The reborn prince's little palace maid in the apocalypse

An Jiu heard the sound and looked up. When he saw the person coming, he quickly knelt down.

"I've met the master."

I saw someone coming with a jade crown on top of his head and black hair like ink.

Looking at the face, it looks like it has been powdered, with clear facial features. The whole face looks like it has been carved by skilled craftsmen over the years.

If you look closely, you can see that the fortitude is in the eyebrows and the blade is in the temples; the romantic eyes are in the eyes, looking forward to the glory; the nobility is in the nose, standing upright in the middle; the gentleness is in the lips, and the smile is indifferent. There are gangsters and gentlemen who have feminine looks but no feminine qualities.

She is tall and elegant, and her gestures and gestures reflect the royal etiquette.

A sapphire blue splendid slim-fitting thin cotton brocade robe, embroidered with flowers of the same color silk thread, looks like a plain color, but there is a stream of light flickering when moving. A belt with a palm-wide embroidered dragon pattern stretched across the waist, with a purse, sachet, and jade pendant with gold seal hanging on it. Everything looked luxurious and exquisite.

The slender jade fingers were taking off the black cloak on his body, and at the same time he was taking off the cold air.

The person who came was none other than His Highness the Crown Prince Yan Sinian of the East Palace.

An Jiu didn't hear the sound of the door opening, so he knew that His Highness had returned from a secret passage. Yesterday's killer and Jiangnan's taxation were major events in the East Palace these days. At the same time, countless people were staring at the Crown Prince of the East Palace. I'm afraid His Highness didn't come back until midnight because he was busy to avoid being noticed.

Yan Sinian stepped forward and gently picked up Xiaoba who was lying on the ground, took him back to the inner room and placed him on the bed. Several layers of curtains fell, hiding the little people within the beauty.

Turning around, he waved his hand to dismiss An Jiu, who was still kneeling.

After the drum beat, it was already midnight.

The incense burner is emitting slowly clear smoke, exuding a faint scent of ambergris in the inner room.

Yan Sinian had already put on a light-colored Taoist robe. He sat on the soft couch inside and outside, looking at the clear smoke. In his hand, he unconsciously turned an embossed jade as big as a copper coin between his fingers. , there was a faint stream of light flashing on it.

Yan Sinian was already deep in thought.

"In the year of Prince Yan Sinian, he has been in the position of crown prince for a long time. It is difficult to maintain his health, his virtue is not worthy of his position, he accepts heresy and violates my orders, he harbors heresy and doubts his brothers. He is hurt by the ceremony, and also shocked by the sight and hearing. It is suitable for Ding Quan to stay temporarily. The east palace and the west garden are used to cultivate one’s health and cultivate one’s virtues, and nothing can be achieved without purpose.”

In the previous life, Yan Si was the crown prince for ten years, but in the end he only got one sentence: "virtue is not worthy of his place." He was infected with an incurable poison and was imprisoned in the East Palace and West Garden.

After only a few days with the people around him, he discovered that they were either spies for others or had been bribed by others, and the rest also found their own ways. They say that when a tree falls, the monkeys will scatter, but his position as the crown prince here has not yet been abolished, and there are already very few loyal people.

Yan Sinian still remembers that it was a time of heavy autumn cold and dew, and he was sick in bed without even a mouthful of hot water. He reluctantly got up from the bed, which was still covered with a summer quilt, and came to the couch by the window. I saw the fireworks in the sky outside the window, and faint laughter could be heard in the distance. They were fireworks set off to celebrate the full moon of King Fu's third son.

And that Prince Fu was his brother, the former Crown Prince Yan Hongyang, who had been missing for eight years and returned to the court for two years. Now I live in the East Palace.

At that time, Yan Sinian could not figure out that his brother, the former Crown Prince, had been missing for eight years. He said he had lost his memory long ago. To this day, he still has no memory of his past.

After being found by his secret guards two years ago. At that time, he said that he would return the crown prince to his brother, but his brother said that he could not remember anything before, and he had not known anything about the people and affairs in the court for so many years, so he was determined not to be the prince. I just want to live with my wife and children and be a rich prince. Yes, the former crown prince came back with his wife, children and children.

But since this brother came back, he seems to have done nothing. When getting along with him, he is always caring and thinking about him. Although there is no memory before the disappearance, there is no gap between the brothers.

But everything still changed. First, his father named his elder brother the King of Fortune, but let him live in the East Palace. The reason was that the imperial doctor who treated his elder brother suggested that in order to recover his previous memories, he should have more contact with the people and things in the past, so the elder brother wanted to Not only that, but all the former palace servants of the former East Palace Prince also became the palace servants of King Fu. The reason was also to cure King Fu's amnesia.

