When the Jiang family was working together to discuss how to deal with the aftermath of the royal scandal on New Year's Eve, they went to the Imperial City and Quezhi Palace.
"The queen's palace power can't be preserved?" Jianghui Zhiyun has a high bun on her temples. She wears a crab shell green tuft with folded branches, hibiscus and flower teeth. She wears a Zitang ground four-in-one Ruyi auspicious cloud-patterned cloak on the outside. She wears a smooth and smooth dress on her shoulders. mink fur. She was beautiful in her youth, but she was dressed like one of those hopeless concubines and concubines in the Zhenyu Palace. Although the dull colors could not hide her bright youth, her eyes without much emotion showed a lifeless look.
At this moment, he asked coldly, "What good does this do to us? Is it worthy of your joy?"
"Your Majesty, the Queen cannot take care of palace affairs. Besides you, who else can take over the power of the Sixth Palace? Who else dares to take over the power of the Sixth Palace?" The confidant who was brought into the palace as a bride was confused and asked, "Isn't this a good thing?"
"The Queen is His Majesty's first wife, the Princess-in-law who was personally selected by the Queen Mother!" Jiang Huizhi said expressionlessly upon hearing this, "The reborn prince is the eldest prince, who is also His Majesty's only flesh and blood... Do you think she will do something like this because of something that has affected Chi Yu? Son, being punished for the rest of his life?"
"This..." The confidant was speechless, but immediately said, "The matter this time has caused such a big fuss. Even if the Queen Mother is just for fun, she can't just punish the Queen and let her out to continue to be the home of the palace, right? I’ll definitely let you, the empress, preside over it for a while, so I’ll take this opportunity..."
"What can be done?" Jiang Huizhi said disdainfully, "The queen took the opportunity to enter the palace and looked at her purple deep palace like an iron bucket. Not to mention reaching out to do something, I wanted to find out what was planted in her back palace. Not even flowers or plants! Besides, how many people in this palace are not red-headed and white-haired? Since I entered the palace, how many times has your majesty come and gone? I can count them all on one hand! Shen Gong, what do you think I can do even if I take the palace power in name?"
The confidant murmured: "But you are still a noble concubine..."
"But His Majesty doesn't even have a concubine under the imperial concubine!" Jiang Huizhi gritted his teeth, "So I, the imperial concubine, am at the bottom of his harem! Do you think these people in the palace think highly of me?! If the queen wasn't afraid of people saying she was harsh I, I’m afraid we won’t be able to protect our status here!”
She sneered, "Of course, my grandfather has some arrangements in the palace. If he can use them, he can run a good business. But this is just not worth it!"
The confidant asked cautiously: "Mother, why can't we get it?"
"The Queen Mother has always been on guard against me. The Queen treats me with one thing on the surface and another behind the scenes. Your Majesty doesn't seem to be very interested in me!" Jiang Huizhi said sarcastically, "The attitudes of these three masters are so clear. I will never be in this palace again." No matter how you run the business, it’s just the same thing. No one should take this opportunity to find out some of my grandfather’s arrangements... So, it’s better to find another way!”
"What do you mean, empress?"
... Half a day later, in the Imperial Garden, the emperor took Cen Wei with him as usual, painting under the snowy forest.
"The imperial concubine invited herself to serve the Queen Mother and went to the Taishi Palace?" The emperor's expression was calm. He painted dots on Bai Xuan, carefully sketching a picture of a winter snow scene. "The Queen Mother actually approved her? I remember that the Queen Mother has always disliked Jiang. If this were not the case for the eldest family member, I would not have deliberately been cold to the imperial concubine after she entered the palace! "
While studying the ink, Cen Wei said softly: "The Queen Mother did not agree at first. Ms. Lin came out personally and asked the imperial concubine to take charge of the Sixth Palace on behalf of the empress. But the imperial concubine said that there is only one empress and one concubine in the palace now, and the rest are It is enough for the palace servants to have a female official and a chamberlain to take care of her. Besides, she is young and has little knowledge and does not know how to care about the palace. She might as well wait on the Queen Mother's bed and chat with her heart."
