Chapter 15: Mrs. Lu
Lin Wenyue's eldest wife, the Lu family, is over half a hundred years old, and her figure is gradually beginning to grow slightly. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info she eats fasting and recites Buddha all year round, and her white face looks kind and kind, but she gradually has a little Buddha statue.
For Cardamom, who has a lot of love with her hands, she is not so much like a biological mother, but rather like a kind old grandmother.
Since the second lady entered the Lin Mansion, she has been a real shopkeeper, dedicated to reciting Buddhism, and does not ask about mundane things. Everyone in the house is like a bodhisattva, coaxing her to be happy, and there is no need to bother her with mundane things, including her husband Lin Wenyue.
Since Cardamom entered the palace, Mrs. Lu has been a little worried about her, although everyone said good things in front of her, saying that Cardamom happily married into the palace, was cared for and favored by the emperor, and enjoyed endless glory and wealth in her life, she also responded with a smile, but her heart was always a little untouched.
As soon as the **** walked to the door of the hall, Mrs. Lu faintly heard a little bit of the quarrel between the two people in the room outside, stepped into the hall, and didn't care about the courtesy, and asked Lin Wenyue anxiously:
"Is the harem really so terrifying?"
"Not to mention that the companion is like a tiger, just the battle of those concubines is terrible enough. Although the queen is virtuous, after all, he and his father Wang Zhan are sworn enemies in the court, and she will inevitably be harsh on cardamom. β
She was born in the people, worships Buddha all day long, ignores mundane things, thinks that the people of the world are good, and the royal family who is an example for the world should naturally be even more so. If she hadn't happened to hear the conversation between him and the second lady, Lin Wenyue would never have let the lady with the knotted hair know about this.
Hearing this, Mrs. Lu's face suddenly changed.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, she happily sent Cardamom into the palace as if she were marrying her own daughter, although she also understood that the reality was not necessarily as sung in the play: from then on, Cardamom became the concubine that everyone loved, and the emperor was the emperor who loved Cardamom like a pearl in his palm. But she didn't expect that the follow-up would be so complicated, and the reasons for it would be so sinister.
Mrs. Lu, who felt sorry for Cardamom, suddenly became anxious at this time: "How is this good?" How good is that? β
Talking and talking, don't go to the second lady to ask for the guilt, first complain about Lin Wenyue:
"Since you know that the harem is so sinister, you shouldn't have let Cardamom go to that Qionghua banquet in the first place!"
Lin Wenyue shook his head helplessly, not every danger that can be seen can be avoided.
Seeing that her husband didn't answer, Mrs. Lu turned her head and complained about the second lady:
"You too, even if you are usually strict with cardamom, but your daughter's lifelong happiness is always the most important. Even if you are negligent with her on weekdays, you should be more concerned about her future! Since you know so many things, why did you have to force Cardamom to attend some Qionghua banquet in the first place? β
The second lady snorted coldly, and her cold and beautiful face no longer made any waves in front of people other than Lin Wenyue.
"If you didn't let Zitang go, did you let Zisu go?"
She looked at Lin Wenyue, and her husband's embarrassed expression made her eyes glow with a glint of schadenfreude:
"Master, don't you also want cardamom to enter the palace? Since she had to go in the first place, why worry about her today? β
"Why do you have to go? What does this have to do with perilla? β
Isn't it that the second lady forced Cardamom to go to the Queen Mother's Qionghua banquet in order to make her mother and daughter expensive, show her talents, and be able to enter the palace to accompany the king?
At this time, Mrs. Lu was completely confused.
"Because His Majesty the Emperor wants to marry a girl from our Lin family."
At this moment, a clear voice came from outside the court, and a tall and dashing young man with a handsome face strode into the house, it was the second son of the Lin Mansion, Lin Ziran, a young man who was famous in Kyoto in the past.
He has not taken off his court clothes, and his official hat is still wearing it properly, obviously just returning home from the court.
"Why does the emperor have to marry a woman from the Lin family?" Mrs. Lu was stunned. Although she gave birth to two sons, she loves her two daughters who are not her own, but she also knows that her own girl is not a country and a city, even if Cardamom is very talented, her goodness will take a long time to understand, why must the emperor who has never met marry her? And......
"And shiso too?"
God knows how different Shiso is from her sister: of course, both are her heart.
"It's very simple: the emperor doesn't care who she marries, as long as her status is commensurate with the royal family, because she is just a hostage given to the royal family by the Lin family." Lin Ziran completely ignored his father's eyes and said directly. Instead of hiding in your heart and speculating about your worries, it is better to simply make it clear that everyone is happy.
"Hostages?"
"That's right, cardamom, it's equivalent to the hostage handed over to the emperor by the Lin family. To be more precise: it is a wonderful excuse for the emperor to trust the Lin family in the future or get rid of it! β
"Ziran! Don't say it so badly! "How can a prince and a courtier, for the sake of a courtier, judge the king's deeds?
"Father, am I not right? You and I both know very well in our hearts, why does the emperor not favor Cardamom, but wants to make her a concubine, since he has already named her a concubine, but he still deliberately snubs her? β
When Lin Ziran said this, his eyes were no longer as calm as they were at the beginning.
He was very similar to his father when he was young, full of talent, full of ambition, loving his country, loyal to the court, but he did not inherit his father's foolish loyalty. He also adheres to the concept of putting the community first, and the monarch first. Especially when he thought that the emperor occupied this sister, but deliberately snubbed her, a wave of anger erupted in his chest.
"I never understood how the eldest brother loved Cardamom so much, and how he would personally send her to the palace companion who had no freedom at all. After thinking about it carefully, I finally figured it out. β
The father who has been in charge of the government for many years, one person is above 10,000 people, and the father who is full of protΓ©gΓ©s and former officials all over the world, and the eldest brother who holds the heavy army of the court, known as "Chang Sheng", and who responds to every call in the army, does not need a dispensable concubine of the emperor to increase their glory and wealth, and because of this, although they know that Cardamom enters the palace like a hostage, they all have to agree, and they don't even dare to have a little excuse.
They don't want glory and grace, they want trust.
They want to save their lives, not glory and riches.
Because of this, his daughter was snubbed by the emperor and could not get the emperor's favor, Lin Wenyue was not worried, but when he saw the emperor's rare excited eyes when he looked at cardamom, he became uneasy.