[Red Mansions] Guide to "The Empress of the Wise"

"Mother... that's fine, I'll take care of myself." Just as Wang Shuo was about to explain, someone from the palace came in to serve tea. Wang Shuo was taken aback when he saw the unremoved beads on the back of her bun. This is not from the main hall. Is there an example?

Well, it's up to her to play Infernal Affairs.Wang Shuo laughed. When they were just married, Wang Shuo and Tu Geng discussed how to monitor others. They said that if the person under surveillance possesses martial arts skills, hiding at the door or under the window will not work. It may be a surprise, but it is best to pretend to be a servant and find a chance to enter the house, dawdling for a while, and you can always hear a few words.Having lived together for so long, Tu Geng and Wang Shuo's ways of doing things are deeply influenced by each other. Wang Shuo thought about how sweet the discussion was at the time, but how disgusting it is now.

Wang Shuo took a deep breath and said to himself, don't give the person who provokes dissension a chance, it's a troubled time, who can guarantee that this is not someone else's trick?

No matter how much he tried to comfort himself, Wang Shuo still felt discouraged, so he only said some words to comfort Princess Fuhui, "I've always been like this. Mother knows, and Your Majesty knows too. If I'm weak and only know how to cry, how can I be worthy?" The position of the mother of this country. Mother, don't worry, he knows mine."

Princess Fuhui was so anxious that she entered the palace twice a day. Of course, a few words could not comfort her so lightly, but Wang Shuo winked and wrote the word "An" on her palm sideways. Princess Fuhui would not spoke.The reason why she was in such a hurry was that she positioned the matter as a quarrel between her daughter and her son-in-law. If it involved government affairs or other things, Princess Fuhui would be helpless.

The situation at this time is very similar to her falling out with Wang Shouzhong back then. Princess Fuhui felt that it was because she had not set a good example that Wang Shuo did not have the correct concept of getting along with husband and wife, which led to the current crisis. Thinking about it, she blamed herself .

Wang Shuo coaxed Princess Fuhui out of the palace by playing tricks, and fell on the soft couch as if he had no bones, staring at the green trees outside the window in a daze.People may really have such a left-mindedness, and they will not look back until they touch the south wall.If Tu Geng hints that Wang Shuo is not interesting enough, he should be softer. Wang Shuo is not hard-working, so he is naturally willing to make changes for the sake of the relationship between husband and wife.But Tu Geng threatened to take concubines like this, Wang Shuo was not happy.Of course, Tu Geng didn't mean to threaten, but in Wang Shuo's view, it was, oh, if your wife doesn't like it, you just go to take a concubine, why?The husband is not happy, Wang Shuo has not been favored yet!Knowing that the matter has been accumulated by quantitative changes to Fenghuang, and a qualitative change is about to occur, Wang Shuo is still unwilling to compromise, and he is still as tough, even more staunch than usual.Wang Shuo just wanted to see, is there really no justice in this world?

Qing'er came in and signaled to Wang Shuo that the maid just now had handed over to her colleagues and was ready to go back to the main hall.Wang Shuo sorted out his emotions and prepared to follow this person himself. This was an important moment to judge whether Tu Geng had lost the love between husband and wife and was playing tricks with the person next to him. Wang Shuo didn't trust anyone to judge for her.Wang Shuo thought to himself that it was a wise decision to use the Dazheng Hall and Fuxi Hall's outlying courtiers and inner eunuchs together. When the relationship is strong, it is a manifestation of the relationship between the two, and when the relationship is weak, they can also be used as spies.

Wang Shuo only brought Qing'er and no other palace attendants, and went to wait near the main hall first. She was wearing ordinary clothes today, and the headgear was also very simple, not conspicuous.

After a while, the maid came indeed. Zhao Xi saw her, and let her in without asking a single question. Through the open door, Wang Shuo saw the maid kneeling in front of Tu Geng, saying something, half-sounding. The corners of his mouth curled up, he smiled helplessly, and waved his hand to make the maid back off.

