This way they probably knew what the emperor and the imperial concubine were doing while they were waiting, but the imperial concubine was not embarrassed at all.
Yun Fenghuang continued dressing up calmly without turning his head.
Chunjia's clothes were not completely covered, and a small piece of her chest was exposed through the slightly open collar. The young emperor did not completely abandon his bows and horses even after he took office, so his texture was solid and the blocks were clearly defined. Due to the clouds and rain just now, he was now glowing with a faint blush, and his handsomeness revealed a sense of unruliness, which was very different from those who usually appeared in front of the concubine. Suave.
Roukun couldn't help but take another look. Chunjia noticed it but didn't care. She took a sip of tea leisurely and cast a questioning look at them.
Meng Youyi, Rou Kun and Luo Hanyi's treatment and status in front of Chunjia were all equal.
It's not a special fondness, but it's not a dislike either.
For the sake of his family background, he has always been gentle and approachable.
It's not too indulgent, but it's not too demanding or slightly rude, and I won't care too much about it.
At this moment, Chunjia saw that they didn't say anything immediately after they came in, so she expressed gentle concern and asked them if they were scared last night. And they said that they had worked hard to serve the Queen Mother these days... Seeing that the third concubine was still respectful at first, but showed shyness within a few words, Yun Fenghuang curled his lips.
Are you really serious? It’s been so long since you’ve been here before you even think about it
But even though she knew that Chunjia was just pretending, she was still unhappy and coughed dryly: "Your Majesty, since they have been waiting quietly outside for such a long time, it can be seen that they were not very frightened and there was nothing urgent. They probably just came to say hello. Let’s go.”
... In fact, the third concubine really came over to say hello at first.
But unfortunately upon arrival, the three of them bumped into each other.
Meng Youyi just wanted to pay it back. Luo Hanyi and Rou Kun had never dealt with each other, so weren't they going to fight now
Originally, if I was alone, I heard that the emperor and his concubine were alone in the house, and the servants were not allowed to approach without being summoned. They would not wait and left a servant to guard them, so I went back to my residence first and came back after receiving a report. As a result, Luo Hanyi and Rou Kun were in a stalemate, arguing with each other.
If Meng Youyi left under such circumstances, it would be disrespectful to the emperor and the noble concubine.
It's okay for the emperor to pay it back. Everyone knows that Chunjia never cares about such trivial matters.
The key is the imperial concubine. If she doesn’t care about this, it’s fine. If she does, then...
Meng Youyi didn't want to make herself suffer for a moment of negligence, so the third concubine had to wait for a long time.
At this moment, Yun Fenghuang said this, and Meng Youyi and Xuan Zhaoyi just paid it off, but Rou Kun sneered: "Why are you in such a hurry to chase us away? Your Majesty is not yours alone!"
Come on, this stupid foreign princess started to find trouble with the noble concubine again.
Xuan Zhaoyi glanced sideways at Rou Kun calmly, hiding the gloating in his eyes.
To be honest, although she didn't like Princess Wei He, since Rou Kun entered the palace, the number of times the imperial concubine targeted Yanlan Palace had plummeted, and Rou Kun pulled her away because of her hatred.
But Rou Kun didn't have a long memory, so he didn't care whether he could beat him or not, he would just charge first.
For example, at this moment, it was clear that everyone could be sent away by the imperial concubine just saying a few words, but Roukun insisted on singing the opposite tune.
"I want you to leave, just give me an order, why bother to expel me?" Yun Fenghuang raised his eyelids and said with a half-smile, "So you are here specifically to find His Majesty? But I don't know why. What's the matter? If you don't say it seriously, I will set some rules for you, lest you, young and ignorant, disturb His Majesty from time to time and delay state affairs!"
Roukun said with a sullen face: "What qualifications does the imperial concubine have to criticize me? As for disturbing His Majesty, you and His Majesty were in the room for a long time just now. Could it be that you were discussing state affairs?!"
"Okay, don't say a few words." Seeing the imperial concubine narrowing her eyes slightly, Chunjia, who knew her nature, coughed dryly and said, "Rou Kun, what's the matter with you?"
"...I want to speak to His Majesty alone!" What's going on with Roukun? It's just that he is not angry with Yun Fenghuang.
At this moment, he was a little speechless. When he saw Yun Fenghuang's eyes sweeping over him like knives, he became more and more jealous. He couldn't help raising his chin and said with a smile, "I don't want the imperial concubine to listen!"
