Jiang Boyu asked the Xiao family for a memorial, and it could be said that he dared to stroke the tiger's beard. The Xiao family was naturally very angry from top to bottom. What's more, above the court and the opposition, in the market, many people are already guessing when Jiang Boyou will be unlucky.
The Xiao family is a relative in power today, the mother family of the Empress Dowager!
As the emperor, Shen Lang's attitude towards the Xiao family in the past few years has been seen by everyone, and it can already be called "indulgence". Although a servant of the Ministry of Household is considered a big official in the court, what is it in front of the emperor
"This Jiang Shilang doesn't seem to be a troubled person at ordinary times. Why did he lose his head this time, and he came to fight Xiao Shi?"
"I'm afraid it's for my daughter, right?"
"Yeah, I heard that in order to choose Princess Linzi, these wealthy families in Beijing are secretly holding back. Isn't the bad reputation of the Jiang family first passed down by people from the Xiao family?"
"The arm can't twist the thigh, why bother with this breath?"
"It's a pity, it's a pity."
No one thought that Jiang Boyu could beg for favor from the Xiao family.
Sure enough, the upward discussion turned to the discussion, but there were very few who really stood up to support Jiang Boyou, and all of them were afraid that the gun would be the first bird and it would be bad luck to themselves. After the memorial was handed over, he didn't get any approval, but was detained by Shen Lang, and he was not sent.
Xiao Yuan was so complacent that he threatened to make Jiang Boyou look good.
But no one expected that just one day later, the memorial that was originally going to be suppressed was sent directly to the cabinet, and it was handed over to several ministers and ministers to vote for the approval.
Although it is only such a small action, it has a profound meaning in the eyes of a caring person.
Everyone can't help but secretly figure it out.
The ministers in the cabinet sat around the memorial that was placed in the center of the table, and they looked at each other, silent, for fear that they had guessed the meaning of the emperor wrong.
That afternoon, Xiao Yuan panicked.
He was a foreign minister after all, and if he entered the palace to meet the Queen Mother at this time, it would be too revealing, and he might be caught by others, so he asked Xiao Shu, the junior, to greet the Queen Mother.
In the evening, the Cining Palace was shrouded in a layer of twilight.
The palace people who served dinner filed out.
Wearing a fancy dress, Xiao Shu, against the backdrop of the bleak sky and the dim yellow light, showed a kind of vigor that was incompatible with the Cining Palace.
Seeing her, Empress Dowager Xiao smiled and said, "When I was as young as you, I also had such elegance. You must be here because of what happened in the past few days? I have heard of it."
Xiao Shu's heart suddenly became cold.
She faintly felt that something was wrong. When did this noble aunt, who used to dominate the sixth palace, have such a dull tone, and how did she start to recall the past
"Even with the splendor of my aunt today, it's hard for Ah Shu to match it, let alone back then?" Xiao Shu bowed and saluted, got up and approached as usual as usual, "Aunt also predicts things like a god, and recently my father's heart has been difficult to settle. You know that he has always been a person who can't make up his mind, and he is thinking about the beginning of spring, the cold and the hot, and the unreasonable solar terms, so I specially came to greet you, or ask you to give me some advice."
Xiao Shu's speech has always been watertight and very pleasing. If she had listened to it, the Empress Dowager Xiao would have laughed at this moment and pulled her to her face to talk.
But now he just stared at her.
After a long while, she saw that the smile on Xiao Shu's face could no longer be hung up, and she slowly said, "How could Aijia match you back then? You also said that it is your father who needs Aijia's advice and guidance. My incompetent brother! Why do you need it?"
As soon as these words came out, Xiao Shu leaned over and knelt in front of her, her voice sounding a little frightened: "Aunt, why is it so serious?"
Mrs. Xiao's smile was nowhere to be seen, and even a bit cruel, she gritted her teeth and said, "My confused brother has really raised a good daughter! The Ai family usually only knows that you are smart and avoid profits. Damn, you are the only person in the capital who is worthy to sit in the position of the lord of the six palaces! You really live up to it! You are at home, and you really have a good plan for your father!"
Xiao Shu looked up at her in amazement.
The Empress Dowager Xiao sneered: "There is a lot of arrogance about the relationship with relatives. The Xiao family is a live target that is stabbed in the eyes of others! Your father can't handle it clearly, but it is impossible for you to not know it. What idea did you give your father? You even used the Tongzhou incident to throw dirty water on Jiang Boyu's daughter!"
Xiao Shu still didn't seem to understand the Queen Mother's words, and said, "Jiang Xuehui is Ah Shu's biggest opponent. Without her, I would be the princess of Linzi. Is Ah Shu doing something wrong?"
"Confused!"
Seeing that the Queen Mother Xiao didn't understand her at this time, she was so angry that she slapped her face with a slap!
"Snapped!"
Xiao Shu staggered and fell to the ground.
