Crossing the East Palace

In April of the 19th year of Tianyuan, Empress Ning was three and a half months pregnant. When the imperial physician asked for pulse again, she said that the fetal image was stable, and the empress could go out for a walk.

The queen was overjoyed.

In these days, although her body has gradually become stronger in recent years, she is old after all-the elder sister is only a few years older than her, and she already has grandchildren, but at her age, she has just had a body .The Empress was worried about her poor health, but she also feared that the person who did something to the Twelve Princess would secretly kill her again, so she was very careful about eating, drinking and clothing.

The queen was so worried, although she eased the pain of losing the twelve princesses, but she was also afraid that the baby bump in her stomach would not be raised well enough for these reasons.

"Your Majesty, don't worry." The old imperial doctor invited by the Empress who is best at gynecology stroked her snow-white beard and said again, "My Majesty is a bit old, but she has taken good care of her body in the past few years. As long as your Majesty is in a good mood, Don't be disturbed by foreign affairs, continue to take care of your body like this, and this fetus will always be stable."

The queen listened to the old doctor reassure her twice in a row, and only then did she really feel at ease.

The baby is three and a half months old, and the fetal image is already stable, so it should be fine.

Mrs. Yuehou frowned slightly, and asked, "What does the imperial doctor mean, that the empress must be in a good mood from now on? If something bad happens..." She paused, and said, "Will it make the baby pregnant?" Like something went wrong?"

The old imperial doctor is old and refined, and he is quite tactful about accidents, and he is familiar with the rumors inside and outside the palace. Hearing Mrs. Yuehou's words, he knows that the queen has been raising a baby these days. The people around her kept the rumors outside from her.

It's no wonder, no wonder the Queen's body has no problems at all.

As the old doctor thought about it, the wrinkles on his forehead became tighter and tighter. After pondering for a long time, he said, "You need to tell me slowly."

The queen lost four daughters, two of whom died on the same day, so she must be determined.Moreover, a woman is strong if she is a mother. The queen already has a grown-up prince under her knees, and there is also a prince in her stomach who was predicted to be a boy by Master Zhishan. If she wants to be a queen, she should not be so weak and only hear gossip from the outside world. , it lost its sense of proportion.

Mrs. Yuehou finally breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the old doctor say so.

The queen doesn't know why.

Bad thing?What's wrong?

Although she has been keeping her mind at ease, Fugui and the others have been telling her what happened outside. Fugui and the others are her confidantes, how could they hide those bad things related to her privately? ?

The queen couldn't help looking at Mrs. Yuehou.

Mrs. Yuehou's eyes flickered slightly, and she glanced at the maid beside the queen.

"The empress should ask the imperial physician first, and take a rest in the courtyard."

Since the empress has guessed a little bit, and now the fetal image is relatively stable, the empress will continue to be in charge of the harem affairs and meet with the harem concubines every day. If you think about it, you can't hide those things.It's just that instead of letting someone with a heart deliberately provocate those words out, it's better to let her tell the queen slowly, anyway, she will not harm the queen.

The empress had always trusted her elder sister, and upon hearing the words, she really ordered those maids to send the old doctor out, leaving only Mrs. Yuehou, Fugui, and Liupan in the inner room.

Fu Gui and Liu Pan immediately knelt down.

Mrs. Yuehou is the eldest sister of the empress. No matter what, the empress will not blame Mrs. Yuehou.

But the two of them are both the Queen's confidants and low-status slaves, even if the Queen can think clearly that this matter is for the sake of the Queen's body, it is inevitable that they will not anger them.

Seeing the two of them kneeling in front of her silently, the queen's heart skipped a beat, and she hurriedly turned her head to look at Mrs. Yuehou.

"No matter what it is, I can bear it." The queen grabbed Mrs. Yuehou's hand, "Eldest sister, don't hide it from me anymore."

Mrs. Yuehou sighed, and then opened her mouth in embarrassment.

"On that day when the twelve princesses passed away, Huan'er was misled by an adulterer, and loudly reprimanded the prince. First, he said that the prince's life was tough and that he killed his sister, and then he said that the person who fed the twelve princesses with dirty things was the prince. Xing, insidious and cunning..." Mrs. Yuehou paused, "Huan'er still remembers these words, all of which were heard by the emperor?"

