Ning Chen Ling Xiao

Unknowingly, it was June, and the two of them got up very early that day. After Chu Yifeng washed up, he went to the yard to dance swords for a while. Don't catch the wind when you're sweating."

Chu Yifeng put away the sword and handed it to Lunxiang who was standing beside him, walked up to Ling Xiao and said with a smile: "Just now, it's too early to sweat, and I'm not familiar with sword practice recently."

Ling Xiao took the outer robe held by Bi He and put it on Chu Yifeng, and smiled: "Is this still unfamiliar? I think it looks good, eat buns in the morning, okay?"

"Okay." Chu Yifeng didn't care much, "I'll go to the army after dinner..."

"Is there a lot of military affairs today?" Ling Xiao interrupted him, and said with a smile, "If not, then don't go, come with me to the Council Hall, how long has it been since you showed your face?"

When Ling Xiao said this, Chu Yifeng felt embarrassed, and said with a naive smile: "Isn't it because of you, I don't understand those things, hehe... OK, today I will go to the front with you."

Ling Xiao smiled: "It will take an hour and a half to talk less, you have to sit still."

"I know, I know, I can sit still."

Indeed, Chu Yifeng not only sat still, but also slept soundly.

Originally, it was quite fresh for the officials to see Chu Yifeng. After all, the last time they saw him was a month ago. Now that the prince is here, they all cheer up, but what is the use of Chu Yifeng sitting there? Not to mention, out of habit, the officials still made Ling Que, who was subordinate to Chu Yifeng, the top leader, and discussed everything with Ling Xiao. After Ling Xiao discussed with the officials, Chu Yifeng had already slept well when he came back.

Ling Xiao took the written tie and handed it to Chu Yifeng with both hands, and said respectfully: "This is what was discussed just now, please seal it."

Chu Yifeng rubbed his eyes and nodded to take it, glanced at it casually, and said, "Very well, that's it." After saying the seal, handing it to Ling Xiao, Liang Qiujie listed: "I don't know what else the lord has to order. ?”

Ling Xiao sighed in his heart, Liang Qiujie was a good person, but sometimes he was a little too roundabout, but seeing the prince, he had to say a few more words.

Chu Yifeng was obviously stopped by the question, but he didn't lose his composure, and said with a smile: "My lords have worked hard, I don't have anything to worry about, but..."

Liang Qiujie and all the officials looked at Chu Yifeng expectantly. Chu Yifeng pondered slightly, and his expression was somewhat similar to that of Ling Xiao when he was contemplating. There are a lot of things, big and small. My lords, it is too hard to stand this morning for at least an hour, and at most three hours. Why don't we set up some chairs in this government hall in the future, so that everyone can sit and discuss politics? ?”

Ling Xiao held back his laughter, and looked up at the expressions of the officials of His Royal Highness. Liang Qiujie was worthy of being a talent that Ling Xiao valued. Hearing this, his expression remained unchanged, and he persuaded him: "Your Majesty, honor and inferiority cannot be dismissed. I will eat the imperial salary, so I will naturally accept it." It should be for the country and the people..."

Chu Yifeng felt the most troubled hearing these words, and interrupted: "Aren't all the adults tired?"

Everyone immediately expressed their loyalty, saying that it would be fine for Da Chu to stand for the prince and the people for as long as it takes. Chu Yifeng nodded and smiled: "It's fine if you're not tired. Prime Minister Ling hasn't said a word all this time, but you feel tired?"

Ling Xiao held back his laughter, and just as he was about to speak, Chu Yifeng interrupted: "Since Ling Xiang is tired, let Ling Xiang be the first to set up a seat under my seat, Ye Yu!"

Ye Yu hurriedly came out: "The next official is here."

"From now on, I will set up a seat under my lord, and I will sit in front of Prime Minister Ling's hall to discuss political affairs." Chu Yifeng smiled, "From now on, whenever we discuss politics and banquets in my fiefdom, I will set up a seat for Ling Xiang under my lord, haha, everyone When an adult feels tired, tell this king, and I will set up a seat for you as well."

How could everyone dare to accept it? After Chu Yifeng issued his first order as a prince in the council hall, he had nothing to say. After they left, Ling Xiao followed Chu Yifeng back to the mansion.

"Why didn't you tell me in advance if you have any orders?" Ling Xiao couldn't laugh or cry when he thought of Chu Yifeng's words and deeds today, "When did you think of this? What's the point of standing for an hour or two?"

Chu Yifeng smiled: "I'm tired of sitting there for more than an hour today, let alone you standing up, and the two of us...don't be stuck with these vain rituals." Ling Xiao felt warm when he heard the words, and chuckled: "That's all, Thank you, my lord."

"Let's go, let's see what we have for lunch." Chu Yifeng's attention was immediately drawn away by lunch, and he dragged Ling Xiao to watch lunch. Ling Xiao gave pointers and told people to change a few places, and the two stayed in the mansion for an afternoon before returning to the house after dark.

