Bai Lu knew what Song Jinning meant, so when she saw her index finger bleeding, she immediately took two steps forward and dripped the blood onto the clean white brocade handkerchief.
In order to look more realistic, Bai Lu also deliberately dripped the squeezed blood on several places on the handkerchief, creating a chaotic and intense scene last night.
After finishing this matter, she stepped back and raised her hand to suck her bleeding fingertips into her mouth.
Song Jinning stared at her for a while, then stretched out his hand to her, almost bursting into tears.
"As expected, those who know me and those who pity me are all Lu'er. Come, Lu'er, give me a hug!"
Bai Lu rolled her eyes back at her, and urged her without mercy: "Your Majesty, change your clothes. I have to go to pay my respects to the Empress Dowager later."
Song Jinning grinned and got out of bed to put on her shoes.
Gu Yu looked at the bloody brocade handkerchief, then at Song Jinning and Bai Lu, and totally disagreed with their actions.
"Bai Lu, why are you helping your empress to mess around?"
Bai Lu didn't speak, Song Jinning looked sideways at Gu Yu, and said with a smile: "This is not nonsense. Do you want others to think that your mother and I are unclean? Or let others know that the emperor didn't consummate the marriage with me last night. It's a joke." I?"
Although Gu Yu felt that Song Jinning's two concerns were justified, he still felt it was inappropriate.
"But even if you can hide this matter from others, the emperor knows very well what's going on. Are you deceiving the emperor?"
Song Jinning thought to herself, what a fool! He, Li Chengxuan, is not willing to consummate the marriage with me!
If the top of the veil was clean, the Empress Dowager Song would look at it later, not only would she have to say it, but she might even have to urge Li Chengxuan.
Now with these bloodstains, the Empress Dowager Song will be able to calm down a lot in the future, Li Chengxuan can't wait for it.
Moreover, the Empress Dowager Song sent someone to show the handkerchief to herself, but could she show it to Li Chengxuan face to face
Even if she showed it to Li Chengxuan and Li Chengxuan questioned her, she would not be afraid.
Just find any reason, or accidentally broke your finger, or your nose bleeds, or accidentally soiled the handkerchief, can he still give her a body check
He smiled and said to Gu Yu: "Don't worry about these trivial things. Please help me to wash and dress up, and I have to meet the Queen Mother later."
Seeing this, Gu Yu had no choice but to do so.
After Song Jinning washed up, she sat in front of the mirror and began to dress up.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw two maidservants going to make the bed and fold the quilt. Seeing the blood-stained brocade handkerchief, he held it with both hands, and put it into a tray with vermilion lacquer and golden dragon and phoenix patterns on the side.
There was another maidservant, who looked older than those two maidservants, holding a tray in both hands, and walked out of the hall.
But he didn't care that Li Chengxuan was still standing in the corridor outside the hall. He hurriedly stopped, bowed his knees to salute him, and called His Majesty.
Li Chengxuan didn't intend to look at her, but out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly caught a white brocade handkerchief on the tray she was holding.
My heart skipped a beat.
Because he suddenly remembered that there is indeed such a custom of testing red on the wedding night.
It's just that when he left and returned last night, he was full of humiliation, so when he lifted the quilt and lay down in bed, he didn't even leave a white brocade handkerchief on the brocade mattress.
Later, he realized that Song Jinning was already fast asleep. With his upbringing, he naturally couldn't do anything to take advantage of her while she was asleep.
So the top of the veil must be clean.
If the Empress Dowager Song sees this square handkerchief...
The Empress Dowager Song will definitely give him a good meal.
Maybe he will take the opportunity to refuse to return the power of government to him.
Li Chengxuan was quite frightened. Turning around hurriedly, he reached out to take down the Fang Jinpa.
Empress Dowager Song must not be allowed to see this.
But his outstretched hand suddenly froze in mid-air.
Because he saw the blood on the Kimpa.
A little bit of smudging, like red plums in the snow.
This is... ...
"Congratulations, Your Majesty, congratulations, Your Majesty."
Seeing his movements and the change of expression on his face, the palace maid thought he was shy.
No matter how some palace people say that His Majesty is a rational and steady person, after all, he has just passed his eighteenth birthday, and suddenly he saw this blood test veil, which showed the good things he and the empress had accomplished last night. How can you be calm and calm
But this handkerchief cannot be given to Li Chengxuan.
After the maid pursed her lips and smiled, she said vaguely with a smile: "This servant is working in Shoukang Palace. It was the empress dowager who asked me to come and make the bed for the empress dowager today."
In fact, he came here to pick up the white brocade handkerchief that Fang had laid on the brocade mattress yesterday to show to the Empress Dowager Song.
How could Li Chengxuan not understand what she meant.
In fact, he also knew that the servant girl's name was Cui Nong, and she could be regarded as an old man serving by the Empress Dowager Song's side, and she was still very dependent on the Empress Dowager Song.
The Empress Dowager Song even sent her to fetch the Fang Jinpa in person, which shows how much she valued what happened last night.
But since Luohong was on the brocade handkerchief, there was no need for Li Chengxuan to stop it.
He didn't speak, turned his head, and continued to look at a golden osmanthus plant in front of the corridor with a blank expression.
Cui Nong bowed to leave, and walked out of the gate of Weiyang Palace with a tray in her hand.
