Chapter 314: Solitary Spirit
It's time to eat, the women are in the west hall, and the men are in the east hall.
Chen Afu did not sit at the table, but stood behind Rong Zhao. In ancient times, many daughters-in-law served their mothers-in-law to eat in this way. She had to ask her mother-in-law to sit down before she could go to dinner.
Chen Afu gave Rong Zhao a few chopsticks and dishes, and Rong Zhao said with a heavy face, "Ling Xuan's daughter-in-law didn't inquire about what dishes the palace likes to eat first?" ”
Mrs. Chu San answered, "Daughter-in-law Ling Xuan asked me, and I said that you like the Eight Treasures Golden Basin, Anchovy Shark Fin, Lotus Tofu, and Ma Ren Venison. She's got you right. ”
Rong Zhao snorted coldly, "I've been a little hot these days, and I can't eat venison." ”
Chen Afu hurriedly said, "My daughter-in-law doesn't know. ”
Rong Zhao waved his hand impatiently, "Okay, okay, this palace is impatient with you to serve, the more you serve, the more annoying it becomes." ”
Chen Afu saw that there was only an empty seat between Xue Baoyi and Chu Zhen, so he sat there.
Even if there was a Chen Afu in the middle, Chu Zhen was still trying her best to please Xue Baoyi, and kept talking to Xue Baoyi, but Xue Baoyi didn't want to deal with her at all, and only occasionally said "um" twice.
Everyone was eating, and suddenly, a terrible scream sounded, it was Chu Zhen's voice. A plate of vegetables carried by a maid suddenly fell on Chu Zhen's left shoulder, and the meat and oil soup flowed down her arm. Chen Afu's right arm was also splashed with several balls of oil soup.
The maid was so frightened that she quickly knelt on the ground and cried, "The slave doesn't know what's going on, and as soon as her arm is numb, the dish will turn ......over."
Third Lady Chu stood up and snorted coldly, "Rong Zhao, what's going on?" Don't say that the horse stumbles, it's the fault of the inferior. However, this time the subordinate really made a mistake - the dish was crooked. ”
Rong Zhao was stunned and before he could react, Marquis Chu and a few other men walked over from the west hall.
Marquis Chu said with a heavy face, "Xuan'er, take your daughter-in-law away." Dad is incompetent, and he can't protect you in this house. ”
Chu Lingxuan didn't want to stay for a long time, and after listening to the words of the Marquis of Chu, he picked up Chen Afu and walked towards the outer courtyard.
When I arrived at the outer courtyard, I took a carriage back to the Yong'an Hou Mansion.
Nima, most of the day is more tiring than running a marathon, Chen Afu lay on the bed after washing and closed his eyes to recuperate.
Chu Lingxuan sent his subordinates down, lay down next to her, grabbed one of her hands and said, "I'm sorry, I always thought I could protect you, but I still let you be wronged." ”
Chu Lingxuan was very guilty.
Chen Afu opened his eyes and said, "Uncle, as well as grandpa and third aunt, you have protected me very well." Followed the abbot of Chen...... No, compared to my mother-in-law, my little grievance is nothing. She turned around, looked at Chu Lingxuan and said, "In the past, I was especially upset about my mother-in-law, and I felt that she was forced into the nunnery, the green lantern ancient Buddha, and she was far away from her relatives, which was the most pitiful." However, today I suddenly felt that my father-in-law was the most pitiful, even more pitiful than my mother-in-law. Although her mother-in-law is far away from the hustle and bustle, she doesn't need to act, and she lives a real and relaxed life every day. And his father-in-law, acting against the arrogant and domineering Rong Zhao every day, if his own personality is docile and peaceful, it would be fine, but he is obviously not that kind of character...... He's so tired of living. ”
Chu Lingxuan sighed deeply, it turned out that he was very resentful of his father, thinking that he was a dignified man, but he did something to force his wife to leave the house, force his son and daughter to leave the border, and pay off the shameless woman. It was only in the last year that I heard my grandfather say that my father was originally to endure humiliation for the Nine Emperors and the Eleventh Princes.
