5. Do not do and do not die

In that year, Emperor Wude overthrew the Great Zhou and established the Great Qi, and the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty was slaughtered, and only a few distant branches and a princess were left. This princess was later snatched away by Emperor Wude's brother Cheng Guogong and became a concubine. This unlucky princess of the dead country later gave birth to a daughter for Cheng Guogong, and was favored by the first emperor Emperor Xianzong and wanted to enter the palace as a palace concubine.

Because she has the royal blood of the previous dynasty and is considered a concubine at home, this Cheng concubine can't say whether she is noble or lowly. Although Concubine Cheng has a beautiful appearance and a gentle temperament, because of her special status, her position will never be promoted, and the first emperor will not dare to be too favored. Later, he finally died of depression, leaving only a five-year-old prince, Li Rui, King Kang.

Li Rui has been wooden since he was a child, he doesn't like to talk or play with other brothers, and his temperament is very withdrawn. Since Concubine Cheng died, Concubine Wei, who had a good relationship with Concubine Cheng, begged the emperor to take him to his palace to raise him.

Wei Concubine is not from a high background, her father is a county magistrate in a remote place, and she is not very outstanding, so she is very low-key in the palace. She only has one princess under her knees, so she raises Li Rui as her own son.

The bond between the adoptive mother and son is deep.

Later, the princes fought fiercely, because Li Rui did not have a powerful mother behind him, and he had the royal blood of the previous dynasty, so everyone felt that he could not be elected as the prince. After coming and going, the fiercer the fight, the sooner he died, and someone like him who didn't fight or grab became the biggest winner.

Zhao Yanrong knew that Li Rui's coming to power had a lot of help from her uncle Hou Peiyi, the champion. Otherwise, with Zhao Fengchun's slippery style, the emperor would not have chosen his daughter as the queen.

Who told Pei Yi that he didn't have a daughter, so he had to retreat and marry his sister's daughter.

Pei Yi felt sorry for her niece, and asked her to find a suitable opportunity to propose a throne to Concubine Wei to repay her for her years of nurturing and caring for the emperor.

In fact, this is the uncle who is ordering her, revealing to her what the emperor is hiding in his heart, so that she can find a suitable opportunity to sell her husband, so that the emperor will thank her and then respect her more.

What a lot of caring uncles, it's a pity that Zhao Yanrong didn't want to please the emperor, and he didn't want to bother looking for a suitable opportunity at all.

So on the wedding night, when the emperor had just lifted his hijab, he said it with a straight face.

The emperor was so angry that he brushed his sleeves away, if it weren't for the fear that the reputation of the emperor's discord would not spread badly, the emperor would definitely change the palace room to sleep on the wedding night.

It is true that Concubine Wei raised Li Rui, but Li Rui was recorded by the first emperor under the name of Empress Dowager Zhang, so Li Rui's adoptive mother and grandmother can only have Empress Dowager Zhang.

At this time, the emperor was not raised by the Queen Mother, but by Concubine Wei, which is not only a slap in the face of the emperor, but also a slap in the face of the Queen Mother.

Although the emperor wanted to honor Concubine Wei, the queen's appearance pushed him and Concubine Wei to the forefront, not only did not help him, but harmed him. How could he not be angry?

As for the Queen Mother, not to mention. As soon as the daughter-in-law entered the door, she said to her son, she is not your mother, your mother is someone else......

Empress Dowager Zhang can like this daughter-in-law, which makes her brain become scum.

Therefore, it turns out that Zhao Yanrong is not here to be the queen at all, but to block the emperor and the queen mother and ask for a quick death.

I want to die, but I don't want to drag down my mother's family and my uncle's family, and I die so aggrieved.

What a big deal, you have to find your own death.

In fact, it is very simple to live a good life, fool the queen mother, and wait for the emperor to sit firmly in the world, one is a bright monarch, and the other is a virtuous queen, each in charge of their own mess, no one bothers anyone, support each other, support each other, you can pet that beauty, as long as I can live comfortably and happily.

It's a pity that the former master acted too extremely, offended both the emperor and the queen mother, and the two people in the palace who could be backers were all lost by her, and she had to clean up the mess little by little......

Nozuonodiewhyyoutry？！

I really want to steal some free time!

Zhao Yanrong shook her head and said to Mulan: "The palace is in better shape, and I will take the palace concubine to greet the queen mother in a few days." ”

Mulan responded and said, "The slave maid will let people go to the palaces to spread the word." ”

The young eunuch asked again: "What about this phoenix seal?" ”

"Listen to what the palace says to the emperor, and he will understand." Zhao Yanrong smiled, and her originally pale and wooden face suddenly added a little agility.

