Chapter Ten The King of Chu

Chunjia still received cold treatment when she went to see the Empress Dowager this time.

The female official told him politely but also coldly and distantly: "The empress dowager just got up, but she was a little dizzy, so she went back to lie down, and it is not appropriate to disturb her now."

"I don't know if the emperor's grandmother ever called the imperial physician?" Chunjia didn't feel disobedient at all, she had a concerned face, just like a real filial son and grandson, asking about his health and caring for half an hour, and then left with a full face of worry.

Those who didn't know thought that he was not only the grandson of the Empress Dowager, but also the kind who was extremely filial and considerate.

After he left, the female officer went in to return the order to the Empress Dowager.

The Empress Dowager, who didn't go back to lie down on the couch, saw that she was still in good spirits, she was in a complicated mood, and said: "So Aijia doesn't want to see him. Since he ascended the throne, he has been pretending so far. In terms of standpoint, I have to admire his perseverance and forbearance, but Ai Jia really doesn't want to see that hypocritical face."

"If you don't want to see, then we won't see you." The confidant who had been with her for decades sighed and handed over a warm honey rose drink, and sighed, "What is your status and age? Don’t you still have the right to be self-willed? There is no one left or right to make us worry about it. You can do whatever you like. Your Majesty, he has to suffer if he wants to suffer, and he has to suffer if he doesn’t want to! Who told him to do it? What about being filial to your grandson? If he is willing to do this, you can just treat him as a grandson and order him around!"

The Empress Dowager sighed: "It's a pity that this grandson is just pretending to be filial, how can he be really filial? Just look at him, he has come twice and he hasn't seen each other. His patience is almost gone. Next, he should use means to force him." Ai's family goes back to the palace, so as not to drag himself here."

Originally, the Empress Dowager insisted on staying in the Taoist temple for a while, but the emperor's persuasive persuasion was fruitless, and the empress brought the concubine to serve her.

After all, there are also sons and grandsons who leave home thousands of miles to become officials, leaving their daughter-in-law and grandson to serve the elderly.

But now that the Taoist temple is on fire, this is different.

Although the Empress Dowager was not harmed or even disturbed in any way, since there was such an incident, out of the emphasis on the Empress Dowager, this place should be designated as a "dangerous area" for the time being.

The son of a daughter can't sit down, let alone a very honorable empress dowager?

According to filial piety, Chunjia not only had to rush over to pay his respects immediately after receiving the news, but also had to take him to a safer palace.

If the empress dowager insists on refusing to leave, the filial grandson will of course have to sacrifice his life to accompany the gentleman, and cannot leave the elders alone in danger.

But it is inconvenient for the Taoist temple to handle government affairs, and Chunjia is diligent, so how could he stay for a long time?

He didn't want to stay, and he didn't want to bear the reputation of not being filial to the Empress Dowager, so he could only try to get the Empress Dowager to go back with him.

Sure enough, after noon, Ouyang Yanran, the regent and other important officials and clan members arrived one after another, all of them came to invite the Empress Dowager back to the palace.

From the standpoint of the regent, he should wish to see Chunjia being made things difficult by the empress dowager. The problem is that he is also a junior of the empress dowager. Together, they helped persuade the Empress Dowager to leave the Taoist temple to make a perfect plan. Can he refuse?

If he dared to refuse, Chunjia would be able to publicize his behavior of not taking his aunt's life and death seriously.

So he can only come together.

The emperor took the lead, and a group of clan and ministers knelt at the gate of the other courtyard to ask the empress dowager to think twice, asking her to put the phoenix body as the most important thing, and some even asked her to put the country's affairs first. They are all stuck in this Taoism and cannot concentrate on governing the country.

The Empress Dowager had expected it a long time ago, and sent a female officer to tell them that the Empress Dowager was going back to the palace in two days, but she kept dreaming about the former empress and Kang Jieyu, and felt uneasy, so she couldn't bear to leave.

The monarch and his ministers understood that this was a negotiation of conditions, Chunjia thought about it, and expressed her willingness to posthumously seal these two.

Anyway, everyone is dead, the family is also destroyed, and the mere mourning is nothing more than an imperial decree.

So the former empress Ji Lingzi was named Empress Duanhui, and Kang Jieyu was concubine Tian.

The promise was made, and the Empress Dowager finally let go and agreed to return to the palace.

It's just that she can't just go away with her status, so the specific return date is set in three days, and the boxes and cages have to be put in these three days... In short, it is some preparations before departure.

Seeing this, Chunjia went back to the palace the next day, planning to come and accompany her when she left.

Before he left, he went to see Yun Fenghuang, and watched her stare at the Empress Dowager and Mrs. Rou Kun, so as not to cause any trouble to them.

"Mrs. Rou Kun's whole heart is on Your Majesty, but what is Your Majesty worried about?" Yun Fenghuang deliberately teased him, "It's not that I need to worry about Mrs. Rou Kun coming to find me."

