Queen Sun

Chapter 46 Poisonous Oath
In the huge Taiji Palace, Princess Li Lian of Gaoyang is considered a special princess. Her mother and concubine status are lowly, but she became pregnant after being favored by the emperor once after drinking.In the fifth year of Zhenguan, because of the immorality of Concubine Yin involved in her birth, the always magnanimous queen was furious, and also made her, an ordinary concubine princess, be adopted by Concubine Wei.The residence, wet nurse, court lady, everything is almost the same as the adoptive mother's biological daughter Princess Linchuan's preferential treatment caused the fate of this three-year-old little princess to undergo earth-shattering changes when she was born.Living in the palace can make a young child be quite good at observing words and expressions, or have a sensitivity beyond his peers, Li Lian is like this.

In the past, even though she was not a direct princess, her adoptive mother had a high status in the palace, second only to the queen.Therefore, whenever that tall and heroic father came to visit his mother and concubine, he would always hold her in his arms. At this time, she could even feel the eyes of the surrounding royal sisters and brothers looking at her with envy. And jealousy, and for a long time afterwards, she was also able to get the love and favor of her mother and concubine like the ten emperors.

But since the empress gave birth to Princess Jinyang and the fifteenth prince, even though she obediently followed her mother and concubine every day, she never saw the shadow of her father again.On this day, when I was dressed up by the palace maid and came to the queen's palace with my mother and concubine and the tenth brother, the hearty laughter of my father finally rang in my ears again, but only with my mother and concubine hugging me. When her hands were tightly clenched, Li Lian immediately understood the pain from the nails digging deep into her arms, and the father and emperor at this moment were not the appearance that the mother and concubine had hoped for wholeheartedly.

And when the father lifted up the little queen with a look that he had never seen before, Li Lian looked at the concubine mother timidly, that smile seemed to be frozen, without any change.

When she came out of the queen's palace, Li Lian was held by the maid and fell far behind the concubine mother.She was a little scared, looking at the gradually shrinking figure in front of her, she suddenly had a feeling of being abandoned.If, she thinks like this, if there is no queen, no newborn brother and sister, then it would be great, maybe she can see her father every day, and be hugged by her mother and concubine intimately every day.

"The imperial concubine must be feeling very uncomfortable, even if she brought Princess Gao Yang, she did not attract His Majesty's attention." The maid who brought Gao Yang said to the female companion beside her.

"The other party is the empress, who dares to compete with the empress in such a huge harem?"

"Empress." The palace lady said with longing, "You say it's not weird, and you say that the empress is the mother of the world, but every time I see the empress, I feel that she is not stained by the world."

"What's so strange about that, don't you know? The maids and servants in the palace have long been saying that the Empress is a goddess sent by God to end the troubled times and save the common people with His Majesty."

"Really? It's no wonder that although the queen's delivery was not smooth the first two times, she finally turned the corner."

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"Huh? Why is Her Royal Highness missing?" A court lady finally noticed something was wrong.

"Quick, look around, otherwise, we will be miserable."

But at this moment, the sullen Li Lian went somewhere, feeling dissatisfied, she was obviously a maid in the concubine's palace, but every time she talked about the queen, she was more respectful than concubine mother.She didn't have a very clear impression of the Queen, but she only remembered that she had never hugged herself. Strange, where is this place?Looking at the dilapidated palace in front of her, she walked up the steps strangely, the door was slightly open, and suddenly, the voice of the maid came from behind her ears.

"Princess, Your Royal Highness!"

"What to do, I've searched everywhere, ah, how did we get here?"

"Wu De Hall? Isn't it the palace that is said to be haunted? The princess will not come to such a remote place, let's go back to the original place and look for it."

Li Lian sneaked a peek from behind the door until the figure was gone. She wanted to leave here quickly, but there seemed to be a strange sound behind her.She walked inside curiously for a while, and entered an inner room like a ghost, surrounded by gray, but a piece of paper discarded by the door caught her attention, picked it up, opened it, It's a portrait of a woman.

The voice in the distance seemed to become clearer, and the young girl finally felt a little scared, and hurriedly followed the original path and ran out of Wude Hall.

After walking a few steps, "Lian'er, why are you here?" A soft voice called her.

Li Lian panicked, and immediately hid her hand holding the thin paper behind her back: "Concubine Xian, I can't find my way."

Concubine Xian covered her mouth and smiled, took out a silk handkerchief and gently wiped Gao Yang's forehead: "Lian'er, after you go back, you must not let your mother and concubine know that you have been to that palace. It's dusty."

Li Lian stretched out her hand unconsciously: "Ah, this..."

"What did you take?" Yang Rui unintentionally pulled out the piece of paper from her hand. In an instant, a sharp light flashed in her eyes, and she was stunned. Give it to me, remember not to tell anyone that you have been here after you go back, otherwise, your mother and concubine will punish you."

Li Lian looked at the paper tightly held in the hands of Concubine Xian, and suddenly felt that she seemed to have done a huge mistake, but she had to be led away from this strange corner by a strange maid in a daze.

As the sun set, the inner room of the Qing En Hall was eerily quiet, and there was a piece of yellowed paper lying flat on the table.Yang Rui stretched out her hand with an almost inconceivable gaze, and when she was about to touch the figure on the painting, she suddenly retracted it like a needle prick.It's her, it's really her, but where is this?And this handwriting, who wrote it?Why is this portrait in Li Yuanji's former residence?