Wang Shuo's heart felt cold for a while, and slowly sank, his heart seemed to be immersed in icy water, yes, at such a long distance, it was true that he couldn't hear what they were talking about, but Wang Shuo, who was familiar with Tu Geng, could tell at a glance The first sentence Tu Geng asked was: What did the queen say?

Hehe, Wang Shuo was afraid that someone would set him up and instigate him, so he had to verify it himself!In the end, Tu Geng actually had people monitor the meeting between Wang Shuo and Princess Fuhui, didn't he just think that his mother and daughter could tell the truth?Wang Shuo panicked from the cold in his heart, but he laughed at himself on his face. It's okay, seeing it with his own eyes is the only way to make people give up.

Wang Shuo didn't want to do anything to save and make amends for this relationship between husband and wife. It's not a problem of not being submissive enough, but it's just that peony is tired of looking at each other, and peony can't grow in water no matter how hard it is.

Wang Shuo silently supported Qing'er's hand and walked towards Fuxi Hall, "Master, if you are sad, just cry." Wang Shuo could understand, but Qing'er didn't understand, felt very sorry, and felt even more sorry for the master.

"There's nothing to cry about. It's not time to cry." If nothing can be done, Wang Shuo and those close to her will really have to live with tears for the rest of the day.

Back at the Palace of Fuxi, Wang Shuo's life remained the same as usual, and his relationship with Tu Geng also seemed to be doing whatever he wanted, and he never intended to soften his posture because of outside comments.

The only change was in Tu Xu. After Tu Xu recovered from her illness, Wang Shuo paid more attention to her homework and set higher demands on her conduct. Tu Xu grew up pampered. Under pressure, I was very irritable.But when Wang Shuo took Tu Xu to watch the scene of Tu Geng feasting in the Yangju Hall from a distance, Tu Xu learned to be silent and work hard.

Originally, she was the only treasure, but now she has to learn to add luster to herself—this is the status quo of Tu Xu.

Seeing his daughter's originally clear and pure eyes began to be stained with worldly turbidity, Wang Shuo did not regret it, everyone came here like this, and so did she.Without the teachings of Princess Fuhui and Aunt Kong, she would have been an ordinary woman struggling in the backyard with her cleverness, instead of the mother of a country who can fight for her own destiny now.

Things that should come will always come, the summer solstice banquet, Tu Geng was drunk, and fortunately met a maid in the main hall.

Everyone held their breaths and waited for Wang Shuo's reaction. Even if he was a fool, even after waking up from the drunkenness, they waited anxiously for Wang Shuo to explode.

Unexpectedly, Wang Shuo didn't seem to take it seriously, but according to the rules of his ancestors, he made this servant girl a picker, and there was nothing else for this picker.

Wang Shuo just warned and categorized the maids in the main hall and the Fuxi hall, and asked the maids who wanted to serve in the main hall to sign up. After getting the first bird and not being targeted by Wang Shuo for revenge, those who were interested gradually stepped forward. .Wang Shuo separated all the maids and inner eunuchs in the two halls, and Tu Geng only thought that Wang Shuo was expressing his anger tactfully, and didn't take it seriously.

But Wang Shuo just separated all the people who were close to Tu Geng in an upright manner, and planted a nail or two by the way.

Wang Shuo's reaction was unexpectedly calm, and it was Princess Fuhui who asked everyone's aspirations: "Aren't you angry?"

"What's there to be angry about? I've said long ago that Your Majesty has the heart of Nami. I must have the beauty of an adult. If a slap can't slap something, if you have a concubine or a concubine, what kind of wicked mother-in-law am I?" Wang Shuo said. To Princess Fuhui's words, the sour smell can float ten miles against the wind.

"You, if you have the ability to say this in front of His Majesty, you will be brave. What's the point of confessing in front of your old lady." Princess Fuhui poked Wang Shuo's head so much that she hated iron.

