199. The Queen’s Favorite Husband
199. The Queen’s Favorite Husband
Father, daughter, mother and son, brothers and sisters, this kind of fate is determined by nature, and husband and wife, this is the cause and effect of the day after tomorrow.
Not all relationships can be used to bear karmic debts for others. In addition to the bonds of blood, marriage contracts are also recognized by heaven and earth. Therefore, when Yan Chu decided to spend the rest of his life to atone for the injustice caused by Hong Nu, he could only Use this method.
In fact, he still took advantage of the loopholes in the rules of heaven, because he knew that he would not be reincarnated. Even if he failed to wash away the debt throughout his life, he did not have to worry about this karmic debt implicating him.
As for the original body, his soul has long since disappeared into the main god's space after the wish was successful, and has either become the energy to maintain the operation of the system, or has become something else. It has long been free from the restrictions of reincarnation, so naturally it is not a big deal. hinder.
In this world, Yan Chu did not live long, he was only forty-seven years old. The old Taoist passed away many years before him. This is the case for Xuanmen people. There are too many causes and effects involved in the leaked secrets, and few people can do it. People who live longer.
Except that Lin Yang and others occasionally received letters from Yan Chu, they had no other contact information. No one knew where Yan Chu had gone or what he had done in these years.
Until he was dying, Lin Yuan came to the hospital where he died, and according to his will, his remains were buried together with Lin Yuan's bones, completely completing the causal relationship.
No one knew whether he had paid off the debt owed by Lin Yuan and successfully entered reincarnation. They could only pray in their hearts.
*****
"Place a stick of incense for your aunt and uncle."
Every year during the Qingming Festival, Lin Yang always brought his wife and children to pay homage to his sister. After Yan Chu's death, one more person came to pay homage.
There are two tombstones, one has no photo on it, and the other has a photo of a seven or eight-year-old girl.
"Dad, why has my uncle never come to pay homage to my aunt in these years?"
Lin Yang now works in Yu's real estate company. He is very smooth-talking and is the champion of real estate sales every year. After finding his sister's bones and burying them, his life gradually got back on track. In the third year, he married a gentle and virtuous woman. My wife gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl.
Lin Yuan's two children are named Nian Chu and Nian Yuan. Except for those who experienced all that, few people know the meaning of these two names.
The slim Lin Nianyuan, who had already disappeared, curiously asked her father that she had not seen her aunt and uncle since she was born. The reason was that her aunt was dead but her uncle was still alive.
Before, Lin Nianyuan thought that her uncle had remarried and had no contact with them anymore. Now looking at her father's complicated eyes and his behavior of bringing her uncle's ashes all the way to be buried with her aunt, it was obviously not what she expected.
The most important thing is, looking at the photo on my aunt's tombstone, how could she have a husband at such a young age?
It's a pity that their father never tells them stories about their aunt and uncle. Whenever his aunt's name is mentioned in the family, his father is always very sad. Gradually, no one dares to mention it.
"Your uncle, he is atoneing for your aunt's sins. He is really the best person I have ever met in my life. Your aunt is very lucky to be able to meet him."
Lin Yang didn't explain it carefully, thinking about the man who didn't even leave a photo. They might not be able to repay what they owed him in this lifetime.
Lin Nianyuan and Lin Nianchu agreed in a confused manner, and then the family of four left after all the incense was burned.
*****
"The emperor is awake, the emperor is awake."
Yan Chu absorbed the memory of his original body. By chance, a palace attendant came over at this time and saw Yan Chu opening his eyes and running outside in a panic.
"Sir."
Several handsome-looking men trotted in and saw Yan Chu waking up. They were half-kneeling in front of the bed, holding handkerchiefs to wipe away their tears.
I don’t know if I had received on-the-job training in advance, but I was able to maintain the makeup on my face perfectly even when I shed tears.
When Yan Chu absorbed the memory of his original body, he already knew that this was not any world he knew. This country respected women, similar to the descriptions in some novels about women.
