Chapter Eighty-Three: The Secret History of the Court
Thanks to these girls getting together and not having a poetry meeting, Zhang Erzhen didn't prepare a few poems. When I used to watch "Dream of Red Mansions", I only felt that those young ladies were embarrassed to go out to socialize if they didn't have three taels of ink in their stomachs. So last night, I also prepared a few poems written by Chairman Mao, and now I can't use them for the time being, it's really a false alarm.
Everyone made an appointment to see the lanterns together during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the maid from the Liang Mansion came in to report that Mrs. Liang had invited the girls to come over to talk. This is very normal, Mama Hua said that when you enter the house, you have to go to see the main mother, unless the main mother herself doesn't want to see people. The group followed Liang Aiwan around the flower hall, bypassed the long stone corridor, and walked for a while before arriving at Mrs. Liang's courtyard. The agarwood in the main hall is curling, and the carved beams and painted pillars look very magnificent. Mrs. Liang was as radiant as she was back then, her disc face looked kind, and she was only slightly tired between her eyebrows.
Everyone saluted Mrs. Liang and sat down one by one. Li Zhuozhuo is often seen, so Mrs. Liang skipped her and asked An Yuwen first, with a faint expression: "Miss An hasn't been here for a long time, is life in the palace okay?"
An Yuwen lowered her head and replied, "Everything is fine in the palace, Mrs. Lao cares." ”
Mrs. Liang turned her head and asked Zhang Erzhen: "Miss Zhang is also an old acquaintance, and I won't recognize it if I haven't seen her for a long time. Zhang Erzhen got up and thanked her, Mrs. Liang looked at Zhang Erzhen's generous and decent manners, and couldn't help but look at it, and remembered that Zhang Erzhen at that time couldn't hold back on anything, so she smiled and said: "Miss Zhang has grown into a big girl, look very good." ”
"Scorching is a regular customer, don't be inhibited. After Mrs. Liang finished speaking, Li Zhuozhuo smiled and said, "Listening to Mrs., I am not restrained at all." Everyone laughed, and Mrs. Liang said that she was a little skin monkey.
The greeting with the elders is always boring, Mrs. Liang does not open her mouth to ask, the scene will be very quiet, occasionally Li Zhuozhuo has a few words, Mrs. Liang is tired after a while, and tells the maids and daughters-in-law to entertain the girls. Seeing Mrs. Liang away, Li Zhuozhuo asked curiously: "Later, I look at Mrs. Liang's bad look, is she sick?"
Liang Aiwan smiled bitterly and hesitated: "Mother is not sick, someone in the house is sick." ”
Zhang Erzhen also pricked up her ears to listen, and Liang Aiwan continued: "Yes...... My aunt in the house is sick......"
"My aunt is sick, please ask a Lang Zhong to come and see it, why is the tired lady Xiang Huangyu, pale and weak, Zuo is just an aunt. Li Zhuozhuo's words won the approval of the girls, Zhang Erzhen also nodded, my aunt is sick, but the eldest lady is still tired, it's weird, I only heard Liang Aiwan say: "Alas...... This aunt of my family is not ordinary. Since giving birth to the fourth younger brother, I have become more and more delicate, and I am sick and weak today, although I don't need my mother to take care of it personally, but I also want to send a maid to the past. Three days and two ends of the trouble like this, that's why I ...... "Liang Ai didn't say anything in the evening, but you are all girls with aunts in the family, except for Zhang Erzhen, the other two raised their eyebrows coldly, An Yuwen sneered: "No matter how expensive the concubine is, she is still a concubine, and she has to bow her eyebrows and bend down to perform a slave salute, thinking that it makes a difference if she gives birth to a son?" ”
Liang Aiwan doesn't want to talk about the privacy of the house, but everyone is not stupid, and naturally knows that if there is no favor and maintenance of Master Liang, the concubine will never be able to turn up any storms. Li Zhuozhuo came up with an idea and said: "Next time your aunt has another incident, you will ask Master Liang to come over and take a look, expose her shortcomings on the spot, and see how she pretends to be squeamish." ”
Liang Aiwan thanked her and said with a wry smile: "I've tried everything, my aunt only said that after giving birth to the fourth brother, she was like this, and no one could do anything about the sadness and tears wiped all day long." ”
Zhang Erzhen asked: "How does the aunt look, is she really sick or is she pretending?"
"It really looks like I'm sick, but I can't find out, so my mother is angry, and it has been delayed for so long, and it is useless to change a few doctors. ”
"I think your aunt is sicksick. As soon as Zhang Erzhen's words came out, the three girls' eyes widened instantly, and Zhang Erzhen didn't sell Guanzi, and said: "Is your aunt not able to see the fourth son on weekdays, the fourth son is raised under the name of the lady, and the lady naturally doesn't want the aunt to visit often." This aunt, most of them is - miss her son. ”
But my aunt had to go to her mother's yard every day to see her fourth brother, and her mother never stopped her. Liang Aiwan said and suddenly realized: "No wonder, this aunt's mind is meticulous enough, just waiting for her father to ask her, she can say it directly, my aunt wants to raise her fourth brother by herself, it is simply delusional." "The children of the big family, whether they are concubines or concubines, are all raised by their mothers-in-law, and they are naturally just aunts.
