v2 Chapter 14： Mother-child stalemate

In the evening, the last gleam of light on the horizon was swallowed by darkness, and the earth was shrouded in darkness.

The eunuchs of the Shouxian Palace carried lanterns and fire tongs, put down the lanterns in the palace one by one, lit them, and hung them back, revealing the Shouxian Palace, which had just been hidden in the dark, in a dim light...

In the light, Zhan Wang Chun Yu Min knelt in front of the steps of Shouxian Palace, his back was straight, his expression was cold, even if he was kneeling there, his cold and noble aura remained unabated.

At this moment, he was staring down at the quaint blue bricks on the ground, with cold perseverance and unshakable determination in his deep eyes.

He has been kneeling here for several hours. Before he sent Shen Ruolan back to the inn, and after helping her arrange protective measures, he returned to the Shouxian Palace, wanting to have a good talk with the Queen Mother.

However, the Queen Mother was still angry and refused to see him, so that people could only say something. If he agreed not to marry Shen Ruolan, or just marry her as a concubine, he would tell him to go in. If not, he would be told to go. Never come to Shouxian Palace again, and she will no longer recognize him as a son.

Of course Chun Yumin would not go in. Going in would mean compromising with the queen mother and would not go. If he left, he would have to bear a reputation for being unfilial and unfilial, so he had to kneel down and kneel in the courtyard of the Shouxian Palace, showing himself to the queen mother. Attitude.

Seeing her so stubborn, the queen mother was so angry that she didn't even have dinner. She only said that if he insisted on marrying Shen Ruolan, she would not eat or drink and starve to death.

Although Chun Yu Min couldn't bear her mother being hungry, she couldn't bear her, so she continued to kneel and silently stated her position.

The mother and son persisted from evening to dark, and from dark to dawn.

Chun Yumin knelt outside the Shouxian Palace all night. It was almost October, and the night was cold. He knelt on the icy blue brick in a single shirt. It was damp and cold. Empress Dowager Xiaoduan couldn't bear it in the middle of the night. He was tossed and turned several times overnight, and he was almost called to get up.

But thinking about what he said during the day, she was so angry that she gritted her teeth and endured it.

Although she held back and did not flinch, she didn't sleep for the whole night. She got up and sat down for a while, sighing until dawn.

Early the next morning, the queen mother sent her confidant maid Xia Jin out to see what Chun Yumin was like.

After Xia Jin came out and took a look at Chun Yumin, she hurried back to report and said, "The empress mother, Qi Ye's face is a little pale, and her eye circles are a little blue. She looks like she's badly injured, she doesn't know she is tired. It's still frozen."

Chunliu saw that the Queen Mother was distressed, and was unwilling to bow her head in front of her son, so she said softly, "It must be the Qi Ye's pre-intestinal and broken medical treatment that hurt his vitality, otherwise it is impossible to kneel for the night and stay like this! "

This made the Queen Mother Xiaoduan feel distressed for a while, thinking about the earthworm-like scar on her son's lower abdomen, and thinking about her son kneeling outside for the night on this gloomy and cold night, suddenly feeling less angry with him.

Xishun said: "Ms. Chunliu said this extremely. Think about the bones of our Seventh Master. It's really the same as the King Kong in the temple. Let alone kneel for one night, it doesn't matter if you kneel for two nights and three nights. Yes, now I only knelt for one night and that's it. It can be seen that this disease really hurt Qiye's body!"

The two were singing together and persuading the queen mother to get loose. At this time, the **** on duty came to report that it was the queen mother who came to please the queen mother.

Empress Dowager Xiaoduan heard that her daughter-in-law was coming, and hurriedly called for her to come in, and temporarily set aside Chun Yumin’s affairs. After all, the old man was shameless in front of the queen yesterday. She also wanted to tell her daughter-in-law to see her son kneeling down. The way he admits his mistakes in the yard is good for his face in front of his daughter-in-law.

Empress Chen came in with seven or eight maids, and each of these maids had a food box in their hands.

After entering, Queen Chen said with a distressed look: "The concubine heard that the mother was frustrated with the seventh brother, and there was no meal last night. The concubine woke up early and asked someone to make some delicious soup for the queen to taste. You are older than you were when you were younger. Don’t take your body out of anger. If you get sick, don’t we feel distressed..."

With that said, the eye circles were a little red.

Seeing this, Empress Dowager Xiaoduan thought of her son outside, and suddenly felt something was wrong. Even the daughter-in-law worried that she would be too old for her body, so she came to persuade her to eat, but that rebellious son, for the sake of it. Sao woman, regardless of her age and weakness, let her starve herself...

Thinking of this, the original intention to forgive him or even fulfill him suddenly disappeared.

However, the empress mother still didn't eat, and after a few words with Empress Chen, she let her kneel down.

Just now she suddenly had an idea, that is, she wanted to see if that rebellious son would really starve her mother to give that vixen name!

Thinking about this, the old lady really refused to eat. From morning to noon, from morning to evening, the queen mother insisted on refusing to eat. Chun Yumin also knelt in the courtyard of Shouxian Palace. Neither mother nor son would give in. .

