused than second sister."

Ning's complexion changed, and she was about to refute, when Concubine Xian continued to say slowly: "Second sister has lived in this Mingshui Palace for so many years, hasn't she realized that the normal people in this Mingshui Palace are more Is it coming less and less?"

Ning seemed to have thought of something, and her face was grim: "You, what did you do..."

Concubine Xian pointed to the little palace maid kneeling on the ground, and said quietly: "Second sister is really a noble person with many affairs, and she never cares about the people around her. Didn't the second sister reveal that anyone who waits on you close is Are you dumb? And some of the people working silently in this room are not only dumb, but even deaf?" Concubine Xian looked at Ning's meaningfully, "Speaking of it, it's all thanks to today's Your Majesty. Your Majesty Shengming, in the past, he pitied these people because they were different from others, so they would inevitably be bullied by others, so they sent them to this Mingshui Palace, saying that our empress dowager is the most benevolent, and she will definitely treat these people kindly. The younger sister looked at it, and the second sister was really like that. Look, as long as they work hard, they will be scolded at most, and they will be fine if they kneel for a while. The other punishments are insulting... the second sister has always been verbal. Talk about it, you won’t implement it at all, right?”

"You, you..." Ning Shi used to be as beautiful as a flower.However, ever since she was imprisoned in the Mingshui Palace, the late Emperor never spoke a word, and her concubine sister tormented her in different ways, but her news couldn't get out more and more, and she became more and more annoyed, hated a lot, resented The more she looks, the more her looks become uglier and uglier.

But Ning Yue'er seemed to be against her on purpose!Obviously Ning Yue'er was arranged here, so she was assigned here, but this Ning Yue'er was dressed up like a flower every day, so Ning's family would be annoyed every time she saw her.

But even if the Ning family annoyed Concubine Xian again, those palace people would only listen to Concubine Xian and would not listen to her words to beat Concubine Xian.So Ning's targets of venting her anger became those palace servants who served her.

So Ning often ordered these servants to punish each other, but even if it was "punishment", these servants were "punishing" outside and would not do anything in front of her.What's more, Ning always thought that she was the queen, how could these slaves violate her orders?Even Ning Yue'er, why would she care about the life and death of these servants?

But what about the result?It turned out that none of the slaves she thought she had "punished" in the past had ever been punished at all.

Ning couldn't help but her breathing became heavier, the matter was more serious than she thought.She originally thought that if she wanted to trip Tang Luojin at that time, all she had to do was take these servants out and let them tell about the abuse she received here, so that she could justifiably reprimand Tang Luojin for being unfilial—— Tang Luojin was neither filial nor virtuous. How could such a person be an emperor?When the time comes, someone will naturally want to pull him down from the throne of the emperor.

Ning doesn't even care who is sitting on the throne again, as long as she knows that Tang Luojin is dead, then even if there is chaos in Datang, she will be satisfied if her son has a chance to sit on the throne!

But now what?

Ning Yue'er actually told her that these palace servants who served her closely were all dumb!There are even some who are not only dumb, they can't hear at all!

She originally thought that these slaves were ordered by Ning Yue'er, and they refused to say a word to her. She was depressed, but she couldn't help it.Unexpectedly, these people were also sent in by Tang Luojin one by one!

"He is so courageous!" Ning said, as skinny as a stick, slapping the bed board fiercely, "He is so courageous! The Ai family is his biological mother, and he became the emperor, and the Ai family is the rightful empress dowager! You should be filial and obey Aijia's words, how can you be so negligent and plot against Aijia? Such unfaithful, filial, benevolent and unrighteous things, how can they be worthy of the position of emperor?"

Concubine Xian was not annoyed when she heard the words, she just said leisurely: "Birth mother? Oh, second sister finally remembered, is second sister the emperor's biological mother? It's a pity, a pity, even if second sister is the emperor's biological mother, if you can't wait When the emperor comes back and personally orders you to be promoted alive, then, even if it is the 'birth mother', even if this matter is true, what can the second sister get from here?"

