Chapter 116: The Empress Dowager's Means

The corners of the queen's mouth were pursed: "It's not early, Aze, Yuan Yuan, you go to Cining Palace with your mother to serve tea." ”

Qin Ze and Fu Yuanyuan glanced at each other, and followed closely behind with their heads bowed.

Before the queen stepped out of the palace door, she gave Mama Ping a look, and Mama Ping understood it and bowed down.

When they arrived at Cining Palace, the platform was already full of concubines.

Seeing the queen arrive, the concubines hurriedly saluted respectfully.

The queen bowed her head dignifiedly, and her eyes paused on Concubine Hui's face for a moment: "Let's go in with the palace." ”

Fu Yuanyuan followed behind Qin Ze and stood aside waiting for the concubines to enter the main hall.

When he was about to enter the palace, he heard a chanting voice not far away: "The emperor has arrived!" ”

Qin Ze stretched out his hand to help Fu Yuanyuan, and the two of them hurriedly saluted and waited.

After the emperor entered the palace, they waited for a while, and finally a grandmother came to summon them into the palace.

"Invite my father to tea."

After bowing, Fu Yuanyuan picked up a cup of tea from the maid's tray and respectfully held it up in front of Emperor Qingyuan.

Emperor Qingyuan took it with a smile, took a sip and said with a smile: "Okay." ”

Looking at the joyful smile on Fu Yuanyuan's beautiful face, Emperor Qingyuan was in a good mood.

He is quite satisfied with this daughter-in-law.

"Liang Jinzhong, reward."

When Gonggong Liang heard this, he hurriedly took out the list of rewards prepared early in the morning and read it out in public.

The concubines listened carefully, and many of them could not hide their surprise.

It is said that when honoring the daughter-in-law's tea, it is normal for the elders to give rewards, but this long list of valuable rewards like the one read by Liang Gonggong was something that the first emperor had never had when he saw the reward.

Could it be that because she is the crown princess, she will set this precedent?

The concubines who were familiar with each other gave each other a look, and silently increased the reward that was originally intended to be given to Fu Yuanyuan by a few points.

Concubine Hui had a smile on her face, but there was a sneer in her eyes when she looked at Fu Yuanyuan.

After receiving the reward, Fu Yuanyuan gave tea to the queen, and after thanking the reward, he slowly walked to the queen mother.

At this time, the maid stepped forward with the tea tray again, and the moment Fu Yuanyuan reached out to pick up the tea, the maid quickly removed the tray and took a step back.

The high temperature of his fingertips made Fu Yuanyuan's eyes condense in an instant.

This cup of tea should have been freshly rinsed with boiling water!

This is Cining Palace, so making tea with boiling water and sending it directly to her to let her serve tea must have come from the Queen Mother's handwriting.

She has no grudges with the Queen Mother, why did the Queen Mother do this?

Fu Yuanyuan quickly sorted out the situation in her heart, the last time she came to visit the Queen Mother with Fu Yuanqing, she had been hung by the Queen Mother for a long time.

That time was undoubtedly because the Queen Mother wanted to find out that Gonggong Liang personally sent her to Cining Palace, but it was unsuccessful, so she deliberately let her be hanged.

And this time it is clearly not related to the last time.

If you think about it carefully, is it because of her identity as the crown princess?

The relationship between the Queen Mother and Concubine Hui's aunt and nephew is understandable for favoring the second prince.

But after all, the prince is his own grandson, why do he want to cheat his granddaughter-in-law like this?

It seems that the Queen Mother not only has a small heart, but also does not want to see the queen and the crown prince.

All kinds of thoughts are spinning in the bottom of my heart, but in fact, it is just a blink of an eye.

There was an unhurried urging voice from Concubine Hui in her ears: "It's time for the crown princess to give tea to the queen mother." ”

Fu Yuanyuan smiled lightly and held the tea steadily, as if he was holding a cool teacup.

The Queen Mother and Concubine Hui both stared at her hands tightly, thinking in their hearts, could it be that the tea was sent wrong?

If it is a teacup scalded with boiling water, I am afraid that Fu Yuanyuan should throw away the cup in the last moment, and he will be embarrassed.

quietly gave the maid behind Fu Yuanyuan an inquiring look, but saw the maid shaking her head gently.

