blue bird song

Chapter 102 The First Born (5)
He Hua said respectfully: "The servant girl heard Wu Chen, the demon Taoist, tell his apprentice when she was sweeping in the palace. At that time, the servant girl was tired from work and rested with her back against the big tree. This demon Taoist and him were called Qingfeng His apprentice came over and talked about a lot of private affairs in Nanhuaian Hutong. Wu Chen has ulterior motives, he deliberately harmed Ningshou Palace and Prince Jin's son."

Empress Zhang has the heart to swallow He Hua alive.How could Wu Chen say such things recklessly in the palace? The He Hua in front of him was clearly instigated by someone to fight against Wu Chen.He Hua, you are so courageous.

Although Empress Zhang was in front of the emperor like a fish in water, no matter how arrogant she was, she knew that the Empress Dowager had a high seniority and a high status, which was not something she could control at will.Although she was burning with anxiety at the moment, she could only restrain herself desperately, not daring to show it.

The emperor had some trust in the Taoist priest Wuchen. One was that he really liked Huang Lao's art and was deeply involved in Taoism; the other was that Wuchen was recommended by his beloved Empress Zhang, so he was different from ordinary Taoists.However, he has been in the habit of respecting the Empress Dowager for more than 20 years. He will not interrupt when the Empress Dowager is asking questions slowly and gently.

King Jin stood beside him with a serious face, neither sad nor happy, neither waves nor waves.The scene in front of him seemed to have nothing to do with him.

The Empress Dowager was very patient with He Hua, "Your name is He Hua? Which He, which Hua?" He Hua replied respectfully: "The helpless He, the Hua of Tangdi's Hua."

"Have you ever read?" The Empress Dowager was surprised.Duren, the status is very low, the woman in front of me is plain, and she has read poetry and books.

He Hua had tears in his eyes, "The servant girl was originally the daughter of the county magistrate. Later, the servant girl's father died of illness, and her mother also died later. My uncle has always been a rascal, so he sold the slave girl brother and sister to the guarding eunuch."

Empress Zhang suddenly had a very bad feeling in her heart.Her surname is He, this girl's surname is He!She also has a brother, her brother, should also be surnamed He?Empress Zhang tried her best to look at He Hua twice, and the more she looked, the more she felt familiar.

Sure enough, the Empress Dowager did not know what to ask gently, He Hua raised his head, and said with grief and indignation: "My servant's elder brother is surnamed He, and his name is Ding. He served in front of the imperial court during his lifetime."

As soon as He Ding's name was uttered, the empress dowager and the emperor were all silent, and Empress Zhang turned pale.He Ding was sent to Jinyiwei by Queen Zhang for punishment, and later died in Jinyiwei Prison.

What crime?Hehe, Zhang He, the precious younger brother of Empress Zhang, went crazy one day, while the emperor was away, he sat on the emperor's throne to show off his might, and was just seen by the eunuch He Ding.He Ding had a lot of energy, and he didn't buy into this majestic uncle Guo, so he stopped him immediately.Zhang He held a grudge, and colluded with Queen Zhang to get He Ding to Jinyiwei for severe punishment.He Ding's bones were not as hard as Jin Yiwei's torture tools, and he finally died at the hands of Jin Yiwei.

Eunuchs have always been looked down upon by others, and they are also the most shameless group.However, even among the eunuchs, some people are willing to stick to the righteous way and sacrifice their precious lives for the righteousness in their hearts.He Ding is one of them.

Zhang Huang's guts turned green with regret.Why didn't he notice that He Ding still had a younger sister in the palace, he missed Jingzhou carelessly.

The empress dowager was silent for a while, then looked up at the emperor, "Nanhuahua Hutong, is it really what He Hua said?" The emperor was sweating on his back, and bowed deeply, "The grandson will order people to search for it."

Jin Yiwei quickly surrounded a house in Nanmianhua Hutong.Wuchen was here right now playing with Meiji, whom he had just bought, when Jin Yiwei with a sharp long knife broke in, he was too scared to move.After a while, the yellow liquid continued to flow to the ground, and after a while, there was a big puddle of water on the ground.

