The Book of Raising Children by Houmen

Chapter 450 The Grand Finale (4)
Lu Xinyue cried louder, looking at Zhou Xu with teary eyes, her expression was both sad and aggrieved.She hasn't seen Zhou Xu for a long time. Too many things have happened during this time. The eldest princess was seriously ill and the regent rebelled. She didn't have time to enter the palace at all. one side.

Seeing her like this, Zhao Jing had nothing to say, so she just persuaded her: "The deceased is dead, Princess Xinyue, please mourn."

Hearing this, the man stopped crying immediately. It turned out that Lu Xinyue was so focused on the emperor just now that she didn't see clearly who came in. Now that she heard this voice, she recognized Zhao Jing.Her small body kneeling on the ground became a little uneasy, her red and swollen eyes raised her head to stare at Zhao Jing, and suddenly threw herself at Zhou Xu's feet, crying: "Your Majesty...she...she is the remnant of the previous dynasty, she It is the posthumous child born to that Lady Zhulei and the former emperor!"

Although there were loud suona sounds outside the mourning hall, it was quiet inside, and this sentence spread to everyone's ears like a shock.In the side hall on the side, there were several official wives sitting outside, because the little emperor was here, and they were placed outside and could not come in. After hearing this, everyone started whispering to each other.

The little emperor didn't show it on the face, but in his heart he sneered and said: No wonder she came into the palace to murder me, so that's the reason.

Zhao Jing was startled when she heard this, she was holding her skirt and was about to kneel down, but she heard Mrs. Xu coming out from the side hall behind her and said: "The emperor must not wrong your Aunt Jing, what is she? Chao Yu Nian, she is the child of your grandfather and Lady Zhulei."

"What did you say?"

Zhou Xu raised his head and looked at Zhao Jing in disbelief, but the man knelt upright in front of him with a calm and indifferent expression.

When Mrs. Xu and Zhao Jing left the palace, it was already dark.It was snowing heavily outside again, and it was difficult for ordinary people to live in such weather, not to mention that Xu Si'an was still fighting on the front line.

Mrs. Xu saw Zhao Jing sitting in the corner of the carriage, with one hand covering her belly, her expression was a little dull, and she didn't know what she was thinking, so she took her hand and put it in her rough palm to warm her way. : "I know what you're thinking. I'm afraid that if your life experience is revealed, Madam Zhulei's reputation will get worse. But if you don't tell it, how can you guard against the hearts of these villains? In a few months, the child will die." I was born, I don’t want them to grow up in the future, and people will talk about these things.”

Only at this time did Zhao Jing regain her senses. She didn't want to reveal this secret at first, and she really had such thoughts in her heart. Besides, although Mrs. Zhulei said that she was the daughter of Taizu, after all, Mrs. Zhulei She has always lived in the palace of the former emperor. If she recognized her identity, she would have admitted that she had an affair with the Taizu, which left some tongues.

"What mother said is true." Zhao Jing nodded, the matter has come to this point, and she has no other choice.

The atmosphere in the imperial study room was also depressing.Several court ladies stood by with their heads bowed, while the little emperor Zhou Xu lay prone in front of the dragon case, staring at the bow hanging on the wall without blinking.He just got the battle report from the front line last night, and the regent was about to lose. This was originally a happy event for him, but he couldn't be happy at all.

He might kill him, after all he wanted to kill himself.Zhou Xu's brows furrowed even more when he thought that the people he liked and trusted once thought of killing him.

"Your Majesty, it's snowing outside!"

Fu Manduo rubbed his hands and came in from the door. Seeing Zhou Xu's listless Zhi Yi leaning on the dragon chair behind him, he smiled and said, "Is the emperor not happy today? Master Hou won the battle, and Aunt Jing became the emperor too." It's a happy event!"

Zhou Xu frowned and looked at Fu Manduo, his round face was full of usual flattery, which made people feel at ease at a glance, but today he just couldn't smile.

"You think it's just a happy event." Zhou Xu stood up and took a few steps to the window. Suddenly, he stretched out his hand and pushed the window open. Outside, large snowflakes passed through the eaves and poured into the imperial study.

"Your Majesty, it's windy outside, and you're catching a cold." Fu Manduo went to close the window, but when he turned his head, he saw the little emperor's dark eyes, which seemed to have a gleam of crystal water.

The square in front of the main hall was already covered in silver, and a black spot was moving fast in the heavy snow. In the blink of an eye, he arrived at the door of the Imperial Study Room. Zhou Xu turned around, only to hear the person outside say: "Go back!" Your Majesty, the Regent's rebel army was besieged at Wenhu Cliff, [-] miles east of Yanzhou, and all the rebels jumped into the sea to flee, and the Regent was captured alive by Marquis Wu'an, and he is now on his way to the capital."

(End of this chapter)