Self-cultivation of male support

The emperor kept his word and did not give the He Dashan family any chance to repent.

Shi Yan was not in a hurry, taking advantage of the early morning, he slowly arranged everything. Before night fell, he stood at the door of his aunt's house and told his aunt simply: "My father's relatives are here, and they are in the capital. , Invite our family to his house as guests, we will go back as soon as we go, and when we come back, we will go to Ningzhou to see my uncle and cousin Shiliang, and I will entrust you to take care of my grandparents at home and in the countryside."

He handed over the keys to the house, leaving behind a bulging envelope.

Mrs. Liu didn't think much about it, she was only happy for He Dashan, and said to Shi Yan all the time: "Aren't Dashan's relatives the same as your grandmother's natal family? If they can find them, they still miss them. We should be happy for them!"

Shi Yan didn't explain, but Shi Xiu, who was next to Liu Shi, listened to the conversation between the two, with very rich expressions on his face, and finally assured Shi Yan like a little adult: "Cousin, don't worry, go home. I'll help take care of it."

In the end, I was still a little worried and asked: "How long have you been there? When will you come back? Don't be addicted to living with relatives, and you don't plan to come back!"

Liu frowned dissatisfied: "What are you talking about?"

Shi Yan knew what the little girl was worried about, and explained seriously: "It will take about 20 days to go back and forth, at most three months, at least two months, and I will definitely come back."

Shi Xiu was gloomy, it seemed that he didn't listen to Shi Yan's words in his heart.

Shi Yan couldn't help ruffling the other's neatly combed hair, and when the little girl was about to hit someone with a big broom, the soles of her feet got oily.

The family on this side followed the emperor neatly, without any psychological burden at all. In the palace on the other side, the virtuous concubine, who has always been low-key and unassuming, was in a happy mood in recent days because of the good news from her son's house. He always smiles when he sees people, and makes a joke to anyone who sees him.

Speaking of Concubine Xian's son, he is the Seventh Prince He Xingyuan. Although he has been married for several years and has a wife and a concubine, there has been no good news from the women in the house. The only child is the daughter of an unfavored concubine. She was sick and crooked from birth, and was raised by her mother very timidly. When looking at people, her eyes are full of vigilance and caution, which is very unsightly for the concubine Xian.

For this reason, there were many rumors in Beijing, either implying that the seventh prince was not good enough to have a son, or alluding to the fact that the seventh prince had done something outrageous and unreasonable, which was God's punishment.

With her eyes closed, Concubine Xian knew that the only ones who would slander the Seventh Prince were the few princes who could compete with the Seventh Prince. After all, a prince who had not given birth to a son was a weak point in competing for the throne.

Although Concubine Xian was annoyed, but if the Seventh Prince's House couldn't bear a child, she would have nothing to do with this vicious rumor, she could only try her best to divert everyone's attention.

Last year, when the Seventh Prince brought Liu Yunhan back to the capital, Concubine Xian was very disgusted with this restless woman, but because of the child in her womb, she never had an attack, and just left it lukewarm.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a lucky one. Once she gave birth, she gave birth to a white and fat grandson. Concubine Xian was so happy that she bypassed the seventh concubine and directly rewarded Liu Yunhan, expressing Satisfaction with her for giving birth to the first son of the Seventh Prince's Mansion.

The Seventh Prince's Mansion has long been in trouble because of this child, and no one has noticed that an ordinary gardener in the Seventh Prince's Mansion saw the servants walking in the wind in Liu Yunhan's yard, his eyes were full of Thoughtful.

Having the eldest son, even though he is a concubine, will make people who follow the Seventh Prince feel at ease. As long as the Seventh Prince can give birth to a son, it will prove that they will work with the Seventh Prince. It is the inexhaustible benefit of ancestors for generations.

Just when Concubine Xian was immersed in joy, Concubine Xian's personal nun, Aunt Cuizhu, passed by the Imperial Garden and disappeared without a sound when she was delivering the handkerchief embroidered by Concubine Xian to the Empress Dowager's palace in the evening. In the palace.

It will be two hours later when Concubine Xian finds out that something is wrong. At that time, there will be a curfew in the palace, all palaces will be locked, and the imperial guards will patrol back and forth at night. No one will be allowed to move around without the queen or emperor's fingerprints.

Concubine Xian's low-key personality does not allow her to trouble the queen because of a personal nun, and wait for the dawn.

She had already had a bad feeling in her heart, because Madam Cuizhu was her dowry maid, she almost watched her grow up, she knew all the secrets of Concubine Xian, she knew Concubine Xian better than Concubine Xian herself, Now that Cui Zhu disappeared without reason, Concubine Xian naturally felt uneasy.

The only thing that can make her feel at ease is probably Cui Zhu's sincerity to her. After all these years, the two have walked together through ups and downs in the palace. Concubine believes that at the critical moment, Aunt Cuizhu would rather die than involve her.

Concubine Xian suspected all those who could do this step quietly in the palace, and felt that everyone was suspicious, and no one could catch it, from the concubines of the main palace to the queen, and even the queen mother , doubting the past one by one, but did not think of the emperor.

