Descendants of Pangu in the Great Desolation

Chapter 31
"Stop, who is it?" The soldier guarding the Jinghua Gate yelled and stopped the sedan chair that was about to move forward.

Seeing that there were guards blocking him, Qi Shun took out his badge from his pocket and handed it to the gatekeeper. "It turned out to be Eunuch Qi Shun, I'm slightly offended, I don't know which adult is in the sedan chair." The guard at the gate saw that it was Qi Shun, the personal eunuch of the Seventh Prince, and hurried forward to snatch the badge from the guard's hand. Qi Shun greeted him with a smile and handed the waist card to Qi Shun with both hands.

Qi Shun took the waist card and said: "It turns out that Mr. Li is on the job. You have good eyesight. The person sitting in the sedan chair is Hai Shizi from Prince Ping's Mansion." I opened the sedan chair curtain and shouted to Qi Shun: "What happened to Xiao Shunzi?" Why didn’t you leave?” Seeing my question, Qi Shun hurried to the sedan chair and said, “Hai Shizi, we are now outside the gate of Jinghua, but we were stopped by the guards, and the slave sent them away.”

"Today, the doorkeeper is a novice who doesn't recognize Eunuch Shun, so he blocked the sedan chair of the prince, please forgive me, the servant. I will let you go." When Li Tou heard my tone was wrong, he hurried to the sedan chair, nodded and bowed to me for a while , for fear that if I get upset, I will smash his job. "You still don't get out of the way, be careful that the prince will pick off your heads."

"It's fine, Xiao Shunzi, let's go." I waved to them and put down the car curtain. "Yes, Prince. Get up the sedan chair." The two bearers lifted up the sedan chair again, and followed Qi Shun into the palace.

After a while, the sedan chair stopped outside the imperial study, Qi Shun lifted the curtain of the sedan chair and said to me: "My lord, the imperial study is here, please get off the sedan chair." I walked out of the sedan chair and looked around and asked: "Didn't you say Xiaojie was looking for me? Why did you come to the Imperial Study Room?"

Seeing me getting out of the sedan chair, the two porters saluted me, "Your Majesty, I will take my leave." Then they lifted the sedan chair and walked out.I stopped the two bearers, "Wait a minute", turned around and waved to Xu Lu to let him come over, and said, "Xu Lu, give them five taels of silver as a reward." "Thank you, son, for the reward" in front of me.After taking the money from Xu Lu's hand, the two turned and left.

Seeing the two porters leaving, Qi Shun said to me: "Actually, the emperor wants to summon the son, but the emperor has ordered that if the son asks, he should say that the seventh prince is looking for the son, and the other little ones don't know. Please come in quickly, lest the emperor wait in a hurry and blame us for being slaves." I thought to myself: "I knew that the emperor used Xiaojie as an excuse to come to me."

"Okay, Xu Lu, follow Xiao Shunzi to Fuze Palace and wait for me, I'll be there in a while" I almost forgot about Xiaoyou who was hiding in my arms, "Come out, Xiaoyou, there are no outsiders "Xiaoyou flew out of my arms, glared at me angrily, and said angrily, "I almost suffocated me, I just remembered me now, are you looking for a beating?" I ran up the steps three steps at a time, At this time, it is better to stay away from Xiaoyou, so as not to endanger his life, he said: "Okay, okay, I was wrong. Xiao Shunzi quickly go to the imperial dining room to make Bazhen cake and four-color water cake. Xiaoyou is here to fill up Delicious."

Seeing me coming, Eunuch Xia outside the imperial study room hurriedly said to me: "Your Majesty, the Emperor has been waiting inside for a long time. Your Majesty has told His Majesty that there is no need to inform him, just go in." I said politely to him, "Thank you, Eunuch Xia." "The old slave will retire now, my son please." Eunuch Xia dismissed the guards outside the imperial study and turned to leave.

Seeing that they had all left, I opened the door and walked in. I knelt down in the hall and said to the contemplative emperor, "Situ Hai sees the emperor, long live my emperor." The emperor was awakened by me, and turned his head to look It turned out that I was the one who came, and hurriedly said: "Hai'er is here, get up quickly, there are no outsiders here who can't use those silly rules."

