Yan Qingluan waved his hand listlessly: "That's it, I'm really tired, help me to rest on the kang." Let's put a compress on my knee tomorrow. You forget, I have to lead the concubines to greet our new queen tomorrow morning. ”

Xiaotong said hatefully: "She is the queen, what are you doing so much to toss the mother!" It must be that Mrs. Yang wrote to make you the queen and provoked her jealousy! That's why I'm trying to torment you. Hum! It's not enough to grab someone's back position, and you have to grind people! Empress! Let's go to the old man's house! Let her old man do it for you! ”

Yan Qingluan nodded Xiaotong's forehead, shook his head and sighed: "Silly girl! If the Queen Mother speaks, I will be the one in Kunning Palace today! Unexpectedly, I didn't expect the emperor to be so affectionate to her, and he would rather go against the queen mother's intentions! Blame me for being too sure of the role of the Queen Mother, and I have only been concerned about currying favor with the Queen Mother, and I forgot to win the emperor's heart! We also tried our best to pull Hu Shanxiang down, hehe! I didn't expect that in the end, I made wedding clothes for others! ”

Xiaotong said anxiously: "Then what should I do?" Although the queen mother has not screwed the emperor in this matter, the emperor still has to listen to what she said, otherwise, let's beg her old man again, let her go and talk to the emperor again, the queen, we don't want to, let the emperor set up the third master as the prince?

Yan Qingluan smiled and said: "He refuses to make me the queen, how can he make Youning the prince?" I'm afraid that in his heart, he has never thought of Li Youning! Besides, now that Sun Qingdai is young and young, how can you guarantee that she won't be able to give birth to a son? When he made her the queen, he naturally wanted to make her sister-in-law the crown prince! How could our mother and son stand in the way of his beloved! ”

When Xiao Tong heard that Zhu Youning's position as the crown prince was about to fly away from his hand, he was shocked and said, "Then what should I do?!" Niangniang, you have to think of a way, how can the third master not be the prince! The position of the prince must be the third master's! ”

Yan Qingluan waved his hand tiredly: "Don't take care of this first, the left and right Youning is raised in the Queen Mother's Palace, with the Queen Mother's protection, he will naturally be safe, the emperor is still young, there is still time to calculate this matter As for Sun Qingdai, let me rest first, well, by the way, Xiaotong, the Chang'an Palace is lonely and lonely, and the Jingci Immortal Master moved over just after giving birth, she was still bleeding at the time, and she must not have recuperated well." There is a shortage of doctors and medicines in this Chang'an Palace, I don't know if she is used to being pampered and can get used to it now, you should take care of it more. ”

Xiao Tong said with a smile: "This is not a hard worker, Xiao Tong will take good care of our former queen mother!" ”

Yan Qingluan heard the word "take care" in Xiaotong's accentuated tone, shook his head and said, "You misunderstood what I meant, I let you take care of her, that's the literal meaning!" She has postpartum disorder, you can send her more drugs to warm the uterus and recuperate, if you can help her contact the Chengenhou Mansion outside the palace, it would be better. Remember to be secretive, don't let it go over there," she raised her face in the direction of Kunning Palace: "I found out." ”

Xiaotong was puzzled: "Niangniang, didn't we do everything possible to pull her down?" She's a mortal enemy with you, and now that she's down, shouldn't we high-five each other? Why help her? ”

Yan Qingluan said: "This time is also that time. As you said, I was a mortal enemy with her at that time, but now that she has fallen, she is no longer my enemy. And now we have a common enemy! That's why we should join forces with Wu to resist Wei! The Art of War: Soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent. It means that under different forms and different positions, different countermeasures must be taken! Go and tell her she's always a smart person and will understand what I mean. ”

This day coincided with the Great Dynasty Meeting, and hundreds of officials discussed and played, and when it was in chaos, there were guards on duty in front of the palace to report: "Start playing Your Majesty, a woman outside the noon gate hit the drum!" ”

Everyone was shocked, this Dengwen drum is not so easy to beat, there are special officials under the Dengwen drum, if it is not a serious grievance, or an enemy country is attacking and other major events, is it any anyone can knock it, and before beating the drum, you must first receive thirty court rods. Before the grievances could be avenged, the thirty court rods would beat the person half to death, so unless there was a grievance that was not going to die and had nowhere to sue, someone would desperately try their best to knock on the drum to reach the heavens.

Since the beginning of this dynasty, the emperor has lightly dismissed the meager endowment, and the people have been much happier than the previous dynasty, so this Dengwen drum has not sounded for many years. At this time, the kings and ministers were very curious when they heard that the drum was being beaten, and that it was a woman, so the emperor ordered that people be brought up immediately.

I saw two sergeants pulling the woman over. The woman was very hard, although she was beaten with thirty canes, she couldn't move, she was dragged all the way, and the blood stains on her legs and buttocks left blood stains on the ground through the green bamboo-colored dress, but she clenched her teeth tightly, and bit her lower lip, and she didn't cry a word.

I saw that this woman was in her thirties, with a green cloth wrapped in her head, her clothes were very plain, and her face was pale, but she couldn't hide her extraordinary beauty.

A eunuch came out and asked, "What is the name of the woman?" Why did you dare to come and beat the drums?! ”

The woman struggled to get up and knelt down and kowtowed three times, before she raised her head and gasped: "Fan Guo, the daughter of the people, has to beat the Dengwen drum today, in order to sue a big official!" The people's women are like mud with his identity, and they are afraid of the protection of the officials, so they really don't dare to go to the yamen to sue him. ”

Sue a big official? The hundred officials involuntarily looked left and right, who is in trouble again?

Only Gu Guangyi recognized that Fan Guo's family, not who Guo Xiu'er was! I suddenly had a bad premonition in my heart, and I turned my thoughts like a windmill in my heart.

This woman is Guo Xiu'er, I saw her tear open her clothes, take out a yellowed papyrus bound book, hand it over to the palace guard, and proclaimed: "The person who complained about the people's women is Gu Guangyi, who was the prefect of Qingzhou, Shandong Province in the twentieth year of Yongle and is now the left servant of the Ministry of Officials!" ”

Hearing her tell that Gu Guangyi had nothing to do with him, most of the courtiers were relieved first, and then curious, and listened with their ears pricked up one by one.

Hearing that she really came to sue herself, Gu Guangyi had no choice but to kneel down, wanting to defend herself. However, the emperor raised his hand and stopped him from speaking, but said to Guo Xiu'er: "What do you tell Gu Shilang?" What grievances do you have to sue? Come up quickly today in front of me and the civil and military officials! ”