Chapter 291: Anxiety (Two Shifts in One)
"That's the case,...... Yu Shaobo roughly described Qiu Ling's entry into Beijing, "That woman is indeed stupid, but I think about it carefully, she is desperate like this, it may not be a dead end, if the operation is good, maybe it is also a kind of death and resurrection, and the whole deadlock is revitalized." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Of course, if it really becomes a dead knot, we abandon this chess piece, but it is just a tasteless and regrettable chicken rib.
"Yes," the prince frowned, since Qiu Ling had been disgusted by the old man in the middle of the mountain and driven out of Meizhuang, he had become a chicken rib, so it really didn't make sense to drag it out. She was so stupid and bold to impulse, maybe she really let her rush out of a way into Shifu. As long as you can get in, there will be drama singing in the back.
"Qianzhong, that woman hasn't seen you, and she doesn't know you, right?" There are too many eyeliners in the capital, Qiu Ling arrived in the capital, in case people were targeted, and any clues with the prince's mansion or Yu Shaobo were leaked, wouldn't it become a bitter love drama of stealing chickens and rice? If it arouses the emperor's suspicion or something, it will really make matters worse.
"Your Highness rest assured," Yu Shaobo was confident about this, "what you are worried about will never happen." I would not let any of us who have visible and traceable contacts come into direct contact with such a pawn, let alone myself. "He is now not only the number one adviser of the Prince's Mansion, but also takes care of a lot of affairs for the Prince, how can he not be careful every step? If there is any accident, it will not only harm himself, but also immediately affect the Prince.
Speaking of which, Qiu Ling's chess piece was not directly put on the line by him, but thanks to an old friend named Black Face, and he has always been manipulated through Black Face. Black Face and he grew up together since childhood, and when the two met, they were only eight or nine years old, and they are already like brothers, and they owe him a great affection, so they will help him like this.
Black Face is a street child adopted by Yu Shaobo's neighbor Grandma when he was a child, no one knows what Black Face's surname is, Grandma just wants to raise a child to send her old man to death, nothing else matters, just call him Black Face according to what he says. The black face and his temperament are similar, and they belong to a lifelong friendship, but their life choices are completely different. He is obsessed with making meritorious contributions to the Lord and is a great minister, while the black face has no intention of pursuing a career in office, but just wants to be at ease and laugh in the rivers and lakes.
It was also a coincidence that when Heimian was traveling in Jiangnan, he happened to bump into Qiu Ling's mother and daughter being sold into the building, and saved them with a soft heart, and then inadvertently learned that Qiu Ling was the niece of the old man in the middle of the mountain, so the flying pigeon passed the book to him, and Heimian always knew that he was helping the prince do things.
Yu Shaobo trusts Heimian as if he trusts himself, and Heimian has a family tradition of disguise kung fu, and he never shows his true face when he travels, so it is impossible for that Qiu Ling to see the real blackface. With the resourcefulness and ability of the black face, he didn't have to worry at all, so he could have such confidence.
It's just that he can't and doesn't think it's necessary to tell the prince about the black face, and the black face has remembered his father's legacy of "staying away from the princes, nobles and officials" since he was a child, and he is unwilling to contact the people in the court, so he naturally has to respect the wishes of the black face.
The prince also didn't have any doubts about Yu Shaobo: "That's good, I'm at ease when you do things." In this way, you send a safe person to keep an eye on that Qiu Ling secretly, if she can't enter the Shifu, and the old man in the middle of the mountain doesn't rush to the capital for her as she wants, it means that the old man doesn't care about her, and you will immediately abandon this waste chess, and don't have any more contact. If you really let her succeed, you want to send a maid to the past, you said that Qiu Ling has a maid by her side, right?"
"Yes," Yu Shaobo replied: "It is said that it was given by Qi Haotian, she took a fancy to it, and then the Qi family gave it to her......" Suddenly, a vague question flashed in his mind, he froze, blinked, and his thoughts were like fragments.
"It's just a maid," he continued, yes, there's no problem, it's just a maid, the niece of the old man in the middle of the mountain wants, let alone one, it's ten hundred, Qi Haotian can also send it away, don't think about it.
It seems that he has been so tired and nervous lately, causing him to shiver inexplicably for a while, and to be in a trance for a while, so it's time to rest for a few nights.
