Reborn as King again

Ever since Li Yi was canonized as the crown prince, the ministers of the DPRK and China began to mention to me about the canonization of the empress intentionally or unintentionally, but every time I used the excuse of filial piety to my mother to prevaricate it.But now the queen mother has delegated power to Jia Wanru and let her take care of the matter of show girls, which seems to show that Jia Wanru is also the next candidate in the queen mother's heart.

I have a bit of a headache about this, because I can't make Jia Wanru the empress at all. The reason why I gave her all the empress treatment before was to reassure her and prevent her from thinking about the position of empress in her heart. It is impossible for the ministers of the DPRK and China not to act. Since the rookie girl entered the palace, the voice of wanting to be queen has become louder and louder.Originally, I thought that the Jia family, the Xia family, and the He family's confrontation between the three families maintained in the court would delay the matter after the confrontation, but I never expected that this time, Jia Fan, Grand Master Xia, and He Wenyan is actually standing on the same front. Today, he jointly signed a letter, hoping that I can make Jia Wanru the queen as soon as possible. He also said that even if I make a queen, I can still show my filial piety and let the queen mother keep the phoenix seal. Pooh!When my mother returns to heaven, won't the phoenix seal be handed over to Jia Wanru as a matter of course?Am I that stupid?

It is understandable for the Jia family to do this. Jia Wanru is Jia Fan's daughter and the biological mother of the present prince Li Yi, so she will always be in charge of the posthumous position.After Jia Wanru became the empress, Jia Fan became the head of the state. My cousin, General Li Meng, was already Jia Fan’s henchman under my go-betweens. Now the Jia family is even more arrogant inside and outside the capital. Now that I canonize Jia Wanru as empress, sooner or later I will let Jia's relatives monopolize the power like in the last life, and it will be difficult to take back the rights given away.

And Taishi Xia actually agreed to let Jia Wanru be the queen, which really surprised me. Before the queen mother gave Jia Wanru power, she must have discussed it with Taishi Xia. I don’t think Taishi Xia is so proud of himself. , so I still can't figure out what his plan is.

As for why He Wenyan also wrote a letter asking me to name Jia Wanru, I can guess about seven or eight points.First of all, He Wenyan is a Confucian pedantic master, he pays attention to traditional etiquette in everything, and acts according to the rules, so in his opinion, Jia Wanru, who is the birth mother of the prince, must be the queen.Another point is his third brother, He Wenliu. He Wenyan watched Jia Wanru stay in the harem for so many years, and his favorite concubine He Wenliu entered the water without breaking the river. Occasionally, some small things happened, and Jia Wanru did not make trouble. Therefore, He Wenyan thought that Jia Wanru was a The queen will not deliberately embarrass his younger brother who doesn't understand anything.

Therefore, although the three forces in the court have different starting points, they all have the same purpose to be aggressive towards me, which is to make Jia Wanru my queen.

In fact, I had already thought about the countermeasures before, and I had a suitable candidate in my mind, that is, Liu Sha, the granddaughter of Liu Guogong. Liu Guogong, let him break the line with King Rui, and let the two of them kill each other by the way.However, the empress mother said harsh words before. She hates Liu Sha, Duke Liu, and the Liu family behind them. If I make Liu Sha the queen, the empress mother will definitely go first He is desperately looking for the Liu family.

I was already busy enough today, but Jia Fan, Taishi Xia, and He Wenyan all came to Daoyu Study Room to ask for an interview, and once again told me about the queen, but I couldn’t say clearly that I wanted Jia Wanru earlier. There is no love at all, only hatred left, so they have to continue to find excuses to prevaricate, this is not a long-term solution, if time drags on for a long time, they will become suspicious.

After dismissing the three of them, I didn't bother to read the memorial anymore.It seems that I have to pick out a more obedient concubine from the harem to be the queen. This first excludes Jia Wanru, and the new young master Liu Sha also has to be excluded.He Wenliu is even worse. I don’t want him to stand on the cusp of the storm. Although being a queen is very beautiful and has great power, it is not easy. Being murdered by others, and he also has a prince himself, will put him in an embarrassing situation, and I don't want to embarrass him.

I thought, the appearance of the queen I am looking for is secondary, but she must be obedient, and the family background behind her should not be too good, lest another foreign relative will come out to monopolize the power. I wondered how many concubines in the harem met these conditions , When I understand them all one by one, I can choose the best one to be the queen.

