Chapter IX: Conspiracy
Zhen Ping'er came to report the news, and Tang Mei didn't go to visit Concubine Fan. Anyway, she just wanted to hear something about the princess, not about the princess. After all, they are enemies between them, and if they say they care, they hope that the princess will die soon.
Tang Mei believes that Concubine Fan first messed up her marriage with the prince, and then engaged her daughter to the prince; She also strongly advocated giving Tang Mei a burden, which completely ruined Tang Mei's marriage. There is no need to express how resentful Miss Six is in her heart.
As for Tang Mei at the beginning, it was because she didn't want the princess to be angry, so she agreed to marry Su Bottle, which was a prevarication. Just keep the bottle out of the door, and don't want to talk to him more.
However, people's hearts are flesh and blood, so they mocked and snubbed Su Bottle, and Su Bottle performed well today, Tang Mei was a little reluctant to go. I thought to myself, when Su Bottle came back, I would allow him to come to Qinxiang Xiaozhu to sit for half an hour. There are also some things to say to him: even if he can't become a husband and wife, when he leaves in the future, he can also reward him with some benefits as compensation.
And Tang Mei also prepared some gifts. There was a piece of clothing that was sewn for her brother Tang Kuan, but Tang Kuan had made a lot of fortune in the past two years, the clothes were too thin, and Tang Kuan was wrapped in a convex and backward curt, like a coquettish and fat man who deliberately highlighted his figure. So Tang Kuan didn't ask for it, so he stayed at her house and gave it to Su Bottle at this time.
I heard that Su Bei was a poor ghost, and he took the groom's clothes as well, and Tang Mei also prepared five taels of silver for him.
Obviously, Tang Mei is an anxious son, but the son-in-law is not, after the competition, he is not in a hurry to go home, but wanders outside with a little maid wearing a coarse cloth and a small cotton jacket. He walks unhurriedly, and sometimes walks with his hands behind his back like a middle-aged and elderly person, looking old-fashioned. But he's not old at all, and there's something charming about it.
As for where it is charming, I can't say clearly, but when I saw him for the first time, I couldn't hate it. …… But he is still much worse than the prince. Prince Zhao Tian's demeanor is incomparable.
Indeed, there are all living beings in the world, how many people can compare with the crown prince?
Tang Mei waited at home for a long time, and her son-in-law did not come back. She looked at the cloudy weather outside the window, resented in her heart, and scolded "It seems that he is still rich", so she took back the five taels of silver.
Finally, the son-in-law died and came back, because the big dining hall of the Guogong Mansion was about to open. But at this time, a small servant from Ninghou Mansion came over to invite his son-in-law, because the second master Tang Ning wanted to feast on today's meritorious people. Among them, it naturally includes the Shun Inner Courtyard and Su Bottle, who won the game, and also those who were defeated such as Gao Zhun, which are considered small achievements.
Su Bottle was not good at refusing and decided to go. But Su Bottle is a son-in-law, not the owner of the family, and Tang Mei's consent is still required for this matter. The little guy is a handy person, and without waiting for Su Bottle to say, the little guy ran to Qinxiang Xiaozhu to say, and then ran back and told Su Bottle that Miss Six had agreed.
So Su Bottle took the greedy little maid Zhu Tao to the Hou Mansion, ate a lot of good wine and meat, and packed some meat.
This ghost weather, cloudy for most of the day, didn't rain a single drop.
Miss Six is a person who can't hide things in her heart, she wants to give the gift, and she always thinks about it. As for the heavy warehouse ledgers on the table, she had read and calculated many times, and found no problems. Since it was okay, she sat on the couch and waited for Su Bottle to come back.
As a result, I couldn't wait for the left and the right, and finally came back and was called away again.
It was dark, and he finally came back again. Tang Mei was about to beckon him upstairs, but saw him pack some meat and come back. In the porter, smiling sheepishly, he gave a bag of meat to the most handsome maid, and he walked beautifully. Seeing this, Miss Six's temper rushed to the top of her head, and her fair face turned red.
"Shame on you! I'm such a noble person, I'm waiting for you slut! ”
She cursed indignantly in her heart, and threw the package in her hand (a piece of clothing, and five taels of silver stuffed into it twice) downstairs. That is, the "poof" sound that Su Bottle heard.
At this moment, the rain poured down, and before the maid could pick up the bag, it was already drenched in the rain.
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The rain was pouring down, Su Bottle shook the big hat away, wrapped the little maid beside him, and the master and slave ran to the backyard. Laughing while running. The little maid also laughed, and the crisp bird-like laughter was really pleasant.
But at this time, in the courtyard of the seventh lady behind the courtyard of the sixth lady, there was no laughter at all, but a silence like death.
In the small attic where the seventh lady Tang Zhao lived alone, the crown prince Zhao Tian was pacing with his hands behind his back and a heavy face. The wooden floor creaked and creaked.
Although Tang Zhao is only seventeen years old, she is a dignified woman, she sits on the couch in a proper manner, and has been waiting for the prince for seven days and seven nights. But during these seven days, they were courteous, and there was no transgression.
