Concubine Rong in the Zhaorong Pavilion saw that everyone was gone, so she slowly raised her head, closed her eyes slightly and said, "Yilan, what time is it?" ”

A fair-skinned palace maid glanced at her, bowed beside her and replied: "If you go back to the concubine, it's already night, and you've been busy for most of the night, do you want to rest?" She saw Concubine Rong with a tired look on her face, and hurriedly stepped forward to gently knead her neck.

Concubine Rong turned her head sideways and waved her hand: "I don't need you to serve here, when you calculate, Ling Tian should almost start his shift, you go and bring him, be careful to avoid some people." ”

Yilan retreated according to her words, the place where the guards took their shifts was not far from her Zhaorong Pavilion, so she brought someone after a while, Concubine Rong had already faded at this time, and raised her eyebrows and said with a smile: "Where have you died these days?" This palace wants to find you, and you don't even have a figure. ”

Concubine Rong has always been a greedy person, Xiaozong is sick all the year round, not to mention those women in the palace, even if she is favored, she can't get any fun between the beds, so she finds another way, over the years with many guards and even eunuchs have had an affair, although she is unrestrained, but not everyone can go to her couch, she has to look good to make her look good, this Ling Tian looks handsome and strong, it is she who has recently started to get started, counting the days, this child is eighty percent his.

Ling Tian saw that she was naked with a pair of golden lotuses, so he hurriedly walked over and knelt down, holding his bare feet and kissing him again: "Niangniang forgives her sins, Weichen is looking at the people coming and going in Niangniang's palace today, and he is afraid that something will happen when he gets closer, so he avoids it from afar." He let go of Jin Lian, and leaned in along the placket of her clothes: "Niangniang's body has been plump a lot lately, and Weichen can't hold it with one hand." ”

Concubine Rong laughed eatingly, made a few gestures, and let his hands wander around, she closed her eyes comfortably: "Have you heard everything in the palace?" ”

Ling Tian's hand couldn't help but pause, and his expression was obviously a little nervous: "Naturally, I heard about it, Niangniang, this child is really the emperor's?" ”

Concubine Rong suddenly turned her face and kicked him on the thigh: "Unplanted things, you don't know who this child is?!" The Emperor's? If the emperor can let the palace have children, will the palace still need to deal with the empress dowager and the emperor? She gritted her silver teeth and said hatefully: "I have long figured out this evil fetus in my stomach, and I have tried all the methods of taking medicine and eating food that are in conflict, but it just can't be beaten, and the palace is afraid of being seen by others, and I don't dare to eat more of these things, but I didn't expect to be seen by the Queen Mother!" ”

Ling Tian hurriedly held her in his arms and coaxed her for a while, Concubine Rong gave her a smile, he took advantage of her happiness and hurriedly asked, "What is the next step for Niangniang?" ”

Concubine Rong took one of his hands and put it on her chest: "What can I do?" The Empress Dowager wants to use this child to contain the emperor, and the palace can't resist her will, so she can only obey her orders. She stroked her stomach and smiled leisurely: "I thought that this life would pass like this, but I didn't expect to have a good future with this in my stomach." ”

At this time, Yilan came up with a bowl of tonic soup, knelt down and presented it to Concubine Rong: "Niangniang, the tonic soup ordered by the Empress Dowager is ready, do you want to drink it while it's hot?" ”

Concubine Rong frowned in disgust: "Take it down, this palace doesn't drink this, I want to vomit when I smell it." As she spoke, she couldn't help but retching sideways, Ling Tian hurriedly got up to give her a good breath, and waited for her to look a little better, before she said sideways: "You help Bengong drink it, it's a good thing in the end, it's not good to waste it." ”

Ling Tian's face showed embarrassment: "This, this tonic for women and children, how can Wei Chen drink it?" ”

Rong Feijiao smiled and twisted under him: "What are you afraid of?" It's all big tonic stuff here, and you're drinking it even more, and this palace is still waiting for you to serve it later. ”

Ling Tian also laughed a few times when he heard this, took the bowl and drank it all, but she didn't see the cold light flashing in Concubine Rong's eyes, she saw that he finished drinking, and hurriedly urged: "It's almost dawn, you go back to take a leave first, and then come back after this period of time, and avoid the limelight first." ”