This night, I looked at the moonlight and walked alone on the path in the bamboo forest of the imperial palace, thinking about the empress by the way.At this time, I suddenly heard whining cries in the bamboo forest. On such a dark and windy night, there were cries in the bamboo forest, and I couldn’t help feeling goosebumps all over my body. After I was reborn, I felt that there were still some things I had to believe.The most indispensable thing in the palace is people who died in vain, whether they are palace people or concubines.I thought, could it be that after someone died unjustly, he couldn't be reincarnated and was trapped in the bamboo forest, crying and scaring people at night?

A gust of cold wind blew by, making me even more creepy. I regretted that I chose to take a walk in the bamboo forest alone, without even bringing Wanfu with me.I saw a person squatting beside a rock not far ahead, wearing a bright red dance dress. It was his cry. I remember when I was a child, the old mother in the palace said that when a person died wearing a bright red dress, He must have been wronged, and will turn into a ghost after death, seeking revenge on the person who killed him. Thinking of this, my body trembles a little, and I want to run away.I hadn't run two steps when the moon covered by the clouds gradually came out. Under the moonlight, I saw the shadow of the man in the red clothes appear on the ground.If there is a shadow, it is not a ghost. This night, a person dressed in such bright clothes squatting and crying in an uninhabited bamboo forest, this aroused my interest.

I walked towards the man in red. He was crying so intently that he didn't even notice that I was standing behind him. He hadn't seen me after crying for a long time, which made me a little depressed and asked, "Are you here?" What are you crying for?"

"Get out!" The man in red said in a very bad tone, he didn't turn around, and continued to squat on the ground, not wanting others to see him, "I don't need you to pretend to be kind and pity me!"

I froze for a moment, in the last life plus this life, no one has told me to "get lost".I asked angrily and amusedly: "Then can you tell me why you are crying?"

The man in red spat at me, and said sarcastically: "Still pretending, yes, all of you are young ladies and gentlemen, you are the best at pretending to be innocent, and you won't admit it when you bully someone, right?"

"I don't think I've done anything to bully you." I said this on purpose, trying to cover his mouth, but the man in red heard my tone, immediately stood up and turned around, putting his hands on my chest Pushing back, but fortunately I am standing still, or I must be sitting on the ground.

The man in red scolded: "Fuck! You have to admit it if you do it. You don't want to frame people like this, you..." Seeing that it was me, the man in red immediately widened his charming eyes and was stunned for a moment. Immediately knelt on the ground and begged for mercy: "I don't know it's the emperor, I didn't do it on purpose just now, please forgive me."

"It's okay, you get up first." After the man in red turned around, I knew who he was. This year's new son Zhou Ling, I smiled and said, "Then can you tell me why you are crying now?"

When I asked, Zhou Ling's eyes filled with tears again, and he cried out with a grievance. Just now he was just sobbing, but now he is crying loudly, trying to vent all the anger and grievance he has suffered recently. of.Zhou Ling cried and told about his humiliation today.

It turned out that he performed in place of Liu Sha before, which aroused the jealousy of many young masters, so they thought of a way to make Zhou Ling look ugly. Some "kind" young masters said that they would prepare dance clothes for Zhou Ling. Zhou Ling couldn't refuse, so he had to agree. Tonight, Zhou Ling would wear the red dance clothes given to him by the young princes in the Hall of Changhuan in front of his mother, concubines and officials' wives. He danced well, and the queen mother would like it, but I didn't expect that after he finished dancing, the entire Changhuan Hall was silent.The queen mother said with a stern face: "A few days ago, there was a little master Liu, and tonight there is a young master Zhou, all of them are restless people, and they have offended the concubine before they have won the emperor's favor." After finishing speaking, he asked Zhou Ling to leave without any sympathy, and ordered him never to dance in front of everyone.

I was a little confused after hearing this, and said, "Then why is my queen mother mad at you?"

Zhou Ling pointed to the hem of his dance dress and said, "Hasn't the emperor noticed something embroidered on my dance dress?"

I looked down, and it turned out that Zhou Ling's bright red dance dress was embroidered with big snow-blue and golden-yellow peonies, which were extremely gorgeous.It was no wonder that the queen mother was angry, because the unwritten rule in the palace was that the peony belonged to He Wenliu, and other people should not have peony patterns on their bodies.The empress mother made it difficult for Zhou Ling, not because she was protecting He Wenliu, but because she felt that Zhou Ling did not abide by the palace rules because of her youth and beauty.

