Chapter 44: Peasant Girl vs. Princess of the Previous Dynasty (19)
In the 45th year of the Xin Dynasty, the Xin Emperor passed away and the Crown Prince Yuan Yi succeeded him, and was named Emperor Wen.
On the day of the Xin Emperor's funeral, the Empress Dowager cried bitterly, but Eunuch Chen always remembered the Emperor's instructions and never took his eyes off her.
As expected, as soon as the funeral officials finished decorating the body of the new emperor,
the Empress Dowager was about to hit the coffin. Eunuch Chen promptly took out the Emperor's will from his sleeve.
It turned out that the new emperor was worried that the Empress Dowager would be buried alive with him, and had already issued an edict that if anything happened to the Empress Dowager, Yuan Yi, the successor, would also be buried alive with her.
Eunuch Chen had no idea that the new emperor had such good intentions. He watched the Empress Dowager's face turn from green to white, and finally fainted in the hall.
Yuan Yi was very young, and his back was soaked with sweat. He felt like he had walked through a Shura field.
Emperor Wen succeeded to the throne at the age of only eleven. According to the Emperor's will, he was assisted by the Empress Dowager and four loyal ministers.
Day after day, the timid child began to have ideas under the instigation of the people around him.
He wanted to break the "surveillance" of the empress dowager and the ministers, take real power, and become the real emperor of this world.
When Eunuch Chen heard the news, he immediately rushed to the Cining Palace to report. Shi Yi was dressing up with the help of the palace maids.
When she heard this, her expression was calm. She had long known that people's greed was greedy.
"Empress Dowager, are you going to let Emperor Wen continue to be so confused?" Eunuch Chen was so old that he couldn't even straighten his waist, but he was very energetic.
"Let's wait and see." Shi Yi picked a plain hairpin and asked the palace maid to put it on her.
"Should we suppress the noble lady Yan beside Emperor Wen?" Eunuch Chen was upset when he thought of this little bitch who was fanning the flames and making trouble in the harem.
To be precise, this noble lady Yan was sent to the palace by Emperor Wen's biological mother.
"There's no need to suppress him. The emperor is old, and it's time for him to have a queen. With the queen in charge of the harem, those beautiful women won't be able to stand out." Shi Yi was supported by a palace maid and walked to the main hall. "Come with me to see the late emperor. He was sick and didn't accompany him before. I think he must be lonely."
Eunuch Chen bent over and followed the empress dowager. For some reason, his eye sockets suddenly became shallow.
"Hurry up and keep up." Shi Yi stopped and looked back at him. Seeing that he was wiping his tears, he couldn't help but sigh, "You are so useless. How long has the new emperor been gone?"
The more the empress dowager said this, the more Eunuch Chen understood that she couldn't let go. Otherwise, she wouldn't have gone to the imperial mausoleum so often to guard the tomb.
I just don't know if the new emperor would regret choosing an ungrateful person like Emperor Wen and making the empress dowager sad.
Imperial study.
"Your Majesty, let's go to the busy streets of the people together." The charmingly dressed Noble Lady Yan wrapped her arms around his arm like a water snake.
"No," the emperor rejected her seriously, "The Queen
Mother is still in the palace. She knows that I am ignorant and has to drag me to kneel in front of the new emperor's tomb for a night." "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother has left the palace." Concubine Yan sat on his lap, took the pen from his hand, and said delicately, "Isn't Your Majesty curious about the novelties of the people?"
She knew that if she wanted to stay in favor in the harem, she had to please the emperor all the time and make him inseparable from her. In this way, no matter how many new people came in the future, she would always be the one in the emperor's heart.
"Okay, okay, I'll do as my beloved concubine said."
Emperor Wen was tired of studying the Four Books and Five Classics every day. It was just right to take advantage of the Queen Mother's absence to give herself a holiday.
Concubine Yan's original intention was to take the palace people to organize a market in her Huayan Palace, let the emperor play the role of selling things, and herself play the role of the emperor's wife. Unexpectedly, before they set up the market, an earthquake broke out in the palace.
It was a coincidence that the earthquake did not affect other places, but it affected Huayan Palace. Concubine Yan had never seen an earthquake before, so she fled in all directions like other palace maids, leaving the emperor alone sitting under a tree.
When she returned to the palace, the emperor had fainted for a long time. She sent Concubine Yan to the cold palace without saying anything.
Concubine Yan knew she was in the wrong and did not dare to offend the empress dowager, so she had to admit defeat for the time being and slowly plan for the future.
Besides, when Emperor Wen's biological father Yuan Wang heard the news of his fainting, he immediately slapped his original wife and angrily scolded her for finding a jerk to enter the palace.
Yuan Yi's stepmother knew her husband's ambition well and also hoped for the supreme position. She hated Yuan Yan who was sent to the palace to the core.
Before the other concubines in the harem could take action, she had already sent someone to secretly kill Concubine Yan.
When the other palace maids found her, she had already hanged herself for a long time. Everyone just thought she committed suicide out of fear of punishment, and a straw mat was hastily rolled up and thrown into the well.
Eunuch Chen followed the Queen Mother to visit Emperor Wen, but he was thinking in his heart that it must be the spirit of the previous emperor. Otherwise, in such a huge palace, how come only the Huayan Palace was shaken, but no one was injured, and only Emperor Wen fell into a coma.
Shi Yi knew all his little thoughts. She hoped that it was really the spirit of the new emperor who appeared, so that she could let him go and avoid too much suffering.
Emperor Wen didn't know whether he was in the wrong or what, but he saw the new emperor with white bones walking towards him step by step in his dream.
He stepped back step by step, but still couldn't break free.
The new emperor kept muttering, "I solemnly asked you to take good care of my wife that day, but you actually conspired with her. Have you forgotten how you got the throne?!"
The bones suddenly turned into a fierce ghost and choked his throat.
"Yuan Yi, Yuan Yi..." Shi Yi wiped the cold sweat on his forehead again and again with a wet towel.
I think this child must have dreamed of something terrible, so he couldn't wake up.
"Ahhhhh..." Yuan Yi suddenly opened her eyes and pinched Shi Yi's hand tightly, "Queen Dowager, save me, Queen Dowager, save me."
"Okay, it's okay, I'm with you." Shi Yi patted his arm gently.
"Queen Dowager, don't leave." Yuan Yi was afraid that he would dream about the new emperor again.
"I won't leave." Shi Yi continued to wipe his cold sweat.
Yuan Yi grabbed her hand, his lips pale, "Queen Dowager, please, please don't leave, I'm scared."
This was the first time since he became an adult that he called himself "son and subject" to Shi Yi, and Shi Yi felt a little complicated.
Eunuch Chen looked at the emperor soaked in sweat on the dragon couch and felt a rare sympathy.
Because this strange phenomenon came too suddenly and the Imperial Astronomical Observatory was unable to calculate it, the ministers decided to let the emperor issue an edict of self-blame to comfort the people of the world.
The emperor was afraid of being disturbed by the corpse of the new emperor in his dreams again, so he believed whatever the ministers said. He only hated himself for listening to the ignorant woman Yan Guiren and offending the spirit of the new emperor in heaven.
Because of the earthquake in Huayan Palace, Emperor Wen was much quieter.
(End of this chapter)
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