A Thousand Hills

Chapter 346

The Empress Dowager Hu knew how quickly the faces of these dignitaries changed, and said that the speed of her old man's face change was completely incomparable with the dignitaries of the imperial capital.The son was flattering her a while ago, but he married all the good girls in the blink of an eye.

Even my mother's family is no exception!
You said that Queen Mother Hu was angry, so you called Mrs. Cheng Engong to scold you, "Do you want to see Aijia look at the girl or something, find her husband's family for the girl, and don't tell Aijia, you still have Aijia in your eyes ?”

Mrs. Cheng Engong couldn't stand these words, she got up quickly and said, "This matter is not up to the minister's wife to decide, the empress knows clearly, it's all the Duke's intention."

Empress Dowager Hu didn't believe it. Empress Dowager Hu sneered, "The Ai family isn't dead yet, so I'm flattering the princess. You are really good nephews and nephews of the Ai family!" Mrs. Cheng Engong kowtowed in a word. endlessly.Mrs. Cheng'en choked with sobs and said, "The wealth and honor of the family are all given by the empress, how can the ministers and others have such thoughts. If there is even half a disrespect to the empress, it will be called a thunderbolt, and you will die! Really, the Duke The Lord is also thinking about the Empress, the Crown Princess is the prince's famous matchmaker who is marrying and married, since we are the Empress' family, we should avoid suspicion."

"Avoid suspicion? Avoid suspicion?" Empress Dowager Hu glared at Mrs. Cheng Engong, refusing to admit it, and said, "The Ai family just wants to show Xiao Ba Xiao Jiu Xiang's wife, what kind of suspicion do you avoid! "

Mrs. Cheng'en was full of bitterness. She came from a famous family, and now she is a duchess, so she is not unlucky.Just dealing with Queen Mother Hu really tested her upbringing and cognition from childhood to adulthood.Mrs. Cheng Engong is of course willing for the Hu family to be a crown prince, but she must know her own weight. If the crown prince has plans to change his wife, the Hu family will be happy to get involved. Is it annoying?The Queen Mother is old after all.Concubine Xie is still young, if it is possible to get Princess Xie down, it is okay, if not, what kind of life will be waiting for the Hu family in the future?The Hu family dared not offend Crown Princess Xie even if they were killed!The arrogance of the mother-in-law Princess Ningrong back then, before she died, all she could think of was reconciliation with Xie Moru, and she specifically confessed that if the fifth prince calms Jiangnan, he must not be an enemy of Xie Moru.

The Hu family, the Hu family dare not touch the hard stubble of Crown Princess Xie!
Therefore, I would rather make an engagement quickly with the girl at home, than let Princess Xie misunderstand her!

Empress Dowager Hu reprimanded Madam Cheng Engong very much. In fact, she just lost her temper on Madam Cheng Engong. Who said Madam Cheng Engong was her natal niece and daughter-in-law.If she insisted on losing her temper, Duke Cheng'en's mansion could only accept it.As for other families, even though Queen Mother Hu was dissatisfied, she couldn't say anything else.You didn't say you wanted our daughter to be a concubine when you were old, so it doesn't matter if we make a marriage arrangement for your daughter, right?Anyway, in order not to misunderstand Crown Princess Xie, many families quickly arranged marriages for their daughters.How can we not compete for the position of the crown princess, and we can't let the crown princess misunderstand that we want our daughter to compete for the position of the crown princess?

Although, quite a few families have this plan.However, Princess Xie has never been tactful, and she broke everyone's minds at once. Therefore, the many famous families who have always admired tact and regard face and reputation as their lives could no longer bear this kind of doubt, and hurriedly gave the girl at home Get married to show your innocence.

Many people lamented that Crown Princess Xie was too untactful.

Where did someone say that?

As long as you don't tell the truth, let's stay ambiguous.

Hey, Princess Xie is playing cards so unreasonably!

With Princess Xie who played cards unreasonably, everyone found that the prince also played cards unreasonably.Since Crown Princess Xie moved out of the East Palace in a fit of anger, the Crown Prince also moved back to the Prince's Mansion. He has to spend time with his wife.Once the prince moves, the children of the family will not be able to stay in the East Palace!It can't be that the parents are in the Prince's Mansion, they are in the East Palace, right?

This time, the Prince's family moved back to the Prince's Mansion.

