The daily life of the retired devil

The next day, for the first time, morning court did not go on as usual.The old emperor, who had persisted for more than ten years rain or shine, finally gave up his reign.

Externally, the palace people replied to the officials in the court that they were overworked and needed self-cultivation, so they temporarily suspended the court for two days.

But civil and military officials have their own guesses: overworked?The Holy Majesty's body has gone through so many old ministers, how can he look tired?I'm afraid it's because seeing the strife in the harem going to the front court or even the common people, I feel that my face is humiliated and I am embarrassed to meet all the officials, so I stopped the court, right?

However, some people got a not-so-good conclusion from this strike: Could it be for the crown prince?

The crown prince is the next emperor, second only to the emperor in status and importance, and is the foundation of a country, so he should be extremely cautious whether he is established or abolished.Last night the emperor imprisoned the prince in the East Palace, vaguely showing his intention to abolish the prince, but today the emperor did not make an excuse to come, could it be because the emperor had already decided to abolish the prince, but was impatient to listen to the persuasion of the ministers. Let's go, do you want to keep everyone cold for a few days?

Everyone has different thoughts, and every attention is occupied by this stormy situation.

——Last night, what happened? !

Regarding the thoughts and current situation of the old emperor, the ministers made countless guesses, but none of them guessed right in the end.

Because there is really only one reason for the old emperor's dismissal this time: he is ill.

Heart palpitations.

In Zichen Palace, the old emperor's complexion became more and more ugly.

He was lying weakly on the dragon bed, his heart was throbbing with pain, and his forehead was covered with cold sweat.

For the first time he felt old, and for the first time he felt that he might be dying.

At that time, people's lifespan was only sixty years old, but that's all common people. Scholars and high-ranking nobles who paid attention to health preservation, it was not difficult to live to an octogenarian age. Therefore, although the old emperor fought in the battlefield all his life, he suffered from various problems. But I always think that I am healthy, and I feel that I have decades to live.

But now, the old emperor really felt "death" for the first time.

And this also made the old emperor even more angry with Empress Chen and the prince.

Empress Chen, an ignorant and stupid woman, cares about everything, is short-sighted, disrespects her elders, and only sees the three-acre land in front of her.In order to secure her position as empress and prevent Gu Ya from entering the palace, she actually spread such rumors. Not only did she put Mr. Gu, Minister of Rites, on the fire, she even dragged Concubine Li into the water.

If he acted quickly and made Gu Ya a concubine before hearing the rumors outside the palace, wouldn't it be father and son fighting for a daughter in the eyes of the common people? !

absurd!

And the prince...the prince is too kind.He is generous and benevolent, he is filial and pure, he is not only loved by the court officials, he is acquiesced as the next emperor for granted, even those princes with different personalities are very concerned about the fact that the prince will become the next emperor. None of them are exclusive.

—but he repelled it.

—he's not dead yet!

The old emperor hated this matter almost angrily, hated the young and powerful prince and his own body that he no longer wanted to admit was gradually aging.

So this time, Empress Chen's absurdity directly gave the old emperor an outlet to vent his anger and vent: How can a prince whose mother's family has been convicted of a crime take on the position of prince? !Why don't you go down with Queen Chen!

The old emperor summoned Empress Chen and the prince, scolded them severely, and then confined them in the palace under their panicked eyes. At this moment, what he experienced was the pleasure of revenge—a kind of revenge against the heavens. Such a pleasure!

But after this rage and ecstasy, he fell ill.

Heart palpitations.

And this time, falling ill was like a basin of cold water, waking up the old emperor who was full of satisfaction and ambition just now.

——He is really old, time is running out, and there is no time to train the next prince.

Therefore, the only person he can entrust with important tasks is the current prince whom he detests, Zhao Sheng.

The second prince is not a good candidate, because his mother clan is too powerful, if he is in power, the old emperor will not know whether his surname will be Zhao or Li in this world a hundred years from now.

The third prince is also not a good candidate, because he has no mother at all, and his personality is artificial, sensitive and thoughtful, so he is not made to be an emperor.

