Chapter 126: Yuan Cairen

Yun Fenghuang stayed in the Fangyin Pavilion until lunch time, and the Empress Dowager Yuan wanted to save the meal, but Yuan Niangniang appeared at the door with her stomach full, and said, "Auntie, it's time to eat. I made red dates, yams and glutinous rice porridge with my own hands. , the imperial doctor said, it can invigorate Qi and soothe the nerves, you didn’t sleep well last night, you need to use more later.”

Empress Dowager Yuan was stunned before she smiled, and said kindly: "Why are you so worried about your weight? Ai's family is fine."

"Your Majesty woke up this morning and heard what happened last night. She was quite frightened." Aunt Zhu, who was supporting Yuan Niangniang, said hastily, "Knowing that you didn't sleep well, you became more and more restless. No, I wanted to come over to have a look at that time. I heard that you were summoning the concubine here, so I didn't dare to disturb you. So I went to the small kitchen... The red dates, yam and glutinous rice porridge used the old lady's recipe at home, which is It's the first time the lady made it, and she's not very familiar with it, so she made it three or five times, and she tasted it with her own mouth, and she was almost ready before asking someone to serve it up."

When mentioning Empress Dowager Yuan's mother, Empress Dowager Yuan looked complicated for a moment, and sighed: "It's hard for you."

Just taking a look at Yun Fenghuang, Yun Fenghuang hastily got up and left.

She thought that the queen mother meant to let her leave early, so as not to disturb their family's reunion.

As a result, the queen mother pondered for a while, but said: "Forget it, it's all over, I sent you back to Lanzhou Yeyu Pavilion, and I didn't have to turn back to complain to the emperor. The Yan Ai family wronged you, so I stayed with you some."

"How dare the concubine?" Yun Fenghuang was amazed in his heart, but he skillfully expressed his grievances on his face, "I am afraid that I will disturb you if I don't behave well."

Empress Dowager Yuan said with a smile: "What rules are there? There has never been so much attention here at Aijia."

When the queen mother said this, Yuan Niang's face showed anger, but Aunt Zhu held her arm tightly and shook her head slightly, so she could not make a sound.

So a group of people surrounded the Empress Dowager and went to the flower hall where the meal was served. The palace people spread the meal, Yun Fenghuang got up tactfully, and served the Empress Dowager. I asked her to sit down and take care of herself, but before Yun Fenghuang could sit down, Yuan Niangniang suddenly said diagonally: "Mao Zhaoyi, I want that plate of pickles!"

Yun Fenghuang glanced at the pickles in front of him, smiled and asked Qingdu: "Hurry up and send it to Jieyu."

"..." Yuan Niangniang clenched her teeth and watched Qing Du respectfully put the pickles in front of her, and ate without saying a word, without even touching the plate of pickles.

Yun Fenghuang just pretended not to see him, and accompanied them through the lunch as usual, the palace servants poured tea, and the group rinsed their mouths. The Empress Dowager Yuan took a look at the sky outside, and pulled them to chat a few gossips, showing a tired look. Seeing this, Yun Fenghuang resigned again - this time the queen mother did not keep her.

After she left, Yuan Niangniang did not leave, tears fell down "patta pata", and she asked Empress Dowager Yuan sadly: "Does my aunt not like me anymore?"

"You child!" The Empress Dowager Yuan's attitude towards her was as gentle as ever, "Why do you think so?"

Yuan Lianniang said angrily: "Then why did you stay with Mao Zhaoyi for dinner just now? And let her drink the porridge I cooked for you!"

When she said that, Aunt Zhu kept tugging on her sleeve secretly, but Yuan Niangniang ignored it in a fit of anger.

"Isn't it for you?" The Empress Dowager Yuan coaxed her nephew and daughter as if she hadn't seen Aunt Zhu's little action, "You also heard about Zhao Chenggui's incident last night, Mrs. Ji He has been in charge of Fengyin for many years, and Ai’s family is called the Empress Dowager. In fact, he has been in the palace for eight years and can’t do anything! It’s rare to get the Empress Dowager this time. If something happens inside again, is there still a place for the Ai family to talk? The Ai family can't speak, how can they protect you?"

She sighed, looking very distressed, "You had a miscarriage before, God is sorry to see that you are pregnant again now, but you must not make any mistakes! Otherwise, how can the Ai family and the emperor bear it? But this You have seen how unruly the palace is. Mao Zhaoyi is shrewd even though she is a little out of touch. Aijia doesn’t want her to help me find out some details so that I can judge who is so bold to murder in the palace confinement. Emperor's heir!"

Yuan Niangniang was speechless and aggrieved: "...I have never cooked porridge for my parents at home, so what is Mao Zhaoyi, and it deserves to eat what I made! And just now I I asked her to bring me pickles, but she only asked her court lady to bring them for me!"

