Chapter Forty-Six: The Smoke of Gunpowder
Why did Meng Guqing burn the face of the dark cloud beads and tell the antecedents, Shuzhe must be to blame.
Concubine Zhuang made the wrong choice again.
Huang Taiji's eyes were as grim as frost, and he was very sorry.
"The concubine is unwilling." Concubine Zhuang understood the meaning and said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, do you think this is fair." ”
"If you choose to be a mother first, you give up this 'fairness.'" Huang Taiji sighed deeply: "I will not punish Meng Guqing, because I am Shuzhe's father, and I want to protect her." I will not let the danger come to her first for the sake of so-called fairness. ”
His words had a majestic feeling, but Concubine Zhuang regarded them as high-sounding, not without irony: "Your Majesty, are you telling the truth?" "Since Huang Taiji Nahai Lanzhu became a concubine, he has become more and more cold to her.
"Bumu Butai, I know that you are jealous of Hai Lanzhu, resentful of me alienating you, you are unwilling to be a pure woman, you want to be the one I love the most, but I don't understand why I avoid you."
"Because I'm too strong, I'm going to be the best." The clearer and more clear some things are, the more they will tear feelings to shreds. But at this point, there's nothing to shy away from.
"So you knew it all along. I love Hai Lanzhu because she is a pure woman, and she only has me and children in her heart. She treats me as the man she loves, not the emperor. But you're different. I can't give you what you want, so I can't let you go any longer, and if I continue to pamper you, it will become more and more dangerous. Wuyunzhu will not leave the palace, she will be a blessed woman for the rest of her life, I have already made a choice, as for why you know very well. I also hope that in the future, you will treat her well, treat your children well, and really do what a mother should do, so that you will have a safe life. Bumu Butai, I am all here, the meaning of it, understand it yourself. ”
For the safety and status of Hai Lanzhu and Suo Luntu, Huang Taiji cruelly abandoned Concubine Zhuang like a shoe.
He wants to make Concubine Zhuang an ordinary woman, and Fulin will also become an ordinary prince. All the arrangements are making them enter and continue this ordinary.
The presence of dark cloud beads will be a reminder and a warning. In addition, Huang Taiji will also send people to monitor Concubine Zhuang's behavior.
Concubine Zhuang sighed deeply, wiped her tears, and knelt down: "Concubine understands, thank you emperor." ”
She replied weakly, feeling dizzy. On the other side, Meng Guqing should be proud, she can already imagine, but she can't fight back.
Meng Guqing, who is advancing step by step and has everything under control, does not need to be considerate and sympathetic to this situation.
In a blink of an eye, the day came to April 12, and Meng Guqing's birthday finally came. Sorentu, who had prepared everything early in the morning, came to Qingning Palace to say goodbye, and his polite appearance made Zhezhe praise for a while.
"Look, this is the style of the emperor's brother." Zhezhe praised with joy: "Who doesn't praise you like this earlier." ”
"It's not voluntary." Sorentu whispered to himself, but made a grimace: "Huang Eniang loves her son the most, I like Huang Eniang the most, I will be good." ”
"It's sweet in your mouth." Zhezhe touched his head with relief, thinking, it was still Meng Guqing's strategy that worked.
Although Sorentu and Huang Taiji teamed up to act, the relationship was better than before, but Sorentu's failure to abide by the palace rules was a headache after all. In order to make him take the initiative, Huang Taiji can be said to have exhausted his thoughts.
In the final analysis, he is still reluctant to be cruel to him, so he always has little effect.
One day, when Meng Guqing presented a piece of paper to Zhezhe, Zhezhe accepted it with surprise and forwarded it.
The terms of the agreement-like document are clear in terms of rewards and punishments, and Sorentu who signed it became the first emperor to obey the rules and receive money and various rewards.
When these terms are seductively ringing in your ears, the conditions attached to them are less unbearable.
The more Huang Taiji rewarded, the faster he became, and in just a few days, Sorentu had taken on a new look. And these will become secrets, kept by those close to them.
To this day, it will also benefit those who formulated it.
When Meng Guqing suddenly received a piece of golden butterfly as a birthday gift, she was unexpectedly a little stunned.
"Eighth Elder Brother, this is what you called me?" I can't see that Sorentu actually has this mind.
"yes." Sorentu laughed boastfully, "You know how long I've endured it for it." "If you don't follow the rules, you have to deduct money, and in order to reward, he has also done a lot of things that he couldn't do before.
