"What did you say?!" In the Empress Dowager's Palace, Empress Dowager Zhu tried her best to endure it, but she still couldn't suppress a sharp scream.
She stood up suddenly and stared at Xie Yan, who was sitting opposite her, with red eyes.
Princess Changling, who was sitting next to her, frowned slightly and glanced at Xie Yan worriedly but said nothing.
She came over to take a look because she was worried that the commotion would be too ugly. Considering the Queen Mother's desire to control A Cheng, it was strange that the Queen Mother would not be angry when she asked A Cheng to move to another court.
Xie Yan looked calm, put down the teacup in his hand and raised his head and said: "From today on, His Majesty will move to Xuanzheng Hall to live."
"No!" Empress Dowager Zhu said angrily, "Ah Cheng is only seven years old, how can he live alone in Xuanzheng Hall!"
"A person?" Xie Yan raised his eyebrows slightly, as if he was puzzled by the Queen Mother Zhu's statement, "A Cheng is surrounded by many eunuchs, maids, and maids, and the wet nurse has not yet left the palace. How can he be alone?"
Empress Dowager Zhu hesitated for a moment, gritted her teeth and said: "How can those servants who serve you compare with your biological mother?"
Xie Yan seemed to have heard some joke, "Have the emperor's sister-in-law ever personally dressed and fed Ah Cheng? Or when has the emperor's sister-in-law comforted and taken care of Ah Cheng? In addition to paying greetings every day, does Ah Cheng live in the outer court or in the harem?
What's the difference?"
Empress Dowager Zhu was speechless, but she didn't think there was anything wrong in what she did.
From the royal family to the rich and powerful, who doesn’t raise their children like this? If you have to do everything yourself, what else do you need a wet nurse to do?
But such a reason was obviously inappropriate at this time. Empress Dowager Zhu stared at Xie Yan and said: "You did it on purpose, deliberately trying to separate our mother and son! What are you worried about? Are you worthy of Emperor Gaozu and the late Emperor?"
Princess Changling frowned slightly. She was about to speak but was stopped by Xie Yan's look.
Xie Yan said solemnly: "Ah Cheng is the emperor, and how to educate him is the responsibility of the king and the tutor. As the queen mother, she only needs to greet him and be caring and considerate. Since the queen mother can't even do these, the royal blood
It is also a rule that after the age of seven, you are not allowed to be raised in your biological mother's palace!"
"But..." Empress Dowager Zhu wanted to say that Ah Cheng was not a prince but an emperor, and she was not a concubine, she was the empress dowager.
Empress Dowager Zhu couldn't help but secretly hate her. Regent, regent... the word regent was too heavy.
Since the late emperor had already chosen four auxiliary ministers, why did he also appoint a regent?!
Since there are people assisting the government, why do we need a regent?
Empress Dowager Zhu knew that she was weak and was no match for Xie Yan, so she could only show her weakness with red eyes and tears, "Zhi Fei, please don't take A Cheng away. He is my life...leave him."
, how do you want me to live?"
Xie Yan showed no sign of softening his heart, and said calmly: "A Cheng will still go to the harem every day to pay respects to the Queen Mother. It is customary for the emperor to live in the outer court."
The emperor needed to deal with various affairs and meet with foreign ministers every day, but the harem was the place where foreign men stopped. Therefore, although the area was large and magnificent, there was never an example of an emperor living in the harem.
After all, the harem is just like the backyard of an ordinary family, where the family members live.
In addition to sleeping at night, who has nothing to do but wander around the backyard all day long?
"But Ah Cheng is still young..." Empress Dowager Zhu said sadly.
Xie Yan's eyes darkened slightly, "I have already discussed this matter with several auxiliary ministers, and there is no need to discuss it further."
Empress Dowager Zhu knew that there was no room for change, so she no longer cried and begged, but there was a hint of hatred in her eyes.
At this moment, the sound of Xie Cheng's arrival was heard outside the door. Empress Dowager Zhu immediately rushed out regardless of the situation, hugged Xie Cheng and burst into tears.
