Before the birthday banquet started, the Empress Dowager was still dressing in Yongning Palace, the maids came in to pass the news, and the prince came to visit.

Hearing this, the queen mother waved back the maid who inserted the hairpin for herself, helped the hairpin on her head, got up and went to the front hall to meet the prince.

As soon as he stepped into the gate of the palace, he saw the thin figure of the prince.

"If you're not planning a birthday banquet, what are you doing here?"

The prince turned around when he heard the voice, and shouted hoarsely, "Grandmother."

The current prince looks thinner than when Shen Yang first met him, his eyes are dark and his cheeks are sunken, he doesn't have the demeanor of a prince at all, he looks like a drug addict.

This appearance made the Empress Dowager frown and shun the palace people.

"Where did you hang out again?"

The prince's figure was crumbling, and his eyes were chaotic.

"Grandmother, Xuan'er doesn't want to be the prince anymore."

"Shut up!" The queen mother sternly reprimanded, "You are talking nonsense, it seems that you want to clean up the people around you!"

The prince was scolded for bowing his head, his hands hanging by his sides were stiff and unable to straighten, and there was still a faint smell of alcohol in his hair.

Since the emergence of the third prince, the attitude of the queen has changed rapidly. Everything has changed too fast.

The position of prince is like a high mountain. Qi Xuan was pressed down at the bottom of the mountain and couldn't breathe, but his relatives watched coldly and others told him to stand up.

He has become a vassal of the position of prince, no one cares whether he is willing or not, just want him to sit in peace, or step down as soon as possible, trying to control him.

Qi Xuan is like a fish thrown on the shore, absorbing the meager moisture in the air to survive. At this time, depravity is more deceptive than other choices.

The dreamlike state of drunkenness is obsessive, forgetting all the status quo.

He was never suitable to be a prince, fragile, soft, immersed in poetry and literature, with the compassion of a literati.

Yesterday Qi Xuan climbed the tower and looked at thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, but in his eyes, those thousands of miles of rivers and mountains were like mist floating in front of his eyes, illusory and uncontrollable. He got drunk again and collapsed in the library pavilion of the East Palace, buried by books. At the moment when he was about to suffocate, he suddenly sat up, and suddenly realized that the imperial palace was a prison, inlaid with gold and jade, which looked resplendent.

Qi Xuan did not refute the Queen Mother's grandmother's words, because the grandmother was right and always right, he had no room to refute, so the only thing he could do was to remain silent.

The queen mother looked at the prince's gesture, and thought of her rebellious daughter, she was suddenly annoyed.

"You are so weak as a prince! You don't have the demeanor of your father!"

But even though he was reprimanded by the queen mother, the prince still kept his head down and said nothing. Such silence angered the queen mother even more.

"Aijia is talking to you!"

The prince raised his head and replied after a while, "Grandmother, let the third brother take the position of prince."

"shut up!"

The queen mother picked up the teacup on the table and threw it at the prince. The prince didn't hide.

The palace people outside trembled when they heard this, they looked up and saw the queen rushing into Yongning Palace with a man in a threatening manner, it seemed that the visitor was not kind, the palace people hurried forward to stop them, but where the queen wanted to go, how could they, the palace people, stop her live.

After a while, the movement disturbed the queen mother and the prince in the front hall. They turned their heads and saw that it was the queen who brought someone in. The palace guards outside the hall immediately knelt down and pleaded guilty to the queen mother.

"I ask the Queen Mother to forgive me, the slaves really can't stop the Queen Mother."

The queen mother asked people to step back, and then looked at the queen.

"Queen, what does this mean?"

Ever since the empress dowager and the empress had a disagreement between the third prince and the prince, the relationship between the empress dowager and the empress had dropped to a freezing point. The empress dowager did not want to give up the prince she had cultivated for many years, and the empress felt that she owed the third prince to insist on supporting the third prince.

It's a contradiction between the two, but it's better to say that the queen mother is dissatisfied that the queen's daughter-in-law is out of her control, so she secretly asked Concubine Ru to rise up against the queen.

The crown prince and the third prince are just tools in their hands to deal with each other.

The empress turned towards the empress dowager, and replied: "I just want to see the prince who I haven't seen for a long time. Presumably, I can only see the prince in the mother's harem."

