Chapter 20: Chengyu's succession
Li Yuexu raised his hand to stop him, and said to Yang Weiran: "Seal this Leizhou Shijia'er girl as the concubine of King Yun, so let's make a decree." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info" Li Yuehua was about to speak again, but was stopped by Li Yuexu with his eyes, and said: "The side concubine is also a concubine, not wronged her!" ”
Li Yuehua looked at his brother's expression, but he was afraid that he would not be able to turn around, and Empress Zheng was holding a gun and a stick on the side, for fear of talking too much, so she had to bow her head and whisper: "Yes." ”
Empress Zheng stood up and said with a smile: "The concubine will not delay the emperor and King Yun's talk, and our sisters will leave first." ”
Li Yuexu said: "The queen should go slowly, there is one more thing, I have to inform you, you can leave after listening." ”
Empress Zheng agreed, sat down again, and only heard Li Yuexu say to Li Yuehua: "I have a son, who is smart and clever, but he is too smart, and in this palace, he will inevitably be disliked." When he said this, he glanced at Empress Zheng and continued, "I originally came to see that you have never married and wanted to pass him on to you, but now you are going to marry, but I don't know if you are willing to have a son?" ”
Li Yuehua understood, and hurriedly said, "Brother is willing, I don't know which prince Your Majesty is referring to?" Li Yuexu looked at Empress Zheng and said to Li Yuehua: "It's Li Chengyu, the king of Chenjun." Someone in the palace wants to harm him, you take him to Lingnan. ”
Empress Zheng was secretly frightened, but Li Chengyu passed on to Li Yuehua, and he had no share in the position of prince. Is there any reason not to allow it? Hurriedly said: "King Chen is smart and clever, congratulations to King Yun for winning this good son." According to His Majesty's will, the concubine held a succession ceremony for His Majesty and King Yun. ”
Li Yuexu ordered in His Royal Highness Wude to pass his fourth prince Li Chengyu to Prince Yun Li Yuehua, and two days later, all the hundred officials will go to Da'an Palace to watch the succession.
Two days later, almost all the officials in the capital went to the Da'an Palace, large and small horse palanquins blocked the entrance of the palace, and the forbidden army received many rewards because Li Yuexu ordered to stop investigating the assassination of Zheng Ange.
It was almost noon, and the outside of the temple was almost crowded with people, and the officials wearing various colors of court clothes stood in two columns according to their rank. At noon, I heard the shrill voice of an inner eunuch and whispered: "Your Majesty has arrived!" Everyone knelt down and saluted, and on the dragon chariot lifted by the thirty-six people, Li Yuexu, who was wearing a bright yellow dragon robe and a crown of auspicious clothes, was sitting on his lap. He walked down the dragon chariot slowly, surrounded by many inner prison palace maids, and slowly walked into the temple.
Li Yuexu walked to the center of the temple and accepted the courtesy of the ministers. Yang Weiran walked to the steps of the gate of the Taimiao, and two other internal supervisors opened the door of the Taimiao respectively, and the sound of squeaking came, only to see rows of spiritual seats enshrined in the somewhat dim Taimiao. Li Yuexu walked up the steps, took the incense lit by Yang Weiran, slowly walked into the temple, and then knelt on the bright yellow futon in the middle to bow to his ancestors.
Then the prince, the prince of the county, the duke, and the minister saluted according to their rank. After everyone finished saluting, Li Yuexu walked out of the main hall and motioned to Yang Weiran to lead Li Chengyu, the king of Chen, out from behind the Taimiao, came to Li Yuexu and knelt down in front of him, and handed Li Chengyu's small hand to Li Yuexu.
