The eldest grandson of the Red Chamber

The Jia family got the news earlier, the noble concubine suddenly fell ill, the emperor ordered the Jia family to order his wife to enter the palace to meet the noble concubine, Jia Zheng received the news and hurriedly took the Wang family and Jia Mu to the palace to visit.

Afraid of frightening the elderly, Jia Zheng only said that the imperial concubine was ill and asked to visit, and dared not mention what the imperial physician had said.Jia Mu thought about the strange dream recently, and felt uneasy, she still said: "Why are you sick again? Last time I was so scared, I just hope it's better to be a false alarm."

The prayers in my heart were about to disappear after entering the inner palace. There was no smell of medicine in the palace. Concubine Yuan was lying on the bed speechless. And what Jia Zheng said is that phlegm obsesses the heart orifice, and medicine stones are useless.Immediately, he fell to his knees and burst into tears.

Although Jia Mu didn't know the details, she saw countless people, and she could tell that Yuan Chun's breath was congested and his limbs were cold.In this way, I am afraid that there is no way to recover.

Mother Jia's heart was cold, but she was still scruples about the rules of the family, and ordered Wang to shut up.Fortunately, the imperial concubine is in critical condition, and no one cares about Wang's disgrace.

Not long after, the eunuchs heard the play, and the concubines from all the palaces came to visit.Therefore, Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang did not dare to stay for a long time, and they retreated to the outer palace to wait. After meeting Jia Zheng and others, they said a few words. Just as he was about to act and speak, he saw a little eunuch come out and say:

"Ms. Jia passed away."

The tense thread in her heart suddenly broke, Jia Mu squatted on the ground, behind her Wang Xifeng rushed to help, Jia Mu waved her hand, and after a long delay she got up, turned around and took the sedan chair back to the house.

After returning to the mansion, when the juniors came to pay their respects, Mother Jia was still in a daze. It took only three hours from the time when she learned that the imperial concubine had suddenly fallen ill, to when she passed away. It was too fast.

This is a big matter, the masters of the Jia family who can name and surname almost gathered in the Rongxi Hall, and when the facts were thoroughly confirmed from Jia Zheng's mouth, the death of the imperial concubine was not a rumor, it was a certainty, and she could not be resurrected, and there was a burst of crying in the hall. Falsely, the mansion was full of sadness.

Jia Baoyu stood at the front, and was at a loss when he saw everyone in the room crying suddenly.As soon as Jia's mother looked up, she saw him hesitating in a daze, not knowing what was going on.Immediately, my heart felt sour, I hugged him in my arms, and cried: "My son is pitiful, since you lost that lifeblood, your illness has not recovered, and this kind of thing happened again, and I don't know whether it is good or bad. I love you the most, but I don't see you anymore, I have to ask again, last time I talked about your marriage, your voice and smile are still in front of my eyes, but today there is a world apart." Jia Mu wanted to say sadly, patted her thigh and said: " Oh God, don't open your eyes, I, Jia Shishi, have been honored all my life, and when I get old, I often send black-haired people for nothing."

Although Jia Baoyu was stupefied and delirious, he was also affected by the sad atmosphere. He was still ignorant, but his face was covered with tears.When Jia's mother saw him like this, she said that sister and brother were united, and it was always worthwhile for the noble concubine to miss her during her lifetime.The dead are dead, and it is better for the living to be ignorant than distraught.

Early the next morning, all the high-ranking people in Jia's mansion went to the inner palace to pay their respects to the crying spirit.The imperial concubine Yuan has nothing to do, so she was not sealed. According to the imperial concubine ritual system, the emperor approved her posthumous title as Xianshu imperial concubine, and the dust has settled.

Although Concubine Jia is not the imperial concubine, she is also a noble concubine who is only one step away, and the Song family also walked a few times to the palace according to the regulations.

As the head of the county, Daiyu's rank is sufficient, but she has always been low-key, and she is not a daughter of the clan. She only receives a title and salary on weekdays, and does not have much communication with the royal family. If she does not go, there is nothing to criticize. Mingxu So I didn't let him go, crying spirit is hard work, and it's the cold winter months, so naturally the body is important.

After telling Daiyu at home that the body is important, Ming Xu knelt on the floor tiles in front of the gate of Wenhua Hall the next day.

It's not a long story.

According to the rules in the palace, if the prince's birth mother or the empress hadn't passed away, the princes would still have to go to class as usual.Concubine Jia is the concubine's mother, so it stands to reason that she has nothing to do with Tu Mao.The noble concubine passed away, and as a son of man, to show respect to the emperor's father, it is enough to go to the funeral to burn incense and talk about grief.

