Chapter 48: Zheng Bao
Ever since she was selected into the palace, her path was not right: she didn't even submit her name, but she was selected into the palace, which undoubtedly made people suspect that there was someone behind her. , thinking that she can hide her clumsiness in the selection process, but there are too many people who want her to enter the palace, but because of this, people feel that she is not worthy of virtue, and she has become a thorn in the eyes of others; Prejudice also cuts off the possibility of her being able to mingle with others.
To tear faces with Chen Shuyi is really nothing. .
It's just pulling the undercurrent under the table to the table.
After going back to her room and thinking about it, Jiang Xuening clearly realized the predicament she was facing now: she will stay in the palace for half a year. Of course Princess Leyang likes her, but the palace is so big, who knows what will happen in the future? what happens?
You must know that under these heavy palace walls, it is the easiest thing to kill someone.
Contradictions have occurred.
Although she has no intention of harming others, how can she know if others have the intention of harming her?
In this life, although she originally didn't plan to get involved in the court battles, she just waited for half a year to pack up and fly away. But there is also a prerequisite for going far away, that is: "At least I have to be alive by then..."
After closing the door, she threw herself on the couch and lay down flat, her eyes calmly watching the light and shadow projected from the window onto the embroidered tent, Jiang Xuening felt that she had to do something.
First of all, does she have any advantage over these people who don't like her very much?
Family background?
She can only be considered average, neither above nor below.
Your favorite?
Although she has Shen Zhiyi, Shen Zhiyi is not the only one in the palace who can talk.
Ingenuity?
She knows how to observe words and emotions, and her actions are much more appropriate than in her previous life, but compared with people with great wisdom, she can only be regarded as quick-witted and clever, not much better than others.
So, her real and greatest advantage is actually only one: rebirth, prophet.
She knows a lot of things that others don't know, also knows a lot of things that haven't happened yet, and even knows a lot of people she hasn't met yet.
This also means that she has more opportunities than others.
To seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, to recognize people and distinguish people, to seize opportunities!
Then, judging from what she knew in her previous life, is there anything and anyone in the palace that she can use for herself?
Jiang Xuening counted with her fingers: "Wei Liang, the future Tanhualang, should still be studying in Yangzhou; Xiao Dingfei, a fake young master of Dengtuzi, is still planning to appear in a corner; Sun Shanggong is a believable Good person, but where was she at this time in the last life?"
Yeting?
Or in the womb of an unfavored concubine?
After all the calculations, she was a little dazed. For a while, she couldn't think of anyone who could be of use to her during this period. Human memory is inherently chaotic, and after rebirth, she may not remember all the details of her previous life. She always felt that she had missed something important, and in the end she had no clue, and was a little dizzy.
It was already afternoon, so Jiang Xuening simply closed his eyes and fell asleep.
At the first moment of the time, there was a servant outside knocking on the door and calling her: "Miss Jiang Er, it's time to go to the palace of the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager to pay her respects."
She suddenly woke up from her sleep and sat up.
In the previous dynasty, the emperor was in charge.
The harem is naturally the queen's call.
According to the rules, the companions should go to pay respects to the Empress Dowager and the Empress on the first day they entered the palace, but the last time the schedule was too tight, no one forced them; I still have to go to Fengchen Hall, so the matter of asking for peace was postponed until this afternoon.
After Jiang Xuening freshened up in her own room, when she arrived in the living room, other people came out one after another, but because of the two rude words she and Chen Shuyi said earlier, everyone looked at her somewhat strangely, and no one left Come up and take the initiative to chat with her.
Only Fang Miao winked at her when no one saw her.
You Yue pulled Yao Xi to talk to other people, and didn't give them a chance to talk to Jiang Xuening, obviously trying to squeeze her out deliberately. When Chen Shuyi came out after dressing up, she looked at her coldly. Although she didn't speak, the posture of swords drawn was very obvious.
Even the palace servants who came to lead them to pay their respects felt that the atmosphere was not right, they didn't dare to look up at them, and spoke softly: "The Empress Dowager has been suffering from cold for the past two days, and the Empress Dowager is currently serving the sick in the Palace of Compassion, so It would be good to go directly to the Palace of Compassion and Ning to say hello, and it also just saves you companions to go twice, so please come with your slaves."
