Cui Keyin didn't stop, turned around and walked out of the courtyard.

On the path, the Yang family came with a palace man with a food box, and when he saw Cui Keyin, he greeted him and said with a smile: "I heard the queen mother say that someone is going to invite you, I don't think you like to eat rose cakes, I have a new cook here, and I made a good snack, so I went back and asked her to make a few things, and there are also rose cakes." ”

Cui Keyin was a little speechless, but she was afraid that no one in the palace didn't know that she liked to eat rose cakes, and now even the Yang family would find a cook who made rose cakes well for her.

"It's hard for my sister-in-law to think that I liked to eat when I was a child, but I don't like it much since I gave birth to Lele." Cui Keyin said.

Yang understood her words as politeness, smiled and took her hand, and said, "You just arrived, right?" The queen mother usually has nothing to do, so it is better to sit for a while and try the skills of the new cook. ”

In the past ten years, few emperors have come to Xiyuan, and it has gradually degenerated into a "cold palace", with trees not pruned, overgrown with weeds, leaking roofs of several palaces, and only a few old and decrepit chamberlains in the garden waiting to die. It wasn't until the Yang family wanted to move over that Cui Keyin asked people to repair it and allocated people to come over. The Yang family has lived here for more than a year, and with Cui Keyin taking care of them, there is no difference between the supply of one qiē and when he was the queen. It's normal to pick one or two cooks, and Cui Keyin will allow it.

Seeing her warm invitation, Cui Keyin was silent for a while, and said, "The queen mother is very angry now, I'd better come back in a few days." ”

"Queen Mother......" Yang Shi was silent for a while, and sighed: "The queen mother is really confused, that fruit is really, she is so good, what is it mixed with blindly?" She has a good appearance and a good background, who can't marry, why do you want to be a concubine with someone? ”

Lu Ying interjected with a smile: "Niang Niang is right. The emperor has said that he will not accept a concubine. She didn't know why she was still leaning forward, she was so thick-skinned. ”

If it was before, Lu Ying would definitely not interject, but today she is really angry. I couldn't help but say a few words.

Yang glanced at Lu Ying meaningfully, and asked Cui Keyin: "But is it still for Guo'er's business?" ”

She came over just now, and listened to the meaning of the Queen Mother's words, so she had to let Cui Keyin use the seal today. It is impossible to make Du Guoer a beauty. She thought that Zhou Heng had a deep affection for Cui Keyin, and even took her with him on the expedition, how could she be a concubine? Zhou Heng has been on the throne for more than a year, and he has never heard of him being fortunate to anyone, and he rests in Anhua Palace every night. Such a man. Let him take a concubine, is it possible?

In order not to feel uncomfortable, she was ashamed of Cui Keyin, so she found an excuse to avoid it. Otherwise, it's just a few snacks, why bother with her going there herself? Unexpectedly, she pinched a little back, Cui Keyin had fallen out with the Queen Mother.

She still wanted to speak for the Queen Mother, but Cui Keyin didn't want to listen, and said: "Sister-in-law, it's better to go and see the queen mother, she has just recovered from her illness and can't be angry." ”

The Queen Mother was worried about making her uncomfortable. What's the use of Yang saying a few words that don't hurt? As long as Zhou Heng refuses to accept the concubine, others will jump again, and what will happen. It's just self-inflicted.

Yang said: "This rose point has just been made, and it is still hot, you can also taste it, let's go together?" ”

"No, I'll try my sister-in-law's new chef another day." Cui Keyin said and raised his feet and left. No matter how good the cook is, she also chooses it in this palace, how is the craftsmanship, what kind of person is it, she wants to know. It didn't take three quarters of an hour for someone to report to her. Is it true that she is a dead person and knows nothing?

Yang looked at her distant back and let out a long sigh. went to the Empress Dowager's palace, and tried to persuade him not to mention it.

Cui Keyin returned to Anhua Palace and immediately asked Du Guoer's mother Zhao to enter the palace. It stands to reason that after Zhou Heng expressed his stance with Du Shilang yesterday, the Du family should send someone to take Du Guoer home. But not only did the Du family not come to pick up people, but today the Queen Mother also insisted that she use the seal immediately. Give Du Guo'er a name and arrange for Du Guo'er to sleep, this is not normal.

The so-called use of seals is for canonizing concubines. Just like the emperor has a jade seal, the queen also has a phoenix seal, which is a sign of the queen's identity, if the emperor does not want the queen to preside over the harem, people will confiscate this seal, and the queen will have no real name. And when all the concubines are canonized, they can only take effect if the edict is stamped with this seal.

After Du Shilang returned to the house yesterday, he convened three or four civil officials to discuss until midnight, and when he returned to the back house, he discussed with his wife until dawn, and after freshening up, he changed his official robe and went to court.

As soon as Lu Ying said a word, Hua Shixun asked Wu Jiang and others to be escorted down, and the scripture officials worked hard to rescue them. After being rescued, I learned that Hua Shixun did not beat them, but not beating them does not mean that there was no abuse. Hua Shixun separated and imprisoned a dozen people, and at night let the Imperial Forest Army constantly insult them, so that they could not sleep peacefully, and only let them eat two meals a day, each meal only had a bowl of cold rice, not even a dried pickle. These people have been officials for a long time, needless to say, how can such a meal be swallowed? Therefore, after being released, they were all emaciated and inhuman.

Hua Shixun held the Imperial Forest Army in his hands and was Zhou Heng's close minister, and the civil officials did not dare to do anything to him. After discussion, they agreed that Zhou Heng only had one queen, and sooner or later something bad would happen, and now it was beginning to appear. Now the queen's maids dare to imprison the four-rank officials, what about the future? Is it to sit back and wait for the queen's power to increase to the point of being out of control? The most effective way is to abandon the harem, share Cui Keyin's favor, and gradually put her in the air.

To do this, it is difficult to say that it is difficult, and it is not difficult to say that it is not difficult. As long as there are enough people to come forward and force Zhou Heng to take a concubine, or send a young and beautiful woman into the palace, this matter will not be difficult.

The target they picked turned out to be the Yang family, she was the queen of Emperor Zhi'an, and Zhou Heng's throne was passed on from Emperor Zhi'an, as long as she put pressure on Cui Keyin, Cui Keyin could not refuse either in terms of morality or name.

What they didn't expect was that Yang refused.

Just as they were trying to convince the Yang family, another piece of good news came, and the Queen Mother was sober. There is no more suitable candidate than the Queen Mother. They passed on the letter and asked the officials who stayed in Beijing to persuade Shen Yuan, the fourth assistant of the cabinet, and Shen Yuan went to Xiyuan to persuade the queen mother.

In fact, there was no need for Shen Yuan's persuasion, as soon as the Queen Mother heard the plan of the civil officials, she immediately agreed.

In this matter, except for the officials of Tang Tianzheng and Cui Zhenyi, all civil officials were involved. For them, this is a major matter of their interests, as long as the daughter can enter the palace and salivate the prince, changing the fate of the family is just around the corner. They didn't have this mind before, but because of Taizu Zuxun, the queen/palace concubines could only be selected from the people. Now that this article has been broken, Cui Keyin is the first queen from a famous family since the founding of the Dajia Dynasty. If the daughter of the Qinghe Cui family can, why can't their daughter?

The Queen Mother reached an agreement with the civil officials, and there was that late autumn chrysanthemum appreciation party. Shen Yuan wanted to send his concubine into the palace, but he didn't expect the Queen Mother to pick Du Guoer. (To be continued.) )