Chapter 4: Past and Present Lives
"Little lord, the emperor has decreed, your mother's mansion has been restored, and the confiscated ancestral property has been returned.
Yu Liuye, who attacked the title of Duke of Liguo, sent a letter to reassure the little master. Congratulations to the little master, the good days of the little master are still ahead! ”
Concubine Zhao, also known as Ruan Shi Niang, finally breathed a sigh of relief, after crossing over for so long, she had already recognized the reality.
This ancient woman, either has a good mother's family or a good son, otherwise no matter how well she marries, after waiting for the old Zhuhuang, she is just an old man who has nothing to rely on.
Not long after she crossed over, the Liguo Mansion seized the title and raided the house, but in addition to Ruan Qiniang, who took care of her, she and the emperor who was still King Ke at the time went to the northwest, and several brothers who were exiled in the northwest also had to help.
It's not easy for them enough, but they can still think about her, and the sixth brother even desperately saved the emperor's life.
She is not a person without conscience, so she naturally hopes that the Ruan family will be well. Moreover, her mother's family is powerful, and she and her son can also relax in this harem.
"When you enter the palace, you can't see your brothers again, you can send a message to the second grandmother of Annanbo's Mansion and ask her to hand over the sign to the palace!"
"No!"
After the inner prison retreated, Ruan Shi Niang lay on the couch and closed her eyes to recuperate, but there was no pause in her mind.
After the emperor ascended the throne, the harem was sealed, and the princess was the original wife and the noble daughter of the Ningguo Mansion, so she naturally had to be crowned the queen, and it stands to reason that she should be the next one.
Her mother's family has been restored, and she is no longer the official slave who is cheap, as a girl in the Founding Duke's Palace, and she also gave birth to two sons, although the eldest son died at birth, but the second son is very smart and healthy.
She originally thought that even if she couldn't get into the list of the fourth lady of Guishu and Dexian, but her mother was expensive with her son, at least she should be a second-class concubine.
Who would have thought that in the end, he only sealed a third-grade concubine, and he couldn't even call him "Niangniang".
Little Lord? Little Lord! Oh, is this still the concubine who doesn't dare to fight or rob in King Ke's Mansion?
Ruan Shi Niang knew that the empress would definitely suppress her position, but what about the emperor?
What about the emperor who swore an alliance with her in the northwest and spent the moon before the flower? What about Shiro, who calls her "my love"?
Ruan Shi Niang knows the emperor's temperament too well, love wants him to live, and hate wants him to die. If he made the will of canonization, what is the queen who is just an ornament now?
Ruan Siniang has never been a fool, she gave her heart to the emperor, but now she has a son and a maiden family.
What's more, she has never been a pure and kind person from later generations, and the sweet words that the emperor said between the beds, maybe she believed it at that moment, but after dawn, looking at the queen's provocative gaze and the sarcastic smiles of the other concubines, Ruan Shi Niang finally woke up from her sweet dream.
An emperor, even the woman he loves, doesn't dare to blatantly favor him?
Why didn't you give her a high position, because she was afraid that she would be targeted by everyone, but why did she give a unique title?
He said that he loved her and protected her, but where was he when his group of women treated her as a thorn in the flesh?
It's not the same as usual to pamper those newly elected concubines, and the beauties spend the moon before the moon!
Ruan Shi Niang looked at the gorgeous room decorated with a concubine status very indifferently, and the palace maids and eunuchs all said, "Just seeing this, you know that the emperor has a heart for the little master." ”
But now that I wake up from my dream, I feel that this is just a snake painting, and it is just a shameful laugh.
"Someone!"
"What does the master command?"
The palace maid who came in was He Miao, who served by Ruan Shi Niang's side when he was in King Ke's Mansion, but she was only twenty-four years old, but she was already an old girl in Da Chu.
Wearing a jacket with silver and red peach blossom printed soft silk on a silver gray background, and a plain white skirt tied underneath, she looked even older than the twenty-eight-year-old Ruan Shi Niang.
"Put away all the things that are illegal in the house, and the servants in the courtyard will also beat and beat, and don't let anyone catch the handle. There is also a new subordinate sent by Fukang's side, and he wants to ask the sixth brother to check it. ”
He Miao glanced at the master in surprise, he was fine a few days ago, what are you doing here?
Ruan Siniang took He Miao's hand and smiled bitterly: "Girl, your master, I had a good dream, and now I have woken up."
In the past few days, He Miao has led people around in Lancui Pavilion to tidy up, and did not follow Ruan Shi Niang out to ask the queen for peace, but the gloomy color on the master's face when he came back was also seen, but the master didn't say it, and it was not good to mention it to make her sad.
Now when I hear my master say this, I remember that I also had a good dream, and when it was broken, I had no love. But after a long time, this day has to be the same.
"Master, the slave and maid only know after something that they actually left whom. can live. ”
Ruan Shi Niang looked at the maid who was loyal to her but had a bad fate, and felt that she was not as good as a little girl in two lives.
