Chapter Twenty-Three: Murong Qiuyue
The woman in red is so fast, she must be a person from the rivers and lakes, where are they going to find it?
"Boss, could it be ......?"
The official who had just spoken whispered, stretched out his finger and pointed to a beautiful three-story wooden building not far away, which was in stark contrast to the low houses around it.
"You mean... That mysterious inn? ”
Wu Er asked with his head sideways, then waved his hand and smiled, "How is it possible?" We didn't offend them, and besides, the people in there came and went without a trace, or they didn't see the real people at all, how could it be? ”
"That's right," the man who spoke earlier nodded, "Forget it, let's take our time down the street." ”
"Look for it, look for it, of course you have to find it, otherwise your head will really move, alas." The person in the back lowered his head and sighed.
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At this time, the palace of the Southern Dynasty
In the main hall of a splendid palace, there was a large row of eunuchs and palace maids kneeling neatly, all trembling as if they were facing a great enemy. On the phoenix couch above the main hall, Queen Murong Qiuyue was wearing a phoenix robe embroidered with red gold silk and a purple and gold phoenix crown, and was leaning on the phoenix couch obliquely looking coldly at the row of palace people kneeling below.
"Queen Mother, please stop your anger......"
A man who looked like a chief eunuch knelt and spoke cautiously.
"Anger? Am I angry with me? ”
Murong Qiuyue didn't wait for the eunuch to finish speaking, she stood up elegantly with the support of the palace maid beside her, and slowly walked down from above, pointing at her beautiful nose, her phoenix eyes were slightly raised, "Gonggong Hao, do you want to talk about it, does this palace look like angry?" ”
"No... No. ”
Father-in-law Hao knelt on the ground, his hands couldn't help but tremble a little, only he knew that Niangniang was really angry.
"You can't do this little thing, you better go to the Internal Affairs Office to get the punishment."
Murong Qiuyue finished speaking lightly, and then didn't look at the palace people on the ground, and dragged the long skirt outside.
"Yes, the slave obeys the order, thank Niangniang for not killing her."
Father-in-law Hao kowtowed heavily on the ground and said.
After he couldn't see Murong Qiuyue's back, Gonggong Hao stood up from the ground with his knees propped up, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and was glad that he was still alive.
"What do you see? What should you do, be careful, keep your mouth steady, or beware of your little life! ”
"Yes."
"Yes."
"Yes."
A series of chicken-like pecking sounds, Hao Gonggong snorted coldly and flicked his sleeves away.
"Xiu'er, do you know what the Queen Mother is looking for in the palace?"
On the palace road to Cining Palace, Murong Qiuyue asked Xiu'er, the big palace maid beside her, while taking quick steps.
"Mother, the Queen Mother didn't say it, but... His Royal Highness the Crown Prince seems to be also in Cining Palace. ”
Xiu'er leaned close to Murong Qiuyue's ear and whispered.
"Yo, who am I? Isn't this the royal sister-in-law? Say hello to the imperial sister-in-law. ”
Without waiting for Murong Qiuyue to say anything, a crisp and pleasant voice came from the opposite side. She looked up and saw a woman in her twenties dressed in gorgeous palace clothes walking over in front of her, surrounded by a group of palace maids.
"Imperial sister, why are you? When did you enter the palace? I don't say a word to this palace. ”
When Murong Qiuyue saw the visitor, she let go of the hand holding Xiu'er, stepped forward very enthusiastically and grabbed the woman's wrist, and said with a friendly smile.
The person who came was the sister of the current emperor's mother, Lan Zilin, the princess of Changle, who was twenty-eight years old, and had promised to be married to Xiao Zhang, the general of Zhenyuan, and had a son who was ten years old under his knees, named Xiao Yuan. Princess Changle has always been arrogant, and the emperor and the queen mother also favor her, so she is very free to enter and leave the palace.
"I just came, no, I just entered the palace to see you, the imperial sister-in-law, where are you going?"
Lan Zilin smiled, her eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and her fair and delicate skin was glowing with a healthy layer of pink, like a young girl in her teens.
"I was going to say hello to the Queen Mother, let's go together?"
Murong Qiuyue patted the back of Lan Zilin's hand, and then led her in the direction of Cining Palace.
In Cining Palace, the kind-eyed Empress Dowager Murong Jing was looking at Lan Xing sitting beside her distressedly,
"Ah Xing, why didn't you tell the mourning family earlier? You kid, you're always like this, you carry everything by yourself, look at your ......"
The Queen Mother carefully looked at the handsome face in front of her, which was five points similar to Emperor Lan Hongzhen's face, but it had a hint of indifference more than Lan Hongzhen.
"Imperial grandmother, don't worry, I'm fine, you see, I'm not doing well."
Lan Xing smiled, but a trace of coldness flashed in his eyes, if it weren't for his special physique, he would have been poisoned to death.
The fact that his body can detoxify itself is unknown to no one except his master, Gongsun Ying. Even his own parents, the current emperor and empress, only thought that he had a master of detoxification by his side.
"The Empress Dowager Qi, the Empress Dowager and Princess Changle are here."
At this time, the little eunuch at the door came in and preached.
"Please come in."
Hearing that the queen was coming, Murong Jing's face became no longer good-looking.
Murong Qiuyue was originally her niece, and because she grew up with Emperor Lan Hongzhen since she was a child, she can be regarded as a childhood sweetheart. Murong Qiuyue has always been generous and decent, and she has never been jealous, and she has repeatedly told her that she wants to give the emperor a concubine, so as to extend the heirs of the Lan family, but every time she mentions it to the emperor, the emperor refuses without hesitation.
