Chapter 68
83_83499 There was a drizzle in the early morning, and the dripping rain stopped as soon as it wet the land, and it didn't take long for the morning sun to rise, and the air was full of fresh breath. The large mansions in the south of the capital are gathered, the tall and solemn buildings are lined up one after another, and the warm morning sun shines on the roofs covered with black or red glazed tiles, reflecting a little light, if you look down from the sky, it is like those roofs are sprinkled with shining gems.
Among these mansions, there is a mansion with white marble steps paved in front of the main entrance, and a big red pillar erected on the steps, which is the mansion of Princess Haoyu, the sister of the current emperor. Although the princess is in her thirties this year, she looks as if she is only in her twenties due to proper maintenance, and she is still as beautiful as when she was a girl.
In the early morning of this day, Princess Haoyu sat in the room as usual and combed in the mirror, and the maidservant combed her hair in a bun, and then took a box containing various colors of hostas and asked Princess Haoyu to personally choose her favorite one, so that she could insert it on her head.
Princess Yuyu casually glanced at the hairpin in the box, and casually selected a hairpin carved with a begonia flower in white jade and handed it to the maidservant, asking her to help insert it in the bun.
Not long after the maid who combed her hair arrived, in order to please Princess Xunyu, she took the hairpin and was about to praise it, when Princess Xunyu's personal maid Xilu ran in with a carrier pigeon.
"Princess, pigeon of Guangdeshire."
"Show it to me, Wen Ying hasn't written to me for a long time, and I don't know what it is." Princess Haoyu smiled, reached out and took out a rolled note from a small bamboo tube tied to the pigeon's leg, and opened the wax seal as she spoke.
But as soon as I watched a paragraph, the smile on Princess Yu's face disappeared. Xilu felt that something was wrong, and asked carefully, "Princess, but what happened?" ”
Princess Yunyu put the note in the palm of her hand, and said with a solemn face: "It's okay, you all retreat, I don't tell anyone not to enter the house." ”
The maidservants heard this and hurriedly whispered out, and Xilu glanced at Princess Yu's face, retreated outside the door and closed the door. When Princess Yuyu was the only one left in the room, she spread out the note in her hand again, and looked at it with a slight trembling hand.
The maidservants outside the house stood quietly at the door, and it didn't take long to hear the sound of falling things from the house, and the maidservants were all so frightened that they shrunk their necks, and one of the maids standing next to Xilu came to Xilu's side and whispered and asked: "Sister Xilu, what's wrong, in the past, the princess received the news from Guangdejun, even if she was not happy, she would not be as angry as she is today." ”
Xilu glanced at the servant girl and said, "How do I know what's going on?" You ask about something, but you just serve well. ”
The maidservant pursed her lips and took a step back to where she had stood, but her eyes remained fixed on the closed door.
After a while, there was some noise in the room, Xilu breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to quietly go back to do things, when she heard Princess Haoyu's shout: "Xilu, you come in, put on makeup for me, I will enter the palace today." ”
Xilu hurriedly walked in, bypassed the jade carved incense burner that was emitting black smoke in the center of the room, walked to the mirror, picked up the eyebrow pencil on the table, dipped a little water and lit some green finch heads, and began to carefully help Princess Yunyu trace her eyebrows. Seeing that Princess Xunyu's face was not bad, Xilu drew her eyebrows and asked carefully: "Princess, do you want to let the slave and maid go back to the flower viewing party in Narong and the Prince's Mansion for a while?" ”
"Let's go back."
"The ceremony?" Xilu picked up the mirror and asked again.
"Don't send it." Princess Yunyu picked up another small brush, dipped some bright red salgrease and brushed it on her lips little by little, and said, "You just let the person who replied say, wait a few days for the little prince to be full moon, and I will send it over." ”
"Ugh." Xilu answered, took out a golden peony flower from the box, and stretched out her hand to stick it on her forehead for Princess Haoyu.
"Another." When Princess Haoyu saw the peony-like Huadian, she raised her hand to block it, and then personally took out a cyan bluebird-like Huadian from the box and put it on the center of her forehead.
Today's emperor Ju Yanyang was sitting in the imperial garden playing Go with Wu Zhaoyi, and when he heard the inner servant report that Princess Haoyu asked to enter the palace, he said to Wu Zhaoyi: "If I remember correctly, today's princess Ronghe is going to hold a flower viewing party in the palace, and Ronghe hid in the morning to Liangtai Fu's house, why is Xunyu free to come?" ”
Wu Zhaoyi was upright in her heart, she finally thought of a way to grab the emperor, this princess Yunyu didn't go to the flower party, she had nothing to do to disturb her good things. However, Wu Zhaoyi didn't dare to bring it out at all dissatisfaction on his face, so he only put down the chess pieces in his hand and said with a smile: "I think there is something wrong with Her Royal Highness the Princess, the emperor will go and listen, and the concubine will wait for the emperor to come back and finish playing this game of chess." ”
"You're well-behaved, don't wait, go back, I should go and review the chapter when I see Xun Yu turn around." Ju Yanyang threw away the chess pieces in his hand, stood up and said.
