Uncle (26)

Everything happened as Duan Qingen had expected. As soon as the emperor died, the royal family members who were originally able to behave themselves began to be active.

This is understandable. After all, everyone knows that although the emperor (who has died) has three thousand beauties in the harem and he himself has made great achievements in women, he only has princesses in terms of offspring.

He has no princes. After his death, who else can inherit the throne except those royal family members?

This incident caught everyone in the capital off guard.

After all, the emperor was young and lively before, but he suddenly died and left a mess behind. Anyone felt like they were dreaming.

The court is now roughly divided into two factions.

One knows everything. They know that the emperor who likes to arrange people in the homes of his ministers, and reports clearly what he eats, drinks, says, and even which concubine he sleeps with, is dead. The more sad they are on the surface, the happier they are in their hearts.

The power of the monarch is important, but he has no political achievements and sits on the throne because of a good father and an emperor who can play dirty tricks. It is really hard for people to admire him from the bottom of their hearts.

Those who know nothing are all equally panicked on the surface and in their hearts. They are not very sad, but more afraid that their immediate boss will suddenly die. Who will be the next boss to sit on the throne? Will it affect them?

Lord Wan is the second case.

When he knew that the emperor was dead, he was confused at first, and then he was unbelievable. After all, the emperor was still young and had no symptoms. He looked very healthy. How could he die just like that?

Then he began to worry about who would succeed the new emperor, what should he do if it was someone who was difficult to get along with, etc.

When the new emperor ascended the throne, Lord Wan vaguely remembered that a group of people were purged in the capital. At that time, he walked on the street every day when he went to court, and he felt that the air was full of blood.

That was the bloody smell brought by the chopping of nearly three hundred heads.

Most of these people were officials in the court and their families. At that time, everyone in the capital was in danger. Even if their relatives were in trouble, they did not dare to ask for mercy, for fear of angering the emperor and making them lose their heads.

Going back further, the late emperor was even more cruel than the emperor.

It is said that it took five days to chop off heads. The execution ground at that time was covered with blood. Similarly, most of these people were officials in the court.

Now the emperor has changed again, and it is still this embarrassing situation that the previous emperor has no heir. How can Lord Wan not worry?

He is a scholar, how brave can he be? He is worried day and night. In just two days, he looks thinner.

Because of his appearance, Mrs. Wan, who was still muttering about her daughter's situation in the palace, could not care about it anymore, and she also worried with Lord Wan.

Wan Sihe is even more so. Seeing that her wedding is approaching, the death of the emperor is a national mourning, and her wedding will be postponed. Now seeing her father and mother in such a state, she can't help but feel anxious.

In addition, Wan Siyuan, who knows the general situation but can't say it, and has to worry about Duan Qingen, her fiancé, has only five proper masters in the mansion. Now four of them are in a state of panic. Since they are like this, the servants are naturally anxious and worried.

The whole Wan Mansion is very out of state.

In the eyes of the old lady, this situation is that Lord Wan, the master of the house, does not set an example for the people below, but instead makes his wife and the younger generation anxious for nothing.

She had someone call Lord Wan to her place, and as soon as they met, she placed the teacup heavily on the table:

"Look at what you look like. You're still like a stray dog ​​before you fall asleep, and the women in the mansion are just like you, unable to eat or drink, and can't sleep well. How can you be the pillar of the family? I'm not dead yet, who are you showing this to?"

Lord Wan was shocked by his own mother's rebuke, and he knelt down to apologize: "I'm an unfilial son, and I've made my mother worry."

"You also know that you've made me worry."

Although the old lady was leaning on a cane, she was in good spirits. She pointed at her son and said: "Hold your chest up. The capital is already in a mess, and you're still acting like this. Are you afraid that the women in the mansion will have a hard time?"

Lord Wan hesitated: "My son, my son is worried about the affairs of the court..."

"Tsk."

The old lady sneered again; "Do you think I know nothing? You are just worried about the new emperor's purge. To me, you are worrying in vain."

Because after calling Lord Wan in, the servants in the house were dispersed. Now there are only mother and son in the house. The old lady doesn't need to be shy about what she says, and she said directly:

"You are a fifth-rank official, and you don't hold an important position. Let me say something unpleasant. Who cares about you? How important do you think you are? It's worth someone to deal with you. Just stay here quietly. When the capital is settled and the national mourning is over, you can marry the two girls off in a grand and stable manner. This is what you should do as an elder."

Lord Wan felt a little relieved, and then he carefully raised his head and looked at the old lady: "Mother, it's not that I think too much, it's true that our family has a marriage with His Royal Highness Prince Yao. Now the capital is in chaos everywhere, and the prince is still at the border and I don't know when he will come back. If something happens, what should Siqing do?"

