Chapter 109: Resistance to the Decree
"As soon as these days are counted, I haven't seen each other for more than ten years, and the son of the world often says to the mourning family, you have not had a good time in the past ten years, and the mourning family is also sour in her heart, but the mourning family thinks again, although your child has no mother, but his father and grandmother are there, will he still watch you be wronged?" The Queen Mother patted Jiang Xiaoyu's hand and asked, "If you have anything unspeakable, just say it, and the mourning family will call the shots for you!" β
"It's the prince who is making a big fuss, the courtiers have been doing well all these years, my father and grandmother are very concerned about me, but who doesn't have so many grievances in their lives, the prince feels sorry for the courtiers, and the grievances of those children are magnified, don't take the queen mother to heart!" Jiang Xiaoyu lowered his eyes and said, "If there is anything unspeakable, although my father and grandmother are very caring, it is inevitable that there is no place to take care of them, and they must not be bullied when they are young, but the people who bullied the courtiers back then are now also suffering the consequences and being driven out by their fathers, so the courtiers do not feel wronged in their hearts!" β
"It's rare that you are open-minded and don't hold grudges at all, and it's no wonder that the son of the world wants to pity you!" The Queen Mother smiled, but the coldness in her eyes still made people feel slightly cold.
At this time, Mama Qu came in to say that the meal was ready, and the Queen Mother left Jiang Xiaoyu to eat together, during which the Queen Mother thought of a kind elder, smiling and caring about the trivial matters of the life of the two juniors.
Jiang Xiaoyu responded obediently, but a sneer appeared in his heart, if he hadn't known about the queen mother's iron-blooded methods, he was afraid that he would really regard her as a kind grandmother.
After saying a few more words, the Queen Mother suddenly changed her words and said, "Do you know about the matter between Su Xuan and the prince?" β
"I know a little bit about it."
"Then you should also know that the love between the prince and Su Xuan is deep, and the person who has made a promise to the prince has a marriage contract with you first, so he can only live up to the deep affection between him and Su Xuan, and the mourning family sees that these two children are pitiful, and wants to be a matchmaker, marrying Su Xuan to the prince, and fulfilling their friendship, but after all, you have a marriage contract with the prince, and the mourning family wants to ask you what you mean?" The Queen Mother asked with a smile, and there was inevitably two more majesty in her voice.
"The posture of the courtier, thanks to the love of the prince, is already grateful, the marriage of the prince should not be fingered, and the marriage is the private matter of the prince, the courtier cannot make decisions for him, I am afraid that I have to make my own decision!" Jiang Xiaoyu replied.
"The mourning family also said that the prince values love and righteousness, and is unwilling to live up to the promise made with you, so he wants to give up the relationship with Su Xuan, the mourning family is not unbearable, and let the lover be separated from the two places, it must be unbearable!" The Queen Mother's tone became stiff, "The prince is afraid that he will be sorry for you, so he will not open this mouth, and for the marriage of the two of you, he has borne a lot of criticism, but he should also do something for the prince, if this marriage is up to you, the prince is afraid that he will have no worries!" β
She glanced at Jiang Xiaoyu and was silent for a while, this short silence made the air in the room cool for two minutes, the corners of her mouth hooked slightly, and said: "What's more, Su Xuan's child can only get married to a lover, as for the position of the princess, she doesn't want it, but she is the same wife as you, and the future child is also the son-in-law, and the position of the princess is still yours!" β
The coldness in Jiang Xiaoyu's heart is even better, the Queen Mother's words should be called heart-wrenching, one is that Zhao Ling has no feelings for her, but they are all promises in the past, second, the relationship between Zhao Ling and Su Xuan is true love, and thirdly, the position of the concubine in this world is just Su Xuan's charity.
"The Queen Mother!" Jiang Xiaoyu said lightly without making trouble, "The courtier and the prince promised first, a couple for the rest of their lives, if the courtier persuades the prince to marry again, it will be a breach of the agreement between us, and the courtier will not be able to open her mouth no matter what, making the prince sad!" β
She glanced at the faces of the Queen Mother and Su Xuan, and said slowly: "In fact, a beauty like Miss Su Xuan admires the world, and she is also honored, if it weren't for His Majesty's marriage first, she should have taken the initiative to withdraw." Speaking of which, this matter should still need the prince to make his own decision, if the prince wants to be with Miss Su Xuan, he will definitely not object, regardless of various reasons, if the prince is unwilling, if he makes a decision without authorization, I am afraid that it will harm the prince and Miss Su Xuan! β
"Even if it's the will of the mourning family, you have to refuse?" The Queen Mother's eyes narrowed slightly.
"The queen mother's decree, the courtiers naturally dare not resist the decree, but the courtiers are not willing to violate the agreement with the prince, if the queen mother insists on this, please give the courtiers a death!" Jiang Xiaoyu put down his chopsticks, knelt on the ground, and bowed his head and said.
"Do you think the mourning family won't dare to kill you?" The Queen Mother said coldly.
"The courtiers don't dare to get lucky, but they don't want to do things against their will!"