But I don't know what was going on in Tumao's mind. After he got the news and went to see it, he sat withered in his own hall for half the night, and didn't fall asleep until midnight.

The next day he came to class as usual, Ming Xu saw that his complexion was pale and sluggish, so he said: "I think His Highness is not looking good, but he is not feeling well?"

"I didn't know that editing and editing can also pass through Qihuang." Tu Mao was stunned for a moment, then smiled.

"To tell you the truth, Your Majesty, I do know a little bit, and I still have a medical book in hand."

"Thank you for the editor's concern. I have nothing to do. Maybe it's because the gentlemen said something a little too profound and obscure." Tu Mao nodded his head and said with a smile: "Some of them can't be turned around, but the editor is so good that he even dabbled in medical books. .”

Mingxu nodded: "It's good that your Highness has nothing to do. Studying is not a one-day job. You might as well let go of the things that don't make sense. If you accumulate a lot of knowledge, you will understand it one day."

Mingxu didn't say any more, he is a gentleman, and he made it clear that persuasion is useless, and if he doesn't know what's going on, he will only make fun of himself.

But what I didn't expect was that Tu Mao's bravado didn't last long at all. After listening to the class, he passed out after leaving the Wenhua Palace. , Naturally, it is impossible to leave.

The prince was in a coma, no matter what the reason was, the people around him were all negligent, Mingxu happened to meet this incident, and stayed in the same place before the prince passed out, so he stayed in the palace to wait for news.

The eunuchs carried them away, accompanied by Tu Mao, the two teenagers who were both fifteen or sixteen years old did not dare to leave without permission, they had nowhere to go, so they simply knelt at the gate of Wenhua Hall to wait for their punishment.Mingxu looked at the two of them, and then knelt down beside him, no matter what the result was, he had to straighten his attitude first.

His back was straight, his eyes were straight ahead, but he was talking with two teenagers in a low voice. They have been in class together for two years. Mingxu thinks that these two are much more interesting than His Royal Highness, so he likes to talk more on weekdays. In other words, it is much more convenient to inquire about the situation or obtain information nowadays.

After asking about fragments from the accompanying reader, and combining what may have happened in the palace recently, Mingxu combined his understanding of Tu Mao to piece together a general idea: Concubine Jia passed away in the palace, and after her death she was extremely mournful, the emperor not only I personally went to Lingqian to send the imperial concubine off for the last time, and even wrote a mourning poem, saying that death is like a lamp going out. The emperor's behavior like this is obviously doting on the imperial concubine. There was nothing like this when the concubine Zhou passed away. Qin Tianjian handled it as usual.

Thinking about Concubine Jia's great favor during her lifetime, everyone in the harem thought they had grasped the emperor's pulse, crying in front of the imperial concubine's death one by one was miserable, it seemed that the elder sister who had been called for many years had really become a real sister.The crown prince was naturally also deeply affected. He was very happy in his heart when Concubine Jia passed away. For as long as Concubine Jia existed, she would remind the queen mother of her shame.But seeing that Emperor He seemed to attach great importance to Concubine Jia, he had to suppress his emotions from the bottom of his heart, and even felt that as a prince, he should worry about his father's worries, showing an attitude of "the death of the noble concubine is a great misfortune for my family" .

Yesterday, after leading the brothers to offer incense to Concubine Jia, Tu Mao was in the hall mourning the moon, as if he was sad for the concubine's death, stayed up half the night, and fell asleep when he couldn't hold on in the middle of the night.The weather was cold and cold, and Tu Mao felt unwell the next day. He seemed to have a fever, but he didn't say anything. He went to the Wenhua Hall to listen to the lectures of the doctors as usual. In the afternoon, his condition worsened and he finally passed out.

Ming Xu knelt on the cold stone bricks, inexplicably wanted to laugh, Tu Mao's biological mother was the master of the harem, but Tu Mao seemed to be born of a concubine, he prefers to do small things rather than conspiracy, I don't know if it's in his genes The mutation still grew crooked in a place unknown to the empress.

It's just that the crown prince fainted, the emperor must have wanted to investigate the reason, but he didn't know what the emperor, the planner, was thinking after knowing that his son and wife were so "filial" to the concubine.

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Ming Cui Palace.

In the hall, there was light smoke and a faint fragrance. Zhaoyi and Gu Xiuying were reclining on the bed and reading a book, and the little girl beside her was kneading her legs that had suffered recently.

Suddenly a person came in from the gate of the palace, walked lightly to the front of the collapse, and lifted the complicated curtains.The little girl who was beating her legs raised her eyes and looked at the person, "Aunt Mingyue." She bowed and stepped back.

