Eastward Flow

"Sister Huang means that you are going to give back the score?" The little princess took a while to realize, and said with a complicated face: "Is it appropriate for you to ask for the score now?"

"Appropriate." The Empress nodded, her face taking it for granted.The little princess thought to herself, Le Zhengsu looks so much like the prince, and the eldest sister is looking at the person who will be married at the moment, does the eldest sister really have no idea in her heart?

The princess hoped that the queen would think of the prince when she saw that face, but she also hoped that she would pick someone who had nothing to do with the prince.Even if it is similar, it is only similar, and it will only remind people of the traces of the prince's existence.If the eldest sister is really affectionate, will it be even more sad.

The princess turned back and forth in her heart, finally bit her lower lip and said, "Then I will send it to her in the name of the Princess Mansion, how about that?"

"Naturally." The queen also had the same thought in her heart, after all, in the eyes of that child, it was just to fulfill the promise.In addition, the other party was Le Zhengying's younger sister, so it was within the allowed range for her to give her little sister some gifts.

Hearing this answer, the little princess finally breathed a sigh of relief.From this sentence, she figured out that her sister really didn't care much.Sometimes she feels that her sister is a simple-minded person in a certain way. Maybe it is because she has enough power to defeat ten people with one blow, or it is because of the insidiousness and deceit that she has experienced day and night in the court, which makes her face some people. Sometimes I just want to keep a simple mind.

The little princess who gave gifts to others but got a new mission from the imperial sister returned to the princess mansion.After preparing for the Lantern Festival, after the Hongwen Museum started school, she visited Lin Mengdie in person.After all, Sister Huang didn't say when she would give it to Le Zhengsu, so as long as she did it, it wouldn't matter whether it was sooner or later.

After lunch, the queen, who had sent off the little princess, continued to deal with government affairs.Since she ascended the throne, the queen has worked diligently and worked hard for the state affairs day in and day out, regardless of the festival.Even when I was sick, I never missed a morning court.

After the early court, she left the six ministers and the adults of the Privy Council to solve the problems that arose in reviewing the memorials yesterday afternoon.After lunch, I began to deal with dozens of memorials.In the evening, the empress led her servants to ride horses and shoot arrows in the school grounds of the West Palace.Shower and change clothes, read at night again, and only turn off the lights at midnight to sleep.

Her diligence has been well known by the common people in the country in the past three years.The empress, who is diligent and caring for the people, has established the court more securely. Because of this, few officials will despise her.

Of course, there are occasional breaks.In her free time, the empress would take Commander Su Yanqing and Lord Le Zhengying to the outskirts of Beijing to check the situation of spring plowing and autumn harvest.Maybe in a few years, when the imperial court is stronger, the empress will take a boat down from Yuanzhou to inspect the people's livelihood on the banks of the two rivers.

The palace people all admired the queen's diligence, and felt a little distressed besides admiration.The courtiers who love the queen, like the ministers, hope that the queen will have someone who knows the cold and the hot, instead of still thinking about the dead Emperor Zhao.

So when the hottest confidant in those rumors - Wang Zhong in the cloud left the curtain and came to visit His Majesty in the afternoon, the palace people were all excited.

When the servants of the inner court reported that the King of Yunzhong asked for an audience, the Queen happened to be replying to the memorial to the Central Province Governor Cui Jian for allocating weapons to the Ministry of War.Because of the weather in Zhongzhou, weapons are easily damaged, and a batch is applied for every year.

Hearing the servant's voice, the queen was a little surprised.It's the New Year's Eve, if King Yunzhong doesn't go to Jing An, what is he doing here?Could it be that he came here to ask for a decree to grant a marriage, and the first thing he said was not in a hurry, but he came the next day.

The queen put down the vermilion pen in her hand, and said to the attendant, "Call him in."

The king of Yunzhong, who got the promise, hurriedly stepped into the Chaohui Hall with his attendant behind him.As soon as he came in, the empress put down her government affairs and looked up at him.

The tall, handsome, fair-faced young man was dressed in royal clothes and a meticulous jade crown. He stood at His Highness and bowed respectfully, saying: "Chen Zhong left the curtain to see His Majesty."

