The queen smiled exaggeratedly, looked Jiang Ling up and down, and said: "Jiangnan is to raise people, look at my Ling'er is really smart, I'm afraid that there is no young lady in the capital who can compare." ”

Jiang Ling smiled: "Aunt praised it falsely, Ling'er, where is it so good for you to say, the people in the capital are outstanding, and there are many girls who are better than Ling'er." Auntie, you are a stunning beauty, and your memory is exactly the same as Ling'er's, how can you see that you are a mother with a son as eldest like the prince's brother. No wonder the emperor favors you with the six palaces. ”

The queen covered her mouth and chuckled: "Ling'er's mouth is so sweet, she coaxes her aunt and doesn't know what to say." She paused, patted Jiang Ling's hand, and sighed slightly, "Don't look at my aunt who is now the queen under one person, but in fact, I envy your mother the most." ”

Jiang Ling opened his eyes: "Mother is just an ordinary Mrs. Shangshu, what is there to envy the queen." ”

The queen said: "You don't know, although I gave birth to the dragon son of Chengwen. But in my heart, I hope to be like your mother, and have a caring girl by your side. But in the end, he didn't have this life, but fortunately, the submission was still a filial child. ”

Jiang Ling knew what she was going to say next, so she only smiled and said, "As long as my cousin is filial, if my aunt gives birth to a little princess, I don't want to marry in the future, how can I accompany her for a lifetime." ”

The queen smiled and nodded: "Ling'er is right, even if you have a daughter, you have to marry out, and it is not as good as a daughter-in-law." Now that he has reached the age of marrying a wife, my aunt dreams that he will marry a well-behaved and clever daughter-in-law, and when he enters the palace, he can often talk to me and make up for my regret of not having a daughter. ”

Jiang Ling said with a smile: "My aunt is a well-known virtuous queen in the world, who can be a daughter-in-law of a daughter-in-law, that is really a blessing accumulated in the previous life." ”

The queen cocked her ten-fingered dankou and said angrily: "You can talk with this little mouth." Tell me about you, how long have you been sitting at your aunt's place, and it makes her heart flutter. My aunt thought that if Ling'er could stay by my side and talk to me often in the future, it would be very perfect. ”

Jiang Ling pretended to be stupid and said, "If my aunt wants Ling'er to talk with her, it can't be easier." Now that my father has entered Beijing, I will often enter the palace in the future. ”

The queen said: "That's not what I said. I thought that if Ling Er married Chengwen as the crown princess and became the daughter-in-law of her aunt, it would be the best. ”

Jiang Ling covered her mouth and made a shy look: "Aunt said that she laughed, Ling'er is just a girl who has lived in Yangzhou for a long time and has never seen the world. Where to dare to portrait the position of the crown princess. Cousin, he has both talent and appearance, and he should definitely marry a young lady from a family in Beijing to be the crown princess, so that he can be the mother of the world in the future. ”

The queen said: "Ling'er, don't be presumptuous. Although our Jiang family has been an official for generations, your grandfather has never held a high official position. At the beginning, my aunt and I chose a concubine to enter the palace, but she was just a small concubine, but now she is also the lord of the six palaces. Inside and outside the palace, who said that I was not qualified enough. After that, she smiled again, "Actually, my aunt is also thinking about your cousin." Since she came back from Yangzhou last year, she has been talking about you, my cousin, and asked me to help him marry you. ”

Jiang Ling said angrily: "Since ancient times, marriage events have been the words of the matchmaker at the behest of the parents, how can he be like this." ”

The queen laughed: "Didn't the submission admire you?" Although he is the crown prince, it is inevitable that his children will love each other. She suppressed her smile slightly, and looked at Jiang Ling's face quietly, "There is no one else here, so my aunt asked Ling'er, do you have any thoughts about your cousin?" ”

Jiang Ling made a frightened look: "Although my cousin is a close relative, Ling Er has always adhered to his duty and kept in mind his identity as a prince, so he didn't dare to think anything wrong. ”

The queen was stunned, waved her hand and smiled: "That's it!" The daughter's family is shy, and the aunt understands. ”

As the two were talking, the palace maid outside announced: "Queen Mother, the emperor has arrived." ”

The queen made an unexpected appearance and grabbed Jiang Ling's hand: "It just so happens that Ling Er and her aunt met the emperor." ”

Although Jiang Ling has an aunt of the queen, a cousin of the prince, and the emperor is nominally her uncle, he is the son of heaven after all, and he is far away from her life. However, it should have been in the palace for three years in the previous life, and the number of times I have seen it is not small, but in the end it is just a female dependent, and the occasion to meet is nothing more than to ask for peace and various pleasures. As for what kind of person the emperor is, Jiang Ling actually doesn't know very well.

