19. The Queen Mother is not auspicious

Empress Dowager Zhang still looks very young, her hair is oily, and she has a wig and a high palace bun. She was in her forties, but she looked like she was in her early thirties. Painted with delicate makeup, only the slight fine lines at the end of the eyes reveal her lost youth.

When she was young, she must have been a beauty who captivated the country and the city, so the first emperor would love her like that. After her own son was deposed as the crown prince for sin, the first emperor recorded King Kang in her name and gave her a justifiable empress dowager.

It's just that the corners of this old beauty's eyes are hanging down at this time, her eyes are fierce, and her bright red lips are pursed tightly, as if others owe her eight thousand, and her gaze is like a knife, slashing back and forth on Zhao Yanrong's body.

The emperor was standing beside the empress at this time, and his brows were furrowed, so that the palace people in Changle Palace who wanted to come over to pull Concubine Zhuang did not dare to move.

Although the Queen Mother said that she wanted to beat the board of Zhuang Guifei, His Majesty the Emperor himself was standing here, and he didn't speak, who dared to do anything to the imperial concubine Niangniang, who was second only to the queen in the palace? It's not like that's how you want to die.

The Queen Mother's slender eyebrows were raised at this time, and she raised her hand and pointed at Zhao Yanrong: "Queen, you came just in time, Zhuang Qin, a slut, actually dared to contradict the mourning family." But a little concubine, does she want to climb on the head of the old woman and make a fortune? The mourning family is still alive, the queen is still alive, where can she be so arrogant and arrogant? What about the concubine? No matter who you are, this skin is a royal reward, you are a person if you are a person, and you are a thing if you are not a person. No matter how big your father is, he is also a slave of Daqi, let him live when he is born, and let him die if he dies. There is a mourning family in this palace, and a queen is in charge, when will it be your turn to speak? Give you face, you don't have a face! I don't know what to lift! Queen, what are you still doing in a daze, asking someone to drag this out and drag her outside the door to beat! ”

Concubine Zhuang knelt down and didn't say a word, but her body trembled slightly.

Zhao Yanrong smashed her mouth when she heard this, this is the noble queen mother of Daqi, how can she quarrel with someone in the vegetable market about the same aunt? Look at the pungent energy of Sang scolding Huai.

The first emperor is really heavy enough, maybe he used to be just beautiful, first emperor, your little wife is so strong, do you know?

The Queen Mother was still silent there, scolding the little ones in a different way, the cheap goods or something, Zhao Yanrong listened to two sentences casually and no longer had any hope for the quality of the Queen Mother.

She pulled her handkerchief, looked at the emperor beside her, whose face was blue and about to have a seizure, and sighed faintly.

"Your Majesty, the queen mother looks at her heart and is too angry, this face is not quite right, do you want to invite the imperial doctor to come and take a look?"

The Queen Mother finally stopped scolding, and looked at her with pity: "Queen, the mourning family is in good health, it's okay for you to call the imperial doctor, but you want to curse the mourning family to get sick?" ”

"How can this be?" Zhao Yanrong laughed, dragged Li Rui to salute the Queen Mother, and said, "My daughter-in-law was not in good health a few days ago, but I was rescued thanks to the skilled doctors of the Tai Hospital. Now that I feel that my body is in order, I cheekily followed the emperor to greet you. Although I don't know where Sister Zhuang made you angry, Sister Zhuang is also an old man who has followed the emperor for many years, and when the emperor was there, he often praised her for being gentle and gentle, and having both ability and political integrity. What's wrong with her, you just have to teach it well, if you feel troublesome, just tell us, why don't you have the emperor to share your worries? You're so old, you still have to calm down and enjoy yourself. In case of anger, in the future, those of us who are daughters-in-law will have no face when we meet the first emperor and our ancestors below, right? ”

As she spoke, Zhao Yanrong turned around and looked at Li Rui and blinked: "You said yes, Emperor?" ”

The daughter-in-law who was praised by the first emperor like that became a small and raised slut in your mouth, and the queen mother's slap not only called Zhuang Guifei, but also snorted to the cheeks of the first emperor.

