Chapter 21: He Li

After noon the next day, Chen Jing came to report the news that Princess Minghui had entered the palace.

But instead of going to Qingci Palace, she went to Taichu Palace to find Chunjia.

This is quite strange, although this His Highness is the most respected by Chunjia among the three Xiaozong's blood, he is also the most hostile to Chunjia.

From beginning to end, he made trouble for the emperor.

So much so that the emperor didn't bother to pay attention to the fact that she had given birth to an illegitimate child after hearing about it.

And Ming Hui would never take the initiative to meet Chun Jia except to find fault.

Yun Fenghuang was quite curious and asked Chen Jing to continue to inquire.

"Your Majesty, His Highness Minghui is crying in front of His Majesty about the son-in-law's crimes. He wants His Majesty to punish the son-in-law." A moment later, Chen Jing came over with a strange expression and said, "Your Majesty is so angry that he has already ordered someone to report to the Empress Dowager. I want His Highness to go to the Empress Dowager's place."

"This is strange, it's always been Yun who cried to His Majesty about His Highness's wrongdoings, why is it the other way around?" Yun Fenghuang raised his eyebrows and said, "But I don't know what crime Your Highness wants His Majesty to punish the son-in-law? "

Chen Jing said in a low voice: "The people in front of the imperial court dare not reveal too much, they only said that His Majesty was very angry, and kept saying that the Empress Dowager must decide this matter."

Yun Fenghuang thought for a while, then said: "Go and find out."

Because it was Chunjia who ordered people to invite them, no matter whether the Empress Dowager was happy or not, she finally ordered the emperor and the eldest princess to go to Qingci Palace to talk.

It took a long time to say this, and in the end, many people from the Yun family were called into the palace.

Although Minghui had made troubles a lot in the past two years, this time it was obviously not a trivial matter, so the front court and the harem became interested, and they tried their best to spy.

Of course they didn't have the guts to openly spy on the palace, but the palace kept the news tightly, but Princess Minghui's mansion and the Yun family were not so tight.

Chen Jing went out for a while, and soon came back to report to the imperial concubine: "Your Majesty, it was Her Royal Highness Princess Minghui who found out that the son-in-law was raising an outer room and gave birth to three illegitimate children, so His Majesty must severely punish the son-in-law."

"Your Majesty probably won't agree?" Yun Fenghuang smiled and said, "After all, no one can tell who the child in front of Minghui belongs to."

Chen Jing said softly: "That's what happened, but the eldest son-in-law's illegitimate son is almost two years older than His Highness's eldest son. So His Highness thinks that the son-in-law betrayed her first. At the beginning, His Majesty wanted to persuade His Highness to descend , I once promised that this Yunxi guest is an excellent person, and I will never disappoint His Highness. Now, His Highness has taken this point, and wants His Majesty to give her an explanation no matter what..."

Yun Fenghuang had a strange expression on his face, and said, "Is that true?"

Seeing Chen Jing nodding her head, she snorted softly and said, "This Yun family is dishonest, he deserves it!"

She counted the days, when the two empress dowagers had a dispute in Fuyang County, the emperor ordered Yunxike to deal with it. Yunxike's sister-in-law once entered the palace in disguise and asked Yunfenghuang for help so that Yunxike could stay outside. Give birth to an heir, lest the knees be empty for a long time because of Shang Minghui. Not long after that, Minghui became pregnant, but it's not clear which face the eldest son was born, anyway, it shouldn't be the son-in-law's.

The emperor was very angry about this matter, but the empress dowager still protected Minghui, saying that even if she was a woman of Xiaozong's blood, so what if she was more romantic? If the Yun family is really loyal, they should support Minghui for the sake of the emperor.

It's just a son-in-law who suffers a little grievance. Is it important to have the brother-sister relationship of the Tian family?

Of course Chunjia didn't approve of these words, but after passing them through, Yun remained silent.

After all, if you ignore it, you will be suspected of not caring about the harmony between the royal brothers and sisters.

From then on, no matter what kind of nonsense Minghui did, Yun didn't dare to sue again.

