There is a distance from Guilan Hall to Kunning Palace, and Yu Wenye went in the direction of Kunning Palace, but he was empty. It turned out that Tong was invited by Empress Dowager Xiao to Ning'an Hall this morning to speak, and he has not yet returned.

Since the last mother-son dispute, he has been depressed and unwilling to meet in private. Today, since it is a resignation according to etiquette, I simply go directly to Ning'an Hall.

Yesterday, the news that Sima Ning was humiliated at the banquet in Chunxi Tower spread, and Empress Dowager Xiao, who had lived in Ning'an Hall for a long time to worship the Buddha, finally couldn't help it! Sima Ning grew up in front of her knees since she was a child, and aside from the Xixi Palace, she was also quite pitiful. Sima Ning suddenly lost his innocence, and his future was bleak, how could Empress Dowager Xiao not be angry? Immediately sent Mama Luo to invite Queen Tong to come.

I think that when the Tong family first married Yuwen Haotian, Empress Dowager Xiao, as a mother-in-law, was not kind to her daughter-in-law. Husband and wife are one, and learning from the Tong clan is equivalent to suppressing Yuwen Haotian.

Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have been discordant for many years, and once Empress Dowager Xiao monopolized power, and Tong, as a daughter-in-law, is naturally inferior in everything. remembers the most aggrieved first few years, although she was the queen, she had no phoenix seal, and she could only look at the face of the Empress Dowager Xiao everywhere. Until recent years, the Empress Dowager Xiao was in the twilight of the West Mountain, and the Tong family was in the prime of life, and the concubine had grown up and established the position of the middle palace.

Therefore, the Tong family, who had not set foot in Ning'an Hall for a long time, deliberately changed into a red palace dress, rolled up green silk high, and tourmaline inlaid with coral red gold phoenix hairpin obliquely inserted into the bun, showing dignity. Then he took the phoenix chariot and went to Ning'an Hall surrounded by a group of palace people.

After Empress Dowager Xiao moved out of Cining Palace, the queen of the middle palace and the concubines of the six palaces were exempted from the morning and dusk provinces, and everyone was happy to save a trouble.

"The daughter-in-law greets the queen mother. It is ashamed that the daughter-in-law should often come to greet the queen mother, but she is afraid of disturbing the purity of the queen mother. "Tong Shigui is the queen mother of the world, no matter how noble she is, in the face of the head of the people, she still needs to put on a humble appearance of respect and filial piety.

Looking at the Tong family, who bowed her head and bent her waist in front of her as always, Empress Dowager Xiao felt indescribably happy. After a moment of silence, he waved his hand: "Family, the queen doesn't have to be polite." ”

Tong Shi stood up straight and asked with a smile: "I don't know what the queen mother has to do when she summons her daughter-in-law?" ”

Mrs. Xiao's face suddenly became gloomy, and she asked in a non-serious tone: "Do you know about the humiliation of the county lord of Pingning?" It is not trivial that this matter involves the Xixi Mansion and the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion, and the queen must not take it lightly. ”

Is this a clear attempt to pull her into troubled waters?

Tong sneered in his heart, but his face was gentle: "It turns out that the queen mother has also heard about this, although the daughter-in-law is in charge of the six palaces for the queen, it is inconvenient to ask about the private affairs of the courtier's mansion. The county lord of Pingning lost face and ruined his reputation, and he couldn't avoid this family affair when he wanted to come to the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion, so he wanted to find the official media to go to the Xixi Mansion as soon as possible to propose marriage. ”

"According to the queen's opinion, don't you want to persuade the Xixi Wangfu to calm down, and let her daughter marry a beast who is not as good as a beast? If it is so easy to finish, whoever looks at which family in the future can only cook the raw rice into rice. Queen, don't forget that you are also a person with daughters! Empress Dowager Xiao's eyes were like knives, and the sharp edge in her words was ill-intentioned.

Tong lowered his phoenix eyes, and his smile was a little cold: "The daughter-in-law is dull, and I ask the queen mother to give advice." ”

As expected, Empress Dowager Xiao twisted the Bodhi Zi Buddha beads and said leisurely: "In the name of the Empress of the Middle Palace, you will issue a decree to strictly deal with Yao Chen, and then guide Ning'er to the door for a consensual marriage." ”

"The daughter-in-law heard that His Majesty has made up his mind about this matter, and His Majesty also approves of Yao Dagongzi marrying the Lord of Pingning to calm down the rumors, and he will not implicate other families again." Tong couldn't hold back his smile at all, "If the queen mother has other opinions, she might as well discuss it with Your Majesty in person." ”

What a scheming old witch! It is clear that he wants to use the hands of the Tong family to muddy the deep water of the capital, which family is willing to marry a woman who is known to be innocent? Whoever marries Sima Ning will become a laughing stock! Empress Yi must obey the decree, and one can imagine how the family will resent the Tong family. Or choose a Shang county lord from among the young people of the Tong family, so that there will be no external worries, and it will cause internal troubles.