The queen naturally remembered, she held Madam Yuehou's hand tightly, and subconsciously used the usual self-proclaimed: "However, the emperor did not deal with this palace that day, and later this palace became pregnant, although the emperor did not come to see this palace in person. Palace, but the emperor rewarded a lot of things that should be rewarded. I never forgot to come to this palace on the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year. It can be seen that the emperor may also think so in his heart, but due to various reasons, he never Say it clearly."

Mrs. Yue Hou sighed: "Huan'er, Huan'er, before you fainted that day, you saw and heard it. The emperor was really annoyed. Since he is annoyed, how could he take it seriously because you are pregnant?" punished?"

Mrs. Yuehou saw that the queen was stunned, and shook her head slightly, but she had no choice but to speak, and continued: "That day, the imperial physician found out that you were pregnant, and the emperor couldn't punish you according to the original words, so she just said, This one in your belly..."

"What about this one?" The queen suddenly felt uneasy.She originally thought that Emperor Tianyuan had her in his heart and cared about the child in his womb, so he didn't care about her scolding Tang Luojin that day.But now it sounds... It seems that Emperor Tianyuan has already cares about it.

Mrs. Yuehou seemed to be having a hard time opening her mouth, but she still said: "The emperor said that when the child arrived, he sent his sister away. I think the fate of this child is the fate that the queen accused the prince of."

At that time, the empress accused the prince of blaming the prince for killing his younger sister. She should be the lone star of the gods, insidious and cunning.

However, Emperor Tianyuan, after learning that the queen was pregnant, conversely said that it was not the prince's fate, but the one in the queen's stomach who had just arrived and sent his sister away.

The queen didn't expect Emperor Tianyuan to be so ruthless, she said such words that almost cut off the future of her unborn child, her face turned pale, and she fainted again.

"How could it be, how could it be?" The queen murmured, "Don't tell me the emperor doesn't know that you don't joke, and follow the example. After he said that, how will people outside think of my child? When he is born, others How should we look at him? As well as his future, his status as a legitimate son will all be damaged because of this."

Mrs. Yue Hou looked at the Queen with pity, and sighed silently.

Emperor Tianyuan was able to win the position of crown prince among the ten princes in the first place, but after succeeding to the throne, he can also gain the good reputation of being a benevolent monarch. How can he be friendly?

What's more, Emperor Tianyuan always valued the prince and would not scold the prince easily in front of others, but the queen would "convict the prince for no reason" if she opened her mouth. Conceived, the ability to be both the prince's aunt and the prince's "biological mother", Emperor Tianyuan probably would not let this matter go easily.

"When the child is born, we will always have a chance to clear his reputation." Mrs. Yue Hou persuaded, "The emperor is currently in a rage, and Huan'er's persuasion is useless. Why don't you treat the prince better and let the emperor Relax your vigilance, and then attack the prince. When the prince dies, the emperor will only have the twelfth prince as his legitimate son. When you want to come, we don't need to take action. The emperor loves the youngest son, so he will personally take the twelfth prince. "

The Queen murmured: "Really? Your Majesty has ruined my son's reputation so much now, will he really restore my son's reputation in the future?"

The lone star of Tiansha, sinister and cunning, beat his sister to death before he was born.

This kind of reputation will not kill the child in her womb, but it is enough to make the child in her womb hopeless in the future.

Mrs. Yuehou said firmly: "I will definitely. The youngest son, the eldest grandson, the lifeblood of the old lady. Although these words are vulgar, they are also reasonable. The emperor is getting older and older. When the time comes, he must like the little one." There are more sons. If the prince is gone at that time, how can the emperor see the reputation of the twelve princes damaged, and still ignore it?"

Only then did the queen breathe a sigh of relief and slow down.

Then I didn't know what to think of, and suddenly said: "Why is it the twelfth prince? I remember that before me, Xue Cairen was also pregnant. If she gave birth to a son, wouldn't the one in my stomach be the thirteenth prince?"

Mrs. Yue Hou was startled when she heard the words, and was speechless.

The queen seemed to have thought of something, and looked at Fugui and Liupan sharply.

"Say, where is the flesh and blood in Xue Cairen's belly?"

