Chapter Eighty-Nine: A Perilous Year

After Wu Cao ascended the throne and became emperor, the palace people released a batch, and then recruited a new batch. The new palace maids are generally about fourteen years old, and after entering the palace, they are renamed again, and some are called Tuan'er, Yuan'er, and Fan'er.

Tuan'er is mainly doing embroidery in the palace, she learned to be a female worker since she was a child, and after entering the palace, she followed Qiao'er to learn, and her embroidery skills soon made great progress.

She embroidered skirts, scarves, and socks for female officials such as Shang Gong, Si Zhi, and Si Cai, with flower and bird patterns, exquisite workmanship, and gorgeous colors, which won their love.

Recommended by Shang Gong, Tuan'er embroidered Wu Cao's socks, and used the pleated embroidery needle method to embroider the shade of the peony flower, and the embroidered peony flower color was magnificent and very realistic.

Wu Cao put on the brocade socks embroidered by Tuan'er, felt very satisfied, and gave her a reward.

Wu Cao ordered Tuan'er to embroider the Great Cloud Sutra on the brocade, and gave her a big red thangka, and asked her to embroider the Buddha on it to give a lecture to the disciples!

When Tuan'er was embroidering, Wu Cao came over and asked, "What kind of stitch do you use for embroidery?" Tuan'er replied respectfully: "Back to everyone, the slave maid uses the embroidery needle method!" ”

Wu Cao casually visited her embroidery works, picked up the yellow treasure embroidery and admired it carefully, and said: "Well, this embroidery is not borrowed, it is very distinctive!" Tuan'er said: "Thank you for the compliment!" ”

Tuan'er is young and beautiful, smart and clever, Wu Cao likes her very much and keeps her by his side.

Because Wu Cao's clothes are all men's clothes, she also requires the palace maids around her to wear men's clothes.

Tuan'er also often disguised herself as a man, took off her half-arm and shawl, and pretended to be a handsome young student, wearing a round-necked robe and a saro head, and waited for Wu Cao with the eunuchs.

From a distance, it is difficult to distinguish between male and female, only when you look closely, you can distinguish it through skin color and voice.

One day at noon, Wu Cao accidentally lost a tooth when eating mutton pork ribs, and Kong Nei hurriedly called Tuan'er to summon the imperial doctor Shen Nanxuan. Tuan'er sighed in a beautiful voice and ran away.

After a while, the handsome imperial physician Shen Nanxuan came in with a medicine box on his back, and Tuan'er followed closely behind, asking with concern, "Everyone, does it hurt?" Wu Cao said: "It's okay, it doesn't hurt, it's just a little bloody!" ”

Shen Nanxuan rinsed a glass of light salt water for Wu Cao to rinse her mouth, checked her mouth after rinsing, applied hemostatic and anti-inflammatory medicine to the gum and missing teeth, and then plugged it with clean cotton wool.

Wu Cao was basically fine after two hours of teeth, and he could eat some light and soft food.

Soon, a tooth regrew in Wu Cao's gums, and the eunuchs and palace maids around him congratulated him. Tuan'er said: "The slave maid heard that the main bone of the kidney is the marrow, and everyone can grow new teeth, which means that everyone's body is good and the kidneys are good!" The face is not old, the youth is always there, congratulations to the eldest family long live! ”

Wu Cao said happily: "Look at your little sweet mouth, you can really talk!" ”

Subsequently, Wu Cao went to the Vientiane Shrine to receive the congratulations of the ministers, and said: "I am an old tree that spits new shoots in spring, and the homeland blooms in spring!" Ha ha. "Announcing the change of longevity.

Wu Cao saw that Tuan'er was smart and lively, and arranged for her to go to the East Palace to work as a tailor and embroiderer, and actually to supervise the emperor's heir Wu Lun's every move. As long as you find any suspicious situation, you will report it immediately, and an additional 2 taels of silver will be distributed every month!

After Tuan'er came to the East Palace, he did embroidery for Wulun and his concubines, and observed and supervised Wulun's daily movements.

Tuan'er saw that Wu Lun either practiced calligraphy every day, or read the book of exegesis, and then met with Liu Yao, Dou Shu'e, Dou Lu Xiuzhi and other concubines and said hello.

Sometimes when interest comes, Wu Lun will also care about his children, tutor the homework of thirteen-year-old Li Chengqi and seven-year-old Li Longji, and visit his daughters Princess Shouchang and Princess Jinxian.

But no courtiers came to visit Wu Lun, and Wu Lun couldn't go out of the palace freely, staying in the palace all the time, there was no political and military affairs to take care of, and he had nothing to do every day, becoming a standard otaku!

