Yun Fenghuang stayed at the Fangyin Pavilion until lunch time. Empress Dowager Yuan wanted to ask for food. As a result, Yuan Niang appeared at the door with a bulging belly and said: "Auntie, it's time to eat. I made red date, yam and glutinous rice porridge with my own hands." , the imperial doctor said, it can replenish qi and calm the mind. You didn’t sleep well last night, so you need to use more later.”
Queen Mother Yuan was stunned for a moment before she smiled and said kindly: "Why are you so worried about your weight? The Ai family is fine."
"Your Majesty woke up this morning and was very frightened when she heard about what happened last night." Aunt Zhu, who was supporting Yuan Nian at the side, said hurriedly, "Knowing that you didn't sleep well, I became even more restless. No, I originally wanted to come over and have a look. I heard that you were summoning the concubine here, so I didn’t dare to disturb you. So I went to the small kitchen... The red date, yam and glutinous rice porridge uses the recipe of the old lady in the family, who is the empress. The first time I made it, it was not very familiar. I made it three or five times. I tasted it with my own mouth and it was almost ready before I asked others to serve it."
Mentioning Queen Mother Yuan's mother, Queen Mother Yuan looked complicated for a moment and sighed: "It's hard for you."
Just looking at Yun Fenghuang, Yun Fenghuang hurriedly got up and left.
She thought the Queen Mother also meant that she should leave early so as not to disturb their family's reminiscence.
As a result, the Queen Mother pondered for a moment, but said: "That's it, it's already that time. I'll send you back to Lanzhou Yeyu Pavilion without any reason to go back and complain to the emperor again. I'm sorry that the Ai family has wronged you, so I'll just stay with you." Just some."
"How dare I?" Yun Fenghuang was surprised in his heart, while his face showed a grievance skillfully, "I'm just afraid that I might disturb you if I don't behave well."
Empress Dowager Yuan smiled and said: "What are the rules and regulations? The Ai family has never been so particular about it."
When the Empress Dowager said this, Mother Yuan had a look of anger on her face, but Aunt Zhu tightened her grip on her arm and shook her head slightly, so she kept silent.
So a group of people gathered around the Queen Mother and went to the flower hall where the meal was served. The palace people put the meal cloth on the table. Yun Fenghuang got up knowingly and served the Queen Mother to eat - Queen Mother Yuan asked her to help pick up two chopsticks of vegetables and scoop out a bowl of porridge. He asked her to sit down and mind her own business, but before Yun Fenghuang sat down, Yuan Fu Niang suddenly said across from her: "Mao Zhaoyi, I want that plate of pickles!"
Yun Fenghuang glanced at the pickles right in front of him, smiled and asked Qingdu: "Send it to Jieyu quickly."
"..." Ms. Yuan Mei clenched her teeth tightly and watched as Qingdu respectfully placed the pickles in front of her and ate without saying a word, without even touching the plate of pickles.
Yun Fenghuang just ignored him and finished the lunch with him as usual. The palace servants made tea and the group rinsed their mouths. Empress Dowager Yuan took a look at the sky outside and asked them to chat a few words, showing her tiredness. Seeing this, Yun Fenghuang resigned again - this time the Queen Mother did not keep her.
After she left, Mother Yuan did not leave. Her tears fell down and she asked Queen Mother Yuan sadly: "Does Auntie not like me anymore?"
"You kid!" Queen Mother Yuan's attitude towards her was as gentle as ever, "Why do you think so?"
Yuan Yuniang said angrily: "Then why did you stay with Mao Zhaoyi for dinner just now? And you also let her drink the porridge I cooked for you!"
When she said this, Aunt Zhu kept tugging on her sleeve secretly, but Yuan Niang was so angry that she ignored her at all.
"Isn't it because of you?" Empress Dowager Yuan saw Aunt Zhu's little gesture, but it was as if she hadn't seen it. She still coaxed her niece kindly, "You also heard about Zhao Chenggui's incident last night, Mrs. Ji She has been in charge of Fengyin for many years, and her name is the Queen Mother. In fact, she has been unable to do anything in the eight years since she entered the palace! It is rare that she can get the Queen Mother's words to take charge of this matter. If she does not achieve any results, what do you think she will do next time she returns to this palace? If something happens inside, will there still be a place for the Ai family to talk? If the Ai family can't talk, how can they protect you?"
She sighed, looking very sad, "You had a miscarriage before, and it's a pity that you are pregnant again now, but you must not make another mistake! Otherwise, how can the Ai family and the emperor's son endure it? But this You have seen how uneasy the palace is. Although Mao Zhaoyi is a bit out of the ordinary, she is shrewd. The Ai family does not want her to help find out some details so that they can determine who is so bold as to murder someone in the palace confinement. The emperor's heir!"
Yuan Fu Niang was speechless and aggrieved: "...I didn't even cook porridge for my parents at home. Who is Mao Zhaoyi? He deserves to eat what I cook! And I just wanted to She brought me pickles, but she only asked her maid to bring them to me!”
