(Revenge Xiang Shuangwen, finished, rest assured) I will be the queen in the future. That’s what my dad told me when I was a kid.
Later, I really entered the palace. On the wedding night, I had a fierce physical conflict with the emperor. Don’t get me wrong, it was not that kind of conflict, but a real conflict in which you slapped me and I gave you a fist.
The reason was that he thought the dress I was wearing had collided with the queen, who was also his white moonlight. Before the hijab was lifted, he pulled my clothes first. He hurt me, so I followed suit.
Therefore, the palace people who heard the noise came in, and what they saw was that the emperor and I were dressed in disorder, holding each other, and neither of us would let the other. After the
palace people separated us, the emperor wiped the blood from his mouth and shouted angrily, “I’m going to divorce you!”! Get rid of you, you shrew! People in the
palace looked at me like a joke. I was used to it. Since I entered the palace, I was a joke in their eyes. I was only 14 years old when I
entered the palace, but because my father was the richest man in the Dynasty and coincidentally donated a sum of money to save the country, the emperor granted me the position of queen.
However, my name is the queen, in fact, I do not have the right to command the harem, the emperor said to the outside world that I am still young, do not have to worry about these things too early. But I know it’s because he doesn’t like me very much.
Earlier, I had seen the emperor from a distance in the garden of Kyoto. He was much older than me, but he was very good-looking, handsome and elegant.
And I was raised in a boudoir when I was young, and I had never seen any man, let alone a childhood sweetheart. After all, as the only daughter of the richest man, my father is a rare commodity. He always thinks that the most noble man in the world is worthy of me.
If the emperor is willing to treat me well, maybe I will like him too. But he has another sweetheart, that is, the beautiful, gentle and virtuous imperial concubine who is praised by everyone in the palace. It is no exaggeration to
use the word “six palaces”, because he not only gave her the right to command the six palaces, but also went to the imperial concubine on the first and fifteenth days of the first lunar month stipulated by the ancestral system to stay in my palace.
Therefore, the masters and slaves in the palace all regarded me, the queen, as a decoration, and often worshipped me and my dowry maid Chuntao.
Only different from the imperial concubine, she is the only person who will come to my palace every day according to the rules of the palace.
Saying hello is more like taking care of me instead of the emperor. She brings me delicious food and shares the emperor’s preferences with me. If an imperial concubine makes a mistake in front of me and she hears about it,
she will also punish her and stand up for me.
She said that from the first sight she saw me, she liked me in her heart and wanted to treat me as her own sister. Also told me not to blame the emperor, he did not come to my palace, is love me. She
is so beautiful and kind. No wonder the whole palace likes her.
Chuntao also thinks that the reason why I am not favored is that I have not yet reached the age of being favored. She often said to me, “Miss, when you get married and consummate your marriage with the emperor, you will be the most honorable woman in the palace.”
Finally came the so-called auspicious time set by Qin Tianjian, which was suitable for the consummation of the marriage between emperors and empresses.
Early in the morning, many chamberlains came to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and wrapped the plaques and pillars of Fengzao Palace with red silk. Immediately afterwards, all the palaces sent congratulatory gifts. Finally, it was the emperor’s reward, which was piled up all over the room.
He and the imperial concubine came the latest, brought a very chic red dress, and personally dressed me. As she put on her makeup, she stared at me in the bronze mirror and sighed from the bottom of her heart, “My sister is really beautiful. She is such a beautiful flower. The emperor will take pity on you when he sees her.”
I pretended to be shy and lowered my head, let her cover my handkerchief for me, and retreated with a light smile. When the dragon and phoenix candles were burning vigorously in the
room, the emperor’s footsteps sounded. As usual, I could only see the pair of red and white boots embroidered with dragon patterns with gold thread on his feet through the gap of Xipa. I saw it first pause ten feet away, and then come to me at a high speed.
Just as I was thinking about the first auspicious words that Mammy had taught me to say to the emperor, my veil was suddenly lifted, followed by a loud slap that knocked me to the ground.
The emperor grabbed me by the skirt and shouted angrily, “What qualifications do you have? What face do you have to learn from her to wear a fairy pomegranate skirt and a fairy bun?”
Her? Who is she? Half of my face swelled up, and the pain made me furious, and then we wrestled together until the palace people separated us. Seeing me like this
, Chuntao knelt down in front of me, shaking her body and stretching out her hands to block me. She cried, “Your Majesty, your master is young and ignorant. If anything happens to you, you can punish the slave if you want, even if it means the life of the slave!”
The emperor sneered, “If she had bumped into me, that would be all right.”. But she bumped into the last person she should have bumped into! Come on, Chen’s Jade Immortal is shameless and has offended the remains of the former Empress. He has taken the title and demoted him to a commoner. In fact,
I do not care too much about the identity of the queen, anyway, leaving the palace, there are countless Liangtian Zhuangzi shops waiting for me to collect rent. In short, it’s much more free to go anywhere than to stay in the palace.
I came here just to give my father a face. After all, he has been talking about it for so long since he was a child. I can’t bear to let him feel that his baby daughter has not lived the most honorable life in the world.
Therefore, after the emperor left, I pulled up Chuntao and asked her to start packing the dowry I brought into the palace.
Chuntao was stupefied at first. Then she wiped away her tears and said, “Yes, Miss, let’s go home and not suffer from this cowardice.”. But you and the imperial concubine must not let it go like this.
That is natural, originally I only regard her as a relief, treat her differently from others. I dare say she was wearing a mask to get close to me for a year, in order to lay out the matter of framing today.
Thinking of this, I pulled out a piece of gold as big as my fist from the bundle and gave her a wink. “Ask Hu Laixi to find out the whole story.”
