A Thousand Hills

Chapter 107

Empress Dowager Hu and her daughter vomited a lot of bitterness, feeling that her whole heart and liver were soaked in Coptis chinensis, it was unspeakably miserable.She felt that her life was really hard. Although she entered the palace at a young age and won the favor of the late emperor, she made great achievements for the old Mu family to carry on the family line and indirectly washed away the infertile sewage on the late emperor's head. She should have had a bright life, but suffered The most arrogant mother-in-law in history, the Empress Dowager Cheng, and the most arrogant sister-in-law, Princess Ningping, have been oppressed for many years.But what about her, she boiled her mother-in-law to death, and she will continue to suffer until her sister-in-law is killed, and her son has a promising future and takes power. As a result, after a few years of comfortable life, her son married her a man who looked exactly like the overbearing mother-in-law. granddaughter-in-law.

God!

Empress Dowager Hu felt that it was impossible to live this day.The most frightening thing in her life is her domineering mother-in-law. After her mother-in-law died all these years, she no longer had nightmares. Now seeing Xie Mo is like seeing her mother-in-law reborn. The pain of mental torment and reliving old dreams is also there. Who can understand.

Mrs. Hu did not want to see Xie Moru again.

Fortunately, Xie Moru didn't like to see her very much. After the Empress Dowager Hu recovered from her illness, Emperor Mu Yuan ordered the fifth prince and Xie Moru to move to the palace outside the palace.The same is true for the first four princes. If there is any difference between the five princes and their husbands, it is because of the Queen Mother Hu's illness that has delayed a lot of time.

Xie Moru and the fifth prince wanted to move out of the palace a long time ago, they got the order, packed their bags on the same day, and happily went to live in the palace.Although the property of the fifth prince was not as good as that of Xie Moru, Emperor Mu Yuan was not a stingy person, not to mention that the old Mu family really flourished only after Emperor Mu Yuan came. To his sons, Emperor Mu Yuan was very generous.In addition to the palace, there are cash, farmland, shops and other properties, which are enough for the son to spend.The five princes are all handed over to Xie Moru, which is also the norm at the time, men just need to be busy with outside affairs, as for the inner affairs of property and money, they are mostly left to their wives to take care of.Therefore, don’t think that the main wife is just a name, and the main wife not only represents orthodoxy, but also represents the right to manage the husband’s property.If any husband holds the property tightly in his own hands, it must represent his distrust of his wife's ability, or the crisis of his wife's status.Obviously, the Fifth Prince and Xie Moru did not have this problem.The fifth prince received an orthodox normal education, and he respected his first wife, not to mention his first wife was Xie Moru.

Although Xie Moru was authorized by the fifth prince to take care of the property, she didn't have the prestige of the fifth prince's imagination to give authority to the management of the palace. On the contrary, Xie Moru didn't make any big moves. The old people who were assigned, the stewards of the mansion, the stewards of the Zhuangtian, who should be, Xie Moru had no intention of moving them at all.Even the maids serving the fifth prince, Xie Moru also ordered them to serve as usual.

But Xie Moru obviously didn't do anything, she sat in the main room every day and listened to the reports from the servants, mothers, and stewards' daughters-in-law. These people were even more respectful than they were in front of the fifth prince.The fifth prince sometimes felt strange, but he was not stupid, and after a few days of eavesdropping, he understood that there was no other reason why the servants were respectful in front of Xie Moru, not that Xie Moru had too much reputation before or that Xie Moru was scary. Yes, there is only one reason for the servants to be respectful, they can't fool Xie Moru.

Xie Moru is not stingy, one egg, one penny outside, and three pennies in the house, she will pay you, but if you want five pennies, she will buy it in exchange.In the same way, outside farms are in charge of affairs, reporting disasters and droughts and difficulties. Xie Moru also has a farm, and the farmland that Emperor Mu Yuan gave to his son is definitely not bad. How much is produced, how much is produced per mu of the Fifth Prince's farm, if you say that the weather is bad, she has already prepared the official weather records of the farm's location to slap you in the face.If you want to fool her, there is no way!
There is no need for the three fires of the new official's appointment, she knows everything, and the people below naturally dare not make trouble.What's more, Xie Moru is not mean, she understands the reason why the water is clear and does not raise fish, but she also has a bottom line, you can't cross the line, and she will change people if you cross the line.

The people below were honest, Xie Moru didn't look busy, he took care of things lightly, and he was able to play around the suburbs of Beijing with the fifth prince, or hold tea parties at home or something.

Xie Moru's days are so comfortable that one is enviable.

Especially Empress Dowager Hu, she does not rarely see Xie Moru, and Xie Moru is not like the other princes and concubines who come to the palace every now and then to please the Empress Dowager Hu and show their hospitality. Palace only.If she doesn't enter the palace, it's just that she is living a shitty life, but she is living a good life, even Concubine Su, seeing her son and daughter-in-law's life is good, her mood is good, and her health also improves a lot.

Empress Dowager Hu was well-informed in the palace, and said to her son, "As the old saying goes, when you have a wife, you forget your mother. The fifth child is different. When the fifth child has a wife, he forgets us all. He will not enter the palace for a long time. I often see Xi Yanze and the others, they are just the fifth child, I don’t know what they are doing outside.”

