Chapter 171, Backlash
The emperor's first draft after he ascended the throne came to an end. A dozen or so young concubines were added to the harem.
With the Laba Festival approaching, the annual winter hunting is about to start again.
The winter hunting last year was unpleasant, but this time, Shi Fuxin obediently stayed in the uncle's residence and didn't go anywhere.
She didn't go out, but someone came to the door.
"Sister Zhao, why didn't you go to the winter hunting?"
Zhao Yuyan raised the red invitation card in Yang's hand: "I'm here to give you this."
Shi Fuxin took a look, and immediately showed surprise: "Brother Zhao is getting married?"
Hearing the words, Shi Fuyin also looked over and looked at Zhao Yuyan: "Why is it so sudden, when did Brother Zhao get married? Which girl is so lucky?"
Zhao Yuyan: "It's a girl from the Duan family in Uncle Xuanping's mansion." After a pause, "The marriage is the emperor's request."
Shi Fuxin and Shi Fuyin were taken aback.
After the two entered the National Women's Prison, they also had a general understanding of the nobles in the capital. The Duan family in the Xuanpingbo Mansion is a staunch royalist faction, and they are highly valued by the emperor.
The Zhao family is also valued by the emperor, so it is not surprising that the Zhao and Duan families got married.
Shi Fuyin smiled and said: "Congratulations, you will have a new sister-in-law soon. When is the wedding date, we must go there early to see the bride."
Zhao Yuyan: "Twelfth lunar month."
Shi Fuyin was stunned: "Why is time so tight? It's not many days."
Zhao Yuyan: "It can't be helped, the fifth prince, sixth prince, and seventh prince are all accused of getting married, and they will get married in the next year. The eldest prince is the elder brother, and his big marriage must be done before the fifth prince."
"In this way, four princes will get married in the next year. How dare we compete with the princes for a better life, so we can only get things done before the year."
Shi Fuxin interjected: "The eldest prince is getting married? Are you sure?"
Zhao Yuyan: "The eldest prince was going to get married this year, but he was in poor health, so he has been delaying it. Now that the younger brothers are getting married, it is really not easy to delay. I heard from my brother that the people from the Qin Tianjian We are already watching the day, and we will definitely do things next year.”
"Speaking of which, the Eldest Prince's health has improved a lot, and this time he went to participate in the winter hunting with the Emperor, so it should be nothing serious."
Said, showing regret.
"If it weren't for the big brother getting married, I would help my mother prepare for the big wedding. Otherwise, I really want to participate in this year's winter hunting."
Seeing Shi Fuyin and Shi Fuxin looking over, she quickly explained, "The Eldest Prince's health has improved, and the front and back palaces are very lively."
"Only two days ago, many officials in the court were proposing to let the eldest prince go to court. My father said that they were all a group of masters who watched the excitement and didn't think it was a big deal."
"Now that the seven princes are all married, some people can't sit still and start thinking about the merits of the dragon. They don't want to think about it. The emperor is still in his prime."
Shi Fuxin and Shi Fuyin looked at each other, but didn't answer.
Because there were other invitations to be sent, Zhao Yuyan didn't stay in the uncle's residence, and left after chatting with Sister Shi Fuyin for a while.
Shi Fuyin sent her out of the mansion, and when she came back, she saw Shi Fuxin meditating in distress: "What is it that bothers you?"
Shi Fuxin: "The eldest prince is getting married. As a master, I am not allowed to prepare gifts, but I don't know what to give."
Uh, this question also stumped Shi Fuyin.
Shi Fuxin walked back and forth in the room with her chin poised: "The cold poison in the First Prince's body has almost been cured, now I will help him remove the Heart-eating Gu from his heart, he should be able to resist it."
Shi Fuyin silently looked at her sister and muttered to herself. She couldn't help much, so she didn't interrupt.
The winter hunting went on for three days. On the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, the emperor's guard of honor entered the Chengtian Gate very early.
