Li Huaigu stood in the yard. The young man should have disappeared without a trace after the accident. He looked at the closed door and asked with a tired expression, "Is mother still reluctant to meet father?"
Since the accidental death of the younger sister, the relationship between the father and the mother seems to have become cold overnight, and the mother does not even want the father to enter. The atmosphere in the entire backyard was icy, almost making him breathless.
"Master, Madam is not feeling well," the person who replied was Li Wu's dowry. Although her tone was gentle and respectful, it couldn't hide Li Wu's desire to see people.
"I see," Li Huaigu felt a little lost, but also inexplicably relaxed. In his heart, he actually did not dare to face his mother's sad eyes. After bowing respectfully towards the gate, he raised his voice and said, "Please, mother, have a good rest, and my son will come to see you tomorrow."
Sitting in the dimly lit room, Mrs Li Wu sighed softly as she listened to the voice of her son outside the door.
The woman in the bronze mirror had loose hair, and although her skin was still fair, it had long lost the tenderness and firmness of her youth.
She spent half her life in the deep courtyard, but in the end she couldn't even take care of her own children.
"Propriety, righteousness, honor and disgrace," she sneered, knocking over the things on the dressing table with her hand, showing a frantic expression of crying and laughing, "Just a hypocrite who hides filth, a male thief and a female prostitute!"
"Madam!" The little maid's worried voice came from outside the door, but she was afraid of her majesty and did not dare to enter the door at will.
"I'm fine." Li Wushi's face suddenly calmed down, and he bent down to pick up the rhino horn comb that had been broken into two halves on the ground, brushed his hair lightly with one half, and then slowly pulled it into a bun.
How could she let them easily get what the Sima family wanted? What her daughter can't get, the Sima family don't even want to have.
In this world, any woman can be the queen, only the Sima family and the Li family can't!
In the next few days, it was drizzling rain in the capital. Gu Rujiu stayed at home for several days, drinking all kinds of soothing soups and tonic soups every day, and felt that when he walked, he could hear his stomach. The sound of "ding bell clack" in the water.
Fortunately, when the Queen Mother summoned her that day, she could finally drink two less bowls of tonic soup.
The carriage drove out of the street where the Marquis of Ningping was located, entered the palace through the Suzaku Gate, and stopped outside the gate of Kangquan Palace.
Gu Rujiu got off the carriage and saw Aunt Liu waiting at the door. She immediately smiled and said, "How is Aunt Liu doing?"
"Lao Xianjun asked, everything is fine with this old slave." Although Aunt Liu was the most dignified girl around the Queen Mother, she didn't act like a servant in front of Gu Rujiu, instead she bowed to Gu Rujiu's knees.
Reaching out to help Aunt Liu, Gu Rujiu said with a smile, "Aunt actually asked Aunt Liu to pick me up in person, it seems that she really misses me."
"Xianjun is right, but the queen mother always talks about you in front of the slaves every day," Aunt Liu's smile was a bit closer, "I asked several times today, I'm afraid I'm already eager to see."
Hearing Aunt Liu's words, Gu Rujiu even quickened her pace, and in the end she almost trotted into the inner hall.
Aunt Liu looked at Gu Xianjun's back in a hurry, and the smile on her face remained unchanged. The Gu family raised this second girl so innocently, no wonder the Queen Mother loved her so much. Even those who were serving in Kangquan Palace liked this girl very much, but it was also because of this that she was a little worried.
The bad people in the world will not be less bad just because a person is innocent.
Outside the gate of Kangquan Palace, the chariot stopped slowly, Jin Yang supported Bai Xian's hand, stepped on the footstool and stepped off the carriage, and just took two steps, he coughed several times. He took out a plain white handkerchief and covered the corners of his mouth and said, "Bai Xian, let someone report it." Although he and the Queen Mother Zhou are nominally mother and son, everyone knows that they are not related by blood, so as long as there is no important matter, He will not carelessly enter the Queen Mother's palace.
"Your Majesty," Aunt Liu greeted her when she saw Yu Nian stopped at the door, and saluted Jin Yang respectfully, "The Queen Mother said, as long as your Majesty comes over, you can just come in directly after being notified by someone. Between mother and son, there is no need to be too particular about it.”
"The queen mother is right, I am too rigid," Jin Yang responded with a smile, and then walked towards the inner hall under the guidance of Aunt Liu.
Although they both knew each other, Jin Yang would still let someone inform him when he encountered this situation next time. But there are some things that you just need to know in your heart and don't have to show it.
"The kind of man in the Wei family is so light in his bones that if he doesn't beat him, he doesn't know right or wrong." Empress Dowager Zhou, who has been focusing on gossip for 30 years, knows exactly what happened to the Wei family a few days ago. I wanted to take advantage of this to teach Gu Rujiu the way of life as a woman, "Isn't it going to be twelve for a long time?"
