A Thousand Hills

Chapter 115

Xie Moru gagged Empress Dowager Hu before going to Shuren Palace to visit Concubine Su.

Thinking that although Concubine Su is not a well-informed person in the palace, she will know about this matter sooner or later, instead of hearing some ominous and specious rumors, Xie Moru told Concubine Su about this matter like a gossip She sipped her tea and said, "I don't know who is provoking the empress dowager's ears. The empress dowager's ears are also soft, and she was fooled by the little guy with a few words. If you do good deeds with a good heart, it won't be a year." It’s a matter of age. If you want to use better rice, your Highness and I are no different for a few taels of silver. It’s just that I’ve heard in the past that some poor people live on brown rice. Rice, not to mention poor families, I am afraid that ordinary small households do not have such good rice to eat. Moreover, everyone's character is different, and there are those families who could survive without shortage. I heard that you are using good rice here. I also went to collect them as rations. Wouldn’t this reduce the rations of those who are really poor? In this way, I have spent more money and I have been taken advantage of.”

Concubine Su has actually heard some rumors, but she has always trusted her daughter-in-law very much, and she is not too worried. Now that she heard Xie Moru tell the truth, she sighed even more, "Yes, actually your free porridge When you go out of the dining room, there are brown rice porridge, and there are people who can make a living and have the cheek to get it. You have been giving porridge for several years, and it is the first time for the other princes, so I am afraid they didn't think much about the reason."

"I thought, each family is different, just like the temples and Taoist temples in the imperial capital, there are often porridge and rice donated in winter, and the rice used by each is different, so there is no need to force it." Xie Moru put down the teacup "The third sister-in-law was quite embarrassed to go to our house to talk about it. If I knew it was like this, I should use the same rice, otherwise some villains outside would have a lot of gossip. I advised her that they all do good deeds in the same way, so don't worry about it." The rumors of those villains. In the end, I didn’t know that there was really a villain with a screwdriver who came to deceive the empress dowager. The empress dowager asked me why I was so stingy today, but she made me laugh. I think that our house is from morning to afternoon every day Shen Chu's uninterrupted giving of porridge, is it a sting? There is such a reason in the world? I had to explain the reason to the empress dowager, and the empress dowager knew that she was deceived by the villain. The empress dowager It is really worrying to believe and listen to others."

Concubine Su couldn't help laughing, so she sighed along with Xie Moru.

Emperor Mu Yuan learned about the affairs of the Mercy Palace at noon, and in the evening, after listening to Empress Dowager Hu complaining that Xie Moru was disrespectful to her, Emperor Mu Yuan said, "In the future, when the fifth daughter-in-law enters the palace, let her go directly to Shuren Palace. Right." His mother has become a queen mother herself, although she is not very outstanding, she can still watch it barely, but ever since his mother started looking for Mo Ru's bad luck, she has been embarrassing one after another.Emperor Mu Yuan is a man who wants face, he can't just sit back and watch, his mother won't give up, Xie Moru is not a kind person, just don't meet each other.

That night, when Emperor Mu Yuan was resting in Linzhi Palace, he mentioned something to Concubine Xie.Concubine Xie quickly responded gently, and said, "This is the first year for the children to do it. They don't have much experience. If you want to tell the concubines, it's a good thing to do good deeds."

Emperor Mu Yuan let out a "huh" and didn't say much. On the second day, Wei Guogong, who was a minister in the Ministry of Industry, was transferred to Taichang Temple to serve as Minister of Taichang Temple. Then, the right servant replaced the left servant. As for the vacated position of right servant , Emperor Mu Yuan ordered the cabinet to draw up a list for further discussion.