... It's far away. In short, Yun Fenghuang first heard that Yunxi Ke had an illegitimate child, and thought it was Ming Hui's pregnancy. After Yun's request to the royal family was unsuccessful, he arranged for Yunxi Ke to raise the outer room outside and continue the offspring.

It turned out that before this incident, Yunxike had already messed around outside?

That being the case, he deserved to meet Ming Hui!

Yun Fenghuang even gloated and said: "Your Majesty feels a headache when our golden branch and jade leaf quarrel. How can Yun's He De be caught by her? This time, it will be a good show."

This is indeed the case, and Yun's is of course wronged.

Because these days, it is a matter of course for a man to have three wives and four concubines. If he is a guest of Yunxi, if he marries a well-matched high-ranking girl, and he has an affair with an illegitimate child, at most he will be scolded , Maybe the illegitimate child can return to the gate wall.

But his wife is the royal princess and the only prostitute of Xiaozong.

Minghui is not easy to bully.

She didn't even bother with Yunxike or the Yun family herself, she grabbed Chunjia, and even the emperor brought out the empress dowager to no avail. Bitch, Your Majesty swears, the Empress Dowager is also willing to help... The result can be seen clearly now? No matter how bad this palace is, it is the flesh and blood of the late emperor, why should it be humiliated like this?!"

Everyone in the Yun family, including the patriarch Yi Guogong, had nothing to say and just kowtowed to admit their mistake.

At this time, they were ready to give up Yunxike, but Ming Hui refused to give up, insisting that the entire Yun family give her an explanation.

The reason is also very good: "I believe that Your Majesty and the Empress Dowager will not intentionally deceive me. The reason why I chose Yun as my son-in-law at the beginning must have taken a fancy to Yun's family tradition. But now Yun Needless to say, it must be you bastards who have raised such a thing, making His Majesty and the Empress Dowager think you are a good thing!"

Chun Jia, who originally wanted to help Yun's excuse, couldn't say anything.

After all, if he speaks for Yun Shi in this situation, is it possible that he has to admit that he purposely found Minghui a husband who is not well-known enough?

Or admit that he has a problem with his eyesight? ? ?

But the emperor can't really ignore the Yun family anymore, not to mention that Yiguo righteously stood up for him without hesitation, but everyone knows that the Yun family is willing to give charcoal to his important ministers. ... Looking back, how do others see him?

It also seemed that he, the emperor, was too useless, and he couldn't keep the veterans who followed him when he was in his infancy.

Chunjia then coughed dryly, and said, "Of course Yunxi Ke was originally excellent, but after you descended, you always neglected him, he must have been confused for a while..."

"Then, for various reasons, your majesty has neglected many people in this magnificent six palaces." Minghui sneered, interrupted him politely, and said loudly, "is it possible that these concubines deserve to be forgiven for being confused for a while? "

Although most people, including Chunjia, think, how can the eldest princess compare with the emperor?

The problem is that it's not easy to say this: who said that Chunjia is not Xiaozong's blood?

If he was Xiaozong's own son, even if he was recognized by an illegitimate son, it would be justifiable to scold Minghui at this moment.

But he wasn't, and that needs to be said more delicately.

"How do you compare the two?" Chunjia said softly, "Don't forget that the son-in-law is the husband who is marrying you."

Minghui snorted: "Isn't the current empress the lord of His Majesty's main palace? But it has been so many years since Your Majesty has not spent the night in Yanfu Palace, and I have never seen the empress hang out with any outsider! Why can't Yunxike learn from the empress's understanding?" ?”

The emperor said: "Although he has made mistakes, his crimes will not affect the entire Yun family. Besides, even if he made mistakes first, how can you be worthy of him all these years?"

"He is not benevolent and I am not righteous." Ming Hui said confidently, "If the late emperor is still alive, he will certainly not think that I am wrong!"

She carried out the late emperor, Chunjia couldn't help frowning slightly, and said: "If the late emperor is still around, would you still be so indulgent all these years?"

