Chapter 21: Ulterior motives
"It's time to advance and retreat, think about it, Qi Ji can't use the plan this time, and the plot is bound to be even worse, and the younger brother is in danger." The princess bowed and bowed, "Take care of the queen mother, and the retainer will leave." ”
The princess got up and left, leaving Empress Lu alone there, "Should I advance or retreat?" Empress Lu murmured, "Don't give up all possibilities." ”
The next day, Empress Lu instructed Dai Qing to send the bamboo slips such as "Zuo Chuan", "Zhou Li", "Zhongyong", and "Zhuangzi" to the ladies and beauties of the palaces, and also asked them to understand the history, mainly because these bamboo slips have what women should do and should not do, and whether they can understand their intentions is not sure, I hope these books can collect their ambitions, and the book "Zhuangzi" mainly expounds Zhuang Zhou's quiet and leisurely, inaction, quiet, and quiet philosophical thoughts, Through this book, they don't have the kind of mind to chase fame and fortune and fight without cultivation, and follow Zhuangzi to be born peacefully.
Empress Lu personally instructed Dai Qing to send it to the ladies, Dai Qing did things in a measured manner, and the ladies also wanted to give some thin noodles when they saw Dai Qing. After Dai Qing received the order, he took a few little palace maids and left with bamboo slips.
first went to Bo Ji's Jinhua Palace, the layout of Jinhua Palace made Dai Qing a little surprised, as if he had seen such an environment somewhere, and suddenly thought that it was the mansion that stayed behind, and it was also so quiet. Bo Ji looked quiet and unheard, as if she was really away from the harem dispute, and held Liu Heng in her arms to tell him the story. Seeing that Dai Qing beside the queen suddenly visited, she didn't have time to think about what was going on, but seeing that she was followed by some palace maids and holding bamboo slips, she couldn't guess Dai Qing's intention.
Dai Qing saw her politely and politely, in the eyes of the queen, Bo Ji is a person who pursues Huang Lao's philosophy, has long been away from the harem dispute, and is very low-key in life and work, which is very loved by Empress Lu. In the deep palace, the most tolerant of Empress Lu is the mistress of Jinhua Palace, Bo Ji, although the queen does not often come to Jinhua Palace, but often sends people to Jinhua Palace to send delicious and fun, that Lantian jade sable cicada is a treasure of Hou Guo's tribute, but Lv Hou rewarded it to Bo Ji, Bo Ji every time he gets the queen's reward more low-key, every day does not go out of Jinhua Palace, only with his son Liu Heng to rely on each other, but also very comfortable. The queen's respect for her made Dai Qing dare not make a mistake, Dai Qing also likes Bo Ji's attitude to the world very much, Bo Ji has an indescribable transcendent immortal temperament, every time she comes to Jinhua Palace, Dai Qing feels that her mood is calm and relaxed, as if she was really born. After saluting, he instructed the palace maids to give Bo Ji the bamboo slips and put them into the inner room.
"What does the queen mean?" Bo Ji smiled and asked carefully.
Dai Qing nodded shallowly, "Niangniang knew that Mrs. Bo liked Huang Laoxue, so she instructed the slave maid to bring these books. Mrs. is quiet and unheard, which is what Dai Qing envies. After that, he stood there without saying a word and watched the palace maids busy.
Bo Ji also nodded and said with a smile, "Please say thank you to the queen on behalf of Bo Ji, I will accept these bamboo slips." ”
Dai Qing smiled politely, "Hmm." ”
Bo Ji turned around and walked to the inner room, Dai Qing saw that they were also busy, and when he turned to leave, he stopped and said to Bo Ji's inner room, "Take care, Dai Qing farewell." "Madame Bo has always been weaker than the harem, and to some extent, Dai Qing has an unwarranted respect for her.
Then came Zhao Meiren, at this time Zhao Meiren just called the maid as if she was going out, and suddenly saw Dai Qing coming, and returned to the hall, thinking that the queen had something to tell Dai Qing to order.
Dai Qing entered the hall to meet Zhao Meiren's clear gaze, nodded politely to her, and said, "I've seen a beauty." ”
Zhao Meiren was anxious to know the purpose of Dai Qing's visit this time, smiled back at her, pointed to the maid holding a bamboo slip behind Dai Qing and asked, "Dai Qing, what does this mean?" ”
"The queen ordered this, the slave maid is not easy to ask, presumably to ask the beauty to read more." Dai Qingping replied flatly.
