Chapter 014: Manpower Matters
The candle flame illuminated the woman's beautiful face, and strings of tears fell from the water-cut eyes, with endless hatred.
"Niangniang, why do you want to provoke Concubine Xian?" Knowing and asking, he applied the dehydrated warm handkerchief to the master's swollen cheeks.
"If I don't provoke her, will she let me go? You forgot how the children of Hongu are gone! Concubine Jing's angry body trembled slightly, there is no deeper hatred in the world than peeling human flesh and bones!
"The mother is angry, it's just ...... The queen mother will not make decisions for you at all, you deliberately provoked her, and then turned around and made yourself suffer. Seeing that the master was sad, his nose was also sour.
"It doesn't matter, as long as you can bring down Concubine Xian, what is this grievance in this palace, after so many years, I finally waited for this day."
She suddenly grabbed Zhizhi's hand, and behind the tears, there was an irrepressible excitement: "Almost, almost this palace will never have a chance again, hahaha!" God really took care of the palace, let the queen come back to life, and changed her temperament, the palace knew that sooner or later, someone would clean her up, and all the grievances that the palace had suffered would have to be brought back one by one! β
"Yes, Niangniang is so kind, how can she not wait for blessings." Knowing that she was smiling, but her eyes were a little unconfident, and the queen looked more difficult to control.
A group of women have a lot of dramas, as for who is good and who is evil, it has nothing to do with Mengqing, she just wants to be safe when she temporarily lives in the palace, and she doesn't care how many people he fights to death.
In the morning, she sent Yimo to the imperial pharmacy, and the prescription for the abortion was hopeless, seeing that the child was in the womb for a long time, what should I do? Is it really born?
Did God see that she owed something in her marriage that ended without a problem, so she gave a baby?
When she raised her head, the bright makeup in the cyan bronze mirror startled her: "Why did you paint me like this, quickly wipe it, where did you look at your eyebrows." β
Yimo hurriedly pulled her back: "Niangniang, this is Yuanshan Dai, aren't you your favorite?" Every time I go to see the Queen Mother, I have to paint. β
Mengqing suddenly remembered that Queen Meng really liked this outfit, and the two blushes on her face, which were brushed like Liu Sanjie, blinded this good-looking face.
It is not denied that the aesthetics of this era are still different from modern times, and every time the concubines and their makeup are too fancy.
It's good that they don't move, but they don't want to paint a good rouge.
Meng Qing took a deep breath and said, "This palace is pregnant now, and it is not good for the little prince to use too many of these things." β
Sure enough, when Yimo heard it, he couldn't wait to kowtow a hundred heads to compensate the little prince, so he quickly wiped off the makeup.
The queen mothers of all dynasties are happy to live in Ci'an Palace, and the pines and cypresses in the courtyard are old, implying a long life.
Although Empress Dowager Zhao is young, she doesn't like many people, and she only has a few old people around her, and they are all outside at the moment.
Xiao Yiheng's face tightened, and the tea queen mother in his hand didn't answer, just held it in mid-air.
After a long stalemate, a helpless sigh overflowed from the mouth of the Queen Mother: "The mourning family is not unkind, you have been on the throne for three years, from the establishment of the mansion to the present heirs are not prosperous, the most anxious is not the mourning family, but the power of the loyal and brave marquis in the court is always to be feared, and the Qingjun side is the only way for every emperor to ascend the throne." β
Xiao Yiheng put down the tea, "The son should think about himself, and the heart of the queen mother will never happen." β
"There are exceptions to everything." The Queen Mother glanced at his determined figure, and suddenly realized: "Could it be ...... Does the emperor want to go to his mother and keep his son? β
Xiao Yiheng couldn't help but raise his eyes, he didn't think about it, although he took advantage of the situation to consolidate the dynasty when he married the queen, he still disdained to plan like this.
The Queen Mother nodded with satisfaction: "That's fine, if the queen stays here, even if the Marquis of Zhongyong restores the title in the future, he will be loyal to the court, not to mention killing two birds with one stone, or the emperor's thoughtfulness." β
Xiao Yiheng opened his mouth, but did not say a word.
