Chapter 160: The Concubine's Calculations
Early the next morning, Shu Zhaoyi brought a box of jade tip noodles to Anfu Palace, which was made of fat bear meat with lean venison as filling, wrapped in a sharp steamed bun shape with dough blanks, and then cooked [Note 1], which has always been liked by Shu Guifei.
At this moment, it is taken out of the food box filled with ebony gold-filled flowers, and the heat of the freshly baked is still breathing, which is really pleasing to the eye and mouth-watering.
"Sister, try it, your majesty wanted to eat this yesterday, so I asked the cook to make it overnight, and this morning your majesty will wake up and pass on the meal." Shu Zhaoyi put the jade tip noodles in front of the concubine, and said with a smile, "I heard that you want me to come over, so I just took a few good ones and brought them over for you to taste!" If His Majesty thinks that he doesn't have enough to eat, ask him to call the cook to do it again! ”
"Where am I still in the mood to eat this?" But Concubine Shu sighed, didn't even look at the jade pointed face, and said listlessly, "Let me tell you something: Yesterday, Meng Guiyu suddenly entered the palace in the middle of the night, saying that it was an important matter related to the life and death of our sisters!" ”
Shu Zhaoyi raised her eyebrows in surprise and said, "What did he say?" Is it sensational or is it real? ”
The concubine's face was ugly for a while, and she said, "It's hard to say, I hope it's not true." However, look at his determined appearance...... The most important thing is that we have all inquired, this person is not the kind of reckless sex. Child! It's not that he doesn't know our temper, he should know that if he lies about such an important matter, we will definitely not spare him!! ”
"Sister, what the hell is going on?" When Shu Zhaoyi heard this, her expression became solemn, and she brushed the box of jade pointed noodles to the side, and most of her body fell on the case between the sisters, "It's so serious?!" ”
Concubine Shu glanced at her and sighed deeply: "Meng Guiyu said that he was secretly chaste...... He is actually Huan Guanlan's proud disciple! The reason why he approached us was because he was ordered by Huan Guanlan to taste the heartache of being betrayed by someone close to him and trusted!! ”
"......" Shu Zhaoyi's eyes widened instantly, and she gasped, "Such a secret news, if it is true, Mi Zhen will definitely not reveal it easily!" Meng Guiyu, how did he know?! ”
"He didn't say it last night, I told me that today I ordered someone to go out of the palace to him to see the evidence." Concubine Shu frowned, "Wait for the person who went to come back!" ”
In fact, the concubine's interest at this time is no longer on whether Rong Sleeping Crane has a close relationship with Huan Guanlan, and whether she is on the order of Huan Guanlan to approach and use their sisters.
She turned over and over in her head, thinking about the sentence "The two mothers are just difficult to have children, not unable to have children", if this is really the case, can have biological flesh and blood, what do you have to recognize the heir?
Even if you allow a sleeping crane to be a good-looking heir...... In the end, it is not biological!!
"Sister, this can't be done!" Shu Zhaoyi didn't know what was going on, and she was still complaining a little about her, "How can you ask him to show evidence outside the palace?" Who knows if it's made up?! Why do you want him to bring it to the palace, let's discuss it and take a good look at it! Don't you hear that the three of them have become tigers, in case the Meng family sees Mi Zhen's prosperity in the Western Xinjiang, and he has no choice but to take a salary from us to give him a salary, let's believe it, isn't this self-destructive future? ! ”
Shu Guifei said: "Listen to me! I called you over so early in the morning, not for the matter of Mizhen, but for some of the words that Meng Guiyu said later! ”
Shu Zhaoyi was surprised: "What? He said something more important than that last night? He...... Where did he get all this news from?! Where did he get such a skill?! ”
"He said we might just have difficulty getting pregnant, not being unable to conceive." Concubine Shu said a little eagerly, "The reason why I haven't had a son and a half daughter for so many years is ......"
Glancing at the temple door and seeing that the temple door was closed, he took a deep breath and leaned into his sister's ear, "Eighty percent is because Your Majesty has a problem with childbirth!! ”
Shu Zhaoyi was stunned and said, "Impossible! Jin Meiren and Xiao Wen's ......"
