Originally, Zhu Youzhu was going to return to the Qianqing Palace, but after seeing the true face of the "Taoist priest", he was not in a hurry to go back, but watched a performance with great interest.

The heavy snow did not stop, and it became heavier and heavier under the sweep of the north wind, and the biting cold even the young and strong Zhang Yanling was a little unable to withstand it.

"Your Majesty, let her go to the palace and pray for Your Majesty's blessings, right?" Zhang Yanling smiled and played.

"This ......"

Zhu Youzhu groaned slightly, raised his right hand and nodded at Zhang Yanling a few times, and finally shook his head and smiled dumbly, turned around and went to the door of the Qianqing Palace.

Zhang Yanling waved her hand, and the woman jumped off the stilts with a light body, tidied up her appearance, and then walked up the steps under Zhang Yanling's signal, followed Emperor Hongzhi into the gate of the Qianqing Palace, and other Taoist priests were still performing hard in the square outside the main hall, and did not stop.

After waiting for the others to enter, Zhang Yanling waved his hand to let several eunuchs go in to serve, while he himself stayed and continued to watch the rest of the blessing ceremony.

"Sir, look ......"

A eunuch walked over and looked at Zhang Yanling in an inquiring tone, his face extremely embarrassed.

Zhang Yanling patted the eunuch's shoulder, and the other party almost fell to the ground in fright. Zhang Yanling smiled coldly: "Father-in-law Xu, what should be said and what should not be said, you should be clear." If this leaks out, you know what will happen to you, right? ”

Gonggong Xu hurriedly lowered his head and made a promise.

Zhang Yanling smiled disdainfully, he knew that Gonggong Xu was an old palace man who had been in the palace for more than forty years, and he was a close confidant of Empress Zhang, and no matter what happened in the Qianqing Palace, he would truthfully inform the Kunning Palace side.

Even Grandpa Xu himself didn't understand why Uncle Guo wanted to give him such a problem.

After Emperor Hongzhi entered the Qianqing Palace, the blessing ceremony outside actually didn't have much meaning, and it didn't take long for it to come to an end.

Zhang Yanling greeted people and followed him out of the palace.

After leaving the palace gate, the people in Jianchangbo's Mansion outside had been waiting for a long time, Zhang Yanling arranged for his family to send these people back to the house, and he himself rushed to the mansion of Zhang Heling, his brother Changshouning's Mansion, overnight.

After waiting in the study of the Marquis of Shouning for half an hour, Zhang Heling walked out of the back hall with a tired face, obviously disturbing his dream's dream.

"You too, come to my house in the middle of the night, what's the matter?" Zhang Heling sat down, looked at Zhang Yanling with a dark face, and took a sip of the hot tea just given by the servant.

Zhang Yanling told him the specific thing, Zhang Heling didn't say a word, and directly threw the teacup in his hand on the ground, "Wow", the teacup fell to pieces on the ground.

"What did you say?" Zhang Heling glared at his own brother, if it weren't for the fact that Zhang Yanling had grown up and settled down, his slap would have been thrown over.

Zhang Yanling had a little disdain on his face: "Brother didn't hear clearly, do you want me to say it again?" ”

Zhang Heling stood up, pacing back and forth angrily, feeling powerless that he couldn't do anything, and finally glared at his younger brother angrily: "Do you know what you're doing?" My sister is the queen, but you send a woman to your majesty in the palace, you are going to cut off the root of our Zhang family! ”

Zhang Yanling's face was calm: "Brother is serious, after tonight, people will be sent away, even if there is His Majesty's flesh and blood in the abdomen, who will know?" ”

"Bastard thing!"

Zhang Heling really didn't know how to teach his younger brother a lesson.

