Chapter Seventy-Three: Disposition
"Zhao Yu's wife? During the Laba Festival, she was beaten by the Queen Mother because she was jealous of Xin Cairen's pregnancy, and later asked the Queen to give the woman who went to Zhaohua Palace to be cleaned up by Mrs. Baoluo? Zhou Yi'er and Su Ruhui were shocked, and hurriedly asked, "Who told you this news?" ”
"It's a little yellow door in the Shang Sleeping Bureau, he went to get the meal much late, and a father-in-law in the imperial dining room asked him what happened, the little yellow door was mysterious, and the slave and maid happened to be behind the bamboo branch where they were talking, and they were not discovered, and they listened to the little yellow door tell the father-in-law." Xiuying said, "Because yesterday was Chinese New Year's Eve, the palace was full of lights, and the Zhaohua Palace burned up a small half of the sky, and the outside was only colored lights, and later because of the heavy snow, after the fire melted, many houses were wet, and the few mothers left in the palace by Mrs. Baoluo were properly directed, so they did not continue to burn." ”
"Could it be that the matter of Xin Cairen has something to do with Madame Baoluo?" Zhou Yi'er said suddenly.
Su Ruhui hurriedly shook her head: "Sister, don't forget, Zhao Yu's wife has been sent to Zhaohua Palace since the Laba Festival, and she has never come out during this time." Moreover, the Mandarin Dew Pavilion where Xin Cairen lives is located in the Yuexia Palace, which is far away from Zhaohua Palace - not to mention that although Mrs. Baoluo is jealous, she has been in the palace for many years, and she only targets the palace concubines, and she is all picked and beaten by Mingli, and she has never heard of her murdering the emperor's heir. ”
Zhou Yi'er also regretted it after she spoke, after Mrs. Baoluo's Lin family was full of loyalty, even the Queen Mother and Emperor Changtai looked at her differently because of this, and she guessed so rashly, if it was spread out, it would not be a trivial matter.
Seeing Su Ruhua's denial, Zhou Yi'er said, "What do you think about Ruhua?" ”
"Where do I have any ideas, it's just sister, it's useless for us to worry about these things, instead of thinking about it here, it's better to go and see the Queen Mother or Sister Lian'er and the Lord of Danzhu." Su Ruhua said.
Zhou Yi'er tilted her head and thought about it, nodded and said, "It's exactly this Li'er." ”
"I'm afraid it's inconvenient, but since the queen mother fainted, my sister said to visit one or two, and the queen mother wouldn't be angry." Su Ruhui reminded again, "My sister is the queen's niece, and it is human nature to respect the elders!" ”
"I also planned to go, but I was afraid of disturbing the Queen Mother."
"It's better to see if you can meet the Queen Mother later, if not, you can tell Mama Qi or Aunt Xiangxiang, presumably Mama and Aunt Xiang will mention one or two."
The two discussed, and called in Xiuwan and Xiuying, dressed up again, and went to the Detai Hall first, the Queen Mother disappeared as usual, Zhou Yi'er asked Sleeve Xiang about visiting the queen, Sleeve Xiang thought about it and went in to ask Qi Yun, and came out to let Zhou Yi'er just go.
Zhou Yi'er went to Weiyang Palace, Su Ruhui went into the warm pavilion of Detai Hall to see Danzhu, Danzhu had just woken up from a nap, and was eating a glass of wine on the bed, and when he saw Su Ruhui coming in, he hurriedly put down the bowl to get up, and was held down by Su Ruhui, so he asked someone to serve a bowl for Su Ruhui.
Su Ruhui said with a smile: "I heard that the county lord was a little frightened yesterday, so I came to take a look." ”
Danzhu thanked her, but never mentioned what happened last night, only said that the wine was good, and said that there was no such thing in Dongjiaoguo. Su Ru's picture book didn't mean to find out the news from her, this Danzhu county lord and Su Ruhui are not very familiar, and the queen mother likes it very much, Su Ruhui doesn't want to be disgusted by the queen mother, so she talked about a lot of food and clothing along her topic, and found an opportunity to leave.
Seeing that she was walking simply, she confused Danzhu, who had been advised by the Queen Mother last night and could not say much.
Su Ru drew out the Detai Palace, looked at the heavy snow outside, and said to Xiuwan: "When will the ancestor worship end there?" ”
On the first day of the new year, the royal family and ordinary people have to worship the Taimiao. This matter naturally has nothing to do with women, even the Queen Mother is no exception, at this time, Emperor Changtai and the princes and the clan have not yet returned from the Taimiao. Otherwise, Renshou Palace would definitely not be so deserted.
