The old man in the imperial city

Chapter 19 New love, old love

The annual festival celebration was co-hosted by the emperor and the empress who had just entered the central palace. The imperial concubine was closed for recuperation due to her weakness, and she couldn't even attend the family banquet on New Year's Eve.

Both the queen mother and the noble concubine breathed a sigh of relief.

Concubine Jing, who was sitting in the direction of the queen's hand, was filled with resentment. Last year at this time, the married woman still visited her. In just one year, things changed, and she could hardly restrain the thought of scratching Dong E's face.Just because my aunt backed down for the sake of the royal family's face, it doesn't mean that she will also pretend to be dumb.So far, what is she afraid of?

Prince Xiang brought Fang Fujin into the palace to meet the emperor and the queen mother. During the family banquet, Concubine Jing showed the extraordinary kindness of Prince Xiang Fang Fujin, which flattered Fang Fujin who was born as a concubine.

At the end of summer, Fujin gave birth to Princess Xiang at Prince Xiang's mansion. The imperial concubine did not love her too much, but the empress dowager liked it very much when she saw her.

The Empress Dowager was getting old, and soon her energy was low, so she ordered Concubine Jing to help her back to the Palace of Compassion and Ning.

It's just that after the family banquet, Prince Xiang quickly found out that he was not guarding the house, and he didn't hear the question several times.After being pressed for several times, Cian Fujin only said that he went to the top after drinking, and refused to reveal the rest.

Prince Xiang was not a careful person, just because after the family banquet last year, he was shocked to hear that his beloved Fujin was stealing people behind his back in the palace, and then something like that happened again. On the contrary, a little depressed.

Watching the new year after the family banquet, Prince Xiang is a man, naturally he will not always wait with Mrs. Borzigit, and doze off alone in the pavilion in a daze.But at this moment, a young eunuch brought him a cup of tea and said: "This is a reward from the queen mother's palace. Tete told the prince not to get drunk and suffer from the wind."

Prince Xiang took the tea and drank it, but it was just a cup of ordinary hangover soup.

On New Year’s Eve night, the not-so-good combination of hangover soup made the prince feel uneasy, the little eunuch lowered his voice and said: "Just after the Fujin disappeared in the prince's mansion, there is a concubine who is the most favored in the harem. I think the prince You haven't seen this imperial concubine, have you?"

Prince Xiang showed murderous intent: "Who is your master? What do you mean?"

The little eunuch bowed to cover his face, and said with lowered hands: "It doesn't matter who the master of the slave is. The imperial concubine has recently closed the palace to recuperate, but occasionally the emperor will send her to the Qianqing Palace for lunch during the day. Know everything."

Prince Xiang thinks about it and thinks that the emperor's brother's woman is also his sister-in-law. It is not impolite to meet him in the palace in broad daylight. There is no chance of being framed, so he waved back the eunuch and silently pondered this unusual matter.

It is said that the imperial concubine's appearance of being sick for three days and one illness for two days is really similar to that of Dong E's back then. How did Jashuo raise his daughter?

Prince Xiang's doubts were not resolved until the end of the New Year's Eve. Perhaps the imperial concubine was really ill, or the queen mother did not like the imperial concubine. In short, the imperial concubine did not attend any family banquets for a whole month. Uncle can't see it either.

Prince Xiang joked with the emperor's elder brother, and asked the emperor if he was not willing to work hard for his new sister-in-law.The emperor only said that the imperial concubine was sick and weak because she assisted in the palace affairs day and night and could not stay in the bed, and had to rest.

Prince Xiang was aroused. To him, the emperor's brother's harem was originally just a passer-by, but now it has risen to the stage of "gossip about a woman".When Guanju Palace was favored back then, he was just born and could not walk, and now he knows how to do things, and he really wants to see the dignity of a woman who is unrivaled in the harem.

Prince Xiang went back to the mansion to inquire about Fujin, you women enter the palace every now and then to greet the Queen Mother, you always see the imperial concubine serving the Queen Mother, right?

Fang Fujin hesitated and said that the imperial concubine was not in good health, and that the empress dowager was kind enough to avoid serving the imperial concubine a long time ago, so there was no way to see her.When asked about his appearance, Cian Fujin only said that he and Fujin had some portraits, and that it was not uncommon for them to come from the same school.

