Feng Hongluan understood the emperor's intention of appearing today, but she did not think that the emperor and Prince Huai came to see them off with good intentions.
Returning to Beijing, from the moment the Emperor and Prince Huai appeared, it had become a fate that she and Hong Yan could not escape.
Sure enough, even if Feng Hongluan didn't want to talk, he would still say it straight to the point.
"Do you know which concubine my father loved most during his lifetime?"
After asking such a direct question, Feng Hongluan could only answer bravely: "Concubine Shu."
"You are wrong. The reason why my father loves Concubine Shu is entirely because of Qinyang. The reason why my father likes Qinyang is because Qinyang looks very much like a person, and this person is the mother of the second son of the emperor, Prince Ping, who was the concubine at that time.
"
Feng Hongluan was startled. Empress Xiang, the biological mother of the second prince, was born in a humble way. She was originally the queen mother today. She was a little maid next to the queen back then. She was praised by the emperor as a beauty. Later, within a year, she was promoted to the third class.
, was a rare favorite in the palace at that time.
The emperor promoted her from a palace maid, to a beauty, to a talented person, to a Shu Yuan, and then to a concubine, without any reason at all. But in the palace, unless there was a big promotion, all the old people who entered the palace were promoted.
Adding one rank means that someone has made a difference. The one who is a prince will be promoted to two positions, and the one who is promoted to a princess will be promoted to one rank.
This is exactly what the saying goes: a poor mother and a poor son are the most valuable.
However, when the concubine at that time was promoted to concubine, she was not pregnant at all. Later, she became pregnant with a dragon fetus. The emperor was overjoyed and promised that regardless of whether she had a child or a daughter, once the child was born, she would be directly promoted to the imperial concubine.
The title of imperial concubine is not the same as that of a minor concubine. The title of concubine is promoted three times a year. If you are pregnant or have a child, you can directly jump to the title of imperial concubine. Its momentum is almost equal to that of the queen.
Unfortunately, she died in childbirth on the day of delivery, and the second son of the emperor was named Prince Ping from birth.
We all heard about Feng Hongluan, because Xiang concubine only pampered her for two years before passing away. Later, after Princess Qinyang was born, the late emperor often visited Concubine Shu, so everyone thought that the late emperor only cared about Xiang concubine.
If you fall in love for a moment, you will love Concubine Shu until the end of your life.
Unexpectedly, this is indeed the case. Does Princess Qinyang know? If she knows that all her father's love for her is nothing more than affection, and in order to keep her by her side, she looks at the face of the woman she is familiar with and deeply loves every day.
The princess delayed her marriage and now she is an old girl. I wonder what the princess will think.
Feng Hongluan's mind was in confusion, and she seemed to have guessed what the emperor was going to say next.
A palace maid can be promoted to an imperial concubine in just two years, with a status equal to that of a queen.
After the death of the palace maid, she expressed her love for a daughter who looked similar to the palace maid. This true love and affection made it possible for the emperor's second son, Prince Ping, to be crowned prince.
What the emperor said before was that he deliberately took the position of emperor. It is probably true that the late emperor had the idea of making Prince Ping the crown prince.
so……
Only King Ping will die, right?
When King Ping died, Feng Hongluan seemed to be still in his infancy, and the late emperor was still alive. It was in the ninth year of Kangyong's reign. The outside world said that King Ping died of smallpox, because King Ping died of high fever and erythema and chickenpox.
Feng Hongluan had never doubted this before. After all, the young man who died at the age of twelve or thirteen had little to do with her. But now, she felt cold all over because she subconsciously realized that Prince Ping
Death is not that simple.
The man opposite, the noble emperor, looked at the street outside again, but this time he did not look back for a long time. Instead, he looked at the pouring spring rain outside and spoke in a cold tone: "You are so smart, I guess.
Have you guessed something?"
When the eyes came back, Feng Hongluan was really shocked. Even if Feng Hongluan guessed it, she didn't dare to say it. If it was the truth, what she said was exposing the emperor's crime. If it was not the truth, what she said
It's slander.
She hurriedly lowered her head and said: "Forgive Hongluan for being stupid, he can't guess anything."
The handsome man with a somewhat indifferent temperament suddenly raised a sneer at the corner of his mouth: "I'm afraid I guessed it, but don't say it. Don't worry, if you really escape with Hong Yan, it will be such a big embarrassment for Xia Rongling.
If you deliberately can’t guess something, if you pretend you don’t know it on purpose, someone will tell it for me.”
Feng Hongluan was shocked.
A person immediately popped into my mind - the General.
Therefore, the emperor was hampered by the general at every turn. Although he was the king of a country, he could not do anything about the general. This was because he had this leverage in the hands of the general.
Can……
The emperor spoke clearly, and Feng Hongluan knew that she could not pretend to be confused no matter what: "Your Majesty..."
"I know what you want to ask." A pair of eyes that seemed to know everything swept her face indifferently, and then there was a self-deprecating smile on the corner of her mouth, "When I dug a grave for my own brother, how could I
It's not like I dug a hole for myself. I'm standing on the edge of the hole, no matter how hard your father and others try to hold me back.
Fall, but as long as the general gives a gentle push, I will be beyond redemption and buried with my brothers. You want to ask, why don’t I get rid of the general? Women’s opinions are always one-sided, and I am not mocking you.
I mean, since I have told you this today, I might as well tell you that the late emperor’s real edict is in the hands of the general.”
"..." Feng Hongluan could hardly accept the real testament of the late emperor. When he passed away in his heart, the second son of the emperor, Prince Ping, had already passed away. Why would the late emperor still make a will to confer the second son of the emperor as emperor?
No, not really? Feng Hongluan's eyes widened in horror. The person named in the edict was not the dead second son of the emperor, but Hong Yan.
Looking at her expression, the emperor's smile became even bitterer: "Father knows that I am ambitious and that I killed my second brother, so he wants to repeat the same story and make the same mistakes happen again. Because he knows that once Xiao Yan succeeds,
With my ambition and cruelty, I will definitely not let Xiaoyan go and plot to kill the king."
"Kuang Dang!" The tea cup in his hand fell to the floor and broke into pieces.
The fear in Feng Hongluan's eyes was as if the person sitting in front of her was not a person, but a ghost.
——Digression——
It's past 12 o'clock, I can't help it, I still have the last 1,000 words, and I've just finished coding them now, I'm sorry everyone.
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