Due to the news of the death of the Queen and Cao Muxue, the atmosphere in the palace instantly became depressed.
Looking down at Yuxue's lovely Yu Ziyou with a heavy look on his face, the emperor handed him over to Concubine Yu, got up and went to the East Palace.
Looking at the emperor's leaving figure, Concubine Yu praised him: "Xie Wanruo is very smart."
Yu Zheng nodded in agreement: "Compared to Cao Muxue, she is more suitable to be a crown princess."
After hearing this, Concubine Yu waved her hand to ask Aunt Gui and others to leave.
When His Highness was left with only the mother and son and Yu Ziyou, Concubine Yu looked at Yu Zheng and asked with a serious look and a bit of inquiry: "Do you really have no intention of being the prince?"
Now that the Cao family has been overthrown and the queen is dead, although Yu Cheng still has the support of the Xie family, if he wants to fight, he can't resist Yu Zheng at all.
Because the Cao family, the queen, and Cao Muxue have always been Yu Cheng's stain.
If Yu Zheng wants to fight, now is the best time.
Yu Zheng did not answer directly, but asked Concubine Yu: "How happy have you been in the palace these years?"
Concubine Yu was startled and then understood what Yu Zheng meant: "Are you afraid that Jiang Shu will be wronged?"
Yu Zheng said: "Not only that, my son and I don't want to be like my father."
Being in the supreme position is not like what people say, you can do whatever you want. Instead, you have too many helplessness and inability to control yourself. Yu Zheng didn't want Jiang Shu to be wronged, nor did he want to be restricted by others.
"You know what you want, as long as you don't regret it." Concubine Yu sighed and did not persuade her.
Yu Zheng pursed his lips and said, "I think it's good to be like this now. I have a noble status and a certain degree of freedom. Everything is what I want."
Concubine Yu smiled: "I'm a little envious of you."
There is indeed nothing good about being an emperor except for honor and power.
The palace walls were towering, trapping not only the concubines but also the emperor.
Seeing that Yu Zheng was thinking clearly, Concubine Yu was relieved. But now that the conversation has come to this point, Concubine Yu said smoothly: "Now that Jiang Shuji has given birth to the heir apparent, when are you going to take in a concubine?"
Yu Zheng frowned and said for the first time: "I don't intend to accept it."
"What?" Concubine Yu was stunned, and after reacting, she said, "You mean, Jiang Shu is the only one in the backyard of Prince Jing's Mansion?"
"Yes." Yu Zheng admitted frankly.
Concubine Yu was so shocked that she couldn't speak for a while, and then she said after a while: "But you are the prince, how can there be only one person in such a big backyard?"
Originally, it was against common sense for Yu Zheng to marry Jiang Shu. If you don't accept concubines as concubines, it will really shock the world.
"Why not?" Yu Zheng asked.
Concubine Yu was suffocated and said, "But Jiang Shu doesn't want to?"
Yu Zheng shook his head: "It has nothing to do with her, it's because I don't want to."
"Why?" Concubine Yu didn't understand.
Yu Zheng looked at Concubine Yu and said seriously: "My father took in many concubines for various reasons, but I see that my father is not happy, and my mother is not happy either."
"If that's the case, why do you have to accept it?"
This... Concubine Yu was too stuck to answer because she had never thought about this question.
As a woman, she naturally does not like to share her husband with others, but she deeply believes that it is normal for a man to have three wives and concubines. Even if she became the queen, the emperor would definitely accept other concubines.
Although she was displeased, she would not stop it.
Yu Zheng didn't want to continue this topic and said, "I know it well, so my mother and concubine don't have to worry."
Concubine Yu has a calm temperament and does not force anything. After hearing Yu Zheng's words and understanding Yu Zheng, he knew that he had made up his mind and it was useless to say anything.
Forcibly admonishing will hurt the relationship between mother and child.
So Concubine Yu stopped there and asked about something else.