"Do you know that jealousy is guilty of seven offenses? Now that you can't tolerate her, how can he ensure that my royal bloodline will spread out in the future? The Queen Mother sneered, "Do you know that it is taboo to be pampered and arrogant if you don't know how to advance or retreat?" β
"Queen Mother, it's not that the courtiers don't let the prince marry someone else, it's just that the courtiers won't speak, if the prince takes the initiative to mention it, the courtiers will definitely not object, why be jealous?" Jiang Xiaoyu said unhurriedly, "If the queen mother says that the courtiers don't know how to advance or retreat, and the courtiers admit it, I am willing to deal with it by the queen mother!" β
"Queen Mother!" Su Xuan also knelt down beside the Queen Mother, with a wry smile on the corner of her mouth, "You don't have to be strong for Su Xuan, Miss Jiang has a deep relationship with the prince, if you know that Miss Jiang was forced to open her mouth today, he was forced to agree to the marriage with Su Xuan, I am afraid that I will not treat Su Xuan sincerely in the future, why should Su Xuan intervene between the prince and Miss Jiang and be annoying?" Su Xuan knew that the Queen Mother loved her, and with the Queen Mother's heart, Su Xuan already felt satisfied! β
"Let's get up!" The Queen Mother sighed deeply, "This matter needs to be thought about again!" β
"Empress Dowager Xie!"
Kneeling to say goodbye to the Queen Mother, Jiang Xiaoyu was about to leave Fengxi Palace, and Su Xuan chased after her: "Miss Jiang, please stay!" β
"Miss Su Xuan, do you have any advice?"
"I can't talk about advice, I just have a few words in my heart that I want to talk to you!" Su Xuan's face was not very good, a little pale, and the smile on the corner of her mouth looked a little self-deprecating and miserable, "I admire that you can be so firm in front of the Queen Mother, I think that your relationship with the prince should be stronger than gold, so you will put life and death out of the way!" β
"I haven't had more Miss Su Xuan intercede for her courtiers!"
"I can't open my mouth, the queen mother won't really do anything to you, after all, you are the fiancΓ©e of the prince, she will never make the prince sad, and I just want to give myself two more face!" Su Xuan smiled self-deprecatingly, "I know that the prince has no self in his heart, and I can also die, Miss Jiang is admirable, I sincerely wish that you and the prince can grow old together!" β
"Miss Su Xuan's mind, Xiaoyu is also very admired! If there is something that you can't live in, please forgive me, just because of the word feelings, Xiaoyu can't tolerate three people! Jiang Xiaoyu looked at Su Xuan's eyes a little dark, thought about it and said, "I shouldn't have opened my mouth about this matter, it should have been told to you by the prince himself, the girl is worrying about the fact that the prince is trying to find a way, and it hasn't happened at the last moment, the girl must not do stupid things!" When the son of the world mentioned it to me before, I only regarded it as someone else's business, and I didn't care, today's girl is broad-minded, Xiaoyu has no place to be ashamed, and Xiaoyu will try her best to help with the girl's affairs! β
Su Xuan originally told Jiang Xiaoyu about Zhao Ling's private entrustment to her, but when she heard her words, she felt a little more grateful to Jiang Xiaoyu in her heart: "No matter what the matter ends with, Su Xuan will thank the people who helped Su Xuan!" β
Leaving from the palace, Jiang Xiaoyu got into the carriage back to Jiangfu, the queen mother's summons is a matter of time, she lives to this day and is especially dependent, the emperor will not kill her, naturally he will not let other people kill her for the time being, and the queen mother probes her bottom line is also reasonable, she hit the queen mother in front of her today without a roundabout response, it is a little irrational, in fact, it is not a signal released by herself, she will not be easy to be manipulated, and the marriage between their sons will not be so easy for people to interfere.
The Queen Mother's dislike for her will not be reduced because of her obedience, so why bother to deal with it!
In recent years, the Queen Mother has been raising her life and rarely cares about political affairs, so the two princes in Beijing have had accidents one after another, and the most favored daughter is guilty of serious crimes, but she is in the mood to care about Su Xuan's marriage, this kind of city is really not something that ordinary people can do, no matter how the storm is stirred this time, the Queen Mother and her mother's family are not involved.
Today's trip to Fengxi Palace is just the beginning, and in the future, there will be more malicious intent from the palace.
Not long after Jiang Xiaoyu left, the news that the Queen Mother had summoned her had spread throughout the harem and reached the ears of the Queen and Concubine Jin.
When the palace people told the graceful and luxurious queen the news, she was pruning a potted plant, but when she went down with scissors, she saw a few more leaves. Although it didn't hurt, the queen was no longer interested in seeing it: "Throw it away!" β
"Yes!" The palace people immediately carried the potted plants away.
"The Queen Mother summoned Xiaoyu? It seems that the Queen Mother also has no way to take the world, so she has to accept Xiaoyu! The queen's lips opened lightly, "It's just that the old woman is scheming, and she won't compromise on this, this palace has been quiet for ten years, I'm afraid it's going to be lively!" β
"Is there still no news from the Third Prince?" The queen asked, pressing her temples.
The confidant Empress Dowager Hong Gonggong thought for a while and said: "Niangniang don't worry too much, Princess Xiuwen has stopped everything, and the three princes have always been very cautious in their actions, and they will not be implicated too much, these two princes have been lifted, and the third prince is a matter of these two days!" β
"If it weren't for the instigation of that slut in Xiuwen, how could the emperor be unhappy by doing something wrong to make His Majesty unhappy? Your Majesty will lose his temper at the palace? The queen said softly, "Is there any movement from Concubine Qi?" Did the second prince enter the palace to ask for peace? β
"Except after meeting Your Majesty, I didn't even go to the Queen Mother to ask for peace, it seems to be to avoid suspicion!" Hong Gonggong said.
"He was calm, he didn't have His Majesty's temper, and he didn't take advantage of the victory to pursue!" The queen sneered, "With such a father and emperor here, these two brothers can't do without anyone!" β