Chapter 14: Sui'an's Troubles
In the inner room, Gu Zhen spoke to the third concubine through an eight-fold gold-painted fish playing lotus leaf screen with a sour jujube wooden screen: "...... There is nothing wrong with this palace, but I am tired of taking care of King Chu for the past two days, so I just lie down. ”
Yun Fenghuan knew that her heart disease was worse than her body illness now, but she was not easy to speak out in front of Concubine Shude, so she said some comforting words and asked the queen to concentrate on recuperation.
"The concubine will stay for a while, and the palace will explain a few things to you." Gu Zhen agreed one by one, and said that during his illness, the palace affairs were handed over to the concubine, and Concubine Shu De was the assistant, and at the end he said, "Concubine Shu and Concubine De go back first." ”
Ouyang Fulu and Wei Hengyan were curious, but they didn't dare to disobey the queen and the concubine, so they resisted the urge to ask and bowed and retired.
When they left, there was silence in the room for a while, and then the queen asked, "What you told the palace maid that day is true?" ”
"It's just a reasonable speculation." Yun Fenghuang said calmly, "After all, Your Majesty and you haven't found out the clues, and the concubine is just listening to the palace maid relay the ins and outs, where can she find out?" In fact, from the perspective of concubines, maybe it's just an accident? ”
"If it's King Qin like this this time, do you believe it's an accident?" Gu Zhen sneered, "Before Your Majesty took over the government, all the imperial heirs failed to land!" After His Majesty took office, the male fetus carried by the former concubine and the concubine Sun family was also gone, and there are many ruts in the past, do you still think that the disaster of the emperor's heir in this palace is accidental? It's also too careless in the palace, since the fall of the Ji family, the imperial heirs in the palace have been added one after another, whether male or female, at most the humble biological mother died, and the imperial heir can always stay. Therefore, the palace thought that the palace was generally stable today, but the result was ......"
She exhaled slowly and said, "You all know what King Chu is like now, right?" ”
"Niangniang, His Royal Highness the King of Chu is still young, and he has just recovered at this time, so it is reasonable to look sluggish." Yun Fenghuang made a pretentious persuasion, "It's good to wait for a long time." ”
Gu Zhen said coldly: "What if it doesn't get better? ”
Yun Fenghuang said: "You are the queen's mother, Your Majesty is in the spring and autumn season, you will definitely have more heirs." ”
"But the king of Chu is the first concubine under the knee of this palace." Gu Zhen sneered and said, "If this palace can't keep him, how can it keep other heirs in the future?" ”
"And what do you want?" Yun Fenghuang sighed, "Or, what can it be?" Not to mention that the real murderer is just a speculation of the concubine's body, and there is no evidence. Even if you have the credentials, do you think Your Majesty can give you the justice you and His Royal Highness the King of Chu? Or can you get justice from your mother, the Queen Mother? ”
Gu Zhen was silent for a while, and said: "When you were poisoned and almost died, it seems that some people suspect that it is the Empress Dowager?" ”
“…… In fact, the concubine body is still suspicious of the Empress Dowager. Yun Fenghuan's mind turned around and said, "But Niangniang also saw that the result of the Imperial City Division's thorough investigation was on the regent's side." Therefore, the concubine can only be suspicious and target the regent Weng's son-in-law! ”
"Yes, what can this palace do that even your favorite concubine can't do?" Gu Zhen was silent for a moment and said in a low voice, "That's it, you can go." ”
Yun Fenghuang respectfully retired, and after going out, he thought about his previous answer, and felt that there was no flaw, so he left.
As for whether Gu Zhen will be disheartened from now on, even if he doubts the Empress Dowager Yuan, he will not dare to make a mistake...... She wasn't worried at all.
After all, this queen can endure it herself, and the Zhaowu Bofu behind her will not bear it!
Gu Zhen's grandfather and uncle forced Zhao Wubo to rebel and take refuge in Chunjia, just for the identity of the descendants, but the Empress Dowager Yuan wanted to move flowers and trees and let Xingning Bofu enjoy its success, how could the Gu family agree!
