Little Dandy, He's a Little Good

"I want to close the window first." Rong Zhuo said.

Yu Jingdu smiled, "The window wasn't even open."

Rong Zhuo looked around, and sure enough, all the windows in the study were closed.

Since Yu Jingdu called him here, he naturally had to be more cautious, it was impossible to get close to Rong Zhuo with an open door.

"Can I..." Rong Zhuo blushed and looked at Yu Jingdu, "Can you close your eyes?"

"If I'm afraid of seeing it, it's because I'm afraid of seeing it, right? What do you want me to do with my eyes closed?" Yu Jingdu gently squeezed his ear with one hand, "Or you will also..."

"No." Rong Zhuo hurriedly said, "I...forget it."

Rong Zhuo put one hand on his buckle belt, and did not untie it for a long time.

Yu Jingdu deliberately didn't help him, and only lowered his eyes to admire Rong Zhuo's flushed face.

It wasn't until Rong Zhuo became a little anxious that he slowly untied the buckle by himself.

Rong Zhuo knelt at his feet with one knee, his breathing was chaotic.

Yu Jingdu suddenly felt a little bit reluctant again, and said, "Why don't you forget it."

"I can." Rong Zhuo looked up at him.

Yu Jingdu looked down at Rong Zhuo from a high position, from this angle, the young man was very close to his body, the scene was too impactful, so he couldn't say the words of refusal anymore.

Outside the study, a huge sparrow flew and landed by the window, chirping from time to time.

Occasionally, a breeze blows by, rustling the flowers under the porch.

No one knew what was going on in the study with the doors and windows closed.

Only the sparrows by the window, occasionally sporadic panting and whispering can be heard.

It was not until a long time later that the room completely returned to calm.

In Rong Zhuo's prediction, this matter should be quite simple.

Before wearing the book, he had seen this in a small movie. Anyway, judging from the performance of the actors, it was very easy.

It was the same when Yu Jingdu did this last time, Rong Zhuo didn't see any reluctance or discomfort from his performance at all.

But when he came to Rong Zhuo, he realized that imagination and practice are completely different things.

First of all, he and Yu Jingdu are very different in size.

Secondly, Yu Jingdu has really been too long...

"You did a good job." Yu Jingdu patted the corner of Rong Zhuo's lips with one hand and coaxed, "Don't feel depressed."

Rong Zhuo buried his head on his shoulder and didn't want to talk much. At this moment, his tongue and jaw are still sore, and his hands are also sore.

"Just practice a few more times in the future." Yu Jingdu said again.

Rong Zhuo thought in his heart that there is no future, he will never ask for humiliation again.

Yu Jingdu leaned up to his ear and kissed, and coaxed: "Do you really don't want me to help you?"

"No." Rong Zhuo muffled, "The Eighth Highness should wake up in a while."

"It won't take long." Yu Jingdu said again.

Hearing what he said, Rong Zhuo felt even more depressed.

At this time, he would be foolish to agree to Yu Jingdu. If he really followed the other party, wouldn't it be naked crushing in all directions?

Rong Zhuo didn't want to be hit twice in one day, so he resolutely rejected Yu Jingdu's "good intentions".

That afternoon, Rong Zhuo was in a low mood.

He confidently prepared this congratulatory gift for Yu Jingdu, thinking he could do a good job.But he didn't expect things to be messed up anyway, anyway, in his opinion, the gift delivery was very unsuccessful.

But Yu Jingdu didn't think so, because he was in a very good mood for most of the next half day.

Even the eighth prince could see that his third brother was different from usual, and naively asked him if he had a good dream when he went to bed at noon.

"Yes." Yu Jingdu replied seriously: "I had a particularly good dream."

The Eighth Prince still wanted to ask, but Yu Jingdu didn't want to discuss this matter with him, so he changed the topic.

If there was no news from the palace in the evening, today would be the most perfect day for Yu Jingdu.But the sky failed, and when they were preparing to have dinner at dusk, someone came from the palace to pass the news that the queen was critically ill.

"Why did you suddenly become critically ill?" Yu Jingdu asked the visitor: "Didn't you say that you have recovered a few days ago?"

