It’s not just once or twice that the imperial concubine has caused trouble for Empress Dowager Yuan. When Empress Dowager Yuan was in the palace, she couldn’t do anything to brighten the Qing Palace, let alone now that she was in Fuyang County
The queen shook her head. She didn't want to say anything at first, she just asked people to put things away.
But at this time, a close servant reminded: "Your Majesty, your Majesty is so negligent, even if we look at it, we all feel aggrieved for the Empress Dowager. How do you feel when we see the Empress Dowager?"
"Then what can we do?" Gu Zhen said, "The imperial concubine has always been such a bitch, and your majesty loves her so much. How can we vent our anger on the loving mother-in-law? In fact, it would be good if she is willing to bring out the things. If she doesn't, , what do you think I can do? Maybe I need to add one more thing to smooth the situation for her. Otherwise, this matter will not be a shame to the two empress dowagers, but a shame to the two empress dowagers. When the time comes The two empress dowagers are certainly offended, how can your majesty not blame me?"
After all, she was in charge of this matter, and if it was done well, Chunjia would certainly praise her; if it was not done well, although the emperor would not say anything to her, he would certainly not get away with a private reprimand.
From the queen's point of view, she naturally hopes to complete it smoothly and add luster to her virtuous reputation.
And among those people and things that were disobedient and left her helpless, she had to deal with them herself.
"Your Majesty, if the two empress dowagers are just unhappy, that's fine. The key is what if they feel unhappy and then something goes wrong?" Seeing that she didn't understand what she meant, the attendant had to make her words clearer. "Fuyang County is only a small place after all, and the climate is not very good. If one of the two empress dowagers has a short or long birthday due to these birthday gifts, and someone comes forward to remonstrate, requesting that the two empress dowagers be brought to the imperial capital to raise them, this?"
Gu Zhen was startled when he heard this and immediately frowned.
The attendant continued: "Although the Yuan family is gone, don't forget that King Fuyang has an heir. The two empress dowagers have nothing to do with the current harem, so why can't they control Gong Xiang Ruoyu?"
After the birthday gift arrives, he will first declare his illness, and then ask Gong Xiang Ruoyu to request that the two queen mothers be sent back to the imperial capital for rest... There is no need to worry about it. As long as he pretends that he can't survive in Fuyang County, Gong Xiang Ruoyu will be afraid. I wish I could send him away immediately.
After all, Queen Mother Yuan and Queen Mother Qu were nominally the elders of Gong Xiang Ruochang, but in fact they had a deep relationship with the emperor.
If there is someone in Fuyang County, wouldn't Gongxiang Ruochang and his family want to be a punch bag for the emperor
"..." Gu Zhen had never thought of this before, and now he couldn't help but feel a headache as he said, "Isn't it possible? Your Majesty has always been shrewd, and your loving mother, the Queen Mother, left so resolutely, but in the past few days, if this happened, , Your Majesty doesn’t say anything, how can he not have some thoughts in his heart?”
The reason why the two empress dowagers traveled all the way back to Fuyang County at such an advanced age was not only forced by the general situation, but in the final analysis, Chunjia's determination to stay was not as firm as it seemed.
Emotionally, he might have hoped that Queen Mother Yuan and Queen Mother Qu would stay and let him take care of her in her old age, but from a profit perspective, Chunjia actually wanted them to leave.
After all, when the two queen mothers were in the palace, they either fought with each other or played tricks with the concubines. While Chunjia was dealing with all kinds of things in the previous court, she didn't want to go back to the harem and have to mediate things for them... especially It was the grudge between Empress Dowager Yuan and Yun Fenghuang, and Chunjia simply had to deal with the aftermath.
The most important thing is that as Chunjia's position became more stable and she no longer needed the care of Queen Mother Yuan, Queen Mother Yuan's favoritism became more and more tilted towards her natal family.
She even leaned toward the prince whom she believed had Yuan's blood.
