The courtyard is deep in spring

Chapter 111 Ye Xiangwan's Marriage
Regarding Ye Zhaoqing's attitude, Concubine Rong was very satisfied. After hearing this, she rarely laughed: "This incident was an accident, and you didn't damage the rockery on purpose, but you have to be more careful next time. Don't make such a thing again, this time I don't care about it for the sake of you concentrating on admitting your mistakes."

Mrs. Ding Guogong sat aside, watching the two talking, she couldn't help pursing her lips into a smile, and said: "The relationship between the empress and the princess is really good."

As soon as this sentence came out, Concubine Rong immediately felt uncomfortable, and the smile on her face faded a bit, she turned her head and glanced at Murong Yan and said, "Have you guys repaired the rockery? If it's not right, you have to It affects the feng shui of the whole house."

"Going back to my mother, it's almost repaired." Murong Yan quickly replied: "There is nothing important on the rockery. When I entered the palace today, it has basically returned to its original state."

"That's good." After hearing this, Concubine Rong nodded immediately, but felt a little uncomfortable in her heart.

She always felt that Murong Yan was referring to something when she said "there is nothing important on the rockery", after all, Ye Zhaoqing stole the herb that can cure all kinds of poisons from their house.

But all of this is for Yu'er!

The words had come to her lips, but Concubine Rong dared not speak.She knew very well in her heart that if she told Murong Yan the truth, she would definitely raise her hands to agree with this matter, but at the same time the matter of the prince's poisoning would be exposed.

The Murong family was hating themselves for breaking their faith and temporarily changing the candidate for the crown princess.If he knew about this, wouldn't he have to use it as a threat to force her to divorce Ye Zhaoqing immediately so that Murong Yan could become the crown princess?
Currently, Ye Zhaoqing cannot be suspended, at least until Li Yu's health completely recovers.

Concubine Rong had something on her mind, so after a quick chat, she sent Ye Zhaoqing away, and at the same time sent Mrs. Dingguo and his wife out of the palace.

This trip to the palace, their mother and daughter had nothing to gain except seeing Ye Zhaoqing.

Back home, Murong Yan glanced at her mother, puzzled and said: "Mother, when you entered the palace today, you already told the noble concubine that the princess dug a rare medicinal herb from our house. Look, the empress doesn't intend to pursue it?"

"Yan'er! You are so young!" Ding Guogong's wife, Mrs. Chen, turned her head and glanced at her daughter whom she had cared for for more than ten years, stroked her temple hair affectionately, and said softly: " It's not that she doesn't want to pursue it, but that the medicinal herb that the Crown Princess wants is probably just for her."

When Murong Yan heard this, she was taken aback for a moment, but she soon realized: "Yes! There is only one reason that can make the imperial concubine not mind this matter at all." After speaking, she paused, and then said in doubt again: "But , what does the imperial concubine want this medicinal herb for?"

"Then it's about the crown prince." Chen Shi said, looked at her daughter very pitifully, and said apologetically, "Yan'er, I'm afraid that Ye Zhaoqing, the crown princess, will have to be a good princess for a long time, and maybe forever. You have to be mentally prepared."

Murong Yan trembled when she heard the words, but soon she shook her head lightly, and said in a calm tone: "Mother, I and the elder brother of the prince are in the past tense. He also said that he just treats me as a younger sister. Don't mention this matter again in the future."

"Don't mention it again?" Hearing this, Mrs. Chen sighed and said, "Then why did you enter the palace with me today? You are actually disappointed that the imperial concubine did not invite the prince? To be honest, seeing the situation today , Mother felt very uncomfortable."

Why is it not in Murong Yan's heart?

After listening to her mother's words, she bowed her head and remained silent for a while, pinching the skirt with her fingers until it was almost out of shape.

Seeing her daughter's troubled appearance, Mrs. Chen felt very distressed, so she stopped irritating her.

After a long time, Murong Yan raised her head abruptly, cast a fixed look at Mrs. Chen, and said, "Mother, just tell your daughter! Why does the Crown Princess want that medicinal herb?"

