Crossing the East Palace

"Prince Shun," Emperor Tianyuan said softly, "What do Xiao Qi think of this title?"

This was the second time Emperor Tianyuan asked each other, and Tang Luojin couldn't stop answering.

He lowered his eyes to think for a moment, and then said: "The gift from the emperor is good. My son is afraid of people. People don't hurt tigers, and tigers hurt people's hearts." After Tang Luojin said, she looked up and saw someone very close to him. The few white hairs on the temples of Emperor Tianyuan paused slightly, sighed in his heart, and remained silent for a moment, and could only say, "However, with the emperor around, no matter how determined the tiger is, it would not dare to hurt the minister."

Only then did Emperor Tianyuan break out into a smile, patted Tang Luojin on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "My prince, please rest assured."

The father and son had lunch together. Emperor Tianyuan kept Tang Luojin and read the memorial for him for half an afternoon, and then took Tang Luojin to the martial arts school to test Tang Luojin's boxing skills, bow and arrow and horse skills After such a toss, he and Tang Luojin took a bath and walked to Changle Palace.

The crown prince returned from Jiangnan, and he handled the case of cheating in the Jiangnan imperial examinations very well. Emperor Tianyuan had already arranged a banquet in the palace to welcome the crown prince on the first night of September the next day.

As for today and tomorrow, today Tang Luojin just greeted him, the empress dowager, the empress dowager, and the empress respectively. Tomorrow morning, the crown prince will go to court, and he will report on the Jiangnan imperial examination fraud case. In the evening, there will be a family banquet .

Emperor Tianyuan told Tang Luojin about these arrangements, and Tang Luojin naturally did not refuse.

After the father and son paid homage to the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager, they wanted to leave.

Today, the nine princesses who have been serving the empress dowager and the empress dowager suddenly stood up.

Everyone looked at her.

The Ninth Princess let out a small "Ah" and was annoyed for a moment, so she had to flatten her mouth and bow her knees to salute.

"Xiao Jiu, Xiao Jiu wants to see off the prince's elder brother. So..." He stood up in such a hurry.

The Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager have been with the Ninth Princess for a long time, and they also know the Ninth Princess' temperament and unreasonable liking for the Prince.

Emperor Tianyuan smiled: "Xiao Jiu just wants to send the prince off? What about the father? Let the father stand aside and watch Xiao Jiu send the prince off? Well, it turns out that in Xiao Jiu's heart, the prince's brother is better than his father. The emperor is even more important."

Tang Luojin was expressionless.

Princess Jiu took a look at Tang Luojin, feeling a little disappointed, but soon thought again, the prince's brother has never shown any expression, and it's normal not to smile at her.So she quickly pulled herself together, scraped her cheeks with her index finger, tilted her head and said, "Father is the ruler of a country, he has the power of an emperor, do you still like Xiao Jiu more than the prince brother? Besides, Father Huang Xiaojiu can see each other every few days, but the prince's elder brother... Xiaojiu hasn't seen each other for a long, long time!"

Emperor Tianyuan nodded at Princess Nine from the air, and stood up and said: "Come on, then father, the emperor will go to Qingning Palace first, and you send your prince brother off quickly, and go to Qingning Palace as well."

The Ninth Princess was overjoyed.

Tang Luojin nodded expressionlessly.

Emperor Tianyuan took a step first, and Princess Nine followed Tang Luojin and walked out of the hall.

Princess Nine is only nine years old, and she is a girl, and her steps are small, she will be in a daze when she goes straight to herself, only to realize that her steps are very slow, but no matter how slow she walks, the prince's brother will walk twice in front of her. A step away, she did not fall behind at all.

The Ninth Princess was so happy that she couldn't help but took two quick steps, grabbing Tang Luojin's sleeve at once.

Tang Luojin stopped, turned around, and frowned slightly.

Princess Jiu took a small step back, but she still grabbed Tang Luojin's sleeve, refusing to let go, looking up at Tang Luojin stubbornly with her little head up.

Tang Luojin had no choice but to loosen her brows and said, "What's the matter?"

The Ninth Princess was fine. If she hadn't gotten up too much just now and was discovered, she should have sent her father and the prince out without saying a word. Yu, returned to Changle Palace.

However, now that she is being asked, the ninth princess rolled her eyes, thinking that the concubine mother has been looking at and touching the things that the prince's elder brother gave her these days, and she opened her mouth regardless of her identity as concubine mother. Ask her for it!The nine princesses had something to say.

