Concubine Biography

Chapter 104

It's not easy to be a queen, but fortunately, Fu'er was already handling palace affairs before this, so generally speaking, there is only a clear change in identity, and the rest is still the same as before.

"Mother!" Peiling walked in cheerfully, holding Peiyan's hand. Fu'er smiled and patted their heads, "You're back? What did you say today?"

Li Peiling said excitedly, "Mother, sir! The master said that I can take the imperial examination after Chinese New Year!"

"Really?" Fu'er kissed Peiling's forehead in surprise, "Our Peiling has grown up, and we can enter the imperial school!"

"Hmph!" Li Peiyan shook off Li Peiling's hand, angrily sat aside and ignored him.

Li Peiling walked up to Li Peiyan, and said with a smile, "Don't be sad, you are too young now, didn't the master say that you can take the exam in two years?"

"I don't want to be separated from my brother!" Li Peiyan's eyes were red, and he was sad alone with his arms crossed and his head tilted.

Li Peiling was very embarrassed, "Then what should I do?"

Fu'er asked curiously, "What's wrong with you two?"

Li Peiling said dejectedly, "If I enter Emperor School next year, I will be separated from Ayan, and neither I nor Ayan will be happy."

"Ah!" Li Peiling cried out suddenly, and said excitedly as if remembering something, "Why don't we go to Emperor Father, let Father tell Mr. Dixue, and let Ayan enroll in Emperor Academy with me."

"Really?" Li Peiyan immediately jumped up and asked in surprise.

The more Li Peiling thought about it, the more excited he became, "Try it! Father will definitely agree!" The two rushed out as soon as they held hands, and Fu'er hurriedly called Xiao Shanzi, "Follow them!"

"Agreed to what?" Said Cao Cao Cao Cao arrived, Li Jiarong walked to the door and was almost bumped into by two children. With a big hand, he immediately picked up the two children.

"Father!" Li Peiling hugged Li Jiarong's neck happily, "Go talk to Mr. Dixue, okay? Let Ayan go to class with me next year!"

"Yes, yes, father, I want to go with my brother!" Li Peiyan also said excitedly.

Fu'er hurriedly came out and saw such a picture, she couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, Li Jiarong smiled slightly, and put the two of them on the ground, "That's not okay, you have to take the imperial examination by yourself."

"I don't want to be separated from my brother..." Li Peiyan's eyes turned red, and he began to cry while pulling Li Peiling's sleeve.

"Don't cry..." Li Peiling hesitated for a moment, "Then...how about I don't go either?"

"Don't mess around!" Li Jiarong straightened his face, "Going to school is not a place for you to play, you can play however you want."

Li Jiarong's stern face was quite scary, Li Peiling shrank back and didn't dare to continue talking, only Li Peiyan closed his eyes and cried hard at the top of his voice.

"I don't want to be separated from my brother! Wow... I don't want to!" He cried loudly, Li Peiling's eyes were red, but Li Jiarong's face turned darker.

"Shame!" At some point, Li Peiwei ran out from the back room, walked around the two elder brothers curiously, suddenly shaved his own face, and uttered a word of shame.

Fu'er was amused, and hurriedly ordered Yinxin to lead Li Peiwei into the room, squatted down and said softly, "Peiling, after learning God, you will be an older child, you can't be willful, you have to study hard in class, and listen carefully to the teacher's lecture. Pei Yan, come on, be good, don't cry, brother, you can still see him every day, if you want to be with him, you have to study harder, get into the imperial school early, crying is useless."

Fu'er's soothing voice finally comforted the two children, Li Jiarong frowned and said while the two children went down to wash their faces, "When did these two children stick so tightly together?"

"We've been together since we were young, and it's always been like this." Fu'er stepped forward and brought hot tea to Li Jiarong.

Li Jiarong took the tea and pondered, "Next year when Pei Ling enters the Emperor's School, Hongjie, the second son of the Yao family, will follow him to be his accompanying student. That child has a stable temperament, and Pei Ling can learn a little more if he stays with him more." , he's not young anymore, it's not okay to keep bluffing like this."

"Yes." Fu'er nodded.

