National Beauty

Continued to pretend to be sick for a few days. On the fifth day of returning to Beijing, Song Jianing and Zhao Heng brought a pair of children into the palace together to visit Emperor Xuande.

Emperor Xuande was still taking medicine, but he was able to serve as a councilor. For Song Jianing's daughter-in-law, Emperor Xuande’s deepest impression was that she was beautiful and plump. The dissatisfaction aroused by the imperial concubine disappeared, and she encouraged Song Jianing with her cute and well-behaved Zhaozhao.

After seeing the emperor's father-in-law, Zhao Heng stayed in the Chongzheng Hall to accompany Emperor Xuande on politics. Song Jianing took the children to greet Queen Li and Concubine Shu.

Empress Li still spoke softly and kept her face, Song Jianing was polite and came out after staying in the central palace for two quarters of an hour. On the side of Concubine Shu, Song Jianing already knew that Concubine Shu had helped her block the two beauties. She thanked her sincerely. Concubine Shu took her hand and said intimately: "It's all a family, what are you polite to aunt?"

Song Jianing smiled and nodded.

Concubine Shu ordered the palace people to make cakes that Zhaozhao loved to eat. Zhaozhao accompanied You brother to play on the warm couch. Concubine Shu looked at the two children, one big and one small. Somehow, she suddenly thought of a dozen years ago. At that time, Ting Fang and Duan Hui were crawling and playing on the couch, and his nephew Guo Xiao was older and stood in front of the couch sensibly, preventing his sisters from crawling down.

The past is vivid, and Concubine Shu began to feel sad and sighed with Song Jianing in a low voice: "When I saw brother Zhao Zhaoyou, I thought of Pingzhang and the others when they were young."

Song Jianing smiled slightly when she heard Guo Xiao's words, and when she saw that Concubine Shu was sad, she comforted her softly.

Concubine Shu wiped the corners of her eyes, Qiang Yan said with a smile: "Don't mention it, don't mention it, but my aunt has something to ask An An for help."

Song Jianing respectfully said, "Auntie, you say."

Concubine Shu sighed: "It's been a year, but Duanhui still refuses to go out. The emperor was sick and she went into the palace a few times. Once the emperor recovered, she locked herself up again. An'an, my aunt is in the palace. It’s inconvenient to walk. You see that your body is well developed. If you have time, you can go to see Duanhui and unravel her? Pingzhang’s accident, I also feel distressed, but Duanhui is only eighteen years old. How can you be alone in the future? Row?"

Song Jianing was in a complicated mood. Guo Xiao robbed her and separated her from her family. If she could, she didn't want to mention Guo Xiao's name again in her life. She really went to the princess's mansion and saw Princess Duanhui. Can she not talk about Guo Xiao? It should be said that among all the relatives of Princess Duanhui, she is the least suitable to persuade.

But in the face of Concubine Shu's sad and worried gaze, Song Jianing couldn't refuse.

"Well, let me try, but the princess and me..." Song Jianing smiled bitterly, she wanted to help, Princess Duanhui might not appreciate it.

Concubine Shu also took her luck. She looked at the two children on the couch and said: "Take Brother Zhao Zhaoyou, it's lively, Duanhui is inherently fun, and may be shaken."

Song Jianing nodded.

Back to the palace, the nurse led the children to play, Song Jianing walked to Zhao Heng with tea and raised the matter softly.

Zhao Heng didn't think about it, and said directly: "Send someone to give gifts, you don't have to go."

Song Jianing hesitated: "The empress..." Concubine Shu helped her anyway. The prince didn’t care. Song Jianing was very grateful. Otherwise, if the prince didn’t touch it, there would be two of them. The concubine or concubine's room was there, and she panicked.

Zhao Heng beckoned to her.

Song Jianing got up and walked up suspiciously.

Zhao Heng hugged the person on his lap, looked at her thin face and said, "You will only get scolded if you go."

Song Jianing didn't believe it, and Princess Duanhui was stubborn, she was entrusted by Concubine Shu to show her good, and Princess Duanhui would not come up and scold her.

Zhao Heng kissed her pretty nose, smiled and said, "You'll know in a few days."

Song Jianing became more confused.

Zhao Heng didn't explain any more, and said: "Change clothes and go to the government office." The wife and mother-in-law were very worried about her. Now that they are back, they should go and meet.

