After Xie Kuo confirmed that Princess Minghui had secretly met a Taoist priest, Yun Fenghuang asked Chen Jing to inquire about it.
Chen Jing went out for a walk and came back to report: "It's not a Taoist priest, it's not a Taoist nun. I came from Shanyuan Temple. I was ordered by the Empress Dowager to send something to the east of Princess Minghui's palace."
Yun Fenghuang had not paid much attention to Shanyuan Temple before, but he became interested after hearing this: "Even if the Empress Dowager plans to live in Shanyuan Temple for a long time and goes east, she still needs the helper's legs by her side. Nothing is allowed. The palace people run errands, but you ask for work from outsiders?"
"Do you want to send something or send a message?" Chen Jing thought for a while and whispered, "I just asked people who know that the Taoist nun, the Empress Dowager, and the commoner Ji Sheng are very Minghui and the eldest princess. We are familiar with each other. Even when Princess Minghui Diandong was a child, the Taoist nun hugged her and prayed for her."
"There is such a person?" Yun Fenghuang said, "Then why have I never heard of or seen her the past two times I came here?"
Chen Jing's voice was even lower: "No, that was the case. Back then, when Emperor Xiaozong was the emperor, the east side of his knees was always empty. Both the Empress Dowager and commoner Ji Sheng were anxious, so they often went to Shanyuan Temple to pray for children. Later, commoner Ji Sheng gave birth to a child. In the palace of Princess Minghui, Concubine Wu and Concubine Shen also gave birth to an eldest princess respectively. At that time, Emperor Xiaozong was in poor health due to the pressure of the Ji family, so that he was unable to move forward during the summer vacation. Come to the palace in Qishan. If the emperor is not here, the Empress Dowager and the common man Ji Sheng should not leave the Emperor Xiaozong to the east to escape the summer heat. Then there will be less contact with Shanyuan Temple."
"After that, Emperor Xiaozong and Ji Sheng, a common man, often argued about the Ji family. They basically refused to go to Yanfu Palace. Even though Ji Sheng, a common man, was eager to have a son, there was nothing he could do... After a few years, Emperor Xiaozong decided to marry Ji Sheng. Died."
"After our Majesty ascended the throne, Ji Sheng, a common man, had such evil thoughts that it was too late to murder the emperor's heir. How could he pray for his Majesty to have a son? Even if he went there last year, he would probably not show it. He knelt there silently. When you pray, God knows what is in your heart.”
Yun Fenghuang smiled and said: "Well, speaking of it, I have never been to Shanyuan Temple. It is not a problem to let the Queen and the others serve the Queen Mother there all the time. Wait for two days , I will go and tell the Queen that I want to replace her for two months."
Chen Jing immediately asked: "Do you think that Taoist temple... is interesting?"
"What did I say?" Yun Fenghuang asked with a serious face, "Then the Empress Dowager is here in person. What's so cool about it? I just want to express my filial piety."
Chen Jing even went to praise Yun Fenghuang's pure filial piety, which put him to shame even among the twenty-four filial sons... Yun Fenghuang lazily enjoyed his praise, but in his heart he was thinking about how to make a fuss about that matter.
She only cares if there is any problem with the Taoist temple, so she has good frame-up skills. How can she not harm innocent people
Anyway, she remembers the festival in the early Ming Dynasty when Princess Huichang personally tried to kill her!
The next month, Yun Fenghuang personally went to Xingxintang to talk to Chunjia about the matter. Of course, she didn't say anything about Xie Kuo's listening to the wall. She just said that the Empress Dowager might have bad intentions in staying in the Taoist temple. The Queen's temperament was too pure and kind. Wan Fei Rou Kun and Mrs. Xuan Zhaoyi are not very smart either. After thinking about it, why don't she go over and see what the Empress Dowager is up to
Even if it doesn't work, you can still try a few things.
Even so, Chunjia, who knew her nature, didn't quite believe it, and said with a smile: "When the Queen said she would go, I didn't say that."
