Chapter Seventy-Three
There are changes in the previous chapter~
Recently, the Fuxi Palace, which has not had a hostess for a long time, has been lively again, for no other reason, it has been rewarded to the concubines, congratulators, gifts, and visits, in an endless stream. The new hostess is not the Nine Emperor Princesses and Mother Concubine Lan Niangniang as others speculate, to say that this lady has been in infinite beauty these days, she has been at the end of the Nine Concubines for too many years, and once she raised her eyebrows, she was repeatedly signaled by Shao Ziyu that she needed to be more and more low-key in extraordinary times, and she still couldn't hide her arrogance.
Since the queen had a miscarriage, her body is not as good as before, plus several sons were grounded, when the proton was sent to Qiangwu, although it was restored to ask for peace, but it was much more low-key than before, that is, Concubine Lan was not punished for several face-to-face collisions, some people's brains were active, although there were concubines, but how could Concubine Lan and the queen be one family, the emperor attached importance to the Wu family, and now the queen is cold, is it going to support another, and the nine emperors have the name of a prodigy, if you want to say that the emperor's favor is not lacking, then the position of the crown prince is also going to be determinedγ
But no one expected that after the state banquet, the emperor actually rewarded Concubine Jin again with Concubine Jin's filial piety such as accompanying the Queen Mother to worship the Buddha and copying scriptures, as if he had forgotten about her previous demotion.
Where is this forgot, and it is left here to hold back the big move.
In a series of words in the edict, Concubine Jin is praised for her general knowledge, saying that she is wise and sensitive, Kexian Neize, Bingde and gentle, born into a famous family, and has a degree of speech. Yang Cheng Cheng Empress Dowager made her the imperial concubine.
Fuxi Palace was originally built according to the position of the first grade, and when she was still a concubine, she was able to live in a special favor of the emperor, and only now is it justifiable to live in the name.
"Niangniang, can this tea be returned to the mouth?" After sending off Concubine Shu, the little eunuch Mao Cai ran over with special eyes, pouring hot tea for Emperor Jin's concubine, with a respectful expression on his face, and his movements were also appropriate, which was very charming.
This Maocai is one of the people who Mu Junning once found a group of top-notch little eunuchs from the prison to serve him, and when Fu Chen came back, he said a few words of mockery, and they were also sent away by Mu Junning afterwards, but now that she is the imperial concubine, there must be someone added to the courtyard, this Maocai is one of the four servants rewarded by the queen, because he is doing things really and is not invited to be brought up by Mu Junning.
"Not bad. Mu Junning picked up the teacup, took a sip, and smiled, as if casually mentioned, "I heard that you have been studying Kodan recently?"
"Yes, when the servant saw that the flowers in the garden were about to wither, he thought of picking more for a rainy day, so he went to the master to ask for advice. After answering without humility, he seemed to be worried that this thing would not be done well, and asked carefully, "Did the slave do something wrong?"
was silent for a few breaths, but listened to Mu Jun's melodious voice and praised: "This palace has always admired loyal and loyal minions. β
Mao Cai's eyebrows relaxed, even if his face was neither humble nor arrogant, but in his heart, he might be able to say that Emperor Jin's concubine has always been more majestic and dignified in the palace. The appreciation of the imperial concubine was also a little overjoyed, and he said some flattering words before retreating.
When the others went out, Mu Junning completely put down his smiling face, and said to the ink painting that had been silent since just now: "Towel." β
Knowing Mu Junning's rejection of the eunuch, Mo Hua took out a handkerchief and handed it over, and brought in the basin that had been prepared by someone a long time ago, and cleaned Mu Junning's hands.
After purifying, the gorgeous red lips opened lightly, and said something that did not match the preface, and ridiculed: "Painting a tiger is not an anti-dog." β
Naturally, the ink painting knew what she was talking about, and pretended not to taste it: "If it weren't for the fact that you love that person so much, how could you learn it?"
Naturally, he knows who he is referring to.
