Force a good concubine

The emperor regretted it when Gu Yuan followed Nanny Xu out of the palace gate.Although listening to Madam Xu's tone, the queen mother's prejudice against Gu Yuan seemed to have dispelled, but before Gu Yuan said it personally, the uneasiness in the emperor's heart was like unburned spring grass, popping up from time to time.She ate into lunch without eating, and then called Wei Fengchun in for questioning. Seeing that he was also at a loss, she couldn't help frowning: "Stupid! If Nanny Xu doesn't say anything, can't you ask someone else?"

"My servant asked, but Miss Gu's tone is too tight, I really can't ask!" Wei Fengchun had a frown, "My servant even asked Mr. Wei in the imperial hospital. Mr. Wei said that when he entered the hall, he saw Mrs. Gu and stood up. I was copying books at the back of the desk, but I didn't see the others, so it doesn't look like I'm being embarrassed."

"The queen mother is not an unreasonable person." The emperor breathed a sigh of relief, and murmured, walked around the hall a few times with his hands behind his back, and then ordered, "Let the Wei mansion come earlier in the evening to ask for the pulse of peace, and I will ask him personally."

"Yes." Seeing the emperor returning to his seat, Wei Fengchun began to critique the papers again. Wei Fengchun brought up the lid cup and explained while lifting the lid, "Master Wei ordered this morning that the young master's Ningshen Decoction should not be used too much, and it is not suitable to drink it before going to bed. Tea, tell the imperial dining room to send almond butter, it is said to relieve deficiency, heat and thirst, young master, try it?"

The emperor frowned and said nothing.After returning to the palace, she has been sleeping poorly. She doesn't have many dreams, but it is difficult to fall asleep. She has to toss and turn on the dragon bed for a long time every day before she can close her eyes. Try different methods.The people around me were worried, but the emperor had his own explanation for it. She had just been in power, so it was normal to be nervous, and besides, it was unavoidable for the emperor to eat clothes and eat food, and he was at the age when he should work hard. What's wrong with just letting it go?

She took a few sips casually, put down the lid cup and rinsed her mouth, got up and walked through the hallway into the apse, stopped in Hanchun Hall for a while to admire the newly changed calligraphy and paintings on the wall, glanced at the Longxi Pavilion on the left, and turned to the right. Went to the Zhenxiang Pavilion.Wei Fengchun watched the emperor enter the hall, but walked back to the gate of Hanchun hall, kowtowed lightly, and left the hall.

He also had his own explanation for the emperor's insomnia—the five apse halls of the Qinghe Hall, the emperor used to live in the Longxi Pavilion, why was it changed to the Zhenxiang Pavilion this time?As long as you think carefully about the situation before and after the emperor returned to the palace, you can understand that there is such a caring person missing!In other words, it is actually very simple to cure the emperor's poor sleep. To untie the bell, the person who tied the bell must be tied. Since it was obtained because of Gu Yan, it must be solved because of Gu Yan. Most of them knew it well, but they couldn't say it out. Now that the old lady changed her mind and wanted to send Gu Yuan to the emperor, even if he raised his head and shoulders, he had to obey the emperor's wishes!

Seeing Gu Yan enter the Hanchun Hall holding the scripture box, Wei Fengchun took out his pocket watch from his arms to check the time, then looked up at the sky, called Wei Lian and told him: "Go, go to the gate of Longdao Gate and watch the time in person." Go, if there is no sign at the performance office, stop it first. Just say it was the old lady's order, the young master didn't sleep well, and he finally got a rest, so he can't be bothered for nothing."

Leaning on the pillars of the corridor, he listened carefully, and there were faint voices of voices coming from the apse. Although he couldn't hear them clearly, he could tell from the tone that it wasn't arguing or getting angry.Wei Fengchun heaved a sigh of relief, put his hands together and bowed towards the sky, and kept chanting in his heart: it was said that it was a quarrel at the head of the bed and at the end of the bed. It should be reconciled!

When Gu Yuan entered the palace, the emperor didn't notice it.After suffering from insomnia for a long time, the emperor also had his own way of entertaining himself.After taking off a coat, she picked up a booklet from the desk and leaned on the bedside to read it.The booklet was very thick, and it was a report sent by the chief envoy of Yunzhou on the movements of Tianzhu and Westerners. The emperor was not in a hurry to give a reply. He read it and compared it with the map in his heart, and closed his eyes from time to time to think about it—the time for thinking It will slowly become longer and longer, and at the end, she will fall asleep naturally.

