Chapter 8, The Queen Mother

After lying in bed for more than half a month, Mu Rouxi finally got the consent of Imperial Doctor Zhang and went to the ground under the persuasion of her clever tongue.

Holding a book of "Taizu Benji" that had read a few pages, he was about to go to sit under the begonia tree in the courtyard, when the crisp sound of autumn frost came from the gate of the courtyard.

"Miss, Liuqin is here."

After a while, Qiushuang, dressed in a blue maid's clothes and with red cheeks, came from the cloister with another woman in a scarlet skirt.

"Third Miss, the Queen Mother is here, and Madame asked the slave maid to invite you to the Ming Dynasty Courtyard."

Liu Qin, the eldest girl beside the Sun family, bowed and smiled at Mu Rouxi in a friendly manner, with an unknown sense of joy in her tone.

Mu Rouxi put down the book in her hand, took off a gilt bracelet on her wrist and stuffed it into her hand and said: "Sister Lao is going to confess to the Queen Mother for Rouxi first, it is always easy to get contaminated with the smell of medicine recently, so I will change my clothes and go." ”

Liu Qin smiled and left, Mu Rouxi turned around and asked Qiushui to bring the blue cardigan skirt that she had made two days ago. The skirt is embroidered with a large princess-colored hibiscus, and the flowers swing with the people when they walk.

In her previous life, she happened to hear King Rong mention to Mu Yao that the Queen Mother looks graceful and luxurious on weekdays, but in fact, she has a literati style in her bones, and she loves lotus out of the mud without staining.

Qiu Yue skillfully used two moon-white ribbons wrapped with gold silk to pull Mu Rouxi's smooth hair into a swallowtail style, and only inserted a fingernail-sized but finely made lotus silk flower into the hair bun on the top of her head.

With some rouge on his face to cover up his paleness, he took the autumn water and autumn moon towards the Ming Dynasty courtyard. On the way, I met Mu Yan, who was gray in the middle of nowhere.

"Sister, you're here."

Mu Yan jumped up and down in front of Mu Rouxi, looking at her with a small face and a courteous face. Since Mu Rouxi was injured, she seemed to be much kinder and gentler than before, and he and her were more casual and intimate.

"You skin monkey, where are you going to be trick-or-treating? What about the people around you? ”

Mu Rouxi stretched out her hand and knocked on his head, took out a piece of silk from her sleeve, and carefully wiped the ashes off his face. took his hand and wiped it for him, and then led him to the Ming Dynasty Courtyard, and he didn't bother with the previous problems.

"Sister, I went around the hill behind our courtyard today and found something amazing, I'll take you there when you're well."

Seeing that she was about to enter the Ming Dynasty Courtyard, Mu Yan grabbed Mu Rouxi and asked her to bend down and whisper in her ear, her big eyes seemed to be as bright as starlight.

Mu Rouxi naturally knew what was in that mountain. But he still rubbed his head, and under his expectant gaze, he nodded, and his eyes smiled like a crescent moon.

In the courtyard of the Ming Dynasty, the Empress Dowager sat in the first place, and Mu Qingshan sat in the lower right, and Mu Jue was beside him. On the left are Sun and Mu Rong.

"Courtier/boy to meet the Queen Mother."

After saluting, the Queen Mother asked Mu Yan to sit next to Mu Qingshan, and called Mu Rouxi to her to take a closer look. Seeing the hibiscus on her skirt, the Queen Mother rarely showed a bit of sincere love in her eyes. After plucking a jasper lotus hairpin from her head and rewarding her, he told her to sit down.

"Mu Sanya has a little bit of your grandfather's courage back then, that axe, even if it is a mourner, it is shocking to watch, and you are not afraid to block it. Such a great grace, Mu'er of the mourning family should remember it well. ”

When Mu Rouxi sat down, the trace of tenderness in the Queen Mother's eyes had faded, but instead flashed with a scrutinizing light, and she couldn't hear the emotion when she said.

