Six palaces without concubines in the Red Chamber

0169 Marriage Speech Surprises the Dragon King

The empress dowager was having a headache about the winter solstice, so she smiled and said: "It's because I was sleepy that I sent you a pillow, our empress is back, and my old bones can finally retire.

"The old ancestor was joking again." The emperor must never listen to the empress dowager say that he is old. "When you are in good health, what are you talking about, old bone? You are Dinghaishenzhen, and the grandson's inner court has to rely on you to help with cooking. The empress is young, no matter how capable she is, she does not have your experience and vision, so she still needs your help." Only by helping her can she stand on her feet."

The empress dowager glanced at him with a half-smile, rubbed the hand warmer on her lap to keep warm, and said, "I know what the emperor means. But I have to persuade the emperor that it is a good thing to cherish the empress, but you have to Let her go and let her decide. If I assign everything in front of you, do you expect the people below to respect her? I also understand your concerns. Originally, it was the Queen Mother who taught her, but now the Queen Mother is far away. What's more, even if you are in Beijing, you may not be willing to teach her. As for the Queen Mother, she is not a dignified mother-in-law. In terms of dignity and decency, she is not as good as her. You are worried that the screwdriver at the bottom will not show her face. She is the one who trusts me with everything."

"The old ancestor should have cared for his life, but he still has to work hard for his grandson. It's really the grandson's fault."

It is true that the Empress Dowager is not in her prime of spring and autumn. It is difficult to deal with small things on weekdays, but she really doesn't have so much energy to deal with big things seriously.What's more, these matters were handed over to the Eastern Queen Dowager long ago. Once the Eastern Queen Mother left, the emperor was unwilling to hand them over to the Western Queen Dowager. Daiyu hadn't received the gift yet, so she could only assist from the sidelines, so it all fell to the Great Empress Dowager.Although the emperor was silent on weekdays, he also felt very guilty about it.

"You don't need to talk about it, you don't need a family." The Empress Dowager said: "The Empress Dowager Xi once had a son who was a deposed emperor, and the power of the inner court could not be handed over to her no matter what. What do you think about this matter?" Quite right, the emperor did not ask a single question. There are many slaves in the inner court. If you straighten it out, these trivial matters are not considered tiring. It is just that I have nothing to do to amuse myself. But the emperor, according to my opinion, is still Hurry up and set the date of the big wedding. When there is a date, you will be famous as a teacher. Previously, Honghong did a good job in the matter of the Ghost Festival. Take advantage of the time before the year to calculate the date, and when the New Year comes, Honghong Wouldn't it be more logical for Hong to take over these things?"

"The old ancestor said very well." What the Empress Dowager said made sense, but the emperor had his own worries. "The servants who are poor at the top are all concerned about their dignity, but those below are so tricky and slippery. Honghong is really young and weak, I really can't bear to see her take on these burdens all at once."

But the Empress Dowager said: "The emperor cares about chaos. You told me a while ago that Honghong took care of the old Suzhou mansion. Don't you understand that her method of combining kindness and might is for the sake of Used in the inner court? Although the servants in the old house have a strong root system, they are still just a family, and the cooking is enough. Why do you keep one person and not fully develop it? It is just to hang your heart, and there will be no resentment if you have hope It makes people willing to take on the errand. The inner house has the way of the inner house. I think their wife has brought up Honghong very well. She is inexperienced in handling the affairs of our palace, so it is inevitable that she will be unfamiliar. After a few more times, it will be fine .”

This time she said that she retired after success, she was not joking.He really wanted the emperor to fix the date of the big wedding, and then all the property would be handed over to Daiyu.

"It's Yuquan Temple. Mrs. Chen was ill a while ago, and she should add money and food for the incense candles she usually uses. And your sister Qi Xiao, the year is approaching, should I take her back to live for a while? I am the elder. For their two generations, I shouldn’t be the one to handle this matter. It’s better to let Honghong do it.”

"It's not that I don't want to set a date for the wedding, it's just..." Speaking of this matter, the emperor was really a little embarrassed.In fact, many ministers and workers in the court have asked about this matter, saying that since the emperor has decided on the candidate for the empress, and now that the inner court is empty, the marriage date should be fixed early, so that the empress can enter the inner court and be the mother of the world.It's not that he doesn't want to, it's just that thinking about what Lin Jue said, it's better to get married later.

The emperor paused, but still said vaguely: "I don't want Honghong to raise a child too early. She is so weak, young and young. If she gives birth too early, I'm afraid she will lose money. The wedding date is fixed. Once the wedding is over, This is imminent.”