How could it be boring, at least Tu Geng and the courtiers once again believed in Wang Shuo's words and integrity.

If there is one, there are two, starting from the palace people in the main hall, and when they go out to play in the palace, they will run into concubine daughters, daughters of side branches, and cousins ​​who come to seek refuge, and the number of people in the palace gradually increases. .When the courtiers felt that the temptation was enough, ministers began to write letters to select ladies, and the daughters of several important ministers and big families also began to prepare. There are no male heirs in the palace. If a male child is born in one fell swoop, it will be the future emperor. The family also said that because of this, they will prosper.

Wang Shuo still didn't overreact, but arranged suitable positions according to the family backgrounds of those women who had served him. As for promotion beyond the rules, that would be a matter of futility.But in just a few months, everyone seemed to get used to such a virtuous queen, and forgot her previous reputation, and the minister who wanted to make money, even put all his energy into studying Tu Geng's hobbies.

Wang Shuo reacted, but this reaction was not taken seriously by Tu Geng and the courtiers.Wang Shuo ran to Shoukang Palace more diligently, and became more filial to the Empress Dowager; Wang Shuo grasped Tu Xu's homework more tightly, and no longer shy away from Tu Xu when he spoke and acted. crisis.

Without Wang Shuo's painstaking efforts, Tu Xu already felt the difference.Ever since her father started visiting the palace, Tu Xu felt the changes in other people's eyes towards her. The eyes mixed with pity, envy and gloat deeply stimulated the petted and grown-up Tu Xu.Tu Xu became more and more silent, but his eyes became brighter and brighter.

Wang Shuo concentrates on being filial to her elders and raising her daughter. She is waiting for a suitable opportunity.

The opportunity hadn't come, but Wang Shouzhong, who didn't know how to play, came.

Empresses and other women in the harem were not allowed to meet foreign ministers, not even their own father and brother, but Wang Shuo was not an ordinary queen, and Tu Geng had already delegated the right to meet foreign ministers to her.

Wang Shuo hadn't seen Wang Shouzhong for seven or eight years. Ever since he got married, Wang Shuo hadn't met Wang Shouzhong.At first it was impatient, but later it was the old man Wang who brought him to the Zhuangzi to prevent him from obstructing his children's eyes, and then the old man Wang passed away and Wang Shouzhong returned to the city, but the two of them got used to it and did not meet each other tacitly.

The title of Marquis of Cheng En, granted to the queen's natal family by grace, is now on the head of Wang Zisheng, and Wang Shouzhong's current title is still that viscount, although the courtiers usually call him son-in-law or old marquis.

Wang Shuo didn't even like to be summoned to the palace by the female family members of the royal family, not to mention Wang Shouzhong, who hadn't seen him for seven or eight years, Wang Shuo was also very curious about what Wang Shouzhong was here for.

"The empress hasn't given birth to a child for a long time, and the Wang family is also worried about you. The second and third bedrooms have a few daughters of the right age, and I wonder if they can enter the palace to help you." Wang Shouzhong said very politely and distantly.

"Then why didn't the second and third aunts come in person?"

"It means family." Wang Shouzhong's family refers to the entire Wang family.

Wang Shuo sneered and said nothing. Now the patriarch of the Wang family is Wang Zisheng. Is Wang Shouzhong, the father and former patriarch who is not seen by his high-ranking daughter, qualified to speak on behalf of the Wang family?

Wang Shouzhong seemed to have thought of something, he was silent for a while, as if he had struggled for a long time, and said slowly: "Yue'er is already ten years old, and in two years' time he will come to the palace to help you."

Moon?Who?Wang Shuo thought for a long time before he realized that the Yue'er that Wang Shouzhong was talking about was his concubine, Yang's daughter, Wang Yue.

Why do you think this man is so whimsical? The mother and daughter of the Yang family also have heavy tastes, and mother and daughter want to serve other people's husbands?