Chapter 181: Can't hide it
"Today is your birthday, just open your mouth if you want anything." The emperor waved his hand, but he was calculating in his heart, calculating that the prince would go to encircle and suppress Weimeng Mountain, some days, but there was no news coming, whether it was good or bad, it didn't come to make him a little worried and doubt the prince's ability.
"The concubine wants to ask His Majesty for a holy decree." The queen didn't catch the words of the concubine herself, so she pushed the boat down the river and said the request, and originally planned to talk to the emperor again at the banquet, pretending to mention it inadvertently. Now, it seems, no.
"Say, I'll see what you want to say." The emperor still spoke casually, and his eyes stayed on the noble concubine sitting next to him.
"Please ask the emperor to set a wedding date for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Li Xin'er, the daughter of Prime Minister Li Cheng." The queen said and knelt on the ground, and if the emperor didn't agree to her, she wouldn't get up.
What the emperor hates is the sense of oppression from women, and he still has a lot of worries in his heart, the prince Xiao Daxing is not his favorite candidate for the prince, he is worried that after marrying the prime minister's daughter, the prince is like having a right-hand man, doing things in the palace, and no longer has scruples.
"Queen, today is your birthday, your will can only be asked for yourself, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not a child, if he is in love with whom, who he wants to marry, just come and talk to me directly, now when the prince is on a business trip, if he comes back and finds that you, the mother, have set a marriage date for him, and he is unwilling to come again to ask me to take back his fate, then won't my will become a joke?"
The emperor's face changed, but because today was the queen's birthday, it was not good to be angry directly.
As soon as the emperor finished speaking, there was silence all around, and all the concubines were holding a breath, not daring to help, nor daring to stand in line at will.
"Queen, I still have some official business to deal with." In an embarrassing atmosphere, the queen's expression was stunned, and it took a long time to bow down to the emperor.
"Speaking of this birthday gift, I'm curious about the new Lord Shuo of the Queen Mother, I don't know what gift Lord Shuo will prepare for the Mother?" After the noble concubine left with the emperor, one of the remaining concubines who still had the ability to see changed the topic.
"She, I like whatever she delivers." The queen laughed with her, her face was surprisingly ugly.
What the emperor said just now was tantamount to slapping him in public.
Seeing that the emperor and queen were unhappy, the concubines also had their own reasons and left. After the concubines left, the queen drove the little maids out of the hall and waited for anger because of poor service, leaving Ah Ru and a clever girl to wait in the inner hall.
"Aru, did you hear what the emperor said? He is teaching me that I should not make decisions for the prince without authorization, but you said that the marriage of commoner children also depends on the orders of their parents, and the words of the matchmaker, how can I, as a mother, not be the master of the prince? The queen swept down the tea cup on the table, because the hall was covered with a thick carpet, the teacup was not broken, but on the ground a few turns, and I don't know which chair to roll in, but it was brewed with clear black tea, one accidentally, the queen's dress was stained with light red tea.
This can make Ah Ru anxious, his master will make the emperor unhappy when he talks in the morning, and if he wears stained clothes during the evening dinner, the emperor will be even more unhappy.
"Don't be angry, the queen mother, today is a happy day, if your majesty sees you like this, I'm afraid it will only be even more angry." Aru hurriedly went to the small kitchen in the courtyard and poured some white vinegar, the hand towel was stained with white vinegar, and wiped it off the queen's sleeve little by little.
"I'm just angry, the emperor is so kind to the little slut of the noble concubine, just snub me, and rejected my request on my birthday. Let the concubines see my jokes. The more the queen spoke, the more angry she became, and the hand hidden in her sleeve was already clenched into a fist.
"It's okay, what if someone else sees a joke at this time? Then don't take it seriously, others naturally don't dare to mention it, besides, you are the mother of the current prince, His Royal Highness the prince is the prince, who dares to see your jokes? "Ah Ru has been by the queen's side, and he has been serving for many years with all his heart, and he always has the ability to calm the queen's emotions in three or two sentences.
The queen couldn't hold her breath here, and the same was true for Yun Lanzhi in the barracks, he had been dragging time on the training ground, but he didn't know what to do on the queen's birthday?
When he went out in the morning, his mother told him that now that he was the head of the Yun family, he should be able to take charge of himself, so she took it, received a congratulatory gift early in the morning, and then called Sister Lin to go into the palace to congratulate the queen on her birthday.
But where did he go to find Sister Yue'er, he originally suspected that it was the queen's hands and feet, and he also sent a few spies into the palace to find out the news, but who knew that there was no movement on the queen's side except for the marriage of His Royal Highness the Prince. Now the crown prince is not in the palace, and there is no one around him who can come up with ideas.
Yun Lanzhi has been in the barracks for a long time, and he doesn't care about those things in the royal family, as usual, he followed his mother to congratulate this lady with a congratulatory gift, and that lady praised him, he never knew what month and day each lady's birthday was, after all, there were too many women in the emperor, and he couldn't remember it if he wanted to.
Now it's his turn to be alone, and it just so happens that the new county lord of the queen's mother disappears, and he really doesn't know what to do.
The palace gate of the queen's birthday will be open for a longer time, and Yun Lanzhi dragged on and on, until the city gate was about to close, and then he went hard.
Fortunately, Yun Qian's position is not enough, and she is another girl, so she can't go together, otherwise Yun Lanzhi feels that her hesitation will be exposed at the moment.
Yun Lanzhi really went hard, he had no choice but to come up with a plan, after he arrived there was a gift, he hurriedly took advantage of the fact that there were still some affairs in the army that he needed to deal with, and slipped away early, he really couldn't slip away, if the queen asked, he said that Lin Yue went south to Suzhou and Hangzhou to recuperate, and he couldn't come back in a short time.
Who knows that Yun Lanzhi is very unfortunate and late.
The Queen's birthday banquet is set in the Imperial Garden, which is lit up with lights and is very lively, and the light of the lanterns illuminates half of the sky, as bright as day. also saw Yun Lanzhi's embarrassed expression clearly.
Because in the morning, the unhappy affair between the queen and the emperor spread all over the palace, and everyone also had a lot of eyes, and they came early, not daring to be late.
In order to show her benevolence and generosity, the queen set Lin Yue's seat next to the prince, side by side with the rest of the princesses, meaning that she treated Lin Yue like her own child. And Lin Yue lived in the Yun family, and the queen set Yun Lanzhi's position opposite Lin Yue.
The two positions have one thing in common, that is, they are close to the queen and emperor of the main seat, very close, even if it is close, Lin Lanzhi is still late, and the ministers shouted to the inside, "General Yun He Shanju autumn twilight picture, a pair of jade Ruyi, and a number of strange stones." ”
As soon as the minister's words fell, the queen also opened her mouth, "Give me a seat." ”
Yun Lanzhi straightened up and took a deep breath before walking in.