Chapter 193
Jiang Xian rarely asked for him, so Xie Che wanted to arrange a better position for Jiang Yi.
"The emperor is so loving, but he has tormented his concubines, and my cousin has not yet reached the crown, but he is just a child. It's just that the Jiang family has no connections in Beijing, so they can only ask the emperor for help, don't have to lift him up too much, and let him start from running errands as a small soldier. If you can't stand the suffering, go home early to do other things, and don't miss the big things in the army."
Xie Che saw that she was sensible, and he was even more pity: "The Jiang family is withering, you should be more attentive, I will arrange it for you, and I will not let the talent be buried." Well, didn't you say that when there are no outsiders, you don't have to call yourself a concubine? I used to talk about you and me, but this time I have a mouthful of honorifics."
After finishing speaking, Xie Che asked with a tentative smile: "Xian'er is good friends with the concubine, your father also visited the Rong Mansion after entering Beijing, but if you want to enter the barracks, tell General Rong about it, and write a letter to ask to come to the palace at the near and far, I am afraid that the child will be delayed during the period."
"What the emperor said is not right. For me and my father, the emperor is the closest."
Jiang Xian leaned on him with a smile.
Getting carried away is a natural weakness of human nature, especially for those close to you, the so-called pampering and arrogance, but forgetting that the other party is not only your own pillow person, but also a king who holds the authority of the world.
For Jiang Xian, there is obviously no such trouble.
Because her father in the previous life told her and her mother since she was a child: "Lao Tzu will give you food and clothing, you have to remember who to listen to!" , this is Jiang Xian's perception of intimacy, and she will not lose her advance and retreat because of happiness and security.
"If I can't do it for you, no one else can do it."
Xie Che hugged her shoulders and gave her a solemn promise, which can be regarded as an endorsement of her words.
Time flies like a white horse, and three spring and autumn seasons have passed in the blink of an eye.
During this period, Ma Ronghua gave birth to a healthy third prince named Xie Qi. During her diagnosis of the happy pulse, Zhaoyang Palace directly did not allow her to enter the door, and after giving birth, Ma Ronghua came to visit as soon as she was confined, and she sincerely lost a lot of smiles to Concubine Rong before she got her forgiveness.
When she was pregnant with the third prince, Ma Ronghua said to Jiang Xian, "The concubine Niangniang lost her temper with me, in fact, I was relieved."
Jiang Xian nodded: "Guifei, she has such a temperament."
If Concubine Rong doesn't say a word, then I'm afraid it's really going to break up.
This is also Rong Guifei's character flaw, most of the high-ranking concubines in this harem are of two kinds, one is like Concubine Zhang Xian, virtuous and virtuous, has no quarrel with the world, never blushes with others, no one will suspect her if something happens, the other is strong and vicious, whoever provokes her has to be stripped of a layer of skin, Rong Guifei is the leader of the latter.
It's just that she didn't want to harm Ma Ronghua's fetus, but she openly expressed her dislike for pregnant women. In case there is anything wrong with Ma Ronghua's fetus, if it is really killed by someone, it is okay to find out the real murderer, if it is accidentally shed in a daze, the eyes of suspicion will be focused on Rong Guifei.
What's this picture?
Jiang Xian also knows what she wants, so she wants to be cool.
If you compare the life of Gong Dou, she is "Jiang Promised to Be Promoted", Chen Guiren is "The Harem Hugging Legs and Lying to Win Those Years", and Rong Guifei is "The Happiness of the Harem".
"With my knowledge of the concubine, I was just not allowed to go to Zhaoyang Palace, in fact, I was almost coquettish."
Ma Ronghua gently stroked the bulging lower abdomen.
Xu is pregnant because she is pregnant, and she even talks about Rong Guifei with a halo of maternal love. If Concubine Rong knew that she was talking about herself in such a doting tone, I was afraid that she would kick it over if she couldn't bear it.
The third prince Xie Qi's teeth have not yet grown, so he became the little heel of the two elder brothers, but because he is not verbose in his speech, he often calls "elder brother" "grasshopper". Once, he ran and hugged the emperor's thigh, crying, "My big gnats have been eaten by chickens!"
Xie Zhao's heart skipped a beat when he listened.
The emperor scooped him up: "You went to the dining room to play?"
The palace was not a vegetable market, so it was unlikely that live chickens would run around, so he thought of his son's greed and went to the dining room to ask for pastries. Xie Qi shook his head, his big eyes filled with tears: "Yes."
The chickens raised by the concubine."
Concubine Rong's Zhaoyang Palace, how can she raise chickens?
Even if there are live chickens, they are in the chicken coop in the small kitchen, and she is a delicate person, I am afraid that they will not be able to smell the chickens.
"Okay, okay, don't cry, I'm going to kill that chicken, stew chicken soup for Qi'er to drink, and give you the big chicken legs."
The emperor summoned Liang Yuyin and asked him to find some good grasshoppers for the third prince.