Hu Laixi was the Chamberlain in my palace, and he had some tricks, but I had never roped him in before, so he became a wall grass in Fengzao Palace. Fortunately, I always think it doesn’t matter whether I am loyal or not. After all, money makes the mare go.
Chuntao took the gold and went to the door.
I poured myself a glass of wine, took a side dish, drank a mouthful of wine, and squinted to think that the palace life of the past few years had been too Buddha-like. People who
knew about the whole palace all disliked my humble family background. In addition, I originally disliked the complexity of personnel and the formation of cliques, and I always looked down on them.
He and the imperial concubine probably took a fancy to this point and thought that I was isolated and helpless in this palace and bullied me. Maybe it’s because she doesn’t know that people who don’t like cliques happen to show that the other side has the strength to fight alone.
Laixi soon came back with Chuntao. Chuntao whispered that when she went, Laixi was saying something quickly to a strange little eunuch. She didn’t hear it clearly. There was an irrepressible joy
on his face. I think it was partly because he had got a piece of gold that could buy a hundred acres of fertile land, and partly because he had just got a news that he could surrender to me.
Lai Xi said hello to me, “Empress, thousand years old, thousand years old!” The kowtow is very loud, and the piety is like worshipping a temple.
I looked at him with an innocent look on my face and said, “Grandfather Laixi, tell Yuxian everything you know. If you have anything to do in the future, you can avoid it.”
Lai Xi straightened his sleeves and stood up with a smile. “The slave just got the news. After the emperor left us, he went straight to the Sparrow Palace with the imperial concubine. The imperial concubine came out to pick him up with a smile and was kicked to the ground by the emperor.”. Then it was a good smash, pointing to the nose of the imperial concubine and scolding, “He Qingyue, I can’t bear you for a day or two.”. Do you have no idea who you are in the present position because of? How dare you follow those ignorant women and try to replace her? I will tell you today that my queen, my wife, can and will be her alone!
Lai Xi has a talent for acting, and the tone of the characters is really like, probably thinking of my identity, and immediately stood aside.
I waved my hand to show that it didn’t matter, whether the emperor recognized it or not, I also sat in the queen’s seat. Besides, I don’t want this position as much as they think. But he disposed of the imperial concubine before me. Is it a preemptive strike. Before
the emperor left the Swallow and Sparrow Palace, he ordered the emperor to take away the title of the imperial concubine, demote her to the rank of Cai Nu, and ground her in the palace. In less than half an hour the imperial edict was delivered to the Sparrow Palace, and now the whole place is wailing. Lai Xi went on to say.
This disposal sounds a little serious, but in the final analysis, it is all a word from the emperor’s mouth. If you can be demoted today, you can be promoted back tomorrow. Don’t take it seriously. Maybe this is a double act sung by the emperor and the imperial concubine. Everyone knows that the emperor was reluctant to consummate the marriage with me, so he had a good time for Laoshizi set by Qin Tianjian!
But I am more curious about an imperial concubine, with the relationship with the first queen, can fly to the branches to become a phoenix. So how powerful is the first queen?
I turned to look at Chuntao and said to Laixi, “When the emperor left, he also said that he would demote me as a commoner. Why hasn’t the imperial edict come yet?”? Why don’t you come back for me and see when the imperial edict comes?
Lai Xi didn’t seem to see any trace of sadness on my face. Suddenly he fell to his knees and said, “Empress, since ancient times, the abolition of the queen has been a matter of great importance to the harem of the former court. How can I, a humble slave, be allowed to speak?”
I said, “Well, we’ll wait.”. Anyway, if you’re idle, you’re idle, and there are no outsiders here. Grandfather, you can tell me more about the late queen.
Lai Xi continued to lower his head and stammered, “The slave came to the palace quite late. He only knew that the empress had known the emperor since she was a child, and that they loved each other very much after marriage.”. Or master you wait, the slave to find a way to let you and. When I met Cai Nu, she and the late queen were close friends in the boudoir.
I nodded and motioned him to go down first. I don’t believe Laixi didn’t know about the first queen. He just didn’t dare to say it.
However, it seems that after the abolition of the matter, the emperor said a person does not count, so I let Chuntao put away the burden, go to sleep. Instead of waiting for the imperial edict after the abolition,
I waited for the emperor to take back the right to command the six palaces from the imperial concubine, together with the phoenix seal symbolizing the status of the queen.
Chuntao breathed a sigh of relief. This was the emperor’s official approval of me.
Lai Xi probably felt that I was a good person, and without waiting for me to ask, he quickly told me all about what had happened in the past few days. First, the emperor asked people to draw up the decree after the abolition, and before formally issuing the imperial edict, he met with unanimous opposition when consulting with several important officials in the court.
Why oppose, guess also guess, the war with North Rong is in progress, when to finish the battle, how much military expenditure will be needed in the follow-up. As long as our Chen family is the main supplier of military supplies, we should not touch me.
The most important thing is that moving me is equivalent to pasting the words “ingratitude” on the emperor’s forehead. Of course, no one dares to say this, but how clever the emperor is, naturally he can feel it out.
The emperor was so angry that he overturned the table and told everyone to get out. He said he didn’t believe in my thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, so he couldn’t raise this material?
Several of them knelt down and said, “The treasury is empty. Please think twice!”
The treasury was indeed empty, owing entirely to the extravagant desires of the emperor’s prodigal father, who, during his reign, carried out large-scale construction, built palaces and temples, and squandered money. After the money in the treasury was spent,
he passed the throne to the emperor, and after several years as the overlord, he made himself dead because of improper alchemy. When
the emperor ascended the throne, there were few coppers left in the treasury, and the salaries given to officials were folded cloth, carbon, rice and so on. Coinciding with the years of famine, officials do not worry that the things in their hands can not be changed into money. But the tax is difficult, the people in the years of exorbitant taxes and levies under the squeeze, has nothing, no food. After
the emperor ascended the throne, in order to restore the people’s livelihood, he ordered many places to be tax-free for three years. It was estimated that the present thousands of miles of rivers and mountains really could not give him any confidence.