Not only did they not agree, they had to go back!
Otherwise, once you are determined to be a good bully, who knows how many turmoil will be waiting in the future?
Originally, Gu Zhen was not the kind of deterrent existence in the palace, no matter how soft her mother was, how would she live this day?
You must know that Chunjia is only in his twenties, and the princes are still toddlers, and there will be people who will have moths at this time.
So Yun Fenghuan is not in a hurry at all, not only is she not in a hurry, but she also has to persuade the queen to calm down, so that she has a clear conscience, and Gu's has nothing to do with her.
Back in the Lanzhou Night Rain Pavilion, Chunjia has been here for a while, holding Princess Zhaoqing and teasing.
Seeing Yun Fenghuang coming in, he asked people to take the princess down.
Princess Zhaoqing was not very willing, pulling his sleeve and babbling and refusing to let go.
Yun Fenghuang smiled and said Chunjia: "You just hug her for a while, she remembers you now, you ask someone to hug her down now, she is going to cry, don't cry hoarsely." ”
Chun Jia hugged the princess according to her words, waved her hand to let the nurse who came up to pick her up stand back, and said, "You can't let her develop a temperament that is obedient when she cries, so won't she cry if she is a little unsatisfactory in the future?" ”
"Just teach her slowly in the future, how old is she now?" Yun Fenghuang said, "When the child is in a few years, she will have to run all over the ground by herself, and she may not be happy if you want to hug her when the time comes." ”
The two talked around Zhaoqing for a while, and Chunjia asked Gu Zhen: "Did she leave you to talk to Concubine Shu and Concubine De today?" ”
"I said I was going to concentrate on recuperation." Yun Feng bowed, "Gong Wu let us look at it." ”
After a pause, "Later, I was left alone for questioning, and depending on what the queen meant, I still have some doubts about the infection of the king of Chu." ”
Chunjia let out an "um" and said, "What does she suspect?" ”
"I suspect that someone has harmed the King of Chu." Yun Fenghuang said, "It's also that there are too many palace concubines and imperial heirs who are missing in the palace before, and I see that the queen is a bit of a cup bow and snake shadow, so I persuaded a few words." But ......"
Seeing Chunjia's inquiring gaze, she said slowly, "If the King of Chu really has something wrong, in my opinion, it is better to arrange a strong imperial heir for the queen as soon as possible." Otherwise, the queen will not be able to figure it out for a while. ”
"There are now six imperial heirs in the palace, all of whom have heirs, and the pregnant concubines and concubines can also raise them by themselves." Chunjia pondered for a while and said, "Anyway, the imperial heirs are still young, so let's wait for another two years." And it's not like no one in front of the queen to let her enjoy the joy of family, what is she doing in such a hurry? ”
He seemed to be dissatisfied with Gu Zhen between his words, Yun Fenghuan pretended not to hear it, and said obediently: "Yes." ”
The imperial concubine didn't mention the queen's mother and son, but talked about other things, such as the birthday of the Empress Dowager Yuan.
Chunjia was a little regretful, because when he only ascended the throne, he fought for the birthday of the Empress Dowager Yuan, and once because the Ji family did not agree to celebrate the birthday of the Empress Dowager Yuan, he set up a rule of personally hunting to celebrate the birthday of the Empress Dowager Yuan. Until last year, I was finally able to congratulate the queen mother openly, but the Empress Dowager Yuan refused for various reasons.
This year he could be more willful, but the two queen mothers are still sick.
Not even the palace came.
When he mentioned this at this moment, he was very indebted in his words, and he meant that he was sorry for the Empress Dowager Yuan.
Yun Fenghuang listened with a smile, echoed a few words from time to time, but he was very disapprehensive in his heart, and said perfunctorily: "Wait a few days, there are not so many troublemakers in the front and harem, it will be fine." The Empress Dowager has always felt sorry for you, and she doesn't care about these things. ”
I remembered Wei Su's matter and asked politely.
