Lei Yue Longmen

Chapter 295 Taiping Book Pavilion

Early the next morning, Cen Zhu took the little white deer for a walk in the imperial garden, attracting a large group of palace people to watch along the way.Suddenly, Yun Zai walked over with a smile, "Your Majesty asked me to tell the son-in-law that Mrs. Jiang has given birth. If the son-in-law wants to visit, he can go down and present a congratulatory gift on behalf of his majesty, but he will come back before the palace is closed in the evening."

"Birth? Dare? Really? When did you give birth? Da? Male or female?"

"It was born last night, and it is said that it is another daughter."

Cen Zhu immediately understood that Li Jingzhu wanted her to support Chuan Feiyan.Everyone in the Jiang family hoped that the elder sister's birth would be a son so that he could inherit the Jiang family's incense.At the beginning, the senior sister was very annoyed by this, so she deliberately hid it from them and lived in her own home.If it wasn't for Jiang Yiting's statement in front of Mrs. Jiang later, he would love the baby with all his heart, no matter if it was a boy or a girl. If it was a daughter, he would rather choose one of his nephews to be his heir than embarrass Chuan Feiyan again. Moved the senior sister so much that she changed her mind.She thinks that the two of them really have the possibility of breaking up.After all, Senior Sister Chuan has never tolerated her anger? The master of swallowing, she is the jewel in the palm of the boatman, and the lintel of the Jiang family is really not as important as Jiang Yiting in her eyes.If even Jiang Yiting didn't stand by her side, then there was really no need for her to stay in the Jiang family.

But Jiang Yiting can see it well, it doesn't mean Mrs. Jiang can see it well.People of their generation came here in this way, and they thought everything was justified.As Chuan Feiyan's half family member, Cen Zhu couldn't let her be wronged for nothing.So in the afternoon, I drove to Jiangfu to visit my senior sister.

This is the first time since she "married" into the palace, she left the palace for an upright reason.Li Jingchen's sentence "Send a congratulatory gift on behalf of His Majesty" is very important. Although it is inconvenient for her to go to the courtier's mansion to congratulate her directly, the presence of the consort Guowei in some ways represents the face of Her Majesty the Empress. May not be interesting.

Sure enough, before Yijia arrived, Mrs. Jiang, Jiang Yiting and others were waiting in front of the steps.Cen Zhu hugged the little white deer and got out of the luan car. He wanted to show off Chuan Feiyan, but for some reason, Mrs. Jiang and Jiang Yiting glanced at each other, both showed expressions of fear, and knelt down in front of her. , "Thank you, Your Majesty, for the generous gift. The entire Jiang family is honored and favored. Long live my emperor, long live, long live."

Cen Zhu looked a little confused. According to etiquette, in informal occasions, the ministers only need to bow to the consort of the country, and do not need to kneel down to pay homage.This mother and son acted too politely, but when the Jiang family took her little white deer as a "gift", she felt like crying.She wanted to come back, but on this occasion, everyone expressed overwhelming joy for Her Majesty's "Bestowed Spirit Beast". She really couldn't help but look at the little white deer, "Nah!" He was carried away and entered Jiangfu with tears in his eyes.

In the evening, when Li Jingchen returned to the palace, he heard that the son-in-law had returned from Jiangfu, so he locked himself in the bedroom without even having dinner. He lay down on the bed alone and secretly wiped his tears.Li Jingchen was quite speechless, "Don't you think you asked for it yourself? Why do you want to show off with a deer when you have nothing to do? People misunderstood, you should explain clearly at the first time, now that the raw rice is cooked, you What's the use of crying again?"

Cen Zhu cried so much that the pillow towel was wet, he tugged on Li Jingzhu's sleeve, and said with snot and tears: "I know I was wrong, can you help me get it back?"

Li Jingchen rolled his eyes, "Why do you want it? The thing I sent out was the water that was poured out. If I knew that you had such thoughts, I shouldn't have let you go to Jiangfu. I'm so sorry!"

Cen Zhu buried his face and began to cry again.

