Princess [rebirth]

It took Zhuo Jingfan a lot of effort to comfort Dou Chun who was soaked in the vinegar vat. He supported his sore waist, slumped on the bed, gritted his teeth and stared at the refreshed Dou Chun.Dou Chun had tasted enough of the sweetness, and was satisfied. Seeing that Fanfan was struggling to even move a finger, and knowing that he had caused him a lot of trouble, he hurried to Fanfan's side and massaged his suffering waist.

Zhuo Jingfan looked at Dou Chun's satisfied expression, and suddenly felt more and more uncomfortable all over his body. He blamed himself for being too soft-hearted. He knew that Dou Chun was deliberately pretending to be pitiful, but he just couldn't refuse the other party. They all said in their hearts that they would never be fooled again next time, but every next time ended with Dou Chun's victory.

"Don't press it, you've been messing around all afternoon, you should go back to the Liangyi Hall." After enjoying Dou Chun's attentive service for a while, Zhuo Jingfan waved his hand to make the other party stop.

"There's nothing important going up this morning, I can go back later." Dou Chun said softly.

"Mu Xuan made people stare at Lizheng Hall and Liangyi Hall, you'd better go back earlier, so as not to be discovered by him." Zhuo Jingfan said with a frown.Mu Xuan has been acting frequently recently, presumably because he heard that the emperor and empress were at odds, and felt that this was a good time, so he couldn't bear his temper.

"Don't worry, he doesn't have time to talk to us yet." Dou Chun smiled when he heard the words, and said something meaningful.

"Why, besides the throne, does he have other things on his mind?" Zhuo Jingfan raised his eyebrows. Mu Xuan's heart is to usurp the throne and restore the "orthodoxy" of the Great Wu Dynasty. Could it be that he is still pretending to be Do something else?

"Xu Meiren is pregnant." Dou Chun didn't have the appetite to suspend Zhuo Jingfan, so he said the answer very simply.

"Pregnant?!" Zhuo Jingfan was really surprised, it seemed that Mu Xuan had worked hard on Xu Meiren's body, and the good news came out so soon.However, Xu Meiren's happiness is definitely good news for Mu Xuan.

Zhuo Jingfan speculated on Mu Xuan's thoughts in his heart, Mu Xuan probably wanted to overthrow himself as the empress first, then get rid of the two princes, and then wait for Concubine Xian and Meiren Xu to give birth, to see who can give birth to a prince for him .Regardless of whether it is Concubine Xian or Meiren Xu who gave birth to the prince, Mu Xuan will kill Dou Chun next, and then support the youngest son to succeed. Xu Meiren and his hand.

Mu Xuan's wishful thinking was well done. If he hadn't come from a hundred years later and knew of his existence in advance, he might have fallen for him. Even if Dou Chun never doubted the other party at the beginning, it was normal for Dou Chun to fight against him in his previous life. Dou Chun is surrounded by a bunch of scumbags, so it would be great if they don't make trouble, but it doesn't help Dou Chun at all.

"After Xu Meiren's fetus is firmly seated, I guess Mu Xuan is about to make the next move. If you have nothing to do, don't move around. I'm worried that you will be the one he will deal with next." Dou Chun mused. Said, the tone is full of worry.

"You don't have to worry, I will be careful." Zhuo Jingfan nodded, he and Dou Chun wanted to go together, they both thought that Mu Xuan was going to get rid of the queen who hindered Xu Meiren's future. ...

Mu Xuan did exactly what Zhuo Jingfan and the two of them thought. After knowing that Xu Meiren was pregnant, he began to plan to get rid of Zhuo Jingfan. He didn't want to take the effort to pull the other party down, but wanted to kill the other party directly and abolish the prince. Even the concubine can be restored, and if he thinks about it, there is a chance to stand up after being abolished, so he will not make a second mistake, and this time, he will not give Zhuo Jingfan a chance to survive.

