The moon was bright and bright, and Ban Hua and Rong Xia set foot on the Hall of Qinzheng side by side.
Under the watchful eyes of all the courtiers, Rong Xia clenched Ban Hua's hand and said to everyone: "This year, Madam has helped me a lot, without Madam, I would not be where I am today. I cannot accept the courtesy of your lords alone. "
"Your Majesty, this is the ceremony..." An adult wanted to say, how could a woman accept the ceremony with a man, but was covered by the general who appeared out of nowhere. He widened his eyes and cursed in his heart, these generals are too vulgar and rude.
"Meet Your Majesty, Long Live Your Majesty, Long Live Long Live. Meet the Empress, the Empress is a thousand years old, a thousand thousand years old." Zhao Zhong lifted his robes and knelt down in front of the two of them.
After he knelt down, countless generals knelt down with him, and all the civil servants who had friendship with Rong Xia willingly bowed and bowed.
The ground was cold, Shi Jin knelt on the ground, looked up at the men and women standing under the moonlight, and lowered his head slowly.
From then on, he is the minister and she is the queen, and he can't even have a trace of delusion.
Ban Hua and Rong Xia did not move into the main palace immediately, but stayed in the side palace of Da Yue Palace. Ban Hua has been to Da Yuegong many times, but this is the first time she has lived here, and she didn't fall asleep until after her son.
"Hua?"
"Have I disturbed you?"
"No," Rong Xia took her into his arms, "I can't sleep a little too."
"Then tell me a story," Ban Hua leaned against Rong Xia's arms, "tell a story with a sweet beginning and a happy ending."
"it is good."
"It is said that there is a strange stone in Shu, with a big head and a small body, but it can stand on the top of the mountain. When passers-by pass by and see this, they are shocked..."
Before a story was finished, Ban Hua had already fallen asleep, Rong Xia kissed the corner of her lips, closed her eyes and fell asleep smelling the fragrance of her hair.
Since childhood, Rongxia never dreamed, but this night he had a strange dream. He was standing on the frozen lake, and a little girl dressed in fluffy stood in front of him, looking at him with wide eyes, "Brother, will you take me to play on the ice?"
He wanted to say that it was very dangerous on the ice, and the little girl's face gradually changed into Ban Hua's face. She looked at him with a smile, and her heart softened when she saw him. However, at the next moment, Hua Hua disappeared, and he looked around in a hurry, only to see the thick fog that could not be dispersed and the empty surroundings.
"Hua!" Rong Xia opened her eyes, turned her head to look beside her, and there was no one beside her.
"Come on!"
"Your Majesty, what are your orders?"
"Where's the queen?"
"Your Majesty, Niangniang went to see the Empress Dowager Qianchao." Wang De saw that Rongxia's face was not right, and said, "Niangniang said, you haven't slept peacefully these days, so don't let us come in to disturb you."
"I see, they all came in and waited for me to wash." Rong Xia rubbed her forehead, "How long has the queen been gone?"
"It's about time for two cups of tea," Wang De hesitated, "Your Majesty, if you have something to ask the Empress, the servant will go to invite the Empress."
"No need," Rong Xia hesitated for a while, "The queen has the final say in this palace, let her go."
"Yes." When Wang De heard this, he confirmed the supreme status of Ban Hua in his heart.
Ban Hua sat next to the queen mother. The queen mother looked haggard, but there was no flaw in her etiquette, but she could feel that the queen mother was not as close to her as before.
"Girl," the empress dowager smiled more politely than intimacy, "haven't seen you for a year, you are more dignified than ever."
"Is Niangniang playing a joke on a niece?" Ban Yan took a sip of tea, "When did I have prestige since I was a child?"
"How have I treated you all these years?" The Queen Mother didn't care about her excuses and asked directly, "Have I ever treated you badly?"
"My lord treats me like a child, and doesn't treat me badly." Ban Hua shook her head.
"Then tell me, why do you want to force the palace together with Rong Xia?" The queen mother did not have any grudges against Ban Hua and Rong Xia, "Is this your reward to me?"
Ban Hua did not speak.
"This is the end of the matter, I have nothing to ask for," the queen mother smiled bitterly, and she looked at Ban Hua with red eyes, "I know you have a lot of face in front of the new emperor, so can you agree to one of my requests?"