Such a big thing happened, the emperor must hurry to comfort the queen mother. Su Ruhui thought about the queen who brought people to the palace last night but did not mention where the emperor was, presumably the queen understood Changtai and did not tell him.
Xiuwan has been serving in the palace for many years, and after estimating the time, she said, "I will not be able to return to the palace until then." ”
"Then go back to Lumingtai first."
Xiuwan's estimation of the time was very accurate, and the harem suddenly became lively before the time. After Emperor Changtai came back with his five sons, the first place he arrived at was Renshou Palace.
Su Ruhui and Zhou Yi'er, who had returned, and Huo Qinglian and Danzhu County Lord, were all neatly waiting outside the hall, Emperor Changtai hugged his young son Gan Pei, and followed the prince Gan Lin to the four highnesses in turn.
Not long after, a little palace maid came out and said that the queen mother heard that the four maidens were waiting outside, and she was worried that it would be cold outside, so she let them go to the palace first.
After entering the palace, the four daughters were extremely surprised, Chinese New Year's Eve they had just met the Queen Mother, and they had reduced a lot, but they were in good spirits, and this night came over, the Queen Mother seemed to be a lot older, which showed the blow of witchcraft to the Queen Mother.
They came in lightly and did not interrupt the conversation between Changtai's mother and son, only after listening to Changtai's greetings, the Queen Mother sighed lightly and said, "...... The mourning family asked the Huo family to assist the queen to investigate! ”
"The queen is incompetent, otherwise the harem has been peaceful since the eighth year of Longhe, why is this happening? As for the Huo family, although I doted on her, I heard that after the queen fainted in anger last night, the Huo family, as a concubine, was also at a loss, and it was still Concubine Shu who came out to preside over the overall situation - the queen mother, why not let Concubine Shu assist the queen? Emperor Changtai said busily.
The emperor belittled the queen and the concubine in his words, His Royal Highness suddenly pounced on the two, the prince Gan Lin and the second prince Gan Ran knelt down, for their mother or concubine to plead guilty, the fifth son of the emperor Gan Pei is still young, after entering the palace, he was placed on the couch next to the queen mother, at this moment I saw his half-brother Gan Lin kneeling, although I don't know why, but maybe the queen usually teaches to learn from Gan Lin, and also struggled to stay and kneel with Gan Lin, but the grandmother who was waiting on the side was startled, fortunately, the queen mother quickly grabbed him, I didn't go down headlong.
Gan Lin and Gan Ran were the eldest among the princes, the two of them knelt down, Gan Tang and Gan Mei naturally did not dare to stand, for a while, except for Gan Pei, who was struggling in the hands of the Queen Mother, the princes all knelt down, where did Su Ruhua dare to stand? They all knelt down.
"Emperor!" The Queen Mother glanced at Changtai reproachfully, and then glanced at Su Ruhui and the four of them, Emperor Changtai came to his senses, he was angry for a while, but he forgot that there were not only mother and son here, although the words just now were mostly angry words, but they were spread out to make the already boiling rumors worse.
What's more, even if he dislikes Queen Zhou's incompetence, the crown prince Gan Lin is very satisfied, and for Gan Lin's sake, he shouldn't leave room for the queen so much.
The Queen Mother coughed, hugged Gan Pei and said, "What are you doing here?" The emperor was confused for a while, and this is also for your sake, the weather is cold, although the palace is burning charcoal, it is not as good as the earth dragon, and they all get up to speak. He said to Su Ruhua and the four daughters, "What are you kneeling down again?" ”
Everyone got up one after another, Danzhu smiled sweetly at the Queen Mother, but seeing that there was no smile in the Queen Mother's eyes, he quickly accepted the smile and stood solemnly with his head down.
"Xin Zhen's slut really deserves to be killed!" Changtai took advantage of the queen mother's round, coughed, and said angrily, "You dare to curse all the existing princes under my knees!" ”
"The mourning family thought that after eight years of Longhe, this palace should always know what ideas can be played and what ideas can not be played, because she was pregnant, when the mourning family gave the seat on the day of Laba, she found that the original lady Zhao's eyes were wrong, and she also beat it hard, so that the queen would demote it to the imperial wife, and send it to Zhaohua Palace to be taken care of by the Lin family. The Queen Mother's tone was calm, but the anger in it made the whole hall tremble, "Even the prince and the concubine will not let go!" What a guts! ”
"It seems that in the eighth year of Longhe, the Empress Dowager and the first emperor of Jingsu are still merciful after all!"
With the Queen Mother's understatement, Su Ruhui's four bodies trembled! I barely lost my exclamation!