Queen of the Lin family in the Red Chamber

Wanyu entered the palace for the third time, while taking advantage of burning incense and scriptures, she carefully looked at the several princes kneeling in the palace.

The first person to kneel down is the crown prince. He is also the emperor's first child, and he was also born to the empress. With the combination of these three things, the crown prince holds more weight in the emperor's heart than the other eight combined.However, compared with the prince he met in Jiangnan that year, the current prince is aging very quickly.

That's right, Wanyu remembers that there were people in later generations who selected the top ten tragic princes who failed to ascend the throne. Many were selected, and ten were selected in the end. Some people counted the princes who successfully ascended the throne, it seems that there are less than five?Just by comparing the numbers, one can know that the prince is actually an extremely sad profession.

There are chasing soldiers behind, and sometimes the chasing soldiers will form alliances, and there are no companions on the left and right. The only reference in the front is the current emperor, but this reference is also extremely unreliable, and it looks like he was also pulled from the position of prince. one of the reasons.

It can be seen from this that, excluding the prince's age of nearly forty, worries, worries and worries are also the main reasons for his rapid aging.

In this era when four generations can live together at the age of 50, it can be regarded as a long life. In fact, the prince does not have many years to wait.In particular, his emperor's father looked healthy, and he was his father's first child. This simply dragged the prince from the ranks of rich and handsome into a quagmire called bitterness.

It shouldn't happen that the emperor's grandson succeeds to the throne, and then his emperor's position is posthumously... Recently, this idea has appeared in the crown prince's mind from time to time.

Of course not, because there is another possibility, that is, some of his ambitious brothers rebelled in the name of the Qing emperor and dragged his son from the throne, after which he would have no chance of being posthumously named.

The prince was distracted again during the sacrifice, and felt that those younger brothers kneeling behind him were simply ghosts.

After watching the prince, Wanyu secretly took a look at the second prince.

The second prince, Kong Wu, is powerful and has a strong body. It is said that his biological mother died when she gave birth to him. He was raised in the empress dowager's palace until he went to school, that is, when he was six years old.

The queen mother is a very scheming old lady, and she can tell from looking at the second prince. The second prince practices martial arts, and his brain seems to have muscles.Although he looked a bit rebellious, it was the feeling of wanting to beat him up, but considering that his father was the emperor, he was considered the biggest one besides the emperor and the prince, so no one came against him.

Even the prince didn't bother him too much. The relationship between the prince and the second prince can be summed up in a common saying: a scholar meets a soldier. Unfortunately, the prince is the scholar this time.

The second prince is next to the third prince. The third prince and the fourth prince are similar in age and have similar interests. They go in and out together every day. They can be regarded as a pair of good brothers, and they are also the biggest threat to the prince.

As for the fifth prince, he was the standard character of a certain second generation, and he was the one who caused trouble and nonsense.

The sixth prince was physically weak and fell ill several times a year. Wanyu felt that his figure kneeling on the ground was extremely thin, and he seemed to be trembling slightly after exerting too much force.

The Seventh Prince is sixteen this year, he has just graduated from the army, and now he is working in the Ministry of Officials, and he is slow in handling things, with the kind of hesitation that cannot make up his mind.

As for the eighth prince, he was still a child, kneeling on the ground was dishonest, Wanyu saw him turn his head three times with her own eyes.

Well, she was being scrutinized when she was sizing up others.

Many of the above news came from Lin Ruhai, a first-rank senior member of the DPRK and cabinet co-organizer.Ever since he knew that his eldest daughter met acquaintances in the palace and was treated as a mascot to participate in sacrificial activities, even if she was reluctant, Lin Ruhai knew about it and told her about the situation in the palace. It is limited to let the children know, maybe a little bit more.

But his daughter is early-witted, so it's not too bad to think about it.So Lin Ruhai explained again: "It may be fake... But since your highnesses behave like this, it's okay to deal with it like this."

This is different from not saying anything, maybe Lin Ruhai also felt that it was not good for him to scare his daughter like this, and said: "Father and the prince have some kind of friendship, the prince is a virtuous and corporal, and he has a kind heart, so it won't make people embarrass you if you think about it." of."

This is what makes people even more frightened. Wanyu feels that if she reminds her father now that the prince may be in trouble in the future, she will definitely be regarded as nonsense and banned from then on, so she can only remind him in a roundabout way: "Your Majesty values ​​the prince so much. ?”

Lin Ruhai smiled and said: "That's right, the prince is a dragon and a phoenix, and he also has his own views on learning. He is experienced in governing the country and assisting the government. Your Majesty has high hopes for him."

Wanyu doesn't know whether to worry or rest assured, maybe it's different?

