atypical prostitute

Chapter 210
The new emperor's ascension to the throne has been settled, followed by personnel changes in the imperial city.

According to the usual practice, the concubines who were blessed by the late emperor but were unable to give birth will formally escape into Buddhism after the national funeral, and then fade out of people's sight.Concubine Shu gave birth to two imperial daughters, so she should be promoted to be a concubine and move to live in Shoukang Palace, leaving Shufang Palace empty for the new couple.However, the new emperor is still young and needs to be taken care of by the empress dowager himself. Naturally, the harem is deserted. Concubines Shu and the emperors can also stay in the Shufang Palace for a while, and move out after the new emperor becomes an adult.Poor Shangguan Mingzhu, although she is the noble concubine, she has nothing to do. It is not difficult to stay in the palace, but it is a bit embarrassing.

Therefore, when Mrs. Wu Dehou came to visit, Li Ci thought it was Lin Langya who wanted to show favor to Shangguan Mingzhu, so she didn't take it seriously, and ordered the nanny to lead the lady into the inner room with a smile.

"Young Madam, you must decide for the Lin family!"

Mrs. Wu Dehou plopped on her knees as soon as she walked around the screen, and Li Ci, who was teasing her son, was at a loss in shock. She put down the small flower drum, and after making sure that her son was not frightened by Mrs. Wu Dehou's yelling, she walked slowly Going to Madam Wu Dehou with a haggard face, she said softly, "What happened?"

"Grand Concubine Shu... drank a bowl of sweet soup last night, and... her stomach hurts... It's not yet light this morning, so I've already... gone!"

Mrs. Wu Dehou spoke choked up, tears streaming down like rain, sobbing uncontrollably.

Hearing this, Li Ci's expression suddenly became serious. She turned around and ordered the nurses and nuns to take the young man to the side room to rest for a while, and then retreated most of the servants who were waiting on the side, so that only the two of them were left in the inner room. He lowered his body again, helped Mrs. Wu Dehou up, and said, "Get up and talk."

Mrs. Wu Dehou insisted on kneeling on the ground, she raised her head, wiped her tears and sobbed: "...Langya has always been aloof from the world, and she gave birth to an imperial daughter. She thought she could raise the child safely...but I don't want...the Queen Mother..."

"Empress? Langya gave birth to a princess, and they have no conflict of interest! Besides, Langya has a peaceful temperament and has always been on good terms with her. Why did he become empress dowager and can't accommodate Concubine Shu and the two imperial daughters?" Li Ci asked in surprise. .

"I didn't suspect that it was the queen mother who harmed Langya. But Langya is in good health and has no hidden diseases. How could he... be gone after drinking a bowl of sweet soup? When I entered the palace at Haishi last night, I questioned Langya carefully. Ladies and gentlemen, all of them spoke politely and talked about him from left to right. And... this morning at Yinshi, when the Queen Mother came to Shufang Palace to see Langya for the last time, her expression...was very unusual!"

"How unusual?" Li Ci asked.

"She looks like... she knew that something would happen to Langya, but when Yinshi got up, she was completely dressed, her makeup was gorgeous, and she didn't panic. Seeing the chaos in the Shufang Palace, she also commanded the two princesses to the palace on the spot. In the imperial concubine's hall, it is said that the emperor should not be stimulated."

"what do you mean--"

"I suspect there was a conspiracy in the whole thing!" Mrs. Wu Dehou said viciously.

The Lin family has long been in decline, and all these years have relied on one family's marriage to barely maintain the dignity of the wealthy family. Lin Langya entered the palace as a concubine. Although he failed to give birth to a prince, the birth of the two princes also brought countless benefits to the Lin family. There are even faint signs of the lintel returning to its former glory.It is no exaggeration to say that most of the honor and disgrace of the Lin clan rests on Lin Langya.Now that Lin Langya was killed suddenly, how could Mrs. Wu Dehou, as the first wife of the Lin family, not be heartbroken!
"The Empress Dowager... Now the situation is not stable. She is a girl with an ignorant child in her arms. How can she be stable? Although the Marquis of Jinyang is a hereditary family, she is not as good as she was back then. She... clearly traded Langya's flesh and blood for a superior official." Support from home!"

Mrs. Wu Dehou said categorically that she was a woman with vicious eyes. Although she had no way of knowing the hidden power transaction behind the new emperor's ascension to the throne, she knew that the Ye family and the Queen Mother had reached an alliance just by looking at the imperial edict.

