Mrs. Pin, one of the Red House

Let's say that after Ning Yun returned to the capital, he first went to Wei Ruozhu Palace to pay his respects, and then returned to the Empress Dowager Zhen.

When she went there, the Empress Dowager Zhen was wearing a deep purple makeup and floral gown, with a ruby ​​Chaoyang nine-tailed colorful phoenix hairpin on her side, and a big lustrous tassel on her thumb belly. She was squinting her eyes and resting on the imperial concubine's bed. On one side, he beat Empress Dowager Zhen's leg unhurriedly.

After the female officer went in, Xuan Ningyun went in.

Ning Yun said with a blessing: "I have seen the empress dowager, the empress dowager is blessed and safe."

The Empress Dowager Zhen opened her eyes, and raised her hand to signal Lu Jieyu and the rest of the palace to retreat, then sat upright slowly and said to Ning Yun, "Do you still remember Aijia in your heart? It's really not easy."

The tone was a little displeased.

Ning Yun understood that this was the one that Empress Dowager Zhen knew she had made with Daiyu in Jiangnan, but said in a respectful tone, "My servant is only able to be supported by the Empress Dowager today. How can you be ungrateful if you still care about what the Empress Dowager asked for?"

"Then tell me, how are you doing with this matter?" The Empress Dowager Zhen had a sneer on her face when she spoke, "No matter how I look at it, you have left your affairs behind .”

Since the late emperor left, she didn't need to pretend to be the mother of the world anymore, perhaps because she had suppressed it for too long, gradually everything she thought in her heart appeared on her face.

For example, if she is angry now, she will scold her with a stern face, rather than entrusting her to the snake.

Back then, it was the crown prince and the king of rites fighting for Jiangnan, but now it is the queen mother and queen fighting for Jiangnan.

Ning Yun was not in a hurry to defend, but said with a smile: "Of course I don't dare, I have a reason for what I do, so I dare to ask the Queen Mother to listen to me."

Empress Dowager Zhen snorted coldly and said, "Get up and sit down first."

It's a tacit consent.

When Ning Yun returned to the south of the Yangtze River this time, he also returned with the words of Queen Mother Zhen, and the words of Queen Mother Zhen coincided with what Queen Wei told Daiyu to do.

They all shuffled Jiangnan and appointed his confidants.

Although in the end she colluded with Daiyu and each used half of it, Xu Jinglan from the Empress Dowager Party served as the right chief envoy, and the left chief envoy did not move, and Liao Ying from the Queen's Party served as the inspector of western Zhejiang. Zhong Ge's distant nephew Zhong Qing, and the rest are also divided in half.

Shi Ding complained a lot about this matter at the beginning, and he talked with Ning Yun a lot, but Ning Yun had no choice but to take a tough attitude——Shi Dingtan wanted to pick people in by himself, and Ning Yun took the former Tan Yun and Brother Shen. things to talk about.

Of course, threats are not missing. For example, when the two broke up unhappy before, Ning Yun threatened Shi Ding that it would be a big deal to expose this matter to Yu Shi Zhongcheng.

If Censor Zhongcheng impeaches local officials, he will basically cut them into blank slates.

Shi Ding also knew about this matter, but he had no choice but to compromise in the hands of others.

For Jiangnan's arrangement, Queen Wei barely accepted it. At least she came from Jiangnan and knew how difficult the situation in Jiangnan was, so she felt that Daiyu's move was wise.

But Empress Dowager Zhen is not.

It's true, Empress Dowager Zhen is a showman.

The Empress Dowager Zhen is not a person who can't listen to her words. She knows that she is from a small family and has no literary talent or martial arts in her belly. Therefore, when the Empress Dowager and Queen are in charge of politics at the same time, she will hand over all major external affairs to the Empress Wei. She doesn't ask any questions at all, and fully supports her, but she wants to meddle in internal affairs. Her suppression of the queen guard is not the usual mentality of a mother-in-law suppressing her daughter-in-law. On the other hand, she is also afraid that the queen will become emperor and stand on her own.