"The prince's brother gave Xiaojiu a little rabbit. Xiaojiu likes it very much." Princess Jiu rubbed her toes on the ground, lowered her head and said, "But, can you give Xiaojiu a few more? It should be a little bigger, of course not. too big."

Tang Luojin knew that the nine princesses were referring to the jade-like human rabbit he gave, which could be used as a Barbie doll in the previous life, and said, "Where is the original one? Broken?"

The ninth princess hurriedly waved her hands: "No! I really like that little rabbit, and I often make clothes for it. But, but the concubine mother also fell in love with that little rabbit recently, and she also made clothes for the little rabbit! "The ninth princess said, with a little anger on her face.

Although Tang Luojin wanted to talk more with Princess Nine, it was obvious that the Queen and Concubine Xin had turned their faces, and he and Princess Nine had never been close. Apart from normal etiquette, he shouldn't have talked so much with Princess Nine .

So he knew that Princess Jiu wanted him to continue to ask her, but he still said: "This time, I will send gifts to various places when I go back to the palace, and I will send them in two days in the evening. At that time, there will be rabbits among the gifts for you. "Then he stroked Princess Jiu's little bun, lowered his voice slightly, and said, "Xiao Jiu has also grown up, and the prince brother brought you some other things, hide them well, don't let others know .”

Princess Nine, who was a little disappointed at first, suddenly lit up her eyes.

But in the next moment, she watched her brother-in-law lead him away.

Left without looking back.

Didn't even know to look back at her.

When she left the concubine mother, she often turned her head to see the concubine mother several times.

Especially today, when she turned her head, she seemed to see Concubine Mu rubbing her eyes. ——Could it be that the wind is blinding your eyes?

Seeing that she couldn't see her back, Princess Jiu drooped her head and walked back.

Her maid just stood far away and didn't hear the conversation between the two of them. Seeing this, she asked strangely: "Did His Royal Highness not agree to the princess' request?"

The Ninth Princess said weakly: "Agreed—but, but, I haven't told the prince yet, the concubine took my rabbit girl and made it clothes for a rabbit boy! That's obviously a rabbit girl, not a rabbit boy." Ah! Why do you want to make a boy's clothes for it?"

Maid: "..." Not bad princess!The prince is not your brother, so it's good to hear you rambling for a while!Didn't you see that the prince rarely talked to other princesses?

When Tang Luojin arrived at the Qingning Palace, the Qingning Palace had just set up a table, and the meal had not yet been served.

Emperor Tianyuan saw him coming, and pointed to his hands: "Xiao Qi, come and sit down."

Tang Luojin should be, and then first met the queen who was almost equal to Emperor Tianyuan.

"The unfilial son Luo Jin, met the queen mother!"

The empress is now eight and a half months pregnant, her body is very plump, her belly is bigger than ordinary people's, she is holding her big belly, she said with a smile: "My son is going to share the worries of the emperor, why is it unfilial? Get up!"

Tang Luojin stood up and sat down in her seat.

Afterwards, the five princesses came to see him, and then they all sat down and set the meal formally.

Emperor Tianyuan didn't pay too much attention to eating and sleeping, and occasionally talked a few words with Tang Luojin.

The queen smiled slightly, took a sip of the red date and white fungus soup, put down the spoon, and said casually: "Your father said that you were stopped by the ninth princess just now, and it seems that you have been stopped for a long time. Xiao Qi and the ninth princess have never been familiar with each other. This time you actually have something to say?"

Emperor Tianyuan's expression remained unchanged, but the chopsticks for holding the food were finally put down, and he felt that the table was full of food, all of which were tasteless.

Tang Luojin said: "Jiuhuangmei's childishness, she said that it was a thing that Erchen gave her before, she liked it very much, and wanted to ask Erchen for a few more. However, Erchen has to go to school every day to practice. I have to go to Chang'an City for my father to see how the people's lives are going. The princes and concubines of my ministers have not yet married, and the gifts given to the nine princesses and other imperial sisters are all arranged by the people below. I just took a look at the gift list. Therefore, even though I have a photographic memory, I still hesitated in front of Changle Palace for a long time before I realized what the gift I gave Jiuhuangmei was, and I agreed."

