Although Princess Wanyu did not have a mother, she was valued by her father at the beginning, and Shunshun was when she was three years old, but unfortunately in the following days, a bunch of women gathered around the first emperor, and he himself was busy with the succession to the throne, and the little girl's life was sad day by day, and when she was seven or eight years old, she was like an orphan who no one cared about, and everyone in the palace dared to bully her.

I don't know when Wanyu started to like Buddhism, and I don't know when she started believing in Buddhism, anyway, when Liu Guifei was about to marry her, she was clamoring to be ordained.

Only then did the emperor think of the woman he loved the most, and also remembered his long-forgotten daughter, who did not allow Princess Wanyu to leave home, but did not prevent Wanyu from cutting her hair in the mirror.

In the end, the emperor had to set up a Buddhist hall in a remote courtyard in the harem, and let Wanyu practice there.

Concubine Qiao asked the Queen Mother to marry Wanyu, which was really a big trick. Don't say that Wanyu refuses, and the royal face can't be hung up. For so many years, few people outside know about Wanyu, she just lives quietly, it's good for everyone, there is really no need to uncover this big scar, make the royal family miserable, and expose the ugliness of the royal family to the eyes of the public.

Concubine Qiao saw that the Queen Mother's face was not good, and she repeatedly asked for guilt, and the Queen Mother looked a little gloomy.

"Then, Queen Mother, this person is really hard to find, the royal princess and county lord can't marry Xiao Guogong, right? Not only is he older, but he also has two wives, this-"

This is a fact, and the Queen Mother couldn't help but frown.

"Queen Mother, why don't you find a woman from the imperial family."

"Is there a suitable one?"

Concubine Qiao hesitated: "Doesn't the Queen Mother have a niece who will be widowed soon after she gets married?" ”

"Xiao Fen can't." The Queen Mother denied it without thinking about it, her cousin and niece had a serious illness when she was a child, and she was a little dull in the future, how could she be worthy of Xiao Guogong? Isn't this marriage giving a blockage to people?

"So, my cousin, I don't know, okay? She also happens to be the cousin of Duchess Xiao Guo, and she has been married in the past, so she can take care of a few girls. Although Miss Xiao is very capable, after all, the girl's family who hasn't gone out can't let her keep in charge of the Xiao family's back house, right? ”

The Queen Mother did not speak.

Concubine Qiao is not pressing, she has to leave time for people to think, right? She bowed and withdrew.

Coincidentally, the emperor returned to the capital that afternoon, dealt with a few urgent official duties, and went to the harem to visit the queen mother.

After eating, the emperor drank green tea, and the queen mother held petal tea and chatted casually.

"Oh, by the way, Concubine Qiao suggested that I give Xiao Guogong a marriage, what does the emperor think?"

Isn't that a thought of with yourself? Emperor Yongchang nodded very happily: "Okay, I don't know which woman the queen mother thinks is suitable?" ”

"This candidate is a little troublesome, Xiao Guogong is too old, and he has four daughters, whether it is a royal or a woman from the clan, there is no suitable one."

"Oh, the queen mother's health is important, this matter, let the queen go to work, and then report to you to get married."

"Concubine Qiao said that she has a cousin-" Although the Queen Mother does not like to be used as a gunman by Concubine Qiao, she also does not want the queen to rob her territory, this daughter-in-law was married in order to consolidate the position of the crown prince of Emperor Yongchang, she has no appearance and no bearing, and now what she can't accept the most is that she has no son, if the emperor wants to abolish her, this article alone is enough.

Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are natural enemies, the queen mother has not been waiting to see this daughter-in-law, when she was recuperating in the palace, the daughter-in-law's mother's family is powerful, in front of her, behaving arrogantly, the queen mother has already been pierced in her heart.

The emperor also knew what it meant, but he didn't like his mother being used by the Qiao family repeatedly, so he muttered slightly: "Queen Mother, there are too many women in the Qiao family. ”

Xiao Guogong has been forced to marry one, how can he force others to marry another one now? Besides, Concubine Qiao Taishu married all her seven aunts and eight aunts to the capital through various channels, although many official positions are not big, but together, they are not a small force, and the emperor does not like to form a party for personal gain, nor does he like someone to sit under his eyelids.

