female concubine

After the bustle in the Han residence dissipated, Han Si returned to the room and changed his clothes.

"It's late at night, the county master should go to bed earlier." He glanced at the bride, and didn't intend to stay in the new house.

"Hmph, don't think that you have won the favor of His Majesty and Dad, sooner or later, I will expose your true colors!"

Han Si put his hands in front of his belly, and sighed softly, "The county lord has only met the lower officials a few times, and getting married by order is not the original intention of the lower officials."

The county magistrate of Yuanling bowed his head and thought for a while, as if it was indeed his father who tied him into the palace.

"Well, since you have no intention and neither do I, then we have three chapters!"

"Chapter three of the contract?"

"Yes, you can't interfere with my affairs, and you must allow me to come and go freely. As for me, I will not interfere with your affairs in the future, even if you want to take a concubine, I don't care."

Han Si frowned slightly, "Han Jingming only has a wife, and he will never take a concubine in his life!"

The head of Yuanling County was puzzled, "Why, are you afraid of my father or Your Majesty? If you are afraid, I can help you."

Han Bang shook his head, "The restlessness in the back house is mostly caused by men's sentimentality. This is the case in Yu's family, and it is even more so in Yu Guo. Although Jing Ming came from a poor family, he has never had the desire to climb the dragon and the phoenix. What he wants is nothing more than peace in the world and peace in the world." Just a word."

"Oh?" The county magistrate of Yuanling took off the flower hairpin and got up from the couch, and walked around Han Bang, "I can't tell, you still care about the people in the world?"

Immediately walked up to Han Bo, "You are His Majesty's minister, so you can't disobey His Majesty's words. Now that I am your wife when I enter your house, will you listen to my words?"

Han Bang nodded slightly, "Han Bang's lord has passed away. When he became an official, he obeyed the emperor's order. After marriage, he listened to his wife. He should live in an IKEA."

"They say that the prince in the middle of the court has lost his support, and the concubine is taking over the heir. I don't like King Zhao, but I like Brother Six. So, what if I want you to abandon King Zhao and choose King Chu?"

Han Si stared at his eyes, then closed them gently, folded his hands and bowed: "One minister does not serve two masters, that's the only way, I can't listen to the county master."

The county magistrate of Yuanling sat back on the bed and folded his hands, "Hmph, I knew that fame and fortune are always in a man's eyes."

"If the county lord is concerned, you can go to the nearby palace for a walk. It's close, and you'll be there in two steps. I'm a foreigner, so it's inconvenient to go. The county lord is different. And at the beginning of next month, the sixth elder brother of the county lord will be there. Going to the frontier."

"frontier fortress?"

"Your Majesty's will, expatriation, can also be said to be relegation."

In the eighth year of Jianping, on the fifteenth day of the sixth month, the crown prince Wei Shu's birthday, he stayed away from court for a day, and held a family banquet in the Jiying Hall in Da Nei to celebrate, and gave a banquet in the East Palace, and ordered the courtiers to bring their relatives to the banquet.

On the crown prince's birthday, almost all the ministers above the fifth rank in the court were present. Even the king of Zhao brought his concubine Zhao, and the clan branch also sent people to show their respect for the crown prince.

"Prince Chu, Princess Chu is here!"

The king of Chu and his wife came hand in hand, drawing the attention of the guests of the East Palace away, and the noise during the banquet became quiet in an instant.

The crown prince got up from his seat and walked down, went up to greet him personally, and said with a mixed smile: "Oh, I hope that my sixth brother will come to the East Palace. If it wasn't for this palace's birthday, I don't know when the sixth brother will come." Come here for the face."

The King of Chu just smiled lightly, and immediately cupped his hands, "I wish His Royal Highness, a thousand autumn festivals."

"Hey, you and my brother, what are you doing with so many etiquettes!"

"Your Highness!" Ah Si hurried over, stood on tiptoe and lay beside the Prince's ear for a while.

The prince squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "I still have some things to do in this palace. Sixth brother can sit wherever he wants and drink as much as he likes. The East Palace has enough control, and it's all the Royal wine of the Ouchi."

