Chapter 291: Anxiety and Unity)
"That's right,..." Yu Shaobo briefly explained the situation of Qiu Ling's entry into Beijing, "That woman is indeed a bit stupid, but I thought about it carefully. If she takes a gamble like this, it may be a dead end. If it is done well, it may be a death-taking and reviving the entire deadlock. Of course, if it really becomes a dead end, we will abandon this piece, which is just a useless waste to eat and a pity.
"Yes," the prince frowned. Since Qiu Ling was disgusted by the old man in the middle of the mountain and drove out of Meizhuang, she became useless, so it was really meaningless to drag her. She was so stupid and bold and impulsive, maybe she would really rush out a way to the stone mansion. As long as she could get in, there would be opera singing behind her.
"Qianzhong, that woman has never seen you, and I don't know you, right?" There are too many eyeliners in the capital. When Qiu Ling arrives in the capital, if someone catches her, and reveals any clues with the Prince's Mansion or Yu Shaobo, would it become a bitter scene of stealing chickens and losing rice? If it arouses the emperor's suspicion, it will be really worse.
"Don't worry, Your Highness," Yu Shaobo was confident about this, "What you are worried about is absolutely impossible. On the surface, I will not let anyone who has traces to contact such a piece directly, let alone myself." He is not only the first counselor of the Prince's Mansion, but also takes care of many affairs for the Prince. How could he not be careful every step? If there is any accident, it will not only harm himself, but also immediately affect the Prince.
Speaking of which, Qiu Ling's chess piece was not directly built by him, but because of an old friend named Hei Mian, who has always been manipulated by Hei Mian. Hei Mian grew up with him since childhood. When they met, they were only eight or nine years old. They are still as close as brothers and owe him a great affection, so they helped him like this.
Black face is a wandering child adopted by Yu Shaobo's neighbor when he was young. No one knows what Black face surname is. Grandma just wants to raise a child to see her off. The other thing doesn't matter, just call him Black face as he says. Black face has the same temperament and is a friendship that is a life-long choice, but his life choices are completely different. He is persistent in his wise leader to make achievements and be the most powerful minister; Black face has no intention of career, he just wants to be free and lively and travel around the world with a smile.
It was also a coincidence that when Hei Mian was traveling in Jiangnan, he happened to meet Qiu Ling and his daughter being sold to the building. He was soft-hearted and saved them. Then he accidentally learned that Qiu Ling was the niece of the old man in the middle of the mountain. Then Fei Ge passed the letter to him. Hei Mian always knew that he was helping the prince.
Yu Shaobo trusts Black Mirror as he trusts himself. Black Mirror has the skill of disguise from family history. He never shows his true face when traveling. Therefore, Qiu Ling could not have seen the real face. With Black Mirror's wisdom and ability, he didn't have to worry at all, so he was so confident.
However, he could not, nor did he think it was necessary to tell the prince about Black Mirror. Black Mirror remembered the will of his father to "stay away from princes, nobles and officials" since he was a child, and he was unwilling to contact the people in the court, so he naturally had to respect Black Mirror's wishes.
The prince had no doubts about Yu Shaobo: "That's good, I'm sure you do things. In this way, you send a safe person to stare at Qiu Ling secretly. If she can't enter the Shi Mansion, and the old man in the mountain did not come to the capital for her as she wished, it means that the old man didn't care about her. You immediately abandon this chess and don't have any contact. If she really succeeds, you will find a way to send a maid to the mother-in-law. You said Qiu Ling has a maid next to you, right?"
"Yes," Yu Shaobo replied: "It is said that it was given by Qi Haotian. She liked her own eyes, and then the Qi family gave it to her..." Suddenly, a vague question flashed through his mind. He trembled and blinked, and his thoughts could not be returned like fragments.
"Just a maid," he continued, yes, there is no problem. Just a maid. The niece of the old man in the mountain wants. Not to mention one, even ten or a hundred, Qi Haotian can give it away at will, without even thinking about it.
It was strange, why did he think something was wrong just now? It seemed that he was so tired and nervous recently, which caused him to shiver for no reason today and be dazed. It was time to take a good rest for a few nights.
