Chapter 166 Competition

"Oh? The imperial concubine has not remembered the old bones of the Ai family for a long time." Jiashan Palace was deserted as always.

Empress Dowager Qu met Chen Jing through the curtain.

Her tone was languid and languid, as if she had just woken up from sleep, and also as if she was very tired, in short, she didn't have much energy.

Chen Jing subconsciously softened her tone: "The imperial concubine is only pregnant, and she is often tired and inconvenient to go out. If the empress is well, she will definitely come to pay her respects to the empress dowager herself."

Empress Dowager Qu seemed to laugh, her voice was very soft, and she didn't know if she really laughed or if Chen Jing heard it wrong.

"The imperial concubine will not let you come to find Ai's house for no reason." The queen mother said lightly, "Does she have anything else to say? If not, then you can go down."

"The imperial concubine said..." Chen Jing paused, and then continued, "The empress dowager said that the loving mother and empress dowager raised His Majesty and Concubine An with one hand, and now there are still six princes at her knees, don't you think the holy mother and empress dowager?" ?”

Empress Dowager Qu didn't speak for a while, and then said: "The concubine's courage is getting bigger and bigger, such a thing should be brought to Ai's family, is this a crime that His Majesty will not punish her?"

"..." Chen Jing dared not make a sound.

"You go." The queen mother sighed, and said, "Aijia understands what she means, but Aijia's existence today is already due to the love of the loving mother, the empress dowager and His Majesty, and I dare not ask for anything else."

"Don't dare to ask for anything else?" After a while, Yun Fenghuang pouted disdainfully after hearing Chen Jing's report, and said, "How did the rumors in the palace come about?!"

Everyone was stunned, even Chen Jing couldn't help asking: "Your Majesty, could it be...the rumor that the sixth prince will become the crown prince is the Holy Mother Empress Dowager?"

Yun Fenghuang snorted and said: "If it's not her, who else could it be? This huge harem is the most difficult for the empress dowager, and there are only three people who are qualified to do so: the empress dowager, the empress, and the palace! But the empress is worried. Heavy, although because of the matter of the Eighth Prince and the King of Chu, he is very resentful towards the loving mother, the Empress Dowager, but he may not have the courage to interfere with the matter of the Sixth Prince. The excitement of their aunt and nephew. The only one left, of course, is the Queen Mother! And she has a reason to do so!"

As Chunjia's mother-in-law, Empress Dowager Qu endured it for many years. With the help of Empress Dowager Yuan, she had a few quarrels with Chunjia.

So, now that Empress Dowager Yuan is raising the emperor's heir, how can Empress Dowager Qu be indifferent?

Not to mention that she gave birth to a son herself but never touched her hands, so she can only raise the concubine daughter Princess Kunze who was born to someone else.

Then Princess Kunze was not obedient and considerate, and the act of voluntarily asking to marry Yuan's son almost did not piss off Queen Mother Qu to death... The regret of staying with the flesh and blood is still to show Chunjia this regret, and it is impossible for the Empress Dowager Qu to remain indifferent.

"Even if I guessed wrong, this time it was really a mistake. It has nothing to do with the Empress Dowager..." Yun Fenghuang smiled, "But I asked Chen Jing to remind me that the Empress Dowager must have You should know what to do next.”

She is pregnant now, and the days are short at the moment, so she can still worry about it, but after a few months, I'm afraid she won't be able to work as hard as a normal person.

Before that, how could we not make arrangements for our opponents?

Otherwise, when she falters and loses energy, everyone from the queen mother to the queen to the concubines that she usually doesn't notice will come to make trouble for her?

Yun Fenghuang doesn't do such passive things, she prefers to take the initiative to attack, and let the possible enemies be overwhelmed first, so that she can rest assured to raise the fetus and give birth.

Within two days, Empress Dowager Qu really took action. She first sent someone to see Chunjia, saying that she hadn't seen Kunze for a long time, and she missed him very much.

Before Kunze Princess married Jiang's son, although Chunjia didn't give her the princess title in order to prevent people from saying that he used the power and status given by his stepfather to subsidize his biological father's lineage, he also rewarded her with a mansion.

Jun Ma Jiangzhu also gave an idle Beijing official who was neither high nor low.

Last year, when the children of various families rushed to join the Dingbei Army, Jiang Zhu was among them.

It is actually safer for him to join the army than the Xie family's children, because he is the son-in-law of the royal family, and Princess Kunze is Chunjia's only biological sister. Let Jiang Zhu go to the front line.

In case the county horse is gone, is it impossible to make the young and childless Princess Kunze a widow?

Right now Princess Kunze is living alone in the princess mansion.

In fact, when she was just married, because she was so close, she would visit the Queen Mother Qu in the palace from time to time.

It's just that every time I enter the palace, according to the rules, I have to greet the Empress Dowager Yuan. When I go to the Spring Palace, the Empress Dowager Yuan often stays behind and says this and that. I can only go back home.

Although the Empress Dowager Qu and Kunze both knew that the Empress Dowager Yuan did it on purpose, but as the mistress of Fuyang King's lineage, she had the right to "care" about Kunze, so Kunze came a few times and felt more and more embarrassed, so she seldom entered. Palace, at most give some things during the holidays or something.

This is also the reason why Empress Dowager Qu directly talked to the Emperor about this matter. Chunjia actually knew about Empress Dowager Yuan's actions, but as I said earlier, in the eyes of the emperor, the most important thing that could compare with Empress Dowager Yuan was the noble concubine. Even if Queen Mother Qu is the biological mother, she still has to lean back... Anyway, there was no trouble, so he deliberately pretended to be confused.

After all, as the emperor, Chunjia is very busy.

It is impossible for him to say anything he knows, and to rush to uphold justice.

