"Different sounds are heard together, and different sounds are clearer and clearer." [Shimenyan Shanghang]
The melodious sound of the piano sounded somewhere in the woods. The sound was still clear and sweet, and the breeze was still accompaniment in the woods. However, the voice of one person singing a cappella was missing, making it more airy and elegant.
Fuli Palace is mainly used to plant beautiful and exotic trees from the south. Although it occupies a large area, there are not many buildings. Because the ginkgo trees here in autumn were loved by the emperor, the Shanglin Garden Order even asked the Shaofu to allocate a sum of money to plant Fuli Palace.
The foundations of several pavilions in Li Palace have been slightly repaired for the emperor to relax at any time.
Empress Dong and her party were walking under a few maple trees, admiring the maple leaves boredly. She didn't like the dull and straight wood in front of her at all. The emperor said that he was taking everyone in Ye Ting out to relax this time, but in the final analysis, it was not just for satisfaction.
Song Du's wish? When she thought of this, Empress Dong felt extremely jealous. Now Song Du's belly was getting bigger day by day, and the emperor spent more and more time in Song Du Palace. Rao had chosen a new one in the palace.
When criticizing Cai Nu, they only made one of them, Wu Ran, a palace servant. This was because his uncle Wu Kuang sacrificed his life for the country and died in Jiaozhou.
Chang Yu was a little indignant, and while supporting Empress Dong, he said complainingly: "Look at how proud she was when she came here, but when she was sitting in the car at the back, her laughter could spread to the front!"
Empress Dong remained silent. She walked to a tall maple tree and finally seemed to lose her temper. She stopped and asked coldly: "Stop gossiping. Where are you asking about something?"
"Did you do it?" Empress Dong broke away from Chang Yu's hand, moved half a step to the side, and turned to face Chang Yu. Her long and round face became calm and calm.
Her tone was unusually cold, as if she was trying her best to restrain a calm emotion that had been maintained all year round, and there was a faint murderous intention. Even in the early summer season, Chang Yu still couldn't help but feel the gaze after meeting Empress Dong.
Inevitably, she trembled. She quickly lowered her head and spoke very quickly: "How dare I fail to obey His Highness's instructions? Ever since Lord Song became pregnant, I have gone over to greet you every day. Although your Majesty,
I don’t like to see you, but I don’t dare to expel you. Only then can I inquire and look around..."
Empress Dong listened to the other party's rambling talk about hard work, and breathed a sigh of relief without saying anything. Behind her, a petite palace maid came up to her at this moment, and took the initiative and thoughtfulness to hold Empress Dong's arm.
The person is none other than Queen Guo.
I only heard Chang Yu continue to say: "Later, I was lucky enough to find a maid in the Song Dynasty nobleman's palace, and inquired carefully. It turned out that at the beginning, the country drank wine before making love to the Song nobleman."
"I thought it was strange, too." Empress Dong was silent for a moment, then finally raised her hand and motioned for the palace attendants to disperse away until they were within sight but out of earshot.
She said to Chang Yu: "His Majesty once told me in the past that if a person is impatient before he has grown up, he will be anxious about sex, which will greatly damage the fundamentals of the body. It is because of my relationship with..." When she said this, she suddenly stopped.
After he finished speaking, there was a trace of melting on his frosty face: "Song Guiren is one year younger than Your Majesty, but now you are pregnant. If His Majesty didn't break your promise, it is because you couldn't control yourself that night and did it out of necessity."
Her idea was quite self-explanatory. Back then, the emperor had agreed with her that she would have to wait until they grew up before they could get married. Empress Dong followed the instructions, but now the Song Dynasty seemed to have overturned the emperor's previous statement. Unless the emperor deliberately used this
The words deceived Empress Dong, otherwise Song Dynasty used other methods to make the emperor unable to resist the temptation and forget about those words of health care.
Empress Dong naturally refused to believe that the emperor had deceived her. This would only make her more jealous of the Song Dynasty. And through these years of sharing the same bed, Empress Dong also understood a lot of the emperor's living habits. The emperor did not drink alcohol and was not lewd.
, and never tried new food. Every few days, she would ride horses and hunt with Yiqiandian Qianlang in Shanglin Garden. In recent years, she also learned Wu Qin Opera from Hua Tuo and practiced it every morning. With this kind of style, Empress Dong
We really have to take the emperor's words that "it is not suitable for people to grow up". Therefore, after excluding this reason, the emperor's desire for the Song Dynasty and his actions must be caused by external forces.
This external force must be the wine.
