Princess [rebirth]

The queen entered Wanfeng Pavilion, and went straight to Ye Zhaoyuan's bedroom. With a cold face, she walked quickly while holding Aunt Wang's hand, and kept thinking about what the Crown Princess said just now.

When she knew that Ye Zhaoyuan was poisoned earlier, she just sneered in her heart, didn't even bother to move, and continued to sit in the Lizheng Palace to deal with palace affairs. Later, news came out from Wanfeng Pavilion that Ye Zhaoyuan said that she wanted to poison her, which made The queen even disdained to interfere in the affairs of Wanfeng Pavilion, and only thought that the clearer would be clearer.

Unexpectedly, after a while, the Crown Princess came to the Lizheng Hall to ask for an audience.

The queen can be said to not want to see the crown princess at all now, because the sage's words earlier made the queen's plan to enter the East Palace aborted, she thought that the crown princess was playing tricks behind her back, and she didn't believe the prince If he said something that he didn't want to accept, it must have been instigated by the Crown Princess.She didn't know what the crown prince taught the prince in private. She was afraid that the prince would be spoiled by the crown prince, so she hurriedly revealed this worry to the sage, but was reprimanded by the sage in turn.

This made the queen dislike seeing the princess even more.

So when she heard the Crown Princess begging to see her now, she really didn't want to see her. Later, Aunt Wang tried her best to persuade her for a long time. Now that the Crown Prince is gradually recovering, the sage is very happy. He must see the Crown Princess differently. After all, the eminent monk at the White Horse Temple said, The crown princess is able to save the prince from misfortune.Now that the prince is well, many of them are credited by the crown princess, and the crown princess is personally pointed out by the saint, no matter how much the queen hates her, it is not easy to let the saint know on the face, so as not to annoy the saint.

The queen knew this truth, but the prince's push to accept the person made the queen feel angry. If she didn't send it to the princess, who would she send it to?But she still remembered that her poor niece was sent to another hospital outside Beijing to recuperate. The saint didn't say anything, that is, she could never return to Beijing for the rest of her life.Thinking about this, and looking at the crown princess who took up the position of the niece, the queen certainly didn't like it no matter what she looked at.

But what Aunt Wang said, the queen could still listen to her to some extent, so she reluctantly met people.

But she didn't expect that the moment the Crown Princess came in and finished greeting her, she would directly bring up the topic of Ye Zhaoyuan in Wanfeng Pavilion. She wanted to reprimand her, but she didn't expect to be shocked by the Crown Princess' words.

The princess only said a few words, and he said: "The queen mother is in charge of the palace affairs now. If something happened to Wanfeng Pavilion, the queen mother will definitely not be able to delay it. Besides, Ye Zhaoyuan kept saying that it was because of drinking the tonic that the queen mother rewarded. He vomited blood, even though the queen mother thought that the clean will clean itself, she couldn't bear to be splashed with dirty water by the people around her."

After the concubine's tactful hint, the queen understood what the other party meant, and no matter how bored she was, she had to go to the Wanfeng Pavilion in Wutong Hall in person.After all, the Crown Princess was right, the tonic came out of the Lizheng Hall, she would have to bear the charge of lax governance no matter what, and even if she pretended, she had to pretend to be virtuous in front of the saint, The sage cannot be made to feel that he cannot tolerate others.

Even if the whole palace already knew that the empress is not a tolerant person, but no one can save face. Since the empress puts on a virtuous appearance, no one will be stupid enough to really pierce the empress. Layer window paper.Zhuo Jingfan was able to persuade the queen to go to Wanfeng Pavilion by grasping this point. Presumably, the sage would also be happy to see the whitewashing of peace performed by everyone.

That's why the queen stood in front of Ye Zhaoyuan's bed.She condescendingly looked at the sick beauty lying on the bed, and saw that Ye Zhaoyuan's originally ruddy and charming face was now covered with a layer of gray, her eyes had lost their former agility, and she looked extremely thin, which made the queen's heart flash. After a breath of relief.

Ye Zhaoyuan jumped up and down in front of her several times, relying on her holy favor. She really wanted to crush the other party to death, and now seeing that the other party was having a hard time, she felt at ease.

