"King Ning..."
Emperor Yunqing opened his mouth like a fish jumping out of water, both fearful and helpless.
"Father, why did you forget that my son is no longer a prince, but a county king?" Jiang Luo put his sword on Emperor Yunqing's neck, but as a son of man, he led troops into the palace to kill his father. Jiang Luo didn't have any psychological pressure to do this kind of thing that would have been stigmatized for thousands of years, and even had a crazy smile on his face.
"You bastard, do you want to kill your father?" Emperor Yun Qing was gasping for breath. He looked at his crazy son with wide eyes, "Are you crazy?"
"I've been crazy for a long time. I was already crazy when you favored the prince and gave him all the good things." Jiang Luo's distorted smile turned into endless resentment. "The son and the prince are brothers. , What good things have you had since childhood, the prince will always come first. Have you ever thought that I am also your son?!"
Emperor Yunqing looked at Jiang Luo like this, and didn't dare to speak.
"That's all when I was young. Later, when the prince got married, you asked him to marry the famous and virtuous Shi family, what about me?" Jiang Luo growled jealously, "The Xie family is such a thing that can't be seen on the stage, you asked me to marry him. , even if I don't want to, I will marry. But why did you let someone cut Xie Dalang's position shortly before I was about to get married? You can't wait to let the whole world know that your second son is just a A joke, does it have any place in your heart?"
Emperor Yunqing did not expect that his second son would have so many complaints. Over the years, he deliberately only raised the crown prince and alienated the bastard, in order to let the other sons stop thinking about taking the throne, so as not to go the same way as he and the late emperor. He thought that this would avoid the sorrow that happened to him and his ancestors, but who knew it would bring out such a big hidden danger.
"If you step down now, Father will not hold you accountable."
"Don't pursue it? Ha!" Jiang Luo laughed sarcastically, "You think I'm still a child more than ten years ago, and I will believe everything you say?!"
He likes the gadgets from neighboring countries, and his father promised to give them to him, but because the prince did his homework well, he looked at the gadgets twice more, and the things became the prince's.
Later, when the prince learned that he liked it, he asked someone to send it over as if showing off. He was so angry that he smashed it, and got another reprimand from his father. There were so many things like this that he didn't want to recall them all.
"Stop talking nonsense, I want you to write the edict of the Zen position now," Jiang Luo's sword pressed down, revealing a long blood-red wound on Emperor Yunqing's neck. When Jiang Luo saw the wound, not only did he not regret it at all, but his eyes lit up instead, "It doesn't matter if you don't want to write, anyway, the prince is in my hands now, if I get impatient, let the prince go down and ask You pave the way, and you won't be lonely when you walk together."
"Jiang Luo, I am your father, and the crown prince is your elder brother!" Emperor Yun Qing didn't dare to move anymore, he saw that what Jiang Luo said was not a lie, he really wanted them to die.
"With power, what's the use of father and brother coming?" Jiang Luo sneered, "I admired you when I was young, why did you ever think of me? Now you talk nonsense about these useless blood relations with me, I have already I don't like to hear it anymore."
"Don't talk nonsense," Jiang Luo dragged Emperor Yunqing off the bed, and asked two young eunuchs to help him to the imperial case, "write."
"Bastard!" Emperor Yun Qing was only wearing unlined clothing, and was shivering from the cold at the moment. His eyes swept over the two young eunuchs, who knelt down in fright.
"Father, what time is this, and you are still playing prestige to the two eunuchs?" Jiang Luo stuffed the imperial pen into Emperor Yunqing's hand, "Hurry up and write, if you don't write after a stick of incense, I will let you write." Someone chopped off a finger of the prince."
"Jiang Luo, I don't have to write the edict of the Zen position, but I have to publish it at the same time, and the six ministers will be present at the same time, and finally it will be announced to the world." Emperor Yunqing looked at Jiang Luo, "What do you want me to write now? use?"
"Whether it's useful or not is up to me, not you," Jiang Luo couldn't help laughing mockingly when he saw Emperor Yunqing's reluctance to write, "It seems that the crown prince has no place in your heart. What you love most is not the prince, but your throne."
Emperor Yunqing glared at Jiang Luo: "Shut up for me."