Tuan'er also discovered that Wu Lun was an otaku who had been an emperor, he was only thirty years old, and his future was limitless, and he had a restless heart under his quiet surface, and sometimes he would look at himself more.

Liu Yao, Dou Shu'e, Dou Lu Xiuzhi and Wang Fangting and other concubines are about the same age as Wu Lun, except for Dou Lu Xiuzhi, Liu Yao, Dou Shu'e and Wang Fangting all gave birth to a son and two daughters for Wu Lun.

Tuan'er felt that she was younger and more beautiful than them, and she could also understand Wu Lun's thoughts.

In the process of supervising the martial wheel, the joyful Tuan'er actually found that he fell in love with the joyful and quiet martial wheel, and the family fantasized about the fairy tale of the domineering president falling in love with Cinderella all day long, thinking that it could happen to him, and he was never tired of it.

One day, Tuan'er spotted a gap and slipped into the study to seduce Wu Lun. Hooking shoulders and backs, eyebrows and affection, and even taking the initiative to throw themselves into their arms, which made Wulun panicked and didn't know what to do.

Tuan'er looked at Wu Lun affectionately and asked, "Does Your Highness like concubines?" Do you like it? ”

Wu Lun said nervously: "No, no, this can't work!" ”

Tuan'er said angrily: "Why not? The concubine is young and beautiful, unmarried, and a girl from a good family! ”

Wu Lun said: "Because Lone has passed the age of youth and frivolity, and he has no interest in the affairs of men and women, girl, please respect yourself!" ”

Tuan'er still couldn't get up, and said: "The concubine likes an uncle like His Royal Highness, and the concubine is controlled by the uncle!" I heard that men like innocent and romantic little girls like concubines, does Your Highness like it? ”

After speaking, he revealed his ice muscles and snow skin to tempt Wu Lun. Wu Lun frowned and said, "Do you know what Gu likes about you?" Lone likes you to stay away from Lonely! ”

Tuan'er was stunned for a moment, then laughed awkwardly again, and said, "Oh, I didn't expect His Highness to be quite humorous!" Concubines like humorous and witty men, and concubines prefer His Royal Highness! ”

When Tuan'er and Wu Lun were pulling and pulling and entangled, Liu Yao and Dou Shu'e's second concubine came to bang on the door, Tuan'er was a little flustered, Wu Lun asked her to hide behind the screen, and then opened the door.

Liu Yao and Dou Shu'e came in and asked Wulun to go out for a walk, Wulun readily agreed, and went out with the second concubine by covering the door. Tuan'er took the opportunity to slip away.

Why didn't Wulun dare to accept the little lady group who took the initiative to give him a hug?

There are probably several reasons: First, Wu Lun knew that she was a celebrity next to A-Niang, and was worried that A-Niang would use the beauty trick and sent her to test whether she was a clean person in life.

The second is that Tuan'er's identity is a household maid, which is the same as Shangguan Wan'er's status at the beginning, lower than the good people, and belongs to the untouchable class. Li Dan's identity is so noble, how can he accept her?

Even if you play it, you're afraid of spreading other people's jokes every time you make a scene! It is said that the former emperor was so hungry that he associated with people from the untouchable class.

Besides, at that time, Li Dan had no name and no power, and he had no right to exempt her from slavery, and he couldn't satisfy her wishes and vanity, so it was impossible to even have a play!

And the young and beautiful Tuan'er doesn't care about these, she has taken a fancy to the future development potential of Wulun, and she must throw herself into her arms and recommend herself to the pillow!

Tuan'er took the capture of Wulun as the biggest thing in his life, racked his brains, and prepared to fire at Wulun with all his might!

After this temptation, Tuan'er thought that Wu Lun was half-pushing her, which was a bit interesting, but it was just because Liu Yao and Dou Shu'e and the second concubine were separated in front, so they didn't dare to act.

So Tuan'er decided to frame Liu Yao and Dou Shu'e to clear the way for her future.

How to frame it? Of course, it's still the old way - the art of witchcraft disgust.

Tuan'er secretly made a few small puppets out of paulownia wood, with Wu Cao's name and birth date written on them, and then quietly buried the puppets near Liu Yao and Dou Shu'e's residence. He wrapped a human figure in linen, wrote Wu Cao's name on it, pierced three thin needles in his heart, and threw them into the corner of Liu Yao and Dou Shu'e's wing.

After everything was ready, Tuan'er told Wu Cao that Liu Yao and Dou Shu'e were practicing witchcraft in the East Palace and cursing her old man.

