Chapter 7 The Butterfly Effect
The carriage drove in an orderly manner to the place where the temple provided parking, and because of the large number of people, the coachman carefully leaned the carriage against the corner, and then got out of the carriage and respectfully leaned aside.
"Miss." Xiao Tao got out of the car first, leaned aside and opened the curtain.
"Hmm." Hao Zhen'er slowly got up and got out of the carriage, and what caught her eye was Daming Temple.
The majestic building, the red lacquer wall, the breeze blowing, with the smell of incense and candles, yes, this is the Daming Temple.
Fifteen years, a full fifteen years, for her like an old man abandoned by time, a hopeless watch.
"Really." Rong walked in front of Hao Zhen'er, with a faint worry in his eyes.
"Mother." Hao Zhen'er called Rong's name, her face was still cold, although she was a little repulsed by the idea of calling Rong's mother, but she had to do it, her current situation was not too good.
Anyway, Rong's is very good to the deity, she borrowed someone's body, and it is also appropriate to call Rong's mother.
Rong glanced at Hao Zhen'er without saying anything, and after walking for a while, she finally couldn't help but say to Hao Zhen'er: "Zhen'er, rest assured, there is a mother." ”
Hao Zhen'er saw Rong's eyes, and there was an inexplicable feeling in her heart, is this the feeling left by this body? She suppressed the inexplicable feelings that appeared in her heart, she adjusted her expression, and nodded towards Rong.
Then she followed Rong Shi slowly towards the main hall, and people came and went along the way, but no one spoke loudly, making the hall more solemn and silent.
Under the leadership of the little novice who led the way, the noblewomen were in an orderly manner.
Hao Zhener vaguely remembered that when she went to Daming Temple in her previous life to worship on the Little God Festival, she looked down on the world and was above tens of thousands of people, so she did not experience this kind of civilian sacrifice, and now she has witnessed the majesty of Daming Temple again.
Led by the novices, they came to a room for the pilgrims to rest, and the pilgrims stayed in the room and waited for the novices to tell them to go to the main hall.
By the time they arrived at the house, there were already many female dependents in the house, and their voices were mixed with the fragrance of fat powder, which seemed to be very lively.
Rong walked into the room and walked towards the old lady sitting in the high position, "The old lady seems to be getting more and more fit. ”
"You are a girl, the old body is now living one day at a time." The old woman reached out and patted Rong's hand.
"What did grandmother say, Ling'er didn't follow." A woman in a pink skirt snuggled up to the old woman with a playful face.
"You girl." The old woman's gaze fell on the silent woman on the side, "This is your family, right, is she cured?" ”
Rong pulled Hao Zhen'er forward, "Back to the old lady, Zhen'er's illness is basically fine, but her temperament has become a little stupid, and she is not as good as your Ling'er who can speak." ”
Hao Zhen'er leaned over the old lady slightly, then stepped aside, and did not speak in the middle.
"Out of the way, out of the way." The old lady waved her hand, her face swept over Hao Zhen'er unchanged, and when she saw her silent eyes, she paused slightly.
Although this girl doesn't know how to be polite, she has a pair of good eyes.
Hao Zhen'er was taken by Ling'er to the middle of the table of her peers, and Ling'er said with a smile: "Come to Sister Bai, I'll introduce you, this is my fourth sister and fifth sister, and the eldest lady of Shangshu Mansion, as for the lady who wears red clothes, it is Miss Cousin from Guogong Mansion." “
Hao Zhen'er's eyes fell on the young lady, she was really a wonderful person, after retracting her gaze, she just nodded slightly, and found a place to sit down alone without saying a word.
Because of Hao Zhen'er's indifferent attitude, everyone will not come forward to talk about themselves, so they gradually forget about her existence, which is the rule in the circle, fighting for family history and character.
It's a pity that she doesn't have any mind to deal with these young ladies now, she saw that the Rong family was smiling and smiling in a group of noble ladies, and she was at ease, and she thought that this Rong family was not bad, no wonder she could get today's post.
Hao Zhen'er's eyes fell on Xiao Tao's body, and after Xiao Tao saw her young lady's gaze, she quietly came behind her, bent down and whispered in her ear: "The old lady over there is surnamed Wang, and she is the old feudal monarch of the Wei Mansion, and the one wearing green clothes over there is Qin Shangshu's wife." "Yes." After listening to Xiao Tao's report, Hao Zhen'er lowered her head and took a sip of tea.
The Duke of Wei is a hereditary marquis of five generations, the surname Wei is a scholarly family since the ancestor ago, and it is not uncommon for five generations of marquis to be in the capital, the children of the Duke of Wei are all out of the limelight, and the Wei clan has cultivated a large number of promising people.
This old lady is the daughter of the Wang family, she doesn't remember this old lady, but she remembers that the Wang family, one of the four major families, married the daughter of the Wang family into the Wei Mansion in order to resist the imperial power, and the old lady she wants to see today is the daughter of the Wang family.
