Chapter 32: The Storm is Tentative
King Kang's matter can only be regarded as an appetizer, and no one can say how many people want to drag Mu Yunqing off the throne behind his back. Xiao Yuexi suddenly understood him a little, disguise and hide, just to fight for a way to live, he should have been used to such days, and it was actually not easy to suddenly confess to someone.
Counting more than a year, how could Mu Yunqing ever do anything out of the ordinary? He was cautious and careful in following the rules, and people scolded him for being unworthy; If he really did something mediocre, would these people have more reason to rise up?
"Mrs. Xiao, you can also say something." The peacemaker known as the queen called the queen was named again, interrupting Xiao Yuexi's musings.
Xiao Yuexi turned her face sideways, first glanced at Mu Yunqing, and saw that his expression was calm, before she said, "For such a big matter, where is it the turn of the concubine to speak?" ”
The Queen Mother rarely had a good look at Xiao Yuexi: "It's okay, it's a homely chat today, tell me your opinion." ”
Xiao Yuexi hooked the corners of her mouth and said slowly: "The concubine wants to ask first, what kind of rhetoric do you plan to use to explain to Shen Shangshu in the short few hours after the Queen Mother learned the news?" ”
The Queen Mother said: "The masters of Hanshui Temple won't say much, and the absence of Concubine Shen during today's blessing is also explained as being unwell." It is reasonable to delay it for a few days, and then tell Shen Shangshu that Shen Concubine was infected with a vicious disease and died. ”
Xiao Yuexi looked at Mu Yunqing and smiled: "Your Majesty, since the Queen Mother has thought so carefully about you, don't brush off her kindness." ”
As soon as these words came out, the Queen Mother and Lu Jinxiu were stunned, as if they couldn't imagine that Xiao Yuexi, who had been placed there as a vase, would really speak for them so easily, and they were choked with persuasion all over their stomachs, and they couldn't answer for a while.
Mu Yun raised his eyebrows lightly, his slender fingertips played with a small teacup, and after a while, he said, "The queen mother is in charge." ”
The aunt and nephew secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but they heard Mu Yun say lightly: "But the matter is always with the queen, no matter what the reason, the queen is responsible." ”
Lu Jinxiu's hand holding the teacup shook unconsciously, the hot tea splashed on his hand, and he didn't take it off until he endured it, but a thin layer of sweat appeared on his back.
Mu Yun said lightly: "It seems that the queen is still unable to take care of the harem by herself, Mrs. Xiao is ready to help the queen more in the future." ”
The queen is a little incomprehensible, in the huge harem, after the death of a Shen concubine, there is only one queen and one lady left, and the emperor still wants to share the queen's power? What's the point!
As if to answer the doubts in her heart, Mu Yunqing continued: "The palace is indeed deserted, and when the epidemic passes, I plan to bring some people out of the Xiunu Palace, so as to save you from being bored, and then make a formal decree, and Mrs. Xu Xiao will assist in the power of the six palaces." ”
The Queen Mother and Lu Jinxiu looked at the emperor inexplicably, not understanding why he was like this, he could be brought out of the Show Girl Palace, which was exactly what the Queen Mother wanted-because most of the show girls were personally selected by the Queen Mother, and there were many people in the palace who were of the same heart as them, so what was the difficulty in dealing with a Mrs. Xiao?
Thinking of this, the Queen Mother's face softened a little, nodded lightly and said, "The emperor will look at it." ”
Mu Yunqing's patience seemed to run out, and he didn't want to stay any longer: "I still have something to do, so I won't disturb the queen mother's purity, Mrs. Xiao, accompany me to the Qinzheng Palace." ”
"Yes."
After sending these two away, Lu Jinxiu finally couldn't sit still: "Queen Mother, what does the emperor mean by this?" ”
The Queen Mother frowned and said sharply: "He didn't say it beforehand, what's the matter with you?" Why does the medicine get into the tea? ”
When it came to this, Lu Jinxiu felt aggrieved: "Erchen doesn't know, I heard that something happened to Tian'er, and Erchen was also frightened, Erchen ......"
"Humph!" The Queen Mother sneered and sneered: "Don't blame the emperor for letting the girl surnamed Xiao share your power, you are so useless, what else are you a queen!" ”
Lu Jinxiu's heart sank to the bottom, and she looked at the Queen Mother in disbelief: "...... Queen mother. ”
The Queen Mother sighed, beckoned to Lu Jinxiu, and only whispered a few words when she leaned her ear over.
I don't know what the Queen Mother said in Lu Jinxiu's ear, but I saw that Lu Jinxiu's eyes were getting brighter and brighter, and the ecstasy on her face was becoming more and more unconcealed......
Coming out of the Longevity Palace, the emperor waved his hand and ordered the palace people to follow him and Mrs. Xiao from a distance, leaving them enough space to speak.
Mu Yun turned his head lightly to look at Xiao Yuexi, who had a calm face, the corners of his eyes gradually curved, and he asked in a happy whisper, "Madam seems to know what I am going to do?" ”
Xiao Yuexi raised her head, also looked at him, and said with a smile: "The emperor is too worried, and the concubines don't know anything." ”
“…… Yuexi. ”
The person who was joking and joking a moment ago suddenly became lonely, Xiao Yuexi was puzzled for a while, and tilted her head to look at him. Mu Yun lowered his eyes lightly and didn't look at her, and asked softly, "Will I be annoying to you like this?" ”
Xiao Yuexi was stunned: "...... What the? ”
"I will only do these pickling methods in secret, and I will never be able to get on the stage, for my own selfishness, I will use such a desperate means to trap a weak woman, I ......"
