"What is Your Highness most afraid of?"

"It's a loss."

It was a long time before she stopped crying, and she stood with the endless mountains behind her.

"If I was destined to lose from the beginning, why should I be told to taste what I have." She said, "The so-called eldest princess is just a face glory." In fact, I am a prisoner, and even when I come to Xiangshan, I have to go through the emperor's approval. You people, you talk about protecting me, but as long as the emperor gives an order,

Jin Shi turned his face slightly, and the last remnant sun hit his shoulder, his face half bright and half dark. Hearing her say her background, he slowly shook his head, "People have their own difficulties in life, Your Highness thinks that when you are an ordinary person, you won't have those troubles?" Has Your Highness ever heard of the Chaotian Female Household? ”

Chaotian female household, she knows that Daye has always had the custom of burial, the emperor died, the palace will order dozens of palace women to commit to righteousness, and their family members are called Chaotian female households. At the beginning, Yinlou was almost buried, and later returned to Hangzhou after being rescued by Xiao Duo, but Bu Taifu blamed her for not dying and unable to earn merit for her family. If you talk about those girls who came from humble backgrounds but begged for a living in the palace, she really can't be compared.

"The dragon is driving the guest and has just entered the knighthood, and the poor female household is facing the sky." Jin Shi pouted his lips, "The minister was born in a small official's family, his father is the Zhongshu Provincial Inspection School, a small sesame official of the seventh grade, it stands to reason that the minister is not worthy of Jinyi Wei Qianhu." Kechen has a younger sister in the family, Longhua entered the palace in the ninth year to fill the nobles, the first emperor was promoted last year, the sister was ordered to be martyred, the court in order to reward the loyalty and bravery, the exception of the promotion of the minister, in other words, the official position of the minister, is to exchange the life of the sister. My sister was only eighteen years old when she left, and she didn't have a good life, and she was forced to hang herself at the same age, and after her death, she was only honored with a famous brand in the palace, and when the first emperor was sacrificed, she could get a little light......"

Wanwan didn't expect him to be a female household, and when he said this, she was a little afraid, afraid that he would be angry and would do something.

She shrank back slightly, and when he saw it, he actually smiled, "Your Highness doesn't need to be afraid, if the minister wanted to seek revenge, he wouldn't have reached out just now." Although the minister is dull, he still knows that the source of this ill is not in His Royal Highness, and he can't catch a person surnamed Murong. The minister just wants to tell His Highness that it is worse than miserable, there are more poor people in the world, and His Royal Highness is by no means the worst. Take 10,000 steps back, even if you don't have a colt, you still have children, as long as the children are there, you have hope. ”

Wanwan stood still, his words were enough for her to digest for a long time, but he may not be able to understand the torment of cutting flesh with a blunt knife, "Actually, I would rather die than be like this now." My happiness is so short, and then I can only live children, why? ”

"Because you are the eldest princess of Daye and the emperor's own sister. The emperor can kill anyone and kill him, but never will be to you. So as long as you take care of yourself, you can ignore the bloody storm in the court, and take your little son with peace of mind, and it is not without hope that you will be reunited with the horse. ”

Wanwan stared at him blankly, his face fading into the darkness. There was a shout of brass rings in the distance, and she fixed her mind and said thank you, "Thank you for coming to the rescue just now, and thank you for talking to me so much." I don't think I'm sorry for your sister. I have never been in favor of burying a living person. I hope that one day, the emperor will be able to cut off this bad habit and stop letting those young girls die again. ”

She turned and walked towards Jianxinzhai, and the maidservant girl at the end of the porch found her and came up to help her. The master and servant slowly walked away, and the golden stone was still standing there, not moving for a long time.

Wanwan returned to the bedroom, still afraid of what had happened before. Although the person did not fall to the ground, her muscles and bones were still strained, and she didn't dare to rub the medicated oil casually, so she asked Tonghuan to make a handkerchief to give her a hot compress.