Although Miss Seven's bright big eyes are full of blazing temperature, she is already a fire, but she is still sticking to the bottom line of a woman. And in the past seven days, the crown prince Zhao Tian was in turmoil. He is also a fire, but his fire is not in women, but in worrying about the throne and life all the time.
Emperor Tiande is dead, and Empress Han is not mourning. Why did she do it?
"Your Highness, why don't you tell the story."
"I can't say it, I can't say it at this time." Zhao Tian frowned, and his sharp and sharp gaze swept across: "King Fu and King Xian have all run away, I feel that this is not right." Thankfully, I walked fast, otherwise I might have lost my life. ”
On the night of seven days ago, the crown prince Zhao Tian received a secret report and escaped from the East Palace overnight. There were several important ministers in the princelings, but Zhao Tian felt that they were not enough to fight against the queen, so he hid in the Anguo Mansion in Qinghuafang, the core forbidden place of the Tang clan's gate lords.
There is the "Taiping Alliance" that binds the royal family and the gate valve. There is a rule that even the Imperial Forest Army cannot break into the national mansion. But now that An Guogong Tang Qiong is not at home, Zhao Tian is worried again. In case Queen Han breaks the kettle and kills in, her own life will be in danger.
I only hope that the news will not leak out, and the seventh lady Tang Zhao has already written a secret letter and sent it to Chang'an quickly.
"Empress Han is generous and benevolent, will she attack the crown prince?"
Tang Zhao, who was only seventeen years old, although she read poetry and books and read through the scriptures and history, she did not learn and apply it lively. On the contrary, the crown prince Zhao Tian of the same age is a natural politician with a keen sense of smell. How dangerous and cruel the change of imperial power is, he doesn't need to be taught to know it. Empress Dowager Han is not mourning, this is a blatant usurpation of power. At this time, any reason she gives is a lie.
"There are some things you don't know." The crown prince Zhao Tian retracted the sharpness just now, like an eagle that had retracted its wings, and sat on the couch: "When Queen Han was still a concubine, she was sent to the cold palace by the imperial mother. At that time, the palace was full of smoke and miasma all day long, and the concubines fought endlessly. Later, the queen drove the crane, and the father invited Concubine Han out of the cold palace and made her queen. Since then, the harem has stopped, and I am over twelve years old, leaving the harem and going to the East Palace. At that time, my father was very satisfied with Queen Han, but when my father felt that his health was not good, he once told me that he wanted to kill the queen. ”
"Why do you do that?" Tang Zhao's face was shocked, with a bitter face, staring at the prince with kind big eyes: "Queen Han is not the biological mother of the prince, does she have to follow the example of Emperor Wu of Han to set up a son to kill his mother?" ”
Zhao Tian smiled bitterly, raised his hand, and stroked Tang Zhao's delicate face: "Your books have been read in vain." ”
Tang Zhao retracted his gaze, lowered his head in anger, and pinched his nails.
Zhao Tian smiled and reached out to grab Tang Zhao's hand.
The prince held Tang Zhao's hand with both hands, and said with a smile: "But I like your stupid appearance, I hope you can always be like this, but don't be like your sixth sister, shrewd and cal......culating all day long."
"Knock knock" suddenly came from the door, interrupting the prince's words.
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Changqiu Palace, Feixiang Palace.
Queen Han sat on the couch with a dull expression, her soul flying out of the sky. The crown prince has been missing for seven days, and the emperor's body has been hidden in the reclining cabinet for seven days. This kind of day is really difficult, and Queen Han has a big stone in her heart, which is difficult to fall.
"Why didn't Mon'er come to see me?"
Zhao Meng, the king of Xu, was the son of Empress Han, and at this time he hid in Dagu Pass, because his uncle Han Tingjun served as a supervisor there.
"Back to Niangniang's words, King Yu said...... "Hu Rong saluted respectfully, and stopped talking.
"What did he say?"
"King Yu said that he was immoral and incompetent, and he was embarrassed by his great responsibility."
Hearing this, tears flowed from the queen's almost dry eyes, and then she sobbed and burst into tears, and after a while she burst into tears.
The queen's sad cry came from the Feixiang Palace, and there were only eunuch Hu Rong and maidservant Han Ju in the hall, and the two looked at each other and stepped forward to advise.
The queen cried, but said in a low voice: "I don't want to harm the prince, but the emperor wants to kill me." In my life, I was loyal to the emperor and gave birth to children for him, why did I end up like this? ”
Hu Rong said: "Niangniang, you have come to this point, you have no way out. ”
Hu Rong paused for a moment, and then said: "The slave went to the Guogong Mansion today, although he did not find the prince, but he has sent the news to Neiying. And wait a few days, if Nei Ying finds out that the prince is really hiding in the Guogong Mansion, the slave will send a master to take his life. As soon as the prince died, the princelings would inevitably disperse, and at that time, the Korean uncle would lead troops into the city, and it would only be a matter of course for King Yu to ascend the throne. ”