Chapter 4 Allies

On this day, Yun Fenghuang took advantage of the effort to pay respects to the queen, and explained Chunjia's meaning to Gu Zhen: "The concubine sees what your majesty means, mainly because she is worried about the emptiness under the knees of King Yi and Marquis Yongchun, and I don't want to interfere too much in the back house. Therefore, when picking and selecting, the emphasis is on being suitable and honest. You can’t make Princess Yi and the future Mrs. Yongchun Hou wronged in order to continue the heirs.”

"I know." If it was in the past, the empress would still resent Chunjia why she didn't come to tell her, but asked the imperial concubine to tell her?

But in the 15th year of Chunjia's Marquis Longping passed away, Gu Zhen was hit hard. In the early spring of the 16th year of Chunjia's, he fell ill, and after that, his health deteriorated significantly.

Chunjia explained things several times, but she didn't finish them well, and she turned around twice and forgot about them.

The emperor knew that she was not an outstanding person, so he held back and didn't say anything, but after that, he came to Yanfu Palace less and less, and he told the noble concubine directly if he had an errand that required the cooperation of the harem.

Gu Zhen felt very angry at first, but after being questioned twice by Chunjia, he felt that he was wrong, so he didn't say anything, just got angry in silence.

Like at this moment, she had to endure the grievance in her heart and said, "Since your majesty told you, then you should work harder. Your majesty has only two brothers who are close to you, and you have to speak to them personally. It’s good to do it properly.”

After pondering for a while, he said again, "It's okay for Mrs. Nazhun, Marquis of Yongchun, I think she should be able to understand."

If you can't understand it, you have to understand it. After all, a mere daughter of a magistrate, relying on her beauty to reach the sky in one step, what else does she want?

If you don't know how to be interesting, there are so many beauties in the world, do you really think that the Marquis of Yongchun can only be a widower for the rest of his life without her?

The queen specifically mentioned Princess Yi, "Princess Yi and Prince Yi have been married for many years, and rumor has it that they have always been loving and harmonious. This matter has to be explained clearly to the princess in advance. Don't make outsiders think that your majesty doesn't like the princess."

"Your Majesty, don't worry, I will meet you." Yun Fenghuang discussed with her a few details about the selection, confirmed that the Empress didn't mean to be a concubine, and then talked about the matter of wanting to host a banquet for many courtiers and family members during the summer vacation, " Although Kuo'er has occasionally been in contact with noble ladies in the imperial capital in the past two years, they are all intertwined after all. Thinking that she will marry a foreign country after the summer vacation, my concubine is really a little bit reluctant. Before leaving, I just want to invite her The girls who are usually friends with each other get together, but I don't know what the empress thinks?"

"It's not a big deal, it's just that Bengong's health has become worse and worse in the past two years..." Gu Zhen glanced at her, not very surprised.

After all, the princes in front of everyone are already so old, this banquet will be held sooner or later.

The prospective daughter-in-law not only wants to live with their son, but also to see if they can survive the next scene. How can they blindly agree? No matter what, you have to palm your eyes yourself.

Gu Zhen was thinking about choosing a good one for the third prince, of course he would not refuse, "...but I have to trouble the noble concubine to worry about this matter."

Yun Fenghuang said: "Your Majesty tells me, how dare I refuse to obey?"

If there is nothing else to do, she will leave.

Back in Xuanqing Palace, Yun Fenghuang didn't care to take a rest, so he ordered someone to deliver a message to Princess Yi.

In the past two years, King Yi and Marquis Yongchun have kept themselves safe, and cooperated with Chunjia to set up many brothers and sisters.

The emperor was very satisfied with the two cousins.

Arrange some errands from time to time to show that the brothers and sisters of the heavenly family support each other.

According to the date, Yi Wang and his wife should have returned to the fief by now. But Princess Xincheng Xie Kuo is not only not of royal blood, she is not even of noble family background, she is a little bit stronger than the Princess Heqin who was conferred by the court ladies of the previous dynasty. In order not to appear to bully the weakened Wei He so much, Chunjia specially ordered Yi Wang to send off his relatives at that time, and Yin Qu missed his little daughter and asked privately, so he simply left them to live in the imperial capital, and after Princess Xincheng got married, Let them go back to the fief.

During these days, Concubine Yi went to the palace to see the Seventh Prince every now and then, and she received the news very quickly.

"I have some bad news to tell you." Yun Fenghuang cleared the scene in advance, and now he said straight to the point, "Yesterday, His Majesty came over and gave an errand to me and the queen. ..."

She said a few words about the matter of selection, and seeing that Princess Yi's complexion was not very good, she sighed, "Actually, your majesty has no intention of bad marriage, but you also know that your majesty is not the blood of the late emperor Shenzong. Now your majesty's descendants are prosperous, The two grandchildren of Shenzong, Marquis Yongchun are not yet married, but you have been married for two years, but there has been no news, and it is difficult for His Majesty to explain to the clan."

Princess Yi pursed her lips, and said after a while: "Your Majesty, since this is His Majesty's intention, don't worry, the minister's wife will of course take orders. When I go back, I will go to the mansion to tidy up the yard, and then we can arrange for them. "

"Don't blame me for talking too much, I vaguely remember that when you just married King Yi, you asked the imperial doctor to see it, and said that your fate as an heir is not bad." Yun Fenghuang looked at her, pondered for a while, He whispered, "I have no children for many years, but I don't know where King Yi is. Is there anything wrong?"

