A Precious Pearl in the Imperial City

"why?"

In the quiet room, King Huai's dazed questioning voice sounded: "Mother concubine, why are you doing this?"

He could never have imagined that the tender and frail mother who had been in his eyes for years was pretending to be sick.

But why would she do either?

Worried about Queen Su making things difficult for her?

Afraid that other concubines in the harem will plot against her?

However, since the father and emperor ascended the throne, only Empress Su was favored, and only Empress Su was hated by the concubines of the harem. Why should the concubine feel so wronged?

"Everything I do, of course, is for you." Concubine Xu looked at her son, and said slowly: "Liuan, you are the eldest son of your father, and the throne of Wei should belong to you."

King Huai looked at Concubine Xu in astonishment, the mother full of ambition became unfamiliar to him. In his memory, the concubine was gentle. She would not "force" the fourth brother to read like Zheng Lanyin did, nor would she let the second brother let the other brothers in like Lu Zhaoyi did, and she never even mentioned it to him. The eldest son, the prince, etc.

"Now that the Su family has been canonized as the queen, what's the use of me even if I am the eldest son." King Huai accepted his fate: "Mother concubine, in the future... don't feel wronged. It's a three-point poison in medicine, even if you don't get sick, you will always Drinking some bitter "medicine" is not good for your body either."

"If I wasn't frail and sick, how could Your Majesty let me go?" Concubine Xu lifted the quilt, sat down at the table, and sneered, "Your father is a man who is extremely good at forbearance. When the kings seized the throne, he only gave a little. The strategy, I couldn't bear it in the hidden residence, and finally won the grand power..."

"My father was clearly framed by other princes, so he was placed under house arrest in the palace for a whole year." Huluo Pingyang was bullied by dogs, and he hardly wanted to recall what kind of life he lived during the year he was under house arrest.

"But he was the prince who was banned and finally became emperor." Concubine Xu looked at her ignorant son: "Why is it him?"

"The father is the destiny, and he has both talents and virtues. He is better than all the princes." King Huai couldn't understand Xu Concubine's words even more: "Isn't it right?"

"How can there be so many things in the capital." Concubine Xu raised her eyebrows: "How do you go about winning courtiers in the future for a stupid 'sex' like you?"

King Huai frowned and did not speak.

"I used to think that your father was a gentle and virtuous son. I knew that one day, I found that he looked at me without the slightest warmth." Concubine Xu fell into the memory of the past: "In his eyes There, I was no different from the flowers and trees on the roadside, and although he didn't kill me, he had no affection for me."

"Mother concubine, what are you talking about, why did the emperor want to kill you?" He looked at Concubine Xu in horror, thinking she was confused and talking nonsense: "My son helped you to rest in bed."

"Six years ago, the people of the King of England found me and asked me to steal a roster from your father's royal family. I promised that as long as I got the roster, I would protect my mother and son and take me out of the palace." Concubine Xu laughed at herself: "When people have no way out, it is easy to lose their minds. I promise the King of England."

King Huai looked at Concubine Xu in disbelief: "Concubine Mu, you are lying to me, aren't you?"

How could the gentle and kind-hearted concubine in her heart be infatuated with her father and emperor to betray the palace?

At that time, there were a few people in the entire palace, if the mother and concubine handed over the roster to others...

He asked in a hoarse voice, "What about after?"

"After the defeat of King Ying, under the sword of Jin Jiawei, I don't know the blood that bleed from his body, which brick in the palace was dyed red." Referring to Duan's past, Concubine Xu regretted: "If I had known that he would end like this, how could I have done it? will not agree to him."

"You didn't steal the roster?" King Huai secretly let out a sigh of relief.

"Steal." Concubine Xu lowered her eyelids: "After the King of England is defeated, I will burn the roster."

The King of England remembered one thing, when the mother and concubine burned things in the house, her eyes were red and she looked sad.

"You told me back then that you were burning poems written for your father." King Huai sat down on the stool: "You're also lying to me?"

He thought that it was the mother-in-law who saw the deep relationship between the father and the Su family, so she was so sad that she burned the things written for the father. There were no love poems at all, only the roster of Wangfusheng.

Concubine Xu did not admit it, but did not deny it either.

"I don't know when your father knew about it, but in order to let him dispel his resentment against me, I can only pretend to be sick every day and try not to let him notice me."

"But after the father ascends the throne, he will give you the position of concubine, and he will also give his son the title of prince." King Huai coaxed in a mess: "If he really minds, why would he give you the position of concubine?"

"You are the eldest son, as your biological mother, he only gave him the position of a concubine, and he didn't even have a title. Isn't that perfunctory enough?" Concubine Xu grabbed King Huai's hand tightly: "Liang, the Zheng family has been bestowed by His Majesty, If you are not a good son, I will be like the Zheng family, under three feet of white silk, do you understand?"