And the north Rong coincidentally at this time, south, intend to take advantage of the leadership of the central plains, the new emperor foundation is not stable, to make a good profit. The
invasion of the northern army was the heart disease of the emperor in the period of the crown prince. As soon as this happened, he was determined to go north to resist the army and drive it out of the pass, so as to avoid future trouble forever. Had it not been for the military capital, he would have been the king of a country, and he would not have been so depressed as to marry me, the daughter of a merchant.
It is said that in those days, the lights of the emperor’s Hall of Imperial Peace were always bright. The courtiers also played one after another, not talking about anything else, just talking about the emperor is the heaven, after is the earth, our big Ying Dynasty between two years in the palace two changes, in the country is useless.
No, the emperor who had figured it out went down the slope and sent me the phoenix seal directly. As soon as
I got the phoenix seal, I received the news that my father was going to visit the palace. Saying that the soldiers’ winter clothes had been made, he came to the palace to ask the emperor to deliver the imperial approval, and came to see his little daughter by the way.
Oh, I forgot to mention that although I am the only daughter of the richest man, I have three brothers above me, who have married the daughters of one Wen, one Wu and one Prince Wang as sisters-in-law. Although the elder brothers were not officials in the court, they had made great achievements in all walks of life.
When I got the news, I asked the palace people to set the table and wait.
Lai Xi was very puzzled and asked me, “Lord Guozhang is coming. Even if we don’t go to the Imperial Kitchen to pass on the food, at least we have to let our own small kitchen prepare some food and wine.”. What’s the point of having a few empty tables in the courtyard?
Chuntao pulled him aside and said, “Grandfather, just wait and see.”
Soon, my father came, followed by a long line of maidservants holding food boxes. After a while, the tables in the courtyard of Fengzao Palace were filled with all kinds of food.
My father beckoned a group of people from the palace to sit down for dinner. “The old man heard the fairy say that everyone was taking good care of her, and today my daughter was very happy, so he specially prepared the famous dishes of your hometown to thank you for your love for my daughter.”
The palace people were stunned as they watched the maidservants open the food boxes and bring out the exquisite dishes. Also, these ingredients, even if they are in their hometown, they may not have the money to buy.
I waited for him to finish, then rubbed my hands together and tugged at his sleeve. “Where is mine?” I asked.
He touched my head and said, “Daughter, Dad knows what happened a few days ago.”. Today, my father asked a big host to invite my emperor son-in-law to have a meal. Your food, of course, has to be freshly cooked. With that, he motioned to the housekeeper to lead the cook and take the ingredients to the small kitchen.
Chuntao immediately asked Laixi to take the sign to invite the emperor.
“Come on, let’s have a chat.”
When he entered the temple, his voice changed. “Fairy, does it still hurt?”
I saw that he had white hair on his temples. He smiled and said, “Father, I’m fine. Your daughter is very naughty.”
He looked at me for a moment and then said in a deep voice, “Xianer, it’s my fault. At the beginning, I only thought that my daughter already had the greatest wealth in the world, and she must also have the greatest honor in the world.”. Who would have wanted to send you to the position of queen? Who would have wanted you to suffer such a grievance?
I shook my head and said, “I’m not wronged, Dad. I’m not wronged at all.”
But he was still red-eyed and could not stop sighing. “Dad also thought that he would abolish you and take you back to the house.”. But your mother’s words woke me up. You have been a queen. Who dares to marry you in the future. Yes, my daughter, how can she die alone? So, you have to be in front of this queen, not only properly, but also well.
I nodded my head.
By the way, you put this away. You’ll need it tonight. When you go to bed, let some spring peaches be scattered in the censer. He handed me a delicate little box and said, looking at me lovingly, “Father’s daughter is finally going to grow up.”
I understood what he meant. He was afraid that he could not protect me for a lifetime, and that I would be wronged again. I took the box, carefully put it away, and said to him, “Don’t worry, father, the daughter of the Chen family won’t be bullied by others for no reason.”
That night, the emperor stayed at the Fengzao Palace, and the emperors and empresses consummated their marriage. He came to Fengzao Palace as usual on the first and fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Three months later, I was pregnant. Although
the emperor was nearly thirty years old, he was diligent in government affairs and neglected the cultivation of the harem. In addition, the empress had been in favor of him for many years, and he had not given birth to any children. So far, the emperor has only one little princess who is still babbling.
Therefore, I this child, but all the people are looking forward to the emperor’s legitimate son. Even if it is not a son, the birth of the princess is also a great joy for the country. As a rule, the emperor wanted to give my mother’s family a promotion and a reward.
Generally, this kind of award can be real power or undeserved reputation. Counting the time, the discussion between the emperor and the ministers should also have a result.
So I held out my stomach, let Chuntao carry the food box, and took the initiative to go to the Imperial Study to find him.
The emperor is not ambiguous, directly to the draft will, handed me to see. To tell you the truth, since I was pregnant, he began to look like a husband. He often came to my palace to sit down, and he would personally ask about my food and clothing. As
I had expected, they were basically all empty posts, and my father was given the title of a first-class Duke. The eldest brother was a member of the Ministry of the Interior, and the fifth grade. The second brother was a chief officer of Xuncheng Fangfang. Although he was even less popular, he had something to do with my family’s business; The third elder brother was probably in the light of his father-in-law in the army, and got the post of deputy commander of Jingcheng, which was only a hundred miles away from the place where Da Ying and Bei Rong fought.
Boy, this is going to break up my family.