The queen's face changed slightly: "What do you want to do?"

Concubine Xian slowly approached the queen, condescendingly looked down at the emaciated and pale appearance of the queen on the bed, and smiled slowly.

"It's not what my sister wants, but what the emperor wants." Concubine Xian waved her hand, and all the palace people walked out, while she looked to the south through the window and said quietly, "Second sister, do you know that you are Min'er's only chance. If you die and the emperor is happy, then will the emperor treat my Min'er better? Min'er is now 12 years old. If the emperor favors me, it will be my Min'er If you can’t go back to Chang’an City and enjoy the prince’s wealth and leisure, you can be an ordinary commoner in Fujian, marry a wife and have children, which is not necessarily a good thing.”

When Concubine Xian said these words, the smile on her face directly hurt Ning's heart.

"That's the son of the Ai family! Min'er is the son of the Ai family! What are you?" In Ning's life, among the children born, all the princesses died young, leaving only one prince she was most looking forward to. How could she bear the appearance of Concubine Xian treating the twelve princes as her own son?

"You are just a concubine! A concubine who has never given birth! What right do you have to call my son by my name like that?"

Concubine Xian was not annoyed when she heard the words, she just said: "It doesn't matter if you are qualified or not? Even if Min'er doesn't regard me as a mother in her heart, even if she will hate me for killing you in the future So what? In my whole life, only that little Min'er will be in my arms, relying on me wholeheartedly, and will smile at me when I am unhappy, and do everything possible to make me happy. Happy... In my heart, Min'er is my baby. For my baby's future, killing you and making his life easier, I am willing from the bottom of my heart."

The queen looked pale.

"Second Sister, you also love Min'er, right? Since you love him too, and you know that with you alive, the Emperor will definitely be unhappy when he comes back. Then, in order to please the Emperor, let Min'er live a more comfortable life in the future." , to die, how about it?"

Concubine Xian pulled out her hairpin, then broke it in half, poured the white powder inside into two teacups, then poured tea under Ning's disbelieving gaze, and picked up the teacup. With a cup, slowly approach Ning.

Ning's eyes widened, and she murmured: "No, don't..."

Concubine Xian smiled slightly and said: "My sister loves Min'er so much, how about going to die with my sister just for Min'er? Don't be afraid, sister, compared to Miss Jiang's back then, she had to suffer from abdominal cramps for half an hour. Die because of suffering, my sister's medicine will only make my sister suffer for a while every day, and she will die quietly before the emperor comes back."

"On the way to Huangquan, I have my younger sister to accompany me. Elder sister, why are you hesitating?"

In the 28th year of Tianyuan, December 26th.

The side hall of the East Palace.

The six princes and other princes, four prime ministers, and six ministers are dealing with political affairs.

Suddenly someone came to report: "Korea and Wa are joining forces to launch an attack on the east side of Datang!"

On December 28, just after Datang dispatched manpower to support the eastern coastal border of Datang, another person came to report: "The thieves from the former dynasty, together with the refugees, are breaking through the east gate of Chang'an City! They have already rushed to the palace !"

The sixth prince stood up abruptly.

"Your Highness Sixth, King An's rebellion, Princess An and Prince An's concubine, one took away the Queen Mother from Mingshui Palace! The other took away the Sixteenth Prince from Baihuayuan!"

Everyone immediately became chaotic.

Most of the officers and men of Datang were defending against the enemy at the border.

The Turkic Khanate and Tubo are the most powerful, so the number of soldiers on these two borders is the largest.In order to attack the Turkic before, and because the first emperor and the emperor were both in the Turkic, most of the remaining troops in Chang'an City were sent to the Turkic border.

The rest of the people are also arranged in various places.

Originally, Tang Luojin's idea of ​​dividing Goryeo and minimizing the number of manpower used in the east of Datang was the most appropriate way.

