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The next day, Jin Han'er, An Shihuan, the emperor and the queen mother who were waiting for the newlyweds to serve tea, could not wait for anyone to come. The queen mother sent someone to Jin Mingzuo to inquire. Tell someone to ask the eldest princess.

Jin Han'er has been restless since last night, always feeling that something bad is about to happen, and she couldn't calm down in the morning, and now that her daughter hasn't come back to serve tea for a long time, she is even more anxious, and she is not afraid of something bad According to the rules, she went out of the palace alone to Zhen'an Palace, and Mu Shihuan followed her.

When they arrived at the palace, the servants at the gate saluted them, and the two quickly went in to find a servant and asked, "Where is your prince? Are you still up?"

The servant shook his head: "The villain doesn't know."

It’s almost unitary hour now, and it’s been a long time since breakfast is too expensive. It’s unrealistic to still be sleeping. Jin Han’er’s premonition is getting worse and worse. Regardless of etiquette and embarrassment, she slams on the door of the new house: “Xi’er , Xi'er, are you awake? It's almost noon now, I can't sleep any more, I have to get up to eat, Xi'er..." She woke up her sleepy daughter to eat in front of her daughter's room.

An Shihuan was a little awkward, pulled his sleeves and said, "Are we disturbing the young couple like this? You know, the wedding night is indeed... very tiring..."

Jin Han'er glared at him: "Even if it's late, it's time to get up now. The emperor and the queen mother are waiting for the newlyweds to serve tea. How can there be such a rule since ancient times?"

An Shihuan was speechless, indeed, they woke up very early the next day after their wedding.

"Xi'er!" Jin Han'er couldn't help raising his voice, and the door opened with a "squeak", revealing Jin Yuchen's face, which was not in good spirits, with sunken eye sockets, and the surroundings were blue and black.

He opened the door without saying a word, walked back a few steps silently, and stepped aside.Jin Han'er and An Shihuan came in and saw the neatly dressed but unconscious daughter on the couch, the heavy headgear had been removed, the rouge was still as red, her hands were quietly folded on her lower abdomen.

"Xi'er... is she still sleeping?" Jin Han'er vaguely knew something, but she didn't want to believe it. She said to herself with the same lifeless tone as before, "This child, it's like this , Heartless, don't care about anything, I told her so many rules earlier, she just didn't remember, and she still does her own way like this, she's so grown up and sleepy."

An Shihuan also knew what happened, he was sluggish, he didn't get used to what happened, he didn't think about it in an evasive way, and he was also lying to himself, this girl is very ghostly, maybe she will jump up in the next moment, and said proudly : "Haha, you have been tricked by me again, have I pretended to be?"

Jin Yuchen knew that the two of them were unwilling to face the facts in front of them, so he knelt on the ground and said, "Xi'er...she committed suicide by taking poison."

Jin Han'er couldn't control the grief that emerged, she walked quickly to An Lianxi's side, and cried bitterly: "Mother should have known, should have known that something was wrong with you, it's mother's fault, mother failed to protect you, my poor child ..."

An Shihuan's sadness turned into an uncontrollable anger, and he loudly reprimanded Jin Yuchen who was kneeling on the ground: "On the wedding day, is this how you just watch your wife commit suicide by taking poison and do nothing?" ?Bastard! Won't you stop her?"

Jin Yuchen lowered his head, trembling all over, let out a low and subdued sobbing sound, when he raised his head again, tears were streaming down his face, and he said in a sobbing voice: "I don't know... I don't know... She is in her own There was poison in that glass of wine... I didn't want it either, I didn't want her to have an accident, I, it was me... I was incompetent, I was a waste... I couldn't save her... She said to me, she was so tired, She wanted to sleep, so she called me, told me not to disturb her, not to leave her to find a doctor outside, she asked me to watch over her...she was going to sleep, was going to sleep..."

"So you just let her go like this! You bastard!" An Shihuan was angry, walked around the room looking for something, picked up the wedding scale on the table, and slapped him on the back, "It's useless." You can’t even keep your own wife, trash! I’ll kill you! Give me back my daughter!”

An Shihuan beat every time very hard, Jin Yuchen suffered without saying a word, the pain on his back was clearly visible, after being hit many times, his face was pale, and he was sweating continuously. He is not a man, and his body is not strong enough to bear it. Damn, Mu Shihuan beating him like this is undoubtedly a kind of torture. After the beating, all the wounds are on his back. He can't seek help from the imperial physician, let alone let people in his palace apply medicine for him. He can only do it himself. If you don't reach the place, you can only continue to hurt.

