After the prosperous Tang Dynasty

"Hey?" Hearing Pei's words, Xiao Yansui was slightly taken aback. She was preoccupied with thinking about Li Tan today and felt uncomfortable with Princess Wan'an. As for today's real protagonist, Shou Wang Li Hao and Princess Shou, Wei Shi, didn't care too much.

But after thinking about it, the former concubine Yang Yuhuan is the first, and the new concubine Webster is good everywhere. It is estimated that the mood of the concubine Li Mao at the wedding is not much better. In fact, his daughter-in-law suddenly Becoming one's own stepmother is always full of flaws...

Even in nomadic peoples like the Xiongnu with father-son succession, brother-in-law and traditional nomads, although it often happens that women are forced to remarry as inherited inheritance, at least it is after the predecessor has died. Things, people's death is like a lamp going out, although in this process, there will inevitably be some things that destroy the three views, but this illusion of "inheritance" brings a sense of shock to people, at least it does not look like Xuanzong and others. Concubine Yang Gui is so strong...

Seeing her daughter's distracted look, Mrs. Pei could only smile, patted her head lightly, and sighed helplessly: "You..."

Xiao Yansui raised her eyebrows slightly, holding a hand-warming sleeve stove in her arms, nestled comfortably on the soft cushion of the carriage, and said casually: "I think today, Princess Xianyi's face It smells good."

When we met last time, it was really sickly, pale and haggard.

This time, Mrs. Pei did not answer directly. She paused for a while, then sighed softly, and murmured in a low voice almost to herself: "That was forced... Concubine Wu Hui died, she The few children under my knees, without their mothers to take care of them, even if they are pampered again, what can they do?"

Xiao Yansui only heard the first half of the sentence, and couldn't help being slightly taken aback, "Mother?"

What's more, it is true that Princess Xianyi has always been loved by Xuanzong. However, for the birthday king Li Mao who was once fostered outside the palace and waited until he came of age, apart from his preference for Concubine Wu Hui, Xuanzong's heart, For such a prince who had no chance to get close to him when he was young, and even less close when he grew up, how much can he really love him?

Pei reached out and gently touched the top of her daughter's head with a gentle expression, but said nothing more.

Even Xiao Yansui herself didn't take these things to heart when she returned home.

It was just a feeling at the time, but after a short while of emotions, everyone has their own affairs, the Xiao family and Shouwang Mansion have no friendship, who will continue to worry about other people's affairs?

After this seemingly grand and lively wedding, but the truth behind it was particularly embarrassing, Xuanzong Xu felt that although he had taken Yang Yuhuan from his son Shou Wang Li Mao, he had also given him a birthright. The concubine of a famous family—even, compared to Yang Yuhuan, who was a member of the Yang family of the former royal family, the new concubine Shou is from Jingzhao Webster. In terms of her family status, she is probably even better than the former Yang Yuhuan one chip...

Therefore, Xuanzong, who had arranged the marriage of Shouwang Li Maoxin properly, and no longer felt guilty at all, with soft jade and a beautiful woman in his arms, naturally began to think about his own affairs.

But three days later, Xiao Yansui, a 13-year-old girl who never likes to go out to other people's homes, who can be called a rare technical house in the Tang Dynasty, heard from others that after Concubine Wu Hui, Xuanzong wanted to marry him again. A new concubine is accepted.

——Isn’t it Concubine Yang? It’s still a rare person like Xiao Yansui who has been heard of in history. Been the concubine of Shou Wang, and she has been in harmony with Shou Wang Li Maoqinse...

Thinking of this, Xiao Yansui couldn't help but twitched the corners of his mouth slightly, and secretly slandered that it was thanks to Yang Yuhuan and the longevity king Li Mao that they hadn't had a child during the five or six years they were together, otherwise In other words, after the process of becoming a monk and remarrying, the daughter-in-law becomes a stepmother, and the mother becomes a grandmother. Just thinking about it, Xiao Yansui couldn't help but tremble all over, feeling that the life in Shouwang's mansion is almost unnecessary in the future...

Probably because Xiao Yansui has not yet left the cabinet, and Xiao Wu has not yet reached the crown, so this kind of matter related to the harem, whether it is mother Pei, father Xiao Hua, or brother Xiao Heng, they all have the same ideals. Mention it with the two younger siblings.

So much so that every day after Xiao Wu heard some novel gossip in the academy, he would come back and secretly chat with his younger sister Xiao Yansui—after all, they were two children who were excluded from the scope of the conversation. They just got together and whispered to themselves, especially for Xiao Wu, Xiao Yansui can often give him some refreshing and unheard of magical insights.

On this day, Xiao Wu sat in her study with Xiao Yansui before dinner, muttered in a low voice after today's gossip about Yang Yuhuan being canonized as a noble concubine, and couldn't help but mutter: "In a few days , the results of the imperial examination came out, but Saburo must be fine..."

