Tang Lihua is now the empress dowager of the court, basically Tang Lihua's world is now in the harem, the emperor is only focused on the previous dynasty, and Tang Lihua's task is not to commit stupidity and die.
So the problem facing Tang Lihua now is that the ancient times are too boring, and she wants to find something interesting.
And what I heard was obviously interesting.
One day passed, and according to the rules set by the original body, every day Fei Oupin from the harem would come to her palace to pay her respects.
I don't know if it's because the previous life was too aggrieved, so the original body especially likes the excitement, and prefers these concubines to be trembling in front of him.
Every time the concubines of the harem came to pay their respects, it was Yuan Shen's favorite time.
And after suppressing all the concubines, there will be one concubine staying to serve the original body.
"By the way, who is the harem who will serve tomorrow?" Tang Lihua suddenly said while closing her eyes and enjoying.
Li Memo had a clue in his mind, and replied, "Reporting to the Queen Mother, it is Zhou Guiren from Cuilin Pavilion."
Tang Lihua nodded, the one who was crying in the rockery was the nobleman Zhou.
Seeing that the Empress Dowager became interested in Zhou Guiren, Li Meme said, "Zhou Guiren has a gentle temperament and is a little timid. I am afraid that something will go wrong tomorrow."
In fact, what Li Memo said was over the line, but Tang Lihua didn't mind. She had already guessed these when listening to the conversation in the rockery.
Tang Lihua waved her hand casually, and Li Meme closed her mouth winkingly.
The next day, due to her original work and rest habits, Tang Lihua didn't sleep in late. Even so, when Tang Lihua woke up, the sun outside had already shone into the room.
The palace guards outside heard the sound, came in and saw the Empress Dowager got up, and went out carefully, and then a group of palace guards came in with trays to help Tang Lihua tidy up.
After Tang Lihua rinsed her mouth, Li Meme, who was serving beside her, turned her head, "The empress dowager, the empress and concubines are already waiting outside."
Tang Lihua was not surprised by these words, this was also the hand of the original body tormenting people.
The time for the concubines in the harem to pay their respects should not exceed Mao time, and it was already Chen time for Yuan Shen himself to get up, and with the addition of freshening up, he had to finish his breakfast slowly.
After all this tossing, it will be Sishi. According to a rough calculation, the concubines will have to wait at least two or three hours.
It still depends on whether Yuanshen's temper is good or not, if not, he has to wait, Yuanshen doesn't know where he heard that the mistress in the back house said to set rules for his daughter-in-law.
Every day inviting concubines and concubines is miserable, the original body does not let them wait in the house, but they all stand in the courtyard, standing for two or three hours, who can bear it.
Women in ancient times had their feet bound. Their feet were so small that it hurt to walk on weekdays, and they couldn't stand at all.
It's just that they didn't dare to offend the queen mother, otherwise more serious punishments were still waiting for them, so they had to stand and wait.
As long as you get through the situation of asking for peace every day, you can spend the rest of the time nestling in your own palace, don't wander around, and basically you won't be caught by the queen mother.
"Forget it, let them all come in and sit down." Tang Lihua just remembered this, and it won't be too late to have breakfast later.
Li Memo understood what the empress dowager meant, and with a look, a big court lady went to the front hall.
"The queen mother should use some before going, the ladies must not be in a hurry." Li Meome persuaded, now those ladies can sit down and wait, they must not be in a hurry.
Tang Lihua waved her hands, "I just got up now, I don't have much appetite, let's go to the front hall."
The queen mother gave orders, and Li Meme came forward in response, helping the queen mother to walk outside.
When she walked outside, Tang Lihua saw Chen Momo who had made her kneel yesterday and then forgot about it.
At this time, Chen Meme was not the same as Tang Lihua's first time seeing her. She had a haggard face and had been kneeling here for too long, but after such a long time, I'm afraid she might lose her legs.