Wu Cao was very sensitive to these side doors, and immediately sent Pan Changzhi to take people to the East Palace to search with Tuan'er, and sure enough, he found a few puppets in Liu Yao and Dou Shu'e's residence.

Wu Cao was furious when he looked at the puppet with the needle, and recalled an incident that happened last month.

What's the matter? It turned out to be one thing about Li Longji, the king of Chu. At that time, Li Longji was seven years old, so he left the palace to open the mansion to buy official subordinates, and took a carriage to the Vientiane Shrine on the first and fifteenth days of each month to meet his grandmother.

Hanoi Wang Wu Yizong saw that he was young and the honor guard of the convoy was very neat and rigorous, so he wanted to bully and scare him. Wu Yizong deliberately loudly reprimanded the entourage who rode horses and raised the flag, which frightened the horse team of the king of Chu.

Li Longji scolded Wu Yizong in a childish voice: "My family's court, what does it matter to you?" How dare you scold and bully my riders! ”

This incident stabbed Wu Cao's sensitive nerves all of a sudden, because the dispute between Li Wu and Wu Cao was the most taboo, and the seven-year-old child actually stood on the side of Li Tang's old ministers to defend the Li family's court, obviously instigated by someone behind his back!

Wu Cao summoned Li Longji and educated him: "Grandson, from the moment you were born, this court is Grandma's court, and Grandma's court is the martial arts court, understand?" Who taught you that this is the Li family's court? ”

Li Longji timidly replied: "No one teaches, I read and think for myself!" ”

Wu Cao snorted, and did not pursue her grandson's fault for the time being, but she still wrote down the account. Dou Shu'e is Li Longji's biological mother and has the responsibility of upbringing, and Liu Yao is his mother-in-law and also has the responsibility of discipline.

Wu Cao held the puppet with a needle, recalled the Li Longji incident, and comprehensively related the two, Wu Cao felt that Liu Yao and Dou Shu'e were unreliable, and they could not be allowed to continue to serve their sons, and they had to be eliminated like Zhao Wenying, the princess of Zhou.

On the first day of the first month of the second year of longevity, Wu Cao sacrificed to the gods of heaven and earth in the Vientiane Shrine, and even put aside the emperor's heir Wu Lun, and took the heir of King Wu of Wei as the second offering, and the king of Liang Wu Sansi as the final offering. This shows that Wu Cao is determined to maintain the martial arts court!

On the second day of the new year, Liu Yao and Dou Shu'e went to the Jiayu Hall to worship Grandma Wu Cao as usual, congratulate the New Year, and wish Grandma a long life! Wu Cao didn't show them a good face.

After retiring from the dynasty, Liu Yao and Dou Shu'e were arrested by Yiwei with a knife, taken to a remote place and hanged, and the bodies of the two concubines were secretly transported out of the palace and buried in the wilderness.

A month later, Wu Cao renamed Li Chengqi as the king of Shouchun County and Li Longji as the king of Linzi County.

Seeing that Liu Yao and Dou Shu'e had not come back for a few days, the imperial heir Wulun had a premonition that something bad was wrong, but he didn't dare to ask A-Niang, and pretended to be the same as usual in front of A-Niang, as if nothing had happened.

Because he knows A-Niang's temper, she is murderous, she values power more than family affection, and as long as she threatens her power, she will not hesitate to kill. As he gets older, he is still domineering.

Li Chengqi and Li Longji asked about the whereabouts of their biological mother and grandmother, and Wu Lun always lied to them and said, "Your biological mother and grandmother have gone back to their parents' house!" ”

But after a long time, the paper couldn't contain the fire after all, Li Chengqi and Li Longji understood that their mother was killed, and they were very sad, and the two hugged each other tightly and cried bitterly, and from then on comforted each other and depended on each other.

After Liu Yao and Dou Shu'e died, Tuan'er took the time to hook up with Wu Lun, but Wu Lun scolded her face to face, and said with a fierce look in his eyes: "You are causing trouble everywhere, are you framing the lonely Concubine Liu and Concubine Dou?" ”

A word woke up the person in the dream, Tuan'er suddenly woke up from his fantasy, and found that he didn't match Wu Lun at all, Wu Lun not only didn't have any feelings for her from beginning to end, but also now suspected that she was a harmful spirit, and she would definitely be exterminated in the future.

Tuan'er suddenly fell into the ice cellar, the hot love song drought has been left behind, the most important thing at the moment is to seek a way to protect yourself, and to protect yourself, you must kill Wu Lun!

