Chapter 101 Collusion

"Mother, Empress Dowager suffered a loss from civet cats last night, but she hasn't asked people to cull these beasts." Concubine Xuan said in a low voice, "It can be seen that her old man really loves these civet cats. Speaking of which, when the Empress Dowager Mother did this, didn’t she feel sorry for Her Royal Highness Princess Minghui? No, the Empress Dowager Mother sent several good-looking civet cats to Jinyun and Princess Penglai a few days ago, saying that it was for the princesses to enjoy here."

"My concubine has inquired about it, Princess Minghui also has it."

"But I just sent it over in public, and when I turned my head, the princess was carried away by the left and right, and the princess didn't touch it at all."

"Even, those who took away the civet cats turned around and asked the stewards to take them out and wash them inside and out several times, and then used the water boiled with wormwood to wash over people and clothes, and then went back to Princess Minghui to serve them. of."

Concubine Rui snorted softly and said: "In this case, while the empress dowager is tired now, it's better to let Princess Minghui get closer to those civet cats... If the empress dowager finds out that she doesn't care very much, that's fine. If the empress dowager cares very much, That……"

"Did you inquire about a lot of things these days?" Yun Fenghuang smiled and said, "It's just that even if the empress mother is too busy to take care of herself now, she will probably ignore the princess. But Princess Minghui is a golden branch and jade leaf. If she doesn't love Touch the civet cat, what else can we do with her?"

Concubine Xuan smiled and said: "My lady, don't worry, why should we come forward in this matter? Please ask the two princesses of Jinyun Penglai to go down and say it's all right? Don't remind Princess Minghui so much, let Jinyun Penglai go find Princess Minghui with the civet cat Playing...even if the empress dowager finds out, she can't choose any courtesy, right?"

"But if there is something wrong with those civet cats, wouldn't the two princesses suffer?" Yun Fenghuang pondered, Princess Jinyun is fine, Princess Penglai is Xie Wuzheng's fiancée.

If it is really a trick, it will not be a good thing to be unable to have children after getting married.

It's not that Yun Fenghuang is thinking of Princess Penglai, but that Xie's lintel is low, even if he becomes a son-in-law, he will only be able to enjoy the glory of the Tian family even more after he has an heir.

If Princess Penglai has nothing to give away, even if Xie Wuzheng can take a concubine to continue the offspring, it is not the princess's own.

"Your Majesty, although we had some doubts about this before, we didn't do anything because we haven't heard of this kind of thing." Concubine Xuan explained in a low voice, "The two princesses have been getting along with those civet cats for some time, my concubine. To put it bluntly, even if there is a problem, it may be too late to get rid of the civet cat now. Fortunately, two days before my concubine's death, I asked the imperial physician to quietly show it to the two princesses, but they didn't find anything wrong... No, if you miss this opportunity, Princess Minghui makes her mother and the Empress Dowager look like eyeballs, why is she so restless?"

"If you don't need to be tested by Princess Minghui, the empress dowager has been quiet all these years, how could she take the initiative to expose it?"

Yun Fenghuang pondered for a while, then slowly said: "Forget it, since you have all made up your mind, then go ahead. It's just that you should do it in a more concealed way. What about the empress dowager and empress dowager? The three princesses are all the late emperors after all. Flesh and blood. Your majesty's admiration for the late emperor should also be known to you. If anyone disrespects the three princesses, your majesty will not forgive him!"

Concubine Xuan and Concubine Rui only listened to these words, Chunjia really wanted to make the three princesses see that the gold and jade should not be bullied, so they started to mention this method, I am afraid that Yun Fenghuang will stop them in a rage, and even turn them to the imperial court convicted.

At this moment, they also said that they did not mean to disrespect the princess: "Anyway, those civet cats were given to the two princesses of Jinyun Penglai by the empress dowager. Can't do it?"

Sure enough, Yun Fenghuang responded in a neutral manner, and repeatedly emphasized that the golden branches and jade leaves should not be wronged, so she waved her hand and let them go.