Another frightening pee, so fucking worthless!The leader of Jinyiwei Qianhu scolded contemptuously, ordered the guards to keep the prison clean, and led his men to search the house back and forth, and found countless rare treasures, as well as dozens of people who were only twelve or thirteen years old. The delicate little beauty.

"We're already inhumane enough, you're even more ruthless!" Qianhu spat at Wuchen, "You're only such a big girl, you can do it?"

After spitting in the past, Wuchen didn't move at all.Qianhu felt strange, leaned over to take a closer look, stretched out his fingers to sniff, and couldn't help but cursed, "You're so scared, you're so dead!"

Qianhu had no choice but to take Wuchen who was frightened to death, along with the gold, silver, treasures and beauties they had found back to return to his life.Not only gold and silver treasures, but also several account books, which recorded the fame and beauty gifts given to Wuchen by the princes and nobles.

As soon as the account books, gold and silver treasures are handed in, what else does the emperor not understand.Wuchen is a worldly expert who has no desires and desires, but he is clearly a greedy and worldly person.The emperor sighed, Wuchen was scared to death anyway, so let's not pursue it anymore.

With Wu Chen's death, Empress Zhang naturally dared not mention the words about sending the Prince Jin's son into the palace.Empress Zhang originally believed that Wuchen was really good, but when Wuchen was scared to death, Empress Zhang was puzzled again: Is what this person said credible, or is there no reason for it?Does King Jin's eldest son really have the spirit of a dragon, and will he really replace his son as the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty?
No one answered these questions for her.

All the sacrificial altars in the palace were taken down without a sound. The emperor ordered the Ministry of Rites, the Daolu Department and the Senglu Department to strictly manage Taoist priests and monks, and not to allow market thugs to fill their numbers.

The empress dowager advised the emperor earnestly, "Rather than fasting for a son, it is better to accept Shuyuan so that the branches and leaves will spread." The emperor hesitated to agree, and the empress dowager looked angry and drove him away.

The King of Jin asked the Empress Dowager for He Hua, "Grandmother, if she stays in the palace, it's hard to guarantee that she won't be harmed by others." She ruined Empress Zhang's affairs, how could Empress Zhang let her go lightly.If Empress Zhang dared to harm He Ding, she dared to continue to harm He Hua.It's just too easy to kill everyone.

The Empress Dowager agreed.

After He Hua left the palace, King Jin wanted to send her away from the capital, but she was unwilling. "I want to stay in the capital until the day when the heads of the Zhang family brothers fall to the ground." He Hua insisted, "No matter how long it takes, I must wait until this day."

Killing people always pays for their lives.

Jin Wang ordered someone to send her to a Huangzhuang in the suburbs of Beijing.If she doesn't want to go, then don't go.The only elder brother died unjustly, no one would be able to let go of this hatred.

After Jin Wang returned to the mansion, he was a little depressed, "Brother is a good man, why is he willing to protect Queen Zhang when he knows that she has done evil things. Don't say anything else, He Ding, you are not wronged."

Qing Que shook her head, "I don't understand. Your emperor's brother has a good reputation, frugal, hardworking, and loving the people, but when he meets Queen Zhang and the Zhang family, he doesn't care about anything."

"My brother treats her so well, but she only causes trouble for him." King Jin contemptuously mentioned the queen, "I don't know if my brother will be troubled by this? She is not considerate to my brother."

Qingque smiled, "She is such a person."

A woman who can keep talking to the emperor for the benefit of her natal brother, a woman who will only try her best to cover up her natal brother's faults, do you think she will have foresight or tender feelings?Where does she match.

Her only shortcoming is that she has no son.Look what she did, she deserves it.If she was chosen as a princess from a commoner and became a queen, and her mother's family would ascend to heaven because of her, be domineering, and harm the heavens, but she could still give birth to a son, and the son would give birth to a grandson, and pass it on from generation to generation, that would be unreasonable.

"I can't reconcile her, I'm not reconciled." Jin Wang hated the vicious woman who tried to take away his beloved son to the extreme.

Wuchen died, Xiao Congcong was saved, but the one who started it was still safe and sound.

"As long as your brother doesn't change his mind, we'll have nothing to do with her." Qing Que patted him, "It's like this between blood relatives. I almost died under Shen Mo's hands, but my father refused to kill me, so I tolerated it." Shen Mo continues to live. As long as the emperor is still alive, as long as the emperor still has a soft spot for Queen Zhang, Queen Zhang will be safe."

