Chapter 172 Touching

"Uncle Zhaowu?" Jiang Zhui thought for a while, then said, "Cousin, I'm not very educated, I'm young and I don't have any qualifications. It's all because of my cousin's face that I got a job in the Dingbei Army, but I'm far away from the Chinese Army. Since joining the army, the Communist Party has never seen the commander-in-chief three or two times... I don't know for sure."

Probably seeing Yun Fenghuang showing disappointment, he hurriedly said, "However, I have heard some rumors in the army, but I don't know whether it is true or not, and I am afraid that my cousin will be misled if I say something wrong."

Yun Fenghuang said: "Just say what you want, I am a concubine in the palace, can I get involved in any important military affairs? It's just that these days, the empress behaves differently, and I feel a little uncertain. After answering in front of Zhonggong, I can be calmer."

Jiang Zhu did not doubt him, and said truthfully: "I heard that almost all the spies who discovered the gold mine were beheaded by Uncle Zhaowu. What's more, Uncle Zhaowu originally planned to leave Xifa and the others behind and chase Hele alone. Under the circumstances at that time, this move was not risky, but later because of a letter sent by Emperor Jing, Uncle Zhaowu suddenly changed his mind... Also, the two sons born to Uncle Zhaowu's concubine Ji in Yanzhou, They are both only fourteen or fifteen years old this year, and they were also in the army when they set off. But when Hele attacked the camp before, the two Mr. Gu died unfortunately, and their bodies were never found!"

"At Xifa's request, the Guochao sent troops to the grassland, and the victory is certain." Yun Fenghuang nodded while listening, and said in his heart, "The children of the rich and powerful in the court are all scrambling to get involved, and the Wei family even hopes to become a marquis because of this... ...There is nothing wrong with Gu Fangshu bringing along two young bastards."

After all, his own title must be passed on to the concubine born by his wife. The concubine is still the concubine born to the concubine Ji who was stationed in Yanzhou. In this case, once the family is separated in the future, it is conceivable that there will not be many benefits.

So taking advantage of the war, bring them along to see if they can share some military merits, earn two fat jobs, and have a stable life in the future... This kind of father's heart is also a reasonable thing.

The problem is that these two children seem to have a bad life. If the credit is not established, there will be no bones left.

But, is it true that there are no bones left, or is there something wrong with the attack on the camp itself, just to hide the two children?

As for Gu Fangshu, one of the pillars of the kingdom, why did his son flee like this?

Could it be that he was planning to do something that would implicate the nine clans, and he was afraid that the inheritance would be broken after failure, so he reserved a hand in advance?

Of course, it's also possible that the two children, Gu Fangshu, have such a hard life.

But from the standpoint of Yun Fenghuang, of course, he must try his best to guide the emperor to doubt Gu Fangshu and the Gu family.

She asked Jiang Zhui for a while, and seeing that he couldn't tell any other useful news, she chatted with him about family affairs: "...you have been on the expedition for a long time, and the princess has been alone in the mansion, and it is also a grievance. Go back. You have to be coaxed well, even if the princess is having trouble with you, don't get angry, let alone blame the princess, understand?"

Jiang Zhu smiled and said: "Cousin, don't worry, when will I not let the princess?"

He has a simple mind and no great ambitions, and is very satisfied with his current situation: the cousin with the best relationship since childhood is a noble concubine, and continues to protect him as she was when she was a child; What a pampered temperament; although the years of running around have been hard, but seeing the hard work of the harvest, it is nothing, but a sense of accomplishment that you are working hard.

So Yun Fenghuang mentioned his relationship with the princess, and don't forget to accompany the princess into the palace to greet the two empress dowagers, and the two empress dowagers are now raising juniors under their knees, so they need to prepare a meeting ceremony Yunyun ...Jiang Zhu listened patiently, nodding from time to time, very well-behaved.

Yun Fenghuang was satisfied, and said in his heart that it would be great if every brother was as obedient as Jiang Zhuo, so she didn't have to worry about it.

This evening, Chunjia probably thought that the consorts of the county and horses had come back from thousands of miles, and it was winter again. It was not an ordinary hardship to grind ice and snow all the way from the north, and it was too late to keep them. Let go soon.

Later, when he arrived at Huanhua Hall, Yunfenghuang hadn't settled down yet, and he was changing into a loose skirt and reading with a book.

"Why are you still reading at such a late hour?" The emperor asked her to bring water to wash her face, and casually said to her, "Let's read it during the day, even if we light up so many lights at night, it's not good for our eyes."

"I can't help it. I promised King Qin that I will tell him ten stories when he gets the first place in the entrance examination at the beginning of the new year." Yun Fenghuang sighed, put the book together and put it aside, and said, "But this concubine is a I have been pestered by them to talk about the past and the present for many years, and the stories are all mixed up, no, I should read more as soon as I have time, so as not to fail to keep my promise and disappoint the children."

Chunjia covered his face with a hot handkerchief for a moment, then took it off, and said, "You dote on him too much, he's a student, I want to hear the story, let him read it for himself."

Yun Fenghuang snorted coldly, look, this is the emperor!

