After dinner, Yun Fenghuang stayed with his brothers to chat for a while. Watching the red sun setting in the west, Xie Heng did not dare to delay any longer. He excused his resignation on the excuse that there was no place to stay on the mountain and it was inconvenient to go down the mountain after dark.
It was really too late to stay any longer at this time, so Yun Fenghuang asked people to take the rewards that had been prepared long ago, one for each person. Except for those present, there were a few disciples from the Jiang family who did not come, and the Xie family's eldest son. , second cousins, third cousins, and fifth cousins all have a share.
When Xie Heng saw this, he frowned and said, "When my sister entered the palace in a hurry, we didn't give her anything. How could we still ask her to spend so much money?"
There were quite a few people on their trip, and the gifts given by Yun Fenghuang were not small. After all, the expense was not a small amount.
"Don't worry, I didn't save these little by little myself." Yun Fenghuang smiled slightly when he heard this, "They are all rewards from above and filial piety from below. I can't use them all. If I don't give them to you, they will just be piled up in the warehouse. Ash."
Just as he was talking, the little palace maid from outside came to report that it was the wild goose that had arrived.
Yun Fenghuang heard this and ordered: "Let him come in."
Smoothly introduce to Xie Heng and others, "This is the person in front of Your Majesty."
After a while, Yan Yin came in, followed by several young chamberlains, holding trays covered with brocade handkerchiefs. After the ceremony, Yan Yin said: "Your Majesty learned that your Majesty is meeting a blood relative today, so he asked his servants to send some Something comes here.”
This was what Chunjia had promised before, and Yun Fenghuang was not surprised. He said a few words of gratitude for the saint's grace, and then let Xie Heng take it.
After Yan Yin left, Xie Heng and others also left.
Both Xie Tu and Jiang Su were very reluctant to leave. Although Xie Yanxiu didn't show his temperament, he often looked back when he went out.
When Yun Fenghuang saw this, he promised to find an opportunity to take them into the palace to meet them in a few days, and then coaxed away these three playmates who had grown up together.
However, Xie Heng looked at it and decided to find excuses to teach them a lesson. They could not let Yun Fenghuang develop a dandy and loose character in them.
"Twenty-three young masters love you so much that they stick to you. I didn't expect that even after three years of not seeing each other, you are still the same as before." The main hall was quiet again, only the birds were chirping. Xie Hengyu brought the warmed buffalo milk and chuckled. He said, "Just now I saw that he and his twenty-two young masters and cousin were making trouble with you, and he seemed to have returned home in a daze."
Yun Fenghuang smiled: "Looking at them, I feel like they are back in time."
However, he had no intention of continuing this topic, so he asked, "Is there anything going on in the palace today?"
In the past two days, she has actually been acting as the queen. The bones of the An family of the Jin family are still cold, Empress Ji and Concubine Zheng are more and more disgraced, and the Sixth Palace is trembling under the name of the true concubine. No matter what the concubines think in their hearts, it is Calm and calm.
But Yun Fenghuang was delayed for most of the day today because his mother-in-law's family entered the palace. I don't know if anyone thought this was a good opportunity. What were they doing in private
"The queen, the imperial concubine, and Xue Jieyu prayed for the loving mother the empress dowager as usual." Xie Hengyu said, "Concubine Ying and Yue Xiuyuan are doing everything as usual. Lu Chongyi and Jia Chongyuan also seemed to have the intention of praying for the loving mother the empress dowager... Cui Chongrong yesterday I invited the imperial doctor last night, and it seems that I caught a cold or something. Chen Zhu has arranged for someone to check exactly what happened, and there will probably be news later."
She paused for a moment before continuing, "As for Shun Jieyu's place, at noon today, two palace maids who were strangers sneaked in through the back door and murmured to a steward of Xiangtaoxuan. It’s been a while.”
Yun Fenghuang said "Yeah": "Keep staring."
Then he asked, "By the way, what did Princess Minghui do after she returned just now?"
