The handkerchief in Boji's hand had already been twisted into a twisted shape by her, and she pursed her lips and said, "I don't dare to go and see her secretly, if my father finds out, it will be a good thing and a bad thing." ”

"What's the matter? Hongu conveys it by all means. E Yao asked curiously.

Bo Ji raised her head happily: "The queen mother announced that I said in the past, after she gives birth, my father will issue a general amnesty decree, and then I can release my mother from the cold palace, and I will live in the palace in peace in the future." In the future, when I leave the cabinet, I can take her to my husband's house to settle down. E Niangniang, you must persuade my mother, it is better to stop these months, don't do any more crooked thoughts, if you anger your father, it will be all over! ”

E Yao smiled weirdly: "I must bring the words." In fact, in her heart, she has already added two words to the end of this sentence - weird!

In ancient times, if the concubine was not favored, it was not so easy to see a man. Not to mention the emperor's family, it is even more difficult for concubines who are not particularly favored to see the sky. If they were not summoned, they would definitely not be able to go to the palace of King Zhou's office, and if they didn't do it well, their heads would fall to the ground. As for the middle palace where King Zhou now lives, it is guarded like an iron fence, and the queen cannot go out of her residence, and she cannot enter without a summons. So, they became depressed.

Concubines with children are fine, such as Meng Jiang and Ji Jiang, who can also meet King Zhou when their children have a headache and brain fever. It's a pity that the second prince Ji Shang's father is still young, if he starts to read and learn etiquette when he is older, Ji Xie still has to take the test for his studies every now and then, then Ji Jiang will be even more desperate. It's a pity that he is still only a two or three-year-old little bean ding.

E Yao is slightly better, and she goes to the middle palace every now and then to report to the queen, and if the timing is right, she can occasionally meet with King Zhou Yi. Not to mention Huang Huan and Dong'er, relying on their close relationship with the queen, they can enter and exit the middle palace without taboo, and they suddenly became the envy of all harem women.

So, those with brains began to find another way.

These days, King Zhou Yi has found that the only way to get from the middle palace to the main hall has become very lively. From time to time, he heard the sound of a flute, or the sound of a beautiful woman singing, and even a shadow of a white dress dancing in the wind tempting him not far away. Most of these are still the beauties selected from the former Zhonggong when they were called Jimei Palace, and now they are scattered everywhere and suddenly fall out of favor, how can they be willing?

Fortunately, King Zhou Yi is a person who has seen the world, and he has experienced a lot of things over the years, and after twists and turns, he got back together with the queen. Without waiting for the queen to speak, he himself sent a few women who were accustomed to being demons out of the palace, and finally the palace was calm. The rest of the women are either limited by their identities or knowledgeable interests, and no one dares to come out anymore.

It is impossible for these fans not to know that although she herself does not go out of the door and does not step out of the second door, Huang Huan will tell her everything that happened outside. Fanji frowned, she knew very well the truth of "the favor of the six palaces is the resentment of the six palaces", although the middle palace was regarded as an iron bucket by the sheep and sheep, but after all, it was always impossible to cut off contact with the outside, and she didn't understand the truth of "open guns are easy to dodge, and hidden arrows are difficult to prevent". Especially the dark arrows around him, which must not be kept.

"Ah Huan, do you hate me?" Huang Huan was confused by Fanji's headless question, and Fanji asked again: "The king treats me like this now, do you hate me?" ”

Surprisingly, Huang Huan did not kneel down to beg for loyalty as before, she was a smart and wise woman, and she knew that it was useless to do so. So he smiled indifferently: "Niangniang, where do you want to go?" Ever since Deng Man left, I have only one thought, as long as my Ci'er can grow up safely, I can do nothing. As for the king, he has very little affection for me, and he can't count on anything. Niangniang, you are the biggest backer in my mother's womb, as long as Niangniang is well, we are fine. As for the king, I really don't really care. ”

Thinking of these days, although Huang Huan has been in and out of the Middle Palace, she has never competed for favor, and only accompanies herself wholeheartedly. Fan Ji felt ashamed for a while, took her hand and said: "Good sister, the king is like this to me now, and I am also weak in my heart!" I'm afraid of becoming the target of everyone! ”

"Niangniang is too worried," Huang Huan's eyes were clear: "Niangniang is the queen of the Great Zhou, the wife of the king, and the married couple, and the biological mother of the prince." The king respects you and loves you, you should be served, the courtiers and the people of the world, who is not convinced? The mother just needs to raise the baby with peace of mind and give birth to the little prince, and the prince has many younger brothers, isn't it? ”

When Huang Huan retreated, the badger sheep quietly approached: "Niangniang, why do you only ask Huang Huan Niangniang, that Dong'er is waiting close every day, but you are so relieved?" ”

Fan Ji smiled faintly: "Once a woman has her own flesh and blood, she will think about him wholeheartedly, this is human, there is no way to do it." Dong'er has not yet given birth, and only by attaching to me can she continue to favor and have children in the future. Compared with those beauties outside the palace, she is already too lucky, how can she not know this? ”

"The mother is far-sighted, and the slave is respectful."

