There are a total of twelve palaces in the six palaces in the east and west, but the position of the four concubines is numerous, therefore, the nine concubines who have children under their knees can often occupy the main hall of one palace, plus the emperor has no exclusive favorite, and the days in the past are not difficult. Nowadays, the emperor remembers the queen and does not often come to other palaces, and these women who have stayed in the palace for more than ten or twenty years do not have too many complaints.

Li Shuyuan's Yong'an Palace is located east of East Erchang Street, the second one counted from north to south. Because of her mother's wealth, she has a big hand in the palace, and her popularity is also very good, and she has always been kind and pleasant to the people below, and she usually smiles everywhere, and the palace maids and eunuchs call a smiling Buddha behind their backs. These days, she hasn't even taken a look at the emperor's face, and it is rare to look forward to her son King Huai, but after only three or two sentences, the mother and son somehow made a fuss, and as a result, I saw King Huai angrily out of the backyard main hall with Shunzhai, Li Shuyuan hurriedly rushed out and shouted twice, but after all, she couldn't call people back, and she was so angry that she stomped her feet with a good temper.

"Niangniang, what's the big deal, it's a quarrel with His Royal Highness King Huai?"

Seeing that it was Liu Cairen who came out of the west side hall in the backyard, Li Shuyuan frowned, and then said lightly: "This kid is good at everything, but sometimes the cow is not sensible...... Forget it, it doesn't hurt to let him suffer some losses. A few days ago, someone sent in some Poria cream, and I can't use it alone, so when the time comes, let someone bring two baskets, and you and Meng Cairen will share it together. ”

With the benefits, Liu Cairen naturally did not continue to meddle in his affairs, and hurriedly smiled and thanked him. And Li Shuyuan left people and returned to the main hall in the front yard, and immediately summoned a henchman eunuch, gritted his teeth and said: "Hurry up and find a way to find out, see what the fifth brother said when he went to the emperor, inquire about everything, don't be afraid of spending money."

When the eunuch ran away, she threw the crumpled handkerchief on the ground, and scolded angrily: "This evil obstacle that doesn't know the height of the sky, you have to break into trouble to know how to stop, this kind of thing only has the truth behind it, how can you say that it is all Concubine Qi in person...... I don't know how much I received from the Ru Ning Bo family, this damn old pious woman"

The queen's 100th day is approaching, and after the emperor goes to the next dynasty, the number of times he goes to Kunning Palace is unconsciously increasing. He came out of Kunning Palace with a little melancholy, and he walked a little absent-mindedly, until a eunuch behind him gently reminded him, and he noticed that he had entered the backyard of Qianqing Palace. Before he could reach the door of the imperial study, he saw a small fireman running over.

"Your Majesty." The little flame man knelt on the ground a few steps away, kowtowed, and reported, "His Royal Highness King Huai asks to see you." ”

"Old five?"

The emperor said a sentence in his mouth, but continued to walk in without looking back, and when he was about to enter the door, he said lightly: "Let him in." ”

Since the death of the queen, in addition to crying with the public, this is the first time that King Huai has seen the emperor alone. Although he had made all the preparations for today's event, when he actually entered the imperial study and stood in front of the emperor, he felt a huge pressure on him. After carefully saluting, and making sure that there was nothing about his clothes that would anger his father, he lowered his head and said, "Father, the queen mother's hundred days are approaching, and the sons have written a memorial to the queen mother, and I want you to take a look." ”

The emperor glanced at King Huai, and remembered that when his sons worshiped the spirit before, they were all sad and earnest, and they had made enough gestures of filial piety, but if they really want to talk about grief, I am afraid that no one can compare to the king of Zhou who cried a handful of snot and tears, but when he turned around, he could burst into tears and laugh when he was coaxed. At least, when he wept before the spirit, his stupid eldest son was genuinely sad. As for the sacrificial text that King Huai said, this was the first of the sons to send it, so he nodded and ordered the eunuch to go down and bring it up.

After a cursory scan, he found that it was not a copied text, and there were some traces of scribbling on it, and it was by no means neat. But it was the handwriting of those different shades of ink, his face was slightly pale, at least, he could see that this sacrificial text was not written by those palace Qingke who were good at dancing and making ink, it should be genuinely made by King Huai.

"You have a heart."

It was rare for his father to praise him, and King Huai immediately let go of half of his thoughts, and then immediately struck while the iron was hot, and said with a sad face about the situation when the queen treated him in the past. Compared with the King of Jin and several other princes who often fainted in crying, his careful preparation was not in vain after all, because it was vivid when talking about the old things of the past, the emperor gradually listened seriously, and he, the person who said it, naturally worked harder, and he was already in tears at the end.

"The queen mother often said that she only hated that her body was too weak, she couldn't worry too much about her father, and she couldn't spend too much effort to educate us unsuccessful sons, and she just hoped to see us marry concubines and have children one by one, and then the children and grandchildren would be happy. When Erchen thinks about his mother's words now, his heart is like a knife...... A few of our brothers married the princess in the future, even if they really gave birth to a lot of children, I am afraid that they have never even seen the appearance of the queen mother, let alone fulfilled their filial piety in front of the queen mother."

Although the emperor had already heard what King Huai had said at this time, even so, he still had to admit that what King Huai said was true. Even if it was Zhang Huixing, the princess of Jin who was canonized early, the queen had never seen it a few times, and the sick woman had been raised in bed for a long time, let alone say anything about filial piety. The queen has always been virtuous, and the concubines have always been very fair, but no matter whether these sons are good or bad, and how many grandchildren and granddaughters there will be in the future, she will not be able to see them......

