Chapter 225 Front and Harem

Not only Yin Xuan, almost all the concubines tried their best to send news to their natal family this day, asking their father and brother what to do next?

"What else can I do? Didn't you listen to the Wei family and his son at the court meeting and stand up to speak to that Xiaoyun family?!" The old man of the Gu family said angrily, "If you shrink back now, it will be inside and out. people?"

Gu Jiashu rubbed his nose, and said awkwardly: "Then let's act according to the wishes of the concubine Xian?"

Old Master Gu raised his hand and gave him a slap, angrily said: "We act according to His Majesty's will! What kind of concubine Xian is!"

And thoughtfully, "Your Majesty may be in a bad mood right now, this is our family's opportunity..."

Old Mrs. Gu is not the only one who thinks this way. The news of Yin Yu has not yet been delivered to Yin Qu. Yin Qu was scolded by the elders of the family first: "I have already said that half-hearted people are the most taboo! Since our family has chosen His Majesty, as long as His Majesty If you're not particularly mean and ungrateful, you have to continue to follow him! Why can't you stand up to help His Majesty and Xiaoyun's family with such a good opportunity? This opportunity is forced to be won by the old man of Ouyang's family. Let's go! Just watch, Concubine Rui will definitely be beneficial next time! All the civil and military officials in the court are facing Princess Minghui, even if Princess Minghui cannot take the throne, you are His Majesty, you feel good?! Such a big person can't be separated like this You are completely confused! Just like you, how can you protect your children and family in the future!"

Yin Qu blushed when he was scolded, and argued: "But Your Majesty promised that he would come from my four families, but he backed out immediately after it was done, and wanted to make Mrs. Yaoning into the Yanfu Palace in order to separate Uncle Zhao Wu from the regent! The Gu family didn’t stand up at the court meeting, so why should my four families rush to please? Your Majesty shouldn’t think that our four families are used to submissiveness, and have always been contemptuous from then on.”

This is also the thinking of the Luo family, Ouyang family and Meng family, so they did not stand up to support Chunjia when all the officials were defending Princess Ming Hui.

"You have the appearance of a Mingjun today!" The Yin elders sighed and said, "How many Mingjun have you seen? Don't you have a thick face and a dark heart? It's not like you haven't seen Emperor Xiaozong before, but he is a kind person, even Lu Chuncao is a eunuch. , because of his loyalty and ability, he was willing to give him the title of marquis! What happened? Not to mention the fact that he had never fought against Ji in his entire life, and even made himself die young!"

"If we had Xiaozong's temper today, my family would not have allowed us to send our daughter-in-law into the palace to serve! When you see Xiaozong, did our family ever have a concubine?"

"The most important thing to serve such a monarch is that no matter whether he is worthy of us or not, we must first be worthy of him! Otherwise, the Ji family can be completely destroyed, but you can't say that the Yin family can't? The most important thing is that Princess Minghui is of course The first emperor's flesh and blood, but we favor her to deal with the concubine Xian, what good is it? She is a eldest princess, she lives in the face of your majesty or the empress dowager, what else can she do for our family? If the successor is our daughter Forget it, Concubine Xian is very favored, of course it would be good to kill her, but we have no hope of successors, now that Concubine Xian has been eradicated, it is not cheap for the Gu family or others!"

This kind of thing that makes wedding clothes for others and offends the emperor, the elders of the Yin family feel that they are stupid to do it.

He looks at Yin Qu now as if he was looking at a fool, "Thunder, rain, and dew are all the grace of the king! If that kind of soft-tempered monarch, such as the first emperor Xiaozong, you just feel wronged, just let it go." How are you angry with him like this today? Have you forgotten how the Ji family offended him to death?! That is the family that advocated for him to be enthroned! Let alone our family? Concubine, how many have a good end? Then Mrs. Yaoning only got the chance to be named successor because of Uncle Zhaowu, but Your Majesty is still so young. After the regent collapses, can Mrs. Yaoning have a chance Good ending! These are His Majesty's bedside people, serving His Majesty all these years is considered hard work, His Majesty still doesn't miss the past, let alone us courtiers?"

