That day, Yun Fenghuang took advantage of the opportunity to greet the queen and told Gu Zhen what Chunjia meant: "I see what your majesty means, mainly because I am worried that King Yi and Marquis Yongchun will be empty, but I don't want to interfere too much in the back house. Therefore, during the selection process, the most important thing is to be suitable and honest. We cannot allow Princess Yi and the future Madam Yongchun to be wronged in order to continue the heirs."
"I know." If this happened in the past, the queen would still be resentful about why Chunjia didn't come to tell her, but asked the concubine to tell her
However, the death of Marquis Longping in the 15th year of Chunjia greatly affected Gu Zhen. He fell ill in the early spring of the 16th year of Chunjia, and his health deteriorated significantly after that.
Chunjia confessed things several times, but she didn't tell her how to handle them. Twice, she turned around and forgot about them.
The emperor knew that she was not a provocative person, so he held back and said nothing. However, after that, he came to Yanfu Palace less and less, and he directly informed the imperial concubine if he had any errands that required the harem to cooperate.
Gu Zhen felt angry at first, but after being questioned twice by Chunjia, he felt he was wrong and didn't say anything, just silently angry.
At this moment, she had to endure the grievance in her heart and said, "Since His Majesty told you, then you should work harder. Your Majesty has only two close brothers, and he has spoken in person, so he must give them It’s best to do it properly.”
After pondering for a while, he added, "The prospective wife of Marquis Yongchun just wants to pay it back. I think she should be able to understand."
Even if you can’t understand it, you have to understand it. After all, a mere daughter of a prefect has climbed to the top by virtue of her beauty. What else does she want
If you don't understand, there are so many beauties in the world, do you really think that without her, the Marquis of Yongchun will only be a widower for the rest of his life
The queen specifically mentioned Princess Yi, "Princess Yi and King Yi have been married for many years. It is said that they have always been loving and harmonious. This matter must be explained clearly to the princess in advance. Don't let the outside world think that your majesty does not like the princess."
"Don't worry, I will take care of it." Yun Fenghuang discussed the details of the selection with her, and after confirming that the queen had no intention of interfering with anyone, he also talked about how he wanted to hold a banquet to entertain many of the courtiers' family members during the summer vacation, " Although Kuo'er has occasionally interacted with the noble ladies of the imperial capital in the past two years, they are all intertwined after all. Thinking that after the summer vacation, she will marry in a foreign country, I feel a little reluctant to let go. I thought about asking her to leave before leaving. The girls who have always been friends with each other get together, but I don’t know what the empress thinks?”
"It's not a big deal, it's just that I have become more and more unwell in the past two years..." Gu Zhen glanced at her after hearing this, not too surprised.
After all, the prince in front of us is so old, the banquet will be held sooner or later.
Prospective daughters-in-law not only have to live with their son, but they also have to see if they can withstand the next scene. How can they blindly agree? No matter what, I have to control my eyes myself.
Gu Zhen was thinking about choosing a good one for the third prince, so of course he would not refuse, "...but I have to worry about this matter for the noble concubine."
Yun Fenghuang said: "How dare I disobey your Majesty's orders?"
Since there was nothing else to do, she resigned.
Returning to Xuanqing Palace, Yun Fenghuang couldn't take a break and ordered someone to deliver a message to Princess Yi.
In the past two years, King Yi and Marquis Yongchun have been very law-abiding and have cooperated with Chunjia to create many brotherly and respectful characters.
The emperor was very satisfied with his two cousins.
Arrange some errands from time to time to show that the heavenly brothers support each other.
According to the date, King Yi and his wife should have returned to the fiefdom by now. But Princess Xincheng Xie Kuo is not only not of royal blood, she is not even a nobleman. Compared with the concubine Princess who was canonized by the previous court ladies, she is only a little stronger. In order not to appear to be bullying Wei He who was in decline, Chunjia specially asked King Yi to send her bride at that time. In addition, Yin Qu missed his youngest daughter and requested privately, so he simply let them live in the imperial capital until Princess Xincheng got married. Let them return to the fiefdom.
During these days, Princess Yi came to the palace every now and then to see the Seventh Prince, and the news came very quickly.
"I have some bad news to tell you." Yun Fenghuang cleared the scene beforehand and said straight to the point, "Yesterday, His Majesty came over and told me and the Queen about an errand." …”
She talked about the selection in a few words. Seeing that Princess Yi's face suddenly turned bad, she sighed, "Actually, your Majesty has no intention of harming the marriage, but you also know that your Majesty is not the blood of the late Emperor Shenzong. Now your Majesty's descendants are prosperous, Shenzong’s two grandsons, Marquis Yongchun, are still unmarried. However, there has been no news about you two years since you got married, and it will be difficult for Your Majesty to explain to your relatives.”
Princess Yi pursed her lips and said after a while: "Your Majesty, since this is your Majesty's wish, don't worry, my wife will of course accept the order. When I get back, I will clean up the courtyard of the mansion so that they can be arranged accordingly. "
"Don't blame me for being talkative. I vaguely remember that when you married King Yi, you asked the imperial doctor to take a look and said that your heirs are not bad at fate." Yun Fenghuang looked at her and pondered for a while. He whispered, "I have been childless for many years, but I don't know if there is anything wrong with King Yi."
