royal palace.
Ziyun Palace.
Concubine Hui, one of the four noble concubines in the West Palace, was leaning on the soft couch, asking the maids beside her to read operas to her.
She closed her eyes and breathed slowly, as if she had just fallen asleep after listening to it, but when the maid stopped, she slowly opened her mouth again, and lazily said in a clear and soft voice: "Continue to read .”
This noble concubine Hui is the eldest daughter of Xinyuanhou's mansion, Xie Ming's sister, Xie Yan.
Her eyebrows and eyes are three points similar to Xie Ming, and the two of them can tell that they have a close blood relationship, but they are different from Xie Ming who has completely inherited Mrs. Xie's beautiful and dazzling appearance. Her beauty is gentle Generous, neither ostentatious nor cowardly, just like how she behaved in this palace, no one could find the slightest fault.
Because of her extremely high emotional intelligence, her distinguished family background, and the favor of Emperor Wen Xiao, Concubine Hui's status in the palace has become more and more stable over the years. In addition, she entered the palace late, and now there is only a two-year-old princess under her knees, so she did not participate in this battle for the prince to win the heir apparent, which is considered rare.
In short, Concubine Hui now lives happily in the harem every day. Apart from having to put on a smiling face from time to time and tense her nerves to deal with Emperor Wen Xiao, no one in the entire harem, except the queen, dares to find anything unpleasant in front of her. .
However, this Concubine Hui, who can be called a winner in life, is not in a good mood recently.
The reason wasn't the trivial and bad things in the palace, but it was related to Concubine Hui's only direct younger brother, Xie Ming.
A few days ago, Emperor Wen Xiao gave her a favor and asked her mother, Mrs. Xie, to come to the palace to meet her. At that time, Mrs. Xie secretly confided to her about the things between Xie Ming and Prince Su.
She knows Prince Su, or in other words, there is no one in the palace who does not know, and no one is not afraid of Prince Su. She is better, those concubines who have princes, heard that the second prince was kicked, his nose was blue and his face was swollen and miserable They looked like they were worried, fearing that one day their own son would fall into the hands of Prince Su like the second prince, and be taught an unreasonable lesson by him.
Emperor Wen Xiao is a very gentle person on the surface. Even if the second prince has done many foolish things in these years, he just called people to train him a few times, and fined some salary without pain. He never did anything. hit. But it was good for Prince Su, who directly passed Emperor Wen Xiao and beat up the second prince mercilessly.
What's even more disturbing is that even though his son was beaten, looking at Emperor Wen Xiao's attitude, he still helped Prince Su who beat him up.
In the whole world, above the court, how many people are not living under the control of the emperor
Especially in a place like the harem, the grace is what they need to settle down, so these concubines have a deeper feeling for the current power of Prince Su than they did in the previous dynasty.
When she heard the rumor outside the palace that her younger brother and Prince Su were getting mixed up, Concubine Hui immediately felt something was wrong. Although it is said that in this world, men get along quite well with men, but it is generally accepted that the one with the lower family background among the two men is often more likely to suffer in the end.
Although their Xinyuanhou's Mansion can be regarded as one of the best families in Beijing, they still have no advantage compared with Prince Su, who is in full swing.
Among other things, just looking at the unconcealable sadness between her mother's brows when she talked about it, she knew that it might not end well.
Concubine Hui sighed sadly.
The other things are nothing, what I am most afraid of is that Prince Su will be moved and wants to marry her younger brother back to Prince Su's mansion.
You must know that as a man, after marrying a man, he must be as loyal to his husband as those women, and he can no longer take concubines, so naturally he cannot stay behind.
But her younger brother is the only child in their residence.
Her mother, Mrs. Xie, thought that if Prince Su really wanted to marry Xie Ming by force, they would force Xie Ming to take a few concubines first, and no matter what, they would leave an incense for Xinyuanhou's mansion.
Regarding her mother's plan, Concubine Hui did not have any expectations.