Zhang Yanling said: "Do you think that Your Majesty doesn't have a concubine on weekdays, so he doesn't have any ideas!?" My sister is obedient to the emperor and takes good care of our brother, but you should know your sister's temper, in the words of ordinary people, she is a jealous woman. His Majesty has not accepted a concubine because of the relationship between husband and wife. ”

"Now that my sister is sick, even if her body recovers a little, she still can't do the way of husband and wife with the emperor, the emperor has been sleepless for many days, so if it goes on, won't the emperor go to the palace maid by himself? On the contrary, if I send people in from outside the palace, and they are not ordinary ladies, and send people away in the future, Your Majesty will never have any thoughts. ”

"In this way, it not only satisfies Your Majesty and gives Your Majesty the pleasure of cheating, but you don't have to worry about someone in the harem competing with your sister for favor, why not?"

Zhang Heling said angrily: "Why don't you discuss with your brother? ”

"I knew that it would be fruitless to discuss with my brother, so I cut it first, and this is not the first time......"

"You used to ...... too" Zhang Heling was surprised, because if it was as his brother said, then he was only a teenager at that time, and he knew these things, and it was too demonic!

Zhang Yanling said: "That was four years ago, when my sister was pregnant with the princess, I ...... Things are the same as today, and your majesty has not asked about them since, and you have been gracious to us afterwards...... Is it reassuring to say so, brother? ”

Zhang Heling sat down and thought carefully about this question.

At first, he felt that Zhang Yanling was playing with fire, sending a woman to the emperor, and it was his brother-in-law who sent it to the emperor's brother-in-law.

But what Zhang Yanling said is not unreasonable.

Empress Zhang, who is twenty-nine years old this year, can't be young and beautiful forever, sooner or later, there will be a day when she is old and decrepit, the emperor is in his prime, and it was just a matter of one sentence to include a few concubines, but the problem is that if these concubines give birth to children, it will have a huge impact on the status of Empress Zhang and the Zhang family.

Sending a woman from outside the palace, if it is a lady who has not left the boudoir, it will definitely not work, if the emperor likes it, stay in the palace and canonize as a concubine, which is equivalent to Zhang's self-denial. And sending a married woman is detrimental to the emperor's reputation, and the emperor may not want it.

What Zhang Yanling is doing at the moment seems absurd, but it is actually very ingenious.

Sending a woman into the palace as a Taoist aunt, this kind of person has a humble status, and is not a virgin, the emperor wants to fight loneliness freshly, fill the situation that there is no one around Empress Zhang after she is sick, and send people away afterwards, the emperor cannot ask questions, and because Zhang Yanling "perceives the holy will" and relies more on the Zhang brothers, it can be said that there are many birds in one stone.

But this incident made Zhang Heling feel that if Queen Zhang knew, she would have to put on small shoes for his brothers, and she wouldn't even talk about the love of brothers. This is Queen Zhang, a woman who looks virtuous and generous, but is actually "jealous", once she is jealous, she will never be at peace.

"The matter has been born, what will you be accused of for my brother's displeasure, don't go back tonight, go to the palace gate to guard, as soon as people come out, how far can they be sent!"

When Zhang Heling said this, he suddenly remembered something and asked, "Where did you find the people, and will you leave any troubles?" ”

Zhang Yanling had a sinister smile on her face: "This is the official prostitute I found from the Teaching Workshop Division, is she really a master of Taoism?" Your Majesty doesn't care about these things, I just promise to give her a silver money to ransom her after the matter is completed, and ...... After tomorrow, she won't be able to leak things out at all, and my brother can rest assured. ”

Zhang Heling frowned, his younger brother was clearly preparing to kill someone! He asked a little worriedly, "Aren't you afraid that Your Majesty will turn back to you and ask for someone?" ”

"Afraid of what? If Your Majesty is really interested in a woman outside the palace, go back and send another one in...... Think about it, how could Your Majesty never forget a woman you met in Pingshui? ”

When Zhang Yanling said this, he had absolute confidence on his face, which was also because he had sent a woman to Zhu Youzhi and had experience.

"Then you go now!"

Zhang Heling couldn't take care of sleeping at this time, and even prepared to personally accompany his younger brother to the palace gate.

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At this time, in the Qianqing Palace of the Forbidden City, there were still many lights, and in addition to the emperor and the Taoist aunt who entered, there were only a few eunuchs in the palace.

