The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

"You don't have a child, I wonder if that little thing is bothering you." Shui Mu said with her hands behind her back.

Jia Lian said with a smile: "Although I have no children, I came from children. I know that I have missed these carefree and innocent years, and I will never find them again in the future." After finishing speaking, he saluted again.

"Get up, have a banquet tonight, and leave the palace tomorrow."

Jia Lian coughed twice and said, "I have been ill for so long and have delayed many things. I am terrified. I beg you to leave the palace immediately."

Shui Mu thought about it and nodded in agreement.

So Jia Lian withdrew again, went to the cabinet again, packed his luggage, saw a sedan chair coming to pick him up, got on the sedan chair, got off the sedan chair at the gate of the inner palace, and sat on the sedan chair of Rongguo Mansion instead.

On the way, I heard Zhao Tianliang say outside: "Second Lord, you better think about how to talk to grandma. Grandma is sad and anxious at home, so she found a bunch of people to ask how Second Master was poisoned. When it comes to myself, I don’t see a smiling face in the new year.”

"Did you tell her the truth?"

Zhao Tianliang said with a smile: "Who dares to tell the truth? Yuanyang said that he has to tell grandma twice that the second master has no internal injuries, and he is afraid that he will miss the second master's matter, so he dare not mention it."

Jia Lian coughed twice, nodded, followed the sedan chair into the Rongguo Mansion, first went to meet Jia Mu, then went up to the back building and lay down on the bed, and then took a look at the mansion newspapers gathered in the cabinet.

Only halfway through, I heard someone stepping up the stairs deliberately, so I put down the mansion newspaper and looked over.

"It's empty and windy here, how do you take care of yourself? Why don't you follow me into the front room." Xu Qingheng said with a pale face.

"Bring the air here, so that the smell of the medicine can be dissipated."

"How did you get sick?" Xu Qingheng choked up, and sat down beside the bed, "It is said that you have been poisoned for many years, where did the poison come from?"

"I told you that the medicine is three-point poisonous, and I'm not allowed to touch meat. How can I get strength if I don't eat meat? I don't have strength, and it's not surprising that evil spirits are in my bones."

"It's unreasonable again." Xu Qingheng suddenly hugged Jia Lian's neck and asked softly, "Did you do it on purpose?"

Jia Lian laughed and said, "Who would do this on purpose?"

"Someone, you fell ill in front of you, and you found out that Madam Fang also fell ill. Is this a coincidence? Could it be that you all worked together to find a way to spend the Lantern Festival together in the palace?" Xu Qingheng said distressed and angrily.

Jia Lian leaned on the pillow, rubbed her hands on her neck, and said with a smile, "You talk nonsense all day long, aren't you afraid that I will be dragged to behead?"

Xu Qingheng hurriedly snorted, "Forget it, I won't take medicine or fast anymore. Her mother-in-law can lead the emperor's eldest grandson to entertain herself, so why can't I find other children to play with?"

Jia Lian said with a smile: "The spring hates the autumn and the sorrow is self-inflicted. Wouldn't it be better if you figured it out earlier?" Rarely lifted the quilt, asked her to take off her shoes and sneak in, and asked, "Is there something going on at home during the Chinese New Year?"

Xu Qingheng said with a smile: "There are no big things, there are a lot of small things. Today is Concubine Xiande's birthday, how lively is it in the palace?"

"Could it not be lively? I'm afraid everyone in the capital knows that today is her birthday. I heard people complaining in the cabinet that I'm afraid the palace will only be on the 21th day of the first lunar month, and only the [-]st day of the first month."

Xu Qingheng whispered in Jia Lian's ear: "So, don't you worry about your pink lady?"

Jia Lian lifted Xu Qingheng's broken hair from his ears with his hand, and said with a smile, "I don't have any beauties." She kissed Xu Qingheng's ear, and suddenly coughed twice.

