Cuizhi returned to the Hou Mansion, and before she went to see the nurse's funeral shed, she asked people to lead her to see the Hou Ye, "The nurse let the nurse pull her back and bury it, and she didn't set up a mourning hall in the back street at all." ”

There are people in the Hou Ye's mansion, and there are other properties outside, and there are such people in the neighborhood, which are collectively called back streets.

"I came out for my mother, why do I have to go to a stick of incense. Cuizhi said, not to mention Mama Cui, she has been a messenger in the Jiang family for more than ten years, and later served Niangniang from childhood to marriage, and it has been decades, such a person, the main family is not even willing to give a little decency, which is really chilling.

"My good girl, is it that critical time?" said the housekeeper, "Hou Ye is worried at home, for many months, the bubble in his mouth has not gone down, you go back to Hou Ye first, Cui Mama, I will go to incense for the girl." ”

Cuizhi arrived at the Hou Ye's study, Jiang Dahai and Jiang Dazhi's two brothers were there, Cuizhi curtsied, Jiang Dazhi asked anxiously, "Your Majesty really intends to let Lu Meiren's child be raised by Niangniang?"

Cuizhi nodded, "Lu Meiren is now living in Ditai Palace. ”

Jiang Dazhi looked at his eldest brother, then to put it this way, things are still in their favor, in the future, there will be an adopted son in the middle palace, even if His Majesty does not set up a prince, there are really three long and two short, and the middle palace is not without a fight.

"The child hasn't been born yet. Jiang Dahai said, "I still think that this is His Majesty's delaying tactic." ”

"It's better to delay the army than His Majesty to appoint the second prince of Concubine Xian as the crown prince. Jiang Dazhi said. He looked at Cuizhi again, "How is Your Majesty's health now?"

"The slave doesn't know. Cuizhi bowed her head and said.

"How could you not know?" Jiang Dazhi asked, "You are Niangniang's henchman, is it that Your Majesty's condition is so serious that Niangniang refuses to say anything about it?"

Cuizhi shook her head, "Niangniang, Niangniang doesn't know Your Majesty's illness either. ”

"From the onset of His Majesty's illness to the present, Niangniang has never seen His Majesty's face. ”

"What happened in the palace that day?" Jiang Dahai asked in surprise, "Concubine Song's death, how could it make such a big gap between Your Majesty and Niangniang, Your Majesty is sick, and Niangniang has never seen it." ”

"Your Majesty misunderstood that Niangniang was not kind on weekdays, and she hurt people when she spoke, and Niangniang felt wronged, so she replied, and the two parted unhappily. Cui Zhi considered the words, "When Your Majesty was sick, it happened to be the concubine in the Tianqing Palace, not only the mother, but also the other ladies in the palace, who went to the Tianqing Palace to serve the sick, and they couldn't see Your Majesty, they could only see the concubine." ”

"What a poisonous woman, she wants to hold Your Majesty. Jiang Dazhi slapped the table and stood up, "I used to be honest because she had no family and no children, but now she has a seed in her belly, and people are exposed." ”

"Big brother, I can't let her go on like this. Jiang Dazhi said, "According to her ability, when the time comes, it will be too late for Your Majesty to secretly write a decree appointing her son as the crown prince." ”

"She's only a few months pregnant, and she doesn't know if the baby in her womb is male or female, so she won't be so reckless. Jiang Dahai said that if she was a reckless person, she would not be able to find her fault from the palace to the palace.

"Are the palace affairs in Niangniang's hands now?" Jiang Dahai asked.

"It's Concubine Xian, Concubine Yao, Concubine Lu and Concubine Jia who are in charge of palace affairs together. "Cuizhi back.

"How can Niangniang give up the palace affairs to others?" Jiang Dazhi said angrily.

"No, let's do well. Jiang Dahai said, "You let the mother only stare secretly, don't say that you want to take over the palace affairs." ”

"Don't take charge of palace affairs until the concubine gives birth. "In this way, even if something goes wrong with the concubine, it can't be blamed on the mother.

"The person who gave birth to the dream concubine will also be replaced by our people. Jiang Dahai said, "No matter who starts it first, the other person will immediately pour a bowl of oxytocic medicine, if Lu Meiren's fetus is the prince, then everything is easy to say, if not, the prince born by the dream concubine, just change it." ”

"It's too risky to take a child from outside the palace, and it just so happens that there is a month in the palace, and it must be guaranteed to be an adopted son in the middle palace. Jiang Dahai put the accent on the sub.

"Then what if Concubine Meng also gives birth to a girl?" Jiang Dazhi asked the eldest brother.

Jiang Dahai looked at him with a calm face, "That is, you and I are destined not to be the blessing of being an uncle of the country, all the previous repressions have no effect, and we will have to restrain our families in the future and live with our tails between our legs." ”

Jiang Dazhi's face also became ugly when he heard this.

Jiang Dahai said to Cuizhi, "You go back and advise Niangniang, unless Your Majesty has made a clear decree to establish the adopted son of the Middle Palace as the heir, otherwise, you still have to be vigilant." ”

"Niangniang has been aggrieved for so long, I don't want to be the queen mother in the future. ”

Cuizhi nodded, and she said about the little prince's nurse, "You can rest assured that everything will be done." ”

Cui Jieyu's mother knew that the concubine was pregnant, and she also came to Beijing, so she had to think of a way to let her go to the palace. Jiang Dahai said that he deliberately found someone to tell Cui's mother, she knew that the concubine was pregnant and would definitely not be able to sit still and come to Beijing, she couldn't wait for the concubine to die, how could she think that she could still have children and grandchildren around her knees.

