Reincarnation of the powerful minister

"—Royal Father!" Zhu Helin yelled loudly, woke up suddenly, and rolled off the bed.

The palace people stepped forward to help.Zhu Helin asked repeatedly: "Why did I suddenly faint? Where's the father? Where's Su Qinghe?"

A servant replied with tears in his voice: "My condolences, young master, Dr. Chen said that you and Mr. Su fainted just now because of the agitation of your mind and the rush of blood. Mr. Su has not woken up in the side hall. The emperor... ...The emperor has entered Zigong (coffin) and was sent to the Hall of Renzhi overnight."

Thousands of gloom surged in Zhu Helin's heart, it was sadness, grief, fear and despair of losing the last dear one.The suffocation made his lungs tear apart, and finally rushed out of his throat, turning into a roar: "Ahhhhhhhh!"

He threw off the palace guards, rushed out of the palace door, and ran wildly in the corridor at the end of the long night, colliding with Su Yan who rushed out after waking up.

Zhu Helin seemed to have picked up the last piece of driftwood in the vast sea of ​​suffering, and firmly grasped Su Yan's arm: "Qinghe..."

Su Yan's face was pale, and he felt dizzy and nauseated, as if his internal organs were about to be squeezed out of his chest cavity and lifted out of his throat.He lay on the ground and retched for a while, his shirt soaked in cold sweat.Then retching turned into asthma, and he struggled to breathe out of breath, like a fish out of water, tormented in the torture of emptiness.

Seeing him like this, Zhu Helin couldn't care about his emotions for a moment, and hurriedly looked around and shouted: "Where is the imperial physician! Send the imperial physician quickly!"

The two imperial physicians on standby heard that the prince was awake, and hurried over with a medicine box on their backs. After taking Su Yan's pulse, they immediately stuffed a reassuring pill under his tongue, and then said: "Master Su, this is Qiqing Injury. There is no abnormality in the lungs and organs of the body, but there is such a reaction because of the 'shocking heart and gallbladder, sad lungs'. After the effect of the medicine dissolves and the mind calms down a little, it will gradually recover."

Zhu Helin was so frightened that his own gloom was also frightened away a lot.He took a few deep breaths, stroked his back and said, "Qinghe, don't be afraid... relax, breathe slowly..."

When Su Yan gradually recovered his normal breathing and stopped retching, Zhu Helin helped him stand up and said, "I'll help you go back to lie down."

Su Yan looked better.His heart was on fire, but his blood and limbs were calmed by the power of the medicine, like the surface of water with whirlpools and undercurrents in the depths, with hidden power, but the appearance showed an unusual depth and calmness.

"I'm going to see the emperor for the last time." He straightened his waist, which was twisted due to the throbbing pain, and said to Zhu Helin, "The prince will go with me."

The night has faded, and the palace seems to be immersed in the dark blue like water, but the first sun has not yet risen.

At this dividing point between night and day, in the corridor in front of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Zhu Helin looked at Su Yan's face and felt that he was also divided into two halves - one half was young, Sorrowful, panic, blood and tears swallowed by no one knows; the other half is heavy, sharp, and tough, tenacious and tenacious.

This sense of contradiction gave Zhu Helin an unprecedented strong consciousness: I have to be strong, like my father, strong enough to comfort his half and be worthy of his other half.

The prince, who was about to turn 17, ignited a spark from the ashes of grief at this moment of loss of support and unbearable pain.

He stepped forward to hold Su Yan's hand and said, "Let's go."

Only one night has passed, and the decoration of the Hall of Renzhi, which is the funeral palace, has not yet been completed. The morning light illuminates the sad faces and busy figures of the palace people.

The emperor's Zigong stopped here, dressed in clothes, set up a mourning hall for the emperor, and held a memorial service. After several days or even dozens of days, the Zigong was moved out of the imperial city and buried in the emperor's mausoleum.

When Zhu Helin and Su Yan came to the Hall of Renzhi, they found that the Empress Dowager had arrived first, and several servants and maids around her were arguing with the Jin Yiwei guarding the gate of the palace.

The Empress Dowager wanted to enter the funeral palace, but Shen Qi, wearing a flying fish suit and holding an embroidered spring knife, was blocking the entrance of the hall.

"...I am the empress dowager, and I can't even see my son for the last time. Which ancestor made this rule? Who gave you the courage? You are going to rebel!" The empress dowager pointed at Shen Qi's nose, her face covered with tears, He scolded angrily, "Slave dog, get out of here!"

Shen Qi's face did not change, and her voice was flat: "I obey the emperor's will, and I hope the Queen Mother will understand. Queen Mother, please go back."