Concubine Xu's hands were frighteningly strong, and King Huai looked down at the hand that Concubine Xu was holding: "The fourth brother's mother concubine is not because of poisoning the prince..."

"No, she's stupid." Concubine Xu cut off the words of the king: "After she met her mother's family, her sex became better. It is not a secret that she secretly contacted the guards guarding the palace several times."

"The plan failed but she didn't know how to restrain herself, and she provoked Su Meidai everywhere in the harem. Who is she?" Speaking of Zheng Lanyin, Xu Fei said with disdain: "Yun Yanze was raised by her to be just like her, with a bright surface, but inside Just kidding. At a young age, he dares to promote a virtuous king outside, who is both civil and military, and can't wait to put the word "gentleman" on his forehead."

"Mother concubine..." King Huai turned to look at the sunset that climbed up the window lattice: "Forget it."

"I don't want any storage seats, any dragon seats." He became disillusioned: "As long as I'm fine, than anything

are strong. "

"Bengong has endured for so many years, it's all for you, but you have the final say with Bengong?!" Concubine Xu took out a handkerchief and gently wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes: "Did you know that when Mrs. Zheng was given, the concubine mother How scared are you?"

"Don't you have the heart to watch your mother-in-law and step into Zheng's footsteps?"

The mother-in-law's cry was like a net, wrapping him tightly from head to toe, entangling him so hard that he couldn't breathe.

"Even if it's a mother-in-law." Douda's tears fell on the back of King Huai's hand: "Liang, the mother-in-law is only you, if you don't even want to help me, I'm Er Zheng Lanyin, do you understand?"

King Huai almost fled, clutching the back of his tear-stained hands, and when he left Zhaoxiang Palace, he didn't even dare to turn his head back.

Concubine Xu slowly wiped away the tears from her cheeks and took a sip of the tea on the table.

The throne is so close at hand, why count?

It's a pity that His Majesty protects Su Meidai so well that she doesn't even have the power to do anything.

Neither Zheng nor Weiss is the biggest threat.

Su Meidai and Yun Duqing have always been a big worry for her until they get rid of them.

After leaving Zhaoxiang Palace, King Huai buried his head and went straight forward. The little eunuch behind him did not dare to ask more questions, and trotted after him.

Not knowing how far he was, he gradually regained his sense and looked up to see the paper kite in the sky.

"Who is so daring to put paper kites in the palace?" In the previous dynasty, there was a palace concubine who borrowed the means of putting paper kites to send letters to people outside the palace, causing a lot of chaos. Therefore, although the harem of this dynasty did not expressly prohibit the release of paper kites, the concubines had a tacit agreement not to touch things.

"My lord, I don't know." He stayed behind the lord, how could he know who was putting the paper kite.

The afterglow of the setting sun filled the entire palace. King Huai went around the palace wall and saw the person who put the paper kite.

"Sister-in-law, you can't pull it like this, it will tear the paper kite." Jiuzhu handed the paper kite pulling thread in her hand to the spring equinox, and tied the skirt around her waist: "Wait, I'll take it off for you."

Before Princess Huai could react, she saw Ming Jiuzhu jump up the tree.

"What are you still doing, don't go and support the princess." Princess An reacted, throwing the thread in her hand to the maid behind her, nervously under the tree: "Fifth younger siblings, hurry up and leave the matter to the maid and eunuch. , was thrown down."

"Get it." Jiu Zhu threw the paper kite on top, went down the tree three times, picked up the paper kite and handed it to Princess Huai: "Sister-in-law, don't worry, the paper kite is not damaged at all."

Princess Huai took the paper kite, bent down and sorted out the hem of the beaded skirt with one hand: "If the paper kite is broken, you can do it again, but what if you fall?"

"The pattern on the paper kite is drawn by my sister-in-law herself, which is different from other paper kites." Jiuzhu patted the folds on the skirt: "I used to climb trees since I was a child, and I couldn't fall."

Princess Huai held the paper kite, and a smile appeared on her steady and self-controlled face.

It has been a long time since she was as happy as she is now. Ever since she married King Huai and became a princess, her words and deeds cannot go beyond the norm.

The mother and concubine was still seriously ill, but when she came out of the yard and saw her younger brother and sister sitting at the table making paper kites, perhaps she laughed too freely and made her leave everything behind and do something as bold.

"Thank you brother and sister." She cherished and "touched" the paper kite, and handed it to the palace maid behind her to keep it carefully.

"You don't need to say thank you for the little things." Jiuzhu took the paper kite line handed over by the Spring Equinox and looked up at the paper kite flying steadily in the air: "Sister-in-law, you are too serious."

Princess An followed and made fun of: "Sister-in-law, you will roast a piece of venison for her at the roasted deer banquet later, even if you are thanking her."

"Okay." Princess Huai was infected by the happiness of her younger brother and sister: "I will not only bake Jiuzhu, but also you, so as not to be biased by you."