I quickly glanced at it and returned it to him, saying, “I have a headache, and I can’t understand it.”
The emperor smiled with satisfaction, and after explaining to me one by one, he said, “Neither your father nor your elder brother has ever had an official career. If you give them too many titles at one time, I’m afraid it will be bad for your reputation.”
I ha ha, since ancient times, emperors have to consolidate their power by adding the queen’s mother’s family. Don’t be too scared. Okay. With a wave of my hand,
I said, “Your Majesty, you can do whatever you want in political affairs.”. It’s just that my third brother and third sister-in-law love each other very much, and the third sister-in-law is pregnant, so she can’t go with the third brother to the border. It’s not good to separate the young couple like this.
“Who does the queen mean to send?”
I paused and said, “Let my father go. I heard that there was an epidemic in the army. Didn’t my father get the order to raise a batch of medicinal materials? I took this opportunity to let him send the medicine to the border.”. Besides, he’s the ruler of the country, the grandfather of the dragon descendant in my belly. If he goes, it will boost the morale of the troops even more.
The emperor rolled his eyes and said, “It’s a thousand miles away from here. Your father is old. Can his body stand it?”
He was afraid that my father would not accept the order. After all, in his eyes, my three brothers of the Chen family were not as influential as my father in Kyoto. Otherwise, he would not have given him only one title.
I lowered my eyes and said, “He loves me the most. If your Majesty opens his mouth, my father will certainly do it well.”
“Good!” The emperor burst out laughing, “Then I will make him the general of Zhenbei and lead the imperial commissioner to go north to serve for me.”
ZhenBei general, is three positions, also has the actual right to lead the troops. Look at the meaning of the emperor, my father does not know how to March and fight, after going to reward or accountability, all depends on his mind.
He probably didn’t know that the world-famous Sihai Villa had collected all the strange people in the world. In fact, it was the place where my family kept its followers. During the reign of the late emperor, a large number of civil servants and military generals who were framed by treacherous court officials had relied on the Chen family to obtain shelter here.
Before I left, I had no intention of mentioning that my third brother liked all kinds of military equipment. Your Majesty, you can let him manage the warehouse of the Imperial City Guard Department.
I know he won’t refuse, after all, the third brother’s father-in-law is the viceroy who commands the imperial city patrol. After the
decree was issued, I was allowed to go home to see my father off. This time, he looked at me with no previous worry. When
I went there, he was trying on the general’s battle armor, dressed in military uniform and in good spirits. He took me by the hand and said, “Dad is going to come back when my daughter needs me.”. But now that my father’s daughter has grown up, he doesn’t have to worry about her. He
seems to be satisfied with the answer I gave him.
The last time we talked, he didn’t say it, but I knew he was telling me to be a good queen and give birth to a prince as soon as possible. He and his brothers would be my strongest backing.
In the twinkling of an eye, my stomach is already bulging in the middle of winter. Rare early sunny snow, Chuntao helped me go for a walk in the Imperial Garden, saying that the flower shed there covered a tree of crabapple flowers, which were blooming brilliantly.
The palace people cleared the snowbound road ahead of time, and specially laid a layer of felt to prevent me from slipping. Who knows, on the way back to see the flowers, I almost had an accident.
The perpetrator is and the imperial concubine whom I haven’t seen for a long time. No, it should be and Cai Nu. I heard that she had been waiting for the emperor to change his mind in the Sparrow Palace. Gradually, she became delirious and lost her mind. She imitated the queen’s dress and makeup all day long, singing and dancing in the palace.
It’s rare for her to be so crazy and remember that I’m her enemy. This is not, the palace people a caretaker negligence, she saw the opportunity to run out, happened to bump into me in the Imperial Garden, a rush, I fell to the ground.
Fortunately, Lai Xi reacted quickly and put it under my body at once, so I didn’t fall. But he Cai Nu crossed me and fell directly on the cold and hard stone slab, knocking her mouth full of blood.
Lai Xi didn’t recognize her. He stretched out his hand to hit her, but I stopped him. I took her back to the palace and ordered someone to clean her up. Heard that the body grew a lot of lice, it seems that the emperor is really disgusted with her, but also a lot of consultation by the palace people. When
I went to see her, she was eating hungrily. When she saw me coming, her eyes suddenly turned cold. She threw down the drumstick in her hand and made a gesture to attack me again. But before he left the stool, he was caught by the Chamberlain behind him.
Chuntao scolded her and said, “Cai Nu framed my young lady at the beginning. This account is the young lady’s magnanimity. I didn’t settle it with you.”. Today you’ve run afoul of her and the dragonborn, and you’ll be punished for your crimes. Why don’t you settle down?
What Chuntao said is a little wrong. I am too busy to take care of her these days. Think of the emperor to protect, let him protect first, wait for me to decide the overall situation, and then come back to clean up is not too late.
He Cai Nu heard this and spat fiercely: “Don’t your master and servant sing in harmony here. The cat is crying and the mouse is pretending to be merciful. If it weren’t for her, I would be reduced to what I am today.” Chuntao and
I looked at each other, there are articles here, so I found a chair to sit down and listen to her red melon seeds.
It turned out that the emperor really intended to find a name to restore her position after a period of time, for which she did not hesitate to give up the phoenix seal in her hands and the right to command the six palaces. But who knows, a secret letter, completely put her in a desperate situation.
It started when my father planned to send me to the palace. When
Northern Rong invaded the south on a large scale, it was very popular and once approached the Central Plains. At that time, the people in the court were in a panic. The emperor knew very well that the empty treasury and insufficient armaments were the root causes of the successive defeats of the soldiers in Da Ying. So he followed the advice of his courtiers and raised military funds from the people.