In Xuan Jingchen's impression, King Yunzhong was a lively and somewhat reckless young man. Compared with His Royal Highness who seemed romantic but unusually quiet, King Yunzhong had the appearance that all young people have.I don't know from which day, that lively young man turned into this handsome young man.

During the period of Emperor Assassin in the previous dynasty, the king of Zhongzhou rebelled, implicating the Zhongli royal family for a long time. In the end, only the line of Emperor Assassin and King Yunzhong's youngest son Zhonglimu remained in the royal family.Zhong Limu and Emperor Zhao are brothers of the same clan, and they stayed together for four years before Zhong Limu was sent to the Hongwen Museum.In addition to the old King Yunzhong's upbringing of Emperor Zhao, Emperor Zhao took good care of the only remaining younger brother.

Therefore, after Xuan Jingchen ascended the throne, he did not cut off his throne according to the wishes of Zhong Limu and the ministers, but still let him be the carefree King of Clouds.

Unexpectedly, this younger brother and his younger sister saw each other right.

It's a good thing to be happy with each other.The queen would not make things difficult for them, she just cut to the chase and said, "Did Miki come here for safety?"

Zhong Limu raised his head and looked at the queen.There was a trace of anxiety on that chiseled and handsome face, but upon hearing what the empress said, a trace of astonishment appeared on Zhong Limu's face.

The queen noticed this, frowned slightly, and said: "It's not for a peaceful marriage, do you have other things to come to me?"

Zhong Limu, who was not dull, quickly realized that the empress already knew about his affairs with the eldest princess, he was taken aback for a moment, and replied: "I think your majesty already knows about the matter between the minister and the princess, and the princess is sincerely interested in marrying you." But today, I didn't come here for this matter."

"Oh, what else is there to make you eager to enter the palace to see me on the first day of the Lunar New Year." Moreover, his expression was still so anxious.

Zhong Limu looked around, and the servants waiting beside the queen bowed their heads and turned a deaf ear.He hesitated for a moment, then said: "This is a private matter, related to His Majesty, whether His Majesty can dismiss the palace servants, and listen to what I have to say."

The queen looked at his expression, and became curious in his increasingly disturbed expression.So she turned away the servants, and only she and Zhong Limu stayed in the empty Chaohui Palace.

The heavy hall door was closed, and the originally bright Zhaohui Hall became dark.The queen sat in front of the case, watching Zhong Limu who was standing in front of the steps lifted up his robe, and bowed to her.

As early as in the former Chu, there was no need to pay such a grand ceremony to worship the emperor.The King of Cloud's gesture made the Queen frowned and asked, "Why do you do such a big gift?"

"Your Majesty." Zhong Limu raised his head, looked up at the empress in front of the case, and said word by word: "Next, I hope that your majesty will allow your ministers to surpass. This matter has something to do with the former Emperor Zhao."

"My minister suspects that Emperor Zhao was murdered before he died for his country."

I don't know if it's because of the spaciousness of Zhaohui Hall, but the Queen was a little dazed when she first heard the posthumous title, and the meaning in Zhong Li's words made the Queen feel even more distorted.

"What did you say?" The queen asked again, as if she couldn't believe Zhong Limu's words, "Say it again."

"Your Majesty, I suspect that Emperor Zhao could have gone north, but he chose to commit suicide because he knew that his life was not long." Zhong Limu's voice sounded too calm. He took a deep breath and continued: "Dare to ask?" Your Majesty, do you still remember that in the winter before you went north, Emperor Zhao was bedridden because of an occasional cold, and he coughed up blood for a while, and there were even blood lines similar to Xia Chan's on his palms."

It has been a long time since the Empress heard someone mention His Highness in front of her, but she never thought that it was a long time ago that someone started talking about her at the beginning of the new year.