"Then I would like to ask you, how did that herb grow on the rockery when it was well in your brother's medicine garden?" Chen asked back.

Murong Yan fell silent after hearing the words.

"Let your mother answer for you!" Mrs. Chen sighed, and said, "You learned from your brother that this princess is good at medicine and likes to delve into some ancient relics left by the predecessors, so she quietly sent her Someone dug a plant from your elder brother’s medicine garden and planted it on the rockery, thinking that one day if the princess came to the house, you would attract her to see it, and even specially ordered someone to loosen the rockery, but you didn’t expect it, This day will come so early, the Crown Princess came to the door on the second day after getting married, which caught you by surprise, didn't it?"

Murong Yan lowered her head and didn't speak for a long time when she heard the words, before she burst into laughter after a long time: "Nothing can be hidden from Mother's eyes." Then, she paused, and said in a firm tone: "But, Mother, I still can't do it. I understand, why does the princess want this medicinal herb? It is for detoxification, and she is not poisoned..."

"You're on point!" Hearing this, Mrs. Chen interrupted her: "Do you remember that day when your second elder brother and your father came back and said that the crown prince passed out in Huaiqing Palace during their wedding? "

"Remember." Murong Yan nodded immediately after hearing the words, "At that time, the Crown Princess didn't know what method she used to wake up the Crown Prince immediately. For this reason, Concubine Rong slapped the Crown Princess severely. You analyze it with me, and say that perhaps because of Ye Zhaoqing's excellent medical skills, Concubine Rong temporarily replaced the candidate of the Crown Princess with her."

"At that time we didn't know what happened to the prince, but now we can be sure." Chen Shi said, leaning into Murong Yan's ear and whispered two words.

"Poisoned?" Murong Yan was shocked immediately when she heard the words, she looked at her mother in disbelief, shook her head frantically and said, "No! This is not true! Brother Prince is so powerful, how could he suddenly be poisoned? Who has the ability to give him that?" Poisoning?" Because of excitement and fear, her entire body trembled.

Chen Shi has never seen her own daughter lose her composure before, so it can be seen how much Li Yu's poisoning has hit her!
"Don't panic!" Mrs. Chen grabbed her daughter's hand and said softly, "Don't you still have the Crown Princess? She has already got the herb, and the poison on the Crown Prince's body must be cured soon. "

"Really?" After hearing this, Murong Yan's nervous and trembling heart instantly settled down, she breathed a sigh of relief, and murmured: "Fortunately, there is a Crown Princess..."

In the middle of speaking, the expression on her face suddenly changed!
"Mother! In this way, the imperial concubine is going to stand on her side?" Murong Yan said anxiously: "Mother, hurry up and think of a way!"

Chen's head hurt from being shaken by her, and she shook her head and said: "Yan'er, you want the princess to save the prince, and you want the imperial concubine not to accept her favor, this matter is not easy!" After saying that, he paused and said: "Could it be that you can disregard the life of the prince for your own sake?"

"No! I want Brother Prince to be well!" Murong Yan said hastily.

"Who told me just now that it's a past tense with the prince brother?" Chen couldn't help joking when she heard the words: "Yan'er, your attitude has changed too quickly, right?"

"Mother! Stop teasing your daughter!" Murong Yan couldn't help but feel a little shy when she heard this. She shook Chen's arm and said coquettishly, "Hurry up and help me find a way!"

"Is there a way, yes, but it's a little risky..." Chen Shi said, hesitating: "But if it succeeds, the Crown Princess will be completely thrown into the cold palace, and she will never be able to turn around again..."

"What are you waiting for?"

……

Concubine Rong didn't know that Mrs. Dingguo had guessed that Li Yu had been poisoned because of her self-assertive behavior. She saw that Li Yu's health was getting better and better every day, and she couldn't stop laughing from ear to ear all day long.

"Your Majesty, seeing how happy the Crown Prince is, I'm afraid it won't be long before the Empress Dowager can give birth to a golden grandson to be hugged by the Empress..." Seeing this scene, Mother Xue immediately said with a smile.