"Why are you arguing with her?" Empress Dowager Yuan said with a smile without even blinking, "Can someone from a small family compare with you?"
He changed the subject calmly, "By the way, the Ai family asked people around them to make some clothes for the emperor two days ago. There are clothes for the prince and princess. Do you want to take a look? This time is different from last time. , some new tricks were used, and Ai Jia thought it looked pretty good."
Yuan Niang muttered, finally she was led to look at the little clothes.
After a long while, she returned to the house with a bunch of clothes. Aunt Zhu slammed the door with a cold face and sneered: "I still have the mind to look at this at the moment. I don't know if the young master will fall to the ground in the future. Can you do it?" Raise it yourself!”
"Then what do you want me to do?!" Yuan Yuniang slammed the table irritably and said angrily, "You asked me to cook in person to please my aunt, and you promised that my aunt would be deeply moved and feel as distressed as she did when she was in Fuyang County. Me! What's the result? Didn't she keep Yun Feng Huang down for dinner? She knew that I hated that bitch, but she let that bitch drink the porridge that I had worked so hard for several times in front of me - I see aunt You don’t like me at all! It’s useless to keep trying!”
Aunt Zhu said angrily: "When I came here, I advised you not to be so willful. Even if the Queen Mother and Her Majesty dote on you, you should be a little more measured. You should know better than to act recklessly when it is cold or hot. But what happened? You have just reluctantly listened to me today. Go in a little further and see that Yun Fenghuang came to take off her hairpin to plead guilty and was treated differently by the Queen Mother. I was worried that the Queen Mother was being won over! At this moment, I expected that a bowl of porridge would make the Queen Mother throw away Mao Zhao who was both coaxing and talking. Yi, put you back on the apex of my heart... Are you afraid you are dreaming?!"
Yuan Niang just said that Queen Mother Yuan might not like her, but she was just talking in anger. If Aunt Zhu comforted her and said that the Queen Mother was determined to care about her, she would definitely be too hypocritical, saying over and over again that the Queen Mother didn't like her and didn't want her.
But now Aunt Zhu insists that the Queen Mother is alienating her and has turned her attention to Yun Fenghuang. Yuan Yuniang can't stand it and retorts: "If Auntie really doesn't care about me, will she ask people around her to do this for me?"
She pointed to the clothes on the table.
Aunt Zhu didn't even look at it, and sneered: "Is this for you? This is for the emperor's heir! Do you know how much the empress dowager values the emperor's heir? Back then, Zhao Chenggui was such a thing, but she suffered a little neglect at the hands of the imperial concubine. The Queen Mother anxiously sought out the Queen Mother to discuss with her mother the Queen Mother... Now that you have not given birth yet, you are still able to move easily. No matter what Her Majesty the Queen Mother thinks, she will keep you for a while for the sake of the Emperor's heir. Split face.”
"But if you don't take advantage of this period of time to change their impression of you, do you think they will continue to tolerate you after the emperor's heir is born?"
"You can't find any excuse to take the child away and give it to the concubine they think is good to raise. For example, Yun Fenghuang is liked by the Queen Mother at the moment!"
Yuan Niang said angrily: "Impossible! The hatred between me and that cheap maidservant is as deep as the sea. How can I be okay if my flesh and blood falls into her hands?!"
"That's not necessarily the case." Aunt Zhu said coldly, "Don't forget that Mao Zhaoyi is infertile. It's okay to ask her to take off her hairpin before asking for forgiveness. After taking off her hairpin and asking for forgiveness, both the Queen Mother and Your Majesty felt that she was too young to know her way around. It's not too late, it's actually a good thing! If you give your child to her to raise, she will definitely treat her well even if she wants to prevent others from gossiping!"
She sighed as she spoke, unable to hide her disappointment, "I said before that when you were pregnant, it was time to go to the Queen Mother to admit your mistakes and apologize for your nonsense over the years. The Queen Mother is not petty. Man, you are her biological niece who has watched her grow up. Even though you have caused trouble to her and His Majesty before, if you take the initiative to admit your mistake and say a few words of understanding to them, they will forgive you."
And if I admitted my mistake at that time, it could be said that because I was about to become a mother, I became more considerate of the difficulty of being a mother, and it was reasonable and not artificial.
If done well, the Queen Mother and her son can think that this is a natural expression, coming from their true heart.
The results of it
Yuan Niang refused to listen.
However, Yun Fenghuang got an advantage - on the day he reunited with his biological mother who came from afar, he rushed to the Fangyin Pavilion to take off his hairpin to apologize. There were still traces of his mother's slap on his face. In addition, he was only fifteen years old. Even if Empress Dowager Yuan is narrow-minded due to her age, in this case, if she wants to show some dignity to the Empress Dowager, she cannot argue with her.
Not to mention the fact that the Queen Mother is not so vindictive
Yun Fenghuang has taken the lead. Now, no matter how nice Yuan Niang admits her mistake, no matter how nice her words are, it will be difficult not to think that she is imitating Yun Fenghuang's behavior.
