Xiao Qiyun was like a ball that ran away, waving her hand to let Ah Lai take Mei Hong away, and let her replace the two maids beside Ayayun.

In a blink of an eye, it was half a moon, and it was the day of Xiao Yuchen's rest, Xiao Yi was waiting at the door early in the morning, this was Wen Jin's second reunion back to Xiao's house, she asked the kitchen to make dumplings, buns, potstickers and other noodles that people in Shanyang liked for breakfast, and let them prepare sauerkraut fish, duck soup and other lunches that people like over there.

Xiao Yi already has a quasi-letter, he must be going to ***, now, the emperor seems to have something unprepared, he still has to wait. He was reunited with his children, and now he is separating again, but he has been idle for more than ten years, and he has suddenly been reused, which makes him both excited and reluctant, and he cherishes the current days with his children.

The gatekeeper of Zhilan Courtyard has been replaced by Mother Lin, and Wen Jin sent someone to spread the word and let the three sisters also come to eat together.

Xiao Qiyun took Juan Yun and Aya Yun to the restaurant awkwardly, and saluted with low eyebrows: "Daddy! "Big sister!" "Big brother!"

Xiao Yi was very happy, and felt that this nurturing grandmother had real skills: "Come and sit, your eldest sister has prepared a lot of delicious food today." "Xiao Yi is gentle and authentic.

Xiao Qiyun has never seen her father like this, the corners of her eyebrows and eyes reveal love, in her memory, her father always has a cold and gentle look, and rarely talks to her.

Could it be true, as the servant in the family said, that my father never liked my mother, but because of the face of the royal family, he had to treat her well? As soon as this thought came out, it made her heart bitter and sour, and all kinds of jealousy and resentment came up, and Wen Jin and Xiao Yuchen saw a different vision.

Xiao Yi sat on the top seat alone, Xiao Yuchen was on the left side, Xiao Qiyun sat opposite Xiao Yi near Xiao Yuchen, Juan Yun sat next to her, Wen Jin sat opposite Yu Chen, and Xiao Ayayun was beside her.

Xiao Qiyun's mind is very strange, she rejects Wen Jin very much, but she treats Xiao Yuchen very well, maybe Qin's mother once told her that the married daughter is inseparable from her mother's family, Xiao Yuchen is what she needs to rely on in the future, and Wen Jin is the opponent who shares her favor, Xiao Qiyun has never targeted Xiao Yuchen, and even is very friendly to this half-brother.

But Xiao Yuchen didn't care about these at all, he hated Zhao Yulan, and he hated these sisters, but Xiao Yi turned a blind eye to them, and he didn't have a word of reproach.

In order to enliven the atmosphere, Wen Jin changed the rules of eating without saying a word, and said to Xiao Yi: "Daddy, this is Miao Jiang's favorite pickled cabbage fish, I don't know if it suits your taste?" Wen Jin scooped a small bowl with a rice spoon and put it in front of Xiao Yi, and then scooped a bowl for Xiao Yuchen, and Chunming behind her took the spoon and helped Xiao Qiyun and each of them scoop a small bowl.

"Thank you, sister!" Xiao Yuchen's politeness was a little more enthusiastic, and looking at Wen Jin's eyes, he was also closer than the last time.

Xiao Qiyun and they didn't speak, the sauerkraut fish that day made them spicy enough, but it also made them feel delicious, and today they faced this dish, the three sisters loved and hated.

"Well, it's delicious, and your mother makes a flavor." Xiao Yi suddenly said a word, and Wen Jin clearly saw that a round water point was dripping from the side of his bowl.

It turns out that his biological mother also loves to do this?

Because of this sentence, Xiao Yuchen carefully tasted this sour and spicy delicacy, and in the hot weather, he was sweating all over his head.

Xiao Qiyun suddenly couldn't eat, his mother, for more than ten years, has been carefully cooking his father's food and dressing every day, but he didn't figure out what he liked, although the family invited a chef from Jiangnan, but he often made some *** dishes, and his father never said a good word. Xiao Qiyun was suddenly a little sad, for herself, and for her dead mother, Juan Yun probably thought of it, and lowered her head with a tasteless look, only Aya Yun was still young, and some had no heart and lungs, and ate the small bowl of fish, and her spicy little face was flushed.

The meal ended in silence, and the remnants of the table were removed, and Wen Jin asked the maid who was waiting on the side to serve rock sugar kelp mung bean soup to everyone.