After sending the two away, she called the Qing people to come to her and asked, "Concubine Xuan Rui invited the imperial physicians for the two princesses two days ago? Why didn't you tell me about this?"

The Qing people were startled, and quickly knelt down: "The maidservant has not heard of what your mother said."

"Forget it, let Chen Zhu come." Yun Fenghuang stared at her for a while, sighed, and ordered someone to call Chen Zhu to ask. Chen Zhu didn't dare to neglect, and knelt down to report: "...that's what happened. The servant heard that Afterwards, at first I thought that the two princesses were in some discomfort, but later I heard that it was just asking for peace, and thought that the second concubine was trying to please the princess. But just this once, I am afraid that it would be meaningless to talk about it in front of the empress. I plan to keep watching and wait for them If there is another move, I will report it again. The servants make their own decisions, and please punish the empress!"

As he said that, he knelt down and kowtowed.

"It's nothing this time, the second concubine has already told me about the matter." Yun Fenghuang saw that a black bruise had appeared on his forehead, and then he took a sip of tea, and said softly, "It's just that we still need to change the matter in the future." Be cautious."

Chen Zhu bowed his head and said yes.

Yun Fenghuang asked about Concubine Xuan and Concubine Rui's recent actions, and found that they were mainly focused on how to use Ji's income to perform, but they didn't take the opportunity to challenge their minds as a concubine, and nodded in satisfaction: "Forget them Interesting."

"If it wasn't for the empress's praise, where would it be their turn to dictate in the palace?" Chen Zhu flattered, "If you still dare to disrespect your empress right now, it would be frenzied!"

Yun Fenghuang didn't believe that Concubine Xuan and Concubine Rui didn't target her out of gratitude, and probably because of Chunjia's attitude.

The emperor now regards the Ji family as a serious problem, and he certainly doesn't want to see people on his side start fighting before killing the Ji family.

Even if Concubine Xuan Ruifei couldn't think of this level, her family would definitely remind her, how could she make such a mistake?

But this is also very good. With them racking their brains to deal with the Ji family, Yun Fenghuang can free up his hands to plan how to send these cheap sisters to the cold palace after the Ji family falls.

Because when he only came to the Xinggong this year, Yun Fenghuang took advantage of the dispute between Meng Youyi and Yuan Zhiniang to take care of the affairs of the Pianji family in the Xinggong. Later Concubine Xuan and Concubine Rui were in charge of the family. They were all from aristocratic families, and they were carefully selected for their dowry. Unless it was urgent, they could always ask their family for help... In short, the palace has been cleaned up and cleaned up now, and it is no longer Ji's single hand. look.

Therefore, the second concubine arranged for the two princesses of Jinyun Penglai to bring Princess Minghui into contact with the civet cat, and they actually hid the truth from Queen Mother Ji.

The second concubine was still worried, and secretly arranged for a civet cat to "accidentally" scratch Princess Minghui's arm.

Afterwards, he personally brought the imperial doctor to see the princess, and finally came to tell Yun Fenghuang: "Your Majesty, do you want to ask your mother, the Empress Dowager, for this matter? After all, Her Highness Princess Minghui is the only heir of Emperor Xiaozong."

"If you want to see the excitement, I will accompany you for a walk." Yun Fenghuang said indifferently, "It's just that if the empress dowager is angry, don't blame me for everything."

Concubine Xuan hurriedly smiled and said: "Then how can it be? Everyone knows that these days the concubine and the concubine Rui are taking care of the uterine affairs, and you concentrate on taking care of the emperor's heir without much concern. You didn't take care of the responsibilities of His Royal Highness Princess Minghui, Of course it's my concubine's responsibility and that of my concubine Rui's sister, it has nothing to do with you."

Of course, Empress Dowager Ji, who loves her daughter dearly, didn't think so. After she hurt her face, she never saw the concubines again, and even stopped the original greeting.

The Xunfeng Pavilion was tightly controlled, and outsiders couldn't find out how the mother, the empress, and the empress dowager reacted to the injury.

