Chapter 39
Zhao Sansi never understood what kind of love she liked Gu Xizhao. She asked these people around her several times, but when she spoke, she felt inexplicably ashamed and had to give up. But the more she couldn't figure it out, the more she wanted an answer.
It was so distressing.
Therefore, since sending Princess Mingzhao out of the palace, the people around her all day long had clearly felt the frown of the little emperor, especially Hua Rong, the person who was serving her around her. Seeing that she was in absent-minded in everything she did, she was scolded by the prime minister in the morning and by the grand tutor in the afternoon. She was anxious and a little distressed.
Seeing that the Grand Tutor was so angry that he left again, Hua Rong quietly walked out and said to Li Zhongxian with a frown: "Father-in-law, what's wrong with the emperor in the past two days?"
"You are always serving you, and you don't know, and our family doesn't know it." Li Zhongxian secretly glanced into the hall. The little emperor's mouth seemed to be a serious student, but his brows were as frowning as a bump, and his face was absent-minded. No wonder the Prime Minister and the Grand Tutor's faces have never looked good these days.
These days, the little emperor is not a good person, but he is too obedient.
As the saying goes, something abnormal will happen. The more this happens, Li Zhongxian is even more nervous. After thinking for a moment, he said, "The emperor doesn't like to enjoy it, so he lets you sisters serve you in person. What have you said to you in the past two days?"
"No." Hua Rong shook her head, "The emperor has never been a talkative person. She only said a few more words when she occasionally mentioned the concubine. Since she sent Princess Mingzhao's family out of the palace that day, the emperor has not even mentioned the concubine."
Li Zhongxian's heart skipped a beat, "Take it serious?"
Hua Rong nodded, looked inside again, and said close to Li Zhongxian: "I don't know what the emperor is thinking. My father-in-law doesn't know. When the emperor criticized the memorial today, he didn't say that the memorial was wrong, but he also painted a lot of ink dots on Lord Wang's memorials. This made the Prime Minister unconscious and threw teacups in front of the emperor in the hall."
Li Zhongxian didn't know what to say, and after a while, he said, "Then... the emperor isn't angry?"
Hua Rong shook her head, "Duang-in-law, when will the emperor be angry at us? I have been serving her by her for these days, and I only saw that the emperor was a little worried about the matter of the imperial concubine..."
Li Zhongxian deeply felt this and thought about it for a while, "After Princess Mingzhao left that day, you were serving in the hall, do you know what the Prime Minister and the Emperor said?"
"After the Prime Minister came that day, the emperor ordered me to serve tea. I don't know what else I said. When I went in again, I heard the Prime Minister advise the emperor that the emperor was still young and had seen few women, so I was easily fascinated... The specific ones I didn't know, probably these."
Li Zhongxian grinded his teeth secretly, "What was the emperor's reaction at that time?"
When he chased after him that day, Cai Jun was no longer visible. Later, he was plagued by some miscellaneous things, and the long-term plan had disappeared. Now it seems that this Cai Baozi had said something.
Hearing his tone of strangeness, Hua Rong couldn't help but look up at him, thought about it carefully before answering carefully: "I haven't paid much attention to it. Anyway, after the Prime Minister left, the emperor has always been like this distracted."
When Li Zhongxian heard this, he became more and more sure that Cai Jun said something that made Zhao Sansi scold Cai Jun thousands of times in his heart.
Seeing him pondering silently, Hua Rong was afraid that Li Zhongxian would blame her for not taking care of her carefully, so she took the initiative to say, "In the future, I will definitely be more attentive to serve the emperor. Now I am afraid that my father-in-law will help me think of a solution. The emperor's appetite has not been good these days. If this continues, I am afraid that..."
"Okay, you go in and serve first." Li Zhongxian interrupted her impatiently. Of course, he knew that the little emperor was not a solution to continue like this, but he couldn't come up with a useful method at the moment. "The emperor has been reading books there for so long. You send some snacks to help her relieve her fatigue."
Hua Rong bowed and went to bring the snacks in person. After trying it, she took them to the hall. Seeing that Zhao Sansi had been keeping the movements and was not moving. Although her mouth was studying, her eyes were blank and she didn't know where she was looking. She was afraid that she would be scared by the fire, so she called out from a distance, "Your Majesty..."