"Now I'm the knife and you are the fish. Father, you'd better be gentle with your subjects." Jiang Luo walked to the side of the dragon bed and took out a sachet from under the pillow. Father, are you hiding it like a treasure? Fortunately, Banhua is your niece, otherwise, I will suspect that you have ulterior motives."
"You bastard, how can you say anything?" Emperor Yun Qing stared at the sachet in Jiang Luo's hand, his face flushed with anger. But he didn't dare to get up, because two soldiers with knives stopped him.
He knew in his heart that Jiang Luo's ability to be so arrogant in the palace at the moment meant that the entire harem had been controlled by him.
"Where did Commander Yang and Shi Jin go?" Emperor Yun Qing couldn't believe that with these two people around, Jiang Luo could still control the entire harem silently.
"Commander Yang?" Jiang Luo raised his eyebrows, and the smile on his face became weird, "You are talking about your running dog, he is probably already waiting for you on Huangquan Road."
"As for Shi Jin..." Jiang Luo snorted, "He's not on duty tonight, you don't know?"
Emperor Yun Qing really didn't know, he looked at Jiang Luo as if he was looking at the biggest mistake in his life.
Jiang Luo didn't care about his eyes at all. Seeing that Emperor Yunqing didn't write, he turned around and said, "Come here, bring the things up."
A guard in iron armor brought up a tray covered with a black brocade. I don't know what was inside. Jiang Luo lifted the veil in front of Emperor Yunqing, and there were three bloody fingers lying inside.
Emperor Yun Qing almost vomited from nausea, he turned his head away, but Jiang Luo didn't want to let him go, "This is the finger of the chief eunuch next to you, and it will not be the eunuch's finger when someone brings it later."
"Jiang Luo, what exactly do you want to do?"
"Didn't my son tell you that I want you to write the imperial edict for the Zen position?" Jiang Luo sneered, "Why do you need to ask the emperor again?"
Emperor Yunqing's hand holding the pen kept shaking, and soon the blank imperial decree was stained with ink.
"Father, don't shake your hands." Jiang Luo took away the blank edict and put another copy in front of him. what happen."
Emperor Yunqing looked up at the palace gate, it was pitch black outside, as quiet as a tomb.
He wrote word by word, and when he reached the third word "Biography", his movements suddenly stopped.
"Second, what is this world in your heart?"
"Of course it is a supreme right." Jiang Luo asked back, "Otherwise what do you think it is?"
Emperor Yunqing couldn't write the next word, "Have you ever thought that there will be a day when you regret it?"
"Regret?" Jiang Luo laughed incomprehensibly, "Of course you let the secret agent poison the old son-in-law, did you ever regret it? And Cheng Amber back then, why did he die at your hands? inside?"
Emperor Yunqing's complexion changed drastically, and he asked in a hoarse voice: "You... how do you know?"
"Because I hid in the corner of the main hall when you ordered the eradication of De Ning's son-in-law. As for Cheng Amber..." He raised his eyebrows, "Isn't Rong Xia your illegitimate son? The cause of Cheng Amber's death is a mystery. He didn't wait for the title, but when it came to Rong Xia, he didn't downgrade to take the title, don't you just want to leave the title to Rong Xia?"
"You keep saying that you like Banhua all day long, but if she knows that her grandfather was killed by you and the late emperor, do you think she will hate you?" Jiang Luo put the purse in his hand and burned it under the candlelight , "I don't know if Princess Dening knows the truth of the matter, will she regret saving her life to save you?"
Emperor Yunqing's face was pale and he couldn't speak a word.
"You call me a beast, but in fact I'm just learning from you," Jiang Luo laughed out loud as he watched his purse burn out, "I'm a small beast, you are a big beast, the late emperor is an old beast, we All the sons of the Jiang family are animals."
"Is the affair between the prince and the concubine part of your plan?"
"Why, you finally thought of asking about this?" Jiang Luo looked at Emperor Yun Qing with disheveled hair and black face from the cold with a smile, "Do you really not trust the crown prince, or do you need to distrust the crown prince?"
"Although I don't like the prince's lady-like temperament, he is indeed more humane than you." Jiang Luo smiled triumphantly, "It's just that he is a bit stupid."
Emperor Yunqing's face turned pale, and muddy tears flowed from his dim eyes.
"It seems that the father is not in a good mood, I will send someone to help you wake up."
