Chaos in the Chu Palace

Chapter 91
She thought about it carefully and smiled: "Then what's the meaning of these two names? The princes of their generation started from the word 'Han', Lin, Qilin, which means to be happy with a son. Then 'Yingzhou 'What? What do you mean?"

There was a slight layer of cold sweat on Ouyang Ruo's white forehead, so he had to force a smile and said: "The concubine also asked the emperor in this way, and the emperor said, it is the most blessed thing for this prince to be an idle prince, and the land of the border is not a state." Words? In the ancient book, there is a fairy island called 'Penglai' which is actually called 'Yingzhou Island', so the emperor named the third prince 'Yingzhou', which means that he will be happy and happy in the future, and other important things Don't worry about it."

At this time, the queen's ashes-like eyes shone with brilliance, and she smiled and looked at the little Yingzhou in Ouyang Ruo's arms, and said, "This name is a blessing. The emperor's thoughts are really clever."

Ouyang Ruo saw the eldest prince approaching from a distance, and smiled again: "Yes, empress, let me see that the eldest prince is named 'Hanxuan'. The Xuan is the main axis of the car. A car cannot move without an axle. So The eldest prince will have to work hard in the future. The concubine has no talent, and those who have the way are able to work harder, and the concubine only thinks about the happiness of his children in the future, and has no ambitions."

The queen smiled when she heard it, and seeing the eldest prince approaching, she couldn't help ordering him to come over, and said with a smile: "Now the eldest prince has grown taller, how is your homework going? What did you say, sir?"

The maids and nurses on both sides had already knelt down on the ground. Although the eldest prince Hanxuan was usually stubborn, he knew the seriousness when he grew up, so he quickly knelt down to pay respects to the queen: "My son pays homage to the queen, and I hope that the queen will get better every day. Teach your sons to read."

His words were probably taught by his nanny when he came, and sure enough, the empress Fengyan was very happy, so she hurriedly said it well.He also asked someone to grant a seat, and ordered someone to bring fruit and snacks to the eldest prince.

The eldest prince was afraid of the heat, so he walked all the way in a hurry, his forehead was covered with sweat.The queen personally took a handkerchief and wiped his sweat for him, with a look of love in her eyes.The eldest prince is spoiled by Liu's side. Although he doesn't know where his mother and concubine have gone, but seeing that the always serious aunt treats him so well, he just hit the snake and played around with her, and started to play around with her. .

The empress hadn't had a happy face for a long time during her illness. The Great Emperor Ji had been taught to be very polite and never acted like this. Now that the eldest prince was no stranger to her, she gradually felt remorse. Liu's child will be raised by his own knees, so he won't suffer such a serious crime today.

The queen's heart turned a thousand times, and gradually she didn't care much about Ouyang Ruo.Seeing this, Ouyang Ruo hurriedly said goodbye.The queen didn't want to keep her, she only gave a few instructions, and then she focused on talking to the eldest prince again.

Ouyang Ruo walked far away, only then dared to look back, but seeing the queen was still talking with the eldest prince in the pavilion in the imperial garden, she let go of a big stone in her heart.

After returning to Yunxiang Palace, the palace people hurried forward to serve.Ouyang Ruo lay on the beauty couch and breathed a sigh of relief.Wan Hui settled down in Xiao Yingzhou before coming over.

She also broke into a cold sweat and said: "It's really scary to look at the servant girl like the queen just now, but fortunately the eldest prince is now an adult and knows how to please people, and the queen was also taken aback by him."

Ouyang Ruo sighed: "I'm afraid that if you fool me for a while, you won't be fooled for a lifetime. If one day the queen feels that the eldest prince is not worthy of the responsibility, she will find another way."

Wan Hui was speechless and said: "Could it be that the empress is still thinking of robbing the third prince? Her body can't be raised. The emperor will not agree."

Ouyang Ruo shook her head, her black hair flowed to one side due to the untied bun, like the most beautiful black waterfall, she covered the sadness between her brows and said: "It's not that she will take away my child now, aunt I also read that just now, Bengong just messed up the origin of the third prince's name and let her guard down. For the time being, the third prince is safe. I'm afraid that she will have something else on her mind, but I can't help myself to speculate on this Or something to prevent it. We should obediently raise the third prince in the palace to be serious."

Wan Hui nodded, and saw that her face was slightly tired, so she was about to retreat, but finally couldn't help asking: "What does the empress think about the queen? This servant really doesn't understand."