"Master." Qin Long had been waiting for Ling Xiao in the mansion for almost an hour, and was thinking about going to the Yanzi Paddock to find someone when Ling Xiao came back. Looking at Qin Long's face, Ling Xiao knew that something must be wrong, and turned to Chu Yifeng He smiled and said, "Are you tired? Can't you take a shower before eating? I'll order them to have dinner."

"Okay." Chu Yifeng smiled, he also wanted to take it easy, so he agreed to go.

"What's the matter?" Ling Xiao took off his outer robe, Qin Long followed inside, and said in a low voice: "Shi Pei sent word that the emperor has already drawn up the imperial edict for the establishment of the crown prince, and it is only waiting for the auspicious day to announce it to the world."

Ling Xiao couldn't help laughing mockingly: "It's so fast..." After finishing speaking, he stopped talking and meditated quietly.

Qin Long looked at Ling Xiao's face, and said in a low voice: "Master... Are you hesitating to reveal all about King Hui?"

Ling Xiao nodded and smiled: "Sure enough, you understand me, I was thinking... Is it better to reveal those things now, or better in the future."

This Qin Long can't say well, each has advantages and disadvantages, and no one knows which one will hurt King Hui more before it happens.

Ling Xiao caressed the jade pendant on his waist, and said for a long time: "Poke it out now... In order not to slap your face, the emperor will do his best to suppress this matter, and now that we are not in the imperial city, we can't get involved in many things. It’s better to bring it up later to kill with one blow.”

Qin Long thought for a while and nodded: "My master is thinking, then... just let the emperor make King Hui the crown prince?"

Ling Xiao nodded and said lightly: "Let him go, I will not fight or grab the throne, I want Feng'er to succeed in a legitimate way."

"Yes."

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At the same moment, the Chengqian Palace was brightly lit, and the emperor was writing at his desk. An old man staggered into the hall, approached and saluted, "Your Majesty, do you want to summon your concubine today?"

"No, I'm staying in Chengqian Palace today." The emperor didn't look up, and put a booklet on his left hand after smearing it with cinnabar, "Go."

The old eunuch was stunned for a moment, hesitated for a while and finally got up without saying anything.

The little eunuch who was waiting outside the main hall of Chengqian Palace quickly rushed up, helped the old eunuch across the high threshold and said softly, "Eunuch Jiang, is the Holy Majesty not summoning concubines today?"

The old eunuch nodded, and sighed lightly: "Useless, you go back and return your life to the empress, the old slave is useless, the empress should go to bed early, the Holy Majesty will not pass by." The little eunuch said "Hi" and said : "Come on, Eunuch Jiang should go earlier too, I'll go back and return to my life with the empress."

In Fenghua Palace, the queen took the silver hairpin and picked up the lantern flower, and slightly bowed her head and said: "Got it, let's go down."

Mother Kang looked at the Queen's expression, and slowly said: "Your Majesty, don't be sad, the Holy Majesty has not seen your Majesty, but he has not seen any other concubines either, it's just that he is busy with government affairs and cannot take time off."

The queen shook her head slightly, and sighed softly: "How many times have I heard this, I don't believe it for a long time. Wasn't His Majesty busier than now when he first came to the throne? But that's not the case either. Speaking of which... I haven't seen you for many days. He's gone, I've been thinking for the past few days...was it wrong to support the Holy Majesty's bid for the heir at the beginning?"

As soon as this remark came out, Mother Kang's face suddenly changed, and she hurriedly said: "Your Majesty! Misfortune comes out of your mouth. Now Your Majesty is in the middle palace, how can you say such a thing?! Let the Holy Majesty hear it..." Speaking of this Mother Kang felt that she had made a slip of the tongue, so she stopped talking.

The queen was taken aback, and then laughed at herself: "What are you afraid of? The Japanese Palace just said that it was not appropriate to use Cao Rongxuan. The Holy Majesty reprimanded me for interfering in government affairs in front of so many palace people. Now he can't see me, and wants to reprimand me I can't either."

"Your Majesty..." Mother Kang sighed softly, and said for a long time, "The Holy Majesty is not in a good mood now, and his temper has exploded a bit. Why is he only facing Your Majesty? Your Majesty, please think carefully, let's not talk about it, just look up In the previous dynasty...which emperor could have only a son? Our emperor did it, and this is all because of loving the empress, and even the people say that the emperor and the empress are very harmonious."

The queen shook her head lightly: "If you talk about harmony... I used to think so too, but unfortunately now... that's all, I'm going to bed."

Mother Kang also had a worried expression on her face, she sighed softly and waited for the queen to wash up.

After three o'clock at night, a young eunuch serving outside the main hall of Chengqian Palace dozed off and accidentally bumped into a pillar, the sound of "dong" was very clear in the night, the emperor shook his hand, stood up abruptly and said urgently: "Who? !"

Laixi, the eunuch who was serving before the case, hurriedly supported the emperor to sit down, walked outside a few steps, slapped the careless little eunuch several times, and cursed: "Damn you! You are so shocked!" How many heads to pay?!"

