"I'm so impatient." After leaving the monastery, the empress dowager took a few steps quickly to make sure that the people inside could no longer hear her. Then she slowed down and said to the queen who was supporting her, "Your Majesty, please come back." How do you spoil the imperial concubine so much? You can't talk about such a big thing and just forget it. The reason why you just settled the matter is because you don't want to make the family scandal public... There is Zhaorong on the left and a local official who is not an important minister. How to deal with it after the limelight is over? Is something going wrong with the Ai family’s birthday?”
Gu Zhen bit his lip and said in a low voice: "Daughter-in-law Minghong. How about... let's just leave like that and leave the concubine alone there, then?"
"It doesn't matter." The loving mother Empress Dowager said calmly, "Please let me know if it is true that Yi's secret meeting with a foreigner is true. Even if the imperial concubine is eloquent, the emperor can't bear to give her face at most, but he will never let go of an adulterer. . And whether the concubine is smart or not, she dares to quibble with us. In front of the emperor, she is afraid of trying to get rid of herself first! After all, she already has a sister who is cheating on her, and then there is How could she be such a red-blooded girl? Huang'er has always been wise and powerful. Even if Ru Ming was reluctant to do anything to her, he would definitely fall in love with her. Huang'er was in his prime, so How old is Xiaoyun? She is very charming, and she can win over the emperor. After a few years, the emperor will not change his mind, and there will be new people eager to try!"
She sneered slightly, "Mother-in-law, didn't you just go east like that back then?"
Although the Queen wanted to say that given Yuan Fu Niang's temperament, even if Yun Fenghuang didn't stand up to win her favor, it was unlikely that she would be favored for a long time, but at that time the two were barely allies, so she didn't say it out loud, and just said in a low voice : "My wife knows."
"I'm sure that's true, right?" The empress dowager, a loving mother, felt uneasy after thinking about it. She stopped, turned her head, looked at Gu Zhen, and asked slowly, "Don't be too smart... No matter whether the emperor is a concubine or not, , are not fools!"
Gu Zhen was startled and felt sorry for himself. Did the Queen Mother suspect that she was a traitor to the Han Dynasty and planned such a plot to frame Yi Xingen? If it doesn't touch the ground, I wish I could split it into two and use it, but how dare I mess around with it? My wife didn't know about that until she heard the report."
"No." The Queen Mother thought for a while, nodded slightly and said, "I beg you if you have the ability, I would not have suppressed Concubine Yin to this point all these years ago."
It's as if you, the old man, have been suppressing the concubine...
The Queen cursed and said: "It can be seen that the Skynet is not leaking out. That person has done many wrong things and will eventually be exposed!"
At this moment, in the monastery, Yun Fenghuang was kneeling in front of Chunjia, crying: "Your Majesty, I don't know why Yi Shi did this? What reason does she have for not being able to fault you?"
The Queen Mother was not present, so Chunjia's expression was much calmer than before.
He stretched his legs to pull up the concubine and said softly: "That matter has something to do with me, Mei Jing. I will go to the banquet and stay with the children. I will handle it!"
"Bidong..." The emperor's words of protection were very obvious. Yun Fenghuang suddenly showed a moved expression. Just as he was about to speak, who knew that Du Langu, who had never said a word in Didong, suddenly said at this moment: "Bidong , the noble concubine may not have anything to do with this matter!"
Everyone looked surprised when they saw the emperor and his concubine.
Du Langu sneered, lowered his eyes and reported: "I am related to Empress Zhaorong by blood, but for various reasons, I do not want to recognize Empress Zhaorong. In the past six months, Empress Zhaorong has been entangled in every possible way, and I have been overwhelmed. It's annoying. During the Mingyue Banquet, Empress Zhaorong said that the Seventh Princess learned that she had an uncle and hoped to see her uncle. She begged me to fulfill the wish of the Seventh Princess and she would no longer bother me. I believed it to be true. , so I went to the appointment. Who would have thought that the Seventh Princess would pass by in a flash and follow Empress Zhaorong, but she would still be entangled by the ministers, and that’s when the guards noticed... "
Hearing this, Yi Xingen, who was kneeling next to her, couldn't help but be stunned!
Yun Fenghuang, who was at the head, suddenly turned around!
"Am I related by blood to Zhaorong?" Yun Fenghuang was furious in his heart. Du Langu was indeed as incompetent as Yi Xingen said! ! !
She had endured it for a long time and specially set up a trap, instructing Yi Xing'en to lure him into a trap so that she could use the Queen Mother's legs to force the man to admit his blood relationship with Yi Xing'en. She originally thought everything was safe.
After all, as a young and powerful foreign minister, he was caught having sex with a beautiful palace concubine. No matter how unwilling he was to admit his sister, what better way to escape at that time than to abandon the blood relationship
In Yun Fenghuang's plan, he asked Du Langu to recognize Yi Xing'en's sister there, and if Yi Xing'en interacted with him in the future, he would have no choice but to refuse!
If he refuses, Yun Fenghuang will try his best to deal with him.
