A Precious Pearl in the Imperial City

Yun Yanze stood under the high palace wall. He looked at Yun Duqing and Ming Jiuzhu in the distance. The night wind brought their laughter, and even the sound of firecrackers could not conceal their happiness.

The joys and sorrows of the world will always be like this

He sat down along the root of the wall, looked up at the fireworks exploding in the sky, his mind was blank.

These gorgeous fireworks buried his mother's death, but he didn't even have the courage to look at her for the last time.

"Yanze, you must study hard and become the best prince."

"You have to be obedient, then your father will like you."

"Yanze, you are all your mother's hope. You want to become a prince and become the most noble man in Dacheng."

"I hate it, hate it..."

The sound of firecrackers had stopped. When he recovered, Yun Duqing had already left. Ming Jiuzhu was holding a palace lantern in his hand, followed by several court ladies and eunuchs.

"The county owner, there seems to be someone over there."

An **** found him: "Slave, go over and take a look."

"Don't go." Jiuzhu stopped the little eunuch. She looked at the fuzzy figure under the wall. This kind of reunion night, people who are alone, don't bother to be gentle to them: "Let's go, no one Excuse me."

Seeing the girl leaving with the eunuch, Yun Yanze stood up, looked up at the fireworks that were still blooming in the sky, and turned and blended into the night.

In Qianyi Pavilion, Zheng Lanyin held the white silk in his hand and looked at the fireworks outside the window. He was still unwilling, but the Dali eunuchs didn't care about it. They dragged her around her neck and wrapped the white silk around her neck.

She stretched out her hand to pull at Bai Ling in fear, crying with tears, how could there be the elegance and nobleness of the past.

"Zheng Meiren." A **** said with a strange yin and yang air: "Good life, go on the road, if you continue to struggle like this, you will hurt the four princes."

"Who of you dare to kill me, I am the biological mother of the fourth prince!" Zheng Lanyin seems to have finally found the confidence: "You humble dog slaves, no one can touch me."

Being scolded as a dog minion, the **** was not angry. He and another **** used force and strangled Bai Ling. Seeing Zheng Lanyin struggle less and less, he sneered: "I just forgot to tell the beauty. , The emperor not only cut off all the titles of the four princes, but will also bring the noble concubine and empress to worship the ancestor tomorrow, and canonize the noble concubine as the queen of the central palace!"

Zheng Lanyin opened her eyes wide, struggling desperately twice, and swallowed her last breath with her eyes open.

"When I die, I still want to take the four princes as gold medals to avoid death. With such grandparents and biological mothers, the fourth princes are really unlucky." The **** Dali tried Zheng Lanyin's breath: "Die, take it for business."

"Father-in-law, father-in-law." The white peony rushed into the house, took out the silver from his body, and stuffed it into the hands of the Dali eunuch: "Pray for a moment of accommodating father-in-law, and allow the slave and maidservant to tidy up his master's appearance.

The Eunuch Dali threw the silver in his hand twice, and said with a smile, "You are a loyal servant, go."

"Thank you father-in-law." Bai Shao blessed them before walking towards Zheng Lanyin's corpse.

The Eunuch Dali sneered. What is the difference between the female officer in charge in the past and the falling water dog?

Ming Jingzhou and Shen waited for a long time outside the Vermilion Bird's Gate, only to see their daughter rushing towards them on small steps, followed by a few cautious and respectful eunuchs carrying lanterns behind them.

"Be careful, don't fall." Shen stretched out his hand to support Jiuzhu, smelled the faint smell of fireworks and firecrackers on her body, and asked her to sit down beside her: "Have a great time with His Royal Highness Chen Wang?"

Seeing her daughter nodding, Shen was not surprised at all, it was indeed Wang Chen that delayed her daughter's journey out of the palace.

"Sit down, let's go home." Shen put down the curtain to cut off the sight of the little eunuchs outside.

The wheels smashed on the road, making a rustling sound. Jiuzhu remembered what happened at the annual banquet and couldn't help but ask Ming Jingzhou: "Father, why did the grandfather of the four princes commit so many serious crimes with his mother, and so many people intercede for the four princes?"

"They are not pleading for the four princes, but for their own future." Ming Jingzhou did not deliberately lied to her daughter because she was young: "In your opinion, how about the four princes?"

Jiuzhu shook his head: "He has a good appearance, a degree of advance and retreat, and a respectful manner. He is a graceful gentleman, but I don't like him."

"Because you recognized the steward who hurt you in the Zheng family?"

"No." Jiuzhu continued to shake his head: "As early as the first time I saw him, I thought he was a little strange."

Although she didn't know the reason.

"In this life, people always have to meet one or two people who don't like it or are unforgettable when they see it." Shen touched her daughter's head: "Don't care about such trivial things, just get closer to those who like it. If you don’t like it, stay away from him, without embarrassing yourself.”

Jiuzhu smiled: "My daughter knows."

Sometimes, if you don't agree with your eyes, you can't force it.

"In the eyes of those adults, the four princes abide by etiquette, are kind, and value civil servants. For the civil servants, this is the best candidate for the emperor." Ming Jingzhou smiled inexplicably: "King Huai is close to the military commander. , An Wangjing Wang is mediocre, Chen Wang’s character..."

Jiuzhu looked up at him.

"The King Chen’s character is self, not controlled by civil servants." In the eyes of his daughter, Ming Jingzhou changed "domineering" to euphemistic "self". He knew the thoughts of some civil servants, but he was only loyal to his majesty. Even if he knew his abacus, he didn't intend to participate.