Princess Changling glanced at Xie Yan worriedly and whispered: "Is this really okay?"
Xie Yan said: "She is Ah Cheng's biological mother, and she will not be satisfied no matter what. But... Ah Cheng is not young anymore, and we can no longer let her affect Ah Cheng's future."
Princess Changling sighed softly, "That's not what I meant. After all, she is Ah Cheng's biological mother. If Ah Cheng hates you in the future..."
Xie Yan glanced outside the door indifferently. Xie Cheng was held tightly in Empress Dowager Zhu's arms and struggled, his little face turned red from holding back.
"I consider myself worthy of my uncle and brother. If the results are still unsatisfactory in the future, I can only wait until the time comes."
Princess Changling also saw the situation outside, her face darkened, she stood up and walked to the door and said angrily: "Are you all dead? Didn't I see that His Majesty was uncomfortable!"
These words were scolded by the Empress Dowager Zhu. Only then did the Empress Dowager come back to her senses and see her son's red face and tears welling up in his eyes.
"Ah Cheng, are you okay?" Empress Dowager Zhu asked eagerly as she carefully groped her son up and down.
Xie Cheng quickly shook his head and said, "Son, I'm fine. Mother, don't worry."
"It's okay, it's okay, it's okay." Empress Dowager Zhu wiped her tears and hugged Xie Cheng into her arms again.
Xie Cheng's little body was a little stiff. He didn't know what was wrong with his mother, but he also knew that he shouldn't break away from his mother's hand at this time.
But...he is really not used to it.
The queen mother clearly said that as an emperor, he must be strong, independent, and aloof, and cannot always want to be hugged.
After being severely rejected by his mother when he wanted to hug him when he was a child, Xie Cheng no longer dared to ask his mother to hug him. The mother and son usually only held hands at most.
"A Cheng, I have discussed with Taifu that you will live in Xuanzheng Hall from today on. Are you willing?" After entering the hall, Xie Yan looked at Xie Cheng and asked.
Xie Cheng's eyes lit up after hearing this, "Uncle Emperor, do I live alone in the Xuanzheng Hall?"
Xie Yan nodded, and Xie Cheng asked again: "Then... can Ah Xun and the others accompany me?"
Xie Yan shook his head and said: "They can live in the veranda next to Xuanzheng Hall."
Xie Cheng suddenly became happy. He understood that Su Xun and the others would still return to the palace and continue to be his companions.
Moreover, since they lived outside, the Queen Mother could not go out for leisure, so there was no need to worry about the Queen Mother punishing them again. Living outside, he could often see the Emperor's uncle and the Tutor.
The Xuanzheng Hall was not far from the Queen Mother's Palace, and he could come into the palace every day to pay his respects to the Queen Mother and the Imperial Grandmother.
So Xie Cheng responded crisply: "Uncle Emperor, A Cheng is willing!"
"Ah Cheng!" Empress Dowager Zhu shouted sharply.
Xie Cheng was startled and couldn't help but tremble slightly when he saw Queen Mother Zhu's still red eyes and stern and angry expression.
He turned to look at his uncle and aunt, and then at his mother and queen, feeling a little embarrassed.
He already understood that the queen mother did not want to move out by herself.
"Emperor...Uncle Emperor, I..."
Xie Yan said solemnly: "Uncle I won't force you, you can figure it out yourself. Cheng, you are the emperor, even if you are still young, you must be responsible for your own choices."
Xie Cheng nodded and looked at the Queen Mother who was staring at him closely and said nothing.
The Queen Mother took two steps forward eagerly and said, "Acheng, you are still young and need the care of the Queen Mother. Do you want to leave the Queen Mother? How can the Queen Mother rest assured when you live outside alone?"
Xie Cheng lowered his eyes and said nothing. The Queen Mother thought he had been persuaded and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "The Queen Mother knows that it was not good for the Queen Mother in the past. You think the Queen Mother does not love you. But... The Queen Mother is all for your own good. The Queen Mother will be good in the future.