Ling Tian hurriedly responded, turned around and walked through the side door, Concubine Rong looked at his back, the coquettishness in her eyes gradually turned into coldness, and asked Yilan sideways, "The medicine has gone in?" ”

Yilan hurriedly replied: "If you go back to Niangniang, the medicine has gone down, and it is a chronic □□ that died in seven or eight hours, don't worry, no one can suspect us." ”

Concubine Rong then turned around and went back to the dormitory, stretched her waist and said: "Although it is a dewy couple, I can't bear to see him die like this, go back and wait for me to give birth to this child, and then give him some supplements at home, hoping that he will not pester me." ”

Yilan followed her step by step, and asked cautiously: "The slave thought that you promised the Empress Dowager that you were just using a delaying tactic, and now you plan to give birth to this child again?" ”

Concubine Rong said casually; "Originally, it was necessary to remove this evil obstacle, but the words of the Empress Dowager made me think a little, since I have entered this bureau and been hated by so many people, why not simply climb all the way up, and simply give myself a future. Besides, even if this child is gone, those people may not let me go, first of all, the Queen Mother will not be able to get by. ”

Yilan said yes in a low voice, and then looked at her expression and said, "Then according to you, can this matter be hidden?" ”

Concubine Rong snorted coldly: "If I am not sure that I can hide it, how can I kill Ling Tian, he is our biggest handle!" She closed her eyes and muttered: "The Empress Dowager looked at me stupidly, I can't see that she is not well-intentioned, she just wants a child not me, which is also ruthless." She leaned her head back on the couch, but a coquettish smile bloomed on her lips, "For the future, I have to find a backer for myself and this child." ”

Jiang You didn't sleep well all night last night, tossing and turning at night, thinking about this for a while, his head was big, and when he got up the next morning, he had two circles of green daisy under his eyes, Xue Yuan looked funny: "It's Concubine Rong who is pregnant with a child, and it's not the emperor who is pregnant with a child, and it's not your child who is pregnant, what is the emperor anxious about?" ”

Jiang You sat on the chariot, rubbed his eyes and said weakly: "When is the palm print, there is still time to joke, haven't you seen everything last night?" The Empress Dowager is determined to make trouble to the end, and the reason she gave is justified and reasonable, did I really answer her? ”

Xue Yuan narrowed his eyes: "What does the emperor think?" ”

Jiang You hesitated for a moment, but still said: "The throne naturally can't let him be contaminated in the slightest, otherwise it will be me who will be unlucky at that time." But if Concubine Rong really gave birth to an heir, the reward should be deserved, don't think about being promoted to the queen mother, her son is not the emperor, and the hat is worn high and the head is carefully buckled. ”

She tilted her head and thought for a while, "As for the child, he couldn't see it when he was a child, and when he grew up, he decided to stay according to his character, and then threw him into the mountains of Lingnan as a monkey, and he couldn't do anything like King Ning again." She scratched her head, thinking about how she grew up as a child: "I plan to hand over this child to several Taifu to raise, and I must not let him come into contact with the Empress Dowager and the Zhao family." ”

I am still a child, but I am thinking about raising a child, although it is not very thoughtful, but it is also interesting to listen to her, Xue Yuan listened to it with a smile for a while, and said lightly: "The minister said yesterday that the child was stillborn not only to scare the Empress Dowager, but also to turn around and promote the position of Concubine Rong to appease and appease, if you want to blame, you can only blame her for her bad life." ”

The child was born more than ten years behind her, not as deep as those siblings who grew up together, Jin Lan, if you want to say that this child has any feelings with her, it is definitely not possible, but she reveres filial piety, and there is always a responsibility for this child, and when she heard this, she frowned and said: "How can this be done, in the end, it is the royal heir, how can the palm print be so slaughtered pigs and dogs?" She knew that she couldn't persuade Xue Yuan like this, so she could only talk about the situation in the court: "Besides, there are only two of me and him in this life, and when something happens to this child, no one in the Manchu Dynasty knows that I did it, so don't even doubt it." ”