"Okay, stop fighting! Come here, let's take our daughter home, this is not our home, Xi'er doesn't like it here." Jin Han'er's eyes were blank, but the sadness in his tone was hard to hide, "Let's go back, never Don't come to the capital, let the emperor issue an edict, and we will be exempted from the big sacrifices or other important banquets that we have to come to the capital to attend in the future."

An Shihuan threw away the Xi scale in his hand, stepped forward and hugged An Lianxi: "Okay, let's go home and never come again."

After the person left, Jin Yuchen breathed a sigh of relief tremblingly, lying on the ground, exposing his arms and desperately trying to get his own, his back was burning with pain, and a little sticky, it must have been cracked and bleeding.He couldn't cry out, no matter how painful it was, he had to endure it, endure it.

The news reached Jin Mingzuo's ears. While he was shocked, he was more helpless and desolate. An Lianxi died. Since then, Jin Han'er and Mu Shihuan did not want to go to Beijing again. He suppressed the news and dared not let the Queen Mother know.When Jin Han'er came to see him, he didn't have extra euphemistic words, but said to him tiredly and disheartened: "Xiao Zuo, let my sister go home."

Jin Mingzuo wanted to say, isn't this their home?They are relatives whose blood is thicker than water, even the biological mother is here, why should they go home?

But he couldn't say that as an emperor, in order to stabilize the government, this matter should be kept as secret as possible. He only dared to sigh, and didn't dare to reveal the sadness in his heart too much: "Come back, what will elder sister do in the future?" If you need it, send me a message. As a younger brother, I will do my best."

"No, just be your emperor well, and you will maintain the prosperity of Anqing Kingdom."

Jin Mingzuo showed a bleak smile: "I hope elder sister is well."

Jin Han'er nodded: "I'm leaving, don't want the mighty convoy, let Xi'er sleep more peacefully."

Seeing Jin Han'er walking away, Jin Mingzuo's pain in his heart fermented faintly. Hearing the news that Jin Yuchen was injured, for some reason, he left all his entourage and went to Zhen'an Palace alone.

It took a long time for Zhen'an Palace to remove all the wedding lanterns and wedding papers, and it was already a little late. Jin Yuchen prescribed the medicine himself, and when he was thinking about whether to enter the palace to plead guilty, his servants came to report that it was the emperor. coming.

Jin Yuchen didn't dare to be negligent, and immediately came out to greet him. Jin Mingzuo was about to reach the entrance of his bedroom. Seeing Jin Yuchen's weak appearance, he said, "You have injuries, so you won't have to salute."

Jin Yuchen, who was about to salute, stopped abruptly, welcomed Jin Mingzuo from the room, and ordered his servants to make tea.

"Has Yu Chen ever blamed the emperor for being so cruel and insulting to you?" Jin Mingzuo, who was asking this time, did not have the previous temptations and calculations, and he did not bring his entourage over, his tone was very flat.

Jin Yuchen shook his head: "I've never been blamed."

Jin Mingzuo pulled out a slight smile: "To be honest, Father doesn't blame you. Not all men in the world can bear to marry a woman who has long lost her virginity, even if she is the emperor's own niece."

Jin Yuchen pondered Jin Mingzuo's words, observed his expression, and finally chose to continue to pretend to be cowardly: "Xi'er is a lovable woman. I have never blamed my father, and I have also said that I will help my father in the future." Solving worries and problems, if doing so can relieve father and emperor's worries, all sons and ministers will be willing, and there will be no complaints." At this time, Jin Mingzuo looked very lonely, and he must have come to me, not to listen to me of complaining.

Jin Mingzuo looked at the front in a daze, his heart was empty, and he didn't care what Jin Yuchen said, he said to himself: "The elder sister is leaving, she will never come back, she doesn't want me and the queen mother."

Jin Yuchen remained silent. It seemed that Jin Mingzuo was here to pour out the bitterness, so that would be easy. He'd better not talk too much, just concentrate on listening to Jin Mingzuo.

"I remember when I was a child, my father always punished me for not giving me food, and told me to go to the training camp to practice swordsmanship when I was hungry. The elder sister secretly brought me food. When my father found out, even the elder sister was tortured." The eldest sister was fined for more than half a month with a foot restraint order."

