Queen's Road in the Red House

Dozens of pots of chrysanthemums were placed in the courtyard of Concubine Zhen Gui, like swallow wings, of various colors, among which yellow and purple bloom the best, dazzling yellow and luxurious purple, complementing each other.

Daiyu entered and greeted Princess Zhen Gui, who smiled and said, "Did the Crown Princess see some potted flowers in the courtyard just now? The purple one is called Zixia Lian. If you think it looks good, you can buy it this year." Move a few pots away."

Seeing Daiyu's refusal, Concubine Zhen Gui still smiled: "The empress dowager is a polite person. In fact, my mother's family has a deep relationship with your maternal ancestor's family. They are old relatives for many years. Fan Zhen's family went to Beijing. For a while, if the money is not in hand, it will be taken directly from the Rongguo Mansion, and if someone from the Jia family goes to the south of the Yangtze River, it will be the same."

Wearing luxurious armor, she pointed to a red sandalwood openwork table screen, which was inlaid with scarlet gauze embroidered flowers and cursive poems: "This is a wisdom pattern, which was sent to the palace by Shi Taijun before. What is the time for. Oh, yes, to find a good place for your cousin Yuanchun to enter the palace. I said at the time that the empress dowager is the best at regulating people, and your cousin will have a good future with her.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Chun went out of the palace by accident. I don't know if he annoyed Ben Gong. When Shi Taijun entered the palace again, he would no longer come to sit alone in Ben Gong's room like before. "

Daiyu thought to herself: If my mother is changed, the second uncle's family will be separated, not to mention the Zhen family, of course they would like to be separated cleanly.

However, he only said some appropriate words but couldn't understand the meaning: "Grandmother has not been in good health for the past two years, not to mention paying homage to the imperial concubine alone, she even seldom entered the palace gate."

Concubine Zhen Gui pulled the corners of her mouth and smiled: "I heard that the Crown Princess can read and write, she has rough chest, and she is articulate, as expected."

Daiyu didn't speak anymore, she just stood there with a standard smile on her face.

Anyway, everyone has come here today, Concubine Zhen Gui is an elder, and it is inevitable that she will be subjected to two yin and yang words.But Concubine Zhen Gui also had some scruples. The Empress Dowager did not dare to overstep, and the Prince Rui said that he would have to live under Xin Hongcheng's hands in the future, so naturally he would not tear himself apart.

At most, it is to touch Daiyu's temperament, in order to pinch her mistakes in the future, and let Daiyu experience the embarrassment of being unable to protect her servants.

He would never do anything to Daiyu face to face.

Sure enough, after Concubine Zhengui finished speaking, seeing that Daiyu had no reaction, she felt like waking up from a dream: "Princess Concubine is still standing, sit down quickly. You are young and shy—I am old and chattering Yes, you should sit by yourself, why stand all the time."

Daiyu was kind, and sat down in the first seat below.

Seeing Concubine Zhen Gui, she suddenly thought of Zhen Ran.

So for the next half hour, Daiyu seemed possessed by Zhen Ran, with a perfect smile and perfect etiquette, but she was taciturn and would never speak unless asked.

Concubine Zhen Gui intentionally frightened her with a cold silence, so she kept looking at Daiyu without saying a word.

Daiyu didn't know it, so she sat calmly, and even tied her handkerchief into a plum blossom knot with her sleeves to pass the time.If Concubine Zhen Gui stared at her for more than three seconds, she would respond with a toothless smile and sometimes nod.

Concubine Zhen Gui: ...

She really couldn't wait for Daiyu to open her mouth, watching the ticking of the western standing clock on the ground passing by, she couldn't help being angry: she wrote a message to the princess, and the whole palace was watching, she couldn't keep Daiyu Too long, do you just sit like this?

In the end, he opened the mouth first: "I am usually lonely and want to find a junior to talk to, but who knows that the Crown Princess has a taciturn and wise temper, which is different from what I have heard in ordinary times."

In this way, Daiyu acted as if she didn't understand, accepted the explicit praise and gave up the secret criticism, her smile widened by three points according to the rules, and she said sincerely: "Thank you for your compliment."