Xie Qi is not hungry for chicken legs, the aunt next to the lady of Bihua Palace is delicious in everything, far better than the cook in the dining room, but he can kill the chicken to avenge his beloved big grasshopper, he suddenly felt a little better, and responded aggrievedly: "Thank you, father."
"Xie Zhao, do you want to go back to Bihua Palace or to Zhaoyang Palace?" The emperor asked.
"My son also wants to eat chicken legs, but the mother is still waiting for her son."
"It's not easy? I summoned your mother and concubine, and we will have a meal."
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When Jiang Xian sat down to Zhaoyang Palace, she heard the emperor asking Concubine Rong: "Good and dignified, why did you raise chickens in your palace?" You didn't even look at cats and dogs twice."
"The concubine saw that the third prince was quite interesting in raising insects, so she wanted to raise a chicken and his gnats as a companion."
Rong Guifei said expressionlessly.
The Emperor asked, "Concubine, did you do it on purpose or accidentally?"
Rong Guifei pursed her lips and turned her face: "It was intentional and careless."
Everyone understands, this is the concubine who has a temper and bullies the child.
The emperor is angry and funny, and he also pities the gossip she has suffered over the years - he does not have many heirs, but the two concubines with children are Rong Guifei in the eyes of outsiders, and she has no children under her knees, and it is understandable that she is uncomfortable when she sees the third prince, and the emperor does not want to punish her for this.
Fortunately, Concubine Rong's emotional intelligence has not been lost, and she has already prepared a gift package of gnats, crickets, and rhinoceros beetles that no little boy can refuse to give to the three princes to make amends. Xie Qi's eyes lit up when he saw the insects, he couldn't put it down, he forgot the big grasshopper that died tragically under the chicken's mouth, and thanked Concubine Rong in a stack, Concubine Rong was the best.
Then, Concubine Rong deliberately said, "The eldest prince and the second prince are about to go to the study and prepare to do their studies, and the third prince is still only addicted to playing with grasshoppers? Ma Ronghua can't slack off, and prepare some homework for the three princes."
As soon as Xie Qi heard this, the originally raised smile wilted back.
It was Ma Ronghua who cast a very grateful gaze at the concubine - the concubine is really hard-mouthed and soft-hearted, while bullying the child and crying, while still remembering the child's homework, the concubine still has their mother and son in her heart.
"Speaking of which, the two princes' companions have been decided?"
Concubine Rong asked.
In fact, it stands to reason that this should be selected by the emperor for the queen after drawing up a list, but she asked so casually, guessing that the emperor had other arrangements.
"The list has been drawn up, and I still have to choose carefully, but one of Xie Zhao's companions is Concubine Shu's younger brother, and that has already been decided."
The companion book is selected from the children of the clan ministers, and it is understandable for the concubine to recommend her own brothers.
In this regard, Guo Xiaoyi's treatment is completely different.
Because Guo Xiaoyi had a bad record, the emperor suspected that the Guo family was not strict with his son and his family style was not good, so she said that she wanted to recommend her relatives to be the second prince's companion, but the emperor rejected them all. In this regard, Guo Xiaoyi couldn't help but feel resentful of the emperor, thinking that the emperor favored the concubine and the eldest prince.
That night, Jiang Xian asked the question of the second prince's companion before going to bed.
"Xie Sheng was deeply influenced by his mother, and although his relationship with Zhao'er has improved after more interactions, I am still worried that his temperament has been deviated by Guo Xiaoyi, so I will be more careful in the selection of his companions."
Contrary to what Guo Xiaoyi thought, the emperor left all the candidates with particularly good moral and moral reviews in his mind to the thin and introverted second prince, hoping to play a subtle role in improvement. Xie Che could have arranged it without saying a word, Jiang Xian didn't know those clan disciples at all, and there was no way to compare, but he just wanted to talk to her, afraid that she would mind, and he was full of regret for her.
in his arms
Jiang Xian smiled: "The emperor's move coincides with me. The relationship between the two princes is so good now, if the second prince is influenced by Guo Xiaoyi and changes his temperament, Zhao'er will also be sad."
The horizontal and vertical people who can be the prince's companion are all first-class outstanding children.
Jiang Xian didn't care about the companion reading gap at all.
Princes, after all, you have to fight for your mother.
"The emperor treats me with sincerity, and it's too late for me to be happy. What's more, it is Zhao'er's luck to let his father worry less about him. Just one thing, the emperor can't ignore Zhao'er just because he is ignorant."
"I won't," he smiled, cupped her face, and looked at her seriously, "I know that you have done a lot for my children, and now the three princes have a good relationship, and they also have a lot of tricks for Taihua, all thanks to the Zhao'er you taught. In my heart, you and Zhao'er are both the most valued by me."
The final list of the eldest prince's companions was drawn up by the two of them together.