Wude Hall?A trace of deep suspicion flashed across Yang Rui's face, suppressing a kind of ecstatic longing in her heart, she whispered to herself, with a trace of tragic ruthlessness in her voice: "Eldest grandson Ruoshui, I, Yang Rui, must watch it in my lifetime. Watching you being held hostage by the one who married you! Watching your beloved eldest son turn against his father! Watching the sons and daughters you care about turn against each other!"

The voice gradually died down, she raised her head in the dark, with a perfect smile on the corner of her mouth, "Ru'er," Yang Rui called out, "change my clothes for me."

The court lady Ru'er lowered her eyelids, walked in nonchalantly, glanced at a corner of the desk, and then hurriedly looked away.

"After a while, go to Yongning Palace with Bengong." Yang Rui said calmly.

Ru'er said in a low voice: "Yes, ma'am, concubine Shu sent someone to deliver cakes that are said to be newly made."

"Really?" Yang Rui narrowed her eyes slightly and said, "So, we have to give her a big gift."

That night, the lights of Yongning Palace flickered for a long time, and that night, two Zheng Yipin wives with the same surname sat in the same room in Zhenguan Harem Palace.At that time, no one knew what they were talking about, only when the closed door of the inner room was opened, Ru'er clearly saw the brilliance on her mother's face that she had never seen before, while Concubine Shu's face was like As pale as snow.

And after many years, when she walked out of the heavy palace gate, she already understood that the completely opposite expressions on the faces of the two women that day were from the same person, the name that may no longer appear now.

Cold dew in September, light snow in October, after that is the season of heavy snow.

As the winter solstice approached, the sky began to get chilly again. Apart from the Liangyi Hall where the emperor handled the government affairs, the Lizheng Hall was the warmest in the entire Tai Chi Palace.The queen is afraid of the cold, and Princess Jinyang and the fifteenth prince are too young, so the stove in the inner room is always burning hot. Whenever Li Shimin comes in, he is always so hot that his forehead is sweating, and he hastily took off his coat .

Ruoshui looked at him with a smile on his face as he kissed the two more rounded children, then handed him a cup of hot tea and said, "Second brother, what troublesome things have happened recently?"

Li Shimin took a sip, and said with a low voice and a smile: "Yesterday, I asked Wen Yanbo to draw up a copy of the paper himself. At the court meeting today, some people would naturally jump up and refute, but Wei Zheng didn't say anything this time. I'm going to do something." It's much easier to handle."

Ruoshui laughed, thinking that Li Shimin really hated and loved Wei Zheng at the same time: "Could it be that Mr. Wei has to refute every order of the second brother?"

"That's not true." Li Shimin stretched his legs leisurely, "But the content this time, I thought Wei Zhengding was going to die."

"What is it about?" Ruoshui asked curiously, holding his son who was pulling his hair in his arms.

Li Shimin took his son lovingly, and said casually, "It's just a copy of Ren Wuji being Sikong."

Ruoshui was slightly startled: "Sikong? That's one of the three men."

"It's just a false job." Li Shimin lowered his head and teased his son, "I want to give Wuji Zhongshuling or the left and right servants a seat, but you must disagree, so forget it."

If the water is smiling, Sangong was originally the highest official position in the temple, but since the Sui Dynasty, it has been turned into a noble and vacant position. Such a noble position does not have the high position of concentrating power and seeking personal gain. Changsun Wuji should not refuse it.

Seeing that Ruoshui had no objection, Li Shimin jokingly mentioned that he responded to those courtiers who objected, saying, if I regard Wuji as the love of the queen's elder brother, I should give more gold and silk to her children, why should I appoint important officials? Its talents are good.

Ruoshui nodded slightly and said: "Second brother is reasonable, so Mr. Wei naturally has nothing to refute, but why did you suddenly mention brother's official position?"

"You really don't know?" Li Shimin stared at his wife for a while, then said dumbly, "Yaoer's husband's family is also your mother's family, so naturally you can't lose your face."

"Yaoer?" Ruoshui called out in surprise, "She fell in love with Changsun Chong?"

Li Shimin looked at his wife's rare eclipse, and couldn't help chuckling: "Is that so strange? A few months ago, she came to ask me to leave the palace at any time, and often went to Wuji's house to look for Chong'er .Oh, by the way, she told me to keep it a secret from you at first."

Ruoshui frowned angrily and smiled bitterly: "It's really my fault that I haven't spared time to take care of her recently, and my second brother even accompanied my daughter to fool me."

Li Shimin smiled and put the last son next to his si son, took his wife's hand and said, "Yao'er told me that you don't seem to want her to be with her cousin so much, so tell me to keep it from you. Two days ago, Wuji came to propose marriage to me, I asked Yao'er before he agreed, and before the end of the year, the marriage will be arranged."

"It turns out that I was the only one kept in the dark." Ruoshui shook his head and said, "Forget it, originally I was just afraid that the two of them were too close in blood, but as long as Yao'er likes it, I don't disagree with it." reason."

Li Shimin smiled softly and said: "Yao'er is going to marry as the eldest princess, so we naturally have to make a big deal, I'm afraid it's just that time is tight."

Ruoshui raised his eyebrows and reminded: "Second brother, Yao'er's dowry share, you have to follow the etiquette system, don't go too far."

"It doesn't matter, Yao'er is our beloved daughter, even if the dowry is more, it is common sense." Li Shimin didn't listen to Ruoshui's polite persuasion at all.

Ruoshui smiled and said nothing, thinking to himself, this time, the officials in the court could see their valiant majesty being furious by Wei Zheng's admonishment, and then had to bow his head to admit his mistake and reward his courtiers generously.

(End of this chapter)