"In addition to these two people, is there a third person in the palace who has been happy for so many years?!" Concubine Shu asked rhetorically, retelling the speculation that Meng Guiyu persuaded her last night, and finally said, "Since Your Majesty has a shallow heir, and now you are still old, you said that you and my sister want an heir, how can you expect him?!" It's a pity that the world is ignorant, and when they look at the childless and daughterless, they all think it's our women's fault, which is really hateful!! ”
Shu Zhaoyi unintentionally criticized the world's short-sightedness and bias, and said hurriedly: "Sister, what do you want to do?" Don't?! ”
She was a little panicked, "This is really ...... What if ...... is discovered?! ”
"This harem is now in charge of you and my sisters, that Meng Guiyu is a foreign man, who goes in and out in the middle of the night, and no one knows, where is it so easy to be discovered?!" Concubine Shu gritted her teeth and said, "What's more, even if it is discovered, as long as Your Majesty still believes in us, what is the use of other people, including the old woman of the Queen Mother, their thoughts and opinions?!" ”
Shu Zhaoyi thought about Emperor Xuanjing's great favor for his sisters so far, and her heart was a little calm, but she was still very worried: "These are Meng Guiyu's one-sided words!" He's not a doctor! In case he said this, he wanted to lure his sister to follow him...... When the time comes, will they threaten us with our handles? ”
"He thinks beautifully!" Hearing this, the concubine frowned and said, "You don't think I'll choose him, do you?" Am I that stupid? This idea was hinted at by him, and I am still looking for him, isn't this sending to the door to be pitted by him! ”
Shu Zhaoyi said: "I think so too...... Alas, how risky is this method? Why don't we find a doctor or something? ”
"It's useless!" The concubine said a little disheartened, "How many times have you seen it since we became concubines?" Up and down the hospital, who hasn't asked us for a pulse?! The result? Haven't you been disappointed again and again?! ”
Her face was gloomy, "What's more, even if we find out that we can give birth now, you said that Your Majesty is in his fifties, and he still has the ability to be a father?!" In the past two years, if it weren't for the special medicine prescribed by the doctor, he would ...... Hehe! Not to mention dealing with the two of us, he can't resist any of them! Such a person, how can we be mothers?! ”
"And no matter what Meng Guiyu has in mind, I think what he said is right: what comes after is what comes after, and it will never be comparable to his own flesh and blood!"
"Isn't the reason why we have so many troubles because we have no children?!"
"If you have a son, do you think there is anything worth worrying about in this world?!"
Shu Guifei said hatefully, "It's just that I didn't think of this earlier, otherwise I should have tried it a long time ago...... Anyway, now His Majesty has come to me less! ”
"This is because Your Majesty has often felt powerless lately." Shu Zhaoyi hurriedly said, "I didn't mean to snub my sister!" ”
The concubine said: "I know, that's why I'm worried!" After all, you also know that the main reason why our sisters can live happily is because of His Majesty. Now his body is getting weaker and weaker, but he still refuses to stop the medicine, of course, we can't let him stop, after stopping, what if his mind is not in the harem?! I'm sexual. Zi is anxious, taking care of people is not as careful as you, he doesn't come to Anfu Palace, as long as he is always in your Leyi Palace, instead of going around those messy things, especially if he doesn't go to Wangchun Palace, I will be relieved...... Are you still afraid that I will be jealous?! ”
"Sister, if you can have a biological flesh and blood, of course it's not good!" Shu Zhaoyi frowned and said, "However...... Not to mention whether your method will be effective, even if you do this, if you have a child, we can fool around in the future, the question is, what should Meng Guiyu do? ”
"As my sister said, although this person's surname is Meng, he never acts like Meng Lang."
"Since he dares to make such a suggestion to his sister, he will definitely leave a corresponding backhand!"
"Even if we send someone to kill him at this time, eighty percent of him has already left a handle, as long as he has three long and two short, he will announce it or something!"
