"Really?" Yulan was overjoyed, and the old lady resigned and fled to Shandong, saying that it was to enjoy the mountains and rivers, but in fact it was better to avoid the political whirlpool in Beijing. If he stays in Jingshi, even if he retreats from the position of the first assistant, he can't escape the court, and the emperor doesn't allow him to return to his hometown, so he has to resort to this trick.

Although his sons are all officials in the court, none of them are in key positions, and they will slowly be able to pull out the Yang family.

However, the old man is old after all, and he sleeps in the open all the way, and it is really worrying to wander the world, although there are letters sent back from time to time, Yulan is still worried. So of course she was very happy to hear that her grandfather was coming back.

It's probably because the eldest man is making too much trouble in Beijing, and the old lady can't let go of his hand, so he has to come back to take care of his eldest son.

As for the fourth master of the Yang family, he is a concubine, and the road to the imperial examination is not smooth. In the end, the old lady donated the official to him, he started from the Qipin County Order, and after so many years of seniority, he finally became the prefect of Qingzhou Mansion in the fifth grade.

When the old lady arrived in Shandong, the fourth master was an official in Shandong, and taking his father to his home for the New Year was naturally the proper meaning of the question.

This time, the old lady returned to Beijing, and it happened that the three-year release period of the fourth master had also arrived, and he also had to return to Beijing to seek shortages, and the old lady happened to come back to help him take care of this matter.

And the children of the four old men are also older, the so-called back to the big tree is good to enjoy the shade, back to the capital, relying on the branches of the Yang family, it is also good to say a few good family affairs for the children.

The family letters of the old lady and the fourth master have been transmitted to the Yang family through the post station express horse. The eldest lady has already started to tidy up the courtyard and prepare to settle the fourth master's family.

Yulan asked, "Did grandfather and fourth uncle say when they would come back?" ”

Ye Yichen said: "The old lady said in the letter that he would set off after the spring flood, and the whole family dragged the family with their mouths, and it would be May to go to Beijing." "At that time, it was not like modern times, the transportation was developed, and it only took a few hours to buy a ticket to fly anywhere at most, and the transportation was inconvenient, the communication was extremely blocked, and from one place to another, it was often calculated in months.

Yulan muttered, "Grandfather, they can take a boat through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal." ”

Ye Yichen smiled and rubbed Yulan's head: "What kind of person is the old lady, do you want to remind me?" ”

couldn't see his grandfather immediately, and Yulan's good mood was immediately discounted. It happened that Ye Minwen was taken by the nurse and the maids to play outside for a while, and came in to look at Yulan with a red face. Seeing that his father Ye Minwen was still a little restrained, but it was much better than before.

Yulan asked the maid to bring hot water, wiped his hands and face with a hot towel, and then pulled him to sit beside him, and asked him what he was stubborn just now and who he was with.

Ye Minwen replied one by one, with excitement in his tone that could not be concealed.

Yulan's mood also improved. The mother and son said a few words, but they left Ye Yichen aside, and Ye Yichen smiled bitterly. I got up and went to the outer study.

Out of the first month, it should be the period of spring. According to the usual practice, the time for the spring exam should be the ninth day of February. After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the people from all over the country came to Beijing one after another, and Beijing gathered literati and students from all over the country, and the triennial event was naturally extraordinary.

Chengzu and Chengzong also began to move around frequently with the lifters, on the one hand, they would write, and on the other hand, they would make friends, which could be regarded as laying a good foundation for their future careers. Among them, maybe one of the people you know will be a Jinshi in the future, and it will be a good network resource in the future.

Chengzu and Chengzong are going to end this year, Yulan is pregnant and can't leave the palace, so after fifteen, Xiaoyue specially sent Xiaoyue to give the eldest brother and the third brother a set of valuable four treasures of the study, to encourage them with spirit. Chengzong specially called Xiaoyue over and asked a few words, telling Yulan not to worry about what he would try, just give birth to a baby, and give birth to a son in October.

Xiaoyue came back and told Yulan that the third young master was in excellent spirits and looked full of confidence, so Yulan was a little relieved. I can't say anything like Chunqiu, it's one thing whether the lifters can write a good article, and it's another thing whether the article can get into the eyes of the examiner.

