(12) Shen Zhan

After half a ring, the people in the shadows came uncertainly: "If you want to say that the people who are attracting attention in this palace today are none other than the queen, concubine Shu, concubine Xian, Concubine Zhuang, and Rou Guiji, and the rest of the people are dazzling Duan Zhaoyi Duan Miao who is why Zhaoyi is coming out today, and finally there is the master." The queen is the youngest, it is the time to have fun, her temperament is undecided, and the young lady of the family must have all the tempers she has, and she can't see anything for the time being. The lady concubine inherited the general's temperament, and she seemed to be a little free. Concubine Xian is kind and respectful, Concubine Zhuang takes the delicate and gentle route, Rougui Ji, looking chaste and elegant, weak body, but there is a taste of three-point sickness. "So, this palace is going to be the flamboyant 'favorite concubine'." Liu Shuxing smiled nonchalantly, "This harem, wearing heavy clothes, heavy jewelry, and even saying the same thing to His Majesty, it doesn't matter, what I'm most afraid of is that I have the same face and the same style, My Majesty can find this temperament here, and turn your head to other people's temperament is the same as you, if that person is one or two points stronger than you elsewhere, then you are the one who is dispensable." If you can't be the person you care about the most, you have to be the one who can make your majesty remember, and be different from others, if there is anything in the future, your majesty will also weigh it in your heart, without you, will it be less interesting. ”

Liu Shuxing's eyes flickered in the dark, and the person in the dark listened attentively, and didn't speak for a long time, "The world is all His Majesty's, and the harem is also His Majesty's, we entered the palace, the most important thing is to make His Majesty satisfied, next to it", Liu Shuxing smiled, "It doesn't matter if there is His Majesty next to him." ”

"But master, why do you want to ......?"

"Do you want to choose to be arrogant? Offended the Queen Mother and the Queen? Liu Shuxing's voice suddenly became stern and cold, "You don't have to know this, you just need to know when it's time to do good things for your adults." ”

But it was said that in the Jinghong Hall of Hanzhang Palace, Wen Qingwan, who had just said goodbye to Qian Guiji with a smile, as soon as she returned to the main hall, the smile in her eyes dissipated, the corners of her lips were pursed, and she frowned and leaned on the beauty couch. ”

"Hold it up, I don't want to use it yet." Wen Qingwan sighed almost inaudibly, "Yangxi, have you prepared everything, don't send the imperial doctor empty-handed later." ”

"Guiji, don't worry, everything is ready, the maid asked the older aunts, it will not be wrong to come with the original weight." Yang Xi replied in a low voice, bowed down and stopped, and couldn't help but ask again: "Guiji, you said, the queen mother is for you Hetian Yu Guanyin again, and you are invited to the imperial doctor, and the concubine Niangniang, will you hold a grudge against us." ”

"Hold a grudge against us, the trick sent by the queen's mother, no matter how dangerous it is, we have to bear it. As long as it doesn't come in secret, it's not a big deal. ”

Wen Qingwan stretched out her slender and thin arm and took the tonic medicine handed over by Yang Xi again, "Tell me to go down and let people send some wound medicine to He Zhaoyi and them, after kneeling on the ground for so long, where can my knees stand it." Later, when the imperial doctor comes, you quietly ask the imperial doctor to prescribe two prescriptions for them, and take care of them. "Guiji, you are really kind-hearted......" "I'm not kind-hearted...... Wen Qingwan sneered briefly, "Today's matter between the queen mother and the concubine may be my turning point." At the moment, except for the queen mother, no one can see His Majesty, who is not waiting for the first attendant with all his strength, but he doesn't dare to take the initiative to make any moves, if he takes advantage of this matter to become a ......" Wen Qingwan's fingers gently rubbed and swirled on the edge of the medicine bowl, and the corners of her lips were hooked inexplicably.

In the Yufu Palace, Yu Chi Yanran was resting alone by the water pavilion behind the courtyard, leisurely stretching out her hands, repeatedly admiring the Kodan she had just ordered in the sun, and humming the Jiangnan minor tune briskly in her mouth. When the Kou Dan was completely revealed, Yu Chi Yanran got up again and walked to the flower path on the side, holding the shawl, tearing off the waist-high poppy at will, throwing it to the foot and crushing the embroidered shoes, "I don't know if Sister Guifei can receive this gift happily, when the sun slows down, I have to visit you well, otherwise how can I be worthy of my play for a morning, and I don't know if it is in line with your heart." ”

Shoukang Palace.

"Smack!" The Queen Mother pressed the Nanhong handpiece in her hand on the ivory table.

"Good niece of the mourning family! It's really against her! What kind of goods did the Liu family send into the palace! It's really not as good as the generation! The Queen Mother gritted her teeth with hatred.

