Spring Forest Evening

The painting boat has completely capsized, and only one side of the boat is exposed on the water. It seems that it is still sinking slowly, and it should be that the bottom has been cut through.

There was no one on the boat, only an unextinguished lantern was left, which happened to be placed on the side of the unsinkable ship's side. It was glowing red, and looking at it now, it was particularly shocking.

And around the painting boat, there are some people fluttering and others floating in a mess. Looking from a distance, with the cold moonlight, people feel a kind of quiet murderous intent.

The people who were floating were motionless, and it seemed that they couldn't do it anymore. The people who were flopping were dragged into the water from time to time. After some struggles and struggles, they could no longer be seen. It was impossible to think about it. up.

Zhou Heng tried his best to keep his mind and looked at it, but unfortunately there is only one lonely red lantern on the water surface of Taiye Pond. With the bright moonlight on the top, he can see the situation below clearly, but it is night after all. , It is still a bit difficult to identify who is dead and who is waiting for rescue. You can only look at the clothes and crowns on your body, and they are all men anyway.

So a person next to the boat, who was motionless and face down, was dressed in bright yellow clothes, presumably he was the emperor.

I don't know if it was intentional, but the corpse happened to be right next to the red lantern, and the moonlight shone on the bright yellow clothes, as if telling people on the shore that the emperor died just like that.

The shore was brightly lit, perhaps stimulated by the emperor's corpse, at this moment countless people were scrambling to get into the water, and some even looked like elderly ministers, crying and jumping into the water.

But most of these people seem to be ignorant of water, and they don't know the depth of the Taiye Pool, so some people started to jump shortly after entering the water, and even the guards on the shore jumped down to rescue them, and the scene was very chaotic.

There was a lot of crying, and most of them were shouting "Emperor", but if you listen carefully, there are also some noises, some are shouting "Prince", and some female voices are even calling "Master". The landlubber minister who insisted on entering the water regardless of his own life on the shore.

Seeing this scene, Shen Fu and the third princess were silent and didn't show much emotion, Empress Jiang didn't have much reaction, she covered her mouth with a handkerchief, and the nurse next to her kept crying in a low voice while trying to comfort her My master, those old princes standing not far away stomped their feet anxiously.

But it was just stomping. Zhou Heng watched, their feet didn't move a bit.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Heng had a thought, and suddenly thought:

Isn't the second prince also on the boat?

I don't know if he has been quietly rescued now, or according to his guess, he was wiped out by the three princesses who wanted to proclaim himself emperor.

Thinking of this, Zhou Heng deliberately trembled and asked Shen Fu:

"My lord, my majesty, my majesty and the princes, could it be..."

Shen Fu turned his head and was about to open his mouth, when the quick-talking fat old man interrupted again, beating his chest with a heartbroken expression:

"Hey, let alone the emperor and the princes, even the princes of the clan are all on board this time! God damn it, where did these thieves come from, and they want to kill me like this!"

He howled loudly while talking, it seems that there should be family members on board.

"Shut up!" The third princess turned her head and scolded unceremoniously again this time: "If the queen mother didn't take pity on you old immortals, don't talk about your son now, even you are floating in the water! "

Damn, I didn't expect that the range of one pot end is far wider than I imagined!Is this going to wipe out all the people in their old Chen family?

No wonder the old man said just now that the fourth prince has a high status, and now he is the only one on the shore.

While stunned, Zhou Heng was once again thankful that her family's A Fu was not surnamed Chen, and she was keeping a filial piety for her fiancée, so she had a very reasonable excuse for not being able to avoid boarding the boat.

It's just that when the clans are extinct, they will be extinct. These princes seem to cherish themselves so much, so what if their son is gone?Don't you still care about crying here motionless?

Thinking of this, Zhou Heng felt that his previous conjecture was getting closer and closer to the truth—

The third princess probably wants to save the lives of these old men through the Queen Mother's kindness, and wants them to support her in the name of the clan, right?Maybe these old men are now glad that they escaped, and even thinking about finding a young and beautiful wife to have a son in the future.

Yes, yes, yes, it was a good plan, Zhou Heng looked at the back of the third princess with admiration.

Shen Fu looked back seemingly unintentionally at this moment, and then Zhou Heng heard him ask in a deep voice:

"Empress, do you want me to go out and say something, and send someone to invite Grand Master Shen and the others to come over?"

Empress Jiang was naturally prepared for it long ago, although she covered her mouth with a handkerchief as if in grief, she still nodded and sighed and said:

"Lord Lao Jing is here!"

Shen Fu nodded, glanced at Zhou Heng and passed her by, planning to go out and call the imperial guards outside.

The third princess looked around after seeing Shen Fu go out, and then pointed to the maid next to Zhou Heng:

"Go out, too, and go to the nearby water pavilion to have a look. Is the Empress Dowager getting better? If you can hold on, please invite her to come over."

The maid answered yes, before her body moved, Empress Jiang also spoke, telling the maid in a tone of talker:

"There are also imperial concubines Shufei and the others. I think there will be an imperial doctor to treat them in time. If you are in good health at the moment, please come here as much as possible!"

He smiled slightly at the third princess again, and said:

"Thank you, Third Sister, for reminding me."

Is this the beginning of alignment?Zhou Heng decided to silently go back to Concubine Liang's mother and son who should be harmless to him.

The old men next to them quickly made a decision on which team to stand on. Two of them, that is, the two who were reprimanded by the third princess just now, chose the Jiang Queen team. The thin old man cupped his hands and said A sentence:

"Thank you, empress, the current situation... Sigh, the fourth prince is young, so I will have to work hard for you in the future!"

The chubby old man next to him nodded and said yes.

After all, he is also an elder, so humble to a young queen?

Also, the biological mother of the fourth prince is Concubine Liang, why do these two people act like they didn't see each other?

Too snobbish, right?

Zhou Heng, who had already walked back to Concubine Liang's mother and son, shook his head in his heart, met Liang Concubine's eyes, and shook his head slightly.

Concubine Liang's eyes turned red, she lowered her head and hugged her son.

The Fourth Prince didn't know whether he was sleepy or was taken aback by the appearance of the adults, but he nestled obediently in his mother's arms.

The other two old men chose the Three Princesses. One of them, a tall and thin old man, said in a deep voice:

"Fortunately, there is the empress dowager. After the death of the first emperor, the empress dowager assisted the emperor. Now the emperor...has to ask the empress dowager to come out and preside over the overall situation!"