The person who came to deliver the message was Laifu's apprentice named Shuangxi, a very clever servant.

Knowing that Yu Jingdu is now the prospective prince, he naturally did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly said: "His Royal Highness, I heard that it was because of yesterday's palace banquet that the former prince did not enter the palace. The empress asked His Royal Highness how many times today." In other words, His Highness the Sixth Highness slipped his tongue for some reason. The empress fainted on the spot when she heard that the former crown prince was abolished."

Earlier, the queen was seriously ill because of the prince's affairs. In order to appease her, the emperor kept people from telling her that he would punish the prince, but he would not abolish him.The queen didn't know whether she believed it or lied to herself. Anyway, nothing happened during this period of time.

In order to stabilize the queen's condition, the emperor would order someone to bring the former prince to greet her every once in a while.The former prince had received the emperor's warning, and moreover he was somewhat concerned about the queen's body, so he naturally didn't dare to be a demon again.So the queen has been deceiving herself and telling herself that the emperor should really plan to give the prince another chance.

On Jingdu's birthday yesterday, a palace banquet was held in the palace.

Although the queen could not be present due to illness, she still gave a symbolic congratulatory gift.

She fully thought that the former prince would take the opportunity of entering the palace to have a banquet, and come to greet her, but no one was found after waiting.In fact, she has been trapped in the harem these days, and there are some bad guesses, but she just doesn't want to believe it.

But paper cannot contain fire after all.

When the sixth prince went to pay her respects today, she only tried a little bit, and then got the words out.

"Did the father let us all enter the palace?" Yu Jingdu asked.

Shuangxi said: "His Royal Highness, His Majesty wants you and His Highness the Fifth Prince to enter the palace. The Eighth Prince is young and was frightened again yesterday, so let him stay in the Palace of the Imperial Palace today."

The empress is critically ill, the palace must be in chaos right now, it is really not suitable for the Eighth Prince to go back at this time.

Anyway, he was young, and he had the excuse of being frightened yesterday, so he didn't have to go to the palace with Yu Jingdu and the others to serve the sick.

Of course, this so-called servant is just a formality, there are so many palace people in the palace, they will not really let Yu Jingdu and the others serve anything.But the empress is their aunt after all in name, and they are always called into the palace at such times to fulfill their duties as "sons".

"My lord pack up and change clothes before leaving." Yu Jingdu said to Li Feng, "Take Shuangxi Eunuch to the front hall to rest."

"Your Highness, don't be polite, I'll just wait here, please hurry up." He paused and said, "I heard from the imperial physician, I'm afraid I won't be able to wait too long, and if Your Highness goes too late, I'm afraid it will be too long." It's out of the question."

Shuangxi's reminder was already a little over the line, but Yu Jingdu knew that he had good intentions, so naturally he didn't care about it, he nodded at him, then turned and strode to the backyard.

"Go and get the clothes for the king, and then send someone to tell the fifth child to leave for the palace after half a cup of tea." Yu Jingdu said.

Hearing that Li Feng was busy with other people, Yu Jingdu went straight to the guest room where the Eighth Prince and Rong Zhuo lived.

"What happened?" Rong Zhuo saw his expression, and his heart sank.

"The queen may be dying." Yu Jingdu squatted down and said to the eighth prince while explaining to him: "Cen'er, my third brother may not be back tonight because of some things. You follow my brother and listen to him carefully, you understand?"

The Eighth Prince nodded obediently, "Third Brother, are you coming back tomorrow?"

"Should be back." Yu Jingdu rubbed his head and said, "Sit here obediently, third brother and your pretty brother, okay?"

"En." The Eighth Prince sat on the low couch obediently, without asking any further questions.

Yu Jingdu took Rong Zhuo to the inner room, leaned over and kissed him quickly on the lips.

"Don't worry, and don't think about it, just stay with Cen'er and wait for me to come back." Yu Jingdu pulled him into his arms and hugged him, and said: "I don't know if I can come back tomorrow, but if someone comes to pick up Cen'er Son, remember to coax him well, don't make him afraid."

"Well, don't worry." Rong Zhuo said.

"I'll leave Li Feng behind tonight, and if you need anything, just talk to him."

"I see, you can go."

