Princess Menglang is hard to change, the whole capital is embarrassed for her

One night later, his right eyelid suddenly twitched violently. He became restless and felt extremely anxious.

Not long after, a palace maid came to report that the queen had died.

He was immediately furious and wanted to beat to death the palace maid who was talking nonsense, but his hands were shaking violently and tears were inexplicably falling down.

He didn't believe it. How could such a joke be played?

I know I was wrong. I was wrong to ignore you. I am here now...

When he stumbled over, he saw her lying there quietly with her eyes tightly closed and her newly made-up face very thin. No matter how he shook her, she did not respond.

She left several letters, one to her mother, asking her to take care of herself and not to be sad for her.

A letter to her eldest brother Chu Hengsheng, asking him to assist the emperor well. She also asked her eldest brother to take her son Xiao Chenze to the border when he has the chance, and to teach him martial arts so that he can expand the territory for his father and defend the country.

One letter was left for him, in which she recalled many of their mutual support from childhood to the present. She asked him not to be sad. She said that for more than a year, she had refused the regular pulse checks from the Imperial Hospital, and asked him not to blame the hospital.

She also claimed she had a tumor, and that she knew medical knowledge, and that the disease was incurable. So why bother implicate others, and make them suffer the same pain she did?

Just wait until this last time to tell him the news of my death and let him cry for a while. From now on, please forget her and live a good life.

It's easy for this cruel guy to say it, how could he forget it?

He buried her in his own mausoleum, and he also issued an edict that after a hundred years, only his own coffin and that of Queen Chu would be placed in the mausoleum.

In other words, no matter who becomes the queen in the future, she will not be qualified to enter their tombs and disturb their peace.

He already owed her for the sake of his country in this life. In the next life, he only wanted to renew his previous relationship with her, and there would be no other person between them.

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Xiao Chenze was taken to the border by Chu Hengsheng when he was twelve years old and stayed there for five years.

The emperor had high hopes for his son. He hoped that his son would be as high-spirited and decisive as he was in the past, and that under the guidance of the Duke of Zhenguo, he would be superior to others in both civil and military strategies.

He had never expected that in the year since his son returned to the capital from the army, he had either been fighting with his brothers or causing endless trouble outside. He didn't know how many complaints he had received, and every time he summoned this guy to the palace to reprimand him, he acted nonchalant and made unreasonable arguments, which made him angry and resentful.

The emperor was troubled by the pile of memorials from the censors impeaching his son. He was very angry, but the brothers started fighting again.

This time it has even come to the point of taking each other's lives. If nothing is done, brothers will turn against each other, brothers will kill each other, and even family members will fight each other. He dare not imagine what kind of results are waiting for them.

If my body didn't allow it...

The emperor started coughing again, and after coughing he gasped even more violently.

If his health allowed, he really wanted to teach his sons personally, pick out the one he was most satisfied with, and train him to be the most qualified successor while he was still alive.

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The emperor looked at his son kneeling on the ground, his thoughts drifting far away, and he did not speak for a long time.

Seeing that Xiao Chenze was about to give up his knees, Fang Yao hurriedly reminded him in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the eldest prince is still injured. Look at this..."

"Oh, yes," the emperor said, panting as if waking from a dream. "Eunuch Chang, help the eldest prince up and call the imperial physician in to examine his wound."

"Yes." Eunuch Chang hurried out to look for someone.

Duke Chong looked up at the emperor, then at Xiao Chenze, then closed his eyes, his face darkened again, and he stood there silently.

Shen Zhaojiang had been secretly glancing at Fang Yao since he entered the imperial study, never dreaming that he was actually Fang's eldest brother. It turned out that Fang's original wealthy merchant parents were only adoptive parents, and her true identity was the legitimate daughter of the General of the Cavalry's mansion!

Ever since he heard the news, he has been feeling mixed emotions.

He had originally been in an affair with the daughter of the prime minister, who had divorced and returned home to live on a farm in the suburbs, for the sake of his future. They had secretly given birth to children, and Fang hadn't noticed.

Zhao refused to be his concubine and forced him to divorce his wife or let Fang be his concubine before she would agree to marry him.

But Zhao had been married after all, how could she be compared with Fang?

No matter how bad Fang was, she was still his original wife.

Officials valued reputation above all else. If he kept Fang as a concubine, sooner or later someone would accuse him of currying favor with the powerful by demoting his wife to a concubine and then marrying again. If someone were to exaggerate, claiming his family's rise to power depended entirely on Fang's wealth, even with the support of the Prime Minister's Office, he would be accused of being ungrateful.

If the emperor gets to the ears, will he still have a future?

At that time, his and Zhao's children were three years old, and they couldn't even have their names written openly in the Shen family tree. Zhao cried and pressed him hard, even suggesting that he put a drug in Fang and the driver's tea.

In fact, he personally monitored the whole process and knew that nothing happened between them.

In the dark room, the driver was so hot that he tore off his clothes. Fang was still sleeping soundly, so he brought people in and broke in, and announced to others that they had caught Fang in bed with her.

It was quite embarrassing, but he showed leniency to Fang and sent her to a farm in the countryside, and the lost face was restored a little by his reputation of being loyal and righteous.

Later, Zhao came into the mansion and pretended to be pregnant and gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, but she refused to hold a banquet to celebrate.

They told others that they had consulted a master and that they would raise the children in a deep Buddhist temple in the house for the next few years and ask Bodhisattvas to look after them. They would only be included in the family tree when the children were ten years old.

In fact, it was to conceal the truth.

In other words, it was not until early spring this year that the names of Shen Yao and her twin brother Shen Shaokun were written in the Shen family tree. Their ages were recorded as ten years old, but in fact they were already thirteen years old.

No one else knows about this except my mother and the Prime Minister's wife.

The children lived in the house that the Prime Minister's wife bought for them, and were only brought back to the Shen Mansion a few years ago.

The prime minister's wife repeatedly told him not to let him know that Zhao had given birth to his child before she married him. For all these years, he didn't dare to reveal a single word.

Later, when the children went to see their grandparents, the prime minister was surprised that the two children looked older than their peers, but he was evaded by the prime minister.

When he heard the news of Fang's drowning, he was sad for a while, but compared with the two sons and daughters and the bright future he had, that sadness soon disappeared.

Just when he was feeling at ease, the General of Cavalry came to his house looking for his relatives.

He was so frightened at the time that his calves were shaking. He stayed at home on the pretext of being sick for several days and did not dare to go to court.

It was not until the emperor specifically instructed the Shen family to take Shen Li back that he hurriedly asked Zhao to send someone to take Shen Li back before Fang Yao. His original intention was to eliminate some traces first, but he did not expect that the emperor would ask him to pick up the eldest prince during this period.

He didn't know what was going on at home these days since Shen Li came back. He received a letter from Zhao saying that the child was a little mentally retarded and didn't know the rules.

I hope it's true, so that he can feel more at ease.

At the very least, a foolish child would not remember Fang's madness over the years, and would not let the general's mansion know the truth and become enemies with him.

The friendship between the General of Cavalry and the Emperor is known to everyone. Even the old Prime Minister does not dare to offend him easily, let alone himself?

If he could make good use of the relationship between Li'er and the general, and have a cavalry general behind him besides his father-in-law, the prime minister, then his future would be bright...

He had to think carefully about how to explain the fact that Fang had an affair and was driven to the farm by him.

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