Zhao Meiren wondered very much, when did the palace rise up to read, and the queen really wanted to play a play. Watching Dai Qing lead her little maids to move bamboo slips in and out, Zhao Meiren and the personal maids didn't understand why, and they couldn't ask Dai Qing again, she knew that Dai Qing was also a powerful corner, so she stood in place and watched the palace people busy side by side with Dai Qing.
After a while, Dai Qing nodded politely to her and withdrew.
Next up is Shi Meiren.
Originally, Shi Meiren was watching the fish in the pond in the backyard, very leisurely, and suddenly a maid said that Dai Qing of Changxin Palace was visiting, and there were some girls behind her, Shi Meiren thought that the queen had issued some edict, so she quickly got up and came out to see her.
When he came out to take a look, he saw that the maids behind Dai Qing were holding some bamboo slips in their hands, and they were also puzzled, frowning sideways and frowning.
Dai Qing waved her hand sideways, and the maids began to move the bamboo slips after understanding the meaning, and they even forgot to greet Shi Meiren, which attracted Shi Meiren to cast hateful glances at her, but thinking that she was the person next to the queen, she didn't dare to roll her eyes so presumptuously, nor did she dare to take the initiative to ask her to say hello to herself.
Dai Qing just watched the maids busy, and occasionally commanded herself, without seeing what the stone beauty next to her thought of her.
Seeing that Dai Qing didn't take himself in his eyes at all, Shi Meiren's face was a little displeased, and she took a step closer and asked with some complaint, "What do you mean?" ”
"Bamboo slips are for reading, and beauties should know." Dai Qing didn't look at Shi Meiren, his eyes looked at those people who were moving bamboo slips, and said casually.
"I don't know the number of etiquette, I don't even bring a title, dare to talk to me like this, one day, I don't know how I told you to die." Shi Meiren looked at Dai Qing's invincible appearance, and scolded her silently in her heart, although she is a queen, she can't treat a beauty like this, she is a beauty sealed by Liu Bang personally, a beauty with a silver seal and purple ribbon, how can she be compared with Dai Qing. Today, Dai Qing treats herself like this and doesn't give herself face, and Shi Meiren will not have a good face for her in the future.
"Alright." Dai Qing turned around and said to Shi Meiren, but saw that she was looking at herself with a strange eye, Shi Meiren also quickly came back to her senses, and looked at her with a pleasant face, "Okay? ”
Dai Qing nodded, although he had some doubts about Shi Meiren's expression just now, but it quickly disappeared.
"The beauty stays, and Dai Qing says goodbye." Saying that, Dai Qing took the palace maids away, and Shi Meiren was extremely surging in her heart, and the waves were rolling.
Linhua Palace.
Didn't Mrs. Guan get sick yesterday? After Liu Bang came in a hurry, he asked the imperial doctor to show her, and the imperial doctor said that it was no big deal, but she needed to rest for a few more days, and Liu Bang stayed in Linhua Hall to sleep at night.
It's just that this morning he said that he had something to deal with in the front hall, and told the maids to wait for him, and then left. Mrs. Guan believed it, lay down on the bed to rest, and brought her her favorite lotus seed soup, but she didn't look at it and couldn't drink it, and waved her hand to let her rest on a few cases. Suddenly, a maid said that Dai Qing was coming.
Mrs. Guan was also the same as other ladies, she was sensitive when she heard the people of Changxin Palace, and she was about to get up, but Dai Qing had already brought in with the maids behind her.
Mrs. Guan dragged the sick body to Dai Qing's side, looked at her and looked at the people behind her, and saw them holding bamboo slips, I don't know what they meant.
