Zhuo Qihua

"Your Majesty! Girls over 16 years old and under 20 years old, my brother, enter the palace to run for your lord. This is not in line with the ancestral system!" The Minister of the Household Department was a little confused about the New Year's celebration, and His Majesty said that his preparation for the draft was beyond his expectations However, the noble lord chosen here is too old!

Emperor Yong'an said displeasedly: "I am already thirty, you can choose some thirteen or fourteen-year-olds for me, and treat me as a beast!"

"I don't dare!" Nian Qing was so frightened that he knelt down.

Emperor Yong'an: "The emperor's heir is weak. I chose to enter the palace as a concubine and servant, not for beauty, let alone selfish desires, but for the reproduction of the royal family and for the future foundation of the Damata Kingdom! My harem, thirteen or fourteen years old There are not a few people who are pregnant, but how many of them have saved the emperor's heir? I don't want those who are useless. What I want is someone who can keep the dragon fetus and give birth to a healthy dragon heir! Do as I say ! The age of the maids remains the same. If there is someone from the clan who is interested but younger, they will have to wait two years before I marry you."

Nian Qing got up: "Yes...my minister, I will explain it immediately." He secretly groaned in his heart.

Hubu Shangshu left Zhixing Hall in disgrace. Sure enough, within two days of this good day, he was about to offend someone again.There were no outsiders, so Zhang Xian leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Long live, this is not suggested by Zhuoya, is it?"

Emperor Yong'an glanced at Zhang Xian: "You know him quite well."

Zhang Xian immediately flattered and said: "Long live, you talked with Zhuo Ya people last night by candlelight, and today you changed the age of your lord's entry into the palace. This servant has the guts to speculate like that."

Emperor Yong'an leaned back relaxedly, and said in a deep voice: "He said a lot to me last night, and after thinking about it, I think what he said is very reasonable. But the age he proposed is from seventeen to 22, I think about it." After that, it was still pressed down."

Zhang Xian was puzzled: "Seventeen to 22? So old, isn't it more difficult to conceive a dragon heir?"

"So I lowered my age, let's see." Emperor Yong'an would not explain too much to Zhang Xian, and he also had some doubts about Zhuo Ji's proposed age.But Zhuo Ji said that it is difficult to conceive at the age of thirteen or fourteen, and even if she is pregnant, it is easy to miscarry, and the child she gives birth is also easy to die. This is because the situation in the palace is also true.

Emperor Yong'an went to visit the Queen Mother as usual, and told the Queen Mother what Zhuo Ji said to him last night, and what he could tell the Queen Mother.After hearing this, the queen mother sat up from the sick bed.

"Emperor, are you saying that the lack of dragon heirs in the palace has nothing to do with witchcraft?!"

Emperor Yong'an: "Zhuo Ji said that even if there is, the impact will be very small. If the Cheng family really wants to murder the children's heirs, it would be safer to poison them. Many of the medicines in the Cheng family's palace are poisonous. Her men The person also confessed that she 'poisoned' the dragon's heir"

The queen mother squeezed the quilt tightly, and Emperor Yong'an held his mother's cold hand: "I think what he said is very reasonable. Shaoyao and the others all married me when they were thirteen or fourteen years old. Shaoyao is my elder brother. It is not easy to conceive a child. He gave birth to Chen Yi in his first child, and he was twenty-three at that time. Kuang's first child was only fifteen, and he gave birth to a child with difficulty, but died before he was one year old. The second She was only seventeen, and the child she gave birth died before she was one year old. She was only twenty-one when she was pregnant with the third child, and it was even more difficult to conceive after that. However, the three children were not all committed by the Cheng family. Shao Yao conceived again in the third year after giving birth to Chen Yi. Although he could not survive, his health was much better than that of the Kuang family. Chen Mu was born by Guan Tong (Deju) when he was 20 years old, but Guan Tong also lost his health because of it, and Chen Mu's health is also not good."