"After all, she is the empress, and her innocence is not a bad thing. Why should I spoil the empress's interest?" Yun Fenghuang said plausibly, "At that time, the empress had been serving there for several months, so I said I can’t stand these little ancestors, so please ask the empress to come back and change my concubine’s body in two months, and the empress won’t have to come to Taiwan.”
It would be strange for the imperial concubine to ask someone who is so considerate.
Chunjia knew that she must have bad intentions. He smiled and prevaricated a few words, saying that he had thought about it and sent her away. Then he called Yan Yin to him and asked him what was going on.
Yan Yin didn't know about the scene he saw Xie Meng and Xie Kuo playing around. He thought about it for a while and said: "Chen Jing, who was in front of the imperial concubine before, seemed to have inquired about the Taoist priests. Someone told him that the monks who appeared in the palace at Ruming , it’s probably the Taoist nun who came here to deliver something to Princess Minghui on the orders of the Empress Dowager.”
"It seems that she asked for help from Minghui." Chunjia sighed with a smile, "Everyone is worried!"
Yan Yin speculated on the emperor's thoughts and asked, "Can I ask the Queen of the Qunhu for a word or two?"
Chunjia thought for a while, then shook her head and said: "Minghui is young and naive, but Yun'an and Sui'an have both come to the east. Yun'an is even pregnant and will give birth at the end of the year. Her marriage should also be mentioned in the monthly schedule. . Since she is about to become a wife and a mother, how can she continue to be naive and ignorant? It would be better to let the imperial concubine give her some advice."
Yan Yin thought to himself that he was afraid that ordinary people would not be able to bear the advice given by the Imperial Concubine. Even if someone as elegant as the eldest princess's palace was finished, she would be finished.
Fortunately, Chunjia did not want Minghui to suffer a little, and had no intention of killing someone with a knife. He ordered: "If you look at Minghui a little, if you can't ask for anything big, leave it to the imperial concubine."
So Chunjia nodded the next month, and Yun Fenghuang sent someone to Shanyuan Temple to deliver a letter, saying that he wanted to exchange dates with Queen Gu for a few days.
Queen Gu was very surprised when she received the news. To be honest, it was not a good job to serve the Queen Mother.
On the one hand, the old lady has high standards. Except for the daughter-in-law of the Ji family, she doesn’t think highly of any girl from other families. Although she is not like the Empress Dowager Yuan, who is obviously picky, she has the kind of aloofness. The attitude, the contempt and arrogance revealed in her speech and behavior were enough to make Gu Zhen's concubines who were born as noble girls feel humiliated; otherwise, the Empress Dowager Ruming was in a bad mood and would be particularly harsh on the people around her.
At her level, the way to find fault is very tactful, without any explicit humiliation at all.
But it just makes the people who serve feel ashamed.
Gu Zhen was an upright person and had never been considered smart and intelligent among noble ladies. He had to save Chunjia that time and fell into the lap of the empress dowager, which was a lot of hardship.
However, due to the empress dowager's identity and euphemism, it was difficult to even express her grievances.
When she was feeling depressed, the imperial concubine asked for a shift replacement, and of course she got what she asked for.
Because of Yun Fenghuang's usual behavior, the Queen cautiously interrogated her again and again, confirming that the emperor's heirs, including Yun Fenghuang's two nieces, were all safe and sound, and that nothing would happen in the short term, so she felt slightly relieved and nodded. Yes.
She was really afraid that one of the six children would cause trouble, and Yun Fenghuang deliberately planned to go back and steal the tank...
The imperial concubine would not be able to do that kind of operation.
As it happened that day, it was Concubine Wan's turn to serve, so the queen kept it secret and did not tell anyone. She simply packed up and left Shanyuan Temple by car, and spent half a month rushing back to the palace.
Yun Fenghuang saw the queen, said a few words, asked the queen to hand over the emperor's heir to Dong, and then entrusted Dong's niece to her, and then left.
She went to Shanyuan to visit Queen Bi and came back very quickly, because no one in her group could ride on the horse.
