Zhao Chongyi's beating incident, unexpectedly, did not cause an uproar, but under the emperor's appeasement, it quickly calmed down - the matter of the nightmare was finally found out to be a palace person because he was punished for hating the queen, so he got the puppet, because he was a member of the Chunhua Palace, Zhao Chongyi had a fault of poor supervision, but he also cleared the suspicion of the queen of the nightmare, and both sides lived in peace.

The queen, of course, was very dissatisfied. Although Zhao Chongyi was beaten, he did not hurt his muscles and bones, and he only needed to recuperate well to recover as before. And since it was fought, the matter of demotion was naturally over, and the emperor also gave excellent medicinal materials and valuable clothing and jewelry, and often visited Chunhua Hall in person, so that the palace said that Zhao Chongyi's current favor even surpassed that of Concubine Yuan Shu.

On the other hand, the queen herself, most of the palace people in the entire Fengyi Palace have been cleared, although it is her own hand, but she really feels inconvenient when it is cleared - those people who have just been selected are not as good as the familiar ones - they may not regret it in their hearts, but they just hold on and refuse to say it.

Zhao Chongyi, of course, was even more dissatisfied with this matter. Although it didn't hurt his muscles and bones, it was a great humiliation to be dragged down and scolded with a cane in front of the concubines and palace people in the palace! In all dynasties, which queen has ever received a palace staff? Even if the Zhao family has the merit of being a dragon in the future, it will be difficult to erase today's shame!

And although the emperor gave her many rewards and often came to visit her, he did not punish the queen, and even in the end, the charge of the nightmare still fell on the palace people in her Chunhua Hall - Zhao Chongyi dared to swear to the sky, if it was really done by the palace people, let her strike five thunders in the sky! Except for the queen's own ghost, there is absolutely no one else!

Speaking of which, it is still because of the party's strength. Zhao Chongyi lay on the bed, her nails sinking deep into her palms, and she only felt a tingling pain. When she was beaten that day, even her nails broke in the struggle, and the broken stubble was no longer so smooth, but it was actually pinched in the palm of her hand.

But the pain was not as good as the pain in her body. Harem concubines, in addition to appearance, a body of skin is also very important, now her buttocks on the cane marks are stacked, bruises and blood swelling is not terrible, although it has not hurt the muscles and bones, but if it is not good to leave scars, how will she win the emperor's favor in the future? If the concubine who was sleeping had a scar, how could the emperor share the fish and water with her, and how could she conceive and give birth? The queen's intentions are so poisonous, this is the way to cut her off!

"The Yu family is going to kill them all-" Zhao Chongyi squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth, "This time, if Daddy doesn't fight back, we are afraid that we will be trampled into the mud by the Yu family!" ”

Because of such an incident a year ago, there was no good time in the palace this year. In order to liven up the atmosphere, the Queen Mother specially called someone to spread the word, and asked Shen Shu and Taohua to bring Brother Xu into the palace at the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet to ask for peace.

"Can't you make fun of our brother?" Peppermint and the other waiters who passed the word took a sip as soon as they left, "There are many people at the palace banquet, how can you take your brother there!" ”

Mama Zheng very much agreed with her: "Don't talk about that, the weather is so cold, and you can't take your brother out." The palace is no better than at home, and there is a slight careless ...... "Children are already delicate, and they are carried out in the cold, not to mention that others will have a black hand or something, but it is enough not to take care of them carefully." Those methods in the palace, mint is only known by its name, and Mama Zheng is more detailed.

Taohua didn't plan to listen to the Queen Mother at all: "When the time comes, I will say that Brother Xu is uncomfortable and refuses to come out, just cry when I hug him." "There is nothing to say about a nine-month-old child, happy is happy, unhappy is unhappy, no one can do anything. Even if the Queen Mother wants to find fault, she can't find fault, unless she dares to say clearly that even if the child cries to death, she will be carried into the palace, otherwise she can only stare dryly.

