Chapter Thirty-Four

Chunjia didn't know what Empress Dowager Yuan was thinking, and thought that the little servant who arranged the messenger told the Empress Dowager that the reason for inviting the imperial physician to the Spring Palace would be good for Empress Dowager Yuan to read her true concubine.

That night, he rested in the Huanhua Palace, and after finishing the government affairs the next day, he went to the Spring Palace to pay his respects to the Queen Mother Yuan and discuss matters concerning the third and fourth princes.

"The two princes are raised by Jiashan Palace?" The Queen Mother Yuan was very happy to see him, but she frowned after hearing it, "Then your Queen Mother Qu has worked really hard."

Chunjia said: "Mother, anyway, the prince will be taken care of by himself according to the rules, and there is no need for the mother to work so hard, but it looks like it in daily life... After all, these two children can't find a suitable adoptive mother now. Please trouble Queen Mother."

Empress Dowager Yuan was silent for a while, and finally couldn't help saying: "The Ai family is now empty, and it's not impossible to relieve your worries, but why send both children to Jiashan Palace? The emperor still thinks that the Ai family is not good. Suitable for raising the emperor's grandson?"

"What did the empress say?" Chunjia hurriedly said, "One is because he is afraid of disturbing the mother's care; the other is..."

He sighed, showing helplessness, "These two princes were originally an accident. Although they are my own flesh and blood, but in front of the queen mother, I will not hide it from you: I would rather they were not born! Now they are born." After all, the royal family does not lack that little stuff, so let’s just keep it, but extra grace will definitely not be given. In this way, if it is raised under your knees, there will be speculation outside.”

These words almost clearly stated that Queen Mother Yuan's status is much higher than that of Queen Mother Qu, and that the prince she raised personally will be superior to others. Queen Mother Yuan felt comfortable and no longer doubted that he didn't trust her. After thinking for a while, she sighed: "Now this The harem... is also true, let your Empress Qumu work harder."

Chunjia said: "It's just that the Ji family will definitely stop it, and then we will have to trouble the empress."

"Does the Ji family still have the face to stop it?" The Queen Mother Yuan sneered, "Since my son's wedding, the Ji family has presided over the sixth palace. They already have both sons and daughters... It can be seen that Ji's daughter is destined to hinder the heir, so how can the prince entrust them to make decisions?"

As he spoke, he told Zhan Liu, "Spread the words of the Ai family and let outsiders judge!"

As for what other people think of Ji's daughter after the news spread, Empress Dowager Yuan didn't care.

In other words, Empress Dowager Yuan's purpose was to make Ji's life difficult.

After all, Yun Fenghuang could think that the empress dowager and mother empress dowager would try to return to the palace city because of the fact that the twins could not be raised in the palace, how could the empress dowager Yuan not think of it?

The queen mother and queen mother are fine, after all, everyone is of the same generation.

The Empress Dowager is an elder, even if the Empress Dowager Yuan has Chunjia's support, if she wants to gain the upper hand when confronting this man, she has to plan ahead.

Anyway, when three generations of Ji's daughters presided over the harem, the royal heirs were not prosperous. This is a well-known fact.

The Empress Dowager Yuan still thought it was not enough, and ordered to dip the willows, "The Ji family has many children. I asked the women in their family who did not enter the palace, but they are all like the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager, and the Empress. The heirs are difficult? Mention those idlers outside, and find out why the emperor's knees are empty!"

In this way, the crime of murdering the emperor's heir was put on Ji's head, even if the empress dowager returned to the palace, what face would she have to put on airs in front of her?

Chunjia was listening, smiled and flattered her a few words, and said some flattering words such as "The child is lucky to have a mother and the queen is the master, otherwise he will be bullied to death", then he looked embarrassed and said that he would follow the rules of the palace. , the prince is given priority to the concubine to be raised. There is no precedent for the empress dowager to come forward to raise the child when there are enough concubines in the palace.

For example, Concubine Xuan and others entered the palace and concubines who could give birth to themselves are fine.

I am afraid that the old people will be dissatisfied.

Well, the main reason is that Gu Zhen and Lu Qidao will put pressure on the temple through the regent behind them.