My father came on stage at the right time. He said that he could afford the military funds for the expedition, but the condition was that the emperor would bring me into the harem. Without the slightest hesitation,
the emperor issued an imperial edict on the same day to take me into the palace. But my father did not seem to be satisfied with the position he gave to the noble, so he pretended that I was not feeling well and let the palace go back.
After that, the emperor’s decree was issued many times, and my rank was getting higher and higher, but my father remained unchanged until the first queen died suddenly. In his grief, the emperor issued a decree to welcome me into the palace. The funeral ceremony of the first empress, which
should have been simple, was also very grand, and it was all the emperor’s love for his wife. I didn’t know all
these things. I always thought it was the right time for the empress to die. I also thought that the first decree issued by the emperor was the imperial edict that made me queen.
But judging from the tone of his narration and the emperor’s neglect of me, he seemed to blame me for the death of the first queen. “Your innocent good looks are really deceptive,”
she sneered. That’s right. Otherwise, how could the emperor think you’re easy to handle and let me take control of you?
It seems that I was right about the framing on the night of the consummation of the marriage. It was really a double act they sang. “So how did it go wrong?” I asked her as I continued to smoke the red melon seeds. Her
eyes flamed and she shouted in a hoarse voice, “Why are you pretending to be innocent? Do you think I don’t know that it was you who sent me the secret letter that revealed that I had poisoned the queen?”
Oh, now that I’ve straightened it out, I really have something to do with her falling into this situation. Otherwise, who dares to send such a secret
letter to the emperor in the position of being allied with the emperor now. It’s ironic to
say that one of the best friends in the emperor’s eyes poisoned the other for power and status. Unfortunately, even if dead, that person or a cinnabar mole in his heart, no one can replace, the key is to kill me halfway such a Cheng Yaojin.
At this moment, the little fellow was kicking me in the stomach. I touched my belly and said to the girl, “What else do you want? Tell me all about it, for the sake of all the stories you’ve told me.”
She stared straight at my stomach and suddenly laughed viciously, a long series of laughter, until she was out of breath and refused to stop.
I frowned and asked Chuntao to help me leave. Before I went out, her ghostly voice came from behind me: “Do you think he will let you give birth to this child safely and be your dependence?”
He Cai Nu died. She committed suicide and hung herself under the eaves of the Sparrow Palace with her own belt. It was the night she returned from my palace.
All of a sudden, people in the palace were saying that she bumped into me and was forced to die by me. When
the emperor came, I was sitting in front of the beauty’s couch in a trance, looking at a red plum blossom tree in the garden, recalling that when I first met and picked girls, she was dressed in beautiful clothes, and her cuffs and collars were embroidered with plum blossoms.
The emperor’s expression has hidden grief, which makes me some do not understand, but the death of his wife’s enemy. He looked at me and asked softly, “Are you all right?”? Yesterday came to the military newspaper, I and the prime minister they discuss things, ordered anything is not allowed to communicate… The implication is
that he didn’t know that I was collided with the girl. Maybe when he knew, it was too late to bother me. I shook my head and said, “It’s all right. I’m just a little frightened. The doctor has come to see me. The child is all right.”. Just with Cai Nu.. And Cai Nu, what are you going to do with it?
According to the law of Da Ying, and Cai Nu’s suicide is already a guilty body, plus the collision with the dragon son, I’m afraid it will involve the family.
The emperor turned his eyes elsewhere and said, “Yueqing and Shishi are in the same house. Shishi is the imperial concubine, and she is the side imperial concubine.”. It’s just that I met Shi-shih when we were young, so I often snubbed her, but she never fought for her. She just quietly accompanied Shi-shih and took care of the affairs of the house for her.
Shi Shi is the maiden name of the late queen.
At that time, I was still a prince who was not favored, and I suffered a lot of oppression. But no matter how late you go back to the mansion, there are people waiting in the mansion. It was the warmest time I spent after the death of my mother. But slowly, everything has changed, this change, I can not tell when, probably the prince period, may also be after I ascended the throne as emperor. The blatant oppression of the past has turned into treacherous calculations, and many eyes are fixed on the throne behind me.
The emperor looked very tired, a kind of involuntary tiredness from the inside out.
I just looked at him and listened quietly. I was a little funny. Haven’t I been like this since ancient times? After all, there is only one emperor, and everyone wants the supreme power.
The emperor continued, “Although I punished her, I never thought of letting her die.”. Now that she is dead, I have no one to speak to.
You didn’t want her to die. You just wanted her to live and suffer. He Qingyue is such a proud person, so life is worse than death to imprison her, if not suffering, why bother to come to me for a happy time.
“The dead are the greatest, so it’s good to bury her alive, for she has served the emperor with all her heart and soul for so many years.” I smiled and followed the emperor’s wishes.
He froze for a moment, then came over to me, leaned down, and touched my cheek with his dry, warm palm, breathing with a thin spray of drunkenness. “Queen,” he asked, “can I tell you what’s on my mind in the future?”
I had never seen him so gentle and tender. My heart trembled, and I heard myself answer in a very soft voice, “Of course.” After the death of
He Cai Nu, the harem became more and more empty. Soon, I arranged to choose a show for the emperor. The recent palace people are very disciplined, and every day they come to my palace at dawn and dusk, and none of them is left behind.
I arranged to send the sign, and when the emperor had more energy, he would summon them to bed. But most of the time he stayed in my palace, doing nothing, holding a quilt and chatting. The war
with Beirong was also going on in an orderly way. After my father went there, he won several small victories.
The emperor was very happy, saying that according to the current situation, the war situation would be reversed next spring. Even once, he picked me up in front of the palace people and laughed and said that our mother and son were his lucky stars. The story of the harmony
between emperors and empresses was once again sung by the world.
