Chapter 12: She's Been Waiting So Long......
Thinking that her Shen'er, the crown prince who was admired and praised by the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, under Wen Zhiluo's step-by-step design, went astray and was deposed by the emperor. was imprisoned in the Zongren Mansion for half a year, until the new emperor ascended the throne, and was named a county king by Zhao Yan and degraded to a distant place.
She respects her as the queen, but she can't even protect her own children, and she has to play the hypocritical mother-son relationship with Zhao Yan in front of the courtiers. What kind of thing is Zhao Yan! The son of a low-level concubine, what can be compared with the concubine of the main palace!
This Wen Zhiluo is really powerful, and he can support Zhao Yan to the top. She regretted it again and again, if Wen Zhiluo had assisted her Shen'er, if she hadn't formed a bond with Wen Zhiluo at the beginning, would the result be different?
As much as she regrets, she hates as much.
That shame will never be forgotten in her life.
Empress Dowager Xiao gritted her teeth and stared at Yi Xuan. She has to be sensible, and she has to maintain the majesty of the Queen Mother. Finally, she took a deep breath and asked in a cold tone, "I heard that you are the princess chosen by King Yu?" ”
The daughters of the Wen family are all reincarnated as foxes! Confuse men everywhere! King Yu holds the military power in the northwest in his hands, and his power in the court is self-evident, how can she afford this piece of fat to be cheaper than others!
Yixuan nodded.
"Hmph," Empress Dowager Xiao sneered, "With such a posture, you are also worthy of serving King Yu?" ”
"......" She thinks that her appearance is not bad.
Empress Dowager Xiao took the tea handed by the palace maid, flipped up the tea lid and blew it, and asked with mockery: "Your grandfather was promoted to the rank of official, or for the sake of the queen's face." Your father has no reputation. This background is really a bit stumbling. Although King Yu is fancy, there are palace rules in the palace, and the princess still has to pick a woman with a prominent family, outstanding talent and gentle temperament, do you have any opinions? ”
"What the Queen Mother said is that the little girl has no opinion."
She smiled calmly, and her eyes seemed to be joyful. Seeing that the Queen Mother was stunned for a moment, she felt strange in her heart.
Empress Dowager Xiao cleared her throat twice, put on a majestic posture, and said: "The right door is the way to marry." Don't be angry. I only ask you, how are you embroiderers? How is the cooking? What about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting? ”
Yi Xuan pondered for a moment, and said with some difficulty: "The little girl's embroiderer...... So so. Cooking...... The little girl doesn't know how to cook. I know how to play piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. ”
She's telling the truth. I don't know why, I didn't raise her as a girl when I beat Wen Boyuan, and the female celebrity was taught by Zhou two or three times. She hadn't been in the kitchen once. But her father was happy to teach her all the things of the readers. Especially in the game of chess, she is the most proficient, and even Zhao Yan can't play her.
When Empress Dowager Xiao heard this, she suddenly became more confident. What? It turned out to be an embroidered pillow. She smiled contemptuously and sneered at the crowd, "What do you think? ”
Several concubines hurriedly echoed: "The concubines look average, not as good as Miss Xiao's family background, and she is outstanding." ”
Miss Xiao? Yi Xuan suddenly came to her senses, it turned out that Empress Dowager Xiao was going to marry the girl in her clan to Zhao Zhen.
It's like something she'd do.
Immediately, a delicate voice came out, smiling: "My aunt will make fun of me, I don't want to stay here." ”
Yi Xuan followed the voice and saw that it was an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl, who was a little bit of a look, and she was also looking at Yi Xuan with an arrogant and disdainful expression.
Eighteen or nineteen years old...... She has the impression that this girl's name is Xiao Ziyun, and she has admired King Yu since she was fourteen years old, and said that she would not marry if she was not King Yu. Back then, she went incognito to the palace of King Yu as a maid, wanting to take the opportunity to get close to King Yu, but was later discovered by King Yu and drove her out.
This incident made the nobles of the capital laugh for many years.
To Yixuan's surprise, this girl has survived to this age, and she hasn't married yet, it's really ...... If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
Xiao Ziyun looked at Yi Xuan, and his eyes were about to quench poison.
Zhao Zhen can't forget that person, it doesn't matter, she can wait! However, she waited for so many years, and what she was waiting for was the news that he was going to marry someone else!
How willing she was!
The ladies and ladies praised Xiao Ziyun again, Xiao Ziyun walked to the Empress Dowager Xiao's side, curled her lips coldly, and said, "Do you still understand the rules?" Don't you know how to salute? ”
Yixuan frowned and glanced at her, saluting? Oh, yes, Xiao Ziyun has the title of a countryman, which was asked by Empress Dowager Xiao to Zhao Yan. At the beginning, Xiao Ziyun was driven out of the palace by King Yu, and felt very shameless, and once made a fuss about committing suicide, so Empress Dowager Xiao asked her for a title to show comfort.
According to the regulations, only the granddaughter of the county king can be crowned the township king. Xiao Ziyun is not a daughter of the clan, although her family background is prominent, she is not qualified to be crowned a township king. At the beginning, Zhao Yan wanted to ignore it, but she persuaded Zhao Yan not to have a quarrel with the Queen Mother over this matter, so Zhao Yan agreed.
This Xiao Ziyun doesn't weigh his own catties. If the second brother was stupid enough to marry her, he wouldn't be where he is today. ”
This is what Zhao Yan told her at the beginning.