Rao was Princess Yi who had been married for many years, but she came from a noble family and was used to being reserved, so she couldn't help blushing a little when she heard the words, and after a while, she reluctantly said: "Returning to your mother, the prince... he... the minister's wife didn't feel anything wrong." inappropriate?"

"Is that so?" Yun Fenghuang nodded, and now that this topic has been covered, she simply said, "Although you haven't found out that the prince has any hidden illnesses, according to the opinion of this palace, such things as heirs , let the imperial physician show Yi Wang Haosheng. Otherwise, why should you be charged for nothing? Besides, if you really have a disease, if you find it earlier, you may be able to treat it. For example, the palace was once considered hopeless Yet?"

To be honest, from her point of view, she doesn't want King Yi to take concubines, and she doesn't want King Yi to have a concubine, and she doesn't want King Yi's lineage to be succeeded by a concubine in the future.

After all, Princess Yi is a supporter of Xuanqing Palace because of the Seventh Prince.

And the biggest advantage of her and Yin Qu's father and daughter is that they love the seventh prince sincerely, so they only want the seventh prince to be safe and successful, and they don't ask the seventh prince to fight for anything at all.

With such an ally, Yun Fenghuang certainly hoped that Concubine Yi could give birth to the son of Prince Yi and firmly control the lineage of King Yi, instead of taking advantage of the concubine Ji who didn't know where she came from.

It's just that being kind to Shenzong's bloodline is the proper meaning of Mr. Chun Jiaming. He will not compromise easily.

Of course, this doesn't mean that she doesn't play tricks in private. At this moment, she hinted at Princess Yi, "This is a big matter. If the princess feels embarrassed to tell King Yi, why not reveal something to your father?"

She had already figured it out in her heart, as long as Concubine Yi was able to get King Yi to agree to not take a concubine, and Concubine Yi was too embarrassed to say so, she would go and give advice to Yin Qu.

As far as Yin Qu's pampering blood is concerned, not to mention Princess Yi's diagnosis in the past and these years, the imperial doctor said that there is nothing wrong...

Even if something happened, whenever possible, he would frame his son-in-law without hesitation, so that his daughter would not be wronged.

Princess Yi's face turned red when she heard this, and she said awkwardly: "Thank you, Madam, please don't talk about it, my wife will go back and discuss with the prince, okay?"

"Then you'd better hurry up, I'm here, and the picking will start soon." Yun Fenghuang warned, "You can't delay."

After sending off Princess Yi, she decided to make double preparations and asked Chen Jing, "This time, I am determined to choose those girls who are submissive and have no brains and temperament. Those who are thoughtful, one counts one, and none of them are rejected! And , if there is a dystocia in the family, and the mother saves the child, it will be selected first."

As he spoke, he glanced at Chen Jing, and said slowly, "King Yi and Princess Yi are loving and harmonious. It can be called a good story of the clan. It's better not to be disturbed by irrelevant people, understand?"

Chen Jing bowed and said, "Your Majesty, don't worry, the maidservant will definitely take care of it."

If people still have to enter Prince Yi's mansion, no matter whether Princess Yi leaves the mother to keep the child, the noble concubine will help the mother to keep the child.

Only in this way, the stable status of Princess Yi would be more in line with Yun Fenghuang's interests.

After all, although it is impossible for King Yi to hold great power in his life, he is one of the archways of Emperor Jiaen and Yourong, just like Minghui and the three sisters.

These things were just explained, but the Empress Dowager over there suddenly sent someone to ask the empress and the imperial concubine to answer the question together.

Yun Fenghuang was quite surprised when he heard it, because the Empress Dowager has become more and more indifferent to things in the past two years, even from the year before last, she refused to show up even at the palace banquet.

Suddenly there was a movement at this moment, she thought about it, and felt that it might have something to do with Yiwang and his wife.

After all, this is the grandchildren who grew up with the Empress Dowager, and they have a bond of affection.

Sure enough, when we arrived at the Qingci Palace, after seeing the ceremony, the Empress Dowager said, "I heard that the emperor asked you to preside over a selection, and you want to add people to King Yi and Brother Yongchunhou?"

Before the queen could speak, she said displeasedly, "The emperor himself has three wives and four concubines. Could it be that he can't see that King Yi loves his concubine? The young couple are living a good life, but he is meddlesome! Don't listen to him! This matter Son, don't do it!"

The queen and the noble concubine looked at each other for a while after hearing the words.

Yun Fenghuang was particularly puzzled, she was still thinking on the way here, could it be that the Empress Dowager loves King Yi and is afraid that they will play tricks when picking people, so she plans to personally intervene in this matter?

Who knew that it was indeed personally intervening, but it was blocking?

"Grandmother, Your Majesty also has good intentions, and has no intention of targeting Princess Yi." The queen was speechless for a while before explaining, "They are just concubines from humble backgrounds, not side concubines, mainly because they are afraid of Prince Yi. The couple's knees are lonely..."

But the Empress Dowager sneered, and said, "Lonely? When did the Yiwang couple tell you about loneliness? Just take it for granted!"

Hearing that the words were wrong, Gu Zhen has also learned to be smart in the past two years, and did not refute, but said: "The emperor's grandmother ordered the granddaughter-in-law to write it down, and the granddaughter-in-law will go report it to Your Majesty!"

Say good fortune and leave.

Seeing this, Yun Fenghuang also planned to resign, but was stayed by the Empress Dowager, saying that he wanted to ask her something alone.

When the queen left, the empress dowager thought for a while, and said, "Do you know why the Ai family objected to this matter?"