Chapter 9: The Pawns of Power

Shao Yisong's head hurt even more, he knew what the Queen Mother was here to do, and sure enough, she didn't mention the matter of knowing the turbidity from the moment she entered the door, but started to talk about it.

Dragon heir.

Shao Yisong responded perfunctorily, but he didn't know what his queen mother thought, and suddenly the topic changed, and said: "The emperor will lead the army in five days, and this journey is hard, so let Yu Guifei wait with the army." ”

Shao Yisong didn't even think about refusing directly, "Concubine Yu has been pampered since she was a child, this journey is arduous and dangerous, it is not suitable to go with the army, and Shu Erchen can't agree." ”

The Queen Mother did not relent, "The same woman, doesn't the lord of the ghost city also want to go with you?!" ”

"The lonely king cooperates with the ghost city to resist southern Xinjiang together, and the lord of the ghost city naturally wants to accompany the army, and it has nothing to do with whether she is a woman or not."

Shao Yisong already felt impatient, and said: "The ancestor once ordered that the harem should not interfere in politics, and I have made up my mind to join forces with the ghost city, as for the lord of the ghost city, the sons and daughters have their own proportions, and the queen mother can rest assured." ”

Feel relieved? The old lady's color sank, and she put a red face and disaster water exactly like Ji Huanrou to get along with the emperor day and night, if she could rest assured, the sun would come out of the west!

The Queen Mother picked up the tea in her hand and smacked her throat, reminding him: "As the emperor, all the women in the world are yours, but the women in the ghost city, you will never touch them." ”

In the end, it is a woman in the deep palace, the queen mother said and began to talk about it again.

"Ordinary people say that there are three unfilial pieties, no queen is the greatest, you are the emperor, it is also one of your responsibilities to open branches and leaves for the Xu Dynasty, you must not turn a blind eye to the harem, if you let the queen and concubine enter the palace for three years, and still have no round room with the emperor' This kind of words spread out, and the emperor's face is not good-looking."

Shao Yisong was calm and calm on his face, but in fact, he had already been nagged with a headache, and the Bai sisters entered the palace at the beginning, which was also arranged by the queen mother.

At the beginning, he had always taken care of them as little sisters, and he had never thought about them, and Huanrou's death had nothing to do with them, and since then, he has hardly set foot in the harem.

Shao Yisong sighed softly and tiredly, and said, "Queen Mother, the state affairs have been heavy recently, and I don't have time to rest in the harem, please forgive the Queen Mother." ”

"Nonsense!" The old queen mother slapped her palm on the wooden table in front of her, "As an emperor, how can you be so capricious!" If the emperor continues like this, and after a hundred years, you have no dragon heir to inherit the throne, how will you explain to your ancestors and ancestors! ”

Shao Yisong's patience was polished clean, and he wanted to refuse again, but after thinking about it, General Zhenguo now has his own army, if he wants to take advantage of his absence in the capital to harbor ill intentions, it will be another catastrophe, if Bai's daughter goes to war with the army, then General Zhenguo will have to think about it even if he makes a move.

After a while, Shao Yisong agreed to the Queen Mother's proposal, and the Queen Mother thought that he had listened to her words, and continued: "That's right, the emperor not only has to govern the world, but the dragon heir is more important, otherwise this great country will be handed over to someone with a foreign surname." Also, the woman in the ghost city is indeed beautiful, but she can't get on the stage, the emperor can't be confused for a while, be seduced by her, and do things that insult the majesty of the royal family......"

The Queen Mother continued to nag, and as soon as she mentioned Zhiqingturbidity, it reminded Shao Yisong of something.

He raised his eyes to look at the Queen Mother, his thin lips were tightly pursed, and the old Queen Mother was furious in his heart.

"The Emperor...... What's the matter with the emperor? ”

"Does the queen mother still remember that after Huan Rou died two years ago, there was a big funeral in the palace, and the lonely king was worried about the funeral and collided with the queen mother, so he wanted you to go to Yuhu Villa to live in the old age?"

"What do you want to do!" The old queen mother sighed in her heart, and suddenly had a bad premonition.

"The queen mother is old, and she often worries about political affairs when she stays in the palace, which is not conducive to the cultivation of the queen mother.

"What do you say! You're going to drive your mother out of the palace, you ......"

"Why did the queen mother react so much." Shao Yisong's voice was hoarse, and his eyes were cold, "The queen mother summoned the lord of the ghost city last night, which made the sons and daughters worry about the health of the queen mother's jade body, please move the queen mother to the palace." ”

After that, he turned to leave, and the old queen sat on the wooden chair in a daze, as if she had been drained of all her strength.

It was getting late, and the moonlight was like flowing water in every corner of the palace wall, but the cries from the Zihua Palace broke the silence.

"Eldest sister, I don't want to go to that wild land with the king, he never usually comes to see me, how can he suddenly remember to give me such a terrible errand!"

Bai Yuning's crying face was stained with tears, and his nose and eyes were red, like red cherries refrigerated in an ice cellar in the hot summer, which couldn't help but make people feel pitiful.

She tugged at Bai Yuqing's sleeve and pleaded pitifully: "Eldest sister, please go and talk to the king, and ask him to withdraw this holy decree." ”

Bai Yuning was innocent and simple, but her eldest sister had an extremely sensitive sense of smell, and from the time she received this holy decree, she could probably guess what the king intended and how it was so easy to withdraw.

