, Chapter 7(1/2)
Changshou Palace.
Ye Qing originally thought that the Empress Dowager should be an old lady with gray hair and majesty, but she never thought she would be a beautiful and dignified woman.
Yes, in ancient times, women got married at the age of fifteen or sixteen. The empress dowager is not yet forty and is well maintained. She looks naturally young, but her eyebrows are quite sharp, which gives people a bit of a strong feeling.
Ye Qing and Xiao Jue saluted the Empress Dowager together.
Since the two of them got married, this is the first time that the Empress Dowager has seen them come to the Changshou Palace together. She is happy and smiles on her face. She hurriedly asked the palace maid to show the seats for the two of them.
"The emperor is busy with the government affairs, so it is rare to come to Ai's house once." The empress dowager smiled.
"Although the state affairs are important, filial piety and righteousness must be fulfilled." Xiao Jue replied.
"Listen, the emperor will also make me happy, the old woman." The empress dowager pointed at Xiao Jue and smiled at Ye Qing.
"My mother is in her prime, but I don't see where the mother is old at all." Ye Qing quickly blew the rainbow fart.
The Queen Mother is her strongest thigh in this palace, and she has to hug her tightly!
"Are you all smearing honey on your lips today?" Although the empress dowager said this, she couldn't stop smiling.
Lunch was left in the empress dowager's harem, and the empress dowager couldn't help but mention the issue of offspring at the table.
"Your emperor, you are not young anymore. The old emperor is at your age and has several children." The queen mother sighed: "You two should let me, the old lady, hold my grandson earlier."
Why did it come to this sensitive topic? Ye Qing was so embarrassed that he lowered his head and poked the rice grains in the bowl with ostrich.
This question can only be answered by Xiao Jue.
He frowned slightly: "Mother, the court is still unstable now, so my son will focus on political affairs first."
"Don't the royal descendants have something to do with the court?" the queen mother scolded: "Don't use these reasons to make excuses for my old woman."
Xiao Jue pursed his lips and said nothing.
Ye Qing suddenly felt good and said, "Mother, I don't blame Your Majesty for this matter. It's because my son has been sick for a while and has not arranged the matter of the concubines serving the bed."
The Empress Dowager wanted to hold her grandson, but Ye Qing knew that the dog emperor had children, and this was nothing happened.
She is not talking to the dog emperor. After all, the dog emperor cannot make a baby by himself, and she will still be involved in the nominal queen.
If she said this, the Empress Dowager would not blame her too much, and could also gain favorability in front of the dog emperor. After all, the dog emperor is the big boss of the palace.
Sure enough, after she said this, Xiao Jue looked at her in surprise.
The Empress Dowager sighed: "Don't talk to the emperor. Although I don't care about the matter now, my old lady is still clear. I know where the emperor has been to choose a concubine for more than half a year."
Because of this time, almost no one on the dining table except Ye Qing was able to move their chopsticks.
The atmosphere was awkward, and An Fu suddenly ran in from outside in a panic, "Your Majesty, something is wrong! Concubine Yang and Concubine Su are fighting!"
The Empress Dowager is so old that it is the first time she heard that the concubines have started fighting. Before Xiao Jue could speak, she shouted in a deep voice: "Absurd! They are at least ranked among the four concubines, are there any rules?"
Ye Qing lowered his eyes and said nothing, but his palms were covered with sweat.
The two palace maids who provoked Yang Fei on the road were indeed arranged by her.
She asked herself that there was nothing wrong with Concubine Yang and Su Ruyi, but they had hurt her once or twice. Concubine Yang and Su Ruyi had been resentful for a long time, but she just added a □□ between their conflicts.
With Yang Fei's firecracker temper, he rushed to Yonghe Palace to settle the score with Su Fei. If he met the male and female protagonists, he would definitely want to tell the world about the relationship between Su Ruyi and Gu Linyuan. In such a desperate situation, if Gu Linyuan wanted to take Su Ruyi out of the palace, he would only be left to kidnap Yang Fei and threaten the dog emperor to let them leave the palace.
