The little lady in the palace

Chapter 101
In a small but well-decorated mansion in Beijing, Wei Yulin paced anxiously.

He didn't wear the official uniform when he was on duty in the palace, but changed into a daily home uniform. He looked a little less majestic and sophisticated, just like an ordinary middle-aged man.

But the little eunuch beside him still waited in a tone of air, not daring to speak out. After walking back and forth for a few times, Wei Yulin stopped and sighed heavily.

If it goes on like this, it's really not a problem!
The emperor was obviously suspicious of him, but fortunately, it was just a suspicion for the time being, if the emperor really felt that he was unusable, and could make other people's heads fall anytime and anywhere, he wouldn't need to worry about it here.

But he'd better settle this matter as soon as possible, otherwise, sooner or later someone's head will fall.

Thinking about it, Wei Yulin paced back and forth again.

This matter is difficult to handle, from the fierce reaction of the emperor tonight, it can be seen that he was defensive because of suspicion.Wei Yulin's original thought was to let a group of ministers take the lead in proposing the establishment of the crown prince, and then he would push the flames in the emperor's ear, so that Prince Shan could smoothly sit on the crown prince's position, and he would be relieved.But the emperor's reaction tonight made him feel that it would be difficult to raise the crown prince at this time, and the emperor would not listen.

The emperor won't listen, and he doesn't dare to wait any longer, what should we do?
If the emperor dies without establishing a heir, the throne will surely fall into the hands of Prince Jin, who is a direct descendant.Don't say that these eunuchs are Prince Shan, I'm afraid there will be no good fruit to eat.

Wei Yulin stood silently in front of the window for a while, beckoned, and called the little eunuch next to him: "You, come here."

The little eunuch bowed and stepped forward, Wei Yulin seemed to be conflicted for a while, and finally took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and handed it to him: "Do you know Eunuch Gao from the West Factory? Something goes wrong, or it will kill you."

"Hey...don't dare." The little eunuch replied, feeling a layer of cold sweat on his back.He carefully put the envelope that Wei Yulin handed over into his lapel, walked out the door neatly, and folded it straight to the west.

On the roof of the west wing of the courtyard, a few statue-like figures quietly disappeared.

A few people walked around to the empty small street to the north, and when they saw people waiting quietly at the corner, they stopped and cupped their fists: "My lord."

The man took two steps forward, the warm yellow light reflected from the Wei residence hit his face, but the chill on his face did not go away.

"Wei Yulin sent someone out and went to the west, it seems to deliver a letter to the eunuchs in the West Factory." Jin Yiwei, who had been watching from the room just now, clasped his fists and said, "Do you want to arrest him for questioning?"

Xie Jiqing held the saber at his waist with one hand, and thought for a while: "No need, you have worked hard these past few days, go back and rest, I will take care of this matter."

The few people didn't say much, and they quickly left after saying "yes".Xie Jiqing remained silent for a while in this small patch of light in the darkness, then got on his horse and chased westward.

A moment later, the neighing of the horse pierced through the silence of the night, and the young eunuch's voice was a bit shrill: "Who! How dare you rob me, your grandfather? Do you know who I am!"

"Call again, I don't want your life, and Wei Yulin will want your life too." The man who dismounted steadily approached him step by step, and the flying fish embroidery pattern reflected in the moonlight made him suffocate for a while.

Xie Jiqing stretched out his hand: "Show me the letter, it's none of your business. If you tell it yourself, no one can save you."

The eunuch swallowed in fear, took out the letter tremblingly, handed it over and tremblingly said: "My lord! There is a wax seal on it, look..."

"I know that Wei Yulin has often told you that Jinyiwei is useless." Xie Jiqing gave him a cold look as he opened the letter, "But we are not so useless that we can't even stick a wax seal back."

Yijun Palace.

Just two days after the Dragon Boat Festival, Beijing was exceptionally quiet, and so was the mansion.After hearing Meng Junhuai's explanation, Xie Yuyin greeted everyone in the back house, told them to go out less, move less, and push back the communication between the various houses, eunuchs are especially not allowed to go out to greet at this time Friends call friends to spend time and drink.

Yu Yin also specifically said to He Jing: "You can't see brother Ah Cheng recently, and you can't let brother Ah Cheng come over."

He Jing was very obedient, nodded heavily and said: "I know, my father said something important, so I won't make trouble for my father!"

