Chapter 119: The Imperial Garden Conflict
The queen's mother, Yi Xiangxiang, went out of Changchun Palace without permission, and the news of punishing the virtuous concubine also spread quickly.
There was no reaction from the Holy Lord Zhao Ziqian's side, but the Empress Dowager Xiao'an in the Ci'an Palace verbally reprimanded her, and said something that she needed to set an example as the master of the six palaces.
Yi Xiangxiang listened to it painlessly, but many people took this as a reminder of the waste.
There is nothing wrong with the main thing of the Six Palaces to set an example, but because the Empress Dowager Xiao'an has always disliked the queen, it is naturally easy to be misunderstood.
The Empress Dowager Xiao'an was very wronged, because of Kang Ling's matter, she licked her face and begged Zhao Ziqian, because she really didn't think about it at this time. She said those words, and it was just a kind of teaching that went with the flow.
However, because no one mentioned it in person, she couldn't deliberately explain it, so the news spread ten, ten to hundred. Even later, even Yi Xiangxiang herself felt that she was really going to be "abdicated to make way for Xian", but when she entered the New Year, she had not yet received the recall letter from the "chairman".
Until half a month before the palace banquet, Zhao Ziqian lifted Yi Xiangxiang's ban and instructed her to organize the palace banquet with all her heart.
Yi Xiangxiang looked at the sky speechlessly, because she didn't know what medicine was sold in Zhao Ziqian's gourd. When the word came down, she still wanted to be passive and slacking off. But thinking of the conversation and what happened when his mother brought his younger brothers and sisters into the palace two days ago, he still made up his mind to sit firmly on the throne of the queen.
As for why he made this decision, the specific reason has to be traced back to the previous two days.
Two days ago, because the Lin family heard a lot of rumors about the abolition of the queen, he handed over a post to the palace and said that he wanted to see Yi Xiangxiang. Although the latter doesn't like to listen to his mother's nonsense, he also misses his family in his heart, so he approved Lin's post.
That's the good thing about the high authority, the posts of the biological mother can be based on the mood!
The Lin family brought Yi Huanhuan and Yi Lele into the palace together, Yi Xiangxiang felt that the main hall was empty and impersonal, so she directly asked Qingxuan to introduce her mother and younger brothers and sisters into the living hall.
Yi Xiangxiang, who was in the living hall that day, was wearing a moon-white regular dress, which was exactly the same as the laziness in Yongle Ju when she got married.
"Mother's ......" In order to avoid being trained, Yi Xiangxiang stepped forward to hold Lin's arm and came to be coquettish first.
The Lin family was going to kneel and bow, but was completely forgotten by Yi Xiangxiang's stirring, only to see her say angrily: "You dead girl, give me something serious." ”
Every time I know that I am going to be scolded, this girl is coquettish and cute, so that people are reluctant to scold her! Lin was led astray by her coquettishness more than once, and the alarm bell sounded in his mind at the moment.
"Eh, there's no one else here, so why pretend to be that rule!" Yi Xiangxiang pouted, then pretended to be angry and shook off Lin's hand and pulled his younger siblings to eat snacks.
The Lin family observed left and right, and it was true that except for Qing Xuan, there was no one else left in the hall, so he didn't say anything more.
Yi Xiangxiang played with her younger siblings for a while before she called Xiao Dan to come in and take Yi Huanhuan and Yi Lele to the palace for a walk. People like them have not been able to enter the palace a few times except for palace banquets. It's still convenient for her to be the queen now, if she is deposed in the future, then there are really few trips.
So Yi Xiangxiang thought about letting her younger brothers and sisters see the imperial city and see the world.
Joy and joy are naturally happy, and they have long heard that the winter imperial garden is very atmospheric, and they really want to see it. So the two of them pulled Xiaodan and Jimei and went out happily.
The noisy little kids are out of the house, and the adults are going to get down to business.
"You're a queen now, don't be like a child all day long!" Lin began to speak bitterly.
"Don't worry, mother, I'm still ......" Yi Xiangxiang coughed twice and pretended to be serious: "This palace has its own measure!" ”
Lin was not happy about Yi Xiangxiang's joke, but pulled down his face and said, "How can I rest assured?" Every time I say two sentences to you, you are opportunistically changing the subject! Say, what's going on this time? ”
"What's going on?" Yi Xiangxiang is unknown.