Prince Xiang went to ask the Concubine Gui again, the Concubine Gui seemed very uncomfortable, she opened her mouth and said that that bitch is not a bit of a coquettish person, she is dishonest at first sight.When Boguoer asked for more details, the Concubine Gui also said that she happened to be staying in the Palace when the Concubine Huang Guifei entered the palace, so she had no way of knowing.

Such contradictory words aroused the young man's interest even more, and he must meet this woman who made the emperor's brother abolish the queen.

In any case, the image of a treacherous concubine who looks somewhat similar to the late Fujin has emerged on paper.

No matter how often Prince Xiang went to the Palace of Compassion to pay respects to the Empress Dowager, he did not meet until the peach blossoms and pear blossoms in the Royal Garden were in full bloom. The imperial concubine of Chengqian Palace.

At that time, the scene was a bit chaotic, Concubine Jing sarcastically satirized the imperial concubine and the imperial concubine had nothing to do without going out of the palace.The imperial concubine sent her back without looking sideways and said softly, she only said that even though she was not healthy enough, even if she wanted to serve her knees in front of her ancestors, she was afraid that she would be unbeautiful if she was sick. She was not as blessed as Concubine Jing.

Concubine Jing turned blue with anger, and regardless of the occasion, she opened her mouth to mock Dong E's one daughter and two husbands for not being welcomed by the queen mother-in-law, and she was not even allowed to pay her respects.

Yinhu pushed back with a smile without pressure: "If Concubine Jing said that, she would also bring the Queen Mother with her. It's not good for her to love Concubine Jing so much."

Concubine Jing's lips trembled. She had been honored and favored since she was a child, and the queen dowager and aunt protected her in every possible way after entering the palace. Who knew that she had suffered a lifetime of humiliation for the woman in front of her.Finally gritted her teeth and said with a smile: "The imperial concubine has been ill for a long time since she entered the palace. I think I haven't seen Prince Xiang yet. This is a brother who grew up with the emperor. He used to be very close."

Yinhu was the same deputy queen, not much higher than the prince, she just nodded to Prince Xiang, and said with a slight smile: "I heard my sister always mention the prince in the early years, seeing you today is really worthy of the name."

Prince Xiang's eyes have not blinked since he saw the imperial concubine and her party appearing from the corner. At this moment, he seemed to be pinched by a hand at the throat, and he held back for a long time before choking out two words: "You are... "

Concubine Jing was secretly happy, and couldn't even hide it.

Yinhu didn't even bother to pay attention to them, and just said: "The Queen Mother woke up from a nap and kept asking Concubine Jing why she wasn't in the Palace of Compassion and Ning. At this moment, the palace is probably full of people looking for someone."

How can Concubine Jing be reconciled, the good show has just begun?The Empress Dowager has been staring at her since around the New Year's Eve, and finally found this spare time to do something. It's all because this Boguoer is so stupid when he sees people, and he still dare not go forward to recognize people, so he is destined to be unable to do great things.

The emperor and the queen mother knew what had happened in the imperial garden almost at the same time, and sent people one after the other to take away Prince Xiang and Concubine Jing.

Boguoer followed Wu Liangfu to the Qianqing Palace in a daze, and the emperor took out the household department and asked him about the regulations.Where did Boguoer pay attention to these things seriously, his mind is full of the face of the imperial concubine.

When the emperor asked about the rules of persuasion and punishment for supervising wasteland reclamation, Boguo'er finally couldn't help asking: "Brother emperor, I saw the imperial concubine today, is she and my brother's Fujin?"

The emperor didn't change his expression, he didn't even lift his head: "Cousin Jashuo's daughter, I also heard that they look very similar, and Jashuo himself can't tell the difference."

Boguoer was at a loss for words, but still did not give up.It's just that he also noticed that the emperor had become more strict and consistent since last year, and he never vomited bitterness to him to complain about the unsatisfactory harem.Therefore, he only dared to test with words, but in the end he did not dare to question the emperor directly.

Bo Guoer left the palace full of doubts, and now recalling the attitudes of Er Niang and Borzigit when they talked about the imperial concubine, he did not believe that they did not know about it.

