42. Do as you like

After bathing and burning incense, Shen Youan followed the Queen Mother into the small Buddha Hall, the Buddha Hall enshrined a statue of Sakyamuni Buddha, there were tributes on the table in front of the Buddha, and there were three cushions on the ground in front of the desk, the Queen Mother took the lead in walking over, kneeling on the mat, turning the Buddha beads in her hand, Shen Youan followed Yao Siyu and stood aside with her head bowed, but listened to the Queen Mother speak; "Jiubao, come and kneel beside the mourning family."

Shen Youan was stunned for a moment, or went over to kneel beside the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother glanced at her, closed her eyes slightly, and began to chant in her mouth, Shen Youan didn't know what she was reading, so she knelt on the side and didn't speak, I don't know how long later, the voice of the Queen Mother suddenly came from her ears.

"Nine treasures, Buddhism has clouds; Random, casual, casual. ”

Shen Youan subconsciously knelt up straight, and listened to the Queen Mother; "When the mourning family saw you for the first time, they felt that you were a model of a woman in the family, and the mourning family was like you when they were young, cautious, not daring to take one more step, not daring to say a word, but now the mourning family knows that everything is wrong."

The Queen Mother suddenly opened her eyes and looked at Shen Youan, Shen Youan reached out to help her, the Queen Mother put her hand on her hand, and she helped herself up, not to talk much in front of the Buddha, the Queen Mother took Shen Youan back to the warm pavilion, sat on the soft couch, a palace person stepped forward and knelt in front of the Queen Mother to beat her legs, the Queen Mother tilted her body slightly, beckoned to Shen Youan, and said; "Jiubao come here, sit beside the mourning family, good boy, don't be afraid."

Shen Youan sat down, and the Queen Mother took her hand and said; "You accompany the mourning family to worship the Buddha, but you feel bored."

Shen Youan shook his head and said; "Slaves don't dare."

The Queen Mother laughed and said; "The mourning family is not asking you if you dare, the mourning family just told you, with your heart, with fate, with your nature, the most painful thing in your life is that you can't follow your heart, with fate, with your nature, when the mourning family was young, the first emperor accepted the harem, and the mourning family looked at the concubines who were younger than the mourning family and more beautiful to enter the palace, in fact, the mourning family hated it to death, but the mourning family still held on to the smiling face, arranged for the first emperor to sleep with the concubines, and helped those concubines ask for rewards, the first emperor praised the mourning family's benevolence, but the mourning family didn't want benevolence at all, and the mourning family also wanted to make a big fuss, The identity of the mourning family does not allow the mourning family to do so. ”

"The Queen Mother is virtuous and virtuous, and she is a model of a woman in the family."

"Then do you think it is better for a woman to be virtuous and virtuous all her life, to hold a qiē for her husband, to take a concubine for him, and to raise a son, or to act arbitrarily and live by heart?"

After the Queen Mother said this, Shen Youan was silent, she didn't know how to reply, according to the etiquette, a woman should help her husband take care of the backyard, but after the Queen Mother asked this, she felt that if it was like this for a lifetime, what was the difference between it and the walking dead, it was better to live willfully, she was startled by the idea that she suddenly germinated, how could she think so? My father taught me to know how to be a woman since I was a child, how did I have such an idea?

"The Queen Mother, the slave maid feels that as a woman, she should consider it for her husband, but if the slave and maid watch the husband flirt with the maidservant and concubine, the slave and maid feel that they would rather not have such a husband."

Shen Youan didn't know that the Queen Mother was still satisfied with such an answer, she lowered her head and was a little panicked, she didn't know what the Queen Mother meant by asking this, the palace people suddenly came to report, saying that the prince of Dingguo Mansion had come to ask her for peace, and the Queen Mother said to the palace people who came to report; "You told the prince that there was a guest here in the mourning family, and told him to come back another day."

