After seeing Zhuang Jingjia, Zhu Yijun almost lost interest in seeing other ladies. Empress Dowager Li was not affected at all. She saw a girl named Liu who seemed to be very attractive and asked a few more questions.
After all the ladies had finished watching, the two palaces and the emperor returned to the main hall of Bailu Palace. Because she wanted to discuss the candidates with the emperor, Empress Dowager Chen turned away the attendants without waiting for Empress Dowager Li's instructions.
After everyone left, Empress Dowager Chen looked at Zhu Yijun and asked: "Which ones do you think are satisfactory to you? Who can be your queen?"
Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "Thank you, my mother, for your consideration. My son thinks that Zhuang Jingjia is good enough to be the queen. Everything else is entirely up to my mother."
Empress Dowager Li was nearby and said unhappily: "Sister, I really spoil him. The emperor doesn't know how to live a good life. He only chooses pretty ones!" After saying this, she stared at Empress Dowager Chen, her eyes going back and forth between the emperor and Empress Dowager Chen.
Look at.
Seeing that Empress Dowager Chen was just smiling, Empress Dowager Li smiled at her and said, "Sister, you said, can he still have the final say in choosing the queen?" Empress Dowager Chen nodded and said, "Well, the emperor has caught his eye.
It's better than you and I taking a fancy to you. Otherwise, it would be very boring for the young couple to bicker all day long."
After hearing this, Queen Mother Li was very happy and said: "What daughter-in-law can quarrel with the emperor? Zhuang Jingjia seems to be able to do such a thing!"
Zhu Yijun saw that these words were very harsh, so he smiled and said: "Mother, did you think that your son was not dignified just now? This Mr. Zhuang is scared——"
Before she could finish her words, Empress Dowager Li interrupted: "Emperor, there is no need to say any more. When choosing the queen, I have chosen Sister Wang Xi. That woman is steady, knowledgeable, dignified and has the body of a queen. She is someone who can take pictures quietly without causing trouble."
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Seeing Zhu Yijun's lips moving slightly, as if to interrupt, Empress Dowager Li said again: "Although the emperor has already ruled personally, there is no reason to make his own decisions about the marriage of his children. Where do you and I, the benevolent Queen Mother, leave me?"
Empress Dowager Chen was standing aside. When she saw Empress Dowager Li talking and not looking at the emperor but staring at herself, she couldn't help but nodded and said: "I also think Sister Wang Xi is good. The emperor thinks about it carefully. If he chooses Sister Wang Xi as his queen, she has no reason to be exclusive. In the future, you
Whichever one you want to favor is the one. Isn’t it..."
Before he could finish speaking, Rensheng felt that it was a bit indecent to speak so openly to the emperor, so he stopped talking. Zhu Yijun saw that she was just like a faggot, and he smiled helplessly in his heart.
When Queen Mother Li saw Queen Mother Chen standing with her, she nodded in relief and said to Zhu Yijun: "If the emperor likes Zhuang Jingjia, he can directly make her a concubine and give her a single favor."
When Zhu Yijun heard what the two palaces said to each other, he stopped talking and just listened quietly. When both palaces finished speaking, Zhu Yijun replied with a smile.
Although this sentence was said with a smile, the content was not funny at all: "What the mother said is true. The son only mentioned one thing: If the son and Sister Wang Xi give birth to a prince, the son may not be willing to make him the prince in the future."
After hearing this, Queen Mother Li's face changed color. She wanted to slap the table and scold the emperor for being ignorant, but after thinking about it, she couldn't say that the emperor was ignorant - he knew much more than she did.
Zhu Yijun explained before she could get angry: "Son, I have to ask myself today, this Zhuang family will definitely dote on me in the future. From ancient times to the present, the concubines who dote on them will cause so many troubles because of the disputes between their legitimate concubines! How can they dote on the queen and their legitimate son?"
It’s also my beloved son, and it saves me so much trouble!”
This sentence was very powerful, evoking the distant shadow of fear in Queen Mother Li's heart.
When she was in Prince Yu's Mansion, although she was specially favored, she was still a concubine. After giving birth to Zhu Yijun, what she was most worried about was whether the child could grow up safely. There was another worry that she couldn't express, but it brought her even more fear.
Even—I was afraid that Queen Mother Chen would become pregnant.
If the royal wife, Queen Mother Chen, also gave birth to a son, how could Zhu Yijun be on the throne? How could she be as good as the current Empress Dowager Cisheng? To put it bluntly, it was fortunate that Empress Dowager Rensheng was not as good as she wanted, otherwise Prince Yu's Mansion would not have known how to do it that day.
How many tragic things happened.
