Phoenix Fight: The First Concubine

Chapter 140
Xiao Mingrui was a little at a loss, he was not afraid of thousands of troops, he was not afraid of swords and guns, but faced with his wife's crying, he couldn't do anything, so he could only smile bitterly and say, "Are you planning not to say a word to me? Wei Er, Can you listen to my explanation?"

"Is there anything else to explain?" Murong Wei looked up at him angrily, her red eyes and nose twitched from crying, and her eyes were full of annoyance: "You are the head of the family, you can decide for yourself. Don't touch me , go back and hug your concubine!"

As soon as the words came out, she regretted it.

Why did she say that, as if she still cared about him!
These angry words made Xiao Mingrui's face darken, and his expression was a little excited: "You know it, I love you, Wei'er!"

Seeing that she was about to speak again, it seemed that she would not give him a chance to explain, Xiao Mingrui couldn't help feeling a little frustrated.

Could it be that there is no fundamental trust between their husband and wife? Could it be that Murong Wei just doesn't give him a chance?

"I don't care what you want to say. But I have to explain what I should explain." He whispered in his ear: "That child is not mine."

Murong Wei paused, and the tears stopped rolling down her face. After a while, she asked calmly, "Really, then whose bastard is this? Ai Chun gave you a cuckold?"

The veins on Xiao Mingrui's forehead were twitching, and he held back his breath and said, "I never had anything to do with her! That child belongs to my dead soldier. He has always been with Aichun instead of me."

Murong Wei frowned. Although her face was calm, the worry that had been faintly raised in her heart disappeared, and she looked relieved.

In fact, she had thought about this possibility before, but this idea was absurd, and she didn't know if Xiao Mingrui would do such an absurd thing.

So she has been waiting for him to come back and explain.

She didn't blindly blame herself and think that he was empathizing with another. On the contrary, in fact, how could she not know about his feelings for him after they had been married for so long?

But as soon as he came back, he scolded her anxiously with a pale face. She was already wronged enough, but now that she heard Xiao Mingrui's words, she couldn't bear it anymore.

Now it's just to get angry with him.

Thinking of this, she felt a little annoyed. When she knew the answer, she felt slightly happy in her heart, no, she will never end with this fellow!
He glared at Xiao Mingrui bitterly, then suddenly got up and wiped away his tears and said, "Let's talk about it when we go back."

Xiao Mingrui was taken aback by her calm look.

She didn't respond, that's all?
Such a big event, he explained it clearly, why didn't she have any reaction?
Originally seeing her write such farewell words, he thought it was because Murong Wei thought that he had empathized with her. Now that she knows the truth, why is she so expressionless?
Excitement, surprise, astonishment, bewilderment, and other possibilities that he had thought about before, but now they have not appeared at all.

She just calmly wiped away her tears and went down the mountain.

Xiao Mingrui chased her down the mountain blankly, looking at her slender back from time to time, wondering if he didn't speak clearly, otherwise why could she be so calm?
What a big deal this is, to confuse the royal family's bloodline, even if he did such a thing, he had to carefully consider it before doing it.

For the sake of secrecy and realistic effect, he didn't even tell Xiao Luzi and Su De who served him closely, and only the dead man knew about it.

These people have been trained and will not reveal the situation. If necessary, he will choose to commit suicide to keep the secret.

The reason why he has done so many things is because once the matter is exposed, he will be thrown into hell in an instant, and even the emperor will not spare him!

Confusing blood, this is a big deal.

He also believed that no one would have thought that he would be so bold to do this.

Compared with his own biological son, none of his brothers would do this, there is no need.

In fact, it wasn't that Murong Wei was nervous, it was just that she had faintly noticed that the truth of the matter might not be what it appeared on the surface.

Of course, she was a little surprised when she heard Xiao Mingrui admitting this matter.

But it was just surprise, and it didn't feel shocking.

Speaking of this matter, it has something to do with the education of the two of them.

Xiao Mingrui is a native of the ancients. He has been educated in loyalty to the emperor since he was a child, instilled in Confucianism with the three principles and five constant principles. Family glory exists in his blood, and respect for ancestors is stored in his mind and has never disappeared.

So for him, mixing up the royal lineage is a difficult decision. If it wasn't for Murong Wei and forced by current events, he would never do it.

