In the Changle Palace, a blue-white glazed binaural three-legged incense burner is exuding the sandalwood fragrance. The white smoke is transparent and slender, which looks peaceful and quiet.
The queen mother is pulling Princess Yuncheng to speak on the bed of Luohan: "...... Sister Yi, why not bring her into the palace?"
Yuncheng covered his mouth and chuckled with a smile: "Mother, the son-in-law has something to discuss with her mother today, but it's not time for Yiyi to know."
The Queen Mother couldn't help showing a hint of curiosity, "What's so mysterious? I have to hide Sister Yi."
"Sister Yi is not too young, even if her son wants to keep it, it won't stay for long." Yuncheng said with a sorrowful expression. "Even Liu Niang's little girl was booked, and Sister Yi Can't drag on anymore."
"Yeah, even Liu Niang is engaged." The Queen Mother said with emotion, "It seems like a blink of an eye, these children have grown up one by one." After a pause, she said again, "Cloud City , What are your favorite candidates with your horse?"
A smile appeared again on Yuncheng's face, and said: "The mother, yesterday was the chrysanthemum feast of the Jiang family. Pay attention to it. After returning yesterday, the concubine said that a few of them were not bad, and the prince thought of letting you help palm it together." Then, she handed a list to the queen mother.
The Queen Mother took it, squinted for a while and said, "...According to the Ai family, these are indeed people with good character. The Ai family in Weiyuan Hou Ergong heard about his martial arts excellence; The young man was studying at Guozijian, he was a young man at a young age, and his learning should be good..." After the queen mother commented a few more times, she pointed to a name, and asked with some doubt, "This is Chen Qiying's writer of the military department Isn’t it appropriate for the Ministry of Defense to be a Shushu, but according to his status, but I heard that his reputation is not good, how do you take him into account?"
Yuncheng quickly explained: "This Chen Quying is a little worse in reputation, but they are close to my family, Bo Geer and Ayi. They have seen them a few times. They are not bad in nature. Look at it." Speaking of Xiao Yi, Yuncheng couldn't help remembering what happened at the Ju Banquet yesterday, and frowned slightly.
Knowing her daughter Mo Ruomu, the queen mother saw it and asked quickly: "Yuncheng, but what's wrong with it?"
"It's not for Ayi yet." Yuncheng said bluntly, "Mother, you don't know what happened before yesterday at the chrysanthemum feast! That old lady actually said what the second princess was obsessed with Ayi, also Said that the second girl of her family would hold the spirit of the second princess to Ayi as a side concubine!"
The queen mother was slightly surprised, and asked, "You said slowly, what the hell is going on? Why does it seem that Aijia doesn't understand well... You, you, all have to be grandmothers, and the temperament is still so anxious."
Yuncheng's daughter was so charming, "Mother!" She followed and said yesterday's things carefully, and finally resented: "Mother, you haven't seen it, all eyes are on, Mrs. Zhang is I want to force Yueer to do this absurd thing on the spot. This unknown person thought that our royal princess would not marry, and even be dead to be a concubine! You said, what the hell is Zhang Fu doing? What a bear-hearted leopard gall dared to humiliate our royal family!"
The queen mother listened, and her entire face sank.
Before the second princess escaped from the palace to chase Xiao Yi, the king made all kinds of rumors. He said that the second princess fell in love with the young monk, and that the second princess eloped with the eunuch... and lost his royal face! The emperor was so angry that he almost suffered a stroke! Finally, this rumor barely subsided. Now Zhang Jiaran is taking the matter out of the second princess's obsession with Xiao Yi, can't it be known all over the world?
What if the emperor gets sick again?!
"Yes, mother." Yun Cheng said with a sullen expression, "What is said is to fulfill the wish of Princess Quanquan, but it is good to say, but it is not for their own Zhang family, the girl of Zhang family wants to be a concubine, but In the name of being good for the second princess, the abacus is very good. Is it expected that everyone is a fool and can’t understand their intentions?"
"The Zhang family really jumped up and down recently." The queen mother frowned, thinking for a while, and asked again, "How did this Yue girl answer?"