Tang Luojin's words were too straightforward, the queen heard it, but she didn't doubt it, she just said: "What kind of thing is it? If it's really that good, I should give you a few pieces for Fifth Emperor Sister. Their girl's house, It’s not as convenient for you men to go out, and if you see something good outside, you should also remember your imperial sister.”

Tang Luojin said: "Just now I have arranged for the small path to go out to find the craftsman who made this at the beginning. At that time, I will make three pieces for each of the royal sisters in the palace. The fifth imperial sister will be filial to her mother before her death. Naturally, it will be Send it ahead of time, so that the fifth imperial sister can choose first."

The queen was satisfied with this.

After dinner, Emperor Tianyuan said: "It's getting late, Xiao Qi should go back and rest. I still have something to discuss with your mother."

The empress has been pregnant for a long time, although Emperor Tianyuan often came to see her, but the stay had not happened yet, he was overjoyed when he heard this, and asked, "Is there anything the emperor wants to discuss with his concubine?"

Emperor Tianyuan took a look at Tang Luojin, and said: "Of course it is the title of Zitong and Zhen's youngest son. I have already drawn up the words, Zitong come and have a look, if you like it, just follow this word and give it to us." Let the younger son be named together!"

The smile on the queen's face froze slightly—a title?Among the princes, only the prince does not need a title.Her youngest son... no, it's her son, where does he need a title?

Fortunately, thinking that Tang Luojin was crowned king when she was one year old, and she was crowned prince when she was three years old, the queen forced a smile.

Tang Luojin and the fifth princess retreated together.

Although the two were born in the same year, the same month and the same day, and the fifth princess was also raised at the queen's knee for five years, they didn't have much to say to each other.

At the beginning, the fifth princess wanted to please Tang Luojin in addition to currying favor with the empress, but the empress forbade her to do so.When the fifth princess was confused, she had no choice but to obey.

Earlier, after hearing Concubine Xin's words, she couldn't help turning her head and touching her own face, and then looked at Tang Luojin's appearance.

Tang Luojin is not a wooden person, so he caught a glimpse of her sizing up and turned to look at her: "What's wrong?"

The fifth princess hurriedly lowered her head, and said: "I just watched, the Seventh Emperor brother and the queen mother really look alike, as expected of their own mother and son."

Tang Luojin glanced at her again, and said, "You'll have to take care of your mother." Then she left.

He couldn't listen to others saying such things, but his appearance was really crooked, and he resembled the empress—although this appearance shut up those who doubted his "concubine" status, but, yes For Tang Luojin, he didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.

Tang Luojin sat on the shoulder chair and quickly returned to the East Palace.

Then he summoned Shi Mei.

Shi Mei is now the female official of the East Palace. Although she is stunning, she also has good medical skills. There are countless people who have asked Tang Luojin and the Shi family to marry Shi Mei, but Shi Mei has already had an idea in her heart, and she is said to be unwilling to marry.Seeing that she insisted on this, Tang Luojin also followed her.

When Shi Mei came, Tang Luojin was writing big characters.

The room was very bright, seeing Shi Mei, she lowered her head, moved her mouth, and said nothing.

Tang Luojin wrote ten big characters in a row before putting down the pen.

Only Tang Luojin and Shi Mei were left in the room.

"The fifth princess's bird's nest is still being given away every day?"

"Yes. The bird's nest is already nourishing, and the recipe found by the servant girl makes the bird's nest porridge made by the fifth princess more nourishing and delicious. The fifth princess loves to give it, and the queen also loves to drink it."

Tang Luojin's fingers curled slightly, she tapped on the table, and said flatly: "Since the bird's nest is a good nourishing food, please let the fifth princess give it away. As for the rest..."

Shi Mei's heart skipped a beat.

Before the prince left the palace, she was specially summoned by the prince and ordered several things. Some things, Shi Mei thought she should do, but some things, Shi Mei didn't understand why the prince did it.However, she belongs to the prince, and the Shi family belongs to the prince, so she naturally agreed to everything.

However, it is true that the promise is the promise, and the fear in my heart is true.

Now that there seems to be a turning point in the prince's words, Shi Mei is naturally concerned.

"People in the world think that the bigger a newborn baby is, the easier it is to feed it, but doctors naturally know that the bigger the baby, the more pain the mother will suffer." Shi Mei said, "That one is already noble, and the cost of food and clothing is very high." The best, and the most nutritious bird’s nest porridge for recuperation. Just looking at it like this, it seems to be bigger than ordinary twins. Now, even if that one gave birth before, this fetus is too big, want to It may not be easy to produce smoothly."

