The emperor said with a smile, "Get up." After finishing speaking, he was about to hug Princess Zhaoyang who was curtseying. Who knew that Princess Zhaoyang took a step back in fright before the person approached, and her little face suddenly became a little pale. Pale.
The emperor's heart sank, he withdrew his outstretched hand, and said coldly, "What have you been doing recently?"
Seeing that the emperor didn't approach her, Princess Zhaoyang finally felt a little safe, and replied in a mannered manner, "I want to report to my father, Wan'er has been learning the three-character scriptures, piano skills and embroidery skills from my husband these days."
After the routine questioning, the emperor waved his hand and ordered Princess Zhaoyang to be taken down.
Waiting for only concubine Shu and the emperor to be left in the room... the emperor put the teacup on the desk and said with a clanging sound, "Why is she scared when she sees me?"
Concubine Shu was so frightened that she stopped sitting, knelt on the ground, kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty, I failed my sister's expectations and failed to teach Princess Zhaoyang well. Your Majesty please punish me."
When the emperor saw that Concubine Shu was about to fall to the ground when the wind blew like this, and when she spoke loudly, she knelt on the ground and admitted her mistake, she was very upset, and said, "Did I say that I will punish you? What are you kneeling on the ground for?" "
Concubine Shu didn't dare to get up, she still admitted her mistake seriously and said, "It's my concubine's fault." Afterwards, she kept repeating this sentence, it seemed that only in this way could she reduce the panic in her heart.
The emperor only felt that there was a cloud of foul air in his chest, and he couldn't even breathe smoothly, so he said impatiently, "Okay, hurry up and take Princess Zhaoyang to meet the queen."
Concubine Shu refused to get up, and said, "Your Majesty, it's all the concubine's fault."
The emperor was out of breath and shouted, "I told you to get up, do you want to resist the edict?"
Suddenly there was a cry from outside the door, and Princess Zhaoyang ran in with her skirt on her hem. There were tears on her face, she looked pitiful and cute. She knelt on the ground and said, "Royal Father , don't punish my aunt, it's all my fault, I'm disobedient, woo woo woo."
"Princess..." Concubine Shu turned her head to look at Princess Zhaoyang, with unspeakable distress in her eyes.
The emperor was so angry that his liver hurt, and he threw the teacup on the ground with a bang, and then pointed to the big one and the small one on the ground and said, "Pull them all out."
Ruifu was quite frightened, and said, "Your Majesty... Princess Zhaoyang is still young, so she will inevitably be afraid..."
On the ground, Concubine Shu and Princess Zhaoyang hugged each other and cried, as if they were about to part with each other.
The emperor's veins bulged and he roared, "I said let them go back to the palace, I don't want to see them now!"
Ruifu breathed a sigh of relief, stepped forward to help Princess Zhaoyang up, and winked at Concubine Shu and said, "Your Majesty doesn't blame Your Majesty anymore." Then he pointed to Princess Zhaoyang who had tears on her face and said, "Your Majesty still doesn't want to blame your Majesty." Why don't you take Princess Zhaoyang back to the palace?"
Concubine Shu wiped her tears with her sleeve, got up eagerly and said, "Thank you, father-in-law." Then she hugged Princess Zhaoyang and left without looking back, as if there was some ghost hiding behind her.
Waiting for the two of them to go far away, Princess Zhaoyang leaned on Concubine Shu's shoulder and said, "Auntie, does Emperor Father still like to eat children?"
Concubine Shu's face was livid, and she roared, "Who taught you? What nonsense! Your father is just..." Concubine Shu recalled the rumor that there was a time when corpses of concubines were brought out from the emperor's bedroom. Concubine Shu shook her head fiercely, suppressed the fear in her heart, hugged Princess Zhaoyang and said, "Remember, this sentence will rot in your stomach from now on, and you can't say it to anyone!"
"Why?"
"That's your father, the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, children are not allowed to criticize you, you know?"
Princess Zhaoyang hugged Concubine Shu's neck in shock, and said, "Auntie, I understand, don't be angry, I won't talk about it in the future, and I will be obedient in the future." Eat it
The emperor didn't know that he had become a man-eating maniac in his daughter's heart. Anyway, he was very upset now, so he opened the curtain fiercely... and walked into the inner room that he hadn't been to for a long time.
