When he heard the news, Gu Rujiu was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Jin Yang, and sure enough, his expression was a little complicated, and it seemed that he hadn't digested the news for a while.
She squeezed his hand: "Your Majesty?"
Jin Yang regained his senses, pondered for a moment, and then said: "Master Sima is a veteran of the three dynasties, and he has made great achievements in Dafeng, so he was buried with a second-class imperial ceremony."
He Ming stood quietly, waiting for His Majesty to speak.
Who knows that after His Majesty said this, he did not order anything else, but took the Queen back to the Zichen Palace. He was stunned for a while before he looked at Bai Xian, "Eunuch Bai, what do you mean by His Majesty?"
"What's the meaning of it, you can do what Your Majesty says." Bai Xian didn't dare to touch the Sima family again. Seeing He Ming respectfully asked him about his attitude, he couldn't be happy either, but said, "Eunuch He. He is a capable person, and there is nothing he can do wrong."
He Ming almost didn't roll his eyes with anger at his words, but unfortunately he knew that now was not the time to fight with Bai Xian, so he had to hurriedly inform the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of the Palace of His Majesty's oral oracle.
There are too many places to pay attention to if the burial of the Guogong ceremony is carried out.
"Chen Jun, people will have this day after all," Gu Rujiu felt that Jin Yang's face was a little wrong, so he comforted him, "Don't be too sad."
"I just think it's a pity, Sima Hong is a rare talent." He regretted that after he became an emperor, Sima Hong was already old and no longer the same as before.
Bole has it, but the Maxima is old, and good luck makes people.
A foolish emperor like the late emperor can meet a good minister, but there are not many people who can make him feel relieved and reused.
Gu Rujiu didn't expect Jin Yang to think so, she held Jin Yang's hand tightly.
Jin Yang smiled at her: "Don't worry, I'm fine."
The two were talking when Gu Rujiu saw that Jin Xiang was patrolling with the Dragon Guard, and couldn't help but said, "Mr. Chen, Lord Sima is the grandfather of the deputy commander of Jin, let him go back early today."
Jin Yang hadn't thought of this, but when he heard Gu Rujiu say this, he nodded.
To the Sima family, Sima Hong is the backbone of the Sima family. Now that this backbone has collapsed, the Sima family will completely lose the strength to compete with the Li family, unless the descendants of the Sima family appear again. Otherwise, in a short period of time, it is impossible to be on an equal footing with the Li family.
After hearing the news of her father's death, Concubine Ping accidentally broke the cup in her hand. She looked pale and looked at the maid who came to report.
"Mother, don't worry, I'll accompany you to the grandfather's house," Jin Xiang rushed back from the palace after hearing the news. Seeing his mother was flustered and clueless, he hurriedly helped her sit down, "You take a seat first, and my son will change his clothes."
"You can't go," Prince Concubine Ping grabbed his hand and looked at Jin Xiang with red eyes, "You have to remember that you are the grandson of the Sima family first, the commander of His Majesty's Dragon Imperial Guard." As a daughter, She was sad when her father died, but she didn't want her son to be implicated.
The son finally got on the right path slowly, and he caught His Majesty's eyes. If the Sima family was involved and His Majesty disliked the son, it would be more than the loss.
"Don't worry," Jin Xiang knew what she was thinking, and persuaded, "When I was on inspection, I met Your Majesty and the Empress. The Empress asked me to come back early."
Hearing what Jin Xiang said, Concubine Ping heaved a sigh of relief, then thinking of her father, she cried again with red eyes.
Seeing that his mother was crying almost breathlessly, Jin Xiang was vaguely grateful to the Empress for letting him come back first, otherwise, how could he be at ease if he left his mother alone.
Soon Prince Ping also rushed back, and then the family of three rushed to the Sima Mansion.
Zheng shi greeted the condolences from various families, her feet hardly stopped, and she turned to see her sister-in-law coming, she wiped her tears and walked up to her quickly.
The Prince Consort Ping burst into tears without saying a word, and it took a long time to ease her breath: "Father... When did you go?"