Empress Dowager Xiao's dark eyes were extremely cloudy, and she taught: "The mourning family is old, and they don't have the energy to care about outside affairs, so there is no need to disturb the emperor about this little thing." You are gracious to the Xixi Mansion today, and when the prince ascends the throne as the emperor in the future, the Xixi Wangfu will definitely spare no effort to assist the prince. ”

Spare no effort to pull the prince off the horse! Who doesn't know that the Xixi Royal Mansion has always surrendered to the Empress Dowager Xiao, and it can be regarded as an indispensable arm of the Xiao family's henchmen. However, Sima Yunqian is low-key, and he can hardly find fault with him, and the emperor cares about the ancestral dragon exploits of the Sima family, which allows the Xixi Mansion to survive to this day.

The Tong family was still considering the words and planning to fight back, and a palace maid came to report: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived." ”

Immediately afterwards, I saw Yu Wenye, who was dressed in a dark python robe, walking, his handsome face was breathtaking, and his diamond-shaped thin lips seemed to be picky, and he was unruly and unruly floating in the bottom of his eyes.

No matter how much he hates the person who sits on the top, there is still no shortage of etiquette: "Say hello to the imperial grandmother, please say hello to the queen mother." ”

Looking at the palace, Empress Dowager Xiao has the highest rank and the most respectful position. A banner of "filial piety" can overwhelm the emperor and queen, not to mention that Yu Wenye is still a grandchild.

Empress Dowager Xiao has lived in the deep palace for most of her life, and no one is better at acting than her, just like she smiled lovingly at this moment: "Come on, give the prince a seat." ”

"My grandson will go to Suzhou tomorrow to preside over the overall situation, and I can't be happy under the knees of the emperor's grandmother, and I hope that the emperor's grandmother will take care of the phoenix body and take care of her life." Yu Wenye forced himself to squeeze out a little smile, but unfortunately his smile was even more cold, and the last four words were particularly heavy.

Empress Dowager Xiao disagreed: "It doesn't matter if you don't fall down in front of the mourning family, there is your mother who accompanies the mourning family every day, and the mourning family does not feel empty and bored." ”

As soon as these words came out, Tong Shi and Yu Wenye were unexpected! In the past few years, Empress Dowager Xiao has called the Buddha and Qing Xiu, and no one is allowed to disturb her, and now this sentence suddenly pops up, is it planning to restore the Sixth Palace Morning and Dusk Province? She has been depressed for several years, not only did she not go west, but she also faintly had the momentum of sweeping back. As her mother-in-law, she pinched the Tong family, which made Yu Wenye outside the palace more jealous.

"Queen Mother, you live in Ning'an Hall and worship Buddha is relatively remote, and your daughter-in-law has been busy drafting for Your Majesty recently, so I'm afraid I don't have time to accompany my mother." Tong Shi blurted out these words, and before she finished speaking, Yu Wenye had already noticed that something was wrong.

It's a pity that it's too late, and soon I heard Empress Dowager Xiao say: "The draft has always been a big event, can the queen be busy alone?" The mourning family was sick a few years ago, and they moved to the Buddhist hall for fear that the six palaces would be sick, and now they are in good health, and the mourning family should also live back in Cining Palace. When the mourning family moves back to Cining Palace, it is not only close to the queen's Kunning Palace, but also convenient to restore the six palaces and provinces. ”

In this way, it seems that the Empress Dowager Xiao asked to move out of Cining Palace just to recuperate and wait for the coming day, and this "coming day" refers to today. If she insists on moving back to Cining Palace, it is also orthodox, even if the emperor is unwilling, she has to agree to the reputation of filial piety. What's more, the emperor and queen of Concubine Xi's death were centrifuged before, and they were also suspicious of the prince, so he may not need to restrain the Tong family from Empress Dowager Xiao.

"The queen mother is used to living in Ning'an Hall, and Cining Palace has been idle for a long time and no one has cleaned it. You should allow your daughter-in-law to discuss this matter with Your Majesty, and then ask your mother to move back when Cining Palace is cleaned up. Tong's hands hidden in the wide-sleeved robe couldn't help but clench into fists, holding out unhappiness.

She has lived a comfortable life for a few years, and she has to cheer up again to prepare for a new round of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law fighting. It's a foregone conclusion, and she can't turn it around.

Empress Dowager Xiao sneered lightly: "The queen seems to be reluctant to move back to Cining Palace?" ”

The chill in Yu Wenye's eyes was even deeper, and he said meaningfully: "The imperial grandmother smiled, the queen mother was the most filial to you in the past, you want to go back to Cining Palace to live, and the queen mother is too late to rejoice." ”

What if you move back to Cining Palace? He wanted to see what kind of conspiracy Empress Dowager Xiao was brewing. In short, he is not King He who is based on benevolence and filial piety, and his mother is not the cowardly and incompetent Concubine Rong back then. The queen of the middle palace deserves to hold the phoenix seal in her hand, and if the Empress Dowager Xiao wants to seize power, it is absolutely impossible!

