Chapter 60: Undercurrents
"Miss, the palace maid hurriedly went in just now, and it didn't take long for Miss to say goodbye, something happened?"
Back to Lumingtai, Xiuwan burned hot coal, took out hot water from the utensils held behind her, poured tea, and threw in a small piece of ginger, waiting for Su Ruhui's face to return to normal under the tea after being blown red by the cold wind.
Xiuwan was very satisfied with Su Ruhui's point, she was very calm, for example, last time Su Ruhui asked Gu Xiangsi to cut Yunjin instead of Shaoying Spring Soul, although Xiuwan was puzzled, she still did so, and waited for Gu Xiang to leave before asking.
Su Ruhui nodded: "The Queen Mother summoned Zhou Qingran, the daughter of the hussar general Zhou Zinan, into the palace, and it is rumored that she will be hired as a concubine. ”
"Huh?" Xiuwan was surprised, "It turns out that Mrs. Shunzhang County brought that Miss Zhou to the Hajj yesterday to show the Queen Mother?" She thought for a moment and couldn't help but say, "But Mrs. Shunzhang County is the sister-in-law of the queen's mother, and now the queen is in the middle palace, in charge of the phoenix seal, and gave birth to the prince and the fifth highness, there is no shortage of a concubine in the palace, Mrs. Shunzhang is not afraid of making the queen angry if she does this?" ”
"I guess everyone in the palace is thinking about it now." Su Ruhui smiled faintly, "Yesterday I saw that the queen was very unhappy when she saw Zhou Qingran, it's good that you know things, there is no place for us to talk about this matter, don't talk too much." ”
"What the young lady said, are the slaves and maids people who don't know the severity?" Xiuwan pursed her lips and smiled.
Qutai Palace is spacious and luxurious, but it has been vacant for many years and no one has moved in, and many utensils are incomplete or corrupt, and it is winter again, and it is extremely wasteful to clean up, Zhou Qingran, who was speculated to be the future concubine, temporarily lived in the Xinuan Pavilion of Renshou Palace, and was treated as the general treatment of the lord of Danzhu, the queen mother attached great importance to this young "concubine", and even excused herself from the six palaces once every ten days under the pretext of fatigue, and even Zhou Yier and Su Ruhui were told not to disturb the queen mother before the beginning of spring.
Except for Huo Qinglian, although he did not live in the Detai Palace, he was still able to see the Queen Mother from time to time.
The news that came out of the Detai Hall said that the Queen Mother regarded Zhou Qingran as her own, and she responded to the rules of the palace of etiquette, but she was actually trained by her grandmother.
This news has spread a lot, and even the first favored Xifu Palace in the palace has some sitting, so he grabbed and watched Gan Ran. And Queen Zhou also lost her graceful and reserved attitude, and asked to see the Queen Mother under the pretext of palace affairs several times, intending to inquire about Zhou Qingran, but she was blocked by Qi Yun, saying that the Queen Mother had an order, and no one was seen before the beginning of spring, including Changtai.
Since then, rumors inside and outside the palace have become more and more turbulent, and it has even been rumored that Zhou's son is unstable, and the queen mother personally trained Zhou Qingran, because she wanted to set up a new queen. It wasn't until Changtai deliberately ordered to find a trivial matter and praise the middle palace that the rumors gradually went down. However, not long after, it was rumored that the Queen Mother was benevolent to the Heavenly Family and would not be abolished for the time being, but the queen's right to dispose of the six palaces would be handed over to Zhou Qingran in the future.
For a while, the people in the palace were panicked.
In this case, the two courtyards of Lumingtai are exceptionally idle.
"Miss, Miss Zhou next door, it's a little strange." On this day, when it was sunny after the snow, Su Ruhui was asking Xiuwan to burn a few more charcoal pots, but she opened the window and traced a half-open plum tree in the courtyard outside the window, and said with a smile: "What's strange?" ”
"That Miss Zhou is arrogant, in the past, for the Queen Mother's love for Miss Huo Qi, she came to complain to Miss Huo Qi several times, but this time she was snubbed by the Queen Mother for so long, and she was not angry." Xiuwan was on the side to study ink for her, gossiping, "The slave maid went out just now and saw that she brought Xiuying to find Miss Huo Qi, didn't she hate Huo Qi the most before?" ”
Su Ruhui pursed her lips and smiled, but didn't explain, only asked: "There are still so many rumors in the palace now?" ”
"Exactly, it was Queen Zhou who somehow provoked the Queen Mother's disgust, the Queen Mother is going to personally cultivate a capable and agreeable queen, although it will not be abolished immediately, but as soon as the Miss Zhou family gives birth to an heir, the current Queen Zhou will be sent to the Dihua Palace." Xiuwan said regretfully, "The slave maid looks at Queen Zhou as a kind person, and she is also very kind to the palace people, and I don't know if those things are true." ”
Su Ruhui took a Zihao in his hand and was lighting the petals of a plum blossom, and when he heard this, his subordinates were stunned and said, "What's the matter?" ”
Although the window was open and the courtyard was clear at a glance, Xiuwan still leaned over and said softly: "Legend in the palace that the reason why the Queen Mother is disgusted with Queen Zhou is because she plotted to kill the emperor's heir!" Otherwise, how could it be that before the death of the prince, except for a princess Le'an, none of the royal heirs in the palace survived? ”
Su Ruhui's eyebrows furrowed tightly, and she said softly: "This kind of thing must not be said in the future!" ”
"The slave knows that the slave and the maid don't talk much, and what Queen Zhou has done or not has nothing to do with the young lady, where will the slave and the maid talk more? It's just that every time I go to the imperial dining room to receive food, I always hear such a saying. Xiuwan said in a low voice, "Now it seems that the young lady has a very good relationship with His Royal Highness the Second Highness, but she is not very close to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and she is extremely smart." ”
Su Ruhui's eyes widened, and she almost couldn't help but say what her mother told her, but she still held back rationally, but she felt that the matter was getting more and more complicated. Even Xiuwan, a steady and unrelated person, would say this, obviously not optimistic about Queen Zhou's throne, and faintly believing that Zhou's son was plotting to kill the emperor's heir.