Take care of you, okay?"
Xie Cheng asked, "Then... can Ah Xun and the others continue to come to the palace to accompany me?"
Empress Dowager Zhu was displeased in her heart, but her face was full of kindness, "A Cheng can be whoever he likes. Empress Dowager will never punish them again."
Xie Cheng continued to ask: "Then...can we not allow my cousin and others to enter the palace in the future?"
"Why, why?" Queen Mother Zhu looked a little stiff.
Xie Cheng said: "I hate them, as well as my uncle and aunt. A Cheng doesn't like them! They always say bad things about the emperor's grandmother and the emperor's uncle!"
Empress Dowager Zhu's face changed slightly, she quickly glanced at Princess Changling and Xie Yan who were sitting next to her, and said with a forced smile: "How could it be possible? Ah Cheng must have misunderstood what they said. They are all Ah Cheng's relatives, and from now on the mother-in-law will
Also..."
Hearing Empress Dowager Zhu say, "Ah Cheng misunderstood what they said," Xie Cheng's face immediately turned ugly.
What he hates the most is this sentence, it happens every time!
Every time he told his mother that his cousins had done something bad or that his uncle's family had said something bad, the queen would say this.
Otherwise, they would punish him and the people around his cousin, saying that they had taught the mistress bad things. His mother always said that his uncle's family was all for his own good, but his cousin always bullied him in the past!
"No!" Xie Cheng shouted loudly, rarely losing his composure.
Queen Mother Zhu was also startled by his appearance and looked at him blankly.
Xie Cheng opened his eyes wide, clenched his fists and said, "I just hate them! I want to move out of the palace, I want to live in the Xuanzheng Palace!"
"Ah Cheng?!" Empress Dowager Zhu cried out.
Xie Cheng glanced at Empress Dowager Zhu with disappointment, and ran out without even turning around to leave.
There was silence in the main hall. Empress Dowager Zhu looked at the empty entrance of the hall in disbelief and said nothing for a long time.
Xie Yan stood up and said to Princess Changling: "Now that the matter is over, the emperor will go back to take care of my aunt. There is also A Cheng, please help the emperor to take care of her."
Princess Changling glanced at Queen Mother Zhu, stood up, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go first."
The two of them left the hall, and a moment later the Queen Mother's uncontrollable cry was heard inside. The two of them paused, but neither of them looked back, and walked out calmly.
In the palace, the Queen Mother lay on the couch and cried heartbrokenly.
I don't know how long it took, but the eunuch next to me saw that she gradually calmed down, and then he dared to come forward and persuade her: "Your Majesty, please take care of your body. Your Majesty still needs your Majesty to take care of her."
Queen Mother Zhu raised her head and sneered: "Why does he need me to take care of him? He clearly wishes he didn't have me as his mother!"
The eunuch could only sigh in his heart. The Queen Mother was always very strict with His Majesty, but she doted on and indulged her nephew.
Even though he hopes that his son will succeed, how can a six- or seven-year-old child understand such differential treatment? What His Majesty saw was that he was often blamed for his hard work, and his two cousins about the same age were arrogant and mischievous, but his mother was extremely loving to them.
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How can you not feel sad?
They also tried to persuade her, but unfortunately the Queen Mother didn't listen.
The Queen Mother wholeheartedly believed that she was doing her best for His Majesty. If she had not been strict in her upbringing, how could her son have taken over the great empire from the Regent?
"Your Majesty is still young after all..."
Empress Dowager Zhu wiped away her tears and said: "Isn't that right? What can Ah Cheng know at such a young age? Wasn't he instigated by others to divorce me? Why doesn't he want to think about who else in the world can he do except his own mother and uncle?"
He only wants to do his best? He thinks that the emperor is good to him, but he doesn't even think about...the power of regent..."
"Your Majesty!" The eunuch was startled and quickly stopped what the Queen Mother was about to say.
