The Biography of Concubine Xi of Yongzheng

Chapter 216
"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..." on the fourth day of the ninth lunar month, a heart-wrenching wail suddenly came from the palace!I don't know how many people's dreams have been awakened!
In the past few days, Yinzhen has been asking Concubine De to send more people to pay attention to Shiba's situation, and he enters the palace early every day to visit, so not long after the wailing sounded, he hurried into the palace.

When the wailing sounded, the eighteenth elder brother was already dead!

When Yinzhen heard the bad news, his feet went limp and he almost fell!Fortunately, he supported the palace wall next to him, and was helped by an eunuch who was behind him, and then he stood still: "Lord Baylor, please forgive me! The emperor hasn't returned yet, it's important for Lord Baylor to take care of himself! "

Yinzhen glanced at him indifferently: "What's your name?"

The eunuch didn't know what he meant by the question, so he hurriedly replied respectfully: "Go back to Lord Baylor, this servant is called Su Peisheng, and he is on duty in Qianqing Palace."

Yinzhen nodded and didn't speak any more, just looked at Wang Shi who was not far away in a daze, and Wang Shi was holding Shiba's body and crying bitterly.

He paused for a while, and then told Su Peisheng: "Find a pen, ink, paper and inkstone quickly!"

Su Peisheng was taken aback, and quickly left...

When the emperor received Yinzhen's letter, he had already arrived at Burhasutai Palace. At that time, the sun had already set and the sun had dyed half of the sky red, as if bathed in a pool of blood.

After he read the letter, he slumped down on the dragon couch, and suddenly a drop of muddy old tears fell from his eyes!

The letter also fell slowly from between his fingers, fluttering and suddenly falling on the ground, as lonely as the last fallen leaf on a tree in autumn.

"Your Majesty? Your Majesty? Have a sip of ginseng tea." Liang Jiugong saw that he didn't move for a long time, fearing that something would happen to him, and when he saw the tea-serving maid bringing ginseng tea, he quickly took it.The emperor is exhausted physically and mentally at the moment, and it is also very good to drink some tea to refresh his spirit.

The emperor's eyes moved, and his voice was hoarse and dry: "Liang Jiugong, you go to me and send everyone to the front of the palace. I have something to announce..."

Seeing his desolate expression, Liang Jiugong offered the ginseng tea in his hand worriedly: "Your Majesty, please drink two sips of ginseng tea, and the servant will pass it on."

The emperor stayed up all night yesterday, tossing and turning, refusing to close his eyes.Liang Jiugong reckoned that he was thinking about the crown prince's affairs, and he had traveled for another day today, and the emperor was over half a hundred years old, how could he stand such a blow!

When all civil and military officials and officials gathered in front of the palace, the prince stood in the crowd, trembling!

He already had a bad premonition in his heart. Is all the glory, wealth, power and wealth about to become a thing of the past?

He stared blankly at the open door above the steps in a daze, only one step away, only one step away, and everything was his.why?Why did his Huang Ama refuse to abdicate for so long?Why is his eternal dream coming to an end so soon?He has been the prince for 33 years, and time has long worn away his initial ambition...

"Long live the emperor, long live the emperor~" When Liang Jiugong helped the emperor out, the emperor was trembling all over, his face and lips trembling violently!

Everyone bowed down, except the prince.He stared blankly at the emperor in a daze, his mind blank.

Seeing this, Thirteen, who was not far away from him, hurriedly called out: "Second brother! Salute!"

Only then did the prince wake up, and quickly knelt down: "Long live Huang Ama, long live, long live!"

The emperor was like an old man in his dying years, he lost his usual spirit and was replaced by a gloomy look.He glanced at the crown prince sadly, and then slowly glanced at the people kneeling on the ground, no one dared to speak out, he was the king who looked down on everything, and even more so, the father who lost his beloved son.

His mouth trembled, his voice was still weakly hoarse: "Brother Eighteen, I'm sorry." In just six words, he seemed to have exhausted all his strength to say them.As soon as he finished speaking, another hot, dirty tear fell from the corner of his eye!

Under the steps, there was an uproar!
When the younger Seventeenth Brother heard this, he burst into tears with a "wow".

A few elderly ministers couldn't help but wet their eyes when they heard Shi Qi's cry: "Your Majesty, please take care of the dragon's body! My Majesty mourns!"

The emperor looked at the prince with resentment: "Yinfeng! I have always cared for your empress's mother's affection, and I have taken good care of you. You study, and I invite the best teacher to teach you poetry; I found the best concubine for you; which trip did I not take you with me? Why? Didn’t I want you to study with me, so that I can be a good emperor when I inherit the throne in the future, but you have been doing it all these years What did you do?! How do you tell me to rest assured and hand over the foundation laid by my ancestors to you? If you defeat this country, I will be a sinner of the Qing Dynasty!"

"Hiss~" The prince gasped, shaking his body and raised his eyes to look up.

"...I have taught you benevolence, filial piety and loyalty since you can remember, but you have disappointed me so much! I always remember that in 27 years, on the eve of the Ulan Butong War, I fell ill on the way out of the fortress. The third elder brother saw my The sick face still knows how to care about me, but what about you? You have no intention of worrying! You have a half-hearted love for your father! That time, when I asked you to go back to Beijing first, I thought you would reflect and repent, but I have tolerated you for nearly 20 years! But what about you? Acting willfully and showing no love for your brothers, I..."

