Chapter 69: The Unexpected
Qinghualing is the slave and maid who committed a crime in the palace are buried there after their deaths, and it sounds so good on the surface, but it is just a mass grave, and there are often wild dogs digging graves and biting the corpses in a mess.
Aunt Ning looked at the queen's confidence, but she didn't say anything: "This time the show girl is the emperor and the queen presiding over the selection together, and the mother really plans to let the Guogong Mansion send another Cao family into the palace?" β
The queen shook her head: "Naturally, it can't be done, you can't use the same means, you have to explain carefully on the side of Grandpa Guo." β
Aunt Ning nodded: "We have the card Rujing in our hands, which is stronger than anything else?" β
Remembering that she happened to see the portrait of the Empress Dowager Xianling hanging in the study of Tongtai Palace, the queen understood that the Empress Dowager Xianling was not just the Empress Dowager in the emperor's heart.
"Rujing has arranged it properly, none of those big women have seen the virtuous spirits, and what can the grandmother in the palace do if she knows it, it can only be said that it is a creation to make people." The queen took the tea bowl and put it to her mouth and took a sip, "Now tomorrow is the final draft, let's watch the emperor." β
Aunt Ning promised.
Forty beauties, dressed in the pink palace dress of the show girl, combed the flying star moon bun, with all kinds of hairpin rings on the bun, as before and the last time, there was a palace maid with the same qualifications as the last time to screen and select the handsome woman, and then enter the Chuxiu Palace hall in batches for the palace selection, the queen looked at these beauties, with a gentle gesture silently smiled.
The emperor looked at these women, some of them scratched their heads and posed, and some of them were full of coquettishness, which was very interesting.
But when he saw a woman's face, he couldn't help it anymore, this woman looked so good, he found that this show girl not only looked charming, but there was a coldness between her eyebrows, and a pair of eyes were full of autumn water, as if he had seen it before, and suddenly he saw a tear mole in the corner of the show girl's eye, and he was suddenly shocked. I almost didn't shout,
The queen looked at the emperor's shocked expression and asked, "Does the emperor plan to stay?" β
The emperor Mu Ne retracted his god: "Whose daughter is she, who looks so standard?" β
The queen smiled gently and replied: "The concubine of the Huaiyin Marquis's family, the concubine of the Huaiyin Marquis has already married. is twenty-eight years old, and the concubines look very good. β
The emperor looked at the queen for a long time before saying, "Stay." β
The queen smiled lightly: "Yes." β
The draft is over, most of the selected women are full of coquettishness and cheering, only she, looking at the towering palace wall, the boxy Chuxiu Palace, how many women's youth have been buried.
Isn't it just a war of flowers?
laughed sarcastically, the emperor couldn't wait to make himself a beauty, and the title was An~ But because he looked like the emperor's mother-in-law, An's.
At this time, the emperor stood quietly in front of the portrait of his mother-in-law, the Empress Dowager Xianling, and looked carefully at the appearance of his mother-in-law: "Queen Mother, do you know, you are finally back?" β
The woman on the silk canvas was smiling on a horse holding a bouquet of flowers. He suddenly heard the queen mother's voice: "Che'er, Che'er." β
suddenly looked back at his mother, who had been dead for almost ten years, and at this moment, Gong Lu outside the door reported: "Your Majesty, Concubine Mei Shu is here." β
The emperor remembered that the imperial concubine went to the imperial hospital to investigate, and his brows tightened: "Let her in, I also have something to say to her." β
Concubine Mei Shu's complexion is obviously better than before, her eyes are clear and watery, isn't it because of these eyes that she chose her to be her own woman, but who can know, these eyes are like her own queen mother.
The emperor sighed slightly, but Concubine Mei was stopped by the emperor: "You are not in good health, get up, it has been difficult for you all these years." β
Concubine Mei Shu coughed lightly a few times: "It's not in the way, fortunately, thanks to the help of the imperial concubine, the concubine's illness is cured." Now that the imperial concubine is grounded, the concubine feels uneasy."
"You think too much, the imperial concubine is disrespectful to me, and the grounding is already light. You don't have to intercede for her, I've made up my mind. The emperor's face was cold.
"The emperor doesn't know, since the concubine fell ill, there are fewer and fewer palace maids in Qingning Palace, and even some slaves and maids have turned a deaf ear to the concubines, if it is not for the protection of the emperor for so many years, how can the concubines live to this day." Concubine Mei turned her head and saw the painting hanging on the wall, with a little sadness, "As long as you think of the words of the master back then, you will be full of confidence." β
The emperor nodded slightly: "I believe it." β
Concubine Mei smiled: "In this case, why does the emperor still embarrass the imperial concubine, not to mention that if the imperial concubine is really disobedient to the emperor, the emperor is afraid that the imperial concubine will be punished long ago." Thinking of the eldest prince and the second prince, the emperor should also think about them. β
The emperor sighed, a little tired: "You go down, I know." β
Concubine Mei Shu saw that the emperor was relieved, and knew what the emperor was thinking, so she blessed her body: "The concubine retired." β
Watching Concubine Mei slowly leave the hall, the suspicion in the emperor's heart gradually arose, and Grandpa Lu came in to polish ink for the emperor, correcting and correcting the folds, the emperor looked at Grandpa Lu, and said quietly: "How many years has my virtuous queen gone?" β
Father-in-law Lu replied in a low voice: "It's been sixteen years. β
The emperor stroked his brows: "I suddenly feel that a long time has passed, as if I have long forgotten the virtuous spirit mother, and when I see today's An Mei, I feel as if those memories have returned." β
Gonggong Lu bowed his head respectfully: "Perhaps, Anmei is from heaven to make up for the emperor"
The emperor pondered for a moment, and then asked: "Why is it that Concubine Mei intercedes for the imperial concubine, but I remember that the imperial concubine and Concubine Mei are not particularly good." β
The emperor didn't say that the imperial concubine personally ventured to the imperial hospital to get the booklet, if he hadn't secretly ordered Xue Minsi to secretly take out the real evidence, I am afraid that the imperial concubine would have left the palace if she knew the truth, and would never even let me know where it was.
Gonggong Lu said with a smile: "Maybe it is because of this that Concubine Mei's words are meritoriousγγγγ" suddenly remembered that he was afraid that he was afraid that he would be taboo by the emperor when he said this, so he lost his voice.
"I'll go to Chengqian Palace to see the imperial concubine, don't alarm anyone." The emperor said.
"Yes." Father-in-law Lu promised.