Xu Qingheng hurriedly followed his back, saw that his breath was calmer, and because someone from the Ji family was coming to see him, he said to the mandarin duck who came to pass the message: "Whoever comes, send him away." When the mandarin duck left , lay quietly in Jia Lian's arms, motionless, and asked him for a long time: "If the concubine Fang really fell ill because of you, would you be moved by it?"

Jia Lian said with a smile: "This is probably a step in the contract in her eyes. It's not that she will be moved by it, but she will stick to the contract."

"Bah, I lost out on my strong body. I didn't have a headache after a night of wind blowing on the night of New Year's Eve."

"Blessed are those with a strong body." Jia Lian said with a smile, seeing that Xu Qingheng was still talking, she covered her mouth, "Lie quietly with me for a while."

Xu Qingheng blinked his eyes, then stopped moving.

Although he didn't speak, Jia Lian kindly asked Xu Qingheng to stay in the back upstairs overnight. At dawn, Xu Qingheng was going to deal with housework in the mansion, leaving Jia Lian to sleep alone.

Near noon, Xu Qingheng came upstairs with round-grained rice porridge in person, woke Jia Lian up, helped him to wash up, and saw him eating the porridge one bite at a time, so he said: "Grandma Xue is here, and she is sitting next to the old lady with joyful faces." How lively is Concubine Xiande's birthday?"

Jia Lian held the silver spoon, stared at the crystal grains of rice inside, and said with a smile: "She is the one who will chase after the poor. Her family's majesty is second to none, and she is still rushing to make trouble."

"What's going on?" Xu Qingheng asked.

Jia Lian coughed twice, then brought clear water to drink, "Yesterday I just saw Concubine Fang leading the emperor's eldest grandson out of the Daming Palace. I was afraid Grandma Xue would come, so that's what I said."

Xu Qingheng burst out laughing upon hearing this.

"why are you laughing?"

Xu Qingheng shook his head and said, "Laughing, you are caught between two confidantes, you are in a dilemma."

"Tell Pan'er to listen carefully." Jia Lian snorted, and wrapped up in a silver fox coat, he walked outside while the sun was shining. First, he asked Xu Qingheng to accompany him, and when he heard that something happened to Jia She later, he went out. Tell Xu Qingheng to watch.

Sure enough, he was walking in the yard, and saw Wang Xifeng standing under the plum tree at the corner with folded hands and smiling.

"Second Master Lian is so energetic." Wang Xifeng said with a smile, and walked towards Jia Lian.

Jia Lian coughed slightly, and looked at her with the help of the peach blossom tree beside her, "Grandma is here, what's the matter?"

Wang Xifeng smiled and said: "Of course it's a good thing. A virtuous concubine gave you many things yesterday, but our family can't afford them. No, I sent them to your house early in the morning."

"What is it?" Jia Lian asked.

Wang Xifeng said with a smile: "Of course they are all good things." Seeing Jia Lian coughing twice, his face flushed with peach blossoms, he sighed, "You should also take good care of yourself." So he asked Jia Lian to sit in the flower shed and waited for him After finishing, he said: "You didn't see the scene in the palace last night. Dozens of tables were set up for the banquet, and the princes and counts of each family sent people there. It took more than half an hour for the fireworks to go off."

"Let's talk about important things." Jia Lian urged.

Wang Xifeng's eyelids twitched, and then he said with a smile: "You don't know, the empress is not here, and there is no noble concubine. The palace is in disarray, especially Fang, who disregarded the dragon's health and approached today with a sick body. She was punished by the Empress Dowager to think about her mistakes behind closed doors; who would have thought that after the fifteenth day, she would become even more insane. On Concubine Xiande's birthday, she deliberately smashed the glazed lamp and dared to break into the Daming Palace without mentioning it; It is said that she is not self-respecting and calls the emperor's eldest grandson her grandma."

Jia Lian said with a smile, "you have to forgive others and forgive others. Why bother with her?"

"There is a saying that without rules there is nothing perfect, and it is better to find a safe person to manage the harem." Wang Xifeng said with a smile.