The prince, who was also tired, seemed to see Yu Shaobo's trance in that moment, stood up and smiled, "You have a heavy burden, but don't work too hard. Our affairs cannot be accomplished in one day or two days. Take advantage of this time to relax, so you should have a good rest. Let's go out of the palace, go to the palace to see the emperor's grandmother and mother's concubine, and chat with Lingwan." Lingwan was still a little reluctant to marry her, but she knew that only the prince's brother, she and her mother's mother could be good, and she had no choice. In fact, he couldn't bear to let his only compatriot sister be wronged. Now, with the more chips Xiya, he is more confident that he can realize his promise to Lingwan in the future.
Yu Shaobo naturally agreed and quickly followed: "Your Highness would advise the princess more. Prince Siti's full support is very important to us." To be honest, he really didn't think that Princess Lingwan was wronged when marrying a Tibetan country. As for Princess Lingwan's spoiled, selfish and ruthless virtue, Prince Siti was wronged to be wronged. In addition to being black and burly, Prince Siti was also considered a dignified person, and was humorous and polite. What is not worthy of Princess Lingwan?
The material conditions of the Tibetan country are not as terrible as Daying, but they are not as terrible and uncivilized as rumored by the ignorant people. Especially the lives of the royal nobles are still influenced by many of the Daying aristocratic classes, and they will regularly buy a large number of fine things from Daying. What's more, the princess and personal experiences have brought a lot of various materials, which is first used to meet the princess's life needs. Even the imperial physician and the doctor will bring a few, and can they treat her badly?
However, no matter how hard Princess Lingwan was, she was depressed, and the marriage was set in April of the following year. The emperor still loved her daughter, worried that she would not be able to accept the cold winter in the Tibetan country at once, and set the date of marriage to the time when spring was in full bloom.
In the palace, in the palace of the Empress Dowager Cihe, the Empress Dowager and Concubine Qi were discussing matters such as Lingwan’s dowry, preparation of goods, etc. Because of the Empress Dowager’s proposal, the Empress did not want to intervene in order to avoid being thankless and was complained. The Emperor took the opportunity to hand over the preparation of the dowry to Concubine Qi directly. This time, Princess Lingwan had a marriage marriage, including the biological mother, Concubine Qi, and the prince was in charge of the brothers of the brothers, which was also a sufficient face for the Empress Dowager, so that their mothers were satisfied and had nothing to say. The Empress was also happy and relaxed. It was really everyone happy.
The arrival of the prince made the empress dowager and the other two were very happy. He took him to see the dowry candidates. First, of course, the female officials and palace maids selected from the ministers' daughters. The appearance, temperament, and family background of these people were very particular. In the future, Prince Siti's concubines and concubines were basically selected from them. Therefore, the prince's opinion is very important. Of course, the prince mainly considers the family background of these candidates, such as the power of father and brother.
The prince looked through a stack of information in his hand and suddenly thought of another question: "Grandmother, will the father really not have a talent show next year?" This year's talent show is just a small selection, and the emperor only chose two of them as beauty. The others were basically given marriages and concubines for the royal children who regarded them as their four adult princes.
Speaking of the emperor, it has been three years since the draft, and it was not until this year that he made a small election. It is logical that next year it should be a general election. He has always been optimistic about several candidates for his father. Unexpectedly, a few days ago, an official from the Ministry of Rites said that the emperor rejected the memorial of the Ministry of Rites on arranging the grand election next year. If that is true, wouldn’t he have done useless work? It is not impossible to send beauties to his father on weekdays, but it is easy to cause suspicion, right? Although the father likes beauty, he is definitely a lot of doubts.
The empress dowager was stunned, looked at the prince deeply with complicated eyes, and then said, "It should be that your father said that the draft is hard to lose money. Choosing every three years is enough. There is no need to divide the major elections and small elections. Those bad old examples are not necessary to follow."
Concubine Qi also hated her son with dissatisfaction: "What? Your mansion is now on both sides, with a good wife, and a bunch of Yingying and Yanyan, isn't it enough?" This son has the same lust as his father!
The prince said embarrassedly: "Isn't it an old example? I didn't think so much, and I thought it was the mother's intention that it was the mother's intention." The mother should have guessed his intention and deliberately covered it up for him. The emperor's grandmother was not so easy to fool. The look just now made him feel guilty of being seen through. No matter how much the emperor's grandmother loves him, the father is still her biological son. Compared with the grandson, the son is still a layer separate.
However, the daughter-in-law who is too loved by her son is not so pleasing. No mother would like to "steal" her son's woman, including her daughter-in-law. In the eyes of the queen, the queen seemed to be such an existence. Therefore, in order to divert the queen's attention, the prince cleverly added the last sentence "I thought the talent show was the mother's meaning." In this way, even if the queen-in-law guessed his intention, he could understand his painstaking efforts?