She wiped the tears on Bai Yuning's face with a brocade handkerchief, and said distressedly: "Silly girl, the intention of the king's decree is related to his father, since he has made an order, he will not change his mind, not to mention, he will expel his aunt from the palace today, and now if you touch his moldy head, you and my sister will be even more passive." ”

"Yes...... But there is no other ...... Is there another way? ”

Bai Yuning became even more desperate when she heard this, she sobbed and choked, almost speechless.

Seeing her eldest sister shaking her head helplessly, Bai Yuning cried even more miserably, and when she had cried enough, Bai Yuqing supported her shoulders with both hands, and said in a serious tone: "Along the way, you must find a way to conceive the dragon heir, this child will be the future reliance of you and my sister, and Ning'er ...... You must remember the words of the eldest sister, the child is ours, husband, but never only ours, you must not be tempted by the king, otherwise you will be sad, or yourself, can you remember clearly? ”

"Hmmm......"

"Also, if that ghost city woman walks with the king, you must not embarrass her."

Bai Yuqing's sentences were all uneasy entrustments, she said: "Your temperament is as pure and arrogant as your aunt, you can't woo her in a low voice, and you can't fight her, so try to treat her as if she doesn't exist, don't provoke her." ”

"I remember the eldest sister's ......"

She sobbed in response, rubbed her sore eyes from crying, and lay in Bai Yuqing's arms, "Eldest sister, I miss my mother so much, I miss my father so much, and I really want to go back to the General's Mansion, I don't like it here, and I don't want to go to Southern Xinjiang......"

"Silly girl...... After you return to Beijing, the eldest sister will ask the king to make an order to let you go home to visit your relatives. ”

"Really?"

"Hmm."

Bai Yuqing didn't know if he was really comforting his little sister, or if he was comforting himself.

As the eldest daughter of General Zhenguo, she knew what she wanted to do when she grew up since she was a child.

Whether she is or the little sister in her arms, as daughters, they are tools to consolidate their father's power, and as wives and concubines, they are tools to control the harem and give birth to children.

But so what, they use her as a pawn, and she doesn't use them as a stepping stone to control power, in the final analysis, they just complement each other.

It's just that she Bai Yuqing is like this, but her little sister has never had the heart to be powerful.

When his father wanted to send Ning'er into the palace, Bai Yuqing stopped him, but he couldn't change his father's mind, and later after the little sister entered the palace, she also tried her best to protect the little sister everywhere, but now, Ning'er is still implicated......

"Alas......"

The lamentation passed through the windowsill and was blown away by the breeze in the night.

In the ghost market on the other side, the lantern in the girl's hand sat on the side of the empty street, leaning on Erha, who kept howling beside her, and wiped her sweat.

Lin Youran is not homeless, since Erha...... No...... Young master, since the young master demolished the house several times in a row, in order to increase its exercise, Brother Jiao officially hired Lin Youran to walk the dog, one in the morning and one in the evening.

She didn't want to take over this stubble, she was tired enough to teach the little cubs poetry and songs in the school, but Brother Jiao had a lot of money, and she still had a silver tael a day, no way, under the temptation of money, she did a part-time job.

In addition, the young master is a chatter, and he loves to howl twice when he has nothing to do, and the pedestrians think that it is not a wolf, although Lin Youran has tried his best to explain, but every time he comes out to walk the dog, he has to fight the wolf.

There is no way, she can only take the young master to run a few laps on the street when the gate of the ghost market has not yet opened, and now she has just finished exercising, and she is tired and directly doubts life, I don't know if she is walking the dog or the dog is walking her.

So friends, you see, even if a sad worker wears a book, he is still a sad worker.

Erha seemed to have rested enough, arched Gonglin leisurely with her wet nose, she closed her eyes that were about to get out of the dark circles and patted it gently, "Young master, don't make trouble, let's rest for a while, the old slave is too tired." ”

"Whew......"

Erha let out another long howl, and after a while, Lin Youran heard a sound of light footsteps stopping in front of her, and when she opened her eyes, a familiar and extremely handsome face was looking at her with a smile.

"Don't come unharmed, Lantern Girl."

Oh Minato! It was him again!

Lin Youran hurriedly stood up, and the smile on his face couldn't be faker.

"Yes, why is it so coincidental, I met the satin boy again."

"It's still early, why is the girl alone here? The ghost market is mixed, so it's better for the girl to be careful. ”

Needless to say...... Lin Youran silently complained in his heart, you are a dangerous element.

Although she thought so in her heart, she tried her best to maintain a polite smile on her face and responded continuously, so as not to say something wrong and be targeted by this strange person again.

One more point of stay is more dangerous, Lin Youran "accidentally" dropped the dog leash to the ground, Erha ran out like a gust of wind, Lin Youran exaggerated shouted: "Young master, you wait for me!" ”

She ran after the second word, and turned around to say goodbye to Sain Yunchuan while running, "Satin boy, I still have something to do, let's go first!" ”

But how did she hide her little tricks, he knew at a glance that she was deliberate.

Satin Yunchuan stood in place, looking at her distant back in confusion, and then turned to leave after staying for a moment.