"Yi Xiangxiang, let me tell you, don't pretend to be garlic for me! The whole of Kyoto is rumored to be abolished! My dad and I were worried about dying. also said that you actually went out of Changchun Palace without permission during the grounding period, so that the Empress Dowager Xiao'an scolded her! What the hell is going on! What exactly do you want? "The Lin family is simply furious.
Yi Xiangxiang was also a little frightened, the Lin family had never been so fierce to her when she was so big. Now she also knew that it was useless for her gags or something, but she still opened her mouth.
"If it's abolished, it's scrapped...... Wouldn't it be nice to ask for grace to go home......" Yi Xiangxiang muttered.
"What a good! If you are deposed, you can't marry again, even if you can go home! Do you think that any family in the entire Li Dynasty dares to marry a woman who has been a queen? How can you let me and your father rest assured in a hundred years? "The Lin family is really angry.
In fact, Yi Xiangxiang also knew that her mother's words were not wrong, and she just wanted to comfort her mother and ask for a trick. Before she entered the palace, she thought that she might not have the opportunity to leave the palace again, let alone remarry, it was still a question of whether she could ask for grace! It is even possible to directly find a cold palace to trap her.
This is also why she has always been puzzled why she chose to enter the palace with such a hot head at that time!
Obviously, there was no way to refuse that holy decree, but he still let himself enter the palace on the grounds of refusing trouble!
Yi Xiangxiang thinks back now, it's like a dream.
Do you really want to live your life in this palace?
Win the favor of Zhao Ziqian and really sit firmly on the throne of the queen?
The woman who gave birth to a son and a half daughter to play in this palace and finally became the supreme woman?
Yi Xiangxiang knew that she didn't have much choice, but she wasn't so willing.
But she looked at her mother, she frowned, and the corners of her eyes were already full of fine lines......
Xu is because he is already cold, and Yi Xiangxiang feels that he has no special attachment to this world. But the Yi family is the person she really cares about, her family.
"Don't worry, mother, I'll be measured."
Lin sighed: "Why did the Holy Lord choose you to be the queen, I, your father and even your brother, we still can't confirm the reason." However, he had known us earlier in Tongzhou, and he thought that he had his own estimates. But you must remember that you can't always confront him, after all, he is an emperor, and he is used to being high. ”
Hmph, if you are high up, you should pull down the altar!
The person who is the emperor is full of stars and moons every day, and sometimes he should be frustrated.
Kneeling and licking something, the most undesirable!
Of course, she didn't dare to say these words to the Lin family.
She didn't know that in fact, Zhao Ziqian had already begun to "kneel and lick" her.
And if the Lin family's bitter words and worries about their daughter were the fuse that made Yi Xiangxiang decide to enter the palace fight, then what happened next was the catalyst for her to rise up and say that she wanted to sit firmly on the throne of the queen.
Yi Xiangxiang and her mother-in-law were talking in Changchun Palace, and Jimei hurriedly came to report, saying that Yi Huanhuan and Yi Lele had a conflict with Concubine De in the imperial garden.
Yi Xiangxiang heard Jimei's report and started to help the Lin family surround the cloak, but she didn't have time to let Qingxuan get her cloak, so she took the Lin family out of Changchun Palace.
"Who is De Concubine?" Yi Xiangxiang asked Jimei beside her as she walked.
The Lin family, who was walking on the right side of Yi Xiangxiang, heard the words and glanced at Yi Xiangxiang, and the expression of that look meant that the latter's familiar hatred of iron does not become steel.
Jimei is also as helpless as the Lin family, after all, she has served Yi Xiangxiang for so long, and knows that she really didn't recognize all the concubines in the harem.
Although these palace concubines come to greet their queen mothers every day, what is the use? Jimei sighed.
"The concubine's surname is Lin, her name is Zhixin, and she lives in Yimiao Pavilion of Rengong Palace." Jimei helped Yi Xiangxiang to walk non-stop, while also answering the latter's question.
Yi Xiangxiang said that she was not impressed, but she still found the connection: "Lin Zhixin? Lin Zhimeng's sister? ”
Lin Zhimeng is the eldest daughter of the Lin family's generation, so she shouldn't be an older sister, but she doesn't seem to have heard that Lin Zhimeng has a younger sister, Yi Xiangxiang is suspicious.