"Thank you, Your Highness."

After the prince left, the king of Chu turned to the concubine at the side, bowed his head slightly and said: "Your Highness Qianqiu, I didn't come in person, I..."

"It's better than anything else if you have a heart." The princess walked up to Princess Chu, "Do you mind if I bring your princess into the palace?"

The King of Chu raised his hand, put it down immediately, cupped his hand and said, "I dare not."

The concubine dragged Xiao Youqing to a secluded courtyard, which was also a courtyard full of flowers and plants. In the midsummer, the trees were shady, and the fragrance of flowers wafted from the garden with the breeze.

Xiao Youqing was pulled in by her, attracted by the elegance of the courtyard, after taking a light glance, he asked puzzledly: "Is there anything your Highness can't say to the six kings?"

The princess let go of her hand, shook her head and said, "It doesn't matter who, I just want to talk to you, Princess Chu."

"Youqing?" Xiao Youqing looked at the princess.

"Look here, there are flowers blooming all over the courtyard, but there are very few people who can come in. The same is true for people. How many people can enter people's hearts in this life?"

"Youqing really wants to know, His Highness's heart..." Xiao Youqing hesitated to speak, and finally did not ask further, "Everyone has a past, but you shouldn't keep the sad past in your heart."

The princess just shook her head slightly, and walked to the small artificially dug pool in the middle of the courtyard. There were golden-red carp swimming and playing happily in the water. As the surface of the water turned green and red, the carp burrowed into the crevices of the stone as if frightened.

"Everyone is talking about the disharmony in the Eastern Palace, saying that the crown prince favors his concubine, that he only favors Chen Liangdi and neglects the crown princess, so that the servants and palace people in the Eastern Palace all go to flatter Emperor Liang."

"Chen Liangdi is actually a poor woman, what she wants is what I don't want!"

Xiao Youqing looked at the lonely figure of the Crown Princess, "I think, Her Highness the Crown Princess has entered the East Palace, I'm afraid, I've already..."

"The king of Chu and Youqing have talked about the matter of the two kings, which is related to the East Palace, so Youqing doesn't understand, since His Highness has hatred, why don't you leave, leaving you alone with sadness in your heart?"

"It has something to do with the East Palace, but it has nothing to do with people." The princess turned her head and smiled softly: "Maybe some people don't look so bad, it depends on who they are right."

"Your Highness, Youqing has met someone other than your mother, no, even someone who is gentler than your mother." The gentleness makes people feel distressed. You can clearly see it at a glance, but it makes people unable to get close and caring. Her person, or because of her identity, Xiao Youqing couldn't tell and couldn't tell.

"Princess Chu herself is the same. It is his luck that the child can meet you."

"It's our luck!" Xiao Youqing affirmed.

The princess raised her eyes, then lowered her head and smiled slightly, "I forgot, you two hit each other and got married!"

"Concubine Chu can come here often when she is free in the future. I don't want to bring the fight between their men in the court to the back house, if you believe me."

Xiao Youqing nodded, "Youqing will come here often."

"Let's go, the prince is going to pick up his grandfather, and it's time to have a banquet when he comes back later."

"His Royal Highness the Crown Princess!" Xiao Youqing turned around and called to stop the Crown Princess, "Liu Lang is leaving Beijing soon, does Your Highness not want to talk to her alone?"

The princess did not turn around, but asked, "Is this what he asked you to ask?"

"No, it's Youqing's selfishness."

The princess turned around and asked softly, "Aren't you afraid?"

Xiao Youqing shook her head, "I'm not afraid, because I trust His Highness, and I trust her too."

She looked at the princess again and said: "Mother told me that instead of begging, it's better to let go and wait. Among the thousands of people, there will always be one who comes to you."

The Crown Princess trembled slightly, as if thinking of something, "By the way, I forgot, you are Mrs. Jiang's daughter, and Mrs. Jiang... is also a strange woman."

"I thought His Highness was about to say that he was also a pitiful person."

