"Empress, don't you find that the Princess of England looks like the same person?" After Concubine He looked at Qu Moying carefully for a few times, she suddenly laughed.
"Who does it look like?" The queen held her breath and tried hard to suppress the disgust in her heart.
Concubine He stood up and even discovered something. She even walked up to Qu Moying and looked her up and down. Then she said in surprise, "I really think she looks familiar. What do you think, Queen?"
After hearing Concubine He say this again and again, the Queen's gaze fell on Qu Moying. After looking at her carefully for a few times, she really felt that she looked familiar.
It was not the first day that the Queen Mother saw Qu Moying, but it was the first time that she felt that Qu Moying looked familiar.
"I didn't notice it." The Queen Mother said, not intending to respond to Concubine He's words.
Concubine He smiled softly and said, "Looking at Princess Ying, I think of Empress Yuan. She was about the same age as me at that time, and had already married the Emperor. Looking at her spirit and appearance, they are very similar. After all these years, this is the first time I feel that there is someone who looks so much like Empress Yuan."
Concubine He's eyes became softer and softer as she looked at Qu Moying, as if she was really seeing the Empress Yuan through Qu Moying.
The Queen's expression changed and her eyes fell on Qu Moying with scrutiny.
The Empress Yuan was her rival at the time. If nothing had happened to the Empress Yuan, she would never have been able to ascend the throne of the Emperor. If you were to ask who the Empress was most wary of in the past, it would be the Empress Yuan.
Even though Empress Yuan has passed away for so long, the Empress does not want others to mention her. She hopes that everyone in the palace will forget about the former Empress Yuan.
The Emperor did not want people to mention Empress Yuan because he was afraid of making him sad and upset; the Empress was also unwilling to be mentioned because she was afraid of making herself jealous. She would never forget that when she married the Emperor, Empress Yuan was the legal wife and she was a concubine. Even though she had the support of her father and brother and a higher background than Empress Yuan, she could only behave like a concubine in front of Empress Yuan.
This was the thing the Empress was most reluctant to think about, nor did she want anyone to mention it. If the person mentioned was not Concubine He, the Empress would have her dragged out and beaten with a stick.
The Queen never shows mercy to anyone who dares to violate her taboos.
"Not like that." The Queen's gaze turned gloomy when she looked at Qu Moying. What she hated most was hearing people say that someone looked like the Queen.
"How can they not be alike? The simplicity of their demeanor is exactly the same. They look calm and composed, like a mistress. I had just entered the palace at that time, and the Empress was just..." Concubine He seemed to realize that she had spoken out of turn, and quickly reached out to cover her mouth, "Look at what I said. The Empress back then was completely different from now."
She seemed to be laughing at her own slip of the tongue, but this smile and these words deeply hurt the Queen Mother's heart. That was the thing she least wanted anyone to mention.
She always talked about attaching importance to legitimate and illegitimate children. If a family did not attach importance to legitimate and illegitimate children, she would call the lady of that family in and give her a lecture, and ask her to sort it out after returning home. If she could not sort it out, tell her, and she would find a way to help the family sort out the legitimate and illegitimate children and avoid chaos in the family.
Therefore, he set an example of respecting rules and being extremely fair in front of the emperor.
But in fact, deep down, she was a concubine. The term "eldest son of the legitimate wife" sounds nice now, but in the past it was called "eldest son of a concubine". It is hard to say whether the so-called eldest son of a concubine can ascend to the throne.
We are all bastards, no one is more noble than anyone else, not even the crown prince.
It is justified.
The Queen's breathing quickened, and she could hardly suppress the rage in her heart: "If the Imperial Concubine says so, then so be it. If there is nothing else, Imperial Concubine, please go back first. I am also tired."
"Your Majesty, look at what I've said. I've delayed your rest." Concubine He seemed not to hear the forbearance in the words of the Queen. "The Princess of England and the King of England are indeed a good match. A legitimate son and a real legitimate daughter will definitely be better in the future. Unlike Qu Qiuyan, a fake legitimate daughter is still fake after all."
Qu Qiuyan is now Pei Yusheng's concubine. Concubine He spoke of her son's concubine with a bit of disdain.
Anyone could hear the contempt in his words.
Qu Qiuyan is a fake legitimate daughter, so what about Crown Prince Pei Luoan
The Queen Mother grasped the chair rail beside her with force. She could no longer control her urge to use Qu Moying to scare Concubine He.
"Your Highness is wrong!" Qu Moying raised her head and looked at Concubine He with her watery eyes with a hint of smile in her eyes. Her voice fell clearly into the ears of the Empress who was about to explode, and her heart, which had almost lost its mind, slowly calmed down.
"Am I wrong?" The smile on Concubine He's face faded and turned cold.
She had not expected that Qu Moying would dare to say such outrageous words to her face. Even though she was well-informed, she was really angry at this moment.