"Your Majesty seldom drinks alcohol. Even when he is being congratulated by hundreds of officials during the royal dynasty, he is just a little tipsy." Empress Dong asked suspiciously: "What happened that night to make you drink like this?"
"This is exactly what I want to report to His Highness!" Chang Yu stopped here and glanced at Queen Guo with an unhappy expression.
Empress Dong understood, and she hesitated in her heart for a while. Empress Guo has been very smart and sensible these days. At such a young age, she is more considerate than anyone else. However, although she was sent by her own family, it has not passed through time.
The test cannot determine the other party's loyalty. Thinking of this, Empress Dong noticed Chang Yu's face, and said to Empress Guo with a broad tone: "Guo Zhao, please step aside first."
"Jinnuo, after walking for so long, I just want to make a bowl of tea for His Highness." Queen Guo agreed readily and turned around to leave without any delay, as if she had no interest in the matter.
Empress Dong glanced at her and said calmly: "Well, cook more. Your Majesty often praises the tea you make."
Queen Guo knelt down and bowed, turned around and retreated with graceful steps.
Chang Yu looked deeply at Queen Guo's leaving figure, and suddenly reminded Queen Dong: "This person has never heard of being good at cooking tea before entering the palace... The art of cooking tea has only been spread among high-ranking families in the past few years.
Yes, Guo Zhao has been in the Dong Mansion, how did he learn it before? It must be that after entering the palace, he saw something good and decided to specialize in this way. This woman is not old, but she is very scheming. Your Highness must be on guard."
"I will take it to heart." After saying this, Empress Dong did not take Queen Guo too seriously. She was just a palace maid with a poor family. Even though she had some beauty, she had not yet grown up. Who could take a fancy to her?
She? But the most urgent task is to discuss how the Song Dynasty charmed the king: "You can continue what you didn't finish just now."
Chang Yu didn't dare to show off this time, and spoke out clearly: "The palace maid I found only cleans the court every day and cannot enter the inner room. I also promised to let her come to Jiaofang Hall."
, and then he was willing to ask about it. The bowl of wine that His Majesty and the nobles of Song Dynasty were drinking from was not an ordinary brew, and it could not measure up to one count. In the end... the key point was the wine vessel that held the wine."
"Wine vessels?" Empress Dong asked suspiciously: "What's the difference between wine vessels?"
"It is said that it is a fragrant snail from the South China Sea, which is as big as the palm of a hand. It is a treasure sent by the father of Song Guiren from outside the palace." Chang Yu followed this line and quickly found out clearly, and said softly: "Song Dynasty
The nobleman is not so good, but Guo Cainu beside him treasures it. No one is allowed to touch it, and it is never used. Only on the day when your Majesty came down, he used it on the pretext of celebrating the victory of the Eastern Expedition... Here
The head is weird."
"Xiangluoji..." Empress Dong's eyes showed a little hatred, and even a hint of greed flashed through her eyes.
The breeze in the forest was blowing slowly, and the melodious piano music was still playing tirelessly. Empress Dong didn't know the music, so she didn't know whether it was still the previous piano music or whether the tune had been changed long ago.
On the other side, Wu Ran was walking around endlessly. The green trees of Fuli Palace, the fresh air, and the extremely close to nature scenery did not interest her at all. To this day, Wu Ran still cannot accept that she is among so many prostitutes.
The fact that she was suddenly named a palace maid reminded me of my plan before entering the palace. I wanted to be a palace maid in peace and contentment, and then go out to find a family to discuss marriage when the time came.
Who knew that her two brothers and even her uncle Wu Kuang were racking their brains to get her favored by the emperor and stay in the palace, but they couldn't do it. Now Wu Kuang's death has prompted this. If Wu Kuangquan knew anything about it,
, I don’t know what I will think.
Thinking of this, Wu Ran smiled bitterly. Could it be that he was as noble as the alchemist he met when he was young said? He managed to avoid the suspicious Wang Fu and entered the palace, but he never came out again.
I won’t go. I don’t know if it’s fate or destiny.
Since the rise of Guangwu, the palace has been simplified. From the queen down, there are only four levels: nobles, beauties, palace servants and cai nv. Later, the cai nv was changed by the emperor to the head of the palace ladies, the attendants of the concubines, and the palace men became
Wu Ran was the lowest-ranking concubine. As a palace servant, Wu Ran didn't have many caring maids and eunuchs around her. As she was walking on the road, she was about to reach Empress Dong without even realizing it.
Fortunately, someone reached out to hold Wu Ran in time when she was lost in thought. The man behaved elegantly. Although he was also close to Empress Dong and others, he took Wu Ran away in a graceful manner: "Be careful when walking, and don't bump into her.