Although I was seriously ill at the time and had limited energy, no one asked me if I was willing. It seems that both the government and the public have forgotten their existence. There cannot be two kings in a country, and no one has ever thought that there cannot be two masters in a prince's place.

I need to nurse myself back to health when I'm sick. I can't open the window to see the wind, and rarely see people. At the same time, my illness is sometimes severe and mild. In the beginning, there were still people asking questions from time to time and careful arrangements.

But since King Fu moved into the East Palace, no one has ever asked about his condition except the imperial doctor who comes every three to five days.

At first, he didn't think much about it, but as time went by, he couldn't stop thinking about it.

He was not a candidate for the crown prince, but he was pushed into this position halfway. In order to live up to the kindness of his father and mother, and in order not to lose the reputation of the former crown prince brother, he had to hold this position well and work hard every day. What I learned was that I never wanted to learn the theory of governing a country or the art of an emperor. Dealing with courtiers and aristocratic families. Just for a compliment from my father and a smile from my mother.

Although he is not as outstanding as his original brother, he is still conscientious and tries his best to be the prince.

But there was a bolt from the blue, and suddenly a morally inappropriate decree of confinement imprisoned me, a man who was recovering from illness, before he even understood what was going on.

Although there is no decree to depose the prince, looking around him, only Ping Qi, who is still working as a sinner in the kitchen, brings him some food every night, otherwise he would have starved to death with the leftovers during the day. .

I don’t understand what all this is for, and what was born? I want to find out, but there is no one available. Among the secret guards around him, only An Jiu was still standing beside him, and the others could not be contacted.

In the end, he put a knife to his neck and forced Ping Qi to tell him what happened.

Ping Qi touched his head to the ground and cried bitterly.

It turned out that while I was recuperating from illness, I don’t know when, there were rumors inside and outside the palace, in the court, and even among the common people that the current prince was a promiscuous person who had corrupted his body through his extravagant actions. For pleasure, in order to provide for his own entertainment, he sold his official position at a high price, and even sold scientific examination questions to illiterate people. He beat, scolded, tortured and killed palace officials, so that no one around him dared to get close. Some people said that he was banned from the West Courtyard because a witchcraft that cursed the emperor was found in the East Palace, which was very terrifying.

Because there were only rumors but no evidence, even the emperor could not convict him with his words, so this was the reason why he was only imprisoned and not deposed as the crown prince.

His secret guards wanted to help him find out the truth, so they ran around, but none of them came back. Ping Qi did not dare to tell him all this. Initially, the reason was because the imperial doctor said that he was seriously ill and could not be stimulated, and that he could not tell the prince any bad news, for fear of killing the prince. Therefore, His Majesty also ordered not to tell him.

Ping Qi said that he originally believed in His Majesty. His Majesty cared for and protected the Crown Prince so he would not let him tell him. His Majesty also imprisoned the Crown Prince in the Western Garden to silence the world. But now, the secret guard has gone and never returned, and all the servants in the West Garden have disappeared, and they don't even have a decent meal. The emperor takes Prince Fu's children with him every day, and has fun with them, and he has never asked about this person who is still in the West. The prince of the garden. He didn't dare to trust His Majesty anymore, but he didn't dare to do anything, for fear that if he went, there would be no one to deliver meals to His Majesty.

After Yan Sinian heard this, he spit out a mouthful of blood and fainted. Ping Qi was so frightened that he hurried to find the imperial doctor, but he never came back.

When Yan Sinian woke up again, it was already the time when the sky was filled with fireworks.

It was also this night, in that desolate West Garden illuminated by fiery trees and silver flowers, that an unexpected person came, and it became the last straw that overwhelmed him.

Cheng'en Palace, the granddaughter of the eldest family, the Queen's niece, the former crown prince's unmarried crown prince's concubine - Shu Liuyun, the one Yan Sinian called her sister since childhood.

Shu Liuyun came to tell Yan Sinian how everything happened.

Ten years ago, the prince disappeared. She was originally the prince's unmarried concubine, but she has become a person with an uncertain future.

She is not yet the Crown Princess, and has not saluted or been recorded in the imperial disc. She is not a widow either, because His Majesty and the Queen have not issued an order to acknowledge the Crown Prince's death. She could only live in embarrassment without any name or status.

After the little prince moved into the East Palace, he treated her very politely and called her his elder sister. He often asked the queen to let her stay in the palace for a while, which made her less uncomfortable at home and interacting with the aristocratic family.

