clear and bright

Light rain.

During the rainy period, like an amorous woman in soft water, she paused, looked at each other, looked forward to five times, looked back;

It's like covering this canopy of heaven with a thin rain veil,

Moistened a group of people, tired of a city.

In the Jade Heart Palace of the Queen Mother, the green in the pond is already like that.

Different from the extravagance of other nobles, the Empress Dowager of Chu has always been a simple character, every winter, many of the mansions of the nobles of Chu State, there will always be one or two courtyards for greenhouses, the four seasons are like spring, but the Empress Dowager of Chu State does not like this.

In her words,

O man,

I'm getting older,

I am more and more worried about the changes in spring, summer, autumn and winter;

Ignorant when young, insensible in adulthood, and immaculate in old age, it was not until I was old and suddenly looked back that I was shocked that I had missed so much.

This spring, summer, autumn and winter, every time the wheel swings, it is like carving an extra layer on the bluestone pillar, seeing a less glance, looking at a short time, the warm house is comfortable, but it is like picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons, making yourself a four seasons indistinguishable, the whole stupid thing who lives in the deep palace, why bother?

The Queen Mother sat under the cornice, holding the soup in her hand, picking up the spoon from time to time, eating two bites, and then looking at the misty courtyard.

And outside the Yuxin Palace, the Fifth Highness Xiong Tingshan was wearing a red python robe, looking inside a few times from time to time, but he didn't dare to go in, and behind him, there was a woman in gorgeous makeup.

There was a kind of eunuch palace maid around, no one dared to talk and look more, they all lowered their heads, and in broad daylight, they seemed to have hidden themselves in a drizzle of rain.

The position of the prince is certainly respected, but just a newly promoted prince is not enough to make these eunuchs and palace maids so cautious.

It is really that the Five Highnesses have guarded Wutong County for so many years, and Yingdu has actually been circulating stories about the Five Highnesses.

Some people say that he and the Shanyue people are allied by blood, eat human flesh and drink human blood, and like the sharp heart and liver of the sixteen girls the most, and cut the wine;

Some people also said that the Shanyue women around him had to find a boy from Chu every night to come to the city, and when he came, he had to cut the work below the family to soak in wine and drink to ask for a youth forever.

In short, these rumors are how disgusting people come about, and how frightening they come.

But no one is deliberately spreading this.

but in Da Chu,

The contempt of the Chu people for the Shanyue people has long been engraved in their bones.

Just as the Yan people look at the barbarians and the Jin people look at the savages, in fact, what they look at is not people at all, but beasts.

Therefore, the Fifth Highness, who is a brother and brother to the Shanyue people and also married the wives of the Shanyue people, has a terrible image among the people.

At this time, a small eunuch in front of the emperor trotted over and saluted Xiong Tingshan:

"Slave see the prince, the prince, Your Majesty's dictation, let you go in first to see the Queen Mother and her old man, Your Majesty has some delays in the south study."

"This ......"

If it weren't for being in the palace at this time, Xiong Tingshan really wanted to scold his fourth brother.

But it can't be helped,

Xiong Tingshan could only tidy up his clothes one last time, then turned around and personally helped his wife tidy up.

Different from her husband's "trembling heart", his wife is down-to-earth and generous, this woman named Wu Tingting in Xia was born in the Wujiang Department of Shanyue, with a population of 70,000 or 80,000 in the tribe, which is a relatively strong Shanyue tribe in Wutong County.

"I'll see the Queen Mother later, and I'll have to let go of the rules." Xiong Tingshan reminded carefully.

"Xianggong, you've been saying this since last night."

"Huh."

Xiong Tingshan nodded, pointed to a eunuch next to him, and motioned for him to pass the word.

The eunuch immediately trotted in,

Shaoqing,

There was a shout from within:

"The Queen Mother has a decree to announce the admission of the prince."

Xiong Tingshan breathed a sigh of relief and led his wife into the inner courtyard of the Jade Heart Palace.

On the steps of the inner courtyard, the Queen Mother couldn't wait to stand up and look at Xiong Tingshan who was walking here.

