Chapter Seventy-Two

"The Ai family knows that Chang Chu feels uncomfortable, so why doesn't the Ai family feel sorry for a good child like this..." The Empress Dowager sighed, "But this is the end, and Chang Chu is still young! Good life will be raised, and there may not be no more in the future. Another opportunity to continue the fate of mother and child! Now she is cold to Zhao Chenggui and scolds her at every turn, making Zhao Chenggui fearful all day long, and the imperial doctor who asked her for pulse was worried about something happening, so she came to Ai's house to complain... If you don't care about it, this..."

The Empress Dowager pursed her lips, and did not continue speaking, but the fatigue between her eyebrows increased a bit.

Although she is old, but because of her rich background, she has always been in a very high position, and she is pampered and pampered in a way that ordinary people can't imagine, and she is a bit like a young lady. But it happened that the emperor disappeared this time, and the Ji family was under great pressure. It really hurt her vitality to support herself while she was ill, and she appeared a little old.

Due to the white and greasy skin when I was young, the age spots on the cheeks are particularly conspicuous at this moment.

The queen noticed that her heart was also sore, and she made a silent suggestion: "The noble concubine may have had a miscarriage by herself. Seeing Zhao Chenggui's happiness makes her feel hurt. Otherwise, move Zhao Chenggui out first, and wait for the noble concubine to calm down. Now, move to Luqin Terrace?"

"I'm afraid this is inappropriate?" After hearing the words, the Empress Dowager Yuan, who was sitting on the right hand of the Empress Dowager, said hesitantly, "The imperial concubine is pretty calm now, if I do this, even if I make it clear to her, I'm afraid she still wants to Thinking about things. If something goes wrong at that time, it will hurt the heart of the general Hushi... Furthermore, although Zhao Chenggui's pregnancy has already been three months old, the palace on the mountain is not as flat as the palace city. I'm afraid it's not good for the emperor's heir to go back and forth."

If she had said this in the past, the three generations of the Ji family might not have paid attention to it.

But Chunjia's current status made the queen's aunts and nephews dare not continue to take Queen Mother Yuan seriously. Empress Ji quickly apologized, saying that she hadn't thought carefully: "Why don't granddaughter-in-law go to Luqin Terrace later?" Let's see... maybe the imperial concubine has been exhausted for the past two days, and she can't take care of Zhao Chenggui for the time being, so that the people below are slack and Zhao Chenggui misunderstood? After all, the granddaughter-in-law remembers that Zhao Chenggui is a coward, Now that I'm pregnant again, I might not think too much about it."

The Empress Dowager glanced at the Empress Dowager Yuan, saw that she hadn't spoken, so she nodded: "Let's do this first, anyway the emperor's heir is important."

Empress Ji got up to leave, but she didn't go to Luqin Terrace immediately, but walked for a while after going out, and took a small road to Xianzhi Pavilion where Empress Ji lived.

Fresh branch is another name for gardenia, and the place is full of gardenias inside and out.

Now the gardenias at the bottom of the mountain are in full bloom, but those on the mountain are in full bloom. The snow-white flowers or a row of green buds are hidden among the oiled green leaves. It was indescribably refreshing, and just looking at it felt that the heat had dissipated a bit.

The queen waited in the flower hall for a while before Empress Dowager Ji came back from Zhuxue Garden.

She wasn't surprised to see her niece, she just sighed: "No one in this palace can be offended now, the imperial concubine has just had a miscarriage and needs to be sympathetic, and Zhao Chenggui is pregnant and needs to be taken care of... You, queen, can only work harder."

"It's nothing." Empress Ji pondered, "It's just that in the current situation, it's not easy to mention Mu Zi."

Speaking of the other niece, Mrs. Ji's face darkened, and after a while she said with a complicated expression: "The family... how can they take care of her at the moment? Anyway, no matter how low the status is, she can't suffer with us around. But I hope she will be smarter after this incident."

After Ji Muzi was sent to the Empress Dowager by Emperor Chunjia to ask for instructions, the Empress Dowager dealt with it by severely reprimanding her and demoting her to Yuwan. This status is equal to that of Yi Xingen now. Regarding Ji Muzi's background It is a very severe punishment. Moreover, people were also imprisoned behind Zhuxueyuan, and they are still copying scriptures and praying for self-cultivation.

The empress had known that Zhao was pregnant, and she hadn't said anything about it, and she secretly concealed it. She planned to let Ji Muzi return to the concubine and hand it over to this cousin. She originally hoped to sell the Duke of Yi's family a good deal in the matter of Concubine Shu. , or you can give Ji Muzi a slap on the cheek... In the end, Yun Fenghuang cut him off, and now it's hard to mention the matter of Ji Muzi, so he pursed his lips and said, "Yes."

