Chapter 789: The Emperor's Eldest Son, Talisman

On the second day of the fifth lunar month, from the afternoon, the whole Miyagi was filled with a tense atmosphere. Even Fan Hong Jinying, who is favored on weekdays, tried his best not to go to the front of the palace, but just sent people to Yongning Palace over and over again to inquire about the news. Qianqing Palace and Renshou Palace were full of people coming in and out, and from time to time you could hear small shouts from inside. However, until the evening, there was still no letter in the Yongning Palace, so the Empress Dowager Zhang heard that Zhu Zhanji couldn't sit still in the Qianqing Palace, so she planned to visit the Yongning Palace in person, and hurriedly sent Zhu Ning, who had lived in the palace to accompany her for the past few days, to the Qianqing Palace.

As soon as Zhu Ning stepped into the Qianqing Gate, he found that there were all internal servants standing like clay carvings and wooden sculptures, and the emperor's angry rebuke could be faintly heard inside. Knowing that the level of production is actually half of the ghost gate for today's women, even if it is fully prepared, she can vaguely understand the emperor's mood, so when she walked up the white jade steps, she started a draft in her heart.

However, she had only just reached half of the steps when she saw that Zhu Zhanji had already walked out of the palace gate angrily. Seeing that Zhu Zhanji didn't have time to say more and hurriedly came down, she took two more steps and gently stretched out her hand to stop in front of the Son of Heaven. Sure enough, the emperor's face suddenly turned pale.

"Aunt Ning, is this at the behest of the Queen Mother to stop me?"

"The concubine doesn't dare."

Zhu Ning withdrew his hand, clasped his hands and saluted again, and then whispered: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother also knows that the emperor is worried about Sun Guifei, but Yongning Palace is now a place of blood and light, and going with the respect of the Son of Heaven may add more variables." In addition to this, what the concubine also wants to say is that now the Yongning Palace must be doing their best, even if the emperor arrives, he can't enter the delivery room to see the concubine, and when he is waiting outside, listening to the voice, he will only be more anxious. If the emperor was angry with the people above and below because of this, wouldn't it be even worse if they did something wrong in a panic? Moreover, there has been a national teacher and two Buddhas plus a genuine heavenly master who has prayed for Sun Guifei's blessings, who can compare to her good luck among the expectant women in the world? ”

Fan Hong Jinying was the old man of the East Palace before, and he had a great face in front of the Empress Dowager Zhang, so he was naturally able to avoid it by errands, and Lu Feng even took advantage of the urgent business in the East Factory and didn't come in all day, and Wang Jin had always served Zhu Zhanji, others could hide, but he could only persuade bitterly. In order to dispel Zhu Zhanji's idea of going to Yongning Palace, he even broke his forehead in front of Zhu Zhanji, but he still couldn't stop this son of heaven. Therefore, at this time, he thanked Zhu Ning in his heart, and he was busy echoing a sentence next to him.

"Your Majesty, what the county lord said is that when this Yongning Palace is busy up and down now, the emperor is going to alarm them to serve when he arrives, how can they be busy with these two ends? If the emperor is worried about the concubines and blames them, there will really be an accident if they can't keep it. The first ones selected are the best stable women, you can wait for a while in Qianqing Palace. ”

Zhu Zhanji was already a little hesitant, and when Wang Jin said this, he was silent for a long time, and finally nodded. Seeing that he finally dispelled his mind, Zhu Ning finally breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "The Queen Mother is also concerned about Concubine Sun Guifei and has been sending people there, but her words are not complete, so the concubine plans to take someone to Yongning Palace now." The emperor is at ease, maybe there will be good news in an instant. ”

It is also comforting, but different people say it, and the effect is different. At this moment, Zhu Zhanji smiled rarely, nodded and saw Zhu Ning leave. When the person left, he turned his head to look at Wang Jin on the side, and saw that his forehead was bruised and broken, but he couldn't find any good place, and he looked extremely embarrassed, but he was a little embarrassed, but he made a straight face.

"Hurry up and go back and ask someone to put some medicine on you, they are all royal eunuchs, go out and let people see what this looks like? In the future, when admonishing, take it easy, don't come to my fire, the front of the hall is full of gold bricks, and your head is not iron! ”

After eating this scolding, Wang Jin felt that his eyes were sore, but his heart was warm, and he knelt down to respond, but he still personally helped Zhu Zhanji to the palace, and then he arrived at the room where the little eunuch was on duty at night, and called someone to apply medicine for himself. I didn't feel it in a hurry before, but now that he scrubbed the wound with a cotton cloth dipped in water, he couldn't help but inhale for a while, and when he finally applied the gold sore medicine, he clenched his fists even more, and finally wrapped it all up, and covered it with a warm forehead wrap, and he was relieved.