The princess turned around and said with a smile: "How can there be so many poor people in this world?"

"I've dragged you out for so long, I'm afraid Liulang will be anxious with me for a while, and I won't see him today, let's go." After finishing speaking, the princess turned around slowly.

Xiao Youqing took a step forward and held the Crown Princess's hand, "The real cause of the second king's death, your Highness the Crown Princess who was the most trusted by the second king during his lifetime, you should know?"

The wind coming from the hall blows across the courtyard, blowing the corners of the clothes, blowing past, the sad face of the person with eyes full of haggard!

As time went by, the new tea from the new fire had cooled completely, and the fish swam back to the lotus again, playing leisurely and contentedly.

The wind always blows quietly inadvertently, and the bamboo curtain under the vermilion lacquered corridor shakes from time to time, together with the red tassels hanging below.

There is a pair of reddish eyes in the flat pupils of the Crown Princess. There are some puzzled and some incomprehensible, "You...know the truth, don't you hate it?"

"Youqing doesn't believe that you don't have hatred in your heart, but you can't figure it out. If you have hatred in your heart, why can you stay here for so long?"

"When a person dies, it will only add more sorrow, and let there be a few more people who weep in this world."

"Repay grievances with kindness, how can you repay kindness? Although Youqing is unwilling to harm others, but he can't be as good as His Highness."

"Actually, if I were really as you said, I wouldn't tell you what happened, because I know the purpose of your inquiry, and it wasn't out of curiosity." How about borrowing the hand of Princess Chu?"

After the laughter stopped, the people gradually calmed down, "With the respect Liulang has for his second brother, I think he will definitely mention it to you."

"That's why Your Highness deliberately mentioned that matter in front of the Hanxiang Pavilion on the day when Youqing entered the palace to pay his respects?" Only now did Xiao Youqing recall that the eyes of the Crown Princess were not pity at that time, but were full of distressing sadness. .

The princess nodded, "Your Majesty will only believe what you see with your own eyes, unless the sinner can tell the truth by himself!"

"What if Youqing can let the sinner say it himself?"

The crown princess lowered her head, "Erlang...is His Majesty's most beloved son, it is different from the doting on Sanlang since he was a child, it is a kind of father-son, ruler-to-minister cultivation," Gouzui tremblingly said with a smile: "If you know that you killed by mistake , I’m afraid, I’m going crazy!”

"Weng Weng once told Youqing that if the two kings were still alive, the situation like today would not be the case. The culprit of all this is only the self-righteous king!"

"I grew up in the palace. At that time, the empress dowager was just a concubine of the late emperor, and the empress of the late emperor was also a benevolent lord. The struggle in the outer court was finally brought into the inner palace, and I...witnessed all this with my own eyes. "

"That's why His Highness said to Youqing that day, the king's love?"

"In Taizong's later years, the same as His Majesty is now, he even lost trust in his first wife!" The princess looked at Xiao Youqing, "Actually, you are also afraid, no matter how much he promised you."

"What's the use of being afraid, I can't keep her chained all the time, let alone the person who will stand at the top of power!"

At the birthday banquet in the East Palace, the crown prince welcomed the old man into the seat, and then he saw the king of Chu alone. After looking around for a week, he did not see the crown prince and princess Chu.

The king of Chu was fond of wine, so he just lowered his head and drank alone, and soon the top of his head was covered by blackness, she raised her head, stood up and cupped her hands and said, "His Royal Highness."

Just as King Chu raised his head, the prince was almost taken aback when he saw her more and more like a face, "Why don't you see Princess Chu?"

"His Highness the Crown Princess dragged her down to speak." The King of Chu opened his eyes and looked at the Crown Prince, with an invisible killing intent hidden in his plain eyes.

"I know you have hatred for me. The political affairs hall where Weng Weng is located is preparing to transfer orders. If nothing happens, you will leave!" The prince looked at King Chu with hatred in his eyes.

The prince turned his back, turned his head and said coldly: "The garden of the East Palace, the princess should be there, the banquet is about to start, please trouble Sixth Brother, call them back for me!"