Troubled times: Start practicing spiritual practice by taking care of your sister-in-law

After spending some time with Liang Ji in Shoukang Palace, Chen Mo did not stay in the palace for long. After putting on his robe, he walked along the palace road with the towering palace wall to Hanyuan Palace.

This time, in addition to comforting Liang Ji, Chen Mo also wanted to learn about the recent rumors in the capital.

To go from the harem to Hanyuan Palace, you have to pass through the back garden.

Before walking far, Chen Mo was stunned.

In the pavilion by the lake, a dignified, elegant and graceful beauty was sitting on a stone bench in a daze. There were no palace maids or eunuchs around.

And this curvaceous figure was Queen Zhao, Zhao Yushu.

Queen Zhao was dressed very gorgeously, wearing a pearl white dress inlaid with exquisite gold thread embroidery. Under her straight nose was a delicate cherry mouth, looking at the calm lake with a melancholy look in her eyes.

"Queen." Chen Mo said softly as he approached.

After all, it would be bad to pass by her without saying hello.

But Queen Zhao seemed not to hear it, her eyes still on the lake.

Chen Mo observed carefully for a while, and seeing that she was in a daze, he called out again.

At this time, Queen Zhao came back to her senses. Hearing the familiar voice behind her, she suddenly turned her head with long black hair. At this moment, under the sunlight, her skin was as white as snow, but her face looked a little haggard. Compared with the last time they met, she was obviously thinner and weak.

Seeing that it was Chen Mo, Queen Zhao stood up immediately. Although the other party was a minister, the power he held was something that Queen Zhao did not dare to despise, and said, "King Wei."

Then she casually asked why he was here.

Chen Mo said, "The Queen Mother invited me to see you. I'm going to Hanyuan Hall now, so I'm passing by here. What is the Queen doing here?"

This made Queen Zhao feel inexplicably annoyed. This is the back garden of the palace, and I'm the Queen. Isn't it normal to be here? Moreover, this familiar question seemed to express to Queen Zhao that she must say something.

Queen Zhao lowered her eyebrows, bit her pink lips with her pearly teeth, and said, "I'm here to take a walk."

In fact, Queen Zhao was here to relax.

She was in a panic.

That time she accidentally fell into the lake and was rescued. During the period of recuperation in the palace, except for the fact that His Majesty came to visit her at the beginning, until she recovered and got out of bed, His Majesty didn't come to visit her once, and became more and more indifferent to her.

Queen Zhao couldn't understand why His Majesty treated her like this.

She had real feelings for Emperor Yong'an, not the so-called marriage, or her family wanted to cling to the royal family, or forced something.

Now that Emperor Yong'an treated her like this, Queen Zhao was very sad.

Chen Mo nodded, looking at the beauty who suddenly lowered her eyes with warm eyes, and said casually: "The cold you had last time, is it better?"

"Thank you, King Wei, for your concern. I'm already well."

Chen Mo stared at Queen Zhao for a few more times, and said: "I still think that you need to rest more, or ask the imperial physician to come and see you. Your face is too haggard and you have lost a lot of weight."

Queen Zhao didn't know how to answer at this time.

Chen Mo didn't wait for her to answer, and continued: "The weather has warmed up recently, but it's still a little cold. It's windy here, so you should go back early."

After that, Chen Mo left.

After Chen Mo left, Queen Zhao raised her eyes, bit her cherry lips tighter, and murmured in her heart: "Even King Wei cares about me, Your Majesty, why are you..."

Thinking of this, Queen Zhao's eyes turned red again, and she was even more sad.

...

Hanyuan Palace

Chen Mo found Geng Songfu and told him about the recent rumors in Beijing. Geng Songfu said he didn't know and would send someone to investigate.

Chen Mo was about to ask more questions, and Geng Songfu talked about the Linhuai Money House.

With the investment of several big families, although the current Linhuai Money House has not been opened all over the country, it has branches in Qing, Yu, Lin, Huai, Feng, Yang, Chong and other states, as well as Tianchuan City. In more than a year, there are more than 100 money houses of all sizes.

With the money deposited by the people in the money house, the current treasury is still full, but the premise is that there will be no run on the bank. The current sea fleet has not returned yet and cannot deal with the money house's account.

After talking about the money house, Geng Songfu pulled Chen Mo to talk about the new policy.

Now is the best time to reform and implement the new policy, and there is the least resistance. After all, the current situation is a big reshuffle.

Chen Mo also had this idea, so he talked to him for a long time.

They talked for a long time.

