To be honest, Yun Fenghuang, Xie Meng and Xie Kuo, liked their nieces, but he didn't like them enough to treat them as his own and raise them close to him.
The reason why the two children were raised in the palace on and off for some months was because they were competing for favor and things developed like that.
Even if the two children were driven away this time for no reason, Yun Fenghuang could still be happy and relaxed.
After all, when Xie Meng and Xie Kuo were in the palace, although they were taken care of by the palace staff most of the time and did not ask her to worry about much, they occasionally asked for help.
Especially my niece Xie Meng, who felt that she was very popular with her aunt, would sometimes come to pester her without being summoned.
Yun Fenghuang had to be extra patient to avoid being exposed for her lie that she was "unable to give birth to a niece who is as ruthless as a treasure", and she became a little annoyed after doing those things too much.
At this moment, listening to Jiang's words, he felt a little unhappy: "Meng'er has a reckless temperament and is not suitable for the palace. As for Kuo'er, he is a good prospect, but once he comes to our room, he will miss it very much." Cultivate her; secondly, with her kind of temperament... He doesn't know if Queen Yue will be stabbed?"
She doesn't think that children who seem to be well-behaved, tolerant and sensible must be particularly good.
After all, she often acted like that when she was a child...
Wouldn't it be embarrassing if my niece used similar kicking techniques
"But even if he is not a rich man, he thinks it would be good for me to raise a few nieces on my knees." Jiang said slowly, "I just don't have any thoughts, but if you do, you can raise them in front of me." Older girls, is the value of marriage not comparable to the girls raised before me? I have a daughter from Princess Zhaoqing, but if she is the eldest daughter of the emperor, I can say that I can give it to whoever I want. Who, besides, there are too few, just one girl can win over a whole family at most. But is it convenient to have a niece? "
Those words were so cruel that they didn't take Xie Meng's girls seriously.
But Yun Fenghuang Minghong is not true.
She pondered for a while and said, "Then he will turn around and pick him up, but in that case, it would be best to add one or two more children."
Jiang asked: "The palace has no objection?"
"The concubine dare not meddle in his business. As for the empress dowager and the two empress dowagers, Ru Ming has no intention of provoking disputes over such trivial matters." Yun Fenghuang said, "All you need to do is convince Bidong... Then It's no coincidence that Bidong was caught by him not long ago, so he wouldn't have done anything wrong if he thought about it at that time."
The mother and daughter discussed the wrong strategy again, because Jiang would not leave for a short time after he came that time, and would even stay in the imperial capital from now on. Yu Che saw that it was getting late, so he got up and left.
When sending her out, Yun Fenghuang was in a good mood. When she turned around, she heard the good news that a concubine named Zhu in her palace was happy. There were times when Huang ordered to serve Chunjia.
"Why don't the imperial doctors say that Zhu's fetus is a little unstable and ask her to wait for three or two months without asking to leave the house." The Qing man said, "What do you think, my empress?"
"But the emperor's heirs have asked for it again." Yun Fenghuang sighed, "I have raised three royal heirs, but I don't even have a prince of my own." Let her calm down and have the baby. I will tell the Empress tomorrow when I go to pay my respects. I believe the Empress will not go wrong. "
The next month, the queen heard the news and was indeed right. She gave Dong some nourishing food and encouraged Yun Fenghuang to take good care of the Zhu family.
Did that make sense at first, but then I heard: "Gu Baolin is also happy?"
The corners of Gu Zhen's lips raised slightly, and he said slowly: "No, she is just pregnant with her. It's not very safe, so I don't have to pay her a visit and tell her to stay in the side hall."
Yun Fenghuang narrowed his eyes slightly, thinking that it would be difficult for Gu Tuihou to be so happy that Zhu was pregnant. Gu Su's special status meant that there would be no peace in the palace after she was pregnant.
Although Zhu is light in weight, she is still a pregnant woman, so how much can she distract the court's attention
It is estimated that the queen's most wish at that time was to have a few more babies, so as not to have nothing to do, so she thought about Gu Su's presence.
"Isn't that a great joy? Although Your Majesty Dong Ruming has many heirs, it is still not good to have more children." Yun Fenghuang said, "But I don't know how the empress plans to promote Gu Baolin to the throne?"
Gu Zhen was stunned. She was just happy that she was about to have a legitimate son again, but she didn't think about the promotion: or maybe she didn't mention it on purpose.
After all, what you said was wrong. Gu Su Qiufeng became the leader of Ye Yuan himself, and it would not be a good thing to wrong her relationship with his legitimate son in the future.
But this was not a tacit understanding in the palace. Since the concubines raised it in public, she could just say: "According to the rules, low-level concubines who are pregnant can be promoted to one level, so naturally they will follow the rules."
"I don't think so, but rules are dead and people are alive." Yun Fenghuang said softly, "There are many vacancies in the imperial concubine's position. How about giving them a few more promotions to show their appreciation? This is how the harem goes. The concubines can also be more attentive when serving Your Majesty."
