Chapter 316: Deep Love
The atmosphere in the palace suddenly became heavy due to the news of the death of the empress and Cao Muxue.
The emperor looked down at the lovely Yu Ziyou with a heavy face, handed him over to Concubine Yu Gui, and went to the East Palace.
Looking at the emperor's back as he left, Concubine Yu Gui praised: "Xie Wanruo is very smart."
Yu Zheng nodded in agreement: "Compared to Cao Muxue, she is more suitable to be the crown princess."
Upon hearing this, Concubine Yu Gui waved her hand to let Nanny Gui and others leave.
When only the mother and son and Yu Ziyou were left in the palace, Concubine Yu Gui looked at Yu Zheng with a solemn expression and asked with some inquiry: "Are you really not interested in the position of crown prince at all?"
Now that the Cao family has been destroyed and the empress is dead, although Yu Cheng still has the support of the Xie family, if he wants to fight, he can't fight against Yu Zheng at all.
Because the Cao family, the empress, and Cao Muxue are always Yu Cheng's stains.
If Yu Zheng wants to fight, now is the best time.
Yu Zheng did not answer directly, but asked Yu Guifei: "Have you been happy in the palace these years, mother?"
Yu Guifei was stunned, and then understood what Yu Zheng meant: "Are you afraid that Jiang Shu will be wronged?"
Yu Zheng said: "Not only that, I don't want to be like my father."
Being in the supreme position is not as arbitrary as people say, but there are too many helplessness and inability to control. Yu Zheng didn't want Jiang Shu to be wronged, nor did he want to be constrained by others.
"You know what you want, just don't regret it." Yu Guifei sighed and didn't persuade much.
Yu Zheng pursed his lips and said, "I think the current situation is very good. I have both a noble status and a certain degree of freedom. Everything is what I want."
Yu Guifei smiled and said, "You make me a little jealous."
Being an emperor is indeed not good except for honor and power.
The palace walls are towering, trapping not only the concubines but also the emperor.
Seeing that Yu Zheng thought clearly, Yu Guifei was relieved. However, since the topic has come to this today, Yu Guifei said, "Now that Jiang Shu has given birth to the prince, when are you going to take a concubine?"
Yu Zheng frowned and said bluntly, "I don't plan to take one."
"What?" Yu Guifei was surprised, and after reacting, she said, "You mean, there is only Jiang Shu in the backyard of Prince Jing's mansion?"
"Yes." Yu Zheng admitted frankly.
Concubine Yu Gui was so shocked that she was speechless for a while. After a while, she said, "But you are a prince. How can you have only one person in such a big backyard?"
It was already against common sense for Yu Zheng to marry Jiang Shu. If he did not take concubines, it would be really shocking.
"Why not?" Yu Zheng asked back.
Concubine Yu Gui choked and said, "But Jiang Shu doesn't want to?"
Yu Zheng shook his head, "It has nothing to do with her. It's my son who doesn't want to."
"Why?" Concubine Yu Gui didn't understand.
Yu Zheng looked at Concubine Yu Gui and said seriously, "Father took many concubines for various reasons, but I don't think he is happy, and mother is not happy either."
"If that's the case, why do you have to take them in?"
This... Concubine Yu Gui was blocked and couldn't answer, because she had never thought about this question.
As a woman, she naturally didn't like to share her husband with others, but she had a deep-rooted belief that it was normal for a man to have three wives and four concubines. Even if she had become the empress, the emperor would have taken other concubines.
Although she was unhappy, she would not stop him.
Yu Zheng didn't want to continue the topic and said, "I know what's going on, mother, don't worry."
Concubine Yu Gui was indifferent and never forced anything. After hearing what Yu Zheng said, and knowing Yu Zheng better, she knew that he had made up his mind and nothing she said would be of any use.
Forcing persuasion would hurt the relationship between mother and son.
So Concubine Yu Gui stopped and asked something else.
East Palace.
After Xie Wanruo fed Yu Cheng the medicine, Yu Haolin lay on the bed and talked to Yu Cheng, and suddenly there was a sound of greeting outside the room.
The emperor is here.
As the door opened, the emperor entered the room. Xie Wanruo hurriedly stood up and saluted. Yu Haolin also called him "Grandfather".
The emperor looked at Yu Cheng, who was leaning against the bed with a pale and weak face, and said to Xie Wanruo: "I want to talk to Cheng'er."
"Yes." Xie Wanruo took Yu Haolin out of the room.
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 subject and said in a deep voice: "Do you know that your mother and Cao Muxue were sent to the cold palace?"
Yu Cheng nodded with a gloomy expression.
The emperor sighed: "They hanged themselves 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 so shocked that he muttered to himself in disbelief.
The emperor stared at his expression and said rationally, "It's better for them to leave like this. It's clean and simple, so as not to drag you down."
During the assassination attempt at Tianji Mountain, Yu Cheng resolutely blocked the knife for the emperor without hesitation, which touched the emperor and made him helpless. These days, he has been worrying about how to deal with the empress and Cao Muxue so as not to hurt the relationship between father and son.
Now this is the best result.
Yu Cheng, who already felt guilty, shuddered in his heart when he heard the words, and his face turned even paler. He lay quietly on the bed, as fragile as a paper man, as if he would break if poked.
After a long time, Yu Cheng said, "Your Majesty, I want to ask you for a favor."
"What is it?"
"Your Majesty, I want to bury your mother and Mu Xue properly." Yu Cheng's throat was choked with pain and his heart was choking.
No matter what, one of them is his mother and the other is the mother of his children. No matter what they did in their lives, now that they are dead, everything is over. He just wants to give them the last dignity.
It was a reasonable request and 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 and stood up to leave.
Yu Cheng looked at the emperor's back and was deeply touched by the emperor's implicit words and good intentions.
At this moment, Yu Cheng finally understood that his father had always loved him. It was just that due to the Cao family and the Queen, he dared not and could not show it clearly.
Yu Cheng closed his eyes, tears rolling down his cheeks.
Xie Wanruo entered the room and saw Yu Cheng crying with his eyes closed, his face full of grief, she had guessed in her heart.
"Your Highness." Xie Wanruo grabbed 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, mother and the others... are gone."
Xie Wanruo's lips moved, not knowing what to say, she lowered her eyelashes with a little guilt.
She was not guilty of the Queen and Cao Muxue, but of Yu Cheng.
Yu Cheng was in so much grief that he didn't notice Xie Wanruo's strange expression. He grabbed Xie Wanruo's hand and said, "Wanruo, accompany me to the cold palace to see them."
"Okay." Yu Cheng's injury had not healed yet, and Xie Wanruo was worried about him going alone.
The two of them changed into plain clothes and went to the cold palace in a sedan chair.
Yu Haoyan and the others were still too young, so Yu Cheng didn't take them with him for fear of scaring them.
"I've seen His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Majesty." The imperial guards saluted respectfully and opened the door to the cold palace.
Xie Wanruo supported Yu Cheng and walked in slowly and arduously.
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