Everyone was dumbfounded, Ji Qinglin clearly heard the sound of chopsticks falling to the ground, and couldn't help but glance at the emperor.

The Empress Dowager ignored everyone's astonished expressions, and said calmly and calmly: "The Ai family said 17 years ago that the daughter of the Ji family will definitely marry into the harem in the future, so inviting her here today is also to fulfill the promise of the Ai family. promise, after three days, we will welcome her into the harem."

"puff--"

Ji Qinglin spit out a mouthful of water, and looked at the queen mother in surprise, but saw the queen mother looked at him with a smile, like a loving mother.

The crowd was in an uproar, and they didn't even care about the loudness of their voices, they whispered to each other.

"Look, I'll tell you she's really a girl!"

"Tsk tsk tsk, no wonder Mr. Ji hides her every day. It's his idea! You're so calm, you haven't leaked anything in 17 years!"

"That's right, it's like the girl's red under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree, the longer it is hidden, the more valuable it is!"

Ji Qinglin couldn't believe it, she dared to point a deer like a horse in front of everyone, how could this Queen Mother be so confident?

Hearing the noise around him, he turned his head and asked Uncle Huo, "What should I do?"

Uncle Huo didn't even raise his eyes, he just put down his cup and said calmly, "Just wait and see."

The palace banquet ended in a hurry, Ji Qinglin walked back to the gate of the palace without looking sideways amidst the discussions, and got into his carriage.

The driver was startled, almost thinking that someone got into the wrong car, and stared at Uncle Huo with wide eyes.

Uncle Huo nodded, indicating what he should do.

The carriage started slowly, Ji Qinglin leaned in the swaying carriage and recalled today's events in detail, feeling very strange.

Thinking about it, he leaned towards the window and said to Uncle Huo in the night outside the window: "Uncle Huo, is it you?"

These words are not asking "Is the person outside the car you?", but "Go and tell the queen mother whether it is you who I admire the emperor."

Above the main hall, just as Uncle Huo disappeared, an eunuch went to whisper to the emperor, and then the queen mother left the table and called him to the back hall. When he came back, Uncle Huo was not surprised to see him in a skirt.

I can think of these not because Ji Qinglin is smart, but because Uncle Huo didn't even have any intention of hiding it from the beginning to the end.

Uncle Huo said calmly, "Yes."

Hearing his straightforward answer, Ji Qinglin felt a little more relaxed. After a moment of silence, he asked again: "Why did you do this?"

Uncle Huo said lightly: "I was entrusted by others."

Ji Qinglin asked, "Who?"

Uncle Huo was silent for a moment, then said: "No comment."

Ji Qinglin was helpless, he didn't actually expect to hear the truth from Uncle Huo, but now seeing Uncle Huo's attitude, he knew that he would not reveal more.

After thinking for a while, Ji Qinglin said: "Well, I won't ask anything else, I just want to know why the Queen Mother cooperates with you?"

If Ji Qinglin is really a girl, it seems understandable for the Queen Mother to do this, but he is a man after all, so he really doesn't understand the meaning of the Queen Mother's trick of getting a man into the palace.

Uncle Huo hesitated for a moment, walked to the front of the car and said to the driver: "The restaurant in front stops by the side."

After instructing the coachman, he went back to the window and said to Ji Qinglin: "The young master probably didn't eat enough at the palace banquet, let's go eat something."

Ji Qinglin nodded, knowing that Uncle Huo probably had something to say while walking, and wanted to find a quiet place where there were only the two of them.

When they arrived at the restaurant, Ji Qinglin ordered a few home-cooked dishes, and followed Uncle Huo upstairs into a private room.

After sitting down, Uncle Huo didn't bother talking about him anymore, and cut to the point: "How much do you know about the late emperor and the empress dowager?"

Ji Qinglin shrugged: "I don't know anything."

One is the old emperor who died before he was born, and the other is the old empress who is so scheming that people can't figure it out. How can Ji Qinglin, a young man who can only sneak out of the house occasionally for many years, understand them?

Uncle Huo nodded, Ji Qinglin poured him a cup of tea and handed it to him.

Uncle Huo took the teacup and squeezed it in his hands, and said, "This matter has to start when the late Emperor was young."

Seeing that Uncle Huo was about to give a long speech, Ji Qinglin suddenly had the feeling of listening to a book in a teahouse. He casually took the melon seeds on the table, kowtowed them and nodded.

In other words, the enthronement of the first emperor is rather strange.

At that time, the late emperor's father did not die, but he suddenly declared that he had comprehended the way of heaven and wanted to go back to the mountains and forests.He didn't listen to any dissuasion, and left as soon as he said he would, leaving his wife, children and officials behind.

A country cannot be without a king for a day. The young first emperor sat on the throne ignorantly. Like the current emperor, his mother listened to the government behind the curtain.

As a mother, there is no one who does not want to have a grandson, so when the late emperor grew up a little bit, she impatiently filled the harem for the late emperor.

Unexpectedly, the first emperor seemed very dissatisfied with the inclusion of seven or eight people in the palace, and he didn't even bother to touch them.

All the ministers in the court were eager to cling to the new emperor, and as long as there were girls of the right age in their own families or side branches, they would swarm to send them to the late emperor.