"You girl, you are so petty, but you learned from that leper. β
"What's the matter, mother, you don't spoil me. "Niangniang to Fu Chen, that's the only good, there are some things that Fu Chen can say, but they can't say it, and the ink painting is just a funny thing to talk about according to the rules.
The two laughed, and Mu Junning said: "If it wasn't for the queen, the palace would not hesitate to maneuver." β
The ink painting is Mu Junning's henchman, and naturally understands that Niangniang is now in the limelight and is about to cover up the queen, the queen seems to be generous, even if she asks for peace, there is no embarrassment, but this trick has been used a long time ago, knowing that Mu Junning has a little eunuch named Fu Chen here who is very eye-catching, and got the news, knowing that a few days ago she asked for some handsome little eunuchs from the prison fence to serve, so she found the most clever one from it, and sent it over with a little training, of course, using the name of the Internal Affairs Office.
There is no irreplaceable person in this world, especially a minion, as long as it is used smoothly, it is not the same.
If only in terms of appearance, Mao Cai is several notches higher than Fu Chen, it makes no sense that they are also smooth, Mu Junning only needs this and not that.
"Niangniang, why did you accept this person in the first place?" You must know that the last time Na Mao came, she still looked like she was dancing with her teeth and claws, and the second time she came over, she almost saw someone as Fu Chen.
"This palace will not accept it this time, and there will be a next time, what trick it will be next time is not known, so why bother?"
When Mu Junning came to the side hall, he didn't knock on the door, and pushed the door directly.
And he was lying down in loose clothes, which she had prepared for him in his inner chamber, and was proportionate to his figure.
When he heard the door open, the person who had always been very alert didn't look up, and he didn't care who came in.
He was reclining on the couch, the white sunlight was shining in outside, his black black hair was scattered over his shoulders, he only wore his hair in a bun with green bamboo, a moderate light smile was raised at the corner of his mouth, he was holding a miscellaneous note in one hand, and gently caressing the rice balls that were also lying lazily on his lap with the other.
If it weren't for the wound on the hand and being bandaged in a circle, it wouldn't look like recuperating at all, but there would be a kind of chrysanthemum picking under the east fence and leisurely seeing Nanshan.
With just one glance, he remembered the ink-like picture scroll of the warm velvet autumn in his heart, and this person once said inexorably, "Just because they want to replace me?"
Yes, just by those people, how can you be in the meantime.
Mu Junning put away the slight fluctuations in his eyes and frowned, "If I hadn't entered, would you have seen people like this?"
"Footsteps, I've heard them a long time ago. The man beckoned, but his eyes didn't lift, and he put aside the rice balls that were unwilling to leave his thighs, "Come here with me." β
As soon as he got close to the couch, he was stopped by the man on his thigh.
"Yikes!"
With Mu Junning's exclamation, she landed firmly in Fu Chen's arms.
"What's it called, huh?" seemed to think that Mu Junning was making too much of a fuss.
His voice was a little evil, and a little lazy, with a sexy taste.
It was about too long to recuperate, and he also retreated from his previous sense of urgency, and after returning from Dongyu Lane, he was taken by Concubine De to the familiar Fuxi Palace, raising the injury that was not an injury in his opinion.
"You're getting more and more unruly. Rolled his eyes indecently, wanted to get up but was restrained by the person behind him and couldn't move, and spitted, "Domineering." β
But she didn't struggle anymore, Fu Chen was still looking at the book, she adjusted her position, and she also floated a lazy feeling.
She couldn't forget the appearance of Fu Chen returning to Fuxi Palace that day, looking the same as usual, or even more ruddy than usual, until she entered the inner room and saw Fu Chen washing off the makeup on his face, only to find that his whole body was bloodless.
After ten days and half a month, the wound has healed a lot, but the person's spirit has become more and more lazy.
