Chapter 534
: What happened back then
Bai Xingyan's cold sweat had already wet his whole back. He suddenly realized that what Bai Heran said was the best solution.
He died, and the man from Nanjiao also died. All this was unproven. The Bai family was safe, and the revenge of the legitimate son was avenged back then.
And most importantly, he absolutely believed that Bai Heran could do such a thing, killing his father, and for others, the ten unforgivable sins did not seem to have any psychological burden for Bai Heran. After the child came back from Luocheng, all of them changed, and the affection between him and this child was also exhausted in the past ten years.
It is a relative who is ruthless, but only hates it forever.
A Ran, what else do you want to say, but after a moment of dizziness, you found that the daughter who was originally standing in front of you was missing. There was no Bai Heran's figure in the entire hall, and only a few palace servants standing far away were left.
His head exploded with a buzzing sound, and he ran out of the hall. As soon as he left the hall, he saw Bai Heran and Concubine Li Xian standing face to face. Concubine Li Xian is old, and now he can only barely tell the difference between his former charm.
Bai Xingyan hadn't seen this person for many years. It is rumored that more than 20 years ago, Emperor Tianhe favored the imperial concubine alone, and many concubines in the palace were treated coldly, even the current queen is the same.
But only Concubine Li Xian reacted the strongest. She vented all her anger on her children because of love and falling out of favor. She beat the fifth prince, whipped the needle and burned the gun, and almost everything was done. If the emperor had not rescued his son from Yihe Palace, he would have been beaten to death by his own mother sooner or later.
Everyone says that Concubine Li Xian is crazy, and some people say that Concubine Li Xian is sick. This disease lasted for more than 20 years, and soon he changed from a beautiful and charming concubine to an old woman with wrinkles and gray hair.
Although I looked carefully, the youthful look between my eyebrows was still there, but who would look at her so carefully? Everyone's nostalgia for the charming and amazing Concubine Li Xian was concentrated on the fifth prince. Because the fifth prince looked like his mother, like a fox, seductive, making both men and women unable to escape the fox smiled brilliantly.
Concubine Li was not the best-looking one back then, but it was the most difficult to refuse. Some people say that Concubine Xian didn’t care whether she laughed or not, as long as she stood there, your soul would be hooked unconsciously. It was a fox that became a spirit, and no one could escape the confusion of the vixen.
He Bai Xingyan could not escape either.
Bai Xingyan remembered it very clearly that the palace banquet was the New Year's banquet. At that time, he was not Duke Wen Guo, but because his father was ill, he did many things. And he squeezed into the court with his own knowledge and talents and became the backbone of the court. It was precisely this ability and courage that forced his father to pass on this title to him at the last moment.
He was only in his twenties that year, and he was young and energetic.
My father still didn't come to the New Year's Palace Banquet, but he was Bai Xingyan.
The Duke Wenguo Mansion has not been concerned about the government affairs since his grandfather's generation. Even the Tai Grandfather has been wandering on the edge of the court until his father's generation has completely distinguished his relationship with the court, and there is no longer the status of his Bai family in the court.
However, the Bai family still has ambitions and strives to improve. His father has expressed more than once that if one day the Bai family produces a good family, it will restore the glory of the Duke of Wenguo, and will make the Duke of Wenguo a world that no one dares to underestimate in Dongtai like the ancestors when they laid the foundation.
Bai Xingyan has been working hard for this goal. He has outstanding knowledge. He even left the scientific examination when he was 19 years old. He did not take any paths and needed any help. He just gave him the Tongsheng exam because his father was the title of Duke Wen Guo. He carried a book boy and carried a book basket. He started from his hometown Luocheng all the way. After the provincial examination, he finally went to Beijing to participate in the palace exam. Finally, he broke into the first class and picked Tanhua.
This is a great reputation in Shangdu City. After all, the descendants of the Marquis' Mansion have never taken the scientific examination, especially the hereditary Marquis' Mansion like the Bai family. The titles are inherited from generation to generation, and the descendants of the descendants do not need any effort to be able to have a wealth of wealth. Who is willing to endure this hardship?
But Bai Xingyan did not follow the ordinary path. He went to the imperial examination and won the Tanhua. Later, because the old man was not in good health, the emperor directly summoned him to the palace. Although he did not take up his post, Duke Wen was only ranked behind the left and right prime ministers in the court, which shows his status.
During those years, Bai Xingyan was very popular and everyone in Shangdu City praised this Tanhualang. In addition, the Bai family has good genes and a beautiful daughter, a handsome man. For a moment, the matchmaker broke the threshold just to tell Bai Xingyan a good marriage.
However, Bai Xingyan had a very high vision at the beginning and no one looked down on him. He thought that he would marry the best one and had to marry the one that was most useful to him for the Bai family. Otherwise, marrying would be a waste of his wife's position.
As for whether the person who comes into the family really likes it, that is not the key. If you don’t like your wife or a concubine, the wife is just used to consolidate the family lintel. The concubine should be a beautiful and charming woman who is sincere to him.
