After the marriage between Princess Jinxi and Xie Fuwang was announced, everyone in the former harem was really surprised.
One is that Princess Yun'an was running around a few days ago, wanting to betroth her only daughter to Weihe to be the Dalan clan. At that time, everyone thought that there was something wrong with her brain
Considering the relationship between their mother and daughter and Emperor Xiaozong, does it require Princess Jinxi to go to a foreign country to earn wealth
Now, only a few days have passed, and the nephew of the imperial concubine has been engaged to be married. This... what on earth is the eldest princess thinking? ?
The second reason is that Wei He approved the princess Xin from the Dalan family, and she was Yun Fenghuang's biological niece Xie Kuo.
Princess Yun'an promised her daughter to the concubine's nephew without snatching it away from her. This signal made many people, especially the queen's group, feel heavy in their hearts.
Although the Zheng family has fallen, there is only one Zheng Fengfen, but he only relies on his status as consort to protect himself. However, Princess Yun'an's status as the daughter of Xiao Zong meant that the entire Chunjia family must treat her and her flesh and blood well.
Where can the queen not see such an advantage
Even if she didn't have any friendship with Princess Yun'an, the queen would have wanted to tell the third prince about Jinxi, so as to offset the disadvantage of the third prince's background.
It's just that the relationship between the Queen and Yun'an hasn't reached the point of talking about these things. The key is that the children are still young, so the Queen puts it aside for now. She only plans to wait until the tenth or twelfth prince takes over the East Palace in the future, and the third prince's The status will inevitably increase accordingly, and when the time comes to discuss marriage, the probability of the eldest princess rejecting the marriage will also decrease.
Who knew that Yun An actually chose Xie Fuwang
Not only that, even Yun An's previous attempt to get Jin Xi to do something for the Dalan clan was suspected to be intentional.
The purpose is to help the imperial concubine kill other competitors.
Because although the emperor will definitely not let Jin Xi go to get married, but... Yun'an and Jin Xi's identities, if others want to become the Dalan clan, they have enough reasons to oppose and disrupt the situation, right
Anyway, after this incident, everyone suspected that Yun Fenghuang and Yun An had made a private agreement long ago and were deliberately trying to deceive others.
When Yun Fenghuang heard these rumors, she just laughed it off. She was talked about more than once or twice, so she was too lazy to care. She only ordered her surroundings to arrange for Xie Fuwang to have more contact with Jin Xi.
Moreover, in the past, when the master of Jinxi County was in the palace, she would not care about it. She just gave one to Jinxi every time the princesses came out.
But since she is a prospective nephew-in-law, and she is also a nephew-in-law who is of great benefit to his nephew's future, it is impossible for Yun Fenghuang to maintain his previous attitude, but he asks Zhaoqing to bring people around from time to time, and he also observes this from a close distance. The child's temperament.
Of course, this is a long-term thing and cannot be achieved overnight.
Within two days, news came from the north, and the government and the public were shocked: the new Marquis Longping was assassinated again on the eve of the arrival of Yao Yin. When his life was in danger, he looked back and personally ordered the medicine to be used on Qi Jiulu, so that he would not waste it in vain. At the same time, he explained The concubine promised Qi Jiulu, but she left without saying anything else!
When Chunjia learned the news, he was furious at the court!
All civil and military officials in the dynasty were trembling with fear, including everyone in the Gu family who had just received the bad news.
This is because the person who assassinated her for the second time was the concubine of Marquis Longping.
Although Marquis Longping is not known as a beauty-loving master according to external rumors, after all, at this time, it was common to have three wives and four concubines. In addition, his wife and heirs had to stay in the imperial capital as hostages. He was always stationed at the border, and of course there were others around him. Women are needed to serve.
The concubine who was taken advantage of was a concubine who had been serving the Gu family for five generations after Mrs. Longping Hou arranged to give birth to a child in her family.
The reason why Mrs. Longping Hou did this was because the mother of the concubine whom Gu Fangshu promised to Qi Jiulu before his death was once very favored by him. Although the concubines born under his knees were not particularly outstanding talents, they were better than several legitimate children. She was even more praised by Gu Fangshu, which made Mrs. Longping Hou feel jealous, so she decided to send a concubine who knew everything about her husband to serve her husband, and also to monitor her husband's back house in the north.
This concubine is young, beautiful, and has a gentle temperament. She serves Marquis Longping very attentively. The year before last, she gave birth to a male heir with a tiger-like head and a very cute head. Therefore, both mother and son are loved by Marquis Longping. In addition, the mistress sent her to Longping Marquis. It's quite decent in front of me.
This time Longping Hou was assassinated in the army, so the Dingbei army was naturally heavily guarded. Outsiders could not even enter the military camp, let alone get close to the plot.
But as a concubine, she was extremely weak, and the future of both mother and son lay with Marquis Longping. She also had a son from the Gu family and was a confidant of the mistress. Who would doubt her
Coupled with the fact that Marquis Longping was in a coma and needed close care, everyone felt that the concubine was more reliable than the clumsy personal guards in the military camp... Who knew that this concubine was also a spy
What angered the court the most was that the concubine committed suicide on the spot after the assassination, without even a single word of her confession!
