Far away from the almost uninhabited palace in the capital, Empress Ning watched June jump out of the window and leave, sat for a while, got off the kang, and entered the easternmost ear house, Su Bai, who was guarding the smoker in front of the fifth brother's kang and was on duty at night, hurriedly stood up, Empress Ning instructed her to silence, quietly walked to the kang, sat sideways on the edge of the kang, and looked at the fifth brother who was asleep.
After looking at it for a while, Empress Ning stretched out her hand and gently combed the hair of the fifth brother on the pillow, the fifth brother woke up suddenly, opened her eyes and saw Queen Ning, and called vaguely, "A-Niang." ” "It's A-Niang."
"Why hasn't A-Niang slept for any hour" The fifth brother was sleepy-eyed, moved, and rubbed his face on Queen Ning's hand.
"It's the third watch, A-Niang fell asleep and got up again, and your uncle sent someone to say that he would take us into the city for the New Year."
Tears flashed in the corners of Empress Ning's eyes, and the plain white eyes standing behind Empress Ning were wide, and she raised her hand to cover her mouth, looking at Empress Ning in disbelief.
"Uncle" The fifth brother heard the word uncle, sobered up a lot, sat up with his arms propped up, "Which city to enter?"
"The capital."
Empress Ning pulled up the quilt and wrapped her son.
"The uncle in the capital who can watch the lights, is he going to take me to see the lights?"
the fifth brother's eyes sparkled.
"Yes, but I can't see the lights this year, maybe next year, we will move from here, move into the capital, and live in the palace."
Empress Ning moved and pulled the fifth brother's hair together.
"A-Niang, is something wrong" The fifth brother looked up at Queen Ning, his eyes flashed, and he asked with a little timidity.
"Good boy."
Empress Ning smiled, "Something happened, the eldest brother and the fourth brother's aunt died, because they had to do a funeral, so they couldn't see the lights this year." ” Behind Empress Ning, Su Bai covered her mouth tightly, stumbled a few steps, and sat on the smoker.
"Concubine Zhou" The fifth brother's expression was quite serious, and Empress Ning nodded.
"Then I know, will we not come back here again in the future, Auntie, you said, if we arrive in the capital one day, we don't have to come back here, I have to treat myself as an adult, talk and do things like an adult."
"Yes, the fifth brother will treat himself as an adult in the future."
Empress Ning looked at her son in her eyes, half pity, half sadness, as long as he left here, he could only regard himself as an adult, and he would have to suffer the defeat of the king like an adult.
"When will the uncle come to pick us up today?"
the fifth brother was a little excited.
"How can it be so fast, uncle always has to prepare, but it's also fast, just these few days, you go to sleep first."
Looking at the fifth brother's excitement, Queen Ning's smile warmed.
"Alas, I can't sleep" the fifth brother frowned and sighed angrily, "I'm going to move, how can I sleep?"
"If you can't sleep, then get up and practice with Su Bai."
Empress Ning gently patted the fifth brother on the head.
"It's not time yet."
The fifth brother hurriedly lay down and shrank down again, "Although I don't think I can sleep, I may be able to fall asleep after sleeping for a while." ” Empress Ning folded the quilt for him, stood two or three steps in front of the kang, looked at it for a while, told Su Bai to look at it carefully, turned around and went out.
In the main hall, Wei Fengniang stood next to Su Xin, and when she saw Queen Ning coming in, the two of them bent their knees to salute, Wei Fengniang took half a step forward and bowed down to report, "Niangniang, the seventh master said, I am afraid that there will not be enough people around Niangniang, so I ordered the maid to come over and listen to Niangniang's orders." ” "You don't have to call yourself a servant like those people, you are an errand like a man, do a man's business, you are not a servant."
After a pause, Empress Ning looked at Wei Fengniang with a complicated expression, and added, "In front of people, you call yourself like those men, and after people, you and I can do it." ” "Yes" Wei Fengniang clasped her fists with both hands and bowed in agreement.
"You go and look at the fifth brother, Su Xin, take her over, and explain to Su Bai."
Empress Ning then ordered, Wei Fengniang and Su Xin responded, and went to the ear house.
In the capital, in the morning of the next day, Mo Xiang and the others were rarely gloomy and solemn, so that the vast majority of officials who did not know about the tragedy last night realized that something very unusual had happened, and they also held their breath and were cautious.
The emperor went up the steps, sat on the dragon chair that was extremely wide and unreliable, and the hundred officials bowed down, looking at the emperor who had aged ten years overnight, Mo Xiang and others who knew the inside story sighed, and those who didn't know the inside story were shocked, and there were countless hasty emperors, and something big happened On this day, no one handed the fold, and no matter how important the fold was, it was nested in the sleeve.
The silence that followed the bow made the frightened and frightened officials feel as if they had spent a long night.
After a moment of silence, the emperor opened his mouth in a low and slow voice and announced three things: first, Zhou Guifei was ill; second, set up the fourth prince as the crown prince; Third, the high wall encircled the eldest prince in the prince's mansion, and the prime minister of Suiguo immediately began to build a wall to enclose it.
In the stunned hall, the emperor slowly stood up and ordered the four princes, Moxiang, Lu Xiang, Suiguo Gong, Deputy Privy Counselor Zhou, Ji Tianguan, Gao Shujiang, and the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Xie Youde, and left the discussion.
After dispersing, the officials who were shocked to the point of numbness had never been quiet, and they had never been as fast as ever, and they scattered in all directions.
In the Ziji Palace, the emperor was tired and weakly crooked on the kang, and the eunuch Chang aimed at the emperor's meaning, and instructed the little eunuch to move a brocade stool for Mo Xiang and the others, looking at the four princes, he was hesitating, he is now the prince, is it appropriate to take a stool for him, if it is too appropriate to move the chair, the emperor beckoned, "Fourth brother, sit here." ” The four princes stepped forward briskly and sat sideways on the edge of the kang.
"Let's talk about the future of the concubine first."
Speaking of the concubine, there was a pain on the emperor's face, the concubine left, he went first, and he walked like that "A-Niang is going to be buried with the queen's ceremony" The four princes rushed to speak, and were interrupted by the emperor in the middle of speaking, "Listen to what they mean first" "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is right, the concubine should be posthumously crowned as the queen and buried with the queen's gift."
Sui Guogong rushed in front of Deputy Privy Council of Zhou and everyone, and spoke first: "There is also a nickname, the concubine is extremely virtuous, and filial piety and virtue are must."
"The matter of the name, the old minister's meaning, is it not to let the Hanlin Academy draw up some first, and ask the emperor and His Royal Highness to decide" Taking advantage of the time Suiguo Gong took a breath, Mo Xiang quickly grabbed the conversation, and took out the matter of the name and sent it to the Hanlin Academy
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