Everyone is not stupid, how can anyone fight for face. Concubine Jing also shirked and said, "Ask King Zhao what he wants."

Lin Yuan looked at the queen a little mockingly, Tuoba Hong really went to discuss this matter with her? is not afraid of making Queen Xiao angry to death. As the queen, she has no biological children, and the ready-made King Zhao is placed in front of her, and the emperor also asked her who do you think is suitable?

As for who can compete for King Zhao, the concubines all know in their hearts, and they are nothing more than a few who are above the fourth grade and have a face in the palace. Concubine Jing is twenty-four years old and has a good temperament, so letting her raise her can not only teach King Zhao well, but also comfort her in the pain of losing her son. Wang Shurong is good, but she is not favored, and Tuoba Hong will not give her this big pie. Zhao Shuyuan is most likely, she already has a daughter, she is good at raising children, and Tuoba Hong also likes her.

The lower noble concubines and concubines all have a place to fight.

However, on the second day of the second month of February, on the day when the dragon raised its head, the palace people made a fuss and spread a message - King Zhao went to Jianzhang Palace to ask to see the emperor and asked his father to issue an order to raise him under the name of Wen Concubine.

At that time, Lin Yuan and the queen, Concubine Jing and other concubines made an appointment to enjoy the scenery in Shanglin Garden. A little palace maid ran over to report to the queen about King Zhao, and said with great certainty: "His Royal Highness King Zhao is still in Jianzhang Palace at this time. ”

A hint of gloom flashed on Empress Xiao's face, and then she returned to normal. Although King Zhao is the eldest son, he has been spoiled by the Shen family since he was a child, and his qualifications are mediocre, so he can't succeed.

There were many of the surrounding concubines who showed resentment. Someone said quietly: "I really can't see that Concubine Wen is the first to take action, and I think she is cold and arrogant and disdainful of fighting with others." He sneered as he spoke.

Concubine Wen has always been arrogant, and rarely feasts and plays with the concubines, so she has never come today.

Concubine Jing raised her eyes and glanced at the person who spoke, Concubine Chen, she was also a stupid thing, just as stupid as five years ago. I don't have the ability to fight, so what's the use of waiting for others to get the benefits and then come to the sour!

However, speaking of which, Concubine Wen is also a good candidate, and King Zhao personally asked the emperor for it, maybe it can really be done. Concubine Wen was elected in the second year of the three consecutive general elections after the emperor ascended the throne, only one year later than Concubine Jing, and now she is also twenty-two or three years old, which is not young. Moreover...... She has a resolute and knowledgeable personality, which is suitable for teaching a boy with a weak personality like the emperor's eldest son, which is probably her most advantageous!

Unlike the queen, Concubine Wei Jing had no interest in King Zhao at all.

She doesn't like to settle. If it's not the best, don't do it at all.

Lin Yuan looked at the expressions of the concubines in this circle, and secretly laughed in her heart - the degree of King Zhao's popularity really exceeded her imagination! Although the child was mediocre, his father's heirs withered, and he was also very likely to inherit the throne.

With Concubine Wen intervening sideways, and so many hungry wolves staring, Chu Huashang wants to get King Zhao, I'm afraid it will be very difficult.

At this time, King Zhao, who was kneeling in the side hall of Jianzhang Palace, did not have the cognition of being a "pie". He was afraid, afraid that his father would not grant his request, that he would not be able to find a shelter.

He is fed up with the bullying of the people in the palace, and if he can find another person who is good to him, even if he is not his own mother, he is much better than being alone. He just wanted to beg his father to make him the child of Concubine Wen, and he was afraid that this request would not be granted-

And he didn't realize how many people in the palace were rushing to be his adoptive mother, compared to those who fought for the blood, he had the right to choose.

If he is a smart child, he will definitely choose the most powerful among these people, instead of choosing a concubine.

His legs were a little sore, but the palace people standing on the side did not move for a long time. He thought that his father really didn't like him, and this time he came to beg his father, and his father's face was not only stern but also gloomy, and he ordered himself to kneel when he opened his mouth......

I don't know if my father was unhappy when he heard him make such a request?

He didn't dare to get up, and I don't know how long it took, but finally an old inner eunuch came in from the outer hall, bowed down and said to him, "Your Highness, the Holy Shrine has sent you in." ”

King Zhao was like being amnestied, and hurriedly got up and followed. Tuoba Hongfang in the study took a book of folds and was reading it, and when he heard someone coming in, he asked without raising his head, "Have you thought clearly?" Do you really want to recognize Concubine Wen as your mother? ”

"Yes, Erchen has thought clearly......" Seven-year-old King Zhao tried his best to suppress the tremor in his voice: "Erchen likes Concubine Wen very much......"

Tuoba Hong smiled when he heard it: "Like it? Is she nice to you? ”

"Yes," King Zhao replied, and then changed his words: "It's not her, Concubine Wen has a very cold personality and has never spoken to her son." However, Concubine Wen's father, Master Xu, is the master who taught Erchen 'Wenjing', and he is very good to Erchen, better than the masters next to him. ”

Speaking of Lord Xu, King Zhao's heart was sour, when Concubine Shen was there, whether it was courtiers, concubines or palace people, they all greeted him respectfully and with a smile. After Concubine Shen died, the nurse Wang Mama even dared to beat him, and the masters who taught him were no longer respectful, and his status in the Qianxi study was even inferior to the Rongshou Xiaojun Wang and Huainan Wang Shizi, who were in class with him.