Mama Zheng was relieved: "That's it, in short, don't let my brother enter the palace." ”

"Mama rest assured." Taohua stretched out a hand and let Brother Xu hold it, this kid has been crawling for a month, and now he wants to stand up, if he grabs something to borrow, he will try to stand up, of course, most of the time it is not successful, often only half of the way up to plop his ass and sit down. He doesn't cry, he doesn't get annoyed, and he will stand again next time he catches something.

"Brother, this must be with the prince." Mama Zheng looked at it and smiled, "When the prince was a child, he could walk before he was a year old." When she said this, she suddenly remembered that Concubine Xianxian died after giving birth, and at that time, there was no mother like Taohua to support him, so she hurriedly closed her voice.

Taohua didn't care: "Boys are like this, if they leave early, their mouths will be stupid." "Brother Xu is still ahhh

"My brother is still young." Mint hurriedly defended Brother Xu.

"yes, it's still young." Taohua watched Brother Xu sit down again, this time he simply came to the back of the eight, fortunately the mattresses on the bed were thick, and he would not fall on him. However, this time the fall was probably a bit big, and he lay on his own for a while, as if he was frightened, and pouted to show that he was about to cry.

Taohua hurriedly hugged him over: "I'm going to cry if I fall, are you ashamed?" According to the children's education books she had read in her previous life, she should let him cry by himself at this time, and it would be natural to cry twice.

When reading a book, Taohua agrees with this point of view, children, crying is good for heart and lung health. However, it wasn't until she had Brother Xu that she realized that sometimes knowing and doing it are completely different things, for example, now, when Brother Xu pouted, she couldn't bear it.

Brother Xu flattened his mouth, but he didn't cry in the end. He didn't actually fall in pain, he was just startled, and it was good to be hugged by his mother, and he held Taohua's arm and wanted to stand up.

"It's really a memorable meal." Taohua pinched her son's little face helplessly, and felt that the feel was too good, so she pinched it again, causing Mama Zheng to complain: "Princess, you can't pinch your brother's face, it will be broken......" What if the two sides of the face are not the same size? This is the brother of the county king's mansion, and he will probably be the son of the world in the future, but he is not for fun.

Momoka smiled and let go. Of course, it can't be pinched like this, but Mama Zheng's thinking is deep-rooted, and there is no need to convince her in everything.

At the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, Shen Shu and Taohua really didn't bring Brother Xu, so the couple went frankly. The Queen Mother asked, and Taohua smiled apologetically: "...... I was scared by firecrackers last night, and I didn't sleep well, and whoever wanted to hug him today cried - I was really ignorant, and I was afraid that I would bring it into the palace to make a noise to the queen mother......"

When the emperor heard this from his seat, he immediately said: "How old a child, expect him to know something, and there will be a day when he will enter the palace to ask for peace, and there is no need to be in a hurry." ”

The queen sat on the side and stared at Taohua fiercely, and there was fire in her eyes. Zhao Chongyi was hit by the board, and it was not good to ask the imperial doctor to see the injury, so the emperor naturally summoned Taohua into the palace to see her again. Although I can't get out of bed now, I heard that most of the injuries have healed, but I am afraid of pulling the wound and leaving a scar, so I am still in bed.

However, since it is said that it is afraid of scars, it means that if you are good at giving birth, you will not leave scars. hateful beat the palace staff, in the end, not only did it not hurt the muscles and bones, but it didn't even leave a scar, it was a waste of time! Needless to say, it's Jiang's strength again!

What method should be used to rectify the Jiang family? The queen has been thinking hard about this matter recently. However, people outside the palace can't reach it, and if you want to think about it, you have to get people to the palace before you can find a way.

But the Jiang family is the princess of the county, even if she gets it to the palace, she is not like those concubines, she should naturally be under her jurisdiction, and she can be at her mercy as she wants.

