"Uncle Zhaowu?" Jiang Zhu thought for a while and said, "Cousin, I have little talent and little experience. I am young and have no qualifications. I relied on my cousin's reputation to join the Dingbei Army and got some jobs, but I was far away from the Chinese Army. Since joining the army, the Communist Party has only seen the commander-in-chief three or two times... I’m not sure.”
Seeing the disappointment on Yun Fenghuang's face, he hurriedly said, "But I have heard some rumors in the military, but I don't know if they are true or not. I'm afraid that if I say something wrong, I might mislead my cousin."
Yun Fenghuang said: "Just tell me, as a concubine in the deep palace, can I get involved in any military affairs? It's just that these days, the queen's behavior is different, and I feel a little uncertain. I want to inquire about the news of the queen's father. Later, I will be able to respond more calmly in front of the palace."
Jiang Su did not doubt that he was there, and said truthfully: "I heard that almost all the spies who discovered the gold mine were killed by Uncle Zhaowu. Also, Uncle Zhaowu originally planned to leave Xifa and the others and pursue Hele alone, and Under the circumstances at the time, this move was not risky, but later, because of a letter sent from the Imperial Capital, Zhaowu Bo suddenly changed his mind... Also, the two sons born to the concubine Zhaowu Bo adopted in Yanzhou will be born this year. They were only fourteen or fifteen years old, and they were in the army when they went on the expedition. But when the camp was attacked by Hele, the two Mr. Gu died unfortunately, and their bodies were not found!"
"The imperial court responded to Xifa's request and sent troops to the grassland. The victory is guaranteed." Yun Fenghuang nodded while listening, thinking, "All the powerful and powerful disciples in the imperial court are rushing to join in. The Wei family even hopes to be granted the title of marquis... There is nothing wrong with Gu Fangshu bringing along two young concubines."
After all, his own title must be passed on to the legitimate son of his wife. The concubine is the concubine of Ji who was stationed in Yanzhou Shina. He doesn't get along well with his brothers and sisters in the imperial capital, and he doesn't have much affection. Under such circumstances, once the family is separated in the future, it is conceivable that not many benefits will be gained.
So while the war was going on, I took them with me to see if I could share some of the military merits, get two good jobs, and have a stable life in the future... This kind of fatherly heart is also a reasonable thing.
The problem is that these two children seemed to have a bad fate. They died without any merit.
However, was it really true that there were no bones left, or was there something wrong with the attack on the camp itself, just to hide the two children
As one of the pillars of the dynasty, why would Gu Fangshu's son cheat his death and escape like this
Could it be that he was planning to do something that would affect the nine clans, and he was afraid that if he failed, the inheritance would be cut off, so he had a plan in advance
Of course, it is also possible that Gu Fangshu and his two children have such a miserable life.
But from Yun Fenghuang's point of view, of course he had to work hard to lead the emperor to doubt Gu Fangshu and the Gu family.
She asked Jiang Su for a while, and seeing that he couldn't tell him any other useful information, she chatted with him about home affairs: "... It's aggrieved that the princess has been alone in the house for a long time since you went on the expedition. When you go back, you must You have to coax her well, even if the princess gets into trouble with you, you are not allowed to get angry, let alone blame the princess, do you understand?"
Jiang Su smiled and said, "Don't worry, cousin, when will I not give way to the princess?"
He is simple-minded and does not have much ambition, and is very satisfied with his current situation: his cousin, with whom he has had the best relationship since childhood, is a noble concubine, and continues to protect him as he did when he was a child; his wife is the golden branch of the Gongxiang family, with a distinguished status and not too old. What a pampered temperament; although the years of running around are quite hard, but if you can see the harvest of the hard work, then it is nothing, but it gives you a sense of accomplishment that you are working hard.