On that day, Empress Zetian became an empress step by step from being a regent of a queen, and Empress Dowager Liu was also a regent of a queen mother. Although she did not become emperor in the end, she reached the point of offering sacrifices to ancestors in dragon robes.

Empress Dowager Zhen had to worry about this, especially when Empress Wei's father was still the second assistant of the court.

"I'd like to hear what tricks you can come up with." Queen Mother Zhen said half-jokingly and half-threateningly.

Ning Yun quickly replied: "Your servant can't tell you anything, so before you say anything, you have to come here and apologize to the Queen Mother." As he spoke, he returned his blessing, smiled, and pretended to be pitiful to Bala. Looking at the Empress Dowager Zhen, "I don't know if the Empress Dowager can spare the servant girl."

The Empress Dowager Zhen sneered and said, "If you don't play tricks, your surname will not be Shi." She twisted the emerald beads on her wrist, "Tell me, this is the end of the matter, just like the Ai family can still say what you are wrong of."

Only then did Ning Yun laugh and said: "Nowadays, turmoil is imminent, and the forces in the south of the Yangtze River have been complicated since the establishment of the dynasty. The first emperor and Prince Ai both wanted to rectify it, but in the end they were powerless and let it go."

Empress Dowager Zhen nodded.

Of course she knows this.

The former prince fell on the Jiangnan incident.

"Even if you change a group of people, even if you use pure ministers, like the first emperor, it is indeed useful at the beginning, but in the end, different parties will be formed because of their different interests. Besides, Jiangnan is a land of fish and rice, and the rich side , Officials and businessmen are basically inseparable, it is better to let nature take its course." Ning Yun said, "Now one party is your cronies of the queen mother, and the other is the queen's confidant, the two are naturally enemies, and they will naturally stare at each other in small matters. It’s not easy to point out the other party. Of course, you will do your best in everything. On big things, it’s easy for you to restrain yourself. If you want to do something, the next one will follow it naturally. Empress Wei can also say it. Isn’t this the best of both worlds? "

In fact, the first emperor's approach has merits, but it is a pity that it cannot keep up with the changes, especially in the later period when the heads of Jiangnan officials were not in Beijing at all, and it was simply beyond our reach.

Ning Yun also had selfish intentions in this matter, because according to her understanding of Shi Ding, Shi Ding could not suppress the officials below at all, so she simply cut off Shi Ding's desire to suppress the people below, so as not to cause trouble to the upper body, because the general How many people from different backgrounds can do that for Wei Yansheng?

——However, Wei Yansheng was also a civil servant at the beginning. He was born as a second-ranked scholar, and later turned into a general.

Empress Dowager Zhen was silent for Ning Yun's words.

After weighing things up, the Empress Dowager Zhen said: "It's not impossible." The dissatisfaction in the tone of the words has been reduced a lot, but there is not much joy that can be heard.

"If something happens, you will be the one to take care of it, do you know?" Queen Mother Zhen's tone suddenly became serious.

Ning Yun lowered his eyebrows and said, "Yes."

"Kneel down, Ai's family is also tired." Empress Dowager Zhen waved her hands, rubbing her temples, feeling a bit of a headache. Cloud some other details.

Ning Yun finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The Queen's banquet was held in the evening. If Ning Yun returned to the palace, it would be too late to enter the palace. If she went to the Queen's place, she knew that Daiyu and Queen Wei were going to have a discussion, so it was not appropriate for her to rush over and interfere. After coming out of Shoukang Palace, he simply went to Pixiang Palace where Lan Yun lived.

When Ning Yun left, Lan Yun was pulling Yingchun to talk, now Yingchun is no longer the same as when she was in Jia's mansion, although the eyebrows are still gentle, the oval face, the willow eyebrows, the skin is as creamy, but there is a faint atmosphere , she was wearing a palace dress, with a thin layer of gold on the outside of the beige. The butterfly wore a light pink gauze dress with flowers, which made people full of energy.

