The Ebe people plan to spend the New Year in the capital, and Jiang Ge may also want to marry a Han woman, but he learned that the marriage custom of the Yu Dynasty is monogamy and multiple concubines, and the concubines can be bought and sold through slaves, and there are some entanglements after the prohibition of inheritance. Gu Chong was really unwilling to set a bad example for the already enlightened Liuliu, so he had to push Gu Yi to be the host, but fortunately, Qin Xiuyong had a high degree of trust in Gu Xi and generously let him go. Gu Xi naturally couldn't take people to a 'low-grade' place like Yichun Lou in a grand manner, so he made an appointment with a few secret private courtyards or Ye You, which greatly opened the eyes of Jiang Ge and the others, and they wanted to bring a Central Plains girl back more and more.

How did you know the above discordant news? Of course, Gu Yi took advantage of the prince's absence to secretly confess to his sister and be lenient, firstly, to invite merit, and secondly, to let his sister have an idea of whether to let people 'reconcile'.

The merit of the invitation was in a private courtyard, they met a drunkard who claimed to be the county lord's father, and collided with the distinguished guest, and then Gu Xi quietly sent the person to the cell of the internal security department and handed it over to the king of Runan County, who was so busy that he was about to die.

I like this gossip so much, and after using a hot saliva chicken to conquer the stomach of the male god Seventh Brother, I heard a very exciting news. The drunkard is the head of the longest time with Chunyi, and his real identity is the concubine of the Changning Bodu family, he was also a grass in the capital when he was young, his biological mother died early, and he didn't come back after a certain study trip, and the Changning Bo family only regarded him as dead, but he didn't know that he became an obscure account office in the eldest princess's mansion under Chunyi's 'protection', and his daughter and son-in-law died early, leaving a granddaughter who was two years younger than Ke Du, as Chunyi's 'god' granddaughter, raised in the mansion with gold and jade, and was ready to leave it to a certain prince as a side concubine. When the grandfather was unwilling to pit his granddaughter like this, the grandfather and grandson were determined to walk the single-plank bridge, and in frustration, they held the wine bottle and did not let go.

"Why haven't I seen this person?"

"She's just the granddaughter of the account room, but she was born like Chunyi, how can she appear in front of you? They have been waiting for the price to sell, starting from the married King of Zhongshan, to the unmarried Xiaoba and Xiaojiu, they have all been in contact with each other 'privately'. ”

“…… Did you go there on purpose? ”

"My sister has really become smarter!" Gu Yi smiled and ate a snack, "After such a long time, as a granddaughter, I naturally have to send a change of clothes to my grandfather, and I can't catch anyone twice, your brother and I can go farming." ”

"How could Chunyi make such a low-level mistake?!"

She didn't care about this, and her two daughters-in-law rebelled. Niu Tan took his son back to the mansion of the eldest princess of Changyi, and simply threw the book to Ke Yi neatly. Since it was rumored that Yu Zhaohua was a courtesan who had been budded by the old man, Yuyang no longer had the face to go out of the house, and quarreled with Ke Du every day, and now he wanted to make trouble and leave even though he was pregnant, and Ke Du threw a letter of resignation to his face, and went to Wangshan Villa in a fit of anger. ”

Yuyang, like Dongyang, does not have a princess's mansion, and they all live in Chunyi's eldest princess's mansion. Since Yuyi didn't want the princess's mansion, these princesses who were nieces also meant when they got married, saying that they could not do with the princess's mansion, but the result was that the emperor didn't build a princess's mansion, at most they set aside a piece of land next to or in their husband's house, which was considered to make the princesses live more openly. And Chunyi's mansion was given by Gaozong, expanded several times, covering a very wide area, Dongyang and Yuyang married Chunyi's son, not to mention how much land there was, the emperor couldn't wait to take back Chunyi's mansion.

"Seventh brother, I don't understand, why do Dongyang and Yuyang know that the emperor doesn't like Chunyi, but they still want to marry her?"

