Yutai Bi

Chapter 284 Chaos 1
What he meant was that if one of them died prematurely and sent one away, if the emperor ordered to kill the whole family of the Du family, he could still leave blood for the Du family.

Cen Sanniang looked at this and that, reluctant to part with any of them.Those who are sent away must be carefully guarded and grown up.Those who remained were close to death.Her heart trembled with pain as if a piece had been gouged out.

"It's just a matter of these few days. Or, let's send them all away. If the flower hall is sealed off, the news of the children being sent away will not be spread. If the emperor really wants to kill Du's family, they have a chance, right?" Cen Sanniang declined.

"Young madam. The young master can't leave the nanny. Take one away, and it won't be an eyesore to find the nanny quietly outside. Sending all three away means that we have to find three nanny separately. There are too many people leaving the house, which is too eye-catching. And all the children are gone, the government will definitely send documents to search for them, maybe none of them can be kept. It is said that one died, and two or three people left the house quietly, so there will be no suspicion that we send the children away." Hei Qi Slowly analyze it for Cen Sanniang.

Cen Sanniang's tears couldn't help falling down: "Is it okay to tell the outside world that two people will die prematurely? One more is guaranteed. The child is not full-term, and there are three children in one birth. The millet cake is like a kitten. Even if you go If you get two, no one will be suspicious."

She told Hei Qi, but she wanted to find reasons to convince herself.The news is true, one more life is also good.

Hei Qi felt sour in his heart, but insisted: "Young Madam, if you send one more away, you will be at an extra risk. Besides, we are just making thorough preparations. What if things don't come to that point?"

Cen Sanniang understood that what Hei Qi said made sense.

She sniffed and made a decision: "Three brothers, the second child is the quietest. He doesn't cry much, and it's not easy to attract suspicion when you send it out. Ah Qiu, go tell Mantou to get ready. You two, Mantou's grandfather left with his second child in his arms. It was said that Maimian died young."

Ah Qiu began to cry: "Young Madam, Mantou and I will not leave!"

"If Grandpa Guo can't come back, he is the only blood of the Du family. Sometimes, the living are more difficult than the dead. It's not arousing suspicion for a family of four to return home to visit relatives. This matter As long as you know, don’t even tell Fang’s mother Xia Chu. The fewer people who know, the better.” Cen Sanniang immediately made a second decision, “It’s settled like this. I have to go to sleep quickly. God As soon as the light is on, I will hand the bag into the palace to thank you."

Ah Qiu said worriedly: "You are still in confinement, how can you go out."

"It doesn't matter if it's not cold. I have to go to the palace to face the saint before the news from the west reaches Chang'an. The Duke's Mansion can't sit still!" Cen Sanniang said firmly.

He also ordered Hei Qi: "Tomorrow morning, send uncle and young master back to the academy. Then pass the letter to aunt and grandma. You don't have to go back to the door in the second day of junior high school."

The two went out to do their own affairs, and Cen Sanniang invited Fang's mother, Yin's mother, and Xia Chu in.

"Mother Fang, you look at the eldest. Mother Yin, I entrust the third child to you. From now on, don't let them out of your sight. If the palace really ordered the house to be ransacked, the two mothers each hold a child , I will ask the guards to protect you, and it depends on God's will if you can escape." Cen Sanniang looked at the three sons on the kang and choked up, "Second boy is quiet and doesn't scratch anyone. I like it the most. Stay with me. You carry them out."

Mother Fang and Mother Yin stepped forward to hold the child, seeing Cen Sanniang leaning over and looking at Mai Mian lovingly, they didn't dare to say anything, so they saluted and left.

"At the beginning of summer, I will sleep for a while. I will enter the palace at dawn. Find the crown of flowers."

"Yes."

Emperors and empresses usually entertain the ladies of the hundred palaces on New Year's Eve and Lantern Festival.On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Gaozong and Empress Wu were greatly surprised by Cen Sanniang's request to see her.

The emperor and empress are admiring the snow and plum blossoms by the Taiye Pool.After receiving the letter, Empress Wu said: "Mrs. Du passed away and stayed in the nunnery. Mrs. Cai Guogong was still in confinement. She was exempted from the New Year's banquet to invite An Xie'en. On the first day of the new year, she rushed here, thinking that there must be something important. .I'll see you, Your Majesty."

Gao Zong laughed and said, "I almost forgot. Du Yansui's three children were born by my blessing. I just wanted to give something during the Chinese New Year. Please invite Mrs. Cai Guogong into the palace."

When Empress Wu saw that he had agreed, she ordered her servants to say, "Mrs. Cai Guogong gave birth soon, and she will be picked up by the Dingnuan Bridge."

Wait for the servant to pick up Cen Sanniang with a warm bridge.Gaozong's eyes lit up.

Cen Sanniang wore a single bun, and put on a top-ranked nine-tree nine-di flower crown.

Because of keeping the old lady's filial piety, she didn't wear the gorgeous Yipin imperial clothes.She wore a white long skirt, a blue mink fur jacket with large sleeves and silk cotton double-breasted, and a white cloak.Wearing a piece of white fox fur.No rouge was used.Plain and clean like white plum blossoms in full bloom in the garden.

He gave a big gift and thanked the emperor for his kindness.Empress Wu gave her a soft couch to sit on, and asked with concern: "You look fine, it's just that it's such a cold day, why bother to enter the palace again. I remember that you haven't sat on the full moon yet, right? How are the children?"