In the eyes of the ministers and officials, Murong Qiuyue is a rare good queen, managing the harem, assisting the emperor, and her mother's family is a member of the military world, but she is the only one who is extremely cold to the crown prince Lanxing, which is also Murong Jing's only complaint to Murong Qiuyue.
"Queen Mother, Changle is here to greet you."
The gorgeous figure walked into the inner hall of Cining Palace with a crisp female voice, and came to Murong Jing and bowed.
"The concubine asks the queen mother's aunt to say goodbye."
Murong Qiuyue walked in behind Lan Zilin, and took a step behind with a smile and saluted Murong Jing.
"You don't have to be formal, just sit down."
The Empress Dowager Murong Jing waved her hand kindly.
"Thank you!"
"Aunt Xie!"
Lan Zilin and Murong Jing responded in unison, because she was her niece, Murong Qiuyue had always called Murong Jing's aunt, and she felt that this was more cordial.
"Erchen has seen the queen mother and the imperial aunt."
Lan Xing also stood up and saluted the two of them.
After everyone sat down again, Murong Qiuyue took the lead in speaking, "Auntie, I heard Xiu'er say that you have something to find a concubine?" His eyes glanced at Lan Xing beside Murong Jing unhappily, just like Lan Xing was a child who sued her in front of the Queen Mother.
"Well," Murong Jing moved her sitting posture slightly, letting the palace maid behind her pinch her shoulder, "Here, a little focus is fine." ”
"Alas, this person is useless when he gets old, and it hurts and is uncomfortable, and even he sleeps less at night......"
Murong Jing shook his head and sighed.
"Queen Mother, if you are not feeling well, let the imperial doctor come and take a look at you," Lan Zilin hurriedly stepped forward and instructed the palace maid standing on the side, "Yu'er, don't hurry up and call the imperial doctor." ”
"That's it, Imperial Doctor Liu has just left, don't toss, the mourning family is not tired of worrying about you, alas!"
Murong Jing hurriedly stretched out her hand to stop Lan Zilin, and shook her head helplessly.
"Ah, Queen Mother, I didn't let you worry about it all the time, it must be ......" Lan Zilin smiled and turned her eyes to Lan Xing, "Ah Xing, say, did you let my Queen Mother worry about it?" ”
"Aunt Huang, where do I have?"
Lan Xing shook his head and denied that his aunt's actual age and mental age did not match at all. is a thirty-year-old middle-aged woman, but with the mentality of a little daughter, he usually doesn't bother to say a word to her seriously.
"Ah Xing, look at you, you are almost twenty years old, except for those concubines in the house, there are no concubines, can this not make our queen mother worry?"
Lan Zilin's seemingly brainless words were in the arms of the Empress Dowager Murong Jing, and she threw an appreciative look at her daughter, this daughter is really worthy of a caring little padded jacket!
"Aunt Huang, I don't want to be a concubine yet."
Lan Xing pinched his eyebrows with a headache and refused, for some reason, the vague figure in the dream always jumped out of his mind.
Could it be that you have nightmares every night?
"It's all twenty, my imperial brother was as old as you, you were born, okay?"
Lan Zilin said very disapprovingly, she was an old girl at the age of eighteen when she got married, and she didn't know how many eyes she had behind her, and most of her best friends were fifteen or sixteen years old, and the children she gave birth to were much older than her own children.
Hearing Lan Zilin's words, Empress Murong Qiuyue glanced at her eldest son who was sitting not far away, her face was a little unpleasant, no one knew that in her long sleeved robe, her fingernails had been pinched into the flesh.
"Yes, Xing'er, if you like a girl, tell the queen mother, let the queen mother let your father give you a marriage, but your age is not young."
Murong Qiuyue also smiled and followed Lan Zilin's words.
"Queen, you don't think it's too small, do you?" Murong Jing was a little displeased, she stared at the queen's eyes and looked deeply into her pupils,
"When the crown prince and Lu were young, I said that the position of the crown princess would be given, and you always said wait, now it's okay, the prince can be in charge of the country and there is no princess, isn't this a joke?"
"Auntie, concubine......" Murong Qiuyue was also full of grievances, could she be blamed? It's that the emperor and the crown prince are not in a hurry to say that they have to wait, what can she do? She still wished that it would be given as soon as possible, and she would not have to think about what trouble she would have.
"Imperial grandmother, don't blame the queen mother, it's the grandson himself who doesn't want to be tied up by a woman too early."
Lan Xing glanced at Murong Qiuyue with tears in her eyes, after all, she couldn't bear it, and hurriedly spoke out to help solve the siege.
"Don't want to be tied to a woman? Hehe, silly boy, your father said the same thing back then, but then he ......"
Murong Jing sighed as she spoke, and did not continue, the queen was present, even if she was generous, she would be sad in her heart.
"You'll know when you meet the woman you've got your heart set on you." The Queen Mother said helplessly.
The woman who has her heart in mind? Does he have it?
"Ah Xing, seriously, you really should have a concubine, you see, your brother who was the prince didn't have a concubine for that month, and didn't he always have a concubine?"
Lan Zilin said matter-of-factly, "Besides, the queen mother has been looking forward to holding her great-grandson, and the imperial sister-in-law also wants to hold the emperor's grandson, right?" Anyway, I really want to go up to another generation, even though I'm still very young, hehe......"
After that, her eyes were already full of yearning, as if her imperial nephew was already standing in front of her and smiling at her......
Three black lines dripped from Lan Xing and Murong Jing's foreheads!!
Feelings: This is to be a lobbyist for the sake of promotion?
"Speaking of Yue'er...... Aunt," Murong Qiuyue, who hadn't spoken much, spoke slowly,