After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 542 Excited

The Hai family discussed the seventh prince's affairs until the evening, and Mrs. Gui, who had the closest relationship with the seventh prince, was no exception.

It's a pity that my nephew Wu Ke left the Zhou family together with the children of the Zhou family after the birthday party, and then returned to the small courtyard next to the Zhenguo Duke's Mansion. He never came to the back house to see his aunt, Mrs. Gui, otherwise she would definitely I will grab Wu Ke and ask him carefully.

However, Wu Ke's absence could not extinguish the fire in Madam Gui's heart. She pulled her daughter Wu Qiong and asked her about all the details at the banquet. From everything the general said when his troops entered the palace on Thursday to deliver gifts, to what was written in the post attached to the seventh prince's birthday gift, she asked her daughter to explain everything in detail. I read it over and over again, as if I wanted to imprint every word in my heart and remember it firmly in my mind.

Wu Qiong had already recounted the incident once in front of Zhou Xuejun, Zhou Huajun, and Haitang, and had to repeat it several times in front of her mother. No matter how patient she was, she couldn't stand it anymore. After she came back from the banquet, she hadn't even changed her clothes. After talking for a long time, her throat was already thirsty. She had already drank all the cold tea and water in the room, but her mother wouldn't let her go, and she couldn't even ask a girl to bring hot tea.

Wu Qiong couldn't help but said: "Mom, what else do you want to know? Why don't you ask someone else? Although my daughter was present at the time, she was just watching from the side. She didn't know many inside stories, and she didn't know about the fourth cousin and His Royal Highness. What did you say in the letter? Why don't you ask Mrs. Zhenguo? Maybe she can tell you?"

Mrs. Gui curled her lips and said: "How could the Zhou family be willing to reveal the inside story to me?! They want me to stay far away from His Highness the Seventh, and don't let me get close to His Highness the Seventh! We are the closest relatives of His Highness Seventh. If we are with His Highness Seventh, There’s so much going on, what’s going on with the Zhou family?”

Wu Qiong heard that her mother's words didn't sound right, so she hurriedly said: "What are you talking about? Why are you talking nonsense?"

"Where am I talking nonsense?!" Mrs. Gui sneered, "I'm just telling the truth. Otherwise, we have been in the palace for so many years, why would the Queen Mother not even reveal to us that the Seventh Highness is still alive?! If she had told me this earlier, I would definitely raise His Highness the Seventh Prince myself and take good care of him, and I would never let him suffer from poor food and clothing, and end up with the illness he is suffering from now!"

The most important thing is, if she had known that Empress Wu still had an orphan alive, why would she have encouraged Lihua to harm the Sixth Prince? Without this incident, Queen Mother Zhou would not have to worry about Concubine Sun breaking into Cining Palace and acting wild, and she would not be forced out of the palace. She would still stay with the Seventh Prince and be his closest and most respected aunt!

Wu Qiong pursed her lips, frowned and looked at her mother, a little angry: "You said these nonsense again! The Queen Mother is the grandmother of His Highness Seventh, and has protected him for more than ten years. Is it possible that His Highness can still suffer?" His Highness is in poor health because he was born prematurely and has been hidden in the Cining Palace for many years, and it is difficult to ask an imperial doctor to regulate his body. The Queen Mother has done her best, how can she do better than the Queen Mother? better?!"

Mrs. Gui sneered: "We are not close, so how can we really care about her? The Queen Mother has no shortage of people to serve her, and there is no shortage of imperial doctors in the palace. If she really wants to raise her children carefully, how can she bring up His Majesty the Seventh Prince like this?! Don't say that! Why hide it from others, if it is not convenient to ask the imperial doctor? It is wrong for the Queen Mother to hide this from the Emperor! If the Emperor knew that the Queen Mother had left her own flesh and blood, how could he treat His Majesty the Seventh Prince badly? The son of that bitch, but after the death of the sixth prince, he had no successor, how could he not regard this only Miaomiao as his treasure?
"It is the Queen Mother's indecisiveness that has caused Her Majesty the Seventh Prince to suffer for so many years! Even if his name is cleared now, there is still an Eighth Prince competing with him for the throne. In my opinion, the Queen Mother just has selfish motives! She thinks His Majesty the Seventh Prince is still there The relatives of her mother's family are here, but they don't trust her wholeheartedly, so they specially recommend Xu Qiuling to be the emperor's new favorite, so that they can give birth to an eighth prince. Her mother's family is humble and helpless, and she can only listen to her Zhou family's mercy!" The more I talk about it, the less decent it becomes. Wu Qiong couldn't bear it anymore: "Mom, we are still living in the Zhou family's place! We still need to rely on the Zhou family to have good food and clothing! Even if you don't know how to be grateful for the kindness between the Queen Mother and the Zhou family, you still know some ways of the world. , don’t say these irritating words. Do you think what you said here will not reach the ears of Madam Zhen Guo? If it makes her angry, how can you and I continue to live in this house? Go down?"