Lang Ya, who failed to give birth to the prince, has become the abandoned son of the Ye family at the moment when the dust of the throne has settled.If you want to talk about Donglici seeking justice for Langya, you can only sow dissension!

"The first emperor relied heavily on Ye's family, and in his edict he worshiped Shaohou as the great general and Sima, and the queen mother also married the Ye family for the young emperor. The prosperity of the holy family is rare in the world. It's just that the old woman has to say something that doesn't please me. When the queen mother was still a virtuous concubine There is a rift between her and his wife, and now she is the empress dowager, but she is forced to please her and Lord Hou due to the situation. Do you think she is really willing? There is an old saying that prosperity must decline, and it is also said that great achievements will shake the Lord. Although the matter of Langya It's small, but it's also a wake-up call!"

"Warning bell?"

Li Ci knew that she was just sad, and didn't mind the indecent words, not to mention that what Mrs. Wu Dehou said did have some truth.

"Is the Queen Mother defending Madam?"

Mrs. Wu Dehou said gloomyly: "Langya's background is the most humble among the four concubines of the first emperor. Everyone in the world knows that Langya was able to enter the palace as a concubine, thanks to Empress Wu and his wife. And Princess Anping's second marriage The husband is also from the Lin family. In the eyes of the world, the Lin family and the Ye family are one. This time the queen mother killed Langya and gave Langya's emperor daughter to the noble concubine. It is clearly a plan to kill two birds with one stone. On the one hand, it tested the Ye family's attitude , On the one hand, it has won over the power of the Shangguan family. If the madam ignores it for the sake of the overall situation, she will think that the Ye family is weak and can be bullied, and it will get worse in the future!"

"Then how do you think this should end?"

Li Ci asked back, ever since she heard Pei Linger send the princess to the imperial concubine's hall, she knew that her actions were to win over the Shangguan family, but she didn't expect that these actions also included the intention of testing the Ye family.At this time, Mrs. Wu Dehou awakened me, and I was a little unhappy while meditating.

On the other hand, Mrs. Wu Dehou, hearing Li Ci's displeasure, hurriedly bent down and said: "The old lady is narrow-minded, she dare not speak nonsense."

"Madame is modest."

Li Ci spoke kindly, and pulled up Mrs. Wu Dehou, and sat on the bed with her.

"I know you're uncomfortable, but Langya's hatred has to be put aside for the time being. She is now a queen mother in name only, and she can't ask politics or exercise power. If she doesn't even give her the freedom to play tricks in the harem, it will make us look stingy. "

"—Madam, aren't you afraid that she will persist in her evil ways and get worse?"

Li Ci sneered and said: "She is very smart and knows how to use the imperial daughter as a favor to please the Shangguan's family, but the overall situation of the government cannot be controlled by the women in the harem who drink tea and chat for a day! She wants to listen to the government behind the curtain, but she has to be careful of the officials The Book of the Morning Hen!"

Mrs. Wu Dehou felt relieved when she saw the cruelty on her face, but when she thought of Lang Ya who lost her innocent life, she sighed again.

"After listening to Madam's words, the old woman also knows that she must temporarily put aside her hatred and focus on the overall situation. But..."

"Langya's funeral will be handled decently. Since the Empress Dowager dares to use the imperial daughter as a gift to win the favor of the Shangguan family, she will naturally not forget to appease my anger. In fact, I hope she will forget. After all, the short-sighted Empress Dowager, It's easier to deal with than the water-tight queen mother."

"What the lady said is very true."

Mrs. Wu Dehou said helplessly, she didn't hold much hope in encouraging the Ye family to avenge Langya, but getting the promise now is better than nothing.

"I'm just planning for a rainy day."

Li Ci smiled and sat up straight.

"The Empress Dowager... If it wasn't for the late Emperor who only left the Young Emperor as a prince, who would want her to be the Empress Dowager!"

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"I heard that Ye family's son who was born with lotus fragrance in the house and the vermilion bird from beyond the sky came to congratulate him took the nickname of Lord Lian?"

Pei Ling'er, who finally became the Queen Mother, was fiddling with the red treasure armor while pretending to be casually asking her father who was sitting at the bottom.

"It's true, everyone in the Ye family called Ye Yun, the son of Ye's eldest son, Lord Lian."

