On the second day of their wedding, Zhao Zuo took Xiao Wu into the palace to thank him.
As usual, Zhao Zuo went to Qianqing Palace first, while Xiao Wu went to Kunning Palace.
In the Qianqing Palace, Emperor Hongjing had just come down to court, and he hadn't changed out of his bright yellow court clothes.
"I'm finally relieved that you can get married."
"It is a serious crime for grandson to let the emperor's grandfather worry about it."
Emperor Hongjing patted him on the shoulder: "You can't say that, I originally wanted to choose a good one for you, who would have thought that your mother and concubine would be seriously ill, so that's fine, you can be regarded as doing your part to be a son of man." Filial piety, I have wronged you."
Both grandparents and grandchildren understood the meaning of this grievance.
"Grandfather praises, grandson is ashamed of it, and grandson is not wronged."
"Go to the Queen's place quickly, I won't keep you any longer."
Zhao Zuo nodded, then bowed to leave, and he seemed to be in a good mood.
Emperor Hongjing looked at his back, and there was faint disappointment in his eyes.
He stood up suddenly and walked back and forth. The narrow and long eyes of a man from the Zhao family looked out of the palace door, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
"Go to the study, is it okay?"
"It's all good, all is good, the little emperor's grandsons are very diligent and hardworking. Especially Mr. Xiaobao, Mr. Zong said that he can move there, but..." Li Dequan paused, and then said: "But Mr. Xiaobao doesn't want to , I just want to stay here."
This side and that side are just a distinction between the upper study room. For example, the other side refers to the serious upper study room, which is filled with the royal grandchildren of the appropriate age in the palace. The younger children in the house also came, and another place was set up.
The difference between the two is that the former has a certain number of masters, all of whom are great Confucianists and knowledgeable people, and the content of the teaching is very broad and more rigorous. And the latter is just playing around. Although the master is also from the Imperial Academy, he is one level behind.
Zong Mu said that Xiaobao can be moved there, that is to say, he thinks that his intelligence has completely surpassed the age limit, and it is a bit wasteful to stay here to waste time.
It's a pity that Xiaobao didn't want to.
Emperor Hongjing couldn't help laughing after hearing this: "That child, Xiaobao, has a good relationship with children from several other families recently?"
Li Dequan nodded, and couldn't help but smile a little on his face: "Mr. Xiaobao is a benevolent person. Although he is young, he can see that he is kind and righteous, and his future is limitless." What happens in the study room every day will be reported to Li Dequan first. Come on, he naturally knows all this.
Seriously speaking, Xiaobao is already the leader in the upper study here.
Obviously, among the emperor's grandsons, there are some who are much older than him, but they just believe in him. And Emperor Hongjing naturally knew all of this.
"Well, if he is willing to stay, he will continue to stay, and let Zongmu order many people to point out from the side."
Li Dequan nodded in response.
With his hands behind his back, Emperor Hongjing walked back and forth a few steps: "As for Zuo'er..." He didn't say the rest, but sighed deeply.
But Li Dequan knew that His Majesty was disappointed with Prince Hui.
It is unclear when this disappointment started. It may be that King Hui's family moved out of the palace, and the prince went to the palace one after another, and it may be because the people above the court praised the prince more and more.
And this praise mostly refers to filial piety. It is true to be filial to the elders, but his filial piety is too much, and it feels like he is using too much force. And everyone knows that the prince has suffered a lot of grievances because of His Royal Highness, but this emotion will fade with time, but the prince ignores it and puts on a face of forbearance and grievance from time to time.
It's okay to do it once or twice, but it will inevitably cause people's resentment if the frequency is too many.
How can a man who will rule the world in the future behave like a woman? Even if he is filial to his elders, he shouldn't put all his thoughts on how to show filial piety to his grandparents every day.
Especially the matter of the ex-prince concubine discovering Princess Hui, although there were not many people present at the time, it was not that no one knew about it, but he wanted to make a big splash, and to put it bluntly, he deliberately did it for others to show filial piety, by the way Another reminder of his wrongedness.
This reminder is naturally Emperor Hongjing and Empress Wei.
Going astray, after all, going astray.
Li Dequan remembered that the grandson of the emperor was not like this. Was it the difference in status that caused the change in mentality? Or is there some other reason
But no matter what it is, these have become flaws in His Majesty's eyes.