Already."
Wu Ran suddenly woke up and realized that she almost walked over and disturbed the whispers between Empress Dong and Chang Yu. Fortunately, the other party was talking seriously and there were many maple trees around, so the embarrassment was avoided.
After coming back to her senses, Wu Ran just looked at the person who was helping her out in front of her. She had smooth skin, a face like a silver basin, and a flowing skirt that flowed like a fairy. She opened her mouth in surprise: "You..."
"Although we only met once, have you forgotten me?" The man put his handkerchief to the corner of his mouth and smiled.
Who else could have such a fairy-like appearance in the palace? How could Wu Ran forget it? But what she wanted to ask in her heart was why the other party was here, but since she said that, she couldn't ask: "Concubine
How dare you forget Mr. Zhen?"
"You have to pay such a courtesy when you see me, let alone the queen? Fortunately, I stopped you and saved you a lot of trouble. Let's go and talk elsewhere." Zhen Ji took Wu Ran's hand affectionately and said,
She took the initiative and led Wu Ran away from this land of right and wrong, but just before she did, she turned back and glanced in the direction of Empress Dong, as if unintentionally.
Under the maple tree, Chang Yuzheng was trying to suggest Empress Dong to take a pre-emptive strike and tell the emperor about the matter immediately. Now Song Guiren and Guo Cainu happened to be in Shanglin Garden, and they were unprepared. All they had to do was send someone to rush back to Weiyang Palace and check everything.
If there is an accident, you can get the fragrant snail. No matter how favored Song Guiren is in the future, the emperor will not let her off easily when he is angry.
Empress Dong's eyes flashed with an unexplained look. As long as the emperor agreed to let her go and investigate, it didn't matter whether there was anything in the Xiangluo. But the question was, how much would the emperor believe what she said? Or not?
Would he let Empress Dong do this when Song Du was pregnant and just favored her?
Although Chang Yu's suggestion was good, it was not easy to implement. Empress Dong did not dare to be rash at this time. In fact, when she knew about Song Du or Guo Cainu's tricks with the Song family, she had already calmed down. Like a liger. Seeing the prey walking into the trap, he calmed down.
"You know, what would you do if someone wanted to touch me?" Empress Dong did not mention this first, but said without reason.
Chang Yu felt a little puzzled, and was surprised when he heard this question, and said: "Why did Your Highness mention this? Now His Highness has already established prestige in the palace, and everyone else is in awe. General Hussar is both the emperor's father-in-law and his uncle's family. , he is also very powerful in the court and has countless wings, who can still touch His Highness?"
"Is the Queen of the Liu family so easy to do?" Empress Dong suddenly sighed and whispered: "Not to mention the Empress Yuan..."
Over the years, she had also been immersed in reading some classics and history. If the concubines of the past dynasties were not powerful, few of them would start well and end well. Whenever she saw those queens who had powerful relatives, but ended up in ruins, Empress Dong would be frightened. She knew this clearly. There is absolutely no way that this could happen to me, but I still have lingering fears.
Therefore, Empress Dong moderated her temper appropriately and tried not to repeat the mistakes of her predecessors. She also tried to persuade her father Dong Cheng several times to teach him to be a warning to her predecessors. Unfortunately, Dong Cheng often did not listen to her father's advice.
Chang Yu saw that Empress Dong suddenly looked depressed. She didn't know what to say for a moment, so she had to stand aside quietly. Suddenly, from the corner of her eye, she seemed to catch a glimpse of clothes swinging not far away. Looking at the formation, it looked like a concubine was passing by. Before she could see clearly who the other party was, Empress Dong's voice came to her ears again:
"To remove the roots, you must first cut off the branches and leaves." Empress Dong stretched out her hand to caress the delicate branches of the maple tree, followed the branches upwards, and broke off a maple leaf with a gentle exertion of her wrist: "Now Song Hongguan to Zuo Zhonglang, the left palm of the hand When it comes to the election of the director, there is a group of squinting people around you, and the power is not small."
"So, we have to ask General Hussar to try to move Song Hong first, and then..." Chang Yu understood and opened his mouth to take over.
Empress Dong glanced at the other party and said nothing more. However, both parties understood what was to come next, and naturally they slowly spoke to the emperor. In Empress Dong's view, the most important thing here was that she had to first Find out whether the emperor, with his shrewdness and prudence, had any suspicions about anything unusual that night.
If not, then provoke him.
"Your Highness." At this time, Queen Guo had returned under a tree far away and said softly: "The tea has been cooked, and the country is also calling."