fake emperor

To the east of the palace is the Changchun Garden, which covers an area of ​​more than 300 hectares. There are islands, bridges, islands, embankments in a well-arranged pattern, and there are pavilions, platforms, buildings, and pavilions to isolate the sky. Here is the second emperor of Qin Dynasty. It was first built in [-], and later many emperors also started construction and expansion. Until today, Changchun Garden is the largest forest garden in the world.

In the past, many emperors liked to move to this Changchun Garden in summer to escape the summer heat and listen to politics, so Changchun Garden is also called the Summer Palace.

Qin Zuo and his party came to Changchun Garden to fly a kite in a relaxed mood. Speaking of which, the kite in A Chou's hand was made by Su Suyi himself, and he brought A Chou to play once before, before Qin Zuo appeared at that time.I don't know where Ah Chou turned out today, so he clamored to come and fly a kite.

The kite is made of bamboo strips, pasted with silk, and there are two small lines written on it: "Plum leaves have sour and soft teeth, and plantains are divided into green and window screens."After a long sleep, I feel ruthless and think about it, and watch the child catch willow flowers'. The font is smooth and flowing, and it is beautiful and stretched. Qin Zuo recognized it as Su Suyi's character.

A Chou couldn't wait a long time ago, so he didn't want Qin Zuo to watch it all the time. He was anxious to ask Qin Zuo to help him fly the kite into the sky, so Qin Zuo hurriedly handed it to Su Suyi.

Su Suyi looked at the direction of the wind, and took A Chou to move around. One big and one small ran away, but Qin Zuo didn't follow, just because Fu Wangbei came to whisper something to her.Fu Wangbei has been following her for more than a year. The young man who was hairless and insecure at the beginning can now help Qin Zuo with some matters.

"The queen mother has returned to the palace ahead of schedule."

"What happened?" Qin Zuo was very surprised. The Empress Dowager went to Mount Emei to worship the Buddha for three months every year.

"This, I don't know the details..." Fu Wangbei bowed his head in shame.

"How long has it been since the Queen Mother left?"

"It's been six hours since we left."

Qin Zuo breathed a sigh of relief, and it was only the first day of departure, and it would take five days to arrive at the fastest.She estimated the date, and said, "Let's check carefully what happened."

"Yes." Fu Wangbei took the order and went down.

Qin Zuo looked back at Su Suyi, who was also looking at her, she grinned, pointed to the high kite in the sky, and raised her thumb.

Su Suyi also laughed, the bell on her forehead jingled, that clear and long voice would often appear in Qin Zuo's dreams for many years to come, accompanied by the beauty's smiling eyes bent into crescents .

Empress Dowager Zhu came back a day earlier than Qin Zuo's estimated date, so it can be seen that the road was full of wind and rain, which was comparable to the speed of eight hundred miles.

The Empress Dowager Zhu returned to the palace in a simple manner. As the emperor, Qin Zuo would definitely welcome her, and she had to stay with her for dinner to show her concern.

Qin Zuo and Su Suyi met Empress Dowager Zhu at the gate of the palace together, and she immediately realized that it was not He Shun who was supporting the Empress Dowager, but another maidservant she didn't know.

It is said to be a maid, but she looks old, at least 30 years older than the maids in the palace, and she is probably about the same as the maid.

Qin Zuo suppressed the curiosity in his heart, and said with a smile: "Why didn't the mother come back early and didn't tell my son, so that I could prepare."

Empress Dowager Zhu smiled and said: "There is nothing to prepare. It is enough for you to come to pick up Aijia. Where are the two little fellows, Ah Shao? Let Aijia see."

Qin Zuo sized it up indiscriminately, and seeing that Queen Mother Zhu's attitude towards him hadn't changed, he knew that it might be because of other things, so he was half relieved, and waved to the two little guys behind him: "Come here and let me Grandma, take a look."

The whole family entered Ci'an Palace noisy and joyful, but the nanny followed Empress Dowager Zhu all the time, and she didn't even stay away from eating.