Therefore, although Mr. said that Chengzong must be able to win this subject, but it has not reached the last moment, after all, whoever says it will not be able to do it.

When a group of scholars were preparing for the spring festival, on the first day of the second month, the orthodox emperor suddenly felt unwell. After Xuan Taiyi, the doctor went in to see it, prescribed a prescription and took a few doses of medicine, but he got better for a while, and fell ill again two days later. It's not a serious illness, it's just an ordinary fever and cough, but a group of national players in the hospital just can't see it well.

The imperial physician took turns to see it, and the prescription was changed again and again, but the emperor's condition did not improve, and the hospital was so anxious that his hair turned gray.

Because the palace examination is to be presided over by the emperor himself, orthodoxy is in this situation now, and he is groggy all day long, where can he still preside over the palace examination? The emperor fell seriously ill, and as a result, the spring was postponed.

It is good to say that the movers of the Beijing division have to stay in the capital indefinitely, and the Ministry of Rites cannot come up with an accurate charter, when will the emperor be able to be safe.

The rich and powerful are okay, but it is difficult for those poor people to move, originally the capital was rice beads, and when it came to the spring, the price of the rented houses in the capital division would rise by several percent, and they were already shy in their pockets, and now they were even more miserable. But because the matter implicated the emperor, they didn't dare to complain.

This delay dragged on in February, and the emperor's health still did not improve. There is no definite number when the spring exam will start. Yulan quietly asked Ye Yichen, what kind of illness the emperor was, Ye Yichen couldn't help but sigh slightly, he said: "There was no serious illness originally, but the imperial brother recently got a few pills offered by Fang Shijin, and it was quite effective when used in the bed, and the imperial brother couldn't bear it, and when his condition improved slightly, he summoned the beauties in the palace to come to bed, and this disease was naturally not so easy to get better!" ”

"The emperor is nearly fifty years old, why don't you know how to control the Dao?"

Ye Yichen just said coldly: "Dogs can't change eating!" ”

Yulan was speechless.

In her previous life, she saw someone singing with her life, acting with her life, brushing her sense of existence with her life, stealing the spotlight with her life, and selling cuteness with her life...... I didn't want to go back to ancient times, but I could actually meet a person who was rolling the sheets with his life!

Or the supreme ruler of the Great Chu Empire!

Such a lascivious emperor, no wonder he can give birth to a strange prince like him!

How many years can such an emperor live?

The spring is far away, but Xiao Yunqian, the princess of Zhao, was finally buried after 7749 days.

The funeral of King Zhao's Mansion was over, and everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief. In private, it is inevitable that the nobles of the high-ranking family will guess the truth about Xiao Yunqian's death, but the Xiao family has not said anything, and everyone guesses in vain, and this matter has passed.

The eyes of the post-housekeepers are focused on another matter. Ye Minyu is the emperor's favorite prince, Xiao Yunqian hangs up, and the position of the princess is vacant. Although she is a step-concubine, the step-concubine is also a concubine, which girl, if she can marry Ye Minyu, it will also be a step to the sky!

There are also some knowledgeable people who also think that after Ye Minyu has finished his wife's filial piety for a year, the Xiao family will inevitably send another daughter to Ye Minyu.

There was a lot of discussion for a while, and there was everything to say.

King Zhao's mansion was calm, Ye Minyu lived in a simple house all day long, and if the emperor did not summon him, he would never go out. It seems to be temporarily avoiding the prince's edge.

Since the crown prince came back, because of the mysterious aura of "the destiny of heaven", he first went to the Temple of Heaven to worship the heavens on behalf of the emperor, and then not long after, the emperor asked him to go to the household department to walk and lead the household affairs. The prince took the opportunity to gather many officials, and he was very sharp for a while.

Probably because he felt that the emperor was not lightly ill this time, and he was suspected of hanging up, the prince began to move around frequently with the ministers of the court and the central government in order to take over the shift, and he looked quite ugly. Although the power of the orthodox emperor is not as good as that of his father, the most basic judgment is still there, the prince is doing this, he is establishing a second political center in addition to the emperor, and when his wings are really full, I can't tell if the dragon chair under the orthodox ass will not be stable one day!

