Yesterday, the news that Shen Zhan came out of Xuande Palace in a rage was known to everyone in the palace, and Shoukang Palace was no exception.

As soon as Shen Zhan got out of the morning court, he saw the most powerful eunuch Yue Kang beside the queen mother standing under the eaves to avoid the autumn rain.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, it rained slowly, the sky was gloomy, everything was gradually contaminated with the smell of dampness, the glazed tiles became more and more clear after the autumn rain, but the sky was gray, and the whole Qianyuan Hall was also gray.

Shen Zhan looked at the elderly Yue Kang and rubbed his arms under the eaves, and couldn't help but think, I don't know if Mi'er should offer silver silk carbon in advance・・・・・・ Thinking of this, Shen Zhan couldn't help but smile bitterly and sighed, seeing Yue Kang here, it must be the queen mother who knew about yesterday's events, and he will be able to bear it later.

Sure enough, as soon as Yue Kang accompanied Shen Zhan to the main hall of the third entrance of Shoukang Palace, he immediately bowed and retreated, apparently because he was afraid that the Queen Mother's anger would burn on him, so he fled so quickly.

Shen Zhan touched his nose and strode in with a weak heart.

In the top of the hall, the Queen Mother is alone in the hall, sitting in a precarious position, there is a purple gold phoenix pattern inlaid glass incense burner in front of her, and the Queen Mother is holding a piece of incense stick and inserting it into the furnace.

"You're here?"

The queen mother's eyelids did not lift for half a minute, she shook the incense ash in her hand, and put the emperor of the Buddha Dynasty in a dignified manner, which is not as good as the incense stick in her hand worthy of her attention.

Shen Zhan moved his nose uncomfortably, pretending that nothing had happened, and walked a few steps forward, and when he walked to the queen mother, he approached the incense burner and sniffed it carefully, before he smiled and said, "What kind of fragrance is this burning of the queen mother?" Does it smell weird? ”

"Does it smell good?"

"It smells good." Shen Zhan said honestly.

"The smell is gone!" The Queen Mother snorted lightly, "A few days ago, Mi Yatou saw that the mourning family loved to use a kind of incense, saying that the incense was not suitable for autumn, and Tete made this incense for me by himself, which was better than the one used by the mourning family before. Hmph, it's a pity that some people have banned the good Mi'er of the mourning family, and no one makes the incense of the mourning family, people are old, and it is useless, except for Mi'er, no one cares about the bones of the mourning family! The Queen Mother shook her head and sighed, and at the end she took out a free hand, shook out a handkerchief from the cuff and touched the corner of her eye.

Shen Zhan was dumbfounded, Queen Mother, you didn't cry, what kind of tears! Dare to love my father and queen to change their minds back and forth, is it because of your hand?!

"Queen Mother," Shen Zhanmu made a sound for a while, only to look around, moved a square stool from the side, took it to the Queen Mother to sit next to him, and also took a stick of incense stick to the candle next to the incense burner to light it, and said with a dry smile, "Queen Mother, the grounding matter, I also had to do it, such a big thing happened that day, the spearhead was directly aimed at the queen, if I didn't take the opportunity to cut off the hair and grounded Mi'er's sister, I'm afraid that the black hand behind the scenes will take advantage of the situation and bite Mi'er, and then I won't be able to protect Mi'er, then the gains outweigh the losses!" ”

"You mean to say that you forbade Mi'er's feet for her own good?"

"Uh-huh!" Shen Zhan's eyes were blazing and he nodded affirmatively.

"Then, you reprimanded Mi'er in front of so many people that day, also to make a show, so that the murderer could no longer jump out and say that Zhan'er was unfair and wanted you to punish the queen severely?"

"Erchen is also trying to block those people's mouths~" Shen Zhan saw that the queen mother's tone was relieved, and his heart was also relieved, and he immediately smiled and inserted the incense in his hand into the incense burner.

"According to what you say, you have favored Liu Shuxing in recent days, and yesterday you came out of Mi'er's Xuande Palace in a rage, also to make a show?! In the palace, apart from Liu Shuxing, there is no one else to spoil? ! ”

The Queen Mother's words changed, and her tone became more violent, so frightened that Shen Zhan's hand that inserted the incense shook, and a pinch of incense ash fell straight on his hand, "Hiss-" Shen Zhan couldn't help but gasp, hurriedly let go of his hand, and still poured the incense into the incense burner.

Queen Mother, that Liu Shuxing is a member of your Liu family, you don't love your own niece and nephew, but help other daughters, I really haven't seen it after reading all the history books!

"Humph!" The Queen Mother didn't look at Shen Zhan, but reached out to take the fallen incense in the incense burner, "Hairy hands and feet!" I told you that this fragrance is precious, and you are still so bad! ”

The Queen Mother had something to say, and Shen Zhan was not easy to avoid, so she coughed lightly at the moment, and touched the tiger's mouth that was burned red by the incense ash, "Queen Mother, the sons and daughters also cherish Mi'er's ・・・・・・."

"Then why do you want to spoil that Liu Shuxing so high? No one sued you, how did it spread in this palace now? Do you want to mourn your family? Are you going to follow the old path of your father, snub the pepper room, and spoil the concubine?! Let Song Mi'er be like your mother, wandering in the harem for several years and not being able to live in peace?! ”

The Queen Mother's words have not fallen, and her eyes are already red!