Lin snorted, and said before Jimei spoke: "I'll just say that you didn't pay attention to it at all, and you still give me quibbles!" This Lin Zhixin is the daughter of the second room of the Lin family and the cousin of Lin Zhimeng. ”
The Lin family is very "angry" with Yi Xiangxiang now, so much so that they didn't pay attention to the problem of salutation. Because according to the rules, she now wants to call Lin Zhimeng the concubine Niangniang, and call Lin Zhixin the concubine Niangniang.
Yi Xiangxiang naturally didn't dare to remind the Lin family, lest the other party be annoyed and angry, and she would be scolded.
The Lin family's family is very large, but the relationship between Lin Zhixin's second room and the Prime Minister's Mansion is relatively close. Lin Zhimeng's grandfather, that is, the former Taishi Lin Zhen, and Lin Zhixin's grandfather Lin Huang are brothers.
If it is three generations away, it can be regarded as a sideline, and Yi Xiangxiang can also understand why the second room of the Lin family "pushed" Lin Zhixin into the palace. After all, Lin Zhimeng is just a niece in the second room of the Lin family.
"How did they come into conflict?" Yi Xiangxiang asked Jimei.
"The slaves and maids took the young master and the young lady to the imperial garden to watch the ice sculptures and build snowmen, and they didn't want to bump into Lin Guifei Niangniang and Concubine De Niangniang, who were visiting the garden. That's it...... Concubine De and Concubine Lin said some words of congratulations to her, and then belittled you...... The little master and the young lady were not convinced, and rushed up together to push the concubine down. Jimei said while secretly holding back a smile.
If it weren't for the fact that they couldn't help laughing, Concubine De wouldn't have been so angry.
Jimei still clearly remembers that Yi Huanhuan and Yi Lele pounced on them and directly pushed Concubine De to eat. When the person was helped up, his face was covered with snow, and even Concubine De's own personal palace maid smiled.
It was also because of this that Concubine De felt a great loss of face, so she completely ignored the queen's face and Lin Guifei's dissuasion, and clamored to settle accounts with Huan Xile.
Xiao Dan saw that the momentum was wrong, so he asked Jimei to go back to Changchun Palace to move the rescuers.
When Lin heard that it was his own people who made a move, he frowned and said, "These two don't know the height of the sky, look back and don't teach them a lesson!" ”
What kind of place is in the palace, and you dare to push people so presumptuously, isn't it nothing to look for! Lin was naturally angry.
"Mother, don't, this shows that my younger brothers and sisters are here for me! If you punish them, won't you ruin the unity that they have cultivated with great difficulty? Yi Xiangxiang hurriedly stopped.
"Oh, don't excuse them with a high-sounding sound! Am I angry that they are not friendly? I'm angry that they don't use their brains to do things! There is no evidence for people's verbal slander, but they push people but they are clearly and truthfully! If you are scolded, you will be scolded back, why bother to leave a handle! "The Lin family doesn't give Yi Xiangxiang this face.
Yi Xiangxiang was a little speechless when she heard this, after her mother came to Kyoto in person, she became more and more fierce!
However, Yi Xiangxiang still pouted to excuse her younger brothers and sisters: "Aren't they still young!" ”
"It's still small? When you were so old, there were a few Joy Buildings! Lin snorted coldly.
Mother! You've finally complimented me! Yi Xiangxiang really wanted to say to her mother, you finally discovered my excellence! However, in view of the fact that her younger siblings will inevitably "come to a big disaster" after returning home, she still decided not to add fuel to the fire.
The speed of carrying the sedan chair was not fast, because they did not sit in the sedan chair, and the group almost trotted to the imperial garden. Seeing that he was about to reach the ground, Lin brushed away Yi Xiangxiang's hand, and his footsteps fell on Yi Xiangxiang's shoulder. Although the latter hates this rule, he also understands his mother's intentions.
After all, she is a queen, and they themselves can not care about these false things, but they can't leave a handle for others.
The group slowed down and approached Lin Zhimeng and the others.
Yi Xiangxiang took people around a corner, and saw two grandmothers clamping Xiao Dan on the bluestone slab path that had been swept aside. In the snow on the other side, two palace maids clamped her younger siblings and pressed them to lie down in the snow.
The snow was so thick that it almost covered half of their bodies.
She was instantly furious, and all the postures she had put on before coming over were burned to ashes by anger!
