After "recovering from a serious illness", I went to the Grand Empress Dowager's palace to say goodbye. The kind-hearted Empress Dowager called me forward, patted the back of my hand with her hand, and said pitifully, "The Empress has reduced a lot these days, and I have to Take good care of your body."
I bowed my head and pretended to be supple, and only nodded lightly.
The Empress Dowager said again: "The imperial court has used troops against Yunxi these days. The emperor is young and vigorous, and he is not worried about his own body at all when he is busy. The queen should also take care of him more."
I still nodded, but secretly said that I don't have to worry about it. With Jiang's in the Daming Palace, Qi Sheng's body and mind will definitely be served comfortably. Even though I thought so in my heart, I didn't dare to say it, otherwise if the Queen Mother knew that the "Hu Meizi" who had harmed King Zhao was now at Qi Sheng's side, I'm afraid that the old lady could rush to Daming Palace to get rid of the demon in person. .
This time it is not as simple as a bowl of abortion pills.
The old lady talked for a long time, and then let me go to the Queen Mother's Palace to greet me, and she smiled at me seemingly casually: "Two days ago, she also mentioned the cousin of the queen's family, saying that she heard that not only her appearance is good, If you have a good temperament, I want to ask for marriage for Lao Jiu. When you go this time, she will inevitably ask you about the girl's situation. Don't be self-deprecating and say whatever you want. My old lady also wants to see it as soon as possible. It's time for Lao Jiu to marry a daughter-in-law."
I understood her suggestion, and nodded respectfully: "I understand."
When I arrived at the Queen Mother's Palace, the Queen Mother Song really mentioned Zhang Ling's daughter to me, but she didn't mean to ask for my opinion. She just exercised her responsibility to inform me that she had ordered someone from the Zhang family to go to Jingyang to pick up the girl. I went, I hope that after she arrives in Shengdu, I can take her to the palace to play for two days in the name of the eldest sister.
So far, the situation has been developing in the direction set by Qi Sheng.
It is inevitable that I feel a little lost in my heart, and the toilet gentleman has also abandoned me. But on second thought, it's not a big deal. It's a cooperation of interests. Who hasn't half-hearted yet, should allow young people to make mistakes.
The question is how to correct this mistake!
Returning to Xingsheng Palace, only to find the girl Lvli waiting there.
After I was astonished, my first reaction was to ask Xie Yi to send her away quickly, how dare this girl dare to come to the palace so blatantly, she is too bold!
Lu Li bowed his knees smoothly and bowed to me, and said, "My concubine, please be safe to the Empress."
I noticed the difference in what she claimed to be. She was no longer a slave, but a concubine. In this way, she had accepted the identity of the king of Zhao. I smiled and asked her, "Why are you here?"
Lvli lowered his head and said in a sullen voice: "The emperor called His Royal Highness Zhao Wang into the palace to ask questions. The concubines and concubines came over after thinking about the empress."
Although her voice remained steady, I saw tears dripping silently on her feet, and soon fainted into small water spots on the bluestone bricks.
I sighed and wanted to pull out a handkerchief from my body and give it to Ledge, but I couldn't find it for a long time, so I reached out to Shuyi, and then I asked for a handkerchief and handed it to Ledge, "Why are you crying? Crying, isn't it fine for me?" It doesn't matter if he said that, Lu Li covered his mouth with a handkerchief and started crying.
I couldn't do anything, I wanted to wait patiently for her to cry for a while before speaking, but after waiting for a long time, I didn't see that she wanted to take a break, so I suddenly raised my head and shouted at the palace door: "Your Majesty."
Seeing Leng Li's body froze, he immediately stopped crying and looked at the door in horror.
I nodded in satisfaction and asked her, "How is King Zhao treating you?"
Lvli was very angry at my behavior of cheating her with Qi Sheng just now, and stared at me angrily with red eyes.
I couldn't help laughing and said, "Live with him well, he is a kind person and will not lose you."
Lu Li was a little disapproving and said, "I'm married anyway, marry a chicken and follow a chicken, marry a dog and follow a dog."
A good person marrying a chicken follows a chicken, marrying a dog follows a dog! I don't know how King Zhao will feel when he hears this.
