[Red Mansions] The Road to Empress Dowager

Daiyu has a strong nature and is good at being a teacher, just like teaching Xiangling to learn poetry in the original book, she is actually very proud of teaching this group of buns to enlighten her.And Su Fu'er is also similar. When she was a child, she was just a small person, but she taught Xing Xiuyan poetry and books.

But I didn't expect that the queen empress is also such a character. She can not only tell stories, but also take classes, but she takes physical education classes that they don't know.

That was early the next morning.

Running with a group of little buns, doing exercises to move their muscles and bones, and playing fun sports with three legs, telling them the importance of unity.

The little buns were tossed for a round, stained with sweat, and the mothers felt distressed when they saw it. How old are the buns, that is, the queen is the teacher, otherwise they would really be reluctant to part with it.

Tu Yuanyuan even fell down, and burst into tears on the spot, as if her father and the aunts were really distressed, and she was about to rush over to hug her.

But she was abruptly stopped by her hard-hearted mother, who made her stand up by herself, and Tu Yuanyuan cried out "father", "grandmother", and "aunt" with tears in her eyes, begging for love and attention.

But the queen said coldly: "Crying for such a small thing, do you want to show others that you are the most useless? Then who dares to hand over the back to you!"

Tu Yuanyuan held back her tears, but the other little buns went to comfort her. Tie Zhu and Da Zhu said, "We will protect my sister in the future."

But the queen said: "If the queen mother relied on her elder brother for protection in everything, she would have died more than ten times. To survive in this world, you can get as much glory as you can bear. My daughter cannot be a quail."

Tu Yuanyuan stopped crying, wanting to embrace her mother.

But the queen took a step back, then suddenly fell forward, with her hands on the ground deftly, and there was still a gust of dust around her.The queen turned over, and then stood up with a bounce.

"Did you see? Falling is a very normal thing, just stand up. If none of your loved ones around you is hurt by falling, is there someone to help you when you cry? Crying can't solve the fall The trouble of standing up is the solution, isn't it?"

"Yuanyuan knows." Although Yuanyuan will obey her mother's words when she falls by herself, the child still has the thought "Mother, you don't understand me". This is human nature, she is only a five-year-old child .But let her see that she also fell, and she won't think so.

Only then was Xin Xiuyan satisfied, and then let them line up again, praised and encouraged them, and then took them to the temporary small cafeteria for dinner.Except for Xiao Xiaoxiao, who was too young, they were required to take their own plates and queue up for meals.

Walking on the mountain, relying on the flow of water, relying on everyone to disperse, do it yourself, and have enough food and clothing.

The queen also took the plate to cook, so many loving mothers had nothing to say, knowing that the queen wanted to let the children understand the importance of independence and self-improvement.

Tu Yuanyi also had a meal and sat next to his wife, and said, "Queen, didn't you say you were on vacation? You don't feel sorry for torturing the children like this, but others do."

Xin Xiuyan said: "Then pretend to be a good person, I'll pretend to be a villain."

Tu Yuanyi said: "This...do you understand how beautiful your son and daughter had been before?"

Xin Xiuyan said: "Children can only stand up after being beaten and beaten."

Tu Yuanyi said: "How old are they? You also lost your memory, and you have been away for several years..." So it should not be born by yourself.

Xin Xiuyan said: "Can spoiling children become talents?"

Tu Yuanyi couldn't help but said: "Didn't I dote on you back then, didn't you also become a talent?"

Xin Xiuyan hehe: "Do you think I'm a child?"

Tu Yuanyi: ...

……

After getting acquainted with the children, Xin Xiuyan discussed with Daiyu and others the revision of the first draft of the "Blind Date Conference" plan.Afterwards, Tu Yuanyi took her back to the old place to revisit the world of the two of them, soaking in the hot springs in Lishan, and was pestered by him all over the world.

All the holiday travel groups did not return to Kyoto until the fourth day.The next morning when Xin Xiuyan returned to the palace, a group of concubines knelt outside the Ganlu Hall.

But after Xin Xiuyan changed her clothes and finished her makeup, the three concubines Xie, Wang, and Chen who Xin Xiuyan had subdued also brought another group of concubines to pay her respects.