She supports Sister Wang Xi not because she must be against the emperor. On the one hand, she hates Zhuang Jingjia in her heart and feels that the woman is a little unstable; on the other hand, she really feels that if the queen only favors her, it will be detrimental to the emperor's heirs.
Seeing that the emperor insisted that Zhuang Jingjia be the queen, Empress Dowager Li softened her tone and said: "In this dynasty, Emperor Xiaozong only favored the queen, and there was only one Emperor Wuzong. The emperor also knows what happened later."
"Then Zhuang's color alone dominates the Sixth Palace, and now she becomes the queen - will the other concubines still have a way to survive? Has the emperor thought about this?"
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun pondered for a moment and said with a smile: "Listen to what the queen means, after the queen is decided, you will no longer care about the affairs of the harem? That's not possible! No matter who is the queen, how can he own such a big family!
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"Even if you are too lazy to take care of him in the future - can this Queen say half a word 'no' in front of the Queen Mother? You also look down on your son. Even if he is as beautiful as a fairy, there is no reason to show off in front of the Queen Mother!"
"If the queen is jealous or oppressive, can you still watch her? Just tell your son."
The words made Empress Dowager Li feel a lot less worried, and she nodded slowly. Empress Dowager Chen helped her by saying, "Sister, you don't have to worry too much. You don't know what kind of man this man is? You and I have given you so much over the years.
How many lawsuits have those married women settled?!
She looked at Zhu Yijun and said with a smile: "Even the old ones know the young ones. It would be strange if someone like the late emperor left a trace of love behind!"
These words drove Emperor Longqing to no end. Empress Dowager Li was dumbfounded, and the unhappiness caused by Zhu Yijun's own decision was much lessened.
Zhu Yijun saw that her color was a little brighter, so he struck while the iron was hot: "Today, among the many ladies, besides Zhuang Jingjia, the queen mother is interested in Sister Wang Xi, there is also Yang's nickname Jia'er, Li's nickname Ling'er, and Chen's nickname
Xueer’s ones are all good.”
Empress Dowager Li laughed angrily at Zhu Yijun, stretched out her hand to hit him and said, "It's up to the empress to decide this name?" Then she looked at Empress Dowager Chen and said, "Sister, you really said that. I'm just worried. Look at the emperor like this.
Yes, I’m really eating from the bowl and looking into the pot, and I’m not ashamed!”
After Zhu Yijun heard this, he said with a straight face: "The queen mother is worried that the emperor's heirs are not yet widespread, how dare her son not try his best?" In the end, Empress Dowager Li laughed.
Seeing that her face finally cleared up, Zhu Yijun took her hand and said, "I know the mother's thoughts. It's so easy to drag a good child into a child, but half of it is divided by a girl - what mother can be happy with this?"
The true words struck Empress Dowager Li's heart, and she couldn't help but get red circles in her eyes.
Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "Mother, you might as well think about it the other way around, our family has suddenly gained a lot of people."
Empress Dowager Chen couldn't help but laugh, pointed at Zhu Yijun and said: "The emperor's mouth can really tell the truth."
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Zhu Yijun talked evil first and then talked softly, finally turning the corner of Empress Dowager Li. Then the emperor's decree came down - the ninth concubine was born, including Zhuang Jingjia, Sister Wang Xi and others.
Zhuang Jingjia felt relieved when she saw that she had fulfilled the dealer's minimum requirements. The other eight ladies whose names were called never expected that they would rise rapidly, and all of them were doubtful in their dreams.
Zhuang Jingjia clearly saw the jealous eyes around her that were like fire when she was announced as one of the nine concubines.
On the way from Suzhou to the capital, this kind of gaze was intertwined with his father's teachings. Zhuang Jingjia knew that from now on, she had made all kinds of psychological preparations, and would be in this wolf's den and tiger's den.
Harem, survive and climb up.
It would be great if she could be elected as the queen, Zhuang Jingjia thought crazily. The emperor said in public, "I like it very much", but I don't know how much effect it will have. She was afraid that the queen mother was prejudiced against her, and hearing the emperor say this would make her even more
Annoyed.
If I can really be selected as the queen, I won't have to abandon everything I can call "dignity" in the process of repeatedly competing for favor. At that time, I will get everything I have to fight for in my life in one step, and the rest will be only happiness.
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Regardless of whether she can be selected to become the queen, the young man who looks a bit strong and has no elegance today will become her lifelong support. Zhuang Jingjia recalled the emperor's face carefully as if she was afraid of forgetting.
At this time, she secretly vowed that if she could get her wish, she would fulfill her duties as a queen: quietly take care of the harem without jealousy or envy.