[Red Mansions] The Road to Empress Dowager

Su Fuer would listen to people's persuasion now. In the Xing family, no one in the whole family regarded her as an outsider.Hearing that Xing Xiuyan was originally a younger sister and a "half-disciple" who told her as a "comer" at this time, although she felt a bit embarrassed by nature, she is not a clean-eyed person now.

Su Fu'er said: "I understand the good intentions of your mother. Although I don't have to be in a hurry...but I won't be too tolerant."

Xing Xiuyan smiled, patted the back of her hand affectionately, and said: "Whether you are a layman or a monk, everyone has their own rules, and there is nowhere in the world that people like. It is me, and everyone sees that I am honored and favored." , In the final analysis, I am just a concubine. If I have been obsessed with the lack of status as a wife and concubine, and missed the infinite possibilities given to me by time, and I can’t see the virtues of saints, I myself will not be happy. Therefore, people Fight when you should fight for life, and be relieved when you should be relieved. Don't live in the eyes and tongues of others, and always make yourself the happiest. Of course, my sister is naturally hired to be a good lady. Sister If someone dares to bully you after you get married, you can just run back to your mother's house to complain, not everyone can come and slap me in the face."

If Su Fu'er had become a monk before, she would definitely have disdained it, because she knew that she couldn't get fame, wealth and happiness by herself.But at this time, she has successfully returned to vulgarity, her ass determines her head, and she naturally sees things from different angles.At this time, she has to calculate the future, and the support of her mother's family is extremely important. Xing Xiuyan does not treat her as an outsider, and of course her husband's family will not dare to bully her in the future. Xing Xiuyan's heart makes her even more grateful.

Su Fuer said: "My lady is kind to me, I am grateful. But I still have to remind my lady."

Xing Xiuyan raised her eyebrows and asked curiously, "You remind me?"

Su Fu'er smiled slightly: "Everyone said that I have a pure temper, but I didn't expect my empress to still have this temper now. You are a real first-class imperial concubine, not some... concubine. You must not say this casually."

When Xing Xiuyan said this, Mrs. Xing Li was having fetal movement, but she didn't hear clearly. When she heard Su Fuer's words, she was startled, and followed suit to persuade her.

Xing Xiuyan also found out her negligence, and hurriedly swore: "Today there are only three of us, mother, daughter and sister. If there were others, I would never have said anything. I just wanted to say something sweet to my mother and sister."

Xing Xiuyan kept them for lunch again, which was cooked by the small kitchen, not the northern heavy oil-flavored dishes, but southern Huaiyang dishes, but with two extra spicy stir-fry dishes.

At noon, Xing Xiuyan let Xing Lishi and Su Fuer, who got up early to enter the palace, rest for a while on their own soft bed, while Xing Tuhao went to his private treasury to find gifts.

Mrs. Xing and Li are already four months pregnant. After entering the palace today, for the sake of safety, she will wait until the child's full moon. If it is not a last resort, it will be difficult to enter the palace.And Su Fu'er also wants to stay at home with Mrs. Xing and Li, or help the housekeeper manage the accounts, or embroider the wedding dress, and even manage the shop with Daiyu.

Xing Xiuyan found a bottle of ten snow ginseng Yangrong pills tributed by North Korea, and a thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum, which she planned to give to Mrs. Xing Li. Production is a big hurdle, and this medicine can save lives at critical times.

Although Xueshen Yangrong Pills are precious, they are common to Tu Yuanyi. Not to mention most of the people who pay tribute to him every year, he still has lotus seeds in the spiritual pool with space, and the effect is not bad.Tu Yuanyi was stingy with those elixir stocks to others, he wouldn't even give them to his own sons, but he was the only one who was generous to her and wanted to adjust her physical fitness to the best.

But these elixirs are now of little effect to him, and they should be a bottleneck in the mortal stage.

Xing Xiuyan also found two sets of emerald and gold jewelry and planned to distribute them to the two.Knowing that the family made ready-made clothes, and her father was in charge of the purchase of cloth for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Gong Dun was not prepared.However, seeing two bright red "Yuehua Qingyanluo", I heard that the tribute from the Shu land does not exceed [-] horses every year, and all of them must be paid as tribute. Of course, most of last year's came from her.Now she is a noble concubine of the first rank, she can also wear a pure red gauze, but she can't wear a pure red inside and out, this material is excellent for blouses and skirts.Thinking that Su Fu'er was going to get married, she could bring her own brocade, but this item was not available outside, so she decided to give her the two red ones.

She also prepared some four treasures of the study for Xing Zhong, including pens made of peacock feathers and pencils made of graphite. These small workshops have not yet been put on the market.At that time, people used brushes, and this kind of brush was too strange to be respected by scholar-bureaucrats, but it was very practical for people like Xing Zhong who were only literate and did more accounting.

