Chapter 230
It was her fault. This person is best at pushing her nose on her face, so she shouldn't pay attention to Lu Heng.
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Lu Heng: An exciting day
Chapter 76
Xingwang's mansion, surrounded by trees, cicadas chirped one after another, extending the afternoon for a long time. Zhang Jihou was so hot that he couldn't sleep, leaning on the beauty's couch in a daze, the palace maid knelt on the edge of the couch and carefully fanned Zhang Jihou.
A maid came in from the outside with a food box. The maid at the door saw her and opened the bamboo curtain with a low eyebrow. Mammy saw Zhang Jihou, who was in the room, and saluted, "Niangniang, the ice cream is here, you sip your mouth."
It's August now, and it should be the season of autumn winds and red leaves in the capital, but in Chengtianfu, it's still sweltering and unbearable. Zhang Jihou was timid and could not stand the weather. He couldn't even sleep well every day. The only thing he could do was eat iced drinks to relax a little.
Zhang Jihou hurriedly brought it to her. She scooped a spoonful and put it in her mouth. Finally, her dull body came to life. Mammy stood by and looked at it and said, "Although this kind of gadget is good, you can't eat it often. It would be nice if there was ice. It's in the house, and it's clean inside and out, and the empress can sleep well. Sleep."
Zhang Jihou paused for a moment, lowered his eyes and said, "Chengtian Mansion is no better than the capital, Bingxian is closely used by the emperor, and this palace is not in the way."
In the Forbidden City, there are special people who make ice and store ice, and there are several ice cellars in the interior, but the configuration of Chengtian Mansion is completely incomparable to that of Beijing. The ice in the official cellar is used by the emperor first, followed by the important officials and dignitaries around the emperor, such as Lu Heng and Zhang Shoufu. and the like, and then rewarded those who served the emperor closely, and finally, it was Zhang Jihou's turn.
The distribution of ice is completely the weight of each person in the emperor's heart. Zhang Jihou, a childless and petless queen, was even ranked after Zhang Zuo and the eunuchs.
The maid snorted and sneered: "Nu maid naturally dare not compete with Long Live and Lord Lu, but Duan concubine is nothing, dare to rank before the empress. In terms of entering the palace, she is later than empress; in terms of position, empress is the queen, but She is only a concubine; in terms of decency, you are the daughter-in-law appointed by the Empress Dowager Zhang Sheng. Madam, my servant heard that the concubine was too hot last night, so I asked for two boxes of ice, and today I am entangled with the emperor to go to the lake together."
The emperor had two drafts. The first time was in the first year of Jiajing. The Empress Dowager Zhang Sheng Jiang personally selected several concubines for the emperor, including the Yuan Empress Chen and the successor Zhang. But after ten years, the emperor had no heirs for a long time, and the courtiers could not see it. In the tenth year of Jiajing, the first assistant personally requested the emperor to fill the harem. Emperor Yun selected nine beauties from the people to enter the palace, all of them were canonized as concubines, Duan Concubine Cao was one of the nine concubines.
Although it is said that there are beauties in the harem, the emperor does not only look at his face, but also cares about the harmony of spirit and spirit. Among all the beauties, the emperor loved Cao Duan concubine the most, and even the emperor of the southern tour was thinking of her. It was inconvenient to take a woman with him when he climbed the mountain to see Xianling two days ago. Later, when he visited Chengtian Mansion, the emperor took Duan concubine by his side every time. .
Zhang Jihou knew very well that where Cao Duan's concubine was entangled, it was clearly the emperor's will. Their emperor is smart and ruthless. If he hadn't been willing, those who dared to go with him would have been buried in the ground long ago.
But the people in Kunning Palace were reluctant to admit it, as if they could cover up the truth they didn't want to see as long as they pushed their mistakes onto other women—it wasn't the emperor's fault or their own fault, it was all the other foxes' fault.
Is Zhang Jihou willing? Of course she wasn't reconciled, but what else could she do other than endure it? The emperor does not want to do it for heaven and earth and play hard-to-get. Zhang Jihou still clearly remembers that the Yuan empress in front of her, Chen Shi, saw the emperor sizing up his concubine's hand during pregnancy. He became jealous on the spot, stood up and fell hard. cup.
Who is the emperor, how can a woman handle it like this, and she is immediately furious. Empress Chen was so frightened that she had a miscarriage and died of illness not long after. After the death of Empress Chen, the emperor followed the advice of Empress Dowager Jiang and established Concubine Zhang as his successor.
On the day when Queen Chen threw the cup, Zhang Jihou was also there. She saw with her own eyes how Queen Chen fell into the dust from a country. Zhang Jihou was frightened, and after ascending the phoenix throne, he was terrified and did not dare to care about the emperor's affairs.
However, it is wrong to manage this kind of thing too much. No matter it is wrong, the Empress Dowager Jiang has quite a few criticisms of Zhang Jihou, and the emperor does not like Zhang Jihou's pedantic and boring, and has no affection for her.
In addition to a title, her queen actually has nothing.
Seeing Zhang Jihou's desolate expression, Mammy waved the palace maids away. Mammy took the fan and sat on the foot of the couch to gently fan Zhang Jihou: "Niangniang, you can't bear it any longer. Not to mention Cao Duan's favor, why the concubine in the palace didn't come, no one else knows. Don't you know? When you go back, it is estimated that the belly is also big. If a prince is born, what will you do in the future?"
For this southern tour, Zhang Jihou, Fang Deconcubine, and Yan Liconcubine were originally chosen to accompany the driver, but before the trip, Yan Liconcubine was quietly replaced and changed to Duanconcubine Cao. The emperor took whichever concubine he wanted. Outsiders didn't know the way, but Zhang Jihou knew it.
Yan Liconcubine was removed from the Southern Tour list, not because she was disgusted by the Holy One, but because she was pregnant. Twelve years after the emperor ascended the throne, he finally waited for a child. He was afraid that something might go wrong, so he quietly concealed the matter. After the tour to the south and the fetus in Yan Liconcubine's womb has landed safely, the announcement will be made.
Except for the miscarriage of Empress Chen many years ago, this is the first time that a woman in the harem has received a good news. And in April, the emperor found out that Yan Libi was pregnant and kept it a secret. If it wasn't for Zhang Jihou in charge of the harem, she would not have known about it.