Force a good concubine

"My servant speaks out boldly. It seems that I am a person who dares to speak up. She does not shirk when things happen, and she has ideas." Madam Xu said, "The servant girl read the words she copied just now, and the handwriting is calm."

"The behavior is generous." There was silence inside and outside the side hall, only the soft sound of agarwood flakes bursting in the incense burner. The queen mother leaned on the couch, looking out through the bamboo curtain, and Gu Yan was still standing beside the desk He hangs his wrists without looking sideways, and the green robe with black corner belt, and even the ebony tassels on his waist are neat and tidy, there is nothing to be picky about.

"When I heard Princess Gong's words at the beginning, I only thought she was a vixen, but now I really don't look like it. Thinking about it carefully, Ah Zheng said that there was something strange here, and it was not a lie. Didn't Dongshe say it last time, When she was in the palace, she behaved well, and it’s only the emperor who has no sense of propriety?” The queen mother picked up the tea bowl and smiled helplessly, “It’s only been a few days, and the emperor hastily called her back to the palace—if she has always behaved like this It's fair, just like Ah Zheng said, keeping her by the emperor's side doesn't necessarily do any harm."

"What the old lady said is true." Xu Momo thought for a while, but hesitated, "It's just that the servant listened to the meaning of what Gu Yuan said, and it seemed that he had a birth with the young master after leaving the palace. Now—— —”

She hesitated to speak, but the Empress Dowager already understood, and the anger she suppressed couldn't help rising again: "Isn't that true? It's just Yuan Jia——ah!" The Western chiming bell in the outer hall suddenly rang, and the Empress Dowager listened attentively. Hearing this, he sighed again, "I'm afraid she is sitting in the Wenhua Palace today, but her heart is still here in Ningshou Palace. Seeing that it's time to pass the meal, you take Gu Yan to meet the emperor. It is to prevent her from thinking about it in her heart, and her lunch is not good. Secondly, she will take a good look at it for me to see what is going on between her and the emperor now? If she can appease the emperor, Aijia will just turn a blind eye Leave her with one eye, if she makes the emperor feel sad and troubled, even if she doesn't act coquettishly, the Ai family will not spare her!"

"I'm going now, servant girl." Madam Xu responded, but walked out of the inner hall and led Gu Yuan out of Ningshou Hall.Wei Fengchun had already been waiting in front of the guard window for a long time, and when he saw the two of them getting off the platform, he trotted over immediately, while quietly sizing up Gu Yan, while bowing and smiling at Mammy Xu, "Mama, I don't know this time—— "

Mother Xu turned a blind eye to his wink: "Young master, can you drive from the Wenhua Palace? The old lady has a will."

Gu Yuzhou's body was neat and tidy, and there was no trace of grinding, but Wei Fengchun could see a little gloomy look on her face. He couldn't figure it out, and his heart was a little flustered. Hearing Madam Xu's words, he couldn't help but A little bit embarrassed, but he didn't dare to neglect, Wei Fengchun saw that Gu Yan's face was pale, he couldn't see good or bad, he couldn't guess the good or bad in his heart, and he didn't dare to neglect, so he had to bite the bullet and try while leading the way: "Little When I came over, the young master was still in the Wenhua Palace, or else, mammy just wait, I will ask someone to ask, and save the labor mammy—”

Before he could say a word, a small servant had already trotted in from the Ci Ning Gate opposite, and bowed breathlessly in front of several people: "Master! Young master and His Royal Highness King Yu are watching clansmen compare arrows in the Hall of Renzhi and are waiting for you." Let the master answer."

Wei Fengchun's smiling face suddenly became embarrassed, and he gave Wei Lian a hard look, which made Wei Lian shrank her neck in fright, and the last sentence was almost inaudible, "Already, I've been urged three times——"

The Hall of Renzhi is very close to Ningshou Palace, passing through the square in front of Ningshoumen is the back door of Hall of Renzhi.The emperor's fear that he would not be able to put out the fire in time was almost obvious. Madam Xu glanced at the embarrassed Wei Fengchun, then calmly glanced at the calm Gu Yuan, and coughed pretendingly ignorantly: "It's just right, old lady I am also thinking about my young master, I want to pass the decree, let's go."