"Spicy food is easy to get angry, drink more herbal tea in the afternoon, Daddy, the kitchen boils more, I'll ask them to send a pot to the study in a while, you and your brother will use more."

"Well, good, good. Ying'er. Oh no, Jin'er, you and your mother, really alike, too similar, she's just so understanding and considerate. ”

Xiao Yuchen also hurriedly gave Wen Jin a big smile, and Wen Jin found out that Xiao Yuchen and his father Xiao Yi are fifty percent alike, and they also have three images with themselves, such as big black eyes, snow-white teeth, straight nose bridge, and black hair.

Xiao Qiyun only felt that all this in front of her was too much of an eyesore, she motioned for her sister to follow, saluted Xiao Yi and said goodbye, and left in a hurry.

"Let the kitchen send a pot of herbal tea to Zhilan Courtyard as well." Wen Jin told Chunming behind him.

Xiao Yi looked at her daughter appreciatively: "Jin'er, your mother is also so kind." ”

Xiao Yuchen was a little unhappy: "Sister, I went to the study with my father." ”

"Okay, Yuchen, I'll let them send these snacks, what do you like, go back and tell my sister, it's ready, and I'll take it to school tomorrow."

A trace of emotion flashed in Xiao Yuchen's eyes, and he responded in a low voice, turned around and went out.

In the past, in Pingling, every time Fan Yuanwai went to school, he would ask people to prepare a small box of snacks, lest he be hungry, although the old man was not his own child, but he was really as good as his father, just like his sister.

This is a relative, who doesn't care about the amount of remuneration, doesn't care about the rich and the poor, and only thinks about his good.

Xiao Yuchen suddenly felt that it was good to have a sister.

Xiao Qiyun's nurse was sold, the maid was replaced, Shen Yi's application, especially Xiao Yi's attitude towards Wen Jin and Xiao Yuchen, made her deeply shocked, after going back, she was no longer as arrogant as before, and the maids around her did not dare to provoke again.

Wen Jin doesn't want to see Xiao Qiyun and them, but it's not enough to make them enemies, as long as she doesn't bother herself, Wen Jin doesn't bother to take care of such a few little girls, she is a person with clear grievances, and she is also relatively tolerant, the eating and drinking consumption of Zhilan Courtyard is no different from before, if the subordinates intend to do something, Wen Jin will find out that they will be severely punished, Xiao Qiyun saw that Wen Jin did not have any restraint and neglect, and slowly let it go, and the inner house of Xiao Mansion was finally temporarily quiet.

In the following days, Wen Jin lived a very stable and nourishing life, she had never lived like now, without any financial worries, embarrassing status, although the queen mother pointed to marriage, and she had some worries, but she wanted to open, it was nothing more than to get married, a man is good, then she will live well with him, a man is not good, then find a way to get out, anyway, her biological father said, no matter what, desperately will make her and her biological brother better, and the Qian family, who raised her, also cares for her, a woman of this era, Doesn't it depend on your mother's family to get married? She has such a strong backing, what else is she worried about?

If you can't let it go, it's her cousin Yuhe, she couldn't accept Wen Jin's idea at all, so she happily followed her father and went to the royal garden more than 20 miles outside the capital.

The days passed in a rare peace, Xiao Yi suddenly received a news about the murder of his favorite Mrs. Mei, he had to tell Xiao San and Ah Lai, to assist Wen Jin well, and he quickly whipped himself up, went to Liangzhong Province for a trip, and when the matter was dealt with and returned to the capital, it was already more than a month.

Emperor Yongchang originally planned to play in the royal garden for a few days, and then returned to the capital, but he did not expect that the mountains were densely forested, the air was cool and comfortable, and there were beauties around him, so he ordered Shen Mingzhao to preside over the daily affairs of the imperial court, and the rest of the cabinet ministers all went to the villa in the garden to deal with the government together.

After a month of careful discussion, the emperor finally felt that Shen Mingzhao's proposal was the most appropriate, so he was ready to make an order.

Yang Jian made a supplementary opinion: "Your Majesty, after all, this Xiao Yi and King Miao have the love of a son-in-law, no matter how loyal he is, he still can't be so careless." ”

"What advice does Yang Aiqing have?"

"It's better to give Xiao Yi a marriage and let him marry the royal family."

Emperor Yongchang frowned: "Xiao Yi is more than forty years old, and the first two wives have not died well, it can be seen that his life is hard to defeat his wife, how can I let him become a princess again?" ”

"Hehe, Your Majesty, it's not just Princess Shang's way, you can also marry the girl of the clan, or marry the royal relative."

