377 Mother's Kindness and Son's Filial Piety (2nd Watch)
Gu Jiao is not good at dealing with emotional problems, but she remembers that her aunt likes Xue Ningxiang very much, so she doesn't know that she can't remember Xue Ningxiang after her brain was smashed once.
"Miss Gu is here!"
The palace people of Renshou Palace saluted Gu Jiao.
"Is the Queen Mother here?" Gu Jiao asked.
"Yes, just after the court." The palace man added, "His Royal Highness King Ning is also here. β
Not?
King Ning returned to the dynasty?
After Gu Jiao got close to the palace, he didn't have to deliberately inquire to hear some movements in the court, and King Ning took Tang Yueshan to the north to suppress bandits some time ago.
said that it was to suppress bandits, but in fact, he used the suppression of bandits to investigate the military situation at the border pass - Chen Guo was restless again, and quietly stationed a lot of troops at the border pass.
Since it was a political matter, Gu Jiao didn't bother, and went directly to the swing frame to bask in the sun.
She wasn't afraid of tanning, even though it didn't seem like her body was tanning.
While swinging, she secretly thought about when to find Concubine Jing again, that woman had harmed her aunt for so many years, even if she couldn't pull her off the stage immediately, she would have to collect the interest.
Just as he was thinking about it, an indefinite call suddenly came from behind him: "Auntie? β
"Huh?" When Gu Jiao's figure swung back to the ground, she stretched out her toes a little and stopped the swing.
Then she turned her head and looked at the handsome young man who had walked through the Weeping Flower Gate, "King Ning? β
King Ning's expression was in a trance for a moment, ahhh β
Her gaze wandered back and forth over Gu Jiao's body, "It's really a little similar." β
Gu Jiao looked down at her clothes, not the green clothes she wore in the past, but the lake-blue water-sleeved tunic skirt that she wore on her aunt's side after soiling her clothes last time.
Is it because this garment is wrong? Orβ
Gu Jiao never asked her aunt why there were so many young women's clothes in her bedroom? She thought her aunt was for her.
But at the moment, it doesn't seem to be.
Yes, probably not.
Obviously, the styles are different.
As long as it doesn't involve tasks, Gu Jiao is not a person who cares about the details of clothing.
Yao usually speculates about her preferences to make clothes for her, but in fact, she is not so picky about clothes, just like someone likes to eat meat, but if he is given a table of vegetables, he will not stop eating.
She got which set in the cupboard, and she could wear it.
King Ning rescued Gu Jiao once when he was attacked by Princess Rui, and the two were not very familiar with each other that time, and now I don't know if it was because he heard about the relationship between Gu Jiao and the Queen Mother, or because Gu Jiao's dress made him feel familiar, he actually took the initiative to come over and fight with Gu Jiao.
"Has anyone ever told you that you are very similar to Aunt Ning An?" He asked.
"Princess Ning'an?" Gu Jiao shook her head, "No." β
King Ning smiled and said, "My aunt married Saibei when I was very young, and I haven't seen her since, but my aunt is very good to me, and I always remember her. β
Gu Jiao sighed and asked, "Do we look alike?" β
Then she will have to doubt her own background.
"No, you don't look like ......," King Ning said, his gaze falling on the birthmark on the left side of her face, "but this place, she has been injured and left a small scar, and she always paints a begonia with cinnabar." β
Gu Jiao touched her birthmark.
King Ning couldn't help but look at Gu Jiao a few more times: "I was busy catching assassins last time, I didn't think it was very similar, but I saw ...... today."
can make King Ning three sentences like Ning An, it seems that she is really similar to Princess Ning An in other places except for this face.
Most people will be very happy to be praised like a princess, which means that she has the temperament and aura of a princess, which is a high praise.
However, Gu Jiao was very calm.
There was no joy and no displeasure.
King Ning said again: "I have heard about the Queen Mother, and I haven't thanked you and your family for taking care of the Queen Mother." If you need anything, you can come to Ning Wangfu at any time to find me. β
Whether it was for the sake of Princess Rui that King Ning was assassinated last time, or because of the prince's duty, it is an indisputable fact that Gu Jiao escaped because of him.
Gu Jiao nodded: "Okay." β
King Ning seemed to be very happy, and smiled: "Then it's decided, by the way, I heard from the Queen Mother that your medical skills are good." I don't know if I can ask you to come to your home for a doctor. β
"Consultation fees are not cheap." Gu Jiao said.
King Ning probably didn't expect Gu Jiao to react like this, ordinary adults were all honored to have to accept money when they heard that they could go to the palace for treatment, and King Ning probably didn't expect Gu Jiao to react like this, he didn't know how to answer for a while.
