Chapter 133



"Doctor Yu, is Princess Jinyang okay?"

"Nothing, just some heart palpitations. Just take some Tianwang Buxin Dan."

"Okay, Bai Ying, please send Doctor Yu out for me." Seeing that Princess Jinyang looked a little better, Yao Niang let Doctor Yu go out.

This sudden feeling of palpitations was either due to not sleeping well at night or being angry. Apart from household affairs, there was probably nothing else that could make Princess Jinyang angry.

Princess Jinyang stood up and thanked her: "I really don't know how to thank the Crown Princess."

"What's there to thank me for? It's just a small favor. I think you shouldn't be so polite." Yao Niang smiled.

At this time, Bai Li brought a bowl of bird's nest: "Princess Consort, the Crown Prince sent a bowl of bird's nest, and asked them to serve it with three kinds of soup: tender chicken soup, good ham soup, and new mushroom soup."

I didn't expect that it was Gao Xuance who sent it. Maybe he heard yesterday that she wanted to nourish her lungs and yin. She was usually fed with rock sugar bird's nests in the palace, so she might as well do this this time.

"Put it here first." Yao Niang smiled.

It is also not good to eat in front of guests, that would not be nice.

Princess Jinyang did not expect the Crown Prince to be so considerate. In terms of age, she was younger than the Crown Princess, but the Crown Princess still had clear eyes and a stunning appearance, without any signs of fatigue. Even though she had given birth to four children, there was not a single spot on her face, and it was still so bright.

The gap between people is so huge that she feels that Gao Jian is treating her very well by respecting her as his legal wife and acknowledging her status as his legal wife.

But when it comes to the Crown Princess, the Crown Prince, who is in a high position, has long passed the stage of relying on the Crown Princess's family or giving face to his wife. Even so, the Crown Prince is so considerate to the Crown Princess.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is so good to you." Princess Jinyang couldn't help but say, with envy revealed in her words.

Yao Niang didn't expect her to say this. Princess Jinyang was actually a very cautious woman. She was not eloquent and was not as good at flattering the Queen as others, but she was polite and well-behaved.

It's hard to say such humane words, so Yao Niang was a little surprised.

"What are you talking about, Princess Jinyang?" She and Gao Xuance have always cared about each other. It's just a matter between husband and wife, and it's not a big deal.

Princess Jinyang saw that Yao Niang didn't care and knew that this was normal, and suddenly a surge of anger was ignited in her.

Don’t women deserve respect?

Between husband and wife, is it always the husband who is the most important?

Princess Jinyang was filled with bitterness, and at this moment, she said: "Your Highness the Crown Princess may not know that not all couples in this world are like this."

Yao Niang looked at her, as if she had realized something. She originally didn't want to care, but since someone was sleepy and sent a pillow to her, don't blame her. "Princess, a wife is a perfect match. A wife in the world is the one who can stand with her husband in a legitimate way. I think we women should be considerate of our husbands, and husbands should also care about their wives. This is the long-term plan."

"Yes." Princess Jinyang never enjoyed this. The only thing she could do was to manage the household and maintain the dignity of a princess.

"Yes, how is your Concubine Dowager? I see that she looks good recently, which is good. I was worried that after the old prince passed away, she would be immersed in grief, which would not be good. I know that she was very good at riding a horse. How could she not ride a horse when she came to our autumn hunting ground? You and your mother-in-law can come together when the time comes." Yao Niang said.

If it were any other time, Princess Jinyang would certainly be willing to do so. After all, being able to accompany the Crown Princess was a sign of respectability.

But now, Princess Blue Phoenix is ​​pregnant. What should we do if something happens?

But this might be an opportunity, Princess Jinyang thought.

Thinking of this, Princess Jinyang stood up and said goodbye. After she left, Yao Niang ate a bowl of bird's nest, stood for a while, and then went to rest for an hour. When she woke up, Gao Xuance was chanting scriptures beside her beauty bed.

