Traveling through the harem: the favorite concubine

Chapter 142 Extra Story [-]

Huang Zijun accompanied Bei'er, and when the three of them ran back sweating profusely, they saw Chen Ru who was sitting quietly by the car, with a hint of embarrassment on their faces.

There was nothing strange on Chen Ru's face, she stood up with a smile, and handed a cup of tea to Aman, but Aman took it calmly, thanked her, blew the tea warm, and then reached out to feed it to Aman. bei er.

Seeing this, Chen Ru's face was slightly sad, but she was probably educated like a lady, but there was nothing else on her face, she smiled and handed the rest of the brewed tea to Huang Zijun.

She stretched out her hand to hold a cup of tea, and secretly looked at Aman's tall and straight figure, but she sighed in her heart. Although her mother told her that she would take the initiative to express herself to His Royal Highness, she couldn't be shameless. Introversion is her limit.After all, she still has to consider the consequences and scruples about her reputation.

Moreover, His Royal Highness, except for the first few glances at her, has never looked at her again since then, as if the first look at her was completely an illusion.

Back in the Prime Minister's Mansion, Chen Ru had just stepped in with one foot when she was called into the room by the maid Huang Jingting ordered to wait by the door.

As soon as Huang Jingting saw Chen Ru, she couldn't wait to ask: "How is it? Did His Highness notice you, did he talk to you? Did he invite you to play together next time?"

Chen Ru lowered her head when she heard the words, her face was a little sad, but she still forced a smile and raised her head to return to her mother in a gentle voice: "Mother, what are you talking about! How can His Royal Highness like me..."

Before Chen Ru finished speaking, a maid outside the door suddenly walked in to report, and Huang Wenren and Mrs. Huang invited them to come over.

For this reason, Huang Jingting could only stop talking. Chen Ru looked at Huang Jingting who was walking ahead who knew nothing, but she had a bad premonition in her heart.

As soon as they walked into the main courtyard, Huang Jingting and Chen Ru saw Huang Wenren and Mrs. Huang sitting in the hall. Both of them had no smiles on their faces, they were very serious, and they looked at them with some scrutiny.

Chen Ru saluted respectfully, and just stood still when Huang Wenren said, "Ru'er, come with me to the study."

"father……"

Huang Jingting was a little surprised when she heard this, with doubts on her face.

But Chen Ru bowed her head respectfully and agreed.

Seeing that her daughter was going out with her father, Huang Jingting also wanted to follow her: "Father, what are you going to hide from me..."

Before she could take a step, she was grabbed by Mrs. Huang.

"You are in the house, I have something to tell you."

Mrs. Huang's voice was not gentle, which made Huang Jingting a little unhappy.

"mother……"

"Don't call me, are you asking Ru'er to meet His Highness the Crown Prince?" Madam Huang asked straightforwardly.

Huang Jingting's mind was exposed, her face was a little disconcerted, but she still smiled and said: "Mother, Ru'er should also be at the age to discuss marriage."

"Yes, but why would you think of making an idea of ​​His Highness the Crown Prince? Even if Ru'er looks like an imperial concubine, you can't make such an idea. You are hurting Ru'er!" Mrs. Huang looked at herself with a stern look on her face. The daughter who is ignorant of the unknown can't help but hate iron for being weak, but her own daughter Bai Chang is old but has no brains at all.

"Ru'er looks like the imperial concubine?" Huang Jingting was really puzzled. Although she had seen the imperial concubine at the palace banquet with her mother, she didn't really see it at that time, and it was just a hasty look.And Ru'er's appearance partly followed her, and she never noticed it.

But after hearing Mrs. Huang's words, Huang Jingting couldn't help but a thought arose in her heart.

Chen Ru followed Huang Wenren to the study, but her heart was very uneasy.

She was not familiar with her maternal ancestral home, although Huang Wenren and Mrs. Huang treated her gently yesterday, but she was a stranger, so she felt a little uneasy.

She lowered her head and asked in a low voice: "Grandfather, what do you want from Ru'er?"

Hearing Chen Ru's voice, Huang Wenren looked at the young girl in front of him, he couldn't help but sighed, but he still said, "Your mother brought you to Beijing to find a marriage for you. do you know?"

