I am a cat in the palace

After eating breakfast, Shang Xin routinely went to Xingde Palace to pay respects to the old emperor.

The old emperor didn't sleep very well recently and woke up early. When Shang Xin passed by, he was drinking his morning medicine.

Putting down the medicine bowl, the old emperor called Shangxin over, and at the same time asked a little strangely: "Why haven't you brought Daxian here these days?"

"The weather is a bit cold, Daxian just wants to sit in front of the brazier, and is not willing to come out with me."

"That's right, Daxian is not young anymore. He should be considered an old cat. It's normal to not like to move. He has been with you for so many years. Now that he is old, you have to take good care of him." The old emperor seemed to feel it. He sighed lightly.

Shang Xin could only silently glance behind her, old?Obviously looks smaller than him.

Daxian listened to what the old emperor said, but he didn't care, the old emperor was right, he didn't even remember how old he was.

Shang Xin was about to chat with the old emperor, but Chang An came in to pass on the message, saying that the Inner House Secretary and the stewards of Zining Palace had come to ask for orders.

Shangxin resigned knowingly, but Daxian didn't understand why the Secretary of the Inner House and the steward of Zining Palace went to the old emperor together to ask for an order. They only asked on the way back to the palace, but it turned out that the old emperor was really for the two. The prince and Princess Liang were married, and in order to finish the marriage of Princess Jing before Prince Liang returned home, they specially set the wedding date on the eighteenth day of the first lunar month.

"The queen didn't make trouble?"

Daxian felt that the empress was so virtuous this time, whether it was the marriage between the second prince and Princess Liang or the unreasonably hasty wedding, the empress had a reason to make a fuss, but she didn't do anything, so she accepted it quietly Alright, Daxian looked at Shang Xin, "Do you think Wei Guogong's mansion will be willing to hand over the military power honestly?"

"If they were willing, they would have handed it over."

After saying this, both Shangxin and Daxian fell silent. Since they were unwilling to hand over power, why did they have no resistance to the marriage between the second prince and Princess Liang?

"Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, go see Mr. Wei today."

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Throughout the New Year, the palace was as busy as a war.Not only busy with the celebration of the [-]th anniversary of the founding of the dynasty, but also busy with the wedding of the [-]th and [-]nd princes on the first lunar month, the heads of the Department of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Industry stayed in the Yamen even on New Year's Eve and had no time to go back.

After Daxian licked Shang Xin's blood, he transformed into a human form for two days, but changed back into a cat form early in the morning on the first day of the new year.

After changing back this time, they did a good experiment, and found that only Shang Xin's blood vessels really work, and other people's blood vessels didn't work after several bites.

But they also discovered a problem at the same time, the same amount of blood, after Daxian swallowed it, the time it took to transform into a human form became shorter and shorter, just like the time when he became a human in the car, with a few drops of blood, Daxian changed for four days The human form turned back into a cat because it took too much spiritual power to tear down the Hanchen Temple.

After that, after swallowing almost the same amount of blood, Daxian only changed into a human form for two days, and after that, after swallowing the same amount of blood, Daxian could only change into a human form for a few hours.

"Before you figure out what's going on, don't let Daxian drink your blood again!" Wei Yin said very seriously.

"But—" Shang Xin wanted to say something, but Daxian blocked his mouth with his paw: "I also feel comfortable being a cat."

Time flies, and when Shangxin and Daxian were concentrating on researching the wonderful connection between them, the eighteenth day of the first lunar month has arrived unconsciously.

Under the constant rush of work by the Ministry of Industry, the Second Prince's Prince's Mansion was finally completed and ready for occupancy.

On the day of the wedding, the second prince will marry Princess Liang from the Sifang Pavilion to the new prince's mansion. From then on, he will open a mansion and live alone.

On the eve of the wedding, it snowed heavily again.

The queen stood on the porch, quietly watching the snow falling all over the sky, with mixed emotions in her heart, including joy, sadness, anger and resentment.

She is happy because her son has finally grown up, and tomorrow he will marry a wife and have children, and complete the first major event in life. This was a future that she never dared to imagine in her dreams.

She suddenly remembered that on that spring day 17 years ago, when the peach blossoms first bloomed, she fought for her life in that sweet fragrance and gave birth to him in a narrow escape, but the midwife dared not hold him in front of her for her to take a look , because she was afraid that she would not be able to hold her last breath when she saw his pitiful appearance.

He was congenitally deficient, so weak that he was not as good as a kitten. Several times he was so sick that the imperial doctor was unwilling to come to diagnose and treat him. They all just pretended to be ill and pretended that he was bound to die.

But others can shirk and give up, but she can't, that is her only son, the only and only blood in her life.

She was afraid that the wet nurses would not do their best, and that the poisonous women in the harem would find an opportunity to attack him again, so she became the first queen in the Great Xia Dynasty to breastfeed the prince herself.When she gave birth, she hurt her root and didn't have enough milk, so she forced herself to eat foods that she would never touch before.

Shang Hui was too young to drink the medicine directly, so she drank the medicine first, drinking several times the dose, just to send the weak medicine power into Shang Xin's frail body through milk.

Night after night, she didn't dare to close her eyes. Even if she fell asleep, she would put one hand on Shang Hui's quilt. Occasionally, she was too tired and fell asleep, but she would suddenly wake up in a cold sweat, and then She looked for him all over the bed, until she was sure that he was still sleeping next to her, that his little hands were warm, and that there was still hot breath between his mouth and nose, then she could breathe a sigh of relief and lie down to rest again.