"Minister Xiong Tingshan, I have seen the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother is happy!"

Wu Tingting also knelt down: "The Queen Mother is blessed." ”

"Come in and talk, but don't get wet in the rain."

The Queen Mother didn't say much, and went straight into the hall, Xiong Tingshan stood up, and everyone entered the hall;

The Queen Mother sat on the first seat, and Xiong Tingshan and Wu Tingting sat on the lower right.

The palace maid served tea and snacks.

Wu Tingting had been waiting outside with her husband for a while, she entered the palace early, and she didn't eat a few bites of lunch, but now she was really hungry, and she was not polite, so she directly reached out and picked up the snacks on the plate and ate them.

This kind of behavior is a bit rude,

After all

On some occasions, the food that is served and set out is not for eating, but for decoration.

Seeing this, the Queen Mother smiled and said: "Seeing that the five sons' family eats so sweetly, the mourning family is also a little greedy." ”

forthwith

The Queen Mother reached out and picked up a piece of snack and took a small bite.

After sitting down, Xiong Tingshan's eyes were a little red, and he spoke;

"Queen Mother, the fifth son misses your old man."

The Queen Mother picked up the handkerchief, wiped the corners of her mouth, and scolded with a smile:

"Do you want to mourn your family, do you want to be beaten?"

"I really want to be beaten by you."

"Cheap bones, just like when I was a child."

"That's it."

When he was a child, Xiong Tingshan's mother was humble, and she usually didn't want to discipline her children, and sometimes she didn't even dare to speak loudly.

At that time, the queen mother was the position of the noble concubine, and in the harem, her status was respected, and Xiong Tingshan was often whipped and beaten.

This is not an abuse,

But sometimes when Xiong Tingshan and his fourth brother went to the palace to eat, they saw Xiong Tingshan sitting there obediently, and the Queen Mother would order the eunuch to take rattan to smoke him, as a prince, how could this sitting posture be so cowardly?

Another example is to hear the arrangement of the subordinate in other places, feel wronged, hide crying by the rockery, and be seen by the queen mother who passed by, after asking the reason, the queen mother asked the surrounding eunuchs to throw Xiong Tingshan into the cold pond next to it in winter.

"Cry, cry, cry, you know crying, you are the prince, you have the blood of the fire phoenix flowing in your body, you can actually let your subordinates bully your head, don't you like to cry, you just cry as much as you like in this pool!"

The next day, the five princes beat up several palace maids and eunuchs who had spoken ill of themselves and their concubines and threw them into the pool.

As a result, this matter spread out, and was participated in by the foreign ministers, saying that there was no way for the five highnesses to abuse their subordinates.

Emperor Chu didn't like his son very much, so he punished him heavily, and his mother was cut for half a year because of the lack of a way to teach his son.

And then

The Fifth Highness was ordered by the Queen Mother to call over, tied to the big tree in the Jade Heart Palace, and whipped more than a dozen times.

"Idiot, you can make this situation by cleaning up a few people, and it also implicates your mother, is your brain full of paste!"

For a long time,

The five princes are in the palace, in fact, they are all transparent people.

There are rumors in the palace that the imperial concubine at that time, who is now the queen mother, was the most disliked by this lowly fifth prince, and often used lessons to punish him.

But only the fifth prince himself knew that at that time, there was an elder who was willing to teach himself, was willing to teach himself, and even ......... How difficult it is to be willing to beat yourself.

Later, after the crowning, Emperor Chu directly sent this son who he was annoyed to look at to Wutong County, at that time, the Shanyue people in Wutong County often rebelled, and they would attack the county at every turn, and threw the five princes over, that is, they wanted him to fend for himself.

The so-called tiger poison does not eat children here in the royal family, which is not valid, because excluding some special circumstances, the emperor's son is generally not less.

Everything follows the law that scarcity is precious, and if you have more sons, you won't be worth much.

After going to Wutong County, the five princes will send people to send their carefully prepared Wutong County native products into Yingdu every year, and each time they are two copies, one for their mother and one for the queen mother.

