Chapter 138: The Aftermath (I)

Life is like a play, everyone is a child with heavy makeup on the stage, and some can only be a harlequin with a white face and a red dot on the forehead, with exaggerated words and excessive behavior for others to point out and laugh.

In just a few days, Dingjing City has experienced a catastrophe, no, to be precise, it is a mighty one, the world is turned upside down, and it is new for a long time.

The governor of the frontier was carried into Dingjing City lying in a coffin on his front foot, and the eldest princess of Jin Zun and Jade died of a violent illness in the royal temple Dajue Temple on his back foot.

Died of a violent illness

Xingzhao tilted his head to be a female red, and smiled softly, remembering that his mother was rumored to the outside world that he also died of a violent illness, right?

What a good four words, giving a high-sounding reason to everything that is not accessible to people and treacherous.

The little lady's low smile was the brightest voice in the Fengyi Hall at noon, and Queen Fang gently twisted a narrow cluster of moon-white acacia flowers with one hand, and raised her head and asked her with a smile: "Can you do needlework so happily?" will finish embroidering the fan cover of the sixth child, and this will take care of the work for yourself again? I don't know if the sixth child has paid you or not. Yes, yes, our family can also produce a dignified and demure, excellent embroidery of the little lady, early in the morning to ask your uncle to take you back to the northwest, so that the old Jiang family in the northwest and Deputy General Zhang are hungry. ”

Queen Fang went out of the gate, not a good woman, and always stayed away from Xingzhao's embroidered bandages.

Xingzhao laughed quietly, Fang Qi led the Zhili of the governor of the right army, where can he go back to the northwest? If Brother Huan is called to take up his post, he can still go back.

"This is an embroidered sachet for my eldest cousin!" Xingzhao smiled, "I don't know when the eldest cousin and eldest cousin will come back." Let's do it first. lest the eldest cousin come. I took out a lot of congratulatory gifts with my hands, but Grandma couldn't give anything out! ”

Queen Fang laughed and took silver scissors to cut the extra branches of the acacia flowers with a "click", and said: "It's hard to buy true affection." You take the sachet made by yourself to exchange for the gold and silver head face that Xiao Niang gave you, do you lose it? Those two want to enter Beijing, Fang Dudu is frowning all day long with a sad face carrying the eight-color gift box to the door of Li's house today, and the door of Min's house tomorrow. If it weren't for the recent turmoil in the court. I'm afraid he can become the biggest talking point in Dingjing these days in one fell swoop."

At the end of the day, the words fell into tune.

After Ying Yi's death, Fengyi Hall had a full tacit understanding - not to mention this matter. There was a lot of bustling outside, and the Fengyi Hall stood still. Mrs. He handed the post in, Queen Fang directly returned the post, in the letter, Mrs. Hou Min took Min Jirou over and was only invited to sit in the side box, Xingzhao sent Min Jirou an ancient painting of Zhang Chaozong, Min Jirou took Zhang Mifu's calligraphy the next day and sent it in, the two little ladies took their own treasury to do favors, and Queen Fang didn't care, only smiled and nodded Xingzhao's forehead. Blame her: "The little rich woman knows how to lose!" ”。

When Queen Fang saw Mrs. Min, the six divisions received as many excerpts every day as if they were snowflakes. Empress Fang simply asked Jiang Mingying to copy all the names, showed them to Xingzhao, and asked Xingzhao what he saw from it - this is the training method that Empress Fang is happy to do, Xingzhao pinched the Chengxintang paper and thought about it, and handed in the answer sheet that afternoon, "Among the imperial princes, only Princess Pingyang and Princess Zhongning handed over the fold, and the others did not move, which is understandable." The king of Pingyang is the brother of the eldest princess of Yingyi, but the eldest princess of Zhongning has been living by the Cihe Palace, but in addition to the Li family, the Zhongshan Hou family, and the Hou family in the letter, they all handed over the fold to a greater or lesser extent, and Lord Li Lingqing dared to stalk his neck and say to the emperor that "the treasury has no money", so naturally he has this guts, and the disaster will not affect himself, the Zhongshan Hou family is not involved in political affairs, the family is rich, innocent, and does not care. The others are more or less related to the Liang family, the Gu family, and the eldest princess of Yingyi. Except for Mrs. Liang, who handed over the folds every day very seriously, the others still maintained a wait-and-see attitude."

The question is not difficult, but in the eyes of Queen Fang, it is still rare for a seven or eight-year-old lady to have such observation and analysis.

Being a mother has always been a contradiction, Queen Fang wants to marry Xingzhao to a stable and peaceful family, but she still slowly teaches her her wrists and scheming with one hand and one foot, and she doesn't want her children to use scheming and means, but she still doesn't worry that the little lady is a white and flawless piece of paper.

Take a look at her sister and understand that life is impermanent, who knows what kind of ill-intentioned pit she will end up in? Learning to stand up and learn to live is always the most important thing.

This time it was rare, Queen Fang took the initiative to mention Ying Yi's death for the first time, Xingzhao put the needle and thread together and lightly rested it in the cage beside him, and his eyebrows were lightly raised: "Calculate the day, the eldest princess of Ying Yi died violently on August 23, and now it is the 26th, you should obviously be the busiest-balance the six divisions, do a small funeral ceremony, and a big funeral ceremony" Lightly, the corners of his lips smiled slightly: "Is the emperor his own arrangements for the funeral?" ”

Queen Fang took the locust flower far away, and the white-clothed Shengxue did not rush to answer, first inserted the branch obliquely in the green jade lake-colored dendrobium, tilted her head to change the angle and took a look, and finally felt dissatisfied, took out the locust flower again, lowered her eyebrows and pruned it again.