After shouting three times, Zhao Sansi came to his senses and quickly turned the page of the book in his hand. When he saw that it was Hua Rong, he felt relieved, "It's you."
"It's a servant." Huarong nodded, brought the pastry over, and twisted a piece with a handkerchief and handed it over, "Your Majesty, you've been reciting for half an hour."
Zhao Sansi rubbed her eyes. She had no appetite, but she had already delivered it to her hands. She still took it. She took a bite and felt sweet and a little bit greasy. She put it down again, "I'll give you these pastries, you sisters can take them to eat."
Huarong knelt down and thanked her, then put the pastry aside, poured her a cup of tea, and whispered: "The sun is already west. The emperor has been sitting in the hall for a day today, but he wants to go out for a walk? I heard that the Phalaenopsis in the Imperial Garden is blooming, bright red, and it looks very pleasant."
Zhao Sansi took a sip of tea, looked at the Analects of Confucius placed in front of him, and shook his head, "The Grand Tutor is so angry that I am...I can't anger him anymore. I have to memorize the next three chapters."
It is a good thing for the emperor to make progress.
Hua Rong pursed her lips and stopped persuading her, but looking at Zhao Sansi's little face, she felt a little distressed for no reason. After hesitating for a moment, she still plucked up her courage and said, "Your Majesty, have you...have you...what are you worried these days?"
Zhao Sansi looked at her and opened her mouth slightly, "How do you know..." Halfway through her speech, she lowered her head and said dejectedly: "No, no."
It's clear that there is.
Huarong knelt down, "I secretly figured out the holy intentions, I should die. But I am really worried about the emperor, and I am willing to share the worries for the emperor."
Although he is now the king of a country, Zhao Sansi is still not used to the etiquette of these people kneeling to him at any time. She grabbed her nose irritably, "Get up first, I haven't even figured it out yet. Let me think it out before talking."
Hua Rong thought she thought she was stupid and didn't think she could come up with any ideas, so she was unwilling to say more to herself. She secretly hated that she was useless. Somehow she thought of Gu Xizhao again, stood up and remained silent for a moment, and suggested in considerately: "The Imperial Concubine is the most intelligent. When the emperor encountered something he couldn't understand, he liked to discuss it with the Imperial Concubine..."
Zhao Sansi: "..." Her thoughts were all about the concubine. Did she ask her to say to the concubine in person: Concubine, I... Oh no, I deserve to die. I didn't treat you as my sister-in-law, but I actually wanted to marry you? Concubine quickly tell me what I like for you...
Just thinking about this, she felt ashamed to find a hole to drill down.
Seeing that Zhao Sansi lowered his eyes and said nothing, Hua Rong didn't dare to say much.
For a moment, the hall became quiet again.
After a while, Zhao Sansi's old-fashioned sigh came, "The imperial concubine can't help me with this matter now."
When talking about Gu Xizhao, Zhao Sansi was a little energetic, "By the way, Eunuch Li said before that the stay and departure of the concubines in the harem and the re-arrangement of the palace would be decided in three days. Now, has it been decided?"
"It's settled." Hua Rong nodded. In the past two days, she rarely asked about these things, so she said a few more words, "The late emperor was diligent and did not care about beauty. There were 38 people in the harem. There were fifteen who had not been included in Tong's history. Except for the noble Qing, who voluntarily stayed in the palace, the other fourteen chose to leave the palace. Now all the main halls in the harem will be vacant for you to place concubines. Therefore, except for the queen, these twenty-four masters, like the Yihua Palace of Concubine Yu, and the Changle Palace of Concubine Guixi, are vacant..."
"Where can't stay in Changle Palace?" Zhao Sansi became anxious when he heard this. As for the concubine Yu, she could go anywhere.
"The imperial concubine went to Ningpin's Mingxing Palace. Mingxing Palace was remote, and only two masters, Ningpin and Qing Guiren. Now my father-in-law arranged the imperial concubine and several other nobles who had been involved in the holy grace of the late emperor in Ningpin's palace. Yu Concubine arranged another palace." Knowing that Zhao Sansi had a good relationship with the Concubine Xi, Hua Rong also specially added: "Don't worry, the Ningpin and Qing Guiren of Mingxing Palace are the most obedient people. My father-in-law said hello again, and the Concubine will not suffer any loss."