"I hope!" Concubine Rong immediately laughed when she heard this, "I just don't know if the Crown Princess' stomach is up to par..."

The two were talking happily, but Gong'e walked in from outside and reported to Concubine Rong in a low voice: "Your Majesty, there is news from Xiao Anzi who just cleared the palace, saying that the emperor made a promise for the third prince in the hall today. marriage."

"Didn't he just lose his wife? He's going to marry so soon? However, there are many beautiful concubines in the Third Prince's mansion, so it doesn't matter whether he marries a wife or not." Hearing this, Concubine Rong glanced lazily at Gong'e, her tone He said calmly: "Is this worth mentioning in front of Ben Gong?"

"No, empress, this matter has something to do with the Crown Princess, I feel that I should report it to you." That Gong'e said in a low voice.

When Concubine Rong heard this, the lazy expression on her face disappeared immediately, and she didn't even smile: "Xiaoju, tell me carefully, why did you have something to do with the Crown Princess? She recommended this marriage to the emperor?"'

"No." Xiaoju immediately shook her head when she heard the words, and then said softly, "It's just that the candidate for the new princess is the princess's own younger sister, the second lady of Ningguohou's residence."

As soon as these words came out, the smile on Concubine Rong's face froze instantly.

Silence, deathly silence.

All the palace servants in the bedroom lowered their heads, no one dared to look at Concubine Rong's face, nor did they dare to breathe a sigh of relief.

"Ridiculous!" I don't know how long it took before Concubine Rong slammed the table and said angrily, "How can the emperor agree to such a thing! Yu'er married his sister, and the third prince married his sister right away. Isn't this incest?" ? This makes Yu'er how to address the third concubine when she meets her? Should she be called sister-in-law, or sister-in-law Wang?"

Xiao Ju fell to her knees with a plop, and touched her head to the ground, not daring to say a word.

Concubine Rong was sulking for a long time, she really couldn't find a punching bag, she said to Xiaoju in a vicious voice, "Go! Send someone to invite the Crown Princess! I want to ask her!"

"Yes, empress!" Xiao Ju hurriedly turned around and ran away as if she had been pardoned.

When Concubine Rong got angry, Ye Zhaoqing already knew the news, the difference was that Li Yu brought this news back to her.

"The third uncle begged for three days in front of the father before the father agreed to him." Li Yu said indifferently: "In these years, he has almost never asked the father for anything. Now this matter, the father is very difficult. reject."

"I'm a little worried about my father." Ye Zhaoqing already knew about this when she was in the Hou's mansion, so she was very calm when she heard the words. After Li Yu finished speaking, she frowned and said, "According to what you said, this The third prince is a veteran in love, Ye Xiangwan is not a virgin now, my father married someone without telling him, what if the third prince finds out? If he reveals the matter, it will be embarrassing for the Marquis of Ningguo. ” And then affect yourself.

Unexpectedly, when Li Yu heard this, he laughed: "Qing'er, you are really worrying too much. Even if the third prince finds out that Ye Xiangwan is not a virgin, so what? What man would know about being cuckolded?" Spread it everywhere? At that time, the most embarrassing thing will not be your father, but Uncle Three Wang! For his own reputation, he will also hide this matter."

"That's true." Ye Zhaoqing nodded immediately when he heard the words: "In this way, if the Third Prince is furious, only Ye Xiangwan will be unlucky."

"Then she deserves it!" Li Yu didn't have any sympathy in his eyes, and said with a sneer, "This kind of self-willed and lowly woman doesn't deserve happiness in the first place!"

"But, what if she gets involved with you?" Ye Zhaoqing suddenly remembered something after hearing this: "You rejected Ye Xiangwan that day, and you found a guard to break her. She will definitely hate you for the rest of her life, and if the third prince asks, Ye Xiangwan framed that you slept with her, then the third prince will definitely hate you to the bone, what do you think?"

Li Yu was taken aback when he heard this.