Concubine Hui Zhou, who was thrown into the cold palace, entered the palace at the age of 16, and gave birth to the third prince, Chen Pu, at the age of 19.Zhou's delivery went smoothly, and Chen Pu's body was also strong.It's just that the Zhou family was thrown into the cold palace, and the third prince, Chen Pu, was also adopted by Emperor Yong'an to be raised by a descendant clan relative. He fell out of favor completely, and Emperor Yong'an didn't mention him.Although Emperor Yong'an did not have many heirs, he would not leave the prince born to him by the Zhou family because of this.And in order to prevent future troubles, while the child is still young, adopting him out early will also avoid possible troubles in the future.

The queen mother nodded slowly: "It seems that it is true. Your father was weak since he was a child, and Emperor Mingzong only gave him a marriage when he was your father. I married your father at the age of 15 for my mother, but you were born. At that time Your father is weak, and the prince is strong. My mother was worried about you being assassinated, and pretended to hand you over to the nanny to feed you, but in fact, my mother fed you herself. This is what your father told me to be your mother. You have been strong since childhood, and you seldom get sick. , your father is more than once thankful that you are not as weak as he was born with." Speaking of this, the empress dowager's eyes turned red, and there were tears in the corners of her eyes.

Emperor Yong'an stretched out his arms and hugged his mother: "No wonder the child has been full of vigor since he was a child. It turns out that you, your mother, raised the child yourself."

The Empress Dowager held the emperor's hand, suppressed her longing for the late emperor who was posthumously named Emperor Shenzong by Emperor Yong'an, and said: "My mother doesn't know what colostrum is. At that time, I didn't dare to protect you. Let you eat other people's milk, and don't care whether the milk is dirty or not, just feed you like that. At first, seeing that you didn't feel any discomfort, but you could eat and sleep more, so I felt relieved as a mother. I never thought, What kind of 'liquid gold' did you accidentally eat for your mother?" The Queen Mother clasped her hands together, "This is the blessing of the ancestors!"

Emperor Yong'an: "If Zhuo Ji hadn't mentioned it, I really wouldn't have known that I ate so well after birth. I thank my mother for feeding me." Emperor Yong'an stood up, knelt down, and gave the queen mother a respectful meal. Great gift.

The queen mother suppressed the tears from the corners of her eyes, and stretched out her hand: "Hurry up, my son."

The Empress Dowager's illness is more of a psychological problem.My heart is relaxed, and the disease will naturally heal.If Emperor Yong'an still half-believed Zhuo Ji's "breastfeeding" and "colostrum is precious" and other novel claims about nurturing offspring, then after he came out of Shoukang Palace, Emperor Yong'an believed at least [-]% of it.He is a living example!Also because he knew that he was raised by the empress himself, Emperor Yong'an's affection for the empress was much deeper, and he even felt an indescribable sense of happiness.Of course, for the emperor, this sense of happiness would only be deeply buried in his heart.

After exiting the Shoukang Palace, Emperor Yong'an turned around, and for the first time seriously looked at this palace where the empress dowagers, empress dowagers, empress dowagers and other former emperors and concubines lived.For the first time, I had a different feeling for the no longer young woman who lived here.Zhang Xian didn't dare to disturb the Holy Majesty, but felt that the Holy Majesty was a little weird after he came out from the Empress Dowager.

After staring at it for a long time, Emperor Yong'an turned around and said, "Go back to Fengtian Hall."

Zhang Xian bowed his head immediately: "Yes!"

Sitting on the chariot, Emperor Yong'an said: "The affairs of the harem will be temporarily handed over to the Empress Dowager. Your concubine, concubine, concubine, and concubine will assist you. The phoenix seal will be sealed in Ziwei Pavilion."

"……Yes."

Zhang Xian suppressed the sudden surprise.He thought that His Majesty would order Mrs. Jiagui to be in charge of the harem, how could he hand it over to the Queen Mother?Zhang Xian naturally didn't dare to ask more questions, and Emperor Yong'an would not explain to the eunuchs around him.Because of the early death of her biological father, the queen mother never enjoyed the glory of being a queen.Now that Cheng's family is bestowed to death, Emperor Yong'an also wants to make up for the regret of his mother.

——"Keep the queen mother a little busy and move more, which is good for the body. The queen mother is not yet fifty and has already started to retire. Doing nothing all day is not only not good for the body, but it is also easy to think about those unhappy things."