"I'm sick at home, what can I do for you?" Jia Lian asked bluntly again.

"I just love to hear you say sweet things!" Wang Xifeng smiled, "Although Uncle Lin is gone, the doctors in Lantai Temple want to give you some thin noodles, why don't you ask someone to tell you about it? thing?"

"The matter of the harem should be told by the people in the palace. What is it to ask the men outside to get involved?" Jia Lian laughed.

Wang Xifeng swept her eyebrows, "Are you not agreeing?"

Jia Lian smiled and said: "I want to agree, but it's hard to go out once. Don't forget, Big Brother Zhu just tried his best to go out, so he died at a young age."

Jia Lian blocked Wang Xifeng's mouth with these words. Wang Xifeng thought about it again and again, but he was unwilling to offend him, so he laughed a little, talked about other things, and left.

When Jia Yun asked to marry Hongyu, Wang Xifeng nodded in agreement, and got into her eight-treasure chariot as before. In the car, she couldn't help complaining that Jia Lian refused to draw his sword to help, so she said to the boy who led the way: "Look for the master from General Shenwu's house." go."

"Yes."

The carriage left Rongguo Mansion and turned its wheels to Feng Ziying's house.

As soon as Xue Pan was blocked in the guest room in the front yard, Wang Xifeng looked at the plain furnishings in the room with his hands in his sleeves, and then asked Xue Pan, who looked like he had nothing to do with himself, "Would you ask your good brother to help me?" ?”

Xue Pan was downcast and fiddled with a snuff bottle on the table, and said in a dejected voice, "He didn't want to let Baochai into the palace, and he didn't like to provoke those things, so why bother him?"

"Is it the younger sister that matters, or the brother?" Wang Xifeng asked forcefully, "Don't forget how my younger sister's child was born. He would be incapable of knowing the news from the palace?"

"Since I know how my sister's child was born, shouldn't I be grateful to Fang Niang? Even the two noble concubines failed to keep the child. If someone saves the child for my sister, it is considered a lifesaver."

"What kind of life-saving benefactor, who knows what she is hiding. The Ninth Prince is in her palace. She leads the emperor to play with the emperor's eldest grandson without even mentioning the Ninth Prince. Who is this for?"

Xue Pan only felt that Xue Baochai was so beautiful at this time and shouldn't take the initiative to provoke troubles, so he refused to agree in a low voice.

"No way, no wonder you don't even dare to go home!" Wang Xifeng sneered, then got up and went out again, thinking that everything needs to be done by herself, so when she returned home, she sent someone to the censors They gave gifts to the family, and bought some maids in the yard to give to the famous eunuchs in the palace, and when they greeted the concubines of the families, they talked about Fang Wenhui's up-and-down behavior.

Sure enough, there were those who were willing to volunteer for Concubine Xiande, and immediately sent a letter of advice to the Queen Mother and the Emperor.

So in February, the queen mother first punished Fang Wenhui to contemplate her mistakes behind closed doors, and then in March, she led Fang Wenhui and the eldest grandson of the emperor to worship the Buddha in Mount Wutai.

Although I don't know why the Empress Dowager brought the emperor's eldest grandson with her, Wang Xifeng only knew that it was because of her planning, so after the Empress Dowager and Fang Wenhui left the capital, they sent people to reward the people who helped out. On the fifteenth day when I entered the palace to pay my respects, I would stand by the side with a smile on my face and watch Xue Baochai teach the Ninth Prince how to play with flags.

"There must be no mistakes in this matter." Wang Xifeng warned.

Previously Wang Xifeng ruled Xue Pan, Xue Baochai thought she was very hateful, now seeing Wang Xifeng's ability, he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with her controlling Xue Pan, because he said: "Concubine Ji Hui refuses to take care of the harem, and the queen mother is not here, these The matter can only be pushed to me, and now I only have occasional leisure to teach him a thing or two."