After finishing speaking, the queen turned her gaze to the prince, who bowed his head again in silence.

"Xuan'er, why don't you visit the queen mother?"

When Qi Xuan heard the words, the tips of his ears twitched slightly, remembering that the queen had called her countless times like this, his heart relaxed a little.

But at this moment, the Queen Mother spoke.

"What is the queen trying to pretend to be sensational now? Let the prince regain his affection for your mother and son?"

As soon as these words came out, Prince Qi Xuan turned his head and stopped looking at the queen.

Seeing this, the queen had no choice but to turn her attention to the queen mother again, and the atmosphere between the two was tense.

But at this time, the palace people outside came to inform the Queen Mother that it was time to go to the birthday banquet, and the Queen Mother and the queen temporarily stopped.

The queen and the prince left Yongning Palace together, and the queen tried to talk to the prince again.

"Xuan'er, the queen mother knows that you think the queen mother is biased, but Rong'er is your third younger brother and your own younger brother. You have already obtained much more than your younger brother. Why don't you give in to your younger brother? "

The prince walked forward in silence, and just when the queen thought he would not answer in frustration, the prince spoke.

"Used to be the son-in-law, now the third younger brother, the queen mother, you have never been just in the palace, the third younger brother doesn't want the favoritism of the mother mother, and the son-in-law doesn't want it anymore."

Whether as a mother or as the mother of a country, the queen has never been fair. She married the emperor who was still a prince at an ignorant age, and everything was controlled by the queen mother.

When the emperor came to the throne and she was promoted to empress herself, she was still under the shadow of the empress dowager's control. She couldn't even understand her own children, and blindly followed the empress dowager's orders.

Now after eating the bitter fruit of the third prince's feedback, he blindly wants to make up for it, but again ignores the prince who also needs to be concerned.

The east wall was demolished to make up for the west wall, and finally the whole house collapsed.

The queen stared blankly at the prince who was getting further and further away from her. The figure seemed to be thinner than before. The queen still remembered that the prince had a serious illness when he was young, and she took care of him day and night until he woke up.

Later, the prince was well-behaved and sensible, and he listened to his own words in everything. At that time, she ignored Rong'er.

Now she is working hard for Rong'er, but when she turns around, she finds that her eldest son is so thin and weak. The queen suddenly realizes that she has never been able to be a good mother.

Thinking of this, the queen trembled, and the maid beside her hurriedly supported her, and she firmly grasped the hand of the maid to stand firm.

"Is this palace wrong?"

The queen's voice was trembling when she spoke, the maids lowered their heads and dared not reply when they heard the words, the queen looked up at the sky in all directions in the palace.

Just in the sky, a group of flying geese crossed the sky, soaring in the vast blue sky.

When the preparation for the birthday banquet was coming to an end, Shen Yang was walking with the eldest princess in the imperial garden to relax, and happened to catch a glimpse of the prince walking by, and the eldest princess also noticed it.

The direction the prince was walking was the location of Yongning Palace, he must have just met the queen mother, but when the birthday banquet was about to start, why did the prince suddenly go to see the queen mother?

Such doubts also existed in the eldest princess's heart, and the two remained calm. The eldest princess remembered something, and said with a recalling tone:

"Back then, Chang Xing was much thinner than the current prince."

Shen Yang looked sideways, wondering why Princess Yu suddenly mentioned Qi Yan.

The Eldest Princess also suddenly recalled it, she raised her mouth and stopped talking, Shen Yang didn't ask, the two walked through the imperial garden and prepared to go back.

At this time, Ruxian, who was brought into the palace by Shen Yang, came hurriedly, and the eldest princess walked away in time when she saw this.

Ruxian lowered his voice to inform Shen Yang.

"Master Jiang has left the capital in a carriage, but the butler is determined not to leave."

According to the original plan, most of the people in the palace will be dismissed tonight, but the chief steward has watched Qi Yan grow up, and is equivalent to Qi Yan's elders, so he and some of the remaining subordinates in the capital, such as Doctor Jiang, will be the first to evacuate from the capital. .

But the big housekeeper was unwilling to leave, Shen Yang frowned and felt troubled.

At this moment, the palace servants came to inform that the birthday banquet had begun, and the eldest princess and princess Bin were invited to be seated.

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