Chapter 2: King Liang
Just after the fifth watch, the nurse Lin crept in and gently tied up the bed tent, and called Gillian with a smile: "Master Weng, it's time to get up." The princess of the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info said that she had to enter the palace today to see the Queen Mother. "The Lin family has a son, and he can't see him two or three times a year, so he can only transfer his love to the young lady of the owner's family. When Gillian had a high fever in front of her, Lin almost fainted from crying. Now that Gillian is well, the Lin family always has a smile.
Lin took the little maids to serve Gillian to get up and change her clothes and rinse her mouth, and it was already early hours. It was more than an hour to take the carriage from the palace to the palace, and it was almost noon when I arrived in the palace of the Queen Mother.
When he entered the inner sanctum, he had not yet had time to salute. Dou Hou, who was sitting on the collapse with her eyes closed and wearing a black gold thread embroidered phoenix skirt, said, "Gillian? It's Jiaojiao. Come on, grandmother. I heard that you were seriously ill, and my grandmother was worried. ”
Gillian glanced sideways at Guantao, and Guantao nodded at her. Gillian walked up briskly with the hem of her skirt, sat next to Dou Hou, held Dou Hou's old and thin hand, and said crisply: "Tell my grandmother to worry, Gillian is already well." ”
Dou Hou patted her hand and nodded, "It sounds like she's in good spirits." He said to Guantao: "You have to take good care of it, Qi'er asked about Gillian yesterday." Guan Tao was just about to answer, and a palace person came in and knelt down and said: "Queen Mother, King Liang has been summoned back from the fiefdom to greet you." ”
Guan Tao and Dou Hou couldn't help but smile, and Dou Hou shouted with joy: "Quick, pass quickly." ”
Gillian stood up and stepped aside, unable to sit next to her grandmother and receive the courtesy of her uncle.
The younger uncle Liang Wang was only thirty years old, born with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, tall and heroic, very heroic. He came in and asked Dou Hou'an and then saluted to Guantao, Guantao glanced at Gillian, and said with a smile: "Gillian has seen Uncle Xiao soon, the last time I saw Uncle Xiao was two years old, I'm afraid I have no impression." ”
Gillian asked An: "Hello little uncle." ”
King Liang smiled heartily and said hello repeatedly. It is said that Gillian's little appearance is very beautiful, like the appearance of Dou Hou when she was young. The funny Douhou and Guan Tao couldn't stop laughing, and Gillian was a little embarrassed to be praised. When Empress Dou was young, she was favored by the queen of the harem, and later became the queen, presumably because of the color. King Liang's words not only praised Queen Dou, but also praised Guantao and Gillian, and it is no wonder that Queen Dou is particularly partial to King Liang.
Dou Hou asked again, "Have you seen your imperial brother?" ”
King Liang suddenly realized: "Queen Mother, look at me, when I arrive in Chang'an, I want to see you soon." When I entered the palace, I forgot to go to see the imperial brother first, and my son will go now. ”
As he spoke, he was about to get up, but Dou Hou laughed again when he said this: "The mourning family knows that you are most worried about being a mother in your heart, and it doesn't matter, the emperor knows your filial piety." After lunch in the mourning palace, let's go to see your royal brother again. ”
King Liang sat back again without hesitation, and Gillian frowned slightly when she saw Guantao, but she didn't say anything. When she went back in the evening, Gillian, who got up too early, only dozed off in the slight bumps of the carriage, and Guan Tao hugged her in his arms. Gillian heard Guantao sigh softly in a half-dream: "Wu'er, this is a big heart, alas, mother??" Speaking of this, the pottery stopped abruptly and sighed. Who is Wu'er? Mother is talking about Queen Dou, is that talking about King Liang? Guan Tao's sigh Gillian didn't understand, and she couldn't resist the onset of drowsiness and fell asleep.
After that, Gillian was recuperating in the house for a while and did not enter the palace again. Learn poetry and etiquette at home, the eldest brother Chen Xu and the second brother Chen Chang brought back some new playthings for her little sister from outside, these two brothers are ten years old and six years old. His father, Tangyi Hou Chen Wu, was a silent and quiet person, but he often cared for Gillian silently, and this plain but extraordinarily warm day made Gillian gradually integrate into the life of the Han Dynasty.
