Emperor's Grace

Royal study.

Emperor Zhaoyang stood by the window with his hands behind his back, without saying a word for a long time, while He Huailing stood with his head down on one side, and did not make a sound, the only sound in the room was the continuous swing of the chiming clock and pendulum.

As if overnight, Emperor Zhaoyang had aged dozens of years, white hairs had grown from his temples, and there was exhaustion and gloom in his brows that could not go away.After a long time, He Huailing persuaded in a low voice: "Your Majesty, even if His Royal Highness is deposed, he is still a prince. It is not suitable to live in that kind of place after all. The cold palace is cold and dark, and his body can't bear it."

Emperor Zhaoyang turned around, looked at He Huailing, and examined him: "In so many days, you are still the first person who dares to intercede for him in front of me."

"Your Highness and Your Majesty are close relatives after all. I'm afraid that Your Majesty will regret it one day."

"What do you regret? He did such a thing that is inferior to a beast. I kept his life for the sake of his mother, a close relative? Does he still remember that I am his father?"

"The matter of witchcraft, I think, may not be done by His Royal Highness."

Emperor Zhaoyang's eyes turned cold: "What do you think? Dingyuanhou, Dingyuanhou, you are really brave, and you are the only one who dares to say such things in front of me."

He Huailing's expression remained unchanged: "It happened suddenly and strangely. I just think that it is too arbitrary to conclude that His Highness did it. Maybe His Highness was really framed."

"Who can frame him? Who dares to frame him?" Emperor Zhaoyang suppressed his anger and asked, "You said he was framed, so tell me, who did it?"

He Huailing's eyes flickered: "...I don't know."

In this matter, Zhu Yunxun did everything seamlessly, which is why he is so confident.If there is no solid evidence, relying on specious speculation and assumptions to speak in front of the emperor will only anger the emperor even more, and then transfer his anger to Zhu Yunjing.Right now, He Huailing just wants to persuade Emperor Zhaoyang to change Zhu Yunjing to a place where people can live, and the other things can only be left for later.

Emperor Zhaoyang said: "Since you don't know, then don't talk nonsense with me here! What benefit did you take from him? I didn't know when you had such a friendship with him, and you want to help him like this?!"

"Your Majesty, please calm down," He Huailing explained in a deep voice, "I just feel that Your Highness is not that kind of person. There was a time when I met His Highness by chance outside the palace. At that time, His Highness bought a snack from a famous dim sum shop in the city. Dessert, after eating a piece, I feel good, so I ordered people to buy more, and said that I would bring it back to the palace for your majesty, you and the empress dowager to taste. I think of your majesty's personality, and if you eat something good outside, you will always think about giving it to you and the queen mother How could the empress dowager do such a rebellious thing when she gave her a share?"

Emperor Zhaoyang was at a loss for words for a moment, He Huailing reminded him, he obviously remembered this matter, Zhu Yunjing has been a filial child since he was a child, and it is precisely because of this that the emperor was so angry and angry when something like this happened this time. disappointment.

However, since ancient times, this is the most taboo of emperors, and so is Emperor Zhaoyang. The matter of witchcraft has indeed stepped on his bottom line.

Leng Gong.

Zhu Yunjing huddled in the worn-out quilt, clutching the quilt under her body with her fingers, shivering from the cold.His stomach hurts badly too, it's been three days, he's living in this ghost place, maybe it won't be long before he will be tortured to death.

The door of the palace opened with a 'squeak', and the little eunuch who delivered the food came in with a food box on his back, and brought it to Zhu Yunjing. Zhu Yunjing struggled to get up, with a hoarse voice: "Do me a favor, if It's done, I will definitely not lose your benefits in the future, how about it?"

The little eunuch rolled his eyes back and forth a few times, as if hesitating and struggling, Zhu Yunjing said again: "It won't be difficult, you just need to help me send something to Xuande Hall for Eunuch Liu, and ask him to pass it on to His Majesty." That's it."

The little eunuch glanced at him, gritted his teeth and replied, "Your Highness, please eat first, and the servants will come over to pack things later."

Zhu Yunjing breathed a sigh of relief, tore off a large piece of fabric from the inner garment, bit her own fingertips hard, knelt down on the bed, and tremblingly wrote a bloody confession on the cloth.

He didn't cry for grievances anymore, he only listed all the wrong things and crimes he had done, tearfully begged the emperor's forgiveness, and reminisced about the scene of happy family and harmonious family in the evening, weeping blood every word, and punishing every sentence.Zhu Yunjing is well aware of his father's weakness, he can only gamble once, as long as he can get out of here, he still has the possibility of turning over.

After finishing writing, Zhu Yunjing, whose body was already extremely weak, raised his hand, and carefully untied the jade pendant left by his mother who was hanging around his neck and never left him, and wrapped it in the blood book.Only then did he pull a strip of cloth from his clothes, wrap his hands indiscriminately, open the lunch box, pick up the bowl, retching and gobbling himself up to force himself to eat the not delicious meal.

Half an hour later, the little eunuch came back again, packed the food box silently, took the things Zhu Yunjing handed over before leaving, quickly stuffed them into his arms, nodded and retreated.

Outside the Leng Palace, there are imperial guards guarding every step of the way. The little eunuch came out with an empty food box, because there was a ghost in his heart, and his palms were covered with cold sweat. .