"If I don't come back tomorrow, after Cen'er leaves, you can go home and wait for my news."

While the two were talking, Yu Jingdu's clothes were taken away.

He moved to Rong Zhuo's lips and kissed again, and then let people in.

After Yu Jingdu changed his clothes, he hurriedly explained a few words to Li Feng and left.

"Brother, what happened?" The Eighth Prince asked Rong Zhuo in a low voice.

"The empress is ill, your third elder brother went to the palace to visit." Rong Zhuo said: "Don't worry, he will be back tomorrow."

The eighth prince nodded, still not quite understanding the concept of the empress being seriously ill.

He was too young, and although he had seen people get sick, he had never experienced death.

That night, Rong Zhuo had dinner with him and played with him for a while.

Probably because of Yu Jingdu's absence, he was more sensible than usual, and when he was tired from playing, he offered to take a bath and rest.

After Rong Zhuo took him to bathe, just put him on the couch for a while, the little guy fell asleep by himself.

After he fell asleep, Rong Zhuo got up lightly and left the room.

Outside the door, Li Feng was standing on the porch to watch for them.

"Young Master Rong." Seeing him coming out, Li Feng saluted him.

Rong Zhuo bowed back and asked, "Has General Li stayed here all night?"

"I'll go to the side hall for a while later." Li Feng said, "Does Young Master Rong have any instructions?"

"I can't sleep, I want to ask you something." Rong Zhuo said.

"Sir, please tell me."

"Isn't it a coincidence that the queen is dying at this time?" Rong Zhuo said, "I don't know much about the rules in the palace. If... I mean if, if the queen is that... will it affect Li Chu? ?”

Li Feng was a little surprised when he heard this, he probably didn't expect Rong Zhuo to tell him about it.

"There is no such rule, but if the empress dies, His Majesty's mood will definitely be affected, and the originally scheduled date of becoming a crown prince will most likely be postponed," Li Feng said.

There is no reason for anyone to hold a funeral and a wedding at the same time.

But as long as things are delayed, there will inevitably be long nights and dreams...

"What a coincidence." Rong Zhuo said.

It's neither too early nor too late, but at this moment.

But he couldn't tell if it was a coincidence.

No matter how ruthless the prince is, he won't take his mother's life seriously, right?

And the matter has come to this point, anyone with a discerning eye knows that even if the queen dies, at most it will delay the establishment of the reserve for a while.As long as Yu Jingdu doesn't do anything wrong, the crown prince will be his sooner or later.

So there is no need for the prince to do this.

Is it really a coincidence?

"Young Master Rong, don't worry, no matter what happens, His Highness will always have a way to deal with it." Li Feng said.

"En." Rong Zhuo nodded, knowing that he couldn't help with this matter, so he didn't think about it any more.

That night, Rong Zhuo slept very restlessly, and woke up several times during the night.

When he was awake, he couldn't help but think about Yu Jingdu's current situation.

He thought, would the other party feel annoyed and wronged?

After working hard for so long, the imperial edict of Li Chu was about to be issued, but something like this happened.

At this moment, Yu Jingdu was waiting for news with the other princes.

He kept his face sullen and didn't speak. Everyone thought he was unhappy about what happened today, and no one dared to talk to him.

But he didn't know that Yu Jingdu was just distracted at the moment.

He was thinking about Rong Zhuo, wondering if his little dude had fallen asleep right now, was he worried about himself?

He thought of what happened in the study today, of Rong Zhuo complaining to him that his mouth was sour, and of Rong Zhuo's frustrated and annoyed expression after the end... He couldn't even help thinking, if God would not let him do this Chu Jun, then he will follow God's will.

At that time, asking the emperor to grant him a fief, and taking Rong Zhuo with him from now on, wouldn't it be happier than being an emperor?

In fact, he had already thought about what happened today on the way here.

He didn't think that in this situation, the former prince would not hesitate to take the queen's life to win.

It's not that he thinks the ex-prince is so filial, but that in the current situation, the other party has no bargaining chip with him, and sacrificing the queen is just a vain sacrifice.No matter how sad the emperor was, it was impossible for him to help the deposed prince to the throne. If he had this plan, he would not be able to resolutely depose the prince after the queen became seriously ill.