Concubine Yang's father was the prime minister of the dynasty and held great power. Concubine Yang was kidnapped, and Xiao Jue must have to worry about her life and death, so he could only let the male and female protagonists leave the palace with hatred.
At that time, the dog emperor's anger will only be moved to Concubine Yang.
Not only was I safe in the deep palace, but I also let out a sigh of anger, which was perfect!
Ye Qing had a happy plan, but the reality seemed to be different from what she imagined, so Ye Qing was inevitably a little weak.
She noticed that she had a vision on her body, and raised her head and bumped into Xiao Jue's eyes that looked like a smile.
Couldn't this dog emperor really know something, right?
Ye Qing bent her lips at Xiao Jue with generous politeness. She seemed to be light and light, but in fact she was very nervous.
Xiao Jue's eyes were more interesting.
The Empress Dowager ordered people to spread the word that Concubine Yang and Concubine Su came over.
The two walked into the hall and were in a mess. Concubine Yang's golden hair accessories were torn to pieces and her clothes were torn. Su Ruyi was even more miserable, with her hair disheveled, her forehead was covered with blood, and her face was covered with tears. She cried so much that she felt pity for me.
The Empress Dowager was so angry that she slapped the table: "Look at what you look like! Where is there any concubine in the palace, which is a demeanor!"
Su Ruyi has always cried but not spoke, and she was beating around the bush to let people know her grievances. Today, she probably suffered a great loss and shouted directly: "I beg the Empress Dowager to be the leader of my concubine. Concubine Yang broke into the palace and beat her concubine for no reason, and wanted to slapped her in the face..."
During the late emperor's southern tour, he brought back a thin horse from Yangzhou. The thin horse was very good at using his weakness to win mercy on men. The empress dowager suffered a lot of secret losses in the thin horse. Since then, she hated those "paper beauties" who were accustomed to pretending to be weak.
Su Ruyi's delicate posture has never had a good face in front of the queen mother.
Perhaps because of her aura, although Su Ruyi is so beautiful, she still gives people the feeling that her beauty is suppressed by the empress dowager.
The Empress Dowager only glanced at Su Ruyi indifferently, then asked Concubine Yang: "Is Concubine Su's words true?"
Concubine Yang's body is stronger than Concubine Su. She had been pressing Concubine Su to hit her, but somehow the joints of her hands and feet seemed to be hit by something, and suddenly she felt blunt and could not move. She always liked to slap people, but Concubine Su took advantage of her weak hands and feet and pinched her arm and flesh on her waist.
In those places, it cannot be easily shown to others. Concubine Yang's eyes were so painful that she burst into tears. She also had a good abilities. She immediately said: "The Empress Dowager's understanding is that Concubine Su first insulted her father. His father worked hard for His Majesty and Dagong, but was insulted like this. I was so angry that I started to fight Concubine Su!"
"You are slandering with blood!" Su Ruyi was so angry that her heart and liver were in pain.
"You dare to say but you dare not recognize it!"
Seeing that Concubine Yang and Concubine Su were arguing and starting again.
The Empress Dowager shouted in a deep voice: "Enough! It's really embarrassing! You each go back to the palace and copy "Female Deity" one hundred times!"
Concubine Yang knew that she was in the wrong, and she didn't know whether Ye Qing had reported to the Empress Dowager. After all, she cursed Ye Shangshu this morning without restraint. She was afraid that the Empress Dowager would hold a grudge and dared not say another word.
Su Ruyi was also worried that things would continue, so Gu Linyuan, who was hiding in her bedroom, would come here, and it would be really troublesome at that time.
Both of them lowered their eyebrows and looked pleased, and then they returned to the palace.
After the two of them left, the Empress Dowager couldn't help but scold Xiao Jue: "Look at how your harem is like!"
Xiao Jue glanced at Ye Qing and said, "My son will discipline him strictly."
Ye Qing was not sure if Xiao Jue was hinting at her, but she still said tactfully: "Don't calm down, it's because the son minister has not restrained the good concubines."
