Chapter 119: The Death Knell
A branch of a thousand apricots in weak willows, half containing spring rain and half hanging silk. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Ah Xun's first birthday feast began in the mist and rain.
The Empress Dowager wore a dark brown tuanfeng sprinkled gold coat skirt and a crown of twelve dragons and nine phoenixes, and sat happily on the top, and the emperor and Zhuang Zhao sat on her left and right.
There were a circle of things on the generous table.
In the end, for an auspicious idea, things like rouge gouache were not put up.
"Ah Xun, go, pick your favorite." The Empress Dowager laughed and teased him.
Ah Xun looked at the people in the hall, her innocent eyes were full of incomprehension, her small mouth snorted, and she hid behind Rong Yangniang.
The Emperor's brow furrowed.
Rong Yangniang leaned down and persuaded Ah Xun: "Your Highness, don't be afraid, just go and get a favorite." ’
Ah Xun grabbed the hem of her shirt and hugged her.
Now even the face of the Queen Mother is not very good-looking.
She clutched her chest, covered her mouth and coughed a few times, and the rosy on her face faded a little.
"Ah Xun" Zhuang Zhao opened his mouth to call him, she was wearing a silver and red woven gold embroidered peony skirt today, which was more graceful than in the past.
Ah Xun looked over, and Rong Yangniang took the opportunity to retreat behind Zhuang Zhao.
Before he could react, he was the only one left standing in front of Zhuang Zhao.
"Go to the square table, go alone." She smiled encouragingly at him.
Ah Xun looked around at the past, no one helped him, everyone looked at him and didn't speak.
He pursed his mouth and walked to the square table aggrievedly.
"Your Highness, be careful." Hara Po bent down and carried Tsunuma to the table.
Tatsumi walked earnestly on the table and began to pick out what she liked.
He blinked and looked at it for a long time, and found that he didn't like it.
He rolled up everything and pushed it in front of Harabo.
Yuan Bo was overjoyed, "Your Highness wants them all?" ”
What's it all about?
Ah Xun put his hands behind his back and nodded, and the bun's face was unfathomable.
The emperor smiled and said, "It's my son, grandmother, look at it." ”
The Empress Dowager smiled from ear to ear.
For a while, the hall burst into laughter, and it was very lively.
Ah Xun looked at Zhuang Zhao in confusion, and Zhuang Zhao held out his hand to him.
"Go down," Ah Xun hurriedly went to Zhuang Zhao's place, and said to Hara.
"Good, good." Yuan Bo agreed.
As soon as he hugged him down, he ran to Zhuang Zhao and threw himself on her lap to be coquettish.
"Mother, I want a sister."
He didn't know any of these people, and he didn't play with them.
He wanted his sister, and his sister played with him.
The Empress Dowager called him, "Ah Xun, come, come to Grandma." ”
Ah Xun didn't want to go, but he knew that he couldn't go, Rong Yangniang said, he had to do whatever the Empress Dowager said.
So he obediently walked up to the Empress Dowager and shouted, "Grandma." ”
The Empress Dowager lovingly took care of him, and when her hand swept over the dragon on his chest, she spoke: "The emperor still remembers that he wrote a testament before, please keep it with the mourning family." The surroundings were quiet, and she said: "The mourning family has little time, and this edict is going to be kept by another person." ”
"I don't know who my grandmother wants to ask for safekeeping."
"Yikun Palace, concubine." The Empress Dowager gave a candidate that no one expected.
The emperor pondered it and added: "The queen mother, at that time, wrote the edict because the grandson thought that time was running out and had to do it. If the prince is not virtuous in the future, I will ......"
The Empress Dowager waved her hand, "This mourner understands." ”
She touched the ignorant Ah Xun, and said meaningfully: "Now the concubine is the mother of the prince, and the edict is kept by her, which is justifiable." Concubine, what do you think? ”
Zhuang Zhao stood up and said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "The concubines obey the will of the emperor and the mother. The crown prince is the prince of the country, even if there is no edict, as long as he is still the prince, he will naturally be the treasure in the future. In other words, if he is not the crown prince, even if there is a testament, he will not be able to ascend the throne.
The Empress Dowager was silent for a while before she smiled and said, "The concubine is right, then return this piece of waste paper to the emperor." ”
Lin Wan looked at the series of movements of the few people in the audience in shock, and muttered, "The Empress Dowager is ...... to the concubine Gestures? ”
Mrs. Lin sandwiched a piece of tofu for her, "Eat more and talk less." She glanced at her and said in a low voice: "The concubine has become a great trend, and the prince will rely on her to protect her in the future." The Empress Dowager's move is also normal. I remember what my mother said to you, you must be respectful to the concubine, understand? ”
Lin Wan took a bite of tofu, nodded inexplicably, and was a little worried, "Mother, if the Empress Dowager is ...... Can I still enter the palace? ”
"Who knows," Lady Lin sighed.
Like duckweed.
Their fate is just a sentence.
I don't know if it's fortunate or unfortunate, three days after the first birthday banquet, Lin Wan finally waited for the canonization will.
"Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said: The Lin family has a daughter, smart and virtuous, ......"
All in all:
She was named Zhaoyi.
After she sent a sachet, she learned from the mouth of the eunuch that the other two Huang family and the Wu family, one is Xiu Rong and the other is Xiu Yuan.
All three of them are among the nine concubines, but she is the leader.
"Thank you, father-in-law." She was lightly blessed.
