Chapter 362: The Empress Dowager Visits Jinyang Palace
"Miss Su, the prince is here." Ling'er saw Ximen Yi walking into the yard and whispered to Su Ran, and she had already stood up and waited respectfully.
Su Ran's paintings are much more keener than Ling'er. She has long discovered that she is just too lazy to pay attention to them.
Ximen Yi came over to signal Ling'er to go down. When Su Ranhua was left alone in the quiet courtyard, he walked to the stone table, glanced at the sachet in Su Ranhua's hand, frowned slightly, and gently retreated.
step.
"The fragrance of flowers is so irritating, and the prince can't stand it. It's a pity." Su Ranhua looked at the sachet in her hand. The colors of flowers were all embroidered by Ling'er. She just sewed her mouth together. She was not very interested in the needleworker.
"With a small sachet, do you really think I can't get close to you?" Ximen Yi said.
"I sewed the sachet for my child." Su Ran said. When she knew that Ximen Yi had mastered the conversation with Shufei, she knew that he was prepared to collect a large amount of pollen himself, otherwise she would not just sew.
A sachet is to spread the entire Nuanyuexuan with the fragrance of flowers.
"Although the mother told you to avoid suspicion, she would not object to me marrying you. As long as the mother spoke, the father would definitely agree." Ximen Yi said.
"Yes," Su Ranqing smiled disapprovingly, "The prince made a big statement that I was pregnant with a child for the prince. If the concubine Shu refused, she would be slapping the prince in the face, making the prince look ugly in front of everyone, so she would naturally speak for the prince.
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Ximen Yi was stunned. Unexpectedly, Su Ranhua would see through the ingenious relationship between him and Shufei for decades. Since childhood, although he did not dare to easily violate Shufei, he would have some small reluctance.
, If some things are revealed, Concubine Shu will not only not blame him, but will also follow him to help him complete the decision and hold the prince's face for him. Concubine Shu deeply understands that only by protecting her son can she be saved.
The status. Without the identity and power that Ximen Yi has, she is just a favorite concubine.
"So, are you going to be Princess Nan?" Ximen Yi asked with a smile with his lips raised.
"Princess Nan is hugging Yuexuan." Su Ranhua glanced at Ximen Yi and raised the sachet in her hand, "But I'm very curious, how could the emperor follow the Concubine Shu agree to this marriage? It's obvious that this is unintentional
The two sons in the middle provoked the estrangement between his two sons. Although the two kings in the north and the south fight against each other will help him sit on the dragon throne, if it goes too far, will it be too much for brothers to fight to the death? After all, you are all his sons
, it is necessary to use blood to protect his status? What's more, his position will be given to one of you a hundred years later."
"Yes, you also said that you want to give one of us, that one must be the strongest, otherwise how can you stand up in the end?" Ximen Yi said, "Maybe the father is just to choose the strongest one to take charge of the country."
"Is that right?" Su Ranhua raised her eyebrows and used the method of training a killer to choose her heir. The price was still high. Isn't the defeated prince his son? It's not good to keep them to assist the country together.
Is it? It is better to have the same surname than to use important officials from other surnames to take the risk of changing the court and changing surnames.
In Jinyang Palace, after hearing the ingenious explanation of Concubine Shu, Ximen Xianchu nodded and agreed, and wrote an imperial edict in hand, allowing Su Ranhua to marry the Southern King as his concubine.
After Shufei thanked her, she left with satisfaction. She liked this feeling. Although she was not the queen, the emperor obeyed her. Even though she knew that things were difficult, she would find a way to overcome them for her.
When the Southern King marrys the abandoned Princess of the Northern Kingdom, he will definitely be laughed at. Some people will stop him in the court. However, Ximen Yi has made such a joke. She must help him end it perfectly, and to show that they are both mother and son.
Never let people with bad intentions take advantage of the situation.
Shortly after Concubine Shu left, a rare guest came to Jinyang Palace, which Ximen Xianchu unexpectedly.
"Mother?" Ximen Xianchu saw the arrival of the empress dowager, and she was stunned in her eyes and stood up to greet her.
"Did the Emperor be surprised by the coming of the Ai family?" The Empress Dowager was supported by Ximen Xianchu and put it on the couch on the side, "It was the Ai family who did not allow them to report in advance."
"The mother met her son and then came when she thought she would come. She was still afraid that her mother would ignore her son!" Ximen Xianchu said with a smile.
"The Ai family is too lazy to be honest. You are already the emperor in charge of the world, and you are not a naughty boy." The empress dowager patted Ximen Xianchu's hand who was holding her.
"It is precisely because the son minister is the emperor that the mother's guidance is indispensable. It's just that the mother is too unwilling to care about the son minister." Ximen Xianchu said.
"It's because the Ai family doesn't care about you, so you said that?" the queen mother smiled, "Who is there anyone who wants her mother to keep interfering in her affairs for the emperor? Yi'er gradually met with Concubine Shu, and Hao'er didn't listen to the queen.
Even Zhe'er, who has always been well-behaved, had to leave the capital because of his unfaithfulness?"
Ximen Xianchu smiled and speechless. Although his mother, as a queen, never cared about the world and worshiped Buddha and recited scriptures, she was also very clear about the situation of the dynasty.
But it was strange that she suddenly came to see her today.
