Chapter 164: The Queen Mother Arrives
In the face of Lin Zhangzhi's explanation, Emperor Cheng did not believe it all, Lin Zhizhi had already prepared, and explained in detail how he and Lan Guangli should cooperate with the rebel Yu Fangshu to tell the whole story, and then presented the roster of people who have made meritorious contributions to the rebellion.
After Emperor Cheng thought twice, he sent an edict to Lan Guang to go back to the Prime Minister's Mansion to rest for the time being, and only after the trial of the three divisions would he be allowed to reinstate his official position. It is said to be rest, but in fact it is captivity!
Lan Guang and Lin Zhizhi retired, left the imperial study and walked out of the palace gate, Lin Zhizhi was full of guilt: "Prime Minister, forgive Lin for being incompetent and unable to keep the adult safe." ”
Lan Guang waved his hand: "What do you have to do with adults?" The emperor should be cautious about the crime of rebellion, the old man expected that the old man would be returned to his innocence after the trial of the three divisions, and when the time came, the old man would definitely come to the door to pay homage to Lord Xie Lin all the way! ”
Lin Zhizhi returned the salute with a smile: "Don't dare to be, I heard that Ling Qianjin was originally the concubine of the King of Chongqing, and now that the King of Chongqing has passed away, I am afraid that the emperor will follow the old system of brother and brother, and sooner or later order the daughter to enter the palace, and at that time, I will have to rely on the adults to take care of one or two." ”
Lan Guang laughed, noncommittal.
He knew that Xue Yi would definitely enter the palace, and the emperor would definitely try his best to get her into the palace, but he didn't know whether his move was right or wrong, Xue Yi Bingxue was smart, if she found out the clues, I was afraid that the paper would not be able to contain the fire after all, and at that time, once this shocking secret was revealed, it would be a disaster for the two countries to invite the moon and the wind to dance!
If he could, he would rather Xue Yi not enter the palace again, but now he couldn't see her yet.
Thinking all the way back to the Prime Minister's Mansion, Mrs. Qing and Xue Wu had already gotten the news and were looking at the door of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and after seeing Lan Guang, the mother and daughter ran down the steps with a smoke.
"Daddy, Daddy!"
"Prime Minister.........
The two of them choked up and couldn't speak, tears were falling down, Lan Guang hugged the two of them and comforted: "Didn't I come back well?" It's time to be happy, why are you crying? ”
Lan Guangwei wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes for Xue Wu: "Good daughter, these days, you have suffered. ”
Xue Wu leaned on Lan Guang's shoulder: "Daddy just suffered, my daughter thought it was ......... I thought I would never see my father again. ”
"Silly boy, how could it be? Has your cousin been here lately? Lan Guang patted Xue Wu's shoulder lovingly.
Mrs. Qing hurriedly said: "If you go back to the prime minister, if Lan Biqing hadn't taken care of our mother and daughter from time to time, I'm afraid we wouldn't have survived this time." ”
Mrs. Qing said and shed tears, Lan Guang was busy comforting the two, the three of them hugged each other and walked into the Prime Minister's Mansion, Xue Yi, who was hiding at the mouth of the alley, saw the Zhumen covering, and could no longer see Lan Guang's back, and wept silently, Liu Nong put on a cloak for her, looked at the Prime Minister's Mansion and asked: "Since the princess is here, why don't you go and see the prime minister, and let the prime minister and Mrs. Qing know that the princess is tired of running for the prime minister!" ”
Xue Yi shook her head slowly, and said tiredly: "Go back." ”
She knew that she was no longer needed here at this time, and she also wanted to see her father, but just now she saw their family of three getting close, she suddenly felt that she was redundant in the Lan family, Xue Yi sat on the sedan chair, holding her hands in a daze, and now she carefully recalled her childhood, although she was lonely, but the food and clothing were indeed of the highest quality, although the nurse did everything herself, if no one secretly gave the silver taels, she would not have lived so well, but I don't know why my father hid that he also had a daughter? Why did you tie her up and send her to the Yuwang Mansion?
Xue Yi knows that there must be a big secret in this!
It's a pity that the nurse is nowhere to be found, otherwise she must ask clearly.
The sedan chair bumped all the way, and when it returned to the Yuwang Mansion, Du Ruo ran out to greet him: "Sister Liu, you can come back." ”
"Is there something wrong?" Xue Yi picked up the sedan curtain and walked out, looked at the panicked Du Ruo and asked.
"It's not the emperor yet, I came to the palace early, and I don't see that the princess is losing her temper, the slave and maid see that the emperor really uses our palace as a palace!" Du Ruo's eyes drifted to the inner house, with a look of injustice and resentment.
Xue Yi hurriedly said: "Don't talk nonsense!" Why don't you come with me to see the emperor! ”
Emperor Cheng was dressed in a pale cyan robe, with a light-colored fox fur coat on the outside, and was looking under the tree, when he saw Xue Yi coming back, he hurriedly took off the big coat on his body, and counted down reproachfully: "Where did you go in the cold weather?" Seeing that his face was frozen red, the next time he wanted to go out, he ordered the minions to prepare the carriage and the stove in advance, so as not to run out in a panic like this. ”
Xue Yi looked at Emperor Cheng's handsome face full of concern, thin lips slightly open, nose wings buzzing, sword eyebrows into sideburns slightly cheeks, Xue Yi found for the first time that Emperor Cheng had a shallow scar between his eyebrows, if not a close look, it was difficult to see, her hand unconsciously fell on the scar, and asked softly: "When did this scar fall on the emperor?" It can be seen that it must have been very dangerous at that time. ”
Emperor Cheng's body stiffened for a moment, and he hurriedly turned his face away, and hurriedly explained: "It was I who was naughty when I was a child, went to catch birds on the rockery, and accidentally fell down and was cut by a branch." ”
Xue Yi saw that Emperor Cheng didn't want to mention the scar, and knew that what he said was just perfunctory, and he didn't expose it, so he stomped his feet again and again and said, "It's really cold today." ”
"Yes, in a few days it will be the first year's festival, Xueyi, I don't want to be lonely in the palace, the New Year is deserted, when are you going to enter the palace with me?" Emperor Cheng stared at Xue Yi, he didn't want to wait for a moment, now there were suddenly six more concubines in the palace, the Queen Mother had nothing to do, staring at him every day to announce who was going to bed, especially Gong Zhengxiu, who was pretending to be Yushang, and now became a red person in the eyes of the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother always said good things for her in front of Emperor Cheng, and she simply said that she was a peerless beauty who was rare in the world.