"Desire? What is the decree that a mother is not allowed to cry for her son's corpse!"

The Empress Dowager forced her way into the palace, Shen Qi blocked the Xiuchun scabbard in front of her, and said coldly: "The Empress Dowager is honorable, I dare not do anything to the Empress Dowager!"

This is not "dare to do anything", it is clearly "threatening to do something", the queen mother was so angry that her heart throbbed, but suddenly she heard a voice behind her: "Since it is the father's will, please obey the emperor's grandmother. Come, send me off!" The Empress Dowager returns to the Compassion Palace!"

The queen mother turned around, seeing that it was Zhu Helin, she was even more angry and hated.It's a pity that she no longer has any military power in her hands, and even the guards of the Compassionate Ning Palace were taken away by Longquan, the commander of Teng Xiangwei.

Zhu Helin didn't wait for her to use seniority to suppress others, and said: "Father's imperial edict, please move the Queen Mother to Dongyuan. In the past few days, I will have someone tidy up the Longde Palace in Dongyuan, and send it to the Queen Mother to take care of her for the rest of her life."

Although Longde Hall is the main hall of Dongyuan, Concubine Wei gave birth in it. According to superstition, the delivery room is filthy and unfit for living.In addition, an official fell to his death from the auxiliary building next to the hall, which is even more ominous.

The Empress Dowager's face was blue with anger, and just as she was about to slap him desperately, the guards of the Eastern Palace immediately rushed forward and surrounded her.He didn't even make a move, just surrounded him like a bucket.

"Escort the Empress Dowager to move." Zhu Helin ordered, the indifference and faint hatred in his eyes made the Empress Dowager shudder like drinking ice.

The queen mother is clearly aware that the harem that belongs to her has completely left her; the former dynasty that does not belong to her has never been truly controlled by her.

When Emperor Jinglong was around, she was the mother who was filially respected by her son; when Emperor Jinglong was gone, she was left with an empty shell of the empress dowager, which was used to contain the cold alienation of the grandson, and the hatred of direct revenge. meaning.

Until being driven into the phoenix chariot, the queen mother was still thinking blankly—what is the difference between this and Concubine Wei Zhao, who was imprisoned in the cold palace and waiting to die of old age?

Zhu Helin took a deep breath, feeling less resentment, and pulled Su Yan into the palace gate.

Emperor Jinglong's Zigong stopped on the treasure bed in the middle of the main hall, and Lan Xi was leading the palace people to lay down the white curtain.

With tears in his eyes, Zhu Helin stroked the outermost layer of gold lacquer in Zigong, and told the palace servants: "Open the coffin, let me take another look at Father."

No one in the palace dared to step forward, and they all bowed their heads and knelt down.

Zhu Helin endured his anger and went to push the coffin lid himself, but the other hand held the coffin lid tightly.

- It was Shen Qi's hand.

Shen Qi said: "Master, the emperor has a will, no one can disturb him."

Zhu Helin said angrily: "Father, I was present the whole time from the time when he asked the orphan in front of the bed to perform the craniotomy. Why did I never hear about the last order! It's all right if you stop the Queen Mother, why do you want to stop me?"

Su Yan stepped forward, put his hands on the coffin lid, and said to Shen Qi: "Qilang, I didn't hear any wills, you...don't do stupid things, let go."

Shen Qi gritted her teeth, forced herself to look directly into Su Yan's hurt eyes, and said: "Qinghe, please be considerate of me."

Su Yan looked at him in surprise, as if he didn't expect to be rejected by him.

Lan Xi knelt in front of Zhu Helin, crying and said: "Master, this is indeed the emperor's will! The emperor has never given up on the idea of ​​craniotomy, otherwise he would not have called Dr. Chen Shiyu into the palace last year." , Dr. Chen thought he was not sure, so he never dared to implement it.

"In the past two or three months, the emperor has fallen into a state of half-asleep and half-awake. He also thought about this matter when he was awake, but he was afraid that if the operation failed, the previous layout would collapse, so he must hold on to this breath and wait until The prince is back.

"At that time, the emperor told the servants that when the prince came back and the dust settled, he would persuade Chen Shiyu.

"The emperor also explained that if it fails at that time, the head will be shaved and the head will not be humanized, and the body will never be seen by the courtiers, which will lose the dignity of the emperor; let alone the close relatives, because the emperor does not want to leave it to the young master himself. The last impression I had with Mr. Su was that he was dripping with blood..."

Lan Xi grabbed Zhu Helin by the corner of his robe, grabbed the ground with his head, and cried bitterly.

