Chapter 188: Diligent and Studious

In fact, Chunjia didn't mean that, but just teased her casually.

When Yun Fenghuang said this, the embarrassment that had been concealed before surfaced again, he hesitated for a while, and tried to coax her: "Why don't I feel sorry for you? No, it's so late, why don't you rush back Where are you? What happened today, should I go to the Empress Dowager to express my condolences?"

"When did my concubine say that you can't go to the Empress Dowager's place?" Yun Fenghuang laughed and said, "You went to the Spring Palace at noon, and stayed for two and a half hours to bring a stick of incense. Come back, what did I say?"

If you really don't care, don't remember the time so clearly!

Chunjia slandered, smiled and continued to coax: "Isn't it because the Empress Dowager was worried about you and kept asking you for a long time, so she was delayed?"

"Of course I know that the Empress Dowager is worried about my concubine." It's good that he didn't mention Empress Dowager Yuan's concern for Yun Fenghuang. Yan, this posture caused her half-dry long hair to loosen a lot. Under the candlelight, her skin was as jade-like and radiant as ever. There was a mockery in her sparkling eyes, and she said lightly, "Your Majesty just left not long ago. Then Aunt Zhanliu came over, and she spent a full cup of tea with my concubine before leaving."

"...Aunt Zhanliu is not good at words, don't misunderstand my concubine." Chunjia struggled hard, "The queen mother is really worried about you, but she is still ill and cannot come here, so..."

These words are too ignorant of conscience. During this period, Empress Dowager Yuan personally went to Huzhu Palace not once or twice, and sometimes even twice a day—Chunjia felt that her conscience was still alive, and she sighed halfway through speaking, and gave up: " Today I have broken my promise, so if Aifei wants any compensation, just ask!"

Yun Fenghuang put his hands on his knees and said with a smile: "Really?"

Chunjia hesitated for a while, and said cautiously: "...the fourth concubine is impossible!"

Seeing her nodding her head and about to speak, she hastily added, "It's even more impossible for the second position——I haven't planned to do anything to the queen yet!"

"Is this concubine such a careless person?" Yun Fenghuang cast a resentful glance at him when he heard the words, "Your Majesty said that he would stay here with this concubine today, but he left halfway and only returned now. Where is this concubine?" Don't know your weight yet? How could you make such a whimsical request?"

Just said, "I just think Her Highness Princess Penglai is very cute, and I just want to be able to talk to Her Highness when I have time!"

This is a hint that if the Xie family's children are to be honored as the Lord, the golden branch and jade leaf promised to the Xie family should be Princess Penglai.

It's not that Yun Fenghuang dislikes Princess Minghui's relationship with Princess Jinyun, and is ambiguous with Ji Minggan—to put it bluntly, the difference between Xie's family and the Tian family's lintel, to put it bluntly, both princesses are still Fang They are young and have never been married, even if they sit around this year, no, even if they have gray temples this year and have a full house of children and grandchildren, if they want to drop Xie's most outstanding unmarried son, it will be Xie's high praise.

Not to mention her, even those who are consorts, such as Xie Fu and Xie Wuzheng, are well aware of this.

What they want is the honor and wealth represented by the princess, as well as the opportunity to be promoted quickly, the fastest way to squeeze into the highest circle of the country, and the future of the whole family... so as long as it is a princess. , As for what the princess looks like, whether she has a good personality, whether she has other people in her heart, or even whether she is innocent or not, it doesn't matter.

The problem is, three princesses have three concubines.

For Chunjia, the more confidants who are also brother-in-law, the better, of course, he only hates that he doesn't have enough younger sisters. But as far as Yun Fenghuang was concerned, it was impossible for the emperor to recruit three Xie's children as brother-in-laws, which meant that after the Xie's son-in-law got married, there were still two rivals in terms of emperor's favor.

If there is a chance, of course she will help her family get ahead.

For example, start with the princess.

Princess Minghui is the only direct daughter of Emperor Xiaozong, and the ruling and opposition parties acquiesced that her treatment must be the best among princesses.

Jinyun, Penglai, and Kunze, her husband's family can't be more prominent than her, and her husband and son-in-law can't pick her up, otherwise, Chunjia will be suspected of wronging her stepfather and producing a princess.

From Yun Fenghuang's point of view, the possibility of his brother Shang Minghui is relatively low.

Because Xie's family background is too humble, even if Xie Fu exploded when Xie Wuzheng left the stage, and Chun Jia secretly pulled back, giving them the No. 2 champion, it is not enough to block the hearts of everyone in the world.

On the contrary, Jinyun and Penglai are more likely.

According to Yunfenghuang's previous recommendation and Chunjia's needs, he prefers Xie Fu, and Xie Fu loves beauty. In this way, Princess Jinyun is actually more suitable.

But among the three princesses, Princess Penglai is the youngest.

According to the order of seniority, it is almost time to pick a son-in-law, and it is her turn that her two older sisters finish the selection.

Yun Fenghuang wanted to let his brothers be the bottom of the list—that is, the three sons-in-law who will be freshly released next year, the children of the Xie family have the lowest lintel.

In this way, it is most likely to get the greatest support from the emperor.

After all, the Ji family's mistakes are still there, and Chunjia definitely doesn't want to cultivate a second Ji family.

In this case, the humbler the son-in-law's status, the easier it is to be loved by the emperor.

