The son of heaven who left the country is a well-known filial son, and only the queen mother is looking forward to the big and small things inside and outside the court. Even if you want to choose a concubine, such a thoughtful thing is planned by your mother from beginning to end, and it only takes a few months from proposal to implementation.

The weather began to get cooler, and an autumn rain had to add a few more clothes, and the queen mother was greedy for a while to see the flowers and dyed the wind and cold, and the emperor sympathized with his mother and simply moved the office to the queen mother's palace. Of course, he didn't need to express these thoughts by himself, Liu Gonggong acted smartly, and naturally placed them properly early, and by the way, he also collected the portraits of the girls that needed to be selected and moved them all over at once.

"Your Majesty, slow down, be careful of your hot hands. It's good for an old slave to do such rough work. ”

The Queen Mother firmly believes in Buddhism, and her hall does not burn ordinary sweet incense, but prefers the quiet Canaan incense. Whenever the emperor came to discuss matters, he always consciously lit a plate of Canaanite incense first, so as not to smell too much ambergris on his body.

The newly made Canaan incense was placed on the incense holder, and the emperor directly took the fire fold to order it and almost burned himself. Gonggong Liu exclaimed in surprise and hurriedly ran to his side to serve, looking respectful and regretful.

The Queen Mother put down the scroll in her hand and beckoned to the emperor, and when he got closer, she looked at his fingers carefully, and asked softly in distress.

"Emperor, does it hurt?"

"After returning to my mother, it doesn't hurt."

The emperor has always talked little, and only when he is with his mother can he talk more. The surname of the royal family who left the country was Xiao, and even the people were not prosperous, which alluded to the meaning of depression, and the emperor died young in the last dynasty. He left only a son and a daughter. The princess married the prince and succeeded to the throne, the queen mother is the emperor's biological mother, the court is stable and the world is peaceful, there is no problem of brothers taking the heirs and not relatives, the emperor is still around his mother, and he is usually more like a child when he is not in the court.

After the re-election, the picture scrolls of the girls were stacked on top of the low collapse, and the queen mother and the emperor should personally select the last group of people to invite me into the palace for an audience. The Queen Mother took a few volumes and put them in her hand, browsed them one by one, and looked at them carefully, but the emperor didn't care, took a box of nuts and snacks, curled up and leaned on the other side of the dwarf, indulging in his own thoughts.

The wind was blowing outside, and the hearth was lit early in the house, so I didn't have to worry about the red, red, white and white dense music. Stealing half a day's leisure. He was happy to enjoy his moments of peace.

The portraits of the Queen Mother looked through the past, sometimes nodding slightly, sometimes frowning slightly, and when she met someone who was slightly satisfied, she picked up the corresponding identity list and looked at it a few times. Gonggong Liu, who was waiting beside him, was used to being clever, with a bowed head and silent appearance on the surface, but his eyes kept paying attention to the queen mother's expression. Whenever you have a special smile or frown. I can't wait to have a few more pairs of eyes to see which daughter corresponds to the painting.

Xu is frequent watching, but it has attracted the attention of the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother didn't get angry at him, she just turned around and pointed at the emperor's nose, teasing him a little funny.

"My Emperor. This is choosing a concubine for yourself, and you will be your pillow person in the future. You don't care about idle things, it's better to be in a hurry than Gonggong Liu. ”

The Queen Mother smiled and lectured, and the emperor nodded helplessly, saying that he was a little reluctant to put down a snack and wipe his hands, and leaned over to pick up a few pictures in a pile of scrolls at random. On the other side, Gonggong Liu was so frightened that he fell to the ground with a plop of smoke, looking like he wanted to cry without tears, and shouted again and again, "The Queen Mother Shengming, it's really tormenting the old slave", and he looked like he was loyal to his master in everything.

The Queen Mother looked funny and funny, and she was not in a hurry to judge his loyalty, so she only picked two portraits of Cai Girls and threw them at his feet.

"You are an old man in the palace, and you have always been quite good at doing things, why are you getting older and more confused? Such a woman with a good appearance and quality dared to pass the second trial and rashly sent it to the mourning family? Or, are you really old and dizzy when you are a mourner? ”

She is not angry and arrogant, she should be a person like the Queen Mother, she is not angry about this big matter, and the tone of the question is still flat, but she is so frightened that Gonggong Liu, a person who is more than half a hundred years old, kowtows on the ground like pounding garlic, he doesn't dare to have half a sentence of defense, just kowtow and beg for mercy.

Liu Zhong often advertised himself as a good servant who served his master faithfully, and others respectfully called him "Gonggong Liu". He is indeed an old man who has served the emperor for many years, and he can feel the temper of the prospective master, knowing that the emperor will never express his position at this time, and it is useless to plead. Although the Queen Mother is strong, she has always been a master who eats soft and does not eat hard, he will never be clever and justify, and only sincerely bow down and admit his guilt, so naturally he will not suffer too much.

Sure enough, but after a while, the Queen Mother raised her hand and signaled him not to kowtow and pray again, and did not mention any more arguments about whether the crime could be punished, but only taught a light lesson.

"You have served for many years to have some credit, but after all, you must remember to keep your duty, just do some tricks in small things, and if there are any mistakes in major things in the future, don't blame the mourning family for being ruthless for a while. There are not many people around the emperor who are close to him, but it is not necessarily impossible to cultivate new people. ”

The emperor who left the country has always been mysterious, and there are only a few people around him, and Gonggong Liu can be regarded as the first person among them. There are not a few ministers in the court who slap horses and whiskers with him, even if a figure like Zhang Shaoqing wants to win him over, even if he is a slave after a long time, he will inevitably have some arrogant and self-indulgent thoughts.

The Queen Mother woke him up a few words, but he really felt scared, while sincerely appreciating a few hard slaps to show his mistake, and on the other hand, he regretted in his heart, he really shouldn't be too greedy when he was elected, and he had the audacity to change people to replace the quota after receiving some more gifts. Although the two women who were picked on by the Queen Mother were both from families, their appearance was indeed inferior.

He knelt all the way and tucked the messy two scrolls into his sleeve, and before he could look up, he heard the emperor's cheerful voice.

"Queen Mother, this is very good, the child chooses her."

Liu Zhong subconsciously wanted to look up, but remembered that his master had not yet given him the freedom to kneel, so he had to bow his head and continue to kneel honestly. It seemed that it had been a long time, so long that his legs were numb, and he finally heard the Queen Mother's words.

"Liu Zhong, you immediately find out the roster of this family's daughter."

With a "yes", he finally glanced sideways at the scroll, which almost scared half of his life. The girl on the painting is none other than the deleted third daughter of the Yin family, "Yin Suxin", and this portrait of the girl who has long been destroyed in the hands of Zhang Shaoqing has appeared in the hands of the Queen Mother and the Emperor at this moment. (To be continued......)