"..." Yin Qu was speechless, embarrassed for a while, and said in a low voice, "I see, I will go to apologize to His Majesty later, and have someone send a message to Qian'er."

The Meng family and the Luo family all did the same thing, but Ouyang's family was much more relaxed because Ouyang Yanran finally helped Yun Fenghuang to smooth things over at the court meeting: "I didn't expect the regent to win over the empress dowager, and even Restraining Princess Minghui in his hands, I'm afraid His Majesty will be in trouble."

"No matter how difficult it is, it is the Son of Heaven." Ouyang Yanran said indifferently, "This is not the first Emperor Xiaozong, who is very calm. , it may not be able to help at the critical moment. Otherwise, how could Concubine Xian escape this time?"

His son said: "It's just that my son has just received the news that Uncle Zhaowu intends to give a discount to His Majesty. He declined the choice of successor on the grounds that his daughter was too stubborn and failed to continue the prince for His Majesty. It seems that Uncle Zhaowu is still Standing on the regent's side. The Gu family, the most important thing is Uncle Zhaowu, if he does this, even if His Majesty still insists on appointing Mrs. Yaoning as his successor, it may not be able to drive a wedge between Uncle Zhaowu and the regent?"

Ouyang Yanran smiled inexplicably, and said: "You think you can think of it, but the emperor can't think of it? It's the emperor's initiative to destroy the promise and make Gu's daughter the queen... Since you came to the throne today, have you met him?" Have you ever done something unsure?"

After pondering for a while, he asked his son, "Among our children, are there any gentle-natured ones who don't care about family status? It's best to be a direct descendant from outside the eldest house, unmarried."

"...The fourth son under the third brother's knee is like this." The son in front of him is the eldest son, and he was stunned when he heard this, and said, "It's just, dad, who do you like?"

"Of course it's the Xie family behind Xianfei." Ouyang Yanran said slowly, "Your Majesty rested in the Huanhua Palace yesterday, and I guess this Xianfei empress has already complained once. Your Majesty is always partial She, being planted by the eldest princess this time, can she let go of the opportunity? Just wait and see, before, the Xie clan came to the imperial capital to thank Wuzheng, and the concubine Xian wanted to marry a noble family, but was stopped by His Majesty himself Well, right now, in order to appease Concubine Xian, His Majesty will have to lift the ban on her personally... Take this opportunity, let our family's heir marry a daughter of the Xie family, remember, she doesn't need to be too outstanding , be obedient and sensible, you just have to coax Concubine Xian."

The eldest son of the Ouyang family was not very happy: "After all, the Xie family is too low. The Luo family married them before, and they only produced bastards. There are also many bastards in our family who are similar in age..."

"Because the Luo family only gave birth to concubine sons, how can the concubine Xian not pay special attention to our family's prostitutes?" Ouyang Yanran looked at him, "And you forgot? What's the end? From concubine Xuan to Jieyu all the way! If it wasn't for the Luo family's face, I'm afraid I might not even be able to keep my concubine position!"

He lowered his voice, "Concubine Xian's most trusted and partial is of course her blood relative Xie, but Xie's lintel is low, and his father and brother are not qualified enough to be a marquis and a minister, so they can't support her in the temple! At this moment we The family chooses a legitimate son to marry her sister, and let Fu Lu treat her more respectfully, how can she not understand and reciprocate? At a father's age, it is gratifying to be honored by the emperor and return to court by luck, and to be in a high position, but you Brothers, you are still working in the yamen that doesn't matter... Even if my father intends to plan for you, but Duke Yi is in front, and he hasn't asked the son of the clan for anything, how can I ask for my father? ?”

But it would be different if he took the line of Concubine Xian.

Concubine Yun Xian went to talk to the emperor.

This master's ability in this area can be seen from the rapid rise of the Xie clan, and it is unambiguous at all.

"..." The eldest son of the Ouyang family was still a little hesitant, "I'm afraid it will not be good for our family's reputation."