"Brother Xuan Ce." Yao Niang sat up and stretched out her hands towards him.

Gao Xuance opened his eyes when he heard her shouting: "Sister Yao, how is it? I'll rub your head for you, okay?"

"No, I slept well and now I'm going out for a walk." Yao Niang always felt that only sleeping could make her feel really comfortable.

Only when she feels comfortable will she want to walk around. I remember that when she was doing the 100-degree dance, she was in the best spirits.

But if you don’t sleep well and engage in various activities, it is easy to cause deficiency of Qi and blood.

The most important thing in the palace is to take care of your body. If you sit in an improper position for a long time, you will easily get sick.

Gao Xuance asked anxiously: "Aren't you going to talk to me?"

"But I would rather go out for a walk. How about you come with me? You know, we finally get here, we can't just sleep here every day, that would be bad." Yao Niang pretended to get up.

Helplessly, Gao Xuance had to accompany her for a walk. Yao Niang remembered that when she was little, she liked to make wreaths, and grass butterflies and grass grasshoppers. When they went out today, the weather was good and it was early.

Yao Niang started to take a pair of scissors with her and cut off a few leaves, weaving them as she walked.

Xun Ge'er never expected that his mother's hands were so skillful. He folded it into a small grasshopper in a short while, with a long grass left on the head so that it could be held by hand.

"Mother, is this for me? Wow, your son wants to learn from you." The first thing Xun Ge'er thought of was not playing, but learning.

Yao Niang said happily: "That's great. Your elder brother is always by His Majesty's side, and your second brother is a wild horse. It's rare that you want to learn from me. I will teach you tomorrow, okay?"

Xun Ge'er held Yao Niang's hand, shaking it back and forth, very happy.

Gao Xuance whispered in Yao Niang's ear: "Don't think that this boy is so clingy to you now. When he gets married, he won't even remember you."

"That's not normal. Now the children are our family. In the future, when they each get married and start their own families, they will be a family." Yao Niang was very open-minded about this.

Gao Xuance's "provoking" failed, so he started to act coquettishly: "You have to do something for me."

Anyway, I was jealous when I saw that Xun Ge'er had it and I didn't.

Yao Niang looked at him with wide eyes: "Are you a big baby?"

Even so, he also wove a green butterfly and hung it around his waist, which matched the green shirt he was wearing today very well.

So he was happy too.

The three of them met Princess Zhenyang on the road. She was with Wanwan and Huang Rushuang. Huang Rushuang might not be better looking than Wanwan, but because of her age, she was charming and had a bit more girlish charm.

Princess Zhenyang stepped forward and asked, "Third brother, Third sister-in-law, where are you going?"

"We are going to the spring in front. I plan to collect some spring water myself." Yao Niang smiled.

Princess Zhenyang didn't say much. After Yao Niang and her family of three left, Wanwan whispered, "Is Aunt Crown Princess weaving butterflies?"

"Yes, she is very good at weaving. When she was my study partner, she weaved a lot for me." Princess Zhenyang recalled that her hands were also so dexterous in the past.

Huang Rushuang asked with a smile: "I heard from my mother that the Crown Princess and she both live in the same palace with you."

"Of course, your mother was also my study partner. But at that time, your mother was older than us, so she didn't spend as much time with me as the Crown Princess did." In fact, Princess Zhenyang wanted to say that her relationship with Zhuang Lingyi was not that good before.

Even now, even though she sympathized with Zhuang Lingyi, it was not to the point of being very good.

It's not anything else, but that Zhuang Lingyi always looks downcast and cold, as if he is not having a good time, while the Crown Princess always looks much more relaxed.

She also has a rare strong character. Not to mention other things, just as Wanwan said, she has great patience even with a dull kid like Xun'er.

Not only that, she and her husband are in love with each other, and sometimes she feels that there is no need for couples to be too clingy.