"How wronged is the imperial concubine who lives in such a place?" Zhao Sansi was a little familiar with Mingxing Palace, because this palace was not much different from the Cedar Palace where she used to live. Her mother, who often bullied her, lived in Mingxing Palace during her lifetime.
Don’t think she doesn’t know that Ming Xing Palace was a cold palace when her father was not dead.
Hua Rong didn't know what to say. After all the concubines died in the emperor, except for the queen and a few concubines with offspring, who could spend their old age in the palace, either to guard the imperial tomb or to the Buddhist temple? Of course, those who were favored by the new emperor were not counted. How could the new emperor place all the concubines of the late emperor in the palace to spend their old age in the palace?
Besides, how could Mingxing Palace be wronged? It is a famous palace after all, but it is a little remote. In the past, the concubines did not have the blessing to live in such a palace.
However, Hua Rong would not tell the truth. "Although Ming Xing Palace is a bit remote, the palace is spacious, so it will definitely not be wronged by the imperial concubine."
Zhao Sansi decided that Ming Xinggong could not do it, that would not do it, "Go and call Li Zhongxian."
With his name and surname, it seems that he is getting angry.
Although Hua Rong was worried, she breathed a sigh of relief and would be angry, which means that the soul was still there. "Your Majesty, please calm down. I will send someone to call Eunuch Li here."
Li Zhongxian, who didn't know that he had made the little emperor angry, was arguing with Cai Jun at the Taihe Palace. He decided that Cai Jun said something to Zhao Sansi, so that the little emperor could not sleep or eat, Li Zhongxian saw the person and disappeared even the surface politeness. He pulled the person to a secluded place and pointed at his nose and scolded, "Okay, Cai Baozi, our family can trust you, so we discussed the matter with you, and you went to the emperor's ear to gossip."
Cai Jun was scolded by him for no reason. Zhao Sansi, who was beaten back to the candid state in the past two days, was so angry that he was dizzy, with a gloomy face as if he was about to drip water, "Are my father-in-law bitten by a mad dog today? If he is bitten by a mad dog, he will go to the imperial physician to prescribe some medicine earlier."
"You..." Li Zhongxian was too anxious and choked for a moment. Thinking that this would be the time for the court officials to leave the palace and go home. If he had a big argument with others, he would be embarrassed and endured it. "To be honest, did you pass all the things our family said to you that day to the emperor?"
"My father-in-law thinks everyone is like you and likes to be a parrot?" Cai Jun snorted coldly, shook Li Zhongxian and held his hand away. "I am just worried that the emperor will be urged by you and have some thoughts. I just tactfully persuaded the emperor. As for that Gu family, I have never mentioned a word."
"You mean you didn't mention Concubine Xi?" Li Zhongxian was stunned for a moment, and then a little disbelief, "Then why is the emperor so worried these days?"
"There is no Concubine Xi in the palace now, so my father-in-law should be more cautious." Cai Jun glanced at him and continued to snort coldly, "The emperor is now at a time when he is ignorant and easy to think too much. My father-in-law is not good at serving him carefully. He always thinks about useless things and does not urge some good things, but urges some insignificant things. Do you have the nerve to ask about the crime of the true nature?"
Li Zhongxian didn't give up, "Why did we hear that? It was only after the Prime Minister met the Emperor that day that day? The Prime Minister really didn't say anything wrong to the Emperor?"
"Is it not too much?" Cai Jun laughed angry at him. He looked at the sky and was too lazy to compete with him. Today is the birthday of his jealous wife. He promised to go back soon. "The emperor has been absent-minded these days, and he has seen it. But after asking, she didn't say that she will go to court tomorrow. If her father-in-law has this time to compete with her, it would be better to find the source of the emperor as soon as possible, so he would not say anything in the court, so that the minister would be laughed at."
Li Zhongxian looked at his expression and saw that his face was open and he didn't seem to be lying. He also saw that a little eunuch came over quickly, so he stopped bothering others.
"Master Li..." The little eunuch looked at him from afar and ran over immediately. Seeing Cai Jun also there, he hurriedly bowed again, and then whispered to Li Zhongxian: "Miss Huarong said, the emperor has something to ask you for trouble."