I saw that Yi Xiangxiang didn't say a word, walked in front of Yi Huanhuan and Yi Lele in three steps and two steps, pushed away the two palace maids left and right, and then raised her hand to slap twice!
Then she helped her brother and sister up, and saw that they each had five fingers red marks on their faces, apparently also slapped in the face.
The raging fire ignited in her heart, Yi Xiangxiang turned around, opened her bow left and right, and slapped Concubine De twice heavily.
Everyone was stunned by the queen's fierceness.
Concubine De was slapped back a few steps by the sudden slap, and just retreated to Lin Guifei's side. After that, her first reaction was to pounce on Yi Xiangxiang to fight back, but was kicked away by one of Qing Xuan's flying legs.
The mother who restrained Xiao Dan unconsciously let go, and Xiao Dan hurriedly patted the snow off Yi Huanhuan and Yi Lele with Jimei, took off her cloak and wrapped them in them.
Lin was also angry, but she still kept her senses, this was no longer something she could solve. So she saluted Lin Zhimeng and Lin Zhixin very regularly, and then stood beside Yi Huanhuan and Yi Lele, carefully knocking off the snow on their heads.
Yi Huanhuan's little face on the left side was swollen very high, but he still forced a smile to comfort his mother and said that it was okay. The director had to make the eyes of everyone in Changchun Palace moist, so his eyes were even more staring at Lin Zhixin, the concubine.
"Have you eaten the bear's heart and leopard gall one by one? Don't kneel down when you see this palace? Yi Xiangxiang's tone was colder than the snow in winter, but there was a faint noise of anger in the middle.
It turned out that the people in the imperial garden did not salute the queen, and quickly knelt down.
"Concubine De likes to slap very much?" Yi Xiangxiang's voice did not fall, but sneered and pointed to the two palace maids who had just caught Huan Xile and said, "You guys, let Concubine De taste what it's like to be slapped in the face!" ”
The two palace maids were shocked when they heard this, they were people under the concubine, if they beat their masters, they would not be tortured to death in the future? So they hurriedly kowtowed and begged for mercy: "The queen mother spares her life...... The queen spared her life......"
"Hmph, if you do it, you still have a life! Otherwise, if you disobey the order of this palace, this palace will give you a rod to kill! The tone of Yi Xiangxiang's words was very thin, but it revealed Sen Leng's murderous intent.
No one doubted that she was joking, and the smart people saw that there must be no good fruit to eat today.
The two palace maids glanced at each other, then got up and walked towards Concubine De.
"What are you going to do? You dare! Concubine De frowned angrily, she had just been kicked to the ground by Qing Xuan and had not yet gotten up, so she could only crawl and want to dodge at this moment.
Father-in-law Xi stood behind Yi Xiangxiang, and when he saw this, he asked the two eunuchs to go over and restrain the concubine Lin Zhixin.
So Lin Zhixin, who was under control, could only shout at Lin Zhimeng for help: "Concubine Niangniang!" Concubine Niang...... Cousin, cousin help ........! ”
"Is she still on her knees? How to save you? Yi Xiangxiang asked someone to bring a chair, and today she is going to tell those who don't know the height of the sky and the thickness of the sky in this crowded imperial garden, what will happen if you touch her Yi Xiangxiang's scales!
In fact, when she first sent Mei to report, Yi Xiangxiang didn't have much to worry about when she heard that Lin Zhimeng was there. Because she felt that even if Concubine De was bold and had Lin Zhimeng to stop her, there should be no problem with Huan Huanle.
But she didn't expect Lin Zhimeng to stand by and watch, so now Yi Xiangxiang naturally won't give Lin Zhimeng any face.
It was also because of this that Yi Xiangxiang never asked Lin Zhimeng and the others to get up, and still asked them to kneel there.
Lin Zhimeng did not agree with Lin Zhixin's punishment of the queen's younger siblings, because she was behind her cousin's criticism, so she was arrested. Second, it is now said that even the market is rumored that the Holy Lord is going to change her as the queen, although she herself does not dare to confirm whether the news is true, but she does not want to make mistakes easily.
But on the other hand, she is also selfish, she wants to use Lin Zhixin as a stepping stone to see what will happen to her.
It was because she didn't try her best when she stopped Lin Zhixin just now.
But now Yi Xiangxiang's crazy appearance really scared her, and she also regretted what she did just now, after all, they were two children. But despite thinking like this, seeing that her cousin's face was gradually reddened after being slapped, she also wanted to persuade Yi Xiangxiang.