"This wound doesn't look like it at first glance, but it's scary when it's just cleaned up. My father-in-law was really bold at that time, the emperor's face was blue like that, everyone hid, only you dared to go up and persuade him. The gold bricks are all dead and dead, and you can still meet. If you hadn't come out for us, I'm afraid we would have to be beaten back. ”

If I don't come out, when the Queen Mother starts a fire, I won't be able to escape a good beating!

Wang Jin thought so in his heart, but he didn't say it, but sighed deeply. took the cool towel that a eunuch on the other side handed over diligently, wiped his greasy face, and then washed his hands again, he said to the few eunuchs in charge of the Qianqing Palace in front of him: "Did you see what happened just now?" Don't be too long-winded with our family, in the past, our family asked you to respect the county lord, and you still didn't think so, but today if it weren't for the county lord's words to persuade the emperor, and the queen mother turned back to pursue it, it would be unlucky together! Now that the emperor has stayed, his mood must still be up and down, hurry up and go back to serve well! ”

Several eunuchs hurriedly agreed, but only two people moved their nests, and the other three walked to the door, but they all turned back, and one of them glared at Wang Jin dissatisfiedly, and he hurriedly whispered: "Father-in-law, there has been a lot of trouble outside recently, and the little ones are all bottomless." You also know the suffering in the palace, although it is decent in front of the emperor and the ladies, but he is always worried, and he points to the place where he can be released one day. Also, many of the children in the inner study hall are our godchildren and grandchildren, and once it is closed, they will have no way to study! ”

"Yes, Princess, we have gradually had a good life over the years, and we can't let them cut off our good road!"

"Father-in-law Fan and Father-in-law Jin didn't speak and became a bodhisattva, you can't stand by and watch!"

Looking at these three indignant faces, Wang Jin immediately frowned, dropped the towel in his hand and reprimanded: "Okay, don't talk about this at this time!" For now, just wait for the birth of the prince, don't think so much! You are from the Qianqing Palace, who told you to stretch out your hand to the inner study hall? If there are still people over there who come to you to complain and talk, don't hear back. When the current chaos is in progress, if something happens to the fire, don't blame our family for being polite! ”

The people in the Qianqing Palace were panicked, and the people in the Yongning Palace were even more so. If Sun Guifei is safe and successful, it goes without saying that she will be rewarded up and down; But if there is anything wrong with this concubine, even if she saves the child in the end, the palace maids and eunuchs who serve in Yongning Palace will not want to have good fruits to eat, so no one is hard working and no one is nervous. In addition to the Empress Dowager's Renshou Palace and the Emperor's Qianqing Palace, the queen and concubines also sent people to inquire here, and the heads and brains of the twenty-four yamen of the Twelve Prisons, Four Divisions and Eight Bureaus were also paying attention to here, so the alley in front of the Yongning Gate was crowded with people.

When Zhu Ning came here, what he saw was the scene of eunuchs huddled together in twos and threes. Seeing that a eunuch from Renshou Palace, who was accompanying her, was about to step forward and scold, she waved her hand, and when she saw these people coming up to salute, she didn't say much, but secretly distinguished the faces. Sure enough, almost all of them are low-grade faces. When she entered the Yongning Gate, she saw the two people sent by the Qianqing Palace and Renshou Palace, and Wang Zhen who was pacing back and forth on the side of the porch.

Just when she was about to ask about the situation inside, Sun Guifei's hoarse call came to an abrupt end. At this moment, even she felt her heart sink, but the next moment, there was a loud baby cry in the delivery room. It didn't take long for a person to open the door and rush out of it, holding a bright yellow swaddling cloth in his hand, and shouting happily: "It's a prince, mother and son are safe!" ”

"Thank goodness!"

Zhu Ning couldn't help but fold his palms and read a sentence, and as soon as he turned his head, he saw that the two eunuchs who were still in the courtyard had already pulled out their legs and went back to report the news, only Wang Zhen under the corridor knelt on the ground and prayed to heaven for something. After seeing him kowtow respectfully, she stepped forward and pulled a happy eunuch to ask something, she couldn't help but feel very strange, so she didn't go back to see Empress Dowager Zhang immediately, but beckoned a little eunuch to ask a few words. Knowing that Wang Zhen often walked here, she immediately had a number in her heart.

After the birth of the prince, he will definitely transfer people from everywhere, and now the inner study hall has stirred up a big movement in the court, and Wang Zhen plans to go here, nothing more than hoping to find the best backer in the future. Although it is said that he is a prince, but looking at the emperor's snub to Empress Hu, I am afraid that the possibility of this concubine is very small, and the current little prince is almost the future prince.