……
On the second day, the second grandmother of Annanbo's mansion, the seventh lady of the Ruan family, really handed over the invitation to enter the palace.
The queen wants to be embarrassed, but the backstage of the family is tougher than her, although her mother's family is also the founding of the country's mansion, but there is also a foreign family of the town's mansion.
This alone is something that no one else can match. Not only can the queen not be able to squeeze Ruan Qiniang, but she also has to give her two faces.
Therefore, Ruan Qiniang politely met the queen, and was called by the queen to send her confidant to the Lancui Pavilion where Ruan Shiniang lived.
This Lancui Pavilion sounds elegant, but in fact it is really not a good place, but the place is big, and there are no concubines next to it, Ruan Shi Niang can only laugh at herself, "In the end, it is quiet".
Ruan Qiniang knew that her sister was wronged from the moment she knew that her sister was just a concubine. Now that I see this place again, I feel so aggrieved that I am dying.
When I saw Ruan Shi Niang and saw that her face was fine, I was relieved.
When she was about to see the ceremony, Ruan Siniang hurriedly stopped, "My sister, I finally met each other, what is my sister doing?" ”
Ruan Qiniang was used in her heart, but she quietly glanced at the palace maids serving in the house, "Etiquette cannot be abolished", and said that despite her sister's obstruction, she made a half-salute.
After Ruan Shi Niang reluctantly accepted it, she hurriedly pulled her up and sat on the kang, asked someone to serve tea and fruit snacks, sent the people who served down, and gave He Miao a look.
He Miao nodded knowingly, and after going out, he sat outside to do embroidery work, but his eyes and ears did not rest, which can be described as "seeing six ways and listening to all directions", just to prevent the partition wall from having ears.
And the two sisters Ruan Qiniang and Ruan Shi Niang in the room were all speechless with tears in their eyes.
After a while, Ruan Qiniang wiped her tears, took her sister's hand, and said softly, "I have wronged you."
Ruan Shi Niang covered her face with a handkerchief, but she was afraid that tears couldn't help falling, "Compared to my sister and a few brothers, what kind of grievance am I!" ”
Speaking of a few brothers, Ruan Qiniang frowned and asked, "What does the emperor mean?" It looks like you're going to reuse Rokuro them, but your share ......"
Now a few close families are also muttering about this! The Ruan family not only reinstated the knighthood, but Liulang, who took the title of Duke of Liguo, was a lifesaver to the emperor. The other three brothers are not bad and have their own futures.
Seeing that the Ruan family will be able to regain its former glory in less than ten years, but as soon as Qi Niang's position came out, everyone's hearts were stunned.
Although Concubine Zhao Shu, who gave birth to the eldest prince, is only a concubine, what is her background?
It's just that he came out of a poor family, and he couldn't afford to raise it, so he was sent to the palace to be a palace maid, and was selected by Queen Wang and sent to King Ke's mansion, which became a phoenix in the chicken nest.
Although Shi Niang was an official slave before, everyone knew that the Ruan family would definitely be reinstated, and now it is true. Shi Niang is also a noble daughter of the Guogong Mansion, and compared to the queen's background, she is just different in her concubines.
Now this position is really low.
Ruan Shi Niang smiled disdainfully, "The emperor is now in the prime of life, I don't know how many princes and grandsons will be in the future, so I should guard against someone from becoming bigger."
Nowadays, among the princes, they belong to Fukang's mother's family with a high status, and their uncles have the ability. People often say that the mother is more expensive than the son, but there is also a saying that the son is more expensive than the mother. If my position is higher, the only hard wound on Fukang's body will be gone.
When the emperor pays attention to the art of checks and balances, where can he tolerate this? In fact, to put it bluntly, I don't have such a big face in front of the emperor! ”
Ruan Shi Niang sneered in her heart, the emperor must still be thinking about it, she still has to thank him for saving her life!
Ruan Qiniang listened to her sister's words, hooked the corners of her mouth, wanted to say something, and swallowed it back.
Don't guess the emperor's heart, you can't guess it!
Thinking of the bad thing of the first emperor, Ruan Qiniang thinks, is it like a snake spirit disease when he becomes an emperor?
But don't talk about this, it made Qi Niang sad, and hurriedly changed the topic: "I'll tell you something happy, Sister Long has found it!"
Ruan Qiniang was stunned when she saw her sister after speaking, and hurriedly explained: "It's the little niece of the second brother's family, she was only two years old when she raided the house, and she was as old as the ninth brother." You can't fail to remember, do you? That girl is just like you, those eyes follow the ancestor Mrs. Linlang, in addition to her, there are also Thirteen Niang, Brother Rin, ......"
Ruan Qiniang was very happy when she said it before, but the more she spoke, the quieter her voice became, and when she said the last two names, her eyes turned red.
And Ruan Siniang complained bitterly, how could she remember the little niece of the second brother's family?
crossed over in a daze, and there was no memory of the original owner, and before anyone could recognize it all, the Ruan family was seized by the first emperor.
But if you think about it carefully, I still remember that when the female dependents were locked in prison, there was a little girl named Second Sister-in-law holding a little girl, and I thought it was Sister Long.
