female concubine

In the winter of October in the first year of Jinghe, the emperor fainted on the first day of the first day of the Zichen Palace, and then stopped the court and moved to the Funing Palace to recuperate. Princess Jing entered the palace to serve the sick. By November, the emperor's birthday was still lying on the couch and could not walk. She Han Si led a group of ministers to the empress dowager to ask to listen to the government behind the curtain, and then another group of ministers asked to play the role of the crown prince.

In mid-November, Xiao Youqing summoned Liu Miaoyi, a member of the Privy Council, in the Chuigong Hall.

"I know that you were the most valued and trusted by the late emperor before his death. The courtiers please play the role of Li Chu. It is related to state affairs and the future of the country. Other officials are more or less mixed with some interests and families. Only you, since the late emperor Believe in you, then I am the same as the late emperor."

After hearing this, Liu Miaoyi stepped forward and knelt down, "Minister, thank you for your trust, Your Highness the Empress Dowager."

"I want to hear your opinion."

"There are three people who can establish a crown prince, Princess Lu, Princess Jing, and Duke Kang." Liu Miaoyi lowered her head and thought for a while, "The official's meaning in the court is to set up a young son, and the courtiers agree. Only Kang Guogong can be established. The fact that Princess Lu is not of official blood is well known in the case of the Jiang family. Because of the patriarchal disharmony, it may cause turmoil. Princess Jing... please forgive me for speaking bluntly, the princess is a gentleman Taught by Empress De, she is very official-like and uncontested. It has only been ten years since the Women's Department was established, and the structure of the court and China is still too different. Strength, otherwise," Liu Miaoyi shook her head, "there will be a bloodbath."

Sitting on the wooden couch, Xiao Youqing lowered his head and smiled, then got up and walked towards the very familiar screen, raised his hand and touched it lightly, "The prince is young, if you want to wait for him to grow up, I will..."

The person who looked up and down, his eyes were full of sadness, "Do you know, every day in this palace is a torment for me," and full of helplessness, "But, the courtiers will only think that I am greedy. that power."

"The late emperor told his ministers before his death that if the policy is to continue, a female emperor must be installed."

"I may not be able to wait for that day," Xiao Youqing looked down at the jade pendant in his palm, and immediately clenched his fists, "But I will try my best to open a smooth road so that the late emperor's decree can be continued. The late emperor's long-cherished wish, I'll do it for you."

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In the late November of the first year of Jinghe, the emperor issued an imperial edict to make his grandson Weisheng the crown prince, and the empress dowager came to listen to the government.

——December Deoksugung Palace——

Since Xianzong's great success, Xiao Youqing would replace Wei Huan to Deoksugung Palace every day to visit Empress Dowager An.

"The emperor is not in good health. During this period, the bride will handle the government affairs on her behalf. After that, she may not come here every day. Please forgive me."

The Empress Dowager looked at Xiao Youqing with a full head of white hair, "You have white hair too."

Xiao Youqing lowered her head, "The bride is also a person who is about to enter the first year."

"When Sixth Brother was here, your spirit was much better than now. It is the greatest relief in her life to have a wife like you by her side for more than thirty years. My mother owes her too much."

"Before he was alive, the emperor often told his bride that it was thanks to her mother. Otherwise, if she was like the other siblings, she would be depressed for the rest of her life." More importantly, as a princess, she would be the son of a military general by the emperor. The Xiao family will not marry the princess, and the two may not be involved, "Besides, this act of the empress also made the late emperor a success, and a prosperous age through the ages."

"Before the sixth brother was born, I lived under the concubine's position. I didn't have the guts. It's the empress who is kind-hearted and can't bear the unjust imprisonment of Wu Zong." Referring to Empress Xianming, the empress dowager's eyes flashed a trace of loneliness, "I am old I don’t know how many years to live.”

"Ma'am..."