After a moment, he couldn't help but laugh and say, "It's nature. β
Gu Jiao said: "When I am free, I will have someone hand a post to the palace." β
King Ning smiled: "Then it's decided, I still have something to do, so I will leave first." β
After King Ning left, Gu Jiao got up from the swing frame and walked to her aunt's study.
Empress Dowager Zhuang was looking at the excerpts, and when she saw Gu Jiao coming in, she snorted angrily.
My aunt has always been like this, and Gu Jiao didn't feel that she had done something that was intolerable, so she walked over and handed Xue Ningxiang's letter to her aunt.
"What's that?" Empress Dowager Zhuang asked.
"Xue Ningxiang's letter, does my aunt still remember her?" Gu Jiao asked.
Empress Dowager Zhuang frowned and pondered.
Gu Jiao reminded: "The mother of the dog baby." β
When it comes to dog babies, Empress Dowager Zhuang has the impression that giving a candied fruit can lick a little milk baby in her yard all day, it is not noisy at all, and it is much better than a small clearance!
Then Empress Dowager Zhuang remembered Xue Ningxiang.
The main reason is that Xue Ningxiang's cooking is delicious, and Liulang's cooking is unpalatable, as long as Gu Jiao is not there, she will call Xue Ningxiang over to cook.
"The food was well cooked." Empress Dowager Zhuang said.
"You read the letter first." Gu Jiao said.
Empress Dowager Zhuang read the letter at a glance and ten lines, to be honest, Xue Ningxiang's handwriting is really ugly, but with Gu Jiao's "pearl and jade in front", Empress Dowager Zhuang felt that this kind of character was barely acceptable.
"Yo." Empress Dowager Zhuang raised her eyebrows, "Xiao Xiangxiang is quite popular." β
Look at this reaction, it is worthy of an aunt.
Gu Jiao sat down opposite Empress Dowager Zhuang and looked at her without blinking: "Right?" So how should this matter be solved? β
Empress Dowager Zhuang didn't speak, but stretched out her hand and made a gesture of "bring it".
Gu Jiao pretended not to understand: "What? β
Empress Dowager Zhuang said coldly: "Don't pretend garlic for the mourning family!" Make up for yesterday's performance fee! Otherwise, don't talk about it! β
Just know.
"Okay." Gu Jiao sighed, reluctantly took out the candied fruit box, counted five and put them in Empress Dowager Zhuang's hand, and said with a painful face, "There are only a few of them, and there is no room to eat." β
Empress Dowager Zhuang was choked by Gu Jiao's exaggerated and spicy-eyed acting skills, this girl lost because she didn't enter the palace to compete for favor, otherwise who could be deceived by this acting skills?
Butβ
Empress Dowager Zhuang's gaze swept over her small fist.
It seems that she doesn't have to pretend, and if she punches down, the emperor will lie down.
Empress Dowager Zhuang accepted the candied fruit and said to Gu Jiao: "What's so difficult about this?" Whoever she likes, the mourning family will give her a marriage. β
The question is β
Xue Ningxiang didn't write who she liked on the letter.
Gu Jiao raised her eyebrows: "Then I'll give her a letter back?" β
"Forget it, she won't say that kind of thing in the letter." Empress Dowager Zhuang called Gonggong Qin, "You send two reliable people to the county seat of Youzhou." β
Empress Dowager Zhuang explained the matter, and Duke Qin took the order.
This is the convenience that comes with power, both in terms of the way and the speed with which problems are solved is simple and crude.
With her aunt taking over, Gu Jiao doesn't have to worry about this matter, she is just curious, one is a middle-aged warm uncle, the other is an infatuated little wolf dog, who will Xue Ningxiang choose to marry?
Gu Jiao was thinking about it, and there was a message from the eunuch outside the door - the emperor is here.
The emperor came to the Empress Dowager Zhuang to act.
Even if the emperor slowly dislikes Concubine Jing now, he will not see her true face so quickly, so the emperor has always thought that the murderer is still in the dark and has not yet made a move.
Gu Jiao, who has the whole truth-no, not only did she shoot, but she also smashed her own foot.
Forget it, let's act, it's not a bad thing.
My aunt tolerated the emperor for so many years without knowing that the emperor was drugged, who can say that she really didn't care about the mother-son relationship in her heart?
Gu Jiao also kept the truth to her aunt.
Yes, my aunt also thought that Concubine Jing was patient.
"Is the Queen Mother going to visit the Imperial Garden today?" The emperor said in a light tone.
This is also a bad acting!
Empress Dowager Zhuang rolled her eyes, she didn't leave Renshou Palace, and Empress Dowager Zhuang didn't bother to play with him: "Go, why don't you go?" Butβ"
She lengthened her tone and deliberately glanced at Gu Jiao.