He boasted that he was thoughtful and had predicted everything, but he didn't know that he was suffering from the common problem of being obsessed with the authorities.

"The date of marriage is uncertain, and a multi-minded person will have guesses every day. Interests drive people's hearts, and the longer the time, the greater the change. Could it be that the emperor and the empress are not married, and the ministers will not urge them in the name of spreading branches and leaves." Are you accepting a concubine? Let me ask the emperor again, Honghong lives in the inner court most of the time now, if he doesn't get married, it will last forever, won't it cause criticism?"

The emperor was startled suddenly, and after thinking about it, he really felt that it made some sense, so he couldn't help thinking about it for a while.

Then go back to the Lin family.Daiyu told Lin Hai and Jia Min early in the morning that today the emperor would come to pick her up in the garden, and said that she might have dinner at home.After Jia Min heard this, she wanted to get up to take care of it, but her current body was already eight months old, and she was very heavy.Daiyu was afraid that she might be alarmed, so she asked Xunyu and Lin Jue to watch over Jia Min and not allow her to move.

Daiyu reassured Jia Min and said, "I know the emperor's taste, if my wife cooks it, it may not be as good as mine."

Jia Min thought about it, but she still refused to sit in the Congshan Courtyard, she had to watch Daiyu do things to be at ease.Daiyu had no choice but to look for Lin Hai.Although Lin Hai knew that it was important for the emperor to come to eat, he was also worried about Jia Min's health, so he followed Daiyu's wishes and persuaded her to go back.

Daiyu sent Lan Ling and Lan Liu to look at the kitchen, Lan Liu brought the menu and asked her to go through it one last time.The emperor always likes light food instead of greasy food, so today's dishes are mostly fresh.

The cold dishes are sweet and sour lotus root, bad duck tongue, cold wolfberry sprouts, etc. There are always five of them.The hot dishes are also clean and refreshing, such as fish fillets fried in ginger sauce, chicken slices wrapped in tofu skin, fresh Yuanbao egg dumplings, and yellow sprouts stewed with ham.There is also a pork tenderloin, using the top of the small suckling pig, cut the tenderloin into slices, then thicken the flour into a ball, add mushrooms, seaweed, etc., put it in the soup made of Jiang Yaozhu and shrimp, and eat it It's really refreshing.

Daiyu guessed that the emperor should like these dishes, and even if he didn't like them, he would show respect to the Lin family and would never say it out loud.So he confidently told Lan Liu: "Make it according to the time when the inner court eats. Don't make it too early, or it will lose its taste. When it is almost used, take out the crab and steam it on a plate."

The crab is so delicious, if you eat it early in the morning, you will lose the taste of everything you eat next.

Lan Liu said that he remembered everything, and retreated to the kitchen with the menu in hand.Daiyu also ordered Renci's family to go to a few more corner gates and the second gate to check: "There are distinguished guests today, don't make the people below make trouble. If there is trouble, I won't ask others, and I will only punish a few women in charge."

Ren Ci's family responded one by one, and led a few winking mothers out to inspect.Daiyu was not idle in the room, and ordered someone to bring out the Pu-erh tea, and set up a stove, so that she could cook tea later.

Jixue took the tea leaves and sent them to Daiyu, and said with a smile, "This was sent from the Prince Shu County's mansion earlier. The tea garden of Princess Shu County's natal family cooks well, and their Pu'er is the most authentic."

"Pu'er is the most greasy." Daiyu took the tea, opened the lid and smelled it, and seeing that the smell was still good, she still ordered Jixue to put it away.She took the charcoal made of olive pits again, and looked at it with small pokers.

Suddenly, Chuan Hua's voice came from outside the window. She was the youngest daughter of Shan Liang's family. She was quick-witted and intelligent.Xueque happened to take the carriage plate to go back and forth to Daiyu, and Chuan Hua talked to her: "Sister Xueque, I'm talking to your mother back and forth."

Xueque nodded in agreement, but didn't immediately lead Chuanhua in.Opening the curtain first to take a look, seeing Daiyu looking at the olive charcoal, he waved to her: "Your Majesty happens to be empty, come in quickly."

"Hey." Then Chuanhua came in. Without a word of nonsense, she bowed to Daiyu and replied crisply: "Madam, the second uncle and wife of the Jia family sent people back and forth, saying that the second grandma Lian was sick and lazy." I can't eat too much. I know that Jixue's sister in the empress's yard is good at cooking southern dishes, so I want to borrow Jixue's sister for two days."