The Queen Mother dares to say these words, but how dare these slaves listen to them?
Empress Dowager Zhu was stunned for a while, then glanced sideways at the palace maids and eunuchs who were standing in solemn silence in the main hall. She sneered and closed her eyes, leaning on the soft pillow to rest her mind. "That's right, now that we are orphans and widowed... you think I don't know why he is there?"
Did this happen suddenly?"
The eunuch was stunned, wondering where the Queen Mother was thinking.
Empress Dowager Zhu said calmly: "Isn't it because my sister-in-law and I complained a few words about his little princess yesterday? They all say that the King of Chu is not good at beauties, but now it seems... that's all."
The eunuch lowered his head and did not dare to speak, but he always felt that what the Queen Mother said was a bit strange.
Although he moved from the Queen Mother Palace to the Xuanzheng Palace outside, there was nothing uncomfortable for Xie Cheng.
After all, although he had lived in the Queen Mother's Palace before, the palace where the Queen Mother lived was huge, and the Queen Mother had a lot of things to do every day. Except for the morning and evening gatherings, eunuchs and maids accompanied him at other times.
Now that he has moved to live in Xuanzheng Hall, he thinks it is just a longer walk when paying greetings every day.
The emperor's uncle also specially transferred two nuns and eunuchs from the imperial grandmother's palace to take charge of the affairs. They were all people who were often around the empress dowager. Xie Cheng often went to pay her respects and was very familiar with them.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The emperor also beat up the people who were waiting around him, transferred some particularly annoying ones away, and taught him many things that his mother never knew.
Teach him something. Thinking that all the children will come back tomorrow, Xie Cheng feels that life in his new home is worth looking forward to, and he is not at all uneasy about leaving his mother to live alone.
After Xie Yan settled down, Xie Cheng left the palace and returned to the mansion. As soon as he stepped into the mansion, Zhu Siming came up to him and briefly reported the big and small things in the mansion today.
Xie Yan paused and said, "That's what the princess said?"
Zhu Siming nodded and said, "Yes, the princess said you don't need to pay attention."
Xie Yan thought for a while and said: "Even if the princess says this, you can't ignore it completely. I don't want outsiders to offend the princess because of this matter. Do you understand?"
Zhu Siming quickly said yes. He knew that the prince would never really leave it alone. However, since the princess did not agree to suppress the matter, they asked them to try to downplay the impact of the matter on the princess. The same idea was done before.
, it seems correct.
"And the Zhu family..." Zhu Siming continued.
Xie Yan said: "Don't pay attention to the Zhu family, I will handle it myself."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Xie Yan returned to Jingyuan and found Luo Junyao writing in his study.
Luo Junyao raised his head when he heard the footsteps. When he saw Xie Yan appearing outside the door, he immediately dropped his pen and went to meet him.
"You're back?"
Xie Yan stretched out his hand to catch the petite figure rushing towards him, and chuckled: "What are you busy with?"
Luo Junyao smiled and said, "It's nothing. I just write whatever I want when I have nothing to do."
"Oh?" Xie Yan raised his eyebrows slightly, glanced over and saw the exquisite and gorgeous picture album on the desk.
Without saying anything, he hugged Luo Junyao and sat down behind the desk.
"What is this?" Xie Yan glanced at the name on the cover and asked.
"It's nothing, it's just the picture album that was just delivered today. I haven't read it yet." Luo Junyao said casually.
Xie Yan pulled her into his arms and sat down. He reached out and opened the picture album and said, "You haven't read it yet? Let's read it with Yaoyao."
"..." It's not necessary.
The first page of the album is a full-length portrait of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent with a graceful and solemn aura. Although it is only a profile, His Royal Highness the Regent is dressed in black brocade clothes and stands with a sword in his splendid aura, which still makes people unable to help but hold their breath.
"The painter is pretty good." Xie Yan hugged the girl in his arms, chuckled, and raised his hand to continue flipping through the album.