Cui Jieyu and the concubine are close, and the concubine is eligible to call people in from outside the palace every month, but the concubine is now living in Tianqing Palace, and ordinary people can't see her. Cuizhi said.

"I'll find a way to force her out of Tianqing Palace. Jiang Dahai said in a deep voice.

The prince can go back to the palace of the mother concubine to live for two days every five days, and the second prince returned to the Wanchun Palace today, and sat on the side after saluting the mother, looking sullen.

Concubine Xian waved away the others and beckoned him forward, "Mother's second prince, but someone has upset you?"

"Mother, doesn't my father like me? The second prince endured it for a long time, but still asked in a stalk.

"Why do you suddenly think so?" said Concubine Xian, touching the top of his head.

"The rooms of the prince's office are all purchased for you by your father, everything you like, and the calligraphy you learn to copy is also written by your father himself, and he also asks about your study every day and cares about your life. ”

"Mother thinks that your father likes you very much. ”

"These, the father and the emperor are the same for the three princes. The second prince said, "I am the eldest son of my father, why didn't my father make me the crown prince instead of the unborn little brother as the crown prince?

Concubine Xian's face changed, she held the second prince's shoulder, and let him look directly at herself, "Whoever said these words in your ear, who spoke to you."

Prince?"

The second prince was taken aback by Concubine Xian's face, and simply cried, "Whether it is the companion reading or the master around me, they are all the eldest sons in the family, and then inherit the family business, I am also the eldest son of my father, why didn't my father choose me." ”

"Lu Meiren lived in Ditai Palace, and they all said that in the future, Lu Meiren's child will be the adopted son of the queen, and his status is half a head higher than mine, and I will have to be subordinate to him in the future. Maybe what they said was not so straightforward, but he now understands these obscure meanings, his father is sick, there is no prince in the court, the ministers ask for a prince, but the father let him have a son in the palace, how unbearable his current son is, his father will not consider him at all.

This is a serious damage to the self-esteem of small children.

"Dan'er, these mothers have never told you, but since you have thought of these questions, my mother has to tell you. Concubine Xian Zhengse said, "You have to listen carefully." ”

"It is true that most of the families in this world are passed from father to son, and the son is passed down from son to son, and the eldest son and eldest son inherit most of them, but there are still a small number of other heirs who need to be flexible and adaptable to such things. Among them, the royal family is especially important. ”

"You still read fewer books now, and when you read more books, you will know that the eldest son inherited less than one-twelfth of the emperors in history. ”

"Don't think that you are the eldest son of your father, your father's country should be given to you, if you think so, in the future, you can only follow your mother, your sister, and your grandfather's family to die with the arrogant you. ”

"I don't want to. The second prince cried urgently.

"I know Dan'er isn't like that. Concubine Xian soothed and said, "You must know that the country is your father's country, and in the future, he will give it to whoever he wants, you can't be resentful, whoever is the crown prince, who is your monarch, you must respect him in the future, even if he is much younger than you, you can't be rude." ”

The second prince nodded with tears.

"Jiangshan is a big family business. Concubine Xian said, "An ordinary family property, causing trouble among brothers, and there are all those who have broken their heads and bleed." What's more, it is a battle for rivers and mountains, which are rivers of blood and mountains of corpses. ”

"Do you want so many people to die?" asked the Virtuous Princess. "Your relatives, your friends, your teachers' companions, and even the people around you who serve you may die because of you, are you willing to sacrifice them for the ethereal crown prince?"

"I don't want to. The second prince cried and said, "I am not the crown prince." ”

"You are the second prince, your father loves you, you will be a prince in the future, even if you can't become a prince, you will still have great use. "I know you may be reluctant. ”

"The mother concubine once thought that since you thought you were the eldest son of the emperor, now that there is no concubine in the East Palace, you are the prince, why can't you be the prince?"

"But once the mother thinks so, she will go to see the biography of the princes, and the mother sees so many miserable and miserable deaths of the princes, and the mother retreats, the mother doesn't want to be greedy, the mother just wants you to live well. ”

"It's all your father's prince, and they all think about why that position can't be me, so many tragedies can be caused. Concubine Xian said, "The concubine just wants you to study hard and grow up happily, your father will give it to you, and you will continue, and your father will not give it to you, and you will not be resentful." ”

The second prince nodded.

"The older you get, the more people will say in your ear that you are the eldest son, and that position should be yours. ”

"But you have to always remember the words of the concubine, there is no position that should be yours, if your father doesn't give it, you will beg for it, you will make trouble, you will rob it, this is disloyalty and filial piety. ”

"It's that your mother's discipline is not strict. ”

"It's just that you are unpredictable at home, and the picture is not small. ”

"Father, father is also the emperor, although the father is in front of the emperor, the emperor is more important than the father. Concubine Xian said, "When you want to plan for the crown prince's position, you and your father and the emperor will not be father and son, but monarchs and ministers." ”

"When the time comes, if you cry again, whether your father doesn't like you, no one can answer. ”

The second prince nodded anxiously by Concubine Xian, and he couldn't understand some sentences, so he could only try his best to memorize them, and only after turning them out and chewing them repeatedly in the future did he understand the true meaning.

It also saves a lot of detours.