This level is not difficult to see through, the prince's mind in the past is not so hard to understand.

And the sixth prince is even more impossible, that idiot has no brains, but he has a little more filial piety to the queen than the prince.

Therefore, it is impossible for him to disregard the queen's safety for the sake of the prince.

Yu Jingdu guessed that when Shuangxi said that the sixth prince had slipped his mouth, it was possible that he really had slipped his mouth.

But the timing was so coincidental that he had to think about it.

When Yu Jingdu thought about it, the only person he could think of was the queen herself.

According to the imperial physician's previous words, the queen's illness can only be stabilized for a while, and it is impossible to recover completely.

So the queen knew that she couldn't hold on for too long, but it was just a matter of one day sooner or later.

After staying in the palace for so many years, she is naturally not a naive person.

Can the emperor really forgive the former prince for doing such a thing?

She can lie to herself for a day, a month, but she cannot lie for a lifetime.

People who deceive themselves and others often know better than anyone else.

She knew that her life was not long, but she was still not reconciled, and wanted to fight for her son, even if it was just a little chance, it was better than giving up completely.

So she chose this moment to kill herself.

According to her understanding of the emperor, this ruthless emperor always has more affection for the dead than for the living.

And if she died like this, the emperor might not issue an imperial edict for the crown prince for a while.

As long as the edict is not issued, everything is not a foregone conclusion.

That's all she can do for the prince.

As for whether the prince has the ability to recover after her death, it depends on his own ability.

In the queen's bedroom.

The crown prince and the sixth prince stood guard in front of the couch.

The emperor stood aside with red eyes, thinking exactly the same as Yu Jingdu's speculation.

Originally, he was just guessing about this matter, until the queen took his hand and begged him to treat the prince kindly after his death.

For a moment, the emperor felt even more disappointed than sad.

He was disappointed in his queen, and when he was about to die, he only remembered his useless son.

"Laifu." The emperor said suddenly: "I'm a little tired, you can go outside with me to get some fresh air."

Laifu heard the words and hurriedly helped the emperor out of the bedroom.

The emperor stood on the porch looking at the scene in the courtyard, and for some reason suddenly thought of Concubine Qi.

The other party was still Concubine Qi when she died, a concubine after her death.

When the emperor occasionally thought of her later, he always felt indebted in his heart, and thought that it would be great if he had mentioned her status earlier.

"When Concubine Qi passed away, she asked someone to send a message, saying that she wanted to see me." The emperor said: "Laifu, do you think she really wants to see me, or is she just like the queen, just wanting to entrust me to treat her child well at this time? "

Laifu frowned when he heard the words, and thought to himself, aren't these also your children?

But he didn't dare to say that, he could only slander him.

"Your Majesty." Lai Fu said: "I remember that Concubine Qi didn't seem to care much about the Third Highness when she was alive."

The emperor remembered what Lai Fu said. Concubine Qi was dissatisfied with him back then, and even disliked their common son, so she often treated Jing Du harshly.

"So before she left, she didn't want to entrust anyone, but really wanted to see me." The emperor said.

Whether you want to scold him for being unlucky, or want to express your heartfelt love to him, but before leaving, the other party has him in his heart instead of treating him as a tool that can protect his son.

The emperor sighed, feeling quite complicated for a while.

At this moment, there was a burst of crying from the hall behind him.

The emperor closed his eyes against the night for a moment, and shed a tear.

But only one drop.

That night, because Rong Zhuo didn't sleep well, he woke up when he heard the bell.

The dull bell came from the direction of the palace, and the sound did not stop when it reached the palace.

Because the night was too quiet, the ringing of the bell seemed particularly abrupt.

The eighth prince was also woken up, raised his head sleepily and looked out.

"Brother, who is ringing the bell?" The Eighth Prince asked.

Rong Zhuo thought for a while, and said to him: "It's from the palace, the empress is dead."

The Eighth Prince will know about this tomorrow, and Rong Zhuo has no intention of keeping it from him.

"What's dead?" The eighth prince asked puzzled, "Why do you ring the bell at night?"

"When you die, you go to another world, and you won't see her in this world." Rong Zhuo explained to him.