I stood up and asked the emperor: "I don't know what the emperor's uncle is looking for Hai'er? He still uses the name of Xiaojie as if he is afraid of being discovered by outsiders." The emperor didn't pay attention to my words, just stared at me for a moment Then he asked me: "Prince Ping hasn't returned to the mansion after the early court?" I replied to the emperor: "No, daddy has to go to the Ministry of War after the morning court and won't come back so early. Uncle Emperor has something to do with daddy?" He shook his head and said: "It turns out that Haozhi hasn't returned home yet, no wonder you don't know what happened?"

Only then did the emperor realize that I was still standing under the hall, and he got up and said, "I'm just talking, Hai'er is here, let's go in and talk." A round table, with four carved solid wood round stools standing beside the table, tea and four plates of pastries are placed on the round table, which should be prepared in advance.

I sat on a round stool and asked, "Uncle Emperor, what happened? It made you look a little anxious." The emperor took a sip of tea and calmed down before he said to me: "Hai'er, last time you were in the imperial garden. What I said to me happened today in the early court.” I was not surprised to hear the emperor say this, because this kind of thing has happened many times since ancient times, and it is not surprising to me. He took a bite of the lotus leaf cake and said, "Uncle, what charges did they use to impeach Rong Lie?" The emperor helplessly repeated what happened in the morning, "Today in the morning, Ruier handed over a memorial, According to the memorial, Rong Lie accepted a Jade Avalokitesvara from Luo Ji, Shan Hui's servant, and asked Rong Lie to help his nephew, Shan Lai, to intercede with Qian Li at Fengjun Daotai, so that he could be punished lightly and avoid heavy responsibility. Rong Lie , Shan Hui has already admitted his crime in court, and asked me to hand it over to your uncle Yu Hua, but it seems that Ji'er was not involved in the whole matter."

I patted the residue of the lotus leaf cake on my hand and said to the emperor: "It seems that Uncle already believed [-]% to [-]% of what I said that day. You came to me this time to hear my thoughts on this matter." The emperor Wei Wei nodded and said: "That's right, originally I didn't really believe what you said, but what you said happened before my eyes, so I had to believe what you said."

I saw that the emperor already trusted me, so I said what I thought one by one: "Since uncle said so, let me talk about my thoughts. In fact, judging from the current situation, although the second prince cut off four The prince's road to the prince, but the fourth prince is only a supporting role in the battle of seizing power, and the second prince's real opponent is actually the first prince. Regarding Rong Lie's acceptance of bribes, although the first prince seems to be passive on the surface, the second prince took over The first opportunity, but this may be Yan Yin's strategy, through this matter, the second prince will relax his guard against the first prince, making him think that the first prince has given up the fight for the crown prince, and when the time is right, he will fight back against the second prince, turning defeat into victory." Emperor He said solemnly: "Is there no way to stop them? If they continue to be stalemate like this, why don't they unite and suppress Jieer together when I want to make Jieer the crown prince?"

I smiled and said to him, "It seems that Uncle still wants to pass on the throne to Xiaojie. Uncle, do you know this saying: A royal son may not be a prince, and a prince may not ascend to the throne." The emperor looked at me suspiciously , asked: "Haier, what do you mean by this?" I ate the second piece of lotus leaf cake and explained to the emperor: "Actually, there is nothing difficult to understand in this sentence, just take it literally. Yes. The royal son may not be canonized as the prince, and the prince who is canonized as the prince may not be the emperor who will succeed the emperor in the future." The emperor suddenly realized: "Haier, you mean..."

"Uncle, I didn't say anything, I'm going to play with Xiaojie." I interrupted the emperor, stood up and saluted the emperor, then left the imperial study and walked to Fuze Palace.

Watching me walk out of the room, the emperor murmured to himself: "If you want Jie'er to inherit the throne safely, you have to do something wrong. Rui'er, Ji'er, don't blame your father for being cruel, it's just that you were born in the emperor's family. Your life, if you can give up the fight for the throne, then the emperor will let you live, and will never force you into a desperate situation. It's just that Hai'er seems to have changed after the acne has recovered. He doesn't seem to be so enthusiastic about the affairs of the court, could it be...but fortunately he wants to help Jieer now, if I don't want to make Jieer the crown prince, Haier is my biggest stumbling block."

(End of this chapter)