Crossing the East Palace

As far as the queen thought, she originally only planned to invite the prince to eat alone, but every time she invited the prince alone, the prince would always be accompanied by people who tested vegetables and poison.

If she is black-faced, there is no need for the prince to speak, then the female official Shi, who is doing the drug test, will be serious. Drug testing is a rule. To test the prince for drugs.

The queen knew that this female official was valued by Tang Luojin, and also knew that this female official was indeed capable.Although his medical skills were inferior to those of the old imperial doctors in the palace, his ability to smell and test poisons was much better than those old imperial doctors who practiced medicine to save lives.

It is precisely because of this that the queen wanted to do something several times, but she could only stop halfway. Today, she found the right time, and the female official couldn't return to the palace, so she specially called Jiang Hanyi—everyone said that the crown prince treated Miss Jiang's family very well. Well, it's obvious that he has Miss Jiang's family in mind.Then, since the crown prince puts Miss Jiang's family in his heart, in front of Miss Jiang's family, he shouldn't conduct a drug test like before, right?

It's a pity that the queen was still missing a move. She just thought that Tang Luojin liked Jiang Hanyi a little bit, so she called Jiang Hanyi first, and then called the prince.Unexpectedly, Tang Luojin misunderstood her, thinking that she was trying to make him drunk or eat the wrong food, which would damage Jiang Hanyi's reputation. Whether he married or not in the future, his relationship with the Jiang family would become stiff. So I called a bunch of princesses.

The queen's complexion was slightly dark. Fortunately, before she did this, Mrs. Yue Hou analyzed various situations with her. Although this situation was not among them, it was not surprising, and the banquet opened after a greeting.

Royal meals, even if eaten together, are mostly eaten at separate tables, and this time is no exception.

Just as soon as the banquet was opened, everyone noticed the difference.

The queen pointed to a pot of chicken soup with black ginseng and abalone in front of her, and said: "This palace only invited the crown prince and Miss Jiang's family for this pot of chicken soup with black ginseng and abalone. Unexpectedly..." She paused slightly, smiling just right, "This It takes a lot of time to stew the soup well. Therefore, only Ben Gong, the crown prince, and Miss Jiang have this soup on their desks, and the princesses have bowls of pear blossom and abalone on their desks. Everyone should try it. "

All the princesses in the palace thanked each other, saying that they came uninvited and disturbed the empress.

Tang Luojin remained stern and expressionless, and then let an older eunuch behind him lead a young eunuch to the vegetable soup on the table, and began to test the vegetables for poison.

Jiang Hanyi lowered her eyes slightly, and remained silent.

The princesses who had slipped away were stunned, and looked at the eunuch's actions in front of Tang Luojin stupidly, and were so shocked that they didn't even dare to move their chopsticks.

The queen's smile froze, her face seemed to be sad, and she sighed: "Why is Xiao Qi like this? You and I, mother and son, have been separated since you were one year old, but tiger poison doesn't eat offspring, so how could I harm you? She is the queen of a country, these meals have all been inspected by court ladies and eunuchs before they are served, how could it be unsafe? Xiao Qi, why bother..."

The eighth and eleventh princesses all looked at the queen sympathetically, while the third and thirteenth princesses bowed their heads and remained silent.

Princess Jiu said in her heart, even if you are mother and son, but, but, don't you usually dislike the prince and elder brother?She doesn't understand the rest, but she remembers the next sentence of nothing to be courteous about.

The fifth princess has served the queen the longest, and she also understands the queen's thoughts best. Seeing this, she got up and walked to Tang Luojin's table.

