Huo Wei had acted in palace fighting dramas several times in the entertainment circle in her previous life, but she had never seen a real emperor or empress. Now that I am going to meet so suddenly, I feel really nervous. She sat in the carriage and opened the curtain to see Lou Ye.
Lou Ye walked up to her on horseback, comforted her and said, "The emperor and empress are very kind people, they will definitely like you, so you don't have to be afraid, just go to the palace for a walk."
"Turn around! It's as if you're going to play." After saying this, Huo Wei's feeling of nervousness has disappeared.
Although what she was going to meet was the person with the highest status in the world, it was not that she had never seen the world, so she quickly relaxed, and instead became a little more curious, wanting to see what the imperial palace here looks like.
In the past, Mrs. Chen didn't like Lu Qiaoshan, and every year she went to the palace to find an excuse to keep Lu Qiaoshan at home. Huo Wei really didn't have anything related to the palace in her memory.
I don't know what the emperor and empress look like, whether they are more majestic or more eye-catching. After all, this is the world in the book. The hero's parents should be both noble and majestic, but also seductive and kind, right
Huo Wei was amused by her own imagination, Lou Ye didn't understand why she was nervous just now, but now she laughed again, but as long as Huo Wei is happy, he will be happy.
He shook his head and said with a smile: "If you are not comfortable in the palace, we will come out earlier. You go to the empress's place to say hello first, and I will go to find you after I have a word with the emperor."
"Well, good." Huo Wei nodded, looking at the getting closer to the palace, her heart has settled down.
They separated after entering the palace. Huo Wei followed the maids to the Queen's Palace. They didn't have a chance to see more along the way. They just felt that the palace was majestic and majestic. , very imposing.
The eunuchs and maids I met on the road were very well-behaved and would not chat casually, which made Huo Wei a little more solemn. When she saw the queen, she lowered her eyes and saluted respectfully, "Ministers see the empress, and the empress is a thousand years old."
The queen said with a three-point smile: "Get up quickly and watch the seats."
"Thank you, empress." Huo Wei sat down according to the rules. Because she was not allowed to look directly at the queen, she didn't have a chance to see the queen's face, so she just kept smiling and waited for the queen to ask questions.
The queen was stunned when she saw her face clearly, and asked in doubt: "Miss Huo looks familiar, who does this look like?"
The queen looked at the people around her. The two court ladies present looked at Huo Wei and shook their heads for a moment, saying that they couldn't see it. Huo Wei also took the opportunity to raise her head, and quickly glanced at the queen's appearance. The queen was just as she imagined, dignified and noble, with the gentleness and love of an elder, making people feel close to her when they saw her.
It just so happened that the queen said aloud, "Probably Miss Huo is so good-looking that I felt close to her when I saw her."
The queen waved and smiled at Huo Wei: "Come to Bengong, let Bengong take a good look."
Huo Wei walked over, and the queen took her hand, no matter how she liked it, she said happily: "No wonder Yun Xiao is so nervous, you seem to be in a hurry when you say you want to get engaged, Ben Gong said that it will take a few more days for him to prepare." No, it turns out that Miss Huo is so attractive, and I like it very much after seeing her."
Huo Wei could feel her kindness, she was a little surprised, but relaxed, and said with a smile: "It's a blessing for a girl to be liked by the Empress, thank you Empress."
The queen asked her, "I heard that you helped many women's relatives make that... called... 'modeling'? A few days ago, Mrs. Lin Shangshu brought her two daughters into the palace. I looked better than before, and asked I said that you made it. How did you come up with all those 'models'?"
Huo Wei thought for a while and said: "Men girls used to play with these things in their spare time. They found it novel and interesting. Over time, they came up with a lot of weird ideas. It's just that they were confined in the mansion in the past and couldn't do these things at will, but now Minnv set up a female household, and she has a lot of freedom, so I mentioned it to my wife and young ladies, and fortunately they liked it, so the minnv had the opportunity to design more styles."
The queen nodded, somewhat guessing that she was not taken seriously in the Lu family, and she was just fiddling with these things all day long, so she felt a little more pity in her heart. She raised her hand to stroke her hair, and said expectantly: "Then how about you change your look for Bengong?"
Huo Wei hurriedly said: "The empress is surrounded by masters who are proficient in styling, and she has already designed the best look for the empress, and the craftsmanship of the folk girls is far behind."
"It's okay, it's right to be new. They have been doing this for a lifetime, and naturally they do it better than you, but you happen to have novel ideas. They are facing me every day, and they know my preferences too well, so they won't try new things easily It’s the first time you see Bengong today, so try it out. Even if you don’t look good, Bengong won’t blame you.” The queen didn’t know where she got her interest from, anyway, she heard that Huo Wei was good at styling, I just wanted Huo Wei to do it for myself, so I got up and took Huo Wei to sit in a more spacious and bright place.
