Prologue Three
The queen hugged the emperor and shook her, and kept shouting "Your Majesty"... Everyone present also burst into tears...
A generation of emperors passed away. The second emperor of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Jiong, passed away in May.
Wang Jien approached and after confirming that the emperor was dead, he winked at one of his subordinates, who nodded and left. Wang Jien came over and said to several palace maids: "Please help the queen, if anything goes wrong, be careful."
His head!" A young eunuch came up and asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, do you need us to inform you all about the death of the emperor?"
Wang Jien said with a sad face: "I am extremely saddened by the death of the emperor, and the queen is also in pain. But it is already late at night, and I am afraid that it would be inappropriate to inform the ministers now. Let the queen rest for one night and wait for the morning meeting tomorrow."
It won’t be too late to inform the ministers.”
Wang Jien quickly went to help Empress Li and said: "Empress, please forgive me. I will leave this to the villain, who also needs to install the emperor's dragon body according to the royal etiquette. Now I can only rely on you to take charge of the overall situation, please make sure
Phoenix body."
Queen Li looked at it, nodded, and was helped away by several palace maids.
After the queen left, Wang Jien ordered people to put the emperor's body in a safe place and left in a hurry. On the way back, Wang Jien was alone in the carriage. There was no light in the carriage. He said with a gloomy face: "Yong'er, don't worry.
I will succeed immediately. When the time comes, I will ask them to bury you with you!"
Early the next morning, in front of the Prince's Mansion, a sedan arrived in front of the door. The bearer carefully lowered the sedan. Hanfeng stepped forward and said to the guard, "I've been troubled to tell you that Princess Yunkai is here."
When the guard heard, "Princess Yunkai," he did not dare to neglect and said quickly: "Okay, please wait a moment, princess, and I will inform you immediately."
With that said, the guard hurriedly ran into the yard and said to Butler Hu: "Princess Yunkai is here to visit."
When Butler Hu heard this, he said: "Please come quickly." Then he said to a servant behind him: "Go and prepare tea." Then he said to another servant: "Go to the study and inform the prince."
Prince Zhao Heng was reading and writing in the study, when a servant came and announced: "Prince, Princess Yunkai is here and is now in the front hall." Zhao Heng was surprised and happy, and murmured to the woman beside him:
"Sister Huang, today
Why are you here?" The woman put the brush in the prince's hand away and said, "You will know if you go down and take a look." Zhao Heng said to the servant, "I will be there right away." The servant replied:
"Yes." Then he withdrew.
Yun Kai walked into the prince's front hall and sat on the chair on the right side of the front hall. Butler Hu came to the front hall to meet the princess. He stood respectfully and said, "Princess, please wait a moment. The prince is reading in the study. Princess."
A sudden visit today? No need to inform in advance. The servants can welcome the princess."
Yun Kai said: "It's nothing, but I haven't seen the prince for a few days and I miss him a little. I happened to be out today, so I came to see him."
Then Butler Hu asked: "I wonder why the princess went out today?"
Yun Kai said: "There's nothing wrong. It's getting hotter and hotter now. I want to buy some cool clothes for the children at home. I'll go out early to take a look."
Butler Hu smiled and said: "Why don't you leave these things to the servants? Why do you have to let the princess choose it yourself for such a trivial matter?"
Yun Kai also smiled and said: "Housekeeper Hu, you don't know that when there was no Tian'er or Yue'er, I never took care of these things. But since I have children, I can't think of giving them the best. Now
People have poor judgment, and there are many people who enrich themselves. This is
It’s just greed for convenience and profit. If these clothes make the children uncomfortable to wear, it will be very bad, so how can I trust them to take care of these things. The prince-in-law also works all day long on the Jiangmen Alliance, and I don’t
I'm so worried about him, so I went out with Hanfeng today to have a look."
The housekeeper said: "Princess Suwen is gentle and virtuous. She is indeed a role model in the family. She makes servants like this old man feel ashamed."
Yun Kai said: "What are you talking about? Since the establishment of this Prince's Mansion, you have always been in charge of it. When I just came in, I saw that the Prince's Mansion is clean and bright, and the servants are also well-mannered. Naturally, your hard work is indispensable."
Butler: "The princess lifts up the villain, and the villain is just doing his job."
After a while, several maids came and placed tea and snacks on the table. Yun Kai picked up the cup and drank some tea. He then said, "I wonder how the prince is feeling after he comes in?"
The housekeeper said: "The prince is well and he goes to the study every morning to read."
"The prince has arrived!"
When the prince came in, he bowed to Yun Kai, and the princess nodded, and then said: "You are quite diligent in studying now. I remember that when you were a child, you were always playful and didn't like reading, but you have changed a lot now."
The prince walked to the main seat in the hall and sat down, and then replied: "The book has its own golden house, and the book has its own Yan Ruyu. When I was young, I only knew how to play. If I hadn't experienced so much with the imperial sister and brother Liu, I would probably still be the same now.
