Chapter 132: Empress Dowager Chen
"Sister, is that Gu Jingfeng going to war again? Can you slow down, wait for me to give birth to the child, my child is pregnant until now, tossed until now, how many times he has fought, my heart is about to be tired! ”
Shen Qingwu only listened to her sister's tone and knew that Mrs. Chen Guo's latecomer was not good, she spread her hands, she couldn't stop sighing, and her heart was sad, just now Gu Jingfeng in the carriage was still mentioning the matter of returning to seclusion with herself, and now there is a Empress Dowager Chen Guo, and it is really difficult to get out of this life!
When Shen Qingwu, who had been refreshed and dressed, appeared in front of everyone with her sister Shen Jinglan again, through the crowd, Shen Qingwu saw the gloom on Gu Jingfeng's face, obviously, she also knew about this Empress Dowager Chen Guo, it was really a good person who did not come, and a bad person who came.
In the middle of the day, the sun was warm, and the voice of the eunuch sang the promise sounded outside, Shen Qingwu stretched his neck with curiosity and leaned out of the marble road, only to see that the woman in a dark red phoenix embroidered silk dress in Feishu in the backlight walked towards the hall with the spirit of a king, even if the years change and the face is no longer young, the kind of heritage left on the body is like an old wine, it will only become more mellow!
The noble aura held by the whole body made Shen Qingwu look up when he saw it, the woman who covered the sky in Chen Guo should be like this, the long eyebrows trimmed like a knife and axe are as fierce as a sharp sword, a pair of sharp and clear eyes, and the beautiful face still has a unique charm, transcendent bearing, and powerful aura, which makes people marvel.
"Aunt Huang is tired of traveling, she should have told us that you were coming back." Su Heng did not salute, with a harmless smile on his face, and only smiled at the Empress Dowager Chen Guo who was standing at the bottom of the steps and called the imperial aunt with a family salute, which can be regarded as a salute before the soldiers.
After hearing the sound of the imperial aunt, the Empress Dowager Chen raised a soft smile at the corner of her mouth, but her eyes were still cold, "I came back with people in a mighty way, but I didn't have the meaning of taking a good look at my homeland, I was timid, but I didn't want to, I have been away from here for nearly thirty years, when the years are really urging people to get old, when I left, you were just still in infancy, and now, you have taken care of the country left by your father so well, in the end, it is the blood of our Su family!" ”
The polite words are one set after another, and the face is fulfilled and the lining is given, sometimes even the father and son in the royal family will have a dislike between each other, each with suspicions, these two very intimate aunts and nephews above the bloodline, but this is not the case in reality, the familiarity between them is not as familiar as a sprinkled girl in the courtyard of their respective homes, but they also have to stage a drama of benevolence, filial piety and benevolence in front of people, which is really interesting.
Shen Qingwu hid behind people, looking at the stiff tone of the pair of aunts and nephews, and only felt that speaking was sometimes a real art, especially when the representatives of one country and another country spoke like this, as if there was an invisible blade, one move and one style, each confronting each other, which was very rare.
"The deeds of the imperial aunt in the Chen country are also praised, I have always heard of it, and I also have great respect for the aunt, if there is no imperial aunt to manage it all these years, we will not be so harmonious and friendly between the Great Zhou and the Chen country, the imperial aunt wants to return to the hometown and the province, only the news came early, the nephew must let people come to pick it up in person, why bother the imperial aunt has been tired for so long, sleeping in the open air, it is really a nephew who is not filial!"
The aunt who was married in her infancy, the aunt and nephew who had not seen each other for more than 30 years, are now standing in front of people, talking from the bottom of her heart, Shen Qingwu looked at this scene with great interest who has better acting skills than whom, and sighed that it is not easy to be an emperor.
At the end of the words, the Empress Dowager Chen was invited by Su Heng to enter the Taihe Palace, the Empress Dowager sat in the hall, her face was expressionless, everyone stood in front of the Taihe Hall to greet the Empress Dowager Chen, the Empress Dowager did not even get up, compared to Chen Guo, the current national strength of the Great Zhou Dynasty is to let the Empress Dowager Chen have this qualification to sit here, waiting for the Empress Dowager Chen to come and see.
"Now, it's time to call Sister Yuxi as a royal sister-in-law, I haven't seen her for many years, the imperial sister-in-law has come out, and with such a good son, it is really gratifying to be congratulated now!" After seeing the Queen Mother sitting upright in the main hall, the Queen Mother Chen Guo below couldn't help but smile at the corner of her mouth, and said softly with emotion, but a touch of sarcasm appeared in her eyes. The words are meaningful.
"Decades of ups and downs have come over, speaking of which, I still have to thank you for the original Lanling, if there is no your contribution, how can I be happy today, the first emperor used to be for you and pro-Chen Guo has been obsessed, now it seems that looking at you to win the position of the queen mother, the first emperor under the nine springs, should also be very blind, after all, Lanling you are like a fish in water, in the end there is a heart to do one thing, whether it is in Chen State, or in Da Zhou, it is the same."
The two queen mothers of the same age, only glanced at each other, and they could see that sparks were splashing between the two, and the smell of gunpowder smoke permeated the entire hall.