Of course she remembered that winter, it was the coldest winter Xuan Jingchen had experienced since he came to Yuanzhou City.That year, there was a blizzard all over the country, and the barbarians in the north were watching. The two states that were most severely frozen by the blizzard were waiting for disaster relief.Under internal and external troubles, she and His Majesty finally decided not to bear it any longer, and killed the governors of two states in a row.This time, he acted resolutely, exposing the strength he had accumulated for a long time, and finally rectified the court and stabilized the situation.

But it didn't take long for His Majesty to become ill due to overwork.Ever since they got married, Xuan Jingchen knew that the prince's health was not very good, and the body that suffered from the root cause of the disease after beating the mother would catch cold in autumn.

After being married for many years, Xuan Jingchen has become accustomed to Zhong Lisuo getting sick.

It's just that in that winter, Zhong Lisuo slept for too long, and seldom woke up, and rashes appeared all over his body from time to time.Not only the palms, but the whole body is covered with red lines like Xia Chan.

The medical workers have never seen this type of rash, but according to common sense, it should be ordinary urticaria.So according to this kind of treatment, His Majesty really got better day by day.In spring, it's no different from usual.

Xuan Jingchen still remembers the way His Majesty drank the medicine, bowl after bowl of black concoction, His Majesty just drank it like water without frowning.Even on a certain day, His Majesty held the bowl and said: "I will linger with my sickness because of this concoction. Maybe I can live a long life if I just drink it like this."

She wants to live, to live to be a hundred years old.After His Majesty recovered from his illness, Xuan Jingchen also thought that with His Majesty's mentality, maybe he could really live to be a hundred years old.Unfortunately, in the summer of the second year, His Majesty left.

It turns out that life will be so short.

The queen's thoughts were pulled away, and finally she turned her eyes back to Zhong Limu, and asked, "Why did you suddenly mention this to me?" Could it be that they missed something during that winter?

"Because Wei Chen, not long ago, saw that special blood pattern again, on the body of the bodyguard of the minister, which was exactly the same as the blood pattern that appeared on Emperor Zhao at that time." Zhong Limu gritted his teeth, as if trying to endure something , said: "At the beginning of winter, the minister and the guard went deep into the southern border to hunt and were attacked. The guard blocked the sword for me, and then lay unconscious on the bed. Seven days later, such symptoms appeared all over the body. Bloodline."

"Weichen found the person to assassinate, it was Heihudong in the depths of southern Xinjiang, because of the Bo people's transaction issue, he had a dispute with the Yunzhou government. I don't know where he got the news. Make a negotiated deal."

"The matter of the minister being attacked has already been reported to His Majesty earlier."

"It's just that, after Weichen arrested the thieves from Heihudong, he got unexpected news."

"The witch in their cave said that I have been poisoned by her blood gu. If I don't let their people go, I will die suddenly on the last day of next summer."

"When the Gu poison enters, it flows through the whole body and drains energy, making the blood in the whole body dry and hot, and cicada lines appear. As the weather gets warmer, it grows up day by day, and when the summer fades, the cicada Gu has lived to the extreme, and died in prosperity and decline. .”

"I didn't believe it, but because I thought of Emperor Zhao, I went to Nanjiang to verify the matter with the king of Nanjiang. It was true. I also learned a secret from the king of Nanjiang. Go to southern Xinjiang and seek medical advice."

"It was a gold-robed guard and a medical worker who visited the king of Nanjiang. I sent someone to find these two people to verify. At noon today, I received a letter from Nanjiang."

"There really are those two people. Emperor Zhao...Emperor Zhao...knowing that he had been poisoned by Gu poison, the little medical worker went to southern Xinjiang to dispense medicine, and he was in chaos before he returned to Yuanzhou. After that, the medical worker who knew the palace secrets Hiding in the southern border, never coming back."

After all, he still couldn't maintain that noble son's appearance, Zhong Limu's eyes were red and he choked with tears and said: "I have doubts, no, it has been confirmed that Emperor Zhao... Emperor Zhao... Sister Huang, Sister Huang broke up in Yuanzhou City long ago. She was poisoned before, and she should have lived to go north with us. Some of the gold-cloaked guards stationed in the imperial city escaped, and she had no reason to stay there. She cherished her life so much, and wanted to live so much, why didn't she choose to live? go down."