But Yao Niang and Third Brother seemed to have always been so good to each other. The look in Third Brother's eyes seemed as if he was afraid that she would run away.

When they arrived at her own palace, Princess Zhenyang was no longer as active as she was when she was young. Instead, she seemed a little lazy. Huang Rushuang and Wanwan left. Wanwan had always been in poor health, so she also went back to rest.

At this moment, Huang Rushuang changed her clothes and said to the people around her, "The princess looks exhausted. I want to pick some flower petals to make a sachet so that the princess can smell it when she wakes up and feel refreshed."

Although she was a companion, she was more like a lady-in-waiting. People around Princess Zhenyang had a good impression of Huang Rushuang. She was very smart and could always think ahead of others no matter what happened.

Every time she stands out, she never forgets the people around her, which makes everyone admire her.

When Huang Rushuang arrived at the garden in Chengde, she was carefully collecting flower petals. She had observed for many days that the Fifth Prince would go to pay his respects to Concubine Li at this time every day.

When the chrysanthemums were blooming, there was a beautiful young woman, her hair tied up with a headband, stringing flowers with a needle. The fifth prince was talking to Gao Meng behind him, saying, "After paying respects to mother, we will go to find the crown prince. It's quite lively there, the crown prince and the crown princess are always responsive to his requests. Let's get a stove and go there to drink milk tea and have fun."

Gao Meng was his reading companion, and he smiled knowingly after listening to it.

Why drink milk tea? Just go there to play.

Although the Fifth Prince was nominally Taisun's uncle, the two were not much different in age, and they both loved to drink and play together.

As soon as he turned around, the Fifth Prince saw Huang Rushuang's behavior and felt like he couldn't move.

When Gao Meng saw the Fifth Prince's expression, he immediately understood and said, "Isn't this Miss Jing's study partner? I heard that Miss Huang is a rare beauty, and today I see that she is indeed extraordinary."

這高孟也是宗室子弟,之所以如此輕佻,也是因為黃如霜家世一般。

但他們也只是礙着真陽公主,并不敢如何。

少年人很容易動心,況且五皇子之前和黃如霜有些來往,見狀更是覺得心情都融化了。

此時,黃如霜仿佛才發現五皇子一樣,趕緊低頭請安,露出一截白皙的脖子。

這個年紀的皇族男子,房裏都放着人,但即便如此,也是不敢這麽早就親近的,年紀還是太小,他們消磨時光的方式難以對他人說。

恰好這個時候出現這樣的一個女子,她和他年齡相仿,正值青春,還頗善解人意,可又沒有那種老媽子的意思,讓人忍不住心向往之。

“你在這裏如何?”

“奴婢是給公主做香囊,這菊花能清熱,解毒,清心,明目,處煩,少部分做香包,還有一些做藥枕。”

“哦,這如何做呢?”五皇子問起。

黃如霜笑道:“其實也很簡單,先把采摘回去的鮮花曬十天,再放蒸籠上蒸,蒸了再曬十日,如此就可以了,這樣既沒有蟲蛀,也不會變形嚴重。”

五皇子點頭。

此時,黃如霜也知機的告退了,顯然進退得宜。

随後,五皇子才和高孟一起給麗貴妃請安,麗貴妃平日見兒子見的少,現在在外倒是見的多,母子二人還頗親近。

“老五,今日如何?我聽說太子帶你們行獵去了。”

“回母妃的話,的确如此。太子帶着太孫,并兒子還有幾位宗室兄弟一道過去的。兒子打的獵物,頭先已經讓人送了過來,只是打的不多,請母妃笑納。”

……

母子二人随意說了幾句,麗貴妃放他出去,他就趕緊帶着高孟去找承運了。

而麗貴妃則把在他身邊服侍的人喊過來問,這也是常用辦法,兒子大了,未必會事事和她說。

五皇子身邊的小太監,便把今日五皇子的行程說了。

“我怎麽聽說老五來的時候,和一位姑娘說話了?”

