Queen of the Lin family in the Red Chamber

The current queen mother is also getting older. Looking back on her life, there are twists and turns and pains, but most of them are lucky. All the sharpness dissipated.

The current queen mother is a kind-hearted little old lady, and she is also a little old lady who treats Wanyu very well.

Seeing Wanyu come in, she beckoned and said, "Come and let me have a look. I heard the emperor said that your father is worried about you, let me see if you have lost weight?"

Wanyu walked up to the Empress Dowager generously, and let the Empress Dowager look at her, "I'm not thinner, I'm more juicy."

Concubine Wu Gui who was next to her smiled and said, "No, the water and soil in the palace are the most nourishing. I just don't know... which brat will be cheaper in the future."

The queen mother took her hand and said with a smile: "If the fat and water don't flow into other people's fields, it must belong to our family."

The expressions of the three girls who came in with Wanyu changed a little at this time. It is said that the first wave of summons is always the best, but since they entered the door, they saluted and said a few words, the limelight has faded away. Being completely occupied by Wanyu alone, they became a foil, slightly jealous.

Before they came, they had rehearsed many times at home. Their fathers were all high officials, and their mothers also had imperial orders. Naturally, they knew the Queen Mother, so I dare not say they are familiar with them, but they always said a few words, so I told them I have a lot of anger about my daughter's temper about the queen mother, but today, it seems that doing more is fake.

The queen mother is as kind as an acquaintance, and she can laugh better than the grandparents at home.

"Queen, don't just look at one, there are three more small water onions waiting for you." The queen laughed.

The smile on the Empress Dowager's face faded. Even so, the original Empress Dowager had to respect the world when she was a queen, and she had to take care of everything. Now that she is finally able to be self-willed, someone reminded her in her ear, "Rain and Dew!" Junzhan", the queen mother was a little unhappy.

She went from empress to empress dowager, and the two men in her family were emperors successively. Unlike the empress dowager who relies on the concubine to ascend to power, the new emperor treats her with a real mother-child relationship, and the emperor is also an old companion to her, in other words Well, the Queen Mother has wayward capital, and a lot of it.

Of course, the queen mother also understood that she should not be too indifferent to the other people, and she also thought about changing someone after a few more words with Wanyu, but this slight mistake was brought up by others, which is not acceptable.

The Queen Mother smiled and said, "That one belongs to Sun Pengbing's family?"

Sun Xiazhen took a step forward and said a blessing, "If you go back to the empress dowager, it's your grandfather." The little girl's voice was crisp and clear, and the empress dowager was in a much better mood, and asked, "Your grandfather is a capable man." After speaking, the empress dowager smiled and said : "He is a civil servant, how did he get such a name?"

How did Sun Xiazhen know that she didn't even know her grandfather's name until she was near the palace, not to mention the allusions in it, but when the queen mother asked her, she couldn't help but say, um, for a long time, cold sweat was left behind, but a word didn't come out .

The queen mother just asked casually, this kind of question is not included in the standard questions when meeting the queen mother, it is more like the usual idle chatter, Sun Xiazhen has prepared the standard questions clearly, but the queen mother does not play cards according to common sense now Yes, she ran out of words.

Seeing that the scene was going to be cold, the queen hurriedly said: "Mother, if you ask the child's grandfather, you will naturally not be able to answer it. If you ask the father, you might know."

The Empress Dowager's face softened slightly, and the Empress said again like a ghost, "Wanyu, do you know why your father's single name is the word Hai?"

Wanyu felt that the queen was a little deliberate, so she should decisively change the subject at this time, but... anyway, Lin Ruhai wouldn't blame her for what she said, and said, "Of course it's my grandfather's expectation for my father, I hope his heart can be as big as the sea. Broad, knowledge can be as wide as the sea." After Wanyu finished speaking, seeing that the queen seemed to have something to say, she hastily added another sentence.

"But why the words on the table were like a sea later, I guess it's because my grandfather was lazy and ran out of words." There was a bit of complaint in his tone.

The Queen Mother laughed.

The queen joked, "You kid, you even made up your own grandfather."

But it would be too cheap for the queen to just pass by like this, Wanyu added: "I have never seen my grandfather since I was born, but since it is my own grandfather, I would not blame me if I think about it." This sentence immediately felt sad up.

The queen mother hurriedly comforted: "We are all a family, and your grandfather thought so too."

