Daiyu's stepmother is not easy to be

First of all, it must not be the Holy One, the Empress Dowager and the Emperor.

The rank and inferiority of the concubines in the palace have been determined. Although the prince is young, he has the demeanor of a prince. He is filial, diligent and diligent, and has no bad deeds. It is no wonder that the princes born by the two noble concubines have a heart to fight for it. the serenity?

Queen's Empress...

When thinking of Empress Su, Concubine Zhuang was unwilling to suspect that it was the Empress Dowager from the bottom of her heart.

Although she and Zhou Jingshu entered the mansion three years earlier than the empress, after the empress and the emperor got married, they did not dare to show any disrespect to the empress.

Because the Empress is the main wife whom the emperor has been chasing hard for two years, and the two of them have only entered the palace for less than half a year. Every time they see the emperor who is still a prince, he will always hear the emperor say a few words about the eldest lady of the Su family.

At that time, she and Mrs. Zhou were only teenage girls. She was 16 years old when she entered the mansion, and Mrs. Zhou was only 15 years old. Facing the young, handsome and considerate emperor, they were naturally attracted to each other.

They also felt jealous and resentful when they heard their husbands thinking about girls from other families every day, but in the end they all resigned themselves to their fate and became numb.

In order to prevent them from giving birth to bastards in advance, the emperor obstructed Miss Su's eyes, and every time he favored them, he would give them a thick bowl of avoiding son soup.

Although it is not easy for ordinary people to let concubines have children, those with more rules will send out all the concubines before the man's wedding.

But is the royal family an ordinary family?Although this dynasty puts a lot of emphasis on concubines and concubines, even more so in the royal family, the spread of the royal family is more important than concubines.

From the crown prince to the third prince, they were all concubines before marrying the main concubine, and it was never heard that the concubine was not allowed to conceive. Among the princes, only their princes are like this.

Knowing that the new concubine who entered the mansion is the prince's favorite person, her father is the servant of the household department, and her grandfather was a bachelor with a noble background, so she, the Zhou family, and four concubines who were born in the palace did not dare to be concubines. Instead, respectfully worship at the feet of the princess.

How can there be a wife in the world who likes a concubine?

The concubine naturally didn't like them much, but she was generous and never blamed them.

Palace housekeepers are not allowed to deduct expenses for food and clothing.They have a headache, and the princess will ask the imperial physician to treat them.

The husband puts all his heart on the mistress, and the mistress is magnanimous, loving, and strict in running the family. The house has been peaceful for so many years, and no one has ever done anything scandalous in order to win favor.

It's the same when everyone becomes a concubine in the palace. Except for Zhou Jingshu who still plays tricks to compete for favor, everyone lives their lives peacefully.

No need to be bullied, no fear, no fear of being framed and killed one day, a high status can bring dignity to the family, and there is a child to accompany her. Concubine Zhuang Gui does not know what others are like, she is already very satisfied Palace life.

As for the emperor... Although she is still attached to the gentleness of the emperor, she has never expected the emperor's heart to be on her.

As long as Qitong can be brought up safely, Qitong can be a safe and wealthy prince.

If she can't survive the emperor, Qi Tong has always been honest, the empress and the prince will not make things difficult for him.

If she lived longer than the emperor, and could go to Qitong Mansion to provide for her old age, wouldn't she be happier than in the palace?

Concubine Zhuang Gui has always taught the second prince in this way. The second prince is smart and never compares with the prince. He just wants to be an obedient younger brother.

Therefore, Concubine Zhuang felt that she had already given in very much. Even if she became a noble concubine, she had no intention of competing with the empress and the prince, and only wanted to die in peace.

If it was the empress who caused this matter, wouldn't the empress not notice what she has done all these years, and would she not appreciate it at all?

Concubine Zhuang was in a trance for a moment, calmed down and thought carefully, after all, she still felt that with the empress's resourcefulness, even if the empress wanted to do it, she would do it more covertly.

Liang Shizhong's methods are too obvious. If he is really under the empress's command, he is afraid that he will humiliate the empress as a person.

Besides, the crown prince's status has been stabilized, so it's best for the empress if Qitong and the third prince don't fight for power.

What good would it do the empress if the two princes, who were only a year or two behind the prince, became ambitious?

After Concubine Zhuang vetoed the four most powerful people in the palace, she turned around in her mind again, Concubine Ning, Concubine Luo, and low-ranking concubines, and she also felt that it was not them.

Let's not talk about the status and rank, just say that they didn't even have a prince, so what's the fight?Even if you want to fight, you have to work hard and have a prince before you fight.

People in the palace were unlikely, so Concubine Zhuang turned her eyes outside the palace.

If the emperor's harem is in chaos, brothers are fighting against each other, and there is really a prince outside the palace, maybe he can really fish in troubled waters and benefit from it.

On the ninth day of March, the general examination started. More than a thousand candidates from [-] provinces and two seas across the country filed into the Gongyuan, waiting to be greeted with their test questions, and there were nine full days of exhaustion.

On March [-]th, Li Mingcheng left the Gongyuan at noon.

When he saw the Pan family's carriage, he smelled the stench on his body with disgust, got in the carriage and lay down, and said lazily: "Let's go back first, cousin Pan won't come out until the last moment. You are finished delivering I will come to pick up cousin Pan again, and it will definitely not be too late."

Today, there were people from the Li family and the Pan family who were waiting for their cousins ​​at the entrance of the Gongyuan.

Zuo Shu heard what their master said, and hurriedly knocked on the wall of the car and said, "Master, it is Master Biao after all, why don't you be polite."

Another servant, You Shu, hurriedly apologized to the Pan family servant and said good things.