Later, his mother died, and the five princes asked for an order to return to Yingdu for funeral, but the Chu Emperor took the favor on the grounds that the situation in Wutong County was not bad, and deprived the five princes of returning to Beijing to mourn and keep filial piety.

In the end, it was the queen mother at that time who asked the four princes to handle the funeral for the five princes and concubines on the grounds that humanity could not be abolished.

At the beginning of last month,

Xiong Tingshan, the fifth prince, personally appeared in Wutong County and asked the regent to be crowned as the Son of Heaven and succeed to the throne.

This move marked the recognition and support of the regent by the Indus County and the forces represented by the Indus County for the regent of the regent.

In the government and opposition of the Chu State, some people think that the Fifth Highness saw that the regent was now in a general situation, so he was unwilling to hit the stone with an egg, so he chose to give in;

Some people also believe that the fifth prince is a child of the royal family after all, and he does not want the Chu State to continue its internal friction, so he chooses the Gongxin State.

In fact, there are both, and there is another one, Xiong Tingshan did not tell others that he owed the Queen Mother, and he had to pay it back.

"I can't move, I can't move."

The Queen Mother smiled and waved her hand and continued:

"Your brothers have grown up, and they have all married wives and children, and the mourning family just wants to fight, first, they can't fight themselves, and second, people don't dare to do anything to you."

"Queen Mother, the fifth son is worried about your whip."

"Cheap bones, cheap bones, look at you, what is this thing you said in front of your daughter-in-law, so that your daughter-in-law listened to it, and thought that the mourning family was so harsh on you when she was a child."

When Wu Tingting heard this, she put down the food in her hand and said:

"The Queen Mother, how dare I think so, he is at home, but he keeps talking about the Queen Mother's kindness to him, and he also tells the children that they still have a grandmother in Yingdu."

The Queen Mother set her eyes on Wu Tingting, a woman from the Shanyue tribe, who looked so out of place in the palace with rules that were bigger than the sky, and on her body, she revealed a wild and untamable nature.

It is said that when the fifth prince first arrived in Wutong County, if he hadn't met this woman, he might have died a long time ago.

"But it's Tingting?"

"Yes, my name."

The eunuchs and palace maids on the side all lowered their heads, not daring to show the slightest other expression.

Xiong Tingshan licked his lips, his wife is like this, she doesn't like to talk about rules.

"It's a good shelf."

"Yes, that's what my grandmother said about me."

The Queen Mother stretched out her hand and pointed at her and said:

"When Your Majesty chooses your daughter to enter the palace, you have to help pick a good one, you have to choose someone like you, my grandsons, all of them are a little delicate and frail, mourning the family, but I want to hold a strong grandson."

Taking the women of Wujiangbu into the palace was one of the agreements reached between the regent and the five princes.

Wu Tingting stretched out her hand and patted her chest, and said very heroically: "Don't worry, the Queen Mother, if you wrap it up on me, you will definitely choose a big and stocky one for His Majesty the Regent." ”

"Yes, yes, yes, just like that, just like that."

The aesthetic aspect of the Chu aristocracy for women is biased towards softness, and it is best to have a petite and slender waist and graceful waist.

"What about the children in your family, why didn't they bring them into the palace to show the mourning family?" The Queen Mother asked.

Wu Tingting replied: "Queen Mother, originally they were all clamoring to enter the palace to see what their father said, but my family said that they didn't understand the rules, and they didn't bring it into the palace when they disturbed the Queen Mother." ”

Xiong Tingshan forehead,

If you are a mother who doesn't understand the rules, and a few smaller ones like monkeys, then the Jade Heart Palace will really have no rules at all.

The Queen Mother glared at Xiong Tingshan and said, "This person is old, he is old, he is most afraid of being cold, next time he brings it into the palace, let me be lively here." ”

Xiong Tingshan said with a smile: "This is natural, the fifth son also wants to let them come to the Queen Mother and let the Queen Mother help teach and teach." ”

"Don't, don't."

The Queen Mother waved her hand hurriedly,

Then he put his other hand on his chest and said:

"The mourning family has already taught such a good girl, but I don't dare to mistake people's children anymore."

