Xie Wan stared at her for a while before saying, "After saying so much, I still didn't get to the point, what did Mrs. Xu have in mind when she took Dou Chen to see Concubine Lan?" Why did Dou Chen never "appear" in front of the world? ”

Mrs. Dou raised her head slowly, but her eyes were still looking at the ground, "If you listen to me, you will naturally understand." ”

He told me that it turned out that the old lady's original wife had not actually given birth, but had given birth to a son called Dou Chen, and Dou Xun was Dou Chen's son, his own nephew!

"When I first heard the news, I reacted just like you, full of incredulity. Because in my opinion, a son is a son, and a grandson is a grandson, so how can there be any reason to raise a grandson as a son? I was not only shocked, but also a little angry. This was beyond my imagination, and I began to wonder what kind of family the Dou family was, and why did my parents marry me into such a family?

"I have mixed tastes, and what our master said next surprised me even more."

Speaking of this, she asked Xie Wan: "You only know that the Xu family in Huizhou is everyone, so do you know that when the emperor ascended the throne for the first time, the scope was limited to the civil circle?" ”

Xie Wan pursed his lips and shook his head.

She had no way of knowing what happened more than forty years ago, and she didn't have the leisure to inquire about these long-ago things all these years.

However, according to the practice of this dynasty, the marriage of the clan includes the emperor's selection of concubines, and the status of the show girls in the family will not be very high, even if they have a high status, they are usually the heads of the yamen who have nothing to do with the power, such as Zheng Bianfei's maiden Zheng Mansion, although Zheng Duo was a second-class member at the time, he was not involved in confidential government affairs, so it was still in line with the rules.

And the crown princess is a little overstepped, of course, this is the latest chapter of Prince Gilneth of the World of Warcraft before Empress Xiaoyi's death. Second, so many generations have passed since the founding of the country, and these rules have still been loosened. Therefore, if the emperor insisted on opposing this marriage at that time, the prince was helpless.

This is the rule set by Taizu in order to prevent his relatives from sitting in a big "chaos" government.

However, although the family background does not have to be very high. But it doesn't mean that you can't be without heritage, first of all. The family of the Xiu girl who is a candidate for the concubine must have a clear family background, be an official in the court, and have no criminal record or anything for several generations, all in all, a family like the Xu family in Zhengzhou is very qualified.

"These are all said by our old lady back then."

Mrs. Dou then spoke, "The Xu family was Mrs. Xu's father, Xu Zhen, as the sect leader at that time. Xu Zhen served as a sacrificial wine in the Guozijian at that time, and Mrs. Xu was famous, and she was still very famous in Beijing.

"When the new emperor ascended the throne for only one year, the emperor was only sixteen or seventeen years old, it is said that in order to balance the harem, the ladies of the civil and military officials had to pick a few, but somehow, those show girls were all civil officials. And there are not only Queen Xuanhui, but also Queen Xiaoyi and Concubine Lan. And our old lady Xu. ”

"Old Madam Xu?"

This was a big surprise. Xie Wan couldn't help but spit out.

Mrs. Dou looked at the ground and said, "The Xu family and Concubine Lan's maiden family, the Pang family, both lived in Huqiu Fang at that time, and they have known each other since childhood. It's a handkerchief. Concubine Lan is said to be very scheming, and when there is no conflict of interest, she is the most silent person, but once there is a conflict of interest, she will stab you regardless of relatives or relatives.

"The other girls don't have much to do with her. But the old lady Xu knew her "sex", so she didn't care about her. She has her own plans, it's nothing to play around together, but no matter how good it is, will she still marry each other in the future? So she can see it. There is another reason why she can see it, at that time she secretly made a selfish promise with our old lady.

"The Pang family doesn't have much contact with the Huo family. Our old man was a brother and sister to Huoda at that time, and he didn't have any dealings with the Pang family. If Mrs. Xu marries into the Dou family. Then naturally they will be estranged from the Pang family.

But she didn't expect that she hadn't waited for the Dou family to propose. The palace decreed that she was ready to enter the palace.

"At that time, the emperor was also very heroic, and the first batch of show girls to enter the palace will definitely have an inner life 'woman' seal even if they are not sealed, you can imagine how much those show girls are looking forward to and enthusiastic about this draft. But this is equivalent to bad news for a girl with a sweetheart. ”

"Our old lady learned the news, and he was also very anxious, he was only a teenager at that time, he couldn't hold back, and secretly went to find Mrs. Xu, and the two secretly cried outside the house all night, and then privately made a lifelong contract, and actually intended to prevent entering the palace in this way.

"Obviously, they are too naïve, even if the old lady is not finished at that time, even if they take the initiative to kneel in front of Father Xu, this cannot be a reason not to enter the palace. Once you are listed as a candidate in the palace, you will be equivalent to half an emperor's woman. Mrs. Xu and our old lady are not sensible, but Xu Zhen, as a father, cannot be ignorant.

"And although he hated our old lady to death, he couldn't even beat him out of anger, because if the eldest young master of the Dou family was beaten by the Xu family, someone would inevitably inquire about the reason. Xu Zhen came to our great-grandfather to discuss this matter. In the end, I finally came up with an idea that was not an idea, and bought the grandmother who had a physical examination in the palace, saying that Mrs. Xu had a hidden fertility disease and could not meet the standard.