A basin of water soaked in ice cubes was brought in, and Jiang Luo pointed to Emperor Yunqing's naked feet, "Come, serve Your Majesty to soak your feet."
Just after midnight, Emperor Yunqing's miserable cry came from the Great Moon Palace.
In the queen's palace, the queen was locked in the palace by heavy guards. She couldn't send any news to the outside world, and she didn't know what happened outside. Although the soldiers guarding her didn't embarrass her, their attitude was recalcitrant. No matter what she said, they wouldn't let her go out.
"Your Majesty," the palace maid supported the crumbling empress, "you should rest for a while."
The queen shook her head, and walked to the window with a tired expression, not knowing whether she was waiting for the arrival of reinforcements or the bad news she dared not hear.
Time passed little by little, when the sun rose and the main door of the court hall opened, what the courtiers saw was not the prince of Jian Guo, nor His Majesty recovering from illness, but King Ning in a dragon robe. The dragon robe on King Ning's body was well tailored, obviously tailor-made, and I don't know how long it has been specially prepared.
"Prince Ning, do you want to rebel?" A stubborn minister pointed at King Ning and cursed, "Hurry up and get off the dragon chair."
"Presumptuous, from today onwards, I will be the emperor of Daye," Jiang Luo raised his chin, "Come here, read the imperial decree of the Supreme Emperor."
"Jiang Luo, the second character of the emperor, has benevolence and righteousness in his heart, and has the talent for governing the world..."
After the courtiers listened to the imperial decree in a daze, His Majesty decreed to lower the title of King Ning, so how could it be possible for him to inherit the throne. Chao Chen was dissatisfied and wanted to enter the palace to see His Majesty, but the guards in the palace were extremely strict, and they were kicked out by the guards as soon as they reached the gate of the palace.
But the more this happened, the more everyone doubted whether something happened in the palace, or why they couldn't even enter the palace gate. In the past, there were often eunuchs who went out of the palace to handle business, but there was no one in these two days, as if the whole palace had become quiet.
King Ning took control of the palace.
Everyone has thought of this, but they dare not directly publicize it. In the end, the faction that supported the prince couldn't bear it, and stood up and began to question King Ning. King Ning had a violent temper when he was a prince, let alone the emperor now. He immediately ordered these officials who questioned him to be imprisoned. For a while, there was a lot of turmoil, and the whole capital fell into a state of panic.
On the fifth day of King Ning's ascension to the throne, he couldn't wait to confer the title of Empress Dowager, and awarded a few concubines he favored. However, the concubine Xie has not yet obtained the status of a queen, and she is in the palace without embarrassment or embarrassment. wait. All the officials who followed Jiang Luo received a large sum of rewards, except for these officials in the court, no one else dared to speak out at all.
After the award was over, Jiang Luo began to reprimand the imperial decree. The first person he wanted to reprimand was Rong Xia, but because Rong Xia's status among scholars was too high, Jiang Luo was stopped by his cronies in the end. In the end, he had no choice but to settle for the next best thing, and issued three orders to demote Ban Huai in a row.
The first way is to demote Banhuai to the rank of Marquis.
The second way is to demote Ban Huai to earl.
In the third way, Ban Huai's title was directly cut off, and the house given to him by the royal family was taken back, and the house was searched.
The Ban family, which had been prosperous for hundreds of years during the Daye Dynasty, finally collapsed in an instant. However, since the Ban family did not live in Yurou Township, apart from ransacking the house, they were not convicted of any crime. But this change, in the eyes of others, is already a huge blow.
Some people sympathize with Ban's family, while others sympathize with Ban Hua. How can she hold her head up in her husband's house when her mother's family has lost power?
However, what everyone didn't expect was that on the day the Ban family was ransacked, the Ban family looked calm, and it seemed that there was no surprise. And those various old people raised in the Ban's family have already been paid by the Ban's family and arranged to be dumped elsewhere.
Recently, many people have had their homes ransacked. It is said that anyone who has offended Jiang Luo over the years will either have their homes ransacked or be demoted again and again. These people were crying, heartbroken, and the Ban family's calm and indifferent reaction was like a clear spring among the victims.