Chun Jia said, "Wei He Ke He Dun may have some news for her?"

"Then she will report to His Majesty immediately, and His Majesty will praise you." Yun Fenghuang said lazily, "Where is the need for a concubine to stare at her?"

Having said that, in fact, Chunjia didn't need to greet her to make people notice these two.

Even Concubine Wan and Xuan Zhaoyi arranged eyeliner.

This is not just suspicion, the key is that she wants to set the fire and be preempted by others, which makes her feel insecure.

Due to her unfamiliarity with the concept of Shanyuan, she had no clue about the culprit of the water leakage this time. In order to cover up her original plan, she couldn't even show any doubts.

So, knowing that there is a master who will set fire in the middle of the night, can you be more careful?

Although she left some of her confidantes to take care of the emperor's heir and nieces in the palace this time, she also brought enough people.

This arrangement was not in vain. On the evening after Chunjia left, Chen Zhu came over to report that there was a change in the Empress Dowager's side: "Just now, a strange Taoist woman entered the Empress Dowager's yard. Slaves In the past two days, I have gone through the entire Shanyuan temple, including the rough envoy, but there is no such person in it. Moreover, the servants always feel that this person is a little weird."

Yun Fenghuang asked: "What kind of strange method?"

"I can't say it." Chen Zhu pondered, "I just feel that something is wrong... It's just that this slave girl's mind can't change it for a while!"

"Has the nun been in for a long time? Has she come out?"

Chen Zhu said that he had been in for a while, and he hadn't come out when he left.

Yun Fenghuang thought for a while, and then said: "Prepare the chariot, I'm going to pay my respects to the Empress Dowager!"

Then asked Chen Zhu, "Send someone to look around the Empress Dowager's residence to see if there is a chance to block people."

After all, this Shanyuan temple is the place where the three generations of phoenix masters of the Ji family have come and lived again and again. Not long after she left here, Chen Zhu's little servant who stayed outside the empress dowager's courtyard rushed over to report that the person had gone out. And quickly disappeared on the mountain road.

Chen Zhu's face changed when he heard the words, so he reprimanded him why he didn't follow people well?

The empress is going to go out in person, but the person disappeared first!

What kind of words are these!

The servant was very aggrieved: "My servant tried my best to follow, but that man seemed to have been prepared for a long time, he was familiar with the surrounding terrain, and he walked on the rugged mountain road as if walking on flat ground... This servant really can't keep up!"

Fearing that he would not be trusted, he specifically described the terrain, which really required a lot of physical strength and endurance to keep up, and he was still out of breath up to this moment.

"Forget it, even though we are trying to scare the snake away, we can be sure that this person is the Empress Dowager who doesn't want us to see him." Yun Fenghuang thought for a while and said, "Go ahead and pay the Empress Dowager!"

This time was different from being summoned before, the Empress Dowager did not meet her in person immediately, but left her in the yard for a while, seeing that it was getting dark, and then a maid came out to welcome her in.

After saluting, she was given a seat, and the empress dowager, who was slowly stirring a bowl of rock sugar lotus seed soup, said: "It's been such an hour, what are you going to come to Ai's house without resting?"

Yun Fenghuang said softly: "I'm going to leave tomorrow, I'm afraid you have too many things to do here and you're not good at it, so come and have a look."

"If you want to do something, you should find Ai's family. The female officer in front of Ai's family listened to her orders, but what did she come to see Ai's family for?" The Empress Dowager said lightly, "Is there nothing else?"

Seeing Yun Fenghuang shaking her head, she sneered and said, "Since that's the case, don't bother Ai's family!"

So he politely let her go.

Yun Fenghuang didn't move, and said with a smile: "When I first came, I was worried about disturbing you, so I lingered outside for a long time, and didn't dare to come to knock on the door to ask for an interview. Fortunately, I was so cautious, because I was hesitating , I found that there is someone here. I wanted to ask someone to stop that person, so I can find out how you feel here, and would you be willing to call me. As a result, he seemed to be very busy, so I hurried away after taking a photo. Also dropped something, I saw it from a distance, and asked someone to pick it up and chase it. I don’t know if I caught up with it right now?”

The Empress Dowager was not moved by this temptation, and said calmly: "A monk, call me over to read the Taoist scriptures for Ai's family. If the noble concubine is interested, you might as well ask someone to explain it to you, lest you go to hell The mind is impure, either calculating this or that.”

"It can't be helped. After all, although I have never given birth to myself, I have both children." Yun Fenghuang said softly, "This person, it's fine when he is alone, but when there are old and young , Where does the mind go purely? Either thinking about this or thinking about that. Not only do you have to plan far-reaching things for your children, but you also have to think about how to be filial to your elders so that they can always laugh... I really feel tired when I think about it. But what , looking at the lovely appearance of the children, and seeing the hale and heart of the elders, I feel at ease physically and mentally."