An Yuwen said: "My aunt is naturally not qualified to raise the son in the house, even if she cries and makes trouble, it is useless." When you go back in the evening, tell your lady that she will not be allowed to see the fourth prince in the future. ”
Zhang Erzhen felt that this was inappropriate: "Didn't this give that aunt an excuse to continue to make noise, I guess that aunt must not be fanfare, but infiltrated into Master Liang's heart little by little, and waited until Master Liang was completely soft-hearted, and then achieved his goal in one fell swoop." At that time, the lady was exhausted, and naturally she didn't have much heart to take care of the fourth son anymore. After Zhang Erzhen finished speaking, Li Zhuozhuo asked, "What good way do you have?"
"I don't have any good way, but there is a bad way. Mrs. Liang might as well take the preemptive strike, go to Master Liang first and say that she is not energetic, so it is better to put the fourth son in front of her aunt and raise her, Master Liang may think that Mrs. dislikes the fourth son and is unwilling to ......raise him" Before Zhang Erzhen finished speaking, An Yuwen questioned: "Isn't that even worse, wouldn't that aunt live faster." ”
Liang Aiwan said: "Let's listen to Zhen Zhen." ”
"But I will also feel strange, just imagine how there is a lady who is so blatant and does not want to raise a concubine, and then the lady can say that she is helpless. This is a rare point to grasp this degree, and it will be bad if it is self-defeating. After Zhang Erzhen finished speaking, Li Zhuozhuo had a headache and said: "This is really not a good idea, if it succeeds, it will be good, if the aunt grabs the details and cries, it will not be good." Why is it so troublesome, the aunt in our house doesn't have such a big courage to dare to argue with Mrs., it's really boring. ”
Liang Aiwan smiled bitterly again, the things in her house are a mess, whether you succeed or not, you can only try: "It's really not a way for my mother to repeat it all day long, it's better to make it clear, it's much better to start a knife than to boil people in the dark." ”
Zhang Erzhen agreed: "Aunt is an aunt after all, if you want to argue with your wife, you need to show courage, just win the bet, and lose the bet...... Mrs. is different, there is the eldest son, the second son and the late sister, in fact, it is not very important to raise the fourth son. ”
An Yuwen also agreed: "That's true, although the concubine has been raised by the eldest lady's side since he was a child, but in the end, if there is another unconscious aunt to pinch it, it is better to let this matter go, and try to be quiet, and there is no need to raise a white-eyed wolf." There is really such a thing in our capital, let's just say that it is in the palace......" An Yuwen lowered her voice and said with a mysterious face: "Although His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is also raised by the queen mother at the age of six, but this is not biological, the queen mother's mind is now on the eighth prince, which greatly exceeds the meaning of His Royal Highness the Prince." ”
Several girls were surprised when they heard this, and Li Zhuozhuo hurriedly asked, "How do you say this?"
"Although His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is in good health, His Royal Highness the Prince, who was six years old at the time, only went to the queen's mother, and he has been running around for so many years either taking medicine or seeing a doctor, and the queen mother may be annoyed, and raised the eighth prince born to Concubine Shao. That's been raised by my side since I was a child, so I'm naturally close to my mother. Now that the saint is in full bloom, ...... in the future" An Yuwen blinked mysteriously and stopped talking, the faces of the girls were also wonderful, Li Zhuozhuo was shocked, Liang Aiwan's face flickered and darkened, only Zhang Erzhen, her face was a little wooden, and she turned a thousand times for a while.
Li Zhuozhuo asked again: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is favored by the saints, which is a blessing that others can't compare. ”
"Do you know why His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was crowned the crown prince until he was six years old?" An Yuwen said cautiously: "This is not allowed to be said outside, only we are good sisters, I will say it......"
Li Zhuozhuo urged: "Naturally, naturally, we don't have any good fruit to eat." ”
"The palace says that Concubine Ji is a palace maid...... An Yuwen broke out the shocking news as soon as she opened her mouth, and Zhang Erzhen also looked at An Yuwen in surprise, the secret history of the palace.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was quietly born by Concubine Ji, and was secretly raised until she was six years old, and Concubine Ji was not in good health. At this time, the saint only knew that there was a third prince, and for a while, he was happy and announced to the world, and then he established the prince. ”
After hearing this, Zhang Erzhen twisted her handkerchief and asked, "How did Miss An hear such a thing?"
An Yuwen glanced at her and said: "Naturally, I heard it from those little palace maids, I don't know if it's true or not, everyone should have fun and listen to it, no one is allowed to say it when you go out." ”
Zhang Erzhen felt that Zhu Youzhu was really walking on shaved ice, and said strangely that Li Shaoxi said at that time, there was no maternal family outside, no help inside, a little prince dragged his sick body, and grew up in danger in the majestic palace, thinking about it, Zhu Youzhi was so pitiful. The eldest prince and the second prince died, and the third prince Zhu Youzhi sat on the throne of the crown prince, I don't know if it was a blessing, and the belly of the concubine who had been lonely and lonely for many years grew up one by one, and the princes and princesses were born one after another, I dare not imagine how Zhu Youzhu lived, no wonder that his temperament was weird and distorted.
Liang Aiwan sighed and said, "Let's not talk about this, so as not to cause trouble." A few girls nodded, Zhang Erzhen also felt that the three of them became tigers, and Zhu Youzhu may not be as miserable as she imagined, but as everyone knows, His Royal Highness Zhu Youzhu is much more miserable than she imagined, and this will be mentioned later.