However, Ruan Qiniang said that the thirteenth mother and Brother Rin later, she knew that although she had never seen it, when she was in the northwest, she heard the sixth brother read it less.
"Seventh sister, we have to look forward! The dead are gone, and the living are like this. ”
Ruan Qiniang gritted her teeth and squeezed out a sentence from between her teeth, "Shi Niang, I'm unwilling!" ”
Thirteen Niang chased Aunt Su before the Ruan family raided the house, thinking of the little sister's temperament, maybe it was a blessing to die at that time.
But what about Brother Rin?
The child raised by the father is smart, witty, filial, sensible, and other words are not enough to describe the child's goodness.
But such a good child, on the way to exile, because of a sip of hot water, someone broke his leg by force.
Rokuro and the others knelt down for the messenger, but they couldn't ask for a doctor for Brother Rin, so they could only watch their nephew faint in pain, and then the blood loss was gone.
If it was an accident, it would have been fine, but later the Qin family took a check, it was obviously man-made, and the first emperor wanted to kill them all!
If it weren't for the fact that my uncle immediately sent a secret guard to follow him all the way, the only four sons of the Ruan family would have been gone.
Thinking of this, how can Ruan Qiniang not hate, how can she be willing?
What else did the first emperor say "crazy for love"! Don't insult the word "love", she is disgusted when she hears it.
If she really has no regrets about Feng Tingcheng, why is it not enough to kill her son, but also to tolerate her grandson?
Don't people all say "love the house and the black"?
"Shi Niang. This harem has never been able to tolerate any love and love, you think about my nephew who was gone since birth, and then think about Fukang. The sixth brother asked me to tell you that the Ruan family lost once, and this time it can't be lost, this is what the emperor owes to our Ruan family! ”
Ruan Shi Niang clenched her sister's hand, "Seventh sister, help me, I don't want my son to be scared for the rest of his life." ”
So that supreme position, she always has to plan for her son.
Ruan Shi Niang has lived in Da Chu for sixty years, and in these sixty years, except for the few days when she was still in the circle when she first crossed, she actually stopped living in intrigue all the time.
From the Ruan concubines and Ruan concubines in King Ke's mansion, to the Zhao concubines, Zhao Guifei, queens, and queen mothers in the palace, she is too tired and tired in this life.
So when she was dying, Ruan Shi Niang thought that she could finally sleep without dreams forever.
……
"Niangniang, Niangniang, Queen Mother!"
Ruan Shi Niang was woken up by a familiar voice, looking at the slightly worried face in front of her, she was still a little confused, could it be that she had crossed over again!
Shouldn't she be dying? How did you see the seedlings that were so many years younger?
Just thinking about it, I heard He Miao, who was about thirty years old, say: "The slave just went out to arrange refreshments, why did you fall asleep?" But tired these days? Why don't you see Mrs. Protector Marquis today, and call the Imperial Doctor to give you the entire pulse of peace? ”
Ruan Shi Niang is still a little unclear about the situation, but after being the queen mother for 20 years, she can still stand up to the shelf.
Listening to what He Miao said about "Mrs. Protector", when did the emperor canonize the Protector? Who is the Lady of the Protector?
Thinking of this, Ruan Siniang only felt in a trance, and then the fragments of her life that were completely different flashed in front of her eyes one by one.
It seemed that a long time had passed, and it seemed to be just a blink of an eye, Ruan Shi Niang covered her head, looked at He Miao with a smile and a cry, "It's okay to mourn the family, Mrs. Protector Hou will arrive in a while, please come in quickly." ”
Seedlings:......
Looking at your face, it really doesn't look like you're okay.
Ruan Shi Niang waved her hand, "The mourning family is really fine, but I had a dream and was a little confused." ”
But, is that really a dream?
When I saw Mrs. Huguohou, that is, Su Su, Ruan Shi Niang was still thinking about that dream, there was no Su Su in the dream, no Brother Rin, no big cat.
Hong Sheng is a close friend and heartfelt subordinate who died on the battlefield a long time ago but is always remembered by the emperor.
The sixth brother became the prince of Liguo, but he never married in his life.
He has been earning the favor of the emperor all his life, even if his heart has long been barren.
Everything is not the same as in the dream now!
"Susu, I had a dream." Facing her sister, Ruan Siniang did not call herself a "mourning family", at this time, she only had happiness in her heart, not a little sadness.
Su Su had already learned that her sister seemed to be a little uncomfortable when she learned from He Miao, so she was also a little worried when she came in. At this time, I saw the old aura that appeared on her body, and I was shocked, "Tenth sister, dreams are all reversed." ”
Ruan Shi Niang took Su Su's hand, thinking about the past events, all of them walked into another fate from when this sister did not die early.
When the two sisters met again, everything was so different.
Ruan Shi Niang patted her sister's hand soothingly, also reassuring herself, "Su Su, you are still here, it's so good!" ”
Time flies, but what remains unchanged is that we still firmly believe that there is love in this world!