Chen Ru was a little embarrassed when she heard the words, but she still nodded generously.

"Ru'er, it's not that your grandfather despises you. Although I am your grandfather, I am only your grandfather. In your marriage, your grandfather can help, but it is not your closest relative. The person who determines your identity is yours." Father Chen Wenhan, do you understand?"

Huang Wenren looked at Chen Ru's pale little face, he didn't want to say such words to the child, after all, these words were tantamount to breaking the child's fantasies and extravagances about the future.However, he didn't want Chen Ru to be like her mother, because of hopeless extravagant expectations, she forced herself into a desperate situation.

Moreover, more realistically speaking, Huang Jingting is his daughter, she can still do it, but Chen Ru is just the daughter of a seventh-rank county magistrate, she can't do it.

"Grandfather, Ru'er knows."

Although Huang Wenren's words shocked Chen Ru almost out of her wits and made her turn pale, she still calmed down.

What Chen Ru heard the most since she was a child was what her mother told her about her noble status. She had a grandfather who was a prime minister, and she had always lived in that small closed county, where her status was the highest, and the people who came and went with her had the highest status. Everyone treats her differently. For a long time, she has always thought that she is special. She thought that with her grandfather, she could marry into the prosperous capital and find a powerful husband as her mother said.

She is just a teenage girl, even if she is calm and prudent on weekdays, she will inevitably be dazzled in this bustling place she has never been in contact with. What's more, Huang Jingting and the thoughts instilled in her since she was a child , It made her feel unavoidably clinging.

A figure like His Royal Highness, who suddenly appeared in front of her, seemed so close that she couldn't touch it, how could she not be moved.

But Huang Wenren's words were a blow to the head, and brought her back to reality from her fantasy, and she vaguely recognized her identity.

"Ru'er, my grandfather also wishes you a good life. My grandfather and grandmother will also consider you and find the most suitable marriage for you. Are you willing to let your grandfather and grandmother decide for you?"

When Huang Wenren heard Chen Ru's reply, he felt slightly at ease. Fortunately, Chen Ru was not as confused as her mother.

Chen Ru has always been a smart person, so she naturally understood what kind of marriage her grandfather said was a suitable marriage. After hearing the blueprint drawn by Huang Jingting, Chen Ru was unwilling to "give in", but she was a rational person. People also know that the marriage that Huang Wenren can find for her will not be a high-ranking and powerful husband, but she can find the best one.

She lowered her head and responded softly: "Everything is up to my grandfather."

Chen Ru left the study, and returned to the courtyard in a daze. Huang Jingting was already in the room, her face was flushed with strange excitement, she saw Chen Ru walk in, but she stretched out her hand to hold Chen Ru, Hastily said: "Ru'er, mother has something to tell you."

"Mom, I have something to tell you too."

When Chen Ru saw her mother, she pulled herself together and said, "Mother, from now on, the crown prince will come to play with his cousins, so I won't follow her out."

Huang Jingting heard the words, but agreed very readily: "Okay, I won't go out with you, His Royal Highness is not worthy of Ru'er!"

The smile on Huang Jingting's face couldn't stop showing, she pulled Chen Ru who was full of surprise and fear, and said, "Ru'er, mother has thought about it, His Royal Highness may not be able to sit on the throne in the future, if you want to marry, you must Marry the emperor."

"Mom, are you crazy?"

Chen Ru was really terrified now.She looked at the whimsical Huang Jingting in disbelief, and shook her head again and again, "Mother, don't say such outrageous things."

"Mother told you seriously!" Huang Jingting didn't get angry when she heard the words, she just said, "Ru'er, mother promises that as long as you enter the palace, the emperor will love you."

"mother……"

Chen Ru wanted to object, but Huang Jingting interrupted: "Ru'er, mother didn't notice at first, I didn't expect you to have a rich face, Ru'er, you look very similar to the imperial concubine, now the empress The noble concubine is no longer young, how can it compare to your age as delicate as a flower, when you enter the palace, the emperor will definitely pay attention to you and love you, and when you give birth to the emperor's heir, the imperial concubine will lose the emperor's favor. Nothing, you have your grandparents to support you..."