"As the saying goes, those who are capable do more work—and besides, when you talk to the Lord, you can also ask the Lord to pay more attention to the Ninth Prince." Wang Xifeng said with a smile.

Xue Baochai shook his head and said: "Youdao is a relative from the next generation. When the lord saw the emperor's eldest grandson, he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear. When he saw the prince, he kept a cold face and didn't dare to joke." Hearing Yinger say: "The Taishang Emperor's dragon is not in good health, he has already invited the imperial doctor, and now the Emperor has gone to the side palace, should the empress also go to have a look?"

Xue Baochai had never encountered such a thing, so she asked Ying'er, "How did the second concubine Fang deal with it?"

Ying'er said: "The queen mother was there before, and they followed the queen mother to visit the emperor."

When Xue Baochai heard the words, she felt that she should not follow the emperor to visit.

But Wang Xifeng couldn't help but encouraged and said: "Your Majesty, go quickly, someone dares to marry the emperor who claims to be a grandparent, so don't you think your empress has the guts to play along with the emperor's husband?"

Xue Baochai knew that Wang Xifeng wanted her to take over the empress's responsibility, so she pondered for a while, but she didn't want to show off the limelight, and felt that since she was in this position, she shouldn't back down, so she said, "Sister-in-law, go back by yourself." So she said Leading Ying'er and others to the side palace, walking on the road, and asking someone to invite concubine Ji Hui to go with her, seeing that Ji Hui refused, so she went to the side palace alone.

After entering the side palace, Xue Baochai noticed that everyone in the palace was holding their breath, and wondered to herself, could the Supreme Emperor have some kind of emergency?She led Ying'er to the emperor's bedroom again, and after entering, she saw the emperor lying on the bed, the emperor sitting on a chair with a sullen face, and several imperial doctors were carefully feeling the pulse of the emperor.

"Why is Concubine Xiande here?" Shui Mu asked.

After Xue Baochai paid his respects, he said worriedly: "Because I heard that the Empress Dowager is not well, I specially came to visit. I also came to ask the Lord, whether to chase the Empress Dowager back?"

"No need." Shui Mu looked at the Supreme Emperor on the bed with a smile.

Xue Baochai's scalp went numb, and she suddenly regretted listening to Wang Xifeng's words and came this way. Sure enough, those few imperial physicians took the pulse and ran away as if to go out.

Xue Baochai suddenly heard footsteps outside, and hurriedly helped Ying'er to look out, but saw that in the blue sky and daylight, there were inexplicably many guards in this side palace.

"Your Majesty—" Ying'er turned pale with fright.

Xue Baochai's face was also pale, but she remembered that she should escort her, so she hurriedly stood in front of Shui Mu.

Shui Mu gently pushed her away, smiled at the Supreme Emperor on the bed and said, "Is there only so many people left, father?"

The Supreme Emperor saw that the emperor was so calm and calm, so he sat up from the bed, "There are not many soldiers, but the essence."

Shui Mu covered her face and smiled, thinking that the Supreme Emperor is dying.

The Supreme Emperor sneered and said, "What are you laughing at?" Then he glanced at Xue Baochai, "Today, I ordered you to give the throne to the Ninth Prince, are you willing or not?" He rushed in with a long gun.

"My lord." Xue Baochai unexpectedly brought this matter up to the Ninth Prince, and her face turned pale with fright.

"Didn't you say you want to give the eighth prince the seat of Zen? Why did you suddenly change it to the ninth prince?" Shui Mu said with a sneer.

"You know!" The Supreme Emperor trembled, "Who tipped off the news?" After a while, he said again: "Don't bluff, the ancestral home of the eighth prince outside the palace has already..."

"His family has already told me everything." Shui Mu continued.

The Supreme Emperor smiled blankly, waved his hands, and told the guards holding the spears to retreat, as if there was no such action just now, and said with a smile: "Hurry up and send someone to take me to Mount Wutai, your mother is waiting there."

