The Queen Mother has always hated her niece, although she has good qualifications, but she has always been spoiled, so in the generation of Huangfu Xueyi, the Queen Mother specially sent the palace grandmother who has served by her side for many years to teach her, lest her mother's family teach an arrogant concubine again. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Queen Mother stroked the snow-white cat that was meekly lying on her lap, and motioned for Concubine Li to sit beside her, "The emperor has a lot of opportunities, what are you going to do?"

Concubine Li was very aggrieved, but she knew that the Queen Mother was the emperor's biological mother after all, and she still favored her son. Concubine Li didn't dare to say anything, so she could only answer in a low voice.

The Queen Mother closed her eyes and seemed to be pretending to sleep, "On the fifteenth day of this month, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the palace will hold a banquet, and at that time, all the girls to be selected in Beijing will attend, and you will also help to see when the time comes, in addition to our daughter, which daughter is suitable for being elected to the East Palace." ”

Concubine Li was not very interested in the prince's choice of concubines, she thought of her son, but unfortunately her son was only ten years old now, otherwise she could pick a few suitable girls for him at this banquet, or she could pick a few of those who were the same age as him and put them by his side.

The Queen Mother saw that Concubine Li was starting to be absent-minded, and said, "Let the third son live with me for a while, recently you have to help the queen choose a concubine for the prince, and I don't have time to take care of him." ”

Concubine Li was taken aback, after the queen gave birth to the crown prince, in order to ensure the status of the queen, the emperor waited until the queen gave birth to the second prince before allowing other concubines to give birth to the prince and daughter. Originally, she watched the Queen Mother take away the eldest prince born to the queen, and her heart was still very happy, but it didn't mean that she liked the Queen Mother to take the prince she gave birth to and raise her.

Concubine Li couldn't help but object, "Auntie, Mingzhen has been by my side since he was a child, if he suddenly changes places, he will not be used to it." ”

The Queen Mother raised her eyes slightly, "Why is the temper still the same as before, if you say one sentence, there will be ten rebuttals." When this concubine selection is over, I will naturally return the little third son to you. ”

By the 12th of August, the women to be selected from all over the country had arrived in the central capital and stayed in the South Palace of the Royal Garden. On August 15, a banquet was held in the palace, which was attended by all the women to be elected, members of the royal family, and the ladies of various official families in the central capital. At the banquet, the queen and the crown prince will personally receive all the women to be chosen. Then in September, there will be a formal concubine selection ceremony, and the prince will choose three women, one is the crown princess and the other is the crown prince Liangdi.

This royal banquet was presided over by the queen and assisted by the three concubines, and it will be held in the most beautiful Chaofeng Hall of the royal family, and all the people who participate in the banquet will enter the imperial city by boat from the middle sea, and then enter the palace.

Originally, Concubine Li liked to participate in this kind of royal banquet the most, but since the third prince was taken to Yongshou Palace by the Queen Mother, Concubine Li suddenly lost interest in what she was looking forward to the most, and just followed Concubine Shufei every day, and no longer stood out. The queen saw that she was suddenly a lot cleaner, knowing that it was because of the fact that the third prince was recently picked up by the queen mother, although she sympathized with Concubine Li's experience, but suddenly there was one less person who was-for-tat on weekdays, and her life was much more comfortable, so she handed over most of the specific affairs of the banquet to Concubine Shu and Concubine Xian to follow up, and she was busy and chose suitable candidates for the prince with the second princess and the fifth princess.

Because of this opportunity, the queen often sent people to invite the prince to Qingning Palace, and the second princess and the fifth princess were not people who held grudges. Every time the prince arrives at Qingning Palace, although he doesn't like to talk, he won't take the initiative to leave, and he will not leave until the queen tells him to go back.

The emperor was very pleased with this change, and he knew that his son had not been completely raised. The queen mother was very annoyed by this, and later as soon as the prince arrived at Qingning Palace, she would send someone to invite the prince to Yongshou Palace. Even so, the crown prince usually sits in Qingning Palace for more than half an hour before going to Yongshou Palace.

After Huangfu Qingyun found out, he said to the Queen Mother, "After all, it is the biological son of the Jiang family, no matter how good you are to him, it will be in vain, and one day you will deal with our Huangfu family." ”

He also persuaded the Queen Mother, "I think the third prince is young, but if you keep him by your side for a few years, you will be more useful than the prince in the future." ”

The Queen Mother was upset, so she asked her younger brother, "This world is still from the Zhuluo family, why are you so worried? If you do that thing against the sky first, I will not allow it first." ”

Huangfu Qingyun smiled and said nothing, he knew that his sister, if she was asked to raise a prince and get close to the Huangfu family, she would be very happy, but she was afraid and did not want to see the Huangfu family replace the Zhuluo family, after all, she married into the Zhuluo family.