"Mom, stop talking..."

Chen Ru was startled and anxious, her eyes turned red.

"Mother won't hurt you, you listen to what mother says."

Huang Jingting wanted to say something more, but Chen Ru didn't want to hear anything. For the first time, she ignored everyone's ladylike manners and said loudly to Huang Jingting: "Mother, don't talk, let me be quiet, please? "

"You child..." Huang Jingting was a little unhappy with Chen Ru's attitude, but when she thought about the future, she smiled, "It's alright, alright, think about it, mother will come to you later."

Huang Jingting left with a smile.

Chen Ru, however, collapsed on the chair with some exhaustion.

She didn't even dare to think about what Huang Jingting mentioned to her. For all the people, the love between the emperor and the imperial concubine is more like a legendary story, an unbreakable myth.

The imperial concubine has been favored by the emperor for more than [-] years and has been favored for more than [-] years. The imperial concubine and the emperor share weal and woe...

But now, my mother actually told me to let her break this myth, Chen Ru's hand couldn't help touching her face, do she and the imperial concubine really... look alike?
But even if she looked alike, she didn't dare to think about it. Although she had only heard those stories, she felt that the emperor doted on the imperial concubine definitely not because of her appearance. Over the years, he treated the concubines in the harem as nothing and favored only the imperial concubine.

Moreover, when she heard her mother tell her that she looked exactly like an imperial concubine, she had had an uncertain guess in her heart for a long time, but now she was about to come out.

She calmed down, but called her maid from outside: "Go and see if grandpa and grandma are free, I have something to ask to see them."

The servant girl backed away respectfully, while Chen Ru covered her chest and closed her eyes and took a heavy breath.

When Aman returned to the palace, Ruyi happened to be strolling in the garden, and saw her son, who was a little out of shape, and called her over with a smile.

"You child, why do you look like this, what did you do?"

Aman walked up to Ruyi with a smile and said with a smile: "Mother, you are so beautiful today, I took Beier to fly a kite!"

"Don't be glib, play truant again today!"

Ruyi rolled his eyes at him, but still smiled and straightened his hair, and straightened his hair crown, "Even if you can keep up with your homework, you can't always avoid Master Huang's lessons, and I heard that you always Trick Master Huang."

"Mom, it's just a little bit!"

Although Aman always teases Huang Wenren, Huang Wenren is not a light-hearted lamp. It's just that Aman and Huang Zijun are together, and Huang Wenren is still teased more times.

Thinking of this, Aman showed a somewhat smug smile on his face.

However, Aman, who is still young now, probably doesn’t know that he always has to pay back when he comes out to hang out. Now that he is proud, in the future, I am afraid that extreme joy will turn into sadness. Huang Wenren will use another method in the future to recover the teased matter from Aman. .

Of course, this is still early, and at this moment, Ruyi feels that her son has gone too far: "It's your teacher anyway, don't do it!"

Aman didn't want to be talked about by his mother, so he quickly smiled and said: "Mother, my son is very modest. By the way, mother, today I saw a girl who looks a bit like you."

"How much does it look like me?" Ruyi was indeed distracted.

"That's right, it's Aunt Zijun's daughter. I heard that she just arrived in the capital, and she looks very much like you!"

The smile on Ruyi's face gradually fell, and she probably understood what Aman was talking about.

On that day, Ruyi heard about this matter and heard about it, but she didn't think about pursuing anything in the past, but she didn't expect that a few days later, Huang Zongbao's wife would bring Chen Ru into the palace to ask for an audience.

When Ruyi heard that someone from the bottom came to report, she was slightly taken aback, but she still accepted it.

From this, I also met Chen Ru, who Aman said was similar to her.She couldn't help being taken aback. Chen Ru was indeed very similar to her, not only in name and appearance, but also in the feeling revealed in her eyes. It was indeed very similar to when she was young. Zhao Qingze once said that Cao Chenxi was as young as her. At that time, she was a bit temperamental, but now Ruyi felt that the one who really looked like her should be Chen Ru in front of her.

