CHAPTER XXXII
After the early dynasty, Uncle Rong Guo went straight to the queen mother's bedroom, wanting to vomit his displeasure at her.
The curtains and carpets in the Queen Mother's bedroom are all red, and there is a faint glitter of gold threads, which looks very luxurious and subtle. The furniture made of good rosewood is carved with vivid patterns of flowers and birds, and the eyes of the birds are inlaid with jade, and the exquisite craftsmanship can be seen at a glance to the hands of the masters, and the table cabinet is decorated with several valuable knick-knacks, which seem to be inadvertently but are carefully arranged, and the ingenuity of the owner can be seen. The Queen Mother, dressed in a dark red robe inlaid with gold, was sitting on it, with her hair combed in a high bun and several delicately made gold hairpins to show her noble status. At this time, she was smiling lightly on her face, and she was chatting and laughing with a woman on the side seat under the hall.
"Auntie, look, this is the pastry that the emperor gave me this morning! The emperor is so good to his concubines, even when he was so busy in front of the court, he thought of his concubines! With that, she carefully picked up a piece of pastry on her plate and savored it, her eyes full of smiles.
The Queen Mother looked at her innocent and ignorant look, smiled even more, and replied: "So good! Since you are now the imperial concubine, you should serve the emperor more wholeheartedly, you know? ”
After hearing this, the imperial concubine hurriedly stuffed the remaining pastries in her hand into her mouth, and then replied: "Aunt, the concubine naturally wants to serve the emperor well, but the emperor is tired of dealing with government affairs every day, and he really can't get along with the concubine......" After speaking, she flattened her mouth, and a wave of grievances came to her heart.
The Queen Mother snorted after hearing this, and then looked at the imperial concubine with concerned eyes and said: "It is precisely because the emperor is busy with political affairs, the imperial concubine should go to ask for warmth when she is physically and mentally exhausted, and show the demeanor of a good wife in a timely manner, so that you can firmly grasp the emperor's heart!" Otherwise, how do you think your aunt sat on the throne of the queen in the past? With that, she smiled meaningfully.
When the imperial concubine heard this, she immediately smiled, and said excitedly: "Thank you, aunt, for the order!" Concubines are taught! Concubines...... The concubine will go to the emperor! ”
Just as she was about to get up and salute and leave, the Queen Mother stretched out her hand to stop her, frowned, and said, "What kind of system is it that is shocked?" The emperor has just finished the early court, and he must be hungry, so don't forget to bring some of his favorite pastries to the emperor. Then she turned her gaze to the plate of pastries that the emperor had bounced.
After the imperial concubine realized this, she hurriedly ordered the palace maid to bring the plate of pastries and hurriedly walked to the imperial dining room.
Uncle Rong Guo outside the door saw her so reckless, shook his head and sighed again and again, the imperial concubine found him standing outside the door, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute, Uncle Rong Guo greeted her for a word or two, and then sent her away.
Uncle Rong Guo walked into the hall, sat down and drank a sip of tea served by the palace maid, and sighed again.
"Why is Big Brother so worried?" When the Queen Mother saw that his brows were tightly knit, she ordered someone to light incense that was calming and soothing.
"Sister, look at her...... Do you look like an imperial concubine...... also said that he wanted to put her in the back seat...... Even our own family members feel weak when they say it, let alone others...... "He was born as a military general, and he often lost proportion in his words, so he offended many people because of this."
The Queen Mother just smiled and said leisurely: "Big brother forgot, we are not in the back position......"
The imperial concubine's parents died when she was a child, and because her father was of the Rong family's bloodline, she was exiled from the various clansmen of the Rong family since she was a child. When the queen mother was still the queen, once she went back to her parents' house to save her relatives, she accidentally found that she was cute and cute, very likable, so she took her back to the palace and cultivated her carefully, so as to become the choice of the next queen. However, as she grew up and became more and more beautiful, the Queen Mother felt more and more that she seemed to be entrusted to no one. In the past, she had little to do, although she sent people under the fence, she never knew what the world was dangerous, and then she entered the palace with the queen mother, and the queen mother in the harem monopolized the power, and everyone in the palace was in awe of it, and did not dare to make a mistake. Along the way, she has never tasted conspiracy, even though she has been arrogant and a little savage, but her heart is kind. However, this is not what the Queen Mother wants, it's just that no matter how the Queen Mother teaches by word and deed, she can't learn half-distracted tricks because she doesn't have that wisdom, and not only that, she can't even understand the voices of others. The Queen Mother was really disappointed in her before, and even invited the Imperial Doctor to come to see her several times, but later, she was finally relieved, she was just a chess piece, too smart but not good*, so the Queen Mother also left it alone. After the current emperor ascended the throne, the Rong family relied on their own power to force the emperor to set her up as the queen many times, so as to consolidate the power of their faction, but the emperor always excused himself on the grounds of the birth of the heir, and only promised to take the imperial concubine, and over time, the two parties also compromised. Since the emperor is unwilling to do what they want, the queen mother's uncle and others will naturally not let him live comfortably, as said before, the uncle often makes waves in the court, and the queen mother in the harem is not idle, from the selection of concubines to the emperor's food, clothing, housing and transportation, she personally arranges, it is bound to make him uneasy in the harem, and the sweet pastries every morning are her meticulous works. Recently, she found that the imperial concubine seemed to admire the emperor very much, and she also knew that the emperor did not like noisy and reckless people, so she pushed the boat with the water, and often taught the imperial concubine how to get along with the emperor for him to follow. Although the emperor was very tired of it, he had to send it away in a roundabout way because of the face of the Rong family, but where did the imperial concubine understand his thoughts, he only thought that the emperor was concerned about state affairs and had no time to take care of her. Later, the emperor ordered someone to change the back hall of the imperial study into a dormitory, and declared that the imperial study was an important place for the government, and ordered the harem concubines not to enter, which cut off the entanglement of the imperial concubines.
"The palace placed the imperial concubine next to the emperor, the original intention was to monitor his every move, so that he could not move an inch, although now it is not as good as you and I originally wanted, but the imperial concubine did add a lot of trouble to him, so to speak, it can be regarded as beneficial to the Rong family." After speaking, the Queen Mother couldn't help laughing.
Uncle Rong Guo couldn't help but burst out laughing when he thought of the scene of the imperial concubine who had not done enough and had more than enough to lose to cause chaos around the emperor.