After the three most noble generations of the Tianxi Dynasty thought that it was a snake, Yu Wenye accompanied the Tong family back to Kunning Palace, and Ning'an Hall returned to the loneliness of death.

Standing in front of the window, Empress Dowager Xiao has gray sideburns and an old face, and she has been in the harem for decades. The linden tree outside the window is large, dozens of zhang high, and the branches are luxuriant.

Mama Luo came in a hurry, stood about a meter away from the Empress Dowager Xiao, and said respectfully: "Empress Dowager, there is a message from Qin Tianjian that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has invited himself to Su to leave tomorrow, do you continue to release remarks about the crown prince's order to kill the eighth prince?" ”

"Don't bother." After speaking, the corners of Empress Dowager Xiao's mouth opened, and her chin trembled slightly with a smile.

She thought that Yu Wenye had a lot of cities, and he would not be as easy to calculate as King He, but she didn't expect that he was almost ignorant.

Mama Luo understood and said tentatively: "In this way, the eighth prince doesn't have to be 'sick' for some reason, and the old slave will go and order the following to cancel the plan later." ”

Originally, it was planned to let the eighth prince Yu Wenhui suddenly fall ill, but the imperial doctor could not diagnose the reason, and then Qin Tianjian played the emperor, saying that the prince's fate and fortune were compatible with the eighth prince, and the prince needed to leave the capital for a period of time. The emperor believed in the celestial phenomena, and even if there was no flood in Zhejiang and Suzhou robbed of official food, he would find an excuse to send the prince out of Beijing for a few months.

"It's really heaven helping the mourning family!" The smug smile on Empress Dowager Xiao's face was hairy.

Mama Luo consciously lowered her head and agreed: "What you said is very true, next month is Your Majesty's draft, and it is most appropriate for you to move back to Cining Palace." I heard that there are many imperial businessmen and women participating in the election this year, and the scene is bigger than before, and in the new wave of entering the palace, you just pick more Empress Xiao Qichen Guifei. ”

"There is no need to mourn the family to choose for him, Yuwen Haotian loves the old, which is a hundred times better than the first emperor." Empress Dowager Xiao thought of the first emperor, and inevitably thought of Concubine Rong, who had been imprisoned in Beiyuan Pavilion for thirty years, and the inextinguishable jealousy couldn't help but go straight to her heart.

Mama Luo knew her temper best, and when she saw this, she hurriedly served the teacup, and gently persuaded: "Queen Mother, you drink tea and go to the fire." His Majesty is the son of the first emperor, and even the favorite concubine and wife were inherited from the first emperor. You take a look at His Majesty's harem, the virtuous concubine who was favored last year looks a little like Chen Guifei, Concubine Li, who gave birth to the eighth prince, has skimmed some history books, and the biological mother of our sixth prince was fortunate because she knew how to ride when she was young. It can be seen that Your Majesty's heart is full of the shadow of Concubine Chen, and the queen's situation is not much better than when you were back. ”

The only good thing is that Queen Tong has her own son as the prince, and her son died young.

However, if you think about it, there is indeed heredity, the first emperor favored Concubine Rong and the concubine He Wang, and today the son is also in love with the concubine, ignoring the feelings of the queen of the middle palace. Thinking about it like this, Empress Dowager Xiao suddenly stretched her eyebrows, and then showed a mocking smile: "If it wasn't for the mourning family to intercede with the first emperor back then, how could the emperor have hugged the beauty!" Now his crown prince is also going to follow in the footsteps of his father and ancestors, and spoiling his concubine and killing his wife won't be the heir of their Yuwen family, right? ”

used such contemptuous words to slander the royal family, and no one dared except Empress Dowager Xiao.

Mama Luo subconsciously glanced outside the hall and reminded softly: "Queen Mother, please be careful, after all, you are also the wife of Yuwen." ”

"The mourning family has come to this day, will they still care about this?" After a pause, Empress Dowager Xiao ordered sharply, "You personally go to the Hengguo Mansion tonight and tell Xiao Wu in person that it is time to close the net after the layout of the mourning family for so long." ”

Mama Luo's heart was awe-inspiring, and she asked suspiciously: "Aren't you planning to get rid of the big prince first, that guy who is in the way?" ”

Empress Dowager Xiao's expression became more and more disdainful: "Yuwen Cheng is stupid and unbelievable, he put on a bitter plan before, but he only lifted the ground, and did not damage the status of the prince at all." You can secretly instruct him to make some stumbling blocks on the prince's way to the Soviet Union. If you want to rely on him to kill the prince, it's a fool's dream, so it's better to let him send more secret guards to die. ”

Mama Luo hurriedly whispered.

Empress Dowager Xiao raised her hand and straightened out her sideburns and groomed, and walked straight to the inner hall. The voice sounded faintly with the departing back: "In the past few years of mourning and Qingxiu, the queen has been happy enough. She thought that her son would definitely be able to sit on the dragon chair when he became the crown prince? As everyone knows, the crown prince and the throne are only one step away, and this step is often the most difficult to step on. The rivers and mountains of the Cullinan Dynasty will eventually be controlled by the mourning family......"

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