This year, the winter in the capital was exceptionally cold.

A few days before the winter solstice, the palace has already been busy preparing for the winter solstice.

After Chen An returned to the palace from Feng'an Mountain, Emperor Yongzhen transferred him back to his side to serve, and did not mention what happened in the imperial mausoleum in half a sentence, everything seemed to be the same as before, but Chen Anxin knew that some things were different after all.

After Xiao Jinyu was crowned king, the whole person became busy.

Emperor Yongzhen acquiesced in his dealings with the Guo family, and secretly allowed some courtiers to be close to him, but although Xiao Jinyu interacted with those people, he never deliberately got close at all, and even sometimes went too upright, as if he didn't know at all to take the opportunity to help himself, but most of them discussed things with those people about the court.

When Emperor Yongzhen heard Gao Zheng's return, he was not only relieved of Xiao Jinyu's simplicity, but on the one hand, he had a little headache for one of his tendons, and he had to pay more attention to him.

The power of the six palaces fell into the hands of Concubine Li, who was not the master of peace, and almost tossed the concubines in the palace, asking for peace every day, almost showing herself as the queen of the main palace, if Xiao Minyuan didn't know about these things and entered the palace to train her, I'm afraid I don't know how big a problem will be.

Emperor Yongzhen sat on the side flipping through the book, Concubine Yun brought pastries over, and when she put down the plate, she revealed the back of her hand that was a little red and swollen.

When Emperor Yongzhen lowered his head, he happened to see it, and his expression couldn't help but pause: "What's wrong with your hand?"

Concubine Yun hurriedly retracted her hand and covered it with her sleeves: "It's nothing, it's just accidentally knocked, Your Majesty tastes the bird's nest cake just made in the small kitchen, which can nourish the body, and this white fungus lotus seed soup is also beneficial to Your Majesty's body......"

Emperor Yongzhen couldn't help frowning when he saw her talking about other things.

Because Concubine Yun rarely goes out, the skin on her body is very white, especially her hands, with thin calluses on her fingertips, but the back of her hands is white and greasy.

Emperor Yongzhen knew that Concubine Yun had always been reluctant to provoke right and wrong, so he directly took the book in his hand and pointed to Xianghe next to him, and said in a deep voice: "You say." ”

Xianghe hurriedly whispered: "Back to Your Majesty, Niangniang's hand was burned, in the morning, when Concubine Li asked all the Niangniang to ask for peace, she said that our mother's skill in making tea is good, and even His Majesty praised it, so she had to let her make tea, and later when Niangniang made tea for her, she deliberately knocked over the teacup and burned Niangniang. ”

"Xianghe!"

Concubine Yun hurriedly turned around and snorted, and then turned around and said, "Your Majesty, the concubine is fine, sister, she didn't mean to..."

Emperor Yongzhen frowned when he heard this, looked at Concubine Yun, and said in a deep voice: "Concubine Yun, you are of the same grade and rank as Concubine Li, and you are both in the position of a concubine, why do you let her everywhere?

"The concubine didn't put up with it, sister, she really didn't embarrass the concubine, it was the concubine who didn't hold the cup steady and burned her hands......"

"That's it!"

When Emperor Yongzhen heard Concubine Yun's words, he looked at her cowardly and weak appearance, and couldn't help but drop the book in his hand, "I know that you have a good temperament, and I also know that you don't want to be embarrassed by others, but giving in everything will only make people gain an inch." ”

"This tea and water pouring is what a slave should do, you are Xiao Jiu's mother, a dignified concubine, but you bow your head to people in the palace like this, how do you make people look at Xiao Jiu in the future?"

Concubine Yun's face turned pale when she was trained.

Emperor Yongzhen couldn't help but furrow his eyebrows even tighter when he saw her like that, and raised his voice: "Chen An." ”

Chen An, who was outside, ran in quickly.

"Your Majesty?"

"Go back to the Dragon Terrace. ”

Chen An was stunned, seeing that Concubine Yun's face was pale and there were tears in her eyes, and Emperor Yongzhen's face was angry, he didn't dare to say more, so he hurriedly stepped forward to wrap the cloak for Emperor Yongzhen, and put a thick velvet blanket on his lap, and then pushed the wheelchair under Emperor Yongzhen and pushed him out of the Xia Palace.

Waiting outside the gate of the Xia Palace, Emperor Yongzhen did not let the guards behind him carry him, but let Chen An push him forward.

Chen An was a little uneasy, afraid that Concubine Yun had done something to sin Yu Shengqian and ruin Xiao Jinyu's plan, but he didn't dare to ask more.

After returning from the imperial tomb, Emperor Yongzhen treated him the same as before, but the emperor's heart was indistinguishable from anger, and Emperor Yongzhen had been suspicious of him, so it was difficult to treat him as a close and loyal servant.

There are some things that Emperor Yongzhen can say, but he can't ask.

If you ask, you are looking for death.

The wheelchair creaked when it was crushed on the gravel road, and Chen An carefully avoided the undulating places, so as not to fall Emperor Yongzhen, and pushed him to a nearby pavilion with a little difficulty, and Emperor Yongzhen asked him to stop.

"Chen An. ”

Chen An was a little out of breath, and when he heard Emperor Yongzhen call him, he hurriedly said, "What does Your Majesty command?"

Emperor Yongzhen said lightly: "What do you think of Concubine Yun?"

Chen An was stunned, and hurriedly lowered his head and said: "Yun Guifei Niangniang is kind-hearted, soft-tempered, and does not like to fight with others, except for the necessary movement, the slave heard that she hardly stepped out of the Xia Palace, and I have rarely heard of her making enemies with people over the years..."

Emperor Yongzhen lowered his eyes slightly when he heard this, "Don't you think she's too weak?"

He touched the place where the broken leg was in his hand and said in a deep voice: "Her temperament, if she is just an ordinary family, it will be okay, if she is in the family of a noble family, it will not hurt if the family is harmonious, but if she wants to be in charge of the harem, or even serve as the mother of the prince, won't she be gnawed to the point that there are no bones left." ”

"The front dynasty and the harem have always had a lot to do with each other, if the harem is restless, with a mother like her dragging her back, how can Xiao Jiu gain a foothold in the court?"

Chen An listened to the sentence "The Prince's Mother", his heart jumped violently, and his face unabashedly showed shock.

Although he had known what they were planning for a long time, it was the first time he had known it so clearly from Emperor Yongzhen, and he had moved his mind to make a prince.

Seeing Emperor Yongzhen looking at him, Chen An seemed to be forced to be shocked and said, "The slave doesn't think so. ”

"Oh?"

"Your Majesty, you think, those former dynasties and harems are not harmonious, most of the problems are in the emperor, the emperor is too weak to control the government, so it will give people a chance to take advantage of. ”

Chen An pondered his words and said in a low voice: "The Nine Emperor Princes are benevolent and filial, although his temperament is not calm enough, and he also has a young heart, but like His Majesty, he is by no means a weak person. Your Majesty is in the prime of life, and with your own teaching, when the dust is washed from his body, he will be able to become a wise and decisive king for the benefit of the world, as Your Majesty did. ”

"As for Concubine Yun..."

He paused, "Niangniang's temperament is indeed a little weak, but she is not a person who can't understand the importance of the matter, besides, the Yun family is weak behind the Nine Emperor Princes, and Yun Guifei Niangniang is not a strong person, so if the Nine Emperor Princes become the prince, the Yun family will not have ambitions, and if the Nine Emperor Princes can get His Majesty's will to ascend the throne in the future, there will be no harem interference in politics and relatives messing with power." ”