152, choose a concubine (word count 4000+)
"You are naturally my first apprentice, it's not early, you can go back." The emperor waved his hand, obviously reluctant to talk more.
Until she came out of the altar, Sheng Xue was still in a trance, what she encountered today was really strange, was it a deliberate arrangement for her to meet Rong Jing?
The door of the altar closed, and Rong Jing and Ghost Jin stood in the middle hall, his gaze fell on Ghost Jinzi: "She is not an ordinary girl. β
The ghost twisted his beard and was a little proud: "Of course it's not an ordinary female doll, if you can become my first apprentice, where will it be an ordinary person." β
"She's the same as Duanmu Jinghua, do you know about this?" A smile tugged at the corner of Rong Jing's mouth, and the ghost's face changed dramatically when he heard it: "Can the strange changes in this world happen again?" β
Rong Jing nodded: "The altar is so peaceful, maybe she came, and my life would not be so lonely." β
Ghost put his hands behind his back and turned his head to look at Rong Jing, over the years, he has grown from a child to a young man, but there is no life in his body.
"Rong Jing, you can deduce heaven and earth, when you know that everything in the world has its own reincarnation, why can't you let it go and can't open it?" The ghost sighed faintly.
Rong Jing turned sideways, and half of his body fell into the darkness: "The revenge of killing my father, Master Emperor, how do you want me to forget it?" β
Sheng Xue saw that she walked through the long alleyway in the palace, and she had been thinking about today's things in her heart. The emperor is suspicious by nature, and he is so suspicious of Prince Gong's mansion, how could he let Rong Jing go so easily?
His father was truly rebellious, could he bow his head and compromise with the threat of Prince Gong alone?
Probably because she was thinking too much, she didn't even see Duanmu Jinghua standing at the end of the alleyway, and ran straight into him.
Seeing Sheng Xue like this, Duanmu Jinghua frowned slightly, and what Huangfu Chonglou said suddenly appeared in his mind.
"Aman." Sheng Xuejian rubbed her head, and Duanmu Jinghua's voice came from her ears. "Didn't you go to the school to practice with Master?"
"I'll pick you up." Duanmu Jinghua's eyes darkened, and he slowly spoke. Sheng Xue changed her confused expression before. Curiously asked, "What kind of kung fu have you all practiced?" I waited at the altar all afternoon today. β
"Master, let us raise the ......" Duanmu Jinghua looked carefully at Sheng Xuejian's eyes, and all the reflections in those eyes were his own shadow. The two walked out of the alleyway side by side and headed towards the palace gate.
Huangfu Chonglou practiced kung fu for an afternoon, and went to the queen's palace early. "Oops. Look, Queen Mother, your son's arms are swollen. β
"It's just for you to raise the crown, and it's not to go up the knife mountain and down the sea of fire, what are you shouting." The queen has a knife in her mouth. But he still rubbed his son with his hands.
"That's a few hundred catties of Ding!" Huangfu Chonglou was a little dissatisfied. If Situ Zisu saw the Huangfu Chonglou at this moment, he would probably laugh at him again. How old a person is and still coquettish.
"How is Jinghua practicing?" The queen thought about it and asked about Duanmu Jinghua. In fact, what she was thinking about was Sheng Xuejian, didn't she stay at the altar with Rong Jing for an afternoon today?
"He's doing well, but I'm looking at him and I'm upset. Xu was afraid that Rong Jing would hook up with his daughter-in-law and take him away. Or Huangfu Chonglou laughed.
"It's really rare for him to be so cold and jealous." Huangfu Chonglou said as he thought of himself.
"Queen Mother, the last time the son mentioned the marriage to you, the father refused to agree?" Looking at the queen, Huangfu Chonglou became nervous in his heart.
"It's not." The queen shook her head: "You just made the prince." At that time, I was only afraid that Lin Guifei would be watching closely, and the palace was only afraid that if I put it forward, I would be calculated by Lin Guifei. β
"Her son is now the Prince of Shuangzhu, I'm afraid I don't have time to think about it." Huangfu Chonglou said angrily.
"In a few days, the palace will mention to the emperor the matter of choosing a concubine for you, and then you will choose Situ Zisu, and it will be easy." The queen thought about it, but still came up with a cautious way.
When the princes of the past generations reach adulthood, they should start a family. According to the ancestral system, it is time to choose the princess for Huangfu Chonglou, as long as Huangfu Chonglou chooses Situ Zisu at that time. It just came to pass.
Huangfu Chonglou thought about it, and his mother's words were reasonable, so he nodded and agreed: "Then the king has to ask his grandfather to let his few imperial protΓ©gΓ©s give his father the emperor." β
The queen looked at her son so anxious. couldn't help but be angry: "Little has no conscience!" If you have a daughter-in-law, you forget your mother, right? β
Huangfu Chonglou rubbed his ears and begged for mercy: "Mother, light! "He was really screwed by the queen, and even his mother shouted out.