Yixuan didn't want to kneel on her, so she just bent down and blessed, "I've seen the countryman." Without waiting for Xiao Ziyun to speak, he stood up straight and looked at her calmly.
Yixuan didn't even notice it, and there was a little indifference in her eyes.
This gaze stabbed Xiao Ziyun. She thought of that person, who was also so high, standing beside the emperor, unconsciously showing sympathy and pity for her, and more importantly, the coldness of being a superior.
On the day she was enshrined in the palace, that person looked at her like this.
She was full of shameful gratitude. When I returned home with the decree and the treasure in my hand, I saw the man's eyes over and over again in my mind. She finally understood why the entire court was trembling over that man.
And how did she completely lose to that person and leave the palace in disgrace.
Xiao Ziyun's complexion changed, this was really a very bad memory, and she felt very nervous. Until Zhao Yurou beside her pulled her, "Ziyun? ”
Zhao Yurou is the daughter of the Queen Mother, Zhao Yan's half-sister, married to the eldest son of the Marquis of Zhongyi, and is twenty-six this year.
Xiao Ziyun woke up like a dream, and a layer of cold sweat oozed from his palms. What was she thinking? The man is dead, this girl's name is Wen Yixuan, and she will never be that person.
She exhaled heavily, picked up the tea and walked over, and suddenly, without warning, poured it from the top of Yixuan's head!
Fortunately, the tea is warm and not hot, but Yixuan's head and face are full of tea, and she is very embarrassed. Xiao Ziyun admired his work with satisfaction, and said in a strange tone: "Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Wen, I missed, you won't blame me, right?" ”
Yixuan calmly wiped the tea on her face and said coldly, "No." ”
Xiao Ziyun frowned, this girl's attitude made her very unhappy.
"Lan Xin, take Miss Wen down to bathe, how can you catch a cold in this winter?"
The maidservant girl named Lan Xin agreed, and helped Yixuan to the side hall. Xiao Ziyun slowly pulled out a sneer, grabbed his aunt, and said coquettishly: "I don't know when the emperor will come?" ”
Mrs. Xiao's back was not very good-looking, "The emperor is very busy, how can he have time to visit the mourning family?" ”
Xiao Ziyun said, "Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, and the emperor should come." At this time in previous years, the emperor would also come to see his aunt. Why don't you ask someone and ask the emperor to come and talk? ”
Although Empress Dowager Xiao and Zhao Yan did not agree, the two remained harmonious on the surface. She sighed and ordered someone to bring the warm ginseng soup on the stove. Xiao Ziyun stopped the maid and whispered a few words.
"What do you say?" Empress Dowager Xiao asked.
Xiao Ziyun smiled and shook his head, "It's nothing, just ask her to ask the emperor to come over." ”
Zhao Yan was in the Qianqing Palace at this time. Suddenly, a grandmother came to the Queen Mother and gave him a bowl of ginseng soup, but she didn't say anything else.
Zhao Yan tugged at the corners of his mouth and said, "I forgot, I'll go see the Queen Mother." ”
He got up, and immediately a eunuch came up to straighten his clothes, and he was about to leave, but he was stopped by the grandmother.
"The emperor works day and night, it's really hard. This is the queen mother's order to boil the slave maid early in the morning, and the emperor has to take a sip. ”
Zhao Yan frowned, stared at Mama for a long time, and then eased his face and smiled, "Okay." He took the lid off, only to feel a faint fishy smell, a little different from the usual ginseng soup, he scooped two mouthfuls with a spoon and took a sip, thinking that there was no problem, but he did not drink it again.
When she arrived at Renshou Palace, the grandmother asked Zhao Yan to go to the side hall to wait for a while. Zhao Yan sneered, what? Tell him to come over and give him a face? He is the king of a country, and he wants to go to the side hall and others to summon him?
The grandmother said: "There are many girls in the main hall who have not left the pavilion, and the emperor is afraid that it is inappropriate for the emperor to enter in such a rash manner." It's cold outside, it's not good to freeze the emperor, and there is a charcoal pot burning in the warm pavilion of the side hall, and the emperor is wronged to stay for a while. ”
Zhao Yan had no choice but to move over, taking only the eunuch with him. As soon as he pushed the door open, he suddenly felt a warm fragrance on his face, and there was a faint smell of moisture. For some reason, a fire broke out in my heart.
He walked inside, around a fence. The sound of footsteps was drowned out by the dark red velvet carpet on the floor. The window is pasted with bright paper, and today the sky is cloudy, the light is not very transparent, and it is a little dim when you get to the house. Seeing another embroidered screen in front of him, there was a faint figure behind the screen, and he paused.
He turned back to the eunuch and gestured, asking the eunuch to go over and take a look, and he stood still with his hands in his hands. The corners of his mouth slowly pulled into a sneer.
Want to stuff people around him again?
The eunuch glanced at it lightly, and his face turned pale, and his lips trembled and he could not speak.
How to be, how to be......
Impossible!
"Who?" An alert voice rang out.
Yixuan turned his head suddenly, saw the two figures behind the screen, and saw a corner of the eunuch's robe, he was suspicious, silently took off the Qingluan white hosta on his head, pressed Qingluan's eyes, and the white jade outside faded, revealing a needle wrapped inside.
This needle is contaminated with poison, and once you see blood, you will definitely die.
She doesn't know martial arts, so she can only think of some ways to defend herself. Some of her old things back then had mechanisms, including this Qingluan white hosta.