Emperor Yongchang thinks about it, it is also a way, although Xiao Yi is older, he is in his forties, and he still has to continue to be normal.

"Yang Aiqing, is there a suitable person to recommend?"

"Not for the time being."

Xiao San traced the life experience of Xiao Ayayun's nurse Rong's mother, and finally found that she came out of the East Palace of the former Liang Dynasty, at that time, because she was just a palace maid, she was dealt with lightly, it was nothing more than being sold into slavery, and now all kinds of signs found show that she was very likely to be the new love of the prince of the Liang Dynasty at that time, just because she didn't have time to canonize, the officials who dealt with it were deceived by her.

But what she hated was Xiao Yi, why did she poison Zhao Yulan? Also, she has been in the Xiao Mansion for more than nine years, why did she suddenly think of revenge? Did you calculate the wrong object of revenge?

Helplessly, this Rong's mother was very tough, no matter how Xiao San interrogated, she kept her mouth shut and didn't say a word.

When Guo Gonggong heard that there were remnants of the Liang Dynasty jumping, he also intervened in the investigation, and soon found out that Rong's mother was the domestic slave of the imperial merchant Sun Zhenli before entering the Xiao Mansion, and she had been working in the workshop of making flour fat for five years.

And those five years happened to be the time period when the Queen Mother was poisoned.

Three years after the Queen Mother closed the palace to treat poison, Sun Zhenli gave a batch of goods to the palace went wrong, and was canceled from the errand of supplying fat powder to Ouchi, and the business was suddenly depressed.

At present, there are many indications that the Queen Mother used poisonous facial grease to be chronically poisoned, and the fake Yang Ying-Yang He also had no intention of saying that the new facial grease in their hometown would cause chronic poisoning, so he was arrested, and the other party did not directly kill people, but waited for the opportunity to assassinate Xiao Yi.

Although this conjecture is illogical in some places, such as: why didn't the remnants of the Liang Dynasty directly assassinate Xiao Yi, but targeted his wife and children? Is it just to see him live in pain? Revenge people rarely have such a mentality, almost all of them hate to break the enemy's body into thousands of pieces, and they are happy to be executed immediately.

Also, back then, who gave the poison face fat to the Queen Mother? Why are the other concubines in the palace unscathed?

There are too many strange things, and Guo Gonggong also feels untrustworthy, but he can't have a more reasonable explanation.

On this day, Zhao Yulan's personal maid Xiaogui remembered one thing: "Madame has been taking the medicine of the Rejuvenation Hall since last winter, and on the day of the poison, she just finished eating the last pill. ”

Xiao San was so angry: "Why didn't you say it earlier?" ”

"That medicine is one pill a day, and the lady has taken it for more than 100 days without any problems, and she also said that she only feels light and healthy, and she is very comfortable, and the slave maid thinks that there is no problem, so she doesn't think about it."

Zhao Yulan's old mother in front of her also confirmed that there was such a thing: "That is the exclusive secret recipe of the Chengdong Rejuvenation Hall, it can't be poison, Mrs. took the pill for a month, her face was a lot ruddy, and her mood was cheerful, and then she continued to take the pill, the doctor said, after taking it for 100 days, the body becomes easy to conceive a boy, not only Mrs., we are convinced." ”

No one commits suicide by taking poison at the same time, but still takes such pills, it seems that Zhao Yulan was indeed killed by him, but who is the person who poisoned him? For what?

The news that Zhao Yulan was murdered by the remnants of the Liang Dynasty still reached the palace, and Concubine Qiao Taishu shed a lot of tears in front of the Queen Mother aggrievedly, for her cousin, more for her lost face, and for the injustice she received.

The Queen Mother was old and couldn't work hard, so Concubine Qiao was so annoyed that she had to say perfunctorily: "Okay, okay, I know that your cousin didn't commit suicide, but was wronged." ”

"She definitely didn't send someone to kill Xiao Guogong's ex-wife."

The Queen Mother served the tea unhappily, whether she had assassinated Mrs. Mei or not, it was too early to draw conclusions.

Concubine Qiao was aggrieved, pouted and left, and the next day, she came again, very interestingly not mentioning the topic that Zhao Yulan was wronged, but told her that her nieces were motherless children and had a very pitiful life.

