Queen Sun

Chapter 3 The Imperial Palace
The empress was going out of the palace to recuperate, and such a big event immediately spread throughout the harem and the front court, and the palace people from top to bottom began to get busy in an orderly manner.And since entrusting all matters in the palace to Concubine Wei, the Lizheng Hall, where the empress lives, began to thank guests behind closed doors, saying that she was going to follow the doctor's advice of resting.

However, there are some people that the queen still has to see.On the evening before leaving the palace, Changsun Wuji entered the Lizheng Hall, had dinner with his younger sister, and returned to the palace after another hour.No one knows what the noble brothers and sisters talked about. Anyway, on the second day, at the end of the month, when the emperor and all officials held the "Zhongchao" in the Taiji Hall, the most noble of the Tang Dynasty The uncle of the country made a request to resign.

The emperor favored this wife-in-law very much, and had already decreed to promote him to the right servant, but he just gave up because of his wife's obstruction. How could he agree to his resignation this time?

But who would have expected that the eldest grandson Wuji would move out Gao Shilian, the uncle of himself and his younger sister.The grandchildren lost their father when they were young, and after being kicked out of the house together with their mother by their half-brothers, they were brought up by Gao Shilian until they got married. Not only did the nephew and uncle have a deep relationship, but even Li Shimin was courteous to this uncle.

Gao Shilian said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, your relatives are three princes, and those who suspect that the emperor is a private heir. Please think twice, Your Majesty."

The emperor felt very uncomfortable when he heard this, thinking that he and Wuji sat at the same table back then, and now they are not only divided into monarchs and ministers, but also friends. Even if you are close to the king of Xiangyi, you will not give it in vain; if you are talented, even if you have hatred like Wei Zheng, you will not abandon it. Husbands are bound by the love of younger brothers, and they are generous with their children. Is it not? Because it has both civil and military weapons, I therefore On the other hand, which one is not the same as the public?"

As soon as these words came out, Wei Zheng, who had already stepped out of his foot and was about to remonstrate, shrank back again, so he had to wait and see how the situation changed.

At this time, all the civil and military officials standing on both sides of the hall were unanimously silent, and anyone with a discerning eye could tell at a glance that this was the emperor's family business, so why bother to get into trouble.

Changsun Wuji saw that the emperor gave him such a big step down, but he still refused again and again, and vaguely revealed that the queen was seriously ill, he was eager to miss his sister, and had no intention of going to court.

The emperor thought about it for a while, and finally directly issued a Taoist decree, and moved Changsun Wuji to the position of the third division of Kaifu Yitong, and no further discussion was allowed.

After coming down to court, Changsun Wuji was proclaimed to an inner room of Liangyi Hall, followed by the servants. This quick-thinking uncle had already realized that his brother-in-law's anger was not light.If it was a normal day, the emperor would summon himself after the court, without exception, it would be in the Manna Hall, and if it was time for a meal, the monarch and his ministers would have a drink.Today, I'm afraid it won't work.

Sure enough, after entering the inner room, Changsun Wuji first knelt down to say hello, but unfortunately, the emperor didn't call out, so the uncle had to kneel for a long time facing his brother-in-law's back.

Until the emperor finally turned around, and coldly dropped the word "get up", followed by a sentence: "Today, what does the empress mean?"

Hearing this, Changsun Wuji immediately put back his standing posture, knelt down and replied: "Your Majesty, this time it's my own wish, not the empress's persuasion."

The emperor snorted coldly, in disbelief at all, "Yesterday, the queen summoned you for today's business. You brothers and sisters have the closest relationship. She herself set off for Biezhuang early this morning, thinking that I would Is there anything you can do about it?"

Hearing this, Changsun Wuji felt something strange, why did it seem to have a sour smell.But he still replied with a straight face: "I don't dare, the queen discussed something with the minister yesterday, I wonder if His Majesty will allow it?"

"Is there anything I don't want to say about what the queen said?" The emperor's tone seemed to become more and more awkward.