Princess Rao Shiyi has been married for many years, but she comes from a high family and is used to being reserved. She couldn't help but blush a little when she heard this. She hiccupped for a while before she managed to say: "To answer the question, Your Majesty... He... I don't think there is anything wrong with it." ?”
"Is that so?" Yun Fenghuang nodded. Since this topic had already been brought up, she simply said it, "Although you didn't find any hidden illness in the prince, in my opinion, the issue of heirs is , let the imperial doctor give King Yi a good look. Otherwise, why should you bear the blame for nothing? Furthermore, if you really have a disease, if you find it early, you may be able to diagnose and treat it. For example, I was once considered to have no hope. Yet?"
To be honest, from her standpoint, she did not want King Yi to have a concubine, let alone a bastard, and she did not want a bastard to inherit the throne in the future.
After all, Princess Yi is a supporter of Xuanqing Palace because of the Seventh Prince.
And the biggest advantage between her and Yin Qu and his daughter is that they sincerely love the seventh prince, so they only want him to be safe and go well, and don't ask him to fight for anything at all.
With such an ally, Yun Fenghuang certainly hopes that Princess Yi can give birth to King Yi's legitimate son and firmly control King Yi's lineage, instead of taking advantage of the concubine who doesn't know where she came from.
It's just that being kind to the Shenzong bloodline is what Chunjia Mingjun's character should be. He will not compromise easily. Yun Fenghuang can't object to the selection if he doesn't directly object.
Of course, this does not mean that she will not do anything in private. At this moment, she hinted to Princess Yi, "This is a serious matter. If the princess feels embarrassed to talk to King Yi, why not reveal something to your father?"
She had already thought about it. As long as Princess Yi could deal with King Yi and make King Yi agree not to take concubines, Princess Yi was embarrassed to say it, so she would go and give advice to Yin Qu.
As far as Yin Qu's doting and doting on her blood, not to mention that Princess Yi had nothing wrong with her at the time and in recent years when the imperial doctors diagnosed her...
Even if something happens, he will frame his son-in-law without hesitation whenever possible, so that his daughter will not be wronged.
Princess Yi's face turned red when she heard this, and she said awkwardly: "Thank you, Your Majesty, please stop talking about it now. I will go back and discuss it with the Prince, okay?"
"Then you'd better hurry up. I'm going to start the selection soon." Yun Fenghuang warned, "Don't delay."
After sending Princess Yi away, she decided to make two preparations and asked Chen Jing, "In this selection, I am determined to choose those girls who are submissive and have no brains and temperament. The kind of thoughtful girls, every one will be counted, and all of them will be rejected! And!" , if there is a difficult childbirth in the family, and the mother dies and the child survives, the child will be picked first."
As he spoke, he glanced at Chen Jing and said slowly, "King Yi and Princess Yi are loving and harmonious. It is a family story. It is better not to be disturbed by irrelevant people. Do you understand?"
Chen Jing bowed and said, "Don't worry, I will take care of everything."
If people still have to enter Prince Yi's Mansion, then regardless of whether Princess Yi leaves the mother to keep the child, the imperial concubine will help to leave the mother and leave the child.
Only in this way will Princess Yi's status be stable, which is more in line with Yun Fenghuang's interests.
After all, although King Yi would never hold great power in his life, he was one of the emperor's favors for grace and Yourong, just like Ming Hui and the three sisters.
After these things were explained, the Queen Mother suddenly sent someone over there, asking the Queen and the Concubine to go and answer the question.
Yun Fenghuang was quite surprised when he heard this, because the Empress Dowager had become more and more inattentive in the past two years, and even refused to show up at palace banquets since the year before last.
At this moment, there was a sudden movement. After thinking about it, she felt that it probably had something to do with King Yi and his wife.
After all, these are the grandchildren who grew up in front of the Empress Dowager, and they have a close relationship with each other.
Sure enough, when they arrived at Qingci Palace, after the ceremony, the Empress Dowager said: "I heard that the emperor asked you to preside over a selection to recruit people for King Yi and the brothers Yongchun Hou?"
Before the queen could speak, she said displeasedly, "The emperor has three wives and four concubines. Could it be that he couldn't see that King Yi loved the princess? The young couple lived a good life, but he was troublesome! Don't listen to him! About this matter Son, don’t do it!”
The queen and the noble concubine looked at each other in shock for a moment.
Yun Fenghuang was particularly puzzled. On the way here, she was still thinking, could it be that the Empress Dowager felt sorry for King Yi and was afraid that they would do something wrong when selecting people, so she planned to personally intervene in the matter
Who knew that he did personally intervene, but stopped him
"Royal Grandmother, Your Majesty also has good intentions and has no intention of targeting Princess Yi." The Queen was speechless for a while before explaining, "They are just concubines from humble backgrounds. They are not concubines. They are mainly afraid of Prince Yi. The couple is lonely at their knees..."
But the Empress Dowager sneered and said, "Loneliness? When did Prince Yi and his wife tell you about loneliness? It's just a matter of course!"
Hearing that the words were wrong, Gu Zhen had become wiser in the past two years and did not refute. He only said: "I have written down the instructions of the Imperial Grandmother. Grandma will report back to Your Majesty right now!"
Saying blessing, he resigned.
Upon seeing this, Yun Fenghuang was about to leave, but the Empress Dowager stayed behind and said she wanted to ask her something alone.
After the Queen left, the Queen Mother thought for a moment and said, "Do you know why the Ai family is opposed to this matter?"