Li Jingchen sighed quietly, "Actually, I also have some responsibility for this matter. I shouldn't have said to Jiang Yiting on a whim, 'Yo Yo Luming, the apple of the wild food'. My original intention was to express my desire to recruit talents, who knew? He misunderstood, and after the incident, he handed me a thank you form, saying that he would like to repay the king's "spit and nourishment"? Grace, and he did his best to help me "return the world to one's heart". It's from you."

Cen Zhu raised his head in surprise, and when he was about to make a complaint, Her Majesty suddenly covered her mouth domineeringly, "I know what you want to say, but you are not joking, if you send the deer, you will give it away, 'misunderstood' It has already happened, and no one is allowed to repent. Do you want me to be a king who does not keep his word? Be good, I will give you a better one later, don’t worry about it, okay? Anyway, you only raised it for one day, and you have not yet Have time to cultivate deep feelings. Just treat it as a painful parting for me, okay?"

Cen Zhu burst into tears, and could still hear small sobbing sounds until the middle of the night.Li Jingchen had no choice but to lean close to her ear and say a few words, Cen Zhu let out a "Huh?", gasping for breath, as if he didn't hear clearly.In the dark night, Li Jing's eyes were clear, he tapped his fingers on her mouth, and repeated, "Do you want a child?"

The room was very quiet, the tent was filled with the cool and fragrant evening breeze blowing from the lake, Her Majesty lay on the bed mat with only a light gauze, quietly and calmly uttered these words.

Cen Zhu's tears stopped in an instant, as if he had thought of something, he shook his head and said in disgust, "I don't want it." Turning his back to her.Apparently, the child was a bad memory in her mind, and she didn't even want to mention it.

Li Jingchen didn't give up, resting his chin on her neck, "Really don't want to? Don't regret it."

After she finished speaking, she got out of bed, put on her clothes, held a candle, and went downstairs.

The warm and fragrant feeling in the neck was still there, Cen Zhu turned his head to see that the person had already left, so he quickly got out of bed, put on his wooden clogs, and came downstairs with her.

Li Jingzhu asked the palace servants to hold the lamps, and led the way to the Taiping Book Pavilion in the east.There? Two old palace servants on duty opened the door, lit the lamps, and greeted the empress and son-in-law for their arrival late at night.

Cen Zhu was in a daze, not knowing what she wanted to do.She had come in this Taiping Bookstore during the daytime, looked for some books on raising deer, and was deeply impressed by it.It has more books than the Yanhai Pavilion and Wenhua Pavilion in the previous dynasty, almost including the rare collection of books that is rare in the world.On weekdays, only some Hanlin scholars who have been granted a charter will come here to read the books.Even Li Jinghe himself rarely came.

Cen Zhu never knew that there was an underground floor in Taiping Bookstore. When the "age-like" tunnel was illuminated in front of her eyes, she was stunned.The old palace man led the way, and followed Li Jingchen down the stairs step by step.The sound of clogs stepping on the steps echoed in the tunnel, much like some kind of echo from history.

The old palace people lit the wall lamps on the wall every few steps. The shape of the wall lamps is a copper crane, which is simple, light and elegant. The exception is in harmony with the atmosphere of the entire palace.There are more than 30 steps in the tunnel, and at the end are two vermilion moon gates, on which there is an embossed plaque with the words "Forgetting Words Room" written on it. It is not gloomy at all, but rather quiet, as if they were Descending from a mountain is like walking on flat ground.Cen Zhu unconsciously took Li Jing's arm and looked around, full of curiosity about the underground secret room here.

The sound of unlocking came, and the old palace man slowly pushed open the two doors, and a square secret room was gradually lit up in front of his eyes.The size of the secret room is small, and the layout of the bookshelves is the same as that on the ground, facing north and south.There was a smell of dust in the air, obviously it had been closed for a long time.When Cen Zhu was covering his nose, he saw the desk on the far north. The desk had all the four treasures of the study, but there was no one on the seat.

For some reason, a vision suddenly appeared in her mind. A person once sat there quietly writing and flipping through books for a long, long time.

