Chapter 271 Completely Changed
The palace servants gathered around busily.
Murong Ji wiped his face, took off his wetsuit at the nearby Chenxiang Pavilion, and changed into dry clothes.
"Hey, you've been with me for more than a day or two, don't make a fuss every day. I'm a good swimmer."
The second prince Murong Ji is good at swimming and always likes to soak in Qianlong Lake when the weather is hot.
The Queen Mother warned him many times not to go into the water, but he agreed with her words and then jumped back into the water.
"It's too hot. I need to go into the water to cool down."
Murong Ji came out of Chenxiang Pavilion and met Prince Murong Yuan after only a few steps.
The prince wore a jade crown and a bright robe, and was dignified and self-possessed. Although he was only a few years older than Murong Ji, he looked much more stable.
"Aji, did you go swimming in the lake again?"
Murong Ji chuckled: "Royal brother, the jade ring on your hand is really beautiful."
The prince sighed and said, "Let's go. I will go with you to see the Queen Mother."
Murong Ji walked beside his brother, looking at him with eyes full of admiration and joy:
"Royal brother, aren't you with Minister Pei every day? Are you busy? Why did you come from the East Palace at this time today?"
The prince patted Murong Ji on the shoulder and said, "I heard that you lost the chess game with Pei Erlang yesterday, so I came here to teach you how to play chess myself."
Murong Ji was anxious: "Royal brother, this is a misunderstanding. How could I really not be able to beat the Pei family kid? I just let him win, I gave him three points!"
The prince smiled and said, "I'll play chess with you later and you'll know."
They walked to Yifeng Palace.
The Queen was sitting in the courtyard enjoying the cool air, with several maids around her fanning her with half-person-high fans.
I don’t know who came up with this idea, but they made such a big fan that it’s hard to hold.
"Yuan'er is here. I haven't seen him for the past two days. He seems to have lost some weight. Is it because his studies at the Eastern Palace are too stressful?"
The queen stood up and walked to her eldest son, looking at him carefully.
Murong Yuan: "Mother, I feel like I've gained some weight."
The palace maids served tea, melons and fruits, and the mother and her two children ate peaches in the yard.
The peaches were cut into slices and placed on the fruit plate, shaped like a flower.
The Queen said, "Yuan'er, come and have some peaches. I had them picked from the peach forest this morning. They're in season right now."
"The Queen Mother is partial! She only lets my brother eat the peach and not me."
Murong Ji picked up an uncut peach, held it in his hand, and took a big bite angrily, with juice all over his mouth.
The Queen glared at him and said, "Your Royal Brother doesn't go to the pond to make trouble every day."
Murong Ji's momentum waned, and he lowered his head to chew on a peach: "Which idiot is snitching again?"
After Murong Ji finished eating the peach, the queen pushed the peeled pine nuts in front of her youngest son:
"Are you hungry? It's not time for dinner yet, eat some nuts first."
Murong Ji's mouth was filled with the aroma of pine nuts. "My Queen Mother, if you give me so much to eat, I will grow up to be as fat as the koi in the lake."
The Queen said: "You are so noisy every day, and you won't gain weight even if you eat."
Murong Yuan: "Let Aji sit and learn chess every day, I think he will grow some weight."
Murong Ji: "Brother, you said again... I don't need to learn. I said I have always been giving in..."
The queen was laughing beside her, and as she laughed, she coughed violently a few times.
She covered her lips with a handkerchief, and when she moved it away, Murong Ji saw with his sharp eyes that there were some blood foam on it.
"Mother! What's wrong with you?" Murong Ji dropped the pine nuts in his hand.
Murong Yuan also went to support the queen and said to those around him, "Quickly call the imperial physician!"
The Queen clutched her handkerchief and comforted the two brothers: "It's okay, Mother just has a dry throat and coughed up some blood recently. It will be fine in two days."
The Queen Mother said that it would be fine in two days, but after two months, the condition became more and more serious.
Summer had passed, and when the autumn chrysanthemums bloomed in clusters, Murong Ji noticed that his mother was coughing more and more frequently, and the blood she coughed up turned from bright red to dark brown.
When she coughed, the Queen Mother said her chest ached as if pierced by a needle.
Murong Ji wanted to visit his mother more often, but his mother often refused to see him.
He leaned out of the window and looked in quietly, vaguely seeing that his mother's face was pale and her chest was heaving violently due to coughing.
Murong Ji wiped his tears and went to the East Palace to ask his brother, "Brother, when will mother get better?"
Murong Yuan's eyes dimmed, and he only said, "Aji, it's time for you to grow up."
On the day his mother passed away, Murong Ji felt like he had grown up, because he no longer wanted to swim in the lake.