Fu Gui and Liu Pan complained endlessly in their hearts, but they still kowtowed and replied: "Xue, Xue Cairen was seven months pregnant before. Originally, the Twelve Princesses never came to our palace on the day of their death. But later, the emperor issued an order to call Xue Cairen's mother, Mrs. Xue, came to the palace to accompany Xue Cairen to give birth. Mrs. Xue came to our palace to kowtow to the empress as usual. Xue Cairen couldn't wait, so she also came to our palace. When I left our palace, I was startled by the night cat, and I had a miscarriage that day, and gave birth to two stillborn babies, and they were still twins, a boy and a girl."

It was precisely because of this that the Queen couldn't help the rumor of "hard life" in her belly.

Originally, when Emperor Tianyuan said those words, the people below began to speak dishonestly.Someone with a heart spread the story well, but Xue Cairen, who was pregnant with the child, only sat in the queen's palace for a while without even seeing the queen's face.With such a fact, the rumor that the child in the queen's belly is "hard-fated" is simply unbearable. Even the beggars on the outskirts of Chang'an know that the queen is pregnant with a hard-fated child.

When the queen heard this, her eyes went dark, and she fainted immediately.

"Huaner, Huaner!"

"Your Majesty! This servant is going to invite the imperial physician in!"

Fortunately, the old doctor never left, and soon woke up the queen.

After the queen woke up, she couldn't help but hate and said: "What is the fate? The fate is clearly the damn one..."

Madam Yue hurriedly pinched the Queen's hand, and interrupted forcefully: "Your Majesty is confused, is she still having nightmares?"

The queen suddenly woke up and stopped talking, but the hatred in her eyes did not show at all.

Although the old doctor didn't know who the queen was talking about, he obviously wasn't fit to listen to what he said next, and he shouldn't have listened to it. He asked to write a prescription for the queen, and then told the queen to "quiet, don't get angry, and don't be stimulated." ", then leave.

As soon as the old doctor left, the empress' eyes became more hateful, and she cried bitterly: "How could this be? How could this be? That was clearly just a coincidence! Xue Cairen's child is gone, what does it have to do with my child? It has something to do with it, it was also the death of that Tangluo Jinke! What has it to do with my child? Why do I want my child to take the blame? Sister, I am not reconciled! Both are the sons of the emperor, how can the emperor be so partial, For Tang Luojin, just frame my child like this?"

Mrs. Yuehou looked at the queen's crazy appearance, and didn't dare to remind her at all. It was the queen who mentioned the fate first. The emperor was dissatisfied with the queen's framing of the prince, so he refuted it like this, which damaged the reputation of the child in the queen's womb. Let go of the queen, there is no such thing as punishing the queen.

"Now that things have come to this, why should Huan'er worry about these things?" Mrs. Yue Hou sighed, "What Huan'er wants to think about now is to take good care of her body and give birth to the twelve princes. The child is born, Let's... just worry about what's next!"

Otherwise, if the child is not born, I don't know whether it is a boy or a girl, and whether it is healthy or not. Even Madam Yuehou would not dare to attack the prince easily.

——What if Master Zhishan is wrong, and the empress is not a son at all?What if, like the queen's previous daughters, this child died young?

Although the crown prince is not the queen's own son, few people know about this matter.The prince himself even regarded the queen as his own mother.If the queen's baby is not a boy, or if it doesn't survive, then the crown prince is the best candidate for the next emperor of the Ning family and Yuehou Mansion.

Mrs. Yuehou's eyes sank slightly, she just swallowed these words back to her stomach, and took care to comfort the queen.

After noon, Mrs. Yuehou left, and when the queen was changing clothes, she suddenly asked Fu Gui who was beside her: "Mrs. Yuehou ordered you to keep it from me and never tell me about those news?"

Fu Gui hurriedly knelt down.

In any case, the queen is their master.Even though they hid the embarrassing news from the empress for the sake of the empress's health, it is true that they concealed the news from their master, and it is also true that they were wrong, Fu Gui naturally had to kneel down and admit his mistake.

"Yes and no."

The queen said angrily: "What do you mean? You have been with me for several years, but now you are also clumsy with your tongue?"