Tang Luojin frowned slightly, and said after a long time: "If that's the case, then pass on the word, don't let the eldest princess act rashly for now. For the time being... wait for the news."

Shi Mei bowed and said yes, then left.

Those who obey prosper, those who oppose perish.

When Tang Luojin heard that Emperor Tianyuan had chosen this word as the title for the Twelve Princes who were not yet born, she knew that she could not touch the Twelve Princes rashly.

This word is a warning to the future Twelve Princes, and also a comfort and reminder to him—Emperor Tianyuan is his father, as well as the father of the Twelve Princes. I would like to see this child stillborn before it was born.

In Tang Luojin's heart, he didn't intend to take the life of the Twelfth Prince, and he would not disappoint Emperor Tianyuan's expectations.

Emperor Tianyuan has many princes, if he regards all of them as enemies, he is afraid that Emperor Tianyuan will end him before those princes do anything to him.And he was able to sit firmly as the crown prince, and there was no reason why he was willing to treat other princes kindly.

Therefore, before the Twelfth Prince was born, he was already helping him nourish his body.

In ancient times, women's childbirth was inherently dangerous, and Tang Luojin's original intention was to take the queen's life at that time.

But... Thinking of the unofficial history book on Emperor Tianyuan's desk, Tang Luojin's eyes darkened.He knew that Emperor Tianyuan released that book not to say that he wanted to abolish the empress, after all, once the empress was abolished, he would be the son of the abolished empress, and the position of crown prince would not be guaranteed.On the other hand, Emperor Tianyuan was reminding that once the empress died, he would be in his prime, and the imperial court would have to write a letter to force him to succeed him.

A concubine cannot be a wife. If Emperor Tianyuan wants to establish a successor, he can only remarry a beautiful woman.

And will the remarried successor be better than the current queen?

Emperor Tianyuan didn't know this, and neither did Tang Luojin.

However, the empress had harmed him several times, making Concubine Xin unable to conceive again. It was impossible for Tang Luojin to do nothing.

What's more, even if he didn't do anything, just telling the queen what the fifth princess did would probably be enough for the queen to be depressed.

Tang Luojin suddenly thought of the jade rabbit mentioned by Princess Nine today.

For such a rabbit, he only gave the ninth princess and the twelve princesses.The nine princesses are still alive and well, but the twelve princesses have long since passed away.

Killing is a death penalty. Although the twelve princesses were born by the empress, she was unexpectedly willing to get close to him. Tang Luojin also liked her somewhat.Now that she is dead, he should tell the queen about the real murderer, so that the murderer, even if he can't take his life immediately, must be punished enough.

After thinking so, Tang Luojin finally fell asleep with peace of mind.

On the second day, at the early court, Tang Luojin explained the affairs of Jiangnan and his party, such as the results of the imperial examination fraud case, the establishment of the Jiangnan Library, etc., in the courtroom.

Emperor Tianyuan was overjoyed, and ordered the prince to build a library in the capital besides studying.

Then declare the decree, canonize the second prince as King Qian, the third prince as King Su, the fourth prince as King Yi, the sixth prince as King Huan, the eighth prince as King Feng, the ninth prince as King Gong, the tenth prince as King Mu, and the fifth prince posthumously As King Huai, the eleventh prince was posthumously named King Yi.

In addition, the canonization ceremony will be performed at the first birthday of the queen's second son as Shunwang.

Full of uproar.

At the family banquet that night, except for the dissatisfaction of the second prince and the mother and concubine of the ninth prince, the rest of the canonized princes and their mother and concubine were all in high spirits.After being crowned king, there will be salary, food, mansion and so on.Moreover, they can be regarded as having real titles, which can be passed on to future generations, instead of empty prince status as before, and then nothing left.To put it bluntly, if they only had the status of a prince, Emperor Tianyuan suddenly turned to heaven, and they would hang around under the prince, maybe they wouldn't even be able to get the title of prince.

It's just that some people are happy and some are sad. The child was crowned king before it was born. This was originally a great happy event, but the empress has a big belly. If her face hadn't been powdered, she might be laughed at in an instant.

Seeing this, Mrs. Yue Hou said distressedly: "Huan'er will give birth soon, why is she so pale? Even if the emperor named Shun King, but, perhaps it was a good intention, hoping that the twelve princes will have a smooth future. What about growing up? You always have to think in a good place, that's the best."