Xue Baochai thought to herself, which song is this singing?

Shui Mu said with a smile: "Thank you, Father, for reminding me, I already know that Prince Zhongshun's mansion still has many cronies, and I will definitely act cautiously in the future."

The Supreme Emperor nodded, so he asked Shui Mu to help him go out, and waited for Chang Sheng to help him again, and got into the sedan chair.

Xue Baochai's face gradually turned red, and she looked at Shui Mu suspiciously.

Shui Mu glanced at her, and said with a smile: "The Supreme Emperor wished that Prince Zhongshun would die early, so he sang this play of leading a snake out of the hole, telling King Zhongshun that he wanted to force me to take the throne, but secretly leading King Zhongshun to mobilize people. "

Xue Baochai didn't expect Shui Mu to tell her that Xindao concubines are not allowed to discuss the political history of the previous dynasty, so she pretended not to understand.

Shui Mu took a deep look at her, and couldn't help but think that the one who had the guts to kill the fish left, and the rest are virtuous people, so he smiled and left the side palace, sent the Supreme Emperor all the way, and made Dai Quan secretly Tell Jia Lian to take a close look at Prince Zhongshun.

In addition, Xue Baochai was frightened by the Supreme Emperor, and she calmed down when she returned to the palace. Although she had to take charge of all affairs in the harem, she followed precedents in everything she did and refused to make exceptions everywhere. nice guy.

So after only a few months in charge of the harem, no one in the harem said anything bad about her.Not only inside the palace, but also outside the palace, she wanted to be considerate. In May, Rongguo Mansion Yingchun and Baojun Wangfu Tanchun both added men, so she rewarded them from the palace and asked Wang Xifeng to go to the two mansions in person. Congratulations; on the third day of August, Jiamu's birthday, another gift was given.

On August [-]th, when the Ninth Prince was one year old, Aunt Xue and Wang Xifeng, who entered the palace early in the morning, helped Xue Baochai take care of the Ninth Prince.

When the auspicious time came, although there were some regrets due to the absence of the Empress Dowager and the Supreme Emperor, dozens of imperial orders came from Yuxiu Palace.

Even Jia's mother, who didn't like to go out, followed Xu Qingheng to watch the fun.

Separated by a curtain, the female relatives behind the curtain all stared at a child carved in pink and jade; in front of the curtain, Shui Mu led a group of Shui family princes and county kings, and also focused their eyes on the Ninth Prince.

I saw the little boy in red crawling slowly on the dazzlingly arranged table, put down the sword inlaid with pearls and jade in his hand, and flipped through the book in his hand. Finally, he suddenly picked up a western sailing boat, put the sailing boat in his arms, pulled out the flag on the boat, and yelling, he turned his head and waved the flag behind the curtain.

"Hey, what kind of arrest is this?" the Prince of Xining asked suspiciously.

Everyone was thinking auspicious words in their hearts, and suddenly they saw Dai Quan scrambling in and said: "My lord, the old prince of Nan'an and the old general Feng are victorious!"

Everyone suddenly realized, laughed and said, "So that's what it means."

King Beijing and King Baojun smiled and said nothing, and Prince Zhongshun didn't dare to act rashly because the Supreme Emperor went to Mount Wutai.

Ever since, the kings of Nan'an County and Xining County said one after another: "Good omen, good omen!"

Shui Mu smiled, said a word of reward, hugged the Ninth Prince himself, and led the officials to feast in the imperial garden.

Xue Baochai breathed a sigh of relief behind the curtain. Hearing the pats of the harem concubines and concubines and concubines, she responded with a smile.

After watching for a while, Mother Jia felt tired, so she couldn't leave without permission, so she could only support herself. After noon, she asked Xu Qingheng to accompany her back to Rongguo Mansion.

