Zheng believes that the trick she laid out will definitely remind the people in these two rooms that there is a prince in front of them. As long as they do not have a son, they will not be able to stop. And the Zheng family can take this opportunity to rest and recuperate, in order to let her good husband relieve her anger as soon as possible and take her home as soon as possible.

The only pity in this matter is Cheng Jia.

That's a great arrangement, but unfortunately it didn't work. Cheng Jia returned to his original place after the flower banquet, Zheng originally wanted to write to the past, but Fu Geng said that Cheng Jia was preparing to participate in the county exam, but he was afraid that he would not have time to reply.

Cheng Jia participated in the county exam? Fool whom.

Zheng couldn't help but laugh.

Although Cheng Jia is a little smart, he just thinks too much, and he uses it all to the side, and his reading is very average. It's not that the Zheng family looks down on him, with Cheng Jia's homework, he will be able to pass the exam.

It would be nice if I could match that cheap girl to Cheng Jia.

Zheng thought with regret.

Or maybe Cheng Jia is smarter and has a little more courage, so he will make a fuss, and he will bite to death and have a head and tail with that cheap girl, Zheng doesn't believe that Fu Geng can still suppress things. Although she is an inner house woman who does not understand the government, she also understands that Fu Geng is not without opponents, otherwise she would not have encountered so many bad things in Ningbo.

As long as the matter is made bigger, Fu Geng's opponent will definitely be willing to make some fuss about it. The cheap girl's reputation is bad, so she can only marry Cheng Jia, and naturally, those dowries can't escape the palm of the Zheng family.

What a good situation this is, but it's a pity that Cheng Jia is a soft-footed crab and has no rigidity.

Zheng secretly sighed.

However, the Zheng family is not in a hurry about the things in the hands of the cheap girl.

There's still time. What's more, there are two rooms in the house plus an old lady. Zheng felt that the things she arranged would always be useful.

While Zheng was thinking about it, he thought about what happened in the house again, and he only felt happy and refreshed. She picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, glanced at a few maids standing on the side, and said, "Taoyuan and Xingfang go outside to guard, Xiangxue will invite Mama Fan, and the others will retreat first." ”

"Yes." Everyone bowed in response. Taoyuan and Xingfang have been used by the Zheng family since Pi County, and she can still trust them. As for Xiangxue and Golden Rain. But it was picked up later. Now Zheng is also very careful. They won't be let know about big things.

After a while, Mama Fan walked in. She wore a camel fluffy silk jacket and a little oil and gold hairpin in her hair, which was neatly tied. As soon as he entered the door, he saluted the Zheng family: "What is the order of the wife to call the old slave?" ”

Zheng lowered his voice and said, "Mama." I have something to do with you. Tomorrow when I go to the house to get firewood and rice. You gave this to Xiuyun for me. As she spoke, she took out a slender flat box from her sleeve, "I gave her permission a long time ago." You whispered to her when you found no one. ”

Mama Fan raised her eyes and looked around, the window drawer was closed very tightly, and the door curtain was tightly closed. She whispered and slipped the box into her arms.

Zheng said in a low voice: "If you want to bother Mama to pass a word to Xiuyun, tell her to dispose of the remaining things as soon as possible, don't ask someone to find a handle." ”

Mama Fan opened a pair of triangular eyes and asked puzzledly, "What did Mrs. say?" The old slave didn't understand. ”

Zheng chuckled: "After all, she will understand, and my mother can just pass the word." ”

Mama Fan hurriedly answered yes. Zheng gossiped with her again, and then made her retreat.

Mama Fan came out of the house and walked out of the yard until she reached the small bamboo forest outside the courtyard, and then she quietly took out the box and opened it to see.

I saw that the opening of the lid was neither jewelry nor silver tickets, but a box of cinnabar and a piece of paper.

Mama Fan picked up the paper and looked at it.

She learned a few words roughly from Zheng, and although she didn't know all the words on the paper, she could barely recognize a few.

