Old things in the Red Chamber

During the whole Chinese New Year period, Jia Gu was not free, and had to go to the palace every day to do errands.He has a good mentality. After returning to the capital, many frontier generals were gloomy and unwilling. Jia Gu smiled when he saw people, and he was very enthusiastic about his job of guarding the gate. , This made the emperor feel very good about him, and when chatting with the Supreme Emperor, he praised him for "he has the style of a general without changing his face."

"He was a great general," the Supreme Emperor was getting old, and the old officials had passed away one by one. There were indeed generations of emperors and officials in the court. His old officials had long since disappeared, so naturally he couldn't command the emperor's new officials.However, the emperor was very filial to him, using the top-notch items in the entire palace, coming to pay his respects every day rain or shine, and staying in front of the bed all night when he was sick. .

This day is the second day of junior high school. Princess Anyang said earlier that this is the first time for her daughter to return to the province. She will not come to the palace to pay her respects to her father and queen. The queen mother has no time to entertain other princesses. The eldest princess and the princesses looked at the Queen Mother's face and left early.The Supreme Emperor didn't pay much attention to his daughter and granddaughter. In addition, the emperor was not busy during the Chinese New Year and talked with her, so the old emperor's energy level was a little higher. Sitting at the door of the bedroom, the old emperor inevitably recalled the past.

"At that time, Jia Daishan was cautious in everything, just like Jia Guna. He didn't make friends with foreign ministers and princes, and he didn't go to banquets if he could... just because he was afraid that people would gossip."

The emperor rolled his eyes, "The same is true for Jia Daishan's eldest son. He stays at home all day, so it can be seen that Jia Daishan and Jia Daishan are really father and son."

"Huh...he," the old emperor thought of Jia She, the abolished prince, and his youthful years. Even though decades had passed, the abolition of the prince bleeds from the touch to the wound slowly healed. After becoming a huge scar, he stepped back from the throne and finally dared to face up to this matter. When he talked about things and people related to the deposed prince, his tone was flat and his expression was natural. "He is stupid and stupid. Your emperor brother never likes to play with him. Jia She is not good at reading, and he doesn't know anything about bowing and horses. You can see a few intestines of that man when you open his mouth, but he also has One advantage is that you can deceive yourself and others, thinking that your brother is good to him, and that other companions are also considerate of him..."

"This is probably because people are stupid and Fuduo."

"Yes, in this life, it really should be yours, no one can take it away, it's not yours..." The Supreme Emperor yawned, and didn't want to go on, feeling sorry for the abolished prince in his heart, prince, You don't have the emperor's life.

Seeing that the Supreme Emperor was sleepy, the emperor helped him back to the dormitory. After guarding for a while, he came out when he saw that the old emperor had fallen asleep. As soon as he came out of the dormitory of the Supreme Emperor, he saw a little eunuch poking his head. Immediately became angry, "An unruly thing, what are you looking for here? Pull it down, find out which palace it is from, and hand it over to Yousi for conviction."

The little eunuch lay down anxiously on the ground and kept kowtowing, "Your Majesty, forgive me, this servant is the servant of Empress Liu Concubine of Pixiang Palace, our empress... had a miscarriage."

Concubine Liu slipped a tire on the second day of the Lunar New Year and lost a formed male fetus.The emperor didn't take a look at Concubine Liu, who had lost his son, and went directly to the queen.

The queen has started to worship the Buddha in the past two years. When she is free, she always reads a few volumes of scriptures. She lost two boys when she followed the emperor in the hidden residence. Not long after entering the palace, another son died. Indulge in Buddhist things.

The emperor walked into the hall, and the hall was empty. When the empress dowager was still the empress, the hall was full of concubines who paid their respects. The eunuchs and eunuchs who were in charge of the palace came and went. There was a constant flow of people all day long. Now it is the incumbent empress. After entering, it became more and more desolate.

The emperor turned to the Buddhist hall at the back of the palace, and saw the queen sitting cross-legged in front of the Buddha statue, without a trace of fireworks, and the anger in his heart was on top of each other. Seeing that she was less than 30 years old, with some white hair on her head, I finally endured it.

"It's Chinese New Year, there are many things in the palace, you..."

The queen didn't get up, opened her eyes, and twirled the prayer beads, "There is one noble concubine and four concubines in the palace, they can discuss and take care of palace affairs."

The emperor closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

Two husband and wife, one standing, one sitting cross-legged, no one spoke for a long time.The emperor looked at the queen again, closed his eyes again, and chanted sutras while turning the beads.

The emperor lifted up his robe and left the Buddhist hall, walked quickly for a long time, reached the main hall of Weiyang Palace, and sat down on the dragon chair.He has never favored any woman, and the palace is waiting for the concubine to give birth to two sons before allowing other concubines to have children. The first son of him and the queen was born with bruises all over his body. Later, the imperial doctor diagnosed him as having a heart disease. , raised until the age of three, and died.The second son, who was in good condition, played in the palace one day, and he scratched a little oily skin, bleeding profusely, no matter how many doctors he sought, he bled too much and died in the end.The third son, the husband and wife looked at each other with the same eyeballs, but had a bad temper, irritable, paranoid and suspicious. When he was eight years old, the emperor had just ascended the throne, and he was not sure whether he should make a crown prince. After getting on the emperor's royal horse, he insisted on riding, but the queen refused to persuade him. A man who had never ridden a horse, ignored the obstruction of the maids and nuns, climbed on the horse and whipped it vigorously, and the royal horse started to gallop. The horse died.

If these three children were killed by others, the husband and wife would not be like this. However, the deaths of the three children cannot be blamed on other people, and the queen felt that her fate was bad.