The gauze curtain in the inner room was fluttered by the wind blowing in from the half-opened window, as long as one looked carefully, it seemed that there was still a person lying inside.
The emperor stood outside the gauze tent with a sullen face, watched for a long time, and finally felt that it was useless to talk, so he turned around and was about to leave, but he was stopped by a hoarse voice as soon as he reached the door, "Hehehe, I am finally willing to come and visit Is your mother already?"
The always thin hand opened the gauze, revealing a monster without eyes, with long black hair hanging on both sides, against the pale complexion, there was a kind of creepy feeling in the daytime.
The emperor was unmoved, and said, "Why haven't you eaten recently?"
When the people inside heard the emperor's words, they seemed to remember something angry, and they roared hoarsely, "You executioner, you killed him, and you still have the face to come to see me?"
The emperor seemed to know who he was talking about, with a somewhat sarcastic smile on his face, and said, "I have never understood, obviously, that I am your biological son... why do you only have your elder brother in your heart?"
If it was changed to the past, the emperor would not ask this question, because from the grievance at the beginning, to the habit later, to the indifference now, his heart has been numb from the cold.
But today, seeing the daughter who was afraid of him, the emperor suddenly wanted to ask.
From the young queen's eyes, only the eldest prince born to the former queen was in her eyes. She was harsh and harsh towards him, but she was as gentle as a spring breeze to the eldest prince. At first, he thought it was just a difficult stepmother who was afraid of others' gossip.
But slowly, he discovered... , it doesn't seem to be the case.
His mother would punish him to kneel in the corridor where people come and go, humiliating. At that time, it had just snowed, and the weather was cold and the water was freezing... After that, his legs had problems kneeling. It hurts even in rainy days, if Ruifu didn't take pity on him, and asked the eldest prince to intercede, guess his kneeling disability, right
Yes, what is incomprehensible is that the one who intercedes for him is his half-brother, the eldest prince who has been loved by thousands of people since he was a child.
The eldest prince has been gentle and refined since he was a child, humble and motivated. He is the son of a woman beloved by the first emperor, and also the son loved by the queen mother... even more than his own son.
"A bitch like you deserves to be compared with the First Prince?" The Queen Mother spat out this sentence viciously.
The emperor's face became colder, and he said, "Aren't I the bastard you were born with?"
The Empress Dowager immediately became agitated, waving her skinny arms, as if she wanted to grab the emperor beside her, but because she was blind, she finally grabbed a corner of the gauze curtain, and pulled it down fiercely as if venting her anger. Said, "I really regret that I didn't fall directly to death after giving birth to you, so that my poor eldest prince will not be killed by you..." The queen mother began to cry, because she had no eyes and no tear ducts, so she could only listen Seeing the empress dowager's hoarse, tearing cry, it looked extremely terrifying.
The emperor breathed out from his chest, feeling a little uncomfortable in the cold, he wrapped his arms around his shoulders unconsciously, and said, "It's a pity that you only gave birth to a lowly breed like me, but the noble eldest prince was not born to you."
Ruifu carefully guarded outside, every time the emperor came out of the inner room, he would lose his temper, but this time he saw that although the emperor's face was cold, but his eyes were clear, he looked down at the bent Ruifu, and asked Asked, "When did she know that big brother was defeated?"
Ruifu said, "I knew about it a month ago. The maid Yan Xi who served her died swallowing gold in order to pass on the news. The empress dowager knew that the eldest prince had already been defeated when she saw that the person who came to deliver the food was not Yan Xi."
"En." The emperor murmured, and he turned his head and stood with his hands behind his back under the porch. The noon sun was scorching and glaring, pulling the emperor's figure out of a long shadow.
Ruifu felt that the emperor's back seemed a bit lonely... He couldn't help but feel uncomfortable, a tiger's poison does not eat its own child, but these words don't apply to the empress dowager, as long as she can help the eldest prince, she will not hesitate The vicious woman who used a knife to cut the flesh of her own son, he felt that this woman was not worthy of being a mother at all.
