On the way home, Daguan and Xiao Yu'er slept soundly in their mother's arms, maybe they were teased by too many people as babies when they entered the palace today, they were really tired.

Yang Huairen looked at the sleeping child, his mood calmed down a lot, and asked them about going to see the Empress Dowager, Yun'er briefly said the general experience, but did not say that anyone in the harem had mentioned that Empress Meng was pregnant.

Yang Huairen knows that women in this era are pregnant, including family members, and generally don't talk nonsense in the first three months, as if saying it will scare the child in the belly and scare him away.

This traditional custom sounds ridiculous, but it is not completely unreasonable, especially in large families, the more they care about such a tradition, so not to say it to the Queen Mother is taboo.

What Yang Huairen thought of was a child in the palace, saying that life is good is also good life, and saying that life is thin is also life is thin.

For every ten women in the palace who are pregnant, there may not be two or three who can give birth to a child smoothly, even if they can give birth to a child, they may not be able to let the child grow up safely.

Therefore, children like Zhao Xu who can be born and become emperors are all hard-headed people.

The old people always told their children to stay away from those who are hard-working, Yang Huairen often heard his mother say this, he used to think that this was all feudal superstition, but now, he began to believe.

Zhao Xu is a hard life, although Yang Huairen feels that his life is actually quite hard, but after weighing it, no matter how hard his life is, it will always be softer than the life of someone else as an emperor, so he decided to stay away from Zhao Xu.

Fan Lu and the two ministers said that they wanted him to enter the court, but Yang Huairen absolutely refused, because now the big guys in the court are all hard-working, and they all have more hearts and eyes than a honeycomb, so what are you trying to do with them?

Besides, in today's court, the high-ranking and powerful people are all virtuous, like Zhang Dan, loyal ministers are loyal ministers, but they have a violent temperament, and if they don't agree with each other, they will arrange you to a place with poor mountains and bad waters.

And a few deputies around him, such as the torture Cai Bian and others, are also hard-hearted, and if they fall to the ground, they can smash a big hole in the floor, and they have long lost the mild atmosphere of Fan Lu's phase.

Yang Huairen really went to the court, it was a self-defeating death, and he could only wonder how Zhao Xu got these hard goods together, and he didn't know how many days he would have to live.

Therefore, cherish life and stay away from the court. In this way, the envoy to Liao is not necessarily a bad thing for Yang Huairen.

Yun'er saw that Yang Huairen's expression was gloomy when he first got into the car, and she only thought that the emperor had sent something difficult for him to do, so she didn't ask much, turned her head to look again, and saw that Lian'er seemed to have something to say but wanted to say and stopped, so she asked, "Lian'er, what's wrong with you, do you have anything to say to the officials?" ”

Yang Huairen came back to his senses at this time, raised his head and found that Lian'er's expression seemed to be a little hesitant, so he raised his hand and gently pinched her shoulder, giving her a warm smile, "Isn't it comfortable?" Or is it because I was too nervous to enter the palace, and I haven't come back to my senses yet? ”

Lian'er squeezed out a smile in embarrassment, "The concubine is fine, it's just ...... There is something I don't know whether to talk about or not. ”

Yun'er is a straight person, and she pretended to slap Lian'er's buttocks, "You're really in a hurry, it's good if you have something to say, there are no outsiders here!" ”

Lian'er lowered her head slightly, raised her eyes and looked at Yang Huairen cautiously and said, "Fang is just going to the Queen Mother, isn't the Queen Mother playing the leaf card?" ”

"That's right, the women in the palace can't leave the palace, they are bored on weekdays, it's normal to play leaf cards to pass the time, what's wrong?" Yun'er interjected for some reason.

Lian'er continued, "I said a word to the Queen Mother in the middle, I don't know if my sister still remembers, she said that when the Queen Mother Gao was there, there was a deck of leaf cards made of jade, called ...... Mahjong, everyone in the harem likes it, or our officials used to give it to the Empress Dowager Gao. ”

Yun'er frowned, she still didn't understand what Lian'er was bringing up this matter for, and she couldn't figure out why she was so difficult to talk about this inconsequential gossip to the Queen Mother.

Yang Huairen pinched his nose, thought about it for a while, and immediately understood.

He Zhiyun doesn't care about these, because her past experience is different from normal people, most of the people in the rivers and lakes are straightforward, and they like to play conspiracy and calculation, after all, they are a minority, it turns out that she has the final say alone in the cottage, so there is no need, and she rarely tries to figure out the meaning of other people's words.

Lian'er has shouldered the responsibilities of the family since she was a child, and once opened a small soup cake shop, and came into contact with many people in the society.

She naturally understands that the seemingly ordinary words of the Queen Mother are actually said to the two of them, Mrs. Yang.

Lian'er didn't want to say it, but she couldn't help but say it to Yang Huairen, there was a reason, she didn't want this kind of thing to affect the mood of the officials.

Yang Huairen felt that it was his blessing that he could have such two wives with different temperaments but who could complement each other.

Yang Huairen looked at the two wives and smiled faintly, "Lian'er, you don't have to worry, when you go home, you can tell someone to buy some good jade materials, and then play a deck of mahjong cards for the Empress Dowager Xiang, and find someone to send to the palace."

You don't have to worry about others saying that our family is slipping and patting horses, as soon as you come to you, I am already thick-skinned, and I am not afraid of others chewing my tongue at all;

Second, let's be a person and do things, as long as it is beneficial to the family, it is good to do it with confidence, especially the people in the harem, let alone offend, it is better to do a few more sets, everyone in the harem has a share, and we can do things at one time.

Third, everyone knows that I, Yang Huairen, am a notoriously stunned person, even if I or you don't do anything bad, people will scold me behind my back a few unreasonable words, and they don't dare to really do anything to me. ”

He Zhiyun still didn't understand too much, Lian'er saw that Yang Huairen affirmed what she meant, and couldn't bear to let Sister Yun'er stay in the dark, so she leaned over and whispered to her by her ear.

Yun'er nodded while listening, looked nervous for a while, covered her mouth and snickered for a while, and finally shook her head, "Alas, I was born in ...... because of my concubine body Hehe, I didn't understand the meaning of the Empress Dowager's words, fortunately there is Lian'er here today, otherwise I would have offended the Empress Dowager Xiang, and I don't know how I offended. ”

Yang Huairen denied, "You don't have to blame yourself, if this kind of thing is done well, it is also to support the façade for others, and we are worthy of our hearts if we don't do it well, people, it's better to keep it simple, so our family will try to deal with people in the harem as little as possible in the future." ”