The queen mother entered the palace as the queen, and until now, she is also the person who has collapsed in front of Mount Tai and has not changed color, and the elk is in the left and does not look at it for a moment, but in front of her own family, especially when it comes to the ten years when she was suppressed by the concubine favored by the emperor, she will always lose control, and it can be seen that the past ten years hurt her deeply! Therefore, now that she sees that Shen Zhan has snubbed the queen and favored the concubine, she has seen her past self again, and she empathizes with Song Mier, not to mention that Song Mier is a girl she watched grow up a little bit?

"Queen Mother!" Shen Zhan saw that the Queen Mother's eyes were red, and her heart was also uneasy, so she had to be upright and respectfully said, "Queen Mother, the sons are different, the sons are just for checks and balances, now that the sons have just ascended the throne, the family is powerful, if you don't let the noble clan see the importance that the sons and daughters attach to their harem representatives, I'm afraid that no one on the side of the family can suppress it."

"The mourners understand!" The Queen Mother sighed, "It's not easy for you, but, the clan lord, is there no one else to use?" Do you have to look for this concubine? ”

"Queen Mother," Shen Zhan said in a low voice, "Now, the noble concubine Liu Shuxing is the person who can best represent the noble!" There are the queen mother's aunt and the marquis's father, and the county lord's sister-in-law next to them, which can be said to affect the whole body, and the queen is the representative of the family, and the favor of the concubine and the cold queen is also a signal I sent to the courtiers!

"Queen Mother, I don't understand, if you say that you hate my favorite concubine because of your father's affairs, I will never believe it, and the Queen Mother will never be so narrow-minded! But in addition, what is the reason why the queen mother is so alienated and even hates her niece? She is a little more public, but are there still few women in the harem who are arrogant and domineering? Not for these reasons! ”

Speaking of this, Shen Zhan also asked the doubts that were lingering in his heart, he stared at the Queen Mother fixedly, and he must have asked the Queen Mother to give a real answer.

The Queen Mother took a deep breath, stretched out her hand and straightened Shen Zhan's neckline, her tone was a little gloomy and a little firm, "Zhan'er, the mourning family knows that you will be a Ming monarch, so the mourning family is unwilling to let those who prevent you from becoming a generation of emperors on your way!" The mourning family hates Liu Shuxing, not because she is a concubine, nor because of her stupidity and arrogance, the mourning family hates her, just because she is Liu Shuxing! It's the niece of the mourning family! It's the daughter of the eldest brother of the mourning family! ”

"Why is that?" Shen Zhan frowned and looked at the Queen Mother puzzled.

"Zhan'er, you just said that Liu Shuxing's position and the position of the Liu family can be described as the representative of the nobles, and it is the axis that moves the whole body! Aren't you afraid, when you lift Liu Shuxing too high, and the arrogance of the noble clan is too high, you will be counterattacked? ”

"Queen Mother, you don't have to worry about this! Since the founding of the country, the family, meritorious service, civil official faction, military attache faction, royal noble clan and Qingliu have each formed a faction and a clan, suppressing and balancing each other, and the imperial power is to constantly find the most balanced fulcrum in these five factions, since I ascended the throne, the old ministers in the court and the central government have relied on their qualifications and pointed fingers at my decision-making several times, these old ministers, most of them are people headed by families and civil officials, if I don't suppress and suppress their arrogance, they may have already put their hands into my bedroom! At this time, only by elevating the nobles and generals can they see the shape! Although Prime Minister Song Cheng has not been very unruly to me, he is the mainstay of the family after all, and if he is not moved, I will not be at ease. ”

"So you made Mi'er the queen, laxed them and confused them, and promoted Liu Shuxing? Let Wen Qingwan, Jiang Yuexi, and Yu Xi take turns to fight in the ring? ”

Shen Zhan heard the Queen Mother's words, and grinned, "You can't hide anything from the Queen Mother." I can't move those courtiers directly, can't I think of a roundabout? So, Queen Mother, you don't have to worry about it! It's just a Liu Shuxing, I can still control it. ”

"It's not this that the mourning family is worried about."

The Queen Mother said in a solemn tone, "There are some things that the mourning family has never told you, because they are afraid that Zhan'er will think nonsense, but now that you are the emperor, the mourning family can't hide it." ”

"Mother, what is ・・・・・・?"

"The Liu family, it should be your mother family, it should be the family you can trust the most, but do you know why the Mourning family never lightly let the children of the Liu family contact you? This is also the speculation of the mourning family, and the mourning family is just in case, the eldest brother of the mourning family is ambitious! ”

"Queen Mother, it's common to be ambitious, who doesn't have any ambition?" Shen Zhan smiled disappreciably.

"Zhan'er, what the mourning family said is not ordinary ambition!" The Queen Mother looked at Shen Zhan intently.

"Queen Mother・・・・・・" Shen Zhan looked at the Queen Mother, and his expression gradually became stricter.

"Of course, the ambition of the mother's family of the mourning family will not rise to the point of seizing the imperial power and changing the name of the country, but the mourning family vaguely feels that the eldest brother of the mourning family, and now the patriarch of the Liu family, cannot be satisfied with a mere marquis who relies on his sister's nepotism, the mourning family has no evidence, this is just the intuition of the mourning family, as for the eldest brother of the mourning family, whether he wants more wealth, more power or simply wants to make contributions with his own strength, the mourning family does not know.

"But! No matter what it is, the mourning family can't gamble with their son and this country! The mourning family is a member of the Liu family, but the mourning family is the queen mother of the great dynasty and the mother of the emperor! Therefore, the people of the Liu family, here in the mourning family, will definitely not be pleased!

"Zhan'er, the mourning family wants you to promise, you can only use the concubine forever, and you must not be emotional to her! She must not be allowed to give birth to the offspring of the Shen family! ”