Although the Minister of the Ministry of Industry and the Minister of the Taichang Temple are both the third grade, but one is a fat man in the Ministry of Industry, and the other is a cold stove in the Taichang Temple. Anyone with a discerning eye can tell which is more important.Everyone is wondering, how did Wei Guogong offend His Majesty the Emperor?Even the Duke of Wei himself was in a daze.Wei Guogong is his family's title, and the servant is his official position in the court. The two have nothing to do with each other. Moreover, although he is not particularly outstanding, he is not considered incompetent. He is in the position of servant in his forties. If you are lucky, you may not be able to make it to a Shangshu.What's wrong?Just thinking about being loyal to the king, he turned around and was transferred to Taichang Temple.

Wei Guogong thanked the empress dowager in a daze, and went home to discuss with his staff for a day and a night without discussing anything. Later, he found out that it was his daughter-in-law Hu who said something inappropriate to the queen mother when she entered the palace. Duke Wei is angry.

When Wei Guogong asked his son to ask the details, Wei Guogong was even more angry, but the next thing was to make Wei Guogong no longer have the mood to pursue the Hu family.

Let's start with the good deeds of several prince's mansions who donate food.

Xie Moru was the leader of this matter, and later it was held accountable by the Charity Palace. Xie Moru went back to the mansion that day and talked about it with the fifth prince. The fifth prince said, "I asked earlier. Use aged brown rice, I went to look at the rice, it is not as good as ours. After the mother will talk about this matter, you just say that you learned it from the imperial capital, and the queen mother has nothing to say."

Xie Moru said, "I have already explained it to the queen mother, and the queen mother has also understood now."

The Fifth Prince said, "The thing about giving out porridge was originally led by our family, who asked the elder brother and the second elder brother to make a fuss, and they are a little mean-spirited, but our faces are not very good-looking."

"What to do if you don't care about this. There is nothing that can satisfy everyone. Let's be open-minded. People who are sensible will naturally know that we are doing good deeds. If you are a villain, you just take out the royal rice and give it to him. Maybe they still think you didn't serve him some delicacies from mountains and seas for dinner."

The fifth prince remembered something and said, "Third brother's family committee really didn't mean it, and third brother even came here to explain it to me."

Xie Moru smiled at the fifth prince, "Well, the third sister-in-law also came to talk to me."

The two of them talked about giving out porridge, but Xie Moru didn't care about it. Fortunately, the fifth prince is also a kind-hearted person, so he let go of it.No one expected that such a good deed of giving porridge would cause quite a lot of trouble.

It wasn't the porridge sheds of the fifth prince's mansion, nor the porridge sheds of the fourth and third prince's mansions that caused the trouble, but the porridge sheds of the eldest son's mansion and the second prince's mansion. The two brothers used both of them to compete. Very nice rice.As Xie Mo and Concubine Su said, ordinary people can't eat such good rice, let alone those poor people?They donated such delicious polished rice, not only those who could not eat ran to receive alms, even some well-fed people also went to bring them to eat with their families.It was okay a few days ago, but when the news spread that the two porridge sheds had made good rice, there were too many people who went there. Many people still couldn’t get the porridge sheds supplied from morning to night. As the saying goes, Don’t worry about scarcity but unevenness. Some people who have worked hard for a day in line can’t get anything. First, verbal conflicts, then physical conflicts, and finally developed into group fights and stampedes. The porridge shed was also torn down and died. Three people, dozens of people were seriously injured, and minor injuries were not counted.

The fourth prince had lingering fears and secretly rejoiced, while the third prince immediately ordered his porridge shed to order brown rice instead. Although the imperial capital did not mention this matter in the court, but reported it to Emperor Mu Yuan privately, the emperor was well-informed about where he was. I know all of them.

Emperor Mu Yuan reprimanded the two of them very much, scolding them, "If you want to do good deeds, you have to think carefully. You are also the princes who are consuls in the ministry. How can you be so rash! Even a small matter of giving out gruel and giving food to others is a big deal. It can breed human life!" Although the princes and concubines took the lead in doing this, Emperor Mu Yuan was well aware of the tricky selfishness here, and it was precisely because of this that Emperor Mu Yuan was even more angry, and his son had a sense of competition. Bad things, but to turn good things into bad things, Emperor Mu Yuan couldn't bear it even if he wanted to be a loving father.

