National Beauty

Empress Li cried heartbroken, Feng Zheng returned to sympathy, but couldn't find any comforting words to say. Small injuries and small pains can be soothed, and before the pain of losing a child, any words appear pale and weak. Looking down, I caught a glimpse of Brother Cheng who opened his eyes for unknown reasons. He was either hungry or about to pee. Feng Zheng looked at Empress Li again. She pursed her lips and hugged her son as gently as possible.

Empress Li did not stop, turned around to wipe her tears.

Feng Zheng handed the adult brother to the nursing mother who was brought into the palace, and the nursing mother went to the side room to feed. Watching the nursing mother leave, Feng Zheng clenched his hand and returned to the warm couch. He saw that although Empress Li was still carrying her, the cry was gone, only the shoulders were trembling slightly, Feng Zheng sighed and ignored it. Certainly not, I can only say as much as possible: "If the queen doesn't dislike it, my daughter-in-law is willing to go to the palace to accompany you often."

In the huge palace, the concubine and the concubine have to fight for an emperor. Even if they are amiable on the surface, they will also dislike each other in their hearts. The emperor is also a diligent person. He can accompany Queen Li at most nights every day, and give half a month to other concubines in a month. Feng Zheng can understand Queen Li’s loneliness, and he can see that Queen Li likes her brother. Feng Zheng could only wait for the children to enter the palace a few more times to express his feelings.

Empress Li turned around unexpectedly, with tears in her eyes, and said in surprise: "Really?"

Feng Zheng smiled and nodded.

Empress Li immediately saw a smile on her face and happily took Feng Zheng's hand: "Actually, although we are mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, I am only three or four years older than you. You are the first to marry in. You wives, I am the closest to you. I have always treated you as a sister, and I don’t keep anything from you. Now that you pity me like this, I really don’t know how to thank you."

It’s true that the two are close in age, but Feng Zheng didn’t dare to arrogate. Empress Li felt uncomfortable at the moment, and for the time being, she forgot her identity. When the sadness passed, Empress Li’s dignity would definitely come back. , I’m a junior, so I should go to the palace more and do my filial piety behind my mother.”

However, when Queen Li said that she likes herself best, Feng Zheng believed it. After all, her mother-in-law was gone a long time ago, and Princess Rui and Princess Gong had to honor Concubine Wu and Concubine Hui. It is impossible for Queen Li to get close to those two. As for Song Jianing, two years after marrying, it is not as good as the love between her and Queen Li.

But Feng Zheng has never been proud of it. Even when Queen Li treated her close, she returned to her sincere heart.

"It's just that you have to take care of the prince, take care of your adult brother, and see how the prince spoils you, you will definitely be pregnant again after a while, how much leisure time you have to enter the palace to accompany me." Empress Li suddenly said again with her face. Her smile disappeared in a flash like a firework, and her self-pity sadness was restored again.

Feng Zheng was completely speechless. She was comforted as much as she could. It would be too fake to promise that she would enter the palace with a pregnant belly.

Empress Li suddenly thought of something, and looked at Feng Zheng with joy, "How about this? You leave Brother Sheng with me and I will take it for you, so that you don’t have to take care of the big one and the small one, both ends. hard."

Feng Zheng's heart shrank sharply. Just now he felt that Empress Li was pitiful, and was still trying to find some comforting words. At this time, when he met Empress Li's bright and excessive eyes, Feng Zheng only felt terrified, and the coldness instantly spread from the bottom of his heart to his whole body. The body was stiff, and the eldest son's lively and lovely face appeared in his mind. Feng Zheng instinctively refused to say: "My mother's kindness is my heart. It's just that Brother Sheng is too naughty, and my daughter-in-law dare not bother her."

While talking, he tried to withdraw the hand held by Queen Li.

