Gu Jinmi has been doing her best to play the role of an incompetent queen these days. After all, if the heroine finds out any flaws, her life will be in danger! Although she has already confronted them, she still has enough confidence that they will never tell the news to others. And even if they do tell others, it doesn't matter. Anyway, she can just intercept them secretly.
Calculating the date, Lan Yi and Ju Hong should have returned! Mei Xi will definitely tell them about this, so it should be easier for me to make the plan myself!
"Lan, Ju, you're back! How was your journey?"
"Brother, don't worry. Nothing happened along the way. How is things in the palace?" Lan Yi asked.
"I have something to say to you, please come in first!"
"Hey! Zhu'er, why aren't you here?" Juhong asked.
"He went to see the Queen." Mei Xi said with a sigh.
"Zhu'er is really something, knowing clearly..."
"Forget it, forget it. You don't know Zhu'er's temper yet! Just let him be. The Queen dotes on him anyway."
"By the way, big brother, do you have anything to tell us?"
"The Queen knows our identities and everything we have done in secret."
"What, what do you mean, brother?" Lan Yi and Ju Hong said in unison.
"Actually, I don't dare to believe it, but these words were spoken by the Queen herself."
"What? What should we do now, big brother?"
"I don't understand what kind of person the Queen is now. People outside say that the Queen is incompetent, but in fact she is just hiding her incompetence. And if it comes down to it, perhaps even the Princess cannot compare to the Queen!"
"Brother, is Zhu'er in any danger now?" Lan Yi suddenly thought of something and said. After all, their identities have been revealed. Although this matter has nothing to do with Zhuxuan, what if the queen involves others
"Don't worry, the Queen said that if we want to continue staying in the palace, we can continue to stay in the palace, and she won't reveal our identities. But, but, I'm afraid she won't summon us again!"
After hearing what Mei Xi said, Lan Yi and Ju Hong suddenly became quiet. For some reason, a trace of bitterness flowed through their hearts.
"Brother, is it really right for us to do this? In fact, the girl has been very caring to us brothers in the past few years, but now we..." Ju Hong said with his head down.
"But the princess saved our lives. We have no choice." Lan Yi said with an embarrassed look on his face. Now the four brothers are like being stuck between two walls, in a dilemma!
"Let's discuss this later! You just got back, why don't you go pay your respects to the Queen first!"
"yes, Sir."
When they arrived at the imperial study, Mei Yu, Lan Yi and Ju Hong came in and saw Gu Jinmi holding Zhu Xuan in her arms and feeding him food with a doting look on her face. They couldn't help but feel a little jealous.
"Meet the Queen."
"Oh! Mei'er, Mei'er, Ju'er, you are here!" The queen did not even look at them, but only cared about the little person in her arms. To be honest, when dealing with the three of them, she would rather be stuck with Zhu'er! The three of them were really too anxious and cunning, but Zhu'er was different. She was innocent and lively, and her thoughts were written on her face, so it was easy to guess! Happy is happy, angry is angry.
The three of them had never been treated so coldly by Gu Jinmi before! Each of them felt a little aggrieved.
Gu Jinmi looked at the three people kneeling below and sighed, "You three should get up first! Zhu'er, you go back first."
Zhu Er looked at Gu Jinmi with dissatisfaction and pouted, saying, "No! I won't leave. I want to stay with my brothers."
"Be good, I have something to say to your three brothers. Go back first, I'll send someone to look for you later."
"Queen, I want to listen too." Zhu'er pulled Gu Jinmi's sleeve and said coquettishly.
Mei Xi couldn't bear to watch it anymore and said, "Zhu'er, you go back first."
Seeing that Mei Xi was angry, Zhu Xuan could only nod and say, "Okay then! Queen, don't forget to ask someone to come find me!"
"Okay, I won't forget it."
After Zhuxuan left, Gu Jinmi said, "What do you want from me?"
The three of them looked at Gu Jinmi's changed expression bitterly, and truly felt that everything in the past had disappeared. "Empress, when the second and third brothers return to the palace, they will naturally pay their respects to the Empress."
"Oh! Now that you have seen me, you can go back! I still have things to deal with."
Ju Hong said bluntly, "Empress, what do you mean by this? You clearly already know that we are the princess's people, why do you still keep us in this palace?"
