Chapter 24 Gu Jing

The current Hubu Shangshu of the Guochao was promoted by an old man from the Hubu. His surname is Zhou and his first name is Jie.

He was a Jinshi during Xiaozong's time, and he has been an official in the court for many years.

The whole career path is a very typical second-class Jinshi route: after being selected on the list, after a series of assessments, he was first released to the county as an official, and then he was promoted step by step based on his political achievements...

In the end, relying on ability and opportunity, he took the top spot in the household department.

This person's background is actually similar to that of Yun Fenghuang, he is not a serious and wealthy family, but he is also the son of a noble family who is entrenched in the local area.

Perhaps because there is no strong backer behind him, Zhou Jie acted very cautiously. He has been an official for many years and has always had a good reputation.

It can't be said that it is as clean as water, but it also has two brushes.

"There is a problem here." Yun Fenghuang listened to Chen Jing's report, and said slowly, "Since he is cautious, if he hadn't chosen, what would he do to offend me?"

Although she has seldom done anything because of her noble and stable status in the past two years, Zhou Jie is not a newcomer who has just started her official career. Do you remember Concubine Min Gui's handwriting?

Even if Zhou Jie is not optimistic about her, shouldn't she be directly impeached to the imperial court?

Isn't this deliberately not to give face to the imperial concubine?

"Your Majesty, this servant hasn't found out who Zhou Jie is related to." Chen Jing said cautiously, "Now he is being watched by someone. If he really has other plans, sooner or later his traces will be exposed!"

Yun Fenghuang snorted, "Then when will we have to wait?"

After saying this, he thought about it for a while, and asked, "With Zhou Jie's age, the next grandchildren should also discuss marriage, right? How about his heirs?"

"Zhou Jie's offspring are not considered prosperous, but one son and three daughters. All three daughters have left the cabinet, because they were married to the husband's family that Zhou Jie found before entering the court. The marriage can only be considered ordinary, and it cannot be said to be good or bad. "Chen Jing said, "There are three grandchildren, one is a concubine and the other is a concubine, and there are two other granddaughters. The youngest is only three or five years old now, and the older one is the same age as His Royal Highness Princess Zhaoqing."

"When we get to the palace, when the banquet is held, someone will send a post." Yun Fenghuang smiled coldly and said, "Don't use the name of this palace, take advantage of these few days to let the three princes Kind, get close to that girl, and then there will be a reason."

Chen Jing said: "Your Majesty, if you start with his grandchildren, Zhou Xu, Zhou Jie's grandson, has had several contacts with our Seventh Prince."

"Xiao Qi?" Yun Fenghuang pondered, "What's going on?"

"His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince has learned from others. Twice, His Royal Highness the King of Qin had a quarrel with His Highness the Third Prince. They made an appointment to compete in an outside restaurant. His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince was invited by His Royal Highness Qin to help sit down." Chen Jing said, "Zhou Xu was also among them, but he was not invited by His Royal Highness King Qin or His Royal Highness the Third Prince, but simply followed a few children from similar families to watch the fun. His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince is gentle and elegant, with outstanding talents. Among the disciples of the high school, there are quite a few people who have a good impression of His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince, Zhou Xu and his companions are like this."

Yun Fenghuang frowned slightly, if King Qin or the Ninth Prince were like this, she might have to take precautions.

But the Seventh Prince...

The child brought up by this hand has no ambition at least for now, and the most important thing is that his natal family does not want him to take risks.

But even more, he hoped that he would marry a suitable concubine, and leave the imperial capital as soon as tomorrow to become a feudal clan, and never go into troubled waters again.

That being the case, the respected status of this child among the disciples of the high school is very noteworthy.

"Let me find out, do these people admire Xiao Qi spontaneously, or is someone instigated in private?" Yun Fenghuang said slowly, "No matter what it is, the life of the queen recently is a bit too leisurely. Son."

Chen Jing quickly pleaded guilty: "It's the servant girl's ineffectiveness."

"Although I'm going to pack up and go to the palace soon, but it's like this every year, I think Yanfu Palace can handle it completely." Yun Fenghuang said in a low voice, "The empress has become more and more silent in recent years, which is very bad. I'd better find her Do some things, so that there will be no news all day long, as if this palace controls the harem and forbids her to speak out!"

She said so, of course the people below did not dare to be negligent, so within two days, they caught a handle in the middle palace, that is, Gu Jing laughed and teased the King of Chu in private.

This Gu Jing is one of the empress's nieces. After the emperor brought the tenth prince and the twelve princes to the Taichu Palace to teach them personally, Gu Zhen asked for the two nieces from her natal family to be brought up in the palace on the pretext that she was lonely without a daughter. Chat for comfort.

Since the imperial concubine Yun Fenghuang had raised her niece by her side early in the morning, Chunjia had just quelled a series of turmoil caused by the death of Marquis Longping. Faced with this incident, although she knew that Gu Zhen was just an excuse, in fact she was just trying to make things up for her husband. The prince and the twelve princes cultivated candidates for the future back house, but they also agreed.

The two girls that Gu's carefully selected at that time were Gu Jing and Gu Jue cousins.

According to the situation from Xuanqing Palace, Gu Jing is lively and cheerful, with a good appearance, good at playing piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, sweet-talking and flattering, and has always been liked by Gu Zhen more than his cousin Gu Jue.

Because the two sisters are about the same age as the tenth prince, the queen intends to let Gu Jing be the tenth prince's side concubine in the future, and often guides her to associate with the tenth prince.

Almost every time the tenth prince went to Yanfu Palace to greet the queen, Gu Zhen would arrange for Gu Jing to be by his side.

This approach is still somewhat effective. The tenth prince gradually became familiar with Gu Jing, and even went out of the palace a few times to bring some small things to Gu Zhen, but he did not forget to bring something for Gu Jing and Gu Jue.