"It was fine when I woke up this morning," Zheng said with red eyes. "When it was about noon, he suddenly called the whole family and said that he had dreamed that his mother-in-law came to see him. I felt a little bad, so I let him People go to ask the doctor, the doctor hasn't arrived yet, the father-in-law will..."
Concubine Ping Wang Shizi cried for a while. Seeing that her sister-in-law was haggard, she had always paid attention to decency, and her hair on the temples was a little messy.
As the saying goes, a thin dead camel is bigger than a horse. Although the Sima family has not been very good in fortune recently, they all show respect, and they all bring gifts to express condolences. Even the Li family sent Li Huaigu over.
As the next head of the Gu family, Gu Zhiyu came to offer condolences on behalf of the Gu family.
After placing a stick of incense in front of Sima Hongling, he and Sima's family met again before leaving the mourning hall.
In the yard next to him, a place for the guests to rest has long been arranged. When these people saw Gu Zhiyu, they all stood up to greet him. Although they didn't talk or laugh with each other, they couldn't hide their enthusiasm for Gu Zhiyu.
Gu Zhiyu saw that most of the people present were young juniors with a heart like a mirror, but he talked to these people politely.
' "Brother-in-law," a thin man approached Gu Zhiyu and said with a smile on his face, "brother-in-law how are you doing?"
"Uncle brother," Gu Zhiyu saw that the person who came was Chen Kong, the younger brother of his deceased wife, with some sincerity in his eyes, and chatted with his uncle.
The two talked for a while, and Chen Kong rubbed his hands together and said, "Brother-in-law, I heard that there are a few real shortages in the Ministry of Households?"
Gu Zhiyu glanced at Chen Kong, then lowered his eyelids and said, "There are indeed a few vacancies, and now the lower-level officials are being assessed..."
"Can you see me?" Chen Kong said hurriedly without waiting for Gu Zhiyu to finish speaking, "Where I'm staying now, it doesn't make any sense at all."
Gu Zhiyu frowned: "You have only been in the Ministry of Rites for a few months, and now you will be transferred to the Ministry of Household..."
"Brother-in-law, you can't say that," Chen Kong said, seeing that Gu Zhiyu didn't seem to want to help him, and said quickly, "Can the Ministry of Rites compare to the Ministry of Household?" After speaking, he patted his purse with a look on his face, "You understand. ” expression, “Right?”
"If you want to enter the household department, go to the household department examination." Although Gu Zhiyu's face was still gentle, his eyes were a little cold. "If there is anything you don't understand before the exam, you can ask me."
Chen Kong didn't want to let go when he saw him, and his enthusiastic expression faded. He stood up and said with a yin and yang: "Since Mr. Gu is unwilling to help, forget it and leave."
Gu Zhiyu sat with his back straight, without the slightest expression on his face.
A few people sitting not far from Gu Zhiyu were stunned after listening to the conversation between the two. They thought they were playboys, but they didn't think it would be so shameless.
You said that you have to go through the back door to find someone to talk to, and also to find a place where no one is there. If you don't have a brain, that's fine. If you beg someone to return this attitude, why do they owe you something
"If I have a brother-in-law who is willing to arrange errands for me, let alone the Ministry of Rites, it's fine to go to the Ministry of Works," Wu Chong shook his head and said, "I heard that Chen Kong's errand in the Ministry of Rites was also found by Gu Zhiyu for him. , I've only been doing it for a few months, and I've been eyeing the Ministry of Households. Those few vacancies in the Ministry of Households are all five-rank following the fourth-rank, just Chen Kong's virtue, it's strange if he doesn't screw it up."
Another dude heard the words and said, "That's also a good fate. My sister married a kind person. If I met such a brother-in-law, I would have ignored him."
Wu Chong didn't speak. He heard that the Chen family had taken care of the Gu family's relationship for nearly half a year and had obtained a lot of benefits. Their daughters have been dead for more than two years, and in the name of the daughters, they asked the Gu family to help. I really don't know what the family thinks.
Affection is something that has always been used less and less. They tossed like this, and even if the Gu family was kind, they would gradually drift away from them.
Chen Kong did not do this secretly. The news spread a few days later, and the more it spread, the more unpleasant it became.
When it reached Gu Rujiu's ears, the rumor had become that the Chen family used their dead daughter to benefit their son.