Xiong Liqing, the princess of Dachu, took the initiative to give her arms to the Pingye Uncle of Yan Kingdom at the wedding of the Qu family, and even rushed out of the other garden to enter Yan.

This move caused an uproar in the Chu State.

The Chu people feel that this is their own shame!

Of course, the biggest victim is still Qu.

Although the royal family immediately married another princess to another son of the Qu family, and the Qu family immediately swore to continue to support the regent, and everyone announced the political signal to continue to cooperate, everyone understood that the Qu family really lost face this time.

When Wu Tingting heard this, she said directly:

"Queen Mother, that's not right."

"Isn't that right?" The Queen Mother was a little puzzled.

"I think the princess she did the right thing, just imagine a man who dares to run to the enemy country at great risk and take himself away at a wedding surrounded by heavy troops;

Such affection, such affection,

How many women in this world can not be moved? ”

The Queen Mother was speechless for a while, because she found that she didn't seem to be able to communicate well with this woman from the Shanyue tribe.

Wu Tingting looked at her husband sitting beside her and continued:

"At the beginning, my father also wanted to marry me to the young patriarch of the neighboring tribe, and it was he who brought two of his subordinates to break into my tribe and asked my father to marry me to him."

Xiong Tingshan continued to support his forehead.

Seeing that the Queen Mother's eyes fell on her again,

Xiong Tingshan can only say:

"This, young frivolity, youth frivolity."

Isn't it just young and frivolous, but it's good to be young.

Wu Tingting continued: "At that time, he was tied up by my father's order, but he still shouted my name and told me not to marry someone else.

In the end, I had to cry and beg my father, and my father spared him and let him go back. ”

The Queen Mother nodded and asked, "What about later?" ”

"Then I packed my bags, escaped from the tribe, and went to look for him under the county town, and when he tossed, I became famous in my tribe and the surrounding tribes, who else could I marry?

Therefore, after marrying him, I tried my best to give him a baby and give birth to a baby and take revenge on him! ”

"Hehehe."

The Queen Mother was really amused.

"Okay, it turns out that the root is from her fifth brother."

The Regent came from outside.

The surrounding palace maids and eunuchs knelt down together:

"See His Majesty the Regent."

"Your Majesty, see Your Majesty."

"Son, please give peace to the queen mother, and the queen mother is blessed."

The Queen Mother glanced at her son and said, "The fifth family, accompany the mourning family to walk in the garden, here, leave them to talk to each other." ”

"Yes, Queen Mother."

Soon, only the regent and the fifth highness were left in the hall, and even the palace maids and eunuchs consciously went outside to wait.

The regent looked at the Fifth Highness,

Road:

"So, Lijing is learning from her fifth brother, right?"

Xiong Tingshan was submissive in front of the Queen Mother, and he didn't have the previous restraints in front of his fourth brother, and when he heard the words, he just smiled and said:

"This can't rely on me, but I heard that you were with him at the beginning, fourth brother, and when the two of us were competing by the river, didn't he just watch from the side?"

"Ugh."

The regent sighed,

Road:

"Who knows."

"Fourth brother is really unaware?"

The Lord Regent shook his head, nodded again, and said:

"I don't think he looks like Su Mingzhe, but I think about it, he should be a real talent in Qianguo, but I didn't expect that he was Zheng Fan.

If I had known that it was Zheng Fan,

I'll ......"

"How about the fourth brother?"

"I directly regretted my marriage with the Qu family, if he likes Liqing and Liqing also likes him, then let them get married in Dachu."

"If Sister Lijing hears this, ...... tsk"

"On the Qu family's side, I have been appeased, nothing major will happen, you lead Wutong County to annex, this Da Chu is already in the general trend of me.

As a monarch, he must put centralization first, and Qu does not dare to take this head, nor will he take this head. ”

"The Qu family doesn't have to care, Qu Tiannan is gone, the status of the Qu family has actually been downgraded, fourth brother, what we have to do now is to reorganize the imperial forbidden army, and we can't always be pressed on the head by the Yan people like before."

"I also understand, but I have to take it step by step, governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, I can't be in a hurry, the forbidden army, I am determined that you will take this errand, first compile and train, and I will find a way to do the rest.

