faint [rebirth]

In the 30th year of Chengguang, on the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, there was heavy snow, and the successor of Emperor Chengguang, the Shen family, died.

This is what happened in a "previous life".

Even after knowing what year it is from Eunuch Ruan, Xiao Wuchen still doesn't know if he is in a dream.

However, whether it was in a dream or not, he always remembered the night of the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month in the 30th year of Chengguang, the day when his mother passed away.

Back then, his mother was seriously ill and fell into a coma, and he could not wake up all the time. After three days of guarding his mother, Xiao Wuchen couldn't take it anymore, so he finally returned to the East Palace to rest.

And after he fell asleep that night, his good aunt sent someone to find him to "preside over the overall situation".At that time, Eunuch Ruan, who took care of him when he grew up, could not help feeling sorry for him after working hard for several days, and his tone was a bit evasive, so when the nanny next to his aunt came to tell him that the prince should not go there, Eunuch Ruan felt so sorry for him that he couldn't think clearly for a while. Concubine Shen conspired, but she really didn't go to wake him up.

So that night, Xiao Wuchen's mother died.

Moreover, early in the morning of the second day, when Xiao Wuchen slept until the sun was high and went to Jiaofang Hall, he didn't know that his mother had been dead for several hours.

And he went too late.

When he arrived, not only his elder sister, younger sister, younger brother, and nephew had arrived, but even the imperial wives outside the palace had already knelt in the Jiaofang Hall and began to cry.

As a result, the reputation of Prince Xiao Wuchen as "unfilial" spread.Even after several years, when Xiao Wuchen became the emperor, from time to time someone still used this incident to ridicule Xiao Wuchen for being unfilial and unworthy of the throne.

Xiao Wuchen's eyes were black and blue, and he was about to run to Jiaofang Hall desperately.

However, his anxiety was not to avenge his good aunt, nor to prevent the incident that made him "unfilial" from happening, but to see his mother's queen for the last time .

His mother.

However, Xiao Wuchen could recklessly run outside barefoot and wearing obscene clothes, but Eunuch Ruan couldn't watch his highness the crown prince spoil him like this.

"Your Highness, you have to put on your clothes before going out! It's snowing heavily outside. On such a day, if you stand outside like this, you will definitely get sick when you turn around. You yourself are sick and give birth too much, and you don't think the medicine The scum is bitter, but the Holy Majesty and the Empress feel so sorry for you when they met. Even if you don't think about yourself, you should think about the Holy Majesty and the Empress."

Eunuch Ruan chased Xiao Wuchen to the outside, finally grabbed Xiao Wuchen's arm, and hurriedly said a lot.

Xiao Wuchen had already pushed open a corner door at this moment, and the cold wind outside the door was blowing into the room, causing him to shiver immediately.

Eunuch Ruan couldn't care less, he hurriedly closed the door, and then dragged Xiao Wuchen to the inner room to change clothes.

Xiao Wuchen was blown by the cold wind, and his head finally regained a bit of clarity—yes, if this is a dream, then the illness is also sick, the left and right are just a dream anyway; but, if this is not a dream ... Then just because of his weak body, he might not even be able to run out of the East Palace to meet the queen mother, so he was carried back again.

It's better to change clothes, dress warmly, and then go to Jiaofangdian.

Seeing that Xiao Wuchen was silent and let him change his clothes, Eunuch Ruan heaved a sigh of relief, and while helping Xiao Wuchen change his clothes with the little palace maid, he began to see Luyi and Nanny Xia who were next to Concubine Shen successively. After talking about the matter for a while, he said again: "The servant felt sorry for His Highness's hard work in the past few days, and I always felt that since Nanny Xia had said those words, and the expression on her face was like this, then the empress is probably the real one. You woke up, and told the people around you not to wake you up again. But, now that I think about it, there are always people close to the Empress. It doesn’t make sense that Concubine Shen sent her nanny to tell us about this, not the Empress. The nanny next to the empress came and ran to the back..."

After finishing speaking, Eunuch Ruan glanced at Xiao Wuchen, and hurriedly said: "The slave is not saying that Concubine Shen will pass on the Queen's Empress's oral order to prevent the Queen's close people from passing on the oral order, or that Concubine Shen will be detrimental to Her Highness, but I think this is very strange, since His Highness has got up, it is not a bad idea to go to Jiaofang Hall at this moment."

After Eunuch Ruan finished speaking, he stood silently by the side with his hands tied - Xiao Wuchen's trust and reliance on Concubine Shen was completely in his eyes.When he said these words, it was inevitable that he was provoking the crown prince and Concubine Shen.Eunuch Ruan thought, next, maybe the crown prince will reprimand him.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Wuchen heard this, but he didn't say a word. When Eunuch Ruan looked over anxiously again, he saw Xiao Wuchen put on a white fox fur cloak, and went straight outside, still giving orders.

"Eunuch Ruan, take the seal left by the father to Gu, and you personally take someone to invite the father back to the palace."

Eunuch Ruan was overjoyed immediately, he bent down and knelt down and said, "I respect the order of the prince!"