The Queen Mother was slightly stunned, what's going on?

Fu Yuanyuan raised his eyes and took in the expressions of the Queen Mother and Concubine Hui.

Since she was expected to throw away the cup and be embarrassed, she was not as good as they wanted.

Raising the teacup respectfully, Fu Yuanyuan raised his voice and said, "Please use the imperial grandmother for tea." ”

The Queen Mother stared at the steaming cup in front of her and couldn't help but hesitate.

If the maid prepares correctly, the cup in front of her is undoubtedly a hot potato, and she is not willing to take it!

But if it's really a hot cup, why is there no different color on the round surface of Fuyuan?

There was doubt in her heart, and the Queen Mother froze for a while.

"Grandmother Royal, please." Fu Yuanyuan smiled and spoke again.

Seeing a pair of eyes looking over, the Queen Mother pulled her mouth and slowly stretched out her hand.

As soon as she caught the tea, the Queen Mother's face twitched involuntarily, she glanced at Fu Yuanyuan quickly, shook her hand and touched the rim of the cup with her mouth, and put the cup on the table.

The corners of her mouth pulled unnaturally, and the Queen Mother put her hand in her cuffs: "Reward." ”

Fu Yuanyuan smiled very sweetly: "Yuanyuan thanks the emperor's grandmother for the reward." ”

Concubine Hui on the side glanced at Fu Yuanyuan suspiciously, and secretly wondered why the good show of boiling hot tea suddenly disappeared?

After thinking about it, Fu Yuanyuan stretched out his fair and delicate hand and brought another cup of tea, walked to Hui Guifei and said politely: "Please drink tea from your concubine." ”

Hui Guifei didn't think much about it, and reached out to take the teacup.

The Queen Mother saw it, touched her aching fingers, her eyelids twitched, and she couldn't bear to look at it directly.

"Bang dang!"

A crisp and piercing voice sounded in the main hall, and Concubine Hui got up on the ground and was about to scold Fu Yuanyuan, only to hear the Queen Mother cough heavily.

Concubine Hui froze for a moment, turned her head to look at the Queen Mother, and suddenly understood.

What kind of tea is not on it?

This is Fu Yuanyuan gritted his teeth and couldn't help but salute the tea, and the Queen Mother couldn't say that the people in her palace prepared hot tea, so she took it hard!

This Fu Yuanyuan is so thoughtful!

The Queen Mother is far more calm than her.

Taking a deep breath, Concubine Hui pulled the corners of her stiff mouth and smiled: "I accidentally slipped my hand, go and bring another cup of tea." ”

After some tossing, the tea ceremony finally ended.

Emperor Qingyuan was busy with affairs and left first.

After the harem ladies sent off Emperor Qingyuan, the queen mother let people eat melons and fruits: "The mourning family's Cining Palace has not been so lively for a long time, and today you have to say a few more words with the mourning family." ”

"Now that the princes have reached the age of marriage," Concubine Hui covered her lips and chuckled, "The harem will definitely become more and more lively, and the queen mother should not think that we are making trouble." ”

The Queen Mother smiled comfortably: "The mourning family has been looking forward to it for a long time, this Buze'er has become a parent, and the next one should be Xu'er." ”

A concubine answered with a smile: "The concubine heard that the second princess and the crown princess are cousins, and the relationship between the concubines and concubines will be close in the future, and it will be a blessing for the royal family to be harmonious." ”

"If you become a parent, you will spend your leaves," another concubine rushed to compliment, "The queen mother will be able to hold her great-grandson next year!" ”

"Good! Good! Good! As if seeing the fat great-grandson in front of her, the Queen Mother smiled happily, "Yuan Yuan needs to add Ding to the royal family soon." ”

Fu Yuanyuan half-hung his face and made a shy appearance.

Qin Ze stood aside with a smile on his face.

"By the way," said the Queen Mother again, "this is the milk freshly delivered this morning, everyone can taste it." ”

Her face was full of love: "I heard that drinking milk often is very good for the body, and you juniors should drink more on weekdays." ”