It was the end of the year, the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet in the palace was lively and luxurious, Lin Qingjun participated for the first time, but he was not nervous, because Tu Yan was unwell, the two only sat down and quit the table. Fortunately, the emperor and queen knew about Tu Yan's body, and he didn't blame him, but he just ordered the imperial doctor to go to the pure prince's mansion.

Lin Qingyun looked at Tu Yan's face, because he was thin and extremely white, and he had always expressed his affection, he really looked a little sick. It's just that she was suspicious in her heart, it stands to reason that she has just taken Golden Lotus Seed Powder for a long time, even if it can't eliminate a qiē disease, but it shouldn't be so easy to get sick, plus tonight, he is already uncomfortable for the fifth time. It is said that the situation is much better than in previous years, so everyone is just happy and not suspicious. Lin Qingyun was not sure for a while, but he knew very well that it was very likely that he was pretending to be sick.

All the way back to Zhuyunju, Tu Yan sent Hong Aya and the others out, and then he held her hand and smiled lightly: "Wei Qing has been frowning, but what is the confusion?" ”

"Are you ......" Lin Qingyun opened her mouth, not knowing whether to ask.

Tu Yan didn't sell it, and seemed to sigh: "I just want to be quiet for two years, and there are some things that I have to think about carefully." ”

This is tantamount to admitting.

Lin Qingyun wasn't unhappy, but he was worried because of his words. What he was thinking about, what he was hesitating, Lin Qingyun knew that those were all things she was afraid of and subconsciously avoided.

"You don't have to worry about these things, you don't have to worry about them for three or five years." Tu Yan knew more things than she did, so he knew very well that as long as he was "sick", he would always be quiet unless the new emperor ascended the throne. He is used to living a quiet and comfortable life, he is tired of the life like a bird in the palace cage, he has longed to leave there one day since he was a child, if there are really only two ways of life and death in front of him, of course he will not choose death, but there may not be no third way.

He needed to find a third way.

The two of them were silent, and overheard Hong Aya reporting outside: "Lord Wang, Mr. Sun has an emergency." ”

"Come in." Tu Yan patted Lin Qingyun's hand, suggesting that she didn't need to avoid it.

Sun He came in, saluted, and said: "Lord, there is news from the palace that King Jingjun has made a meritorious contribution to the medicine, and the Emperor Taishang has a great heart, and the special Jin named the King of Jingjun as the prince, and said that Concubine Zhen has served the illness meritoriously, and Jin was named Concubine Zhen Gui." The emperor said that this was a great joy, and gave the double title of King Jingjun, and now King Jingjun is already Prince Jingxiao. The emperor rewarded the harem again, the virtuous concubine and Zhen Shun concubine were the most abundant, the virtuous concubine Niangniang was already a concubine, Zhen Shunfei was given to live in the Xia Palace, the main hall, for the main position of the first palace, and enjoyed the concubine position. ”

Tu Yan waved his hand and ordered him to retreat.

Lin Qingyun twisted her eyebrows, since she became married, the emperor's health has always been bad, and there is no serious illness, but she is old and has been working on state affairs for decades, and the pain is inevitable, so she has never seen the emperor. Previously, many people speculated that the Emperor would not be able to hold on to the end of the year, but I didn't expect the Emperor to not only survive, but also to be very good!

This matter involves Prince Jingxiao, so he has to think about it more.

Prince Jingxiao is the only heir left by the abolished prince, and the abolished prince is the most beloved son of the emperor, the abolished prince has passed away, and the emperor is old, and it is very likely that he will empathize with the emperor's grandson. Moreover, the royal family has no pure family affection, family affection and interests are always mixed together, the emperor had to choose to abdicate due to illness, but he was unwilling to let go of the power, so that the emperor was bound to manage the government, and now he is close to the prince of filial piety, but he is afraid of ......

The emperor is really not easy, there is a □□ emperor on his head, and a group of sons at the bottom are taking profits, and they have to worry about the world's major affairs.

At tonight's Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, Lin Qingjun found that the emperor's sideburns had added a few gray hairs, which was not as good as when he saw him earlier. The emperor and the empress were originally married to each other, but the eldest queen was three or four years old, and now the two are standing together, but they seem to be ten years apart.

Moreover, in addition to Prince Jingxiao, the two concubines from the Zhen family who benefited tonight were the two concubines.