After scolding the two of them to shame, he ordered the eldest son of the emperor to go to the imperial capital to learn how the imperial capital gave out porridge and rice, and ordered the second prince to preside over the handling of the gang fight and stampede.Emperor Mu Yuan sent them to go separately.

Emperor Mu Yuan was so angry that he slapped his face, it was too much of a slap in the face.

In comparison, the third prince had to be out of order. The fourth prince, the fourth daughter-in-law was about to give birth, so he probably followed the fifth family in order to save worry, so there was no trouble this time.The best one is of course the Fifth Prince's Mansion, which is easy to understand. Xie Moru sets up a porridge shed every year, and she is familiar with it.When to cook porridge every day, when to serve porridge, and how to maintain order are all in good order.This time the Prince’s Mansion set up a porridge shed together, it was Xie Moru who took the lead... Emperor Mu Yuan thought about it, but he didn’t see that Xie Moru had the slightest selfish intentions. Xie Moru’s lead is very simple. The prince's mansion in the palace branch mansion also has contacts with the sisters-in-law on weekdays. If the fifth prince's mansion does it by itself without talking to the other prince's mansions, it will not be good for brothers.Therefore, Xie Moru talked with several other families.Later, Xie Moru was reprimanded by the queen mother for using old brown rice. Of course, the queen mother was provoked by the villain, but it is obvious that the elder brother and the second family did not inform the elder five about the high-grade rice. Well... Now that something is going wrong, even Emperor Mu Yuan has to ask for it!

Because both the eldest son's mansion and the second prince's mansion were in trouble, the three families that were not in trouble were particularly brilliant.

The third prince was overjoyed, and Concubine Xie also reminded her daughter-in-law Chu in private, "This is also a reminder to you, if you have to do something like this in the future, you can do everything the same."

Chu said, "My mother and concubine have touched my heart. I set up a porridge shed earlier. I heard that cousin Xie and her fourth siblings all use brown rice porridge. I feel uneasy." It is the eldest son of the emperor who does not want to have trouble Mansion and Second Prince's Mansion.

Concubine Xie comforted her and said, "You didn't mean it, I know it all. In fact, when I was in my natal family, my natal family would occasionally give away rice to do good deeds during festivals. At that time, I usually sent my father's Lumi to the temple, so that the temple Help me to shed it. Lumi is just ordinary rice.”

Chu's heart relaxed a little, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law talked a little bit, Xie Guifei was busy with the palace affairs, so Chu left.

After Mrs. Chu left, Concubine Xie couldn't help but sigh. Fortunately, there was no accident in her son's house this time, so he was still young... Thinking of the word "young", Concubine Xie couldn't help but think of Xie Moru. Xie Moru was the same age as the third prince. The concubine is one year older, but only one year old, Xie Moru has such thoughts, not only did the things he did were aboveboard, but also made it impossible for anyone to find fault.

Concubine Xie Guifei couldn't help thinking of what her mother said to her when she entered the palace, "Your father asked me to ask you, not for anyone else, for fear that your mother will regret it in the future."

She had been rash indeed.

She really did not expect that Xie Moru would have such wisdom at such an age.

Mrs. Chu was lucky this time, their house is safe, and Concubine Xie is also safe.Concubine Zhao was implicated by her son, and Emperor Mu Yuan hadn't seen her for several days.Concubine Zhao inevitably asked her daughter-in-law to ask, Cui's face was full of embarrassment, "I have ordered the steward to buy some ordinary rice. When I was in my natal family, I also made this with my mother, and the ones used are all second-class. Rice. I don’t want His Royal Highness to order the steward to buy good rice. When I knew it, I had already given up the porridge for several days. I thought, I’d better replace it with second-class rice. It's very unpleasant. After all, it was the fifth younger sibling who took the lead, and it made her a bad person. When I say that, His Highness just doesn't listen." Don't say no, her husband is still at home scolding the second prince for being treacherous.

