The Child Emperor

(Thanks to the reader Floating Blossom for the red tip.)

While the emperor was in a semi-coma in the palace, a person in Cui's house also seemed to have lost his soul. Although the whole family was all sad and frightened, no one's sadness was as deep as his, and no one's panic was as strong as his.

In the blink of an eye, Cui Teng lost everything. First, the emperor was assassinated in front of him. Before he could think about it, he got the news that Zhang Qinyan was dead and ran to his father's room. Spit out a mouthful of old blood, and the injury just a few minutes became more serious...

This assassination destroyed the Cui family, and even the Southern Army, who supported Cui Hong the most, remained silent, and did not send anyone to visit the general's injury, let alone any changes.

Immediately afterward, a large number of military guards surrounded Cui's house. They were not allowed to go out, and the people in the house were not allowed to move around at will. It was no different from being imprisoned. Cui Teng could only stay in his room. There will be hope.

A little time passed, he finally accepted his fate, and found that what he missed the most was Zhang Qinyan. He was in the stage of extreme infatuation, and was suddenly forcibly cut off. This infatuation fell into his heart and it was hard to let go.

So he drank, he cried, he recited poetry, but if he couldn't recite his own poetry, he recited other people's poems. If he couldn't recite it himself, he asked the servants to recite it for him. He only felt that every poem was telling the story of him and Zhang Qinyan.

His sentimentality did not last long. On the third day after the Cui Mansion was besieged, the real mistress of the Cui Mansion, Lao Jun, who was over seventy years old, unfortunately passed away.

Lao Jun is old and not very healthy, but looking at her daily scolding and scolding everyone, everyone thinks that she can live a hundred years, at least to eighty years.

Lao Jun is in charge of the Cui family with an unyielding spirit, and because of this spirit, he is very irritable, and the assassination incident hit her especially hard.

The arrival of the emperor in person was supposed to be a symbol of the Cui family once again reaching the top, but as a result, the Cui family fell into the abyss.

Lao Jun was not convinced, because this assassination was not planned by the Cui family at all. accept the truth.

But she could not accept such a result.

Cui Teng missed Zhang Qinyan, Cui Xiaojun remembered the emperor, and Cui Hong tried his best to inquire about the news. Only Laojun did not make trouble and summoned all the servants around Cui Teng one by one.

The master of Cui Mansion could not walk around at will, and the servants were relatively free. Cui Ge was frightened, and under the comfort of his great-grandmother, he slowly improved, and finally he was able to tell the details of the situation at that time. Although the language was not smooth enough, the meaning was still very clear.

The Cui family was used, and it was used by a group of robbers. After Laojun understood, he became angry and cursed for a whole day. He called the robbers insidious and shameless, called the woman a bad face, called Cui Teng without eyes, and cursed the daughter-in-law for not taking care of it. Cui Teng, scolding his son Cui Hong for not being strong enough, scolding Xiaojun for his incompetence, not being able to give birth to a prince, and not being able to win over the emperor's heart...

She was not addicted to only scolding living people. She began to scold her husband who had been dead for many years, scolded the underworld, and scolded the gods in the sky. In the last half hour, she even secretly scolded the queen mother and the emperor in the palace.

The people around him had been scolded for running away, and only two maids were guarding the outside. Suddenly, they felt quiet in their ears. They thought they were deaf. , took another breath, and was out of breath.

The Cui family couldn't even be mourning, but fortunately things were prepared a few years ago, Lao Junsheng was put into the coffin, stopped in the coffin hall, and waited for news from the palace.

When Cui Teng was summoned in the palace, everyone in the house and everyone sighed in their hearts. If the empress was summoned, it meant that the emperor had probably woken up, but now it was Cui Teng, who was probably going to continue the interrogation of the assassination. , is by no means a good sign.

Cui Teng could only throw away the poetry collection and say goodbye to his family one by one, I caused the disaster, I will bear it alone, mother, please take good care of father, sister, please take care of your health, as long as you can come back alive, I will definitely find out about your majesty. Case.

The mother and sister just cried, but Cui Teng did not dare to see his father and left with the eunuch sent by the palace.

It was wishful thinking to inquire about news in the palace. Except for the necessary instructions, no one dared to talk to Cui Teng. All the acquaintances from the past all looked cold at this time, as if they did not know him.

Cui Teng was sent to a room and waited for more than a day. No one delivered food. There was only half a pot of herbal tea on the table, and he was transferred to the chamber pot under the bed not long after.

The longer he waited, the more frightened Cui Teng became, and this fear even overwhelmed the memory of Zhang Qinyan, I just said I was deceived, Zhang Qinyan was given to me by the emperor, what's my business? Yes, I was deceived. Yes, the Cui family was deceived, but first the emperor was deceived...

Cui Teng muttered by himself. In the evening, another eunuch finally arrived. As soon as he entered the room, he frowned and covered his nose, as if he smelled something.

You didn't let me go out, what can I do? I can't hold back. Cui Teng defended.

The eunuch didn't shake his head, Come with me.

Where?

The eunuch didn't answer, turned around and walked out, and urged at the door: What are you waiting for? Since you have entered the palace, you have to abide by the rules in the palace.

Cui Teng almost wanted to cry and beg for mercy, but then he was cruel, raised his head to keep up, and said loudly, I'm not afraid!

Cui Teng had only been to the periphery of the palace before, but never entered the inner palace. When he walked around, he quickly lost his way. He couldn't tell the difference between east, west and north. He even wanted to escape, but the two eunuchs in front led the way, and the four guards followed, and he did not dare to go astray.

