Volume 1: Swan Goose Chapter 370: A Few Cobwebs Down the Wind Court
Gu Sisi knew that her husband did not have her in his heart, only the elusive Yun Concubine.
But she still couldn't bear her husband's sadness. Even though she was in great pain, she still hugged her husband and gave him the gentlest comfort.
But even though he was so humble, the eldest prince was not moved at all.
He pushed Gu Sisi away, looked at his hands, and yelled crazily: "What have I done? What have I done! Not only did I kill the woman I loved, but I also caused a huge disaster!"
"Your Highness! What are you talking about?"
Hearing his words, Gu Sisi was shocked and seemed to have thought of something.
"Leave me alone! I'm a bastard! I deserve to die! I deserve to die!"
The eldest prince hammered his head in annoyance and yelled heart-breakingly.
"Your Highness, please don't do this!" Gu Sisi was also frightened and started crying, but she still rushed over to try to stop him from harming himself.
"Get out! You all get out!" The eldest prince kicked Gu Sisi on the waist and kicked her far away.
Then, he ignored Gu Sisi's life and death, closed the door again, and shut out everything else.
"It's over, it's over now..." The eldest prince lay slumped on the ground, staring at the high beams in a daze.
But there was a mess in his head: he thought that after he was born, he was raised by the queen as a puppet and a chess piece; from childhood to adulthood, no matter how hard he worked, he was never welcomed by his father!
And I have been deeply troubled by my life experience, and I have become inferior and sensitive, and I can never hold my head up in front of others. But I didn't expect that all of this was a lie made up by the emperor and the queen for their own purposes!
I thought that after Emperor Yu learned the truth, he would definitely not let him go.
In order to avenge his mother, he accidentally killed his most beloved woman...
These painful memories tightly wrapped around his heart like vines, making him feel hopeless and desperate.
After wiping away his tears, the eldest prince stood up unsteadily, stepped on the stool, hung his belt on the beam, and tied a knot again.
He slowly put his head into the belt and closed his eyes tightly, but his teeth kept chattering.
He tried to kick the stool away, but after several attempts he gave up because of timidity.
"Your Highness, what are you doing?"
Just at this moment, the door was knocked open and several servants rushed in. Seeing the scene inside the house, they were frightened to death.
Seeing someone coming in, the eldest prince let out a long breath, loosened his hands, and fell down from the stool.
Gu Sisi covered her waist, staggered to his side, and asked quietly: "Your Highness, what are you doing? Even if the sky falls, you will have your concubine with you, so why bother to commit suicide!"
Perhaps it was because of walking in front of the Palace of Hell that the eldest prince, who had been so nervous, finally fell into Gu Sisi's arms and burst into tears...
——Test——
After lying in bed for ten days, Emperor Yu finally recovered from the shock of the fire.
After he woke up, the people below were not eager to report the fire situation truthfully, for fear that he would be irritated again.
After a few days, the true situation of the fire and the death of Concubine Yun were told to Emperor Yu bit by bit from Eunuch Shuangxi.
After listening to Eunuch Shuangxi's report, Emperor Yu was silent for a long time without saying a word.
He can still clearly remember everything that happened that night: the dazzling red candles, the soft singing and dancing, the mellow wine, and Yun Bin's flowery smile...
It seemed that just after a long sleep, everything was turned into ashes. And I almost died in the fire.
"Your Majesty, life and death are matters of fate, so please don't take it to heart! Otherwise, Empress Yun will be uneasy if she has a spirit in heaven!" Eunuch Shuangxi looked at Emperor Yu's face and carefully coaxed him.
"Has the cause of the fire been found out?" Emperor Yu asked calmly. His voice was a little hoarse due to injuries, but he still did not change his majesty.
"Back to the emperor, after the fire broke out, the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple began to actively investigate. It will not take long before the results will be available, so don't be anxious." Mr. Shuangxi's face
The man smiled and handed over the decoction in his hand.
Emperor Yu took the soup and took a sip, and then asked: "I have been resting for a while. Will everything in the court be normal?"
Eunuch Shuangxi smiled cautiously: "Your Majesty, just take good care of your health. There are two adults in charge of the affairs of the court. What else can go wrong?"
But his comfort did not seem to reassure Emperor Yu. He always had a gloomy face: "When the Changle Palace was on fire, did the ministers in the court do anything strange?"
Eunuch Shuangxi was startled for a moment and said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, please forgive me! At that time, I heard that there was a flood in the palace and Your Majesty was trapped in Changle Hall, so he immediately rushed to the scene of the fire and put out the fire with everyone. He only hoped that he could put out the fire.
Your Majesty, please rescue me quickly. You have no time to worry about anything else!"
Emperor Yu glanced at him lightly and snorted coldly: "You old guy! Don't think that because I'm unconscious, I don't know anything. I understand very well what the people around me are thinking!
"
Eunuch Shuangxi smiled dryly, bowed and said, "Your Majesty is wise!"
"Who else was the first to rush to the scene of the fire besides the Queen?" Emperor Yu continued to ask in a deep voice.
"Your Majesty, this is Master Liu." Eunuch Shuangxi replied truthfully.
"Where is the eldest prince?"
"Back to the Emperor, Your Highness arrived here together with Man Tingfang, Wang Su and other adults."