The fourth prince...he can't remember.

The fifth prince can only play with the pen, and knows nothing about other things.

The sixth prince is too young, he is an old man, although he is much loved, but his talent and character are still early, so it is not obvious from a distance.

So after much deliberation, the old emperor can entrust a country to only the crown prince.The old emperor was unwilling and depressed at the same time, but after yesterday's loss and today's illness, he did calm down a bit, thinking whether he was really too harsh on the prince and vented his anger.

But before the old emperor came to a conclusion, the eunuch who had to use him around him reported it with a look of embarrassment.

"The emperor, the queen, she..."

"What happened to her?!"

Although the old emperor's anger towards the prince gradually subsided, he was still unavoidably angry towards Empress Chen, and his anger flared up again in an instant.It wasn't until his heart was throbbing again that the old emperor came to his senses, lay down hastily, and said calmly, "Tell me, what happened to her?"

Last night, although the old emperor had a strong desire to abolish the queen and abolish the prince, he subconsciously knew that this matter should not be easily decided. It is easy to abolish the prince, but difficult to establish it again. People are grounded, and they will be sent to the two after they have thoroughly thought about it. Therefore, at this moment, Empress Chen is still a queen, and her words still have weight, and she can pass them in front of the emperor.

The servants beside the old emperor looked down at the old emperor who had angina pectoris and lay down, then secretly wiped off his cold sweat, and said, "The empress said that she has something important to report to the emperor."

Just as the old emperor snorted, the palace servant quickly said, "It's about the previous court."

The old emperor's expression finally became dignified.

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At this moment, the Hall of Renming is in chaos.

As early as last night, when everyone learned that Empress Chen's palace seal representing the majesty of the empress was taken away, and even Empress Chen herself was confined in the palace and was not allowed to go out without purpose, the palace people in the Renming Palace were already in chaos.

At such a moment, Empress Chen, as the lord of the first palace, should use the majesty accumulated over the years to stabilize people's hearts and completely suppress the chaos of these palace people, but Empress Chen did not do this, because her heart was also in chaos. up.

In the first half of the night, Empress Chen was always thinking about why such a thing happened, why she was suddenly framed, what was the purpose of this frame, and who wanted to deal with her.

In the middle of the night, Empress Chen was sitting in the desolate palace, feeling a burst of palpitations as if she was dying, so she began to think about her own fate, the fate of the Chen family, and her gains and losses over the years. Enmity... And in the end, she thought of the "son" who is now named Yang Shensi...

son?

Hahaha, son? !

Empress Chen suddenly understood everything and made a decision.

——She is Chen Shuzi, the daughter of the Chen family!

——She will never just die in pain day by day in the pain of the secret medicine.

With a ferocious face and disheveled hair, Empress Chen rushed out of the palace, and said to her confidant maid who had been guarding outside the palace in panic all night: "Go, go and call the emperor, I have news about the former court!"

·

The palpitation-ridden old emperor did not come to the Hall of Renming after all, but brought his old wife who accompanied him as a teenager to the Zichen Hall, and did not save her any face in front of others.

But Empress Chen has reached this point now, she thinks her time is running out, so how could she care about these things, so the emperor didn't save face for her, and she didn't save face for the emperor, so she just came here with disheveled hair.

As soon as she entered the door, the old emperor was taken aback. Before the old emperor could scold her, Empress Chen cried bitterly and bowed down. After modification, they all reported to the emperor.

According to Empress Chen, what she gave birth to was not one child, but twins, two princes, but because there is a folk saying that twins are unlucky, and the eldest son cannot be two, so Empress Chen In order to prevent the emperor from having the idea of ​​"going and staying", he endured reluctance and grief, left behind a healthy eldest son, and sent away his frail youngest son, hoping that his youngest son could live as an ordinary person in ordinary life. People grow up in peace and health.