Tu Yan suddenly spoke: "The Zhen family is the most cunning, and their eggs are never put in one basket. There is a Concubine Zhen Gui by the emperor's side, there is a Concubine Zhen Shun by the emperor's side, and Concubine Qi Shufei's daughter-in-law is also the daughter of the Zhen family, and she is still thinking of another daughter of the Zhen family. ”

Lin Qingyun saw that his voice was not as good as before, as if he had some inside story, his heart moved, and he asked tentatively: "Could it be that they also beat your idea?" ”

Tu Yan glanced at him with a smile: "Wei Qing asked knowingly." Although I don't have a long lifespan, I am the only concubine of the emperor, if the daughter of the Zhen family becomes a pure princess, the value of the Zhen family is greater, who doesn't win over? The girl of the Zhen family lived in the palace in the name of visiting her aunt, but she always wandered to the south three institutes, Sima Zhao's heart, no one knows. ”

Tu Yan's temperament looks gentle and elegant, but it is not like that in his bones. Growing up in the palace since he was a child, because of his identity, there are flattery and sycophants everywhere, hypocritical calculations, although he did not give birth to the kind of middle two thinking of the male protagonist of the play, but he is also deeply tired of people in the palace, especially scheming and calculating himself, ignoring his own heart, which is equivalent to touching his reverse scales.

"And what happened to her?" In fact, Lin Qingyun thought more bloody, guessing whether the girl of the Zhen family was today's Zhen Shun Concubine.

Who knew that Tu Yan said: "The queen mother liked her very much and gave her a marriage, but unfortunately she was blessed and died of illness within a few years." ”

Lin Qingyun calculated in her heart, the Zhen family's daughters have five daughters, and the Zhen Gui concubine is aunt is not counted, so a Zhen Shun concubine, the princess of Chengjun Wangxian, the one who died of illness, and the Zhen family has two girls to be in the boudoir, I am afraid they are also waiting for the price to sell. Looking at Tu Yan's age again, the daughter of the Zhen family married by King Chengjun is the eldest daughter, the concubine Zhen Shun in the palace is the second daughter, but the one who died of illness is the fourth daughter, and the third daughter and the fifth daughter in the family. As for the wrong seniority or something, she knows by looking at herself that the royal family is the least seniority place, and when she enters the royal family, she starts from the royal family.

Tu Yan suddenly sighed: "After the New Year, Wei Qing will be fourteen years old. ”

Lin Qingyun was puzzled for a while.

Tu Yan smiled and didn't say much.

Just after Chinese New Year's Eve, before the New Year's wine was finished, on the eighth day of the first year, Jia Shi suddenly broke into Jia Zheng's study, and snorted coldly with an angry face: "Second master, come with me and go to see the old lady!" ”

"Big brother, this is ......" Now for the Chinese New Year, Jia Zheng put the Qingke guests home to gather relatives and friends, at this time he was alone in the study to read, and he was really surprised to see Jia Yu break in.

"Your second wife did a good thing!" Jia Yu's face was even more angry, but he refused to say more, and actually dragged Jia Zheng out.

"Big brother, what kind of system are you, what kind of system are you!" Jia Zheng's face flushed, snatched his sleeves, tidied up his shirt, and his face was also annoyed: "I don't know what the Wang family did, since the eldest brother wants to find the old lady to comment, then the younger brother will accompany him." ”

Jia Yu sneered, so he didn't bother to fight with Jia Zheng, and maintained the expression on his face and came to Jia's mother's upper room. A maid had already reported the whereabouts of the brothers to Jia's mother, Li Kun led the Sanchun Baochai sisters to avoid, only the second lady of Xing Wang in the room, Jia Yu said as soon as he came in: "Please □□ the old lady, the son has something to say to the old lady, and please ask the old lady to send the girls back, so as not to spread the matter and lose the face of the family, and make the palace lady faceless." ”

"Boss, what are you making trouble about the New Year! even climbed the mother. Jia's mother is joking with her granddaughters, and it is a big festival, and Jia Yu's appearance really displeases Jia's mother.

"It's not me who made trouble, who let the second wife do those good things, if I don't find out, maybe our house will be hollowed out in a year or two!" Jia Yu threw out a stack of booklets as he spoke, and looked at Mrs. Wang with a smile: "Second wife, do you want to see it?" I didn't know before, but the second wife is really a good means to manage family affairs! ”

As soon as Jia's mother saw this situation, she knew that Jia Yu had already prepared, but she was afraid that things would be difficult, so she hurriedly waved her hand to order Mandarin Duck and the others to go out, and drank Jia Yu: "Boss! What exactly are you doing! ”

"Old lady, I know that you have always been partial to the second room, and I have been used to it for so many years, who made me not angry. It's just that the expenses in the house have been tight every day over the years, and when Lian's daughter-in-law was still in the house, it was said that the housekeeper had to fill the dowry by himself, what kind of words did this say? I'm wondering, no matter how our family is, we won't be so poor, right? It is also a coincidence, the last time I was wandering outside, I met a rich man from Jinling who went to Beijing to find a way, and inadvertently learned from his mouth that our Jia family actually sold two granges in Jinling! ”

Mrs. Wang's face turned pale, and the handkerchief in her hand was tightly stirred.