If it's just about Princess Xie moving to the Prince's Mansion, the court actually doesn't respond, who will take care of it, after all, it's the royal family's own business.But what is the identity of the crown prince, the crown prince of the country, the cornerstone of the country, how can he live outside the East Palace instead of the East Palace?

This time, the courtiers couldn't sit still, and they all said, Prince, you don't live in the East Palace, it's against the rules.The prince said, "If I don't see the princess for a day, the lonely king will feel uneasy."

My God!
I can't tell that the prince is still a lover!

With the crown prince like this, the ministers had no choice but to say that even if the crown prince was outside, it would be against the rules.

The crown princess has something to say, she dare not bear the name of the crown princess without canonization.

I don't know how the wind turned, so I went to Qin Tianjian. Everyone said, what auspicious day is a dead Qin Tianjian?It's only July at the moment, you are counting the auspicious date of the Crown Princess until next year, do you want the Crown Princess to live outside the palace until next year?Even the sharp-tongued ones counted the major crimes committed by Qin Tianjian. It must have been more than ten years ago. His Majesty Qiushou was the day of Qin Tianjian's counting. What happened?earthquake!Of course, the earthquake is far away, let's talk about it closer, the time of the canonization ceremony of Empress Xiansu was also predicted by Qin Tianjian, and what happened, Empress Xiansu passed away before she could be conferred!

You Qin Tianjian, will you count?
Also, is it really auspicious day you calculated?

Poison!

Really poisonous!
Forget about the earthquake more than ten years ago, after all, Ren Qin Tianjian has retired honorably due to the earthquake.Now let’s take the matter of Empress Xiansu as an example. You must know that the prince is the direct son of Empress Xiansu!This, isn't this going to punish him to death!Not to mention Qin Tianjian, dogs will bite people when they are in a hurry, and Qin Tianjian is not easy to provoke, Qin Tianjian was furious, pointing at the minister who punished him to death, "Who doesn't know that Your daughter even entered the palace to flatter the empress dowager just to take the opportunity to sneak into the East Palace. But we don’t know that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Empress Dowager have a deep love for each other, so we don’t even look down on your chasing son!"

"Bullshit!"

"Huh! I'm not talking nonsense, you know it in your heart! I am worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth, and there is no such cheeky girl in my family!"

The two directly rolled up their sleeves in the middle of the court and pinched each other. In the end, each was fined for one year.

Emperor Mu Yuan was so determined that he said to his fifth son, "Tell your wife to go back to the East Palace."

The fifth son was silent for a while, and said, "Let's talk about it after the canonization. I really don't feel relieved. I have to persuade my father to persuade the emperor's grandmother." The prince did not dare to go to the Palace of Mercy. After Yingying Yanyan, the prince was worried that one day the queen mother would give him an aphrodisiac or something.Don't say that the queen mother can't do it. In the eyes of the prince, the queen mother can do any outrageous things.

Emperor Mu Yuan sighed, "Why don't I order Qin Tianjian to predict an auspicious date again?"

Seeing his father's reluctance, the prince didn't directly say yes or no, but was silent for a while, Fang said, "My son understands the father's worries. My son is not those courtiers outside who want to talk around corners. Back then, the father was seriously ill, and the son was in a hurry, so the idea of ​​asking Emperor Xue was the son who was reminded by the crown prince."

Yes, from the beginning to the end, Xie Moru didn't have any flaws, she was perfect as if she was born for the position of crown princess, even when she was only the princess of the vassal, the Wu family was not as elegant as her.

Especially when dealing with the royal family and the concubine's children, they are so virtuous and virtuous that they can stand shoulder to shoulder with sages.

No.

Emperor Mu Yuan had a deep understanding of the Princess Fusheng family, and Princess Fusheng was not a sage.Moreover, the more the fifth son valued Xie Moru, the more this worry in Emperor Mu Yuan's heart became stronger. Therefore, Emperor Mu Yuan sat and watched all kinds of behaviors of Queen Mother Hu with a tacit attitude.

He also wanted to take a closer look at Xie Moru.

The daughter-in-law of the soon-to-be Crown Prince of the Empire.