"Today is the seventh day of the new year." Seeing that Zhao Yanrong was yawning, Mulan went to help her spread her hair in a bun, remove the hairpin ring jewelry, and help her lie down.

"Yes, it's the seventh day of the new year."

"Hmm." Zhao Yanrong closed her eyes and asked in a daze, "When did the palace concubine come to ask for peace?" When does the palace have to say hello to the Queen Mother? Why can't I remember it clearly? ”

I heard Mulan's voice drifting away: "Niangniang, the ladies of the palace are coming to greet you every double day, and on the first day, tenth, fifteenth, and twentieth of each month, you have to take the main seat of each palace to greet the queen mother." Just be able to get to Changle Palace at the first moment. ”

Only heard these clearly, Zhao Yanrong had fallen asleep.

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Zhao Yanrong was woken up by crying.

The cry was not very loud, and the intermittent sobbing was as disturbing as the sound of the air conditioner still buzzing in the middle of the night.

So as much as she wanted to continue sleeping like this, she reluctantly opened her eyes.

Her vision gradually became clearer, and through the heavy gauze tent, she saw a richly dressed woman sitting not far from her bedside, who was hanging her head and wiping away tears.

The brain crashed for a moment, but soon it was up and running again.

Raising his hand, he pulled the golden silk rope on the side of the bed tent, and a crisp bell rang in the hall.

"Mother's awake!" Dan Feng, who was waiting in the house, immediately lifted the silk yarn tent of Yunyanluo fish scales and hung it with a crested golden hook. From outside the door, four palace maids entered, those serving hot water, holding hand towels, and those holding mouthwashes and salt.

It took several days for her to get used to the battle. The privileged class of the evil feudal society is really too extravagant, too wasteful, and too extravagant...... It's so refreshing.

Standing up elegantly, stretching out her arms and letting the palace maid help her change into a loose robe, Zhao Yanrong held the back of the hand of the woman who was originally crying, and sat in front of the wide sour branch flower pear makeup table.

"What's wrong again?"

The woman was about twenty-five or sixteen years old, and her eyebrows and eyes were quite similar to Zhao Yanrong, and when she asked, she said in a low voice: "It's the courtiers who are not good, they came too early, and they are arguing with the mother." ”

Zhao Yanrong looked at her, her eyes softened: "You can come to the palace to see me, it's too late for me to be happy." ”

Pei is the sister of her biological mother, and she has a gentle and soft temperament. The dignified champion Miss Hou Fuyan, Zhao Shangshu's wife, has a favored concubine at home who has the means to respond, and she has no ability to suppress it.

To say that Zhao Fengchun is just the son of a rich man in the countryside, that is, he has two literary strokes, and he looks dignified, if he hadn't been recruited by the champion Hou Xiangzhong, how could he have such a good life to rise to the top, and he was in charge of the household department in his thirties and entered the political hall?

Zhao Yanrong pursed her lips.

After the death of the eldest lady of the Hou Mansion, Lord Zhao asked to marry his wife and sister again, but it is a pity that this step-room has the same soft-faced temperament as his deceased wife, and he is pressed by a virtuous name. So much so that Pei Yi always felt that this sister was not bad, and helped him with all her might.

Fart!

"Some time ago, I heard that the mother and phoenix body violated the harmony, and the courtiers always wanted to enter the palace, but the lord did not allow it. I begged your uncle, but your uncle refused to see me. Speaking of this, Pei Shi wiped away his tears again, "I finally heard that you are fine, how can the courtiers sit at home?" ”

"Isn't it because the Duan clan is making trouble for you again?" Zhao Yanrong asked Danfeng to pull her hair, half teasing and half serious.

She was locked up in the Zhaoyang Palace, Pei didn't know why, her father and uncle must have known.

At that time, she couldn't even protect her own life, and her father and uncle must have been walking on thin ice. If the queen is convicted of killing the emperor, not only the queen will die, but the queen's maiden family and uncle's family will not be able to escape.

Of course, my father and uncle were not in the mood to deal with Pei's. It's just that his father is also in no mood to take care of the Duan family.

If the Duan clan was smart enough, he shouldn't stir up any more trouble at this time.

So seeing Pei Shizhi shaking her head, she laughed.

"Niangniang, let's put on a flying fairy bun today, it looks luxurious and atmospheric." Dan Feng said to her in a small voice.

Zhao Yanrong looked at her face in the mirror, nodded with a smile: "Your vision is good, you can comb whatever you think is suitable." ”

The skin is like clotted fat, the collar is like a grub, the head of the mantis is eyebrows, the smile is smiling, and the eyes are beautiful.

