Qingyan forced herself to calm down and told Liang Jiugong to sit here in the side hall for a while, then she held her little nephew with tears in her eyes with one hand, and the other hand held Xiaosi who was still a little confused, and hurriedly led the two brothers.
After entering the inner room to change clothes, Bai Lu, who was originally waiting at the dining table, saw this and hurriedly followed her.
When Yindi, Yinzhi, and Changquan, who were standing together, heard such unexpected news, they couldn't help but look at each other, knowing that the dinner between brothers would definitely be unbearable, and they were all extremely satisfied.
With a wink, each left the Chuxiu Palace with their attendants holding oil-paper umbrellas.
He Zhuer also did not expect that His Royal Highness the Prince would be dead at such a young age. He suppressed all the regret rising in his heart, walked up to his master, and quietly lowered his head to wait for the little one.
The prince and fourth brother changed their clothes and came out.
"Xiaosi, hurry up and change out of the golden robe you are wearing."
As soon as Qingyan walked into the inner room, she quickly walked to the large wardrobe that was about one person tall and inlaid with a full-length mirror on the east wall. She anxiously opened the door of the wardrobe and took out a plain white dress from it.
The round-neck robe was handed to his son who was standing behind him without turning his head.
Xiaosi also knew the urgency of the matter, and without saying a word, he reached out to take the little robe and began to unbutton the buttons at his collar.
Bai Lu, who was standing next to him, also immediately bent down to help Xiao Si.
Since Yinreng moved into his East Palace, the Prince's clothes stored in the Chuxiu Palace have decreased a lot. Qingyan rummaged through the wardrobe for a long time before finally finding a set of autumn clothes that the Prince could wear.
She had just stretched out her hand to pull her little nephew, who had red eyes and lost his soul, in front of her, and was about to let Yin Reng take off the apricot yellow robe on his body, but she was stopped by Bai Lu.
"My Lady, please wait. Your Highness should not wear this tea-white robe. I remember that His Highness also has a navy blue round-neck robe. Let him wear a dark robe when leaving the palace."
Bai Lu helped Xiao Si get dressed quickly. When she turned her head, she saw that Concubine Jing was holding a uniform of the same style that was much larger than the round-necked robe that Fourth Brother was wearing. Her eyelids jumped, and then she straightened up and walked over quickly.
Beside Concubine Jing, she reached out and opened another carved wardrobe and took out a brand new navy blue round-neck robe, replacing the white robe in Concubine Jing's hand.
Qingyan was stunned for a moment, and then she realized Bai Lu's intention. She was so anxious that she got carried away.
It would be okay if the little prince occasionally wore tea-white clothes when he was going out of the palace. However, the current situation was special. The clothes embroidered with bamboo leaves in her hand were really too plain. With the heavy rain,
At first glance, it looks like filial piety.
When his successor Niu Hulu passed away, the three-year-old prince took his brothers and sisters to offer incense to his successor. He did not take off his apricot robe, but only had a small pearl-red rope tied around his head.
He was replaced by a white rope by the dressing maid. If everyone rushes to the Hesheli Mansion now and sees that the ordinary clothes worn by the little prince look like mourning clothes, they may encounter the pink-eyed and petty political enemies of the Hesheli family.
It was easy to cause trouble. After all, the crown prince of the Qing Dynasty was not the prince of the Hesheli family. Even if the uncle was the biological grandfather of the young prince, he was still a court official and the prince's slave. He definitely did not let the young prince "wear sackcloth and show filial piety" for him.
qualifications.
Xiao Si is a bald brother, and no one cares what he is wearing, but every move Yin Reng makes is watched by officials, and they have to pay attention to everything. The older he is, the more restricted he is.
Correspondingly, it becomes more and more...
When the young prince saw Concubine Jing's frown, he probably guessed what concerns Concubine Jing's master and servant had in their hearts.
He didn't say anything, just raised his sleeves to silently wipe away the tears from the corners of his eyes, then reached out to take the navy blue robe from his aunt's hand, and put it on himself.
When Qingyan saw how smart and sensible Yinreng looked, she pursed her lips with a sour nose, reached out and touched the black melon-skin hat on her little nephew's head, and said comfortingly:
"Baocheng, birth, old age, illness and death are things that no one can escape from in this world. Your Guo Luomafa is still waiting for you in the mansion. You and Xiaosi should go out of the palace to see him earlier."