Xin Xiuyan was still eating her breakfast steadily, she only asked Zi Yue who was serving the meal: "What do the empress dowagers of the two palaces think about this matter?"

Ziyue said: "They have also begged on both sides. The emperor has made a big decision on this matter, and the queen mother can't make the decision, so she has to shirk. But, I heard that the princess of Yijun and the county master of Xianning are also arguing twice every day. The Empress Dowager, King Yijun and Marquis Shunping also went to bother the Emperor."

Xin Xiuyan asked: "What does it have to do with them?" Xin Xiuyan lost her memory, and she didn't care about the background of the concubines in the harem, she didn't know that Shen Man was from the Marquis of Shunping, and her grandfather was the King of Yijun.

Zi Yue had no choice but to say: "They are relatives of Concubine Jing."

"Concubine Jing? It's really interesting. It sounds like a title for living in the cold palace."

Ziyue smiled wryly, knowing that her master didn't remember, so she had to briefly talk about the past grievances, and also mentioned Concubine Wen by the way.

Xin Xiuyan asked: "Then this Concubine Wen's house won't make trouble?"

Ziyue has been in power in the deep palace for a long time, so her vision is different, and she said: "The Cheng'en mansion has no children who can support the family. I passed the college exams for two years. It’s good that the old man is here, but if he goes away, even if Empress Dowager Liu is in the deep palace...it won’t matter.”

Ziyue understands that the emperor can treat others as Chinese cabbage, the queen mother of the Zhou dynasty, the queen mother Liu in the Qianyuan period is the most worthless.

Xin Xiuyan said: "Then the Shen family is not bad?"

Ziyue said: "Concubine Jing's father is already the servant of the Ministry of Punishments of the third rank."

Xin Xiuyan thought for a while, and guessed their intentions a little bit, but she underestimated her a little bit if she still wanted to handle her.And according to Zi Yue's words, for a woman like Shen Man, she doesn't know about it, and her subordinates can't bear it.Although she is partial to women, wishing that they all marry a loving and dedicated husband, but she can't cheat her subordinates.

After these four or five days of buffering and digesting, I believe that this matter has been thought about countless times in the concubine's mind, and she has avoided the most annoying time, and now she should see them and be able to speak calmly.

Xin Xiuyan was wearing a snow-blue regular dress, because her hair was relatively short, she didn't want to wear a chignon, and she wore a black gauze crown.

After summoning the concubines into the palace and paying homage in a dark manner, she gave her a seat.

Xin Xiuyan took a sip of tea slowly, she didn't see her asking first, she looked so cold, they didn't dare to be the first to ask.

Xin Xiuyan said: "This time the emperor kindly ordered the harem concubines to go out of the palace to seek another happiness, I think you have all thought it through carefully. The emperor will not care about you, he is very busy, but what I say is counted. You can go or stay as you like, it's all voluntary. I heard that there are also those who want to stay in the palace, just have an extra mouth to eat, and this palace treats each other as usual."

Xie, Wang, Chen and the concubines they persuaded stood up and knelt down, saying: "Concubines are the queen's master!"

"Be flat."

"Thank you madam."

Xin Xiuyan said: "Concubine Wu Hui, you have the oldest qualifications, what are your plans?"

Concubine Wu Hui got up and said: "Your Majesty, the concubine is an old man who has hidden the residence, and he just wants to watch the second prince get married and build a mansion, and the concubine has no other plans."

Xin Xiuyan thought: This is the plan for the second prince to become the king, and she goes out to be a concubine?However, now that she is in power, she really dares to think about going out to be a concubine.Besides, the second prince is only her adopted son.

But Concubine Wu Hui is not considered old, she still has charm, so what's the point of being a widow?

But Concubine Gong, Concubine Min and the two concubines said they would stay in the palace, Xin Xiuyan said: "No regrets?"

Concubine Gong said: "We are used to life in the palace, we don't know how to live outside the palace."

Xin Xiuyan looked at them, and suddenly thought, in modern times, people in their thirties are considered leftover women, let alone ancient times.Although they are beautiful, it is indeed embarrassing for these high-spirited women to be matched with widowers in their 30s.