Huo Wei felt that the queen's personality was quite straightforward, and that feeling of intimacy shortened the distance between the two of them, so she didn't refuse, and began to change the look for the queen.
She first asked the queen if she had any special preferences. She thought the queen would say no, but the queen thought about it for a while and said with a smile: "When I first met the emperor, he said he saw me right away and asked me to be his." Queen. Later, he even drew me on the swing, why don't you give me a younger look, and the emperor will come after a while, and scare him!"
Huo Wei was a little surprised that the queen and the emperor had a good relationship, which is very rare in the royal family. The queen's tone is not trying to scare the emperor? Obviously wanting to surprise the emperor!
But when she thought that they were the hero's parents, she felt that everything was possible. Generally, the parents of the heroine are either very good and against the heroine, or they are very kind and appreciate the heroine.
This couple is not described in the book, but Huo Wei already regards them as a particularly kind kind.
She smiled and asked what the queen looked like back then, and wanted to make a look close to that time. But of course it can’t be exactly the same as it was back then, otherwise it won’t arouse good memories, but it will make people realize that Yiren is old. There is a difference between being in her teens and her thirties, no matter how well maintained she is.
So she planned to dress up the queen beautifully and young after knowing what she looked like at that time. As long as the emphasis is placed on the feeling of youth, the emperor will be refreshed, and the queen will be amazed, it will definitely be a surprise.
They were chatting and laughing here, the atmosphere in the entire queen's palace was very good, because the palace people hadn't seen the queen so happy for a long time, the master was happy, and they were naturally happy as servants. take note of it.
This is a girl who can make the Empress happy, and she is the future Princess Qin, so she cannot be offended.
In the imperial study on the other side, when Lou Ye entered, the emperor was looking at a scroll. After Lou Ye had saluted, the emperor looked at the picture scroll and smiled emotionally: "I can still remember the scene when I first saw the empress, but in a blink of an eye, even you are so old, and you have a sweetheart and you are about to marry a wife." .Time flies, almost twenty years."
Lou Ye walked up to him, looked at the portrait spread out on the table, noticed that the seal belonged to the emperor, and asked in surprise, "The emperor is so good at painting?"
The emperor laughed, "Of course, you kid, don't you think I can only go to court and approve memorials? When I was young, I was still a literati. I visited in private and won the first place in the competition of scholars. At that time, I Your life is much more exciting than yours, how can it be as boring as yours? Did the girl you like dislike you? "
"Of course not. Whatever she likes, I will accompany her to do something. Why is it boring? It's just that I used to be alone and didn't want to bother." Lou Ye looked at the emperor and said, "Although I didn't paint for her, I did it for her. With a kite, you can watch and play at the same time.”
"You brat, you still have to argue about such a matter!" The emperor laughed, "Isn't it because I am afraid that you will be stupid and run away from other girls in anger? You are much better now than I was back then. As long as you like it, you can marry back. Back then, I tried every means to coax the Empress Dowager and her old lady, but I suffered a lot."
The empress dowager passed away a few years ago, the emperor recalled it with nostalgia, thought of something, and suddenly said: "I remember when I drew this picture for the empress, the empress dowager was still angry, saying that having a son for so many years is not as good as a son. girl."
The emperor said with a smile: "At that time, I made a painting for the Queen Mother all night to make her happy. That painting seems to be here."
The emperor looked at the chief eunuch, who naturally knew where it was, went to fetch it knowingly, and carefully unfolded it for the emperor to see. The emperor's eyes were full of memories, and he was a little thankful that he had painted this painting with his own hands. Now when he misses the queen mother, he can still take it out to remember her.
"This is the young Queen Mother I specially painted. In order to make her happy, I made the picture ten years younger." The emperor smiled and explained to Lou Ye, but when he turned his head, he saw Lou Ye's expression was a bit strange, and he frowned, "Why? ? What's wrong?"
Lou Ye shook his head and said: "It's not wrong, but... this..." He looked at the emperor and then at the painting, "It's a bit of a coincidence, Miss Huo's appearance is five points like the empress dowager in this painting."
"Oh?" The emperor showed a surprised expression, very surprised by this, "Is there anyone in the world who looks so much like the Queen Mother? Then I really want to meet her."
The emperor ordered someone to put away the painting, and without further talking to Lou Ye, he took him to the queen's palace. On the way, he also confirmed with Lou Ye, "Is it really that similar?"
Lou Ye nodded and said, "Yes, but it's not surprising that there are so many similar people in the world. Your Majesty, when you see Miss Huo, don't scare her."
The emperor shook his head and laughed, and scolded "brat".