Seeing Ning Yun coming in, Lan Yun smiled and said, "I even talked about you with Sister Jia." He quickly ordered the palace servants to give him a seat.

Lan Yun is now a noble concubine, wearing tulip-colored embroidered rich peony make-up and flowers cross-collar double-breasted sash, wearing a necklace, and a golden skirt with folded grapes and floating clouds underneath, and a lotus-colored golden hundred-flower drape on her arm , wearing a sapphire and golden phoenix hairpin, and now the queen guard is in charge of the front court. As soon as the harem responds to affairs, she throws her hands away to Lan Yun, the noble concubine under one person. Although she was naive and ignorant when she was at home that day, after a few years After tempering, she calmed down when she spoke, acted, and behaved, and she was completely different from before entering the palace.

"Auntie is okay." Ning Yun first asked Zhao, "Where's uncle?"

"It's okay." Lan Yun said with a smile, "My mother came to the palace yesterday to greet me, and asked if there should be good news for you? I saw you when my father went to the house on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. It's still safe." good."

Shi Nai can be restless, and now he spends all day teasing the birds with their cages.

Ning Yun shook his head with a smile, "There is no good news, why, you have only been married for a few years, and you are thinking about my affairs?" Lan Yun made a gesture.

Lan Yun quickly avoided, "Look, you still like to bully me."

Yingchun pursed her lips and smiled because of the two sisters' fight.

"You are still so playful." Yingchun smiled and teased the two of them.

Seeing Yingchun, Ning Yun said, "By the way, I forgot to ask. How are you doing? How is everything? How is Mrs. Chang Wenbo treating you? Let's talk about Tanchun's days and events? Why haven't I seen her?"

The implication was just to ask Yingchun Jia's mansion to come to the palace to see her?

Recently, it is Tanchun who often enters the palace.

Ning Yun also knew that Yingchun's life in Jia's mansion was not easy at that time. Her aunt and father didn't like it, and she was raised in her second aunt's house. She has no status in front of Jia's mother, but Yingchun is not the kind of person who can grasp the top. To put it bluntly, she is a bit dull, so she naturally doesn't like Jia's family.

However, Yingchun has a beautiful face, and it is time to enter the palace. The whole palace is peaceful and there is no fight. The bullet can't be suppressed, let alone the palace, it is estimated that Jia's mansion will wait until the time comes to enter the palace to plead guilty.

"The third younger sister has made a marriage agreement, but it's quite far away. She is going to marry in Yunnan and Guizhou. Now she is embroidering her dowry behind closed doors at home. The ancestors still put her marriage ahead of Baoyu." Yingchun replied.

In the end, Tanchun was the one who led the thread, saying that she gave it to the third son of the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, and he would get married in the spring of next year. First, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou and the imperial concubine's family got married, which is a win-win situation.

But when it comes to Jia's mansion, Yingchun's brows are still somewhat sad.

After all, it is also my own home.

Ning Yun nodded, then changed the subject, and asked, "Cousin Jia hasn't said goodbye yet?"

Yingchun sighed, imitating Xifeng's usual tone and said with a bit of resentment: "Aunts whose family status is too high will not do it, and ancestors whose family background is too low will not do it. Wealthy people don’t want to do it, so if we just pick and choose, it means we can’t pick them out.”

When she said this, Lan Yun smiled.

"Your way of speaking is becoming more and more peculiar." Lan Yun said with a smile. At this time, the palace servant brought tea and brought some snacks and other things to the three of them. Lan Yun hurriedly greeted Ning Yun, "This is Taixi. The ones brought over there say they are Western dim sum or some kind of cake, you should try it quickly."

Ning Yun tasted a piece and found it to be okay.

She talked to Lan Yun about the family, and then looked at the decorations in the palace. It can be seen that Lan Yun is living a good life now. First, he doesn't have to worry about fighting for favor, and second, he doesn't have to worry about government affairs. Going home, but Queen Wei didn't stop the concubine's mother from entering the palace, which can be regarded as a solution to the pain of homesickness.

——It should be said that it is better than the queen.

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