Chapter 77 Cruel Emperor vs. Fatal Sister (3)

"Grand Prince, hurry up, make the Grand Prince stop." The attendant kept urging the mighty soldiers in the palace.

He didn't know what possessed the Grand Prince, who was obsessed with riding a horse in the imperial garden. If the Grand Prince made any mistake, he would lose the thing on his head.

In the imperial garden, the mighty soldiers kept stopping the Grand Prince from riding a horse. However, the Grand Prince, who was only ten years old, was even happier to see so many palace maids "playing" with him. He was even more joyful. The flowers and plants carefully raised in the garden were all trampled by the horses' hooves, and the passing palace maids were even more frightened and ran around.

Since Shi Yi stood up for Zhao Jinyuan and killed Shuxiang to warn the palace maids, Zhao Jinyuan's life in the palace has been much better. The Queen's favorite palace maid was beaten to death on the spot, so she naturally would not give up. She tried to make trouble for Zhao Jinyuan several times, but was blocked by the people sent by the Princess. The relationship between Shi Yi and Zhao Jinyuan was getting better and better, and the princess noticed it, but she had no intention of stopping them.

On this day, Shi Yi brought Zhao Jinyuan to the garden to see the lotus flowers, but they ran into the eldest prince who was thrown into the lotus pond by a horse.

With his life in danger, Shi Yi took off his coat without thinking and jumped in.

"Help... Help..." The eldest prince couldn't swim and kept shouting.

The lotus pond was originally filled out from a lake, with all kinds of aquatic plants mixed in it. In the past few years, the palace sent people to clean it several times before it got better, and lotus flowers were planted to increase the ornamental value. But the water in the lotus pond was too deep for a ten-year-old child.

After a while, the eldest prince choked on the water, and his struggling hand gradually sank. Shi Yi was only a ten-year-old child now, and he wasted a lot of effort, but he was still a little short of swimming to his side.

These mighty soldiers were only responsible for managing the safety of entering and leaving the palace, and they were not able to swim. Everyone stared at the side with wide eyes, unable to help at all.

Although Zhao Jinyuan knew that they were not to blame, he still couldn't help complaining. His brother and his elder sister were both in the pond. What if they both drowned? !

Although he usually hated his brother bullying him, they were brothers after all, so there was no big jealousy.

He paced anxiously, constantly calling "Brother Wang... Sister... Sister..."

Finally, Shi Yi reached the corner of the eldest prince's clothes. She grabbed it hard and pulled him to her side with all her strength.

"Bamboo pole, bamboo pole..." She heard the palace people shouting on the shore.

The eldest prince relied on his instinct to survive and entangled Shi Yi tightly. Now, the two of them could not move.

The more anxious he was, the harder it was to break free. The water in the lotus pond kept rushing into Shi Yi's mouth and nose, and then the whole person fainted.

When she woke up again, there was no one in front of her.

There was no sound in the empty room, but outside the room, there was continuous mourning music and the sound of raindrops, as if falling into her heart.

She had a bad feeling in her heart that the eldest prince must have gone.

The princess opened the door and saw her daughter's disheartened expression.

She was slightly sad, but she had to analyze the matter ruthlessly and let her daughter see the dangers in the palace.

"The eldest prince is dead." She told her daughter the answer straight away.

The eldest prince drowned for a longer time than her daughter, and because he was not good at swimming, more water was poured into his lungs, so he could not be saved by the imperial physician.

This was expected. Shi Yi looked indifferent and had no reaction.

"Today's incident is definitely not as simple as an ordinary fall from a horse." The princess looked directly into her daughter's unfocused eyes.

Although the queen and Emperor Zhao were young couples, Emperor Zhao had always been afraid of the queen's mother's family, so he hardly stayed overnight with the queen for so many years. Therefore, the queen has never had children.

The eldest and the youngest were born to an inconspicuous concubine in the palace. The youngest died of puerperal fever shortly after giving birth, without even leaving a name. The queen had no children, so it was natural for her to adopt the eldest.

Although Emperor Zhao didn't like the queen, he really loved the eldest and treated him well from the bottom of his heart. Whatever Emperor Zhao had in the Qinzheng Palace, the eldest must have had it too.

Everyone in the palace said that Emperor Zhao loved the eldest, but she, as the eldest sister, knew that it was just a trick of her younger brother, the emperor.

Recently, court officials have been urging the establishment of a crown prince, and almost everyone supports the eldest son raised by the queen. How could the emperor, who has always been wary of the queen's mother's family, swallow this breath?

Today, the eldest fell into the water while riding a horse, which was probably arranged by his younger brother. But he probably didn't expect that he would kill his most beloved son.

It was too cruel to just tell her ten-year-old daughter that her uncle the emperor might be the murderer who killed her son.

And it was still unknown what role the queen played in it.

Finally, the eldest princess gently tucked the corner of the quilt for Shi Yi, sighed deeply, and stayed beside her without saying anything.

Her daughter was only ten years old and should not be exposed to such dark things. At most, she would take her daughter away from Kyoto and go to the fiefdom of her late husband.

"There is something wrong with the eldest prince's horse." Shi Yi suddenly said such a sentence.

"My son," the eldest princess tightly held her hand exposed outside the quilt. On the one hand, she was amazed at her intelligence, but on the other hand, she was more worried that she would say something out of turn.

In recent years, what others have seen on the surface is indeed the glory of her as the eldest princess. In fact, the eldest princess's mansion is only splendid on the surface and is not as good as before. Without the strong support of the emperor, she, the eldest princess, is nothing.

In the mourning hall, Zhao Jinyuan stayed quietly in the corner without crying.

The sudden death of the crown prince was never a good omen. There were no excessive decorations in the mourning hall, nor were there any music performances. There were only a few palace servants who had served the crown prince during his lifetime.

Zhao Jinyuan stared at the coffin in the center of the mourning hall. He knew in his heart that the person lying inside was his brother. Although this brother never treated him as a real brother and made fun of him in various ways, it still could not change the fact that they shared the same blood.

Not long ago, he saw his favored brother arrogantly bullying the palace servants and showing off the treasures given to him by his father. Today, he was lying here, sleeping for a long time and would never wake up again.

He pinched his wrist hard, and his sorrow became even greater.

His brother, who was loved and spoiled in every way, was able to die "openly" in this palace, so when would he face the fate that had been arranged for him?

(End of this chapter)