After sending the emperor back to the palace, Shi Dingxuan changed shifts and returned to the uncle's mansion.
"Why are you still injured?"
Seeing that Shi Dingxuan had injuries on his face, Jin Yuee became anxious and hurried forward to check.
Shi Dingxuan smiled and said: "Mother, it's okay, it's just been wiped."
Jin Yue'e glared at him: "You were obviously beaten by someone. I can't see the scratches? What's going on? Aren't you following the emperor? Does anyone dare to do anything in front of the emperor?"
Shi Fuxin and the others also looked over.
Shi Dingxuan saw that he couldn't hide it, so he told about what happened in Winter Hunting: "It was Chu Yao. Chu Yao hit the companion of the sixth prince. I went to fight and accidentally got punched."
Shi Dinghao stared: "Chu Yao is so crazy? How dare he even beat the sixth prince's companion? And in front of the emperor."
Shi Dingxuan said something fair: "It's also the sixth prince's accompanying reading provocation. Everyone knows about Chu Yao's pursuit of Dongfang Yunrong. Now that he points it out to the sixth prince, Chu Yao feels uncomfortable at first. The companion is still making sarcastic remarks there, and he deserves the beating."
Shi Dinghao: "After all, he is the companion of the sixth prince. If Chu Yao hit him, it was equivalent to beating the sixth prince. Didn't the emperor say anything?"
Regarding this matter, Shi Dingxuan also felt a little strange.
Although it has long been heard that the emperor treats Chu Yao unusually, but this time Chu Yao beat the sixth prince to accompany the reading, the emperor did not blame a word, which really surprised him.
Shi Fuxin muttered below: "Chu Yao lay down with serious injuries for more than a month in order to catch the Yan Party. Even if the emperor wanted to scold him, he probably wouldn't be able to open his mouth."
At the same time, Chu Yao was kneeling in the main hall in Qianqing Palace.
Before the trial, the emperor immersed himself in annotating the excerpts, ignoring Chu Yao.
It wasn't until the two stacks of papers were annotated that the emperor raised his head and took a sip of tea from the eunuch.
"I pointed out the fifth girl of the Dongfang family to the sixth prince, do you feel wronged?"
Chu Yao raised his head and looked at the emperor: "I dare not, I just don't understand. When I went to Dongfang's family to propose marriage, the emperor nodded."
The emperor put down his teacup: "You want to marry a girl from the Dongfang family. I agreed at the beginning, and I agree now. I never thought that people from the Dongfang family would get mixed up with the sixth child."
"Lao Liuzhen's sons are all grown up!" Even Lao Liu can cultivate his own power, and he has found himself a noble family of wives.
Thinking about Chu Yao's serious injury reported by Liangyi Palace, the emperor softened his tone: "Okay, you slapped Lao Liu's face hard in the winter hunting ground, and you can take a sigh of relief, so don't be wronged here. There are so many good girls here, choose another one, and I will marry you right away."
Chu Yao stood up with downcast eyes, didn't continue to hold on to it, turned around and left the palace.
"Brother Yao, where are we going now?"
"Going back to the Special Superintendent, Ming Guogong is an old fox, and it is impossible for the girl from the Dongfang family to get confused with the prince. There must be something wrong with Dongfang Yunrong pointing it out to the sixth prince."
Meng Moling looked at the gloomy-faced Chu Yao, and said after deliberation: "Brother Yao, the emperor has issued an imperial decree referring to marriage, let's forget about it."
Chu Yao: "I must know who is plotting against me behind my back."
It's not that he likes Dongfang Yunrong so much, it's just that Dongfang Yunrong is his chosen wife. For this reason, he advertised to everyone with great fanfare. Biggest joke ever.
Seeing Chu Yao get on his horse, Meng Moling hurriedly followed. The two of them just rode their horses and ran across two streets when they met the Dongfang family's carriage head-on.
