I sneered, "The queen mother is too cautious, she has three sons and four daughters, and the other concubines have almost no children, and the crown prince must have been decided." Her position is basically impossible to shake. Besides, the queen and the emperor have been husband and wife for more than 20 years, the relationship is deep and stable, and the emperor loves her very much, who will compete with her, who dares to compete with him, who has the strength to compete with her? ”

Bao'er shook her head, "If Niangniang thinks that Caiyue is the queen's person, then can Caiyue still tell the queen about Niangniang's daily use of miracle medicine to regulate her body?" With the queen's strategy, it is impossible to calculate that the mother is to ask for a son, although the Ming Dynasty has always followed the rules of the former Song Dynasty as the prince, but with the mother's favor, the emperor's health is healthy, it is difficult to ensure that the queen will grow up after 20 years, and the emperor will not withdraw the prince on the grounds of Lixian and replace it with the mother's child. ”

I looked at Bao'er and said a little tiredly, "I want a child, it's just a woman's normal wish, I don't want to push my child into the whirlpool of power." ”

Bao'er smiled reluctantly, "Niang Niang thinks like this, others may not think like this, it's better to be careful." Caiyue's girl, I don't let her come in much now. ”

I waved my hand and calmly looked out the door, "Don't, treat her as usual, let her in if she wants to come in." I'm going to see what she can do. ”

Bao'er was stunned and said with a smile, "Niangniang has always had no desire and no desire to fight with the world, and the slave maid thinks that it is best for Niangniang to stay away from the dispute, and now that Niangniang has decided to compete with them, the slave and maid must help each other." ”

I smiled and took Bao'er's hand, "You are now a family person, although you and Sanbao cannot have children, but the children in Sanbao's brother's family are now being raised by you, and they are all the same filial piety to you when they grow up, besides, young couples and old companions, you will have a very good result in the future." Now that Sanbao is not at home, I want you to come in and accompany me, if Sanbao is at home, I will never allow you to spend time here with me every day. So don't say anything to repay me with your body, I prefer to hear you say that you repay the three guarantees with your body. Moreover, I have always been desireless and have no desire to fight with the world, I was, I am now, and I will not change in the future, it's not that I want to compete with them for anything, it's just that I understand the truth of survival, if you blindly compromise and seek perfection, the other party will not only not pity you and give in, but will only feel that you are a weak person who is bullied by others, and will bully you even more. ”

Bao'er listened to my words and was quite touched, "The marriage between the slave maid and the third brother, if it wasn't for the mother's efforts, I'm afraid that it would ...... Hey, you're right. Sometimes people want to show weakness, and sometimes they have to demonstrate. ”

I nodded and said, "You have a point, I'm very tired, let's sleep for a while, you can go out and get busy." ”

Yuelongcheng did a lot of things for Zhu Di in the battle of Jingjing, if you talk about his merits, I can say with a clear conscience, no less than Sanbao Zhang Yu Zhu Neng and others, but others or name in history, or marquis and knighthood, always get some benefits, only Yuelongcheng one, neither the title, nor money, except for the beginning to help Zhu Di search for Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng spent some effort, and then he was at ease every day, and he actually made friends with Yao Guangxiao, and sometimes he would go to the mountains to live for a few days, counting, I haven't seen him in months. asked Zhu Di if he knew his recent whereabouts.

Zhu Di was a little suspicious, "Why do you think of him so well?" ”

"I haven't seen each other for a long time, and I suddenly remembered it, just ask, what are you doing so nervous?"

Zhu Di smiled evilly, "You are my concubine now, I have to be careful, in case someone abducts me, the gains outweigh the losses, it's better to be careful." ”

I took a sip, "In your heart, I'm so unreliable?" ”

Zhu Di stopped messing around with me and said with a smile, "He stays in the mansion I gave him, where else can he go?" If you want to see him, you can summon him at any time. By the way, the queen came to me at noon and begged me for something, and I haven't replied to her yet, so I'm here to discuss with you and see what you think. ”

I waved my hand again and again, "Don't tell me, the queen mother is very wary of me, if you know what she is asking you about, you will come and ask me before deciding, don't you hate me to the bone?" ”

Zhu Di smiled awkwardly, and then frowned, "If you say so, I won't ask you." ”

Seeing his isolated appearance, I suddenly softened my heart again, "Then you can talk about it, just don't let outsiders know that you have told me." ”

Zhu Di smiled and picked me up and spun around, "I knew you wouldn't be so ruthless and let me face everything alone." ”

"Don't put honey on your lips here, tell me what's going on?"