Because of Empress Zhang's jealousy, the palace maids around the emperor have been replaced in recent years, and only the eunuchs remain, which is also a "lesson from the past" for Empress Zhang, who doesn't want her husband to be contaminated with palace maids again.

The emperor is in the vast Forbidden City, there are thousands of palace maids in the Ming Palace, if Zhu Youzhu really wants to be a palace maid, Empress Zhang is unguardable, and although Zhu Youzhu loves her, but in the end there is a need for a man, during the period when Empress Zhang was pregnant with her second son, she had a "fornication" with the palace maid, and after being noticed by Empress Zhang, she sent the palace maid away overnight, and the matter calmed down temporarily.

Zhu Youzhu felt indebted to his wife, so much so that Empress Zhang proposed to replace the palace maids of the Qianqing Palace, but Zhu Youzhu did not object.

The eunuchs outside the palace were still shivering in the wind and snow, hoping that the time for the dawn shift would come earlier.

At this time, in the Kunning Palace, Empress Zhang had just woken up, she looked at the dark night outside, and asked in a weak voice, "Your Majesty...... Have you ever been there? ”

The old palace maid who served next to her hurriedly said: "Queen Mother, Your Majesty stayed in the Qianqing Palace tonight and did not come. ”

Empress Zhang's face was slightly disappointed, but she quickly recovered, smiled slightly, raised her hand and said: "Quick, help the palace to get up, I've been lying down for a long time, and my body can't get up straight......"

With the support of the old palace maid, Empress Zhang sat up, but she was still weak, when the emperor came to see her two days ago, she felt that her complexion was better, so she proposed to fulfill her wife's responsibilities and accompany her husband well, but halfway through the matter, her body could not withstand the toss, and she fainted to death, and then the condition recurred.

"It's all my fault that my body is not angry, Your Majesty has been reviewing the recital until late at night for the past two days, but the palace can't accompany him." Empress Zhang's face was full of self-blame, she obviously didn't expect that at this moment, her husband was not sleepless, but a woman who was offered by her younger brother.

The wind and snow outside were a little heavy, and Queen Zhang sat for a while, and suddenly felt a little cold, so she asked the old palace maid to put a quilt on her, but she remembered her husband in her heart.

"Come on, go to the Qianqing Palace, and greet Your Majesty on behalf of the Palace. Tell Your Majesty that the body of this palace is better. Although Queen Zhang's lips are white, she is still a woman who knows how to understand her husband's hard work, and after a little relief, she wants to see her husband, even if it is just to send someone to talk to her husband.

The eunuch went in a hurry, this is also the rule set by Empress Zhang, most of the servants around her are old palace maids, even if they are young, they are very ordinary, as for those who go to talk to the emperor, they are all eunuchs.

Although the emperor didn't say anything, he actually minded in his heart...... Queen, you're going a little too far in this regard? I'm the emperor, do you need to guard against me like a thief?

After a long time, the eunuch returned, and Empress Zhang had already rested for a while, her spirit recovered slightly, and she hurriedly asked, "Have you seen Your Majesty?" ”

"Your Majesty is in the Qianqing Palace, and no one is allowed to disturb you." The eunuch looked frightened and replied tremblingly.

Empress Zhang thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty hasn't slept yet?" ”

"The lights are on, but Grandpa Xu didn't let us get too close, saying that His Majesty had been working hard for the past few days, maybe he fell asleep in front of the case, it was so cold, if he disturbed His Majesty, it would be bad for His Majesty to catch the cold."

Empress Zhang nodded and said, "What Gonggong Xu said is, alas! Your Majesty, you are all concubines who are sorry for you and let you work alone...... Hurry up and inform the imperial dining room and let them boil some ginger soup, Your Majesty may not feel well when he gets up in the morning, just drink some hot ginger soup. ”

"Yes, the queen mother, the slave will go to the imperial dining room to spread the word." Although the old palace maid didn't know much about this, she still obeyed the order.

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These two chapters can be regarded as digging a pit so that Shen Xi can break the game......

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