"It's beautiful." This golden butterfly is two or two, about three fingers wide, and the wings on both sides are inlaid with jadeite, dotted like ink, simple and chic, and can be used as a collar clip for the shirt.
"Thank you." Meng Guqing was moved from the bottom of her heart, she was very happy: "Eighth Elder Brother, thank you for your hard work." ”
"Of course I'm working hard." Fortunately, there is bitterness and sweetness, and Sorentu thinks about the hard days and sighs with emotion: "Do you know, my ears are calloused for it." ”
These days, Saren and Tana, and everyone who sees him obligated to remind them, are always saying what is okay and what is not okay.
"Then the eighth elder brother must know the rules by heart, isn't it?" It's all for me. Meng Guqing thought about it, and also felt sweet: "Thank you, Eighth Brother, you are amazing." ”
"Okay, don't mention it. We are not boasters. Sorentu looked at Meng Guqing's table with many gifts wrapped in red paper, round and square, and said with a smile: "These are all given by others?" Let me see. ”
"Okay." Meng Guqing watched as he opened a red four-finger square box.
It's actually a sachet.
"Oh, it was sent by the dark cloud beads." Meng Guqing knew that she would give this thing.
"How do you know?" Sorentu remembered, "She has eyeliner there?" ”
Meng Guqing smiled and didn't answer, once, the crux of Concubine Zhuang's defeat was this. When Shuzhe received a hint that Yongfu Palace was not safe, causing Concubine Zhuang to make a bad move, the real eyeliner came from Wuyunzhu's side.
Silan wanted to come to Meng Guqing's side to serve, so he volunteered to be her eyeliner.
"If you don't tell me, I know." Sorentu smiled: "Isn't it Slan?" Hmph, that girl is not a good thing, the last time I met her on the road, she came to slap me. ”
"Eighth Elder Brother is so smart, then I don't have to say anything, you just keep it in your heart, clean it up quickly, and the dark cloud beads will come later." There were suspicious footsteps outside the window, and I am afraid that Anglima was playing tricks again, and I need to be careful.
Speaking of which, Wuyunzhu accompanied Shuzhe to congratulate her.
"My sister is overjoyed, and her birthday is happy." Shuzhe came into the house and greeted Sorentu from a distance: "Eighth Elder Brother is also here, hehe, he is really different from us, so comfortable." My sister's room is also as easy to enter as you want. ”
"I also have the consent of the emperor." Want to be sarcastic for not abiding by the palace rules, Sorentu immediately counterattacked: "But the seventh sister was released so quickly?" ”
Because of Concubine Zhuang's self-inflicted cleverness, the sympathetic Huang Taiji exempted Shuzhe from confinement in advance and allowed her to regain her freedom with Fulin, but she didn't expect that she would be humiliated in front of Sorentu.
Shuzhe's face suddenly turned red, and he bit his lip and didn't dare to say more, but said to Meng Guqing: "Sister is picking a gift? ”
"Watching." Meng Guqing's eyes swept to the dark cloud beads behind her. Wuyunzhu has recovered from his injury, and he is still a little timid when he meets.
Sook-cheol turned around and coughed.
Wuyunzhu hurriedly saluted Meng Guqing: "Congratulations to Gege Jiachen, the slave is polite." ”
"Your sachets are good, I love it." Meng Guqing lifted the sachet and sniffed: "It's just that the aroma is stronger." ”
Wuyunzhu immediately blessed his body: "Thank you Gege for liking, this is made by the slave Eniang." Although it was inconvenient for Dong Jia's family to enter the palace to meet him, he always put his mind on his daughter.
"Then I can't take the love of others." Meng Guqing put the sachet back into her palm: "You must miss your Eniang very much." ”
"Me." I didn't want to think about it all the time, and the dark cloud beads wanted to cry as soon as they thought about it, but they suppressed it when they thought about it, and hurriedly said: "The slave doesn't dare, Gege." ”
"I have received your heart, take back the gift for the time being, thank you for me, Eniang, it is also a thought for you to stay by your side." What the palace is most afraid of is the greasy sachet and sachet, which must be guarded against. Meng Guqing smiled and declined.
"Yes." Wuyunzhu couldn't help but look up at her, thinking about what Dong Jia's family had taught people to relay, and her heart was cold.