preface
In the story of "The Legend of Zhen Huan", the emotional entanglement between Zhen Huan and the emperor and the king of Guojun is the core of the whole play. Between the emperor and the king of Guojun.
After Zhen Huan came from the Ganlu Temple, she completely realized that her beloved was the King of Guojun, but at this time it was too late.
At that time, Zhen Huan planned to fake her death to leave the Ganlu Temple and go away with the King of Guojun to spend the rest of her life together, but unexpectedly, the life and death of the King of Guojun were uncertain, and she was pregnant with his child. In order to keep the child, Zhen Huan had to pretend to accept favors and return to the palace.
Being able to return to the harem again from the Ganlu Temple, Zhen Huan was originally walking on thin ice, and even the Empress Dowager found that Zhen Huan's twin sons were not the emperor's children, but did not expose her, what was going on?
The Empress Dowager tempted Zhen Huan
Empress Dowager Wuya was Kangxi's concubine, originally Yongzheng was not the next heir to the throne, and Yongzheng was able to succeed to the throne smoothly, which must be indispensable for Concubine De's help later.
Being able to stand out from the women in the harem, live to the end in this dangerous harem, and become the Empress Dowager, you can know that Empress Wuya is definitely not a good stubble.
Being able to become the "champion" of the previous palace fight, Empress Wuya is definitely not as light and breezy as she seems, and does not care about the affairs of the harem.
Back then, Empress Dowager Wuya was in order to consolidate the status of the Ulanara clan, so she would turn a blind eye to Yixiu's killing of Empress Chunyuan, even if she knew that Yixiu was not a pure woman, she would cover up the truth of Empress Chunyuan's death for her.
Empress Dowager Wuya even left a letter of edict, that is, she was afraid that after her death, Yixiu would fall, and the status of the Ulanara clan would be shaken, so she left a decree and did not allow the emperor to depose the empress.
No one knew that Yi Xiu had manipulated Chun Yuan and killed her sister, but Empress Dowager Wuya had seen everything early, and she must also know the secret of Zhen Huan's twin sons.
When Zhen Huan had just returned to the harem as the Niuhulu clan, the Empress Dowager summoned her to meet, and the Empress Dowager at that time either just wanted to knock Zhen Huan and warn her not to cause trouble in the harem anymore, and to keep to herself if she could return.
But when the Queen Mother looked at Zhen Huan's pregnant belly, she became suspicious for the first time, and she said directly to Zhen Huan: "Your belly seems to be much bigger than a woman in a normal month." ”
The Empress Dowager felt that Zhen Huan's pregnant belly did not look like she was three months pregnant, and it seemed that she was pregnant before the emperor went to the Ganlu Temple, so the Empress Dowager probed Zhen Huan meaningfully.
The Empress Dowager was originally very skeptical, the emperor went to the Ganlu Temple once, how could it be so coincidental, Zhen Huan was pregnant with the dragon species, and the Empress Dowager who took such a fancy to the royal bloodline must be suspicious.
Fortunately, Zhen Huan had already made a plan, and she said to the Empress Dowager very calmly: "The belly of the concubine is larger than that of ordinary people, because the imperial doctor has taken the pulse, and the concubine is pregnant with twins. ”
The Empress Dowager naturally did not listen to Zhen Huan's words, and immediately arranged for her own people to give Zhen Huan a pulse to determine whether Zhen Huan's words were true.
Fortunately, Zhen Huan was indeed pregnant with twins, and the imperial doctor did not find anything abnormal, so the Queen Mother did not say anything more, but the Queen Mother must not believe Zhen Huan just by virtue of the statement of twins.
After talking to the Empress Dowager, Zhen Huan was actually very afraid, she was worried that the matter of the twins would be exposed, not to mention that there were many rumors in the palace, in case the emperor also had suspicions, then the previous achievements would be lost.
Therefore, Zhen Huan pretended to be frightened and bumped by Ye Lanyi's cat, and gave birth to the child in her womb in advance, but the child was actually born full-term.
Because she could not let others know that she was ten months pregnant, this would not match the day when the emperor came to the Ganlu Temple, so she pretended that she was born prematurely.
Seeing that Zhen Huan had indeed given birth to a dragon and phoenix fetus, everyone believed that Zhen Huan's belly looked so big, and it was really because she was pregnant with two children. But at this time, the Queen Mother appeared again and tested Zhen Huan.
The Queen Mother became suspicious
Hearing that Zhen Huan was frightened and gave birth to a child in advance, the Empress Dowager immediately sent her henchmen to visit Zhen Huan's bed. Aunt Zhuxi said that she was visiting the twins for the Empress Dowager, but she actually came to see for the Empress Dowager whether the two children looked like the emperor.
The emperor naturally didn't think much about it, thinking that the imperial lady cared about his grandson, so he asked his subordinates to hold the little brother and the little princess to Aunt Zhuxi and let her see.
This Aunt Zhuxi is also a human spirit, and she said with a smile: "The slave looks at it, between the eyebrows of this little brother and the little princess, it really looks like Concubine Xi!" ”
This is very meaningful, the child came out of Zhen Huan's belly This is well known, naturally like the mother, but she did not say that she did not look like the emperor, which makes people wonder, why doesn't the child follow the father?
