With the Queen's doting on her own year after year, the ministers are also tired of their eyesight.
It's like there is one thing, it's obviously unethical, but when it appears, it's like that. After a long time, everyone even thinks that it should be like that.
Of course, there will also be one or two little shrimps who jumped out to propose that Emperor Jing's harem should accept concubines, but Emperor Jing ignored them, and after a long time, no one mentioned it.
Concubine Qiao passed away, it is said that she died of illness, and there was not even a splash in the harem in the previous dynasty.
In the south, far away from the capital, in an alley of a small town, there was a widow who moved here with an old and a young man.
The story continues, but what will happen next, no one knows...
Xiaohua did not expect Concubine Qiao to make such a choice, and did not expect that the uncle of Chengyang would agree to Concubine Qiao's decision. But just as she said herself, a woman's happiness does not come from brocade clothes and jade food. For a person as smart as Qiao Concubine, she must have her own ideas for choosing such a life.
Wish her happiness.
Concubine Jing and Concubine An had already made arrangements, but there was no movement there. Suddenly, one day, Concubine Jing and Concubine An came to Fengqi Palace to ask to see the queen.
"The good intentions of the goddess, we take it. We understand the meaning of the goddess, but we are different from sister Qiao Concubine after all, like us, there is no happiness to go out, it is better to continue to stay in the palace and continue to mess around. The goddess I shouldn't dislike the fact that we have two more mouths in the palace..."
Xiaohua was silent about the speeches of Concubine Jing and Concubine An.
However, she respects the choices of others, and everyone has their own way of life in the future. No matter what, she has a clear conscience when she does what she wants to do.
"Niangniang don't need to think too much, in fact, as long as people think about it, life will not be sad..."
People with such thoughts should not have a hard time.
***
Days passed like flowing water, year after year.
In the past few years, Luo Ye, Yiyi, and Luo Yu have grown up. The feeling to Xiaohua is that in the blink of an eye, the children grow up a year, and in the blink of an eye, the children grow up another year, and her life with Emperor Jing has remained the same for decades. day.
Emperor Jing was a dull person. He didn't like silk, bamboo, singing and dancing, or chess. He didn't have any leisure hobbies. Every day was three o'clock and one line. The former imperial study was Fengqi Palace, and the palace that should belong to him was Zichen Palace. But it's been vacant for too long.
Of course, the two also had the urge to go out for a walk and play, but Emperor Jing was too busy with government affairs, and Xiaohua was reluctant to leave a few young children behind, so she could only give up.
The days went on like this, peaceful but full of warmth and joy.
It was not until Emperor Jing discussed with Xiaohua about choosing a concubine for Yiyi that Xiaohua realized that her daughter was about to get married, and she seemed to be getting old.
Of course, this is just her own idea. In Emperor Jing's eyes, she is still as beautiful as one day for decades, but Emperor Jing will not say it. His nature is a person who doesn't speak sweet words very much. He only has actions to express his heart, and the only time Emperor Jing told Xiaohua about beauty was back to the day after Xiaohua was sealed.
That was eight years ago.
In all fairness, Xiaohua is not old. At the age of thirty-two, it was the time when a woman was full of beauty and charm, as can be seen from the occasional obsession in Emperor Jing's eyes over the past few years.
Xiaohua didn't know that she had inadvertently turned over Jingdi countless times. The old couple had been together for a long time, and they would always worry that the other party would get bored over time.
For example, Xiaohua would occasionally be very worried and ask Emperor Jing whether he was old or not as good-looking as before, or Emperor Jing suddenly became more concerned about his appearance.
Compared with many years ago, Emperor Jing has changed a lot. First of all, his temperament has changed. At that time, he was as indifferent as dust, but now he is still indifferent, but he has the hegemony of a superior who is not angry and powerful. He is over forty years old, and his figure is still as well maintained as in previous years, thin and strong. However, due to the work of political affairs all day long, the temples are a little more white.
In the past, he never cared about his appearance, but when the queen was worried and asked him if he was old, he went to look in the mirror on a whim. Seeing myself in the mirror, and then looking at her, I suddenly remembered something, if Ruo was old, it should be him, after all, he was eleven years older than her.
Looking at her, who was becoming more and more charming, and then looking at herself, she added an illusion that she was much older than Xiao Hua'er. After asking the imperial doctor, Emperor Jing began to take some medicated meals made of Polygonum multiflorum every day.
Naturally, this matter was not concealed from Xiaohua, she smiled secretly in her heart, and pretended not to know. It's just that when the two were together, she would always look worried and say something like 'Your Majesty, don't look for new people when you're old.' It added some weird self-confidence to Emperor Jing, but at the same time, it was righteous and awe-inspiring, I and the Queen have been in love for so many years.
After that, both sides are balanced, and continue to be envious of you and me.
There are so many little pleasures like this that belong to couples. As the daughter of the two, Princess Yiyi, while her teeth are sore, she is also full of admiration.
She and Luo Ye are both sixteen, Luo Ye can get married at eighteen, but she is imminent.
Xiaohua and Yiyi talked about choosing a concubine, and Yiyi was inexplicably unhappy.