Huangfu Qingyun asked the three princes to bring the three princes into the palace, hugged the three princes personally, asked a few questions, and saw that the three princes could answer clearly, so he smiled and said to the queen mother, "I see that he has only been raised with you for a few days, and he has made a lot of progress than before." ”

The Queen Mother loved to hear this, smiled unconsciously, and touched the hair of the third prince, "Your daughter is very twisted, she used to only come to Yongshou Palace a few times a month, but now she comes every day, but she refuses to tell me more, just pulling the child." I asked her to focus more on the banquet or the emperor, but she didn't listen. ”

Huangfu Qingyun knew his daughter's temper, so he persuaded the Queen Mother, "Everyone is a family, and she is a junior, so you should let her do more." The third prince has been raised by her since she was a child, so she is naturally worried, so it is better for you to give the third prince back to her. I think that since you brought the third prince over and raised her, she has been unable to give up. ”

The Queen Mother was not happy, "I dare you to enter the palace this time to stand out for your daughter." ”

Huangfu Qingyun knew that his sister was relatively arrogant, so he could only persuade softly, so he changed the topic and said, "I think the queen has been very comfortable recently." ”

The Queen Mother was stunned, if you want to say that the person in this palace who doesn't want the queen to be comfortable, she is the only one. Huangfu Qingyun said again, "Recently, you and your sister-in-law have not paid attention to her. ”

The Queen Mother argued, "She asked the prince to go to her palace every day, and I asked my grandmother to call the prince every time." ”

Huangfu Qingyun pretended to be angry, "It's really a woman's insight, you just rely on the friendship between the prince and you like this, but you don't want to think about it, the mother and son are very happy, you must insist on not letting the family get together three or four times, and the queen will be fine, but even if the prince loves you again, he will have a bad heart." ”

Although the Queen Mother is the biological mother of the Son of Heaven, she has always been quite convinced of her younger brother, and when she saw that he was annoyed, she didn't dare to make a difference.

Huangfu Qingyun grew up with the Queen Mother since she was a child, and she is most familiar with her personality, seeing that her arrogance has subsided, she will turn the topic around Concubine Li, "I think you should return the third prince to Concubine, so that Concubine'er will be more energetic, and she can deal with the one in Qingning Palace with you." ”

The queen mother and the prince's ancestors and grandchildren have a deep relationship, and they can't see the mother-son relationship between the prince and the queen gradually heating up, so they agreed.

Huangfu Qingyun took the three princes to the Lizheng Hall where Concubine Li lived. The Lizheng Hall is close to the back garden of the palace on the edge of the Beihai Pool, the scenery is very good, and the emperor gave Concubine Li to live.

Concubine Li was naturally very happy when she saw her son return to her, so she respectfully listened to Huangfu Qingyun's instructions, and must assist the queen mother, so that the prince chose the daughter of the Huangfu family as the crown princess.

After Huangfu Qingyun left, Concubine Li couldn't help muttering in her heart, "Your daughter and I couldn't be the crown princess at the beginning, but this time my niece can always be." Thinking about this matter, I didn't know where to start, so I planned to go to the Queen Mother the next day to ask for an accurate message, and then act well.

According to the arrangement announced by the royal family, this year's Mid-Autumn Festival, from the evening of August 14, there will be a fireworks display, among which the fireworks set off on the night of August 15 in the China Sea are the grandest. The lantern festival in Zhongdu will also be on an unprecedented scale, and the royal banquet on August 15 will continue from the morning to the end of the day, and then the emperor and queen will take the crown prince to the Danfeng Gate in the south of the imperial city to have fun with the people of Zhongdu.

After Concubine Li reconciled with the Queen Mother, she wholeheartedly helped the Queen arrange this banquet, so as to give the two daughters of the Huangfu family more opportunities to show their faces, and even more opportunities to contact the prince.

Before the banquet, the emperor asked the prince to follow him to deal with the government every day, and found an opportunity to analyze political affairs with him, hoping that the prince would understand that it was best not to choose the daughter of the emperor's family to be the crown princess.

The prince's personality is very twisted, he not only wants to contact the emperor and empress, but also is very disgusted by the other party's hints in the open and secret, plus he is young and vigorous, and he has always been close to the people of the Huangfu family, and he does not put the Huangfu family on the opposite side of the royal family, so he does not respond to the explicit hints of the emperor and empress.

The emperor had no choice but to instruct the queen, "When the time comes, you will have to pretend to be blackfaced, and the jade Ruyi representing the identity of the crown princess is in your hands, and you really don't agree, so don't hand it over to the prince, and give the jade Ruyi directly to the girl of the palace family." ”

The origin of the girl to be selected this time has been memorized by the queen mother and the queen. The queen's preferred candidate for the crown princess is the girl of the palace family, and the two candidates for the prince Liangdi, one seat must be reserved for the emperor's family, and the other seat, the queen and the emperor hope to be reserved for the monarch family. The queen mother's preferred candidate for the crown princess is naturally Huangfu Xueyi, the two princes are Liangdi, and it is best to be the girl of Huangfu Xueru and Huyan's family. In this way, the hostess of the East Palace was occupied by the people on the side of the Huangfu family.

But no one thought that the biggest victors of this royal banquet were not these girls, and in the future in the history of the Zhuluo Dynasty will be a dark horse that will be killed, she is the most famous demon concubine in the history of the Zhuluo Dynasty. As the saying goes, the country is about to die, and it is full of charms. The Zhura Dynasty was about to come to the end of its most chaotic period.