"The empress said that when her soul was between yin and yang that day, she seemed to have returned to the old house of the eldest grandson's family when she was young. For this reason, she wanted me to go back to Luoyang to see if the house survived the war. If it was abandoned, it would be fine. "

There was a moment of silence in the inner room, only to hear the emperor say: "During this year, I will go to the western suburbs of Chang'an to offer sacrifices, and your business is indispensable. If you are not in a hurry, next spring, I promise you to go back to Luoyang some time."

Changsun Wuji knew that there was no room for maneuver in this matter, so he thanked the emperor for his kindness, and when he was about to step down, he suddenly heard the emperor ask: "Wuji, do you still remember that day when Ruoshui was in a coma, he said Brother Liang? Do you recognize this man?"

"Yes, Wei Chen remembers, it was a playmate who lived in the neighborhood when my father was still alive, and later moved to my uncle's house and disappeared."

The emperor heard that his wife's uncle's tone was not shaky at all, and there was nothing wrong with his answer, so he felt relieved and waved him back.

It was late at this time, Li Shimin waved back the lunch sent by Concubine Shu, and walked to his bedroom alone.When passing the Lizheng Palace, I walked in involuntarily, and found that apart from the smell of medicine in the air, the palace of the most noble woman in the world was also empty, and there was not even a trace of the empress living here.

Ruoshui, Ruoshui, he silently read his wife's name in his heart, but found that he couldn't grasp anything. At this moment, he thought of the quarrel with his wife here a few days ago, which seemed to be the first time in his memory.Originally it was just a rebuttal between the emperor and empress, but when he heard that sentence - "Instead of degrading the rank of the fourth concubine to complete the Yang family, then abolish my post and let her be the empress", his Hand, he waved to his wife involuntarily, and then watched her wandering between life and death.

It is clear in his heart, no matter how much he loves a woman, it is just love, but for Ruoshui, Li Shimin began to be confused. He found that he could not see clearly the queen who stood with him on the top of the Tang Dynasty, no, or rather, He could understand her as the princess of Qin, the princess, and even the queen, but he couldn't understand her as his wife.

Since the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, neither the current Supreme Emperor nor His Majesty, who has just been enthroned for more than a year, has paid too much attention to the construction of the palace due to the waste and waiting for the new.Therefore, the imperial palace in Chang'an City is only the Taiji Palace, which was called Daxing Palace in the Sui Dynasty.

Taiji Palace is actually the general name of Taiji Palace, East Palace and Yeting Palace, located in the northernmost part of the center of Chang'an City in Tang Dynasty.The main building in the palace adopts the principle of "residence at the front and sleeping at the back", with Zhuming Gate, Suzhang Gate, Qianhua Gate and other palace wall gates as boundaries, and divides the palace into two parts: "Front Dynasty" and "Inner Court". part.The areas outside Zhuming Gate and Qianhua Gate belong to the "Former Dynasty", while those inside belong to the "Inner Court".

In addition to the Liangyi Hall in the inner court, which was used by the emperor and ministers to discuss court affairs, the remaining palaces were used for the emperor's study, living, and daily life, as well as the residence of the empress and concubines.Among these palaces, two are the most important. One is the emperor’s bedroom—the Ganlu Hall, where the emperor reads memorials, reads, eats, and summons his concubines to sleep every day; the other is the queen’s residence— —The Lizheng Palace naturally has the potential of mothering the world.

In the evening, Li Shimin finished reviewing the memorials for the day.Zheng Ji, the chief servant, handed over the concubine's name tag in due course for the emperor to choose.

The emperor glanced at him and said, "Go and call Mrs. Yang."

Zheng Ji was startled for a moment, then ran out to be summoned.

The waiter's hesitation was naturally noticed by Li Shimin, but he couldn't tell whether it was because he had a bellyful of evil fire in his heart, or for some other reason, but he still called Mrs. Yang.

It didn't take long for the emperor to see this charming woman on his dragon bed, only wrapped in a thin layer of silk, and she was about to kneel down to him.Li Shimin grabbed her hand, tore off the silk and satin, dropped the silk curtain, and leaned over to press it.After a while, only the woman's extremely sweet moans could be heard in the bedroom.

After a long time, Li Shimin let go of his hands and lay flat on the bed, showing no sign of fatigue.A pair of slender hands restlessly climbed onto his chest, but he didn't move, he just said: "Go down."