People's hearts and human nature are changing every day. Li Dequan claims that he has lived a long time and has seen many big scenes, but now he can't understand it.
Not to mention His Majesty sighed, occasionally he would sigh if he thought too much.
Zhao Zuo and Xiao Wu's family had to go back to the mansion to offer tea to King Hui and his wife, so Queen Wei didn't keep them any longer.
The two walked on the front foot, and the king came on the back foot.
Among the two sons, King Hui was the most loved by Empress Wei, because King Hui was handsome when he was young, and he was the eldest son. On the contrary, the second son of the middle palace was not very popular with the empress, because Dai Wang had been taciturn and clumsy since he was a child.
It's a pity that what people didn't expect was that when King Hui grew up, he became fatter and more ridiculous. Empress Wei spent her whole life worrying about him, but in the end she lost the crown prince's position. On the contrary, it was the second son who didn't get much attention from him since he was a child. Since he returned to Beijing, he had to visit him in the palace every two days.
When Dai Wang came in, Empress Wei's eyes were dazed, not knowing what she was thinking. She didn't come back to her senses until Dai Wang asked for peace.
"I told you child that you don't need to worry about the queen mother, everything is fine in this palace."
Dai Wang didn't speak, just nodded.
In fact, Empress Wei often talked to Dai Wang about this kind of thing, but she said it belonged to her, and Dai Wang would do what she wanted. But I have to say that Empress Wei was still happy in her heart, the prince didn't know to come to see her on his own initiative, he had to send someone to ask for it three times before he knew he would come.
"Zuo'er just left?" Dai Wang asked.
Empress Wei nodded, and beckoned Dai Wang to sit down, "Your elder brother is really a sinner, and he delayed the birth of a child."
What empress Wei regrets is that she understands the acting king as well. Not to mention that among Queen Wei's grandsons, she already liked Zhao Zuo the most. If the prince wasn't ignorant, she wouldn't be so worried now.
The movement of Emperor Hongjing to set up the crown prince in the court has never stopped, and Wei Guogong's mansion is naturally anxious, so he urged the queen. But how can the queen be the master of Emperor Hongjing, and the family of Emperor Hongjing, besides, her identity is sensitive, so she can't say much about this kind of matter.
Wei Guogong meant to establish the king as the heir, which was logical and well-known, but Queen Wei still valued Zhao Zuo in her selfishness. After all, this grandson is filial enough to treat the small and look down on the big.
Thinking of her own selfishness, Empress Wei couldn't help but look at Dai Wang more.
Although Dai Wang drooped his eyelids, pretending to listen to Queen Wei's words seriously, he actually felt this gaze.
He, the queen mother, is not thoughtful enough, like a puppet without a head, who always does what his father says. Although he has been a queen for decades, he has a majestic posture, but it is an empty shelf. He can naturally understand the meaning of the queen mother's eyes.
Dai Wang was sneering in his heart, but his face was more calm. After listening to Empress Wei's nagging for a while, she said goodbye.
Walking out of the Kunning Gate, he turned his head and glanced at the Kunning Palace behind him. It seemed that his grandfather should work harder. It was obvious that his father had changed his mind about surpassing his son, otherwise he wouldn't have abolished the prince. So many brothers It would be a fool to wait any longer.
Yao Niang received a message from a servant that her parents had come, and she still couldn't believe it.
She just received her sister's letter, which didn't say anything about it. In order to confirm whether it was true or not, she asked Hongsi to take a look.
Not long after, Hongsi came back, and it was indeed the Yaosu family.
Although Hongsi doesn't know Su Xiucai and the others, she does know Huiniang and Yao Cheng. And listening to Yuchan's description of other people's appearance and body, it is really her parents who have come.
Yaoniang was so pleasantly surprised that she got off the kang subconsciously, and was about to walk out the door, but stopped for some reason.
"Ma'am, what's the matter?" Hongsi asked.
Hong Fei and the others next to her also looked at her with eyes.
Yaoniang turned around several times before sitting down on the kang again. She seemed to be a little anxious, and her fingers kept tapping on the kang table just like King Jin.
Her parents are here, Zhu Shi and elder brother must also come, in fact Yaoniang prefers her parents to come this time, it must be Zhu Shi and elder brother who instigated it. It is impossible for the sister and brother-in-law to tell their parents about the matter, so it goes without saying that it must be Li Shi who did the wrong thing.