Finally, he came to the door of a large courtyard. The plaque above was written in large characters. Before he could recognize it, the guard behind him pushed him, and Cui Teng staggered across the threshold and entered the courtyard.

He waited for another hour in the yard, the cold wind blew his face, his teeth were chattering, his nose was running, and his pride disappeared. At this time, if someone came out and asked him to admit anything, he would nod his head, but only Ask for a thicker cotton-padded coat, preferably a warm room with a charcoal basin.

Even if Zhang Qinyan was still alive, Cui Teng was willing to exchange warmth.

A eunuch came out and waved to Cui Teng, indicating that he could enter the house.

Cui Teng turned around and nodded to the four guards who had been standing behind him, admiring them for being more resistant to freezing than himself.

The room was filled with warmth, and Cui Teng felt agitated, feeling that he was melting from head to toe.

A large group of people looked at him coldly, including eunuchs, palace maids, and some outsiders. Cui Tengchong smiled and nodded to everyone, hoping to please everyone and let him stay in the room for a while.

The eunuch pointed to the inner door, Go in.

Yes, it's good. Cui Teng walked in tremblingly.

There was a strong smell of medicine inside, and there was only one eunuch and two people who looked like guards.

Cui Teng still smiled and nodded, until his eyes turned to the bed, he immediately put away his smile, and suddenly realized how stupid he was. The emperor was assassinated and his life and death were unknown, how could he laugh? It should be painful.

Before he could brew a sad expression, a weak voice came from the bed, Cui Teng?

Is it me, is it, is it Your Majesty? Cui Teng was taken aback, and then he was ecstatic. The emperor was not dead, and the Cui family was saved.

Cui Teng took a step and tried to pounce, but was stopped by a guard who reached out his hand. The guard didn't speak, but the meaning was very clear. Cui Teng could only stay at the door and was not allowed to approach the bed.

Cui Teng knelt down on the spot, Your Majesty, I am Cui Teng, I am Cui Teng, **** every night, all the time, I think of Your Majesty, tossing and turning, sleepy... sleepy, I really sleep. I can't feel it.

There was no sound on the bed, Cui Teng waited for a while, looked at the eunuch and the guards in confusion, and got no response, he could only kneel there and continue to wait.

Cui Teng? The voice came from the bed again.

Cui Teng was stunned for a moment, then replied blankly, It's me, Your Majesty.

The eunuch stepped forward and waved Cui Teng to get up and approach the bed.

Cui Teng stood up slowly, walked slowly to the bedside, and finally saw the emperor by the dim candlelight.

The emperor was also looking at him, but his eyes were scattered, as if he did not recognize him.

Your Majesty... I'm Cui Teng.

The emperor did not respond. After a while, he closed his eyes and seemed to be asleep.

No one told Cui Teng what was going on and what to do. He had to stand there and look at the emperor, suddenly sadness came from it. This time, he was really sad for the emperor, and had nothing to do with Zhang Qinyan and the tragedy at home.

The emperor opened his eyes again and said the same sentence, Cui Teng?

Cui Teng nodded, tears welling up, Your Majesty, I'm Cui Teng, the Queen is still at home, she thinks about it day and night, her eyes are about to cry, Your Majesty, get better soon.

The emperor still did not respond.

The eunuch took Cui Teng by the wrist, pulled him aside, and whispered, Your Majesty has been saying your name all day.

Cui Teng recognized the eunuch and asked, Eunuch Rong, I have already come, why is your majesty...

Rong Huamin motioned for Cui Teng to speak with him outside.

The four guards also entered the house, and Cui Teng was brought before them again, and he felt bad.

Rong Huamin raised his voice slightly, The imperial doctor thinks that although His Majesty is showing signs of improvement, he is too frightened, I am afraid that his mind is a little confused.

Impossible. Cui Teng said decisively, Your Majesty is very courageous, what scene have you never seen? How can you be 'excessive'?

Rong Huamin snorted, and then said, Your Majesty remembers your name, I must be puzzled.

What's up?

Why did you collude with the assassin?

Cui Teng was shocked, and his voice suddenly increased, I didn't! You framed it! Your Majesty definitely didn't mean that!

This is the only explanation. Rong Huamin said coldly, with a wave of his hand, two guards stepped forward and held Cui Teng's shoulders.

It's not true, I'm also deceived. Cui Teng cried and said without resisting.

It was still so cold outside, but Cui Teng couldn't feel it. He was aggrieved and scared. He really felt that the sky was falling.

Instead of being sent back to his original room, he came to a cell. This was the place where the palace people were imprisoned. The conditions were much better than the real cell outside. For the current Cui Teng, it was tantamount to hell.

He was lying in bed crying for a while, defending himself for a while, and at one point he wanted to commit suicide, but there was no table or chair in the room, and there was no way out.

In a daze, he still fell asleep, wrapping the thin quilt as tightly as possible, the dream was full of the former prosperity.

The moment he was pushed awake, he was frightened and blurted out, Don't kill me.

Your Majesty let me give you a message.

Cui Teng sat up all of a sudden and heard the voice of a woman, not familiar, Miss Meng?

The emperor said that he needs you to suffer a little, be patient, it won't be long.

Cui Teng was dumbfounded.

(I've been tired recently, so I'll adjust the schedule for posting: around 9:00-9:30 am, around 6:30-7:00 pm. I hope you know.)