For the inner court and the outer court, the birth of the prince is undoubtedly a great joy. It has been almost ten years since Zhu Zhanji registered the imperial concubine, and in the past ten years, except for Sun Guifei and another low-level concubine who had given birth to a daughter, the rest of the concubines have not moved at all, let alone the prince. The common people will also worry about having no heirs, let alone the heavenly family. Therefore, because of the birth of the prince, the emperor issued an edict to grant amnesty to the whole world, exempting one-third of the next year's grain rent, and no one advised him on such an obviously unruly matter. As for the little patrol who had just been escorted back to Beijing and imprisoned, not many people remembered it at this moment.

In Renshou Palace, Zhu Ning carefully sent the swaddling clothes to the Empress Dowager Zhang. Although I don't like Sun Guifei's dexterity and charm, but the imperial heir is the imperial heir after all, Empress Dowager Zhang held the child in her hand and teased her, unconsciously showing a smile on her face. She has always been the most serious person on weekdays, but now with this smile, Hugh said that the concubine palace is rarely seen, and even Zhu Zhanji thinks it is rare.

"After so many years, I finally got a Lin'er, and Sun Guifei is indeed a great credit this time." Although she never praised Concubine Sun in front of Empress Hu in the past, Empress Dowager Zhang made an exception this time. Looking at the face that looked like Zhu Zhanji, the more she looked at it, the more she loved it, and it took a while before she changed hands and handed it over to Zhu Ning, and the smile on her face also narrowed, "I know that you are looking forward to your son, so because the emperor's eldest son was born and amnesty was granted to the world, and money and food were exempted, there was no objection from the cabinet and the ministry, so I don't care." It's just that a single eldest son is still unstable, and you, the emperor, don't forget to spread the branches. You're young, and so are they. ”

This is all a cliché, and Zhu Zhanji hurriedly said yes. Therefore, someone from Yongning Palace reported that as soon as Zhu Ning entered the door, the child was born all of a sudden, and he couldn't help but laugh and say it again, and then he looked at Zhu Ning, who was standing beside Empress Dowager Zhang, and said: "Aunt Ning is really a noble person this time, and several people in the delivery room said that the concubine couldn't stand it at that time, but she suddenly had the strength to give birth to a child steadily, and it was when you stepped into Yongning Palace." And just now the child was crying in the hands of the nursing mother, but as soon as your hand passed, it stopped crying, isn't this fate? ”

Zhu Ning was about to return the child to the nurse at this moment, and couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this. Coincidentally, as soon as the nurse took the swaddling clothes, the child suddenly burst into tears, and the voice was unusually loud. The nurse couldn't stop the baby's cry after coaxing the old man for a long time, but she handed the child back by ghost, and when the child was in Zhu Ning's hands, although her posture of holding the child was very clumsy, but after a while, the child stopped crying, as if she had not cried at all just now.

This time, Zhu Zhanji, who was just joking just now, couldn't help but be surprised, and even Queen Hu, who had few words, couldn't help but laugh and said: "It seems that Lord Ning is really destined for the emperor's eldest son!" ”

Seeing Zhu Ning's blushing face while holding the child, Empress Dowager Zhang couldn't help but shake her head and smile: "It's not strange to say it at all." A-Ning rarely used those fat powder head oils in the past, but now she is even more bare every day, and there are not so many punchy smells on her body, so children naturally like it. Liu, have you washed your hands with osmanthus water before? ”

The nurse didn't expect the queen mother to suddenly ask herself, so she was stunned for a moment and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to say yes, and pleaded guilty again and again. At this time, Zhu Zhanji came to his senses, but he still felt that Zhu Ning was destined for his eldest son, so he had to make a few more jokes. Suddenly, he remembered that Dongchang had mentioned that Zhu Ning had sent someone back to Kaifeng a year ago, and wanted to hold a child under his knees, but he didn't have it for the time being, and he couldn't help but feel a move in his heart.

"The eldest son of the emperor was born, although someone has been selected to serve in advance, but it is inevitable that there will still be a difference. If Aunt Ning is free, she might as well help me take care of him more, and then select and select among these people, so as not to mix in people with ulterior motives. ”

As soon as Zhu Zhanji said this, Empress Dowager Zhang thought about it and felt reasonable, and immediately smiled at Zhu Ning and nodded: "What I said is that you have always done things safely, and with you to take care of them more, the eldest son of the emperor seems to have an extra talisman." ”

If it was something else, it would be fine, but for this assignment, Zhu Ning was quite hesitant. However, just looking at the current posture, the eldest son of the emperor must be the future prince, the huge palace, what treacherous things are there, what if something happens? Thinking of the Empress Dowager's love for her, she quickly agreed.