"Injustice, I didn't say anything." Princess An went to pull Jiuzhu's arm, and before she could pretend to be pitiful, she laughed first.

Jiuzhu laughed along with her, and said while laughing, "It's better for sister-in-law and sister-in-law to bake for me. I'm thick-skinned and eat a lot, so I don't dislike your cooking skills."

Princess Huai felt that her smile was a little silly, but she didn't consciously follow along.

She temporarily forgot that her mother and concubine were still ill, and as her daughter-in-law, she should not laugh.

Rules and etiquette are not important for a moment.

Maybe it was because the setting sun was too good, and Zhi Yuan flew too high, so high that it seemed that she also flew out of the rules and etiquette and changed back to the little girl she used to be.

"Sister-in-law." Jiuzhu bent down to pick a flower that was blooming just right, and put her hand on her temples: "Flowers match a beauty, which girl is the girl from?"

Princess Huai was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "Which disciple, who gives a woman a hairpin at will?"

"I'm addicted to the girl's beauty, how can I be a disciple?" Jiuzhu pretended to be shocked and widened her eyes: "Xiaosheng is very sad, and it can be relieved only if the girl bakes venison for Xiaosheng for an hour."

"It wasn't an apprentice, but a little liar who cheated on deer meat." Princess Huai squeezed her cheek lightly: "Forget it, for the sake of your good looks, it's up to you."

Standing by the side, Princess An looked at the uneasy sister-in-law, and was coaxed by Ming Jiuzhu's three words, and she pursed her lips and laughed lightly.

No wonder even the arrogant prince like King Chen softened his voice in front of her and protected her as an eyeball.

People who are used to seeing the "sex" of ugly people in the palace, if they can get a pure heart, it is the best gift from God.

Not to mention men, even women will soften their hearts in her eyes and smiles.

"Your Highness..." The eunuch who was following behind King Huai was a little nervous. He never expected that the princess was also releasing paper kites.

"." King Huai turned around, his shadow, stretched by the setting sun, reflected on the palace wall, twisted like a human.

"Just now." Shadow stopped,

Still distorted: "Don't mention it to others."

"Yes." The little eunuch responded quickly.

He was a little surprised. With the spleen and "nature" of the prince in the past, he would ask the princess why she would laugh and play when her mother was seriously ill, but he didn't expect to hold back today.

"Jiuzhu, what's there?" Princess Huai noticed that Jiuzhu looked at the Moon Gate on the other side of the palace wall several times.

"It's nothing, it just felt like someone was watching." Jiu Zhu retracted her gaze: "It might be a palace maid or a eunuch."

Princess Huai chuckled lightly, not taking things to heart.

As soon as he stepped into the gate of Zhangliu Palace, King Huai smelled the smell of barbecue spices.

Looking around, there was a large baking table in the middle of the yard. The maids and eunuchs were busy around the baking table. The second child played chess with Yun Duqing next to him.

Yun Yanze didn't know where he was, and there was no presence of him in the courtyard.

"Big brother, you're finally back." Wang An saw King Huai appearing, and threw the chess piece in his hand to King Huai in relief.

Playing chess with the fifth brother is too painful. Every move the opponent makes is unexpected. There is absolutely no rule at all.

If the opponent hadn't won him several rounds, he would have almost suspected him of making a random move.

Everything is for hugging your thighs!

"Why are you looking for me?" King Huai didn't respond slowly until King An came to him.

"Today I have fresh venison, my brothers and a few people will get together." King An grabbed King Huai's arm and pulled him to the table to sit down: "I'll have a drink later, and I won't go home if I don't get drunk."

"Look, everything is ready, just waiting for you."

"Okay." King Huai nodded.

King Chen paused for a moment while picking up the chess piece, looked up at King Huai, and asked with a smile, "Brother, do you like to eat it roasted or cooked in a hot pot?"

"It's more delicious when it's roasted." King Huai said, "There's no need to prepare a hot pot."

"Okay." King Chen smiled in disbelief, threw the chess piece into the chess basket, and one piece jumped out.

King Jing stretched out his hand to pick up the pieces, and by the way, picked a black piece from the white chess basket and returned it to the black chess basket.

"While roasting, brush a layer of oil and sprinkle a few sesame seeds. It will be enough to drink wine." King Huai wanted to get drunk so he could forget what his mother-in-law told him.

The birth mother is seriously ill, and I still think about it. How to roast venison to taste good?

really interesting.

King Chen chuckled lightly, grabbed a few pieces in his palm and played with it, accidentally, a few more black pieces fell into the white chess basket: "It's according to Big Brother."

King Jing stared at the black chess pieces and turned his head after a while.

When the three princesses who put the paper kite returned, everyone sat down around the table, and Wang An said, "Did I forget something?"

Strange, what did you forget?