Empress Dowager Yuan also found it tricky to hear it, and after thinking about it for a while, she said, "Should I ask Qin Tianjian to do the math for the two children?"

The implication is to play tricks on fate, for example, the two children are congenitally deficient, so they can only grow up by being raised by their own grandmother... Whether people believe it or not, anyway, the mother and son of the Tian family can be trusted.

"In the past two days, the emperor should stop going to Huanhua Palace and sit in Qiongfang Palace." The queen mother advised Chunjia again, "Although the regent king is ambitious, it is not the time to turn against him. If you hand it over to Gu Shi and others, you have to appease him."

Chunjia obediently agreed, and sure enough, she had dinner with Queen Mother Yuan that day, and then went to Qiongfang Palace.

But he just had a conversation with Gu Zhen, but instead of resting in the main hall, he met a concubine of Qiongfang Palace.

"It seems that the third and fourth princes will not be handed over to the palace to be raised." At night, Gu Zhen watched Chunjia go to the concubine in the side hall, sighed and said to his confidant, "Otherwise, I haven't been here for so many days, why not?" As for the sudden arrival today?"

The confidant suggested: "Do you want to talk to the prince...?"

"...Forget it." Gu Zhen thought for a while, shook his head, and said, "Your Majesty now has the second prince and Princess Zhaoqing, and the third prince and the fourth prince will not hold too much weight in his heart. His majesty may not see her because of her. If she is adopted to her knees, the number of times your majesty will come to our palace in the future may be even less."

"It's better to pretend to be confused and take advantage of the situation to ask him to come a few more times these days."

Gu Zhen was silent for a while, and asked again, "Did you find out about the Yizi prescription that Ji Yuwan used before?"

"Understood." The confidant whispered, "Last year, after the real concubine got the prescription, because of her offspring's difficulties, she was eager to get the palace people pregnant, so the concubines in Lanzhou Yeyu Pavilion were treated like Yizi medicine. Although Fangzi doesn't know much, most people just get a bowl of soup every time they are favored, but at that time her biological mother hadn't sent her a hand, so the protection was not thorough, maidservant Combining the medicinal materials obtained from Lanzhou Yeyu Pavilion and the medicinal residues that were thrown away separately, we finally calculated the prescription to the seventy-eight eighty-eight...even if there is an error, at most there is a slight difference in the effect, but it does not affect anything."

After all, Yizi medicine only increases the probability, not that it is certain to be pregnant.

"That's it. From now on, I will use it for the young concubines who came in last year." Gu Zhen said, "But I hope the heavens will show mercy and give me some hope. Otherwise, the palace will be long, so When will the days of my life come to an end?"

After speaking, he sighed softly, with a complicated look on his face.

... Within two days, the Secretary of the Imperial City reported to Chunjia that Anliu's matter had come to fruition, and it was suspected to be related to the Zheng family who had just passed away.

It's just that the palace maid tracked down was Zheng Shi's close attendant. After Zheng Shi left, she also committed suicide, so the clues were cut off.

The Imperial City Division submitted a large amount of evidence and concluded that Zheng had arranged to frame the real concubine before his death, with the purpose of using the loving mother Empress Dowager to deal with Yun Fenghuang.

After all, everyone knew that the Zheng family would be deprived of her status as a noble concubine and sent to the cold palace, and she was inextricably linked with the real concubine.

"Show the case file to General Hushi." Chun Jia frowned, because of the influence of Yun Fenghuang, he didn't really believe in the result, and suspected that even if it wasn't framed by Ji, he was involved.

But still the same sentence, now is not the time to completely turn against Ji, some things can only be confused.

So after thinking about it for a while, he ordered, "Don't worry about the general Hussars. I know he is loyal. The future palace affairs have nothing to do with the previous dynasty. Once Mrs. Zheng is gone, I will not pursue it. It's just that the subordinates should be restrained. Don't do it again."

Even so, Zheng Gu immediately rushed to Taichu Palace to plead guilty—he was dismissed by Chunjia and Yan Yuese.