Yinreng looked up at Qingyan with red eyes, nodded, turned around and walked out of the inner room with Xiaosi.
The master and apprentice Liang Jiugong who were waiting outside saw the little prince and the fourth elder brother coming out, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet them. Liang Jiugong said:
"Your Highness, I have prepared the carriage. The carriage and the guards are waiting for us at the Shenwu Gate in the north."
Yinfeng nodded, then turned to look at Concubine Jing. Qingyan looked at him distressedly, and waved her hand towards her little nephew with red eyes.
The little prince turned his head, blinked his eyes to suppress the tears that had emerged, then straightened his back, led Xiaosi and followed Liang Jiugong, and He Zhuer quickly walked out of the main hall.
After the brothers left, Qingyan also followed them to the eaves of the main hall. She raised her head and watched the pouring autumn rain falling from the gray-white sky. The fruit trees planted in the front yard were blown around by the bleak autumn wind.
The red pomegranate is also crackling
The ground was hit by dense raindrops from the branches and fell to the bluestone floor, falling to pieces with a "plop", "plop" sound. The bright red and crystal clear pomegranate seeds were also blown from the white by the rain.
The endocarp washed off and scattered everywhere.
She couldn't help but feel a chill in her body. Her elders were always a natural barrier between herself and the god of death. Her uncle's life was coming to an end, and her mother and mother were getting old...
Bai Lu, who was standing beside her, was also upset.
She and Zhang Tianxi originally planned to wait until the weather cleared tomorrow and pick all the ripe red pomegranates from the tree early. Unexpectedly, the red pomegranates would not last until tomorrow. I am afraid that the old man will also...
Alas, plans in this world cannot keep up with changes, and accidents always come quickly and violently...
The master and servant of Concubine Jing stood silently at the door of the main hall, and the two brothers Yinreng and Xiaosi who were sitting in the carriage did not speak either.
The little prince had closed his eyes tightly since he got on the car and leaned quietly against the wall of the car behind him. There were very few pedestrians on the road in the heavy rain. Occasionally, a few people wearing raincoats or holding oil-paper umbrellas hurried past.
, and did not bother to pay attention to the fast-moving blue-black carriage and the guards with swords riding horses on both sides of the carriage.
Xiaosi tilted his head to the right and glanced at the prince brother, then turned his little head to the other side and looked at the clean glass windows washed away by the rain. He looked out through the water curtain on the glass windows. In the past,
The bustling streets of Beijing, with people coming and going, were so quiet at the moment that the only sounds that could be heard were the patter of rain hitting the roof of the carriage and the "tap, tap, tap, tap, tap" of horse hooves outside.
When he was in Chuxiu Palace, he didn't feel too uncomfortable because he was different from his elder brother. The elder brother had never moved to Yuqing Palace and had always lived in Qianqing Palace. He would occasionally encounter many people who were sweated by them. There are many courtiers from Ama Xuan who have entered the palace, and there are many important ministers from the Hesheli family who are serving as officials in the court. Over the years, the prince and brother have met many relatives of the mother clan one after another.
But he has been living in the harem with his mother, and he has only barely met his maternal grandparents a few times until he is four and a half years old. His impression of the eldest grandfather is extremely vague. He only knows that this person comes to April every year. On the 29th, when he and his mother celebrate their birthdays, they will give themselves a gift, most of which are very interesting and exquisite things.
When he thought that maybe he would never receive a congratulatory gift from a man named "Grandpa" on his birthday in the future, Xiaosi could understand how the prince's brother felt at this time, and his eye circles couldn't help but turn red. , my chest felt stuffy as if there was a ball of cotton stuck in it.
Yinreng rubbed the jade pendant hanging on his waist with his hand, and his mind kept flashing back to the scene when he saw his grandfather in the Qianqing Palace after he remembered it, and how in the world of Changshengtian, his grandfather drove him around his neck and rode a big horse. He laughed loudly and said "keep your grandson safe". He knew that this old man loved him from the bottom of his heart and had deep feelings for him. Thinking of the old man's good deeds in the past, his throat became more and more tight. I can't even make a sound...
Not four minutes later, the guests who came to Hesheli Mansion to celebrate their birthday had already said their goodbyes and left. Suo'etu, who had received the emperor's message and knew that the young prince and his fourth brother would come over in the afternoon, had been anxiously guarding the gate, looking far away. Seeing a couple of blue-black carriages and a few sword-wielding guards on horses approaching quickly, his eyes lit up, he hurriedly reached out and held an umbrella, and ran down the steps quickly.