And Murong Wei came from time travel, she has no thought of loyalty to the emperor, she doesn't care about whether Xiao Mingrui mixes up the royal blood, what she cares about is what the husband and wife can get from it.

Because she didn't have a sense of reverence for imperial power from the bottom of her heart.

For a person like her who came from modern times and was used to seeing leaders and presidents of various countries on TV, teasing and laughing, she didn't care about the things Xiao Mingrui cared about at all. On the contrary, Xiao Mingrui didn't realize the importance of the things she cared about .

Speaking of which, this matter is caused by the difference in the living environment of the two people.

Xiao Mingrui couldn't figure it out here, but the guards who were looking for people along the mountain road discovered them first, and came to salute with their hands crossed.

The three of Lu'er also met the couple at the foot of the mountain. Seeing the calm expressions of the two, they were not sure whether there was a conflict or not.

Murong Wei stepped back, washed her face on her own, and said calmly: "Now you can say it, but I would like to hear your explanation? It's not your species, I don't understand, you are hiding it from me. What's the use?"

Xiao Mingrui was at a loss for words for a while, and he was a little confused. Murong Wei's attitude made him unsure. Seeing her put her hair back into a bun and put on a jade hairpin, when she looked back at him, there was even a smile on her face, such a gesture, such a situation , giving him the feeling that he is on trial.

"Husband Gang is weak." Xiao Mingrui didn't know how this idea came to his mind.

But now is not the time to be a manly man, facing his wife, the woman he loves, this is the time to humbly beg for forgiveness, how can he show off?
How should I explain this to Murong Wei now?

"This matter...many people don't know about it. Only the king and the dead man are insiders. Xiao Luzi and Su De also don't know about it. If this matter is leaked out, once someone finds out, I'm afraid I will be ruined. The fate of being claustrophobic."

Murong Wei's eyes flashed and said: "Don't say such things to me. What I want is a real explanation, don't hide it."

"..." Xiao Mingrui sat down on one side, with a sad expression on his face: "What should I tell you? I promised you before that no new woman will appear in the palace after getting married. But I... failed. "

Murong Wei was so angry that her heart ached: "Just for this? Thank you for remembering! You don't know what I mean by that?"

What she originally meant was that after he married her, he would no longer take concubines and favor others. At that time, due to various reasons, he was still unable to agree to this matter. After some things happened later, Xiao Mingrui found that he was deeply in love and had no interest in it. When he met another woman, he took the initiative to propose marriage and married Murong Wei in. This was obtained from Xiao Jinglan.

So it is said that women are not women, although she is very taboo, but this is not the point, okay?
Xiao Mingrui naturally understood what she meant, and secretly rejoiced in his heart, "It's just a reason."

"and then?"

"Do you really want to listen to me? I don't want you to take on these things, Weier, you know there are some things outside of me that I don't want you to know. It's not that I don't trust you, but that some things are dark and cruel, and I don't want you to do this Worry."

Murong Wei frowned, feeling a little bitter in her heart, after all, she finally came to this issue.

"You said, there is nothing I can't bear." She gritted her teeth and laughed, and today she wants to hear what he has to say!

Seeing that she was neither angry nor furious, Xiao Mingrui was a little worried. Today's Murong Wei is very abnormal.

Not telling him on the one hand is because he wants to keep it secret, for the sake of authenticity, he can't say it for the time being, otherwise, the royal father's people will definitely notice that their couple's attitude is the same as before.

"That day when I was ordered to enter the palace, my father... my father wanted me to accept my side concubine. He planned to choose the court official's daughter and me as my side concubine, but I refused. My father was furious for a while, and scolded me for wanting to be a concubine. Bad thing, I didn't want to accept my side concubine, so I got into an argument with my father, and was fined to kneel down in the imperial temple."

It was a stormy day, Xiao Mingrui was punished to kneel in the Taimiao, everyone didn't know why he was punished to kneel, but it was impossible for Xiao Mingrui to agree to Emperor Jianwu's request.

He knew that his father was very dissatisfied with the things he wanted to protect because of Murong Wei's epidemic. He believed that an emperor should first take care of his body, otherwise, if Murong Wei passed away in the future, would he also die for love? ?