"What happened next? Then Ms. Lin let her in?"
"Ms. Lin did not agree, but the imperial concubine insisted on kneeling in front of the Taishi Palace for more than an hour. Just now, M.M. Lin invited her in... I don't know if the Queen Mother will leave the concubine to serve her."
The emperor paused in his writing, then continued for a moment, and said softly: "This Jiang family is actually a smart person. It's not in vain that I designed her to enter the palace!"
It's no wonder that Jiang Hui Zhi was upset. She had to enter the palace because she was tricked. It's a pity that the person who tricked her was the emperor who no one in the Jiang family expected - after all, who would have thought that Queen Mother Gu would be like Queen Mother Ye before she died. , with the mentality that you won’t let me feel better, and I won’t make you feel better even if I die, you secretly handed over your most loyal subordinates to the emperor
The emperor had been growing up in front of Empress Dowager Jiang. Empress Dowager Jiang thought she knew him very well and was familiar with his details, and she never considered that he could have his own team. Therefore, after Jiang Huizhi was revealed to have had close contact with the emperor on the eve of his wedding, people in the government and the public, as well as inside and outside the Jiang family, had doubts about the remnants of the Gu family, doubts about the political enemies of the Xin family, and doubts about each other...
But no one doubts the emperor!
It’s really dark under the lamp!
Even Cen Wei, after this incident happened, saw that the emperor was still unaffected, and confirmed that following him might not have a good future, so he officially switched from the informant arranged by Empress Dowager Jiang to be his person.
"Being in His Majesty's eyes is also a blessing for the noble concubine!" At this moment, he flattered respectfully, and then changed the subject and said with worry, "It's just... I'm thinking that even if the Queen Mother accepts the concubine's service, I'm afraid I won’t let the concubine go beyond the queen because of this!”
"That's for sure." The emperor said calmly, "The queen... was chosen by the queen mother herself! Not to mention the relationship between the Duke of E and the queen mother, it is much better than the relationship between Jiang Tianao and the queen mother. Let's just say that the queen is noble. In the main palace, there is Shao'er, how could the Queen Mother abandon the mother and son in the middle palace just because of the imperial concubine's temporary attentiveness?"
"In this case, does the imperial concubine have to be suppressed by the queen all the time?" Cen Wei thought for a while and asked doubtfully, "When your majesty planned to let the imperial concubine enter the palace, didn't he say that the purpose was to make the Jiang family's eldest room and the Jiang family's fourth room , Six Fangs, etc., lest the Queen have no one to check and balance her, which would be detrimental to His Majesty’s plan - but now, the imperial concubine is at a disadvantage in every way, but she cannot control the Queen!"
The emperor muttered: "That's right! The queen is chosen by the queen mother. Her family is also closely related to the queen mother and the Jiang family. Naturally, she and the queen mother are of the same mind! In this way, she will take the lead in everything in the harem. No matter how cautious I am in my actions, it will last forever. It's inevitable that she will find out the clues! According to my original plan, after the imperial concubine enters the palace, even if we can't separate the queen's power, we can still distract her heart. In this way, even if the queen discovers something, we can frame the imperial concubine - Anyway, it’s like no one except the Jiang family believes that the imperial concubine was framed when she entered the palace. The gap between the queen and the imperial concubine is so deep that they won’t believe each other’s excuses at all!”
Having said this, he suddenly asked, "What do you think of the concubine's current situation?"
"… not too good?"
"Isn't that just too good?" The emperor mocked, "Under the influence of her elders, no matter how virtuous and virtuous she is, the Queen Mother will not really treat her with her heart and soul! Not to mention the Queen, if the Marquis of Jibei hadn't protected her before her death, the Queen I'm afraid I wish she would die soon... Even I, too frightened by the Queen Mother, don't dare to give her a good look. If she is rejected by the Queen Mother and the Emperor, what future do you think she has even if she becomes a noble concubine? "
Cen Wei couldn't help but remain silent.