The Queen Mother Xiao pointed at her nose and scolded her with hatred: "I have been teaching you for so many years in vain, but I didn't expect you to be born by my confused brother and a stupid woman outside. You are usually in vain when you look smart, the key is There is wax in your head all the time! You poured dirty water on Jiang Xuehui by using Jiang Xuening's affairs, although Jiang Xuehui suffered damage, but you didn't expect people to fight back? Besides, the market is now talking about you, you want to Pushing you to go to Tartar for Leyang to have a kiss, if you can understand the current situation, how can you choose you as a concubine?! There are so many people in the world, one spit is enough to drown him! Even if Jiang Xuehui was not chosen, he would still be There is Chen Shuyi, Zhao Shuyi! Where can I get you?!"
The palace maids retreated outside early, and the whole hall was cold.
Xiao Shu's drooping eyes trembled slightly, but when she raised her head, she seemed to have just thought of these key points, and her whole person seemed to lose her senses.
After a while, she seemed to panic, knelt down in front of Empress Dowager Xiao, and kowtowed: "It's Ashu who was so confused that she forgot about this layer, but now the big mistake has been made. Aunt, aunt, you are in the palace. For many years, the Holy One is your close relative, there must be a way? I'm afraid they will really send me to kiss... "
Tears fell down.
The Empress Dowager Xiao usually taught her as a close relative, because she was not so playful and pampered, so sometimes it was better for Xiao Shu or even Shen Zhiyi, her own daughter.
But seeing her in a mess at this moment, she felt a little bored and disappointed in her heart.
She said coldly: "If you don't do this stupid trick, I'm afraid that the Aijia can still protect you. After all, my Xiao family is very powerful. If you are sent to a relative, the emperor will feel like a thorn in his heart. Be careful. The Xiao clan colluded with the Tartars to try to usurp the throne. But you'd better hand the knife into the emperor's hands, giving him an excuse to weaken the Xiao clan first!"
The Empress Dowager Xiao closed her eyes and looked at her like an abandoned child. She felt like a waste of time to look at her, and only said: "You have come up with a bad idea, and you have found out the emperor's intention by accident, and now I leave it behind. The next mess has to be cleaned up by the Aijia, and the Aijia is helpless about having a relationship with the relatives. Go back by yourself, and you won't have to go to the palace often to greet you in the future."
Xiao Shu didn't seem to believe that she was so heartless.
Looking at the aunt, she asked, "Does my aunt want to watch Ah Shu go to the dangerous Tartar to marry her?"
Mrs. Xiao was expressionless and said unmoved: "Zhiyi is the flesh and blood of Ai's family, she can go, why don't you go?"
Xiao Shu lowered his head.
Empress Dowager Xiao got up and ignored her, leaving only one sentence: "There is no father and son in the Tian family, you are too stupid, don't blame the Ai family for being too cruel."
After saying this, the figure of the Empress Dowager Xiao has disappeared behind the painting screen.
The dusk outside also fell completely, and the hall was dark.
Therefore, neither the Queen Mother Xiao who left nor the maid who came in saw it. At the moment when the figure of the Queen Mother Xiao disappeared and the darkness shrouded, Xiao Shu's originally bright and beautiful face was respectful, frightened and sad. It all faded away as if a layer of color on the painting had been dyed with water, leaving only a beautiful face with delicate facial features embedded in it.
like a dummy.
Even revealed a kind of weirdness.
She stood up abnormally calmly, and walked out of the hall with the five finger prints left by the slap of the empress Dowager Xiao on her cheek.
The maids carried the palace lanterns to send her out of the palace.
Because you heard the empress dowager's anger in the palace, she didn't dare to look at her carefully, just glanced at her and buried her head.
Only halfway through, Xiao Shu's footsteps stopped.
The palace maid was strange and looked back.
However, he saw Xiao Shu standing under a palace wall, raised his head and stared at a certain place above: there was a small gecko lying on the edge of the scarlet wall, which was not uncommon elsewhere, but the tail was short, which seemed Bare, it turned out to be a break.
The palace maid was taken aback: "It must be that the eunuch in the palace was not careful, why is there such a thing?"
She came up to chase the gecko away.
The gecko was startled and quickly crawled along the edge of the wall, disappearing immediately.
Xiao Shu lowered her eyes, but her expression was vaguely gloomy, and an inexplicable feeling of embarrassment poured out of her heart: If someone told her before, she would be forced step by step to the point where she is now living with her tail cut off. She wants to treat this person nonsense and make people beat him out.
But now...
The reality of the situation was so cruelly placed in front of her.
The cold words of the Empress Dowager Xiao in the Cining Palace just now were still echoing in her mind, but they did not arouse the slightest disappointment and sadness in her, let alone the slightest shame.
How could she not know the consequences of using Tongzhou to smear Jiang Xuening
It is even more impossible to be ignorant of the current situation, let alone Linzi King Shen Jie, but anyone in the capital who has some discernment will not marry her at this time, causing countless troubles to their own family.
Jiang Xuening!
Xiao Shu remained calm, took the palace lantern from the palace maid's hand, and said, "Give it to me, I know the way in the palace, if I want to be alone, I can go out of the palace by myself."
The palace maid didn't dare to talk much, and secondly, she was very happy, so she hesitated for a while, but she didn't object.
But after the palace maid left, Xiao Shu's footsteps turned, and the direction she walked was not at the Shunzhen Gate in the northeast corner at all, but the Qianqing Palace in the center of the entire palace!