It will be the queen's turn to change her face.

Interrupted by such an interruption, the remaining two girls turned back without saying a word.The Empress Dowager left the Empress to talk, and Concubine Wu and Concubine Yu left the Palace of Compassion and Ning together.

Concubine Wu Gui wanted to draw a clear line with Concubine Yu. She had heard the emperor say that she was not very satisfied with these people. In addition, the eighth prince was now the eighth prince, and he bullied them in the upper study. She lived in Kangyang, her home, so to Concubine Yu, Concubine Wu would hide if she could, and if she couldn't hide, she would fight haha, in short, stay away.

But Concubine Yu is now living in the palace behind the Palace of Compassion and Ning, and the two of them can walk around two corners together at most, no matter what excuse they find to avoid it, it is too deliberate.

As if nothing had happened, Concubine Yu seemed to be recalling the few words the empress had just said, and suddenly spoke in an extremely low voice, the kind of voice that she said to herself without paying attention, "The empress doesn't seem to like Wanyu?"

Concubine Wu's ears perked up, she was thinking about the trace of taboo towards Wanyu revealed in the emperor's words last time, although the emperor said it just once.But Concubine Wu Gui thought that this was the only time that could further show that the emperor was very guarded against her, otherwise, according to the emperor's fiery and awkward temper, he should have taken action long ago.So Concubine Wu also pretended to whisper: "It's just that she doesn't like it, but His Majesty likes it, and there are two sons in my family."

After saying this, they reached the intersection, and the two of them left in a panic as if they had just woken up from a big dream.But all they think about is: it depends on whether she takes the bait or not.

On the way back, Sun Xiazhen didn't talk to Wanyu, she was a little grateful for Wanyu's rescue, but she was actually a little jealous that Wanyu could talk freely in front of the queen mother and queen, but in the end Sun Xiazhen was still a good girl , so she was a little uncomfortable with her contradictory psychology.

When she went back in the evening, she was always sullen and didn't talk much, Wanyu didn't pay much attention to others, and she wasn't her own sister, so why bother to help others.

But within two days, word spread that Wanyu was especially liked by the Queen Mother.There was such a saying before, but at that time it was mostly because of Wanyu's roots of wisdom, and now the rumor has almost become that the queen mother just likes Wanyu, even more than she likes the queen.

The gossip, the big gossip, or the gossip about the royal family spread very quickly in the palace, and within two days even Lin Ruhai heard the news.

He also said that he is not afraid of being framed by others, and that he is upright and not swaying, like a tiger at home, and that he was framed by others after entering the palace, after all, he is still a father.

So when there was no one in the afternoon, Lin Ruhai knelt in front of the emperor, and said in a mournful voice, "Your Majesty, I only have such a daughter. I don't want her to have great fortune, but I want her to live a safe life."

The emperor didn't take this message to heart at first. The so-called message is limited to a wise man. Besides, he is in his forties, so he said: "Aiqing is also in a mess? I remember that I gave you a piece of paper when Wanyu was one year old." Yupei, this is the betrothal gift, and later I went to the south of the Yangtze River with my father, and my father also said that I want Wanyu to marry Kant, why, Aiqing is going to go back on her word now?"

Lin Ruhai kowtowed twice, "In that case, Your Majesty..." Let this kind of rumors come out, don't you think so?What big plans.Lin Ruhai raised his head suddenly, as if he had insight into some big secret, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, the whole family is used by His Majesty, and I will never hesitate to die."

Lin Ruhai pretended to be stupid, and led the emperor up by the way.

The emperor laughed twice, "Don't worry, Ai Qing, it will take another two days at most." The emperor naturally didn't have any big plans, but at this point, if there is no plan, there must be a plan.But the first task is to calm down the message first.

Those in the palace who are able to use slaves so generously don't think about anything other than the queen mother and queen. As for whether there is anyone who contributes to the flames, I can only check.So the emperor went to the Empress Dowager's palace first, with an embarrassed expression and not so sharp words, said: "Mother, Wanyu is a good girl. It's just... I'm already this age, and Kang He has also given birth to a son. Although Rong De... has been with his son for so many years, I didn't think..."

The Queen Mother laughed angrily, "You're too embarrassed to think about my little girl, you can be a grandfather at your age!" But after all, she couldn't bear to throw her son with a teacup, so she threw a pastry over, "Okay, I know how Something has happened. Hurry up and deal with government affairs!"

