Gu Nian stopped in the middle of speaking, and saw Xiao Yue looking at her with sparkling eyes, and her cheeks instantly turned red.

Since she became pregnant, she felt that her memory was not as good as before, and when the two were alone, they had actually discussed the matter of the five princes.

When she said that just now, she felt familiar, and when she saw Xiao Yue looking at herself like that, she suddenly remembered.

Gu Nian has many faces, Xiao Yue feels that each side is very good-looking, Gu Nian, who was talking so eloquently just now, looks like his eyes are shining, and his face is shining.

But in a blink of an eye, she lowered her eyes shyly, and her face was slightly shy with a delicate pink color, and she understood, so he clenched his fist and coughed lightly on his lips, and said softly,

"It's okay, I like to listen to Nian Nian and tell me this, and I can fill in the gaps from time to time."

Gu Nian raised his eyes and saw that he was trying to hold back a smile, and he only felt ashamed, so he turned around and ignored him.

Xiao Yue couldn't hold back any longer, laughed, and loved the woman in front of him very much.

He moved over, sat down beside her, pulled her shoulder, and when he saw that she ignored him, he put a small kiss on the back of her neck, and then moved it to her ear, and took it in his mouth, and said in a low voice, "I was wrong, I shouldn't laugh at you." ”

Gu Nian twisted his body and didn't let him kiss him, probably all women in the world are the same, from the beginning of having a body, slowly his memory is not as good as before.

For example, she remembered things a second ago, but she didn't remember them when she turned around.

Xiao Yue hugged her and said, "The place that Ji said, there is no place around the capital that she said, the people behind the scenes, don't contact her, she should have sent someone to look for it in private, but she definitely didn't find anything."

Therefore, that place became more and more mysterious in her heart, and at the same time, she felt that the person behind the curtain was very powerful.

I'd like to go over and see for myself and verify it, the sooner the better. ”

Gu Nian twisted his body and said angrily, "What are you talking to me about?" ”

After saying that, he asked, "What did the one above say?" ”

Xiao Yue hooked the corners of his lips and said with a mocking smile, "He must know more than us, I checked this, not for him, but because the people behind the scenes threatened our safety."

and the war back then, in the end, it was the fault of the Jin Palace. ”

Gu Nian nodded, "Then you bring more people over, that place is so mysterious, it should be taken very seriously by that person." If it is confirmed, should it be sealed directly? ”

Xiao Yue nodded and agreed, he didn't know how deep the water was, and now, he could only take one step, look at one step, and do something within his reach.

He looked out the window at the pitch black night, and no one knew how much filth was hidden in such a dark night.

The second master and the third master quickly moved out of the Jin Palace, the second master had no road, but the third master came out to see Gu Nian once.

The third old man was full of shame, and said to Gu Nian secretly, "The third uncle thought about it in the past, and I hope that Yue'er can forgive, in the future, if there is anything to use the third uncle, say a word." ”

Gu Nian had a big belly and it was inconvenient to salute the third master, and said with a smile, "You are the third uncle, you are an elder, and the prince has always respected you very much, so let's pass the past." ”

The third master was very embarrassed, said a few words, and left.

After he left, Gu Nian instructed Astragalus, "Tell Thirteen and let him send someone to keep an eye on the second and third rooms, things are definitely not so simple." ”

The second master and the third master have always been low-key, and suddenly jumped out, although they didn't set off any wind and waves, but they always responded to people.

The second master said that the fifth prince had found him, and Gu Nian believed it.

It's just that I don't know what else is behind this?

*

Xiao Yue was afraid of startling the snake, so he only took Dark One and another shadow guard to the suburbs to find the locust forest that Ji said.

After Zhang Chunzi's disguise, they went out of Gyeonggi, climbed a mountain, and after passing through a dense forest, they found a large locust forest.

Before they approached the locust forest, there was a section of the road that was rowed by a bamboo raft, which was consistent with the waterfront described by Ji.

When he arrived near the Huai Forest, Xiao Yue cheered up, and at the same time instructed the two people who followed, "Be careful, this place is so hidden, I'm afraid that someone nearby will be secretly watching, and if you are not careful, you will miss your whereabouts as soon as you show up." ”

All three are masters, and avoiding the eyes of others is a breeze.

When he arrived at the Huai Forest, Xiao Yue's heart relaxed a little, this place was right.

Another shadow guard had already climbed a tall tree and looked at it for a moment before saying, "There's a big house ahead. ”

Xiao Yue nodded when he heard this, "It seems to be good, it's there, it's there, I don't know what place it is, and who are the officials here?" Didn't you notice anything out of the ordinary? ”

Secretly beckoned the shadow guard to come down, Xiao Yue took the two of them and walked back, saying, "Don't get close yet, go back and draw a map of this place first, and then check who the Zhuangzi in this area is, and then who the local officials are."

