Concubine's three acres of pastoral garden

Chapter 320 The King Is Dead (24)
Xianglai smiled and said, "Chu Yu, what a delicate name, very suitable for the crown prince."

Tao Qian lowered her head and said, "My mother took it, I miss her so much now!"

Xianglai didn't dare to ask him directly, but turned to look at Qu Xiuchan, who sighed and said, "Her mother offended a concubine who was gaining power two years ago, and was beaten to death."

Xianglai glanced at Tao Qian sympathetically, and then asked, "What about the concubine who killed someone?"

Qu Xiuchan said: "That woman was too arrogant, and then she lost power and was beaten to death by others!"

Xiang Lai said: "Finally got retribution." Turning around, she said to Tao Qian: "People will die, so don't be sad for Chu Yu, or you want to know about our Beiliao, I'll tell you listen."

Tao Qian said: "I heard the Grand Tutor say that my Southern Liao has a vast land and rich resources, the country is rich and the people are strong, and it intimidates the world, and the surrounding small countries surrender because of their admiration. Rare clothes, and some people even sell their children and daughters for their lives, which is far worse than the people in the Northern Liao Dynasty who are not well-off, and I want to know which one is the real one."

Xianglai didn't expect him to ask this question, so she asked back without answering: "Does the prince want to hear the truth?"

Tao Qian said: "Of course I want to hear the truth, if I don't want to make it clear, I just need to take what the Taifu said is true and ask the princess what to do."

Xiang Lai said: "But even if you listen to the truth, what can you do, don't you want to be a prince?"

Tao Qian hesitated for a moment, and said: "I don't want to be the crown prince because I'm afraid of death, but I don't want Nan Liao to be like what the maid said, if it can be proved to be wrong with the princess, I will resign the crown prince with peace of mind. place."

Xiang Lai said: "But if I tell you that what the court lady said is true, and what your Taifu told you is false, what should you do?"

Tao Qian was stunned for a moment, and said: "It's impossible. I have a lot of fertile land in southern Liao, and I have a lot of savings, fertile fields and rich people. No matter what, it is impossible to be what the maid said!"

Hearing these few official words, Xianglai knew that it must be the Taifu who told him again, and said: "So the crown prince's impression of Nanliao is like this, but I came all the way from Beiliao to Nanliao palace, what I saw But this is not the case. Although I haven't seen the scene of selling children and prostitutes like the court lady said, I have seen the poor people, displaced people, good fields abandoned and no one to cultivate them, corrupt officials and powerful officials are rampant, and the prince does not look at other things , Just look at what your father is doing every day, don't you think that this country will be in chaos?"

She said that Tao Qian still didn't believe it in the first half, but when he mentioned Tao Yu, he didn't say a word. The father ate, drank and had fun in the harem every day, ignoring the government affairs. There are so many concubines in the harem. The corpse, even the mother and concubine of the twelfth brother, Mrs. Qu, would not be remembered if he hadn't given birth to the twelfth brother, let alone those who were abandoned by the emperor after being a concubine for a month or two, even if he had never seen it How do other surnames govern the country, but I know from the book that it is definitely not like the father.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Xianglai laughed again, and said: "Although these are facts, what can you do as a child, you should protect yourself before you speak."

Tao Qian still bowed her head in silence, and after a while said: "Princess, do you think our country will be over if it continues like this? If I don't resign as the crown prince, will I be able to be a good emperor in the future?"

Xianglai couldn't help laughing, thinking that only children would ask such innocent words, so she coaxed: "It's like this, if Chu Yu has the ambition, study hard and be a good emperor in the future .”

Tao Qian lowered her head again and said, "But I'm so afraid of death, I'm afraid I'll be like Brother Twelve. I was the first to see Brother Twelve when he died. His body was swollen and swollen with water. It looked so scary. ..."

When he said this, Xianglai realized that Qu Xiuchan's son had died in the water, and turned to look at Qu Xiuchan, only to see her covering her mouth with her sleeve, tears streaming down her face.

Xianglai hurriedly got up to comfort Qu Xiuchan, and wiped her tears with a handkerchief.

Qu Xiuchan probably felt embarrassed to shed tears in front of the children, so she held back her tears and said, "The prince hasn't had dinner yet, so I'll go to Shangshi Bureau to get some food. The prince can eat here."

Tao Qian said, "Okay, I haven't had dinner with Mrs. Qu yet."

Qu Xiuchan turned and went out, Xianglai heard her walk away and said to Tao Qian: "Chu Yu, don't mention Twelfth Brother in front of Empress Qu from now on, how sad she must be when you talk about Twelfth Brother's death."

Tao Qian's mother died early, and no one taught him these things, so he made a slip of the tongue just now. He also wanted to understand what Xiang Lai said, and nodded, "Well, then I won't talk about it in the future."

After thinking about it, he asked again: "Princess, what happened to that Empress Jin just now, didn't you come from the same place, why do you seem to have a grudge against her?"

Xianglai hooked the corners of her mouth and said: "We have hatred, and the hatred is as deep as the sea! In the early years, her parents killed my father and aunt, and later her husband poisoned my father-in-law, uncle, and her husband." And her sister and brother-in-law betrayed us Beiliao to your General Shi, so I will come to this palace as a hostage!"

This Tao Qian is very simple. Even though he heard that Nan Liao got the benefits, he didn't mean to favor Lian Xiangjin. Instead, he took the injustice for Xianglai and said: "This woman is really bad, and the whole family is so bad. Poor princess, pregnant When you are pregnant, you have to travel thousands of miles across mountains and rivers."

Xianglai remained silent, saying these things in front of the Prince of Nanliao was enough, so why not scold him severely.

After Tao Qian finished speaking, she thought for a while and said, "By the way, princess, what you said just now in the imperial garden was so strange, it seemed to be aimed at Lian Xiangjin, what happened to her?"

Xianglai thought, I'm accusing her of having an affair with Shi Yan, but can you, a child, understand such a thing?
Thinking about it, he said: "It's nothing, I just said a few words because she was so angry, I don't know if it will have any effect."

Tao Qian said: "There must be. As long as she is pregnant, she will fall out of favor. Even if the princess doesn't say anything, the emperor will not spoil her anymore! You don't know, I heard that many concubines try their best not to have children because they are afraid of falling out of favor. , Even if there is one, destroy it!"

Xianglai was slightly taken aback, but after thinking about it for a while, he realized that Tao Yu had a lot of children, so he didn't want a woman for the purpose of carrying on the family line. On the contrary, after a woman became pregnant, she couldn't have fun with him anymore, so of course she had to leave it aside. .

She was still thinking about it, but Tao Qian had already stood up and said, "Actually, I really hate that Empress Jin. I heard that after she came, my father didn't go to court for a month. The ministers urged me several times. Maybe I went today after urging my father to rush, such a woman will soon fall out of favor, good morning, Wangfei, wait a moment, I will go to find out the news, and I will come back to tell you later..."

(End of this chapter)