The Lofty Fierce Consort - Chapter 127

? No one thought that things would happen such a sharp turn.

I thought it was a secret meeting between the second prince and the fourth prince concubine, and there was a discord. How could I have thought that the second prince was lucky enough to be a palace man on a whim, and the fourth prince was drunk and sobered by his husband. .

Could it be that the people in that palace have misunderstood the place, after all, the two palaces are not far apart?

Seeing the four princes standing there looking at this side confusedly, everyone’s hearts were thinking hard.

Zhen Guogong received Yan Yan’s unharmed answer, so he hurriedly gave up. After all, this is your Majesty’s family affair, and I have been in love with me just now, so I naturally want to avoid it at this time.

“Father and queen, what happened?” Luo Huaiyuan asked again.

He is used to pretending to be, but in fact he has been squatting behind the door and watching the big show for a long time, and he came out after feeling the same.

For a while, it was quiet all around, only a little movement could be heard in the door.

Luo Huaiyuan seemed to hear the voice of the second emperor inside, and couldn’t help but point to the door in surprise and asked, “Well, what about the second emperor…”

Emperor Xi frowned, and said: “It’s okay, your second emperor is drunk, and you actually dragged a palace man to hustle here.” After saying this, he said to Xu Guifei: “Don’t let the beast pack up and get out! “

Concubine Xu Gui reacted quickly, and hurriedly winked at the palace man beside her.

Emperor Xi said again: “Since your wife is drunk, you will send her back.”

Luo Huaiyuan nodded, then turned around and went to work in the palace. After a while, he helped out a man wrapped in a cloak. It seemed that he knew that Emperor Xi didn’t want him to be here, he didn’t linger for a while, so he hurried away.

After Emperor Xi spoke, the matter was settled, and no one dared to say more.

It seems that as Emperor Xi said, the second prince was drunk and absurd, and dragged a palace man to mess around here. As for whether the second prince will not fall for a thousand cups, is it such an unstable person, no one is going to pursue it anymore.

Of course, this is only a superficial phenomenon. In fact, there are still a small number of people who know that things are not so simple.

Because the incident happened suddenly and it was in a place like Jiying Hall, the second prince and the palace man were quickly moved to the place. After that, Emperor Xi also ordered someone to investigate, and nothing suspicious was found at the scene. Because the second prince was in an incorrect state, he had asked the imperial doctor to come for treatment.

The imperial doctor took the pulse and said that the second prince had signs of Chinese medicine, including the little palace man.

What is even more surprising is that when I went to investigate, I found the second prince and concubine tightly bound under the bed.

When found, the second prince and concubine were in a coma, and she also showed signs of being hit, but only slightly. Someone noticed that the second prince and concubine were only wearing middle clothes and trousers, and the outer dress was stripped and scattered on the ground.

Some people guessed the clues, but no one dared to say it.

The emperor Xi gave the forbidden word in person, and this matter naturally went through the water without a trace. After all, there are too many things that are not suitable for publicity, and they can only be ignored.

Has anyone guessed that a lot of things were actually related to the four princes, no one knew. Just as Luo Huaiyuan thought before, no matter what standpoint it was based on, this matter could not be found out through investigation, it would only let it cover its past.

Ask why?

Unless Emperor Xi intends not to have the royal face, he doesn’t want the son of the second prince.

So the truth only exists in the hearts of a few people.

***

When Yan Yan was sober, she found herself riding on Fatty.

His expression is weird, and his state is also weird. It’s a pity that she didn’t have the time to think about what was going on, so she could only continue to dance with her body.

After an incident, she collapsed in Luo Huaiyuan’s arms, her body was sore and weak, and she didn’t even bother to move her fingers.

Only then did the previous memories come back to her mind, Yan Yan couldn’t wait to find a crack in the wall to get in.

Although there are not many such things between husband and wife, it’s just that she has never been so bold. She remembered that she was lingering around him like a water snake, saying some very shameful things and doing some very awkward actions, she couldn’t help being ashamed and angry.

But Yan Yan soon realized that her state was wrong and straightened up.

“What’s wrong with me? I was drugged?”

Luo Huaiyuan smiled bitterly and touched her sweaty jade face, “Daughter-in-law, you have been drugged. If it weren’t for your husband and I went there in time, something serious happened this time.”