These words are very malicious to the Empress Dowager, because her family is gone, her own son Xiaozong also passed away at a young age, and even her nieces and granddaughters died. Except for a few sporadic Ji bloodlines who hid themselves from arrest, the three closest relatives to her were the three granddaughters.

The problem is that among the three granddaughters, the two granddaughters who have declined do not get along with her very much, and the relationship is not particularly close.

Moreover, the descended eldest princess had her own life, and Yun An was pregnant, so why would she often think of the grandmother, the Empress Dowager?

After all, Ming Hui was born of Ji's daughter, she wanted to be more affectionate with the Empress Dowager, but her future was uncertain.

It is conceivable that Yun Fenghuang's words made him feel angry.

The Empress Dowager was silent for a moment, and then she said: "If you want to be so busy, just be busy, don't be busy and go around for nothing."

He waved her hand and told her to leave.

After Yun Fenghuang left the Empress Dowager, he asked Chen Zhu to borrow two hounds to try to track down the Taoist nun.

But the other party obviously expected that the hound finally lost its direction after crossing two streams... This happened in the middle of the night, and Yun Fenghuang got up the next morning to get the report. He frowned for a while and said: "Forget it, if it was so easy to find, the Empress Dowager would not have summoned the other party in a hurry. But this also shows that this person is suspicious and even has a lot to do with it."

"Ma'am, do you want to talk to Your Majesty about this? That person is probably a remnant of the Ji family." Chen Zhu asked hesitantly, "The Ji family has been in power for many years, and the centipede is dead but not stiff. Maybe they are planning something in secret ?”

Yun Fenghuang nodded and said: "I definitely want to say it, but today, Your Majesty is here to send the Empress Dowager back, so there is no need to make extra troubles and distract Your Majesty. And wait until the Empress Dowager returns to the palace, and then report to Your Majesty in private. "

However, after the emperor returned to the palace with the empress dowager himself, neither Yun Fenghuang nor the emperor cared about it because the king of Chu was ill.

Ranked fifth among the princes, King Chu's biological mother was humble, but because she was the prince adopted by Gu Zhen after he was enshrined as empress, she was the legitimate son in name.

He is also Chunjia's only legitimate son.

He was sick, even if it was just an ordinary cold, but it was not easy to raise a child at this moment.

Children from wealthy families are especially delicate.

Gu Zhen's anxious tears basically never stopped. When he heard that the emperor was back, he immediately sent someone to invite him over, saying that he would thoroughly investigate the Woxia Building where he lived, and suspected that he had been tampered with.

Although Chunjia was not as confused as she was, her expression was very serious.

Even if he didn't care about the life and death of King Chu himself, the political significance of this son, as well as the guarantee or protection given to the Gu family, all determined that if Gong Xiangqiu made a mistake, his overall plan would be disrupted.

It's just that the results of a thorough investigation and the testimony of the imperial physician proved that no one murdered the King of Chu, and the reason why he got the cold was completely accidental, or it could be said that his body was weak from birth. That's why they were taken for a walk down the corridor with the third prince by their nurses for a while, the third prince was safe and sound, but the fifth prince didn't have to eat the mountain wind, he turned around and felt hot.

"The child said it was okay from time to time?" Yun Fenghuang was a little puzzled, "Why did he become weaker in the blink of an eye?"

"Who knows how the empress raised her?" Wei Hengyan, who was at the bottom, pinched her handkerchief with an angry expression on her face. She came here specially to complain and ask for help, "I called my sister over there just now. It is suspected that after the King of Chu landed and was sent to the empress, the younger sister didn’t care enough to raise him, so that the king of Chu fell into the root of the disease! Sister, you said this... Isn’t this deliberately picking a bone?! Forbidden by the palace There are rules and regulations for raising the emperor’s heir, and my sister obviously followed the rules! Besides, when the king of Chu was hugged to the empress, who wouldn’t say that he is white, tender, cute and strong?!”

"It's been more than half a year to say that my sister hasn't been raised well, it's just too much deception!"

Yun Fenghuang comforted: "I don't know you yet? You are the most straight-minded person without such evil intentions. How could you treat the King of Chu badly? The Queen is also in a dizzy state. Just look at the King of Chu. Don't bother with the Queen for your sake. When the King of Chu is fine, I will definitely help you to ask the Queen for an explanation!"

She pointedly reminded, "Speaking of which, it's been a while since Zhaoqing became a princess, and it's not a big deal that the third princess hasn't been granted a title yet."

Wei Hengyan suddenly turned anger into joy, and said with a smile: "My sister still loves my sister!"

Although I know that it will be a matter of time before my daughter gets the title of princess, it is always an honor to receive the title in advance, which seems to be more favored by the emperor. Who would refuse?