"Let me tell you the story of Sixth Brother's past, I know you know more or less, but you are also stubborn, and you never ask her about her past."

Xiao Youqing lowered her head, "The bride knows that she has endured a lot..."

"I can see that it's not that you don't want to know, anyone would be curious, but you just don't want to expose her scars." When she looked at Xiao Youqing again, the Empress Dowager's eyes became a little more kind, "I have been in this deep palace for dozens of years. In [-], I have seen the ugliest human heart and the most sincere kindness. I used to have a grudge against you because I felt that your city was not on the surface. She is a persistent child who will do things when she decides. I I don't want her to fight for power and profit, if she is good at people's hearts, she will eventually lose to people's hearts, I don't want her to get too deep."

"Mother thinks..." Xiao Youqing looked at the Empress Dowager with kind eyes, "Won't the bride fall in love with Liulang?"

"When you first came here, you were polite, but you followed the rules too much. What you saw in your eyes was just the duty of a wife. For the sixth brother at that time, you were indeed the most suitable candidate."

"The order of the parents and the words of the matchmaker, many times the wife is just a wife. When she was young, she didn't like to talk. The interests of the concubines in the palace were all tied to the previous dynasty's struggles. I was always in fear, especially when Empress Xianming died of illness. Afterwards, the worries and fears in my heart have never dissipated. This is the disaster of ransacking the family and exterminating the family. At the same time, I am also afraid that she will be the same as Shiro Goro. Fortunately, Wu Zong's indifference made our mother and son neglected. When the aunt died of illness, only King Yan would often Come to see her, there will be people who are full of malice towards you in this world, but there will also be kind people. Because of my fear, she really studied after leaving the palace. He was praised by your uncle for his paintings. At that time, your uncle She is the most favored painter by the emperor's side, and the praises were passed around, and the emperor just remembered that he still has such a child, and the emperor summoned her for questioning, and you should have guessed the result."

"The bride has just married into the Chu Palace and followed A Qian into the palace. A Qian looked at the emperor in addition to disgust and fear. That fear does not seem to be faking."

Recalling the past decades ago, Li Shi still feels a chill behind her back, "Wu Zong's heart is far beyond your imagination. Even in his later years, he still holds on to power and even his parents and children can use it. Wu Zong is a very ruthless person. The patient man tore up the picture of Xuemei in Hanxiang Pavilion in front of her, and kicked her out of the palace like an enemy."

"Xuemei..." Xiao Youqing suddenly raised his head sideways, looking towards the southeast of Deoksugung Palace, "Did it do it on purpose?"

"Actually, Crown Prince Wei Shu of Chengming wasn't that bad in the past," Li said with tired eyes. "His mother was also a very obedient child when he was around, so the empress dowager at that time took care of the young man who was raised under her knees. Li Shu, the lord of the city and county, married him. Later, King Yan was framed by someone. All the other soldiers who broke into the inside were not spared. At that time, she was standing on the tower and watching. I don't know what she saw, but I vaguely felt that she had changed since then. She was more taciturn than before. After the palace opened, as long as the emperor didn't summon her, she wouldn't step into the palace gate. She didn't live well in the few years in central Sichuan. This elder brother has always been vigilant and wary of all the possibilities around him. I didn't know that she had planned so much, until she gradually became exactly like her father. After so many years, do you know that as a mother, I have never seen her again since King Yan. I've never seen her smile." The Empress Dowager stared at Xiao Youqing, her eyes were full of gratitude, but at the same time she felt indebted, "She took off the burden but gave it to you. I don't want you to keep suppressing yourself."

"Mother." Xiao Youqing sat down beside the Empress Dowager and held hands and said earnestly: "After the late emperor left, every time the bride closed her eyes and opened her eyes, she wanted to go with her, but if I just die like this, let her 30 years If all my hard work is gone, then I will definitely blame myself and feel guilty, and I will be ashamed to face her trust in me under Jiuquan. The bride always says that she will never pay back what she owes me, but after all, what does she owe me? , is what I wanted in the first place, and she knows it all."

