Two days later, the queen sent someone to invite Yun Fenghuang and De Fei to Yanfu Palace to discuss the status of the new couple.
According to the agreement, there should be three concubines in this year's concubine. This was decided internally: Xie Runan, Huang and Jiang Mingdan.
Neither the queen nor the noble concubine had any objections to this. Only Concubine De, in front of the queen, acted coquettishly with Yun Fenghuang, half-truthfully and half-falsely, saying: "My younger sister also has an acquaintance among these girls, but she is just like my younger sister. She is stupid and not pretty enough, so she was compared to her. Now the queen wants her younger sister to come over for details, and I feel ashamed. Maybe the outside world is not very clear, otherwise, my younger sister doesn’t know how to explain to her elder sister? Aren’t you embarrassing your sister?”
Gu Zhen looked at Weiwei and said to himself that you are what you are today just because of holding the imperial concubine's thigh. Like the imperial concubine, you want to support some confidants, but in the end you are not able to support her. What's wrong with the imperial concubine
But Yun Fenghuang was more or less the same as Concubine De, and comforted him a few words, then turned to ask Gu Zhen: "Although the empress only gave three places at the beginning, there are many vacancies in the palace now..."
"How is this possible?" Gu Zhen was a little unhappy. She glanced at Concubine De in warning and said, "This is all agreed upon. How can we change the order overnight?"
Concubine De was not afraid of her, especially the concubine who was right in front of her. She pretended not to see her, hugged Yun Fenghuang's arm with a smile, and said in a sweet voice: "You know it's the elder sister who loves the younger sister!"
Gu Zhen had a headache. As expected, Yun Fenghuang heard these words and smiled slightly. When he spoke again, it was not in the tone of discussion, but with a faint oppression: "Then remove the Huang family, and the ones on the left and right Huang is very young and has a vicious heart. Even at a moment like the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, she dares to attack her companions. She is truly bold and vicious! Is it a blessing for such a person to be a concubine in the palace? "
"These are all rumors." The queen pinched her forehead in disgust and said, "You are also a noble concubine of the first palace after all. How come you are like the maidservant from the first palace who can follow the wind and rain?"
Yun Fenghuang said: "Why do you need to cover up for the Huang family? We all saw it clearly during the banquet. Nothing happened to the Gao family sooner or later, but something happened just before the stage. Could it be a coincidence? Is it like this? Who will believe it if I tell you? Moreover, I have heard about the situation in Xiuzhuo Palace these days. The Huang family and the Gao family are all equally talented in birth. Obviously, the Huang family is worried about being overpowered by the Gao family. Therefore, the Gao family was designed. These two people were chosen by the empress, and they are both her own people. The empress cannot favor one over the other! Otherwise, wouldn't it be too chilling for the Gao family? "
The corner of the Queen's mouth twitched. She had mistakenly thought that Huang had tricked Gao just yesterday.
Later I found out that the co-author was Gao who felt that his skills were inferior to others and had the audacity to trick Huang!
Although these two girls were originally arranged by the Gu family, they had never gotten along with each other and were not blood relatives. One can imagine the Queen's tolerance for them.
It can be said that he has completely fallen in favor of the Huang family, and even plans to give up on the Gao family who has failed to achieve anything but failed at any time and at any time.
But now Yun Fenghuang keeps saying that both of them are hers...
She couldn't just admit that there was something wrong with Mr. Gao, right? Thinking like that, you know that Yun Fenghuang must have beaten the snake and followed the stick, blaming the blame on Zhonggong for being short-sighted. He can choose such a weird thing from any picker, which shows that his vision is not accurate, so Huang is not necessarily a good one, or Don't be a concubine.
"..." The queen sighed after thinking about it, glanced at Concubine De in disgust, and decided to compromise with the concubine. Otherwise, the concubine would personally attack the Huang family, and she might not be able to protect her.
So he said, "Well, since you insist on caring about Concubine De, what does it matter if I look at you for a moment? It's just that Concubine De has no talent or virtue, and it's all because of you that she rose to prominence, became the fourth concubine, took charge of the palace, and even gave birth to a child. A pair of children, but they are not satisfied with this. This time, Concubine Shu didn't say anything or do anything about the newlyweds, but she was very excited! Now you and I each choose one person to be a concubine, and the instigator, Jiang, is fine, but she is still teasing her. You help her pull this offence, which shows that people's hearts are not as good as snakes swallowing elephants! I don't know if I will even covet you as a noble concubine in the future?"
