Chapter 63 Retreat as Advance

"How can your empress let that noble concubine raise the seventh prince?" This time it was Gu Zhen's sister-in-law who came here, her maiden name was Li, and Li's personality was straightforward. When they met each other, they were polite, implying that the queen had cleared the scene and couldn't care less. After exchanging greetings, he said straight to the point, "The noble concubine is very fond of the original, and the minister's wife said something that is not pleasant. If she also has a good background, it is really difficult to say who will take the seat of Yanfu Palace today. But in the past two years, relying on her favor, she first made her brothers and sisters who are blood relatives who are both Shangzhu and high-ranking marriage, to strengthen her momentum! She also wins over Concubine Shu and Concubine De, and indirectly hooks up with Ouyang and Wei!"

"That's not enough for our family to be vigilant?"

"Now even the Yin family is asking her to win her over. This... If the princes grow up in the future, and she thinks something she shouldn't have, what do you think we should do?"

Gu Zhen was startled, feeling sorry for himself, and subconsciously said: "But the Seventh Prince is weak, and he doesn't know if he can raise him? Yin Qu values ​​his daughter, if he raises his grandson but fails to raise him, he must not be raised." He hates it?"

"You also said that you don't know if you can raise them, and it's not that you can't raise them." Li said in a low voice, "What if she raises her? Even if the possibility is not high, you can't take risks." You must know that the position of the Eastern Palace is of great importance, and there is no room for any soft-heartedness!"

Furthermore, "The Seventh Prince was born at full term, even if he looks weak because of dystocia, who can guarantee that he will not survive?"

Gu Zhen's face was a bit ugly, because he remembered what Yun Fenghuang had sworn before that the Seventh Prince was a hot potato.

At that time, she thought it was very reasonable, so after knowing that Yun Fenghuang was "forced" to take over the Seventh Prince, she specially comforted her.

As a result, now being reminded by my sister-in-law, I suspect that the imperial concubine did it on purpose.

The purpose is to make her fearful, not dare to consider taking over the Seventh Prince, let alone prevent the noble concubine from getting the Seventh Prince!

"..." At this moment, I feel that I am too stupid, and I am almost being played by the noble concubine. Gu Zhen really has no face to tell Li Shi about this, so he just said, "The seventh prince is not the master of the palace and handed over to the noble concubine. It was the seventh prince's grandfather, Yin Qu, who brought him up. For this reason, he still cried for a long time in front of the imperial court, and His Majesty couldn't do anything about it. He specially called the noble concubine to the front court to express his position face to face. In desperation, he agreed. What can I do? I can't ask His Majesty not to give Yin Qu face? So the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty have to treat me as cold-hearted, and don't care about their hard work for the country. and credit?"

Seeing that she was not very happy, Mrs. Li quickly slowed down her tone: "I don't have such intentions, my empress calm down."

"This matter is now a foregone conclusion. Even if you haven't seen the character of a noble concubine, you should have heard of it. Relying on the emperor's favor, I have always wanted to give her some points." Gu Zhen said with a firm voice, "What is still under discussion, I can still try to stop one or two, but now that the Seventh Prince has been taken to her palace, what else can I do?"

Mrs. Li is a bit unwilling. After all, the imperial concubine has already gained the upper hand in favor, and she is raising the eldest son of the emperor. With the help of the Yin family, the eldest son of the emperor, who is in front of the queen, and the help of the Yin family, it is really difficult to choose the candidates for the East Palace in the future. Hard to say.

Although the emperor tacitly allowed Gu Su and other Gu's daughters to enter the palace, they would be adopted by the queen after giving birth to an heir, so as to ensure that the queen had a healthy prince who could live in the East Palace. But Gu Su and the others have only been in the palace for a few days? There is no news so far, and I don't know when there will be news.

King Qin and the others are still young now, and in two years, the age gap between the brothers will widen, the eldest son of the concubine will be able to see things, and the son of the concubine will still be innocent, this...

"I heard that the second prince, the third prince, and Princess Zhaoqing all got it after their biological mother took a Yizi prescription from the Ji family." She thought for a while, then asked the queen in a low voice, "Should we try to find out, Let Bamei and the others try it too?"