Concubine Zhen Gui's eyes narrowed slightly: "It's just that she doesn't talk much in front of the elders. Those who know say that the Crown Princess is reticent, but those who don't know think that the Crown Princess looks down on me, an elder, and sees no one in her eyes."

Daiyu put away the smile just now, and changed the three-pointed expression into a dignified and sincere expression: "Your Majesty, you are serious."

Then he closed his mouth again.

Concubine Zhen Gui felt a long-lost sense of familiarity, but she couldn't remember what happened for a while.

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Zhou Ling commented on Zhen Ran's performance that day: "You said she was rude, and she was not. When others praised her for laughing, she would be surprised when others said something new, but those expressions were clearly fake, and It's the kind of expression that makes it clear that I'm not afraid that you will see my smirk, I'm just perfunctory, you'd better stay away from me, what a weird person!"

Daiyu felt that it was very suitable for this occasion.

Grand Concubine Zhen Gui didn't realize that she had never seen such a "clumsy" acting before, but when she saw the eunuch in charge of the palace hurried in, she didn't even care about Daiyu, so she whispered a few words in the Grand Concubine Gui's ear, and took A letter came out.

Daiyu hangs her head in a state of ignorance.

After hearing a sound of "bang bang", Concubine Zhen Gui suddenly got up, and even knocked a plate of tribute oranges on the table to the ground, and an orange rolled to Daiyu's feet.

Daiyu looked at the oranges under her feet, and then looked at the empty high table next to her: she said she was invited to drink tea, but Princess Zhengui never even asked her to have a cup of tea, but it's okay, Daiyu didn't dare to drink it either. something outside.

Concubine Zhengui ignored Daiyu at all, and went directly to the inner room, but the nurse next to her said apologetically to Daiyu: "Prince Concubine, Your Majesty is in a hurry, I will invite you to drink tea in the future."

After finishing speaking by the way, this nanny also saw the bald girl who didn't have any refreshments, and her old face couldn't help but flushed a little.

Daiyu resigned as usual as if she hadn't seen her.

The nanny personally sent her out of the palace, looked at Daiyu's slim back, and thought: This princess and concubine is a person who can hold her breath.

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After leaving the palace gate, Xiao Luo couldn't help but wondered: "Your Majesty, Concubine Zhen Gui has stayed in the palace for decades, what can make her turn pale with fright? I just started talking."

Poor Director Ge has not been mentioned, and has not yet had a name in this conversation, so the conversation is over.

Daiyu shook her head, but she was not in a hurry: "If it's a big deal, we will know soon."

Sure enough, as soon as he returned to Chonghua Palace, Wang Zhong went back and forth with Daiyu himself, saying that His Highness could not come back for lunch, and he was afraid that dinner would be suspended.

There was a major event in the previous dynasty, and the king of Nan'an and the Zhen family lost the battle.

Wang Zhong couldn't tell exactly what was going on, so Daiyu told him to go back, and filled Wang Zhong with the newly made mint candy and autumn pear paste that Zhou Weiwei had just sent: "Autumn is dry, and it's still refreshing when you get up in the morning." Listening to him coughing, these candies made him swallow one for nothing."

Wang Zhong quickly nodded and bowed in response.

Xiaoluo called a little maid to go, and asked the small kitchen to withdraw the broiled mutton that the prince wanted to eat.In the room, Mo Ran plucked the red phoenix inlaid with southern pearls on Daiyu's head and trembling golden steps: "No wonder Princess Zhen Gui changed her face, it turned out that something happened to the Zhen family."

Daiyu frowned slightly, and was a little worried about Zhen Ran. She remembered that Zhen Ran's father went to the sea area of ​​Zhejiang with the Nan'an County King to deal with foreign countries.I heard that Zhen Ran followed, but I don't know if it's safe.

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Mingzheng Palace.

Emperor Xuanhe was very angry and walked around the room twice: "Incompetent! Stupid! Eyes but no eyes!"

Except for Xin Hongcheng, all the officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of War knelt down because of the emperor's anger.