"I heard that before she entered the palace, she had several fights with the queen and the queen's mother, the Duke of Eguo." The emperor sneered, "I thought she was a strong-willed and tricky person, but once she entered the palace, the harem became lively! I don’t think she could bear it, but she spent so many months without saying a word..."
Having said this, he said calmly, "Besides, you are now learning from me!"
"Imitate Your Majesty?" Cen Wei was startled, and then thought: "Yes, Concubine Jiang is obviously very arrogant, and even the queen does not take her seriously, but now she gave up the opportunity to seize power and rushed to serve the queen mother. - With such a big change in attitude, isn’t it just an opportunity to show weakness? Isn’t this the way His Majesty has always used to protect himself?”
The emperor was much more professional than Concubine Jiang. At least Jiang Huizhi had a dark history of deliberately provoking troubles and frame-ups before she entered the palace. Even if she changed things temporarily, Empress Dowager Jiang and Empress Xin must still be suspicious and wary of her.
But the emperor has always been so obedient, and he has been like a professional puppet for three lives and three generations. Except for those who are now under his command, everyone in the government and the public does not think that he is the second emperor who has been submissive. Who can think of him in this situation? Those things you do behind someone’s back
"I wonder when she will have a showdown with me?" The emperor ignored Cen Wei's surprise and said calmly, "The Jiang family's big house has fallen into decline. With the current advantage of the fourth house, she will not be given any chance to use her parents' family to make a comeback. She wants to be better than the queen, and she wants to live in silence in the palace... The only hope is me! "
The emperor smiled coldly, "I don't know what bargaining chips she can offer me... Remember to give the imperial concubine more opportunities in the future! It's hard for me to go to her place often now, so that the imperial concubine can slowly contact me. , but it’s up to you not to be noticed by the Queen Mother and the Queen!”
Cen Wei changed his mind and bowed: "I obey your order!"
While the emperor and the concubine were quarreling with each other in the palace, Qiu Yilan was being invited to the third room by He Shuijin: "Originally, the first month of the year was busy with weddings, but now that something like that happened in the palace, what if we discuss it again at the banquet? Isn’t it embarrassing?”
"But the date has been set. The reason why it is held in our house is because it will be such a suitable day in the first month of this year. If you miss it, it will be next year. My aunt clearly said that she is not willing to wait any longer." Qiu Yilan sighed. He said in a helpless tone, "When the time comes, pick out some fresher singing, dancing, acrobatics, etc., so as to keep the congratulators' attention?"
The twelfth day of the first lunar month, the only suitable date for Jiang Yalan and Feng Hanyan to get married this year, is approaching. What makes the two sisters feel troublesome is that the government and the public are now talking about Yan Linxue and Fan Taipin—since the downfall of the Gu family Finally, in the past few years, for the first time in the Jiang family, the marriage of a direct descendant was not the most popular topic, which shows how true the saying "good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles" is true.
It's not that Qiu Yilan and He Shuijin want their family to be the most popular: think about it, on the big day, the guests are enthusiastically discussing the rebellious pair of wild mandarin ducks in the palace... This... This has to be called the main family. What a mood!
"That's all we can do now!" He Shuijin frowned for a long time before saying, "I didn't even guard against this happening before. Now there are only a few days left, and I don't know if I can find a good one... ugh!"
Having said this, he thought again, "By the way, on the 19th day of the first lunar month, we are going to accept a disciple. When is that day? If you are really too busy, I will take care of Brother Thirteenth's marriage first."
"Nineteenth doesn't want to make a big deal, so just invite a few colleagues to come and let Lu He serve tea." Qiu Yilan shook her head, "It was after the Thirteenth brother got married and celebrated the Lantern Festival... This matter Don’t be in a hurry, let’s take care of Brother Thirteen’s important matters first!”
"Then help me take a look at this pile of lists!" Hearing this, He Shuijin began to arrange things for her without any courtesy - they are all really busy as wives at the moment.