Chapter 19 The Death of the Empress Dowager Xiaosu
At the family banquet of Qianqing Palace on Chinese New Year's Eve last year, Zhang Junfeng should have go, but she was still not approved to revoke the lockdown order, still did not go to Qianqing Palace, and still failed to see Zhu Youzhuo. Eight? 1. Medium ??? Text? ?.
On that day, Nan Su said that Zhu Youzhu had not seen Zhang Junfang for a long time, and he must have missed him very much, and said that he would definitely go to Kunning Palace to pick up Zhang Junfang in person.
Zhang Junfang knew that her face was haggard, so she deliberately dressed up, she was full of expectations, but after all, she was empty......
She resents Zhu Youzhu and hates Zhu Youji, but she also loves Zhu Youji.
At the beginning, he and her two broke up unhappily, she now thinks that when Zhu Youzhu put the sword on her shoulder, she should not hesitate to meet it, a sword understands the life is very happy, and now this down-and-out appearance makes her life worse than death!
She wanted to die, but she never had the guts, she was reluctant to leave, she was reluctant to Zhu Houzhao, and she was even more reluctant to Zhu Youji!
It's spring in a blink of an eye, and now it's March, counting it, Zhang Junfang hasn't seen Zhu Youzhu for a whole year......
Today's weather is sunny, the spring is bright, in the afternoon Zhang Junyu took a break as always, and Nanxu also stayed in the East Warm Pavilion as usual. Zhang Junyu has been eating unpleasantly for many days, unable to sleep at night, and now taking a nap in the afternoon, she naturally sleeps very shallowly, although she closes her eyes and lies on the soft couch, in the end she has no sleep.
The door of the warm pavilion was suddenly pushed open, Nan Xu looked over, and saw that Mei Dai was holding a handful of plum blossom branches in her hand, so she walked and whispered: "Niang Niang is resting, you take this flower branch first." ”
Mei Dai heard Nan Su say this, and was about to turn around and go out, but heard Zhang Junyu ask calmly, "The plum blossom branch was taken?" ”
While speaking, Zhang Junyu had sat up, Nan Su and Mei Dai both looked at her when they heard the words, Nan Su saw that she had woken up, so she naturally walked over to help her, and Mei Dai also said at that time: "Yes, take it." ”
Zhang Junyu was already helped down by Nan Su at this time, and she slowly walked towards Meidai. Looking at the plum blossom branch in her hand, she asked, "Where did you break it from?" ”
Mei Dai didn't know how to avoid it, and said directly: "Jiang Xue Xuan is behind." ”
Hearing that this plum blossom branch was folded from behind Jiang Xuexuan, Zhang Junxuan was really stunned. Seeing this situation, Nan Su glanced at Mei Dai, Mei Dai saw Nan Xu's eyes, and knew that she had said the wrong thing, she thought that Zhang Junyu would reprimand. I didn't want Zhang Junyu to be very indifferent, took the plum blossom branch, and only said: "The plum blossoms behind Jiang Xuexuan have always bloomed well." ”
Mei Dai was overjoyed when she heard this, but Nan Xu frowned slightly, she secretly glanced at Zhang Junyu, and saw her looking down at the plum blossom branch in her hand, although the corners of her lips were slightly smiling, but there was sadness in her eyes.
Zhang Junyu raised his eyes and said nothing, and walked towards the outside of the hall step by step. She stopped in front of the hall, looked down at the open space slightly, and said lightly after a long time: "Just plant it here." ”
Hearing this, Nan Su turned sideways and gave Mei Dai a look, and Mei Dai turned around and went back to get a small shovel and handed it to Nan Xu, who then handed it over to Zhang Junyu.