Li Rui let go of his hand, glanced at the kneeling Concubine Zhuang and said, "Concubine Zhuang was the person personally selected by her father for her sons and ministers back then, and she has been diligent and prudent for many years, and she has not made any mistakes. I don't know where she did something wrong to make the queen mother so angry. The queen mother might as well say it, if it is really hers, there is no need for the queen mother, and the sons will not spare her! ”

Every word and every sentence is on the side of the Queen Mother, but the premise is a "true" word.

This is not whether it is or not, it is all up to the emperor's own judgment.

If the Queen Mother said that she just didn't like her, and that she was holding her breath or something, the emperor would naturally not accept it.

The Queen Mother is just using Concubine Zhuang to suppress the queen, the Queen Mother understands this in her heart, the emperor understands it in her heart, and Zhao Yanrong understands it in her heart, but others may not be able to understand it. The words that the Queen Mother said to Concubine Zhuang Guifei were actually pointing at the queen scolding, but she wanted her to recognize her duty and know that everything in this palace was up to her.

Even the queen had to bow down in front of her and clamp her tail.

But Concubine Zhuang will not understand the Queen Mother's sincerity!

Concubine Zhuang's father died early, and there was not even half a brother left in the family who could hold up the door, and the queen mother also said that no matter how big the father was, the official was a royal slave. No matter how many ugly words the Queen Mother said in front of her, she couldn't go to her heart, but this sentence really hit the lung tube of Concubine Zhuang Guifei.

She knelt there, tears streaming down her cheeks, until she couldn't stop crying.

Without waiting for the queen mother to speak, Zhuang Guifei suddenly fell to the ground, and the whole person cried on the ground and said: "The concubine body makes the queen mother hesitate, the concubine is guilty, since the queen mother does not like the concubine, please give the concubine a death, so that the concubine can go underground to reunite with her father and brother." If you can't be filial in life, let the concubine go underground to fulfill filial piety. ”

Concubine Zhuang's father enlisted in the army at a young age and followed Emperor Wude to fight and make meritorious contributions. When the first emperor was there, the sixteen counties of Nanzhao rebelled, Zhuang Guifei's father and brother went out with the army, his father died in battle, and the elder brother was the guard of the first emperor at that time, and used his body as a shield in the chaotic army, blocking arrows for the first emperor, covering the retreat of the first emperor, and finally died in thirteen arrows. After the first emperor returned to the dynasty victoriously, he posthumously sealed the father and son of the Zhuang family, and cared for the orphans of the Zhuang family. Zhuang Qin is the only child left in the Zhuang family's house.

When he pointed out the marriage to King Kang Li Rui, the first emperor pointed out Zhuang Qin as King Kang's side concubine. At that time, Zhuang's mother also died, and she was an orphan girl who was helpless, so the first emperor asked her to marry from his sister Huachang Princess's mansion, which can be regarded as raising her identity.

With such a background, Zhuang Qin has been different from the woman next to her since she entered King Kang's Mansion.

To say that she is a nobleman, her father was posthumously awarded the title of Zhongyong Uncle, and her brother was posthumously awarded the title of Yipin Loyal Martyr General, which is not lower than that of Concubine Kang.

But she is an orphan girl. My parents and brothers are all dead, and I am alone in this world, and I don't even have one to rely on.

But if she doesn't rely on it, there is still the first emperor behind her.

Her brother died for the first emperor and had the merit of saving the driver, so when the first emperor was alive, he took special care of this concubine of King Kang, praised her in front of everyone more than once, and repeatedly told King Kang to treat her well.

When Li Rui ascended the throne and sealed the harem, he made the Zhuang family the imperial concubine, and the middle palace was empty, and the Zhuang family became the first person in the harem.

A person like Zhuang Guifei really shouldn't be used by the Queen Mother as a Sang to scold Huai's Sang.

The Queen Mother was just holding a breath in her heart, her heart was anxious, and she wanted to burn a fire to the queen, so she picked a person who should not be picked the most.

Seeing that Concubine Zhuang was making a fuss about dying, the Queen Mother also regretted it a little.

