Chapter 125: Saving Grace

Today, Dong Qinghe went out of the customs, and Dong Chengshuo came back in advance, carrying the ducks that he specially sent someone to bring back from Dongcheng. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

This duck is particularly delicious, it is the latest store to open from the south, a few days ago, others had a treat, Dong Chengshuo ate it once.

This is still limited, only fifty are sold a day, and Dong Chengshuo sent someone to buy two.

"Qinghe. ”

"Daddy. ”

"But it's out, Dad hasn't seen our eldest lady for a few days. ”

"You, even your daughter is funny. ”

Han Zhen came out of the ear room, her face was ruddy, and Yinshuang had just used her luck to sort out the meridians for her.

"What's this, it's my daughter, I'm happy to see many people outside coming to Shun'an Hall to buy a lot of medicinal herbs. ”

"What herbs to buy?"

Not only Han Zhen, but even Dong Qinghe and Dong Qingdu were very curious.

"I heard that many people who participated in the draft used those prescriptions and were praised by the aunts in the palace, and now I don't know how many people are queuing up outside Shun'an Hall and Baohe Hall. ”

"You, a big old man, what do you care so much about those little daughters. Han Zhen was angry and felt that he was a little unprofessional.

"Yes, yes, yes. Dong Chengshuo nodded, he was just happy to see his daughter's achievements.

In his eyes, only by doing good deeds to the people is the real achievement.

Now the common people like those things very much, the price is cheap, and the effect is so good, isn't it exciting?

The common people are happy, and that's good.

Inside the palace, Chu Ji was walking between the palaces, this was on the way to the Queen Mother's Palace.

The palace maids and eunuchs who passed by along the way all bowed and saluted, watching him walk by, some old people did not squint, and some new palace maids showed envy in their eyes.

This is the King of Qi, the emperor's younger brother and the queen mother's son.

"The prince is here. "Jiu Yin sent someone back for the Queen Mother, and just happened to meet Chu Xu.

"Aunt Jiuyin. ”

Not only did other people in the palace call this queen mother's right and left hand, but even Chu Ji also called her aunt.

"Don't dare to be, the Queen Mother is still talking about the prince in the morning, and now I must be very happy to see the prince. ”

Jiu Yin said with a smile, she has been with the Queen Mother for decades, and she has been following her since the Queen Mother was still in the boudoir, and she has always been the closest person to the Queen Mother.

is not only the person who accompanies the Queen Mother the most, but even the emperor and Chu Ji are the people she has watched grow up and take care of, not to mention the later Chu Han.

What is rare is that Jiu Yin has never relied on his own merits to be proud, his attitude has always been very humble, and he diligently assists the Queen Mother in taking care of the harem, not competing or greedy for merit.

Chu Ji has always liked this aunt, because she combed her hair to accompany the Queen Mother into the palace and no longer marry, so the Queen Mother has always felt indebted to her, and let her two sons treat her well.

He took out a small box from his sleeve: "This is a good rouge bought from Shun'an Tang, I heard that there are many effects, and they are all made of medicinal materials, which is also harmful." I bought a few boxes and sent one to my aunt. ”

Jiu Yin took it, she had heard about this thing this morning, but it was easy to use, how could there be a girl who didn't love beauty, so she smiled immediately: "Then thank you to the prince." Can you prepare the Queen Mother?"

"Of course the queen mother has. Chu Xuan patted his sleeve.

In any case, the Queen Mother will always have it, and if not, no one will be pleased.

"The Queen Mother. ”

The Queen Mother was resting inside, and suddenly heard her son's voice.

"Why are you here?"

Empress Dowager Zhu has been looking at the background, personality and other things of these girls in the past few days, as well as the things that people in the palace have found in the past two days.

"Isn't this missing the queen mother? ”

Chu Xuan walked to Empress Dowager Zhu's side and sat down, with a smile on her cold face.

"Tell me, what's the matter with coming to find the queen mother, but which show girl or which girl you have taken a fancy to. ”

In the past two days, Empress Dowager Zhu has been looking at these and looking for suitable candidates, so she has this question.

"It does have something to do with it. Chu Ji nodded, he came mainly for this matter.

"Passing by Shun'an Hall, I heard that the prescription in the "Medicine King Sutra" bought by the royal brother last time has the effect of making the skin better, and it was ground into rouge, so the son got a box of the best, and specially took it to the queen mother. ”

In fact, Shun An Tang has it, but it is only placed there for those people to see, and it is not for sale.

Some people wanted to try it, so they found someone from Baozhenlou to make some, and Empress Dowager Zhu's was made with the most expensive medicinal materials.

Although this is not for sale, after all, the world knows that this is bought by King Qi from the Medicine King Valley on behalf of the royal family, so he is relieved.

