Chapter 348: Crossing the Invincible Favorite Concubine [18]
The people in the hall were all taken aback, and hurriedly knelt down to greet each other: "See the queen's mother, see the pure concubine!" β
Empress Yan walked in with the light on her back, and bowed her knees slightly towards the Empress Dowager above: "Please say hello to the Queen Mother!" β
The following Xia Meng and Concubine Yu both bowed down and asked for peace: "Say hello to the Queen Mother!" β
The queen mother didn't know how much she had heard, and she couldn't help but be very dissatisfied with the servants guarding the door, but she raised her hand with a smile on her face: "No courtesy, get up." β
Empress Yan stood up straight when she heard this, and then looked straight at Su Manyan, who was still stunned: "Miss Su has seen the palace now, do you feel at ease?" "She has always looked down on this young lady of the Su family, but she is just a spoiled eldest lady, she doesn't understand anything, she will say whatever she thinks in her heart, she will only be a little smart, and the big cleverness is not compatible with her! She didn't take her seriously, but she didn't think about letting her say such things without knowing the rules.
Su Manyan came back to his senses and hurriedly knelt down and saluted: "Say hello to the queen's mother, the courtiers just said the wrong thing for a while, and this is not the intention!" The mother is misunderstood! Although she doesn't like this queen, she is the mother of a country, and she is afraid of her identity.
When Queen Yan heard this, she just hooked her lips and smiled, and took Xia Meng and them to sit in the front position together, and sat down and picked up the tea without shouting.
In the huge inner hall, except for them and the queen mother, everyone else knelt on the ground.
The Queen Mother watched Queen Yan take a sip of tea slowly, her face changed again and again, and she couldn't help but speak: "Yan'er has always been straightforward and can't speak, why should the queen worry about a child with her?" β
Empress Yan raised her head in surprise and wondered, "In the eyes of the Queen Mother, this is actually a trivial matter?" Although Erchen does not have much ability, he has been conscientious since his son-in-law married into the royal family, keeping the palace rules and etiquette in mind, and dare not violate it for a moment. This harem is not said to be peaceful, but there is no big mistake under the management of the sons, and the sisters are all well-behaved. On weekdays, the low-ranking people don't even dare to put on a face when they see the high-ranking ones, let alone talk about the mother of the country behind their backs? β
Saying that, he shook his head helplessly: "There is no objection that the queen mother loves Miss Su's sons, after all, Miss Su and the queen mother are blood relatives, and they are different from the sons." But since Miss Su wants to live in the palace for a long time, if there is such a rule, she is afraid of discord! β
The Queen Mother's face sank, and there was no smile in her eyes: "Oh? According to the queen, isn't she still ready to punish Yan'er? She didn't expect this queen to be so sharp-toothed, and those concubines who wanted to defect to her had to weigh it in their hearts, lest they become Yan'er's stepping stone?
Queen Yan sighed when she saw her like this, stretched out her hand and put down the cup, and said helplessly: "That's it, can the queen mother still embarrass Miss Su when she opens her mouth?" This time, it's just that I hope that Miss Su will have to think about it when she speaks in the future. As he spoke, he met Su Manyan's gaze at him, full of deep meaning, "After all, I don't know who Miss Su bumped into next time, and whether she can still have such good luck." β
Su Manyan was frightened, and hurriedly lowered his head: "The courtiers don't dare!" For the first time, she felt that this queen was so terrible! With that kind of look, looking at yourself is like looking at a dead thing!
The Queen Mother took a deep breath, only felt that her chest was very tight, but she couldn't say anything more, and waved her hand directly: "What the Queen said is reasonable." That's it, the stage is set, let's go to the play. "She doesn't want to listen to what the queen says anymore, she has said all the good and bad things, and she doesn't take advantage of what she says!
Empress Yan looked at the others and said lightly: "This palace has forgotten all your sisters for a while, so get up." β
"Xie Niangniang!" Li Wanmei understood that this was used by Empress Yan to beat them, and they didn't react when the mother of the country was remarked, this is the fault!
For the first time, she felt that she had despised the queen.
But......
She glanced at Xia Meng meaningfully, there is such a powerful queen, so how can the favorite concubine who is pregnant with the prince give birth to a child safely?
When they arrived in the backyard, they saw a large stage set up, on which there were already musicians arranging musical instruments, below which were neat tables, chairs and fruit bowls, and around them were blooming flowers.
The Empress Dowager sat down, and also pulled Su Manyan to sit beside her, looked at Queen Yan who was sitting on the other side of her with a smile, and said, "Queen, you can pick a play and take a look." β
Empress Yan opened the excerpt of the play, glanced at it, and said with a smile: "Erchen doesn't know much about opera, just look at the name and pick a peach club!" As he spoke, he directly ignored Su Manyan's gaze at the excerpt in his hand, and handed the excerpt to Xia Meng next to him, "Concubine Chun, which one do you like to watch?" β
Su Manyan's face sank for a moment, and then he squeezed out a smile and looked at the stage.
Xia Meng was helpless, she didn't know anything about opera, and she couldn't understand it, so she just pointed it out casually, and said with a smile: "I'm afraid that everyone will laugh when I say it, the concubine has never liked to listen to music, but it's just that this name is a little interesting, if it's not good-looking, don't laugh at it!" β
The others hurriedly joked that no, just saying that the name would look good.
Li Wanmei raised her eyebrows slightly, she had read books in the 21st century, so she naturally knew what the story of Wu Song fighting the tiger was, but now she looked at Xia Meng but she hadn't seen it at all, and she muttered in her heart that although Xia Meng hurt her brain, she didn't cross it! I breathed a sigh of relief, but I just felt that everything was beautiful.
Everyone else has seen the excerpts of the play, and most of them smiled and refused to say that they don't like anything, after all, they are not favored, if they pick the wrong one, the opera they choose will not be liked by the queen mother and the queen, but they are not asking for trouble for themselves?
The Empress Dowager saw that Su Manyan had also picked it and looked at Empress Yan with a smile: "Speaking of which, the mourning family seems to have heard that the new champion this time is from the queen's family?" When it comes to relationships, it's still your cousin, right? β
Empress Yan looked at her in surprise, but said on her lips: "Erchen doesn't know very well, a few days ago, when Erchen rewarded things to the Hou Ye's mansion, my father never passed this news to Erchen, and I never thought that the queen mother had a lot of news, and told SΓΉ Erchen this good news." It is an honor for the Yan family to have someone in the Yan family who can enter the court to share the emperor's worries! β
The Queen Mother couldn't help but smile a little, and said lightly: "The mourning family also heard about it, so I think it's true." "My heart is very greasy, this queen is too slippery, and these words about my own queen mother and the previous dynasty are not clear, it is very ugly!
As he was talking, he heard a voice from the door: "The emperor has arrivedβ"
Before everyone could react, they heard Emperor Cheng Xuan's laughter: "I was tired of reviewing and reading and came out for a walk, and I happened to hear that there was a stage here for the queen mother, so I wanted to come and have some fun, but it can be seen that it came in time, and it hasn't started yet!" βββ
Today is a day** entertainment industry - crazy haha!