Ouyang Ruo sighed softly, watching the leaves falling outside the window, full of the last chill and bleakness of late autumn, winter is coming soon, the north wind should be the first to blow at this time, this winter may be very difficult It's hard.

Wan Hui thought she would keep silent.Waited for a while to exit.Ouyang Ruo suddenly smiled coldly and said: "What else can you think about, but you have a prince, and then you will be a prince."

Wan Hui was startled, and finally retreated silently.

Ouyang Ruo closed his eyes and sighed quietly. It has been like this since ancient times, and the cycle is endless, just like the curse that cannot escape the emperor's family for life, full of murderous intent and blood, but under the most high-sounding banner.

Sure enough, after the queen's health gradually improved, she made a decree, picked a few days, and ordered the family members of the palace and the family members of important officials to enter the palace to talk.Ouyang Ruo didn't care at all, but she didn't know that the seemingly unintentional remark this time planted the deepest hidden danger for her in the future.

In those few days, cars and horses rolled around outside the Chu Palace, and many important officials and family members were all dressed up, and Tingting rushed to the Queen's Palace gracefully.The Empress didn't know if it was because she was really in good health, or because she was happy to have the Eldest Prince. Every time she saw important ministers or members of the royal family, she always brought the Eldest Prince with her.This meaning is very obvious. Firstly, it shows her queen's benevolence and treats the concubine's son as her own. Secondly, it also hints to those important ministers that her queen already has a legitimate son, so it is natural to put the crown prince on the agenda.

The queen was wearing a phoenix suit trimmed with snowy fox fur, her complexion was as pale as snow, her lips and cheeks were smeared with light red rouge.She looked at the ladies with a smile on her face, and her eyes, which were a little yellowish due to drinking too much decoction, swept across the few women who were fat or thin, or who were not in the right mood. Stay on one face.

The queen smiled to Ziye beside her and said: "Is this empress sick and confused? Which family's woman is such a beautiful woman? This empress looks like a young lady who has not left the court." She was as thin as a stick His finger lightly pointed in the direction of the little woman.

Ziye looked in the direction the queen pointed, and said with a smile: "Oh, the queen has never seen it before. It is the wife of the first-class whoring general Su, who was given by the emperor's imperial pen. Everyone is talented and beautiful, but The most suitable marriage in our Great Chu Kingdom. Oh, this lady is Miss Qian Er, the second daughter of the servant of the Ministry of Officials, and her boudoir name is Yancui."

Qian Yancui heard the empress talking about her, hurriedly went out and bowed in fear: "This concubine is General Su's concubine. Today I come here to pay my respects to the empress."

The queen nodded slightly, ordered someone to give her a seat, and took a closer look at her hand: "Sure enough, General Su has followed the emperor for more than ten years. When the empress first married the emperor, he was still a young boy. Now he has grown up to be so heroic and incomparable. To fight on the battlefield, he is a rare general by the emperor's side."

Qian Yancui's face blushed when the queen praised her husband, but her smile barely faded.The queen has long been proficient in knowing people and looking at appearances, and when her heart moved, she quietly hinted to Ziye beside her.

Ziye understood, and said to the queen with a smile: "Your Majesty, there are still a few black chrysanthemums in the conservatory of our palace, and the slaves have opened them up, why don't you go to the back and have a break with Mrs. Su?" reward?"

The queen looked into Qian Yancui's eyes with a smile, and said with a smile: "See if Mrs. Su is free, oh, I heard that General Su has returned to Beijing in the past few days, and their young husband and wife must give others more time to get together. What will this sick man do after you accompany me? It's not a good idea of ​​yours!"

Qian Yancui was originally a neat and generous person, although she had knots in her heart, she still smiled and said: "The empress is serious, if the concubine can spend more time with the empress, it will be a great blessing." Her face Delicate and beautiful, the voice is as clear as a yellow warbler, and it sounds very pleasant.

The queen nodded in satisfaction, and the other ladies saw that the queen left Qian Yancui to talk, so they hurriedly took leave.Immediately, there were only a few empty people left in the entire hall.

The queen sighed slightly, and said to her: "Look, the 'Fengyi Palace' is deserted and deserted like a dead tomb, ahem...with knots and knots...if there is no friendship, it is still an empty shell..." She While hurting himself and feeling sorry for himself, he stirred up his emotions and suddenly coughed endlessly, the calmness and generosity he had just now disappeared.

Ziye on one side hastily ordered the palace servants to bring up the medicine and serve her.The queen took a sip, frowned, and said, "If you don't drink it, you don't drink it... It's better to die clean than to serve you with soup and medicine every day."

