Chapter 319: The Unkind Concubine (13)
After the Fourth Prince left, he wrote a letter every month to An Nan. With the letter, he sent his own paintings. An Nan framed all his paintings and hung them in his palace.
As time goes by, the paintings of the Fourth Prince gradually faded away their childishness, becoming more and more mature, and becoming more and more majestic.
The emperor sometimes came to Annan's palace to admire the paintings of the Fourth Prince. Through these paintings, the emperor gradually understood his son who never cared about. It turned out that he was not really mediocre and incompetent. On the contrary, he was full of spirituality and innocence, focused on a field he loved, and was completely opposite to his ambitious brothers.
The more the emperor understood the fourth prince, the more he was dissatisfied with the eldest prince and the third prince who had become a black-eyed person. The more he regretted why he did not value the fourth prince at the beginning. So he learned his lesson and no longer favored one of the princes, but instead treated the latter princes equally.
On this day, the emperor went to An Nan for examination as usual. After confirming that he had not been poisoned again, he had the intention to appreciate the newly sent paintings by the Fourth Prince.
"Yuan'er's painting skills are getting better and better." The emperor sighed, "Maybe he can really become a great painter in the future."
An Nan sat with him lazily. The older the emperor grew, the more he liked to run towards her, probably because he felt a "secure"?
Concubine Xian, Concubine Shu and the Queen thought An Nan would be favored after more than ten years, but when the fourth prince left the capital, they no longer worried. After all, what they were fighting for now was not the emperor's favor, but the chair under the emperor's butt. As long as the fourth prince did not threaten their son, they would not care if An Nan was favored.
"Your Majesty, you don't have to come so often in the future. After all, no one will poison you every day, right? So you'd just come every half a day to let me check my health. Otherwise, your concubines would think I'm a vixen and rejuvenate! You can still get you running to me every day when you're old!" An Nan lay lazily on the beauty couch and said to the emperor lightly.
The emperor was stunned. Unexpectedly, An Nan would say such words. There was no longer a relationship between them. It was not that the emperor did not want to favor her, but that An Nan was unwilling and he could not force her. So he formed a relationship like his partner today. An Nan helped him keep healthy and gave An Nan and his son a stable and comfortable life.
Is she so old? The emperor looked at An Nan. She was obviously in her thirties, but she was still young and beautiful, with fair and smooth skin, bright red lips, and a slim figure. She was not bad for the little girl in her twenties, and even had a mature and charming charm that young girls did not have.
She lay there weakly and bonelessly, and her hands and feet were all charming. She was obviously about the same age as the queen, Shufei, and Xianfei, but she looked like she was a teenager younger than them, as if she was two generations.
Even though the queen and the others are well-maintained, the traces between their eyes and eyebrows have already revealed their true age. Maybe they are too much thinking?
The emperor felt complicated when he looked at An Nan. She was still so young, but she was already gray and wrinkled. The emperor felt sad and frightened.
After that, the emperor did not see An Nan for a long time, and then rumors spread that his physical condition was getting worse and worse. When An Nan first heard it, he really thought that the emperor was poisoned that she could not even tell. But when she thought about it, she understood that the emperor was in the trap.
I heard that the emperor had issued many imperial doctor examinations, but he could not find anything, but the emperor's body was already very weak and could not even get out of bed...
An Nan told the people in his palace to close the door. Except for necessary walking, the rest of the people should not leave, nor should they walk around casually. Fortunately, the others also keenly felt that the atmosphere in the palace became much more tense, and there was a feeling that the storm was about to come, so for the sake of their lives, they were all more at ease.
Sure enough, one night when the emperor was "seriously ill", the palace began to be in chaos, and many soldiers with fierce swords and swords broke into it. They caught and killed people everywhere. There were all kinds of wailings and screams in the palace. The smell of blood was so strong that it was disgusting. It was obvious that the blood was already flowing out, as if it was hell on earth.
There were also thieves here in Annan who wanted to break in and catch people, but Annan had already asked someone to close the door and fight back. Moreover, the emperor was a little conscientious and sent guards to protect Annan, so she was safe.
Those outside saw that they couldn't get in for a long time, and saw that the palace was not as magnificent as other palaces. Obviously, the people living here were not very favored, so they were sick and had no attachments. When they couldn't get in, they left.
The riot lasted for a whole night, and blood flowed in the palace. I don’t know how many people died. Fortunately, everything was settled the next morning.
This forced palace was initiated by the eldest prince, and he was the one who poisoned the emperor before. He thought that the emperor was about to die of poison, so he took advantage of the emperor's "serious illness" and put him under house arrest and forced the emperor to write an edict to retreat to him.
Just when his confidant led the soldiers to surround the palace, the third prince became a yellow bird. When the eldest prince thought he could force the palace to succeed, he suddenly appeared. He pretended to discover the eldest prince's conspiracy and took the opportunity to lead the troops to surround the eldest prince's soldiers. After a melee, he successfully killed the eldest prince.
So the third prince thought that he had solved his mortal enemy, the eldest prince, and that throne belonged to him. Then he forced the "seriously ill" emperor to write abdication letter, but who knew that the emperor was the oriole that "the mantis stalked the cicada, and the oriole was behind", and he was just the mantis.
So just when he proudly denounced the emperor for being so partial and favored the eldest prince, the emperor's men suddenly appeared and grabbed his soldiers, so he couldn't be proud either.
In this way, the emperor's "severely ill" made him two sons who thought about him. He was greatly hit and exhausted both physically and mentally, and he became aged in his teenage years.
The two princes who are most likely to be promoted are gone, and the remaining princes, the third prince is a lustful person who is lustful and has a very bad reputation; while the fourth prince has never had the will to compete for the throne, and now he doesn't know where he has gone, so it is impossible for these two older princes to succeed him.
The emperor and the court officials both turned their attention to the younger princes, hoping to choose a good successor from them.
Finally, after a series of investigations, the twelve-year-old sixth prince was made the crown prince and studied the affairs of the government with the emperor.
Although the emperor had pretended to be sick before, he was old after all. After being forced into a palace by two sons who had high hopes, he was exhausted. Even though his health was fine, his spirit was still weak and his energy was not as good as before. It was only a matter of time before.
Chapter completed!