Li Jiarong glanced at her, "Don't spoil him all the time, a loving mother is a loser, look at him now, going up the tree and down on the ground, how can he not? Two days ago, he ran to the husband's house to dig out bird eggs. A child who is more than six years old knows how to command a few little eunuchs to pick him up and pick him up! What if he fell down? Also, the canary raised by Mr. the day before yesterday flew away for no reason. Tell me, who would dare to pick it up except the two of them? Mr. Luandong’s bird? Yesterday, Mr. ran to me and cried, and I lost my face! I think he is becoming less and less like a prince, and even Pei Yan has been led to ruin by him.”

As Li Jiarong spoke more and more vigorously, Fu'er's face became more and more red, and she murmured, "Then I'll go and apologize to Mr...."

"Sir, I have already agreed with you. If they are so naughty again, just beat them with sticks! As long as they are not beaten to death or maimed, I will never say anything! Don't feel bad, I will make it clear first, the identities of your mother and child are different from the past. Now, as a mother, you have to discipline yourself well, and if you can’t manage it, leave it to your husband! I respect my teacher the most, if they dare to disobey you, see if I will punish them!”

Fu'er lowered her head aggrievedly, then raised it again after a while, "The concubine knows."

"It's good to know!" Li Jiarong glanced sharply, "Don't coax them secretly!"

"Got it." Fu'er said with a whimper.

"Royal father, queen mother!" The three children ran in, and seeing Fu'er's expression was not good, Li Peiling immediately snuggled up to Fu'er, "Queen mother, why are you unhappy?"

Fu'er laughed quickly, "No, let's go, let's have dinner."

Li Peiling looked suspiciously at his father, then at his mother, and finally shrank his neck, his father's face was really scary.

At the dining table, Li Jiarong scanned around. Fu'er was busy feeding Li Peiwei to eat. Li Peiling and Li Peiyan buried their heads in the meal, muttering from time to time not knowing what they were laughing at. He suddenly lost his appetite. After a pause, Li Jiarong put down the chopsticks, "Use them, I'll go and read the booklet."

Fu'er's feeding hand stopped in the air, looking at Li Jiarong's heavy back, she knew that he thought of Li Peixiang again.

Sighing, if this continues, it will be really difficult.

The more Li Jiarong dotes on their mother and son, the more he will feel guilty about opposing Peixiang. If this guilt continues to develop, it will only be detrimental to their mother and son.

Fu'er remembered Xi'er's whispered words to her when she entered the palace, "Sister, my husband said, we must beware of the eldest prince, the emperor's heart is uncertain, and it will lead to a catastrophe in the future!"

Today is an example, Li Jiarong is really worried about Li Peiling on the one hand, I'm afraid it also has the taste of venting.

Fu'er was always thinking about this matter in her heart, after thinking for a long time, she decided to go to Linhua Hall to see the eldest prince, although Li Peixiang was already a sensible governor, if she worked hard, she might be able to form a good relationship.

"Is the First Prince dismissed from the Imperial Academy?" Fu'er asked Hualien.

Hua Lian replied, "Yes, the servants watched him return to Linhua Palace."

"That's good." Fu'er looked at the box in Hualien's hand, which contained several books, and hoped that Li Peixiang would accept it.

Linhua Hall.

"Ah?" Seeing her coming, Li Peixiang was really taken aback. After waking up, he quickly knelt down, "I have seen my mother."

"Get up." Fuer helped Li Peixiang up, trying to hold his hand, but Li Peixiang quickly took a step back and looked at Fuer warily.

Fu'er didn't care, she just sat down, looked around the room, saw that the furnishings in the room were so exquisite, she couldn't help being shocked, and suppressed her thoughts, Fu'er laughed, "The queen mother came to see you today. How is your study?"

Li Peixiang stood aside, bowed his head and replied, "Returning to my mother's words, my son is very good at studying in the emperor."

"Oh," Fu'er hurriedly asked Hualien to take out the box, "The queen mother brought you some books, which were recommended by my husband, and they are all good books."

"Thank you, Queen Mother." Li Peixiang bowed, but still did not move.

Fu'er said a few more words, and Li Peixiang replied respectfully and with the least amount of language. It would be boring to talk, and Fu'er also knew that this matter could not be accomplished overnight, so she said with a smile, "Then you continue to work hard, The queen mother will not bother you anymore."

