Chapter 14: Suspicion
After the early establishment of the Tang Dynasty, most of the new magnates were not from high backgrounds before, and they liked luxury in eating and dressing, and they always ate with big fish and meat, and overflowing with oil, thinking that this could show wealth and prosperity.
This kind of food is fine at first, but after two more bites, you will get tired of it.
Fu Minghua was raised, pretending to dip two chopsticks, and seeing that Bai had already put the chopsticks, he put them down, took the brewed tea and gently took a sip and rinsed his mouth.
As soon as the tea was in his mouth, Fu Minghua felt that something was wrong. This tea is sweet and mellow, not the tea that the Fu family could get in the past, but it seems to be a good tea from Funan.
She put the tea in her mouth, and before she could spit it out, Bai Shi smiled:
"This tea is rewarded by Concubine Rong in the palace, everyone tastes it, and it is said that it is the best tea from Funan."
As soon as Fu Minghua heard this, he took the handkerchief and spit out all the tea in his mouth on the handkerchief by wiping his mouth.
Everyone laughed and complimented, and Shen also drank two more sips, and the room was lively.
It's just that when Fu Minghua heard the Bai family mention Concubine Rong, he glanced in the direction where the Xie family was without a trace.
Who doesn't know that the Fu family and the Xie family are in-laws, and the Xie family is one of the four surnames and is good friends with the Cui family. The eldest sister of the Xie family also married into the Cui family as his wife, and the lady of the Cui family entered the palace again and was the concubine of Emperor Feng today.
But the Fu family was so friendly with Concubine Rong, and they also got the tea from Concubine Rong, if it wasn't for the Bai family to mention it today, I'm afraid she wouldn't have thought of it.
The corners of Xie's mouth on the side smiled, but the smile did not reach the bottom of her eyes, her eyes stared at the teacup in her hand coldly, and the teacup became more and more slender and white.
As soon as Bai Shi raised his words for a while, he felt bad when he landed, and he made a haha to round the words, but Fu Minghua felt that something was wrong.
Concubine Rong is the favorite concubine of today's saint, although her position is not as good as Cui Guifei, but she is better than Cui's favor. She was originally born in the Fan Yang Rong family, the Rong family was also a prosperous family in the first dynasty, producing beautiful women, and had an inseparable relationship with the first dynasty, at that time it was barely possible to be ranked with the four surnames Cui, Xie, Wang, and Yin, but after the change of dynasty, the first dynasty collapsed, and the Tang Dynasty was established, and the Rong family was severely suppressed.
As early as the period of the first emperor, he ordered the Rong family to relocate, and moved the original base camp in Fanyang to Luoyang. The clan is like a big tree, rooted in the same place, and will develop luxuriantly, but once it is forcibly excavated and relocated, the Rong family loses the base camp of Fanyang, but in more than ten years, it will not be a climate.
In the later period of the first emperor, he frequently found excuses to cut the power of the family, and the Rong family at that time bore the brunt and was severely suppressed.
When Emperor Tianfeng was still the prince, he met with the Rong family, and the Rong family girl was beautiful and enchanting, but at that time, the first emperor obviously did not like the Rong family, and Emperor Tianfeng forbade it for the throne.
And the Rong family has experienced many blows, and it has long since lost its original prosperity.
In order to restore the scene of the family, after knowing that Emperor Tianfeng, who was still the crown prince at the time, was interested in the Rong family, but did not dare to ask her, he set a marriage contract between the Rong family and the third son of the Guo family.
Guo Jiuzhong of the Guo family was originally Guo Jiu, who was born in a reckless background, and was one of the heroes who followed Taizu to fight the world. Because of his courage and good fighting, when the Tang Dynasty was first established, he was named the king of Youyang by the first emperor, and he was appointed as the secretary of the military department. Guo Jiuzhong gave birth to three sons, the eldest son was heroic and martial, and made a marriage contract with the lord of Xianrong County, and the second son also inherited his father's business and guarded Liaoyang.
Only the third son, because when Mrs. Guo was pregnant with him, the world was undecided, and her husband fought the world, so Mrs. Guo stayed behind.
At that time, the current Queen Mother was also pregnant, but she was chased and killed by the former Dynasty, and Mrs. Guo blocked the sword with her body in order to save the Queen Mother. At that time, Mrs. Guo was already pregnant for nine months, and after being hit by a sword, she injured the child in her womb, almost killing the mother and child. At that time, the Queen Mother felt the life-saving grace of Mrs. Guo's sacrifice of life and righteousness, and promised to marry her belly, saying that if the dragon fetus in her womb was her son, and the child in Mrs. Guo's womb was a daughter, she would make the heir of the Yan family marry the girl of the Guo family as his wife, in order to repay Mrs. Guo's life-saving grace.
It's a pity that after Mrs. Guo gave birth to a son with difficulty, she hurt her body and couldn't get pregnant from then on. Because of this, Guo Jiuzhong's third son was injured when he was born.
After the birth of this child, he personally gave the name Guo Jinrui, Guo Jiuzhong and carried the position as the Zhongshu Ling and Taiwei, and everyone in the court respected him as his father.
Guo Jinrui was born with defects, and he was finally raised carefully, the first emperor once said that he was grateful to Mrs. Guo for saving the lives of his wife and children, and Guo Jinrui even wanted to marry the princess.
Based on this sentence, in the end, although the Guo family adhered to their duties and did not dare to marry the princess, when they made a marriage contract with the Rong girl, many people in the Tang Dynasty were not surprised by this.
Although the Rong family is a family, but in the end, it has declined, the Guo family is in the limelight, and the girl of the Rong family with Guo Jinrui is not a low marriage.
It is precisely because of this relationship that the first emperor opened up to the Rong family and did not suppress it again.
At that time, Emperor Tianfeng had a close relationship with the Guo family, and often invited the Rong family privately in the name of Guo Jinrui.
When the Guo family got the ear wind, it was already too late to regret it.
At such a point, the Guo family naturally could see that they had suffered from the Rong family's calculations, and they happily made a marriage contract at that time, and now they know that Guo Jinrui is a ready-made king. Guo Jinrui was originally in poor health, knowing that he vomited blood and died, and the Rong family at that time earned enough reputation to be included in the palace by Emperor Tianfeng after three years of filial piety for him.
When she entered the palace, she was already more than twenty years old, but after entering the palace, she was extremely favored by Emperor Tianfeng.
It is precisely because this woman is hard-won and painstaking to get it, even if she is past the age of Biaomei, and even has a marriage contract with Guo Jinrui, so Emperor Tianfeng regards it as a treasure.
Concubine Rong gave birth to the fourth prince Yan Xin and the third princess Yan Wei, although Cui Guifei in the court has given birth to two sons and has established a firm foothold, and the Cui family is famous, but the current emperor's favorite is Concubine Rong, Concubine Rong gave birth to a son and a daughter, the fourth prince is only two years younger than the third prince, and he is ten years old this year.
It has been ten years since the queen died in the second year of Tianfeng, and the throne is vacant, and the relationship between Cui Guifei and Concubine Rong in the palace has become fire and water.
Emperor Tianfeng's surviving heirs only have nine sons and six daughters, and the biological mothers of the eldest prince and the second prince among the sons are too low, so even if they are old, they are still in peace.
When the prince in the harem was still young, Cui Guifei and Concubine Rong just looked at each other unpleasantly, and once the two princes from different backgrounds were older, things became complicated.