"Mother, please speak."
"Would you let the new emperor release Luo Er?" The queen mother held the handkerchief tightly in her hand, "I know he has done a lot of wrong things, but the bigger fault is that I didn't teach him well. I can guarantee that as long as you keep him alive, I will never let him mess up again..."
"Why?"
Xie Wanyu suddenly pushed open the door and walked in. She looked at the Queen Mother resentfully, "Why did he do all the evil things and still want to save his life, just because he has the blood of your Jiang Dynasty on his body, so other people's lives are lost. It's not life, should he be ravaged by it?"
"Queen Mother, you have sons, and everyone in the world has sons. When Jiang Luo killed them, did you ever think that the parents of these people would also be sad?" Xie Wanyu's eyes were red, and there was a bit of happiness in his tone, "Jiang Luoluo Today's end, it's all his own fault, he deserves it!"
"Xie Shi, you..." The Queen Mother didn't expect Xie Wanyu to suddenly appear, she sat on the chair in a daze, unable to refute a word.
"The queen mother protected my life in Jiang Luo's hands, I am very grateful," Xie Wanyu knelt in front of the queen mother and kowtowed three times to her, "but on this point, I will not agree with you."
She got up from the ground, turned around and saluted Ban Hua respectfully, "Thank you for your help last night."
Originally, she was going to be imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison like Jiang Luo, but later, because Ban Hua said a few words, they were brought into a palace together as a harem. Although it was crowded, the house was clean, and there were people who brought hot water and meals, which was countless times better than Tianjing.
"Jiang Luo's mistake has nothing to do with you harem maids." Ban Hua saw Xie Wanyu's body was full of depression, and the corners of her eyes were stained with fine lines, and her emotions were a bit complicated. She didn't expect her to become like this. .
Xie Wanyu smiled reluctantly and laughed at himself: "Two years ago, I was proud that I was about to marry into the royal family, and you finally bowed your head to salute me. I didn't expect my life to be a mess, but you... "
Thousands of years later, someone will know who Ban Hua is, and she is probably a poor person with only a few strokes in the history books. It is uncertain whether she can leave a surname.
"It's no longer interesting to say that," Xie Wanyu said slowly to Ban Hu, "retire."
Ban Hua looked at the back of her leaving, and his expression was a little moved.
"Hua, I..."
"Niangniang," Ban Hua interrupted the Queen Mother and said directly, "Rongxia is my man."
The queen was stunned, what did she mean by this.
"He's willing to listen to me because he treats me well, but I won't abuse it, especially making some demands that are not good for him," Ban Hua stood up from the chair and said to the Queen Mother slowly, " He is good to me, I want to protect him, how can I harm his interests because of outsiders."
"Please forgive me, I can't help you." She turned around and was about to leave, but the Queen Mother grabbed her wrist.
"Hua, just treat me begging you, I beg you." The queen mother grabbed her arm and knelt in front of her. This woman who has been beautiful all her life has now abandoned her grace and face, and just wants to save her son's life.
"Niangniang," Ban Hua looked at the embarrassed queen mother, and pushed her hand away cruelly, "Yu Gong, for the sake of the people of the world, I cannot agree to your request. Yu Si, I will not let my husband stay in front of me. To the emperor, it will cause trouble for him in the future. Even if you are kneeling here all the time today, I will not promise you."
"Are you really so ruthless?" The Queen Mother hoarsely grabbed the hem of Ban Hua's skirt, "Why is your heart so ruthless, why?"
Ban Hua ignored the Queen Mother's scolding, but said calmly: "Don't worry, after the enthronement ceremony, I will let His Majesty honor you as the Queen Mother, and let you go to another palace to be raised, and I won't let you suffer at all."
"And the prince," Ban Hua paused, "His Majesty will not kill him, as long as he is honest, he will be prosperous and rich all his life."
The empress dowager weakly loosened the hem of Ban Hua's skirt, crying and twitching all over.
"Niangniang, if I were you, I would definitely not make trouble at this time. If you continue to make trouble and offend Your Majesty, I am afraid that even the Prince's life will not be saved."