The visitor is not good!
Yao Niang came to such a conclusion.
Since the comer was not kind, she naturally couldn't just catch him. But what should she do? King Jin was not in the mansion at this time, and she was like a fly without her head. There is no one who knows Zhu's true face better than her. It is a blood-sucking leech. If she knows that she is now a side concubine and has given birth to two sons to the prince, she will definitely beg Jin Wang for it. Silver is an official.
She would definitely not agree, and they would talk to her parents. Her father's greatest wish in this life is to be elected as an official. In the past, Yaoniang thought that Su Xiucai had great ambitions, but after following the Queen of Jin, she realized that she was simply sitting in the sky. Even if you win the exam, you can't become an official easily. If you want to be an official, you must at least be a fellow Jinshi. There are so many officials in the capital who are waiting for alternates every year.
Now her father knows that there is a shortcut, so naturally he will not give up. His father never spoke soft words, only being tough, while her mother was a tearful one, so soft and tough, her life would never be over.
She still has a way to go, and she will drive them away ruthlessly, but if this matter is known, her reputation and the reputation of Xiaobao and Erbao will be abandoned. After all, this is the way of the world where filial piety is the first in the world.
Yaoniang put the joint in her mind and thought about it, and then ordered Hongsi to find clothes for her.
Pick up the oldest and find it.
Hong Fei was still a little unclear, but Hong Siu's eyes flashed, and she understood what Yao Niang meant. She went in and looked around, but couldn't find the clothes Yaoniang wanted, so she went to the maid's room to look for them, and finally found the clothes that met Yaoniang's requirements in the red goose box.
Yaoniang put it on in a hurry, and took off all the gold and silver jewelry on her head and hands, leaving only a hairpin and a bracelet, before going to the reception area.
In a hall at the side entrance of King Jin's Mansion, Yao and Su's family were sitting.
This place is usually used by the Wangfu to receive idlers and miscellaneous guests, depending on their status, there are several such places in the Jinwangfu. And this place is above average, just in line with Yaoniang's status as an unfavored concubine.
But the Su family can't see this, let them see the grandeur and luxury of the palace, even if it's such a house, only officials can live in it.
Zhu's eyesight is shallow, when she sees the tables and chairs of rosewood in the hall, and even a vase on them, she can smack her lips and sigh, wishing to take them home and hide them.
Only Yao Cheng and Hui Niang looked at each other, feeling something unusual. You must know that even if they were in Jinwang Mansion in Jinzhou, the decorations there were not comparable at this time. Could it be that something happened to Jinwang Mansion, or something happened to Yaoniang
Hui Niang was more inclined to the latter, wishing to see her younger sister ask her how ugly she was, and she was filled with countless anger towards King Jin.
Her sister has suffered so much because of him, if he really treats her sister badly, she will fight him!
And Su Xiucai always paid attention to his decency, he couldn't see his daughter-in-law like this the most, coughing lightly again and again, Zhu Shi still didn't wink. It was Su Yucheng who understood his father's thoughts best, so he hurriedly dragged Mrs. Zhu over and sat down.
"What are you doing!"
"Let me see what's wrong? My little sister is such a rich person. When Yaoniang comes, I will tell her to let her give me all these things, and I will take them home."
Su Yucheng was also very angry at his daughter-in-law's shallow eyelids, and cursed in a low voice: "Here, can you take it back?"
"That's right, then I'll ask my sister-in-law to give us money..."
The rest of the words were covered by Su Yucheng. He looked at the maid standing at the door, and at Su Xiucai's darkened old face, and then Mrs. Zhu limply closed her mouth.
At this moment, Yao Niang came.
She was wearing a lotus-colored summer shirt, because it was a bit old, and the color looked very dull. Wearing a hanging cloud bun, a gold hairpin that doesn't look very bright is rubbed on her head, and a jade bracelet is wrapped around her white wrist.
Beside her was a little girl who hadn't cut her hair. That girl looked thin and small, and she was timid.
In such a scene, there is no such thing as a favored concubine, it is obviously not as good as the concubine of Master He's family.
Zhu Shi was feeling bad in her heart, and sure enough, before Yaoniang could stand still, she covered her face with a handkerchief and cried.