Baishou loses Shaohua

"Director Yang, Mr. Fu from Jinyang Palace is asking to see you." The little eunuch outside the door announced in a low voice.

Yang Rui pushed the door and walked out.

"Director Yang." Eunuch Fu stepped forward when he saw Yang Rui.

"Eunuch Fu didn't know what was going on? But what orders does the Empress have?"

"Boss Yang is right. Your Majesty ordered the servants to come and invite Boss Yang to Jinyang Palace."

Yang Rui thought that not long after Empress Zhou returned to Jinyang Palace, Xu Shi thought of something again but it was inconvenient for her servants to send a message, so she nodded and said to the two little eunuchs working outside the door: "You two, one Go inside and guard His Majesty, and one guards outside the door, and report to Jinyang Palace immediately if you have anything to do."

"Yes." The two young eunuchs nodded in unison.

As soon as Yang Rui left, Yu Chenglin stepped into the gate of Chaohua Palace.

"Your servant knocks on His Highness the Fourth Highness." The little eunuch hurried up to salute.

"Get up." Yu Chenglin walked in without even looking at the little eunuch.

"Your Highness, Your Majesty has already fallen asleep. Would you...would you come back tomorrow?" The little eunuch respectfully followed behind.

Yu Chenglin stopped, and his tone rose, as if he was a little impatient: "Father now sleeps more than he wakes up, if I fall asleep every time I come here, it's hard for me, my son-in-law, to return Can't we see you?"

"Slave...slave doesn't mean that." The little eunuch was terrified by Yu Chenglin, and he boldly persuaded him, "It's just the weather today..."

Before the word "it's too late" was out of his mouth, the little eunuch suddenly opened his eyes wide and could no longer utter a sound. His neck was cut open, and blood gushed out. The last image in his mind was the night. Yu Chenglin had a gloomy look in his eyes.

Ji Yinghan held the little eunuch's body and gently laid it down on the ground. He nodded towards Yu Chenglin, and a string of blood dropped from the dagger in his hand.

Yu Chenglin pushed open the door and walked in. The little eunuch who was guarding the bed turned around and saw that it was Yu Chenglin and immediately saluted: "The slave knocks on His Highness the Fourth Highness."

"Get up, go out and wait, I want to stay with my father for a while." Yu Chenglin ordered lightly.

"Yes." Although the little eunuch felt that Yu Chenglin's appearance was a bit strange, the master didn't dare to guess at will. He was thinking of going out to send someone to report to Jinyang Palace, but unexpectedly he had just walked two steps away from Yu Chenglin. Cheng Lin stepped forward and strangled him by the neck.

The little eunuch was shocked and struggled continuously, but he could not escape death.

"You..." A weak voice came from the bed, but even though it was so weak, it still couldn't hide the shock and anger in it.

Yu Chenglin put the little eunuch's body aside, he turned around and smiled mischievously at the awakened Emperor Chongde: "Father, my son is here to see you off."

Emperor Chongde was surprised by the overwhelming hatred in Yu Chenglin's eyes, like a poisoned dagger, he threw it straight at him, as if it had been suppressed for too long and finally broke out.Before he had time to utter the second word, the door was pushed open again, and Ji Yinghan walked in wearing a guard uniform and holding a blood-stained dagger in his hand.

"You...you are...cough...cough..." When Emperor Chongde saw Ji Yinghan's face clearly, he suddenly opened his eyes wide, and his pale face was alive for a moment, but it was only for that moment In an instant, after the freshness, there was a more complete decadence.

"Ji Wuyuan came to ask you for the blood debt 18 years ago." Ji Ying looked coldly at the coughing Emperor Chongde, but he felt infinitely melancholy in his heart. He had imagined the situation of revenge countless times, but he couldn't It's like two people are evenly matched.It's just that Emperor Chongde was dying at this time, and he might only need to use half of his strength to give him a palm and he would die.

Seeing that Emperor Chongde was coughing continuously, Yu Chenglin turned around and poured a cup of herbal tea from the table to Emperor Chongde's mouth.Emperor Chongde ignored him, and looked over his shoulders. He turned around and found that Emperor Chongde was looking at the door. He smiled knowingly, as if he was very understanding: "Father, you don't have to wait." Yes, Director Yang is on his way to Jinyang Palace now, when I came out of Jinyang Palace, I told Fu Gonggong and my mother that I have urgent business with Director Yang."

Emperor Chongde slowly shifted his gaze to Yu Chenglin's face. The smile on Yu Chenglin's face at this moment looked the same as the usual intimacy, but it made him feel chills in his heart.He couldn't even guess when his youngest son, who was still close to him, had such vicious hatred for him.

He drank the cup of herbal tea in Yu Chenglin's hand, he knew that tonight was his deadline, he didn't panic, what should come would always come, but he didn't want to die without understanding: "Why... …What?"