"This bitch! How dare she!" The next moment, Li Yu became furious: "If she dares to do this, I will definitely kill her!"

Hearing this, Ye Zhaoqing sighed and said, "Your Highness, by then she will already be your Third Prince's Wife. If you kill her, you won't be afraid to provoke the world's discussion? Then the Third Prince won't just watch?"

"Then what do you say!" Li Yu was still furious when he heard the words, and turned his head to look at Ye Zhaoqing.

Ye Zhaoqing smiled slightly when he heard the words: "My lord, this is easy to handle, I have a way to deal with her."

"Quickly say it!" Li Yu asked immediately with surprise on his face when he heard the words.

Ye Zhaoqing was about to answer when Liu'er's voice rang out from outside the hall: "Prince Concubine, the imperial concubine sent someone to invite you over!"

"Concubine Mother invited me over?" Ye Zhaoqing was startled when he heard this, but quickly realized: "Concubine Mother must have got the news, and asked me to go over and ask questions!"

"I'll accompany you!" Li Yu immediately stood up upon hearing this.

"You?" Ye Zhaoqing glanced at him, shook his head and said, "Let's forget it! What if she thinks that I was afraid of being punished and deliberately instigated you to go? Don't I have another crime?"

"Can you handle it alone?" Li Yu asked suspiciously after hearing this.

"The one who is really difficult to deal with is Ye Xiangwan." Ye Zhaoqing laughed immediately when he heard the words: "Just in case, Your Highness should go and settle this matter quickly." He said a few words softly.

Li Yu's eyes lit up immediately. He glanced at Ye Zhaoqing with great joy, nodded and said, "Qing'er! Just wait! I'll do it now!"

"Then I'll wait for the good news from His Highness." Ye Zhaoqing said, smiled slightly, and urged again: "Remember, things can't be leaked, you know?"

"Don't worry! This little matter won't bother me at all!" Li Yu said, staring deeply at Ye Zhaoqing, turned around and ordered dozens of guards, and left the palace.

Here Ye Zhaoqing calmed down, asked Liu'er to help tidy up his clothes and hair, and followed Concubine Rong's people to Yongchun Palace.

"You two sisters, neither one is worry-free!" As soon as Ye Zhaoqing entered the hall, before even An was invited, Concubine Rong, who was sitting in the upper seat, started talking like a cannonball: "Before that your sister was in the Jokhang Temple. I said a lot of bad things about you with evil intentions. Seeing your face, I didn't care about her, so I let her go. I never expected that she would turn around and hook up with the third prince! You women of the Ye family, you are really a All of them are good tricks of Hu Meizi!"

Ye Zhaoqing felt a little unhappy when she heard her words insulting him, but his face was calm.After waiting for Concubine Rong to scold her enough, she bowed down to greet Concubine Mother: "Daughter-in-law greets Concubine Mother, calm down, things may turn around."

"Turning opportunity?" Concubine Rong burst out laughing immediately after hearing this: "Ye Zhaoqing, you are so naive! This morning, the emperor has issued a marriage decree! And next month, your shameless sister Married! Don't you think it's funny what you say now?"

"It's not funny at all." Ye Zhaoqing heard the words and said solemnly: "But since the imperial father issued an imperial edict, it means that he has thought about it and thinks it is a good thing, otherwise there would be no such thing as an imperial edict. The imperial concubine said so Are you angry, are you dissatisfied with the decision made by the emperor?"

Concubine Rong couldn't help being startled when she heard the words, she took a fixed look at Ye Zhaoqing, and couldn't help but lose the battle: "This Palace is not dissatisfied with the emperor's decision! It's your sister! Enchanting, she only knows how to seduce all day long Men are not stable at all, how can He De be the third princess with such a woman?"

As she said that, she cast a mocking look at Ye Zhaoqing, and said, "If she becomes the third concubine, you will call her Sister-in-law of the third king when you see her. Would you like that?"