"Oh, I remember, there are also a few clansmen in Jiangnan and the border defense, it's better to ask like this, I'll inquire again and see if there is a suitable woman over there, what does the emperor think?" The Queen Mother asked.

"Very good, very good!" Emperor Yongchang stroked his palm, "It's still the queen mother's smart." ”

The Queen Mother couldn't help laughing: "Good girl, it's so old, and it's naughty with ...... mother."

In a word, the mother and son were brought back to the extremely difficult years of the past, the queen mother closed the palace to treat the poison, the emperor occasionally visited, in order to make the queen mother happy, the Yongchang Emperor imitated the name of the civilian people, called the queen mother, the queen mother was excited, and called the emperor well-behaved, the two felt that only in this way could the mother and son be shown to be deep, therefore, the emperor and the queen mother, when no one was around, would secretly call it so.

After a few days, Concubine Qiao brought up the old words again, but she was led astray by the Queen Mother, how smart she was, knowing that the Queen Mother was not allowed, her eyes were red again: "I heard that Xiao Guogong doesn't know how to raise his daughter at all, but pity those children, they are still young." ”

Seeing that the Queen Mother didn't care, Concubine Qiao was very angry, thinking that if she hadn't done her best back then, would you have been able to recover your health? Now, pretend in front of me, something!

No matter what she thought in her heart, Concubine Qiao didn't dare to show it at all, if it weren't for the Queen Mother, would she be able to plan so much for her family? Although her father and brother died, and her younger brother was very stupid and couldn't help him, she relied on a few sisters to marry well and help her mother's family from time to time. The foundation of all these was obtained by Concubine Qiao Taishu for taking care of the Queen Mother and gaining face in front of the Queen Mother. Although she was favored by the emperor for five or six years, this was too short in the long road of life, and the benefits she could obtain were also limited.

The Queen Mother served tea, drove away Concubine Qiao, rested for a while, and the summoned foreign minister's wife arrived.

The first to arrive was the wife of Shoufu Yang Jian, the ancestral home of the Yang family is in Linjiang Mansion, where there are several royal descendants, she went back to recuperate last winter, she should know something.

Mrs. Yang blinked and thought for a long time, but said a person: "There was a princess in Taizong, because she was unwell, she moved to Jiangnan with her horse, I heard that there was a woman in that Zhang Mansion, because she had to take care of her parents and raise her younger siblings, she missed the age of marriage, and had to become a monk, and the Queen Mother sent someone to investigate, if it is true, this woman is a virtuous and virtuous character, worthy of Xiao Guogong." ”

"Well, that's good." Of course, the Queen Mother had to verify it, so she diverted the topic. Mrs. Yang chatted with the Queen Mother for a while, and then took the opportunity to leave.

After taking a nap, it was Shen Mingzhao's wife who came to see the Queen Mother, she listened to the Queen Mother's meaning, and smiled embarrassedly: "I can't remember it for a while, but the concubine followed the clumsy husband in Jiangnan, and dealt with a few clan relatives. ”

"That's too." The Queen Mother smiled and echoed, when she was in the Hidden Mansion, she could talk to this Mrs. Shen together, but unfortunately Shen Mingzhao was released soon, although their friendship was there, there was not much interaction.

In the end, Mrs. Shen also came up with a person: "When Taizong, there was a prince who went out to patrol the south of the Yangtze River on behalf of the emperor, and saw that the mountains and rivers were beautiful, and the scenery was beautiful, and when he was old, he asked to move, and now he has a title, and there is a girl in his family, named Qian Yawen, in order to serve her sick mother, and take care of her younger siblings, she missed the age of marriage, and now she is practicing at home, calling herself a layman, and the concubine thinks that she is very suitable." ”

The Queen Mother was stunned: "No, right?" Didn't it mean that the girl from Princess Dyexiu's mansion left home in order to take care of her parents? Why do you say it's from Taicomber? ”

Mrs. Shen was stunned: "Princess Dyeing Xiu's Mansion?" Could it be that both families live in Linjiang Mansion, and they are both relatives of the clan, so they are mistaken by false rumors? I have also seen Miss Yawen, she is very capable and capable, she likes to read very much, and she has hills and valleys, which is not in the eyes of ordinary men. ”

The Queen Mother understands that taking care of housework is only part of the reason, the key is that this girl has too high vision.