"The Queen Mother is angry." The palace people knelt down in an uproar, and a few of them had never seen the Queen Mother's cold face, and they were frightened by the Queen Mother, and they were already trembling and lying on the ground and couldn't get up.

"Queen Mother, Yunxi stepped forward and persuaded softly, "Why bother to let irrelevant people lose their popularity." “

"Mourning family, this is angry!" The Queen Mother unconsciously showed a touch of anger between her eyebrows, "You said that she has only been in the palace for a few days, and she has made such a big fuss, and it is not appropriate to treat the concubine well, so she has to do it against the queen!" The first time I was sick in the morning, I actually carried a statue of Guanyin to the queen! Fortunately, the new concubines are still young, and few of them reacted, and they will think about it in a few years, where do you let the queen and the mourning family's face go! ”

"Fortunately, the queen reacted quickly enough, so she took the army of the concubine and saved the game." Yunxi slowly gave the Queen Mother a good breath.

"Go and extinguish the incense for me, I'm so panicked." The Queen Mother held back her hand that wanted to loosen her clothes, "You said that this time, is it Liu Shuxing's own unauthorized assertion, or is the Liu family expressing their dissatisfaction with Song Mier being the empress to the emperor?" They just want the Liu family to have another queen? The Queen Mother squinted her eyes and muttered for a moment, "Go, send someone to remind my eldest brother, so that he doesn't have nothing to do to cause chaos in the palace, isn't it enough to have a mourning family and a queen mother to support the Liu family?" If the people who come in are so ignorant, the mourning family just wants to protect the Liu family, and I'm afraid it won't work. ”

"Yes". Yunxi got the order and turned around to give orders.

"Wait," the Queen Mother said again, "Go and let the small kitchen prepare some fish fillets, and the mourning family will go and make a bowl of porridge for Zhan'er." ”

"Queen Mother," Yunxi wanted to speak again, "...... you said?"

"Yes, the mourning family knows that the mourning family said that after Zhan'er ascended the throne, the mourning family will only ask about the harem. But today, the mourning family must make a statement. The Queen Mother pressed her eyebrows tiredly, and her body seemed to be a little more stiff than just now, "Go and go, the mourning family has its own measure." ”

Yunxi bowed his head, his steps were light, and he hurriedly walked outside the hall, and the Queen Mother sat silent for a while, and then invited Luoxue to stand up and help herself, and slowly walked towards the backyard.

Yue Kang, who had been kneeling beside the temple door, straightened up, walked quickly to the desk and picked up the Nanhong handsmith, carefully inspected it before and after, and summoned the little apprentice he brought, "You go, find another string of agate beads similar to this in the back warehouse, change these two, and carefully study the technique of braiding the rope." Let someone polish the table again, so that no trace can be seen. ”

Ann Temple.

Shen Zhan listened to the secret guard's report on what happened in the queen's palace today, put down the fish porridge in his hand lightly, and smiled softly: "Liu Shuxing is a bold person. I don't know if the imperial doctor will be beaten out if she goes to her Yilan Palace. Hahaha, that's funny. An Jin, find out the folds on the Liu family for me, my uncle doesn't want Liu Saburo to come out, let him come to me as a royal walker, but just seal the five products, let him follow me to take a good look! ”

Shen Zhan waved the ink, Zhu Pishu Langlang wrote a half-fold, and then, Shen Zhan threw the fold, took a piece of bergamot almond cake at random, and glanced at the secret guard standing aside: "What does the queen say now?" ”

After the queen mother gave the concubine coral, she went to sleep for a while, and then woke up and ate in the small kitchen for three hours, and gave the queen mother a box of snacks that I don't know, and the rest of myself ate with the palace people. During this period, several concubines of status visited Niangniang, but they were all blocked by Niangniang's physical discomfort. ”

"I'm the queen," a few inexplicable looks flashed in Shen Zhan's eyes, and he curled up his right index finger and middle finger and knocked on the table, "I don't know what to do yet." ”

The secret guards standing next to him to report information to the emperor are Bo Yin, the leader of the secret guards that Shen Zhan has personally cultivated since he was a child, these secret guards were personally sent to the Secret Guard Pavilion when the emperor was alive, orphans or untouchables who were convicted and confiscated from slavery were found in all directions, and went to their slave status, and when they were young and undecided, they were selected to be placed next to the future prince who the emperor himself had secretly been optimistic about, and ate and lived with the prince, and was trained together, saying that they were secret guards, but several secret guards closest to Shen Zhan, The relationship with Shen Zhan is a little better than the relationship between Shen Zhan and his own siblings.

