The song of the new female concubine is full of peach blossoms

I never thought that I would meet alone under such circumstances. Although they had been side by side for more than half a year, the two of them, as if they had agreed, did not even look at each other when they left the court.

Feng Suzhen, who was hastily called into the palace by the eunuchs in the palace, stood outside the Xuanzheng Hall. After an awkward greeting with Zhang Shaomin who was standing outside waiting to be summoned, they each stood on the side of the corridor.One stood with his hands behind his back and looked towards the sky, the other frowned and looked at the ground in thought, as if he didn't know anyone.

There was no sound coming from the palace, the little eunuch who brought Feng Suzhen in reported to the emperor, but only received an order to let Feng Suzhen continue to stand outside and wait, without a communication, he was not allowed to enter.

The palace lanterns were slowly lit, illuminating the red walls and blue bricks.From time to time, a group of palace imperial guards equipped with swords passed by the entrance of the Xuanzheng Hall. When they saw the two most powerful officials in the dynasty, they saluted from a distance before leaving.

Feng Suzhen began to think that the emperor let her into the palace to let her lead Tianxiang back. After all, with Tianxiang's temperament, it is not surprising that she would quarrel with the emperor.But after waiting for so long, there was no sound coming from the hall. The eerie silence made Feng Suzhen wonder what happened.

"Cough, Feng... No, Marquis Mingguang, was it announced by the emperor that you came to the palace?" Maybe it was meaningless to stand there like this, so Zhang Shaomin hesitated again and again and took the initiative to talk to Feng Suzhen, who was frowning more and more.

Interrupted from thinking, Feng Suzhen didn't seem to come back to her senses for a moment, she was stunned for a while, then turned around and cupped her hands at Zhang Shaomin, and said, "What advice does Prime Minister Zhang have?"

The question was not heard, so Zhang Shaomin decided to ignore the question that had nothing to say, and replied: "I dare not take the advice, I just want to know what Feng Hou is talking about in the palace? I go in?"

Feng Suzhen shook her head, "The emperor only said that the next official would enter the palace, but he didn't say anything about it."

Zhang Shaomin was still waiting for Feng Suzhen to ask himself again, but he turned around after Feng Suzhen finished speaking, without any intention of continuing to chat with him to pass the time.

The two were silent for a while, and Zhang Shaomin mustered up his courage again and said, "It's getting colder today."

"Ah."

Zhang Shaomin tightened his palms, swallowed the untruthful words he had cultivated over the years, licked his frozen lips, and said, "I heard that Lord Hou has been living in the Princess Mansion? Didn't go back to his own mansion?" Do you want to see it?"

To Zhang Shaomin's relief, the glass-like person who had been standing sideways looked over at him. Although his eyes were indifferent to the point of a little disgust, they finally prevented that person from ignoring him, and Zhang Shaomin comforted himself.

"The princess is the wife of the subordinate, shouldn't the husband and wife live together? The subordinate remembers that the prime minister has a concubine's room, and the prime minister does not live with the concubine, so he thinks that the husband and wife should not live together?"

These words are both mean and rude, there is a rule in the royal family, unless the consort is summoned by the princess, he is not allowed to live in the princess mansion for a long time.Not to mention that the two were so inseparable that the Ministry of Rites couldn't bear to see it anymore, and they handed over memorials repeatedly to denounce the matter, but the emperor deliberately indulged in it, and Zhang Shaomin mediated through it, so that the matter did not become a big deal, and everyone lived in peace. now.It is impossible for Feng Suzhen not to know the reason. After all, she has to go to court every day, and occasionally gossip will fall into her ears.She didn't thank Zhang Shaomin, and went back with a bit of sarcasm, which was really wrong.

And Zhang Shaomin didn't expect that he would get these words, but he didn't want to get angry with Feng Suzhen, he sighed slightly, and apologized to Feng Suzhen: "I'm sorry, the words of the lower officials are inappropriate, please forgive me."