When he mentioned returning to her family, Song Jianing immediately left Princess Duanhui behind.

The two residences were next to each other, and it didn't take long before Song Jianing got into the arms of his mother Lin. Lin was so distressed that the daughter was so thin. Of course, she also trained her daughter for a long time. Song Jianing pretended to be a fool and passed it because she didn't want her to see her face. Turning to Mrs. Tai, Mrs. Tai touched her little granddaughter's hair, examined it carefully, and asked meaningfully: "How is everything with the prince?"

Song Jianing trembled and looked at Mrs. Tai nervously, who only smiled lovingly.

Song Jianing was a little overwhelmed, and said with a guilty conscience: "Very good, the prince told me to eat more and bring it back earlier, so I don't think I have a rash."

The husband and wife are in love, and the wife is relieved, and she will not ask about the past, and smiled and teased Zhao Zhaoyou brother.

The three masters of the Guogong Mansion are all working in the government office. The twins in the second room were thrown into the army by Guo Boyan for training. Zhao Heng did not need an adult to entertain him. Visit the National Palace. Brother Maoer is nine years old this year and likes to practice martial arts. Since I heard that my brother-in-law has repeatedly made military exploits in the frontier, Brother Mao can admire my brother-in-law and is excited to ask about the situation in the military.

In fact, Brother Mao and Guo Xiao look a bit similar, and both follow Guo Boyan, but on appearance alone, it is difficult for Zhao Heng to like Brother Mao, but who made this child her brother? Zhao Heng could only open his mind and warn himself not to anger his innocent brother-in-law because of Guo Xiao.

Zhao Heng personally mentioned the bow and arrow of Brother Mao. After practicing for a while, Zhao Zhao left his brother and ran over, wanting to play with his uncle. Brother Mao loves his niece the most, and is happy to accompany his niece to see flowers and catch butterflies. Zhao Heng stood on the outside of the garden with his hands on his shoulders, watching and watching, and suddenly noticed that when his daughter ran forward rashly, Brother Mao was careful and ran a few steps quickly to help Zhaozhao push away a branch of rose flowers sticking out obliquely. .

"There are thorns on it." Brother Mao reminded his niece, holding a flower branch.

"That flower is pretty!" Zhao Zhao just looked forward, blushing as he ran.

Brother Mao took the initiative to pick the flowers for his niece, but no one took the trivial matter to his heart.

Zhao Heng remembered the bulging red envelopes that Brother Mao gave to his daughter on New Year's Day in the past few years. It was the New Year's Eve money that his uncle gave to his niece.

"Look, father, uncle picked it for me!" Zhaozhao ran over with a snow-white rose, showing off the new flower to his father.

This rose is indeed blooming well, it is as big as a sea bowl, the petals are white and delicate, and the fragrance of flowers is tangy. Zhao Heng smiled and praised, then touched Brother Mao's head.

Brother Mao didn't know what Wang Ye's brother-in-law was thinking, so he didn't have the heart to accompany his niece to find his sister to show off the rose flowers.

The Shouwang family stayed at the Guogong Mansion until the evening.

When Guo Boyan came back, Song Jianing rushed to the front yard to meet him. Zhao Heng concealed a lot from her, so Song Jianing didn't know that Guo Boyan had known that she had disappeared.

"My father is worried." Song Jianing said respectfully.

Guo Boyan didn't look at his daughter, he didn't look at him, and he lowered his eyes and said: "It's good for the princess to recover. Madam and your mother are both in a hurry."

Song Jianing lowered his head slightly.

Zhao Heng motioned her to say goodbye to Mrs. Tai and Lin. Song Jianing guessed that the prince had something to say to his stepfather, and retired.

Fu Gonggong and Guo Boyan's cronies also retreated outside the hall, and no one was allowed to approach them.

Guo Boyan has been on the battlefield for many years, not afraid of powerful enemies or swords. At this moment, Zhao Heng is just sitting on the chair of the master and slowly drinking tea, and Guo Boyan has a thin layer of sweat on his palms. Does the prince have any conclusive evidence to prove that the person who robbed his daughter was his Pingzhang? Did the prince kill Pingzhang? Will the prince ask the government to make amends?

Probably not, An An is so favored, how can the prince bear the heart to provoke Lin and Mao?

But that is the prince, how can ordinary people predict that the nobles of the heavenly family will act?