After Chen Mo left, Geng Songfu muttered to himself: "We must speed up the process. The new policy must be implemented when the new dynasty is established."

...

That night, he found Wu Yanqing and told him what he thought.

Wu Yanqing agreed.

A day later, at the Prince of Wei's Mansion.

Wu Mi found Chen Mo and said: "My husband, my father just found me and said that my sixth uncle plans to send his granddaughter to the palace as a concubine."

Chen Mo raised his eyebrows slightly: "Your sixth uncle's granddaughter? What does your father-in-law want to do?"

Now in the capital, everyone with a discerning eye can see that the Chu royal family is about to come. What is Wu Yanqing going to do by sending a girl from the Wu family to the palace?

"I don't know. But my sixth uncle's lineage belongs to the side branch of the Wu family, and my father told me that this is my sixth uncle's own idea." Wu Mi said.

Chen Mo frowned slightly, but he was not good at conspiracy and internal affairs. After thinking for a while, he said, "Your Majesty has few concubines around him. In this case, let your sixth uncle send someone over."

What Chen Mo didn't know was.

That night, Geng Songfu went to the palace to meet Emperor Yong'an at night, saying that Wu Xian, the daughter of the Wu family, was gentle and virtuous, talented and beautiful, and could be a concubine. He asked Emperor Yong'an to order Wu Xian, the daughter of the Wu family, to enter the palace as a noble concubine.

Emperor Yong'an was shocked and asked about this Wu family girl, but she was from the Jiangdong Wu family where the Princess of Wei was.

Geng Songfu nodded.

Emperor Yong'an was confused. The Wu family couldn't be unaware of his puppet emperor. What was the purpose of sending a Wu family girl to the palace as a concubine?

And the King of Wei couldn't be unaware of this.

Emperor Yong'an was reluctant, which made him feel that his dignity was trampled on again.

So he said he would think about it.

...

At the end of March.

A yellow dragon-shaped stone was transported from Qingzhou to the capital. At the same time, what happened in Pingting County also spread in the capital.

"Hey, have you heard that a yellow dragon-shaped stone was dug out in the river in front of Fuze Village."

"No way, you don't even know Fuze Village. King Wei is from Fuze Village."

"Oh, that Fuze Village in Pingting County."

"Yes, yes, that's it. Some people say that this dragon stone is a prophecy from heaven, saying that this place will produce a person who will become an emperor."

"Isn't that King Wei?"

"Hush"

Almost everyone is talking about it in restaurants, streets and alleys, and no one in the city doesn't know it.

Although Chen Mo's tentacles are all over the court, Emperor Yong'an still has a few loyal ministers in the court, the so-called royalists.

After learning the news, he went to the palace as soon as possible and told Emperor Yong'an that King Wei wanted to usurp the throne.

Emperor Yong'an knew this a long time ago, but on the surface, he severely rebuked these royalist ministers, saying that the King of Wei was loyal and not that kind of person, and that they were slandering the King of Wei, and had them driven out.

After driving these royalist ministers away, Emperor Yong'an suddenly collapsed on the ground.

Is this day finally coming?

Emperor Yong'an is not stupid.

Dragon-shaped stone.

It was dug out in the hometown of the King of Wei. Isn't this a preparation for becoming emperor?

Emperor Yong'an thought of the rumors in the capital before.

It is said that the King of Wei is a descendant of the royal family of the State of Chen more than a thousand years ago.

Isn't this just to prove his legitimacy? Now the procedures are almost complete, what else is missing?

Emperor Yong'an's brain started to work quickly.

He still needs to take the initiative to abdicate.

According to historical records, he has to refuse three times.

In a trance, Emperor Yong'an thought of what Geng Songfu said to him when he met him overnight some time ago.

At this time, Emperor Yong'an vaguely understood the intention.

This was telling himself that as long as he abdicated obediently, he would not have to worry about his life safety, and he would be guaranteed to live a prosperous and wealthy life in the second half of his life.

After all, taking the daughter of the Wu family as a concubine was like marrying the King of Wei.

With this relationship, it was a bit unreasonable for the King of Wei to kill Emperor Yong'an even though he abdicated obediently.

Thinking of this, Emperor Yong'an suddenly figured it all out.

But at this time, Emperor Yong'an fell into a huge fear again.

Because in this way, future history books will record that the four hundred years of the Song Dynasty were destroyed in his hands.

After his death, how can he face his ancestors?

But he did not dwell on this fear for too long.

In order to make himself feel at ease.

He hinted in his heart that he had no choice.

He was also put on the throne.