"Borrowing Jixue?" Daiyu couldn't help frowning, thinking about it for a while, and then asked Chuanhua: "Who did you send back?"

"Hui Niangniang, she is a woman surnamed Song, and there is also Zhou's mother who is the companion in the second uncle's wife's room."

Daiyu recognized these two people, one of them often came and went to deliver things.One is Mrs. Wang's companion, from Zhou Rui's family.

Daiyu thought for a while, then ordered Chuanhua to lead them in, and she had something to ask.

At that moment, Mrs. Song and Zhou Rui's family came in, and saw that they were not going from the good courtyard, but Daiyu's Jiangzhu Building. Mrs. Song couldn't help wondering: "Could it be that the eldest girl is in charge of the family affairs now?"

Chuan Hua immediately looked solemn, and put a finger on her lips: "All the poor girls in the palace respect their mothers, mother should change their words."

How can there be someone who respects the empress before they get married?This is too presumptuous.Mrs. Song and Zhou Rui's family looked at each other, thinking what kind of rules are these?Although I felt strange in my heart, I didn't speak again after all.

After entering the house, it was naturally Zhou Rui's family who replied, and what he said was the same as what Chuan Hua said, but it was just borrowing Jixue: "Our second grandma has been ill since she raised her little brother, and now she can't even eat. Yes. Madam has no other choice, so she sent slaves to try it out. Madam don’t worry, I only borrow it for two days, and when the second grandma feels better, she will send it back."

She is a servant of the Jia family, not a servant of the Lin family, so Daiyu always treats her more politely.After she finished speaking, she said regretfully: "Mom said this a bit late. Jixue is a servant of the inner court, not my servant. The Empress Dowager Dong just asked her to come and take care of me, and I couldn't." Besides, the Empress Dowager has a decree to announce that I will enter the garden today. Jixue is a member of the inner court, so she should be taken back, and mother can't be allowed to take her back."

"My lady..."

Zhou Rui's family was about to speak, when someone from the other side hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, the emperor has arrived, and the master and wife have all gone to the door to greet you personally, please move your Majesty."

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Two days ago, some readers felt that Daiyu's character set collapsed because of Daiyu's acquisition of Tanchun and Xichun.Let me explain here, in fact, the emperor's dislike of the Jia family, at least in this article, is not as deep as everyone imagined.The title of Rongguo Mansion was removed by the order of the Supreme Emperor, and Yuan Chun was given to death by the Empress Dowager.After the emperor ascended the throne, in order to show that he was different from the abandoned emperor, he specially left the Jia family and the abandoned emperor's uncle Jia Zuo.In this article, Jia Zheng is even an official in the court, so it is very different from the decline that everyone imagined.

The emperor didn't dislike Daiyu's contact with Jia's mansion, but he was jealous of Daiyu and Baoyu had discussed marriage.At the beginning, the dislike of Baoyu was only because of unconscious jealousy, not all because of Jia's mansion.I once planted a foreshadowing in his unrequited love, that Yuan Chun's real lover is actually Uncle Gong Yi, who is also Baochai's husband.The fact that the emperor was able to ascend to the throne at the imperial pole was actually helped by Bo Gongyi and Yuan Chun. This point is written very cryptically, because it involves Sun Shaoxian's strategy, so it will be explained in detail in Seize the Spring.Yuan Chun could have survived, but the Empress Dowager acted too quickly, and Yuan Chun wanted to die, so he was hanged.Therefore, Jia's mansion just doesn't exist now, but with the kindling left by Yuanchun, the emperor will reuse Jialan in the future.

As for Daiyu taking over the affairs of the two younger sisters, in fact, this is a matter that the queen can make a decision, and it is the queen's power.But Daiyu chose to tell the emperor first, and first asked the emperor not to let Tanchun go out to get married. This was to let the emperor know that the help she gave was aboveboard.Getting the emperor to agree to this matter was not a matter of force. The emperor was really not that narrow-minded, and he didn't take it to heart at all.Because the girls in Jia's mansion are not qualified at all in his eyes, which makes him feel bad.Even for Daiyu's sake, he was seriously considering the revival of Jia's family, because he didn't want the queen to have an uncle's family who was not good enough.

Another reader said that in this article, it feels that Daiyu loves the emperor not as deeply as the emperor.In fact, your feeling is right, the emperor loves Daiyu deeply, but Daiyu's love for the emperor is not so deep.This was originally an unfair relationship, and the relationship between each other will gradually merge and balance in the later stage.

And, the tempo will speed up a bit.Many of the important plots of the outline are after marriage.

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