Return to Beijing (VII) (Part I)

After a while, Yi Yi spoke: "When I was going to Gufanguo, when I was leaving, Xinjie, the third prince of Tang Dynasty, reminded the prince that it was very important to have a clear blood in the royal family. There are various occasions when the envoy is out, but the behavior must be cautious and careful, so before leaving, the prince specially asked the imperial doctor in the palace to prepare contraceptive pills, which is recorded by the hospital. The pill is divided into three parts, one in the hands of the palace people who are waiting for daily life around the prince. In order to avoid disputes in the future, the prince specially invited his father, who chose a father-in-law from the daily life of the Internal Affairs Office to accompany him, and this father-in-law had one copy in his hand, and the other one was in the hands of the entourage who took care of Tang Sangongzi's daily life. This matter can be evidenced by checking the account books of the pills received by the Tai Hospital.

Then let's talk about these two bewitching girls, this prince has never seen them. Not to mention the luck. It's useless for everyone to speculate here, so it's better to ask your father-in-law who kept a record of daily life. According to the court regulations of the Great Zhou Dynasty, when the prince leaves Beijing, he needs to be accompanied by a father-in-law who has a daily record of daily life sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and after he returns, he needs to hand over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for archiving. for reference. ”

This provision was in place after the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty and after the prince came of age. After the ancestors established the dynasty, they were afraid of royal disputes and tried every means to prevent trouble, but whenever the prince went out of Beijing, there were eunuchs trusted by the emperor to accompany the records. It was only later, since the time of Gaozu, because there were no other adult men in the royal family, this rule began to be gradually forgotten, and most of the later princes entering and leaving the capital did not have a record of accompanying eunuchs.

Xinjie also mentioned this matter after taking over Pingluan Pavilion, so he only knew about it after consulting his predecessor's old files. Before accompanying the prince on the trip, he deliberately asked Yiyi to make arrangements for the emperor to make. At that time, the emperor also smiled and said that the two of them had a lot of eyes, and he didn't think that this time it would really come in handy.

Those present, in addition to the Queen Mother, even the queen, concubines and princes did not know about this, and some of those who had heard of this law had long forgotten about it because it had not been implemented for many years. When this matter was spoken, Yiqing and Yiheng glanced at each other, and could only secretly scold the old six for having too many eyes. Yi Heng even secretly regretted that he didn't win over Tang Xinjie earlier.

With a request to Gonggong Qiu of the Internal Affairs Office, a middle-aged eunuch was brought to the hall, holding a stack of papers in his hand, thinking that it was the so-called living record.

According to the prince's request, he began to read about the various activities of the prince after he left Beijing.

The record was lengthy and sounded very boring, and the Queen Mother interrupted him first: "Okay, Gonggong Qiu, the palace won't listen to those trivial things, I just want to ask you, have you seen the two pregnant women in the ancient mission?" Did the prince have a favored woman during his time in the ancient kingdom? Are there these two among these women? ”

Gonggong Qiu looked at the two pregnant women for a long time and shook his head: "The slave has not seen these two. ”

"Has the prince ever pampered a woman in the ancient country?" The queen asked.

"Yes, but because we are not familiar with the place of life in the ancient fan country, in order to fear that the prince will be too tired and easy to get sick, so every woman sent by the ancient fan country is carefully cleaned by our own palace people before entering, and the slave takes someone to check it, and has been sent to the prince with child avoidance medicine in advance. And the prince is busy with official business, and secondly, he often has Tang Xinjie's son to assist in cultivating internal strength to enhance his physique, most of the time, how do women send it and how to send it back, and there are not many times that they have really used it. ”

"Are you sure there aren't those two of those women who have moved?" The queen asked again.

"Queen, no. And for the sake of prudence, every time the women of the ancient country are sent, the slaves are in accordance with the requirements to paint their portraits, if you are afraid that the slaves will remember wrong, later the queen can send someone to check these portraits. ”

"Did you say that the sixth child bought off Gonggong Qiu?" Yi Qing asked Yi Heng stupidly in a voice that could be heard all around, and Yi Heng glanced at the idiot's imperial brother and didn't answer.

Jing Chen was so angry on the side. Everyone knows that Gonggong Qiu of this internal affairs office is the emperor's confidant, and openly accuses the prince of bribing the emperor's henchmen, not only offending the prince and Gonggong Qiu, but also indirectly scolding the emperor for being incompetent, and his henchmen will be bought. She sighed deeply in her heart, Tang Xinjie was right, even if there was no Yiyi, the position of the prince would not fall on the head of a stunned person like Yiqing. She'd better ask for more blessings for herself.

Many concubines and princes in the main hall looked at Yiqing like fools. Yi Heng secretly regretted why he didn't sit away from these two stunned people just now.

