Spring Drunk Chang'an

Concubine Qu felt as if she were in a dream.

She was different from the Prince of Yan. She had been doted on by Emperor Yingwu all her life. No one in the harem dared to wrong her, and Empress Song avoided her...

In the previous dynasty, although Xiao Xun was favored by Emperor Yingwu, the prince always put him under tremendous pressure. Therefore, although his character was arrogant, he was also suppressed. Once he suffered a setback, he could quickly accept the failure, which was a fact that needed to be said.

But Concubine Qu can't do that.

Having been a 'winner' all her life, she was forced to submit to Queen Song and live under the Crown Prince.

She would rather die.

"Your father is only in his fifties. He is in such good health that he can be emperor for another ten or twenty years. By then, Shen Xing will have grown up."

"You can let him, let him succeed to the throne, and you can be the retired emperor and the grand empress dowager."

Concubine Qu said anxiously.

Xiao Shenxing is Xiao Xun's eldest son and one of his only two sons. He is three years old this year.

His biological mother was the one who was demoted from a concubine to a royal concubine by Xiao Xun.

Concubine Qu intended to make him the crown prince.

"I've been thinking about this since the day you were born. Now there's finally a way forward. How could you give up?"

"What's the big deal about the crown prince taking the throne? Who can accept that? Xun'er, you can't give up on yourself?"

"You must go with me to find your father and ask him for help. He will take care of us!"

Concubine Qu gritted her teeth and, regardless of Xiao Xun's injuries, stepped forward to grab him and take him to see Emperor Yingwu.

Xiao Xun grimaced in pain, shook her hand off angrily, and said in a muffled voice, "Mother, stop struggling. The Crown Prince has already won."

"That was a fight in the court, not something you can decide."

"Father was defeated by him. He has to give up this throne even if he doesn't want to. Otherwise, there will be a fight, and Father may not win. For the sake of the stability of the Great Xia, Father has to compromise."

"Do you think that in the heart of the Emperor, you and I are more important than the Great Xia Empire?"

If he could compare, why would he harm himself like this just to disgust the Cheng'en Mansion?

Xiao Xun sneered.

Ever since he was pierced with three hairpins and woke up to know his situation, he began to give up on himself.

Maybe it’s because when a man lacks something, his aggressiveness will weaken. Now, when he mentioned the prince and the fact of his downfall, he didn’t feel much anger.

Instead, there was a strange calmness.

It was like a firework that had burned out, with only a little ash left, and it couldn't even burn again.

"I, I don't believe it. Your father is such a brave and noble man, how could he be threatened by a young boy like the Crown Prince?"

"Xiao Chuo, he, who is he? For so many years, you and I have been suppressing him. He was driven out of the palace and couldn't return home. Even the dignified Crown Prince couldn't live in the Eastern Palace..."

Concubine Qu shook her head in disbelief.

Tears welled up in the corners of my eyes.

Xiao Xun sneered, curled up in his quilt, and said cowardly: "So what if he doesn't live in the Eastern Palace? He is also the crown prince. He can be suppressed in the harem while he develops in the front court."

"Four of the six ministers voted for him. The first and second ministers of the cabinet are both his people. He holds both tiger talismans of the three armies of Daxia."

"Mother, the harem's methods are useless to him."

"Don't waste your energy."

Xiao Xun curled his lips, with a hint of sarcasm in his decadence.

Mother, from childhood to adulthood, she gave him too much hope, making him really feel that suppressing Queen Song and the Crown Prince in the harem would be a victory, and gaining the favor of his father would mean he could get everything.

The position of crown prince is within reach.

Results, results...

"It's all in vain, all in vain!"

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"

Xiao Xun laughed wildly, his laughter was weird and desolate.

Seeing her only son in this state, her lifelong hopes shattered, how could Concubine Qu bear it? Tears streamed down her face as she looked at her obviously mad son. Without another word, she stumbled out of the palace.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you can't do this to us mother and son."

She staggered and ran on the palace road with tears streaming down her face. Along the way, countless palace maids and eunuchs saw her, but they did not dare to stop her or ask her any questions.

They all knelt down in unison, prostrating themselves on the ground.

Concubine Qu seemed to be blind to them and didn't care about her own embarrassment. She ran sobbing, her graceful and beautiful face was tear-stained, her complicated bun was loose, and even one of her shoes was lost.

She came to the entrance of Qiankun Hall.

"I want to see the emperor, I want to see the emperor, Xiao Shengting, come out and see me, don't hide from me."

"Come out, I know you're in there."

"Come out!!"

Xiao Shengting is the name of Emperor Yingwu.

Concubine Qu was extremely excited and almost lost her rationality. She stood in front of the Qiankun Palace with disheveled hair. She screamed and cried, demanding that the emperor who had loved her for half his life give her an explanation.

"Come see me, Xiao Shengting, you can't hide from me forever!!"

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty the Imperial Concubine..."

She shouted loudly and rushed into the hall.

The eunuchs guarding the palace gate were so panicked that their faces were covered in sweat. They opened their arms and rushed forward to stop her, but they didn't dare to tear her apart. You formed a human wall, trapping her inside, and kept begging her.

"Your Majesty, please calm down. You can't do this. Your Majesty is discussing state affairs with the adults and can't see you..."

"Yes, yes, yes, your Majesty, please stop. Your Majesty really has something important to tell you!"

"My Lady, please have mercy on us servants. Stop shouting and go back."

"His Majesty has ordered that you not be seen..."

The eunuchs tried to persuade him one after another with sad faces.

Concubine Qu pretended not to hear and pushed them with all her strength, rushing into the Qiankun Palace.

However, how could she, a pampered lady in her forties, push away eight or nine strong and burly eunuchs?

Although they didn't dare to touch her or resist due to their status, they just stood in a circle.

She can be blocked completely and cannot move at all.

"Your Highness, please return to the palace and stop making trouble. At least look at these, for the sake of your dignity and that of His Royal Highness Prince Yan."

The eunuchs tried to persuade him with kind words.

Concubine Qu: ...

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

"Xiao Shengting!!"

She screamed loudly, disregarding her dignity, knelt on the ground and cried loudly.

No one dared to move.

There was also silence in the Qiankun Hall, with only Concubine Qu's shrill cries floating in the air.

For a long time, for a long time...

The door of Qiankun Palace finally opened, and Emperor Yingwu walked out step by step with a slightly hunched body, trembling.

The once mighty and upright emperor now has a deeply bent back, most of his hair has turned gray, and the wrinkles on his face seem to have deepened a lot.

His eyes were cloudy and his face was droopy.

He looks very old.

Step by step, he walked up to Concubine Qu, lifted up his dragon robe, squatted down, and said with a trembling voice, "You know everything?"