Seeing the fifth son reminding him of Xie Moru's virtuousness, Emperor Mu Yuan said softly, "I know the benefits of the princess, she is very good, she is very good to you, to the child, and to me. I also like her very much. You say, The affairs of the court are harder to talk about than the women at home, but what can you do? The queen mother is my biological mother, your biological grandmother, the crown prince is the first wife your famous matchmaker is marrying, my daughter-in-law, and the royal family has given birth to jade. Die's concubine. When the women are making trouble, it must be because the men are persuading them more? Your imperial grandmother is about eighty years old, so you can't be too fussy about her age, right?"

The prince thought for a while, with a sincere look, and said, "It doesn't matter about anything else, that is, the son and his daughter-in-law get married, how can the imperial grandmother have the intention of choosing another princess? What kind of person does the imperial grandmother regard her son as?" What? A son can’t feel sorry for his wife like this! If even married couples can abandon Lianfa, is such a person still human?”

The prince said with grief and indignation in his eyes.

Emperor Mu Yuan hurriedly said, "I will discuss this matter with your imperial grandmother in detail."

The prince was a little sad, and said, "If the father and the emperor were taboo about the matter of the concubine princess back then, why did he give the son a marriage in the first place?"

"Where did you think, the assistant saint is the assistant saint, and the Xie family is the Xie family." Emperor Mu Yuan said, "I don't deny that because of the assistant saint, I will be more cautious. But back then, since I gave you a marriage , the matter of consecrating the saint is over. Sometimes, I don’t know why I hesitate, maybe it’s because I’m getting old, I’m getting closer, and I always think about the past. Many people think that I don’t like Aunt Fusheng, if I don’t I like her, but I will not give her the posthumous posthumous title of a concubine. I was raised in Zhaode Hall when I was born. From babbling to enlightenment reading, it was all taught by your emperor's father. Unfortunately, when the old man passed away, I He was only five years old. At that time, it was full of twists and turns to establish me as the crown prince. Without Aunt Fusheng, I would never be able to keep the throne. After the death of my father, I followed Aunt Fusheng. At that time, even your imperial grandmother was rare Anyone who can be with another person for ten years will leave a memory in your life that you can never forget. Outsiders will say, I have been married for two years, and the assistant saint will return to the government. I and Fusheng are endless... Those who talk about these things are just villains. Those people don't understand the affairs of the Tian family. Prince, your heart is attached to Mrs. Xie right now... Indeed, Mrs. Xie has assisted you all the way, and she treats you very well. The merit of assisting is the love of husband and wife, or the tacit understanding and friendship of confidants. You have been together for 20 years, and this kind of love has been integrated into the flesh and blood... Don't think I don't understand, I understand and have experienced it ...I went through it even when I was younger than you."

"You ask, why did I give you a marriage? Of course it's not without reason. I might as well tell you that I wanted her to marry Ximan back then, but later, Mrs. Wei passed away suddenly, and her matter was put on hold. .As she grew up, I found that she was really talented. She was not like her mother, nor like the assistant saint, but she was eager for power At that time, you, the third child and the fourth child were all of marriageable age, and your mother and Mrs. Wei Guo were like sisters, and expressed her wishes to me several times, so I will marry you for this." Emperor Mu Yuan said, There is a sense of fate in my heart.It can be said that he was careless in mourning the prince.Of course, the fifth son is also his own son, and he loves this son just as much.But, from the bottom of his heart, when he married Xie Moru to this son, the fifth son lost the qualification to inherit the great line in his heart.It's just that people are not as good as heaven, and in the end, it's still this son.

The prince said softly, "At that time, father could also refuse mother and prevent her from marrying into the royal family, right?"

"I can indeed ignore her. Because of her mother's family, she can't marry a first-class duke's family. Prince, you don't know this kind of person. When the Taizu established the country, could it be that my grandmother, the Queen Mother Cheng, was Is there any first-class background? Most people in this world are only seeking power and wealth. Such people are not in my eyes. The power and wealth they seek is nothing more than a word from me. I can bestow it on you. It can also be taken back. But there is also a class of people who are naturally good at creating power and controlling power." Emperor Mu Yuan sighed softly, "If I had ordered her to marry Ximan back then, I believe that the person she assisted would not be you, but the king of Ximan. .”