It's just that he was very cautious, although he wished Zhuo Jingfan would die immediately, but he also knew that there was only one chance, if he couldn't guarantee that the first blow would hit, then he had to continue to endure it.For this reason, he secretly sent many people to sneak into the Lizheng Palace, but they all failed, which made Mu Xuan more determined not to let Zhuo Jingfan survive, nor to let Zhuo Jingfan and Dou Chun reconcile. Opportunity.

Therefore, he asked Meiren Xu to get closer to the saint, and left and right Xu Meiren was pregnant with the dragon's heir. Even for the sake of the dragon's heir, the saint would not neglect Xu Meiren.With Xu Meiren slandering the queen in front of the saint, the relationship between the saint and the queen will get worse and worse. Mu Xuan hopes that Xu Meiren can hold the saint's heart tightly and make the saint completely despise the queen.

In addition, Mu Xuan's influence in the court also began to move. Because the saint had previously promoted Xu Meiren, some ministers began to write letters again, hoping that the saint would accept the lady to enrich the harem. Even if there is no election, It is also possible to invite a woman from a wealthy family or a scholar official family into the palace.

The concubines and concubines in the harem of the Great Zhou Dynasty were not only selected to enter the palace, but some were hired to enter the palace, and some were dedicated to saints by subordinate officials or Fanbangjin.In the period of the first emperor, in order to rectify the unhealthy trend of officials offering beautiful wives in order to achieve prosperity, the first emperor forbade officials from offering wives to the palace.

After Dou Chun succeeded to the throne, he followed the system of the first emperor. The officials knew that the saint, like the first emperor, did not like officials' nepotism, so they put out their thoughts of making contributions.In the past, the sage used the excuse of keeping filial piety to push the selection that needed to mobilize the teachers, and the ministers could understand it, but now that the sage has set foot in the harem again, besides the selection, there is also a way to enrich the harem.

Therefore, some ministers began to persuade the sage to hire some women into the palace, otherwise the huge harem only had one queen and Xu Meiren, which seemed too deserted, and the queen was still a barren lord, and Xu Meiren happened to have If you are pregnant and cannot serve saints, this is a good time to recruit new people.

But the sage kept those memorials unpublished, so that the officials could not understand the sage's mind, and didn't know what the sage thought about the matter of "recruitment".Just when everyone kept speculating about the saint's thoughts, the saint suddenly had a seizure.

The saint asked Doctor Yushi to find out the criminal evidence of those courtiers, and he filled several large sheets of paper with eloquence. First, the courtier who was the first to submit the letter was exiled from the capital by the saint, and then the other favorites also suffered. The last few officials who wrote letters to persuade the saint to hire them all disappeared in the court hall.The sage told the officials with practical actions that it is enough to take care of the affairs of the country and the country, and the sage's harem does not need their intervention.

Just a few days after Dou Chun solved the problem of accepting concubines, the servants of Xingqing Palace suddenly came to Liangyi Hall to ask for an audience.Dou Chun's eyelids twitched, and the first thought that flashed in his mind was - what happened to the Queen Mother?

Unexpectedly, the palace servants came to report that the Empress Dowager was ill.

Dou Chun was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly sent someone to invite the imperial physician, and then he led the people to the Xingqing Palace. When he saw the Empress Dowager, he was immediately shocked by the empress dowager's aging and haggard face.The Empress Dowager has just turned [-] this year, so why does she look like an old woman who is over half a century old?

With a calm face, he called all the palace people who served the queen mother to him, and began to ask about the daily life of the queen mother. Now the aunt in charge of the queen mother has changed. Ever since Dou Chun found out that aunt Wang was the second child of the Fu family, he He transferred Aunt Wang away from the Queen Mother, and then changed his cronies to guard the Queen Mother, firstly to take care of the Queen Mother, and secondly to monitor the Queen Mother.

After questioning, I found out that it was because the Empress Dowager was imprisoned in the Xingqing Palace by the saint, her liver qi stagnated for a long time, her temper became more and more weird and irritable, and she also suffered from migraines.At first, the palace servants who served did not take it seriously, after all, the queen mother was in pain here and there all day long, and there was something wrong with her whole body. I thought the Queen Mother was groaning without illness again.