The eunuch hurriedly avoided half a step, and said with a smile in a sharp voice: "Niangniang is polite." Someone will come to pick up Niangniang into the palace tomorrow, please prepare for it early. ”
He shook off the dust and said goodbye, "The slave retires." ”
Lin Wan stopped and watched him go away, her young heart full of fiery and excited longing.
The next day, she changed into a refreshing goose yellow sleeve with a willow green skirt, and everyone was smiling on her delicate face.
After meeting Huang Xiurong and Wu Xiuyuan, the three of them came to the Ganqian Palace and asked the concubine to say goodbye.
The concubine wore a begonia red sprinkled flower gown with a plain skirt, with appropriate shades, tranquil eyebrows, and luxurious temperament.
As soon as you open your mouth, your heart is shaken.
"You don't have to be restrained, just sit down." She held the fan and smiled delicately.
"Concubine Zhaoyi Lin Clan Thanks." Lin Wan lowered her head and said hello softly.
The two people who followed behind were not to be outdone, "The concubines Xiu Rong Huang, Xiu Yi Wu, Xie Niangniang." ”
She smiled, "It's all courteous, no wonder the old lady likes it." Now that this palace is temporarily in charge of the six palaces, there are some rules, and I have to tell you something. She shook the fan lightly, and said slowly: "You are all from the second grade, and it stands to reason that you can also be the palace master." Among the six palaces, except for Yikun Palace, which is the residence of the main palace, and Jinyuan Palace, which is the residence of Wujing Shitai, Yunxiu Palace, Changxin Palace and Guanju Palace still have no palace masters. Yunxiu Palace has one Zhou Ronghua and Yang concubine, and the other two palaces have no concubines for the time being. The three of you choose a house. The grandmothers have already been selected, you haven't been drafted, some rules have to be learned now, don't lose your manners. ”
"Sister Lin is the first of the three of us, please pick Sister Lin first." Wu Xiuyuan said innocently.
Huang Xiurong nodded in agreement.
Lin Wan hurriedly got up and said, "The two younger sisters can torture me, since they call me sister, I naturally have to take the responsibility of my sister." How can there be a reason for me to pick first, naturally the two sisters choose first. ”
Zhuang Zhao was happy to watch a good show, sat on it and stroked a series of gold and jade bracelets on his hand without speaking.
In the end, Lin Wan chose Guan Ju Palace first, Huang Xiurong chose Changxin Palace, and the most childish Wu Xiuyuan picked Yunxiu Palace, she said with a tone that was a little ignorant of the world, and said with a smile: "Now it's okay, with two sisters with me, I won't be afraid of loneliness." ”
Huang Xiurong said angrily: "It's still so childish, it's really not big." ”
Wu Xiuyuan took her hand and spoke affectionately.
It's another pair of sisters.
In them, Zhuang Zhao seemed to see Zhang Biyu and Li Ying back then.
She hooked the corners of her mouth, lowered her hand, raised her face and smiled: "Since you have chosen, let's all go." ”
The three of them walked out of the main hall together, followed by the grandmothers.
Lin Wan said: "The two sisters go first, I still have some things, so I won't go with the two sisters." ”
Wu Xiuyuan asked bluntly, "Where is Sister Lin going?" "There is childish innocence in the words.
"I'm ......" Lin Wan hesitated, but still told them the truth, "I'll go and say goodbye to the old lady." ”
The three of them were first banned in the palace, and they couldn't guard against each other from the beginning.
In the final analysis, the concubine is their great enemy.
Huang Xiurong said: "This is what my sister thought about first. We should indeed say hello to the old lady, so let's go together. ”
Lin Wan nodded, telling them that she had already guessed the result before.
"Please also ask Mama to lead the way," Lin Wan said politely.
The grandmothers were neither humble nor arrogant, and replied calmly: "The mother is polite, please come with the slaves." ”
When they were about to walk to the gate of Anhe Palace, the grandmothers stopped and whispered backwards: "It's the holy car, kneel." ”
Lin Wan and the others hurriedly knelt down and said coquettishly: "The concubine has seen the emperor, and the emperor is blessed."
The bright yellow chariot paused slightly.
"Are you a few new entrants to the palace?" A gentle, slightly magnetic male voice rang out.
Lin Wan and the others couldn't help but raise their heads a little, "It's the concubine and others who came to say hello to the old lady." ”
The Emperor sighed and stopped talking.
Tan Chen raised his hand, and the imperial chariot began to walk forward again.
When they were out of sight, the grandmothers pulled them up.
Wu Xiuyuan said with some disappointment: "I haven't even seen the emperor's face." ”
Her grandmother said solemnly: "Xiu Yuan, please be careful. ”
Wu Xiuyuan hurriedly covered her mouth and signaled that she would not talk nonsense anymore.
They walked for a while, and when they arrived at the gate of Anhe Palace, they asked the little eunuch in front of the palace to report on their behalf.
The little eunuch didn't take the sachet, but said, "Please wait, ladies and girls." ”
He went in for a while before he came out and said: "It's unfortunate that the ladies came, the old lady dared to talk to the emperor, and she has stopped." ”
Lin Wan said angrily: "It's not right when we came, it's hard for this father-in-law." ”
The three of them looked at each other and were about to walk out, when a cry suddenly sounded behind them.
The little eunuch at the door was startled, asked inside, and cried.
"The old lady is gone!"
What, so fast?
Lin Wan's face turned pale, she originally planned to take advantage of the empress dowager's affection to gain a firm foothold in this harem. (To be continued.) )