Queen's Road in the Red House

As soon as Mrs. Wang Ziteng left, Aunt Xue excitedly called her daughter out to start a discussion.

Seeing Aunt Xue's grateful expression, Baochai hurriedly persuaded her, "Mother doesn't need to be like this, and Auntie is just doing it for her own sake.

"Everyone with a discerning eye in Beijing knows that there are only three princes who can compete for the crown prince. Now that sister Lin is the confirmed concubine of the fourth prince, my uncle and aunt naturally want to get in touch with the old lady of the Jia family, but I am just laying a dark thread. If...they naturally have affection in front of the Second Prince."

Aunt Xue woke up after being splashed with cold water by her daughter: "That's right, she didn't care so much about your marriage in the past. It seemed like she was kind enough to send a bastard from the Xiangyang Marquis's mansion."

Baochai saw it very clearly: "That's how human relationships are. Xue's family is weak now and they want people. Auntie can't get anything in exchange for us. If there is something good for our family, it's a charity." The corners of her lips twitched. With a slightly sarcastic smile: "So she doesn't have to worry about me. But now I see that I have a future to go to, and I will not get any benefits in the future. Of course, my aunt's face is different."

If Yuanyang or Zhou Huangwei were around, they would be able to contribute a famous sentence in this world: Mrs. Wang Ziteng has precisely achieved what you are and what I am.

Baochai lowered her head and ran her finger across the table lightly: "Mother, I will think about this matter carefully, what should I do."

Although it is up to the sky to make things happen, people can't just open their mouths and wait for the sky to serve rice.

Her father passed away, and she followed her mother all the way to Beijing. Apart from avoiding misfortune for Xue Pan, she also wanted to revitalize the Xue family's family business. Could it be that she came all the way to marry a concubine from the Xiangyang Houfu?

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On the carriage, Zhou Huangwei couldn't help asking: "What does the girl mean just now?"

Daiyu said softly, "I have read the letter from His Highness the Fourth Highness, which described in detail the candidates for the side concubine handed over by the Concubine Ming, and how the Emperor and the Empress finalized the process."

"Sister Fang Caibao's behavior is really contradictory. She wanted to complain to me, but she didn't ask for anything. She was dressed brightly, and Ying'er's words were even more stinging, which made people angry. Such contradictory actions are for the sake of What?"

Zhou Huangwei was in a daze: "For what?"

Daiyu smiled and took her hand: "Fortunately, my sister doesn't need to come into the palace with me. I heard from my mother that I will send my sister and Sister Yuanyang out together in the future, and the world will go shopping with you. I listen to you." envious."

Now Zhou Xuanwei and Yuanyang's identities are clear to Daiyu, but everyone in Xin Hongcheng hides it from her - such an important matter should be clearly explained by the two of them, and no one else can talk about it.

Zhou Huangwei laughed: "I understand this sentence, you are calling me stupid!"

Then he asked again: "Then what is Miss Xue doing here? I am also surprised when I say it. The girl is in the filial period, and the Shu brocade given by the eldest princess is not suitable for wearing because of the wrong color. But Miss Xue is just like this." The Shu Brocade has come here in splendor, it’s okay to say it’s for showing off, but it’s really inappropriate to complain about it.”

Daiyu recalled her relationship with Baochai in the past two years: "Speaking of it, maybe we are born at odds. Everyone praises Sister Bao's kindness and kindness, but I think she deliberately puts on makeup. In fact, I don't think so. Knowing that she has a lot of studies and is outstanding in talent, she should be the most compatible with me among the sisters, but unfortunately, I would rather be with my second sister than talk to her."

Zhou Xuanwei patted the back of her hand.

Daiyu continued: "Sister Bao can probably feel it too. Plus what happened to Sister Yun last time, she should also understand that I don't like her."

"Now that I'm doing this, I feel that she doesn't expect me to help, but rather expects me to say something bad about her in front of the empress."

At this point, Zhou Xuanwei also understood, but was puzzled: "But, it's already too late."

Daiyu nodded, "Sister Bao doesn't know it's too late."

That's right, even the prince and concubine have not completely passed the Ming road, let alone the side concubine, but the empress knows it well.Even Concubine Ming is still worried—Empress Yang put the matter to rest in order to make her worry for two more days, and was going to wait for Concubine Ming to come to her door to get angry with her.