"The Ai family came to see you today and wanted to ask. Do you really decide to let Su Ranhua marry into the Nanwang Mansion?" The empress dowager stopped talking politely to Ximen Xianchu and directly opened his questions.
"It was my mother who was doing this later?" Ximen Xianchu asked in confusion. When Su Luocheng forced him to issue an order to marry, she ignored it. Today, she came to see him in person for Concubine Shu's proposal to serve the Southern Prince's Mansion?
"No," the queen mother nodded, staring at Ximen Xianchu with a shrewd and sharp look, "It seems that the emperor has agreed."
"Su Ranhua is already pregnant with Yi'er's flesh and blood." Ximen Xianchu's eyes looked at the empress dowager, as if it could penetrate people's hearts like a mirror, making his heart tremble slightly.
"Is it Yi'er or Hao'er's, it's up to discussion. Why did you agree so easily?" The Empress Dowager looked at Ximen Xianchu with bright eyes.
"How could Yi'er pretend to be such a thing?" Ximen Xianchu said evasively.
"Didn't Hao'er turn a blind eye to the mystery of Su Ranhua's pregnancy?" said the queen mother, "Although I can't understand the twists and turns, the emperor should have guessed a few points. The emperor approved this marriage, and he was going with the flow.
It’s better to add fuel to the fire, and I know it in my heart.”
"Where is the mother?" Ximen Xianchu said with a smile, "It is recommended that Su Ranhua be the concubine of the Southern King in accordance with the rules. First, the Princess of the Southern King propose to Concubine Shu, and then Concubine Shu comes to see me. Concubine Shu's words are reasonable.
, I didn't think it was wrong, I just had to face the headache-inducing old ministers in the court."
"Did the emperor think it's inappropriate or did not listen carefully to Concubine Shu, and he had already had an idea in his mind?" The queen mother looked erect, "Emperor, everything must be done. This time, you will help the Southern King to seize the Northern King.
People, and one person, two lives. If anything happens, it will intensify the conflict between the two royal palaces of the north and the south. Did you not expect it or did it intentionally?"
"The son-in-law doesn't understand the meaning of the mother's accusation." Ximen Xianchu said.
"Ai family is asking you," the empress dowager saw Ximen Xianchu pretending to be ruthless, stood up and stared at him with sharp eyes, "The fact is obvious, that child is at this juncture and cannot recognize his identity at all. The Southern King
How could a child with a confused identity be left behind? Even if he advocated that the child was his foreseeable face and wanted to marry Su Ranhua to his son, could the emperor ensure that the child was born safely? An accident occurred in the middle, and the two kings of the north and the south fought for power.
A revenge of killing a son was added to the situation, which was to cause human life. The emperor not only did not deal with it, but he easily agreed, which was really not like the father's actions. Even if the emperor had to balance all aspects of the power for his own dragon throne
But this approach is a bit too far. Just like when he was secretly forcing Zhe'er to leave Beijing, Zhe'er lived in Chunlin Garden without any harm, but you deliberately asked him to leave Beijing for training. Although it was intentional cultivation, the starting point was not the Ai family
Identify.”
"It turns out that the mother is not as uninformed as she sees on the surface." Ximen Xianchu narrowed her eyes and looked at the empress dowager. The alienation and Ximen Hao's repulsion towards the empress.
The Empress Dowager smiled gently, "The Emperor does not hope that the Ai family will interfere in your affairs as he said."
As he said that, the Empress Dowager looked stern, "But, the Ai family should remind the emperor not to overdo it, otherwise it will backfire and make the more you don't want, the better."
"What the Queen Mother said is too profound. I guess only those who have meditated Buddhist principles can understand it." Ximen Xianchu smiled and flashed away the Queen Mother's eyes. The awe-in-cheek gaze made him feel uncomfortable.
"The Ai family reminds the emperor only once that the emperor should take care of himself." The empress dowager stared at Ximen Xianchu with a meaningful meaning. "The Ai family believes that the descendants of the Ximen family have the ability to take over the Qingyuan Dynasty from the emperor, and will never lose to
emperor."
As he said that, the queen mother glanced at Li Bing, who was standing upright on the side, "Should Guard Li go to Jiangnan to see His Highness Dong, the master you have been with since childhood?"
"If you have time, the Empress Dowager will be bothered and be honest, and you will be loyal to the emperor, and you will have no time." Li Bing hurriedly bowed.
"Okay, very good!" The empress dowager nodded, looked at Li Bing deeply, turned to Ximen Xianchu, "You can't tolerate this mother of Ai's family, and it's not easy for the Ai family to stay here for a long time, so I'd better go back to Chu Min
The palace is clear."
"What does the Queen Mother say? My son has always been filial to the Queen Mother." Ximen Xianchu defended himself.
"Yes, if the Ai family stays in Chumin Palace as their duty, the emperor will be very filial. If the Ai family says something that is not satisfactory, the emperor is the emperor and there will be no mother of the Ai family in his eyes. After all, if it is filial, if it is filial, the emperor will be the emperor.
The word "is either from the heart or for people to see." The empress dowager said, and walked out of Jinyang Palace.
"My son respectfully sends his mother to the queen." Ximen Xian bowed to the empress dowager of the Chu Dynasty, and his gaze was mixed with the depth that was difficult to see.
"Your Majesty, today's empress dowager is so strange. Do you want your subordinates to follow him and take a look?" After the empress dowager left, Li Bing walked to Ximen Xianchu and said.