What factions. ”

Dark Yi answered softly, and when Xiao Yue was about to leave, he turned around and looked at the woods, only to feel that these things instantly became hideous in his eyes.

Xiao Yue went to find the lair of the people behind the scenes, and the five princes did not stop in Beijing.

At the beginning, because of the affairs of the British Mansion and Zhang Ying's death, the five princes were locked up in the palace and could not go out.

In the winter of the twenty-second year of Chengping, the Queen Mother suddenly fell ill, and when Emperor Yongping went to visit, she said that the five princes had not seen the five princes for a long time.

Emperor Yongping's face did not change, and he immediately ordered the chamberlain around him to pass the five princes into the palace and see the queen mother.

At the same time, let the five princes meet the queen mother and go to the imperial study to see themselves.

When the five princes entered the palace, all the people looked at the five princes in disbelief.

The fifth prince wore a gray robe, his hair combed in a round bun, and was simply fixed with a wooden hairpin.

The five princes, who used to look sunny and bright, were dressed simply, and their faces were unprecedentedly peaceful.

"Son-in-law, see father." The five princes lifted up the hem of their clothes and knelt down to see him.

Emperor Yongping looked at the five princes with a faint expression and said, "Flat." ”

So many emotions surged through him, so much so that his voice was very complicated.

The fifth prince slowly got up.

Emperor Yongping's gaze fell on the calm face of the fifth prince, and when he thought of the man's deathbed entrustment, his heart was filled with compassion for a while.

At this moment, the fifth prince raised his eyes, his eyes were full of tears, and his lips trembled slightly.

The father and son looked at each other, silent, and in an instant, two lines of tears slipped from the eyes of the five princes.

Half an hour later, the door of the imperial study opened with a 'squeak', and the five princes with red and swollen eyes came out of it.

In the Chaohui Palace, Cheng Guifei quietly looked at the five princes, since the third princess and the fourth prince were sent to Huangjue Temple one after another to be imprisoned, although the five princes were still in Beijing, but the gate of the palace did not have Emperor Yongping to speak, and it was also guarded by the Imperial Forest Army.

She felt that so many years of life had been in vain, Emperor Yongping had never come to her palace since she said the wrong thing, although she still had the name of a concubine, but in this harem, she couldn't even compare with the lowest-grade concubines.

The fifth prince at the bottom was uncomfortable by Cheng Guifei, and moved his body, "What is the mother concubine doing looking at her son like this?" ”

Cheng Guifei sighed, "You asked the Queen Mother to mention you in front of the emperor, right?" ”

The fifth prince's eyes flashed lightly, and he said, "The son doesn't understand the words of the mother concubine, isn't the queen mother missing her son?" ”

Cheng Guifei knew it in her heart, and she really guessed correctly, "You are still pretending to be with me here, you were born to me, and I don't know you yet." ”

The fifth prince's face stiffened.

Cheng Guifei felt bitter in her heart, she used to put all her hopes on her eldest son, not that she didn't love her younger son, but that she loved her even more, and only hoped that he would be a rich idler under the protection of her brother.

In a family, it is enough for one person to work hard.

What she didn't expect was that the youngest son's ambition was not as strong as the eldest son, and even, the two of them demolished each other, which made her feel exhausted.

"Do you know what you're doing?" Cheng Guifei looked at the five princes helplessly.

Having said this, the five princes are no longer secretive, he is letting people talk about him in front of the Queen Mother, and he is also asking people to talk about the alliance with the Queen Mother.

In the days when he was locked up in the palace, he learned from the pain and found that he had been too reckless before, which lost the favor of his father.

During this time, he tried his courage and was cautious, and he no longer dared to act rashly.

He can't be locked up in the palace all the time, he needs to come out, so that he can show himself little by little and ease his father's attitude.

As long as he comes out, he can slowly let his father leave things to him.

He is not the fourth, he was killed by his father, and he ended up so dismal.

He will slowly climb up, and then pull the prince and Xiao Yue down.

The eyes of the five princes were fanatical, and they seemed to have seen the day when the crown prince would be pulled down.

Cheng Guifei looked at her son, her eyes lit up, she didn't know what to say, even if the emperor didn't like the prince, but she felt that it was impossible to beat the prince to the end with a rod.

Unless the prince rebels, otherwise, he has not been the prince for so many years.

Moreover, the abolished prince is not so easy to scrap.