She took off her smock, revealing a round belly, and Xiao You looked at it with a copper basin: "The belly of five months is so big, Your Highness won't be pregnant with a double companion, right?" ”

Tonghuan also looked at her, and said gracefully no, "Shuangbei'er is not born if he wants to, and his ancestors are virtuous." I don't want this, the first child is already difficult, how terrible it is to raise two! ”

As soon as she finished speaking, she felt her stomach squirm. Looking down, the left side was throbbing spasmodically, and suddenly a bag bulged, which quickly subsided again. She was surprised and asked them, "Do you see that?" Is the child moving? ”

The three of them were surprised and excited, and Wanwan finally felt that she was carrying a living creature inside, and she and the child were related by blood. She sighed, "He would have been happy if the time had been good." ”

After all, it is a pity, the child's first fetal movement is not there, and she is the only one who tastes the freshness of being a parent.

Because of this change, I didn't dare to run around anymore the next day, so I went to the temple and went back to Beijing after a stick of incense. The bumps on the road were very uncomfortable, and even though the mats were thick, they were still very tired. After arriving home, he fell asleep, and after sleeping for a long time, he vaguely heard someone talking under the eaves: "I want to let His Highness know that he is now the head of the cabinet, and if the emperor becomes the shopkeeper, I don't know what the cabinet will do." ”

"What if she knows now......

She leaned over and called for inner flattery, "What's the matter, come in and speak." ”

Yu Qiyao and Tonghuan hurriedly arrived under the floor cover, she sat up, and asked through a bead curtain, Yu Qiyao said: "The minister also just got the news, saying that the imperial court will increase taxes this year, and all localities will add two percent, and Dudu Nanyuan will add forty percent." There are also grains and salt, and the order must not be less than in previous years, and the new Jiangkou Naval Division will be rectified, and the maintenance of ships shall not be less than 800...... Your Highness, if you continue to target it like this, I'm afraid it will be a bad thing. Even if it wasn't the emperor's idea, those cabinet ministers were pressing forward step by step, really forcing the prince to a desperate situation, what good would it do to this country? ”

Wanwan gritted her teeth with hatred, "After the years of demolishing the east wall and making up for the west wall, those pavilion elders are crazy!" ”

Busy getting up and changing clothes, let Yu Qiyao inform Jin Shi, and he was about to enter Xihaizi immediately. Dressed properly and went out, the sedan chair was already waiting in front of the second door, and the copper ring held the sedan chair for her, while earnestly admonishing: "Your Highness can't be in a hurry, be calm, your body is important." ”

How to be calm, there are some things she can't say, what she is afraid of is that Liangshi has no objection, and she is forced to go that way by them. Once things really get to the point where they can't turn around, either you die or I live, can she still be fine!

The wheels rolled to the gate of the palace, and the eunuchs guarding the door saw that someone was coming, and they stepped forward and shouted, and she got out of the chariot, and the eunuchs saw that it was her, and they were busy asking for peace. She glanced inside the door, "Are the elders still there right now?" ”

The eunuch said, "I haven't seen it out of the garden." ”

She lifted her skirt and went up the steps, because the emperor had an order, she did not need to pass in and out, and the eunuchs did not dare to stop her, so they sent her into the jade urn pavilion. She knew that the emperor's deliberations were usually in the Chengguang Palace, and she didn't need someone to guide the way, so she went straight there. There is a regimental city between the Chengguang Hall and the Jade Urn Pavilion, and after passing through the Yongdao, I saw Chongmao standing under the roll shed of the hugging mansion in the distance, and the fat eunuch was using himself, and he was squinting at the sun.

Wanwan called out to Liu Ban'er, and Chongmao was shocked when she saw her, "Why is Your Highness here?" ”

She didn't answer him, only asked if the emperor was inside.

Chongmao said, "But at this time, I am discussing with the cabinet, His Highness is looking for him, and he will wait a little, and when the others disperse, the minister will immediately pass it on to His Highness." ”

She didn't care about that, she raised her hand and said no, and climbed the steps by herself.