The location of Yang Zhi Zhai is closer to the Outer Court, but the Palace of Compassion and Ning is deep in the inner palace. Walking there almost takes you through half of the harem, and behind the high palace walls along the way is the East and West Six Palaces.
The Kunning Palace is behind the Qianqing Palace and also on the central axis of the entire palace.
Among the eight accompanying readers, Fang Miao, You Yue, and Yao Rongrong have basically never been in the palace before, and they did not dare to walk around the last time they came here, so they are still not familiar with the palace; Jiang Xuening has never been in the palace on the surface, but she can't stand her It's rebirth. Although this huge palace is complicated, to her, she can't go wrong even with her eyes closed, so she's not curious.
You Yue lowered her voice, and curiously asked Yao Xi who happened to be walking beside her: "Sister Yao Xi, is the one in front of you the Kunning Palace?"
Yao Xi glanced at the direction she was pointing at, and said, "Exactly, all the empresses of this dynasty lived in the Kunning Palace. The current empress is from the Zheng family in Henan, and she was the first consort of the Holy Majesty when he was in the hidden residence. But on weekdays we live in secluded places, and before we entered the palace to greet her, she would not ask us to go to the Empress Dowager's side more, saying that the Empress Dowager likes to be more lively."
You Yue nodded: "I see."
Jiang Xuening walked at the back, neither fast nor slow, raised her eyebrows when she heard Yao Xi's words, and sneered in her heart.
Love to be lively?
The old hag wished the whole palace revolved around her.
The former emperor died too early, and she hadn't had enough of being a queen yet, so she was about to move out of the Kunning Palace and go to the clean and remote Compassionate Ning Palace, how could she be reconciled?
The old witch was born in the Xiao family. She was originally the younger sister of Duke Ding Xiao Yuan, also Xiao Shu's aunt. Her mother's family is powerful and she has always been able to talk in the harem. The control over the harem has never been relaxed.
After the death of Shen Lang in the previous life, his younger brother Shen Jie succeeded to the throne.
Jiang Xuening, as the princess of Linzi, was supposed to be crowned, but the old hag made a fuss, saying: "Jiang's virtue is not worthy, her behavior is not good, and she doesn't have the demeanor of a mother who respects the world. The emperor should leave her post vacant and make her the fourth concubine." go."
When she heard the news, she almost died of anger.
Fortunately, the veterans of the former court were sensible.
Where in the world is there any reason for a prince to ascend the throne but not make his first wife a queen? If you do this, won't future generations be ridiculed? It is also inconsistent with the rules of etiquette.
So they all wrote to advise.
And in her previous life, she was like Bailian, she had never made any mistakes, and she was very pitiful, the more she was bullied, the more she would arouse people's desire to protect, Shen Jie was a man after all, how could she be bullied like this?
So in the end, let her take the back seat.
But when the Empress Dowager made such a fuss, she and Empress Dowager Xiao became enemies.
The royal family also has family problems.
Empress Dowager Xiao, a mother-in-law, picked her nose and eyes and used filial piety to oppress her at every turn, making her life very unhappy.
It wasn't until later that Xiao Shu entered the palace and became a noble concubine. Jiang Xuening realized that the ceremony was even bigger than her: the old hag wants to support the younger generation of her mother's family and let her niece Xiao Shu be the queen.
The harem then became a Shura field.
Jiang Xuening was basically thin, so in order not to be dragged down by these aunts and nephews, she could only refuse anyone who came, but she promised benefits to anyone who was willing to be loyal. Power, this barely stabilized.
But employing people without discerning loyalty and traitors will naturally lead to mud and sand.
In the eyes of outsiders and Qingliu courtiers, she is undoubtedly forming a party for personal gain, like a cancer in the court, and has even been accused of meddling in politics by the harem.
Later, when she was put under house arrest by Xie Wei, Yan Lin and other rebels in the palace, the memorials to force her to be buried for Shen Jie by the former ministers had already flowed like snowflakes, so she ended up miserable, and to some extent suffered the consequences of herself.