Lou Ye was very relaxed in front of the emperor, because every time he went to Beijing to see the emperor since he was a child, the emperor admired him and liked him very much, just like a very kind elder.
This is also the reason why his father insisted on changing his name back then, and he dared to take the character as "Yunxiao". He knew that the emperor didn't mind at all. They are the rulers and ministers get along with each other, and they are friends who forget the year, and they are very close elders and juniors.
On the way, the emperor asked about Huo Wei, and Lou Ye talked a lot with the emperor just like chatting with relatives. He is usually very indifferent to others, but it is rare for him to show a bit of a junior, willing to talk so much. The emperor was also happy to see him, and he also had a good impression of Huo Wei, who could make Lou Xiao care so much, and he loved him even before they met.
When the emperor walked into the queen's palace, Huo Wei had just finished styling the queen. The queen's hairstyle is that of a young woman, and her clothes are soft and docile, with bright colors, which perfectly highlights the queen's good figure and beautiful neck. She looks like a newlywed, with an inexplicable feeling of budding The feeling is between green and mature.
The queen was very surprised to see herself in the mirror, and before she could recover, the emperor walked in. She looked back, just in time to see the amazement in the emperor's eyes!
The queen smiled subconsciously, turned around and took two steps towards the emperor, "The concubine has seen the emperor..."
"Qingqing, hurry up!" The emperor didn't wait for her to salute at all, he quickly walked up to her and supported her, keeping his eyes on her, and said in disbelief, "Qingqing, today..."
"Cough cough!" The queen still remembered that there was someone beside her, so she hurriedly coughed twice, but her cheeks turned a little red. They have been an old couple for almost twenty years, and they still let the emperor look at her like this. She suddenly felt a little embarrassed, and felt that the two juniors were really ashamed to be here, and the emperor still called her by her baby name.
The emperor also reacted, hurriedly retracted what he almost blurted out, and turned to look at Huo Wei.
When he saw Huo Wei, he was really stunned. It wasn't like the loss of consciousness when he saw the queen just now, but he was too surprised and didn't believe it. He was the only one present who had seen the queen mother when she was young. Even when the queen saw the queen mother, the queen mother had already become much rounder, so only he knew how similar Huo Wei was to the queen mother.
If Huo Wei was dressed up like the Queen Mother when she was young, they would definitely look like 70% of them!
He had never seen anyone so like him in his life!
"You..." The emperor was about to ask her which family she belonged to, when he suddenly remembered that Huo Wei's life experience was a mystery, and he didn't even know who her parents were. He immediately asked, "What clues can we find about your parents?"
Huo Wei's face was inexplicable, she thought the emperor was going to ask about the styling, why did she look at her with this expression and ask her parents? She replied with some confusion: "The life experience of the civilian girl has not been found out yet. I only know that a woman in her forties took me to the back mountain of Lijia Village. She seemed to be hunted down. Now I am investigating her. The purse, jade pendant, and jade hairpin that I carry with me, and other clues have not been found yet."
The queen knew the emperor best, and asked sensitively: "Does the emperor think there is something wrong? You didn't mention it last time." She looked at Huo Wei, recalled the familiarity before, and asked doubtfully, "Does the emperor think that there is something wrong?" Who does Wei'er look like? The concubine thinks so too, but I can't remember it for a while."
The emperor waved his hand, and the chief eunuch ordered the idlers to retreat, leaving only the empress' confidantes to serve. Then the emperor sat down, frowned slightly and said, "Just now I took the portrait of my mother to look at, do you still remember the painting I drew for my mother? I wanted to make my mother happy, so I deliberately drew her young look."
The queen thought for a while, and suddenly realized, her eyes immediately fell on Huo Wei's face, "The concubine said that Wei'er was very kind, but she couldn't remember it no matter how she thought about it, so she saw it in that painting. That's right, Wei'er is very kind. The Empress Dowager has two parts, if compared with that painting, there will be five parts."
"More than that." The emperor looked at Huo Wei and said, "Miss Huo and the Queen Mother are exactly like each other."
The queen couldn't hide her surprise. After all, it is really difficult to find two people who are seven-pointed in this world. Huo Wei also thinks that this is too much of a coincidence. In the age of the Internet, there are not many people who look like this, let alone in such an ancient time, in the capital city, she is a mystery. What do you think? How is it related, no wonder the emperor paid attention to this matter.
Lou Ye stood beside Huo Wei and looked at her with concern, afraid that she might be afraid. Huo Wei gave him a reassuring look. Lou Ye nodded and asked, "Your Majesty, I wonder what happened to the Queen Mother's mother clan back then? The person who took Miss Huo to flee was seriously injured and died of excessive blood loss." , What is the reason for people to kill a baby girl like this? Is there any secret involved?"