East Palace.
After Xie Wanruo fed Yu Cheng the medicine, Yu Haolin lay on the bedside talking to Yu Cheng, and suddenly the sound of saluting sounded outside the room.
The emperor is here.
As the door opened and the emperor entered the room, Xie Wanruo quickly stood up and saluted, and Yu Haolin also called out "grandfather."
The emperor looked at Yu Cheng, who was leaning on the bedside with a pale and weak face, and said to Xie Wanruo, "I want to say a few words to Cheng'er."
"Yes." Xie Wanruo led Yu Haolin out of the house.
The emperor sat down in front of the bed and asked a few questions about Yu Cheng's condition. Yu Cheng replied that everything was fine.
After a pause, the emperor changed the topic and said in a deep voice: "Do you know about your mother and Cao Muxue entering the cold palace?"
Yu Cheng nodded with a dark expression.
The emperor sighed heavily: "They committed suicide by hanging from a beam in the cold palace last night."
What? !
The incident happened suddenly, and Yu Cheng was not mentally prepared at all.
"How could this happen..." Yu Cheng was overly shocked and muttered to himself in disbelief.
The emperor looked at his expression and said rationally: "It's better for them to leave like this, cleanly and simply, so as not to drag you down."
During the Tianji Mountain assassination, Yu Chengyi blocked the emperor's sword without hesitation or hesitation, leaving the emperor touched and helpless. These days, I have been worrying about how to deal with the Queen and Cao Muxue so as not to hurt the relationship between father and son.
This is the best outcome.
Yu Cheng, who was already feeling guilty, suddenly trembled when he heard this, and his face suddenly turned paler. Lying quietly on the bed, it was as fragile as a paper man, as if it would break if poked.
After a long time, Yu Chengcai said: "I want to ask my father for a favor."
"What's the matter?"
"I want to bury my mother and Muxue alive and well." Yu Cheng had a lump in his throat and a pain in his heart.
No matter what, one of them is his mother and the other is the mother of his child. No matter what they had done during their lifetime, now that they were dead, he just wanted to give them the last bit of dignity.
It was a reasonable request, but not too much, so the emperor agreed.
"Take good care of yourself and return to the court as soon as possible. Dazhao needs you." The emperor patted Yu Cheng on the shoulder, stood up and left.
Yu Cheng looked at the emperor's back, deeply touched by the emperor's obscure words and good intentions.
At this moment, Yu Chengfang understood that his father loved him. It's just that because of the Cao family and the queen, they don't dare and can't show it clearly.
Yu Cheng closed his eyes, tears of pain rolling down from the corners of his eyes.
Xie Wanruo entered the house and saw Yu Cheng closing his eyes and crying, his face full of pain, and he already guessed it.
"Your Highness." Xie Wanruo held Yu Cheng's hand, a little worried that his body could not bear it.
Yu Cheng opened his eyes, looked at Xie Wanruo with tears in his eyes, and said hoarsely: "Wanruo, the queen mother and the others...are gone."
Xie Wanruo's lips moved, not knowing what to say, and lowered her eyelashes with a little guilt.
She felt guilty not for the queen and Cao Muxue, but for Yu Cheng.
Yu Cheng was in so much pain that he didn't notice the slight change in Xie Wanruo's expression. He grabbed Xie Wanruo's hand with his backhand and said, "Wanruo, accompany me to the cold palace to meet them."
"Okay." Yu Cheng's injury has not yet healed, and Xie Wanruo is not worried about him going alone.
The two of them changed into plain clothes and took a soft sedan to the cold palace.
Yu Haoyan and the others were still too young. Yu Cheng was afraid of scaring them, so he didn't take them there.
"I have met His Highness the Crown Prince, and I have met the Empress." The Imperial Guards saluted respectfully and opened the door to the Cold Palace.
Xie Wanruo supported Yu Cheng and stepped in slowly and with difficulty.