Chun Jia said: "The Imperial City Division reported that Mu E was indeed a little bad, but he was blocking the news, and even the old khan was not allowed to tell him. Otherwise, the old khan is afraid that he will contact Hale and change the khan. ”
Wei Su's old khan was infected with illness, and his body was not very good, but the prince who had been cultivated for many years passed away before him, afraid that he would die and the sons would compete for the throne, weaken the national strength, and be taken advantage of by the Central Plains and the surrounding small countries, so he followed the example of the Emperor Taishang of the Central Plains and passed the throne to Mu E in advance.
As a result, I don't know what the old Khan's father and son have done, or the water and soil on the grassland do not support people, in short, Mu E has only been in power for a few months, and he actually fell ill.
If this matter is known to the old Khan, who is already waiting for his fate, how can he not worry about Wei Su, and then appoint other strong and capable sons, such as Mu E's biggest opponent, Hale?
"Your Majesty wants to help the old khan?" Yun Fenghuang thought about it and asked with a smile.
Chunjia just shook his head and said, "Mu E sent a daughter to serve, how could I do such a thing?" And Mu E has a son under his knees, since he is a khan, even if he loses, it should be Roukun's brother who takes over. In the rules of our Central Plains, there is no reason for brothers to cross the parent-child inheritance. ”
Yun Fenghuang understood, Rou Kun's brother was probably not very good, if Mu E was not good, on his own, he would not be able to compete with Hele.
It is no wonder that Mu E's Ke Hordun would take the risk to deliver the news to the palace, asking Rou Kun to be ready to blow the pillow wind to help his brother compete for the throne.
And this is also a good thing for Chunjia, Wei Su's Khan needs the support of the Central Plains to be able to sit firmly on the Khan throne, and it is better than Wei Su's Khan to be independent and capable and in his prime.
"From this point of view, it's no wonder that Wei Suhui suddenly sent the princess over to serve." Yun Fenghuang said, "Mu E is afraid that he is worried that his sister-in-law will not be able to succeed in the morning...... It's just that Wei Su's two generations of Khans contracted what disease? Why is the old Khan sick, his eldest son died of illness, and now Mu E is not well? ”
Chunjia groaned: "Listening to the report of the Imperial City Division, the symptoms of the old khan are like dysentery for a long time. His eldest son was paralyzed. As for Mu E, now he is heavily guarded, but he can't find any clues. ”
Seeing that he was not very satisfied with the Imperial City Division, but now the Imperial City Division first experienced the suppression of Xiaozong by the Ji family, and then fell into the hands of the regent, and then was fought over between Chunjia and the regent...... is already a big loss of vitality, and it is impossible to compare with the peak.
Yun Fenghuang comforted: "It's good to know that he is indeed sick." ”
Even if he can't be sure if Mu E's illness can be relieved, Chunjia will not help the old khan replace the khan, but he may not be able to do good deeds for Hale without leaving a name.
In this way, he used the hand of Khaler to put pressure on Mu E, even if Mu E could live, in order to stabilize the situation, he would inevitably give more benefits to the Central Plains in exchange for a greater degree of support.
This kind of temple matter, the details of Yun Fenghuan are not very good at it, and after understanding it with Chunjia, he didn't mention it if he got the emperor's euphemistic promise that he would reuse the Xie family's disciples here.
Two days later, it was the day of the women's visit, and Queen Gu refused the visit of the foreign women on the grounds that she was still ill, leaving only the female relatives of the Gu family to speak.
And Yun Fenghuan's side, after talking to his aunts and sisters-in-law, he left the meal, and before he ran out, he received a notice that Princess Sui'an came from the Queen Mother.
"The second sister has a strange appetite when she is pregnant now, and the imperial grandmother specially prepared a bowl of shark fin soup for her, and she vomited when she was served." After the eldest princess of Sui'an sat down, she frowned slightly, and explained to Yun Fenghuang the reason why she came here so early, "The imperial grandmother was very worried, so she let the imperial doctor look at it for a long time, and said that it was no big problem before she put her mind at ease, and she didn't have the heart to eat like this." After the second sister vomited, she was not in good spirits, and the imperial grandmother left her to rest for a while before leaving the palace, so I came to see my mother's place. ”
Since the two eldest princesses descended, they would enter the palace every time they met or celebrated the New Year's Day.
