Li Yu and Chu Tianxiu sat beside the Empress Dowager Shen and chatted with the old lady for a while.

With the ladies who entered the palace to ask for peace, there were more and more in the Jinluan Palace. The two of them couldn't sit next to the Empress Dowager Shen all the time, so they wanted to get up and leave their seats and go to other places to go around.

"Yu'er, Tianxiu, don't just accompany me, the old lady. Go and say hello to your imperial aunt, you haven't seen her in years. This relative, you have to move around a lot to be close. ”

Empress Dowager Shen nodded and smiled kindly.

"Yes!"

Li Yu and Chu Tianxiu immediately bowed down and retired.

Chu Yong, the old dusk marquis who got a bargain, also accepted it when he saw it, took the opportunity to retire, and took Chu Tianxiu and Li Yu to see Queen Cui.

This time when he entered the palace to participate in the palace banquet, there were three of them that Chu Tianxiu had to go to ask for peace.

Empress Dowager Shen Lian, Emperor Xiang Yanran, and then Empress Cui Rou's aunt.

Queen Cui Rou and Mrs. Cui Tong of the Dull Mansion are siblings, both from Cui's gate valve, one of the top ten gate valves in Jinling, Jiuqing Lang Zhongling, and the daughter of the great Confucian Cui Haoran.

Chu Tianxiu must be going to greet Empress Cui.

As for the other concubines, they are not related, they are dispensable, and they don't have to go to ask for peace.

His mother and Queen Cui are siblings, and they have a close relationship and get along more harmoniously.

And his nephew, from childhood to adulthood, may not see Queen Cui once in a few years, how much closeness there is. I can't get warm up when we meet.

Chu Tianxiu sighed lightly, "Alas, although the mother and the queen are sisters, our family can be regarded as touching the side of the emperor's relatives and relatives, but the queen rarely takes care of our faint mansion!" ”

Speaking of which, he and Princess Xiang Ling and Prince Xiang Tiange are still cousins and cousins.

Pity... It's useless, Princess Xiang Ling has a strange attitude, and the prince can't wait to cut him with a sword.

"Although Queen Cui and your mother are sisters, they seem to be very close. But the queen also has to take care of the royal family first, and then take care of the Cui Mansion, in fact, it is too far away from our Duhou Mansion, so naturally it can't be taken care of. ”

The old faint shook his head.

The position of the queen is not as exclusive as that of the Empress Dowager Shen.

The queen wants to respect the queen mother and the emperor, and there are noble concubines and concubines competing for favor, and hundreds of officials in the court are staring, how dare there be negligence.

Even if Empress Cui has the backing of Cui's Gate Valve, one of the top ten gate valves in Jinling, she is still cautious in her words and deeds, carefully takes care of the harem, and does not dare to slack off in the slightest.

In this palace, Empress Cui Rou and Concubine Yang Yan are the most favored by the emperor.

One is virtuous and beautiful, and the other is beautiful. One is the daughter of Lang Zhongling's great Confucian Cui Haoran, and the other is the daughter of Yang Chu, the great Si Nong.

This favored Yang Yan Guifei, who was born in the Yang family, one of the top ten gate valves in Jinling, has no weak family background, and looks at the position of the queen with a blank eye.

As a queen, she naturally has to be cautious and not be caught.

As for Empress Dowager Shen, she has an emperor's son, so she naturally has peace of mind.

Even if the Queen Mother makes it clear who she will take care of, if she insists on what she wants to do. The emperor is filial, and he can only obey her.

Shen Fu, a relative, started from scratch, but gained power, and became the first wealthy merchant of silk in Jiangnan in just a few decades.

All the ministers knew that the Shen Mansion relied on the Empress Dowager Shen, and it was soft to get money. I can only open one eye and close one eye, and hold it carefully.

The doorways in the palace are extremely complicated.

There is a huge disparity in status between the royal relatives and relatives.

"By the way, Dad, why didn't my mother come today? When she came, she could also catch up with the imperial aunt. ”

Chu Tianxiu was puzzled.

"On this occasion, your mother is embarrassed. Dad and your mother go together, won't that be exposed! These thousands of taels of silver for white will definitely not be able to get their hands. ”

Chu Yong smiled.

"That's right, my mother can't come!"

Chu Tianxiu suddenly understood.

The old dusk marquis doesn't want a face at all, he can wear a beggar's patch coat and pretend to be poor and cry in front of the Empress Dowager Shen. took the lead and put all the debts owed on the head of the "adopted son".

With one move, all the open guns and hidden arrows lurking everywhere were blocked.

But Niang is from the Cui family, a Confucian heirloom, and her face is thin, and she can't pretend to be poor in front of so many princes and three noblewomen. She must be dressed up to attend and hold up the face of the Duhou Mansion.