She was closing her eyes and sketching the direction of the big river in Tianzhu in her mind, when she suddenly heard someone knocking at the entrance of the hall and entering the door, she thought it was the secretary who came in to put up the tent, and ignored it, but this time Cheng Siniang quietly put down the young man. Luo Man, however, did not quit. Instead, he kowtowed again in front of the dragon bed. Gu Yan's voice sounded slightly hesitant: "Your Majesty—are you asleep? Do you want to listen to the minister recite a scripture?"

The booklet in the emperor's hand fell on the pedal, she stood up in shock, and lifted the curtain with one hand, Gu Yuanduan was kneeling in front of the dragon bed, and was also looking at her, with four eyes facing each other, a smell like hot and sour, like bitter The taste welled up, and the emperor blurted out without thinking: "What are you doing here?"

The emperor's tone was not kind, as if with disgust, Gu Yan's heart sank, he bit his lips before he spoke: "I heard that your majesty didn't sleep well, and I obey the old lady's order to chant sutras for your majesty."

The emperor pursed his lips.Although everyone said that the Empress Dowager had a strict temperament, the emperor felt that the Empress Dowager was actually very indulgent to him. As long as there was no harm to the government, the Empress Dowager would always tolerate him, and it was the same this time.It's just that since Gu Yan wants to be a good minister in peace and contentment, why bother to provoke himself?Could it be, could it be pity for such a stupid mind like myself?

A burst of anger surged from the bottom of the emperor's heart. She turned her face to cover the anger in her eyes: "There is no shortage of people who chant scriptures here, and I don't want to listen to them. You can retreat."

The emperor's voice was calm, but his fingers had already clenched the tassels on the edge of the tent, obviously angry.Gu Yan smiled wryly. If she were the emperor, she would definitely be angry when she met such a person who just refused her and came over again. But even if the emperor looked down upon her, she couldn't refuse Wei Fengchun's proposal—she had no intention of exploring the emperor's proposal. Why insomnia, but only wishful thinking to try to make the emperor safe.

Gu Yuan lowered her eyes, and the white jade lotus flower on the cover of the book case in her hand was shining with a moist gleam, just like what she said when she heard a monk preaching the scriptures when she was young, the word love, greed, anger, ignorance, three poisons and fear of everything, always People can do stupid things beyond their own capabilities, just like at this moment, what else can I do besides provoking the emperor's anger in vain?

Gu Yan suppressed the anxiety and worry in his heart, and kowtowed to leave.But the emperor stopped her again, looked up and down thoughtfully, his voice was still cold: "Have you read Princess Beiwu's book?"

"I just read the general outline above, and I dare not speak nonsense. But I can see it from the inside. The discussion is precise, detailed and factual, and my insight is superior to others."

"Well." When it comes to government affairs, the emperor's voice is less cold, "I have someone check, Beiwu Princess was originally a member of the Luan Ceremony Department, if Emperor Mu Zong hadn't dismissed the Luan Ceremony Department and reopened the Ceremony Department , she should have been the next head of Luan Yisi. It's a pity that Emperor Mu Zong was jealous of Luan Yisi in every possible way, leaving such a talent idle in the palace, and only using those mediocre talents who promised to promise, and exiled her to Dingzhou. The king of Beiwu knows people with his eyes, and he is afraid that he will waste his life in vain." She said, looking at Gu Yan, bit her lips, "I am not Emperor Mu Zong, and I don't judge others based on prejudice. Queens of the West can only promote talents, and I will do the same Yes. You don't have to worry about it. I said earlier that I will never force you. If you don't want to be here with me, you can just say so. With the Queen Mother, I will find a way for you."

"Then," Gu Yan thought for a while, but still did not simply retreat, "may your majesty rest in peace?"

Why can she keep her duty as a courtier while provoking herself so generously?The emperor couldn't hold back his anger any longer, and blurted out the words in his heart: "Since you don't want to be here, why bother to ask?"

Gu Yan was stunned, then raised his head: "The minister never wanted to."