Xin Xiuyan said: "Since this is the case, I will not force you. Anyone who is willing to marry out of the palace, in addition to the dowry prepared by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, all items that do not violate the regulations in your residence can be taken away as dowry in the future. "

"Thank you, empress, for your kindness!"

……

Concubine Wen Liu Jingru was crying and begging in front of Empress Dowager Liu, it wasn't that she didn't want to leave the palace, but that ideals and reality were too far apart.

Liu Jingru had suffered enough in these years, knowing that staying in the palace would have the title of Concubine Wen, and the emperor would not even cast a glance at her.

"Queen, I don't want to go to that 'charity meeting' humiliated by the queen.Queen Mother, please help me, she is your own niece! "

The Liu family will pick her up when the time comes, but her mother also conveyed her father's intention to let her attend this 'charity conference'.How vulgar is the man who goes to the 'Charity Conference', how can he be worthy of her granddaughter of the Duke's Mansion?And this kind of disrespectful approach, how could Xing Xiuyan not be imprisoned to death by the courtiers?

Empress Dowager Liu is also bored, can she tell her niece that she, the Empress Dowager, is worthless at all?Not to mention that the empress has the means to shame her, there is the emperor above.And don't expect the emperor to support her, don't look for him for ordinary things, he is devoted to the "Ceremony of Qianzheng", and spends all day with a group of scholar Hanlin.If you really have free time, there is a young and beautiful Concubine Li beside the emperor to explain the words gently.

Empress Dowager Liu said: "Now your father's intention is the same, what else do you want? Everyone is going, why can't you go?"

At this moment, Liu Jing couldn't care less about being reserved. She knelt in front of Empress Dowager Liu and said, "Aunt Empress Dowager, please give me some kindness. I will let you decide."

She finally said it out, and she was still talking about the absurdity of the concubine leaving the palace before, implying that the queen is not tolerant.I'm afraid I still hope that Empress Dowager Liu will grasp the queen's obvious wrongdoing this time and discipline her as a mother-in-law.Liu Jingru later understood that the concubine leaving the palace was not a joke. Her mother came into the palace to discuss with her, and Liu Jingru understood that the Liu family could not find a decent family for her.

Empress Dowager Liu closed her eyes, chuckled, and said, "I can't be the master. If you don't want to go, you can either stay in the palace. I think the queen won't send you a meal, or you can go back to Liu's mansion directly." Bar."

"Auntie!" Liu Jingru cried as she hugged Empress Dowager Liu's leg.

Empress Dowager Liu said: "If you have time to cry here, why don't you ask your father to find out who needs to marry a wife this time. You don't have much talent, but you are late, and the later you are, the less you will benefit."

Liu Jingru said: "But the queen will definitely not make it easy for me, aunt, if you don't help me, I will go there, the queen will definitely drive me into the dust."

Empress Dowager Liu said: "Idiot. If the empress wants to deal with you, she has plenty of ways if you don't go to the 'charity conference'."

Liu Jingru's extravagant hopes were in vain, she tried her best to hold on to her dignity, not wanting to condescend, but the reality is that she is nothing.

……

But she said that Xin Xiuyan originally asked Concubine Wu Hui to be in charge of the eldest princess's marriage, but Concubine Wu Hui gritted her teeth and asked her natal family to help choose a few.

At this time, the information was submitted to Xin Xiuyan, but Concubine Wu Hui was smart enough to let her pick it. The reason was very good, she was the Queen's aunt.

When Xin Xiuyan was slightly depressed, she heard the report from the eunuch that the First Prince and Second Prince returned from the Royal Academy to pay her respects.

"Xuan."

Concubine Wu Hui also stood respectfully by the side, and after a while, she saw two teenagers in the "school uniform" of Yuebai Confucian students enter the hall without taking off their shoes.Because Xin Xiuyan doesn't take off her shoes unless she enters the back room.