For this reason, Xiao Mingrui had already endured a lot of pressure, but only the husband and wife were not allowed to meet each other at that time.

And once Murong Wei recovered from his condition, Emperor Jianwu summoned him into the palace and asked him to accept his side concubine on the grounds that he had no heirs.

It is impossible for Xiao Mingrui to marry the minister's daughter as his side concubine, that person is still the granddaughter of Uncle Chang Lin, although his family is poor, he is not an ordinary person.Murong Wei was originally a concubine, and it was already very difficult to marry him back then. Wouldn't it be a threat to Murong Wei's position to marry such an honorable woman?
So he categorically refused.

Afterwards, Murong Wei went to the palace to accompany him to kneel in the Taimiao, and that night Emperor Jianwu went to sleep in Concubine Hui's palace. He didn't know what they had discussed with Concubine Hui, but Concubine Hui came to see Xiao Mingrui the next day to persuade him to obey his father's opinion.

It happened that Murong Wei was seriously ill and stayed in Chonghua Palace.

Concubine Hui secretly persuaded him, saying that the emperor is very suspicious, and there have been rumors outside that you are infertile recently, if you can't break this rumor, don't even think about inheriting the throne.

Xiao Mingrui was also very embarrassed, how could he not know who spread those rumors outside, but even when he entered the palace, his father had specially asked the imperial physician to check him up, nominally because he was afraid that he would be infected with the epidemic, God knows why?
At that time, he told Concubine Hui that when Murong Wei recovered, the husband and wife were still young, and there would always be children.

But Concubine Hui couldn't wait any longer, the current situation was already very unfavorable.

She pointed out that there have been rumors in the palace that the emperor wants to establish a queen recently, and that the prince of Qi is very favored by the emperor. In addition, there have been many incidents caused by the dispute over the heir apparent in the court recently. It is said that this kind of scrambling is not beneficial to the court. Recently, he feels that his health is not as good as before, and he doesn't know if he intends to establish a reserve.

Although Xiao Mingrui knew that it was written in the book that his father would not make a heir now, but if he relied on Xie Mingyan's "The Twelve Emperors of the Great Qin Dynasty" for everything, he would not have to seize the heir again, and just wait for death.

It is unknown what variables will happen in history, and he is not sure how his father will make a decision.

"No matter what, I think your father intends to cultivate you, but if you are so blindly against your father, you only know that you love Wei'er, your father can't bear sand in his eyes, how can you look at the disaster and put him down?" Has the son been led astray?"

Xiao Mingrui was a little annoyed: "Wei'er is not a disaster."

Concubine Hui said coldly: "You don't remember what happened to your grandfather in his later years. The emperor has always tabooed about this matter. You were still young at that time, so you probably don't remember it. Let me tell you."

Concubine Hui told the secret things back then, and Xiao Mingrui remembered it. He vaguely remembered that when he was young, there was a concubine who favored the sixth palace in the palace and almost threatened his father's ascension to the throne.

"Now you know what your father taboos. If you don't obey, your father wants your concubine to die of illness. It's just a matter of one sentence. When the time comes to marry you a concubine, what can you do?"

Although Xiao Mingrui knew that his father was dissatisfied with Wei'er when his father sent someone to reprimand him, but only now did he know that his father was so jealous.

He didn't want another emperor who was troubled by love, an emperor who was emotional, to appear in the empire.Er Xiao Mingrui is also his favorite heir. For him, young people may be confused by love. As long as that woman is gone, can he really die for love?

All dangers must be resolved in the bud. Emperor Jianwu has this ability, so he doesn't need to think too much.

Even, as long as he used Murong Wei's childlessness as an excuse, he could divorce Murong Wei, so that Xiao Mingrui could no longer be with his wife.

People are in the arena and can't help themselves, Xiao Mingrui also has no choice.

An interest group has formed around him. Some people want to seize the opportunity to get promoted and make a fortune by seizing the heir, some want to promote their political ambitions, and some cannot help themselves. What's more, he can't watch King Qi ascend the throne and put himself in a situation of being controlled by others.

Concubine Hui put forward the emperor's conditions, even if she did not accept a side concubine, she would still accept a concubine, and if she had no heirs this year, he would abandon Murong Wei on the grounds of childlessness.