Daiyu's tone finally showed the melancholy and melancholy that he often had in the past.

Now she has learned to speak in a gentle tone without showing emotion.Such a sense of loss is really rare: "It's really sad and pitiful."

Zhou Huangwei was surprised: "Miss Xue has used her on her head, and you still think she is pitiful?"

Daiyu shook her head: "Oh, that's not true, I just feel that being a woman is pitiful."

The poor woman's life is like duckweed. No matter how hard she tries to survive, it seems to be useless, and she is judged by others.There is no difference between her and Baochai in terms of marriage, both are an imperial decree of the emperor, a little sacred heart.

Daiyu tilted her head and smiled slightly: "But she pities her, and I embarrass mine, as long as they have nothing to do with each other. But she wants to plot me for herself, why should I pity her and tolerate her? The Guanyin Bodhisattva on the lotus platform made it, but I can't do it. Anyway, I like to care about them. Everyone knows it. I used to say "understand" my weak body and bad temper, "let" Are you following my temper?"

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Daiyu went to the palace by herself, and Nanny Ge, who didn't need to enter the palace, went to Jia Min when she turned her head, and told what happened this morning.

Jia Min also figured out what the Wang family and the Xue family meant in an instant.

She couldn't help sneering: "As expected of Wang Ziteng's wife, she is pretty in all aspects, and she is a man of both sides. It's just that in this life, you can't just think about taking advantage and not losing money."

The descendants of the Jia family are incompetent, and they are related by marriage to the Wang family.

Jia Min knew very well that after Jia Daishan passed away, the Supreme Emperor gave Wang Ziteng the position of Jingying Jiedushi. Apart from himself, there were naturally four big families, especially Jia Daishan himself.

But now the feng shui has changed, and the emperor has ascended the throne, and Wang Ziteng wants to kick the old ones to repay the thighs of the new prince's heirs.

With a warm soft blanket on her knees, Jia Min thought for a while and asked, "Wang Ziteng is probably leaving Beijing soon."

The admirals of the nine provinces are not for nothing, what's the matter with sitting in the capital all the time, the provinces can only run.

The closer to the end of the year, the more it is necessary to urge supervision, delay, and check everywhere.

Jia Min remembered that when Lin Ruhai was still there, she once told her that among the four major families, only Wang Ziteng is powerful and talented—it's not that he doesn't want to speak well of his uncles in front of his wife In fact, it was Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng's official career and achievements that left him speechless.

So when Wang Ziteng was in Beijing, if Jia Min wanted to kick Erfang out, he had to endure it for the time being. If this kind of thing couldn't be resolved at once, it would hurt his face not to mention it, but it would be a shock to the snake.

Yuanyang said in a soft voice: "Why don't we write to His Highness the Fourth Highness."

Jia Min shook her head: Now she doesn't want to bother Xin Hongcheng too much. People's affection is limited. For example, if a good relative doesn't know how to advance or retreat, he will always cause trouble to others and will develop a grudge.

She suddenly said: "These years I have been lazy to go out to meet guests, and if there is a post, except for the old relatives of four kings and eight fathers, I generally push it, right?"

Yuanyang had an idea: "The old lady is going to come out of the rivers and lakes again?"

Seeing Jia Min nodding, he couldn't help but smiled and said, "You are going out at this time, it is really more dignified. Since Miss Lin's happy event came out, how many people want to invite you to sit down."

On diplomatic occasions, Madam is the most well-informed.

Jia Min nodded: "It's not just because of this, Wang Ziteng will at most make her jealous. After all, the separation of the family is a family matter of the Jia family, not to mention that Wang Xifeng is also under pressure in the big house. No matter how much Wang Ziteng loves Mrs. Wang's younger sister, there are still constraints." of.

During this trip, in addition to inquiring about Wang Ziteng's movements, Jia Min also planned to let go of rumors that she was going to split up.

Although the wives of aristocratic families in Beijing are mostly housekeepers and directors who are too busy raising their children, but when they reach the old lady generation, most of them are daughter-in-law housekeepers who enjoy their own happiness.Since leisure creates boredom, these old ladies are the most knowledgeable about whoever has gossip.It is estimated that Jia Min has just revealed a little sign of Erfang's misbehavior here, and it will spread all over Beijing later.