"Brother Qihuang doesn't believe in his mother, but Wu'er does." The fifth princess said, and then she walked to Tang Luojin's desk, and reached out to ask the little eunuch who was trying dishes for a new pair of chopsticks: "Brother Seventh Emperor Since you have concerns, let Wu'er come to taste the dishes for Brother Seventh Emperor. By coincidence, Wu'er was born in the same year, the same month, and the same day as Brother Seventh Emperor. In order to avoid Brother Seventh Emperor, the birthday ceremony was postponed by one day. Now, it is Wu'er's blessing to be able to taste the dishes for Brother Qihuang like a slave who tastes vegetables."

After some words, the Queen's handkerchief was wrinkled, and she calmed down after a while, and said: "Why is this so? If the Queen Mother eats a dish here, and serves a dish to the Prince, so, even if there is a problem , the queen was poisoned first, isn't it?"

The two eunuchs who were testing vegetables and poisons were absolutely inferior to Shi Mei in terms of courage, so they didn't dare to move anymore, and looked back at Tang Luojin foolishly.

The matter has come to this point, the queen and the five princesses have all said these words, Tang Luojin doesn't believe that the queen dares to poison him in front of everyone, after a short pause, he said expressionlessly: "Go down."

The two eunuchs went down immediately with a thousand thanks.

The fifth princess returned to her seat, and the queen smiled and said: "We are all from our own family, so don't be polite to the queen mother." Turning to look at Jiang Hanyi, "Yi'er is the same, and she will enter the East Palace after the Chinese New Year. A real family."

What Jiang Hanyi said at the moment was inappropriate, so she had to lower her head, her cheeks flushed slightly.

Tang Luojin was startled, and glanced sideways at Jiang Hanyi, knowing that this matter was true, then raised her head to look at the queen: "Mother, is this matter decided by great-grandmother?"

As soon as he thought about it, he thought of the body of the Empress Dowager.In this era, the empress dowager lived to be 77 years old, which is already considered an old birthday star.Now the empress dowager is getting more and more unwell, he went to see the empress dowager, talking to her, sometimes the empress dowager would suddenly fall asleep.Now that the Empress Dowager is concerned about her own body, it is not surprising that she issued this order.

Seeing that Tang Luojin guessed the reason immediately, the queen felt more and more that her decision today was not wrong, her smile did not become stiff, and she sighed softly: "There is no way around this. Your great-grandmother said that there are men in the folk Get married at twelve or thirteen years old. You will be thirteen next year, and Yi'er will be sixteen next year, age-wise, it's appropriate." Then he suddenly changed the subject and said with a smile, "Or, Xiaoqi doesn't like this matter to be brought forward? "

Tang Luojin said with a straight face, "My mother misunderstood. I am overjoyed to be able to marry cousin Jiang as my wife and son."

Jiang Hanyi's heart skipped a beat, she didn't lower her head at this moment, but raised her head and looked at Tang Luojin.

Tang Luojin noticed her gaze and looked sideways.

The juvenile looks like a bright pearl, rich and elegant.The corners of the lips curled up slightly, and in an instant, the entire palace seemed to be in the twelfth lunar month of winter, when the cold wind receded, the ice and snow melted, and hundreds of flowers suddenly bloomed.

So shocking, surprising, yet heart-wrenching.

Especially in those eyes that are as bright as stars, only she is contained.

Jiang Hanyi's heart skipped a beat, and she was slightly stunned.

Not only Jiang Hanyi was stunned, but also all the princesses.

Ninth Princess covered her lips with a handkerchief and said, "Ah, Eighth Sister, did you see that? The Crown Prince smiled, the Crown Prince smiled! I never knew that the Prince's brother laughed so, so..." Princess Jiu couldn't think of a suitable word to describe it for a while.

It was still the Eighth Princess who stared at Tang Luojin with bright eyes, and said, "It's amazing!"

"Yes, it's amazing! Everyone says that Pan An is beautiful and beautiful. Every time, young women and old women throw fruit into the car. I think those young women and old women must have never seen the smile of the prince's brother, so they mistakenly take the fruit. Give it to Pan Lang, forget about Tang Lang!"

The ninth princess smiled brightly, and praised her prince brother without hesitation.