Besides, brother Ah Cheng was punished by his father for copying books, how miserable!But He Jing felt that of course he should study hard, so he didn't speak for him.

Yuyin wanted to laugh when she knew what He Jing was thinking. She thought to herself, why is your father punishing Ah Cheng for copying books... He really wanted to vent his anger on Ah Cheng ah!

But fortunately, after she mentioned to Meng Junhuai about Xie Sheng's copying of the book, Meng Junhuai was silent for a while and then changed his words: "Have someone bring the message over, just copy it once, let him study hard in the future."

Yuyin immediately sent someone to pass on the message, then got down from the couch, picked up the rice balls she had just eaten two mouthfuls of, scooped up a spoonful and fed it to him, and said angrily, "Why are you always fighting with Ah Cheng? Look, this kid is pretty good, and besides, picking He Jing's husband's house, wasn't it your first idea?"

"This child is very good, and it was my first idea." Meng Junhuai sighed and sat on Luohan's bed, "I just feel awkward when I think about marrying Jing. I'm going to live at my husband's house."

"Hey... How can it be so fast! She is only nine years old now!" Yu Yin smiled and stuffed him another ball, "Isn't it normal for a girl in the palace to stay until seventeen or eighteen? I think we can still stay until She's twenty."

Meng Junhuai curled his lips, knowing that he could keep her until twenty.But think about it this way... He feels that He Jing's heart is flying right now, which makes him very sad!

I just met Xie Sheng and my heart flew away after a few moments?Little heartless!
Thinking of this, he couldn't help complaining to Yu Yin, who laughed so hard.She didn't persuade him, so she asked He Jing to come and ask him to complain directly to He Jing.

As a result, as soon as He Jing entered the room, he was speechless, and started playing with He Jing with a fatherly look on his face. Yu Yin raised her eyebrows: Promise!You will bully your son-in-law!
The whole family stayed together relaxedly all afternoon, during which time they had a fight with Azuo Ayou.In the evening, they had dinner together, and after the meal, the children were sent back to their respective houses. Meng Junhuai took a few more letters and sat on the bed to read them.

"There's been a lot going on lately?" Yuyin also sat on the bed, pointed out, and motioned for Shanhu to move a couch table for him to release the letter.

Meng Junhuai was silent for a while, and waved his hands to let all the servants in the room go out, not from the main room, but from the main courtyard.

"What's the matter?" Yuyin was made nervous by him, and he pushed all the letters to her: "Wei Yulin may want to kill the king and pretend to be an imperial edict."

"What?!" Yu Yin felt a chill all over her body, and was still dazed after staying for a long time, "Convinced...?"

"Most likely." Meng Junhuai sighed, she rolled over, got off the bed and rushed to the desk.

He was taken aback: "What are you doing?"

"Write a letter to my brother!" Yu Yin was in a hurry to lay out paper and ink, "Can I wait? Someone needs to save me!"

"Yu Yin." Meng Junhuai also got off the couch, stepped forward to hold his hand: "Brother won't let us take care of it. Recently he told the various prefectures not to move around with each other. That's why, he doesn't want to cause trouble."

"But for such a big matter, if he is the only one to rely on..." Yu Yin frowned slightly, staring at him blankly, "Once we lose, we will lose together."

"I know, but listen to me." Meng Junhuai looked extraordinarily calm, held her hand and kissed her lips, and said, "Because big brother loses, we lose together, so we have to listen to him. We know too little about the situation, and it is very easy to add chaos if we act rashly."

"But..." Yu Yin frowned even tighter, "If we just sit and wait..."

"We don't just sit and wait." Meng Junhuai took a deep breath, "In five days at most, there will be movement in Beijing. If the wind is not right, you can take your children out first to avoid it. The concubine's mother's family is in Jinan, I said hello, if there is a catastrophe, they can't protect you, but if it's just a temporary turmoil, it's safer for you to stay there than in Beijing."

"But..." Yu Yin's mind was a little empty, and he said uneasy, "Aren't you going? If something happens, you are more..."

"Just to be on the safe side, I let you go, but there should be no accidents, so don't worry about me." His tone suddenly became light, obviously lighthearted, "You don't have to worry about me, just wait for me to send someone to pick you up."

Yuyin knew that he was just trying to comfort her, but after thinking about it, she couldn't say anything to persuade him to come together.

On this side, it was his wife and children, but on the other side, his father and brother.For him, there is no choice at all, all he can do is to ensure the safety of one side, and then fight for the other side.