Most of the women are tall and strong, while the men usually put on makeup and make them look more beautiful.
Yan Chu felt that he had seen strong men before, but looking at the effeminate palace attendants, he felt that the challenge to him in this world was too great.
He couldn't imagine that he would imitate the palace servants in front of him, twisting and slumping when walking, gasping for breath every step of the way. Not to mention actually doing this, just thinking about it would make people crazy. He would rather the system Directly destroy him humanely.
"You all go out, I want to take a good rest."
Yan Chu waved his hands to several crying palace attendants and told them not to let anyone disturb him unless His Majesty came in person.
Several palace attendants seemed to still have something to say, but when they were ignored by Yan Chu, they felt the pressure on him that was almost the same as His Majesty's. They immediately turned into quails and shrunk out.
Looking at the appearance of these palace attendants, Yan Chu couldn't help but sigh in his heart. It was because he thought they were good and put aside his former loyal servants.
Now he is still a wounded person, and there is no sadness in the eyes of these palace attendants. On the contrary, they are all leisurely applying makeup and powder, and they don't know who they are running for.
"Bah, ugly people tend to cause mischief."
Several delicate and beautiful palace attendants slowly exited the main hall of Fengyi Palace. One of the most outstanding-looking palace attendants couldn't help but spit in the direction of the palace with a cold eyebrow.
With his ugly appearance, the Queen couldn't bear to take another look at him. She didn't want to think about how to rely on them to favor him, but she knew that being sour and jealous would be a waste.
The palace attendant felt sorry that his beauty was wasted by this jealous ugly husband. If he could be more generous and recommend himself to the queen, if he was favored in the future, wouldn't he look after his former master? I really don’t know what it means.
"Keep your voice down. After all, he is still the emperor's official husband. And although he is ugly, his mother-in-law and sisters are very useful. The Yan family is a loyal family. The queen has great use for the girls of the Yan family. She will definitely not treat him badly. If that person is allowed to If the ugly and mischievous man listens, we will just walk away without food."
How majestic and graceful the Queen is, so many brothers throughout the country are hoping that the Queen will take another look at them. If they can be favored by the Queen and enter the harem, it will be a blessing that they have cultivated for several lifetimes.
Several beautiful palace attendants around Yan Chu also came for the position of empress. At first, everyone wanted to be the emperor's husband because he was ugly. If he wanted to keep the empress, he must be promoted. Those beautiful palace attendants are always favored, but who knows that the emperor's husband is not only ugly, but also jealous and aloof. Although he likes to be served by good-looking palace attendants, as long as His Majesty appears, they will not be allowed to appear. In front of His Majesty's eyes, the entire Fengyi Palace was filled with complaints, wishing that Yan Chu, the emperor's official husband, would die immediately.
Yan Chu couldn't hear what these palace servants were talking about, but he could roughly guess what they were talking about. He didn't pay much attention to it. When he recovered his health, he would definitely drive these people out.
But before driving people away, they must also give the masters behind them a warning.
Speaking of which, the original person can be regarded as a legend. Putting aside some of his subsequent actions, Yan Chu personally admires him.
Originally born into a family of military commanders, his physique and appearance are not like the frail young men who are popular nowadays. Instead, he is tall and not weaker than women.
Everyone in the world likes to be pretty, and they want a man to have white skin, a slim waist, be pretty, charming, and romantic. These things are not relevant to him. On the contrary, because he grew up outside the customs, he is proficient in horseback riding and archery, and his skin is not liked by the world. Wheat color, angular face, and handsome features.
She has the heroic spirit of a woman, but lacks the coquettishness of a brother.
In the eyes of the women in the country, such a man is considered ugly, especially because he is taller than most of the women in the country. To a large extent, this is also a challenge to the authority of the wife. Which woman would like it? What about the man who is taller and burlier than me?
