Ji Yunyou, "???"
Before she could say anything, Dugu Ran had already pulled her away.
Ji Yunyou ran from the city gate into the city in one breath, and used brute force to stop her feet.
"What... exactly do you want to do?" Ji Yunyou looked at the crowd of people coming and going, her expression bewildered.
Dugu Ran pointed, "I want to take you into the palace to ask the Emperor and Empress for something."
After saying that, he pulled Ji Yun along for a run once more.
Having anticipated what was about to happen, Ji Yunyou didn't press for details but silently followed Dugu Ran.
The surrounding crowds and street scenes receded, leaving only Dugu Ran's slender yet not frail figure.
One incense stick later, outside the Yuanchen Hall.
Now the Emperor, Dugu Ling, adorned in a dragon-embroidered robe, exuded the air of a nobleman, his bearing elegant and refined. "Have you thought it through? Are you determined to leave?"
Dugu Ran nodded, "Yes, I hope Your Majesty will grant my request."
"Do you know what your departure means?" Dugu Ling's gaze was deep, and her tone contained a hint of something unsettling.
At this moment, the sound of things being smashed and broken came from inside the Yuanchen Hall, through the door.
Dugu Yue carefully comforted her, "Mother, please don't lose your temper. It is only right that the Crown Prince should succeed to the throne after Father's death, and it is also sincerely supported by all the civil and military officials."
If you're not comfortable living in the palace, I'll ask my elder brother, the Emperor, to let you move to my princess's residence.
Although this approach was somewhat outrageous and unprecedented, Dugu Yue felt it was better than her mother being resentful and constantly yelling and cursing at everyone.
My brother has already shown great magnanimity by not pursuing the matter of the day of the rebellion. Do you expect my brother to relinquish the throne?
"Ungrateful wretches...you're all ungrateful wretches!" Consort Chen wouldn't listen at all and continued to grumble as she pleased.
In fact, this is all because her beliefs have crumbled.
As for why, Dugu Ling and Dugu Jue knew, and Chu Yuan also guessed it pretty accurately based on what had happened during this period, but she was too busy with national mourning and the enthronement ceremony to keep up.
At this moment, the thorn in Dugu Ling's heart was starting to ache again.
My father is already dead. To be honest, if it's for his peace in the afterlife, we really shouldn't bring up these sordid matters again...
"Brother, after I leave, send Consort Chen to guard the imperial mausoleum," Dugu Ran said, looking at the plaque of Yuanchen Palace.
The three characters "Yuanchen Hall" on the plaque, written in bold and elegant calligraphy, were personally written by the Emperor to express his affection for his mother.
Now it seems like a joke.
Because the person the mother truly cares about is probably not the father, and it is unknown whose bloodline he and Yue'er are.
This truth, which should have been a bolt from the blue for him, seemed to become unimportant when he decided to follow Ji Yunyou.
Dugu Ran closed her eyes. "I only hope that my brother will consider Yue'er's gentle nature and not tell her the truth, so that she can continue to live as a princess. After all, Yue'er and I have been the victims of what Consort Chen did from beginning to end."
"Of course, if my brother wants to find those people from back then and verify my bloodline with Yue'er..."
"Never mind." Before he could finish speaking, Dugu Ling interrupted him. He hadn't expected that Dugu Ran knew everything.
This younger brother of the emperor is not as dull and stupid as he appears.
With a slight twitch at the corners of his mouth, Dugu Ling appeared to be smiling, but the smile was actually very faint. "I don't have time to dwell on that anymore. I brought you here today so that you could say goodbye to Yue'er. From now on, we'll be separated by the ends of the earth. She'll definitely be crying again."
Upon hearing this, Dugu Ran looked at Dugu Ling and smiled sincerely.
very nice.
This is true noble character.
With such an emperor, Huaxu will surely prosper for a hundred years.
Dugu Ran had nothing to worry about or be unwilling to accept. She touched her nose and chuckled, "That's right. Yue'er has always been a crybaby since she was little. But as she grew up, she became more adept at using arrogance and unreasonableness to cover up her vulnerability."
Who isn't?
After Dugu Ran left, Consort Chen was distraught for quite some time.
Perhaps they felt that all hope was lost.
Not long after, Dugu Ling sent her to guard Huangling. Dugu Yue was confused and was angry for a long time.
But a few months later, she reverted to her former willful and capricious Princess Fushun. However, she had changed somewhat. In the past, she always liked to run around outside the palace, but now she spent most of her time in the Empress Dowager's Shou Kang Palace.
The Empress Dowager was so confused that she wondered what had happened to her.
Dugu Ling did not pursue the true background of the siblings, so as not to upset the Empress Dowager.
A year later, after the emperor finished his mourning period for the late emperor, Chu Yuan became pregnant again.
"Little sister, little sister!" When Xia He told Chang'er, who was almost two years old, that Chu Yuan was pregnant again, the little guy ran and crawled with his short legs, and finally sat contentedly in Chu Yuan's arms, touching his still not obvious belly.
These were the two sentences that were shouted.
She spends almost all her time talking about her younger sister.
When Dugu Ling heard this after court, she pinched the child's tender little face, which looked so soft it seemed like she could squeeze water out of it. "Chang'er, do you really want a little sister?"
Dugu Chang nodded repeatedly, "Sister, sister."
Chu Yuan, "..."
Dugu Ling said, "Yuan'er, you decide what to do. Our Chang'er really wants a little sister."
Chu Yuan glared at him. "Does Your Majesty think it's up to me to decide whether a child is a boy or a girl?"
While she certainly has the power to decide, having a child on her own initiative is naturally different from being forced to have one by someone else.
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