Zhang Junfang took the small shovel, slowly squatted down, dug the soil with his own hands, planted the plum blossom branches, and carefully watered them. She stood up, lowered her eyes to look at the lonely but very proud plum blossom branch, and asked lightly, "Auntie, you say." How many years will it take for this plum blossom to grow to the height of the eaves? ”
Nan Su didn't really know, she thought about it and said, "Ten years." ”
"Five years ......" Zhang Junfang raised the corners of her lips slightly, revealing a wry smile, she said: "Ten years is too long." In this life, I'm afraid I won't be able to see it. ”
Nan Su naturally knew what she meant, so she said: "Niangniang is talking nonsense again, what is ten years, Niangniang lives a hundred years old, and ten years is just a blink of an eye." ”
"Yes......"
"yes."
Zhang Junqi has always loved plum blossoms, Zhu Youzhu planted a plum blossom for her behind Jiang Xuexuan, and promised her to wait until Zhu Houzhao grew up, he would give him the Zen position, and he moved to Jiang Xuexuan with Zhang Junqi, sitting in the plum garden on a cold day, the two warmed a pot of wine, while appreciating the plums, while chatting.
Zhu Youzhu made such a promise, Zhang Junfang had also fantasized about the two of them drinking and appreciating plum blossoms together, but now, Zhang Junzhu couldn't even think about it.
Nan Xu's voice fell, and there was silence in Kunning Palace, and Mei Dai suddenly said in surprise: "Niangniang, Grandpa Zhang is here!" ”
Zhang Junfang listened to the call, and immediately turned around to look over, and the person who came was really Zhang Yu.
At that time, Zhang Yu also saw Zhang Junfang, and he saw the plum blossom not far in front of Zhang Junfang's feet, and he couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and after thinking about it, he knew what Zhang Junyu's intention was. Zhang Junyu clearly saw that Zhang Yu's face was extremely depressed, so she took the initiative to ask, "Is there something wrong?" ”
"The Empress Dowager ......" Zhang Yu's face was gloomy, and his words were also slightly sad, he said that he wanted to speak and stopped, Zhang Junfang saw his expression, and had expected that the Empress Dowager Zhou would be unexpected, Zhang Yu then said: "Seriously ill, I'm afraid I can't survive today, Your Majesty called Niangniang to go over and see." ”
Zhang Junfang was stunned when she heard this, everyone could only hear her low wry smile, she was depressed in her heart, not because the Empress Dowager Zhou was about to die, she just complained about Zhu Youji, complained that Zhu Youzhu only told her about it today, and even more complained about the reason why Zhu Youzhu revoked her grounding order, she just wanted to ask her to see the Empress Dowager Zhou.
"Mother?" Zhang Yu was a little surprised when he saw Zhang Junfang's face, he was afraid that Zhang Junfang would not go over, Zhang Junfang listened to the call, and said lightly: "Let's go." ”
There are always too many regrets in the world, Zhang Junfang heard that the Empress Dowager Zhou was about to go to the immortal, and always thought that he must see her, and he didn't want her to be a step too late.
It's really just a step too late!
When Zhang Junfang hurried to Qingning Palace, she only heard the crying of the inner prison of Qingning Palace, and she was uncertain.
Zhu Youzhu knelt in front of the bed, and Zhu Houzhao also knelt behind Zhu Youzhang's side, these two people are people that Zhang Junfang misses a lot this year, but now, when Zhang Junzhu sees them again, he just takes a look at them so much.
The inner prison of the Nuan Ge Palace was hiding their faces and crying, and no one seemed to see Zhang Junzhu coming, so no one saluted her, Zhang Junfang also knew the etiquette, so he slowly walked to the back of Zhu Youji's side, Zhu Houzhao was not far from the side of his left hand, knelt down heavily, and was silent.
Zhu Houzhao knew that Zhang Junyu was coming over at this time, he hadn't seen her for a year, so he naturally missed her very much, but now he suddenly saw it, Zhu Houzhao was a little stunned. He was stunned and said, "The queen mother ......"