This sentence made all the palace people kneel down and plead guilty.The queen coughed again.Qian Yancui hurriedly stepped forward to support her back, and when she touched it, the tentacles were stiff, and they were all bones. Suddenly, she remembered what the queen said just now, "... knotted hair... if there is no love, it is still an empty shell..."

She felt sore, thinking of that tall but cold back, her mind couldn't help wandering away.

Big red wedding dress, ten miles of red makeup, unlimited scenery!

On that day, everyone in Chujing spread word of mouth that the second daughter of the Minister of the Ministry of Officials who was appointed to marry by the imperial pen, was married into the general's mansion of Su Yanqing, a first-class whoring general, in a big red sedan chair.

Qian Yancui in the sedan chair was full of shyness, but she was happy in her heart.She had seen that beloved man with her own eyes, and his great achievements were admired by the people of the Chu Kingdom, and his demeanor had cast a vague fondness in her young girl's heart long before they met.

Now that she is an adult, she thought that once she was selected into the palace, she would be an inconspicuous concubine among the many concubines in the harem of Emperor Chu, but she did not expect that the emperor would choose such a husband-in-law for her. The general picked her out of thousands of options, but he picked her alone.

She especially remembered the ecstasy of her father when he received the order, and the jealous eyes of her younger sister.The whole family is indescribably happy.Although it is an honor to be the emperor's concubine, she is still a concubine no matter what, but now she is the wife of a first-class whoring general who is married by the media, and her status is several ranks higher invisibly.

She remembered that her eyes were so red that day, so dazzlingly red, so red that she would never forget it.

The joy that was full of heart was poured cold water on the head after nightfall.When the hijab was lifted, there was a pair of cool and handsome eyes, with sharp and bone-chilling coldness.I didn't have the slightest joy of being a groom, and I didn't see her amazing expression.

He turned around silently, and drank the wedding wine prepared for the two of them on the table one by one.She didn't know why he was like this, so she walked up to him and called out in a low voice: "Husband..."

The sound was as low as a mosquito murmur, but he seemed to be startled, and he staggered to his feet.Glancing at her, he turned and left.

This walk... half a year!
On the second day, before she took off her wedding dress, she was told by the servant girl in the mansion that he had gone to Huadi...

From then on, she looked forward to his return every day, to come and see her, and see this home.Letters from home were sent one by one, and only one was returned in one month. He only said that he was very busy, busy with military affairs, busy with unknown military affairs.

She calmed down and took care of the trivial matters at home every day. Everything was peaceful, but the girl who used to love to smile and generous finally restrained her smile and became more and more peaceful.

Nothing had changed, but her heart suddenly became very empty, very empty, as if there was a leak, and it couldn't be blocked by adding dissatisfaction... Day after day, it was his cold and expressionless eyes. …

She just wanted to ask him, why did he treat her so coldly, and what did she do wrong?
Qian Yancui was dazed in a daze, the queen turned her head to look, and said with a smile: "What is Mrs. Su thinking, so dazed?"

She was startled in her heart, and hurriedly lowered her eyebrows to be pleasing to the eye: "The empress should take care of herself. This concubine is wondering if the empress should invite Gao Ming to have a look again."

The empress sighed: "I know myself, the left and right are just a death, but now I have another concern, the eldest prince is handed over to the empress, and the empress should have fulfilled her duty as a aunt, poor child! ..."

Qian Yancui is a person who listens to the strings and knows the meaning, and said with a quick smile: "The empress is in her prime, the eldest prince is smart, and the future is limitless, the empress must not say that."

The queen eased the sadness on her face, took a look at her, and said with a smile: "In fact, I should envy you the most. General Su is an upright person. Okay. If you follow him, it will be good in the future."

Qian Yancui's face was shy, but the corners of her mouth were slightly curled up, not like smiling, but more like crying.When the queen saw her, she knew that she must have been wronged, so she signaled to Ziye, and said, "Let's go, it's really boring to sit here and talk. Today, I met you as old friends. I am very happy. I went to the back for a walk. I just said that I would reward the warm house." Mo Ju, you haven't gone yet."

She took Qian Yancui's hand and walked all the way, talking about how well-behaved and smart the eldest prince is.

Although Qian Yancui was impatient, she also listened carefully, but felt that she couldn't laugh or cry in her heart. If she said that she could speak with Su Yanqing, she might be able to convey her heart to the empress, but now she is in front of him. In his eyes, Xu was not even as good as a personal maid, so he was really powerless.

