"Your Majesty is still with Princess Jincheng?" When Sun came to the outside of Penglai Palace, he met a female official, so he asked. The female officer replied, "Yes, it's been almost a month, and Your Majesty hasn't gone out a single step." I used to see him walking around, but I haven't seen him again. Does Mrs. Sun want to see Her Majesty? ”

Sun said: "It's gone, I'll come to see my granddaughter." As she spoke, she noticed the expression of a palace maid beside her from her peripheral vision. The palace maid's name is Xiao Qian, and she is a person from Princess Taiping's side, and Sun can guess what she is doing by her side with her toes. Don't look at Xiao Qian's respectful and respectful is no different from other maids, but who knows if she will go back to see Princess Taiping?

For the sake of the dignity of the royal family, Princess Taiping did not publicize Xue Chongxun and Sun's affairs. When the people present heard her ask where the emperor was, they thought that Sun was concerned about his daughter's favor; But that Xiaoqian should know something, and Sun felt that she was embarrassed by her side. The feeling of being watched and watched at any time is very uncomfortable, and the Sun family can't get rid of this palace maid, let alone find a way to get rid of it. It depends on the owner to beat the dog, and she has no way to resist Princess Taiping.

The place where Xue Chongxun stayed and the palace where Princess Jincheng lived was not in the main hall of Penglai Palace, but belonged to the annex building complex in the west. Penglai Hall is the main body of the two main hall complexes, the area of the front hall is the place where the emperor lives and activities, and the central palace room in the north is used as the queen's bedroom; In addition, there are many smaller houses in the surrounding area, including the dormitories of concubines and female officials, and the residence of palace maids. So Sun and the others walked up the stairs and entered the corridor in the main hall to the place where Empress Li Yan'er lived.

At this time, seeing a group of people coming across the corridor, Li Yan'er was in front, and Sun was relieved when she saw this: Yan'er is becoming more and more polite, and she has come so far to meet me.

But seeing that the princess of the Xue family Hezhong was also there, Li Yan'er only called her mother, and the princess of Hezhong saluted and said politely: "Mrs. Ning Guo is fine." Therefore, the Sun family could judge that Li Yan'er was sending the princess of the river, and did not come to meet him. The Sun family was named Mrs. Ningguo, and the title was not as big as the emperor's sister and the second princess, but the whole family was related to the family, and the Sun family was an elder after all, and the princess of the river was indeed a well-behaved person, giving people a feeling that she was not arrogant at all, which was very attractive.

Sun smiled and returned the salute, leaving the princess in the river to speak, but the princess in the river politely refused, laughing that she also lived in the Chengxiang Palace and could usually see it, but the little princess Xue Xiazhou could not see it every day.

The little princess was not brought out, and was still in the palace for the nurse to take with her, and there were two little palace maids to play with. Sun went to the queen's bedroom to see his granddaughter, Xue Xiazhou's eyes were very bright and smart, and he remembered Sun, and he called "grandma" when they met. Sun went to hug her with a smile on his face, and when Xue Xiazhou threw himself into her arms, an imperceptible look flashed in her eyes...... My granddaughter can be called a person. There is a bronze mirror on the dressing table not far away, and Sun saw his face from the bronze mirror when he held the little princess, and he vaguely looked as if he was not old, but it still made people have mixed feelings.

The unnatural expression on Sun's face soon disappeared, and she teased the little princess as if nothing had happened. Li Yan'er said beside her: "I heard that Your Majesty saw Aunt Jincheng bathing in the bath, so I was hooked...... And Jin Cheng deliberately let him see it, is she really such a scheming person? ”

"What did the princess of the river say?" Sun asked with a frown.

Li Yan'er said: "She only learned from the private discussions of the palace maids. ”

A sneer suddenly appeared on Sun's face: "Then why don't you ask which palace maids they are?" You are the queen and have the right to dispose of the people in the harem! Well, even if the princess of the river doesn't know or remember who is talking, then she should remember where she heard it, and when she heard it! The people in this palace usually don't go wherever they want, and who should be in what place can't be wrong, if you ask it, let people check it immediately, who is spreading rumors or the palace maids are not spreading rumors at all, you can find it clear with a check...... Can't you think more about these things yourself? ”

Li Yan'er saw that Sun's face was not good-looking, and she blamed herself as soon as they met, so she was naturally not very happy, and said with some grievances: "Do you have to check...... If it is found out, will someone lose their lives again? Last time, a Zhaoyi jumped into a well and died, I always thought that the people over there looked at me strangely, so let's stop it......"

