Chapter six hundred and eighty first mother and son love
It rained heavily all night, and some low-lying courtyards in the palace area were flooded. When dawn came, the rain finally stopped, and the low-level maids and eunuchs in the inner court were busy carrying boxes and cages. In the early morning, there were already several
The harsh sun dried and soaked clothes, books and other items.
Zhang Ping and Jiang Huo didn't have a good rest at night. They looked around early in the morning. Fortunately, the main palace hall was on high ground, and the Chaoyang Canal outside the palace city had smooth drainage. The daily life of Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, many concubines, and the nobles were not affected.
Influence.
Zhang Ping and Jiang Huo were the eunuchs and young eunuchs, but they were not summoned by Yang Yuanpu for a month or two, and it was difficult to resign. At this time, they could only arrange the routine affairs of the palace and not leave.
What a flaw.
Today, it was Li Xiu's turn to lead his troops to stay in the palace. Li Xiu also came over early in the morning and followed the commander of the Imperial Guard's headquarters, Chen De, the nominal commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guard's camps. He rushed over to meet Zhang Ping and Jiang Huo to ensure that
The pawn exchange was carried out in an orderly manner and was not affected by last night's heavy rain.
Seeing that nothing happened, Li Xiu thought of going to Chongwen Hall to pay his respects, but saw Huang Lu and Guo Liang walking in from Chongyang Gate under the guidance of two courtiers.
Huang Lu was the commander of the Zuo Wuxiang Army and Li Xiu's immediate superior. In addition to being in charge of the Wuxiang Army camp, he would also take turns handling affairs with Chen De on guard duty at the Pro-Army Si Yamen, but he would not directly lead troops on duty.
Palace ban.
Today, those on duty outside the palace city and inside the imperial city are part of Guo Liang's Zuo Wuyi Army.
Of course, the specific duty work was divided between Du Yuhou and Guo Liang's subordinates. Guo Liang's responsibilities were similar to Huang Lu's. He was mainly responsible for the affairs of Zuo Wuyi's army and the specific arrangements for the palace confinement camp and city defense.
Seeing Huang Lu and Guo Liang came into the palace early in the morning, Li Xiu, Zhang Ping and Jiang Huo thought something particularly important had happened, but when they came over to chat, Huang Lu and Guo Liang didn't know why their majesties were there.
Early in the morning, a decree was sent to them to enter the palace.
"Your Majesty has gone to Cishou Palace to pay his respects to the Empress Dowager. You go to Chongwen Hall and wait for a while first." Zhang Ping, Huang Lu and Guo Liang said, thinking that Your Majesty was going to pay homage to the Empress Dowager and should return to Chongwen Hall in the blink of an eye.
In charge of government affairs, in the past few years, except for specific ceremonies and celebrations, I have never seen the mother and son sitting together for more than half an hour.
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In order to show her filial piety, Queen Huang E, like Ying Mao, would bring all the concubines to Changshou Palace to pay her respects every day; Yang Yuanpu would come over every now and then to say a few words, but none of them were accurate.
Of course, when Yang Yuanqing came over today with Chen Ruyi and several court officials, the concubines who were paying their respects in the main hall of Cishou Palace were not surprised. They thought they had come to discuss some important state affairs.
Qingyang didn't sleep well yesterday, but she didn't realize there would be any problems in Chongwen Palace today, so she wanted to take Yang Bin, the eldest son of the emperor, back to Changxin Palace first.
"Bin'er, stay here and let's talk." Yang Yuanpu took his eldest son's hand and asked him to stay.
Hearing what Yang Yuanpu said, Qingyang could not leave, so Huang E, Han Shuhui and other concubines sat beside him to accompany him.
"Why did your Majesty come to the Ai family so early today? Is there anything bothering you?" Wang Chan'er held the hand of the second prince Yang Lin and looked at Yang Yuanpu sitting opposite. She always felt that he had a different expression when he came so early in the morning.
He was always wandering around Yang Bin and Yang Lin, but she didn't think about it deeply, thinking that something had happened to him that made him behave like this.
The eldest son of the emperor, Yang Bin, is only seven years old, and the second son, Yang Lin, is two years younger. His face shape has not grown yet, and he has a bit of excess nutrition. With his round face, you can't see much difference, but you have to pay attention, or maybe
I became suspicious, but I could still see some clues from the nose bones, eyebrows and other characteristic prominent organs.
Yang Yuanpu didn't know Han Jun very well, but when he was in Yueyang, the ministers advocated setting up a special guard house for Wang Chan'er to show their respect. Li Chong and Han Jun had been guarding Wang Chan'er for a long time, and Yang Yuanpu was rarely seen again.
, and also met Han Jun dozens of times.