"Yu Zhaohua was sent to the palace by her, and Liang Shuyi is her close friend."

"That's not right, isn't it? Chunyi is just an eldest princess, powerless and powerless, why do they lean towards her? Turning a corner for the King of Zhongshan? Then the King of Zhongshan died a thorough death earlier? I don't believe it! ”

"There are a lot of sayings, it is rumored that when Gaozong favored Chunyi's mother, he gave her a lot of gold and silver treasures, and she was rich enough to rival the country, so the emperor would not move her until he found it. It is also said that before his death, Gaozong asked the emperor to treat Chunyi well, and gave her a family to avoid death. Seeing that the peanuts on the plate in Gu Ci's hand were about to be thrown over, Gu Xi hurriedly changed the topic, "You might as well think about who to send to Hubei to make peace with you?" The Queen Mother doesn't appear now, and the mother is not suitable to interfere, so you can only do it. ”

Gu Ci was stunned for a moment, this is different from the compensation for the loss of power and humiliation of the country, it cannot be called harmony, at most it is considered an intermarriage, and it is necessary to exert cultural and political influence on Hubei on the basis of bilateral friendship, it should be a better kind of foreign marriage, and the candidate really needs to be carefully considered.

"The marriage customs of the two places are different, can Jiang Ge respect them? What kind of woman does he like? Is it okay not to be a clan girl? ”

Seeing her back to the topic, Gu Xi didn't make any trouble, and replied, "This person is very smart and clever, his uncle is the original leader, after being killed by Hu Bu, several of his brothers and cousins rushed to fight against Hu Bu stupidly, so that Hu Bu was killed and injured a lot." It was he who gathered the rest of the clansmen to go into the forest to guerrilla, sent people to contact the third brother, and cooperated with the sneak attack, so that we could capture so many people alive. Otherwise, it will be really hard, and we will not suffer fewer casualties, after all, it is not easy to treat in the grassland, and military doctors cannot keep up. As for what kind of woman he liked, it was impossible to tell. But men, it's all the same, if there is a sister who is half pretty, I guess he will definitely be willing. ”

Gu Ci was praised and smiled, and after sending Gu Xi away, he wrote a post to Yuyi, Chongyi and Zhenyi, asking them to come to Qingliang Pavilion to enjoy the flowers the day after tomorrow, and eagerly waiting for her husband to come back, so that she could ask questions and solve her doubts.

Yiqing smiled beside her and watched her spin around, and she caught the smile in her eyes, "Yiqing, do you know why Chunyi is so special?" ”

"I'm afraid I know more about the affairs of the palace than the prince."

Gu Ci immediately stepped forward to curry favor, "Tell me!" Tell me! ”

Yiqing motioned for the others to step back, took her hand into the small study, and whispered, "Most of the information that outsiders know is superficial, that is, Chunyi's biological mother, Concubine He's sister-in-law, was Gaozong's sweetheart when he was studying in the academy, and Chunyi looked very much like her, not like her mother, so Gaozong treated her differently, and did give her a decree to avoid death before he died." ”

"Just one death? Anything else? ”

"I haven't seen this, but I think Gu Qiye already knows the content from that face."

"And what do you know?" Gu Ci looked at him with bright eyes, and if there was a tail, he must have waged it.

"Everyone thinks that Gaozong is weak and incompetent, and the heir can't be kept because the queen mother is not favored, and he can't deter the harem women, in fact, Gaozong also personally killed one of his own children. In the third year of Taizong, he congratulated the concubine into the palace, and gave birth to Chunyi the following year......"