The words came out softly, but the answer was not the question.

"In the northwest, the daughters of your family don't arrange flowers, embroider needles, copy Buddhist scriptures, we often change into Hu clothes, change into trouser cages, drive on my father's horse, and fly away in the yellow sand desert in the northwest with a wave of a horsewhip."

Xingzhao put his hand on his lap and listened quietly, it was just right at noon, since Yingyi went, her heart was depressed, Jiang Mingying didn't want to talk about Yingyi's death, all she knew was that He Yan went to Dajue Temple, Yingyi died in front of He Yan, that's all.

But I still feel that in addition to the relief after the pleasure and revenge, there is also a sadness that is so shallow that I can hardly taste the taste.

Queen Fang calmly said: "My mother went early, and my father didn't want to remarry" Speaking of this, the corners of her lips were slightly hooked, which was a remembrance of the past and a rejection of the present, "It's also strange to say, the men in the northwest are all good at killing wolves and tigers in the desert, but as soon as they go home, they can speak softly in front of their mother-in-law, and they don't say much in half a sentence" shook his head gently with a smile: "It's far away, let's get back to the topic." Daddy doesn't want to remarry, there is an old aunt left in a family who is in charge of housework, and it's not easy for the widow and eldest daughter to marry, but there is no such rule in the northwest, but Daddy beat out the suitors one after another. Until the sudden death of the son of the former dynasty and the queen of the Yuan, the first emperor begged the second prince to marry the daughter of the Fang family. ”

This is the first time Xingzhao has heard Empress Fang's own story.

Queen Fang is a loving mother, a close friend, a strict teacher, and a person who can be completely relied on, but her suffering is never less than anyone else.

Xingzhao held his breath and was quiet, the time in Fengyi Hall at the moment seemed to stand still, and he stayed at this moment heavily, Jiang Mingying had already retreated to the outside with the palace people, Xingzhao bowed and sat on the kang, Queen Fang raised her face and faintly fainted between the acacia flowers, like the fragrance of peach and plum, and she couldn't sleep anymore.

"The royal family came to the door to ask for marriage, and the father finally stopped beating people out of the house, and then to the eight characters, and then to marry, and then to marry - on the day of the wedding, there was a huge scene in Pingxi Pass, and the eyes were full of red and festive, and the suona and drums were blowing, as if they were going to deafen people's ears. This is the first time I have entered Beijing, and I am married to a prince, but at that time, the first emperor had clearly treated the second prince as a prince, and it was a requirement for others to look at the princess, but it was another request to see the princess. I can't wear a beard, I can't wear pants, I can't walk, I can't run, I can't jump, my life seems to be confined to a boxy world."

Empress Fang raised her head and gestured, looked at Xingzhao with a smile, her eyes were warm, and she enlarged her gesture again: "When I became the queen and entered the palace, the originally big boxy sky became so big, but the rules were heavier, and the original Queen Gu, who served the monarch with her beauty and voice, became the Empress Dowager Gu in the Cihe Palace who had to meet every day overnight, am I afraid?" Naturally, I am afraid, but I can't be afraid, because my Ah Fu also married into Dingjing, married to the He family of Lin'an Houfu, which is praised by everyone, and married to the jasper pearl in Dingjing City. My mother went early, I also married early, when I got married, Ah Fu was only five years old, pulled my sleeve and cried and called 'sister, sister', my father will not teach his daughter, will only blindly spoil, but fortunately Ah Fu has a gentle personality, otherwise he is a willful little lady. Ah Fu married in, I have to protect her, no matter how much fear I have, it can only turn into more courage."

Xingzhao raised her head slightly, and Empress Fang's long and insipid words almost brought tears out of her eyes.

Who in this world is not difficult to live?

Ying Yi has a difficult life, his mother's background is low, so her knowledge is shallow, and the men she meets are all hypocrites and real villains, but she lives a depressed and paranoid life as a golden branch and jade leaf.

Because she has a hard life, because she has pain and sorrow, because she needs it, can she disregard human morality and do whatever she wants?

No matter how difficult life is, you must stick to it, stick to a belief and bottom line.

The light of the afternoon poured straight down like clear water, and Empress Fang's words turned sharply and returned to the topic: "It was at that time that I really got along with my sister-in-law."

Yes, the crown prince has not yet ascended the throne and has not entered the palace to live, and Queen Fang can only watch the Gu family and Ying Yi from afar.

"She looks very good, she has a strong personality, she must get what she wants, she wants the black lacquer Arhat ivory bed in the East Palace, and the Empress Dowager Gu asked the emperor for it, and the emperor was soft-hearted, and he waved his hand and gave it. Ying Yi got it but disliked it, "My sister-in-law grew up in the northwest, and she didn't have half a tutor, so a good bed like this can be used so that even the ivory is not so white and shiny." The emperor told me as a joke, but I couldn't laugh, so I had to open the treasury the next day and choose a new black lacquer ivory screen for her."

"When my father-in-law came back, the cup of tea that Ying Yi drank before he died happened to be mixed with the decoction I left behind, and it was also in the teapot that served the tea. Interestingly, Ying Yi poured two cups of tea, but only one was drunk by herself, and the other was left alone on the table. (To be continued......)

PS: Life and death! I'm afraid of breaking off!