"I have a question I want to ask my father." Yu Chenglin turned around and put the teacup on the table. He did not answer Emperor Chongde's question. It's because my father is really a good emperor, but as far as I know, the Huaizhou regime 18 years ago was not corrupt. Although there were natural disasters and foreign enemies, Emperor Huaxuan also made great efforts to govern and was not stupid at all, so my son thinks I know..." Yu Chenglin turned around and looked at Emperor Chongde, the smile on his mouth was still there, "Why did the emperor raise troops to seize the throne at that time?"

Ji Yinghan didn't interrupt Yu Chenglin's confrontation with Emperor Chongde, because at this time Yu Chenglin asked a question that he couldn't figure out and couldn't let go of for a long time when he was a child.He has never understood why everything turned upside down overnight without any sign.

Emperor Chongde's eyes looked at the bright yellow bed curtain, and Yu Chenglin could clearly see some emotions that had never been seen in Emperor Chongde's eyes, but in the end, he said expressionlessly: "Because ...want imperial power."

The words of Emperor Chongde made Yu Chenglin laugh. For the first time, he despised his father. His voice was very soft and calm, as if he asked a very common question: "Why should the father deceive himself? If this is the case, then The emperor told Erchen, how did Erchen's mother and concubine die? And why, except for a surname, the mother and concubine did not leave anything behind?"

A flash of panic flashed in Emperor Chongde's eyes, as if some kind of embarrassment that had been concealed for a long time was about to be revealed to the world.Then his lips trembled but he couldn't say a word, his fingers curled up and weakly grabbed the bed sheet under him.

"My son, come and answer for the emperor. Mother and concubine must die without leaving any traces..." He almost said the second half of the sentence word by word, "Because she looks like a person..."

"No..." Emperor Chongde shook his head. He wanted to stop Yu Chenglin. He almost got up from the bed, but he tried his best to lift his upper body off the bed and fell down again.

"Because of her..." Yu Chenglin deliberately elongated the tone, and the pleasure of revenge in his heart propelled him, "It looks like the queen of Emperor Huaxuan—Chu Moshang!"

"Kang Dang!" The dagger in Ji Yinghan's hand fell to the ground, and after a while, he heard his own voice asking, "What did you say?"

"Everyone thinks that Yu Chongxiu raised his army for the sake of the world, but in fact it was just for the beauty." Yu Chenglin looked at Emperor Chongde who was breathing unsteadily on the bed, and couldn't help but feel pity in his eyes, "It's a pity... The empress would rather leave with Emperor Huaxuan than take another look at you, father. You have taken the world's Chu Moshang for it, and you have never been in my heart."

Emperor Chongde closed his eyes tightly in pain and remorse, this was the most unacceptable truth in his life. When he faced the raging fire of Toshogu Shrine 18 years ago, he already understood this fact.He tried his best to seize the world, and also forced to death the person he loved the most.

Ji Yinghan did not expect that this is the truth hidden behind history.What is recorded in the official history is always right and wrong, but seldom writes about grievances and enmities.

"But father, what did mother and concubine do wrong? She just told you what others dare not tell you, and you actually... put her to death!" Yu Chenglin's eyes rolled down two lines Hot tears, scalding scorching hot but more and more set off the coldness in the bottom of my heart.

Six years ago, on a cold day in the twelfth lunar month, he was playing hide-and-seek with the little eunuch who was close to him. He hid in the warm pavilion of Jinyang Palace. The little eunuch dared not enter the warm pavilion, so he couldn't find him. After a long time, he also felt bored. Just when he was about to go out, he encountered Empress Zhou and Concubine Liu walking in. He was about to jump out to scare them, but he never expected to hear something from them that made him feel chills all over.

His mother and concubine Xiao Shi got the favor of Yu Chongxiu, who was still a general at the time, because he looked like Queen Chu. When she found out, she dissuaded Yu Chongxiu, but learned the reason why Yu Chongxiu cared for her, so she was jealous for a while and said that Empress Chu didn't mean that Yu Chongxiu would not get Chu's favor no matter what he did. Queen's heart.

Originally, what Xiao said was the truth, but to Yu Chongxiu, who was already crazy about love at that time, every word sounded to his heart.While he was furious, he was also worried that Xiao Shi would reveal his plan, so he got rid of Xiao Shi with all his heart.After that, he gave Yu Chenglin, who was only over one year old at the time, to Queen Zhou to raise him, and strictly forbade anyone to mention his biological mother Xiao Shi again.After Yu Chongxiu seized the throne, Empress Zhou urged Yu Chongxiu to give the birth mother of the fourth prince a place no matter what, so Yu Chongxiu posthumously conferred Xiao's concubine Xiao and moved her tomb into the palace. He made his own preparatory mausoleum.

Knowing such a cruel truth, Yu Chenglin was still a 13-year-old child.This truth silently subverted his whole world, he always felt suspiciously that his father didn't like him, and always felt that others looked at him with pity or contempt.From that day on, Emperor Chongde's closeness to him could no longer warm his heart.

The author has something to say: moving the day after tomorrow, I don’t know if there will be another chapter tomorrow~