"No, it's just that the Queen Mother went to see it in person. I don't know what the mother and daughter said in private." Xie Hengyu said, "Someone came to report just now and said that Princess Penglai and Princess Kunze were also coming to visit. Her Royal Highness Princess Minghui, but Her Royal Highness Princess Jinyun is still 'recuperating'."
When Empress Dowager Ji went to Shanyuan Temple to pray for blessings, in addition to the concubines who were willing to go with her, all the princesses and princesses were brought with her.
After returning, Princess Jinyun spread rumors with Ji Minggan. After this was forcibly stopped by Chunjia, Princess Jinyun began to "sickly".
This seems to be the intention of her biological mother Wu Taibin. So far, this golden woman has lived in seclusion and has the tendency to stay at home until she declines.
I even heard that several times Princess Minghui wanted to go over and take Princess Jinyun out to play, but she was blocked by Concubine Wu.
"Wu Taiconcubine is a sensible person." At this moment, Yun Fenghuang said after hearing this, "Because of your Majesty's background, even if you don't have much friendship with Princess Jinyun, you can't treat her badly on the scene. Now your Majesty has made it clear that he will personally arrange the marriages for the princesses. It's up to you, if Concubine Wu and her daughter behave more docilely, they can gain more love from His Majesty."
After all, Wu Taibin and her daughter had lived with the Queen Mother Ji all these years, and they had great respect for the Queen Mother Ji and the Ji family.
However, the situation in the former harem was changing, and the Ji family was in danger. If they continued to follow Empress Dowager Ji, what would happen if they angered the emperor
But they wouldn't dare to fall out with Queen Mother Ji immediately.
I can only stay at home now.
Just like Xue Xiaoge's idea, no one dared to offend or please anyone, so he shrank his head and hid. Maybe there is no need to choose if you hide and hide
Yun Fenghuang thought about it for a while and asked Xie Hengyu to try to find out the details about Concubine Wu.
In fact, she had wanted to know these for a long time, but before assuming the power of acting queen, she had no old man who had been in the palace for many years, so she had no place to ask.
Empress Dowager Yuan and Chun Jia made it clear that they wanted her to check the empress but would not allow her to be her successor. Moreover, the Ji family was still lingering on. Empress Ji had temporarily lost power and might not regain power in the future. Yun Fenghuang felt that his right did not expire. Cancel, take advantage of the current momentum, and solve all the things that were inconvenient to do in the past or in the future.
With this plan in mind, she explained a bunch of things, and seeing that it was getting late, she ordered dinner to be served.
After eating, I asked someone to help me bathe and change my clothes. When I came out, I was told that Chunjia was here.
"Why didn't Your Majesty rest in Dan Ruoting today?" Yun Fenghuang raised his eyebrows when he heard this, casually held up a handful of wet long hair, walked into the inner room with his clogs on, and asked in a brisk tone, "I still have something to do. Instruct me?"
Chunjia was staring outside the half-open window. He didn't look back after hearing this, and just said: "Did you raise that?"
Yun Fenghuang walked over and took a look in confusion, then frowned and said, "Where did these beasts come from? I haven't seen any of them in the past two days."
He turned around and asked Qingdu, "Where did those cats come from? Do we have people here to feed them?"
Qingdu hurriedly blessed Fu and said, "My maid, go and ask now."
She came back not long after she went out, lowered her head and said, "Dan'e saw that those civet cats were cute, and one of them seemed to be pregnant, so... he gave them leftover food a few times."
This is actually not a big deal, but the word Yun Fenghuang just used was "animal", and he was obviously not happy with what they did, so the Qing capital was a little more frightened.
"In that case, we'd better send someone out to find someone to raise him." Yun Fenghuang didn't get angry when he heard this, and just said, "You guys entered the palace late, but you didn't know that Shun Jieyu had a dowry maid beside her earlier, and she was caught by a civet cat. He contracted an illness after the injury and passed away within a few days. There are many concubines in Lanzhou Yeyu Pavilion, all of them are thin-skinned and tender-bodied. Yigui people are still pregnant. If anything goes wrong, can you afford it? ?”
Qingdu hurriedly apologized: "The servants didn't know this, please punish me."