I heard Daiyu and the others say before that the "school uniform" of the Royal Academy is uniformly made by their factory, and it is a signature list.The appearance was designed by Daiyu and others, and was also seen by the emperor.Looking at it now, the two handsome teenagers dressed like this are really eye-catching, much better than the "earth/eight/road" costumes she asked to make back then.

"My ministers see the empress empress, empress empress is a thousand years old!"

Xin Xiuyan said: "Stay flat."

The first prince Tu Hui and the second prince Tu Xian dared to raise their heads at this time, but they saw a stunning woman wearing a five-claw boa robe with white arrow sleeves and a seven-treasure leather belt around her waist sitting in the middle.Her hair was braided in many small braids, and then gathered together on the head, decorated with seven large oriental beads.There is a calmness between her brows that ordinary young women don't have, a little less tenderness, but it doesn't damage her beauty.

Seeing the beautiful young man's appearance, Xin Xiuyan secretly praised him, thinking that Tu Yuanyi has pretty good genes.

"Is the school on holiday?"

Tu Hui didn't dare to look any further, he cupped his hands and said, "Father and emperor summoned his son and ministers back to the palace. The empress and empress are still courteous, congratulations."

Only then did Xin Xiuyan remember what Tu Yuanyi said about letting his two concubines go find their own wives. Is this going to come back and prepare?

Xin Xiuyan said: "Aren't you going to delay your homework?"

"My son can catch up."

Xin Xiuyan nodded and said, "What major do you study?" In addition to studying the Four Books and Five Classics, the Royal Academy is to study the disciplines that apply to the world. This was designed by the emperor, and the various subjects in the academy have begun to take shape.

Tu Hui said: "My son is repairing water conservancy."

Tu Xian said: "My son majored in Ming and Arithmetic."

Xin Xiuyan nodded, and said: "They are all useful skills, better than a talker."

In Tu Xian's eyes, there was a lot of disapproval, but Tu Hui's expression was complicated.

It's no wonder that the emperor would take a matter of the Yang family seriously with a mother from a humble background.

The majors of the two were reported by the emperor. Obviously, in the eyes of the courtiers and great Confucians, this also obviously means that it is impossible for them to succeed to the throne.

Xin Xiuyan thought about it, and said: "Concubine Wu Hui is looking for a husband's family for the eldest princess. She has worked hard and sent some candidates. I'm not in the capital for a long time, so I'm afraid it's hard to make a decision. Marriage is a lifetime thing, and I don't want to miss it." The eldest princess. You are her brothers, since you are back in Beijing, go and inquire about these people."

Concubine Wu Hui said in surprise: "Empress, this is not appropriate, how can a dignified prince do this?"

Xin Xiuyan said: "Concubine Wu Hui, what should the prince do then? Eat, drink, whore and gamble? It's not shameful for a brother to help a sister find a husband-in-law. Knowing people is one of the most important abilities for a person to do things."

Concubine Wu Hui originally wanted to push this matter to her in the end, but in the end it was good or bad, it just made the eldest princess hate the queen even more.It is impossible to say that Concubine Wu Hui does not hate Queen Xing, but she is much better at restraining herself than Yang.

Unexpectedly, Queen Xing would do this trick again.

Concubine Wu Hui said: "But, this is against the rules."

Xin Xiuyan said: "Presumptuous! Are you here to teach me the rules? Let me tell you, when I work under my command, I am the rules!"

Concubine Wu Hui hurriedly knelt down: "The queen empress calm down, the concubine has no such intention."

Xin Xiuyan said: "Don't tell me the rules, if the rules can marry the eldest princess, I won't be able to wait until I return to the palace."

Xin Xiuyan handed the information to Tu Hui, and said: "Check the evidence carefully, and then help the eldest princess choose one. Let her see it for herself, don't let her carry it, this is her life's event, if you don't fight for it yourself, you will die in the palace." Don't blame anyone."

Tu Hui respectfully said yes, but he had mixed feelings in his heart.

Xin Xiuyan did not intend to let the eldest princess go to the "charity conference", she would not let the eldest princess marry to Sichuan.

At this moment, it was the little eunuch from Shangyang Palace who passed the news that the Supreme Emperor wanted to see her, Xin Xiuyan got up quickly.