Now that I heard that Concubine Xian brought Concubine Xuan and Concubine Rui together to seek an audience, she didn't intend to pay any attention to it, but who knew that the palace man reported that the third concubine came here to plead guilty for not taking good care of Princess Minghui, and immediately felt a "" Hit": "Let them in!"

Yun Fenghuang took the lead to go in, and the Empress Dowager Ji impatiently snatched away her words of indifference and warmth: "Didn't you say you came for Minghui? What's wrong with Minghui?"

"Empress, don't worry, Your Royal Highness is fine, but when playing with the civet cat, the civet cat accidentally scratched her arm, the concubine has already been watched by the imperial doctor, and the imperial doctor said it's all right." The relaxed tone persuaded her to calm down, "The concubines think that the princess is after all a golden branch and jade leaf, so I come here to tell you. In case you don't know, you will go in and listen to the tongue-twisting talk outside, and feel anxious."

Empress Dowager Ji's complexion suddenly changed, she looked like she was furious in an instant but tried her best to hold it back.

"Where is Minghui?" She took a deep breath and asked in a deep voice, "Where is Minghui? Let her come over and show the Ai family!"

"His Royal Highness is still in her residence, and Princess Jinyun and Princess Penglai are with her." Yun Fenghuang said softly, "Don't worry, Her Royal Highness is worried about you now. Don't even tell me about it. Yours. It’s the concubines who don’t feel at ease... You’re summoning Her Royal Highness right now, I’m afraid that Her Highness will feel uneasy..."

Empress Dowager Ji told her to shut up: "Let Minghui come here! Immediately! Immediately!"

Yun Fenghuang glanced at Xuan Concubine Rui Concubine, Xuan Concubine stepped forward and said: "Empress Dowager, don't worry, this concubine will send someone to invite Your Highness the Princess."

Before Princess Minghui came, the three of them were dismissed.

I could only stand outside the door of the Xunfeng Pavilion and watch Princess Minghui with a confused face being welcomed in—then there was no more. Her injuries were also watched by the imperial physician on the side of the queen mother, so they didn't need to worry about it.

"I told the Queen Mother repeatedly that it was only a small injury, but it was as if she was afraid of something to happen to the princess, and she was going to call her to her side immediately." The third concubine gathered again to borrow Yue Xiaozhu and muttered, "It seems that there is something really wrong with those civet cats. !"

Yun Fenghuang said: "It's just that although I don't like those beasts very much, it's not that there are no people who raise cats and dogs, but I haven't heard that it will cause offspring because of this? Of course, those civet cats may have been tampered with. But this should only be known to the aristocratic family. I was born in a humble family, but you two are noble daughters, don't you have any idea?"

Concubine Xuan and Concubine Rui looked at each other and shook their heads: "Your Majesty, if the concubines had guessed, they wouldn't use His Royal Highness Princess Minghui to test the Empress Dowager."

"Aren't you married to the Ji family?" Yun Fenghuang asked wonderingly, "Is it true that you haven't heard of any rumors?"

"Yes, but that's all about the previous generation. This generation was ambitious because of Ji's power, and the elders in the family felt that they were acting impatiently, so they politely declined the marriage proposal." Concubine Xuan said, "As for the A generation...has never heard of anything."

Concubine Rui nodded: "Sister Concubine Xuan's family is fine. As for Concubine Concubine's family, I must have heard of Concubine Xian. Concubine's grandfather was incompatible with the Ji family. He was relegated to a remote place for many years. This year, he is only in your majesty's house." The Ouyang family was married to the offspring of the Ji family earlier, but they lost contact after their grandfather was demoted."

Yun Fenghuang pondered for a while, and said: "Well, I will go to Your Majesty's side tomorrow. Please find a reason for Your Majesty to summon the princess. Then I will question you and see if I can find any clues?"

The three of them finalized the matter, and they were waiting to use the name of the emperor to tell Princess Minghui, but in the evening of that day, the Qing people sent a news about the princess, and let Yun Fenghuang make a decision.