The emperor burst into tears as he spoke, and couldn't help crying bitterly.

"Your majesty, take care of your majesty!" Liang Jiugong was always supporting him. Seeing that the emperor was so emotional that he couldn't stand still, he asked someone to bring a chair for him to sit down.

After the emperor sat down, he pointed to Shisan and told him to come forward.Thirteen was puzzled, and went up the steps with red eyes.

Seeing that the emperor wanted to speak, but his voice was weak, he bowed his waist and leaned closer to listen: "Thirteen, let me tell you something, and you pass it on for me."

Thirteen heard that his breath was weak, his nose was sore, and he quickly raised his hand to hold the emperor's hand: "Huang Ama, please forgive me!"

The emperor closed his eyes and calmed down for a while: "The crown prince acted recklessly, intercepted tributes privately, and connived Ling Pu to blackmail his subordinates..." He said several crimes against the crown prince in one breath, and then gasped for breath, tearing Still overflowing from his eyes.

Shisan glanced at the emperor, then looked sadly at the prince in the audience, and was stunned for a while without saying a word.

"Say!" The emperor waited for a while, but he didn't say anything, so he squeezed his hand and yelled.

The thirteenth brother hurriedly held his hand, nodded in pain, and raised his voice to repeat what the emperor said just now.

"... Immediately, Ling Pu will be removed from the position of Chief Minister of the House of Internal Affairs, and the eighth elder brother Yinhu will take over!"

"...The sons of Suo'etu, Gelfin and Aljishan, have helped the evildoers and abused them. They will be dismissed immediately and the law will be enforced!"

"...After returning to Beijing, immediately issue an edict to announce to the world that Prince Yinfeng will be abolished!"

Every word that Shisan recited was like a sharp knife, piercing Yinrong's heart fiercely!

He shed a few tears in despair, raised his head blankly, and forgot to breathe.After waiting for a long time, when his face was flushed from holding back, he took a deep breath suddenly, and then felt the world spinning, and his whole body precariously fell to the side!

The emperor's eyes moved, and when he saw that someone was going to help Yinfeng, he just looked at him coldly, and said indifferently: "No one is allowed to help!" Shisan gave him a surprised look, wondering if he should pass on such a sentence talk.

Thirteen's mouth moved, but no words came out after all.He held the emperor's hand tightly, and said in a low voice: "Huang Ama, even if the second elder brother has made countless mistakes, he is still Huang Ama's son. The eighteenth brother is only going. You can't take any more blows."

The emperor understood what he meant, he had just left at eighteen, if the crown prince also left suddenly at this time, he would definitely not be able to bear it emotionally.He slowly closed his eyes and didn't speak any more...

It was night, and Yinzhen returned home very late.

When he was going to Wanfu Pavilion, he suddenly saw a figure swaying outside Wanfu Pavilion.When he approached softly, he realized that the person was Huaying.

"It's so late, what are you doing here?"

A voice suddenly sounded from behind, Huaying was startled, and sat down on the ground with a "bass".She turned around and saw that it was Yinzhen who came, and hurriedly slapped her buttocks and got up: "It's Lord Baylor. A few days ago, something like that happened in Wanfu Pavilion, and the princesses thought of this way to let the slaves stay in the room at night. Take turns hiding outside to see if there are any suspicious people sneaking into His Majesty Wanfu to poison you at night..."

After Yinzhen heard the words, he looked at Huaying's thin and thin body: "What if it doesn't show up all the time? The weather is not cold now, and you will do the same when it's winter and the twelfth lunar month?"

Huaying was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly lowered her head: "I don't know, but Ge Ge ordered me to do so, so I will follow suit."

Yinzhen turned around and glanced at Wei Changan: "You are quite capable, if you can't catch someone, don't say it, but now they are trying to catch someone by themselves."

Wei Changan took a look at Huaying, and quickly lowered his head in shame: "Miss Huaying, go back and rest, I will send someone to follow her here."

"What about her? She fell asleep?" Yinzhen retracted his eyes and glanced at the courtyard gate of Wanfu Pavilion.

"No, Gege said that Lord Baylor has been very tired recently, so she waited until late at night to go to bed. Gege said that if Lord Baylor came, but she fell asleep, no one would talk to Lord Baylor to relieve her worries."

"Hmph~" Yinzhen chuckled twice, and walked towards Wanfu Pavilion.

Behind him, Wei Changan nodded at Huaying: "Go back and rest, I will make people squat here. Jinqiu should not be dead, and I don't know who died for her back then, after all, it is dangerous at night. You go back and tell the others not to walk around alone at night, otherwise it will be bad if something happens."

Huaying pursed her lips and smiled: "Yes, I see. Sister Yingxiu is so happy."

Wei Changan's face became hot, but luckily it was covered by the dark night, he glanced at Yinzhen who had disappeared into the night, and hurriedly urged Huaying to go back together: "Come back quickly, you don't need to worry about these things, remember about Wanfu Pavilion in the future Say it to me."

"By the way~" Huaying suddenly remembered something, rolled her eyes, and seeing no one around, hurriedly took a step closer to Wei Changan, and asked quietly, "I want to ask you something, okay?"

(End of this chapter)