Yun Fenghuang was very surprised when he received the news that the emperor secretly summoned Gu Fangshu.
What surprised her was not that Chunjia would do this, but: "Who told you this kind of news?"
Chen Jing said in a deep voice: "The answer to the question is that it is a maid in charge of sweeping the imperial garden. She calls herself a member of the imperial city."
"Imperial City Secretary?" Yun Fenghuang frowned slightly, "Sun Yu is gone, how can the people on his side still think of getting me?"
Chen Jing took a few steps closer and whispered: "Your Majesty, it seems that just because Mr. Sun is gone, Your Majesty has ordered his deputy to take over the position temporarily. It is still unknown who will be sent to be the envoy of the Imperial City in the future... The palace maid was thinking. It may not be reused in the future. No, you just want to use this news to exchange a few silver coins with us? I am bold and have already promised to give her five hundred taels of silver notes."
Yun Fenghuang didn't care much about a mere few hundred taels of silver. She mused: "It's nothing... It's just that this is really Sun Yu's confidant? This is too disappointing. Sun Yu has only been there for a few days, and just for a few days A hundred taels of silver, so there are no rules. From this point of view, it is not unreasonable for Your Majesty to reprimand Sun Yu before."
This former imperial city envoy really failed to live up to his expectations.
I have to say that the Ji family is really powerful in this regard. Anyway, until the Ji family was destroyed, Yun Fenghuang has not seen any remnants of the Ji family come to seek surrender to him.
"After I heard the news, I went to make some insinuations. The news should be true." Chen Jing added, "It's just that your Majesty summoned Uncle Zhaowu to say exactly what he wanted to say, but I don't know."
Yun Fenghuang laughed and said: "If you can even find out this clearly, then I still have to think hard about the next step?"
If the chief steward in front of her could even find out how the emperor secretly summoned his ministers, this could only mean that either her power was already very impressive, or the emperor was a waste.
Or simply both.
Then what else does she have to worry about
But the fact is that there is no such good thing... Yun Fenghuang let out a melancholy breath and told Chen Jing: "Don't worry about this matter. I'm afraid you and I can't worry about it now. You should just keep your eyes on the fifteenth hour. After all, I only have one son."
Although he was prepared to tear himself apart if King Jin couldn't survive it, but...
After all, my son.
She still hopes that King Jin will do well.
After all, it's not easy to conceive and give birth to this child, right
After sending Chen Jing away, Yun Fenghuang couldn't help but wonder, who was the emperor trying to hide from him
Originally, when an important minister returned to Beijing under an imperial edict, meeting the emperor was a basic operation.
Even though there is now the threat of smallpox in the palace, the emperor's previous dynasty had arranged for six long-term companions to stay. In order to summon important ministers and maintain the emperor's image of loving the people, it might as well directly summon Uncle Zhaowu into the palace. I will arrange a place to stay after the audience, and wait until the smallpox incident is over before letting him go.
Or is it that Uncle Zhaowu has something to do next and cannot stay in the palace for a while
If something happens to Uncle Zhaowu... it must have something to do with the battlefield, or in other words, something to do with Wei He
Yun Fenghuang's expression was uncertain. To be honest, her expectations for Uncle Zhaowu or the Gu family were very complicated.
On the one hand, she hoped that Uncle Zhaowu would continue as he had been in the past two years, with no outstanding achievements. On the other hand, he had offended many people because of the death and injury of noble sons of high families, and some of his actions could easily arouse the emperor's suspicion across thousands of rivers and mountains; on the other hand, , she also felt that perhaps what the emperor wanted was this kind of descendant who looked down on but was useless.
Therefore, Uncle Zhaowu's incompetence actually encouraged the emperor's support for the Gu family.
After thinking for a moment, Yun Fenghuang finally sighed and turned his mind to the current matter... There is actually nothing going on at the moment. The main reason is that the Sixth Palace is closed now, and there is no way to do anything. Except for the smallpox, no one has the mind to pay attention to anything else. of side details.
She then summoned her attendants and asked, "How are you doing in the palace today?"
I heard that smallpox was raging more and more, and two more imperial heirs showed symptoms.
The sixth prince in front of Concubine Xian, and the fourth princess left behind by Ouyang Fulu.
"I heard that Empress Zhaorong is extremely anxious. She has cried several times in the past two days and even took care of her herself regardless of the obstruction... The imperial doctor said that if this continues, in two days I am afraid that Empress Zhaorong will also..."
Yun Fenghuang pinched his forehead with a headache: "This unsatisfactory thing!"
It was just a matter of convenience that she handed over the Fourth Emperor's daughter to Jia Pingye to raise. She definitely didn't value the Fourth Emperor's daughter as much as she did Jia Pingye.
The main reason is that Jinzhiyuye is still young now, but when she grows up, it is impossible not to know the cause of her biological mother's death. Yun Fenghuang, who has such hatred for her mother, does not expect the fourth princess to be kind-hearted and careless.
On the other hand, Jia Pingye, no longer favored, is still a concubine. Maybe she will be useful for something in the future.
In the end, this man risked his life for the Fourth Princess.
If I had known this, it would have been better not to have done anything wrong in the first place.
"What's it like with the Sixth Prince?" Yun Fenghuang sighed and continued to ask.
"The Concubine Xian was also very worried, and specially called the imperial doctor for diagnosis..." The waiter paused, "Now the Sixth Prince has been moved from the original side hall to a corner, but the Second Princess has always been taken by the Concubine Xian. Now. There hasn’t been anything wrong with the Concubine Xian and the Second Princess.”
Yun Fenghuang had never paid much attention to Concubine Xian before. Now he thought about it and asked, "How does Concubine Xian treat the Sixth Prince?"