On the second page of the album is the Prince Dingyang. He is dressed in purple and is holding a sword, but his style is completely different from that of His Highness the Regent.
Going back further, Xie Yan's hand paused slightly when he saw the person on the third page.
"Master Xueya?"
Luo Junyao nodded repeatedly and said: "Yes, it is said that he is the piano master of Mingyin Pavilion, but unfortunately I have never seen it. I wonder if it is really so good-looking?"
She somewhat agreed with Su Rui's other opinions. She felt that in terms of appearance, Mr. Xueya should be slightly better than Shang Yue.
Of course, the premise is that he is really as beautiful as Su Rui's painting.
It's a pity that this violinist is not easy to see. Apart from Su Rui, they have never seen him before.
Even Su Rui unexpectedly saw Mr. Xueyaya who was also out when he was following his brother out. Because he was so graceful and graceful, Su Rui could never forget the painting and was able to paint it in such detail.
They had inquired privately, and according to people who had met Mr. Xueya, he was indeed a rare and beautiful man.
Xie Yan lowered his head and glanced at her meaningfully, "Want to see him?"
"Think about it." Who doesn't want to see a beautiful woman?
"Do you know where Mingyin Pavilion is?" Xie Yan asked.
Luo Junyao's eyes were a little erratic, but she didn't look directly at Xie Yan. She said obediently: "How could I know?"
"It seems that I know." Xie Yan smiled lightly.
Luo Junyao was a little depressed, "I didn't go."
Xie Yan hugged her slender waist, rested his chin on her head and whispered softly: "I'm not stopping you from going anywhere. You can have fun elsewhere. This Mingyin Pavilion is not suitable and is very dangerous."
"Um?"
Xie Yan said: "If you are really curious, I will take you there when I have time."
"Really?" Luo Junyao was a little surprised, "Are you really taking me to Mingyin Pavilion?"
Xie Yan looked down at her, "It seems that Yao Yao really wants to meet Master Xue Ya."
Luo Junyao quickly denied, "No, I'm actually just a little curious about Mingyin Pavilion." The handsome man and whatnot were just a way to go.
It's actually hard to say what kind of existence Mingyin Pavilion is.
It can indeed be said that Xie Yan said it is very dangerous, because the location of Mingyin Pavilion is the most dangerous place in the entire Shangyong Imperial City.
The poorest and most destitute people in Shangyong gather there, and there are also many dangerous people and spies from all sides hidden inside.
Most of the major Jianghu gangs or other forces in Shangyonghuang City have chosen to settle here, but it is just across the street that the place seems to be two different worlds from other places in Yonghuang.
It's hard to define what Mingyin Pavilion is located here. It's a brothel, a casino, and all kinds of underground businesses, both legal and illegal.
It is said that the boss behind the Mingyin Pavilion is a very powerful man in the inner city. Some people even speculate that the person behind the Mingyin Pavilion may be the royal family, or a prince or a powerful family, but no one knows who it is.
Outsiders only know that some people who want to provoke Mingyin Pavilion are either inexplicably killed by their enemies, or they are still locked up in the sky prison and do not know whether they will live or die.
This Young Master Xueya, who was ranked third in the Shangyongfenghualu by Su Rui, was a luthier at Mingyin Pavilion.
This is not surprising, if one were to rank Yong's beauties based solely on their appearance, it is said that the Mingyinge family would account for three of the top ten beauties.
Xie Yan glanced at her with a half-smile and said, "It doesn't hurt to take you to see it if I have the chance."
Luo Junyao was so happy that he couldn't help but kiss him on the face, "Ayan, you are so kind."
Xie Yan said: "Since I'm good, can you give this to me?" Xie Yan closed the picture album in his hand, obviously not interested in the content of the picture album.
"..." What you said about reading the picture album with her was actually just for the last sentence, right?
"No?" Xie Yan asked with raised eyebrows, looking at her with a half-smile.
Luo Jun gritted his teeth and said, "Okay!"
Isn’t it just a booklet? It will be printed out later. You can have as many as you want!