People in the world always watch the fun and don't think it's a big deal, and the Gu family is the queen's maiden family, so some people say that the Gu family is not kind, and they don't want to help the wife's maiden family when their wife dies, but more are talking about the Chen family.
Because Chen Kong's current position is a free errand arranged by Gu Zhiyu, and now Chen Kong wants to go to the Ministry of Households. Although Gu Zhiyu did not agree, he also said that he could help Chen Kong during his exam preparation. This is both public and private. Can't go wrong
The few real vacancies in the Ministry of Accounts are important positions. If a sham like Chen Kong goes in, what can they do
After Gu Rujiu listened to several versions of the rumors, no matter what these versions are, one thing remains the same, that is, Chen Kong is a scumbag.
She didn't see Chen Kong very often, and vaguely remembered that she was a playboy who was idle. When her sister-in-law mentioned this younger brother, she often sighed. She didn't expect that such a trivial matter would cause many people to know about it, so she was a little worried about Big Brother. It's just that as a harem maid, she has nothing to do with summoning a big man like her eldest brother.
Because she was worried about her eldest brother, she tossed and turned all night and couldn't sleep well. When she woke up the next morning, she was a little dizzy.
"Queen Empress," Bai Xian walked in front of Gu Rujiu and bowed, "Your Majesty invites you to the imperial study."
"En." Gu Rujiu nodded and stood up.
Qiu Luo supported her worriedly, "Niang Niang, your face is not very good, why don't you go over there."
"It's okay, I also want to go out and get some air," Gu Rujiu smiled, walked out of the Zichen Palace, and the moment she basked in the sun, she felt her brain buzzing.
When she came to the imperial study, she found that in addition to Jin Yang, her eldest brother was also present. She immediately understood why Jin Yang asked her to come over, and after smiling gratefully at Jin Yang, she turned to look at Gu Zhiyu, "Big Brother."
Jin Yang stood up and said, "I'm going outside to bask in the sun." Then he smiled at Gu Rujiu and left the imperial study.
"Big brother," apart from her and Gu Zhiyu, there was only Qiu Luo as a loyal servant in the imperial study, so Gu Rujiu didn't pay much attention to it, and when she walked in front of Gu Zhiyu, seeing that he seemed to be thinner than before, she said, "You It's been fine lately."
"I'm fine." Seeing her sister like this, Gu Zhiyu wanted to reach out and touch the top of her hair, but she was wearing a complicated bun, and he probably wouldn't feel anything when he took pictures of her sister, so he helped her instead. She swayed on the side of her temple, "I think you seem to have gained weight recently."
Not only my sister, but even His Majesty seems to have gotten fatter recently.
Seeing that eldest brother did not seem to be too sad because of this matter, Gu Rujiu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Your Majesty is very good to me." After that, she greeted Gu Zhiyu to sit down, and then she sat in Gu Zhiyu herself. Sitting down next to him, he chatted with Gu Zhiyu about trivial matters, but he refused to mention the Chen family.
Gu Zhiyu didn't know what his sister was thinking. When the topic was almost discussed, Gu Zhiyu smiled and said, "Have you heard the rumors outside?"
"Uh..." Gu Rujiu looked away uncomfortably, then whispered, "I just accidentally listened to it."
"You still have such a temper," Gu Zhiyu thought for a while, and it can be seen that His Majesty is really good to Jiu Jiu, otherwise my sister would not have maintained this temperament, "As long as you are worried about something, you will talk about him."
Gu Rujiu rubbed her chin and said, "Is there any?"
Gu Zhiyu didn't pierce her, but said, "The Chen family has not been going well for the past two years. I know Chen Kong's character, so I don't mind it too much."
Hearing this, Gu Rujiu didn't know what to say for a while. As a younger sister, she didn't want to intervene in matters like the Chen family, so she could only say, "As long as you are happy, brother."
"I know," Gu Zhiyu was silent for a moment and said calmly, "I also have a bottom line. I will not agree to things that are not good for the Gu family, the court and you."