"Why don't you work with the minions to steal half a day of leisure?"
clearly knew that this person was just like this, even if he said such a thing, there was no emotion in his eyes.
yes, this guy doesn't even bother to pretend now.
seems to know that as long as they pretend, their relationship will be more than just now.
The two of them lay on the couch for a while, only to hear Fu Chen say slowly: "The queen has movements?"
"How do you know? β
Fu Chen was noncommittal, his eyes were deep, "She should also have it, if you reach the position of the imperial concubine, she will not be the queen before she moves." β
"Imperial Concubine...... Oh, that's just the emperor making a target for his baby bumps. "This baby bump is the new Mei Wanyi, although the emperor just sits for a while every day, the rewards are endless, and he hasn't even come to the harem for half a month.
For this, the emperor used a lot of thought.
In the eyes of the emperor, she is generous, does not fight or rob, if she can help this baby pimple, it will naturally be better.
"Even if there is no Mei Wanyi, the emperor will also promote you. "The last time I shaved, the emperor's questions about Mu Junning revealed some kind of information, including that he had a game for Mu Junning in front of the emperor and the queen mother, and he also wanted to add chips to Concubine De if he was doing well, "The new store of the six princes is about to open?"
"yes. It's been a tight few days, especially the store is done according to your ideas, and it has caused a sensation in the capital before it opens, and he wants to meet you, a master. "The sixth child also somehow, but he looked at Fu Chen extremely unpleasantly. "I promised him the Chongyang Lantern Festival in the next few days, and I would take the 'master' to meet him, but you should still recuperate in Fuxi Palace, just don't see it. β
Knowing that Fu Chen didn't want to expose himself, Mu Junning said thoughtfully.
"No, see me, if he can find it. β.
In the Jin Dynasty, there was a custom that the poor did not change their doors and the rich did not pull out the grave, that is, no matter how poor a place is, most people will not move. But the Fu family was not because of this, because they sent Fu Chen to the palace, and they who originally planned to leave ended up becoming the only residents of Fu Family Village, because they were afraid that if Fu Chen came back one day, they would not be able to find their way home.
In ancient times, if it was lost, compared to the modern hope of finding a needle in a haystack, it is really rare to see it for a lifetime.
The second child of the Fu family, Fu Xing still had two lines of dust on his face, his face was full of despair, he crossed several plank roads to get food, was robbed, the other party was overwhelming, if he wanted to rob again, he would kill him, he finally escaped, but he was cut off on his thigh, and the blood flowed like an infusion.
Seeing his wound, Zhao panicked and put down the three-year-old daughter in his arms, this is the child that Zhao had been pregnant with before Fu Chen left, she quickly stood up, and hurriedly found a cleaner step to bandage her son, but the family has not bought a new cloth for a long time, although they sold their son into the palace for some money, but in the past few years, they have used it, but they don't have much left.
Zhao couldn't do anything, so he tore the clothes that had been patched with an unknown number of patches on his body, but was stopped by Fu Xing, "Don't, mother, the bleeding will stop immediately, what a waste, there is nothing else if this clothes are torn!"
"No, no, Xiao Chen said that the wound must be treated. β
"We have thick skin and thick meat, what can we do! No matter how big the injury was, it was okay before. β
Zhao looked at this stupid second son and smiled innocently, leaving so much blood and looking fine, and he was sour for a while.
"Yes...... "It's too far away from Luan Jing here, but if someone in the palace dies, the palace will have the case record they left when they sent Fu Chen away, at least they will go home to report the funeral, and if it doesn't work, it will just be ...... Like the third son of the old Zhang family in the town, roll a roll and throw it to the mass grave, then there will also be a message, as long as there is no message, that person is at least alive.
The palace is only open to visiting relatives once in five years, and the last time I met the emperor in Jiangnan, it was canceled, and the next time I have to wait.
"Nope. "He has inquired this time, there is indeed no news of Fu Chen, and now there are no people in the town, Gaozhou has been in drought for many years, there is no harvest, everyone can go, and this place has become a place where Qiangwu often invades, and now it is more difficult to inquire about the news than before.
