Emperor Hongwen did not ignore his son's eyes at all, and he looked kind and said: "Hong'er, do you want them to visit the Queen Mother?"

The child doesn't know how to answer.

Emperor Hongwen laughed: "You don't want them to come, right?"

The child mustered up the courage, "Father, I don't want it..."

He said he didn't want it - the child said bluntly that he didn't want it!!!

He could not feel that it was his relative - not from his mother's belly, how could other concubines and other brothers - really fall in love with each other?

Emperor Hongwen stared at him with nervousness and anxiety, remembering how he knelt down at his feet, hugged himself and cried: "Father, I don't want to be the prince... I'll give it to Prince Rui, you can save him

Queen Mother..."

The child also felt a little uneasy and looked up at him quietly.

The child's eyes are big and bright, and his eyelashes are long, just like Fang Fei I saw for the first time, with her eyes full of curiosity and anxiety.

For some reason, Emperor Hongwen suddenly remembered Fangfei crying on Bashamu.

"Hong'er, when my father met the Empress Dowager for the first time, the Empress Dowager was so old, and he was a little girl..."

"ah?"

"The Queen Mother had just arrived in Pingcheng at that time and encountered our horse racing competition. She didn't understand the rules and was frightened. She broke her head on Bashamu, with blood marks and kept crying..."

The child looked at the queen mother on the bed timidly and whispered: "The queen mother is so pitiful."

"Yes. At that time, the father also felt that the Empress Dowager was pitiful."

"Father, haven't you helped the Queen Mother?"

Emperor Hongwen smiled slightly: "At that time, the father gave the Empress Dowager an apple."

"No wonder the Queen Mother always likes to eat apples later."

Emperor Hongwen was stunned.

Yes, Fangfei has always liked to eat apples since then, from golden apples in Beiwudang to shredded apples, dried apples stewed with deer meat... She has always liked apples very much throughout her life.

It turns out that it is because of myself?

Is it because of this that I like it?

Why didn't I find out before?

He suddenly realized, overjoyed, and hugged his son: "Hong'er, my father will tell you a story."

"What story?"

"I was ill when I was ten years old. My father's mother died at a very young age. My father was taken care of by an old concubine. Once, a virtuous concubine and the third prince came to visit me..."

Immersed in those past years. At that time, my father had just returned from a war and learned that he was sick, so he hired an imperial physician. Inside and outside the palace, concubines, princes, and princesses, all came to visit him one after another.

"But, I don't want them to visit..."

The child asked intuitively: "Why?"

"Oh. Stupid boy, because I had a bad relationship with the third prince and the others at that time. When the third prince came, he quietly made faces at me, gloated and scolded me in a low voice. I was very angry. At this time, Grandpa of the late emperor came,

The third prince changed his expression, respectfully and very friendly to me; Grandpa of the late emperor said to me at that time: Look, how friendly your brothers are? In the future, you must have deep brotherhood and treat your brothers well..."

The child asked curiously: "What did you answer at that time, Father?"

"At that time, I replied, "All princes and princes are very nice to me, please don't worry, my father."

"Father, why are you lying?"

Emperor Hongwen was silent for a moment before saying, "Because at that time, I was very afraid of Grandpa of the late emperor. I dare not tell the truth."

"Don't Grandpa of the late emperor love you?"

"No. Grandpa of the late emperor has always loved me very much; among all the children, I love me the most. However, he has been fighting abroad all year round and rarely stays in the palace for a long time, and the children are not very close to him. So, I

I never dare to tell him the truth if I have anything in my heart..."

The child seemed to understand, "But, the Queen Mother said, children cannot lie."

"Yes. The Empress Dowager is right. Hong'er, today, you say what you think to your father, and the father is very happy. Remember, no matter what you say in the future, you must tell the father clearly. Do you know?

Right or wrong, the father will not blame you.”

The child was little happy, "Hong'er is obedient, Hong'er will tell his father everything."

Emperor Hongwen patted his son's face and said softly: "You are waiting for your father. The father will come back in a while."

The father has gone out.