In the afternoon, Li Sanshun, Li Dequan's subordinate, sent the two of them to the gate of the palace, and went back without mentioning it.

However, Tu Yuanyi came back in the evening in a dusty suit. He went to various factories in low clothes to inspect various factories after going to court in the morning. He now agrees with the concept of "productivity", and it is the productivity that supports his imperial power.Therefore, we should pay attention to the construction of these aspects whenever we have time.

When Xing Xiuyan changed his clothes for him, he talked about the fact that Mrs. Xing Li and Su Fuer visited the palace today, and Tu Yuanyi asked, "Is your mother about to give birth?"

Xing Xiu let out a chuckle: "Where are you going to give out bread? How can it be so fast? I was pregnant in October, even if I entered the palace, it is not yet October. She was conceived four months after I entered the palace, and now she is four months old. More than a month pregnant."

Tu Yuanyi held her hand and said, "Speaking of which, why is your stomach still not moving? How long has it been?" Asking for a pulse every three days, he wanted to get good news, but there was none.

Although Xing Xiuyan thinks that the bear child is a magic star, she also finds it strange that she can help others get pregnant by embroidering the image of Guanyin, but she can't conceive herself.Although she is only 16 years old, she has no hidden diseases. According to the emperor's "hard work", how could there be no news?

Xing Xiuyan said: "The imperial doctor said that I am in good health, I am afraid that the fate of children has not come. We are still young, there is no need to be so anxious."

Tu Yuanyi didn't expect much from the women in the harem to have children, but having a child with his beloved was different.Tu Yuanyi didn't expect that he would have some internal cultivation skills. The essence of internal cultivation is to preserve one's vitality. Even if it doesn't hinder the happiness in sex, it will affect the chance of having children.

And Xing Xiuyan is only 16 years old, not a mature woman's body, not the best breeding soil, his seeds are still "picked up", so don't waste them here.He will not understand until he reads the scroll of this aspect obtained from that fairyland.This infertility also has various very complicated factors, not to mention the world of Red Mansions.For example, Lin Hai's family has a single pass from generation to generation. Could it be that the men of the Lin family "do not work hard" or "can't do it"?

When Xing Xiuyan was serving the emperor to take a bath, she chatted about the affairs of the Shi family. Tu Yuanyi liked to hear some interesting stories or gossip from her.

Tu Yuanyi hehe: "Every family has scriptures that are hard to recite. Every family has its own wonderful things. You have your uncles and aunts, and I have those brothers who conspired against me. The Shi family only has such a girl. It's God. I have treated the Shi family very kindly."

Xing Xiuyan said: "That's not true. Now that I think about it, I was so tired that I was blinded last time, but it wasn't the worst. I don't think a powerful official like my adoptive mother can do anything to my niece..."

Tu Yuanyi smiled and said, "You don't take pleasure in others' misfortunes, do you?"

Xing Xiuyan's eyes rolled around: "Am I that bad?"

Tu Yuanyi smiled, and asked again: "Your uncle and second aunt and third aunt, do you still hate them now?

Xing Xiuyan said: "I don't have princess disease, others have no obligation to treat me well, so I don't have to care too much about whether others treat me well, the most important thing is to do my own thing and live my own life. I don't have so much time to deal with irrelevant people."

Tu Yuanyi suddenly said: "If I treat you badly, am I irrelevant?"

Xing Xiuyan was slightly taken aback, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, how can you be the same, you are always my husband. If you treat me badly, I will always ask you to treat me better, and think of me more in your heart."

Tu Yuanyi smiled and said: "If I still treat you badly, will you treat me well?"

Xing Xiuyan giggled, but didn't speak.

Tu Yuanyi asked, "Why didn't you answer?"

Xing Xiuyan said: "If you care about whether I treat you well or not, you have me in your heart. How can you treat me badly if you have me in your heart?"

Tu Yuanyi maintained the emperor's face, and said: "I am the emperor, so the women in the harem must treat me well. It's not that I don't care, it can be bad."

Straight men in the terminal stage of cancer are actually collapsing.

But Xing Xiuyan said: "Are they really treating you well? You know it well. Well, maybe there are some who have a deep-rooted love for His Majesty, but it is rare for two people to be happy. If you don't like her, no matter how deeply you love her, you will still hate her." , What people need is that the person they like can respond. It is said that being loved is happiness, but in fact it is a big mistake. Only when you love what you love is happiness, because loving what you love is something that follows your own heart, and people who don’t love love you When you have to respond to him, it’s more uncomfortable than cooking you nasty dishes every day. Because the heart is more picky than the mouth.”

Tu Yuanyi couldn't help thinking deeply, and suddenly asked: "Your thinking is different from that of many women."

Xing Xiuyan smiled and said, "The sage knows how many women think?"