The biological child knows in his heart that Xie Zhao is a precocious child with strong self-control, Jiang Xian is not afraid that he will be influenced by his peers and become greedy for fun. She bit her ear with the emperor: "If you choose a good character for the second prince, then I will be very smart, and I don't care if I have some shortcomings in my personality."
Children who dare to be sent into the palace will not have a big problem, the family has already screened it once, the so-called character shortcomings are just too strong, too lively or a little arrogant, there are a few Jiang Xian in the list who want, and they learn faster than their peers: "Good to give Zhao'er some competitive pressure."
"Aren't you afraid of hitting Zhao'er?"
"If he was hit, he got up again, and then he was hit in the upper study, and when he came back to Bihua Palace, I helped him up."
When the four candidates for the companion were confirmed, Jiang Xian noticed that it was almost exactly the same as what she had originally chosen, and only one of the children of the Rong family was picked out and did not stay with Zhao'er.
Concubine Rong's favor and preferential treatment are still the same, but the Rong family is afraid that they are not as trusted by the emperor as before.
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On the first day of study when the two princes went to the study, Jiang Xian brought a snack box to visit, and even brought her younger brother Jiang Yanchuan's share.
The younger brother, who has an age difference of almost 20 years, suppressed his excitement and maintained the minimum etiquette rules, and ran to her with a dada: "See Concubine Shuniang."
This is the sister that my father and mother tell him every day!
In previous years, at the palace banquet, he could only see him from afar, he was a little shy and didn't dare to talk to his sister more, but now it is easy to do, he has become the companion of the prince's nephew, and there are more opportunities to see his sister.
Because he listened to his father's praise of his sister since he was a child, Jiang Yanchuan was full of admiration for his sister.
Seeing his sister dressed up at the palace banquet before, Jiang Yanchuan already felt that she was very beautiful, not as beautiful as a real person, and he was very proud of having a fairy sister. And this time in front of the face on daily occasions, Jiang Xian only applied fat powder thinly, and even more clear water out of hibiscus, seeing the younger brother raised a soft smile, which made the six-year-old Jiang Yanchuan's little heart thump -
Damn, my sister is so beautiful.
He wants to be like Jiang Yi's brother and grow into a man who can shelter his sister from the wind and rain.
"Thanks to my sister, everything is fine at home,"
Jiang Yanchuan's face was red with excitement, his appearance followed his father, Jiang's father was also a white and delicate literati when he was young, Jiang Xian looked down at him, as if he saw his father looking at him with admiration...... Don't say it, it's a little cool: "Ah, I should call Shufei Niangniang, I'm sorry that the minister said it wrong."
Yan Chi's rules, the prince's companion does not have to call himself a slave like a eunuch.
In the face of such a good child, even Jiang Xian couldn't bear to criticize him.
"You and I are sisters and brothers, what's wrong with calling my sister? I'll go back and tell the emperor that you are allowed to call me sister." She saw that Jiang Yanchuan had a soft spot for her sister's title, so she allowed him to call her so.
Other companions who also came from the official family saw this scene in their eyes, and immediately understood that the concubine had a good relationship with the family, and it was rumored that she was mistreated by her stepmother and did not like her half-brother.
Xie Zhao on the side heard this
The brow furrowed.
Jiang Xian asked him what was wrong, and he said, "My son and Yanchuan are also very close to each other, but if we call each other by relationship, wouldn't my son call him uncle?" Although the kinship is like this, it is a generation lower for no reason, so angry!
"You are worthy of your name."
Imperial power is above all else, even if the father and mother come, they must kneel down and salute their daughters and grandchildren, and in public, this etiquette cannot be messed up. After Jiang Xian's order, Xie Zhao suddenly realized, and his brows also relaxed: "Yanchuan, let me tell you, the cooking skills of Aunt Mu in my palace are very good, you can taste it and you will know, it is many times better than the dim sum in the dining room."
Jiang Xian's side of the pillow Qiu handed over the fine food box.
This food box was made by Jiang Xian after drawing drawings and ordering the people in the office to custom-build, and there is a lot of things inside.
After she handed over the food box to her son, she didn't stay long, leaving time for him to get along with her companion - and kissing her mother, with parents by her side, she couldn't help but feel constrained.
Sure enough, as soon as the lady lady left, the other three companions dared to surround her.
They really envy Jiang Yanchuan for having such a layer of kinship, and even the lady concubine Niangniang specially prepared a snack for him, afraid that only the three of them have suffered the errand of being wronged and suffering by the masters of the future generations.
"Let me see what delicious food my mother has brought me......
Xie Zhao opened the food box, which was divided into four layers.
Two layers of fragrant snacks, two layers of test papers drawn up by Jiang Xian herself, and the names of "Xie Zhao" and "Jiang Yanchuan" were also written very intimately.
Xie Zhao: "......"
Jiang Yanchuan: "......"
The other three companions suddenly didn't envy the fact that they had a favorite sister anymore.