The Hall of Renzhi is the place where the nearby clans studied and practiced martial arts. There is a small school yard under the platform of the front hall, with a wide view, and everything that should be ready for everyone to walk down immediately.A few people entered the apse, and heard a commotion in front of the platform ahead, and walked around the corridor to see a thin figure dressed in green clouds and woven gold scattered like a full moon on the small school grounds. Block, cheers like thunder.

Madam Xu was startled, but before she could recover, the rider in the arena had already been hit by three arrows. The horse circled around the arena, raised its bow to the people outside the arena, reined in the reins under the platform, and raised its hand to push The eight-petal red-tasseled gold-topped hat on the head swept across the platform, paused on Gu Yan, and then turned to Xu Mama: "Mama, are you here?"

The emperor was dressed very casually this time, except for the dragon pattern that was sprinkled on it, it was almost the same as that of the clan around him. Madam Xu looked at her carefully and saw that although her forehead was covered with beads of sweat, her brows were full of tears. He couldn't hide his pride, his cheeks were reddish, his eyes were piercing, and compared to his usual calmness, he was not a bit more lively, he couldn't help but also smiled, and bowed his knees to the emperor: "My lord, forgive me, my servant is late , I’m not blessed to see my hero’s bravery in person.”

"What kind of heroic force is this?" The emperor put his bow down and walked up the platform slowly. He glanced at Gu Yuan again, then turned his face, and said to King Yu who was beside him, "I was just saying that I came to see Yunzhou yesterday. In the excerpt, it is mentioned that the titles of Westerners are all spelled out with real swords and guns. The current Governor of India has just been made a duke by the Queen of the West. He is a poor sailor. I heard that there is such a person in America. They Encouraging military exploits so much, you can tell if you don’t ask questions. My Daqi’s clan and countrymen have been in peace for a long time, so I will take the exam a few more times in the future, and it will save everyone from having to sharpen their guns when they are taking the exam."

"My emperor is sage." King Yu was always conceited, and regarded all the children of the clan other than himself as wine bags, rice bags and embroidered pillows. , Reward those who work hard, punish those who are lazy, and after a long time, you will see the effect, and you will live up to His Majesty's painstaking efforts to boost morale this time."

The emperor smiled slightly, with a very serious expression on his face, but his voice was perfunctory and misty: "Uncle Xiao Wang said it very well, I think it's better for Uncle Wang to write a note and hand it over to the clan's mansion tomorrow for clarification. Pass it on to me." He said a few words of encouragement to everyone, and then handed out rewards according to their heads.

King Yu didn't even have time to say a word of refusal, so he had to follow Xie En to leave, but he felt strange as he walked: the emperor has always behaved properly, this time he went to the Hall of Renzhi with great enthusiasm, and then came off in person. No matter how you look at it, it seems that you attach great importance to these children, why did you entrust the mission to yourself so easily?

He was puzzled outside the palace, and the emperor was just as restless in the Palace of Qinghe at the moment.She felt that her reasons for going back to the Hall of Renzhi were very sufficient: the clan's children are the foundation of the country, and the late emperor personally tested the knowledge of the children, and she just followed the example of the late emperor, not to mention that the world is not peaceful now. Is there any reason not to be prepared for danger in times of peace?

However, no matter how calm she is, how well she shoots, she can't deny it. The moment she saw Gu Yan, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and there seemed to be a tight string in her body in a trance. Relaxed, there are so many people on the platform, there is only one Gu Yuan, and she sees only one Gu Yuan, Gu Yuan is intact, Gu Yuan is safe and sound, she seems to have nothing to ask for, even that The original plans to rectify the clan's children also became insignificant in an instant, and they were only perfunctory and handed over to King Yu.

