Chapter 324: The Empress Dowager
Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao will arrive.
When it was time to eat that afternoon, Qin Luoyu came to Kunning Palace.
"The courtiers greet the queen."
This time, she was very well-behaved, and knelt down directly to give Zhou Huan a big gift.
At that time, Zhou Huan had just sat down at the table, and on the table was the dinner that had just been served.
Seeing that Qin Luoyu had been kneeling in front of him, Zhou Huan was stunned, but the scrutiny in his eyes still existed.
"Hurry up, Miss Qin came into the palace to take care of the Empress Dowager, what should I do if I kneel here in the palace?"
The implication is that the person called by the Empress Dowager, in fact, there is no need for Qin Luoyu to come to Kunning Palace.
However, now Qin Luoyu seems to be two points more indifferent.
"I came here today, I just asked the queen mother to admit her mistake, she was born in a family, and her mother must have had the same concerns as her courtiers in the past, and many things were involuntarily."
Qin Luoyu talked eloquently, and even had two points more indifference in his voice.
Zhou Huan raised his eyes and looked at the past, Qin Luoyu, who was so alienated and indifferent, was really different from before.
When Qin Luoyu was admitting his mistake here, Lumei's voice reached the inner room.
"Slaves and maids visit the emperor."
Emperor?
Zhou Huan and Qin Luoyu looked at each other at the same time, and then Qin Luoyu took the lead in speaking.
"Since the emperor has come to see the mother, then the courtiers will retire first."
doesn't fight, doesn't grab, and doesn't even deliberately greet him anymore, Qin Luoyu seems to have really changed a lot now.
"What do you think?" After thinking about it, Qi Yu had already sat down next to Zhou Huan, "By the way, it was the young lady of the Qin family who just went out?" How did she get here? ”
When he spoke, Qi Yu's eyes were full of concern for Zhou Huan.
Such Qi Yu amused Zhou Huan.
"I heard that the emperor was decisive in the previous dynasty, why did my Kunning Palace change as soon as he came?"
Zhou Huan's voice was already sweet, and when she laughed at the moment, it was really like a tease in her heart.
Qi Yu was helpless, raised his hand and touched Zhou Huan's head, and then changed the topic.
"These days in the palace, I think you are very relaxed."
Who knows, Zhou Huan sighed instantly, "Probably because I'm the only one in these six palaces." ”
Hearing this, Qi Yu's action just now about to add vegetables was sluggish.
After half a ring, Qi Yu continued to purse his lips and smile and add food to Zhou Huan, "Hurry up and eat, you're too thin." ”
Zhou Huan just glanced at Qi Yu more, but he didn't argue with Qi Yu about this topic again.
All she had to do was show her attitude.
These days, Zhou Huan is not unaware of the pressure that the previous dynasty gave Qi Yu, most of it is because of the hollowness of the harem, she is the only queen, and those who care about power are always unwilling.
"By the way, it was Qin Luoyu who came over just now, I think she seems to have changed a little bit." Zhou Huan opened his mouth as if he had no intention.
But Qi Yu put the chopsticks in his hand on the table with a "snap".
"Qingqing, I told you that there will only be you in my palace."
Although he was angry, Qi Yu also understood Zhou Huan's hard work, so in the end, he was still distressed.
Zhou Huan also shook his head, "Ah Yu, I understand that even if other women enter the palace, I will still be your only queen, and you can also achieve your ambitions in the previous dynasty with peace of mind." ”
It turned out that this was Zhou Huan's insistence.
Of course, Zhou Huan has his own insistence, and Qi Yu also has his own insistence, so he will definitely not give in.
Just as Zhou Huan was about to say something again, Qi Yu got up and left.
"You rest early, there are still some folds in the study, I'll go and see."
Yuxi, who had been guarding the door, saw Qi Yu throw his hand and leave, and immediately felt bad, thinking that something was wrong inside, and immediately ran in.
As a result, as soon as she came in, she saw Zhou Huan smirking there.
"Queen Mother......" Yuxi is unknown.
Hearing this, Zhou Huan finally came back to her senses, she smiled and said to Yuxi: "The emperor likes this lotus seed soup, Yuxi, you personally go to the study to send some to the emperor." ”
"Huh?" Yuxi realized later, "Oh, okay, the slave maid will go and prepare immediately." ”
After Yuxi left, the smile on Zhou Huan's lips did not immediately put away.
The little girl on the side, Lumei, smiled slightly, "The emperor has only one mother in his heart, and the slave and maid congratulate the mother." "16k Chinese
Lumei didn't know very well the relationship between Zhou Huan and Qi Yu, and she only heard about the relationship between the former prince and the princess when she was discussing things with the palace maids.
When she heard this, Zhou Huan had just taken off the jade scratch on her bun, she paused and wrapped some hair around it.
In this deep palace, the emperor's grace is enough to lift one person to the sky, but at the same time, it can also completely knock another person into the abyss. Zhou Huan lowered his eyes and thought about it, and even pulled his hair indiscriminately.
Less than two days later, the Empress Dowager's decree reached the Kunning Palace.
"Mother, are we going?" Yuxi carefully put a flower on Zhou Huan's bun, and then nodded contentedly.
