Chunjia didn't know what Empress Dowager Yuan was thinking, and thought that the little chamberlain who arranged the messenger told the Empress Dowager the reason for inviting the imperial doctor to Chunhuang Palace, so that Empress Dowager Yuan could be read as the true concubine.
He rested in Huanhua Palace that night, and after the court dismissed some government affairs the next day, he went to Chunyou Palace to greet Empress Dowager Yuan and discuss matters regarding the third and fourth princes.
"Both princes are being raised by Jiashan Palace?" Empress Dowager Yuan was very happy to see him, but after hearing this, she frowned, "Then your mother, Queen Qu, has been working really hard."
Chunjia said: "Mother, anyway, the prince has someone to take care of him according to the rules, so there is no need for Queen Qu to work hard, but from a daily perspective... After all, these two children can't find a suitable adoptive mother now, so they can only trouble Queen Qu Mu."
Empress Dowager Yuan was silent for a while, and finally couldn't help but speak out: "The Ai family is empty now. It's not that I can't help you relieve your worries, but why send both children to Jiashan Palace? Or does the emperor feel that the Ai family is not good enough? Is it suitable to raise a grandson?"
"What did the Queen Mother say?" Chunjia asked hurriedly, "On the one hand, she was afraid of disturbing the Queen Mother's care; on the other hand..."
He sighed, showing a look of helplessness, "These two princes were originally an accident. Although they are the child's biological flesh and blood, in front of the mother, the child will not hide it from you: The child actually would rather they were not born! Now they are born. Come down, the royal family doesn't lack a few things, so just keep it, but I definitely can't give you any extra grace. In this case, if I keep it under your knees, there may be speculations from outside."
This statement almost made it clear that the status of Queen Mother Yuan was much higher than that of Queen Mother Qu, and the prince she raised personally would be superior to others. Queen Mother Yuan felt comfortable and no longer suspected that he did not trust her. After thinking for a while, she sighed: "Now this The harem... too, let your mother, Queen Qu, work harder."
Chunjia said: "It's just that the Ji family will definitely stop it, and then the queen will have to worry about it."
"Does Mrs. Ji still have the nerve to stop her?" Empress Dowager Yuan sneered, "Since my son's wedding, Ji's daughter has been in charge of the Sixth Palace. In the past eight years, not even a princess has been born. Since she fell ill in the middle of last year, my son is now We already have a son and a daughter... It can be seen that Ji's daughters are destined to hinder the heirs, so how can the prince leave it to them to make the decision?"
Then he told Zhan Liu, "Publish what the Ai family has said and let outsiders comment on it!"
As for what others thought of Ji's daughter after this news spread, Queen Mother Yuan didn't care.
In other words, Queen Mother Yuan's purpose was to make life difficult for Ji.
After all, Yun Fenghuang could expect that the Empress Dowager and his mother, the Empress Dowager, would try to return to the palace because their twins could not be raised in the palace. How could Empress Dowager Yuan not think of it
The Queen Mother and the Queen Mother can just pay it back, after all, we are all of the same generation.
The Empress Dowager is an elder. Even if Empress Dowager Yuan has Chunjia's support, if she wants to gain the upper hand in a fight with this person, she still has to take precautions.
Anyway, when the three generations of Ji women presided over the harem, the royal heirs were not prosperous. This is a well-known fact.
Empress Dowager Yuan still felt that this was not enough, so she ordered Zhan Liu again, "The Ji family has many heirs. I have asked about the women in their family who have not entered the palace. Are they all like the Empress Dowager, the Queen Mother, the Empress Dowager, and the Empress, who have difficulty in having heirs?" Let’s remind those idle people outside and find out why there is so much emptiness under the emperor’s knees!”
With the charge of murdering the emperor's heir being pinned on Ji, even if the empress dowager returned to the palace, how could she have the dignity to act like an elder in front of her
Chunjia listened, smiled and flattered a few words, and said some endearing words such as "The child is lucky to have a mother who makes the decision, otherwise he would have been bullied to death." Then he looked embarrassed and said that it was according to the rules of the palace. , the princes are given priority to be raised by their concubines. There is no precedent in the country for the empress dowager to come forward to raise children when there are enough concubines in the palace.