Cen Sanniang replied politely: "The concubine wanted to enter the palace to thank the emperor and queen for a long time, but it was inconvenient to go to the palace to have a banquet during the New Year's day because of the filial piety of the grandmother. , and the second is that the Duke delivered a letter and had to go to the palace to report to the emperor."

"Oh?" The last battle report came from years ago, saying that Du Yansui led the expedition camp and his own soldiers to break out of the encirclement and head towards Congling to join the army marching north.Is there a new battle situation written in the family letter?Gaozong became interested.

Cen Sanniang's eyes turned red, and she cried a few times: "The concubine is timid, and was frightened by what the letter said. Please forgive me. The concubine gave birth to three sons, and the third one was as weak as a kitten. The second child could not be fed with milk last night. The courtiers and concubines are afraid, fearing that they will not be able to bear the emperor's blessing."

Not to mention what was written in the letter, when talking about the three weak sons, Empress Wu also sighed twice: "Don't be too sad. Not to mention the premature birth, I have three more births. It is a blessing to be able to support one. Do your best Bar!"

"Your Majesty is right. Children are not easy to feed, and they are born in this cold winter months. It's the concubines who are greedy." Cen Sanniang reluctantly swallowed her tears, but left her seat and knelt down: "The letter from the Duke said that if the next year There is no news of him in the battle report from the west, so I don’t need to worry, saying that he will not be with the army. He said that he promised the emperor that he would not return until he finished his errands. The Duke was vague. Grandma saw three The grandson left happily. The Duke's Mansion only has the concubine and three weak children. The concubine's heart is empty...the concubine either wants to find out something, or is afraid."

Wu's eyes flashed, and he looked at Cen Sanniang with interest, but he said angrily: "Your Majesty, what kind of errand did you send Cai Guogong to do? Let him go away from the army. The West Turkic land is sparsely populated, and the barbarians And tough, no wonder Mrs. Cai Guogong is worried."

Cen Sanniang looked at Gaozong with tears in her eyes and felt sorry for herself.He suddenly remembered that before leaving, he told Du Yansui to obtain Feng Zhong's head.It became more and more believed that Du Yansui handed over the position of coach to Su Dingfang in order to kill Feng Zhong.The overall situation has been decided, leading the soldiers to chase and kill Feng Zhong.Du Yansui didn't want the credit of the coach, and still remembered being loyal to himself, and he felt more and more guilty.Seeing Cen Sanniang's soft and weak appearance, she felt that the woman in the inner house could not help being intimidated, and she smiled unconsciously: "Don't worry about it. He took my emperor's order to do an errand for me. It's not a difficult thing. I think it will happen." Come spring, there will be good news.”

Cen Sanniang's eyes lit up, she was very excited: "My concubine, I thank the emperor for his kind words."

He stood up and returned to his seat with a smile on his face.After sitting for a while, he bid farewell to the empress and said shyly, "...I don't know if my son's condition has improved today."

Truthfully revealing how much they missed their son, Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu laughed and did not keep her anymore.The emperor rewarded the third boy with silk and other things, and asked the servants to send her out of the palace.

After leaving the Danfeng Gate, Cen Sanniang took Xia Chu's hand and got into the car before collapsing in the car.

At night, another small white flag stretched out outside the Duke's mansion.People looked at one big and one small and sighed and shook their heads.Knowing that among the three young masters of the Duke's Mansion, one of them was unable to withstand the blessing brought by the emperor's presence and died young.

Weeping in the warm pavilion of the flower hall.

Cen Sanniang went to the palace during the day and asked Xia Chu to accompany her.Aqiu was on duty in the Nuan Pavilion, and never thought that the nanny would finish feeding him. Aqiu insisted that the second young master was Cen Sanniang who wanted to stay in the Nuan Pavilion, and carried him back.Unexpectedly, not long after Cen Sanniang came back, she found that Mai Mian had no sound at all, and she died at an unknown time.Holding my son and crying for a rainy day.In the end, she angered Ah Qiu and kicked her family out of the house.After being persuaded by everyone, he handed over the child to Hei Qi to buy a small coffin and bury it in the Du family's ancestral grave.

She was crying for real, it would be strange if Cen Sanniang would not be sad if she wanted to entrust her son to Ah Qiu and the Mantou family to take them out of Chang'an.However, she did not hide anything from Fang Yin and Xia Chu.

Feng Chun Nuan Dong is still young, and has been helping Ah Qiu and Xia Chu without knowing it.It was the nanny who had fed wheat noodles, and cried for a long time with her in distress.

Early the next morning, a flat-bed bullock cart drove out of the corner gate of the Duke's Mansion.Both Aqiu Mantou and Mantou's grandfather put on ordinary Gema cotton clothes and dressed up as ordinary people.With the bedding papers and the few luggage, he quietly left the Duke's Mansion and returned to his hometown in Shandong.

Cui Zhongdong got the letter early and went to the wine shop near the city gate.I saw three bed rolls and a few bundles on the flatbed.As the wind and snow fell, Ah Qiu and Grandpa Mantou, who were dressed as women, put their hands in their sleeves and sat curled up on the cart.Mantou, with a sunburned face and a wide-brimmed felt hat, drove the ox cart past silently.

"It's your luck. Cen Sanniang drove you out of the house. Since you have no intention of serving a son of the Du family who died, I will not make things difficult for you. Go back to your hometown to farm and live an ordinary life." Cui Zhongdong finally breathed a sigh of relief.

(End of this chapter)