"Juer." Mei Xi and Lan Yi spoke up at the same time to stop her.
"Empress, you know that Ju'er is a straightforward person. I hope you won't blame him."
"Haha, did I ever say I blamed him? You guys are all so eager to excuse him. Don't worry! I am not as narrow-minded as you."
"As for why I want to keep you here, it's because instead of sending you away and asking my sister to send another group of people to the palace, it's better to let you stay here. This way, it will save trouble and effort. Besides, I am more confident about you who know me well!"
"Queen, when did you know that the four of us brothers were sent by the princess?"
"At the beginning."
"At the beginning? How is that possible?"
"Haha, do you think I'm really stupid? How could an orphan with no one to rely on have such profound skills? Moreover, I was traveling incognito at the beginning, but you four just happened to find me. Isn't this very strange? Later, after I took you into the palace, you would find one day every month to go out of the palace. Over time, this would naturally arouse my suspicion. And those pigeons of yours, Concubine Mei, don't look like they are for viewing! Once I accidentally shot down a carrier pigeon, and naturally everything became clear."
"If you knew it from the beginning, why did you bring us into the palace? You could have just abandoned us." Ju Hong said bluntly.
"Haha, that's because when I looked at you, it was as if I saw my past. I was bullied by a group of people, but I had no power to fight back. I could only accept being bullied and suppressed."
"How is this possible? Even if you were not the empress at that time, you were at least a princess!"
"Hmph! She is just a powerless princess. Even a beggar on the street can bully me." Gu Jinmi felt sad when she thought of the things that happened to the original owner! This mother queen is really biased. They were born from the same belly, but one was praised to the sky and the other was trampled into the mud. Just because the fortune teller who appeared inexplicably said that the original owner was the reincarnation of a disaster star, and the original owner's sister was blessed with a lucky star. But the lucky star will only appear after the disaster star.
After hearing what Gu Jinmi said, the three of them felt inexplicably sad! In fact, they had also heard rumors about the queen, but they never thought that all of this was true!
"But you can rest assured that I will never take your lives. After all, you may have been forced to do so! Since I have said that you can do whatever you want, I will not stop you. As for this country, I have no intention of fighting for it. As long as she is a good queen, I will naturally be willing to abdicate and let her live in the hands of others. It would be wonderful to live a carefree life, wonderful! As for what happens to you in the end, it all depends on your final choice!"
"The Queen."
"Okay, I'm tired, you guys go back first!" After saying that, he waved his hand.
Back in Plum Garden, the three of them sat together without saying a word.
"Brother, what should we do now? I feel very confused now. Is it really a good idea for us to help the princess deal with the queen? In fact, I feel that the queen is really pitiful. And I think that maybe the queen is more suitable for this position than the princess. After all, the princess is the kind of person who will never give up until she achieves her goal. We have also seen her cruel side with our own eyes."
"Juer, how can you say such things? Don't you know that walls have ears? If you don't change your temper, something bad will happen sooner or later." Mei Xi looked at Juhong reproachfully.
"Brother, I am telling the truth! Don't you think so? If the princess takes that position, the people will suffer! And she will definitely not let us and the queen go. After all, we can be said to be a stumbling block on her road. At that time..."
"Don't your elder and second brothers know what you said? But now that we are on the boat, it is not up to us to decide whether to get off. If we don't do that, do you think the princess will let us go?" Lan Yi said.
"But second brother, death is death, so why don't we give it a try? I think the Queen is really good to us. Instead of following the Princess, we might as well choose the Queen!"
"Do you think that choosing the Queen means choosing the Queen? Although the Queen is very good to us now, we have done such things to her after all. Do you think the Queen really has no grudges in her heart?" Lan Yi said with a sigh.
"But you said this is not allowed and that is not allowed, so what should we do now? And what about my little brother?"
"Zhu'er is easy to deal with. Although the Queen doesn't like the three of us now, she is still devoted to Zhu'er. Besides, Zhu'er has not been involved in our affairs, and I believe the Queen will not involve him." Mei Xi said thoughtfully, "The difficult thing is what we should do in the future. The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, and we have not made any progress in what the princess asked us to do! By then, hey! Forget it, you should go back and rest first!"