The Queen Mother couldn't help but glared at Xiao Jue: "The Queen talks to you everywhere, why can't you see her?"
Why did he get involved with her again? Ye Qing complained in his heart, but he still had to smirk on his face that he could not make mistakes.
"My mother taught her a lesson." Xiao Jue also glanced at Ye Qing when he said this. His slightly raised corners of his eyes made Ye Qing feel like a fox.
Xiao Jue was still busy with government affairs, so he went to the imperial study room after dinner.
Ye Qing stayed to talk to the Empress Dowager for a while.
"What trouble happened in your palace a few days ago?" Xiao Jue was not there, and the empress dowager asked about this matter.
"My son is useless. I'm sick again, and I'm worried about my mother." Ye Qing didn't dare to tell the Empress Dowager about her poisoning by Gu Linyuan.
What a crime is it for a minister to dare to poison the queen?
Moreover, at this time, the male protagonist in the original work was still a "dead person" in the eyes of everyone. If she told the truth, she would be afraid that the entire Gu family would be imprisoned.
Ye Qing just wanted to live a life of silence, but didn't want to cause trouble. Today's plan was unexpected, which made Ye Qing feel uneasy.
"You are also imitating the emperor to fool me?" The empress dowager's face darkened: "If you are really sick, the Ai family will not ask this again!"
The Queen Mother is the real full-level contestant in the palace fighting, and she can't fool her in a few words.
Ye Qing stood up and knelt on the ground: "Auntie, Qing'er is useless. She has been poisoned for a long time and she still doesn't know."
Although the poison Gu Linyuan expelled her, another poison in her body had not yet been found. Ye Qing felt that it would be better to go with the flow and push this out. The Empress Dowager is an old man in the palace and must be more familiar with these tricks in the deep palace than her.
"Poisoned!" The Queen Mother suddenly raised her tone.
"You, you, after following the Ai family for so many years, why haven't you made any progress at all!" The Empress Dowager felt distressed and regretted that she was not strong enough, "Get up quickly."
The Madam Fang next to the Empress Dowager helped Ye Qing up.
The Empress Dowager continued to criticize her: "For such a big thing, you don't tell the Ai family, what kind of things do you really have to do with it... Alas..."
The Empress Dowager didn't say anything further, twisted the Buddhist beads and recited a few Buddhist scriptures.
Ye Qing felt: "It's all my fault, and my son is also afraid that his mother will worry."
The queen mother said, "It was me who neglected. Your nanny went there early. You were young and had many methods that I had never seen before. There was no older nanny around me to help you, so I could not deal with the monsters and monsters. Madam Fang has been with me for many years and is an old man in this palace. Any little kid must appear when she sees her. I will ask Madam Fang to go to your nanny to help you."
"Madam Fang has been with her aunt for many years, and her aunt is used to serving her. So letting Madam Fang stay by her side." Ye Qing said.
The Empress Dowager is also a pitiful person. She finally managed to survive until the Emperor's funeral, but there was no Madam Fang by her side, so she was afraid that there was not even a person who could tell the intimate words.
"There is no shortage of people to serve the Ai family. Only when Madam Fang is following you will the Ai family feel at ease." The Empress Dowager sighed: "Qing'er, if the Ye family generation still cannot get up, they will really decline."
"You are the daughter of the Ye family. When Ai family is here, you can still protect you. If Ai family also follows the late emperor, how can you gain a foothold without a strong family background in this palace?"
"You are the one who grew up in the Ai family. The Ai family said that these are all for your own good. As long as the woman in this harem has no son, she will be rootless duckweed."
The Ye family's ancestors were civil servants, but in Ye Qing's father's generation, there was never another amazing talent in the clan. The Ye family relied on the relationship between the empress dowager to survive in the Kyoto aristocratic circle.
If she wants to live a happy life without being favored in the palace, if she does not have the protection of the queen mother, she can only rely on the family behind her.
If the relatives of the foreigners are too strong, they will be suspicious of the emperor, but if they are too naughty, they will not help the emperor at all.
To be continued...