Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Two Conspire Together
Guan Wen, usually very aggressive, has no scheming, and even if he does, he will be seen through by others, and all he thinks about is a strategy that is not very wise enough. It's like the Double Ninth Night, I originally wanted to provoke a war between Mrs. Qi and the queen, but I was scolded by the queen, and then I didn't make much trouble, either I stayed alone in my palace to watch the scenery and raise flowers, or I went to Zhao Zier and Zhao Meiren to sit down. Looking at Zhao Meiren's child is petite and exquisite, Zhao Zier is so kind and gentle to love her child, between her eyebrows are the mother's love for her child, Mrs. Guan saw this scene and her heart was empty, she had no children, and the emperor did not come for several months, thinking of this, Mrs. Guan also had some sorrow that women had no daughters and no children, and her eyes were red alone. After coming back, she was full of sadness, because she really couldn't wait, although Liu Bang had been here several times over the years after entering the palace, she just didn't give birth to a son and a half daughter.
In the afternoon, Chang'an City is surrounded by a blue close, blue sky beautiful city, but the air is full of a trace of tension and depression, no one is in the mood to enjoy the beautiful scenery this time. Mrs. Guan's Linhua Hall in addition to Chanxin and a few small palace maids, there is no one else, lonely very, although lonely, she likes to arrange the palace very much, the center of the palace is a four-season candle incense burner, the incense burner is not as good as Liu Bang gave to Lu Hou, there are several silk paintings hanging on the palace wall, painting landscapes, clouds and moons, very good-looking, there are blue gauze silk next to the pillars, beautiful hollow carved windows, the sun squeezes in through the hollow gaps, shines on the floor of the main hall, and she is so beautiful to set off, dragging a long Chu skirt, Gorgeous, graceful, noble and elegant, three thousand green silk supple hanging, bright eyes and bright teeth and euphemistic smile, it is the national color and fragrance.
The hall was very quiet, only Mrs. Guan was busy in the hall, and the palace people stood by the pillar waiting to serve Mrs. Guan at any time.
"Chanxin, follow me to Zhao Meiren's, oh, by the way, take my brocade, I want to show her if she embroiders well or I embroider well." Mrs. Guan stood in the main hall and commanded her girl, Chanxin, it turned out that she was going to Zhao Meiren again. But I seem to be in a pretty good mood today. Coincidentally, during the Chu-Han War, Liu Bang pampered Mrs. Guan and Zhao Meiren in Chenggao Lingtai, but after the two were favored, they did not recommend their good sisters to Liu Bang, but laughed at her, Mrs. Bo and her don't talk much today, maybe there is this reason, maybe it is other reasons.
"Ma'am, is that it?" Chanxin took a brocade embroidered with a unicorn pattern on it and presented it to Mrs. Guan.
Mrs. Guan walked in small three-inch steps, pulled with her hand, and nodded, "Yes, take it, let's go." ”
Mrs. Guan and Chanxin walked out of the main hall.
Just walked to a water bridge, but saw Mrs. Qi and Jing Tian walking on the other side of the water bridge, the two of them also frowned tightly as if they had something on their minds, there was no more relaxed pride in the past, and the flowing water under the bridge was also jumping rhythmlessly, and there was no more agility and leisureliness in the past. Mrs. Qi also saw Guan Wen walking towards her at the other end of the bridge. The two of them stepped up their steps, and before they could blink an eye they met in the middle of the bridge, and they both stood with each other. Although they all stopped, they didn't hear any greetings, and there was disdain in each other's eyes, Mrs. Guan disdained Mrs. Qi's usual pampering and arrogance, and didn't like her arrogance. Mrs. Qi disdains Mrs. Guan's usual ignorance and love to ignore her, and hates Mrs. Guan's bad methods behind her back, but Mrs. Qi took the initiative to soften before she got on the line, and her eyes returned to the forced softness, the Cold War is not the purpose of this trip.
Although Mrs. Guan was not favored by Liu Bang, she did not feel inferior to Mrs. Qi, she just didn't have Mrs. Qi's good luck. Since Mrs. Qi is coming to Linhua Palace, Mrs. Guan guessed that she must have something important, so she also pretended to be arrogant and waited for Mrs. Qi to speak, but after a long time, seeing that Mrs. Qi did not speak, Mrs. Guan snorted coldly in disgust, turned her head and glanced at Mrs. Qi viciously, so as not to be embarrassed.
"Mrs. Guan, please wait." A sentence burst out of Mrs. Qi's mouth cleanly, and as she spoke, she grabbed the sleeve of Mrs. Guan, who was just about to go down the steps, and turned her head to wait for her gaze.
Mrs. Guan immediately stood in place, turned her head and her eyes were on fire, and her face trembled angrily at Mrs. Qi who was pulling her clothes, and Mrs. Qi retracted her hand quickly and was silent. Mrs. Guan snorted coldly on the spot again, turned around and walked towards Mrs. Qi, squeezed out a gritted smile, and asked with a creaking sound at the root of her teeth, "Excuse me, what does Mrs. Qi command?" ”
Mrs. Qi confronted her fierce eyes full of hatred for a few seconds, but moved her eyes to Chanxin behind Mrs. Guan, and saw Chanxin holding a brocade in her hand, and then squeezed out a stiff smile, "Madame, where are you going?" ”
Mrs. Guan glanced at her, looked angrily at the trunks of a few trees by the bridge that were about to finish dropping their leaves, paused in place for a few seconds, and said disdainfully, "Mrs. Qi doesn't need to know my whereabouts, right?" ”
"Madame, since there is nothing urgent, please go back to the palace, I have something to discuss with you." Mrs. Qi and Jing turned around and went to Mrs. Guan's main hall unceremoniously.
