Yun Fenghuang did not see the disgust and irritability of the Queen Mother Yuan, and said respectfully and in a low voice: "I come here to apologize to the Queen Mother..."
"Then kneel down there." Empress Dowager Yuan knew about Jiang's entry into the palace yesterday. If we talk about the previous time, she was full of appreciation for the mother and daughter, and felt that Yun Fenghuang's various actions had some significance. No, it's just that the young concubine who just entered the palace is ignorant. After all, she is a tutor.
Worthy of forgiveness and cultivation.
This time, she still can't see that the mother and daughter are just pretending to sing together? !
If the Jiang family is serious about teaching their daughters to be strict, they should not teach Yun Fenghuang to be such a pampered, arrogant and domineering person!
Secondly, if Yun Fenghuang is a person who is willing to be taught, and he has learned his lesson last time, why not only did he not completely change his behavior later on, but he got worse
Based on the analysis of Jiang's reputation in the North, Empress Dowager Yuan felt that Jiang himself must have enjoyed the benefits of having a virtuous reputation and wanted to arrange it for his daughter, so she asked Yun Fenghuang to plead guilty again with a huge profit.
It's just that Queen Mother Yuan didn't intend to cooperate, and she didn't bother to talk to Yun Fenghuang. She pointed directly to a shade of a tree in the courtyard. That place would be good in summer, because the canopy of trees above her head was gloomy, and there was nothing to rely on, and the wind was blowing from all directions. It can be blown into the air, but the best thing is shade.
But now that it's the end of the year, all the palaces and earth dragons are burning, the thin winter sun above the head is blocked by the dense canopy of evergreen trees, and the cold wind around is unbridled. The attendants were not willing to stop there when they passed by, let alone kneeling on the bluestone
Yun Fenghuang knew her intentions with one glance, but went over and knelt down without saying a word.
Qingdu, who came with her, naturally knelt down with her when she saw this.
In this way, the master and the servant knelt down for a stick of incense, and they were still steady. Empress Dowager Yuan didn't say anything, but the people around her were a little worried. Zhan Liu came and asked, "Mother, do you want them to keep kneeling like this?"
"The emperor hasn't come here yet and what are you worried about?" Empress Dowager Yuan said calmly, "Isn't she going to apologize? When you apologize, you should look like you are apologizing. You can't even kneel down right now. How can someone be so apologetic? Heart? Besides, given what Xiao Yun has done since entering the palace, what’s the problem with kneeling down for such a while? "
Zhan Liu said: "My dear, my maid, can you still feel sorry for this little Yunshi? I just feel strange, why are mother and daughter doing this again? For what Xiaoyunshi has done in the past two years, can I just ask for a punishment? "
"Perhaps that's what Jiang thinks?" Empress Dowager Yuan sneered, "It's not like I've never seen such a smart-aleck before!"
She shook her head and said, "Ignore them, just leave it like this. We'll talk about it later if the emperor comes. If the emperor doesn't come, what if she keeps kneeling? The Ai family can't afford such a big gift from her. ?"
Thinking of something again, he sneered and ordered the people below to prepare ice water, "If the emperor comes too late and Concubine Xian cannot hold on and faints, please give her a good wake-up call."
It's just a dream to pretend to faint in front of her!
Zhanliu twitched the corners of his mouth and said, "Yes."
They were deliberately trying to make Yun Fenghuang suffer a lot. Over there, Yun Fenghuang was also thinking: "Your Majesty knows that I came here today to plead guilty, and he should also know that he will not be able to embarrass me in the future. The only difficulty is with the Queen Mother. . Presumably he will come over to help rescue him later... But in this case, it will seem too formal and pretentious."
So after a while, she climbed to her feet, moved her limbs, and asked the stunned palace servants at the door to go in and ask Empress Dowager Yuan, could she go in now to apologize
The palace attendants were very confused and went in. Queen Mother Yuan was a bit stunned when she heard this: "She got up on her own? You asked the Ai family if she could ask for forgiveness? Is she asking for forgiveness?!"