If the original person had thought more clearly and found someone to marry directly outside the customs, he might also be able to find a girl who appreciates him outside the customs and live a happy and smooth life, especially with his family's family background. The wife who shocked the future did not dare to bully him, but he fell in love with the most noble woman in the world. He just followed his mother back to the capital to report on his duties. He met the queen at the palace banquet, and his heart was entrusted to her. .
He cried and clamored to enter the palace. In view of the Yan family's past achievements, the Queen did not hesitate to give him the position of the emperor's husband. However, he was a very pure person emotionally, and he felt that true love was ahead of his time. There shouldn't be a third party, but in this harem, besides the emperor's husband, there must be many other men. In addition, he is ugly, so how can he monopolize the queen's favor?
Jealousy makes people crazy, and the original person unexpectedly thought of rebellion.
After spending many years outside the customs, he knew that men were not weaker than women. Especially in some barren areas, men could also be the boss of women. He was obsessed with overthrowing the rule of women and replacing men with men in the world.
He thought that if he could become the emperor, the only woman in his harem would be the queen. By then, the woman would truly belong to him.
The ideal is very full, the reality is very skinny, the original idea is good, but the intelligence cannot keep up. At the beginning, it did inspire a large number of men who were dissatisfied with the low status of men, but in the end, this great plan still failed. As soon as it sprouted, the queen strangled it to death in the cradle.
Fortunately, the queen was wise and did not anger other members of the Yan family, but the head of the Yan family, the original biological mother, had no shame in being her general anymore. Hundreds of people in the family returned to their ancestral home and never set foot in the court again. Tang, it can be said that the achievements accumulated by the Yan family for generations have been ruined by this unfilial son.
The original person's attempt to rebel was naturally a capital crime. Until his death, he was still obsessed with the Queen, thinking that if he was given a chance to come back, he would definitely come up with other ways to monopolize the Queen's heart.
Then, Yan Chu came over.
His mission this time was also very simple. The main mission was to make the queen willing to dismiss the harem for him and favor him alone.
The side mission is the coming-of-age ceremony for the Queen when she turns 18. I hope the Queen can stay in her palace.
According to the rules of the Tianhuang Kingdom's royal family, a woman can only release her essence when she is eighteen years old. Before the age of eighteen, she can marry her husband's side wife, but she cannot consummate the marriage. There is still more than a month left before the Queen's eighteenth-year-old coming-of-age ceremony. In other words, , he must make the Queen think differently about him in more than a month.
Generally speaking, a royal woman will stay in her husband's room on the night of her coming-of-age ceremony, but there are always exceptions, especially since the Queen is the most noble woman in the world. Of course, her words and deeds follow her own preferences.
When Yan Chu came over now, he was seriously ill and was made angry by the men in the harem. Everyone thought that the queen would not be so unreasonable and hold such an important consummation ceremony with an ugly man like him. To a great extent, it will reduce the Queen's happiness, thereby reducing the Queen's expectations for this matter.
The original person was so angry that he missed the Queen's coming-of-age ceremony. In the previous life, it was naturally impossible for the Queen to consummate her marriage with a patient. This was what made the original person the most angry.
Yan Chu got out of bed and looked at himself in the full-length mirror in the bedroom.
He has sharp eyebrows and a tall figure. Because he grew up in the border area where wind and sand are everywhere, his skin is much rougher than that of the pampered aristocratic men in the capital who have skin as white as jade and are not fair enough to be healthy. wheat-colored.
This kind of appearance can still attract the love of many girls in modern times, but in the country of Nu Zun, there is only one word, ugly.
Thinking about Nu Zunguo's aesthetic preferences and his own appearance in this life, he was embarrassed to say that he could play the role of a little wolfdog like this.
Or, let’s change the style and have a big wolfdog?
Yan Chu touched his chin, a little undecided.
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"How is Mr. Huang doing now?" In the Minghuang Palace, Queen Feng Zhao of the Tianhuang Kingdom asked the maid beside her.