But now, no one knows who in Datang intentionally disclosed the news that Tang Luojin was going to divide Goryeo, so that the Three Kingdoms of Goryeo actually joined forces with the Japanese kingdom and the water bandits to deal with the east side of Datang.

The sixth prince and the four prime ministers had to send half of their troops to support the eastern border.

But in this way, when the sixth prince and the four prime ministers sent troops away, the remnants of the previous dynasty swayed the victims, and attacked Chang'an City at the turn of the new and old years.

King An, who had always kept his own law and order, suddenly made a move and kidnapped the empress dowager.

Everyone was shocked.

However, before the sixth prince and the four prime ministers were terrified, fearing that the queen mother would be kidnapped, the emperor came back, and in order to redeem the queen mother, he had to make some compromises, and news spread from the empress dowager that the one who was kidnapped was not The queen mother, but a sweeping woman in the queen mother's palace.

The Empress Dowager misses the former emperor, and her health is getting worse and worse these days. Taking advantage of Princess An's intention to kidnap, she would rather die than submit, so she simply set fire to burn herself and Princess An to death together.It's just that Concubine An's legs and feet are quite agile, she fled in a hurry, and in order to disturb the audience, she took away a sweeping woman, intending to pretend to be the queen mother to threaten the emperor.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, for a moment, they didn't know whether the news was true or not.

But after waiting for a while, news came from the Empress Dowager that the child kidnapped by Princess An was not the sixteenth prince, but the seventh son of the Ning family.

"That's impossible!" Someone said suddenly, "Even if it's for the sake of peace of mind, it's better not to mess around like this!"

The person who came to pass the news was Aunt Cui who was beside the Empress Dowager.

Aunt Cui raised her eyebrows slightly when she heard the words, and said, "What do you mean by what your lord said? Could it be that the empress dowager ordered the empress dowager to commit suicide? Or was it that the empress dowager arranged for the seventh son of the Ning family to be stolen? As an aside, the sixteenth prince has had a birthmark since he was born, but the seventh son of the Ning family does not have it. Whether it is true or not, when the time comes, all the adults will go and see for themselves, isn't it enough? Besides, Cheng Engong and Doesn't Shizi Ning know the Queen Mother and the Seventh Young Master? If you don't believe me, when the bandits bring out the kidnapped person, the two of you will know if it is the Queen Mother and the Seventh Young Master who they kidnapped?"

After Aunt Cui finished speaking, she saluted and turned around to leave.

Hearing Aunt Cui's words, the sixth prince finally felt at ease - anyway, he was raised by the Empress Dowager, so he naturally knew that since the Empress Dowager said that this matter was true, then it must be true.

"Since that's the case, then for this rescue, there will be Mr. Lao Cheng'en and his son."

Ning Shan and Ning Junyu's faces were extremely ugly, but at this time, they had no choice but to admit the matter and lead someone to rescue them.

The sixth prince and the others tried their best to keep Chang'an City and the imperial palace.

Although there are not many soldiers left in Chang'an City, if they gather together and only serve as guards, they can still wait for the rescue of Tang Luojin who is about to return.

In the 28th year of Tianyuan, in the early morning of December 29th, the new emperor led [-] soldiers into Chang'an City, captured the remnants of the previous dynasty, and put the victims in prison. King An led a team to leave, and the rest were captured alive.

The people of Chang'an City shouted Long Live!

Tang Luojin finally returned to Chang'an City and the palace.

The hearts of the people in Chang'an City finally settled down.

At the end of December 29th, all the ministers embraced each other and couldn't afford to worship each other. Please ask the new emperor to officially ascend the throne tomorrow and change the year name.

When the empress dowager came to the Zichen Palace, she first pained the late emperor, and then asked people to take out the same edict and jade seal left by the late emperor from different places.

The ministers bowed again and invited the new emperor to officially ascend the throne.

Because Tang Luojin entered Chang'an City by fighting, the robe on his body was still stained with blood. Finally, he knelt at the feet of the Empress Dowager, stretched out his arms, and took the jade seal and several identical imperial edicts.