Gu Zhen frowned slightly, she had tried a lot of so-called Yizi Fangzi in private in her early years.

At that time, everyone didn't know about the Three Corpse Worms. Seeing Concubine Zhenxi Shu, Concubine An, and many concubines conceived one after another, even if they didn't give birth, they were pregnant anyway, so they wanted to work hard.

Not only Gu Zhen, as far as she knew, all the concubines were very interested in Yizi's secret recipe at that time, and they didn't try much.

It was only later that I couldn't see the effect, and this thought gradually faded away.

At this moment, I was a little disapproving: "Where did such an effective prescription come from? It is probably a rumor in the palace and cannot be taken seriously. If it is so useful, do you think the Ji family can not let the former empress use it, but only let Kang Jieyu use it? The difference between the first son and the second son It's not one or two. If the former empress had given birth to a son before the Ji clan was destroyed, how could the Ji clan still be like that?"

Mrs. Li thought about it, sighed, and said: "The family is also afraid that the empress will be wronged in the future."

"...Anyway, the future will be long." Gu Zhen was upset and didn't want to talk to her anymore, so he said simply, "Let's talk about it when the time comes."

After all, everyone has arrived at Huanhua Palace, so she can't lead people to rush in and snatch the Seventh Prince to Yanfu Palace, right?

Even so, Gu Zhen was not happy in his heart.

When he saw Yun Fenghuang again, his complexion was not very good. Yun Fenghuang thought that something was wrong with her, so he expressed concern for a few words, but Gu Zhen didn't want to talk to her, turned his face away, and said directly: "The long river broke its embankment. You must have heard the matter. What I mean is that the royal family is supported by the people of the world. Now the Li family who has been hit by the flood is very difficult. Even if it is the harem, it cannot be indifferent. How about reducing the quota and donating to the innocent? "

This is the second time the Queen has mentioned the reduction of quotas. The previous one was for the preparations for an expedition, and this time it was for the people affected by the disaster.

To be honest, there is nothing wrong with the starting point of these two times. Yun Fenghuang persuaded the queen to take it easy earlier in order not to fall into the trap, not to disapprove of the queen.

But this time, although I don't know why Empress Gu suddenly showed her face, Yun Fenghuang resolutely opposed it based on the principle of "you dare to lose face to me in public, so why should I give you face": I appointed Master Ouyang as the envoy and Marquis Shouning as the deputy envoy, and we don’t know what’s going on now, so why bother me?"

Gu Zhen frowned and said, "Why does the imperial concubine think that helping the victims is a lot of trouble?"

"Of course I don't mean that by being a concubine." Yun Fenghuang said tit-for-tat, "But there are specialties in the art industry. In this world, it's not just good intentions, it must be a good thing. Nowadays, the front and rear palaces have never heard of the lack of treasury. We need to live frugally, but why should the empress be in a hurry? I don’t know, but I thought that the late emperor and today’s extravagant people squandered all the wealth saved by His Majesty the Emperor Shenzong in just these few years! Isn’t this empress Doing bad things with good intentions?"

This is tantamount to euphemistically saying that Gu Zhen didn't really do disaster relief at all, but just wanted to use this method to invite fame.

"...The noble concubine lives in the palace by herself and wears gold and silver. She doesn't want to be frugal, and I don't force it." Gu Zhen did intend to use this to spread her virtuous name, and she stared at Yun Fenghuang for a while after hearing the words Son, with a slight sneer, said, "I just do it myself."

Hearing this, the concubines are all scalp numb!

Sure enough, the queen's next step was to look around and ask everyone: "Whoever cares about the disaster victims can be the same as me. If she doesn't want to, I won't make things difficult for you!"

After finishing speaking, he didn't wait for anyone to respond, and got up and left directly.

Seeing this, the concubines and concubines looked at each other, and needles could be heard in the silence of the hall.

At this moment, there was a sound that was not light or heavy, it was Yun Fenghuang who put the tea bowl on the table, her face was not very good, she stared at the vacant Phoenix seat after the queen left, and said slowly: "Let's go. "

Concubine Shu and Defei got up first and followed her pace.

