I am a cat in the palace

It has been a long time since the royal family of Daxia held a wedding.

Although the wedding date between the second prince and Princess Jingguo of Liang Guo was really rushed, but fortunately the second prince had already been seeing your daughter to prepare for the wedding, and Princess Liang even brought a complete dowry. After simplifying some procedures, the wedding It actually went smoothly.

After the second prince went to the Sifang Pavilion to welcome Princess Jingguo, he entered the palace to bow to the emperor and queen, and then took the bride to the second prince's mansion.

The real wedding banquet was held in the Second Prince's Mansion, and almost all civil and military officials from the whole court attended the banquet.

On the contrary, in the palace, after the second prince left, the excitement came to an end and became quiet.

The old emperor was carried back to the bedroom, but the empress did not leave, she followed him silently all the time, entered the bedroom, Chang An tactfully withdrew.

The old emperor looked at the queen, smiled wryly and said, "Help me, this dress is too heavy."

The queen stretched out her hand according to her words, helped the old emperor take off the coat on his body, and helped him to sit back on the bed and lie down.

"Today is Hui'er's day of great joy. Why does Zitong seem to be preoccupied?" The old emperor leaned on the pillow and looked at the familiar but unfamiliar queen in front of him. How long has it been since they, the most noble couple in the world, It has been a long time since we sat together and talked quietly like now.

The queen tried to force a smile, but gave up after trying.

"Is Zitong still blaming me?" The old emperor looked at the queen's expression, thought for a while, and suddenly reached out to grab the queen's hand, held her hand in his palm and patted it gently.

The queen looked down at the hand that patted her own. It was cold, dry, and thin, with bulging blue veins, and there were already many faint brown spots on the back of the hand.Once upon a time, the Qingjun prince who was high-spirited and vigorous in the past has turned into an old man who is now in the twilight of the west?

He is only ten years older than her.

"The empress must be blaming me, why she must let Hui'er marry that Princess of Liang."

The old emperor looked up at his queen, married to him for 20 years, except for a few fine lines at the corners of her eyes, she didn't seem to have changed much, she was still as beautiful and loving as when she was just married as Princess Ding Jin Zhu, the makeup is always exquisite and gorgeous, those things that would look gaudy on ordinary women, but wearing them on her body only makes her more graceful and rich.

She was born with the temperament of a mother!

It's just that today, even with the most delicate powder and the softest rouge, it still can't cover her pale complexion, dark blue eye bags and red eye circles. Obviously, she didn't have a good time last night, it was like a night Sleepless also cried for a long time.

The old emperor thought helplessly, she was probably still angry because he hurriedly proposed marriage to Princess Liang on behalf of Shang Hui, right?

"I have sent someone to inquire about Princess Yasukuni, she..."

The old emperor thought for a while, and wanted to explain something, but was suddenly interrupted by the queen.

"emperor--"

"Ok?"

"What happened to Shangxu back then was not caused by the concubine, whether you believe it or not, although the concubine is jealous, she would never attack the child, not to mention that the child's mother was just a lowly maid. , even if he is the eldest son, he is absolutely no better than the son of a concubine."

Hearing the queen suddenly mention the name "Shangxu", the old emperor's fingers that were loosely covering the queen's hand suddenly tightened, and his withered and thin hands suddenly burst out with force like iron pincers, pinching the queen's palm. It hurts.

But she didn't withdraw her hand, and she didn't show any expression. Since last night, she seemed to be less able to feel pain anymore.

Just like this morning Wanying tied her hair because she accidentally tore off several long hairs when changing the flower hairpin. If she was in pain, she would have scolded others, but this morning until Wanying knelt down to apologize to her, she was still at a loss. Didn't know I had my hair ripped out.

"Why did the queen suddenly mention Shang Xu?" The old emperor barely restrained his sudden excitement when he heard the name, and slowly moved his hand away from the queen's.

"If the child is still alive, he should be 24 years old this year, right? I'm afraid he has already married and started a business, and his children are around his knees." The queen glanced at the old emperor's hand that had been removed from the back of her hand, and a faint twitch appeared on the corner of her lips. wry smile.

"Today is a day of great joy for Shang Hui, why do you want to mention Shang Xu?" The old emperor's voice became a little cold, and he was a little unhappy in his life.

The empress didn't seem to care about the cold attitude of the old emperor, she just continued to whisper: "Everyone thought it was me who did it to Shang Xu. On the seventh day of Shang Xu's first day, the emperor suddenly broke into my palace. If it wasn't for me Telling you that I am pregnant, are you afraid that you will lose the empress?"

What the empress said was an understatement, but when the old emperor recalled what happened back then, he couldn’t deny that he rushed into Zining Palace to abolish the empress, because there were too many things about Shangxu contracting smallpox inexplicably in the palace. Traces point to the Queen.

And after he knew that the queen was pregnant, although he gave up the decision to abolish the queen for the sake of the child, he was even more convinced in his heart that it was the queen who murdered Shang Xu.

Because she is pregnant, she has to clear the way for her son who is about to be born, and because she is pregnant, it is expected that he will not shake her position as queen no matter what, so she has nothing to fear!

