Chapter Fifty-Eight: Choosing a Horse
Since the two sons of the Empress Dowager have gone, she has become more and more dependent on her eldest daughter day by day. Princess Tao of the pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info almost lived back in the palace, and the Tangyi Houfu seemed to have become a sharp-edged inn. As long as Gillian goes to the palace of the Empress Dowager to say hello, she can always see her mother serving by her grandmother's side, which makes her laugh.
If I go back to Tangyi Houfu for two days, the Empress Dowager should nag that my good girl forgot her mother and won't come to see her. At this time, the Queen Mother's face was a little unhappy. But she hid it well, and still smiled and spoke to the Queen Mother.
Think about it, too, the daughter-in-law is waiting in front of you. But the heart is too ruthless to his daughter, and Guantao has always overshadowed the queen mother in the palace because of the queen mother's preference. If anyone has a request for the queen mother, the eldest princess will go first, and then the queen, and it is really not good to ask the queen mother.
This kind of low-level and high-rise is like nothing, and people's hearts are flesh and blood. After a long time, the Queen Mother's face has become more lonely. Emperor Jing is gone, although his son is filial, how can he serve in front of him every day, even when he comes, there is not much to say between mother and son. The daughters have long since married, and they come to the palace either to reward them or to say their husbands.
Gillian thanked the Queen Mother for not interfering and said that she would give Concubine Liu Chena, let alone urge the heirs. Gillian walked more to the Changxin Palace, and the Queen Mother was already a little guilty about Gillian, and she was always very kind when she came. After a long time, I found that she served her elders simply and truthfully, and she was filial piety from the heart, without the arrogance of the eldest princess. After coming and going, I really like Gillian, and the two mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law also get along.
On this day, Gillian came to greet the Queen Mother in the palace again, and after having lunch with the Queen Mother, she was pinching the Queen Mother's shoulder, and after pinching for a while, the Queen Mother patted her and said: "Call Gong'e to come, you are the queen, and filial piety is not here." ”
Gillian didn't stop, but smiled: "Queen Mother, that's all the sons can do for the Queen Mother." To serve your parents, of course, you have to come in person. ”
The queen mother's eyes were warm, and the queen would serve her personally, and there was no grievance at all, not like reluctantly, so that she was very useful in her heart. Can there be less people around the Queen Mother? But how can it compare to the intimate service of her children, she has been a little caught a little cold recently, and Gillian personally serves the decoction.
Guan Tao couldn't help but feel sour in front of Gillian, and said that she was doing the work of a subordinate and lost the queen's face. Gillian asked her strangely: "No matter how noble the queen is, shouldn't she serve her elders?" Guan Tao was speechless, and the conversation soon reached the ears of the Queen Mother.
The queen mother closed her eyes, and couldn't help but think in her heart that the queen's heart was really noble, no wonder they all said that they didn't like Guantao at all, and no wonder Yu'er loved her so much.
She opened her eyes and gently pressed Gillian's hand to signal her to stop. The Queen Mother held her hand and said gently, "You, you are more like the daughter of the mourning family." ”
Gillian smiled: "Erchen is also thinking like this in his heart." ”
The queen mother remembered what Tian Wei said when she came to the palace a few days ago, and couldn't help but ask with some concern: "The mourning family heard that Yu'er had built a period gate army in Shanglin Yuan, and the mourning family always had some worries in their hearts. It was also close that the Queen Mother dared to say to Gillian without hesitation. In the past, she and Gillian were more polite to each other.
"Is the queen mother worried about her grandmother?" Gillian asked.
"No, although Dongou said that he won, the talisman is in the hands of the Empress Dowager. didn't use the talisman to mobilize troops, didn't Hui Ji Taishou and that Yan Zhu'er dare not be rewarded? In the end, there must be some rules and regulations, otherwise it will be chaotic. "The Queen Mother has always been afraid that Liu Che's young mind will cause a big disaster by doing whatever he wants, so this time he transferred troops without using a military talisman, and now what kind of army will he build." Jiaojiao, more persuasion. ”
Gillian nodded yes, the queen mother was afraid that Liu Che would be too big in the limelight and bent her waist first, a mother's heart, she said in a manful voice: "The queen mother's love for Your Majesty, the sons must advise Your Majesty." ”
The Queen Mother sighed faintly: "Alas, it's right that he wants to have his own strength. But the construction of a large number of buildings in Shanglin Yuan is enough to attract attention, and an army is also built. The Empress Dowager has always believed in Huang Lao, although she didn't say a word of displeasure. But when the old lady is not happy, it will be too late. ”
If you dig out your heart and lungs like this, you also know that Gillian is clearly on Liu Che's side, so the Queen Mother dares to say it.
Liu Che prepared for the preparation of the Gate Army to expand the forest garden as a place for military training. The area south of Acheng, east of Xu, and west of Yichun Palace is included in Shanglin Garden. Taizhong Dafu Wuqiu Shouwang was ordered to requisition the fields and rivers in these areas, and Dongfang Shuojin said that when the construction of the construction was not compassionate to the farmers, it was done by Emperor Yin and Qin.
The implication of Liu Che was that he couldn't hear it, he rewarded Dongfang Shuo and promoted him to be a doctor in Taizhong. The Empress Dowager of the East Palace turned a blind eye, and Liu Che continued to expand the forest garden.