How did you say it before?

I'm afraid she wronged King Qin and Zhaoqing, I'm afraid she spoiled King Qin and Zhaoqing... Chunjia said all these words!

What are you doing now that you feel sorry for yourself? Yun Fenghuang doesn't like this.

"Even if you go to school, you will only be six years old at the beginning of the year, and you are still a child at the age of six!" She frowned disapprovingly, "It's good to dismiss him with one word, His Majesty, he shook his hands and went to the court to deal with government affairs. Dare to bother you with trifles? When the time comes, the King of Qin will cry in front of this concubine, and it is not the concubine who is distressed!"

"Ah Huang just has a soft heart." Chunjia washed her face, threw the handkerchief into the golden basin, let the maid take it out, and said with a broken smile, "It's my six-year-old prince, and I won't cry all the time. Give him a good face."

It's my fault that I believe you!

You, a liar, will never be trusted here in this palace for lifetimes! ! !

Yun Fenghuang immediately put on a straight face: "Your Majesty doesn't feel sorry for me, but I do! Why does Your Majesty treat the prince in front of me like this?! Only six years old, is six years old? When I was six years old, I was in the garden Tired of playing in the garden, he refused to walk back by himself, and even stretched out his hand to be hugged by his mother!"

"Ah Huang is a woman, how can it be the same? Didn't I also hug Zhaoqing at the New Year's Eve banquet?" Chunjia said disapprovingly, "King Qin is a prince, a handsome man, and he is so dependent on his mother and concubine at the age of six. What kind of words!"

Yun Fenghuang said casually: "It's the prince but not the prince, why should you be so strict?"

Saying this, there was silence in the hall!

"..." Chunjia was silent for a while, and changed the topic with a smile, "I see you have been talking about Jun Mala for a long time today, what did you say? Tell him about Mother Qu having a baby in front of her." Son?"

Yun Fenghuang secretly hated his evasion, and said lightly: "Of course I said it, can I not say it? My concubine asked him to be more considerate of the princess after he goes back. It is not easy for the princess to be alone in the mansion these days."

Chunjia said: "Kunze has a sister-in-law, Ah Huang, but how difficult is it?"

"What kind of serious sister-in-law is a concubine?" Yun Fenghuang glanced at him, and said with a smile, "The empress is the serious sister-in-law of the princess!"

emperor:"……"

He was silent again, and finally said with a smile, "It's getting late, Ah Huang, let's settle it down."

On the Lantern Festival the next day, the palace held a banquet as usual.

After this banquet, Yi Wang and his wife will get up and go back to the fiefdom.

Therefore, on the way, Princess Yi specially came to Yun Fenghuang to ask the emperor's intentions tactfully.

Only now did Yun Fenghuang remember what he had forgotten, and he was very embarrassed: "Your Majesty has been busy these two days, and I haven't found a suitable opportunity yet. How about it, if he goes to my palace tonight, I will definitely help you." Mention it."

Princess Yi couldn't blame her, so she had to thank her again.

Originally, on such a day, the emperor should go to the queen's side, but in the past two years, the relationship between the emperor and the empress has deteriorated, and the emperor rarely abides by the rules of resting in the middle palace on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year.

Sure enough, I arrived at Huanhua Temple that night.

Yun Fenghuang finally didn't break the appointment, after freshening up - entered the inner hall, and mentioned Lu Chuncao: "Princess Yi's words do not seem to be fake, and there is no need to be fake...Your Majesty, you said that Lu Chuncao has clearly received your grace, so let him be released. Sangzi, but why did you go to Yiguo? Could it be that you are still thinking about Lu's enmity, and want to harm Yiwang and his wife?"

"And this matter?" Chunjia was a little surprised, and said, "I had a relatively thorough discussion with King Yi before, but he didn't mention it."

"Princess Yi was afraid that he would get angry, so she didn't dare to say more, maybe King Yi didn't know about it at all." Yun Fenghuang said, "Princess Yi is a little worried now, afraid that Lu Chuncao is still watching them in the dark."

Chunjia pondered for a while, and said, "It was the emperor's grandmother who insisted on pardoning Lu Chuncao."

Yun Fenghuang looked at him curiously.

If the Ji family is still there, the empress dowager insists on it, no matter what the reason, then there must be no problem.

But now.

The empress dowager insisted, and if Chunjia disagreed, she could easily veto it.

"The emperor's grandmother said..." The emperor pondered for a while, and then said, "Lu Chuncao still has great uses, so don't give him death, and even if you give him death, it's not at this time."

That's it?

Yun Fenghuang thought to himself, can Chunjia be persuaded by just such a sentence?

I heard the emperor continue, "I asked the emperor's grandmother Lu Chuncao what is the use of it, why can't she die immediately, but the emperor refused to answer, and only said that if I must give Lu Chuncao to death... I will not wait any longer In the palace, I would rather leave the palace and go to guard the mausoleum of the late Emperor Shenzong!"

Although it is said that if Chunjia insisted not to let the empress dowager do this, the empress dowager would not even be able to leave the Qingci Palace, but when the common man Ji Sheng had an accident, the empress dowager tried to make trouble, but she did not say anything afterwards They went to live in front of Shenzong's mausoleum for a long time, so that Chunjia could not step down.

