Zhu Zhang, the king of Qin, and Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, entered the palace together to greet Queen Ma, and Queen Ma felt a little surprised when she saw that Wang Yinnu did not come, because Princess Qin was very polite on weekdays, and she would enter the palace as scheduled regardless of the heat and cold.

"Second child, where is your princess?" Queen Ma asked.

Zhu Fan had already thought of an excuse and said: "We originally entered the palace together, but she suddenly felt unwell on the way, so the child ordered a car to drive her back to the palace to rest." ”

Queen Ma didn't think deeply about it, and said: "These days, the crown princess is at the funeral, the weather is hot and humid, and the princess is afraid that she is tired and sick when she mourns, so she hurriedly declares that the imperial doctor will go to the palace to have a look." ”

Hearing that Wang Yinnu was sick, Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, was moved, no wonder he felt uneasy when he saw the car of King Qin's mansion on the road, it turned out that she was sick......

Zhu Zhang, the king of Qin, said: "Concubine Deng is waiting to give birth in the palace, and there has always been a imperial doctor living in the palace, so there is no need for additional imperial doctors." ”

Queen Ma's face sank and said, "How can this work?" There is a specialization in the art industry, and the imperial doctor of the palace is good at pediatrics. Shanwei, you go to Xuan Taiyi, prepare some supplements and send them to the king/mansion of Qin in person, and ask Princess Qin to take good care of her body, and then enter the palace to ask for peace when her body recovers. ”

"Yes." Hu Shanwei responded.

King Qin is not stupid, as soon as he heard Queen Ma's arrangement, he knew that the queen attached great importance to Wang Yinnu, and he hurriedly said: "Actually, the princess is not in a big problem, there is no shortage of medicinal materials and supplements in the palace, and the queen mother should not worry too much." ”

Queen Ma is usually kind and friendly, but when it is time to teach the younger generation, she is unambiguous, she said lightly: "The concubine in your house is about to give birth, the heir is important, but the princess is your wife, husband and wife have the same fate, one glory is honored, one loss is lost, you must care more about your princess." She was the county lord of the Northern Yuan Dynasty and came from afar to marry into the royal family. Now that the eldest daughter-in-law, the crown princess, has passed away, she, the second daughter-in-law, has to support the heavy responsibility of rituals such as sacrifices, which is very hard, you have to be considerate of her. ”

King Qin heard a cold sweat, secretly regretted beating Wang Yinnu, thinking about how to deal with the aftermath, and hurriedly said: "Yes, the child will follow the instructions of the queen mother, and he will definitely care about the princess in the future." ”

When Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, heard this, an inexplicable sourness surged in his heart.

Queen Ma waved her hand and said, "Okay, I have nothing to do here, you two go to the East Palace to talk to the prince, and then go to hug Shui Sheng, alas, this child is strange and pitiful, he has no mother at the age of half a year, you will take care of him more after you become the emperor's uncle." ”

The King of Qin and the King of Zhou bid farewell to Queen Ma and went to the East Palace.

Let's □□, Concubine Deng heard that Wang Yinnu was beaten and returned home halfway, and her heart was quite happy, she was jealous of Wang Yinnu's beautiful appearance and moonlight, and even more disgusted that she took away her position as princess.

But soon, King Qin had already ordered his henchmen to hurry back to the palace and instruct the aftermath, saying that the queen would send her henchmen to visit Princess Qin in the palace, and don't let the female officials see through his domestic violence.

Concubine Deng unhurriedly held her waist and said, "What's so difficult about this? The princess pays the most attention to face, and she also boasts that she cares about the overall situation, she will cry and cry for a slap, and she will definitely cooperate with us to cover up. ”

Sure enough, when Hu Shanwei took the supplements and medicinal materials given by Queen Ma out of the palace and arrived at the □□, Wang Yinnu ordered someone to put down the bead curtain and lie on the chaise longue behind the bead curtain to meet Hu Shanwei.

The bead curtain is made of expensive eastern beads, which is a luxurious pale gold, and through the bead curtain, Hu Shanwei vaguely saw Princess Qin lying on the chaise longue on her side, and seemed to be a little tired.

