Chapter 340: There is no return
Luo San led the carriage all the way into Ling'an, and stopped at the gate of the imperial city, but Luo San did not follow into the palace. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The four palace maids took Aunt Hong and Xiaoxiang with them, and the two followed Jiang Li one left and one right.
Jiang Li followed the two of them to change the carriage in the palace, and then changed to a small sedan chair carried by two people, and after passing the six passes, the deputy chief eunuch of Ningxi Palace personally came to guide the way, and traveled all the way to the outside of Ningxi Palace unhindered.
There were more than a dozen palace maids and eunuchs waiting under the jade steps, Jiang Li got off the sedan chair, looked back, and saw Xiaoxiang and Aunt Hong. A palace maid who brought Jiang away said in a soft but indifferent voice: "The two people you brought are temporarily in the side hall, please follow me to see the Queen Mother." ”
Knowing that it was useless to argue, Jiang Li simply remained silent.
Following the two palace maids around a screen with thousands of flowers and butterflies, Jiang Li raised his eyes and glanced at it, there were only a few palace maids standing on the top of the huge palace, and one person in the middle was sitting on the chaise longue in the main hall, and at a hurried glance, he saw that the person sitting on the chair was dressed in slippery satin auspicious clouds and brocade, wearing green jade on his head, and he looked very young.
The two palace maids called the queen mother and bowed down.
Jiang Li bowed to the head according to the etiquette of entering the palace in the Song Dynasty, only to hear the soft voice of the Queen Mother to get them up, and gave Jiang Li a seat. The palace maid stepped aside, Jiang Li took off the white fox robe on her body, handed it to the palace maid beside her, and then lowered her head slightly and sat quietly.
The hall was warm, the smoker was rising, and more than a dozen eyes fell on Jiang Li, Jiang Li sat quietly if he didn't realize it.
Mrs. Jiang, who was sitting on the chaise longue, showed a look of appreciation. Before summoning Jiang Li, Empress Dowager Jiang had already inquired about Jiang Li's life and past very clearly.
The young lady of the Jiang family in the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, her grandfather was a transfer envoy, and her father was a general judge in Qingzhou. Now he has no father or mother, and he controls countless shops and textile workshops under his hands, and came to Qingzhou with a few slaves and his half-brother half a year ago.
is such a woman, who has been in Qingzhou for less than half a year, but has become the lord of Qingfeng Village, a village where bandits from the Three Kingdoms gather recklessly. And it's still this woman, she can actually restore Nan Chen's heirloom "Splendid Rivers and Mountains" in perfect condition!
She had heard people talk about Jiang Li's killing of Yan Hong, and she had also heard the fine work placed in Qingfeng Village say that Jiang Li shot Yan Sheng, the king of Dayan Liao, half to death with one arrow.
Empress Dowager Jiang is over forty years old, and in the Nanchen court, she can be regarded as a decisive person, otherwise she would not have lasted until today, and sat on the position of the queen mother in a beautiful manner.
She has seen all kinds of women in her life, and has heard countless stories of various legendary women. But as soon as she heard that it was such a woman who had restored "Splendid Rivers and Mountains", she immediately decided to see Jiang Li - this is only one of the reasons.
Empress Dowager Jiang has always been curious about what this woman looks like in the legend, and when she saw it for the first time today, she was much more shrewd and powerful than she imagined.
Although the two thin lips are not colored, they have a natural luster and luster, a pair of deep and charming almond eyes, a small nose, and fair and clear skin with two light pink skins, which can only be regarded as good.
What is rare is that she has such a calm and quiet attitude in this situation.
That kind of temperament that is not shocked, charming in demure, charming in wisdom, and clear and sleek in her eyes with occasional glances - in short, Empress Dowager Jiang felt that Jiang Li was different from all the women she had ever seen, and she couldn't say anything different, so she couldn't help but stick to her eyes.
There are also rumors about her unusual relationship with Xiao Yu in the news that inquired. Now that I have seen it with my own eyes, Empress Dowager Jiang has implemented the rumors from Jiang Li's body:
The white fox Qiu Dayu was a treasure that the merchants of Nanchen bought back from overseas, and the only two pieces were given to the newly sealed King Xiao Yu of Beijing this time, which was worn on her not long after it was given.
There is even a layer, Empress Dowager Jiang's eyes are sharp, and at a glance she found that Jiang Li hung the jade-inlaid sword on her waist, this sword is unique to the Nanchen royal family, and her emperor's son also had such a sword. Looking at it this way, the relationship between the woman named Jiang Li in front of her and Xiao Yu is self-evident.
Seeing Jiang Li, she couldn't help but think of Xiao Yu's dead biological mother, Concubine Lin. Such a delicate and cowardly woman can also have such a daughter-in-law! Empress Dowager Jiang looked at Jiang Li, and a touch of resentment involuntarily appeared on her lips.
Jiang Li could feel Empress Dowager Jiang's needle-prick gaze, but she just lowered her head and sat steadily, silently.
Feeling that she had been looking at her for too long, Empress Dowager Jiang coughed lightly, cleared her throat and said, "Do you know why I summoned you to the palace?" ”
Jiang Li raised his head when he heard this, looked at the Queen Mother suspiciously, and shook his head. muttered angrily in his heart: Is there anything good about taking me into the palace like this! If you love to say it or not, I won't ask, and I'll suffocate you.
Empress Dowager Jiang opened her mouth and asked, "I heard that the "Splendid Rivers and Mountains" was restored by your own hands?" ”
Jiang Li instinctively wanted to deny it, but thought that since Empress Dowager Jiang asked so, then she must have found out clearly, so she nodded.
"Then please enter the palace!" Empress Dowager Jiang got up from the chaise longue, flicked her sleeves and walked to the hall, and said domineeringly: "That picture is a national treasure that has been passed down from our Nanchen royal family for several generations, and it has been destroyed in the hands of the previous emperor, and now no one in the palace knows its original appearance." Although Xiao Yu handed over the brocade diagram, how did our mother and son know that he was not using a fake brocade diagram to perfunctory us? ”
Yes?! Jiang Li was frightened by Empress Dowager Jiang's words, and a fear of a catastrophe lingered in his heart, Jiang Li couldn't hold it anymore, and hesitated to say the first sentence when he entered the palace: "Then, how do you want to prove it?" ”
Empress Dowager Jiang stared at Jiang Li and sneered: "It's very simple, leave you here, wait for us to take the map and compare it to find every mineral deposit, if we can find it, then it can prove that the brocade map presented by Xiao Yu is true." If you can't find it, hum, then Xiao Yu is ill-intentioned! ”
"You-" Jiang Li was extremely angry, it turned out that it was rumored that Emperor Xiao Ting of Nanchen was suspicious, but it turned out that Empress Dowager Jiang was too. Oh no, maybe it was inherited from his mother's nature.
Jiang Li suddenly thought of a question: "Taking the map one by one and comparing it to find mineral deposits, although Nanchen is not as vast as the Great Song Dynasty, the territory is not small." When will I be able to compare and match everything like this? "--Empress Dowager Jiang's mother and son can deal with Xiao Yu slowly, but she can't go out of the palace for many years, and she will die of old age in the palace? This time I entered the palace, and there was no return?
Jiang Li stood up with a sigh of relief, looked at the Empress Dowager Jiang with wide eyes and anger, and what he got was a sneer of affirmation on Empress Dowager Jiang's beautiful face.