capital city, imperial palace
Shouxian Palace
Empress Dowager Xiaoduan, the Empress Dowager of the Chu Kingdom, was sitting restlessly on a nanmu bed inlaid with hundreds of treasures, looking up, and kept asking the eunuchs beside her: "Xi Shun, are you here? Didn't you say Have you all entered the palace? Why are you still not here?"
Xi Shun, the chief eunuch of Shouxian Palace, said with a smile: "Queen Mother, Master Qi is at the Emperor's place. When he sees the Emperor, he will definitely come to see you right away."
Eldest Princess Rong Jia laughed and said: "Your Majesty, I don't know that the Empress Dowager is anxious about her son. I just talked about their brother's love, and I forgot how much the Empress Dowager is suffering."
The Empress Dowager Xiaoduan also thought the same in her heart, but her face was tense: "Huh, who misses him, that evildoer has been away for five or six years, and he doesn't know how to come back to see my mother, why should I miss him?"
"What the queen mother said is that since this is the case, the daughter will tell the seventh brother to go and let him go back to the mansion to rest after seeing the emperor. Anyway, the queen mother doesn't miss him. He has been exhausted all the way, and he hasn't had time to go back to the mansion to rest. Well, it must be exhausting!"
The person who spoke was Princess Yurongchang, the direct daughter of the Empress Dowager Xiaoduan, who is also the sister of King Zhan, and the younger sister of the current emperor. At this moment, Princess Yurongchang is covering her mouth with a handkerchief, looking at her mother empress teasingly .
Empress Xiaoduan glared at her daughter, and said angrily: "It's just you who talk too much, every time you come into the palace, don't make Ai's family angry, and don't go out again."
"Yes, yes, it's the daughter talking too much, which made the queen mother angry."
Princess Yurong looked at the crowd with a smile, and said: "Everyone has seen it, now that the seventh brother is back, I, a daughter, will not be welcomed."
This remark made everyone laugh, Empress Chen said with a gentle smile: "Sister Yurong's words are nothing to worry about, the queen mother always treats us equally, it's just that the seventh brother has been away from home for many years, the queen mother is more concerned about it, It’s also a reasonable thing.”
"That's right, it's the empress who knows how to mourn her family, unlike you, a rascal." Empress Dowager Xiaoduan cursed with a smile, her eyes still kept looking outside, and her heart became more and more anxious.
It's been an hour since I came back, why is that evil obstacle still not coming over, don't you know how anxious she is as a mother
The crown prince Chunyuyin, who had been sitting next to the Empress Dowager Xiaoduan, saw that his grandmother was impatient, so he got up and said, "Grandmother, grandson, let's go to the imperial study, maybe my father and uncle have something important to do." Let's discuss."
"Hmph, what's important, I have to discuss it today." Empress Dowager Xiaoduan complained, and then said, "Go, bring a few more people, come back with your Seventh Uncle when you see him, don't run around. "
The Empress Dowager gave her instructions very carefully, lest there might be a slight mistake.
It is said that the old son and grandson are the lifeblood of the old lady. In the hearts of the Empress Dowager Xiaoduan, the two most important people in the world are her youngest son, King Zhan Chunyuxuan, and the eldest grandson, the prince Chunyuyin.
The prince is twelve years old this year, he is a smart, wise, modest and polite boy, but in the Queen Mother's heart, he is still the fat little boy who needs her to take care of him, and he can't live without someone to take care of him.
I just went to the imperial study to find someone. I didn't need to bring a lot of people to serve, but Chunyuyin knew that there were few people around, and the emperor's grandmother was worried, so she followed her and brought a dozen guards and eunuchs. A court lady and a nanny rushed out of the Shouxian Palace and went to the Imperial Study to find someone.
Empress Chen was naturally very heart-warming when she saw that the queen mother loved her son so much, and she smiled even more gently, "Mother, I heard that the seventh brother will stay for three or four months when he comes back this time, which is enough to comfort the mother's thoughts. The heart of a child!"
Princess Yurong laughed and said: "It's not just the mother's longing for the child, I'm afraid that soon, sister-in-law, you will have a sister-in-law!"
Empress Chen laughed: "The relationship is good. The seventh brother is twenty-five. Looking around, how can there be a prince who is twenty-five in the royal family and has not yet married and established a family? Only our seventh brother can hold his breath. Until now There is no princess!"
Before Empress Chen could finish her words, Princess Rongjia, who was seated on the seat, lost her composure and looked at her daughter involuntarily.
At this time, her daughter, Princess An'an, was standing obediently behind her with her head half down. There was no special expression on her beautiful face, but her porcelain-white cheeks were slightly red.
It can be seen that her heart is not as calm as it appears on the surface, but she is a restrained person, and her emotions and anger are invisible.
On the other hand, the princess Chunxi, who was sitting next to the queen mother, was shy and surprised when she heard that King Zhan was going to marry a concubine. .
The county lord Chunxi is the daughter of the Empress Dowager Xiaoduan's younger brother, who lost her father when she was young, because the Empress Dowager only has this younger brother, and his younger brother only has a child, Chunxi, so she takes special care for this niece, not only sealing her As the county lord, she was allowed to come and go in and out of the palace at will, and she was treated on an equal footing with the royal princesses, and she was treated no less than the princesses.
