Chapter 104 Minghui Is Seriously Ill
Yun Fenghuang was very unhappy about the selection of the heir of Fuyang King's lineage, and he suspected that Chunjia was deliberately guarding against him.
However, Gongxiang Ruoheng is also very knowledgeable. After receiving the order, he thanked him, packed his things and rushed to Fuyang County to be a filial son and grandson. Please continue to let Queen Mother Yuan and Queen Mother Qu rest in the palace.
Of course Chunjia was pleased to agree, and reciprocated by asking him to go to the imperial capital to take up a post after handling the affairs of the royal tomb.
It is not that there is no record of vassal kings serving in the court, such as the regent.
But very few.
When Chunjia did this, her flattery was beyond words.
Everyone knows that this newly released King of Fuyang has a bright future.
It's just that Gongxiang Ruoheng's mother-in-law, Princess Lin, is still worried, worried that her son will be forgotten by the emperor if he is asked by the regent to stay in Fuyang County for three years. So she offered Chunjia two beauties who were said to be as beautiful as flowers and good at singing and dancing through King Zhou.
Chunjia reluctantly declined, then agreed, and gave her the position of concubine.
"Your Majesty, this Concubine Lin is too much. The Empress Dowager, the loving mother, the Empress Dowager, and others are just for your majesty's sake. What is she?!" They exploded first.
More than one person came to talk to Yun Fenghuang, "Aren't we many sisters enough to serve His Majesty? We need her to guide us!"
"Lin's family background is not high enough to be a little narrow-minded." Yun Fenghuang reassured them very casually, "Don't be as knowledgeable as her, they are just two concubines, and they haven't seen each other yet, so you can be sure that your majesty will leave after seeing them. I don't like you anymore? I don't even think about how many people you are all carefully selected from. Those two talk about the extravagant hype, but they were selected by Mrs. Lin himself, can you compare with you?"
He also said to them, "Now that you only have two concubines, you can't bear it? After three or two years, the palace will inevitably add new people, and then they will come in batches. At that time, your majesty will be in chaos." You're blind, you don't have time to look at old people! If you want me to tell you, instead of making trouble here, you might as well find a way to sleep with me a few more times so that you can conceive an heir as soon as possible."
"When the time comes, there will be heirs by my side, so what if another hundred and eight thousand beauties enter the palace?"
The concubines think about it too, the emperor is still so young, it is impossible for the palace to stop recruiting newcomers.
Such a high position as Yun Fenghuang, who has been mixed up with the fourth concubine, and still has the eldest son and daughter of the emperor under his knees, as long as he doesn't make mistakes, his prosperity and wealth are basically stable. But they are not. They come from humble backgrounds, and being a concubine is a threshold. If they don't have an heir to rely on, the road to favor will not stop.
Anytime, anywhere, I worry that there will be a more beautiful and seductive little fairy who will step on me.
How tiring is that?
Sure enough, I still want to find a way to have children, especially sons.
As a result, there were more and more courteous people around Chunjia, especially those from Xuanqing Palace, who were more courageous because of the power of the host, and even brought the food boxes directly to the door of Xingxintang.
Once the emperor went out, there were more chance encounters.
Chunjia is very busy these days, although he chooses by himself, he still often goes to concubines like Yunfenghuang, Concubine Xuan and Concubine Rui. Pay attention to please him, and he can't help but feel pity.
As a result, Concubine Xuan and Rui Concubine were not happy, and went to Bianyue Xiaozhu to find Yun Fenghuang. The meaning behind the words was that these concubines were too shameless, and there were no rules up?
Yun Fenghuang said indifferently that since the emperor himself is willing, there is no problem.
Originally, Si Cai chose many concubines to come in, isn't it just to serve the emperor? These palace concubines use their brains to find ways to please the emperor, isn't it their own business?
If the second concubine feels that the emperor has neglected you, then you can also go to the Xingxin Hall to give the emperor warmth? No one is stopping you!
Concubine Xuan and Rui Concubine's face was very ugly. The reason why they came to Concubine Xian to talk about this was because they were ashamed to compete for favor like those concubines from humble backgrounds!
However, Yun Fenghuang ignored them, and even turned a corner and said that they were jealous and could not see the concubines being favored: "The two younger sisters are from high families and high positions, and they have lived a life of gold and jade, but now that everyone is serving Your Majesty, you should also think about it for the people below: every poor family is selected, and when they enter the palace, they all start from the lowest picker. If you want to make more new clothes during the festival, you have to count on our rewards .”
"Isn't it human nature to want to gain more of His Majesty's favor, raise his status, and continue to have children...?"
These words made the second concubine not know what to say, they thought that your Xian concubine would not be able to give birth at such a young age, so after raising a pair of children, they would sit on the Diaoyutai calmly, but they were not!
They are in good health, even if they have already raised a cheap prince, or are about to become cheap mothers and concubines, they can still have their own flesh and blood, can't they?
In this case, Chunjia reduced the number of times she went to their place because of the court concubine's competition for favor, how could they not hate it!
"Sister, the concubine sees that the concubine Xian doesn't want us to have children at all, so she instigates the concubines to take turns occupying His Majesty's time!" After borrowing Yue Xiaozhu, Concubine Rui whispered to Concubine Xuan, "After all, what are our identities? Can those concubines compare? We don’t have our own flesh and blood, no matter how many concubines there are, who can be more expensive than the eldest son and eldest daughter of the emperor?”