"Uu——"
Both the carriage and the horse stopped in front of Suo'etu.
Suo'etu saw the young prince and fourth elder brother being supported by Liang Jiugong and He Zhuer as they got off the carriage, and he hurriedly leaned over to salute them respectfully:
"This servant is going to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Fourth Brother, to say hello."
"Grandpa Third, please get up quickly."
Yinreng saw that Suo'etu's eyes were also red, and he quickly raised his hand to help him up.
Xiaosi also stood beside his brother, raised his head obediently and called out: "Guo Luomafa."
"Your Highness, Fourth Brother, without further ado, let's go to Big Brother's place quickly, he is waiting for you."
Suo'etu raised his sleeves to wipe the corners of his eyes and said to the little prince and Xiaosi.
Upon hearing this, Yinreng hurriedly led a group of people behind him and hurried directly to the courtyard of the long house following Suo'etu.
When a group of people hurriedly passed through the hanging flower door, they saw that the servants in the long room had begun to take off the colorful birthday silk hanging everywhere, obviously planning to hang white flags, and everyone's pupils suddenly jumped. Shrinking, the little prince couldn't wait any longer and hurriedly got out of the oil paper umbrella held by Liang Jiugong and ran quickly into the hall in the rain.
"Your Highness!"
"Brother Prince!"
Being caught in the rain in late autumn is the easiest time to catch wind and cold. When Liang Jiugong saw that he was not paying attention, the little prince ran away from under his umbrella and hurriedly rushed forward with the umbrella in his hand.
He Zhuer, who followed closely behind, quickly took Xiaosi's hand and ran into the hall in a panic with Suo'etu.
When Yinreng rushed into the inner room, he saw the room full of people kneeling on the floor. Lunbu, the eldest grandson of the family, knelt on the ground and cried bitterly. His maternal grandmother, Shu Mulu, was lying beside the bed.
, almost fainted from crying.
Yinreng's tears suddenly flowed down, and he didn't dare to step forward to confirm whether his grandfather was really dead.
Following Yinreng's steps, Suo'etu and others ran in. Seeing such a scene, their hearts skipped a beat.
"Brother, eldest brother, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Fourth Brother are here to see you."
Suo'etu quickly ran to the bed, reached out and patted Gabra's body and shouted.
The third lady, Tong, who was dressed in blue, saw the young prince and the fourth elder brother standing stupidly at the door. She quickly pressed the corners of her eyes with the handkerchief in her hand, walked over and pulled the two children to the bedside.
The old man lying weakly on the bed covered with a thin brocade quilt was also completely revealed in front of the brothers.
Yinreng looked at his grandfather, who had a half-white beard and two big bags under his eyes. His face was pale and he was lying on the bed as if he was exhausted. Tears couldn't stop flowing. He stretched out his hand to push gently.
Pushing Gabula's body, he choked and shouted:
"Guo Luomafa, woo woo woo woo, Baocheng is here, please open your eyes quickly."
Xiao Si couldn't bear to see the prince's brother cry and cry with a fragile look on his face, so he simply buried his little head in the arms of his own grandmother Guo Luoma.
Mrs. Tong stretched out her hand to block her little grandson's body. Seeing the little prince crying like this, she felt very uncomfortable. She had no ill feelings towards this sober eldest brother. Back then, Mr. Shumulu did something poisonous, but he was not unreasonably partial. He immediately
So he locked up the Shu Mulu family in the courtyard. He has been working hard to make up for the three bedrooms in the past few years. Now he looks like he is gone. After all, after living together for so many years, he still feels a little empty in his heart.
When Liang Jiugong saw this scene, he sighed deeply and quickly took out the marriage decree from his arms and read it out.
I don't know if it was really helpful to get married, or if the little prince's cry woke up his grandfather.
By the time Liang Jiugong had just finished the last sentence of the imperial edict, "The Niu Hulu clan and the Hesheli clan will join forces to join the Qin and Jin Dynasties."
Gabra suddenly coughed twice and woke up.
"Golomafa!"
Yinreng was young and ignorant, so he thought that the marriage granted by the Holy Spirit was effective, so he wiped his tears in surprise and shouted out.
The adults surrounding the bed felt their hearts sink to the bottom, knowing that Gabra was having a flashback before his death.