Of course, even so, in Aunt Zhu's opinion, it is better to admit a mistake than not to admit it, but she was so easy to talk, even coaxing and threatening, that she could only persuade Yuan Yuniang to take the initiative to go to the kitchen for a while, and came to make red date, yam and glutinous rice with her own hands. Porridge—originally this was a good thing, but in front of the Queen Mother, Yuan Yuniang tried to ask Yun Fenghuang to serve her food. Not only did she not get what she wanted, but she also exposed in front of the Queen Mother that she was still so ignorant that she couldn't carry food. Qing's temperament has not changed at all, Aunt Zhu is simply...
After calming down, Aunt Zhu said slowly: "Have you not noticed that in the past few months, neither the Queen Mother nor Your Majesty have advised you?"
In the past, Empress Dowager Yuan and her son did not really care about Yuan Niang, but they at least wished her well, so while coaxing her, they would also persuade and try to guide her in a good direction. However, since the emperor took charge, the mother and son have tried to persuade Yuan Yuniang less and less often, and even now they only coax her.
No matter what Yuan Niang did, she just wanted to smooth things over and try to calm things down as quickly as possible.
When Mrs. Yuan was in trouble, she liked to hear and say whatever she wanted.
As for whether those words are good for her...
Then forget it.
Just like Empress Dowager Yuan just said lightly that Yun Fenghuang "came from a small family", as if she was very contemptuous, but if she was really contemptuous, she would leave Zhaoyi here to drink the porridge her niece cooked for the first time in many years.
She just knew that Yuan Yuniang liked the empress dowager and the emperor to belittle concubines other than herself in front of her.
Yuan Yuniang was too confused to react, but Aunt Zhu's whole body was cold, knowing that Queen Mother Yuan and her son might really give up on Yuan Yuniang.
This may be because the emperor has taken charge of the government, and there is no need to drag Qingmei around to pretend to be in love with her; perhaps it is because the emperor has taken charge of the government, and he is busy with government affairs and does not have so much energy to spend on Qingmei's ignorance; or maybe it is that Yuan Yuniang has never shown any concern for her work for so many years. There is no progress, both the emperor and his son are tired...
It's not a good thing anyway.
Aunt Zhu was extremely anxious, but Yuan Ji Niang was not in a hurry - she was almost heartbroken and talking to Yuan Ji Niang, but looking at Yue Jieyu who was impatient and walked to sit down in front of the dressing table, minding her own dressing, she suddenly Silence.
Yuan Yuniang didn't care about her sudden departure, but felt that she was finally clean.
In fact, it's not that she didn't listen to what Aunt Zhu said at all, it's just that people's nature is easy to change and it's hard to change. She has been willful and reckless for so many years, and it's really painful to suddenly change her mind and make her change in a sensible and considerate way.
And she felt that all the suffering she had suffered in the palace over the years was all for the emperor, so wouldn't it be natural for the emperor to tolerate her
No matter how bad the situation was, she was still pregnant.
Thinking of this, Yuan Niang touched her belly and thought to herself, Ji Lang didn't like the daughter of a famous family, and the imperial concubine had a miscarriage. He was not sad at all. This is a clear example. As for the two concubines in the palace who are pregnant now, although they are from humble backgrounds, they have no relationship with Ji Lang, and their future adoptive mothers will not be economical...
Although the emperor rejected her coquettish request last time and if she gave birth to a prince this time, he would immediately establish him as a prince. However, the emperor also said at the time that the current situation was not suitable for establishing a prince, and the matter would be discussed later - in the end It's not certain.
Taking a step back, the emperor really changed his mind, and his filial piety to the Queen Mother Yuan was not easy to change.
She is the niece of Queen Mother Yuan after all. The emperor and Queen Mother Yuan are not related by blood, but the child she gave birth to is the great-nephew of the Queen Mother... So even if she refuses to listen to Aunt Zhu and puts down her dignity and swallows her anger, as long as Queen Mother Yuan With the status of mother and child, how could she be pregnant
Thinking about it this way when she was feeling flustered, Yuan Yuniang felt calm.
As a result, she was able to think about it, but Xingningbo's mansion couldn't. Aunt Zhu went from her room to the back hall of Fangyin Hall and had a private discussion with the Queen Mother Yuan for half a day. The next day, the Queen Mother Yuan fell ill because of excessive worry, so Mrs. Xingningbo took her with her. The daughter-in-law, granddaughter, niece and other female relatives came to the palace to visit.
Then, Yuan Yuniang, Yuan Yuniang's cousin and a concubine of her uncle's family, "accidentally entered" Xingxin Hall and bumped into Emperor Chunjia when the elders were talking and asked the younger ones to walk around the Fangyin Pavilion.
I don’t know the specific process. Anyway, she was left directly in the palace. Empress Dowager Yuan sent people to Baose Xiaozhu to find Empress Ji for discussion. The next morning, the Empress ordered people to clean up the Cuiyin Courtyard near Fangyin Hall. , to place new Yuan talents.