At that time, Murong Wei was sick and had a fever, and no one knew how long it would take for her body to recover after recovering from the illness. Moreover, most importantly, this kind of thing didn't mean that they could have it if they wanted it.

Some couples may not be able to conceive a child within a year, even if both parties are fine, because this is not something that is taken for granted, and the reasons are very complicated.

Xiao Mingrui couldn't guarantee that Murong Wei would become pregnant within this year.

He knew, how could the royal father not know?
In this way, it is just to force him to favor her. Isn't there a concubine room in the palace, so I don't believe that no one can get pregnant.

And letting him take a concubine was also for this reason. Ever since Murong Wei married into his palace, there had been no other women. Emperor Jianwu did not restrict his son to choose from the original women, and gave him the opportunity to choose his favorite beauty.

Up to now, things have been unable to turn around.

In the face of the absolute power of his father, as a son, he has no choice not only in terms of morality, but also in terms of power!
If he doesn't agree, father will really divorce Wei'er, this is absolutely certain.

Xiao Mingrui can't guarantee that Wei'er will get pregnant this year, under the absolute power of his father, even if he chooses to give up the conquest, the result will still be the same, his father will still hate Murong Wei, thinking that she led his son astray.

Since ancient times, no father would think that there is something wrong with his son. If the son becomes bad, of course it is the fault of the bad woman.

In this way, what awaits Murong Wei may be a glass of poisoned wine and a foot of white silk!

So what if she is the daughter of an important minister?
This is helplessness, the greatest helplessness in the world, he can only choose to compromise on the basis of saving his wife's life and status.

For this reason, he could only choose to do so.

At that time, he still didn't know how to tell Murong Wei about this matter, and he felt both grief and indignation and deep guilt.

On the surface, it seems that he is also a prince, a prince, but so what, he can't even live a small life with his wife, he can only compromise with his father, and even his own wife must be protected no.

A man can bend and stretch, he can only choose to endure temporarily, when he becomes the winner, then he doesn't need to endure anymore!

And since he had to choose, he couldn't choose the daughter of a powerful family. On the one hand, he felt sorry for his wife and was ashamed to speak up. On the other hand, he had to face the imminent threat. Wei had a child with another woman, and he didn't want other women to give birth to his child, so at this time he began to think about Li Daitao's stiffness.

So when Aichun wanted to take the initiative to tease her by giving her honey water, Xiao Mingrui found a candidate.

This candidate is indeed very good. First of all, she was born as a slave and cannot pose a threat to Murong Wei. Secondly, she is pretty, and she often waits on Murong Wei. It seems that a sentence of drunken sex can also explain how to favor this woman .

Again, she is not in the right mind, if that is the case, then there is no need to worry about her not cooperating, and he does not need any mercy for this kind of woman.

So, at that time, he made a plan for Li Daitao to become stiff.

And before the matter was completed, he didn't want others to know. On the one hand, it was because he was not sure whether Murong Wei would not be able to bear this kind of behavior, so he despised him and was disappointed in him. He didn't want her to know. Wei is pregnant first, and Ai Chun can easily deal with it when the time comes, and he can also make it clear to Murong Wei that he no longer needs to worry about being forced to divorce his wife by his father. Naturally, everyone is happy. On the one hand, it was also because the people from the Department of General Affairs monitored the situation of the Luo Palace day and night, so he had to act, and he also asked everyone to act with him.

If they, who have always been loving, are too calm about this matter, they can't hide the truth at all.

The play was so realistic that no one in the scene could understand it, but Emperor Jianwu thought his son was thinking about it when he saw how much he loved Aichun.

Before going to Yongding River, Xiao Mingrui didn't expect that Ai Chun would be pregnant so soon. He originally thought that if Ai Chun became pregnant, he would explain it clearly to Murong Wei, so that he could explain it at that time.Who knows that heaven will not obey people's wishes, although the child is not his, but who would have thought of it?

So Xiao Mingrui hurried back to the capital, who would have thought that he would see such a scene, see that unfeeling poem, his emotions were a little out of control, but the conscience of heaven and earth, if he didn't love Murong Wei at all, he would teach him Thunder strikes from heaven!

Murong Wei listened silently, she was angry before, but at the end, for some reason, she stopped being angry, and instead felt helpless and frustrated.

