Chapter 152: Wisteria
The wisteria flower in the Imperial Garden......
Wisteria flowers moved from the Hidden Mansion......
Although the female official who returned to the concubine today has not been by the concubine's side for a long time, she is a person with a heart, so she knows a little about the origin of the wisteria flower.
can make the concubine Niangniang bother to personally supervise the move from the subterranean mansion to the palace, and the wisteria flower is naturally not an ordinary flower and tree.
You have to start with the concubine's first entry into the Duanwang Mansion.
Although today's Concubine Xiao Guifei is honored and noble, when she first entered the Duanwang Mansion, it is said that her life was quite difficult.
At that time, King Ying had been imprisoned, King Chen had left Beijing to become a vassal, King Ning was not only from a low background and an embroidered pillow that could not be done, and the future of Duanwangfu was infinitely bright.
But the first emperor never made Duanwang the crown prince.
As long as the first emperor is alive and Duanwang is not the crown prince, then no one can say for sure whether the battle for the throne will make waves again.
The first emperor raised King Chen like a prince, and King Chen also grew into the appearance expected by the first emperor.
If it weren't for the fact that the Xu clan did a lot of evil, and the first emperor and Xu Guifei broke away from each other, the crown prince would be none other than King Chen.
In his twilight years, the first emperor had no intention of interfering with political affairs, and was obsessed with alchemy and cultivation.
The most taboo thing for those in power is to sleep soundly on the side of the couch.
But the first emperor had no suspicion of King Duan.
Therefore, many people find it difficult to understand why the first emperor did not make Duanwang the crown prince.
What did the first emperor think in his twilight years......
It is said that a Taoist priest who was called to make alchemy for the first emperor once said that when he was invited to a banquet, the first emperor would occasionally tell them about the old things of King Chen, and the first emperor said that King Chen was his best son.
Best Son......
In this way, it seems understandable why the first emperor never made Duanwang the crown prince......
The so-called Taoist priest's words are just rumors, and there is no evidence.
It's just that the first emperor favored Xu Guifei for more than ten years, spent a huge amount of money to build the palace and go down to the south of the Yangtze River, and also launched the Northern Expedition twice, and the soldiers were killed and injured countless times.
The treasury is short of silver, and the nine sides are short of guards.
Many military households abandoned their tuntian fields to flee the famine because of insufficient harvests and paid taxes and silver, and even the rich paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River were barren because the strong men of their families died in battle and the lonely old women and children were unable to cultivate.
At that time, the Great Zhou was about the time when the peasants called "green and yellow", when the accumulated energy of a hundred years was exhausted, but there was no shortage of silver and servants to support the operation of the empire.
There are Liao people in the west and Tatars in the north.
The four words of recuperation and recuperation are simple to say, but it is not easy to do.
What the first emperor left to King Duan was a prosperous era after losing the coat of prosperity.
The family and the country are like this, but the Chinese officials of the DPRK are still insensitive, drilling into the power tricks, pulling gangs to stand in line, and the party is the same and different.
In short, it was not easy before King Duan's accession to the throne.
He does not have the title of a prince, but he wants to exercise the authority of the king, some people submit, orders and prohibitions, but there are also people who do not obey, and even provoke, dig pits, and make stumbling blocks.
He also had to personally raise the emperor's eldest son.
King Duan is not a person who is obsessed with women, and in that situation, he has no time to pay attention to the side concubines in the palace.
Therefore, although Concubine Xiao Guifei is a rare beauty with both talents and appearances, she did not make any ripples when she entered the palace.
She entered the palace for half a year, except for the night when she first entered the palace, King Duan asked her a few words about what her grandfather did after Zhishi, and she never saw King Duan again.
In that kind of situation, Xiao Zhi herself may not care, but the Xiao clan behind her cares.
There are many ways for women to compete for favor, Xiao Zhi is a noble woman, and competing for favor is also elegant.
The method she uses is to grow flowers.
In the spring of that year, the courtyard of Concubine Xiao of Duanwang's Mansion was full of flowers, and King Duan noticed Concubine Xiao who was admiring the flowers in front of the wisteria trellis.
As soon as the second prince turned one year old, he was sent to Concubine Xiao to be raised.
Just like the Empress Dowager Jingxian once raised King Ning on the orders of the first emperor......
When a man gives his child to a woman to raise, in that man's heart, that woman must be someone who can be trusted and trusted.
Inside and outside Duanwang's Mansion, no one dared to underestimate Concubine Xiao.
When the emperor ascended the throne, everyone thought that the emperor would purge the old party and implement new laws, but to people's surprise, he began to revive the old party.
In the previous dynasty, in the harem, Xiao Zhi was awarded the title of concubine for her contribution to raising the prince.
The old party Wenchen was mostly Xiao Shoufu's protégé, and during the loss of power, he was protected by the Xiao family.
She used to be a high-ranking lady who was coveted by hundreds of schools, but she was committed to being a concubine because of the change in her family.
Or an unfavored concubine.
At that time, she was just a teenage girl.
In the end, she walked out of her life step by step.
This is already extremely rare.
What's even more rare is that the pampering is not shocked.
In the eyes of many people, Concubine Shu is just a fool with good skin and good luck, and she can deal with it perfunctorily.
Xiao Guifei has been the same for several years, and she is courteous and caring to Concubine Shu.
Once Concubine Shu had a high fever, Concubine Xiao Guifei was worried that the people around Concubine Shu were not satisfied, so she took care of Concubine Shu in person, and did not close her eyes for three days and three nights.
There are bold concubines who talk about it in private, and they all feel that the concubine is indeed a piece of devotion to the concubine, otherwise, the adoptive mother is not as good as the biological mother, if the concubine is ruthless, take advantage of the young age of the second prince, and simply ......
Thinking of this, the female officer raised her eyes to look at the back of the concubine with complicated eyes.
That's what she used to think.
I feel that the concubine Niangniang has read the sage book in the end, and acts like a gentleman, and disdains the pickled methods of the women in the back house.
But today, she had doubts about her own judgment.
That wisteria flower is certainly unusual for the concubine, but in the end, it is just a flower.
Concubine Shu hurt her face.
It is not a trivial matter for a woman to hurt her face, and it is not a trivial matter for a harem concubine to hurt her face.
It is possible that Concubine Shu will never have the opportunity to meet the saint again......
For such a big matter, the concubine didn't ask about Concubine Shu's injury, but asked about the wisteria flower.
The concubine's true heart for the concubine is probably not what the concubine shows on weekdays, nor is it what the queen mother, the second prince and the concubines think......
The female officer lowered her eyes quietly.
Of course, the concubine read the sage book with Xiao Shoufu, but she was also raised by Mrs. Xiao in the back house.
Moreover, if the concubine is really a pure and indifferent, then there will be no concubine who has gained the position, the gratitude of the emperor and the queen mother, and the close attachment of the second prince.
Approaching the Imperial Garden, the warm spring breeze was filled with fragrant fragrance, but the female officer felt a little cold.
When they arrived at the Imperial Garden, the queen had already arrived, and the queen sat at the small green jade table to ask Yu Guiren, and the concubine covered the wound with a silk handkerchief and stood aside respectfully.
The wisteria trellis not far away was a mess.
Eradicate by the roots, and there is not a single one left.
The concubine quickly stepped forward to salute the queen, then stood beside the concubine and shook her hand.
From beginning to end, the concubine didn't look at the wisteria flower.