Without waiting for Guan Wen to say anything, Mrs. Qi and Jing Tian had already left far away, and there was no room for her to say anything else, leaving Mrs. Guan and Chanxin to stop in place. Guan Wen saw that she was so disregarded and rude to herself, she was angry, she only felt a nameless fire rushing straight to her head, if it weren't for the fear that Mrs. Qi had the emperor's support behind her, Mrs. Guan would have stepped forward unceremoniously and slapped her twice. Holding back the fire, he crossed his waist and pouted, his brows were twisted together, looking at Mrs. Qi's seemingly leisurely back, the corners of his mouth twitched and said indignantly: "Okay, you fox and charmer, the emperor will support you and don't take me seriously, right?" ”
"Madame, what should I do?" Chanxin asked.
"Go back!" Mrs. Guan was holding back the fire, and as soon as Chanxin asked, she threw all the fire in her heart out to her, staring at her and raising her voice and shouting, "Go back and serve that ancestor." The saliva on her angry face squirted out, and Chanxin only felt that her face was too wet like rain, and she wiped her face with a brocade with one hand and the other.
Inside the Linhua Palace.
Mrs. Qi entered the hall without waiting for the girl to invite the banquet and sat unceremoniously on the soft mat in the hall, although the maid in the hall felt that it was inappropriate, and wanted to step forward to stop it, but when she thought about it, Mrs. Qi was afraid of her when she was favored by the emperor at this time, and she did not dare to come forward to ask her to get up. Mrs. Qi put her hands on her lap euphemistically and waited for Guan Wen's arrival. Jing Tian stood on the left side of Mrs. Qi.
There were two characters in the light and shadow outside the hall that seemed to be very unkind to Mrs. Qi, Mrs. Guan and Chan walked in anxiously, and then they were surprised and angry, and they were very annoyed when they saw Mrs. Qi sitting on the upper seat that they could only sit on, and they only felt that all the fire was condensed in that small piece of eyes, as if they were burning for the raging fire in an instant, and their cheeks were bulging with anger, and their eyes were staring at her like sparks. Mrs. Qi felt that it was inappropriate in her heart, but just to get angry at Mrs. Guan, who was unkind to her at the beginning, who told her to put the next thing in her own dishes that she didn't know how to lift, and waited until it was almost inappropriate to stand up and invite her to take a seat, "Mrs. Guan, please take a seat." "Walk down Mrs. Guan's mat and make a gesture of please.
Mrs. Guan was not polite with a dark face, hurriedly walked past her side, deliberately bumped Mrs. Qi's shoulder, and let out a cold snort, as if a way to relieve her anger, and then sat on her own mat.
Mrs. Qi and Jing tilted their faces and did not say anything angry. Mrs. Guan was unceremonious to her, and she didn't even order the palace people to bring the mat for Mrs. Qi to sit on, and she stared at Mrs. Qi with relief. Seeing the situation, Jing Tian snatched a mat from the maid next to him and asked Mrs. Qi to sit down.
When Mrs. Guan saw that a girl was so presumptuous, she was even more angry, and her index finger pointed at Jing Tian extremely impolitely, "You ......" and coldly threw out eight words towards Mrs. Qi, "Your girl is really unruly." ”
"Is this your hospitality?" Mrs. Qi also asked Mrs. Guan unequivocally, "The guest comes to the host, and he is a bad guest, don't you understand?" ”
Mrs. Guan sneered a few more times, gritted her teeth and said with the smell of gunpowder, "You need to use unkind methods to treat unkind people, don't you understand?" ”
Although Mrs. Qi was angry, she didn't answer anymore after all, it wasn't what she wanted to go on like this, and she didn't come to quarrel today, but she stared at Mrs. Guan with a serious face and held back the fire for a while, and said, "Although you complain about me, I still like Mrs. Guan who is usually very arrogant." I think there is something I will come to you to consult. ”
"I'm so shiny here." Guan Wen said in a strange manner, full of sarcastic words, "What about your emperor? He doesn't care about you anymore? Still don't want you anymore? What to discuss? Discuss making room for the two of you? ”
Mrs. Qi quietly listened to her cold words, swallowed all these words into her stomach and held them back, her hands were already crazy with hatred under several cases, but there was no anger on her face, so Mrs. Guan was deflated, didn't she respect Guan Wen just now?
Guan Wenzheng looked at her with ill will, but Mrs. Qi smiled lightly and said, "Let's cooperate." ”
As soon as these words came out, Mrs. Guan was like a scoop of cold water poured on her head, in her eyes, Mrs. Qi was like this, she never cared what others said at this time, and she didn't pay attention to other people's words at all, which was a very annoying behavior.
Mrs. Guan was immediately surprised and puzzled, and chuckled a few times in disbelief, "What did you say?" I heard you right, you say it again. Mrs. Guan deliberately leaned forward and tilted her head sideways to listen to Mrs. Qi's words.
Mrs. Qi said word by word, "Let's cooperate." I know you're looking for a partner, too. ”
These words really startled Guan Wen, who was sitting on the upper seat, and she quickly got up with a 'whoosh', and made sure to look at Qi Yi with a disbelieving gaze, and glanced at her, Mrs. Qi sat on the mat seriously, not looking like a joke. Mrs. Guan brushed the hair in front of her, and glanced at Mrs. Qi suspiciously, she guessed that Mrs. Qi already knew that the incident of Chongyang Night was her own, but she didn't understand why Qi Yi said that she wanted to cooperate with her.