The emperor looked down at the queen, and the couple faced each other with tears in their eyes. Looking at the tears in the queen's eyes, the emperor nodded and choked up: "He is our son, so he naturally listens to Zi Tong."
The queen breathed a sigh of relief, hugged the emperor and started crying.
The couple hugged each other and cried for a while. They felt that nothing was going well with their two sons. After much thought, it was better to have a daughter.
So after the emperor wiped away his tears, he asked Gu Zhong to pick out many things from the warehouse and send them to the princesses of Mingda Changyu.
The queen felt a little depressed after crying, so she lay down and ignored him. Anyway, these things will be given to the children in the future, so just give them to them.
The emperor gave a lot of things, but he still felt unhappy. He took a look outside and saw that the sunset was about to set, so he took Gu Zhongzai for a walk in the garden.
As he walked to the Queen Mother's Palace, he couldn't help but stop. Seeing that the palace was a little quiet, he asked, "What is the Queen Mother doing?"
Gu Zhong immediately went to find the steward aunt in the Queen Mother's palace.
The emperor did not go to see the Queen Mother, but stood in the corridor in a daze.
A gray-haired female official followed Gu Zhong. She was Aunt Chen, who served the Queen Mother closely. She was a few years older than the emperor. She even played with them when the emperor was a child.
Later, she married the steward of the palace and died in battle while accompanying the late emperor on his northern and southern expeditions. The child she gave birth to later also died of illness. The Queen Mother took pity on her and specially called her into the palace as a female official. She only had to accompany the Queen Mother at ordinary times.
Just talk, there are maids waiting by your side, you don't have to do anything special.
However, the emperor remembered that in the past two years, the Queen Mother preferred to be served by smart and beautiful maids, so Aunt Chen rarely went to the Queen Mother.
At this time, Gu Zhong went to call someone. Since it was Aunt Chen, it meant that she was favored by the Queen Mother again.
Aunt Chen bowed respectfully to the emperor.
The emperor asked: "Why is the queen's palace so quiet?"
Aunt Chen lowered her head and said: "The Queen Mother is not in good spirits, so she doesn't like liveliness. She is resting in the room at the moment."
The emperor then asked about the Queen Mother's daily life. The Queen Mother's health has not been very good since the death of King Yizhou last year. It has been better and worse in the past six months, but her spirit is indeed much worse.
She came to the Daming Palace to escape the summer heat. In addition to the queen who would bring the two princesses to visit her, the prince would occasionally come to visit her.
The emperor lingered at the entrance of the Queen Mother's main palace, but did not go in, but turned and left.
The emperor walked aimlessly around the Daming Palace. At some point he reached the foot of Longshouyuan Mountain, so he simply went up the mountain.
Gu Zhong hesitated to speak. Thinking of what happened today, he did not dare to stop him. He just turned around and winked, and immediately followed the emperor up the mountain.
Yin Li happened to be among the imperial guards. Hearing this, he immediately dispatched a team of people and personally led them up the mountain to protect the emperor. At this time, the emperor was standing on a protruding platform halfway up the mountain, looking down at him.
Daming Palace, his palace, even his capital and his world...
The emperor looked at all this with tears in his eyes, and his chest rose sharply...
The emperor stood and thought a lot. When he came to his senses, there was only an orange sunset in the sky, and the sun had completely set.
It's just that the sky is still very bright, it seems because the weather is too clear. Where the sun sets, orange-red clouds are rolling in, large and small, the colors are intertwined, and slowly change into various shapes with the wind.
The emperor's suppressed thoughts began to tumble again. He turned around and found that Yin Li had stood behind him with his guards at some unknown time.
Seeing him turn around, Yin Li also retracted his gaze towards the horizon, raised his hands and saluted, "See you, Your Majesty."
The emperor waved his hand and said, "Come forward and take a look. You can see the entire palace city and Daming Palace from here."
Yin Li stepped forward, stood one step behind the emperor, and raised his eyes to look at everything at the foot of the mountain. His eyes fell directly on the East Palace.
The emperor was also looking at the East Palace.
He said: "I remember that when I was just named the crown prince, Wei Zhi once scolded me for breaking the ancestral calendar. I rebelled to seize the throne. I am afraid that in the future our Jin Dynasty will never have a crown prince who successfully ascends the throne. I have brought a bad leader, so
They are biological brothers, and they will kill each other for the throne."
Yin Li listened silently, and then heard the always confident emperor murmuring: "Shoujie, do you think I was wrong?"
Yin Li knelt down on one knee, lowered his head and said loudly: "Your Majesty is right!"
He raised his head slightly and said: "Your Majesty, the Wei Zhi who once said this is now your Majesty's good minister!"
The emperor was silent for a while and said: "I never think he is right, but after seeing Sanlang today, I feel that what Wei Zhi said is not entirely wrong."
According to what the chamberlain told him, although some of Prince Gong's words were not spoken, the emperor still guessed them.
He was imitating him, so the emperor felt not only sad and disappointed, but also vaguely regretful, but he didn't feel that he was wrong back then. Maybe he shouldn't have killed the third child?
But without killing, how can the world be peaceful?
The emperor's chest felt tight and he couldn't help but cough violently.
Yin Li immediately stood up, and he and Gu Zhong stepped forward to support him worriedly. The emperor waved his hand, held Yin Li's hand and sat down on the stone beside him.
Seeing that the emperor was not in a good mood, Yin Li didn't know what happened, but he heard that it must be related to several princes.
Otherwise, the emperor would not have said something like "even biological brothers will kill each other." You know, when the emperor asked him to mobilize troops to Yizhou last year, he did not say that he would spare the life of the king of Yizhou.
It was best not to get involved in this kind of thing, so Yin Li remained silent.
The emperor was in a really bad mood today. Seeing that no one could answer him, he sat on the stone in a daze.
Seeing that Gu Zhong was worried, he could only keep winking at Yin Li.
Yin Li didn't answer and continued to stand with his head bowed.
Seeing that the emperor remained silent for a long time, he couldn't help but look up and saw that His Majesty's face was in a daze, with tears in his eyes.
Yin Li couldn't help but feel uncomfortable. He was younger than the emperor. When he was sixteen, he started to join the army and fight behind the emperor.
Because he was younger than everyone else, whether it was charging into battle or making suggestions, he was always at the back.
But he was the only one who always stayed with the emperor and never left, no matter how many times the army was divided.
When the emperor was cornered and sneaked thousands of miles back to the capital to kill the first three princes, he was with him. Only then did he become the youngest marquis in the capital after the emperor ascended the throne.
Yin Li suddenly felt a little sad. He knelt down in front of the emperor and said: "Your Majesty, among the princes of the late emperor, no one can compare with you in terms of ability and love for the people. As emperor, you are the people's aspiration."
, what’s more, you led us to conquer half of this country, why can’t we just sit there?”