Perhaps those foolish lords mentioned in the history books who love beauties but not country, initially had the same thoughts as themselves.The emperor glanced at Gu Yan who was calm and kneeling in the palace again, but suddenly felt that he was more ridiculous and pathetic than those deluded fools—even if she wanted to love beauties and not love Jiangshan, but the beauty in front of her only loved Jiangshan and not Jiangshan. Love her.

The emperor didn't want to think about it anymore, she turned her face away, and asked Nanny Xu pretending to be indifferent: "Why did the queen mother remember to listen to those foreign monks' lectures?"

"Didn't you say that those foreign monks are going to build a temple in our Daqi?" The emperor never mentioned a word to Gu Yan from the beginning to the end, but showed some intentions to hide it even more. Xu Nanny secretly made a note in her heart, and her face She went up but remained calm, "The old lady is kind-hearted. She said that it was not easy for a foreign monk who came from afar, and she also wanted to see and see, so she made a decree to ask the female officer to help the slaves choose together. The slaves are old and dull, I can’t remember anything, if my young master has any intentions, I can tell Ms. Gu to do it.”

The emperor pursed his lips, responded, and drank tea blindly, as if he was not interested in this matter.It's just that there is not even a word on the scene, but it is showing the emperor's mind at a glance. Madam Xu took another look at Gu Yan who was kneeling silently in the hall from the beginning to the end, and she understood eight or nine points. Forgive me, this servant still has something to say. The young master's hand injury is serious, and today he is riding a horse and drawing a bow—"

The emperor put down the teacup, and stretched out his hand generously to show Madam Xu: "I changed the medicine again after the banquet today, and it's completely okay."

Nanny Xu took the emperor's hand and looked carefully for a while, seeing that it was all right, she adjusted the sleeves for the emperor, said congratulations, and led Gu Yan to resign, but she didn't go back directly to Ningshou Palace, but Folded into the guard room, summoned Wei Fengchun and said, "I have something to ask you."

"Yes." Wei Fengchun lifted up his robe and knelt down in fear, and quickly went through the history of the emperor's hand injury again, but Madam Xu said: "Doctor Wei said that the young master has not slept peacefully recently, but really of?"

Wei Fengchun was startled, but when he came back to his senses, he was a little embarrassed: "Nurse, the young master has ordered that we, as slaves—"

In this case, it was secretly confirming the fact that the emperor could not sleep well at night.Nanny Xu frowned: "Even if the young master has a will, you should think of ways to persuade her to rest earlier."

Wei Fengchun's face wrinkled into a bitter gourd: "Young master is not too late to rest, but it takes an hour or two to fall asleep, and he doesn't sleep well. The servants also try to find ways to relieve it, but the young master is full of thoughts. It’s just perfunctory about other things, the young ones don’t know much, one is that they don’t dare to speak nonsense, and the other is that even if they say it, they really don’t make sense!”

"Could there be no way?" Madam Xu asked with a stern face, but calmly glanced at Gu Yuan, who was looking worried, Wei Fengchun blinked, suddenly realized, and pretended to hesitate for a while, before saying: "Mama Forgive me, there is a saying in my hometown that the Buddha is merciful. People who can't sleep well can sleep well when they listen to people reciting scriptures when they are resting. It's just, just, my master is always quiet and doesn't like to listen to strangers Talk, even if you are willing to listen," he grinned, "you can't listen with such a small voice, can you?"

"Young master can't make it through this much," Madam Xu said, "There is a copy of "The Sutra of Real Enlightenment" in Ningshou Palace, which has been worshiped in front of the Buddha for decades. It’s time to let Dongshe and the others try it.”

"Aunt Dong doesn't know much, so I'm afraid she may not be able to read." Seeing that Gu Yan's brows were getting more and more worried, but he remained silent, Wei Fengchun simply lowered his face and asked, "Nurse, I feel that Gu My lord's voice is not bad, how about asking her to try it?"