It doesn't matter who spread the rumor, what matters is that the rumor has spread in the palace, and it may soon spread to the people.
As long as some rumors spread to the people, they will become things that many people believe in, and even circulated for hundreds of thousands of years, they were compiled into operas, and they became the talk of countless people after dinner.
"It must be the woman Su Meidai did."
Liu'an is the eldest son. In order to make Yun Duqing's crown prince more stable, Su Meidai will definitely find a way to remove the threat of Liu'an.
"That bitch." She was trembling with anger, and lowered her head to ask the eunuch who was passing the message: "What else is going on outside?"
"It is said that you and the head of the Du family were young and deeply in love, and they promised each other for life, but they were beaten by the late emperor..."
"Enough!" Concubine Xu interrupted the eunuch and laughed sarcastically, "Promise each other for life?"
She really wanted to be with Du Qingke back then, but as a result, the useless bastard said that the emperor's life was too difficult to do. As the young master of the Du family, he couldn't just care about personal pleasure.
Pooh!
A man's promise is not as good as the mud used to paste the walls in the village. At any rate, the mud used to paste the walls will keep out the wind and rain. Du Qingke's trash can only make her ashamed.
Shame when I was young and ignorant, I saw this bloodless thing.
If it weren't for his usefulness now, she wouldn't even want to look at him.
"These rumors, you all know, I'm afraid they have already reached the emperor's ears." Concubine Xu took a deep breath: "Go to the small kitchen to spread the word, I will cook in person."
Over the years, she has been claiming that she is not ill, just because she doesn't want His Majesty to recall the mistakes she made when she was in the hidden residence.
But with this rumor now, she has to dispel His Majesty's suspicion no matter what.
She remembered that when she first arrived at the palace, there were no other women in the palace. She once cooked a bowl of healthy porridge for His Majesty, and His Majesty ate cleanly and praised her for her skill.
After not cooking for many years, she has become very hands-on. She boiled two or three times before she cooked a bowl of white fungus and longan porridge.
Putting this bowl of hot porridge into the food box, Concubine Xu went straight to Taiyang Palace.
"Concubine Xu is here?" At the entrance of Taiyang Palace, Liu Zhongbao seemed to have predicted her arrival and bowed to her: "Your Majesty is waiting for you, please come with the old slave."
"Thank you Eunuch Liu." Concubine Xu felt a thump in her heart. She looked at the slowly opening door, hesitated for a moment, and walked in.
Liu Zhongbao stretched out his hand to stop the palace servant behind Concubine Xu: "Your Majesty is discussing with the Empress, and no one else is allowed to enter."
Emperor Longfeng sat in front of the imperial case and reviewed the memorials. Apart from him, there was no one else in the palace to serve him.
"You're here?" Seeing her come in, Emperor Longfeng put down his pen and looked calm: "Sit down."
"My concubine hasn't cooked for many years. In recent days, my health has improved, so I cooked a bowl of Tremella and Longan porridge. Please try it, Your Majesty." Concubine Xu brought the porridge to Emperor Longfeng.
"I remember that you were not happy when you were given to the palace. After listening to the advice of the mammy, I boiled a bowl of porridge. When it was brought to me, my hands were shaking." Emperor Longfeng looked at the steaming porridge. : "I don't know where you heard the wrong news, and thought I liked Tremella and Longan porridge. In fact, I didn't like to eat longan since I was a child, and I don't even like to eat longan porridge."
Concubine Xu froze and looked at Emperor Longfeng in disbelief.
"But you just arrived at the palace, and you don't know your life well. I didn't want you to feel uneasy, so I reluctantly ate that bowl of porridge." Emperor Longfeng walked to the window and looked out of the window with his hands behind his back, but he didn't look at her: " Concubine Xu, bring back this bowl of porridge today."
Concubine Xu knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty, the concubine doesn't know His Majesty's tastes and preferences, and the concubine is at fault."