"Yue'er was so stingy, she refused Mrs. Zhang..." Yuncheng learned the words of Nangong Yue in a brilliant way, and sighed, "Mother, Yueer is very clever and can say Mrs. Zhang on the spot. I was stunned."
Yuncheng said with a laugh, she was full of praise for Nangong Yue: "Hey, such a good girl, how can you leave the house! If this is the son-in-law's daughter-in-law, how good it is!" "The mother, the son-in-law was originally thinking of matching Bo Geer and Yueer, but let the emperor first start to marry Yueer and Ai for the sake of the strong...Children still regret it."
The queen mother laughed loudly and couldn't help it: "Yuncheng, you have to remember it later. It's good to see it. Hurry up and be strong first. If it is a step slower, it will be taken away by others."
Yuncheng nodded solemnly: "The lesson learned from the mother is that the children are remembered."
During the mother-daughter jokes, a white-faced in-house attendant hurried in and reported: "Mrs. Empress Dowager, Mrs. Zhang, and Mrs. Zhang are outside the hall to see.
The queen mother exchanged a look with Yuncheng. This really meant that Cao Cao and Cao Cao were coming. The queen mother frowned, but said, "Let them come in."
When Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Zhang entered the hall, they were surprised when they saw Yuncheng, but they didn't dare to reveal half of their faces. They knelt on the ground and bowed their heads respectfully to the queen mother: Madam, I wish Madam Wanfu Jinan."
"Get up. The seat." The Queen Mother said lightly.
After Zhang Sister and Mrs. Zhang sat down, Zhang Shou owed her shoulders and said: "The concubine did not come to please the queen mother for a few days, and she also asked the queen mother to atone."
The Queen Mother said lukewarmly: "I heard that Zhang Pang has been sick recently, and Aijia is not the kind of unreasonable person. It is only a matter of keeping a good body."
"Xie Empress Dowager cares." Zhang Fei looked flattered and sighed, "Since the second princess is gone, the concubine will be heartbroken and missed day and night, so that she can't sleep at night. Fortunately, the doctor has opened some to the concubine. Soothing decoction is finally better these days."
The Queen Mother didn't answer the call, just sipped her tea slowly. Zhang's face was slightly stiff, but she quickly continued with an expressive expression: "Today's concubine went to Xuehe Palace and saw a pair of knee pads The maid of the palace said that this was done when the second princess was still in the palace. The second princess also said at the time that it was cold and the queen mother’s knees were not good. She had to keep warm and let the queen mother use it..." Tears flashed in her eyes, "In the past, the second princess was the most admired and filial queen mother... This is a little filial piety of the second princess, and the concubine will take it and give it to the queen mother."
A court lady behind Zhang Ping held out a pair of knee pads.
The Queen Mother asked someone to pick it up and take it in their hands.Snow white fox fur was sewn into this knee pad, and it looked very warm.It's just that the crane's longevity pattern on the knee pads is only half embroidered, which is obviously not finished yet.
The queen mother felt a touch, and she did not dislike the granddaughter of the second princess.She and the three princes are twins. The twins of dragon and phoenix are a sign of good fortune. When the second princess was a child, she often hugged and hurt.And the second princess was indeed filial in the past. Obviously, there were maidens who would always make her own foreheads, embroider the word "shou", and they were very cute and happy.She was here at such a magnificent age, and she went so early, the Queen Mother's heart was also a little bit reluctant.
The queen mother couldn't help but sighed.
Upon seeing this, Zhang Bian was relieved. She stood up with tears in her eyes, knelt down on the ground, and pleaded to the empress dowager: "...The empress dowager, the second princess is now dying of the cardamom, and died violently. A princess fell to a soulless place, and there was no one after he died to offer incense to her offspring. The concubine, the mother-in-law, is really unbearable." When Zhang Raised her head again, she was already in tears. Pitiful.
"Yeah, the queen mother!" Mrs. Zhang also had red eyes, and she knelt down immediately afterwards. "His Royal Highness Princess II is a princess Dayu, who should have been a proud daughter of heaven. It was such an injustice. These days, Her Royal Highness Princess II cried in the dream of his wife and wife every night, and heard her heartbroken."
The queen mother also shook her head and sighed.