She was ready to have a verbal battle with Zhang Shaomin, but she didn't expect that the other party apologized to herself without asking why, which made Feng Suzhen's face turn red, and she realized how small she was, and quickly replied: "It should be I didn't I'm sorry, I'm really worried about the princess because of the reason I haven't been allowed to enter the palace, so I couldn't control my temper and made the prime minister laugh, I hope the prime minister will not be surprised."

"It's because the lower official didn't consider Lord Hou's mood, it's because the lower official was inappropriate."

"No no...heh," Feng Suzhen suddenly laughed, "Being an official in the same dynasty is a kind of fate. You and I don't need to be so humble to be humble."

"Oh, yes, I don't know if it's possible..." Having learned from the past, Zhang Shaomin dared not say anything casually.

Feng Suzhen seemed to know what Zhang Shaomin was thinking, and said with a smile: "I think the Prime Minister knows, because I was injured, I forgot some of the people who were involved in the accident. I survived this time and returned to the capital. People don't do everything well, I feel fearful, maybe I and the prime minister are good friends and confidantes, but now we are like strangers, it is inevitable that the prime minister will blame me in his heart. If the prime minister is willing to get to know me again, huh, I don't know if I can forgive my foolish brother for taking the liberty, Call me Brother Zhang?"

Zhang Shaomin was overjoyed and hurriedly said: "Where is it, I always wanted to get close to Brother Feng, but I was afraid of being too abrupt, and secondly, I didn't know what identity I used to make friends with Brother Feng, so I delayed it for so long..."

Before Zhang Shaomin could finish his sentence, the door of Xuanzheng Hall, which had been closed all the time, opened, and it was Wang Gonggong who came out. He looked a little strange, looked at him, and said with a smile: "The Emperor Xuanming Guanghou sees you."

"Yes." Feng Suzhen glanced back at Zhang Shaomin, nodded and prepared to follow the prince into the palace.

"Wait a minute," Zhang Shaomin hurriedly stepped forward, leaning into Feng Suzhen's ear and whispered, "In two days, my baby will be full moon, Brother Feng must come then!"

She doesn't like to get too close to others, Feng Suzhen resisted the urge to push Zhang Shaomin away, frowning and listening to him, she was puzzled again.I just finished being courteous with him, and this person has come to know me well enough to invite me to his house as a guest?

"Master Hou, hurry up and go in, the emperor is waiting." Wang Gonggong urged.

Zhang Shaomin took a quick glance at Eunuch Wang, and added firmly: "You must come!"

Feng Suzhen glanced at Zhang Shaomin suspiciously, nodded, and followed the prince into the inner hall.

There was an earth dragon in the hall, and Feng Suzhen, who was frozen outdoors, let out a sigh of relief, untied the cloak on her body and handed it to the little eunuch who was waiting on the side, and followed the prince to go inside.After entering the inner hall, Feng Suzhen glanced sideways at Tianxiang who was standing with her back behind her, and then knelt on the ground and shouted long live three times.

The young emperor had sunken cheeks, dull eyes with blue eyes, unlike a king of a country in his prime.From the bottom of her heart, Feng Suzhen looked down on this former wooden bird prince and now the puppet emperor.It's just that in such a big country, apart from him, there is no other legitimate successor, so a group of veterans can only be conscientiously assisting and guarding the country carefully.

"There are no outsiders here, get up, Feng Suzhen." Dongfang Haoyang leaned back in the chair, disapproving of the existence of Wang Gonggong.

Feng Suzhen thanked the emperor, stood up, and found that Tianxiang had already faced her, but there was something wrong with the expression on her face, but thinking that since the emperor had summoned her, she would definitely make it clear to herself, so she suppressed the uneasiness in her heart, Wait patiently for the emperor to open his mouth.

"Actually, I originally called you here to let you take my imperial sister back, but now it's for something else." After Dongfang Haoyang finished speaking, he glanced at Tianxiang and said, "The imperial sister said your Your intelligence is comparable to that of my imperial brother-in-law, and I still remember the praise my mother gave you when I was young, so you have to analyze and analyze something, did I do something wrong?"

Feng Suzhen took a sneak look at Tianxiang's expression, seeing that she was helpless and angry, so she hurriedly waited for her.