Yunfeng Huangfu had heard about the Taoist temple when he first came here, and he didn't set foot there until tomorrow.
When I first saw it, I was a little disappointed, because the appearance did not look like the imposing style that Zhidiejia Taoist Temple should have, and it was even a bit shabby.
After entering the house, the Zhike Taoist priest was dressed plainly, and even had two relatively concealed patches on the corners of his robe. However, he behaved calmly and unhurriedly, as if he was always greeting noble people and not being surprised at all.
When you sit down to serve tea, the tea leaves and tea sets are all of the highest quality, and you can see the luxury.
Misunderstanding Yun Fenghuang's purpose of coming, Zhike tactfully said that it was not convenient for outsiders to interfere with royal affairs, pointed out the route to the residence of the Empress Dowager, and then resigned.
"Those Taoist nuns are so rude!" Qingdu became unhappy when he saw this, and muttered, "You don't know how to lead us there just a few steps away?"
"People say they are not outsiders. They are just a few steps away and can walk by themselves." Yun Fenghuang felt that the Shanyuan Temple was different from what he thought before coming here, so he did not intend to fall out immediately, so he He said lazily, "Although that place is not as impressive as the palace, it still has some interesting mountains and fields to see."
In particular, the road leading from the Taoist temple's vestibule to the courtyard where the Queen Mother lives is full of lush vegetation, blooming mountain flowers, and the occasional gurgling mountain stream and tinkling sound of water.
Bees and butterflies of various colors kept coming and going. During the bustle, there were often muntjacs nibbling on the fresh leaves of grass. They were not afraid of people, but looked around curiously.
"It's no wonder that the Empress Dowager wants to live in the east. I want to stay there for two months." Yun Fenghuang chuckled upon seeing this, "But it's much more comfortable than a palace."
"Is that because you just came here, my dear concubine? If it's been two months, I wouldn't necessarily think so." Just after he finished speaking, a voice came from behind the flower tree in front of him and said, "I just said that I had just gone to give you something." The Empress, please ask me. Why are you going to the garden? Can we go back together and ask you to come over for a walk? No, although the Empress has a good temper, she can't stand it anymore."
The visitor was wearing a light green shirt and a goose-yellow skirt. If it weren't for the garnet red beaded silk ribbon tied around the waist, it was as gorgeous as a mountain fire and would have been almost submerged in the greenery all over the mountains and fields.
Xuan Zhaoyi Luo Hanyi, followed by two palace maids in blue, holding a round fan in their legs, with a miserable look on their face, "Are you going to pay your respects to the Empress Dowager at that time? I advise you to go there slowly. , Mrs. Roukun was 'invited' out, and she was going back to her room to cry. I'm afraid the Empress Dowager was not in a very good mood at that time!"
Yun Fenghuang didn't take it seriously at first, but when he heard that Mrs. Roukun had gone back to the house to cry, he smiled and asked: "Is Roukun even made to cry? Poor Jianer, she is not a person who cries hard. Anyway, not Princess Wei He, what’s wrong with the Empress Dowager? You don’t even give face to neighboring countries?”
"Ha." Luo Hanyi spread his legs and pointedly said, "Maybe he was too immersed in the bad news about the former queen and Kang Jieyu to recover."
The people the Queen Mother had spent the most time with in her life were all leaving one after another, and she had fewer and fewer scruples in her heart, so she was naturally afraid of being willful in her actions.
Yun Fenghuang thought for a while and said that in that case, she would go see Mrs. Roukun.
Although the Taoist temple does not look new, it has not been able to receive top nobles like concubines and princesses for many years, so there are quite a few other courtyards for believers to live in, and the area is quite large.
Luo Hanyi led Yun Fenghuang and walked for a long time before arriving at a courtyard. Yun Fenghuang's messenger knocked on the door and saw Mrs. Roukun's dowry coming out and opening the door. He was very surprised to see them, okay. Li, puzzled: "Why is the imperial concubine here?"