One day after entering the early winter, Emperor Jing held a family banquet, and Guantao entered the palace early. In the afternoon, it began to become more and more gloomy, and in the evening snowflakes began to fly. It wasn't until the time of the year that Guan Tao returned home, her face was a little gloomy, and the maids and servants were calm when they saw her like this. Gillian was not afraid of her, so she ran forward and shouted, "Mother, why have you been there for so long?" Mother, aren't you happy? ”
Guan Tao couldn't get angry with this little daughter, she was a little helpless and asked, "Why haven't you slept so late?" Although the words were asked by Gillian, her eyes were looking at Gillian's nurse Lin.
"Mother, I want to wait for you to come back, don't blame them." Gillian grabbed her hand and shook it, and said coquettishly. Guan Tao nodded her forehead, didn't speak, and went to change clothes and wash. In recent years, my father and his two elder brothers went to the feudal country. There were only two of them in the house, mother and daughter, so Guantao simply took Gillian to live together. Gillian saw her mother like this, so she went to bed and lay down first.
Wait for the pavilion Tao to change clothes and come out, and then retreat left and right. Her face was still a little bad, Gillian saw that she knew that there was something going on at today's family banquet, and she didn't dare to mess around with Guantao anymore, so she lay quietly next to Guantao.
It is understandable that a mother loves her youngest son, but Wu'er has become more and more excessive over the years. I heard that the East Garden he built, not to mention the luxury, just the overhead passage connecting the palace to the overhead platform has more than 30 miles, and the pomp and circumstance of going out to ride horses and hunt is like the world. This time when he returned to the court, he did not go to meet the emperor first, and after entering the court, he went in and out with the emperor, but his mother could not see these trespassers. Today's family banquet, the emperor was drunk and said the words of passing on the throne and King Liang after a thousand years in order to please his mother, although Wu'er pretended to resign, but his mother and he couldn't hide their joy. The emperor's face was already a little regretful, if Dou Ying hadn't stood up and sternly stopped him from saying that the father-son transfer was the right way, how could he pass the throne to his younger brother? I gave the emperor a step down to end it, and I don't know how to end it today? This can only be said by Dou Ying, he is the nephew of the queen mother, and he is the mainstay of the Dou family today, and others dare not offend the queen mother like this even if they understand the reason. Guan Tao only felt that his head hurt a little, the queen mother was like this, and Wu'er was like this. It's hard to do it yourself, so you still have to persuade the queen mother in the future.
Guan Tao thought about it for a long time, but he was still full of sorrow. glanced sideways at Gillian and was looking at her with her eyes open and a sad expression. Looking at the little daughter of Bingxue and lovely, the troubles in her heart went down a lot, Guan Tao tucked the quilt for Gillian, and asked in a doting tone: "Why are you looking at your mother like this?" No one is angry with your mother, you look like a little adult, and your mother forgets you as soon as you are quiet. Gillian didn't speak, and buried her head in Guan Tao's arms. Guan Tao has not avoided her since she was a child, but has always focused on educating her how to become a noble woman. So at the moment, she also told her what happened at today's palace banquet, Gillian couldn't help but be shocked when she heard it, she read a lot of books in her previous life because of her health, but she didn't know that King Liang had reached the point of coveting the throne because of the queen mother's favor. And it is obvious that King Liang will not get his wish, and the next emperor will be Liu Che, the first emperor of the Han Dynasty.
Gillian couldn't help but sigh for her mother, the queen mother was very fond of her eldest daughter, and the two younger brothers were very close to her sister, so it must be difficult to do it with the pavilion pottery mixed in between them. But he couldn't help but say loudly: "Mother, my uncle is just talking about it, my uncle has his own son, how can he ask my little uncle to succeed to the throne, you can persuade your grandmother more." ”
When the words came out, they didn't feel like a four-year-old child said, but the words had already been spoken, so I had to wait anxiously for Guantao to speak, thinking that Guantao was so troubled that I wanted to see it clearly, the royal family, the emperor is the emperor after all, and no one can infringe on his interests.
Guan Tao was a little surprised at the moment, but soon she found a reason for Gillian's early wisdom: "When your grandfather was still there, he was very partial to you, always saying that you are smart and beautiful, with a noble heart, and you will not be an ordinary woman in the future." Now it seems that there is nothing wrong with it, Gillian has not asked her mother to worry about it since she was a child. ”
Gillian asked her to praise her, which was a little embarrassing, after all, she was not really a four-year-old girl, and she couldn't afford this compliment. Guan Tao saw her squirming like this, and his heart was even more funny, and the mother and daughter stopped laughing for a while.