The fragility in Concubine Bai's eyebrows almost overflowed from her eyes. She turned her head and looked up at Emperor Wei, as if she wanted to seek the emperor's protection and favor, but this time, she was destined to be disappointed.
Emperor Wei pondered for a moment, not even looking at her, but said slowly: "Zhao Zhao... what he said is absolutely true. The queen is newly mourned, and scandals should be avoided in the palace for a year.
Since the prince has no concubine and the queen mother has been dead for many years, the goddess of Shentai Palace has always been respected in Tianchen. If Zhaozhao is willing, the goddess will preside over the funeral ceremony of the queen. This is in line with the rules and etiquette. Presumably, the person who officiated at the funeral was Zhao Zhao, and Ah Wan would have been happy and happy. "
Siblings Fu Jingci and Fu Jingyan glanced at their father subconsciously. They seemed a little surprised that under the circumstances, Emperor Wei's mouth actually sounded a bit lost, "Ah Wan."
Emperor Fu Shang attaches great importance to imperial dignity, and most of the time he calls Queen Xie Wan as "Queen". Even when he was deeply affectionate, he just called her "Zitong" in private and intimately.
Even Fu Jingci, the daughter of Fu Jingci, is not sure. The "Prince Fu Shang", which was very popular that time and shocked Zhaoge and was passed down by the people orally, ignored the propriety and spent a lot of money to light 900 lanterns on the Lantern Festival. The rumor in the market that he smiled for Miss Xie of the Xie family in Bo Xunyang is a political game that her father carefully planned when he was still a prince, or is it really the result of his admiration for her mother, Xie Wan, a young boy in Anhui, who is deeply in love and can't help it? Your own sincere act?
In the world of red tape and etiquette that is as smelly and long as an old lady's foot-binding cloth, children are not allowed to speak about the rights and wrongs of their parents.
However, Fu Jingci has never been the kind of daughter who follows the rules and regulations, and she doesn't pay much attention to the so-called "etiquette" that women must adhere to.
She grew up practicing the art of externalization next to Feng Zhi, the high priest who was a flying immortal and a celestial being outside the Shentai Palace. She also practiced Hetu swordsmanship with Xie Lin of Shangzhu Kingdom and three uncles who were warriors on the battlefield.
In fact, compared to the graceful and delicate dynasty princesses who walked in and out of the palace and were surrounded by servants, Fu Jingci's temperament was more like that of a gallant and unrestrained hero.
So sometimes she would wonder why her father and mother had such a strange, unpredictable, distant, and inseparable way of getting along with each other.
That's right, when Fu Jingci's grandfather Xie Lin and the three heroes of the Xie family were still alive, she once secretly overheard her grandfather coming to the palace to visit her mother and seriously asking Queen Xie if she was willing to reconcile with her father, Emperor Wei.
The Xie family is not afraid of having a deposed queen who will affect the family's reputation, nor is it afraid of being criticized by the world.
The old man Shangzhu Guo spoke loud and clear: Ah Wan, father and your three brothers are not afraid of death, serve the country and the people, and lick blood from the sword of the dynasty all their lives. How can they not exchange for you, the only daughter of the Xie family? Is my mother's life going well? As long as you want, Daddy and your brothers will take care of the rest.
Fu Jingci clearly remembered that it seemed that her father and mother were already a little cold and alienated at that time, and even her father began to dote on the concubine Bai every day, even on such important days as the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month. She cared so much about the face of the empress in the palace that her grandfather and uncles even heard about it.
But the strange thing is that Queen Xie rejected Xie Lin's suggestion from Shangzhu Kingdom and insisted on staying in the inner courtyard of the palace, continuing to be the mother of a country like the Bodhisattva statue on the altar, without sorrow or joy.
When I was a child, I didn't understand Fu Jingci. I just thought that my mother was trying to protect her and her brother's so-called "direct descendants from the middle palace" from being shaken by others, so that's why she wronged herself so much.
Therefore, she worked even harder, hoping that she could grow up quickly and become the support of her mother and younger brother.
Then, it was her turn to protect her queen mother and younger brother.
By then, the queen mother would no longer need to compromise. She knew that the queen mother missed the ancestral home in Xunyang that she often talked about.
She hasn't been back for many years.
But later, when Fu Jingci got older, he was not so sure about his original hypothesis.
Is the queen mother really just doing it for her and her brother's dignity?
But obviously her mother, Queen Xie, would look at her heartbrokenly every time she saw her, saying that she was very good, and advising her daughter to relax, not to have such deep obsessions, and not to embarrass herself so much.
Fu Jingci has been a child with excellent memory and photographic memory since childhood.
Deep in her memory, the most memorable words her mother Xie Wan once said to her when she was in charge were:
"Zhaozhao, everyone in this world and this dynasty has high hopes for you, but not my mother. I only wish you to grow up safely and be happy and healthy. My mother gave you the small character 'Zhao Zhao', and others mistakenly thought it came from ' The "Zhao" in "Zhaoge" is actually the "Zhao" in "Zhao Ruxing".
——I only hope that in the future, no matter how the universe rotates or the winds and clouds of heaven and earth change, you will be like the sun, moon and stars hanging high, never disappearing and decaying, and always blooming with your splendor. "
Six-year-old Fu Jingci curiously asked his mother——
"Mother, what should I do with the splendor of my ministers there?"
That year, the 25-year-old Empress Xie was like peonies in full bloom, with a gentle and clear smile, and her eyes looking at her daughter were like a warm spring.
She sighed softly, "As long as you feel boundless happiness every day, it is already very rare. Mother, I hope that the splendor of Zhaozhao depends on your heart and your happiness."
The little girl was very confused at that time.
She had heard the imperial concubine privately ordering her concubine Princess Taiping to improve, to strive for success, and to become the most dignified and decent noblewoman in Zhaoge City. Doesn't the queen mother need her to be so outstanding?
Care about your heart.
It's about being happy.
"As long as...that's it?"
Is it that simple?
The young queen solemnly nodded to her ignorant little daughter, "That's all."
She laughed: Silly child, you will know when you grow up that actually being happy every day is the most difficult and rarest thing in the world.
Princess Tianchen, who is five or six years old, seems to understand.
Thirteen-year-old Fu Jingci now understands the painstaking efforts of his mother as a mother.
Although during the reign of Emperor Wei, most of his concubines were beauties who were well-known in their boudoirs, in fact Emperor Wei did not pay much attention to beauty, there were not many women in the palace, and there were very few famous concubines.
It seems that except for Concubine Bai Guifei, who was quite fond of him and was often called by the emperor's maiden name "Xi'er", other women in the harem, even Queen Xie Wan, were rarely called by the emperor's maiden name.
Presumably, it was because of these special "preferential treatment" that Concubine Bai was very happy since she entered the palace.
Concubine Bai, who was born in the Bai family of the top aristocratic family in Tianchen, believed that her background was not much different from that of Queen Xie Wan, who was born in the Xie family in Xunyang. How could she be willing to be a concubine for the rest of her life?
That's right, who said that the emperor's concubines are not concubines?