The rest of the princesses either echoed the words of the eighth and ninth princesses and praised Tang Luojin, or they kept their mouths shut and kept a close eye on Tang Luojin—everyone has a love for beauty.Although they knew that the prince was very beautiful, they didn't dare to get too close to him because he kept a straight face every day.Today the prince's smile made them feel ashamed that the jewel was on their side, and they also felt that the prince's smile was like a shining pearl, and they couldn't move their eyes away.

so eye-catching.

Heart of beauty in everyone.All the people in the hall sighed in their hearts.

Even the queen stared at Tang Luojin in a daze for a long time before looking away.

Then with a "bang", the teacup filled with white water was placed heavily on the table.

Everyone came back to their senses, a little embarrassed and a little emotional.Although she withdrew her gaze from staring directly at the prince, for example, a brave person like the ninth princess would sneak a little peek at the prince from time to time.

Jiang Hanyi also looked away, bowed her head and remained silent.

When Tang Luojin saw this, the smile on her face disappeared, and she returned to her usual cold appearance.

Princess Jiu, who was sitting diagonally opposite Tang Luojin, looked at it and sighed in her heart. She didn't know whether it was a pity that she couldn't often see the prince's brother smiling well, or she should be thankful that the prince's brother smiled less on weekdays, otherwise The prince's brother smiled, wouldn't it mean that the people around him all forgot what they should do?

The queen glanced at Fugui, Fugui clapped her hands, and some palace dancers came to the hall to start dancing.

After eating less than half of the meal, the queen ordered Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, two for each table.

There are also snacks, which are also served together.There are four kinds of dim sum, including wishful rolls, crab cakes, wishful cakes, and peach shortcakes.

That's all for nothing, the hairy crabs were shipped all the way from Yangcheng Lake in Suzhou, although all the palaces got them, they didn't get a few of them.It is rare for the empress to be so generous, she brought out two for each person, one was steamed and the other was made of puff pastry. When everyone saw it, they were all very itchy.

The queen looked at it, and said with a smile: "Try it quickly. I am pregnant, so I can't eat this hairy crab, but watching you eat it makes me even more happy."

Tang Luojin naturally tasted it too.

He has never been picky, he likes to eat anything delicious.However, if you really like it very much.That didn't work either.

Seeing this hairy crab, what Tang Luojin immediately thought of was not the smell of the crab meat, but somehow thought of Jiang Hanyi's unblinking gaze just now. Jiang Hanyi saw that she was instructing the maid to peel the crabs.

Tang Luojin looked at it, then turned her head, quickly peeled off the steamed crab on her hand, put the crab meat in a small dish, and handed it over.

"Cousin eat this?"

Jiang Hanyi was afraid that peeling the crab would be indecent, so she didn't do it herself, but when she saw Tang Luojin peeled the crab meat and handed it to her, her eyes quickly dropped, and she lifted it up after a while, reaching out to take it.

"Thank you, Your Highness." Jiang Hanyi smiled slightly, put the small dish on her desk, lowered her head, and began to eat.

It's just the base of the ear, but it's slightly red.

The princesses opposite them looked at it and just snickered.

The queen looked at it, frowned slightly, and glanced at Fugui.

Fugui's face paled.

The queen glared directly.

Fu Gui trembled slightly, kissed Fu body stiffly, bit her lip, walked towards Tang Luojin's desk, and said, "Your Highness, this servant will peel the crab for you."

Tang Luojin frowned slightly, glanced at her, and didn't speak.

However, when Fugui finished peeling, put the crab meat in a small plate and put it in front of Tang Luojin, Tang Luojin pushed the small plate expressionlessly: "Go down."

