A Thousand Hills

Chapter 221

Once Xie Moru returned to the imperial capital, the imperial capital immediately became turbulent.

I don't know how many people have made countless inferences and analyzes on the dialogue between Queen Mother Hu and Xie Moru. Of course, the results of these people's inferences and analyzes are the private affairs of all parties.

On the contrary, Empress Dowager Hu also responded to Xie Moru's words, such as "Be honest and take care of your children at home, no one will doubt you" or "If you have no ghosts in your heart, others will doubt you", which is both majestic and domineering.Of course, this is the Queen Mother Hu's own feeling.Empress Dowager Hu really wanted to fight back against Xie Moru's answer, but her emperor's son always talked to her, and Empress Dowager Hu had no choice but to hold back her anger for the sake of her son, grandson and great-grandson.Empress Dowager Hu complained privately to her daughter, Princess Wenkang, "Since the death of Fusheng, Aijia has never been so breathless. Fusheng is the sister-in-law of Aijia, who has made contributions to our royal family, and Aijia can bear her." Empress Dowager Hu is not She would admit that seeing Princess Fusheng was like a mouse meeting a cat. The old man held her breath and said, "I have endured Fusheng. How many years has Mrs. Wei Guo not come to the palace to pay her respects to Ai's family? Her salary is rewarded every year I also gave her the best ones, no less than half a point. Now, at the age of the Ai family, she still has to endure the granddaughter of the Fusheng, when is this a head." The Queen Mother Hu was talking, feeling herself In this life, the director has been called Princess Fusheng to restrain her, and she is deeply dissatisfied. She is not a person who can save things, and she starts to chatter when she sees her daughter.

Princess Wenkang said, "Queen Mother, you really can't think about it. It's all irrelevant. Mrs. Wei Guo is willing to enter the palace three times a day. Would you like to see her? Even Princess Min is the same. At least she helps the fifth child to keep the inner room. They are well taken care of, and the children are well educated, don't you really appreciate Dalang and them."

"That's right!" Empress Dowager Hu said as it should, "The great-grandson of the Ai family, the Ai family is not rare!"

"If you don't look at the monk's face to see the Buddha's face, you don't want to see each other every day, so let's be kind to each other. You have to live in a muddled way." Regarding Xie Moru's issue, Princess Wenkang never persuaded her mother. Thousands of times, and nine hundred and ninety times of persuasion.

"As long as she doesn't make trouble in front of Aijia, Aijia won't bother to talk to her." Empress Dowager Hu said again, "If I knew she was like this, I shouldn't have asked Xiaowu to marry her!"

Princess Wenkang frowned, her eyes were oppressive, and she said in a low voice, "Queen! How can you say this lightly!"

"Just tell you." Queen Mother Hu just said casually, but didn't take it seriously.Princess Wenkang is going to be very worried. Others are picky and soft, but her mother somehow got into trouble with Xie Moru, a stubborn stubble!As the old saying goes, it is better to bully the old than the young.Xie Moru is not a simple person. Ever since Xie Moru married the fifth prince, the fifth prince who has always been quiet in the royal family has gradually become outstanding.An ambitious man like Xie Moru would be easy to offend.

Princess Wenkang repeatedly asked her mother not to say this again, and when Queen Mother Hu repeatedly responded, Princess Wenkang left the palace worried.Princess Wenkang has nothing against Xie Moru, not to mention that her family already has one leg on board the King of Fujian boat, Princess Wenkang is worried about her own mother, what should I do in the long run?

Xie Moru didn't take Empress Dowager Hu seriously because she had just returned to the imperial capital, and she and the fifth prince entered the palace for several days in a row. The concubine's place, because it's the first time for the companions to enter the palace, so let them get acquainted first.

Concubine Su is gentle and has prepared a lot of delicious snacks for the children to eat, and let the maid watch the children play.Xie Moru talked to Concubine Su about things about Fujian or the imperial capital, and it would easily kill a day.The fifth prince sometimes came to Shuren Palace for lunch, and sometimes he came with Emperor Mu Yuan. Emperor Mu Yuan looked at the emperor's grandsons and said, "Let's rest for a few more days, let Da Lang and the others go to study."

The fifth prince complied naturally.

Seeing that Dalang, Erlang, and Saburo all brought their former companions, and that Shiro and Goro had reached the age of enlightenment, Emperor Mu Yuan pointed out two companions to each of Shiro and Goro, both of whom were children of prominent families in the dynasty.

Because Shi Lang was going to school himself, he also had a sense of responsibility to tell his younger sister to take good care of his youngest brother, Liu Lang. Sister Xin was very upset, and asked her mother, "Mother, I am the same age as my fourth brother and fifth brother, how come?" Fourth brother and fifth brother can study together with eldest brother and the others, but I can't?"