Xue Yuan was quite unimpressed by her words, but he was happy to see her contemplative appearance, and leaned over and imprinted his lips on her tender little face: "Who dares to doubt the emperor?" ”

Jiang You was taken aback by his kiss, and hurriedly moved his body to retreat, swaying from side to side for a while, she sat firmly with the crown, and saw that the people who were carrying the chariot in front and back did not squint, as if they were relieved that they didn't see anything, and turned their heads to Xue Yuan and said angrily: "The palm print converges, I'm talking about serious things." ”

Xue Yuanxin smiled happily: "The minister just can't help it, the minister has always been serious to the emperor." Seeing Jiang You's face holding back and wanting to send it but not daring to send it, he lightly took the topic: "The emperor can rest assured, if this child really can't be kept, the minister will definitely convince all the civil and military officials who died of him." ”

Jiang You heard the ruthlessness in his words, his heart jumped, and he was about to speak, but at this time he had already arrived at the main hall, and he was able to look at him sideways, and sat on the dragon chair step by step.

As soon as she sat on it, she found that there was something wrong with the atmosphere today, and glanced at the waiter who sang in the newspaper, and the waiter said in a loud voice: "Something to start, nothing to retreat!" ”

As soon as the words fell, an official in the back stood up and kowtowed to Jiang You: "The minister has this music!" ”

This person is the imperial historian of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, it seems that he still has some trouble with the Zhao family, Jiang You's heart sank, and he vaguely guessed what he was going to say, but at this time, he couldn't let him shut up, so he could only bow his head slightly.

The official said together: "Your Majesty, if you are not filial, you have three no queens, since the emperor insists on refusing to accept the queen into the palace, then naturally there is no talk of the future, but the matter of the prince is related to the country, and the minister thinks that the emperor can not be ignored, it is better to set up the prince first." ”

This is extremely unkind, but since the ancestral emperor, the official has the privilege of speaking out, and the successive emperors have the saying of 'not killing the official', so he is naturally qualified to say so. Jiang You almost guessed what he was going to say next, and clenched his fists in anger.

Sure enough, the official looked at His Majesty Dan, but his expression was a little complacent, and he said unhurriedly: "I heard that Concubine Rong in the Zhaorong Pavilion of the harem is fortunate to be pregnant with the widow of the emperor, this is God bless me Daqi, and it is also the expectation of all the people in the world, and I hope that the emperor will take state affairs as the priority, please establish the prince!" ”

The Empress Dowager directly put this matter on the bright side, forcing Jiang You to delay time without a chance, so she could only say with a calm face: "I have only been on the throne for two or three months, and this year's age is only fourteen. She forgot who this person was, so she simply called Aiqing.

The official knelt down and said: "The emperor is serious, the minister's heart for the country can be expressed by the sun and the moon, and persuading the emperor to establish a prince is not intended to offend, but worried about the country, for fear of the country's loss, the minister has to risk death to speak out." He raised his head again and talked eloquently: "In the past, Emperor Xuanzong was far-sighted, and Emperor Yingzong was only nine months old when he was established as the prince. ”

Jiang You said in a deep voice: "You have such a big breath! Yingzong is Xuanzong's parent, and what is in Concubine Rong's belly is just my cousin, and he is not born yet, his character and virtue are not yet known, and he can't even determine his gender. She crackled in annoyance, paused before continuing: "Besides, the affairs of the harem are my family affairs, you don't have to worry about the affairs of the family and the country, and keep an eye on my harem, what is your intention?!" ”

These words are not serious, but the official seemed to be out of the way, walked a few steps on his knees and said in a high voice: "The emperor has no family affairs, the family and the country are one, and family affairs are state affairs. ”

It didn't matter if he knelt down, there were many people in the group of hundreds of officials who were in cahoots with the Zhao family, and several of them even shouted in unison: "Please make the prince!" ”

This group of people looked fearless, Jiang You was so angry that she gritted her teeth, and she couldn't wait to drag all these people out of the court staff, but she also knew that provoking civil officials was equivalent to stabbing the nest of ants, and when Wu Zong was not there, there was no incident of thousands of civil officials asking for leave and resigning at the same time, she patted the case a few times: "Are you people going to rebel?!" ”

At this time, although they did not all kneel down, they also knelt down for a small half, and saw the kneeling people pause for a moment, and then raised their voices in unison: "Please establish the prince!" ”

Jiang You saw that they dared to act against him so blatantly, and he was thinking about how to refute it with a calm face, when he saw Xue Yuan, who was standing firmly on the side, opened his mouth: "Since all the ministers have opened their mouths, it is not good for the emperor to refute them all, so as not to appear unkind."