It was not until the queen mother began to be unable to sleep all night that the palace people began to pay attention to the queen mother's headache, but the depression caused by the queen mother's heart disease, she couldn't think about it, even the panacea could not cure her problem, so she tossed After a while, the Queen Mother became what Dou Chun saw now.

In the past, the palace people also invited the imperial doctor, but the queen mother's condition was not effective. Now the imperial doctor said that the queen mother will not last long. Seeing that the queen mother's condition is getting worse, the palace people dare not hide it anymore, and hurriedly reported it to the saint.After Dou Chun heard about it, he was taken aback for a while. He just didn't want the Queen Mother to continue jumping around, and he was afraid that the Queen Mother would be used by Mu Xuan again, so he detained her in Xingqing Palace. I can't look away like this, and in just a few months, I have left myself with only one breath.

He sighed, and came to the Empress Dowager's bed, looking at the emaciated appearance of the Empress Dowager, he naturally felt uncomfortable. A few months ago, the Empress Dowager still had black hair, but now her temples are gray, which made him sad endlessly.He sat on the side of the bed with his hem up, holding the Queen Mother's hand, quietly waiting for the Queen Mother to wake up.

I don't know how long it took before the Queen Mother finally woke up. When she opened her eyes, she saw Dou Chun who was sitting beside the bed. Her eyes lit up immediately, and her face, which had been a bit gray and yellow, turned red, and she looked much more energetic. .The queen mother felt that Dou Chun was holding her hand, so she held him back and said in a hoarse voice: "Chun'er, you are finally here—"

Dou Chun's eyes were red for a moment, he smiled and said: "My son is late, I hope the mother will not blame her son."

"Chun'er, your father dotes on Concubine Wan, forcing our mother and son to struggle in the palace. Just remember, you must please your father and keep your crown prince." The queen mother held Dou Chun's hand anxiously asked.Dou Chun was shocked, and quickly called out: "Where's the imperial physician? Come and see the empress dowager." The imperial physician was waiting at the side, but when he heard that the saint's tone was different, he hurried forward to check the empress dowager's pulse.

"Prince doctor, I see that my mother seems to be a little... insane, what is going on? Didn't you say that the mother's illness is all due to stagnation of liver qi? Why does stagnation of liver qi make the brain not clear?" Dou Chun frowned and asked.

What the Empress Dowager said just now clearly thought that it was still the time when the late Emperor was in power, but now that the late Emperor has passed away for more than a year, the Empress Dowager actually forgot that both the late Emperor and Concubine Wan are gone, which shows that the Empress Dowager When the mind is muddled, the past and the present are confused.

The queen mother seemed to only hear what she wanted to hear, and only see what she wanted to see. At this moment, she stared at Dou Chun, and she was still saying, "Chun'er, when you sit on the seat in the future For that position, the Empress Mother will choose another suitable woman to be the empress for you, Chun'er, just bear with it for now, the Empress Mother will make the decision for you..."

Listening to the Queen Mother's nonsense, Dou Chun's face became more and more ugly. The imperial physicians and palace people beside him were all complaining in their hearts. The Queen Mother opened her mouth and yelled casually. It was unlucky for the waiters beside her. After all, the saint would not care about the Queen Mother. But for those palace people who listened to what they shouldn't, the saint can make them disappear with just a word.Even the imperial doctor was terrified at this moment, he didn't want to hear these secrets, but he couldn't reach out to gag the queen mother, so he had to put on a blank face and speed up the speed of diagnosing the queen mother's pulse.

After the diagnosis and treatment by the imperial physician, it turned out that the queen mother was due to excessive anxiety, and the long-term stagnation of liver qi could not be relieved. In addition, she was trapped in the Xingqing Palace, thinking wildly all day long, and over time it actually drove herself crazy. up.Of course, the original words of the imperial physician were not like this, but after listening to the euphemistic explanation of the imperial physician, Dou Chun understood the above.