Turning around and coming in, he bowed and said, "Your Majesty, don't worry, a little eunuch dozed off and bumped into a pillar. The servant just taught him a lesson."

The emperor frowned, rubbed the center of his brows, and said: "Go and let the people outside disperse, and the guards should also stay away. Don't make such noises to bother me. Laixi, it's good that you stay with me."

Everyone obeyed their orders, Laixi walked behind the emperor, and persuaded: "Your Majesty, it's time to go to bed, it's four o'clock soon."

The emperor shook his head and frowned slightly: "I always dream when I fall asleep... It's better to review the papers later."

After hearing this, Laixi stopped persuading him, changed a cup of tea for the emperor, walked slowly to the center of the hall, gently opened the incense burner and fiddled with the incense ash inside, brushed the incense burner carelessly with his cuff, and spilled a lot of white powder Come on, Laixi covered the incense burner as if he hadn't seen it, turned around and retreated behind the emperor.

A puff of white smoke rose slowly from the censer. After a while, the emperor lowered his head, rubbed his temples, and said with a frown, "Laixi... give me menthol to rub my head..."

Laixi bowed and agreed, went into the room to get menthol, and extinguished a few headlights. The emperor had a terrible headache and didn't notice it, so Laixi took some mint and rubbed his temples on his hand, After a while a gust of wind blew, the emperor opened his eyes, and was about to ask why the hall was so dark, Laixi lowered his head lightly, his face almost pressed against the emperor's ear, and said softly: "Second brother..."

The emperor only felt a bone-chilling chill permeating his bones, and turned his head to look at Laixi, only to see Laixi staring at him with a strange smile, and with the twitching of his face, a layer of skin on his face slowly fell off Come down, slowly revealing a familiar face inside...

"Second brother...you don't remember me?" Laixi tore off a layer of skin that had fallen off her face, and chuckled, "I'm the fourth..."

"Fourth brother!" The emperor fell back suddenly, and fell to the ground unsteadily, the blood in his eyes was about to burst, he almost fainted looking at Laixi's face, and the ashen face was terrified, "Really...really It's you..."

Laixi walked towards the emperor slowly, and smiled lightly: "Father is also dead. I asked him why he killed me and the princess back then, why he didn't let the bones of me and the princess go into the imperial tomb, and the souls of the princess and I Wandering day and night, it is very lonely..."

The emperor saw that Laixi was short of breath, and there was a whirring sound like a bellows in his throat, and Laixi grinned: "Father, I know that you are the one who hurt me behind my back, so let me take you to see him, and make it clear ...Explain clearly...why! Want to kill my family of three?!"

The emperor's eyes opened wider and wider, but he couldn't speak. The chill from the gold brick penetrated into his body from his back. He stepped back vigorously, and Laixi approached him step by step. He laughed strangely: "Second brother...Father The emperor is waiting for you, the queen mother is waiting for you, and my mother concubine Wei Taifei is also waiting for you..."

"哬...哬..." The emperor panted hard, Laixi leaned over and approached him, and said softly: "Second brother... I have been waiting for this day for 20 years, do you know? Come... come with me Bar……"

Laixi never touched the emperor, but approached him with a strange smile. The emperor looked at this familiar face and his breathing became more and more rapid. There was a sound like metal rubbing in his throat, and he said hoarsely: "Old...old four... ..." After saying these few words, the emperor's throat seemed to be pinched by an invisible big hand, his eyes were cracked, his mouth was opened wide and he took a deep breath, and the penetrating voice stopped abruptly...

Zhu Yu stood up and looked straight at the emperor lying on the ground without moving for a long time. The hall was extremely silent for a while, Zhu Yu slowly put the human skin mask back on his face, and said lightly: "If you have anything to say, go and Tell father and mother..."

Not long after, Laixi slowly came out of Chengqian Palace, and the eunuchs who were on duty outside came over and said, "Eunuch Laixi, can the emperor take a rest?"

Laixi nodded and said softly: "I finally fell asleep, don't get too close to disturb the emperor, or the skin will be exposed!" The emperor has been in a bad mood for the past few months. Yes, everyone nodded upon hearing the words, Laixi nodded, turned around and left...

In the early morning of the next day, the eunuch who waited on the emperor to get up hesitated for a long time, and finally had the courage to enter the Chengqian Palace bedroom at [-]:[-] pm. Several young eunuchs hung up layers of gauze curtains, and a young eunuch pushed the people around him and whispered: "Master... If you want me to say... we should wait until Eunuch Lai Xi arrives before waking up the Holy One..."

"Are you afraid of being beaten?" The eunuch was also afraid, and whispered, "Little bastard, do you think I am willing to come in? Laixi Eunuch is taking a rest today, and he will leave the palace when he gets up early to open the palace gate, or wait until I come to pull the tiger out." Shall? Hurry up..."

"Ah? Ahhh!!!"

On the seventh day of June in the first year of Kangyou, Emperor Daxing died in Chengqian Palace.