You are not allowed to walk around the palace without permission. Any disobedience will be a serious crime of beheading.
Especially the harem where the emperor's three thousand beauties reside, and the Si Tiantai where he observes celestial phenomena, calculates solar terms and formulates calendars. These two matters are of great importance to the reputation of the saint and the court. Even some extremely favored Diao Yuan will not be allowed to leave without a warrant. Dare to go beyond half a step.
It was almost nightfall now, and in the inner garden, the palace ladies from the Yellow Gate were running around to light up the lamps.
It's interesting to say that the current Emperor Wen Sheng is also a wonderful man, with many beauties in his harem. This emperor is impartial and dotes on the empress, the queen of the harem, who is inferior to one person and outnumbers ten thousand people.
It was not because of the status of the empress in charge of the female officials, but simply because the two couples had been together for several years. In addition, Empress Jiang Shan was praised for everything she did. It was obvious that she had changed from a good wife to an indispensable existence.
A young man in a jet-black slim-fitting shorts walked quickly through the corridors of the harem. He ignored the respectful greetings from the imprisoned maids or patrolling guards he met occasionally, and entered the queen's bedroom in an unruly and unethical manner.
"My child, Wang Jiang, has met his mother."
The Fourteenth Prince, who was very popular with the current Holy Emperor, raised his hand to stop the salutes of several palace maids, and bowed after entering the room. He secretly glanced at the noble woman who had given birth to three thousand concubines in the harem, waved away all the palace maids and eunuchs, and then personally He started to remove the array of ornaments on his head.
"Mom, let me help you." It is a child's nature to act coquettishly in front of his mother, and Wang Jiang, who is the prince, is no exception. At this time, he took off the mask of being superior in the eyes of outsiders, and it has been a long time since he was separated from ordinary children. Like a mother-in-law, there was a hint of squeamishness in her tone unconsciously.
In the bronze mirror, the noble woman beneath one person and above ten thousand people has a graceful and elegant manner. She looks friendly with a smile on her face. She pinches the white jade string beside her ear with her fingers like peeled onions and makes this gentle movement. The action is also a rare style.
It has to be said that the current Holy Emperor has three thousand beauties but he only favors this one person. Putting aside other things, he is afraid that whoever gets this beauty will be indifferent to the others.
The current empress, Jiang Shan, didn't even look back. She raised her hand and patted down the hand that was reaching out from behind to pick off the priceless string of water-marked blue ripples on her neck. She scolded: "You are clumsy and watching." , I accidentally fell it and it would be strange if your father didn't scold you."
Wang Jiang stopped his hand and laughed, stepped forward and lay on the rosewood dressing table with three or four palm-sized faces on the table. He turned his head and looked at the woman who was carefully removing her makeup, "Mom, you miss me." No ah."
"What do you want from you, a white-eyed wolf?" The woman didn't even look at the little son who loved to roll around in front of her since he was a child. She took off the sets of yellow and white jade stones and wiped her face with the cotton silk handkerchief. Gou Fen, "I didn't even come to my mother's place when I returned to Beijing. After making great achievements this time, do you think my mother's threshold is low?"
"Mom, you have wronged me." Wang Jiang straightened up with an unhappy face, pouted like a child who was wronged, and said with aggrieved face: "I will go to my father to report this incident when I get back. Regarding the battle situation, the patron king was also there. Just because the child let out a word, he asked the prince to scold me in front of the father. You don’t know what the patron king is like. After reporting to the father, the child I hurriedly went to Panshan to apologize to the prince, and I tried hard to persuade him to make him happy. Then I asked Uncle Ye to stay and indulge in a few glasses of wine. As soon as I came back, I came to see you. Mother, I am your My dear, you can't accuse me so wrongly. You see me being so obedient, are you willing to be angry?"
Naturally, she would not really blame her. Queen Jiang Shan scolded him lightly: "Just stay there."
Wang Jiang said flatteringly: "Mom, look what I brought back to you."
As he spoke, the fourteenth prince, who was still acting like a child in his twenties, had a translucent yellow-brown crystal the size of an egg in his hand like a magic trick. He showed off in front of his mother to claim credit, "This is what Anxi will do next." Tortoiseshell turtles found in the Persian Gulf in the West, mother, do you like them?"
Even if she is used to seeing these valuable and rare things, as a mother, she is naturally extremely happy to receive a gift from her son, no matter how high or low she is. Queen Jiang Shan looked at it in the bronze mirror, and the feigned anger on her face disappeared. , with a smile on his face, "This is so true."
It's just that this thing, which is several times larger than the ordinary tortoise shells in the palace, didn't attract the queen's attention too much. Even this son who didn't look like an adult didn't let Jiang Shan look at it too much. He just collected the jewelry in his hands. His movements obviously paused, and he asked a little carelessly: "Did you drink with your Uncle Ye again in the bamboo forest?"
The Queen Mother, who was used to seeing rare and rare treasures, was not that curious about this kind of thing to play with. On the contrary, Wang Jiang turned it over and over in his hand and looked at it over and over again. He didn't care about his mother's expression and said, "Yes. It’s not like you don’t know that Uncle Ye hasn’t returned to the mountain for a long time because of that incident. Uncle Long and Uncle Ma are also there, and the Governor of Daojiang and Beidao is also there, and he has been guarding the Andong Protectorate in Hebei Province for the past few years. Old General Wu Diwu is also coming back from his break this year. You also know that the patron king has a very weird temper. Privately, those people are not willing to stay with the prince for a long time, so they all go to the bamboo forest to find Uncle Ye. I want to come to Uncle Ye. It won’t be boring.”