Chunjia smiled, with a well-hidden impatience in his eyes: "If what you are talking about is about palace matters, it is the imperial concubine and the queen who make the decision. How could you not ask the imperial concubine to listen?"
An ancestor who coaxed Yun Fenghuang was already worried. Chunjia's request for the concubines other than Yun Fenghuang was to be sensible, gentle and worry-free, and not to cause him any trouble.
But obviously Roukun is not sensible and docile, and she is not worried.
She insisted: "Anyway, I don't want the imperial concubine to listen!"
He even stepped forward to pull Chunjia's arm in front of Yun Fenghuang and said coquettishly, "Your Majesty promised me, right?"
"There are family rules in the state-owned legal family, and this is the rule in the palace." Chunjia raised his hand and stroked the top of her hair, taking advantage of the situation to avoid her pulling, and persuaded slowly, "Besides, I am busy with state affairs, so how can I have the energy to worry about it? Harem? The queen and the concubine have always taken care of all matters well, so why do you have to avoid the concubine? "
He decided in his heart that he would give Rou Kun a good cold shoulder next.
Although I know that this young foreign concubine is just jealous, why don't you check who your opponent is before you get jealous
In response to Rou Kun's current provocation and intentional intimacy, Chunjia was sure that Yun Fenghuang would definitely stir up trouble when he turned around.
How can the concubine's level of provocation be matched by Rou Kun's
Roukun is just a little girl losing her temper, just calm her down.
I really don't want to coax her to vent, but it won't help.
But once the imperial concubine gets into trouble...
God knows what kind of movement it will be
"... But what I want to talk about is not about the harem, but about state affairs!" Seeing that his tone was gentle but his attitude was very firm, Rou Kun felt angry. He couldn't help stamping his feet and blurted out, "About Wei He, your concubine Why should I listen to you?!"
After a while, in the flower hall, Xuan Zhaoyi persuaded Yun Fenghuang with schadenfreude: "Your Majesty, please calm down. Mrs. Roukun has never been a law-abiding person. She often hates you, and this is no secret. Fortunately, your Majesty still loves your Majesty in your heart." Yes, don’t be as familiar with Madam Roukun. She is an outsider after all, can your Majesty still alienate your empress because of her?"
Yun Fenghuang glanced at her coldly. Xuan Zhaoyi's smile froze slightly. Before she could say anything, Concubine Wan quietly pulled her sleeves. After hesitating, she said nothing.
"Mrs. Roukun will stay to report state affairs to His Majesty. Where are you two? Do you have state affairs to report to His Majesty?" Yun Fenghuang raised his eyebrows and said slowly, "If not, why are you still here? Wait for me. Can’t you save some food?”
Xuan Zhaoyi was quite embarrassed, so she endured it and then forced a smile and said: "Empress, I don't know that Your Majesty is here to visit in person. Is the Empress Dowager willing to go back to the palace? If the emperor is about to move, the concubines can also teach the people below to pack their luggage. .”
Yun Fenghuang said calmly: "Your Majesty didn't say anything about this. Maybe the Empress Dowager is concentrating on her cultivation, so she won't leave for a while."
After sending the second concubine away like this, Qingdu looked at her face and carefully comforted her: "Your Majesty is just talking to Mrs. Roukun, how can you really take it to heart?"
"Why should I be angry with such a person?" Yun Fenghuang shook his head and said, "I am just thinking about Wei He."
When Roukun's father, Mu'e, first ascended to the throne of Khan, his position was not stable, and his brother Hele was eyeing him. Mu'e sent his legitimate daughter to the Central Plains as a concubine in exchange for the support of the Central Plains, in order to intimidate Hele and others.
According to the position of the Central Plains side, they actually wanted Mu'e and Hele to fight.
But there is a problem here. Even Mu E is not a fool. He sent his legitimate daughter to serve the emperor of the Central Plains in a very humble manner. He did not force the Central Plains to send troops to help. He only asked the Dingbei army to help contain Hele, so that Hele Just don't dare to act rashly.
If Zhongyuan still refuses such generous terms, what will he do
He had just reason to convince Hele and others: the Central Plains was extremely hostile to Wei He, and they wished they could kill each other so that they could take advantage of him!
In this way, Mu'e could transform the dissatisfaction of Hele and others with his succession to the throne of Khan into a common enemy against the Central Plains.
You must know that the relationship between Wei He and the Central Plains has never been very good. The war was fought only during the Xiaozong period. Some people of that generation are still alive today, and the hatred between them has not been forgotten.