Zhu Helin finally couldn't help it, squatted beside Zi Palace and choked up, "Father... I don't want to be seen by others, so I won't watch it. Let him always look like the golden crown and dragon robe on the portrait, sitting majestically..."

Su Yan touched the coffin lid, as if even the feeling of sadness had been frozen, but a strange feeling was reflected from the depths of the ice.He blinked in surprise, trying to grasp this strange thought——

He subconsciously looked at Shen Qi.

Shen Qi happened to turn her head at this moment, not catching his gaze.

Then that thread of thought was like a fish swimming in the bottom of the water, slipping away before being caught.

Zhu Helin stayed in the mourning hall for a whole day, and did not leave the funeral palace until he had to preside over the overall situation as the heir emperor.

Su Yan left the palace, got into the carriage driven by Jing Hong, and returned home like a ghost.I almost fell when I entered the door, and the whole person was wooden.Sitting in the drunken chair by the window for a day, I don't know what to think.

Jing Hongzhui couldn't stand it anymore, so he added some tranquilizing and hypnotic medicine to the soup for his dinner, and just now he fell into a deep sleep.

After sitting by the bed for a long time, Jing Hongzhui suddenly moved her ears and looked out the door.

He got up, walked out of Su Yan's bedroom, and saw Shen Qi standing under the big tree in the courtyard, like a night beast hiding in the shadows.

Jing Hong chased after her, and asked tauntingly, "If you're not going to attend to your big business, what are you doing here?"

Shen Qi said: "I just came out of the palace, so I can take a look at him before I can go back to the palace with peace of mind."

Jing Hong pursued, "I'll be on guard, so you don't need to worry about it. Besides, when do you plan to let him know about that matter?"

Shen Qi remained silent.

Jing Hong raised her eyebrows and looked at him coldly: "If he continues to be so sad, his body and spirit will not be able to bear it, so don't blame me for breaking my promise."

Shen Qi asked back: "So what if you tell him? Give him a little hope right now, and after a few days, if hope is shattered into disappointment again, let him experience a second and heavier blow?"

Jing Hong bit her back molars chasingly, without making a sound.After a while, he asked again: "What did Doctor Chen say?"

Shen Qi said: "He can't tell why. This kind of thing depends on medical skills before, and God's will later. In short, wait, wait until that day -"

Jing Hongzui was silent for a moment, and said: "Shen Qi, you are really a lunatic."

Shen Qi twitched the corner of her mouth, revealing a sharp arc, like a blade in the night: "As long as the conditions are right, I can make a deal with anyone, including the least favorite chess player."

Jing Hong asked: "How many chess players did you make deals with?"

Shen Qi asked back: "You guess?"

In the secret room of the study, King Yu was cleaning an old helmet inlaid with the golden Liujia god.

In the cold winter night, he took a breath of hot air on the helmet, and then continued to wipe it with a white cloth.

"...This is the helmet you wore when you went to the battlefield with me for the last time after you ascended the throne. In the chaos of the Ganzhou mutiny, I shot a spear for you, and you fell from the collapsed gate tower while holding me , the helmet is also missing."

"Later, I narrowly escaped death and found your helmet in the ruins. But it has been deformed and I can no longer wear it."

"I secretly brought back this helmet that can only be used by the queen, and repaired it myself. I wanted to find a chance to return it to you. I thought at the time, would the second brother be surprised?"

"Then you gave me an even bigger surprise—recall me back to Beijing and put me in a cage."

"Qinghe said that the cage was built by the queen mother. But so what? The key is in your hand. You have held the key for ten years, but you have never tried to open the lock once and let me out."

"Because this is not only the Queen Mother's intention, but also your own."

"For the stability of the country, you must eliminate all hidden dangers—even if this hidden danger may not happen at all, you would rather kill by mistake than let it go."

"Zhu Jinkai, now that you are finally dead, the cloud that has weighed on my head for ten years has dissipated. I really want to laugh out loud—hahaha!"

"Your son is still very tender. Do you think he can hold me down after you die?"

"Look, I will soon get out of the cage, return to the battlefield, and pull up a new Jingbei army. Under my horseshoe long lance, there is no single enemy."

"Zhu Jinkai, don't you worry that I will rebel against your son? If you are worried, get up from your magnificent Zigong and beat me up? Just like when we were young, if we can't argue, just beat me up." shelf."

"—Zhu Jinkui, get up!"

The room was silent, only the shadow of the helmet was cast on the ground by the wall lamp.

With a "bang", the helmet fell to the ground, and King Yu opened his palms to cover his face, and a very low and slight whimpering sound escaped from between his fingers.