Mu Qingshan's eyes flashed, and he was about to say something, but Mu Rouxi didn't give him this chance.

"The Queen Mother." Mu Rouxi's voice sounded a little weak, but the desire in her tone was still there, making people feel as if there was a hidden feeling. Sure enough, I heard her say again: "This time, I have to ask the Queen Mother to calm her anger." The courtiers have no great kindness to the son, and this injury is also the little girl's own recklessness. ”

Mu Qingshan's face suddenly turned pale, and from time to time a trace of danger was released in his eyes, which approached Mu Rouxi. Mu Rouxi didn't pay attention to it, and sat aside with her head down.

The Queen Mother pretended not to see the strangeness of the father and daughter, but was puzzled, "Oh? With a sigh, he motioned for Mu Rouxi to continue.

Mu Rouxi had already guessed what she was doing when she came this time, based on what she knew about the queen mother in her previous life. At that moment, he said softly the words he had just thought of: "The courtiers didn't dare to deceive the queen mother, the courtiers just woke up that day, and their spirits were a little trance-like, as if they heard the voice of their inferior brother A Yan, and it happened that the prince was wearing a red hunting suit like A Yan, so he mistakenly recognized the son of the world as A Yan." ”

"The courtiers and Ah Yan have had a deep relationship since childhood, so they cared about it and caught up with the axe. Now I heard the queen mother say this, but the courtiers are ashamed, the person with the axe has long been out of strength, if it is not for the courtiers to make such a fuss, the son of the world must have a good way to get out. ”

On the contrary, it was the embarrassed appearance of the courtiers at that time that shocked the son. The queen mother doesn't blame the courtiers. Where do the courtiers dare to accept their kindness. ”

When the Queen Mother heard Mu Rouxi say this, she was very satisfied with her knowledge, and there was a sincere smile in her eyes. If this girl coerces each other with grace, she will have many requirements for Shen Muzhi in the future, which the Queen Mother will never want to see.

It's not that she doesn't know how to repay her kindness, she really saw that scene in her eyes at that time, if it weren't for this girl, it would be her Mu'er who walked away in the ghost gate. But Mu Qingshan married a daughter to Lao Jiu, and she had already fallen into the battle for the heir, and she never wanted Shen Muzhi to owe this life-saving grace.

Now I saw a faint embarrassment on this girl's face, and her eyes were calm, as if things were really as she said. The queen mother's heart moved, the three girls of the Mu family are excellent, they know the general situation and understand the rules, I don't know how much better than Mu Yao, who made a fuss about the royal heirs.

It's just that......

The Queen Mother glanced at Mu Qingshan, whose face was so heavy that she could drip ink on the side, and she didn't feel a little guilty. Mu Rouxi, the little girl, is now annoying his father, and with her opinion of Mu Qingshan in her heart, I am afraid that her life in Mu Mansion will not be relaxed in the future. After thinking about it, he smiled lovingly at Mu Rouxi.

"Mu Sanya loves her younger brother so much, she should be a model for the ladies in Jincheng, the mourning family likes you very much, and she will go to the mourning family to talk to my old lady when she recovers from her injuries in the future."

Even if he didn't mention Mu Rouxi's rescue in half a sentence, the meaning of maintenance in his tone couldn't be more obvious. Mu Rouxi meekly lowered her head, her eyes crooked.

In the future, it is really good for her to be able to walk around in front of the Queen Mother. This is in line with the queen mother's intention to refer to the deer as a horse, which is very worthwhile.

Mu Qingshan hated it so much that he could only endure it, he really didn't understand why his daughter suddenly seemed to be a different person.

I wasn't close to her before, but this daughter still listened to herself, but now she is against herself like this. Is it to blame that he only cared about the emperor on the day of the assassination and did not protect her?

If that's the case, it's easy to do, and the little daughter's family, just coax it. Wait for Yao'er to get better, let her come back and help coax her, this girl has always listened to her eldest sister's words, this Shen family's kindness, he is not afraid that they will really not come back.