The success rate of such provocation is very high.
Zhongyuan didn't want to be a target for Mu'e, so he took over the hot potato of Princess Roukun.
At this moment, Roukun was forced to say that she wanted to reveal the news about Wei He to Chunjia... What news was that
According to Yun Fenghuang's knowledge, Mu'e's position has been gradually stabilizing in the past six months. If there are no surprises, he will not need the support of the Central Plains in another three to five years.
Of course, the situation is similar for Chunjia.
Anyway, the monarchs of the two countries do not want to start a war now. They both hope to drag it out for a while to make their status and power more stable and more confident to kill the other party. By then, the war will definitely start again.
Even if Mu E doesn't want to fight, Chunjia most likely wants to expand his territory and add glory to his own history.
After all, he was still so young and ambitious. Unless he died in his prime, how could he not do something
The emperor was worried about state affairs. Yun Fenghuang was not really worried about what would happen to Wei He. She was mainly thinking about whether she could profit from it
...Rou Kun and Chun Jia were alone together for a long time, so that Yun Fenghuang had dinner alone and went to the back to wash and bathe. When he got up, he asked someone to wring his long hair, and leaned against the west window with a book. After reading most of the volume at once, I heard footsteps approaching. Chunjia walked in with a tired look but a good mood: "It's so late, why haven't you slept yet?"
"It's so late, why didn't you accompany Mrs. Roukun to her place?" Yun Fenghuang put down the book with a half-smile but said, "I just thought that Your Majesty was going to ask for water again."
Of course this was a joke, after all, everyone knew that the imperial doctor had said that Rou Kun was not recommended to sleep with her for a year and a half.
Chunjia lifted her robe and sat down not far from her. She didn't care about this and said with a smile, "What do you think she just said to me?"
"What can you say?" Yun Fenghuang wanted to hear it in his heart, but he deliberately said, "Of course His Majesty will say whatever he wants to hear."
Chunjia said with great interest: "Then tell me, what do I want to hear?"
“If I had known, it wasn’t Concubine Wan and I who had withdrawn to make room for Madam Roukun.” Yun Fenghuang chuckled, “It was Madam Roukun who had gone far away to make room for me! "
The emperor laughed heartily, leaned over and hugged her, kissed her, and said: "Are you jealous of such an ignorant person who was thrown out as a chess piece? When did your vision become so low? You don't care about Concubine Wan and the others. , let alone this Roukun?"
Yun Fenghuang let him hug him, put a fan against his chest, and said lazily: "Poor Jian'er, just now I didn't know how to talk sweetly with Mrs. Roukun in my main room, now. As soon as I turned around, I just arranged it like this. I don’t know what you said about me in front of other people? Don’t tell me that I’m a dominatrix?”
"How can there be such a beautiful and intelligent dominatrix?" Chunjia was obviously in a very good mood and joked along with the words, "She told me about Mu'e's illness."
"How did this kind of news come to the Imperial Capital and even be known to the concubines in the palace?" Yun Fenghuang heard this and said with doubts, "Although she is Princess Wei He, you have already said that she is an ignorant person. Being thrown out as a chess piece, everyone at Wei He's side already knows such important news, so who is here to tell her this?"
Chunjia said: "Of course Mu E and those people would not do this, but who is Mu E's favorite Ke He Dun, who is Rou Kun's biological mother? This Ke He Dun knew that Mu E was ill..."
At this point, he suddenly paused and looked at Yun Fenghuang meaningfully.
Yun Fenghuang was confused at first, but then he suddenly realized: "Could it be that she wanted to fight for her biological son, but was afraid that she would not be able to do it, so she thought of her daughter who was married far away, and wanted to imitate Mu'e and seek support from the Central Plains?"
"..." Chunjia looked at her expressionlessly and said quietly, "You and this Kehe Dun really have the same views as heroes!"
When he pretended to be ill, wasn't Yun Fenghuang's first thought about how to make a fuss about establishing a reserve to ensure his stability and wealth for the rest of his life
"Can this be the same?" the imperial concubine denied without thinking, "I was thinking about you at the beginning, how can this Ke He Dun, who doesn't know her daughter's age and brain, dare to reveal such important news? Put it this way, you are simply stupid! Can you compare with me?"
She stabbed Chunjia in turn, "Besides, I am Kehe Dun, the Khan's palace! Who am I, a noble concubine?"
