Chapter 9: Meeting the Queen Mother
"The former Taibu Ling was suspected of fraud and handed over to the judiciary for investigation," Liu Huai suddenly said to Yu Youyan with far-reaching implications, "Now that the position of Taibu Ling is vacant, I see that Dawu's niece seems to know how to divinate psychics, and I want to take her back to the Han Palace to serve as Taibu Ling, I don't know what Dawu wants?" ”
Yu Youyan only felt that his heart trembled, and he instantly understood the emperor's intentions. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoI'm afraid it's fake to return to the palace to take office, and it's true to use my niece's freedom to control my whereabouts. The emperor took great pains to find her, because he was afraid that she would disappear without saying a word, so he made such a request.
"But Wanwan, she's still young......"
"It's okay!" Liu Shu categorically interrupted Yu Youyan, "I give her enough time and space to grow!" ”
Yu Youyan thought about it, the emperor must have calculated it before making this kind of request, but I was afraid that it would be useless if she didn't agree. It's okay to let my niece go out and see the outside world for a long time, and she will really grow up. So he fell on the ground and prostrated himself in thanksgiving.
After Liu Huai saw Yu Youyan, his whereabouts had been perceived by Duan Yunxiao, the king of Nanchi, and he didn't know what Liu Huai's purpose was for running to Yuyi mysteriously, so he forcibly pretended to be hospitable and invited Liu Huai to stay in Nanchi for a week, and also took Princess Fuyang and his wife, who were married to Nanqi merchants, to the palace and reunited with Liu Huai.
This Princess Fuyang is Liu Huai's youngest sister, and she met her sweetheart when she traveled in Nanchi, so they came together.
The major media have reported on how the two kings have friendly exchanges, how to establish diplomatic relations and more friendly trade exchanges, and so on.
Liu Ruoan took Tang Shi and the two to eat and live together in the princess's mansion, they didn't need to study every day, they drove a carriage around, either eating or sleeping, they were in the swimming pool, cinema and karaoke room in the princess's mansion almost every day, they were tired of playing, they were looking for a family to arrange a car, and they went to the streets of Changluo, the imperial capital, to go shopping until dark before coming back, and the days were outrageously chaotic.
Early this morning, when the three of them were still asleep, Xia Mingyan hurriedly came and knocked on the door.
"Your Highness! Wake up, Your Highness! ”
Liu Ruoan covered her ears and frowned and pretended to be dead on the bed, Xia Mingyan kept knocking and knocking outside the door, and the last three people were annoyed, so they had to decide who would open the door for Xia Mingyan by guessing boxing, so Shi Ruoyun, who lost, opened the door very reluctantly.
"Sister Ming Yan, early in the morning, what's so urgent?" Shi Ruoyun looked at Xia Mingyan with a sleepy face and asked.
Xia Mingyan entered the house, bowed slightly to Liu Ruoan, and said, "Your Highness, His Majesty the Emperor has returned to the Han Palace yesterday evening, and today is the first day of the Lunar New Year. ”
Liu Ruoan rubbed his eyes, lazily turned sideways to face Xia Mingyan, and asked, "Oh, when are you going?" ”
"Now!"
"Are you kidding me?" Liu Ruoan turned his head sleepily and glanced at the clock on the wall, and wailed, "It's four o'clock in the morning!" ”
"Yes, that's right!" Xia Mingyan said as she took the clothes for Liu Ruoan, "Everyone will arrive at Xiangning Palace before half past five!" Do morning classes with the Queen Mother! ”
"Morning class?"
"Hmmm! The Queen Mother is a devout Buddhist, all vegetarians on weekdays, every fifteenth day of the new year, all the royal descendants will go to Xiangning Palace to eat a whole day of vegetarian food, everyone starts to do morning classes at half past five in the morning, and then use morning fasting! Then there is the slope, teaching, fasting, lunch break and other arrangements, after dinner, the group to the Void Hall to copy the scriptures and meditate, sleep in the meditation room in the Void Palace, leave the next day, if there is something to not attend, to report in advance! ”
"Is there a mistake?" Liu Ruoan sat up irritably and complained, "Faith and cultivation pay attention to following fate and not forcing it, who stipulates this?" ”
"Your Highness, please be careful!" Xia Mingyan hurriedly stopped, "No one has stipulated that this should be done, everyone is willing to participate!" ”
Liu Ruoan almost collapsed and fell back on the bed, saying, "Then you can say that I am sick!" I'm sleepy! Let me sleep a little longer! ”
"Your Highness, today is the day you officially enter the palace and officially meet all the members of the royal family, if you don't show up...... I'm afraid it's not right! ”
"But I'm so sleepy, so sleepy!"