The emperor is no different from the appearance in her memory, although he is middle-aged, he looks dignified, the Son of Heaven is majestic and not angry, and he is dressed in a golden python robe, which makes him more and more high.

The queen knelt down with Jiang Ling: "The concubines see the emperor." ”

Jiang Ling said: "The people's daughter Jiang Ling participates in the emperor. ”

The emperor smiled and helped the queen up: "No courtesy, no courtesy." That's it, and looked at Jiang Ling who was slightly behind her beside her, "Queen, this is Jiang Ling, the little daughter of Uncle Guo's family, right?" ”

The queen pulled Jiang Ling and said, "It is the youngest daughter of my brother's family, who just came to the capital and summoned her into the palace to talk." ”

The emperor said: "Since she is the daughter of the uncle of the country, she is my niece, and she is the self-proclaimed daughter of the people and the daughter of the people. ”

Jiang Ling lowered his head and bent his knees: "Ling'er, thank you, Your Majesty." ”

The emperor laughed: "No wonder the queen often says that the uncle has a daughter who is like a flower and jade and wants to accept her as a daughter." When I saw it for the first time today, it was really the same as what the queen said, she was as beautiful as a flower and knew how to learn, but I was afraid that there were few young ladies in the capital who could compare. ”

The queen said coquettishly: "That's what I said! The brother and sister-in-law are decent and decent, and the daughter they teach will naturally not be bad. ”

Jiang Ling didn't know how many times the queen had blown the pillow wind in front of the emperor, but depending on the situation, it seemed that it would not be too little. I think it was a long time ago that I had planned to let her marry the crown prince. She didn't see the queen much, so naturally she didn't believe how much she liked her.

Now it seems that he is nothing more than trying to expand the power of his relatives. According to what she said, the Jiang family has been an official for generations, and of course everyone is in Yangzhou, but it is not prominent in the capital. Her net worth background as a queen, in the entire palace, is really not worth mentioning, whether it is the stupid eldest prince or the unfavored third prince, the power of the uncle family can crush their Jiang family.

However, although his father's position is not too high, he has the brother of the dragon among the three in the family, and with the support of the queen and the prince, he will inevitably be able to hold great power in the future, and he will be able to become a solid backing for the prince.

Jiang Ling had never thought about this problem in his previous life, but now that he was dialed by his mother, he suddenly opened his mouth.

Of course, in a sense, Empress Jiang is indeed thinking about the future of the entire Jiang family.

The queen smiled and waved her hand at Jiang Ling: "Ling'er, today you have said so many thoughtful words with your aunt, and my aunt is very relieved. I'll ask someone to send you back to Jiangfu, and then I'll have a few days to spare, and then someone will take you into the palace to talk to your aunt. ”

The emperor smiled and agreed: "Your aunt always wants a niece-like daughter, and now that your family has returned to the capital, you really want to go into the palace to accompany your aunt." ”

Jiang Ling saluted respectfully: "Thank you for your majesty and Niangniang's love, Jiang Ling retired." ”

After Jiang Ling left, the emperor lay down lazily on the soft couch in the house. The queen sat next to him and helped him knead his shoulders: "Your Majesty has been busy with government affairs these days, presumably I haven't rested well, the concubine has some soothing soup here, and you can drink some when everyone is warm." ”

The emperor patted her hand: "The harem is so big, only you are the most sympathetic, and you don't fight or grab, and the other concubines compete for favor for three days and two moths, I really have a headache when I hear it, and I don't want to go to those places more and more." ”

The queen smiled: "Your Majesty is willing to come to the concubine often, it is the blessing of the concubine, if there are other concubines who can make Your Majesty feel comfortable and happy, the concubine is also happy for Your Majesty." ”

The emperor smiled: "If everyone has your virtuous and virtuous virtue, my harem will be peaceful." He shook her hand, "I said before that the prince married a wife, I know that you want your brother's daughter to marry in, saying that the little woman of the Jiang family is docile and well-behaved, and the prince himself likes it." I used to only think that she was because she was your niece, and it was inevitable that you would have selfish intentions, but when I saw her today, I really thought she was a good girl. ”

The queen said quietly: "The emperor is right, the concubines do have a little selfishness. You know, the concubine has always wanted a little princess with a caring nest, when the prince was eight years old, the concubine was pregnant with a little princess, but she didn't know that she didn't fall and didn't save it, and she never had a chance in the future. Ling'er of my brother's family is well-behaved and pretty, I really like it, and it just so happens that the prince himself likes it. If she marries into the palace, she can often talk to me, and my palace will be lively. ”

The queen remembered some things back then, and sighed: "The unhappy old past, the queen should stop thinking about it, so as not to increase the sadness." The prince's marriage, I will think about it carefully. ”