"How do I think of such calculations, but I really have Hu'er, no matter what, I have to think about him and investigate all the hidden dangers one by one until nothing goes wrong." Fanji also doesn't like the way he looks so calculating now.

As Fanji's delivery date approached, the deer sheep became more and more alert, her eyes were green and shiny, strange and terrifying, and she didn't look like a good person in the palace. The soup, rice and tea in Fanji's mouth, even if the old doctor has checked it, she has to carefully check it again, and her eyes are all peeled off.

The weather is warm like a day, and all the affairs have been prepared one after another, even the scissors, cotton cloth, copper basins, and bedding used in production are called the buck sheep to repeatedly and strictly check several times, and I can't wait to see even the firewood for boiling water split into fine wires. Probably knowing that he was too suspicious, the sheep couldn't help but sigh: "Although everyone has their own fate, but people's hearts are unpredictable, although the palace looks calm now, but ------ that adulteress will never be reconciled, it's better to be careful." ”

Fanji lowered his head and stroked his belly. Everything that can be done and prevented has been done, and the next thing is only to look at God's meaning.

King Zhou Yi's face was gloomy, and Fanji hurriedly stroked his stomach and stepped forward. Ji Xie supported her, sat down on both sides of the couch, and saw that she was about to hold her waist to Zhang Luo tea, Ji Xie drank and said: "You can stop for a while, just do these things, you just need to take care of yourself and your children, and worry less about other things!" ”

Fanji knew that he was in a bad mood, and after a while, after he drank half a bowl of tea, he asked softly: "The king's face is not good, could it be that the court is not going well?" ”

"Alas-" Ji Xie put down the tea bowl: "It's nothing, it's all old problems." Today, the copper cakes from the south were delivered, and the number was still less than in previous years. The gold of the copper green mountain, Suiguo did not have some of it, and the Eguo that guarded the passage of Suizao deducted some of it, and how much was left when it was transported to Hojing? Although the Lynx in the north suffered a new defeat last year, they have heard that they are preparing to make a comeback next year. Although the two countries of Song and Qi in the east are newly peaceful, they have not sent tribute until now, and they have not expressed anything, and they are clearly unwilling to tame. These princes! ”

He slapped the couch hard, and the lid of the tea bowl on it slammed onto the table, but fortunately it didn't break. The more Ji Xie spoke, the more angry he became, and his voice became higher: "They are all sealed by my ancestor surnamed Ji, and the people of the land are all given by the Zhou royal family." Now they all have ghosts in their hearts, and they can't wait to lie on my royal family and suck more blood. When they were asked to contribute, they shrank their heads back one by one, taking self-preservation as the first priority. There is a huge world, as if it is pushed by a lone person, it really can't be pushed! ”

Regarding the princes' refusal to tame and excessive selfishness, Rao is a resourceful fanji, and at this time he is helpless and clueless. Ji Xie talked to himself, and finally sighed: "If only the first kings hadn't sealed so many princes!" After saying that, he suddenly laughed self-deprecatingly: "But that's impossible!" ”

It is indeed impossible, the Zhou Dynasty's feudal system has been carried out for almost two hundred years. The Zhou tribe was originally a small northwestern country in a corner of peace, and the second generation of kings of Wenwen and Wu worked hard, coupled with the tyranny of Yin Xuan, and the political foundation was shaken, so they seized the opportunity to fight in Muye and set the world. But at that time, from the distant Weihe Valley to the vast Central Plains, the Zhou people did not have an advantage in numbers, and were completely surrounded by a larger number of Yin people. As a last resort, he could only canonize the flesh and blood surnamed Ji to suppress the East. The ancestor of the Qi State, Jiang Taigong, was the middle father of King Wu, and Uncle Kang, who was sealed in the Chaoge region, was the half-brother of King Wu of Zhou.

However, as the years passed, the so-called "relatives with the same surname were beheaded in five generations". More than a hundred years have passed, and the previous blood relationship between the princes surnamed Ji has become distant, and it is inevitable that they will no longer regard the Zhou royal family as their own flesh and blood relatives, but more for themselves.

"Lone is really afraid of war!" Ji Xie said with deep emotion: "Every time you fight, if you lose, it's better to say; If he wins, he must give a reward to the princes or doctors who participate in the war, and give him land. In the past, the land given by the royal family was a whole piece, but now it can only be given piecemeal by piece, and even the whole number of twenty acres cannot be made. ”

Fanji finally spoke: "Naturally, the land of the dynasty is also numerous, and it is not inexhaustible. There are more and more princes who are divided, and they demand excessively one by one, and when they do a little thing, they reach out to the king for land and fields. In exchange for land for loyalty, the king is like cutting his own flesh to feed them, which day will he be a head? ”

Ji Xie's eyes lit up: "Ah Ji, do you have any good ideas?" ”