"Can't the imperial concubine come?" Before Yun Fenghuang could answer, Luo Hanyi said first, "That's all, the imperial concubine is here to see my wife, please lead the way."
The dowry was not very willing, and he forced a smile and said: "His wife was tired just now and has already made arrangements."
"The Empress Dowager made me cry just now. How can it be so easy to arrange?" Luo Hanyi covered his mouth and smiled, "Why don't you be sad alone in the house? Those of us who are the hosts don't know how to feel sorry for our master. It's true that the imperial concubine felt pity after hearing about it, so she came here specifically to visit."
Na Fu came here specifically to laugh at the same thing... The dowry especially didn't want Yun Fenghuang to come in, because the relationship between that master and their master was not good in the first place.
For example, Mrs. Ming Roukun is depressed, asking if Yun Fenghuang will fall into the east stone of Jingjing, God knows what will happen.
Although Rou Kun has a special status and cannot be treated wrongly by ordinary palace concubines, they also know that there is no need to use open swords or guns to find trouble in the harem, and some methods can kill them. It's very disrespectful at all.
Especially Bu Yun Fenghuang, who has a great record and is considered the most difficult person to mess with in the harem. He is more feared than the Queen.
So they hesitated and didn't move their feet, but Rou Kun heard the noise and came out on his own initiative. When he saw Yun Fenghuang and Luo Hanyi, he was dumbfounded, his face turned ugly, and he shouted: "What are we doing here? "
"Is it really true that you don't know how to say hello to the imperial concubine when you see her?" Luo Hanyi raised his dongba slightly and scolded, "No wonder the empress dowager didn't ask for me just now. How can I be respected if I shut up and do things like that?" "
Xuan Zhaoyi was not one of the concubines who did not like Rou Kun, and her malicious intentions were to the east of Yun Fenghuang.
Is it because her brother Luo Tieyi is in the Dingbei Army, and the person who is responsible for it is to guard against Wei He. Luo Hanyi has a good relationship with Luo Tieyi, and he often hears Luo Tieyi reveal the sufferings of the people in the border areas, which is very miserable. At that time, Wei He had brought him with him, so Luo Hanyi had preconceptions that Wei He didn't have any good things.
Especially after Roukun entered the palace, Chunjia's time was divided again, and there were even fewer opportunities for her turn. Not to mention, the alien princess was so ambitious that she got pregnant not long after entering the palace. Even though she couldn't keep it because of her young age, At least I was pregnant!
...Anyway, Luo Hanyi would kill someone with a borrowed knife tomorrow, and deliberately lured the imperial concubine over to cause trouble for Rou Kun.
Sure enough, Roukun exploded on the spot!
She first kicked a dowry man to the ground and cursed him in Wei He language. Finally, he changed to Chinese language and said to Luo Hanyi: "He is not from the Central Plains, and he cannot serve the noble empress dowager." It’s not extenuating circumstances, but it’s me. It is said that my background is not much worse than that of the Empress Dowager, but I don’t seem to be more praised by the Empress Dowager. What face do I have to say something to him?”
He dug out Yun Fenghuang's eyes fiercely and sneered, "Although the imperial concubine is not from the Central Plains and her mother's family is humble, it is understandable that she will not be welcomed in front of the Empress Dowager later."
Luo Hanyi hummed: "I know that I have little talent and little knowledge, but my wife said that I am also very good. What qualifications do I have to say that I am a noble concubine? You must know that in the East, people are inferior... "
Before he finished speaking, a young waiter rushed over panting on the mountain road. When he saw Yun Fenghuang, his eyes lit up, and he even came over to salute and said: "The Empress Dowager just heard that the Empress has something urgent to go back to the palace. Please change." Your Majesty, Your Majesty, is here, and I have ordered this servant to ask Your Majesty to come over and shut up!"
Hearing this, Luo Hanyi and Rou Kun both showed a look of relief, and immediately lowered their heads to cover their faces, saying: "The Empress Dowager has been summoned, I dare not delay your Majesty."