He dragged out his speech, so that the hundred officials kneeling on the ground looked at each other, and listened to him continue unhurriedly: "Since Chang Yushi talked about Yingzong, everyone must know about Yingzong and Daizong. ”

Soldiers of the Civil Fort in the past. changed, Yingzong was captured by the Warat people, and it was his brother Daizong who succeeded to the throne, but Daizong became addicted to being the emperor, and there was no other lord of the country, so he directly named his own brother as the emperor of Nangong, placed under house arrest in the palace, and tortured him with a blunt knife for seven years.

The people below didn't know why he suddenly mentioned this, and they didn't dare to answer at will, he still said steadily: "There is a saying called ugly words in front, the matter of the brother wall has already been in the dynasty once, our family here asks you a question, wait for more than ten years, the child in the belly of Concubine Rong will grow up, but our emperor is still in the prime of life, you adults will set up the child as the prince early, when the prince is young and vigorous, but the emperor is also young, when the time comes, the sisters and brothers will be born, how should you end up?" ”

Both of them are also filial piety queens, one is the emperor who obeys the mandate of heaven, the other is a man, and he has been crowned the prince, so it stands to reason that he has more rights to inherit the throne. As soon as these words came out, the somewhat wavering ministers who had not been kneeling stood firmly on their knees.

Xue Yuan swept over the people who had just spoken, and said lightly: "Don't think that our family is talking badly, don't think that our family is talking badly, if the son of Concubine Rong really does something rebellious in the future, all of you today will be rebels who are in rebellion together, even if you raid the family and exterminate the family, don't blame our family for being ruthless when the time comes!" ”

Even kneeling on the ground is two trembling streams, cold sweat is dripping, no one can say what will happen in a few decades, who dares to use the lives of a family to guarantee the future?

Xue Yuan saw that the momentum of those people who were moving forward bravely finally suppressed slightly, his face was slightly softened, and he was about to ask someone to announce his retreat from the court, when he suddenly saw a chamberlain running into the hall with a small flag in a hurry, and said loudly to Jiang You: "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager took Concubine Rong to the Taimiao early in the morning, saying that she wanted to meet the ancestors. Now, now," he paused with a sad face, and suddenly raised his voice: "Now I am crying in the Taimiao!" ”

In the temple, Concubine Rong knelt on the ground, pretending to be panicked, but the Empress Dowager did not hurry to put on the incense, knelt on the futon and bowed, and then took Concubine Rong's hand, and said with a smile: "What are you panicking about, you have given birth to an heir for our Great Qi Dynasty, and you are meritorious, even the ancestors and ancestors will be happy to see you." ”

She couldn't know who the child in Concubine Rong's belly was, and it would be strange if the ancestors and ancestors knew that they would not descend the thunder and kill her, so when she heard this, she smiled a little reluctantly: "The concubine is just a concubine, and the first time she came to Taimiao, she was naturally nervous." ”

The Empress Dowager was stunned in her heart, and she still said with anger on her face: "You are also on the stage, you will be a person of great creation in the future, and you will have stage fright when you see such a small scene, what kind of system will you become?" ”

Concubine Rong should be, as she finished worshipping the □□ of the main hall, she went to the mezzanine room of Xiaozong, the empress dowager is an elder, and there is no need to bow down, but Concubine Rong felt weak for a while, and knocked on the shrine and the emperor's chair several times.

The Empress Dowager looked at Empress Zhang's shrine, with contempt and disdain in her eyes, but in less than a moment she recovered as usual, looking at the tablet, her expression was a little melancholy: "Empress Zhang sat firmly in the back seat, firstly, her mother's family has the ability, and secondly, her stomach is angry, when the emperor was born, although she was a girl and congenitally insufficient, but the emperor still favored like something, and I can't wait to hold all the treasures of the world in front of her daughter, and she was crowned the prince in less than half a year after birth."