"If the Zhenguo Palace cannot accommodate us, we will have no choice but to live in it." Mrs. Gui looked confident, "Now that the emperor has recognized the identity of His Highness Seventh, His Highness no longer has to be trapped in Cining Palace. , and is planning to be crowned king. When His Highness is crowned king, we will have a palace. We can go back to the capital and live in His Royal Palace. We are his closest relatives, and he will definitely take us in! With him as a backer, our Wu family will have hope of making a comeback. When the time comes, I will advise His Majesty the Seventh Prince to help your two uncles seek official positions in the capital. When they return home, no matter how mediocre and incompetent Wu Ke is, our Wu family will be able to help them. The family business can be sustained!”

Having said this, she looked at her daughter again, with a meaningful light in her eyes: "You are almost old. I don't know what kind of princess the emperor will choose for His Majesty the Seventh Highness in the future. In my opinion, His Highness the Seventh Highness is in Ci. Ning Gong grew up and was in poor health. He was not as good as the famous princes of the previous generation. The high-ranking officials in the capital didn't know him well, and they didn't know whether they would marry their daughter to him in the event of His Majesty's marriage. It's not going well, but you and him are a match made in heaven. Our Wu family has been prosperous before, no worse than other families, and you are the direct cousin of the seventh prince, and you are more careful and reliable than the daughter of other families. If you can become the seventh prince. Concubine..."

Wu Qiong couldn't listen anymore and immediately stood up to leave.

Mrs. Gui quickly grabbed her daughter's sleeve: "Don't go! Mom is serious! Even if you can't be the seventh prince's concubine, you can still be a concubine! The emperor has treated our Wu family badly, and now he wants the grandson of the Wu family to be the concubine. Crown Prince, there is no reason not to give us some compensation! We don't expect him to give us titles and land. Wu Ke is just a concubine and he doesn't deserve it. He can't even refuse to give us this. If you become the seventh prince’s concubine and give birth to a grandson as soon as possible, no one can stop the prosperity of our Wu family!”

In fact, Mrs. Gui had this idea when she knew about the existence of the Seventh Prince, but unfortunately it was rejected by the Empress Dowager Zhou and Marquis Chengen. Later, she felt that she could settle for the next best thing and let her daughter marry the eldest grandson of Marquis Chengen. She just wanted her daughter to be rich and honorable for the rest of her life. However, no one in the Marquis Chengen's house agreed. Mrs. Chengenhou's Crown Prince also said something Bad words.

Since the Zhou family doesn't know how to praise, forget it! Her daughter is both talented and beautiful, and she is an orphan of the Wu family. She is qualified to be a prince and concubine, so there is no need to settle for the grandson of a mere relative of the Zhou family!
If the seventh prince never got his name cleared, in order to keep him safe, she would just swallow her anger. Now the seventh prince is already known to the world as the legitimate prince. He will soon be crowned king, and then he will be crowned prince, succeed to the throne, and ascend the throne... The grandson of the Wu family is about to ascend to the most noble position in the world. How can the Wu family be abandoned? Down? ! She would never let the Zhou family pick this peach. The Wu family has suffered so much in the past ten years, not just to make wedding clothes for the Zhou family!

Mrs. Gui's eyes shone with excitement. Ignoring her daughter's struggle, she said loudly: "Let's write to your uncle quickly! We women can't make the long journey, and we're afraid that the Zhou family will hold us captive and refuse to let us go. Let your uncle pick us up, and we'll go to Beijing to find Qi Your Highness, you don’t have to look at the Zhou family’s face anymore!”

(End of this chapter)