After eating, Empress Dowager Zhu wiped her mouth and said: "It's getting late, concubine, you should take Ah Shao and the others to rest first."

Knowing that Empress Dowager Zhu had something to discuss with Qin Zuo alone, Su Suyi obediently agreed, took a look at Qin Zuo, and left first.

Empress Dowager Zhu then screened out the palace people, leaving only the old nanny, and even He Shun, who had always been inseparable, was also driven away.

Qin Zuo wiped the sweat that didn't exist on his forehead, and asked first, "What's so mysterious about the mother?"

"Let Birong tell you." Empress Dowager Zhu seemed to be a little tired. She had been on the road for the past few days, and the journey was full of dust and dust. She didn't rest when she arrived in the palace.

"See Your Majesty, I am the former personal maid of the Empress Dowager."

Qin Zuo frowned: "Why haven't I seen you before." She had indeed never seen her in the past few years when she was the emperor, and she had secretly asked Su Suyi just now, and she had no impression of this nanny.

"This matter starts with the first emperor. When the Queen Mother was pregnant with His Majesty, she was plotted against by traitors, resulting in a premature delivery. In fact... the Queen Mother was pregnant with dragon and phoenix twins."

Qin Zuo's eyes widened, suspecting that he had heard it wrong: "What did you say?"

The Empress Dowager was also in a bad mood, secretly wiping away her tears, but the nanny was very calm and confirmed: "Yes, the Empress Dowager was pregnant with twins."

There was a 'boom' in Qin Zuo's mind, feeling like he was going to explode, he stood up and paced a few times, and asked, "What happened then?"

"Well, the Queen Mother was really in poor health and mentally confused. After giving birth to Your Majesty and the Princess, she passed out immediately, so the Queen Mother didn't know about it. Your Majesty was born in good health, but the Princess is not. The imperial physicians have read it unanimously and said that the chances of surviving are not high. The first emperor and the empress dowager were deeply in love with each other, for fear that the empress dowager would wake up and find out that her daughter might die in infancy. Rescue her and bring her back, tell the Queen Mother that only Her Majesty was born, and all the palace officials who knew about it were dealt with. So, the Queen Mother didn't know about it either."

"Actually, before I fainted at that time, I had the impression that someone around me told me that there was another one and asked me to use my strength. But later your father told me that you were the only one born. I believed him more. I never thought about my hallucinations." The Empress Dowager Zhu added that she was about to cry again as soon as she finished speaking, and she probably cried a lot these days.

"Then...the daughter was not saved?" Qin Zuo sat down on the chair, and she felt that her voice was trembling.

The mother shook her head and said: "At the beginning, the late emperor sent me out of the palace to take care of the little princess with several other palace officials. Within two days, someone suddenly attacked our courtyard that night. In fact, the late emperor sent many people to protect us. But the enemy's offensive was too fierce, and another maidservant ran away holding the little princess, and we were all brutally murdered. Fortunately, the old man's heart was different from ordinary people, growing on the right side, so he escaped death. Then the old man took the opportunity to escape, narrowly escaped death, Not daring to go back to the palace, so I kept my name incognito for 20 years, until this year I ran into the Empress Dowager's guard of honor in Mount Emei, and then..."

Qin Zuo touched his chest, heaved a sigh of relief, and asked, "What is the empress thinking?"

Empress Dowager Zhu calmed down a little, but she twisted the silk handkerchief in her hand until her fingers turned white. She said: "The Ai family has sent many people to look for them, but there is no clue, the emperor You can also help to find it, I always feel that it must be that person who sent people to attack."

Qin Zuo frowned: "20 years have passed, not to mention whether the person is still there, if he is, he would not recognize him."

The mother said: "Your Majesty, there is no need to worry about this. The little princess has a round birthmark. Although it is in a private place, it is absolutely fine to use it as an argument."

Qin Zuo narrowed his eyes and said, "What private place?"