Cai Jun also heard it. Although he was a little curious about what was going on, he remembered the vinegar jar at home and had to pinch his eyebrows, "Mr. Li has something to do, so go and do it."
When Li Zhongxian heard the little emperor looking for him, he naturally rushed back and said hello to Cai Jun and ran to Chengqian Palace.
Hua Rong was waiting anxiously outside the hall. When she saw someone coming, she was barely relieved. She glanced inside and whispered to Li Zhongxian: "The emperor is angry about the imperial concubine's new palace. My father-in-law must be careful."
"..." Li Zhongxian thought it was a big deal, but when it came to Concubine Xi, it was not surprising that people would be so quarrel. Like the flower-like appearance, they suddenly started to make trouble again when they saw that people suddenly started to make trouble again. Instead, he felt that he had made a very detailed arrangement for these concubines. "Why is the emperor angry about this?"
"The emperor suddenly asked about the arrangements of the first emperor and concubines, and I told them truthfully. The emperor felt that the imperial concubine and the other person were wronged and a little angry." Hua Rong quickly explained the story and urged, "The emperor has been waiting for his father-in-law, please go in quickly."
Li Zhongxian and Hua Rong said a few words of politeness before they went into the hall with caution. Zhao Sansi was still sitting behind the desk, very upright, with a stern face, obviously angry.
Li Zhongxian took a look and then knelt down quickly, "I'm here to see the emperor."
Zhao Sansi didn't ask him to get up, "Who asked you to arrange for the imperial concubine to go to Mingxing Palace?" As he said that, he felt that his words were not enough to express his anger and anger. He stood up and threw the book "The Analects of Confucius" on the table over, "You have eaten the heart and the leopard, and you have never asked me for your opinion, so you sent the imperial concubine to a place where you are?"
The book flew over and jumped to Li Zhongxian, which scared him and kowtowed him quickly, but his heart was as bitter as having been with Coptis chinensis. It was clear that the little emperor gave all the responsibility of these palace concubines to him. Why is he now just because he is brave enough to win the courage of the bear heart?
"The emperor calms down, the emperor calms down. The slave also sees that the emperor has been doing everything he has done. He has ordered all these things to be responsible for, so he makes his own decisions..."
Zhao Sansi then remembered that there seemed to be something like this. When Li Zhongxian came over to ask herself about the arrangements of the late emperor and concubines, she thought it was troublesome and waved her hand and entrusted it to Li Zhongxian, but...
For the sake of the imperial concubine, I cannot be weak, or I still bluff. "That's because I trust you and thought you could do these errands well. But when you look at you, you actually arranged for the imperial concubine to go to places... Changle Palace is big and luxurious, and only such a palace can be lived in for the imperial concubine."
Li Zhongxian complained, "Emperor... Emperor, Changle Palace has always been for... the favored concubines, and the imperial concubines will live there... it must be inappropriate."
"Why is it not suitable?" Zhao Sansi was confident, "Now I... my harem is empty. Is there a place where Changle Palace grows grass and mushrooms?"
It's simply - unreasonable.
Besides, how could this huge luxury palace grow grass and mushrooms empty? These palace people are just having lunch? Now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, at most three months, the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Internal Affairs will discuss the matter of appointing a queen to accept concubines. At that time, whether it is the Changning Palace, Changle Palace, or Yihua Palace, these palaces will be left for those who have entered the palace.
Seeing that Li Zhongxian stopped talking, Zhao Sansi thought he was in a disadvantage and his tone slowed down, "Where is the imperial concubine now?"
Li Zhongxian was unhappy and said tremblingly: "Ming Xing Palace."
Sure enough, Zhao Sansi's voice became angry again, "I saw that my father-in-law had a big objection to the imperial concubine, so I couldn't wait to drive people into the corner..."
"I'm wronged..." Tiandi Kejian, he was really sincere to the imperial concubine. When the other concubines moved to the new palace, he didn't help at all. He sent someone to send him to him personally.
Zhao Sansi sneered, "While it was still early, you were about to go and invite the imperial concubine back to Changle Palace. I will forgive you for your affairs today."
Li Zhongxian: “…”
The author has something to say:
Huh, life and death speed.
I really hope it's 48 hours a day.
Chapter completed!