"Get up." Emperor Longfeng's expression was calm: "In the beginning, you didn't want to marry into the palace. You and I are both involuntary. You don't know my taste, and I don't understand your hobbies. What's wrong?"
"Your Majesty!" Concubine Xu did not dare to speak out about the rumors in the palace, but she had to find a way to dispel His Majesty's suspicion, so she could only say: "You are Liu'an's father, Dacheng's emperor, and as a concubine, no Knowing your taste, it's the concubine who did a bad job."
"This child Liu'an is sometimes a bit reckless, but he is a good boy." Emperor Longfeng said, "My uncle had such a temperament back then."
Concubine Xu did not dare to answer, because the late emperor was in a daze, the mother of the Empress Dowager died cleanly, and His Majesty's uncle was not spared.
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Concubine Xu was overjoyed. When His Majesty said this, did you doubt Liu'an's life experience
Su Meidai, that bitch, what if she is favored again
In the eyes of men, after all, children are more important.
Looking through the window, Emperor Longfeng saw Empress Su walking towards this side, and hurriedly sat back to the imperial case: "Concubine Xu, what incense do you use on your body?"
Concubine Xu was at a loss. She often said she was sick. How could she use incense
"You stay away from me."
Not far, I'm afraid I can't tell.
"Your Majesty." Without waiting for the eunuch's announcement, Empress Su entered the hall directly, saw Concubine Xu kneeling in the room, put the food box in her hand on the table, and glanced at the porridge that was no longer hot on the table: "Yes This palace came by accident."
"You and I are one husband and wife, what a coincidence." Emperor Longfeng stretched out his hand to open the food box and said with a smile, "This snack is so beautiful." After saying that, he reached out to eat it.
"Your Majesty, wash your hands and test for poison." Empress Su patted the back of Emperor Longfeng's hand and looked at Concubine Xu who was kneeling on the ground with a half-smiling smile: "Concubine Xu, get up, you are weak and can't kneel for a long time."
"Thank you, the Empress." Seeing Su Meidai's aloof attitude, Concubine Xu hated her heart, but she didn't dare to show a half-point on her face, instead she looked grateful.
A palace maid from Mingyue Palace gave her a hand.
She watched His Majesty and Su Meidai eat snacks and chat like ordinary couples, and she stood here, no different from the candlestick ornaments in the hall.
She thought Empress Su would bring up her past with Du Qingke and take the opportunity to smear Liu An's life experience, but she didn't say anything, and even after His Majesty praised the delicious snacks, she ordered people to give snacks to several princes in Zhang Liugong.
What does Su Meidai mean, pretending to be virtuous in front of His Majesty
"Princess, have you heard the rumors in the palace?" When the Spring Equinox was dressing Jiuzhu, she whispered, "It has spread all over in just a few days, and this slave thinks something is wrong."
"What rumor?" Jiuzhu asked curiously.
"Some people say that His Royal Highness King Huai is not of His Majesty's blood, but born of the fornication between Concubine Xu and Du Qingke, the head of the Du family."
"How is that possible?" Jiu Zhu shook her head and denied: "King Huai's eyebrows and nose are exactly the same as His Majesty's. No one with eyes can say such a thing."
Thinking of the mild-mannered Princess Huai, Jiuzhu said, "I'll go to Zhang Liugong later and find some sisters-in-law to play with."
Rumors suddenly spread for only one reason, that is, someone deliberately spread rumors.
The queen mother has always been kind and honest, and she will definitely not allow this rumor to continue to ferment in the palace.
"You stay with the big brother and sister-in-law for dinner at noon, and I will go there later." King Chen walked over to her, lowered his head and gently kissed her forehead: "Wait for me."
At this moment, the one in the worst mood is King Huai. He has a good royal blood. Suddenly, everyone around him suspects that his mother has put a green hat on his father, and the look in his eyes is not right.