Therefore, Bo Yin, the leader of the secret guard, saw Shen Zhan's uncertain expression, so he asked in a low voice, "Your Majesty, is it difficult for the queen to deal with it?" ”

"Yes, it's hard to deal with", Shen Zhan slightly hooked his lips and made a wry smile, "In terms of love, she is the little sister of my childhood sweetheart, almost I grew up, there was a period of sickness after my mother, and the eldest sister was playful, or I took her, so small, delicate and soft, she would only follow me and argue for me to take her to the imperial dining room to steal food, I grew so big, I have always been cautious in front of the palace people, and during that time, I took her to steal the pastries in the imperial dining room every afternoon, Then I listened to the head of the imperial dining room and scolded people everywhere to find pastries. ”

"And then?" Bo Yin couldn't help but ask. Everyone knows that the chief of the imperial dining room has a bad temper.

Later, she couldn't bear to scold the little waiters who were about the same size as her, so she deliberately made a movement to attract others, and the chief knew that she was stealing pastries, so she had to turn a blind eye and pretend not to see it.

"At that time, when the imperial dining room saw the child in the skirt, it was like a great enemy, but I have not been discovered, and she is very reasonable: I am a guest, and I dare not punish me if I am discovered, you are the prince, and if you are discovered, you will be reprimanded by the imperial uncle."

Shen Zhan seemed to be stuck in a memory, and he didn't speak again for a long time. The room was empty and deserted, Bo Yin looked around, found a chair to sit down, moistened his tea, and coughed slightly.

Shen Zhan came back to his senses, "Ah Zhan, then why do you want to do that to her again?" "Bo Yin, I am the emperor, now the family is dominant, I have just ascended the throne, those old ministers in the court are relying on their old age and experience, I can sometimes be said to be struggling in major political affairs, if I don't suppress them, I can only be a 'child emperor'." It's just that not all of those old ministers want to coerce the princes of the Son of Heaven, they can't wait for you to be good, but they don't know how to make you good, so they can only tie you step by step and tie you up in their way. But they are all highly respected, they can't be beaten, scolded, degraded, and can't chill the hearts of these courtiers for their own joy and anger, plus those families are stirring up behind their backs, if I don't do something, how do they know that I can do it? ”

"What does this have to do with you being far away from the queen?"

"Behind her is the Song family, and she is the daughter of Prime Minister Song, her brother is quite famous in Qingliu, if I favor her as soon as I come, the family and the old ministers in the court will only take me better."

"Why is Ah Zhan different from her? Didn't you talk about it yesterday and see her crying in the middle of the night? ”

"My brother, who grew up with her as a child, doesn't spoil her so much, and of course she cries. How can this kind of problem be explained? I don't necessarily don't believe her, but I don't believe in myself. What the harem needs now is checks and balances, and it can't let the family be arrogant. They always want to guess my intentions, so let them guess, and when they can't guess, they panic and become cowardly, so they can catch them. ”

"Even the people next to the pillow have to calculate, Ah Zhan, you are too ......" Bo Yin slightly disagreed, the queen he had seen, and her temperament was much better than that Liu Shuxing Captain Chi Yanran, at such a young age, he had to take care of a huge harem, and he would intrigue with those women, and be a good person, sooner or later he would become unrecognizable.

Shen Zhan glanced at Bo Yin, and picked up the fish fillet porridge on the table and motioned to Bo Yin: "My queen mother also came over like this. My father's harem was in chaos, my father favored the concubine, and snubbed the queen mother, how many times I saw the queen mother laughing in front of me and my eldest sister, and when there was no one around, I sat on the high phoenix seat and cried silently. Now the queen mother is thorough, and she does not help the Liu family, which saves me a lot of effort. It is my blessing to have a good mother. Although I will not treat my queen like my father, my queen mother can survive and live well, and I believe that she can also survive and live well. If she doesn't grow up and doesn't know what I want and what others want, how can she survive safely in this harem? “

Bo Yin was silent after hearing the words, and touched his nose after half a sound, "Then what's the matter with that Rou Guiji?" ”

Shen Zhan looked at him funny: "You are in charge of me." What's the matter, are you upset for Song Mier? That Wen Qingwan, one is not a daughter of a family, the second father and brother are not in the court, and the only uncle who has an official body is just a petty official in the borderlands, isn't it the right person for me to hold up now? ”

"Okay, don't follow me to ink, let Wu Xin go and show me that Qian Guiji and He Zhaoyi, and find out why Qian Guiji targeted He Zhaoyi in the first place."

"Order." Bo Yin arched his hand, flipped out along the skylight, and took the remaining almond cake on Shen Zhan's table before leaving.

Shen Zhan shook his head helplessly, and raised his voice to order An Jin, who had silently retreated outside as early as Bo Yin and Shen Zhan started to discuss the queen, "Swing, I will rest in Xuande Palace tonight." ”