Then he recounted what happened afterwards, including what he did in it. Yan Yan’s face grew darker and darker, and when she heard that Empress Xiao finally asked someone to catch the traitor, when she caught the second prince who was lucky enough to be a palace man on a whim, her anger reached its highest point.

Luo Huaiyuan hurriedly calmed her: “Don’t be angry, don’t be angry, I’ve already reported this hatred to your husband. Although this matter has not been investigated, everyone knows that she is involved. Xu Guifei suffered such a big loss. I will definitely not let her go easily. I’m probably thinking about how to return the past. Let these two women fight on their own. Let’s watch the show.”

Judging from his appearance, it seemed that she was really going to find the queen for something. No matter how impulsive Yan Yan was, she wouldn’t do such a stupid thing unless she didn’t want to live anymore.

After a while, Yan Yan also recovered her strength and got up from him.

“Going for a bath? Let’s play with a mandarin duck, let alone Yanyan, you are so passionate today…”

Luo Huaiyuan smiled wryly, Yan Yan couldn’t help rolling his eyes and twisting him.

“Woo…Why are you **** me again, today I have worked so hard… 嘤嘤嘤… my waist hurts so much…”

Yan Yan finally couldn’t bear it, and the string in her head broke with a’pop’.

“Fatty man, you are enough…”

Don’t you know that girls are very shy when they encounter this kind of thing, and they have to keep playing tricks.

***

Empress Xiao was quite sure that she was cheated, and the person who cheated her is unknown for the time being.

Obviously it was arranged, but when she came, she changed the target, causing her to make a big ugly in front of Emperor Xi. Fortunately, she reacted quickly enough and didn’t leave any handles, otherwise it would be difficult to end at the time.

She had wondered if the four princes were doing the trick, but it was a pity that he looked really different.

Empress Xiao’s suspicious life, her confidant went to the little palace man named Yingge and asked what happened at that time, but it was a pity that the little palace man of Yingge was taken by the second prince and couldn’t get on the line at all.

Although Emperor Xi didn’t show anything on the face, he went to Chunluan Palace that night and spent three nights in the Xu Guifei Palace. Various rewards were carried to the Royal Concubine Palace in a box.

Suddenly, Xu Guifei was in the limelight in the harem.

After that incident, the second prince remained silent. Whether it was Xu Guifei asking him in person or the third prince, he remained silent.

The specific truth is actually known to a few people, but the process is impossible to guess.

Of course, there is one exception, and that is Lu Xiuling.

Because of this incident, Emperor Xi gave a password, let alone the minions below, they covered their mouths when they slept, for fear that they would miss something in their dreams, and other people in the palace would naturally not know.

After the second prince was drunk, he was fortunate to have a palace man in the Jiying Hall, which was not a big deal in the palace. Surprisingly, the second prince actually took that palace man by his side and became a concubine.

Is it possible that the second prince likes this woman very much?

The second prince and the second prince were only newly married for less than three months, and it has long been heard that the second prince was not very welcome to see the second prince and concubine. As soon as this happened, everyone knew how unwelcome it was. We must know that there are many people in the palace around the princes, but there is not one who is famous. These are things that need to be discussed after the wedding.

Generally, in order to give dignity to the prince and concubine, the proposal will be postponed until half a year to a year after the wedding. I did not expect that the second prince would behave like this in public.

People who know the inside story naturally understand the meaning of the second prince’s action, but these people are in the minority after all.

Therefore, when seeing the second prince and concubines up and down in the palace, the eyes will inevitably show some strangeness, even the servants of Jin’an Temple will show some clues more or less. On the surface, he still had to be scrupulous, but secretly, there were no few servants who ran to the concubine Ji named Yingge to show their courtesy.

As for Yingge, she was originally a small palace person in the Hall of Heroes, and only after being bought by the queen could she do things for her. No matter how unsuccessful things were, they had a relationship with the second prince. After the second prince took her to her side, she could understand the meaning, she immediately forgot who the queen was, and followed the second prince wholeheartedly.

You must know that the people in the palace are the most inferior people in the palace. It is a good thing to be able to wait for the prince by the side of the prince.

Naturally, Yingge is not a simple one, even if he knows how he came, he still doesn’t show up at all. Because of the rumors outside, the second prince did not do too much to favor her, and she also made a mistake by pushing the boat along with the water.

All this fell in Lu Xiuling’s eyes, as if digging her heart.

All the grievances accumulated in the heart finally broke out when the second prince proposed to take Yingge to the lantern festival held in the palace on the eve of the Spring Festival.