But she never expected that her secret actions would still be seen and even used by the remnants of the previous dynasty.Those remnants of the previous dynasty killed her youngest son, and then replaced her with the grandson of the previous dynasty. After being taken care of by Empress Chen for countless years, now they came to her again, wanting to become a prince and enter the palace in a fair manner!

In order to achieve this goal, the other party used the name of Empress Chen to confuse the Chen family and let them attack the prince. They lured the prince to such filthy places as Tianxiang Tower, and then attacked Empress Chen and gave her the secret of the former court. Medicine, just wait for Empress Chen to express her love to the old emperor and bring the grandson of the former dynasty into the palace, so that Empress Chen will die suddenly!

At that time, even if the old emperor was still angry with Empress Chen and the new prince, he might still take good care of the new prince because of the death of Empress Chen, and his opinion was gradually changed. Under the premise of losing the queen and prince, the new prince still has a great possibility to take over the country from the old emperor, and bring the Zhao family back to the blood of the previous dynasty without a single soldier!

But what the remnants of the previous dynasty didn't expect was that the crown prince hadn't been caught in the trick, and Empress Chen also found out about him, and began to thoroughly investigate the murder of the prince. Let her have no time to care about him, and have no time to investigate the murder of the prince. It is also because of forcing Empress Chen to feel guilty about the "young son" in her heart, and let her bring the "young son" into the palace before she finds out that something is wrong with her.

At the end, Empress Chen was crying bitterly.

"The concubine is now in the body of the secret medicine, time is running out, and I have no more expectations, but as long as the concubine thinks that the emperor will be deceived by that thief, and will recognize the thief as our son, then we will be happy." My heart is twisted like a knife, I wish I could just go like this..."

Empress Chen hates it!

She hated the old emperor for being ungrateful and ungrateful. He obviously used their Chen family's money to start an incident. In the end, he kicked Chen and her wife away. Into people, in the end, even people like Concubine Li can live on her face!

But Empress Chen hated her "son" even more, hated that man's ruthless attack, not only wanted her support, but also her life!In the past few days, her anxious pursuit of the former dynasty's secret medicine probably showed clues in front of them. They found out something, and then they dealt with her cruelly and framed her. die!

But she, Chen Shuzi, is having a hard time, so don't any of you!

She, Chen Shuzi, can't live, and neither can you!

Empress Chen kowtowed again, with tears in her eyelashes: "Your Majesty, Zhao Lang, I know that you must be annoyed at my concealment, but that is our child too! I am a mother, and I am your wife. How can I just watch our child die? I thought it was enough to save this child and let him grow up safely and healthily. , actually wanted to murder another of our children, and after failing, even wanted to kill me to avoid future troubles..."

"Zhao Lang, for the sake of the relationship between the two of us for many years, and for the sake of being kind when people are about to die, no matter how much you blame me, you will have no regrets, but please... please protect me. Well our last child!"

"And I... I have no face to face you anymore."

The old emperor's face suddenly changed, his heart was not good, and the few palace guards who were guarding at the side were also frightened, and they rushed up to grab Empress Chen.

But Empress Chen had made up her mind, and before everyone could react, she crashed into Zichen Palace and died in front of the old emperor.

Blood splattered.

The old emperor looked at this unrepentant face, his heart ached more and more, his eyes turned black, and he fell down suddenly.

——The queen is dead, and the emperor is also down!

At this moment, there was chaos in Zichen Hall.

After that, after a day and night of coma, the old emperor finally woke up under the rescue of the imperial physician, but his condition was not very good. He had a stroke and half of his body was paralyzed.

Countless imperial physicians were at a loss, and finally the highly respected court order came forward and said a lot of euphemistic words, saying that the old emperor had suffered from many years of fighting on the battlefield, and recently he had palpitations, so he was overjoyed In anger and grief, he had a stroke.

Stroke, no one can cure.

So, on the second morning when the old emperor woke up, there was an extra chair under the dragon chair representing the emperor.

Then, the prince, who had not seen him for several days, looked up as usual, and sat down firmly amidst the various expressions of the officials in the court.

From now on, the prince will supervise the country.