Ah Man heard someone in the room report that the Queen Mother had arrived, and she immediately jumped up, "Great, finally someone can suppress the one in the palace."
She ran out, and the maid ran after her, shouting, "Princess, your eyebrows are not finished yet."
Ah Man doesn't care about eyebrows or hairlessness. He has been holding this grudge for a long time. He finally heard that the Empress Dowager was back. Why doesn't he hurry to complain
But before he even started to file the lawsuit, he was frightened by Yuan Cuiyu's injuries. "Oh my God, what's going on? What happened?"
Long Zhanyan knew medical skills, so she sent everyone away and stayed in the room. After just an incense stick of time, she came out and said to everyone, "She won't die."
Prince Li nodded, knelt down and kowtowed solemnly, and pulled A'man down to kowtow as well.
He attached great importance to etiquette, so although the occasion was not right, he had not kowtowed to his ancestors for a long time, so he had to make up for it.
After Ah Man kowtowed, she pestered the old ancestor and told her that there was a new queen and an empress dowager in the palace.
Meanwhile, Prince Li was asking Prince An what had happened. Hearing about the fierce fighting in the palace last night, he was stunned. "It's chaos, chaos, this is fratricide. No, I have to go to the palace and talk to the emperor about this."
Aunt Ah She grabbed his arm and said, "What's the point? This doesn't make sense."
"Is there anything in this world that cannot be explained by reason?" Prince Li said unconvinced.
"Your Majesty is illiterate?"
Prince Li was stunned for a moment, "Of course I can read."
"If you can read, you should know loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness. Does he know that?"
Prince Li said: "That's why we need to explain it to him clearly."
Aunt Ah She was too lazy to pay attention to this nerd. She looked at Long Zhanyan and asked, "What are you going to do?"
Long Zhanyan's eyes flickered, as if she was filled with anger, but it quickly disappeared. After a long while, she said, "Let's go back to the palace."
In Xiwei Palace.
Sun He went back to report that the Empress Dowager had rescued Prince An and Yuan Cuiyu.
The emperor's lips trembled, and his furious eyes gradually calmed down. "She's back?"
"Your Majesty, I saw it with my own eyes." Sun He felt a chill in his heart when he thought of the Empress Dowager's eyes.
The emperor didn't know whether he was ecstatic or afraid. He kept shaking and trembling. He had a chance to survive, but in the end, he disappointed her.
In his life, he had tried hard not to let her down, but in order to survive, he still let her down.
"Is Yuan Cuiyu dead?" the emperor suddenly asked.
Sun He said: "She stabbed the dagger into the heart for the sake of Prince Baoan. As for whether she died or not, I dare not say."
"She deserves to die," the emperor murmured, "No man in the world is worthy of her. She deserves to die."
There are some things that he can't get, so he would rather no one else get them. Only when she dies will she be perfect.
"I am useless!" Sun He pleaded guilty.
"Forget it, forget it!" The emperor sat up slowly, "Help me up, take a bath, change clothes, I want to see the Empress Dowager!"
Over at Yanxi Palace, the Empress Dowager took the excuse to get mad because Ah Man did not come to pay her respects today. She became more and more dissatisfied with Ah Man's disrespect towards her. If she didn't take advantage of the situation to make a fuss, she was afraid that Ah Man would become even more outrageous in the future.
The concubines and other ladies in the palace were also secretly complaining. The temper of the empress dowager was really unpredictable. Even when Empress Dowager Sun was in power, she was far from like this. Not to mention that the ladies did not need to visit the palace to pay their respects morning and evening, even the concubines in the palace could ask for leave sometimes. But this empress dowager could only ask for leave and be exempted from paying respects unless she was too sick to get up.
"Okay," she said after she lost her temper, and then she straightened her expression, "Let's not talk about those unpleasant things. The Queen mentioned before that the Seventh Prince must find a mother, and I have thought about it. I am not at ease to entrust him to any of you. This child is very talented. If he is not taught well, his talent will be buried. Therefore, I decided to bring him to Yanxi Palace."
Hu Huanling was very disappointed. She had originally thought that she would raise the child, after all, she was not pregnant yet. Nowadays, almost all the concubines, whether they were famous or not, had sons and daughters, but she, the queen, was the only one who was not pregnant. In any case, she was at a great disadvantage to others.
Moreover, the emperor's health was getting worse and worse, and she was afraid that she would not have children in this lifetime. Therefore, she had given a sum of money to the empress dowager the day before yesterday, hoping that she would have pity on her and send the seventh prince to her palace.
In addition to disappointment, she was also very angry. She took the money quickly and efficiently, but did not get the job done.
This person is too greedy.
Except for the Queen, no one else had any objection. The Seventh Prince was very strange and no one wanted to mess with him.
Therefore, after paying their respects, everyone left, except Queen Hu Huanling.
"Do you have anything else to say?" The Queen Mother frowned and asked when she saw that she didn't leave.
The Queen stepped forward and whispered, "Queen Mother, didn't you say that the Seventh Prince would be sent to my palace to be raised?"
The Queen Mother raised her eyes and glanced at her. "I didn't say I would definitely send him to your palace. I just said I would consider it. After considering it, I felt that you were not suitable to raise him, so I made this decision. What's the matter? Are you dissatisfied?"
Hu Huanling asked unconvincedly, "Why does the Queen Mother think that I am not suitable to raise him?"
The Queen Mother said unhappily, "You have never had a child, and you have no experience in raising a child. Besides, the Seventh Prince is already eight years old this year, and he is only ten or eight years younger than you. How can you be a mother?"
"This..." Hu Huanling wanted to say, "You haven't raised a child either, have you?" But she didn't dare to say it out loud. She was a little unwilling to do so. After all, she had accepted the silver. "Please consider it again, Queen Mother. If you think the silver is not enough, I will find a way."
The Queen Mother was startled, then said angrily: "What do you mean? Do you think I am greedy for your silver? No, that's not right. Didn't you say that your silver was for festivals and filial piety? What's the matter? Do you have other intentions? If so, I can't accept it."
Hu Huanling was so angry that his teeth were itching. Why did the filial tribute require 20,000 taels of silver
She didn't have much money left. If she didn't let the Seventh Prince be raised by her, she would have to take the money back. So she said, "I was wrong. This money..."
"Forget it this time. Don't send it again in the future." After the Queen Mother said this, she went into the inner hall and left her there.
Hu Huanling's head buzzed, and she was furious. How could there be such a shameless person? Forget it this time, of course forget it. She wouldn't have much money to give to her in the future. The news that the Hu family would not distribute dividends for the time being was known to everyone in Beijing. She must have known that this was a way to cheat her out of a sum of money.
She remembered that when the issue of raising the Seventh Prince was brought up, the Queen Mother had reminded her that she had no children and should plan for herself, which was why she sent the money. She didn't expect that the Queen Mother had never thought of giving her the Seventh Prince to raise, but only wanted to cheat her out of some money.
(End of this chapter)