Xie Moru stroked Xin's little braid and said with a smile, "You are getting older, boys and girls have to study separately, so you are not together."

Sister Xin was still a little unhappy, but because the mother and concubine explained very reasonably, she still agreed, and said, "I want to study with my brothers, can't I?" She didn't want to stay at home to watch her brother.

Xie Moru held her in his arms and asked patiently, "Isn't it good to be with the sisters?"

Sister Xin said, "I'm the only girl in our family, who am I going to be with? Liulang is very young, and he can't play well."

Liu Lang has always been a quiet child, but his sister was so disgusted with him, Liu Lang said very depressed, "I don't like playing with girls either."

Sister Xin gave Liulang a glance, but Liulang pretended not to see, and hummed twice to show the little man's disdain.Made Concubine Su laugh.

Xie Moru asked Emperor Mu Yuan, "Your Majesty, can't the girls of our royal residence enter the palace to study? Sisters and brothers are together, so they look intimate, don't they?"

Emperor Mu Yuan was only concerned with arranging for his grandchildren, and never thought about the education of his granddaughters, so Xie Moru stopped asking.Emperor Mu Yuan attached great importance to the unity of the royal family. Although he felt that it was not good for Xie Moru to directly give opinions to his father-in-law, Emperor Mu Yuan would still seriously consider useful suggestions. Let them suffer from the hard work of studying, so I didn't think about it. If that's the case, let's discuss it later."

Xie Moru patted Sister Xin on the back, and Sister Xin immediately smiled and said crisply, "Thank you, Grandfather."

Emperor Mu Yuan liked children, and said with a smile, "So cute." There are indeed few royal girls. Emperor Mu Yuan himself only has five princesses, but the prince has nine princes. Looking at the five sons' families, there are six grandchildren and one granddaughter.Counting again, there are more boys than girls in the other sons' mansions, and the fourth prince's mansion has the fewest girls. The fourth prince and the fourth prince's concubine gave birth to their fourth son in the spring of this year, and they haven't seen a daughter yet. .Everything is rare and precious, Emperor Mu Yuan saw that Sister Xin was generous, she was not shy in front of him, and he liked it very much, so he ordered someone to bring her two boxes of rubies, two dendrobium pearls and eight pieces of palace gauze.Sister Xin happily thanked her, and said, "Grandfather, when the school day is fixed, you send someone to my house and tell me, and I will come to school right away."

Emperor Mu Yuan smiled, "Success."

Seeing that his elder brothers and sisters were going to school, Liu Lang wanted to go too, but when he looked at his elder brother and then at his elder sister, he turned his head and said to Xie Moru, "Mother and concubine, I will stay with you at home." Have fun.

Even Emperor Mu Yuan had to say that Xie Moru taught the children well.

The fifth prince looked at his wife with a smile on his face, and Xie Moru smiled back.

Emperor Mu Yuan: You two have such a good relationship.

In fact, it is easy for the girls in the palace to study in the palace. The four princesses and the fifth princess are older and have higher seniority, but they are all girls. Yes, although the granddaughters are not as good as princesses, they will all have titles in the future.

Emperor Mu Yuan handed over the matter to the two concubines Xie Zhao for discussion. Both concubines had granddaughters, and they both said, "That's a good idea. Let the children come into the palace, and the palace will be lively." Xie Moru suggested to Emperor Mu Yuan, Concubine Zhao and Concubine Xie said, "Prince Min is really considerate in everything, she can think of this when she just returned to the Imperial Capital, why didn't we think of it when we were in the palace?"

"That's right, why don't you say that the authorities are obsessed. That child is also appropriate. And he has a straightforward temper. He just said what he thought of, which is just a wake-up call for us." Xie Guifei smiled and said to herself Can't say a word of Xie Moru, no, even Zhao Guifei's yin and yang words, Xie Guifei just treated it like a breeze, and seriously discussed with Zhao Guifei, "Princesses are accompanied by reading, children go to the palace to study, do you want it?" How about reading with one or two companions?"

Concubine Zhao Gui was also a veteran in handling palace affairs, she said, "They dare not compare to the princess, and they must not wrong the children."

"Sister said so." Concubine Xie praised Concubine Zhao, she also has a granddaughter, she can't call her granddaughter too shabby, the princesses are four companions, the princess can always match the two.

The two imperial concubines, Zhao Xie, had a discussion and got the consent of Emperor Mu Yuan, because it was the matter of the emperor's granddaughter going to study in the palace, it was not a big deal, and it was just a matter of directly issuing an edict to the princes' mansions.