The empress felt more pain in her heart as she looked at the cups and cups being exchanged around her, she grabbed Mrs. Yuehou's hand: "Then sister, do you know that the emperor not only named my emperor as King Shun, but also gave him a name in advance? He was named before he was even born!"

Mrs. Yue Hou didn't understand what it meant, and persuaded: "Isn't this a good thing? This is an honor that no prince has ever had. Doesn't Huan'er hope that the twelve princes are different in the emperor's heart? The emperor is like this There are many princes, and there will be more princes in the future, if the status is not noble enough to be remembered by the emperor, then it will be a sad thing."

The queen almost cried: "The emperor, he named my emperor's son Min! Big sister, it's Min!"

Mrs. Yuehou was stunned, and persuaded: "Min, the beauty of stone. This is a good word. Don't think too much about Huan'er."

"Don't think too much? How can I not think too much?" The queen gritted her teeth and said, "Even if Min is a beauty in stone, he is only a stone after all. And what about Jin? Where is Tang Luojin's Jin? Jinyu, Beautiful jade. My emperor's son is just a stone, but Tang Luojin is beautiful jade? The carvings of Min are not like the chapters of jade. Sister, how can you not think too much? How can you swallow this? Bad breath?"

Mrs. Yuehou didn't like the word "Shun King" adopted by Emperor Tianyuan, she really took the meaning of "obedience", and the word "Min" made Tianyuan Emperor's eccentricity clear at a glance. All of a sudden.

How could this be so?How could it be so?Even if it is a warning, the emperor just needs to confer a modest king and a respectful king as he did to the second prince and the ninth prince, as a warning.Why bother to seal "Shun Wang" directly?King Shun, how can this name be considered good?

There is also "Min".How can a stone compare to a piece of beautiful jade? The emperor's warning heart can be seen.

Just, why?

Mrs. Yuehou's mind was running wildly, and thousands of thoughts flashed through her mind, but she refused to think about the most likely idea.

Impossible, how is it possible?Even though Huan'er wasn't careful enough at the beginning, she spared Concubine Xin's life.However, the prince's appearance happened to be like Huan'er, how could such iron evidence make the emperor suspicious?Impossible, absolutely impossible!

The dinner in Qingning Palace was extremely lively, but in Changxin Palace, it was extremely quiet.

Zi Yan took the clothes and put them on Concubine Xin who was standing at the door, and Concubine Xin drove her back.

"What's the matter with your empress these days? Why did you shed so many tears?" Ziyan worriedly said to the incense burner that had returned to the palace suddenly, "Yesterday and today are the strangest, obviously it's hard to think about it A room full of clothes and jewellery, I wanted to dress up, but in the end, after finishing my makeup and changing clothes, I refused to go out, insisting that I was sick."

The incense burner lowered his head and did not speak.

Zi Yan was not annoyed, and said directly: "Censer, tell me, the empress wants to dress up to make the emperor like it more? However, today's family banquet is obviously a great opportunity, and the empress has prepared everything properly. Why don't you want to go again? It's really strange." She picked up a small dress in the sewing basket and whispered, "Could it be that the empress wants a son?"

The incense burner's heart skipped a beat, and she glared at her.

Zi Yan hurriedly pointed to the little clothes and said: "Look, these little clothes are made for boys to wear. The empress made them, and she wanted to wear them for the little rabbit of the ninth princess, but the nine princesses were angry, insisting that her little rabbit was Miss Rabbit, I don’t like it wearing boy’s clothes. But even so, Niang Niang has done so much.” The more Zi Yan thought about it, the more strange she became, and when she was strange, she sighed, “Unfortunately, Niang Niang was killed by that traitor. , can no longer give us a little prince."

The censer suddenly drew purple smoke, the two turned their heads together, and saw Concubine Xin was thin and empty, as if she was wrapped in clothes.

Standing behind them in a daze, tears streaming down his face.

Zi Yan was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, don't cry, it's the slaves' fault, so you shouldn't mention this matter. Don't cry about this matter anymore!"

The incense burner pursed his lips, not knowing how to speak.

Concubine Xin suddenly said: "Yes, I can no longer have children, so I should cry. I should have a good cry."

She finally had an excuse, because of her ignorance and innocence, and for her son, she had a good cry.