The main character of Chunxi County is lively, with a sweet mouth, and always looks innocent and innocent, coaxing the Queen Mother so much that she cannot leave her for a moment, and loves her even more. It seems that apart from King Zhan and the prince, the old The wife loves her the most, even the emperor and Princess Yurong have to stand aside.
Because of love, the Empress Dowager Xiaoduan intends to marry her, and points out Chunxi to Lao Qi as the princess, but the Empress Dowager ordered Lao Qi to marry her granddaughter Princess An'an as Princess Zhan before her death.
Back then, when Chun Yuzhen was young and vigorous, he killed a favorite concubine of the late emperor. The late emperor was furious and wanted to execute Chun Yuzhen. It was the empress dowager who refused to eat or drink for three days on a hunger strike, which forced the late emperor to withdraw his will and pardon him. Chunyu Jue's.
Therefore, both Chunyu Jue and the Queen Mother owed the Empress Dowager a great favor. Before she died, the Empress Dowager personally said that she would give An An to Chunyu Juan as the princess. will.
However, Concubine Zhan can only have one candidate. Of these two candidates, one is the one she wants to marry for her son, and the other is the favor she owes and must be repaid. For this reason, the empress dowager struggled for several years, and finally did not make a decision. Let who be this Princess Zhan. So she decided to leave this decision to her son and let him choose by himself, whichever he likes will be his Princess Zhan!
"Hehe, it's time to make arrangements. If you marry a wife now, you will be able to have grandchildren again at the end of the year."
The Empress Dowager Xiaoduan was happily thinking about it, and a fat, white doll appeared in her mind, crawling towards her with a silly smile, just like when Lao Qi was a child, very cute...
"Hey, come, come, finally come!"
Outside the palace gate, there were eunuchs shouting in disorder, which immediately caused a commotion in the palace.
"Here? Where is it?"
The queen mother supported Xishun's hand and stood up, her voice trembling with excitement.
The rest of the queens, princesses, and princesses also stood up one after another, turned their heads and stared at the door intently.
A moment later, a handsome and imposing tall man strode in. He was slender, stalwart and straight, and he was dressed in a weft brocade robe embroidered with dark patterns, which showed a natural nobility, as if he was a natural man. The luminous body is ordinary, and after it appears, it attracts everyone's attention.
After approaching, Chun Yuxuan lifted his robe and knelt down, "My son pays his respects to the queen! Greetings to the queen!"
When the Empress Dowager Xiaoduan saw her son for the first time, she had mixed feelings in her heart, and she wished she could hold her son in her arms and cry for a while, but then she thought that this bastard had been away for several years, and was busy fighting outside, and didn't want to come back to have a look As an old mother, she felt wronged and panicked!
"Do you still have my mother in your eyes? As long as you miss your mother a little bit, why don't you come back to see me for five years? Hmph, let the Ai family see, you heartless thing, you have already given me this Mother forgot to go to the back of her head." The Empress Dowager Xiaoduan twisted her body and said hypocritically, "You go, I don't want to see you, a heartless thing!"
King Zhan raised his head: "Mother..."
"Hmph, don't call me!" Empress Dowager Xiaoduan interrupted him angrily, and began to wipe her tears with a handkerchief.
Empress Chen said with a smile: "What does the queen mother say? When the seventh brother didn't come back, the queen mother was looking forward to it, day by day, and night and night. It was very easy for the seventh brother to come back. You don't recognize each other again. Aren't you going to make Seventh Brother sad?"
"Is he sad? How can he have a heart? As long as he has a little conscience, he won't stop visiting his mother for five years." The Empress Dowager Xiaoduan wiped her tears, facing her son's return like a little girl who was aggrieved , my heart is both sad and sweet, extremely complicated.
Seeing this, Princess Yurong laughed: "Seventh brother, the queen mother is still angry now, you go back to the mansion to rest first, and it's the same when the queen mother calms down and comes to see her."
As he spoke, he winked at Chunyu Yu, who understood, said "yes", got up and went out.
Princess Yurongchang shouted: "Seventh brother, let's go, sister will host a banquet for you tonight—"
When the Empress Dowager Xiaoduan heard that her son had left, she didn't care about being hypocritical, she turned around in a hurry, and said in a hurry: "Why did he leave, who allowed him to leave, quickly, go and call that evil back to Ai's family!"
Everyone laughed!
Just smiling, Chun Yuxuan had already come out of the warm pavilion with a bowl of tea, knelt down in front of the queen mother again, and said in a deep voice: "Queen mother, calm down, please drink tea, the son is unfilial and made the queen mother sad."
Seeing the sudden appearance of her son, the queen mother realized that it was Yurong, the girl, and the seventh child who had joined forces to tease her. Go to your Jizhou!"
Princess Yurong laughed and said: "Mother, the seventh younger brother also poured his tea and knelt on his knees. You are almost ready. It's not that you don't know this kid's temper. If he makes a big effort, he will really leave. I have to ask my daughter to find you a ladder to go down this step."
Everyone couldn't help laughing, and the queen mother was also laughed angrily, and scolded: "You poor-mouthed thing, even I have rejected you, you should make a decree sooner, you are not allowed to enter the palace again."
When Princess Yurong heard it, she called out to Qu: "Listen, before Lao Qi didn't come back, her old man sent people to my house to upload me every day to make fun of me, now that Lao Qi came back, she turned her face and denied me This daughter, how can there be such a preference for one?"