King Jin was a little unhappy.Qingque pulled him to see Xiao Congcong, "My son has been staring at me today, as if he knows me." Jin Wang came to his spirits, "Really? My son is as smart as his name is."

Full of hope, he approached Xiao Congcong, sure enough, Xiao Congcong stared at him with dark eyes, as if greeting him.King Jin's heart almost melted, "Xiao Congcong, I'm Daddy, my dear son, call him Daddy." Qing Que also leaned over and coaxed the child with a smile, "Xiao Congcong, my dear baby, I'm your mother, hurry up and call me Daddy." mother."

Nanny Zhong walked in from the outside and couldn't help giving them a blank look.The child who is only one month old calls father and mother, if he really calls out, don't scare the two of you.

Empress Zhang's two younger brothers hired a large number of servants, opened shops in the Gyeonggi area, invited passing merchants, bought and sold them by force, and the people complained.After the imperial censor heard about the impeachment, the emperor, under a headache, summoned his two brothers-in-law into the palace, and had a long talk with them, "Ayan, Ahe, don't make me kill my admonisher for my relatives." Zhang Yan and Zhang He said to this The emperor's brother-in-law was not very afraid at first. Seeing the emperor's serious expression, he felt a little panicked. He knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "I will never dare again, never again." After that, the two of them really stopped For a while, the emperor was very pleased.

Empress Zhang is not so good.There was no Taoist like Wu Chen to point her out for a while, so she was at a loss and didn't know what to do.Can I give birth to a son, and what year and month can I give birth to a son?Will King Jin's son rebel, whether to get rid of it, and how to get rid of it?
Empress Zhang's face gradually turned yellow, and her spirits were weak.The imperial physician had prescribed medicine for her, but after she frowned and drank the bitter potion, it didn't help at all, and there was no improvement.

Bitter potions cannot cure heart disease.

The worse Queen Zhang's health was, the more worried the Empress Dowager was. "No matter who gave birth to the child, as long as it is yours, the dynasty will have an heir." The empress dowager broke the truth with the emperor and said, "It's good to be a concubine in the middle palace, but it doesn't matter if you are the son of a man. As long as it is your son, the palace girl can also be the crown prince, and he can also be the crown prince."

The emperor has been married for nearly four years, and his knees are still empty, and there are no concubines in the harem. This situation has already made the empress dowager and courtiers suspicious and uneasy.The emperor was determined to be a wise emperor and a filial son, and he was very sorry that he disappointed his courtiers and made the empress dowager sad.

On one side is Mengyue's original wife who was born in his arms, and his life is beyond words, and on the other side is his grandmother who protects and loves him. The emperor is caught between his relatives and his lover, which is very painful.

"Grandmother only wants a great-grandson." The emperor hesitated and hesitated. "The old man doesn't care if he was born to the empress."

One evening, the emperor "met" Jia Shuning on the forest path, and Jia Shuning shyly greeted her to say hello.The emperor stared at her plump buttocks, lost his mind for a moment.This is the appearance of Yizi, the appearance of Yizi...

The emperor needs a son too much, and desires a son too much.

On this day, Jia Shuning got her wish, and finally had a kiss with the emperor and had a physical relationship.

In which year, which month and which month did the emperor get close to which woman?The Empress Dowager, Queen Dowager, and Empress Zhang all knew about this not long after. Some were happy, while others were worried.

After the Empress Dowager heard the news, the corners of her mouth turned up slightly, obviously extremely happy.Jia Shuning was the child she watched growing up, with a gentle temperament, obedient and obedient, not to mention that the older Jia Shuning was, the more plump and strong she was. Give birth to a prince.Now that Jia Shuning and the emperor have achieved their good deeds, the Empress Dowager has fulfilled her wish, and she is just waiting for Jia Shuning to have a happy news so that she can hug her great-grandson.

Qiao Momo winked at her smiling face, "This is a happy event. Would you like to choose a residence with a beautiful scenery for Mrs. Jia and give her a suitable title?"

"This is the Queen's business." The Empress Dowager said leisurely, "I won't interfere any more, my old lady."