Mrs. Longpinghou fainted when she heard the news. After being woken up, she could not provide any clues at all. She knew that she was Gu Fangshu's real wife. Even if she had been separated from her husband for many years, even if she was jealous that her husband was in Beijing. The concubines of the land talk about interests instead of feelings. If Gu Fangshu is dead, what good will it do to her and her children
Mrs. Longping Hou was determined not to deliberately murder her husband. It was also out of this consideration that the Dingbei Army let the concubine succeed. And if Mrs. Longpinghou noticed that there was something wrong with that concubine, would she still send her to the north to serve Gu Fangshu
Not to mention the chaos within the Gu family, this was no small matter for the imperial court.
Not only because of Gu Fangshu's identity and the impact of his successive assassinations, but also because of who was working tirelessly to kill him? !
"... Marquis Longping, let's just say that after the previous assassination, he was seriously injured and died." Chunjia finished his attack, took deep breaths several times to calm down, and said in a cold voice, "As for the truth, order the Imperial City Secretary to investigate thoroughly! If it's a If there is no definite news within a month, the Imperial City’s envoy will come to see you!”
Today's court meeting ended in an extremely heavy atmosphere.
In the harem, Huanhua Hall, Yun Fenghuang slowly exhaled, and for the first time in his life, he felt grateful to his loving mother, the Empress Dowager.
Yes, the previous emperor and his ministers were still confused as to who was instigating the sudden appearance of the concubine, but Yun Fenghuang felt that it was probably Empress Dowager Yuan's handiwork.
She originally thought that Queen Mother Yuan would start with the Chao family, but...
Unexpectedly, the Queen Mother, or the Xingning Bo Mansion, was hidden deeper than she imagined.
However, if you think about it carefully, this is reasonable. The Queen Mother is not stupid, the Emperor is not stupid, and the ministers can reach their current status, let alone good things. Since Empress Dowager Yuan dared to kill Gu Fangshu, she must be quite sure that she would not be found out.
"Next, I'm afraid that the Queen Mother will blame the truth of Gu Fangshu's death on this palace, right?" Yun Fenghuang's eyes flickered and he pondered, "It's just a matter of the concubine's room. I had no idea in advance, and Your Majesty is not a master who follows what others say, so how can she achieve her goal?"
After thinking about it for a while, Yun Fenghuang put the matter aside for the time being and ordered his confidants to eliminate the whole series of incidents including the threats and news transmission by the head of the Qi family.
Otherwise, as long as Chunjia knew that the head of the Qi family had threatened her for Qi Jiulu, and now that Gu Fangshu was dead and the medicine was returned to Qi Jiulu alone, what would the emperor think
In the following days, the imperial concubine pretended to know nothing and only expressed greetings to the furious Chunjia, as if her thoughts were focused on taking care of the emperor's heirs.
Because the previous dynasty could not disclose the true cause of Gu Fangshu's death, after some private consultations, the prince was ordered to ascend the throne and serve as Longping Bo, to support the deceased in the north.
Old Mrs. Gu suddenly aged a lot. He even fell down due to a trance when he went to court. It seemed that it was not serious. Chunjia specially arranged for the imperial doctor to come and diagnose... These news spread one after another, Yunfeng Huangzui He said: "I'm so pitiful. I didn't expect that the war would be over and there would still be something like this. Alas, the Queen's life is also miserable."
But my heart was very happy.
It was thought that when all the Xie family members were killed, everyone in the Gu family was excited about the upcoming war and the military exploits behind the war.
Now it was finally Gu's turn to feel such grief. In Yun Fenghuang's view, this was simply not enough.
The Gu family now only has one Gu Fangshu. Even if it is a pillar, why should it be compared with the lives of hundreds of people in the Xie family? !
Under the guise of caring about the Queen, she went to Chongchang Palace to "visit" Gu Zhen again and again. Every time she said words that seemed to be caring but were actually hurtful, so that Gu Zhen was just a little frustrated at first, being treated like this by her. After worrying a few times, I actually fell ill.
However, Yun Fenghuang went to Chunjia as usual to ask for credit. The implication behind her words was that if she hadn't moved around frequently to persuade her, the queen might not be able to hold on at this moment.
During this time, Chunjia concentrated on government affairs and paid no attention to the harem. Even when she found out about the engagement between Jinxi and Xiefu, she only asked Yanyin to arrange a congratulatory gift. Hearing this, he naturally believed it, and he felt more and more that the imperial concubine was too arrogant. , despite all the usual quarrels with the queen, he still felt very sorry for the queen at critical moments.
When Gu Zhen found out, he was heartbroken.
Still shedding tears, she persuaded her: "Your Majesty, your Majesty is clearly trying to add insult to injury. I wish you would be so angry! You can't grant her wish! Even though the Marquis is gone, the uncle is still here. Gu is still here. His Majesty has not shaken your position so far, so how can you fulfill the wishes of the noble concubine?!"
The queen just mentioned a little bit of energy to recuperate.
As a result, when Yun Fenghuang saw this situation, he made another plan after his plan failed. He turned around and told the Queen's ears, saying that the third prince and the tenth prince were all ungrateful: "Back then, the noble concubine was deeply saddened by Xie's incident. The Prince of Qin and his Highnesses became so anxious that their studies plummeted from then on, all because their thoughts were placed on the imperial concubine. Now that the empress is ill on the bed, and the Marquis Longping has recently died, the third prince and the tenth prince still talk and behave. As usual, their studies have not been affected at all, which shows that in the hearts of these two highnesses, the Queen is not their biological mother after all. In addition, Marquis Longping has nothing to do with them, and he doesn't even know about mourning!"
"I don't know if it's because the two highnesses have cold natures, or because the queen only treats them superficially and doesn't care about them in private, so that the relationship between mother and son is alienated?"