After crossing, I was dragged by the bamboo horse and became a queen

Chapter 793 Eye-catching
Theoretically speaking, when the empress dowager passed away, the emperor mourned for 27 months, while the king always mourned with the day instead of the month. The entire court followed the emperor, and all civil and military officials stayed in mourning for the empress for 27 days.

This was originally a day-to-month system established so as not to affect the operation of the government, but now it is convenient for the absent-minded emperor.

To the emperor, delaying his cultivation for 27 days seemed like a big loss.

But the emperor ignored the government, and the courtiers had no way of demanding that the prince and his wife, who were actually in charge of the government, observe filial piety for their grandmother according to the normal funeral system. Therefore, Shangguan Jing and Xiao Jingheng actually wore mourning according to the king's standard.

The emperor doesn't care about things, the queen is in the cold palace, the prince and the young couple are busy with government affairs, so the funeral ceremony of the empress dowager is different from the previous precedent.

All kinds of memorial service and condolence activities were presided over by the Eldest Princess Xiao Mingrui and the Prince Consort, along with some senior princes, and the Emperor brought his concubines to show up.

The extremely busy young couple of the prince had to work as usual even during the funeral. The only difference was that the Zhu batch on the memorandum was temporarily changed to the blue batch, and the issued government order and the Yuxi seal were also temporarily changed to blue.

Because they were too busy, Xiao Mingrui hoped to trouble the prince and the young couple as little as possible, and try not to disturb them as much as possible, so Shangguan Jing and Xiao Jingheng looked inconspicuous during the funeral.

In contrast, the emperor who was still in Taoist robes during the funeral was so eye-catching!
Could it be that if the Taoist robe is replaced with black and white, others will not be able to see that it is a Taoist robe?

What's more striking is that as long as the concubines of the sixth palace are not in the cold palace, they will attend the funeral of the empress dowager and follow the memorial ceremony to express their condolences, especially the seven-day memorial ceremony is held in the square in front of the Qiyuan Hall. will participate.

The emperor in a black and white Taoist robe stood in the forefront, and the woman standing not far behind him... looked too familiar!

After the big ceremony was over, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty murmured in their hearts, and many people discussed in private.

Of course they don't think there's anything wrong with Princess Cheng, who claims to be a monk and didn't even show up at her father's funeral, to show up to the Empress Dowager's funeral, but the problem is...

Why didn't Concubine Cheng stay with Concubine Jing, who was also widowed, instead she stood at the forefront of the six concubines and accompanied the emperor? !

Your Majesty, what does this mean? !

Soon someone thought that the emperor, who used to be called the Empress Dowager to pray for blessings, lived in Yuzhen Temple for a long time, and Princess Cheng became a monk... also in Yuzhen Temple. Is there any connection between this?

At the beginning, many people just speculated in private, but Princess Cheng stayed with the emperor for several days in a row, and after the one-day sacrifice, Princess Cheng followed the emperor to the harem. There were wrinkles, but under the watchful eyes of everyone, Princess Cheng naturally reached out and stroked the emperor's shoulder, and the emperor turned around calmly and whispered something to her, and the two looked very close.

This scene fell in the eyes of many courtiers, and the courtiers immediately exploded. Some people had already discussed and speculated about the relationship between the emperor and Princess Cheng in private before, but now this scene is like a real hammer, hitting everyone's hearts hard. in the head.

After this day, some discussions about the emperor and Princess Cheng were no longer in private. Some people began to whisper and speculate in public, and some people wanted to find people in the palace to verify their relationship.

The father-in-law and the widowed daughter-in-law definitely challenge people's traditional concepts in this era, and those Taoists in the court can't stand it

Of course, there are also people who want to prove something through the prince and princess, such as Wang Shangshu and Lu Shangshu who have been kept in the dark.

Especially Lu Shangshu, his younger sister is Zhaoyi in the palace. He knew that the emperor hadn't entered the harem for a long time. He originally thought that the emperor was obsessed with cultivating Taoism and had no intention of womanizing, but he didn't expect that she was involved with Princess Cheng.

"What do you want me to say?" Shangguan Jing sighed helplessly: "Princess Cheng is my own sister!"

"Your Majesty, you already know about it, right?" As expected of an old criminal officer, Wang Shangshu's logical ability is always so strong: "Otherwise, why would Princess Cheng suddenly leave the palace to become a monk?"

"So?" Shangguan Jing looked at Wang Shangshu and Lu Shangshu with a straight face: "Do you think that Princess Cheng has any initiative in this matter?"

"I didn't say anything." Wang Shangshu must have been a criminal officer for a long time, and he has seen a lot of strange things, and he has a strong ability to accept: "Women are weak, this is a fact."

When he said this, he didn't know whether it was intentional or not, his eyes swept over Xiao Jingheng.Shangguanjing knew that Wang Shangshu was thinking of Princess Su who was forced to submit.

Xiao Jingheng's life experience, no one has ever dared to bring it to the public, but it does not mean that no one knows the truth.After all, Wang Shangshu was a criminal officer, and he personally tried many criminals in the Huaiyang Wang conspiracy case.

He also knew very well how tragically and desperately Su Wangfei committed suicide at the beginning.

So at least Wang Shangshu is very clear that the emperor has his eye on the former Huaiyang Princess Su, who has no ability to resist, and now it is the same with Princess Cheng.

At least he didn't expect sanctimoniously that even if the woman being targeted was innocent, she should commit suicide for the sake of her so-called reputation.

And Lu Shangshu probably thought of his sister who was always in a difficult situation in the harem, and she didn't say much.

There are many, however, who are not as forgiving as these two.

Soon there were rumors fermenting in the dark, basically rushing towards Guanluan. Some said that she was seductive to seduce the emperor, and some people accused her of losing her virginity, thinking that she did not choose to "death for the whole festival" It's just not right.

In fact, fierce criticism of Shangguan Luan was the mainstream in the court, but fortunately, in a feudal patriarchal society like the Great Zhou Dynasty, men also regarded women as private property, but it was far less than what Shangguan Jing saw in modern historical education. Some dynasties in China were so extreme.

It is not uncommon for a widow of the Great Zhou Dynasty to remarry. What the courtiers do not accept is actually the ethical relationship between the emperor and Shangguan Luan. Therefore, the extreme idea that Shangguan Luan should die directly is still a minority.

Even so, Shangguan Luan and the emperor caused an uproar in the court, and many courtiers began to write letters to persuade them.

For a period of time, Shangguanjing and Xiao Jingheng received eight out of ten memorials about these. Just reading these unambiguous memorials is enough to make people exhausted.

In fact, Shangguan Jing was also very surprised that Shangguan Luan would appear at the Empress Dowager's funeral. Shangguan Luan never told her in advance, and she was not even mentally prepared.

　--- Here is the eye-catching dividing line ---
　　The emperor refused to give up the shape of his Taoist robe even to attend his mother's funeral, and he simply carried out his own Taoism to the extreme.

　　But what is even more eye-catching is that he publicly brought his daughter-in-law with him.

　　
　
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