Emperor Xuanhe's life was full of ups and downs this year, especially in the past two months: before the joyful tears of his son's wedding were shed, the queen was almost poisoned to death. He became a loner.

Therefore, the emperor is only willing to listen to good news recently: for example, a deer descended from the sky, which can prove that there is nothing wrong with his rule of Yuguo, and it can also add glory to his son's face.

After all, after the prince canonization, if there is any major natural or man-made disaster in the country, it will inevitably cast a shadow over the reputation of the new prince.

Fortunately, God still gave him the face of the real dragon emperor. This summer, there is plenty of rain, but the Yellow River has not flooded. Only a few small floods have been reported, and they are all within the controllable range.Since the rain is good, the harvest will be good in autumn. The Ministry of Finance just reported the account yesterday. This year can be said to be a good year for food. It is expected that the tax revenue of the provinces will be good at the end of the year. It will not be like a disaster year. account.

When Emperor Xuanhe saw that the people's livelihood was in good health, he turned his head to pay attention to the border, hoping that they would not do anything wrong this year.

Several unstable borders have really stabilized this year.

The Northwest is controlled by Empress Yang's mother's family. Hearing that the Empress suffered a poison and retired, she was extremely nervous from top to bottom. While sending people to Beijing to inquire, she also worked hard to stabilize the military situation in the Northwest, for fear that the Emperor would deal with it.

In northern Xinjiang, every autumn, there will be robbery by northern barbarians. This year, General Zhou is also thinking that there are many major events related to the reserve position in the court. His daughter is married to King An, so he is afraid of being caught.So he worked extra hard, not to mention kicking Beiman out, and personally led people to patrol the border counties. He would rather work extra hard than have a good year.

Not to mention Fujian, Marquis Changyuan naturally wouldn't slap his grandson in the face. To put it bluntly, if there was a war in Fujian, he would take the risk and try his best not to come to the capital.

So Emperor Xuanhe was quite satisfied when he saw the peace of the world and the peace of the country and the people.

He even began to imagine the grand scene of this year's Chinese New Year, when thousands of officials are serious, and the emperors of all nations.

It's a pity that within two days of the sweet dream, King Nan'an and the Zhen family poured a basin of cold rain on the emperor's face, which woke the emperor up suddenly.

Seeing that the emperor was furious, Xin Hongcheng persuaded: "Father, don't hurt your body with anger. Fortunately, this defeat only lost our face in the eyes of the surrounding countries, and did not really hurt our subjects. cent."

All the ministers echoed: Yes, this time I only lost face, not face.I hope the emperor will think about it, as long as he can let go of his face, this defeat is not a big deal.

However, the emperor couldn't let it go, and he was very angry.

Xin Hongcheng was also helpless: Nan'an County King and Zhen's family lost this time, which is really a bit unreasonable.

Things have to start from Xiyi Kingdom.

Xiyi Kingdom and Dongyi Kingdom are two island nations facing each other across the sea. Every year they send envoys to congratulate the Heaven/Dynasty, but the relationship between the two small nations is very bad, almost a blood feud.

In recent years, Dongyi Kingdom has changed a new king, with both ambition and strength, they have defeated Xiyi Kingdom's naval forces steadily, and even occupied a piece of territory on Xiyi Kingdom Island last year.

Before Xin Hongcheng got married, Xiyi Kingdom sent many tributes and congratulations again, the purpose was to ask for foreign aid, and even said the humble words of willingness to be a subordinate state of this dynasty, asking the emperor to send troops to support Xiyi Kingdom.

Although Dongyi can beat Xiyi on the head, it is still a small country with weak people. According to the report from the governor of Zhejiang, it only needs to send out two branches of the navy to cooperate with the team of Xiyi to take Dongyi. country.

Naturally, the emperor was willing to use such a small price to expand the territory and add two subsidiary countries, so he ordered Nan'an County King and the Zhen family who had been transferred to Zhejiang to be responsible for this matter.

The Supreme Emperor also agreed. In his old man's opinion, this is a good thing to win the battle with a grasp and secure military merits.