The queen mother took a sip of tea, and her eyes were a little sad, "Heng'er has no children under her knees so far, and the mourning family also feels ashamed of the emperor, and it is difficult to be at peace every day. β
"It's up to the queen mother." Xiao Yiheng looked out the window, got up and said, "Erchen still has important things to do, so I won't disturb the queen mother." β
"Go ahead." The Queen Mother waved her hand, and suddenly shouted: "By the way, the draft schedule should be raised, and you are not allowed to refrain this time." β
Xiao Yiheng let out a faint "um", then turned around and retired.
There are two roads outside Ci'an Palace, one leads directly to the front hall and the other turns into the back garden.
Meng Qing was followed by a group of palace people who were turning through the moon gate of the imperial garden, and they saw that the figure of Ming Huang was stepping out of the gate of Ci'an Palace.
This was the first time she had seen the emperor in person, and it was far more shocking than she remembered.
It's a pity that he is a little far away and can't see his face clearly, but in his memory, he has tough facial features and a handsome face, and he is also a beautiful man with a graceful demeanor.
There is no imaginary huge battle, the tall figure walks in front, and there is only a restrained Pan Gonggong behind him, but it invisibly gives people the feeling that it is inviolable.
Yi Mo saw that Niangniang's gaze was still in the place where the emperor disappeared, and her heart was sour, it turned out that Niangniang was still looking forward to the emperor so much.
When Meng Qing came back to her senses, she saw the distress in her eyes, and she was slightly moved, and quipped: "Do you want to cry for this palace?" β
"! You're too bad. β
According to the rules in her memory, she paid homage to the Queen Mother, and a bunch of flattering nonsense went through the motions, and Meng Qing was familiar with it, but she felt that the Queen Mother's appearance was more charming than she remembered.
"It's really hard for you to come to say goodbye to the mourning family while you're pregnant, so these etiquettes will be waived in the future." The Queen Mother personally pressed her to the chair and sat down.
"Thank your mother for understanding, and my daughter-in-law is ashamed that she can't fulfill her filial piety in front of her."
The Queen Mother put her soft water in her palm and patted it, and her smiling gaze skimmed over her flat waist and abdomen, "The matter of filial piety must be done by you personally, the emperor's palace is thin, and it is time to enter some people, what do you think?" β
"My daughter-in-law thinks it should be." If Queen Meng is alive, will she lose her life at this time?
The ancients are really interesting, here for her husband to be pregnant, the mother-in-law wants to find two, three, four or five for her husband, but she has the opportunity to see the pomp of the draft.
"Since the queen has no opinion, then the queen has to worry about this matter, after all, the mourning family is old and can't be the master."
After that, the queen mother waved her hand and asked the queen to retreat.
After leaving Ci'an Palace, Meng's light steps hurried all the way, and the fragrance in Ci'an Palace made her very familiar and palpitating.
In addition to her own familiarity, there is also part of the instinct that stems from this body, instinctive fear, could it be that Empress Meng snooped on something?
"Niangniang, do you want to call the imperial doctor if you don't have a good face?"
"No, you don't."
This matter was put aside for a while, and the palace gave Mengqing too many restrictions, and nothing was as urgent as jumping out of this palace wall, because if she stayed, there were only two ways, one was to serve the king with her, and the other was to die.
For some reason, she felt that the latter was more likely.
She sat in front of the "workbench" and used tea to raise several tea sets she produced, among which two black-brown purple clay pots were the most popular with her.
These two pots are made of low-groove mud sent by Allure, one is molded into a plum pile pot, and the other is a traditional lotus seed pot.
Speaking of this lotus seed pot, it is extremely sought after in the industry in modern times, and it is named because it resembles a lotus seed.
It also has another name called ζonly, which is taken from the local dialect of Yixing, which was originally used to refer to a kind of material pot, which happens to be similar to the shape of this pot.
The lotus seed pot was founded in the hands of Pan Qianrong, a potter in the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, he has a table word for Juxuan, so the descendants also made an elegant sentence to praise: close to the chrysanthemum, and old can play.
It can be seen how many people are enthusiastic about this lotus seed pot after beating it in the world.
After her understanding, although the Great Liang Kingdom is rich in purple sand mud, there are no purple sand utensils in the world, only rough pottery is in the people, which is very unexpected to her.