"... My maid doesn't know what happened to Concubine Xian. Concubine Xian is now on the porch." The palace man thought for a moment and added, "Standing. Her attendants followed her step by step, also standing. of."
Empress Dowager Yuan let out a long breath: "Is the Ai family so talkative that this bastard doesn't take the Ai family seriously?!"
"Where are you thinking, the Queen Mother?" After a moment, Yun Fenghuang, who was questioned by Xuan, defended himself with a surprised look on his face, "Sages say that small things can lead to big losses. I was poisoned before and almost died. Life, so much so that she has been lingering on the sick bed these days. This is what the Queen Mother said just now. On such a cold day, I can’t help it wherever the Queen Mother can point her finger! If you insist on kneeling down, if something goes wrong, Isn’t it intentional to trap the Queen Mother into injustice? I’m not ignorant, how can I do such a thing?”
Queen Mother Yuan decided not to argue with her and said, "The Ai family doesn't need you to think about the Ai family, but they just want you to kneel and keep kneeling. What do you say?"
"Of course I listen to the Queen Mother." Yun Fenghuang said respectfully, "I will do whatever the Queen Mother tells me to do."
Then Queen Mother Yuan asked her to go out and continue to kneel in the same place.
Yun Fenghuang really didn't show off his attitude this time. Without saying a word, he bowed and took Qingdu out.
Empress Dowager Yuan couldn't trust her now, so she sent two palace maids out to watch people. After a while, she was still worried, so she asked Zhan Liu to go out and have a look: "Did that cheap maid become a monster again?"
Zhanliu thought it shouldn't happen: "No one came to report outside, so I expected they would still be kneeling there."
The Queen Mother said: "Go and see for yourself. Those two maids are not as good as you. They can't even tell if the concubine is acting like a monster."
So Zhanliu went.
When she went outside, she realized that the Queen Mother had really hit the mark!
... Yun Fenghuang and Qingdu were sitting on the back of the beauty in the corridor. There were tea trays and snacks next to them. The tea was still steaming. The master and servant were leisurely and at ease, as if they were here to admire the yellow leaves all over the Chunyou Palace. No matter whether it was the palace guard at the entrance of the palace or the two palace maids sent by the Empress Dowager Yuan to watch them, they seemed not to see it.
Zhanliu almost vomited blood, walked over quickly, gave each of the two palace maids an ear scrape, and shouted: "My queen asked you to come out and watch people, this is what you do?!"
"Auntie, spare your life!" The two palace maids knelt down in fear and defended in a low voice, "But the Concubine Xian said that it is a serious crime to alienate the mother and son of the Tian family, and the maids really don't dare!"
Well, they don't need to elaborate. Zhan Liu also knows what Yun Fenghuang told them after he came out. It's just that the Queen Mother Yuan is not afraid of offending Chunjia, but the maids are not, and if there is something wrong with her here today, Chunjia She would not blame the Queen Mother, but she would definitely anger them and these minions... In addition, the Queen Mother Yuan was always very kind to the people around her. The two palace maids thought that if they were angered by the emperor, they would definitely not have a good ending. If they angered the Queen Mother, they would be attacked, but they would not necessarily be lifeless. , isn’t this just helping to hide the Queen Mother
"Why is Aunt Zhanliu so angry?" Zhanliu took a deep breath and was thinking quickly about what to do now. Yun Fenghuang put down his tea bowl and came over. He had some time to persuade her, "Auntie also watched your majesty grow up. How can a person like me have the heart to sit back and watch His Majesty being in trouble?"
Zhan Liu sneered and said: "The Concubine Xian is really a good trick! It's just that the Concubine said it easily. If the palace servants in Huanhua Palace also help outsiders to deceive the Concubine, I wonder what the Concubine will think?"
Of course, that would be to skin them and exterminate them to scare the monkeys... Yun Fenghuang thought in his heart and said: "But what will happen if the aunt goes in and tells the truth to the Queen Mother? It's just that the Queen Mother is furious and doubles the punishment. Concubine. But after all, I am your Majesty's favorite. The Queen Mother cares about Your Majesty, and she can't do anything to me. If the Queen Mother becomes more and more angry, what good will it do to Fengti? This girl is the Queen Mother's dowry confidant, and she is the most considerate. The Queen Mother, why don’t you take the Queen Mother as your top priority now?”