"Mother, you can't stand your daughter so much. She's only sixteen, so you're in a hurry to marry her off."
The sixteen-year-old Yiyi has grown into a rather beautiful girl, with a pair of peach blossom eyes, a small face the size of a slap inherited from Xiaohua, curved willow eyebrows, small cherry mouths that are not pointed and red, and two pear eddies in a smile. , sweet and moving.
Xiaohua pulled Yiyi into her arms and stroked her daughter's dark and bushy hair, "Silly girl, mother doesn't dislike you, but you are at the age to worry about marriage. pre-selected."
"Let's talk about it in two years, okay?"
Xiaohua did not speak and looked at her daughter.
"Is it okay, okay?" Yiyi tried her best to act like a spoiled child, she knew that her mother liked her.
"But your father..."
"The father goes there and the mother talks, the father listens to the mother the most. The daughter doesn't want to get married yet, and Yiyi still wants to accompany her father and mother..."
Xiaohua sighed and stroked her daughter's hair.
When lying on the couch at night, Xiaohua sighed and said, "Jing Lang, our daughter said that we will talk about marriage two years later."
Emperor Jing frowned and said nothing.
"How do you say this is going to be solved? I don't know what to think about these little things. I'm really worried."
Emperor Jing pulled her into his arms and whispered: "My daughter is not too young, she should be able to solve this kind of thing by herself."
"I'm afraid that my daughter will get hurt..." The heart of a mother is always like this.
"Our daughter is not stupid, she knows it in her heart." Compared with Xiaohua, who cares and messes up, Emperor Jing naturally sees it more clearly.
***
"Yiyi, Yiyi, wait for me..."
A teenager shouted from behind, and a few strides forwarded and ran to Yiyi to stop her from going.
"What's the matter with you? Why are you avoiding me when you see me? A few days ago, I got a new thing and wanted to give it to you, but I haven't been able to get a chance."
Saying that, the boy took out a small object from his arms.
A little rabbit with the big thumb is holding a carrot and chewing it. The little rabbit is milky white suet jade, but the carrot is red jadeite. What is rare is not how good the jade is, but that the sculptor is lifelike, and the whole thing is carved from a piece of jade.
"Do you like it? The jade I was looking for specially, I carved it and brought it to you."
The young man is Yang Heng. He and Yiyi grew up as childhood sweethearts. They are both lively and can play together very well. Although they have grown up with men and women, but Yiyi is not hypocritical, plus Yang Heng often goes out of the court, the relationship between the two has always been very good.
But I don't know since when, Yiyi started to hide from Yang Heng, which left him puzzled. He thought that he had accidentally annoyed her, so he found this person who wanted to win her favor.
Yiyi really liked it, and watched it for a while. After suddenly thinking of something, his face became complicated, and he stuffed the thing back into Yang Heng's hand.
"What's wrong? You don't like it?" Yang Heng scratched his head in confusion.
He is also sixteen this year. He is tall and tall. His angular face is the same as that of his father Yang Tiezhu.
"No." Yiyi turned her back.
"Then what's wrong with you? You don't want to play with me anymore. Did I annoy you because I didn't do well there?" Yang Heng followed and ran to her again.
There was a look of light worry in Yiyi's brows, which was very different from the lively and cheerful girl she usually laughed at.
"Yang Heng, we are all grown up, I can't ask for your things..."
"Don't you keep all the gadgets I gave you in the past? Why can't you ask for them now?" Yang Heng really couldn't think of whether or not he wanted something. It had nothing to do with whether he grew up or not.
Yiyi didn't know how to answer, so she could only shout at him, 'If I say no, I don't want it', and the man ran away.
Leaving Yang Heng to look at her retreating back for a long time, he dejectedly shoved the rabbit into his arms.
…
When I went home in the evening, it was in the Yang family's carriage.
"Brother, Yiyi got angry with me. I don't know where to provoke her. She doesn't want to give her a bunny."
Yang Nuo, who was looking down at the book, raised his eyes to glance at his disheartened younger brother, a strange look flashed in his eyes, but unfortunately Yang Heng just lowered his head and sighed and didn't see it.
"Is that the gadget that you asked Dad to find the jade carving?"
Yang Heng took out the little rabbit and showed it to Yang Nuo, "Does it go well with Yiyi, cute?"
Really cute.
Yang Nuo smiled knowingly after seeing it. Seeing this rabbit gnawing on radishes, it was like seeing Yiyi squinting her eyes proudly, her water chestnut mouth twitching up and her naughty mouth, which made people unable to help but soften their hearts.
But these emotions were only for a moment. Following Yang Nuo, the smile on the corner of his mouth was restrained. He turned his eyes back to the scroll in his hand and turned a page.
"There must be her reasons for not accepting it."
"She said that when she grew up, she couldn't ask for anything from me anymore. But this has nothing to do with growing up or not!"
Yang Nuo's eyes flashed, "She is a big girl, so naturally she can't accept things from outsiders at will."
"But..." Yang Heng frowned, then stretched out again, "Forget it, she must be in a bad mood these few days. I'll send her off when she's in a better mood."
On the contrary, Yang Nuo frowned again.