Zhao Jinyu was stunned when she saw Princess Zhaoyang, what a beautiful child she is, with jet-black hair, pure eyes like glass beads, and a cheek as rosy as an apple.
When Princess Zhaoyang saluted Zhao Jinyu childishly with unskilled etiquette... Zhao Jinyu felt that her heart was about to burst, she immediately got up to help Princess Zhaoyang, and said, "I'm not your mother yet. It's been a month."
Princess Zhaoyang flinched and wanted to back away, but seeing Zhao Jinyu's warm smile relaxed again, she felt less scared. She turned to look at Concubine Shu, saw her nodding towards her encouragingly, and said boldly, "But don't you want to be my queen mother sooner or later? My husband said that etiquette cannot be broken."
Zhao Jinyu saw that although Princess Zhaoyang spoke in a serious manner, her immature voice seemed to be naturally softened, and her heart melted even though she was so cute.
"Our Princess Zhaoyang is so smart, she can even say such reasonable words." Zhao Jinyu praised Princess Zhaoyang vigorously, and finally got her sweet smile.
Princess Zhaoyang felt that the queen mother in front of her was not scary at all, she seemed to be easy to get along with, so she puffed up her small chest and said, "I can also recite the Three Character Classic, I know a lot."
"Really?" Zhao Jinyu pretended to be surprised, and couldn't help but said, "Then you can recite it to me. If you recite it well, the queen mother will reward you with a gift, okay?"
"Okay!" Princess Zhaoyang said happily, "I want to release paper kites!"
Zhao Jinyu said cheerfully, "Okay, then you can recite it to your mother first."
Princess Zhaoyang began to recite seriously, with a clear and childlike voice, soft and delicate, like a ray of spring breeze blowing Buddha inside and outside Xihua Palace.
When the emperor came over, he stopped the eunuch's singing and drinking, and watched quietly, with fine sunlight flowing in his eyes.
***
At night, the emperor put his arms around Zhao Jinyu, buried his head on her neck, and inhaled the smell of her body fiercely. He only felt that his body was so eager that he couldn't help himself...but he could only endure it. It was simply a kind of pain.
Zhao Jinyu felt the emperor's longing, coughed heavily, and said, "Your Majesty, let's sleep in separate rooms." In fact, every day for the emperor who looked like a wolf... the emperor looked at her as if he had been hungry for tens of thousands of years It seems that she wants to swallow her up directly, and she is under a lot of pressure, okay
The emperor calmed himself down a bit, and said with a smile, "I see that you treat Princess Zhaoyang very well today." The emperor was actually a little worried that Zhao Jinyu would not get along well with Princess Zhaoyang. After all, Zhao Jinyu was still young, and Princess Zhaoyang He is a timid and delicate child, but seeing how the two of them are getting along with each other today, he is actually happier than anyone else.
"Princess Zhaoyang is so cute." If the emperor hadn't come today, Zhao Jinyu would have wanted to take Princess Zhaoyang to fly a kite, but Princess Zhaoyang was fine at first, but seeing the emperor is like a mouse seeing a cat , listlessly, lost his anger for a while.
"Then you will give me a little prince, and it must be very cute." The emperor finally couldn't help but take a bite of Zhao Jin's fat-like earlobe, and said with a heavy breath.
Zhao Jinyu blushed, pushed the emperor away fiercely, rolled to the side, and said, "We have agreed."
Seeing Zhao Jinyu pouting and acting like a spoiled child, the emperor felt that his heart was about to bubble, and said, "Okay..., I won't renege on my debt." Then he stretched out his long arms to grab her into his arms again.
It wasn't until she felt her chest was filled by the soft Zhao Jinyu that she sighed comfortably, folded her arms and said, "What do you think of Concubine Shu?"
Zhao Jin thought for a while and said, "It's different from what I thought."
"Why is it different?"
Zhao Jinyu originally thought that a woman who worked hard to guard a child and raise it with all her heart must be because she loved the child's father so much, but the concubine Shu she saw today..., Concubine Shu's eyes looking at the emperor are as clear as water, if If anything, it's fear and dread.
"In short, I think she raised Princess Zhaoyang very well. It's just that she looks a little timid..."