Fugui didn't expect this, thinking that Jiang Hanyi had already eaten a crab, Tang Luojin peeled one, and allowed herself to peel one, but in the end, she didn't eat at all, she was so dumbfounded, she turned to one side, Let the queen see the situation here, and at the same time persuade her: "Your Majesty cherishes Your Highness, knowing that His Highness likes to eat crabs, that's why I specially made you to make crabs. Your Highness should have a bite anyway, so that Your Majesty will be sad because of this." .”

The queen really saw what was going on here.She also didn't expect Tang Luojin to peel the first crab and give it to Jiang Hanyi, but the second crab refused to eat at all.

"The queen mother loves to eat crabs the most." The queen touched her belly lovingly and said, "It's a pity that the queen mother still has a little guy in her stomach, and she can't eat it now. If the seventh generation mother eats it with the little guy, then she has the right to eat it." Assuming that the queen mother has eaten Jinqiu's crabs, the provincial queen mother will accidentally anger this little guy who made her mother unable to eat crabs."

Hearing this, Tang Luojin felt something was wrong in her heart. She glanced at the Ninth Princess who was opposite her. The Ninth Princess blinked at him, and suddenly put down the small spoon in her hand.

Tang Luojin took another look at Jiang Hanyi.

Jiang Hanyi didn't understand what it meant, but seeing that Tang Luojin didn't eat, she put down the spoon herself.

Only then did Tang Luojin reply: "The empress likes it, but the son eats it, but it's nothing worth it. Although the empress can't eat it, she should watch and hear more. It's better to relieve the pain of lovesickness than seeing her son eat it." It's much better if you get it. Aunt Fugui, why don't you send this crab to the queen mother?"

If the empress hadn't been pregnant before, maybe she could push things to Tang Luojin with a few words.But her month was getting older, and she was already approaching her due date. At this moment, her mind was blank, and she couldn't think of any rebuttal words.

Tang Luojin has already spoken again: "Aunt Fugui is distracted? Didn't you hear Gu's order?"

When the queen heard this, she felt anxious, and suddenly hugged her stomach and cried out that it hurts.

The crowd immediately forgot about the fact that the crab was not a crab, and gathered around the queen one after another, asking her how she was.

The queen knew that this was the effect of the medicine.

The queen hated the effect of the medicine coming too quickly, but it was obviously too strange for her to urge Tang Luojin to eat the crab meat now.

"Go pass on to the imperial physician." Tang Luojin ordered in a deep voice, upon hearing this, Fu Gui immediately left as if fleeing.

Tang Luojin turned her head and glanced at Jiang Hanyi, seeing her face stern, said: "What's wrong with Cousin Jiang?"

Jiang Hanyi only shook his head, but didn't speak.

The queen screamed as if holding her belly, and Tang Luojin immediately had no time to care about Jiang Hanyi, but helped the queen to the inner room together, and stayed with the queen in the inner room.

The doctor will come soon.

After he had checked the Queen's pulse, he was startled, and hurriedly asked to bring the food that the Queen had just eaten, checked them one by one, and then sighed: "It turns out that there is a traitor. In the chicken soup, there are medicines that make pregnant women prone to miscarriage and premature delivery. Fortunately, the mother has a poor appetite today, so she only tasted two mouthfuls. Secondary anti-fetal medicine, that's all."

After the imperial physician prescribed the prescription, he said, "Is there still some leftover soup with added medicine? I wonder if I can take it back for the lower officials to have a look? The lower officials looked at it. It was made by Meng Huanniang, a brothel woman. This prescription is different from other miscarriage medicines. It is said that Meng Huanniang made this miscarriage medicine just to abort the child in her stomach and die with the heartless person. Therefore, if this pair of miscarriage medicine is the same as Eating crab roe together, the two substances are mutually restraining, can cause a person to die of abdominal colic within half an hour."

Everyone was stunned immediately.

Tang Luojin quickly turned to look at Jiang Hanyi.

Jiang Hanyi couldn't hold it anymore, leaning against the wall, her face pale.

Tang Luojin walked over quickly.