"Then...then I will let the two side concubines start preparations tomorrow." Yu Yin lowered her head and said after a moment of silence, "Let Su Shi and Qiao Shi join together, and Jing Lanjing both like them."

"Look at the arrangement." He smiled, "I'll rest assured that I'll leave it to you to arrange it, and you can rest assured me too."

Prince Shanqin's Mansion, after Meng Junhong sent Wei Yulin away, he felt as cold as if he was in an ice cellar.He didn't let people in, didn't say a word, just sat there quietly, lost in shock.

Wei Yulin said...he will be enthroned soon.

He understood what this meant, except that he was going to sit on the seat above ten thousand people. The other layer was... the emperor was about to die.

Meng Junhong broke out in a cold sweat.

He doesn't know medical skills, so he doesn't know if his father's illness is that serious, but he just thinks that his father seems to be in good spirits recently, at least not so seriously ill that people around him can predict how much time he has left.

Wei Yulin is going to kill the king...

He shuddered, and said to Wei Yulin blankly, "Elder-in-law wants me to be unfilial..."

But Wei Yulin told him very peacefully: "Your Highness listened to what I said. There is nothing unfilial in it. The emperor has been seriously ill for a long time. Even if he is not going west immediately, it will only be a year or two. , there is not much difference. And Your Highness, you are very holy, and so on, that seat belongs to His Highness anyway, and this servant is just helping His Highness to sit on it earlier."

He wanted to argue with a gnat in his throat, but Wei Yulin said again: "Your Highness, think about it, it has been three or four years since the emperor fell ill. During these three or four years, you have never asked about the government, and your highness is still young. For this time, inheriting the Great Reign at this time is not only for yourself, but also for the sake of the world."

Meng Junhong was speechless.He knows how capable he is, and he also knows that he wants to seek that position, and it has always been only for himself.

Besides, he really didn't think about killing the king and the father.

But in the end, Wei Yulin convinced him.

Wei Yulin responded after he said soft words. He told him that there were only two ways for him at this time. Climb to that seat; the other is to report the matter, and if Wei Yulin dies, it is guaranteed that he will not live.He would make the emperor think that he, the tenth son of the emperor, was with them and only reported it because of a disagreement, so that the emperor would know that he was not a kind person at all.

Wei Yulin wants him to choose whether he is above one person or under the same rank, or even decapitated.

And he had no other choice.

He could only nod in agreement.

In the next two or three days, the weather seemed to be getting hotter suddenly.

The sun scorched the earth, as if deliberately heating everything up, so that everyone and everything could no longer pretend to be calm, and the undercurrent was also surging in the high temperature.

To the prince's mansion, Meng Junya listened quietly to the eunuch's words, without saying a word.

The eunuch kneeling underneath broke out in a cold sweat amidst the silence, but he still had to calm down and continued: "Prince Qijun and his family went to the south of the Yangtze River; Prince Pujun said that the concubine was ill, so he found a doctor from the east. The princess was sent to see a doctor, accompanied by several princesses and young princes; the king of Yijun said that the princess wanted to be filial to the mother's family of the concubine Ding, so the princess brought two side concubines and two concubines. He and the princes and princesses in the mansion have all gone to Jinan, and the process of starting before dawn today..."

The eunuch was so angry that he felt that after he finished speaking, the prince must be dragged out and beaten to death.

He also felt that His Highnesses are really not mean enough.Usually, they are all brothers, but now that the big thing is at stake, they all ran away?
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Prince Jin just smiled: "Okay."

eunuch:"……?"

Prince Jin tapped the table with his finger: "Those who are out of Beijing, you send someone to catch up and tell them to hurry up in the past two days, so that they can be farther away from the capital."

"Yes..." The eunuch hesitated to answer.

"My younger brothers who are still in the middle of the capital... also sent letters to them, and I said thank them for staying, and let them burn all the correspondence with Prince Jin's mansion for the past three years. If I lose, I will bear the crime , has nothing to do with them."

"...Master." The eunuch at the bottom kowtowed, and finally stood up boldly, "You, you really want to..."

"Go quickly." Prince Jin's eyes sharpened, and he couldn't help saying.

Forcing the palace to usurp the throne is a very unfilial thing. In the past [-] years, he never thought that he would do such a thing that thousands of people reviled.

However, who is more unfilial to see the emperor's father die or force the palace to usurp the throne?

Not good.

(End of this chapter)