little emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 291 Breaking
The small and medium Buddhist halls of the Compassion Ning Palace are filled with green smoke and sandalwood incense.

Looking at Avalokitesvara with always lowered eyebrows and closed eyes, she felt a little disturbed for some reason. Empress Dowager Li suddenly thought when did she start believing in Buddhism and why?This thought flashed through my mind, and I felt that this thought was too disrespectful to the Buddha, so I prayed a few times in panic and said a few times to Amitabha.

Back in the bedroom, she suddenly found that there was someone missing by her side. Empress Dowager Li remained silent for a while, frowning and asked Qingmei, the maid standing beside her, "... Can you see the bamboo breath?"

Qingmei bent her knees and replied: "The servants and servants saw that Aunt Zhuxi entered the small Buddhist hall with the empress, but she did not come back." Suddenly, she reported: "Today the envoy of Jin Yiwei, Liu Shouyou, came to ask to see the empress. .”

Empress Dowager Li stopped talking, and after being silent for a while, she suddenly said, "Send someone to look for her, let her come and talk to me."

No one dared to be disrespectful when the queen mother spoke, cats and dogs jumped around for a while, but a living person seemed to have evaporated from the world suddenly.

As the people who searched returned one after another, Empress Dowager Li's face became more and more solemn, and the rosary in her hand was spinning like a windmill. After a long silence, she finally said, "Go to Qianqing Palace and ask the emperor to come, and tell the Ai family that there is something to say." The voice is still calm, but the eyes are full of indistinct dark and obscure emotions.

In this palace, people can disappear silently by their side unless it is Jin Yiwei; the only person who can make Jin Yiwei obey orders is the emperor; Knowing that at this moment, Liu Shouyou might not be able to protect himself.

The person who went to the Qianqing Palace to deliver orders has been back for a long time, but the emperor has not seen him.Seeing the sunset, Empress Dowager Li sighed, straightened her hunched body due to the fatigue of waiting, it was time for evening class, Empress Dowager Li staggered up, forced herself to hold her breath, and burned three sticks of sandalwood , just as he was about to insert it into the incense burner, suddenly there was a long shout from outside the door: "Your Majesty is here."

Empress Dowager Li was stunned, and subconsciously tightened the hand holding the incense, three sticks of incense were broken from it, and the fiery red incense head rolled onto her hand, leaving a trail of gray and white burns.

The bead curtain was raised at the gate, and Wanli strode into the palace with a gloomy face.Compared with the last time we met in Qianqing Palace, this time he was wearing a large and empty dragon robe, which made him look thin and bony, and his deep-set eye sockets were full of viciousness from the inside to the outside.The mother and son looked at each other, and Empress Dowager Li was sad: "Emperor, you are finally here."

Wanli saluted coldly: "The queen mother has a call, and my son dare not not come."

Empress Dowager Li took a deep breath, the emperor's tone made her heart fall into an ice cellar instantly, so that she shivered a little from the cold, and she was silent for a while and said: "It's been so long, and you don't know what happened in the past. Time to let it go."

This sentence contains a lot of content, and anyone with a heart can understand it.After Wanli heard this sentence, his eyes became sharp instantly, and an ugly smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "What the mother says is what she says, but the son is born with such a paranoid temper, and cannot be deceived by others; the son is small-minded, and has always been Every penny counts."

Tightly holding the Buddhist beads in her hands, Empress Dowager Li seemed to have restrained herself for a long time, and said word by word: "Forget it, you have to bear the grudge, and the Ai family has no choice but to do whatever you want. It's just that Zhu Xi has been with the Ai family for decades, but you can't let it go." Tortured by you, except for her, Aijia doesn't care what else you want."

Wanli seemed to be very funny about what the queen mother said, and his eyes were full of sarcasm: "The queen mother has a life, and there is nothing else to say about being a son, but before letting her go, there are a few words I want to say to the queen mother." After finishing speaking He stood up and bowed: "These words have been in my son's heart for many years, and they are all rotten, but after all, I can't spit them out."

The drooping eyelids suddenly lifted up, and Empress Dowager Li's eyes at this time showed fear, anger, and unwillingness, and all kinds of emotions were intertwined and mixed into a complex and inexplicable.

Without waiting for Empress Dowager Li to say anything, Wanli said to himself: "The son wants to ask the empress, what mistakes did she make back then, so that she is so unacceptable to the empress?"