But because of Lu Chuncao's persistence...

Who is Lu Chuncao?

Just a eunuch!

Any scholar in the world can be contemptuous and disdainful.

What is worthy of the empress dowager's maintenance?

Yun Fenghuang's thoughts changed, if it wasn't for Lu Chuncao who came out in front of the common man Ji Sheng, had a close relationship with Xiaozong and the Prince Regent, even if he had never had any contact with the Empress Dowager, she would have suspected that Shenzong's head was a little green up...

"I thought that the left and right uncles have gone, and whether Lu Chuncao lives or dies has nothing to do with the overall situation, but I don't want to hurt the friendship with the emperor's grandmother because of him, so I agreed." Chunjia said, "I will wait until tomorrow. Go to Qingci Palace to ask for peace, and ask about it by the way."

After a pause, he continued, "However, the emperor's grandmother has always been kind to King Yi, and maybe King Yi and his wife have already told her in private."

Although he is the heir and grandson of the Empress Dowager, when it comes to getting along, Gong Xiangxiao and the Empress Dowager are more like grandparents.

Many things, they talked frankly with each other, but they were alienated and defensive towards Chunjia.

But the emperor doesn't care, anyway, the country is now in charge of him.

With regard to these details, Chunjia easily forgives them with the attitude of a winner.

The emperor went to Qingci Palace the next day, and when Yun Fenghuang was thinking about how to talk to him, a little maid hurriedly rushed in, prostrated herself on the ground and said: "Your Majesty, the Xie Mansion sent someone to report to the gate of the palace, saying It was the Eighteenth Young Madam who mobilized it last night, and gave birth to a son this morning, but now it doesn’t look good, it seems that he is about to collapse! Therefore, I beg your mother..."

Before she finished speaking, Yun Fenghuang hastily ordered the Qing people: "You go there yourself, and let all the imperial physicians who have been giving me a pulse check come over!"

Even so, in the evening of that day, I still heard the bad news: Xiao Jiang couldn't be rescued, so he went to the end.

"My lord, please mourn." The attendants all cautiously persuaded Yun Fenghuang, "This is something that can't be helped, I can only say that the eighteenth young lady is not blessed... If you think about the concubine Wen Huixian back then, some things are unavoidable. In the end Not everyone is as blessed as Niangniang."

Yun Fenghuang's complexion was ugly. On the one hand, he was heartbroken by Xiao Jiang's passing away in his youth, and on the other hand, he was worried about himself.

As for whether the blessings are deep or not, take Concubine Wen Huixian as an example. Before she died of dystocia, who would dare to say that her life was not good? Born as the first daughter of a famous family, although her mother passed away early, her father loved the pair of sisters like treasures, so there was no continuation.

After being hired into the palace, he immediately took a high position.

Even if she is frequently oppressed by Yun Fenghuang, relying on her natal family, she is still the first palace lord of the slaves and servants.

After that, she became pregnant with the emperor's heir within two years, and she became a boy in one fell swoop!

What next?

The baby was born, and she couldn't open her eyes.

Yun Fenghuang has been calling the wind and rain in the palace for these years, and she has raised four emperors who are not her own. King Qin and Zhaoqing are Chunjia's favorite children... If she can give birth to emperors in peace, Xuanqing Palace His momentum will surely rise to a higher level, and his position will become more stable.

but……

If she had a difficult childbirth and let go, one can imagine that the Xuanqing Palace would fall apart in an instant!

Whether King Qin and Zhaoqing can continue to be favored in the future is a question!

Not to mention, if she is gone, but her child stays, what will happen?

When Concubine Wen Huixian passed away, she was chosen by her natal family to be the adoptive mother of the Seventh Prince with the help of her natal family.

Even if she had other plans, she really took good care of the Seventh Prince.

If there is no accident, this prince will receive Chunjia's extra attention and attention just like King Qin.

When he grows up, the position of crown prince may not be possible, but he can definitely obtain a rich place as a vassal state.

But if Yun Fenghuang herself is gone, would Mrs. Xie have the ability to help her heir achieve a good result?

Even, with her record of being invincible in the Six Palaces over the years, especially her grievances with Queen Mother Yuan, who would dare and who would be able to take over her child and ensure that the child will grow up peacefully?

Yun Fenghuang regretted it for a while, maybe she shouldn't cooperate with the imperial physician's treatment so much.

We should wait another two years. If others don't say anything, we have to deal with Queen Mother Yuan!

But now I have been pregnant for so many months...

Yun Fenghuang pursed his lips and clenched his fists hard. For the current plan, he could only send the Queen Mother away as early as possible! ! !

Only when Empress Dowager Yuan dies, once she follows in the footsteps of Concubine Wen Huixian, will the remaining children be able to grow up alive in this palace.

Although it is estimated that the treatment will not be good, and I don't even know if it can be compared with the second and third princes today, but at least there is a chance to grow up, right?

If, if the old Empress Dowager Yuan is here, but she is dead, she is sure that her child will never have any chance of life!