1018, Burial
Seven days later, Prince Long'an was buried. All the civil and military officials of the court gathered together to cry for the funeral. Because Prince Long'an had no descendants, and there were no children and nephews of the right age in the royal family to replace him, so in the end, there was no one who could hold the spirit. In the end, King Ji gave in. The eunuch held King Ji's son, who was still in his infancy, and finally completed the funeral.
King Ji's concessions made the Deng family feel that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it. They were about to take the opportunity to force the King Ji's son, but the child turned around and disappeared. King Ji quit. He had a kind intention to lend his son to the prince to support the spirit, but now he lost his son. He was just such a son!
King Ji insisted that it was the Deng family who hid his son, and scolded the Deng family in front of the funeral of the civil and military officials. Combined with the Deng family's intention to adopt King Ji's son to Prince Long'an, others felt it made sense after hearing King Ji's words, and unconsciously suspected that the Deng family had come, and took advantage of the funeral to seize King Ji's son.
For a moment, the Deng family had no choice but to have such an idea. However, before he could do it, the child was gone. But even if it said so, others would not believe it. The Deng family had to appease King Ji while searching for the whereabouts of King Ji's son everywhere, and they were so busy!
After returning from the funeral, Mrs. Zheng Si thought of King Ji's feat and couldn't help but sigh, "I heard that King Ji is a person who is not care about the details. Today, I finally saw it! After King Ji's child was gone, he immediately sat down under the Jimen, blocking the way of the civil and military ministers. He asked the Deng family to have children. The Deng family wanted to perfunctory King Ji first and knocked out all the adults before talking, but King Ji was not so easy to fool. He could not speak in a few words. In the end, the Empress Dowager rushed over and promised to return the child to King Ji. If King Ji did not agree, he would never adopt his son to Prince Long'an. Only then did he finally persuade King Ji to live!"
"The Deng family has lost all their face today!" Xu Shu smiled and shook her head. King Ji and the Deng family had a grudge against killing their mother. How could he make the Deng family happy? From the beginning of this struggle, the Deng family was destined to lose.
"Yes! Although the Empress Dowager promised it, no matter how hard it sounds, it seems that there is no silver here. Now everyone thinks that the Deng family secretly stole the son of King Ji."
"What about Princess Ji? How is Princess Ji?"
Princess Ji has been looking forward to for so many years before giving birth to her son but disappeared for no reason. How could she bear this blow?
"Princess Ji..." Mrs. Zheng Si was stunned for a moment, "I don't seem to see Princess Ji today!"
In today's occasion, King Ji's location should be very eye-catching. How could Mrs. Zheng Si not see it?
Xu Shu was also stunned. While she was stunned, Yuanyuan ran over mysteriously, "Miss, Sister Luhe has something urgent to come to you!"
"Go quickly!" Mrs. Zheng Si waved her hand, her thinking was still immersed in the doubts about why she hadn't seen Princess Ji today.
Xu Shu followed Yuanyuan back to the Haitang Pavilion. Lu He suddenly knelt on both knees and kowtowed to Xu Shu, which scared Xu Shu, "Luhe, what's wrong with you? Get up and talk!"
Xu Shu signaled Yuanyuan to help Luhe up, but Yuanyuan pulled and pulled, but Luhe insisted on not getting up and kneeling down.
"Miss, I made my own decision today. Maybe... I might have to cause trouble for the lady! But there is a reason for me to do this..."
Luhe is not a person who is ignorant of the importance of the matter. On the contrary, Luhe is the one who is the most cautious among the four big girls in Xu Shu. Since Luhe can say such words, it means she has a reason to have to do this!
Xu Shu knew it in her heart.
"Okay, I understand, let's talk about what's going on!"
Lu He stood up and closed the door, asked Yuanyuan to guard the door, and then led Xu Shu to the inner room. A woman sat at the table with her back facing Xu Shu, but her breath was very familiar. She was...
"Princess, why are you... here?"
No wonder Mrs. Zheng Si said that she didn’t see Princess Ji today. So that’s the case…
Princess Ji turned around, holding a sleeping child in her arms, and reluctantly smiled at Xu Shu, "I've caused you trouble, but I really have no place to go, so I can only come to find you..."
Lu He bit her lip and said, "It was thanks to the princess' help to protect Fuliu's last dignity! This time the princess came to the door, but I really couldn't ignore it, so I hid the person in the lady's house privately..."
Xu Shu patted Lu He's hand, "Okay, you go down, I have something to say to the princess!"
"The child is okay!" Xu Shu sat next to Princess Ji, looked at the sleeping baby. The child was sleeping so sweetly that he knew nothing about what was happening around him.
"He's fine!" Princess Ji patted the cradle lovingly.
"I just heard that the funeral of Prince Long'an just ended and the child disappeared..."
"I took it away!" Princess Ji was frank, "I accidentally saw that Eunuch Lu, who was beside the Empress Dowager, came to find my son's wet nurse. Under my urge to ask her to take advantage of the chaos after the funeral, and handed it to Eunuch Lu!"
It turns out that the Deng family has really made up their minds to steal the child!
"I can't let them take my child away!" Princess Ji tightened her arms slightly, "As soon as the funeral was over, I took the child away immediately. I knew that the Deng family would wait at the back door, so I ran out from the side door... But after running out, I realized that I didn't even have a place to stay! There was a suspicion from the Empress Dowager in the palace, so I couldn't go back; my mother's house was full of people, and I would soon leak the news when I went back. After thinking about it, I really didn't know where I could go... I... If it was inconvenient, could you take me in one night? I'd take my child out of Beijing early tomorrow morning. The Empress Dowager would definitely not have thought that I would take my child out of Beijing!"
"Princess is a little restless! The child is still so young, how can he keep his wandering? If there is a mistake, the princess will regret it for life! I will find a way to do this. Since the princess comes to me, it means trusting me. I cannot let the princess down on her trust in me!"
"Thank you... Thank you!" Princess Ji held Xu Shu's hand, choked and couldn't speak. The child was her life. Saving her child was her life!
Xu Shu asked, "Does it mean that the prince will take you away with your child?"
Princess Ji shook her head, "The prince doesn't know about this, so I haven't had time to tell the prince! I don't want to tell the prince about this. I'm afraid that if the prince doesn't keep it, I'll be deceived by others?"
Xu Shu nodded, "The Zheng family comes and goes, and it is not safe for the princess to stay here. I will take you to a place where you can live with peace of mind until the dust settles!"
Chapter completed!