Tu Yuanyi said: "It's true that there are not many. It's just that women don't like men's pampering, don't they?"

Xing Xiuyan said: "When I was in college again, there was a suitor who came to my dormitory downstairs every day to buy flowers, give breakfast, and buy gifts. It’s not like I didn’t think about falling in love at the time, but I had a meal with him, went out to play on weekends, and when I was by his side, it felt like years. That’s why I felt that everything is worse than what I want. "

This is the reason why the audience loves the male lead who is so good, and the heroine only loves the flawed male lead. If the heart is so easy to be defeated by external things, how can it be called true love?

Tu Yuanyi said: "It turns out that you still have such a past... Then who was your favorite at that time?"

Xing Xiuyan still said rationally and objectively: "He had something to attract me at the time. He did have a fighting spirit and talent. He didn't have any foundation. Everything he had was achieved by himself. He had a good logical thinking. But people are Complicated, good and bad, I don't know everything about him."

Tu Yuanyi said: "You mean, I won the country by inheriting my father, isn't there anything special?"

"What a saint inherits is completely different from what he has now. I also know that it is not easy for a saint to overcome obstacles."

Tu Yuanyi took her hand and said, "I know that our country and society are not easy, and I still had to mess around with me at the beginning. There are so many women in the harem, and I will give others with all my thoughts, and she will be satisfied."

Xing Xiuyan said: "In the harem, it is really difficult for women."

Tu Yuanyi squeezed her hand, and said with a smile, "You think they are difficult, so why are you so jealous?" When he said this, Tu Yuanyi was a little complacent, without a trace of blame.

Xing Xiuyan pulled out her hand, wiped his back, and said, "A man's requirement for a woman is chastity, so why not be jealous?"

Tu Yuanyi's phoenix eyes turned cold, and he said, "Could it be that you still want to be chaste?"

Xing Xiuyan smiled and said: "I don't think it's useless, whoever wants me to be unchaste, His Majesty will definitely kill him."

Tu Yuanyi held her wrist again and said, "If I wasn't the emperor, would Xiu'er still love me?"

Xing Xiuyan smiled sweetly and said: "If your majesty does not become the emperor, I will not be your concubine. I will only take care of you after you and your wife reconcile. If you are sorry for your wife, you will give her all your property and leave the house." , I will earn money to support you in the future. However, I can’t take concubines anymore, it’s reasonable for you to rely on me to support you, and it’s shameless for me to earn hard-earned money for you to raise concubines for fun.”

Tu Yuanyi got annoyed, and suddenly hooked her around the waist and dragged her into the bathtub. She screamed and jumped out of the water.

"I took a shower and I'm all wet again!"

But Tu Yuanyi rushed forward to hug Ren'er, and kissed him with his head sideways...

His movements were not small, the steam in the bathroom was steaming, and the sound of water was bursting, interspersed with the moan-groan-panting sounds of men and women.

The next day, Tu Yuanyi went to Muxiu and didn't get up until Shen Shi. While having breakfast, Xing Xiuyan remembered that there was another important matter that he interrupted yesterday and had no time to say it.

It was the three husband-in-law candidates Xing Li had found for Su Fuer, so she mentioned it.

Tu Yuanyi was the emperor, and he had a good memory. He also remembered the rumors about the important officials in the court. He shook his head and said, "Three are not good."

Xing Xiuyan said: "Why not?"

Tu Yuanyi said: "I remember that Zhang Tingen was also a Jinshi in his previous life. Later, he married the granddaughter of the old lady of the Zhang family. She was a childhood sweetheart and had a very close relationship. I am asking your elder sister to marry me. I am afraid that his father gave birth to Zhang Tingen, who is the same as his brother. The fighting spirit of the group wants to cling to you, and I want my son to be my brother-in-law. But after your eldest sister gets married, will the old lady and Zhang Tingen really like her?"

Xing Xiuyan said bitterly: "I can't do this, what about Feng Zijie, this is Feng Ziying's younger brother, the son of Marquis Feng Tang."

Tu Yuanyi shook his head: "It's just a concubine, Mrs. Shenwuhou doesn't treat him very well, and mother-in-law will be even more difficult to serve him."

Xing Xiuyan asked again: "Where is Qian Zhiyuan, the second son of the Minister of Rites?"

Tu Yuanyi chuckled and said, "This is more interesting. I remember that he died in a brothel and was overdosed with drugs. At that time, Qian Yuan's old face was completely humiliated, and it was widely spread in the capital."

Xing Xiuyan was annoyed, so she gave a piss and said, "It turns out that there is a big problem. My mother only cares about her family background, and she is afraid of wronging my eldest sister. The eldest sister used to come from a noble family, and she is rich, so she can't be married down." .It is true that there is no harm if there is no comparison. Your Majesty will become a wishful gentleman when compared with them."