She couldn't remember how long such days and nights had passed.

Time after time of critical illness, the imperial doctor shook her head again and again, she snatched her son back from Hades time and time again, those days seemed to have no end, and just when she was about to despair, the man named Mengdang, The eunuch who claimed to be the last member of the Suiyi clan recommended himself to her...

It seemed that from that day on, she finally saw hope.

And just before that day, she heard a secret report that her husband, the father of her son, had ordered someone to prepare materials for her son.

However, her son survived, and tomorrow, he will marry Princess Liang as his wife and open a mansion and government office.

And soon, he will climb to another pinnacle of life-sit on the throne that only belongs to him.

But apart from joy, she also has sadness, anger and resentment. Her husband actually wanted her only son, the most honorable young man in the world, to marry a foreign woman in such a hasty manner. It may be because that woman took away her and her son's greatest reliance—the military power of the Duke of Wei's mansion. Without the military power, the Duke of Wei's mansion is like a tiger whose fangs and claws have been pulled out. Fallen, how will she and Shang Hui survive in this treacherous harem?

But now her sorrow, her anger, and her resentment have to be endured, the imperial decree has been issued, and there is no room for change. Now, what she needs to do is to organize this wedding for his son, and make this hasty wedding The wedding that seemed like a child's play was held decently and thoughtfully, no matter how short the time was, she would definitely give her son the grandest first wedding.

As for the others, the future is long, and it is absolutely impossible for Duke Wei's mansion to fall because of a woman.

After thinking about it, she suddenly wanted to see her son. After tomorrow's big wedding, her son will leave the palace to build a mansion and become a family.

The night is already deep, and the snow is falling more and more, but the second prince's palace is near the queen's bedroom. The two palaces share the same garden, separated by a small moon gate in the middle, but they are connected to the corridor all the way, On snowy nights, you don't have to worry about getting your shoes and socks wet.

She knew that she was afraid that her son was already asleep at this time, so she didn't really want to do anything, she just wanted to go over and take a look, she thought she just wanted to take a look, just like when he was a child, he always woke up in the middle of the night to take a look Look, see if he kicks the quilt, and see if the servants around him are taking good care of them.In the future, even if she wanted to take care of it, she couldn't do it anymore.

Thinking in this way, she waved her hand to stop the palace servants who were about to follow, and walked towards her son's residence with only one big palace lady who was waiting for the night.

The queen thought that the second prince had already fallen asleep, but in fact, the lights in the second prince's palace were still on.

The second prince had sent away all the palace people, and was sitting cross-legged in front of the bed, waiting for Mengdang to bring his rations.

First, because of the busy year-end affairs, before the end of the busy period, the old emperor suddenly issued an order to grant him a marriage. A myriad of things came one after another, and he became the focus of attention of the entire dynasty in an instant, so much so that he had already been married for a month. No chance to eat.

Although after so many years of recuperation, most of his soul has been restored, but with the enhancement of his own soul power, his demand for a living soul is also increasing. Now he can't even wait for ten days, after seven or eight days You will feel unbearably hungry.

But there are too many eyes around him, especially during this time, he has been starved for almost a month, and his body supported entirely by soul power is getting heavier and heavier, not to mention moving, even the five senses are starting to slow down. In order to maintain the most basic mobility these days, he even had to allocate the soul power he had absorbed to maintain his body.

The increasingly severe hunger made his desire for the soul of the sun more intense. Without the soul of the sun, he would never be able to get rid of this kind of life that must be devoured continuously. Day after day, soon those ordinary people The living soul will not be able to satisfy his desire.

Thinking of this, the anger in his heart rose up, that coffin was too defensive, no matter how he tempted him, he would never be alone with him, as if... as if he already knew something.

But he told himself that it was impossible, except for Mengdang and the few ghost slaves under his control, no one knew his secret, and it was impossible for anyone to know his secret.

The northwest wind was blowing, and the goose feathers and heavy snow swirled and drilled into people's necks.Mengdang was wearing a hooded cloak, clutching the collar tightly with both hands, and shrunk his head vigorously. In the slightly protruding goldfish eyes, the small black eye kept looking around, and there was something hidden in his eyes. Live tight.

He walked so fast that he hardly cared about the road. He stepped into the snow puddle with water several times, and the ice water was poured into the snow boots, so cold that he could no longer feel his toes.But he didn't dare to stop for a while, not only walking faster and faster, but also kept waving at the four people behind him, urging them to follow closely.

The four people behind him were carrying a large red lacquered box, which was as tall as half a person, with two seals on it. A eunuch who was watching the night saw them, stopped them for questioning, and checked the seal. It was written that they were the second prince. A gift for a wedding.

Although I don't quite understand why the ritual utensils for the second prince's wedding were sent to Zining Palace in the middle of the night, but everyone knows that the second prince's wedding is in a hurry. Swing a line over.

He escaped the interrogation easily, but Mengdang didn't feel at ease in his heart. In fact, ever since he got that piece of dead jade and recognized that old ghost as his ancestor, he hasn't been guilty of fear for a day, but the status that keeps rising keeps coming. The money, and the power that seems to be within easy reach, all of which made his timidity and timidity completely overwhelmed.

As long as that old ghost can gain power in the end, he will be a person who is under one person and above ten thousand people, and who wants to climb to a high place. Who has not had blood on his hands, and who has not carried a few lives on his body?