Jia's mother's eyes changed, but Jia Zheng was shocked and disbelieving: "Big brother, although the Wang family is not very good, but over the years, he has served his mother, raised his children, and handled housework, and he has worked hard without merit......"

Jia Yu waved his hand to interrupt Jia Zheng's words: "Second brother, I didn't believe it at first, but I had doubts in my heart. When your sister-in-law was alive, she was in charge of the house, and there was never a thing in the house to eat food, and the monthly money of the people was never late, everything was in order, and even your mother often praised it. ”

When it comes to the eldest wife of the Zhang family who died first, Jia's mother really likes it, the eldest daughter-in-law of the first was born with a scholarly name, she is smart and refreshing, and she is a good hand at housekeeping, and she is also respectful and filial to herself, and she gave birth to two grandchildren for the Jia family, the only regret is that her body is not very good, and she went early. It was Jia Zheng who also respected the sister-in-law, so when he heard Jia Yu say this, he didn't refute a word.

Only Mrs. Xing's heart is sour, but she also knows that she is a stepfamily, and no matter how born in her family, she is not as good as Mrs. Xian. She is the step-room, and when she enters the door, she bows her head, and every time she arrives on the first wife's sacrifice day, she has to offer incense and salute her.

Jia Yu said: "Jinling is the foundation of our Jia family, and it is prepared for future generations. This matter was taken care of by his companion Zhou Rui himself, and the human and material evidence is complete, so that's it, second brother, take a look at this. ”

Jia Zheng was already blushing with shame, if it weren't for Jia's mother, he would have been eager to scold the Wang family. Seeing that Jia Yu handed over the things casually, he couldn't help it anymore after reading it, and raised his hand to throw the thing on Wang's face: "Ignorant and bold stupid woman!" How dare you, how dare you do such a thing that violates the law and harms yin morality, how can I marry such a femme fatale like you! ”

Wang Shi knelt down, his face was no longer bloody, and he only cried instinctively: "I don't understand what the master said, I didn't do anything." ”

Jia Mu's eyes were sharp, and when she saw that the thing was wrong, she immediately ordered it to be brought in. Mrs. Xing couldn't wait for the second room to suffer, so she quickly picked it up and handed it to Jia's mother, who looked at it and only felt that her eyes were dark: "Wang, you dare to make profits outside!" ”

These more than a dozen IOUs have new and old dates, and there are reasons for them. When Mrs. Wang was young, she did this kind of thing, and when Jia Zhu died of illness, she withdrew her hand and turned to eating fast and reciting Buddha. After Wang Xifeng got married, she instigated Wang Xifeng to take over the matter, and she got the silver for nothing. Wang Xifeng not only lost his arm when he was not in the house, but also had to fill in the silver housekeeper, and her daughter needed money in the palace, so Mrs. Wang moved her mind again.

Jia Zheng was full of anger and fear at this time, if these things were spread, not to mention the lady in the palace, he would be his official......

Jia Zheng hurriedly flipped through the booklet on the ground, covering up lawsuits, forcing people to die, and lying about the accounts of the corrupt officials' property, etc., Jia Zheng's heart was cold, and when he thought about the law, he became more and more panicked.

Wang didn't expect Jia Yu, who had always been improper, to check her quietly, but after panicking, she calmed down again. Her daughter is a concubine in the palace, she is Niangniang's biological mother, and the Jia family must not touch her unless they want to lose face completely. Besides, in addition to lending, everything else was a long time ago, and she could put the recent lending on Zhou Rui's family, and those IOUs were all in Zhou Rui's name, and there were many people who relied on the power of the master to do wrong, but she didn't know!

Wang was about to cry, but he heard Jia's mother ask Jia Yu: "Boss, what do you want?" ”

"Old lady, I don't have anything else to say, how much the Wang family is greedy from the officials, and all of them will be returned, and this family will not have to be in the future. Although my daughter-in-law was not as good as the Wang family, she was also a housekeeper when she was not married, but the huge Guogong Mansion was not well cooked, and there was still an old lady to ask for advice. ”

Mrs. Xing was suddenly excited, and she was simply overjoyed.