The servants of Pan's family knew the temper of Young Master Li Biao long ago, and a male servant at the head said with a smile: "In that case, please send Young Master Biao home, two little brothers, we will wait here for Young Master."

The two writers from the right and the left were both thanking and apologizing. Hearing his young master snoring in the car, he jumped into the car and drove to Pan's house.

When he arrived at Pan's residence, Zuo Shu wanted to ask his young master to get off the car, but Li Mingcheng fell asleep like a dead pig and couldn't wake up.

The two young men had no choice but to ask Pan's servants to help, carry Li Mingcheng to the house to sleep, and then went to the aunt to answer the question.

Mrs. Li waited nervously for several days, not knowing how her son and nephew were doing in the exam, so she ordered the kitchen to boil water and prepare meals for them to come back.

When she heard Li Mingcheng coming back, she hurried to the front yard, when she looked up and saw Li Mingcheng being carried in by four male servants, she was startled at first, and then heard his thunderous snoring, she found it funny again, but she became less nervous.

Mrs. Li knew that the test would be difficult. After nine days of the test, she stayed in the narrow cubicle, couldn't stand upright, ate, drank and slopped in one place, and couldn't sleep well. They all left the examination room sideways.

She saw that Li Mingcheng was sleeping soundly, and saw that the left and right writers kept pleading guilty, and said with a smile: "What's the matter, the child is exhausted and sleeps, and I blame him as an aunt? Just let Mingcheng go to sleep." , Wake up and take a shower and eat."

Pan Mei really did what Li Mingcheng said, and he walked out slowly when everyone was almost done coming out.

He was exhausted from the nine-day exam, but he didn't fall asleep after getting into the car like Li Mingcheng did. Instead, he forced himself to return home to see his mother first, and said that he performed well. He took a bath and changed into clean clothes. Smelling the fresh soap locust smell on my body, I fell asleep on the pillow and fell asleep instantly.

Mrs. Li wanted to ask questions, but the two children were sleeping soundly and snoring.

Seeing that there was no food to eat today, Madam Li had no choice but to order all the dishes for today to be rewarded to the servants, only the gold and silver elbow and Dongpo meat that Li Mingcheng specially ordered before the exam were kept, in preparation for him to get up in the middle of the night to eat.

Li Mingcheng slept soundly at noon, and woke up after seven or eight hours of full sleep, it was Yinchu (three o'clock in the morning).

As soon as he opened his eyes, he first smelled the sour smell on his body, and then he was so hungry that he seemed to be able to eat a cow.

Li Mingcheng turned over and got out of bed to see the time and the sky, pushed the right book on the ground, got up and said softly: "Quick, go! Cousin must have left me bath water and stewed elbows! You two, go and get them for me!"

You Shu opened his eyes in a daze, and was so smoked by his grandfather that he almost vomited.

As he got up neatly to put on his clothes and shoes, he muttered and complained: "Master, if you smell the smell on your body carefully, you probably won't be able to eat any elbows."

Li Mingcheng feigned anger and stomped his feet: "Hurry up and go! What are you dawdling about!"

After a while, my cousin got up, could it be that she smelled like a stomach and went to see her cousin?

Li Mingcheng originally wanted to eat first, but he couldn't bear the sour smell on his body, so he took a quick shower, washed his hair, got out of the tub to dry himself, messed up his hair, sat at the dining table and began to eat elbow Dongpo pork. meal.

The pork is fat and tender, and the soup is delicious. Mixed with warm rice, the fat melts in the mouth, and it is served with pickled vegetables. Li Mingcheng couldn't lift his head when he ate it.

There is no way to read left and right, so his grandfather ate while the two of them were busy brushing his grandfather's hair behind.

He hadn't had a proper meal for nine days, and Li Mingcheng was a young man of ten or nineteen years old. When he was able to eat, he ate up a bowl of rice with elbow Dongpo meat and a few side dishes, and leaned back on his chair. I don't want to move my back.

After Li Mingcheng finished his meal, the two servants also dried his hair and tied it up, and the sky just turned bright.

After resting for a while, he luckily got up to answer his cousin's greetings. He looked up and saw the door of the west wing was opened, but it was Pan Meizhen's servant who hurried out and rushed to the kitchen.

Li Mingcheng just left his chair and sat back, raised his head and smiled triumphantly at his boys: "See, Mei Zhen is really my good cousin!"

"I know his brother can't move, so I choose this time to get up, so that I can rest for a while and go there with him!"

The left book and the right book glanced at each other, and jumped out of his father's words without money.

In the Lin Mansion, Lin Manwei and his family didn't sleep well all night, and they got up early before dawn, waiting for Lin Chang to get up, so as to ask him how he was doing in the exam.

Yesterday when Lin Chang came back, he was so exhausted that he was so tired that his eye sockets were deep. After taking a bath and taking a simple bite of food, he went to bed. No matter how impatient Lin Manwei was, it was not good to push his son at that time.

Finally, when the sun was three poles high, it was Si time (around nine o'clock in the morning), Lin Manwei and Mrs. Lin were sitting in the main room, and finally heard Lin Chang calling for someone inside.

The two of them rushed into Lin Chang's bedroom, and Wei sat down beside Lin Chang's bed, took Lin Chang's hand and asked, "Chang'er, how did you do in the exam, are you sure?"

Lin Chang really wanted to fall back down and go back to sleep until his parents had gone back to their hometown, and he didn't want to hear them ask him.

The author has something to say:

Regarding the appetite of Li Mingcheng in this chapter, I consulted with my boyfriend and confirmed that this is how a 1.8-meter boy can eat when he is sixteen, seventeen or eighteen years old...

emmm feels that the boy is really, so delicious! ! !

I have something to do this afternoon, so even if the second is earlier, I can't make the third watch~

See you tomorrow~