Seeing the Empress Dowager's eyes on Chen Momo, Li Memo immediately lowered her head, "Yesterday, the Empress Dowager ordered her to come out and kneel when she saw that Chen Momo should not kneel in the hall. I hope the Queen Mother will forgive me." crime."
Tang Lihua was noncommittal, and didn't respond at all, "Since you have been kneeling for so long, you should step back, and don't fall in love with Aijia's eyes."
Chen Meme's head is in a state of confusion at the moment, and her knees are already kneeling unconscious, and this will be even stronger.
Yesterday, the queen mother made trouble, and Li Memo and her usually did not deal with each other. This time, it was even worse. Chen Memo persisted until now. He just wanted to see the queen mother and give Li Memo eye drops in front of the queen mother. .
But who would have thought that she heard this sentence before she even opened her mouth to sell herself.
Chen Memo's big eyes were wide open, and in the end he couldn't hold on any longer, and passed out directly.
Two young eunuchs who had been watching here stepped forward, and under Li Memo's signal, they held Chen Memo down.
Don't care about this anymore, Tang Lihua went to the front hall, and the maid opened the curtain.
Although it is introduced in the plot of the novel that the emperor is not close to beauty, and going to the harem is also regarded as a duty. There are only a dozen concubines and queens in the harem, and now there are only eight people who are of good taste.
But because of Tang Lihua's words yesterday, the three pregnant concubines did not greet her.
So there are five people here at the moment.
Tang Lihua saw the faces of these five people clearly, and could only sigh in her heart, they deserved to be selected into the harem, all of them were very good-looking.
When Tang Lihua calmly looked at the five people seated next, she suddenly felt an undisguised gaze falling directly on herself.
Tang Lihua is very sensitive to other people's eyes, and Tang Lihua can almost feel that gaze when it falls on her body.
Following her gaze, Tang Lihua saw a woman in a purple palace dress sitting at the end of the concubines.
Seeing her sitting so low, Tang Lihua had some guesses about her identity.
"Mr. Zhou is looking at Aijia like this. Could it be that there is something on Aijia's face." After Tang Lihua was supposed to be seated, all the concubines greeted Aijia together.
Before Tang Lihua sat down, she suddenly said this.
Although the concubines were not named, they were shocked before Tang Lihua's voice came out. They were really frightened.
Later, seeing that the Queen Mother was not talking about them, she breathed a sigh of relief.
The concubines all got up from their seats, and all of them lowered their heads, so as not to be noticed by the queen mother and implicated.
They are like this, which makes Zhou Guiren who is always expressionless stand out.
Tang Lihua has already confirmed that Zhou Guiren at this time is not Xiaobaihua's personality, but the irritable son's personality.
It's just that no matter which personality it is, it won't last long in the harem if it acts like this.
"Qi Queen Mother, there is nothing on your face." The irritable young man finally remembered his situation, even if he didn't want to, he said it anyway.
To everyone's surprise, the empress dowager didn't make an attack, but just sat down.
After she sat down, Qiqi knelt down and saluted with the queen in the lead.
Zhou Guiren was mixed in at this time, but he was not as conspicuous as before.
"Recently, the fetal images of Concubine Liang, Concubine Ning, and Concubine An have been unstable. You all have to take care of them." How about a morning meeting.
"Yes, the concubines have remembered." All the concubines responded in unison, as if well-trained.
Tang Lihua was a little stunned, and then remembered another thing. Her eyes swept over the concubines below, and none of them dared to look up at her.
"One more thing, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, starting tomorrow, the daily greetings will be changed to once every half a month, remember?"
The astonishment and astonishment that Tang Lihua saw on the three concubines before, Tang Lihua read it again. After saying what she wanted to say, Tang Lihua lost her patience. These people are really too cautious and cautious , if she didn't speak, no one would dare to speak.
But if she spoke, no one would dare to respond.
Tang Lihua felt that it was really boring, "Okay, let's all go back."
After waving away, Tang Lihua returned to the apse with the support of Momo. She hadn't eaten breakfast yet.