Obviously, the new and old grudges between the two, even if they have been separated by decades, have not dissipated, and no one has ever given in to each other in the confrontation with guns and sticks and puns!
There was a moment of embarrassment in the hall, and after the Queen Mother's words fell, the Empress Dowager Chen Guo only raised her lips and smiled lightly on the side, as if she had nothing to do with herself.
Su Heng invited the Empress Dowager Chen Guo to take a seat, the Empress Dowager never had a good face from beginning to end, maintained indifference on her face, and never smiled at the Empress Dowager Chen Guo until the end of the feast.
Shen Jinglan, as the queen, has this lot of people to socialize, so she naturally has no time to separate, so Shen Qingwu accompanied the queen mother back to the palace to rest, originally she was not interested in listening to the play, it was better to be lazy and find a comfortable place to sit, rest and rest, and relax her muscles.
Along the way, she held her big belly and supported her aunt to walk like this, the Queen Mother was silent, as if she had fallen into her own contemplation, Shen Qingwu only accompanied her, until she arrived at the Queen Mother's Shoukang Palace, she heard the Queen Mother breathe a long sigh of relief, as if she had been holding back for a long time.
"Light dance girl, you didn't like to be noisy in the past, why do you look at you now as if your heart is heavier than the mourning family!"
The grandmother beside the Queen Mother made two new teas and handed them to the two, and lit a wisp of sandalwood in the incense burner on the low table. After the Queen Mother took a sip of tea, she put down the cup in her hand and leaned lazily on the chaise longue behind her.
Shen Qingwu saw that her eyes were slightly closed, she only pouted, and sighed lightly, "Don't hide it from my aunt, originally today, Gu Jingfeng wanted to resign from his cousin, we bought a property in a place with beautiful mountains and rivers, I plan to go there to have a child and live a good life, but as soon as the Empress Dowager Chen came, I knew that I wanted to retreat, but I was afraid that there was no hope, especially after listening to my sister say something about the desert and the Empress Dowager Chen, I felt more and more slim, aunt, Why do you say it's so hard for me to have a child, why do my men always have to go to war! ”
Shen Qingwu held the cup, and bluntly said everything she wanted to say to her aunt, the Queen Mother heard Shen Qingwu's playful words, couldn't help but smile, and nodded on the tip of her nose and said, "You, you really let us all be spoiled, and like a child, but you have a sentence to the point, this Empress Dowager Chen Guo is indeed not good, as for whether she will fight, it depends on what she means, what cards she holds in her hand, see the move, want to come, before you give birth, this matter, I'm afraid that it won't be peaceful, back then, your aunt and cousin almost died in her hands. ”
With this soft sigh, Shen Qingwu heard the Queen Mother talk about her entry into the palace for the first time, and she had only heard people say that since her aunt entered the palace, she has been the role of the sixth palace, and she never knew what she had experienced.
At that time, the queen mother's initial draft was to serve the king's side as a five-pin Xiaoyi, that year, the queen mother's eyes were bright, thousands of charming, and the seven-night servant bed attracted the sideways eyes of the six palaces, which was feared by the queen at that time, and soon after, the queen mother was pregnant, and the son of heaven who was over forty years old was overjoyed, and the queen mother who was still a concubine from the fourth grade Wanyi was promoted to Zhaoyi, only to wait for her to give birth to a child and then do a reward and canonization as a concubine.
At that time, the queen mother was tireless in the palace, and the emperor's favor was flourishing, especially in the hospital, there was also a voice, saying that the fetus in the womb must be a male fetus, and the queen who gave birth to the eldest son and had grown up became more and more displeased with this fledgling rookie, and laid down the idea of getting rid of it quickly.
At that time, the queen and the Son of Heaven were young couples, already over forty years old, their faces were decaying, and the days of seeing the monarch's face were numbered, in the face of the menacing Queen Mother, and the emperor's favor for her, her days became more and more difficult, at this time, the emperor's own sister, Princess Lanling saw the thoughts of her sister-in-law, Princess Lanling is the youngest sister of the Son of Heaven, and is now the Empress Dowager of Chen Guo.
The Queen Mother is pregnant in May, there is a vision in the sky, there is a Mars conjunction with the moon, Lanling said to the queen to make a fuss on this celestial phenomenon, and the Qin Tianjian exited and told the emperor at that time that the queen mother was pregnant with a murderous fetus, and asked the emperor to give medicine and kill the child!
"Why did Princess Lanling help the former queen to harm you, you are the emperor's concubine, she is the emperor's sister, she does not commit to the river when she enters the water, what is she involved in this, what benefits can she get?" Hearing this, Shen Qingwu couldn't help but interrupt the Queen Mother's words and asked curiously.
Princess Lanling is already a noble identity, helping the queen to harm the concubines and mutilate the heirs, it must be what she wants, otherwise why do you want this!
"That's because I fell in love with a palace guard at the beginning, there are thousands of sons and daughters in the court, but I have a golden branch and jade leaf but I have a fancy to a small guard, my imperial brother will definitely not agree to me marrying him, so, I reached an agreement with the queen at that time, I will help her get rid of your aunt, she will use the power of her mother's family to support the guard to take the throne, lobby my imperial brother, help me marry that guard!"