"How old is she?"

"At least thirty years old, since she passed twenty-five, she is not allowed to say her age, and I am a little unsure."

"Is there such a girl in Princess Dyexiu's mansion?"

"The Queen Mother should send someone to check."

When Mrs. Shen came out of the palace, she muttered in her heart, there is indeed a woman in Princess Dyexiu's mansion, named Zhang Kaili, who is quite old and has not married. The reason is naturally not because of filial piety to her father, but because she is rude and willful, when she was thirteen or fourteen years old, she ordered to kill the domestic servant, and later the legend is that the domestic servant accidentally bumped into her and her father's concubine's nephew Hu Lai, the boy who was married since childhood heard the news, wanted to withdraw from the family but did not dare, and was depressed and sick. After Zhang Kaili heard about it, she refused to marry a sick man, regardless of her parents' obstruction, she sent someone to propose to withdraw from her family, and when the princess's mansion heard the news, the man had borrowed the donkey from the slope and returned to the Geng post here, and came to ask for people's eight characters. Without hesitation, he threw the other party's Geng post over.

The boy's mother's family is also related to Mrs. Shen, he later married a girl under his father, and now he has several children, he reads well, and there is no problem with his health at all.

Zhang Kaili is still in the boudoir, she knows that she has been fooled, when the man was about to come to Beijing to participate in the Spring Festival two years ago, he sent someone to attack someone's carriage halfway, the man broke his leg, and he was raised at home for half a year, and missed the exam date, but the gold will always shine, and people are ready to take the exam next year, and they don't believe that Zhang Kaili can cover the sky with one hand and block it for a lifetime.

Such an arrogant and domineering woman with a loss of virtue dared to let the Queen Mother ask her to marry, not afraid that the matter would be exposed, and the Queen Mother would be angry? Mrs. Shen was very strange who was so bold.

Shen Mingzhao heard his wife go home and tell this, thinking of this suggestion, it was Yang Jian, what else did he not understand?

Yang Jian is also a cautious person, he instructed his wife to say this, naturally he was blinded, and he was deceived by his favorite youngest son, otherwise, who could coax this old fox? Yang Jian's eldest son Yang Li is still very promising, at the age of fifteen he got a great name for a romantic and talented man in the capital, and at the age of twenty-two he participated in the Spring Festival for the first time, and he got on the first list in one fell swoop, and took the exam as a Tanhualang, and now he is working in the Hanlin Academy. Yang Jian loves and hates this son, although Yang Li is talented, but he doesn't like to drill the camp career, every day is free, is to call a group of literati, write poems and paintings, play some wind and snow, and have been in the office for more than ten years, and it is also a five-grade Hanlin Academy to be edicted. Although he walked around the emperor, he was satisfied with writing a chapter for the emperor and telling allusions, and at most, the emperor was tired, and he wrote poems and paintings and sometimes played a song, so that the emperor could relieve his fatigue, like a courtier, he lost his demeanor as a leader, and wasted a great opportunity.

Yang Jian's other sons, but they don't have Yang Li's ingenuity, the second and third are very hard-working, but they are only in the show, and they have no achievements, so they have to rely on Yang Jian's grace to get the name of a prisoner.

As for the child Yang Zheng, because he was born by Mrs. Yang, he is very doting, he has been a bastard since he was a child, and he has no ink when he grows up, he is unwilling to enter the officialdom, and Yang Jian does not dare to let him go, he gathered a group of people to start a business, Yang Jian resolutely opposed, but it has no effect.

Zhang Kaili's family has no title, and it is called the princess's mansion, but it is just to give them face. Although her father resigned at the age of forty and went into hiding, he was rich and connected, and he was still very powerful in Linjiang Mansion.

Yang Zheng and Zhang Kaili met during a tour of the lake, the two also commanded the servants, a big fight, afterwards Master Zhang went all out, put down the trouble, Zhang Kaili was forced by his father to apologize to Yang Zheng, who knew that the two did not know each other, and then somehow, they were hooked together.