"Wait, I remember Ke Du was the same age as Sister Minha...... When Chunyi gave birth to him...... It's already over forty?! Yiqing smiled silently, Gu Ci immediately corrected his mistake, and shook his sleeve flatteringly, "You go on, I won't interject." "Chunyi was married at twenty, the first concubine was the predecessor of the Xinwu Bo Zhu family, the following year Zhu Juma died, at that time Chunyi was pregnant for three months, the child was born in the palace and died, until Sejong succeeded to the throne, she was given a thirty-year-old marriage Ke Concubine." "This child who died in infancy is ...... Gojong ...... What the hell? Yiqing nodded, leaned over and whispered in her ear, "That's Gaozong's own son, born with a big brain and no hands, so Zhu Juma and the child can only die." Gu Ci, who had three shattered views, was stunned, and he was so limp that he almost slipped up. Gao Zongzhen TMD is a product with no lower limit! "This matter, maybe it's not all to blame Gaozong, Concubine He is old and decrepit, she can never get pregnant again, and she has no relatives, seeing that Chunyi is getting more and more like her sister, she led Gaozong to get drunk on the night of her sister's death, and ruthlessly sent her daughter to the dragon bed in order to get a child by surrogacy." Yiqing continued to magnify the thunder, "Gaozong later knew that it was his daughter who was next to the pillow and not his sweetheart, so he ran away in a panic. Three months later, Chunyi found out that she was pregnant, and when she entered the palace and cried with Concubine He, she begged for an abortion. After Taizong slaughtered Shujing Palace and a group of restless palace concubines, this matter did not spread, and many old palace people did not know. Gu Ci was still stunned and grabbed his clothes, unable to speak at all.

