Chapter 246: Borrowing the Belly
Cui Zhi couldn't help but sneak a glance at Chen Liangdi, and replied carefully: "Yes, that's what the old lady said......
Chen Liangdi gritted her teeth: "It's just that the niece is gone, she was born well, and she is the eldest daughter of the eldest brother, she can marry into a high-ranking family and be a wife, why bother letting her enter the East Palace to be a little concubine? I'm going to pick one to keep around. ”
Cuizhi was very surprised: "Niangniang is planning to select people from the side branch to enter the East Palace and be a concubine for His Royal Highness the Prince? But since Niangniang has this heart, why don't you allow Miss Nephew to come? Miss Nephew is your own niece and nephew, she is more intimate with you, and she is much more reliable than the girls in the side branch!"
When she was in the Chen family, Mrs. Chen made it clear to her that although since the prince's condition improved, Chen Liangdi has been carefully recuperating her body, hoping to conceive another child and give birth to the emperor's second grandson, but after a few years, she has not been pregnant. The imperial doctor also said privately that although she looks good on the outside and is in good health, in fact, due to a serious illness after the death of the emperor's eldest grandson, she has always been deficient, and she is still insufficient, plus she is now older, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has reduced the number of times she pampered her, and it is even more difficult for her to conceive. What Mrs. Chen means is that her daughter is old and decrepit after all, and it is normal for people to love her when she is decrepit. Instead of waiting for the crown princess to offer to recruit a new person for the crown prince, why don't you let Chen Liangdi speak first and get her niece into the East Palace?
The granddaughter of the Chen family is fifteen years old this year, which is the age of delicate and tender, and she is also born with a good appearance and a lively and pleasing temperament. If she can get the favor of the prince, she will help Chen Liangdi's aunt and nephew in the future, once she has the prince's heir, the two will join forces, which is enough to compete with the crown princess Tang. In the future, when the crown prince ascends the throne as the emperor, even if the Tang family becomes the master of the harem, they will not be able to handle their aunts and nephews. And when the son of Chen Liangdi's nephew's daughter becomes the emperor, Chen Liangdi's aunt and nephew will become the real mistresses of the harem, and the Tang family just has the title of queen mother. At that time, it will be the time when the Chen family will really prosper.
Cui Zhi can understand Mrs. Chen's hard work, but unfortunately her mother can't understand. Chen Liangdi thinks that she can still give birth, and if she gives birth to the emperor's eldest grandson, she will be able to give birth to the emperor's second grandson! God has destined her to become the biological mother of the royal heir! As long as she is given time. The crown princess Tang is too old, and her health is not healthy enough. As long as the East Palace no longer enters the palace, it will be a matter of time before she gets pregnant again. She worries every day that when the crown princess will recruit newcomers under the banner of virtue, the result is that her own family will stab her.
How could Chen Liangdi accept it? Let a young and beautiful niece take her place, and if she gives birth to a son in the future, will she still recognize her as a mother? What does it mean that aunts and nephews can join forces to compete with the crown princess Tang and be the queen mother in the future...... If she can live until then, she will naturally be a stable queen mother, and her niece will also become the queen mother, so what kind of concubine is she? Is it possible that she should grovel under her niece?!
Even if she really can't get pregnant anymore and urgently needs a daughter of the Chen family to fix her pet, it's just a matter of giving birth to a child in her womb. With a son, the daughter of the Chen family is useless, she will not share her son with other women, even if it is the same blood of the Chen family.
Chen Liangdi looked at Cuizhi: "Go, you go out of the palace again and make it clear to my mother." Don't send your niece and nephew to the East Palace, lest she give birth to her son and be useless, I will work hard to solve her, and I have to make amends to my eldest brother and sister-in-law. I went to the side branch to find a young, beautiful and powerless girl—I remember my mother had mentioned that there was one in the fifth room, and that they would be trained for a few days, and then they would send someone to me, saying that they were here to wait on me. When she has a child in the future, I will ask the crown princess for a decree and give her a name. As long as she can give me a son, her parents and brothers, I will not treat me badly. When His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ascends the throne in the future, I will also ask that girl to posthumously crown a concubine, so that her relatives in this branch will be wiped out. ”
Cuizhi's face suddenly turned pale: "Niangniang, what do you want...... "And it's the kind of one who goes to the mother and keeps the child after borrowing the womb......! Is the Chen family willing? Anyway, that is also the daughter of the Chen family.
She hesitated and said to Chen Liangdi: "There is indeed a girl in the clan now, her parents have passed away, and she is raised by the fifth old lady, who is sixteen years old this year, and she has already been filial piety, and she is also delicate. But...... The old lady has already arranged where this girl will go......"
Chen Liangdi frowned and asked, "Have you already decided on a family affair?"
The family that her little cousin set is really not an ordinary family, and it happens to be the second son of the Liao Palace.
Originally, in the year of the fight, after the step-concubine of the Liao King refused to let her son marry his late fiancée Xiao Chen's tablet, Xiao Chen's tablet could only remain in the temple and could not be buried. The Chen family, including Chen Liangdi, is very worried about this. They all hope to arrange a yin marriage for Xiao Chen's family, and the other party is still a child of the clan, so as to ensure that Xiao Chen's incense sacrifices will continue after his death. However, the Chen family has lost the emperor's eldest grandson at this time, and its status is not as important as before, and among those clans, it is not that there are no bald clans who are interested in this yin marriage, but the Chen family dislikes that the other party is not enough. Several clans and palaces they fancy want to arrange yin marriages for their children who died young, but they may not be able to look at Xiao Chen's origins - not to mention that all clans know that she is actually the fiancée of the second son of the King of Liao.