Liang Qiao hurriedly reported: "Your Highness, His Majesty the Emperor has just received an edict from the Xuanshu Palace: Someone will be sent to pick you up at half past four, please prepare as soon as possible!" ”
Liu Ruoan frantically wrapped his head in the quilt, and scolded angrily: "Ahhhh Isn't it my father? ”
Half an hour later, Liu Ruoan finished freshening up, dressed neatly and sat in the footsteps sent by Liu Huai and came to the study room of the Xuanshu Palace.
Since returning to the palace, the emperor has been giving instructions in the study.
Liu Ruoan yawned and walked into the study, and naturally said to Liu Huai: "Dad, early!" Then he collapsed on the couch next to him and continued to sleep.
Liu Huai didn't raise his eyelids, and continued to bow his head and criticize the music. He had already been mentally prepared, so he was very calm when Liu Ruoan made any strange moves.
Liu Ruoan squinted for dozens of seconds, as if he remembered something, jumped up from the sofa with a "poof", straightened his clothes, helped his hair accessories, and walked to Liu Huai's table and saluted in a proper manner: "See my father, long live my father, long live my father!" ”
"Get up!" Liu Huai still didn't raise his eyelids, "Are you still used to living?" ”
"It's fine!" Liu Ruoan replied, and couldn't help but yawn again.
Liu Huai glanced at her, "You can take a nap at noon, and when I finish approving these two, we will go to Xiangning Palace!" ”
Liu Ruoan nodded.
On the way to Xiangning Palace, Liu Ruoan was still sleepy, and she didn't care about her demeanor and image, so she slept directly on the chariot. Suddenly, the stone shook violently, and she felt a sharp pain in her head, and she suddenly woke up half of her sleep.
Liu Huai closed his eyes all the way to recuperate, heard her wake up, and said, "Do you know why you came so early?" ”
Liu Ruoan rubbed his forehead and thought about it, and replied, "Are you going to say hello to the Queen Mother?" ”
Liu Huai nodded, "Originally, I should have visited the Queen Mother on the first day I returned to the palace, but I had something to do temporarily, and I had no time to separate, so it was not appropriate for you to meet the Queen Mother alone, so I kept claiming that you were not accustomed to the water and soil in Changluo and contracted the wind and cold, and recently you have been better, so I came to ask the Queen Mother for peace as soon as possible!" ”
"Don't worry, I know what to say!" Liu Ruoan looked at him with a smile, "I read the news that you went to Nanchi!" Why don't you bring me along? I want to go to Nanchi, and I was going to go to Nanchi on my graduation trip! ”
"I'm not going to play!"
"And said it wasn't playing!" Liu Ruoan shouted, "King Nan Chi takes you here and there every day, eats here and there, and reports it on the news!" ”
Liu Huai didn't pay attention to her anymore with a dark face. How could she understand the pain of being stalked by the king of Nan Chi and staying in Nan Chi for a week? I can't get used to eating, the mosquitoes in Yuyi are half the size of a palm, and the dishes every day are some strange insects, if it weren't for the Nan Chi King to eat with him, he even wondered if the locals were manipulating him, and the locals couldn't understand what he said, he really couldn't refute the face of the Nan Chi King, otherwise he would have wanted to come back a long time ago.
Liu Huai and Liu Ruoan arrived at Xiangning Palace, and the maid took the two to change into specially sewn yellow Zen clothes as usual, and when the two met the Empress Dowager Lu, she was pruning potted plants.
Empress Dowager Lu is now sixty-five years old, her eyes are clear and translucent, black as stars, and her skin is very smooth, looking like she is in her early fifties.
Liu Ruoan looked at the Empress Dowager Lu with an extraordinary bearing, Liu Huai coughed unnaturally to remind her, and she hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to the Empress Dowager:
"Ruo'an, see the emperor's grandmother!"
"Good boy, get up quickly and let the imperial grandmother see!"
Empress Dowager Lu grabbed Liu Ruoan's hand and said with a smile.
Empress Dowager Lu looked Liu Ruoan up and down carefully, "This child is still more like the emperor, she has taken the advantages of you and Rong Xin!" Look at this little appearance, the birth is pure and lovely! ”
Liu Ruoan, who praised a few words, was a little embarrassed, she smiled, "The appearance of the grandchildren is inherited from the imperial grandmother!" Because the emperor's grandmother's genes are good, and his father inherited the emperor's grandmother's excellent genes, he was born with Yushu Linfeng as a talent, and his grandson inherited his father's genes, so he was born pure and lovely! ”
The words coaxed the Empress Dowager Lu so happily that she couldn't close her mouth, and by the way, she also praised Liu Huai. Liu Huai has always been worried that her words are surprising and disrespectful, who would have expected that she would coax the Queen Mother so happily, but she was also secretly relieved.
