The sky suddenly turned dark, as if nothing could be done without doing anything.
Especially for those who are living on the last day of their lives, they are extremely looking forward to this day being slower.
The Forbidden City seems to be much empty. History will not record this day, let alone the people who disappeared within this day.
They are human beings, but under absolute power, they are not worthy of leaving even a drop of ink.
History will not record how many people from the patrol army and the two official offices of Yingtian Mansion disappeared without a trace in this day.
Not to mention recording the fate of these people.
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Forbidden City, Wuying Palace.
Sandalwood lingered around, covering half of Zhu Yunxi's face.
He was the only one in the empty hall. He knelt on the bright yellow futon and stared blankly at the portrait of Taizu Emperor Gao enshrined on the wall.
The old man in the portrait is lifelike and calm. Next to the old man are the elegant-looking Zhu Biao and the dignified Queen Ma.
"Grandpa!" Zhu Yunxi spoke slowly, "It's only now that my grandson understands what you said before, killing people is more difficult than living people! Only now can I understand why you always tell your grandson, who in the world is
I can’t believe it! Why did you tell your grandson that when you want to kill someone, you must kill him, even if you feel uncomfortable in the future, you must kill him!"
As he spoke, he leaned over and kowtowed, with a bit of sobs, "Grandpa Huang, my grandson feels uncomfortable...!"
Suddenly there were slight footsteps behind him, Pu Wuyong knelt behind Zhu Yunxi, "Master, everything is done smoothly!"
"Well!" Zhu Yunxi wiped his eyes with his sleeve, looked up at the old man's portrait, and said with a smile, "Grandpa, don't blame your grandson!"
After that, get up!
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On both sides of the deep corridors of the Forbidden City, the red walls are full of silhouettes of people under the lights.
Zhu Yunxi is in front and Pu Wuyong is behind.
Behind him is Chang Sheng, who is expressionless and fully armed, and a group of guards.
Starting from Wuying Hall, we passed through Qianqing Palace, Kunning Palace, and then East Sixth Palace.
In the past, the deeper you walked into the Forbidden City, the more people there were. But today, the empty Forbidden City looks like a heart-stopping cemetery.
After passing the East Sixth Palace, there is the West Sixth Palace where the late emperor's concubines lived.
This palace consists of six courtyards of different sizes, the largest of which is named Yongning.
Concubine Guo Taihui has lived here since the death of the old man. The name of the palace was changed to Yongning, which echoes the Yong'an Palace where the old man once lived.
There was no one at the entrance of Yong'an Palace, and the door was open.
Standing outside, you can see the faint lights inside.
No matter how beautiful a palace is, if there are no people, it is just a dead thing. And those carved and painted buildings are just a fleeting scenery.
"Master!" Pu Wuyong took a few steps forward and whispered, "Buddha Hall!"
Zhu Yunxi nodded silently and continued moving forward.
This time he seemed to have brought no one with him, only Pu Wuyong.
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Boom, boom, boom!
Outside the Buddhist hall, the sound of wooden fish can be clearly heard, and the faint fragrance of Buddha lingers on the tip of the nose.
It is said that this kind of Buddhist incense was made by the King of Shu in Sichuan at the request of the eminent monks of the Great Buddha Temple and presented to the Forbidden City for worshiping Buddha.
A skinny figure knelt devoutly in front of the Buddha statue, closing his eyes and chanting sutras.
Zhu Yunxi didn't make a sound, just walked over slowly and silently, stood at the door, and watched quietly.
"She is really old!"
Zhu Yunxi secretly thought that Concubine Guo Hui always looked graceful and noble in the past, and her movements were full of nobility.
Old age seems far away from her.
This may be related to her fate. She has been a pampered young lady since her whole life, and she is held in the palm of others' hands. In those troubled times when people were eating people, not only was she not affected, but because her father was the leader of the Red Scarf Army,
Enjoy all the wealth and honor in the world.
Then, she married a good husband, and she has always been a person living in heaven throughout her life.