All the palace attendants in the palace are men. Only the Queen can be served by female attendants. However, these female attendants can only stay in the outer palace and the harem. Without the Queen's permission, the female attendants cannot enter even half a step. .
Feng Zhao is tall and slender, with a gorgeous and dazzling appearance. Although she does not apply any makeup on her face, people can still not take away from her face. In modern times, she is a royal sister-type character, and she still maintains her appearance all year round. Fitness habits, the kind with a fit and beautiful figure.
She has been in a high position all year round, and just the intimidation flashing between her eyebrows can make people's hearts tremble.
"The palace attendant from Fengyi Palace just came to deliver a message, saying that the emperor's husband is now awake." The waitress bowed and said in a steady tone.
"Your Majesty, does he..."
As soon as she finished speaking, the waitress realized that she was being bold, so she quickly stopped her unfinished words and lowered her head.
"Go ahead and tell me that I will go over to visit the emperor's husband later in the day."
Feng Zhao thought that he was his real husband after all, so he still had to give him some face.
The maid also understood what the Queen meant. I am afraid that today's dinner will also be eaten at Fengyi Palace. The appearance of the emperor's husband may not be taken seriously even in ordinary wealthy businessmen's homes, let alone a harem filled with beauties. .
The Queen didn't dislike this at all, and was willing to give the other party this face. She didn't know where he got his blessing.
The maid bowed and retreated, conveying the Queen's order to Fengyi Palace.
*****
"The Queen has arrived."
As the voice of the palace attendant beside the queen rang out, Fengyi Palace suddenly became lively.
As a patient and with such a distinguished status as the emperor's husband, Yan Chu certainly did not need to get up and go out to greet him at the palace gate. This allowed those palace attendants with evil intentions to take advantage of him. They all dressed up in a flamboyant manner and wanted to give away their most valuable jewelry. , all the highest-grade makeup and powder were used on her body, so that she would be dazzling all of a sudden, and the queen would remember it in her heart.
It's a pity that all these efforts to dress up were in vain. Feng Zhao walked through the palace gate without squinting, ignoring the palace attendants who were saluting and looking for opportunities to look at her. She even couldn't help but because of the rich fragrance of makeup and powder. He frowned.
"Jiang Liu, can a palace servant still dress like this?"
When he was about to step into the inner hall, Feng Zhao suddenly stopped. This made the palace attendants who were originally disappointed suddenly gain confidence, thinking that he had left a deep impression on the queen. They all straightened their backs and half bowed their heads. She wears her head and face shyly, showing off her most beautiful appearance.
"Replying to the Queen, the rules in the palace are that chamberlains of rank nine or above are not allowed to wear jewelry that exceeds the regulations, and are not allowed to apply makeup. Anyone who disobeys the order will be punished with a light punishment of ten times, and a serious punishment will be sent to the treasurer."
The treasurer is the most busy, tiring and dirtiest place in the palace. Palace servants who join the treasurer will never come out in this life. They should be prepared to stay in it for the rest of their lives. It is a place that everyone in the palace avoids.
The rules in the palace are strict. Except for the clothes distributed every season, ordinary palace attendants are not allowed to wear other styles of clothes. Their hair cannot be more than half a foot above their shoulders. They are not allowed to wear gold and jade accessories, and they are not allowed to apply makeup. This is also to prevent the palace attendants from seducing the queen. Harming the queen's noble body will bring harm to the palace.
However, there are always exceptions. The first-class palace attendants who serve the empresses of the fourth-grade good prince or above are all of a certain rank. In this way, a palace attendant with a rank can dress up, but there is a certain degree that he cannot be a palace attendant. She is even better dressed than the queens.
And these palace attendants saluting Feng Zhao in front of them, although they are palace attendants of Fengyi Palace, but wearing gold hairpins like this, and the smell of powder on their bodies is so strong that it almost makes people breathless, they are obviously outside the rules. of.