Zhang Junfang looked at him sideways when he heard the call, and whispered: "Zhao'er, I haven't seen you for a long time, and you are becoming more and more like an adult." ”
Zhu Hou looked at Zhang Junyu. tried his best to hold back his tears, and when he finally couldn't bear it, he turned his head and didn't answer, but it was Zhu Youji. He suddenly heard Zhang Junyu's voice, and he was also stunned, he wanted to turn around to look at her, but his body seemed to freeze for a while, so that he couldn't move.
In March of the seventeenth year of Hongzhi, the Empress Dowager of Zhou collapsed, and said that filial piety, Su Zhenshun, Kang Yi, Guanglie, Fu Tiancheng Shengrui Empress, and Xianzong Zhu Jianshen were buried in Yuling.
After the Empress Dowager Zhou was buried, Qingning Palace dispersed, and all the internal prisons were assigned elsewhere. Such as six bureaus and one division, and like the palace of the rest of the masters.
Qi Mei has served by the side of the Empress Dowager Zhou for decades, and now that the Empress Dowager Zhou has gone, her heart is always empty, and besides, she has always been flattered by others, and now she is naturally unwilling to be beaten by Zhang Junfang to the palace to be a steward who can only be called "aunt", but is not respected.
The Empress Dowager Zhou was seriously ill, and Qi Mei knew that her life would be short. She deliberately recalled Zheng Jinlian's child back to the palace, and she has been treating him well all these years, just to support that child to win the throne one day, and wait for him to ascend the throne in the future. She can also be regarded as a hero in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and now that the Empress Dowager Zhou is gone, she can finally make a big move!
In the afternoon of this day, Qi Mei was still in the palace back garden to discipline the people of Xiaodu, and suddenly Liu Shan, the old department of Qingning Palace, asked to see, Liu Shan only said that the person she had been trying to inquire about now had the whereabouts. She immediately instructed the people to lead Liu Shan to the house to meet.
Liu Shan pushed the door into the room, and Qi Mei couldn't wait to ask, "How is it?" Got it? ”
Seeing that Qi Mei looked so anxious, Liu Shan naturally would not deliberately sell Guan Zi, after all, he and Qi Mei are grasshoppers on the same rope, if Qi Mei is brilliant in the future, he can also follow the light, Liu Shan said: "The slave maid inquired about it and brought him too." ”
Qi Mei was delighted, this Liu Shan really lived up to his trust, Liu Shan saw that Qi Mei smiled, so he turned around and went out to bring the man in.
Liu Shan led him in was an old man in his fifties, and the old man was led by Liu Shan to Qi Mei, bowed slightly, and said, "Villain Zheng Wang, I've seen Aunt Qi." ”
Qi Mei asked, "Are you Zheng Jinlian's father?" ”
Zheng Wang nodded and responded, "Eh, the villain is Jin Lian's father." ”
Hearing this, Qi Mei stood up, walked to Zheng Wang, looked around him, and caught a glimpse of the thick cocoon in the palm of his right hand, so he asked, "Are you a martial artist?" ”
Zheng Wang shook his head and sneered: "The villain was a pawn in Wu Chengwei in his early years. ”
Qi Mei nodded in response, and did not directly cut to the topic, only when Zheng Wang took the initiative to ask Zheng Jinlian's whereabouts, she turned around and crossed Zheng Wang, and then heard Zheng Wang ask in a hesitant manner: "Aunt Qi, the daughter of the villain...... Jin Lian she ......"
Hearing this, Zheng Jinlian turned around leisurely, faced Zheng Wang, and said with a slight smile: "Zheng Jinlian can become a noble person now, and you should no longer call yourself a 'villain'." ”
Hearing this, Zheng Wang was stunned, and asked in a daze: "Nobleman? What nobles? ”
Zheng Jinlian was not in a hurry to talk to him about Wei Lian's birth, and asked carefully: "In October of the fourth year of Hongzhi, on the night of the prince's birth, Zheng Jinlian also gave birth to a little prince to His Majesty, don't you know about this?" ”
Being able to give birth to a little prince to Zhu Youzhu is extraordinary, Zheng Wang was naturally stunned when he heard this, and only said: "What...... What ......"