It would be nice if the Jiang family had entered the palace in the first place...... For the first time, the queen had a thought of regret. originally thought that marrying Jiang to King Anjun would make the emperor regard her as an enemy, but who knew that the emperor was dealing with King Anjun while still giving favors to Jiang. If she had known this, it would have been better to let her enter the palace at the beginning, and according to her background, she would have been a low-ranking concubine like Baolin Cairen, and it would have been easier to kill her when she was in the palace at that time. There's nothing you can do about her until now!

It really shouldn't have been...... If Jiang replaced Jiang Xinghua at this time......

The more the queen thought about it, the more she felt that she regretted not being at the beginning, but unfortunately it was impossible to let the Jiang family enter the palace now, if there was any way, she would definitely ......

Entering the palace? The queen's heart suddenly flashed - in fact, it is not without a way. What if you are married, when the Ming Emperor Yuhuan was married, didn't you meet when you were married? Yang Yuhuan is still Princess Shou, the daughter-in-law of Emperor Ming! Didn't you go around the temple and come back and become the concubine of the six palaces? As long as the emperor moves his thoughts, who can stop him?

However, the emperor should not be willing to do this. In his heart, he regarded the Jiang family as the Xia family, and he would definitely refuse to let her bear this notoriety. If you expect the emperor to do it himself, I am afraid that it will never be possible. But if someone can cook raw rice into rice, then the Jiang family has no second way to go except to enter the palace.

The queen herself knew that this was a very crazy idea, but as soon as this thought rose, she could not suppress it in any way. Think about it, if the Jiang family enters the palace because of this, it will inevitably have to change its name and surname, and never dare to enter the palace in the name of the Jiang family's Taohua, and when the time comes, she can no longer rely on the backer of the Jiang family, so won't she be at her mercy at that time?

The more the queen thought about it, the more she thought it was a good idea. She seemed to have seen Jiang Shi wearing the costumes of Baolin and even Cai Nu bowing in front of her. But how do you get started?

Of course, this kind of idea is not something that can be thought up immediately, in fact, Taohua rarely enters the palace now, but every fifteenth day of the new year to ask the Queen Mother to say goodbye, and he will leave after sitting in the palace for less than half an hour. So although the queen had this idea, she had no way for a while, so it dragged on until the spring of March.

The day of the spring release was just before Brother Xu's birthday.

Brother Xu is the first birthday, and according to custom, he has to catch Zhou. This is an important matter, the county king's mansion is naturally going to be big, and even Jiang Xi has to bring Bai Ge'er over. A few days earlier, Mint muttered to Mama Zheng in private: "I hope that the second young master will be hit, if he falls off the list, I am afraid that he will be brought out on his face when he comes over there." ”

Over there, of course, it refers to Jiang Jun's family. If Jiang Songhua falls off the list, in case Xiao Xiaoshi brings displeasure over when he catches Zhou, it will be a frustrating thing. It's only once in a lifetime, and mint doesn't want to be disturbed.

There is nothing Mama Zheng can do about this kind of thing. There is no guarantee that Jiang Songhua will be successful, nor can he stop Xiao Shi outside, but he also hopes that Jiang Songhua will have good luck.

Or is it really heaven is willing to fulfill people's wishes, on the day of the list, Taohua sent Sanqi out early in the morning, and it was about noon when he saw him running back, and the joy on his face, mint didn't need to ask: "But it's hit?" ”

Sanqi nodded his head like a chicken pecking rice: "Hit it, hit the top of the three lists!" ”

"The top of the three lists......" Taohua was a little regretful. The third list is the same jinshi, although they are all in the middle, but compared to the first list, it is worse than the second list of the jinshi, whether it is in the future in the award or promotion, it will inevitably be subject to some limitations. Therefore, some generations are from the family of the imperial examination, and they are ashamed of being in the same jinshi, and would rather not be in the middle than in the third list.

But this is much better than those who fall off the list. It must be known that every time I come to participate in the Spring Festival, there are thousands of people, and in the end, only 300 people are admitted, and it is excellent to be able to win. Taohua only regretted it slightly, and said, "Hurry up and send the congratulatory gift." "I just don't know, in the same jinshi, Jiang Jun is in the mood to celebrate.