The king of Nan'an County took Zhen Ran's father, Zhen Yingqi, to the capital of Xiyi Kingdom to sit in charge in person, and the tens of thousands of sailors behind him were parked on the coast of the dynasty, ready to move out at any time.

Sure enough, Dongyi Kingdom was immediately frightened, and sent someone to deliver a letter of surrender, and even handed over the land of Xiyi Kingdom that had already been taken back.

The Xiyi Kingdom was overjoyed, and held a grand banquet in honor of the king and general of the Heaven/Chao County that night.

Unexpectedly, there is no good banquet, so the hidden spies in Xiyi opened the city gate that night, and the lurking army of Dongyi directly killed them, not only killing the royal family of Xiyi completely, but even killing two followers. The young general of the King of Nan'an took the King of Nan'an and Zhen Yingqi as hostages by the way, hoping to use them as a condition to ask the heaven/dynasty to recognize the Dongyi Kingdom, no, it is now the legal status of the newly-built Shuangyi Kingdom.

The emperor's desk made a loud noise: "I sent them to help the Xiyi Kingdom suppress the enemy country, but in the end, the entire army of the Xiyi Kingdom was wiped out, and the two of them were taken as hostages! How dare I send another person?" Go and redeem them! Dreaming! They just die there!"

The rest of the officials bowed their heads as if they were deaf.

Xin Hongcheng didn't say a word, but everyone knew that the Supreme Emperor would not sit idly by when Zhen Yingqi was there.Not to mention that the old lady of the Zhen family in the south of the Yangtze River would cry and enter the palace to intercede, I am afraid that Concubine Zhen Gui has already gone to the Supreme Emperor to give a blow.

Qin Wu trotted in and sent in the governor-general of Zhejiang Babaili who had just arrived in Beijing.

After reading it, the emperor handed it to Xin Hongcheng without saying a word. After the prince finished reading it, he passed it on all the way.

After all, Dongyi country is small and weak, and this time they have to draw their salaries from the bottom of the pot, and they are also hanging their own lives on the edge of the sword. If the emperor of the sky/chao does not count gains and losses in a fit of anger, even if they want to attack by force, they will not be lucky.

In particular, Dongyi Kingdom was a little confused about the titles here, thinking that the county kings were the emperor's younger brothers or sons, so they captured the Queen of Nan'an County and immediately took them as treasure hostages.

But when I asked later, I found that the king of Nan'an County was just a king with a different surname, and he didn't have the same surname as the emperor!

Dongyi Nation panicked on the spot, why did it bring back a Xibei product? !

So they sent envoys ashore again, expressing their infinite admiration for Tian/Chao, and at the same time proposed that as long as Tian/Chao bestows the princess with marriage, Shuangyi Kingdom is willing to dedicate five times the tribute to Tian/Chao from then on.

Although he still doesn't want to be a vassal state that even the king needs to appoint, it can be regarded as bowing his head.

Seeing that the emperor's expression softened a bit, He Lang said, "This is the best of both worlds. In fact, the Xiyi Kingdom is not a subsidiary state of our dynasty. The emperor is so gracious and willing to help. It's a pity that the Xiyi Kingdom has exhausted its power." The royal family They were all dead, even if the emperor held his breath and wanted to help them restore the country according to the agreement, it would be a castle in the sky.

"What does the prince think?"

The emperor noticed that Xin Hongcheng was in a daze and was silent, so he made a special roll call.

Only then did Xin Hongcheng come back to his senses, and expounded his point of view, but he was still thinking about another thing: Tanchun married far away.

From the moment he saw the word "marriage", Xin Hongcheng thought of Tanchun's marriage.

So at night, I talked to Daiyu about the cause and effect of this matter, and laid the groundwork: "Father means that whoever commits crimes will bear the burden. It's just a small country on the sea, so naturally it can't be married as a princess or princess, so I'm looking for an official girl. Just give her a title and marry her. Since this matter is the negligence of Nan'an Junwang and Zhen's family, this girl will come from their family."

Daiyu was startled: "Do you want Zhenran to go get married?"

