[Comprehensive] The Concubine's Counterattack Manual

Six years later, the West Palace became more and more dilapidated due to years of disrepair. Here, since the female Shi Ji disappeared inexplicably, white ghosts often appeared. According to the old maid in the palace, it was Ji Shi who died. The heavy grievances made her linger, and she wanted to seek revenge from the person who killed her. When this statement came out, people panicked. The queen suppressed it several times but failed to suppress the spread of rumors.

Later, whenever the court ladies and eunuchs passed by the West Palace, they would run quickly, not daring to look inside, for fear of being entangled by Ji's ghost.

Day after day, year after year, the West Palace has become the most dilapidated place in the Forbidden City. It's not that they don't want to repair it, but no one dares to set foot.

In the hall where Langhua lived, Yi'an took off his white gauze dress, smiled at Langhua, and said to the little boy sitting beside Langhua: "Little master, Yi'an scared away again today." Two timid maids."

Tianyou is already seven years old, and he is still young, with a serious face, he said to Yi'an very seriously: "Auntie Yi'an, my hair is too long, please help me cut it."

Yi'an's eyes darkened, he touched his soft hair gently, and said: "Little master, this is fetal hair, in Daming, the empress dowager must perform a fetal haircut ceremony before it can be cut."

Zhu Youtang pursed his lips, wrinkled his brows, feeling a little depressed, Lang Hua touched his head, and said to Yi'an: "It's almost midnight, you should go back quickly, don't let anyone find out."

Yi'an nodded, and said, "The servants will leave when the next group of guards change their guards."

Zhu Youtang asked suddenly: "Ms. Wu, why is the Wan family so favored?"

Lang Hua was mending Zhu Youtang's clothes, when he heard his words, he paused, and said calmly, "Because your father likes her."

Zhu Youtang calmed down, and sat beside Langhua without saying a word. After a while, he asked in a low voice: "Ms. Wu, does the father really not know that the Wan family killed the prince and daughter like this?"

Lang Hua pursed his lips and said, "I don't know."

In fact, even if Zhu Jianshen didn't know it before, he should know it now.

I don't know how many concubines have been pregnant in the palace in the past few years, but none of them were able to successfully give birth to a child.Even the second prince, who was born safely by luck, suddenly died of a high fever in the eighth year of Chenghua. Concubine Baixian cried heartbreakingly. Zhu Jianshen only posthumously named the second prince as the Prince of Mourning Gong, and then fell in love with Wan Zhen'er Love gone.

The rumors about Wan's mutilation of the prince and daughter were repeatedly banned in the palace, Lang Hua didn't believe it, didn't Zhu Jianshen really hear it once?

Looking at Zhu Jianshen's political achievements in the previous dynasty, he knew that he was not easy to be fooled at all, but he just kept pretending not to know, presumably because he was reluctant to deal with the Wan family, after all, they were also a couple in need.

Suddenly, Lang Hua heard some small noises in the hall, she turned serious, and gave Yi An a wink, Yi An immediately turned around and closed the door.

She hugged Zhu Youtang and walked to Langhua, but saw Langhua remove the wardrobe in the hall, took out a small bamboo tube from the crack in the bricks at the corner of the wall, and took out a small note from it .

Yi'an didn't know many words, but she could only recognize the words "Wan Shi" and "Concubine" written on it. She saw that Lang Hua's face was very worried after reading the note, so she hugged Zhu Youtang tightly in her arms. He hesitated and asked: "Ma'am, is something wrong?"

During the past six years, Langhua carefully concealed Zhu Youtang's existence while secretly arranging contacts in the palace. She knew that as Zhu Youtang grew up, sooner or later his existence would be hidden, but she didn't. I thought that day would come so soon.Fortunately, after several years of painstaking management, her contacts have spread all over the palace, and even the Zhaode Palace (Wan Zhener's bedroom), which is as well guarded as an iron bucket, has been taken care of by her.

This message was sent by someone who was placed in the Wanshi Palace.

After reading the note, Lang Hua immediately burned it. Seeing the note turn into ashes, she immediately said sternly: "Concubine Xian has already joined the Wan family in order to protect the child in her womb, and she even told Wan about the existence of Tianyou." In order to win Wan's trust, Wan is probably already preparing to attack us."

After Yi'an listened, she asked in a tearful voice: "How did Concubine Xian know about my little master?" She hugged Zhu Youtang tightly, fearing that the child Ji had saved with her life would follow in Ji's footsteps,

Even Zhu Youtang was terrified when he heard this, his serious face turned pale.

Lang Hua lowered his eyes and said slowly: "Mr. Bo competed with me and Mrs. Wang for the position of queen, but the empress dowagers of the two palaces thought that her appearance was too coquettish and her heart was too simple to be the queen, so she First I lost to me, and later I didn't even fight against the taciturn Wang family." Lang Hua sneered, "It's just that I didn't expect that the innocent and kind woman back then would sacrifice another young child in order to keep her own child. into the fire pit."

Zhu Youtang said in a muffled voice, "Don't blame Wu Niangniang on her anymore. The so-called people are not for themselves, and heaven and earth will perish."

Langhua knelt down, looked him straight in the eyes, and said softly: "God bless, for the present plan, we can only get ahead of Wan Shi and tell the emperor about your existence, maybe we can save your life."

Yi'an's face was ashen, she said with tears: "But the emperor loves Concubine Wan Gui so much, will he disregard the life and death of the little master for Concubine Wan Gui?"