This year, she has long understood that the gap between her son and the crown prince is not the concubine, nor the age, nor the prestige in the court.

But the emperor has not really wanted to abolish the crown prince until now.

Once upon a time, why didn't she want to talk about the prince pulling down? Her line and the queen's line are already mortal enemies, and between the two factions, either you die or I live.

But now, she also sees the prince clearly, if he really wants to fight the fourth and fifth, the two will have no power to fight back.

The son's dissipation during this period of time was like resigning himself to his fate, and Cheng Guifei was distressed after being unwilling, and at the same time relieved.

Thinking about it, it's not bad like this, anyway, what she hoped for at the beginning was that her youngest son would be a rich and idle king.

didn't expect that he was all pretending, he was ambitious, even more than his fourth brother.

"Even if your father is a little dissatisfied with him and will suppress him, it is impossible to give up on him. He was made crown prince from birth.

How much effort did your father spend cultivating him? ”

The fifth prince disagreed, "I'll add some more firewood, so that my father will be more dissatisfied with him, and it will be a matter of time before the prince is disliked." The crown prince went down, the fourth brother is like that, and the others are still young, didn't my father just lift me up? ”

"Mother, if you don't try, who knows what the result will be? Don't you want to enter the temple and enjoy the incense of eternity? ”

In all dynasties, only the queen and the queen mother were eligible to enter the temple to enjoy the offerings.

Cheng Guifei said tiredly, "Now, I just want your three brothers and sisters to be safe." ”

She looked lonely, "I don't know what happened to your sister inside?" ”

"To be safe and secure is to grovel, if you want your son to live under people for the rest of your life, your son would rather die."

The fifth prince said with a cold expression, "You have let the fourth brother fight with the prince since you were a child, and you want to snatch the Lin family's country from the prince's hands, the fourth brother lost, isn't it the same now that your son is fighting for you?" ”

The fifth prince stood up, his gray robe fluttering, he originally wanted his mother to help him watch it in the palace, but now, he felt that it was unnecessary.

Unexpectedly, the failure of the fourth brother actually made the fighting spirit of the mother concubine wear down.

"The mother concubine has a good rest, the son is retiring, as for the third sister, I will find a way to meet her." The five princes bowed and strode away.

Cheng Guifei saw him throw his sleeves away, and shouted loudly behind him, "You come back, Song'er, you come back for me." ”

The five princes turned a deaf ear and strode away, their steps unusually firm.

*

Since the fifth prince entered the palace to visit the queen mother, it seems that the circle has really been lifted, he has been summoned by the emperor more than once, in the imperial study, the father and son talk very happily, sometimes a conversation is an afternoon.

The atmosphere in the court suddenly became strange because of the emperor's inexplicable behavior.

The people on the prince's side couldn't help but mutter, "What does the emperor want to do?" went to the fourth prince, and mentioned that the fifth prince and the crown prince were against him? ”

The crown prince smiled and said, "Flesh and blood are natural." ”

It seems to be a father who wants to enjoy family fun with his son.

But in this royal family, where is there real family affection?

After a lot of disturbances, it was the end of the year.

The convoy of the eldest princess of the protector also returned to the capital from Phoenix, along with the eunuch Yang Shun, who was sent by Emperor Yongping, and the medical woman sent by the Queen Mother.

Mingzhu was dealt with by Xiao Yue because she broke into Xiao Yue's study, and only Mingyue came back.

When Mingyue returned to the capital, she went directly to the palace and asked to see the Queen Mother.

More than half an hour later, the Queen Mother called Xiao Yue and his wife into the palace.

As soon as she walked to the gate of Yongfu Palace, a female official came out and said with a smile, "Lord, princess, go in, the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother are waiting." ”

Xiao Yue helped Gu Nian and walked for a while before arriving at the main hall.

The nine-layer copper stove, which burns precious ambergris, is faintly permeated in the air, and the carpet on the ground is soft to step on.

The Queen Mother sits at the top, and the Queen sits at the bottom right.

Xiao Yue and Gu Nian Yili wanted to kneel and kowtow, but the Queen Mother hurriedly said, "You have a big belly, it's inconvenient, and those vulgar rites will be waived." Get up. ”

The queen slowed down for a while, and then said, "Sit down, bring a chair to Princess Jin." ”

Although Gu Nian is a super first-class princess, she can lift a chair...... This is also too much face.

However, the people waiting in the hall had already carried chairs over, and Gu Nian could only sit on it reluctantly, her belly was big, and she didn't dare to just sit next to each other.