After the emperor inherited the unification, he rehabilitated the Yuan family, and established the eldest prince born after the Yuan Dynasty as the crown prince, but he didn't expect that the prince would be killed just two days after being sealed. In this matter, Queen Wang is not innocent, and Sun Guifei also has a share. The emperor was so angry that he gritted his teeth and couldn't move them, one reason was that he had no direct evidence, and the other reason was that the two women's maiden families, the Wang family and the Sun family, had just helped the emperor succeed to the throne by crossing the rebel king, plus they were so powerful that they couldn't move for a while, and they didn't want people to think that he was unloading the mill and killing the donkey.
The emperor felt sorry for the Yuan family, sorry for the Yuan family, and he didn't even keep such a little blood of the Yuan family. He was determined to pass on the throne to people related to the Yuan family, and felt that in this way he would have the face to see the Yuan Empress in the future, and he would be worthy of General Yuan, who had made great contributions to the Dashun Dynasty and was tired by himself.
Three years later, the emperor fell in love with a bright-eyed folk girl Shan Lingling during a private visit to Weifu, and not only spoiled her that night, but also brought her into the palace. But after a few days of freshness, I felt that Shan Lingling was actually not so good, and Mu Ne had no knowledge, so he only sealed a talented girl, so he left it behind.
In fact, this Shan Lingling is the daughter of Empress Yuan's own brother and Yuan Lin, the granddaughter of Lord Yuan, who "died" in the night before the execution. The emperor, who was still the crown prince, sent his henchman Chu Guangche and others to rescue her and send her thousands of miles away...... At that time, the emperor only wanted to leave a little bit of the Yuan family's bloodline, and he knew that the boy couldn't stay no matter what, so he saved Yuan Lin, who was only twelve years old at the time.
If the first prince survives well and inherits the throne smoothly, the emperor and Yuan Lin will not have any intersection. But the first prince died, and the Yuan family only had Yuan Lin's bloodline. So when Yuan Lin, who had changed his name to Shan Lingling, was fifteen years old, he was taken back to the suburbs of Beijing, and happened to be seen by the emperor......
Shan Ling has a good life, and after a few graces, he became pregnant and gave birth to the Nine Emperor Sons.
The mother is expensive by virtue of the son, and the emperor named Jieyu a single talent, and named the Nine Emperors Li Zeping. This mother and son are an invisible existence, and the emperor doesn't want to see them at all. Only when the Nine Emperor Princes were six years old, they pointed out the seven-year-old Chu Lingxuan to read to him as a companion.
The mother and son of the Nine Emperors lived a peaceful life, minimizing their sense of existence, and never going into conflict with the second, third, fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth and tenth princes (the sixth prince is dead).
At that time, the emperor's favorite was the third prince born by Sun Guifei, who felt that he was smart and generous, and Sun Guifei was also quite favored by the emperor, so he did not appoint the second prince born to the queen as the crown prince.
After the second prince turned fifteen years old, many courtiers went to the book, and the second prince was born in the middle palace, and he had both ability and political integrity, so he should be canonized as the prince, but the emperor found all kinds of excuses to support it. This made the queen and the second prince, as well as the prince and the prince very jealous of Sun Guifei's mother and son, and the open and secret struggle between them has never been broken.
The second prince and the third prince fought inextricably, and even the second prince was seriously injured by the third prince and the fourth prince. And after the injury was healed, the second prince's temperament suddenly changed greatly, and he didn't deal with the third prince immediately, but he played a game with Queen Wang and Concubine Ma Shu, which made Princess Rongzhao, who was a widow and had loved Chu Guangche since childhood, and Chu Guangche, who was having a smooth career, have a scandal.
Chu Guangche is the person secretly cultivated by the emperor for the Nine Emperor Princes, although the emperor dotes on the eldest daughter Princess Rongzhao, he will not let her block the path of the Nine Emperor Princes and cut off Chu Guangche's future. Just when he was hesitating about how to suppress this matter, the Nine Emperor Princes suffered another accident and could not inherit the unification if he was crippled......