He is an ignorant naughty boy who only knows how to enjoy himself but does not know the suffering in the world." Then, in front of the throne room, the prince also picked up the tea cup, took a sip of the tea on the table, and asked, "Why did the emperor have time to see me today?"
Yun Kai said: "I haven't seen you for a long time. I know that you are afraid of heat. Today I went out to buy some clothes for Tian'er and Yue'er. I also came to your place to see if you also need to buy some clothes. I did it together.
.”
The prince smiled and said: "Ever since I was little, the emperor's sister has cared about me the most. I thought that after the emperor's sister and Brother Liu got married, they had Tian'er and Yue'er, so they had already forgotten about my younger brother."
Yun Kai said angrily: "Who do you think your sister is? My mother and concubine passed away early. My eldest brother was highly regarded by my father. He cultivated me carefully and entrusted me with many important responsibilities. Only you and I have been together since childhood, and you have been together since childhood."
It’s not a worry. Now, I have finally found the person I like, what? Is it possible that your sister and I will be your servant for the rest of your life?!"
"Sister, what are you talking about? My sister is good to me, and I will remember my brother in my heart. It's just that my eldest brother... alas... has been cultivated by my father since he was a child. It's a pity that I am jealous of talents. Thinking about how powerful and intelligent my eldest brother was in the past, then
But the example of our brothers, now...sigh..."
Yun Kai said: "Yes, it's a pity what happened to my eldest brother, but I still have you!"
Zhao Heng said: "Me?"
Yun Kai said: "Yes, the eldest brother is crazy and the second brother passed away due to illness. My father has put all his thoughts on you. You can't make my father sad and disappointed anymore."
The prince said helplessly: "I don't know why. Since I became the prince, my father has started to be wary of me. He doesn't tell me many things. Even my father has been seriously ill recently and he has not seen me. I don't know what I am doing now."
How is your father's health?"
Yun Kai thought: My father is seriously ill, you'd better go see him quickly.
But he didn't say it out loud. The people in the Prince's Mansion were so perplexed that there was no guarantee that they would have spies. If he said that he knew, it would be even more suspicious. He said, "What kind of person is my father? He is the lord of the world. How about this minor illness?"
Will it hurt you? Where is my father?"
"Sister, if you say this, I feel more at ease."
"only?"
"What's wrong?"
"You said that Father doesn't see you, I think?"
"Sister, do you have any news?"
"Where can I, a woman, get this information? I just thought that you were straightforward and decisive when you were young. Why are you acting coy now? I think my uncle, father, and eldest brother are all vigorous and resolute people with a strong and decisive attitude. You
When I was a kid, I liked to call myself the big one with my brothers, and I didn’t want to be outdone?! I see, your current appearance makes my father feel that he made the wrong choice, that’s why he doesn’t see you.”
"My sister said that this is a bit...after all, we are not a child anymore. If we continue to be as reckless as we were when we were children, we won't be able to do it."
"It's true that you can be careful, but you have to learn to be more reckless in some things. Okay, it's time for me to leave." Zhao Heng stood up to see him off. When he walked to the door, Yun Kai said again: "The weather is like this
It's so hot, it hasn't rained for several days." Hanfeng said smoothly: "Princess, I heard someone say
, If the sky is sunny for too long, it will definitely rain. They say it is the 'calm before the storm'." Yun Kai replied: "There seems to be such a saying." Then he turned his back to Zhao Heng and held a bamboo
He secretly put the note into Zhao Heng's sleeve and said to Zhao Heng: "Then let's go."
When Zhao Heng received the bamboo slips, he frowned for a moment, but immediately changed his face to a smile and bowed respectfully: "Sister Huang, go slowly."
After Yun Kai left, the prince told the housekeeper a few words, saying that he wanted to read a book and not to disturb anyone else, and then returned to the study. At this time, two servants whispered, and one said: "Do you want to report this to me?"
Prince?" Another said: "I was just listening in the house.
What they said was nothing important. It was just an ordinary princess coming to see her brother. The prince and his father-in-law have sent people to explain in the past few days that they are preparing for big events. They asked me to beware of the visit of some ministers from the court. The princess is not considered a minister.
Well…it should be nothing.”
The person said: "That's right. In the past few days, we basically went to report the prince's situation to the prince every day. We couldn't see anyone for a while, which made Butler Hu suspicious. Recently, the prince said that we would only report the key things and not the trivial matters.
There’s no need to go, besides, if Butler Hu catches me, there will definitely be no good results.”
While the two were talking privately, Butler Hu had stood beside them and shouted: "It's you two again. What are you talking about here when you're not doing business? Why don't you hurry up and clean up the front hall?"
The two of them were startled and ran to the front hall to clean up without mentioning the report.
Chapter completed!