"Where's the imperial doctor?" the queen asked lightly, and a maidservant waiting by the bed immediately stepped forward and reported respectfully, "Go back to the empress, the imperial doctor has been here before, detoxified Zhaoyuan, and prescribed a prescription, saying Just take a good rest for a while."

"Didn't you say you were going to die? You even sent someone to the study of the Liangyi Hall to see the saint. I don't know who gave it the courage to disturb the saint's court. Some people are easy to get carried away, and life is a little smoother." , I forgot my identity." The queen sneered, and opened her mouth to accuse Ye Zhaoyuan, who was lying on the bed, so angry.

As long as the other party is the queen, no matter how angry Ye Zhaoyuan is, she can only listen, not to mention talking back, even if she takes the initiative to speak up, she only dared to show off in front of the queen because she was favored before.But this time the poisoning made her vigilant, the queen wanted her to die, but it was so easy, without any excuses, as long as a bowl of medicine was put down, she would die suddenly, how could she not be afraid.

Moreover, the inner eunuch she sent to the Yinyi Hall has never returned, and the saint has not arrived for a long time. At this time, she realized that the holy grace she was complacent in the past is actually just a wisp of holy grace. So what about pets?Can the sage still leave the early court?

After seeing this point, Ye Zhaoyuan's heart was filled with bitterness and resentment when she looked at the condescending queen who looked down on her. Even if Fu Yanjing didn't love her, as long as she was the queen for a day, the other concubines would be a head shorter than her. The son is the crown prince, and the only son of a sage. Fu Yanqing is now the empress, and will be the empress dowager in the future. How can he compare to him.

It's ridiculous that I wanted to rely on the grace to suppress the other party before, but now that I think about it, I really don't know what to do, and now I'm lying on the bed, I'm afraid I asked for it.Ye Zhaoyuan was not a fool either, she quickly guessed that it was probably because of her arrogance earlier that she became a gun in the hands of others and was pointed at the Queen.When she was first poisoned, she also suspected that it was the queen who did it, but after thinking about it carefully, even if the queen really wanted her to die, how could she blatantly poison the tonic.

I'm afraid that both the queen and she have fallen into the trap of others.

"Your Majesty, Ye Zhaoyuan is not feeling well. Even if your Majesty has something to teach her, you have to wait for her to recover, right?" Just when Ye Zhaoyuan figured out the joints, another voice suddenly came from the door, and Ye Zhaoyuan froze. , turned her head to look, and saw Concubine De standing dignifiedly at the door with a smile on her face.

"So it's Concubine De, why, do I still need you to tell me what to do?" The queen heard Concubine De's words, turned her head and glanced at her, and said indifferently.

"Your Majesty is serious. I just think that Ye Zhaoyuan is weak at this time. If there is any more depression, the saint will blame me at that time. I'm afraid it's not beautiful." Concubine De didn't care about the Queen's cold face and said to herself.

After hearing this, the queen gave Concubine De a sharp look, and said with a sneer, "It's so strange that the sage always says that Concubine De has a clever mouth."

"I don't dare to be a concubine." Concubine De replied with a smile, with a hint of complacency on her face. After all, being able to get a compliment from a sage is really a glorious thing, but she has not finished complacent, and listened to the queen's words. He continued: "In that case, you can stay here to comfort Ye Zhaoyuan. I think your clever words will surely relieve the knot in Ye Zhaoyuan's heart."

Concubine De's smile froze on her face.

Concubine De's eyes uncontrollably drifted to Ye Zhaoyuan's face. What is my status, what is Ye Zhaoyuan's status, that I want to be a dignified concubine of De Concubine to be a boring thing for Zhaoyuan?Has the queen also buried her?The queen didn't say anything at all, she just asked herself to relieve Zhaoyuan's depression. After all, her clever mouth was also praised by the sage. .

Concubine De was choked by the empress so much that she couldn't speak, the expression on her face turned blue and white for a while, the empress just snorted coldly when she saw her, and ignored her, anyway, she had already spoken, even if Concubine De was unwilling Well, she can stand up to this matter in front of the saint, after all, she is also thinking about Ye Zhaoyuan, isn't she? ...