Zhou Huan looked at himself in the mirror, his lips were red and his teeth were white, but there was a faint sadness between his eyebrows and eyes, he really didn't know where the resolute self had gone.
"It's a beautiful flower."
She exclaimed, but without hesitation, she took the flowers from her hair, and then chose the simplest hosta.
"Niangniang-" Yuxi looked at Zhou Huan puzzled.
Lumei on the side took the initiative to take the hosta and put it on for Zhou Huan, "The Queen Mother has been in the palace for a long time, and what Ping Suli dislikes the most is these flowers and plants, so the mother is also ......."
had no choice but to say these four words, but Lumei couldn't say anything.
"In fact, this is not in harmony with the etiquette in the first place, and the queen should be dignified and generous."
Zhou Huan took the initiative to resolve the embarrassment, she smiled at herself in the mirror, in fact, this is not bad.
Who would have thought that the queen mother, the first person in the harem, who is envied by all women in the world, would not dare to touch it because of the ancestral etiquette, and she would not be able to touch what she really liked.
Shoukang Palace.
These three words were written by the emperor himself to the empress dowager, and the honor in them is naturally incomparable. Now the three big characters of gilt have come into Zhou Huan's eyes, and further down, the vermilion door has been opened.
Sure enough, as Lumei said, the Empress Dowager does not like any flowers and plants, in the huge palace, whether it is the courtyard outside or the house inside, all the furnishings are gold, silver and jade, and finally saw a tall pine tree in the middle of the courtyard.
Take a closer look, it is actually a night pearl, and it is decorated with fine jade, Zhou Huan knows that this is the longevity tree designed by the emperor himself when the empress dowager celebrates her seventieth birthday.
It is precisely because of this that the Empress Dowager, who has experienced the three dynasties, has distant relatives with the Guogong Mansion, and is in the deep palace, Zhou Huan does not feel that he can resist it now.
At the same time, Qi Yu of the previous dynasty must also be considered by her.
After putting away the amazement in his eyes, Zhou Huan followed Mama Zhang's footsteps to the Queen Mother's bedroom.
"The concubine asks the Empress Dowager to say goodbye, and I wish the Empress Dowager a longer life than Nanshan and a blessing like the East China Sea."
As soon as Zhou Huan came in, she bowed her head and saluted, she knelt down, slowly drew her hands up, and then the whole person prostrate on the ground and kowtowed to say goodbye.
Finally, she heard the voice of the Queen Mother, "Rainy girl, why don't you hurry up and help the Queen Mother up." ”
Subsequently, the fat powder on Qin Luoyu's body came to his face.
"Queen Mother, Wanfu Jin'an, Niangniang, please get up." Qin Luoyu first saluted, and then helped Zhou Huan up.
Zhou Huan was also down-to-earth and generous, as if he and Qin Luoyu were really reconciled as before, although the two of them had no close relationship before.
"Thank you, Miss Qin."
The Empress Dowager, who has been sitting in a high position, has been looking at Zhou Huan in front of her with half-squinted eyes, and she seems to have seen this girl from a distance at the palace banquet before, but in addition, the two really have no intersection at half.
As if feeling the empress dowager's scrutiny, she raised her eyes and looked directly, and then took a box from Yuxi's hand with a smile.
"Empress Dowager, this is a gift from the concubine to your elder."
The scroll was spread out, and the Empress Dowager's originally tightly wrinkled brows were finally relieved for a moment, and then the dry palms carefully touched it, "This is a painting by Master Void, and the mourning family has not seen the real work for a long time." ”
Hearing this, Zhou Huan smiled slightly and nodded.
"The concubine knew that the Empress Dowager liked it, so she took a little effort to find the authentic work."
Qin Luoyu put away the painting, and then was held in her arms by the Empress Dowager herself, "You kid, you have a heart." ”
Zhou Huan smiled and said nothing.
"This painting, the more you look at it, the happier you are, it's better to be like this, it's raining?" The Empress Dowager nodded at Zhou Huan with satisfaction, and then looked at Qin Luoyu.
Qin Luoyu replied obediently, "The Empress Dowager, please instruct, Luoyu will give the Empress Dowager a proper help." ”
When she entered the palace that day, Lord Qin asked her to go over and repeatedly ask her not to go against the will of the Empress Dowager, and the strict father also instructed his daughter that it was more important to make the Empress Dowager happy than anything else.
"So, take this painting with you to show the emperor." The Empress Dowager put the painting in Qin Luoyu's arms, "Go quickly." ”
"This ......"
Qin Luoyu looked at Zhou Huan hesitantly, to be honest, in Zhou Huan's sphere of influence, she didn't want to annoy Zhou Huan now.
As a result, the Empress Dowager directly taught her a lesson.
"The little grandson of the mourning family, it is important to be filial since he was a child, this is not to find a good granddaughter-in-law for the mourning family, the mourning family must be very happy to think that he is also very happy. What do you say, Queen? ”
So it was, after going around in a circle, the Empress Dowager finally revealed her true thoughts.
From the beginning to the end, her purpose was to match Qin Luoyu and Qi Yu, and even specially invited her, the queen, to come over today, just to tell Zhou Huan her bottom line.