Concubine De, who had never paid attention to the empress, suddenly changed her expression. She didn't care to refute, and quickly stood up from her seat and prostrated herself on the ground: "Sister, sister never dared to have such an idea! Sister just..."
"Okay." Yun Fenghuang glanced at her nonchalantly and said lightly, "I accept the Queen's kindness. However, I entered the palace at the same time as Sister De Fei and became friends. What is the nature of Sister De Concubine? -Sir, I am very clear in my mind and body, but there is no need for the queen to worry about it."
Gu Zhen said with a cold expression, "That's good."
She didn't want to talk about it. She didn't let Concubine De get up and said directly, "In the Chunjia Dynasty, there has never been an example of a good family member from a poor family being directly granted the title of concubine. Even if the promotion is exceptional this time, it should not be too high. After all, the newlyweds are young, and if they are favored and have children in the future, they will inevitably have to be granted a title. According to this palace, we will all grant Jieyu the title."
Yun Fenghuang and De Fei both nodded slightly.
After all, even they cannot have pure trust in newcomers.
Support is support, after all, I don't want them to be promoted too quickly, lest they end up relying on their youth and beauty, endangering their own status and authority.
The queen was not happy at all, and said: "It's just that the Xie family, the Huang family and the Jiang family are all serious concubines after all, and they are different from the girls recommended by De Fei. I would like to ask your majesty to confer concubines for these three people." Get banned."
Yun Fenghuang said: "Your Majesty is busy with government affairs, so why bother with such things? It would be better if your Majesty chooses one or two titles for them."
"..." Gu Zhen glanced at her and knew that the imperial concubine was jealous and did not want Chunjia to personally draw up titles for the new couple.
When Yun Fenghuang was promoted to concubine, Concubine An had not yet fallen out of favor. Empress Yuan only thought that Chunjia would not care about such trivial matters, so she planned to do it herself. However, Chunjia accidentally chose a title and sent it to Yanfu. palace…
Now the imperial concubine does not want the newcomers to receive similar treatment.
This is of course human nature, but Gu Zhen had just been threatened by her, so he was not willing to compromise. He just said lightly, "There hasn't been a serious newcomer in the palace for two years. Besides, it is precisely because His Majesty is busy with government affairs that he has to occasionally Your Majesty, please relax."
After a pause, he added, "Besides, although your Majesty is not greedy for beauty, among the newcomers this time, there are people who Yan Yin has personally visited. I think your Majesty is also anxious to know their situation at this moment."
Of course this is about Jiang Mingdan.
Yun Fenghuang thought about his speculation about Chun Jia's love for Jiang Mingdan, and his face changed for a moment before he said: "But it's up to the queen to make the decision."
So they parted ways unhappily.
After leaving Yanfu Palace, Concubine De didn't bother to go back to her residence. She followed her to Huanhua Palace, where she knelt down and cried again. Tong Yun Fenghuang, who was in tears, explained that she was determined not to push herself too far. She expected that the queen would really give a concubine position to Jiang Mingdan: "To be honest with my sister, I thought to myself, the person Jiang calls the queen is so shameless that even the entire palace is intimidating him, but for any individual, How could she bear it? Even if the Empress didn't kill her later, there would be no chance for her to become a concubine! With such three concubines, one for each of the Empress, elder sister and younger sister, wouldn't it be just right? So my sister told her grandmother about this in advance. She was really confused just now and worried that she wouldn’t be able to explain it to her later... "
Yun Fenghuang actually listened to the Queen's words to some extent.
After all, Concubine De had helped her a lot over the years, but it was really not enough to say that the help was so great that it was worth giving her the position of Fourth Concubine and the right to co-manage the Sixth Palace.
At least in Yun Fenghuang's eyes, Wei Hengyan was not worth the price.