Emperor Mu Yuan didn't understand this, and said, "Didn't he just enter the palace yesterday? Today he rests, so he doesn't need to be on the job." The child will of course have his own affairs when he grows up.

"My own grandson, I'm a grandmother, and I can't get enough of it every day." The Queen Mother Hu didn't intend to be reasonable, she said unreasonably, "At the beginning, the Ai family told you to ask the princes to live in the palace for a longer time. Today, what are you doing in such a hurry to drive the children out of the palace? It is not easy for the Ai family to meet each other."

"Mother, whoever you want to see, just call them into the palace."

"I just want to see Xiao Wu."

Emperor Mu Yuan had no choice but to order someone to pass on the fifth prince. As a result, Eunuch Yu quickly returned to the palace to reply. He went to the fifth prince's mansion, but the fifth prince was not there. People don't know either.Empress Dowager Hu complained to Emperor Mu Yuan, "Look, look, you run wild all over the place when you leave the palace, it's still our royal style."

Emperor Mu Yuan sighed, "Queen mother, don't talk about it. It's not good for them to have a harmonious relationship as a young couple."

At Empress Dowager Hu's age, she came up with an excuse, "The relationship is harmonious? Why haven't I met my great-grandson yet?"

"It's only three months since we got married, so whose family's child can be born within three months?"

"Hey, she really has it?"

"That's what I said." Emperor Mu Yuan said, "Mother, please calm down. If you like the fifth daughter-in-law, I told the fifth wife that it is good to ask her daughter-in-law to come into the palace from time to time."

Empress Dowager Hu shut up immediately, she was not ready to face the face of her mother-in-law's resurrection!

Xie Moru is a lover of scenery, the fifth prince used to study in the palace, but now he is learning to lead errands, although the errands are not busy, they rarely have time to play.Now that they are married, he is also happy to take his wife out for a walk.The Double Ninth Festival was approaching, and there was a chrysanthemum flower market on the outskirts of the imperial capital. The two of them went to see the chrysanthemums together, and had a chrysanthemum crab feast nearby at noon.On the second day, the five princes entered the palace and brought several pots of rare chrysanthemums to Emperor Mu Yuan, Empress Dowager Hu, and mother Concubine Su.

Concubine Su praised the flower once, and the fifth prince said, "I bought it at the flower market, Mo Ru and I picked it together.

Concubine Su laughed, having a daughter-in-law is different. Sons are always filial, but boys are careless. After marrying a daughter-in-law, they are obviously more meticulous.Needless to say about the seasons, even the medicinal materials, edibles and so on, my son often brought them to the palace.Her status is not low, and no one will cut it harshly for her offerings on weekdays, but how can the ones sent by her son be the same.Concubine Su asked, "Is it the flower market in the suburbs?"

"Well, the concubine also knows?"

"I went to the palace when I was not in the palace. The flowers there are really good. Many of the flowers and plants that the big families worship on festivals come from there. There is also a flower market in the southern city of the imperial capital, but it is much smaller than the large flower markets in the suburbs. "

"Yes, my concubine looks at this flower, the petals are slightly green, and it is no worse than the pot of green chrysanthemums offered by the Ministry of Internal Affairs last year."

Concubine Su laughed, "How can this kind of green chrysanthemum be called a green chrysanthemum? The real green chrysanthemum is the same green color as emerald. I heard that some people worshiped it in the palace in the previous dynasty, but green chrysanthemums are difficult to grow, and gradually few people saw them. .Nowadays, most of them are yellow with green, and the gardeners also call them green chrysanthemums to show their status."

The mother and son talked about flowers for a while, and the fifth prince talked about the crab feast yesterday, "It's a pity that mother can't eat crabs, but I like it very much." He quietly lowered his voice, "It's so delicious, she ate eight big crabs alone , eat more than I do on weekdays." He eats a bowl, and his wife also eats a bowl of rice.Really, it's strange that he is stressed.

Concubine Su couldn't help laughing, and patted her son's forehead, "You're still afraid that something will happen to you if you eat it."

"That's all I'm going to say." Mainly he felt that it was strange that his sisters ate only the stomachs of birds, and they seemed to be full with one bite.His mother was in poor health and never had much food.When we had dinner with Xie Moru for the first time, the fifth prince was really shocked.

The fifth prince had lunch with his mother in Concubine Su's palace. During tea, Concubine Su asked him if he had heard what Queen Mother Hu had said in the Empress Dowager's Palace, and he also talked about the fact that Queen Mother Hu announced him into the palace yesterday.The fifth prince put down the teacup and said, "The imperial grandmother didn't say anything." Feeling strange in his heart, he said, "Didn't my son just enter the palace before? Did the imperial grandmother have something to do with me?"

Concubine Su sneered in her heart, and said, "It's probably because the Empress Dowager was on a whim, and it's fine."