So Yun Fenghuang reminded him how to get along with the princess, and not to forget to accompany the princess into the palace later to pay respects to the two empress dowagers. The two empress dowagers now have juniors under their knees, so they need to prepare an extra meeting gift. ... Jiang Su listened patiently, nodding from time to time, very well-behaved.
Yun Fenghuang was just satisfied, thinking that it would be great if every brother was as obedient as Jiang Su, so she wouldn't have to worry about it.
That night, Chunjia probably considered that Prince Consort, Junma and the others had come all the way back. It was winter again, and it was not an ordinary hardship to travel through ice and snow all the way from the north. He did not leave them too late, and it was very difficult. Let go soon.
Later, when he arrived at Huanhua Hall, Yun Fenghuang had not yet settled down. He was changing into a loose dress and reading a book.
"Why are you still reading at this late hour?" The emperor asked her to fetch water to help her wash up, and said to her casually, "Just read during the day. Even if you light so many lamps at night, it will not be good for your eyes after all."
"I have no choice but to promise King Qin that when he enters school in the new year and he gets first place in the exam, I will tell him ten stories." Yun Fenghuang sighed, closed the book and put it aside, and said, "But I, these two Those who have been pestered by them to talk about the past and the present have already told many stories. No, you should read more while you have time. Otherwise, you will not be able to fulfill your promise and let your children down. "
Chunjia covered his face with the hot handkerchief for a moment, then took it off and said, "You dote on him too much. He is already a student. He wants to hear the story and let him see it for himself."
Yun Fenghuang snorted coldly in his heart, look, this is the emperor!
What was it said before
Afraid that she would wrong King Qin and Zhaoqing, afraid that she would spoil King Qin and Zhaoqing... All these words were said by Chunjia!
Why do you look so distressed for yourself now? Yun Fenghuang doesn't do this.
"Even if you go to school, you are only six years old this year, and you are still a child at six years old!" She frowned in disapproval, "It was good for Your Majesty to send him away with just one sentence. He just threw away his hands and went to the front court to handle government affairs. Who can Do you dare to disturb you with trivial matters? When the time comes, King Qin will cry in front of me, and it won’t be me who is distressed!"
"Ahuang is just soft-hearted." Chunjia washed his face, threw the handkerchief into the gold basin, and asked the palace maid to carry it out. He laughed and said, "I am a six-year-old prince, and I still cry and fuss all the time. I won't do it." Give him a good look."
It’s strange that I believe you!
You, a liar, will never have any credibility here in this palace for the rest of your life! ! !
Yun Fenghuang immediately made a serious face: "Your Majesty is not distressed, but I am! Why does your Majesty treat the prince in front of me like this?! He is only six years old, is six years old? When I was six years old, I was in the garden When I was tired from playing there, I refused to walk back by myself, and even reached out for my mother to hug me!"
"Ahuang is a woman, how can it be the same? Look at the New Year's Eve banquet, didn't I also hug Zhaoqing?" Chunjia said disapprovingly, "The King of Qin is a prince, a dignified man, and he is still relying on his mother and concubine at the age of six. What words!"
Yun Fenghuang said casually: "I am a prince but not a prince. Why should I be so strict?"
After saying these words, the palace fell into silence!
"..." Chunjia was silent for a moment, then changed the topic with a smile, "I saw you took the county horse out to talk for a long time today. What did you say? But you told him that Queen Qu had a baby. What?"
Yun Fenghuang secretly hated his avoidance and said lightly: "Of course I said it, can you not say it? I also asked him to be more considerate to the princess after he returns. It is not easy for the princess to be alone in the mansion these days."
Chunjia said: "Kunze has a sister-in-law like Ah Huang, but how many difficulties are there?"
"What kind of serious sister-in-law do you think I am to the princess?" Yun Fenghuang glanced at him and said, "The Queen is the real sister-in-law to the princess!"
emperor:"… "
He was silent again, and finally said with a smile, "It's getting late, Ah Huang, let's make arrangements."
