Chapter 57 and the Confession
It is said that Wang Zhen is afraid that Mei Ruoxue will play right and wrong and ruin Shen Xiaoxiao's image in front of Concubine Mei, so as to achieve Concubine Mei's dislike of Shen Xiaoxiao and oppose Wang Zhen's marriage to Shen Xiaoxiao as the princess. Therefore, Wang Zhen decided to strike first and took the initiative to talk about himself and Shen Xiaoxiao.
"Oh, since you have come to me and choose to kneel, you must be ready and discussed, what are you waiting for!
Concubine Mei went from wanting to help Wang Zhen get up in person to sitting calmly after hearing Wang Zhen's concealed words, waiting for Wang Zhen to tell the truth in person.
"Mother Concubine Rongyu, didn't you go to Jiangnan with your father this year? In Yangzhou, the child fell in love with a girl, and the son guaranteed that the son took the initiative to pursue it, and the girl really didn't take the initiative to seduce the son. ”
"Oh, so that's it, you can just accept it if you like. The harmful mother thinks you have done something bad, and she is thinking about how to clean it up for you?"
Concubine Mei really breathed a sigh of relief, isn't a young man a romantic man?
"Hurry up, why are you still kneeling? The mother concubine promised you to accept her!" Concubine Mei asked strangely when she saw that Wang Zhen was still kneeling.
"Mother, the son has sworn not to marry her, and he asked the mother to fulfill it!" Wang Zhen gritted his teeth and said this, but he didn't dare to raise his head.
"Smack!" Concubine Mei slapped the table hard.
"Zhen'er, you're not a three-year-old child, you don't want to marry her, but you want to hurt her, do you know? What does it mean to be unworthy? How can He De, a little Jiangnan woman, become Princess Rui. ”
Wang Zhen knew that Concubine Mei had misunderstood Shen Xiaoxiao's identity, and hurriedly explained: "Mother, she is not a Jiangnan woman, she just went to Jiangnan to visit relatives." There is also a son who has not yet said that his father knows about this, and he still acquiesces to it. ”
Wang Zhen saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly moved Emperor Long Hui out.
Sure enough, Concubine Mei was surprised and said, "What, the emperor acquiesced?"
Concubine Mei was a little unconvinced.
Wang Zhen put down the fierce medicine again and said: "When I was in Yangzhou, this woman saved her father and blocked a poisonous arrow in her chest for her father. If the father is hit by an arrow, he will definitely die. ”
"What? Hurry, I'll get up. Tell me exactly what happened!"
Concubine Mei personally came down to help Wang Zhen up, and then took Wang Zhen to sit down, waiting for Wang Zhen to tell what happened.
Wang Zhen started from saving Baoyu in detail, and continued until Shen Xiaoxiao desperately saved Emperor Long Hui.
After Wang Zhen finished speaking, Concubine Mei nodded and said, "It seems that this Jia Yuanchun has brought a lot of help to your Yangzhou party and has made a great contribution." Moreover, she also risked her life to save the emperor's life. In this way, it seems that she is worthy of the position of Princess Rui, and besides, she has won your liking! ”
Wang Zhen was so happy that he didn't know what to say. But before Wang Zhen could think of a rhetoric.
Concubine Mei had something to say again: "Since she participated in the selection of female officials, it seems that she always has to work for a few years." I'm afraid that Your Majesty will marry her at the beginning of the next draft. In this way, it will be at least three or four years before you get married. ”
"Zhen'er, you have to promise your mother that you must leave a place for your cousin as a side concubine? ”
Wang Zhen looked at Concubine Mei with a little pleading eyes, nodded and said, "My son can give her a side concubine position, but I'm afraid that my cousin won't look down on my son's side concubine position." Mother, do you know that my cousin has been sending people to monitor her son's every move these days. ”
After listening to Wang Zhen's words, Concubine Mei frowned: What does this Mei Ruoxue want to do? The prince's whereabouts dare to snoop, it seems that she wants to suppress this girl's behavior, if Zhen'er really ascends to the position of the Ninth Five-Year Plan in the future, then the girl is asking for her own death by doing this!
"Your cousin has a concubine to deal with it personally, how can you say that she is also your cousin, even if you give face to your concubine, let her go once this time, and the concubine will discipline her well. ”
Wang Zhen was not ready to blame Mei Ruoxue, of course, he nodded and agreed, and then Wang Zhen said goodbye and left the palace.
Along the way, Wang Zhen walked lightly, and a boulder seemed to fall in his heart.
Wang Zhen felt that he had made the right move, and originally thought that the level of the mother concubine was the most difficult level to overcome, but he did not expect to pass the level easily after sacrificing the card of the father.
Over there, Wang Zhen happily walked out of the palace.
Here Mei Ruoxue really came to the palace with a solemn face as Wang Zhen thought, but she did not go to the Shangqing Palace to meet Concubine Mei first, but went to Concubine Jiang's palace - Changxin Hall to ask to see Concubine Jiang.
After Concubine Jiang received the report from the palace maid, she immediately sent her confidant female official to invite Mei Ruoxue in, which can be said to have given Mei Ruoxue enough face.
After Mei Ruoxue gave Concubine Jiang a kneeling salute, Concubine Jiang personally helped Mei Ruoxue up, sat down with her, and waited for the palace maids to serve good tea, and then dismissed all the palace maids and eunuchs, leaving only herself and Mei Ruoxue.
Concubine Jiang motioned to Mei Ruoxue to pick up the teacup, and after the two drank the tea, Concubine Jiang asked slowly: "Miss Mei is a rare guest of my Changxin Palace!"
"Niangniang, don't make fun of Ruoxue, Ruoxue really needs your help here. ”
"Why don't you go to your aunt for help?
"How can you be considered an outsider! And this matter is also closely related to the mother. ”
"Oh! Does it have anything to do with me?" Concubine Jiang was very surprised, Mei Ruoxue could have something to do with her.
"Niangniang knows that my aunt was originally going to ask His Majesty to give her cousin a marriage in next year's draft, and my cousin has never disobeyed my aunt's wishes. But this time, against my aunt's wishes, I didn't want to get married next year, on the pretext that I was too easy and didn't want to get married too soon. Do you think he can be trusted with such an excuse?"
"Could it be for some other reason?" How could Concubine Jiang believe such an excuse.
"yes! He's obsessed with a woman who didn't come to next year's draft, but to this year's women's draft. That's why he refused to get married, and he didn't even want to take a concubine. Mei Ruoxue's eyes were red, and she gritted her teeth and said.
Concubine Jiang's face changed greatly, and she stood up and said, "King Rui is so affectionate, what will happen to those women in his backyard in the future?
"Don't worry, Ruoxue is here to discuss this matter with Niangniang today. Mei Ruoxue hurriedly comforted Concubine Jiang.
Concubine Jiang calmed down when she heard this, and slowly sat back in her chair.
"So, is that what Ruoxue said was difficult?"
"Exactly, if this woman is not removed, the women in Queen Rui's backyard will not have a good life in the future, including Ruoxue. Therefore, Ruoxue united Lin Shihua and Xiao Pearl to prepare to make Najia Yuanchun violate the palace rules during the study period of the month before the female official exam, and when the time comes, please ask Niangniang to come forward to treat her crimes, and don't kill her directly, you will fine her with thirty boards, and then you can do something here to play the boards. ”
"The method is good, but since King Rui cares about her so much, if she dies with me, won't I have to accept the wrath of King Rui, and I will not be able to come out this time. ”
Concubine Jiang refused without saying a word, which Mei Ruoxue didn't expect, and she was stunned there!