For example, Concubine Xuan had just entered the palace and could still give birth to a concubine.
I am afraid that the old people will be dissatisfied.
Well, the main thing is that Gu Zhen and Lu Qidao will put pressure on the temple through the regent behind them.
Queen Mother Yuan also felt troubled by this. After thinking for a while, she said, "Why don't you let the Qintian Prison settle the matter for the two children?"
The implication is to manipulate fate, for example, the two children are born with deficiencies and can only be raised in front of their biological grandmother... No matter whether others believe it or not, Tianjia mother and son can be believed.
"In the past two days, Your Majesty, please go to Huanhua Palace less and sit at Qiongfang Palace." The Queen Mother advised Chunjia, "Although the Regent is ambitious, it is not the time to fall out with him. When it comes to dealing with Gu and others, you have to appease them."
Chunjia agreed obediently, and as expected, she accompanied Queen Mother Yuan to dinner that day and then went to Qiongfang Palace.
But he only had a conversation with Gu Zhen, but instead of resting in the main hall, he visited a concubine from Qiongfang Palace.
"It seems that the third and fourth princes will not be raised by me." In the evening, Gu Zhen watched Chunjia go to the concubine in the side hall. He sighed and said to his confidant, "Otherwise, why haven't I been here for so many days? As for the sudden arrival today?"
A confidant suggested: "Would you like to go with the prince...?"
"... Let's forget it." Gu Zhen thought for a while, shook his head, and said, "Your Majesty now has the second prince and Princess Zhaoqing. The third prince and the fourth prince will not hold too much weight in his mind, plus the biological mother's Because of this, I may not be favored by His Majesty. If we adopt her to your knees, I am afraid that Your Majesty will come to our palace less often in the future."
"It's better to pretend to be confused and take advantage of the situation to ask him to come more often in these days."
Gu Zhen was silent for a moment, then asked again, "Did you find out about the Yizi prescription that Ji Yuwan used before?"
"I heard about it." A confidant whispered, "Last year, after the true concubine got the prescription, she was eager to get pregnant in the palace because of the difficulty of having an heir, so almost all the concubines in Lanzhou Yeyu Pavilion were treated like Yizi Medicine. .Although Fang Zi doesn’t know much, most people just get a bowl of boiled soup every time they accept a favor, but her biological mother hasn’t given it to her at that time, so the protection is not thorough, maidservant Combining the medicinal materials obtained from Lanzhou Yeyu Pavilion and the medicinal dregs that were thrown away separately, we finally calculated the formula roughly... Even if there is an error, at most there will be a slight difference in the effect, but it will not affect anything."
After all, Yizi medicine only increases the probability, but does not mean that you will definitely be able to get pregnant.
"That's it. From now on, it will be used by the young concubines who came in last year." Gu Zhen said, "But I hope God will take pity on me and give me some hope. Otherwise, the palace will be too busy, like this When will our days come to an end?"
After speaking, he sighed lightly, with a complicated look on his face.
... Within two days, the Imperial City Secretary reported to Chunjia that the Anliu matter had come to an end and was suspected to be related to the recently deceased Zheng.
It's just that the person in the palace who was traced was a close servant of the Zheng family. After the Zheng family left, she also committed suicide, so the clue was cut off.
The Imperial City Division submitted a large amount of evidence and concluded that Zheng arranged the frame-up of the true concubine before her death in order to use the hands of her loving mother, the Empress Dowager, to deal with Yun Fenghuang.
After all, everyone knew that Zheng would be deprived of her status as a concubine and thrown into the cold palace, and she was inextricably linked to the real concubine.
"Take the case file to General Hussar." Chunjia frowned. Due to Yun Fenghuang's influence, he didn't quite believe in the result. He suspected that even if Ji didn't frame it, he was involved.
But again, now is not the time to completely fall out with Mr. Ji. You can only pretend to be confused about some things.
So after thinking about it for a while, he ordered, "General Hussar, don't be afraid. I know that he is loyal. From now on, the affairs of the palace have nothing to do with the previous dynasty. Now that the Zheng family has gone, I will not pursue it. I just need to restrain the people below. Don’t do it again.”
Despite this, Zheng Ju immediately rushed to Taichu Palace to plead guilty - but was comforted and dismissed by Chun Jia with a pleasant look.