During the Double Ninth Festival, Empress Dowager Hu was mentally prepared to face Xie Moru.On the Double Ninth Festival, since the fifth prince got married and divided the mansion, he could no longer give gifts to the elders in the palace as before.Xie Moru prepared the Double Ninth Ceremony, and Empress Dowager Hu picked it up for a long time, but she didn't find any faults.As a result, Queen Mother Hu became more and more worried.

It wasn't until the Chongyang Palace banquet that Empress Dowager Hu looked at the slightly protruding belly of the fourth concubine Hu's, and then she felt at ease, and then looked at the belly of the eldest concubine, and Empress Dowager Hu felt relieved. The third prince and concubine of the son asked about the situation of the great-grandson, and the Empress Dowager Hu said, "This woman, the first priority is to carry on the family line of her husband's family. You are all well, so I can feel at ease."

Everyone in the Palace of Mercy can tell that Empress Dowager Hu is beating Xie Moru, and none of the princes and concubines is a fool. .After all, Xie Moru didn't bother them anything, moreover, even if they talk, they should persuade the Queen Mother, but the Empress Dowager's knot with Xie Moru is really not something that can be persuaded normally.However, Xie Moru is not easy to deal with, everyone in the imperial capital knows it.So, everyone had no choice but to help each other.

Xie Moru didn't seem to hear what the Empress Dowager said, just sat upright and didn't speak.

It's this kind of expression, completely ignoring, silently despising, and contemptuous!Empress Dowager Hu seemed to see Empress Dowager Cheng reborn, and she had made several months of mental preparations. She had already figured it out. Xie Moru was no longer Empress Dowager Cheng. Empress Dowager Cheng was already dead and could not die anymore!Xie Moru is now her granddaughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law of 20 years has become a mother-in-law. Now that the feng shui is turning, it is time for Xie Moru to boil.However, seeing this expression on Xie Moru's face as if Empress Dowager Cheng was reborn, Empress Dowager Hu was still angry!Why do you turn a blind eye to Aijia!Aijia is the queen mother!Queen Mother!In the place where you used to be in the Palace of Mercy, the Ai family has now lived in!
Xie Moru didn't speak, Empress Dowager Hu called the roll and said, "Mr. Xie, do you think this is the reason?"

Xie Moru said lightly, "Your Majesty said that although I consider that many unborn concubines in the palace serve His Majesty wholeheartedly, and many unborn concubines who came to pay their respects today are also virtuous people, although It is admirable for them to serve their parents-in-law, educate their sons and daughters, and serve their husbands in the middle. But since the empress said so, what the empress said is very true."

Rao is the birth mother of Empress Dowager Hu, and she also knows that Xie Moru intends to find fault with Empress Dowager Hu, but hearing Xie Moru's words, many unborn concubines really feel a little bit astringent.If this word is spread outside the palace in the future, the effect can be imagined.

Empress Dowager Hu is not stupid, Xie Moru commented on her words, she offended half of the people in the city, and suddenly became very angry, and said angrily, "I, I, Aijia, Aijia is just asking if you are happy gone?"

Xie Moru shook his head, and said simply, "Not yet."

Empress Dowager Hu was trembling with anger, and said simply, "Since there are none, I have a few good palace people here, you can take them back to Lao Wu."

"Forgive me for not being able to follow my orders. Let's not mention the status of the fifth prince. Even if you are a wife, you can't treat her husband in a foolish way. First of all, they are side concubines. They have to pass the test of character first, and they don't ask how much they have. They are virtuous, but if their character is not good, if they cause trouble in the future, it will inevitably tarnish the reputation of the empress dowager. Secondly, the background of the palace people, some people choose to send it up, and some buy it from the outside. What did their ancestors do? Yes, I have to know. As a regular wife, you can’t let an ignorant woman serve your husband. Third, how is your appearance good or bad? Marrying a wife and a virtuous man, accepting a concubine and accepting beauty, looks bad, and I have wronged my prince too much. Fourth , How is your health, has the imperial physician checked, has the nanny checked? Fifth, if the empress is in a hurry to embrace her great-grandson, I don’t like palace people being the concubine of the prince, not for others, the background is too low , I can’t let the mother of the prince’s concubine’s eldest son be a palace lady.” Xie Moru always speaks righteously and sternly, after what she said, even Princess Wenkang was a little silly, and the Empress Dowager Hu looked like she was going to go over at any time. Pointing at Xie Moru, he shouted, "You are bold!"

"With righteousness, you are naturally bold." Xie Moru said still calmly, "Although there is a saying in the folks that you have to live in a concubine for three years, but I think the empress dowager is too anxious to have a great-grandson. I gave birth within three months of my wedding. The child's ability. Therefore, if the empress wants to give the prince a beauty, we don't want a palace man, but a serious concubine. I don't ask much. First, a family of officials, born as a prostitute; second, knowing the book Reasonable, good-looking; third, good health and dignified manners. With these three points, when the empress chooses a good person, I will personally ask her to be a side concubine. Only such a woman with good background, appearance, education, and knowledge, She is worthy of being the mother of the emperor's grandson in the Fifth Prince's Mansion."

Xie Moru got up, saluted gracefully, gently smoothed the tassels around his waist, turned and left.

(End of this chapter)