Chongmao naturally wanted to stop her, but she was a royal sister and carrying a child, so no one dared to reach out to her. So the repeated "Your Highness, please stop", had no effect at all, and she still broke into the main hall smoothly.

The kings and ministers of the deliberations paused and looked at her. The emperor stepped forward and said with a smile: "Who is lighting your fire twist again, look at the appearance of these two kicks!" You don't care about the baby at home, why did you come here? ”

Wanwan ignored him, just looked at the two cabinet ministers coldly. At the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet last year, I had seen these two people, one was Xie Daozhi, a scholar of the Jinshen Temple, and the other was Yang Yun, a scholar of the Huagai Palace. They are the leaders of the cabinet, and they hold the power of the votes in their hands. When Xiao Duo was there, they had to rely on the celebrity supervisor to approve the red, but now that Xiao Duo is gone, they finally raised their heads and raised their eyebrows.

However, no matter how straight her body is, she still has to salute when she sees her, and she bows deeply: "The ministers will meet the eldest princess Chitose." ”

She asked them to be exempted, "I've been here for a while, and I heard two adults talking about taxes outside, although I am a woman, but I am also the blood of Emperor Xiaozong." Gu Lai only knew that the king should treat his domain equally, but he didn't expect that the emperor would ask the emperor to divide him. I am often in the boudoir, I don't know what kind of wind is blowing in the court now, I am willing to listen to the high opinions of the two adults, and I have a long insight. ”

The three of them exchanged glances, knowing that she was here for Nanyuan, and it was not easy to respond for a while. Or Yang Yun stubbornly surrendered: "Your Highness probably doesn't know that the emptiness of the treasury is a chronic disease left over from the period of Emperor Huizong. This is a big country, with tens of millions of people, who should not be loyal to the king and serve the country. Nanyuan was originally the land of fish and rice, and compared with the border land, it is really a heaven and an underground. For example, if someone in the family is down, those who have some activity in their hands should be relieved, and the northern army has not been paid for several years, and if you don't want to do it, the soldiers and civilians over there will not be able to take care of it, and sooner or later something big will happen. ”

She listened and nodded, "Yang Ge Lao's words, in short, are to cut the flesh and mend the sores, even if Nanyuan is hollowed out, it will not hesitate." The military situation in the north is urgent, and it is true that it cannot be left alone, but does the elder know that the Huaining displaced people are in trouble, and they are almost going to bring down Nanyuan? In my Daye territory, there are a total of eight vassal kings, let me ask the elder of the pavilion, how many people are there for disaster relief now? As soon as the victims arrived in the territory, they immediately drove them to Nanyuan, which was the consensus of the other seven feudal kings. So far, the imperial court has not produced a load of grain and grass, a cart of coal, and those tens of thousands of displaced people have eaten for a year, where does the grain come from? The elder of the pavilion compared the court to a family, and since this is the case, everyone should share it. Nanyuan's use is much larger than that of other places, regardless of their difficulties, blindly asking for it, emptying this rice tank, is it planning to turn Nanyuan into a second Mobei? ”

The cabinet ministers didn't expect this eldest princess, who lived in the boudoir, to have such eloquence. I used to hear that she was timid, but who knew that she was unequivocal when discussing civil affairs. However, she was-for-tat, which made these invincible pavilion elders very angry, Xie Dao turned his eyes away, and said arrogantly: "Your Highness is biased because of selfishness, but the ministers can't be kind to women. The things of the world, those who can work hard, everyone puts their responsibilities aside and only wants to protect themselves, then the country will not be a country, is it what His Highness wants to see? ”

Wanwan's face changed when she was so angry with him, she had long known that these cabinet ministers were stupid, but so recklessly, she really responded that there is a king, and there must be a minister.