Zheng Ju returned home, told his sons what had happened, and sighed: "This is the emperor's love for the true concubine. He doesn't want us to do anything to the true concubine for Chang Chu..."
The sons are all silent. Although they were all adopted by Zheng Ju, they are all descendants of the Zheng family, and they are also blood cousins with Zheng Sangchu. Although the cousins entered the palace as young men and didn't get along much, they were still a family.
Zheng Shangchu was thrown into the cold palace before, and they could still bear it, but it would be gone if she didn't say it. If they didn't say it, how could they not have resentment and suspicion towards the real concubine in their hearts
But the emperor...
"Our family comes from a humble background, and it's not easy to be where we are today." Zheng Ju thought for a long time and felt that he still had to endure it. "Because of our family's status, it is a hundred times more difficult to become a high-ranking official than to be a scholar. We must not risk the family fortune that we have accumulated through hard work. .”
"Shang Chu... I, Mrs. Zheng, am the one who feels sorry for her."
"But... since it is the emperor's will, then let's do it."
"Compared to the Ji family, the emperor has treated my family more favorably."
He looked at Zheng Fengfeng and said, "I will serve Her Royal Highness the Princess well from now on. Although Princess Jinyun is not as noble as Princess Minghui, she is of the Xiaozong bloodline. The emperor will not treat her lightly out of filial piety."
Zheng Fengfeng nodded, hesitated, and then said, "Dad, I don't think this is the fault of my sister."
"Our family knows." Zheng Ju was very calm, "but the emperor showed the case file to our family, and we have to accept this favor. Moreover, why did you ask Shang Chu to make the emperor dislike him?"
He exhaled, showing some helplessness, "She and the emperor revealed that the true concubine had a secret meeting with her foreign man in the palace confinement!"
Zheng Fengfeng frowned and said, "Why is she so unwise?"
The older sons all showed disapproval, but Zheng Fengpin, who was the most beloved and the most unruly, was puzzled: "Third brother, is it possible that my sister framed the true concubine? But my sister is not such an impulsive person. So you must have some evidence to do this?"
Zheng Fengfeng glanced at him: "It's okay if other concubines exposed this matter. It can be said to be a coincidence. How can our family do it? It turns out that my father was born in the imperial family and was in charge of the imperial army, but he and I didn't have a long-term relationship with each other. , I am already very fearful. I am afraid that my sister was also confused by the true concubine’s pressing step by step, thinking that this move will make the true concubine fall out of favor... I don’t want to report this matter to the court. The first person the emperor will hate is our Zheng family!"
"What your third brother said is right." Zheng Ju sighed, "Because of our family background, the emperor must have suspected that we have many eyes and ears in the palace—in fact, it is true—but we have so many ears and eyes that even the emperor doesn't know about it. We know the matter, but what do you think the emperor thinks?"
This is not a matter of Chunjia feeling shameless, but whether Chunjia would have thought that since Zheng’s eyes and ears in the palace could find out things that he didn’t even know about, wouldn’t they also be able to threaten him without even knowing it? he
So whether the emperor believed Zheng Sangchu's revelation or not, in fact, from the moment she told the story, she was destined to not have a good outcome.
It was also Chunjia who still wanted to use the Zheng family, so he only dealt with Zheng Sangchu himself as a blow, and also sent Princess Jinyun to Zheng Fengfeng as a comfort and euphemistic promise: I still believe in you.
The implication is, don’t let me down.
"Shang Chu, we were raised as ladies in the family. At that time, when we suddenly got rich, we focused on getting closer to the upper class. We were too focused on girls being virtuous, virtuous, gentle and sensible, so this child's vision was still too limited to the back house. " Zheng Ju concluded, "Feng Lin, you should think twice when you encounter trouble in the future. Don't act like you did before... It's not that dad doesn't love you, but the current situation, dad himself doesn't know if he can make it to the end."
After a pause, he ordered, "Tomorrow let the elder's family and the second elder's family pack up a generous gift and send it to Xie Xiliu's place. Just say it is to calm the real concubine's shock, so be polite."
Either don't bow your head. Since you have bowed your head, you might as well do things more beautifully so that neither the emperor nor the true concubine can find any faults, and you should praise her for being sensible in your heart.