It turns out that the man named Du dared to resist at that time? ?
The imperial concubine Xindong sneered, but her face showed a look of surprise, as if she had no idea before, but now she blurted out consciously, "Then why am I so ugly?!"
When those words came out, both the emperor and his ministers were startled. Chunjia was a little bit dumbfounded and said something fair to the ministers: "Ahuang, Du Qing's appearance can be considered majestic, right?"
"..." Yun Fenghuang said with a face that was at a loss for words, "Bidong, if he is among ordinary people, he can certainly be considered upright. Can you compare it to the Yi family? Think about it, Zhaoqing has seven princesses, then? That doesn’t look like the same family, does it?”
Among the emperors of Chunjia, the most beautiful one was undoubtedly Zhaoqing.
In fact, the seventh princess of Bu Nao is not too generous. After all, she is a sister with the same father and mother. Of course, the seventh princess is young and has immature features. In addition, she is not as favored as her eldest sister, and she is not as powerful as her eldest sister. But if you want to talk about the most beautiful princess in the palace, there is no doubt that it must be the two sisters.
Chunjia missed the seventh princess as much as Zhaoqing, but compared to the fourth prince whose name he couldn't even remember, he would at least occasionally go to see her. Is it because the daughter was born well and left an impression on him? Extra profound.
At this moment, when Concubine Beili said this, the emperor couldn't help but ask: "Are Du Qing and Yi Shi really brothers and sisters? Are they cousins?"
Du Langu's face was expressionless and he said slowly: "I have the same father and half-mother as Empress Zhaorong."
The emperor and the concubine exchanged glances, and the words in their eyes were clearly red, "That's no wonder." At the same time, I mentally labeled Du Langu's mother as "mediocre."
Being interrupted like this, Du Langu's originally prepared series of questions dropped in momentum. He calmed down before continuing: "Your Majesty, I thought that Empress Zhaorong had not been in contact with me all these years. Suddenly, I found her. He didn't say anything to me, but he was very persistent, and he probably was ordered by the imperial concubine to draw me into his command!"
He is really a good minister of Chunjia!
Yun Fenghuang laughed angrily. Without saying anything to Du Langu, she pulled the emperor's sleeve and said sternly: "Your Majesty, I feel that even if we have the same father and mother, the Yi family is beautiful, and Du Langu is beautiful. Lan Gu may not be a beast, but he has a wild temper and has wronged his own sister to have thoughts that he shouldn't have. It would be better for Bidong not to grant him death!"
Chunjia coughed dryly and said, "Nonsense!"
Finally, he said to Du Langu, "I don't have to be so suspicious. Judging from the appearance of the imperial concubine, she doesn't know the relationship between us. And as a foreign minister, maybe I don't know that although Yishi is not supported by the imperial concubine, The imperial concubine Yue Chang gave more instructions to the concubines like De, but after the Yi clan was granted the title of concubine, she rarely summoned them. Could this be a misunderstanding? "
The emperor felt relieved as soon as he found out whether Du Langu and Yi Xingen were brothers and sisters.
Yes, as Yun Fenghuang estimated, in Chunjia's eyes, the capable and young Du Langu asked for too much more than Yi Xingen!
Just ask that minister not to betray him, just ask that minister to have a reason to keep him. If this happens tomorrow, it will be nothing more than a farce in the eyes of the emperor.
No matter how big or small, the initiative to end the situation lies entirely in his lap.
If you just wanted to smooth things over, you didn't want the matter to get serious and damage the reputation of the royal family, but now you really want to turn the big thing into a trivial matter. As for whether Yi Xingen was ordered by the imperial concubine to win over Du Langu, the emperor believed that it was not a big deal. If not, of course he would ask the imperial concubine to shut up. After all, the imperial concubine is right in front of her, right
Even if he doesn't, he wants to establish a virtuous person now anyway.
It is not as taboo as before that Xuanqing Palace will grow.
Therefore, he did not want any conflict between his favored ministers and his favorite concubine.
But Du Langu and Yun Fenghuang obviously didn't want to fulfill the emperor's hard work, so Du Langu said: "Your Majesty, Dong Rong, are my suspicions well-founded? As we all know, this birthday banquet is whether the imperial concubine is assisting the queen. The empress is in charge of it. Empress Zhaorong is the confidant of the imperial concubine. The one who is closest to the water and the tower gets the moon first. How can she not know the rules of guard patrols? If she sincerely wants to avoid people's eyes and ears, how can she be caught by the guards? Furthermore, the empress just sent someone to I asked during the banquet and found out if I just asked! If the confidants of the imperial concubine have so little legs, how can they help manage the Sixth Palace all these years?"
"Mr. Hen, the concubine said that she doesn't know about our relationship." Chunjia frowned and said before Yun Fenghuang could speak, "It must be because Zhaorong didn't tell the concubine anything. If not. , I said, how could Zhao Rong know so much? Moreover, Zhao Rong was able to live peacefully in the palace during those years, relying solely on the care of the imperial concubine. He himself had no talents. Don’t be so ruthless as to think about Zhao Rong’s exhaustive plans. "
Yun Fenghuang felt aggrieved because the emperor had robbed him of his excuse. The look in Du Langu's eyes was a bit cold.