Wu Zhaoyi gritted her teeth when she heard this, she had planned to pull the emperor back to her bedroom after playing chess, but now the good opportunity is just like this. But no matter how much Wu Zhaoyi hated in her heart, she still sent Ju Yanyang away with a smile on her face.
Ju Yanyang was in a good mood all the way back to the dormitory, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Princess Xunyu sitting on the couch with her chin hooked upright, he knew his sister quite well, and he knew that something must have happened when he saw this. Ju Yanyang glanced at the palace maid standing in the room, walked in with her hands behind her back, and asked, "You don't want to enjoy the flowers, what are you doing here?" ”
"Brother!" Princess Xunyu has been in a lot of confusion until now, and when she saw Ju Yanyang coming over, she stood up, and waited for the palace maids and maids in the house to leave, before she said, "Brother, I don't want to go back to Shuliu Kingdom this year." ”
"What? Still angry with the game? You can't blame him, you're all young, and you don't have children yet. Ju Yanyang sighed, in the past ten years, Xun Yu has tried all his methods, but unfortunately he has not been able to conceive, in the past, Zishu Game focused on seizing the throne, and he didn't care about the problem of the heir, but now since he is interested in the heir, then they might as well be generous, after all, in this matter, Xun Yu can't give birth to a child first, Zishu Game has not let other women have children for more than ten years, which is very good.
Princess Haoyu lowered her head and said, "I have never blamed him for this matter, as a husband, it is very rare that the game can tolerate me being childless for so many years." ”
"Are you worried about your status?" Ju Yanyang asked.
Princess Haoyu shook her head, "I know that as long as you are on the throne for one day, my status will never change. I left Shuliuguo, not because I was angry, but because I felt guilty. Brother, I have always had a deep sense of guilt about gambling, and every year I can't conceive a child, my guilt for him is even heavier. He was a good husband, but I was not a good wife, and I did things that I was sorry for, but I never regretted it. So I couldn't stand it anymore and didn't want to see him, so I would come home. ”
Ju Yanyang's face changed, and he said with some difficulty: "It's been so many years since the affairs of the Qi family, haven't you completely forgotten about it?" ”
"I can't forget, the better the game is for me, the more I can't forget what happened back then, and the more I can't conceive a child, the more painful that memory is for me."
"Are you blaming me?"
"No, you've always been a good brother and what you've done is what you're supposed to do. I have never blamed you, on the contrary, I am grateful to you, and my happy life now is all given by my brother. I just can't forget that little life that I left behind. ”
Ju Yanyang's heart jumped when he heard this, and he asked loudly, "What? What are you talking about, Yu! ”
"In order to marry the game, I once abandoned my child, and I just gave birth to a child who only had time to hug." Princess Haoyu clutched her chest sadly, tears falling down her cheeks.
"What nonsense are you talking about? Where did the children come from? How is it possible to have children! Ju Yanyang sat on the stool in disbelief, and suddenly remembered some things he had ignored back then, and his face turned dark.
Gong Yu fell to the ground with tears in his eyes, and slowly talked about the events of the year on Ju Yanyang's knees.
Seventeen years ago, the old emperor was seriously ill, and the older princes were secretly vying for the throne, Ju Yanyang was the third prince at that time, and his ability was outstanding, but the power of his mother's concubine's family was not strong enough, and he was always in a relatively disadvantageous position in the battle for the throne. At that time, Princess Haoyu was promised to Qi Qi, the eldest son of the imperial historian Qi Sigong, and the two fell in love, just waiting for the old emperor to decree marriage.
That year, there was a drought, and the drought in a county in the south was very severe, and the old emperor sent the eldest prince, the second prince and the third prince Ju Yanyang to treat the disaster together, but in the process of treating the disaster, there was a matter of embezzlement of silver and grain, which was very strict at that time, and a large number of officials were involved.
The old emperor was very angry when he found out, and ordered a strict investigation, and he must find someone to be responsible for this matter. Ju Yanyang was the weakest among the three princes, and he obviously didn't do anything, but the evidence found out was very unfavorable to him. At that time, he was almost cornered, but he accidentally found out that Qi Sigong had always supported him on the surface, but behind his back he supported the eldest prince, and many of the evidence that was unfavorable to him was made by Qi Sigong.