Lizheng Palace

Zhuo Jingfan was waiting in the Lizheng Hall, waiting for the queen to come back.

He could persuade the queen to visit Ye Zhaoyuan, but it was difficult for him to follow. Even if he was worried that the queen would not speak and would mess things up, he would not say that he was a lord, but that he As a daughter-in-law, there is no reason to visit A ​​Weng's concubine, so I have to hold back my temper and sit in the Lizheng Hall to wait.

After an unknown amount of time, he finally waited for the queen to come back. He hurriedly stood up and stood at the gate of the hall to greet the queen. The queen was a little surprised to see him still there, but she didn't show it at all, so she calmly avoided him. Say hello.

"I don't know how Ye Zhaoyuan's situation is?" Zhuo Jingfan asked after the queen sat down.

"I can't die." The queen curled her lips and said coldly.

"Empress Mother, the matter of poisoning needs to be found out before the emperor's court. My son heard that a servant girl who burned fire in the small kitchen of the Empress Lizheng Hall hanged herself. I wonder if there is such a thing?" Zhuo Jing Fan didn't care about the Queen's attitude, and just wanted to finish the matter that Dou Chun had given him quickly, so that he could leave the Lizheng Hall as soon as possible.

"It's true, why, don't you suspect that she committed suicide in fear of crime?" The queen raised her eyelids and glanced at Zhuo Jingfan.

"After returning to the mother, it's not that the servant was suspicious, but the time when the servant girl hanged herself was too coincidental. I don't know why the queen mother hanged herself?" Zhuo Jingfan said.

The queen glanced at Aunt Wang, and Aunt Wang stood up immediately, and replied respectfully: "Back to the princess, the palace maid left a suicide note, saying that she couldn't bear the hardships in the palace because she was often beaten, scolded and bullied." , that’s why I finally had the idea of ​​committing suicide.”

"It's really rare that a little servant girl from the Burning Fire Palace can read and write a suicide note. It's a pity." Zhuo Jingfan had no other reaction after hearing this, but sighed.

Aunt Wang was stunned when she heard the words, and many thoughts suddenly turned in her mind. She hadn't thought of this before, but now she was pointed out by the princess, and then she noticed the suspicious point on this palace maid.After the palace people enter the palace, before they are sent to the Shangyi Bureau to learn the rules, they will separate the literate and illiterate ones. After the rules are adjusted, the literate palace people will naturally be sent to work in better places. Most of the people started as rough envoys and maidservants.

Since that palace maid could read and write, how could she be assigned to the small kitchen as a fire palace maid?Thinking of this, Aunt Wang couldn't sit still, she had to look into this matter again.

"If the princess is fine, let's go back first. After a trip to Wanfeng Pavilion, I am exhausted and want to rest." The queen is impatient to hear these lawsuits. After all, the one who died was only a maidservant. How can there be proof? Was it her who gave the poison?And isn't Ye Zhaoyuan still alive?Since Ye Zhaoyuan is fine, she also thinks this matter can be resolved easily.

Seeing that Aunt Wang understood his point, Zhuo Jingfan didn't want to stay for a long time. He and the queen didn't fight each other, so it was hard to insist on saying a few words, and he couldn't stand it if he stayed any longer. Quickly followed the queen's words and left the Lizheng Palace.

After returning to the Cheng'en Hall in the East Palace, I heard Hu Po who stayed behind come forward to report, "To the Crown Princess, Li Chenghui just came to the Cheng'en Hall to ask to see the Crown Princess, but the servant said you were not there. After Li Chenghui went back, the beautiful face of the Qiushui Pavilion disappeared I went to the Palace Gate Bureau."

"Keep an eye on them, and report any changes." Zhuo Jingfan has no time to pay attention to Li Chenghui and Huarong now. No matter what Su Fengyi is doing outside, as long as they leave the East Palace, it has nothing to do with him and Dou Chun. Bearing the title of the prince's concubine, Keren has already been sent to the Buddhist hall to meditate, that is, he has been thrown into the cold palace in disguise.