In such an important department as the Ministry of Household, how could he go through the back door and arrange for Chen Kong to enter. This is related to the people's livelihood in the world. The money bag of the imperial court, and Chen Kong's character and ability are not suitable for this place.
Seeing the elder brother talking about the Chen family so calmly, Gu Rujiu couldn't help but feel a little resentment towards the Chen family, using the relationship between the elder sister and elder brother to do this kind of thing, can they feel at ease? Sister-in-law is under Jiuquan, can you be happy
The human heart is really complicated and difficult to understand. She remembered that a few years ago, the Chen family was still very good. Even though Chen Kong was a bit playful, he was not so high and mighty. How did it become like this now? It's fine, don't worry too much about the rest," Gu Zhiyu said with a smile, "I should also retire, we've been talking privately for so long, it's always inappropriate."
Gu Rujiu bit her lower lip and nodded. Just as she was about to stand up to send Gu Zhiyu off, she felt that her eyes were dark and she didn't know anything.
Jin Yang saw that the door of the imperial study was open, and was about to go back. He didn't know that Qiu Luo's panicked voice could be heard from inside. His face changed greatly, and he ran into the imperial study. Gu Zhiyu half supported and half hugged.
buzzing.
He opened his mouth, only to feel the buzzing in his head, and he couldn't think of anything.
"Your Majesty," His Majesty the Baixian family stumbled a few times, stepped forward to support His Majesty, then turned around and said urgently, "Hurry up and announce the imperial doctor!"
Jin Yang pushed Bai Xian away, walked in front of Gu Zhiyu, held Gu Rujiu in his arms, saw her face pale and expressionless, and said, "Chen Kong left his post without permission, wiped all his posts, and will not be allowed to enter again in the future. officialdom."
A Chen Kong is nothing, if there is something wrong for a long time, even the entire Chen family will not even think about living a good life.
Everyone present knew that His Majesty was taking out his anger, but no one dared to say a word for Chen Kong, even Gu Zhiyu just looked at Gu Rujiu with a worried look on his face, how could he still remember to intercede for Chen Kong.
The moment he saw his sister fall down, he regretted it. He shouldn't condone the Chen family, and the rumors spread so much that his sister was also worried.
The most wrong is not the Chen family, but him.
He hasn't come out of the pain of losing his wife for more than two years, so that makes his family so worried, even if his sister married into the palace, he has to worry about his affairs from time to time.
He looked at His Majesty's almost distorted appearance, and took a step back in a daze. He just looked at his sister with concern, but did not go forward to touch her.
"My lord, Princess Cheng has sent a message," Chang Sui handed a message to King Rui.
King Rui glanced at this invitation, and said with a smile, "Princess Cheng is this king's sister-in-law. As a man, how can I welcome her so well? Push it."
"Yes." Changsui Yiyan stepped back.
"Father," Prince Rui said mockingly, "What is Princess Cheng trying to do?"
"What she does has nothing to do with us," Rui Wang said with a cold face. "A stupid woman can do anything sensible."
How could a person with brains treat the son who was left by the original spouse harshly, and how could he be reluctant to do even superficial efforts, so that many people knew that her pair of sons and daughters loved to bully the son of the original spouse
She is stupid, and so are the two children she raised. King Cheng has been dead for so long, and her son's title has not been taken down yet. Who wouldn't know that His Majesty is intentionally slow down
But how
King Rui closed his eyes mockingly. If there are no stupid people in this world, how can we set off the intelligence of others
Not long after Chang Sui retreated, another Chang Sui hurried in: "My lord, something happened in the palace."
"What happened?" King Rui opened his eyes, his eyes were as sharp as swords.
"I heard that the queen fainted," Chang Sui obtained first-hand information, "The emperor made a lot of fire."
"My good nephew is really a rare seed of infatuation in the Jin family," Rui Wang said with a half-smiling smile, "it really has become an outlier of our old Jin family."
Changsui didn't dare to speak, so he listened quietly.
Prince Rui's son was a little puzzled: "Father, didn't you all say that Your Majesty is not sincere to the Queen, and just pretended to be affectionate to the Queen in order to gain military power from the Queen Mother?"