Zheng Ju returned home, told his sons what had happened, and sighed: "This is the emperor's love for the real concubine. I don't want us to do anything to the real concubine for the sake of Chang Chu..."

The sons are all silent. Although they are all adopted by Zheng Ju, they are all descendants of the Zheng family, and they are also cousins ​​who are related by blood to Zheng Shangchu. Even though this cousin entered the palace as a teenager and didn't get along much, they are a family after all.

Zheng Shangchu was thrown into the cold palace before, and they could bear it, but if people say no, they will be gone. If they don't say it, how can they not have resentment and doubts towards the real concubine in their hearts?

But the Son of Heaven...

"Our family came from a humble background, it is not easy to be where we are today." Zheng Ju thought for a long time, and felt that he still had to endure, "Because of our family status, it is a hundred times more difficult to gain a foothold in high-ranking officials than scholars, and the family fortune accumulated through hard work should not be taken at risk. .”

"Shang Chu...I, Mrs. Zheng, am sorry for her."

"But... since it is the emperor's intention, then so be it."

"Compared to the Ji family, the emperor has treated my family very well."

He looked at Zheng Fengli, "I will serve Her Royal Highness in the future. Although Princess Jinyun is not as expensive as Princess Minghui, she is from the blood of Emperor Xiaozong. The emperor will not treat her poorly for the sake of filial piety."

Zheng Fengli nodded, hesitated for a while, but said: "Father, I don't think this is something my sister did."

"Our family knows." Zheng Ju was very calm, "But the emperor showed our family the case file, and we have to accept this. Besides, what are you doing, Shangchu, that the emperor despises?"

He let out a sigh of relief, showing a little helplessness, "She and the emperor revealed that the real concubine had a private meeting with a foreign man in the palace confinement!"

Zheng Fenglin frowned and said, "Why is she so unwise?"

Several older sons also showed expressions of disapproval, but Zheng Fengfen, who was the most loved by Zheng Ju and the least wealthy, was puzzled: "Third brother, did my sister frame the real concubine? But my sister is not such an impulsive person. So if you do this, you must have some evidence in hand, right?"

Zheng Fenglin glanced at him: "It's fine for the other concubines to expose this matter, it can be said to be a coincidence. How can people in our family do it? Originally, my father was born in the imperial family, and he was in charge of the imperial army, so he has no relationship with today I'm already very jealous. I'm afraid my sister was also messed up by the real concubine, thinking that this move would make the real concubine fall out of favor... I don't want to report this matter, the first one who is annoyed by the emperor is our Zheng family!"

"Your third brother is right." Zheng Ju sighed, "Because of our family background, the emperor must suspect that we have many eyes and ears in the palace—in fact, it is true—but, the number of eyes and ears is so large that the emperor does not We know what we know, what do you think the emperor thinks?"

This is not a question of Chunjia feeling ashamed, but whether Chunjia would think that since Zheng's eyes and ears in the palace can find out things that he doesn't know at all, wouldn't they also be able to threaten him without anyone noticing? he?

So no matter whether the emperor believed Zheng Shangchu's revelation or not, it was doomed that she would not have a good result from the moment she told the story.

It was also because Chunjia still wanted to use the Zheng family, so she only dealt with Zheng Shangchu herself as a beating, and also lowered Princess Jinyun to Zheng Fengyu as a comforting and tactful promise: I still believe in you.

The implication is, don't let me down.

"Shang Chu, we were raised as ladies of the family. At that time, we were rich, and we focused on getting closer to the high family. We were too determined to be virtuous, virtuous, gentle and sensible, so this child's vision is still too narrow in the backyard. "Zheng Ju concluded, "Feng, you have to think twice when you encounter problems in the future, and stop messing around like before... It's not that Dad doesn't love you, but the current situation, Dad himself doesn't know if he can make it to the end."

After a pause, he ordered, "Tomorrow, let the old family and the second family pack up a generous gift and send it to Xie Xiliu. Just say it's to scare the real concubine, and be more polite."

Either don't bow your head, and since you bow your head, just make things more beautiful, so that the emperor and the real concubine can't find any faults, and you have to praise them for being sensible in your heart.