I was sighing, but King Zhao came with a look of anger. I couldn't help but startled and thought to myself that his ears were too long. Could it be that he heard this from outside the palace wall
Zhao Wang scribbled a salute to me, sat down on the chair angrily, and only kept shouting, "I'm so pissed off, I'm so pissed off."
Lu Li had already stood up and handed him a cup of tea in a dog-legged way, and persuaded softly, "Your Highness, moisten your throat first, and speak slowly if you have something to do."
I glanced at the hedgerow with contempt, and asked King Zhao, "What's wrong?"
King Zhao poured a whole cup of tea in one breath, and only then did he talk about Qi Sheng calling him to Daming Palace today. As a matter of fact, it's a big and trivial matter. The coachman of Zhao Wang's mansion was a bit sloppy when he went out and hit the second brother-in-law of a censor's neighbor's brother-in-law.
But I didn't expect that this time, I would poke a hornet's nest!
Then the imperial censor did not do it, and he complained that King Chen Zhao had committed the murder with his servants.
It's just a fight between a few servants. There are thousands of people fighting in Yunxi, so the country has to take care of it! Qi Sheng ignored it at first, thinking that he would just leave it alone. But I didn't expect that the censor would not do it. After playing several times and seeing no response, he simply led a few "brothers" directly to the Daming Palace.
Qi Sheng had no choice, so he could only summon King Zhao over, slipped in front of those people and reprimanded them, and told him to pay for the soup and medicine for the beaten people. go.
King Zhao felt very annoyed. Anything bigger than that had to be related to his character. This coachman was fighting with people, and it had something to do with his character as King Zhao
Hearing this, Lu Li was also indignant, "These people have nothing to do when they are full all day long. They take care of their neighbors and the west. If I tell them not to talk to them, they put a cloth bag over their heads and beat them up. Say it again!"
As soon as she said these words, Zhao Wang and I were both silent.
Hey! Are you as easy to fight as King Zhao when you are that censor
Lu Li timidly looked at King Zhao, then looked at me, and bowed his head obediently.
King Zhao's original anger disappeared immediately, he sighed, and said helplessly: "Ledge, not everything can be solved by force."
The little daughter-in-law of the hedgerow is like a little daughter-in-law.
I saw that she looked pitiful, so I pretended to cough twice, and said, "It's getting late, so I won't leave you for lunch, you should go back early."
King Zhao didn't say anything, he led his unreliable daughter-in-law out of the palace honestly, but before leaving, he said to me: "Sister-in-law, today the emperor wakes up early and starts to summon the courtiers, I'm afraid he will not even take care of lunch. It's not useful anymore, if the Queen's Wife has time, it's better to go to Daming Palace for a walk."
King Zhao suddenly made this suggestion, which made me feel a little surprised. I took a closer look at his expression, but I couldn't see anything out of the ordinary, so I just nodded casually.
After sending them off, I called Shiyi over and asked, "Is there any porridge on the stove?"
Freehand thought that I wanted to drink it myself, and replied, "Yes, I have porridge with lily and red dates and porridge with yam and lotus seeds. Which one do you want to drink?"
I pondered a little, and asked Shuyi to bring a casserole of yam and lotus seed porridge, and followed me to visit the Daming Palace.
Daming Palace is just south of Xingsheng Palace.
Because I seldom come to Daming Palace, when the little maid outside the palace saw me, there was a look of surprise on his face, and he trotted over to greet me, and then he had to enter the palace to take care of me. I notify.
I stopped him and asked, "Is the emperor still discussing matters?"
The little maid nodded and said, "His Royal Highness the King of Chu and several ministers have been summoned to discuss the matter of Yunxi."
Hearing that the latrine gentleman was also here, I moved in my heart, so I asked Shuyi to hand over the pot of lotus seed porridge to the little servant, and said, "Send this porridge in, I will wait in the side hall for a while, and then I will talk about it after the emperor's discussion."
As I said that, I turned around and walked towards the side hall, but when I walked to the door, I found that the little maid was still following my buttocks, with a look of hesitating to speak.
I wondered, "What's wrong?"
The little waiter murmured and didn't answer, but just glanced into the side hall with his eyes.
I followed his eyes and glanced inward, and it became clear to me. I saw Jiang Shi, dressed in ordinary palace maid's clothes, standing pretty in the door. That small appearance really made me feel pity!