This sentence is like a red-hot iron thorn, piercing the soles of the feet from the top of the sky, and the huge sharp pain piercing the intestines and belly is enough to drive anyone crazy... Queen Mother Li suddenly raised her eyelids. At this moment, she She seems to remember that she is the queen mother of the world, the most honorable woman in the world, and even the supreme emperor will bow before her knees: "Emperor, you are presumptuous!"

Although there are only a few words, it is enough to express the empress dowager's anger at this moment vividly.

The air in the hall was completely stagnant, and the pressure of the oncoming wind and rain weighed heavily on each other's hearts. Once upon a time, every time this beautiful woman uttered these words, she would be so frightened that she had to kneel down and apologize , but now... Looking at the distorted and well-maintained face of the queen mother, Wanli raised his head and laughed a few times, his voice was like a night owl's cry, which startled his ears.

His attitude made Empress Dowager Li uncontrollably furious again: "Aijia told you a long time ago that no one in this Palace of Compassion and Peace is allowed to mention that bitch!"

"My son has never dared to forget what the queen mother said." While looking at the queen mother's breathtaking eyes without flinching, his tone was still respectful as always, and the smile on the corner of his mouth became more and more sarcastic: "The queen mother has good schemes and methods. Quietly get rid of her from my side, let alone the son she gave birth to. I would never have thought that you would put him next to my most hated Concubine Gong. If I hadn't found out by accident , Is it true that you didn't intend to tell your son in this lifetime?"

Speaking of this point, the bottom line between mother and son has long been torn apart.Wanli no longer cared about it, his eyes were full of relentless hatred.

The muscles on Empress Dowager Li's face twitched violently, and she said sharply: "You guys forced me to do that! First of all, you don't know how to love yourself, so it's fine to get entangled with that bitch, but she has no shame, and she dared to have an affair with you!" It was a mistake for Aijia to let him live after giving birth to an evil seed, I should have known..."

At this time, Wanli could no longer control himself, so he single-handedly appointed Empress Dowager Li: "Mother, you are such a vicious woman! You took away the love of my life, even her child. You must know that he is also your grandson, yes We are the blood of the Ming Zhu family."

In Wanli's hateful eyes, as if she had been greatly shocked, Empress Dowager Li staggered back all the way, and barely stopped until she touched the incense table, looking at the man with twisted muscles and fire-breathing eyes, her tears were like beads of broken threads After falling down, he shook his head and said sharply: "You are Aiwujiwu, Aijia only thinks he is a bastard!"

Wanli looked at Empress Dowager Li with great disgust: "The matter has been done, and it is too late to say anything. The son came to attack the empress today, knowing that the crime is heinous and unforgivable, and the empress do not need to be angry. When the son enters the underworld, there will be retribution." , Mother, please think about our mother-son relationship, I beg you, let your son understand."

Empress Dowager Li gritted her teeth fiercely, her face was extremely pale and ugly: "...Didn't you already interrogate Zhu Xi? Why did you come to ask Aijia?"

Speaking of Zhuxi, Wanli's face became very ugly, and he closed his mouth and did not speak.

Empress Dowager Li turned her face away, staring at Wanli with burning eyes, and suddenly realized after a little thought: "Aijia understands, it's Zhu Xi who didn't say anything, that's why you came to Aijia, isn't it?" It has been scattered, and a few strands of gray hair hang down to cover the face, looking eerie in this cigarette-filled room.

Wanli looked at her quietly, then suddenly knelt down, without saying a word, but extremely stubborn.

Empress Dowager Li refused to look at his face, turned her head to look at the white jade Guanyin in front of the case, and said in an empty voice, "Zhuxi, are you dead?"

There was no echo in the hall, only the heavy panting of Wanli with his head down.

"Okay...Okay, it's clean to die!" Queen Mother Li closed her eyes and then opened them. The grace and beauty of the past are gone, and vertical lines appear frequently on the corners of her mouth and brows, showing a serious and cold look. At this moment, she is no longer the same as before. A concubine ascended to the throne as the overlord of the harem who had experienced three dynasties, but an old woman who was about to be driven crazy by her own son. , even though he tried hard again and again, the tears hidden in his eyes finally fell when he opened his mouth, he gritted his teeth and laughed: "You threatened Aijia with the love of mother and child, how could Aijia let you down, just like You can do whatever you want."

