[Chapter 3, Volume 3]

Section 299

"Third brother and sister, have you heard? His Royal Highness King Ji requested that the Empress Dowager Ji be kept in the tomb for three years in order to fulfill his filial piety. "It was snowing lightly in the afternoon, the broken jade powder was flying in the court, a few little maids were chirping and building snowmen, and Liu led the eldest grandson, Shen Shujing, to come over. After a few words of greeting, she sent Shen Shujing to play with the parrot, and she said that she came to play chess with Wei Changying, but without taking two steps, she threw away the chess pieces and looked up and said, "Now my mother is very worried!" ”

Wei Changying knew that the Shen family was planning the matter of Yi Chu, and at first he couldn't help but suspect that King Ji was the candidate that the Shen family intended to use to replace the crown prince, after all, Queen Ji was Shen Xuan's eldest daughter, Shen Zangxiu. However, Shen Xuan reported the news of illness a few days ago, and now except for Shen Zangfeng, who is far away in Xiliang, Shen Zangli's sons all serve in shifts day and night in front of the couch - as a female dependent, it is inconvenient to visit her father-in-law, but looking at this situation, it seems that she is not lightly ill.

So now she can't tell what the situation is, so after listening to Liu's words, she sighed and said, "Yesterday, a cousin Su came to see me and told me something recently. In addition to His Royal Highness King Ji, it seems that His Royal Highness King Yi frequently goes to Ji Mansion these days? ”

Liu also frowned and said, "Isn't it?" I thought that your mother's family and Ji Qu were sick and old, and now that you are pregnant, don't let you worry about these things, so I didn't say it. I didn't think you already knew...... His Royal Highness King Yi is said to have touched the sadness of the scene when he gave condolences to the Queen Mother Ji this time, and thought of the late Zhou Baolin, and felt the grief of 'the son wants to raise but the relatives are not there', so he went to ask for sins in front of the saint and Mrs. Zhenyi, and regretted that he was not filial enough to the saint and Mrs. Zhenyi in the past. No, his adoptive mother, Mrs. Zhenyi, has been sick for many years, so he thought about asking Ji to be sick to treat Mrs. Zhenyi, and he also asked the saint to let him take Mrs. Zhenyi to the fief to fulfill his filial piety after the wedding! ”

Wei Changying said: "Although I have only seen Mrs. Zhenyi a few times from afar at the banquet, I don't know how to do medical science. But it can also be seen that this lady's illness may probably come from heart disease, even if Ji Qu's medical skills are good, but heart disease can only be treated with heart medicine? ”

Because now that people including the Huang family have been sent down, the Liu family now often interacts with Wei Changying, and he talks a lot more casually, and he has dropped a few melon seeds idly, and then he said with a smile: "Mrs. Zhenyi's illness, even if Ji Qu's illness can be cured, how many years do you think she has fallen out of favor?" Basically, I got sick from falling out of favor, and the so-called illness came like a mountain, and the illness went like a thread. Her illness was caused by a heart disease, but after falling out of favor, the situation was bad, and it was seriously delayed, such a chronic illness accumulated over the years, unless it was God, who could make her get better all of a sudden? ”

"And now that the Queen Mother Ji has passed away, according to the rules of filial piety for his mother, King Yi must also keep filial piety for nine months." Liu spit out the skin of melon seeds and said, "Nine months later, he is going to get married, and there will be no reason not to leave Beijing at that time. I am afraid that when the time comes, I will be filial and it will be abrupt. ”

Wei Changying took a sip of hot water and muttered, "Mrs. Zhenyi...... Princess Anji is not easy to mess with! ”

"She's so weak!" Liu said, "We people are afraid of her, it's nothing more than a matter that can't be done with her, and it's no good to deal with her!" In the past, Mrs. Zhenyi and Princess Anji didn't stand in anyone's way, and they didn't have much use value, so it's hard to say in the future. ”

"King Yi wants to stay in Beijing, I'm afraid the queen and the crown prince won't sit idly by?" Wei Changying felt that if Princess Anji sensed King Yi's intentions, she would definitely fall to the queen, so as to make a living for the mother and daughter.