After all, they were from Fengyi Palace. Originally, Feng Zhao had no intention of intervening in the affairs of the main husband's palace, but now that these palace servants used their methods on him, it was obvious that Feng Zhao could not bear it.
Besides, let's not talk about her husband. The female generals of the Yan family are fiercely loyal to Tianhuang Kingdom. Even if it is to appease the hearts of those loyal ministers and good generals, Feng Zhao will not want the palace people of Fengyi Palace to make any jokes.
"His Majesty."
A palace attendant with a waist as thin as a willow and fair skin slowly saluted her. His brows were affectionate, his eyes were blinking, and his eyelashes as thick as a fan were trembling slightly. He looked like a shy and charming young man.
"For example, Xiao is a first-class palace attendant serving the principal husband. The illegal red jade hairpin worn on his head was a gift from the principal husband. I dare not not wear it."
At this time, the other party raised his head, and people noticed that his dress was different from that of the palace attendants beside him. For example, he also wore makeup, but he only put some rouge on the ends of his eyes and cheeks to make his complexion look more beautiful. A little better.
In particular, his skin is white, and the redness seems to naturally seep out from under the skin, making him three-quarters charming and three-quarters alluring.
In addition, the clothes and hair accessories are all in accordance with the rules of the palace, and the ruby jade hairpin in the hair is a taboo.
This kind of dress, placed among this group of palace attendants dressed in rich and gorgeous clothes, is like a hibiscus emerging from the water, which is very impressive.
The other palace attendants saw this and were angry in their hearts. They saw the queen's eyes lingering on him for a moment, and secretly cursed the little bitch in their hearts.
"Except for the high-ranking chamberlains, all the others were dragged to Ye Ting and asked to be raped again. As for these people, let the emperor deal with them by himself."
The entire Tianhuang Kingdom belongs to the Queen. She wants to deal with a few people, but of course she doesn't need Yan Chu's consent.
It's just that a high-ranking chamberlain is different from an ordinary palace servant. If she handles it, others may think that it is because she, the queen, is dissatisfied with his royal husband.
Therefore, after Feng Zhao thought about it in his mind, he directly said coldly to Jiang Liu, the chief manager behind him.
"Your Majesty, if this happens, Fengyi Palace will probably be short of a lot of manpower."
Jiang Liuhuan glanced at the crowd of people waiting at the entrance of the palace. I'm afraid the entire Fengyi Palace was empty. He didn't know how the official managed the palace attendants and selected palace servants. None of them looked like they were saving money. lamp.
"Let the Ministry of Internal Affairs select a new group and choose some who know the rules."
There was no emotion or anger in Feng Zhao's voice. Only someone like Jiang Liu, who had been serving the Queen since childhood, could detect that the Queen was dissatisfied.
I just don't know whether these dissatisfactions are directed at the emperor's husband in Fengyi Palace, who is in a disadvantageous position, or at the Ministry of Internal Affairs who have failed in their duties.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty——"
What kind of place is Ye Ting? It is the place where the palace servants who made mistakes have to shed a layer of skin after entering. Moreover, the palace servants who have entered Ye Ting can only go to places like Huanyi Bureau or Leng Palace after they come out. These The position is better than that of the treasurer. After working hard all his life, anyone in the palace can step on him.
The beautiful palace attendants who had never suffered any injustice since arriving in Fengyi Palace panicked and begged Feng Zhao for mercy one by one.
And those chamberlains who had temporarily escaped the disaster because of their rank were not much better. From the look of the Queen, she seemed to be a little dissatisfied with them.
Especially Ru Xiao, who was full of confidence just now, now his face turned blue and white. Fortunately, he thought that His Majesty just looked at him with admiration. After a few months, His Majesty has completed the New Year's ceremony and can start to stay in the harem. They can also get a share of the pie, but now it seems that how to reverse the Queen's bad impression of them has become the top priority.
No one cared about what the Queen had just said about letting the Chief Master handle their affairs. In the eyes of Ru Xiao and others, Yan Chu, the Chief Master, couldn't be more soft-spoken. If the time came, he would just fool around with a few words and the matter would be over.