The big maid, Mingyue, approached Mistress Zhaoyi and said softly, "Mistress, the boys in front have sent word that Tanhualang has been kneeling in the Wenhua Palace for an hour." that.

"What's going on?" Gu Xiuying immediately sat up, took the maid's hand and made her sit on the couch: "Tell me carefully."

What is wrong with this?How did you offend the prince?I knelt for an hour in the twelfth lunar month of winter before reporting back.Gu Xiuying's bright eyes narrowed slightly, is she really still limited by her position?

"It seems that His Royal Highness fainted, and Tan Hualang was implicated." Mingyue said: "The emperor blocked the news, our people only inquired a little, and no one discussed this matter anymore."

"Let's go to Fengyi Hall." Gu Xiuying was about to get up and put on her shoes as she said.

"Young lady, think twice." Mingyue wondered.His Majesty just ordered to seal the news of the prince's coma. It might not be appropriate for them to go and visit. If His Majesty is in a bad mood, a charge of arrogance and ignorance will not escape.

"I'm worried that the empress is busy with things these days, and I don't have time to spare, so I went here to share her worries." Gu Xiuying said lightly, got up to see that there was nothing missing on her body, and walked out.

Mingyue hurriedly followed.

When they arrived at the Queen's Fengyi Palace, the maid of honor went in to make an announcement, and soon invited Gu Zhaoyi in.Unexpectedly, neither the emperor nor the crown prince was there, only the empress was sitting on the phoenix chair, looking worried, and when she saw her coming in, she greeted her with a smile.

"It's freezing cold, how did my sister come to my place?"

"The concubine knows very well that the empress is busy with the affairs of the virtuous and noble concubine, so it is really not easy to disturb her, but she just heard something and thought of the empress empress, so I ask her to let me know." Gu Xiuying bowed deeply.

"Although I'm busy, I can take care of it. I'm in charge of the affairs of the central palace, and my sister has something to say, just say it." Empress Zhao didn't think much about it, Gu Shi is a smart person.

"It's also the girl next to me who heard it from her fellow countryman who was working in the front. She heard it fresh. She took advantage of the boring winter and couldn't go out to tell me to pass the time." Gu Xiuying was very calm, and said with a smile: "It is said that Tan Hualang is here today. Kneeling at the entrance of the Cultural Hall, listening to it for a while, but seeing that it seems to be snowing at night, it is pitiful."

"When the concubine heard it, it was just a new thing. When the people below saw the adults outside being punished, they always liked to spread a word or two, not to mention the outstanding and handsome Tanhua Lang, who was almost a melon seed. But the concubine thought about it. The Empress seems to have mentioned that Tanhua Lang was giving lectures to His Highness, and after thinking about it, she came up with something wrong. I have heard about the matter of His Majesty’s investigation of Tanhua back then, and it seems that he is the eldest son of the Ming family, the eldest grandson of the Marquis of Ming. The concubine thought that no matter what mistakes Ming Tanhua made, kneeling in front of the Wenhua Palace would inevitably cause people to think too much, and perhaps misunderstand His Highness.

"My concubine's knowledge is shallow, and I don't know if I'm thinking right, so I hurried to see the empress." Gu Xiuying said with a smile: "My sister thinks that I have good intentions and I am a vulgar person. If I say something wrong, I will make a joke. Don't laugh at me."

"Sister should laugh at me." Empress Zhao stood up, "I've been so busy all day that I'm dizzy, and I just heard about this from my sister." Empress Zhao is not stupid, Mingxu is not just a editor, If you forget it, forget it, the Dingyuanhou Mansion behind him is not easy to offend.

"The crown prince was young and ignorant, so he might have done something that would be misunderstood by others. Maybe he didn't turn around, but knelt outside. It's freezing cold, so I don't know what to do. You don't know how to adapt." Empress Zhao's voice was full of anger: "Come here, pass on the oral order of the palace, go to the Wenhua Hall to call the editor of the Ming Dynasty, and let the imperial doctor Wang of the imperial hospital go over to have a look, and report the situation to me quickly. .”

No matter what the reason for the negligence of the people below is, no one reported this matter to Fengyi Palace, a dereliction of duty can't escape, and it almost caused a catastrophe, but luckily Mrs. Gu came in time, and only knelt for an hour, The young man is in good health, so there should be no accidents. If not,... Empress Zhao couldn't imagine how much trouble it would be.

Thinking of this, Empress Zhao took Gu Xiuying's hand and said with a smile, "Thank you sister for reminding me." But she didn't mention the cause of the incident at all.

"Sharing worries for the empress is a matter for the concubine." Gu Xiuying lowered her eyes.