Liu's face changed slightly when he heard the word "prince", and he was stunned for a moment before saying, "There is another person in the palace." ”

Wei Changying thought to himself, when I was still in Fengzhou, I heard that this East Palace was very, and now he wants to add people, what's so strange? But knowing that the Liu family cared about the crown princess Liu Ruoyu, he comforted: "It's just some concubines, it's just a thing." It's not worth lifting shoes for Ruoyu's sister, sister-in-law, don't worry too much, do you think, to do things to others, and to love when color declines, aren't these Ji people all short-lived? ”

"If it's an ordinary concubine, it's fine." Liu sighed and said, "You don't know that this time it is a widow and a side concubine, and the widow is Qian Mo'er, the daughter of the side branch of the Xinghe Qian family; But that side concubine, but the niece of the queen's mother, although she is a concubine, she is a flesh and blood relationship with the queen's mother! Originally, the prince was ...... Do you think the queen will treat her niece badly in the future? ”

"Qian Mo'er?" Wei Changying was stunned, thought for a moment, and vaguely felt that he seemed to have heard of this name, "The young lady of the Hongzhou Gu family as a side concubine you said is called Gu Meimei?" ”

Liu said: "Do the third brothers and sisters also know about this matter?" ”

"Last year's birthday of Princess Linchuan, I entered the palace for the first time, and Princess Linchuan went to the Qianqiu Pavilion to write in the middle, and I also went to have a good time. As a result, on the way back, Qian Mo'er made disrespectful remarks to me, and it seemed that she was instigated by this Gu Meimei. Wei Changying said, "At first, I only heard Qian Mo'er's name, but later the fourth sister told me, and I knew that Gu Meimei was the niece of the queen's mother." ”

Liu Shi suddenly changed color and said, "You mean, they will join forces to deal with Ruoyu?" ”

"Sister-in-law, don't worry." Wei Changying hurriedly said, "If you want them to join forces again, they will all be concubines after all, and what the side concubine said is good, but it is not the main room after all." Compared with those concubines who are not in the stream, of course, they are serious prince's concubines, but what is it compared to Ruoyu's sister? Besides, if the queen really doted on her niece more than Ruoyu's sister, why didn't she hire the Gu family daughter as a concubine in the first place? ”

Liu bit his lip and said with a wry smile: "Alas, I won't hide it from you third brother and sister!" Ruoyu she ...... I don't understand her thoughts at all. You don't know, although the prince had a lot of favorites before, he never gave him an official name. Qian Mo'er and Gu Meimei are the first two famous, I just learned about this matter, so I tried to find a way to let people send a message to remind her to be careful, don't let these two people give birth to the prince before her! also let her envelop several sons under the prince's knees, especially the queen's favorite little son. As a result, she ......"

Wei Changying asked with concern: "What's wrong with Sister Ruoyu?" ”

"Not only did she not raise that little boy, but she didn't even take Qian Mo'er and Gu Meimei's competition for favor seriously!" Liu's heart was full of bitterness, and said, "Now everyone outside is rumoring that the crown princess is extremely virtuous, and she never cares about the prince's concubines, even on days like the first and fifteenth days of the new year, the prince goes to other people, and the princess doesn't beat those people!" You say, now that you're newly married, that's it, how will you live in the future? ”

Wei Changying frowned, and said in a deep voice: "Sister-in-law, now the two of us are here, let me say something heart-wrenching: Sister Ruoyu's mind is afraid that it is not on the prince at all, so she doesn't care—she really doesn't care!" ”

Liu said sadly: "What you can see the third brother and sister, don't I know yet?" I'm not saying that your eyesight is not as good as mine, but Ruoyu was raised by me, and I think I still know her very well. She didn't have much thought about the crown prince...... The problem is that now she is married! She's the crown princess! Liu Jia...... Her father and mother don't care about her very much, you say that if she doesn't even have her husband's favor and has a noble position, isn't Mrs. Zhenyi and Princess Anji an example? Look at Princess Anji's dignified golden branches and jade leaves, in terms of dressing, she is not as bright as the handmaiden who has a face in front of us! A young ...... like Ruoyu"