As soon as he jumped into the water, the image of his mother bleeding from her mouth and nose, staining half of the pillow red, appeared before his eyes.
On the day of the Queen Mother's funeral, the Emperor cried so hard that he looked much more haggard.
All the concubines in the harem, regardless of their rank, knelt before the coffin.
Everyone seemed to be wiping their tears, but Murong Ji, whose eyes were blurry, felt that those people seemed to be laughing.
After the queen passed away, the dignified and elegant Concubine De was made the next queen, namely Queen Du, the following year.
Queen Du was a very nice person. She handled matters fairly in the harem and kept the six palaces in good order.
She also cares about Murong Ji and Murong Yuan:
"The Crown Prince and the Second Prince must mourn. The late Queen is in heaven, hoping for your well-being."
Queen Du even personally made soup for the brothers and embroidered their collars, treating them like their own mother.
But every time Murong Ji had to call her mother, his heart was filled with bitterness.
When he went to the Yifeng Palace to pay his respects, he would often meet his third brother Murong Yu, who was raised by Empress Du.
Murong Yu used to be very silent and shy, and his behavior was a bit flattering.
One day Murong Ji asked him, "Third brother, will you still go with me to the peach forest to pick peaches?"
Murong Yu, who was always obedient, shook his head: "Second brother, I don't like eating peaches."
Murong Ji went to the peach forest alone, picked a lot of plump peaches, and took the peaches to Ganyang Palace for his father to eat.
In the Ganyang Palace, the emperor looked very bad. Since the death of the queen mother, his health has been deteriorating.
During this period, many government affairs were handed over to the prince, with Minister Pei assisting him.
Murong Ji looked at his father's bloodless lips and thought of his mother's pale face before she passed away, and he felt an ominous premonition in his heart.
His heart sank under the water plants at the bottom of Qianlong Lake and couldn't float up.
The emperor's brother said to him, "Aji, you have to be careful of Empress Du. There's something strange about our father's serious illness."
It was difficult for Murong Ji to associate the gentle and kind Queen Du with his father's serious illness.
By the time he reacted, Queen Du's attack was far more vicious than he had expected.
The emperor's elder brother died suddenly overnight, and his father also passed away. The emperor's elder brother's confidants protected him and escaped from the palace overnight.
Murong Ji was chased by someone all the way, and was hit by a poisoned arrow. He was forced to the edge of a cliff and jumped off...
Perhaps it was because his mother was still alive in heaven that when he was halfway down, he was caught by the tree trunks on the cliff and finally fell into the surging river at the bottom of the cliff.
He fell into the water and climbed to shore alive.
Coincidentally, a disciple from the Valley of Divine Doctors who was traveling outside passed by and rescued Murong Ji from the gates of hell.
The disciple from the Divine Doctor Valley was called Yu Renxin. He fed Murong Ji the antidote and said to him:
"The poison in your body has been removed, but my medical skills are still limited, and the antidote I prepared has mixed medicinal properties, which may cause adverse effects."
"Thank you doctor for saving me. I am lucky to be alive."
Murong Ji didn't know there would be any "consequences" at the time until he noticed that he was getting fatter and fatter.
He stood in front of the mirror, looking at his fat body, laughing a little crazily, tears streaming from his eyes which were only a slit left.
He was so fat that he looked unrecognizable.
Okay, that's fine.
No one could recognize him.
I wonder if the Queen Mother in heaven would laugh when she sees that he has gained weight.
That year was the fifteenth year of Mingguang.
The emperor and Prince Minghuai were both buried in the imperial mausoleum.
The following year, Murong Yu officially ascended the throne, which was the first year of Yongjia.
Buried together with Prince Minghuai was the legend of Jinshan.
Murong Yuan did not tell anyone the location of Jinshan except the second prince Murong Ji.
Murong Ji found Jinshan, secretly raised assassins, and planned and waited step by step.
He shaved his head, sat in the temple, and smiled like a Maitreya Buddha.
From then on, there was no Murong Ji in the world, only a fat monk named Ming Deng...
call--
A gust of cold wind blew open the window, making the wood rattle.
Mingdeng opened his eyes.
The rain outside has stopped and the moon has come out, but the cold wind continues to blow.
Mingdeng propped up his heavy body, walked to the window and locked it again.
When a person is this fat, everything he does seems clumsy and he does everything slowly.
He turned around and saw Wuzhen sleeping soundly on the bed, with the quilt half slipped off his body.
Mingdeng's expression relaxed a little. He walked to the bed and covered Wuzhen with the quilt.
In the moonlight, Mingdeng quietly looked at Wuzhen's sleeping face.
Wuzhen was lying on the bed with his hands on his round head, looking like the cutest child in the world.
But, he is also the most terrifying child in the world.
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