Fu Gui hesitated for a while, and had to say: "Mrs. Yuehou has indeed ordered the servants like this, but the servants are the masters of the empress, and these things are related to the little prince in the womb of the empress. I also wanted to tell the empress tactfully. But, but, before the servants said this, they were severely warned by the prince and ordered the servants not to mention these bad things. Otherwise, once the empress knows about this, the servants and The family members of the slaves were all severely punished for this."

Fu Gui knew that the Crown Prince was the person the Empress hated the most, but now he had no choice but to continue: "It is not a pity for the servants to die, but, but, if the servants are dead, who will serve the empress? And the families of the servants... ...Your Majesty, there are some servants who are reluctant to part with it!"

The queen felt dizzy for a while, and almost fainted again.

"Prince, Tang Luojin, how dare he! He has the courage to threaten people in my palace! I..."

"Your Majesty, the Fifth Princess is here."

After Liu Pan whispered, the fifth princess smiled and walked in.

"Why is the queen mother so angry? What if you are so angry? Wu'er has stewed bird's nest porridge for you. If the queen mother doesn't dislike it, come and taste it."

Although Tang Luojin had never seen what happened in Qingning Palace, she knew a thing or two about it.

In the past, it was not easy for him to put people in the Qingning Palace, but with the help of the last incident, he actually subdued a few little maids and eunuchs from the Qingning Palace with the idea of ​​"becoming good for the queen". It can be regarded as a smear to the eyes of Qingning Palace.

"It's the orphan who made the queen mother angry." Tang Luojin said blankly, "Lianqiao, go and deliver the white jade Guanyin that the great-grandmother gave to the orphan to the queen mother. You go there yourself .”

Lian Qiao bowed her head and promised: "Yes. There is one more thing, Your Highness, the grandson of the eldest princess' nurse, sent a lot of good things for the eldest princess to Sister Heliu, saying that he wanted to meet His Highness outside the palace."

Ze Lan and He Liu were both 25 years old when Tang Luojin was eight years old.The two have served Tang Luojin since she was born, and treated Tang Luojin very well, and He Liu was also injured for Tang Luojin.Tang Luojin naturally refused to treat the two of them badly.

Zelan is fine, all the men of the Shi family have become officials. After Zelan left the palace, she not only bears the title of first-class court lady next to the prince, but also becomes an official lady. A second-class Jinshi who has never been married.Now she is being sent out with her husband, and she has a son and a daughter under her knees.

Heliu also has a family, and is still a Jiangnan imperial merchant.But she was "sold" by her family.Thanks to Tang Luojin's help, He Liu's only concubine brother finally got back the right to inherit the family property, and He Liu also got a large dowry.

Tang Luojin's original intention was to let Heliu also find a Jinshi or official to marry.Although not as good as Zelan, he may be a stepmother.But as long as he is there, He Liu will naturally be able to suffer.However, Heliu insisted on marrying the head of Xue's family, the imperial merchant of the capital, as his stepmother, that is, Xue Cairen's natal family.

The head of the Xue family must have been in his thirties, five years older than He Liu.The age is suitable, but this person has been married twice, and has three sons under his knees, which are born by his first wife and his second wife.

In such a situation, Tang Luojin originally refused to allow He Liu to marry.But Heliu has his own ideas.The concubine of her natal family was born after she was sold. Although the aunt treated her very well in the past, it is unknown what the concubine will do and whether he will support her in the future.The status of the first-class maid next to the nobleman sounds pretty good.But don't you see, there are too many first-class maids around the nobleman, how many of them are living really well now?

Although He Liu was not considered smart, he had taken care of Tang Luojin for eight years, and he also knew that Xiao Tang Luojin had always respected her.If she treats him well, he treats her well.In this way, He Liu thought, why don't he just marry as an imperial merchant's wife, so as to attract more people for the prince?

She has never seen a battle for the reserve, but she can do this to make the crown prince have more money in his purse.

Tang Luojin was indeed planning for the future at that time - even though he was a scholar, farmer, businessman and businessman, his status was extremely low.However, as a prince, how can he succeed without money?The crown prince can't go into business to collect money, but Heliu's marriage brought both Xue's family in the capital city and Heliu's mother's family, Jiangnan royal merchant Wang's family, onto his boat.

