Aunt Cheng is the Queen Mother's confidant, and she has been with the Queen Mother since she was a child. To the Queen Mother and the Emperor, Aunt Cheng's status is different from other people in the palace. Even Lu Shuang'er has three points of respect for her.
Walking in from the outside was a woman in her forties. She was round and fair, with an amiable smile on her face.
"My servant has seen the imperial concubine." Aunt Cheng bowed her knees to Lu Shuang'er as soon as she entered.
Lu Shuang'er helped her up with a smile on her face, "Aunt Cheng is free, but the Queen Mother has something to tell me, so I would like to trouble you to come here in person."
Aunt Cheng greeted Mrs. Lu again with a smile, and then she said to Lu Shuang'er, "The empress dowager knows that Mrs. Lu is visiting the imperial concubine in the palace today, thinking that it has been a few days since I saw you, and I want to invite you to catch up on the old days. The third girl Lu has also entered the palace, last time the third girl saved the young prince, the queen mother wants to see the third girl."
When Lu Shuang'er heard this, the smile on the corner of her mouth froze, "Is the queen mother going to see the old lady?"
"Yes, my concubine." Aunt Cheng nodded with a smile, "Not long ago, the young prince went to Chengde Mountain Villa privately and fell into a trap. It happened that Miss Lu San rescued him. Woolen cloth."
The old lady really shouldn't have brought Lu Yaoyao into the palace today! Lu Shuang'er thought so in her heart, and said with a smile on her face, "Aunt Cheng, please tell the Queen Mother, we will be there soon."
Aunt Cheng said, "The servant girl will go back to the Empress Dowager."
Mrs. Lu raised a smile on her eyebrows, watched Aunt Cheng leave, then turned to look at Lu Shuang'er, "Imperial Concubine, Empress Dowager still loves you so much, what are you worried about?"
"Why did grandma say that?" Lu Shuang'er asked sullenly.
"If the Empress Dowager didn't value you, how could she meet me? The Empress Dowager is showing you respect." Mrs. Lu said with a smile.
Only then did Lu Shuang'er smile again, and asked the maid outside to see Ye Zhen from the side hall and called over.
Ye Zhen was memorizing the contents of the medical book she read last night in the side hall, when she was called back suddenly, she was dumbfounded when she heard that the queen mother wanted to see her.
"The queen mother is a kind person, you don't have to be afraid, the queen mother will answer whatever she asks you." Lu Shuang'er glanced at Ye Zhen, feeling displeased that this younger sister was too eye-catching.
Ye Zhen was scratching her heart and lungs thinking, she was not afraid to meet the Queen Mother at all, but she was not prepared to meet the Queen Mother so soon. I don't know if the Queen Mother still remembers her appearance, if she recognizes that she looks like Princess Qin Similar, will you doubt her
Seeing that Ye Zhen's face turned pale, Mrs. Lu took her hand and said in a low voice, "The Queen Mother is also a human being, so she won't eat you."
Ye Zhen smiled bitterly, "Grandmother, I know the truth, but I can't control it."
"Let's go!" Lu Shuang'er smiled faintly, hoping that Lu Yaoyao would be rude in front of the queen mother, no matter how good-looking she was, she would not be able to stand on the stage at all.
Mrs. Lu nodded slightly towards Ye Zhen, encouraged her, and then followed Lu Shuang'er to the Palace of Mercy Ning.
Ye Zhen lowered her head to hide the sourness in her eyes. Although it looked like nervousness to others, she felt a little uneasy in her heart, but it was not the same as the uneasiness that everyone thought.
She is a little timid. When she was trapped here, her favorite thing was to stay in the Compassionate Ning Palace at night, because only the Empress Dowager would chant scriptures for her, and she would feel sorry for her tragic death. At that time, she listened to the Queen Mother's passing away. Mantra, I feel that the soul is comfortable throughout, as if wandering in a warm ocean.
I was really afraid that seeing the queen mother would not be able to help being excited. However, for other people, many things have not happened yet. Only she knows that the queen mother has been silently reciting the death curse for two years.
The Palace of Compassion and Peace arrived soon, and Ye Zhen walked in holding her breath.
The Queen Mother was sitting in the first seat, looking at them with a smile. When Lu Shuang'er was about to salute, she raised her hand to make them stand up, and gave Mrs. Lu a seat, and began to talk with a smile.
In fact, Ye Zhen didn't meet the Queen Mother very often. At that time, although the King of Qin was not favored, the late Emperor liked the new and disliked the old. The Queen Mother fell out of favor after giving birth to the young prince. I have seen the queen mother two or three times on some big occasions, and they all glanced at each other from a distance, and did not really sit down and talk.
The only time she sat down to talk was when she just married Murong Zhan.
Ye Zhen quietly looked at the empress dowager who was talking to Mrs. Lu. She was still very young, about forty years old, with fair and rosy skin, and very delicate facial features. Her beautiful appearance was inherited from her.
Looking at such a gentle and compassionate queen mother, Ye Zhen only felt a softness in her heart, a long-lost intimacy.
"Why don't you come to talk to Ai's family when you enter the palace, Ai's family will be bored all by themselves." The queen mother said to Mrs. Lu with a warm and soft voice, which is the unique emphasis of Jiangnan.
Mrs. Lu said with a smile, "The concubine is coming to greet you, but you have let Aunt Cheng pass by. It is rare for a concubine to enter the palace, so why didn't she come to you?"
The queen mother nodded and smiled, "If you have nothing to do, you can often come to the palace to talk with Ai's family."
Lu Shuang'er was sitting opposite Mrs. Lu. When the queen mother spoke, she was silent. In fact, she looked down on the queen mother a little. This woman is too weak. If it weren't for her beauty, how could the late emperor have taken a fancy to her? , now that the late Emperor is dead, and she has a son to rely on, no wonder people say that a woman wants a good life, but the queen mother is just a good life.
"This is the third girl in your family?" The Queen Mother's eyes fell on Ye Zhen who was behind Mrs. Lu.
Ye Zhen raised her head, smiled shyly at Tai Tai, bowed her knees and saluted, "I have met the Queen Mother, all blessings to the Queen Mother."
She likes the Empress Dowager very much. The Empress Dowager has no pretensions. She is not used to arrogance. When the late emperor was still there, she was just a noble person. Even though she had two sons, the late emperor did not give her a title. She has always been cautious. Living in a quiet environment, she suddenly became a queen mother, and she probably hasn't adjusted to it yet.
The queen mother only felt that the little girl in front of her was really beautiful. She had never seen such a beautiful girl in the palace for so long.
"Does your Lu family specialize in producing beauties? Come here and show the Ai family. She looks really good-looking. The Ai family has never seen such a beautiful little girl." The queen mother's eyes flashed with amazement, and she asked Ye Zhen to go to her go forward.
Ye Zhen said to herself, when she didn't see the Queen Mother for two years, she was only thirteen years old, no matter how much Yaoyao looks like her now, there must be a difference, maybe the Queen Mother has forgotten it.
She felt that her current appearance was somewhat different from the previous Ye Zhen, with a different state of mind and a different appearance.