Perhaps it was because Jiang Luo was so unpopular, the Ban family's reaction actually attracted a lot of praise. Some talented scholars even wrote two poems specially to praise Ban Jiashi for how he defies authority and how he is indifferent to evil forces. People who saw the poem were eager to applaud, but they forgot that the Ban family was once a member of the powerful.
The enemy of the enemy is a friend, and the Ban family is now the enemy of the enemy.
After the Ban family was ransacked, they were picked up by the servants of Cheng'anhou's mansion. But the Ban family didn't want to hurt Rong Xia, and they didn't want to live in Cheng'an Hou Mansion. In the end, Rong Xia had no choice but to ask someone to buy a big house in the capital and let the Ban family live in it temporarily.
"Father-in-law, mother-in-law," Rong Xia looked at the villa and said with guilt, "I have wronged you."
"Don't be so polite as a family." Ban Huai happily took out a few banknotes from his belt, which he had someone sew them in on purpose. The clothes with the bank notes came out.
He stuffed all the bank notes into Yin's hands: "Madam, I leave these to you for safekeeping."
Yin took the bank note without any hesitation, and she looked at Rong Xia and said, "It's not convenient for us to go to the Hou's Mansion right now, so please take care of me, Huahua."
"Mother-in-law, please don't worry, my son-in-law will definitely take care of her," Rong Xia said as a junior, and she didn't neglect her just because the Ban family is now down. , and some meat can be used."
"This child has been picky since she was a child. It may take a lot of effort for you to coax her down these days."
"Huahua is very nice, it's easy to treat her." Rong Xia smiled.
Seeing him like this, Yin finally let go of her hanging heart.
After settling down the family, Rong Xia hurried home. Rong Xia didn't know how to tell Ban Hua about the ransacking of Ban's house. He was worried about her unhealed body and was stimulated by this incident.
"Are you back?" Ban Hua huddled in a chaise longue in a thick brocade robe and watched folk artists juggling. Seeing Rong Xia come in, he stretched out his hand to beckon him over. It's just that the brocade robe on her body was a little loose, and when she stretched out her hand, half of her arm was exposed.
Rong Xia walked over and shook her palm, making sure her hand was not cold before asking, "Did you steal some snacks today?"
"Am I the one who can't control my mouth?" Banhua turned her face proudly, "It's not like a two- or three-year-old kid."
"Well, I know you are a child of seventeen or eighteen years old," Rong Xia smiled and hugged her, and the two went back to the bedroom, Rong Xia stuffed him into the bed, "What do you want to use at noon, I will ask someone to give it to you." Do."
"I don't have a good appetite today, let the people in the kitchen make something appetizing and refreshing," Ban Hua glanced at Rong Xia suspiciously, "Do you have something to hide from me?"
This pair of hesitant to speak looks, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like nothing is wrong.
"Huahua..." Rong Xia rubbed her tender cheeks, "Something happened today, don't get too excited after hearing it."
"Oh?" Ban Hua raised his eyebrows, "Did the throne change, or did my father offend someone again?"
Rong Xia: ...
"Huh?" Ban Hua was even more puzzled, "I'm not really right?"
Otherwise, why didn't Rong Xia speak?
"A few days ago, the Supreme Emperor issued a decree to allow King Ning to succeed him."
Ban Hua stopped holding the quilt, and she looked at Rong Xia with wide eyes: "You said... King Ning?"
Rong Xia nodded silently, but his expression was very calm, as if the one enthroned was not a prince with whom he had a quarrel, but an unrelated stranger.
"Where is the prince?"
"No one has seen the crown prince. Shi Chonghai has already been dismissed from the position of prime minister, and he has been transferred to other places as magistrate. Shi Jin has also been dispatched to the border."
"Jiang Luo is out of his mind. Why are you letting the Shi family who support the prince leave at this time?" Even if Ban Hua thinks he has no political awareness, he knows that he must not let the Shi family go at this time. This is undoubtedly going back to the mountain.
"Perhaps King Ning thinks this will humiliate the Shi family more."
"But it would only humiliate his not so bright mind."
"Anything else?"
Rong Xia was silent for a moment: "In the three days since King Ning ascended the throne, he issued three imperial decrees denouncing his father-in-law. Today, the Jingting Palace was copied..."
"The house was ransacked?" Ban Hua looked at Rong Xia in a daze, then nodded suddenly, "It turned out to be so... so..."