"Nonsense!" The emperor was so angry that the circles of his eyes were red, "You clearly despise me, and you still come here to provoke me! From the beginning, you only regarded me as the emperor, and you even tried to stop me from becoming a queen—"

"I don't want your majesty to stand up, because I don't want your majesty to risk the disgrace of the world." Gu Yan raised his hand, took out a hot towel from the small copper cover next to the bed, and presented it to the emperor. The long arm wiped the emperor's tears, but the emperor grabbed his hand viciously: "You said that you and I were divided into monarchs and ministers from the beginning—"

"I originally thought so." There was a pain in his wrist, but Gu Yan didn't struggle, he just wiped the emperor's face carefully. It was only when he got closer that he could see that the emperor's eyebrows were longer, but his cheeks were also thinner After a while, Gu Yan's voice involuntarily slowed down, "I am at home, reading the mansion newspaper every day, knowing that everything is not easy for your majesty. At that time, I thought, when I meet your majesty again, what should I do?" What are you doing? Are you still staying here like that, just watching His Majesty guarding me?" She shook her head lightly, and put the handkerchief back on the copper plate, "I am not rejecting Your Majesty, but I just don't want to be His Majesty's shortcoming. It's because His Majesty is angry Punishment, the subject is still the same, but His Majesty's body—”

Gu Yan couldn't continue, the emperor kissed her suddenly, making her words stop abruptly.The intimacy that hasn't been seen for a long time has never made people alienate, but there is a kind of eagerness for a little farewell to a newlywed.Gu Yan followed the emperor's strength and fell on the dragon bed, but pressed the emperor's hand with his hand: "Your Majesty's body—"

The emperor's kiss landed behind her ear, making her tremble involuntarily: "A Yuan, no matter what you think, it's just that I don't allow you to hate me."

Gu Yan was puzzled by the emperor's insistence: "When did I hate Your Majesty?"

"Didn't you read the mansion newspaper and know what I have done?" The emperor put his arms around Gu Yuan's neck, and looked at her deeply, "A Yuan, I am not a good emperor. I killed Zheng Tingji, There was an account in Yunzhou, saying that Prince Gong’s condition worsened; the last time Princess Gong entered the palace, she complained to the queen mother, saying that people in the capital underestimated Prince Gong’s mansion by three points, and the queen mother gave rewards several times. Still complaining; Prince Gong’s son—he didn’t do anything out of the ordinary, he collected Zheng Tingji’s body, and there was nothing wrong with working in the clan mansion, but, just, I can’t always trust him—”

"The case in Haizhou is over. I killed three first-rank officials. It is said in the booklet that people in Haizhou say that I am wise. I know that this is only a temporary solution, not the root cause. A stable way of life, when the times are not good in the future, I am afraid that accidents will happen again; Yunzhou, Yunzhou is the same! When I was young, I asked the late emperor, how should I be an emperor? The late emperor said, let people not starve to death, He is a good emperor, if people are fed, he is a great emperor. I didn’t understand at the time, I only thought about the peace of the world, the prosperity of the world, and the court often reduced money and food, how could someone not have enough to eat? But now—"

The emperor stretched out his hand, pulled out the folder that was pressed by Gu Yuan, and threw it on the pedal: "A Yuan, look, I am not a good emperor. I have many worries inside and outside Daqi, but I can't concentrate on it." I deal with government affairs every day," she bit her lip, and finally said, "I think about you every day."

Gu Yan sighed softly, raised his hand and gently smoothed the emperor's hair: "I also think about your majesty. I also said that as long as your majesty is willing, you and I can be together at any time—"

"That's different," the emperor shook his head, "A Yuan, if you were me, would you wrong me?"

"I don't dare to think about it. It's just that if your majesty is not your majesty," Gu Yuan smiled bitterly, "I will definitely do my best and find ways to marry your majesty."

"Ah Yuan, I am the same." The emperor's kiss and whisper fell on Gu Yuan's ears together, as if it was an irresistible temptation.

Gu Yan knew that the emperor was never easy to change his mind. As long as he let go of his mouth a little bit, the emperor would make an inch of progress, and then raise the idea of ​​standing up; The treacherous and sycophantic minister in her heart, she was afraid that the queen mother would also blame her, but she couldn't think of refusing, instead she raised her arms and embraced the emperor. Yuan entered the palace this time only for her.