Wang Yinnu said: "Thank you for the reward of the queen mother for me, I was going to enter the palace today to talk to the queen mother, but my body was not angry, and I suddenly dizzy halfway. I will take good care of my body, and I will enter the palace another day to ask the queen mother for peace. ”

Listening to Princess Qin's voice, it seems that there is no big problem. Hu Shanwei is a cautious person, she carefully observed everything, greeted a few words, Princess Qin seemed to be very tired, quickly ended the conversation, and served tea to the guests.

Hu Shanwei walked out of the main house, the drizzle stopped, there were only a few pure white gardenias left in the corner, dotted between the green branches and leaves, it seemed to be a single shadow, and the breeze sent the unique fragrance of gardenias, Hu Shanwei remembered the situation of Princess Qin's main house, and sighed in his heart:

Fang Cai couldn't see Princess Qin's appearance clearly through the bead curtain, but she and Xu Miaoyi were handkerchiefs, and they were very sensitive to the smell of medicinal materials, she smelled a smell of painkiller plaster, and Princess Qin was obviously seriously injured!

In order to cover up the smell of medicine, the people in the house specially picked a lot of fragrant gardenia vases. Summer is the season when gardenias are in full bloom, especially after the rain, and the gardenias in the palace are a tree, crowded on the branches and dotted with green leaves.

The gardenia in the corner of the □□ main house is the opposite, and must have been hastily removed to hide the smell of medicine......

Just thinking about it, a group of people came to meet him, hugging a big-bellied beauty, it was Deng Ming, the concubine of Deng, her face was slightly swollen, and the fat powder was not applied, because during the period of national filial piety, she was also dressed quite plainly, although her expression was tired, but there was a strange brilliance that was about to become a mother.

Hu Shanwei had long known that Deng Ming had connived at the hound to bite Xu Miaoyi, and he also blocked Miaoyi halfway to seek revenge, so he had a very bad impression of her.

Deng Ming is the prince's side concubine who is on the royal family's golden book and has a jade seal in the treasure book. Hu Shanwei is a six-grade female official, so there is no need to kneel and bow, but to give way to salute, Hu Shanwei stood sideways on the side of the road and waited for Deng Ming to pass, but Deng Ming walked straight towards her with a smile.

Deng Ming asked: "You are Hu Shanwei, and Xu Miaoyi used to be fellow villagers in Suzhou?" ”

Hu Shanwei said: "Yes." ”

Deng Ming asked again: "My delivery date is approaching, and the doctors say that it is twins, I am really worried in my heart, and I want to ask Xu Miaoyi to accompany the birth." But after inviting so many people to say favors, she always didn't come, for fear that she still remembered the previous misunderstanding. You and Xu Miaoyi are handkerchiefs, come forward to help me clear up the misunderstanding, and invite her to come to King Qin's mansion for a few days. ”

Obviously, you have repeatedly made stupid moves to provoke, why did Miaoyi misunderstand you? Hu Shanwei sneered in his heart, and said respectfully on his face: "I am a female official in the palace of the queen's mother, and I am not allowed to act without authorization, and I can only leave the palace after being edicted, and I can't help Concubine Deng." ”

Deng Ming raised his eyebrows and said, "You are out of the palace today anyway, what happened when you passed by Xujiazhan Garden and asked Xu Miaoyi to say a few words?" You people are used to being high and low, do you think that I am not a concubine and can't call you? Don't worry, don't call you in vain, after the deed is completed, I will have a heavy reward, 100 taels of gold, 100 acres of fertile land, enough for you to go out of the palace to retire in the future. ”

Deng Ming has his parents and brothers in the boudoir, he is a high-flying daughter, and after getting married, he succumbed to the position of a side concubine, and he is still pampered by his childhood sweetheart husband Zhu Zhang, and he is still an old man who does not know the height of the sky.

In Deng Ming's eyes, a court lady like Hu Shanwei is only a little higher than a slave, she deigned to ask Shanwei for help, which is already a big face, Hu Shanwei actually doesn't appreciate it!