Apparently not hearing what she wanted to hear, Empress Jiang Shan threw the silk handkerchief produced by the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau into the bronze basin not far away, and said: "I'm really going to kiss your mother today." I’m so tired that I’m not feeling happy. The Lantern Festival has just ended, and your father is going to entertain all the ministers in the palace, and he ordered me to make a new dragon robe. Today, I was running back and forth from the Shanggong Bureau and the Shangfu Bureau, so I finally made it in a hurry. It’s almost done. Those with sore backs, please come and give me a pound.”
As she spoke, the queen stood up and walked to the couch. Her soft and tender body, which really didn't look like she was about to be forty years old, lay down on the couch. A long, vague sound came out of her delicate mouth, Then he added: "Your brother and your sister will marry each other, and they will be crowned kings. Your sister is lazy and knows how to play around. Mom, I can only count on you."
Jiang Shan changed the subject again without traces, tilted his head and closed his eyes, waiting for his son to pat his back and shoulders, and continued: "You said that your Uncle Ye is the same, he is also in his forties, the elder is not the younger. Just like you children, you are not angry with your father. During this period of time, if you have nothing to do, go to the mountains to accompany him. Your brother San Geng and sister Xia'er are not here, and your sister Linling and Jiazi are not coming in or out. It’s convenient, and you can’t even count on Wenmei Sifu. It’s really worrying to have him there alone.”
Wang Jiang, who stepped onto the bed and knelt down to give his mother a gentle massage, agreed and said reluctantly: "But I really don't want to go, mother. If I meet the prince, he always has a straight face. I'm afraid to see him." Him. How about you accompany me?"
Jiang Shan smiled bitterly, why didn't he want to go there? Whether she was leaving this breathless imperial city or deliberately trying to comfort the two father and son who seemed like enemies, she really wanted her son to take her there.
But now that I am a father and a mother, and I have this special status, the grudges and resentments that happened more than 20 years ago have long been put aside, so I can't help myself to continue the love between my children. If it spreads, it will not let the world know. What a joke, ruining the face of this great country?
"Mom, I really want to go. Do you think that I am happy to be in this palace every day? When you open your eyes, you have to think about the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the entire inner city. Do you think that my mother spends all day doing nothing and gossiping?" The manager of this family The empress, who was really a bit embarrassed to say it, sighed, obviously a little confused about the "position" in which she only knew the difficulties.
Folk women all dream that one day a golden phoenix will fly out of the chicken coop, and it will be able to enter the palace and serve as a bed attendant, and then the chicken and dog will ascend to heaven. But once you have entered this palace, all kinds of rules and regulations are pressing down on you. The intrigues and intrigues with the green teeth can also be very depressing. Maybe you are flirting with the emperor today, don't mention it, I'm afraid tonight Something happened.
As the master of the harem, she couldn't worry about this. She couldn't let the emperor distract from her family affairs anymore.
Jiang Shan sighed again, seeming to spit out the sudden strange thoughts and the depression of walking on thin ice for more than 20 years, and said: "He is the patron king, too. His grandchildren are about to start a family and start a career. You say he is still young at his age. Everything is done according to one's own temper. It's just a real person who knows his temper. He is afraid that those villains who are in front of others and behind others will make a fuss about him. He obviously has no heart to be arrogant, and maybe it will be associated with relying on his elders and selling them off. He is arbitrary and willful. For twenty or thirty years, he has devoted himself to assisting two generations of emperors in the Zhou Dynasty and made great achievements. I am afraid that it will be misinterpreted by some villains who take it out of context. The success will be high and the main tail will be shaken. "
Wang Jiang was not interested in these twists and turns of trivial matters in the court. He was even less interested in listening to them, and his hand strength was also much weaker. Jiang Shan naturally felt it and said: "You too, you think about fighting, fighting, fighting every day." , as soon as I heard that there was a war somewhere, I rushed forward without thinking about how to make some connections in this dynasty. I also followed your fourth brother to learn from him and work hard on civil affairs. Just keep fooling around like this, It really chills my mother’s heart.”
"Fourth brother is extremely talented and versatile in both civil and military affairs. I can just focus on my martial arts." Wang Jiang curled his lips and said, "Someone who cares all day long is not happy to say a word. One sentence can misinterpret one hundred and eighty things." I mean, it’s annoying to death.”
Jiang Shan smiled bitterly, closed her eyes and fell asleep. If it wasn't a last resort, why would she like her youngest son to do those thankless things?
But when I think about the fact that in recent years, the husband and wife have slept together in the same bed, they have occasionally mentioned the patron king, the emperor who has always been humbly accepting advice in front of his courtiers and doing what is right. He gave himself a slap on the back of his head. It can be seen that in private, the king with a different surname who is somewhat dominant in the family has also become a worry for the emperor.
It's just that such elusive thoughts, being a wife and a mother, can only be buried in the heart and cannot be discussed with others.
The always graceful Queen Jiang Shan was not afraid of her son's jokes. She buried her face in the refreshing pillow stuffed with cassia seeds, and squeezed the peony bun on her head that took two maids to smooth every day. Take shape.
"Only in this way can we protect the people we want to protect."
The fourteenth prince seemed not to have heard the whisper as if he was talking in sleep.