Empress Dowager Zhu is really happy now, she is also a woman and a beauty, no woman will refuse this kind of thing.

"Looks like you're really big deal. ”

The more her son tries to please her, the bigger this matter will be, and Empress Dowager Zhu already understands this truth very well.

"Erchen heard that the queen mother also intends to worry about Erchen's affairs this time. "Chu Ji has a very good attitude, he is asking for help now, and he still wants to leave the imperial brother alone to struggle in the quagmire.

"You are not young anymore, you should also choose a princess and know your hot and cold. ”

The queen mother is most worried about this second son who lives outside the palace, and she is very worried, "I used to say that I would put two people in the room for you first, and you said that you should respect the future princess, but you don't want to." ”

"The queen mother, the royal brother is the elder, and the sons and daughters don't dare to heal, but this time it's better to think about the royal brother. ”

Chu Xuan looked like he was thinking about Chu Chen, and said with the mood of a dead friend who is not a dead poor man.

"You're not too young, tell the queen mother, do you have someone in your heart?"

Empress Dowager Zhu felt that she couldn't understand this little son more and more, and often didn't know what he was thinking.

I want to care about him, but it's inconvenient, after all, the eldest son is the emperor, and the younger son is just the prince, as the queen mother, no matter how she says, she shouldn't be biased towards the younger son.

Nodding, Chu Xuan understood that only in this way could he fool the past.

"Which girl is it?"

The Queen Mother asked, she wanted to know which girl was so lucky to be able to be put in her heart by her youngest son.

"The queen mother, her current situation is not suitable for marriage, and she will have to wait for another two years. ”

Empress Dowager Zhu frowned, what does this mean, could it be that this girl is not yet an adult, and she has only been married in the past two days, and it is true that ordinary people have to prepare a dowry.

Although a royal decree can solve it, but in order to respect the woman, this son did what he was waiting for.

"If it's too small, justβ€”"

"The queen mother, the sons only want her to be my princess. ”

"The show girl in this palace is the princess, and the sons and daughters should not be better, at least they should be more comfortable than this. ”

The Queen Mother's face changed slightly, and her words reminded her of some past events.

"Son, I walked out of this palace. ”

In the end, Chu Xuan added the heaviest sentence.

"That's it. The Queen Mother sighed, since he was so unwilling, why reluctantly, since the eldest son has become the emperor of the world, what does it matter if the younger son is himself.

She already has a son who has been persecuted by the government.

"When this thing is over, tell the queen mother who she is, you know, the queen mother is not that kind of person, as long as she has a good heart. ”

Empress Dowager Zhu has always been very kind to her youngest son, which is completely different from her vigorous and resolute attitude in dealing with court politics.

"Yes. ”

Chu Ji had two points of admiration on his face, he was taught by the Queen Mother, and he was different from the imperial brother.

Chu Chen is the first son of the first emperor and the queen's concubine, and he was named the crown prince as soon as he was born, which can be said to be infinitely beautiful.

Even the first emperor took a special fancy to him, and even took him to study, until the fifth prince of Emperor Cui was born, and the first emperor gave his eyes to the five princes.

Chu Ji is different, in addition to learning from the Empress Dowager, he spent more time being raised by the Empress Dowager, and what he learned was taught to him by the Empress Dowager, and he had no feelings with the first emperor.

What the Queen Mother prefers is this child who is taught according to her own wishes, and every move is in line with her new ideas.

"There is still a box here, thinking that Aunt Fuyu has worked hard to serve her mother, and she has not seen it yet, so I prepared a box for Aunt Fuyu. ”

took out the last box from her sleeve, and Chu Xuan handed it to Fuyu who was standing aside, she, like Jiu Yin, followed the Queen Mother from the Zhu family.

"Give it to Jiuyin. The Queen Mother smiled, Chu Ji would never favor one over the other.

"I just met Aunt Jiu Yin at the gate of the palace. Chu Ji nodded, naturally he gave it.

"If you come, stay and let your royal brother come over later, and our mother and son will have dinner together." ”

"Yes, it's true that I haven't eaten with my mother for a few days, and it's the unfilial piety of my sons. ”

After the emperor finished handling political affairs, he came to the palace of the Queen Mother.

"The royal brother is also there. ”

Chu Chen came in with a smile, "Erchen has seen the queen mother. ”

"The emperor is too polite, come and sit. Empress Dowager Zhu asked the emperor to sit on the chair next to her.

"Brother Huang has worked hard. Chu Xuan knew that he had come after dealing with political affairs, and he felt that he was tired, and it was easy to deal with political affairs, but if every decree went down, whether there would be innocent people killed because of this, these were all borne by the emperor.

