little emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 238
"Emperor, why are you here at this hour?"

The emperor came to the Palace of Compassion and Ning in person, and the sudden and strange surprise surprised all the servants in the Chunxi Pavilion, from the middle to the empress dowager. Staring at Wanli intently, seeing Wanli staring at him with a serious face, Ah Man showed no fear, and smiled brightly: "Hello, Your Majesty."

Staring at Ah Man, who looks like a dough ball, seeing his white skin, red brows and red lips, his eyes are like lacquer, and his eyes are as agile as flying. Feeling familiar, I always feel that this face seems to have been seen there before... The displeasure on his face slowed down, and he said, "Are you Ah Man?"

Ah Man smiled and stood up, saluted in a dignified manner, his raised face was as dazzling as a pearl, and said in a waxy voice: "Emperor, don't you remember me? When you were lying in Baohua Palace, I Following Senior Brother Song is a lot of effort."

The queen mother who had been sitting calmly and quietly glanced at Wanli, and softly reprimanded: "Aman, don't be rude to the emperor."

Ah Man stuck out his tongue, and answered yes in a dragged voice, his eyes were still presumptuous and bold, staring at Wan Li without any fear.

Being reminded gently by a child with an adult face that he had done his best for him, even Wanli, who was full of worries, couldn't help but laugh, "I will not forget you for your merits, and go out first, I have something to say Talk to the queen."

Ever since he entered the door, Ah Man had been waiting for this sentence.One Gao jumped off the chair and ran out with a cheer, his cheers could still be heard from afar.

Looking at his back, Wanli smiled inexplicably, his cold and serious expression slowed down, and he turned to Empress Dowager Li and said, "With this child by my mother's side, it can relieve a lot of loneliness."

Speaking of Ah Man, Empress Dowager Li was full of pampering: "I don't know if it's the fate of the previous life, this child Ai's family fell in love with him when he saw him, life in this palace is much more interesting with him by his side. "

Seeing the heartfelt smile on the Empress Dowager's face, Wanli nodded noncommittally, turned around and sat down on the empress dowager's head, with bamboo breath beside him bringing tea.

From the beginning to the end, Empress Dowager Li did not speak, and waited until Wanli put down the tea bowl for the third time, before she said: "Your body has not been well-raised yet, the Ai family has asked Zhu Xi to inform Huang Jin, so there is no need to come to Dingxing sooner or later. With this skill, wouldn’t it be good to keep healthy in Qianqing Palace?”

Putting his hand on the pastel teacup where Huanglong was playing in the water, his worried eyes lingered, Wanli said, seemingly intentionally or unintentionally: "Since ancient times, emperors have ruled the world with filial piety. My son dare not compare with the previous emperors, so he can only do his best." Such filial piety."

Hearing the ridicule in Wanli's voice, Empress Dowager Li sighed slightly: "The emperor and Aijia are getting more and more famous."

Wanli didn't even lift his eyelids, he laughed lowly: "What the queen mother said, if it gets out, the son, a tyrant, will have to put another hat of unfilial piety on his head."

Empress Dowager Li clenched her hand tightly, and finally released it after a while. She rubbed her forehead with her outstretched hand, and said in a voice with unconcealable weariness: "The Ai family knows that you still hold grudges about that incident back then, but after so many years It's over, the emperor, you should know that even if Aijia's actions may have been inappropriate back then, for the sake of the great Ming Dynasty, the ancestral temple and the country, the facts have proved that Aijia did nothing wrong, and you have always had a rift with Aijia because of this. , as a mother, Aijia has never blamed you once."

At that time, the sky was getting dark, and the maid Jianxiang was about to come in to light the lamp, but she was grabbed by the bamboo breath hidden by the door.

For a moment, the hall fell into an unspeakable silence, the Queen Mother and Wanli didn't speak any more, and they seemed to be immersed in endless thoughts.

After a while, Wanli laughed a few times like mocking, his expression was as cold as frost after autumn, "...the mother thinks too much, what's the point of bringing up the old things now? It's just that the mother loves her son, but what's the matter?" The son doesn't know what to do, not only can't appreciate it, but can only let it down. The son is unfilial, when Quanxia sees his father in the future, let's apologize together."

Wanli's self-deprecating self-deprecation was like a heavy hammer hitting the center. The sharp pain made Queen Mother Li's hand tightly cover her chest in an instant, and she closed her eyes in pain. She took a few breaths before opening her face. It's the same after a few years of age: "The emperor wants to bear grudges, and you are free to go to the house of mourning. I went to the Palace of Compassion and Ning today, but do you have something to say?"

