Chapter 6: Breaking the Ice

Zhou Yanan fought very hard with a bowl of crab meat and yam porridge. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

There were twenty other dishes on the small table in front of her. What are "hanging ducks", "fat ducks", "hanging stove meat", "wild hot pots", "salt-fried meat", "duck porridge"...... Zhou Yanan didn't like to see these dishes very much, she felt that the smell alone was disgusting. It looks greasy and greasy, which makes people lose their appetite. No wonder those concubines refused to eat properly, it turned out that the food in the imperial dining room was unpalatable!

However, Zhou Yanan had to eat hard. Today, she went to the study to clean up those disobedient boys by royal order, and there was a hard battle to fight. If you don't have enough to eat, you don't have the strength to work.

Thinking of this, she sighed with emotion: "What Ling Heng eats is delicious." "It turns out that this crab meat yam porridge was rewarded by Ling Heng. She felt that just a cup of porridge would slap all the dishes in her sub-recipe. How did she know that the crab meat was peeled from the butter crab and sent from a small village called Baishizhou in the Pearl River Valley, and three horses were killed.

Zhou Yanan was full of food and drink, so he rewarded the palace maid and eunuch with a dish. A palace maid had already brought tea, Zhou Yanan rinsed her mouth and called Huizhen to make up for her.

She was about to go out, when she suddenly saw the four eunuchs of Cining Palace asking her to come over and speak at the behest of the Empress Dowager.

This is also a royal palace practice. That is, inviting a concubine out of the palace is an errand for two eunuchs. Empress Dowager Zhou Hui worked with four eunuchs to invite her over, and she already looked up to her.

Zhou Yanan went to Cining Palace without thinking. She didn't think anyone in the harem dared to falsely spread the will of the Empress Dowager Zhou.

She thought about what the Queen Mother was looking for her along the way. She thought she was doing the right thing. Even if there is a suspicion of confusion when dealing with the fight of a beauty, there is no other way. If it is reported truthfully, not only will the queen mother and the emperor be angry, but the government and the opposition will also know that Ling Heng is immoral and the harem is not in harmony. At that time, he really lost his royal face.

As for the bedtime schedule she made two days ago, it was not accurate at all.

Empress Dowager Zhou was also very conflicted in her heart. She is a woman who likes to hold her grandson, but she doesn't like her son to dote on him too much. Actually, this is also quite normal. A woman like Empress Dowager Zhou has no loving environment in her original family since she was a child, and she lacks real friends and pure love when she is older. Their feelings have nowhere to vent, so when they have a weak life that can be completely manipulated by themselves, they will irrationally pour all their love and selfishness into this person. Even when the child grows up, they still have to keep control, because they have nothing else in their lives.

In Lou Wangshu's opinion, the boy raised by such a mother is called "Ma Bao Man". Someone once joked that Ma Bao Nan has three treasures.

How can you say that my mom is not right.

Three sentences are inseparable from "my mother said".

The wife can be changed, but the mother can't.

Zhou Hui is okay. She is used to being introverted and rarely expresses this desire for control. Unlike Ling Heng's cousin, Concubine De, the mother of Prince Shen, chanted, accused, and yelled at him under the banner of being good for him, crying, making trouble, and hanging himself. So far, King Shen has avoided his own mother, but has entered the palace from time to time to honor his mother-in-law Zhou Hui, and Concubine De is crying so much that her eyes are almost blind. Ling Heng was personally raised by his father, he has always been independent and will not be easily manipulated by others. Otherwise, with Zhou Yin's temper, if Ling Heng had said "E-Niang said" from time to time, "E-Niang said" would have exploded a long time ago.

Now that the Queen Mother is living in her old age, she doesn't care about political affairs, and the devil in her heart is ready to move. She is still introverted, she doesn't say anything, but in her heart she really hates all the women who have an intimate relationship with Ling Heng.

So what Zhou Yanan did, the Queen Mother was very satisfied. Although Zhou Yanan's original intention was to let the harem live in harmony, so that the palace concubines had their own goals: to have children - to leave a name in the official history and to raise the body - to have a child - to leave a name in the official history.

Zhou Yanan met an unexpected person in Cining Palace - her father's step-room, Zhang.

She naturally has nothing to say to Zhang. When her sister was there, she often told her how hateful the Zhang family was. For example, she took what her mother used for her own use. For example, Zhang's conniving subordinates bullied Zhou Yanan. For example, Zhang's intention is to teach Zhou Yanan to be a cowardly young lady, so that she can be manipulated in the future.

Zhou Yanan felt that Zhou Yinyan was exaggerating.

In her impression, Zhang would sneak up on her and kiss her little face. Zhou Yanan likes shiny things, so Zhang poured her two large boxes of jewelry on the kang and taught Zhou Yanan: "This is a tired silk bead hairpin." ”

"That's an emerald tourmaline flower. ”

"This is not burnt blue, it's called some emerald. Do you know a little emerald? It is to take the feathers of kingfishers and set them in gold and silver jewelry. But this one of me is not a kingfisher feather, but a goose feather dyed snow blue. Do you know what a goose looks like?"

She picked up Zhou Yanan and walked around: "There is a poem about geese." Goose goose goose, song to the sky...... "Zhou Yanan felt Zhang's wind collar sticking to her neck, itchy and warm. It was a small animal with beautiful fur, brown ......