If the son-in-law of the Xie family became Jinyun's son-in-law, maybe the emperor would choose a son-in-law from the poor family who was worse than the son-in-law of the Xie family to Penglai.

In that case, it can't be said that the one who enjoyed Wei Changkong's treatment back then was Penglai's son-in-law.

Therefore, since Chunjia asked for compensation at this moment, Yun Fenghuang unceremoniously named Penglai, of course she would not say what she really thought, and just said: "Your Majesty, it's not that the concubine despises golden branches and jade leaves, it's just that the concubine Although the days of entering the palace were not long, the two princesses changed their ways to run forward at that time, but several times they specially dragged the concubine! Although the concubine didn't think it was just cousins ​​talking, I was afraid that the princesses would be in their hearts. I’m sorry, it’s embarrassing even thinking about it.”

Especially Princess Minghui, at the beginning Chunjia negotiated conditions with Yun Fenghuang and asked her to help break up Minghui's obsession with Ji Minggan.

He acted really well at that time, who would have thought that he would be in charge soon?

Undoubtedly, Chunjia made a strong vow at the time, probably because she was afraid that she would not confuse Ji's family enough. This was because she thought that if Yun Fenghuang was a whistleblower, she could also show the extent to which she was ostracized, so that Ji could feel at ease.

"I know this very well." Chunjia listened at this moment, pondered for a moment, and said, "However, there is one thing I want to say up front: golden branches and jade leaves can be promoted to Jinshi in a new department, but it is impossible to drop a favorite concubine brother at will. The Xie clan's children have achieved nothing in the scientific examination, or their rankings are not high, so don't blame me for choosing another lover for the princess!"

Although he had long been mentally prepared to treat his heir's flesh and blood badly for the sake of his status, he was not so shameless as to abuse the three princesses too much.

Marriage will not allow them to fulfill their wishes, but Chunjia will still guarantee them the dowry and the treatment after marriage.

Yun Fenghuang smiled and said, "Who is your majesty as a concubine? If my brother's name falls to Sun Shan, I don't need your majesty to tell me, my concubine has no face to mention it!"

She will ask Wei Hengyan to bring a message to her natal family tomorrow. The emperor has taken a fancy to Xie's son as a son-in-law—I don't believe that Cui Wan, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, has repeatedly avoided the emperor's sharp edge. The army is wiped out!

Not knowing what was going on in her mind, Chunjia heaved a sigh of relief, rubbed the top of her hair with a smile, and said, "Then it's settled, don't you get angry?"

"When was this concubine ever angry?" Yun Fenghuang scolded him, "Is this concubine such a stingy person? What happened in Xuanqing Palace, if this concubine wasn't frightened, I would hurry to appease him." What about the loving mother Empress Dowager! Your Majesty first came to see the empress dowager, and then went to visit the loving mother Empress Dowager on my behalf. It was too late for me to be happy, so how could I be angry with your majesty? I am not so ignorant !"

Chunjia sighed with a smile: "When you are willing to be sensible, you are really sensible."

It's a pity that his true concubine is unhappy and sensible most of the time, and mostly messes around.

Yun Fenghuang pretended not to hear it, and stuffed the handkerchief that was put aside just now into his hand: "Your Majesty, my hair is not dry yet! It's so late, I won't wring it dry, I'm afraid I'll wake up tomorrow." Headache!"

"You still say you won't order me?" Chunjia cursed with a smile, finally took the handkerchief, and twisted it for her quite strangely.

Yun Fenghuang then turned around and picked up the book to read, Chunjia suddenly became unhappy: "I am serving you here, it's fine if you don't talk to me, but you still read the book, what do you take me for? "

"Isn't this concubine afraid that I'm ignorant and bored by His Majesty, so I seized the time to increase my knowledge?" Yun Fenghuang was aggrieved, "Your Majesty still wants to talk about concubine, could it be that I'm tired of concubine right now?"

Chunjia said: "When will you get rid of your habit of beating people up when things go wrong? And what kind of books are you reading and what kind of knowledge do you gain? Don't think I don't know, your script here..."

As he spoke, he snatched the book in her hand and flipped through it, and couldn't help but be dumbfounded!

Holding the scroll for two full breaths, the emperor closed it calmly, looked up at Yunfenghuang with a very complicated expression, "You...where did you get this book?"

Yun Fenghuang leaned forward, put his arms against Xiaoji, and smiled at him with his chin propped up: "Did you just catch the assassin, and asked someone to search the place where the Jiaofang Division and the guards on duty are on shift. I forgot who secretly Hidden, I personally went to look for clues, thought it was pretty good, so I took it down."

She asked the emperor curiously, "Your Majesty, have you read this book? Is it not fresh? Isn't this concubine's half-day hard work in vain?"

"..." Chunjia looked at her childish face, the innocence between her brows, like a pampered deep house, ignorant of the world, and untouched by the world, and then looked down at the hot and straightforward words on the fire avoidance map in her hand She recalled how she had been served by the palace servants when she first started, and she flipped through the book openly and frankly. After a moment of silence, she said slowly, "... I haven't read it."

As soon as the words fell, Yun Fenghuang had already poked his head over, kissed him, and said with a smile: "Then your majesty said, do I need to increase my knowledge?"

Looking at the smiling dimples close at hand, Chunjia's breathing stagnates for a moment, she closes her eyes, opens them for a moment, throws the handkerchief in her hand, and with the corners of her mouth slightly curved, she has already pulled open her skirt neatly.