As for the current situation of the queen mother, the imperial physician said that he was helpless, and Dou Chun did not force it. After all, the queen mother looked like she was exhausted. Even if Hua Tuo was reborn, I am afraid that he would not be able to save the queen mother's life. What he can do , that is, in the remaining days of the queen mother, she will be by her side every day.

Zhuo Jingfan also heard about the news that the queen mother was unwell. He also visited Xingqing Palace, but the queen mother was very emotional when she saw him. He died, and he never set foot in Xingqing Palace again. ...

The news of the queen mother's serious illness spread quickly. After all, Dou Chun came and went in a hurry several times in the early morning in order to stay with the queen mother. When someone inquired, he learned that the saint was rushing to Xingqing Palace to accompany the queen mother.Because Dou Chun used the reason of "resting" to detain the Queen Mother in Xingqing Palace earlier, so when the officials heard that the Queen Mother was seriously ill, they just sighed, and did not feel that the Queen Mother's serious illness was so strange.

Among the officials, only the Fu family reacted the most. After the Fu family heard that the Queen Mother was seriously ill, Mrs. Fu and Mrs. Fu sent messages to the palace one after another, expressing their desire to visit the Queen Mother.Zhuo Jingfan didn't want to make decisions privately, so he passed the news to Dou Chun. After thinking twice, Dou Chun rejected Mrs. Fu's request, but allowed Mrs. Fu to enter the palace.

On the day Mrs. Fu entered the palace, Dou Chun specially waited in Xingqing Palace. After the old lady visited the Queen Mother, she followed Lu Fu who led the way to meet the saint.

Although Dou Chun is the grandson of the old lady, but Dou Chun is also a saint of the Great Zhou Dynasty. The old lady has put her mind right since the day Dou Chun succeeded to the throne.The Fu family is already beautiful enough, and it's time for the Fu family to keep a low profile. She knew that Zhuo Erlang and Zhuo Sanlang were not convinced, but Taifu Fu once said before his death that the future hope of the Fu family rests on Fu Jue. As long as Fu Jue is well, the Fu family will be well.

After the old lady met Dou Chun, no third person knew what the two talked about. When the old lady left the palace and returned to the mansion, Mrs. Fu made indirect remarks many times, but she couldn't ask about the situation of the old lady after entering the palace.After Dou Chun talked with the old lady, he went back to the Lizheng Hall that night and told Zhuo Jingfan the details of his conversation with the old lady.

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Princess Shion

Xu Meiren also heard that the Empress Dowager is seriously ill, but she is just pregnant now, the first three months are the most important time, she doesn't want to walk around, lest any accidents happen.

It’s just that Xu Meiren was a little bit worried. Of course she was very happy that she had the good news, but at the same time, she was not sure who the child belonged to. She had hinted at Mu Xuan in private, but Mu Xuan expressed it firmly , the child is his.

To be honest, Xu Meiren actually hoped that the child would be a saint in her heart. She was forced to have an affair with Mu Xuan at the beginning. If time could go back, she didn't want to have anything to do with Mu Xuan at all. As Dou Chun is the king of a country, Mu Xuan's status as a traitor and traitor was immediately compared to the mud.

But now it's a done deal, since she is pregnant with Mu Xuan's child, she can only go all the way to the dark on the road of "seeking refuge with Mu Xuan".

Because the Queen Mother was seriously ill, Dou Chun stayed in the Xingqing Palace, which allowed Mu Xuan and Xu Meiren to spend a lot of time together. After all, because Xu Meiren was pregnant a while ago, Dou Chun often visited Xu Meiren's Zichen Palace.Now that Dou Chun no longer goes to the Zichen Palace because of his sickness, Xu Meiren is relieved. Although the saint's favor made her feel very vain a while ago, she is stared at by the saint every day. For a long time It will also be tiring.

Different from Xu Meiren's awkwardness, Mu Xuan wished that Dou Chun would come to the Zichen Palace every day. The more Xu Meiren was favored, the child in her belly would also be favored. The eldest son, a healthy prince must be more loved by the saint.