The emperor felt uncomfortable, and said to the chief eunuch, "Let the fourth concubine come forward to take care of the palace affairs. Let the fourth concubine come forward first, and go to Pixiang Palace to have a look."

Seeing the sunset, the emperor stood up again and went to the queen's palace. An oil lamp was lit in the Buddhist hall, eunuchs and maids were waiting outside with lunch boxes in their hands, and the queen sat alone on the futon, chanting.

The emperor walked in and sat on a futon next to her, "Cousin, why don't you hold your brother's Niuniu in front of you and raise them."

"Cousin, I have committed a lot of sins, don't put your children in front of me, lest their life be ruined."

A few days later, Jia Gu came back from the palace, and took advantage of the fine weather to go out for an outing with Jia She.

"This bare mountain doesn't even have a tinge of blue color. How can it be green?" Jia Amnesty stood on the mountain road, panting and complaining.

"You should go out and move around. Drinking alcohol every day will hurt your health." Jia Gu walked back a few steps and pulled him up a section of rock. Suddenly, there was a natural stone platform in front of him.

"How is it?" Jia Gu asked him, "Do you feel refreshed?"

Jia She was sitting on the ground, looking down, his two young servants were still on the mountain path, and the long followers of Zhongwuhou's mansion followed them leisurely.

"If you go home today, your whole body will be sore tomorrow." Jia She went roguely to the ground, and the servants who climbed up did not dare to step over him, so they bypassed him and set up a small pot and stove at the other end to start cooking.

Jia Gu looked at the scenery for a while, then sat next to Jia She, "One of the imperial physicians, who is good at gynecology, came to our house a few days ago to pay his respects, and said that my daughter-in-law's belly is a sister. My eldest grandson, I don't know yet. where is it."

Jia Amnesty felt sorry for him, and he was also a man without grandchildren.The two old men, whose faces were [-]% similar, sighed together facing the mountains in the distance.Jia Amnesty comforted him, "You are better than me. Even though you are a sister, my daughter-in-law will definitely not stop you from hugging the child. I just want to see my granddaughter, and my daughter-in-law Lian doesn't want to. When the child is born, I will not stop you from hugging the child." Let's see each other during Chinese New Year."

The more he talked about the topic, the more hesitant he became, Jia Gu was ready to find something to entertain himself, "Is there anything new in your house recently?"

"Yes." Jia She even turned his eyes to Jia Gu, "The old lady and Mrs. Wang got a good piece of jade, and asked someone to find a master to carve a Buddha."

Jia Gu knew the reason after a little thought, "Is it dedicated to the Empress?"

"Ah."

"Hey," Jia Gu not only sympathized with the emperor in his heart, "it's been more than a month since the Chinese New Year, and the harem is very noisy. It is said that the empress is going to become a monk, but the emperor stopped him, saying that he was hugging the concubine's children." She was raised by the empress, but the empress was not happy about it, and she couldn’t come out in the Buddhist hall all day. She also said that she was unlucky, and wanted to invite the emperor to depose the empress, and let herself go back to her mother’s house, which made the emperor dislike everyone these days.”

Jia Amnesty didn't pay much attention to royal affairs, it was just the concubines making trouble.

"A few days ago, I met a county magistrate in Jia Laoer's study who came to run an official. It is said that he was a Jinshi six years ago. Let's go and have a look together, and if it's suitable, marry Ying girl to him."

"how old are you?"

"28 birthdays passed."

"If you weren't for my brother, I... our child who is like a flower, married an old man, his wife is dead or there is something wrong with him and he can't marry a wife. Seeing that he is only [-] years old, why haven't we married? You asked ?"

When Jia She was looked at by his younger brother like a fool, his aura immediately dropped. If Jia Laoer looked at him like this, Jia She would be angry, but when Jia Gu looked at him like this, he felt really stupid. "It is said that studying delays the marriage, and I am tired of paperwork after taking office..."

"You...he is really a nerd, and he will not go out to be a county magistrate and run for an official. Just listen to these two sentences from you. I already know that he is an old man. Whether you want it or not, if Yinger marries He, in the future, will go out with him, bow his head to Mrs. Shangguan, go out to socialize for the sake of a man, be humble and respectful every day, and even give her a few words of ridicule with a smile on his face. Did I raise my daughter so that she can be a cow or a horse for a man? Besides, Ying'er is not the kind of person who is slick and slick, and can't do things that are good at dancing."

"Children always have to go out with their husband and son-in-law. Doesn't your daughter-in-law also like to go out to socialize?"

"She went out to play. Do you think she will run out after she has a grandson? Yes, the child will follow her husband. If she marries someone who doesn't envy power and fame, she won't be able to charm her." Even if it’s poor, let’s help her out. If she marries an official fan, wait and see, she is not satisfied with being a magistrate of a wealthy county, and wants to climb up, urging our children to return home. Mother, let the child talk to us, do you think the child is ashamed to open his mouth? We can pull him once or twice, but in the future, let the sons and grandchildren continue to pull him? Even if he is brilliant, this kind of person does not talk about it. Morally and selfishly, I will be thankful if I don’t backhand us with a knife.”

"Do you have any regulations for Ying'er?"

"During the Chinese New Year, I asked my niece to prepare an annual gift and give it to my brother-in-law's fellow subjects. I am a martial artist, and I also care about face. The head of the family didn't show up, but I found that those who are serious people who are idle clouds and wild cranes are suitable for our girls, such as those who teach in academies, study in Imperial Academy, and learners, who read sage books and know the truth, Let's help them out, and they will have a better life. What do you think?"