The orthodox emperor was suspicious, and he didn't say anything on the surface, but ordered Chen Jia to closely monitor the prince's every move. and frequently summoned Ye Minyu and Ye Minzhao to serve the sick. For the crown prince, it is indeed becoming more and more estranged.

These things are naturally unknown to Yulan. She is now lying at home every day to raise her baby, and she doesn't even see much people outside. After the first three months, Yulan's fetus finally sat firmly, and after Dr. Bai took the pulse, he said that her pulse was strong, the fetus was stable, and now she could walk around on the ground.

Yulan was detained by Ye Yichen in bed to raise the fetus, and it was more than a month to raise it, and she was about to suffocate to death. I was overjoyed to hear the doctor's words. After that, she called a few big girls to help her walk in the yard every day.

It's not that she hasn't seen others get pregnant before, but she's never seen it so hard. She also asked Dr. Bai about this, and Dr. Bai told her that her body foundation was too thin, and she was still a little reluctant to get pregnant at this time, thanks to proper care, so that the mother and child could be safe.

Yulan sighed slightly in her heart, this body, she has suffered too much since she was a child, she has been too much, and she has also put a lot of effort into conditioning and exercising after she took over, but now it is still not good. After giving birth, you have to let Dr. Bai prescribe a few prescriptions to take care of it, and you can't relax during physical exercise!

In general, this kid came a little too suddenly.

Yulan's belly grew a little bigger. Ye Yichen even woke up his spirit, and he didn't dare to slack off in the slightest. After a while, news came from the palace that Zhang Liangyuan of Yuqing Palace had a miscarriage, one corpse and two lives, and died of blood.

Although Yulan had long expected that Zhang Liangyuan's child would not be saved, she still didn't expect her ending to be so tragic. Since she had a child, she couldn't hear such news, and she didn't even eat much dinner that day.

It made Ye Yichen regret that he shouldn't have told her about it.

A few days later, Luzhi came to ask for peace, Yulan asked about it, and Luzhi asked her to send the people who served, and then whispered to her: "Zhang Liangyuan, this child has fallen into a strange situation!" Since the last incident when she opened her mouth to ask the Queen Mother to serve, the crown princess didn't bother to care about her, so she was left to fend for herself. ”

"Everyone in the East Palace thinks that with her tossing method, the child will soon be gone, but she didn't think about it, she has lost weight as a handful of dry firewood, but the child is still good. Later, I don't know where she got a home remedy to protect the fetus, saying that it is to use incense ash mixed with water to ensure the health of the fetus, and I don't know where she got the incense ash, after drinking it with water, she had abdominal pain, and then soon had a miscarriage, and soon died of blood collapse! …… It's a formed boy! ”

Speaking of this, Green Branch's face was also slightly pale. It can be seen how terrible the scene was at that time.

Yulan's face changed slightly, although the incense ash is not a good thing, it will not be a miscarriage at all, not to mention listening to the tone of the green branch, it is clear that there is an article in it: "You mean, there is a problem with the incense ash?" Did Zhang Liangyuan's child be harmed? ”

"The crown princess is also so suspicious." Lu Zhi said: "The princess doesn't know, because of the small place in our Yuqing Palace, in addition to the princess's main hall has a small Buddha hall, there is only a larger Buddha hall in the east hall, except for the princess, all the concubines and concubines go there to worship the Buddha and incense!" Zhang Liangyuan's incense ash was obtained from that Buddhist hall. It's a pity that the imperial doctor checked the incense ashes in the Buddhist hall, but nothing went wrong. ”

So someone made a move in the incense ash after careful planning, and after Zhang Liangyuan took the incense ash, he quietly went back and destroyed the evidence?

Yulan frowned: "I'm afraid this matter is not difficult to verify." Ask the mother-in-law on duty who went to the Buddha hall that day! ”

Lu Zhi nodded: "As soon as this happened, the crown princess immediately asked someone to ask the mother-in-law on duty, there were a total of four people who entered the Buddhist hall that day, namely the crown princess, Song Liangyuan, and the other two concubines in the palace!" ”

Yulan was shocked, and sure enough, Song Liangyuan and Yuxia were involved. All four of them are suspicious, and it will be difficult to investigate further.