After paying attention, Yang Yuanpu looked at his second son Yang Lin's nose bones, eyebrows and bright-faced ears, and he looked more and more like Han Jun.
Chen Ruyi quietly tugged at the skirt of her clothes from behind, causing Yang Yuanpu to wake up and said:
"The child heard from the eunuchs below that the queen mother is not in good health. It must be that Lin'er is too naughty. The child then thought about whether to leave Lin'er under the care of Concubine Shu, or to ask him to return to his mother -"
"No!" Hearing what Yang Yuanpu said, Wang Chan'er felt as if her tail had been stepped on, and her voice couldn't help but become sharper. Others might not be able to tell whether the second prince was real or fake, but Wang Chan'er didn't dare to scream even if she had a thousand courages.
Yang Lin returned to his "biological" mother Li Yao.
She subconsciously hugged Yang Lin into her arms, fearing that Yang Yuanpu would snatch Yang Lin away.
"It's been a bit hard for the Queen Mother to take care of the second prince, but she has taken care of her so much that she loves her so much that she holds it in her hand for fear of falling, and holds it in her mouth for fear of melting. Concubine Li is now suffering from frequent brain attacks, and she is still in a state of sanity every day.
She is lethargic, and Concubine Han may be neglecting her care. How can the Queen Mother be willing to ask the Second Prince to move out of Cishou Palace? Her Majesty is really forcing the Queen Mother to do something difficult for her." Lu Qingxia said lightly at this time.
Qingyang looked at everything in the hall suspiciously. No matter how slow she was, she could still feel the abnormality in the atmosphere in the hall. However, she still couldn't figure out for the time being, what happened in the hall today was different from what Chen Ruyi said yesterday, or what Dai Liyang Hou said
What is the connection between the words Yang En passed?
"Since my mother worked so hard and didn't bother with Lin'er's naughtiness, I'll trouble my mother to continue to take care of Lin'er." Yang Yuanpu stared at his mother's hand tightly grabbing Yang Lin's arm. The corner of his mouth couldn't help but twitch twice, and he suppressed the turmoil in his chest.
Out of anger and hatred, he said something through gritted teeth, stood up and walked straight out of the hall.
Qingyang hurriedly saluted Wang Chan'er, hurriedly took Bin'er's hand and followed Yang Yuanpu out of the main hall; the concubines who didn't know why also dismissed them one after another.
"..." Wang Chan'er's face was gloomy. She sat on the brocade couch and watched everyone walk out of the gate of Cishou Palace.
After a long time, she was still in shock and doubt, as if a group of soldiers would break in at any moment and snatch Lin'er away from her arms. After a while, she asked the irrelevant eunuchs and maids to go away.
Frowning, he asked Lu Qingxia:
"Pu'er, does he know something?"
"You shouldn't know..." Lu Qingxia frowned slightly, but there was hesitation in his tone.
"There has been nothing unusual in the past two days in Chongwen Hall." Yao Xishui said with certainty.
Lu Qingxia and Yao Xishui's words did not reassure Wang Chan'er. She sat in the shade of the hall all morning in a daze. At noon, she heard that Yang Yuanpu had gone to Zhao Guiren's place and sat there for a long time, making her even more uneasy.
Zhao Guiren was the woman arranged by Lu Qingxia to enter the palace. After Li Pu, the Duke of Chang Kingdom, was deprived of his title and demoted to civilian status, and Li Yao was deposed as queen and thrown into the cold palace, the second prince Yang Lin was initially raised by Zhao Guiren.
Yang Yuanpu's many abnormalities when he paid his respects in the morning and his visit to Guiren Zhao now. How could Wang Chan'er feel at ease and not worry about her secret affair with Han Jun and her child being exposed?
After waiting anxiously until the afternoon, Chen Ruyi brought two young eunuchs over, carrying a jade bowl on a tray, and said: "The heat is raging, and your Majesty is worried that the second prince is young and weak and cannot withstand the heat and poison, so he specially made the royal concubine endure the heat.
I gave the second prince a bowl of coptis decoction to relieve summer heat and give it to him to drink."
Wang Chan'er's face turned a little pale, and the veins on the back of her hands that were holding the brocade couch were exposed. Her almond-shaped eyes were fixed on the jade bowl held by the eunuch behind Chen Ruyi, and her voice trembled slightly as she said, "The Ai family knows, you are going to relieve the pain."
The soup was put down, and when Lin'er was free, the Ai family asked him to drink it before going to thank his emperor father."
"Your Majesty wants the minister to watch the second prince drink it. He is afraid that the second prince is naughty and the Queen Mother dotes on the second prince too much..." Chen Ruyi said rather insistently.