Tuan'er also reported to Wu Cao, claiming that Wu Lun knew in advance that Liu Yao and Dou Shu'e and the second concubine were engaged in witchcraft and disgust, and they knew that they would not tell him, and they were complicit in rebellion! Because it involves his own son, Wu Cao is skeptical.

Fan Yunxian, the inner servant, sympathized with Wu Lun, and said good things for Wu Lun at every opportunity to defend him. Now seeing that Tuan'er wanted to frame Wulun, he summoned his subordinates to discuss countermeasures and set up a bureau.

Fan Yunxian also told Wu Cao, saying: "Don't believe Tuan'er, she secretly told the emperor's heir that there is actually another secret. A few months ago, the minister saw Tuan'er take the initiative to throw herself into the arms of the imperial heir, but the imperial heir rejected her. ”

"A few days ago, the envoy under the minister also saw Tuan'er entanglement with the imperial heir, wanting to throw himself into his arms, but was rejected by the imperial heir, and then there was today's whistleblowing."

Wu Cao summoned an informed envoy to inquire, and the answer was similar to Fan Yunxian's, and everyone accused Tuan'er of pestering and falsely accusing the emperor's heir.

Wu Cao understood what Tuan'er was doing, and ordered Gong Zheng Luoxia to implement the palace rules and kill Tuan'er. The poor young and beautiful Tuan'er was beaten to the point that his skin was torn apart, and he screamed to death.

After Tuan'er's death, Fan Yunxian thought that the emperor's supervision of the emperor's heirs had been relaxed, so he took the initiative to ask to see Wu Lun, wanting to connect him with the courtiers and prepare for the future restoration.

One day, the Shang Fang supervisor Pei Bandit ordered the craftsmen to make several gold and silver turtle bags, which were intended to be given to the imperial heir, so that the courtiers who supported the imperial heir could enter the palace.

Fan Yunxian, the regular attendant, privately bowed to Pei Bandit and led him to see Wulun.

This matter was soon discovered by the eyeliner in the palace and reported to Wu Cao.

Wu Cao shouted and asked Fan Yunxian: "Fan Changshi, did you tell Wu Lun about the cause of death of Liu Yao and Dou Shu'e?" Fan Yunxian didn't dare to answer.

In late January, Wu Cao beheaded Pei Bandit and Fan Yunxian in the city for the crime of privately befriending the emperor's heir. From then on, no one below the public secretary dared to visit Wulun.

If the Wulun is isolated, is it safe? Not really.

Seeing that the imperial heir was isolated, Wu Chenghe, the king of Wei, who had always wanted to be the crown prince, began to move again, and he thought that the time had come to snatch the position of the imperial heir.

Wu Chengji sent someone to contact Junchen and asked him to find a way to falsely accuse the emperor's heir of rebellion. Lai Junchen instructed his scoundrels to report on the blame, saying that the emperor's heir was planning the restoration in private.

Wu Cao ordered Junchen to interrogate Wu Lun's retinue. Wulun's entourage was afraid of the ten tortures of Lai Junchen, and they were overwhelmed with poison, and they falsely accused each other of rebellion against the emperor's heir.

At this time, Taichang Temple Legong An Jinzang really couldn't bear to see the emperor's heir being framed out of thin air, and said loudly to Lai Junchen: "Since the public doesn't believe Jinzang's words, Jinzang dissects the emperor's heir and does not oppose it!" ”

After saying that, An Jinzang actually cut his chest and abdomen with a knife, bleeding all over the ground, and his five organs were exposed.

The officials have never seen anyone dare to commit suicide by caesarean section, and the visual impact of the caesarean section is so amazing that they are all amazed! This An Jinzang is an Anguo Hu person, and he has a bloody nature!

Wu Cao soon learned of this and was also shocked, and sent the imperial doctors Wei Cizang and Shen Nanxuan to rescue.

After Wei Cizang and Shen Nanxuan arrived with the medicine box, they put An Jinzang's internal organs back into their abdomen, sutured them with mulberry threads, and applied Yunnan Baiyao to temporarily stop the bleeding.

An Jinzang woke up, and Wu Cao came to visit him, sighing and saying, "Hey, I have a son who can't understand himself, so that you have to endure so much pain!" ”

After sighing, Wu Cao ordered Lai Junchen to stop interrogating the case of the imperial heir and release all the prisoners involved in the case.

Two years of longevity is a big year for Wulun! After escaping this catastrophe, he was grateful to An Jinzang, and in the second year of Jingyun after re-enthronement, he was promoted to the right Wuwei Zhonglang general.