"Brother Yao, it's Dongfang Yunrong's carriage. It looks like it's here specially waiting for you."
Chu Yao looked at the carriage not far away, but did not drive the horse past.
In the carriage, Dongfang Yunrong waited for a while, seeing that Chu Yao did not take the initiative to step forward, he had to lift the curtain of the car, and took the initiative to speak: "Young Master Yao, take a step to speak."
Chu Yao didn't move: "You are now the emperor's appointed sixth concubine, I don't think we have anything to say."
As he spoke, he looked up at Chu Yao.
"I really want to know why you didn't go, but the sixth prince instead?"
Chu Yao suddenly raised the corners of his mouth, showing a sneer: "What does Dongfang girl want to tell me? Are you in the trap?"
"The relationship between me and the palace is known to everyone in the capital. You didn't see such a clumsy scheme. The rumors about you from the outside world are really too exaggerated."
Dongfang Yunrong didn't expect Chu Yao to react like this, and endured the humiliation and said: "I never thought of marrying the prince."
Chu Yao pointed out ruthlessly: "But now you have been assigned to the sixth prince by the emperor."
Dongfang Yunrong looked at Chu Yao with expectation in his eyes: "When you went to the Duke of Ming's mansion and said that I would not marry you, did you still count?"
Hearing the words, Chu Yao smiled: "Dongfang Yunrong, you were accused of being given to the sixth prince, and you actually came to ask me whether I would count on my proposal to marry you, don't you think it's funny?"
Dongfang Yunrong was silent for a moment, then took a deep breath: "Chu Yao, I am willing to defy the imperial decree for you."
The smile on Chu Yao's face disappeared: "But I don't like idiots."
Rumors are misleading!
What is so tall, what is dignified and virtuous, is simply nonsense. With this ability to deal with crises, how can there be a pillow person who can fight side by side with him!
"Drive~"
Chu Yao just beat the horse and left.
Looking at Chu Yao's back getting further and further away, Dongfang Yunrong was so angry that he crumpled the brocade handkerchief in his hand.
fool
Chu Yao actually called her an idiot!
Dongfang Yunrong slapped the wall of the car angrily. If she didn't feel that no one would dare to frame the Duke of Ming's mansion, she would not have left immediately after seeing the sixth prince that night, and would not have been caught with the sixth prince. Pulled together, there will be no subsequent marriage.
Recalling that Chu Yao spoke so sincerely when he asked to marry him in the Duke of Ming Dynasty, but now he turned his face and refused to recognize anyone, Dongfang Yunrong was very annoyed.
Arriving at the Special Supervision Division, Meng Moling saw that Chu Yao's face was getting better, and said with a smile, "Brother Yao, are you not angry now?"
Chu Yao snorted lightly, Dongfang Yunrong was not as shrewd as rumored, which eased the gloom in his heart a bit.
The reason why he fell in love with Dongfang Yunrong at the beginning was because of the Duke of Ming Dynasty, and secondly, because he really wanted to find a wife with a lot of skills.
After all, the situation in Rongwang Mansion is too complicated, his wife must have enough self-protection ability, so as not to be swallowed up by the group of ghosts and monsters in the palace.
Now that he knows that Dongfang Yunrong is just showing off, even if the sixth prince gets in the way, he doesn't feel it's a pity.
However, Chu Yao still attached great importance to what Dongfang Yunrong said was a letter sent to her by servants of Prince Rong's Mansion, and immediately sent someone to verify it.
In the afternoon of that day, Chu Yao got the exact news.
There are no less than thousands of eunuchs and maids in the palace. Among these people, except for some who are innocent, almost all of them have inextricable connections with the outside of the palace.
Emperor's relatives, civil and military officials, nobles, almost all have staff in the palace.
Dongfang Yunrong Palace chose to go to the Imperial Garden because it had received news from Rongwang Mansion.