"You bastards, are you talking to the Queen Mother like this?" Lu Qingxia stared at Chen Ruyi sharply, and motioned to the female guards on the left and right to close the door of the hall. She walked to Chen Ruyi's side, picked up the bowl of medicinal soup, and brought it to
He sniffed lightly, stared into Chen Ruyi's eyes, and asked, "Your Majesty, please watch the second prince drink this medicinal soup. Is there anything wrong with the medicinal soup?"
"Mr. Lu, your majesty is concerned about the second prince. How could there be something wrong with this medicinal soup? The royal concubine has cooked it well and said that she specially asked someone to taste it first." Chen Ruyi said with a wry smile on her face.
"..." Lu Qingxia winked, and Yao Xishui brought a civet cat.
The civet cat smelled the bitter taste of the medicinal soup and did not open its mouth.
Lu Qingxia opened the cat's mouth and forced half a bowl of medicinal soup into it.
After a while, the civet cat howled miserably, and was grabbed by the back of the neck by Lu Qingxia. The cat's claws twitched and scratched, and it froze up and died after a while.
Yao Xishui and Ye Qingying behind him took action at the same time, and two daggers with cold light flew out. Before Chen Ruyi and the two eunuchs could escape, they had already hit their chests. With a muffled cry, their bodies fell down, and red blood flowed from their chests.
Flow out slowly.
"..." Chen Ruyi knelt down and kowtowed to the Queen Mother Wang Chan'er, "Wei Chen never knew that there was something wrong with this soup. Wei Chen had absolutely no idea that there was something wrong with this soup. His Majesty asked Wang Guifei to cook the soup and asked Wei Chen to bring it over.
, I really don’t know! Please be aware of it! Please be aware of it! Please be aware of it!”
Wang Chan'er's face turned pale, and she stared intently at the stiff civet cat in Lu Qingxia's hand. At this time, white saliva seeped out from the corners of her mouth.
"Chen Ruyi, although your abilities were taught to you by Zhang Ping, when you were living on the streets and were about to starve to death, I took you in. If it weren't for me and the Queen Mother, would you be as successful as you are today?
"Lu Qingxia threw the dead cat and the bodies of the two young eunuchs to the ground, squatted down in front of Chen Ruyi and asked.
"Ruyi definitely did not harm the Queen Mother. It is the palace envoy's intention. Ruyi is innocent." Chen Ruyi kowtowed and shouted.
"Then tell me, what's going on with your Majesty and the Concubine Wang Guifei these past two days?" Lu Qingxia asked.
"Yesterday, when Your Majesty went to Changxin Palace, Wang Guifei accidentally mentioned that the second prince's eyebrows and nose were different from those of the eldest prince. She also mentioned the rumor that the maids of Changchun Palace secretly communicated with the guards to give birth to a child and were killed by the Queen Mother.
Several times I bumped into Yao Gongshi talking to Zhao Guiren in the dark..." Chen Ruyi stammered.
"I thought this bitch had become more honest in recent years, but I didn't expect that she would be as vicious as her dead bitch!" Lu Qingxia cursed bitterly, turned around and said to Wang Chan'er, who was sitting on the brocade couch and couldn't help but trembling slightly.
, "Your Majesty can't bear to attack you after all. The only plan now is to ask the second prince to drink this coptis detoxifying soup..."
"No, absolutely not, Lu Qingxia, you said you wanted to ensure Lin'er's life is safe, you can't keep your word!" Wang Chan'er screamed like a convulsion.
"Your Majesty has made up his mind. Who can persuade your Majesty to pretend that this has never happened?" Lu Qingxia took a step forward and asked.
"Replace the real second prince and send Lin'er out of the palace. As long as there is no more rumors about this matter, Pu'er will not insist on taking the life of the five-year-old baby." Wang Chan'er shouted.
"After changing the situation, the second prince contracted typhoid fever outside and died. Your Majesty will never believe us if we tell you this," Lu Qingxia said, "Besides, the two eunuchs died just like that, so let's talk about them
If the disobedient Queen Mother was killed with a rod and her body was thrown out of the palace, no one would pursue it, but Chen Ruyi is someone close to His Majesty, so we cannot keep him detained for too long..."
"No, I'm not your Majesty's. From now on, I only know how to be loyal to the Queen Mother and Palace Envoy Lu," Chen Ruyi said in a panic, "Chen Shang, Huang Er and these two guys were not quick and knocked over the decoction given to the second prince.
, the Queen Mother was so furious that she ordered them to be killed with a stick - Ruyi knows this, and will only report this to Your Majesty!"
"Are you afraid that once you leave this hall, you will tell His Majesty another story?" Lu Qingxia turned to look at Chen Ruyi and said with a smile.
"Catch him first and let me think for a while." Wang Chan'er said weakly, her mind was in chaos...