She always felt that the order of her dreams was chaotic and illogical, and it was only at this moment that she realized that the Ban family would be deprived of their title, but it was not the rebellious new emperor who deprived their title, but the one who had been with the Ban family all along. Jiang Luo who doesn't deal with it.
"Huahua, don't be sad, as long as I'm here, I'll take care of the shift home for a day," Rong Xia saw her laughing and crying, worried that she would be too sad, "Believe me, I will never let my father-in-law and mother-in-law be wronged." of."
"I'm not sad," Ban Hua looked at Rong Xia and smiled, "I believe in you."
Rong Xia could tell that Ban Hua was really not sad, her eyes were as bright as stars, and there was a brilliance in them that he couldn't understand. This kind of Huahua confused and fascinated him, and he couldn't help but hugged her into his arms, "Huahua, if you have anything to say, you must tell me, don't hold it in your heart."
"Then I want to eat goose palm today, you can ask someone to do it."
"Okay." Rong Xia agreed immediately, turned around and went out to give orders to the servants waiting outside.
Banhua got up from the bed, walked to the closet, opened the door carved with double flowers, bent down and took out a wooden box at the bottom.
"Huahua," Rong Xia walked to Banhua's side and helped her put the wooden box on the table, "What's inside?"
"A set of clothes," Ban Hua gently stroked the lid of the box, "I have someone make a set of clothes for you." After she finished speaking, she opened the lid of the box, and inside was a set of gorgeous black brocade robes. The auspicious clouds are embroidered with dark patterns on the top, and every stitch and thread shows its low-key luxury.
Rong Xia didn't expect that what was in this box was just a set of clothes, a set of brocade clothes in a golden nanmu box.
"I never knew whether I should give you a try on this suit," Ban Hua turned his head and smiled at Rong Xia, "because you look good in light-colored clothes."
Rong Xia felt that Ban Hua wanted to say more than this.
"But I think I've never seen you wearing black clothes, and I feel a little regretful," Ban Hua took out the black brocade robe from the box, and handed it to Rong Xia with a smile, "Pass it to me to have a look. "
"Okay." Rong Xia took the brocade robe, turned around and went behind the screen.
Ban Hua sat down at the table, resting her chin on one hand, her eyes fell on the vase in the corner, and she remembered the man who gave her the fox fur in her dream that she praised her as a rare living person in the capital before she died.
She has mixed feelings about the new emperor in her dream. One is to thank him for being willing to take care of her family, and the other is to blame him for depriving the Ban family of his title.
Her ending was supposed to be that after Shen Yu divorced, she didn't find a suitable son-in-law. In the end, she was stripped of her title and died under someone's arrow. However, when she woke up from the dream, reality and the dream became farther and farther apart, and she gradually no longer paid attention to that dream.
Whether it's joy or sorrow, it's her fate to walk around in this world once and enjoy the glory and wealth, and if she ends up being confiscated and died early, as long as her family is safe, she has nothing to complain about.
After an unknown amount of time, Banhua heard footsteps behind him. She looked back, and saw the noble young man in black clothes coming towards her gracefully, with a white jade crown, high-quality suet white jade, a fair neck, and a chin so perfect that it was almost unreal.
Exactly the same as the man in the dream.
Ban Hua suddenly laughed, and the laughter spread out of the room, making the maid guarding outside think that Madam was mad because of an accident in Ban's family.
"Huahua, what are you laughing at?"
"I'm laughing at a poem."
"What poem?"
"Planting flowers intentionally will never bloom, but unintentionally planting willows and willows will make shade. Am I reading this sentence correctly?"
"No," Rong Xia sat down beside her, "I just don't understand how you remembered this poem."
"Well, probably because I think you look better in black than light."
"Really?" Rong Xia looked softly at the clothes on her body, "Since Hua Hua likes it, I'll show you how to wear it every day."
"That won't work," Ban Hua shook his head, "I don't want to make other women cheap and let them see your beauty."
"Then I'll wear it at home?"
"good."
Ban Hua nodded with a smile.
She reached out and touched Rong Xia's white jade crown, and suddenly said: "Rong Xia."
"Huh?" Rong Xia squeezed her other hand in her palm and played with it.
"I'll only ask you this question once."
"Is there something you are hiding from me?"