This is the first long talk between the mother and daughter since Xianzong ascended the throne. Perhaps it was the death of the youngest daughter, what Xiao Youqing did for her, made the Empress Dowager Li let go of the last grievance in her heart. Everything about it is recounted.

After hearing this, Xiao Youqing could only feel sad and heartbroken, "Mother."

"Ask whatever you want, you don't have to get out of my way."

"A Qian has feelings for the Lord Qingcheng..." Xiao Youqing asked hesitantly, "What kind of feelings is it?"

"Do you care?" Queen Mother Li asked looking at the hesitation in her eyes.

"It's just deceiving yourself to say you don't care," Xiao Youqing lowered his head, "I miss you so much, how can you not care."

"Although I am not the first to walk into her heart, I am the only one who can stay in her heart forever, accompany her through everything, and even make her sleep forever in my arms."

"Empress Dowager, Empress Dowager." The servant hurried in, bowed and said, "The official passed out in the main hall of Funing Palace."

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On December [-]th of the first year of Jinghe, the emperor passed out in Funing Hall. Several imperial physicians came in for diagnosis and treatment. The emperor gradually regained consciousness on the tenth day.

"The official's disease can only be treated with strong medicine now, but it can barely last for a period of time..." Sun Hongda knelt down and pleaded guilty: "I am incompetent, please punish the empress dowager."

Hearing what the imperial physician said, Xiao Youqing's heart seemed to be untouched, and there was no sadness in his eyes, "You are doctors, not gods, life and death are destiny, who can reverse it."

Xiao Youqing got up and waved his hands, "Go down."

"I'm waiting to retire."

Xiao Youqing went to the cabinet of Funing Palace, walked to the emperor's bed and sat down slowly, "Don't move, lie down properly."

The emperor was lightly pressed down by her, his face pale and lifeless, just like the month before the first emperor's trip, Jing Hedi was in his prime, and now he has lost all energy and spirit, only haggard eyes, "Ma'am."

Xiao Youqing held the emperor's hand, "The ministers of the previous dynasty all look forward to your return to power, you..."

"Mother..." the emperor opened his eyes without the slightest light, "son's body... son... is clear in his heart."

"The end of the new year is coming soon, and there will be a spring banquet for the emperor to attend."

The emperor shook his head with difficulty, "I'm afraid my son won't be able to go, and I'm still bothering my mother..."

Xiao Youqing raised his head and looked at the beams of the cabinet, "Is this an injustice? God will punish me and let all the things I don't want to see happen. I watched you leave me one by one, but I can only cry and cry alone. .”

"My son is not filial, mother," the emperor entrusted with his pale face, tightly clutching Xiao Youqing's hand and opening his eyes wide: "The crown prince is still young, and he will bother his mother to take care of him in the future."

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Until the end of December when the new year was approaching, the emperor's condition still did not improve. Xiao Youqing took care of the military and state affairs of the previous dynasty, so he handed over the affairs of the inner court to the empress.

The shoulders headed to the Chuigong Hall passed by the Funing Hall without stopping for a moment, the servant beside him turned his head to look at it, and said with grief in his eyes: "Won't the Empress Dowager go in to see the official's house?"

Xiao Youqing looked at the inner east gate indifferently, "Does Kui Guang think I'm too cold?"

The servant with gray temples lowered his head and looked at the forward steps under his feet, holding his hands and not daring to speak.

Xiao Youqing put his hands in front of his belly, staring blankly at the front, in contrast to the rising sun in the east, the solitary shadow was long and slanted, shuttling in a corridor with no return date, "My heart has been taken away a long time ago I'm gone, leaving a shell to live for my lover."

The author has something to say:

The word "bridal wife" can be called all the time after you marry into the family. This is the name for a daughter-in-law.

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