“What do you look like? When people don’t know the filthiness in your heart? It’s useless to pretend to be nonchalant. Anyone who knows your thoughts knows! No matter how you cover up, you can’t cover up your coveted brother. The daughter-in-law!”

Lu Xiuling suddenly broke out like this, making the palace people around her couldn’t believe her ears, and her legs and feet trembled.

The second prince turned dark and moved his eyes, and the **** next to him acted to let the people waiting in the room go down.

These palace people hurriedly retreated, still holding the idea of ​​fluke in their hearts. As everyone knows, since they heard these words, their destiny has been doomed.

There are also two maids married by Lu Xiuling from her natal family. They didn’t know that the master had said these words, and they had personally pushed them into the bottomless abyss.

On that day, in that kind of situation, no one dared to say a word about the second prince coveting his younger sister-in-law, whether it was the master or the slaves, nor did he know where Lu Xiuling borrowed the courage.

The door was closed tightly, and the second prince stood up and walked towards Lu Xiuling.

For the first time, he, who has always been gentle and polite, showed a face different from his appearance.

Lu Xiuling couldn’t help panicking, and took two steps back: “What do you want to do?”

The second prince stretched out a palm and held her slender neck.

“You let go, what do you want to do? I am the prince and concubine appointed by your majesty!”

The second prince approached her, his handsome face was dark and inexplicable, and his eyes narrowed dangerously: “You also know that you are the prince concubine? What should you say and what should not be said that you don’t know? You want to use this to pinch me? Know? I don’t know what happened to those people who went down just now?” He paused, “None of them can survive, but you killed them by yourself.”

Lu Xiuling’s face was pale, and her pupils shrank into needles because of panic.

“No, impossible, you…”

The second prince ignored her and continued: “You dismissed your stupid idea as soon as possible. Believe it or not, you ran outside to announce that I coveted the fourth daughter-in-law. Without me, the emperor will kill you first!”

Lu Xiuling’s tears flowed out at once, and she couldn’t stop flowing down, wet the hands of the second prince. He suddenly felt a sense of disgust and waved his hand and dropped the man to the ground.

“I really don’t know how the mother concubine chose you, a stupid person, to be the prince and concubine. In the future, shut your mouth and be honest, otherwise I don’t mind replacing you!”

***

The Shangyuan Festival is Daxi’s annual event, and Luo Huaiyuan and Yan Yan, who had been shrinking in the Xianyun Hall for a few days, had to step out of the hall.

From the first day of the first lunar month, the Aoshan lighthouse at the palace gate began to be built until the completion of the tenth day. From the day it was set up, it began to burn day and night, dazzling and dazzling. The lantern market next to Aoshan was also set up, and a long dragon of various lanterns hung along the street, making it a lively and prosperous scene.

Every year, every family and wealthy family will ask craftsmen to put lights on and hang them in front of each lamp house. If you have the eyes of your majesty and any lady in the palace, you will naturally have a reward. Therefore, all the lampshades close to the royal grandstand picked up the most eye-catching lamps in the mansion and hung them out, hoping to win the prize.

Looking at all kinds of colorful lights, Yan Yan can’t help but think of last year’s Shangyuan Festival, the rare rain of fireworks. Luo Huaiyuan seemed to think of the same scene, Chong Yan Yan winked her eyes, Yan Yan couldn’t help but smile.

When I saw the people involved that day again, Luo Huaiyuan was silent by inertia, while Yan Yan’s face was full of frost. At first glance, he was in a very bad mood.

But people who spend a long time in the palace don’t know how to solve the embarrassment.

Empress Xiao wears an extremely dazzling phoenix robe and a nine-tailed phoenix crown, which is graceful and luxurious. When I saw Yan Yan, I also paid special attention to her. I heard that you are sick, so I should pay more attention to it in the future. I’m still waiting for you to give birth to the fourth child.

Yan Yan really wanted to vomit her face, but fortunately she held it back. She, who can’t do superficial skills, can only listen to the queen expressing her concern with a stiff face, and then return to her seat and sit down.

In the meantime, I saw the second prince and Lu Xiuling in the next seat. Yan Yan did not look at the person who was unruly towards her, but looked at Lu Xiuling twice, because her expression was really sluggish. Glancing at the familiar face sitting on an embroidered pier behind her, it became clear.

