concubines

Chapter 57 The Crazy Prince

The emperor changed his mind so easily?
Impossible, Zhou Shuxuan believed in the living and dead, flesh and blood, and did not believe that the emperor would change his mind so easily.

"My son is terrified."

The emperor glanced at him again, Zhou Shuxuan is really not in good health now, he can't even get out of bed.The emperor couldn't bear it, but he still had to do it.

He blocked the news and tried his best not to spread the news about the eldest princess being forced into the palace.People in the world don't know the truth now, and they all think that he punished the eldest princess for no reason.

It's okay to be scolded, but I'm afraid of some changes.

Due to the special circumstances of the year, more than half of the military officers and generals in the court came from the eldest princess' sect.Although he trusted the eldest princess, he had to guard against it.

And Zhou Shuxuan is the most suitable candidate for the crown prince in the hearts of most people.Asking Zhou Shuxuan to go to the Taimiao to worship the ancestors is equivalent to hinting at the world and giving them a little hope.Use this to divert attention and prevent any uncontrollable changes.

Also let the abolished prince know that the prince is not necessarily the only one, and there is some sense of crisis, so stop doing those stupid things.It will be easy to discipline in the future, and I will no longer do whatever I want.

The emperor killed two birds with one stone in this way, after all, Zhou Shuxuan was just a shield in the emperor's hands.

The emperor deliberately asked: "What do you have to be afraid of? Could it be that you can't do such a small thing well?"

Needless to say Zhou Shuxuan's ability, what he feared was the emperor's attitude.Even if it was King Qi, he didn't think it was too strange, it was too strange when it was his turn, he still knew how much position he occupied in the emperor's heart.

Qin Wang was afraid that the emperor was testing him, so he said: "My minister is not in good health, and there is an emperor brother, so I am afraid it will be difficult for me to take on this important task."

The emperor stood up and said: "I have made up my mind, you should prepare well."

At that time, Taizu launched an uprising, broke through the palace on the ninth day of the first lunar month, and became king.Therefore, the royal family will go to the Taimiao temple every year to burn incense except the first day, and also go to the ninth day, and the ninth day is the most important, which is a formal ancestor worship.

In the past, the emperor went by himself, but as the emperor got older, the prince replaced the emperor.

It has lasted for decades, and Zhou Shuxuan is the first prince who can go to the Taimiao to worship his ancestors.It successfully aroused other people's speculation, and for a while, the whole country was waiting for the news that Zhou Shuxuan would be the crown prince.

Xian'an Palace naturally also received wind, and the waste prince angrily smashed the porcelain all over the floor, and lost his temper again.

The emperor remained indifferent, pretending not to know anything, without any reaction.

This is the way to let him learn a little lesson, let him know what he did wrong, so that he will not do any more treacherous things.

In Qingquan Palace, the maid made the medicine, but Zhou Shuxuan was not used to being served by others, so Miao Li had to serve him.

Miao Li saw that his complexion was not very good, and asked: "Why does the prince seem unhappy?"

Zhou Shuxuan took the medicine and drank it down, saying: "There is nothing to be happy about."

But obviously something good happened, Miao Li asked again: "Didn't the emperor ask the prince to go to the Taimiao to worship the ancestors? Isn't this a happy thing?"

When she heard this, she was very happy for Zhou Shuxuan for a long time. She felt that the emperor understood a little bit, and began to focus on Zhou Shuxuan.

It's a pity that she still didn't have Zhou Shuxuan to understand the emperor.

Zhou Shuxuan snorted coldly and asked, "What do you think is a good thing. How about Xian'an Palace?"

"Almost a kiln of porcelain was smashed, but the emperor didn't say anything." Miao Li put together several pieces of news, and the emperor seemed to really give up the feeling of abolishing the prince, so she asked: "My lord, is the emperor really giving up on abolishing the crown prince?" Prince?"

Zhou Shuxuan stared at her and asked, "Do you think it's possible?" How could he ask such a silly thing.

Miao Li was too busy to be happy before, but he also felt that it was impossible for him to say that.The imperial decree of the deposed prince was not issued willingly by the emperor. At that time, she could see clearly that the emperor still wanted to protect the deposed prince.

Although the eldest princess forced him to say that he would never be reinstated, the emperor always thought of something to overthrow the imperial decree.

But the emperor strangely asked Zhou Shuxuan to worship the ancestors, and for a while he couldn't figure out what the emperor was thinking.

Miao Li thought about it again and again, and she vaguely had an idea in her heart, and said: "In this case, the servant thinks that the prince should not go to worship the ancestors. The emperor seems to push the prince to block the arrow."

I thought of going to a place with him, and finally stopped being silly.

"This king doesn't mean what he says. I persuaded the emperor and insisted on doing so. I don't know what kind of medicine he sells in the gourd."

Miao Li sighed, then she could only bite the bullet, "In this situation, even if you know that it contains rat poison, the prince has no choice but to take it."

He wished it was a rat poison, and it would be clean if he died directly.

Zhou Shuxuan couldn't move back home for a while, so he prepared things for ancestor worship in Qingquan Palace.Qingquan Palace was so busy that it lacked manpower, and even transferred a few slaves from other palaces.