"Your Majesty, this is the niece of the minister's wife and minister's family. I brought her into the palace today. Firstly, I want her to please my empress. Second, I want my empress to give this child a good marriage for the sake of our friendship. "Huang Zongbao's wife has a close relationship with Ruyi, and she doesn't have too many scruples in speaking.

Ruyi also smiled when she heard the words, and said: "Which house has this child settled for? Your niece, of course I want to help."

"Coincidentally, he is the eldest son of the Cao family."

Huang Zongbao's wife smiled and said that neither of them mentioned Chen Ru's appearance, as if it was really because Chen Ru was a relative of the Huang family.

"Is it the eldest son of the Cao family?"

If you think about it, speaking, the eldest son of the Cao family is right in line with Chen Ru. Chen Ru is not from a high family background. Although the eldest son of the Cao family was born high, he is only a common son. It didn't come from Cao Jiangshi's belly. Cao Jiangshi's luck after marriage was considered bad. She even gave birth to two daughters, but she hasn't given birth to a son so far. But among the few court ladies Zhao Qingze rewarded Cao Rui and was confiscated, Only two were born, but they were both sons.

In fact, Ruyi also knows that Cao Rui has no legitimate son so far, which is one of the reasons why Zhao Qingze is willing to designate Cao Chenxi as the crown princess. After all, this kind of military family is more about inheritance, although the concubine will not treat too much, but After all, it's justifiable to say that it's not as good as the son-in-law.

As for the marriage that the Huang family chose for Chen Ru, it took a lot of thought.

Chen Ru's status really requires her to choose a family in Beijing. Even if there is a prime minister's residence, she can only choose a middle-class family, unless she is married to a bastard from a first-class powerful family like this. , but in the absence of a son-in-law, it has little influence.

However, Ruyi felt a little strange when she thought about the marriage between Huang Jingting and Cao Rui, and couldn't help but ask, "This marriage was chosen well, have you exchanged ideas with the Cao family?"

"It was an agreement between the mother and Mrs. Cao, and I just wait for the empress to bless the two children." Huang Zongbao's wife replied with a smile.

Ruyi heard the words, and didn't say anything, just smiled and said: "I like this child, don't worry, I will let the emperor marry me later."

"Thank you ma'am!"

Huang Zongbao's wife brought Chen Ru into the palace this time, firstly to seek a marriage gift from Ruyi, and secondly to express her heart to Ruyi, who did not expect to receive such a big surprise.

From the moment Chen Ru entered the room, except for saluting Ruyi upright, she kept her head down all the time. When she was leaving, she couldn't help taking a peek at Ruyi, only to see a gentle smile on Ruyi's face. Looking at her, her face froze for a moment, but a strange warmth rose in her heart.

Chen Ru is not stupid, when she was at home, she could feel the strange attitude of her family towards the imperial concubine, but she didn't dare to think about it at the time, until she heard that she and the imperial concubine looked alike, she vaguely dared to make this guess ask out.

This is her aunt.

Huang Jingting had been sent away by Huang Wenren, but the two children stayed in the prime minister's mansion.

Mrs. Huang was a little bit reluctant at first, but after listening to Huang Wenren's words, she could only send them away, otherwise the two children would really be ruined.

Huang Jingting was unwilling, but she couldn't resist her parents' orders, so she could only return to the small county she never wanted to go back to, full of unwillingness and anger.

Although Chen Ru felt sorry for her mother, she didn't want her mother to cause a disaster and harm others and herself.

In the prime minister's mansion, she would occasionally think that she had swam with the prince when the spring day was just right, but this thought was short-lived, and she thought more about her future husband-in-law.

The imperial concubine came down for the imperial edict she asked the emperor for. In addition to the decree of marriage, there was another imperial decree to confer her as the county lord. Although it was only a nominal county lord, for Chen Ru, what she lacked It is precisely this identity.

"The imperial concubine is still a generous person."

Mrs. Huang accompanied Chen Ru to accept the imperial edict, and sighed softly with Chen Ru.

There are many grievances and grievances between the elders, but the younger generations are innocent after all.

They are getting old, and they only want to see that the juniors are doing well.

(End of this chapter)