After the emperor heard about the incident, even Zhezi didn’t even bother to approve it. He hurried over to see him. When he passed the courtyard, seeing Chun Yumin still kneeling in the courtyard, Emperor Jian’an stopped and said angrily: “King Zhan, you are a son of man. For a lowly woman who disobeyed her mother, disregarded her mother’s life, such an act of injustice and filial piety is really a common anger between humans and gods, it is simply inferior to animals!"

After cursing, he stepped into the house angrily.

**

Today is August 15th, and Shen Ruolan has stayed in the inn and never went anywhere. I thought he would come to accompany her on the festival, but he waited from yesterday to today, from morning to night, and waited until the willow head on the moon. Chun Yu Min waited.

Although I didn't wait for Chun Yumin, I was waiting for someone related to Chun Yumin: that is Chun Yumin's sister-Princess Yurong!

Princess Yurong came out in a micro service, with only a mother and two guards with her. When she arrived at the inn, she was stopped by the people guarding the inn before entering the door, so she was not allowed to come in casually.

Princess Yurong knew that the person who stopped her was sent by Chun Yumin to protect Shen Ruolan, so she said to the person who stopped her: "Go and tell Shen Ruolan, and say that Lord Yurong saw her, if she knew I was here. , Will definitely meet."

The guard who stopped her said bluntly: "The seventh master said that no one except him can see Miss Shen without authorization. If the subordinates dare not violate the seventh master's order, please forgive the princess!"

Princess Yurong was angry, but she didn't see Shen Ruolan, she was willing to give up, and immediately asked the two guards she brought over to clear the way for her.

When Chun Yumin's people saw Princess Yurong's people, they wanted to rush, so naturally they wouldn't let it go, so the two sides started to fight.

Shen Ruolan was talking to her parents in the inn. Hearing the sound of fighting outside, she hurriedly called in the two maids who were guarding the door and asked them what was wrong. After asking, she knew that Princess Yurong had found her.

Shen Ruolan had a very bad impression of Princess Yurong. Yesterday the princess relied on her identity and insulted herself several times. If she finds it today, she will definitely not do anything good.

However, since she is Chun Yumin’s sister, Shen Ruolan plans to see her and see what she can say. If she treats herself politely, she will treat her politely. If she dared to treat her like she was at Shouxian Palace yesterday, then she wouldn't have to be polite to her!

The handmaid heard that she was going to see Princess Yurong, so she went out to invite.

After a while, the fighting outside stopped, and Princess Yurong walked in with a mother.

Shen Ruolan specially received her in her own room, (so that her parents would have to kneel and bow when they saw her). When they met, Shen Ruolan only gave her a blessing ceremony, and her attitude was cold and indifferent, in the slightest. She was not respectful and cautious because she was a princess, because according to her previous attitude to herself, she was not worthy of her own courtesy and respect.

It may be that Princess Yu Rong had something in her heart and did not care about her manners. After she finished the ceremony, Princess Yu Rong could not wait to say: "Shen Ruolan, I have something to ask of you!"

Shen Ruolan said, "If your Royal Highness begs me to leave King Zhan, or ask me to agree to be a concubine, you don't have to say anything. I won't agree. You say I am selfish and ruthless. If you don't say not to marry me, I won't back down."

"What if he loses his emperor status, the identity of King Cham, and the right to control the 300,000 troops in the north because of you? Do you have the heart?" Princess Yurong asked.

Shen Ruolan said: “There is nothing to be intolerable. People don’t have to be well-dressed and high-ranking to be happy. Sometimes, it’s also a kind of happiness to live in a dull life and be at ease all day long. Perhaps, he would prefer a leisurely pastoral. Life!"

"Hehe, what if his leisurely pastoral life is at the cost of my mother's life? Would you also enjoy the joy of this pastoral life with him at ease?" Princess Yurong smiled negatively. After smiling, he said, "Do you know that my mother's queen has not been dripping water since yesterday, because of you, my mother's queen was so disappointed with the old seven, and heartbroken, she was going on a hunger strike, and she was already four. She hasn’t eaten, she is already in her fifties, and her body is not very good. In case you have something short and long, can you afford it? Do you hope that the old man will be loyal and unfilial all his life? His reputation is with you leisurely and happy? Besides, if my mother has something wrong with her, do you think he will live with you in peace of mind? Or, do you think the emperor can spare you?"

Hearing this, Shen Ruolan was stunned. She never expected that the Queen Mother would even use such methods as hunger strike and suicide in order to oppose her!

Her heart was constantly falling down, and a bad premonition came to life spontaneously.

After a long while, she said: "Where is he? Where is he?"

Princess Yurong Chang pointedly said, "Lao Qi is now kneeling in the courtyard outside the Shouxian Palace. She has been kneeling before sunset last night until now. Both knees are almost gone. It's all because of you. You have to want Xiao to be a concubine, so that my mother and brother are deadlocked, and mother and son are at a stalemate, so that my brother will lose everything and become a common man. If it weren't for you, our family would still be reunited. Sitting in the Star Picking Building, having a feast and admiring the moon, may be so happy, how can it be so miserable as it is now? Shen Ruolan, you are really harmful!"