In order to keep himself, Ju Yanyang made a plan and helped Princess Xunyu and Qi Que create a few opportunities to meet in private, and then knew some of Qi Sigong's plans without Qi Que's knowledge, and finally pushed all the silver grain corruption on the head of the eldest prince.
Under the fall of several other princes, the eldest prince failed to seize the throne and was grounded, and a group of officials who followed him were arrested, demoted, and imprisoned, including Qi Sigong, and Qi Que, who was completely unclear about his father's position, was also implicated and imprisoned as a felon.
When the incident happened, Princess Xun Yu had been sent to a mountain villa far away from Dadu by Ju Yanyang for safety reasons, and by the time she knew that Qi Que had an accident, the dust had already settled. Immediately after she had not recovered from her grief, she was notified by Ju Yanyang to marry the prince of Shu Liuguo, in exchange for Shu Liuguo's support to win the throne.
Princess Yunyu was already pregnant with Qi Qi's child at that time, and was about to give birth, emotionally she wanted to give birth to this child and keep the festival for Qi Qi, but intellectually she knew that she had to obey Ju Yanyang's words and marry to Shuliuguo, because they couldn't afford to lose, and once they lost, they were likely to lose not only their noble status, but their lives. But whether it is emotionally or intellectually, Princess Haoyu hopes that she can give birth to Qi Que's child intact and leave a bloodline for the Qi family.
But her pregnancy was known to Concubine Chen.
Concubine Chen is not such a beautiful woman, her father is only a fourth-grade official, and it is great to be a talented person or Zhaoyi by relying on only two points, but she can become one of the four concubines, which shows how skillful she is. Such a woman can ignore her rights for the sake of power, and in her eyes, her son and daughter are all tools for her to win power, so Princess Haoyu will never be allowed to give birth to the child intact, and after knowing the news, she sent someone to send an abortion pill.
Even if it wasn't for the Qi family, Princess Xunyu was reluctant to abort the child she had been pregnant for so long, so with the help of Wen Zhuying, the personal palace maid at the time, she replaced the abortion pill with an inducing drug, and gave birth to the child a month earlier after drinking it. This matter couldn't be hidden from Concubine Chen at all, and a few days later, she sent someone over to dispose of the child. Princess Yunyu knew the news in advance, and after bringing the jade pendant given to her by Qi Que for the child, she let Wen Zhuying escape with the child.
Wen Zhuying, a girl who is powerless, and a premature baby who has just been born, it is too difficult to escape from Concubine Chen's hands. In order to escape for her life, Wen Zhuying had to pretend that she was a refugee who had escaped from the disaster area and hid in a temple.
The temple is a well-known temple in the area, and many people who can't have children go to worship it, so many people abandon their children there in the hope that couples who can't have children will adopt their children. When Wen Zhuying hid in, there happened to be a couple of husbands and husbands who adopted a baby at the pleading of a dying old woman, and the old woman Wen Zhuying knew, was originally the grandmother of the Juhe family, the former prince and the prince, and the ancestors of the Ju family were out of the same door as the royal family, and they were originally considered relatives of the emperor, but in this embezzlement case, they were beheaded all over the house because of their support for the eldest prince, but they didn't expect to leave a baby, and the baby happened to have a piece of jade pendant in the shape of a blue bird that could prove his identity on his neck.
At that time, Concubine Chen's subordinates had already found the temple, and in order to save the princess's child, Wen Zhuying swapped the child of the Ju family with the princess's child without everyone paying attention, and then pretended that there was no way to escape, and was caught by Concubine Chen's men.
Princess Xunyu didn't know that her child was safe at that time, and when she saw Wen Zhuying being arrested with the child, she begged Concubine Chen to let her child go, and said that she was willing to do anything for the safety of the child. Concubine Chen heard this, and after thinking twice, she let the child live, but she asked the child to live under her nose for the rest of her life, and said that if she wanted the child to grow up safely, Princess Yunyu had to listen to her obediently, do things for her, and help her seize power.
Princess Xunyu agreed, and later let Wen Zhuying take the child home, when Wen Zhuying's sister-in-law happened to die of illness, Wen Zhuying said to Wen Zhuxiu that the child was born with a nobleman, and now it is inconvenient to show her identity, Wen Zhuxiu put the child under her own name, claiming that his wife died due to dystocia, leaving a child named Wen Tianhe.
In the past ten years, Princess Xunyu has known that Wen Tianhe is not her child, but she always regards Wen Tianhe as her child's sustenance, and from time to time she will send things to Wen Tianhe on the grounds of rewarding Wen Zhuying, she always thinks that she is better to Wen Tianhe, so her child who is missing will also get a good reward. Of course, this is also to make the current queen mother of Concubine Chen not suspicious, and think that she is still under her control.
But now that her child is coming, she doesn't want to care about anything, she just wants to hug her child well, and she just wants to see what he looks like now