Although the eldest son of the emperor is raised under the empress' knees, isn't it a sage's word who should be the crown prince?Besides, the eldest son of the emperor is not the real son. His biological mother is just a Jieyu. It's just short of the status of a queen's adopted son.

When he kills the eldest son of the emperor, Xu Meiren's son will be the only one in the harem.

Mu Xuan felt excited just thinking about it, he seemed to have seen Xu Meiren give birth to a son, and his child became the prince, and then he got rid of Zhuo Jingfan and Dou Chun, Xu Meiren became the queen, because of the prince Since he was young, the queen was regent, and he hid behind the scenes, holding the entire Great Zhou Dynasty in the palm of his hand. ...

Xu Meiren didn't know about Mu Xuan's daydreams at all. She was just protecting her belly carefully, fearing that the queen would harm her. It's no wonder Xu Meiren was so nervous. After all, there are only the queen and her in the harem now, and the queen can't If she gave birth to a prince, she would pose a threat to the eldest son of the emperor. How could the empress watch her adopted son fall into a difficult situation.

Therefore, Xu Meiren put up 12 points of energy, always guarding against the queen's murderous hands on her, but she didn't know that Zhuo Jingfan didn't pay attention to her and the child in her belly at all. To Zhuo Jingfan, Xu Meiren's existence It's just to lure Mu Xuan into the bait.

What Zhuo Jingfan is worried about now is the flood that will happen after the beginning of spring next year.

He remembered that this flood was recorded in the history books, which was the worst in recent years.There were two major rivers in the Great Zhou Dynasty: the Huai River and the Qing River, and next year's floods will occur in the middle and lower reaches of the Qing River.

In fact, the Qinghe River had been flooded in previous years, and the predecessors built many dams to stop the flooding of the river, but the dams were in disrepair for a long time. After the spring of next year, the snow on the mountain where the source of the Qinghe River is located will melt away. Several heavy rains in the spring caused the Qinghe River to swell, broke through the dams, and flooded the towns and fields near the middle and lower reaches of the Qinghe River, causing many casualties and huge loss of wealth.

In history, the ancestor almost lost his throne because of this flood. Because the princes gathered together to overthrow the ancestor, they used the excuse that this was a punishment from heaven. If you don't sit still, you have to build a dam against gossip.

Now that he knew in advance that there would be floods next year, he had to plan ahead, so as not to be replaced by Dou Chun when people questioned whether his rule was not in line with God's will.Therefore, he was busy dispatching manpower to investigate the dams in the area of ​​the Qinghe River, and he was also busy looking up books related to water conservancy. He couldn't leave the "Water Classic of the Great Zhou Dynasty" in his hand even for a moment. He was so busy that he didn't have time to pay attention to Xu beauty. ...

For Zhuo Jingfan's busyness, Dou Chun still doesn't know. Recently, he has been by the Queen Mother's side every day, watching her getting more and more haggard day by day, but his mind has never cleared up, and he keeps talking all the time. Talking nonsense, according to the doctor's opinion, the queen mother is living in her own world.

At first the queen mother could recognize him, but later the queen mother could no longer recognize anyone. Even if Dou Chun was sitting in front of her, she still clamored for Dou Chun all day long.Dou Chun looked at the queen mother who used to pay great attention to her appearance, but now she has messy hair, yelling and screaming all day long, she looks like a crazy woman, and she feels sad for a while.

But at the same time, there is a tinge of rejoicing, fortunately, the Queen Mother has lost her mind, otherwise she would definitely not be able to stand her own sloppiness.

As time slowly approached the end of the year, the queen mother never woke up after taking a nap one day.

After the death of the Empress Dowager, the decorations and arrangements in the palace were immediately replaced with plain white, and the palace people were left with only plain colors. White lanterns were hung in Xingqing Palace, and the atmosphere of the entire harem became sad and depressed.The queen's Lizheng Hall also changed its layout as soon as the death knell rang. Because Dou Chun had spoken through it earlier, the funeral objects in the Lizheng Hall were all prepared in advance.