"At home, I am the third child, and the second sister died of illness. The eldest sister cried for many days. In the future, she took care of and loved me even more than the queen mother. Later, when my father died on the battlefield, the eldest sister chose Taking up the burden of my father, urging me to practice swords and study, and sometimes punishing me even more severely than my father, I know that Eldest Sister is doing it for me and for the good of the entire General’s House.”

"Afterwards, I ascended the throne and became the emperor. The eldest sister also married later. She married far away. She only came back to live for a few days a year and then left. I cherish the days when I can live with my eldest sister. The things in the classroom are often so overwhelming that I can't breathe, and I have to think about whether other people's words have other intentions every day, only in front of my eldest sister, I can still be my true self."

"But now it is I who broke the heart of the elder sister and killed the hope of the elder sister. The elder sister dedicated everything to her own brother, but her own brother turned out to be a son who was not as good as a beast. The only heart of the elder sister died..." Jin Mingzuo covered his face and closed his eyes to keep the tears from flowing, "Ten years have passed, and I have stayed in a place where everyone envies and yearns for, but I have not lived a single day. I can always think of the days when I read and wrote with my eldest sister when I was young, the days when the queen mother served tea to my father, and the second sister slept peacefully beside me and my elder sister due to illness. I can’t go back anymore. Eldest sister is gone, she won't come back, it's all my fault..."

Jin Yuchen was indifferent, but still maintained a listening posture, with sad and helpless eyes, but he had already begun to declare in his heart that he had succeeded, and now that Jin Mingzuo came to his mansion late at night, he did not bring anyone over, which meant that Jin Ming Zuo had completely let go of his guard against him, and Jin Mingzuo's heart had already turned slightly to his side.

"Father, you don't have to be sad. Although there are grievances, there is nothing that time can't take away in the long journey of life. Just like the day when the son was imprisoned in the clan mansion, the son at that time resented the father. , swore that he would never forgive his father again, but when the son-in-law walked out of the clan mansion, what he thought in his heart was that he wanted to see his father. After four years, how is his father? Is it because The government is haggard and thin again, and I still miss my son because of the melancholy in the dead of night. No matter how big things happened, I can't hate him anymore. The only relative I have is my father, why should I indulge in the past, sleep Zhuerchen himself, did he break the heart of his only relative?" Jin Yuchen's tone was vicissitudes, no matter how great the hatred was, it would be consumed in the long years, sitting in the dark prison, hatred and anger, just A superfluous way to pass the time when you are bored.

Although his hatred was hidden very deeply by him, and it never faded away.

Jin Mingzuo looked at Jin Yuchen's indifferent and slightly bewildered expression, and a strong sense of regret and sorrow surged in his heart: "Yuchen, I have suffered for you these years. It is the father who is sorry for you. In the future, father The emperor will make up for you one by one what I owe you."

Jin Yuchen shook his head again: "Father has treated my son very well."

Jin Mingzuo showed a relieved smile: "You don't have to come to court for a few days, and cultivate yourself in the mansion. I will send the director of the Imperial Hospital to recuperate your body in person."

"This... is too much trouble for the father, the father has so many things every day..."

"Don't shirk, what I say is what it is."

"Yes, thank you, Father."

After sending Jin Mingzuo away, Jin Yuchen returned to the room, did not turn off the lights and fell asleep, but sat on a chair and thoughtfully thought about the key points of the current situation. It seemed that the chess game was about to be rearranged.

Many days later, the eldest princess and King Mu Ying took a small group of people and chariots back. The scandal had grown beyond repair, and Jin Mingzuo no longer wanted to cover it up. He followed Jin Haner's request and held a small funeral. No one is allowed to mention this matter again.

Jin Mingzuo stood in the middle of the road far away from the palace gate, with an eunuch beside him holding a jug of wine and a wine glass, and when the eldest princess and her party were gone, he filled a glass of wine with his own hands and drank it all in one gulp. He couldn't go out of the palace at will, so he could only stand here to see his eldest sister off. When the queen mother got the news, she fell ill immediately, and Jin Mingzuo seemed to have aged several years overnight, so lonely and desolate.

In the end, he bent his body, no longer pretending to be an emperor, and said to the closed palace gate, "Sister, have a good journey."