"It will be twelve in autumn." Gu Rujiu nodded while eating the cut fruit. In early spring, there were very few seasonal fruits. The citrus she is eating now was stored by special means last year. So the queen mother here, one of the advantages is that when you want to eat fruit, you don't have to worry about it.
"Time flies so fast," Queen Mother Zhou thought for a while, "I was already engaged when I was as old as you." Although the betrothed turned out to be not a reliable man, Queen Mother Zhou did not I don't think there's anything wrong with this.
Gu Rujiu paused when she stretched out her hand to take the fruit. Why did the Queen Mother suddenly mention this
"The world's speeches are always more harsh on women. Even when I reconciled with that family back then, there were many people behind the capital who were gossiping about me. Even when I entered the palace, there were still people talking about the former family in private," Zhou said. The queen mother's tone was calm, and it could be seen that those words did not have much impact on her back then, "but we women can't aggrieve themselves for the rest of their lives because of other people's gossip, otherwise there is no point in living."
"To be honest with you," the queen mother suddenly lowered her voice, stretched her head in the direction of Gu Rujiu, and whispered, "If it wasn't for someone who was blind and told me that my life was precious, I wouldn't want to enter this place."
Seeing Gu Rujiu showing a hint of surprise, the Queen Mother Zhou even laughed out loud, sat up straight and said, "You are still young, I don't know if it's appropriate to tell you this, but I treat you like a woman, and I always don't want you to suffer. The smile on the Queen Mother's face became lighter and more solemn. "Everything, whether it's poetic or sweet, is just a mirror, listen to it, don't believe it, and make a mistake. camaraderie."
As the Empress Dowager, it was too much for Zhou Shi to say this to Gu Rujiu. Even if Gu Rujiu is not regarded as his daughter, it is not far off.
Gu Rujiu is not someone who doesn't know the good and the bad. She naturally sensed the concern of the Queen Mother Zhou for her, and immediately said: "Please rest assured, aunt, and write it down for a long time."
Hearing her promise, the Queen Mother Zhou resumed her smile again, and then heard Aunt Liu say outside: "Your Majesty, please."
The little emperor is here? Gu Rujiu stood up from the chair, turned her head to look at the Queen Mother Zhou, and saw that she was sitting upright and serious.
Seeing Jin Yang walk in, Gu Rujiu bowed his knees and said, "The minister and daughter have seen the saint."
When Jin Yang entered the door, he saw Gu Rujiu standing beside the chair, so he stopped Gu Rujiu before he finished his ceremony: "Sister Gu, don't be too polite, please take a seat." After speaking, he He greeted the Queen Mother Zhou with a bow, and after a few polite words with the Queen Mother, she sat down on the chair opposite Gu Rujiu.
The two sat face to face, and their eyes would inevitably fall on each other, so after the two secretly scrutinized each other, they both had a better impression of each other.
Gu Rujiu's heart: What a sick and beautiful young man, he looks better than the last time he saw him.
Jin Yang's heart: Junior sister's eyes are so beautiful, the dimples on her cheeks are so cute, I really want to reach out and touch them.
Empress Dowager Zhou noticed that Jin Yang's cheeks were a little red, and asked with concern: "Is the emperor in good health?"
"The son is fine, don't worry about the mother," Jin Yang smiled at the Queen Mother Zhou.
The lethality of beautiful teenagers is irrespective of age groups. When the Queen Mother Zhou saw the cheap son's smile, her tone suddenly dropped a few degrees, "The season is changing recently, you must pay more attention, otherwise you will drink those bitter and bitter. Black concoction."
Gu Rujiu sat beside him and watched the relationship between the queen mother and the little emperor, and felt vaguely that even though the queen mother did not regard the emperor as her own son, she definitely did not intend to cultivate a puppet emperor.
Although the mother and son are more than polite and close enough, there is no such thing as suspicion and inquiries between each other. She was almost certain that Queen Mother Zhou was not that interested in power.
As early as during the handling of the earthquake incident, the Queen Mother's attitude had been vaguely expressed, which is why the aristocratic families now want to rely on the little emperor.
If the queen mother and the little emperor sing opposite dramas, they can still take advantage of the queen mother's power to not take the little emperor seriously. But the queen mother did not play with them, she closed the door to entertain herself, and turned around and arranged a lot of reliable assistants for the little emperor. This is not to tell everyone plainly, I am not interested in the government of the Dafeng Dynasty, please don't Do you mean to play with me
"Junior Sister Gu, what do you think of this?"
Gu Rujiu raised her head blankly when she heard the little emperor calling herself, and saw the little emperor smiling softly, not knowing what to say.
She froze for a moment, then touched her ears a little embarrassedly, tilted her head and looked at Jin Yang: "Your Majesty, what did you just say?"
Jin Yang watched the little girl on the opposite side touching her ears, and felt that her heart was beating a little faster.
The younger sister looked at him, so cute!