In a twinkling of an eye, spring arrived, and when the peach blossoms withered, the war between Da Ying and Bei Rong entered the final stage of victory. The emperor personally ordered my father to command the whole army in the north and pursue the army of North Rong. On the last day in the middle of
April, I gave birth. When
the emperor was not in the palace, he followed the people of Qin Tianjian and went to the Xiangguo Temple in the northern suburbs to pray for heaven. Only Huo Quan, the general manager beside him, was left in my palace with a group of steady women and imperial doctors. Mrs.
Wen reported to Huo Quan that I was having a difficult birth, and asked whether I was going to give birth when I was old or when I was young. Huo Quan piped up and cried, “How do I know that? One is the queen, and the other is the son of a dragon. They are both ancestors. If anything happens to either of us, we will all lose our heads.”
In this way, the steady women are afraid to do it. He just carried the ginseng soup prescribed by the imperial physician and asked me to drink a little more, but I shivered with pain and didn’t drink a drop.
Chuntao’s eyes were red and her voice was hoarse. I managed to grab her hand and clenched my teeth and said, “Tell them all to go out, and leave only you and Laixi to guard me. At this point, it’s just up to God to give me a way out!” When the door of the
bedroom opened, there was an explosion of thunder, and I saw the lightning illuminate a group of strange, expressionless faces.
“Do you think he will let you give birth to this child safely and be your dependence?” It’s like a curse, echoing in my ears.
She was right, the emperor deliberately chose this time to pray for heaven, because only he had the right to decide whether to protect the big or the small.
If he is in the palace, he has no choice but to protect, after all, my father is commanding three hundred thousand troops at the moment. Or, leaving the mother and leaving the son is the result he wanted long ago. For this reason, he did not hesitate to accompany me to play the drama of the couple’s deep love for so long.
Thinking of this, I sneered.
Chuntao and Laixi knelt beside me and cried in fright, “What’s the matter with you, Empress?”? Don’t scare the minions. With a wave of my hand,
I said to Chuntao, “Now listen to me. I am in charge of everything in this palace. Do you understand?”? If you can keep the green mountains there, you won’t have to worry about firewood. Only if I’m alive will you have a way to live.
They were stunned and nodded repeatedly.
Chuntao, go to the cupboard and get some ginseng. Ask Fu An to bring in the small stove and watch her cook the ginseng soup. Lai Xi, when you go to the Imperial Hospital, you must find the little eunuch named Xiao Shenzi, who had been an apprentice with an old folk herbalist before he entered the palace. Tell him about my situation and ask him what to do.
That little Shen Zi was not welcomed in the hospital. I saved him when he was punished. He was
a very innocent boy. The
new ginseng soup was served, and after I drank it, I felt that the baby in my stomach had some
strength, and the new pain came. “Hands!” Exclaimed Chuntao! Hand! Empress, the child’s
hand came out first!
That’s a fetal malposition.
Thinking of the people outside the door who let me live and die, I’m afraid I’m going to disappoint the emperor who expects to leave his mother and son and continue
to use the financial and material resources of my Chen clan.
“Give me another bowl of ginseng soup.” I forced myself not to panic, silently read in the bottom of my heart:
child, if you can accompany Niang through this pass, Niang must treat you well!
Lai Xi came back, with a chilly spring chill. He knelt down in front of me with a splash and
kowtowed heavily: “Master, I have offended you!”! Chuntao, go and prepare a bowl of salt water
.
Then he cleaned his hands, took a deep breath, and went to the end of the bed.
When the first light of dawn fell on the window lattice, a baby’s cry broke the
dead silence outside the temple.
Chuntao broke down in tears: “Empress, it’s a little prince, with all his hands and feet.
Listen, the cry is quite loud.” The door of the
palace was opened, and the palace people ran to each other to tell the good news.
I looked at the pink baby and breathed a long sigh of relief.
Soon the emperor returned to the palace, bringing back with him the urgent seal of the frontier. His face was full of joy: “Empress, I have double happiness today. I have won a great victory at the frontier, and I am happy to have Liner.”
He grinned from ear to ear and was really happy. I didn’t let anyone mention the birth that
almost involved my life. Because I know that even if I don’t say it, someone will say it to him.
The next day, as the birth of his eldest son was announced to the world, the snowflake-like memorial flew to the emperor’s desk.
On the third day, the courtiers believed that the army could defeat the main cavalry of the Northern Rong and expel the Northern Rong clan to the northern desert, which was the auspicious sign brought by the birth of the little prince. With one voice, he asked the little prince to be the crown prince.
The emperor also did not want to think, then agreed, in order to show the love of the little prince, give him the name Chen. The ruler of the emperor, the symbol of the status of the Lord of the world. When
the imperial edict reached Fengzao Palace, little Shen Zi had just smelled the suberect Spatholobus stem, which could cause maternal metrorrhagia, in the ginseng soup boiled for me in the Imperial Hospital that day. I received the order for the little prince without sorrow or joy on my face, and watched him being carried to the emperor by his wet nurse. I casually said to Huo Quan, “I miss my family a little. I’d like to ask my father-in-law to tell the emperor if he can tell my elder brother and sister-in-law to come to the palace for a chat.”
Huo Quan felt guilty about me and repeatedly replied, “If the empress speaks, the slave will certainly bring it to me.”
I know that with his help, it will be done. As a rule, except for my parents, I can’t call my relatives at will, let alone during the confinement period.
Sure enough, before long, the third elder brother and several sisters-in-law came to the palace.
The emperor also came to sit for a while, saying that my eldest brother and second brother were out on business and could not come back for a while. However, when your father returns triumphantly, I will let you go home and reunite with them.
I thanked him for his grace with a smile. Before
he left, on the pretext that someone had presented a drawing of a new type of arm crossbow, he heard that the third brother was proficient in ordnance and invited him to see it together.