Sun sighed and said, "Of course you can't check it anymore now." As soon as the princess of the river said this, you should immediately pursue the rumor-mongers; I didn't pursue it at the time, just now the princess in the river came here again, and then I went to investigate, isn't it obvious that I am instructing you, so I won't offend the princess in the river? She is so loved by Princess Taiping in Chengxiang Palace, and she will be careful when she lives in Chengxiang Hall for her mother in the future? ”

Li Yan'er breathed a sigh of relief: "Then it's okay not to pursue it, why bother to find out what is right and wrong?" ”

"It's not that you can hide by pretending to be deaf and dumb." Sun said bitterly, "Princess Jincheng's mind is much more active than yours, and they are relatives of each other, and they have played well with you since they were children, and now they live in Penglai Palace, you should interact with her more to avoid estrangement." Since there are rumors that she is scheming, as the queen, you know about it, you should stand up for Gu Qingyi to help her; You don't know, what will Princess Jincheng think? ”

"My aunt is very nice, she won't think much of it." Li Yan'er said busily.

Sun opened her mouth, but she didn't know what to say, even between mother and daughter, she couldn't open her mouth to instill sinister things like people's hearts to Li Yan'er. Besides, there are the little princess's nurse and the queen's close attendants here (Xiao Qian and the others did not follow the queen's inner room), Sun believes that these people will not talk about the affairs of their palace, but she is still speechless in front of outsiders.

A look of worry appeared on Sun's face again, and Li Yan'er hurriedly comforted her, but it was not all because of her daughter's little right and wrong, but the incident just now affected her mood, and sometimes the endurance of love xù only needs to add an extra straw to calm down.

She even thought: It would be good if the identities of the mother and daughter were reversed, so that she would have the status of the queen, and she would never become such a dilemma...... As the so-called chess is not in a hurry, watching chess is in a hurry: occupying a good situation on the chessboard and turning out to be bad moves step by step, how can people not panic?

Or if she and Xue Chongxun didn't know about it, Princess Taiping, she could stay by Li Yan'er's side and take care of her daughter as before.

There are some things that you can't have at your best, and you can't take all the benefits. The thing that could not see the light was not restrained at the beginning, and sooner or later it would be revealed under the nose of Princess Taiping, and then she would choose to either go to live in Chengxiang Hall or go out of the palace to live...... At that time, she had no choice, even if she put aside her personal feelings, she couldn't choose to leave the palace.

She knew Xue Chongxun too well, and Xue Chongxun couldn't tolerate her looking for a face like other noblewomen. In his opinion, it is more intolerable for someone to touch his woman than for a foreign race to engage in war and provocation, and it is only a matter of flicking his sleeves to shed blood in a fit of anger. Just like in the past, the Cui family didn't do anything to Princess Jincheng, but they fell to the point of raiding the family and exterminating the clan, almost everyone felt that Xue Chongxun had done too much, but some people's personalities really couldn't be treated like ordinary people...... Although it was meaningless in the first place.

As the Buddhists say, all people who have not fulfilled their hearts have such and such obsessions.

Sun is also obsessed, when she keeps teaching her daughter to deal with problems wisely, isn't she also drilling horns? She understood that even if Xue Chongxun could tolerate it, she would never raise a man. Perhaps because he was born in a scholar family and was too deeply influenced by Confucian etiquette, the Sun family was really not as open as the noblewomen of the Li Tang Dynasty, and he could not give up the concept of good and evil, black and white etiquette, and shame in the contradictions. Therefore, Wu Zetian is not a person who can be anyone, she can kill her son without pressure, she can collect the harem in a bright and domineering manner, and she has broken through the powerful order and cage created by sages, classics, ethics and morality in concept.

In Sun's view, stripping naked in front of a man is a kind of humiliation like being conquered, and in front of Xue Chongxun is no exception. But Xue Chongxun is respected and powerful enough in her mind, (or it is a legitimate relationship) that she will accept this humiliation, and it doesn't matter if she loses her dignity; Just as men kneel down to the Son of Heaven and call themselves vassals, they never feel undignified, but feel very honored: kneeling down to the Son of Heaven and kneeling down to their parents, it is natural for them to be respectful and humble.

So she is destined to wander in contradictions, on the one hand, the embarrassment of being a young widow, and on the other hand, her daughter's good form shì needs to restrain her longing for Xue Chongxun, and she has recently discovered something This longing has become more and more intense. When she saw her granddaughter who was related by blood, she also felt an indescribable sense of incloseness. G