The green branch continued; The crown princess wanted to start with that home remedy again...... "As long as you find out who Zhang Liangyuan got this home remedy from, then the murderer is about to come out." As a result, after checking for a while, I still didn't find a clue. Lu Zhi smiled bitterly: "Because the palace maids around Zhang Liangyuan were all given by the crown princess, she refused to trust her." There are many things that the personal palace maids don't know about it, so no one knows who told her about the home remedies. I only know that almost all of the concubines and concubines in the East Palace have come to see Zhang Liangyuan recently! ”

"Could it be that this has become an unsolved case?" She always felt that as long as it was done by people, there would always be some clues, as long as she peeled off the cocoon and slowly investigated, she could always find the real culprit.

Lu Zhi nodded and said: "Who said no, the crown princess also wanted to find out the mastermind behind the scenes and punish him severely, but the prince intervened." ”

Yulan didn't react for a moment: "Why is this?" ”

Lu Zhi said: "The prince doesn't want things to make a big deal and affect his reputation outside. The crown princess was only allowed to investigate privately, and the minions were not allowed to be tortured, and the princess was angry and let go of this matter! ”

Ay! Yulan knew in her heart. Zhang Liangyuan turned out to be just a palace maid, even if she was pregnant, the prince might not be in her eyes. What's more, if this kind of thing is spread out, the prince's concubines will compete for favor among themselves, and the prince's blood will be harmed! If this kind of thing is spread out, everyone will spread it as false, and I don't know what will happen to the road after it is the most rude!

It must be a great harm to the reputation of the crown prince! It is understandable that the prince did not allow Yuxin to make a big deal about it.

"The most reluctant...... It was only reported to Zhang Liangyuan for an accidental miscarriage and unfortunately died! ”

Yulan was full of emotion, if he didn't die, he wouldn't die, if Zhang Liangyuan could tell who was loyal and who was traitorous, who was good and who was bad, and stood firmly by Yuxin's side from the beginning, how could there be so many troubles, and finally ended up with one corpse and two lives.

But it's understandable to think about it. Zhang Liangyuan is just a palace maid, how much knowledge she can have, and it is understandable that she will feel lost in such an intricate relationship in the East Palace.

Yulan sighed: "Zhang Liangyuan is unlucky after all!" "If she can really give birth to the eldest son of the prince, she will be raised under Yuxin's knees, because she is a palace maid and has a humble status, Yuxin doesn't even need to keep her son to go to her mother, and when the child grows up in the future, there will always be a dignity for her.

Now, of course, everything is Hugh!

Yulan muttered: "Who did such a hurtful thing? ”

Lu Zhi said: "The princess's thoughts are either Song Liangyuan or our five girls!" ”

After listening to such words for an afternoon, Yulan had something in his heart at night, and he couldn't sleep. She stared at the delicately trimmed sachet on the bed net. But I was thinking about Yu Xin in my heart, although Lu Zhi kept saying that Yu Xin was very good, but in such a suffocating environment as the East Palace, there was no trace of affection between her and the prince, how did she live her life?

As she thought about it, a strong arm reached out and took her into his arms. "Why don't you sleep yet?" The man's mellow voice sounded in her ears.

Yulan didn't dare to make a sound for fear of waking Ye Yichen up. After all, the man had been busy outside all day, and she didn't want him to not even be able to sleep soundly.

However, Ye Yichen still noticed her abnormality, which made her heart warm.

"I'm thinking about the eighth sister! I really don't know how she survived in such a messy place as Yuqing Palace! ”

Ye Yichen thought for a while and said; "Everyone has their own fate, good days and bad days, everyone lives by themselves, the princess has a strong temperament, and the man is not as good as the man, but it is easy to break, she is so strong, she never bows her head to others once, even if she is not a princess, it is difficult to want to be a husband and wife!"

Yulan was stunned when she heard it, it was the first time she heard someone analyze Yuxin's fate from the perspective of personality, this angle is very novel, but I have to say that Ye Yichen said it very reasonably.

This is the so-called, character determines fate.

