Chapter 266: Things in Your Hand

The atmosphere in the imperial study was depressing, the air seemed to have condensed into solid, and the eunuchs and palace maids who were waiting were all like great enemies, and they had been sitting there since the emperor came back from the court, with gloomy faces, and had not said a word.

"Your Majesty, the housekeeper in the Empress Dowager's palace, Father-in-law Liu, is here, saying that the Empress Dowager invited you to Ci'an Palace for dinner."

The chief eunuch hesitated at the door for a while, but then went in to inform the emperor.

"When I went back, I said that I was in a bad mood and didn't disturb the queen mother's meal."

Beads of sweat the size of beans fell from my father-in-law's head, but he still hesitated for a moment before speaking.

"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother said, knowing that you are upset, specially prepared your favorite dishes and chatted with you about family cooking."

The emperor was silent for a moment when he heard this.

"That's it, you go and tell Gonggong Liu, I'll go in a while."

"Yes."

The eunuch withdrew from the imperial study with palpitations, almost drenched in cold sweat, but he was very glad in his heart, fortunately he didn't say the wrong thing and escaped.

It wasn't long before there was another sound of talk outside the door.

"Queen Mother, don't embarrass the slave, the emperor said, no one will see you today."

Seeing that she couldn't get in, the queen simply knelt outside the door.

"Your Majesty, please let Liang'er go this time, Liang'er is raised by a concubine, and she will not do anything that is not conducive to my south wind, Your Majesty!"

The queen cried outside the door, upsetting the emperor's crying and attracting the eunuchs around her.

"You go and tell the queen, if she doesn't want to abolish Murong Liang's position as the crown prince, go back to her palace immediately, if you make any more noise, don't blame, I don't miss the love between husband and wife."

The eunuch hurriedly took the order out and relayed the emperor's words to the queen's mother, but the queen couldn't, so she had to limp back to her palace with the support of the maid.

"Niangniang, Your Majesty refuses to forgive His Royal Highness the Prince, how can this be good."

The maid rubbed the bruised knees of the queen for the queen, and looked worriedly at the queen's distorted face in pain.

"It's okay, today's kneeling palace has already understood that His Majesty will not easily abolish Liang'er's crown prince, and today is actually a little too hasty in this palace. After a while, you will go to the imperial dining room, make a few snacks that Liang'er and His Majesty usually like to eat, and send them to the imperial study, I hope to remind the emperor of the love between father and son. ”

"Yes, slave maid understands."

"As long as the remaining princes are not as good as my sons, this palace has nothing to worry about."

At dusk, the emperor finally put down his things and went to the queen mother's palace for dinner. When the emperor arrived, the queen mother was already seated, and she was looking through a thing, and when she saw the emperor coming, she put the thing down.

"The son is late, and he asks the queen mother to forgive his sins."

"The emperor has every opportunity, and it is not easy to find time to accompany my wife to dinner, what is to blame, come and sit down."

"Thank you, Queen Mother."

The dishes on the table are indeed the emperor's favorite food, but today's court affairs really made him panic, and naturally he couldn't eat. After only eating a few chopsticks, she couldn't eat anymore, and when the Queen Mother saw it, she quickly ordered the palace maids around her to bring the mung bean soup that had been boiled in advance.

"Knowing that you are angry in your heart now, I instructed the imperial dining room to boil you the mung bean soup that has been boiled for the fire, drink a little."

"Thank you, Mother."

The mung bean soup is indeed refreshing, and the emperor also felt that the anger in his heart had disappeared a lot after drinking the mung bean soup.

The Queen Mother saw that the timing was almost over, and decided to persuade the emperor.

"The emperor is upset because of Liang'er's business, although Liang'er does have the fault of collecting money in private, but after all, there is no corruption and bending the law, and all the proceeds have been handed over to the treasury, and the child is still young, so he will inevitably make mistakes.

Listening to the Queen Mother's words, the emperor couldn't help but sigh.

"How can the sons and daughters not know this truth, this time he did not abolish his position as the crown prince, first, I am afraid that at this critical juncture of natural and man-made disasters, the country will be shaken, and some princes' minds will be lived. It's that although he is lustful for profit this time, he didn't make a big mistake, after all, he is the queen's concubine, and I also have high hopes for him. ”

The queen mother didn't know the emperor's mood at this time, Luo Xiaoran didn't know how to learn before, but fortunately, now that she has grown, she originally wanted to give her to Murong Liang in marriage, but she had to rethink it after this incident.

"The mourning family understands that you have a hard heart for Liang'er, but you have already protected him, he will understand your heart."

"It's just that in this way, I really don't know who can handle this disaster relief in the north."

Just when the Queen Mother was also distressed with the emperor, the emperor caught a glimpse of the paper that the Queen Mother had just held in her hand.

"Mother, what do you have in hand?"

The Queen Mother followed his gaze and looked over, and it turned out to be the plan she had just taken.

"This, it was dropped by Murong Jue's child when he was having lunch with me, and it is probably not an important thing, and he probably forgot about it because he didn't come to pick it up for so long."

As he spoke, he handed the thing in his hand to the emperor, who wanted to take a few casual glances, but this glance attracted his attention, this was actually a simple draft on how to deal with the disaster situation in the north.

Although the draft is not yet perfect, its logic is clear, the steps are clear, and it is gradual and orderly, and even some of the methods have not even been thought of by themselves, and if this plan is implemented, the disaster will be brought under control within a month.

What shocked the emperor even more was that this was Murong Jue's handiwork, since the incident of that year, he had never paid attention to this child again, the betrayal of the flawed concubine made him unforgivable, and even with this son was disgusted by himself, he forgot for a while, this child was born auspicious from the sky, and he was also very smart when he was a child, if it weren't for that incident, he would have done something great in the court at this time.

After thinking about it for a while, the emperor got up and said goodbye to the queen mother, but he took the draft that Murong decided to leave in the queen mother's place, and after returning to the imperial study, the emperor carefully read the plan several times, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that it was feasible, and after sighing, he called a little eunuch to his side.

"Go to the Empress Dowager's palace and give me the Seven Princes."

"Yes, the minion obeys."

The little eunuch was puzzled for a moment, but he knew that the emperor's words were unquestionable, so he took the order to retreat and walk towards the queen mother's palace.

At this time, in the Empress Dowager's palace, Murong decided to be in the room.

Murong Jue sat at the table as usual, holding a book and flipping through it. Xiao Natsuko paced back and forth in the room, with a bit of anxiety on her face, as if she was waiting for someone.

"Xiao Xiazi, don't shake it anymore, I'm dizzy when I shake, I will naturally come when I should come, what's the hurry."

As soon as he finished speaking, the door slammed.

"Look, isn't this coming?"