Mo Jie seized the opportunity: "As this lord said, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's own filekeeper is talking to himself, won't you let the portraits of these two girls be pulled out of the file?" The diary has not been rewritten? Didn't deliberately omit it? And besides you, what about Tang Gongzi?! In fact, it is common for young men to look for women outside. If the two of them feel that it is difficult to marry a foreign woman as a wife, our lord also explained before coming, as long as the two can be reunited, bring the two back to the house, and treat them well. ”

As soon as these words came out, some people in the hall began to discuss again, thinking that this request was almost the same. As long as it is not a wife, whether it is the East Palace or the backyard of the Tang family, there is just one more woman. It seems that this matter can be happily concluded.

But the crown prince said: "It turns out that after talking for a long time, the mission of your country still has to put the child in the belly on the head of the prince and Tang Gongzi. Prince Ben has denied this possibility. Since you said that the other one is Tang Gongzi's, it is not as good as a girl, how about you go and ask Tang Gongzi yourself? ”

In the main hall, many people turned to the position where Xinjie was sitting just now, and for some reason, at this time, Tang Gongzi stroked his forehead with his hand, and seemed to be asleep. Can you fall asleep on such a lively occasion? It's just that he holds his forehead with his hand, and his black hair covers his face, and no one can see whether he is really sleeping or fake. Or is it a deliberate evasion?

"This kind of private matter, the girl might as well come and ask him in a low voice, so as not to be embarrassed." The prince suggested.

The pregnant woman hesitantly walked up to Tang Xinjie: "Tang Gongzi, please take in the little girl for the sake of our love for the past few nights together." If Tang Gongzi doesn't accept it, my prime minister's father will definitely not let this child live. This kid is in your blood..."

As he spoke, he began to cry.

"You're giving me a lot of headaches." Tang Xinjie continued to hold his forehead, as if his voice was painful because of the headache, and even his voice had changed a little.

"The little woman doesn't ask for much, but only for the child and my place to live."

"Alas,... ..." Tang Xinjie let out a long sigh, put down his hand, and looked at the woman in front of him seriously: "You really only want a place?" ”

"Yes," the woman looked up at him with a little excitement, as if she heard the turnaround, "as long as the child and I survive." "That's really what she thinks. When he came, Lord Marc told me that if the children and them were to live, they had to let the man in front of them take them.

"Even if you don't have a name, it's just coarse tea and light rice?"

"Yes, as long as the child is given the opportunity to grow up healthily, the little woman has nothing else to ask for."

"That's very good." Saying that, he stood up and saluted to the superior: "Empress Dowager Qiyu, Queen Mother, the lower official Tang Xinyu is here, you can answer for my third brother Tang Xinjie, he can save this poor woman, send her to the good hall run by the Tang family, let her give birth to the child in the womb, so that the mother and child are healthy and alive." ”

This is not Tang Xinjie, but Tang Xinyu, who went to Beijing to report on work a few days ago, but his body and appearance are similar to Tang Xinjie. But it was Tang Xinjie who was sitting there before? Some people remember that when Gonggong Qiu read the file, many people felt bored, and there were many people who got up and went out to go to the toilet, and it seems that Tang Xinjie got up and went out at that time. Could it be that it was changed at that time?

I heard Tang Xinyu continue: "It was mentioned in the national letter of Gu Fanguo that Germena, the daughter of the prime minister of Gu Fanguo, inherited Tang Xinjie several times, so she became pregnant. That's what Lord Marc said earlier. And it was said that the girl admired my third brother. In that case, why can't the girl even hear my third brother's voice, and she doesn't know his appearance? ”

The girl looked at Marcie in a panic and shook her head, not knowing what to do.

"This is Second General Tang. Your body shape is really similar to Tang Sangongzi. Germena hadn't seen Tang San Gongzi for a long time, and it was possible to recognize the wrong person. Mo Jie hurried out to speak for his own people.

"If according to the previous words of Lord Mo Jie and the national letter, this girl is in love with my third brother, she must have deeply reflected the image of the third brother in her heart. If you say that you will remember the wrong person? Can the people under Chenghuan who have been under him several times admit their mistakes? Isn't it too far-fetched! Do you want to deceive me into being ignorant? ”

"General Tang, you really can't blame this kid. Germena hadn't seen the general for a few months, and the water and soil of the Great Zhou raised people, and it was possible for Tang Gongzi to change after he returned. General Tang and Tang Gongzi are brothers again, and they are similar in description, not to mention that in this hall, Germena was too nervous, and did not carefully identify them, and it is reasonable to recognize the wrong person. ”

"General Marc Marc has repeatedly confessed that the wrong person is excusable. Everyone is from the past, there is no need to play word games here, from the perspective of human nature, there are only two possibilities, one is that this girl has no intention of the third brother, and she is just ordered to come, not from her own heart; One is that this girl has never met the third brother at all, so she can't talk about conceiving a child for the third brother at all. Tang prefers to believe that it is the latter. And Tang is more willing to believe that this is not Gu Fanguo coming for the Tang Sect or the Tang brothers. My third brother, an ordinary person, was just pulled by you this time, and you wanted to discredit the prince through his reputation as a well-known merry boy in the capital. Such despicable means, do you think that my Great Zhou people are stupid and incompetent? ”