twelve

The queen was punished for thinking behind closed doors.

Before that, she asked her personal palace maid to bring me a message to see me.

I happened to have a question for her, so I agreed.

When I saw her again, she was plain and dressed in a gray and blue body like smoke and rain, and the green silk hung down behind her, so dusty, like an immortal who came out of a painting.

She looked at me and smiled, "Did Your Majesty have you a good time that day?" ”

I shook my head.

A hint of loss flashed in her eyes, but after a while, she laughed again and said, "The emperor doesn't want to touch you like this, Miss Chu, is it not your charm enough?" ”

I knew she was provoking me, but I wasn't annoyed, I just smiled: "There was an agreement between the emperor and me, and before the agreement, he printed and didn't touch me, which is respecting me." ”

The queen's eyes dimmed again, and after a while, she smiled bitterly and said, "But you really have you, and you dare to talk about respect with the emperor." ”

I didn't want to compete with her, and this time I had something else to ask her, so I asked directly: "Medicine, this is what the queen mother prepared for Her Majesty and me, right?" ”

She did not deny it: "Yes, Miss Chu is really smart. ”

I asked in a deep voice, "Why?" ”

The queen smiled lightly and said, "Your Majesty is like this to you, isn't it because he hasn't gotten you yet?" As long as you succeed, you and Your Majesty will be hot for the first two days, and when Your Majesty gets tired of you, he will have new prey. And I don't care how many women he has, as long as I have the heirs of the harem, I will complete my duty. ”

I didn't want her to say so badly about the man I loved, so I mocked her without much thought: "Don't underestimate Your Majesty, the queen mother, since he promised me that there will be no other women, there will never be any." ”

The queen burst out laughing, and tears of laughter flowed out.

She said to me: "No matter how talented Miss Chu is, she is just a little girl who does not understand the world, and she still has such illusions about men. You're just young and haven't suffered from men. ”

I smiled faintly and looked directly at her: "The queen is jealous?" ”

The palace maid beside her suddenly raised her hand and said coldly: "Bold! How dare you speak to the queen like this! ”

The queen raised her hand to stop her, and said with a smile: "Miss Chu, when I married Your Majesty at the age of sixteen, I was as naïve as you, but when there are more people in this harem, I will no longer have the luxury of so-called love and respect." Why don't I make a bet with you? ”

I said, "Bet on what?" ”

"Just bet on whether there will be any other women in the emperor. If so, count me as a winner, and at that time, no matter what your identity is, whether you are a concubine or a concubine, or even replace me as a queen, you will have to leave the palace. ”

I nodded: "Okay, I promise you, if I win?" ”

The queen smiled: "If the emperor has no other woman for you in this life, you will get everything from Dali, and I can't give you anything, only my life." ”

I sneered and said, "I don't want your life, if I win, you will hand over the five princes to me, and from now on, the five princes will only have me, the mother, can the queen mother?" ”

The queen closed her eyes, smiled mockingly, and said, "I promise you." ”

A baker's dozen

Actually, I don't want the five princes, the five princes are the earliest among all the princes, and they have long understood the relationship between mother and son. He is also a son-in-law, the emperor intends to make him the crown prince when he is older, if I really break up their mother and son, and the five princes will ascend the throne in the future, can they not turn back to take revenge on me?

I'm just scaring the queen, and even if I win, I won't want them to be separated.

My relationship with the emperor is smooth sailing, if it weren't for the fact that the envoy of Wu came to the court, he was very busy, I would have told him that I don't want to continue the test.

The queen was also lifted from the grounding because of this, because foreign envoys came, and it was impossible for the mother of a country to be closed.

At this time, I was not qualified to go to the front court with the emperor and queen to meet the hour, I only stayed in the imperial study every day, waiting for the emperor to return from the discussion.

Until one day, I didn't wait for the emperor, but waited for the queen.

There seemed to be a smug look on her face, and as soon as she saw me, she said to me: "Miss Chu, I'm afraid you don't know that there is another concubine in the palace, right?" ”

I was stunned, then smiled again after a moment and said, "I haven't heard of it." ”

She snorted: "You haven't heard of it, it's because Your Majesty intends to hide it from you, haven't you noticed that the palace people who have been serving in the imperial study in recent days haven't even said much?" ”

Seeing that I didn't speak, she continued: "Your Majesty wants to marry the concubine of Wu Guo and his relatives, Wu Guo and our country have been at war for many years, in order to recuperate, he has to marry, this palace understands, so it is not your loss, and I hope you know the general situation, do not make trouble with Your Majesty." ”

I couldn't tell for a while whether the queen deliberately told me to provoke me to make trouble, or really hoped that I would stop making trouble and continue to stay in this imperial study and be the emperor's pet?

But I won't easily listen to the queen's words, and if he hadn't admitted it himself, no one would have believed me.