The First Auxiliary Road from the Imperial Examination

Chapter 393
In the Flower Pavilion of the Compassionate Ning Palace, Concubine Wen and Empress Dowager Qin sat opposite each other on both sides of the chessboard. There was fragrance burning beside the chess table, and there were palace maids cooking tea and playing the piano around the pavilion.
After a game of fast chess, Concubine Wen Taigui held up the teacup with a smile: "My sister's chess moves, I still can't figure it out!"

The Empress Dowager Qin caressed her newly dyed nails, and said with a smile: "When I play chess with others, what I pay attention to is change, change according to the situation, don't stick to the style, and don't give people rules. The emperor used to laugh at me for playing chess without rules! "

"The emperor is not laughing at you, he is clearly close to you! Our emperor is filial, my sister's blessing!" Concubine Wen said with emotion, if the previous crown prince came to power, the queen mother might not be as calm and comfortable as she is today.

The Empress Dowager Qin felt more and more proud when she thought that the emperor would be perfunctory every morning and evening, laughing and joking with her for at least two quarters of an hour every time.

"You are also a blessed person! That girl Le Ning is filial and sincere. She has written to the emperor three times to take you to the princess mansion to take care of her."

The Princess Le Ning mentioned by Empress Qin was the eldest daughter of the first emperor, who came from Concubine Wen Gui.

Precisely because of the eldest daughter, this princess was always the most favored by the late emperor, because the late emperor was reluctant to marry her far away, so he specially selected Zheng Guogong's youngest son, who was both good-looking and temperamental, to be his son-in-law.

To say that the first emperor was very accurate in judging people, Princess Le Ning, who was not confused for 22 years, looks much younger than the four princesses who were born to one mother.

Back then, the princess married the vassal king far away. The first emperor had four princesses who were all similar in age, but he chose the last three princesses to marry. Because of this, the twin sisters, Princess Le Ning and Princess Le An, were born. rift.

Speaking of which, Princess Le Ning's position in the hearts of the two emperors was very different, both being born of Concubine Wen Gui.

The first emperor never concealed his eccentricity, and it is the same today.

In the first year of Jinghe, the emperor conferred the title, and specially conferred the title of Princess Le Ning as the eldest princess of Le Ning, and the former concubine, Princess Hong'an, was also conferred the title of eldest princess.

"The child Le Ning is spoiled by the emperor a little willfully. From ancient times to the present, has there ever been a princess who took the concubine out of the palace?" Concubine Wen said so, but the smile on her face could not be concealed.

The Empress Dowager Qin said with a smile: "Since Le Ning published the playbook, the three princesses Le Pei, Le An, and Le Yue have also played the play. Dai and Jia are looking forward to it!"

Princess Le'an is the second daughter of Concubine Wen, who married Luo Hao, the heir of the vassal prince.

"Let's go as long as they wish. Ever since Concubine Cen and Concubine He came out of the palace, they have often lamented why they didn't have a son; if this can be done, Tai'an Palace will be much quieter! However, they have nothing to do with me, anyway, I am I have to stay in the palace and be with my sister."

The Empress Dowager Qin glanced at her with a smile: "Why do you want to accompany me? You obviously don't know which daughter to go back home with!"

Concubine Wen Taigui smiled wryly and nodded: "Sure enough, the one who knows me is also my sister."

Seeing her confession, Queen Mother Qin straightened her back and shook her head and said, "You don't know what to do, but I have an idea. If you coax me..."

"Come, come, my sister is pouring tea for the queen mother, and I hope our wise, beautiful and eternal queen mother will give us some advice." Concubine Wen got up to pour tea, handed it over as if singing an opera, and asked with a smile, "Do you want my sister to feed you?" ?”

"I'm sorry!" Empress Dowager Qin took the tea and said this in a playful tone, and after looking at Concubine Wen Taigui, she couldn't help laughing out loud.

After the two laughed and quarreled, the Empress Dowager Qin blew tea and looked at Concubine Wen: "Le Ning and Le An sisters are both good children, but they are both a little arrogant, so how to choose...just look at the rules. The choice is the most appropriate." The standard is based on the elders and the respect, you can never go wrong in choosing Le Ning.

What's more, you live in Le Ning's eldest princess mansion, why can't Le An come over to greet you?There has never been any enmity between the sisters. The reason for some unhappiness is also because Le An married far away, and the two sisters have not seen each other for a long time.

Afterwards, with you in the eldest princess's mansion, the two sisters often come and go, and slowly talk about it, and they are kissing and loving as a family again, how nice it is! "

Empress Dowager Qin's words touched Concubine Wen's heart.

Seeing Concubine Wen wishing to go back to pack her luggage immediately, Empress Dowager Qin pointed at her with a smile, and said to the maid next to her with a smile: "Did you see, just now you said you would stay with me in this palace, and in a blink of an eye your heart flew away." The eldest princess's mansion!"

Concubine Wen was not embarrassed: "As the saying goes, one moment is another moment, besides, after my sister leaves the palace, I can still enter the palace to greet you! If you are bored in the palace, you can also go out to find my sister."

"Good fellow, you have already become the head of the family before you leave the palace!" The Empress Dowager Qin called out to the nanny with a smile, "Hurry up, go and pack some good things for Concubine Wen, and treat it as our loan." Live money."

Concubine Wen Taigui knew that it was the Empress Dowager Qin subsidizing her, so she hastily declined: "My sister has been in the palace for dozens of years, I don't know how many good things I have missed my sister, so I dare not lick my face and ask for it."

"I don't know how many things you have?" Empress Qin shook her head with a smile, "Le Ning and Le'an have almost divided your good things after getting married twice! When you go out of the palace to be someone's ancestor, you also need something to give It’s a good thing for grandchildren and granddaughters! Don’t talk anymore, just listen to me!”

She didn't want to listen to Concubine Wen's courteous words, and instead asked Sheng Han who was raised by the late emperor: "You can't take her with you when you go out this time, what arrangements do you have?"

"My younger sister doesn't have a charter either. I don't know what my sister's idea is?" Concubine Wen originally wanted to raise Sheng Han as a half-granddaughter, but for some reason, she had no interest in that child. She was obviously a beautiful and generous child. It just looks a little awkward.

Therefore, we can only follow the rules and let people eat, drink and look good.

The Empress Dowager Qin didn't like the other three householders in the Sheng Mansion because of her nephew Sheng Xiangxun, and because of Sheng Yuan, she couldn't like the sixth lady of the Sheng family even more.

"Let's ask the emperor later." Empress Qin thought, it would be best to use this general election to send the girl out of the palace.

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"Your Majesty, there are indeed rules for princes to deliver their mothers out of the palace, but for a princess to live out of the palace... This, this is unreasonable!"

Emperor Jing He didn't expect that, when he was conscientiously correcting the memorials, this group of courtiers who had nothing to do would chase after such a trivial matter and protest against it, which is simply unreasonable!
"Ai Qing, the prince delivered his mother out of the palace to take care of her... This matter dates back only two or three hundred years, and there are very few such cases going forward. Guess why this has become a common practice?"

The ministers heard the words, although they didn't understand the meaning of Jing and the emperor, they knew that the emperor probably wanted to tease them again, so they refused to answer the words, they just said in unison: "The ministers are stupid."

"Hehe." Emperor Jing He was not angry when he saw that they were not fooled, he patted the table with a smile, and said loudly, "That's because the ministers of Emperor Chen Jing were not so boring! He was busy helping the emperor share his worries! He didn't like it." Mind your own business!"

(End of this chapter)