Although many families allow male wives to have a few children with concubines before marrying, Concubine Hui intuitively thinks that Prince Su is not such a generous person.
Don't underestimate women's intuition, especially those women who are used to intrigue in the palace. Most of the time, their intuition is quite accurate.
"Your Majesty," after reading a play, the maid stopped her mouth and asked crisply: "Do you want to continue reading, Your Majesty? What do you want to hear next, Your Majesty?"
Concubine Hui supported her head with her hands and said without opening her eyes: "You are tired, so someone else read it over here. Just read the part in "Xu Sanniang Looking for a Husband" where Xu Sanniang and Mr. Liu are beaten with sticks, and the part where they get married at the end. Don't read it anymore."
The maids glanced at each other and saw wonder in each other's eyes.
People listen to operas, don't they just want to hear the final He Meimei ending to be happy, but their mothers call for the most heart-wrenching and heart-breaking part of the whole drama. What is the reason
But the nobleman's mind is not something they can guess, so soon another little maid obediently continued to read the opera.
Today is not so coincidental, when Concubine Hui heard halfway through the play, a court lady came in and whispered that Emperor Wen Xiao was here.
Concubine Hui had no choice but to get up from the soft bed reluctantly, sat in front of the vanity mirror and asked the maid to tidy herself up carefully, and went out to meet Emperor Wen Xiao with all manners.
Emperor Wen Xiao has a tall figure and a refined face. He looks like a gentle literati. He has a gentle temper and rarely gets angry.
But this doesn't mean that he is a good emperor, it's just that he doesn't show it on the surface.
Concubine Hui has a clear heart, and dogs that can bite people don't bark. How can a man who has been emperor for so many years and has firmly controlled the entire government and the people in his hands for more than ten years be a truly harmless person
Emperor Wen Xiao seemed to be gentler to her today than usual. He not only helped her up with a loving face, but also opened some walnuts for her personally. His words were very close, and he even gave her some precious jewelry before leaving. .
Concubine Hui also showed a flattered look on her face, and skillfully catered to Emperor Wen Xiao's few words in the chat, and occasionally acted coquettishly with a smile on her face, and finally treated Emperor Wen Xiao The Ziyun Palace was sent out, and it perfectly cooperated with Emperor Wen Xiao to perform.
However, after sending off the emperor, the smile on Concubine Hui's face faded as soon as she returned to her bedroom. She glanced lightly at those radiant, ingenious jewelry that would make a group of concubines blush when worn out. There was no joy in his eyes.
The little palace lady standing behind her sensed that something was wrong with the atmosphere, and secretly raised her eyes to look at it, but was glared at by the big palace lady, and hurriedly lowered her head again.
After a long while, Concubine Hui sighed softly, and told the maid: "Put these away, you all go down too, Shao Yun stays here."
A group of little girls lowered their heads, apart from Concubine Hui, only her personal maid was left in the room. The palace maid helped her to the edge and sat down, knelt on the ground and rubbed her legs.
"Your Majesty, take care of your body, don't be too sad, the young master will be taken care of by Lord Hou and Madam."
Concubine Hui took a sip of the bitter tea, and said slowly: "Looking at today's posture, the emperor is determined, what can father and mother do, can they beat the emperor?"
It is impossible for Emperor Wen Xiao to come here today to show great hospitality to her. It is impossible to say that it has nothing to do with the recent incident between Prince Su and her younger brother.
In many cases, the emperor's behavior in the harem and his attitude towards concubines are determined by the affairs of the previous dynasty. This rule is especially applicable to the rational and somewhat cruel Emperor Wen Xiao.
Although Emperor Wen Xiao didn't mention anything about Prince Su during the whole process, he greeted her with a big fanfare and a compensatory attitude, and his attitude towards this matter was already obvious.
Presumably at this time, the reward from Xinyuanhou's Mansion should also be in place.
Although the approach is very gentle, every move of Emperor Wen Xiao today is strongly implying to her that there is no room for them to intervene in the affairs of Prince Su and Xie Ming, even if Xie Ming is the only son of their Hou Mansion. .