Gabra turned his head and saw the little prince standing next to his left hand. He hurriedly raised his old and trembling hand and grabbed Yinren's hand, opening and closing his mouth as if he wanted to say something.
Liang Jiugong also knew that Sir Gabra must have something to explain to the young prince. He used the excuse of going to Niu Hulu Mansion to read out the imperial edict, turned around and patted his apprentice He Zhuer on the shoulder, and took the opportunity to leave.
room.
The four brothers Suo'etu, Keerkun, Xinyu, and Fabao also remembered Liang Jiugong's favor in their hearts.
Gabra pulled Yinfeng's hand down again, and the little prince quickly leaned down and put his ear to his grandfather's mouth.
Then he heard the old man's hoarse voice like a broken bellows, murmuring intermittently:
"Your Highness, my servant, my servant, I'm afraid I won't be able to watch you grow up anymore."
"Guo Luomafa, you will definitely get better."
The little prince choked with tears.
Gabra gave a bitter laugh, held his breath in his chest, and whispered with difficulty:
"Slave, I have a sentence today that you, Your Highness, must keep in mind."
"Go ahead, Baocheng is listening."
Yinreng gently caressed Gabra's chest with his right hand and helped him calm his breath, while answering.
"Your Highness, you must, must, remember that the Hesheli family will always be your backing."
"You must learn to respect the emperor as an emperor who is in charge of life and death in the world. Never treat him as just a close amma. The conflict between the emperor and the prince is nothing.
Emperors and princes in the past dynasties are unavoidable. You must not only regard the emperor as your own amma, otherwise, you will definitely suffer in the future."
"Golomafa?"
It was the first time that Yinreng heard such treacherous words that openly inflamed the relationship between him and Khan Amma and his son, and his eyes widened in shock.
Gabra didn't bother to give the little prince an answer. He held his hand and trembled. He continued to smile and said softly:
"Your Highness, it doesn't matter if you don't understand what I said now. You just need to keep what I said firmly in your mind. You are the continuation of my eldest daughter's life. I, my slave, are absolutely perfect."
No, it won’t harm you.”
"The Emperor is very powerful and his body is much better than that of the late Emperor. I guess that the Emperor must be a person with long life and good fortune. Ahem, cough, cough, cough. Your future journey as prince will become more and more difficult. You have to
Be mentally prepared to be the crown prince for decades, don't be impatient, be sure, be steady, be steady."
Although the little prince still couldn't guess what Guo Luomafa's words meant when he heard this, but seeing the old man's insistence, he bit his lower lip and nodded in a learned manner, and said with a cry: "
Guo Luomafa, I guarantee Chengdu will remember it."
Gabra took a deep breath, smiled happily, and then turned his attention to Suo'etu on the right.
Suo'etu also hurriedly leaned down and heard his elder brother whispering in his ear:
"Third brother, the Hesheli clan will all depend on you from now on. I entrust Chang Tai, Chang Hai and the others to you."
"Brother, don't worry, I will take good care of my nephews, nieces, Lunbu, Qian'er and the younger ones."
Suo'etu also hurriedly shed tears and made a promise.
Gabra closed his eyes for a moment, then opened them again and said slowly:
"Also, you have to remember, remember, when the water is full, it will overflow, and when the moon is full, it will be short. In the past few years, the Hesheli clan has become very prominent. The trees are big and attract the wind. The imperial concubine is already in the harem.
You are the first person. You need to be careful in everything. Don't let others catch you by the pigtails. Don't form a party for personal gain. The Hesheli family does not need it. Go forward with determination and forge ahead. The situation has changed.
Well, you need to wait for the prince to grow up. As long as the prince does not ascend the throne for a day, the prince will always be the prince."
"Remember, hold on, slowly, and wait down. If you keep waiting, good results will come."
"Brother, I remember it! I will pay attention to what you told me and I will never mess around."
Gabra nodded slightly, and then glanced at his two concubines and legitimate daughters who were crying in tears. Thinking of the marriage given by the emperor, he felt relieved for the future of his daughters. Love
He patted the head of his eldest grandson and eldest granddaughter who jumped on him, and finally fixed his eyes on Shu Mulu, who was standing with the little prince, and looked at her deeply. Then "poof"
Suddenly he coughed up a mouthful of blood, and most of the blood sprayed on Shu Mulu's body.