I laughed and said, "Don't you know that you can't just wear clothes embroidered with peony patterns in the palace?"

"How could I know?" Zhou Ling rubbed his tears and said, "If a kind eunuch hadn't told me when I left Changhuan Palace, I still don't know what I did wrong." Zhou Ling still Simple, like He Wenliu, he seems to say whatever comes to mind, he said: "Since I moved into Chuxiu Palace, I have been isolated by them, because I came from a humble background, they look down on me, and they don't talk to me at all. I come from Jianglin Come here, how could it be possible to hear about the things in the palace before? They saw that I would perform in place of Liu Xiaozhu, so they gave me a dance skirt embroidered with peonies, they simply wanted to harm me."

Zhou Ling’s expression was very vivid when he spoke, and he was not at all as flattering as he was outside the Changting Hall for the first time before. The attitude shown by Zhou Ling now seems to be his true temperament. The gentle and enchanting before is probably just pretending Bar.

I looked at Zhou Ling and said, "You have become different from when I first met."

Zhou Ling knew what I meant, he smiled, his smile was extremely sweet, his eyes were full of warmth, my heart trembled slightly, I felt his smile was so familiar, I just heard him say: "Then I think I must enter the palace , no matter what, you have to pretend."

"Why do you have to enter the palace?" I asked aside the familiarity in my heart. Although Zhou Ling's father was only a fifth-rank official, besides entering the palace, he should be able to find a better way out for Zhou Ling.

Zhou Ling didn't even think about it, so he replied casually: "If I don't enter the palace, my father will marry me to Fang Yuanwai in the city as a male concubine. Fang Yuanwai is older than my father. I..." Zhou Ling Suddenly he realized it, and immediately shut up and didn't speak, because how could the dignified prefect's son-in-law marry someone else as a male concubine?

Zhou Ling looked at me, but I didn’t speak, as if I was waiting for him to continue. Zhou Ling thought that he had slipped his mouth anyway, so let’s die, and he said it all at once, “I am one of my father and his concubine. I was born by a concubine, and the party member looked at me beautifully, so he gave my father a dowry of 500 taels of silver and wanted to marry me. Of course I refused, so I gave my father some wine while my aunt was returning to her mother's house. , coax him to adopt me to the aunt's knee, and then let him write the paperwork and stamp it, and I will take the paperwork to draft girls."

Seeing that I was still silent, Zhou Ling was a little anxious and said, "Don't you believe me?"

I said: "I'm just surprised, you are so beautiful, there should be many people who have mentioned to your father that they want to take you into the house, and you are eighteen years old, so you want to enter the palace to escape, then why have you been safe before?" Are you okay?"

After listening to my question, Zhou Ling smiled, with a strong tenderness on the corner of his mouth, he said: "I have a sister who is eight years older than me, and a wealthy family does not dislike my sister's background, so he married my sister to pass the family Even if my sister gets married, she still thinks about me as a younger brother in her heart. My father and aunt are jealous of my sister, so they don't make things difficult for me." Zhou Ling paused, his eyes filled with longing, and then said: "But My sister died of illness more than a year ago, and my father lost his scruples, so he turned his idea on me."

Everyone has a story behind them. Zhou Ling and I are somewhat similar in family relationship. He has a sister who can be missed, and I have a brother who can be missed.Suddenly, an idea popped into my mind, and I asked, "Zhou Ling, if one day you are granted favor, will you take revenge on your father and your aunt?"

Zhou Ling sneered and said: "No, not only my father and my aunt, but also all the people who bullied me. Not only will I not retaliate, but I will treat them very well, very well, but I will occasionally lose my temper with them , so that they will be terrified to death, they are obviously afraid of me in their hearts, but they have to put on a smile on the surface, this is the best way to torture people."

"Okay," I said with a smile, "then I agree with your idea."

A few days later, Wanfu led the inner eunuchs to Chuxiu Palace with the imperial decree, and asked Zhou Ling to come forward to listen to the seal in front of the young masters. Wanfu read out the imperial decree and canonized Zhou Ling of Xu Chengren's family in Jianglin as Datong The new queen of the dynasty.

I fulfilled Zhou Ling's wish and made him the most noble person in the harem, and then he could torture those who used to ridicule, bully, and disdain him. Zhou Ling was surprised, stunned, and jealous Under his gaze, he followed Wanfu to the Queen's Palace, Fengyi Palace.