Yiqing calmly said, "Concubine He didn't know it, and she was lucky to save her life, so she just wanted to take care of her daughter who drank the abortion pill herself." The doctor who taught me medical skills was Wen Qing's master, who was a little waiter boiling medicine at the time, he broke a medicine jar, afraid of being scolded, hid in the medicine cabinet and did not dare to come out, and saw with his own eyes that Concubine He replaced his daughter's abortion pill. After seeing the red for a few days, the fetus did not fall, and if it was forcibly beaten, it would hurt the mother, so it could only be born. Taizong forced Gaozong to kill the freak with his own hands, and sent Concubine He to Huangjue Nunnery to die violently the next day, and as for Chunyi, she was confined to the mansion to fend for herself. Therefore, after Gaozong ascended the throne, he tried his best to compensate this daughter, and Concubine He was also posthumously sealed. Looking at her sluggish and delicate appearance, Yiqing couldn't help but smile and helped her out, "As for Ke Duan's matter, you should ask the prince directly." Yuan Yi happened to step into the door of the study, and almost went crazy when she saw Yiqing holding her daughter-in-law's tender paws, but when she saw her expression in a trance and her face turned pale, she immediately asked nervously, "What's wrong with Luan?" "It's fine, I'm getting some irritation." Yiqing pinched Gu Ci's mouth lightly to make her sober, and then handed her to Yuan Yi with a blank look. Yuan Yi picked her up on the soft couch, scratched Yiqing hard and asked him to get out of here, and comforted his wife softly, "Good, what's wrong?" Tell me what it is. Gu Ci nestled in his arms with all his strength, and whispered the story that Chunyi and Gaozong had to say, and his spirit was devastated twice. Brother...... It's ...... Fantastic! "It's definitely impossible for a man to be drunk enough to be unrecognizable, so Gaozong is absolutely absolutely crazy with alcohol! After sobering up, Xu is Chunyi's attitude was too resistant, so he wanted to get away with drunkenness. I can't imagine that if Chunyi showed a hint of half-pushing, Gaozong would be another King of Hailing. It's so TM filthy! Gu Ci's inner villain roared at COS - I'm about to suffocate! When she looked up at her husband, she also looked incredulous and sluggish with a look of 'my grandfather can't be so perverted', and suddenly her heart was balanced, and sure enough, the painful things had to be shared, and she would feel better! Thinking about the fierce Queen Mother, she can still have a pair of children with this kind of scumbag, she is really a goddess! Gu Ci, who was reinvigorated, got up neatly, knelt in front of Yuan Yi with his legs apart, unbuttoned his collar cufflinks, rubbed the corners of his eyebrows and forehead, kissed him warmly, and waited for him to recover before asking about Ke Du. "I'm fine, it's just...... It's a little hard to accept. "After all, it's a scandal of a loved one, so the little girl knows...... Yuan Yi glanced at her daughter-in-law with clear eyes and curiosity, as if she didn't feel that there was anything unspeakable about this kind of thing. "Don't think about it, it's all in the past." "I didn't want you to hear that...... Bad thing. "At first, I was scared, but then I thought about it, the world is so big, it's just that we just happen to know people, and I think it's not a big deal." Yuan Yi put half-truths against her forehead and said, "Isn't this afraid that you will dislike me." "He's him, you're you, how can you be confused?!" Gu Ci stared at him seriously in incomprehension. "Can relatives also be separated?" "Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty can get rid of the law of even sitting, and he should bear his own responsibility." "Hmm, no wonder you always emphasize that you can't punish the Nine Clans." "The Zhujiu clan has killed so many people, and the place outside is so wide, it's good for them to build roads and farm, wouldn't it be a waste of the food they have eaten for so many years to kill them directly?" "Makes sense! In the future, only the first evil will be punished, and the rest will be exiled to the river to raise horses! Gu Ci nodded happily, he didn't remember to ask Ke Du about it, or Yuan Yi asked why he didn't remember it until he talked about Gaozong's old affairs with Yiqing. Seventh Brother told Chunyi some of the past, and I asked Yiqing. Then she looked at Yuan Yi expectantly, "That, when Ke Du was born, Chunyi was already in her forties......" "It's not that more than forty can't be born, but Ke Jue is indeed not Chunyi's parent, he is the widow of the former Xinwu Bo Zhu Juma's family." The six princes, Qi An, and the twelfth prince, Dingping, who competed with the emperor the most, were both friendly with Xin Wubo, so although the emperor did not kill the two uncles after he took the throne, vassals like Xin Wubo were cut down. The emperor acquiesced to Chunyi's preservation of Zhu Fuma's younger brother, who was less than two years old. The boy changed his name to slave, was frail and sickly, married a maid and gave birth to Ke Du, and then went to his mother and child, and he himself died before he lived long. Ke Juma acquiesced to Ke Du's identity, on the condition that his most beloved concubine give birth to a concubine. Ke Jue is so favored, he should look very much like Zhu Juma. "Why does Chunyi