At that time, Mr. Xiangguo was no exception, and his daughter, whom he regarded as the jewel in his palm, was just about to marry.

It's similar to the plots that often appear in opera books. At that time, the eldest lady already had a sweetheart, and that was a scholar.

When the scholar heard the bad news, he was anxious to elope with the eldest lady, and the two also agreed on a time to escape.

That night, the moon was dark and the wind was high, and the cold dew was cold. The scholar waited all night at the agreed place, but he couldn't wait for the eldest lady to come.

On the second day, when the scholar heard that the eldest lady had been sent to the palace, he was immediately disheartened.The so-called feeling of time, flowers splashing tears, and hating the birds frightened, he wandered in the capital, and all he could see were the traces of the past, so he had to wave his sleeves and travel far away from the capital.

However, if it was in the playbook, it would definitely make up a story about how the young lady was forced to be sent to the palace by the cruel father because of helplessness, but in fact, this young lady of the Xiangfu is really He is not a person who will lose his mind because of petty love.

She didn't go to the appointment that night, but it was because she knew that the two of them were alone and weak, and they couldn't make any waves in this world. It would be better if they were arrested and punished after going through a lot of ups and downs Don't think about it.

When she was sent into the palace, she made up her mind to make a good appearance. After all, she was born with beauty, intelligence and intelligence. She was proficient in all kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and she felt that she would be able to subdue the emperor properly.

Unexpectedly, she was just like those vulgar fans, and ended up being ignored by the late emperor.

The eldest lady was very frustrated, but she was also curious about what kind of woman the emperor liked, so she watched carefully around the late emperor.

Not long after, she discovered a surprising fact - the emperor didn't like women at all.

That's right, the first emperor was a broken sleeve.

The eldest lady was very depressed, but she didn't give up, she just made up her mind that she wanted to change this situation and this man.

However, this was obviously not an easy task. The eldest lady spent several years but failed to achieve her wish. The late emperor had always been indifferent to all the women in the harem, and almost never touched them.

A few years later, according to the ancestral system, no one in the palace has been favored, and no one has given birth to a dragon son. The status of all the concubines in the harem has not changed since entering the palace. He deservedly sat on this throne.

But on the day of the Empress Seal Ceremony, another woman replaced her halo.

On that day, the most beautiful woman in the Northern Territory, who is said to be the most beautiful in the world, came to Beijing to set up a competition to choose her husband by words.This move shocked the capital, from the children of the aristocratic family to the common people all went to watch, it can be described as an empty alley.

And the person who won the first place in Wen Lei is the scholar.

Hearing this news, the eldest lady was furious and raged in the palace, but after she calmed down, she could only laugh at her anger for being unreasonable.

At the beginning, she chose to enter the palace, and she herself abandoned the past with the scholar. Now that she has "fulfilled her wish" and ascended to the post, and the scholar has his own family, what can she blame?

She shook her head and smiled wryly, rather than blaming it, it might be better to say it was jealousy.

In the next ten years, the eldest lady still did not give up her plan to change the late emperor. She tried her best to make the late emperor feel the beauty of women, and hoped that the late emperor would completely give up the habit of breaking sleeves.

She seemed to have succeeded, the late Emperor finally had some interest in the woman, but not in her.

The first emperor fell in love with the scholar's eldest daughter, the woman who was said to be ashamed by the people in the capital.

If the eldest lady was struck by lightning, she would find it difficult to accept this result. She felt that this was a joke made by God with her, a joke that made her extremely shameful.

Fortunately, the scholar rejected the late emperor's request to accept his eldest daughter as a concubine, and even betrothed all his daughters within a year to avoid future troubles.

Although the first emperor was displeased, he did not do the thing of forcibly robbing the women, so he had to give up in resentment.

Although the eldest lady felt resentment in her heart, but the matter had come to this point, she had to go on the path she chose no matter what.

She no longer has any hope for the late emperor's feelings, and since she is no longer looking forward to feelings, then all she can hold on to is power and status. Now that she has a posthumous position, the only thing she needs to stabilize her position is one stuff - kids.

After thinking about this point clearly, she suppressed the disgust in her heart and forced herself to imitate the make-up and posture of the book-grown girl with a frown and a smile to get along with the late emperor, and finally got a child as she wished.

Concubine, boy, this child will naturally become the crown prince. For the eldest lady, as long as there is this child, everything else is not important.

Two years later, the first emperor became seriously ill, and passed away a year later. The three-year-old prince successfully ascended the throne. Because of his young age, his mother's descendants were in charge of the government.

……

After saying this, Uncle Huo looked at Ji Qinglin and said, "What do you think?"

Ji Qinglin had a nonchalant expression on his face, he ate melon seeds and smiled casually: "The empress dowager's love life is really bumpy."

Uncle Huo was speechless for a moment, then said, "What else?"

"There are more?" Ji Qinglin rolled his eyes, "Is there any more?"

"How could it not?" Uncle Huo frowned, "Think about it carefully, that scholar, that beauty, that eldest daughter?"

Ji Qinglin said indifferently: "I know, the scholar is my father, the beauty is my mother, and the eldest daughter is my sister."

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