Since this matter was initiated by Xie Moru, it was actually quite in line with the thoughts of the crown princess and the princes and concubines, even the sixth prince and concubine who was not very familiar with Xie Moru felt that Xie Moru handled this matter very well.

We all know that when Xie Moru set up a family banquet to invite the sisters-in-law and sisters-in-law, everyone thanked her, Xie Moru smiled, "It was a coincidence that day, when I was talking about the children's studies at the concubine's mother, it happened that your majesty Also, our sister Xin is also grown up, so I mentioned it to His Majesty. Your Majesty is so wise, you can agree to such a thing as soon as you hear it." Xie Moru's tone was intimate, as if she was very familiar with Emperor Mu Yuan. harmony.Of course, Xie Moru and Emperor Mu Yuan are closer in blood than everyone else.But Xie Moru's tone is really not common.

The eldest princess smiled, "It's still the fifth sibling, I don't think about it."

"Your Majesty is wise and takes good care of your granddaughters." Xie Moru is full of good things when he talks about Emperor Mu Yuan today.

The third prince concubine said, "Sister Chen is the oldest in sister-in-law's family, so I have to trouble Sister Chen to take care of my younger sisters."

"It's natural. She is a big sister, so she should take care of her younger sisters." The First Princess smiled and asked, "By the way, have you chosen one for the children's reading companion?"

The third concubine smiled, "I'm also thinking about it in my heart, thinking about the girl's family, everything else comes second, and prudence comes first."

The eldest concubine thinks so.

Xie Moru also said, "Sister-in-law San is right."

The fourth concubine listened to others, there are daughters in this family, and there are daughters in that family, and thinking about the four boys in her family, she really wants to die of greed.Princess Changtai laughed, "The four brothers and sisters are about to drool."

The fourth prince concubine laughed, "Don't tease me, I don't believe you are not greedy." Princess Changtai also has no daughters, so there is something wrong with the Feng Shui of the Yong'an Hou family.The dignified Hou's mansion, the four sons, half of them are bachelors.There is no need to mention those who are single, and there is no daughter-in-law, so where can I get a son.On the other hand, the non-bachelor half, brothers Li Yu and Li Kuan, have had sons since they got married and never saw their daughters.Other families favor sons over daughters, but in the Yong'an Hou Mansion, if you want to hear someone say that they have given birth to a daughter, you will be very envious of them.

Princess Changtai smiled, "Why don't I be greedy, I have prepared all the entrance ceremonies for my nieces."

The third concubine pursed her lips and said, "Actually, it's all like this. If you have a daughter, you look forward to your son, and if you have a son, you look forward to your daughter."

Xie Moru smiled, "That's right. At the beginning when there was no Dalang, Mrs. Su had a body, and I was also looking forward to being able to get a man in one fell swoop. Later, I was a son one after another, and my daughter was looking forward to me. This is Sister Xin. Son, I feel fulfilled."

Xie Moru is the only one who can talk about concubine children so kindly and naturally in the whole emperor.The sixth prince and concubine looked at Xie Moru without any trace, this fifth sister-in-law had always only heard her name but never seen her in person, and seeing her for the first time, she was quite different.

Because Xie Moru had just returned to the imperial capital, there were a lot of topics for everyone to talk about, chatting and laughing, and we left in the afternoon.The fourth prince and concubine stayed for a while because they were close and the two houses were always closer.Xie Moru came back for a short time, and said, "The sixth younger sibling is really a calm person." Among the sisters-in-law, Xie Moru is not very familiar with the sixth prince and concubine Tie Shi.

"She happened to be the relative you married with the sixth prince in the year of Jiufan. The sixth sibling is very good..." Since Xie Moru inquired about the Tie family, the fourth prince and concubine sighed. Without hiding it from Xie Moru, he said, "It stands to reason that I shouldn't say that. The Li side concubine in the sixth brother's house has two sons and a daughter. If we are regular wives, we won't be jealous with a concubine. Six younger brothers and sisters It's not that kind of person. It's just that the sixth brother is confused, you don't know, there was a big joke this year. Since the second day of the new year, the prince accompanied the prince and concubine back to his mother's house for New Year's wine. I don't know what happened this year. The sixth brother left in one day The two families came out of Tie Yushi's house in the first noon, and went to Li's side concubine's natal house. I have seen Li's side concubine before. The sixth brother has done such unruly things."

Xie Moru said, "This is the reason why the sixth prince is not polite, and he has never heard of the reason why the side concubine returns to her mother's house."