Yan Yan remembered that she was stuffed under the bed, listening to her husband and other women fighting, and finally had to accept that her husband had a new favorite, and she couldn’t help giving Luo Huaiyuan a smile.

Sometimes people who are disgusting need this method to deal with. If it weren’t for knowing that these people have not been very good in the past few days, Yan Yan really suspects that she can’t resist coming to find fault.

Thinking of this, she glanced at the queen sitting above.

Because of the reflection of the light and the heavy makeup, it is rare to see the haggard state on Empress Xiao’s face. But Yan Yan has good eyesight, and she can still tell some clues from her somewhat blue eye sockets.

In contrast, Xu Guifei looked amazing, as if the panic that day was just a dream. She combed her hair with a jasper dragon and phoenix hairpin obliquely inserted in a bun, her eyes filled with spring water and a clever smile. She was dressed in a rose-red fair-embroidered begonia and peony palace dress, covered in a snow-white fox fur.

Yan Yan knew that it was made of the finest snow fox skin, or pieced together with the softest leather under the arms of the snow fox. The cloak made of such a leather is soft and smooth, light and soft, and it is not stupid to wear around, because she also has one.

Yan Yan didn’t know the secret machine fronts in the palace too well. If it weren’t for Luo Huaiyuan to reason and provide evidence to tell her that the queen was very bad, very bad, she would never believe it.

Empress Xiao is really bad these few days.

Concubine Xu Gui is in the limelight in the harem, and Emperor Xi has often expressed his preference for the second and third princes in the past few days. The prince was embarrassed in front of everyone first, and the father also showed his aversion to him in the past two days, which really made him panic, and often came to the queen for advice.

Empress Xiao was worried, and this unconscious child was so restless. In the courtroom, her father, Jing Guogong, responded that the popularity among courtiers was floating, and the prestige of the prince was not as good as before. While Empress Xiao had to worry about this, while leaving Xu Guifei to retaliate against her secretly, she also wanted to reassure the prince.

Empress Xiao has been in the palace for dozens of years, and it has always been clear that all the courts and the palace are acting according to the direction of the wind.

For so many years, either the east wind has overwhelmed the west wind, or the west wind has overwhelmed the east wind. And finally the balance that she had maintained all along was broken because of her carelessness. Seeing the attitude of Emperor Xi, you can imagine that there will be a long time in the future. They must lower their heads to be human, but as long as they stick to the past, it is impossible for Emperor Xi to raise the people on the side of the imperial concubine too high. After all, as the emperor , Balance is the most important thing.

Of course, all these hidden fronts are invisible and intangible on the surface, but the surge in the dark has never stopped.

On the 16th day of the first lunar month, Zhen Guo Gong rarely came to the palace to see Emperor Xi.

In fact, as soon as Emperor Xi saw his cautious attitude, he knew where the Lord Zhen Guo came from.

“His Majesty.”

“Uncle Maoshan, I am ashamed of you. I didn’t expect such a thing to happen. Fortunately, it didn’t lead to any tragedy.” Before Zhenguo spoke publicly, Emperor Xi said so ashamed.

Lord Zhenguo smiled bitterly, then arched his hands: “Your Majesty, don’t say so.”

He paused, and said: “Your Majesty, you also know that the old minister is just such a granddaughter. He said it was a granddaughter, but it is no different from his own granddaughter. On that day, you gave the girl to the four princes. The prince’s child is a careless person, so he wants to let their young couple live their lives in peace. But now you see…”

Zhen Guogong’s statement is actually very implicit, because his existence is destined to fight between the queen and the imperial concubine, and Yan Yan will inevitably be used as a raft. After all, the meaning of the word Zhen Guo Gong is understood by everyone. If you can’t compete on the surface, then you can only let it get disgusted. Why did the queen choose Yan Yan as the target? It’s nothing more than that if this happens, Yan Yan will die, and the second prince who made Yan Yan die will become a person who is extremely hated by the Shen family.

Humans are emotional animals, and even if Zhen Guo’s position is firm, he can’t avoid emotional troubles. At that time, if you abandon the second prince and one line, you will inevitably turn to the prince.

The queen really has a good calculation, but it’s a pity that people are not as good as heaven.

“What does Uncle Maoshan think?”

Duke Zhen Guo lifted the hem of the unicorn robe and knelt to the ground with his knees.