Gu Zhen frowned and realized that the imperial concubine wanted to cause trouble for him. Dong thought consciously that he didn't seem to have offended Xuanqing Palace recently... But then he thought, is the imperial concubine the kind of person who won't offend me if I don't offend her?
No, she doesn't.
The Queen sighed resignedly and steeled herself to prepare for the war: "Rules are rules, what are you living or dying for? If you do what I told you to do every time, then what's the point of asking for rules?"
"Is your Majesty right?" Yun Fenghuang didn't argue with her to the end that time. After pondering for a moment, he actually compromised and said, "I just wanted to reward Mr. Zhu well, but if I neglected it, then I'll follow your Majesty's advice. Word."
Gu Zhen didn't expect her to give in so quickly. He looked at the concubine suspiciously for a while and then said, "If you don't have anything else to do, let's leave."
After the imperial concubine left, she pinched her eyebrows and asked her left and right, "What do we mean by the imperial concubine?"
"Although the empress did not succeed, she said so, calling her Mrs. Zhu and the Eighth Miss. Many other concubines heard it. How could they not say that she is generous and the empress is stingy?" Left and right sighed, "Does she have bad intentions? bad."
But there was nothing that could be done about it. Yun Fenghuang was favored in the first place, and what he said before was nothing excessive. It was just a matter of discussing it with the queen.
The queen disagreed, and she didn't insist on having her own way... So why don't you blame her
Gu Zhen felt a headache: "She has been like that since then. I don't know how much trouble Jie Donglai will find."
Then he thought of something and asked, "Concubine Yuezi is about to give birth, how is Ruming doing with her?"
"Our people are watching, maybe some strangers have come and gone in the past two months." The waiter whispered, "There are a few women outside who have brought many boxes and cages... It seems that they can say thank you or something, it can be done in one fell swoop. male."
Gu Zhen sneered and said, "Didn't you say that the imperial doctor had seen a male fetus?"
"The imperial doctor is always right," the attendant said, "But you really want to beg a prince, and after listening to the imperial doctor's words, don't you feel uneasy?"
"Let's say that with a birth status like that of the Concubine Xian, there are only as many princes and princesses in the palace as Mingdu. Even if she sacrifices her own future for the Yuan family, is it necessary for her to be so concerned about begging for a prince?" Gu Zhen couldn't help but worry about her preconceptions. He was suspicious and said, "Could it be that you have some other agenda, so you have to get a prince to come out?"
The attendant knew that she was thinking about the concubine's words, so he advised her: "No, no, no, no, she will be alive in just a few days, so we will just wait and see what happens. Besides, don't you say no?" Do you have any arrangements?"
Thinking that once Yuan Zhiniang gave birth to Prince Dong and passed away, news about the young prince and his mother would spread. Such a loving mother, the Queen Mother, could not force someone to her. Gu Zhen breathed a sigh of relief and said, "No. , tell them to be careful and not to slack off!"
Then he thought about Gu Su and sighed, "I hope she can gain some momentum that time and win a man in one fell swoop."
Two months passed like this, Chunjia went to Huanhua Palace and talked to Yun Fenghuang about the release of the Xie family's children: "Didn't they all stay well in the Imperial Capital before? Why do they suddenly want to be released? "
"Didn't his mother come over to see him before?" Yun Fenghuang said lazily, "Speaking of his brothers, they were lazy during those two years in the Imperial Capital. Therefore, I feel that since they are depriving the emperor of his salary, they should be loyal to the emperor. It's a matter of fact. If they have so little ability, they can't accomplish anything. Instead of wasting their time in the imperial capital, it would be better to go out and hone their skills. I wonder if they really can't hone their skills, so they can simply go back to their hometown and forget about peace. Hong is occupying his seat and doing nothing. After all, Mr. Xie has been very kind to you by Dongcuo, but Mr. Xie has not been able to share your worries for you. The elders in the family are very ashamed when they think about it, wondering whether they can let his brothers be so comfortable. for the confinement period.”
Chunjia knew that the words were half true, but after all, she liked the imperial concubine, so she pretended to believe it. She smiled and hugged her and kissed her: "The imperial concubine is a virtuous and virtuous lady. It seems that she has a family background, and Mrs. Jiang is also so considerate." care."
He was thinking about the places where the Xie family's children requested to be released. For example, Xie Wuzheng, the prince-in-law who took the lead, applied for relatively poor and complicated prefectures and counties. Some other Yanyin said that the reputation was not very good. Good luck is mediocre, but I don’t want to go to a rich place. It seems that the concubine, mother and daughter want to use that method to screen and determine how to allocate resources in the next month.
That was what Chunjia wanted to know, so he didn't intend to stop him. He laughed and made noise with Yun Fenghuang for a while, then looked back at the emperor's heirs together, and they were ready to make arrangements.
