From the first day she left Wonju, Min'er looked forward to her grandmother's letter, but she was inconvenient when she first arrived, and her grandmother must not know how to deliver the letter to the palace. In case their letters are intercepted by their fathers, the affection of the grandparents and grandchildren will only be misunderstood, especially the person in front of them.

But it was grandma's letter, the letter Min'er had been longing for, and she decided to take it down, so she straightened up to pick up the envelope in the emperor's hand.

And Xiang Ye saw that Min'er didn't move, thinking that she didn't dare to ask for it, and took the initiative to get up to deliver the letter to her, the two of them did this action at the same time, seeing the emperor pounce on him, the previous painful experience again and again, made Min'er instinctively retreat back, as if afraid that the emperor would pinch her chin again, or force her into a corner, or even in broad daylight, to take off her clothes.

The fear that swept over Min'er's face made Xiang Ye's heart tighten, did he leave this woman with only pain?

Seeing this, Qingya hurriedly stepped forward, took the envelope from the emperor's hand, and carefully handed it to the queen.

Xiang Ye looked at Min'er, Min'er took the letter and sat quietly, and held it like this for a while, the emperor asked, "Don't you read the letter?" ”

Min'er responded lightly: "Later, the concubines will read the letter, the emperor is here at the moment, and the concubines should serve the left and right." She paused, and then remembered, "Thank you for the emperor for delivering the letter to the grandmother of the concubine." ”

Min'er owes her gratitude, and her raised face is calm and calm, no different from every time she meets in the past, and the joy and emotion that the emperor expected did not appear, and her grandmother's letter did not have any effect on Qiu Min'er. Only Xiang Ye seems that she must have done it on purpose.

"I will go first, you are recovering from a serious illness, you must take care of your body." Xiang Ye found a few words to say, frowned, and left with a sense of loss.

Qingya sent the emperor all the way to the door of Shangyang Palace, and when the emperor was about to step out of the threshold, Qingya suddenly stopped him, knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, from now on, the slave maid is the queen's mother." ”

Xiang Ye stopped and looked at him sideways.

Qingya said again: "Your Majesty, from now on, the slave and maid will only serve the queen mother." ”

Xiang Ye snorted lightly: "Take care of her." ”

I still remember the night of the wedding in early summer, the emperor looked at the bullied queen outside the door, and after curling up in a ball and falling down, he told Qingya to "take care of her" when he left.

Time passed, and in the early autumn of this year, the emperor's words became "take care of her".

Qingya said yes, she waited for the emperor to go far away before she got up, and finally she didn't have to be sandwiched between the two people anymore, she could live steadily.

Although the young queen's future is uncertain, no one knows what will happen in the future, but the queen is not weak, she is gentle and brave, she has the strongest blood in her thin body, and there is a little cunning in her calm wisdom, she looks at the world indifferently, but she sees everything in her eyes.

The emperor can bully her because of the absolute strength of the king, others do not have such courage and power, I am afraid that it is not easy to move the queen at all.

Qingya strengthened her determination to follow the queen, and when she went to the water pavilion again, the queen was holding the letter with great cherishment, every word made the smile on her face even brighter, she was not a person from outside the world who didn't care about anything, her family had always been as important as her life, or even heavier.

"Mother." Qingya said softly, "The emperor has left the Shangyang Palace." ”

Min'er raised her eyes, that beautiful smile made Qingya stunned, the smile was not unusual, but she had never seen the queen so happy.

"Qingya, bring me pen and ink stationery."

"Yes, the slave will go and get it."

A letter from home, like a ray of sunshine injected into the Shangyang Palace, makes this palace truly worthy of its name, she is not only the night pearl that shines on the Taiye Pool by the lights at night, it should be in the daytime, but also dazzling because of the sun.

When Xiang Ye walked back to the shore, he felt that Min'er should have read the letter at this moment, but the lead bridge connected to the main gate of the Shangyang Palace, he couldn't see the scene of the water pavilion in the dormitory, he really wanted to see, and he had to go all the way to the opposite bank of the Taiye Pool.

"Doctor Xuan." The Emperor commanded.

"Your Majesty, where are you uncomfortable?" Zhou Huai was nervous.

The emperor glanced at him: "I want to ask how the queen's health is." ”

The news that the emperor went to visit the queen in Shangyang Hall as soon as he returned to the palace soon spread in the palace, and the concubines did not know that there was a strange rumor that the emperor was going to give his wife to his younger brother in Qinzhou, but the emperor took care of the seriously ill queen without clothes, and in the hearts and mouths of the women, various scenes had already changed.

At present, as soon as the emperor goes home, he will go to see the queen first, compared to the disgust for the queen that is not hidden in front of people before going to Qinzhou, but it is a huge difference, and the people who originally expected the emperor and queen to be discordant, and even did not put the queen in their eyes because of this, are not at ease.

In the Yongning Palace, Sun Xiurong is entertaining the concubines to taste the fresh melons and fruits that her mother's family transported from the south, I heard about such a thing, for a while the sweet and juicy fruits in the mouth also taste like chewing wax, they have all walked past the emperor's pillow, how the emperor views them, everyone knows it, it is humiliating to say it, and it is really impossible to swallow it if you don't say it.