Only Lord Xu was as good to him as ever. In the past, everyone treated him like stars and moons, and he didn't find out how good Lord Xu was. But now everyone else has changed their faces, and only Lord Xu still saluted him respectfully and called him His Royal Highness. The two ignorant little county kings often bullied him and caused trouble in Lord Xu's class, but Lord Xu was always impartial in his lessons, unlike the Wei general who taught cavalry and archery, acting partially and bullying him with others.

There were a few times when the Shang Food Bureau treated him harshly, he went to the study without a full meal, and after Lord Xu found out, he scolded a few stewards and internal supervisors in person. Lord Xu is a high-ranking official of the second grade, and after saying this, no slave dares to snub King Zhao in front of Lord Xu.

Although King Zhao was young, he knew that Lord Xu was a good person.

In his simple thinking, Lord Xu's daughter Wen Concubine must also be a good person.

He is used to seeing the faces of people in the palace, all of them are snobs, and it feels very uncomfortable and dangerous to think of them as mothers. He has seen Concubine Wen, her face is cold, and she loves to ignore everyone when she sees it. But that look is exactly the same as Lord Xu, he refuses to be inflammatory, and he will not be bullied when he treats the lowly.

"Oh, it turned out to be Lord Xu's sake." Hiroshi seemed to have figured it out. He raised his head, put down the fold in his hand, and looked straight at his eldest son: "I want to know, who told you that Concubine Wen is the daughter of Lord Xu?" Is it Concubine Wen herself? ”

If no one did anything about this, Tuoba Hiroshi would never believe it. How can such a big event as fighting for the prince be simple?

King Zhao is young, and he is not a precocious person, where would he know about the involvement of the harem and the court. Concubine Wen's maiden family is not a prestigious family like the Xiao family, and the whole world knows that there is a queen in Prime Minister Xiao's family. Lord Xu, who works in the Qingshui Yamen and has no real power, how many people will pay attention to him and know that his daughter is a concubine?

King Zhao looked at his father's face, his heart was pounding faster and faster, he knew that his father was angry like this. He hesitated, thinking about how to answer his father, but when the words came to his lips, he swallowed again—

Can't say, can't say......

That lady is a very powerful person, she explained that she can't say it, otherwise she won't let him become Concubine Wen's child.

That day, after taking Master Xu's class, he wanted to go to Jianzhang Palace to greet his father, but his father didn't want to see him. Then Hui Concubine Niangniang also came to Jianzhang Palace - Hui Concubine Niangniang was very beautiful, surrounded by groups of subordinates, and the head of Jianzhang Palace, Yao Gonggong, nodded when he saw it, and greeted him very respectfully. As a result, Hui Concubine Niangniang didn't have any connection, so she went in directly. And he still needs to wait in the side hall.

When Hui Concubine came out of his father's place, he hid far away and did not dare to step forward for fear of being bullied. The powerful concubines in the palace will always bully him, and a Jieyu surnamed Wu once ordered someone to arrest him, drag him to a remote place and let the eunuch slap his face with the sole of his shoe, and scolded him sharply as he smoked "little beast", saying that his mother had caused her not to have children in her life, and she would not let that woman's child have a good time.

But unexpectedly, Concubine Hui found him in the corner of the palace wall on the west side of Jianzhang Palace. She looked at herself coldly, she didn't look kind at all, and she was like two people smiling in front of her father. But she didn't hurt herself, she just whispered to herself: "You don't have a mother, it must be very painful, don't you want to find a mother?" ”

He was afraid of Hui Concubine, but he wanted to cry when he was asked this, so he cried and said, "My mother is dead." No one in this palace is good to me, and I don't want them to be my mother. ”

But Hui Concubine then said, "No, there are people who are good to you." I heard that Master Xu, the master of the study, was kind to you, and he reprimanded the little prince of Rongshou who bullied you for you, he is a good person, right? His only daughter is in the harem, and her title is Concubine Wen......"

King Zhao's eyes lit up when he heard this. He asked, "Concubine Wen?" Will that be nice to me? ”

"She's Lord Xu's daughter." Concubine Hui raised her eyebrows and replied to him: "Although she didn't help you, she never bullied you, right?" ”

Only then did King Zhao think of Concubine Wen, indeed, that lady was different from other mothers - she would never bully people.

King Zhao suddenly became happy. He seemed to have found a way to make his life better.

He jumped and wanted to leave, but Hui Concubine grabbed him and told him that what he said today should never be said to others. King Zhao was a little stunned, and Concubine Hui said to him with a cold face: "If you dare to say it, I will make it impossible for you to achieve your wishes." You should know how much your father likes me, and if I speak, your father will listen to me. If I say that His Royal Highness King Zhao is rude to contradict me, your father will punish you. I could have said something even worse......"

King Zhao's face turned pale with fright, he grew up in the deep palace, and he fully understood how capable the favorite concubines around his father were. When his mother was favored, he once said softly in front of his father, "Zhang Liangren in the side hall is rude to me", and then he never saw Zhang Liangren again.