Jiang Jun is indeed in contradiction now. originally just wanted Jiang Songhua to try his hand, but he was ready for his son to fall off the list, but who knew that he would win. I think that Jiang Songhua even took several years to get a show talent in the exam, but this time he went all the way down in the autumn and spring, which is very different from before, which is naturally a great joy.

But he just fell for a fellow jinshi. This ranking - Jiang Jun just wanted to celebrate, but he also felt a little unsuccessful. After all, almost all of his current colleagues are from Jinshi, this fellow Jinshi is really a little embarrassed, if he puts on a banquet for this, it will be obvious that he is frivolous.

Xiao Shi was originally very happy, and was already preparing for a big banquet, but now when he heard her husband say this, that joy was half dispelled: "This, how should this be good?" ”

Jiang Jun pondered for a long time and said, "That's it." A fellow jinshi, if he really feasts the guests with great fanfare, don't say that outsiders despise me, even Brother Yu Song, it will not be beneficial in the future, and some people will think he is frivolous. It's better not to celebrate, but to have a solid benefit. ”

Xiao Shi was deflated, and only said after a while: "That's good." Speaking of which, Brother Yu was not happy in his heart, and it was not easy to poke his eyes - it's just that Brother Song was wronged. ”

"A fellow jinshi, there is nothing wronged." Jiang Jun said categorically, "Besides, don't you want to rush to propose to him?" After six lilies, he was afraid that he would not remember any grievances. ”

He was originally not very satisfied with this family business, but at this time, when he talked about this, he remembered the eagerness when he married the younger family and performed the six ceremonies, and then thought of his son's claim that he would not marry the daughter of the mountain chief, which was quite similar to his own back then, and he felt a little bosom friend for a while, and in the end, he actually showed a little smile: "It's just that he has only just won the third list, and I don't know if people look at it." ”

Xiaoshi didn't like to listen to it: "The three lists are also in the middle of the list, not to mention those who fall off the list, how many people are just a lifter in their lives, our Brother Song is already stronger than those people!" ”

While the husband and wife were talking, the maid outside came to report that the congratulatory gift from the Anjun Mansion had arrived.

Last time, Jiang Songhua won the autumn season, Taohua gave a box of pearls, and this time the congratulatory gift was naturally thicker, Jiang Jun was extremely satisfied: "Sister Tao'er is still thinking about her relatives." Sister Mei'er, you persuade more, don't make any more trouble. ”

Xiao Shi looked at the gift list, and had to say that Taohua was really good to Jiang Songhua. However, when Jiang Meihua was mentioned, he couldn't help but feel uncomfortable again, and argued strongly: "Brother Bai will have to respond in the future, and there is no one in the second room, shouldn't Brother Bai rely on Brother Song'er for help in the future?" This will treat Brother Song well, not for the future. Otherwise, I don't see movement on weekdays, if it weren't for Brother Song's daughter, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to remember. ”

Jiang Jun had no intention of arguing with her more, but when he heard the last few words, he couldn't help frowning: "What are you talking about!" ”

Xiao Shi twisted his head and said, "Could it be that I said something wrong?" My mother had been unwell, and she had never been seen to visit her aunt and uncle. ”

In fact, there are a lot of Taohua's four o'clock and eight festival ceremonies, but she really rarely climbs the door of Jiang's family's room. Especially since production, it has almost disappeared. It's nothing if you don't mention it, as soon as you mention it, it will show traces, and Jiang Jun can only say: "She is a princess now, how can she care about these ......"

Xiao Shiyuan didn't want to quarrel with Jiang Jun, and when he saw that he was soft, he also took the opportunity to go down the steps: "I'm not careful...... In a few days, Brother Xu will catch Zhou, and I have already prepared this gift......"

The husband and wife reconciled, and turned their heads to discuss the matter of proposing marriage to Jiang Songhua.

On the day of Brother Xu'er's arrest, the Anjun Mansion was more lively than the day of the full moon, after all, Brother Xu was older at this time, and his body was much stronger, so Taohua was relieved to let him have more contact with outsiders.