Turning her gaze back to the main hall, the eight princes, plus the emperor and queen, can be sacrificed in the hall, and the rest of the princes, princesses, etc. are outside the hall, even if Wanyu's eyesight is better than 5.0, she still can't see outside the temple.

She's too short, there's nothing she can do about it, even if the people in front of her kneel down and bow their heads, they still treat her as a solid person.

To put it bluntly, the sacrifice is to burn paper and pray for blessings, and then kowtow, and when everything is over, everyone walks out of the hall.

Burning incense and paper is required for offering sacrifices. No matter how natural and pollution-free the ancient things are, and how expensive spices are added to the incense in the palace, the primary product of burning it is smoke. With smoke, it will start to choke. ah.

So everyone came out to get some fresh air.

Wanyu followed behind the queen with her head half down. Although her goal was bloody storms, she still had to act cautiously when the situation was not fully understood, otherwise she would be cannon fodder early.

However, it was a new thing for such a person to appear at the sacrifice, and someone immediately came to strike up a conversation.

Concubine Yu was the first to bring the eighth prince over, smiling like a flower, she was talking about Wanyu, but she was asking the empress: "Empress, whose family is this child? Average size?"

This is commonly known as insinuating, and Wanyu has also learned a lot. For example, when you ask your age, you can’t directly ask "how old are you?" Huh?", you can't simply ask "what's your name" when you ask for your name, it's an offending or unscheming way of saying it, you have to ask: "How can I introduce you to my sister/brother?"

So Concubine Yu's question was to ask about her family history and age, but this question was directed at the queen, so she just had to pretend to be shy.It's not that she is shameless, and it's not that there have never been people like her in the palace, it's just that there have been fewer people in the past two years.

But just like that, someone came to interrupt, maybe to help... maybe to add to the chaos.

The prince came over, he first signaled to the queen and concubine Yu, then bent down and said: "I often heard your father say that you have a good memory, but you still remember who I am."

Swollen may not remember, even if you don’t remember, you still recognize your prince’s skin, but complaining about it, Wanyu first saluted very politely, pretending to think for a while on the surface, and said: “It seems that some time ago I met you in Jiangnan in [-], are you the one from the Southern Tour... the Crown Prince?"

"Haha." His Highness the Crown Prince laughed, "Not bad, not bad."

The movement here has already attracted the emperor's attention. He put aside the three or four princes and came over and said, "Why are you so happy today? Is there anything interesting to say to make the emperor happy."

The prince smiled and said, "The daughter of Mr. Lin's family is indeed as intelligent as Mr. Lin said."

When the emperor came, everyone had to salute, except the queen and the prince.

When Wanyu stood up, the crown prince asked her: "Then this...do you remember?"

Wanyu felt that she was nothing more than helping the prince to amuse the emperor, without any psychological pressure, she said calmly: "You are the emperor, and you gave me a wishful jade last time." Her tone was a little proud, After it was over, it turned into regret, "It's a pity that my father put it away." After that, there was a little expectation, "May I recite the thousand-character essay again?"

The emperor was also happy, and said: "Lin Ruhai's daughter...it won't be so easy to memorize this time, and my things are not so easy to get." Speaking of the emperor took the lead, a group of people walked to the Queen's Palace.

The place for this sacrifice was originally in the Kunning Palace, and then it was the empress' residence.But the remaining group of people are not so independent. The emperor can go anywhere, and they can't go without being invited. But the adult prince should try not to wander around in the palace as much as possible.

So this group of people specifically referred to the emperor's family of three, and took one Wanyu to take away.

Looking at the backs of the group headed by the emperor, Concubine Liu, the mother of the third prince, and Concubine Li Gui, the mother of the fourth prince, looked at each other.

Lin Ruhai, Lord Lin?

The one who just got promoted to the co-organizer's bachelor degree?

It's closer to the prince.

"What have you learned now?" After entering the Queen's Palace and drinking a sip of fragrant tea, the emperor relaxed and asked.

"Four Four Books for Women." Wanyu replied, she still worked hard to learn this stuff, of course she learned it in order to find loopholes and break down the enemy's psychology from within the enemy. "Shall I recite a female rule for you?"

So the emperor listened to the things he would never learn in his life with a mixed mood of half pushing, half forcing, half willingly, because he didn't understand much, so after Wanyu finished reciting, when he looked at him with bright expectant eyes, the emperor said : "Not bad, reward!"

This time I did not reward Yu Ruyi. Although this thing has a good meaning, it can be rewarded to anyone, but from another perspective, it is also synonymous with nothing new, so the emperor looked at Wanyu who had grown into a big girl, and rewarded her with a set of headgear , Then the emperor said: "Lin Ruhai should still be here, let him pick you up before leaving the palace."

Wanyu accepted it with sincerity and joy.