"What's the matter." Ye Zhaoqing laughed immediately after hearing the words: "My sister is [-] years old, tender as a flower bud, and now is a good time for a woman, but she is going to match a spoiled old man with a heart, she is the one who should be sad Right? Hearing me call the third princess, she didn't know what it would be like to be annoyed."

Concubine Rong was startled when she heard the words, she glanced at Ye Zhaoqing in disbelief, and said, "What you mean is that this time it's not the third prince who Ye Xiangwan seduced, but..."

"Concubine Mother, you can actually see that my relationship with my sister is not good." With Ye Xiangwan complaining in front of Concubine Rong before his wedding, Ye Zhaoqing said without hesitation: "But the relationship is not good. , I don't want to pour this basin of dirty water on her. The person Ye Xiangwan liked before was always His Highness the Crown Prince. You know this lady. She doesn't like young and handsome men like His Highness the Crown Prince. But to fall in love with a middle-aged man who has been hollowed out by alcohol and sex? And this man just lost his wife? Do you think this is credible?"

Concubine Rong immediately fell silent when she heard the words. After a long time, she shook her head and said firmly: "No matter what, the third prince went to the emperor to beg for a marriage. This marriage is settled..."

"Mother and concubine, you also said that the third prince begged for the marriage from the emperor." Ye Zhaoqing interrupted her, and said calmly: "This is none of my sister's business. You also know what kind of person the third prince is. Yes, there are not a thousand concubines in the mansion, maybe there are eight hundred? He doesn't know where he heard that my sister looks like a fairy, and she went to ask for marriage. Can this be my sister's fault? She is good Sitting at home, and suddenly encountered such an innocent disaster, she should be the one to complain, right?"

What she said was well-founded and logical, Concubine Rong heard it, but was unable to utter a single word for a long time.

Ye Zhaoqing didn't rush her, but sat down and waited quietly.

She believed that Concubine Rong would figure it out.

Sure enough, after a quarter of an hour, Concubine Rong opened her mouth with a complex expression: "Zhaoqing, you yourself said just now that the relationship between your sisters is not good, why do you want to intercede for her?"

"It's very simple." Hearing this, Ye Zhaoqing replied immediately: "No matter how bad our relationship is, it is private. In the eyes of outsiders, we are also sisters. Even if I become the princess, this cannot be changed. If Everyone thinks that Ye Xiangwan is flirtatious, so as a sister, I don't have a bright face."

After hearing this, Concubine Rong immediately showed a hint of admiration on her face, she nodded, and said: "Yes, it's rare that you have a long-term perspective and know how to consider the overall situation. Let me ask you, what do you really think about this matter?" Don't do it? Just watch Ye Xiangwan marry the third prince? Then you, the princess, will lose face, right?"

"Isn't it better to lose face than to offend your father?" Ye Zhaoqing glanced at Concubine Rong after hearing the words, and said with a smile, "We can only choose one from the outsider's eyes and the father's favor."

After saying that, he paused, not without regret, and said: "This matter is related to the father, so there is no solution."

No solution……

After hearing this, Concubine Rong silently recited these two words in her heart, the expression on her face was not as indignant as before, she glanced at Ye Zhaoqing, quite surprised.

Unexpectedly, it was this girl who reminded me not to pick up sesame seeds and lose watermelon...

The emperor is the watermelon, and the eyes of civil and military officials and even the public are sesame seeds.

After all, the third prince married Ye Xiangwan, so it wasn't their business, right?

"Okay, thanks to your reminder today, I know what to do." After Concubine Rong figured it out, she took a fixed look at Ye Zhaoqing and showed a rare smile: "Okay, go back soon Bar!"

"Thank you, Concubine Mother!" Ye Zhaoqing said, stood up and saluted, then turned and left.

Concubine Rong sat there, showing a thoughtful expression: "Aside from other things, this Crown Princess has some insightful insights, and she can hit the nail on the head when looking at problems."

"Your Majesty, the Crown Princess has been sitting for a long time, but she hasn't even had a sip of tea!" Madam Xue said with a smile, "It's hard for her. Talking so much must make her throat uncomfortable."

(End of this chapter)