"Son, Luo Jin, accept the order!"

The empress dowager finally showed a smile.

When Tang Luojin stood up, walked slowly towards the dragon chair, and sat down slowly——

The ministers shouted: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

Outside the gate of the palace, the palace servants knelt down: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

Tang Luojin spoke slowly: "Everyone is at peace."

Chang'an City had just encountered a small war, which caught the people who had been peaceful for decades by surprise, but it also made it easier for Tang Luojin, who had brought back an army of [-], to sit on the throne more easily than before.

Before Tang Luojin could feel the difference in this position, he changed out of his blood-stained clothes and put on a newly made dragon robe, and began to discuss with everyone about his enthronement tomorrow, the war in Chang'an City, and the riots on the eastern border. one thing.

Tang Luojin finally had time until the night of the night.

However, before he rested, he was told that Cheng Engong and his son asked to see him.

On Ning Junyu's back was an old woman who was hunched over and knocked out.

Tang Luojin glanced at the extremely thin old woman, but didn't recognize who it was for a moment.

Ning Shan and Ning Junyu knelt down with a "bang".

The old woman was also laid flat on the ground by Ning Junyu.

Only then did Tang Luojin see the old woman's face.

Thinner than a bamboo pole, his face was pale, as if he had been abused for a long time.

Tang Luojin remained silent.

The Empress Dowager has already said that the Empress Dowager has already died in Mingshui Palace.Now the old woman in the palace, he naturally didn't know who it was.

Tang Luojin's silence made Ning Shan finally no longer have any illusions.

He bowed earnestly three times, and said: "I have no way to teach a girl, and she deserves to be punished. It's just that this girl...she is nothing now. I wonder if your majesty can let me take her back to the Ning family? I promise, never It will give her another chance to come out."

Tang Luojin was very tired, but he glanced at Ning Shan, but still didn't speak.

Ning Shan sighed: "She looks like she has been punished. Naturally, I know that the person who has made her suffer for several years is also another daughter of the minister... I originally thought that since they are sisters, even if they Is there any disagreement, at most it is just a few sour words, I never thought... She has suffered so much, I beg Your Majesty to let her live. Her current appearance, if you want to live, maybe It's worse than dying."

Tang Luojin looked at the withered old woman lying flat on the ground, still frowning, and suddenly thought of that year, when he first transmigrated, it was this person who made Aunt Yu put him in the palace while he was still a baby. On the ground, no one is allowed to hug him.

Things are always unpredictable.

However, letting the Ning family live, Tang Luojin might be able to bear it, but living in the Ning family...

Unexpectedly, before Tang Luojin could speak, Ning Junyu suddenly raised his head, his eyes turned scarlet.

"It doesn't have to be like this!" Ning Junyu said, "The state owns the state laws, and the family has family rules. Regardless of whether this person is the mother of a country or the woman who sweeps the palace, how to deal with this person should be left to His Majesty. Father, you can't do it for me!"

Ning Shan's face changed: "You..." He wanted to reprimand Ning Junyu, but how?

The father and son chased them all the way, and when they finally caught up with King An and rescued Ning Shi and his seventh grandson, Ning Shi said that he wanted to hold the child, but the father and son didn't care. Ning shi threw the child to death!

Ning Junyu almost killed Ning Shi on the spot!

But even so, Ning Shan also wanted to save her life.

Tang Luojin raised her eyebrows slightly after hearing this, and didn't say anything else.

Just wait quietly.

Ning Shan and Ning Junyu didn't react at the beginning. When Ning Shi opened his eyes, they saw the new emperor's slightly narrowed eyes, and finally realized that the new emperor was waiting for Ning Shi to wake up, and then Then tell them how to deal with it.

——Why, when Ning Shi closed her eyes and fell asleep, she was punished obediently?

Back then, Han Yi suffered from abdominal pain for half an hour, and Tang Luojin always remembered this incident.

Debts owed must always be repaid.