Zhou Yanan can enter and exit Zhang's house at will. She rarely saw her father. Once again, you have to kneel on the ground and salute. Replies should be respectfully and respectfully courteous, using a variety of honorifics. If you are wrong, you have to hit your palms, and you are not allowed to cry. The more I cried, the faster and harder the ruler fell. She didn't like to see her daddy. Daddy's face is always faint.

Daddy didn't hug her once.

After Zhang became pregnant, her situation deteriorated. Zhang's mother-in-law blocked the door and didn't allow her to enter. Zhou Yanan is very well-behaved and obedient. She knew that Zhang's needed to raise the fetus with peace of mind, and she couldn't bump into her. She waited for Zhang to give birth to her younger siblings, so that she could go back to Zhang to play.

Almost every two days, she asked her wet nurse, "Has my brother given birth?"

I often go to look at my treasure box, which is an egg-sized pearl of the night: "I'm going to give this to my brother." "She asked a ghost to blackmail her.

The wet nurse knew it was her favorite thing. She wanted to stop talking, but she didn't say anything after all.

When the ginkgo tree next to the yard lost all its leaves overnight, the next person said that Zhang gave birth to a young lady.

But when the ginkgo biloba leaves sprouted, the people of the Zhang family who had not yet seen her invited her over.

Zhou Yanan was bored in the yard reading all day long. The nurse comforted her that her stepmother was like this, and if she was not related by blood, she would definitely not be as good as a piece of meat that fell from her body. Zhang's family used to be really good to Zhou Yanan, but after having his own children, he would definitely not pay attention to Zhou Yanan anymore.

Only then did Zhou Yanan know that the Zhang family was not her mother.

She became more and more reticent.

Later, when Zhou Yin took her away, she didn't bring anything.

She told the nurse that the night pearl must be delivered to her sister.

She doesn't hate Zhang, but she doesn't like her anymore.

She felt that she had nothing to say to Zhang.

She wanted to know what she wanted to tell her that Zhang hadn't seen her for more than six years.

Zhang's two orders were served. The Queen Mother needed a lot of makeup, so her face was painted like a ghost, and her true expression could not be seen. Seeing Zhou Yanan coming in, he stood up violently and hurriedly shouted: "Sister Nan!"

Zhou Yanan originally had a just right smile, and when she heard this, she was ready: "Madam." "It's stuck in my throat.

The Queen Mother was like a mirror in her heart, and said to the Zhang family: "You beg the mourning family to see Sister Nan." The mourners have allowed you. Then he said to Zhou Yanan: "Don't sit next to your mother yet." ”

Zhang hurriedly knelt down: "The Queen Mother is willing to give the slave this grace." The slave was grateful, but now that the time to leave the palace had come, the slave didn't dare to break the rules. ”

Zhou Yanan was stunned: What is this? I begged the Queen Mother to see her. She thought that Zhang wanted to play the bitter card. Unexpectedly, she was wrong.

The Queen Mother seemed to think of something, and said, "Then let's go back!"

Zhang knelt down again to thank him. Suddenly, her body tilted to the side, as if she had fainted.

The palace maid helped Zhang to the side hall to rest, and the imperial doctor also went to see a doctor.

The Queen Mother sighed and said to Zhou Yanan: "Your mother is not doing well. ”

She babbled on and on.

Zhou Yanan originally thought that the Zhang family was doing well.

She is the concubine of the Ningguo Mansion, with a good family background and good looks. Zhou Ren is twenty-five years older than her. The old husband and young wife should love her very much.

Zhou Yanan remembered that Zhang was pregnant less than half a year after entering the house. Even if the first child is not a boy, it doesn't matter. There are also flowers that bloom first and then bear fruit.

The Queen Mother said that Zhou Ren still likes to go out and drink flower wine. There are two nights a week without returning.

Zhou Yanan remembered that his father often smelled of fat powder. She's a girl, and she's very sensitive to that.

Zhou Ren is the young master of the crown prince, and his annual salary is only 500 stones, and he has long been used up by him to eat and drink. Now the Zhou Mansion is used up and down, and it is all supported by a few shops in Zhang's dowry.

When Zhang's sister was pregnant (that is, Zhou Yanan's sister), Zhou Ren got drunk and went to Zhang's house to ask her to take the title deed for her marriage. Zhang refused. Zhou Ren beat her up with his head and face.

When he sobered up, he felt no shame. On the contrary, he felt that Zhang's didn't know how to lift, so he let Zhang's be grounded for a year and didn't allow her to see people. Unless there is an important feast, take her there.

Now Zhou Ren is still stingy. He didn't give Zhang a penny, and he didn't allow Zhang to spend more.

Zhang's preparation meal, only four dishes and one soup are allowed, if one more meat dish is added. Zhou Ren was going to point at Zhang's nose and scold her for being a loser in front of many maids.

Sister last only makes two sets of clothes in a season, one set for guests, and one set for home, which is not as good as Zhou Yanan's girl.

Zhou Yanan didn't know about these. The Zhang family has never complained to outsiders, and it is all from the subordinates.

It is precisely because Zhang himself does not say anything. When I met the Queen Mother today, the Queen Mother took the initiative to ask her if she needed help.

If the Zhang family proposes to reconcile with Zhou Ren, then the Queen Mother will approve it.

Zhang asked to see Zhou Yanan.

Zhou Yanan listened to the Queen Mother and was speechless.

The imperial doctor came over: "The young master and the lady of the prince are happy." ”

There was a trace of compassion in the Queen Mother's eyes.

Oh, yes. Zhou Ren treats the Zhang family badly, but the Zhang family must have children for him.

What a sad story.