The two of them were talking, when they suddenly heard a sound of footsteps on the corridor, followed by a knock on the door, and Qin Ge said outside: "The eldest young lady, the third young lady, someone came in front, saying that it was the palace that gave the marriage decree to our five sons!" ”

"What?!" Liu and Wei Changying were shocked at the same time, and they were very surprised, "Fifth brother, hasn't he already hired the fourth cousin of the Su family?" Why is there a decree for marriage? ”

There are now two marriageable princesses in the palace, one is Linchuan, who has already decided to descend to Gu Wei, the son of the Gu family in Hongzhou, and the saint personally promised to marry, and the woman is a princess, so there is absolutely no possibility of sudden change; The other is Princess Anji, and the two of them are pounding in their hearts, thinking about how the saint could suddenly do this? not only demolished the marriage that the Shen family and the Su family had already agreed upon, but also forcibly married Princess Anji, who had the worst reputation among the princesses, to the Shen family?

The two of them didn't care about discussing Liu Ruoyu's affairs, so they hurriedly asked Qin Ge to come in and talk carefully.

As a result, Qin Ge explained in detail that the two of them understood that the fifth son she was talking about was not Shen Zangji, the fifth son of Shen, but Wei Changying's younger brother and Wei Changfeng, the fifth son of Wei!

Wei Changying became nervous again, and said, "I don't know which lady the saint gave to Changfeng?" She thought about it, her grandfather shouldn't have entered a similar request for Wei Changfeng's marriage recently, right? Moreover, Wei Changfeng's marriage, Mrs. Song has been considering it for several years and has not decided, even if it is decided, she should always mention it in her letter and inform her sister.

But the recent letter from home never mentions this brother's life...... Just thinking about it, he listened to the qin song and said, "It's the fifth lady of the Su family." ”

"Which Fifth Miss?" There are only four Miss Su family that Wei Changying is familiar with, that is, Su Yuli, the aunt and cousin of the sister-in-law, Su Yuli, the second Miss Su of the Su family's big house, and the sisters of the Su family's second room, Su San, Miss Su Yufei and Su Fourth Miss Su Yuyin, but she doesn't know when the Su family has an extra fifth miss?

Fortunately, the Liu family grew up in the imperial capital, and knew the situation of each family well, and immediately explained to her: "It's not my grandfather's branch, it's my maternal uncle's grandfather's branch, which is the daughter of Princess Lingxian, and her maiden name is 'Nian Chu'." ”

was reminded by her, Wei Changying remembered that she had also seen it at Princess Linchuan's birthday banquet - at that time, Su Yuli mentioned that her cousin Su Nianchu suggested that Princess Qingxin learn Danqing, but the princess was impatient and couldn't learn the results so she ran to the saint to cry, and the saint scolded Su Nianchu's father and his son-in-law......

Speaking of which, she is also the granddaughter of the saint's relatives, but because her grandmother abolished the concubine Huo Shi has the name of murdering the saint's favorite six princes, she is no different from the daughter of an ordinary courtier. Although his father is the son of the Su family in Qingzhou, his grandfather has passed away, and his father is categorically unable to ascend to the position of lord......

Wei Changying's heart was disappointed, and he said lightly: "It turned out to be this young lady, Sister Su told me before, but I forgot it." ”

Liu Shi observed her words and knew that she was not satisfied with this choice of brother and daughter-in-law, but now that the marriage decree had come down, she comforted: "I have met this fifth cousin of the Su family twice, and she is a gentle and knowledgeable girl. ”

"But I hope so...... "Wei Changying will be absent-minded, and she doesn't have the heart to talk to her more, and she is full of thoughts that she will immediately ask someone to inquire about the details - how can she give Wei Changfeng, who has never been to the imperial capital, a marriage?" You must know that the Queen Mother Ji has just passed away, and the Wei family has also lost a new person, in this case, the palace will suddenly issue a decree to give marriage - I want to know that there must be an inside story!

Thinking of the fact that King Ji and King Yi are both stranded in the imperial capital, and the turbulent situation in Beijing, Wei Changying feels more and more ominous. Liu sensed her anxious mood, and hurriedly called Shen Shujing over, and the mother and daughter left together.