Chunjia can actually understand this kind of emotion. After all, he is not the biological blood of Empress Dowager Yuan. No matter how much they share the same love as mother and son, at this time, it is generally believed that the three most unfilial consequences are not having a descendant. Empress Dowager Yuan is not happy about not having a biological child. The regret is hard to brush away.
If she were someone like Yun Fenghuang who was the first to consider her own pros and cons, it might be easier for her to think more openly. As long as she lived a good life, wouldn't a cheap son like Chunjia be much better than other people's biological sons who didn't live up to expectations
The problem is that Queen Mother Yuan is not. Although she is not a merciful mistress, she can still be called a virtuous mother-in-law and a child in many ways... This kind of character is even more difficult to imagine.
Therefore, maybe the Queen Mother realized it, or maybe she didn't realize it herself. In short, the Queen Mother Yuan used to indulge a Yuan Niang, but was not very supportive of the Yuan family. In the past two years, her attitude towards the Yuan family has become more relaxed.
This made Chunjia wary.
After all, Ji's lesson to Gongxiang's family was too great. Empress Dowager Yuan herself had used similar reasons to guard against Yun Fenghuang. But to be honest, she was only Gongxiang's daughter-in-law after all, not a bloodline of Gongxiang's, especially Not being a male heir of the Gongxiang family, she did not feel the taboo against the Ji family as deeply as bloodline members such as Chunjia and the Regent and his son.
A thousand-mile embankment was destroyed in an ant nest. Didn't the Ji family's fortune depend on the trust and reliance of Emperor Shenzong
Frankly speaking, the Ji family at that time was worthy of this trust and reliance. Shenzong was able to obtain the posthumous title of Shenzong, and Ji family contributed a lot.
No matter what kind of humiliation and pain this family brought to the royal family, they still contributed to the world's Hai Qing Heyan.
Chunjia learned these lessons because he did not want to give any family a chance to threaten the imperial power.
Therefore, Empress Dowager Yuan's move of sending the eighth prince to the queen's knees made him doubt that this loving mother was preparing to seize the crown prince in the future.
Even if she didn't have this idea at this time, just as she explained before leaving, she just wanted the eighth prince to get closer to the future prince, but looking through the history books, it was found that after the prince fell in love, he was taken advantage of by the prince who was close to him. It's not that it hasn't happened before.
Moreover, if the Eighth Prince's background had not been exposed, he had grown up in front of the Middle Palace and watched his younger brother enter the East Palace because he was the legitimate son, and would have to be worshiped by their brothers in the future. Who knows if he had other thoughts
Chunjia didn't even have the idea of giving the fifteenth prince to the queen to raise so that mother and son could be taken care of in the future, let alone the heirs from Yuan's concubine.
All in all, the emperor is determined, and this is true for his beloved concubine, and the same is true for Queen Mother Yuan and Queen Mother Qu.
His feelings for them are real, and so is his sense of responsibility for the country, the country, and the inheritance of the Gongxiang family.
And the latter is heavier than the former.
"If the two empress dowagers have given up, they probably won't do this." The attendant whispered, "But what if they don't give up? Think about the rumors in the palace after those two left. The imperial concubine was about to give birth at that time. Even if you are powerless, you may not be able to do those things. There is also the death of Gu Cairen, which is really not something that the imperial concubine has the ability to do. The imperial concubine has only been in the palace for a few years, and her natal family is humble. She is said to be the daughter of the Yun family, but Is Yun willing to do something for her? The maid thinks that it probably has something to do with the two empress dowagers, especially the loving mother empress dowager. After all, even though we didn’t bring that bastard out in the end, we still had something to do. Loving mother The Empress Dowager may not be unaware of this, this matter is the fault of the Yuan family and the Empress Dowager, but do you think the Empress Dowager would think so?"
Of course that's impossible.
To be fair, the Yuan family's downfall was not unjust. No emperor would be able to tolerate such a big crime of confusing blood.