The emperor had doubts this time, and he was prepared to get someone to arrest the Cheng family. Du Miao Miao, who was hiding in the Cheng family and dared not go out, threatened him, chopped off three fingers, and the Cheng family's Du Miaomiao had the strength to cry. None, just passed out.

A person who is good at interrogation in the palace, interrogated overnight, under the double blow of body and psychology, Aunt Cuizhu quickly confessed.

This is what the concubine Xian did not expect, and it was also what the emperor did not expect.

No one thought that Cuizhu's heart was for the concubine Xian, but she was even more heartfelt for the Cheng family. This Aunt Cuizhu, who looked so inconspicuous, turned out to be the only aunt of the Cheng family?Cuizhu is a well-trained domestic slave of the Cheng family. Her own sister was taken over by the concubine Xian's father. After giving birth to this child, the Cheng family suffered a catastrophe without a single day of good life.

It was also under Aunt Cuizhu's reminder that Concubine Xian chose this child among so many people in the Cheng family, and tried her best to protect her in front of the emperor, so that her nephew survived.

In Aunt Cuizhu's heart, the Cheng family's affairs are the most important, followed by the only seedling representing the Cheng family, and the third is the virtuous concubine. Therefore, Aunt Cuizhu, who was able to keep silent while being tortured, saw the interrogator chopping her down with her own eyes. Du Miaomiao didn't stop with three fingers, but when she was about to chop off her toes, she finally collapsed.

Before Shi Yan and the others entered Beijing, the emperor received a secret letter from the palace.

After a few days of getting along, He Dashan, the younger brother, was ready to leave. He was kicked down by the emperor and let him and Yue Niang ride in a carriage, and rolled away a bit, which gave He Dashan a look full of complacency and provocation.

Only Shi Yan, the eldest nephew, although his words were annoying, but he had an accidental eye contact with him, and told Shi Yan as soon as he got the news.

Shi Yan looked at it in amazement: "According to Aunt Cuizhu, because you raided Cheng's family back then, and because the only reliance in the palace, the Seventh Prince, was frequently ill, I felt that my heart was not safe. So I spent a lot of effort and painstaking efforts, using the secret recipe that the Cheng family found in the early years, and prepared good things for you. I want to have a good time with your old man, have another child and keep your status?

In the end, my father inadvertently took the lead, causing her to lose her only good chance.Therefore, I have a grudge against my mother. It just so happens that my father has something to do and entrusts my mother to her to take care of her. "

The emperor sighed, unfolded another piece of paper and showed it to Shi Yan: "This is the prescription given by Cuizhu. Many medicinal materials in it are very rare. It may not be possible to make a pair in a lifetime. It is not wrong to say that it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. , said that one pregnancy can be guaranteed, I believe it.

There are some ancestors in the Cheng family who practiced medicine, so it is not surprising that the Cheng family has a few strange prescriptions in their hands. If Cui Zhu understands medical principles, it would make sense to cooperate with Cheng Concubine to harm your mother.

Cheng Bin is narrow-minded. In order to vent her dissatisfaction, she intended to make your mother lose the memory of those few days, and then under her arrangement, marry a man who eats, drinks, prostitutes, and gambles. She will torture her for the rest of her life. In the middle of the matter, they were attacked by the enemy.

Simply do one thing and keep going, ordering someone to throw your mother halfway to the enemy, wanting the enemy to torture your mother severely, the reason why your mother was able to appear in Xishui Village safely, Cui Zhu obviously didn't know.

But there is still a confession of the guards back then, take a look. "

Shi Yan took it over and looked at it carefully, and once again lamented his mother's rough first half of her life: "It turned out that the guards left by my father desperately sent her to Xishui Village."

Shi Yan sighed again: "Your Majesty, you have such a good eye, such a woman can be called a virtuous concubine."

The emperor snorted coldly: "If it wasn't for the series of events that hit me too hard, and I haven't been relieved for several years, you kid think you can hide me with such a small means?"

Shi Yan didn't care about the emperor's reluctance to hold him back, and continued to stab the knife: "Don't pretend, it is said that there are all kinds of birds in the forest. Your wife is not worried, and your son is shameless. I won't laugh at you anymore, I will only sympathize with you in my heart, if you are not feeling well, you don't have to force yourself to smile like this."

The emperor was puzzled: "Xingyu is good, why do you have to be shameless? Don't think that you are my nephew, and I won't do anything to you!"

Shi Yan said calmly: "I know all about the fact that you sent someone to investigate the Luo'an county magistrate, and I also know that the Luo'an county magistrate's arrest of Mr. Qian's family was ordered by your own son, the Seventh Prince.

And the reason why the Seventh Prince did that was because he was shameless and robbed Master Qian's escaped concubine. Don't let it go! "

Shi Yan looked at the emperor with "you are so pitiful, but I won't tell you".

The emperor was furious: "How did you know this?"

"The two of you speak so loudly, what's the difference between talking in my ear? I was sleeping next to me, and I was woken up by you. I thought you wanted me to hear the news on purpose. , I can pretend to continue to fall asleep and you have exhausted all my acting skills, but don't expect too much."

Shi Yan said lightly: "Don't count on me, there is no result."