Hu Po took the order and left, and then Zhuo Jingfan called Chang Lin again and asked him to deliver a letter to You Quan, and You Quan had a way to deliver the letter to Dou Chun.After the order was finished, he began to deal with the palace affairs that he had put down earlier.

And Dou Chun, who was in the study of Liangyi Hall, started to do the homework assigned by Master Chu after finishing the memorial. Although he was a little concerned about Ye Zhaoyuan's poisoning, he knew that he could not intervene in this matter.He can only ask his princess to mention his mother as much as possible, but to be honest, he is not sure how much the mother can listen to.

Until Youfu came in with a letter, after he read the letter, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.Although the development of the matter is still unsatisfactory, at least the queen mother has done all the face and treatment that the queen should do. Even if the saint hears about it, it is not good to take the queen first. ...

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Main courtyard of Prince Huai's Mansion

Princess Huai's body has improved a lot recently. Although she is still a little weak, she can at least get out of bed and take a few steps in the yard, but now that winter is coming and the weather is getting colder, the servant girls such as Baicao and Bailing are always afraid of The princess couldn't bear the cold wind.Therefore, every time the princess wants to walk in the yard, the maids would like to wrap the princess into a ball, wear many layers inside and out, and even have a lot of cloaks and cloaks. Several sleeve stoves.

Concubine Huai was made dumbfounded by the maidservants, thinking that she grew up in the Northwest, when she was a child her body was weaker than now, and she could survive this severe cold, how could she be unable to bear the cold now? ?But Concubine Huai knew very well that the maids would be confused if they cared, fearing that they would be frightened by her lingering sick bed.

It's not easy for her to brush the maid's mind, after all, Baicao and the others have followed her since she was a child, and they have a special friendship, so she also let Baicao and the others to make arrangements, but in the end, she couldn't help but laugh a little Well, she just went for a walk in the yard, but Baicao and the others made her look like she was about to go far away.

She shook her head, and slowly walked out of the room with Baicao's hand in her hand.

A few maidservants surrounded her behind her, and a group of people walked in the courtyard of the main courtyard. After a while, the old lady guarding the gate of the courtyard came to report, and the little lady came.When Princess Huai heard this, her spirits lifted immediately, and then she saw a 14-year-old lady leading a group of maids into the main courtyard. Share joy.

"Zhirong has seen her mother." Although the little lady was happy, she still politely greeted the princess first, and the princess quickly took her hand and smiled softly: "It's such a cold day, don't stay in the room properly, How can you come out and walk around?"

"Zhirong heard that Auntie is in better health, how can she sit still?" The originally well-behaved lady said coquettishly at the moment she was tired of being beside the princess, the intimacy in her tone made the princess' heart almost melt.

"Come in quickly, blow the wind carefully, and you will have a headache again when you look back." The princess hurriedly dragged her daughter into the room, and her youngest daughter followed her. Her body was a little weak, so the princess paid attention to her body when she urinated, but fortunately, her daughter Her body is just a little weaker, unlike her medicine pot.

The mother and daughter entered the room arm in arm and affectionately. Baicao and Bailing had already ordered the kitchen to prepare some cakes that the young lady liked, and also served two bowls of hot sweet soup to warm the stomachs of the princess and the young lady.

Dou Zhirong sat on the soft couch with the concubine and talked. Dou Zhirong will be married next year. Her marriage, the concubine, started seeing each other two years ago, and it was settled for her a year ago.But the concubine wanted to stay with Dou Zhirong for a few more years, so she agreed to marry at sixteen.

It's just that although it will take more than a year to get married, the housekeeper and female celebrity that should be learned have long been on the agenda. As early as when Dou Zhirong was ten years old, the princess took her by her side and asked her to take care of the family.Although Nuhong has been learning since she was a child, with Dou Zhirong's status and status, she is not required to embroider very well. After all, as the daughter of King Huai, she will be the county lord after she gets married. How can the county lord need to be good at embroidery? .