The queen mother said a few words to the queen, and then sent the queen away, and then said to Xiao Yue, "In the past, it was all about mourning the family. You have to forgive me, an old woman. ”

Xiao Yue's face was not very good, he knew what the Queen Mother was doing when she asked them in, and they hadn't had time to go to Anyuan Houfu to visit the princess of the protector.

The Queen Mother didn't feel embarrassed, but looked at Gu Nian's stomach, and was relieved to let Gu Nian step forward, took her hand, and asked carefully, one by one.

The Queen Mother was satisfied with what she heard, and with a wave of her hand, she rewarded Gu Nian with a lot of things, and when she was in the end, she pointed to a woman with red and swollen eyelids behind her, and said slowly,

"Last time, the mourning family thought about the bitter cold in southern Xinjiang, so they sent two medical girls over.

I didn't expect to come back this time, there is only one, I don't know where the other one went? ”

Xiao Yue said lazily, "She trespassed into the study, probably a spy sent by the southern Xinjiang, and I dealt with her." ”

When the Queen Mother heard this, her face suddenly fell, "She is a weak woman, where is the spy?" ”

She turned to Gu Nian, "Those two are the best medical women in the Medical Women's Bureau, they are there to take care of you, they have craftsmanship and understand the rules, I think they are good, so I can't bear to give them to you."

But you're fine, just deal with it. ”

She said bitterly, "To be a woman, the first thing is to be generous, in the past, I gave the side concubine, and you didn't want it, but now it's just two medical girls who take care of you, and you can't tolerate it?"

When men and women get married, the important thing is to extend the heirs, you now, the important thing is the children, and the things around the man should be handed over to others to share. ”

Gu Nian hung her head and didn't speak, the men were all there, what was she doing when she rushed out?

Xiao Yue grew up under the nose of the Queen Mother since he was a child, and he naturally knew the rules of the palace very clearly.

He looked at the Queen Mother who was sitting high, only to feel that it was particularly eye-catching, he put his hands behind his back, and slowly walked to Mingyue's side, as if looking at a dead person, and said lightly,

"The Queen Mother let us in like this, and said so much, didn't she just want to reward a woman for me?

I must also let me spoil this woman, I just want to ask the Queen Mother, when I have tenderness and sweetness with such a woman, do I spoil them, or do they spoil me? ”

When the Queen Mother heard this, her face suddenly turned dark, and she was furious, and said, "Vulgar, is this how the emperor taught you since childhood?"

Who are you? What is she? Is there such a person like you who reverses humility and despises himself?

I want to ask the emperor how he taught you, how did he teach you like this, and he dared to say anything bastard. ”

In this palace, after the last time the Queen Mother gave the side concubine, most of the people have changed, and now the old man who is by the Queen Mother's side is just a person who has served by the Queen Mother's side since he was young.

The others were replaced by empresses or emperors, and at this moment, they naturally didn't dare to come forward and say anything.

Xiao Yue stood there calmly, his eyes were arrogant and indifferent, "The affairs of men and women, you come and go, don't you just go in and out?"

Can't you say what others have done? The Queen Mother cares about me and wants to reward me again and again, and today, I will make it clear in front of the Queen Mother.

I have no intention of daunting in beauty, so I won't say it before, but this time the Queen Mother rewarded me with two grass-like concubines.

Does the Queen Mother use such a woman to grace me, or use me to grace these two women?

Did the Queen Mother grace me, or insult me?

The emperor wants to reuse me, but the queen mother wants to give me a woman, make my inner house chaotic, and make my wife and future children think that I am just a royal captive child.

I was raised by the emperor, which is true, but I also sold the literary and martial arts I learned to the emperor's family.

That's all, the minister didn't sell all his body! ”

After Xiao Yue saluted the Queen Mother, he took Gu Nian out of Yongfu Palace, no matter what the Queen Mother's face turned black behind him and how much she lost her temper.

He didn't want to put up with these funny things anymore.

Emperor Yongping received the will from the beginning of the entry of Xiao Yue and his wife into the palace, but alas, he was listening to the news from the shadow guard coming back to report the people behind the scenes of the Ji family.

By the time it was over, Xiao Yue had already fainted the Queen Mother, and he had already led his wife out of the palace.

Emperor Yongping sat on the chair, smiling rather than smiling, he looked at the tall palace, and his heart was extremely lonely.

In this life, he can only wander on the road of the lonely king.

When it came to Layue, Gu Nian's belly became bigger and bigger, and it was no longer convenient to move, and he couldn't see the toes of his big belly.

On the day of the winter solstice, the palace was invited, according to the etiquette, the women of the four grades or more in the capital should also be dressed according to the products, but two days before the winter solstice, after seeing the five princes, the queen mother, who was slowly getting better, made a decree to the palace of the king of Jin.