Empress Li refused to let go, feeling Feng Zheng's quick cold hand, she couldn't bear it, but she really couldn't help it. She is lonely in the deep palace. She has the emperor's pampering right now, and she can survive it for the time being, but the emperor looks at getting older year after year, maybe she will go there anytime, she is only in her early twenties, if she can't take advantage of the emperor to spoil her At that time, I stayed with Brother Sheng, waiting for the emperor's death, waiting for the king of Chu or any prince to ascend the throne, and greet her with the long silence of the harem, empty with the honor of the empress dowager, without any real power.

It was Xuande's will to raise Brother Sheng, and the king of Chu could not take him away after he became king. He had to respect her for his son. Queen Li didn’t want much, and she had no ambitions for court affairs. She just wanted to have a clever child by her side to relieve her boredom. She just wanted to treat her as a person after the king of Chu became a king, and think of her for everything in the harem. Not an empty queen mother.

"Azheng, don't you know my situation? Don't say that Brother Sheng is well-behaved and sensible, even if he is really naughty and I can't ask for it, how can I feel hard?" Tears rolled down again, and Queen Li held tightly. Feng Zheng's hand choked and begged her: "Azheng, let Brother Sheng stay by my side, otherwise I really can't stand it anymore. I always hear Xiao Wu crying during the day, and Xiao Wu crying in his dreams at night. , My heart hurts to death..."

Feng Zheng also cried, and he forced her way off Queen Li's hand and knelt down in front of her, tears falling down like beads: "Fifth brother is gone, my sister-in-law is uncomfortable, but my daughter-in-law also asks the mother to be considerate and considerate to me, Brother Sheng The child was born after my hard work in October of pregnancy. If I don’t see my daughter-in-law for a while, I will worry about it. If it is handed over to the mother-in-law, the daughter-in-law..."

She couldn't make a sound of tears, she couldn't speak anymore, just knelt down and said, "Daughter-in-law begs her mother."

Looking at Feng Zheng, her daughter-in-law, Princess Chu, who was kneeling on the ground, Empress Li understood that she could not keep Brother Sheng by relying solely on the friendship between her mother-in-law and her daughter-in-law and Feng Zheng's kindness. The path of feelings is nowhere. Empress Li took a deep breath, raised her head and wiped her tears with her hands. When no new tears came out, she whispered: "Azheng, let me tell you a few truthful things. , I’ll just tell you this, you don’t have to tell anyone again, and the prince won’t do it either."

Feng Zheng raised his head in shock.

Empress Li patted the place next to her and looked straight at her and said: "Sit here, this matter has something to do with the prince. It is heard by others, and neither of you nor I can afford it."

If it’s a matter of the side, Feng Zheng would not listen to what Queen Li said. He would rather not know it, but it was related to his prince. Feng Zheng hesitated for a moment, and finally wiped his eyes, and sat down with Queen Li nervously. beside. She deliberately kept her distance. Empress Li took the initiative to move to her, knelt behind Feng Zheng, removed her bun, and then pretended to comb her hair for Feng Zheng, and said in a low voice while combing: "When the King Wuan went, Does the prince blame the emperor?"

Feng Zheng's heart was shaken. Others may not know that she is a person close to the king of Chu, so she naturally remembers clearly. On the night of the death of the king of Wu'an, the prince was still calm outside. When he came back, he began to complain about the emperor, and accused the emperor of killing Wu'an with red eyes. The county prince, if she pretended to have a fetal gas, and forced the prince to shut up, forcing the prince to promise that he would not murmur any more, the matter would reach the emperor's ears, and it would have caused some evil.

However, she thought it was perfect to hide it, and Empress Li actually knew? The emperor...

There was a chill in Feng Zheng's heart again, icy cold, more than worrying about his son being robbed.

"If there is nothing, please don't believe the villain to slander the queen mother." Feng Zheng reluctantly calmed down.