Who doesn't know that the Queen of Heaven treats the Queen like a daughter-in-law. Before the Queen married into the palace, the Queen Mother kept all the good things for her, and even the girls of the Zhou family had to avoid the shooting ground.
"It can be seen that the rumors are untrue," Rui Wang elegantly waved the fan in his hand, "or these people refuse to believe the emperor's feelings."
This is also related to the hobby of the emperors of Dafeng in women's sex. The courtiers are used to the emperor's three palaces and six courtyards. Suddenly, an emperor is single-minded towards the queen, and they naturally reject it in their hearts.
"Today's attitude towards the queen doesn't seem like she has no feelings." In Rui Wang's view, even though Jin Yang didn't have a life-and-death relationship with Gu Rujiu, he definitely had feelings for the queen.
A man will not put so much thought into a woman who has no feelings at all.
"Let people continue to inquire and see what happened to the queen." King Rui waved his hand and asked Changsui to step back, then said to his son, "You walk around more and find a way to get His Majesty to let us go back to the fief earlier. "
After seeing Jin Yang, he had a vague guess in his heart that it would be difficult to go back when he entered Beijing this time.
As it turns out, his guess was correct. After the end of the longevity ceremony, he and King Zhong were placed in another palace on the grounds of entertaining them.
He didn't know what the King Zhong family was thinking, but a few days ago, King Zhong led someone to smash the gate of the Li family's house. It can be seen that this man also has resentment in his heart, otherwise he would not be able to make the move to smash the prime minister's gate.
With such a generous temper, he did not know which ancestor of the Jin family followed.
"Father, the Concubine Sun in the previous palace intends to cooperate with us, why do you..." Prince Rui asked in confusion, "With her here, we can still cooperate internally and externally."
"This woman..." King Rui's expression was a little complicated, "The queen is a smart woman, she won't allow a few concubines to stay in the harem all the time. It won't be long before these women who were favored by the late emperor will be sent to the Lin'an Palace. already."
"Where in Lin'an..." Prince Rui curled his lips, "The queen's heart is also very cruel."
King Rui glanced at his son and couldn't help sighing, the child was still not mature enough. In his opinion, the queen is not ruthless enough. If he were her, he would not have bothered to send restless old concubines like Sun Taifei Qian Taifei to the Lin'an Palace, and directly find a reason to let them go to Taoist temples for purification.
A woman is a woman, but she is still too soft-hearted to be a big deal.
In the Zichen Hall, the matter was dead silent. Several imperial doctors walked to the bed tremblingly, looked at the sleeping queen, glanced at each other, and the most qualified imperial doctor stepped forward to diagnose the pulse.
They often come to the Zichen Palace to ask for the pulse of the Empress, but every time they see the Empress, the other party is in high spirits. How can they lie on the bed motionless like today.
Before, because she was busy with her majesty's longevity ceremony, the queen had not asked the imperial doctor to check her pulse for nearly ten days.
The imperial doctor covered Gu Rujiu's wrist with a satin handkerchief, and then began to diagnose the pulse with a serious face. The three colleagues behind him stared at him with burning eyes, wishing he would immediately say that the queen is fine.
Standing next to him, Jin Yang was more anxious than the imperial physicians, but he had always been calm and was afraid of disturbing Gu Rujiu, so instead of reprimanding these imperial physicians, he looked at the pale Gu Rujiu with a very ugly expression.
"Huh?" The imperial doctor who checked the pulse was a little strange. After checking his right hand, he changed his left hand. Seeing that Jin Yang's face became more and more ugly, he finally withdrew his hand and said with a relaxed expression: "Your Majesty, the Empress does not There's nothing wrong, it's just that it may take a while, and it will be fine in a few days."
"But why haven't you woken up?" Jin Yang walked to the edge of the bed and sat down, gently holding Gu Rujiu's hand. His hand was cold and her hand was warm. "My face is not very good-looking."
The imperial doctor thought to himself, can I say that this is the queen who didn't sleep well
Unfortunately, he didn't dare to say it, so after a bunch of plausible words, he hesitated and said, "Your Majesty, Wei Chen found that the Queen's pulse seemed to have a slippery pulse, but the time was too short for Wei Chen to dare. Sure, maybe after a few days, it doesn't look like it anymore."