Then he said, "Actually, I don't know that the Queen Mother is very prejudiced against me and will not easily accept my apology. But there is no way. I have only met my biological mother twice in these years, and I really can't bear to brush her off." If I don't agree with her, I can only come and go this time. Otherwise, I will never bother the Queen Mother, lest the Queen Mother will be unhappy when she sees me."
Zhanliu said coldly: "You know why the Queen Mother is so prejudiced against you! Furthermore, according to the Queen Mother, your father is very virtuous and polite, but I don't know why I raised a girl like this, who offends the most disciplined Queen Mother. A daughter who doesn’t like the queen is here?”
It’s okay for other people to ask this question, but Empress Dowager Yuan’s confidant asked, isn’t this self-humiliating
Yun Fenghuang immediately said: "The same rice can feed all kinds of people. My biological mother is virtuous and polite, but I am not as good as my biological mother! Otherwise, my aunt saw that Mrs. Chunke was also raised by the Queen Mother, and she almost never left her side. Well, how can Mrs. Chunke compare to the Queen Mother?"
"..." Zhan Liu stared at the pillar next to him for a while before holding back his anger and said expressionlessly, "The Concubine Xian is so sharp-tongued!"
Yun Fenghuang smiled: "My aunt is so complimentary."
The two sides looked at each other for a moment, and there seemed to be swords, spears, and halberds between their eyes, and then Zhan Liu turned around and left without saying a word.
"Aunt..." The two palace maids who were still kneeling spoke in panic.
"Shut up!" Zhan Liu stopped and said in a cold voice without looking back, "If you make any more noise, watch your skin carefully!"
The two palace maids turned to Yun Fenghuang for help.
Yun Fenghuang ignored it and watched leisurely as Zhanliu entered, then said, "Don't worry, Aunt Zhanliu won't expose you."
The two maids still couldn't believe it: "But if it's my aunt..."
Before he finished speaking, Yun Fenghuang had already rolled up his sleeves and turned back to sit over the tea.
But in the palace not far away, it was quiet.
"Thank God Aunt Liu compromised." Qingdu listened carefully for a moment and breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that the Queen Mother inside had not had an attack.
"Can she not compromise?" Yun Fenghuang took a sip of hot tea and said slowly, "If the Queen Mother could do anything to me, I would have done it a long time ago. Not to mention the disrespect I have shown today. The Queen Mother can neither do anything to me" Palace, if there is a big commotion but it will not end well, the only one who will be embarrassed will be the Queen Mother. If she is wholeheartedly for the Queen Mother, she should be like the two previous maids, helping me hide the Queen Mother to prevent the Queen Mother from getting angry. If she thinks about herself , that shouldn’t offend me to death... Let them put their things away. Zhan Liu can still talk to the Queen Mother. If she goes in now, she will probably persuade the Queen Mother to let us go, so as not to stay in vain and an eyesore. .”
Sure enough, not long after, a little palace maid came out and asked Yun Fenghuang to leave.
It is said that the Queen Mother has felt and accepted her apology.
"Isn't it already like this?" Yun Fenghuang said to Qingdu while walking on the chariot, "It's just a show anyway, why don't we all just go through the motions politely like Queen Gu did? If you have to make trouble, come to In the end, I don’t know who was unhappy.”
Qingdu was worried: "Empress, if your Majesty finds out, then...?"
"He knows it if he knows it." Yun Fenghuang disagreed, "I just want him to know it!"
For this reason, she didn't even wait for Chunjia to come to Huanhua Palace. In the afternoon, she asked the small kitchen to cook some food and sent it to Taichu Palace herself.
Chunjia was approving the memorial when he heard that the Concubine Xian had arrived. He asked her to wait for a while to finish handling the government affairs. Then he came to the front and asked the attendants to leave. He said displeasedly: "What are you doing today?" Is your mother causing mischief again?"