The prince, who was also tired, seemed to see Yu Shaobo's momentary trance, stood up and said with a smile: "Your burden is heavy, but don't work too hard, our business can't be done in a day or two, take advantage of this time to relax, you can also take a good rest." Let's go, let's go for a walk, just because I'm going to leave the house, go to the palace to see the imperial grandmother and concubine, and have a good chat with Lingwan by the way. Ling Wan is still a little reluctant about the matter of harmony, but she also knows that only if he, the prince and brother, is good, she and her mother can be good, and there is no other choice. In fact, he was reluctant to grieve his only sibling sister, but now it's okay, with Thea's bargaining chip, he is more sure that he will be able to fulfill his promise to Lingwan in the future.
Yu Shaobo naturally agreed, and hurriedly followed: "Your Highness can persuade the princess more, Prince Xiti's full support is very important to us." To be honest, he really didn't think that Princess Lingwan had any grievances in marrying into the Tibetan Domain, just Princess Lingwan's delicate and selfish and ruthless virtue, and it was Prince Xiti who was wronged. In addition to the black spots and burly points, Prince Xiti is also dignified, humorous, and polite, which point is not worthy of Princess Lingwan?
The material conditions of the Tibetan country are not as terrible as those of Daying, but they are not as terrible and uncivilized as the ignorant people say, especially the lives of the royal family and nobles are still affected by the Daying aristocracy, and they will regularly buy a large number of fine things from Daying. What's more, the princess and her relatives have always carried a large number of various substances, first of all, to meet the needs of the princess's life.
However, no matter how reluctant and depressed Princess Lingwan is, it is a foregone conclusion that she will be married, and the wedding date will be set for April of the following year. The emperor still loves this daughter, and is worried that she will not be able to accept the cold of the winter in the Tibetan country at once, so he set the wedding date at the time of the spring flowers.
In the palace, in the Empress Dowager's Cihe Palace, the Empress Dowager and Concubine Qi were discussing various matters such as the preparation of Lingwan's marriage and things. Because of the queen mother's proposal, the queen didn't want to interfere so as not to be thankless and complained, so the emperor pushed the boat to hand over the preparation of the dowry directly to Concubine Qi. This time, Princess Lingwan and her relatives, including her mother Qi Guifei Zhang Luo, and her brother Prince Aoi presided over it, which can be regarded as giving face to the Queen Mother, so that their mothers are satisfied and have nothing to say, and the queen is also happy and relaxed, and everyone is really happy.
The arrival of the crown prince made the three queen mothers very happy, and pulled him to see the candidates for marriage, first of all, of course, the female officials and palace maids selected from the daughters of the ministers, these people are very particular about their appearance, temperament, and family background, and in the future, Prince Xiti's side concubines and concubines are basically selected from them. Therefore, the prince's opinion is very important. Of course, the crown prince mainly considers the background factors such as the family background, father and brother power of these candidates.
The crown prince looked at the stack of materials in his hand, and suddenly thought of another question: "Imperial grandmother, is my father really not going to draft next year?" This year's draft is just a small selection, and the emperor only selected two to be named beauties, and the others are basically for the royal children led by their four adult princes to give marriage and side concubines.
Speaking of which, the emperor has not been drafted for more than three years, until he got a small election this year, and it stands to reason that next year should be a general election, and he is optimistic about several candidates for his father. Unexpectedly, a few days ago, an official of the Ministry of Rites said that the emperor had rejected the Ministry of Rites' decision to arrange next year's draft. If that is the case, wouldn't he have done useless work again? It is not impossible to send beauties to his father on weekdays, but it is easy to arouse suspicion, isn't it? Although his father likes beauty, he is definitely a lot of suspicious people.
The Queen Mother was stunned, looked at the prince deeply with complicated eyes, and then said: "It should be, your father said that the draft is hard and money, and one election in three years is enough, and there is no need to divide it into big and small elections, and there is no need to follow those bad old examples." ”
Qi Guifei also glanced at her son dissatisfiedly: "What's the matter? There is now a good lady on both sides of your house, plus a bunch of Yingying Yanyan, isn't it enough?"
The prince sneered: "Isn't it an old practice? I didn't think about it that much, and I thought that not holding the draft was the intention of the queen mother." "The mother concubine should have guessed his intentions, and she still deliberately covered it up for him, but the imperial grandmother was not so easy to fool, and the look in his eyes just now made him feel a kind of weakness that was seen through. No matter how much the emperor's grandmother loves him, his father is still her biological son, and his grandson is still separated from his son.
However, the daughter-in-law who is too loved by her son is not so pleasing to the eye, and no mother would like a woman who "snatches" her son, including her daughter-in-law, the queen is such an existence in the eyes of the queen mother. Therefore, in order to divert the attention of the Queen Mother, the prince cleverly added the last sentence "I thought the draft was the meaning of the Queen Mother". In this way, even if the Queen Mother guesses his intentions, she can understand his painstaking intentions, isn't it?