Ouyang Yanran hated that iron could not be made into steel: "Fame? When I was demoted to the remote for my father, you brothers have not yet grown up. Since then, my Ouyang family has declined all the way. People all over the world praised my father as loyal to the emperor, and said that the Ji family is overbearing. Even so, hasn't the Ji family been prominent all these years? If it weren't for being a powerful one today, Ye Guogong and the others are still in power! On the contrary, I, Ouyang family, if I didn't become my father today, I would be my father in a few years The old bones were buried in a foreign land, do you think the Luo family can still sit on an equal footing with my Ouyang family?"

"For my aristocratic family, reputation is important, but power and status are even more important!"

"Otherwise, like the Xie family, although they have a prosperous population and some family property, no matter how deeply entrenched they are in the local area, if it weren't for the concubine Xian, who would recognize them?! After all, they are no more than a rich man in the countryside!"

"And are you stupid? It's not that the Xie family doesn't have unmarried women in the imperial capital now, so you can't be more tactful. The two children are in love with each other, because they are not the eldest grandson of the eldest family anyway, and we as elders can't bear to ignore the children , so I made an exception to fulfill them... who can speak?"

On the contrary, this has become a good story about the family's pity for their young children.

His eldest son weighed the pros and cons, nodded and said: "It's just that we should choose a better daughter of the Xie family, otherwise I'm afraid it will arouse suspicion."

"You are too indecisive in your actions, so it won't work." Ouyang Yanran shook her head and said, "The virtuous concubine in the palace is not the most beautiful in the six palaces. Isn't your majesty still doting on her the most? There is such an example, her sister can Isn't it natural to be treated differently by the noble son of a noble family?"

At the court meeting before, Ouyang Yanran reacted the fastest, and after making the decision now, her actions were also swift.

In the evening of that day, Yun Fenghuang was thinking that if Chunjia came to Huanhua Palace tonight, she would be there soon and was asking people to prepare, so the palace servants came to report that it was Concubine Rui who came to ask for an audience.

"What is she doing here now?" Yun Fenghuang asked casually, and asked someone, "Lead her to the little flower hall."

Concubine Rui also knew that the emperor was coming soon, and if it wasn't for the message sent by her family, the sooner she could tell Concubine Xian, the better, she didn't want to be this uninvited guest, so she invited Ann after the meeting, and stated it directly without further ado The grandfather wanted to use his grandson to marry the Xie family.

Yun Fenghuang thought to himself that this old man is not slow at all seeing how old he is, she must be willing to do this, as Ouyang Yanran thought, what she lacks most now is the help of speaking in the temple.

But as a woman, she still held back a bit: "I'm afraid Mrs. Xie's family background is humble, and with the posture of a willow tree, it's difficult to serve a gentleman."

"Your Majesty is joking. Your Majesty is a virtuous concubine, and she serves the dignified Son of Heaven." Concubine Rui received her grandfather's repeated instructions, with a particularly respectful attitude, "Your sister, who is unworthy to marry?"

In this way, the two sides boasted about the harem, one said that your family is a big family, it must be strict and strict, and my family can't afford to cling to it; I know that Mrs. Xie's tutoring conduct is impeccable, and the girls in your family must be virtuous, virtuous, virtuous, and have impeccable performance.

In the end, Yun Fenghuang "reluctantly" agreed, and after agreeing, her expression became more kind, and she hinted to Concubine Rui that there are still two fourth concubines available, and one of them will belong to Concubine Rui sooner or later.

Although Concubine Rui felt that the Fourth Concubine should have her own place just because of her grandfather, she pretended to be happy and thanked her before she left.

When she was leaving, she happened to meet Sheng Jia and hid beside the road.

When Chunjia saw it on the emperor's chariot, she asked people to stop, raised the curtain and asked, "Why is my concubine here?"

Hearing that Concubine Rui came to see Concubine Xian because she had palace affairs and didn't know how to deal with it, she was silent for a while before she said gently, "I understand, then you go. It's cold at night, catch a cold carefully."

Concubine Rui respectfully complied, and watched the guard of honor go to Xuanqing Palace, stared at it for a while with some melancholy, and then went back to her own palace in dismay.

At this time, Chunjia was walking towards the inner hall with Yun Fenghuang who was welcoming him, and asked casually as he walked, "Ouyang Yanran showed love to you?"