Li Peixiang bowed, "Respectfully send off the empress."

Fu'er took Hua Lian's hand and went out. Watching her go away, Li Peixiang tore up all the books viciously, "Come here! Burn them!"

The little eunuch tremblingly carried the book down, thought for a while but didn't dare to burn it, but put it away carefully, and showed Li Peixiang the ashes of some miscellaneous books.

"Light the incense, and there will be a vixen in the room!" Li Peixiang said violently.

On the way back to the palace, Hua Lian said worriedly, "Your Majesty, the eldest prince is comparable..."

"Shut up!" Fu'er snapped, Hua Lian hurriedly fell silent.

She knew what Hualien wanted to say. Li Peixiang should be a concubine now, but the cost of food and clothing is no worse than that of the three Peiling brothers. Fu'er's heart keeps sinking. Han Ze is right, the emperor's heart is uncertain. !

"Who's there!" Hua Lian shouted fiercely, and raised her hand to stop the sedan chair.

An eunuch and a court lady knelt on the ground tremblingly, "Empress, please forgive me! Please forgive me!"

"What are you doing?" Hua Lian looked strangely, stepped forward to take a closer look, grabbed the box in the maid's hand, opened the box and immediately gasped.

"You guys, come here, tie them both up!" Hua Lian turned pale angrily, returned to Fu'er and knelt down and handed over the box in her hand, "Mother, the two of them... are holding the filth ,This……."

Fu'er raised her hand to take it, but Hua Lian flinched, and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, this thing is too dirty, I can't... dirty your eyes."

"Let's go back to the palace first." Fu'er retracted her hand absently.

Hua Lian gave the couple a hard look, "Put them both down!"

"My empress, please forgive me..."

Back at Fengyi Palace, Fu'er remembered this and asked curiously, "What was it just now?"

Hua Lian blushed, "You all go down." She dismissed the other servants first, then took out the box, opened it carefully, and put a strange-shaped stick inside.

Fu'er's face turned red immediately, it turned out to be Mr. Jiao!

"How could they have this..." Fu'er was really hard to say.

Hua Lian closed the box and sighed, "Mother, the palace people are so pitiful, especially many low-class palace people. The eunuchs can't leave the palace for the rest of their lives, and the palace ladies have to wait until they are 25 years old. Face, if you don't have money to clear the eunuch in charge or the palace, you will be kept in the palace forever, and this stay will be for a lifetime."

"Therefore, there are many eunuchs and palace maids who are in love with each other, because eunuchs are not fertile and cannot..." Hua Lian blushed, "so some eunuchs take this Mr. Jiao as a token of love for food..."

Fu'er really didn't know, "Why hasn't anyone mentioned this before?"

"Before Su... Well, at that time, she killed everyone who found out. Besides, this kind of thing is a mess after all, and it is generally not publicized. It is handled quietly, and those who pair up in private are also very careful. Today Those two...looked young, and they probably had no hope of leaving the palace, so they got married early on."

Fu'er pondered for a while and said, "Then, did Eunuch Qin and Eunuch Fang and Xiao Shanzi meet each other?"

Hua Lian didn't expect Fu'er to ask such a sentence suddenly, and her face flushed immediately, "Slave... how do you know?"

Fu'er sighed, "They're all poor people, let those two go. There are so few masters in the palace now...let all the Shang Palaces from all bureaus come tomorrow."

Two months later, the new Empress Yi decreed that some court ladies and eunuchs were allowed to return to their hometowns. When they left, they could not only take their belongings with them, but also reward them with money.

This was something that had never happened in the Xi Dynasty, and it immediately caused a national sensation. Many families were eagerly looking forward to their relatives returning home as soon as possible.

This time, 310 palace maids and 740 six eunuchs returned home, and it coincided with the New Year, and those who traveled quickly could still rush home to reunite with the whole family for the New Year. For a while, the people immediately praised the kindness of the new empress.

Fu'er didn't know that her fame had spread far outside the palace. During the Chinese New Year, she was busy going around, not only meeting many clan relatives, but also taking care of several children.

What made her even more upset was that the day of the draft was coming soon.

(End of this chapter)