Tu Yuanyi's eyes darkened, and he gritted his teeth slightly: "Why, aren't you satisfied?"

"No!" Xing Xiuyan shook her head hurriedly while pouring tea for him, "Your Majesty is handsome, unrestrained and affectionate, and no one else is worthy of carrying your shoes."

Tu Yuanyi snorted, Xing Xiuyan smiled and said, "Brother Yuanyi, you said they are not good, do you have a good introduction?"

Tu Yuanyi asked: "What is your standard?"

Xing Xiuyan said, "It's... that one."

Tu Yuanyi understood her own ideal that she said when she was in Lishan Palace, and Tu Yuanyi smiled and said, "I can't find anything like that either."

"It's okay to lower it a little bit. If there is really no one, it's fine for those who can only be a petty official. Live a good life, and being ordinary is a blessing." Of course it is good to find a good family for marriage, but she is not cold enough to only care about this.

Tu Yuanyi raised his eyebrows coquettishly: "Is it so important that you don't have a room?"

"Then, a little down? It's okay to have a roommate who has no feelings, and the parents are not harsh."

Tu Yuanyi was full of arrogance, and said: "I will pay attention to you, I can barely pick two, but your eldest sister should not expect to find a husband as good as me."

Xing Xiuyan suppressed her laughter, and said, "Of course, my eldest sister doesn't dare to expect too much..."

Tu Yuanyi held her hand and looked at her gentle and tender, completely different from the serious and mighty in front of others.

In order to please him, Xing Xiuyan leaned over and kissed him on the cheek, and said: "Then according to your majesty's standard, your majesty is [-] points, and it is good to find a man with more than [-] points for my elder sister." .”

Asking others, opening your eyes and telling nonsense is also a nirvana.

……

Here Xing Xiuyan wrote a letter, and the Xing family also learned that the three tools were not good, and it hurt for a while.

Mrs. Xing Li didn't hide it from Su Fu'er, she showed her the letter, wiped her tears and said: "Fortunately, I asked my mother, if my mother married you out like this, I would be a sinner."

Su Fuer is [-] years old this year, she is going to get married this year no matter what, she is reluctant, afraid but also has expectations.So I was a little disappointed, but I knew it was fate.

Su Fu'er comforted: "Mother said this, but my daughter is not filial. You still worry about your daughter while you are pregnant with your younger brother. You treat me as the daughter of your own blood. Now there is another empress entrusting a saint. If there is no mother and empress, how can my daughter be?" Blessing to come?"

Mrs. Xing Li said: "That's because you are really kind, I am so hurt, and the empress is always worried. If you are a bad person, how can you match the appearance of your daughter?"

Su Fuer said: "How can a mother boast like this?"

Xing Li said: "I'm not boasting, you can teach your mother, how can others compare to you?"

Su Fuer laughed and said, "Your Majesty was raised by my mother, how could I teach you? We were just children playing for fun."

The two flattered each other, and found it funny again.

Mrs. Xing and Li recalled the matter of Daiyu and Ji again, and said, "That child, Yu'er, will soon be ready for Ji, so I have to prepare some good gifts for her."

Although Xing Li's family now vaguely knows that it was not Lin Ruhai who arranged for Xing Zhong to be an official, but the emperor's arrangement. At the beginning, her daughter lived in the Lin family for a long time.But this matter involved a saint, and she couldn't get to the bottom of it.In any case, Lin Ruhai was born in Tanhua and was a bachelor from the outer dynasty, so he was different from an official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs like Xing Zhong.

It is impossible for the Xing family to help their daughter, and since their daughter and Daiyu are Jinlan sisters, the relationship between the Lin family must be maintained.

Su Fu'er said: "I'll go down and discuss a list of gifts with a few nuns, and then I'll make a review for my mother."

Xing Li felt relieved, and said: "The Lin family is also the family of Liehou, but I don't understand the joints. Fortunately, I have you, and my family background was comparable to that of Dai's son. Last year, when the empress was married, the Lin family gave a big gift. , we can’t be thin. As long as it’s decent and makes Daisy like it, you don’t have to care too much about how much it costs. Although our family’s foundation is not deep, we still have some shops and Zhuangzi’s income. There are only a few in our house on weekdays. As a master, the flowers are not very useful, and the empress subsidizes them, so I can't be poor, and sister Dai is always my own family, so it is not wrong to spend on her."

Mrs. Xing and Li have been advised by several nuns for two years, and know the importance of human relationships. The Lin family is a network of contacts, and Daiyu's husband's family will be a network of contacts in the future.These also take care of each other with the noble concubine, and the Xing family can only be good if the noble concubine is good, otherwise wealth is a tree without roots.

Let's not mention Su Fu'er going to prepare a gift for Daiyu.