The four of them were relieved, and they thought that the Queen Mother would not summon them today. Busy with their own clothes, followed behind Mama Zhiyun.

The lunch in Changle Palace is vegetarian food, but all the rituals are according to the identity of the queen mother, one meal is ninety-nine eighty-one dishes, and the traffic is generally carried into the inner room from the kitchen. Seeing the huge scene, Lin Yuan and the others became more and more cautious, bowing their heads and standing on both sides of the mahogany table like palace maids.

The Queen Mother wore a crab shell blue moire beaded brocade robe, sat at the back of the desk, and watched the palace people who passed the meal arrange the meals one by one. After being silent for a while, she looked at Lin Yuan and the others and asked, "You guys are courteous today." ”

The Queen Mother's voice was as calm as ever, and her complexion was gentle and gentle, so that people couldn't spy on their thoughts. But Lin Yuan's ability to observe words and emotions in her previous life was not in vain, and she just heard the displeasure from this question.

She faintly felt that the queen mother was afraid that she had a problem with the emperor - she didn't like deliberate disguise.

The four of them arrived too early today. The purpose of the nobles is clearly to show their faces, in order to climb the tree of the Queen Mother, but they want to pretend to be filial.

It's obviously for your own good, but you have to say it's for the good of others.

When Lin Yuan thought about it like this, he couldn't help sneering in his heart - the emperor and the queen mother, they are the people who own the world, how many people are around to flatter, how can there be people who treat them sincerely? But they still drill this strength, and they don't allow others to disguise.

Lin Yuan herself was wearing a mask. In fact, in this palace, the person who will please the emperor and the queen mother is by no means the true temperament that meets their requirements, but the kind of person who pretends to be the best and pretends that even they can't see it.

For a true man cannot survive here.

Lin Yuan lowered her head and said nothing, but the Jia Guiren next to her couldn't hear the Queen Mother's mood, and rushed to reply with a smile on her face: "Back to the Queen Mother, I am here to fulfill my filial piety to the Queen Mother, so naturally I have to come over early, and I don't dare to slack off." ”

The Queen Mother's brow furrowed almost inaudibly, and she did not comment on this answer. After a moment of silence, she raised her hand and pointed at Wang Chengyi, and ordered: "You stand down, change your clothes and come back." The young man wore crow blue lightly, and he looked like he was the same age as the mourning family. ”

Wang Chengyi was taken aback, although the Queen Mother was majestic on weekdays, she rarely reprimanded people. This is also the first time she has disliked the Queen Mother since she came here to serve.

She was a little flustered for a while, she didn't know what the problem was, the Queen Mother obviously liked plain clothes! She has always dressed up like this to welcome the Queen Mother! Why is it wrong!

Oh my God, could she be the first of the four to be kicked out of Changle Palace? The more Wang Chengyi thought about it, the more panicked he became, and his hands and feet began to tremble. Jia Guiren looked at her from the side and became angry, it was really muddy that couldn't support the wall, wasn't it just that the Queen Mother said a word, and she didn't beat the ground, and she was scared! The Queen Mother didn't say that she wouldn't be allowed to serve in the future!

When Wang Chengyi's feet were soft and wanted to kneel down and beg for mercy, Jia Guiren grabbed her in time, pinched her fingers again, and said in a low voice: "Why don't you go and change your clothes quickly!" Wang Chengyi calmed down at this time, shrunk his head and staggered out.

Jia Guiren looked at her embarrassed appearance and wanted to look up to the sky and sigh, what kind of teammate did she choose! However, she seemed to have forgotten that she found Wang Chengyi in order to find a good gun, and how could someone who was a little capable of letting her control it.

The Queen Mother ignored them, turned her face to Lin Yuan and said, "The Lin family is also as filial as them. ”

Lin Yuan thought for a while, stepped forward and said, "Back to the Queen Mother, it was the emperor who came to the concubine yesterday and instructed the concubine to come to visit you from time to time." ”

The Queen Mother's face moved, and then a smile bloomed in her eyebrows and eyes, and Lin Yuan was a little stunned. She had never seen the Queen Mother laugh so truly.

Sure enough, the answer I just gave was the most perfect. These concubines are just slaves, and no matter how filial they are to the queen mother, they can't match their own sons. Besides, the Queen Mother and they are not real relatives, and insisting on filial piety really seems to be hypocritical.

The Queen Mother asked Lin Yuan with a smile: "How is the emperor these days?" ”

Lin Yuan replied obediently, "Very good", and the Queen Mother laughed again.

The Queen Mother's face was smiling, but there was some empty blankness in her eyes. Lin Yuan read loneliness and sadness from it.

Her son is the Son of Heaven, and he is busy with government affairs and cannot come to see her every day. Her daughters-in-law all have their own thoughts and bear the honor and disgrace of their own families, and their filial piety is just a tool to welcome. She has no interest in anything but worshipping the Buddha.

The Queen Mother now has only one son of the emperor, and she is also her only child. In fact, she gave birth to more than this, her first son was the eldest son of the first emperor, she was the queen at that time, that child occupied the eldest son and the eldest child, should have been a sure prince, but died of smallpox before the age of ten. She also has the youngest child, a daughter, Emperor Duanyang. When Duanyang was thirteen years old, he married the Xiongnu and his relatives.

I heard that Di Ji died in the rebellion of the Xiongnu tribe and was beheaded, as if she had been married for the past two years. Although now the Huns have surrendered.