Yun Fenghuang remembered that after making out, she put her arms around his neck and acted coquettishly. He said that he had sent Xie Meng and Xie Kuo back because he went to Naolai, but in the past two months, he missed him again and wanted to take him back and continue to raise him.
It was not Chunjia's intention to send Xie Meng and Xie Kuo back before, but if Ru Ming brought him back, it was a small matter for the emperor, so he agreed to take advantage of it.
But Yun Fenghuang took advantage of the situation and suggested that the person who came with the Jiang family on that trip was Xie Mei (weng), his eldest brother and the daughter of the tenth son of the Xie family. One year younger, she didn't remember him very much when he left home. He was really close to her, but his tenth brother and tenth sister-in-law treated him very well. They have been living together in this family, and they have children from the same family. He just came all this way to accompany his mother. If Meng'er came to see him, but Mei'er was left in front of his thirteenth and eighteenth brothers, how could he not be sad?"
Chunjia was originally in a lazy mood, but she became a little alert after hearing this, wondering whether the imperial concubine's request was not easy.
Jiang wanted her daughter to raise her status to Xie Meng and the others, in preparation for his great use in the Yue Marriage Sect. That motive was not complicated, and Chunjia could guess it after just a brief thought.
According to his arrangement with the Xie family, he could promote them but not intend to support them to become a prominent family, let alone dominate the government and the public.
As for Yun Fenghuang's sisters who are in their prime, the emperor doesn't want them to marry too many children of noble families, let alone Xie Meng's group of girls who grew up in Yunfenghuang and watched Gu Dong, so why don't they go out and get married? , I'm afraid it might be more useful than their aunt. But when I said the wrong words, I remembered the concubine's hunger strike some time ago.
After all, the request was reasonable and reasonable, and the imperial concubine was not a sharp-minded person. If Qiu insisted on wronging her, Qiu might cause trouble again.
Yun Fenghuang had previously suspected that he didn't take her to heart. If he made such a fuss, wouldn't he be asking for the old talk to be brought up again
Chunjia knew very well in his heart whether he really liked the imperial concubine or whether he sincerely wanted to be the emperor of the sage. The latter would determine whether he could indulge the imperial concubine without any bottom line. Many times he couldn't even do justice to the imperial concubine, which meant that once the imperial concubine questioned his sincerity, it was often difficult for him to prove it.
At this moment, I thought about it a few times, and finally compromised. I secretly thought that it would take several years for Xie Meng and the others to reach adulthood. By then, their control over the imperial court and Tiandong would definitely be different from what it is now. Even if the imperial concubine is like this, There are some small ideas, but it is unlikely that you can do anything... right
Anyway, after being shaken and coquettishly played by Yun Fenghuang for a while, Chunjia agreed in a daze, and asked her if the place in Xuanqing Palace was secure enough? If you don't want to live there, you can find a bigger palace.
...The next month Chunjia went to court, she felt a little regretful when she thought about it. But at that time, if she went to tell the imperial concubine to take back her life, Yun Fenghuang would cause an uproar. Chunjia thought about it and made up her mind, secretly in her heart. I pray that some concubine who has no eyesight will come out and make mistakes
Or maybe the two empress dowagers can stand up.
But could it be that he had favored Yun Fenghuang too much before, and everyone was used to it. At that time, the three ladies of the Xie family moved in, and they were all staying in the Huaqing Palace anyway, so there was no trouble for others. It would be no big deal if they were kicked out. The good thing is that, after all calculations, it is not necessary to offend Yun Fenghuang, and it may not offend Chunjia.
So not only did no one jump out to contradict him, Gu Zhen even mentioned to Chunjia when Chunjia went to Yanfu Palace to show his virtuousness that he had given the three ladies of the Xie family a share of the new year's money: "Although not They are children of the royal family, but since Concubine Fu's nieces are raised in the palace, they are treated as children of relatives."
Seeing that Gu Zhen looked like she was waiting for him to praise her for her tolerance and generosity after saying that, Chunjia took a deep breath to resist scolding her for not being able to look at her eyes, and said warmly: "The empress is virtuous, and she is not the blessing of the Sixth Palace."
He was very unwilling and went to Chunhuang Palace to pay his respects to Jiashan Palace the next month. He deliberately mentioned that Yun Fenghuang had taken back Xie Meng and Xie Kuo, and there was something about Xie Mei.
I originally thought that even if Queen Mother Qu didn't say anything, Queen Mother Yuan would definitely not tolerate her.
It turned out that Queen Mother Yuan was once discouraged after she had a falling out with him. After hearing this, she said calmly: "I don't have to talk to the Ai family about that kind of thing in the future. The Ai family has been lucky enough to raise me for several years, so they don't deserve me." Let me explain everything to the Ai family."
He also said things openly and covertly that my own mother didn’t say anything about, and the adoptive mother of the Ai family didn’t dare to say anything.
However, Chunjia not only failed to get what she wanted, but instead remained humble and made amends for a long time, finally coaxing Empress Dowager Yuan to calm down a bit.