Jia Min is going to go out to meet these old people for a while—she and Jiamu have met these people in the past 20 years, but they were elders at that time, but now they can be friends of the same generation.

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Entering the palace again, Daiyu felt different everywhere.

Firstly, the court ladies and eunuchs who came to guide her went up to two grades, and then when Queen Yang brought her to visit the Empress Dowager, the Supreme Emperor was also there.

The Supreme Emperor is nearly seventy years old, so there is no need to care about the rumors of men and women to avoid suspicion for such a little girl.

After all, it is the concubine of the grandson, the Supreme Emperor will not take this matter to anger.

Daiyu was born in the Lin family and was raised in the Jia family. Both of these two families were close confidants of the Supreme Emperor back then. If not for this, even if Xin Hongcheng loved the girl next to her and had a bad background, the Supreme Emperor would not use the position of concubine to punish his grandson Wrong point - on this point, it is much more fair than the emperor who immediately gave Xu's daughter to the second prince regardless of the weakness of the Xu family.

At this time, the Supreme Emperor saw with his own eyes that Daiyu behaved gracefully, talked meaningfully, was full of poems and books and had a wise heart, so he was even more at ease.

He also talked to her about the past when Lin Ruhai was hand-picked as Tanhualang that day, and he couldn't help feeling a few words.

The Empress Dowager comforted Daiyu, but said to Daiyu the same as before: "Come to this palace to string beads tomorrow, I just got two boxes of good jadeite beads."

Later, the Supreme Emperor once picked up the emperor and asked what shortcomings such a daughter-in-law had. The emperor said on the spot that his father was wise enough to let him set things right.

Seeing that the emperor had recently "returned his head and corrected his mistakes", the emperor treated his sons equally, and even gave Liu Yunzhi's daughter-in-law of Taichang Temple to the second prince as his side concubine, and asked the master who went to the study every day, and all his sons asked about it. .She even specially allocated a female officer who could read to teach the sixth prince to recite the three-character scriptures, and the Supreme Emperor let the emperor go.

As for whether he is partial or not, the Supreme Emperor doesn't care.

No one can be ruthless than grass and trees. It is normal to have a preference in your heart, but to be an emperor and a father, you must behave correctly.

Whether or not the child will be successful in the future is one thing. As a father, you cannot first reach out to help one and suppress the other.

Fortunately, the weather in the territory has been good recently, the country is peaceful and the people are safe. I don’t know if the emperor is a bit of a real dragon. This year, there was a severe drought in the summer outside northern Xinjiang, and many horses, cattle and sheep starved to death. The tribes on the grassland had no time to recuperate. Come to rob.

The emperor was very relieved, so he continued to be busy with stationing troops on the border and reclaiming wasteland, which improved the lives of the border residents.

Seeing that the emperor understands the affairs of the court, the Supreme Emperor gradually let go of many things, and devoted himself to enriching his retirement life by disciplining his grandchildren.

Xin Hongcheng was under a lot of pressure: In the past, the emperor alone made up for his strict father and loving mother, so he was not very strict with him.But the Taishanghuang was born in the military with a temperament, that is really a strict father and a strict grandfather.

After finishing the policy theory examination that day, the Supreme Emperor ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to immediately make a thin board made of old bamboo with a green jade handle, and he would carry it with him whenever he went to the study.

For more than a month, everyone had to be punished twice, and the Supreme Emperor did not engage in the practice of being punished by accompanying readers, and whoever should be punished would fall on him.

Of course, if the accompanying reader makes a mistake or does not make progress, he will also be beaten.

The worst thing is Jia Baoyu: because he is Jia Daishan’s grandson, the Supreme Emperor always takes special care of him among the companions—this is reflected in the fact that he checks his homework the most and hits him the most. As soon as he returned to the government, he would be beaten by Jia Zheng.

Unexpectedly, the other four princes are expected to get married, and they will be able to go to the study to receive errands in the future.But the fifth prince he was studying with was just 11 years old, so he still had several years of beating to suffer.It may even be because there are fewer people sharing the bamboo boards, and more dozen are evenly distributed.

Jia Baoyu was so frightened that he almost wished he could fulfill his childhood joke and become a monk on the spot, so that he would not have to suffer from these trivial tortures.Seeing the Supreme Emperor was even more frightening than seeing Jia Zheng, and I was so scared that I forgot [-]% of the books I would have memorized.