Concubine Xuan said angrily: "Isn't that the reason? It's a pity that the loving mother, the Empress Dowager, is far away in Miyagi, and it's not easy for us to say this by ourselves. Even if we know what's going on in our hearts, we can only count on His Majesty's wisdom." !"
But even though Chunjia is wise, she has limited energy after all, so she has no time to be distracted in such a place.
He also wondered why the concubines have been so active recently?
He even stopped him a few times when he wanted to borrow Yue Xiaozhu... Aren't these people afraid of Concubine Xian?
The emperor was shocked, and he made insinuations in private, but all the concubines in the palace said that the concubines and concubines were kind-hearted, sympathetic to their difficulty in entering the palace, and actively instructed them to put more effort into serving the emperor.
Chunjia felt that this was too unflattering, and this day he specially pushed a few palace concubines who played the piano and danced for him on the way, to borrow Yue Xiaozhu's words.
"I heard that Concubine Ai has been telling concubines to take the initiative to serve me recently?" The emperor asked with a smile, "Concubine Ai thinks that I have come too many times and disturbed your mother?"
"Is this concubine such a virtuous person?" Yun Fenghuang said lazily, "I wish that your Majesty would stay in Bianyue Xiaozhu permanently, so that I would take my concubine with me wherever I go."
Chunjia asked directly: "Then why did my concubine allow the concubines to recommend themselves as pillows, and even cut me off several times who was going to come to my concubine?"
Yun Fenghuang beat the wind with a round fan, and looked at him with a smile on his face: "According to my temperament, I definitely can't spare this kind of lowly maid... But your majesty invited them to be happy. I can't help but feel soft-hearted: Your Majesty has had a hard time these days, and I am ashamed of not being able to share my worries for Your Majesty, if I continue to be bitter and jealous, won't it make Your Majesty even more upset?"
"At that time, Your Majesty will simply get tired of being a concubine, so how will you live as a concubine?"
"Therefore, I can only endure my sadness and act as if I don't know."
"In the end, His Majesty thought that the concubine was voluntary, so why did you come to borrow Yue Xiaozhu?"
Chunjia felt that she was beating her up again: "My concubine really thinks of me that way? Then how about those concubines who are not lucky in the future, why don't you come to your place often?"
Yun Fenghuang thought in his heart that it would be strange if you could do it!
Not to mention the seduction of those palace concubines who I feel sorry for, and the Eight Immortals crossing the sea to show their magical powers, just talk about Concubine Xuan, Concubine Rui, Mrs. Yaoning, can you go there every now and then?
That's why she nodded calmly: "This concubine can't wish for anything!"
It turned out that Chunjia probably did it on purpose, and for the next half a month, she spent almost all her food and lodging in the small building—now the concubines dare not compete with the concubine Xian, Concubine Xuan and Rui Concubine are going crazy!
For this reason, their natal family sent someone to the palace to ask them why they were so ineffective in fighting for favor: "We have also met Xianfei at the palace banquet. Although she is a rare beauty, compared with her, you are also Chunlanqiuju. In terms of family education and background, you are much better than her! Why do you have nothing to do these days when Concubine Xian spoils the special room?"
Just pointing their noses at them and saying what's the use of educating you at home, you two are just useless.
Concubine Xuan and Concubine Rui were angry and hated, and they each pulled their confidantes behind closed doors to discuss countermeasures.
In the process of discussing, these days, the Xunfeng Pavilion, which has been silently saying goodbye these days and has no sense of existence, sent a message: "His Royal Highness Princess Minghui is seriously ill??? How could this happen? This Highness was only slightly scratched by a civet cat. It's a little bit, nothing happened at that time, how come these days have passed and become seriously ill?!"
Concubine Xuan and Ruifei couldn't care less about fighting for favor, and rushed to find Yun Fenghuang: "Concubine Xian, empress, this must be the Empress Dowager who wants to frame her!"
They couldn't help being in a hurry, no matter how Ming Hui was born, she was the blood of the first emperor, and she was the only heir, so Chunjia didn't dare to openly treat her badly, let alone the second concubine?
They suspected that there was something wrong with the civet cat, and planned that once the news of Minghui being scratched by the civet cat got out, Chunjia would never protect them.
Even their families will distance themselves from them.
"What's the hurry?" Luckily, Yun Fenghuang didn't mean to add insult to injury. He raised his eyelids and glanced at them, and said unhurriedly, "Everyone knows that Her Royal Highness Princess Minghui was rewarded by the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother, and the two Princesses of Jinyun Penglai. The civet cat was scratched, this was an accident that no one could have imagined, even if the empress dowager wanted to pursue it, she could only blame her for not being careful in choosing the rewards for the two princesses... What do you care?"
After hearing this, Concubine Xuan Rui felt a little more at ease, and continued to ask: "Your Majesty, what do you think is going on? Why did Your Highness suddenly become seriously ill after all these days?"
Yun Fenghuang shook his head and said: "Xunfeng Pavilion is very tight-lipped, and I haven't heard anything."
But she felt that there was no need to worry about it, because, "Since the Queen Mother and the Empress Dowager have told people to spread such news, there is naturally a next step. Let's see what she will do next?"