In fact, although the queen mother was the queen at the beginning, she couldn't do many things, because the first emperor's favorite was Li Guifei. She couldn't ask the first emperor to leave him in the palace to treat her eldest son when he was dying, so she could only move out of the palace according to the rules so as not to endanger the dragon body; She couldn't stop Duanyang from going to kiss.

The Queen Mother is now old, those things are like a passing cloud, and the people who hate and love are gone.

In fact, this old lady's personality is very strange, she looks a little withdrawn on her face, but she looks forward to being lively in her heart - Lin Yuan thinks so, which can be seen from the Queen Mother's unusual smile.

Besides, the Queen Mother always said to the outside world that she liked to stay alone and didn't like to be disturbed, but she still ordered four new concubines to serve. Lin Yuan felt that no matter what purpose she was for, there was a point for her own liveliness after all. Whether true or false, she will feel happier when she sees the vitality of young people.

Because the Queen Mother was very bitter in her heart, there was a dead atmosphere in the entire Changle Palace. But she still has the expectation of life, so she longs for excitement.

In fact, such a person is the most difficult to serve, Lin Yuan complained in her heart while analyzing. Sometimes she is very quiet, and it is a great sin if you disturb her; Sometimes she thinks you're too quiet and dull to make her happy. The eccentric temperament of an old man is the same as the cunning temper of a child.

This boss with the word "Queen Mother" written on the top of his head is a bit difficult to brush.

At this time, the dishes were finished, and the Queen Mother no longer questioned Lin Yuan and them.

The inner supervisor of the meal recited the sentence "Respectfully invite the Queen Mother to eat", and Lin Yuan and the three of them hurriedly stepped forward to serve. The Queen Mother sat in the south and faced north, Lin Yuan and the others stood on both sides, and opposite the Queen Mother was a eunuch who tasted food.

First, Jia Guiren served a bowl of red bean rice to the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother nodded and took it. Then Ye Chengyi took chopsticks to pick up vegetables for the Queen Mother, but hesitated and couldn't reach out. She didn't know what the Queen Mother liked to eat, and she suffered when she made a mistake that the Queen Mother didn't like. It's a pity that the job of serving the rice was robbed by Jia Guiren, and she could only make vegetables with Lin Yuan.

Jia Guiren is a competitive person, and when he saw Ye's hesitation, he stretched out his chopsticks to pick up the vegetables. Lin Yuan knew that she had always been this virtue, seeking victory rather than stability, and performing well regardless of risks. When I met the Queen Mother for the first time, Concubine Xiang and Concubine Rou competed to serve the Queen Mother, and the rest of the people did not dare to be in the limelight; Only Jia Guiren deliberately wore plain clothes to take a look at the Empress Dowager.

In fact, Jia Guiren dared to stretch out his chopsticks, not because of gambling, but because he had a bottom in his heart - her father was an official in Yuzhou, and he was a non-mainstream Congwupin, but he was in charge of salt tax, and oil and water were the most fertile. She took the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver tickets given by her family to the palace to check up and down, and her life was much better than that of others, and she also bought the preferences of the queen mother and the emperor at a high price.

Without hesitation, she put a piece of eggplant box in the sweet white plate, and after tasting it, she gave another slice to the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother glanced at Jia Guiren twice, but she stretched out her hand and pushed open the eggplant box, and said to the eunuch by the door with a raised face: "Liu Sheng, go and pass the decree and remove Zhang Shangshi from his position." ”

As soon as the Queen Mother's words came out, the palace maids in the house all knelt down, and Jia Guiren was shocked and knelt down, but her heart was inexplicable. The Queen Mother looked at her and shook her head secretly, as the Queen Mother, what she and the emperor like to eat and what they don't like to eat are taboos in the palace, and there are also "no three" rules when eating, just for fear that someone will know their preferences and poison something. The matter of this eggplant box is the news that she deliberately released, if someone really clips the eggplant box to her one day, she must be wary of whether this person is an assassin.

However, the noble people in front of him can rest assured. She has found out the eight generations of Jiaguiren's ancestors, except for her father's greed for money, the rest are innocent. This news can be passed on to Jiaguiren because the palace people of the Shangshi Bureau are broken, so the Queen Mother just removed the aunt in charge of the Shangshi Bureau.

Thinking about this, the Queen Mother couldn't help but feel a little helpless. For so many years, she has never eaten a comfortable meal, and she has never been able to feast on what she likes to eat. She and the emperor are both like this, they are afraid that King Mu Wu and King Duanxu will not die.

The Queen Mother was upset when she thought of King Mu Wu, and she was even more displeased with the kneeling nobles, so she looked at Lin Yuan and Ye Xiuxin.

The two knew they had to step forward. But Ye Xiuxin looked at the Empress Dowager Fang Cai's slightly angry appearance, although she couldn't guess what was happening, but she understood that the work of this cloth vegetable was a hot potato, so she refused to stretch out her chopsticks.

She is cautious, but there must always be someone to serve the Queen Mother, and if both of them don't move, the two of them will be unlucky together. Lin Yuan thought about it, glanced at the Queen Mother, and scooped a small bowl of hibiscus swallow vegetables with a spoon.

The Queen Mother took it, her face was a little pale. Actually, she doesn't like hibiscus swallow vegetables, but this is the soup she wants to eat. Just now she just glanced at the soup, and the Lin family was very clever and knew what she meant.