Mammy: "Next to it."

Qin Zuo pondered for a while, and said to Empress Dowager Zhu: "I will try my best to find it, but Queen Mother, don't have too much hope. You must also pay attention to your health, and don't hurt your body."

Empress Dowager Zhu was in a hurry to come back because she wanted the emperor to mobilize his strength to find it. She nodded and said, "Don't worry, the Ai family will take care of your health, and this matter needs to be done as soon as possible."

Qin Zuo nodded and asked some more details.

Back then when the first emperor came to the throne, the King of Chu still had a lot of power, and there might be his secret work in the palace. It is not impossible to find out that the first emperor sent a child out of the palace.It's just that all the palace people who found out about it later were dealt with, and the palace was also cleaned up.Empress Dowager Zhu probably was still a fool at that time, Qin Zuo thought about it, so she was kept in the dark.However, the first emperor was really kind to Empress Dowager Zhu, and he sent his child away cruelly just to prevent her from being sad.

When Qin Zuo came out of the Ci'an Palace, the sky was already gloomy, so dark that not even a few stars could be seen.

"Your Majesty, are you going back to Shuanghua Palace? I'm afraid it's going to rain." Wang Jin leaned forward and said.

"Yeah." Qin Zuo was confused, but his head was calm, and said, "You can walk slowly with me for a while, don't use the chariot."

Wang Jin responded, and drove the others away, leaving two umbrellas in his hands. Seeing Qin Zuo's gloomy expression, he boldly asked, "Your Majesty, what's on your mind?"

"Ah."

Wang Jin rolled his eyes, and pretended to be relaxed and said: "Your Majesty, if you have something on your mind, you can tell the imperial concubine, the imperial concubine is very understanding, and will definitely help your majesty solve problems."

Qin Zuo scolded with a smile: "You are slippery."

Wang Jin chuckled, seeing that the mention of Concubine Su Gui didn't make His Majesty happy, so he didn't dare to say any more, knowing that His Majesty might be in a really bad mood.

It may be that Wang Jin is so good at predicting things, or it may be that he is just a crow's mouth. Within a quarter of an hour, sporadic raindrops fell from the sky, and more and more raindrops fell on the ground. After a while, the ground merged into a stream .

Wang Jin stood on tiptoe to hold an umbrella for Qin Zuo. The wind and rain were so strong that he couldn't hold two umbrellas at all, so he had to hold one with both hands.So he let himself drench, and he was drenched in a short while.

Qin Zuo was not much better, his boots were full of water, and the hem of his clothes was not spared. The only thing that was dry was his head and shoulders.

"You go, I want to be alone for a while."

Where did Wang Jin dare to go, and quickly persuaded: "Your Majesty, let's stay in the palace. You are alone, and the rain is so heavy, what should you do?"

In the end, Wang Jin still left. He couldn't persuade Qin Zuo, but he knew that there was someone who could persuade him.

"Your Majesty, please hold your umbrella."

Qin Zuo was not an obedient boy. As soon as Wang Jin left, Qin Zuo let go of his hand a little, and the umbrella was easily blown to the ground by the wind, and rolled around until he was cornered.

When Su Suyi arrived in coir raincoat, Qin Zuo was squatting in the corner, and she remembered that when she first saw her as Qingyao, she was also squatting in the corner.

It seems that she is a very insecure person, what can she rely on to feel at ease.

Su Suyi walked in front of Qin Zuo in three steps and two steps in parallel, a big umbrella was erected on top of the two of them, but it was already too late, Qin Zuo was already soaked.

"His Majesty……"

Qin Zuo looked up at her, he didn't know whether it was rain or tears on his face, his eyes were swollen, and he looked like a puppy. If he had furry ears, they must be drooping listlessly.

Su Suyi felt a heart-wrenching pain. She didn't know what happened, so she pulled Qin Zuo up and hugged her, and patted her wet back lightly: "What's wrong, Your Majesty?"

"Why...abandon me..."

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