[Red Mansions] The Road to Empress Dowager

The court meeting didn't end until noon, and Tu Yuanyi returned to the Ganlu Hall in a happy mood, but he heard that the queen took the three highnesses to the imperial garden to enjoy the flowers.

Tu Yuanyi changed out of his leather uniform and put on a white dragon robe. His black hair was tied up with a bright yellow hairband embroidered with dragon patterns, and he went on foot.

In the imperial garden, Xin Xiuyan was playing with three steamed buns kicking a ball.Xin Xiuyan looked at the cute buns, chasing them with short legs, smiling as bright as spring, and relieved the unhappiness in her heart.

After playing for a quarter of an hour, Baozi was also a little tired. Xin Xiuyan took a champagne to wipe the sweat of the little buns, and Xin Xiuyan took them into the gazebo to rest.

The ladies in the palace brought refreshments, and the four of them shared the food.

Xin Xiuyan asked suddenly: "In the past few years, do you usually live in your grandmother's house?"

Tie Zhu nodded: "Well, at Grandma's house, there are Uncle Yu Nu, Brother Shitou, and Sister Pan'er playing together."

Xin Xiuyan smiled slightly and said, "Why did your father send you to grandma's house?"

Dazhu said: "Father is busy with government affairs..."

Xin Xiuyan snorted and said, "There are so many empresses in the harem, who do you like the most?"

Yuanyuan shouted, "Yuanyuan likes the queen mother!"

"Tie Zhu/Da Zhu also likes the Queen Mother!"

Xin Xiuyan asked again: "Apart from the queen mother, what about her empress?"

The three buns didn't quite understand.

Tie Zhu said: "Aunt Hede is also pretty good."

Xin Xiuyan heard him say "Auntie", probably an eldest princess. The children have been raised in Cheng'en Gong's Mansion for a long time, and they are also raised in Taiji Palace when they return to the palace. They rarely have contact with the women in the harem, and they can't tell the difference. the difference.

Xin Xiuyan asked again: "When you usually see Father, what does he do?"

Dazhu hurriedly replied: "Father taught us how to box."

Tie Zhu hurriedly said: "I can do it too! I can do it too! Father can fly, it's amazing!"

Xin Xiuyan thought to herself: "This naughty n-married man really still has the details of modern people, so that the children are not allowed to catch the clues of his whoring/prostitution, and he is still responsible for the children's physical and mental health."

Xin Xiuyan smiled and asked again: "Then do you know why the queen mother married your father?"

The three buns opened three pairs of innocent and pure eyes, how did they know this, even in Cheng'en Gong's mansion, Mrs Xing Li, Su Fu'er and Lin Daiyu who often went there would not talk about the emperor behind his back.

Suddenly there was a loud laugh, and Tu Yuanyi's voice came from the flower bed: "The empress wants to know this, why don't you ask me?"

Xin Xiuyan held her breath in her heart, and cursed secretly: You only lie to me, how can you find the truth I want.

The three buns were happy, they all got up and went to meet Tu Yuanyi, shouting: "Father!"

Tu Yuanyi led the steamed stuffed buns, who were now radiant with their parents by their side, into the gazebo, and he sat down next to Xin Xiuyan.

Xin Xiuyan annoyed him, she got up and sat further away, Tu Yuanyi grabbed her hand and said, "But are you hungry? Why don't you ask someone to cook here."

Xin Xiuyan couldn't vent her anger in front of the child, she just looked at him sullenly and said, "How old are you?"

"what?"

Xin Xiuyan said: "I am 22 years old, how old are you?"

Tu Yuanyi's handsome face froze slightly, and said, "This...is age important?"

Xin Xiuyan hehe: "I just discovered that I have a daughter at the age of 22."

Tu Yuanyi stopped with a handsome face, coughed, smiled awkwardly, and said, "Xiuxiu, these old accounts are meaningless."

Xin Xiuyan rolled her eyes at him, and with her children by her side, she resisted the desire to yell at him.

As a mother, she has not fulfilled her duties. She can only spend the limited time with her children and live happily.

After setting up a meal here at noon, and taking a short walk back to the Tai Chi Palace, Xin Xiuyan coaxed them to take a nap in person.

After the children fell asleep, she went to settle accounts with the "marriage cheater".

Xin Xiuyan stepped on a stool with one foot, playing with a horsewhip in her hand, looking at the man with a changing expression in front of her, she had a half-smile on her face, and said, "Do you want to confess and be lenient, or do you want to be tortured?"