Ye Yichen had already covered her eyes with his hands: "The affairs of the East Palace, even I can't get involved, no matter how much heart you have, it's useless, let's rest early." Otherwise, this one in my stomach will trouble you again tomorrow! If you don't think about yourself, you have to think that he is not! ”

Gently, patting her back one by one, Yulan finally slowly entered the dream.

Within a few days, the news of Zhang Liangyuan's miscarriage spread in Beijing. This kind of thing is a good material for everyone's gossip, but it is spread and spread somehow it is crooked. Later, it was said that the feng shui of the palace was not good, so it was so difficult for the heirs of the royal family.

Some people even say that because Taizong Ye was not in the right position and killed Emperor Taizu, the heirs of the royal family are not as good as the next generation. This is the curse of the Great Grandfather's spirit in the sky!

Think about it, isn't it, grandpa gave birth to more than a dozen sons when he was a grandfather. It was Taizong's turn to give birth to a total of four sons, and when it came to orthodoxy, there were only three sons left. When the third generation of the emperor should have been born, it was now the crown princess who was framed and slipped into a fetus, and then Ye Minyu's concubine Duan fell into the water and gave birth prematurely, and now the prince's other child is gone like this, or one corpse and two lives, three in a row, none of them were saved, and there is no such skill! It's creepy to think about!

There is nothing to say in the end!

Rumors can be big or small, and when it comes to the grandfather and grandfather, the problem is very serious, Chen Jia's West Factory is responsible for spying on intelligence news, he didn't dare to hide the news when he got the news, and one day he looked at the emperor and looked at him with a little spirit, so he played it.

The emperor was furious when he heard this, and ordered Chen Jia to quickly control the situation and not let the rumors spread everywhere. After Chen Jia received the order, he dispatched a large number of fans from the West Factory and arrested a group of rumors and put them in prison, and for a time the entire Beijing division was in turmoil.

No one dares to talk nonsense now.

Although the mouths of the common people were blocked, the orthodox emperor was still weak in his heart, so he sent people to invite the heavenly masters of the Zhengyi Sect of Longhu Mountain to come down the mountain, and prepared to ask them to come to the palace to do the 7749 days of rituals and pray for the royal blessings.

In the end, these words spread into the Jin Palace. Yulan is a modern person who has been educated in atheism for many years, so naturally he will not take these words to heart. Qian's mother couldn't sit still, she enshrined a bodhisattva in the side of her room, three incense sticks in the morning and evening, and no matter how busy she was every day, she had to find time to recite a Lotus Sutra.

If nothing else, just look at Ye Yichen who is over twenty-five years old, and there is only one Brother Wen under his knees, so he knows that he is also an heir, and it is not good for other royal affairs to affect the prince, and it is not good to affect Yulan.

I hope that Yulan can give birth to her brother safely.

Not only that, but he also ate a long fast. A little meat refuses to be contaminated.

Yulan Zhilu was very moved, so he persuaded Qian's mother: "Mom doesn't have to be like this!" I can eat and sleep now, so why should my mother embarrass herself! ”

"There is only such an idea that the old woman can do for the princess!" Mother Qian not only refused to listen, but came to persuade Yulan. She is a devout believer in Buddha, not only worshipping Buddha herself, but also persuading Yulan to worship Buddha. "The princess should go to the temple to worship, the old woman heard that the Fayuan Temple's Guanyin is the most effective, why don't you go to the Fayuan Temple to offer incense, and ask the Bodhisattva to bless you to give birth to your brother safely!"

Yulan didn't believe in these things, but she stayed in the house for so many days that her whole body was moldy, and Yulan asked her to persuade her, and she was a little moved.

In the evening, when Ye Yichen got off the palace, Yulan discussed with her, saying that he wanted to go to Fayuan Temple to offer incense and ask for a peace charm to come back.

Ye Yichen thought for a while and said, "I know that you have been stuffy at home during this time, but you are a person with a double body, although the fetus is stable now, I am still a little relieved to go out like this." ”

Yulan originally thought that he had vetoed it, and he was disappointed for a while, but he didn't expect Ye Yichen to say: "Okay, I'll go in person tomorrow and accompany you to Fayuan Temple for incense!" ”