Furthermore, Heliu was married to the capital again, under his nose, Tang Luojin asked Heliu's heart several times, and seeing that she had already made up her mind, she didn't stop her.

Now four years have passed, He Liu has become Mrs. Xue, with a son, helping Tang Luojin deliver news to the palace when some people have nowhere to ask for help.

Shi Yuan from the Shi family has already entered the East Palace and became an official of the East Palace, so the Shi family has naturally become a member of the crown prince.

Tang Luojin was thinking about something, when suddenly his eyes went dark, and someone blindfolded him from behind.

"Guess who I am?"

Such a familiar and childish move...

The corner of Tang Luojin's lips twitched slightly, and said, "Fourth uncle, don't be naughty."

Ning Junyu immediately let go, pretending to be angry: "Naughty? I'm your uncle, and I'm four years older than you. How can I be naughty? It's clearly Xiaoqi, you are too rigid, young, and the old man Like! Hey, even the old man has more expressions on his face than you!"

After Ning Junyu finished speaking, he bent his body again, put his face close to Tang Luojin's, looked at it for a while, and sighed decently: "Fortunately, Xiaoqi's face is really good-looking. It makes people look at it One glance, I don't even want to care about your expressionless face."

Tang Luojin pushed the person away, and then looked at Lianqiao: "Let Sister Heliu ignore her first, and then let her hang out."

Lian Qiao bent her knees to answer, and then said: "One more thing...Jing Liang Di got the news from somewhere, saying yes, saying that she wants to leave the palace to attend Miss Jiang's wedding ceremony next month."

Di Jingliang was also the former princess of Tubo.

In the tenth year of Tianyuan, the two princesses of Tubo successfully married Emperor Tianyuan and the prince.It's just that the third Tubo prince accidentally injured his leg while hunting, and was finally carried back.

Tubo was in a weak position back then, and he didn't care about it at all, so he naturally recognized it. Seeing the third prince leave vertically and come back sideways, he didn't dare to say anything.

It's just that Jing Liangdi, who married Tang Luojin, was not quiet at all.

Tang Luojin: "...Go to the Imperial Grandmother's Palace, and invite her most strict aunt, so that she can teach Jing Liangdi how to behave. By the way, find some Three Character Classics and Thousand Character Classics, and let Jing Liang Di learns characters. When she learns the rules well and recognizes all the characters, when will she be allowed to go out."

Forsythia should not be mentioned.

Ning Junyu listened for a while, and suddenly asked: "Xiaoqi, Miss Jiang's wedding ceremony, would you like to go?"

Tang Luojin shook his head: "I can't go. The Jiangnan imperial examination fraud case has caused panic among the students in Jiangnan, and the students in Chang'an and the surrounding areas have also caused troubles several times. The emperor said that I will go to Jiangnan for a walk in ten days. Come." Then he tilted his head and asked, "Does Fourth Uncle have time to accompany me on a trip to the south of the Yangtze River?"

Ning Junyu was overjoyed immediately, stepped forward to give Tang Luojin a hug, and left quickly, saying: "You don't go to Miss Jiang's Jiji ceremony, but go out to play with uncle and me, of course it would be best!"

Tang Luojin: "..." What is the connection between the two?

Ning Junyu was overjoyed, and talked to Tang Luojin a lot about what she had and what she wanted, before leaving.

Chang'an City, the Grand Princess' Mansion.

"No news yet?" The eldest princess is now married, and anxiously said, "Why is there no news? The Xue family, who used to be a palace maid, is now just a business woman, how dare she neglect people in the palace , don't even want to see him?"

The eldest princess' nurse persuaded: "The princess also said, so Mrs. Xue will not dare to make up her own mind and neglect the princess. If she wants to neglect the princess like this, there is someone else."

The meaning of the nurse, the eldest princess thought about it for a while, and then understood: "Is it the meaning of the prince?"

The wet nurse said in a low voice: "Actually, why does the princess have to go through so much trouble? Wouldn't it be better if I went to find the fifth princess and let the fifth princess apologize to the prince?"

The eldest princess dropped the teacup angrily, and Fang Jue's heart sank.

"That idiot! If she hadn't been so careless, how could I have turned around and acted as a low-key girl for her? You are not allowed to tell her about those things."