All the concubines in the front hall were left to react, and they all responded, "Respectfully send off the Queen Mother."
There was no movement at all, but the concubines didn't dare to stay longer, and they had to return to their own palaces to speak, so as not to hear the news of the Queen Mother.
The queen was at the front, followed by several concubines.
The queen at the front seemed to have thought of something, suddenly stopped, turned around, and sure enough, at the end, she saw Zhou Guiren who was also about to follow.
The queen frowned slightly, "Your Majesty Zhou is still staying, there is no need to go back and forth again."
The queen didn't notice that after she finished speaking, there was an atmosphere of displeasure and irritability around Guiren Zhou.
Tao'er has been by her master's side all the time, she knows the young master's temper best, when the queen spoke, her heart was in her throat, fortunately the young master didn't poke it.
Otherwise, the queen would be offended for no reason.
When the queen and the others had left, only Mrs. Zhou was left in the palace.
Just when Zhou Guiren was thinking whether he should just leave, or wait for the Queen Mother to summon him.
It's just that Zhou Guiren was not allowed to wait for too long, and soon a palace man came from the back hall, walked up to her, and looked very respectful, "Your servant is ordered by the Queen Mother, please come to Zhou Guiren."
Zhou Cheng had been impatient for a long time, if it wasn't for the coward in his body who was unwilling to give up his position, Zhou Cheng would not want to take this trip.
It's just that Zhou Cheng knew that he didn't have to do it if he didn't want to.
Although the Zhou family also has status in the imperial court, the queen mother will not do anything to her/him for a while, and she will never kill her.
But if someone blatantly contradicts and resists the Queen Mother, even the Zhou family will suffer.
Zhou Cheng felt even more annoying.
Still under the urging eyes of the maid, she nodded in agreement.
Under the leadership of the maid, Zhou Cheng finally saw the figure there, and the one who was scooping up the soup with a spoon was the empress dowager whom he had just seen.
Tang Lihua also heard the movement, and when she looked up, she saw the reluctant Zhou Guiren.
When Zhou Guiren came to the front, Tang Lihua was still eating on her own, Zhou Cheng didn't make a sound, just waited.
When Tang Lihua finally finished eating, the palace people removed the bowls and chopsticks, cleared the table, and put out pastries and tea. Tang Lihua poured herself a cup of tea calmly and sipped it slowly.
It's just that when she was tasting tea, Tang Lihua's eyes were undisguisedly looking back and forth at this 'Zhou Guiren'.
"You don't want to come and serve Ai's family?" Tang Lihua suddenly said.
Under Zhou Cheng's head, "The concubine dare not, the queen mother please be careful."
"You are the elder sister, how is the younger sister at home?" Tang Lihua asked this sentence, and seeing Zhou Guiren, who hadn't cared about it just now, suddenly raised his head, and looked at Tang Lihua's in astonishment.
Zhou Chengcheng was more cautious and careful than Zhou Xin, and he could almost hear what the Queen Mother meant right away.
Zhou Cheng's hands were clenched tightly, and the handkerchief in her hand was wrinkled by her.
Thin beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, and many thoughts flashed through his mind for a moment, but in the end, he couldn't think of anything.
"The queen mother is joking, the concubine is the only daughter in the family, and has never had a sister." Zhou Cheng tried his best to look calm.
A smile flashed in Tang Lihua's eyes, "The Ai family was still talking about it in the imperial garden yesterday. Could it be that the Ai family misheard and has a brother?"
Zhou Cheng's body was covered with cold sweat. Looking into the smiling eyes of the Empress Dowager, he knew that what happened in the rockery yesterday must have been heard by the Empress Dowager.
Several times, Zhou Cheng managed to calm himself down, "The queen mother is joking, there is an older brother in the family, but the elder brother is weak and is not often known by outsiders."
There is something in these words, which is equivalent to replying to Tang Lihua's words, but it seems that he didn't say anything.