"In fact, this matter is not absolutely risk-free, but it just so happened that at that time, the emperor was already in love with Empress Xuanhui, and it was nothing for him to have more than one person enter the palace and one less person to enter the palace, so he did not pursue this matter.

The Dou and Xu families breathed a sigh of relief, and after the canonization was completed, they made it clear to the emperor and chose an auspicious day to get married. At that time, the emperor also wondered why the Dou family married the Xu family, but because Xu Zhen was still highly respected in the court, and the Dou family also pretended to admire the Xu family's family reputation.

"Half a year later, Mrs. Xu became pregnant."

Xie Wan was immersed in the story as she told it, and when she heard this, she couldn't help but follow the latest chapter of the Ship of Steel Ambition.

Avoiding the draft on the grounds that it was difficult to give birth, and as a result, she became pregnant within half a year of getting married, which is a big crime of bullying! And from the situation at that time, it is inferred that not long after the emperor ascended the throne, it was just in time to make a big threat, and it was impossible to tolerate it at this time, otherwise where would the emperor's power be?

"So, the meaning of the Dou family's own inability to protect itself is here?" She stood up thoughtfully and paced along the edge of the carpet, "Does the Huo family know about this?" ”

"I know, how don't I know?" Mrs. Dou snorted slightly, "It's just that the Dou family thought they didn't know at that time." Huoda and our old lady can be called the best brothers at that time, but when it comes to scheming, how can our old lady compare to him, the prince who has been strictly cultivated since childhood? And at that time, he had already passed through the personnel, and our old lady appeared in front of him a few times in a trance, and he guessed it. ”

Xie Wan groaned for a moment and nodded, "What about later?" ”

Mrs. Dou drank all the residual tea on the table, swallowed it and said, "Actually, from the day the old lady passed the door." Everyone is worried about this problem, because she is a healthy woman, and it is impossible not to get pregnant for the rest of her life, but if she is pregnant, the palace will inevitably investigate it. So at that time, our great-grandfather asked the Huo family to go to the palace to ask the imperial doctor for healing. At that time, the Dou family was not as good as it is now, and they were not qualified to ask the imperial doctor to visit them.

Huoda didn't ask anything, and helped to pass the word all the time. Although the imperial doctor can cure diseases, he can't see the woman's true body, so it is not difficult to hide this.

"Everyone's meaning is to wait for a year or two to be pretended, and then there is a buffer in time, and the appearance is gradually pretending to be like, and then to do the inheritance, but no one can stop the accident, Mrs. Xu has been taking the child soup, actually let people do tricks, the other party thought it was a good 'medicine' for a child, and didn't want her to have a child, so he quietly changed it, and within two months, the child was on the body."

Xie Wan couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, "Who did it?" ”

Mrs. Dou looked at her: "Our old lady's brother-in-law." It is also because of this incident that after the death of the great-grandfather, the family was divided, and if the people in the side branches did not have official status, they all returned to their ancestral hometowns. ”

Xie Wan was speechless.

It's no wonder that I have to see Dou Jin's uncle and brother in Beijing.

"My own flesh and blood, naturally I am reluctant to kill it, so Mrs. Dou decided to let his wife give birth to him, right?" She picked up the pot and added some hot tea to Mrs. Dou's cup.

"It's nature." Mrs. Dou looked at the mist rising in the cup, "The day I found out that I was pregnant, it was seen by the family doctor in the house, and after reading it, I disappeared that night." Later, I thought that this person was probably asking the old lady to kill people, because only the dead would not reveal their secrets. In addition to the old lady and Mrs. Xu, only Mrs. Xu's henchmen and great-grandfathers at that time knew.

After hearing the news, the great-ancestor went to Xu's house, and Xu Zhen immediately made up his mind and resigned and returned to Huizhou on the grounds of illness. At the same time, the old lady and the old lady here acted in a play, and one day when they were nearly four months pregnant, the two had a big quarrel, and Mrs. Xu took up her burden and went to Huizhou with her henchman.

"Old Madam Xu has been gone for * months, and our old lady has even been ridiculed behind his back, but even if it is ridiculed, it is better than raiding the family and exterminating the family, and nine months have passed quickly, and Old Madam Xu has also 'dissipated' and returned to Beijing."

At this point, her voice was a little hoarse, she lowered her head and took a sip of tea to moisten her throat, and took another sip. Xie Wan held the pot to add tea, as if this was in the palace and her own home.

"So, the child will stay in Huizhou?" She asked, putting the pot down.

Mrs. Dou nodded: "The child stayed in Huizhou until he was two years old in the name of the young master of the Xu family." During this period, the old lady and the old lady often went to Huizhou, and at that time, they had their own great-grandfather and great-grandfather's wife to cover for the outside world, so there was no need to worry about this. What worries them is that after the child is born, how can they recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors in a dignified manner?

"This is the eldest grandson of the Dou family, and he will support the façade for the Dou family in the future, he is the eldest son of the old lady and Mrs. Yuanpei, if they can't establish the world by their real name, they can't bear to be parents. For this matter, the great-grandfather also went to Huizhou twice to discuss and make decisions. But the discussion came and went, but no matter what, it couldn't avoid this layer of the palace. ”q