She laughed angrily, "Does Xie Ge always say that I am favoritism? I once went to Huaining to check the disaster situation in person, have you ever been there? The officials were corrupt and embezzled 100,000 stone of grain, the king of Nanyuan wanted to cry without tears, has the old Xie Ge seen it again? The land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, because of this sentence, the people there have higher taxes than other places, and they have to donate grain, give relief to the victims, and also provide for sailors and repair ships. The imperial court put pressure on the vassal king, and in the end it was the people who suffered, and the vassal king had relatives, did the people also have relatives? Please don't push the burden to Nanyuan because of the inability to deal with political affairs, which is tantamount to self-destruction of the Great Wall. If the last bit of accumulation is exhausted, where can we back it up in the future? ”

Arguing about this kind of matter, I can't care about her identity, Xie Daozhi also got into trouble with her, and said loudly: "Your Highness is a woman, and you shouldn't have talked about major affairs in the court, but since we talked about it today, we might as well discuss it." Nanyuan has always been a big trouble for the imperial court, the Yuwen clan has dominated the south of the Yangtze River for more than 200 years, and the Holy Ancestor once said that the Qi people are good at fighting and must be guarded against. The imperial court's vigilance against Nanyuan was not relaxed because of the decline of the eldest princess. Now there is famine everywhere in the land of Shenzhou, only Nanyuan is full of money and grain, His Royal Highness maintains Nanyuan like this, and the ministers have to have other fears in addition to guessing that His Highness's protector is anxious. His Royal Highness loves the people like a son, and he only cares about the people of Nanyuan. Sitting and watching Nanyuan like this, is it impossible to steal the country! ”

Wanwan had never been wronged like this, she was so angry that she felt her chest pound suddenly, her hands and feet were cold, and in the end she could barely stand and was about to collapse. She was angry, and she was cold, the cabinet was able to say these words in front of her, and the emperor must have instilled a lot in front of her, so he performed the drama of detaining her as a proton. What should she do? How can you jump out of this hateful circle? Without their ability to refer to the deer as a horse, they will always be at a disadvantage.

Seeing that the trouble was raging, the emperor shouted presumptuously, pointed to Xie Daozhi and scolded: "As the first assistant, you spend all your skills on fighting with women, and I am panicking for you!" The northern army wants military salaries, don't fight the idea of Nanyuan, your cabinet thinks about it, you can't think of it, give me the burden and go home with the children! What are you doing here, do you want Jinyiwei to invite you out? Get out, don't make Your Highness angry! ”

The two cabinet ministers walked out of the Chengguang Hall in a gloomy manner, looked at each other outside the door, and shook their heads one after another.

The emperor temporarily changed his mind, not for anything else, but for Wanwan. Look at her mental head, Tie Qing's face is blue, and she looks crumbling. He hurriedly hugged her, and said eagerly: "Sister, you breathe a sigh, don't be scared." I scolded them, I didn't allow them to play any books, you are happy, I will listen to you...... Ah, sister, hurry up, get angry! ”

He hugged her and let her lean on his shoulder, patting her on the back while comforting.

She slowed down for a long time before she cried, and said intermittently: "Second brother, you are ...... Why do you do this to me? We are...... A mother's birth! ”

The emperor didn't have a rut, and couldn't help but apologize: "It's my brother who did something wrong, don't be sad, if you have anything to say, I'll talk about it when you get better." It is their duty for the cabinet to deliberate, and they are not allowed to do so. Our in-law brothers and sisters, you can tell your brother if you think in your heart, why bother to be so anxious! "Turn your head and call Chongmao," quickly send the imperial doctor to check His Highness's pulse. ”

Wanwan clasped his hand, "Don't suppress Nanyuan anymore, brother listen to my advice." ”

"Good, good." The emperor said in a loud voice, "It's all up to you." ”

"Beg my brother again, let me go back to Nanyuan, and let me be with my husband." She pinned all her hopes on this, looked at him and said, "I don't think I'll be able to live anymore if I don't see him again." ”

The Emperor's gaze was fixed on her face, as if he had never known her, and he looked over and over again, trying to find out something from those bright eyes. Wanwan saw that he hesitated and thought that there was hope, and regained her strength. But after a while, he turned his face away, and called Chongmao impatiently, "Why hasn't the imperial doctor come yet!" ”