Minghui's eyes turned red immediately, and he sneered, "It's as if your majesty has seen the late emperor! The late emperor..."

"Enough!" The Empress Dowager, who had been watching coldly and silently, finally spoke, told Minghui to shut up, and turned to Yi Guogong, "Minghui and Yunxike each have their faults. , it is already useless. Since this is the case..."

She was silent for a while, then sighed softly, "Either make up with each other, or let the son-in-law deal with the people outside, let's move on."

Duke Yi exchanged glances with the members of the Yun family who came with him. To be honest, if it is for the sake of the guests of Yunxi, it is also for the sake of saving things for the entire Yun family. Of course, it is a good relationship.

After all, once reconciled, neither Yunxike nor Yun's need to bear the consequences of Minghui's various demons, and Yunxike can remarry a virtuous and virtuous woman and have children.

but……

This marriage was finalized by Chunjia himself.

It is not only to prevent people from saying that he is mean to give birth to a sister-in-law, but also to support the Yun family and the Yunxi guest.

If they were divorced now, apart from other things, the emperor's eyesight alone would be criticized by others.

Duke Yi is not a very scheming person, if it had been a few years ago, he would have simply chosen to make peace.

But ever since he was beaten by the empress dowager with the words "not for the emperor's consideration", he now has a little more insight, and suddenly thinks that the choice given by the empress dowager at this moment seems reasonable, but in fact it is for them to choose: Should he continue to knock out his teeth and swallow it, or damage his reputation?

"..." After thinking about it for a while, Duke Yi said in a deep voice, "The empress dowager is serious. What happened today was all caused by His Highness's displeasure. I had no intention of parting ways with His Highness!"

Yunxike's father and brother's expressions were complicated for a moment, but they immediately agreed.

Seeing this, Minghui frowned, and was about to say something, but the empress dowager had already slowed down her tone, and said lightly: "In this case, you can deal with some trivial matters by yourself. Don't always make trouble in the palace in the future, sorry How old are the people in my family, one day is one day, I don’t know when I will go to see Emperor Shenzong, you are kind, come every now and then to add trouble to Ai’s family, this is for fear that Ai’s family will stay in the world for too long and delay Want to reunite with Emperor Shenzong?”

This was a serious statement, not only the Yun clan kept panicking, even Chunjia knelt down to plead guilty, admitting that he was wrong.

... In this way, this matter will not be settled, and the result is that Yunxike's outer room and illegitimate children are all disposed of by Yun himself. Yunxike's mother can't bear it, thinking that her son's outer room is fine, the child Is it my own grandson, can it be preserved?

But the men in the Yun family were not so naive, and they all rejected her idea: "This is the words of the empress dowager, we agreed in front of your majesty, if these children's lives are spared, it will be bullying The crime of the king! How can they have the virtue to ask such a big family to bear such consequences for them?"

He also persuaded her to open up a little, anyway, she is not just such a few grandchildren.

It's just that Yunxi Ke is not careful enough to do things. It's fine to steal food behind the eldest princess's back. At least it's a bit more thoughtful, isn't it?

Of course they hate Minghui the most. The problem is, as long as this master is not rebellious, Chunjia will turn a blind eye, so what can he do?

But the Yun clan felt extremely aggrieved, but Minghui still refused to give up.

After her husband's concubine and illegitimate children were disposed of, she forced Yunxi Ke, who had been separated from her in fact, to return to live in the eldest princess' mansion.

Then, gather many face-to-face heads, and play and have fun in front of the son-in-law, as if no one else is there!

"...Turning back to Xincheng's marriage, let Yunxi Ke go with us as well." Chunjia was speechless for a moment when he heard the news, and finally said, "When he comes back, I'll see what he will order."

When he promised Minghui to Yun's son, it was really for the best of both parties.

result……

Forget it, let's not think about it, I hope that the success in official career can comfort Yunxike and Yun's to some extent.

The emperor sighed, thinking of the relationship between Xincheng and the noble concubine, he specially took time to go to Huanhua Hall to inform Yunfenghuang about it.