The emperor was here, so Yun Fenghuang couldn't tell them more. He waved his hand and asked her to go out and tell Dan E and others. After sending the cats away, he smiled and asked Chun Jia: "I remember that your majesty used to love to tease these little things. How about I ask them to keep one or two beautiful ones, pack them up and send them to Xingxin Hall?"
Chunjia slowly turned around, picked up the tea on the table and took a sip, and said with a half-smile, "You still have the nerve to say it? Shun Jieyu has no maid, she has always remembered it firmly, reminding people everywhere, When you get to me, you won’t worry about me getting scratched by their crazy bits?”
"Your Majesty is the emperor, how can you compare with an ordinary person like me?" Yun Fenghuang prevaricates casually, "I have seen your majesty teasing the civet cats in the palace before, but no one was rude to your majesty. It can be seen that all things have animism, and the civet cats are also I know that Your Majesty is an extraordinary person and should not be treated lightly."
It's a good thing she didn't say that. As soon as she said it, Chunjia remembered that when she was not so busy before, she did tease the civet cats passing by several times. Those civet cats were more heartless than the others. The best thing was probably to burn bridges across rivers - he He glanced sideways at Yun Fenghuang and thought to himself, no wonder he had given this concubine the title "Mao" in the first place. She ate his food, drank his food, lived in his house, and even looked down on him from time to time. Gee, this is really not a family
"Your Majesty, what happened to Princess Minghui?" Yun Fenghuang didn't know what he was thinking. Seeing his silence, he took the initiative to ask, "My concubine's brother is here today, and the princess was in a hurry to leave at that time, and there are not many concubines." Say... Your Highness, will everything be okay after you return?"
Chunjia said: "The Empress Dowager has been comforting me for a long time. She should be fine."
After saying this, he pondered for a moment and said, "I just had lunch with Wei Zhaorong, and also went to Minghui's place to have a look, and happened to meet the Queen Mother... The Queen Mother asked me about you."
"What's wrong with me?" Yun Fenghuang suddenly became alert, worried that Empress Dowager Ji would sue her severely. "I didn't do anything! My brother was just a step slow in saluting! Your Majesty is so generous. , you can’t just let your mother, the Empress Dowager, punish me or my brothers just for such a small thing?”
As he said that, he wrapped himself around and held the emperor's arm.
Chunjia allowed most of her body to hang on his shoulders, and laughed lazily: "Why are you anxious? The Queen Mother just mentioned the Xie family's children, and incidentally brought the topic to the scholars gathered in the Imperial Capital. It’s just on my body.”
"Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager is so cruel!" Yun Fenghuang immediately fell into the trap and said sternly, "Can the Empress Dowager and other harem ladies interrupt the national talent promotion ceremony? Is this the Empress Dowager? Do you mean this, or is it Ji's temptation? Your Majesty, you must be aware of everything and don't be deceived by your mother, the Empress Dowager!"
Chunjia reached out and pinched her cheek, and said, "Others in the harem can just say this, but you?"
If you had the chance, let alone the talent promotion ceremony, you would be eager to get involved in matters between the country and Wei He, etc.!
What if I don't know? !
"Your Majesty, why can't I say this?" However, Yun Fenghuang reminded him, "My father and brother have always told me to study and be sensible, so that I can be a good wife and mother. Otherwise, as a female, I will be Living in the inner house, the knowledge is rudimentary. If you don't even read a few books, even if you want to support your husband and raise your children, where does your ability come from? But the empress dowager's father Ye Guogong strongly advocated that the harem should not be allowed to interfere in politics. !”
"When I say that the empress dowager's behavior is inappropriate, it means that she disrespects her biological father, and nothing else!"
Duke Ye did something like shooting himself in the foot. How can he blame her for adding insult to injury
Chunjia sighed: "You always have plenty of reasons to quibble!"
He was used to it, and he didn't bother to argue at this moment. He just said, "The Queen Mother also said that the little chamberlain in front of her happened to see your brothers walking on the palace road. One of them was one or two years older than you, and he was particularly born. Well, you actually compared yourself to Ji Minggan?"
Yun Fenghuang was stunned when he heard this: What does Queen Mother Ji mean by this? !