Chunjia smiled and said: "Chengchengcheng, whatever the noble concubine does is for me... Actually, Rou Kun doesn't say anything about this, the Imperial City Department should come to report it in a few days. They seemed to have noticed something two months ago. There are clues, but Mu E concealed it well, and he has never been able to determine what happened. Now that Rou Kun has said it, he is right with all kinds of anomalies."
Otherwise, he would not believe Rou Kun after just a few words, so that he would come to see the imperial concubine with great joy.
After all, Rou Kun has always given people the impression that she is not the kind of person who has the ability to tell lies of this level. Chun Jia has seen many of the concubines' various operations and does not dare to underestimate any young and beautiful concubine or even the concubine.
Moreover, he himself only got the chance to come forward by forbearing for many years, pretending to be weak, and pretending to be loyal, foolish, and filial. How could he not be on guard against someone following his example and repaying him
Besides, if it was Wei He who took the lead, he might have used Roukun without even realizing it... In short, Chunjia said: "There should be a 60-70% chance that this is true. Of course, if you do anything serious, you can always Let’s wait until the Imperial City Secretary confirms it. People who are not from my race must have different minds. Rou Kun is an outsider after all.”
He was very calm when he said this, the kind of calm that he had never regarded Rou Kun as one of his own, so he didn't feel guilty at all when he took advantage of her.
Yun Fenghuang squinted at him and said, "So?"
Without waiting for the emperor to answer, she laughed out loud, "So these days, Your Majesty, not only do you have to coax Mrs. Roukun personally, but you also have to suffer the injustice along with me?"
After all, if Mu E is really dead, or if he is not that ill and is just fishing, as long as Chunjia plans to take the opportunity to interfere with Wei He, Mrs. Roukun will be an important chess piece.
Status favor will be temporarily promoted, and it will be greatly promoted.
"Didn't you say that you like me the most?" Chunjia asked back, "It's just a tacit act, aren't you unwilling?"
Yun Fenghuang said: "You also said that you also like me the most. Even if you tacitly act, are you willing to do it?"
The two of them looked at each other with regretful expressions of betraying someone who was unlucky, and stared at each other for a moment. Chunjia sighed: "... Meng'er Kuo'er has grown up, and he has always been raised by you. It's inconvenient not to have a status, and he is all in the countryside. How is the Lord?"
"It's just two children. It doesn't take much to raise them with me all the time. What's the inconvenience?" Yunfeng Huangpi smiled but said, "On the other hand, my ninth brother is talented and loyal. Wouldn't your Majesty correct him more?"
... After some bargaining, Yun Fenghuang agreed not only not to cheat Mrs. Roukun, but also to coax her based on Chunjia's recent promotion of Xie Fei.
So on the next day, Chunjia got up before dawn as usual, packed up a bit, and walked up the mountain road with a lantern to pay his respects to the Empress Dowager.
Yun Fenghuang, however, was not so filial. He used the excuse that the Empress Dowager disliked her presence, and for the sake of the Empress Dowager, he did not bother to offend her. After sleeping for an extra stick of incense, he got up with a sigh.
Qingdu was waiting for the dressing. Seeing that there was no one else in the room, he whispered to Yun Fenghuang not to be so fussy: "Actually, Your Majesty has already coaxed Mrs. Roukun himself, and it is for the sake of state affairs. Why do you have to force Your Majesty to promote the Ninth Young Master?" What? It’s just a matter of repaying this kind of thing once or twice. If it happens too many times, even if His Majesty himself doesn’t feel bored and letting others know about the slander, as the saying goes, heaps of destruction will destroy the bones... "
As she spoke, she looked at Yun Fenghuang's expression, fearing that the master would suddenly turn against him.
Fortunately, Yun Fenghuang did not have an attack this time, but said very calmly: "Your Majesty is just having fun with me. Do you really think that your Majesty will give in to me in the temple over such a trivial matter? You also Don’t you want to think about what kind of grievances and risks we had to pay for such grace in the past?”
Seeing that Qingdu was worried but didn't understand why, she sighed, "Since His Majesty is paying attention to Wei He and Mrs. Roukun is the key, then the Xie family who has lived in the north will be of no use?! Even if I don't mention it this time, Ninth Brother, Your Majesty will also take the initiative to use him. I declined Meng'er Kuo'er's canonization. Mentioning Ninth Brother actually saved him the title of two village lords. Your Majesty knows that he is so virtuous and considerate. You just didn't say it out loud while having fun, but you helped the anxious heartache?"