phoenix knot

There was a joy in Zhaoyang Palace. Concubine Su Gui was beaming with joy outside, but when she entered the inner room, she leaned on the bedpost with a livid face. Qiushui wrapped her waist and abdomen with white silk layer by layer, hoping to hide the flesh and blood that could not be hidden. Package back.In fact, she is not fat, but the continuous and frequent childbirth has completely destroyed her body. From the chest to the waist to the heels of the legs, there are mottled patterns, and her skin is no longer fair.There is not much flesh under the skin, but the outer skin seems to be an empty pocket with folds and layers hanging there.She has always paid great attention to maintenance. When she was pregnant with Liujia, she didn't dare to eat and drink too much. However, her stomach swelled up several times and her flesh couldn't shrink back to its original shape.

Looking at herself in the mirror, she is not yet thirty, but her skin is no longer hydrated, her eyes are no longer clear, and she looks like a middle-aged lady. Even Concubine Shu, who is in her early forties in Bingquan Palace, looks younger .

Although the court ladies and eunuchs kept praising her for her beauty, saying that the emperor loved the imperial concubine deeply, only she knew the truth.When Han Chengjue stayed with her at night, he hadn't touched her for a long time, and at night when her back was snoring like thunder, she stared at the bright moonlight in front of the bed alone until dawn.She wants to sneak to the next door before the emperor wakes up, let Qiu Shui carefully paint the makeup, and then climb back into the bed, to ensure that when the husband opens his eyes, he sees a radiant beauty.

The emperor is a suspicious person by nature, and he is also a person with complicated contradictions. He deals with state affairs and reviews memorials all day long, and he is too busy to visit the beauties of the harem, so he likes to sleep with the imperial concubine, where he can sleep peacefully. The person he trusted the most was the imperial concubine.However, the imperial concubine gets up early in the morning to put on makeup, no matter how careful she is, there will be movement on tiptoe, and then use the brazier to warm the stove. When she returns to the bed, her feet are always cold. If the emperor turns over and accidentally touches it, she will shrink in sleep .

Once Han Chengjue opened his eyes to watch the imperial concubine climb into bed, and he asked her what she was doing.

Su Guifei had no choice but to say that she woke up at night, afraid that the smell would suffocate the emperor, so she put the Gong barrel in the side room next door.

"Can't you hold back for a while? You woke me up, and then I couldn't fall asleep. I can only sleep for a few hours in a day, and I have to go to court later." After saying this, His Majesty the Emperor got up with a displeased face, and before dawn, he asked Liu Guang to prepare the sedan chair and drive back to Qianqing Palace.

The imperial concubine looked at herself in the mirror, and two lines of tears fell silently. She never told anyone about this matter, and she didn't even know about the sleepy Qiushui who came to send the emperor off.

Concubine Su Gui in Zhaoyang Palace could only swallow her tears, but the two ladies in Jianzhang Palace were more and more radiant. In the past few months, they have been together day and night, going in and out together. At that time, the emperor and his concubines had feasts to celebrate the New Year, prayed for blessings and offered sacrifices. After a series of celebrations, Han Chengjue couldn't take his eyes off them.

On the fifth day of the Zheng month, a banquet was held in the imperial palace to entertain the princes, nobles and court officials. It was regarded as a family banquet held by the emperor every year, with a grand scale.Last year Concubine Su was in charge of the Six Palaces and arranged it properly. This year, Concubine Ning made arrangements for Concubine Su to be in charge of the six palaces.I don’t know why the back kitchen broke out, because of corruption and the like, the counting room and the imperial dining room were like the entrance of the vegetable market. After the cold dishes were served, the hot dishes were not served. All the princes, nobles and court officials Telling jokes with the emperor on a hungry stomach, the concubines and wives in the side hall have already begun to complain.

During the banquet, His Majesty the Emperor asked Liu Guang to come over to ask Concubine Ning, but Concubine Ning was said to have gone out of the banquet hall with He Zhaoyi and disappeared, so Han Chengjue could only call twice for Mrs. Korea through the curtain, but the two ladies were gone. Heard, huddled together, whispering some jokes, and giving each other winks.

"The two ladies, the emperor is calling." Liu Guang ran forward to remind.

Mrs. Han and Mrs. Rong Guo raised their heads together, looked at Liu Guang in astonishment, and then looked at the emperor indifferently.

Not long after, Concubine Ning hurried over to deliver a message to the emperor, saying that the imperial dining room was on fire and there were no hot dishes today.

Han Chengjue's face turned green.

If there is no hot food, we can only drink more and eat cakes, fruits and peanuts.