Mrs. Zhang sternly bowed her head again, prostrate on the ground respectfully, and cried, "...the empress dowager and his wives also knew that the idea was a bit ridiculous. However, this yin and yang are very different. It’s the right reason, but the second soul of the second princess misses the sun. The wives worry that the second princess’s yin will get heavier and it will damage the royal yang!” The third prince said, the empress was most concerned about the emperor, once When it comes to the safety of the emperor, the empress will surely agree.
Sure enough, the Empress Dowager moved.
If there is any one who has the strongest yang in this world, there is no doubt that it must be the emperor.The second princess is a phoenix of heaven, and naturally will not be an ordinary solitary ghost, and is also a blood relative to the emperor.If the second princess is really unsuccessful and unwilling to reincarnate, then her yin will inevitably damage the emperor's yang. By that time... when thinking of this, the queen mother can't help but be afraid.
She couldn't help thinking: if it was to make the second princess look away, and let someone worship the incense after her death, it would be...
Mother Mo Ruo Nu, Yuncheng couldn't help but feel anxious, and was about to speak, but was interrupted by the crying Mrs. Zhang.
Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Zhang have also been paying attention to the face of the queen mother. Seeing that the queen mother seems to be about to let it go, how can it make Yuncheng bad! Just listen to Mrs. Zhang's continued encouragement and cry while saying: "... Queen Mother Madam, the wives really didn't have nonsense to talk nonsense. That day, the wives wanted to go to the Yaowang Temple to pray for the practice of Her Royal Highness the Second Princess, but who knows that the candlelight in front of the Buddha suddenly fell, this is clearly the second Her Royal Highness is complaining about herself!"
Hearing this, the Queen Mother couldn't help but frown, and quickly twisted the beads in her hand, and asked in her mouth: "Do you mean that the candlelight in front of the Buddha fell by herself?"
"The sentence of the court wife is true." Mrs. Zhang said in tears, "... yesterday, at the banquet of the chrysanthemum, the court wife saw the king's concubine in Zhennan. The second princess was like her majesty, and the concubine was married. People, and the love of the couple, but the second princess is alone and helpless. In the future, there will not be a person who worships the incense... The courtier will feel so sad for the second princess, and only then would you have such a proposal."
Sister Zhang wiped her tears and then said, "The concubine listened to her mother today and felt that the idea was good. The second princess has gone, and it will not affect the love of the husband and wife of the family and the princess of the town. Incense, not to be lonely and helpless... is a perfect strategy for both sides!" she choked with a voice: "Please the queen mother to make the second princess the master, complete her..."
"Enough!" The queen mother interrupted Zhang Peng coldly.
Zhang Ping and Mrs. Zhang couldn't help but stunned. They looked up carefully at the empress's face, but they saw her face sinking like water, her lips tightened tightly, and she was very unhappy.
Where is the problem? The attitude of the Empress Dowager is clearly about to be moved by them... How can the Empress not worry about the safety of the Emperor's life?
The queen mother turned the bead in her hand and said coldly, "You said that the second princess was complaining for herself by bringing down the candlelight in front of the Buddha?"
Mrs. Zhang responded quickly: "Yes. Queen Mother..."
"Why does this matter?" The Queen Mother shouted, "Don't you know that you are a mourning family? The relic of the former monk is enshrined in this temple of medicine king, how many injustices can hold back, how can't you hold the second princess in the district? What? The candle in front of the Buddha fell, is the second princess complaining, or does the Bodhisattva never want to see her?!"
This was a whisper, but the queen mother felt more and more likely that she couldn't help her eyebrows.
Zhang Ping and Mrs. Zhang were even more stunned. The fire in the Yaowang Temple was what they deliberately did, so that the queen mother believed that the second princess had nostalgia and refused to leave the world.But why did the Empress Dowager react differently than they thought?
Monk relics? What is that? Why haven’t they heard of any monk relics in this temple?
Mrs. Zhang was a little uneasy in her heart, trying to explain: "The Queen Mother, the Second Princess..."