Xue Yi saw that Emperor Cheng mentioned entering the palace again, and only hoped that he could postpone it for a day, and now the only excuse is that his father's affairs are not settled, thinking of his father, I just saw that he was very embarrassed by the police superintendent outside the Prime Minister's Mansion, his body seemed to be frozen, his beard was shiny, and I don't know how his old man is now? He must have suffered a lot of sins and suffered a lot along the way.
"Your Majesty, Xue Yi doesn't know what to ask?"
"But your father's business?" Emperor Cheng's eyebrows are slightly closer.
Xue Yi shook her head: "Xue Yi heard that the Queen Mother doesn't seem to like Xue Yi, so Xue Yi hopes to get the Queen Mother's permission to enter the palace." Xue Yi knew that since the emperor was able to let his father go back to the Prime Minister's Mansion, this crime of treason would definitely not be concluded, and now there was only time to bring out the Queen Mother to delay entering the palace.
Emperor Cheng smiled: "You can rest assured, the Queen Mother has agreed, everything in the palace has been arranged, you can wait to be a concubine with peace of mind, wait for the birth of the emperor, if it is really a boy, I will never break my word, I will definitely crown him the prince!" ”
Xue Yi had to thank her, and the two had lunch together, and the fifth princess suddenly came to the palace, saying that Gong Zhengxiu was in the palace and was sick, and the queen mother ordered the emperor to return to the palace as soon as possible.
Sending Emperor Cheng away, Xue Yi leaned on the chair and read the book for a while, Liu Nong ran in in a panic, Xue Yi had never seen Liu Nong so abnormal, and hurriedly put down the book and asked, "What's wrong with you today?" Why did you learn such a panic with Du Ruo? ”
"Bold Princess Yu, the Queen Mother Luan is here, don't go out quickly to greet her!" Liu Nong didn't reply, there was a burst of cheers outside the door, Xue Yi looked at Liu Nong puzzled, Liu Nong nodded, and whispered: "It's the Queen Mother who came to our palace." ”
Xue Yi only felt that her head was instantly bigger, and she hurriedly went out and knelt in the courtyard with her head down, but when she saw a pair of small feet walking in front of her, she walked into her room, and after a while, a calm and stern voice came from the room: "Come in, this cold and snowy kneeling is broken, and it will become a sin for the mourning family to make the emperor unhappy!" “
The Queen Mother's tone is not good, it seems that she is specially here to provoke!
Xue Yi and Liu Nong lowered their heads and walked into the house, knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "The concubine Princess Yu has seen the Queen Mother Chitose Chitose!" ”
"The slave has seen the Queen Mother Chitose Chitose!"
"Heads up!" The Queen Mother looked at Xue Yi, Xue Yi at this time was just a homely dress, honey-colored trousers with a light-colored placket jacket, black hair scattered behind her head, a small white beaded flower on her sideburns, and long eyelashes covering her eyes, which had her own charm.
"The surviving don't dare to look up." Xue Yi kowtowed, and now Xue Yi is still in the process of keeping filial piety for Xiao Yichen, and according to the rules, she can't kowtow to the Queen Mother.
"Forgive your innocence!" The Queen Mother said coldly, she just got the news, the emperor actually asked Xue Yi to enter the palace as a concubine on the condition of letting Lan Guang go, at first hearing the news, she was simply dizzy, this Lan Xue Yi has never entered the palace, so charming and bullying, if you always accompany the king's side, you don't know what to do, maybe it's another Da Ji and the like!
The queen mother of a country will not watch the emperor being confused, even if it will attract the emperor's resentment, she will also know this Lan Xueyi!
Xue Yi also knew that the comer was not good, so she slowly raised her head and met the queen mother's gaze.
Xue Yi saw that the Queen Mother was around forty years old, with long eyes and eyebrows, a round face, a round forehead, a phoenix bun with a high upset, beads and green sideburns, and the corners of her eyes and eyebrows were full of solemn majesty. The Queen Mother also looked at Xue Yi carefully, the goose egg face skin is like condensation, the blow can be broken, no powder, although it is slightly pale, but it is better than the softness of Xizi, the big eyes are black and white, such as clear water, a straight nose, slightly thin lips, delicate facial features are like a work of art, and I feel sorry for the faint melancholy between the eyebrows.
"You're Lan Xueyi? Lan Guang's daughter? The Queen Mother stared at Xue Yi and asked.
Xue Yi lowered her eyes and nodded: "The concubine is Lan Xue Yi." ”
"Okay, you bold Lan Xueyi, are you guilty?!" The Queen Mother's palms suddenly slammed on the table, and she scolded Xue Yi sharply.
Xue Yi knew that the Queen Mother would make it difficult in every possible way when she came to the door today, so she hurriedly kowtowed and replied: "The concubine doesn't know where to lose her honor, please make it clear to the Queen Mother!" ”