He had already noticed that something was wrong with Concubine Shen, but neither the seriously ill queen nor the former crown prince would easily invite the majesty back from the imperial mausoleum.The crown prince finally let go of his heart, and Eunuch Ruan was very happy in his heart.

What made him happy was still to come. After he finished kneeling, when he sent the prince out of the East Palace, the prince quickly saw the little eunuch kneeling in the snow.

Xiao Wuchen paused.

Eunuch Ruan took a step forward, and said: "Just now, this small stone directly led Madam Xia, who was beside Concubine Shen, into the room. That's why the servant made him kneel here. The servant thought, if he did something wrong, he would always You will be punished, even if the little stone was sent by Uncle Guo..."

Xiao Shizi hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "Your Highness, Your Highness! The slave was just momentarily confused, thinking that Mother Xia is Concubine Shen who is a caring person, and Concubine Shen is His Highness's biological aunt, so she will definitely not harm His Highness. In a hurry, I forgot to report this incident. I don’t ask His Highness to spare this servant, but I only ask His Highness to keep this servant by your side after the servant is punished for the sake of the uncle of the country. Ah. The servant has been with Uncle Guo since he was a child, and he has been enjoined by him to take good care of His Highness. Even if the slave is dead, he will not dare to leave His Highness's side!"

Eunuch Ruan would be annoyed at the moment, but Xiao Wuchen is here, and Xiao Wuchen has always favored his uncle's family. Although Eunuch Ruan is Xiao Wuchen's close person, he is only a slave after all, so how can he be with Xiao Wuchen? On par with my uncle's family?Immediately, he could only hang his head in silence, waiting for Xiao Wuchen to continue to raise this matter as before, and put it down gently.

"It turns out that your uncle carefully trained you and sent you here to Gu." Xiao Wuchen's voice was clear and cold, without the slightest trace of emotion, "But Gu has never heard uncle mention this matter. Could it be that you Coax Gu?"

The little eunuch's heart sank.

Xiao Wuchen sneered, and said: "You should have been severely punished for doing something wrong, but now you are slandering your lonely uncle, you will be punished. Eunuch Ruan, immediately kill this nonsense slave." !"

The little eunuch froze and froze suddenly.He even forgot about the superiority and inferiority of interests, and stared at Xiao Wuchen blankly, as if he wanted to see a hint of joking from this gentle and sickly young man.

However, he only saw the young boy's thin back, which was disappearing into the boundless snow in the blink of an eye.

Eunuch Ruan and the palace people in the East Palace were all stunned when they heard the order. It took them a long time to realize that the weak and gentle His Royal Highness the Crown Prince seemed to have suddenly become someone they didn't know at all. people.

With the aura of a real king.

Xiao Wuchen didn't pay attention to these people's thoughts.

It was only after he walked out of the East Palace in one breath that he realized that he had already started to gasp for breath, and his legs were slightly weak.

He couldn't walk anymore.

With his body and weakness, if he usually walked slowly and rested two or three times in the middle, he could still walk all the way from the East Palace to the Jiaofang Palace.

However, he had been exhausted for three days and three nights before, and just now he walked briskly, but now he has no extra strength.

Xiao Wuchen looked at the sky, thought of his mother who was about to pass away, paled, and ordered the eunuch behind him.

"A Zhuang, keep walking with the orphan on your back, Ah Chou, you trot back immediately and ask Jianyu to carry the orphan."

Besides the chief eunuch like Eunuch Ruan, Xiao Wuchen's cronies also included four eunuchs, A Zhuang, A Chou, A Ya, and A Yao, specially selected and trained by Emperor Chengguang for him.

All four of them are four or five years older than Xiao Wuchen. They have their own shortcomings and advantages in appearance and body, and they are extremely loyal to Xiao Wuchen.

However, among these four people, none of them followed Xiao Wuchen to the end.

Xiao Wuchen lay on Ah Zhuang's back, slightly silent.

Back then, because of his unconditional trust in the Shen family and the emperor's younger brother, he really lost too much.

However, even so, it was a matter of the previous life.

Ah Chou had some knack for legs, so he quickly led people to catch up with Xiao Wuchen, let Xiao Wuchen get on the shoulders, and hurried to the Jiaofang Hall.

The eunuch who lifted his shoulders was strong and fast-paced, and within two minutes, he arrived at the gate of Jiaofang Hall from the East Palace.

Xiao Wuchen had to step down.

He got off his shoulders and stood at the door of the Jiaofang Hall, suddenly he was too timid to go in because of his hometown.

——His memory is extremely good, and this day in his previous life was the anniversary of his mother's death.So what about this moment?

At this moment, is his mother still alive?

"...Why can't I leave the Jiaofang Palace right now? The master is sick and cannot take charge of the affairs. The Holy Majesty asked Concubine Shen to take care of the master. However, the Jiaofang Palace is still the place where the master belongs. Why would Concubine Shen not let me go out? Jiaofang Palace? Why don't you let me invite the prince over? If the prince doesn't come here again, the master really can't wait to see the prince for the last time!"

When a mournful voice came, Xiao Wuchen's body shook suddenly, and he quickly ran towards the Jiaofang Hall.

He was not late.