"What do you care about with her?" Empress Dowager Yuan didn't even blink her eyes, and said with a smile, "A person from a small family can compare with you?"

Then he changed the topic calmly, "By the way, Aijia asked people around him to make some small clothes for the emperor's heir two days ago. The prince and princess have them. Would you like to take a look? This time is different from the last time. , used some new tricks, Ai Jia thought it looked pretty good."

Yuan Niangniang was muttering, finally being led to look at Xiaoyishang.

It was only after a while that she went back to the house with a bunch of small clothes, Aunt Zhu slammed the door with a cold face, and sneered: "Your Majesty still has the heart to read these things at the moment, I don't know if the little master will fall to the ground in the future, can you Raise it yourself!"

"Then what do you want me to do?!" Yuan Lianniang slapped the table irritably, and said angrily, "You asked me to cook to please my aunt, and I swore that my aunt would be deeply moved, just like when I was in Fuyang County. Me! The result? Didn’t she leave Yun Fenghuang to eat, knowing that I hate that lowly servant girl, but let that lowly servant girl drink the porridge that I have worked so hard to cook several times in front of me—I think My aunt doesn't like me at all! It's useless to torment!"

Aunt Zhu said angrily: "When I first came here, I advised you not to be so capricious. Even if the Queen Mother and Your Majesty dote on you, you should be a little bit measured. Don't mess around when you should know the cold and the hot. What happened? You only listened to it today." Go in a little bit, and see that Yun Fenghuang comes to take off the hairpin to plead guilty, and the queen mother treats him differently, worrying that the queen mother will be wooed! Now I hope that a bowl of porridge will be thrown away by the queen mother immediately, that coaxing and talkative Maozhao Yi, put you back on the apex of your heart... Are you afraid you are dreaming?!"

Yuan Niangniang just said that Queen Mother Yuan might not like her, but she was just angry. If Aunt Zhu comforted her and said that the Queen Mother did not care about her, she would definitely be hypocritical, and repeatedly said that the Queen Mother didn't like her and wanted her.

But now Aunt Zhu insisted that the Queen Mother was alienating her, and turned her heart to Yun Fenghuang, Yuan Niangniang couldn't bear it, and retorted: "If my aunt really doesn't care about me, would you ask people around me to do this for me?"

She pointed to the clothes on the table.

Aunt Zhu didn't even look at it, and sneered: "Is this for you? This is for the emperor's heir! Did you know that the queen mother valued the emperor's heir? At the beginning, Zhao Chenggui was such a thing that he was neglected under the concubine's hands. The empress dowager is in a hurry to find the empress dowager to discuss with the empress dowager... Now that you are not born yet, it is still convenient to move, no matter what the empress dowager thinks, for the sake of the emperor's heir, I will keep you Kind of respectable."

"But if you don't take advantage of this period of time to change their impression of you, do you think they will continue to endure you after the emperor's heir lands?"

"It's impossible to find an excuse to take the child away and give it to the concubine they think is good. For example, Yun Fenghuang, who is being liked by the queen mother at the moment!"

Yuan Niangniang said angrily: "Impossible! I have a deep hatred with that lowly maidservant, how can my flesh and blood fall into her hands?!"

"That's not necessarily true." Aunt Zhu said coldly, "Don't forget that Mao Zhaoyi is infertile. Before asking her to take off her hairpin to plead guilty, it's fine. It’s not too late to return, it’s a good thing in essence! If you entrust your child to her upbringing, even if she wants to keep people from gossiping, she will definitely treat her well!”

She sighed as she spoke, unable to hide her disappointment, "As I said before, when you were only pregnant, you should go to the Queen Mother to admit your mistakes and apologize for your nonsense over the years. The Queen Mother is not narrow-minded. Man, you are her own niece and daughter who grew up under her watch, even though you have caused her and His Majesty a lot of trouble before, you take the initiative to admit your mistake and say a few words of understanding to them, and they will forgive you."

And if I admitted my mistake at that time, it can be said that it was because I was going to be a mother, and I became more considerate of the difficulty of being a mother, which was reasonable and not artificial.

If the operation is good, the mother and son of the queen mother can think that this is a natural expression, from the heart.

The results of it?

Yuan Niangniang refused to listen.

Instead, Yun Fenghuang picked a cheap one - on the day of reunion with his biological mother who came from afar, he rushed to the Fangyin Pavilion to take off his hairpin to plead guilty, with traces of his mother's slap on his face, and he was only fifteen years old Even if Empress Dowager Yuan is narrow-minded at such a young age, it is impossible to say that she still cares about her if she wants to show some face to the Empress Dowager.

Not to mention that the queen mother is not so sure about revenge?

Yun Fenghuang took the lead, and now Yuan Lianniang admits her mistake, no matter how eloquent her words are, it is hard not to be regarded as imitating Yun Fenghuang's behavior.