I paused at my feet and stepped into the hall with a calm expression.
Jiang shi smiled lightly, got up and bent his knees slightly towards me, and said softly, "The Empress."
I nodded slightly, and in a blink of an eye, I saw that the little servant was standing outside the door nervously with a pot on his face, and couldn't help but ask, "What? Do you have anything else?"
The little waiter looked embarrassed and shook his head hurriedly.
I thought about it for a while, then turned around and asked Mrs Jiang: "Are you hungry? Would you like a bowl of porridge? Yam and lotus seed porridge, which has been boiled for a long time, is soft and sweet."
Jiang Shi was stunned for a moment, but the little maid shook his hand and almost threw the casserole.
The pot of yam and lotus seed porridge had been boiled for more than two hours, but it took a lot of fire. I was afraid that the little maid would spoil me again, so I hurriedly called Freehand to take the pot and instructed the little maid to say: "You Go over there with your freehand brushwork, and if the emperor and the others are free, give each of them a bowl of porridge and pad their stomachs."
Although the little maid responded, he didn't move much under his feet, and only glanced at Jiang's secretly.
When I saw the situation, I realized that I was instructing him not to move him, so I could only turn my head and ask the Jiang family, "Would you like to send it with him?"
Jiang shi shook his head and said to the little servant, "Go ahead, the Empress is here to serve me."
After the little waiter got her words, he turned around and left with a freehand brush.
Only me and the Jiang family were left in the side hall. After a while of silence, I asked, "Miss... your name?"
Jiang Shi choked for a moment, and replied lukewarmly, "If I go back to the Empress, my surname is Su."
Su? That's why I changed my mother's surname.
I looked up at Mrs. Jiang, and saw that although her figure was as flat as before, her complexion was much more rosy than the last time I saw her. Even though she was dressed as a palace maid at the moment, she still had an air of composure, neither humble nor arrogant, and had the style of a general.
A weak girl can do it, a princess can do it, and a palace maid can do it too. This can be regarded as a compound talent.
I wanted to invite her into the harem, so I asked her tentatively, "Is Miss Su getting used to staying here?"
Jiang shi's lips curled slightly, "I'm not used to anything, I'll be where the emperor tells me to be."
In less than three sentences, Qi Sheng was lifted out, for fear that I didn't know the relationship between her and Qi Sheng.
I sighed and persuaded her sincerely: "Yingyue, it's not a long-term solution for you to follow him without a name, follow me back to the harem, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager have me to stop them, they can always give You have a name."
Jiang Shi looked at me for a moment, but smiled sarcastically and said, "Empress Empress, what if you are famous and rich? Trapped in the heaven and earth of the harem, competing with other women for favor, I look forward to his blessing every day. To be one of his many women? Thanks for the kindness of the Empress, but Yingyue is not willing."
It really is a lot of speculation!
I was speechless, and she didn't seem to be able to talk to me calmly, so I didn't even bother with her.
After sitting for a while, Freehand came in from the outside, glanced at Jiang Shi first, and then leaned into my ear and said, "The emperor and those adults have used porridge, and the servants helped to bring it in. It seems that It's about to leave. Yi Numaid, it's better for the maid to go there at this time, or to meet those adults."
After he finished speaking, he gave me a wink.
I very much agree with her words, the era of keeping a name for good deeds has not yet come, and I don't have the habit of writing a diary. I nodded my head, ignored Jiang Shi and hurriedly got up and went out.
The time for the freehand pinching was just right. As soon as I walked to the entrance of the main hall, I saw the courtiers file out of the hall. I hurriedly stopped, gave way to the side, then held the first lady's fan and looked at them with a smile.
The prime minister was the prime minister, followed by a string of ministers. These guys just drank the porridge sent by my queen, and they all felt a little embarrassed, so they rushed forward to salute me.
I hurriedly excused them from the ceremony, and asked them a few gossips with concern, and then I told them to go down.
The latrine gentleman was a moment later than them, and the last one came out from the inside, with a faint smile on his brows, he called out in a warm voice, "Sister-in-law."
After not seeing him for many days, the latrine gentleman is still surrounded by the wind, and his demeanor is the same as before.