Gillian comforted the Queen Mother: "Don't worry, Your Majesty has always been measured." Gillian couldn't figure out why the Empress Dowager was so silent about Liu Che's blatant construction projects, but she felt that nothing could happen out of her trust in the emperor.
The Queen Mother didn't expect to be able to come up with a solution with Gillian, it was just the nature of people to tell. Thinking of Guantao Riri in front of the Queen Mother, for the sake of the queen mother, I will also turn around one or two, so I was a little relieved.
Gillian sat in the Changxin Palace until dinner was about to return to the Jiaofang Palace, and Liu Che came back before her. When the two of them finished dinner and wrote a few words in the side hall as usual, Gillian said the meaning of the queen mother, and in the end she was also a little worried.
Liu Che raised his eyebrows and smiled, and said nonchalantly: "Let the queen mother rest assured, I have only prepared to this extent." Gillian nodded, and he continued to say jokingly: "Now the queen mother has something to borrow from your mouth, alas." ”
Gillian slapped him and said, "It's not because you're too smart and have your own ideas." The Queen Mother said that you couldn't control you when you were a child, and you could only rely on you. Now I talk about you, and I'm afraid that you think I don't support you. ”
He stopped writing and sighed with some emotion: "I haven't talked much with my mother since I was a child, what she can do is to ask me about my daily life several times a day, and all I can do is to read good books to satisfy the Taifu." ”
Then he was relieved again: "My eldest sister and second sister entered the palace either to reward or to compete for the wind and be jealous, and the quarrel made the queen mother's head big. The third sister has always begged the Buddha to worship God and wanted to ask for a son. Every time I go back to Changxin Palace, I talk about living with my mother, but I don't know what to say. Fortunately, you are filial, and the queen mother is also kind. ”
Probably, the son is too smart and the pressure on the mother is also a pressure, I don't know what to teach him and how to teach him.
Gillian was still expressing her feelings, Liu Che had already withdrawn from it, and said to her a serious matter: "In a few days, the kings will come to the court." , Grandmother said that she was impatient to socialize, and this time Jiaojiao and I feasted with them. ”
Every few years, the princes and kings would return from their fiefdoms to pay tribute. When they came to Beijing to live for a period of time and then returned to the fiefdom, it was usually the Empress Dowager and Liu Che who entertained them.
She was a little surprised, this kind of state banquet has always been the time when the imperial court has a superficial attitude towards the princes and kings. The Empress Dowager had not been absent once, and she asked tentatively, "What's wrong with my grandmother?" ”
He scratched her nose and said hatefully: "Grandmother said that this is the duty of the queen, and you still expect to keep shaking your hands and watching." ”
Gillian sighed, anyway, it's not about smiling and smiling again.
didn't take it to heart, turned his face and entangled Liu Che: "Then Your Majesty will take me to ride a horse tomorrow, I heard that the black beauty gave birth to a foal." Her peach eyes were shining, full of anticipation.
Liu Che readily agreed, saying, "It's nothing to do these days, just have King Wuqiu Shou staring at Shanglin Yuan." ”
After breakfast the next day, Gillian happily changed into riding clothes, and Liu Che laughed at her: "Didn't you say you want to see the pony?" What else to wear. ”
She didn't think about it, so she said, "Then you have to be like whatever you do!" With a straightforward look, Liu Chezhen laughed. When they arrived at the stable, Manu took out the black beauty, and a little red horse circled around the black beauty, and saw her mother making love to Gillian. It is not afraid to come to Gillian's side, and its eyes are very smart.
Gillian went to touch it, it didn't hide, and jumped up to make fun with Gillian. Not at all like the docility of the black beauty, the horses also have their own personalities.
Seeing her playing happily with the foal, Liu Che shook his head and said dotingly: "Why do you like horses so much?" She looked up and said, "I like it." ”
Liu Che asked her: "Then the princes and kings come to the court, and I still want to invite the princes and kings to hunt, does the queen want to go?" She nodded with excited little eyes, Liu Che smiled, and said, "You naturally can't ride the black beauty, the foal can't do without the mother, choose another one." ”
Gillian picked up the horse again, the white one was so beautiful, hey, the chestnut one was not bad.
The sound of horses' hooves came from the distant hillside like thunder, led by a white horse, unusually majestic. Even more shocking than the horses was the horseback manu, who kept a group of horses together by the sound of a whistle.
Liu Che not only praised: "Not bad! ”
He pointed slightly, and the horse supervisor would understand. After a while, the manu who was leaping like a fish on his horse came up and knelt in front of the emperor.
Liu Che asked him to raise his head, his childishness was still untouched, and he was clearly still a child. Liu Che asked him, "How old are you?" ”
"Fourteen."
"It's only fourteen, and the equestrian skills are good, so let's drive for my queen as a horse slave."
"No." He was visibly hesitant to agree.
"What? Some don't want to? ”
He nodded without hesitation, but asked Liu Che to come up a little angry: "My queen is the most noble woman in the world, what's the matter?" Did you humiliate her by driving? ”
Gillian was looking at a white horse over there, its marshmallow-like white hair reflected the sunlight, and when it turned over, it flashed pieces of silver flowers, its long mane was like snow, and it was looking forward to leaping, and it was very powerful. It's not as docile as Black Beauty, but it's much better than Blaze.
Gillian also wanted to experience the feeling of riding a fast horse like a gust of wind sweeping across the plains, and she almost made up her mind that this was the horse. Taking the reins from Manu's hand, she was about to take it to Liu Che to see, when she heard Liu Che start a fire.