The queen mother looked at Ban Hua in surprise. She didn't seem to think that Ban Hua, who always only knew how to eat, drink, and have fun, would actually say such words.
"Niangniang, do you know how my grandfather passed away?" Ban Hua looked down at the queen mother, her eyes were bright and clear, as if she knew everything, and she seemed to be simply asking the queen mother a question she didn't know.
The queen mother sat on the ground in a daze, and she didn't come back to her senses until Ban Hua went out.
She didn't know how her uncle died at first, but after His Majesty got sick, she gradually guessed the truth. Why does Ban Hua ask this? Does she... already know
She was cold all over her body, Ban Hua... When did she know about it
When Ban Hua returned to the side hall of Da Yue Palace, Rong Xia, dressed in black clothes, was sitting in front of the desk reading some official documents, but after getting along with Rong Xia for a long time, Ban Hua could see at a glance that he was pretending because he really read books It's not like that.
"Hua, you're back?" Rong Xia got up and pulled Ban Hua to sit beside him, then spread out the auspicious days calculated by Qin Tianjian, "People from Qin Tianjian said that after five days, it will be a good day, suitable for holding the throne. Grand Ceremony. They have calculated three days, one is the 12th day, the other is the eighth day of the next month, and the other is two months later. I think the day after the 12th day is very good, what do you think?"
Seeing that Rongxia had made comments on these dates, Ban Hua nodded and said, "I don't know much about these things, you just think it's appropriate."
"I'm in a hurry to get everyone in the world to call you the Queen Empress." Rong Xia kissed her nose, "Next month is too long, I can't wait."
"Isn't it better for everyone in the world to call me the queen?" Ban Hua said casually, playing with the book written by the Qin Tianjian in his hand.
Rong Xia chuckled and sat on her knees: "I will call you the queen, okay? The whole world calls me the emperor, and you are my queen, and I am under one person and above ten thousand people. emperor."
"Shameless," Ban Hua rubbed his cheek and jumped off his knee, "I have a headache just looking at these things, you should worry about it yourself."
"Where are you going?" Rong Xia grabbed her hand.
"I went out of the palace to see my family," Ban Hua's eyes were glowing when she mentioned her family, "I haven't seen each other for almost a year, how are they doing now?"
"Don't worry, I'll send someone to protect them," Rong Xia followed, "I'll go with you."
"Don't," Ban Hua hurriedly pressed him back, "I know your intentions, but you are not suitable to leave the palace now. You have to deal with Jiang Luo's mess, not to mention that if it spreads out, it is ours. The Ban family’s relatives have the exclusive power, how can our Ban family justify it?”
Cons:…
This is obviously his intention to honor the Ban family, how did it change his taste when he got into the mouth of Hua Bao
"What our family wants to do is to be an eminent and lazy gangster who doesn't dare to offend others, but we don't want to be a foreign relative who is in charge of everything and is exhausted. This kind of thing is too brainy, just like my father and my brother..." Ban Hua coughed dryly. She felt that when she spoke, she should still show some respect to her family, "You know."
Rong Xia laughed when she heard the words: "Don't talk nonsense, father-in-law and brother Heng are very good."
"Yeah, the two of them are the top gangsters who lead the various ways of playing in the capital," Ban Hua tutted, "Okay, that's it, you can send a few more respectable followers out of the palace with me. It can be considered to give face to my mother's family."
After Rong Xia thought about it carefully, he called Du Jiu, Wang De, and two trusted confidants, and asked them to accompany Ban Hua to Jingting Palace. Although Ban Hua has not yet held the ceremony of conferring the queen, but because Rong Xia always values Ban Hua's attitude, the palace people in the palace province are eager to please the new master. Arranged according to the grade of the main palace queen.
Ban Hua did not object to this arrangement. The more stable her position was at this time, the world would not dare to offend the Ban family.
Before stepping on the carriage, Ban Hua said, "When did my family move back to Jingting Gongfu?"
"Niangniang, last night, Your Majesty arranged for someone to clean up the Jingting Gongfu, and then welcomed the Lord and his wife back to the house," Wang De bowed and replied, "Mistery, Your Majesty's ceremonies have also been installed. You can go."
"Ceremony?" Ban Hua was stunned. It turned out that Rongxia had prepared a ceremony. She, as a daughter, only wanted to see her family, but she forgot the gift.