Therefore, it can be said that Jiang Xuening's hatred for Queen Mother Xiao in the previous life was far greater than the hatred for Xiao Shu.
Now that she is reborn, she has to pay her respects to the old hag...
Thinking about it, Jiang Xuening felt that her back molars were itching, and she had to clenched her teeth tightly to restrain the urge to curse out loud.
Yao Xi, who was walking in front, didn't know that there was someone hiding a deep hatred behind her, so she just directed the conversation towards Xiao Shu, and said with a smile: "I also had the honor to visit the palace with my parents during the Lantern Festival two years ago. The Empress Dowager, the old man, has invited Ann, and I am a little nervous to see you again this time. Sister Ashu must help me when the time comes. You are the most beloved niece of the Empress Dowager. If there is something wrong with our etiquette, If you offend her old man, we will have to rely on you to speak to us."
The smile on Xiao Shu's lips became lighter, she glanced at Yao Xi, and said: "Now we are just the companions of His Royal Highness the Eldest Princess, and the Empress Dowager also liked Sister Ah Xi very much in the past, so there is nothing to worry about."
As soon as Jiang Xuening heard it, she knew that Xiao Shu knew the truth of how a tree attracts wind.
Although she is the empress dowager's own niece, she is still a cousin with Shen Zhiyi, but she is not high-profile. She has never mentioned her relationship with the empress dowager after entering the palace for so long, so she probably doesn't want to be the target of too much attention from others.
But what...
How can such a thing be kept low-key?
Sure enough, as soon as Yao Xi spoke and Xiao Shu answered, the expressions on everyone's faces changed.
While speaking, he was getting closer and closer to Kunning Palace not long after, but at the same time, a few strange voices gradually entered everyone's ears and became clearer.
Crack, clap.
One click, clear and crisp.
The others raised their eyes curiously to where the sound came from. Jiang Xuening, who had been in the court for several years in her previous life, immediately recognized that it was the sound of a slap on someone's face, and it was extremely heavy. Reality!
Just after turning around a palace wall, Chen Shuyi, who was walking in front, stopped suddenly.
Yao Rongrong, who saw the scene ahead, exclaimed in a low voice, "Ah."
It wasn't until he yelled out that he realized something was wrong, and quickly covered his lips.
Beside the palace gate of Kunning Palace, there was actually an **** kneeling, the hat on his head had fallen to the ground, and only a simple wooden hairpin was stuck in it. Slap yourself in the face.
No energy left!
He can actually kill himself.
Finger marks were already intertwined on the originally fair face, and even the corner of the mouth was torn, with a few wisps of blood oozing out.
Have the companions who just entered the palace seen such a scene?
At this moment, he dared not go any further.
All footsteps stopped.
Jiang Xuening looked over the people in front and landed on the little eunuch, only a silhouette could be seen. But at this moment, she felt a little familiar, and something flashed in her mind like lightning, and the last resolute and heroic face, accompanied by splashed blood, finally filled her entire mind.
Zheng Bao!
Later, Zheng Bao, the **** who served Shen Jie's side, was loyal to Shen Jie in his previous life. Although he was a rootless person, he had an extremely strong temper. Pointing at the two people's noses and scolding them for rebellion and treason, after laughing three times, he refused to be with them, directly drew his sword and killed himself, and was buried for Shen Jie!
At that time, some people ridiculed that there were no sons in civil and military affairs in the Manchu Dynasty, but a rootless **** was the most kind.
Jiang Xuening finally remembered what he had missed when he was calculating who could be used by him before—
I missed Zheng Bao.
If she remembers correctly, Zheng Bao is currently a young **** serving in Kunning Palace on the surface, but in fact, he has been favored by the current **** Wang Xinyi and wants to take him as his apprentice. The reason why he followed Shen Jie was precisely because one year when he was kneeling outside the Kunning Palace to be punished, Shen Jie who passed by saw him and pleaded for him to let the queen spare him. From then on, he was only loyal to Shen Jie, and he never betrayed him until the end of the world...
What if, in this life, instead of Shen Jie, she saved Zheng Bao?
But here comes the problem—
Shen Jie is the king of Linzi, and her words are useful; she is just a companion at the moment, how can I save her?