Fortunately, Zhen Huan reacted quickly and immediately replied: "The child has just been born, and I can't see where it looks like me." ”
The emperor also did not realize the confrontation between Aunt Zhuxi and Zhen Huan, just as a kind word, did not go to the heart, but Zhen Huan understood that the Empress Dowager may now find that the child is not like the emperor.
Fortunately, the father of the twin sons is the King of Guojun, but there is blood and kinship between the King of Guojun and Yongzheng, and there are more or less similarities between the two men, and the eyebrows of the twins make it impossible to see whether they are more like the King of Guojun or more like the emperor.
Although Aunt Zhuxi also told the truth when she went back to the Empress Dowager and could not tell whether the child belonged to the emperor, the Empress Dowager still felt that she had to see it with her own eyes to be sure.
Therefore, when the emperor and Zhen Huan came to the Cining Palace with their two children, the Empress Dowager called the sixth brother to her.
He took a serious look, and then said to the emperor: "Hongxi was born well, white and tender, unlike the emperor, when the emperor was first born, he was black and dark." ”
The emperor was immersed in the joy of having twin sons, and did not hear the empress dowager's voice at all, and said to the empress dowager: "What the imperial concubine said is that the white and pure born of Concubine Xi will follow her." ”
In fact, at this time, the Empress Dowager already had eighty percent suspicions that these two children were not the emperor's, but it was really unreliable to make a conclusion just because they didn't look like the emperor, and all the Empress Dowager did not say it explicitly.
The Queen Mother did not reveal the truth
Qi Guiren discovered the clue and accused Zhen Huan of fornicating with Wen Shichu, making a fuss, saying that the two children she gave birth to were not the emperor's, and even the emperor suspected Zhen Huan.
At that time, there was a drama of blood confession, fortunately, at that time, Qi Guiren made the wrong male protagonist, so that everyone kept their eyes on Wen Shichu, and Zhen Huan also saw through the queen's scheme to put white alum in the water, and cleverly resolved this crisis.
In fact, this time the Queen Mother was also watching, waiting to find out a falling stone, she actually wanted to know who the child was, only this time.
The Qi nobleman and the empress were self-defeating, but it lifted the suspicions in the emperor's mind, making him feel guilty about Zhen Huan, thinking that he was wrong to blame Zhen Huan.
From then on, no one dared to talk about Zhen Huan's twin sons, and when the Qi nobles angered the emperor, they were beaten to death by the eunuchs in the rain, and no one dared to provoke the emperor anymore.
At this time, even if the Empress Dowager had doubts, she did not plan to take this matter out and put it on the table.
Yi Xiu had already annoyed the emperor because of the blood test at that time, making the emperor think that Yi Xiu, as an empress, actually used such means to make trouble in the harem, although it was not enough to make the emperor depose the empress, but the emperor was still a little disappointed in Yi Xiu in his heart.
The Empress Dowager knew Yi Xiu's hands and feet on Chun Yuan, and also understood Chun Yuan's important position in the emperor's mind, and the Empress Dowager knew that it was at this juncture.
If you take out Zhen Huan's affairs again, maybe it will involve Yixiu, and when the time comes, if you pull out the past many years ago, no one will be able to keep Yixiu. For the sake of the status of the Ulanara clan, the Empress Dowager would never take this risk.
Whether Zhen Huan or the death or life of other concubines, the Empress Dowager doesn't care at all, she only cares about the royal bloodline heirs, this time the blood test has blocked everyone's leisurely mouth, then she won't interfere with anything anymore.
What's more, if the harem let Yixiu's family be the only one, and kept suppressing other concubines from giving birth to dragon species, then the royal heirs would be cut off here because of Yixiu, which was something that the Empress Dowager would never tolerate.
If Zhen Huan and Yi Xiu can balance each other and balance the power of the harem, then they can stabilize the harem.
The Empress Dowager knew that many of the dragon species conceived by the concubines were killed by Yi Xiu's poisonous hands, and those were the blood of the emperor, although Yi Xiu was her niece, and the Empress Dowager also hated Yi Xiu's methods.
Therefore, after dripping blood to test her relatives, the Empress Dowager not only did not cling to whose children Zhen Huan's twin children were, but also defended Zhen Huan many times, because she wanted to keep the heirs of the royal family and also balance Yixiu.
The Empress Dowager is a person who pays great attention to the face of the royal family, and if Zhen Huan is exposed that the child born is not the emperor's, then isn't this a huge green hat for the emperor.
That royal face was completely trampled on the ground, and the Queen Mother definitely did not want to see this scene. Under these many factors, no matter whether the Empress Dowager finally determines the origin of the twins, she will not raise it again, nor will she expose Zhen Huan.
However, later, the emperor also had doubts, and even planned to take a blood test again to test whether Hongxi was the child of the King of Guojun, but at that time Zhen Huan had already mastered the power of the harem.
The empress had been placed under house arrest in the harem, the empress dowager had also died, and Zhen Huan was already planning to kill the emperor.
epilogue
So Zhen Huan told the emperor the truth, not only the twins were not his children, but even the children born to Sister Mei were her and Wen Shichu, and they were not the emperor's heirs at all.
Coupled with the fact that Sun promised to be caught fornicating with the guards, a few news came down, and the emperor, who had been struggling to survive, was directly angry.
So far, Zhen Huan finally avenged the King of Guojun and completely stabilized her in the harem. She also attributed the two children of King Guojun to the name of the Seventeen Kings' Mansion, so that the children completely recognized their ancestors and returned to their ancestors.