Yang Qian withdrew her hand knowingly, but she said, "Your Majesty is in a bad mood today? Is the thing you promised to be a concubine not long ago going to happen?"

Suddenly the air in the curtain became cold, Li Shimin gave the woman beside him a very stern look, but did not speak.

Yang Qian was trembling slightly from this gaze, she quickly got out of bed and was sent away from Ganlu Hall.

Li Shimin was lying on the bed alone, as if a fire was burning in his heart, and the vent just now was useless.It is not without consideration that she wants to make Yang Qian a concubine. This woman is charming and courageous enough. When Yang Qian walked barefoot from the blood-soaked ground when killing King Qi's entire residence, it was at that moment that she was raped. Bewitched, so regardless of any ethical principles, he was often taken into the palace, and he seems a little tired of pampering him to this day.There are three thousand beauties in the harem, although my own harem is not so many, but there are all kinds of beauties, and there are many beautiful women like Concubine Shu and Concubine Yin, or strange women like Wei Gui who are not inferior to men, Or maybe he is better than Zhuo Wenjun like Concubine Yan.He couldn't help showing a wry smile, but it's a pity that those women's eyes, faces, and even bodies couldn't quench his heart's thirst for a long time, so getting bored came so easily.

As the eldest grandson Ruoshui, the name of his wife appeared in Li Shimin's mind again. He knew that his queen was the most virtuous woman in the world, and even Wei Zheng couldn't pick out some mistakes in her.They have lived together for fourteen years, from the young but calm girl on their wedding night to the perfect queen today, they have experienced both danger and glory together.Her eyes are always like a deep pool, clear but bottomless, and people can't help but want to sink into it, but whenever I stand with her, my heroism becomes childish, and my rare indulgence becomes An unforgivable act of immorality.

After Ming Junxian, I am afraid it will be their shackles for the rest of their lives.

In the harem at this moment, how many women who are sleeping alone are tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep, even the empress' life and death can't stop the emperor from loving Yang, even if they are gnashing their teeth with hatred, what should they do?
Anle Palace.Concubine Wei sat on her knees in the inner room brightly lit by candlelight, looking at the harem account book that had just been delivered. In the next six months, the food and clothing expenses of the harem concubines will be controlled by her.At this time, a court lady came to report that Concubine De wanted to see her.

Wei Gui nodded impatiently, indicating that he understood.

Before I saw him, I heard his voice first, Concubine Yinde's clear voice came in first: "Sister Wei, it's so late, it's really hard for you."

For some reason, the same "Sister Wei" yelled from the Queen's mouth was very kind, but it was always ironic when yelled from Concubine Yin's mouth. "Why can't I take care of what the empress entrusted to me?"

Yin Mo'er continued to laugh nonchalantly: "My sister is really calm, who doesn't know that the empress just left the palace today, and His Majesty called Yang's servant to bed at this moment, tomorrow, I don't have the face to see that bitch woman."

Concubine Wei frowned, and replied: "I can't do anything about it, you can talk to His Majesty yourself."

"Sister, it's fine if I'm alone, Mrs. Yang's arrogant look obviously doesn't take the four of us seriously." Yin Mo'er challenged her step by step.

"Don't forget, Concubine De. If it wasn't for the queen this time, the Yang family would have an official status now, but I don't know whose position it will be." Now she is in charge of the post of empress, but how many pairs of eyes are staring at her overtly and secretly, no, today, she can't hold back and stirs up the flames.

Seeing that she didn't get any benefits from Concubine Wei Gui, Yin Mo'er became disapproving in her tone: "Sister, do you want to be as magnanimous as the empress?" Originally, she didn't like Concubine Wei at all, she was just married once before A woman, her rank is actually higher than her own.

After Wei Guifei heard about it, she didn't look very good, so she just replied: "It's getting late, Concubine De should go back to the palace to rest first."

Yin Mo'er was already somewhat arrogant, so she turned around and left with the maid, leaving only one sentence: "I'll go."

After a while, Wei Gui put down the ledger, put on some clothes and went out. Everyone said it was a long night, but the night in the palace seemed even longer.

(End of this chapter)