Chapter Ninety-Nine: Adopted Son
Bright as day, the brilliance slanted out of the gilded hollow door, overflowing with light and shadow. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info There was silence in the Jiaofang Palace, Gillian sat in front of the guqin but did not stroke the qin, she quietly looked at the rising light smoke, her expression was quiet.
The day has finally come.
It doesn't matter who it is, does it?
Maybe I'm really not suitable here, and after twenty-three years, I still can't accept it calmly.
She chuckled, breathed a long sigh of relief, and got up to wash up in the side hall.
Begonia waited for her carefully, secretly observing her face all the time. Gillian pretended not to know, and waited for Begonia to put down the bed curtain and push it out lightly. When she was the only one left in the whole hall, she relaxed her expression and hid in the quilt and cried silently.
While crying, he persuaded himself: I am lucky enough, if I find that I am reborn as a slave, I have no human rights at all. Can you still care about love? No, being well fed, clothed, and alive is the greatest luxury.
She was tired of crying and finally fell asleep.
When I woke up the next day to make up in the mirror, I couldn't help but be startled by my walnut-like eyes. Begonia carefully covered it with powder, and finally it was still possible to see people.
Gillian sighed, her eyebrows full of self-deprecation. Isn't this day predestined from the fact that I knew that I was going to marry into the heavenly family? obviously drew a line for himself in his heart, but after a long time, it gradually wore out.
However, it is also possible to draw again.
can't accept three wives and four concubines, but you can always get your former self back.
She smiled shallowly at the bronze mirror, and her face was shining.
Liu Che came back with a little timidity at dinner in the evening, and to his surprise, Gillian was shining brightly between her eyebrows, and she was not as sad as he thought.
He breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Gillian was also used to seeing everyone's children's three wives and four concubines, and she understood. But why did a little bitterness rise in my heart?
After Wang Xiyu accepted the favor, life seems to be the same as before. Liu Che still lives in Jiaofang Palace, and spends most of his spare time accompanying Gillian, or going on horseback safaris or boating on the lake.
It's better than before, and there are fewer and fewer times when Pingyang Nangong says that she wants to offer beauty in front of the Queen Mother.
Wang Xiyu is just a young envoy, and she doesn't even have the qualifications to enter the Jiaofang Hall on weekdays.
If no one said it, Gillian would have forgotten that there was such a person.
But in the end, she will not forget, when Liu Che occasionally summons Wang Xiyu, she lies on the couch and looks at the moonlight flowing in, and she still can't stop feeling uncomfortable.
But in everyone's opinion, if she is not satisfied in such a situation, it is really unreasonable. Even Guan Tao held her hand with relief and said that it was right to promise her to Liu Che at the beginning, how many children of Chang'an could love their wives so wholeheartedly? What's more, it's still the Son of Heaven.
She didn't speak, but looked at the sunset.
"The whereabouts of the famous doctor that my mother said I found for you last time are uncertain, and I haven't found it for several months, so why don't you ask someone else to take a look first?"
Gillian nodded lightly, so the next day, Pavilion Tao brought a doctor with kind eyebrows and a bit of fairy wind and bones into the Jiaofang Palace.
The old gentleman took the pulse for a long time, and asked carefully about the diet and rest. In the end, he said that there was no big problem, and the body did not sit down to the root of the disease, but fate has not yet arrived.
Guantao has some indescribable disappointment, if there is no problem, Gillian can be regarded as the only pet of the harem, why is there no movement yet?
If you really find out what is wrong, you can prescribe the right medicine, which is better than being in a hurry now.
But how can there be a mother who looks forward to her daughter's illness?
Guan Tao had to put up a smiling face and ask people to reward him.
Gillian understood her thoughts, and softly persuaded her: "Mother, think about it, maybe my blessing is also behind." ā
Speaking of Longxi, Guantao is like a person in the desert who has found new hope when he sees an oasis, and advises Gillian not to be in a hurry, but to see it like Longxi.
Gillian nodded, helped Guantao to sit down, and listened to her with a smile.
Children are all debts in their previous lives, so I have to worry about her so much in this life.
Although Gillian has not been a serious mother for a day, the hard work and sweetness of pregnancy in October make her understand Guan Tao very well, and why is it bad to make her parents happy and worry less about them?
She couldn't tell Guantao that she would never be like Longxi, and she would never be her.
The biggest bright color in the first year of Yuanguang may be the master father Yan who moved four times a year, and even the prime minister Tian Wei and Taiwei Dou Ying suppressed this rapidly rising upstart in the court.
Liu Che has always liked to tell Gillian about the affairs of the DPRK and China, so Gillian has a lot more detailed understanding of this person after the Tui En Ling that she knew in her previous life.
The master father Yan is a native of Linzi in Qi State, and he has learned the words of hundreds of schools. He has traveled for more than 40 years, traversing Qi, Yan, Zhao, and Zhongshan, all of whom are unwilling, the family is poor and destitute, the parents do not think that they are children, the brothers do not accept them, and the friends are not accepted, and the guests are abandoned.
In the first year of Yuanguang, he held the last hope and wrote directly to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, saying nine things, except for opposing the use of troops against the Xiongnu, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty approved it and appointed him as Langzhong. Later, he repeatedly neglected to talk about things, and moved to the doctor, Zhonglang, and Zhongda, and in a year, he was promoted to four levels in a row.
Liu Che can recruit talents exceptionally, and tolerate people with different opinions, which Gillian has long known in the history books of her previous life. It's just that she didn't expect that for a person with unbearable private morality, Liu Che could also use it just based on his merits.