"You..." He stretched out his hand, but suddenly he didn't dare to touch her, "You... the imperial doctor, come quickly!"

Jiang Hanyi has had cramps in her stomach for a while, how can she still stand at this moment?Slowly slide down the wall.

Tang Luojin immediately caught her and held her in his arms, her arms trembling slightly.

"Doctor, quickly..."

The imperial physician was stunned, and immediately stepped forward to take the pulse. After he got the pulse, he stroked his beard and sighed.

This one is more trouble-free than the queen. The queen still needs to prescribe a prescription, but this one doesn't even need to prescribe a prescription.

Tang Luojin knelt on the ground, hugging the person in her arms even tighter, her eyes fixed on the imperial physician.

The imperial physician shook his head, looked at Jiang Hanyi with a pitiful look, this noble lady who was about to become the princess, and sighed: "If Miss Jiang has anything to say, please speak quickly. The old minister is watching, Miss Jiang is eating and adding food. After making the abortion medicine according to Meng Huanniang's prescription, she quickly ate crab roe. Ms. Jiang probably, I'm afraid she had eaten these two things for some time, and she also had cramps in her abdomen for a while. Your Highness... ..."

The imperial physician glanced at Tang Luojin, seeing Tang Luojin staring blankly at the person in his arms, shook his head, and temporarily swallowed the words that he wanted to diagnose Tang Luojin's pulse—he had been in the palace for many years, so he would naturally Judging by the person's face, the prince was in a sad moment, so he should not mention the matter of taking the prince's pulse for the time being.

Everyone around was stunned.

The empress had given her the miscarriage medicine by herself, she had counted it, it only hurt for a while, but now it has recovered.She half sat and half leaned on the bed, looking at Tang Luojin and the two with uncertain expressions.

If it was Tang Luojin and Jiang Hanyi who were suffering from abdominal cramps, how good would it be?

All the princesses were also stunned.

The Fifth Princess suddenly said: "Speaking of which, the crab roe that Cousin Jiang ate was peeled for her by the Seventh Emperor himself? Doesn't that mean..."

"What is Fifth Sister talking about?" Princess Ninth immediately said, "If Fifth Sister can't speak, then don't speak at this moment. If you do not speak, you will offend others and bring trouble on yourself."

The little girl had a straight face, but she was quite imposing.

Although the fifth princess was three years older than the ninth princess, she couldn't utter any rebuttal when she was stared at by the ninth princess.

The rest of the princesses just pretended to be dumb.

The queen wanted to reprimand the nine princesses, but she was clapped by Fugui—yes, the matter has come to an end, even if Tang Luojin and the Crown Princess could not be eliminated, Tang Luojin's bowl of abalone stewed chicken soup, but I drank half a bowl!What is she in a hurry for?At least for the moment, it is better to wait and see what happens.

"Quickly invite the emperor to come here." The queen wiped the corners of her eyes, "Let someone take the sign and leave the palace to go to Ningyang Dachang Princess' mansion."

Tang Luojin couldn't care less about what the others were doing.

He is not confused.As soon as the imperial doctor opened his mouth, when he mentioned that the two things are incompatible, he understood that this was a game set up by the empress herself.Even in order to get away afterwards, the queen also drank the soup with miscarriage medicine herself.It's a pity that the queen is really too dull. If the queen is cruel enough to drink half of the bowl of soup, she will really give birth to the baby when she is nine months old. Even if someone sees through the queen's plan at this moment , maybe not how.

It's a pity that the queen is cruel enough to others, but not cruel enough to herself.

In order to get rid of the king and queen, Wu Zetian even killed her own daughter; in order to get rid of herself, the queen also brought along an innocent princess, who even dared not do the "premature birth" in September.

Tang Luojin only hated himself for being confused, he just thought that the empress was about to give birth, and whether the child was a boy or a girl, the empress didn't dare to touch him before she was really sure.Unexpectedly, the queen's thoughts were completely different from those of others, and at this time, she dared to attack him openly, and even implicated the innocent Jiang Hanyi.