The Queen Mother liked Wen Jin very much, and once hoped that she could enter the palace to be the emperor's woman, but Concubine Qiao's words were still very harsh, and the Queen Mother said unhappily: "How pitiful can your niece be?" Is it so pitiful for Miss Xiao to live in the countryside? This still settled the account on Zhao Yulan's head, Concubine Qiao lowered her head aggrievedly, looked pitiful, and muttered in a low voice: "Queen Mother, I just want you to give Xiao Guogong a marriage, they are a few girls, they have a mother, Xiao Guogong also has a sense of belonging to the Jurong Dynasty, which is beneficial to several children, and even more beneficial to the court." ”

The Queen Mother stopped talking, Concubine Qiao's suggestion finally got into her ears, the Queen Mother is the emperor's mother, the emperor is the master of Jurong, what is beneficial to the Jurong court is beneficial to her son, and the Queen Mother agrees.

Seeing that the Queen Mother's face was better, Concubine Qiao Taishu hurried up: "Queen Mother, what do you think of Princess Wanyu?" ”

The Queen Mother almost dropped the cup in her hand, if it weren't for the imperial doctor's repeated emphasis on not getting angry, she had this set of rare treasures on her hand - a background as white as jade, a thin cup wall as paper, and flowers as delicate as the official kiln tribute that had just been cut off and pasted on, but it would no longer match.

Princess Wanyu's biological mother, Lin Renmei, is the side concubine of the former emperor when she was still in the East Palace, not only beautiful, but also extremely smart, the first emperor has a lot of troubles that can't be solved, she can help come up with a clever trick, the first emperor's love for her is incomparable, and the queen mother, the original match, can't suppress her edge.

Lin Renmei has the advantage, but there is a huge shortcoming, that is, she is a little arrogant. Young, smart, beautiful, and very favored by men, she will inevitably have such a problem.

If the Queen Mother had no means, it would be impossible for her to get to where she is today, as the main room, she is beautiful and intelligent and can't overpower Lin Renmei, but she is dignified, virtuous, and takes care of the overall situation, but she has the blue eyes of the emperor.

For Lin Renmei's strong limelight, the Queen Mother took a very rational attitude of avoidance, the other women of the first emperor, without the endurance and depth of the Queen Mother, at the beginning they also used means to fight with Lin Renmei, and the last one was defeated, they hated to death, but no one dared to go against Lin Renmei anymore, Lin Renmei became more and more proud.

When the Queen Mother was about to give birth, the news of Lin Renmei's pregnancy came out, and the first emperor was in high spirits at that time, feeling that God really loved him.

For more than nine months, the Queen Mother's lovely baby son was already able to crawl everywhere in bed, but unfortunately he got a fever and left his relatives who loved him.

Three days later, Lin Renmei, who was still more than ten days ahead of her due date, took a walk in the garden and fell, although she gave birth to Princess Wanyu, she died of postpartum hemorrhage.

The first emperor received an urgent report in Huangzhuang, and he didn't care about his wife, who was still sick, and returned with the guards quickly, and did not recall the life of his concubine. This atrocity was impeached by the imperial historian and almost lost the crown prince's throne.

The first emperor had to endure his grief, and only a few months later did he begin the liquidation operation, except for the queen mother, several of his other women were either sent to the imperial village to recuperate, or forced to become a monk in the nunnery.

After the first emperor became pregnant with Emperor Yongchang three years later, he no longer had heartache, and accepted the queen mother's wishes, and accepted the side concubines and concubines.

Concubine Qiao was to the emperor at that time, she was just a concubine at the beginning because her mother's family was not visible, but with her good looks, tenacious mind, and the second year of entering the door, she gave birth to the third son of the first emperor, and her status not only surpassed the several side concubines in the front, but even had the strength to call the queen mother, and at this time, the first emperor ascended the throne, she successfully sealed the concubine, it can really be described as a spring breeze proud, infinite scenery in one.

It's a pity that things in this world will be prosperous and prosperous, and prosperity will be declining, the first blow of Concubine Qiao Taishu came suddenly, her baby son, who had a high fever overnight, died immediately. Concubine Qiao is almost crazy, she hates the heavens and the earth, and feels that everyone in the palace deserves to die, especially the queen mother, her son, smart and clever, although he is not the oldest, but the emperor obviously loves him the most, Concubine Qiao feels that the sky is about to fall, but the next blow makes her even more difficult to accept - Liu Guifei has entered the palace, no matter her appearance, or family background, no one in the harem can surprise her, this woman quickly won the favor of the first emperor, and, firmly controlled the situation.

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