The Eighth Prince tilted his head and thought for a while, but he couldn't figure out why.

He is not familiar with the queen, and he can only see each other on occasions such as palace banquets.

So Rong Zhuo said that he would not see the queen in the future, and he didn't feel any loss.

"Will they keep knocking?" the Eighth Prince asked.

"No, it will be over soon." Rong Zhuo held him in his arms, and patted him on the back with one hand, "When the bell stops, you can sleep well, and someone will come to pick you up tomorrow morning." Palace."

The Eighth Prince heard him say that he was going back to the palace, so he quickly looked up at him and asked, "Are you going?"

"I can't go." Rong Zhuo said, "Not everyone can enter the palace casually."

The Eighth Prince nodded and said in disappointment, "Then I won't be able to see you."

"No." Rong Zhuo said: "In the future... there will always be a chance to see me again."

"Really?" The Eighth Prince asked him, "When you become a member of the Third Brother's Mansion, will I be able to see you when I come?"

Although Rong Zhuo knew that the Eighth Prince didn't understand what the meaning of "people from the manor" meant, he was still a little embarrassed to hear what the other party said.But this time, instead of denying it, he nodded.

Seeing him nodding, the eighth prince breathed a sigh of relief, put his little head in Rong Zhuo's arms and fell asleep obediently again.

The bells outside soon stopped, but the capital city tonight is not destined to be peaceful.

The next day, Yu Jingdu failed to return to the palace.

After waiting for someone to pick up the eighth prince, Rong Zhuo went back to the Rong Mansion.

Rong Qinghuai had ordered the concierge early in the morning, so when Rong Zhuo came back, he was called to the study.

"Has the Banquet King entered the palace?" Father Rong asked him.

"I went there last night." Rong Zhuo said.

"The empress is here in charge, so the establishment of the crown prince will definitely be shelved." Rong Qinghuai said: "But the battle at the border will not wait for anyone, and he will go to the border before he is sealed, in case he stays there In a year or two, I'm afraid there will be unexpected problems."

Rong Zhuo didn't think so far, hearing what Rong Qinghuai said, he couldn't help but frowned immediately.

"Then what should we do?" Rong Zhuo asked.

"do not know."

Rong Zhuo: ...

"It's best to find a way to get His Majesty to issue the edict to establish the crown prince." Rong Qinghuai said: "But now that the queen is dead, His Majesty may not be in the mood to set up a crown prince. If someone mentions it rashly, it may be self-defeating and let him I feel that the banquet king is eager for quick success and disrespects the queen."

What Rong Qinghuai was most worried about was that the emperor would soften his heart because of the death of the empress, and if he opened his eyes to the former prince at that time, it would be even more troublesome.

Hearing what he said, Rong Zhuo was very anxious, but he couldn't help him at all.Let alone him, even Yu Jingdu didn't dare to act rashly at a time like this.

How things develop now depends on the emperor's will.

Not only the father and son of the Rong family, but now the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty are discussing the establishment of a reserve in private.

Most of them are still optimistic about Yu Jingdu, thinking that even if it is delayed for a while, the position of the crown prince must be the Banquet King.Of course, these people didn't know that there would be a war at the border soon, and naturally they didn't expect that Yu Jingdu would go to the border soon.Otherwise, I don't know how many of them will defect.

In addition to these people, there were also people in the court who detained the former prince, thinking that if the empress died, maybe the emperor would soften his heart.Of course it is impossible to revive the prince immediately, but the two are father and son after all, as long as the former prince behaves well, it may not be impossible to regain the emperor's favor in the future.

After all, the favor of the emperor is not always reasonable, sometimes it depends on the mood.

In the Tian Family, ups and downs are common. Wasn't the Banquet King an unfavored abandoned child a year ago?Isn't it still only one step away from the prince now?

This kind of guessing sounded one after another among the officials, until news came from the palace:

When the emperor conferred posthumous posthumous titles on the empress, at the same time he conferred the posthumous concubine title on Concubine Qi, who had passed away for many years, who was also the biological mother of King Yan.

As soon as this news came out, those who thought that the former prince might stand up suddenly became dumbfounded.