Li Chengyu already knew two days ago that he was about to become the son of the emperor's uncle, and he asked his mother Zhu Cairen: "Mother, my father doesn't want a son anymore, right?" He's going to give me to Uncle Huang. ”
Zhu Cairen reluctantly touched Li Chengyu's hair, and said lovingly: "Chengyu, my father is because he loves you too much and is afraid that you will be harmed, so he asked the emperor's uncle to lead you to Lingnan to avoid the sharp edge of those wicked people, do you understand?" ”
Li Chengyu nodded helplessly, Zhu Cairen looked outside the door, and said quietly: "Your uncle's family was condemned by these wicked people and exiled to Lingnan, although they all said that they were dead, but my mother didn't believe it." If you have the opportunity to quietly visit them and protect them, my mother will be grateful to you! As he spoke, rolling tears remained.
Li Chengyu stretched out his little hand, wiped the tears on his mother's face with a handkerchief, and said, "Mother, the child remembers." The child has a cousin named Zhu Le'an. ”
Zhu Cairen couldn't stop crying, took Li Chengyu's little hand, put it on his face, and said faintly: "They may have changed their names and origins so that no one knows them in order to avoid those wicked people." If we meet by fate, don't be too anxious. Li Chengyu hugged his mother, the mother and son were about to separate, and the future meeting seemed to be far away, and he couldn't help but cry.
Li Yuexu took Li Chengyu's hand with a solemn expression, and Yang Weiran said loudly: "Prince Yun Li Yuehua stepped forward. Li Yuehua, who was standing on the side, stepped forward, knelt under the steps, and bowed. Li Yuexu took Li Chengyu's hand and slowly walked down the steps, handed Li Chengyu's small hand into Li Yuehua's hand, and said, "Yuehua, King Chen has entrusted it to you, I hope you can treat him well." ”
Li Yuehua hurriedly kowtowed and said: "Thank you, Your Majesty, the younger brother will do his best to educate King Chen as a human being, and never let down His Majesty's trust in his younger brother." Li Yuexu nodded, patted Li Yuehua's shoulder, and whispered, "I believe in you!" ”
Empress Zheng did not attend Li Chengyu's succession ceremony, not because she didn't want to participate, but because Zheng Ange's injury suddenly deteriorated, Li Yuexu wanted to preside over Chengyu's succession ceremony and arranged for Empress Zheng to visit the Weiguo Mansion.
Empress Zheng was sitting in front of the bed of Zheng Ange, the Duke of Weiguo, at this time, looked at the unconscious Zheng Ange, and said to Zheng Ange's wife: "Sister-in-law, Your Majesty is presiding over King Chen's succession ceremony, and you can't come to visit your brother, so let the palace do everything for you." I just don't know how this injury suddenly worsened? ”
Chen Zhiqian, the judge of the Tai Hospital who was standing on the side, saw and asked, knelt down and said: "Queen Qiqi, Guogong's injury has already improved, but for some reason, the previous one suddenly collapsed, and Weichen is now treated with life-saving soup, if he can wake up tonight, if he can be saved." ”
Empress Zheng listened to Chen Zhiqian's words, quietly let Chen Zhiqian leave, and asked her sister-in-law in shock and anger: "Why did my brother's arrow sores crack?" ”
Mrs. Zheng cried incessantly, but refused to speak. Empress Zheng looked around, but she didn't see Zheng Chengyong, the prince of Weiguo, accompanying her, and she had seven or eight points of understanding in her heart, looked at her sister-in-law coldly, and asked, "What about Chengyong?" ”
Mrs. Zheng was confused, and when she heard Zheng Ruying's majestic question, she was so frightened that she fell to her knees and cried, "Please let the queen mother calm her anger, and please ask the queen mother to spare Yong'er!" ”
Zheng Ruying said angrily: "Your spoiled good son! What good did he do to make his father so angry? ”
Mrs. Zheng didn't dare to make a sound, but knelt on the ground trembling, trembling all over. Zheng Ruying sneered: "If you don't say it, I can guess eight or nine without leaving ten." You, a good son, are probably having a relationship with which of his father's concubines, and his father knows about it! ”