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"The Empress Dowager is in charge of the harem?" Jiaguixie who got the news couldn't sit still any longer.He got down from the sick bed and asked, "Is the Queen Mother cured?"

Changan said anxiously: "After your Majesty came out of Shoukang Palace, the Empress Dowager recovered from her illness. Your Majesty decreed outside Shoukang Palace that the Empress Dowager will be in charge of the harem, and the Phoenix Seal will be sealed in Ziwei Pavilion. You and Concubine Xigui It's all just assistants!"

Jia Guixie went to the soft bed and sat down, with a bad complexion.Chang'an worried: "Master, what do you mean by His Majesty? Cheng's family was bestowed to death, so isn't Your Majesty setting up a new queen?"

Jia Guixie: "Don't mention this again! Whether or not to establish a new empress is a matter for His Majesty, and the harem must not interfere!"

"Yes." Chang'an muttered in a low voice, "This servant is just complaining about your grievances."

Jia Guixie walked to the bed, the cool autumn wind had already blown, he whispered to himself: "I can't be sick anymore..."

Three days later, Fuquan, Dezhen's personal eunuch, hurried in: "Master, your wife has gone to Shoukang Palace to pay her respects to the Queen Mother."

Dezhen, who was playing with his son Nan Rong Chenzhu, stood up straight: "Your lady is healed?"

Fuquan: "I don't know if the illness is cured or not. Your wife went to pay her respects to the Empress Dowager, and the imperial concubine also went."

Dezhen signaled to the nanny, and the two nanny took away the four-year-old second prince, Nan Rongchen.De Xun went to the couch and sat down, and said: "He should be well too. After Mrs. Cheng died, another Zhuo Ji appeared. Originally, based on His Majesty's affection for him, once Mrs. Cheng died, this Danyang Palace should It was in his pocket, but His Majesty let the Empress Dowager take charge. His Majesty rewarded him and Concubine Xi Gui with a lot of things to take care of his health, but he has been staying in Jinse Palace for four or five days and nights." De Xi Yao Shaking his head, "Even I don't understand His Majesty anymore."

Fuquan complained to his master: "Master, you put all your heart into building the Jinse Palace, but in the end you didn't get any benefit. They drove back all the palace people you arranged and replaced them with their own people. Since he has someone he is used to , why do you have to ask Master to arrange for him? Isn’t this bullying? I thought it would be pitiful for him to be imprisoned in the West Third Courtyard by the Cheng family, but he turned out to be a worse person than the Cheng family!”

Dezhen smiled calmly: "For so many years, I have already seen it off. If it weren't for your concubine's illness, this job would not have fallen on me. Your Majesty still misses me as an old man. It's only my fault." I don't know people clearly, and let people take advantage of the loopholes, and did something like eavesdropping on the new master's words, which upset His Majesty. I don't ask for anything now, I just want Mu'er to be healthy." Anyway, he In this Danyang Palace, the worst is nothing more than this.

"Master..." Fuquan felt sorry for his master.

Azhu, the eldest maid of Deju, came in from the outside with a strange expression: "Master! Someone from Jinse Palace! Said to give you a thank you gift, master!"

Deju was taken aback: "Jinse Palace?"

Fuquan immediately asked, "Are you from Zhuoya?"

Azhu shook her head anxiously: "No. It's the father-in-law of Jinse Palace, Wang Bao."

Dezhen pursed his lips: "Let him in."

"Yes."

Azhu went out, Fuquan was not happy: "Master, he should be the one to give the gift of thanks, what's the point of sending a palace steward?"

"Don't talk too much!" Glaring at Fuquan, Dezhen said, "Be careful in a while, don't talk nonsense."

"……Yes."

Ah Zhu went back and forth, followed by Wang Bao holding a lacquered wooden box.When Wang Bao saw Dezhen, he knelt down and saluted: "Slave Wang Bao, ask Dezhen for peace."

"Get up."

"Thank you."