The Queen Mother was a little shocked by the thought that she had just passed by. She heard them still chattering and interrupted impatiently, saying, "Enough! Zhang, you said that Princess II is complaining about herself, Could it be that the second princess went to injustice?" Without waiting for Zhang Ping to reply, the queen mother sneered, "It is the sorrow of the second princess to let the second princess go to the mausoleum, that is, the second princess killed the second princess?"
Zhang Ping and Mrs. Zhang were dumbfounded and did not respond for a while.
The queen mother looked at them coldly, and her eyes fell on Zhang's body. She hummed and said, "Zhang, you are just a concubine. The second princess's uncle's family is the Jiang family of the Emperor's government. Which round will the Zhang family be the master!"
The words of the Queen Mother are very unkind, and do not even leave a little face on the Zhang family.In the clan, official eunuch, and civilian home, the concubine is really just a concubine, and the concubine's relatives are not serious relatives, but the emperor's concubine is the concubine, the concubine is the Zhaoyi...Every one has a title, and which princess will meet Really regard the queen's mother's family as her uncle!
Zhang Ping and Mrs. Zhang are already as if they were all looking like this. How could things develop to this point?
According to the original plan, they first provoked the empress's affection for the second princess's grandchildren, and then used the fire of the Yaowang Temple to show that the second princess had a complaint in her heart, which made the empress worry that if the second princess was unsuccessful, nostalgia The world will damage the emperor's yang.In this way, as long as you cry and ask for help, the queen mother will inevitably agree to let sister Ei marry into the palace of Zhennan in the name of the second princess. He will bear sons and heir to the second princess in the day, but now...
What exactly is going on?
Who the hell is that behind the scenes?!
Zhang Peng and Mrs. Zhang exchanged quick glances. They knew that this matter might not be possible today. For the future, the empress doomed to extinguish the anger.
Mrs. Zhang hurried forward to her knees and explained with a wailing: "The queen mother forgive her sins. The wives and daughters-in-law did not intend to pass on to the surrogate. The wives and the lady-in-chief Zhang really really wholeheartedly for the second princess!"
At this time, Yuncheng finally let go of her heart and said with a smile: "The mother, Zhang family is so worried about the second princess, and even willing to send her granddaughter to be a concubine, it seems that she is dedicated to the second princess."
Zhang Peng and Mrs. Zhang were stunned. Unexpectedly, Yuncheng was willing to help Zhang Fu, but the next moment, he heard Yuncheng continue: "The Zhang family is so loyal to the second princess and the royal family. Their thoughts. As far as the sons see, it would be better to let Zhang Ermai cut her hair to Huangjue Temple to pray for the second princess, what do you think?"
It's so vicious! Zhang Fei and Mrs. Zhang only felt a rush of anger directly over her head. If she still remembered Yuncheng's identity, Zhang Fei would jump up and scold her.
Damn it, this Yuncheng is really hateful, and it came up with such a vicious idea!
Mrs. Zhang couldn't take care of anything else, and kowtowed pleadingly for her granddaughter: "Queen Mother, my granddaughter is young..."
"Enough!" The Queen Mother coldly interrupted Mrs. Zhang and said, "Zhang Pang, Zhang Jia's, you all kneel to the outside of the family to take a good self-examination!" Read the "Female Training" and "Female Commandments" to their mothers and daughters and learn some rules!"
"Yes, the queen mother!" Huang Ma answered his wife, and took the two servants to Zhang Xi and Mrs. Zhang, "Madam Zhang, Madam Zhang, you two also heard the words of the Queen Mother." , Please don't make slaves difficult!"
Zhang Ping and Mrs. Zhang had to kowtow and withdrew, and with Huang Ma, they went out of the hall and knelt down under the steps.
Grandma Huang found a maiden who read the "The Commandments of Women" and returned to the palace to return to the Queen Mother.
In the palace at this time, Yuncheng was laughing aside: "The mother should let them read "Female Training" and "Women's Commandments". The children see that they are reading less, so they are noisy."
"It's also a loss to Yue girl. Although she is young, she also has an idea." The queen mother applauded and said, "...Mammoth Huang, you let the imperial concubine of King Xuanzhen South come into the palace."
"Yes, the queen mother." Mammoth Huang ordered her to leave.
