Chapter 14: Hostages

Lin Wenyue returned home from the palace worriedly. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The scene he saw on the Jinshui Bridge made his already conflicted heart even more uneasy since his daughter entered the palace.

Although there is a distance from the Jinshui Bridge to the shore of the Imperial Garden Pool, Cardamom is not like a palace maid, and the concubine is not like a concubine, but from the familiar figure and movements, as well as the face faintly exposed through the emperor's tall figure, he can still see that it is his beloved daughter Cardamom, that is, Lin Zitang, who married into the palace and was named a concubine!

She actually chiseled ice to fish for the emperor's favorite golden carp! This is a real daring in the harem. Although Cardamom is lively and active, she has always followed the rules in the house, why is she so imprudent in the palace? Could it be instigated by people with ulterior motives?

As a foreign minister, although he does not clearly understand the situation in the harem, he has been in the court for many years, and he is very aware of the danger of the battle in the harem, which is not inferior to the intrigue above the court.

Since Cardamom entered the palace, although she was named the first concubine among the concubines, it has been rumored outside the palace that she is not favored, and she is rarely summoned by the emperor. Lin Wenyue has never worried about his daughter because of this. Marrying her daughter into the palace was originally a helpless purely political marriage, and Cardamom was not the kind of coquettish and pleasing appearance and character. In addition to his father and brother, there is always an unspeakable estrangement from outsiders. She is more than a decade old from the emperor, and it is normal that she is not favored by the emperor - the Lin family does not need to rely on her daughter's nepotism to ensure glory and wealth.

As long as Cardamom lives safely in the harem, she enjoys the honor she deserves. Now, Lin Wenyue can't help but worry about his daughter's survival in the harem.

Should he regret that he had been too lenient in disciplining his children?

Now that he thinks about it, he shouldn't at least not condone Lin Zifeng to spoil his sister like that: going to school, climbing trees, fishing, skating, etc., everything that boys do is not left behind - except that she can't bear the hardships of learning martial arts, and gives up practicing martial arts with her brother, but she has also caused a lot of trouble.

It seems that the emperor did not blame her, but was in good spirits. The look of interest that Emperor Shotoku had never seen when he looked at Cardamom, which he had never seen before, also made him shudder a little.

But after many years of companionship, as his status became higher and higher, and he got closer and closer to the emperor, he became more and more frightened. For the Shengde Emperor, who has served for many years, has become more and more full-fledged and mature, he has become more and more incomprehensible and unclear, and can only be summed up by the words "unfathomable".

The king's heart is unpredictable.

The emperor shows that he likes it, but he doesn't necessarily really like it, and the emperor doesn't show anger, but he doesn't really get angry in his heart.

In addition to his outstanding political skills, it is he who deeply understands this truth and can sit firmly in his current position.

However, does Cardamom understand?

"Master, what's wrong? What happened to the DPRK? ”

The second lady was very sensitive, and when she saw Lin Wenyue walking silently all the way, she was still frowning as she sat in the hall, and handed over a cup of tea and asked.

Although it is a word of concern, she has always made people feel hard and indifferent when she says it.

Lin Wenyue took the tea, raised his head to look at the second lady, and said in a somewhat unkind tone:

"I'm not coming back from the court, I'm from the palace!"

"In the palace?"

The second lady's delicate eyebrows wrinkled, and there was finally a little crack on her beautiful and stereotyped face:

"Isn't the lord entering the palace for political affairs? Haven't you heard that the emperor summoned the master alone? ”

She has all the whereabouts of her husband after he entered the court.

Lin Wenyue sighed softly.

Her only biological daughter was in the palace of the Great Palace, and any association that should have occurred with her when she heard the word "palace" did not seem to appear in the woman's mindβ€”at least not in her words.

"Are you really not worried about cardamom at all?"

"The daughter who marries out, spills the water. Since Concubine Lin Guifei married into the royal family, the palace is as deep as the sea, and the monarchs and ministers are different, so naturally the royal family should worry about her, what's the use of you and me worrying? ”

At the beginning, when she married into the Lin Mansion, which was far inferior to the Jiang family, and was the second lady, who worried about her fate?

At that time, his father just saw Lin Wenyue's talent and future, so he asked his third daughter, who he thought was insignificant, to marry Lin Wenyue, who was ten years older than her, to be a child, and her timid and fearful mother not only did not dare to disobey her father in the slightest, but even after she got married, she never came to see her once, and never gave her a stitch of help.

She relied on her own efforts to gain a firm foothold in the Lin Mansion and became the most powerful lady, and her daughter should also be able to gain a firm foothold in the palace by her own ability, otherwise, she is not worthy of being her daughter!

"Sometimes, I really wonder, are you her real mother?"

Lin Wenyue's voice unconsciously raised a lot, aggravating the dissatisfaction in his tone.

He is not worth it for his daughter, but he is only helpless.

"Do you doubt it?"

The second lady smiled suddenly, her tone was still flat, but her expression was a little distorted, she seemed to have been stabbed in the sore spot, and her words began to sharpen.

"Although during my pregnancy, the dignified Lord Lin stole and let his subordinates also conceive your child, but when I gave birth to her, you saw it with your own eyes!"

"You ......"

Lin Wenyue sat back in his chair in frustration. An unbearable past seemed to disturb the mood of the two at the same time, and the room was silent for a while before someone spoke.

"What the hell happened to her? Makes you so worried? ”

Accustomed to being rusty and cold, until now, the disparity in identity seems to be difficult for her daughter's name to come out.

"It's not that you don't know the dangers in the harem. Cardamom is simple and untouched by the world, likes freedom, and is bold, and now that she is bound there, who knows how it will ...... Hey"

Lin Wenyue sighed heavily, his brows furrowed into Sichuan characters,

"Everyone only said that their daughter entered the palace and became a concubine, and she became a golden branch and jade leaf that enjoyed all the glory, bringing all kinds of benefits to her mother's family. But I don't know that good luck and evil are accompanied, in case of carelessness, a mistake will not only be difficult to protect yourself, but I am afraid that it will also affect the family! ”

The second lady did not refute him this time, but she was quite unimpressed in her heart, and took a cup of tea and drank it.

If Cardamom can't protect herself in the harem, she will have wasted so many years of teaching!