But now...
His hair is completely white, the skin on his face is sagging and saggy, his wrinkles are stacked like ravines, and his blood vessels are clearly visible, making him look old.
The figure on the back is even more so that he is dying.
"The Emperor is here!"
Suddenly, Guo Huifei put down the wooden fish in her hand, clasped a string of rosary beads in her hands, and turned back with a smile, "Why do you have time to see me, an old woman today?"
Her smile remained unchanged, still so kind.
At this moment, Zhu Yunxi really wanted to rush over and question loudly...
But he endured it.
"I haven't come to see you for a long time. Let me see if you are okay!" Zhu Yunxi said with a difficult smile.
"What's so good?" Guo Huifei didn't move, still kneeling in front of the Buddha statue, and said with a smile, "I'm just waiting for that day!" She said with another smile, "I'm always dreaming these days.
Emperor Taizu. I wonder if I should go with him. Hey, when he left in the first place, I should have followed him! Otherwise, as a lonely person like me, I can only be with the Buddha!"
"You know that I have always treated you well, and I am also your relative!" Zhu Yunxi said, "Why are you so pessimistic?"
"Ha!" Concubine Guo Hui smiled faintly, "Has Your Majesty eaten?" She turned to the back of the Buddhist hall and ordered, "Bring the freshly cooked lotus seed and Tremella soup to Your Majesty!"
Immediately, he turned to look at Zhu Yunxi, "I remember that the emperor liked to eat the white fungus soup I made the most when he was a child. When you were eight years old, you came to my palace again. Because you didn't eat it, you lost your temper and lay on the ground rolling around.
!No one can persuade me!”
"Then the prince came, and you were so scared that you hid behind me." As she said this, Guo Huifei laughed happily, "That time, if I hadn't stopped you, the prince would have beaten you!"
"Eight years old!" Zhu Yunxi smiled bitterly, "I don't even remember it!"
Yes, he doesn't remember.
It's not that he doesn't remember, it's that those old things are not his memories at all.
At this time, 10,000 Tremella Soup was brought up by a nun.
That grandma was also very old. Zhu Yunxi remembered that in the past, when Concubine Guo Hui gave him things, it was this grandma who handled them.
Now, although this nanny has a smile on her face, her hands are shaking all the time.
Pu Wuyong wanted to step forward, but was scolded by Zhu Yunxi's eyes.
He sat down casually and held the white fungus soup in his hands.
"Why don't you eat, Your Majesty?" Guo Huifei said with a smile.
“I’ll eat it after thinking about it!”
"You still want to eat?" Guo Huifei laughed again, "Maybe I can poison you!" As she said that, she looked at Zhu Yunxi with eyes full of love and kindness, "I raised you!"
"Yes, you raised me!"
Although, many memories are not Zhu Yunxi's memories, and he can ignore many things without emotion.
But over the years...
But...
In an instant, Zhu Yunxi's tears fell down and dropped into the white fungus soup.
He picked up the spoon and took a bite. It was sweet but also bitter.
"I was raised by you!" Zhu Yunxi repeated this sentence as if he was a little helpless.
Then his hands began to shake and he looked at Guo Huifei, "I was raised by you. In my heart, I regard you as my grandmother."
"I know! You are a good boy!" Guo Huifei smiled.
"Then why..." Zhu Yunxi suddenly shouted, "Why do you even want to harm me?"
Phew, a gust of wind came in.
The Buddhist incense suddenly went out.
Concubine Guo Hui still smiled and was still loving, "The emperor also said that I raised you!" As she said that, she lowered her head, "It's rare that you still remember this sentence and that I raised you!"
The next second, she suddenly raised her head, with tears in her eyes, "But, I raised you once, what did you give me?"
"Since you remember that I raised you and how good I was to you, are you really good to me?" As she said that, Concubine Guo smiled sadly, "Your Majesty! I don't have a father, a brother, or a brother in this life.
My mother lost her uncle, then her sister, and then her husband!"