"What's the matter with you, eunuch? Don't you have eyesight when you walk? Why don't you rush to apologize if you bump into the prince!"

The little eunuch knelt down tremblingly, and Huai'an Hou Shizi, who was bumped by him, turned his dark eyes to the direction he had just come from, paused, and the servants around him understood, and asked instead: "Did you come out of the cold palace?" Are you a thief in such a hurry?"

"No... no."

"No? What are you doing without you being so nervous? Why are you shrinking? What are you hiding in your arms? Quickly take it out and show it to the prince!"

Huaian Hou Shizi took the things found in the arms of the young eunuch, and after seeing clearly what it was, a sneer sneered from the corner of his mouth.Unexpectedly, when he came to the palace today to pay respects to his grandmother who was a concubine, he would have such a harvest. Finally, he had a chance to avenge his tongue-cut revenge.

In the imperial study room, Emperor Zhaoyang closed his eyes and slowed down his voice: "Why do you think I abolished him? The things he did before, one after another, are not what a qualified prince should do? I was under the pressure of the court to help him carry it down and deal with his aftermath, but what did he do? How could he not disappoint me? The prince I have spent so many years cultivating is actually such a man without virtue and filial piety. Don't I feel sad?"

He Huailing wanted to persuade him again, but someone came in to report, saying that the commander of the imperial guards asked to see him, and he had something important to report.

Emperor Zhaoyang let people in, and the commander of the imperial guards brought several people over, including a eunuch who knelt down on the ground as soon as he entered the door tremblingly.

"Fang Caichen caught this sneaky eunuch who seemed to be going out of the palace at Xihua Gate. Seeing his expression flickering and flickering, he detained him. He found this jade pendant on his body, and according to his confession, it was given to him by someone from the Leng Palace, and asked him to use it as a token to go out of the palace to inform others."

Emperor Zhaoyang naturally recognized the jade pendant, which was worn by Zhu Yunjing's mother around his neck when she was dying. Emperor Zhaoyang frowned fiercely, and looked at the eunuch lying on the ground: "Is this given to you by someone in the cold palace?"

"Yes Yes……"

The eunuch was sweating profusely, his face was pale, and he couldn't speak fluently, but if Zhu Yunjing was here at this moment, he would be surprised, because that was not the eunuch who brought him food at all.

"What did he tell you?"

"Great...His Highness said to let the servants send this out of the palace, send...to the residence of Chief Xu of the Jingnan Camp, and he will know what to do."

There was a 'crash', the sound of porcelain falling to the ground and shattering. Emperor Zhaoyang slapped the imperial case with a slap, shaking an ornament on the desk to the ground, breaking it into pieces.

"He is so courageous! Does he want to rebel?!" Emperor Zhaoyang was furious.

"Your Majesty, this matter seems strange..."

As soon as He Huailing made a sound, Emperor Zhaoyang yelled and interrupted: "Shut up!"

The emperor's chest heaved violently, and his eyes were on fire, as if he was angry.The Jingnan Camp is one of the two major camps in the capital, and it is the most important garrison in the capital!Just after Zhu Yunjing was abolished and imprisoned, he did everything possible to contact the commander-in-chief of the Jingnan Camp. What did he want to do?

Moreover, Mr. Xu and Xie's family were originally related by marriage. His son married a niece of Xie Chongming. He had been close to Xie Guogong's mansion and the East Palace before. Although he was not implicated in the downfall of Xie Guogong's mansion, he was also criticized. Zhaoyang The emperor had planned to find a reason to dismiss him, but now something like this happened.

He Huailing did not flinch, but still insisted: "Your Majesty, this matter must be thoroughly investigated before a conclusion can be made!"

"How long are you going to excuse him?! He even took out the jade pendant that never leaves him as a token! Could it be that someone forced him to hand it over?! This wicked man! Beast! What is it? What evil did you do to give birth to such an unfaithful and unfilial thing!"

Speaking of the later, the emperor's eyes turned red, his heart palpitations seemed to be happening again, he clutched his chest and was shaking with pain on his face, the palace staff hurriedly supported him, poured water, passed on to the imperial physician, and passed on to the imperial physician, all in a mess.Emperor Zhaoyang vomited a big mouthful of blood and just passed out.

The imperial physician rushed over, and it took less than half an hour after the injection, the emperor regained consciousness, but tears were streaming down his face, his eyes were full of sadness: "It's my fault, I indulged him too much, unexpectedly, such a beast is not as good as you!" Come on, I am ashamed of my ancestors, I am ashamed of my Dayan Jiangshan... Come, I want to draw up an order."

He Huailing's pupils shrank suddenly, and blurted out: "Your Majesty!"

Emperor Zhaoyang didn't pay attention to him any more, and directly asked someone to draw up an order to bestow the death of the deposed prince Zhu Yunjing for the crime of treason.

He Huailing fell to his knees and begged: "Your Majesty, please think twice!"

The imperial decree was quickly drawn up, and Emperor Zhaoyang's eyes slowly swept across the people in the room, and finally fell on He Huailing, and said in a hoarse voice: "Since you have a good relationship with him, you can send him on the road for me. .”

"Your Majesty!" He Huailing finally lost his previous composure.

Emperor Zhaoyang closed his eyes and waved his hand wearily: "Go."