The most extreme thing is that when I met the third brother Jing Wang just now, the other party saw him from a distance and turned around and walked away. With so many palace maids and eunuchs present, the behavior of the third child almost pointed at his nose and told everyone, come and see, there is really something wrong with my eldest brother's identity!
I really didn't expect that the third brother, who was usually silent, was not a good thing to do things so sinisterly.
"Your Highness, don't walk around in front of my eyes, are you annoying?!" Princess Huai couldn't bear it anymore and said, "What's the use of you being so anxious here, now the most important thing is not what the maids and eunuchs say, but whether the royal father believes it or not. you."
"Could it be that I can go to the father and put this matter on the bright side?" King Huai thumped the table angrily.
"You said this..." King Huai lowered his voice, "Could it be that Empress Su's lineage is plotting against me?"
Concubine Huai slowly shook her head: "The father has already made the fifth brother the crown prince, why does the queen need to do this?"
"How do you know what's at stake here?" Wang Huai disagreed with Princess Huai's words: "Don't forget, I am the eldest son."
"If you dislike me as a woman, don't discuss it with me." Princess Huai finally couldn't bear to lift the table: "Go to those concubines of yours!"
Shocked by her sudden temper, King Huai's momentum weakened by two points: "It's just a rumor, I'm still King Huai now, you are in a hurry to cross the river with me and demolish the bridge?"
Princess Huai laughed angrily, raised the tea bowl beside her hand, and was about to smash it when she heard Ming Jiuzhu's voice from outside the yard.
"Is Big Brother and Sister-in-law here?"
Princess Huai put down the tea bowl and hurried out: "Fifth younger siblings?"
"Sister-in-law, eldest brother." Jiuzhu glanced at King Huai, who came out with Princess Huai, and saluted the two: "The weather is fine today, my Highness and I want to shamelessly come here to ask you for a lunch, I don't know if sis-in-law and eldest brother are reluctant to do so. Willing to?"
Before Wang Huai could react, Princess Huai nodded with a smile on her face: "I'm willing to give it up, what the five younger siblings want to eat, even if I tell my sister-in-law, my sister-in-law will definitely be satisfied, you just don't dislike it."
"What's there to eat, and my sister-in-law doesn't call me?" Princess An leaned over and appeared at the gate of the courtyard, and walked in with a smile: "I heard you mention lunch just now."
"If there is something delicious, I will definitely be without you." Princess Huai saw that Wang Huai was still standing there stupidly, her eyebrows stood upright: "Your Highness, why don't you go and order the small kitchen to prepare?"
The fifth siblings came here from the Qilin Palace on purpose, just to help him decipher the rumors, why is he not flexible at all
Could it be that the future prince and concubine really cherished a lunch for the two of them
Wang Huai was shocked, and his mind finally reacted: "Five younger siblings admire their faces, how can a brother be stingy, I will go to the small kitchen and watch them prepare ingredients." He glanced behind Jiuzhu, Yun Duqing was not there: " I don't know when the fifth brother will come?"
"My Royal Highness was summoned by the Royal Father, and I will come later." Jiu Zhu smiled: "Before your Highness went out, he specially instructed me to ask my eldest brother to prepare wine and food, and he would come over for a big meal."
A flower appeared with a smile on King Huai's face: "Oh, eat whatever you want, open it up."
He had lived for more than 20 years, and it was the first time that he felt that Yun Duqing was so likable.
King Chen was in Taiyang Palace, and after learning from Emperor Longfeng, he got up and prepared to leave.
Emperor Longfeng stopped him: "You still have Zhezipi this afternoon, where are you going?"
"Father, my son is going to my elder brother for lunch today, so you will give my son half a day off?" King Chen rubbed his hands together and smiled: "My elder brother is the host, and my son needs to eat more."
Emperor Longfeng was stunned for a moment, then smiled, very relieved.
"Go." He closed the memorial in his hand: "I'll give you half a day off and eat more."
The best way to decipher gossip is not to force people to shut up.
Instead, it uses actual actions to make people feel that those rumors are jokes that only fools believe.