There was a chuckle of unknown meaning behind him, like a cat cry outside a window in the middle of the night, which was obviously very light, but panicking. Feng Zheng was uneasy and wanted to turn her head to look at Queen Li’s expression, but Queen Li held her long black and smooth hair and continued to comb it slowly, with a calm and soft voice: "Azheng, don’t worry, no one told me about the Lord’s. Bad things, I guessed it myself, you guessed it right or not, you know better than me. But, the emperor knows the prince better than I can guess. I don’t dare if the emperor has guessed it or sent someone to check it. promise."

Feng Zheng's cheeks were pale and could not help shaking.

Empress Li held her shoulders temporarily and glanced at Feng Zheng's pale face. She calmed down in time: "Don't be afraid, the emperor respects the prince the most. No one is wrong. The emperor will not neglect the prince for one or two complaints. The prince’s temper, the emperor only shot his cousin, and he complained. When the emperor dealt with the prince’s closest uncle..."

Feng Zheng was shocked and looked back at her in disbelief.

Empress Li didn’t say anything, but looked at Feng Zheng quietly. After all the shock in Feng Zheng’s eyes turned into fear, Empress Li glanced at the door of the inner hall, reminding him with a weak voice that Feng Zheng couldn’t hear too much. Said: "The emperor’s dragon chair was taken from his elder brother. The elder brother and the elder brother said, the emperor first issued this rule. Although the emperor did not say anything, there have always been rumors among the people. Even the prince himself thinks that the emperor will eventually Give the dragon chair to his uncle, right?"

Feng Zheng was shaking all over. Her good prince really thought so. The Emperor of the First Moon humiliated King Shou in the first place. In the night, the prince complained to her about how unfair the emperor was to King Shou. Then he mentioned the palace of King Shou in the outer city. He also said that when his uncle King Qin became the throne, he must ask his uncle to give another mansion to King Shou.

Feng Zheng felt that something was wrong at the time, and asked why King Qin was enthroned, and her prince said the truth that Queen Li had just said to her brother. Feng Zheng only wanted to live steadily with King Chu. Since King Chu did not have the ambition to be emperor, since King Chu said that Da Zhou was the last brother's rule, she believed it.

"Youzhou was defeated. Why did Yao Song and Lu Yun support Wu'an County King instead of Qin King? Because they didn't agree with the brothers and brothers, and felt that the throne should be passed down from father to son. Why was it just two courtiers who made false claims? Have to be suspicious of Wu'an County King, and...because he is the emperor, he cannot tolerate any instability in the throne, he will not even give his nephew, and will willingly pass the throne to his younger brother? One side is his own son, and the other is his younger brother, Azheng, What do you think the emperor will do?"

Feng Zheng didn't understand, and his mind seemed to pile up with layers of dark clouds, heavy. She didn't understand that the emperor was the emperor, the most powerful person in the world. Even if he wanted to pass on the throne to his son, just give it to him. Would the courtiers still dare to object? Why is Empress Li so sure that the emperor will deal with King Qin?

"People say it is terrible. The emperor must be concerned about the people in front of him, and how the people in the next tens of thousands of years will comment on him. If he wants his son to inherit the throne in a fair manner, he must first let his brother lose the support of the people and lose the inheritance. Qualifications for the throne." Empress Li held up Feng Zheng’s hair again, and dexterously helped Feng Zheng set his hair in a bun, and then leaned close to Feng Zheng’s ear and said quietly, “At that time, the prince will watch his uncle. Did you end up like the King of Wu'an?"

Feng Zheng felt cold all over. She knew King Chu too well. She respected King Qin more deeply than King Qin. His uncle and nephew felt like father and son. People like father and son had an accident. King Chu...

"If you are willing to hand over Brother Sheng to me, and I swear to take care of Brother Sheng as a grandson, then King Chu will be the same as my son. One day he will run into the emperor on impulse, and I will do my best. Plead for him in front of the emperor."

