The Red Mansion is so charming

Chapter 119 The Palace Gate Meets the Queen Sophistry
Dai Quan got the report from the little eunuch outside the main hall, and secretly probed into the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

"Eunuch, the little master is clamoring outside to come in. If Wang Weishan, the commander of the Imperial Forest Army, didn't recognize him, he might be making a fuss at Shenwumen!" The little eunuch looked at Dai Quan's distressed face.

Dai Quan smiled slightly: "You go and tell Mr. Wang that you can treat this little ancestor with delicious food and drinks. We will all point to that great success in the future! Mr. Wang is the emperor's confidant. Since he recognized the young master, he must Understand what I mean."

The little eunuch hurried away, and Xiaozong had just finished reviewing the last memorial, when he heard Dai Quan and others in the outer palace muttering, he asked in a low voice, "Who is sneaking around outside?"

Dai Quan ran in quickly, bowed his waist and said with a smile: "Long Live Lord, the King of the Imperial Army sent someone to talk. He said that the young master Zhengde is waiting outside the Shenwu Gate and wants to see His Majesty."

Xiaozong was startled, put the ink brush aside, turned around and got off the dragon chair: "The kid wants to see me?"

A wry smile appeared on Dai Quan's face: "Long live, Mr. Wang, this young master of Zhengde only brought a guard with him, and a half-grown servant. Mr. Wang was worried about making a mistake, so he hurriedly left him behind." Come down, now I want to come in to ask for a meaning of long live, you see, is it welcome or "

Xiaozong couldn't help laughing: "This kid is so courageous, he dared to break into the palace alone, and he actually has the legacy of Taizong."

Dai Quan slandered in his heart: My Lord Long Live, even if you praise the fifth prince, you can't compare him with Taizong!Emperor Taizong bravely broke into the enemy camp alone with his sword and fought eight hundred people, and rescued Emperor Taizu.This contribution is overkill, even if the fifth prince is stepping on the ladder, it is difficult to match this!
But seeing the elated look of the emperor, Dai Quan didn't dare to pour cold water on his head.

Obtaining Xiaozong's order, Dai Quan personally went to Shenwumen to invite Zhengde, and Xiao Baozi went back to the palace. Although he was worried, how could a child not be curious?After passing the Shenwu Gate, on the Fuyun Bridge, and turning around the Yonghe Hall, it is the place where the emperor reviewed the memorials day and night.

Dai Quan introduced Zhengde carefully one by one. From time to time, Zhengde pointed to a certain pavilion in the distance with his little finger and asked a sentence or a half sentence. Dai Quan knew everything, and the few little yellow gates who accompanied him went in without knowing it. They all curiously guessed Zhengde's identity.

After a stick of incense, I saw the palace gate of the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Suddenly a group of people came in front of them. Eight eunuchs came slowly carrying the phoenix chariot on which the queen was sitting. The palace maids, all dressed in phoenix spirits and colorful clothes, were exceptionally beautiful.

As soon as Dai Quan saw the situation, he knew that he had leaked the news on time. When he told the queen about the young master's entry into the palace, Dai Quan secretly thought something was wrong.It's just that the queen's Fengjia obviously saw him, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and stepped forward, kneeling down as soon as his legs were bent.

"Slave pays respects to Empress Empress!"

The queen smiled faintly, and did not ask Dai Quan to get up, but just set her eyes on Zhengde behind him. "What a well-behaved child, which family's young master is this?"

"Uh" Dai Quan choked for a moment, he didn't dare to tell the queen, this is the fifth prince that Long Live Lord is about to recognize!Not to mention, isn't it a crime to wait for the empress to make trouble for him in the future?
Hiding the truth and not reporting it is regarded as a crime of disrespect!

The eunuch next to the empress smiled strangely: "Eunuch Dai, what's the matter? You dare not even answer the empress's words?"

"I don't dare to die!" Dai Quan prostrated himself on the ground, "This young master is the one whom the emperor announced to enter the palace to question. As for the identity and origin, I don't know!"

The queen sneered in her heart: to this day, Xiaozong and himself are having trouble with each other, how many of these powerful dog slaves are behind the scenes?

The queen nodded, and put on a smiling face: "I also have something important to report back to Your Majesty, you should report it inside."

Dai Quan thought he had narrowly escaped death, and hastily entered the hall to deliver a letter to Xiaozong.Xiaozong's original good mood to see his son disappeared in an instant, and he frowned coldly: "Have you sent a message to the Queen's Palace?"

"The slave is wronged. The slave knows the importance of the little master of Zhengde, so how dare he go to the queen's place to behave like a good boy behind the back of the Lord Long Live? It is indeed the empress herself."

Xiaozong sneered and said: "Even if it's not you, it's because of something bastard under your hands. You can use me to exchange glory and wealth! You check carefully for me, whether it is the empress who is placed next to me, or the emperor, or It's the Empress Dowager, as long as one is found, I will definitely be severely punished!"

Dai Quan hurriedly received the order to withdraw, but Xiaozong suddenly called him back: "You take the young master to sit in the back hall for a while, and see what the queen wants first." Xiaozong always doubted the queen's intentions, and made nearly two As a husband and wife for ten years, Xiaozong knows best what kind of character the queen is.

Everyone thought that it was the queen mother who killed Concubine Xu, but Xiaozong secretly guessed that it might be the queen who used a trick secretly.Concubine Xu has no sons, and she has never favored any prince. She has been favored in the palace for many years, not only highly regarded by the Supreme Emperor, but also respected by Emperor Xiaozong.

Once the concubine died, everyone would of course point their suspicious eyes at the queen mother, and the matter of King Fu's son entering the palace might not be resolved, and the queen then calmly eliminated potential enemies.