"Pei Rong!" Empress Dowager Lu called her name, and a maid in her early forties walked up to Empress Dowager Lu with her head down.
"Go and get that red brocade box on the dresser!"
The maid nodded and went to get the brocade box and handed it to the Empress Dowager Lu.
Empress Dowager Lu carefully opened the exquisite brocade box, inside was a crystal clear jade jade bracelet, the color is very beautiful and rare, at first glance it is a priceless treasure.
A trace of surprise flashed across Liu Huai's face, this is the jade bracelet that Emperor Ming gave to his wife Empress Yuan, as a symbol of the status of the previous queens, the items passed to the Empress Dowager Lu from generation to generation, and now, she didn't even give the queen, look at what she means, is it to give it to Liu Ruoan?
Sure enough, Empress Dowager Lu beckoned to Liu Ruoan and motioned for her to come to her, and handed the brocade box to her, "This is the imperial grandmother's gift to you!" ”
Liu Huai was stunned, although he had been mentally prepared in advance, but when his doubts became reality, he was still a little flustered. This is going to let the queen know, I'm afraid it will cause an uproar. He thought again, since it was an item that symbolized the queen's status, how could the queen mother so easily give it as a meeting gift to her granddaughter who had not seen her for many years? There must be a mystery in this! However, the queen may not necessarily guess whether there is a mystery in this, once the queen knows that the queen mother gave the 'green phoenix' to Liu Ruoan, she will definitely feel that she has lost face, so she will be angry with Liu Ruoan, and at that time, the harem will not be peaceful. At this moment, he only hoped that Liu Ruoan could sensibly shirk and say that such precious things could not be accepted.
I saw Liu Ruoan carefully pick up the bracelet and look at it carefully, and said incomprehensibly, "Pure and clear, delicate." Glass imperial green jadeite, the real top jadeite, can be used as a heirloom gem of the best jadeite. - Green Phoenix, as expected, lives up to its name! ”
As soon as these words came out, Liu Huai was startled, could it be that she still understands jade?
Empress Dowager Lu's doting gaze became a little surprised and delighted, "Oh? Do you recognize this jade bracelet? ”
Liu Ruoan's momentum suddenly weakened: "I once heard about it in the TV show of treasure identification!" ”
Then, she showed an embarrassed expression, "Grandmother Huang, this bracelet is worth more than a billion yuan, and you gave it to me like this?" ”
"If you know it's valuable, keep it away, but don't fall it!" Empress Dowager Lu said to her with a smile.
Liu Ruoan nodded, she had listened to the special program, the green phoenix was a symbol of the queen's identity, and it was really unreasonable for the queen mother to give her the bracelet. After her brain opened up, and after germinating a bunch of messy associations, she still couldn't guess what the Queen Mother's intentions were? However, she decided to accept the Queen Mother's gift indifferently.
"Mother!" Liu Huai finally couldn't bear it anymore, "This jade bracelet is too valuable, Ruo'an is still young, her mother gave it to Ruo'an, if she is not suitable for collection, what if it is broken?" ”
Liu Ruoan was still a little frightened, but when she heard Liu Huai's sudden words, she was suddenly unconvinced, she glanced at Liu Huai, and replied coldly: "Father, don't worry!" The child will definitely collect this jade bracelet! After speaking, he bowed deeply to Empress Dowager Lu, "Thank you Imperial Grandmother for the reward!" ”
Liu Huai was about to say something to stop it, but Empress Dowager Lu took the first step to block his words, "Look! Your grandchildren are not afraid, what are you afraid of? Besides, how can there be any reason to take back the things sent by the mourning family? ”
Liu Huai pretended to be calm on the surface, but he was anxious like an ant on a hot pot in his heart. The Queen Mother has always acted calmly, but this time her style of acting is really incomprehensible, the jade jade bracelet with the queen's status symbol was given by the Queen Mother to the daughter of a former concubine who had been divorced from the emperor for fifteen years, if the Queen Mother Lu wanted to humiliate the queen with this, she also went too far, didn't she know that this would bring huge trouble to Liu Ruoan and herself? Empress Dowager Lu glanced at the nervous and anxious emperor, the corners of her mouth rose slightly, and the emperor's little thoughts had already been seen through by her.
"Go wash your hands, drink some water, and get ready for morning class!" The Queen Mother said to Liu Huai and Liu Ruoan.
The two of them left together.