小太監一個激靈,全部招了:“那位是黃姑娘,五皇子見她在采花,就多問了幾句,黃姑娘又趕緊告退了。”

麗貴妃點頭:“你下去吧。”

對于兒子日後要去建國侯的女兒,麗貴妃當然是歡喜的,但是同時也有一憂。她自己出身寒門小戶,沈家雖然現在看起來不錯,但和這種勳貴不同。

更何況建國侯不是一般的勳貴,此時這莊氏女看着還好,不知道日後如何。

當年幾位皇子妃在皇子所的時候,麗貴妃那時地位不高,但也常常伴駕左右,因此聽了不少事情。

這皇子妃中,曾經的大皇子妃是昭平公主伴讀出身,家世顯赫,為人倒是寬厚和氣,很有氣度,和大皇子也算和美了。

那二皇子妃徐氏不得寵,事事都要聽從二皇子周王,她最大的毛病是周王管太多了。

再就是三皇子,也就是現在的太子高玄策,他曾經是目下無塵的主,娶的羅氏家世起初還沒那麽高,但這倆人日子過的更好。

而四皇子娶的是鎮南王的女兒,家世顯赫,可是她卻屢次和嚴妃不和,嚴妃那麽老實的人,也常常和兒媳婦生氣。

更有甚者,皇帝的原配林皇後,正是因為有軍功家庭出身,才膽子大的要謀反,甚至還下毒害皇上。

綜上所述,還是娶那種文臣家的閨女會好點,就像周王妃徐氏,不得不四處周全,在洪皇後面前不敢有一絲放松,再有羅氏,即便為太子妃,有皇後在的場合,她從不表現自己,甚至和端妃的矛盾,也能化幹戈為玉帛。

既做到了有尊嚴,又做到了滿宮和氣。

皇上年紀越大,越想看到的是花團錦簇的一面。

作為太子妃,從不拿大,從不驕矜,這一點是很難得的。

可現在自己兒子要娶建國侯的閨女,就真的難說了,建國侯首先是和太子一脈很親近,在禮法上她還得認洪皇後為嫡母。

至于皇後娘娘,那也是很會籠絡人心的,皇上對洪皇後那也是很有情分的,自己這個婆婆反而會成擺設。

在宮裏這麽多年,到時候落得這樣的下場,她自己也不想。

麗貴妃對黃如霜上了心,想看看她到底是什麽樣的人。

花開兩朵,各表一枝。

晉陽王妃回宮後,就去婆婆藍鳳公主那裏道:“太子妃說過幾日要騎馬,讓母妃也準備好,到時候咱們一道都去。”

“騎馬?”藍鳳公主有點慌。

別人不知曉,她生過孩子的人當然知曉,自己可能有孕在身,完全是那次在假山後面玩的太瘋,回去的時候忘記喝避子湯,居然就有了身孕。

她自己的身子骨自己知道,她經期一向很準,現在這般,完全有可能是有孕了。

她實在是太寂寞了,誠然自己是太妃,可年紀太輕,要避嫌,因此住的地方只能布置得青燈古佛,仿佛想把人的意志全部都消磨完似的。

在她們烏斯藏,女子完全是可以改嫁的,甚至女子還可以娶幾個男人,而漢人卻完全不同。

年紀輕輕的她只能穿青色還有黑色的衣裳,以彰顯她寡婦的身份,甚至因為她是年輕守寡,連花兒朵兒也不能戴。

有一次進宮,她稍微打扮的精致些,皇後就蹙眉了。

這種形同槁木的日子,讓她被迫每日在那個小佛堂,家中管家的人是兒媳婦,甚至都無法出去走動,她所有能去最遠的地方,就是皇後如果想起她,讓她進宮說話。

除此之外,她就只能在那個院子裏。

這樣的日子,她過的夠了,之前,她也瞧不起高簡那樣的好色,可唯獨只有他能懂她的寂寞。

看着藍鳳公主明顯慌了,晉陽王妃笑道:“是啊,能夠伴駕太子妃,說起來也是我們的福氣。先時,父王在的時候,宮中對咱們家信任有加,可現下咱們新襲爵,總要和宮中關系人把關系打好才是。”