He came to choose a wife with such an idea, but unfortunately before he could choose, at the palace banquet that year, he met a woman who was as soul-stirring as a vixen. He could not take his eyes away after just one look, and his heart fell on the vixen with his eyes.
The person he saw was Concubine Li Xian. Concubine Li Xian was a few years older than him and had entered the palace as a wife. She naturally became more transparent about men and women. She also had a restless heart at the beginning, and she tasted a wonderful taste because she was favored. However, there were too many concubines in the harem, and Emperor Tianhe was not the kind of monarch who was greedy for women. She had a lot of government affairs and sometimes she had to take the imperial guards in person, which made the beautiful vixen woman even more dissatisfied.
At first, this dissatisfaction was just hidden in her heart. After all, the harem was so strict that she could see not many men, except for the guards and the imperial physicians, all of whom were from the emperor, so she dared not take action. But until that night when she saw Bai Xingyan, her active mind could no longer be hidden.
Bai Xingyan was young, handsome and energetic at the time, and was also a sensational figure in the capital. She had eavesdropped on the conversations of the palace maids several times, and everyone loved the eldest son of Duke Wen's mansion. Some palace maids even secretly agreed to him and secretly vowed that he would not marry, even if he was a slave.
Concubine Li Xian was not a concubine at that time, but was just a noble person. Her concubine was promoted after giving birth to the fifth prince.
Bai Xingyan was also obsessed with the wicked at that time. After all, the appearance of Li Xianfei's vixen is really not something that anyone can avoid if he says he can avoid it. In addition, after drinking some wine in the palace banquet that night, he followed the others in a confused manner under the fox eyes.
After several years of clouds and rain, he finally woke up. He was so scared that he almost fainted, but while he was afraid, he felt endless aftertaste of all kinds of things. Looking at Concubine Li Xian at that time, he was so beautiful and charming that he couldn't take his eyes away.
For a long time, Bai Xingyan had a nearly admiration for Concubine Li Xian. He was even upset that he had not met the woman earlier and how could he let that woman enter the palace? If she didn't enter the palace, how good would it be? He would definitely marry someone back to the mansion, give him all the best.
After that night, he was looking forward to meeting Li Xianfei again, and even when he entered the palace every day, he fantasized about where he could meet her by chance. Then she took herself back to her palace and continued her dream.
Unfortunately, I never met by chance. Instead, I heard the news that Concubine Li Xian was very favored. The emperor even summoned her to bed for several days, so that the empress advised the emperor to take care of the dragon body.
Bai Xingyan was very disappointed and jealous. That period of time was the darkest thing he had.
Later, from summer to autumn, and then to early winter, he heard that Concubine Li gave birth to the fifth son of the emperor. The emperor was happy and promoted to the throne of concubine and was also given the title of wise man. Bai Xingyan was not very good at that time, but he felt cold all over the body when he heard the news.
Because Concubine Li Xian gave birth prematurely, it was a full month ahead of the expected delivery period. If the delivery period is not premature, the day the child was pregnant was very consistent with the night of the palace banquet.
This thought made Bai Xingyan extremely frightened. In those days, he paid more attention to the movements in the palace. In less than ten days, the imperial physician who delivered Li Xianfei's childbirth had resigned from his post while sick and returned to his hometown to spend the rest of his life. He felt something was wrong at that time, so he sent his wife to secretly chase the imperial physician, but found that the imperial physician had just left the capital and was assassinated.
It is said that the reason why Concubine Li Xian gave birth prematurely was because the palace maid broke a plate and was shocked.
Bai Xingyan lived in deep fear for a long time, and in countless guesses about this child.
Fortunately, for several years, it was safe and nothing happened. The fifth prince grew up day by day, and it is said that he was born very much like Concubine Li Xian. He had a pair of fox eyes and was very beautiful.
But later, the imperial concubine was favored. Although Concubine Li Xian lost favor, she also lost favor, so she became crazy. Not only was she crazy, she also often abused and beat her biological son, tortured the little fifth prince into an undesirable form.
Later, he married Chunyu Lan, took on the beautiful concubine Hong, and took over the title of Duke of Wen Kingdom. His life was prosperous and he was very happy.
So I gradually forgot about that matter, and even deceived myself that the death of the imperial physician was just an accident, perhaps because he was killed by someone for money. After all, those who have been an imperial physician for the rest of their lives will definitely bring a lot of money when they return home.
In those years, he was also happy and happy. His wife was a beautiful concubine, and his wife was the princess of the Fan Kingdom. His brother was the heir to the throne promised by the king early in the morning, which was equivalent to giving him a backer of a whole small country. Not only was he Duke Wen of the Eastern Qin Dynasty, but he would also be the brother-in-law of the future King Gebu. Such a background can be regarded as a prominent sentence, and it was a glory that the Bai family had never had in the past few generations.
Chapter completed!