"Cousin." Tang Luojin put Jiang Hanyi's head on her lap, picked up Jiang Hanyi's hand with both hands, and tried to warm Jiang Hanyi's hand, "Don't be afraid, it will be warm in a while gone."

Jiang Hanyi suffered from abdominal cramps, but she was smiling slightly.

"You, don't feel guilty. The person who attacked obviously wanted your life and mine. It's just that His Highness is blessed, so it's okay." Jiang Hanyi exhausted all her strength and said, "Your Highness is fine. I, I Very happy."

Tang Luojin's eyes were slightly red, knowing that it was too late to say anything at this moment, so she could only suppress the deep sorrow and burning anger in her heart and said: "Cousin, what do you want? Anyway, I owe you my life, I owe you A wedding should be a hundred years with you, what does my cousin want, even though I will do my best to fulfill her wish."

The cold sweat dripped out of Jiang Hanyi's forehead drop by drop.She only felt that she was in so much pain that she couldn't feel it, and she was afraid that she would die in an instant.

Jiang Hanyi withdrew his hand from Tang Luojin's, and suddenly touched Tang Luojin's face, muttering: "I've never heard of you calling my name."

Tang Luojin was startled, and said, "Yi'er, Yi'er."

Jiang Hanyi smiled slightly, her almond eyes were as bright as stars.

"Shichiro, thank you."

Thank you for making a dream that you can treat me equally.

The slender hand fell down suddenly.

Tang Luojin was stunned for a long time, then suddenly raised her head, her eyes fell directly on the fifth princess.

The fifth princess was taken aback for a moment, but suddenly shivered.

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"Don't take the body of a woman in life, and let others have a hundred years of suffering and happiness."

Jiang Hanyi has been smart since she was a child, knowing that she is a woman, and just because she is a woman, she is inferior to all the men in this world.Just because she is a girl, the biggest expectation of her parents is to marry a man who is happy.

She raised her head and asked her mother, "What is Ruyi Langjun?"

The father raised his chest and looked up: "I am a man like my father."

The mother also laughed and said: "A man who treats you like a pearl and treasure, and who values ​​a well-behaved wife, is a Ruyi Langjun."

Jiang Hanyi didn't understand when she was a child, so she opened her mouth and said: "But, everyone knows that jewelry is dead. Since it is a dead thing, you don't bring it with you when you are born, and you don't take it with you when you die. If it is for the benefit of the future, even important pearls are fine. Give away or discard. Then, will the person who loves Yi'er like a jewel one day also give away or abandon Yi'er like a jewel? Moreover, mother is wrong, Yi'er is not a dead thing, but People, people like men."

At that time, the mother directly blocked her mouth with her hands, not allowing her to say such deviant words.

Jiang Hanyi slowly began to observe the people around her, read little by little, gradually began to understand, and also began to feel cold - this world is not a world of men and women, but a world controlled by men.

Drunk on the knees of a beautiful woman, wake up and take control of the world.

It can be seen that beauty and power are equal.However, power is unique, while beauties... can be replaced.

Jiang Hanyi's heart turned cold, and her temper became more and more calm.

She thought that in her life, she would really want to be like her mother, marry a "good man" like her father, and spend her life in such a daze, just like those ordinary women.

Until that day, in Changle Palace, a young boy held her hand and said, "If I can marry my cousin, I will love her and pity her, and we will walk hand in hand with her for a hundred years."

Hand in hand side by side, we have gone through a hundred years.

It's not about treating her as a treasure or an object, but about treating her as an equal person, walking hand in hand side by side for a century of life.

Jiang Hanyi thought at that time that she would probably be the happiest woman in the world.

It's a pity that her blessing only lasted from ten years old to 15 years old.

Stopped abruptly.