“…… Year...... Month...... ...... at noon" She laboriously meditated, her mind turned a few times, and she couldn't help but secretly wonder: this seems to be the eight characters of the birthday. She remembered that she had read Zheng's marriage book back then, and it was written like this.

Mama Fan looked at the paper in her hand in a daze, and then looked at the cinnabar in the box, and always felt that there was an indescribable weirdness......

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In the spring of the eighteenth year of Yuanhe, the cold food has passed, and the upper side has not arrived. The matter of the establishment of the queen, which has been arguing for a long time in the court, finally has a result.

The granddaughter of Xu Heng, the former protector of the country, and now the virtuous concubine of the Han Dynasty, Xu Hui, was officially established as the queen after being approved by the Holy Emperor and discussed and approved by the cabinet.

It should be noted that at the end of the seventeenth year of Yuanhe, Xu Hui was once again promoted from Zhaoyi to one of the four ladies. At that time, some people in the court questioned that the Taoist saint was so tolerant of Xu Hui, and he was afraid that he was suspected of being a special favor.

But the Holy One is noncommittal about this. Anyway, in the harem, except for the queen, the rise and fall of the rest of the positions do not need the approval of the court. According to the system, the queen should make a decree, but now that the middle palace is empty, the queen mother will do it for her.

The mother and son discussed the order of the big and small wives in the family, even if you are an important minister in the court, you are just an outsider in this kind of thing, just say a few words of meaning, it's not good to really care if people love the big wife or the little wife.

As a result, Xu Hui's becoming a virtuous concubine became a fait accompli. And it didn't take long for the Holy Lord to propose the posterior.

Naturally, this move by the Holy Lord provoked different reactions from the cabinet, and the five cabinet elders remained silent and did not express their opinions.

It wasn't until the beginning of March that the Holy Lord threw out a bombshell news.

It turned out that the "Han Dynasty Charity Foundation", which has become famous in Beijing since last year, was actually founded by Xu Hui!

She sold all the 10,000 hectares of fertile land given to the Xu family by the Holy Lord, collected 200,000 taels of silver, and founded a charitable foundation aimed at helping the poor and the needy.

As soon as this news came out, the whole world was in an uproar.

Everyone never thought that this orphan of the public mansion, whose parents were dead and the clan was wiped out, could have such a benevolent heart, although he lived in the harem, he cared about the people. Soon after the establishment of the charitable foundation, it sent grain and cotton clothes to the areas affected by the ice in the northwest. At the same time, a vocational girls' school was opened in Beijing, where girls from poor families could enter for free and seek a skill.

This kind of behavior stops being open-minded, but everyone in the world thinks that this Concubine Xu Xian can really afford this word "virtuous", and judging by her words and deeds, there is also a bit of the situation of first Yi filial piety and queen mother's mother's love for the world and compassion.

It was because of such a thing in the past, coupled with the promotion of all parties in the DPRK and China, that Xu Huili's later matter finally came to fruition, and several cabinet elders finally opened their mouths and gave a unified answer, and Qi Dai, a scholar of Wuyingdian University and a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, came forward and presented the emperor with a ceremony for the canonization ceremony, which can be regarded as the final conclusion on this matter.

On the night the news reached the harem, several people in the palace fell ill. The first one to fall was Concubine De.

It is said that as soon as she heard the words from the eunuch Yang Manfu, she fell to the ground and fell asleep. And then the little eunuch who came to deliver the decree could only regretfully stand in front of Concubine De's bed and announce the decree. Naturally, the big reward he thought he could get has never become a reality.

Concubine De also rose to a position and was named the imperial concubine.

As soon as this reward was awarded, it cut off Concubine De's path to being the queen.

The title of imperial concubine is generally only awarded to those who cannot be queens. From the Bai Guifei, who was most favored by Taizu at the time of the founding of the country, to the Wan Guifei at the time of Zhongzong, they were all people who favored the harem but could not be sealed. Even if the emperor's heart belongs to her, she can only be named a concubine due to the current situation, and if she wants to ascend to the throne, it is absolutely impossible. (To be continued.) )