Dream lightly poured the tea's hand slowed down, if Allure is here, it should be able to help her send these two pots out, right?
Now the only person who can help her is gone, and even if something is made, it can't be sent to the market, and the blood is ruthlessly extinguished.
Suddenly there was a commotion outside, and there was a lot of chaos.
With a foamy face, he took out the majesty of the big palace maid and rushed out, and she could be heard in the room: "Why are you so noisy, disturbing the queen mother's tranquility and not afraid of being punished?" β
After a while, Pei Gonggong came in with Yimo.
Father-in-law Pei bowed his waist like a pug and grinned in embarrassment, "Niangniang, it is a person from Concubine Hui's palace, saying that Concubine Xian Niangniang grounded Concubine Hui and came to ask Niangniang for mercy." β
Meng glanced at him lightly: "Concubine Xian's forbidden feet come to ask the palace for something, why don't you go to ask Concubine Xian Niangniang?" β
"What the queen said is, but you are the lord of the six palaces, do you say it?"
Meng thought lightly that this Father-in-law Pei didn't take less money from others, otherwise how could someone break into the palace and say all the good things, but what does it matter to her.
"Since this palace has asked Concubine Xian to assist in the sixth palace, it is inconvenient to interfere, and it is not necessary to be grounded for a few days, and it is not for her life."
"The slave also thinks so, but the slave heard that it is not just a matter of grounding, Concubine Hui's father participated in disaster relief, the emperor was furious in the imperial study yesterday, I heard that the silver for disaster relief was embezzled, and a large number of people starved to death, and the emperor was angry because of this."
"In this case, the palace can't interfere, not to mention that Concubine Xian is right."
"!" Yimo suddenly spoke up, anxiously leaning into her ear, "Concubine Hui's concubine is your brother's concubine, if this matter is serious, it is difficult to guarantee that the Hou Mansion will not be implicated." β
Mengqing carefully rummaged in his mind, as if there was such a thing, but who would pay attention to a concubine who was not outstanding among his relatives.
The heart suddenly rushed up to three points, corruption has always been a serious crime, the Hou Mansion without the title is no different from ordinary people, if this matter is implicated, I am afraid that the entire Hou Mansion will have to be wiped out, and she, the queen, will fall in minutes.
"Yimo, call all the people in Luanfeng Palace, and go to Cuiping Palace with this palace!"
"Yes!"
Listening to Yi Mo's answer, Mengqing felt that he was quite imposing, but when he arrived at the palace gate, he was dumbfounded.
Four little eunuchs and three palace maids, including Xiao Peizi and Yimo.
It's really a person who hates less when he uses it, how did Meng Jinyu get mixed up to this point!
It turned out that manpower was really important, because when she arrived, there were four strong guards standing at the entrance of Cuiping Palace, and the big knife stretched out to block her from the door.
"Bold, the queen mother dares to stop it!" Emo stepped forward angrily.
The guards knelt on the ground: "Slaves wait to see the queen's mother, Niangniang Chitose!" The big knife in his hand was still there.
"Is this order from the emperor? Can't you enter the main palace too? β
When Meng Qing asked, the guards were slightly embarrassed, but their attitude was resolute.
"Back to the queen, the order is under the concubine, if the queen wants to enter, just show the phoenix seal."
It's that simple! Meng Qing turned around and said, "Take the phoenix seal of the main palace." β
Yi Mo's face suddenly twitched together, and his voice was low: "Niangniang...... Fengyin, you gave it to Concubine Xian. β
Mengqing almost fell headlong, that was the phoenix seal, Meng Jinyu actually gave it to others?
She gritted a mouthful of silver teeth and approached Yi Mo's ear: "What else is there in this palace that can withstand the phoenix seal?" β
Yimo shook his head bitterly, but he was very puzzled in his heart, how could the queen mother ask such a thing?
"In that case, what are Hongu waiting for here?" Dream light turned around directly.
Jade who was standing behind suddenly pounced, grabbed the corner of Mengqing's clothes and cried: "Queen Niangniang, please save Concubine Hui, if you leave, Concubine Hui will die, slave please save Niangniang......"
She was knocking head after head, and several figures came over, it was Concubine Xian who led a group of palace people, not to mention a dozen, and the momentum was huge.