This is not an unreasonable guess. In the past few years, if Zhu Jianshen hadn't condoned Wan Shi, Wan Shi would not have been so rampant.

The successor of the middle palace, Wang, dared not deal with Wan, who repeatedly violated the palace rules, and tolerated her everywhere, so that she was able to preserve her post.

Empress Dowager Qian has passed away, and Empress Dowager Zhou finally regained her former senses. Thinking of how many years ago, in order to fight against Empress Dowager Qian, she deposed the Wu family and invisibly elevated the status of the Wan family. The Empress Dowager Zhou regretted it.Now that the Wan family is full-fledged, even if the Queen Mother Zhou wants to deal with her, she will not be able to get her handle.

Therefore, even Zhu Youtang said after the silence: "In his heart, my status should not be comparable to Wan's."

In the West Palace, Zhu Youtang heard a lot about Zhu Jianshen. Langhua's connections spread all over the harem. After Zhu Youtang became sensible, he showed a mind far superior to that of his peers. When Langhua did some things, he did not hide them from him. , also taught him the way of doing things.

In the court, Zhu Jianshen also carefully analyzed some of Zhu Youtang's ways of governing. He also had a deep admiration for his father because of his wise foresight, but after hearing some dirty things in the harem, Zhu Youtang He also deeply felt that his father could not be regarded as a Ming emperor. There is a saying in "Book of Rites · University": "In ancient times, those who wanted to make clear the virtues of the world first ruled their country; those who wanted to rule their country first ordered their families."

What kind of king is a king who can't even handle the harem well!

At this time, Zhu Youtang secretly made up his mind that if he still had a future, then his mansion would definitely not choose so many women, as long as he liked a woman who could continue his blood.

"Don't worry, even if your father doesn't care about you, your grandmother, the Empress Dowager Zhou, will definitely protect you." Lang Hua said to him with certainty.

After thinking about it, Yi An nodded and said: "After the death of Prince Gong Gong, no child was born in the palace. The Queen Mother Zhou is very worried about the matter of the emperor's heirs. If she knew that the young master is still alive, she will definitely take action for the sake of the country and the community. To protect the little master."

"It's getting late, you must go back quickly. Remember to inform Zhang Min, and tell the emperor about Tianyou in the morning."

In the early morning of the next day, Langhua was cooking porridge in the small kitchen of the West Palace. Since the story of Ji's ghost was heard, even the maids who brought her food did not dare to come over, so the Queen Mother Zhou gave Langhua permission to stay in the West Palace. Cook the food by yourself, and just go to the imperial dining room to get the ingredients yourself.

The breakfast was ready, and Lang Hua was just about to bring the porridge to Zhu Youtang, when a strange little eunuch rushed in, knelt in front of her and panted, "Mother, Concubine Wan Gui's people are coming, hurry up Think about countermeasures!"

Lang Hua remembered him, he was the person who was placed in the Imperial Garden, Lang Hua asked: "Xiao Xizi, do you know how Concubine Wan Gui will deal with me?"

Xiao Xizi shook her head, "I don't know the specific servants, but there was news from Zhaode Palace last night that Concubine Wan Gui was unwell, and the servant thought that Concubine Wan Gui would not make any further moves, but I didn't expect them to come so soon. "

Langhua pondered for a moment, then said: "I will try to protect myself, you should leave quickly, lest people from the Wan family see it later and hurt you."

Xiao Xizi hesitated for a while, then kowtowed and said: "The slave will go first, and your mother will take care."

After finishing speaking, Xiao Xizi hurriedly left, the door of the West Palace was closed again, Lang Hua went to bolt the door, and came back to think carefully about the countermeasures.

"Niang Niang Wu." Zhu Youtang called her and ran over, before standing still in front of her, he hastily showed her what was in his hand.

Lang Hua was startled, what Zhu Youtang held in his hand was a white puppet covered with silver needles all over its body, it was obviously a puppet commonly used in witches and curses.Because there is a person's birth date written on the front of the puppet, according to Lang Hua's intuition, it is known that it is Wan's birth date without guessing.

Lang Hua snatched it over and asked, "Where did you get this?"

Zhu Youtang didn't know much after all, so he didn't know what this thing was for, but he knew it was definitely not a good thing when he saw the silver needles all over the puppet. He replied honestly: "When I was combing my hair just now, The comb fell to the ground, and when I picked it up, I happened to see a white thing protruding from the bottom of the kang table, and when I took it out, it turned out to be this."

Lang Hua was terrified, she stayed in the hall every day, and she didn't even know when someone tampered with it in the hall. It seems that without the divine power, she is indeed much inferior.

While he was speaking, Lang Hua hurriedly pulled out the silver needle on it, and was about to light the fire to burn the puppet, when the old wooden door of the West Palace suddenly made a "boom, bang, bang" sound, and someone shouted outside: "Open the door! Open the door!"

"Ms. Wu, what should I do? People from the Wan family are here!" Zhu Youtang turned pale with fright.

Lang Hua hurriedly gave him the puppet, and said, "I'll drag it outside first, and you hurry to burn it inside."

Zhu Youtang nodded in a panic, and ran away with the puppet in his hand. Lang Hua just threw the remaining silver needles under the cooking stove. Thinking about it, he quickly threw the silver needles into the sewing basket. Finished, listening to the movement, someone outside is already knocking on the door.