That person was obviously not Li Jingbai, nor anyone she knew, but he was unreasonably real and amiable. Cen Zhu suddenly realized that it should not be a real person, but an elf gathered from these books.I heard that old books often bring people this kind of imagery, but this is the first time Cen Zhu has felt such a real illusion like today.

The old palace man withdrew.Li Jingxuan was rummaging slowly on the bookshelf.After looking around for a week, Cen Zhu asked her: "What are you looking for?" Li Jingzhu didn't? He answered, took a stack of books from the shelf, and let Cen Zhu carry them to the desk in the north.

Cen Zhu lowered his head and glanced at the cover of the book. It said "Jingshuo Yubi Daily Record" on it, and he was immediately curious.Jingshuo is the second reign title of Emperor Shizu, and it has been 300 years so far. This Yubi Rilu seems to be a diary written by Emperor Shizu himself in that year.Afterwards, Li Jingchen moved a copy of "Jingshuo Yulu Supplementary Notes" from the second shelf on the same bookshelf, opened it and took a look, and the person who made the supplemental notes had become Shizu's daughter, Emperor Xiaozu.

It is quite interesting that the two books are put side by side, one is the diary of the father, and the other is the supplementary notes made by the daughter to the diary of the father.The two books are deeply related, and they are placed in such a secret corner, obviously not wanting to be seen by outsiders.

"What exactly do you want to do?"

"You'll know it after reading it." Li Jingzhu took out a volume from each of the two books, handed them to Cen Zhuo, and pushed her to sit on the chair.Cen Zhu is already very sleepy, but she has a shortcoming. She either doesn't read the book, and once she reads the book, she can't stop. She has to read it all to feel at ease.

So she opened the first page, and then she couldn't control it, and she read it until dawn.

This diary is indeed the daily life written by Emperor Shizu himself. Although it is trivial, it reveals the romance and warmth of the life of Shizu's family in the harem.Of course, these are all secondary, but what shocked Cen Zhu the most was that at the beginning of a certain page, the ancestors wrote unabashedly: "It has been 40 years since I succeeded to the throne as a woman. Grandmother Lai is blessed, and Gou Quan has been so far. Every time I think about it, I can’t help crying." Cen Zhu could hardly believe that the most accomplished emperor in the history of Yurui was actually a woman.She went to look up the annotations of Xiaozu in the same period. This empress, known for her boldness and heroism, recorded the whole story of this incident.It turned out that in the early years of Shizu's succession to the throne, that is, the year when the first emperor Xianzong committed suicide, the court was facing various dangers such as princes and kings seizing power, and ministers in the arms were separated from each other.At that time, Empress Taiciren, in order to maintain the overall situation and stabilize the court, had no choice but to abandon the eldest grandson born to the treacherous concubine, and established the newborn ancestor as the emperor.This paragraph is also recorded in the official history, but no one knows that the newly born emperor Shizu will be a daughter.

No wonder she made her own daughter king, and no wonder her series of policies were unbelievably enlightened at the time and even now.It turns out that such a mystery is hidden inside.

But since Shizu is a daughter, where did Xiaozu come from?

Cen Zhu searched through the diaries of the two empresses, and only found one entry recorded by Emperor Xiaozu, "When I was young, I accidentally learned the identity of my father, and mistakenly thought that I was not born by him? Fortunately, my great-grandmother let me know that I am the blood of my father, queen, and queen. I feel so beloved, entangled with my parents' knees all day long, and refuse to let go half a step away. Both my parents have great love for me. They have been apart for a long time. It's like new. Thinking about it so far, I don't feel tears and withering."

It was already half a month after Cen Zhu finished reading these books.During this period, I really forgot to sleep and eat.That day, she came to the South Study Room in a daze, and saw Her Majesty the Empress reviewing the memorial.Without even saying hello, he sat next to her, leaning on her shoulder, not moving or speaking, looking exhausted.

"What's the matter? Lost your soul? Look at your eye circles like black ink."

"I just..." She didn't know how to say it.This incident shocked her too much, and her world view was a bit subverted.

"Okay, I know what you want to say and what you want to ask. Now you just need to go to the hot spring pavilion to take a bath and then sleep comfortably. Leave the rest to me to explain, okay? Be good."