Xu Qingheng returned home, saw Liu Xianglian went to Shenji Camp, and Jia Lian went to the household department, so he went to the Yingchun room, sat on the Yingchun bed and embraced the elder brother who still had a little face on his forehead , laughed and said: "Brother Yuan will catch Zhou in the future, we must not make those ghosts think, otherwise, it would be meaningless to catch."

Yingchun only wrapped her hair with a handkerchief, and was wearing an apricot-colored gown. She stretched out her hand to tuck the child's quilt, and said with a smile, "What kind of thought can a child have?"

Xu Qingheng said with a smile: "If you go, you will understand. The Ninth Prince grabbed something and turned back to find his mother and concubine. Is there any ghost here?" After hugging him, when he heard that Jia Lian was back, he hugged her The child went out and waited at the corner gate, and sure enough, he saw Jia Lian coming in slowly as before.

"Why did you come back so late?" Xu Qingheng asked.

Jia Lian said with a smile, "It's a good thing."

"What good thing?"

"Because I was asked to join the Household Department half a year in advance, thanks to the King of Beijing, Lao Shangshu and a few brothers running around, now as soon as I enter the Household Department, I will be in charge of the Shanxi Cleaning Department. I don't know how many years others have asked for such a good thing. " Jia Lian approached, coughed lightly, took the child from Xu Qingheng's arms, held the child in his arms and shook it lightly, "Like a monkey." Then he stuffed it back into Xu Qingheng's hand.

"Be careful and ask Yingchun to hear it." Xu Qingheng hugged the child and did not let go, followed Jia Lian into the back building, saw him flipping through the posts on the bookshelf, and said, "Does the Ninth Prince matter have anything to do with you?"

"It's ok."

"Really? How can their family have such great ability to say that it's a good thing, and it's a good thing?" Xu Qingheng snorted softly, and when Brother Yuan opened his eyes to look at her, he made a tut-tsk sound to tease him.

"Whether their family is capable or not, how do I know?" Jia Lian sneered, and sat at the desk with an abacus to calculate the accounts.Due to some delays earlier, there were many accounts that were not clear, so the calculation went until dark, and when he returned from the household department the next day, he still accompanied Xu Qingheng, who was coaxing the children, to settle the accounts.

Just as he was doing the math, he suddenly saw Yuanyang come in and said, "Second Master, the Xue family is overjoyed, just now Eunuch Dai announced the decree to the Xue family in person, the Xiande concubine is now a Xiande noble concubine."

"Yo, so fast?" Xu Qingheng said something nonchalant, and put his cheek on Brother Yuan's face in his arms. Take her back to Yingchun.

Jia Lian said as if nothing happened: "I can't keep up with the excitement of building the provincial hospital."

Yuanyang smiled and said: "Don't just talk about these things, tell me quickly, what do you want to send to congratulate?"

Jia Lian thought about it, and then said, "I saw what other people sent, so I also sent something over." Thinking that Wang Xifeng wanted to "thank you", and maybe he would send something to Rongguo Mansion again, he said, "Xue If the family wants to send something, just accept it."

"Hey." Yuanyang agreed, and then went out, suddenly remembered something, and asked again: "The brothers from the Hu family next door have won the first few prizes, what do you want to send to congratulate?"

"Follow the old rules." Xu Qingheng put his hands on the desk and said.

Yuanyang agreed again, and went away, and came back about two hours later, and she brought back a box of white money, and said: "Grandma Xue said, thank you for your advice, and I hope that Second Master Lian will not hesitate to teach you in the future. "

Xu Qingheng was sitting beside Jia Lian writing. When he saw so many silver taels, he smiled and said, "It's really a businessman. There are borrows and repayments." Let's go."

Yuanyang agreed, and asked again: "Xue's family has a banquet, will the two of you go?"

"No." Xu Qingheng said.

Jia Lian thought for a while, then said, "Get off the sedan chair, and I'll go later."

"Hey." Yuanyang agreed and went.

Xu Qingheng said in surprise: "Why are you going again?"

"Go and see what it means to cook oil with a strong fire and bloom flowers with brocade."