藍鳳公主有些失望,“好,我知曉了。”

“那兒媳先告退了。明兒還得去皇後娘娘那裏請安了,您也早些歇着。”晉陽王妃從這裏出去的時候吐了一口濁氣。

這個時候,藍鳳公主要找的人不是高簡,在秋狝這個地方,高簡更多的是和王妃一起。

她也怕露出痕跡,還好她嫂子這次過來了,烏斯王妃也是烏斯藏的貴族出身,烏斯王有三位妻子,唯獨她最伶俐,最短的時日精通漢人,又很得寵,故而烏斯王才帶她過來的。

本來她的事情不好和娘家人說,但現在是不得不提了。

烏斯王妃過來時,不知曉為何,但見藍鳳公主道:“嫂嫂那裏可否有打胎藥,若有,只管給我就是?”

烏斯王妃驚呆了。

從落泉旁回來,瑤娘用泉水親自斟茶給高玄策喝,訓哥兒此時已經睡下,夫妻二人才品茗說話。

她說:“我總覺得好似有些不對,但又不得不這麽做,否則她的下場只有死路一條了。”

一個守寡的太妃,珠胎暗結,若不盡早處理,倒是肚子遮掩不住,那可能被逼迫自盡不說,甚至那個時候再那般,已經遲了。

人還是活着最重要。

高玄策搖頭:“你千萬別自責,若是真鬧出來,這人啊,只要有一條縫,周邊國家就蠢蠢欲動。”

藍鳳公主不是普通人,還是和親的公主。

“誰說不是呢。”瑤娘嘆了一口氣。

其實她還準備了兩套騎裝,如果藍鳳公主不行動的話,她肯定送過去,暗示讓她自己解決,大家彼此也保存顏面。

可如果她自己能想到這些,知曉這種事情幾乎是瞞不住別人的,盡早處理,宮中也肯定當什麽事情都沒發生過。

或者還有一種情況,就是藍鳳公主跟着回去烏斯國算了。

端看烏斯王舍不舍得了。

夫妻倆人說了一場,豈料次日,晉陽王妃就給自己婆婆告假,說她突發高熱。

洪皇後看了瑤娘一眼,瑤娘不怎麽說話,洪皇後顯然非常滿意這個結果。

“難得她娘家人來了一場,她倒是病了。”

“就是說呢。”麗貴妃湊趣。

洪皇後還下令賞賜給晉陽王妃,讓她帶給她婆婆,最後又等衆人離去和瑤娘道:“此事你辦的很好,她不僅和晉陽王有染,和侍衛也有染,若是孩子生下來,真不知道是怎樣的醜聞。”

反正她真是松了一口氣。

瑤娘卻道:“您說的是。兒媳想藍鳳公主正青春年少,即便這次遏制,也不免下次會有不好的事情發生,到時候又該如何處理呢?她本是烏斯女子,其所受之教,不同于我等中原女子。”

本來松了一口氣的洪皇後則又急了:“這可如何是好?”

皇家再嚴,也不可能明目張膽的派人去王府看着人家太妃,這樣做非常失禮。況且,這只有千日做賊的,沒有千日防賊的。

"Mother, I have a suggestion. Princess Lan Feng originally came here for marriage, but now Prince Jinyang has passed away, and she has completed her mourning period. Why not let her return to her country and hide her identity? As for her daughter, it would be better to bring her into the palace to be raised. This would be considered as treating a meritorious official well. What do you think?" Yao Niang finally said what she wanted to say.


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