"Third sister was once a real legitimate daughter and father's eldest legitimate daughter. Although Yu was vicious, she was once father's legal wife after all. No one can change that." Qu Moying fluttered her long eyelashes twice and smiled faintly.
"In the family tree of your Qu family, Qu Qiuyan is still the legitimate daughter?" Concubine He stretched out her voice and said slowly.
Qu Moying ruined her plan, so it would be strange for her to be happy. Concubine He could tolerate the Queen, but the person in front of her was just a newly ascended Princess of England, and Concubine He did not feel that she needed to be tolerant.
"The reason why the third sister is not a legitimate daughter now is because Yu is vicious. If Yu did not try to murder our mother, and our mother is really gone because of her own reasons, then the third sister is actually the real legitimate daughter, a legitimate daughter that everyone has to acknowledge." Qu Moying said frankly.
The Queen's fingers trembled, and she pressed lightly on the chair rail.
"If Yu hadn't viciously eliminated your mother, would she have been able to become the principal wife?" Concubine He sneered.
Qu Moying shook her head: "I don't know."
"Since you don't know, why bother saying such things here, Princess of England, you have only been married to the King of England for a short time, and you may not know His Majesty's temper. You cannot say such unruly words." Concubine He said coldly.
"Yes." Qu Moying said slowly. She could already sense that the Queen's anger provoked by Concubine He had subsided. Now was the time for her to back down.
After all, Concubine He was the favorite concubine in the palace, and she could not be compared with the British princess who had just married into the palace.
Of course, she wouldn't really let Concubine He find a reason to punish her, because there was still the Empress. The two of them had always been at odds.
No matter how friendly the two of them appeared to be, there was at least one thing she was certain of: the Empress would never allow Concubine He to do anything.
Besides, Qu Moying didn't believe that Concubine He would really punish herself, and if she asked the Queen to do it, it would depend on whether the Queen was willing...
"Concubine He, okay, you can also
You can go back now. This is my palace's Pepper Room." After the Queen calmed down, she rudely ordered them to leave.
"Sister, I feel wronged. Princess Ying said such words to me today. Didn't she offend me?" Concubine He, who had a cold face just now, immediately became aggrieved. She wiped her eyes with a handkerchief and pointed at Qu Moying, "Please help me."
The Queen Mother frowned deeply. She really wished that Concubine He would die in front of her. She was being so unreasonable just to let herself punish Princess Ying.
"If the imperial concubine wants to punish someone, she can do it herself!" said the queen, helping a palace maid to stand up. "The matter has been dealt with, and I am tired."
He covered his head with his hands, leaned on a palace maid, and actually walked in, leaving them behind.
This means to ignore them and let Concubine He punish them as she wants, while she can stay out of it.
"Princess Ying, do you know where you are wrong?" As soon as the Queen left, the expression on Concubine He's face changed again. Although she was still a little unhappy, her voice was not cold. It even made people feel that the person in front of her cared about her and loved her deeply and criticized her harshly.
"I don't know." Qu Moying shook her head, looking a little bewildered, as if she really didn't understand how bold she was to have reprimanded a palace concubine for being wrong.
"This is the harem, not the King of England's palace. Even if you are the King of England's princess, you cannot scold or contradict a palace concubine at will. If you don't understand this, not only will you die without knowing how, but you may even implicate His Royal Highness the King of England." Concubine He preached gently.
It was as if he had just demonstrated it to Qu Moying and was not really asking the Queen to punish Qu Moying.
After saying that, he reached out and patted Qu Moying's hand gently, then turned around and left with his people.
She had said only a little more, leaving others with endless imagination, especially when she patted Qu Moying's hand in a friendly manner at the end, which made people involuntarily think that Concubine He actually had good intentions.
The fight between Concubine He and the Empress was full of truth and falsehood, and it was difficult for people to see through. Even if Qu Moying guessed some of the inside story, it could not be said that she had seen the whole picture. In addition, some of her final words made it easy for people to think that she was actually well-intentioned and had concealed her previous malice.
Qu Moying sneered in his heart. Concubine He really knew how to behave. Even when things had come to this point, she was still able to turn the situation around and make people discover her "kindness" from her malice. No wonder she had been in favor for so many years.
Concubine He led her people downstairs and threw Qu Moying directly in the main hall. Liu Lanxin and Liu Jingyu had already gone to the Buddhist temple.
Qu Moying was not impatient and just sat aside waiting.
As expected, she didn't have to wait long. The palace maid who had led her into the palace came out and bowed with a smile: "The Queen is not feeling well and has already rested. Princess Ying, are you going to leave the palace now, or go see the Crown Princess and Miss Liu?"
"Which Buddhist temple are they in?" Qu Moying asked after a moment of silence.
"It's not far ahead. Princess England wants to take a look, so I'll lead you there." The maid said with a smile.
Qu Moying nodded, and without further hesitation, she followed the palace maid to the small Buddhist temple. She had not known that there was a small Buddhist temple in the palace before, but she did know that there was also a Taoist temple in the palace...