Tu Yuanyi said: "Xiuxiu! I am the emperor! How dare you hit me?!"

Xin Xiuyan rolled her eyes, hit the ground with a whip, and with a slap, Tu Yuanyi's body trembled. This man who clearly possessed peerless martial arts would always forget this fact in front of his wife.

Xin Xiuyan said: "What kind of wolf with a big tail are you pretending to be? The emperor? Hehe, there are many seven-point men who travel through time to become emperors and build harems. I'm still afraid?"

Tu Yuanyi said: "What seven o'clock man? I am not seven o'clock man! I am the emperor!"

Xin Xiuyan said: "I remember you said that I was the one who chased after you. Wouldn't your conscience hurt if you said such a thing? How could I rush to become the mistress?"

Tu Yuanyi said: "The child is born, what else do you want?"

Xin Xiuyan pointed at him with a horsewhip, and said: "Please tell me the truth, you seven o'clock man built your harem and no one stopped you, why did you come to lie to me? I thought about it, we secretly negotiated a divorce and maintained a cooperative relationship." , until the child grows up to make it public."

Tu Yuanyi scolded: "You ruthless female bandit! I knew I couldn't let you go to heaven, and I blamed you. Why should I be soft-hearted? If you stay in the harem, you won't be so rampant. Go wild on your head..."

Xin Xiuyan lashed out with a whip, hit Tu Yuanyi's thigh, and cursed: "Damn! You seven-point stallion man, you're arrogant when you wear a good skin? No matter how advanced modern civilized education is, it can't change your inner self." You are so cheap! There are a lot of Yingying and Yanyan in your harem, I won’t play with you anymore, you can enjoy it and satisfy your dream of hanging silk. No one cares about you when the iron pillar is ground into a needle.”

Tu Yuanyi just stared at her in a daze, motionless, a pair of clear and dignified phoenix eyes suddenly shed a pair of tears.

Seeing his tears, Xin Xiuyan was taken aback: "Why are you crying? Did I bully you? Oh, you figured it out, I am the most wronged now! I didn't even cry, why are you crying?"

Tu Yuanyi lowered his eyelashes and said one word: "Pain."

When Xin Xiuyan saw his thighs, blood was spilling out of her thin shirt, she wanted to be cruel, but seeing his bloody appearance, her heart couldn't help throbbing.

Xin Xiuyan frowned slightly, and said, "Are you seriously injured?"

Tu Yuanyi didn't answer, but just sat on the stool, leaving her a sad profile, Xin Xiuyan said: "Physician Xuan came to show you."

Tu Yuanyi said in a downcast: "Let the imperial physician see how the queen beat me? Do you want to save my face?"

Xin Xiuyan pursed her lips, and asked after a pause, "Where is the medicine?"

…………

Xin Xiuyan tore off his trousers and looked at the welts on his legs. She didn't control her restraint, and it was still dripping with blood.

After she washed it with spirits, she applied a crystal-clear trauma plaster, which worked really well. Once applied, the bleeding stopped, but it would take a few days for the scab to form.

She helped him change his trousers and robe again, then sat at the table in a daze, and suddenly heard him ask: "That...is it that important?"

"what?"

"My former children."

Xin Xiuyan was silent for a while, and said: "I don't know, I came to Beijing, and everything was different from what I thought. I wanted to make everything the same as I thought, but it didn't work after all. How happy I was to find a I don’t care about his spring, summer, autumn, winter, present, past, past, and past love, but now the facts tell me that everything is not like this.”

Xin Xiuyan is actually a person who loves to take risks and break the rules. She knows how to obey the rules, but her greatest desire is to break the rules.

When Tu Yuanyi was looking for his wife from thousands of miles away, according to the usual logic, when he didn't remember the other party, it was absolutely difficult for him to go to bed immediately. She was not a casual person, but she half-pushed and half-did in front of the smart him.Love has to be exciting and irresistible. She is a woman with her own opinions, but she also likes strong men. Women will always be greedy for men's heroic arrogance. The appearance of Tu Yuanyi also satisfies the highest point of love.

Love has to be so turbulent, so she is qualified to say that she wants to have a long stream in the future, and when the stream is long, she can recall Zeng Hong's magnificence.

People may miss it, youth is only a few years, no matter how hard she is, she is glad that she did not live and wear in vain.

Tu Yuanyi said: "Those bastards of mine are... left over from the previous life that I passed through, but it is undeniable that they are also my children."

Xin Xiuyan was puzzled and looked at him: "What's going on?"