I said goodbye to him without changing my face, watching his tall and straight posture, walking into the rain curtain of late spring, and gradually being submerged by the rain curtain like smoke and fog.
The third sister-in-law looked at me in a trance and joked with me, “The empress and the emperor really love each other so much that they can’t bear to leave.”
I smiled and beckoned her to bring my little nephew to me. He was only one month older than my son Chen. He was white, fat and soft.
As I teased him, I told Chuntao, “Go and bring my little nephew the little quilt that the emperor brought back from the Xiangguo Temple a few days ago and that Master Hongfa had blessed. The child has a tiger’s head, so give him the one embroidered with the King of Beasts.”
When Chuntao was taken out, I changed the baby’s swaddling clothes with my own hands and wrapped the quilt for him. The little guy was very happy.
After seeing the family off, it was getting late, but the rain had stopped. I said to Chuntao, “The weather is going to change. My father will have a much easier way back to Beijing.” In
the twinkling of an eye, the Dragon Boat Festival arrived in May, coinciding with Prince Rui’s return to Kyoto to visit relatives. He was the only brother close to the emperor who was still alive. So he brought Prince Rui directly to our small family dinner. There are only three people at the
small family banquet, namely, me, the emperor, and Prince Rui.
According to the emperor, their mother is gone, and I am his wife, and the three of us are close relatives. Prince
Rui was twenty-two years old before he got married. His mother, Concubine Li, had been beautiful all over the world. She had been in the harem for thirteen years. Prince Rui also inherited the appearance of Concubine Li. Her face was like a crown jade, her lips were red and her teeth were white, and her smile was like a fairy in a painting. To put
it bluntly, even though I am a woman and a mother, I still lose my mind.
The emperor really liked this younger brother. He laughed and said, “Empress, my younger brother is born like a banished immortal. He has countless admirers, but there is no girl who can get into his eyes.”. The elder sister-in-law is like a mother, and now the matter of choosing a bride will be left to you, the emperor’s sister-in-law. Covering my mouth and nose with a handkerchief,
I coughed lightly and said, “I will try my best to do well what the emperor has told me.”. Tomorrow, in my name, I can ask the family to present a portrait of the woman in the boudoir, but I don’t know what kind of woman Prince Rui likes. Prince
Rui did not shy away from my eyes at all and said with a smile, “The emperor’s wife can collect the portrait first.”
The emperor also said, “Yes, that’s the way to do it. Empress, you first order a portrait of a woman from an aristocratic family. Mu En will live in the palace during this period.”. Then let him come to you to see the portrait,
and then hold a flower party or a poetry party, and invite them to come to the palace to see the real person. But you have to be careful that there are too many people, and they burst your Fengzao Palace.
Rare closeness, rare wonderful people. As soon as Prince Rui left
that night, all the women in Fengzao Palace were absent. Even when Chuntao removed my makeup, she accidentally tore off a few of my hairs.
I couldn’t help sighing, “I thought the emperor was good-looking enough, but I didn’t expect there to be such a fairy man as Prince Rui.” “Yes,”
said Chuntao, “it’s really the beauty of the moon. I don’t know which girl would be so lucky to be chosen by him.”
I turned to her and asked, “Do you really think the emperor is choosing a bride for Prince Rui?”? Or does Prince Rui really have the freedom to choose his own relatives according to his own preferences?
“Miss, what do you mean?”
I laughed and said, “He’s the only surviving brother of the emperor. He’s a grand prince. He’s not married in his twenties, and he doesn’t even have a concubine. Is that normal?”? Don’t forget that when the late emperor proposed the crown prince, the person he most preferred was not the emperor, but Prince Rui.
As for why the emperor was chosen later, it was because the first emperor wanted to be the overlord for a few more years, and Prince Rui’s mother clan had too many forces and supporters, which threatened the overlord. If
the emperor really loved the younger brother, he would not have been impatient to weaken the power of Li Fei’s mother clan after he ascended the throne, and demoted the courtiers who had supported their mother and son. “Does the young lady mean that the emperor already has a suitable candidate in mind?”
I chuckled. “Yes, a person who no one can imagine, a woman who can help
him realize his dream of three emperors and five emperors.”. So, ah, Prince Rui is not here to marry
, but a sword to take that man’s life!
Chuntao laughed. “Then I wonder who this woman is.” After
that, the emperor was busy with political affairs and seldom set foot in Fengzao Palace. I was also busy
with the election of Prince Rui step by step. According to the emperor’s instructions, I first issued a decree to paint
a portrait.
Indeed, as he said, there were so many portraits that I could not put them in my desk, and the study had to be
filled with tables to stack the portraits of all the marriageable girls in Kyoto.
In those days, Prince Rui and I were trapped in the study almost every day looking at the portrait. In the end, twenty
paintings were picked out, and they were discussed for several days about whether to hold a flower appreciation party or a poetry party. It was not
until the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifteenth day of the fifth month that a group of ladies were invited to the palace to enjoy the lotus. I
have nothing to do, relax down, I drank two more glasses of realgar wine, feel dizzy
, went to the Taiye Pool next to the viewing pavilion for a rest.
In a daze, I felt that someone was untying my belt. When I opened my eyes, I saw the beautiful face of Prince
Rui. I grabbed his wrist. “Lord, do you know
what you’re doing?” There was a blush on
his cheeks, and his features were even more picturesque. His eyes were also very sincere. “To tell you the truth, sister-in-law
, I don’t want to hide anything from you. I don’t like any of those vulgar fans outside.”. Imperial sister-in-law, Mu En
only likes you, from the first time after meeting, a separation on the crazy! Sister-in-law, please, help me.. With these words, his hands eagerly climbed up my skirt again.