As for the butler, she has studied it for many years. When the princess fell ill a while ago, although Duke Huai heard the rumors and handed over the housekeeping power to Sun Ruren, but now she is the only one who can talk about the housekeeper besides the princess. Rurenkong has a good name, but in fact, which servant in the palace is not a human being?On the surface, he was holding Sun Ruren, but in fact he still listened to the orders of Chang Guanshi and the main courtyard.

Therefore, although Dou Zhirong did not know about the housekeeper, in private the keys and cards of the warehouse were still in Dou Zhirong's hands, even the account books and rosters of the house's entry and exit were also in her hands.On weekdays, on behalf of Dou Zhirong, the steward often came forward, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who were in charge wanted to answer the question. Although the reply was given to Sun Ruren, Sun Ruren had never seen such a battle, and how could he be in charge of it? The son took it over, and when he turned around, he reported it to the little lady, and let the little lady decide.

This time and twice, those mothers-in-law and daughter-in-law had their own accounts in mind, and although they were considered respectful in front of Sun Ruren in the future, they never bothered each other with the general affairs of the mansion, and the daily morning reply became a routine. , the stewards will report to the steward often if they have something to do, and then wait for the little lady to make a decision.

Even if Sun Ruren knew it well, he had no choice but to blame himself for not being able to reincarnate, so he fell into the belly of an aunt. She was born as a concubine, so she never learned these things under the upbringing of her aunt. means of stewardship.Originally, the aunt had the responsibility of raising the concubine daughter. After Sun Ruren became sensible, Mrs. Sun wanted to take her to her side and discipline her, but Sun Ruren's aunt actually didn't take Mrs. Sun seriously because she was still favored. Sun Shang wrote that Mrs. Sun had abused Sun Ruren in front of her. Mrs. Sun was lazy and cared about someone who was not on the stage, and she was so happy that she didn't have to educate the concubine, so she threw Sun Ruren aside with a flick of her hand.

Now it's useless for Sun Ruren to regret it anymore, she and her aunt gave up the chance by birth, and from that time after her aunt took Mrs. Sun's eye drops, Sun Ruren knew that Aye was indifferent to her aunt. After she came down, she rarely stepped into my aunt's house in the future.Mrs. Sun never asked her again, and when she was almost old, the marriage was not settled.

If it wasn't for Aye's abandonment and being ignored by his aunt, how could she and his aunt put so much effort into dating Duke Huai?If she doesn't plan for herself, who else will plan for her?

Thinking of the past, Sun Ruren felt a burst of resentment in her heart. She thought that Aye and his aunt would regret it after entering Prince Huai's mansion, and she would be able to vent her anger well.Unexpectedly, she entered the palace with her front foot, and her aunt was sent to the Zhuangzi with her back foot. She even avoided seeing Aye when she returned home, and the half-smile expression on the aunt's face made her more embarrassing than directly insulting her.

After returning to the door, the king calmed down to her. She knew that the reason why the king accepted her was because of her surname Sun. My heart came together.Afterwards, she tried her best to mend the relationship with the Sun Mansion, but her aunt's lukewarm attitude forced her to be isolated from the Sun Mansion.

Fortunately, she now has the king's heir in her womb. Regardless of whether the king attaches great importance to this child or not, as long as she can give birth to a young man, she will be able to gain a firm foothold in Prince Huai's mansion. For the sake of it, she will no longer be far away from her or the palace.

Sun Ruren didn't know that no matter how many sons she gave birth to Duke Huai, as long as Duke Huai's evil intentions were not dead and he still missed the throne under the saint's ass, then Shangshu Sun would never be able to get close to Duke Huai.It wasn't her fault that she was born as a concubine, but it was her fault that she was born as a concubine and thought about something she shouldn't.

Sun Ruren was always afraid that Mrs. Sun would take advantage of her, but she didn't know that Mrs. Sun was born in a noble family, even if she didn't like concubine daughters in her heart, she never withheld her expenses, and for the sake of her own reputation, she would never let her marry too badly.It's just that she and her aunt were too impatient to find a way out for themselves.

In the eyes of Sun Ruren and his aunt at that time, this way out was a bright road, but in the eyes of Sun Shangshu and Mrs. Sun, it was a dead end with no way out.