He couldn't eat well or sleep well these days. In addition to worrying about whether his family would be involved in this battle of "seeing who can sit on the throne", he was also worried about Duan Qingen.

Even if Duan Qingen is just a prince, he is still a member of the royal family, and he was the prince before. What if he was involved.

Let alone that he and Duan Qingen are friends regardless of age, the two have a friendship, so he didn't mention his worries. The two families were granted marriage by the deceased emperor. If Duan Qingen really had any misfortune, Wan Siyuan might have to be a widow in the next life.

The old lady was so angry that she almost hit her son on the head with her cane; "Can't you think of something good? You are still talking about something that has no shadow. Why don't you think that the new emperor will ascend the throne, and His Royal Highness Prince Yao's status will also rise with it?!" Lord Wan opened his mouth, but didn't dare to speak.

What's the point of rising with the tide? Prince Yao's mother's family has long been in decline, and the emperor who died was his nephew, and he didn't see how high his status was before.

Although his mother has always been far-sighted, he still thinks that his mother is thinking too much about the good.

You can't just dream in the daytime, you still have to be realistic.

Now it's so chaotic, it's less than three days, and the queen mother hasn't given a definite answer on who to choose as the emperor. The court is in chaos. Every day, the prime minister takes them to kneel in front of the palace and begs the queen mother to make a decision quickly.

This is a pretty fucked-up thing.

It has only been a short time since her son died, and before his body was cold, they were kneeling there, asking her to quickly choose a royal family member who was not her own descendant to inherit her son's position.

No wonder the Queen Mother looked unhappy every time she saw them.

Lord Wan felt that he could understand the Queen Mother, but the country could not be without a king for a day. It was okay for the Queen Mother to be sad about her son's death, but she had to quickly choose an emperor for their country.

The atmosphere in the capital was very wrong recently, and even Lord Wan, a slow-witted scholar, felt it.

He always felt that if the Queen Mother dragged on and did not choose someone, I am afraid that the capital would really be in chaos.

The old lady leaned on a cane. Seeing her son's unknown thoughts, she asked abruptly, "What are you thinking about?"

Lord Wan: "I'm thinking about when the capital can be stable."

"It won't be stable."

The old lady looked outside and said with certainty, "You are always thinking about those things every day, but you don't care about the things in front of you. Now the situation is like this, and you are still thinking about what will happen after the new emperor ascends the throne. You should live well before the new emperor ascends the throne. Hurry up, listen to me, ask for leave, say you are sick and don't go out. Our whole mansion will be closed and no one is allowed to enter or leave."

Lord Wan asked carefully, "Mother, it's not necessary to do this? I think the current situation seems to be..."

--Dong!

The cane hit the ground heavily, making a sound.

Lord Wan immediately shut up: "Yes, listen to mother."

Although he asked for leave and obediently followed the old lady's instructions to close the mansion door and not allow anyone to enter or leave, he still felt that the old lady was old and timid.

Although the atmosphere in the capital is not right now, the Queen Mother is still here, and all the clan members have rushed over. They can discuss it and not fight.

Although he thought so in his heart, maybe because the old lady pointed out that he was worrying too much before, Lord Wan slept well that night.

Anyway, he had asked for leave, so he didn't have to get up before dawn, so he could have a good sleep and feel happy.

In the end, he slept well, but he didn't wake up naturally.

"Master, Master! Master, please don't sleep, there is a fight outside!!"

Lord Wan, who was sleeping in a daze, sat up with a confused look on his face.

He was dragged outside and stood in the yard, and he saw the fire from the imperial city from a distance.

Oh my God!

Is there really a rebellion? ! !

He hurriedly asked the servant: "Have you sent someone out to find out the situation? Who is rebelling?!" The servant panted; "I just quietly leaned over the wall and saw that it seemed like they were fighting. It was so chaotic that I couldn't tell whose troops were whose. I only knew that someone seemed to have broken into the imperial city and planned to take the jade seal first to secure the throne. Unexpectedly, other princes of the royal family discovered it, and then they started fighting." Lord Wan suddenly realized. It's like everyone is waiting for a meal together, and an egg is placed in front of a group of people, waiting for the owner to share it. If the owner doesn't share it, no one will touch it. But if the first person grabs it, the rest will definitely not give up and let the egg be taken away. The throne is that egg. The royal family members summoned to Beijing are the ones waiting to share the egg. But... Lord Wan scratched his head. He couldn't figure out who was so fierce that he took over before the queen mother decided on someone. There was fire everywhere outside, and everyone was fighting in a mess. The people from all sides were gathered together in a mess.

Their eyes were full of bloodshot, and their eyes were full of desire for the throne.

But if someone asked them who was the first person to break this balance.

Hey!

No one really knows.