The next day during the Lantern Festival, a banquet was held in the palace as usual.
After this banquet, King Yi and his wife will get up and go back to their fiefdom.
Therefore, Princess Yi came to Yun Fenghuang on the way to ask tactfully what the emperor meant.
Yun Fenghuang then remembered what he had forgotten and felt very embarrassed: "Your Majesty has been busy these past two days, and I haven't found a suitable opportunity yet. Well, if he goes to my place tonight, I will definitely help him." Please mention it."
Princess Yi couldn't blame her, so she had to thank her again.
Originally, the emperor should go to the empress on such a day, but in the past two years, the relationship between the emperor and the empress had gone from bad to worse, and the emperor rarely abided by the rule of resting in the middle palace on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month.
As expected, we arrived at Huanhua Palace that night.
Yun Fenghuang finally did not break the appointment. After freshening up, he entered the inner hall and mentioned Lu Chuncao: "Princess Yi's words do not seem to be false, and there is no need to lie... Your Majesty, Lu Chuncao has obviously received your grace and been released to his hometown. , why did you go to Yiguo? Could it be that you are still thinking about the Lu family's grudges and want to do harm to King Yi and his wife?"
"Is there such a thing?" Chunjia was a little surprised and said, "I had a talk with King Yi before, but he didn't mention it."
"The princess was afraid that he would be angry, so she didn't dare to say anything more. Maybe King Yi didn't know about this at all." Yun Fenghuang said, "Princess Yi is a little worried now, fearing that Lu Chuncao is still watching them from the dark."
Chunjia thought for a while and said, "It was the imperial grandmother who insisted on pardoning Lu Chuncao."
Yun Fenghuang looked at him curiously.
If Ji was still here and the Empress Dowager insisted on this, no matter what the reason, there would definitely be no problem.
But now
The Empress Dowager insists, but Chunjia can easily veto it if she disagrees.
"The Imperial Grandmother said..." The emperor pondered for a while and then said, "Lu Chuncao is still of great use and cannot be given to death. Even if it is given, it will not be at this time."
That's it
Yun Fenghuang thought to himself, can this sentence convince Chunjia
The emperor continued, "I asked the imperial grandmother what the great use of Lu Chuncao was and why she couldn't die immediately. However, the imperial grandmother refused to answer. She only said that if I had to give Lu Chuncao to death... I would not stay here anymore. In the palace, I would rather leave the palace and go to guard the mausoleum of the late Emperor Shenzong!"
Although it was said that if Chunjia insisted not to let the Empress Dowager do this, the Empress Dowager would not even be able to leave Qingci Palace. However, when something happened to Ji Sheng, a commoner, even though the Empress Dowager tried to make trouble, she did not say anything about it afterwards. So he went to live in front of Shenzong's mausoleum for a long time, so that Chunjia could not step down.
But because of Lu Chuncao's persistence...
Who is Lu Chuncao
Just a eunuch!
Any scholar in the world can despise it.
What is there that the Queen Mother deserves to defend so much
Yun Fenghuang thought in her heart, if Lu Chuncao hadn't come out to Ji Sheng, a commoner, had been with Xiaozong, and had a close relationship with the regent, but had never had any contact with the Empress Dowager, she would have suspected that Shenzong had a little green hair. Already…
"I thought that my uncle Wang has gone, and whether Lu Chuncao lives or dies has nothing to do with the overall situation, but I don't want to hurt the friendship with the emperor's grandmother because of him, so I agreed." Chunjia said, "I will wait until tomorrow. Go to Qingci Palace to say hello, and ask about this by the way."
After a pause, he added, "But the Imperial Grandmother has always been kind to King Yi. Perhaps King Yi and his wife have already spoken to her in private."
Although he is the heir and grandson of the Empress Dowager, when it comes to getting along with each other, Gong Xiangxiao and the Empress Dowager are more like grandparents.
They were more frank about many things, but they were distant and defensive towards Chunjia.
