The carriages in the palace gradually moved away, but Prince Jin'an still stood motionless in front of the door.
The peeping eyes near the palace were focused on him.
"Your Highness," the chamberlain reminded, "go back."
The Prince of Jin'an County seemed to have regained his composure and turned back to the mansion. However, he was still in a trance while standing in the mansion.
"It feels like the house is mostly empty," he said.
In fact, there are only seven people missing.
Because most of the time he personally served King Qing, and there were only six attendants around King Qing, so they naturally followed him into the palace at this time.
The chamberlain looked at Prince Jin'an.
"Your Highness, isn't this very good?" he said.
Prince Jin'an smiled and nodded.
"Yes, it's quite good." He said.
Isn’t it just for this day?
"I'm just not used to it," he said.
In total, their brothers have been together for more than ten years, especially in the past three years, one has turned into an ignorant child, and the other has been serving her like a nanny educating her mother-in-law.
"Your Highness." The chamberlain said with a smile, "Your Highness needs to get used to it. Now that Prince Qing is older, he is no longer a child. What Your Highness has to do is not to take good care of him. The slaves will do those things. Your Highness has to do that."
It's a bigger thing, a more important thing, and His Highness has promised Prince Qing."
Prince Jin'an also smiled and nodded.
Yes, you have to get used to it, just like Sixth Brother has become King Qing. Although he is so unwilling, he still has to get used to it. Now the King Qing he is used to has changed again, so he still has to get used to it, because no matter
No matter how he changes, he is still his sixth brother.
"Brother promised to take you to hold the world."
After he finished speaking, he stretched out his hand and slowly clenched it into a fist.
"This is your world. Now you can finally get it. My brother wants you to hold it firmly."
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"The Queen Mother took Prince Qing back to the palace?" Chen Shao said with a frown. He had just woken up to wash up and had a bowl of tea before heading into the palace. "Is the Queen Mother planning to help Prince Qing ascend the throne?"
"Sir, there is nothing wrong with this." Qingke said, "After all, Prince Qing is your Majesty's only bloodline."
"But King Qing is stupid!" Chen Shao said, throwing the soup bowl in his hand heavily on the table, "Then in the future, will the posthumous title be Hui or An?" [Note 1]
Qingke was stunned for a moment.
"I think we should use An," he replied.
Compared with Emperor Hui, Emperor An did not know the cold and heat, and could hardly speak. He was even more similar to Emperor Qing.
Chen Shao stared at him.
"Is this kind of joking interesting?" he said angrily, throwing off his sleeves and walking quickly outside.
Qingke smiled.
"grown ups."
He hurriedly caught up.
"My lord, this kind of joking is meaningless, but someone dares to do this. My lord, this matter is not trivial."
This matter was of course no small matter. The moment the palace carriage stopped at Prince Qing's Mansion, the news spread quickly, and there was an uproar.
Although Cheng Jiaoniang's evidence caused a scandal, it was only for the common people to watch the fun. For officials in the DPRK and China, the most urgent and important thing at this moment is the state of affairs.
The emperor was seriously ill and could die at any time, and the only heir, Prince Ping, also died. A country cannot live without a king for a day. Who the king is is the most important thing that affects the dynasty and everyone's own future.
"It's ridiculous. How can a fool become the emperor?"
"You are the one who is ridiculous. How can a fool not be the emperor? It's not like there is no precedent!"
"Don't mention old practices. How about old practices? Don't you know how scary they are?"
"Everyone knows, now it all depends on who will be Young Master Wei Guan." [Note]
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"It seems that Gao Lingbo is determined to have the Queen Mother listen to politics behind the curtain." Zhou Hui said.
Compared to the noise outside, the Cheng family yard is still quiet.
As expected, Qin Hu walked away quickly after saying those words. It was not easy for him to say one more word here. After all, there was an undercurrent in the court at this time. With the emperor's fall, Prince Ping
If someone is killed, how many personnel relationships will change.
Although the Qin family is not as powerful as Chen Shao or as powerful as Gao Lingbo in the court, they are still members of a prominent family and their every move will inevitably affect the court.
Cheng Jiaoniang's identity at this time was very subtle. She said that she was the one who caused the thunder to prove that Prince Ping was an accident and not a divine punishment. In fact, everyone in the court knew that it was just to prove to the Queen Mother that she was not the one who harmed Prince Ping by causing the thunder.
But so what if it’s proven?
The seeds of doubt have been planted, and nothing has been done to her for the time being, because Prince Ping's reputation is important. After Prince Ping is buried and the Queen Mother sits firmly in the court, the seeds will sprout and grow into towering trees with the watering of caring people.
Big tree.