As soon as Dai Qing was about to turn around and tell the maids to put the books away, Mrs. Guan walked past her, "Wait." He looked at her, walked behind her and looked at the bamboo slips in the hands of the maids, raised his hand and pulled it casually, and opened a scroll, ""Zuo Biography"? Pointing to the maids holding bamboo slips in their hands, he asked Dai Qing, "Tell me to read history?" ”
Dai Qing turned around and stood up, bowed down and made a bow, nodded, and said, "The queen said, women in the palace can't just be flashy, understand the past, walk the present, and pave the way for the future." Female red, silkworm affairs, weaving cloth, persuading her husband to cultivate himself and rule the country and the world, do not fiddle with right and wrong, do not compete with others, and work together to govern the family, and become a good woman. Fan Ji admonished the king of Chuzhuang to stop hunting and concentrate on state affairs, and asked Yu Qiuzi to recommend Sun Shuao and Queen Qi Jiang to make Ji pour wine into Chong'er, and rather keep the empty boudoir alone to help her husband return to China to Jingjing, Jin Wen became a tyrant, and Queen Xuanjiang took off her hairpin and fell into the eternal lane, and blamed herself for advising King Xuan to deal with political affairs, and finally made King Xuan the lord of Zhongxing in the Zhou Dynasty. Such a woman is the most respectable woman, and Mrs. Hui Lanxin will definitely be able to become such a person. ”
Mrs. Guan has always known that Empress Lu is tough and strong, and other women only like things like "Book of Songs" when they read, but Empress Lu likes to read "Spring and Autumn" and "Warring States Policy". Dai Qing's words were expected by Mrs. Guan, but she didn't understand why Empress Lu also asked her to read these things, Mrs. Guan never read, there was not a decent bamboo slip in the palace, others read the "Book of Songs", but there was no volume in her palace, she only remembered the "Book of Songs" that others had dictated to her. Mrs. Guan didn't take the trouble to listen to Dai Qing's words, but she didn't pay attention to it at all, she sneered a few times disdainfully, and said in a strange manner, "Who doesn't know that I don't like Wenmo the most, and now I actually send it over knowingly?" Saying so much, it means that I am not as good as Chuzhuang Fan Ji, Zhou Xuanjianghou, Jin Wenqi Jiang, and I will only pester the emperor like that Qi Ji? Playing so many tricks to sarcastically mock me, don't you know how many words I can't read? Take. I am free in my life, I am in charge, and I don't need others to arrange what kind of person I become. Mrs. Guan unceremoniously threw the bamboo slip in her hand to the side, looking disdainful.
"Madame, it's better to take it, and it's better to look at it." Dai Qing also smiled perfunctorily, and said softly and firmly, "In view of the appearance of the water people, in view of the fact that everyone knows the good and the bad." Madame is now favored and fortunate to be the well-being of Madame, after all, blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, how can she be so unkind? Didn't Madame hear that sentence: It is better to hold on to it; It cannot be kept for a long time. Didn't Mrs. listen to that sentence: Kang Long has regrets. ”
Mrs. Guan didn't read much, and Dai Qing said such a big thing, she was a little confused. Mrs. Guan knew that the meaning of the words must be something to warn herself, and she suddenly restrained herself a little, and paced in place and thought. Thinking about his plan with Qi Ji, thinking about the queen who has always looked down on herself, thinking about Dai Qing who has always relied on the majesty of the queen to be unkind to herself, thinking about how she finally got the emperor's favor. Of course, Mrs. Guan knew the queen's temper, but she couldn't swallow the anger she had been angry for many years, so she wanted to take this opportunity to humiliate Dai Qing. He snorted coldly, approached Dai Qing with his face, looked at her like a hook, and said, "Don't tell me the truth, people will be trampled under their feet if they blindly act according to the reason." I tell you, women should not be too strong, men will not like them, men only like women who are as gentle as water, and don't be too jealous, they will not be happy, it is better for women to be stupid, not so shrewd. Mrs. Guan then moved her face away from Dai Qing, stood with her sleeves brushed, and said heavily, "Take it away." ”
Dai Qing was choked by Mrs. Guan so much that she couldn't say a complete sentence, Mrs. Guan was clearly alluding to the queen, she could only come up with a sentence, "You ......" Her eyes were full of resentment, and she bit her lip, but she saw Mrs. Guan's smug smile.
Dai Qing saw that Mrs. Guan didn't take the queen in her eyes at all, and immediately felt that Mrs. Guan was really too arrogant and annoying. She must win back for the queen in face, paused, walked to her side and smiled lightly, or said softly with rigidity, "I think Niangniang is still good to take it, men may not like people who only have an appearance and no heart, and at the same time, don't forget, the lord of the six palaces is still the queen and not anyone else, I am afraid that one day Madame, you will make any mistakes, and you will be locked up for the rest of your life after you arrive in Yongxiang, and Dai Qing will not be able to help Madame at that time." Dai Qing moved Empress Lu and Yongxiang out to tell her about the matter, so as to scare Mrs. Guan.
"Yongxiang?" Mrs. Guan couldn't help muttering, speaking of Yongxiang, everyone is scared and will tremble, and Mrs. Guan will be afraid too.