"Even my father thought it was because of jealousy and hatred that I attacked Shang Xu. No one believed me, no one was willing to listen to my excuses. My grievances have nowhere to go."

"And it is precisely because you firmly believe that I have harmed Shangxu, so I am nine months pregnant, and you have never been to Zining Palace once."

"Don't mention what happened back then." The old emperor frowned, he didn't want to think about those things, no matter who killed Shang Xu at that time, his son died, and the death was extremely painful, and as his His father, but he can't even go to see him, even after he dies, he can't see him for the last time, just because Shang Xu contracted smallpox.

"No! I want to mention it!" The queen suddenly became excited.

"Back then, if it wasn't because you didn't enter the Zining Palace for nine months and didn't take me seriously as a queen, how could those people who were chasing the highs and the lows dared to pick on the inside and the outside, and secretly murdered me several times? Shang Hui was almost conceived." In the dead womb, I will never be able to have children again?"

"It's all because of you!" The queen's voice suddenly became sharp and piercing.

Even though the old emperor felt ashamed of the empress, he felt very guilty towards Shang Hui, but he was still an emperor after all, and suddenly he was so sharply accused by the empress, his face suddenly felt uneasy, and his expression could not help but calm down: "Empress ! Watch your attitude!"

"Attitude, what attitude should I have? Couldn't it be your connivance that made our mother and child what they are today?"

"What's wrong with you now? You are still the queen of Da Xia, the most honorable woman in the world. Your son is my only legitimate son, my beloved son. But what about Shang Xu? You keep talking about Shang Xu's death It has nothing to do with you, that’s right! That’s right! It’s true that you didn’t get the silk dress that made Shangxu sick, and you didn’t plan the whole thing, but how did the maid wearing the silk dress be let go that day? Guo swaggered into the Wanchun Palace, don’t you remember? You knew everything, but you indulged in those evil things with the attitude of watching a show, how dare you say that you are completely innocent!”

cough cough!cough cough!cough……

The old emperor was finally irritated. It has been more than ten years. If the queen didn't mention it, he didn't intend to pursue it anymore because of Shang Hui's face, but somehow the queen brought up the old matter again today, and she was full of resentment and kept declaring herself Injustice.

Regarding Shang Xu's matter, she was not wronged at all!

The queen's lips trembled slightly, and she felt a little cold in her heart. She really didn't expect that she would be found out with just a faint look in her eyes.After so many years, even she herself can't remember clearly what happened at that time, but she didn't know it at all. It turned out that she was the only one who forgot. Like the murderers who have been punished, they are all his enemies who killed his son.

No wonder...

For so many years, except for staying in her palace for one night on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year, the emperor never entered Zining Palace on weekdays, and even if he stayed in her palace, he never had any tender intentions.She always thought that the emperor misunderstood her, so she was sad and wronged, so she kept betting with the emperor, only thinking that one day the emperor would know the truth and understand that she was wronged.

But what she didn't expect was that the emperor already knew the truth, but in that truth, she was not innocent, she was guilty of the same crime as the murderer.

Under the emperor's cold eyes, the queen walked out of Xingde Palace slowly, and walked outside the palace gate. She couldn't help but looked at the blue sky, and gave herself an extremely bitter smile, probably everything was predestined.

After the queen left, the emperor felt that his exhausted body was even weaker. He leaned on the pillow with no expression on his face. Even Chang An, who was best at observing the emperor's color, was a little uncertain about the emperor's current emotion.

Not long after the queen left, Chang Xing, the head of the inner government, came to answer.

"Chang Xing, Hui'er's marriage was so hasty, but it was still very thoughtful. It's really hard work for you, ahem..." The old emperor looked at his old man with relief.

Chang Xing smiled honestly, stepped forward a few steps and bowed to reply: "Although the wedding date has been set a little urgently, but fortunately the second prince's age is also up, and many things have been prepared by our Inner House Secretary last year, and Liang The princess of the country is also very thoughtful in preparing, but it is not too hasty. It is what the old slave should do. Your majesty, you said so, but you killed the old slave."

"The ones who have followed me since Qiandi back then, it seems that you and Chang An are the only ones left?"

Chang Xing was silent for a moment, glanced sideways at Chang An who was standing by with his hands down, and replied softly: "Yes, only the old slave and Manager An are left."

The old emperor nodded slightly, "It's been more than 30 years in a blink of an eye, and we are all old."

"The servant is old. This hair is almost half gray, but you are not old, the emperor. You see, you don't even have a few gray hairs." Chang Xing joked with a smile.

The old emperor shook his head and tapped his fingers a few times towards Chang Xing, "You are young white, and your hair was full of silver hair when you were a teenager."

While joking, suddenly a little eunuch announced at the door that Lu Chaozhong had come.

"Master Lu is here, so the old slave will leave first."

Chang Xing got up and was about to leave, but was stopped by the old emperor raising his hand.

"It's been a long time since I saw you. Usually you are always busy, and it's getting late. Tonight, I will stay and have a meal with me. Everyone in the palace has gone out. Even Xin'er went to his brother's house for a wedding. , I don’t even have anyone to eat with me, and Master Lu is no outsider, so you just stay here and don’t need to go out.”

Chang Xing glanced sideways at Chang An again, then smiled and stood sideways.