The identity of the direct son - Xu I's prosperous world

Xu Xuan was led by two young maids beside Concubine Xu, from the curved corridor by the Penglai Pool to Linglong Pavilion in front.

The weather was not very good that day. The sky had been cloudy since the morning, as if it was going to rain, but the rain was always held in the sky and could not fall.

This is also like the recent oppressive atmosphere in the palace.

A while ago, the emperor's favorite concubine Liu Gui died of illness.

Concubine Liu's family doesn't have a strong background. She lived in the south of the Yangtze River since she was a child, and she looks like the spring water in the south of the Yangtze River, with a soft and delicate appearance.

Xu Xuan was still young, and the emperor liked children very much, so he also had the opportunity to often go in and out of the palace.

Xu Xuan's aunt, Concubine Xu, was pregnant with a child in her early years, but when she was still in her womb, the child had an accidental miscarriage, and the child was already a mature male fetus when it came out. She can't get pregnant anymore, because of this matter, she was looking for death and life. The emperor saw her pitiful, so he raised her position, from a nobleman to a concubine, and allowed her natal family to visit her often in the palace. That's when Xu Xuan started Often enter the palace.

Xu Xuan was not a naughty child, after entering the palace, even the emperor was very happy with him, and often let him enter the palace to accompany the sad concubine Xu.

In other words, Concubine Xu was not very popular with the emperor.

The first one that the emperor likes is the mother and concubine of the fourth prince, Concubine Dong. Concubine Dong is beautiful and gentle in front of the emperor. The fourth prince is the crown prince, and since the empress has nothing to do, even if the officials wanted to object, they couldn't.

The emperor's second favorite is probably the concubine Liu Gui who disappeared a while ago.

Concubine Liu Gui is indeed a beauty, although Xu Xuan has only met her a few times, but every time he is attracted by her, he thinks she is even prettier than Concubine Dong.

Concubine Dong is like the charming wisteria blooming in his garden. Once it blooms, everyone who enters the garden will notice her.

But Concubine Liu Gui is not, Concubine Liu Gui is an epiphyllum quietly blooming in the corner in the middle of the night. It seems that she does not open it for anyone to see her. up.

She doesn't care whether anyone is watching or liking it.

The few times Xu Xuan saw her, either at palace banquets, or at gatherings of girls in the harem, she always sat quietly in an inconspicuous position and didn't speak. When she wanted to speak, The voice is also very soft, it seems that if she speaks louder, she will fall ill.

But she is such an inconspicuous person, as long as you notice her, you don't want to take your eyes off her.

Xu Xuan thought, there are so many women in the emperor's harem, and the emperor alone should dote on her so much.

And the third person the emperor cares about is probably the empress.

The empress is a deep person, although she is always smiling at the party, she still makes the young Xu Xuan afraid of her.

Xu Xuan was born in a duke's family, and there was an aunt in the family who was a concubine in the palace. He also had contact and understanding of the power in the palace and court early on.

He often goes in and out of the palace, so he will naturally be informed by the elders of the family about various precautions in the palace, what to say and what not to say, what to say when he meets someone, and how to deal with what happens to him...

He knew that the emperor was able to rise to the throne thanks to the empress, so now the empress's family is too powerful. Although the emperor is afraid, he has nothing to do with her family for a while.

So although the emperor is very kind to the queen, this kindness is only superficial. Xu Xuan heard from his grandfather that the empress has nothing to do, and the emperor does not want her to do anything.It was only a matter of time before the Zhao family was deprived of power.

As for Concubine Xu's miscarriage, the Xu family always felt that the Empress Dowager did it. Because of this incident, Concubine Xu and the Xu family were very resentful towards the Empress Empress and the Zhao family.

The Xu family is not a prosperous family. Xu Xuan only has such an aunt. Unexpectedly, Concubine Xu not only has a miscarriage, but also has no possibility of having children in the future. How can this not make the Xu family sad.

Xu Xuan also knew from the words of his grandfather, father, grandmother, and mother that the emperor would not spoil the concubine with a strong family background too much. His aunt is not a very beautiful woman, and she has no fertility. not big.

Now Concubine Liu Gui is sick and dead. Concubine Liu Guifei herself gave birth to a princess back then, but the child died after only a few months of raising her, and she had nothing to do after that. Fifth Prince.

Because of her poor health, Concubine Liu Gui didn't care much about the silent and shy fifth prince, she just kept him in her palace, because the status of the fifth prince's biological mother was very low, so the status of the fifth prince was not high. Very unnoticed.

When Xu Xuan first entered the palace, he had seen the second and fourth princes, but he had never seen the fifth prince, and no one even mentioned him. It seemed that whether he was in the palace or not was the same.