The emperor smiled triumphantly and said, "That's right, my eyes are always right." The emperor seemed to think of a long time ago, and his eyes were a little far away, "She is a concubine, if I hadn't insisted, the one who entered the palace would not be wrong." She is another prostitute."
"Why did you choose a concubine?" Zhao Jinyu didn't look down on the concubine, but felt that it was a bit inappropriate according to the status of the emperor. Zhao Jinyu was able to stand here and be named a queen by the emperor without anyone daring to gossip. The eldest lady of the Zhao family, and the Zhao family is the first-class family in Dazhou that has produced a sage, even those pedantic and unreachable officials have shut up, and instead agree with the emperor's will this time.
The emperor rubbed Zhao Jinyu's face, took a breath and said, "I want a person who treats children sincerely, not a woman who just wants to be a dragon and a phoenix."
No one knows better than the emperor what it's like to have no mother's love in this harem... Princess Zhaoyang has lost her biological mother, so he wants Princess Zhaoyang to have a happy childhood.
"At that time, I saw that everyone else was dressing up, but she was the only one who kept staring at the baby in swaddling clothes." The emperor said that before the queen passed away, he summoned several of the queen's younger sisters to the palace for an audience. Everyone knew that this was an opportunity , so smart people are trying to seize the opportunity, but Concubine Shu, the only one who didn't seize the opportunity and wasted time on her children, unexpectedly got the opportunity.
"Is she willing?" Zhao Jinyu asked.
The emperor was very puzzled and said, "Why don't you want to?"
Zhao Jinyu can't say anything..., the women who enter the palace each have their own ideas and purposes, some are to make the family prosperous, some are to let themselves live a life of luxury, and some are greedy Vanity... , or someone who admires the emperor.
But why is Concubine Shu? Just because you dare not resist
The emperor saw that Zhao Jinyu's quiet side face had a hazy beauty under the dim light, and couldn't help feeling distracted, hugging her waist and pressing down on her.
"Hmm, Your Majesty." Zhao Jinyu was so dazzled by the emperor's kiss that her whole body went limp.
The emperor said in a mellow voice with intoxicating tenderness, "My little darling, let me give you a kiss..."
Ruifu was chatting with Nanny Li outside the door. Ruifu was not young, and he had experienced as many things as his age. He quickly chatted with Nanny Li who had also experienced great storms.
"Oh, it turns out that you are from the west." Li Mama said with a smile, "It's a coincidence, I am too, but I was sold by my parents to the Zhao family when I was a child, and then the family also cut off the news."
"So we are fellow villagers." Rui Fu said with a smile.
"That's not true." Li Nanny also laughed, "You look fat and fat, and you don't look like people from our side at all." When Li Nanny saw a fellow villager, she naturally spoke with a local accent.
Redford, "…"
Seeing Ruifu looking at his head in embarrassment, Nanny Li couldn't help but patted herself on the head and said, "Look at me, it's always like this. You don't have anyone to tell you anything. In fact, you are not tall. Short, not half an inch taller than me." People in the west are taller, but Rui Fu is a short and fat man.
Redford blushed, "That's the height of our eunuch's boots."
"These boots are still lined with insoles?" Nanny Li looked very interested, as if you were going to take them off and show me.
Ruifu is completely at a loss, why does the empress look at a very reliable person, and she has such a careless person by her side? There is no wink at all.
Well, after all, this is the celebrity next to the empress, he always wants to make friends with her, but Jinji took off his boots independently and said, "Look, it's like this."
"Eunuch Rui, you are such a clean person, these shoes don't smell bad at all."
Ruifu couldn't help but said proudly, "That's right, I have to soak my feet and change my socks every day."
"It's really rare." Li Nanny showed a look of admiration, "I saw many eunuchs running out to serve people without even washing their faces."
"Those little bastards are very dirty." Ruifu began to talk about the things in the palace with Madam Li.
The two of them were chatting happily, when suddenly they saw the curtain of the inner room being lifted, and the emperor walked out angrily, with a dark face and a pillow in his hand.