My eyes were cold. “You should ask me to help you, because no matter what conditions your brother has promised you, once he brings someone through this door, you and I will both die!”
His hands broke and his eyes were full of surprise. “Do you know all about it?”
Yes, I have known for a long time, when the birth of the mother to leave the son failed to let the emperor wish, he must have the next move. I just didn’t expect that he would be so impatient that he would let his brother seduce his wife.
Caught in bed, the queen is immoral. At that time, even if my father has the merit of fighting against the North Rong, it is not worth my great sin. When
the emperor came, Prince Rui and I were sleeping on the couch with our clothes all over the floor.
He darted over, raised his hand, and was about to slap me in the face. Before he had finished speaking, a “bitch” was caught by me, who had turned over and stood up, with a crossbow arrow against my waist.
He was startled at first, and then he tried to snatch my crossbow with his backhand. I stopped him and said, “Your Majesty, my third brother has personally improved the crossbow, but the effect has been tested with your own eyes. Whoosh!”! You can
easily pierce the fat body of a fat pig.
You.. You didn’t sleep, and I smelled the smoke outside the door. The emperor stopped the guards outside the door.
I chuckled. “Same flavor, different recipe. That’s why he’s still asleep!” I kicked Prince Rui, who was sleeping like a dead pig, with a sarcastic look on his face. “Do you know?”? He also gave me an antidote, because I said that when Chen’er ascended the throne, he would be the regent. Weighing the two, he chose to believe me, after all, orphans and widows, without the support of a prince, it is difficult to gain a foothold, right? But thanks to you, I was able to catch all of you.
Madman! You crazy woman! The emperor gnashed his teeth. “Huo Quan, the Empress is plotting a rebellion. Pass it on to the Imperial City Guard!” When I was unprepared, he untied the sign on his waist and threw it to Huo Quan outside the door.
I didn’t move, and no one stopped Huo Quan.
I just need to hold him hostage, and he thinks I’m desperate.
While waiting for someone to come, our husband and wife had a good chat.
He said that since his poem died, he was forced to issue a decree to welcome me into the palace, he had a murderous heart to me. He did not allow his empress mother clan to be too powerful. Since ancient times, consorts monopolized power, which was a great disaster for the rule of imperial power.
I said that you were really a man who stood up and stood up. I married you with a huge dowry, slept with you, and gave birth to a baby for you, but you just thought I was a thing that could make the best use of everything from beginning to end.
You are so ***ing scum. Once I didn’t kill him, and next time, I was forced by you to have today. Even if I don’t protect myself, I have to protect my relatives behind me. After all, people are human beings, and they can’t be too cruel.
He ha ha smile, scold well, for you this sentence, I will leave you a whole body. You think you can win if you control me alone. Don’t be naive. I still have thirty thousand imperial city guards! I
didn’t make a sound, because I heard the disorderly footsteps outside, and saw Huo Quan running with the guards in the palace, and the emperor looked happy.
But Huo Quan looked flustered and said, “Your Majesty, it’s no good. The armory of the Imperial City Guard is on fire..” The fire burned red eyes, when I went, the guards and the city defense department were fighting, probably no one took care of, Chen. General Chen took twenty thousand northern troops into the imperial city, saying that they were serving. At the Queen’s behest..
The emperor was livid. “What will?”
“Prince Rui is plotting a rebellion, and the empress has been held hostage. He has asked General Chen to lead the troops to serve the king.” I interfaced for Huo Quan. According to the
law of Da Ying, when the emperor was in danger, the empress could issue an edict instructing the general to deploy troops. Under normal circumstances, it is up to the general to listen or not to listen.
But General Chen will listen, because he is my father.
Impossible, impossible. The spies reported to me the day before yesterday. General Chen still has at least half a month to go to the capital. Besides, I have been on guard against you to summon orders outside the palace, even your third brother they go to the palace to visit relatives, I am on guard. Imperial edict. When did the edict go out? The emperor looked incredulous.
I said, “Your Majesty, have you ever heard of the imperial edict?”? The imperial edict was hidden in the swaddling clothes I gave to my nephew. As for why my father was sent down from heaven, how could you be so clever?
After all, fifty thousand people were sent to the capital to be awarded medals, while my father brought only twenty thousand into the palace.
According to the law of Da Ying, after a major battle, the soldiers who rendered meritorious service could return to the capital to be awarded medals, and then be placed in the place by the imperial edict. It can only be said that everything was just right, and his calculation finally fell through.
In
the tenth year of Daying Fengcheng, the emperor died, and Prince Chen, who was only three years old, ascended the throne and changed to yuan Qinghe. Empress Dowager Chen Yuxian ruled from behind a screen. Of course,
I was not foolish enough to kill the emperor immediately, but I poisoned him and left him sick in bed. Then he used his hand to slay the rebellious Prince Rui and the courtiers who might become a potential threat to our mother and son.
So when the emperor died, the people of Da Ying all thought that he was betrayed by his brother and fell ill in anger.
Only I know, because the last bowl of poison was fed to him by myself.
By the way, he told him a secret: “Women are never the obstacle on the way to men’s power, men are.”. Since ancient times, many emperors have died under their own suspicion. By the way, this medicine was prepared by Dr. Hsu, and it’s the same as the bowl of medicine you fed to your beloved Shi-shih. After the death of the
emperor, I went to offer a stick of incense to Heqingyue and sat in front of her memorial tablet, saying, “You are right. He has never loved anyone else. He only loves himself and his dream of being a wise king.”. He wanted to be the wise king who would expel the Northern Rong and benefit all generations, so when you poisoned the
first queen, he personally fed her a bowl of deadly poison.
And I also said that I, Chen Yuxian’s honor, never need a man to give, let alone
a man who does not love me.