Yi Zhi said that Gu Nian is now keeping filial piety and is pregnant, so she is exempted from entering the palace on the winter solstice, the first day of the first month, and the fifteenth day of the first month.

Not only that, but he also rewarded Gu Nian with a lot of things, and said that once Gu Nian gave birth to a boy, he would invite the emperor and ask the little doll to be the son.

Gu Nian was not complacent because of the Queen Mother's gift, and the Queen Mother would never do things without purpose.

She immediately asked Astragalus to send the Dark Thirteen to go outside to inquire about the news, and those old and weak or pregnant women in the capital who had just given birth did not need to go to the palace to congratulate them.

Dark Thirteen had been trained in the Dark Guard Camp before, so it was naturally useless to do such a thing, and early in the morning of the second day, Astragalus reported to her when Gu Nian had breakfast,

"Thirteen said that except for a few old ladies who have been bedridden all the year round, the other ladies have not received the Queen Mother's dictation."

When Gu Nian heard this, he put down the chopsticks in his hand, and suddenly lost his appetite.

Xiao Yue is the eldest grandson, and originally only had to keep filial piety for one year, but 'Xiao Yi' has died, so he originally needed to replace his deceased father to practice filial piety and keep filial piety for three years.

But after Xiao Yue went to Gyeonggi to find the locust forest, Emperor Yongping made a decree to come down, saying that state affairs are more important than family affairs, and the old concubine was well aware of the righteousness during her lifetime, and now she is in the spirit of heaven, and she will not blame her, so she will let Xiao Yue return to the court.

When Xiao Yue came back from the court, he said to him, "The Queen Mother did this, ostensibly to sympathize with the courtiers, but in fact, she put me up as a target." ”

"So many seventy or eighty-year-old ladies are not exempt from the court, older than my month, and they are not exempt, originally, there is a name for filial piety, I can justifiably not have to go, but now, it is the same as receiving special care.

Mrs. Zhongyuan Hou Shizi, her belly is bigger than mine, and she didn't receive the message, and I was the only one in the entire capital who received it. ”

"The matter of the Queen Mother's dictation will soon spread out, I am afraid that I will talk about my pampering and arrogance, how can it take three months or half a year for others to win love.

But you have been less than two months, and the emperor loves you so much that even the queen mother is afraid of your prestige, so she has to make a decree to exempt me from congratulatory advice. ”

Xiao Yue frowned, took off the court clothes on his body, and said coldly, "Those ignorant women just like to chew their tongues and distort the facts.

Obviously, the Queen Mother herself wants to exempt you from congratulating, why did you become pampered and arrogant? ”

Gu Nian listened, and took back the hand that was about to take his coat, Xiao Yue's words hit too widely, she said with a smile,

"What ignorant woman? Speaking of nothing to do and grievances about the facts, how can a woman compare to the royal historians who take pleasure in participating in people?

Listening to the wind, isn't this just chewing the root of the tongue? The same thing, a woman does it by chewing the root of her tongue, and that person is praised for being fearless of power and speaking up? ”

Xiao Yue was stunned, and hurriedly stopped arranging his hand, and said, "It's because my husband said the wrong thing, my child, forgive me once." ”

Gu Nian was annoyed in her heart, although she had experienced many lives, except for the matter of the Four Princes, at other times, she regarded it as a new life.

Even though she has experienced the era of equality between men and women, she has experienced more of a world of male superiority and inferiority, and she knows that only by accepting the rules of the game can she live a better life.

In the past, she didn't show any flaws, but just now, those words of equality between men and women blurted out like that, is it just because she and Xiao Yue are heart-to-heart and don't hide anything in front of each other?

Or is it because she is more sensitive during pregnancy?

She stood there dumbfounded, Xiao Yue saw that she didn't speak, thinking that she was angry, "The child is his mother, the child and his father are wrong, everyone will make mistakes, there will be good and evil, it has nothing to do with men and women, it depends on whether that person's heart and eyes are crooked." ”

Gu Nian suddenly came back to her senses, just now she said that she did it, and Xiao Yue said that those women were not good because of her.

She pursed her lips and said, "I thought about it just now, I'm sorry, but the Queen Mother has ill intentions, we can't sit still, everyone is gold, and we still have to resolve it." ”

Xiao Yue saw her turn around, so he said, "You don't have to worry about it, I'll deal with it." ”

Gu Nian didn't know what Xiao Yue would do, but the dark one sent the news of who the owner of the locust flower forest was.

Gu Nian asked Xiao Yue, "Who is it?" King Ping? ”

Xiao Yue's expression was calm, and he didn't answer Gu Nian's words for a while.