Tu Yuanyi let out a long sigh, and had no choice but to start from the beginning when the two met, but he ignored his age when A Piao was at the beginning, and also ignored the relationship between uncle and nephew.Then he traveled back to his previous life, but at that time he was already 20 years old, there were some wives and concubines in the mansion, and he had four children.

He also talked about meeting and supporting her, arranging for her to be drafted into the palace, and she went from talented person to noble concubine, and then to queen.

Xin Xiuyan was in a daze, she had "indigestion" for a moment, then she turned her head to stare at him and asked, "So, you are not a modern person?"

Tu Yuanyi said: "I am the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and I will not be fake at all."

Xin Xiuyan was a little scared at this time. She was so rampant and shameless because she used to be an equal travel companion and fell in love with each other; after hearing that he had a harem and several children, she thought he was a seven-point boy, Heart resentment.Who would have thought that this is the real emperor who has been the emperor for two lifetimes!

Then, she swung the whip and wounded the real emperor.

Xin Xiuyan said: "You lied to me then."

Tu Yuanyi smiled lightly: "I never said what kind of modern person I am, but you think that I didn't explain it, because it was difficult to explain clearly at the time. On the contrary, it's good for you to think so, just do what you want You will trust me."

Xin Xiuyan said: "You are an ancient person, why...you give me an official position?"

Tu Yuanyi said: "You have this talent. Isn't it great that people can use their talents to benefit the people? You are living in the rivers and lakes, and I will always pick you up for reunion. In this short and long rest of my life, I don't want gossip and scandals." Humiliation is with you, and I don’t want ignorant gossips and hypocrites to throw stones at you. I also want you to experience the joy of spreading your wings in life, and the exhaustion after the joy. You will think clearly about why you want to be with me, Why do you need this home, the phoenix dances for nine days, and you also need the sycamore tree where you stand. You need me just like I need you."

As the emperor, Tu Yuanyi has been A Piao for 200 years, and he has definitely experienced more than Xin Xiuyan. He will naturally have his own life insights.

Xin Xiuyan turned her head, feeling a little shy, and said, "Don't lie to me, you know I'm not smart when it comes to relationships."

Tu Yuanyi said: "You are by Buzhen's side, where can you go now? Back to Sichuan? Your subordinates are loyal to you. In addition to your own knowledge and ability, there is another point. You are the governor of the imperial court. They thought you were a princess, and now they know you are a queen, which is also a good thing. But if you are not a queen, how can you give them peace of mind? How can you make the court ministers trust the new army? I really don’t want you to stay in me for others By my side, but I don't want you to be heartless."

Xin Xiuyan turned her head: "I'm not heartless either... You, you really don't like the harem?"

Tu Yuanyi smiled lightly: "To be honest, in the previous life, I didn't like it very much, and I didn't dislike it. Everyone lived like this when they were emperors, and I didn't feel that I should be independent on this point. Don't you have you in this life, Hedong Lion roar, I'm afraid it won't taste good."

Xin Xiuyan pursed her lips: "You are the Lion's Roar... Why do you keep them if you have me?"

Tu Yuanyi said helplessly: "I didn't worry about it at all, and the palace only raised dozens of people."

Xin Xiuyan said: "Where are dozens more people? A concubine needs so many people to serve, that's hundreds of people. You are unreasonable resource allocation!"

Tu Yuanyi said: "But they have no place to go when they enter the palace. When the draft picks come to the palace, they can't even give them a bite of food."

Xin Xiuyan patted the table: "You are occupying the latrine and don't shit! People's youth is only so few years, so many people's lives are missed, and it hurts the morality. Of course, if you can marry, let people marry you. If you don't want to marry Let them realize their own life value."

Tu Yuanyi's handsome face twitched: "You want to marry off the harem concubine?"

Xin Xiuyan glared at him: "You are reluctant, aren't you?"

Tu Yuanyi's handsome face was perplexed, and he said, "Where is this... where should I put my face? Isn't everyone in the world dying of laughter..."

Xin Xiuyan said: "Ming Yingzong began to abolish the 'sacrificial burial' system. Although he was not a wise emperor and had political deficiencies, this kind of virtuous policy alone is enough to be passed down as a good talk in later generations. If you need the harem to stabilize the court Tang has nothing to say, if it is irrelevant, abolishing the harem system and seeking happiness for the poor women in the palace of old and dead, future generations will also praise it."

Tu Yuanyi said: "I'm afraid I will say that you are jealous and not virtuous."