"Well, let's go."
"Get off!"
The three members of the Ban family were sitting in the courtyard in Jingting Gongfu. The three of them looked solemn, and no one spoke. The house was kept clean, almost exactly the same as before the house was raided. But now the focus is not on this mansion, but their minds are a little confused.
They chose from thousands of choices, and chose a man who was talented and caring for their daughter. They thought that they would be able to have a happy birthday in a few years, but they knew that Jiang Luo would ascend to the throne soon and cut their titles.
It's not a big deal, anyway, they've already made mental preparations, the point is... How did Rong Xia collude with the rebels in the blink of an eye
In the blink of an eye, Rong Xia became the leader of the rebel army, and even led his troops into the capital, becoming the new emperor.
The people who greeted them back to the house last night, one by one, your majesty, one by one empress, made them realize for the first time that what is reality is even more absurd than words.
"Father, do you think I'm dreaming?" Ban Heng looked at Ban Huai blankly, "I'm the emperor's brother-in-law?"
Ban Huai twisted his arm, and after hearing his screams, he shook his head affirmatively, "You are not dreaming."
"What's the trouble?" Yin Shi patted the table, "Do you think being the emperor's husband-in-law is an easy task?" Throughout the ages, how many queens' parents died, not only did they kill the queen, but even the whole family followed suit. .
Ban Huai and Ban Heng bowed their heads obediently.
"Before Hua Hua got married to him, none of us saw that he had this kind of mind. How deep his heart was, you and I couldn't think of it..."
"If we even think about it, can he succeed in rebelling?" Ban Huai retorted in a low voice, "It's normal that we don't see it."
"You shut up at this time, I won't treat you as dumb."
Ban Huai: …
"A scheming emperor, how many ways does Ma Hua have to play him?" Yin Shi couldn't help but sneered, "Can she beat him with her?"
Ban Heng felt that his mother was also quite sturdy. At this time, he didn't want to let their family have the glory of the royal family. He only wanted to think about how his sister could overwhelm the new emperor. This kind of ideology is different from that of ordinary women in the back house. .
"It's not me, it's not a problem for my sister to beat two emperors." Ban Heng raised his chin proudly, "I asked those people yesterday, and my sister has also been on the battlefield, and is highly respected by soldiers."
"If you have half of your sister's ability, I don't have to worry so much!" Yinshi turned his head to train Banheng, "Just like you, you are embarrassed to go out and say, are you Hua Hua's younger brother, don't you feel ashamed of your sister? "
"This has been lost for more than ten years. You can't let me pick it up all at once, can you?" Ban Heng looked at Yin Shi aggrievedly, "Mother, I am your own son."
"If you weren't my own, I would have thrown you out a long time ago," Yin Shi took a deep breath. "Okay, you father and son, don't make trouble anymore. There are two things I must tell you."
"One, no matter who comes to ask you to do things in the future, don't agree easily."
"Second, you must be careful who Heng Er takes his wife. Our Ban family will not treat your daughter-in-law harshly, but we can't allow the daughter-in-law to affect the whole family." Yin Shi looked at Ban Heng, "Don't be fooled by any flowers at will. Seduce, do shameful things."
"Mother, don't worry," Ban Heng said honestly, "I'm used to seeing my sister's face. In my eyes, all women in the world are vulgar fans."
"Nonsense," Yin Shi raised his eyebrows, "the beauty of a woman is not only in the skin, if you treat the girl's family with this attitude, don't get married at all, so as not to spoil the good girl."
Ban Heng looked solemn: "Mother, I was just joking, I didn't mean that..."
"Master, Madam, Niangniang came to see you." The housekeeper ran in with a happy face, "There are carriages and horses outside the gate of our house, and Niangniang came by a phoenix car."
The three members of the Ban family were stunned for a moment before they realized that the mother-in-law in the housekeeper's mouth was not someone else, but the daughter of their family who was led by Rong Xia to rebel.
Yin Shi stood up excitedly: "Why is she here at this time, will there be any objection when facing up?"
She muttered in her mouth, but she didn't stop at her feet, and ran out in a hurry.