Xiao Yansui and Xiao Wu had the same point of view, so instead of continuing on this topic, he couldn't help pondering, and asked curiously: "Yang Yuhuan just returned to vulgarity, and entered the palace and was canonized as a noble concubine. Is there no official in the court to object?"

Xiao Wu understood this very well, so he just shook his head and replied with a smile: "It's just a noble concubine... Although the noble concubine is only under the queen, and even has the title of deputy queen, in the harem of today's saints It is even more unique, but there is still a world of difference between the canonized imperial concubine and the real empress!"

Speaking of this, Xiao Wu also deliberately lowered his voice, and said softly: "The saint has always been affectionate. Concubine Wu Hui and the saint were childhood sweethearts. They even held the Phoenix Seal for many years in the Xingqing Palace. However, since the After the Queen was abolished, the sage never canonized a second living person as Queen."

Xiao Yansui opened her eyes slightly, and couldn't help but want to complain, "...Goro, why did you give me such an example to tell me that saints are very affectionate?"

——Xuanzong is so affectionate, so Concubine Wu Hui will still be a concubine until she dies, and she will get the title of queen only after she dies, and even if she has the title of queen, at Concubine Wu Hui's funeral, Xuanzong still made it clear that, except for her own children, when everyone mourned Concubine Wu Hui, they still followed the funeral regulations of the noble concubine...

Xiao Wu glanced at Xiao Yansui, and said calmly, "Listen to me."

"Well, you continue," Xiao Yansui looked at him and blinked.

Xiao Wu coughed lightly, cleared his throat, then continued to suppress his voice, and said in a low voice: "A sage values ​​affection, so, for the Yang family who has won his favor, he will be directly accepted as soon as he enters the palace. Canonized as the noble concubine. All the officials in the court are also silent because they know the sage's nature of empathy. After all, it is only a noble concubine. No matter how loud her name is, she is still far from the queen who is the mother of the world. If the sage intends to canonize the Yang family as empress, just look at it, not to mention the princes and princesses, even the civil and military officials in the court, they will all object like crazy."

"That's it?" Xiao Yansui couldn't help being a little stunned after hearing this.

"Of course it is." Xiao Wu answered very firmly.

Xiao Yansui thought for a while, then questioned: "The king and queen back then didn't have any princes or daughters under their knees, right?"

Xiao Wu nodded, "Yes."

Xiao Yansui suddenly realized, and couldn't help muttering: "No wonder..."

Xiao Wu also sneered slightly, and muttered with a suppressed voice: "So let's say, although Yang Shi said that she entered the palace as a noble concubine, but this position of noble concubine has come to an end like this. After the sage's move, there is another concubine in the harem. With a noble concubine, it happens to be able to assist him with the palace affairs. As for the queen—the princes and princesses today are all concubines anyway, and there is no such thing as a concubine. Don’t dislike anyone, it’s just right... "

After hearing this, Xiao Yansui couldn't help laughing.

Xiao Wu looked at the sky outside, the setting sun was about to fall, and the twilight was falling, so he also put away the whispered words with Xiao Yansui, and said instead: "Liu Niang, let's go to A Niang's for dinner together?"

"Okay!" Xiao Yansui agreed immediately, although they all forgot to say hello to Mrs. Pei first, so that the kitchen can directly prepare the meals, saving them from going back and forth in vain.

During dinner, the whole family was there, none of Pei Shi, Xiao Hua, and Xiao Heng mentioned the recent lively events about Concubine Yang, the younger Xiao Wu and Xiao Yansui secretly exchanged a look, He also sat there obediently and ate seriously, and did not take the initiative to mention the topic that the two of them had discussed for a while.

In the blink of an eye, a month has passed, and it is said that it is the spring breeze in February, but when the two cold winds blow like knives on the body, I know what it means to be cold in spring.

The results of this year's imperial examinations have also come out, just as Xiao Song had predicted with confidence, Xiao Heng's results were intentionally ranked fourth. It is said to be high, but it is far less eye-catching than the top three. Moreover, judging from Xiao Henglan's family background, such a ranking is just right.

Xiao Heng was equally calm about this, and knew his results before the official announcement of the rankings. From the beginning to the end, the expression on his handsome face remained calm and calm, without any change.

Xiao Yansui, who got the news, was still congratulating her brother, and looked at him carefully for a while, and even looked a little scared at Xiao Heng.

After joking and quarreling between the two siblings for a while, Xiao Yansui suddenly realized that Xiao Heng's current state of mind is probably the same as when she just found out the results of the college entrance examination—anyway, she had already confirmed her admission before. Even the majors of the university have been determined, and the college entrance examination is purely to join in the fun with the high school classmates. As for the grades, I don't care about it for a long time...

It was also after learning of Xiao Heng's results that Xiao Yansui unexpectedly discovered that in the Tang Dynasty, the top three were the top three, and they were only called the number one scholar. Tanhua, there are still two of them at the moment, and they are still jokingly called during the Tanhua Banquet held in the Xingyuan Garden...