"She is not as careful as she is to the Second Prince." The waiter said, "The Concubine Xian treats the Second Prince as if she were her own child, but... after the Sixth Prince was sent there, the Concubine Xian was either not nice to His Highness, or... rarely saw the Prince in person. Your Highness, the Second Princess is being led by the Concubine Xiantian."
This sixth prince is really unlucky...
Yun Fenghuang twitched the corner of his mouth. The biological mother was taken out alive by caesarean section. The first adoptive mother, Yuan Niang, almost strangled him to death; the second adopter, the Empress Dowager Yuan, was forced to leave Fuyang County after only a few days of raising him; and the third concubine did not like him...
No, it's not necessarily that the Xian Concubine really doesn't like the Sixth Prince, maybe she has something to do with the Second Prince.
After all, the second princess is not a fuel-efficient lamp... This little girl had arranged for Concubine Shu and Concubine Jing to be together.
The two high-born concubines couldn't do anything to her.
"It would be great when Zhao Qing of this palace can learn from her second sister." Looking at this princess who is not a fuel-efficient lamp at a young age, and then thinking about being pampered by herself, she is becoming more and more reckless. Princess Zhaoqing, Yun Fenghuang regretfully said to Hong E, "Although Concubine Xian is more innocent, after all these years in the palace, the second princess is really nothing outstanding from this palace's point of view. Even His Majesty seems to think that She is a bit dull, but she has the ability to coax the virtuous concubine to pamper her."
Hong'e said softly: "My dear, have you forgotten? The second princess's biological mother was originally from our palace. Speaking of which, the reason why the second princess is so clever is because she took advantage of our palace."
"This is too far-fetched. You see that King Qin and Zhao Qing Jiantian live here, and you don't see them being smarter." Yun Fenghuang shook his head and said, "That's all, when this matter is over, I should also I took Zhaoqing with me and taught him slowly."
That night, only a few people knew that the emperor secretly summoned Uncle Zhaowu.
In the next few days, everything was calm in the imperial capital.
No, it should be said that everything is calm outside the palace city, but inside the palace city, it is forced to be calm.
After all, Concubine Jing's heart-wrenching cries were heard in all directions from the Yanlan Palace, and even the Xuanqing Palace, which was not very close, could hear clearly.
Yun Fenghuang was reading a book at that time. When he heard the noise, he subconsciously put it down and asked the attendant: "Go and find out what's going on?"
But I already knew in my heart that something must have happened to the emperor's heir.
It is not that no palace people are infected with smallpox these days, but the palace people are sent to remote palaces as soon as they appear. Not to mention crying, they will not disturb the nobles. Even if they do, they will be kept silent. Don't disturb the peace of the concubines and royal heirs.
Sure enough, not long after, someone came to report that the Thirteenth Prince was gone.
Yun Fenghuang was speechless for a long time.
This does not mean mourning for the Thirteenth Prince.
That's not her son.
But it was because the thirteenth prince thought of his fifteenth prince.
The thirteenth prince was born last year and is already a little over one year old, while the fifteenth prince is only three months old...
She had taken medication to give birth prematurely to gain the emperor's pity and guilt...
Although since I received the news that the fifteenth prince was infected with smallpox, I have been mentally prepared to lose this hard-won child.
But after the bad news about the Thirteenth Prince came, Yun Fenghuang still felt his heart suddenly sink, and then feel empty.
Now that the fifteenth prince is still in bloom, the palace people say that he may not be able to survive, but... what if
What if he is gone too...
Yun Fenghuang clenched his fists and subconsciously wanted to rush to the side hall desperately and take care of his child personally.
Even if she could be passed on, even if she was in danger, and even if she survived, there was a possibility that she would fall out of favor if her appearance was tarnished... She didn't want to care about it anymore! ! !
She roared crazily in her heart, cursing all irrelevant people and things, angry at Shi Fifteen for being innocent in this matter, and angry at her own powerlessness, but in the end she still quietly sat by the window and whispered: "Be careful. Serving Fifteen... If he is not good, what is the point of my life?"
Yun Fenghuang smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly when she said this. She knew very well that although she felt extremely uncomfortable thinking about the death of the fifteenth prince at the moment, if the fifteenth prince was really bad, she would definitely not Maybe he really left with his son.
After all, she still has King Qin, Zhaoqing, the Seventh Prince, and the Ninth Prince.
Well, not that there is any emotional comfort from these children.
But any one of the King of Qin, the Seventh Prince, and the Ninth Prince can become her capital in seeking Qingci Palace.
She would not lose her qualification to stay at the poker table just because the fifteenth prince died.
After all, she didn't love her children that much.
This realization made Yun Fenghuang feel instinctively guilty and painful, but no matter how guilty and painful she was... she still did it.
In the previous court, Chunjia, who received the bad news, also thought of the fifteenth prince and asked the attendant: "Does the noble concubine know? What did the noble concubine say?"
When he learned that Yun Fenghuang did not immediately make a fuss to see his son, the emperor was clearly relieved.
But when he heard that the imperial concubine said that once she was fifteen, her life would be meaningless, he remained silent again.
Because he believed that the imperial concubine valued her son more than herself, Chunjia had no doubt that Yun Fenghuang was determined to die when he said this.
This made him feel very confused. If the fifteenth prince really couldn't be saved, how could he appease the imperial concubine
Her position has reached a point where she cannot be promoted, and she doesn't care about the money and silk rewards. The imperial doctor said that it is unlikely that the imperial concubine will become pregnant again in a short time. As for other...
Whatever the imperial concubine cares about should not be taught lightly.
"...If something happens to the fifteenth prince, he will be buried with his imperial physician and his attendants." The emperor couldn't think of a more perfect way to deal with that situation. After a while, he gave the order.