Qi Mei smiled slightly and said, "I said, your daughter Zheng Jinlian once gave birth to a little prince for Your Majesty. ”
Zheng Wang was sure of this, and he was even more surprised, and he was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses, but after thinking about it, this matter has never been made public, so even if Zheng Jinlian gave birth to that prince, what is the use, Zheng Wang said: "Do others know about this?" ”
Qi Mei shook her head and said indifferently: "No." ”
Zheng Wang said: "Since no one else knows, isn't that child's life meaningless?" ”
Thinking that this emperor's relatives and relatives are what everyone in the world wants to be, not to mention that this Zheng Wang has always been poor, and he had to sell Zheng Jinlian into the palace in the early years, and now he knows that Zheng Jinlian once gave birth to a prince for Zhu Youji, which is a godsend!
Qi Mei also expected that Zheng Wang must have this thought, so he deliberately asked: "Then do you want to make the existence of that child public?" ”
Zheng Wang nodded and said, "Yes." ”
Seeing the situation, Qi Mei said again: "Zheng Jinlian is your daughter, and your grandson is the only prince of His Majesty except for the crown prince, once Your Majesty knows this child, then you are a relative of the emperor, do you want to be like the Zhang family, be named a marquis, enjoy all the glory and wealth, and be respected by the people?" ”
Zheng Wang had been completely out of mind by Qi Mei at that time, and still nodded and said, "Yes." ”
Qi Mei said: "Since you want to, then you go and say it, tell the people of the world, you are a relative of the emperor, your daughter Zheng Jinlian, once gave birth to a prince to Your Majesty, as long as you make a big deal about this matter, then you can confront Your Majesty face to face, and when the time comes, you will say this matter as such, and it will be a matter of time before the Marquis is crowned." ”
Zheng Wang came back to his senses and said, "Your Majesty doesn't know about that child?" ”
"How did he know," Qi Mei added fuel and vinegar to say: "In order to prevent Zheng Jinlian from giving birth to a prince, it will inevitably threaten her, so she has been hiding Zheng Jinlian's pregnancy, and on the night Zheng Jinlian gave birth to the prince, the queen sent someone to suffocate the little prince to death, and Wen Po couldn't bear it, so she sent the little prince to the palace for adoption by others, and I worked hard to get him back." ”
Zheng Wang was pleasantly surprised: "So, that child is in the palace now?" ”
Qi Mei said: "That's natural, it's just that he is now the prince's attendant, and His Majesty doesn't know his background yet." ”
Zheng Wang didn't say anything, Zheng Jinlian said: "They are both princes, why can one be the prince, but the other should be a waiter, not to mention that the prince is still a mongrel of unknown origin." ”
Hearing this, Zheng Wang was puzzled and asked, "Isn't the crown prince from the queen?" ”
"Naturally not!" Qi Mei said and turned to stare at Zheng Wang abruptly, and then said: "The prince is from the Li Dynasty, and I am looking for you to make this matter public, just to support Zheng Jinlian's child to become the prince in the future!" ”
When Zheng Wang heard this, he knew what was going on, so he said, "Aunt Yu, this ...... I'm afraid it's inappropriate. ”
"What's wrong!" Qi Mei said: "Do you think that the children of the Han people are no better than the children of the Li Dynasty?" ”
"But the prince is the queen's concubine, this is a well-known thing."
"Everybody knows?" Qi Mei sneered, "The prince's life experience caused a fluctuation in the court a few years ago, and now the people don't know about it, but no one mentioned it." ”
Seeing that Zheng Wang was still hesitant, Qi Mei said again: "Emperor Zheng, don't you want to be like the Zhang family and divide half of the world?" ”
Zheng Wang naturally thought, he finally asked, "Then, what should I do?" ”
"You just need to make a big deal about it, and I have my own way for the rest." (To be continued.) )