"But what does it have to do with Madam!" Banqin couldn't help but say, "It's not Madam who harmed them. It has nothing to do with Madam at all. How could they..."
"Doesn't it matter?" Zhou Hui said, frowning at her, "Prince Ping was struck by lightning because he confessed and knelt down, and he knelt down because he confessed and knelt down because the imperial concubine was framed. Remember, from the Queen Mother's point of view, the imperial concubine was framed by Concubine An.
The frame-up, why Concubine An was able to frame the noble concubine, was because she was pregnant, and the reason why Concubine An was pregnant was because she ate the snacks sent by Prince Jin'an."
The maid and Banqin were stunned when they heard this.
"So Sixth Young Master, you are so eloquent," the maid said.
Zhou Hao raised his eyebrows and glared at her.
"Then, it still has nothing to do with the lady." Banqin came to her senses and said hurriedly.
Zhou Sheng snorted and looked at Cheng Jiaoniang.
"Where did King Jin'an get his snacks?" he asked.
dessert?
On that day when King Qing opened his palace, Prince Jin'an invited his wife to be a guest. The lady's piano played in the house and the house was clean. King Jin'an prepared some snacks according to the lady's taste. He then brought the snacks to the palace and gave them to his majesty. His majesty gave them to Concubine An.
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"That's okay!" Banqin shouted with eyes wide open, "This has become our wife's business? This, isn't this nonsense!"
Zhou Feng snorted.
"Aren't you women just so messy?" he said, "What's more, she was an older woman with white hair who gave birth to a black-haired woman, and who lost her grandchildren one after another. This woman has always been praised by everyone.
She holds her dear, the emperor is very filial and never disobeys her. For such a woman, after such a blow, do you still expect her to be able to reason?"
Yes, such a grieving and angry old woman who has lost a loved one will definitely not be able to reason.
What's more, the Gao family was behind it, adding fuel to the flames and preventing her from being reasonable.
"I thought everything would be fine without Prince Ping, but I didn't expect there would be a Queen Mother." The maid couldn't help but murmured.
If at that time Prince Ping was only angry because his marriage was refuted to save his face, and at most he drove out of the capital to suppress the matter, then now it is not just a matter of being out of sight and out of mind because of the refutation of his face, it is already a life and death situation.
of hatred.
It’s really endless, one mountain after another is dangerous to pass.
The atmosphere in the room suddenly became depressing.
"Father has already packed his things, and the letter of resignation has been written." Zhou Hui was silent for a moment and then said, "I am also starting to go back to the northwest. I just want to see my father and the others back to Shaanzhou. My dear, let's go together."
Cheng Jiaoniang smiled and shook her head.
"Don't even think about getting married to the Prince of Jin'an County." Zhou Hui said in a low voice, "That is impossible, and the Queen Mother will never agree to it."
"No, that's a small matter." Cheng Jiaoniang said, looking out the door, "It's just that I think there are people who are reluctant to let me go now."
"Are you talking about the Queen Mother and the others?" Zhou Hui said, half standing up, "Don't worry, the Queen Mother and the others can't touch you now. Firstly, the matter of causing thunder has a high reputation among the people. Secondly, they don't care about it.
Now is the best time to leave. After leaving the capital and returning to Shaanxi Province, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away. If they really want to do anything, I'm afraid it won't be that easy."
Cheng Jiaoniang looked at him with a smile.
"No, it's not them," she said.
Yes, is it the Prince of Jin'an County?
Zhou Heng gritted his teeth and said in his heart, but he still didn't want to say the words.
This woman always answered every question, and he didn't want to hear her answer at all, not at all!
There were rapid footsteps outside the door.
"Sister, sister." Fan Jianglin walked in quickly, ignoring Zhou Hui's presence, "The palace summoned you."
In the palace?
Zhou Hui stood up suddenly and saw two chamberlains standing in the corridor behind Fan Jianglin.
"Ms. Cheng, the Queen has invited you." They said with a somewhat polite smile and saluted, while taking out a copy of the internal decree.
Queen?
Zhou Hao turned to look at Cheng Jiaoniang again.
Was the person she was talking about turned out to be the queen?
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Note 1: Emperor Hui of Jin Dynasty, Sima Zhong, and Emperor An of Jin Dynasty, Sima Dezong, were two emperors whose IQs were lower than ordinary people.
Note: Emperor Hui of Jin Dynasty, Sima Zhong, was the second son of Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty. After his eldest son died, he was the crown prince as usual. However, Sima Zhong was low in intelligence and stupid. The young prince Fu Weiguan got drunk and slapped Emperor Wu's dragon throne, saying that it was a pity for this throne, so as to tell the emperor.
Sima Zhong should not be the prince, let alone take over the throne. (To be continued)