Prince Rong's Mansion has staff in the palace, part of it is in the hands of his grandfather and grandmother, and part of it is in the hands of his father, and they passed these hands on to his good elder brother and second brother.
The Duke of Ming's family has a prominent family background. From the very beginning, he knew that his good elder brother and second brother would not be happy to see him get this marriage.
However, he still underestimated their desire to suppress him, and actually used hidden stakes in the palace.
They also didn't think about how much the emperor hated outsiders for placing people in the palace, and what kind of fury the emperor would face if the incident happened.
Thinking of the winter hunting, he beat the companion of the sixth prince, and the way his father scolded him, Chu Yao couldn't help but see a fierce light in his eyes: "I have been hurting alone all this time, and I have to let them hurt too." It hurts."
As he spoke, he asked someone to put on a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and began to immerse himself in writing the notebook.
After the book was written, someone sent it to the palace directly.
"Brother Yao, where are you going?"
"Go back to the palace."
Rongwang Mansion.
When Chu Yao came back, King Rong and others gathered in the yard of the old prince and concubine for dinner.
"Do you still know to come back?"
As soon as he saw Chu Yao, King Rong couldn't help being angry.
Everyone saw it, only the princess of the county showed joy, and ordered her servants to add more bowls and chopsticks, while the others remained silent and continued to eat and drink.
The old concubine stopped her and said, "Okay, it's rare for Yao'er to come back, so let's sit down and eat quickly."
Chu Yao didn't go to the table, and walked to the chair next to him and sat down, lazily looking at the group of so-called family members in front of him:
"During the draft, someone was making small moves in the palace. When the emperor found out, he was very angry and ordered a thorough investigation. Didn't our mansion send people to the palace?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone at the dinner table stopped and looked at Chu Yao in unison.
The old prince spoke first: "Where did you hear the news?"
Chu Yao sneered: "I'm not like the eldest brother or the second brother. I have inherited the contacts in the mansion. I can only inquire about news through some friends."
The eldest son of the palace, Chu Xuan, said: "Third brother, why do you still speak in such a strange way? Why can't you talk to your grandfather, grandmother, and father?"
Chu Yao looked at Chu Xuan with a smile: "Brother, I hope you can always find time to find fault with my younger brother and me."
Looking at Chu Yao's smile, Chu Xuan frowned. Just as she was about to order her subordinates to inquire about the news, the steward of the palace rushed in.
"My lord, the emperor sent someone to announce the decree."
Hearing this, everyone in the palace was startled.
The old prince looked at Chu Yao, who was still smiling and looked at the joke of the palace, and the old princess looked at each other, frowning a little.
Immediately, everyone in the palace quickly came to the main courtyard and received the order.
The imperial decree didn’t say anything, but Chu Xuan and Chu Zhaoyinyou’s positions were dismissed, and they were asked to reflect on themselves behind closed doors in the palace.
After the Xuanzhi **** left, Chu Yao was the first to stand up and sighed: "Originally, I married the girl from the Dongfang family back, and the mansion can hold weddings, but now it's all right, I can't marry a wife, brother, The second elder brother has also lost his official position, so the three of us really have to share the same difficulties."
The old prince stood up with a sullen face: "Yao'er, did you do something?"
Chu Yao laughed exaggeratedly, leaned forward and backward, and stopped after a while: "Grandfather, what did the mansion give me? A bad reputation like a street rat!"
"I am useless, I am avoided by everyone, what can I do, what can I do?"
The old prince's eyes dodged when he was asked, and he didn't dare to look at Chu Yao squarely.
Chu Yao smiled faintly, and looked at Chu Xuan and Chu Zhao: "When the former emperor was here, he had suffered enough from the regent, and suppressed the royal family as much as he could, and the current emperor is the same. Yinyou's official position will be gone forever."
"That's good, lest I envy and envy the two elder brothers who can get the blessing of the mansion, but I have nothing."
"Tsk, I'm so happy."
(end of this chapter)