Well, since you don't want to be embarrassed, then give you real money, just a woman from the countryside of Suzhou, and you won't see these riches in your life.

Hu Shanwei felt that Deng Ming was hateful and ridiculous, and restrained the urge to smack her face, reasoning with this kind of person is equivalent to playing the piano to the cow, she said lightly: "It's not early, I have to rush back to the palace to resume my life, Concubine Deng, take your leave." ”

Hu Shanwei left quickly, and across the rockery garden, he could hear Deng Ming's angry scolding of the "little slut in Suzhou", a sarcastic smile flashed at the corner of her mouth, this Concubine Deng really deserves her name, she dares to be so open-mouthed in the clan, even if there is no lord of Beiyuan, she can't be a concubine, Queen Ma is the most important rule, how can she tolerate such a rude daughter-in-law dangling in front of her eyes?

When Hu Shanwei returned to the palace, it was already evening, and Queen Ma was washing his hands and making soup for Emperor Hongwu in the imperial kitchen.

Hu Shanwei said: "...... The imperial doctor took the pulse of Princess Qin, saying that she was overthinking and her liver qi was stagnant, so she opened a Taiping prescription to raise it. Princess Qin said that she was grateful for the reward of the queen mother, she would take good care of her body, recover as soon as possible and enter the palace to talk to her mother. ”

Queen Ma tried the saltiness of the filling, "Oh, how is Princess Qin's complexion?" ”

"Princess Qin received me through the curtain, but ......," Hu Shanwei confessed what he had heard, seen and speculated in □□, "...... Princess Qin returned home halfway, which should have been caused by trauma. ”

Hu Shanwei didn't dare to say bluntly that King Qin had injured Wang Yinnu. But everyone knows that the only one who can hurt Princess Qin is King Qin himself.

Queen Ma frowned and said: "Alas, the eldest dotes on Concubine Lu, and the second child is also confused, despising the main wife, and the concubine is not distinguished, and it will be a big disaster in the future." They all got married, and I still have to worry about their family affairs. ”

Queen Ma thought for a while and sighed: "That's it, the heir is important, and now it's not good to send someone to teach Concubine Deng to set the rules." Shanwei, you choose a few qualified grandmothers in the palace, and ask them to go to the Qin Wang/Mansion to help the princess assist in family affairs. ”

"Yes." Hu Shanwei responded, it seems that Queen Ma has decided to support Princess Qin.

Hu Shanwei rolled his eyes and said: "The minister met Concubine Deng on the way, and the concubine was about to give birth, and she was worried, saying that she wanted to invite Miss Xu to live in the palace for a few days and accompany her to give birth. The minister is in the deep palace, and it is inconvenient to enter and exit the Wei Mansion, so he politely refused. ”

"Nonsense!" The bamboo chopsticks in Queen Ma's hand were stunned and said, "Even the crown princess is not as hypocritical as she is when she gives birth!" picked the stars and asked for the moon, relying on the dragon heir in her belly to make waves, and I can't wait for everyone to revolve around her! In order to ask Miaoyi to serve her in childbirth, she interceded and said that the fourth child went there. If she does it again, does she want the emperor to decree to meet her requirements? ”

Queen Ma was rarely angry, and everyone was silent.

Queen Ma was noble and disdained to teach a side concubine face-to-face, so she ordered: "Ask the Shangyi Bureau to arrange for the Duchess Xuanweiguo to enter the palace." ”

Duchess Wei Guo is Deng Ming's mother, Mrs. Yipin, and she teaches and restricts her daughter. The side concubine who married into the royal family can't be so unruly.

Queen Ma was injured in her waist, and she was tired after standing for a while, and she was angry, and her face was ugly at this time.

Hu Shanwei quickly rolled out a large piece of wonton wrappers with his hands and feet, and then cut them into a diamond shape with a knife to prepare the wontons.