Xiaozong sat on the dragon chair and fell into deep thought. He didn't mind the women in the harem showing their talents, but the premise was that the royal heirs could not be harmed.The empress didn't even know she would say a word, so she suddenly attacked the concubine. This was the important reason for the emperor's displeasure.

So as soon as the queen entered the hall, she felt Xiaozong's coldness, her heart tightened, thinking that something was showing her feet, she hurriedly smiled and said: "Your Majesty, can you see that child? It really is of royal blood, it looks like it was carved out of the same mold as Long Live. The concubines fell in love with him the moment they saw him."

Xiaozong laughed and said, "Is Aifei telling the truth?"

"Your Majesty shouldn't be suspicious of my concubine, because this concubine wants to discuss an important matter with your majesty!" The queen said angrily, "Your majesty is thinking, after all, nobleman Song is the biological mother of the fifth prince, and her child has been a good mother for all these years. Xiao Wu, suddenly you postponed the position with a single sentence, even if the child has no idea, Song Guiren is still wronged! The concubine wants to use this good opportunity to raise Song Guiren's position."

Xiaozong couldn't help nodding: "Don't tell me my concubine, I've forgotten about it. However, the precious person is pregnant. When she gives birth to the prince together, the two of you will be promoted to the throne together!"

"Your Majesty must not! Song Gui was promoted only after she was born with a dragon and a phoenix, and she has served in the palace for many years, and she has worked hard without merit. If she is called such a precious person again this time, the sisters may criticize her in the future. Concubine I'm not afraid of anything else, but the fifth prince is still young, and the child has the most delicate mind, so it would not be beautiful to have a separate birth with the brother in the belly of the precious man!"

"Then what does the queen mean?"

"Naturally, the honored person of the Song Dynasty should be conferred first, and when the precious person gives birth safely, the concubine will definitely make a lively and lively ceremony for the conferment of the Jin Dynasty for the younger sister Bao."

Xiaozong breathed a sigh of relief, and walked down to take the queen's hand: "My concubine is really a generation of virtuous queens who can think about me like this. Zhengde recognizes the ancestor and returns to the clan, and you need to worry about it. As for the nobleman of Song Dynasty, he is not busy. First tell her to take the princess to Qingqiu Pavilion to be with Liu Chongyi, from now on she will be the lord of the first palace, and she will be able to spend as much as Yuanfei and others."

The empress quickly agreed, seeing that Xiaozong's face was still kind, she tentatively asked: "Since the emperor wants to recognize the fifth prince, which sister is he going to raise under the lap of his sister?"

The queen covered her mouth and smiled: "Sister Yuanfei has been going to my palace diligently in recent days, and their Rongguo Mansion is also somewhat distantly related to the fifth prince's adoptive mother's home."

Xiaozong was immediately displeased: "Apart from Concubine Yuan, who else asked about this matter?"

"The younger sisters Zhou Guifei and Wu Guifei also have such intentions, but they are timid and only say that in front of their concubines." The queen carefully scrutinized Xiaozong's expression, trying to guess which person Xiaozong liked more, So that you can take advantage of the opportunity to do it yourself.

"What's your idea, Concubine Ai?"

The empress naturally had her own ideas. She was too stupid before, thinking that Xiaozong would at least give the Fourth Prince a high regard because of their years of love as husband and wife.But in fact, not only did the emperor not have more father-son affection for the fourth prince, but he felt that the fourth prince's frail body did not look like a royal descendant.

If Duke Guoan hadn't asked his mother to secretly send him the "Biography of Liang Yi", the queen would not have rushed to find Xiaozong.

"The concubine said, long live don't worry too much. The fourth prince is too thin, so the concubine hopes that there will be more brothers around him, so that he will be less lonely. In the future, the brothers will be united and share the worries of your majesty."

Xiaozong smiled and looked at his humble wife: "I heard that the queen is reading "Liang Yi Biography" recently?"

The queen was shocked, but Xiaozong was in a good mood: "The queen has never read such idle books. The books written by charlatans are simply pedantic. I should have asked people to ban this book a long time ago. The queen should pay more attention to the inner palace. The princesses have also reached the age to discuss marriage, even the First Prince can't delay any longer."

The queen responded embarrassingly and withdrew.Xiaozong slowly put away his smile, walked outside the hall, watched the queen's phoenix chariot go further and further away gloomyly, then turned and entered the apse.

Zhengde held a honeydew melon and gnawed it, while Dai Quan served him with a smile. When the latter saw Xiaozong coming in, he hurriedly asked for his greetings. Xiaozong quickly waved his hand at him, signaling Dai Quan not to speak.

Zhengde didn't notice that there was one more person in the inner hall, so he just said to Dai Quan, "This melon is not as sweet as our Zhuangzi's. It's the hottest time of the year, and my sister would order us to eat it with crushed ice and juice. I can eat three big bowls." !"

Xiaozong was very happy in his heart. This kid, with a tiger head and a tiger brain, eats more, grows stronger, and is better than those bastards.

Dai Quan looked at Xiaozong's face, the old fritters immediately understood what the emperor was thinking, and said jokingly: "Then the young master will leave the recipe, the imperial chef in our palace is not bad, from now on, the young master wants to eat whatever you want Tell them to do it."

"Grandpa, don't always call me that, I feel sick all over." Zhengde took another mouthful, and said vaguely: "It takes a stick of incense to eat ice here. Our family calls With a loud voice, the little servant girl brought it right away. And your chef's skills are definitely not as good as our chef's! It was my sister who pried it from a century-old shop in Suzhou!"

Zhengde just spouts nonsense here!He had already noticed that someone was coming behind him, and saw that the great eunuch Dai Quan was so respectful, and he was telling his own words, so he made up his mind to make the other party feel embarrassed!

(End of this chapter)