"It's good if you don't have it, it's good if you don't have
They rarely mentioned Fu Chen, for fear that they would feel uncomfortable if they did.
The little girl who was put down by her mother, she didn't cry or make trouble, she didn't talk well, she knew who Xiaochen was in the mouth of her mother and brother, it was her other brother, but she had never seen him.
The mother said that the fourth brother exchanged himself for food, so that she could be born, so that she would not starve to death, and their family could live well.
"Mother, I didn't get the food. Fu Xing hung his head with self-reproach, and his mother gave him the remaining silver taels at home, asking him to buy some food and come back, at least so that his younger sister could eat something, but he was robbed halfway.
When Zhao heard this, he opened his mouth several times, and finally closed them.
They had been hungry for two days, and they had eaten everything they could eat at home, and everything they could dig in the fields outside.
There are no more people in the entire Fujia Village, and they can't borrow food if they die and go.
A skinny girl, who looked much younger than her actual age because of long-term malnutrition, came out of the house and suddenly said with a resolute face: "Mother, sell me." β
She has reached the age of marriage, just because she looks too yellow and thin, and the Zhao family is unwilling to let go, she would rather no one in the family eat than send her daughter out to suffer, so she has never seen anyone.
"No!" the eldest daughter and younger son are gone.
She is a mother, but she can't change these two children in a few lifetimes, and now the third daughter must not have any more accidents.
"Why can't it, didn't the eldest sister also change the food, the fourth brother entered the palace and let us live for so long, I can too, mother, I can do it! Please, find Ya Po and sell me!" The girl knelt down and burst into tears.
"You won't agree to anything, if you have the opportunity, your mother will use up all your strength to bring them back, no matter how poor we are, we will sell our children again, we will die, die together!" Zhao hugged the third daughter, tears flashed in her eyes, and when she saw Fu Chen away, she made up her mind.
The head of the family also went out to look for food, but the eldest daughter did not come back, but said that she was doing well when she took the money to ransom her, and let them go. He also gave them a bunch of food to eat, and was beaten half to death by the lame man, who called the people of the village to blast them out, so that they should not try to take their daughter back.
The daughter told them not to look for her again at the head of the village, she would take care of herself.
She knew that this was because her eldest daughter didn't want to come back and become a burden to the family, she saw so many scars on her daughter's body, she was beaten by her lame husband, and that heart was broken, and she didn't dare to think about her eldest daughter for so many years.
Are you still alive?
What about Xiao Chen, the palace is a place to eat people, will he also ......
At Zhao's insistence, the third daughter stopped talking, but her eyes showed a kind of stubbornness.
Zhao asked his daughter gently, "Xiao Rong, are you hungry?"
Fu Rong, this is the name that Fu Chen got for his sister who was still in his mother's womb before leaving, and they couldn't come up with such an elegant name.
He said that it was a very beautiful flower, and that it also had the value of clearing the lungs and relieving β‘β‘, and he hoped that his sister would bloom on its own like a hibiscus flower.
She didn't have much education, and she didn't know why her youngest son only knew so much after a few days of work with a down-and-out scholar in the village, but she knew that this little son had the best heart, and she had never seen this kind of flower in her life, but she knew that it must be a very beautiful flower.
Fu Rong shook her head, her hair was thinning, her face was sallow, her cheeks were sunken, and she shook her head, "Cool, not hungry." β
Her pronunciation is not standard.
She's not hungry.
The sound of horses' hooves came from far and near.
At first, I didn't know what it was, but the family hadn't heard such a loud noise in the vicinity for a long time, so they ran out to see.
Smoke billowed from the dust, and a group of people who looked like they were either rich or wealthy were riding horses and galloping towards the place.
Horses, that's a rarity.
They had only seen cattle a few times in their lives, let alone even rarer horses.
"Mother, that ...... Who is that?"
"Are you here to get us?"
"Are We Going to Die......"
The family was so scared that they huddled together.