Empress Dowager Li read it right, Wanli really had something to say when he came to the Compassionate Ning Palace today, but he didn't expect to have the meaning of talking about collapse in a few words, which made Wanli not know how to speak for a while.

Chunxi Pavilion once again fell into a long silence. At the same time, the sky had completely darkened, and Jianxiang came in tremblingly and lit the lamp.

When the palace lanterns are lit, the hall becomes warm and bright.The dark eyes reflected the constantly beating lights, and each person's eyes seemed to be filled with two groups of burning and beating flames.

When the long Buddhist beads in the queen mother's hand turned to the third circle, Wanli finally said: "Today, the son came to ask the godmother about something, and also told the queen mother about something."

The hand moving the rosary finally stopped, Empress Dowager Li felt a click in her heart, as if a piece of her heart had collapsed somewhere, the corners of her eyes engraved with the traces of time twitched a few times, and her eyes were horribly bright in an instant, and she forcibly suppressed them. Feeling uneasy in his heart: "The Ai family is your own mother, there is nothing you can't say or ask. No matter what the Ai family has done these years, it is for your own good."

These few words seem irrelevant, but Wanli seems to have heard something funny, with a hint of sarcasm: "Does the Queen Mother still remember this piece of jade?" He took out a piece of jade from his bosom. Things, put them on the case.

It was a piece of extremely beautiful mutton fat white jade, the whole body was coagulated and moist, and it was in the shape of a potential dragon looping around.Under the bright light, it emits a faint and soft halo. You don't need to look at it, it is a rare treasure that is rare in a century. Even if you have been mentally prepared, when you saw this piece of jade, Empress Dowager Li's heart jumped a few times involuntarily. The knuckles of Rosary's hand became a little white because of too much force.

The subtle change in the Empress Dowager's expression could not escape Wanli's eyes. The flames in his eyes blazed instantly, and his voice was cold: "...The Empress Dowager has a good way to hide her son for so many years. It's fine if she dies, but even her Son, the Empress Dowager is actually able to steal the beam and switch positions, and she does it without anyone noticing it!"

"It's a pity that Erchen has been kept in the dark for so many years. It's obviously her child. I have been cold-eyed for half my life, and even... I almost died under my nose a few times," Wanli's face turned livid. Eyebrows were raised upside down: "It's fine if the mother disposes of her, why even her child is abused like this, it is my fault if there is a fault, why bother to blame the child, the mother knows that I hate Concubine Gong, but deliberately do this, it is really embarrassing How embarrassing is the son-in-law's love."

His eyes finally moved away from the jade pendant... The shallow crow's feet in the corners of the empress dowager's eyes seemed to deepen a little at this moment, "The emperor's words are a bit presumptuous."

Wanli chuckled, "The empress said just now that we are mother and son, so what can we say? The empress made it clear and said everything about Rong Erchen's presumptuousness this time, and there will be nothing else to say in the future."

The queen mother slowly raised her head, her face flushed completely abnormally: "She is the woman of Altan Khan in the grassland, and the concubine of the newly descended Ming Dynasty King Shunyi of Mongolia! She has no shame in seducing you to do such a thing. Kind of disaster water should be damned!"

"Originally, it's a bad fate, if it is broken, it will cause a catastrophe! For the country and the family, the Ai family thinks that what they have done is not bad!"

Wanli, whose eyebrows were completely erected, was extremely furious, and his chest seemed to explode. Hehe sneered, and pointed to the piece of jade: "Of course I understand the painstaking efforts of the mother and Zhang Xiang to plan this matter, but the mother's result I gave her up, but I shouldn't have sent my son to Concubine Gong's knees, and made me treat him badly for so many years."

"Concubine Gong's matter is well planned by the Ai family. This is because the Ai family is sorry for you. For the sake of the peace of the Ming Dynasty border and the safety of the harem, although I owe you, I have to do it, I have to!" The queen mother said coldly. Eyes lowered, "As for Concubine Gong, if you despise her, including her children, you can only blame yourself."

Wanli stared at the Queen Mother in a daze, and smiled angrily: "I really regret it. After listening to the words of those pedantic and stupid officials that day, why didn't I kill that traitor Zhang Juzheng to the grave and flog the corpse?"

The bitter tone made Queen Mother Li close her eyes suddenly, and her voice became weak: "Enough, the Ai family has never had anything to do with the government in so many years, even if you wanton in the harem, you have to bear it and endure it. Don't interfere. I thought that as time passed, you would think about these things, but I never thought that the hostility in your heart would not decrease but increase after so many years..."