The maids are also finished, and they are about to leave, Dai Qing was just about to walk past her, but stopped, glanced at Mrs. Guan who was stunned, and knew that she was afraid. Dai Qing smiled, turned to Mrs. Guan's face, and said, "Madame's better not to do things that stand out from the crowd, otherwise you will ......"
Mrs. Guan looked at Dai Qing, with questioning and apprehension, and said, "Otherwise, what? ”
Dai Qing smiled but didn't answer, and bowed, "Madame stays, Dai Qing says goodbye." Dai Qing and the palace maids left.
"You are just a girl who serves people, and you dare to talk to me like this, don't forget that I am the wife of the emperor himself, and he loves me now, do you think you can show off your power by the queen's side? One day, who is the lord of the six houses, is not necessarily who? Mrs. Guan was angry at Dai Qing, who had already walked away, and then looked at the bamboo slips in the house, walked over at once, pushed all the bamboo slips to the ground, and said angrily, "You dare to bully me." ”
Chanxin came over to clean up the bamboo slips on the ground, and also said, "Madam, what Dai Qing said about 'Kanglong has regrets' makes sense, the emperor's favorite is Mrs. Qi, I think you still have to be a little more restrained." The queen has a resolute personality, the emperor will not tolerate you in a hundred years, now it is better to be careful, not too arrogant and not to put the queen in your eyes, in addition, you should protect yourself, Mrs. Qi is not a simple person. ”
Mrs. Guan was angry, and Chanxin's words were not taken to heart, but she grabbed Chanxin in annoyance and asked, "Why is it so difficult to live?" Being oppressed everywhere? ”
Chan was silent.
Ichthyamo Palace.
Dai Qing took the palace maids to the Yuzao Palace, but he didn't see the maids to greet him, and the Yuzao Palace was very quiet and elegant.
A palace maid walked past her, was pulled by Dai Qing and asked, "Isn't Mrs. Qi here?" ”
"Mrs. Qi has been very unhappy recently, and the emperor took her and the acting king to Shanglin Yuan for a safari." The palace maid said.
It turned out that Liu Bang did not go to the front hall to deal with government affairs, but heard that Qi Ji had been unhappy recently, and he was afraid that Qi Ji would be angry and ignore him, so he called someone to come to Yuzao Palace to take her and Ruyi to Shanglin Yuan to relieve boredom and enlighten Qi Ji.
Dai Qing was a little disappointed, and frowned for the queen, and said to himself: The emperor is busy between Mrs. Qi and Mrs. Guan, and he really has mental strength and physical strength. Then he said to the little palace maid, "After Mrs. Qi came back, she said that Dai Qing had come, and these bamboo slips were given to Mrs. Qi by the queen, and they didn't have to be returned." ”
The little palace maid nodded.
Today, Mrs. Qi is not here, and Dai Qing has not come to the Yuzao Palace a few times, and every time he comes, he is in a hurry, and he has no time to enjoy the scenery of the Yuzao Palace. Today, she was interested in seeing the scenery of the Yuzao Palace, and she instructed the palace maids behind her to go back to the queen first, and she would arrive later.
Dai Qing walked around the Fish Algae Palace under the leadership of a maid from the Fish Algae Palace. Suddenly, he walked to a corner of the house and stopped, the window of the room was not closed, and the windowsill was full of flowers, "Bauhinia." She looked at the flowers and couldn't help blurting out, as if she had seen them somewhere, and when she thought about it, her eyes lit up, when she went to the prince's mansion that day, wasn't the flowers that the prince was busy carrying out like this? It turned out that the prince had brought all the flowers here and given them to the girls in this house.
"Who lives in that house?" Dai Qing asked, pointing to the room in front of him.
"Sister Jing Ting."
"It turned out to be her." Dai Qing suddenly remembered this Jing Tian in his heart, so he blurted out and asked, "Who sent the flowers?" ”
"It's a man, I heard Sister Jing Tian say that her name is Taizhen."
Dai Qing frowned, bit his fingers, and thought to himself, "Isn't it the prince?" Who is Tae-jin? The girl's words were unexpected by Dai Qing, but this unexpected was what Dai Qing wanted, no one could be the prince, and the original hanging heart was finally put down, and it was indescribably relaxed.
"Do you still like plum blossoms?" Dai Qing looked up at the blue sky and asked, Prince Liu Ying originally liked plum blossoms in winter, because they were arrogant and bloomed alone, quiet and without disputes.