After drinking for three rounds, Mrs. Rongguo came to complain crying. It turned out that a recent low-ranking talent was also pregnant with a dragon heir. Taking advantage of the emperor's favor, she laughed at her as a hen that couldn't lay eggs, and even chewed her tongue that Mrs. Rongguo was in Yangzhou. Been an oiran lady.She pointed at that talented person and insisted on telling her, who was the woman who spouted blood like this, and even threw peanuts on the table, like a goddess scattered flowers at the table.

That talented Zhu is only fifteen or sixteen years old, but he looks handsome but he has no brains. Mrs. Rong Guo laughed at her father as a fur dealer who bought officials, and for some reason she bullied her and slapped her.At this moment Zhu Cairen ignored him and jumped up and said: "Didn't you just be an oiran lady in Yangzhou, nicknamed Qian Shanxue. Many people in the seat are still your benefactors. If you don't believe me, go to the next door to let them distinguish."

After saying this for a while, all the male and female guests turned pale with shock.Mrs. Rongguo was out of breath from crying, so she wanted to ram her head to death to prove her innocence.A large group of concubines around her wanted to prevent her from seeking death, so Liu Guang hurriedly called someone to take Mrs. Rong Guo back to the harem.

Just as things subsided here, Concubine Su's son, the third prince Yun Lian suddenly ran over crying to find his father, saying that someone had beaten him.

The person who beat him was the crown prince, and the crown prince reported that the boy called his younger brother Yun Qing a bastard, so he taught him a lesson.

Yun Lian cried: "Empress Liang gave birth to your younger brother in Beiping Palace back then. His father hadn't moved the capital at that time and stayed in Nangong. Isn't Yun Qing just a bastard? How do you think he looks like the Han family?"

The three-and-a-half-year-old Yun Qing was being held by Concubine Shu, he looked confused, next to Princess Zheng Guo was holding Gu Yunqing, the eldest grandson of the Gu family, and Yunqing Yunqing, the two dolls looked like brothers sitting together.Obviously, they don't look alike when viewed separately, but when compared together, they look alike everywhere.

For a while, the banquet was quiet, embarrassing, His Majesty the Emperor was on the verge of collapse.

Mrs. Han walked over from the table where her sister Su Jingzhi and the others were sitting, and suddenly picked up a glass wine cup and broke it halfway. She went straight to the chief, and stabbed the top of the imperial concubine's head with a sharp blade.

The imperial concubine was still pregnant, screaming and dodging away, her maid Qiushui was not so lucky, because a big gash was cut on the forehead of the loyal protector, dripping with blood.

Han Chengjue couldn't bear to watch it any longer, and asked what was going on.

Mrs. Han knelt down and said loudly: "Your Majesty, I just got the news that the female soldier in Shenji Camp who assassinated the Emperor was an old relative of my elder sister's family. Assassinating the emperor in a big drama, she pretended to rescue him, framed the empress, and killed two birds with one stone. The dragon robe was woven by Jiangning Mansion outside the palace and brought into the palace. The door-opening supervisor moved to Yanjia Hall."

These words involved the old case, and the east and west halls became even more silent.

Mrs. Han said: "The imperial concubine will do anything to bring down the empress. The concubine's confession doesn't count at all. I didn't even look at it, and I didn't say a word. Seven or eight men held me down and took my fingerprints. Everything is done by the noble concubine! In order to bring down the queen and replace her, she has sinister intentions and vicious methods, please learn from the emperor."

Concubine Su supported her stomach and knelt down, and began to cry out for grievances, "You little bitch, the money-losing palace treats you well. Back then, my mother was an official lady who was married by a Ming matchmaker. Occupied the magpie's nest, poisoned my mother, and killed her."

Mrs. Han said: "It turns out that the eldest sister had a grudge against me, so she even cleaned it up with me, right? Today, the heads of Dali Temple, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Ministry of Criminal Justice are all present. How dare you ask what happened to the Shenjiying Incident?" Didn't go to trial? Please the emperor send this demon concubine immediately!"

The meal was unfinished, Han Chengjue put down the wine cup and stood up, he dismissed the crowd weakly, and promised Mrs. Han to investigate the matter thoroughly.

The Emperor knew the ins and outs of the Shenji Camp Incident. Originally, he wanted to abolish the empress and staged such a big show. The Emperor tried the case himself. Many of the cases were found to be true, such as private appointment of officials, corruption and perversion of the law, etc., but Conspiracy is the worst crime.Su Mingyue didn't dare to say that it was the emperor's idea, so she could only let the noble concubine bear the blame.