After the master's father became famous, he never shirked to ask for bribes and bribes, and when he was advised, he confidently said, "The minister has been studying for more than 40 years, and he is unable to succeed, and his relatives do not think of him as a son, and his brother Kundi does not accept it, and I will be doomed for a long time." The husband is not born with five tripods, and when he dies, he is five tripods! I am far away in the twilight, so I am atrocious. ā
It means that forty years of hard life have passed, and I will take revenge on those who looked down on me in the past.
In fact, he did. After becoming a celebrity in front of Liu Che, he couldn't wait to perform his revenge. Those who had offended him in the past were charged with crimes and sent to prison one after another. Even if it was just someone who had a cold attitude towards him in the past, he refused to let go, and took revenge with all his might, not hesitating to put people to death.
Gillian's perception of him naturally couldn't get better, and although Liu Che looked down on him as a person, he still reused him. He said that he was afraid that the courtiers had no shortcomings and no desires, that they were saints, and you couldn't give them what they really wanted.
And what the master father wants is nothing more than a position of power, as long as he doesn't cross his bottom line, he can give it to him.
This is the emperor's mental technique, and I have the confidence to hold you in the palm of my hand.
What is the master's father's temperament, in the end, Liu Che himself is in control. When Gillian saw her in the Xuanshu Palace, her face was always faint, and she couldn't see her preferences.
But he still can't hide it from Liu Che's eyes, and his love is as heavy as Li Guangcheng's ignorance, and even Yan Zhu will ease Gillian's expression every time he comes to the Xuanshu Palace. He said with a smile in private, how can the master and father redeem his impression in the queen's mind after seeing it?
During his forty years of study, the master father passed through Qiyan and other places, not only did no high-ranking officials and nobles appreciate him, but even scholars did not like him.
During decades of study tours, there was no place for a friend.
has been crowded out for a long time, and he naturally becomes sensitive to the alienation and indifference of the world.
After he had only seen the queen three or four times in the Xuanshu Palace, he was very sure that the queen hated him. He was neither intimate nor hostile to the Empress, but the indifference on the Empress's face towards him did not resemble any indifference to foreign ministers.
The mistress of the empire did despise him, but she disdained to deal with her because of her noble origin.
But she had to attract the attention of her father, although the queen rarely interfered in the government, but Her Majesty loved her very much, and she had been in the palace for seven years. The courtiers she privately admired, such as Li Guang is now a cavalry army, Ren Yunzhong is too guarded, Cheng Buzhi is a chariot general, and Ren Yanmen is too guarded.
Even a little man surnamed Wei became a closed disciple of Cheng Buzhi because of the promotion of the queen, isn't this a carp jumping over the dragon gate?
Even if you don't get the queen's appreciation, you have to get rid of the disgust.
Whoever the queen does not like, His Majesty will inevitably be affected by it.
And he can't go back to the time when he had nothing, and the smell of dignity is so devastating.
He only lacked an opportunity to serve the queen.
The master father sat at home and drank to the moon, his eyebrows full of confidence.
This opportunity soon came, and Wang Xiyu was diagnosed in October of the first year of Yuanguang and was pregnant in March.
The front is facing the harem, not to mention stirring up a thousand waves, and there are also ripples.
The son is more precious than the mother, but the mother is also more precious than the son.
However, to Gillian's surprise, Liu Che did not even have the slightest intention of giving her a title except for asking people to give rewards and serve her attentively.
She tried not to persuade her child to be innocent with sour intentions, but she still couldn't ask for a seal for Wang Xiyu.
But Gillian refused to say, and naturally someone said.
On this day, Pingyang entered the palace to greet the Queen Mother, just as Liu Che was also there, she retreated left and right, and asked straight to the point: "It's not easy to hear the happy letter in the harem, not to mention that for the sake of the young envoy Wang's contribution to the heavenly family, for the sake of the mother's family, it can't be said that she still has the identity of the young envoy." ā
It was rare for her to speak from a fair standpoint this time, so even the Queen Mother did not interrupt her. "In the future, when a child is born, whether it is a prince or a princess, the biological mother is so low, it will always make the child uncomfortable when he grows up."
Liu Che took a sip of tea, nodded his head and said, "What the imperial sister said is reasonable. He deliberately paused and said lightly: "However, I have already thought about it, this child will be raised by the queen after birth." ā
Pingyang was startled and looked at Liu Che. Even the Queen Mother was slightly surprised. But Liu Che said with a smile: "In this case, the lower the position of the natural biological mother, the better." ā
Pingyang and the Queen Mother quickly exchanged a look, and the mother and daughter only now understood Liu Che's infatuation with Gillian.
The lower the status of the mother, the more the child needs the love of the adoptive mother. After a long time, how can you still want to recognize your biological mother who is from a low background?
Pingyang looked at his younger brother like the first emperor, but his face was even more heroic and full of enthusiasm. She couldn't say anything she wanted to persuade when she had jumped up to her throat, and she sighed deeply.
But the Queen Mother looked at Liu Che and asked lightly in the dim light: "Then have you asked Gillian, whether you want it or not?" ā
Liu Che was like a fish in the wind and waves, and the big waves hit the beach, and he didn't slow down.
When the queen mother saw him like this, she knew that he was shaving his head and picking hot hair, and she hadn't asked Gillian yet. "If you have any arrangements, you have to ask Gillian, and she will talk about it if she is willing." (To be continued.) )