"Isn't that right? You don't know, there are still ridiculous things." The fourth prince concubine said, "When this happened, the palace was also very unhappy, and I pointed out the two side concubines to the sixth prince, both of whom are extremely beautiful. One of the side concubines is pregnant, and Li's side concubine has a new trick, and she actually instigated the sixth prince to adopt his family's eldest son to be raised by the sixth younger sibling. How ambitious? The sixth younger sibling married within three years Is it possible that I won’t have my own children in the future? If not, I’ll just choose a virtuous and filial son from among the bastards to take care of her. Now the dignified concubine is at the mercy of her concubine!"

Xie Moru opened his eyes and said, "This emperor has also counted capable people. The sixth younger sibling doesn't look like an incompetent, let Li's jump up and down like this?"

The fourth prince and concubine sighed, "The sixth younger siblings, even saints, can't bear this. There was a lot of trouble in their house. Just look at how the Sixth Prince's mansion looks like Leufengtang now, and you can know what the Sixth Prince's mansion is like."

Xie Moru said, "In the past, I couldn't see that the Sixth Prince is such a foolish person." Some people really think that the main wife is just for display.Or, does the sixth prince think that it is only natural for the main wife to take care of the inner room for him?What a joke!

The fourth prince and concubine sighed, "I only pity the sixth younger brother and sister, who are also the first-class ladies in the boudoir. What's the point of meeting such a person, even if they are respected as princes and concubines?"

Xie Moru heard the absurd thing about going back to the sixth prince's mansion, and at night, the fourth prince and concubine also left and went home.

Xie Moru sent them off in person.

On the contrary, the eldest prince concubine came home, and when she talked about drinking and gossiping in the fourth prince's mansion, the eldest prince said, "It's strange for you to say this."

"what's up?"

The eldest prince sat down and ate half a cup of herbal tea and said, "The emperor's grandmother is a thousand people who look down on the fifth younger siblings. The emperor has always been filial, but he just looks after the fifth younger siblings. If the fifth younger siblings move their mouths, the rules in the palace can also be changed a bit." Change it, and the emperor will let her do it." In terms of the eldest prince's attitude towards Xie Moru, he is completely the grandson of the Empress Dowager Hu.

The eldest concubine Cui actually doesn't like Xie Moru very much, Xie Moru is too much in the limelight, and when she comes back, she compares the other concubines to blind people, otherwise she saw the matter of letting the imperial granddaughter enter the palace to study Woolen cloth?However, the eldest concubine still had to say something fair and said, "The fifth younger siblings have good intentions, wouldn't it be good for girls to study in the palace?"

"It's a good thing, but it's just that when she comes back, there are so many things about this and that!"

"Don't talk about these nonsense." The eldest princess asked, "Didn't your Highness say that the Fujian region's rewards will come down, have they come down?" Speaking of which, the Cui family's children also had victims in the war, and a brother of the Cui family also died. in war.Fortunately, he is a brother from a concubine, and Cui is the daughter of a concubine. Although it is sad, it is also limited, but he is more concerned about the matter of rewards.

When it came to the award, the eldest prince became even more angry, and said, "You haven't seen Lao Wu's shamelessness in asking for rewards from his own people, Liu Fufeng, a cripple, insisted on giving Lao Wu the first prize, and made him a township lord." That's all. Anyway, this person surnamed Liu did stay in the army. What's even more ridiculous is that Li Jiujiang is the eldest son of Uncle Yong'an. I am happy, and finally got a second grade...for an official, the prince will lose face!"

Cui Shi was dying of anxiety, she didn't want to inquire about the Fifth Prince, Cui Shi said, "Where's father?"

The eldest prince was listless, "Father-in-law ranks fifth in terms of military merits, and his rank has been raised by one level. He will be rewarded with a thousand hectares of fertile land, and 5000 taels of gold and silver each."

Cui Shi was inevitably disappointed, and couldn't say it out of his mouth, and said with a smile, "Father is old, this time because of the imperial capital, it's just a good time to take a break." The previous big defeat, the old father was able to save, Cui Shi was also satisfied .

The eldest prince just said that his father's heart was too biased, so it's hard for others to say too much.

Xie Moru was also a little surprised when he heard about the award, and said, "I thought Jiujiang would get a third rank at most." Unexpectedly, he broke the rules and mentioned the second rank.

The fifth prince said, "Originally, it was decided to be the third grade. I didn't dare to argue with my father at that time. Later, no matter how I thought about it, I felt sorry for Jiujiang. In this battle, Jiujiang made a lot of achievements, so I went to grind my father again." .Although no title has been conferred, the official position should be more decent."

Xie Moru smiled, "His Royal Highness will do his best, and things will not happen for a while, not to mention that Jiujiang himself is also mentally prepared for fear."

"He was mentally prepared. Before he came, he told me that there is no need to fight for him. After all, I can live with it in my heart, and I can't make him feel too wronged."

Xie Moru smiled: It's good to know how to fight.

(End of this chapter)