The wailing palace attendants were dragged down one by one, and Feng Zhao did not stop any longer, but walked straight towards the inner hall.
Thanks to his sensitive five senses, Yan Chu heard everything that happened in the outer hall.
"A Chu is feeling better."
In any case, the sick man inside was his real husband. Feng Zhao had some respect for Yan Chu, and his expression softened a bit when he saw him.
The previous empress gave birth to two princesses and three princes. Feng Zhao was the eldest daughter of the emperor. According to the identification of the date and the blood phoenix flower, she was conceived when the queen was visiting the royal husband. Among all the queen's children, she was the first. She was born into the noblest family, and she was raised by the current Queen as the Crown Princess when she was almost very young.
The blood phoenix flower is a specialty of Tianhuang Kingdom and can be used to identify the biological father of a woman's flesh and blood in her belly.
For example, during the month when the doctor diagnoses the fetus in the abdomen, within that period of several dozen days, a woman may have had relations with several husbands. In this case, it is necessary to rely on blood phoenix flowers to identify the child after the child is born. Who is the biological father?
Feng Zhao has been given great hope since she was a child, and she lives up to the efforts of the current empress. She is the most outstanding among the empresses in the past. The same is not only reflected in government affairs, but also in her care for the harem concubines. Attitude.
Regardless of beauty or ugliness, the emperor's husband must be the most valued. In addition, other concubines received varying degrees of attention based on the power they represented behind them. She almost never treated the people in the harem according to her own likes and dislikes.
From a certain point of view, such a queen does not have to worry about her being emotional, because a man will do things that endanger the interests of the country, and as her concubine, as long as her natal family is strong enough and she does not do anything stupid, she will be able to live her whole life. You are all staying in the palace safely and comfortably, but similarly, you don't have to imagine that she will have any real feelings for you.
She is too sensible, to the point of being a little cold.
Yan Chu looked at the visitor. She was wearing sapphire blue uniforms and a white jade belt tied around her waist. She looked tall and tall. Her hair was tied high and she wore a jade crown. She didn't have any broken hair. She was neat and handsome.
The genes of the royal family have been optimized by various beauties. Feng Zhao's appearance is naturally not bad. Her appearance is extremely gorgeous, coupled with the sharp eyebrows and eyes, she is like an iceberg that is difficult to climb. It's impossible, even if she has tried to make a gentle expression.
"His Majesty."
Yan Chu raised his upper body from the bed and saluted her.
Because of his illness, he did not put on makeup and powder as before. His long hair was casually spread behind him, making him look fresher and cleaner.
Feng Zhao glanced at him twice. In the past, even if he was sick, he would dress up specially when he learned that she was coming over, and then imitate the servants in his palace and call her Zhao Niang in a sweet voice.
This is a name that can only be called by the emperor's husband. In the past, the original person was also happy to call her that in private, which highlighted that he was different from other men.
"Why don't you call me Zhao Niang today?"
Feng Zhao sat next to Yan Chu's bed and took his hand. He didn't mind that he was born in a family of military generals and practiced martial arts all year round, so his palms were rough and calloused.
In fact, she wasn't used to Yan Chu calling her that in such a sweet tone, but he was her real husband, so there had to be something special. He mentioned it like that on the wedding night, and Feng Zhao agreed.
In the past, thinking that he was still young and ignorant, he must have been scared to be away from his relatives and sisters and come to the capital. With his appearance, he would inevitably feel inferior, so Feng Zhao didn't mind pampering him a little.
Now that he behaves like others, Feng Zhao is not used to it.
However, upon closer inspection, I found that the emperor's husband was seriously ill, and he seemed to look a little different from before.
Feng Zhao paused while touching Yan Chu's palm, and glanced at his earlobe inadvertently. He looked away when he saw a black mole the size of a small sesame seed there.
She asked the question with a smile, her eyes unfathomable.
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