Then he added, "The daughter-in-law feels that Concubine Shu's own sister cannot continue to be under Mao Jieyu's hands, but there is no good way to get it out for the time being, so...?"

"Why can't there be a good way?" Empress Dowager Ji said with a sneer, "The lowly servant girl's comfort before was nothing more than taking advantage of our family's power, and now she turned her head to please Chunjia, but she couldn't hold back. Willing to let Concubine Shu go... Chunjia looks easy to talk about, but she can't hold grudges the most, even if she is temporarily left to cause trouble for our family, how can it be possible to let her go like you used to? You just do it."

Empress Ji hesitated to explain the worries of the palace people in detail.

After hearing this, the queen mother was a little disappointed: "Is this difficult for you? You are too square. It is not easy for us to take the initiative here. Why can't we let the Xuanqing Palace do something by itself? Do you think that if Yun Ronghua is here? Under the men of the Huzhu Palace, we want to get people out, who can not understand?"

"...Daughter-in-law understands." Empress Ji pondered for a while, and said, "Previously, the families of concubines in the palace visited the palace every two months, but after the summer banquet, because the imperial grandmother was sick, they stopped. Although it is in the palace now, most of the concubines' family members are also there, how about just opening it once? Anyway, His Majesty should not have time to linger in the harem for the time being, and the big guys are idle, so why not talk to the family members? I can appreciate the royal grace even more.”

In this way, people from Yiguo's mansion can also come in and do an assist or something.

"Aijia turned around and told the Queen Mother." The Empress Dowager Ji nodded, "I think the Queen Mother will agree."

Originally, the Ji family was turbulent this time, and they really needed to get in touch with the government and the public. It was more tactful and convenient to start from the back house.

"The daughter-in-law just said why it's so quiet here?" Empress Ji had nothing else to do, and planned to get up and leave, but before she left, she remembered and asked, "Did Ming Hui and the others go out to play? The queen should call more people to follow, so as not to Same as last time."

The last time was when Princess Minghui fell off the cliff.

Empress Dowager Ji sighed, and said displeasedly: "It was hot, and Ai's family advised them to stay indoors. But Minghui couldn't sit still, and wanted to go out... I don't know where the madness is!"

Both aunt and nephew didn't know that Princess Minghui was in Lanzhou Yeyu Pavilion at the moment.

She also very graciously brought a box of exquisite pastries, saying that besides the one Yun Fenghuang wanted before, there were also a few other new styles that the cooks who served Empress Dowager Ji had tried. It's delicious and easy to digest.

"Why is Your Highness so polite all of a sudden?" Yun Fenghuang's status is no better than before, and he doesn't need to coax this golden branch and jade leaf too much, and of course there is no need to be particularly cold, so he waved his round fan and asked with a casual smile, " Seeing this, Bengong is a bit afraid to take it."

"It's just some pastries, there's nothing you dare not take!" Princess Minghui muttered, and she leaned over and pulled her sleeves, begging, "Jieyu let all these people go down, and I'll just talk to you, okay?"

Yun Fenghuang smiled, and obeyed her, and when there were only two people left in the room, before the princess could speak, she teased, "Your Highness, you come here for Mr. Ji again?"

"..." Princess Minghui heard the words, two blushes flew up on her fair face, she opened her mouth, she instinctively wanted to explain but was a little shy, and said with a blushing face, "I just can't figure it out, how could my cousin assassinate the emperor?" What about brother?"

Yun Fenghuang laughed and said, "Has Your Highness asked His Majesty? It seems that His Majesty personally interrogated this matter."

Princess Minghui frowned: "I asked, I went to Xingxintang to ask yesterday, but the emperor said that the evidence was convincing... Anyway, I didn't quite understand it. Later, Deng Yueting asked for an interview, and the emperor asked someone to take me gone."

He also said that when she went back to Xianzhi Pavilion, Empress Dowager Ji was very angry when she learned of her whereabouts, and warned her not to speak for Ji Minggan again, especially in front of the emperor.

However, this His Highness really cares about Ji Minggan, no, because of his mother's order, he didn't dare to go to Xingxintang today, so he came to Yunfenghuang to inquire.

"I don't know about the others." Yun Fenghuang smiled and said, "But... when His Majesty fell into the water, I was by my side, watching His Majesty being pulled from the bottom of the fishing line when he finished his rod. He dragged him off! His Highness should know that His Majesty can't swim, and the boat was in the lake at that time, and Chunti Lake was not a small lake, and this incident scared the people on the boat... even my palace would be fine I'm worried that His Majesty will blame me when he gets up!"

Princess Minghui obviously didn't know much about the details of what happened, so she asked in surprise, "Why do you blame Jieyu?"