"Xu Huizu was originally the hereditary father Xu Da's Cao Guogong, but now I have been demoted and imprisoned in the house, the queen means that when my father named Xu Da, he said that this title is hereditary, which means that as long as I am still in the Ming Dynasty, their Xu family should continue to enjoy the glory of the ancestors for the founding of the country.

"That'...... The meaning of the queen lady is ...... Let Xu Huizu's younger brother or son take the title? I looked at Zhu Di and asked.

Zhu Di nodded, "You think the same as her." ”

"Although Xu Huizu is still stubborn, I can understand the queen's request, as the mother of a country, if there are no one or two brothers in her mother's family who have some real power, for her, it is really a bit of a face."

Zhu Di frowned, stretched out his index finger and tapped the table, knocking on the table, "It's not that I don't want to give her face, it's just that this Xu Huizu can't pull it up!" Her third brother Xu Yingxu attacked the position of commander, and her fourth brother Xu Zengshou secretly helped me in the Battle of Jingjing, and was beheaded after being discovered by Yun Wei, if he was still alive, I would not treat him badly. Let me give preferential treatment to a rebellious minister, what will the world think of me?! ”

I sighed, "Since you are unwilling to compromise on Xu Huizu's affairs, and the queen mother wants to add glory to the family, why don't you posthumously give the dead Xu Zengshou a knighthood?" First, it will round the face of the queen's mother, and secondly, it will also let the ministers of the court know that their emperor remembers any benefit of the courtiers, and loyalty to the king will definitely get a good death. ”

Zhu Di nodded, "You are the same as I thought, the longevity of that kid is not bad, even his title I have thought about, Jing Nan for four years, the war of many countries, the traitorous minister is in power, increase the longevity to help me pacify the traitorous minister, I named him the Duke of Dingguo, and his descendants inherit this title, what do you think?" ”

"Well deserved." I smiled faintly.

"As for Xu Huizu...... Zhu Di was stunned, and finally waved his hand, "That's it, don't mention him." ”

I thought to myself, Xu Yunhua should be very happy after learning the news, right? She asked for the restoration of Xu Huizu's title, nothing more than to maintain the glory of the Xu family, there are many heirs, the glory of the mother's family, her queen's position is supreme, and no one wants to threaten her. Although Xu Huizu has not restored his title now, the green mountains are always there, the green water flows for a long time, and all the princes have half of the seeds of the Xu family in their blood, whether it will be restored in the future, who can say for sure? And Xu Zengshou has a new hereditary title, and one day in the future, the Xu family will have two dukes, what a wealth and glory!

Zhu Di saw that I was distracted and asked, "What are you thinking?" ”

"No, I'm looking at the flowers in the yard."

Zhu Di got up and walked outside the courtyard, the peony medicine on the spine was enchanting, and the acacia flowers planted in the courtyard in the distance floated over like catkins in the wind, Zhu Di stood for a while, there was Luoying on his shoulder, and I walked to him to brush it off for him one by one. "If you had to choose between being the emperor and continuing to be the king of Yan, which one would you choose?"

Zhu Di glanced at me sideways, his eyes were full of depth, and finally replied, "I don't have a choice." ”

I felt a little sorry for him, and I couldn't say anything comforting.

I didn't want to summon Yuelong City near the capital as Zhu Di said, but Zhu Di is a person who is as careful as silk, and after I mentioned it once, he saw that I didn't move, so he personally issued an edict to let Yuelong City enter the palace.

Yue Long Cheng arrived in my palace, and the first thing he said after the luggage was, "You are now a golden branch and jade leaf, you are safe in the palace, and I am also very free outside the palace, if it is not necessary, there is no need to meet, it is enough for each to know that the other party is doing well, and I will take care of Uncle Tian's tomb for you." ”

It's so simple and two sentences, but it makes my eyes sour, I have known Yuelongcheng for more than ten years, no matter what he thinks of me, in my heart, he is my brother, no matter when he can stand up for me, the brother who works hard for me, even if I can't see him, but I know that as long as I have something, he will definitely stand up in front of me as soon as possible.

Even now when he tells me that there is nothing to do, he is doing his last bit of strength to protect me.

I held back my sadness and squeezed him on the arm, "If it were up to you, we wouldn't be the best in this life." ”

Yue Longcheng smiled faintly, there was wind and frost on his face, and when I looked closely, I found that there were a few strands of imperceptible white hair on his sideburns.

"You are now a concubine, in the palace, life is worry-free, for me outside the palace, no news is the best news."

I endured it and endured it, but as soon as his words came out, I couldn't help it anymore, turned around, let the tears roll down my eyes, and quietly wiped them away, before turning around again, a smile broke out on my face, and pushed him, "Why are you talking so much now, you don't be an official, but you look like an official." ”<