Dongfang Haoyang picked up a small wooden carving from the table, played with it and said: "Feng Suzhen, you said, the sacrificial burial system existed in ancient times. I want the concubines in the harem to accompany my father. I just want to do my best to be filial. Is there something wrong?"

Hearing the words, Feng Suzhen looked at the young emperor who said these words casually in astonishment, and asked, "Your Majesty, what did you say? My minister, my minister may not have heard clearly."

Looking up at Feng Suzhen, Dongfang Haoyang smiled lightly and said, "It's not that you didn't hear clearly, but I can say it again, I want the late emperor's concubines to be buried for the late emperor."

Turning to look at Tianxiang, Tianxiang nodded to her, and sighed, obviously she tried her best, maybe she not only failed to convince the emperor, but was probably persuaded.

Feng Suzhen took a deep breath and asked, "Your Majesty, it has been more than half a year since the late Emperor's funeral, why did you only think about the funeral now?"

"I dreamed about my father some time ago. My father said that it was dark down here. He was very scared by himself. I hope I can help him. Since the women in the harem were honored and favored by my father before his death, they should go down and continue to serve him now." That's right."

"According to my understanding of the sacrificial burial system, only barren concubines are eligible to be buried. However, the late emperor devoted himself to Empress Yihui for decades, and there are only a handful of concubines who have given birth afterwards. Such a huge number of concubines , if all of them are buried, I am afraid that the ruling and opposition parties will unanimously oppose it?"

The first thing Dongfang Haoyang did when he came to the throne was to make Concubine Yihui the empress dowager. If his father could not do it, then he would do it, let Concubine Yihui be buried with Dongfang Wu as a queen .Because Dongfang Haoyang is the emperor, it is reasonable and also in the royal regulations to elevate the status of his mother, so no one in the whole country complains.

"I have considered this. I will only choose those concubines who have never received the grace of a dragon, and none of the court ladies will be buried. In this way, there will only be a dozen or so."

"Dare to ask the emperor, have these dozens of people been compiled into a book?"

Looking at Feng Suzhen in surprise, Dongfang Haoyang smiled and said: "You are really smart, no wonder the imperial sister values ​​you so much. The roster has indeed been written, I need you to think of a reason for me to shut up those annoying old men in the court."

"Isn't the reason why the emperor dreamed of the former emperor enough?" Feng Suzhen asked strangely.

"Of course it's not enough! If you want to say that, they will definitely accuse me of being addicted to playthings, resulting in mental abnormalities and strange powers. They will also say that I didn't do my filial piety when the first emperor was alive, but after his death, he engaged in such careless things." Dongfang Haoyang is very familiar with the group of courtiers under him, even if it hasn't happened yet, he has already foreseen the possibility.

Eunuch Wang gave a "puchi" laugh, Dongfang Haoyang squinted at him, Eunuch Wang quickly suppressed his smile, and looked at his nose, nose, nose, and heart as if he had settled down.

"Since the emperor already knew the reaction of the court, why did he insist on burying people? Can pottery and paper figurines be used instead of living people?"

"I just said you were smart, so why did you become stupid?" Dongfang Haoyang shook his head, "The living people have seen Father and have feelings for Father. How could those pottery figurines and Father meet for the first time? Serving the royal father?"

A little dumbfounded for a moment, Feng Suzhen looked at the silent Tianxiang again, and understood why she couldn't hear a sound from inside the hall outside the hall. Apart from the fact that she didn't have the internal strength to hear it, Tianxiang was sometimes unable to answer because of the emperor's words. , only silence.

"The emperor must be buried alive?" Feng Suzhen confirmed.

"Yes, I will let Zhang Shaomin in later for this purpose. But I don't want him to know too much, so I will talk to you separately."

"Then please ask the emperor to allow the minister to think carefully with the princess after returning, and discuss it with the emperor after thinking of a perfect plan."

"Sure. But as soon as possible, I don't have the patience to wait now."

"I obey the order." Feng Suzhen bowed and looked at Tianxiang. After returning, Tianxiang will explain to herself.