Otherwise, he would not have spoken Gan Ran.
Who is meddling in the troubled waters to make them even more obscure? Su Ruhui pondered for a moment, until a drop of cinnabar fell on the tip of the pen, and it was just the plum blossom that she reacted, and said, "Tell me, what happened to Gan Ran and the prince recently?" ”
"Miss can be regarded as taking the initiative to care about these things, and you will not go out during this time, and the slave maid will only be angry with your second highness!" Xiuwan was very happy, "His Royal Highness was detained by the concubine in Xifu Palace during this time, and he easily refused to let him out, but the county lord of Huaizhen and the Song family and the Zhang family of the queen all found a lot of excuses to go to Xifu Palace to ask for peace, and also sent a lot of sachets and purses, but the concubine easily refused to let them see His Royal Highness." ”
Saying that, Xiuwan also thought that she was considerate and comforted Su Ruhua and said: "The Second Highness didn't take the initiative to see them, but was forced by the concubine to go to the study every day obediently to follow the master to study and practice martial arts, the slave maid thought, if it weren't for the concubine staring at His Highness now, His Highness would definitely come to find Miss." ”
Su Ruhui sneered: "What about the prince? ”
"The East Palace has often gone to greet the queen recently." The imperial dining room can really hear any news, but Xiuwan is not very interested in this prince whose biological mother is about to be deposed, so she only said casually, "But originally, the Song family and the Zhang family in Weiyang Palace would find many excuses and opportunities to talk to the prince, but now they are all focused on Xifu Palace." ”
As she spoke, Xiuwan looked at Su Ruhui with blank eyes, hoping that she would be able to open her mind and go to Xifu Palace as well. Although the palace said that the next queen would be Zhou Qingran, the Huo family, who was not liked by the queen mother, was still a concubine. But once Zhou's son is deposed, her identities as Gan Lin and Gan Pei are not as good as before, especially if Zhou's son is convicted of murdering the emperor's heir, I am afraid that Gan Lin's position as the prince will be difficult to protect.
In this case, the second son, who was raised under the knees of the Huo family with the most holy favors, naturally became a strong contender for the position of prince.
You must know that even if Zhou Qingran became a new queen, her father Zhou Zinan was born as a civilian, even after becoming a hussar general, there were few decent relatives, but the Huo family was the daughter of Huo De, the patriarch of the two dynasties, Huo De taught Changtai and Gan Lin, although the Huo family is not a door valve, the crown of the five generations is also the beginning of the prototype of the family.
Moreover, Zhou Qingran is still being trained by the Queen Mother's side, even if he is favored, God knows when he will be able to conceive the royal descendant, and he may not be able to get a son in one fell swoop. Not only that, even if Zhou Qingran can get a child as soon as possible, Su Ruhui, the five of them, are all girls over eight years old, and the age difference between them and Zhou Qingran's son is here, not to mention the respective families behind them, and it is not that there are no other daughters, except for the Danzhu County Lord who is less than six years old, there is still little hope, and it is impossible for others to be Zhou Qingran's daughter-in-law.
In this case, it is natural that the Second Highness Gan Ran and the Third Highness Gan Tang are two good destinations.
Su Ruhui tilted her head to sort out the thoughts of the Zhang family and the others, a sneer appeared on her lips, and she said to Xiuwan: "You go and take out the pair of black jade unicorn pillows that your mother sent back to you." ”
"Huo Guifei has a calming jade pillow with a similar effect to this one, Miss might as well dye some Shaoying Spring Soul, presumably the concubine will like it very much." Xiuwan's eyes lit up, but she suggested.
"Who said I went to Xifu Palace?" Su Ruhui threw the pen aside and said with a smile, "I'm going to give it to the queen!" ”
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