Shu Mulu's mind instantly went blank.
Before she could react, Gabra's head tilted and he died, and the big hand holding the little prince loosened his grip in the next moment.
"Golomafa!"
"Master!"
"Brother!"
"Amma!"
"Marfa!"
The little prince grabbed Gabra's big hand that had been put down and cried out of breath. Xiaosi hurriedly ran past Madam Guo Luoma and stood aside to support the prince's brother, shedding tears silently.
At the eleventh hour, all the colored silks in the Hesheli Mansion were removed and all white flags were hung. The masters and servants in the manor burst into tears. Lord Gabra, the first-class prince, passed away...
When the ministers in various prefectures received the news, they were all shocked. They never expected that they would go to congratulate Gabra on his birthday in the morning, but that he would be gone in the afternoon.
Wearing a gray-brown round-neck robe, Nalan Mingzhu stood under the corridor of his mansion with his hands behind his back, squinting at the remaining lotuses in the lotus pond that had begun to decay in the rain.
Nalan Rongruo, who was wearing an azure robe, found his mother's figure and stood side by side with him. He couldn't help but see the big raindrops making circles of ripples in the water in the pond.
He opened his mouth and advised:
"Amma, it's very windy and rainy outside, you'd better go back to the house and stay there."
Nalan Mingzhu sighed and said quietly:
"Rong Ruo, you have to grow up quickly. Amma is also old. Sooner or later, the Yehenala clan will be handed over to you. This person of the same generation left suddenly, but it's hard for Amma to refuse to accept the old age.
Already."
When Nalan Rongruo heard this, he nodded slightly after a long while. He thought of the little prince who values love and justice in his mind, and felt deeply that the little guy was going to feel uncomfortable for a while...
On rainy days, it gets dark very early, and at around midnight, it becomes dark outside the window.
In an inner room of the main hall of Yongshou Palace, Concubine Wen was lying on the wooden railing with a rattle in her hand, teasing her son who was lying in the crib.
The three-month-old Eleventh Brother is fair and chubby. He moves his hands and feet flexibly, and his bright black eyes move up and down and left and right in accordance with the rattle in E Niang's hand.
Aunt Du, who was covered with a layer of moisture, parted the bead curtain and walked into the inner room. Seeing the loving look on her mother-in-law's face, she hurriedly stepped forward, waved away the maids beside her, and then walked to
Beside Xiao Niu Hulu, he leaned over and whispered:
"Mother, there is news from the family that in the afternoon, Manager Liang came to the house with an imperial edict to marry Master Faka and Master Aling'a."
"Marriage?"
When Xiao Niu Hulu heard this, she squeezed the wooden handle of the rattle and turned her head to look at her wet nurse in surprise.
"Why didn't I hear any news at all? Who did the emperor give to them?"
Aunt Du frowned and whispered:
"The Emperor has betrothed the eleven-year-old concubine of the Hesheli family, three princesses, to Master Faka, and the ten-year-old concubine, four princesses, to Master Aling'a."
"What? The two princesses are only one year apart, and the emperor betrothed the always weak and timid third princess to Faka?"
After hearing this, Concubine Wen couldn't calm down at all, she slammed the rattle in her hand to the ground, and sat down on the embroidery stool in anger.
Grandma Du swallowed her saliva, not knowing what clever words to say to comfort her master at this time.
The two younger sisters of the Yuan Dynasty Hesheli family were betrothed by the emperor to the two younger brothers of the successor Niu Hulu family on Lord Gabra's fiftieth birthday.
The sisters who are married to the legitimate children, the four aunts are all first-class dukes, and their families are all prominent. Who wouldn't say "we are well matched" after seeing this?
However, the emperor always likes to achieve imperial balance, so he betrothed the full sister of the first mother of the Yuan Dynasty to his younger half-brother. This apparently allowed the Niu Hulu clan and the Hesheli clan to marry, but
It also laid a fuse of interest in the relationship between the two newlyweds.
Although his younger brother Faka is a concubine, after his two previous brothers died in infancy, he is now relying on his status as the eldest son to inherit his Ama's title and become the leader of the family. Even though his youngest son Aling Azheng is now
However, his concubine brother, but when the future prince really ascends the throne, Aling'a, as the prince's direct uncle, will have a much closer relationship than Faka, and the interests and power of the huge Niu Hulu clan will not be the same.
Sir, it would be strange if these two brothers don't start a fight!