"Stop, stop!" Xiao Yuexi was speechless for a while, and the more he spoke, the more exaggerated he became, and he couldn't help but interrupt: "I don't have so much sympathy, she didn't think so much when she planned to drug me, why should I think about them?" All I know is that you helped me this time, I made a note of it, thank you, I don't care about the rest. ”
Mu Yun glanced at her deeply, and said for a long time: "Go back." ”
Two days later, the news that Concubine Shen was ill and could not be treated and died in her dormitory spread. No one knew what was going on with Concubine Shen's sudden emergency, and no one knew that she actually committed suicide by taking poison on the day she returned to the palace. Before she committed suicide, the last person she saw was Aunt Jin Gui beside the Queen Mother, so Xiao Yuexi didn't know whether Shen Fangtian committed suicide or "committed suicide".
Xiao Yuexi naturally didn't bother to care about those idle things, in the past two days, the excerpts about the epidemic were about to bury Mu Yun lightly, and the imperial doctor who accompanied him had not yet found out the cause, so he could only isolate Binzhou and other places to avoid the spread of the epidemic, but the number of deaths was getting higher and higher, and the people's hearts were becoming more and more unstable.
Is it stable? Yesterday, some courtiers had already suggested that the infected people should be gathered together and burned to the hundreds, so as to completely clean up the epidemic.
Mu Yunqing had a seizure in court, reprimanded the frantic courtier, and rarely firmed up his position.
However, there is no way to just have a position, everything is in vain, Xiao Yuexi watched from the side, and felt that he was probably really helpless, at least the hole card that he hadn't shown yet, and he hadn't found out anything for the time being.
Whether it was because of her friendship with Mu Yunqing, or out of concern about the epidemic area, Xiao Yuexi felt that she should help some.
In the first few years, when she was in the wild, she also made some friends, or businessmen, or people from the rivers and lakes, and at the critical moment, several letters went out, and eight out of ten replied to the message, saying that they were willing to help find out the cause of the epidemic. Although it may not be of much help to Mu Yunqing, Xiao Yuexi did his best.
That night, Xiao Yuexi returned to the dormitory after bathing, and saw His Majesty the Emperor, who was still in the Qinzheng Palace, and was embarrassed.
She was dressed thinly, her hair like inky satin was scattered, her face was extraordinarily fair and enchanting, and her lips were extraordinarily full and ruddy......
Mu Yunqing's eyes darkened, and then he sighed and said, "I wanted to ask you a few words, that ...... Never mind! You rest, I'm gone......"
Xiao Yuexi: "......??" "Didn't he sleep with her in the past?
As soon as this idea came out of my heart, I was slapped back by Xiao Yuexi: Why are you still looking forward to him staying and sleeping?
However, she still didn't control her mouth, and subconsciously asked, "What are you going to ask me?" ”
Mu Yun paused as he walked briskly to the door of the hall, looked back at the distance between himself and Xiao Yuexi, and felt that it should be safe to be so far away, so he didn't look at Xiao Yuexi, and said to himself: "Have you asked someone to help investigate the epidemic?" ”
Xiao Yuexi raised her eyebrows, she didn't expect him to know so quickly, but she still said calmly: "Yes!" I'm trying to help you a little bit, but if you think I'm doing you a bad favor, then I'm ......."
"Nope." Mu Yun smiled at her lightly. "With more help, I can catch my breath, thank you."
Xiao Yuexi was even more heartless by what he said, instinctively felt that she didn't play any role at all, and said dryly: "If you need me, just mention it, I will try my best ......to help it" The more Xiao Yuexi said, the more she couldn't speak, I don't know if it was her delusion, why Mu Yunqing's eyes became more and more weird?
The two looked at each other for a while, only to see Mu Yun turn around lightly, and said without replying: "I'll go first!" Then he strode out of the temple gate, and the back was quite a hint of desertion and escape.
Xiao Yuexi was inexplicable for a while, and she couldn't come back to her senses for a while.
His Majesty the Emperor was walking in a hurry, and he happened to be seen by Woodamom, and thought that his wife had done something to make the emperor sad, so he hurriedly went in to ask. But she never thought that her wife was even more confused than her, thinking of the look of the emperor before leaving, she suddenly understood something......
"Huh? Cardamom, why are you red? Xiao Yuexi looked at Mu Kom inexplicably.
Mu Ko glanced at Xiao Yuexi helplessly, and whispered something in Xiao Yuexi's ear, and then Xiao Yuexi's face turned red, and he stammered and reprimanded: "You, you don't talk nonsense!" When you're like Mu Lan, you know all day long! ”
Maybe I've listened to too much nonsense that Mu Lan has imagined. Mu Ko thought secretly in his heart, and said very seriously: "Madam, the emperor really respects you, although it is a bit too much to abduct you to the palace on his own initiative, but he has been ...... since then."