The Xian'an Palace was horribly deserted. The deposed prince who had always been fawned on by everyone lived indifferently for several days, and no one seemed to remember him.Only the crown princess, after finally asking for an imperial decree, came to see him in the palace.

Seeing the concubine as if he saw hope, the deposed prince went over and grabbed her, and asked impatiently, "Why are you here? Did the emperor ask you to come?"

The Crown Princess wiped away her tears, "No, the concubine came to see His Highness by herself." The Crown Princess dared not say that she begged the Emperor for a long time before the Emperor nodded his approval.

The deposed prince slowly let go of her, sat back on the stool, and said with empty eyes: "It's over, Father really just abandoned me."

The Crown Princess cried and comforted him with poor words, "Your Highness, no, father will not give up Your Highness."

The deposed prince shook his head, and said in a floating tone: "Why not, I don't know what kind of ecstasy soup the third child poured into him, and even made the third child go to the Taimiao to worship the ancestors. Doesn't that explain everything?"

"Your Highness..." The Crown Princess still wanted to comfort him, but she couldn't find any reason.

After a long time, the prince picked up a letter from the table and handed it to the princess, "This is a letter I wrote to your father. If he reads it, he will destroy it immediately whether he wants it or not. If he wants to, he doesn't need to reply, just follow the letter." act."

The princess stretched out her hand in the air, not daring to accept the letter.She hadn't interfered in many government affairs, but she could guess what the prince was doing with this letter to her father at this time.

The princess withdrew her hand, took a step back and said, "It's not a last resort, Your Highness thinks twice before acting."

"What?" The prince raised his head and gave her a cold look, "You are the wife I am marrying, and you are not willing to help me anymore. Now you also see me in despair, and you have lost your heart, so you have changed your attitude towards me." .”

After hearing his words, the Crown Princess knelt on the ground with a groan, and said in a miserable voice: "I don't mean that, I can learn from the sun and the moon in my heart to His Highness. I just advise His Highness to think again, such a thing The price is too high. If you succeed, you will be fine. If you don’t succeed, you will not be able to live with your family. Now we really haven’t reached the point of doing such a thing.”

"When will it arrive?" The prince slapped the table and stood up, raising his voice and asking: "Wait for the new emperor to succeed? Wait for someone to come and kill me? I'm not doing it for anything else, I'm doing it to survive. Your father and I I belong to one party, thinking that if I die, can he still be safe? Same, no one can benefit from it."

The prince is now insane, yelling and making a fuss in Xian'an Palace.Bending down and grabbing the princess's shoulder, he shouted frantically, "Are you afraid of death? If you dare to be afraid of death, I will kill you now."

The Crown Princess looked at the man in front of her in disbelief, feeling a sense of fear in her heart.But this is her husband in bed with her, no matter what his status is, he is her husband.

In the past, he was the crown prince, and she was the future queen. She didn't feel that she was so honorable, she just felt that she was an ordinary woman in the world.Take good care of your parents-in-law, husband and son.Now that he is in trouble, her heart for him is still the same.

But the prince has changed, she doesn't know him, he is blinded by the power, he seems crazy.

The concubine tugged at his clothes and continued to persuade: "My father loved Your Highness so much in the past, just for the sake of my mother, my father would not let His Highness die. Let's not take risks, okay, even if we are a leisurely prince, take care Live the same way."

The deposed prince pushed her hand away and shouted at the princess, "I am not reconciled, I have been the prince for decades, why is it not me in the end? Why should I give it up to someone else? I am a real dragon Son of Heaven, you will not be subservient to be a prince!"

Why didn't the emperor die sooner?The sooner the emperor died, he would have succeeded to the throne long ago.He is the most honorable person in the world, and no one can defy him.

The hateful Zhou Shuxuan, the hateful eldest princess, and the emperor, none of them are good people.They must have teamed up to do such a scene, just to take away his position as the crown prince, and they are the ones who are harming him.

The prince has gone crazy!

The princess knelt on the ground and looked up at him for a long time, unable to bear to see him torture herself like this.Standing up slowly, he grabbed the letter he had placed on the table.

"The concubine wishes to be with His Highness through life and death."

As soon as the concubine's voice fell, the room became quiet. The prince stopped going crazy, looked at the concubine blankly for a while, and then smiled up to the sky, "Okay, she is my virtuous wife. From now on, there will be no more People can shake your position. Go out of the palace and deliver the letter to your father as soon as possible."

The Crown Princess walked out with her usual expression, but her hands were sweating.

She is not for the future glory and wealth, nor is it for any status, she is only for her husband.

From the day she married into the East Palace, the prince is her god, she will follow all his orders and help him do everything.

After leaving the Xian'an Palace, the Crown Princess sat on the sedan chair, still having some concerns in her heart.On the one hand, it is the prince, on the other hand, it is her parents and clan members, she can't give up on either.

Only when she knows what the prince said can she keep both sides. The princess took out the letter from the prince from her sleeve, opened it without any hesitation, and took a look. The first line on it read: "On the ninth day of the first lunar month, Kill Zhou Shuxuan first."

(End of this chapter)