As soon as the Empress Dowager closed his eyes, Zhuo Jingfan came to Xingqing Palace, he walked to Dou Chun's side and knelt down in front of the bed together, he looked at the blue eyes of Dou Chun and the stubble on his chin, feeling sorry for her.So he stretched out his left hand, and under the cover of his wide sleeve, he quietly held Dou Chun's right hand, silently giving him encouragement.

Dou Chun didn't turn his head back, but instead held onto Zhuo Jingfan's hand with force, he looked at the queen mother who was no longer as beautiful as before on the bed, feeling very complicated in his heart, he didn't expect that the queen mother would leave him in such a way in the end .He thought that the Queen Mother would be smoothed after being imprisoned by him for a long time, but he didn't expect that the Queen Mother would force her to be like that. To be honest, when he learned that the Queen Mother had gone, he felt relieved deep in his heart. With a sigh of relief, at least the queen mother will not have to suffer anymore.

It's just that after the queen mother's funeral, Dou Chun was awakened by nightmares every night for a while. For Dou Chun, he was responsible for most of the reason why the queen mother went crazy, so he really blamed himself and thought it was himself. After killing the Empress Dowager, he was busy with government affairs during the day, so naturally he had no time to think about it, but when night fell, he couldn't help but think about the Empress Dowager.

Zhuo Jingfan watched from the side, knowing his knot, but it was useless for others to solve this matter, and Dou Chun had to figure it out by himself. After all, the Queen Mother was Dou Chun's mother, and the Queen Mother didn't like Zhuo Chun. Jingfan, so what Zhuo Jingfan said was inappropriate, it was better not to say anything.

He just looked at Dou Chun getting haggard day by day, and he felt quite uncomfortable, so he could only change ways to make Dou Chun happy, and then ordered the small kitchen in the Lizheng Palace to cook more tonic soup so that Dou Chun could replenish his body.

Meiren Xu also noticed the haggardness of the saint, and she naturally wanted to take the opportunity to show it, so she delivered the soup more frequently than the empress Zhuo Jingfan. Then he sent the soup he stewed to the saint.

Such a blatant act of fighting for favor caused Dou Chun's displeasure and dissatisfaction, but he suppressed his displeasure so that the plan would not be wasted.He and Zhuo Jingfan had already set up the net, and they waited for Mu Xuan to walk to the center step by step before they could collect the net. ...

Xu Meiren's womb is already seated, but because Dou Chun had said earlier that she didn't have to go to the queen's place to rest in the morning and evening, so Xu Meiren was happy to hide in the bedroom. After all, it's winter now, and the weather is getting colder and colder Well, it snowed a lot last night, so she didn't want to walk outside in such weather.

In just a few days, the palace banquet will be held. Although the sage ordered the palace banquet to be simplified because of the death of the queen mother, even if it is kept simple, it will be a New Year's banquet only once a year. No matter how lazy Xu Meiren wants to be, she has to Attend the Chinese New Year banquet.

In the Lizheng Palace, Zhuo Jingfan is also preparing for the palace banquet. This time the palace banquet is very important to him and Dou Chun, because after their surveillance and inquiries, it is confirmed that Mu Xuan is going to make trouble at the palace banquet. Since The other party was rushing to find death, how could Zhuo Jingfan be merciful.But he didn't dare to take it lightly, and he didn't dare to underestimate Mu Xuan, for he was afraid that the other party really had the so-called real dragon spirit, which could help him ascend the throne smoothly.

Dou Chun was somewhat puzzled by his prudence and nervousness. In his view, Mu Xuan was just a remnant of the previous dynasty. If the other party dared to make trouble at the palace banquet, he would take him down. How could such a big show be needed? Ready to fight?

Zhuo Jingfan naturally didn't know how to explain his concerns to Dou Chun, he only knew that the other party really became the emperor in his previous life, and in this life he was stepping closer to the throne, if not for the appearance of Cheng Yaojin, he would be sitting on the throne now The person above was already Mu Xuan, that's why he was so careful.