"The queen mother, please forgive her sins, she is not sensible, and I hope you will spare her." Lin Zhimeng's posture is very groveling, and there is no prestige of the concubine who can fight with the queen in the rumored ring.
Yi Xiangxiang sneered, she really thought that Lin Zhimeng was gentle and understanding before, but now she doesn't know whether to sigh after all, whether time has changed, or whether she suspects that she was blind at the beginning.
"Concubine Lin said it well, Concubine De is not sensible, you are not sensible? Or is your Chongren Palace too comfortable to live in, and you want to change to the cold palace to try? "Yi Xiangxiang has no mercy!
Lin Zhimeng was stunned when she heard this, she didn't expect Yi Xiangxiang, who was usually very talkative, to be so bitter and arrogant today.
Before she could speak, Xiangqiao behind her hugged her first: "Queen Niangniang, how can we say that our noble concubine Niangniang is also the master of a palace, this cold palace...... It's really not up to you. ”
She knelt with her head bowed, but there was a sense of pride and dissatisfaction in her words.
Since entering the palace, Xiangqiao has changed Miss is not worth it.
Not to mention the side concubine, at least at that time, the backyard lady of the Seven Princes' Mansion was the largest, and the morning and dusk province was also visited by others to worship her miss! But after entering the palace, he didn't have to be sealed, but he still had to greet the people who came from this small place Yi Xiangxiang every day, and Xiangqiao was so aggrieved for his own young lady.
Because of this, now that Yi Xiangxiang said anything about entering the cold palace, Xiangqiao was naturally even more unconvinced.
And Qiaosui, who was kneeling beside Xiangqiao, shook his head secretly when he heard this, and mourned silently for Xiangqiao in his heart.
Sure enough, the next moment, she heard the queen mother on the other side say with an understatement: "The people of Chongren Palace are really amazing, Concubine Lin didn't teach the rules to the people below, right?" That palace is hard, discipline it for you. ”
Yi Xiangxiang waved her hand as she spoke, and said to her father-in-law: "Pull aside, let's play a thirty board!" ”
"The slave is not convinced! The slave maid is a person from Chongren Palace, and the queen has no reason to discipline the concubine on her behalf! That's right, what the slave maid said just now was indeed a little casual, but it can also be seen that our mother is gentle and kind, and never restricts us! Xiangqiao looked very indignant, she listened to the screams of the concubine next to her, and said boldly: "It's not like the queen's mother...... So tyrannical! ”
Yi Xiangxiang is about to laugh, this girl is a brain show, right?
"Did Concubine Lin hear that? The people in your palace are really spoiled! Still a little casual? It's a joke! Yi Xiangxiang shook her head, looked at the other party with a look of "you are a fool", and then the words turned sharp in vain: "Fight this palace, you can't stop if you don't see blood!" ”
Lin Zhimeng really didn't expect Xiangqiao to jump out at this time, but she also admitted that she spoiled her. Xiangqiao has served by her side since she was a child, and she has always been more tolerant.
In the early years, Xiangqiao had resisted Zhao Ziqian more than once, but he was not punished. She didn't pay much attention to it at the time, but she never expected that she didn't know how to converge now.
Of course, Lin Zhimeng naturally knew that Zhao Ziqian was too lazy to care if he didn't care, and he was also giving himself face. But today's Yi Xiangxiang will never give her face.
Ask for it without giving face! Lin Zhimeng thought so.
And compared with Lin Zhixin, the cousin in the second room, she thinks that Xiangqiao has a deeper relationship with her.
"The concubine begs the queen for forgiveness! Xiangqiao has followed the concubines since she was a child, and she has never learned any rules in the palace, so she is not big or small in her speech......"
Yi Xiangxiang didn't want to listen to Lin Zhimeng's ramblings, she didn't have a good impression of this person anymore, so she only listened to her impatient interruption: "Really? Haven't learned the rules? Then remember to send it to the school gauge distance! ”
Lin Zhimeng knew that Yi Xiangxiang would not give up today, and the people around her also saw the anger on the queen's body, and lowered their heads one after another, for fear that they would be pulled up and punished.
As a result, only Xiangqiao and the screams of De Concubine were left in the imperial garden.
It's not a good life
Non-red-faced, not thin-hearted, cool-hearted