Outside the palace, Sheng Xue saw the carriage, but Duanmu Jinghua was still standing still. Sheng Xue was stunned for a moment: "Why don't you leave?" β
The coachman did not know what was going on behind him, and as soon as he raised his whip, the horse began to run with joy. Sheng Xue saw that he slowly lowered the curtain, who knew that the whole carriage suddenly shook violently, and as soon as he raised his head, a figure turned in.
"What are you doing here?" Sheng Xue looked at Duanmu Jinghua in surprise. "I'm still not at ease." Duanmu Jinghua's words without a beginning and no end made Sheng Xuejian even more strange.
"You don't have anything to say to me?" Duanmu Jinghua looked at Sheng Xue with burning eyes, and almost put the word jealousy on his head.
Sheng Xue thought about it for a while, and said with a mysterious and serious face: "I saw Concubine Duan's grandson at the altar today!" β
"You really spent an afternoon with Rong Jing?" Duanmu Jinghua's whole person's momentum became a little colder.
"You know he exists?" Sheng Xue saw that Duanmu Jinghua looked at Duanmu Jinghua even more curiously, so Duanmu Jinghua must know his past.
The attention of the two was not at the same point at all. Suddenly, Duanmu Jinghua's whole person relaxed, but he was too nervous.
"He told you that he was the grandson of Concubine Duan?"
"I didn't expect him to be scared and told me a lot. It's just that I don't believe that just by virtue of an agreement between Prince Gong and the emperor, he can survive in the palace. β
Sheng Xuejian's eyes were full of contemplation. Duanmu Jinghua only felt a little dry mouth, he was such a proud person, but in front of a little woman, he was apprehensive.
"His talents are not below me, but it is a pity to imprison the altar." Speaking of Rong Jing, when he was ten years old, he accidentally entered the altar, only to know that there was another self in the world.
"He's as good as you." Sheng Xue saw that she seemed to fall into a memory, but this sentence instantly stimulated the vinegar in Duanmu Jinghua's heart.
It was the first time he had cared about his appearance. However, Sheng Xue saw that he said next: "It's just that he has no life at all, I don't like it." β
"It's best if you don't like it." Although Duanmu Jinghua said this very lightly. But he was still listened to by Sheng Xuejian: "What did you just say?" β
"I didn't say anything, anyway, if you don't like him, stay away from him. In the end, he is the son of a rebel. lest the emperor be jealous. Duanmu Jinghua was a serious instigator Sheng Xuejian.
"No, Master asked me to learn from him, and he said today that I can't learn the art of Xuanhuang, it's too annoying." Thinking of this, Sheng Xue was annoyed when she saw it. Everyone said she was smart, but he was the first to say she couldn't.
At this moment, Duanmu Jinghua had already scolded the old guy in his heart countless times. "Then don't go, old liar."
"Poof!" Sheng Xue couldn't help but smile when she looked at Duanmu Jinghua's annoyed look: "It's me who can't learn and it's not you, why are you so angry?" β
"Miss! We're already in Nanshi Street. Hongmei reminded outside. Sheng Xue only remembered that Duanmu Jinghua had come back in the same carriage with him!
Hongmei is a sensible person, and now the carriage is parked in a remote alley. Sheng Xuejian pushed Duanmu Jinghua's sleeve: "Go down quickly!" β
Duanmu Jinghua opened his mouth, an inexplicable layer of red clouds appeared on his face, and he went out as soon as he raised his head. stirred up Sheng Xue to see inexplicable.
That night, the emperor was reviewing the recital in the Palace of Nourishing Heart, and suddenly the chamberlain came to report that the queen asked to see him. The emperor was so stunned that he even dropped his pen. The chief eunuch hurriedly picked up the pen for the emperor: "Your Majesty." The queen is still waiting. β
"Hurry up!" The emperor's voice was a little excited. The queen came to the Heart Palace, which was rare in the past, she took the initiative to find it, what was the matter?
After a while, the queen walked in, and just as she was about to kneel and salute, she was held by the emperor's arm: "The queen doesn't have to be polite. Why did you come to me? β
"We're not too small, it's time to start a family." The queen thought for a moment and softened her tone.
The emperor listened to the sentence "we" and was very useful, nodded and said: "Chonglou should indeed choose a concubine." Do you have a good eye on someone in your heart? β
The conversation between the two is as close and harmonious as that of an ordinary couple. The emperor looked at the queen's flower-like face. There is also a hint of fine lines.