Shen Ruolan stared at the ground blankly, without rebutting or speaking. She clasped her hands tightly, only feeling that her nails were about to poke into the flesh of her palms. She intuitively told her that in the PK between mother and son, he lost. deal!

In a society where filial piety is greater than the sky, even if he deviates from the classics, he will never escape the rules and laws of society. The queen mother of filial piety is his mother and can let him kneel. Even if he kneels to death, others have nothing to say; but he But it doesn’t work, because he is reluctant to die of starvation or anger to the empress dowager. If that were the case, he would not be happy in his life. He would suffer from the shackles of guilt for a lifetime, regretting it for a lifetime; moreover, the emperor would never allow it. The empress dowager starved to death with him, let alone starvation, even if the queen mother made a slight mistake, the emperor would not spare her, even she would not let it go...

"Don't you want to say something? You hurt my mother and brother so badly, don't you want to make up for it? Are you still delusional to be my brother's concubine at this time?" Princess Yurong He said sharply: "Even if you confuse him, he knows that the matchmaker is marrying you, you will definitely not be Princess Cham, because the emperor has said that if he wants to marry you, he has to pay the price of removing the emperor's status and handing over the right to send troops. ."

"You can only become his wife at best, but you can never become Princess Cham. This is your life. Don't expect to climb to the prince and you can fly to the branch and become a phoenix. The pheasant will always be a pheasant, even if the dragon is attached to the phoenix to the end. , I can only end up with a chicken fly egg, I advise you to be more rules, collect those restless intestines, or be a concubine in peace, everyone is happy, or just roll back to your hometown, don’t To pester my seventh brother again, don't ruin him because of your selfishness..."

Princess Yurong's words became more and more awkward, but Shen Ruolan was no longer able to refute her. Her mind was all on the empress dowager's hunger strike and forcing him to go on a hunger strike.

The thought of what might happen in the future made her heart hurt suddenly, as if she was about to lose her most precious thing.

She is not afraid that Chun Yumin will lose his emperor status because of her, nor that he will lose the status of the prince and the military power of the 300,000 army. However, she is afraid that his mother will die because of her hunger strike, and she is also afraid that he will suffer all his life under the shackles of guilt. , Might as well let go, lest he lose so much for her!

But, if you let go, she can't bear it!

Having lived for two lifetimes, it was easy to be tempted once, and finally accepted a man because of love, and now let her give up, she really can't bear to...

"Are you talking? What do you want? Are you happy if you ruin him?" Princess Yurong said loudly and accusingly.

Shen Ruolan bit her lip, and it took a long time to find her own voice: "I'm sorry, I don't know what to say now, and I can't give you any promise, you go first, let me think about it..."

Princess Yurong snorted, looked at her bitterly and said, "You'd better make a decision quickly. The phoenix body of my mother's queen can't stand the toss anymore. If she falls ill because of you or has something to lose. If you do, my emperor brother will never spare you!"

Leaving these words, Princess Yu Rong angrily led her away.

Shen Dejian and his wife have been listening to their conversation next door, and they have also heard what they said between them. After Princess Yurong left, Shen Dejian and Mu Clan walked into Shen Ruolan's house. Mu Clan saw Shen Ruolan, who looked tangled in pain. Gently embraced her in her arms, stroked her back, and said: "Lan'er, you and King Zhan, let me forget it, although my mother knows that you two truly love each other, but human life In the world, apart from love, there are also responsibilities that need to be borne. The empress dowager and the 300,000 army of Jizhou are both the responsibility of King Cham. If he is because you did not bear these responsibilities, there will be no way for you to be the same as before. Happy."

"Especially the empress dowager, she is the biological mother of King Zhan, if she really has some shortcomings because of the matter between you, you will not only be accused by thousands of people, the emperor will definitely not let you go, she will do it all. At this point, it’s impossible to look back. You should make a decision while things are still out of control. If something goes wrong, you will regret it for the rest of your life..."

"Mother knows that making you make this decision will make you feel painful, but the long-term pain is not as good as the short-term pain. It is better to make up your mind early and make the decision early!"

"Lan'er, Dad’s opinion is the same as your mother. You and King Zhan are not right. Even if King Zhan treats you well, it’s impossible. We don’t deserve to be worthy of others, so don’t think so much. Break it off. Quan is a dream. Besides, King Zhan has been kneeling outside for a day and night. If his knee is broken, how can he go to the battlefield in the future?"

"Stop talking!" Shen Ruolan yelled, covering her ears, "I understand what you said, but I have to give me some time, let me think about it, maybe I can think of the best of both worlds! "

At this moment, Shen Ruolan's heart was irritable as if being cooked by oil, painful and bitter. After living for two lifetimes, she finally met a man who tempted her, she really couldn't bear to give up!