Zhao Yanrong looked at her face in the mirror, which was completely different from her previous life, and her fingertips touched the smooth skin, and suddenly understood why Snow White's vicious stepmother always liked to talk to herself in the magic mirror.

With such a good appearance, in exchange for her, she also wants to look at it in the mirror ten or twenty times a day, and Gu Ying feels sorry for herself.

"Niangniang, today is the day when the ladies of the palace come to ask for peace, do you want to put on a lot of makeup today?" The palace maid in charge of putting on her makeup asked, holding the powder box.

Heavy makeup means putting on a thick layer of white powder. No matter how beautiful the appearance is, no matter how fine the skin is, what beauty can be seen when it is thickly smeared with a layer like such a pasting wall?

Zhao Yanrong shook her head, picked a pen by herself, and raised her eyebrows in the mirror.

"Mother will sit down widely, and the palace will be cleaned up and then talk to you."

"Niangniang, Daan's minister's wife is also at ease. Originally, there was nothing else to do, the mother was busy, so the courtiers should leave the palace and go home. ”

"What's the hurry?" Zhao Yanrong lit a phoenix hairpin in the satin-covered makeup box handed over by Bai Lu with one hand, and Dan Feng hurriedly put it in his hand and inserted it into the bun that had just been combed. "I haven't seen my mother for more than a month, and I'm thinking about it tightly, don't go back now, stay in Zhaoyang Hall for one night, and accompany the palace."

"How can this work? The courtiers are foreign women, how can they stay in the palace? Pei shook his hand again and again.

"Is there a rule in the palace that foreign women can't stay overnight?" Zhao Yanrong turned her head sideways to ask Mulan, who was standing beside her.

Mulan thought about it, shook her head with a smile and said, "The slave maid hasn't heard of it. ”

"Look, even Mulan hasn't heard of it, that's no." Zhao Yanrong put down the pen and pressed her hand on the back of Pei's cold hand, "This palace is the master of Zhaoyang Palace, and this palace says that if you can stay, you can stay." ”

"Ask someone to go to the palace gate and say that my mother will stay in the palace today and will not go back, and tell my father not to wait any longer."

One of the eunuchs who was guarding outside immediately took the order and trotted out.

Pei Shi looked at her and felt that after her daughter had an illness, this spirit seemed to have changed a lot.

The eyebrows and demeanor are still the same Zhao Yanrong, but her expression and attitude always feel like a different person.

"What is Mother thinking?" Zhao Yanrong didn't seem to be able to see the confusion and confusion on Pei's face, and turned to look at her with a smile, "Look at your daughter, how are you dressed today?" ”

"The mother's appearance is peerless, graceful and dignified, which is naturally good." Pei Shi felt that her daughter was radiant from the inside out, and she was really like the depressed and upright appearance when she first entered the palace.

That's right.

Thinking about the girl's appearance at that time, life was worse than death, Pei Shi felt uncomfortable. My sister handed over her daughter to her, but she didn't teach Yanrong well and raise her well, she felt that she really owed her sister.

Now it's so good, the whole person is alive.

makes people feel brightened when they see it, and even she feels energetic.

"Don't, just praise it, don't you want to praise it, you are wronged." Zhao Yanrong smiled and asked Mulan to take a clean handkerchief and hand it to Pei's.

"You are a second-class lady with a fate, and you are your father's wife, don't always swallow your grievances." Zhao Yanrong turned around and looked at her makeup in the mirror, "A concubine can't be on the stage, even if she gives birth to two sons?" You can't afford to be held down by her. ”

Pei Shi was a little confused, why did he talk about her again?

"You are the daughter of the champion Hou Pei's family, if you are bullied to the head by a concubine, you will lose not only the prestige of the Zhao family's housewife, but also the Pei family, mother, do you know?"

Zhao Yanrong's attitude of speaking was obviously very gentle, but Pei Shi felt cold in his bones.

This is the first time that the stepdaughter has talked to her about her life in the Zhao family and the concubine favored by the master.

No matter how much she loved this daughter before, Yanrong didn't like to talk to her very much, and she was faint when she met, and she was not close to her. On the contrary, it is better with the Duan family.

Although the words were harsh, they were for her sake and for her, and Pei Shi felt extremely heartwarming when he was surprised.

Only when a woman is married can she understand the difficulties of women.

Pei Shi had tears in his eyes, but the corners of his mouth curved: "Xie Niangniang mentioned it, and the courtiers wrote it down." ”

What's the use of just writing down what you can't do? Zhao Yanrong just pursed her lips and didn't say anything more.