"Old lady......" Wang panicked, she has always been a recognized housekeeper wife outside, if she suddenly leaves the house, how to talk about jokes outside, what kind of face does she have to go out to socialize.

"Shut up!" Mother Jia was really disgusted with her, and she also felt that since Yuanchun became a concubine, the Wang family has become more and more arrogant, and she actually has the intention of not taking her in her eyes, and it is really time to press it. So Jia's mother said: "What the boss said is reasonable, after the mother saves her relatives, the housekeeper's affairs will be handed over to the eldest daughter-in-law, and the Wang family will stay in the Buddhist hall to cultivate her self-cultivation!" Dick, what do you think? ”

Jia Zheng couldn't hear that he was going to confine the Wang family, but he said: "The old lady is merciful, so it is already a blessing from heaven, if it weren't for the face of the mother, for the face of the house, I would definitely divorce this kind of poisonous woman!" ”

Wang looked up at Jia Zheng suddenly, and fell down again for a while, hating Jia Yu and Dafang in his heart.

"Old lady, my son hasn't finished yet." Jia Yu glanced at a few people, and ignored Jia's mother's secretly warning gaze: "Old lady, I want to split up!" ”

Jia Yu's words shocked everyone.

Jia's mother was so angry that she could barely speak: "Boss, are you trying to anger me?" ”

"Big brother, how can my mother be separated in the hall?" Jia Zheng was really shocked, and at the same time panicked, after all, now he is the second master of Rongguo Mansion, and the actual person in charge, if he splits the family, he will just be a member of the Wupin Ministry of Labor, and the world is different!

Only then did the Wang family have an epiphany, it turned out that the eldest master was using her as a raft in order to divide the family. No way! Splitting up is definitely not a good thing! Wang didn't care about the accusations of Fang Cai, and shouted loudly: "Old lady, this family can't be divided, what if you divide the mother in the palace?" ”

After all, Jia Yuanchun entered the palace in the name of the concubine of the Guogong Mansion, if he was separated, he was only the concubine of a member of the Ministry of Labor, where could he be ranked in the palace? What's more, if you study the changes in detail, you may not know how to provoke ridicule. Yuan Chun is the most glorious and proud daughter of the Wang family in his life, and she is also the entire pillar of the Jia Mansion, so not only the Wang family, but also Jia's mother and Jia Zheng cannot let Yuanchun have the slightest loss.

"Boss, get out of here!" Jia Mu made up her mind to suppress Jia Yu's thoughts, but Jia Yu had been preparing for a long time for today, so she was willing to give up.

Jia Yu's tone was calm, but very resolute: "Old lady, I must divide this family, now the Wang family is almost about to empty the house, and do so many illegal things, the son is timid, and he has no great ambition, but he does not dare to violate the strict law of the country." Besides, I am old and can't enjoy it for a few years, but Lian'er and his wife are still young and will have grandchildren in the future, so I can't kick my legs away, but I don't care whether my grandchildren have food or not. I am also the son of an old lady, but I am not as good as the second brother to win the heart of the old lady, and I also ask the old lady to love her son! Then the voice changed, and it became very ruthless: "If the old lady doesn't follow, I only have one way to go, in order to leave some family foundation for my grandson, I let it go, it's a big deal, but I can't control how to save my relatives." ”

The last sentence is undoubtedly the most ruthless.

Jia's mother trembled angrily, but she also knew that Jia Yu was iron-hearted, and she was making such a fuss, and she was catching up with her mother's relatives, so she had to agree. Jia's mother had to soften her attitude and tried to delay: "Boss, if the family is separated, how can the mother save her relatives?" What about the outside world? What face does our Rongguo Mansion have? ”

"Old lady, don't worry, I also said before, there will be Xing's housekeeper in the future, let's divide the family in the two rooms first, the second brother is not in a hurry to move out, the east courtyard can be given to the second room, and we will have our own two rooms." Although Jia Yu is not stingy, but Jia Lian is an official, and his grandson will have to take the imperial examination in the future, and he needs a good reputation, Jia's mother is still in the family, and it is really not good-looking, for the time being, the internal part is clear, and Jia's mother will be driven out of the second room after a hundred years!

Jia Mu also understood what he meant, and sighed slightly in her heart, knowing that he had made up her mind: "Let it be." ”

"Old lady!" Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang were full of shock and disappointment, but when they saw Mother Jia waving her hand and ordering them all to retreat, they refused to speak anymore with a tired face.