The Empress Dowager doesn't take special care of them, they all come according to the rules, and they rarely take the initiative to summon them, but they still love them every time they meet.
It is true that when Sui'an enters the palace, he will come to Yunfeng Huang, but it is often relatively late.
It's the first time this morning.
Yun Fenghuan couldn't help but care about a few words about the eldest princess of Yun'an when he heard this, and arranged for Qingdu to pack up some nourishing things and send them over.
At the end, seeing that Sui'an's mood was not very high, her mind turned, and she guessed that she might be worried about the two of them falling at about the same time, Yun'an was pregnant, but she was worried about no news, so she comforted her euphemistically not to be anxious, why didn't the former concubine and concubine Zheng enter the palace for the first time in almost ten years? That's still a boy!
After giving this example, I felt a little unlucky, and I was thinking about changing it, but Sui An smiled bitterly and said: "Niangniang, when the Zheng family was in the palace, although she was once a noble concubine, she was not favored by the imperial brother, and the imperial brother may not go to her several times a year. Therefore, it is understandable that the pregnancy is late. But I ...... After I descended, I was the only one on the horse. ”
Yun Fenghuang said: "It's only been a few days since you descended?" ”
He wondered, "Did the colt say anything?" ”
If Xie Wuzheng was so ignorant, she would have asked this cousin to come to her and give him a good beating.
The Xie family seems to be rising rapidly now, but in fact, the foundation is still vain, so he dares to despise the eldest princess, this is dizzy!
"Nope." Fortunately, Sui An shook his head and said, "The horse is very good, say ......."
She blushed a little embarrassedly and whispered, "The colt said that only the two of us are fine. But...... But I always felt that something was wrong. ”
"What's wrong with that?" Yun Fenghuang said indifferently, "The days were originally spent with you and the pony, and the pony felt fine, what did you do to get along with yourself?" You think you're all so young, maybe it's just that the fate of the heirs hasn't arrived. There are many people who only welcome their eldest son after three or five years of marriage, which is nothing. ”
Sui An secretly breathed a sigh of relief, in fact, after Xie Wuzheng said that she didn't care, what she was most worried about was that Yun Fenghuan had an opinion.
After all, this is not only her sister-in-law, but also Chunjia's favorite concubine.
If Yunfeng Huang is born, Sui An is really afraid that his horse will not be able to withstand the pressure.
But the concubine is so considerate, Sui'an is relieved.
She didn't know that the concubine was more considerate than she thought, and after sending Sui'an away that day, Yun Fenghuang immediately called the Qing people to ask: "Recently, there was someone in the eldest princess's mansion who said something that shouldn't be said, so that Her Royal Highness the eldest princess Sui'an was thinking nonsense?" ”
Qing Ren was at a loss: "Should there be?" In addition to the dowry of Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, there are some close attendants of the twenty-first prince in the eldest princess's mansion. Those are carefully selected to have an eye for things, otherwise where would they dare to let go to the eldest princess's mansion and embarrass the horse? ”
"Let's look it up." Yun Fenghuang frowned and ordered, "Also, send a message to the Northland, let the eldest uncle and aunt be more leisurely, and don't treat Her Royal Highness the eldest princess as an ordinary daughter-in-law." is an ordinary daughter-in-law who is the right person, and she never said that she has been urging her heirs for only a year and a half after entering the door. Besides, my Xie clan is flourishing, and it is not a single lineage of eighteen generations! What are they anxious about? There are only a few eldest princesses in the royal palace, and the palace has worked hard to let the twenty-first brother fall into His Majesty's eyes, in order to use the identity of the golden branch and jade leaf to pull out my Xie family, but not to make them frivolous and arrogant, and please Your Majesty's dislike! ”
She said very politely, and the Qing people didn't dare to slack off, so they were busy giving orders.
And after about six or seven days of this, he came to return.