Lin Zhaoyi lost the silver skewer in her hand and sighed, Sun Xiurong glanced at her, and the two of them said privately yesterday that the Lin family sent someone to urge their daughter to grasp the years and give birth to a son to the emperor no matter what, and Sun Xiurong is almost the same fate, they have a family background and a background than other concubines, so naturally they have more responsibilities.

The atmosphere in the hall was in a panic, and Sun Xiurong's palace maid hurriedly came and said, "Niangniang, the eldest princess's concubine has passed away, and the news from the Longevity Palace is that the eldest princess will soon return to Beijing with her child." ”

Some have not been in the palace, only occasionally seen the eldest princess at the state banquet in the past three years, Lin Zhaoyi and Sun Xiurong have been in the palace for a few years, and they know a little about the story here, the emperor's half-sister is very strong and domineering, relying on the fact that she is the orphan of the original match, relying on the queen mother's soft temperament, before and after marriage, they are all powerful and blessed in the palace.

Sun Xiurong sighed: "Although Zhou Juma is not surnamed Zhao, he is also the prince of the old dynasty, and he is the only one left in the family who has been convicted, this is scared to death." ”

Such news will naturally reach Shangyang Palace, Min'er only knows the origin of the eldest princess, but does not know who she is.

Qingya told her: "The slave maid heard that in the palace in the past, the eldest princess did not take the queen mother in her eyes, it has been rare to see each other in Beijing in recent years, and every time she comes, she is showing off her might." The emperor naturally couldn't bear her, but the queen mother always advised the emperor to calm down, Mama Lin said that the queen mother was grateful to the old prince and the original wife for their kindness to her, saying that they would leave this daughter together, and let her do everything, it would be nothing bad. ”

Min'er remembered the unusual reaction of the Queen Mother when the news came that the horse was seriously ill in Qinzhou, and the old lady must have been even more uneasy at this moment.

Qingya said: "The emperor married you, and he didn't invite the eldest princess, I don't know ......."

Min'er smiled faintly: "She won't take me seriously, will she?" ”

Qingya nodded awkwardly.

Min'er said: "I don't know her, and I don't plan to take her in my eyes, I don't care what she thinks of me." ”

Qingya was thinking in her heart, and sure enough, it was such an answer, but she didn't expect the queen to say immediately: "But the queen mother treats me well, so good that I don't know how to repay, so if she wants to bully the queen mother again, she can't." ”

The plain tone, saying the most resolute words, smiled elegantly for no reason, this is good, how can you always float in the world, people have to be grounded after all. She remembered something again and reminded Min'er: "As far as the slave knows, Zhou Yuma's mother and Mrs. Qiu's father are brother and sister. ”

Min'er heard it for the first time, and the last time the emperor wanted to send her away, what she was most worried about was that once she "disappeared", would the Zhao family rush to Yuanzhou to torture her mother and grandmother, and then she mentioned this matter in her heart, in order to protect her grandmother and mother, she coldly hoped that the Zhao family would disappear from the world, but she couldn't kill people for no reason, she couldn't turn herself into a person as cruel as the Zhao family.

"I see." Min'er responded, and at this moment there was a vague premonition that her life as a queen was really about to begin.

It was getting late, and the Qingming Pavilion sent a message, saying that the emperor had dinner in the Longevity Palace, and he was going to come to the Shangyang Palace to rest after dinner, and ordered the Shangyang Palace to prepare to take over, but there was one more sentence than before, please let the queen mother no longer have to wait for the waiter to go to bed as in the past, and the mother will do whatever she wants.

The emperor's change in treating the queen made the palace people whisper, but unfortunately Min'er didn't change at all, Qingya told her that she could no longer wear white bedclothes and no longer kneel on the bed to wait, Min'er said: "That's good, don't rush, everything is in order, otherwise I don't know what to do, and you don't know where to stand, it's just like that." ”

In the Longevity Palace, the Queen Mother added vegetables to her son, talked about the hard work of disaster relief, and persuaded him not to bow down to everything, Xiang Ye only said: "Three years after the establishment of the imperial court, my son has not been able to have more solid and reliable arms, and it will be good in a few years." ”

At this time, Zhou Huailai replied to his life, saying that Shangyang Hall was ready, the Queen Mother smiled ambiguously, patted her son's arm and said, "Don't scare Min'er anymore, you guys are fine." ”

Seeing that the emperor was silent, the Queen Mother asked again: "Have you figured it out?" Silly boy, did you like Min'er from the beginning, but you don't want to be sorry for Ruoyao, so you can only think of pushing her out? ”

Xiang Ye silently swallowed the food in his mouth and asked his mother, "Mother, did I hurt her deeply?" ”

The Queen Mother snorted: "Only now did you come to ask me?" ”

Xiang Ye's expression was solemn: "I'm afraid of her...... will be like Ruoyao, and suddenly leave. ”

"Nonsense." The Queen Mother felt sorry for her son, so she persuaded him, "If that's the case, shouldn't it be the woman she loves to be the happiest person when she is alive?" People's lives are predestined, can you push her away, she can live a long life? It is better to live a long life than to die. ”

When he came to Shangyang Hall again, Xiang Ye's mood was completely different, but as soon as he entered the door of the dormitory, it was still the scene of the wedding night, and the woman in white knelt on the bed, looking at her appearance calmly.

"Didn't I say it......" The emperor glared at Qingya on the side, "how do you serve the queen?" ”

Min'er sat quietly where she was supposed to be sitting, looking at the man who suddenly got angry, this is her duty.