"Whoever makes his brother know to be lazy, and he doesn't know how to help share the burden. ”

"It's my brother's fault. ”

"Brother Huang, my brother really has a doubt. ”

"Hmm. Chu Chen raised his eyebrows and motioned for him to ask.

"This queen is the mother of the country, and I don't know who can do it?"

This is no longer just a matter of the emperor choosing a wife alone, but a matter of the whole country.

The queen is the mother of the country, and the queen's son is the crown prince, which is the future of the whole country.

Chu Chen did not answer immediately, but tilted his head and looked at the Queen Mother.

When these three people are together, there is often no one in the palace, and there is no one outside who dares to eavesdrop, only Fuyu and Jiuyin guard.

"The queen is a matter of society, and it is really difficult to choose. Mrs. Zhu looked a little sad behind her, and she was also thinking about it these days.

"I don't know if there is a candidate in the queen mother's heart?"

Chu Chen was embarrassed to ask, Chu Chen didn't mean that, just knew the result.

"There is a candidate, but it has not yet been decided. ”

"Which daughter?" Chu Xuan glanced at Chu Chen, this was his sister-in-law.

"It's not the Luo family or the He family. ”

These are all open secrets, and there is not much to hide between their mother and son.

"Naturally not, you have to think about your imperial brother, it's really them, even if it's me, there is no peace. ”

The Queen Mother laughed, naturally it wasn't the two of them, even she didn't want to have a headache to deal with such a daughter-in-law all day long.

But the daughter-in-law can't move yet, so she can only provide for it.

Chu Chen looked at Chu Chen, Chu Chen shook his head: "I don't know, I believe in the vision of the queen mother." ”

It's too cunning, Chu Ji doesn't bother with him anymore.

"I thought about the domestic girls for a while, weighed the pros and cons, and it was still under our noses. ”

That's inside Taijing.

"I thought, the daughter of the Dong family may be good. ”

Chu Chen and Chu Xuan were both taken aback, and turned their heads together: "Dong Qinghe?"

As Dong Qingdu's friends, they naturally knew Dong Qinghe.

"Yes, after thinking about it, the only one who can compete and suppress them faintly is Dong Qinghe. ”

It turned out to be her, Chu Chen thought about it for a long time, and without words, Chu Chen spoke: "Dong family, maybe I don't want to." ”

The eldest lady of the Dong family is weak and filial, and the people of the Dong family love her to the bone, I am afraid that they are not happy to marry her to the royal family, even if this is the supreme mother of the country.

"I can't help it, otherwise whoever is in the position will be pulled down immediately. ”

That's right, no matter who takes the throne, I'm afraid that they will be pulled down by the He family and the Luo family, they are in power, not those families, there are not so many people who can endure and sacrifice, and they can't afford to sacrifice.

The biggest difference between the family and the emerging family is that most of the family is old, as long as they can keep the family, they are willing to sacrifice, do not deprive themselves of their own interests, and give a little hope, they will be satisfied.

The emerging family is different, they don't have so much to sacrifice, and they have enough blood, those things are all fought by themselves, it is easier to break the net, and they will not compromise easily.

"The Dong family should not give up, at least they will not let us do nothing. ”

After dealing with the Dong family for so many years, he can be regarded as an old acquaintance, and he still knows this, Chu Ji said again, "I'm afraid, the sixth brother won't recognize it." ”

Chu Han's relationship with the Dong family is really good, the point is that the Dong family doesn't need to please him at all, he picked it up by himself, and the Dong family treats him so well that he has nothing to say.

Chu Ji felt sorry for this younger brother, and he would also consider his feelings.

"You know why I have encouraged you to contact the Dong family since I was a child, and I never worried about whether they would have other thoughts. ”

The Queen Mother suddenly asked, looking at her two sons.

Glancing at each other, both of them shook their heads, they had also wondered before, they were the sons of the emperor and the empress, why did they have to do this, and later felt that Dong Qingdu was completely worthy of their friendship, so they didn't care, after all, they were still young at the time.

"When I was still in the boudoir, I once saved Han Zhen's life. ”

Chu Chen and Chu Ji were taken aback, they had never heard of it, if there was such a thing, it was true that the Dong family would not at least be unfavorable to them.

The Dong family has always paid attention to benevolence and morality, and it will never be detrimental to the life-saving benefactor.

"This is the benefit of the place, some things, as long as you think, people thousands of miles away can't hear the wind at all, everyone forgets, I and her, from the same place, how can there really be no intersection, that is, she just married to Taijing City, and I also secretly helped her. ”

Empress Dowager Zhu had a smile on her face, this was one of the few things she was most proud of, the Dong family was grateful and would be repaid, so the Dong family would definitely not stand on the other side.

At least she can be completely assured that this world's first family, some things, as long as they don't go against you, are your people.