But the emperor doesn't care, since he is now in charge of the country anyway.
Regarding these details, Chunjia easily forgives them with the attitude of a winner.
As expected, the emperor went to Qingci Palace the next day. Just when Yun Fenghuang was thinking about how to talk to him later, a young palace maid hurriedly rushed in, fell to the ground and reported: "Your Majesty, the Xie Mansion sent someone to the palace gate to report, saying It was the 18th young lady who started the operation last night. She gave birth to a son this morning, but now she is not looking good and seems to be bleeding! Therefore, I beg your empress... "
Before she could finish speaking, Yun Fenghuang had already quickly ordered the Qing people: "Go there in person and ask all the imperial doctors who have always diagnosed my pulse to come over!"
Even so, in the evening of that day, I still heard the bad news: Xiao Jiang could not be rescued and was gone.
"Your Majesty, please express your condolences." The attendants all advised Yun Fenghuang cautiously, "There is nothing we can do about this. We can only say that the Eighteenth Young Lady is not blessed... If you think about the original Concubine Wen Hui, some things are unavoidable. After all, it's not Everyone is as blessed as the empress."
Yun Fenghuang looked ugly. On the one hand, he was heartbroken that Xiao Jiang's youth had passed away, but on the other hand, he was worried about himself.
To talk about whether blessings are deep or not, take Concubine Wen Huixian as an example. Before she died in childbirth, who dared to say that her fate was bad? She was born as the direct daughter of a famous family. Although her biological mother passed away early, her biological father loved the sisters like treasures, and for this reason, she had no love for them.
After being hired into the palace, he immediately assumed a high position.
Even if she was frequently suppressed by Yun Fenghuang, she could rely on her mother's family and still be the master of the first palace.
After that, she became pregnant with the emperor's heir within two years, and she even got a boy in one fell swoop!
What next
The baby was born and she couldn't open her eyes.
Over the years that Yun Fenghuang has dominated the palace, she has raised four unequal heirs. King Qin and Zhaoqing are Chunjia's favorite children... If she could give birth to an heir in peace, the royal heir of Huanqing Palace would be The momentum will definitely rise to the next level, and the position will become more stable.
but…
If she had a difficult childbirth and left, it is conceivable that Xuanqing Palace would fall apart in just an instant!
Whether King Qin and Zhaoqing can continue to be favored in the future is a question!
Not to mention, what would happen if she died but her child stayed
When Concubine Wen Huixian passed away, at least her mother's family came to help and chose her as the adoptive mother of the seventh prince.
Even if she had ulterior motives, she still took good care of the seventh prince.
If nothing unexpected happens, this prince will receive special attention and attention from Chunjia just like King Qin.
When he grows up, he may not be able to be crown prince, but he can definitely get a wealthy place as a vassal state.
But if Yun Fenghuang herself dies, does Xie have the ability to help her heirs achieve a good outcome
Even with her record of defeating invincible opponents in the Six Palaces over the years, especially her grievances with the Queen Mother Yuan, who dares and can take over her child and ensure that the child will grow up peacefully
For a moment, Yun Fenghuang felt a little regretful. Maybe she shouldn't have been so cooperative with the imperial doctor's treatment.
We should wait for another two years. No matter what others say, we have to solve the problem of Empress Dowager Yuan!
But now I have been pregnant for so many months...
Yun Fenghuang pursed his lips and clenched his fists hard. For now, he could only send Queen Mother Yuan away as early as possible! ! !
Only if Empress Dowager Yuan is cold, once she follows in the footsteps of Concubine Wen Huixian, the remaining children will be able to grow up alive in this palace.
Although I estimate that the treatment will not be good, and I don’t even know if it can be compared with the current second and third princes, but at least there is a chance to grow up, right
If, if this old fellow, Queen Mother Yuan, were here but she died, she was sure that her child would never have any chance of survival!