But the reason why she pushed the other party to the current position was not entirely because of winning over Wei Hengyan and the Wei family. It was also because Yun Fenghuang did not want this position and the power to associate with the Sixth Palace to fall to others who were not aligned with her. In the hands of people who don't understand the market.
To be honest, Wei Hengyan was promoted by Yun Fenghuang to occupy the seat.
Therefore, Yun Fenghuang also felt that Concubine De's move to obtain the concubine position for Cainu was a bit excessive.
Don't you have any idea whether you are qualified enough to arrange the palace like this with the Queen and me? !
If the Queen hadn't pointed it out to her face just now, Yun Fenghuang would have given Wei Hengyan a beating in two days to make her sober up. Don't think that because he has pampered and protected her in the past two years, he has forgotten the rules and regulations!
But the Queen said it. Seeing Wei Hengyan's scared look, she turned around and became a good person. She helped Concubine De up in a friendly manner and said, "What are you doing? What the Queen said is just to sow discord." . Still sowing discord in front of both of us. Did you see that I just paid attention to her? I didn’t even listen to her, but you took it to heart? Is it possible that from now on, you will follow her? Is this palace student separated?"
"Sister dare not..."
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Yun Fenghuang, who said softly: "Everyone in the palace knows that we entered the palace together and got acquainted early. Over the years, no matter what the matter, we have always advanced and retreated together. How can they think in their hearts? No jealousy? Isn't this just another way to cause trouble for us? If you really follow what they say, then they will get their wish. You are also an old man who has been in the palace for many years, why are you still so naive and ignorant? I didn’t even know I was being tricked!”
Wei Hengyan knew that she had deep thoughts and her sweet words might not be believed.
But after all, the imperial concubine had not done much to deal with her in the past two years. She thought that maybe after getting along with her for many years, the imperial concubine would have some sincerity towards her, and she was very moved. With tears in her eyes, she thanked her sister profusely, and just said to Yun Fenghuang. He left at the suggestion.
Then Yun Fenghuang turned around and asked Chen Jing to check: "What is the origin of the girl whom Concubine De wants to recommend for the title of concubine? What is her temperament like? Also, have there been any changes between Concubine De and the Wei family recently? This Wei Sir, you have done a lot of things for me. If there is betrayal, it is no joke. If we find out the clues this time, we have to think about taking advantage first. If we don't find out, we should prepare some Have a handle so that you don’t have to worry about things happening in the future!”
After arranging this matter, she breathed out slowly and asked, "By the way, has there been any movement in Qingci Palace these past two days?"
"... To reply to the empress, I am incompetent. Qingci Palace has been quiet so far, and there is no news." Chen Jing bowed awkwardly, "But... there is some news from Fuyang County?"
Yun Fenghuang raised his eyebrows: "About the two Queen Mothers?"
Chen Jing said: "Exactly! A few days ago, the Empress Dowager had already set off for the palace. It is said that before the Empress Dowager left, her body was a bit disobedient. So Prince Consort Yun was worried and wanted to persuade the Empress to rest for a while. However, the loving mother-in-law, the Queen Mother, could not wait any longer and insisted on boarding the train that day!"
This is a reasonable thing. After all, the result of the draw shocked the government and the public. For the empress dowager, a loving mother, it was a bolt from the blue.
The fact that she was only slightly ill and not in a state of collapse was considered to be strong-willed.
Yun Fenghuang asked with a smile: "What about the Holy Mother Queen Mother? Are you reluctant to leave her?"
She thought that Queen Mother Qu was not good at acting.
But Queen Mother Qu really didn’t perform this time. Chen Jing lowered his voice: “The Queen Mother Queen Mother didn’t show up. She said she was tired. She had been with the Queen Mother, a loving mother, for many years. Once they were separated, she felt reluctant to leave. She was afraid to come out to say goodbye in person. Instead, They touched each other's feelings and added fuel to the fire of the Mother Queen Mother. Therefore, they only asked the close attendants to come on their behalf and said a few words. Before the Mother Queen Mother got on the carriage, they said they were afraid that the Mother Mother Queen Mother had orders from her, so they turned around and left. … At this moment, everyone in Fuyang County is talking about it, wondering if Your Majesty feels sorry for the grievances the Queen Mother has suffered over the years?”