Early the next morning, Jia Yu brought Jia Zhen over, and several clan elders witnessed it, opened an ancestral hall, and dealt with the matter of family separation. Even if Jia Zhen got the news earlier, it was still like a dream at this time, who would have thought that the mother was about to be married, but there was a split at home. The family is divided and all follow the rules, Jia's mother is still there, her private room is naturally not divided, and Jia Yu has no hope. As soon as the dust settled, Jia Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately wrote a letter to inform Jia Lian and his wife, who were far away in Shunning Mansion.

Who knew that the letter had not been sent out, but when he saw the little guy Zhao'er next to Jia Lian coming back, he kowtowed to say goodbye when he saw Jia Yu, and said: "The slave congratulates the eldest master, the second master ordered the slave to send a letter to report the good news, our second grandmother is happy, it has been three or four months, the fetal image is stable, and the second master has written a letter to inform the eldest master." ”

"Good! Ok, good, good! It's a double blessing! Jia Yu laughed happily, and thought while opening the letter, sure enough, the family is well divided, and the daughter-in-law who has just separated the family will be happy, maybe this baby is a big fat grandson. Calculate the time, it should be produced in July and August next year, and according to Jia Lian's tenure, he will not be able to come back, and he is happy and sighing for a while.

No matter what, Jia Yu was still excited, and immediately packed several things carefully from his private vault, ordered Zhao'er to take them back, and explained to his grandson that he would let Lian's daughter-in-law keep them, and Jia Lian was not allowed to touch his hands. After thinking about it, he still summoned Xing and asked him to report the good news to the old lady.

Xing's life has not given birth, when she married in, Jia Lian was older, and she had never raised her in front of her, so she was not close, but she liked smart and clever children, and Sister Wen Zhifeng's pregnancy was also a surprise, but she was just asked to give the old lady good news, which was inevitably timid. Since the separation of the family two days ago, the atmosphere in the house has been very strange, because the mother is going to save relatives, the residence in the house has not changed, and the girls do not know about the separation of the family, but the atmosphere in the house is not right, everyone is cautious for fear of touching the master's head. Mother Jia didn't have the heart to have fun with her granddaughter, and she didn't even mention the mother who often recited the Tao, and every day Mrs. An Xing felt that Mother Jia was eating people when she looked at her, and she didn't dare to go to the room at all.

"It's a happy event! Besides, how did the old lady give you a few good looks, why are you afraid now? You're now the housekeeper's wife of the Prince's Mansion! Jia Yu scolded her.

Xing then took the car to Jia's mother.

It is the fifteenth day of the first month of the first year of another year, this year is very different from previous years, the palace in the previous year's will, allowing the concubines in the palace to go home to the province, for a time each family has a daughter as a concubine is not to buy bricks and tiles and wood to build the provincial relatives, and the fifteenth day of the first month is the date of the official provincial family. The Jia family has been preparing for this for a year, and until now, but they see the cigarette smoke, the colorful flowers, the corresponding lights, the sound of fine music, and the endless peaceful scenes, wealth and elegance.

Jia Yuanchun saw it in the sedan chair, although he felt too extravagant, but he felt glorious and decent, after all, if the preparation at home was too simple, he would lose face in the palace. It's just that I think of such an expense in the house, I'm afraid that she won't be rich for a while, and she can't help herself in the palace, and she can't save money everywhere.

Traveling all the way, Yuan Chun also had to praise the ingenuity of this garden, and when he met Mrs. Jia Muwang and others, he couldn't help but be full of thoughts and turned into tears, and he was almost choked up and speechless.

Everyone comforted, sat down with each other, during which they talked about their family routines, tasted the banquet, listened to the banquet, composed poems, and in a blink of an eye it was time to return to the palace.

Back to Fengzao Palace, Baoqin served her to change clothes and freshen up, today Baoqin also saw her family, her mood was inevitably agitated, but when she came back to her senses, she saw that Yuanchun's thoughts were not frowned: "Niangniang? ”

Jia Yuanchun asked her: "You met your parents today, what did they say?" ”

"What do you mean?" Huqin was puzzled.

Jia Yuanchun shook his head, but his heart became more and more confused. Today's mansion is indeed extremely festive and luxurious, but when I returned to the palace later, the more I thought about it, the more I felt that it was wrong.

Fortunately, the female dependents of the 26th period can enter the palace to visit, and they must ask their mothers when the time comes.