"The queen mother is a virtuous and good man, and my son naturally admires it very much. Well, the Buddhist hall in the Ci Ning Palace was also built in the year after she left." Wanli laughed a few times, his eyes fixed on the Buddhist beads tightly held by the queen mother Turned around: "I just don't know how to burn incense and recite Buddha, can my mother's heart get peace of mind? When I dreamed back at midnight, my mother didn't feel that someone was watching you underground day and night, and the Buddha could really help you sleep Are you safe?"

"The queen mother keeps saying that everything she does is for the good of her son, for the good of the Ming Dynasty, but today my son wants to say something that has been on his mind for more than ten years..." Every word and every sentence is very clear in my ears, "If you will Compared with Jiang Shan, my son will choose the former without hesitation."

The queen mother stared at Wanli in disbelief, unable to catch her breath, suddenly clutched her chest and coughed loudly, the bamboo breath that had been hiding in the dark finally couldn't help but ran out, reached out and beat the queen mother's chest and back skillfully With the beating, the flushed queen mother coughed profusely.Zhu Xi was anxious and painful: "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager has been in poor health..." Before she could finish speaking, she was grabbed by the Empress Dowager, and the knowing Zhu Xi couldn't finish the second half of the sentence.

Seeing the queen mother's violent reaction, Wanli's face was full of heartache, hesitation and regret, all kinds of emotions appeared on his face in turn, and finally turned into the usual dark and dark.

Empress Dowager Li, whose head was about to burst, felt a thump in her heart. She closed her eyes fiercely and then opened them, "If the emperor comes to the Aijia Palace, if he wishes to greet you, then that's enough. If there is anything else If you want to talk about it, let’s talk straight.” The Empress Dowager who said this had a low voice, her breath was like a silk, and she was obviously very sad.

This is obviously the empress dowager's order to expel guests. Seeing that the empress dowager was so angry, Wanli didn't regret it. Son, I wonder if the queen mother has any objections to this?"

Regarding this news, Empress Dowager Li was not moved in the slightest: "The emperor's sacred heart is arbitrary, why do you want to discuss with this old lady of the Ai family? Even if the Ai family said something, is it of any use to the emperor?"

"The queen mother is too modest. If there is no permission from you, if something goes wrong in the future, my son is afraid that the scene at the Hall of Supreme Harmony on February [-] will be repeated." Wanli smiled strangely, and suddenly bowed to the queen mother, Wanli's shadow stretched out under the light, "Son, I really want to thank the Queen Mother for her generosity. In this life, I finally let my temper be my master."

"Mother, please take care of me. My son is leaving." After saying the salute, she straightened up and strode out, just at the door, a girl walked in cautiously with an incense burner in her hand.

His eyes turned around on the censer a few times, the corners of his eyes twitched slightly, he suddenly raised his foot, and kicked the little maid to the ground with one kick!
The censer clanged on the ground and fell to pieces, the little palace maid somehow offended Long Yan and was furious, and she knelt aside in fright, shaking her clothes and trembling.

Hearing something bad outside, Huang Jin was so frightened that he hurried in to take a look, and couldn't help being stunned: "Oh...how did you say that?"

Faced with the emperor's attack, Empress Dowager Li sat upright: "The emperor is not in good health, so hurry up and serve the emperor and return to the Qing Palace to take care of him. In the future..." When she said this, her eyelids were already drooping: "Send mourning to the family, For the sake of the emperor's dragon body's health, from tomorrow onwards, there will be no need to come to the province every day."

As soon as these words came out, the faces of several people in Chunxi Pavilion changed. Huang Jin, who was waiting outside, didn't know what happened, and his eyes turned to Zhu Xi involuntarily.

Before he could see anything, Wanli sneered and said: "The empress dowager's kindness, my son's respect is worse than obedience. It's just that my son is strange. He always said that Buddhism's kindness and salvation are saved, but he doesn't know whether he can save him or not. Burning incense or not burning it is of no use."

The Empress Dowager's hands and feet were cold and her body trembled wildly. Her patience had finally come to an end. She felt her throat was a bit fishy and sweet. She stretched out her trembling fingers and pointed at Wanli: "You..."

Amidst the loud laughter, Wan Li walked away, and a voice calling Huang Jin came from outside the palace gate: "Go back and open the inner warehouse, find the most expensive incense burner and send it to the Palace of Compassion."

After a dead silence, Empress Dowager Li tightly clutched her chest, opened her mouth, and spurted blood all over the ground.

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