The prince's face was like a rocky mountain peak, and he remained motionless. He said, "There is no such thing in this world. Since the emperor granted us a marriage, the husband and wife in this life will be us." Then what kind of Western barbarian king is he!The fifth prince said coldly, "Ximan has repeatedly violated our Xining Pass, and one day, my Dongmu's steeds will flatten the grassland of Ximan!"

Emperor Mu Yuan was surprised at first, and then laughed out loud, "Are you jealous?"

The prince refused to admit it, but gritted his teeth and said, "My son is telling the truth, and, moreover, my son is never jealous! Not to mention the family of a first-class duke, she is the barbarian king of Ximan. Apart from her son, who else can match her!" The prince said again, "My son is never jealous! It's time to go back to have breakfast now! My son will leave."

Seeing the prince leaving with a bit of anger, Emperor Mu Yuan felt even more sad.

With such deep affection and righteousness now, one day, you will find that the position of imperial power can only accommodate one person.

The prince went home for dinner, and as a result, something happened that made the prince even more worried. The prince of Beiliang was talking with his wife.Look at that kid's small appearance, with single eyelids and narrow eyes, he has no other advantages except his small face and tenderness.

It's just that it's not appropriate to come here this early in the morning, right?

Also, your peer is my son, not my wife, right?

The prince returned home with a stinky face, Xie Moru smiled and stood up to greet him, saying, "Your Highness is back?"

The prince nodded with a stinky face, and waved his hand, instead of asking the prince to greet him, "The prince came here so early, is there something wrong?"

The Prince of Beiliang learned the imperial dialect well, and he was serious with a bit of a mouthful, his eyes were clear and clear, and his smile was extraordinarily gentle.Therefore, the prince looked at him even more disliked.Hearing the Prince of Beiliang say, "Yesterday I talked about my Beiliang food with the Crown Princess, and today I ordered the chef to cook it, and I specially sent it to the empress to taste."

By the way, this kid is also very good at sneaking. Ever since her daughter-in-law left the palace, this kid came over to talk every now and then, and occasionally gave away some worthless things.The prince said lightly, "I'm sorry."

The prince of Beiliang came here after his family went bankrupt, and he knows how to look at people's faces. He came here to flatter Xie Moru because he wanted to make some political investments. Seeing the prince's displeasure, I don't know why, but he didn't want to stay any longer, so he left soon .

Xie Moru also asked, "Why is Your Highness coming back at this time?"

The prince said, "Come back to eat, the food in Zhan's mansion is not very good." Then he said, "Why did the boy see the sky?"

Xie Moru smiled, "I moved out from the palace, and most of the dignitaries in the imperial capital waited and watched. The crown prince came here, one for the sake of prostitution, and the other was also thinking about it. Now it's hard to send charcoal in the snow. When I get rich in the future, I think I will miss him these days Please flatter me. Didn't His Highness say that he is stable before? Sure enough."

The prince saw that his daughter-in-law understood everything, so he said, "I'll just say it casually, this kid is also weird, instead of flattering me, he flatters you instead."

"He wants to flatter you, but you don't have time to see him." Xie Moru said, "Since I'm back, I just want to taste the flavor of Beiliang."

The prince said, "Let the chef learn how to cook. You don't have to eat what he sent. It's not fresh all the way."

Xie Moru felt very strange, the prince had a good opinion of the prince of Beiliang in the past, but today he despises him instead.Xie Moru asked, "Is there something wrong with the court?"

"It's nothing." The prince said, "Just seeing him and thinking of the King of the Western Man, all of them are not good things."

"Foreign countries are not of one mind with us."

The prince said, "It's been all these years, but there has been no letter from Princess He Rou."

"If you don't believe me, you have good faith." Xie Moru said with emotion, "Over the years, the princess has not given birth to an heir for the king of Ximan, nor has she sent any news to the court, so she is not happy in Ximan. However, she is alive Good. The Western barbarians are so brave. If you say it sounds good, you are brave, but if you say it bad, you are uncivilized. Why don’t you call them barbarians? There are limited books in their national language, let alone poetry and music. It's hard to marry far away on the grassland."

The prince immediately seized this opportunity, pretending not to care and casually said, "At the beginning, you also almost got married."

"Yes." Xie Moru sighed softly, with some sadness in his eyes.

Only then did the prince realize that his mother-in-law passed away at that time, so he couldn't care less about jealousy at this time, and said quickly, "Look at me, I didn't pay attention for a while. We are living a good life now, and my mother-in-law and her old man will die in peace under the nine springs." .”