She spoke in a contemptuous tone, and then realized that she was out of shape, and said in a soothing voice: "What you have in your belly is a son, if the emperor sees it, he will naturally be more happy, but it's a pity that the emperor can't see it with his own eyes now, the mourning family, the queen mother, of course, must fulfill his last wish for him, you can rest assured, the honor of your mother and son will be brought back to you a lot!" ”

Concubine Rong sneered in her heart, but of course she still responded respectfully on her face, and looked at her with gratitude: "I thought that this child was destined to be unsaved, thanks to you, otherwise the concubine really doesn't know what to do!" As he spoke, he rubbed the corner of his eye with a handkerchief.

The Empress Dowager's face was still light and light, and she couldn't see the treacherous heart hidden underneath, she shook Concubine Rong's hand and said gently: "No matter how you say it, he is also the grandson of the mourning family, and the mourning family will definitely not lose him." ”

When she said this, she didn't think that Jiang You was also her granddaughter, the two were like a pair of intimate mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and went to the side hall to rest very closely, the empress dowager picked up the tea cup and was about to take a sip, when she heard a commotion outside, she raised her eyebrows and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Mama Cong Yun opened the door slightly and went out for a walk, and when she came back, she bowed down and reported: "The emperor brought someone here, saying that he wanted to see you." ”

The Empress Dowager glanced out mockingly, raised her hand to smooth the folds on her sleeves, and sneered: "She now knows that she is in a hurry to see the mourning family?" There are three unfilial pieties, no queen is great, she is sorry for the ancestors, is she not allowed to mourn the family to visit the Taimiao, crying to the ancestors and ancestors? ! ”

She wished that Jiang You would make a big deal out of it, if everyone in the world knew about it, then she wouldn't have to make a decision if she didn't want to, so she said lightly: "Let her make trouble, it's better to add another handful of firewood to make it bigger." ”

Mama Cong Yun got the right words, and when she went out to see Jiang You, she said in a half-yin and non-yang voice, and blessed her body and said: "The queen mother ordered the servants to come to be an ear to report God, and I hope the emperor will not be surprised." She cleared her throat: "The emperor has a great prestige today, clearly refusing to establish a prince, and also involved the two ancestors of Yingzong and Daizong, the mourning family has no ability of the emperor, and the ancestors still have to respect, since the emperor insists on not allowing the establishment of the prince, the mourning family can only come to visit the Taimiao to ask for the understanding of the ancestors." ”

Originally, it was not a big deal, the Empress Dowager had to make a big fuss, and she ran to the Taimiao to cry, didn't she obviously want Jiang You to be drowned by the spitting stars of the world?

The fire she had held in her stomach in the morning was about to flare up, and suddenly she looked at the plaque of the Taimiao, and she was alarmed, and took a deep breath to calm her mind: "Since the imperial grandmother wants to pay homage to the ancestors, it is not easy for me to stop it, and it is almost time to worship the ancestors, so I will bother the imperial grandmother to live here in the Taimiao for a few days, and the right is to do filial piety and guard the soul of the ancestors." As he spoke, he really ordered someone to go back to the palace to get the things that the Empress Dowager used for her daily life.

In a blink of an eye, crying Taimiao changed into a guard, Cong Yun's face froze, and he hurriedly stopped her and said: "The emperor and the empress dowager are just a moment of unhappiness, besides, the empress dowager is not in good health, and she is afraid of contracting illness if she lives here, so the emperor and other slaves and maids go in to persuade her." Without waiting for Jiang You to agree, he turned around and walked in.

This time when he came out, Jiang You was politely invited in, and it was easy to enter the main hall, and he saw the Empress Dowager with red eyes, pressing the corners of her eyes with a silk, and she didn't look at Jiang You, but she couldn't stop whispering to the main hall: "It's all concubines, it's the concubines who are incompetent and virtuous, which makes the Great Qi Dynasty have no queen, the harem master is vacant, and there is no one to inherit even the storage position, if Emperor Chengzong wants to punish him, he will punish one concubine!" ”