Zhuang's father and brother died for the first emperor, and she scolded her a little more ugly, and the reputation of the queen mother would not be good. After the outsiders discussed her for insulting the heroes, they were mean to the harem concubines.

Empress Dowager Zhang frowned and looked at Zhuang's family, only to feel that her chest was clogged in panic. She never thought that Zhuang, who had always been indisputable with the world and had a quiet temperament, would have such courage to make trouble in front of her.

No matter how noisy she is, she is also the queen mother, the emperor's mother, and the most noble woman in the Great Qi Dynasty.

"What are you making a fuss about, don't you think it's ugly?" The Queen Mother scolded, "Drag her up, relying on the emperor's favoritism, the emperor is favoritial, so she dares to pinch the frame and take death to strangle the mourning family." Knowing that you are looking at me one by one, I don't need you to force me, the mourning family will be killed head-on, and go to the first emperor to apologize. ”

said that she was going to crash to death, but the Queen Mother's ass was firmly glued to the chair, and she didn't mean to move at all.

But Concubine Zhuang didn't want to say anything more about begging for death, so she could only let the palace people help her up and staggered to the emperor and queen to salute.

Only then did Zhao Yanrong see Concubine Zhuang's appearance clearly.

I've never paid attention to it before, but according to the former lord's temperament, there is no one worthy of her attention in the entire harem. But she is not the one who was bent on dying in front of her, she wants to live a good life in the palace, whether she is a pig teammate or a god opponent by her side, this is related to whether she can live a leisurely life in the future, so Zhao Yanrong observed very carefully.

Concubine Zhuang looked twenty-four or five years old, about the same age as her stepmother Pei. That's right, Zhuang was nearly nineteen years old when he pointed out to King Kang, three years older than Li Rui. She has a bleak face, a round face, and mediocre facial features, although she is upright, but in a place like the harem, where beauties are gathered, her appearance is not even average.

Zhuang's appearance is not beautiful, but her temperament is excellent, and Li Rui has always respected her.

Li Rui picked her up with his own hands, Concubine Zhuang raised her eyes to look at him, and her tears couldn't help falling again.

Zhao Yanrong looked at it coldly, the distress and anger that flashed on Li Rui's face in an instant should not be pretended, this Zhuang Guifei is someone the emperor cares about very much. So she decisively took out her handkerchief from her arms and went to help Zhuang wipe her tears with her own hands.

Then he said in a low voice that only the three of them could hear: "Sister is suffering." ”

Concubine Zhuang was slightly stunned, glanced at her, and then smiled bitterly, didn't say anything, just silently blessed her body, and then retreated behind the emperor and empress.

Zhao Yanrong lowered her eyes, and saw Li Rui's hand clenched and loosened, loosened and clenched again, obviously suppressing the anger in her heart. At this time, it is obviously inappropriate to let the emperor go to conflict with the queen mother. Li Rui has only been on the throne for half a year, and the court is not as stable as it seems.

In fact, the queen mother can't toss any tricks in the harem, after all, it is a rule handed down from the previous dynasty that harem women are not allowed to interfere in politics. It's just that no one wants to work outside for half a day, and when they return home, they will be covered with a face, and they can't beat that person to death and throw him out of the house.

The reason why Li Rui wants to marry the daughter of the Pei family may not be because he has the intention of diverting the war, or he may have overestimated Zhao Yanrong's combat effectiveness, and delusionally thought that a woman with half of the Pei family's genes on her body could knock over the Empress Dowager Zhang with one punch and make him calm forever.

Of course, it is best for this struggle to be secret, quiet, unobtrusive, and uncriticized.

If Li Rui really planned to do so, in fact, he didn't marry the wrong person.

The previous Zhao Yanrong did succeed in pulling away the hatred value, played an OT to focus the Queen Mother's attention on herself, and then hung up. [Note 1]

And the latter Zhao Yanrong is a female man by nature, in her previous life, as a battle-hardened SWAT female soldier, she never knew what compromise and admitting defeat was, she had rolled up her sleeves and went to the battlefield with high morale!