Xie Moru didn't say any more, and ordered the maid to pass on the meal.

The prince changed the subject to divert his wife's sadness, and said, "Liu Lang will be back soon."

Xie Moru said, "Is it coming soon?"

"It's probably only a few days? Let him tidy up a yard in the outer courtyard. He is already a young man, so it's not good to live in the inner courtyard anymore." The prince also had other news, saying, "General Ji Rong is also coming to the imperial capital. gone."

Xie Moru didn't know about General Ji, so he asked, "Has the battle at Beijing Pass subsided?"

The crown prince said, "It's almost the same. Originally, it was some refugees outside Beijingguan who made rebellion, or some Beiliang soldiers wanted to benefit from the people. General Ji has made great achievements in actual combat. Don't you think it's amazing? Fufeng needless to say, he used to Although it is a literary matter, but the family is knighted by martial arts, it is not unusual for Fufeng to turn into martial arts. It is Zhongyong Bo, who has the conditioning of Nan'anhou and Jiujiang, and he is regarded as a disciple under a famous teacher. This is General Ji, who was originally exiled. The criminal has become the commander-in-chief of an army."

"Yes, these three people have different life experiences, but their endings are similar." Xie Moru also found it interesting, and asked, "What crime did General Ji commit?"

"Speaking of which, it's not an ordinary crime of homicide." The prince obviously asked someone to investigate, because his husband and wife were close and had nothing to hide, so the prince said that he knew about it with his wife, "I'm just talking to you about this matter, don't tell me again." Talk to someone."

"Look at what Your Highness said, maybe I'm that kind of gossip girl." Xie Moru was annoyed, and the prince was very pleased with it, so he said, "It's really hard to mention this matter, I won't say the word General Ji Is it well written? He was originally from a merchant family, and his family was a salt merchant. It is said that he has some wealth. It is said that General Ji also has a twin sister. Both brothers and sisters are born beautiful. , I have studied the Four Books and Five Classics, and I have also learned boxing kung fu. If General Ji’s father, Qingming, had a son like General Ji, the Ji family would have changed their family now. The matter was all due to the fainting of the salt merchant. When General Ji was 15 years old, There was a new patrolling censor in the middle, and that censor was not a good one, greedy for flowers and lust. Ji Yanshang was also a boneless one, because the censor liked the brothers and sisters of General Ji, and Ji Yanshang actually sent them A pair of children were given to a salt merchant. This general Ji was also bloody, and he stabbed the censor to death in a fit of anger. I also heard about this case by chance, because the incident was too big. Officer, secondly, the reason here is too disgusting. General Ji was finally sentenced to exile for three thousand miles, and when he arrived at Beijing Pass, after all these years, he is now a high-ranking official, and he is considered promising."

Xie Moru said, "This kind of dog talent should be killed. It's just that one less person was killed, so Ji Salt Merchant, isn't he dead?"

"Ji salt merchant was stabbed to death by Mrs. Ji." The crown prince said, "I think General Ji's blood is inherited from Mrs. Ji."

"This kind of slut deserves Mrs. An to be skinned alive to make a human skin drum!"

Prince:  …

Before Liulang, who was about to go home, arrived, the mansion was a little more lively. The main reason was that everyone knew that Princess Xie was having trouble recently, and Wu Zhen and the others who were daughter-in-laws naturally tried to make her mother-in-law happy.With the introduction of Liu Lang going home, everyone just heated up the atmosphere.However, before Liulang returned home, General Ji arrived at the imperial capital first.The bustle of General Ji has not yet stopped, and the tax revenue from Jingjiang Port in the first half of the year has also been sent to the imperial capital smoothly. It is said that on the day of storage, the entire household department was busy without touching the ground, and it took three days and three nights to weigh the money.

But all these celebrations could not hide a legend in the imperial capital, which was about Princess Xie.It is said that when Mrs. Wei was pregnant, Princess Fuguo personally invited an immortal to divination for the child in Mrs. Wei's womb. The immortal divined a hexagram after ninety-nine and 81 days. .

For a moment, the imperial capital was in an uproar.

Xie Mo said like a prince, "Just these two sentences, it's better to say 'Mu three generations, the heroine Xie Wang'."

Prince:  …

(End of this chapter)