Emperor Yu squinted his eyes and pondered for a moment, remembering that after being carried out of the fire by Ruan Lang that day, he seemed to have opened his eyes briefly and took a closer look at the people around him.
The expressions on everyone's faces at that time were engraved in his heart.
"What about King Yi? I haven't heard him come to say hello during my cultivation these days!" Emperor Yu clearly remembered that King Yi was the only one missing at that time.
And during these days, although he ordered that no one be allowed to approach him.
But the ministers in the court still went outside to greet him every day, but King Yi never came. This made him unavoidably aggrieved.
"Back to the Emperor, since the fire, His Highness King Yi has been cleaning up the temple and praying for the Emperor and Beiyu!"
Emperor Yu snorted coldly: "I didn't see him coming to rescue me during the fire, but now he is hiding in the temple to pray for blessings!"
Hearing Emperor Yu's dissatisfaction, Eunuch Shuangxi hurriedly advised: "Your Majesty said this, but you have wronged His Highness! On the day of the fire, if Your Highness had not given the gold medal given by the Empress Dowager Xiaokang to the Mandarin, the ministers in the court would have lost their lives.
You can’t even get in through the palace gate!”
"So, someone ordered the palace gate to be sealed at that time?!" Emperor Yu immediately grasped the key point of this sentence and asked in a deep voice: "Who gave the order? The Queen or Liu Bingwen?"
As smart as he is, he guessed half of it right at once.
Eunuch Shuangxi was startled, and he hurriedly bowed his body and said cautiously: "Your Majesty, please calm down! It was the Taifu who was worried that someone would take the opportunity to cause trouble, so he ordered the Golden Armored Guards to seal the palace gate and not allow anyone to enter or leave!"
This sentence sounded like a defense, but the expression on Emperor Yu's face changed continuously.
It's not that he doesn't know the thoughts of Liu Bingwen and the Queen, but he wants to know who else has the same thoughts!
"King Xuanyi is coming, I want to see him." Emperor Yu put down the medicine bowl and ordered in a deep voice.
"Yes!" Eunuch Shuangxi bowed his body and slowly exited the dormitory.
Emperor Yu then raised his head and looked at Ruan Lang, who was standing upright with a serious expression that did not conceal his haggardness.
He waved gently, and when Ruan Lang came closer, he asked in a low voice: "What happened on the day of the fire? Why were you the only one who entered the fire scene to save me?"
Ruan Lang's heart trembled. For many days, he had been worried that the emperor would ask him about the situation on the day of the fire when he woke up.
He did not dare to deceive the emperor, but he did not dare to tell the story about the eldest prince's arson.
In a dilemma, Ruan Lang could only avoid the important and answer lightly: "Back to the emperor, I was on duty in the palace that day. When I inspected the back door of Changle Hall, a fire broke out. I didn't have time to find someone to put out the fire, so I rushed into the fire alone.
.It is a pity that I was alone and weak, and lost my way in Changle Hall, so I was unable to rescue Yun Concubine. I still ask the emperor to punish her!"
"You have done a good job. I don't blame you for Yun Bin's death." Emperor Yu sighed, remembering that
Looking at the innocent souls who were burned alive, his usually tough face showed a rare trace of compassion: "It's just a pity...she has the unborn little prince in her belly..."
Ruan Lang was silent, thinking about how the emperor would feel if he knew that one of his sons killed his other son and wanted to kill him too?!
"Since you were the first to discover the fire, have you seen how it started?" Emperor Yu calmed down and continued to ask.
He always had doubts about the sudden fire.
"This..." Ruan Lang was asked this question, and a flash of panic flashed across his face. He didn't dare to lie, but he didn't dare to tell the truth, so he could only close his mouth tightly and pretend to be deaf and dumb.
"Oh, it seems that this fire is indeed a man-made disaster, not a natural disaster!" Emperor Yu saw through his concerns at a glance.
"I have an audience with King Yi!"
He wanted to continue questioning, but Father Shuangxi's shrill voice came from outside the door.
Immediately, the door was pushed open, and King Yi, dressed in a purple robe and jade belt, with a high crown and tied hair, slowly walked into the palace, bowed respectfully and saluted: "My brother, I bow to the emperor, long live the emperor. Long live the emperor."
Emperor Yu raised his eyes and looked him up and down: He hadn't seen him for many days. Although King Yi remained as handsome as ever, his stature had obviously decreased. Not only were his cheeks slightly sunken, but his eyes were also covered with red threads.
"Old Shi, you look a little haggard. Have you not had a good rest these days?" Emperor Yu asked quietly.
King Yi bowed and said with sincerity and fear: "It is my fault that I have made the emperor worry. My brother is useless. The emperor was in a trap but could not save him in time. He could only eat fast and chant Buddha on the mountain, copy scriptures day and night, and pray for the emperor. I hope that
May the emperor be safe as soon as possible!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Eunuch Shuangxi came over with a stack of scriptures in his hands and said softly: "Your Majesty, look at it, these are the "Peace Sutra" written by His Royal Highness King Yi day and night."
Emperor Yu picked up a few pieces of paper, looked at the neat red scriptures on them, and frowned: "Why are these words red?" qo
Eunuch Shuangxi said quickly: "This is the scripture that Your Highness copied with blood as ink..."