The emperor's heart is biased, and their entire Xinyuanhou's mansion combined is still inferior to Prince Su's position in the emperor's heart.
I'm afraid that in a few days, the imperial decree to bestow marriage should come down.
The palace lady was also silent for a while, and then continued to persuade her in a soft voice: "But what's the use of empress being sad here? What should come will always come, and all empress can do is to be safe and secure in the palace. If the young master is bullied in the future, the empress can still support him."
This grand maid grew up with Concubine Hui when she was a child. When Concubine Hui was still the daughter of the Xie family, she couldn't get along with the concubine sisters, so she had the closest relationship with this maid. It's not too much for a sister, so a lot of things, the grand lady can talk to her without shyness.
Concubine Hui chuckled lightly: "Just because you speak loudly and don't say anything, how can I have the ability to stand up for Prince Su?"
The palace lady also smiled and said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I heard that Prince Su dotes on the young master very much. In fact, the slaves think that such a delicate young master deserves to be pampered so that he can be happy."
Concubine Hui knew that she was comforting herself, and said: "Okay, you can coax people, wait for me to rest, the emperor will not come tonight."
In fact, it's not that she thinks that Xie Ming can't be with a man, and she doesn't pay as much attention to the heirs of the Marquis of Xinyuan as her parents. It's just that when she thinks that her younger brother, whom she loved and grew up with, was ruined by such a bastard like Prince Su, And because of the disparity in status, her brother might suffer even more in the future, so she was so angry that her liver hurt.
Not to mention anything else, just say that if Prince Su takes a concubine in the future, can her arrogant brother be able to bear this anger
How come the little prince who came out of their waiting mansion with thousands of beauties and pets is reduced to compete with a group of concubines for a man's favor
Just thinking about that scene makes her uncontrollably want to smash the cup in her hand on Prince Su's dog's head!
And Prince Su, who was being pinned down by his sweetheart's first sister in his heart as a villain, was actually not having a good time at the moment.
After Emperor Wen Xiao expressed his love to Concubine Hui, he sent someone to summon Prince Su into the palace.
Although he finally chose to follow his will under Prince Su's insistence, and tried to find a way to marry the young son of Xinyuanhou's mansion for this overage unmarried emperor's brother, but this was indeed a dishonest thing they did. Inevitably, my heart is still full of guilt towards the Xinyuanhou Mansion.
Although the rewards sent to Concubine Hui and Xinyuanhou's Mansion were precious, for Xinyuanhou's Mansion, which did not lack these things, it might not have any effective appeasement effect.
So he thought about how he could really make up for the Xinyuanhou Mansion.
As far as the Xinyuanhou Mansion is concerned, since the fact that their son will marry into the Prince Su's Mansion is unavoidable, what they are most concerned about is the issue of the sons of the Xinyuanhou Mansion.
So Emperor Wen Xiao called Prince Su, thinking that he would arrange this matter himself, so that Xinyuanhou's mansion could feel their sincere intention of compensation and feel more balanced in his heart. He has found suitable candidates, all of them are girls from innocent families. After giving birth to Xie Ming's children, they will have nothing to do with them, and there will be no future troubles.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he heard half of what he said, Prince Su's face immediately turned black, no matter how Emperor Wen Xiao knew it and moved him with emotion and reasoned, he would bite the word "no" and would not let go.
Emperor Wen Xiao... Emperor Wen Xiao wants to hit someone!
He is the one who works hard! He is also the one who gets angry on both sides!
Don't look at Concubine Hui and Marquis Xinyuan showing nothing on the surface, but in fact, I don't know how to scold him!
It's fine for his brother, who just sits and waits for his wife, not to help, he's just making trouble and holding him back!
Prince Su also wanted to hit someone!
Let him send women to his sweetheart's bed, and let his sweetheart have children with them!
Thinking about that scene, he wished he could tear those women apart!
The author has something to say: Emperor Wen Xiao: Idiot brother, let’s die together (#｀皮?)
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