Before she finished speaking, Li Hongmao walked in with a shout; "What kind of guest, I actually let my aunt give an eviction order to my nephew."

Li Hongmao came in and knelt down with a smile at the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother glared at him, and did not tell him to get up, and said angrily; "You are becoming more and more unruly, the mourning family didn't let you in, and you dared to come in."

Li Hongmao came in and saw Shen Youan was also stunned for a moment, he thought that the Queen Mother said that there were guests just to shirk the words, the Queen Mother was in a bad mood for a while, that is, he would occasionally be turned away, this time he only thought that the Queen Mother was in a bad mood, so he thought about coming in and thinking about coaxing the Queen Mother, but he never thought that the Queen Mother really had guests here this time.

The Queen Mother didn't let him get up, he knelt on the ground, crying and mourning, and said to Shen You'an; "Shen Simeng, I don't know the rules and made my aunt angry, can you plead for me like my aunt and let me get up, my knees hurt."

He said pitiful, the Queen Mother hurt him again, even if she knew that he was pretending, where did she use Shen You'an to plead, and hurriedly asked him to get up and sit down.

After Li Hongmao got up, he looked at Shen You'an and said; "Why is Shen Siyu here with my aunt?"

Before Shen Youan could answer, he listened to the Queen Mother; "Jiubao is naturally here to accompany the mourning family."

"Nine Treasures?"

Li Hongmao was stunned, who was Jiubao, and immediately reacted, Jiubao was about Shen Youan's nickname, and said apologetically to Shen Youan; "I'm sorry, it's me who was rude, don't blame Shen Simeng."

Shen Youan naturally didn't dare to blame him, but the queen mother, who had always been used to him, was dissatisfied; "It's just that you don't have rules in front of the mourning family, why are you so rude in front of Jiubao."

Shen Youan hurriedly waved his hand; "It's okay to be a slave."

How dare she have a relationship, Li Hongmao can act recklessly in front of the Queen Mother, how dare she hold it up when she comes here, not to mention that Li Hongmao didn't say anything in the first place.

Li Hongmao laughed twice and said; "Auntie, aren't these all your own family?"

When it comes to the Queen Mother's heart, they are all a family, one is her nephew, and the other is her daughter-in-law.

Li Hongmao suddenly saw that the feathers of the divine bird he gave to the Queen Mother had fallen off and turned into a bald bird, looking at himself there, he got up suddenly, walked to the bald bird, and repeatedly confirmed that this was the divine bird he gave to the Queen Mother. "Auntie, why is this bird feather gone?"

The Queen Mother was a little weak-hearted; "The mourning family doesn't know why this bird's feathers have fallen off."

Li Hongmao didn't believe the queen mother's words, a good bird, the bird feathers can fall like this, and it is so even, and the colored feathers on the body are now left with a layer of sparse hair barely covering**, Li Hongmao opened the bird cage, put the divine bird in his hand, and suddenly thought of the birds he raised, every time Li Mu'an's girl was unhappy, she would take her own birds, and the bird feathers were also plucked out a lot, but no matter how miserable those birds were, they were not as miserable as this bird, at the beginning, this bird was his favorite, the most beautiful, He specially selected it to be given to the Queen Mother, and he caressed the poor divine bird lovingly, the divine bird was wronged, and at this moment he seemed to know that his backer was coming, and he hung his head and stuck it on Li Hongmao's hand.

The queen mother insisted that the bird's feathers had fallen off by herself, Shen Youan looked at the little layer of hair on the bird's body, and suddenly felt a little familiar, isn't this the same as the feather shuttlecock on the chicken feather shuttlecock that His Majesty gave him? It's not chicken feathers, it's bird feathers.

Seeing her surprised, the Queen Mother hurriedly glanced at her, signaling her not to make a sound, such an obvious action Li Hongmao naturally saw it, and walked in front of Shen Youan with the bald bird, the bird was really ugly, and he didn't feel it from a distance, but it scared Shen Youan when he saw it up close, and the Queen Mother slapped Li Hongmao on the back angrily; "Death, don't you take that bird away quickly, it's scared of Jiubao."