"In the ninth year of Wanli, you were not in charge at that time, but you were already a handsome and tall young man. Seeing you every day, the queen mother seemed to see hope. Seeing you grow up day by day, and seeing that you were about to be in charge, I mourned my family's heart. Unspeakably happy." Empress Dowager Li, who was immersed in memories, showed a gentle look in her eyes: "Emperor, do you still remember that after your father's funeral, our orphans and widows lived in fear... ..."

Recalling the old story of Empress Dowager Li, Wanli, who had been kneeling on the ground, stared blankly at her mother with her back on her back, and muttered to herself to the Buddha statue she faced every day. Peaceful, even the eyes became soft and vivid.

"Today's events all start with Zheheng Aga, a special tribe of Mongolia's Wala Turghut, leading his daughter to Beijing to meet and discuss peace..." Empress Dowager Li sighed long, her voice filled with incomparable remorse, "Aijia is so regretful. , everything is a sin..." When the word "grievance" was mentioned, Empress Dowager Li clasped her hands together and bowed to the jade statue of Guanyin, reciting the Buddha's name in a low voice, as if she was repenting and praying.

"The Ai family saw Zhe Heng Aga's daughter Zhong Jin Hatun as beautiful as a flower. First, they really liked it. Second, they left her in the palace to be kind to them in order to show Daming's gentleness." Speaking of which, Li The Empress Dowager suddenly trembled violently, her calm voice fluctuated violently, and her heart was obviously quite excited: "But the Ai family never expected that she would fall in love with you at first sight, and once you come and go, you will have an affair! "

Reminiscing about the past in the same way, Wanli's face was completely gentle, which was completely opposite to Queen Mother Li's gnashing of teeth, and he couldn't help but continued to talk to Queen Mother Li: "Mother, do you know that the days when you met the low eyebrows were the happiest days in your son's life? "

Seeing his obsessed expression, Queen Mother Li shook her head and smiled wryly: "...I didn't know before, but now I know."

Wanli shook his head and said: "We agree with each other. I have never understood why the queen mother insisted on driving her away from her son!" At this point, Wanli, who had calmed down, became excited again, and his voice became louder: "Son! Knowing that she is a Mongolian, but the queen mother can't let her stay with her son for the sake of her son's true love for her?"

"Why do you insist on being so cruel, you don't even let your son see her for the last time even after killing her, even..." At this point, Wanli's face was as red as blood, and there was already a strong smell of blood in his throat , "Even she and my son don't let him know, mother, what kind of heart do you have?"

"You have always thought that it was your hard work and sacrifice that changed the position in front of me, but I will tell you today that I was never happy before I met Low Eyebrow. When I was a child in the palace, I lived with you in fear You told me that whether it is the emperor or the concubine, anyone who sticks out a finger will smash us to pieces. When we are a little older, we enter the palace and become the prince. Even Feng Bao, the dead eunuch Dare to ignore me! Later I became the emperor, and I was under Zhang Juzheng's control. Every action I did, every sentence I said, even every step I took, even sleeping would be blamed by him. I felt that the sky in the Forbidden City was dark , never lit up..."

Wanli spoke word by word, but Empress Dowager Li's complexion became more and more gloomy: "These things... why don't you tell the empress mother?"

"Talk to you? Are you joking?" As if hearing some joke, Wanli laughed lowly, "You were in charge of the inner palace at that time. A domineering person, doesn't he have to obey your words? Although my son is not smart, he knows from a young age that no matter when, my words have never been taken seriously in the heart of the mother..." After finishing speaking, he spread his hands and looked at Empress Dowager Li: "Actually...it's useless to say it, isn't it?"

Empress Dowager Li lowered her head, the Buddhist beads that had been tightly clenched in her hands were already drenched with sweat, she opened her mouth a few times in vain, but said nothing.

"Until my son met Lowbrow, she was so good-looking and cheerful, and my son would be happy all day without saying anything in front of her. We like each other, but my son doesn't understand, mother, what are you doing so badly?" Do you want to deprive your son of this rare freedom? Didn’t you say that the emperor is rich all over the world? The son can’t even like a woman? Then why does the son need this country?”

The originally lowered head was suddenly raised, and Empress Dowager Li's eyes were already unbelievable: "For so many years, you have deliberately abandoned the government, deliberately refused to go to court, and deliberately favored Concubine Zheng. You did everything deliberately?"

Wanli laughed a few times in response to Queen Mother Li's question: "Knowing a son is like a mother. A son's thoughts can never be hidden from the mother. As an emperor, he can't have what he wants. What is the use of this picturesque country? "

"However, today my son still wants to ask his mother, what is the reason?"

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