Thinking of this, he said almost unconsciously: "Your queen mother didn't forget you before she left, and she had already chosen the princess for you." ”

King Huai had already heard from his mother that he had set the fourth miss of the Yang family of Runing Bo, and he also knew that the second miss of the Yang Ning Bo family had been set by this, and he could even get a large amount of money to marry, but the more this was the case, the more angry he was in his heart. At this moment, holding on to the last glimmer of hope, he whispered: "I don't want anything else, I just hope that she is as kind as the queen mother." ”

"Those who can recite the Great Compassion Mantra so smoothly, if they are not kind-hearted, they are hypocritical, and your queen mother should not be bad."

Finally determined that there was no hope for this matter, and the kind of dissatisfaction that King Huai had accumulated for a long time finally couldn't help it. He remembered his admonition when he blocked Chen Lan in the West Garden, remembered that when he was waiting for Chen Lan in the suburbs of Tongzhou, he was met by those two uninvited guests, and remembered the situation that his henchmen saw and heard when he came out of Bei'anmen that day, he only felt that his heart was on fire, and in the end, he couldn't help lowering his head, trying his best to hide the anger in his eyes.

"What my father said was...... People who have a Buddha in their hearts are better than some people who have received great favors, but still have kung fu to work with men during the mourning period of the queen mother. ”

The emperor was still immersed in mourning, but when he suddenly heard this, he raised his head suddenly, and the sadness in his eyes was gone, replaced by endless sharpness. After staring at King Huai for a long time, he saw that this son seemed to be unaware, just blindly lowered his head, and then he asked lightly: "Who are you talking about?" ”

"Erchen didn't dare to say it."

I didn't dare to say it, but when the corner of my eye found that the emperor's face contained deeper anger than before, King Huai immediately spoke: "Erchen just heard that on the day of the birthday of the old lady Du Ge, she actually entered and left the Du Mansion with the two upstarts reused by her father, and she was quite intimate, and she stayed in a certain place for a while. ”

Although King Huai's words were unknown, as long as there were clues, the emperor knew that he would definitely be able to find out, so he looked at King Huai coldly for a while, sent people out, and hurriedly announced Qu Yonglai. Because of such a sudden incident, his mind was in turmoil, and he lost interest in handling official business after staying in the imperial study for a while, so he simply left the Qianqing Palace and went to Concubine Wuxian's Changle Palace.

As soon as he entered there, he saw King Zhou kneeling under the big tree in the front yard, muttering something in his mouth, while Concubine Wuxian and the county lord of Yixing were standing side by side. When the eunuch reported, a large number of people who had not received the news in advance reacted. When he entered the main hall, the idlers and others retreated, he casually asked the king of Zhou a few words, and after learning that it was to worship his mother, he smiled and rubbed his head for a while, and sent him away.

"Has the ninth sister seen Chen Lan in the past few days?"

The county lord of Yixing didn't expect the emperor to suddenly ask this, so he was stunned for a moment before he nodded and said, "Yes, she only came yesterday for her younger brother Chen Yan's marriage." The lady of her family took a fancy to Du Ge Lao's eldest daughter, and she originally took advantage of Du Ge's birthday the day before yesterday to see each other, who knew that Du Ge Lao was so coincidental that he entered the cabinet that day and was promoted to the second assistant, so although Du Ge Lao asked his wife to say yes, she was still a little uncertain, and she didn't know if there would be taboos. By the way, has the emperor heard of the situation in front of the Du Mansion that day? ”

The matter of Du Mansion blocking guests is now well known, and there are all kinds of words, and the emperor is not as attentive to the news sent by Jinyiwei as before, plus he trusts Du Weifang's character, but he really doesn't know much, so he has to ask, but what the county lord of Yixing said next made him stunned.

“…… The couplet hanging out at the end is to ask for a promotion, please find another way, and if you want to give gifts, don't enter this door. This is really in line with the girl's temperament that is not good at literature and is only good at practicality, and it is also a shame that the girl of the Du family is willing to follow her to mess around, but it is right for Du Weifang's appetite The mother who went to the Yangning Hou Mansion said that her master was full of praise, and she tried her best to keep the door to refuse guests, so it was mostly for the sake of watching this matter. Coincidentally, because of the emperor's gift of scrolls, the prince of Weiguo went to Du Mansion to worship his birthday and wanted to meet Du Weifang, Yang Jinzhou also went to celebrate his wife's birthday, and the three groups of people collided together, if it weren't for this couplet, he would definitely be blocked in Du Mansion and couldn't get out. ”

The emperor muttered the couplet, and a smile finally appeared on his originally gloomy face: "Thanks to her wit, such a couplet, Du Weifang's temperament will indeed lead her to be a confidant." If it weren't for the fact that his two sons had already been decided, I'm afraid they would have already gone to other people's homes to be hired by this time."

In the evening, when he learned about Qu Yong's report in the imperial study, the emperor, who had already lost most of his heart, finally came to his senses. Thinking about the situation of the two people escorting along the way, Luo Xu even said something to the sister and brother in front of the car, he couldn't help but think about it, and gently tapped the handrail with his index finger.

"My Fair Lady, Gentleman...... No wonder......"