Of course, even so, in Aunt Zhu's opinion, it's better to admit mistakes than not to admit them, but she talked so much, even coaxing and scaring, it was nothing more than convincing Yuan Niangniang to take the initiative to stay in the kitchen for a while, and came to make red dates, yams and glutinous rice by herself. Congee—it was a good thing at first, but in front of the Queen Mother, Yuan Lianniang tried to get Yun Fenghuang to give her some vegetables. With such a move, not only did she not get her wish, but she was exposed in front of the Queen Mother. The unclear temperament has not changed at all, Aunt Zhu is now...

Gathering her mind, Aunt Zhu said slowly: "Didn't you realize that neither the Empress Dowager nor Your Majesty have advised you anymore?"

In the past, the Empress Dowager Yuan's mother and son didn't tell Yuan Niangniang that they really put their hearts and souls into it, but at least they wanted her to be well, so while coaxing, they would also persuade her and try to guide her in a good direction. However, since the emperor came to power, the mother and son persuaded Yuan Niangniang less and less often, and even now they only coax them.

No matter what kind of nonsense Yuan Niangniang was doing, she just followed her hair and tried to calm things down as quickly as possible.

Yuan Niangniang likes to listen to what she says when she gets into trouble.

As for whether those words are good for her...

Never mind.

It's as if Empress Dowager Yuan said lightly that Yun Fenghuang "comes from a small family" just now, as if she was very contemptuous, but if she was really contemptuous, she would have kept Zhaoyi here to drink the porridge cooked by her niece and daughter for the first time in many years ?

It's just that Yuan Niangniang likes the empress dowager to belittle concubines other than herself in front of her with the emperor.

Yuan Niangniang may not be able to react because she is ignorant, but Aunt Zhu is cold all over, knowing that the Empress Dowager Yuan and her son are really going to give up Yuan Niuniang.

Maybe it's because the emperor is in charge, and there's no need to pull Qingmei to pretend to be nostalgic; maybe it's because the emperor is in charge, and he doesn't have so much energy to spend on Qingmei's ignorance because of his busy government affairs; Without progress, the emperor's mother and son are both tired...

In short, it is not a good thing.

Aunt Zhu was in a hurry, but Yuan Niangniang was not in a hurry—she was almost heartbroken to talk to Yuan Niangniang at the moment, but seeing Yue Jieyu who walked to the dressing table and sat down in front of the dressing table out of impatience, suddenly Silent.

Yuan Niangniang didn't care about her abrupt departure, but felt that she was finally clean.

In fact, it's not that she didn't listen to what Aunt Zhu said, it's just that the country is easy to change and the nature is hard to change. She has been self-willed for so many years, and she suddenly corrected, and she was still sensible and considerate. It is really painful.

And she felt that all the hardships she suffered in the palace these years were for the sake of the emperor, so wouldn't it be natural for the emperor to tolerate her?

No matter how bad the situation was, she was pregnant anyway.

Thinking of this, Yuan Niangniang rubbed her lower abdomen and thought, Jilang doesn't like daughters from famous families, and the concubine has a miscarriage. He is not sad at all, which is a clear example. As for the two concubines who are pregnant in the palace, although they came from humble backgrounds, they have no relationship with Ji Lang, and their future adoptive mothers will not be easy-going...

Although the emperor rejected her coquettish pleading last time, if this time the baby is a prince, he would immediately become a prince, but the emperor also said at the time that the current situation is not suitable for a crown prince, and this matter will be discussed later—— In the end there is no saying that it must not be allowed.

Taking ten thousand steps back, the emperor really changed his mind, and his filial piety to Queen Mother Yuan was not so easy to change.

She is the niece and daughter of Empress Dowager Yuan. The emperor has no blood relationship with Empress Dowager Yuan, but the child she gave birth to is the grandnephew of the Empress Dowager by blood... So even if you don't want to listen to Aunt Zhu, put down your body and swallow your anger, as long as Yuan The status of mother and child of the queen mother is here, so where can she conceive?

Thinking about it this way when feeling flustered, Yuan Niangniang would feel calm.

As a result, she could think about it, but Xingningbo's mansion couldn't think about it—Aunt Zhu went from her house to the back hall of the Fangyin Hall, and had a private discussion with Queen Mother Yuan for half a day. He brought his daughter-in-law, granddaughter, niece and other female relatives into the palace to visit.

Then, Yuan Yuniang's cousin, the concubine daughter of her uncle's family, Yuan Yuniang, "mistakenly entered" Xingxintang when the elders were talking and asked the younger generation to walk around the Fangyin Hall by themselves, and bumped into Emperor Chunjia.

I don't know the exact process, anyway, the person was left in the palace directly, so the Empress Dowager Yuan sent someone to Baoser Xiaozhu to find the Empress Ji for some discussion. , Placement of newly promoted Yuan Cairen.