The emperor took the pastry and took two bites, "Mother, don't worry about it, it's better for the palace to be peaceful."

Before the emperor could walk out of the gate, the empress dowager stopped him again, and said solemnly: "You can't intercede with her again this time, the reputation of the girl's family is not for ruin."

The emperor nodded solemnly, and said: "My queen, she was actually pretty good when she first came in, please trouble my mother to teach you a lot."

With the empress dowager intervening, this matter quickly disappeared. The two beautiful women who got the news were kicked out of the palace. He was executed with a stick in the main hall at the entrance of Kunning Palace. The queen fell ill, and the palace affairs were temporarily taken over by the queen mother.

But Wanyu has suffered such a big grievance, is it just over?The queen mother thought for a while, and said to Cui Zhu: "Isn't the second daughter of the Lin family also named a township monarch, and next time the maid of honor pays her respects and announces her to the palace to see Wanyu."

But Cuizhu didn't go out, because more than one screen in the main hall of Kunning Palace fell down.

In the main hall of Kunning Palace, there is a screen facing the entrance, with a person standing taller, which can block the line of sight and prevent outsiders from peeping into the Kunning Palace. In fact, not only the Kunning Palace, but all the main halls in the palace have such a thing.Different from the screens used for decoration in ordinary houses, this screen is made of red sandalwood base, which is very thick, because it is used to block the view, and there is no hollowing on it. Even the illustrations in the middle are made of jade. This kind of thing , Let alone lifting it, even three or five people may not be able to push it down.

It wouldn't be a big deal if it just fell over, but this thing is broken.Can there be defective products in the palace?It must be impossible, but once in a while, the Ministry of Internal Affairs replaced it with a new one.Unexpectedly, as soon as it was replaced, the screen fell down again.

This time it was even worse, even the place where the screen was originally placed on the ground of Kunning Palace was a little cracked.

This is a big mess.

You must know that there is another name for the screen in ancient times, called: Xiao Qiang, which is the Xiao Qiang in the Xiao Qiang.In this case, the people in the palace couldn't help but think too much.

what to do?The palace began to do things on a large scale, not only the nuns from the Guanyin Nunnery, but even the monks from the Huguo Temple.It's a pity that it's useless, the screen is still falling down, and it's the same if someone looks at it. Even after three days, even the wooden tables and chairs in the hall began to join in the fun. Today you crack a crack, and tomorrow I will break a leg. In short, although the queen It's called sickness, so don't come out because it's nothing, but the Kunning Palace has begun to be lively.

The queen mother endured it for two days, and finally couldn't help scolding the queen again, "Just be your queen if you have nothing to do, and go to trouble the little girl if you have nothing to do, are you happy now?" People, the Empress Dowager announced Wanyu to come to the Palace of Compassion, and said: "Follow me to Kunning Palace to have a look."

Wanyu didn't refuse, and let the Queen Mother hold her hand all the way to Kunning Palace.Wanyu often comes to the main hall of Kunning Palace, but now it is different from when the queen mother became a queen. The main hall has been emptied, and there is nothing except table offerings and tributes for doing rituals, and there is cigarettes. The smell of smoky candles.

Wanyu held the Queen Mother's hand, but refused to let her in. She lowered her head and whispered, "It's not very good inside."

The Queen Mother was both surprised and delighted, alas... as long as you can see it.Then he asked again, "What did you see?"

Wanyu shook her head, covered her eyes and dared not look at Kunning Palace, thought for a moment and said: "It's not very good anyway, this palace can no longer live in people."

When it comes to matters of ghosts and gods, even the Empress Dowager is very cautious, and immediately took Wanyu back to the Palace of Compassion and Peace, half-leading and half-frightening people to ask clearly.

Therefore, the final result of this first battle was that the palace held a one-month porridge to reduce [-]% of the next year's tax, and the queen moved out from the Kunning Palace, and lived in the twelve concubines of the inner court just like ordinary concubines. Palace, Kunning Palace was temporarily changed into a sacrificial place.

The queen is really sick this time, from a fake grounding to a real inability to get out of bed.

Wanyu feels that she will not take the initiative to harm others, but she is definitely not a soft persimmon. The queen wants to ruin her reputation, so she can simply return it back. If you can't live in Kunning Palace, I see how arrogant you are.