Xin Xiuyan smiled and said, "I am not virtuous, anyone who is virtuous can demonstrate it to me!"

……

The abolition of the harem requires a long-term plan. In addition to the need to have a follow-up response, the most direct thing is who these harem women will marry, whether they are willing to marry, and whether they dare to marry.These are all questions.

But now Xin Xiuyan has to accept one thing besides accepting another version of the past that Tu Yuanyi told her.

She simply entered the world of "Dream of Red Mansions"!

Her adoptive father, Lin Ruhai, was the Lin Ruhai she knew!Lin Daiyu is her adopted sister!

And she transmigrated into that poor girl Xing Xiuyan!Righteous Sister Su Fu'er is Miao Yu who taught her poetry since she was a child!

Listening to Tu Yuanyi talking about her great achievements, she has lost all the "Red Mansions", and almost all the twelve beauties in Jinling, which are beautiful in the world, are married.

The next day, Mrs. Xing Li and the three sworn sisters were the first to visit the palace, and brought a group of steamed stuffed buns to pay her respects.

Xin Xiuyan was sitting in the lobby of Ganlu Hall, looking at the graceful and luxurious Mrs. Xing Li and the three beauties, beautiful, so beautiful!

Xin Xiuyan was attracted by the chubby steamed stuffed buns kneeling down again.

"Greetings to the empress, the empress is a thousand years old!"

Xin Xiuyan couldn't help but burst out laughing, and said, "Get up quickly, why are there so many glutinous rice balls coming out!"

The children got up, and Yu Nu was the oldest, and ran over first, hugging her thighs: "Sister Queen! You are finally back, Yu Nu misses you so much!"

Xin Xiuyan looked at his resemblance, touched his head with a smile, and said, "Yu Nu has grown so big."

Tie Zhu, Da Zhu, and Yuan Yuan stood aside. The ancients were very polite. Although they were princes and princesses, Yu Nu was an elder, so he also called out: "Hello, uncle!"

Yu Nu nodded, smiled Nunuuo and said: "Tie Zhu, Da Zhu, the eldest brother-in-law made me a wooden sword, next time I will show it to you too."

Young children want to share and show off.

Tie Zhu said: "I also want my father to do it for me!"

Dazhu said: "My queen mother is back, she will do it for me."

Xin Xiuyan smiled, let people watch the seats again, and then brought the purse, and let the children come up to receive the reward.

After Yu Nu, there were Tan Shitou, Xiao Pan'er, Qi Qiuqiu, Tan Guoguo, and Xiao Xiaoxiao who was just able to walk.Because the emperor gave the prince and princess a cheap name and baby name to support them, all the sisters followed suit, and now they are all called baby names.

The children were very happy to be rewarded by the queen, saying auspicious words, Xin Xiuyan never thought that she would find the "magic stars" cute.

Seeing that Daiyu is the only girl besides Yuanyuan, who is crystal clear, she loves her so much, he hugged her to tease her, and said, "I didn't expect that there would be so many children together. "

Shi Hui was still brisk and lively, and said, "Isn't it? With Cousin Yingchun, Sister Xiangyun, and Sister Xue, I'm afraid there will be more. This is not counting the second sister-in-law of Lian's family, Sister Qiao, Brother Rong, Mooker."

Xin Xiuyan smiled and said: "Next time, let them come to the palace to meet. I stayed in Sichuan for a few years, and my mind was muddled. I didn't know that the emperor looked for me back then. So these days Nian actually didn’t know how to write a letter back. Don’t blame the mother and sisters.”

After hearing this, Xing Li and the three sisters wiped away their tears. Xing Li choked up and said, "Your Majesty is suffering."

Xin Xiuyan said: "Actually, I don't suffer much, it's just that I'm a little busy."

Mrs. Xingli said: "I heard that the demon was so powerful back then. My lady must have suffered a lot. The emperor tracked down the Hanshui River and wiped out the water bandits but did not find my lady. It is said that my lady was seriously injured and thrown into the river. Why is it not bitter..."

Xin Xiuyan hurriedly said: "Don't worry, mother, it's all over. Besides, I met a good person later and rescued me. Take the ginseng tonic for me, and I will recover soon."

Su Fu'er also advised Mrs. Xing and Li, and said: "It is said that one can become a master only through hardships and hardships. It is also a happy event for the empress to finally achieve consummation after going through hardships."

Xin Xiuyan laughed and said, "Sister Su is right, but I'm not Tang Seng either."

Lin Daiyu said: "Speaking of which, my sister also wanted to save me back then, but I couldn't help at all."