Shu Liuyun knelt in front of Yan Sinian's body, clutching his robe and crying, saying he was sorry. Because she received a personal and secret letter from the former Crown Prince two years before he returned to the palace.

The former prince's letter stated that he did not know who caused his injury. He had to hide and recuperate in the past few years. In addition, he had to find the person who hurt him, so he did not appear.

Now that his younger brother has become the new prince, he can't rush back to the palace, but he misses her very much, and the whole thing is filled with lovesickness. Finally, he told her not to speak out because she had not found the person behind the scenes. After that, she received several more letters from the former prince, but they were all love letters.

Later, the former prince told her in a letter that he suspected that the current prince, his biological brother, was the one who harmed him. Let Su Liuyun give the prince medicine, just medicine that makes him look seriously ill, because he needs a chance to come back.

Shu Liuyun believed the former prince's words, but never thought that when the original prince disappeared, the current prince was not yet eleven years old. Shu Liuyun drugged Yan Sinian by being able to freely enter and leave the East Palace. This was also the reason why Yan Sinian suddenly became seriously ill.

But she never expected that the person who kept telling her that she was deeply in love had already married and had children. She originally wanted to question him, but when the blessed king Yan Hongyang faced her, he was like a stranger. By poisoning the prince, she committed an unforgivable crime. For the sake of her family and the hundreds of lives she lost in Chengen's palace, she really couldn't speak out.

I felt sorry for Yan Sinian, and I was just about to give Yan Sinian a reminder. He also received a letter from Yan Hongyang, in which he said that the wife he married was a village woman and could not hold a position in the middle palace. Only she was the legitimate crown princess and the future master of the middle palace. But he can't recognize her now, he wants her to be her secret move, because among all the people in the world, he only trusts her.

Then in the past two years, under his instructions, she assigned the Duke Cheng'en in the name of the prince and the East Palace to accept bribes from officials and plunder from the gentry. All the unfavorable things were done by her under the instructions of Yan Hongyang. All the things and benefits she received were given to Prince Fu. All the unfavorable things and stigma belonged to the East Palace and the prince.

She said that she knew that all the bad things were not done by Yan Sinian. She also knew that Yan Hongyang deceived her back then, and it was never Yan Sinian who caused him harm.

She said that she was selfish and sorry for Yan Sinian, but she had no regrets before today. For the sake of her family and herself, she could face her own unhappiness, and she was not afraid of becoming a knife under the power. But she couldn't be treated like a fool after being used as a knife. The dignity of a lady from her aristocratic family cannot be tolerated, and her reputation as the head of the noble ladies in the capital cannot be destroyed.

Now that Yan Hongyang is unkind to her, she will not be righteous to him either.

She came to Xiyuan today with apologies and remorse, but the most important thing was to tell Yan Sinian everything she knew.

She told Yan Sinian that there was no conspiracy or murderer in Yan Hongyang's disappearance that year. Yan Hongyang, who came back from the battlefield, ditched the secret guards and left because he said he had lost his memory. To this day, no one knows the reason why he left. But she has found out that he left on his own that year and had nothing to do with anyone.

She didn't know when Yan Hongyang was found by the secret guards. She only knew that after he disappeared, he married a village woman who said he saved her life and gave birth to two children. That village woman is now Princess Fu.

She received the first letter from Yan Hongyang two years before Yan Hongyang returned to the capital. After that, she received several letters one after another. About three months later, she received a letter from Yan Hongyang instructing her to poison Yan Sinian. But the letter also asked her to burn it in front of the secret guards, including several letters she had received before. Several letters she received later asking her to blame Dong Gong and Yan Sinian were also burned.

She said she had no evidence, but she could swear to heaven that nothing she said was false, otherwise she would be a pariah forever.

"Your Highness, I am worthy of my family, worthy of his banquet Hongyang, and worthy of everyone. I have only failed you, your love and care, and my sister-sister relationship with you." Shu Liuyun did not cry. She knelt down before Yan. Si Nian stood at his feet, trying hard not to let tears come out of his eyes, and just looked at Yan Si Nian with those teary eyes.

"Sister... you go!" Yan Sinian did not look at her again. His originally lowered eyes were now looking out the window, towards the sky where the fireworks had dissipated.

Shu Liuyun knelt in silence for a while, then stood up slowly, straightened his hair and clothes, and gave a full salute to Yan Sinian who was sitting there.

"Your Highness, I am leaving." Turning around, she was the noble and dignified daughter of a family who was famous all over the city. He walked out of the West Garden with a sense of humiliation concealed by arrogance.