In front of her mother-in-law, Cui couldn't always say that her husband was wrong, Cui said, "Your Highness is too sincere, and it's my fault that I couldn't persuade His Highness. When this happened, I persuaded His Highness several times, thinking that we were kind after all. What's more, this was originally thought up by our sisters-in-law. Even if it is not thorough, it is because I did not do things well. We did it for the first time, and we have no experience. We will learn a lot of wisdom, and it will be fine next time. , as the days go by, the old saying goes that time can tell people's hearts, and now the emperor has given His Royal Highness a mission in the imperial capital, as long as His Highness does it well and lives up to the expectations of the father, he will also live up to the heart of the father, mother and concubine gone."

"If you can think like this, I'm relieved." Zhao Guifei recited the Buddha's voice and said, "Don't say whether it's you or him. Husband and wife are one body. Since His Majesty asked, he is a man, so why should he still call you?" Go out to top the tank?"

Cui sighed secretly, if her husband really took her out to top the tank, she would be really cold-hearted.

It wasn't the Cui family who was cold-hearted, and of course it wasn't the Wu family either. The second prince knew clearly that since his father had entrusted him with the aftermath, if he was given another chance, the second prince had already spent all his time arranging the aftermath of the stampede incident. up.

The cold-hearted person is Wei Guogong. Wei Guogong has asked his son to find out from his daughter-in-law. That day when his daughter-in-law entered the palace to greet Queen Mother Hu, she was talking about the matter of the princes setting up porridge sheds, which was reminded by his daughter-in-law. Empress Dowager Hu, each of the prince's mansions has porridge sheds, and the rice used by the first three princes is good, but the brown rice used by the fourth prince and the fifth prince's mansion is said by outsiders to be stingy.The fourth concubine is going to give birth, so she probably can't take care of these things, but she doesn't think it's good when she hears some rumors outside.

The daughter-in-law was born in Cheng Engong's mansion, she is the youngest daughter of Cheng Engong and Princess Ningrong, her status is not insignificant.The Hu family has always had face in front of the Empress Dowager Hu, and he can speak well. Duke Wei knows all of this.It's just that Wei Guogong doesn't understand, what's the matter with you in the matter of the prince's mansion!You are going to make trouble in front of the Queen Mother!Do you still know whose family you are from?
You can't hide this from Hu Wu'er.

Emperor Mu Yuan asked Wei Guogong to sit in the cold yamen, and within a few days, the fourth prince also found out that it was Hu Wuer who made trouble in front of the queen mother.Recently, the fourth prince was congratulating his daughter-in-law for being a good person. When something happened to the eldest and second son's family, the fourth prince said to his daughter-in-law, "We are fools and we are lucky."

The fourth prince and concubine said, "Yes."

The fourth prince said again, "I have something to tell you, don't get angry."

"What is it?"

The fourth prince told about Hu Wu'er, and the fourth prince concubine sneered, "It's little aunt Wu'er. She, I don't see anyone in her eyes, and I think she is better than everyone in the world. She likes to make fun of people on weekdays." That's all, why go to the Empress Dowager to talk too much." When she returned to the imperial capital with her parents, it was this little aunt who always laughed at her for having an accent and being rustic.

The fourth prince said, "Who knows what she thinks, she's really smart. Now that Duke Wei has gone to Leng Yamen, it might be because of her talking."

The fourth prince told his fifth brother the news again, the empress dowager was embarrassing Xie Moru because of the porridge shed, the empress dowager chose the fourth prince's mansion because she thought that the fourth prince concubine was her natal nephew.Although the queen mother is eccentric, the fourth prince is not at ease. Now that the reason is found out, it is natural to inform the fifth prince.

And here it is, the truth.

After the truth came out, Xie Song, who had spent many years as a doctor in the household department, was promoted to the right servant of the Ministry of Industry.

(End of this chapter)