Then he shouldn't take care of the world, he can't take care of it at all.

Now the people sent by Empress Dowager Qu are very pitiful, and Chunjia feels a little guilty, so she readily agrees and asks the people in front of her to go directly to the princess's mansion to summon Kunze. Queen Mother Yuan.

The emperor now thought that Empress Dowager Qu simply missed her daughter and didn't take it seriously.

As a result, the Empress Dowager Tianqu finished seeing Kunze, and the next day it was reported that she had fallen ill.

After all, it is my own mother, she is not young, and there have been several times before that there have been reports of people who are dying of illness... The people below dare not do what they did to the sixth prince, and they will only say it when they are about to die.

It was reported immediately after receiving the news.

"The queen mother was fine yesterday, why did she fall ill today?" Chunjia's heart sank when she heard this, but she still patiently went to Jiashan Palace to visit, and asked gently why.

Empress Dowager Qu was lying on her back, without looking at him, she said in a low voice, "It's nothing, Your Majesty is busy with government affairs, so you don't need to worry about Aijia's old bones, let's go back. Aijia can just lie down."

Of course Chunjia couldn't just leave like this, he acted like a filial son, and stayed by the sick bed to ask for a long time, but the Queen Mother was vague, so he went outside and questioned the people who served Queen Mother Qu.

"Your Majesty is very lonely these days, and she often drags the maidservants to miss the days in Fuyang County...The maidservants can't tell what it's like, but in short, the Empress seems to be very tired." The servant cried, "Two days ago, I really couldn't bear it anymore, so I told you that I wanted to see the princess. It's just that after seeing the princess, I became more and more sad."

"Since the queen mother wants to see the princess, why does she feel more sad after meeting the princess?" Chunjia asked with a slight frown.

The attendant choked and said: "Your Majesty doesn't know something. Your Majesty said that after looking forward and looking forward, the princess finally came over, but after a few words, the princess is leaving. No wonder everyone in the market wants a daughter." .Sure enough, if you leave the pavilion, you are from someone else's family. It is difficult even for a mother to take a look."

Chunjia sighed in her heart, and said softly, "What's so difficult about it? The left and right princesses are not in the imperial capital now, and the princess has gone back and lives alone. If the queen mother is willing, let the princess live in the palace. Could it be that the queen and the others will drive away the princess?"

The servant said in a low voice: "The maidservants also tried to persuade the Empress Dowager in this way before, but the Empress Dowager originally wanted to discuss this with His Majesty, but later... later she felt that it was boring, and said that it is better not to bother."

The emperor wanted to say what's the trouble with this. Princess Kunze grew up in Jiashan Palace. After she left the cabinet, Queen Mother Qu did not remove her residence before she left the pavilion. Cleaning every day.

The princess can stay here if she wants, whether she is herself or the queen, who would make a fuss over such a trivial matter?

It really couldn't be more convenient.

But he soon realized that he was worried that Queen Mother Yuan would find fault with her.

Before Kunze entered the palace to pay his respects, the Empress Dowager Yuan would intervene to prevent her adoptive mother and daughter from reuniting.

If Kunze really stayed in the palace for a while, the Empress Dowager Yuan might have to make troubles.

"..." This is the aunt who raised her single-handedly. After all, Chunjia's heart is biased. Even if she wakes up, she doesn't want to say that Queen Mother Yuan is bad. Empress? How about this, when I turn around, I will call the princess to accompany my empress."

After saying this, he was relieved and left, turned around and sent someone to summon Kunze, but he went to the Huanhua Palace and sighed with Yun Fenghuang: "It was out of desperation to hand over the sixth prince to Empress Yuan to raise him. I don’t want to think about it, but Empress Qu’s mother has also thought about it.”

The emperor has always had a keen mind, how can he not see that the Empress Dowager Qu's intention is not to drink, but to avoid empress dowager Yuan?

Otherwise, I missed my child Cheng Huan before, so I couldn't call Kunze Princess? Why is it that Empress Dowager Yuan only raised the sixth prince, and Empress Dowager Qu misses it?

And if you don't get sick sooner or later, Princess Kunze fell ill after only one visit?

"The two empress dowagers have suffered a lot of grievances." Yun Fenghuang sighed, "It's no wonder that they are still upset now, but...no matter what their reasons are, the most wronged one is Your Majesty."

Chunjia hesitated for a while, and said, "Ah Huang, although Empress Qu Mu didn't say it clearly, she presumably wanted to raise the prince like Empress Yuan. In fact, she took care of the second and third children earlier... this time, You said, do I want to promise her?"

"Your Majesty, it is not a matter of whether you agree to the Queen Mother or not." Yun Fenghuang twitched his lips and reminded, "The problem now is that there is no suitable prince in the palace to adopt for the Queen Mother!"

Now the princes in the palace are taken care of by their mothers, stepmothers and concubines, and the jade plates are all prepared.

Do you want to take one away and give it to Queen Mother Qu?

How could the concubine who was robbed give up?

Even if it is already out of favor, can he still raise the emperor's heir if he is out of favor?

At that time, if I don't talk about it myself, I will definitely mobilize my mother's family to help me speak.

"..." Chunjia laughed and said, "That's true."

He actually didn't like Queen Mother Qu's way of competing with Queen Mother Yuan, but on the other hand, after all, the biological mother and child had some friendship.

So feel embarrassed.

Empress Dowager Yuan must be more important than Empress Dowager Qu, but he doesn't want Empress Dowager Qu to be sad... But the two empress dowagers are like enemies. As sons, even Chunjia, he can't help but feel helpless.

"Your Majesty." Suo Xing Yun Fenghuang is indeed his favorite Xie Yuhua, pondered for a moment, and suddenly said, "Your Majesty, there is actually another way, maybe it is possible. But, it may not follow the rules?"