After Nanny Yang left, the Queen asked, "When she served you in the past, did you like her?"
Zi'an said, "Mammy is very attentive."
The queen smiled and said, "Being attentive is good, but being loyal is the best. If a servant is not loyal, no matter how attentive he is, he is useless."
Zi'an looked at the queen and didn't intend to beat around the bush when greeting her. "Your Majesty, I came here today to ask for a favor."
"Oh?" The Queen raised her head and pretended to be surprised and asked, "You, the Regent Princess, actually beg me for help? Now the Prince is in charge of the court, and you, the Princess, are like the mother of the country. I'm afraid even I, the Queen, have to look at your face. Don't even beg me. Just tell me if you have anything to ask."
She said this with a smile, but the irony could be heard outside the Pacific Ocean.
Zi'an quickly stood up and bowed, "My Lady, please don't say that. It embarrasses Zi'an."
"Sit down, I am just chatting with you, I know you are not as overbearing as your prince."
The queen stretched out her hand and pressed it.
Zi'an sat down in fear, but he knew in his heart what the Queen meant.
The so-called overbearing was because during the morning court yesterday, Murong Jie rejected the proposal made by the crown prince to revise the taxes. Previously, because of the regent's wedding, the Empress Dowager issued an edict to reduce taxes for a period of six months.
However, the prince believed that the national treasury was empty and it was already autumn. There were reports of drought in various places, and the national treasury needed to draw money to distribute for disaster relief.
This matter was also agreed by many ministers, but Murong Jie directly rejected the proposal when it was put forward, without even discussing it.
Such tyranny really angered the Empress and the Grand Tutor's party.
Nanny Yang brought in tea, first offering it to the Queen and then to Zi'an.
After serving the tea, she stood behind the queen again, with her hands hanging down.
The queen picked up the tea carelessly, her expression changed, and she actually threw a cup of tea at Yang Ma, saying sternly: "This tea is so hot, are you going to burn the princess to death?"
The cup of tea was poured directly onto the back of Yang Ma's hand. Yang Ma didn't dare to cry out in pain, and quickly knelt down, "I am guilty, Queen, please calm down."
"Calm down? You've been out of the palace for a few months. I'm afraid you've become a master now? You can't even serve others? After all, you've been in the palace for so many years, but you've forgotten your duties. I was really blind to send you to the princess. You've embarrassed me."
The Queen's stern voice was always addressed to Zi'an.
Zi'an was angry when he saw that the back of Nanny Yang's hand was red, but he couldn't show it on his face, otherwise Nanny Yang would have to suffer again.
She stepped forward with a smile, "Why should you be angry, sister-in-law? If I am not serving you to your satisfaction, you can just change me."
After saying that, she scolded Nanny Yang harshly, "Why don't you pack up and leave quickly? If you make the Queen angry again, even I, the Princess, will not forgive you."
Nanny Yang quickly cleaned up and said, "Yes, I admit my guilt."
The Queen watched Nanny Yang leave, then glanced at Zi'an casually, "What a fool who doesn't know the rules!"
This person doesn't know the rules. She is talking about Nanny Yang openly, but is referring to Zi'an implicitly, saying that she should tell Nanny Yang to go down, as this is Jingning Palace and it is not her turn as the Regent Princess to give orders.
Zi'an pretended not to know and continued to say with a smile, "Why is the emperor's sister-in-law angry with me? It's so harmful to your health!"
She helped the queen sit down and said, "Actually, the main reason I came to the palace this time is because of Prince Liang's matter."
When the queen heard her talking about the King of Liang, a layer of anger finally covered her eyes, "King of Liang? Fortunately, the princess still remembers the King of Liang. I thought he had been forgotten long ago."
"How could that happen?" Zi'an told him what happened the last time he planned to treat King Liang. "At that time, King Liang was very angry and drove me out. He also said that I would not be needed for treatment in the future. At that time, I wanted to go to the palace to discuss it with the Queen's sister-in-law, but a lot of things happened at that time, and the Queen's sister-in-law also knew about it. Now that things have settled down, I think I should hurry up and pick up this matter. Only when I get it done can I feel at ease."
The queen sneered, "Forget it, you don't have to treat him. He has already come to the palace and told me that he doesn't need you to treat him."
"Sister-in-law, I am really confident now." Zi'an said.
"It doesn't matter if you are sure. He said he won't treat you anymore."
Zi'an said softly, "It doesn't have to be about treatment. You can tell King Liang that you want to treat epilepsy, or a leg injury. I now know a treatment method called flying needle therapy. Inserting needles into the brain can target... that place."
"You mean, there is no need..."
Zian nodded, "Yes, no need to check."
The queen's complexion improved a little. Before, Prince Liang came to the palace and told her that he would not let anyone treat him anymore. He also got angry and said how could he let a woman treat that part of his body. If there was no need to examine that part or give him acupuncture now, all problems would be solved.
The Queen looked at her and said, "Are you sure? I am not too sure, after all, you promised to cure it in three months."
Zi'an said earnestly, "Prince Liang is a good man. I also hope that he will get better, not for any other reason, but just for him."
"You'd better tell me about your other purposes. I don't like to owe anyone anything!" The queen said lightly. She didn't believe Zi'an's sensational words about doing it for the sake of Prince Liang.
Can you trust this kind of woman
Zi'an smiled, "If that's the case, then let Madam Yang continue to come back to serve me. I've gotten used to her over the past few months."
"That's it?" The queen was a little unconvinced.
"Yes, that's it." Zi'an said.
The Queen couldn't help but look at her a few times, and finally said, "That was your own suggestion, and I don't owe you anything. Don't use this matter to ask me for a reward in the future."
She had praised Zi'an so highly before, calling him the Regent Princess and the mother of the country, but now she is asking for a reward. It is obvious that she has never regarded Zi'an as being on the same level as her.
Zi'an successfully took Nanny Yang away. Of course, if he couldn't cure King Liang, Nanny Yang would still have to return to the palace, and what awaited her was death.
Zi'an's medicine box was placed on the carriage, so after getting on the carriage, he immediately took out the burn ointment and helped Nanny Yang apply it.
Nanny Yang's eyes were filled with tears. "Princess, there is no need to go to so much trouble for me. I am not worth it."
Zi'an didn't even raise his head, and continued to apply the ointment, saying, "In the past, Mammy followed me regardless of everything, and experienced life and death. If I abandon Mammy at this moment, I, Xia Zi'an, will be a rotten person who will be abandoned after the rabbit dies."
Nanny Yang sniffed and said, "It seems that I didn't bet on the wrong horse."
Zi'an raised his head and looked at the fingerprints on her face. "She beat you right after we returned to the palace. It's obvious that she was just venting her anger on you."
"It's okay, don't feel sorry for me. I have suffered a lot in the past."
Zi'an was a little surprised when he heard this, "Did she beat you herself or did she ask someone to beat you?"
"She wouldn't do it herself, but would ask others to do it. Whenever she was unhappy with something, she would take it out on the servants in the palace. I've been slapped like this many times before."
"I thought she had more or less the bearing of a queen."
It turns out that the queen has a very bad temper.
(End of this chapter)