It's really surprising that a serious prince should be so insignificant.

But now, the fifth prince's sense of existence has suddenly increased.

Because his adoptive mother Liu Guifei passed away, he must have another adoptive mother in the future.

The queen should also understand that it is very impossible for her to have another child. After all, without the cooperation of the emperor, it is impossible for her to have a child by herself. What's more, maybe her own body is the same as Concubine Xu's, so she cannot conceive that's it.

The emperor made her a queen, but did not allow her to have a child of her own. It was too cruel for a woman.

Therefore, now the queen really wants to recognize the fifth prince under her knees, which is naturally a good thing for the fifth prince.

Apart from the empress, Concubine Xu also wanted to bring the fifth prince to her side to raise her. This way, on the one hand, it would comfort her that she could no longer have children, and on the other hand, she would not be so lonely in the palace. After all, there are very few emperors. Go to sit with her, come three times, after the emperor ascends to immortality, the prince in front ascends the throne, and the fifth prince goes to the feudal domain, and concubine Xu can follow her. Concubine Xu will also have something to rely on in the future. As the adoptive mother, Concubine Xu is the Empress Dowager, which is also a very honorable thing.

Concubine Xu has adopted the fifth prince, which has many benefits. Although it is inevitable to offend the queen and the Zhao family, but since Concubine Xu slipped because of the queen, there has been a gap between the Xu family and the Zhao family, so she doesn't care about offending the queen and the Zhao family.

The Xu family is also a family of veteran princes, and they still hold military power in their hands. Not to mention the Zhao family, even the emperor has to give his family three points of face.

Because the weather is very stuffy, the road to Linglong Pavilion seems to be longer than usual. Xu Xuan is already eight years old, so it is not easy for the maid to carry him away, and it is not easy to take the soft sedan chair in the palace when walking through the curved corridor. You can only walk with your feet.

The court lady Xiaohe is seventeen or eighteen years old, she is a kind and silent person, she is very effective around Concubine Xu, she is careful and understanding, she soon finds that Xu Xuan can't move much, and knows that Xu Xuan is very face-saving. Said, so she stopped and said, "It's so stuffy today, I'm afraid it's going to rain. It's too hot to walk all the way, let's take a rest here." Xu Xuan gave her a thankful look, There is a small pavilion next to the curved corridor, called Mingli Pavilion, Xu Xuan sat down on the corridor in the pavilion, Xiaohe stood beside him, took a towel infused with cocoa incense, and wiped his forehead sweating.

While Xiaohe was wiping his forehead, he noticed a child running over from the other side of the eaves. The child saw them and shouted, "Help, help." Xu Xuan and the two palace officials were frightened by this incident. Jumping, calling for help in the palace is no small matter.

When the child ran close, Xu Xuan realized that the child was none other than the fifth prince, the protagonist in the palace who had recently been pushed to the cusp of the storm he had thought of before.

Xiaohe also saw that it was the fifth prince, and she quickly handed the handkerchief in her hand to Xu Xuan, who had already run up to catch the fifth prince, and asked with concern, "Your Highness, what's the matter?" The fifth prince held her hand tightly, he was already trembling, and his face was pale, "I, Xiaoye beside me fell into the water, who will save her." Xiaohe knew that life in the palace was the most taboo. When encountering such a thing, no matter what happens in the end, it is easy to cause disaster.

But she still made a decisive decision and took another 14-year-old court lady, Xiaolu, and Xu Xuan, and ran to the scene of the incident with the fifth prince.

It was in a small bay in Penglai Pond, where many lotus flowers were planted. In this summer, the lotus leaves grew very thick and thick, and the lotus flowers were also in full bloom. Xu Xuan still remembers the scene at that time.The court lady named Xiaoye had already drowned in the water when they passed by, her long loose hair was floating on the water, her face was pale and her eyes were open, her death was so grim that it made people's backs go numb.

This was the first time Xu Xuan saw the dead in real life. Before that, many people died in his family, but he had never seen anyone who died.

Xu Xuan was terrified, and yelled loudly, Xiaolu and Xiaohe were also frightened, Xiaohe's first reaction was to turn around to protect Xu Xuan, Xu Xuan still remembers that time when Xiaohe was warm and fragrant The body gave him comfort, and in his horror, he saw the fifth prince staring at the body in the water, and for a moment, he made a strange expression.Xu Xuan couldn't describe how weird it was, it was a kind of calmness, like sadness, or deep melancholy, it was a look that didn't belong to a six-year-old child.The six-year-old, Xu Xuan thought later, might just show fear, as he did then.

