The Book of Raising Children by Houmen

Chapter 58 The Wise Man (1)
The Empress Dowager has been very upset by this matter for the past two days, and Marquis Wu'an was not in the court, so she only listened to Jing Guogong's one-sided words, so naturally she was inferior to the other party's pigs and dogs.Besides, she was the matchmaker for this marriage. Now that something like this happened, where would she put the empress dowager's face?
When Zhao Jing entered, she saw the empress dowager was half leaning on the imperial concubine's couch, propping her forehead and complaining that her brain hurts, while the maid below was kneeling in front of the bed, beating her legs with a beauty hammer.Seeing Zhao Jing coming in, the Empress Dowager raised her eyelids a little, and the maids understood and got up and retreated outside the palace.

The rules in the palace are strict, and it is not easy for gossip to spread, so Zhao Jing guessed in her heart that the version known to the queen mother must have been carefully crafted by Mrs. Jing Guogong.Now that the person concerned, Ms. Gu, is dead, Duke Jing's mansion will naturally not admit to this matter, because once this matter is admitted, it will be difficult for the other girls in Duke Jing's mansion to marry in the future.

If Duke Jing's family beat him to death and refused to acknowledge the incident, then their argument would naturally be that Marquis Wu'an was talking nonsense, making up random things, and destroying Miss Gu's reputation.But Zhao Jing has been on Xu Si'an's side from the very beginning, not for any other reason, but because she feels that if Xu Si'an presses down at this moment and doesn't mention it, then even if someone whispers gossip behind his back, it will be better than Ming's. On the surface, he was told that he was strong with a cuckold.Zhao Jing asked herself, if she were a man, she wouldn't have the courage to make a mess of things like this.

"Is the Empress Dowager worried about the affairs of the Marquis of Wu'an?" Zhao Jing stepped forward, took the beauty hammer on the side, and knelt down in front of her, beating the Empress Dowager's legs one after another: "I see , this matter, it is best not to continue to pursue it, Miss Gu is dead, at least give the dead some face."

After hearing this, the empress dowager immediately reacted, turned to look at Zhao Jing and said, "You call her Miss Gu, don't you think she's not clean? She's not worthy to be Mrs. Wu'anhou?"

The Empress Dowager is smart, and she understood Zhao Jing's implication in a moment. Zhao Jing's palms were a little wet, and she continued: "If this matter hadn't come out, no one would dare to talk nonsense about the family affairs of Marquis Wu'an's mansion, but now When this incident happened, although Ms. Gu's reputation was discredited, she was already dead, and she didn't know what happened, but Marquis Wu An was still alive, and the green hat on his head was definitely on..."

Before Zhao Jing could finish speaking, the Empress Dowager's heart tightened, the green hat on Marquis Wu An's head was given by her, the Empress Dowager!Thinking of this, the queen mother only felt a splitting headache.

"Miss Gu is dead, and it's settled once and for all. This matter could have been avoided, but Lord Hou would rather disregard his own reputation than to tear himself apart with Duke Jing's mansion. Doesn't the Empress Dowager think there is something hidden here?"

The queen mother gradually calmed down at this time, and then listened to Zhao Jing, and told everything that happened that day.

"The servant girl is not trying to help the Marquis of Wu'an, it's just that Mrs. Hou came from a grassroots background, and there are some unexpected things. Mrs. Hou's body has not yet been buried, and Mrs. Jing Guogong brought a group of wives and grandmas to interrogate the dowry. It is indeed a bit inappropriate. The most important thing is that framing the old lady is not good for Mrs. Hou. Although the slaves have not been to Wu'anhou's mansion, they can see that the old lady is a person who loves children, how can she lay hands on her own grandson?"

When Zhao Jing said this, she lowered her head again, and said calmly: "As for those rumors, I don't know whether they are true or not, but I just think that if they are true, the Hou Ye will harm others and benefit himself; if they are false, then there is no need for Hou Ye Wearing this green hat for nothing."

When the Empress Dowager heard this, she was finally enlightened and fully understood.This matter is indeed as Zhao Jing said, it is harmful to the Marquis of Wu'an's mansion.If it is fake, who wants to be known that he is wearing a cuckold?

"Duke Jingguo's mansion is too foolish, to treat the Ai family as a fool! Let the Ai family do such a foolish thing!" The empress dowager's expression changed suddenly, and she threw the white jade carved teacup on the small table beside her to the ground, and ordered Going down, he said: "Pass down the decree of Ai's family, this matter is not allowed to continue, and let Jing Guogong's mansion bury Miss Gu earlier, so that the deceased can be buried in peace."

Zhao Jing knelt at the side to receive the order, anyway, the father-in-law who delivered the order will handle this matter, a gleam of joy appeared on her face, she felt that at least she helped Xu Si'an once, and it could be regarded as repaying his kindness that day up.

Thinking of this, Zhao Jing felt her cheeks were slightly warm, and the Empress Dowager asked her, "I heard that you have been in poor health recently, but now you have recovered?"

Zhao Jing nodded hurriedly and said: "It's all healed, I'm afraid I'll offend my illness to the emperor, so I entered the palace a few days late, please forgive me, the Queen Mother."

"There is nothing to blame. It is the emperor's blessing that you are so careful." The queen mother put aside the affairs of Duke Jing's mansion, and she felt better again. She stood up from the imperial concubine bed and led Zhao Jing into the room. In the flower hall on the side.

"Here are the portraits of the daughters of various families that have been sent by the Ruyi Museum in the past few days. You also help the Ai family to have a look and see which family's girl is more outstanding?"

Zhao Jing did not expect the Empress Dowager to be so impatient about Zhou Xu's choice of concubine that she had already sent the portrait up, so she went up to meet her with a smile and said, "Is the Empress Dowager in a hurry to embrace her grandson? The ladies in the capital are all beautiful and beautiful." , educated and reasonable, which one does the Empress Dowager prefer?"

The Empress Dowager flipped through it casually, but unexpectedly she found the portrait of the fifth girl in Jing Guogong's mansion, she was so angry that she threw her aside and said: "The family tradition is not right, go."

Zhao Jing thought to herself, if Mrs. Jing Guogong was present at this time, she wondered if she would faint from anger again, anyway, she fainted quickly, and soon after she recovered...

"This is the youngest daughter of Kang Taifu's family. The Ai family likes her the most. I came here once during the Flower Festival last year. At that time, she was still young. She was pretty and polite." The queen mother said at the same time. , while showing the portrait to Zhao Jing.

Although the Queen Mother's mother's family, the Wei family, also has daughters, it's a pity that they are not from the same branch, and they are a little far away. Even if they enter the palace, they can still be a concubine.Uncle Wei Mingzhen has a five-year-old daughter. Although she is only eight years younger than Zhou Xu, the 13-year-old emperor and the five-year-old queen would die of laughter.

Therefore, the queen mother was very cautious in choosing the empress for the emperor. Moreover, Zhao Jing also discovered that the empress candidates selected by the queen mother were all girls from the civil servant Zaifu's family.Most of the military generals take orders from the regent, and she still has some scheming on this point.

(End of this chapter)