Pei Hou turned his body half sideways, and answered cautiously.

Today is different from the past, Pei Ling'er is the empress dowager, but as a father, he has to kowtow to his daughter.

"But I don't know how the baby was born?"

Pei Ling'er was talking lazily, her phoenix eyes with eyeliner twitched slightly, not showing off her anger.

"I saw it once at the full moon banquet. It is whiter and plumper than ordinary children. There is a vague fragrance around her body, like a white lotus in full bloom."

Pei Hou chose his rhetoric as carefully as possible, but the answer still offended Pei Linger.

"Father also believes that Ye Yun is the reincarnation of heaven and man?"

She said sarcastically, her rhyme tinged with displeasure.

"The theory of ghosts and gods was originally fabricated by swindlers to deceive the villagers. How can we who read sage books believe in these absurd things. Although lotus incense is rare, it is nothing in the eyes of the perfumers. What's more, this It’s not the first time for Fu Lici to pretend to be a ghost. When she went to Yuelu Mountain to visit the Buddha, there were strange incidents such as Baihe Zhenren’s solution and the Yuwang stele unearthed. This time, she gave birth to a house full of lotus incense and vermilion birds to congratulate , obviously repeating the old trick.”

Pei Hou pretended to be contemptuous and said that he was skeptical about ghosts and gods. Although he had never witnessed Bai He's real soldier's solution, it is an indisputable fact that the beauty of Bailian at the Guanyin Temple in the suburbs of Beijing is indisputable.What's more, Lianxiang and Zhuniao can fake it, and the red cloud in the sky is not an illusion.Unexpectedly, his daughter had a feud with Fu Lici, so he had no choice but to pretend to be filled with righteous indignation and demote Fu Lici to nothing.

Sure enough, after hearing what Pei Hou said, Pei Linger's complexion became much more relaxed. She let out a long breath and said, "I knew this woman was playing tricks! What does she want to do when she is so busy? Do you want to prove that she is a heavenly maiden?" , her child is—"

Speaking of this, Pei Linger suddenly stopped, she looked at the empty hall thoughtfully, for a long time, said: "It may be a wrong step to marry the Ye family."

"But the current situation does not allow us to think too much. If it is not for the marriage with the Ye family, it may not be Yin'er's turn to be the throne."

Pei Hou pointedly said that the marriage with the Ye family was facilitated by him. He didn't know what happened on the night of the late emperor's death, but after receiving the news of King Teng's death, with his keen political sense, he already guessed that it was inseparable. ten.Thinking of his daughter being so cold and short-sighted, he also felt unhappy.

Fortunately, Pei Ling'er still had self-knowledge. After hearing her father's complaints, she was taken aback for a moment, and then said softly: "Father taught me that. But the birth of Ye's eldest son is so strange, I'm afraid the conspiracy is not small."

"what do you mean--"

"Young emperor is young, orphans and widowed mothers have to rely heavily on foreign ministers. As time goes by, powerful officials will inevitably deceive the lord. What's more, there is a vision in the Ye family, I... have to guard against it!"

In the words, the meaning of helplessness is beyond words.

"Why should my daughter be alarmed? The first emperor had expected this matter long ago. King Wei was in charge of the government and Ye Chuan was in charge of the government. This obviously implied the intention of repelling wolves and tigers. They are fighting each other, and we will reap the benefits."

Pei Hou held his measure and spoke cautiously.Killing King Teng, helping Emperor Shao, and setting up a regent, a series of things proved that King Wei and the Ye family had reached a secret agreement, and the throne of Emperor Shao was actually a transition before they decided the winner.

"Yes, we are the least powerful, and we can only survive in the cracks of powerful officials."

Pei Ling'er laughed at herself, she is the empress dowager, but her power is limited to the inner circle, she is indeed the empress dowager with the least status in the history of the Xie dynasty!

"Fortunately, His Majesty will grow up eventually, and when that time comes, we... don't have to be afraid of King Wei and the Ye family anymore."

After hearing her father's comfort, Pei Linger's complexion also eased a lot.She was in the center of the vortex, and she knew that although King Wei was a nobleman of the royal family, he was unpopular, even if he won the throne, he would not dare to sit on it.Therefore, the only ones who really pose a threat to her are the Ye family.

"...King Wei... Ye family... I must destroy the Ye family!"

(End of this chapter)