She knew that the emperor had become suspicious after being teased like that.
Not to mention the twists and turns in my life, I don’t know how much time I spent trying to coax Chunjia... Thinking of this, Yun Fenghuang said coldly: "Your Majesty, after all, Du Langu has doubts about my identity. I have known about the relationship between him and the Yi family for a long time, and I want to use the Yi family to coerce him! As for Du Langu, it would be too presumptuous! He is a foreign minister and is not from a high-ranking family. What is he if he has no extraordinary talent? It’s just Yi Shi who misses her blood relationship with him, which makes it difficult for him to let go of her. I am not a noble concubine after all, and I don’t care about such a thing!?”
Chunjia advised: "Don't say that to Du Qing when Ah Huang is angry. He is a minister whom I am optimistic about."
He added, "Moreover, Du Qing was ranked second in the official list, and in terms of talent and learning, he is very outstanding."
"There are so many ministers that Your Majesty favors!" Yun Fenghuang said scornfully, "Besides, what does second place count? I'm my direct cousin, Sui'an Diandong's consort, isn't he also among the top three? Please tell me about his talent. , Is my niece-to-be son-in-law Deng Chengzhai missing again?!"
Although the marriage between Xie Meng and Deng Chengzhai had been finalized a long time ago by the imperial concubine, and even Yun Fenghuang had been planning for a long time to dump the blame and move on to Deng Chengzhai, but because Xie Meng was young and Ru Ming was a filial piety, it never happened. public.
As for Du Langu, a favored minister of Chunjia, but he was not from a high background and had been living abroad before, he did not know about this.
Yandong couldn't help but be startled when he heard this.
He is quite proud of himself, and he is very disdainful that he is not in the top three of Xie Wuzheng.
Because the reason why Du Langu was not ranked second was that he was not as good as the top scholar in talent and learning, and because the imperial power was declining at that time, the Ji family controlled the government, and his tutor Cui Wan could not compete with the Ji family, so he had to be ranked second.
In terms of real talent competition, Du Langu can be said to be worthy of anyone.
Especially Xie Wuzheng, the top three... Anyone with a discerning eye knows that Emperor Bu Naofou was eager to cultivate a group of children from poor families, so he only promoted them specially.
To be honest, Xie Wuzheng is actually only a mid-level player.
But Deng Chengzhai…
To be honest, Du Lan Gucuo admired him very much.
Although Deng Chengzhai did not take the imperial examination to become an official.
However, if Du Langu could be noticed and won over by Chunjia, it was Deng Chengzhai who took the lead.
It can be said that Deng Chengzhai was kind to him.
Du Langu looked down on Xie Wuzheng, but did not dare to slight Deng Chengzhai. Now that he heard that Deng Chengzhai had been designated as the concubine's niece and son-in-law, he was a little shaken by his previous belief that Yun Fenghuang was plotting what happened tomorrow night.
He thought, if Deng Chengzhai had already fallen in love with the imperial concubine, the imperial concubine could recruit him through Deng Chengzhai, but why would he risk Yishi by going to war
Of course, it's very interesting... Could it be that the imperial concubine's real target this morning is not herself, but the Queen and the Queen Mother
While Du Langu was pondering, Yun Fenghuang was admonishing the emperor: "It would be better if Bidong directly dealt with the Yi family. Without the pivot of the Yi family, no matter how much I want to scheme against Du Langu, There is nothing we can do! If it’s Bidong, then Yi Shi can’t make things difficult for her if she doesn’t want to be a concubine, and if Du Langu doesn’t want to see his half-sister go to the east alive! If Zhaoqing asks the Seventh Princess in the future, Bidong can talk to them. It’s clear, let them go with Du to avenge their mother, it has nothing to do with my concubine!”
Chunjia didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said, "I told you, it was just a misunderstanding, but it has nothing to do with me."
Looking at Du Langu again, he frowned slightly and said, "Du Qing, what do I think?"
Knowing that the emperor's patience is limited, does this mean that he will not pursue it anymore? Du Langu hesitated for a moment, and finally whispered: "I... obey!"
After all, he was unwilling to do so, and what he said was "disapproving of fate." The implication was that he was just following the emperor's instructions, but did he really acknowledge what he said.
Yun Fenghuang refused to settle the matter as a courtier, and kept pleading for Yi Shi to be dealt with harshly: "Although I have been supporting her here, I have had feelings for Donglai in those years. But because of this, there is absolutely no reason why she harmed my concubine! I want to hate Yi Shi, but I hate myself. She has entered the palace to be the empress, why should I be so demanding and not let go to a brother who doesn’t care about me at all? No You have to add trouble to me! Anyway, in the many years since I entered the palace, Bidong has never wronged me like that. Who am I, Yishi, so I have to endure the humiliation and bear the burden for me?!"