CHAPTER XV
readx; : The Queen Mother's birthday
The emperor summoned the newlyweds, the queen mother was very happy, the queen mother's birthday is coming soon, the emperor means to celebrate the queen mother's birthday. When the emperor was there www.biquge.info the queen mother was still a concubine, although she also had a birthday, but there were always people who couldn't do it, this time it was the first birthday after becoming the queen mother, and the emperor wanted to hold a different birthday for the queen mother than in previous years.
There are still three days before the Queen Mother's birthday, and all the palace concubines want to prepare the best gift for the Queen Mother, and it is the most difficult thing to prepare a gift for the Queen Mother. If you want to prepare, you must prepare a gift that is different from others, otherwise it is better not to prepare.
Chenxi thought that the Queen Mother liked porcelain and other things, and remembered that her mother sent a pair of Cishouqi from outside the palace, which was not bad, it was porcelain from the Tang Dynasty, and it had been some years. When the time comes, the fine packaging, their own handwritten a longevity word, covered on the top of the box, he once had nothing to do when he embroidered a blessing such as the East China Sea Shoubi Nanshan embroidery, just together with the Queen Mother as a gift.
The emperor knew that the Queen Mother liked Dongzhu, so he specially found a Dongzhu as big as a small orange.
Mama Sun looked at the palace ministers present and said to the Queen Mother: "Queen Mother, look at so many people outside who have come to congratulate you on your birthday, the emperor has put a lot of thought into finding a gift for the Queen Mother this time." The concubines of each palace have also carefully prepared gifts for the Queen Mother, Queen Mother, do you go out to see? The Queen Mother nodded, walked out, and saw everyone drinking and talking happily.
After a while, the emperor came, and everyone saluted: "The emperor is safe." After everyone calmed down, the emperor asked Li Dequan to bring up the gift for the Queen Mother, and in a very exquisite small box, there was a beautiful Dongzhu. The Queen Mother took the gift box and picked up the East Pearl to show everyone.
The concubine's gift to the Queen Mother started from a high position, and the gift prepared by the Jade Guifei to the Queen Mother was a tiger skin mink, which was made of two fine white tiger and tiger skins. Chenxi's gift to the Queen Mother was a Cishou vase and embroidery, the Empress Dowager took the gift and opened the box containing the Cishou vase, two exquisite vases lying inside, the emperor said to the Empress Dowager: "This is Xi'er carefully prepared for you, in order to be able to write a very beautiful longevity character, she has made a lot of effort."
Mama Su held the embroidery in her hand and said to the Queen Mother: "Queen Mother, look at the words on this are all embroidered with gold thread, a stitch and a thread are handmade, especially exquisite." Everyone who came to the birthday banquet gave birthday gifts to the Queen Mother, but when they arrived at the Ying nobles, something went wrong, and the bed clothes given to the Queen Mother should be embroidered with a longevity word, and it was also embroidered with a phoenix. Who knows, as soon as the Queen Mother opened the box, she saw the word "Dian", and there were skull-embroidered heads next to it, which frightened the Queen Mother.
The emperor picked up the bedclothes on the ground and thought something was wrong? Who knew that when he saw these disrespectful things, the emperor reprimanded: "Ying noble, this is the good gift you told me to give to the Queen Mother?" How can I have such a rebellious thing as you, you know best what is embroidered on the gift you gave to the Queen Mother, are you cursing the Queen Mother? ”
Ying Guiren shook his head and said: "The concubines don't understand, why did the embroidered longevity and phoenix on it make the emperor and the queen mother angry?" Please let the emperor make it clear. "The emperor is even more angry" explicitly?! Look at what's embroidered on it! ”
Ying Guiren took the bed robe and looked at the pattern on it and said: "This is not the one embroidered by the concubine, the one embroidered by the concubine is not like this, the stitches are so rough that they are driven out, and this is not the craftsmanship of the concubine!" The concubine started embroidering last month, and Zhen Zhaoyi also knew about it. The emperor looked at Chenxi, and Chenxi nodded and said, "The concubine does know about this, and the concubine has also seen the bedding dress she embroidered, but it is indeed not this one."
This is a little palace maid who ran in, knelt on the ground and cried and said, "The emperor and the queen mother are the masters of the little master." The slave maid is to help the nobleman get gifts, and on the way I met Xiaoyu next to the concubine, Xiaoyu told me that I wanted to see the purse embroidered by the slave maid two days ago, so I went to get it for her. When leaving, he handed the gift to Xiaoyu, and the slave didn't check the gift after he came back. The slave and maid directly handed over the gift to the nobleman, and the nobleman gave the gift to the queen mother without checking it. ”
The Queen Mother turned her head to look at the concubine sitting on the side, and the Queen Mother said to the concubine: "Concubine, tell me what's going on?" Concubine Li explained: "The concubine didn't know about this matter, please ask the emperor and the queen mother to know about it. The concubine did not instigate Xiaoyu to steal the gift, and the concubine did not know about it. ”
At this moment, Xiaoyu came in, and Xiaoyu cried and said: "The emperor and the queen mother's slaves and maids really listened to the words of the concubine and the queen mother, so they went to steal the gift given to the queen mother by the noble Ying. Concubine Li Niangniang was not optimistic about the Ying nobles in her heart, so she wanted to use the Queen Mother's birthday to get rid of the Ying nobles. The slave couldn't bear it when she did this, so she came to tell the emperor and the queen mother about it. The slave and maid hope that the emperor and the queen mother can see the face of the mother's dedicated service and give a light punishment. ”
Chenxi always felt that something was wrong, but he just couldn't remember it. The emperor looked at Chenxi, who was sitting not far away, and said, "Xi'er, do you know anything about this matter when you and your concubine left?" The concubine said to the emperor: "The concubine has no idea about this matter, the concubine and the concubine have been friends since childhood, others don't know her, don't the concubines know her?" She has never had the intention of harming others, and the concubine felt that there was something wrong with what Xiaoyu said to the palace maid. ”
The emperor asked Li Dequan to send Xiaoyu and the palace maid to the Shen Punishment Division, and after severe torture, they didn't say anything, Xiaoyu insisted that it was instructed by the concubine, and the palace maid bit her tongue and committed suicide without saying anything.
The Queen Mother's birthday should have been happily celebrated, but there was such an incident, and the Queen Mother had no intention of continuing her birthday, so she simply went to the Criminal Division to see the results of the interrogation.
Xiaoyu insisted that the queen mother and the emperor had no choice, and Concubine Yu tried everything she could not let Xiaoyu say anything else, after she stepped into the threshold of the Criminal Division, she only said one sentence in her mouth, "It was the concubine who instructed me to do it", she said this sentence over and over again.
The queen mother and the emperor have no choice, now it is most important to hurry up and end this matter, if you want to end it, you have to give the matter a result, and this result can only be beneficial to one party. If the emperor and the queen mother believe that it was not the concubine who instructed the nobles, but the nobles of Ying, there is no evidence to prove that it will arouse everyone's opposition. If it is determined that it was instigated by the concubine, if it is they who wronged the concubine in order to get rid of the concubine, how can this be good? In the end, the queen mother and the emperor could only listen to Xiaoyu's words, and reduced the concubine to a noble person and was grounded for three months. And Xiaoyu was released.
Concubine Li was really disheartened, and all her hopes for the emperor disappeared in this decision, in exchange for Concubine Li's indifference to the emperor. Recalling the joy when I first met the emperor, and then thinking about the loss after Li Dequan came to deliver the decree, this made the concubine no longer have any hope for the emperor.