As a result, Xu Xuan and the fifth prince were quickly taken away from the scene, and the eunuch came to pick up the body of the maid Xiaoye.

The emperor was also alarmed by this incident and asked about it himself.

The fifth prince, Xu Xuan, Xiaohe, and Xiaolu were all summoned by the emperor to ask about the situation at that time.

The fifth prince was terrified and kept crying, unable to speak completely, but the situation was probably clear.

The adoptive mother of the Fifth Prince passed away. He was in poor physical condition because of being overly sad these days, and he was watching the spirit a while ago, and he was sick and listless all the time.

The night before, he dreamed of Concubine Liu Gui again. In his dream, Concubine Liu Gui said that the lotus in Fuqu Pond should be blooming. If there were white lotus in it, then it would be great.

The variety of lotus in Fuyantang has bright red flowers and will not bloom white flowers.

Even a child as young as the Fifth Prince knows this.

Therefore, he didn't dare to tell anyone about this dream, he thought it was his mother and concubine who let him know it alone.

This noon, he just asked Xiaoye to accompany him to the Fubutang to see if there were any white lotus flowers. Unexpectedly, they actually saw white lotus flowers blooming.

Therefore, the fifth prince wanted to pick off the white lotus flower and sacrifice it in front of Concubine Liu Gui. When they were about to go back to find a boat, Xiaoye accidentally fell into the water. The fifth prince can't swim, and neither can Xiaoye. So the fifth prince ran out to find someone to save Xiaoye, but he didn't expect to find someone to go back, and Xiaoye was already dead.

And looking at it like that, he was not drowned, but murdered.

The person who murdered her didn't know who it was or why.

The testimonies of Xu Xuan, Xiaohe, and Xiaolu can only prove that the fifth prince went to them to save people, other things are not clear.

But Xu Xuan, who saw the expression of the fifth prince after Xiaoye's death, felt that what the fifth prince said was not the truth. I am afraid that only the fifth prince knew what happened, but the fifth prince himself was lying, and he was still young and was accused Horrified, who would question him and doubt him any more.

Before this incident, Xu Xuan only knew the fifth prince, but didn't have much contact with him. Because of this incident, he had a new understanding of the fifth prince, and felt that he was not as timid as everyone knew.

And because of this incident, he also had more contact with the Fifth Prince.

The fifth prince said that in his dream Concubine Liu Gui said that there were white lotuses blooming in the Fuqu pond, and the emperor took people to see it together, and found that the fifth prince did not lie, and that a white lotus really bloomed in the Fuqu pond.

There has never been a field of white lotus here, and it is surprising enough that white lotus blooms.

Because white lotus flowers are unlucky and are used to pay homage to the dead, there are no white lotus flowers anywhere in the palace.

Because of this, the emperor asked the eminent monk to perform rituals for Concubine Liu Gui in Zhenguo Temple to comfort her spirit in heaven.The death of the court lady Xiaoye was not investigated again.

It was also because of this incident that Xu Xuan heard from his family that Concubine Liu Gui was not in poor health when she first entered the palace. It was because she had been poisoned for the emperor who was still a prince. I was injured, and my health has been poor ever since.

After she became pregnant and gave birth to a princess, her health became even worse.

The emperor was grateful for Concubine Liu Gui's kindness, that's why he doted on her so much.

It was also because of the incident caused by the lotus that the emperor did not mention the fact that the fifth prince was supposed to be raised by another concubine.

The argument given was that Concubine Liu Gui hoped that the fifth prince could always be by her side, so she should not give the fifth prince to others to support.

Even so, Concubine Xu still spent a lot of time getting in touch with the Fifth Prince, hoping that he would be her adopted son in the future.So Xu Xuan had a lot of opportunities to meet the fifth prince.

During this period of time, the queen was also kind to the fifth prince.

The situation in the palace changed drastically afterwards, and it was not something an eight or nine-year-old child could understand and grasp.

That year, the second prince, who was not in good health, died of diarrhea. In the second year, the fourth prince, the emperor's favorite, also died of smallpox. The most unexpected thing was that the emperor suddenly After his death, although the emperor had been in poor health, it was surprising that he died so suddenly. There were also ministers who suspected that the emperor died of poisoning. However, under the condition that the emperor's holy body could not be desecrated, the matter was not investigated too much.

The most important thing is that the emperor left a will at that time, and arranged everything properly so that the fifth prince would inherit the throne, with Li Ge's old assistant.

Therefore, the emperor's death did not require the minister to pursue it too much.

Soon after that, the fifth prince sat on the throne from an inconspicuous prince.