persistently want to get involved in the matter of seizing the heir? What's in it for her? "Naturally, it was because she had enjoyed the supreme power as the most compensated and favored princess, if she hadn't been coquettish in front of Gaozong, where would the Zhu family, Qi An and Dingping have the confidence to toss blindly, and now of course they are not willing to die in the room in the future, and they want to regain power and return to the top. It's just that the little girl has always felt that this kind of idea is incredible, and the investment is not proportional to the effort, so he picked the best way to send her away, "The Zhu family mentioned to Xie Chigong many times before the master. "Which one is mentioned?" "I don't know, the two grandmothers are extremely similar, and there is no difference, right? Later, Zhu Juma fell into the Tao of Baoyi and stayed in the princess's mansion for two days and one night, but the family affairs were rejected by the Xie family. So he didn't want to be the lord at all, and he never took the initiative to enter the princess's mansion after getting married, and it was even rumored that Chunyi drugged the two to have a round house. He loves Danqing and has his own school, but unfortunately most of the pictures of the ladies he painted were burned by Chunyi and rarely handed down. "Careful-eyed woman! Because Zhu Juma doesn't like her to be crazy like this! "Xibao said, 'If you don't have love, you need a lot of money', so Chunyi, who is never short of money, needs a lot of power to make up for it?" What about you? What happens if you love and can't? "She can't ask for it, it's not love at all! If you don't have self-esteem and self-love, how can you expect others to put you on an equal footing and fall in love with you like this? After despising Chunyi, Gu Ci didn't forget to say some sweet words to her husband, "It takes luck to be able to fall in love!" I ran out of luck in both lives to meet my brother, so I've been working hard to make myself better so that I can be by your side for the rest of my life! When the prince heard this, the two hugged each other sweetly, and Gu Ci completely forgot to discuss with him about choosing a relationship with his relatives. The fake county lord in the mansion of the eldest princess of Chunyi heard that the servant reported that his grandfather was gone, so he cried and went to find his grandmother, who knew that the grandmother's face after hearing the news was more disastrous than the white-painted wall, and the people in their sixties originally looked less than fifty, but at this moment they were like an old woman in her eighties. Chunyi, who has been through the storm for a long time, cheered up, got rid of the granddaughter who had bad things, and sent people out to find out the news, but none of the people sent out came back. She sat alone for a long time, and only after nightfall did she ask her eldest daughter-in-law Dongyang to come over with her youngest grandson, and let the nurse hold the sleeping baby and a few maids and servants to get into a carriage at the back door, secretly leave the capital, and go south to Guangdong City. The next day, the porter found the youngest master of the house lying alone in the carriage outside the main gate crying, and all the subordinates who had arranged for it were nowhere to be seen. So Chunyi committed suicide that night, and before she died, she wrote a secret letter, put it in a wax-sealed iron box, and asked Dongyang to send it to the East Palace with a son and a daughter. When Ke Juma learned of Chunyi's death, he was so frightened that he knelt outside the Donghua Gate with his three sons, and was taken back to his house by the Praetorian Guards to take care of him. Gu Ci received Dongyang, but he didn't take over the things, and only let Dongyang choose by himself, whether to notify the emperor to send someone to pick it up, or she sent it over by herself. Dongyang is still confused, but he feels that something is wrong, and he wants to drag Donggong into the water, at least one more insurance. With a horizontal heart, he insisted on waiting for the emperor to send someone to fetch it. The person who came was the king of Runan County, took the things and left, didn't pay attention to Dongyang at all, Gu Ci asked people to prepare their shoulders outside the East Palace, and serve tea to the guests. Dongyang roared angrily in shame, "You have no one in your eyes, aren't you afraid of ......" Speaking of this, she herself was sad, since the day the prince returned to the palace unharmed, didn't she already know that the family's plan had failed, and her mother-in-law committed suicide in the hope of saving a drop of blood. Thinking of this, she couldn't help crying bitterly, and the two children were also so frightened that they cried together. Gu Ci quietly flipped through the account book in his hand, ignoring the mother and son, the palace maid next to him didn't say a word, and the entire main hall was full of loud crying, which was particularly abrupt. After a while, Dongyang himself couldn't cry, the one-man show was too testing of acting skills and physical strength, the little baby changed to sobbing after a few pats, the little girl's endurance was very long-lasting, Dongyang couldn't coax him in a hurry, and had to yell at his daughter to 'shut up', so she changed from crying to sobbing. Dongyang's face turned purple, and he apologized in a low voice, "It's