Now that the court officials are all here, Mrs. Han jumped out and said that the case was wronged, or that it was a frame-up caused by the harem rivalry, so she had to send it back for a retrial.

Back in the Qianqing Palace bedroom, Su Mingyue knelt on the ground and was scolded bloody by Han Chengjue.

"I advise you to give up on this idea as soon as possible. She will never come out of Yeting in this life. Even if I am gone, I will make a decree for her. Her son, her son's son, don't even think about letting go." She comes out!"

Su Mingyue raised her teary eyes and stared at him, she simply stopped kneeling, and walked out angrily, looking very much like a person.

Han Chengjue thinks that she was really spoiled by Liang Guanjing.

Mrs. Rong Guo was waiting outside Jianzhang Palace, and when she saw Mrs. Han returned without success, she gloated: "Your method won't work."

After finishing cleaning up his wife, Han Chengjue turned to clean up his son.

"Tell me, who did you listen to instigate to beat Yun Lian?" He stood with his hands behind his back, and in front of him was the kneeling Crown Prince Yun Yan.But after two or three years, the crown prince jumped up so fast that he was now at the height of his chest.

"Father, do you also suspect that the mother is stealing people? So you designed the Shenji camp incident?"

Han Chengjue sighed and sat in the chair, "You won't understand."

The crown prince kowtowed, "Father, no one instigated me, I just hope that people in the world can see you clearly, you doubt the queen mother."

Han Chengjue said: "I didn't doubt her, Yunqing is my son, I don't doubt him. There is a saying that a suspect steals an axe, if someone thinks your brother is not my own, then the more you look at it, the less likely you are. I know him Is it enough?"

The prince said: "That's why, my son is old enough and sensible, please tell him."

Han Chengjue slapped the table, "Okay, I'll tell you, because your mother's queen will become the second Wu Zhao, and she will kill you and make herself emperor. Father is to protect you and your brothers and sisters. Can you understand my intentions?" Is it good or bad?"

"She is my mother, a tiger eats its own child, I don't believe it."

Han Chengjue sneered: "She is your mother, but first of all she is Liang Guanjing, the queen. After you came back, has she ever been close to you? Has she ever been kind to you? I have lost her husband and wife, and Yunqing is her The darling of her heart. Son, our father and son have been abandoned by her."

Han Yunyun seemed to understand that Han Chengjue believed that Yunqing was his own son in his mouth, but in his heart he believed that Yunqing was not his own son.The prince looked up at his father: "Will you kill Yunqing?"

"What do you take me for? The child is innocent, you are also a child, and you are the most innocent. You can only choose one of your parents. It is cruel, but there is no way, you have to choose. You choose me, and I will This world is given to you, you choose her, and now take her to Nangong to guard the mausoleum, and never leave the imperial mausoleum. Otherwise, once she comes out, there will be a bloodbath. You should think about it carefully."

On this day, 12-year-old Han Yunwei was forced to choose one of his parents. He chose to go back to Nangong to guard the mausoleum with his biological mother, Queen Liang (deceased).

When historians of later generations commented on this young emperor, they gave mixed reviews. Some people said that he beat the third prince at the feast, and publicly exposed that Emperor Hongxi suspected whether the sixth prince was of the blood of the emperor. In fact, he had ulterior motives.He didn't want to let the princes, nobles, civil and military officials see the emperor's suspicion, so as to protect his younger brother, use public opinion to control the emperor, and prevent him from killing a young child, but Liang Hou only had two legitimate sons under his knees. He paid more attention to establishing a descendant and not establishing a son. He used this method to completely defeat another son, causing the government and the public to question his lineage, and thus disqualified his younger brother from inheriting the throne.

Secondly, when the emperor asked him this multiple-choice question, most people would choose the throne, but he clearly chose his biological mother. In fact, his relationship with Empress Liang has always been indifferent and even very tense at one point, so there is only one purpose for his choice. ——Moving Han Chengjue—the emperor on the dragon chair, the master of power.

He got the question right.

According to historical records, when Emperor Hongxi saw the prince making such a choice, he really "wept with joy, but refused."

In other words, I was so moved that I cried, good son, you don’t want the throne for the sake of your mother, it shows that you are very filial, I will not let you go to Nangong, you should go back to Donggong to be the prince.Of course, your mother, Liang Guanjing, the empress dowager, I will never let her out.

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two sentences extra

Old Master Gu: Go home tonight and close the door and treat your son to a meal of fried shredded pork with bamboo shoots.

Gu Changfeng: Being the most beautiful man in the world is enough to be an extra, but he will be beaten when he returns home.