Time is impermanent, and she and him have wasted so much time. The queen thought that she couldn't show it, so she said: "The concubine doesn't pay much attention to it, so she has to pay attention to the meaning of the building." It's better to choose a concubine according to the ancestral system. β
The emperor nodded: "Then do it according to your wishes." β
On the second day, when Sheng Xue came out of the altar, the news of the emperor's re-building and concubine selection was known to the court. Concubine Lin Guifei felt bad, for fear that this concubine selection would give Huangfu Chonglou some help, so she hurriedly blew the pillow wind in front of the emperor.
At this time, the emperor's choice of concubines became the selection of concubines by all adult princes. Sheng Xue saw a group of four people in the tea room of Izumo Temple, drinking tea made by Huangfu Chonglou himself.
Fan Siyan talked about it. couldn't help sneering: "Originally, it was for you to marry the county lord smoothly, but now you have put me in!" β
It's no wonder that Fan Siyan is unhappy, this prince chooses a concubine, and the daughters of the four-rank officials' families are all going to be selected. Now with the addition of Huangfu Cassia Ming, her situation is terrible.
Thinking of this, Fan Siyan couldn't help frowning. Sheng Xuejian put down the teacup: "Unless Sister Siyan is allowed to marry someone tonight, or she will be eliminated in the primary election." β
"Lin Guifei and the Prime Minister's Mansion are afraid that they have already planned for a long time, and it is not easy to pretend to be eliminated." Situ Zisu continued and looked at Fan Siyan worriedly.
"It's a big deal to twist your hair and go to be a sister-in-law!" Fan Siyan's eyes flashed with stubbornness. She cherished feathers all her life, how could she marry someone she didn't like.
"But what if we weren't pretending to be eliminated, but really we'd be eliminated?" Sheng Xue saw that she looked at Fan Siyan: "It's just that Sister Siyan is going to suffer a little." β
"What can you do, I'll hear it, as long as I can do it!" Fan Siyan just wanted to get rid of the concubine, so he naturally grabbed Sheng Xue to see this straw.
"I have a way to make you seriously ill tonight and unable to return to heaven, it just so happens that Mr. Bai is traveling to collect medicine, and the doctor of the Tai Hospital can only be helpless." Sheng Xue blinked when she saw it.
Duanmu Jinghua spoke: "Are you talking about fake death medicine?" Sheng Xuejian nodded: "My little uncle was looking for medicine for the Queen Mother, but I didn't expect to find this medicine." Now it just works. β
Situ Zisu asked with some concern, "Will there be any sequelae?" Sheng Xuejian shook his head: "The sequelae will not be, but you must take the antidote in time, otherwise you will really have no way to recover!" β
"I'll give the antidote to my mother, and my mother will definitely let me take the antidote in time." Fan Siyan's eyes bloomed again, as if he had lived again.
"In that case, let's make a plan." Sheng Xuejian handed over the fake death medicine and the antidote to Fan Siyan.
Early the next morning, the female officials and painters of the palace were ordered to go to the mansions of the dignitaries and nobles to paint portraits of the ladies who were leaving the cabinet.
It's just that when I arrived at the Xueyi Marquis's Mansion, something happened. Miss Fan San has been unconscious since last night, and she has asked several doctors in a row to no avail.
Xueyi Hou anxiously asked for Bai Zihua to come back for treatment. Lin Guifei heard the news and sneered: "Pretending to be sick? Think beautifully! β
"Let Imperial Doctor Huang follow you immediately, can't you wake up? Then wake up with needles and medicine! Lin Guifei's eyes showed a poisonous light.
As soon as Imperial Physician Huang arrived, he was not as gentle as other Imperial Physicians. Although Xueyihou and his wife knew Lin Guifei's methods, they didn't expect to be so ruthless.
Fan Siyan drank the fake death pill and didn't react at all at the moment. The Xueyi Hou Mansion hated Lin Guifei and the Prime Minister's Mansion very much.
The sweat of Imperial Physician Huang failed to wake up Fan Siyan. On the contrary, blue spots began to appear on Fan Siyan's body. Frightened, Imperial Doctor Huang immediately stopped taking the medicine. This is a dead man who will grow blue spots!
Xueyi Hou struck angrily and scolded the imperial doctors away, Imperial Doctor Huang entered the palace to reply, Lin Guifei felt cold in her heart when she heard it, but she didn't expect Fan Siyan to really have a bad disease.
"I'm afraid that the Marquis of Xueyi will bite Niangniang's body, after all, Imperial Doctor Huang is your person, and Niangniang should withdraw early." The female official next to her gave Lin Guifei a wake-up call.
Concubine Lin Guifei hurriedly asked Imperial Physician Huang Mo to go to the Xueyi Marquis Mansion again and kept silent about this matter.
Naturally, the painter who chose the concubine would not paint a portrait of Fan Siyan who was about to die, so she lay in bed for three days, missing the primary election, until Bai Zihua came back from the border. (To be continued.) )