"In this way, the child is not the emperor's heir, outsiders don't know, but he knows it in his heart, he will use this as a threat to take it away, how can you and I resist?"
Concubine Shu narrowed her eyes and said, "So I won't look for people outside!" ”
She said slowly, "The Rong clan, isn't it all dead, and there is only one male heir left for Your Majesty, isn't it?!" ”
Shu Zhaoyi's mind raced, and she said tentatively: "Sister is saying...... King Guangling? ”
"King Guangling!" Concubine Shu frowned when she heard this, and said, "Although King Guangling is the youngest child of the first emperor, he is also over forty this year, at such an age, a young woman like Concubine Meng can conceive his child, and it is okay, at our age, I am afraid that it is hanging!" His concubine Chai, who disappeared last year, is the same age as him, isn't it that he hasn't had a child for almost ten years? ”
The youngest child born to King Guangling by Princess Chai is Rong Yanjiao, the lord of Guide County, who is ten years old this year.
"King Gaomi is just afraid that he is not so calculating?" Shu Zhaoyi groaned, "But fortunately, his biological mother, Concubine Mo, is still there, although he has rarely met with Concubine Mo in the past ten years, is it his biological mother and son......
Speaking of this, the sisters were silent, a little frustrated and a little expectant, as far as what Concubine Mo did back then, if King Gaomi was not her own child, I am afraid that she would not have torn her face and even killed her mother if she was ruthless sooner, where would it be like now, King Gaomi did not often visit the concubine, mainly because he was afraid of Princess Gaomi, and he was still concerned about the concubine in his private heart.
Flesh and blood.
Shu Zhaoyi chewed on the word silently, and was about to continue, but heard Shu Guifei say in surprise: "What do you always want to do with these old things?" King Gaomi is only two years younger than His Majesty, and the youngest child under his knees, if he is still alive, he should be married at this time, and he is worse than King Guangling! ”
“…… But if you go to find a clan relative who is a little farther away, they usually don't enter the palace much, and they don't interact with us much. Shu Zhaoyi didn't know why, "When the time comes, it will be easy to arouse suspicion; The second is to consider the matter of blood recognition, if the child's biological father is His Majesty's brother, it is also possible to recognize his relationship with His Majesty by blood. But if it is a distant relative of His Majesty, the Eight Achievements will not work [Note 2]! ”
Only by passing the test with blood can their sisters ensure that this heir, who has not been seen at this time, will not be exposed to the bottom in the future and fall from the top of the clouds!
Concubine Shu looked at her, the corners of her mouth twitched: "Have you forgotten that whether it is King Gaomi or King Guangling, the heirs under their knees are already old?" ”
"Rong Qingyu and Rong Qing'an?!" Shu Zhaoyi was stunned, but she didn't say anything, and muttered, "These two people are much younger than their fathers, and they are not very smart...... When we go back to feasting, let's take a closer look? ”
The concubine narrowed her eyes and said, "Ming'er, you coax Your Majesty to let the imperial doctor take a look, how long can he last?" ”
Seeing that Shu Zhaoyi didn't know why, the concubine's voice was lowered, "I thought, since I want to hide from the world and get a biological flesh and blood, of course, the smarter and smarter it is!" In this case, as you said, this Rong Qingchu and Rong Qing'an are not smart people, they are the heirs under their knees, and so far, they have not heard of anything extraordinary! ”
"So why should we choose them? In case the children also pass on their stupidity, even if it is our own, we don't dislike it, but after all, it's a pity! ”
"After all, our children will be emperors in the future!"
"People are too stupid, easy to be swayed by the people below, we have worked hard in this life, it's embarrassing to be for outsiders, or is it for the next person?!"
The concubine sneered, "So, if Your Majesty can still have some days, I would like to ...... Wait a minute, wait for Mi Zhen who is far away in the western frontier! ”
Her eyes were cold, "After all, we two Aunt Shu have always treated him well!" He helped him so much, and he deserved something in return, shouldn't he? ”
[Note 1] The method of jade tip noodles is found by Baidu.
[Note 2] Well, the rules of blood recognition in this book are okay with close relatives.