Wang Bao stood up, handed out the lacquer box in his hand, and said: "Cuchu, my master ordered the slaves to come to give a thank you gift, thank you for buying the Jinse Palace for my master, my master likes it very much, especially the rocking chair. My master can't sleep well at night, and I can take a nap while rocking on the rocking chair to rest my mind. My master knows that His Royal Highness is not in good health, so he specially sent this thank you gift to Dezhen, hoping to treat him well. Your Highness's body has helped."

Dezhen's heart moved, and Fuquan, who received the signal from his master, stepped forward to take the lacquer box with both hands.Dezhen said: "Zoya people are polite. His Majesty ordered Jinse Palace to be built, and this palace is also a matter of business. Zhuoya people were innocently imprisoned in the West Third Courtyard for three years. Now it's raining. Happy for him too."

Wang Baodao: "He is generous. My master said that he should have come to visit in person, but his face is haggard and it is really inconvenient to meet people. When he recovers in the future, he will definitely come to thank him in person."

Dezhen: "Mr. Zhuo Ya is not feeling well, so just rest for a while. You don't need to come here specially. They are all His Majesty's servants, and we will inevitably meet in the future."

Wang Bao saluted: "The servant girl will not bother you anymore, and the servant girl will leave."

"Say hello to Zhuoya people on behalf of the palace."

"Slaves will."

Azhu sent Wang Bao away, Fuquan said with a straight face: "This Zhuoya man is really arrogant. If he is sincerely grateful to the master, he should come to the door in person! What a haggard face, it is inconvenient to see people, why doesn't he say that he is getting His Majesty's favor every day , can’t get out of bed!”

"Fuquan!"

Fuquan bit his lip, but he was still angry.De Xun is also unhappy, he is Xun, Zhuo Ji is just an elegant person.Even if he enjoys the status of being a scorpion, he is only an elegant person in name.It took so many days for him to come to thank him, but he still only sent the chief eunuch of Jinse Palace, which really didn't take his virtue "傛" seriously.But Zhuo Ji is in full bloom now, His Majesty's rewards are sent to Jinse Palace every now and then, and so many cases have been broken for him, both Jiaguixie and Xiguifei have kept silent about this, and he can only swallow his anger.

When he was bullied by the Cheng family in the past, Dezhen didn't swallow his anger like this. After all, his father was the Minister of the Ministry of War and an important minister of the court.But ever since the witchcraft case broke out, His Majesty Longyan was furious. Not to mention the concubines and maids in the palace were all cautious, for fear of provoking Longyan's fury, even the waists and spines of the court officials were bent a little bit more than before. .Dezhen didn't want to provoke the emperor's disgust because of Zhuo Ji, and then implicate his father and mother's family, especially his precious son.So he endured Zhuo Ji's defiantness.

Fuquan threw the lacquered wooden box on the table casually, and said angrily, "What kind of gift can such a crappy box give. This is not a thank you, this is simply a demonstration!"

Dezhen sighed: "Okay, don't say a few words. Open it and see what it is. Don't ask His Majesty when the time comes. I can't tell you, and it's just for nothing to make His Majesty unhappy."

Fuquan opened the box with a stern face. Inside the box was a thick stack of white paper, and something was clearly written on it.Dezhen's eyes showed surprise: "Open it and have a look." Fuquan put the lid aside, and when Azhu came back, Dezhen asked her and Fuquan to see what Zhuo Ji gave.

"Master, this is full of characters, the slaves don't understand." Fuquan handed over the first piece of paper he opened.Dezhen took a look and was shocked.

"Master, what was written on the paper?" Ah Zhu could read a few words, poked her head over, and read out word by word: "Hey, baby... something?"

"Precautions for feeding young children." Dezhen read it out, he glanced through it in a hurry, looked up and said, "Open everything! Quick!"

Azhu and Fuquan didn't dare to delay, they opened all the folded white papers in the box.Ah Zhu: "Hey! What is the picture on this picture!"

Dezhen stretched out his hand and drew it over, and saw a line written on the top - the whole picture of children's massage.Dezhen's heart was pounding, and he quickly read all the papers, and it turned out that they were all about how to raise children and enhance their physique.Dezhen asked Azhu and Fuquan to go out to guard, and he looked at each one carefully as if he had found a treasure.