At that time, this move represented the attitude of the aristocratic valve, who looked down on the emperor of the troubled times who was born poor and lowly in their bones, and how could the untouchable bloodline who did not even have a name be worthy of his aristocratic status.
Later, although the surname of Murong was changed, it could not change the fact that the Murong royal family was born as a pariah, and the Gaomen clan was intertwined and infiltrated layer by layer, how easy is it to shake it?
Back then, she tried to disturb the balance of the four major families, forced the people of the four major families to send their daughters to the palace, and in order to exploit the power of the prince's party, they were reduced to a desolate and barren place, and secretly played games with the people of the dark party.
She carefully looked for the balance between the three forces, walking on thin ice, the tilt in the court has always been ruthless, and as a woman, she is even more difficult in the court.
In the end, she borrowed the hand of the dark party to deter those powerful ministers in the bloody court, and in the face of absolute authority, she was vulnerable.
Hao Zhen'er remembered that she promoted a lot of poor people, if the emperor used it well, now those poor people should become a force to be reckoned with in the court.
There are the Wang family of the four major families here today, as well as the Bai family of the Hanmen, although the Bai family was not brought up by her, but it should belong to the Hanmen faction, as for which party Qin Shangshu belongs to, it is not known for the time being.
The Rong family came from the mansion of the Duke of Rong, so he naturally knew the old feudal monarch who was also the mansion of the Duke of Wei, and thought that the Rong family married into a cold family back then, which was related to his own means of disrupting the situation in Beijing back then.
forced the four major families to send their daughters into the palace to become pawns, vigorously promoted the children of the poor family, and suppressed the children of the nobles, so there is the phenomenon of the current noble women of the poor family.
But at the same time, she also knows that this is just a temporary balance, it is easy to share hardships and hardships, but it is difficult to share wealth and prosperity, people are selfish, and she doesn't trust anyone, including the cronies of the poor family she vigorously promoted.
She looked at the smiling noblewomen in front of her, but people with different positions stood together, so this is not a good phenomenon.
Back then, back then, looking at the living people in front of her, Hao Zhen'er looked away with some difficulty, back then, what were they in her eyes? It's just a chess piece.
But now that she is in a predicament and her wings are broken, where will she go?
Xiao Tao has been standing silently by the young lady's side, until she saw the maid of the king of Anyang enter the house, she carefully reminded the young lady who was in a daze.
Hao Zhen'er came back to her senses and looked at the hall, but found that there was an extra maid inside, and after the maid finished speaking, Rong stood up and said goodbye to the old lady.
Hao Zhen'er stood up at the same time as Rong stood up, and then looked at Rong and walked towards her, "Zhen'er, follow Weiniang to see Concubine Niangniang." ”
Side concubine? Could it be Concubine Yang in the Anyang Palace, Hao Zhen'er followed Rong out without saying a word, her eyes fell on Xiao Tao beside her, and then saw Xiao Tao nodding slightly at herself.
She turned her head silently, her lowered eyelids obscuring her complicated eyes at the moment.
In her last life, she knew about Concubine Yang in the Anyang Palace, although Concubine Yang's maiden family could not be among the four major families, but it also belonged to the high-ranking lords.
The king of Anyang once surrendered to herself, wanting to remain neutral, and in exchange, she chose a woman from the Hao family and sent her to the palace to become the princess of Anyang.
But the good times didn't last long, when the emperor wanted to seize power as an adult, the king of Anyang married a divorced woman Yang as a side concubine, and there is no doubt that the Yang family belongs to the clan faction.
In the turbulent situation at that time, the king of Anyang made a great mistake in this move, and finally the king of Anyang knelt down in the Jinluan Hall and begged for surrender, wept bitterly in the name of love, handed over the military power, and sent the family to the fief to guard the frontier.
In the end, the matter ended with the departure of the prince of Anyang, and she did not pursue it after she got the military power, but the palace of Anyang has not been as good as before, and in the end, if it were not for the prince of Anyang who is a military prodigy, he has made great contributions to the frontier at a young age, and the palace of Anyang has already declined.
When she was about to arrive at the house, the maid who led the way turned her head to look at Rong and said, "Madame Bai, in addition to the side concubine, the princess is also there." ”
The princess? After hearing the maid's words, she couldn't remember the face of the girl who was sent to the palace back then, only that it was a quiet child.
She can't describe her mood at the moment, it is very complicated, the princess's surname is Hao, her own family, and the side concubine's surname Yang is the daughter of the clan, and she is a close friend of the Rong family.
And she, Hao Zhen'er, is using the identity of the Bai family's daughter at the moment.
Is God kidding me?
(10:30 p.m., let's wait slowly, and the time will be adjusted slowly in the future.) )