Speaking of this, no need to cover up, Empress Li supported Feng Zheng on the shoulders, and sincerely told her the pros and cons: "Azheng, we marry into the imperial family, each has its own difficulties, I will tell you the truth today, uncle emperor. There must be a catastrophe, and the prince will not stand by. It will be the time when the emperor is most annoying, and it is also the best time for others to fall into trouble. The emperor wants to pass the throne to his son, but he is not the only prince. Once the prince asks the emperor's Suspect, King Shou has a mouth problem, so only King Rui and King Gong are left. Regardless of who succeeds to the throne, how do you think they will treat the eldest brother who was once regarded as the prince by their father? In fact, your mothers will suffer as well."

Feng Zheng's face was as white as paper.

Queen Li squeezed her hand, her eyes were like torches: "As long as you give me Brother Sheng, I will desperately protect their father and son. Azheng, I am doing this with selfish intentions, but I really plan for your family. Go back and think about it, and then come to the palace after you understand it. If you are still unwilling in the end, I will never force you. In the future, if the prince has something to do, I will look at our affection and try my best to help. After all, Both of those two have a mother-in-law, so I just want to have a good relationship, but I'm just asking myself to be bored.

She kept talking, saying a lot of truth, Feng Zheng heard it, but was immersed in the threats and facts, unable to react.

Empress Li was not in a hurry, but reminded her again and again: "After you leave the palace, you will assume that I have not said anything. Don't let the prince know the clues, otherwise the prince will know that he will go to the palace to find me and make trouble. If you make a fuss, or simply ask the emperor, if that's the case, I and your family will be rejected by the emperor."

Feng Zheng regained his senses abruptly. She nodded in a complicated mood when she looked at Empress Li.

The more you care about a person, the less you will put it at risk. Empress Li believes that Feng Zheng is a smart person and has said everything. She smiled and patted Feng Zheng's little hands, and then returned to her caring and loving tone: "Look. You, I just thought that the poor little Wu in the dream couldn't help crying for a while, why are you crying harder than me? Hurry up and wash your face, lest the prince see it and think I bullied you."

Feng Zheng lowered his eyes and smiled reluctantly, but he knew in his heart that this was an excuse for Empress Li to send her off. Her expression was wrong, and she couldn't recover for a moment, and it was impossible to hide her from the prince. Empress Li even thought of this level, which shows the depth of her city mansion, I am afraid that she has been eyeing her brother Sheng for a long time.

It's just that the more you see through Empress Li's scheming, Feng Zheng becomes more worried, and only thinks that Empress Li's reminders are correct.

If so, one side is Brother Sheng, and the other is their family of four...

After receiving the warm towel handed over by the maid, Feng Zheng covered his face, as well as the new tears on his face. After washing her face for a full quarter of an hour, Feng Zheng turned back to the inner hall and saw Queen Li sitting cross-legged on the warm couch, holding her adult brother in his arms. Empress Li smiled softly, like a mother holding her own son to coax her, but Feng Zheng was like a poisonous snake. She felt cold all over her body. She tried her best to restrain her from walking and bowed her head and said, "I have been harassing my mother for so long, so let the queen rest. My daughter-in-law retire first."

Empress Li didn't force her to stay, she took a deep look at Feng Zheng and returned Cheng Cheng.

Feng Zheng was useless to pick up the nurse. He hugged his son in his own hand, and left the middle palace as if fleeing. He saw King Chu walking here with his eldest son halfway through. Brother Sheng, who is only three years old, sits straddling his father's shoulders, holding his father's head with both hands, and yelling at his mother happily. Feng Zheng's eyes were sore that he almost shed tears.

"Cry?" The family of four got close, and King Chu immediately saw that his wife was wrong.

Feng Zheng was bitter, and some words lingered on the tip of his tongue for a long time, and finally said: "The queen said she dreamed of the fifth brother, and I sounded uncomfortable."

King Chu knew that she was kind-hearted, and glanced at the direction of the palace, a little dissatisfied with Queen Li, and blamed Queen Li for making his wife sad.