Hong'er quietly followed him to the door and looked at him, feeling uneasy, as if the father was no longer his father as soon as he walked out of the Cining Palace.

After all, I was going to meet Prince Rui. Even this speech just now could not comfort him at all.

He was filled with uneasiness.

I quietly looked back at the queen mother on the bed.

Suddenly, I saw the Queen Mother open her eyes.

He was ecstatic and forgot all his anxiety. He immediately ran over and shouted: "Empress Dowager, Empress Dowager...you have finally woken up..."

However, he soon discovered something was wrong. Although the queen mother was open, her eyes were very confused. He could not describe what kind of eyes it was. She only felt tired and the tiredness that the child was worried about.

This is completely different from the last time the Empress Dowager fell off a cliff and was blindfolded; at that time, although the Empress Dowager closed her eyes, she was awake.

But this time, she opened her eyes, but was confused.

He grabbed her head tightly: "Empress Dowager, Empress Dowager..."

Fangfei looked at him with difficulty, feeling a blur in front of her eyes and always couldn't see clearly. Even if she wanted to hold his hand, she felt tired and couldn't hold it at all.

"Hong'er...poor Hong'er..."

She murmured, weak and weak in her hands, only seeing the child's face - shouting anxiously in her flashing sight.

That is his own son.

At some point, I only recognize this person - as if there is only this child left in the world. Except for him, nothing is worth worrying about.

She suddenly wanted to sit up, wear clothes and hats, ride horses and shoot archers, and find a very good and quiet place with her son, so she can be safe and happy, and have no worries for the rest of her life.

However, even this consciousness is vague.

Gradually, it has begun to forget.

"Empress Dowager, Empress Dowager..."

She was in a daze, and there was no sound in her throat, but she felt tired and too tired. It seemed that all her efforts in these days had been exhausted.

The child's voice was a little trembling: "Mrs. Queen Mother, what's wrong with you?"

"It's okay...It's okay...Hong'er, the Queen Mother will sleep for a while, and it'll be fine..."

The child kept holding her hand, and when she looked at her again, she had closed her eyes.

The main hall of Cining Palace.

Emperor Hongwen sat in the place where Empress Dowager Feng used to sit. Concubine Mi and her children knelt down with her heart, and said with sincerity: "Your Majesty, I came to visit the Empress Dowager after hearing the news."

Emperor Hongwen said with a kind look: "Why didn't you go back to Pingcheng?"

"This... I am guilty... I just got on the road and encountered a high fever. After staying for two days, I encountered the rainy season and could not rush back to Beiwudang... Please forgive me..."

Emperor Hongwen looked at Concubine Mi's gorgeous outfit; and Prince Rui's golden red cradle; the servant Jiao, who said this, was that? Even if he ordered them to return to Pingcheng, he could not listen.

He was not angry, he just glanced at the child.

The child's face is very strange, just like all other children. When I was in Pingcheng, I would come to pay my respects sooner or later.

And they are all young, and many of them are held by the wet nurses. When he is burying his head to read the memorials, he always waves his hand and says a word or two, and completes the task of the day.

Why are the faces of these children unfamiliar in recent years?

What's more, this newborn child was not long ago. Moreover, he couldn't even remember how he was born. Concubine Mi rarely served in bed. Later, she said she was pregnant and then gave birth to this child.

What does a child look like?

Then he looked at the child carefully. The child was asleep, closed his eyes and could not see any expression, and he did not have any expression.

He felt that his heart was also frozen-even a little guilty.

After so many years, what obligations have the children and concubines fulfilled for them? They have never even looked at them carefully.

How many times have you hugged them? What toys have you made for them? Have you ever teased them and made them laugh?

He held his head up, speechless for a moment.

Concubine Mi began to feel uneasy. After all, she disobeyed the king's order and did not return on time. Although there were various objective reasons and it was reasonable, but Your Majesty was moody, who knows what would happen?

She was a little nervous: "Your Majesty... Is the Empress Dowager awake?"

Emperor Hongwen raised his head and looked at the child she was holding in person, "This is...Prince Rui, right?"

Concubine Mi was even more surprised.
To be continued...