When they arrived at the Shoukang Palace, they saw that the Empress Dowager Song had already dressed and was sitting on the wooden couch facing the window in the Xici Room, drinking stewed bird's nest with rock sugar.
Cui Nong didn't dare to disturb her, but stood aside with a tray in her hand.
The Empress Dowager Song drank less than half a bowl of bird's nest, and handed the bowl to the servant girl who was standing aside.
Then he took the hot silk scarf handed over by the servant girl. Then she wiped her hands slowly, looked up at Cui Nong, and asked, "Did you get the thing back?"
Cui Nong hurried forward, knelt down in front of the Empress Dowager Song, and raised the tray with both hands.
"Please look at the Queen Mother."
Empress Dowager Song glanced at her hand. Seeing the few bloodstains on the white brocade handkerchief, a faint smile appeared on his face.
"Get up."
Cui Nong responded, got up and stood up, sideways handed the tray in her hand to the maidservant at the side.
Seeing the faint smile on Empress Dowager Song, Cui Nong hurriedly made fun of her.
"When the servant came back just now, the empress was dressing in front of the mirror, and the emperor was standing on the porch outside the door waiting. Presumably the empress and the emperor will come over to greet the queen mother after a while."
Nanny Gui was a maid brought from her natal family when the Empress Dowager Song entered the palace. She has been by her side all these years and won the trust of the Empress Dowager Song.
Seeing that Queen Mother Song was happy, she also smiled and said, "Can you rest assured now, Queen Mother?"
Regarding the marriage between Li Chengxuan and Song Jinning, although the Empress Dowager Song used strong means to facilitate it, she was still worried that the two juniors would not cooperate.
"The Ai family thought earlier that the emperor must not be happy about this marriage. As for that child, Ning'er, she was at odds with the emperor when she was young. The family spoiled her too much, and she has a big temper. Even if she had to marry, I'm afraid it will not stop in the dark. Who knows what will happen when two people meet. I didn't expect that the two of them would consummate the house smoothly last night."
"Queen Mother, you also said that it was when I was a child. Didn't you say in the letters of the county prince in the past few years that after the high fever on the way out of Beijing, the queen woke up and became more docile and sensible. She is no longer as arrogant and willful as she was when she was a child." As for the emperor, he must be filial to the queen mother in his heart, and he must agree with your decision."
The Empress Dowager Song didn't quite believe what Nanny Gui said.
She knows how much her elder brother loves Song Jinning. Presumably in the eyes of her elder brother, his daughter is the best in the world, no one can compare to her. Can you believe what he said about his daughter
As for saying that Li Chengxuan is filial to her, that's even more ridiculous.
Even if it is a mother and son, family affection has to stand aside when encountering power, not to mention that she and Li Chengxuan are just halfway mother and son.
In the situation back then, although she was favored, she had no children. Although Li Chengxuan was the prince, his biological mother was not only humble, but also dead. It was a win-win situation for both of them to keep her under her name. Li Chengxuan is smart, and he must understand it in his heart.
Can you still be sincerely filial to her? In the past two years, in order to take charge of the government as soon as possible, he has done a lot of small tricks behind the scenes, and these empress dowagers have noticed it.
But Queen Mother Song is a very transparent person.
Although she is also nostalgic for the supreme power, she also understands that there will be a day when she returns to power under Li Chengxuan.
That being the case, it would be better if she took the initiative to return it now, and could take advantage of the situation to raise a condition.
Before his death, the first emperor issued a decree to pass on the throne to Li Chengxuan in front of several important ministers, but at the same time he also decreed that the elder brother of the Empress Dowager Song should be named the king of Nanyang County. Xuanzhao is not allowed to enter Beijing without authorization.
Empress Dowager Song's heart was like a mirror. This is because the first emperor felt that Li Chengxuan was young and worried about the monopoly of his relatives.
Empress Dowager Song felt sorry for her brother.
Her elder brother was born in Beijing and grew up in Beijing. He is a person who knows how to enjoy himself, but because of her, he had to go to Yunnan, a place full of miasma, and he was never allowed to return to Beijing.
So let his cherished daughter become the honorable queen of the mother world, this is her compensation to her brother.
As for how arrogant and domineering her niece is, and whether she is suitable for being a queen, she is not worried at all.
What to be afraid of, she will teach her well in the future.
And with her sitting in the palace, I understand that Li Chengxuan would not dare to treat Song Jinning badly.
So, although Empress Dowager Song didn't agree with Nanny Gui's words, she didn't say a word about her.
Knowing that Nanny Gui is also comforting her.
He just smiled slightly: "Speaking of which, I haven't seen Ning'er for seven years, and I don't know what she looks like now."
"Returning to the Empress Dowager, the first time I saw the Empress Dowager when the slaves went to Weiyang Palace, it is no exaggeration to say that they thought they saw a fairy in the sky."
It was Cui Nong who was talking with a smile, "When people take a look at it, they can't look away."
"Not really."
Nanny Gui also laughed to make fun of her, "It is said that this niece's appearance is just like my aunt's. From this point of view, the empress's appearance must be very good."
On the side of Shoukang Palace, there are compliments, on the side of Weiyang Palace, Song Jinning has already dressed up, and is leading Gu Yu and Bailu to the gate of the palace.
As a result, when he went out, he immediately saw Li Chengxuan standing in the corridor with his hands behind his back.
He stared straight ahead, without any expression on his face.
I don't know what I'm looking at, or I'm just in a daze.