He is reckless, but not stupid.That's not just a woman who looks like Dong E's, she is clearly his Fujin.

Isn't Wan'er already dead?How could she suddenly become the emperor's concubine?

He needs more evidence.

Prince Xiang's sedan chair did not go back to the mansion, but instead went to the Duke's mansion of Jashuo.

He was not so restrained and forbearing towards Prince Jashuoxiang, all the anger and suspicion that had been brewing along the way all burst out.Asked whether Jaishuo sold his daughter as an official and noble product to Jia?Seeing that his prince is not as powerful as the emperor, do you regret it?

The sliver of guilt that Yashuo originally had was quickly exhausted by Prince Xiang's confusion of right and wrong, and the resentment that had been suppressed earlier resurfaced again: Even if you are a prince, you can't treat someone else's daughter as a grass!

If my girl hadn't been favored by the emperor, would she really be burned to ashes?How can she be sorry for you by taking care of your concubine for you?Just because a girl in the queen mother's family is pregnant, you want to kill my pampered girl?

So Jaishuo also got angry, and even took out the genealogy to point out that the maiden name Wu Yunzhu in the Palace of the Sworn Sun seems to be still lying in the coffin parked in the Xiangwang Mansion. Wu Yunzhu's biological father could go to Beijing from Shengjing to confront him.

It was only then that Prince Xiang remembered that it was as if he had been burned in a fit of anger.

Even Hong Wen, who was close to him that day, is said to have committed suicide, and there is no proof of his death.This road would not work without the emperor summoning the noble princes who were far away in Shengjing who would die and dare to go to Beijing privately.

At this time, Boguo'er felt awkward. He burned someone's daughter and kicked him out of the house, scolding someone for having one daughter and two husbands.It's just that he has to find out how that woman got from the palace to the palace!Manchus do not shy away from remarrying after the death of a husband. Both his mother-in-law and the queen mother had one daughter and two husbands, but they only remarried when their ex-husbands disappeared.He Bomubogor is still alive!

On the way back to the mansion, Prince Xiang finally calmed down. One of the two women who knew the inside story was her mother-in-law and the other was his side Fujin. When he thought about it, he knew who had a problem.His mother didn't like Dong E's family, but she would never be willing to watch Dong E's remarry the emperor.

So is Borzigit's problem?

Ever since Yinhu entered the palace, Yinzhen has relaxed to put eyeliner in Prince Xiang's mansion, because there is no need for that, Bo Guoer has neither connections nor military achievements, he is nothing without Lao Ba.

Later that day, Prince Xiang first broke into the Duke's mansion, and then broke into the backyard to curse at Fang Fujin. The emperor only knew a rough idea, but it was enough.

Yinhu lowered his head and glanced at the simple music handed to him by the emperor: "Concubine Jing cannot stay in the palace."

Yinzhen thought more directly: "About a glass of poisoned wine, there aren't enough people who died suddenly in the palace?" In fact, Prince Xiang was definitely among the people he considered killing, but he didn't intend to tell Lao Ba everything. .

"Not right." Yinhu put down the simple music and shook his head: "The timing is not good. Concubine Jing is protected by the Queen Mother and has always been in good health. A sudden death must be suspicious. It would be better to wait another three to five years, but it is hard to guarantee Nothing will happen."

Yinzhen said again: "It's not easy to touch Concubine Jing, and it will be fine if Prince Xiang dies."

Yinhu frowned slightly, but said nothing.

Yinzhen looked over: "Why, can't you bear to part with your ex-husband's old friend?"

The author has something to say: I swear that Gong Dou is not the subject of this article, it is just to draw out the great uncle.If I were a grandma, maybe I would write: Grand Uncle with exposed veins rushed up and grabbed the imperial concubine's arm and shook it vigorously: "Wan Ru, Wan Ru! Is it you? Is it really you? You are not dead! Why did you become the emperor?" Noble Concubine?" (something messed in...) The Noble Concubine's teary eyes said, "It's not me! It's not me! I don't know you! Go away!" Then the Noble Concubine covered her ears and turned to run away, leaving Prince Xiang standing there Feng Zhong messed to himself: "Wanru, how could it be Wanru? I don't believe it, I don't believe a single word..." I can't seem to write the above.

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like