How could there be any secret that would make people kill a baby girl? And come up with such a thing as chasing and killing. Both the emperor and the empress felt that it was unreasonable, but if the battle in the back house involved enmity, it was not impossible.
But of course it is impossible for them to know about this kind of thing. In recent years, there are not many relatives left by the Queen Mother. It may not be so easy to find out what happened back then. It's just that the appearance of Huo Wei and the Empress Dowager are seven-pointed, so the emperor can't take it lightly, and immediately ordered to find out the truth about Huo Wei's life experience.
The emperor ordered that a small case instantly turned into a big case that no one dared to ignore. All the officials involved in the investigation became nervous, serious, and personally intervened in every aspect of the case. And with the emperor's order, they can search wherever they want. As long as there are clues about the events of the year, they will definitely be able to find them all. It's just a matter of time.
That day, Huo Wei and Lou Ye stayed to accompany the emperor and empress to have dinner together. The emperor often smiled at people who were close to him, but he was very dignified when facing everyone else. But he couldn't be majestic towards Huo Wei, and he didn't know whether Huo Wei looked like the queen mother, or she was just likable.
When Lou Ye and Huo Wei left the palace, the queen gave Huo Wei a waist card, allowing her to enter the palace at any time.
With the emperor's attention to Huo Wei's life experience, she felt relieved. No matter who the person who chased and killed her was, the emperor would definitely be able to find out, and she was not afraid of being covered up by anyone. Lou Ye was also very happy. His main force was not in the capital. It would be inconvenient to check what happened sixteen years ago and would waste a lot of time. With the help of the emperor, he would know Huo Wei's life experience soon.
Now it seems that Huo Wei is most likely to be from the Liu family, that is, the mother's family of the Queen Mother. She looks so similar to the queen mother, and she may still have a very close relationship with the queen mother, but she just can't figure out why such a thing happened back then.
The emperor and the empress also couldn't figure it out. Sixteen years ago, it happened to be the year when the empress gave birth to the third prince. At that time, the empress dowager was still there, so she didn't hear what happened to her mother's family. Huo Wei looks so much like the queen mother, so why should she be a direct descendant? The queen couldn't even remember that there was a wife in the queen mother's mother's family who was pregnant in the same year as her. It felt very strange, even a little weird and inconsistent.
When the two of them talked in private, they always felt that something had been overlooked, but they couldn't grasp the fleeting thoughts and couldn't think of the answer.
The third prince also felt that this matter was very strange, like a storybook, Huo Wei didn't become his concubine after a long time, but might be his cousin instead? He also remembered why he thought Huo Wei's face was familiar, because he had seen the portrait of the Queen Mother a few years ago. Not long after the Queen Mother passed away, the Emperor missed the Queen Mother and took it out to see.
He was a little regretful, why didn't he check more when he thought Huo Wei was familiar? If he recognized Huo Wei back and used Huo Wei to win over Lou Ye, wouldn't Lou Ye be his brother-in-law? Miss Huo Wei, really missed a great opportunity.
The queen's prime minister's father supported the third prince's seizure of the heir apparent. When the third prince saw him in private, he couldn't help but feel emotional. He also wondered if he would show his favor to Huo Wei, would it be possible to win Lou Ye over? After all, cousins are also brothers and sisters, so as long as they are relatives, the relationship can be brought closer.
"No!" The Prime Minister denied it without even thinking about it, and said in a deep voice, "Lou Ye is only loyal to the emperor and will not be wooed by others. Instead, he is too deliberate in doing it at this time, and it is easy to be suspected by the emperor."
The third prince didn't like him contradicting himself, so he pursed his lips and said, "Actually, Father loves me very much. I don't need to do these things, and I can still sit in that seat in the future."
The prime minister glanced at him, "There are no absolutes in the world. It is not uncommon for princes to be deposed in history. The third prince must not be careless."
The third prince responded, but felt very unhappy. Can he be the same as those princes in history? He is the most beloved son of the father. Even for the sake of the mother, the father would not give the throne to others. I really don't know why my grandfather is so nervous.
The prime minister also told him not to take it lightly, to be cautious, and not to do anything willfully. The third prince could almost hear the cocoon coming, and he was very impatient, so he found an excuse to go for a walk after listening to it perfunctorily.
Seeing him like this, the prime minister looked a little ugly, and after he left, he stood alone by the study window, frowning and looking outside in thought.
After a while, the prime minister's son and the queen's eldest brother came in a hurry, waved his servants back, closed the doors and windows and whispered to the prime minister, "Father, I have already made arrangements."
The prime minister asked in a deep voice, "Is she really that baby girl?"
"Yes." The queen's elder brother said solemnly, "Father, don't worry, I let her escape, this time, I will make her disappear from this world."
"Well, she must not let her ruin our cause."