I had the heart to say a few words to him, but because there were too many eyeliners around, I nodded slightly and said, "His Royal Highness King Chu has worked hard."
The latrine lord bowed slightly, and replied: "The duty lies, and the younger brother dare not pretend to be hard."
I paused and asked again: "I haven't seen Yang Yan for a long time, is he still in Shengdu?"
The corner of the toilet gentleman's mouth rose a little, "Still, he has been thinking about going to the palace to visit the emperor's sister-in-law, saying that the thing that the emperor's sister-in-law told him to look for has been found..."
As he was talking, the little maid who had entered earlier had already called at the door: "Miss, the emperor invites you in."
The latrine gentleman stopped talking, smiled at me, cupped his hands again, and then turned and left.
I sorted out my thoughts and followed the little servant into the hall.
There were very few people standing in the hall. Qi Sheng was sitting behind the imperial case and looking at the memorial. When he heard me coming in, he only lifted his eyelids. Then he turned his attention to the memorial in his hand and asked lightly, "Porridge is yours. boiled?"
I was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that in order to buy it for me, I must describe the porridge as being cooked by the queen herself. I nodded hurriedly and replied, "Yes."
Qi Sheng said again: "It's too sweet, put less sugar next time."
next time? I was still in a daze here, but Qi Sheng looked up at me and asked, "Is something wrong?"
I just came back to my senses, "...It's okay."
So, Qi Shengfu lowered his head again.
I saw that he was so focused, and felt that it was embarrassing to stand here, so I said again: "The emperor is busy, the concubine will go back first."
Qi Sheng didn't lift his head, only made a lukewarm "um".
I hurriedly turned around and walked out, and when I was about to go out, I heard Qi Sheng suddenly say: "Yunxi is using troops, the treasury is tense, the Queen looks at reducing the cost of the harem to set an example for the people."
I was stunned for a moment, then turned around and answered him with a submissive "yes" before leaving.
After leaving the Daming Palace, Xie Yi, who had been following me closely, suddenly jumped up a few steps, and couldn't hide his excitement as he shouted, "Niangniang, Niangniang, the emperor asked you to come back tomorrow."
I kept pondering the few words Qi Sheng said, and when I heard the words, I paused, then turned my head to look at Freehand in astonishment, "When did he say that?"
Freehand nodded affirmatively, "The emperor himself said next time, next time!"
When does "next time" equal "tomorrow"
I was speechless, but seeing the excitement on her face, and I couldn't bear to discourage her, I was in a dilemma, my mind suddenly lighted up, and I suddenly thought of a way to reduce the cost of the harem. After thinking about it, I ordered Freehand said: "Alright, from tomorrow onwards, you will give it to Daming Palace once a day."
Freehand and strangely said: "My lady is not going?"
I smiled, "I'm the queen, I can go anywhere in person every time, it's enough to have you there."
Guessing that this girl thought that what I said was reasonable, she nodded solemnly, and the next day she really brought a pot of porridge under my banner and sent it over.
On the third day, in addition to the freehand brushwork, Concubine Huang Xian also cooked soup and delivered it in person.
On the fourth day, Concubine Chen Shu, Li Zhaoyi and others joined the soup delivery team without falling behind.
On the fifth day, the team delivering meals to Daming Palace grew stronger and stronger...
On the sixth day, Qi Sheng finally became angry.
I was called by Qi Sheng, and I repeated a few sarcastic remarks with non-yin and non-yang words, and returned to Xingsheng Palace with a look of anger, and directly confessed to the freehand brushwork: "Go, let the gang in the harem be unstoppable. All the women called me."
Freehand to see that my face is not good, I dare not speak, I trot away.
I sat on the chair with my eyes closed, thinking that I would have to point at Concubine Huang Xian's nose and scold them for a while, so I had to let out the anger I got from Qi Sheng first, and then I thought about what to do. Everything was resolved at once.
But really facing that bunch of cute women, I couldn't say the cruel words. I pointed them one by one with my finger, and finally I could only sigh and discuss: "You can be more active. Why? Can’t we change the delivery of this cake and that cake? I have to deliver soup and water? I’m still laughing! As for you, you dare to deliver pig’s feet and soybean soup, do you really want to be the emperor’s confinement?”