“The veteran begs your Majesty to release two small ones out of the palace. Since they don’t want to get involved in these matters, they give them a freedom. The Four Princes have already opened the mansion, so they are allowed to stay in their own mansion. When you leave Beijing, you will be a vassal.”

Emperor Xi hurriedly stood up, and personally helped Zhen Guo Gong up.

“Uncle Maoshan, since you said it, I will definitely promise you, so why do you do that.”

Lord Zhen Guo bowed his head and said: “The old minister is ashamed and has not dared to discuss his majesty’s family affairs, but today he embarrassed his majesty because of a little selfishness of his own.”

In fact, Emperor Xi allowed Empress Xiao to leave the four princes and his wife in the palace, so he had his own plan. It’s just that these plans are known to the emperor himself, but Zhen Guogong has seen a little clue because of his assistance for many years.

“Finally, I am approved.”

“Thank your majesty for the grace.”

Concubine Xu Gui has become more and more popular in the palace recently, and she has gradually overwhelmed Empress Xiao.

In recent years, as the imperial concubine is getting older, although Xi Di still loves her, he will inevitably want to taste some tenderness, so there are many young and beautiful concubines in the palace.

Of course, the number of times to rest in Xu Guifei is still the most, but it is not absent from other imperial concubines. It is just that they are all scattered, which makes the concubine more favored. In the past few years, it hasn’t been like the recent days, and I have stayed in Chunluan Palace again and again, almost to the point where I can’t move my feet.

In the harem, many people secretly scolded Xu Guifei to bewitching and confuse the Lord, and of course Empress Xiao was indispensable.

Concubine Xu Gui was unparalleled in the limelight and was extremely proud. Taking the opportunity to coax Emperor Xi with a smile, she proposed that she wanted to give the second prince another concubine.

In fact, this is a customary matter. About a year after the prince’s wedding, the emperor and the queen will choose the daughter of the good family, and add a side concubine to extend the heirs. The reason why Concubine Xu Gui would speak in person was because of the unusual status of the daughter of the family. She was the daughter of the magistrate of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

Xidi readily agreed because he was in a good mood.

After the news came out, Empress Xiao gnashed her teeth and secretly scolded the concubine countless times.

With the second prince, the prince and the fourth prince are naturally indispensable. Therefore, the prince has an extra good lady, and the fourth prince will also add a side concubine. The candidate is not determined.

After hearing this news, the four princes hurried to Zichen Hall to see Emperor Xi.

After meeting with Emperor Xi, he refused to take a side concubine one by one, saying that the four princes and concubines were very good, so it would be troublesome to take a side concubine.

Of course this is the words of the four princes, and others can’t help but think about it. Could it be that the four princes and concubines drank the vinegar, so that the four princes refused to go out with such a fright?

Of course, all this is just outsiders’ speculation.

All in all, the four princes have a very simple will. Once he is determined, he should be careful not to side the concubine. Even if the Emperor Xi is angry, he still trembles with his head and mumbles not to side the concubine or the concubine.

Emperor Xi smashed his pen and said, “Go away, I never want to see you useless again” as the end.

The development of the whole thing was beyond the expectations of the four princes and his wife.

After the incident, Luo Huaiyuan first expressed to Yan Yan that he would not accept a concubine to the death. On the other hand, he also made up his mind to let the cheap dad dispel this idea even if he was struggling. Who would have thought that the beginning is difficult, the process is thrilling, but the result is a big surprise.

It turns out that there is such a benefit to not accepting a concubine to the death?

The couple stayed for a while, and then quickly took the money out of the palace. Originally, it would take at least two days to pack up the luggage and all kinds of supplies, but abruptly reduced the two to half a day.

After the queen received the letter, the matter had spread in the palace.

Naturally, no one dared to question the words of Emperor Xi himself, and Empress Xiao didn’t doubt whether there was anything tricky in the process. After all, the behavior of these four princes is very irritating to anyone. The so-called gift from the elders, dare not resign, the four princes actually rejected his majesty’s kindness because they were afraid of the woman, it is no wonder that the emperor Xi was so furious.

Because of this, Yan Yan became famous in Beijing again.

This woman was fierce enough to make her a prince, and rejected her own father’s concubine. For this reason, she did not hesitate to provoke her majesty and be expelled from the palace.

Many ministers went home to confess to their wives. This kind of woman looks good, but she is still not suitable to marry home. In the future, we must be careful to marry our son.

All this has nothing to do with Luo Huaiyuan and his wife. ?