Naturally, these words cannot be spoken.She was making a docile and well-behaved posture by the side, and the queen liked it more.

When I arrived at the greenhouse, I saw a few black chrysanthemums standing profusely. After looking at them for a while, I also felt bored, but seeing the charcoal fire basin next to the side burning charcoal to warm the flowers day and night for these few flowers made her speechless.

But the queen didn't take it seriously, she glanced at it for a while, and felt that it was stuffy inside, so she pulled her out.The queen sat down in the pavilion, and ordered the palace servants to carefully cover the outside of the pavilion with silk gauze, and drove them away. Then she took her hand and said with concern: "Look at you, is it General Su? Treat you badly?"

On the queen's pale face, her eyes showed concern.Qian Yancui blushed and turned pale, and finally gritted her teeth: "Empress, to tell you the truth, since General Su got married, he has been sorting out military affairs in Huadi, please ask the empress...or the emperor will ask him to return to Chujing, or let his ministers The concubine will go with me."

After she finished speaking, the tears in her eyes couldn't help rolling down, and finally she couldn't help crying.Seeing her appearance, the queen pondered for a while before saying: "Could it be that General Su is dissatisfied with the marriage bestowed by the emperor?"

When Qian Yancui heard this, she was so frightened that she shed tears. Knowing that she was emotionally moved and said such outspoken words, she hurriedly knelt down in front of the queen and said, "Your Majesty, it is definitely not that General Su is dissatisfied with the emperor...the emperor Please give me a marriage gift, my mother, please enlighten me?"

The queen smiled slightly, wiped her lips with a handkerchief, and said with a smile: "Don't panic, there is no other meaning in the book, according to the book, everyone is like a woman's heart, and a man's mind is also very persuasive." People don't understand, General Su understands after being a human being, loyalty is loyalty, but his temper is too upright, alas...you just need to comfort him a lot. With your beauty and talent, how can you not catch his heart?"

When Qian Yancui heard this, her heart was filled with bitterness. Although she didn't understand his character, she knew from the instinct of a woman towards a man that he didn't love her at all, because...

"But he has someone in his heart, and the concubine will probably be like this for the rest of his life..." She suddenly said with a wry smile.

The queen's ears were sharp, and she straightened up suddenly, wondering, "Why do you have someone in your heart? Could it be that General Su has other women in his heart? How is it possible?" The queen laughed and said.

Such a young and promising general who is as tall and straight as a sword, only has military orders and military affairs in his eyes. If he is not seen hanging around the brothels and Chu houses on weekdays, how could he get into a debt of love?
Qian Yancui's face turned red when she heard the queen's laughing words, seeing that she didn't believe her, she smiled wryly to herself: "The concubine is also willing to believe that this is not true, besides, it is normal for a man to have three wives and four concubines, if General Su likes that Girl, my concubine is also willing to welcome her into the mansion, I only hope that he can return to the mansion every day, and I will not let my concubine guard the huge general's mansion alone, and even the servants will look down on her."

After she finished speaking, she burst into tears again. Since she was a child, she was pampered and pampered in Qian's family. She didn't have to worry about anything, as long as she learned piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Household chores.She had been struggling for half a year, and she was already physically and mentally exhausted. That night, she had to hear Su Yanqing's drunken talk, and her heart fell to the bottom, and she could no longer bear it.

The queen became more and more surprised when she heard it, and couldn't help asking: "Could it be that this woman really exists? Which family is it from? Maybe it's a woman from a bad background? Did you see it with your own eyes?"

Qian Yancui nodded, took out a thing from her bosom, unfolded it layer by layer, and presented it to the queen: "This jade pendant was taken out by my concubine from the arms of General Su that night. Seeing that he still remembers that girl's boudoir name even after he is drunk..." Before she could finish her sentence, she shed tears of grievance.

The queen took a look, her eyes narrowed suddenly, and she placed the jade pendant in front of her for a closer look.The more she looked at her, the weirder her expression became, as if she wanted to laugh but couldn't, her throat groaned a few times, making Qian Yancui unable to help being a little scared.

She timidly asked: "Does the queen recognize this jade pendant?"

She felt more and more uneasy. Su Yanqing went to the full moon banquet held by the third prince Rou Jieyu that night, but returned home smelling of alcohol. She wanted to change clothes with him, but unexpectedly, she heard him undress for her. While wearing the shirt, I muttered a person's name "Ruo'er..."

There was a huge wave in her heart, and when he unbuttoned his shirt, the jade pendant fell out, and she finally confirmed that there was another woman in his heart.

(End of this chapter)