He is like standing on the edge of a cliff, and the king can control the lives of everyone in the Guo family with just a word.

"The elder son has passed away for a long time, and the Duke is preparing, when will you seal it for another establishment?" Putting down the tea bowl, Zhao Heng asked calmly, looking at the outside of the hall.

It was as if Guo Boyan saw that a series of huge rocks suddenly emerged from the bottom of the cliff, instantly filling the cliff under his feet.

"It was a coincidence that the prince asked, the minister only discussed with his wife during the Dragon Boat Festival, and wanted to take advantage of Brother You to catch the Emperor Zhou on Longyan Dayue, please make Brother Mao the son of the world." Guo Boyan smiled, his expression returned to normal, in the end is immersion in officialdom The old fox for many years has nothing to do with his heart, so there is nothing to make him gloomy.

Zhao Heng nodded and said solemnly: "The princess is only this younger brother. I hope that the grandfather will bother to exercise strict discipline and refrain from negligence."

The muscles under Guo Boyan's eyes jumped impenetrably, and his anger raged all over his body silently. His Pingzhang is dead, and he has already tasted the consequences. What else does the prince want? In addition to being confused and paranoid in affair, Guo Boyan admits that his Pingzhang has nothing to criticize. Why does the prince want to insult him?

Thinking of the death of his son, Guo Boyan's anger went down again, turning into endless sadness and regret. The prince was right. He was negligent. As early as when he found that his son had that kind of thought for Anan, he should interrupt his leg and make him give up completely.

"The minister obeys." Close his eyes, Guo Boyan bends down and salutes.

Zhao Heng gave him a cold look and took his wife and children back to the palace.

That night, Guo Boyan sat alone in the front yard until midnight, before walking to the backyard to find his wife under the moonlight. Lin slept in a daze. Hearing the movement, she opened her eyes and saw her husband **** with his back to her, with broad shoulders, but faintly rickety. Lin rubbed his eyes and looked again. Her husband was back to normal again. He was still tall and strong like the year he first met.

"Why is it so late?" Lin sat up and watched him go to bed.

Guo Boyan leaned back against the bed, took his wife who had been with him for ten years in his arms, rubbed her long hair and said, "I heard some rumors in the daytime, which are related to the position of the son. I have thought about it carefully and waited for Brother You After the Catch Zhou banquet, I handed over the paper and asked the emperor Limao to be the son of the world, so that outsiders would chew the tongue."

Lin's body stiffened. After Guo Xiao died, she had heard some rumors. It was rumored that Guo Boyan wanted to set up brother Mao. Mrs. Tai was more biased towards the twins of the two chambers, but Lin knew very well that Mrs. Tai treated several grandchildren equally, perhaps even more biased towards the least partial Mao. Brother, no one mentions the matter of enshrining the son, because the Guo family has not forgotten the dead figure.

The Lin family can't forget, the stepson has only been away for a year, and she has never thought about those false names outside of her body.

"Brother Mao is still young..."

Lin wanted to say something, Guo Boyan pressed her soft lips, and interrupted in a low voice: "Needless to say, I know, it's just that Pingzhang is gone. Let's go on and make a decision soon. Good morning. Hearts of each room. I will write letters from Ting Fang, the child is the most sensible and won't mind."

Lin is in her throat and accepts it willingly, showing that she is ruthless. If she continues to decline, it will deepen the pain of her husband's bereavement.

She can only hold her husband tightly.

Guo Boyan held her hand. After a long time, his chest was raised and flattened, exhaling a long breath, with mixed feelings.

At the end of May, Brother You catches the week, and at the beginning of June, Guo Boyan really wrote a letter, asking Emperor Xuande to make his second son the first son of Guogongfu.

Brother Mao is his righteous aunt, with outstanding features and cleverness. Emperor Xuande swiped his pen and got it right.

When the news reached the palace, Song Jianing was shocked and unhappy, and a lingering complexity hovered in his heart. The elder son of the Guogong Palace, she had called the eldest son for seven years in the previous life and became her younger brother. She sighed with emotion in the two generations, the princess mansion, learned that his cousin's position was robbed by Brother Mao, Princess Duanhui was furious and rushed into the palace to find Emperor Xuande to make trouble.

How could Emperor Xuande have the feeling of being in charge of the elder son of the Guogong Mansion? Because his royal table was full of memorials from ministers asking for the crown prince.