The two of them are dressed in completely different ways, and it is really inappropriate to go together, so my mother simply didn't come.

"Dad, anyway, you are poor in beggar clothes, so just dress up to the end, and go to the queen to get some silver and come back."

Chu Tianxiu instigated.

"Okay!"

Chu Yong's eyes lit up, and he felt that his son's words made sense.

At first, he only wanted to pretend to be poor in front of the Empress Dowager Shen, so as not to be sued by Uncle Guo, and he didn't want to get money.

But Empress Dowager Shen actually rewarded the silver and picked up a few thousand taels of silver for nothing.

Li Yu listened to the conversation between the father and son who took it for granted and fooled up money in the palace, and hid his face in shame.

This father-in-law went to the queen mother and queen to get silver, it was simply... Ridiculous.

But you say, Empress Dowager Shen is such a shrewd person, there have been so many winds and waves in the palace for decades, she can survive until the end of the victory, and she can't see the trick of pretending to be poor in the old faint marquis?

Empress Dowager Shen was afraid that she would have seen it earlier.

Who has money and who doesn't, Empress Dowager Shen is not clear? There are so many Praetorian Guards in the palace, can you find out?

But Empress Dowager Shen pretended to be confused and protected the Dull Mansion.

He personally sent a thousand taels of silver from Cining Palace to the old dusk marquis, not to mention, and got a jade wrench of several thousand taels of silver from Shen Wanbao to the old dusk marquis.

This palace full of princes and noblewomen, a little brainy, who can't see that Empress Dowager Shen is favoring the Dull Mansion?

I can see it, but who dares to say anything.

The uncle and father and son of this country have suffered such a great grievance, they are all held in their stomachs, they don't dare to speak, and they are crying in the corner of the Jinluan Palace.

Alas, there is nothing to say about this.

Fortunately, his husband Chu Tianxiu didn't bother to pretend to be poor at all, he only hated that his body was not glamorous enough, he hated that he couldn't become a bright moon in the dark night, and he was not bright enough in the palace.

This made Li Yu somewhat relieved.

She, the daughter of King Ping, has a thin and tender face as the county lord of Danyang, and she can't pretend to be poor.

...

Soon, a few of them came to Queen Cui's side.

Empress Cui Rou had already come to the banquet in the Jinluan Palace, asked the Empress Dowager Shen for peace, and sat down. The princes and nobles met the queen mother, so they came to her to meet her, and then returned to their seats.

And Princess Xiang Ling, who has always been domineering, and Xiang Tiange, the domineering and domineering prince, are all sitting honestly next to the queen.

Of course, there was also the concubine Xie Anran who was also nearby, a gentle and elegant scribe, and when he saw Chu Tianxiu and the others coming, he smiled lightly and said hello.

If it is said that Chu Tianxiu, who is handsome, is outstanding in Jinling City, the eldest grandson of Xie Huyong, the eldest grandson of the Xie family's gate lord, Xie Anran is obviously also a handsome guy, and he is not comparable to ordinary people.

"Tianxiu, say hello to the imperial aunt!"

Chu Tianxiu honestly asked Empress Cui Rou for peace.

Queen Cui Rou looks dignified and beautiful, although she is a queen phoenix crown treasure hairpin, and the phoenix is dressed in a grand costume, but she does not wear too many expensive ornaments, which can be regarded as quite simple and thrifty.

"The faint marquis, the nephew is here."

Cui Rou saw that the old and little faint marquis were coming, and couldn't help laughing: "Tianxiu nephew, I haven't seen you for many years, this is getting more and more handsome, my sister is really blessed to have a good son like you." Yu'er is also a good fortune to have this good son-in-law! ”

"Xie Niangniang praised."

Li Yu smiled sweetly.

Empress Cui Rou looked at the old faint marquis's beggar patch and knew that the old faint marquis was tossing again.

In this Dusk Mansion, there is no time not to toss.

The old and the young, from generation to generation, keep tossing.

She sighed, "Marquis, although frugality is a virtue, there are so many patches in this patch, and it is not very decent to dress as a marquis after all.

Today's palace banquet, the emperor saw your dress, I'm afraid I don't like it. You should go to the side hall with the palace maid to change into a new marquis's crown dress.

In addition, there are some surplus silk and satin in the palace, which are newly sent to the palace by the Shen Mansion recently, and send hundreds of fine silk to the Duhou Mansion. Don't lose your dignity again! ”

The palace maid next to her immediately received the order.

"Thank you for your kindness!"

Chu Yong's face was overjoyed, thanked him again and again, and followed the palace maid to change into a new marquis's crown dress.