She looked at him quietly, and suddenly said: "You promised me before that we will be honest about anything. Maybe you have forgotten it long ago. Or..."

She laughed at herself: "Maybe you don't think it's a very important thing, but to me, it's really a big deal. Why can't you tell me about your father persecuting you? Could it be that I, Murong Wei, are so weak , can’t bear it? You may feel that it’s no different from telling me about Aichun afterwards.”

Who made him grow up in an environment of three wives and four concubines, who made the women here submissive and accustomed to the men's fickleness and heartlessness, men don't need to explain anything to women, although Xiao Mingrui is considered very good, but once he encounters such a situation Maybe it's because I'm ashamed to talk about it, or maybe I'm not used to sharing my own things with women. In short, I just want to bear it myself and not tell my wife.

"I'm sorry, this matter is my fault." Xiao Mingrui also felt a little regretful at this time, but he only regretted not knowing about Aichun's pregnancy in advance, and not telling Murong Wei about Aichun earlier, but not because he regretted not telling the matter about Emperor Jianwu. tell her.

She was still recuperating at that time, so it was impossible for him to say such a thing.

What's more, he is a restrained person, and he is not used to telling his wife everything about himself.

Murong Wei sighed helplessly.

Men who can apologize to women are rare here, not to mention that he is a noble man, and he has probably never apologized to any woman in his life except to her.

Should she be satisfied?

"I've heard people say before that the relationship between husband and wife fades after seven years of marriage, and gradually the contradictions become more prominent. It seems that our relationship between husband and wife has been itchy for three years. Xiao Mingrui, have you really understood me? I know you Sometimes the things you do are dark, but I won’t ask about those. I don’t intend to get involved in your politics. I just hope that when it comes to the issues of our husband and wife’s family life, you can be honest with me. One sound. Is this difficult?"

She shook her head with some disappointment: "Your machismo takes everything, I know you think it's for my own good. But, sometimes it's not what you think is good for me, that's what I'm happy to do."

A trace of astonishment flashed across Xiao Mingrui's handsome face.

Murong Wei got up and said: "I think the conflict between us didn't appear before, but now I discovered it. Before you figure it out, I don't plan to go back to the capital. Please go ahead, my lord. If you still can't figure it out, then Don't come see me anymore."

Xiao Mingrui's eyes suddenly became surprised, and he asked excitedly and incomprehensibly: "What's the conflict between our husband and wife, haven't we resolved it now? It's because I didn't tell you about Aichun in advance, it's because of love, yes , it was my fault. I apologize to you."

He didn't understand. Their husband and wife have always been in love. Except for this matter, he had to hide it from her. What conflicts do they have?

He loves her, and she loves him too, so why does she say that if he can't figure it out, he should never see her?
What does she want him to think?Confess about it?
"You still care about Aichun, right? If you mind, I won't give her a name. She is just a shield. I only have you in my heart. If it's not for you, why should I do this?"

Xiao Mingrui felt extremely distressed, he chose to compromise for his wife, and only then did the matter of Ai Chun come into being, but now Murong Wei has to resolutely separate from him because of the matter of Ai Chun, if this is the case, what is the purpose of all his forbearance!
Is it just a joke?
His sincerity to her is beyond expression, why did he become like this in the blink of an eye?

"It's not because of her." Murong Wei said seriously: "Maybe you think I'm unreasonable? I didn't intend to make you accommodating me. I know you are for me and you have your reasons. I know you love me, But I'm not Dodder. You think you're hiding something good from me, but it's actually the one that hurts me the most. Husband and wife, if there's no trust, what's left? After something happened, I chose to trust you and wait for you Come back and explain instead of leaving, why can’t you trust me and think it’s good for me? This is not the happiness I want, not the happiness you get at the expense of it.”

Xiao Mingrui looked at her in astonishment, and watched her turn and leave.

He stared blankly at the back of his wife leaving, and for a moment, he felt confused, but he didn't know why, things turned out like this?
After sitting in the room for a long time, after half an hour, Zhang De came over and said, "Master, Your Majesty has already returned to Beijing, and I invite you to enter the palace for an audience."

Xiao Mingrui closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, and when he opened them again, there was no sign of struggle or bewilderment on his face at all, his eyes were still piercing, making people feel majestic and majestic just looking at them.

(End of this chapter)