Ban Hua took a phoenix car and passed by the main road of the capital. The imperial guards cleared the way, and the eunuchs and palace maids escorted them. The battle was not too big. Even ordinary people who haven't seen many people in the market, saw the dragon and phoenix auspicious patterns carved on the carriage, and also drove the carriage with eighteen horses, and immediately got far away.
All the way to Jingting Gongfu, Ban Hua supported the hand of the palace maid and got off the carriage, looked at the familiar plaque on the gate, her eyes were slightly warm, she refused the sedan chair prepared by the servant, and directly lifted her skirt and walked into the gate.
The grass and the trees are still familiar, as if she never left.
The long palace skirt was streaked across the clean bluestone slab. Ban Hua walked very fast, and the palace maids and eunuchs behind her quickly followed, lest they slack off.
When approaching the second door, she suddenly stopped.
At the second gate, the three members of the Ban family stood there, and they stretched their necks to look around, until the moment Ban Hua appeared, Ban Heng hurriedly greeted him.
"Sister!" Ban Heng ran to meet him, then asked around Ban Hu, grabbed the skirt held by the palace maid into his own hands, and followed Ban Hu like a puppy's legs.
Seeing him like this, Ban Hua's eyes turned red with laughter, and she reached out and tapped his forehead: "It looks a little taller."
"Have you really grown taller?" Ban Heng smiled brightly, "I've been practicing boxing this year, and my appetite has increased a lot."
"It's better for a man to eat more." She patted Ban Heng on the shoulder, and she was indeed stronger than before. The siblings chatted and laughed and came to Ban Huai and Yin Shi.
"Father, mother," Ban Hua knelt down towards the two of them, "the daughter is not filial, which makes the two elders worried."
"Get up, get up quickly," Yin Shi wiped her tears and helped Ban Hua up from the ground, "Just come back, just come back."
Ban Hua rubbed against Yin Shi's body, her little daughter was full of posture.
She glanced at the palace maid and eunuch who was following behind her, and said to Wang De, "You are all waiting outside, you don't need to wait on the inside."
"Yes." Wang De took a step back respectfully.
Yin Shi recognized this person as the eunuch who served by Emperor Yunqing's side before, but she did not show any emotion on her face. It was not until the family of four entered the inner courtyard that she asked, "Is Wang De from Rong Xia?"
Ban Hua nodded: "Well."
"No wonder..." Even the emperor has his own person, and this person is also the chief eunuch of the big family. If Rong Xia doesn't want to be the emperor, who will
The three gathered around Ban Hua and asked a lot about things after leaving Beijing, and Ban Hua also picked out some interesting things to tell, which made the three of them laugh, and the sky darkened before they knew it.
Only then did the family of four remember that, from noon to now, apart from tea and snacks, they didn't even have any food.
Yin Shi glanced at the sky and wanted to stay in the class to eat, but she told her rationally that it was time for her daughter to return to the palace.
She touched her daughter's hand tremblingly, and smiled reluctantly: "It's hard to travel at night, you... be careful."
Ban Hua smiled and looked at Yin Shi: "Won't my mother let me eat?"
"Stay, stay," Yin Shi turned his head and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes before smiling at Ban Hua and said, "I'll let the kitchen cook."
In the guest room of the second door, a little eunuch approached Wang De and said, "Father-in-law, it's getting late, my lady..."
"Shut up," Wang De said with a sullen face, "The Empress has her own way of doing things, so you don't need to wait any longer."
Half an hour later, Wang De heard the news from outside that the Empress was ready to return to the palace. He hurriedly got up and straightened his clothes and rinsed his mouth with tea before trotting out of the guest room.
In the dark of night, the Ban family took the empress step by step to the door, and even the empress' skirt was carried by the heir of the Ban family.
Wang De knew how deep the Ban family's relationship was. Seeing the scene in front of him, he had the urge to sigh.
Perhaps Ban's family never thought that Ban County Master would become the empress.
"Niangniang, get up and drive back to the palace." Wang De shook the whisk in his hand and called out loudly.
The carriage slowly moved forward. Wang De, who was riding on the horse, turned his head. The red candles outside the Jingting Palace gate were shining brightly. The three members of the Ban family stood under the steps, not moving.
He looked back at the motionless carriage, shook his head and sighed, this is destiny.
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