Mr. Zhang took the opportunity to ask Yang Zheng to come forward to dig his family's gypsum mine, in the name of Yang Zheng's, but he took the lion's share, and the silver he earned was piled up in the family's warehouse.

Now, Yang Zheng's freshness to Zhang Kaili has also passed, but for the sake of money, he can't get out, so he excused himself to have a wife and two concubines, and he can't give Zhang Kaili a name, and persuaded her to find someone to marry.

Hearing that Xiao Yi's wife died, Yang Zheng felt that this was a good stubble, the capital was far away, Zhang Kaili's notoriety, people here don't know, besides, Xiao Yi is a general, there is no fear at all, his family affairs are rich, and he looks good, although he is not young, he is still tall, his appearance is good, he is a handsome middle-aged uncle, Yang Zheng told Zhang Kaili about this, the other party is willing to do it, he asked a matchmaker to come to find Xiao Yi, but the other party resolutely refused.

Just when Yang Zheng didn't know what to do, he heard his father say that the emperor wanted to revive Xiao Yi, but he was worried that he had two ambitions.

"Isn't it easy? Let the royal and Xiao Yat marry. ”

"Xiao Yidu is in her forties, and the eldest girl in the royal clan is only sixteen or seventeen years old, how can she make it?"

"Oh daddy, don't forget the child's business partner, Master Zhang, his ancestor also has a princess."

"So what?"

"His eldest daughter is from the main house, and in order to serve Mrs. Zhang, she was stumbling for a long time, and now she is twenty-nine."

"Oh? It's okay at this age. ”

"Yes, Daddy, the child is in Linjiang Mansion, but he has been taken care of by Master Zhang, and you can also do him a favor, which can be regarded as a favor for your son."

"It's not difficult." Yang Jian now feels more and more that Shen Mingzhao is a great threat to him, but he is not an opponent at all, so he wants to accumulate some family history before abdicating, and return to his hometown in the future.

Yang Jian didn't know that his son and Master Zhang were secretly mining, and thought that they were really partnering to raise silkworms and open a silk field.

No matter how smart Yang Jian is, he is also a father, no matter how bastard his son is, his father can find out a few advantages, not to mention that he still listens to his wife talking about his son every day, so he is naturally coaxed to be dizzy.

Although the Yang family is on the ground in Linjiang Mansion, their hometown is not in Fucheng, and Mrs. Yang is also a hurried visitor in Linjiang Mansion, and she knows very little about Zhang Kaili's situation.

Mrs. Shen had lived in Linjiang Mansion for four or five years, and she naturally knew much more about it than Mrs. Yang.

The Queen Mother met with the ladies of the two clans again, and the recommended women were not as suitable as the first two, so she called Gonggong Guo and asked him to investigate the situation of Zhang Kaili and Qian Yawen, the two women of the clan in Jiangnan.

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Yuhe came back from the royal garden and sent someone to send Wen Jin a large piece of venison, the weather was hot, fortunately there were ice cubes to hold, otherwise, there would be no way to preserve it.

"How can you eat venison on this hot day? It's a very hot thing. Wen Jin was a little worried, and suddenly remembered the canned food in later generations, so he ordered someone to boil thick salt water, wait for cooling, wash and cut the venison into pieces, soak it in salt water to sterilize, and then, sprinkle spices and watercress, stack it in a clean porcelain jar, put it in a large pot and steam it for an hour, then cover it with a jujube wood stopper, seal it with wax, and prepare to take it out and eat it in winter.

When she did this, Wen Jin remembered canned fruit, there was nothing to eat in winter, why didn't she store some now? It was the season when the peaches were ripe, so Wen Jin asked people to dig a large round pit next to the garden in the backyard of Xiao Mansion, erect wooden beams on it, lay boards, cover it with a thick layer of soil, and build an underground storage room that is two rooms large. In winter, there are too many treats and gifts, although the Xiao Mansion has less trouble in this regard, but there are a lot of them on the Qian family's side, Wen Jin thought, if you take some canned fruits and let the county lord Yujie give them away, wouldn't it be thrifty and fresh? It doesn't cost much, but it's brilliant.

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