Not to mention that Empress Dowager Yuan is not the kind of person who is glorious and graceful. Even if she is, facing the result of the destruction of her entire natal family, I am afraid that only a saint can remain calm and stand in a fair perspective.
She didn't say anything, but she must be angry in her heart.
Of course, the people who are most likely to be angered are the queen and the noble concubine.
Therefore, with the series of things that happened in the palace these days, the queen's masters and servants were most suspicious of Queen Mother Yuan and the imperial concubine. However, after careful analysis, they found that even though the imperial concubine was powerful, she had a shallow family background and a short period of time in the palace. Not to mention other things, Gu Cairen's case , Mr. Gu thought that the imperial concubine might not have such ability.
The most suspicious thing is Queen Mother Yuan.
Gu Zhen frowned: "Why didn't you say these words before?"
I said before that it would be better for her to have one more thing to do than one less thing to do, so she wouldn't have these worries anymore.
What to do now
The words have been spoken and the things have been collected. It is impossible to say that we will not give them away, right? If they do, if those two old guys really take the opportunity to cause trouble, even if their actions will definitely make Chunjia feel bored, the emperor is not the kind of person who acts on impulse, and his boredom may not be reflected in action.
Gu Zhen herself is an example of this. The emperor didn't like her, but why didn't he let her sit firmly in the back seat
When the time comes, the emperor will also do something to the two empress dowagers. Although he is annoyed by their arrogance, he still welcomes them back to the palace and allows them to continue to boss them around. Is this? ?
... When the time comes, Gu Zhen will probably be angered by the emperor and blame her for looking for trouble.
The attendant smiled bitterly and apologized: "... I didn't think that much at first. I only thought of it when I saw the veil sent by the imperial concubine."
But there is nothing we can do about it now, "How about your majesty, please take care of it? If such a thing is delivered, no matter what happens, your majesty has personally checked it."
By the way, I would like to remind Chunjia tactfully, let Chunjia worry about it... Anyway, Chunjia probably doesn't want those two people to come back.
Gu Zhen was upset and said: "Oh, I really regret that I listened to my family's arrangements and entered this harem. One or two of them, no one can worry about it!"
From her point of view, this was originally a very loving scene between a mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law, so couldn't they cooperate with each other
At this point, Gu Zhen already felt that it was very troublesome, but the next day she went to tell Chunjia. Chunjia had no time to worry about it, so she ordered Yan Yin to check it out, which was regarded as an endorsement for the queen. Yan Yin looked at it, and his expression changed. That changed. I didn't even go back to Taichu Palace. I called a small chamberlain across the high palace wall to report a letter to Chun Jia: "Your Majesty, the things you have prepared for your loving mother, the Empress Dowager, are all excellent. It's just... the imperial doctor who went with me said that there are two things that seem to be wrong!"
Chun Jia frowned and said, "Whose thing is wrong?"
Without waiting for the waiter to answer, he asked again, "Is the concubine prepared in there?"
"... I dare not hide it from Your Majesty. What the imperial doctor is most suspicious of is the veil prepared by the imperial concubine." The young chamberlain lay on the ground and said tremblingly, "The imperial doctor... suspects... suspects that the veil seems to have something that shouldn't be stained on it. !”
The emperor's face suddenly darkened: "Go and ask the queen if she has had any contact with the tenth prince in the past two days!"
Chunjia reacted very quickly, but it was still too late: after all, the queen had been publicly spread rumors about her son, how could she not take care of the tenth prince personally and not regard her as a treasure
Before the tenth prince was not fully recovered, she would personally stay in front of the bed, fully clothed, but now that the tenth prince was well, she had to summon him three or four times a day.
Therefore, after receiving the reminder from the imperial attendant, Gu Zhen fainted without even finishing his words!
In the evening of that day, a shocking news spread throughout the palace and harem: the birthday gift that the imperial concubine made for her loving mother, the Queen Mother, was stained with smallpox marks. The queen unpreparedly read it with her attendants, and then summoned her several times. The third prince and the tenth prince!