The country left by the ancestors was not destroyed in his hands.

It was the emperor.

It was the late emperor.

…

After struggling for a whole night.

The next morning, he had Geng Songfu summoned and told him that he agreed to take Wu Xian as his concubine.

Geng Songfu was not surprised by this. Everything was going according to his plan. During the days when Emperor Yong'an was thinking, Wu Yanqing had already brought Wu Xian to the capital.

Emperor Yong'an issued an order that day, and Wu Xian entered the palace in the afternoon and became a concubine.

Emperor Yong'an was really worried.

That night, he visited Concubine Wu.

Empress Zhao, who heard the news, showed a few sad smiles on her face.

However, her misery was still to come.

…

In early to mid-April.

Due to Emperor Yong'an's own misunderstanding, he felt that since the queen had an affair with the King of Wei, now the King of Wei let a girl from the Wu family enter the palace, there might be a deeper meaning.

Perhaps, the King of Wei also wanted to be with the queen in this way.

The girl from the Wu family was just a compensation for him.

With this idea, Emperor Yong'an felt even more humiliated.

He even had the idea of ​​swearing to die rather than obey.

But he never made up his mind.

He hesitated until the middle and late part of the month.

Emperor Yong'an gritted his teeth and asked someone to come in and draft an edict.

He wanted to depose the queen and make Concubine Wu the queen.

To this end, he also fabricated many reasons for deposing the queen in the imperial edict.

Chen Mo must not know about this.

Now his heart is all on Xiao Yunxi.

Because just a quarter of an hour ago, Xiao Yunxi said that she had a stomachache and was afraid that she was about to give birth.

Then the entire Wei Wang Mansion began to get busy.

Xiao Yunxi had given birth to a child after all.

The birth of the second child was not that difficult.

Not long after, the sound of the baby's cry came. Chen Mo, who was pacing back and forth outside the house, breathed a sigh of relief and looked into the house.

Soon, a maid who was taking care of the baby in the house came out with a happy face and said with a smile: "Prince, mother and daughter are safe, and it's a rich lady."

Xiao Ya, who was holding little Chen Qin, heard the words, and her face changed slightly. How could she give birth to a girl? What will the Xiao family do in the future?

Xiao Yunxi is relatively old and has given birth to two children. It will not be so easy to get pregnant again.

Xiao Ya gritted her teeth. In this way, I am afraid that she can only rely on her next.

Can I do it by myself?

There was no regret on Chen Mo's face, and he said happily: "Mi'er, the midwife and maids in the room will all be rewarded."

Wu Mi smiled and nodded. She would do it without him saying it.

Inside the house, Xiao Yunxi lay quietly on the couch. She was not weak, but her makeup was a little messy, her hair was loose, and a layer of dense sweat permeated her jade-like forehead. However, there was a hint of sadness in her beautiful eyes.

Why is it not a boy?

It was difficult to get pregnant with Chen Mo.

Now that she is older, it will be even more difficult to get pregnant again.

If it is not a boy, what will the Xiao family do?

However, when her eyes moved to the baby being cleaned by the servant, the sadness in her eyes suddenly dissipated.

Although it is a girl, it is also her and Chen Mo's child.

This blood connection cannot be changed.

"Prince."

"Prince."

"..."

Just then, Chen Mo strode in.

When Xiao Yunxi saw Chen Mo coming in, she was not happy, but scared. She kept asking Chen Mo to get out quickly, and her voice was crying.

After all, the King of Huai ignored her because he saw her "ugly" appearance when he entered the delivery room.

She didn't want to go through it again.

But Chen Mo was not the King of Huai, he would not dislike his woman.

He walked over directly, sat down beside the bed, held Xiao Yunxi's hand, ignored the sweat on her face and the faint strange smell in the air, kissed her on the face, and said softly: "Yunxi, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, you have worked hard, I come to see you."

"No, husband, please go out quickly, I am so ugly now." Xiao Yunxi was pushing Chen Mo.

"No, it's not. In my heart, Yunxi, you are so beautiful now."

As he said that, Chen Mo raised his hand and hugged Xiao Yunxi's shoulders, turned his head to look at the baby who was still crying beside him, and smiled: "Yunxi, look, our daughter looks so much like you."

Hearing Chen Mo mention his daughter, Xiao Yunxi raised her eyes and looked at Chen Mo's expression. He did not look disgusted. She felt a little relieved. She turned her eyes to her daughter, and a touch of joy appeared in her eyes. She said softly: "What can be seen from a newborn baby. Husband, please give our daughter a name."