"Because the fishing rod His Majesty was holding originally belonged to me. I was weak, so I thought that I could catch a big fish and couldn't pull it up, so I asked His Majesty for help, but in the end, His Majesty caught up with this matter." Yun Fenghuang He smiled lightly, "Aren't you worried?"

"...This?" Although the princess was a little ignorant, she wasn't really stupid. When she heard this, her thoughts changed, and she asked tentatively, "Could it be...you are the one my cousin and the others really want to harm?!"

She knew that neither Ji Minggan nor Yuan Ke liked Yun Fenghuang.

"I don't know about this." Yun Fenghuang said, "Anyway, this is what I saw."

"I always say 'I' when I talk to you, why do you say 'Ben Gong'?" The princess looked at her calm expression, she didn't know why she suddenly felt aggrieved, and pouted, "Aren't you like me?"

Yun Fenghuang thought in his heart, how fresh it is! Should Ben Gong like you?

Since you are a princess born out of Ji's daughter, I don't dare to like you, okay?

But in his mouth, he said: "What is your highness talking about? Didn't you just take the position of master for a short time, afraid that you won't be able to suppress the people below, you have to pay more attention to the airs, so that you are used to it?"

Princess Ming Hui reluctantly accepted this explanation, because she doubted Yun Fenghuang: "Then will you talk wrong in front of the emperor?"

Yun Fenghuang said seriously: "Your Majesty is too majestic. I have always been nervous in front of him. I had to cheer up, but I didn't. But Your Royal Highness is gentle and amiable. I only love and respect in my heart, and I am not nervous or timid. , so naturally, um, I forgot what I called myself.”

"After all, you're still prevaricating me." The princess sighed and said disgruntledly, "Forget it, I'll go first... don't tell Brother Huang that I came to ask you, okay? After my brother found out, I told my mother, and my mother said that I must not be punished."

Yun Fenghuang said softly: "How could it be? Am I that kind of person?"

Of course she is!

Sending off Princess Minghui on the front foot, but on the back... the emperor didn't come, so she sent someone to the emperor to tell His Highness the princess to come to inquire about Ji Minggan in person, and ask the emperor how to deal with it?

"Your Majesty, Her Royal Highness Princess Minghui is deeply loved by her mother, the Empress Dowager, and Her Majesty has always been very fond of her." Seeing her selling the princess so quickly, Xi Le stopped talking a few times, and finally bit the bullet and persuaded her, "How can you do this?" Do, in case she finds out, this... After all, the Empress Dowager is always His Majesty's aunt."

"I just want our Highness the Princess to know." Yun Fenghuang curled his lips and said disdainfully, "Although this Highness is one year younger than me, she is fourteen this year, no matter how much she is loved, she should be sensible. When I was in the palace before, I was so scared by the toad that we ran into each other, it could be said to be accidental; later, I pestered the palace to help go to the court, and it could be said that it was a child's heart. Love to play... After all At that time, the Ji family's status was still as stable as Mount Tai, she was dignified with golden branches and jade leaves, the only blood and blood of His Majesty Emperor Xiaozong, she could just bring someone to accompany her whenever she felt like it, let's talk about my palace, who can not be coaxed by the six concubines?"

"but now?"

She said coolly, "Now who doesn't know that Mrs. Ji is shying away from His Majesty! This palace is not the only one who can talk to His Majesty in this palace. Even if she wants to find someone to tell her cousin For love, who is it not good to come to Bengong? Don’t you know that Bengong has just betrayed Ji and is being hated by Ji? Maybe her mother and queen are scolding Bengong together now!”

Xi Le was taken aback: "Your Majesty suspects this Highness Princess...? But as far as the servant girl knows, this Highness has always been innocent, and the Empress Dowager doesn't tell her anything, just let her live a carefree life." ..."

"Are those two fools?" Yun Fenghuang sneered, she didn't believe it, "Or do they think that Her Highness the Princess doesn't live long and can be protected by them for a lifetime? Besides, even if this Her Highness is really naive, A princess on the left and right can't help me much. What good does it do me to waste time and energy to deal with her? Let her come and get used to it, so I don't have to make trouble for me. In case something happens to my stomach one day Here, I can't even explain it clearly... In short, if I can get rid of her this time, I will get rid of her, so I don't bother to talk to her!"

Being so ruthless, just like the gentle and amiable person who talked with the princess just now, Xi Le was speechless for a moment, and said embarrassingly: "Yes!"

"Oh, by the way, Your Majesty hasn't been here in the past two days." Yun Fenghuang thought for a while and then ordered, "I don't know if I will come over to ask in person after receiving the news? In short, let Yun Ronghua dress up, This palace is in a hurry to embrace the emperor's heir!"