So, half an hour later, Nangong Yue, who was instructed to enter the palace, came outside Changle Palace, and at a glance saw Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Zhang kneeling there with a gray face, and there was a palace lady saying: "...heart Once you don’t think about good, then evil enters it.
Nangong Yue's lips made a smile, and thought: Don't think that you can do it by kneeling, this is just the beginning!
Upon seeing Nangong Yue, the waitress standing outside the palace immediately saluted respectfully: "I have seen Princess Shizi."
When Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Zhang heard the words, their pupils shrank sharply, and they all looked at Nangong Yue, and their eyes showed strong resentment, but Zhang, after all, was Zhang, and he quickly lowered his eyebrows and bowed his head, As if everything just now was just the illusion of Nangong Yue.
Nangong Yue didn't care either. She continued to walk forward in a decent manner. A court lady greeted her and said, "Concubine Shizi, Queen Mother, please go in, please go here."
After Nangong Yue entered the hall, she found out that even Yuncheng was there. Yuncheng also smiled at Nangong Yue to make her feel relieved.
"I have seen the empress dowager and the high princess."
Please go to Anhou. The queen mother gave Nangong Yue a seat and said kindly: "Yue girl, I was aggrieved by the matter of the Emperor's government yesterday. You can rest assured that this matter will surely be the master for you."
Nangong Yue said happily, "Thank you Mother Mother!" she said a little embarrassedly. "Actually, for the matter of yesterday, Yueer wanted to go to the Yaowang Temple today. Before she went out, she got the mother. Words."
"You girl." The queen mother couldn't help laughing. After all, the child was still very young, but she was still scared.The queen mother beckoned, pulled her to her side and gave her some comfort, and said, "...but this medicine king temple has been repaired?"
"Yueer let the maid go to see it early in the morning. The hall is temporarily closed, but the partial hall is still usable." At this point, Nangong Yue said in a cheerful tone, "The maid also said, wait a few days When the main hall was reopened, the temple also specially invited Master Dharma Faction to do things, and would also teach the Bible for two days."
"Master Fa Yuan?" The Queen Mother also showed surprise.
This Dharma Master is a well-known monk in the world, but he has been closed for many years and no longer sees guests. Unexpectedly, this Yaowang Temple can actually invite him to preside over ceremonies and lectures.Even the Empress Dowager couldn't help but want to take it down in time.
"It's not because the presidency of Yaowang Temple said that there is an obscurity in the temple..." Nangong Yue closed her mouth quickly when she realized that she was speechless.
The Queen Mother saw this and deliberately raised her face and said: "Yue girl, Aijia is the most dignified and likes you, don't look like a small family, you can say anything."
"...Yue'er just didn't want to stain the Queen Mother's ears." Nangong Yue pursed her lips and said, "The Queen Mother, you just listen a little... This is what Yueer's maid heard from a little Sha Mi today, It was said that the host felt that since the main hall of the Yaowang Temple was on fire that day, there was always sorrow in the temple, so he specially invited the Master of Martial Arts to open the hall and do the ritual."
"The sorrowfulness..."
The queen mother murmured these words. The Zhang family did things for the second princess, but it caused the main hall of the Yaowang Temple to be burned. Now, the Yaowang Temple is still indifferent...
Could it be...
The flash of thought just flashed again in the empress's heart: could it really be because of these two princesses' problems? Annoying the Buddha?
Thinking so, the queen mother couldn't help feeling a little cold.
She twisted the beads in her hand, her eyes light.
After a while, she barely stretched her face and appeased Nangong Yue, saying: "Yue girl, don't worry, you are the emperor's marriage, Ai's wife's original match, Ai's family will not let you be wronged."
Nangong Yue's eyes were bright and she smiled and said, "The mother is the best for Yueer!"
The queen mother couldn't help but smile, and Yuncheng said with amusement: "Queen mother, you are so good to Yue'er, Yi Yi'er will be jealous."
The queen mother touched her forehead intimately and said, "You are like this from childhood to age... Well, this time, what good things are you looking at in your family?"
Yuncheng said unkindly: "The plum blossom and white jade hairpin you got newly is pretty good and can be reserved for sister Yi and her husband."