The emperor's fiery heart was gradually extinguished: he still wanted to share Jia Daishan's spare affection with Jia Baoyu, and let him be an official in the future, but he couldn't help him wanting to be Zhuge Liang, but Jia Baoyu ran all the way in the direction of Liu Chan .No matter how nostalgic and soft-hearted the Supreme Emperor is, he can only give up.

It's better for my grandchildren, no matter how harsh they are, oppressive beatings and scolding, they are all determined to learn and never let go.

In this regard, Xin Hongcheng said, there is no way, who told the family to inherit the throne!

Empress Yang was originally happy to see Daiyu, but now she has a different kind of intimacy.Originally, he was worried that Daiyu was the daughter of a foreign minister, so he didn't have to worry about many things that he couldn't say now, he could tell her all the troubles and troubles in the harem.

Daiyu also listened attentively, and compared what Xin Hongcheng said in the letter.

"This is a new small walnut from the Northeast." Empress Yang pushed a plate of walnut kernels towards Daiyu: "Oh, Cheng'er begged from the emperor for this palace, so it's hard for him to show filial piety."

Talking about her son's filial piety, Empress Yang still had a sad face, and Lady Zou smiled beside her: "Miss Lin doesn't know, the empress wants to make amber walnuts for eating, but the Fourth Highness stopped her. Nowadays, no matter whether it is the imperial dining room or the small kitchen, there is nothing to eat." I don’t dare to accept my mother’s words. In the past two months, we have saved a lot of sugar in our quota.”

Sugar was considered a luxury in ancient times, especially to make rock sugar with amber walnut kernels, and you had to take a note to get it.

Empress Yang was helpless: "It's not like our Fengyi Palace can't afford it."

Jing Su pushed Zhou Huangwei: "Madam, we have a good doctor standing here. Doctor Wu praised Miss Zhou's medical skills that day. Ask her to tell me, should I eat less of this candy?"

Zhou Xuanwei looked forward to Queen Yang's eyes with one big head and two big eyes.

I can't help thinking of when I was an intern in the hospital, many family members couldn't control the patients, so they pushed them all to the doctor, and said with snot and tears: "Doctor, if you make the condition serious, you must make him quit smoking and drinking!"

So Zhou Huangwei nodded sternly and selflessly: "Eat less sugar and oil."

Empress Yang was depressed.

All of a sudden, the palace servants reported that Wang Zhong was coming, Empress Yang hurriedly ordered to announce, and then turned her head to explain to Daiyu: "It's the personal eunuch next to Cheng'er."

After Wang Zhong entered the door, he greeted Empress Yang and Daiyu. Although he said he was still Miss Lin, his attitude had been upgraded to that of greeting the princess.

It's not that Xin Hongcheng has something to say when Wang Zhong comes here. After all, Xin Hongcheng is still in dire straits under the eyes of the Supreme Emperor at this time. Wang Zhong came here privately.

Apart from the business, he is also a little selfish, wanting to get acquainted with the future mistress in advance.

He nodded and bowed to the queen: "Your Majesty, the ointment for reducing swelling and blood stasis you rewarded last time has been used up, and I ask you to give me some more."

Empress Yang ordered Jingsu to take it, and then said distressedly: "The Supreme Emperor has punished their brothers again? This is not watching his grandson study, it is clearly the situation of his old man catching enemies and interrogating thieves! The emperor is too cruel, so that's it. Leave the sons behind?"

Lady Zou put the brakes on Empress Yang in time, preventing her from turning from the correct thinking of loving her son to the dangerous behavior of resenting the emperor.

Daiyu lowered her head, feeling a slight tremor in her heart.

In his letter, he only said that it was difficult for the Supreme Emperor to discipline him strictly, but he never said that he would always be beaten.

Empress Yang gave many more instructions before letting Wang Zhong go, then she suddenly turned her head and took Daiyu's hand and said earnestly: "Don't worry, although the Supreme Emperor is ruthless, his subordinates are very measured and will never break the skin and leave scars." , and won’t hurt your face or ruin your appearance.”

After saying this, Daiyu blushed immediately.

Ms. Zou and the others all laughed.

The author has something to say: Jia Baoyu: Let me become a monk, my family has no throne to inherit, why is it always me who suffers!