Sure enough, the Queen Mother squinted, her face showed obvious helplessness, and she sighed lightly: "Your father and the queen have been childhood sweethearts and have experienced a lot of ...... together things, feelings for the queen and trust in others are difficult to replace. For so many years, the women that your father has favored are tired, but apart from the queen, who have you seen him last long? Who is not guarded against him?" Even the queen mother of the mourning family is sometimes suspicious, especially when the matter involves the Xie family and the Qi family.
The Xie family is her maiden family, and the Qi family is Wanyu (Qi Guifei's maiden name), so what's the problem with raising them more? Especially the Xie family, as the maiden family of the empress dowager of the dynasty, shouldn't they be given more powerful positions? As a result, the Xie family has only had one marquis so far, which is far inferior to the queen's maiden home, the British Duke.
The Queen Mother was full of thoughts that she was more noble than the queen, and her mother's family should also be more noble than the British government, but she didn't think about it, the Pan family was a big family. Before the queen married into the palace, the Pan family was the British duke of three generations, and in addition to the current British duke, the grandfathers of the first two generations and the late Pan Rubing were all outstanding in war. After the eldest daughter of the Pan family became the queen, the emperor was just icing on the cake, giving the Pan family the glory of "the title of the Duke of the country for another ten generations".
And what is the situation of the Xie family? Originally, it was just a seven-rank county magistrate, but after she became a concubine, her father also rose to become the five-grade prefect. Then her mother became the queen with her son, and her mother's family also rose to prominence and became an earl. Then, she became the queen mother, and the Jingning Bo Mansion of the Xie family became the Jingning Marquis Mansion again. It can be said that the Xie family has no merit, and it is completely dependent on her aunt and grandmother to make a fortune and enter the aristocratic circle, what is she not satisfied with?
Not to mention that the Queen Mother was depressed, the prince who listened to the Queen Mother's words was even more depressed. As the queen mother said, the emperor likes beauty, not a very affectionate person, although he does not like to collect all kinds of beauties like King Jing, but there are many beauties in the harem, but his love for the queen is so paranoid that it is incomprehensible. No matter which concubine he favors, it can't affect the status of the queen in the slightest, which is a fact proved by no less than three favorite concubines of the "Favorite Crown and Six Palaces" with their unwilling tears and even blood.
The emperor's favor for the favorite concubines comes quickly and violently, but it is also easy to be replaced by the next one, liking the new and hating the old, such as the common disease of all men in the world. It's just that the disgusted "old" will never include the most "old" original queen mother.
The emperor can favor a concubine for various reasons, but none of those reasons can make them surpass the queen's status in the emperor's heart. is also like this because of the fact that the emperor lost the fetus in her womb and lost her fertility, and because of the support of the queen mother, Concubine Qi Guifei, who was Concubine Qi as soon as she entered the palace, was also like this, and those who were either beautiful, or graceful, or strange and charming, or had better skin than snow.
The strategists and staff of the Prince's Mansion analyzed and pondered various reasons, and silently crossed out the reasons they listed, and finally it could only be attributed to one reason: the emperor threatened to marry the queen who was only four years old at the age of seven, maybe they loved each other in their previous lives, so this kind of God-destined relationship is irreplaceable.
The prince was speechless at the time, and then he was furious, spewing out two words and three words:, get out!
Looking at the lines in the corners of Qi Guifei's eyes that could not be covered by thick fat powder, as well as the anxiety in her eyes, and then thinking of the queen's demure and still smooth face, the prince sighed secretly: With the same age, the same brocade clothes and jade food, the mother concubine now looks at least six or seven years older than the queen.
Yes, how can it be the same? Every time the father and emperor favor a concubine, the mother concubine does not eat or sleep well for days, and she is so jealous that she is going crazy. And the queen ...... Still calm and gentle.
I heard that the king of Yunnan sent the capital to his father this year, and there was a beautiful woman of different races, with white skin like snow, eyes green, plump and round, but slender waist like willows...... The mother hasn't slept these nights, right?
The prince knew very well that his mother's anxiety was not only because of jealousy, but also because of fear, worried about herself, and even more worried about him, because she did not have a stunning appearance, did not have a strong mother's family, and only the queen mother could rely on, and the queen mother was getting old......
The prince clenched his fists, and he began to get agitated. (To be continued.) )