Doesn't Empress Zhang know how to treat Jia Shuning, and wants me to teach her?Want me to do it for her?

After the Queen Mother heard about this, she thought about it for a long time and decided to pretend that she didn't know.The emperor was not her own, and she was not very close to her when she was a child. The Queen Mother was quite self-aware, and she didn't regard herself as Queen Zhang's serious mother-in-law, and she didn't intend to take too much care of her.

The empress dowager and the queen dowager, although one is happy in the heart, and the other is nothing to do, but the final attitude is the same: act as if you don't know, and watch how empress Zhang will deal with it.

Queen Zhang was the last of the three to know about it.When the internal servant Li Quan reported to her that "the emperor's favor with Mrs. Jia in Nuanbi Pavilion" was reported to her with trepidation, she sat blankly, dazed, and hadn't recovered for a long time.

Fortunately Jia Shi?How could he want another woman when he already had such a noble and decent queen as himself?Those vulgar fans, those ordinary peaches and vulgar plums, how can they be worthy of him?Didn't he make an oath to each other, didn't he agree to stay together for life, and there would be no room for others in the middle, why would he...?
Empress Zhang fell ill.She was lying on the bed pale, her hands and feet were cold, her eyes were dull, and she looked lifeless.Announcing the imperial physician and prescribing the medicine, the maid carefully decocted the medicine, let it cool down and fed it to her. She turned her head in disgust and knocked over the medicine bowl.

Seeing this scene after returning to the palace, the emperor felt guilty and remorseful.He originally wanted to euphemistically mention Jia Shuning's identity after the meeting. He wanted Jia Shuning to live in Changning Palace and give her the title of Concubine Xian.But before he could open his mouth, the queen became so ill... The more the emperor thought about it, the more he felt guilty.

The emperor felt guilty, and was extra accommodating and considerate to the queen.He coaxed the queen with gentle words for a long time, and when the soup was ready, the emperor brought it over and fed her to drink it himself.Empress Zhang drank the bitter potion, and tears flowed down in strings, which made the emperor feel distressed.

The emperor treated Empress Zhang better.

Once, the emperor walked up to her, and suddenly covered his mouth and hurried away.Empress Zhang was puzzled, but she saw him go to a distance and cough twice, and when the cough was over, she came back with an apologetic expression on her face.

Empress Zhang was proud: he only treats me like this, how can he treat the shameless Jia Shi like this?I am the queen, the only wife he respects and loves.

Empress Zhang didn't mention Jia Shuning at all, but she often talked about her deep affection for the emperor, and recalled over and over again the sweet love between the two, and the vows they made together.The more the emperor heard it, the more moved he was, and he was even more ashamed to bring up Jia Shuning's matter.

Jia Shuning was quietly moved by the emperor to live in the Nuanbi small pavilion, and the emperor would visit her every now and then.The emperor was very diligent, so he didn't have much free time, and he couldn't stay for too long every time he came back, and left after being gentle, Jia Shuning didn't even have time to express his heartfelt feelings.

Jia Shuning was worried about her status, so she timidly mentioned, "Your Majesty, I haven't dared to go to Ningshou Palace for many days. I don't know what capacity I should use to meet the Empress Dowager." The emperor said vaguely: "The empress is ill. , wait a little longer." Seeing that Jia Shuning seemed disappointed, the emperor felt sorry and promised: "If you give birth to a child, I will make you a noble concubine."

Poor Jia Shuning is a person who is determined to be a queen, and her ambition is really high.However, the world has changed over time, her luck is not good, her ambition is gradually worn down, and her requirements are getting lower and lower.Hearing the emperor's promise, Jia Shuning's eyes immediately burst into tears, "Great concubine, if I give birth to a son, I can be a noble concubine."

Before she could express her excitement, the emperor withdrew and left.

Jia Shuning felt a little resentful in her heart.However, when she looked down and saw her belly, Jia Shuning's confidence immediately came back.What the emperor lacks is a son!If I get angry and give birth to the eldest son of the emperor, what is the imperial concubine?In the future, when the emperor is gone and the eldest son takes the throne, the biological mother will of course be honored as the empress dowager!Compared with the empress dowager, queens and concubines are nothing but floating clouds.

Jia Shuning pinned all her hopes on her stomach.

(End of this chapter)