me who lost my manners...... We have to give our mother and son a way to live......" Gu Ci decided to be cold to the end today, and he didn't even raise his eyelids, "Your life and death have nothing to do with us." Besides, if it's us, you'll be happier than I am now, right? Dongyang's face turned pale all of a sudden, he stood up suddenly, suddenly fell to the ground softly, fainted, and the two children cried again. If you pretend to be dizzy, I'll make you so dizzy that you won't have a chance to go to the palace to quibble again. Gu Ci unceremoniously punctured her clumsy acting skills, and the little baby boy in her arms hugged her well, dizzy! Dongyang, who was paralyzed on the ground, immediately shook when he heard this, shrunk up and sat up slowly, the little girl didn't dare to shout, her face was full of panic and honesty, and she shook next to her. The mother and daughter got up slowly, and Dongyang staggered away with the two children with a blue and white face. The palace that couldn't hide the news spread the news of Chunyi's death in a few days, and Liang Shuyi and Du Cairen, who were originally as stable as a mountain, knew that Chunyi committed suicide and wrote a secret fold to the East Palace, they panicked, and the closed palace door would open a crack from time to time, and many palace attendants went in and out. The Marquis of Xiuning, who had been waiting for the fate of the crime, apologized for his sins, and wanted to take over the Ke family's father and son to kneel in Donghuamen, but was told by the prince, 'It's almost the New Year, why bother to use the face of the Celestial Empire to pinch the emperor when he was a guest in Beijing', so frightened that he immediately went home and sent the list of family properties to the emperor's case. Wen Changbo, who was paralyzed on the left side of his body, wrote a letter to Xiangyi, begging her to inquire about the news, but to no avail, he hesitated to fold it, claiming that he had no son-in-law, and asked him to demote Sui Jin as a viscount, which is equivalent to giving up the title of Count Wenchang now. Wu Lingbo also hesitated, not only worried that jumping out too early would indeed not be so innocent before, but also afraid that he would hang a 'stubborn' number on the emperor too late, so he had to send his youngest son to the military department to sign up for the army, and then find a way to contact King Guangsi. Before the youngest son touched the door of the military department, he was politely sent back by the waiters in the palace. The prince's mansion of the king of Zhongshan and other princes was closed, and they didn't dare to have any ideas, but they wrote an average of one letter to the king of Hengshan County of Zongzheng every day, and the king of Hengshan County didn't read a letter, and was busy preparing for the funeral of Chunyi, but what specifications of funeral and princess mansion to deal with can only be folded for instructions. Sure enough, Gu Ci saw this excerpt in the Mingde Palace. There was also a stack of folds on Yuan Yi's case that had been brought back from the emperor, and he was holding a copy and reading it. Gu Ci fed him a small plate of candied tender ginger shreds, maintained the man who was still only wearing a jacket in late autumn, and then helped him roughly look at the rest of the folds and classify them, but he was disgusted by this fold. She didn't bother her husband, who was thinking next to her, pouted her little mouth that could hang the oil bottle, sorted out the others, glared at the letter indignantly, and clattered the enemy into pieces in her mind. Yuan Yi put down the fold in his hand and began to write a note Chen, and when he saw her angry little look, he smiled, and was about to coax her, when he found that there were several stacks of folds on the case, and an abridgement was written on each stack, and it was clear at a glance. Let's get to work first! He glanced at her from time to time with his peripheral vision, only to see that she was angry for a while, and then he was angry, and while he was not paying attention, he shoved the fold book to the bottom of the outermost stack, and then unfolded a blank sheet of paper and began to write and draw again. Yuan Yi felt her emotions from the beginning of the suffocation and heaviness to the back of the eyebrows fluttering, flipped through the folds to be more efficient, and after a while, she saw the book about Chunyi's funeral that she put at the end, and warmly hugged the little girl who had just stopped writing and kissed non-stop, "What do you think Uncle Hengshan should do with this fold?" "Do whatever you want." Gu Cimei played kiss with him and replied without thinking. "Then what are you angry about?" "If the emperor doesn't speak, can't he just follow the same rules?" Gu Ci tilted his head and asked suspiciously. Yuan Yi was stunned for a moment, raised her sword eyebrows, smiled playfully, picked up a brush and wrote a few words, and before she could see it clearly, she was hugged and kissed fiercely, "Go, brother will take you to eat delicious food!" "Can you go out to eat?! Gu Ci immediately forgot about the work at hand and the questions he wanted to ask, and happily ran to change his clothes.

The two got into the carriage and went out of the palace, Ming Ting glanced at the sky, unhurriedly packed up the study, cleaned the tea set, and then picked up the pile of folds and walked to the Qianqing Palace.