Hou Men Splendid

Chapter 177 Finale (End)

Living in Chengqian Palace for five or six years, the emperor's health continued to deteriorate until the empress dowager passed away. There were many rumors in the palace, and the fire could not be covered with paper. The emperor learned that Rong Zhaoyi had already passed away, and the person beside her was ruined. What's more, when others are pretending, they faint for several days, and their bodies are even worse after waking up.

Shao Ziyu and the others would occasionally enter the palace to report state affairs to the emperor. In fact, seven or eight out of ten times the emperor was in a state of confusion. He listened more and talked less. Sometimes he waved his hands and refused to listen to them continue. It has been like this for so many years. Whether you listen or not is just a matter of form. The precious medicinal materials hang the life of the emperor. Just like what I said at the beginning, even if he is lying unconscious on the bed, this person must be alive, yes able to breathe.

After two years of this, His Royal Highness is eight years old.

The few officials appointed at the beginning have been teaching the prince for nearly five years, which can be said to be dedicated. From the time of the governor, he has to learn to face all this. The prince matures much earlier than children of the same age.

When he was two or three years old, he would still ask the empress where his father was, and would secretly go to Chengqian Palace to meet the emperor. A young child had the simplest thoughts about his father, but gradually, he seldom visited the empress. Speaking of the emperor in front of him, after he was five years old, he never stepped into the main hall of Chengqian Palace, and every time he paid his respects, he saluted at the entrance of the main hall.

As he grew older, the prince gradually understood the intentions of the empress dowager and the queen mother, and also gradually understood why his father was seriously ill and stayed in Chengqian Palace.

This year, the emperor's illness had reached the point where he was in a coma for four or five days. Shao Ziyu and Taifu He took the prince on a tour. It lasted three months and went south from the waterway of Luodu City, in private.

Different from the situation in the palace, the lives of the people, the sufferings they suffered, and the lives they lived were all seen by the prince. Along the waterway southward, he did not meet any local officials, nor let any officials After knowing where they went and what they saw, they returned to Luodu City by land.

Everything that was shown to the prince in the past three months is the most real, where the grain harvest is difficult, the people are famine, where the people live in suffering, there are many diseases, where the thieves are rampant, where the officials are governed properly, The people live and work in peace and contentment.

Having seen all this, it is gratifying that the prince has changed significantly after returning to the palace
In March of the 22nd year of Qiyuan, the crown prince was nine years old, and the emperor was in a coma for several days. There was not much time left for the imperial doctor's diagnosis. After the emperor woke up, the queen took the prince to Chengqian Palace to see the emperor for the last time.

Immediately afterwards, the eldest prince and the eldest princess went in to meet each other. Speaking of the family relationship between father and son, there was actually not much left. The number of times they have met over the years can be counted on the fingers of one's fingers.

Shao Ziyu and the others often went in and out of the palace, and Lin Qingran began to prepare mourning clothes at home as soon as they got the news.

Three days later, the emperor died and the country mourned.

The new emperor ascended the throne and changed the name of the country to Chongyuan

In fact, this life is not long. For Lin Qingran, this life has gone fairly smoothly. Although it is not as gorgeous as others, it is like a pot of tea that is slowly warming, getting stronger and stronger.

In a blink of an eye, it will be six years since the new emperor ascended the throne.

Shao Ziyu was the first to retire from the three teachers of the Holy Majesty. He could teach very little about governing the country. What he could teach the emperor was how to distinguish right from wrong and govern the world with a fair posture.

Every emperor has the mentality of seizing power, and it is not a bad thing to retire early. Shao Ziyu can still make some requests when the emperor wants to stay, just like what his father-in-law Lin Wenxi said at the time, Shao Ziyu begged the emperor to return the title of the Shao family.

Shao Ziyu couldn't ask the emperor to give him a title. He said it humbly and nicely, so he begged to return the previous title of the Shao family. In fact, this title had already gone through several emperors, and it was long gone.

After the discussion between the emperor and the queen mother, half a month later, an imperial decree came down to Shao's mansion, sealing Shao Ziyu as Mingzhenghou, granting the mansion, inscribing the words "Mingzhenghoufu" in his own handwriting, and bestowing a plaque
The two sons are married, and the daughter is married, and the only one who will be with her for the rest of her life is the first man who didn't make a vow to her, but gave her everything she wanted and thought.

As time flies and age grows older, Lin Qingran has been recalling the past more and more recently. When she woke up one morning, she opened her eyes and saw a strand of white hair creeping out of Shao Ziyu's temples. Lin Qingran was startled. They are old.

Taking advantage of the fact that Shao Ziyu was still asleep, Lin Qingran stretched out her hand and carefully picked out that strand of white hair, pressed down on the root of the hair, and gently pulled it, the silver-white hair was easily pulled down.

Looking at the black hair of the same color, Lin Qingran felt an indescribable sense of comfort. When he was young, he pretended to be old, but when he was old, he refused to accept his old age. After that, Lin Qingran fell in love with picking out white hair for him.

Shao Ziyu is also a lazy character. He has only been a Marquis of the Ming Dynasty for a few years, and he has not followed suit. He has learned the habit of not going to court when there is nothing to do. Sometimes the emperor sends someone to invite him, and Shao Ziyu takes Lin Qingran with him without saying hello. Leaving Luodu City, more than half of the ten times, the people who came here were defeated.

But the more he didn't care about it, the more the emperor respected him. Even if he was not in court, he would occasionally send someone to the palace to ask for advice.

Later, Lin Qingran couldn't pick up the gray hair as fast as Shao Ziyu's long white hair. Sometimes when he woke up in the morning, he could see her in one piece. When Shao Ziyu saw her distressed look, he would laugh at her every time. trouble.

After half a year, Lin Qingran also started to grow gray hair.

So she didn't worry anymore, and often asked Shao Ziyu to accompany her, sitting in front of the bronze mirror and watching, the husband and wife must have the same blessings and share the same hardships.

At this time, Shao Ziyu no longer laughed at her, but hugged her, counted how many gray hairs she had grown, and accompanied her to do what she wanted to do.

Lin Qingran has never been willful in most of her life.

The older she gets, the more childish her temper becomes, and she begins to lose her temper.

She began to worry that one day Shao Ziyu would leave earlier than her, and she would not be able to live alone. She began to worry that one day she would leave first, and how he would continue to live after being with him for so many years.

Those questions that Lin Qingran would never even think about in the past, can come up several times a day. The more she worries about, the more she fears death.

When the empress of the palace gave birth to the eldest son, and the kapok in the courtyard was in full bloom, Shao Ziyu gave the title to the eldest son, and took Lin Qingran to leave Luodu City again, all the way to the most beautiful place in the Feng'an Dynasty, and settled down along the way In Tingluo by the lake, Lin Qingran always liked to ask him how he had an impression of himself when they met for the first time in the palace.

Every time at this time, Shao Ziyu always dipped his hands in the tea, drew a big smiling face on the table for her to see, and took the trouble to tell her.

"At that time, I walked to the chessboard and saw you playing with the chess pieces with your head down, putting them together into a smiling face. I have never seen such a chess game before, and then I saw you looking up." At that moment, pure and clear His eyes, full of smiles and full of agility, looking at him, will be remembered in his life

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