Fight the tiger brothers. ”

"The younger brother will not disappoint the fourth brother."

"Oh, by the way, Nian Yao has returned, I met him in the south study before, and now he is waiting outside.

Someone, go and invite General Nian in. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

soon

Nian Yao walked in,

"The slave greets Your Majesty, and the Fifth Master greets."

According to the rules, only family members are called slaves, and only outsiders call themselves ministers.

Although Nian Yao is a beautiful general outside, in front of the regent, he has to call himself a slave, because he is a domestic slave.

Of course, calling oneself a slave is not a simple contempt, in fact, many people want to ask for a "slave" status but can't get it.

The regent pointed to Nian Yao, who was kneeling on the ground, and said to the Fifth Highness:

"Fifth brother, do you know what kind of fold this thing was delivered to me last month? In the excerpt, this servant actually dared to suggest that I let Qu's Qingluan army change its defense to Zhennan Pass;

What else to say, Qu will definitely do his best to ensure that Zhennan Pass is not lost. ”

Xiong Tingshan touched his head and laughed:

"Hahaha, you slave, you are bold, and you don't take people like you, what's the matter, let Qu go to Zhennanguan to reunite with the family over there?"

"The minions don't dare." Nian Yao said aggrievedly.

"Oh, there are also things that your young general doesn't dare, what is your intention in this fold, do you know, if I really do this, then the Qu family will suffer this great humiliation, and if you don't want to rebel, you must rebel!"

"Minions should die, minions should die!"

"Hey, don't be in a hurry to kowtow, Nian Yao, let me ask you, how does it feel to play against that Yanren Nanhou?"

Nian Yao immediately cried and said:

"But the minions are scared to death."

"Hmph."

The regent snorted coldly.

Xiong Tingshan played a round and said: "Okay, it's okay, you can still pretend to be a crying face, but it's easy to be at ease." ”

The regent closed his eyes and said with emotion:

"Lijing ran away with the surname Zheng, although it made me very passive in Da Chu, but after all, it was impossible to shake to the root, if my Da Chu couldn't go north out of Zhennan Pass, I would have to be pressed by the Jingnan army in Jindi all the time.

Although the Qianren side said that there was a lot of fun, but it was just thunder and rain, and the Yan people had become a big trend, and now it actually depends on the Yan people themselves, how long can they stretch out. ”

"Fourth brother rest assured, since ancient times, there has been no constant strength, eight hundred years ago the Great Xia rose like the sun, doesn't it also say that death is also death, I think his Yan Kingdom is now powerful, the virtual fire has to account for four or five points, and look at his firewood, how long can it be added."

"But after all, I was very unhappy, and I actually invited that Zheng Fan to drink."

"Hahaha, is this considered that the eldest brother invited his sister-in-law to drink the meeting wine in advance?"

The regent glared at Xiong Tingshan, but Xiong Tingshan didn't care and continued to laugh.

Nian Yao, who was kneeling on the ground, also smiled in agreement,

Seeing this, the regent kicked it directly,

Nian Yao didn't dare to bear the force, let alone mobilize the qi and blood in his body to carry this kick, so he was kicked on the ground and turned around the gourd, and then immediately knelt back in place.

"Xiaoxiaoxiao, isn't your young general named the seed of the four famous generals of the younger generation in the world together with that Zheng Fan, okay, now he Zheng Fan came to my Da Chu to kidnap my Da Chu princess, when will your young general go to Yan Kingdom to kidnap me a princess!"

When Nian Yao heard this, he immediately showed a bitter gourd face, and said very aggrievedly:

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, minions, minions can't do it."

When the regent heard this, he kicked it again.

General Nian hit a circle of gourds on the spot again,

After kneeling and returning, he continued:

"Your Majesty, minions, minions really can't do it."

"Something that doesn't make a living." The regent scolded.

Nian Yao was very aggrieved,

Road:

"Your Majesty, if a slave wants to crutche, he has to have it, but whoever called Emperor Yan is a son, and he didn't give birth to a daughter."

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The next chapter is just before 2 a.m.

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