After that came Jia Ping, Ye Yi Xing'en, Qu Hongzhuan, Mrs. Qing Shu and other concubines who hesitated for a while, deliberately lagging behind a little distance before getting up and leaving.

Before leaving, they even blessed the queen as a farewell.

"Concubine Xian is not here, Concubine An does not greet her. Although Concubine Wan did not immediately follow the concubine, she has an ambiguous attitude. Mrs. Qingshu and Mrs. Roukun have shown their favor to the concubine in private..." The servants of the Chongchang Palace were worried, " The master of the six palaces is obviously our empress, but looking at it like this, the noble concubine is like a queen."

Gu Zhen said with a blank face, "Deputy Empress? Then you really look down on Xiao Yun too much. She is not only the Vice Empress? There are many things that I can't do, but she can do them. How many things does His Majesty say to me?" If you don't mention it, talk to her freely..."

The servant said cautiously: "Your Majesty, please calm down. Even so, His Majesty only made her a noble concubine after all. It can be seen that even if there is some preference for her, there is still a sense of proportion."

"I used to think so too." Gu Zhen was silent for a while, then whispered, "But now... I really don't know if His Majesty has a sense of propriety or thinks that the time is not ripe yet, and I, Gu Shi, are still needed. , so you have to perfunctory this palace?"

She said to herself, "If it's the latter, tell me, what should I do so as not to repeat the mistakes of the former empress?"

The valet subconsciously held his breath, searching his stomach for a while, not knowing what to say?

Gu Zhen didn't need her answer, he just said slowly: "Forget it, you can send someone to invite His Majesty to come over. Just say that I have something important to discuss with him."

The two empresses seldom invited the emperor to Yanfu Palace on their own initiative. Basically, sending someone was a matter of business, and it was a serious matter.

Therefore, after receiving the news, Chunjia didn't delay much, and directly drove to Chongchang Palace.

When they arrived, Gu Zhen asked someone to clear the place, and told him the scene of the dispute with the imperial concubine just now, Chunjia was puzzled, "Just for this?"

"Your Majesty thinks this is a trivial matter?" Gu Zhen looked at him, "But I don't think so."

Chunjia was a little impatient in her heart, because of the flood, it caused a change in strategy towards Wei He, and he was really busy these two days.

At this time, the queen still wants to call herself out for jealousy. He didn't get angry because he gave the Gu family face, but his expression was a little cold, and he said slowly: "If the queen thinks something is wrong, just tell the concubine. I said , the master of the harem is you, and you can handle these things yourself."

Anyway, he doesn't think the queen can handle the concubine...he thinks the queen should have this awareness, so why do she have to fight against the concubine?

What's wrong with getting along politely like before, and occasionally pretending to be affectionate?

"Your Majesty." Gu Zhen suddenly knelt down and said solemnly, "In terms of seniority, I am an old man who entered the palace when His Majesty got married, but the concubine has been in the palace for less than three years; in terms of background, the concubine is no more than the daughter of a squire. However, the concubine is the concubine's daughter; in terms of status, the concubine is the lord of the middle palace, but the noble concubine is just a noble concubine. Even so, the concubines in the palace, at critical moments, all turn to the noble concubine, not the concubine! Therefore, I feel that I am not worthy enough to be a queen! Your Majesty, please abandon the concubine's posthumous position and fill it with a noble concubine!"

"..." Chunjia was expressionless for a moment, and after a while, he said calmly, "If the empress is annoyed by the imperial concubine, why bother to vent her anger at the latter?"

Gu Zhen insisted: "This concubine has no talent or virtue and is not worthy of the Phoenix seal, please make it my Majesty's favor!"

She knew that what she did was blatantly retreating to advance. Chunjia would not be unclear, and she would definitely be angry. It should be said that she was very angry.

But it doesn't matter, the emperor's heart is never on her, she knows this very well.

So why bother to care about what he likes or not?

If he didn't make trouble while the Gu family was still useful to him, even if he was scolded and beaten, he would definitely not do anything to her. Could it be that in the future, when the emperor's position is stable and his family is no longer needed, he will complain about his grievances? At that time, who will care? Who will take the time to listen?