Li Hongmao saw that Shen Youan was frightened, looked at the bird in his hand, and also felt ugly, he liked this bird just because of the bird's good-looking hair, and now the hair is bald, he was distressed for a while, this time he saw that Shen Youan was scared and regretted a little, and hurriedly put the bird back in the cage, so just now he felt that he had got a warm divine bird, and this time the child was put back in the cage and became a bald bird.

This bird should be unlucky, originally because of a good-looking hair by Li Hongmao, given to the Queen Mother, but met a good thing to go back to his daughter-in-law Qi Jinghuan, Qi Jinghuan came to Yongshou Palace that day to accompany the Queen Mother to eat, when I went back, the bird was standing in the cage, facing the sun, enjoying the warm sunshine, that colorful hair let Qi Jinghuan see, I felt that it was particularly good-looking, so I ordered someone to pull it out and take it back to Shen Youan to make a chicken feather shuttlecock, although Shen Youan's temperament will not kick any chicken feather shuttlecock, But with the principle that good things should be brought back to the daughter-in-law, the bird was so pitifully kicked off the altar and changed from a divine bird to a bald bird.

Shen Youan was also a little weak when sitting next to the Queen Mother, although the bird feather was not plucked by himself, but the chicken feather shuttlecock was still placed there by himself? Li Hongmao looked at Shen Youan and felt a little headache, the troublemaker in his own house still made trouble every day to let him take her into the palace to find Shen Youan, with her temperament, how dare he take her to the palace, and if he was unhappy in the Dingguo Mansion, he would just beat the servants in his courtyard, if he went to the palace to beat people, it would be impossible to say.

"Is Shen Si Meng going to stay in Yongshou Palace all the time, or is he going to come here to serve his aunt temporarily?"

The Queen Mother smiled and said; "Jiubao is here to accompany the mourning family to relieve boredom, and I will go back to Shengning Palace later."

Li Hongmao was stunned and said with a smile; "Let's just say that His Majesty is reluctant to transfer Shen Siyu to Yongshou Palace on duty."

"How can you say this, in the future, when you marry a daughter-in-law, the mourning family will let your daughter-in-law stay here every day to see if you are willing."

"Of course I do." Li Hongmao couldn't laugh or cry; "Serving my aunt is what I should do as a niece and daughter-in-law, and my nephew is naturally willing."

Queen Mother; "Yes, you are the most filial, let's talk about it when you find your daughter-in-law."

Li Hongmao sighed and said; "You have to take your time to find a daughter-in-law, you can't be in a hurry, you can't be in a hurry."

"You're twenty years old, and there are several children of this age in ordinary people."

When Li Hongmao heard that the Queen Mother was going to nag again, he hurriedly waved his hand; "Your Majesty is older than me, and when Your Majesty marries a wife, I will marry a wife."

After speaking, he couldn't stop staring at Shen Youan, Shen Youan was embarrassed for a while, and couldn't help but say; "Although His Majesty has not been established, there are many concubines in the palace, and the prince still does not even have a concubine room, so it is better for the queen mother to give a few beauties to the prince."

Li Hongmao was stunned, looked at Shen Youan with a strange look, and then got up and said; "Aunt, my nephew still has some things to deal with, come back another day to say hello to my aunt."

Before the Queen Mother could speak, she patted her ass and walked away, and when she left, she shook Shen You'an with an unclear look, and her heart was worthy of being the woman that His Majesty had taken a fancy to, this sentence hit the nail on the head, looking gentle and harmless, how could he block people with nothing to say, Li Hongmao swore in his heart that he would never provoke this woman at will in the future, if this aunt really followed her words and gave herself a bunch of beauties to go back, then the ancestor in the family would not have to make a fuss.