Capturing Zhou is a very important thing for Chinese, although in Taohua's view, this is not of much significance, because a one-year-old child will always be attracted to the most colorful and conspicuous things, and as for what this thing is, he does not know.

However, the entire county prince's mansion took this matter very seriously, and a month in advance, Mama Zheng asked the nurses and maids to take official seals or books or even small wooden knives and swords and other things in front of Brother Xu'er's eyes, hooking him to catch them. It's a pity that the official seal is dark copper, and the book is a pale blue, Brother Xu is not interested, no matter how hard Mama Zheng tries, he just looks at it, at most stretches out his little fat hand to touch it, and then turns his head to play by himself. But he was still willing to hold the wooden knife and wooden sword in his hand to play, but Mama Zheng was afraid that he would hurt herself, so she didn't dare to let him play more, so after a few times, Brother Xu knew that this thing was going to be taken away anyway, so he simply didn't move.

Mama Zheng was quite anxious, and felt that if she didn't catch anything good in front of all the guests when she caught Zhou, she was afraid that she would be passed on and become a laughing stock, so she had to come to Taohua to discuss: "Princess, how is this good?" ”

Taohua wanted to laugh: "Mama, such a teacher Xu brother, is it still called catching Zhou?" ”

Mama Zheng disagreed: "The princess doesn't know, whether it's inside the palace or those people outside, it's like this." How can you really not teach, when the time comes, just ask your brothers and sisters to catch it themselves? "It's all for others to see.

Taohua smiled: "If that's the case, don't worry, Mama, our family doesn't have to pay attention to this." ”

Mama Zheng saw that she was confident, and she didn't know whether she should rest assured, lest the little couple didn't know the severity: "Princess, if it's just our own family, it's naturally nothing, I'm afraid that there is a bad heart, and the reputation has been spread since childhood, which is not good for my brother." ”

Taohua nodded: "I understand what Mama means." However, according to me, there is nothing wrong with having a mediocre reputation like ours now. ”

Mama Zheng was silent. Isn't Shen Shu now jealous of the Queen Mother because he has an uncle who is in charge of the army and has made military exploits himself? If there is no Dingbei Hou Mansion, maybe the Xianxian Concubine is still alive today. But on the other hand, if there was no Yin family as a backer, he might have followed after the death of the first emperor. Who can say for sure this kind of thing?

In short, no matter how worried Mama Zheng is, Brother Xu's first birthday is still here. According to the usual practice, there is a big table in the huge front hall, and there are twenty or thirty things on it, just waiting for Brother Xu to pick it up.

The weather has gradually warmed up again, Brother Xu changed out of the bulky cotton clothes, put on a light jacket, and suddenly felt at ease, he didn't want to be hugged, took Taohua's hand, and walked into the front hall step by step.

This kid's legs and feet are indeed stronger than ordinary children, and although he walks like a duck at this moment, he is actually quite stable. A small hand grasped Taohua's two fingers, and the little chubby's face was full of seriousness and nervousness, following her skirt, and only after entering the front hall won a colorful voice.

Jiang Xile couldn't close his mouth, and hurriedly ran over and stretched out his hand to his grandson: "Brother Xu, grandfather hug?" ”

Brother Xu still knows Jiang Xi. Jiang Xi often came to the county king's mansion to see him, and every time he brought something interesting. Although he didn't know how to call his grandfather, he also knew that this person was close, so he thought for a while with a small face, and finally let go of Taohua's fingers and stretched out two little arms towards Jiang Xi.

At this time, Jiang Xi's mouth was even more grinning to the root of his ears, and he picked up his grandson and checked it: "It's strong again." Come on, come on, look at these things, which one do we like Brother Xu? ”

The things on the table were prepared by the county king's mansion and brought by guests. Brother Xu looked at Jiang Xi's arms, attracted by these various things, and leaned over to the table. Jiang Xi was about to put him down, when he suddenly heard someone outside say in a loud voice: "The emperor has a reward——"