Although this behavior seems to be just a polite gesture, according to the reports from the subordinates, what the Tenth Prince gave to Gu Jue was just the things that the palace servants bought from street vendors at will, but what was given to Gu Jing was carefully selected in the shop by himself. It can be seen.

At the same time, whenever Gu Zhen sees Chunjia, consciously or not, he will tell about Gu Jing's various advantages, hoping that Chunjia will agree to this girl serving the ten princes in the future.

These masters and servants of Yunfenghuang all saw it, and the sudden attack at this moment was aimed at Gu Zhen's cultivation of Gu Jing for these years. Not only the queen herself, but also the Gu family had high hopes for Gu Jing.

"Your Majesty, the concubine didn't want to care about this matter. After all, His Royal Highness the King of Chu was raised by the Empress Empress. As the Empress Empress said, His Highness the King of Chu is no different from the Empress Empress' own son." Yun Fenghuang After getting the handle, first let people publicize it all over the palace, and then go out in person and talk to the emperor, "How can this niece kiss her son more than her son? Now Gu Jing dares to tease and laugh at the King of Chu in private, and even forced His Royal Highness King Chu eats the meal that was overturned on the ground! Where is the royal blood?! The concubine can’t believe that the dignified daughter of the Gu family has no sense of proportion. Who gave her the courage?! Or is it that the Empress has always said that His Royal Highness King Chu is her own son, and this is how she treats her own son?"

"It's fortunate that His Royal Highness the Tenth Prince and the Twelfth Prince asked His Majesty to take care of him earlier in the morning. Otherwise, I don't know how the Queen will treat him!"

Chunjia's face was very ugly, he actually knew it well, Gu Jing teased the King of Chu, most likely it was the imperial concubine who poked it out.

However, the imperial concubine knew his temper, and since he used the emperor's heir as a trick, it is likely that Gu Jing did something wrong to the king of Chu.

"Xuanzhong Palace." The emperor ordered in a cold voice, "and the daughter of the Gu family!"

The queen's aunt and nephew have actually received the news, but they are not quick-witted people, and the concubine came prepared, the evidence is conclusive, and the emperor is not a good person. Indeed, she once teased the king of Chu Yi Er: "But the courtiers decided not to force His Royal Highness Chu to eat the meal that was knocked to the ground. That meal... that meal... that meal was actually just..." She choked and glanced The queen continued, choking with sobs, "In fact, the meal was accidentally knocked over. The court lady wanted someone to clean it up, but before it was too late, His Royal Highness King Chu... went up to eat by herself... The court lady later... Later, I specially asked someone to hire an imperial physician..."

"Bastard!" Gu Zhen's eyes suddenly sank when he heard this, and before she could finish speaking, she slapped her backhand, which made Gu Jing stop, and shouted sharply, "I just said that you were fine that time, do it!" Why do you want to hire a doctor!? Co-authoring is bullying my son!"

Yun Fenghuang, who was standing beside Chunjia, pursed his lips, and said in a manly voice: "Why is the queen empress doing this? Your Majesty is aware of the truth, you want to get away with it, but you can't!"

As he spoke, he turned to Gu Jing, "Even if you are a courtier who is favored by the Empress Dowager, you are nothing more than a guest in the palace. You are not a serious master! But where did you get the qualifications to surpass the Empress Empress? Hiring an imperial physician for His Royal Highness the King of Chu?"

"Your Majesty, I'm a concubine..." The queen was about to say something, but Chunjia had lost her patience. Just as the concubine said, he was not stupid, so why did he not know what he said?

Obviously the queen knew about Gu Jing teasing the king of Chu.

Most of the imperial physicians were summoned by the queen to the king of Chu.

So it can be seen that the queen is not completely indifferent to the king of Chu. It's just that something happened to this son early on. After all these years, with the appearance of the tenth prince and the twelve princes, the queen's concern and attention have shifted. At first, perhaps out of guilt and pity, she still remembered the king of Chu. But as the tenth and twelfth princes became more and more important, the empress couldn't care less.

Even with Gu Jing's status, after teasing King Chu, the Queen didn't do anything to Gu Jing, but called the imperial physician to King Chu to confirm that the child was fine.

The queen's move is actually human nature. After all, although Gu Jing was not raised by her, she is a girl with both talents and appearance. She has been raised in the palace for the past two years and has a good relationship with the ten princes. The king of Chu, who was already worthless but raised like a useless person, was damaged?

"I remember, when the king of Chu had an accident, you were distraught, and you talked about it for many years." Chunjia looked at the queen, his eyes were full of disappointment, "Every time I miss you as a loving mother Heart, I don’t care about you. It’s only been a few years since you mentioned the grievances of the King of Chu and your grievances last time? Your niece, who was picked up from outside the palace halfway, and a mere courtier, can actually treat my blood as Teasing like pigs and dogs?!"

"And you, Zhonggong, clearly knew about it, but never mentioned it, and even covered it up?!"

"Is this how you are the queen mother of these many heirs?!"

"The King of Chu was brought up by you when he first landed. If you despise him like this, what do you think of the other heirs!?"

Before she finished speaking, Gu Jing had already knelt down with a "plop", shaking like a sieve.

Yun Fenghuang looked at her playfully, and knew very well in his heart that even though the emperor was always targeting the queen, he just scolded a few words and would not do anything to the queen.

On the contrary, Gu Jing's future is definitely over.

After all, Chunjia usually doesn't care about her offspring, as the emperor, how can she tolerate her own bloodline, even if it is a stupid offspring that has been abandoned long ago, being humiliated by the daughter of a foreign minister?

If he doesn't bestow Gu Jing's death, it's considered magnanimous!