"So they are not really admiring the Fourth Prince, but because they think... he is suitable?"

"Maybe the four princes just want them to think that he is the most suitable candidate." Ming Jingzhou answered his daughter's question: "As long as people live, they will inevitably have selfishness."

He is the same.

Jiuzhu was silent for a moment: "But if the nature of the four princes is not what they imagined, they won't regret it?"

"Jiuzhu knows that there was once such an emperor in history. When he was young, he was modest in his words and deeds. He was humble and kind, not close to women, thrifty and thrifty. His words and deeds were perfect. However, when he became the emperor, he began to make great efforts in civil engineering. Namise, cruel and innocent?"

"Later...what happened?"

"The country is subjugated." Ming Jingzhou saw her daughter was stunned by what he said: "We don't forget the past, the teacher of the future. What Dacheng needs is a true benevolent and wise monarch like your majesty, not a hypocrite. madman."

"Father thinks that the Fourth Prince is such a person?"

"I don't know." Ming Jingzhou smiled: "But I know, my daughter doesn't like him."

Jiuzhu's eyes widened. Does it matter whether she likes it or not?

"What?" Ming Jingzhou looked at her.

"It's nothing, I just think..." Jiuzhu took a breath: "Will it be sloppy?"

"No." Ming Jingzhou laughed: "This is what a father should do."

The most important thing is that your majesty is young and strong, and it is not time to find an heir.

Jiuzhu rubbed his face. Is this the happiness of being unconditionally trusted by his father?

She opened the curtain of the carriage window. Outside there were untidy night stalls, children who gathered together to play some firecrackers, and lion dancers holding lion dance heads in their arms and eating noodles at the stalls. .

In the fireworks, they enjoyed this quiet New Year's Eve.

The prosperous age is not easy to come by, why would some people not see these people who are running for their lives for their own selfishness?

"Master, Zheng Lanyin is gone."

"Dead? Good, she should have died a long time ago."

"Before she died, your Majesty went down to see her."

"Your Majesty is like this, his heart is like a mirror, but he cares about old feelings. If it weren't for her poisonous killing of Wang's side concubine and Machang's plot against Chen Wang, it would not have been found out.

There are many ways for a woman to die silently in the palace, but His Majesty personally handed down the imperial decree to give Zheng Lanyin to death.

Such things as imperial edicts must be copied and stored in the treasury, which will be passed down for a hundred years.

"Let your Majesty who cares about her old love give her such an embarrassing ending. It can be seen how stupid she was. If it really made King Chen die at that time, it would be fine. In the end, King Chen did not die. Instead, he frightened the snake and made his Majesty treat him. The suspicions of the princes are getting worse. Do you think she is a trash?"

"Master, what shall we do now?"

"Of course it is waiting."

"The temptation of the throne is so great, there will always be people who will lose their minds for this position."

"However, when Ming Jiuzhu and Chen Wang get married, Chen Wang's odds of winning will be even greater."

"marry?"

Sneered.

"It is said that the husband and wife are of the same heart, and the profit is cut off, but what if this couple becomes a resentment?"

In the 14th year of Longfeng, on the first day of the first lunar month, Emperor Longfeng brought his imperial concubine Su Clan to worship the ancestral temple, sang sacrificial texts, and then posted an emperor's list to announce to the world, and the Su Clan was established.

Although there were opponents in the previous dynasty, Emperor Longfeng resolutely did not change, and set the Lihou ceremony on the fifteenth of the first lunar month.

The harem, which has been without a master for 14 years, finally ushered in the first queen in the Longfeng period.

On the day that the ranking list was posted, Jiuzhu was locked up in the yard and learned the wedding ceremony from a maid sent by the Ministry of Rites.

There are strict rules on where to take a few steps, what kind of rituals, and even the left foot and the right foot. As the daughter of the minister of rites, Jiuzhu tried her best to learn so as not to embarrass her father.

"The courtesy manner of the county chief is really beautiful." The mother praised: "You are the fastest and best learner of rules among all the princesses."

Jiuzhu didn't believe this sentence.

Since the first day of the first month of the first lunar month, when His Majesty took her to worship her ancestors, Jiuzhu found that the attitudes of many people around her had changed drastically.

Let her be the first to go out to play with the ladies, what tea to drink, and what snacks to eat.

When going out to buy things, the shopkeepers can’t wait to sell them half and give them away.

There are more invitations delivered to home than snowflakes every day. Almost every invitation will state that mothers will take her to participate.

Even the princess princesses who met her affectionately called her "sister", so enthusiastic that it was terrifying.

"Miss." The spring equinox came in with a greeting note: "The greeting sent by Princess Roude."

"Princess Roude?" Jiuzhu thought for a while: "Is that the princess who stabbed the fourth prince at the house of Uncle Ma's?"

The equinox nodded: "It's her."

"What is she doing here?" Jiuzhu flipped through the greeting note: "Now that the princesses live in the palace, it is not easy to leave the palace once, why waste time with me?"

"Then you see her?" The spring equinox saw the young lady with a faint expression, guessing that she might not like the princess very much.

"See." Jiuzhu sighed: "I'm here, I can't shut out a princess."

"Miss... don't you like this princess too much?"

"Yeah." Jiuzhu nodded and said confidently: "I heard that this princess once angered His Royal Highness in the public."

spring equinox:"……"

Isn't it because the king of Chen made Princess Roude faceless under the public?