Not long ago, the step-concubine of the King of Liao wrote again, pointing out that the second son had not married a regular wife so far, and after a long time, he felt that he couldn't live with his ex-fiancée, and wanted to revisit the old covenant, marry Xiao Chen's family as the yuan match, and then marry a Chen family daughter to fill the house, and I don't mind whether this Chen family girl is a branch or a side branch. This marriage is not a big surprise for the daughter of the Chen family. After all, the second son of King Liao has a bad reputation, and he once went to the prison of the Zongren Mansion, even if he is the prince and sister-in-law, he will have no chance of getting a knighthood in the future, and he will be a bald clan for the rest of his life until he is old.
But the Chen family's descendants were very moved by this marriage, for no other reason, but once they fulfilled the old covenant with the Liao Wangfu, Xiao Chen's tablet could successfully enter the temple and become the daughter-in-law of the Liao Wang's family. This is exactly what Mrs. Chen has been trying to do. To achieve this, she does not mind sacrificing an orphan daughter in a family. And the concubine of the king of Liao, on her side, does not seem to have any intention of opposing the candidate.
After listening to Cuizhi's words, Chen Liangdi just wanted to sneer: "Does the step-concubine of the Liao King want to fight for the position of the prince of the Liao Dynasty again? Expecting to be an in-law with our Chen family, I will help her speak in front of the prince? Since she has this heart, what did she do earlier? Although the emperor and the prince do not like the current son's personality, they have a good son, and the saint is prosperous. As long as the Liao Wangfu still needs a son, it will not be the turn of others, and the step-concubine of the Liao King is just a daydream! You go and tell my mother that when I have a son in the future, I will regain the favor of the crown prince, and it is only a matter of one sentence to find a child who died in the clan and marry my sister. Now the heir of the East Palace is important, let her not waste her little cousin on the useless son of the Liao Palace, and send her to the palace quickly. ”
Cuizhi carefully persuaded her: "Niangniang, after all, it is the Liao Palace." Didn't Niangniang also look forward to the little lady's tablet being welcomed into the door of the Liao Wang's Mansion as soon as possible?"
Chen Liangdi sneered: "In the past, it was before, but now the situation is different. The Liaowang Mansion can still be beautiful for a few days, no one knows. The emperor and the crown prince have long been interested in finding an excuse to remove them, abolish the throne of the Liao king's line, recover the Liao land, and return the military power to the court, so as to save the trouble of thinking about how to dispose of the prince of Liao. The little sister's tablet is married in, and I don't know if I can keep the incense in the future, so it's better to find another family in the clan. Anyway, I know this in my heart, and I'll think about finding a way to solve it. You tell your mother to do as I say. ”
Cuizhi never expected that the Liao Wangfu would be abolished one day, but she quickly thought that this must be a confidential matter, and Chen Liangdi heard it from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. This matter is not easy to spread to the outside world, but Mrs. Chen must be reminded, otherwise Mrs. Chen will make the wrong choice in a daze without knowing the inside story, and the Chen family will lose a lot!
She hurriedly said: "The slave maid will go out of the palace tomorrow and plead to the old lady." It's just ......," she paused, "Even if you stop with the relatives of the Liao Wangfu and send people to the East Palace, I'm afraid that the uncle and the grandmother will have different ideas." If the slave and maid don't tell the mother's plan, she is afraid that the old lady, the uncle, and the grandmother will not understand the mother's painstaking efforts, and will complain, misunderstanding that the mother is unwilling to bring her niece and nephew. But once you say it...... I'm afraid that the news will leak out, and that girl will find out how to escape if she knows the truth......"
Chen Liangdi's expression moved slightly, and she thought for a while: "Then you just explain the reason to my mother, and she will understand what I mean." If you go and tell my sister-in-law that I will take care of my niece's future marriage, and I will definitely find a rich and decent family for my child. But the East Palace...... She didn't have to count on it anymore. If she goes against my will, even if someone comes in, I have a way to send it out. But if that day comes...... I'm afraid that my niece won't have a good reputation. ”
Cuizhi looked at her master in fear and lowered her tone: "Yes, Niangniang." ”
When the master and servant of the East Palace and the West Side Hall were discussing things, the prince also found the emperor and conveyed Zhao Mo's request to him.
The emperor looked at Zhao Shuo's fold sent by the crown prince, chuckled, and stepped aside: "Guanglu, this kid, is too anxious." How old is he? In a year or two, it will not be too late to get married. What's more, your uncle's granddaughter won't be married until next year, and your brother-in-law loves his granddaughter the most, so he will definitely stay for a few more years. Brother Ping is far away in Guangzhou, is it possible that there is such a big thing as marrying his daughter, and he can't wait for him to come back to make the decision?"
The prince smiled: "Guanglu has already gone to Cousin Xinping, and with his permission, he even got the token." Now Guanglu has obtained permission from his father to ask his sons to ask for a decree on his behalf, but he just wants to add to the cake and make his family affairs more beautiful. Otherwise, with the permission and tokens of their fathers, the two children can already make a marriage contract, and there is no need for the palace to make a decree. But Guanglu is closer to us in the end, so Tete came to ask for his son. It was not easy for Erchen to think about him, he was so thoughtfully prepared, and he didn't know how much effort it took to see him disappointed, so he had to come to ask his father for mercy. It is also a great joy that the two families of Zhao and Qin can marry again. The crown prince sighed, "If the queen mother found out, she would probably be happy, right?"
These words touched the heart of the emperor. He couldn't help but think of the time when he was in love with Empress Qin in the past.