Sure enough, the Queen Mother narrowed her eyes, with obvious helplessness on her face, and sighed: "Your father and the Queen's childhood sweethearts have experienced many things together... It's hard to replace the feelings and trust in the Queen. Over the years, the women your father has spoiled are tired of counting, but besides the Queen, who can he last for a long time? Who is not wary of whom?" Even the Queen of Ai's mother sometimes is very suspicious, especially when the matter involves the Xie family and the Qi family.
The Xie family is her mother's home, and the Qi family is Wanyu (the name of Concubine Qi's boudoir). What's the problem with politeness? Especially the Xie family, as the empress dowager of the dynasty, shouldn't it be better to give more power and status? As a result, the Xie family has only obtained a marquis so far, which is far inferior to the Queen's father-in-law's house.
The Queen Mother was thinking that she was more noble than the queen and her mother's family should be more noble than the British Duke's Mansion, but she didn't think that the Pan family was a great family. Before the queen married into the palace, the Pan family inherited the British duke for three generations. Moreover, in addition to the current British duke, the princes of the previous two generations and the late Pan Rubing all had outstanding military achievements. After the eldest daughter of the Pan family became the queen, the emperor was just icing on the cake and gave the Pan family the honor of "the throne of the kingdom followed the ten generations."
What was the situation with the Xie family? It was originally just a seventh-rank county magistrate. After she became a concubine, her father also rose to become a fifth-rank magistrate. Then her mother became the queen with her son, and her mother's family also became an earl. Then, she became the queen mother, and the Xie family's Jingning Bo Mansion became the Jingning Marquis Mansion. It can be said that the Xie family had no merits and no merits, and it was entirely up to her aunt's family to enter the noble circle. What else was she not satisfied with?
Not to mention the Queen Mother's depressed, the prince was even more depressed after hearing what the Queen Mother said. As the Queen Mother said, the emperor likes beauty and is not a very affectionate person. Although he does not like collecting beauties of all kinds like King Jing, there are also many beauties in the harem, but his love for the Queen is so obsessed with incomprehensible. No matter how much he favors any concubine, it will not affect the status of the Queen at all. This is a fact proven by no less than three "possessed" concubines who "possessed the Six Palaces" with their unwilling tears and even blood.
The emperor's favor for his favorite concubines comes quickly and violently, but it is easy to be replaced by the next one, and he is fond of the old and is like a common problem for all men in the world. However, the "old" that is disliked will never include the "old" original Empress.
The emperor can favor a concubine for various reasons, but those reasons cannot make them the position of Queen Yue in the emperor's heart. This is the case because the emperor lost his fetus in the belly and lost his fertility. The same is true for Concubine Qi, who was supported by the empress dowager, and the same is true for Concubine Qi, who was once in the palace. The same is true for Concubine Qi, who was beautiful, graceful, strange and fragrant, or had a skin that was more beautiful than snow.
The counselors and staff of the Prince's Mansion analyzed and figured out various reasons, and silently crossed out the reasons they listed themselves. In the end, they could only attribute it to one reason: the emperor threatened to marry the queen who was only four years old at the time, and perhaps they fell in love with each other in their previous lives, so this kind of destined relationship that God was irreplaceable.
The prince was speechless at the time, and then he was furious and spit out two words and three words: nonsense, get out!
Looking at the lines on the corners of his eyes that Guifei Qi could not cover with thick powder and the anxiety in his eyes, thinking of the queen's quiet and smooth face, the prince sighed inwardly: At the same age, the same luxury clothes and food, the mother now looks at least six or seven years older than the queen.
Yes, how is the same? Every time the father favors a concubine, the mother will not eat well for a few days and will be crazy about jealousy. The queen... is still calm and gentle.
I heard that the New Year gift from the King of Yunnan sent to the capital to his father this year there was a beautiful foreign beauty with a national beauty with white skin as white as snow, green eyes, plump and round but slender waist like a willow... My mother hasn't slept well these nights, right?
The prince knew very well that his mother's anxiety was not only because of jealousy, but also because of fear. She was worried about herself, and even more because she had no stunning appearance and no strong family. The only thing she could rely on was the empress dowager, and the empress dowager gradually grew older...
Chapter completed!