The Empress Dowager was also generous. With a smile, the people took out two hairpins. Naturally, there was also a share of Nangong Yue, which shocked her.
After spending time with the Empress Dowager and Yuncheng, Nangong Yue retired after having lunch at Yongle Palace.
After she left, Yuncheng originally planned to say goodbye and went back to let the concubine go to live to inquire about the sons and daughters she saw during the Ju Banquet, but when she saw that the empress's face was a little wrong, she asked, "What's the matter, mother? inappropriate?"
The queen mother was silent for a while before slowly saying: "The more you think of the mourning family, the more wrong... Yuncheng, what do you say about the second princess? After a while of dreaming, the hall of Yaowang Temple was almost destroyed by fire. It makes me feel unlucky when I think about it. This pile, piece by piece, makes the family sad and uneasy. I always feel that she has angered the Buddha?"
Yuncheng also looked right. This godly thing is still awe-inspiring.
Yuncheng pondered for a moment, and suggested: "If you are really uneasy, mother, it would be better for children to quietly order people to check? It is always more convenient for children to act outside the palace, what do you think?"
The queen mother thought for a while and nodded: "You can check it out, otherwise Aijia always feels a little uneasy."
"Children do things, my mother can rest assured." Yuncheng said confidently, and then she moved, and said, "Speaking of this, the Zhang family is also noisy enough in the name of the second princess these days. Ayi is still in the south. If Xinjiang kills the enemy for the elder brother, we can't always watch his little daughter-in-law being bullied."
The queen mother is thoughtful.
Yuncheng followed and said: "As far as the son sees, since the second girl of the Zhang family is willing to be a concubine for the second princess, it is also happy to pray for the second princess."
The queen mother nodded and finally nodded, and said to Huangmao: "Madam Huang, declare the family's purpose..."
In this way, an hour later, the Empress Dowager and his grandmother sent to the Zhang family. Grandpa Shu slowly read out the empress's decree: "...giving the Zhang Yishangfa Hongfu, and entering the Huangjue Temple. , Praying for the second princess chanting..."
Everyone in Zhangfu knelt down in the front hall to listen to their orders, almost froze, and could not believe their ears.
Isn't Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Zhang going to beg the queen mother?
How did you ask for such a purpose?
Zhang Yizheng was trembling like a fallen leaf in the wind, his face pale and bloodless.
How can things become like this?
This is not the same as what the father and grandmother said! How to make her become a monk and give her a law number? This law number is given by the queen mother.
No, it shouldn't be like this!
She obviously should marry the king of Zhennan, and she will step on Nangong Yue in the future and become a noble princess of Zhennan!
Even if the Queen Mother disagreed with her holding the second princess in the spirit position of marrying the king of Zhennan, shouldn't she decide to let her become a monk?
What exactly is going on?
"Grandmother, where is the grandmother?" Zhang Yizhong looked around, and the grandmother would definitely help her.
Grandma Huang smiled and said: "Lady Zhang is still kneeling in the palace!" The implication is that even Mrs. Zhang can't save her.
Zhang Yizhen shivered violently and jumped and wanted to run. "No, no, I don't want to be a monk..." She couldn't help screaming.
The two grandma's eyes were fast, and they pressed her to the ground, and one of them said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang Er, this is the will of the queen mother. Do you dare to resist the purpose?"
"No, no, I don't want to be a monk!" Zhang Yizhang was about to collapse, "I don't want to lose my hair..."
"Mr. Zhang Er, the mother-in-law's will has been decided. The slave-servant will see you obediently, lest the slave-servant accidentally hurt you." The other mother-in-law sneered and picked up the scissors. This kind of scene is more common in the palace. By the way, which is not to die or live.
"No, no, I don't..." Zhang Yijian struggled desperately, shouting, "Daddy, mother, help me!"
"Sister stub..." Mrs. Zhang cried and tried to jump forward, but was stopped by an inner attendant.
However, the grandma with the scissors cut her long hair in spite of Zhang Yi's struggle.
Seeing the black silk falling to the ground, Mrs. Zhang finally couldn't help crying: "Sister Ee!"
A scream of sorrow whirled around the hall, not going for a long time...