Xin Hongcheng shook his head: "Not necessarily."

Daiyu was puzzled, so Xin Hongcheng said, "The two houses may not be willing, let's take a look."

There is only one daughter from the direct line to be married in the Prince's Mansion of Nan'an County, and even this generation has only this daughter's family, which is the heart of the old concubine.At first, when she heard that the king of Nan'an County was detained in Xiyi Kingdom, the old concubine could bear it, but when she heard that her granddaughter might marry to the island country, she immediately fainted from crying.In the afternoon, I put on a lot of make-up according to the product, entered the palace with a dragon's head and crutches, and fell down crying in front of the emperor and queen mother.

It happened that Concubine Zhen Gui was also weeping with her handkerchief in her hand, so the two felt sorry for each other and wept in each other's arms, the Emperor couldn't bear to see it.

Concubine Zhen Gui brought up the past with the Supreme Emperor in private: "However, that child was supposed to be a prince concubine, but the second prince was born with a crime of personal morality, which made her mistake. But apart from the girls in the capital, only Ran'er I came to the flower viewing banquet, and I was rewarded by the Empress Dowager's pearl hairpin. Everyone thought she was going to be a princess, but in the end, she lost face. When my younger brother was going to Zhejiang, she was a girl. , Kneeling and begging to follow, I must be ashamed to stay at home."

Concubine Zhen Gui may not be ignorant of Zhen Ran's thoughts of not wanting to enter the palace, but at this time she still portrays Zhen Ran as a pitiful little one.

"If we go to a foreign country to get married again, and we are separated by many oceans from now on, then this child's life will be too hard." Seeing that the Supreme Emperor really looked a little unbearable, Princess Zhen Gui took out her trump card at the right time: "Besides, mother is not in good health these days. Her old man has always loved Ran'er..."

The Supreme Emperor thought of the nurse who was as close as his biological mother, and made a decision in his heart: it doesn't matter which family the girl used to be, but if this incident caused the old nurse who was over eighty years old, he would definitely regret it.

So the Taishanghuang finally let go and sent someone to tell the emperor.

This matter is left to the Nan'an County Prince's Mansion and the Zhen family to handle it themselves, as long as they choose a girl from an official family, who is talented enough to represent the face, it doesn't have to be the daughter of these two families.At that time, a princess can be conferred and sent to Shuangyi Kingdom to get married.

The emperor gritted his teeth and agreed.

The Supreme Emperor then instructed Concubine Zhen Gui: "Don't force the parents of other people to give up their daughter. If I want to know, I have to send Raner away!"

Concubine Zhen Gui hurriedly agreed, but she didn't take it seriously.

How many mistresses of officials and eunuchs in Beijing would like to give up a concubine daughter in exchange for the reputation of the princess.

So he and the old princess of Nan'an were busy discussing this matter.

For a while, there was a lot of discussion in the palace about this matter.Concubine Zhen Gui didn't have time to take care of Chief Ge who was pounding rice in the Punishment Department, so she naturally wouldn't offend the prince's lineage at this time, so she exposed the matter, not only did she not find fault with Daiyu, she even gave her away Things come back twice.

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Xin Hongcheng came back from Mingzheng Palace that day, and said to Daiyu, "Miss Zhen's family doesn't need to go make a kiss."

Daiyu still has a faint impression of Zhen Ran, and she is relieved to hear about this.I heard that the former ruler of Dongyi Kingdom was very ambitious. He was over forty years old and had a wife and son.However, in order to show respect to the heaven/chao, he expressed that he would give up the position of the most honorable wife to the princess of the heaven/chao.

Having said that, his original wife has been in business for many years, has sons and daughters, and is deeply entrenched in power. I am afraid that the princess here will only be an empty-handed wife in the past, and naturally it is not a good place to go.

However, just as Daiyu breathed a sigh of relief, Xin Hongcheng hesitated for a while and said, "There is something you need to do first."

"The girl who is going to get married may be the third girl from the Rongguo Mansion, Jia Tanchun."

The pen in Daiyu's hand landed on the paper: "What?"

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