"You think I have everything in my life, but do you know what I actually have in this life?"
"I only have three sons! I begged you a long time ago, for the sake of raising you, treat them well. But what about you! Your Majesty, I begged you, I only have these three sons.
!”
"They are the flesh that fell from my body, they are my life, and they are the only reason why I have pretended not to know anything in my life and forced myself to smile and survive!"
"I didn't kill them!" Zhu Yunxi growled.
"You might as well kill them!" Concubine Guo Hui's voice was still calm, as if she was talking about something unrelated, "One of them was taken away by you and is working in the capital, and the two are imprisoned in the ancestral mausoleum of Sizhou! Your Majesty, as the saying goes
When it comes to beating a dog, it depends on the owner!"
"As long as you have the slightest idea in your heart that I will support you, even if they really collide with you, can't you look at my face and give them some dignity?"
"I am a woman, and I am a mother. I don't want to hear what you say about military affairs or about the principles of monarchs and ministers. I just remember that I raised you and them. When I raised you, you were not the emperor. I raised you.
You are not here to torture them now!"
Zhu Yunxi lowered his head and remained silent.
After a long time, he spoke slowly, "Being a mother means you are strong, so you hate me and want to kill me!"
"I raised you, how can I hate you? Some of them are just annoyed!" Guo Huifei flipped her hair and said with a smile, "I have been either in the deep house compound or in the palace all my life, but I am the daughter of the Guo family, so I am not that kind of delicate.
woman!"
"I did the thing! I called the person here!" As she said that, Guo Huifei smiled self-deprecatingly, "Besides me, there is probably no one who can control me, the last connection of my Guo family!"
Zhu Yunxi was silent again.
After a long while, he opened his mouth and said, "What happens after you kill me? Have you ever thought about what happens after you kill me?"
As he said that, he suddenly burst into laughter, "Are you thinking that if I die and ascend the throne, then because you have been kind to him in raising him, you will release all your sons in the future? Yes
, it should be, Master Shao Guoyu!"
"The rule of the Ming Dynasty is that women are not allowed to interfere in politics. However, in all dynasties, when the emperor was still young, the empress dowager was responsible for the affairs. Liu Jin was still very young, and Ning'er was the empress dowager. With your relationship with Ning'er, the relationship between you and Ning'er was the empress dowager.
Zhong, she also needs you to take charge!"
"With you in the inner court, Liu Jin still needs the help of the emperor's uncle. Then your son can be in the imperial court! So, you asked someone to temporarily change Liu Jin's route... I want to thank you for not letting anyone
Take action against Liu Jin!"
Concubine Guo Hui suddenly turned her head so that Zhu Yunxi could not see his face.
But her voice suddenly trembled, "I also raised Liu Jin, and I can't bear to harm him!"
Having said this, she looked at the Buddha statue and said, "I don't allow anyone to harm him! Just like I didn't allow anyone to harm you back then!"
Silence, deathly silence.
"Brother Xi, please kill me, I deserve to die!" Guo Huifei said suddenly, "I shamelessly beg you once again. Treat my son well after I die. Family scandals must not be made public. If I die, can it be settled once and for all?"
At this time, she turned to look at Zhu Yunxi.
But they found that Zhu Yunxi lowered his head and ate a bowl of white fungus soup in big mouthfuls.
"Brother Xi..."
"Auntie!" Zhu Yunxi looked up with tears in his eyes, "Stop lying, because you have never been good at lying!"
As he spoke, he cried and laughed, "If you want to harm me, there is no need to go to all that trouble. This bowl of soup is enough! I never thought about being wary of you! You raised me, how could you
You are not willing to harm me!"
"Brother Xi..." In an instant, Guo Huifei suddenly changed her color.
"Bring it up!" Zhu Yunxi didn't look at him, but spoke to behind him.
Chang Sheng pursed his lips and strode over with a few guards and a huge box.
Boom!
There was a heart-stopping sound of twisting and struggling coming from the box.
This chapter has been completed!