The two of them were taken aback, but they had different concerns. Nanny Li looked worriedly towards the inner room, obviously afraid that Zhao Jinyu would be wronged, while Ruifu was staring at the red mark on the emperor's arm, I muttered in my heart, wasn't this beaten by the empress? Then he slapped himself fiercely..., Your Majesty is the Ninth Five-Year Lord, who dares
"What are you looking at? Move me another bed." The emperor roared.
Redford, "Where are you moving?"
"Of course it's inside." After pointing in the direction of the inner room, the emperor turned around and walked in, and then Ruifu and Nanny Li became very gentle when they heard the emperor's voice, "I said I couldn't help it for a while, you just do not be angry."
Ruifu and Nanny Li immediately turned their faces away. Nanny Li felt that their eldest lady was the most powerful... and this made the emperor die hard, but Ruifu felt... Well, a generation of emperors from the Zhou Dynasty has arrived at Ms. Zhao He became a tiger with his teeth pulled out in front of him, ouch, it really made him feel bad.
What about His Majesty's Shengwei? Ruifu was heartbroken, why does His Majesty have no bones at all
Zhao Jinyu lay inside with her back to the emperor, and said angrily, "From now on, you will sleep on the bed outside."
The emperor lay down on the bed he had just moved here with a sad face, and although it was only a few steps away, it seemed like a thousand mountains and rivers separated him, and said, "Can it be done after the canonization ceremony is over?"
Zhao Jinyu said viciously, "No."
The emperor said unwillingly, "But you promised me."
"It's you who didn't keep the promise first." Zhao Jinyu only felt that the hot breath of the emperor was still lingering on her body, she blushed and became more and more angry, "Just sleep like this."
The emperor sat upright with a dark face, his chest was heaving and heaving, and he looked very angry. Ruifu peeked at this side, thinking that the emperor finally couldn't help but show off his power, thinking in his heart, it's, it's to let This Miss Zhao knows what the respect of an emperor is! As a result, Ruifu was full of anticipation, who knew that Zhao Jinyu blew out the lamp, and the emperor lay back like a docile cat.
Ruifu suddenly felt a pain in his heart.
The next day the emperor went to court again with dark circles under his eyes, scolded all the people in the Ministry of Rites who were preparing for the big wedding, and asked why it took so long to prepare for a canonization ceremony? It made the ministers feel ashamed and complained that they were wronged. Usually, it takes a year to prepare for a big wedding. This shortened to one month is already very fast!
Although Zhao Jinyu hadn't been officially canonized yet, Concubine Shu consciously packed her things and moved out of Fengxi Palace where the former queen lived the next day.
When she took Princess Zhaoyang to meet Zhao Jinyu, she said cautiously and dutifully, "Your Majesty, at the beginning I lived in Fengxi Palace because Your Majesty was worried that Princess Zhaoyang would miss her mother, so I made a deliberate order, but now Your Majesty is already a harem." Lord, it is not suitable for us to live here."
Zhao Jinyu saw that Princess Zhaoyang was a little strange today, her eyes were red, and she looked like she had been crying, so she couldn't help asking, "Princess Zhaoyang, come here."
Princess Zhaoyang reluctantly walked over, lowering her eyelids.
Zhao Jinyu asked, "Did you cry?"
Concubine Shu said harshly from the side, "Princess Zhaoyang, why don't you answer?" She glanced at Zhao Jinyu with anxiety, and pushed the indifferent Princess Zhaoyang.
Zhao Jinyu shook her head to stop Concubine Shu from moving, walked over and knelt down to look at Princess Zhaoyang, and asked softly, "Why are you unhappy? Tell the queen, maybe the queen can help you."
Princess Zhaoyang glanced at Concubine Shu anxiously, seeing her staring at her warningly, her heart sank, and then she turned her head to look at Zhao Jinyu, seeing her soft eyes with encouragement, for some reason, she suddenly had courage in her heart, and said "My queen, my swing is in Fengxi Palace, and I planted Impatiens..."
"Princess Zhaoyang!" Concubine Shu shouted angrily.
Princess Zhaoyang flinched, cried in fear, and said, "I don't want to move, I want to live in the house where my mother used to live."
Looking at the crying child, Zhao Jinyu suddenly felt distressed.