Gu Jiao understood.
Candied fruit.
I know, I know!
It just so happened that she also observed how far the emperor's medicine effect on her aunt had gotten, and Nan Shiniang said that when a Chinese medicine practitioner needs such a large dose of medicine, it means that the effect of the medicine is almost unmaintainable.
She wasn't sure if Concubine Jing's white medicine couldn't be maintained, or if her aunt's black medicine couldn't be maintained, or if both drugs were ineffective at the same time.
Gu Jiao made an OK gesture to her aunt.
This gesture Empress Dowager Zhuang understands, and the little girl said that it is no problem.
Empress Dowager Zhuang raised her eyebrows and looked at her "five candied fruits" with satisfaction: "Let's go." β
Emperor: "......"
Is it a delusion? Why does it feel like the Queen Mother is drooling while watching me?
The two of them had no opinion on Gu Jiao's little tail, so Gu Jiao followed gracefully.
Father-in-law Qin and Father-in-law Wei are naturally there, but they have a low sense of existence, unlike Gu Jiao, who is sitting on the phoenix of the Empress Dowager Zhuang-
The emperor and the Empress Dowager Zhuang walked all the way to the Imperial Garden.
The weather is good today, and there are a lot of people in the Imperial Garden.
Coincidentally, Concubine Jing was also there.
Empress Dowager Zhuang entered her role as early as the moment she left Renshou Palace, and she was not affected by the presence of Concubine Jing in the slightest, but the emperor beside her stiffened slightly the moment she saw Concubine Jing.
There was a kind of panic of being caught.
Concubine Jing looked at the emperor with a hurt face.
The emperor understood that he shouldn't do this, and it was clear that his mother was the most important person to him, but he left his mother and Empress Dowager Zhuang to go out to visit the garden.
Butβ
Gu Jiao understood, the effect of the black medicine had only exerted a little, and the emperor had not completely disliked Concubine Jing, and his mood at this time was probably weak and complicated.
Gu Jiao speculated that Concubine Jing was expecting this, so she wanted to come out and see with her own eyes what the relationship between the emperor and the queen mother had reached, and this was very likely to affect her next plan.
Empress Dowager Zhuang didn't know, she was originally acting for Concubine Jing, and it was good that the deity was here, so she didn't have to tell her through other people's mouths, and the effect was discounted.
Empress Dowager Zhuang looked at the emperor gently, took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat that didn't exist on his forehead: "Hong'er, what's wrong with you?" Is there something uncomfortable? We went to the pavilion and sat down. β
"Nope." The emperor came back to his senses, but he did not avoid her touch.
Concubine Jing's eyes deepened.
"Hey, isn't that your mother?" Empress Dowager Zhuang seemed to have just seen Concubine Jing now, and she couldn't find the slightest mistake in her tone and eyes, "Father-in-law Qin, go and invite Concubine Jing over." β
"Yes!"
Gonggong Qin went to invite Concubine Jing.
Mama Cai understands that it was extremely irrational in the past at this time, but sometimes people will really think that they can control everything after winning for half a lifetime, and Concubine Jing agreed.
Several people sat down in the pavilion.
Of the four stools, Empress Dowager Zhuang sat beside the emperor without concession, and Gu Jiao sat on the other side of the emperor, which caused Concubine Jing to sit directly opposite the emperor.
"Hong'er has lost weight recently, so she needs to eat more." Empress Dowager Zhuang gently picked up a piece of crab roe cake and handed it to the emperor.
"Your Majesty doesn't eat crab roe crisp." Concubine Jing reminded softly.
Empress Dowager Zhuang: ...... Forget that the emperor's stupid son picks his mouth.
Empress Dowager Zhuang said calmly: "He likes it now!" Is it? Your Majesty? β
She smiled and gave him a menacing little look.
The emperor frowned and took the piece of crab roe cake with great disgust.
Empress Dowager Zhuang's handkerchief fell to the ground and was stepped on by herself, and she picked it up.
The emperor couldn't help but take a bite of it.
Empress Dowager Zhuang picked up the handkerchief and went to wipe her mouth, pressed her head, and couldn't refuse: "Oh, why is it the same as when I was a child, eating all over my mouth?" β
The Emperor's temples throbbed: ...... Looking for death is not! Don't think I didn't see the handkerchief you stepped on!
The eyes of the two fought more than a dozen times, but all this was not the same thing in the eyes of Concubine Jing.
It's very close!
She didn't know that they were acting, and when they really started to rebuild the old one.
A thick jealousy welled up in her heart, and she poked the handkerchief in her hand!