Queen Ma took a sip of ginseng tea, and when she saw the thickness of the wonton skin, she couldn't help but praise: "You are a caring person, and you can see that the emperor likes to eat thicker dough." The wonton dough made in the imperial dining room is thinner than paper, there is no chewiness, and the entrance slides down the throat, and the craftsmanship of rolling the skin is indeed exquisite, and others applaud, but it is not the emperor's favorite. The emperor concentrates on state affairs, does not care about appetite, and never expresses his dietary preferences. ”

Hu Shanwei said modestly: "I often see the queen making food herself, so I slowly figured out the emperor's preferences." ”

Queen Ma sighed, "You are a smart person, and your hands are dexterous, I am old and have little energy, so I will leave it to you ......in the future."

Hu Shanwei carried the food box and followed Queen Ma to the Wenhua Palace. Zhu Yuanzhang is reviewing the mountains of recitals. Hu Shanwei opened the red dragon and phoenix Chengxiang food box, and brought out the fish, water chestnut, wonton and a few seasonal vegetables and side dishes in the crucian carp soup base.

Queen Ma forcibly snatched Zhu Yuanzhang's pen and pulled him to the dining table and sat down, "The emperor will have a meal with me." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang only tasted one bite, and then looked at Queen Ma reproachfully, "You made it yourself, right?" As I said a long time ago, you have a bad waist, don't go to the kitchen to make these things, I eat the same thing. ”

Queen Ma pointed to Hu Shanwei who was cloth behind her, "She did it, and the concubine just ordered it on the side." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Hu Shanwei, "Very good, persuade the queen not to work hard in the future." Huang Yan rewarded her with a basket of purple jade grapes from the Western Regions that had just entered the palace. ”

Hu Shanwei hurriedly knelt down to thank him.

After the meal, the emperor and queen took a walk by the pond in the imperial garden, listening to the sound of frogs after the rain. The lotus flowers in the half pond withered, revealing a green lotus canopy.

The emperor talked about some children's affairs, and Zhu Yuanzhang said: "The eldest daughter-in-law is blessed and gone." The crown prince is still young, and there are several other princesses who have been selected today. ”

Queen Ma said: "The crown princess of the East Palace is very important, and she will replace the concubines in the future, and she cannot be vacant forever." It's just that the concubine thinks that for the sake of King Kaiping's Chang Yuchun, the prince should guard his wife for a year before he can mention the matter of choosing another princess. Those ministers who are in a hurry are too anxious, and there are very few people who marry another wife between their filial piety, which is chilling. ”

Speaking of Chang Yuchun, a beloved general who died young, Zhu Yuanzhang was touched and nodded, "The queen is right, the matter of choosing another crown princess, let's wait a year later, Prince Hengzhi is still young." ”

Queen Ma said: "There are already four sons and two daughters in the East Palace, don't worry about the heirs, the matter of choosing a concubine cannot be mentioned now." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "I told the prince about this, and he also said that there is no need to rush to continue the strings, the East Palace is now temporarily taken care of by Concubine Lu, the cooking is well organized, and the aquatic life is also well taken care of." ”

As soon as she heard Concubine Lu, Queen Ma was a little unimpressed, "Didn't Shui Sheng be entrusted to her sister Chang Jin to take care of by the crown princess before she died?" What does it have to do with Concubine Lu? Besides, she has a side room, what qualifications does she have to raise her son-in-law? Don't mess with the rules. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "The prince has good praise for Concubine Lu, the Lu family is a scholarly family, the family affairs are innocent, and they are honest officials in the court. ”

Queen Ma's heart sank and asked, "The prince wants to support Concubine Lu?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "He didn't say it explicitly, he just said that we should choose the crown princess, after all, the marriage is a major event, of course, the parents are in charge." But I think he should mean that. ”

Queen Ma's heart tightened, and she asked again: "What does the emperor mean?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "I think it's inappropriate, if Concubine Lu straightens up, then the status of the Chang family and the aquatic life will be embarrassing. ”

Queen Ma breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The emperor is reasonable. The prince is young, and he marries another, so why bother to support a side concubine. The capital is so big, how many famous ladies are there, and I am worried that there is no suitable candidate for the Lu family......" 166 Reading Network