At this moment, Gu Zhen discussed with Yun Fenghuang that regardless of whether the Empress Dowager would be able to live in the palace at that time, the Empress Dowager would have a grand banquet to celebrate her birthday next year.
"Your Majesty will definitely approve of your filial piety." Yun Fenghuang said slowly, "I will try my best to help you when the time comes."
Gu Zhen said: "Of course your Majesty will agree, but don't you know if the empress dowager herself... will refuse?"
Is there any record of this? When the Ji family was in power, they tried their best to weaken the existence of the Mother Queen Mother and the Holy Mother Queen Mother. There has always been one on the Holy Shou Festival, which is the birthday of Ji Sheng, a common man.
Later, after the Ji family fell, the emperor could openly and openly congratulate the empress dowager on her birthday, but the empress dowager always had various reasons to refuse...
In the Ming Dynasty, there was basically no grand celebration of Queen Mother Yuan's birthday.
Now that Empress Dowager Yuan has returned from the palace, she is more humble and kind than before. At that time, the probability of her rejecting this matter was very high.
Therefore, the queen hopes that Yun Fenghuang can persuade Chunjia to insist on congratulating Queen Mother Yuan on her birthday.
"Empress, it is true that I am unwilling to help, but do you think that the empress dowager, a loving mother, was poisoned just a few months ago. She was much better at that time, but she has been living in seclusion. Maybe the poison is still lingering? " Yun Fenghuang listened and thought with a thought, "Can you force her to attend the banquet? What will happen if there is a good thing and a bad thing?"
She looked around and saw that no one was around. She lowered her voice and said, "I can understand your empress's desire to ease the relationship with her loving mother, the Empress Dowager. But you also know that my master, I think I have some affection for you." That's right. Is it true that those people who wrong my concubine are... You mean well, but she may not be willing to reciprocate the kindness! When the time comes, she will have a phoenix body that is unreasonable. You said that the imperial doctor may say something about her in front of us. Are you pretending? If you are so small, it is our fault!"
Gu Zhen didn't expect that Empress Dowager Yuan would do that. She couldn't help but stiffen her face and said, "Why is this? For such a big thing as the Holy Birthday Festival, Bidong must have personally dealt with it. Even if she doesn't give us face, shouldn't she? Does Bidong save face?"
"Then who knows what she is thinking? I can't prepare for a rainy day." Yun Fenghuang said softly, "burning, I would like to advise the empress, it is better to do less than to do more." Should we raise it with Bidong? But if she doesn't like it herself, let's just forget it. "
But the question is, his grandfather taught him to kneel down in public to plead guilty and admit his mistakes while congratulating her on her birthday, so as to force the "kind and cruel" mother-in-law, the Empress Dowager, to forgive me and Mrs. Gu!
If you don't have that birthday banquet and go directly to apologize and beg for mercy, you will definitely be considered to be threatening your loving mother, the Queen Mother!
Gu Zhen is in a dilemma.
"If your Majesty insists on doing that." Fortunately, Yun Fenghuang added, "I don't think I have any ideas. No, I don't know if it will be self-defeating."
The Queen went to ask: "But I don't know what you think? Let me tell you quickly."
Yun Fenghuang said slowly: "I mentioned congratulating the Queen Mother on her birthday earlier, which probably caused the harem to be busy. Then I invited the Queen Mother's relatives from her mother's family to come... but there were no ministers to congratulate the Queen Mother together. It's better to do it that time It is suggested that the ministers should also be brought along. As long as such a loving mother-in-law is a little bit ambitious, she must not show her old age and frailty on such an occasion. Otherwise, whoever is willing to follow someone from Didong will... Do noble people do things?"
"... But if you do that, what if you win her over?" Gu Zhen looked at her suspiciously.
The imperial concubine cannot deliberately allow Empress Dowager Yuan to expand her wings, right
Yun Fenghuang said: "Your Majesty, if the Empress Dowager can win over people's hearts, what's wrong? Don't forget that the Empress Dowager's greatest support is not only the bloodline of King Fuyang, but also the identity of the Empress Dowager. , but not Bidong! Bidong won her respect and forbearance, and that was her biggest bargaining chip! Let’s just talk about the New Year’s Eve banquet where she was poisoned. You said that if Bidong hadn’t gone to the harem before, , Weiye left Beijing and rushed over, who was she? Even if there was something wrong, she would still follow the rules! That person is a smart person, he knows what is the most taboo of Bidong, and how difficult it is for him to seize power, and he is most worried about it. Is there anyone who is plotting to conquer the Gongxiang family?"
"So when she left the palace and went to Fuyang County, although Bidong couldn't bear to leave her, he didn't say anything to keep her."
"Because Yuan's behavior of confusing the royal bloodline violated Bidong's taboo, Bidong did not want to give people the misunderstanding that he would relax his bottom line because of his loving mother, the Queen Mother, so he sent her away in tears!"
"When Ruming came back, she refused to accept the gifts from various families, and she was nowhere to be seen."
"Does she really not want to ask for it? Judging from my personal experience, in the final analysis, she will forgive Bidong's heart!"
"If that person who really takes over does nothing, then with all due respect, I will never do anything to her in his lifetime."
"Is she Bidong's adoptive mother or Bidong's most respected elder?"
"So instead of asking her to curl up in the house and be a glamorous elder, with Bi Dong thinking about her all the time, it's better to give her a chance..."
The imperial concubine turned her head to look at the queen and said calmly, "We are like people in the deep palace, with so many things to worry about. Do we really want to think about her all the time? Take this opportunity to give her a chance to show her status. , encouraging her to make mistakes, and then... destroying her good impression in Bidong's mind in one fell swoop, what's wrong with that?"
The queen was silent, her heart was up and down, and she felt that she was not at all unjust in being suppressed all those years...
She calmed down and said: "I know, it's not a trivial matter. I'll let me think about it carefully."
Yun Fenghuang knew that she would definitely seek communication with her mother-in-law before making a decision, so he did not rush her: "Then I will retire and will not disturb my mother-in-law."
After walking out of Chongchang Hall, the imperial concubine smiled slightly.
Of course she had an ulterior motive for the idea she came up with, just...
Queen or Gu, no one can guess her true purpose!
Gu Zhen and the Gu family discussed the reason for coming east, whether the imperial concubine had ulterior motives, but the Lord hoped that the target of the attack was not the wrong Queen Mother Yuan.
That's understandable, after all, the relationship between the imperial concubine and Queen Mother Yuan is really not that good.
Is the imperial concubine the kind of master who likes to take advantage of others first? Even if Empress Dowager Yuan did nothing wrong with Xuanqing Palace after she came back, it did not prevent the imperial concubine from thinking about how to kill Empress Dowager Yuan...
"Didn't your Majesty ask me to give the phoenix seal to the concubine Shu before? After the concubine recovered, the phoenix seal was still in the concubine's leg?" After careful consideration, Mr. Gu asked someone to remind Gu Zhen, "In that case, what about that banquet?" , let the noble concubines and the others worry more about it, and I will continue to complain about the illness, focusing less on my legs, worrying less, and getting into less trouble. If something goes wrong with Xi Zai, it has nothing to do with me."